Discussing Snoop Dogg's Biopic & Live Nation, Ticketmaster Lawsuit | Rap Life Review
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0:00 Um, I checked out the Sexy Red,
0:01 and I came to the conclusion that my lifestyle is
0:04 not conducive to keeping up with these textures and sounds.
0:08 Precisely.
0:08 Uh, so I did enjoy it.
0:09 I had to hearken back I text you guys all this.
0:11 I had to hearken [clears throat] back to a time to relate.
0:14 It's called vote.org.
0:17 And you should [music] actively be looking
0:19 at elections in your area both locally,
0:22 city, state, and federal cuz there's a lot of elections [music]
0:26 where you as the consumer can actively work
0:31 to elect individuals that care about these issues.
0:34 The only class of people I ever see
0:37 talk about not voting is hip-hop and black folks.
0:42 I never see no one else talk about not voting.
0:45 Am I the only one?
0:46 Eddie, what's up?
0:48 Lala, Nadeska, Ebro, Rap Life Review is on.
0:52 Uh, where's our guy Nick?
0:54 Uh, he's running late.
0:55 You know, it's Oh, this happens.
0:56 LA traffic.
0:57 Yeah, no.
0:57 Spend a little time in Japan,
0:59 you get a little weird and it's just like he's international Nick,
1:01 you know what I'm saying?
1:03 International Nick.
1:04 International Nick.
1:06 Uh, well, we got new music.
1:07 I saw Black uh, shout to Black.
1:09 Uh, I saw him at uh, we had an artist uh,
1:12 relations uh, dinner last week in Los Angeles.
1:16 Star-studded.
1:17 I saw um,
1:19 We don't get invited to that, Eddie.
1:20 Is that why you're looking around?
1:22 crazy?
1:22 have to hear about it from the executives.
1:24 and I was like, "Dang, no invite." And he just kept the conversation going.
1:28 about last week.
1:29 Executive what?
1:30 It was I didn't plan it either.
1:32 [laughter] So, I don't even know.
1:33 I got invited.
1:34 I didn't know who was invited who wasn't.
1:35 I wasn't a part of the planning.
1:37 You know, I'm I'm going to spill the beans.
1:38 I was over there
1:39 I think you should be invited.
1:40 That's a miss.
1:41 I walked over there to our artist
1:42 relation department that that that's through the shindig,
1:44 and I just happened to be in their department that day,
1:46 and they were talking about it.
1:47 Everyone got real weird, and I was like, "Damn, no invite." You know,
1:50 you do the thing where you play like you're joking, but you're kind of serious.
1:53 I see you, Carlito.
1:54 Yeah, I was joke serious,
1:55 and there ain't nobody There nobody extending an invitation to me.
1:59 Now, that needs to be That needs to be rectified.
2:01 I will work on this.
2:03 All right, thank you, sir.
2:04 back next year, Eddie.
2:05 I'll check on this.
2:06 Um but uh I saw Jaden Smith.
2:09 I saw Willow.
2:10 I saw Kehlani.
2:11 I saw Black
2:12 Are you just about to tell us everybody who was there except us?
2:15 Like where is this going?
2:17 [laughter] Well, because I saw Black,
2:17 and he was very excited about the music he's about to be dropping.
2:20 That song is fire, too.
2:21 That song is fire.
2:22 was very excited about her album that's I think dropping this week.
2:25 Pretty good.
2:25 Dropping Friday.
2:27 Yeah.
2:26 So, we got a you know, that's all.
2:28 He was trying to tie it all
2:29 And and I was just trying to tie it all together
2:31 that I ran into the guy in Black and somebody we all like.
2:34 Well, it backfired.
2:35 Well, cuz you guys didn't get invited, which I didn't know.
2:39 Well, we weren't Was not aware that you weren't invited.
2:40 Sexyy Red, new tape out on the cover of the Rap Life playlist this week.
2:45 Um I checked out the Sexyy Red,
2:46 and I came to the conclusion uh that my lifestyle
2:49 is not conducive to keeping up with these textures and sounds.
2:54 Precisely.
2:53 Uh so, I did enjoy it.
2:55 I had to hearken back I text you guys all this.
2:57 I had to hearken back to [clears throat] a time to relate.
3:00 It's also music that I can't really drive around to cuz I have kids in the car.
3:04 At all.
3:06 [laughter] And I have an 11-year-old who's very aware.
3:09 Yes.
3:09 Oh, yeah.
3:10 A sponge.
3:10 Okay, but what's the Well, no, just completely aware.
3:12 She listens But she does listen to Summer Walker, which is I mean, we all right.
3:18 [laughter] It ain't It ain't what it is.
3:20 Yeah.
3:20 So, yeah.
3:22 [laughter]
3:22 But we not going I can't just sit with my
3:24 You can't say Sexyy Red.
3:25 It don't make no sense.
3:25 You can't do it.
3:27 Yo, but Sexyy Red, great rollout.
3:29 Very noisy rollout.
3:30 Eddie, you got any insight, Low Nadeska?
3:32 I heard it.
3:33 It was cool.
3:34 It was Sexyy Red.
3:35 It was a Sexyy Red.
3:36 Like you can't really critique it.
3:37 It was just Sexyy Red.
3:38 It suits her fans.
3:39 It suits her.
3:40 She doing what Sexyy Red does.
3:41 That's it.
3:43 Exactly.
3:42 That's it.
3:44 Nadeska uh I mean uh Eddie, any assessment?
3:47 So, Sexyy Red just isn't the I'm not the demographic for Sexyy Red.
3:51 She don't really do it for me,
3:52 and that's fine with me and that's fine for Sexy Red and her fans.
3:55 I'm good.
3:56 I hope y'all enjoy it though.
3:57 Now, if you were living a different lifestyle,
4:00 you were still outside in the strip clubs.
4:03 [clears throat] This second week we're bringing up strip clubs.
4:06 And then Sexy Red, what else you doing?
4:08 Uh if you was really out there like that, would this were
4:11 you able to take it a time travel back in time?
4:15 Certain certain albums and certain music you got to hear outside.
4:19 Since I don't be outside, Sexy Red ain't for me.
4:23 So if I was outside, then yeah,
4:26 I would have a different view of Sexy Red and her album and her music.
4:30 But since I'm very domesticated at this point,
4:32 all I'm doing is watering plants and playing with my dog,
4:35 it don't really But now But now, fake drug dealing, I love fake drug dealing.
4:39 I can do that from the safety of my home.
4:41 I just can't listen to Sexy Red the same way.
4:44 Come on, man.
4:44 Listen to rappers who's talking about drug dealing like cocaine, right?
4:47 Okay, okay.
4:48 So you're just in the house pitching working all Okay.
4:50 I could cook all kind of coke in the house,
4:52 but you know, Sexy Red, not necessarily.
4:55 Somebody's going to take that clip [laughter]
5:02 That's how you afford those outfits.
5:03 Well, okay, look, how about speaking of rappers who usually you
5:06 have to be outside to enjoy their music, uh The Baby.
5:08 So he dropped his album a couple months back, few months back, Be More Grateful.
5:12 Um and he just came up for an interview and we
5:14 talked about on this this project's a little bit different.
5:16 Of course, he has like Pop That Thing,
5:17 which is like sounds like it could be a song of the summer.
5:20 And strip Kobe, but he also has some more like serious, thoughtful,
5:24 vulnerable tracks on the album and I asked him about that, like why now?
5:27 And he said he could have made these at any point,
5:29 he just didn't feel like it was the right timing.
5:31 So here's The Baby talking about his new album, Be More Grateful.
5:34 I can also do too, right?
5:35 I can make an amazing video.
5:36 I can do this, I can do that, but when it's just me and a microphone,
5:40 you know what I mean?
5:41 Like I'm I'm one of the best this in this right now, you You I'm saying?
5:45 And I feel like putting that on display
5:47 with this album is something that I had to do.
5:50 Yeah.
5:50 Yeah.
5:50 There's no better time than now.
5:52 Like I had to.
5:52 People got me up.
5:53 They're not being long-winded.
5:54 Like they got me up.
5:56 Like they they forgot.
5:57 So it's like I I had to remind them.
5:58 You know what I'm saying?
6:00 So I really liked I actually was listening
6:02 to the baby's album again this weekend, right?
6:05 Because I feel like people are Pop That Thing is a big hit.
6:10 But one of the first singles was Letter to my Letter
6:14 to the Y N was one of his first looks where I was like,
6:17 "Yo, that was fire." I don't believe people really grasp it.
6:21 Or just It It didn't get enough play.
6:23 It didn't get Sometimes when an artist is really big like DaBaby and has had
6:28 this kind of mainstream success the hip-hop space
6:31 that would really enjoy thoughtful music is not tuning
6:36 in because they think all the music is
6:38 like the stuff that they're hearing on the radio
6:41 or tied to a lot of the shenanigans maybe that we've seen in the past.
6:45 Yeah, and I would have been guilty of that, too, with this album.
6:47 That's what I thought going in and I was surprised by that song,
6:50 by you know, Beneficial, by Rain Rain.
6:53 There's like a lot of a lot of really dope and I was asking him
6:55 about that like how cuz he's on his tour right now that he says it's smaller,
6:58 it's like really intimate, it's for the day one fans.
7:00 How are they reacting to songs like this and why he didn't make it in the past?
7:04 And he said he felt like he always had to live up to that persona that we knew
7:08 him for and that he knew the records
7:10 that were working so he just kept leaning on those.
7:12 So he said he's recorded a lot of songs like those over
7:14 the past few years and he would just throw them away,
7:16 like never put them out cuz it never felt right.
7:18 So I do hope people will check it out.
7:21 I like the album.
7:21 I was really surprised by it.
7:23 It's a lot of good joints on it and it's interesting he's I don't know,
7:25 he's in a different space.
7:26 He obviously had a lot of controversy the past
7:28 few years so like he said he's moving different,
7:30 he's he's wiser, he's focused on raising the kids.
7:32 What's up, Eddie?
7:33 You know what, though?
7:34 He's done that before and I I can't remember the context for it,
7:37 but I believe he had an album dedicated
7:39 to his brother and if I remember correctly,
7:41 yeah, his brother I believe committed
7:45 Committed suicide, yeah.
7:46 And he dedicated the album to him and had
7:48 some songs that like really were uh you know,
7:52 breaking down his emotions and his feelings
7:54 and the loss of losing someone so close to him.
7:56 So, him diving into deep sub- subject matter isn't necessarily new,
8:01 but it's the narrative game.
8:02 Like, we know the hits and we know some
8:04 of the online some would perceive them as shenanigans.
8:07 So, that becomes what The Baby is to a lot of people,
8:10 but he's always dived into deep topics.
8:14 I will say that I think a miss and maybe on this chapter of where The Baby's at.
8:20 Um I remember hearing him on the Dreamville drama thing.
8:26 record was fire.
8:27 And he had a verse on there and everybody was like, "Yo, I didn't know he could
8:31 That verse was fire.
8:33 I think sometimes artists miss opportunities,
8:36 especially in hip-hop, because like he's saying,
8:39 he was chasing a certain thing that had been very successful for him.
8:42 And so, the narrative or the the the marketing or whatever becomes,
8:47 you know, that's who this artist is.
8:50 Uh I think an artist like The Baby would be served
8:53 very well to do like a producer specific tape of some sort.
8:58 Like, The Baby and Metro Boomin or even you know,
9:01 this may some people might think this is crazy,
9:03 but like, you know, uh The Baby and 9th Wonder, you know, some North Carolina
9:10 fire.
9:09 You know what I'm saying?
9:10 Some something that's like very like someone like something that is
9:14 something that's very hip-hop and very thoughtful and the beats are very
9:17 hip-hop and it's just like it's very intentional and it's for people
9:21 who like thoughtful rap and it's rolled out with that intent.
9:26 Yeah.
9:26 I don't think that's too wild.
9:27 I think that's actually a a great thought cuz
9:28 on the project he also says like he wants to, you know,
9:31 put me up there with Drake, Kendrick,
9:33 Cole and you know, we talked about people saying things like that a lot,
9:36 but not necessarily meaning it or like trying
9:39 to take the steps necessary to get there.
9:41 And he was talking about how he is 100% serious about it, right?
9:46 And so now he's like doing those things and showing
9:48 people just how good he is as a rapper.
9:49 So, that could be a great next step for him.
9:51 But, the full interview is going to be out
9:52 this week if y'all want to check that out.
9:54 correct ourselves cuz Nick's not going to be able
9:55 to do it cuz he's not here right now.
9:56 Kirk was the album dedicated to his dad.
9:59 His father.
9:59 And My Brother's Keeper was an EP dedicated to his brother.
10:02 Thanks, guys.
10:03 Got it.
10:05 Yeah.
10:05 Yeah, yeah.
10:05 He also started like um a mental
10:08 health uh organization after his brother passed away,
10:11 the Baby Cares, so people could get help.
10:13 But, he he spoke about basically when he put that music out
10:15 not not wanting to go on a press run and talk about
10:18 his pain and his family's loss and really lean into that, but he
10:21 feels like he's just like in a different pocket right now.
10:24 Anyway, I was surprised.
10:25 I It was my first time meeting him.
10:27 He's not what I thought he was going to be like.
10:29 He's very talkative.
10:30 He's a great inter- interview.
10:32 Um yeah, he got something to say.
10:33 Very engaging.
10:34 I don't know.
10:35 He'll come in a room and like the room like the room will glow like for real.
10:38 So, it's weird the disconnect between what we experience
10:42 with the Baby and what the public perceives him as.
10:46 Well, yeah, because I think that he's had a lot of incidents, you know.
10:49 Some of them self-inflicted, too.
10:50 Like, let's not act like it's all unwarranted.
10:52 Yeah.
10:52 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
10:53 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
10:53 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
10:54 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:55 Um you can't run away from that.
10:56 Shout to Ludacris back outside uh for for, you know, the Legends pull over.
11:02 Look, you know, we've had a over the last year and change resurgence
11:07 a resurgence of cats that have been doing this for a while,
11:10 and we've been very happy.
11:14 Mhm.
11:13 Ghostface, Nas and Premier, Slick Rick,
11:16 AZ uh just dropped um uh I'm I'm I'm losing a lot of
11:21 that count?
11:21 TI The Clipse, obviously.
11:23 [clears throat] TI um what else am I missing?
11:26 I'm I'm sure I'm missing some names, and if y'all think of them,
11:28 but why wouldn't we be the same excited for a Ludacris?
11:32 Cuz he hasn't lost a step.
11:35 Yep.
11:36 I don't like it.
11:37 You don't like the song?
11:38 No.
11:38 Not the song.
11:38 Yeah, I don't like the song.
11:39 Like the song or god?
11:40 I don't like the song.
11:41 But is that with the beat him?
11:43 The The beat is cool cuz I heard like they did a session
11:46 him and DJ Toomp and he played like maybe six or seven beats.
11:49 This is the last beat he picked.
11:51 I don't like what he did with the song.
11:52 I thought it was going to go somewhere completely different.
11:54 Okay.
11:54 Fair enough.
11:55 Throughout as someone who used to be a big Ludacris fan,
11:58 there he He has hits, right?
12:00 He has hits.
12:01 No, yeah.
12:01 Okay.
12:01 He has hits.
12:02 His beat selection hasn't always been the best.
12:04 Like we Well, it No.
12:06 Well, [clears throat] earlier earlier in his career.
12:10 Um yeah, his his beat selection on his albums isn't always great.
12:13 But he got hits.
12:14 So, the ones that hit hit, but the rest mhm
12:19 That's not I don't I don't know, bro.
12:20 So, then maybe he's somebody that needs a producer.
12:22 He needs somebody to be like, "Here.
12:24 Here's the record you need to be on.
12:26 You rap.
12:28 We take it from here." Yeah, exactly.
12:29 Like Like when you get a metro that can give you
12:31 direction and it's easy for us to sit here and critique.
12:34 That's the job, I guess.
12:34 But you know, that's what Ludacris does
12:37 and But he But he'd be rapping his ass off.
12:39 So, shout out to Chris Bridges.
12:43 Yeah.
12:42 Um JT talking about an album on the way after releasing his single Numb
12:48 in a recent interview with Complex working
12:49 on the release of full album later this year.
12:51 Low and I really like the last JT album.
12:54 Yes.
12:54 We did.
12:55 We We really did.
12:56 JT we getting to it.
12:57 So, uh let's see what this this next thing is
13:00 going to sound like.
13:00 Snoop Dogg is dropping a biopic.
13:05 [snorts]
13:06 Now, Eddie, you said you didn't listen to the Snoop
13:07 Dogg album cuz he had a fake beard on.
13:09 I didn't say that sentence.
13:11 That's not the sentence I said.
13:12 Nah, nice try though.
13:13 That was great.
13:14 What What did you say?
13:15 That was funny.
13:15 I said I just didn't I didn't I have not
13:17 been inspired to listen to Snoop's new music as of yet.
13:21 Um and then we were separately talking about his various
13:25 personas and then Ed decided to tie those two in together.
13:30 So yeah, I mean You think he's going to talk about Snoop Lion in this biopic?
13:35 I would assume so.
13:35 I would assume so.
13:36 Okay, can I have a second to explain this confusing era?
13:39 have a separate conversation, right?
13:41 Can we stop with the biopics?
13:42 I think we're kind of biopicked out.
13:44 It's never going to stop.
13:45 No, but like there's been an insurgence of biopics.
13:48 Like there used to be like every now and then we get a Ray and be like,
13:51 "Oh, that was great." And then you get something else.
13:53 But man, recently they've been old in.
13:56 Like no one went and watched that Bruce Springsteen one.
13:58 We got a Queen one.
14:00 We got a uh But I think I think I think that Was he Were these all on Netflix?
14:06 No, these are theatrical releases.
14:07 What's my Elton John?
14:08 We got that.
14:09 We got What's the one Timothy Chalamet did?
14:12 The dude that be Man, what's that that be God damn, Bob Dylan.
14:18 I like the Bob Dylan one.
14:19 And I've heard a theory I've heard a theory
14:21 that a reason why we're getting so many Mercury one, too.
14:24 So you like you like the lot of Queen.
14:25 Yeah.
14:26 Queen, yeah.
14:26 The Whitney The Whitney Houston one?
14:28 No, that was Like no one saw that Like we're getting an influx.
14:32 Yeah, the Whitney Houston Like that's the problem.
14:35 as these as these legends um get older and you know,
14:41 they want to they want to also tell their story,
14:44 which they have every right to do.
14:45 I think that's what's happening is, you know, we're get we're getting to a time,
14:49 Eddie, where people want to make sure their story gets told.
14:53 I've heard a theory though that because music isn't selling the way it
14:56 used to and because of people are selling the rights to the music,
14:59 these bigger companies are pushing these biopics out because it it
15:04 it causes people to stream the music once the movies come out.
15:08 Because they invested so much in buying these artists' catalogs.
15:11 Think about some of the people we said they're not here any longer.
15:14 So how do you capitalize on them?
15:15 Because even though we're getting a Beatles biopic and it's going to be
15:19 every single member of the Beatles is getting their own biopic movie.
15:23 I've heard that the reason why they're releasing these is
15:25 these companies are trying to get their investment um basically to boost
15:29 out of the money.
15:30 Yeah, yeah.
15:30 Because you know, after you know,
15:32 a few years people just stopped listening to the music
15:34 as much and this is how they can garner interest.
15:36 That's just a rumor.
15:37 No, no, no.
15:38 I think it's a great business move.
15:40 If I own the catalog of someone and I figured like How am I going to get
15:44 the story.
15:45 Let's create more content around this music beyond just people streaming it.
15:51 Like what are the other things we can
15:53 do with this music that can entertain people?
15:55 You know what I'm saying?
15:56 So I don't know if that's prob- I don't I don't see it as problematic.
16:01 As much content is coming out across all these platforms good, bro.
16:05 Cuz I Cuz some of these Well, now that's a different convo.
16:08 If they're all bad, then yes, that's a problem.
16:11 And and also all But by the way, they're not all bad.
16:14 Like I know I know I know three or four that I like.
16:17 He just said it's too much.
16:18 And the issue too is a lot of them um cuz now we're at the age
16:22 where we lived through it and then
16:23 there's books and you know, you've lived there.
16:25 The the timetables off and they're not actually telling facts.
16:28 They're telling like versions of true stories that aren't It's Yeah, it's weird.
16:33 It's weird.
16:34 So then the you and I'm going to say that's a us problem.
16:36 It's not a you know, they're making a movie.
16:38 Movies exist in their own form of media,
16:40 but it's weird when you watch it and you're like,
16:41 "That didn't really happen like that, but okay.
16:46 Um so in saying that, shout out Snoop.
16:48 That was a good great biopic.
16:50 Straight Outta Compton was great.
16:53 Was Straight Outta Compton was that considered a biopic?
16:54 Yeah, for sure.
16:55 100%.
16:56 For sure.
16:57 That was a good one, too.
16:58 Y'all like that one?
16:59 I do.
16:59 I do.
17:00 I like my Straight Outta Compton.
17:01 I mean, for Snoop this is also a business thing, right?
17:02 Cuz it's he's doing it through like Death Row pictures.
17:07 Yeah.
17:07 And I think he to to Eddie's point, I think he owns that catalog.
17:12 Yeah.
17:11 So yeah, so how do you How do you Oh, LOOK WHO MADE IT, GUYS.
17:16 HEY.
17:16 HEY.
17:18 that's how Nick Nick be knowing.
17:21 Sorry for my delay, guys.
17:23 No, listen, man.
17:25 It we're lucky that you're you're here and didn't hear the first portion
17:28 of the show because that way you can't tell us what we screwed up.
17:31 Which is probably a lot.
17:32 I got one right.
17:33 I got I took care of one.
17:36 Yeah, yeah.
17:37 Appreciate you.
17:38 Cardi B wraps up the successful tour in Atlanta.
17:41 Uh the last show did not go off without a hitch,
17:44 though, with the [laughter] social media uh kerfuffle she had.
17:50 You saw that, right?
17:52 that.
17:51 Where she was screaming at the security, taped herself,
17:54 and was like, "I'm not so performing." And then stormed out.
17:58 And then came back in and performed.
17:59 And then yeah.
18:01 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:01 She said somebody resolved it.
18:03 The coordinator like her tweet or post or something.
18:07 I bet they did.
18:08 My camera went on right on time, though, for the shenanigans.
18:11 that perfectly.
18:12 She was just like, "Right here." She was like, "Wait, hang on.
18:14 I'm upset.
18:14 Let me record." [laughter] Smart, though.
18:17 And caught that joint.
18:19 Hey, listen, she keeps the story going.
18:20 This Cardi B's good.
18:22 Yeah.
18:22 It's true.
18:23 Cardi B's real good.
18:24 So, uh salute to Cardi B on a successful tour.
18:28 And some of the best like random guest appearances I just off
18:31 the top of my memory she had she had Missy, Vibes Cartel, T.I.
18:36 Me Yeah, Jeezy.
18:38 Crazy.
18:39 show was tough.
18:40 Yeah, and Jimmy Jimmy Carter's like daughter came and gave
18:43 her like an autograph like Jimmy Carter book or something like that.
18:47 I'm like, "Yo, you really you really out the mayor me the mayor of New York."
18:51 Tyler Perry was there, too?
18:52 Posting about her, talking about like we're trying to
18:53 And then our mayor of New York went the mayor of New
18:55 York has a whole campaign where he went and shot the commercial backstage.
19:00 Just for schools, right?
19:02 for a kid signing up for schools.
19:05 Yeah.
19:05 Uh early.
19:05 I think it's 2K or 3K.
19:07 2K, yeah, for everybody.
19:11 that.
19:10 Oh, yeah.
19:11 Lil Wayne's in his feelings.
19:12 Do you guys care about that?
19:15 Uh Yeah, I care.
19:17 Eddie, what you got What you got to say, Eddie?
19:18 I care about it.
19:19 I care about it.
19:19 Here's my thing with Wayne, man.
19:21 Cuz I got I got a couple thoughts on that one, too.
19:22 I just It would be better if you didn't talk about these things, Wayne.
19:28 Like you're not wrong.
19:29 You're not Like you Wayne, icon, right?
19:33 Top 10 rapper ever, possibly.
19:35 His highs of were higher than of most,
19:37 you know, of Drakes and 50 Cents, Waynes, Tupacs, Biggies.
19:41 His highs were high as hell, bro.
19:43 But between the conversation about the Super Bowl
19:47 and the conversation with the Grammys and Coachella, they're all valid points.
19:53 Like he's not necessarily wrong for feeling the way he feels.
19:57 It's just no one wants to Well, let me No one's kind of I'm generalizing here.
20:02 No one wants to hear you complain about it.
20:04 Like we want to be a fan We fans of Lil Wayne want to fight that fight for you.
20:08 Like people will get online be like, "Yo, Wayne should have been at Coachella.
20:11 Why ain't Wayne" It's kind of crazy.
20:12 You're like, "Damn, he ain't been at Coachella.
20:13 That is kind of wow." Nominated for a Grammy.
20:16 You can't tell me the The Carter III could have been
20:19 nom- I don't I don't know who was nominated that year.
20:22 I don't know why he wasn't invited, but damn,
20:24 The Carter III was the hottest album One of the hottest
20:26 albums in hip-hop history that didn't get nominated for a Grammy?
20:29 So, your fans and people that love hip-hop will
20:31 will have these arguments and fight these fights for you.
20:34 But when you continuously get online to complain,
20:38 it just feels like you're fishing for compliments or you
20:42 or you want to whine and then have people like,
20:45 "Yeah, you're right.
20:45 We want to validate you, Lil Wayne." It's just a bad look, bro.
20:48 Like you're that guy.
20:49 You don't need to go and and remind us and then not only complain about it,
20:53 get emotional about it.
20:55 Like, "Maybe I just need to do better.
20:57 Maybe this is just a humbling experience." And we got friends that do that, man.
21:02 We know what that is when we see it.
21:03 And if you even look at the comments,
21:04 like you It's always interesting and comments can be a bad gauge,
21:07 but you're looking and people are kind of like cooking Wayne.
21:09 It's like, bro, we Stop.
21:12 Stop going online to have these um to look for like
21:15 emotional support with your with your with your you know followers, yeah.
21:21 It's weak, bro.
21:23 Yeah, it's it's the continuous bitching and moaning.
21:27 And it's also like he has this theory of like he just lives in his own bubble.
21:30 So, if you're living in such a big ass bubble of you just by yourself,
21:34 why are you concerned about not being invited to Coachella?
21:36 Why are you concerned about not having a Grammy nomination?
21:38 Why are you concerned about not being in included
21:41 in any type of event if you live
21:43 in your own world and you don't care
21:44 about the perception or how people look at you.
21:46 We already know what your career is.
21:48 Your career is stellar, Cash Money, Carter series,
21:51 you know, mixtapes, all that and and more.
21:55 So, I'm I'm trying to see like what is he What else does he want?
21:59 What else does he What else does he ask you for?
22:01 Yeah, but if you live in a bubble, you don't If you don't care, why do you care
22:06 does, though.
22:07 Okay, well.
22:09 I mean, maybe there was a time he didn't.
22:11 And that And times change.
22:13 And people change.
22:14 And maybe he is paying attention more.
22:16 And maybe he is looking back at his legacy and saying,
22:18 Well, maybe maybe I should have cared about these things.
22:21 And
22:21 Maybe you should care about his recent releases cuz they've been dog
22:24 But see, now those are two different things, though, man.
22:26 Those are two different things, man.
22:28 That's why we See, okay okay, so see okay, see
22:30 I don't know if they're two different things.
22:32 But they're not.
22:33 Because maybe if there was more care put into what was happening now,
22:39 these these places where you do want to clearly want to be invited, right?
22:45 Would be inviting you because they would see that you're caring
22:48 more about the product and the craft and you know, whatever whatever.
22:51 Listen, I think Lil Wayne's also had a stellar career.
22:56 So, I think he's just starting to care more.
22:59 You know, he's getting older and you know, he's looking around and saying saying
23:06 to himself like any competitor and somebody
23:08 who's great like what things haven't I
23:10 conquered and why haven't I conquered them?
23:13 Right.
23:12 You know what I mean?
23:13 If that, you know, cuz he wanted to be the greatest rapper
23:15 and he wanted and he convinced y'all that he was the greatest rapper alive.
23:18 Oh, when was that?
23:18 When was that?
23:19 When was that?
23:20 Time out.
23:20 Stop.
23:22 [laughter]
23:21 Take three tweet tweet.
23:23 What What's the What was the shade right there?
23:27 What?
23:27 It was really at love cuz he was one of the bloggers propagating Oh, wow.
23:30 That went over my head.
23:31 That happened so fast.
23:32 Okay.
23:33 Convinced [laughter] y'all.
23:34 I missed it.
23:35 And and at one point he was.
23:37 And he convinced us at one point he was.
23:39 So yes, I stand on that.
23:40 And a lot of people stand on that.
23:41 He convinced y'all.
23:42 And [laughter] and and so
23:44 Like the slide What's with the shade today, bro?
23:48 Today?
23:49 That's happening
23:51 [laughter] Finally he admits it.
23:52 Right.
23:53 Today?
23:54 What you talking about?
23:55 WHAT ARE YOU SAYING, BRO?
23:57 Um but anyway, still he is one of the goats, man.
24:00 And he clearly to [snorts] y'all who are the you know,
24:04 the social media police and you know,
24:06 the arbiters of what you're allowed to do in public on social media.
24:10 You don't like him putting his feelings on social media.
24:13 So let Wayne, if you're watching this now that you're outside your bubble,
24:16 listen to what social media says about how
24:19 you're supposed to use it and use it correctly, which is not to do this.
24:22 want him to continue to do that?
24:23 I I don't give a damn.
24:24 If that's what he want to do, I don't care what people do.
24:27 I'm not like y'all.
24:28 for an artist like Wayne like you can't speak on Coachella, right?
24:31 That that's a big deal.
24:32 I don't I don't I don't I think he's a human being.
24:34 Whether he said this on social media or said this in a song, right?
24:38 Like
24:39 It would It would still be received It would still be received as
24:41 who can make the phone call for him?
24:42 Like how hard is it for Wayne to still get booked for I don't know.
24:45 big festivals I I have zero idea.
24:47 I haven't I I don't know.
24:49 I mean, he's also a headache behind scenes when it comes to what he One,
24:53 he's not that good of a performer if you look at it.
24:55 getting into some things now.
24:57 Who I [laughter] think that the maintenance of him trying
24:59 to deal with these events is not going to go over well.
25:01 We've seen how late he's been to a lot of I think
25:03 a lot of people don't want to deal with stuff like that.
25:07 Well.
25:06 And that that goes back to your point about
25:08 taking more care of this thing you call your career.
25:14 Okay.
25:14 It's valid.
25:15 There you have it.
25:16 All right.
25:18 Clip that.
25:23 [laughter]
25:21 TAKE THAT, BANANA.
25:25 All right.
25:26 So, yeah, look.
25:26 Giant not, but [laughter] by the way, that sentiment, you know,
25:29 when I saw this post, I went into the comments.
25:32 That sentiment was being shared on social media.
25:34 Yeah.
25:34 People were posting clips of him performing.
25:37 Yeah.
25:37 Uh and, you know, not having positive things to say about it.
25:39 That's it.
25:40 And so, um That's just our observation of it.
25:43 Yeah.
25:43 That's all.
25:45 Yeah.
25:48 [laughter]
25:46 He said, "Clip that." I heard that low.
25:51 The low went crazy.
25:52 I don't know why.
25:53 Hey.
25:53 You know what?
25:54 I'm just trying to stay out of it.
25:55 Wait, bro.
25:55 Stay on your convictions, [laughter] bro.
25:57 I'm staying on my This is how I feel.
25:59 When I When I read that tweet, I was like,
26:02 "Again?" And you're wondering why This is exactly why.
26:05 And go through the comments and you can see.
26:07 Well, and also, I mean,
26:08 of people feel like [laughter] that.
26:10 Well, and maybe look.
26:13 You guys are making a lot of this tweet because you have
26:15 a human being here who you're not accustomed to hearing from like this.
26:19 No, we No, no, no.
26:19 We are very accustomed to hearing that.
26:21 accustomed [laughter] to hearing that.
26:22 Okay.
26:23 That's all I'm saying.
26:24 Yeah.
26:24 You well, now now there's three different instances, right?
26:27 Where we've had him do this and you guys are saying enough's enough.
26:31 But he's he's being I mean, he's being humble, man.
26:33 He's you
26:34 Is he?
26:36 I take it at face value.
26:37 Sorry, guys.
26:40 [laughter]
26:41 Humble?
26:41 He It says, "I'm truly It's truly humbling." That's the word he chose,
26:45 so go on what it says.
26:47 It's like So, you take things for face value, is what you're saying?
26:52 Sometimes.
26:52 Okay.
26:53 All right.
26:54 Sometimes.
26:55 Okay.
26:55 You know, I I I I believe that the internet
26:57 did Lil Wayne a disservice during Super Bowl.
27:00 I believe he was set up for that.
27:02 Clarify that one.
27:02 that at face Clarify that.
27:04 Yeah, what do you mean?
27:05 I mean I know what you mean, but clarify it.
27:06 Meaning he wasn't booked.
27:09 Mhm.
27:08 And then the internet started going, it should have been,
27:11 it should have been, it should have been, it should have been.
27:13 Yep.
27:13 Okay.
27:13 And then Oh, oh, okay.
27:14 I I see.
27:15 Then he felt compelled because people were saying it should have been,
27:18 should have been, that he needed to say something.
27:21 Mhm.
27:20 And then now we're using it against him when
27:23 he thought he was doing something for his fans.
27:25 But maybe to Eddie's point,
27:26 that would have been the perfect with the internet
27:28 hyping you up and singing your praises, you do nothing.
27:32 You could have also just done nothing.
27:33 I I agree that would have been a pass, dude, but you know, I you know,
27:40 I I don't think that's what he chose to do and then engage with his fans.
27:43 That's why you guys don't like it.
27:44 No, it's not we don't like it.
27:45 It's just like it's not clearly said you didn't like it.
27:47 I just
27:47 It's all right.
27:48 It's annoying.
27:50 It's annoying.
27:50 It's annoying.
27:51 You don't like it?
27:53 And then he disappointed a rapper who [laughter]
27:56 grew up on him and idolized him and Kendrick, yeah.
28:00 I don't know.
28:01 Wayne, just make some calls.
28:03 You're Wayne.
28:03 Some people will book you for shows.
28:05 He's Wayne.
28:06 Get out your own bubble.
28:06 No, I think he's getting shows.
28:07 He's just not getting invites to the places that That's not the issue.
28:10 He wants to get invited.
28:11 He just wants to get
28:12 This says specifically events like Coachella and the Grammys.
28:15 The cool thing.
28:16 Weezy F, baby, and the F is for phenomenal.
28:19 Yeah.
28:21 Yeah.
28:21 [laughter] Yeah.
28:24 Oh, boy.
28:25 Yeah.
28:25 That was [laughter] That was That was
28:28 Uh-huh.
28:29 Um Last headline for the day on Rap Life Review.
28:33 [laughter] Uh I don't know if this is um uh useful information today
28:36 cuz I don't think that they've come to a decision completely here.
28:40 But a jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly.
28:46 Ooh.
28:45 Uh and um in its dominance of live events and ticketing industry validating
28:50 complaints that the industry giant was stifling
28:53 competition and driving up fees for fans.
28:56 Now, we've heard a lot of artists,
28:57 a lot of people talk about ticket
28:59 prices being astronomical and wanting some resolution
29:03 and lawsuits and states have done things
29:05 with Ticketmaster and Ticketmaster had to pay different states,
29:10 different settlements.
29:11 The federal lawsuit was brought by 40 states and the Department
29:14 of Justice with the latter settling Live Nation a week into the trial.
29:18 The settlement left the concert company with a $300 million fine,
29:22 a cap of service fees of 15% of ticket prices,
29:25 and limits to exclusivity contracts with venues.
29:29 What it doesn't say so far is usually when
29:33 they say something's a monopoly, it gets broken up.
29:37 Mhm.
29:37 Right.
29:38 I don't think that action has actually been resolved
29:41 or will be resolved or I don't know what they're
29:44 Because that would have been on the Justice Department, right?
29:45 But since they settled, then that's kind of end of story in that situation.
29:49 know, and I think there's more still more to be learned here,
29:51 but I know on the internet people were really excited about
29:55 this thinking that their ticket prices might be less this summer.
29:59 Just barely.
30:02 Barely.
30:01 Somebody help us, man.
30:02 Help help Listen, as consumers, help We are getting gouged.
30:07 Whether it's gas, going to the movies, Ticketmaster,
30:11 their grocery store, there's no wins for us.
30:16 The Our government and these these these entities and these companies
30:20 are trying to bleed a rock at this point, man.
30:22 Everywhere we look like, what is this service fee?
30:24 What is this fee?
30:25 You buy a ticket like you go to a Lakers game playoffs like it just tell
30:28 you one price and then it it's a whole 'nother price by the time you're done.
30:32 Airline tickets like we just need a win for the consumer,
30:35 man, cuz it is tough out here.
30:37 It is hard, bro.
30:39 Well, so there's this website it's called vote.org.
30:44 And you should actively be looking at elections
30:47 in your area both locally, city, state,
30:50 and federal cuz there's a lot of elections where you as the consumer
30:56 can actively work to elect individuals that care about these issues.
31:01 I tried, bro.
31:02 It didn't work.
31:04 [laughter]
31:04 You voted?
31:05 The other half of the country, they have other ideas though.
31:07 Here locally though,
31:08 like for instance in New York City they voted in Zohran Mamdani.
31:13 Me, I.
31:14 Good job.
31:16 And
31:15 trying to shade me about this in my DMs, by the way.
31:17 No, I wasn't even going to bring all this up.
31:19 I don't [laughter] I wasn't going to bring all this up cuz
31:21 I don't want to I don't want to put you on blast.
31:24 I don't want to put you on blast.
31:25 You vote shamed her in her DMs?
31:26 [laughter] No, no, no.
31:27 I didn't vote shame her in her DMs.
31:28 When Zohran was running, she would come into work like,
31:31 "Yo, these Zohran people keep knocking on my door.
31:34 I don't EVEN KNOW IF THAT I DON'T KNOW THAT." AND I was like, "No, Nadeska.
31:37 Vote for him." vote for him.
31:39 But they were still harassing me.
31:41 Fine.
31:42 Okay.
31:42 And it worked.
31:44 Yeah?
31:43 Got [laughter] it.
31:44 So, Zohran actually did a thing for New York City in service fees
31:50 where he's holding companies accountable where they
31:53 can't charge all these different service fees.
31:57 Right.
31:56 Or where you have a membership to a gym that you can't like you're like, "Yo,
32:00 Can't cancel that.
32:01 Can I cancel this?" And the gym makes you That is illegal in New York City now.
32:06 Yep.
32:07 Wow.
32:06 Right?
32:06 So, I bring that up because if you live in the city or county
32:11 or state or whatever and these are things that are important to you,
32:14 you should go make sure you're registered to vote
32:17 and vote for I always usually vote against my financial interest.
32:22 I'll be very transparent.
32:24 Depending on what it is though.
32:25 No, I use I always vote against my financial interest on a
32:28 I mean, I do for the most part like if it's for schools,
32:29 this is for like, you know, bettering the you know, housing
32:32 I vote for working class, working people's party across the board.
32:38 Anybody that's talking about working families, working people, work work work.
32:45 That's where my vote is at.
32:46 Cuz it's going to better it throughout the
32:48 Well, no, because that's a majority of people.
32:50 Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
32:51 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
32:51 Okay.
32:51 There's people who are hard-working individuals trying to pay their mortgage
32:56 and keep their kids in a decent to good school.
33:00 And I understand, but you said you always vote against
33:03 your There's definitely some things you're voting for for your interest,
33:05 but some of the things you vote
33:06 meaning like there's a lot of people who you hear who have money
33:09 or a little bit of money who talk about tax breaks and these other things.
33:13 The reason I say I vote against my interest is because most of the people
33:15 who are for working-class things ain't working on tax breaks for my tax bracket.
33:21 They're working against my tax bracket cuz they need
33:23 my tax dollars to go to help working families.
33:27 For sure.
33:28 Right?
33:28 And most of the people who make who are the billionaire class,
33:30 which I'm not, or the, you know,
33:33 the hundred-millionaire class or whatever, which I'm not,
33:37 they're trying to figure out ways to pay less taxes.
33:45 [laughter] Or in the millionaire class, which [laughter]
34:03 That's some smooth talking I like that.
34:05 I was laying I laid that out there for them.
34:07 That wasn't even actually Since we here.
34:09 No, but but I do think vote.org people need to get to it.
34:12 You know what I'm saying?
34:12 And and and I do think they Look, the reason they make voting difficult,
34:18 the only class of people I ever see
34:21 talk about not voting is hip-hop and black folks.
34:26 I never see only one?
34:30 I'll tell you why.
34:31 My mom's one of those people, right?
34:33 And it's like we worked hard enough to become citizens here.
34:35 You would think she would take this right seriously,
34:37 but my mom's like deeply religious, right?
34:39 And her her thought is that the vote it's never going to count.
34:43 It's never going to make a difference.
34:45 So, she leaves everything to God and prays about it.
34:47 It drives me god.
34:50 It drives me nuts.
34:51 But this is what I mean.
34:55 [laughter] No.
34:55 But yeah.
34:55 I like I like I get it.
34:56 But she's not going to I think that there's those people and then there's people
35:00 think everything is so corrupt and so whatever [clears throat]
35:02 they just not even That's the same.
35:03 It's all of that.
35:04 Yeah.
35:04 That's a lot of people that are on my timeline.
35:05 Yeah, but yeah, yeah, same same way.
35:07 I'm just saying it's always people that look like us.
35:11 The rich people who don't look like us, they are voting Yeah.
35:16 a lot.
35:19 Yeah.
35:18 The religious people who don't look like us,
35:21 they are voting often, a lot, and organized.
35:28 Yeah.
35:27 It's always us sitting around How come no How How come we
35:30 don't always say it's only corrupt for like what we talking about?
35:32 I don't even know what we talking about.
35:33 Like why I go vote?
35:34 And it's a there's also I mean that's true too,
35:36 but there's always systemic issues too why people don't have access I get it.
35:39 I get it.
35:40 I get it.
35:41 But that's on purpose, too, because they know your vote matters.
35:46 It's cuz it's systemic issues though.
35:47 I'm not just going to say like, "Hey, they choose not to vote like
35:50 No, I'm not saying that, either.
35:51 I'm saying the people who spread
35:53 the narrative of not participating because of corruption
35:58 and try to get us not to vote are often people who look like us.
36:03 But the people who don't look like us, who ain't in hip hop,
36:06 Don't have that theory.
36:06 Don't have those theories.
36:07 They don't That's not moving around in the algorithm like that.
36:11 And and but by the way, it's always been like that and there is systemic issues
36:14 and there is institutionalized issues because they don't want us to vote.
36:21 So that they can would I'll tell this to people.
36:23 And they know we're going to have these same kind of theories this to people.
36:27 And they're okay with that.
36:27 Voting is not a Voting is not a marriage.
36:29 Voting is like a bus stop, bro.
36:31 Like get to the the bus that's closest to your house.
36:35 You know what I'm saying?
36:35 You You don't got to be And first of all,
36:37 these politicians aren't rock stars, they're not celebrities, they work for you.
36:41 Vote for the bus that will get you closest to your house.
36:44 further, Eddie.
36:44 If you told me you don't vote in federal elections,
36:47 all you vote is in city and county elections, I would applaud you.
36:52 It works.
36:53 Yeah.
36:53 I wouldn't be mad at that.
36:54 you voted for was your community board, I would applaud you.
36:58 You know what I'm saying?
36:59 Unless you're in a swing state.
37:00 If you're in Ohio or Pennsylvania, we need you to vote [laughter]
37:03 in our elections.
37:05 Now, real talk though, but on these ticket price things,
37:07 these are this is something that elected officials who deal with uh um you know,
37:15 regulations, this is what happens when
37:18 things go unregulated because these corporations
37:23 These corporations are going to make as much money as they can.
37:25 That's That's what they're going to do.
37:27 And it's
37:27 And for Live Nation to take a $300 million fine and just be okay with it,
37:31 that lets you know just how much they made off this entire deal.
37:34 They didn't fight $300 million.
37:36 That's like they didn't fight $300 million.
37:37 They're like, "All right.
37:38 And take it." And the fact that it says customers are
37:41 only charged $1.72 per ticket, come on now.
37:45 Bull.
37:44 Well, you know, look, we'll let's watch and see how this plays out,
37:47 but yeah, everything is very expensive right now.
37:50 And you know, there but I do applaud the artists who have been
37:54 very vocal and the and even corporations who have been very vocal about,
37:58 you know, Live Nation and their prices cuz not
38:00 everybody is cool with the way things are going.
38:04 Because when it comes down to it, when fans are spending this much money to go
38:08 to some of the biggest artists in the world's shows,
38:11 they're not going to have any money left to go to, you know,
38:13 emerging artists or smaller local shows
38:15 or smaller local venues and things like that.
38:18 So, you're going to have small businesses being hurt.
38:20 You're going to have, you know, a lot of things around your way that's falling
38:23 by the wayside because we ain't got no money left.
38:26 So there is there is a you know,
38:30 it reverberates to a lot of other industries when
38:34 people are paying a lot of money for specific things.
38:37 Um Makes sense.
38:38 There it is.
38:39 Rap Life Review Eddie or excuse me Nick,
38:41 anything that since you been here that we missed?
38:47 NO.
38:47 [laughter] WE STILL GOT YOU NICK.
38:50 WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
38:50 WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
38:51 Thanks man.
38:52 Happy to be here.
38:53 Happy to have you back.
38:54 [laughter] Talked about team little booty?
38:55 Uh no, you go ahead.
38:56 You tell Talked about David Ruffin?
38:58 Go ahead man.
38:58 Just a lot of great song titles that lead into good music.
39:02 team little booty.
39:02 I like team little It depends on what kind of
39:03 Wait, where are we What are we talking about?
39:04 What are we talking about?
39:06 These are all sexy red mixtape.
39:07 Oh, team little booty.
39:08 Sexy red song titles.
39:09 I like little booty.
39:10 David Ruffin?
39:11 David Ruffin is a great song title.
39:13 There was another one called it's or whatever.
39:16 Yep.
39:16 Yep.
39:17 Otis the only one still alive in the Temptations which is the irony.
39:19 That's crazy.
39:20 Yeah, that's I guess they are coming to see Otis.
39:22 They have no choice.
39:22 Yeah, they don't got no choice.
39:24 These [laughter] I love how they just go off
39:27 on a tangent like we're in the studio sitting here with them.
39:29 It's good stuff.
39:30 Thank Thank you Nick for for making it in and Eddie we love you too.
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