Episode 941 | "9th Wonder Is Listening"

The Joe Budden Podcast

Joe Budden and guests discuss music, personal growth, and pop culture with humor and reflection. The episode features lighthearted banter, reflections on past comments, and playful debates about artists and albums.

Key takeaways

• Reflecting on past public statements and learning from them
• Music as a shared cultural experience
• The importance of personal space and preparation

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The thoughts, views and opinions expressed by this podcast as well as its hosts offer entertainment purposes only I repeat It is not serious. It is not real No one is exposing revealing indicting or telling you anything about themselves Also, we do not encourage you to try this at home. We are trained professionals Do not have your best interests at heart or our own? Enjoy the show a bagel in your way why do y'all never know that we're talking because it's seven minutes earlier we normally start a bagel and yeah a bacon egg and cheese as a as a non as a non-preying always long turkey you still got to fucking that dirty that dirty Diane a phone case I'm keeping this that red shit that I told you to change your classic gray jeans come on Mark we got a we got a show to do we start at seven minutes early I see No, we didn't. We're starting 22 minutes late. And really that's 32, my man bad, that's 52 minutes late. It's really 52 minutes late, but it's good to see everybody. Well, almost everybody. So listen, that's the other reason I think we start, they know right here. That's the thing, man. That's philosophical. Yeah, everybody's here. Everybody's here. Everybody here. Everybody here. Everybody here. Everybody here. Everybody here. Yeah. Don't care. That's true. That's true. The large crew is. Right. That's true. It wasn't always like this. Yeah, not at all. First time I watch it was just you. And in my head it can always be that. So if I'm here and Parks is here and you guys are here, we're here. The show's ready. It's on the way. He's here with us in spirit. We love him. We hope everything is okay. It's on the way. He's here with us in spirit. We love him. We hope everything is okay. And Flip is on the way. enough. Yeah. Less is more. I didn't need gang to say what I got to say about B2K. Oh shit. I ain't need nobody for that. That was fun. I'm glad you took your take back. Word. Glad you walked that back. I ain't no dummy. I ain't no dummy. I got ahead of that early. Some people say things on the airways and they never revisited themselves. They go home and that's just it, whatever comes with it. Not me. I go home and some of this shit lingers with me. I think about me. I think about it. I think about it. I think about it. said that she yeah and I watch some shit from years ago and be like oh like it's important it's important boy did they get dog walked yeah they ass whooped I missed it I missed it I missed it I missed it you didn't miss it it was a story of fireworks last night and then we went watch a little soccer what was those fireworks about they do the 4th of July fireworks early did not compete with the big New York fireworks that's the Astoria Park and Hope had fireworks too a story of fireworks buddy. Oh and you're a story you had fireworks? Hope had fireworks. Hope had fireworks. He saw fireworks. Holve was with us, man. He was in a story. All right, we just getting a lot of them. I don't think he was in a story park. I was on my balcony, confused as hell. Somebody's having a blast. And it wasn't like the project, niggles were roaming candles. Those were big fireworks. I was. I was on my balcony. I was. I was. I was a. I was on my. I was on my. I was on my. I was on my. I was on my. I was on my balcony. I was on my balcony. I was on my balcony. I was on my balcony. I was on my balcony. I was on my balcony. I was on my balcony. I was on my balcony. I was on my balcony. I was on my balcony. I was on my balcony. I was on my balcony. I was on my balcony. I was they passed around well they on social media was going around certain areas by or rock nation filed for the permits and there were fireworks planned at pier 81 and it was a couple locations because he had put this map out he was doing that I thought you were joking no I'm dead serious he did the whole shit yesterday with the pop-up shops and then all these specific locations like where the tunnel was where d&D studios was all that type of shit and they had fireworks set up I would have went to the D&D fireworks. I was there. All right. You got it. Hey, freeze. Come on man, don't start with me today. Well, don't make me start with you. Don't start with me. Jay-Z did not have fireworks. And if he did, I'm going to judge him. Well, yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Reasonable Doubt. They've been celebrating and leading up to this moment. Yes, I would see him having fireworks. But what about Reasonable? What about reasonable doubt? Gives fireworks. It's not a fireworks. It's not a fireworky album that set off the whole fucking career. What's the fucking career? What's the what about five 60 State Street gives fireworks? I didn't say at every location but they had they had a marked like where the old Rockefeller office was they had they put a map out. Oh you better not let me find out that you purchased fireworks and sprayed them shits across New York City. How long you thought. How long you thought that? about reasonable doubt. That it's not a fireworky album. It's not it's not it's not it's not to be saved about it's not a fireworky album. I should get the clippers on it. Mark let me tell you something this is what I learned the same way that you feel about working with us. Now listen to me no no for real on God I learned this over the weekend or the other day the same way Mark feels about working with us like because Mark is really one of the more intelligent people that people know like I've heard this is true many people so we say some stupid shit up here he does too sometimes now hold up we all do slow down no okay so we'll say some stupid uneducated shit and he has to go back out and his educator friends they look at him a way they'd be madam they look at him away he didn't say nothing he said stupid education but just just from him hanging out with niggas that's as stupid as us they look at him I feel when Mark comes in here and talks anything music. No, he knows music. He just be... When Mark says anything music and I have to go out in the world and face my musician friends. I got it, I get it. And they'd be like, why are you here? So Mark say some shit, we want to pile this for debate, let's have a good time. I be forgetting that when I get home, Ninth Wonder heard of this. Like it don't just be the music ads. It'd be... I mean I'm not being so embarrassed my name wonder if that man he said they're writing a book in our deal he is going crazy Mark don't even say nothing back he don't double-hearted he don't even face the fucking music the jerk so I'm in it like yeah I agree knife your name you know name you write but that's I feel I feel Mark you phone you phone you know what I'm I don't know why he said that but if there's one but if there's one area I consider myself to be somewhat educated it's music man my music guys I can't say that the music guys is out here man knife one is listening we can't we can't say the five Davis man we talking the niggas who think Barry Gordy built all music niggi all sounds come from and he was he said it in there he said no all music all music all I'm a response I'm a response I hate Mark I'm a respond I got it something for him I'd be like you right I was just pot damn that just pot that just pot and jes fly it'll get you out a lot of shit that just pot just pot shit is nice it is how y'all you feel you're good how you're good you're good That's what y'all need to be scared of nobody niega I'm the champ what are you talking about watch your six or mouth why are you even getting started? I'm not scared of a soul We don't fucking champ We're gonna we're trying to retain our team everybody else out there is trying to match up this the first draft in the world where you've seen all these big man's go Everybody trying to get some size I heard it's saying it's for Wim but I heard? I heard y'all losein'all? I heard you a lot of things out there mark? I mean? I heard I'm going to be on Rose worldwide west captain brunson I ain't gonna nick y'all to death we did that shit in case you forgot we absolutely it's baseball season Joe let's move on world cup season yeah wn't be a season all three true gone or lost right I'm not that deep I don't know you know he's he's like I know there is a world cup exactly I watch a little bit little bit I keep it all in the background while we're in the studio, but I don't know shit about football, soccer. I gotta get over there and get down with that prostitution ring. I gotta get over there and find out who is working this thing. Send them to We Aye Aye ackin. I think they're just making this like a Rutherford thing and this niggas. I mean, it's money outside of it. Step outside a little bit. You see the Cape Verians on that screen? I told you. I told you that team. It's the team. I got to say that that's one thing I did notice that the USA team is fucking up with we don't bring the baddies out like we're supposed to no the other countries the baddies love football well here's the thing it's levels yeah they're they're careful they're like their first tier sport is soccer right so like who comes to our NBA all star weekend and our Super Bowl shit that's what come to they soccer shit yeah we need to step it up for the world cup that's what's what I'm saying we gotta do something we gotta do something different man you got to come out and rep for us. Y'all the sports, lead them along. Why, there's bad money in fucking football. I hear you. Lead them alone though. Them Cape Verdi is, the Brazilians, the Colombia, some of them teams is... Now we can bring them. We can bring them. I hear you. We can bring a nice squad. It's not look like that versus. I don't know. They took over time square. That's their hood. They got. They got it. They got it. They got it. They got it now. They got it. They got it now. They got it. They got it. They got it. They got it. They got it. They got it. They got it. community up there. No, that's right. I'm sorry that you went through that. Yeah, it's pretty hard. I don't see how you do shit like that with your wives and don't try to flip some of them. Purposeful silence. We got a great show for you. Come on the phone. I'm a second. I'm a segue and say, don't worry. I got this. I got us. Don't call us no more. This is the fifth time. You call my application. I got 10,000 applications I got a look at. I'm stressed out. My phone been ringing back to back. I'm back to back. I'm going to get you on the back. I'm going to get you all this application. What's your name dog on here? This is a song, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, my God, you know about Brownstone, Joe. Come on now, man, me, the Slow Jam game? Come on, now, Mark. Don't say nothing crazy, because Brownstone might be listening. I love Brownstone. All right, now, I'm just, and now, I'm a member. Mike, check, Mike, check, Brownstone. What up, we love you up here. I heard it through the great fire. Yes sir. Always for the ladies. Always for the ladies. Whoa! I bet you'd be a much better. How could you be a guy and I love Brownstone when they first drop? You've seen the motherfucking lips. that mouth. That mouth! be listening from. Shout all the subgroups out there, all the patrons out there, hey school almost all. I can't believe my kid is still in school. It's all enough. Today's last day in school. That don't make no sense. They're wasn't. Ours was Monday. They graduated and go back to school. Yeah. No wonder I dropped out. That's crazy. It's a true baby. I've been on the daily. I'm a daily. With the D. You're handling. You have a better bad. Oh, that's bad thing. Yeah. night in the car on the highway. Give me the arks. Yummy. Shout all the dope boys out there, all the entrepreneurs out there, everybody getting money. Everybody at the airports, everybody on vacation out there. Hey, all the happy couples listening to this shit. Shout to y'all. Shout to you miserable motherfuckers too. It's divorce season. Don't sleep, don't sleep. Do not sleep. The Moon, the Stars and the Mountains, how give you the world. And all that you wish for, and even more. Hey, yummy. Girl, I don't love you more than you could know. And that's a score. You're in the car, let me hear you out there. And I pray that to be always ever me forever more. Oh, I mean. I know I'd have to cut it off right, I'd be hard my soul. Normally I'd cut it off right there and started but I love this guy's voice. Yeah, I love this guy's voice. I love this guy's voice. It's too small. It's too small. codes, y'all. Yo. Like the Edmonds? Yes. Nager, you got cousins that sound like this and you got the greatest pen. It ain't right. What type of genetics are y'all doing? What type of oatmeal are you making over here? I open up Hulu, I've seen a comedy special from somebody named Chanton-Wainons, a young lady. I never, I never, I'm fucking her name. I'm like, this lady is a wainons, I bet. Who knows this. I was like, you see it. Yeah, it's true. All right, y'all know what we start with, y'all know what we start with. I already know. Yeah, you know what it means to me. Oh, everything's not anything. If you're not here to share my dream, you don't know what it means to me if you're next. in the economy. to you'll sing. Keep this applause going for half of the best podcast crew in the world. Keep this applause going. New Jibun! A nucahadun. I know so, daddy. What's that? What's that? New drug? New Jersey. New York. New York. New York. I see. Who is that? Who is that? Is it? Is my? What's that? What's that? What's that? What's? What's that? What's? What? What's? What? What? Busy? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? Is this park 941 what these shits are flying yeah and what do y'all want to do for episode a thousand turn the fuck up yeah I've seen some people saying that we needed to be back in parks script 4,000 not sure that's always off need to be live live live live live? Lye oh you mean live show like outside oh you mean live show like outside oh you mean live show like outside I was saying to be outside in front of an audience and live streaming but just a live stream. Live stream with the bitches man. Sort of his real life. A live. A life. But you're not gonna be a, you know, never mind. Oh, brother. Yeah, I forgot. I forgot. I forgot. He can't go outside the one. Yeah, unless a thousand is in the next week. The next five days. 59 more episodes. Well, that's not true. And the great words of my baby. Don't look at like, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, go outside anymore now you're just going outside as a couple When is she coming? Fis? A couple days. Yeah, a couple days. Okay. I don't want to give the weirdos on the internet exact dates. Fair, fair, fair, fair, but it's good man. I can see the excitement of your face. Can't wait. Well welcome to episode 941 of the Joe Button podcast. Welcome to episode 941 of the Joe Button podcast. Brought in podcast. Brought to you by, fueled by, powered by price, price gang. I'm your humble gracious, grateful, extremely anxious and eager host Josephine. Anthony Button Jr. here with some really amazing people. To my right, Queens Get the Money, Big Queens, Flip, is in the building. Flip, how you doing, man? Come on, man, on your own schedule a couple days before the contract end, man. Do what the fuck you want. That's how I leave companies. That's how I leave companies. Me too, me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. Dr. Mark Lamont Hill is in the building or what was my new the new name they gave you on in the streets Dr Mark Lamont die on a hill That was a good one that was a good good one I read recently next to him come on stop playing with him Stop playing with him. All that shit when he first got on the pod blowing the ants off the microphone with the stupid children's hood on that shit is dead It's my fioso now You nigger, Big Fries, Elizabeth's finest, Erventon's, I don't even know where he from, I never been to his house, but he rep a lot of hoods, and a lot of niggas respect him in the street. Mr. Take it further himself with the Reebop Pump song, Puhp, Big Freies. That's great, I think there's a new podcast energy that I'm coming to work where I'm not. Man, can't wait till you get. Oh yeah, no, shows that's coming. Show just coming. I'm about to say, wait, never leave me. I was thinking. I know y'all believe. I know y'all believe. Y'all could go. Y'all could go. Teach me how to cut some of this shit on. Y'all see, I'm gonna'all. Y'all see the guy. Y'all see me how to cut some of this shit on. Come, man, man, man, it's in the building. You're in the building. You're gonna'all. You're gonna'all. Absolutely love that big poets in the building quarry is here Ericsson is here Tanner and say Von I hear by remote last But certainly not least don't ever get that part fucked up each and every one of you guys are here make some noise for yourselves at home What's up? What's good? What's popping? What's popping? What's popping? How? I had a real healthy adult conversation with Ian? Ian Swartzman. Yeah, hean Schwarzenegger. But now I think it's a trick going on. I see that the chairs are empty, so he wanted to save the conversation with Saturday to make sure I was, I was going to come in. Ian, you might have got me. I should have pushed the conversation last night, but it was very healthy. We're on the same page. It was looking. That was, that was a guy. How toxic are we as brothers when the positive conversations leave us with an ill feeling in. You know what, let's continue this Saturday. You know if you would have told me some shit. I think I'm not coming in the mall nagga. I would have said that. I would have stood on my hair, but he he uses equity with me and his love. I love you. You know I'm going through what I'm going through. When he say I love you, that's when you're about to be. Oh yeah. Oh shit. Oh shit. Yeah. I'm not. I'm told my animal. I meant like. I meant Mona like that. It was mature. It wasn't like when I think about it because I have my notes you know I didn't record that conversation But you know I have notes and to see the progress of how healthy has gotten and how like oh Come on I don't give a fuck guy niggas fuck guy. I'm not coming up there to Oh I understand this is what I want and it was very healthy Shout the end forgatory? Is it is it likely? Is it? Is it likely? Is like well I don't know I want flip back. You know I want flip back. I love flip. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know we carry your boy? Because I don't want them to go nowhere. That's why I'm asking. I'm not one of them people that like, like in a relationship, if I dealt with the worst of the headaches already, I'm not quick to throw you to the streets so someone else can thrive with you. That's my philosophy. I'm not. I'm not. They give me two options to eat a sleep. They're like, no. They're going to the, I'm not. They're going to. I'm not just no I want to stay and reap some of the benefit that that's how I mean like even in my other businesses like I'm not this isn't about you seriously like I got you like I have like 10 like at my coffee shop I have 10 barreases and two of them will be like mediocre this is not a shot I'm being clear like um and I mean I used to want to fire the two and keep trying to get two better ones but you never get 10 good points so at least you know how you can't you know how I know. Versus that is I don't. Yeah that's kind of what he said. Yeah. Yeah. Because I did that before and the two guys have run and still money. First you guys made like bad coffee. This next two guys stole money. It's like I would have had the guy who just made mediocre coffee. That's why I put it right way I put it for you. Leave it alone, man. I'm going to have you. I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going to talk the straight white white white man. I'm going to Flip, oh flip. So I was just telling him for me that we're no longer going to Martha's Vineyard for the summer which is... I thought your wife was telling you something about, flip the shut the fuck up. Oh, my heart problem. I respect her so much. If I reported back every time my wife said that we wouldn't even... Joe. This is a shit is tough. Just a quick Wednesday, Thursday trip. You'll be alright. This shit is so tough. In August? I don't. I'm going down there. Not in front of Joe. I'm going down there for Grenada. I'm going to go right after I think the 11th, whatever it is. Of course you'll be at Carnival. I was going to ask. Is that the spot to go to. I'd be. I've never been the Grenada. I've never been to Grenada, but the Grenada. in front. From hell. Is it beautiful out there? I'm going to flip. When your men, when your boss come in and say, hey, what up y'all, y'all look, I'm about to take the PJ, and me and my girl, we're about to go to Cabo for like seven days. Y'all the day. I ain't been nowhere with my girl in over a year and a half, and I'm hearing about it too now. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to all. You're going to all. You're going to all. You're going to. You're going to all. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. with some other people that wasn't like a group chair I never did that shit. The niggo that was watching you girl? That wasn't that. I don't even know this story. No, no, no, it was a nightmare Mark. It was an absolute nightmare. It was the worst. He was the worst. I was the worst. He was the worst. He was the worst. He was watching. He was a little bit. He was a little bit. He was a little bit. He was a. That shit was. make it. Oh this is with the bad bed and all that right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For New Year's last minute we wasn't doing shit so one of our good home girls was like, yeah I'm gathering a group of friends a couple of them you know a couple of them you don't we're gonna go to whatever the phone I don't even remember I haven't raced this shit out of my brain we went to I don't know somewhere for a trip for a trip. For a trip air. So we get there one of the couples is fighting the whole time one of the couples out there I think we could see the lady in real time realized that what the fuck am I doing with this clown ass nigh you know like so we got that movie uh then we had some other single people in there that just was on my girl the whole time like uncomfortably like awkward that's weird like awkward to the point where I had to say something You said something? Yeah, you said something. Oh, I thought I was going to have to say something. I told a toy. Oh, okay. I thought you. I thought you said something to do. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I wouldn't do that. I spoke, I spoke the toy about it. It was a, and the bed broke at some point. It was, and the bed broke at some point. It's not a house that I necessarily would have been. It was, it. It was, I was, I got. The right. The right. The right. The right. The right. right people. Yeah, so I ain't taking a trip in a while at all. You should do it the summer. You should just don't do my week but any other time. We could go down for episode and take you know me? Oh that's not a bad idea. You know what's funny about that too? And I thought about fucking if I had a solo show I would come in here and go on this long rant about how at this time of the year. by going on July the year is letting you know exactly what type of time the universe is on, with you. So in this, whatever the universe is doing to me, I could see how broke I am until February with all the things that need to happen between this show or this house or this birthday gathering. Like it's all, so I'm, and I'm strapped to watch you talk about, we're headed at the vacation. We have to wait a little bit, honey. We got shit going. This year is mapped out already. I'm in January. This year is done. Sorry. I told my wife the same thing. We're good until February, which happens to also be tax time. So, right, that's the thing. So maybe next June. No, tax time for me is September. Oh, okay. And it just left. I don't have no. They got, it's there. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me. They got me Like this what we're doing. I heard you. But yeah. Yeah. Good if you're like if you're a real man make a happen bitch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You think they feel like that about us sometimes. Yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. No, that's all the time. My wife is testing me to my I got to write her love letter. That's what? She'd be watching. That's not the same. I'm like you. That's what you. That's what you. That's you. That's you. That's what you. That's what you. That's you. That's what you. I love that she wrote that she told me that but also she's been talking about this Hawaii trip that she'd been wanting to go on for years since I was broke. Write the love letter out a nice picture of Hawaii. Exactly. Start with Aloha and just text me a paragraph from it. I just got to read it. I just got it. I just got to read what the sauces for like 30. Hey no you dodge your head, bro. We'll get to that. I'm actually. If I'm. If I used it, I used it, I would go to that. If I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I What would flip's love letter? She told me that she came in the room and said, I would you write me a love letter. I said, I was a visit to the radio and people miss the simple things in life. In my head, I'm like, have you ever written one before? Years ago when I was younger? To her? Or like a high school. I'm saying like, I did write one to her. Yeah, she was younger. Just one question, one more question. What would. What would. Respect my wife? I respect to my fully. To her. your love letter. But here's the thing. I'm not going to give you the first sentence but I will tell you what she doesn't like. She doesn't like when I reminisce on the struggles we went through. Yeah, you shouldn't do that. You did that a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a horrible love. No, that's not the law. You help me down. You're going to be a piece of shit. You're going to. You know. You. You've got it. Hold up. We made on the couch on the floor all that shit I can bring it up. Time out. I says chat GPT, the Queen's Flip Love Letter to his wife. I asked Chat GPT if Queen's Flip were to write a love letter to his wife, how would it go? Okay. It starts, it says to my Queen. You know what's crazy? The world sees me yelling, joking, arguing, dancing on tables doing all the wild stuff. That's entertainment. But the real me, the real me is the man who comes home to you. They're smoking at you, but like that's a prize. Oh shit. O' shit, ooh, I get the real you. All right, now you're eating. That's T. They, they, it's, they, it's, they, it's, they, it's, they, it's, they, it's, they, it's, they, they, it's, they, I just want to, I do, I do. I do, I do, I do, I'm, I do, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I came from. But at some point you got tired of it. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of it. She told me that one day and I kind of got offended. Like, what? How about I see, you know, and this was a couple of years ago. Like about six, seven years ago she said that. Like you always write, what we went. Do you think I want to remember that? But it's like why wouldn't you want. This is where we are now. I think she wasn't here in the now. I love you. This. This is. This is where you. This is where you. This is now. This is where you. This is now. This is where you. This is now. This is where you. This is where you. This is. This is where you. This is. This is where you. This is. This is where you. This is. This is. This is where you. Yeah, the future. Yeah, I don't think she wants to hear that old shit. I thought that the old shit would keep me grounded, but apparently it doesn't. It's dope, man. It's all, man. It's all, it's all. Write that letter, man. Write that letter, man. So y'all I'm gonna do you know what I mean? Book a trip. I'm gonna take it to Hawaii. I'm gonna take it to Hawaii. I'm gonna take it to Hawaii. I'm. I'm gonna' You're just, you. You know, you're just, write it. You're, right. You're gonna'all, write the, right. You're, right. You're gonna'all, right. And it's put the tickets in there. Yeah, you go to Expedia. Oh, that's not a problem. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I think we saw it flips like it. Well, we did. We did it. We did it. It pains me to have to do this 10 minutes, y'all I'm not spending a whole bunch of time on them. I'm just promise. It's fun. I'm not even fine. I watch that. I watch that. You're. You're clean that. And they're playing. And they moly. You my man I speak to you on the phone. I have nothing bad to say about you. However. Yo are you crazy? Out the gate though. Right out the gate. I missed it. I missed it. I missed it. First off it fucked me up because they dropped like haymaker at song one. Nice and I was like interesting strategy because you know people try to say to they drop jokers I'm talking about. They running spades out the gate. spend a few seconds on this. Okay. Maybe we will spend just a couple seconds on this. These two groups hate each other and have hated each other for quite some time. Now I'm not saying that they're not friendly and cordial or have relationship with each other. Musically though. Musically this is a thing. And as the battle went on you started to see even how the fans were talking like one girl described it as, y'all. the fucking B2K music is like for the girls that lived in the suburbs and the Pretty Ricky music is for the girls that like lived in Nana House and was sneaking niggas in. One girl said B2K music is like when you have a crush on a boy and you're about to ask him out for the first time and pretty Ricky music is when you get finger banged in the back seat. No, seriously, right? So then as the night went on people were saying your B2K should have went against O town they B5 no seriously it was back so now so now I'm outside on the phone dealing with fucking all types of bullshit but I got the TV on loud B2K comes out they look great sure they do shout to them the outfits the outfits the black all that black sequence the different versions of it. They looked like a current R&B, they looked great. But Pretty Ricky looked like throwback great. Like Pretty Ricky had the all red on with the... They looked like they could have been the popping R&B group in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 90s, and probably stopped there, but the outfit spoke, they were loud. I'm paying attention this whole... this is a night of about expression. So I'm looking at everything. B-2-K starts with girlfriend to ICE's point about bangers to me that was a bad sign like you got a unload Paul's girlfriend round one against pretty Ricky they went first B-2-K well this is the other mistake parks they flipped the coin oh and B-2-K one and trick-daddy say all right y'all one who do y'all want to go first and B-2-K mistake. So they started with girlfriend on some arrogant shit. B2K right off the bat, uh, fucking, the shit, the hit, the head, what's the hit? Not, uh, grind with me. It's a pretty ricky. I mean, pretty ricky came, right, grind with me. Ooh. Yep. Neutralize that. One, one zero. One zero. One zero B2K. Yeah. No, one, I mean, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. B2K comes back with, uh-huh. That's that upbeat, very. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah, that's your. Girl, you're messed up when you're down and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and, and then, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, makers all the hit marketing everybody involved with B2K was that them yeah mhm pretty Ricky was always the hottest shit regionally that kind of then took off so so we have that here in versus yet again the big machine versus what's bubbling regionally and they put that on hunt shit on and be and pretty Ricky came back your body with your body night night day So now B2K has jokes. It was jokes all night Yes, it was jokes They were in chippy But it was it started chippy, and it just continued to be cheap But it was jokes and it was funny. They was funny They was funny B2K was like all right They should be out of so home soon They should be like they'd you well Santana themselves They did that because and boy was it a mistake It was it was a bad. So they said yeah, these guys. They're the joint soon and then B2K they kept going and all of their songs again to how it aged didn't say it they all sounded like teeny bopper well they were but how it sounds today how it sounds compared to pretty Ricky's coming from grow men too at this point that's my point yeah they didn't have none of it sounded hard So while they were hard in their appearance with the Black Jotasy, everything else was soft, soft, soft, soft. By the time they did track two, I said, oh, they're gonna have a long night. Because they all was kind of wrapping this song. I'm like, yo, are these four rappers? None of these niggas are singing. They just all kind of rapping and ad libmin and screaming over each other. Oh, they pointed it out. And we said, pretty ricky performs better than these niggly than these niggly So now if B2K is just gonna highlight their own shortcomings Pretty Ricky's not then they start shorting the songs They even got to that they were yeah they was just like yeah we just doing a half a verse Oh, it got so bad that Razz B came in the middle started to take the yeah I want to thank y'all to thank God out of nowhere and what song? was losing it like the spurt they were losing confidence gradually as this night went on because like flip said at some point maybe five or six songs later a song a song came on and the morning the rest of the group was like no no stop it let ras spit a little something let ras give him a little something that's what we want yeah so then ras be gets to the middle of the stage and he said it sounded beautiful he sounded beautiful yes he did the sound like heart fell he was like yo y'all know about some of my battles I've been going through just for it's a miracle for me to even be standing here today yada yada yada yada it was very heartfelt but the fact that you're doing that right this second is not coming off like that it's coming off like pitiful oh you trying to pull out every trick in the book this is gospel at the Apollo that that's what this is and then you had the nerve to whatever song they played after that's What a mistake? Whatever song they went to a song some song I had never heard RASB was the lead vocalist on this song Bad bad bad sign and later on they played another song that Fiz was the lead on They pointed it out bad I mean not for J-book so many albums. They only got two albums. Two and a Christmas. Well and then as the night went on and the confidence was duenlin you started to see because Pledge of Pete kept saying y'all y'all can't even sing. That's all he know you can't sing none of these songs. Then he started singing one of their songs. Yeah. At the middle of the stage and then the Marrion came out like he was about to have a sing off but he never hit a note. Like he let pleasure pejure just do. He kept telling them like, yo, you can't do this though, sing. Let's sing right now, how about that? Oh, so he was shitting on him. Yeah, right now. The nigger with your boss, he walked over there and started to sing, sing in their ears while they was huddling. Like he's just doing disrespectful shit all night. Yeah, so then, so then you could see B2K and them start to like flip said, huddle. Gotta to. and drinking henny. They got a table on the side with their back turned the game. They're not even playing them niggas no mind. They're playing cards. See I'm, I fuck with that. It was so fly, yeah. Yeah, it was. It was. It was. What they, they was out orring these niggas. They had trick daddy over there. Everybody on that Florida. Florida, I guess. So they all in Florida niggas was wear red. Yeah. Pretty Ricky had had something had had something with some ass and ticts. appreciate that as a few as if you were watching at home I'm gonna give a point to whoever got tits and ass with them and B2 K they just didn't they just they just they just didn't they just they just they just they just they just they just they shall the Lizzo but even that be a pretty Ricky start saying y'all they're gonna need Lizzo to come out and do a song they running out of not the best time either for that respectfully Did she do the ad lit part and um bum bump did she do the flute that sounded crazy she bring the flute out no she just sounded crazy with that lot la la la part whatever the fuck that part was sounded horrible day I don't know what the fuck they were thinking he'll like yo Lizo do it I'd stop keeping score at one point I put this shit on mute and just started I didn't it was too bad it was too much of a murder that I was witnessing I didn't want to I love B2K I wasn't trying to view them in that in that light but what was going on was absolutely at one point spectacular goes to the front of the crowd I'm not talking about that chute he did I'm on I'm gonna you're gonna No, yeah you on you you go they on your shirt none of them walk over there all night said hello to you None of them acknowledge you look at them over there. They just they just been ignoring you who grabbed your hand pretty bricky got it So then rats me gonna come over and try to say something you like nigg it don't say nothing to a half You said don't say nothing now. You've been ignored all night Don't say nothing now. What else happened that was fun? It was too much funny. Oh, it was too much funny. Oh, so funny. Oh, so funny. Oh, so funny. Oh, so funny. Oh, so, is so bad because at one point they started doing it they came out and said and I felt bad I need to fly didn't do pump it up. They came out and was like all right y'all you