Clout Is Not Currency

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398 of the joe budden podcast i'm your

humble gracious great for my highly

favorite host joe budden

here with a few of my nearest and

dearest good brother maul is here today

how you doing i'm good family how are

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you got going on today a lot of feng

shui you're doing that

you're doing that man i love good tones

no i'm feeling that we getting right to

it today parks how you doing i'm doing

well

glad to hear it rory what's going on

with you good man i can't complain cash

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fine so let's get right to the shits huh

new kid cuddy

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you know the vibes and with that being

said

new kid cudi i actually think cuddy was

one of if not the first artist

to send money via an app on a phone

probably so

tell tell the people your little inside

joke that you guys are going to continue

for the next cut for the next three

hours i've been saying on this podcast

for years that cuddy

is the reason for how music sounds now

let's get to the real [ __ ] man who's an

atheist

not me i have

i'll [ __ ] with a beliefs beliefs i

believe [ __ ] uh no come on let's get

right into it new music

aliens oh hmm aliens oh rory's got

breaking alien news

i didn't break the news have y'all not

been paying attention the aliens are

here

well there are a lot of uh tell us tell

us

inform inform the listeners former uh is

that does that say israel

yes israeli okay former israeli space

security chief

says extraterrestrial exists and trump

knew about it

but he was able to say extraterrestrials

but not israeli

because mo i'm an american

these colors don't these colors don't

run oh my god

these colors don't run

your man knew about it the whole time

maul of course aliens exist who doesn't

think that

no but they're here like they're

chilling and actually i think you owe

parks

joe myself and i think the rest of the

roman apology yeah you are not going to

storm area 51 with us uh when we brought

up what was that six months ago

yeah i wasn't going either it was the uh

wikileaks guy that said they don't exist

he was doing all his hacking and

couldn't find no wikipedia you can do

that on your own

yeah it's true no aliens exist yeah yeah

aliens exist

and they said that we're just not ready

for them do you guys believe in portals

pornos like do you believe there's like

hidden portals in the

in the world that take you other places

and other dimensions

ah no i'm a little i'm not saying it's

impossible but i'm not

sold on that i do you ever been to

broadway junction possible it's a weird

broadway junction yes so there's a

portal under the hood what was that [ __ ]

called back in the day with the dude

travel through time and went into

alternate universes as a different guy

back to the future no [ __ ] character

there was there was a real story of and

i watched the classic shot on the fly

don't get me started don't rock don't

rally

don't rock the boat oh yeah don't do

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uh now where were we aliens are here got

it and right uh

there's some doc watch it about a guy

that went up on a ski lift for

to ski and ended up the next day in

california with all his ski equipment on

so i do believe that yes portals exist

you know well let's just throw this

whole podcast out of whack and do [ __ ]

out of order

let's do what that just made me think of

your honor show and i did watch it

i did too you watched fire you watched i

didn't watch fire

why are you always the last one to the

watch this show but that's a that's a

fairly new

it's it's feeling i'm doing it all the

time though yeah oh well i don't know

about that

but yeah this show a lot of people

haven't seen you on it yet and there's

only one episode in harry's not watching

television at home you guys

no i'm not really tv guys

i have a couple the tvs look at rory now

that is a really good show great one

episode in a

great episode yeah because we don't know

how it's going to play out but

you know uh i forgot his name was the uh

the judge's name

uh from breaking bad brian chris yeah

so they have the actors that have been

in legendary shows

i just like where it's going so far i

get it it's episode

one because what a s what a storyline

the sun pissed me off though he

was just he just pissed me off he was

just doing something we can't do a

spoiler alert yeah i'm not too early we

can't do that but he's just still all

spoiled for something he's just doing

dumb [ __ ] it's like family

but great first episode yeah yeah great

first episode

really good uh really good first episode

this show comes on sundays

sundays at 10 p.m hour longer 30 minutes

hour oh it's lit

yeah i think it's only one episode 30

minutes okay i'll catch up i'll catch up

tonight

yeah yeah great great first episode yeah

when the when the fire show comes out

sunday it does something different

tonight sunday's hbo

sundays was always the night for this

one day off yeah

yeah good water cooler talk you know

what i mean it does something it does

uh okay come on we can get the uh the

rest of this [ __ ] later back to music

back to music

mall where what was your water cooler

huh what was your water cooler the deli

the ice machine in front of bodega the

stash

yeah you know the ice machine where you

got to get the you got to get the teeth

and project lobby

yeah that's what we talked [ __ ] that

right there about about a mailbox on the

corner

yeah i just just wondered what yours was

yeah fire hydrant

[ __ ] right there when we go into the

second lockdown are you not going to fly

anything in

or fly to something or fly to houston or

atlanta or vegas or pennsylvania

i'll probably fly somewhere yeah i want

to get out of new york for a while see

something different

a little light combo it's not a bad

a little tricky right now has anything

altered about

you guys new year's eve plans as of yet

or no i was still down with the origin

miami

you sold you ain't let me look at noel

style

joking yeah no no plans other than what

we talked about another

tentative plans those weren't like

concrete yeah i get drunk with my

friends

that's always a good idea yeah they

closed indoor dining again

so i hate to be this guy but boy do i

feel the depression in new york since i

got back from miami

you got to take care of this take you

back bro don't do that don't laugh at me

you feel it because everybody just feels

like people are out but you don't

feel it when you are in it and don't

leave it and you're conditioned and

you're here and

it's only because when you got back from

miami could cuddy drop

damn i didn't even think about it like

that parks he was waiting for joe

that wasn't a joke joe he was waiting

for jody depression is serious

they're going to drag this kid cuddy

thing absolutely i listen to the first

five

and i like the she knows this that's

probably my favorite out of the first

five that i heard

she knows this was a good record

internets i

have nothing to offer [ __ ] about this

particular body of work

it is a body of work i have no critique

analyzation none i got nothing for you

man

you mean like she knows this i see you

bopping a little bit you playing it

didn't get a chance to really digest it

okay he ain't here one of those okay

didn't let it yeah i mean gotta gotta

sit with me like this i'm just dropped

like album just dropped you guys come on

i can't come in here and when did you

press

1201 i think i'm pretty i'm if you can

remember i mean

if my recollection is right i'm pretty

sure that was 1201.

it was one after when you press play you

were an [ __ ] i was waiting by the

phone

yeah i know true me too me too yeah then

you felt like wow and i understand where

everyone got their style from

right i mean it's too early man it just

dropped y'all it did

uh it just came out it did that's what i

told you i heard only

heard the first yeah we gotta give come

on we gotta give our legends a fair

shake i heard jack harlow i like jack

harlow

i really enjoyed cutting his exactly

you've had no opinion on on this album

at all

gotta give our legends a fair shake man

can't just you can't you can't be

one of the music uh journalists that

just rush out to have a take or an

opinion on something sometimes you gotta

let things sit well

you bought it that's where i am now uh

going on seven years of podcasting

dominance

you you bought you bought the album

right because you support music well

yeah i mean

quick seven fights for some of that

if you were gonna you was there you

joined me on the journey if you're gonna

put on some like melodic [ __ ]

which i mean park's

but why you ain't hit album though he

heard it he had mad time to hit albums

cuddy's shaking in his boot got him

shaking in his boots

did y'all hear it i liked it i listened

to it i liked it especially the first

half the second half got back into his

more spacey vibes which i'm

i get it but it's not as much for me the

first half sounded like

cuddy early cuddy okay to me i enjoyed

it

you did i enjoyed it yes and i like the

spacey part

i'm not big on this basically spacey

part that's what we call it the spacey

part

i like the spaceship but like make it a

bop though which was the first half of

the hour no i can appreciate that

someone has been this sad for this long

yeah that's difficult that's difficult

that's what you gotta think about like

most artists

they'll be sad and then they'll come

into like wow i'm happy now i finally

figured out like who i am

and i no longer have those feelings and

now let's talk about mental health now

he's still full-fledged depressed

but how look at the titles of the tracks

beautiful trip tequila shots

joe could never another day that just

sounds like a great time how are you

depressed

she knows this she always knows this

then you dive

but then then you get damaged yeah then

it's heavy yeah

jumped in the shallow end oh sad people

that's where it takes a turn

september 16th is when she dumped him

joe's so mad he's not mr solo dolo

yeah it's a fact for the third time but

the first five i

i like she knows this out of the first

five i like the heavens i'm listening to

him

i like a lot of the first first half i'm

gonna check this i'm listening to it

this weekend

but a lot of music came out though is it

still in your phone from when you

purchased it

what is it about cutting that doesn't uh

speak to your soul

that joe speaks it yeah what is it not

this album aside i didn't say anything

no no but in the past

he didn't say a thing no no in the past

you've spoken about you don't really

vibe with cuddy's music like that can we

pull it up

when i said that can't believe you said

it i'm not going to i'm not going to say

you said something that you didn't say

don't recall

man oh okay but you seem like you don't

really

i don't recall okay all right i'ma

listen to it and give it a shot because

i like cuddy so i'm gonna give it a shot

same i'm not as big a cuddy's fan as

some people are but

same i'll listen to it i love this first

um the stuff in between not so much

but i enjoyed this yeah man for me it's

just the right timing for card man

well i mean that's there's that's

validity to that i hate you so much

tell us about the right stuff it is for

you you don't play cuddy

every time you're not going to the gym

and playing cuddy going for a peppy run

now you know joe is just sad and when he

hears somebody else sad he gets mad yeah

yeah i just want to be scared because

you're mad at the sad because y'all

going to get the cut hive to attack me

and joe hasn't said a word

other than i gotta check it out why are

you scared of the cut hive i'm scared of

all the hives parts

some of the houses are cool some of the

hives are cool i don't want i don't want

smoke with any of the eyes but are you

guys done with your

detailed kid cudi um if no one else

wants to talk about it i guess

album deep dives well like i said only

heard the first i was expecting rory to

really come in here and give it up

for he seems like especially like uh out

of the year

but now he's trying to downplay it you

know already

calling it yeah i mean off before i even

heard it yeah

yeah that's 1201 out of the year i'll

i'll get into the album this weekend

okay but there's a lot of new music too

tourists yeah there is

this album i love jack harlow yeah

sounds good

i was uh pleasantly surprised yeah i

like it too

sounds real good i like um drunk with a

little baby he also trashed

why no because we're not [ __ ] on it

you don't like jack hollow's album oh no

i didn't hear this one either

damn you only hear nothing i'm not going

to either why why is that because i have

better things to do with my time in the

pandemic

and listen to music yep that's actually

like the perfect thing to do

pandemic fly something out now they want

to tell me what to do in the pandora can

you all talk about jack harlow please

i like it sounds just like i said i

don't listen to this one one time but it

sounds good i like it i thought he'd be

super poppy but yeah you get he got him

some pockets

uh harry frog got adobe production

he's on two huge pop singles right now

so yeah but i know i know what the

wrestling music isn't isn't really don't

i've never listened to the rest of you

don't

jump in the white one huh

this is white on white crime white on

white music debates

fighting white music i mean he's no m

is he better than g eazy

no album is good i [ __ ] with the album i

[ __ ] with with jack harlow

every album that came out is good man no

i wouldn't say that

well i'm telling you something about

this week what came out that was bad

which which album didn't you like joe i

just said every album that came out this

week was good

uh but you can't say that cause you

didn't hear it and i can still say it

all right well jack hall has a good

album though it sounds good production

is good

you talking this [ __ ] on there i like it

yeah

shout out to brady got one on there i

think yeah i leave wrote something on

there with chris brown and jack too so

shout out to y'all i like that i reckon

yeah he put out a project private sweet

three i didn't hear this one yet

shout out to everyone in the industry we

have relationships with

i have no relationships with jack harlow

i didn't say nothing away i don't know

i don't know i was an artist in person

so yeah sure you got me there

no yeah i'll use my [ __ ] but i didn't

hit i didn't hit a project yet but i

will check it out though

okay somehow fetty snuck another album

out and

no one seems to know about it i had zero

clue that he was putting music out

he's put out two projects this year i

think and i don't think i've seen any

human being talk about them

and that's pretty crazy that's weird to

me that's weird but why

why is it weird when was fetty's run was

what year

i think what 2015 16 somewhere in there

yeah 15 would probably

sound about right so it's been five

years since that

colossal run that he had of just

covering billboard completely in like 10

[ __ ] hits

in one year but yeah it hasn't been that

way for

i still feel bad about that i do yeah me

too because i think there's a lot of the

music that

is is popping now and a lot of these

artists that are popping out

are offsprings of fetty i was excited i

was saying it in the moment

and boy did i sound like the biggest

nuthead hater

in the world in the moment it was a

weird strategy but i was like yo

oh when they empty the clip yeah

but if you just get back to that time in

music i sounded like the biggest hater

in the world joe

well i mean streaming had started to

completely take over

if at that time if so you had eight

records

right that you thought was that [ __ ]

and and they were and you were right

yeah

no way on god's green earth are you

putting all of those records out in a

year i don't know

let me not say i don't know how somebody

at 300 convinced him to do that or did

it without him really knowing what was

going on but boy did they rob him of an

opportunity well i think it

uh a lot of those cases there were

records that he was releasing just on

soundcloud before he was even affiliated

i'm not gonna totally put this on 300

because i feel like fetty put a lot of

those out by himself

yeah not a lot of them

a good majority of how many were on yo i

hate doing this but go to this ig

let me see the uh the streams you know

how they put their little numbers up for

the year

oh he probably has a little numbers up

look at you hate no but that [ __ ] look

at those that's crazy pretty good

numbers

yeah yeah 393 million streams it's

insane

yo when actually now that y'all bring

this up when i think about the decade in

review because i always go to that

uh that uh longevity house of balloons

take care era what was that 20 years

ago 2012. 2011. the fatty error is

pretty high for me

yeah he had a [ __ ] run yeah but i

never

we never mentioned it let's definitely

know the run but

that moment in time encapsulated in

hip-hop

it was a year meant a lot it meant a lot

for me well not girls from patterson she

like saw his ascension and [ __ ] and like

his friends with his friends and all

that kind of thing so

like maybe it's a bad judge but she

still plays that music

and i still like this [ __ ] was banging

like this was a hit record you know what

it's similar to to me

it's kind of similar to a boogie okay

i could see that yeah like a boogie from

the bronx like people people

people knew saw him like they saw the

soundcloud stop it

go out of here no disrespect to a boogie

but stop it no it's i'm just saying i'm

just saying this

would die for one of those i think that

no what i'm saying is it is

he says he's had some big records yeah

and he's had a longer career

i think i think fetty would die for the

a boogie career no no i'm just talking

about

i don't know that as far as just just

seeing coming from soundcloud

sound wise to me the baby would also be

a a

correlation i could make because of the

fact that fetty's stuff was kind of

more major key happy bop

sounding i see and i see what you're

saying yeah no i i get that correlation

for sure

all right so you think because because i

feel like fetty now a lot of times

artists will have this crazy year and

then the sound of music will change and

they'll no longer be relevant because

they don't make that sound of music

fetty now all of the trap queen

679 my way all in 2020 could live and it

would

sound perfectly fine yeah do you think

because

he had to sustain the amount of hits

that he did at one time is why he

started to fizzle i found because this

sound of music works

now i'm gonna reply to you i'm sorry

camera people that's my stomach

i'm gonna reply to that and i think i

found

the perfect way to explain some of my

issue

with both fetty and cuddy

and that is that in this microwave

era and before i say this point let me

just say that being a [ __ ]

music critiquer or whatever you call

this [ __ ] boy is it a

tough tough job in 2020 like it is

it is and i don't think that

conversation has had enough either way

so much music yeah it's a lot of music

comes out you can't hear it all

the artists are sensitive well that's

all there's only but so many

platforms that can and will discuss your

[ __ ] like it's a tough time

and this year particularly has been

difficult because there hasn't been a

lot of like

blockbuster kind of releases a lot of

good music but not like

no drake cole kendrick beyonce

jay none of like the super duper duper

duper stars put out music this year so

it's been a weird year

musically in a year's been dead i'll be

wanting to tell his [ __ ] dad to tell

me that

we fell off i'm like fan no y'all fell

off the year has been trashed it's dead

podcasting is like a reactive type of

thing

yeah sometimes but listen back to my

point i should in this in this microwave

and this microwave era the part that

never dawned on me was

now you only you get an even

even more of a limited amount of time

with your sound

as opposed to back in the day where

maybe you would have had a longer run

with your sound and style people catch

up a lot quicker

a lot they figure out they fast stay

fast

and and for me when that happens

you have to guard against it yeah like

it's great to inspire and it's great for

people to it's great to do that

but you have to be prepared to take your

sound

and elevate it for sure i think of that

a lot in terms of us with the podcast

like

in february we'll be going on seven

years after our six-year anniversary

and it's like okay we've been doing this

for x amount of time

and we've been the best for x amount of

time

that's not enough how do you improve on

being the best short grow change or your

style or your sound

and for me both of these gentlemen

for different reasons seem to have let

that get away from them in this

microwave era because rory's right the

sound is still there

yeah how they are producing their sound

may indeed still be the same

it just don't sound the same for me

today

i felt cuddy's album uh he kind of

tapped into more

current sonics at least on the first

half from what i heard

i agree i felt like cuddy not went i

can't say went in the travis scotland

because so much of what who travis scott

is

as an artist is because of cuddy i felt

like he went

more in what his sound has developed

into but that's you

in my opinion in your backpack bag how

so

because you're right about that if you

get to the core of it

but who's doing it better oh i mean i

think there's been plenty of

artists you can say have taken a style

and done it better than the person prior

to well well that's why i'm telling you

where

what my position is because i would feel

like a fool to come in here and say the

things that i've said

about uh let's about janae aiko

and her last project that whole argument

i made

about that family tree and some of your

some of your some of your sons and

daughters are doing it

like if i'm gonna say that about about

that beautiful woman uh

then i ain't gonna not say it when i

feel it about cuddy too and i do

you know what i do about that i do i do

i'm sorry i'm sorry

cud hive i think that's something and

maybe

oh god because the person going through

the door

first is trying to figure the sound out

it's a brand new thing they don't know

what's going to work about it they don't

know what

people are going to gravitate to more

what um they can change in it because

they have no point of reference so when

you have someone like cuddy that creates

this sound yeah you have people like yay

and travis um and [ __ ]

damn near the moody r b now to figure

out what is good about it what they like

about it what they can evolve

in that sound change that sound they

know what works with that sound yeah

it's not fair to the person that started

it

they don't have the same point of

reference as the person that comes after

right so what

so what it's unfair to say why didn't

you i don't develop the sound so much

more i invented the [ __ ] sound

these people took it and realized what

was good and bad about it and developed

it that's how music is that's how

anything works

that's true that's how sports works not

true not true i don't i don't believe

that because you created something

you're

exempt from improving upon it no that's

not what i said

that's exactly what you said that's what

i said i said you said he created it so

i said it's nice so what i'll say it's

not what i said

to break up you guys bickering about

what you said uh part of the issue with

that

uh the argument of developing a sound

and creating is everyone has the same

tools now like talking about how back in

the day you had a longer time with your

own sound

everyone has access to the same exact

[ __ ] same drum sounds

same output uh synth sounds same

auto-tune

plug-ins that's part of the reason how

you're going to use it is what makes you

a great artist

yeah of course i mean everyone has pro

tools but how you

agree with it and do what it's not

supposed to do but there's a lot of

jeans there's a lot of people that just

fall into the okay this is

this is what people are doing i'm gonna

do this i just think it's more of a

luxury to take from us a proven sound

and develop it and change it and grow it

and take it to the next level than the

person that is to come in

with just ground level i'm inventing

something completely new that has not

been proven

yes i think it's easier as the next

person to to develop that sound and

that's the point

of the next person is to take it to the

next level for sure you want everything

to keep growing and developing that's

your

job too is what i'm saying i get what

you're saying

you know you pass the baton and the next

man should

should be able to improve upon it yeah

but more importantly

i do believe it's your responsibility as

well keep elevating to

yeah absolutely but at the same time

that's what artistry is about yeah let

me just tell you [ __ ] out there and

i'ma let you i'm sorry monoculture let

me tell you

hey you rappers out there all of you if

you put the travis scott ad-lib in your

song

i am gonna think about travis scott yeah

what the [ __ ] is difficult about that i

don't think i'm the bad guy for that no

not at all

and if you make me think about travis

scott

the bar is hot yeah you better be better

so what do you want me to do

parks i'm gonna put the [ __ ] out

morning

i get it so i mean it's just tough

it's tough for it's tough for me i don't

and i don't want that to come out like

hate

so it forces me to come in here like and

try to suppress certain [ __ ] even though

people are coming here to hear me talk

about certain [ __ ] but [ __ ] y'all man

that's how i feel i would like to talk

to uh fed you up

we need to talk to we need to i would

like to i would like to see what

i need to know i know i don't need to

talk to him i know exactly what happened

well you're an artist so you can you

know i know exactly what happened but

was that was it which

artistry thing or yes it was somebody

came in and told y'all

listen bump it up flu and then they

wanted me to make another album but no

no and that was me at a much lower level

sure what was happening with fetty

freddy started

dating a lot he was out a lot he was

traveling a lot

he's partying a lot he was spending a

lot i'm not counting nobody's money

but i'm looking at what someone is doing

with their time and

no he did what all of us do at that age

after some success we tricking off we

out of here we're not

the same amount of energy is not

exhausted or invested into our craft

without speaking to confetti or knowing

anybody involved with fetty that is

where i stand on fetty but i'm loyal to

fetty because of what he did and where

he did it from new jersey

absolutely patterson he killed man yeah

yeah it's just always interesting when

you think about it and like i said i

didn't even know he was putting out a

project

and was just talking about him not even

two days ago and i was like

he put out another album this year that

was pretty good no i know but i'm i'm

more so like he

because when he dropped his sound shook

the building

yeah and it's like you don't really and

it was

only two years man yeah not even

so it's just kind of like it just you

know as a music level you just start to

ask about yo what happened

i could be wrong but i think that at one

point he was maybe getting away from

some of the crew and producers that he

was working with at first

but i think that he's gone back i saw

people's name shout out to people's on

the new album and i'm not sure if

they've been working back together for a

long time or what

was there some internal [ __ ] between him

and there may have been yeah

i don't know the new album though okay

good yeah i heard they back like the

crew is kind of

i don't know to what extent but i heard

you you know back [ __ ] with big ones

and all of that so i would just be

curious if there was like some business

[ __ ] that happened maybe with the crew

or maybe with the label or the industry

or something because

he does still make good music where's

the disconnect

right you know what i'm saying i'm not

saying that he's going to have another

run like a trap queen

man a three to five million dollar

publishing check

after record three no

i'm not going to the studio no

don't send me a beat yeah i'm out of

here

i'm gone he didn't even do a lot of

features if i recall either

three million my year one the year and a

half ago i was on soundcloud

whatever yeah i mean i understood when

all the babies started popping i

understood

no doubt yeah but that's unfortunate

because it's you know

it was something really really good

there jersey we need another one they

took betty from us they took albie from

us god damn it jersey

not freddy fetty's still around so i

hope that he can find some footing in

i'm gonna definitely get into this album

this weekend though yeah sure yeah don't

matter

betty's not still on 300 is he i think

so

i could be highly doubted

damn bring back the days when we were

locked into the same label for five

projects

no no labels will drop you quick now

he is on 300 still yep and

300 rgf and this is why artists

want to shoot up labels allegedly

allegedly allegedly of course no fetty

can't get that again from 300 because

300 got too much going on and meg

there's a lot of other people getting

that attention now see so it don't

matter if fetty can make those same

exact records because they wouldn't get

the same exact attention

yeah that's what that's kind of what i

was getting at with i wonder if it's a

business thing

right on the label side it's slash

industry side

because he could i think that he's still

capable of making good music uh from

what i've heard from the two of them so

we put out this year

they might not be super smash hit

records but

there's it's good quality music we are

so east coast we spent 20 minutes on the

new fetty wap album

that era and how things have changed and

yeah much deeper conversation i know

slid right over travis scott

did travis scott drop something no no

joe's dick diddy don't want to say no

no no he didn't him and him and post

were quiet

oh okay you just wanted to tyler the

creator it's a few [ __ ] that was just

quiet

i mean you were such an [ __ ] 38

special frank ocean was quiet

a core fan base that is over a hundred

thousand every single time i go out

why am i going to change my sound well

that's because it's just hypothetical

that's where cody is that's wrong just a

hypothetical thing

taking it back to something i replied to

10 minutes ago so i'll repeat myself

just because you are the creator of a

sound it's not the point does not mean

that you are not responsible for

changing it also

you're missing my point i'm saying if

your core fan base just wants to hear

this

from you and i know i'm guaranteed this

amount of people every single time i go

out this amount of money every single

time i go out

the [ __ ] i'm changing [ __ ] for but

there's a hypothetical question i'm

asking all right great all right i like

it i like it

i like it there's plenty of artists that

have done uh

incremental adjustments where they're

not doing a whole set like how drake

changes or kanye changes like now and i

think has changed

edm album now i'm doing uh whatever uh

uh

the world music album like does there's

artists that have gradually just they've

stayed consistent and they've stayed

with their sound but you know

tweaked the way they chop the sample or

you know perform the vocal

where it's an evolution it doesn't feel

like you're stagnant doing the same

exact shot that's what makes kanye and

then one of the greatest because every

album

huge whole scale like this one's all

synthesizers this one is jesus

and then on top of that and then on top

of that what does success look like for

the other 95

of artists because i don't want us to do

this with

with kanye and sure drake well no i'm

saying

the rest of us yeah that are not on that

that in that rarefied air to another

planet up there

what does success look like today in a

pandemic

with touring dead like i don't i don't

know probably i don't know what i just

said you come out you do your consistent

100

000. that's that's very successful yeah

cudi has a core that is it's a large

core that sounds great if i'm

independent

if i'm on a label and the splits are a

little different what does that

really do for me yeah i'm asking and

even if you're independent like

supplemental [ __ ] independently

recording right this second and relied

on music to pay my bills there would be

four projects in a year

yeah even if they did a hundred thousand

each and you would have to have a fire

merge game or

if they did 40 000 a piece i still make

1500 a month from rage

if they did 40 000 a piece all of them

i'm just saying just to get by

through the year everybody don't have

the fire merch

everybody didn't have the fire tour game

some of you [ __ ] lying oh we can't

perform [ __ ] you wasn't performing

before

yeah it was quiet he wasn't i'm sick of

some of these [ __ ] man i'm just saying

it's a lot yeah it's a lot to account

for

out there 30 people in sobs that was

your new york show yeah

but that's my there's a separate

conversation about how the uh the mega

festivals were inflating a lot of

people's stewardship but that's a whole

deeper darker yes that's a deeper but

that's my other thing about

critiquing music during a pandemic

pandemic pandemic whatever you want to

call it it's like

i there's not one musician out there

that i want to lend my voice

to interrupting their flow right now

i just don't think it's the time for

that right yeah like even if

the [ __ ] so what you put out a bad

album hey

we was killing paul george for his play

in the bubble but i get it if you

depressed and you away from [ __ ]

everything we're going to talk about

that

you've got to talk about them now they

paid that man we're going to talk about

but what i'm saying is what is lisa why

doesn't cutty get a pass for being

depressed and not changing his sound

the [ __ ] all joins herself but not cuddy

and i don't even like that point of him

saying uh

the creator doesn't get any type of pass

for that there's so

do you feel that way about all early

hip-hop artists for not changing their

sound even though they created the

blueprint for what we use now

well no you interrupted me but i was

about to to say

no i'm not judging these [ __ ] for

putting out the mediocre albums during

the pandemic when who knows where your

engineer is how you getting beats who

knows how involved your label is how

much money they giving you

they putting all the onus and

responsibility on the artist we got to

pay for everything now off the top you

get

10 grand let's listen it's [ __ ] up out

there it's real [ __ ]

[ __ ] up idea so it puts me in a an odd

spot to come on here and tell you what i

think of music when truth be told

i'm not listening to music that's how i

am handling you listen to old music no

joe listen you listen to the music from

the people

that make good music no listen it's my

job to hear

to hear things it's my job to hear

things but in terms of

me listening to an album

i gotta find the time in the house i to

find the time to get to the show i like

yeah i got to find the time to put the

phone down like i just got to find the

time now i don't know how the world got

to that but that's where i am me who

loves music like nothing else in this

world

right i don't seem to have time to

listen to it we made this point not too

long ago that

now with [ __ ] being like it is we run

into what's familiar

like i don't have time to sort out and

figure out if you good or not in music

yeah as a new art i don't i'm with you

on that i'm going to my people rory

coming in and playing jasmine sullivan

sleeper guess what i'm buying it hey i

like her

i like her i know her i enjoy her that's

it these new [ __ ] i don't know

quando rondo canceling shows i ain't

heard a song i don't know

nothing that's what rory is for in my

life but he grew up so now he don't tell

me nothing either

i have no idea what that's my best see

see no i understand what you mean but

it's awesome it's rough man

it comes it's rough you just don't trust

a lot of these new acts i think that's

what it is i don't trust the music

business cause i see all y'all

shifting away from music mm-hmm yeah the

business

yeah not the artist unfortunately we'd

be the last ones to know some [ __ ] but

they moving and shaking behind the

scenes december right before christmas

don't let them tell you the industry

locked down [ __ ] [ __ ] moving and i

know it

can't tell you guys can't tell you guys

but [ __ ] is i've been saying it for

you they're lining up

they lining up chests they moving around

they're setting up for the next five

years i don't know how that looks but

it don't look the greatest for artists

yeah

that's sad but it's the truth it's the

truth

no not with the label system yeah and

they want me to sit on the [ __ ]

shitty chatty house these aspiring

musicians that

that want to get somewhere and love the

craft i empathize because i remember

being hey joe what should i do what's it

take a [ __ ] i don't know i hate this

[ __ ]

i can't tell you what i'm gonna look

like handing off some jaded information

i wouldn't know how to function in this

[ __ ] today this [ __ ] is a

mess it is it is but the answer is

work and keep working and figure do

everything try everything

own your masters if you can't all of

this [ __ ] is a [ __ ]

someone gives you a good a good

situation all this [ __ ] is a one and a

500 chance of hitting a home run 500

feet out of the park

own your master's you could be the guy

that gets a base head every single time

and

and that's okay too own your masters

pray that they become valuable one day

because that's the part the industry

don't tell you all these things oh own

your master's on your man some of you

[ __ ] masters ain't worth nothing

have a blast don't make it have a blast

with your ownership and i would say

don't pray they

uh become worth something make them

worth something

yeah make them worth something and then

sell it and hopefully it affects the

market share somehow

there you go well that's the other thing

with these

[ __ ] lying misleading words i got a

long list of [ __ ] in 2021

that need to stop if i hear another one

of you [ __ ] tell me you got a

partnership

nobody wants to say it i've waited a

year and a half for somebody to question

it [ __ ] don't be having parties

no they ain't got no [ __ ] partnership

they're signed

now they've been having partnerships i

know you

partnered on the deal partner in the

payment

yeah yeah yeah since you're a partner

you want a partner in something i'm the

prophet

uh all right what else came out 38

special 38 specs

38 specs changed the game again again

especially in green lantern uh hosted

and you know blended the freestyles

together

with the name of the uh are you calling

this epo album uh

it's like a mixture of he has a album

album coming out i think

next week interstate 38 which is

phenomenal yeah 38 special

i [ __ ] with i feel connected to you

because of the instrumentals that you

picked on this album i'll be honest with

you

you picked 10 of my favorite i haven't

many of my favorite

beats of all time and then rhymed like

murderous drug dealer talk on it like

there's no way for me to not

like this set up to like this is this is

great all i'm saying is

wow now we can sell 16s and 24s over our

favorite beats

is that what this is that was it you're

doing the roaring thing now

this is not though that's a joke yeah

but shout out to 38 absolutely

absolutely

[ __ ] with him he's had a great year uh

for a production god damn it 38

special yeah his album that's coming out

i think it's like i said next week or

the week after

is phenomenal this is kind of just like

the the warm up for it yeah he's one of

the uh he's one of the rappers that i

i listen to a lot and i'm like he's

people are gonna start paying

him some attention real real soon yeah

no they already are he's building

but i mean like on a different level

yeah you know what i mean like he's

gonna start becoming a

yo how do you build now

teach me tell me about all this [ __ ]

that has just gotten lost in the current

how do you build now consistency man

consistency is always

is always key stand consistent all right

well give me what else is key

um being being good for starters

especially

comes from our error so he's got like a

little bit of a cheat code like he comes

from doing good business that's a huge

your name and all the [ __ ] [ __ ] can't

do

business [ __ ]

are successful are doing it i'll give

you one get [ __ ] lucky

that's a little bit of luck well part of

being good is being lucky

yeah it's a little part of being good

part of being good is being

able to uh execute on the luck

unfortunately it comes your way

take take the opportunity to know what

to do with this i'm just saying pure

luck is involved in people oh no no but

if you're if the luck happens and you're

not hey i just told ian that

but right before i got here i said hey

for one person to make 20 million

dollars

a lot has to go right absolutely i

thought that broke good business and i'm

gonna think that when i get 20 million

dollars good business

hey a lot is going right for that for

that to occur

good business [ __ ] ton good business

good business consistency

talent consistency hard work and luck

and a little bit of luck

but being able to execute when that luck

comes through and also and also working

just working on whatever it is that

you're trying to do like always try to

get better at what you're doing you know

what i mean like

you can be a dope rapper but you know

start to work on your hooks more

all right so give it to me right now i'm

a new artist

let's walk through it god damn it [ __ ]

it let's do it i'm a brand new artist i

want the room

know the climate i was going on in the

world i went to the studio i made

something that

me and every [ __ ] in my hood feels like

it's a go uh-huh

i haven't played this for i haven't

played this for somebody and they didn't

tell me

it's a go well i'm breathing i'm reading

though i'm dreaming i'm reading the

faces

i'm reading i'm just saying everybody

heard this and they got the nod in the

head i was looking on the low i invited

some girls over

caught with the bible you know what [ __ ]

[ __ ] do when you're testing the record

i'll do that right

you got to be careful though because a

lot of people do get inflated uh

sense of fire by playing it for people

that know them personally that know them

personally but in a way that is there

there's an art to playing [ __ ] for

people and getting an honest response

out of them

yeah sneaking it in like you said you

have a playlist

on the app about playing your music for

people

yeah and how yeah you may want a certain

response from a certain person but

they're not even

into that type of genre right so you're

just going to get the oh no it's cool it

just ain't for me type thing

you have to know exactly who you're what

type of audience you want this

music to be for and that's the type of

people that you need an opinion from now

you want people to identify their

audience yes

it is tough but listen okay i got this

record i did what i had to do let people

hear it i think it's fire

today what do i do what do i do

with this record it's mixed it's

mastered i don't know nobody

at radio i don't have a relationship at

the streamers soundcloud

uh no everything's in my whole career

making this record you want me to just

put it down clowns

get back in the studio and do another

one make another one and don't put it on

just something

on every single thing that exists i can

see why [ __ ] don't listen to [ __ ]

with experience

no i would never do that well you know

you have to keep holding that record

that's fire in the world ain't gonna

happen until i get another one no that's

oh and that's that's that and that's

talking to the person's talent now well

i'm talented so i mean that's i'm okay

so if you got another one

if you're talented oh no no no no all

right no no i'm talking about joe budden

but no i'm the new artist guy now

i ain't so fast to relinquish my record

people gotta hear you people got it for

free absolutely no

oh you [ __ ] would fail put a few

[ __ ] with your families

write a song you have to put it on free

and sale and everything

you've got to put it you have to do

everything

oh [ __ ] you guys first of all it doesn't

cost you money to put it on

somewhere where you will gain money like

it's a different it's not like when you

were selling mixtapes

no just give it to them for free in time

put it out you can put it on

any streaming services stop holding this

music like

y'all talking about it put it out listen

to us

no listen if you nice put the music out

to the world listen

to us put the music out the world to let

you know if you're good joey what you

kind of just went over when i said

identifying your audience yeah i think

that's a first step because how you

market

things especially as a new artist you

should start with a smaller

group to go after that's how you build

we use the word build

you start with the small group i think

this is for this specific type of person

so let me identify that type of person

and i can market this a little bit

better because i know what they like and

how they

take music in is it is visuals is this a

record that needs a visual to put out

spoken something marketing that's very

difficult to do for the average human

being by the way

especially especially there's so many

records that i get

to mix from people and they're like yo i

want to sound like

drake it's like you know that you sound

like

you've like but but that but it doesn't

take a moment

you sound like travis scott and that's

not the same you know whatever when joe

was saying that

in in this hypothetical scenario that

everybody in his hood liked it you have

to

for the people you're playing it for you

have to figure out that type of person

i don't know if this is a machine or a

person this is the one and only man

i didn't i didn't get to any answering

service yet man this is brook steezy man

buck stallion this is joe budden and

friends from the joe budden podcast in

the middle of a very important

conversation how are you doing

i'm doing great man you're doing great

hey

in 2007 i came

to you because you wrote a song

that a lot of people thought was a

really great song right

that is correct that is true i attempted

to purchase that song from you right

yes if you or at least try to open the

conversation to do so right

me that's correct me needing a single at

the moment thinking i had the right

amount of momentum to amplify

what was a really really really good

record you

as an aspiring act with this record that

you thought

was a smack a lot of people thought was

a smash

smash smash opted to

hold on to the record right

yeah that's how it kind of ended

it was a few 10 intangibles there we

don't care about that i'm only speaking

to

why as a new artist with this record

that a lot of people thought was a smash

i'm trying to talk to i asked them all

and the fellas here hey if i'm a brand

new artist and i got a record that we

all think is a smash what's the first

thing i should do they said i should put

it on soundcloud or the streamers

i playing devil's advocate said well if

i'm a new act with with this one smash

i would never do that because i wouldn't

want to let my record go and that got me

to thinking about you

but in the long run you never put that

record out did you

i never put it out that's what happens

that's why you can't hold on to

especially

and that's and that is what happens yeah

there's a lot of [ __ ] music out i

hate when [ __ ] have a record

and everybody loves it no no i don't

really know what i want to do put the

[ __ ] music out man and you know

you know he's not putting it out too

early without well it's too

there's many ways of looking at that um

sometimes when you get a a golden egg is

a golden egg because it's

made of gold and sometimes you just

don't

get another golden egg so if you just

like if we want to reference joe right

and we look at a record such as pump it

up

like we're being creative and putting

our music sometimes the reality of it is

is that sometimes you just cannot

create another golden egg no matter how

creative you might

think you are sometimes it's just it

doesn't work

that way so like how pumped up

no mind state i know even if it's wrong

yeah he said you're right but that's

what anything if you're a [ __ ] little

league baseball player you can't get a

hit you're not on the [ __ ] team

anymore

yeah and you know what's funny i said

the buck back then you ain't got it you

ain't got it go try something else i

said to buck back then about this record

i said yo you're gonna hold on to this

record

and the sound of music is gonna change

and it's not going to be the same record

anymore yeah

and then that happened the sound changed

but i only bring it up buck to tell you

i think the sound is right back yeah

that sound from that record with tick

tock and all this other dance creation

[ __ ] that's how this [ __ ] works hey can

i play some of that record

you ain't doing that whatever the [ __ ]

are you going to do

what the [ __ ] are you going to do number

collecting dust in your house

all right listen i don't even know where

that right yeah

yeah i am going to play some of that

record you have it yeah

copyrighted in two minutes copyrighted

where

it's recorded it's kind of send it to

yourself in the mail it's copyrighted

remember when they said that i am going

to play a little bit of this record

before you play it buck is my man i love

him if it's trash can i say it's trash

it ain't trash i just know what it is

but wait wait timeout of course you

could say it's tragically

but listen remember this was in oh six

years old seven yeah i know do you have

nah no i know exactly what your sound

was no six and over

all right objectivity absolutely

i love it there's something about that

girl right there

this could work now hold up

but forget about buck for a minute just

listen i don't know how to listen to it

the fans probably don't though you

turned me

on the damn girl you turned me off

you're not trying to turn me

miller is hilarious no i get it it

sounds good

it's not good i don't know if that would

have worked for you though

a caricature of yourself

joe had a record with young chris i

believe frequency produced that was kind

of in that

lane that was a mid-2000s

trying to get a single if you hear what

buck said

that is the fear that most artists live

with just not that five percent

that no absolutely i'm talking about

that as a producer like i've held onto

beats forever like oh no this one

gotta have ghost face on it's gotta have

nods on it the [ __ ]

that's the dumbest [ __ ] in the [ __ ]

world you put that [ __ ] out you have to

put the [ __ ] music

like you said joe the sound changes the

time changes the moment changes

this artist now who who recorded in

january

and want to put out their album in

december and they have to go back and

change that whole

album that they have recorded in jen

cause it's already dated already it's

not the year is not even over yeah so

you have to put the music you cannot sit

on music and just think that

i'm gonna wait nah you gonna wait and

then that moment is gone and now nobody

wanna hear that sound now [ __ ] gonna

be looking at you like [ __ ] that just

came home

again the beautiful thing about art and

being a creator is you can keep doing it

i feel for artists right now i feel like

so many artists have sat on their music

in 2020 because they didn't want to put

it out with uh the fear of

the uncertainty of how it would be

upside down now this is what i'm talking

about now this i kind of disagree with

i might be with them on this you know

established artists or

either going to hold your album or over

release music i would roll with oh

releasing that

finish i was saying i feel for them

because they may have

just

it's frustrating i know i'm a kid i know

it's fun and i'm in a bad mood today

um i feel for them because if they

created something in january of 2020

thinking they were going to put it out

in june of 2020

they've been listening to the same

record over and over and it may be an

amazing record but to them

it feels dated and they won't put it out

in 2021 when it is time for them to

release music

that's right so a lot so a lot of

artists i think are going to be sitting

on really good music

and they'll be sick of it so they won't

uh won't want to put it up that happens

to artists a lot where they they have

something that

may even be more than six months old it

might be six years old

and they're like nah we can't do that

this is old it's like no one else is not

old to nobody else

right as long as it doesn't have like a

uh uh timely

kitschy chase in the middle of the super

auto two vocal uh you know in 2009 or

you're not talking about

you know what i mean there's a certain

[ __ ] that super dates a record yeah

or it's super topical yeah if you told

me punchlines that are like wow

while we're in our music geeky bag i

love it nerdy

i'm not mad at it on saturday i'm not

mad at it i love nerd music

while we're in this music geeky bag i

have a few very short brief

announcements for anyone that needs to

hear them

uh damn just that fast

i thought this could be announcement of

us making a diss track back for the

redditors

i don't even know if i want to give

light to that

even though he killed us damn what was

y'all just talking about i had two

really good

dating dated music yeah putting out

music being scared to put it out

because it feels dated oh got it buck

stallion

hilariousness very quick why you should

give me that record

two very quick short announcements for

anyone who needs to hear this

meg

announcement number one any was the

first stallion to get turned on

announcement number one to anybody that

needs to hear this

contracts are changing what

if you don't know it you're somewhere

you shouldn't be

hey i only know because i've seen a few

and i can read them so i'm only pointing

this out

because kanye said whatever he said

about the contracts

and contracts be [ __ ] all you [ __ ]

up and none of us have ever seen a

legible contract

i'm here to tell you in the next few

years

you should see shorter form legible

contracts

hit a round of applause for me what do

you think that's happening it is

happening oh

it's happening it's starting to happen

this is the very beginning very

beginning

very beginning normalize that normalize

that that's one

right and two really quick these seem

like very obvious announcements

but for whoever needs to hear it clout

is not currency repeat it with me

cloud is not currency one more time for

the road

cloud is not currency

i see listen when they say clout because

y'all fool me with the slang [ __ ] y'all

be doing like the gen zers and the kids

y'all say cloud and we think of cloud

chase and we just think of [ __ ]

seeking attention and trying to get cool

but wait no

it's the reinvention of the look

this is the re-emergence of doing

something off the strength

and for the look and for some of you

[ __ ]

affiliations and relationships are very

important but you all need to separate

when to go that route and when to go

this route and it's really pissing me

off you and rs on that chatty house some

of you

i'm glad i'm going to happen anymore

because i feel like those people you

[ __ ] are

[ __ ] liars preying on the hopes and

dreams of aspiring artists you [ __ ]

deadbeats

one day i'm going to walk in there and

question you all about what the [ __ ]

you've a an art

i'm bumping into a and rs who don't know

what a and r

stands for i'm bumping into anr's

who from morning tonight are telling me

about what [ __ ] are you in the office

or not

are you at work did craig cowman call

are you on salary [ __ ]

is your contract about up what's the

last guy you brought in here

like tell the truth if a and r and now

and i'm off on the tangent from uh cloud

being currency but if and are

now means hey just go to twitter and

instagram and check who has the highest

followers and then try to offer them

some money

you [ __ ] are trash by pseudo

that's it well it should be you have to

do a little bit of that

like as someone who looks for

up-and-coming artists one of them [ __ ]

was in there

one of them [ __ ] was in there and ran

into the [ __ ] he scammed

oh well that's a whole different country

shut up but i will say

if there's someone who's looking for

up-and-coming talent you do want to see

that they have some

uh work ethic meaning they are building

some [ __ ] on their own

i'm not the only fans they are you bet

that this spot talent develop it

yeah nurture it i see what you sometimes

give them the budget

popping up giving the good beats listen

to the album yeah yeah i'll give him the

beats

give him the beats now this isn't a

direct one

chatty house a r thing but it is

connected to it can i read someone's bio

from from the chatty house

sure okay read this directly

supermodel i do it all high fashion

runway music

swimsuit commercial sports fitness print

i also cast direct music videos parties

such as chris brown tyga drake sway lee

and more

that's facts that's a uh oh no she's

like a little bit yeah

what did any of that mean that's a

madonna you gotta read through that

she's just a little swiss army knife

that's what she no she's a madonna

that's facts right there

she runs a brothel yeah she's a swiss

army knife okay from switzerland right

now not rory in women's business who

said that was a woman

you said she oh well i don't know she

identifies that

that's true that is true she could be

fluid good play

speaking of getting in women's business

it wasn't me

and i'm not getting into it because i

went into it before and they tore me

apart and i'm not doing it again

but i do see what's going on between

blank and blank

oh if there's the potential of something

going on between blink and blink

thanks for clearing that out i see it

from behind the scenes

that's it okay all right who's blank and

blank

mega nick

something going on as far as not

physically nothing moving on

i'm too early i'm too late i'm reading

too much it's too deep i'm in a woman's

business

and i only nicki tear me up especially

while she's pregnant uh

best of luck pregnant she had a healthy

baby especially when she just had a

healthy baby uh congrats to the queen

yeah i'm not getting into that

i ain't gonna be [ __ ] start pointing

[ __ ] out again

okay no no no no no and not that it's

happening

because i don't know can't confirm [ __ ]

but you think you're thinking that's all

[ __ ] looks away yeah [ __ ] looks away

that's all and i'm out of women's

business now no problem

all right maul did you uh did you a r

the 3 30 in houston uh benny wrecker

uh no i didn't a r but you know he sent

it to me when he on chatty house would

you say are you an artist

no okay yeah he sent it to me a few

weeks just came out just what

that's like yesterday it's on the

conflicted uh soundtrack he getting busy

yeah he's talking about the whole

incident in houston i hate when artists

that i like are on soundtracks

why it's their it's their uh their movie

oh that's different

yeah that's different well to answer

your question as to uh

why because i know how it is when you

just get giving a song to the soundtrack

oh i mean for sure but i feel like some

now

are we gonna listen talk afterwards i

think that's good

yo house full of war art i pulled up the

walmart

[ __ ] y'all forget it man forget it

forget it

yo oh

oh yo get the yo

some of you know me is benny bullets was

in me

it was a semi it chill hey yo

oh this was the flow

i didn't realize what he thought i ain't

peeping

a lookout at walmart ain't no pool of

that man i'm not letting him do that

i'm not letting him do that i'm not

letting people do that make a mistake

yeah didn't have a mistake

fam i'm here to get tank tops what the

[ __ ] do i need to look out for

only one mistake he didn't have a

lookout no nick stay your ass home and

send you a man and go get the [ __ ]

tank tops

love you being off the hook but can't

take the hood out i love you billy love

you look out at walmart is hilarious i

just

that's talent having to look out at

walmart no

coming up with that only one mistake

that i made

let's see what he did

hey pause this pause this

this guy's good yeah he's pretty good at

rapping this guy is good

you can ride well why the hell did you

have a quarter million of jewelry going

to walmart that's what he's saying

that's what i'm saying yeah i'm only

saying it now that he's saying that i

would have never said that if he didn't

say it

take me out the hood can't take the hood

out that's it ben yeah it's a mistake

a lot of rappers i wore my jury to the

spade game so

yeah gotta go ahead you learn [ __ ]

oh man it's dope record man yeah 3 30 i

lifted my chain it didn't even hit my

head that [ __ ] was all net

[ __ ] took that [ __ ] off at least

hey when you take your [ __ ] off smooth

when [ __ ] got the toaster

that means you're nervous like man let

me i don't even want them to think

he took that [ __ ] and ran i waited a

couple seconds and ran after him

five seconds later [ __ ] what you

running for

he's going yeah yeah he's going he's out

even if you guys look at the hammer

still

back loud if you don't go back and bid

your hand

[ __ ] you had four books before i showed

up

you'll get that chain back

oh yo the look on my face when i finally

got to the right dude in the projects to

tell me what i was like that's all that

[ __ ] it's gone my [ __ ]

didn't move fast enough shout out to

that guy that breaks it down like real

simple nice shout out

oh hit that guy an important figure

but wait you thought i was going to

shout out the robbery yeah

but wait you know what's [ __ ] up about

getting robbed

even that sentence outside of the

obvious anybody can get robbed for sure

anybody get to drop on them

the streets of the streets that's fine

but because there's no

once you get over that once your pride

is not affected by that you're cool

right the pride in the issue comes in

when years later you were just at the

spot at a party with mad bad [ __ ] and

just happened to be a few harlem [ __ ]

that

know about what happened and they bring

it up yo you ever found out about money

yeah you never got up with money you did

that [ __ ]

no no no i'm actually trying to forget

about it i'm trying to relive that

now i got [ __ ] in front of this house

right now that's funny move down south

oh oh okay oh damn let me tell my [ __ ]

oh that is some funny [ __ ] that's so

funny i know only i got raw come on

that's what i'm saying they gotta break

that [ __ ]

no you have to grab and punch me out of