Adam22 (Adam)

We don't have any stars.

No young stars besides young boys.

And he is kind of, like, near the top of the, you know, list of modern rappers, which is kind of an indictment of hip-hop because, realistically, like, I mean, how many rap fans are really excited about Lil Baby in 2025?

That's part of the problem is that we don't really have that many, like, nationwide rap stars.

Yeah.

But then, meanwhile, a Rio the Young OG or a Ezra Vezzo is, like, gigantic in Detroit, and if you go to Detroit and you drive around, you're going to hear people banging that shit left and right.

meanwhile like if you rewind the clock 20 years ago those same people in detroit would have been listening to 50 cent same thing as la same thing as new york you know we have real national stars and there's just very little of that like when you see these young boy tours and you see him in states that are far far away from his home state and he's getting a reaction like the most beloved possible thing it's just kind of it's it's a throwback to a prior era

And EBK J-Bo, in recent memory, in the last couple of years, had the most potential to become a nationwide rap star.

And instead, he got locked up and he's probably going to go do like five to ten years.

From California, for sure.

He would have been the guy waving the flag.

And his success would have blown up all kinds of other artists, particularly from Northern California, but it probably would have had an effect on L.A.

as well.

And instead, he's going to waste the most productive years of his life just sitting in a cell, most likely.

Like, he's just not focused like he should be.

I could sing way more Kodak songs than Youngboy songs.

Yeah, from a mainstream level, for sure, I feel like a Kodak set is going crazier in the club than a Youngboy set.

6ix9ine had a clip where he said that Mello was, that he fucked her for $100.

You're asking for a Diddy case, throwing that accusation out there.

So do you feel like, because we're kind of in this weird moment right now where everybody paid attention to 6ix9ine in 2020.