DJ Vlad

No Jumper, coolest podcast in the world, and I'm back with my guy, DJ Vlad.

How you feeling?

Yeah?

It's supposed to be hard times for you right now.

You're kind of under fire.

No hard times.

It's not getting to you.

Nah.

It only gets easier, right?

Yeah, because I mean, technically speaking, it's structurally quite similar to what happened to you back in sort of early pandemic, where at that time,

You had, you know, Lord Jamar, Godfrey, a handful of other guys kind of turn their back and decide they didn't want to do podcasts anymore.

So Aries and Boosie having sort of similar arcs for a different reason.

It's pretty similar, but it's interesting how two very similar things could happen five or so years apart.

And in one situation, you'd be kind of unbothered because I think you've just gotten the tougher skin as time went by versus at that time.

I recall that it definitely was getting to you a bit and it seemed like an existential threat.

It sounded like you were doing interviews with him for free for all those years and that he wanted to get paid $5,000 and you were like, nah, nah, you're not worth $5,000.

Yeah, I mean, because that has been probably the most shocking thing is that in hip hop as the older white media personality, it's typically difficult for you to be viewed in the more favorable light when you're beefing with somebody who is a beloved rapper.

And the fact that from my perspective, when I'm reading the comments, when I'm seeing other podcasters like Joe Budden or whoever weigh in, it has seemed like, oh, it's interesting to see people being pretty logical and seeming to understand that from a business perspective, I think you look better than Boosie in this whole thing, which is kind of...

You know, you're used to what side people pick in these issues oftentimes being based on identity and not so much reality.

But it feels like it's been going pretty well in terms of how people view it, which makes me feel like the audience is maybe growing up a little bit.