Chapter 1: What humorous incident does Mal share about his morning?
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Chapter 2: What are the hosts' thoughts on greasy vegan food?
Yeah, we're here. This was Monday morning. I actually forgot to tell. Well, I just actually didn't think you guys cared, but we're here now. So fuck it. I was making Amara breakfast Monday morning before we came to record. What was on the menu? I mean, there was some healthy stuff, but I was making bacon because she loves bacon. Okay. It's definitely my daughter. It's not the red hair.
It's just her love for bacon. So, you know, when bacon grease pops a little bit, I try to keep her away so I can feel her like tugging at my leg. And I'm like, Amara, hot, hot grease. Step away. And I realized she doesn't have a diaper on. She's hot. I'm like, when I turned around before, she had a diaper on. Where's the diaper?
So I then fully turn around and, you know, my living room and kitchen. White couches. I turn all the way around, look past the island kitchen, and I can see a dragged diaper from-
basically where the window is yeah of course across the whole carpet nice just a shit stain nice all the way so she took her diaper off and i didn't see it i'm just going by the evidence the splatter what are those cops call when they when they do the blood splatter shit you didn't need a black light no all the lights could have been off and i could see that shit
Dragged it all the way across my carpet. Yeah. So then I. Well, you have a very nice car, very soft. So she probably, you know. When I moved in, Amara, this was like two years before Amara even existed in my balls. Yeah. So I bought white couches. Yeah. White carpet. Like everything looked like belly. Museum. Yeah.
And didn't, my mom kept saying like, you should probably get couch covers and like do something different. Like mom, it's fine. What do you know? Yeah. So I then turn the burner down, run over to try to get the carpet cleaner shit. And while I'm doing that, I turn over and Amara is dragging her naked ass across the couch cushions.
So there's now a shit streak going on the couch from cushion to cushion. She's a little Picasso. And she likes to jump on the couch and she thought it was hilarious. Anytime dad's fucking freaking out and frantic, she just starts giggling. So she's jumping on the couch and landing on her butt, because that's what she does on the trampoline, on the couch, but she still has a shitty ass.
So now there's just streaks of shit all over my white couch. Oh, man. I would have started crying. Did you start crying? No. No. Remember, like, drastic things don't bother me. Like, I started laughing. I didn't even, like, once it happened, I was like. What else are you going to do in that moment? You have to laugh. I was like, you know what? Let me just burn this place down.
Yeah.
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Chapter 3: How do the hosts reflect on their experiences with Uber drivers?
Oh my God. I like it. I know what I fed you. She wanted to add color to the... Dino nuggets don't do this. That's not dino nuggets. How the fuck has that... That is not dino nuggets. Somebody gave her something she wasn't supposed to have. So I'm telling Kia this on the phone when I'm driving to the city. And Kia goes, why didn't you take a picture?
I was like, you think that was on my mind at the time? Yeah, no. Definitely wasn't grabbing my phone, trying to... She's dying laughing. Like, you didn't take video picture? I was like, no. I'm trying to stop the shit. It's bacon grease popping. It's shit all over. No. Grabbing the phone was not in my plans. Yeah. But, you know. I wish I would have had that Uber driver. Oh, that's father.
Could have taken Amara. Oh my God. Thank you. I mean, Amara shit my face before. So yeah. And I got everything out of the carpet. Yeah. I have like the high powered vacuum with the solution. It actually looks better now.
Yes.
So Amara was just reminding me like, Hey, you had to clean the carpet in the couch. There you go. But anyways. We're here. We're back. What's up, baby D?
What's poppin'?
How you feelin'?
I'm feelin' good. You know, I'm here with y'all now, makin' my day.
Makin' my day downtown, walkin' fast, pace is passin', I'm homebound. Listen, listen, listen, Rory. Toilet bound. I just want to say, last week you said something on the pod about the Knicks and where they would be for the series today. Mm-hmm. You were wrong. But... What? But... If they're hearing this, what are your predictions while they're hearing this?
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Chapter 4: What predictions do the hosts make about the Knicks' game?
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This is Julian Edelman, host of Games With Names. On our latest episode, we got comedian Blake Anderson from Workaholics and the hilarious This Is Important podcast.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Clipse's partnership with Roc Nation?
They're not even invited, and they're just as big as the Clips. They're just not invited to the office because it's a distro deal. You're not signed to Roc Nation. The fact that they were in front of that, that's a statement. Oh, yeah. No, it's definitely a statement. That's not just some regular shit. Yeah, it gets conversations going.
It gets us on our podcast talking about it, alluding to it, and trying to figure out if that's what it means. I would love to hear it. I would love to hear what Jay sounds like right now. And obviously, he's still in shape. We know that. I don't think he's going to ever not be in shape. Or if he's not in shape, he ain't going to let us see him not in shape. He ain't going to rap.
Yeah, he's not going to rap if he's not in shape. But I just don't think... I don't know if Jay is in a rapping, I don't know if he's in a rapping mood. I don't know if he is like, you know, if the atmosphere of rap right now is appetizing or enticing to him. I just can't see it. I think that comes and goes.
Around the God Did verse, I would have said I don't even think Hov is even focusing on that. But I think if he hears something and starts mumbling... and you catch him that day, I think you have the opportunity, if you catch him right then and there, and he's into it and can block out two hours, you'll get a four-minute verse.
I mean, if we know anybody... Because that God Did verse was... Not the verse. That song was done. It had Wayne and Ross. That was done, and then Hov heard it and just started mumbling in the office and walked across the street to Jungle Studios and did it. That wasn't a plan. Yeah, but we know that Khaled... he's going to keep a J-verse. He's going to always get a J-verse.
He's going to get a Beyonce record. Controversial. Because I do like Khaled as a person. Has Khaled exhausted his Jay-Z features?
No.
Is that becoming... I don't think so. Expected, kind of. Yeah, I think...
hove even when they partnered of course they had a relationship before but when him and lenny brought khaled in was at the height of what was it vine it was before tick tock what did khaled like really pop off on as a personality outside of being great snapchat yeah that was when that partnership happened because khaled was smoking hot outside of at that point just making great albums
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Chapter 6: How does Jay-Z's current mindset affect his collaboration choices?
I don't know if Khaled has that same type of temperature on him now where Hove would be like, I'm giving him another verse. Yeah, I don't see that happening. We have given him a Jay-Z Beyonce feature, a Jay-Z Beyonce future song. I've given him one of the greatest versions of the last 10 years. He has given Khaled countless things because one, he fucks with Khaled. Two, the music was great.
Three, he was invested and they were partners. I don't know if this album, Hov, is going to be like, yeah, I got to give Khaled another one. Maybe not this album, but I don't know if I'm on the side of saying Khaled may never get a J-verse again. I think Hov is only focused on the fall off with J. Cole and maybe the clips, if it makes sense, if he hears something.
I think those are the only two things in his rap brain without jewelry on that he's thinking about. You think J gives J. Cole a verse? Yeah. I think we finally get the Jay-Z and J. Cole song we've been looking for. After, ironically, Mr. Nice Watch. He had no jewelry on when he wrote that. Justice for Mr. Nice Watch. It's the beat that is just not for me.
I think we finally get the proper J. Cole and Jay-Z song that we have been looking for. I don't think so. I don't know, man. I just don't think Jay is... At that point, where Jay-Z is at in his career and his life... I mean, a verse has to have significant, well, the record has to have a significant meaning. He's not just doing it just to show off and say, yeah, I still rap better than Oli.
I don't think that, that doesn't mean much to Jay at this point in his life. I think that it has to be a situation where the record is phenomenal. The music is incredible. The project that it's on is like, you know, it's going to move the needle, I guess, and kind of shift the sound of what's going on right now. I just don't know if there's anything out here that's going to do that.
I think it finishes the story of A Star Is Born. Because J. Cole was pretty much the first artist signed to S. Carter Enterprises. He wasn't even signed to Roc Nation. You get A Star Is Born with a A-list heavy Blueprint 3. J. Cole being the only unknown that he was launching. Was talking about all the greatest ever. Here's going to be the next greatest ever. Which was a huge fucking risk. Mm-hmm.
I'm not taking anything away from J. Cole. I'm talking about the music business. There's a chance, not because of J. Cole's talent, just because of how politics work, we never heard from J. Cole again after that verse. That can happen in the music industry. Oh, for sure.
So the fact that that was your first artist that you signed, probably the most profitable rapper that you have had post-Roc-A-Fella, he then fulfilled his contract, made you millions and millions of dollars, and then did what you would have wanted him to do as a human, not as a businessman.
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Chapter 7: What changes can we expect in J. Cole's upcoming project?
Of course, he'd want to keep Cole. Cole went on to do his own thing and is now already a legend in his own right. To me, that's why you get the record. Jay telling that story with Cole finishes. A star is born. Look, we were fucking right. Look at this journey. You made me profitable. You carried Roc Nation in the beginning, and now you're doing your own thing the way me, Biggs, and Dame did.
Like, that's what I think Jay respects. You fulfilled what I needed you to do, and then you did your own thing. You don't feel like, I mean... That's why I'm giving you a verse. Right. Just, you brought up J. Cole, so I'm just thinking J. Cole right now. Something doesn't seem a little... Like, as J. Cole has put out some songs... And we liked he got off. He's still obviously in shape.
He still wrap his ass off. But the songs don't seem to be. Why is he putting these? Why is why is J. Cole released these records that he's released in the last however many months? Because he can't. But have they lasted? Are we living with them? Because I can't remember the last time I even listened to it. I was in the Portrait. That's in my rotation still.
But that was probably one of the first ones that he released. He's released what? Three since then? No. I think it's only been Port Antonio and Clouds. Yeah. Clouds, I will say. I liked Clouds, but I will admit I don't really go back to Clouds that much. But the Portrait, I play that a lot. I like that record a lot.
Poor Antonio and Clouds, I think, are the only songs that were released post... I mean, that were recorded post-battle. I think the other ones were recorded pre-battle. They just happened to come out.
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Chapter 8: How do personal experiences shape our views on relationships?
But those two were the only ones that I'm aware of off the top that were recorded post-battle. And they both were good. Clouds is not something that you would... Neither one of them are songs that you would... They were statement pieces. They weren't something that you would play regularly. I don't think they were songs. I think they were just J. Cole getting his thoughts out on...
Yeah. You know, on record, so. And I'm on the side of, I don't know this to be true. This was just like what everyone saw on the internet. Rumors of what the concept of the fall off was, where Cole was going to have features from older artists that quote unquote fell off. Not really fell off, but you know, just saying that after you hit your peak and become a legacy act, things get different.
So it was going to be legacy acts. I don't think the beef changed that. I just think the time in which he had to pause because of the beef has made him redo this entire album. That's just my guess. I think the concept he had, he liked at the time and now is like, I'm falling out of love with that concept next to the fall off.
I think it's going to be way less feature heavy than it was going to be originally. I just, yeah, I think he's had too much time to have to chill because of all the weird shit that was going on. And he probably has three different versions of it at this point. I'm interested to see what Cole does with this next project. I want to see where, you know, sonically, just where his energy is at.
Because, you know, it's a lot on this project. It's a lot riding on this project. Yeah. Whether without the beef, there is. It's a lot riding on. But now, since you have that beef, I mean, coming off of that, this is your next album post that? It's really interesting you actually bring that up because I never thought about this.
Because of everything that happened, most legacy acts, which the big three is now in that portion of their careers by hip hop time standards, Like when Blueprint 3 came out, of course, do I want Jay to deliver? Sure. But I wasn't like, yo, this is going to be like a moment or not a make or break, but this is going to be a defining moment for Jay-Z, Blueprint 3. I didn't think that at all.
All three of them, everything that they're about to put out next is going to be a defining moment in their careers. Which wouldn't have happened prior to that, which is an interesting thought that I never... Even Grasp. Had that never happened, yeah, of course I can't wait for all three of them to drop music. But I felt all three of them are so solidified that it was a duh, whatever.
They're all legends. But now it's like everything the three of y'all do matters just as much as it did as your fucking sophomore album. Do you think we get all three of them this year? No. I don't think we get Kendrick. I think we get Cole. I could see a November Drake release. November? No, I think he said summer. Every artist says that. Yeah, I think he said summer.
But I think we get Cole and Drake this year. I don't think Kendrick does. Like I said in my predictions, I think we get a bunch of Kendrick features. That's where I see shit going. Shout out to Drake. He's a... I think he just received, he has 10 diamond, 10 certified diamond RIAA records. Most of any artist ever. That's a huge stat. 10 diamond records is crazy. So shout out to Drake for that.
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