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Happy Sunday, yo, Rob, kick us off, man.
Salud, salud, good afternoon, everyone. Doc, AM, we live again.
This is Rob from the Mob, live and direct from Miami Beach, Florida.
I celebrated my wedding anniversary.
Thanksgiving was a couple of weeks ago and I worked my ass off. I worked mad hours.
I partied like a rock star. I went out and did my Miami Beach thing, bro.
We representing. I'm still doing it.
I'm still the man out here in these streets, you know what I mean? But I'm having a good time, man, every second of the day.
Well, what's up? Forget about me. What's up with y'all boys?
So I'm good. You know, life is life. My mom had a stroke the week before Thanksgiving. She's good. No damage to her heart, lungs or brain.
She was out in two days. She has hyperthyroidism. I think I'm saying that correct. So she has thyroid medication that regulates everything.
With that, you know, my background in psychology lets me know that anything dealing with glands, whether it's adrenal or anything that moves, right?
Number wise with how a person's hormones and things like move and active or active, the medicine can cause side effects.
So they changed the medicine depending on how she's doing, right? It didn't go well with the medicine.
The medicine is what caused her to get the blood clots in her leg, which is causing, which in turn is what caused the stroke.
But we go, we maintain it. You feel me? We had a very intimate Thanksgiving. Me, my sister, my mom. That was it.
I'm doing the same thing you're doing in terms of work at Amazon right now. We're in peak season. I got five days, 11 hours.
My son is good. I taught him how to read a lot better. I realized recently he was reading right to left.
So when he would read to, he would read it as it would be tick. And I'm sitting here like, why is that happening?
Drilled him, right? Drilled him real, real, real, real hard for two days. And I said, hey, next thing you know, he reading five letters, six letter words.
And I'm like, how you flip like that in a day? Outside of that, I am, I'm dating exclusively.
Excited about that. I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll show you, I'll show y'all who it is at some point.
And I got back to playing ball last week, last Monday. I'm playing tomorrow.
Doc, what's up with you? I'm right there with you. The life is life in real talk. It's just good to hear both of you guys again.
I kind of really needed this. Still getting back into the swing of things after Thanksgiving, holiday.
We actually hosted dinner this year. We had some family come through just for snacks and then they had to go see other family.
But open door policy in and out. It was, it was pretty good to see everybody. Long work week. It's a salary salary life.
So I don't get that overtime y'all get, but had some media based drama starting last Monday that's caused by the Canadian.
We could talk about that later. My assistant director, Nick, at the courthouse is officially gone as of the sixth.
It was really hard to see him go, but we're going to stay afloat. I think we're going to try to do our best to stay afloat.
Gene and I followed you guys, you Rob. We had our 12th wedding anniversary last Sunday. Had to make all these damn show slides.
It took me like three nights. I'm a little tired. I'm a lot of tired this week.
So I definitely need this though. Definitely ready to drink with y'all and I'm ready for the hot seat.
Our special guest today is a funny motherfucker. Rob, why don't you dive right into the intros so we can get this party started?
Absolutely, Doc. What's up, world? This is Rob from the mob from Miami Beach, Florida. I'm 45 years old.
I'm a Scorpio born November 20, 1979. Just celebrated. Had the party of a lifetime here with Doc J and A.M.
On Hear My Voice Entertainment. We're trying to take over the world one podcast at a time, baby.
We doing big things out here. Trying to sip a little bit, trying to smoke a little bit and have a good time and bring a little bit of realness to this weird ass world.
We in here. That's hilarious. I'm trying to bring some realness to this weirdness. Rapper A and rapper A and dot com.
Y'all already know who it is. Y'all know what it is. Co-host extraordinaire, rapper extraordinaire.
This is not me doing an elevator pitch. I'm just saying hi to y'all. We about to have a good show.
I'm already a little sear-ed, if y'all know what that means. From the gas, I just put my car.
Doc, what's up?
Premium leaded, premium leaded. But no, no, no. I'm gonna keep it real short. My name is Doc J. Real name is Jesse Joselito.
I'm 40 something something, born in New York, lived most of my life in sunny South Florida, but for the last 14 years have lived here in central Florida.
I have two degrees from FAU and Boca Raton, one in copyright trademark law, one in civil engineering.
I've interned at Sony Music, Atlantic Records and last but not least, Epic Records.
Since 2018, I've been working for MediaBase and my office is at the Kissimmee Courthouse.
I'm an artist myself. I do registry and publishing for these sexy motherfuckers and a handful of other people.
We are podcasters for the second year, second season, and I'd like to get back into teaching and I kind of want to create a board game too.
That's my side hustle. I really love mythology and UFC MMA fighting. So that's me. Let's get right into this though.
Segment number one, what are we? As the Twisted Critics podcast, we're the bias, the unbiased brothers across the US who dig music and music business.
Twisted Critics originally began as Doc and his cousin, Tony Gange in 2018.
Now relaunched with myself, rapper A.M., Rob, Doc and I are all active artists, collaborators, radio reviewers and friends for Hear My Voice Entertainment and Publishers.
2625 will be a little different. Outside of the guests we have planned, our Twisted Critics podcast now have a newly signed merch deal and we are curating Spotify playlist to better help promote our guests and the charts next year.
From both good and bad experiences in the rap game, industry jobs and the questions, you know, misinformation we've heard at music conferences.
I think we remember what it's like starting out, you know, the mistakes and being told false information everywhere.
So we try to provide direct answers, correct business steps and give resources.
You know, it's our mutual love though for our weekly calls, our Ear for Urban Music, our mathematical eyes on radio charts, our reviews for the labels, you know, our heated song debates, our guests and our solidarity in sharing a ton of drinks to build this therapeutic, productive and wild platform.
So please tune in like I am holding up my glass right now with an open mind and a full glass to enjoy an informative, entertaining, twisted vibe that you might actually learn something from.
Please be interactive and please send in questions via our social medias and email. That's twistedcriticsatmail.com, not at gmail.com so twistedcriticsatmail.com.
And we'll give you advice and a shout out on air. We're believers in the motto that a drunk man or woman tells no lies and how we can be helpful and entertaining. We like to call it education through inebriation.
One of our favorite things to say real shit.
Segment number two is going to be the WFW. Before we get started, Doc and Rob, I got to ask y'all a big question. What you drinking on?
All right. So this is the first episode out of 12 episodes. I am not mixing dark with light. Joe Simmons would be very disappointed in me because I like mixing my dark with the light.
But today I'm just drinking vodka. So for my drink, I got some some Coke with some Smirnoff vanilla. So that's what I'll be sipping on this entire show. So vanilla, vanilla, vodka and Coke.
And then the case I got to take a shot. I'm just taking some straight Tito's shots. Vodka and vodka. We'll see how that goes. Rob, what you drinking on?
You know, I like to keep it a little fancy, schmancy, man. You know, so I'm drinking on a little Riesling from Alsace, you know, that's in France.
This is that and it would be pronounced and and Ducac Riesling out of Alsace. A little different from German Riesling.
German Riesling tend to be a little sweeter. French Riesling is a little different, you know, a little drier, a little cleaner. I think it's great.
It's not too late in the afternoon. So this is perfect timing to drink this and it drinks delicious these nice dry.
And then for our shots, I had to go with, you know, the Kardashians and the Jenners, you know, got my eight one eight and Yeho Reserve tequila.
This is good stuff. I love the bottle. That is a dope bottle. Oh, man. I've never seen.
Shout out to, you know, Kendall Jenner. You know, I love her sisters, but her tequilas are great.
A.M. what you doing, bro? Drinking on. I like the job. Both acid at the same time.
I'm drinking a botanist. I'm going to continue to drink this. It's like driving.
I'm going to keep drinking until it's gone. And then I'm probably get me another bottle of Sapphire.
I'm a gin drinker, guys. Gin and juice shots out the Snoop Dogg. That's what's up, man. That's what's up.
With that said, I want you guys to do me a favor. Yeah, I got your shot glass, whatever you're drinking out of.
And we're going to raise a glass and let's truly bless this 11th voyage of our phenomenal podcast,
The Twisted Critics. Salud, my brothers. Salud. Salud. Oh, that's good.
All right. As always, us, Twisted Critics, try to make our guests, ourselves and you listeners break the ice,
get comfortable and have fun by using our little torturous banana peel buzzword each show that we call the WFW.
Our wrong fucking word of the week. And today is no exception.
Anytime someone slips up and says it, we all take shots. No questions asked.
Am, I believe it's your turn. We've all read our guest Darius' bio. So what kind of evil term are you thinking of?
Mu ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, yeah. My choice for the word for this week's WFW is going to be interviewed at any iteration.
Interviewed, interviewing, interview, interviews. We drink it today.
Look, y'all gonna have me messed up. I'm already I'm already too high right now.
All right. So if you guys don't mind me doing this, we're going to mix things up just a little bit today.
Usually we bring our guest in later. But being that our guest today is a hip hop historian, he can talk about reviews.
He could talk about history, talk about deaths, talk about birthdays.
And he's just an overall crazy and funny motherfucker. We'll definitely want him involved in this week's time capsule combos, the reviews and the whole nine.
So if you guys don't mind, let me actually get him on the line with us. Give me one second. Let's go.
Here he comes. Here he comes. Mr. D-Rug, you with us?
What up, what up, what up, what up, what up, my brother? What's going on, fellas? D-Rug.
Let's get your collection in the back. That is my CD collection over nine thousand nine hundred CDs when I used to DJ.
Nine thousand nine hundred. Get the fuck out of here. I'm jealous. I should have kept all my fucking CDs, man.
Let's kick the side off real quick. Let's let's let's get him acquainted with our show real quick.
Hold on, hold on. Please do what you do and introduce this brother correctly.
Oh, I've been done this in a hot minute. This is our first special guest in season two.
So let me clear my throat. Our guest is Darius Boston, a.k.a. the Mohawk Don, a.k.a. Willie D Simpson, a.k.a.
the magnificent asshole, a.k.a. my brother D-Rug.
He is a funny and loud Leo August born baby that's from Jersey, but Orlando bred, repping the four oh seven to the fullest.
He attended Maynard Evans High School and is affiliated with all types of companies,
Madface TV, the arrogant assholes podcast, et cetera. He has big aspirations to perform at the Kia Center.
I cannot say that shit. That is not the Kia Center to me. I still call that motherfucker Orlando Arena. That's all it is.
You'd be stuttering every time you say that. I can't say that.
He is center. He's got all types of models. I've learned through the years of knowing him,
listening to him and supporting him. But my favorites are what the mama fuck and paint your eyes red.
He is a father. He is a rapper. He is a comedian. He's a podcast host. He's a hip hop historian.
And he's just an Orlando ambassador that he's the coolest guy to run into at the concession stand at a Janet Jackson concert like I did.
So, all right. So if I didn't do a good job, I'm sorry, D-Rug. I want you to do a wonderful job.
Tell the people or listeners a little bit about who you are that I might have left out.
Oh, shit. Basically, I got everything down pat. But my name D-Rug. I've been in Orlando for about 35, 36 years.
Originally from Jersey. I moved here when I was nine. I've always been into hip hop since I was four years old.
I've always been into comedy since I was four years old. I always wanted to do this all my life. So here I am.
Now, before we kick things off and jump into your 21 questions, we all got vices and we are called the twisted critics for a reason.
Whatever party favors you partaking, we definitely have a saying here. And I agree with these two.
We should put it on the shirt. And let me ask what you drinking on D-Rug?
I'm drinking on some Stella, man. I had to leave the liquor alone, man. I've been getting I've been getting a little too crazy on that liquor, man.
So my what I'm doing is I stopped drinking hard liquor. So right now I'm just drinking some Stella's. I'm on my beer shit.
That doesn't mean he doesn't like fall victim to the WFW. If we say the WFW, he's taking a shot of some premium gas right now.
Gas and beer. So cheers, baby. Cheers. We do. We do. Chugs with beer. So I'm gonna take a chug.
I really like that. Also, Stella is one of my favorite beers. So yeah, that's my favorite beer, man. I have a feeling this is going to get fun.
Look, we already we already identifying with a lot of things. D-Rug, you are officially locked into the hot seat. So let's get started.
OK, click, click. Like myself, you were born in New Jersey and moved to Florida.
Actually, no, I wasn't born there. I was born in Germany. Oh, you're born in Germany. I did not see that in your bio, bro.
Yeah, I was born in Germany and my son was born in Germany, too. I did not know that. That is that that's some hidden information I couldn't find.
Yes. All right. D-Rug, you were born in Germany and you moved to Florida.
Which area would you say, you know, has or had more influence on your creativity today?
Definitely, Orlando. I live like I don't remember shit about Germany. My parents was in the army.
So we moved from there to like El Paso, Texas. And we lived there when I was like two, three years old.
And we moved to Jersey when I was like three. So from like three to nine years old, I was in Jersey.
But I moved to Florida and I was like nine years old going on ten. I gained a lot in Jersey, you know what I'm saying?
But majority of me and how I am is definitely Orlando.
I understand that me being born somewhere else for like three years because of my folks been in the military.
My dad was from Cali, mom is from Baltimore, and I was born in Bangor, Maine. Like I always hear people say,
oh, your social security number is in a Baltimore one. Yeah, no, it's not.
But that the exact reason that you moved from Germany to Jersey was the fact that your folks were in the military.
So I understand that. Yes. So you mentioned in your bio growing up and kind of being a spoiled jit.
Explain your childhood a bit for us. And would you say that you are more like your mom or more like your dad?
I would say we probably was middle class. My mom took care of me and my sister. I had everything when I was a kid.
I grew up with two turntables in the mic. My dad was a DJ, but my mom was the music collector.
So I got a lot of that from my mom. And I grew up right when hip hop was bubbling.
So I was like four years old when I first heard Fat Boys, Jailhouse Rap. That was the first rap shit.
I was like, oh, what is this? You know what I'm saying? And one thing my mom always did, if we had like a hobby or something we like,
she always got it for us. So I was into music heavy. So from like four on, I always she'd go buy vinyl.
I don't know if you remember the vinyls back in the days. My mom used to go buy vinyl every Saturday for my dad.
You know what I'm saying? And whatever she go buy, she'd let me grab something.
And my first hit was Michael Jackson and Fat Boys. You know what I'm saying?
I feel like I'm talking to myself right now. Wow. This is crazy. We're exactly the same, man. I swear to God. Please continue.
My love for hip hop grew from there. Watching Fat Boys. And then like when I first seen LL Cool J, that's when I knew it was like, okay, this is it.
This is it. I want to dress like this. I want to talk like this. I want to whatever this hip hop thing is, I want to do this.
And from that point, it's just been the number one thing that I learned and studied. Like, you know what I'm saying?
I did hip hop more than anything. I play with toys and things like that. But as the years progressed on and on and on, I got more and more and more into hip hop.
So by the time I was like by the time I was 12, I was full hip hop. It was on TV, raps and was rap city. It was whatever hip hop documentary was out, whatever new album was out, whatever new sources out.
Like everything was just hip hop, hip hop, hip hop. Rob, I'm trying to picture him throwing out all his other sneakers and just keeping the Adidas. That's all I'm picturing right now.
All right, Mr. Boston, Mr. Darius, aka D-Rug. Give us the story of where that stage name came from and what the hell does it mean, actually?
It means drug. At first, it used to be D-Rug. So we shortened that bitch to D-Rug.
I used to, when I used to freestyle, we sat on freestyle battles back in school and shit.
Motherfuckers used to be like, damn, bro, you got me hooked. Like, you got me hooked when you said this, this and this.
Because I was always good at just freestyling the whole song. So we was out having like freestyle battles or whatever.
I was good at making a hook and making a topic for the song. And my hooks was always potent.
So motherfuckers always say, them shit's like drugs, man. So I shortened the drugs for D-Rug. So it means drug.
Did you come up with that yourself or did someone give it to you?
I'm like both. I want to say both because like I said, it was D-Rug at first. You know what I'm saying?
Everybody's saying I was hooking them with that. I kind of got the idea from that and I used it myself.
I turned it into it. So yeah, I'll say both.
Nice, man. That's what's up. It sounds like you hold it down for Orlando. I got two questions.
Yes, sir.
You like the magic? Your magic?
I've been a fan since goddamn Reggie Thiers was there.
And how have you personally seen the Orlando slash Central Florida music scene change since living there?
Oh, yeah, definitely, man. Definitely changed. I jumped in the game around 99, like professionally wise.
You know what I'm saying? So from 99 to 2024 is a total big difference.
There's a whole way they record the music. There's a whole different way they listen to the music.
There's a whole other way they do the video. All this shit changed. You know what I'm saying?
So I've definitely seen a change in it.
Talk a little bit about what the hell's going on downtown Orlando and I'm seeing all these RIP clubs seeing things going on on my social media.
Oh, shit, man. They're closing down all the motherfucking clubs, man.
Yep.
Get them niggas ass out of there.
I've seen a lot. You've been here a lot longer than I have.
But in the last 14 years, the Central Florida scene has changed so damn much and it hurts. It chops us at the knees for damn sure.
Yeah, it definitely do, man. But one thing about me, I've just learned how to adapt.
I still used to put my face in the place, you know what I'm saying?
Because at the end of the day, I still like to record and put out music just because I just got the fan base where I could do it.
I don't have an extremely large fan base, but I have a large enough fan base that keeps me going to keep a little extra money in my pocket.
So, you know, I got to keep my face in the place.
And plus, you know, all the jits now, they call me Unc now, you know what I'm saying?
I'm like, I'm Unc of the scene now, you know what I'm saying?
I go live on TikTok Freestyle just like you said, Unc killin' me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you have any significant philosophies or mottos that gets you through life's challenges?
Be careful who you watch who you burn, man. You know, try not to burn people because you never know when you're going to see their ass when you're coming down, especially in this music business, man.
It could be a motherfucker you step on or talk shit about.
And the way these shit going these days, man, the weirdest motherfuckers blow up.
You know what I'm saying?
Like it's to the point now that I don't even tell people they trash no more when they give me their shit.
You know what I'm saying? They give me their shit.
I'm like, what you think? You know, I try not to tell them they trash or anything like that because like I said, especially these days, you never know who's the next star.
You know what I'm saying? So one of my things I keep in life is, man, just be careful who the bridges you want to burn with because you never know when you got to cross the motherfuckers again.
Outside of anything music or entertainment related, if I was to ask the four year old or six year old Jit version of Darius, what other profession would he want to be? What would that be?
Wrestling. I wish I was a wrestler.
What?
I was a big ass wrestling fan, man. Big, big wrestling fan.
See, I got the whole Ric Flair woo tang going on.
Yeah, I was I was from like 80, 84 to the year 2001. Maybe I was a big wrestling fan.
All right, D-Rug, what got you into doing comedy professionally and what comedian growing up influenced you the most?
Definitely Eddie Murphy. The first time I seen Delirious, I was five. My dad had the vinyl for it. I actually heard the Delirious before I seen it, but I just remember Delirious and Raw.
My mom and them watching that shit, they told us to go in the room. So I'm just like, what the fuck? Why we got to go in the room? So, you know, I'm peeking over the wall and they all laughing and shit.
And I just hear Eddie Murphy just saying all these cool ass cuss words. I knew right then and there I wanted to do that because I used to take his jokes and go recite them back at school.
You know what I'm saying? I'm in the second, third grade, but I know Eddie Murphy, Delirious by heart. Like, so, you know, I knew all the cuss words and everything.
I mean, I know most of that too. I know most of that shit too.
I know what I'm saying. Imagine being in the second and third grade reciting this shit for everybody in the class. They like, what the fuck?
Like, I always love that reaction. You know what I'm saying? Ice cream man, ice cream man. Yeah. All that shit.
I used to know all that shit by heart and I'd go back to school and recite it for everybody. And I used to just love the attention I got.
Like, I'm a Leo man, so, you know, I'm a big attention seeker. At first, I didn't think it was something I wanted to do for real, for real.
I just always been a naturally funny kid. Like, I was like the class clown in school. Like, I was the biggest class clown in school.
Like, I just love getting attention. Like, I was one of them kids that if we in class, it can't be quiet for longer than five minutes.
I got to say something. I got to do something. I'm going to fart in that bitch. I'm going to throw a pencil. You know what I'm saying? I was one of them kids. So, you know what I mean?
I swear, like, I feel like I'm talking to myself, man. It's crazy. I swear. We got everything in common, man.
Even when I was, you know, I grew up in Jersey, too. In Pasek. My father lives in Point Pleasant. I moved to Miami. Moved to Miami back and forth when I was three until I was nine, too. Same shit.
I was nine years old when I moved down here, like, for good. Never moved back to Jersey.
Yeah. I'm from New Brunswick and Plainfield.
I love wrestling, too, dawg. Like, I grew up. So, you tell me this. I'm like, I want to have a match with D-Rug right quick.
Nah, I can't wrestle now, man. We can play PlayStation or something.
Oh, man. I got PlayStation, too. I'm telling you, we talking to each other. You are a twin, bro.
Yeah.
I'm over here vibing, man.
I did not know that about you. We all in this room love wrestling.
Yeah. Like, I was a big, big wrestling fan. Like, big wrestling fan. I had toys. Like, I was a Hulk Hogan fan. Like, that's what made me watch wrestling was Hulk Hogan.
Did you eat your vitamins, man?
Man, I had the vitamins, bro. I just put a reel up about, remember them old school Halloween costumes with the plastic and the damn plastic mask with the eyeballs cut out?
Yeah.
I had a Hulk Hogan one, you know what I'm saying?
And I like, like, my mom bought me, like, Hulk Hogan and everything, but she was always like, why you don't like some of the black guys? So, that's where my love for junkyard dawg come in.
I had the junkyard dog toy. You know, man, you said you had the toy. Remember, Hogan had, like, the set to fight, you know what I'm saying?
Hell yeah, that motherfucker didn't move, them damn rubbers.
We used to throw them bitches off the building, just watching them bounce.
So, in your music, you have this whole 70s, 80s, playa pimps style going on. So, when we speak about women, I want to know two things. What's an absolute relationship deal breaker for you? And what's the nuttiest thing that you've done for love?
The deal breaker is you call the police on me.
Call the police on me, bitch, we through.
And what you say, the craziest thing I've did for love?
Yeah, that you've done for love.
Oh, shit.
All the females he's ever been with are listening to this now.
You're gonna talk about me?
Oh, shit, I was with a bitch for nine months, was faking like she was pregnant.
Holy shit, boss. That'd be a deal breaker for me.
Damn.
I think that's probably the craziest shit.
Oh my goodness, man.
I was like, I didn't know. So, you know what I mean?
Yeah, when I sit and think about it now, yeah, it was fucking crazy.
We have something else in common that you and I have in common. And actually, Rob too, we're being 40 plus. None of us are some spring chickens in here, right?
In trying to break out in the modern rap market that you are trying to do right now, do you see one clear advantage and one clear disadvantage that we have at this age of ours?
The clear advantage we have is we know our shit. The disadvantage we have is that the generation now don't respect OGs.
They think that we over a certain age that we shouldn't do it no more. And I just think, you know, that's bullshit.
You know what I'm saying? And this is what it is.
I thousand percent agree with you. We're the only, only genre that's out there that has a time limit.
Like you got rockers that can tour in their 70s right now and still selling out arenas.
Fucking Ozzy Osbourne can't even move no more. And he sets out every fucking time he goes out.
We definitely, we've been talking about that. Like I'm working at MediaBase.
We're kind of structured to what the formats that people send to radio.
And it's weird because what's blowing up for R&B is creating the adult R&B contemporary format for radio stations.
And I mean, you got people like Charlie Wilson that have five, six, seven number one hits per year.
Some people, the young people would be like, he still makes music? And like, yeah, the last three years.
I've just seen Charlie Wilson this year at Funkfest. I didn't get a chance to interview him, but.
Oopsie, oopsie, oopsie, oopsie. Oh, fuck.
Oh, what?
Got it already.
Oh, he said it.
Got it already. All fucking ready.
Finally. God damn.
All right. So, so, so, so.
Did I hit the Peewee Wormwood word?
D-Rug, D-Rug, you got the WFW. The word is any iteration of interview.
Interviewing, interviewed, interviews, interview.
So anytime we say that, we all got to take a shot of something.
So.
Y'all motherfuckers gonna be drunk because you know that's what I do too. I interview people.
All right. So, yeah. All right. So I just know to keep. I ain't gonna get y'all too fucked up tonight.
So here we go. I'm gonna throw it back.
It's got to be a chug though.
Salud. Salud, my brother.
Salud, boys.
I'm gonna buy you some damn mugs and shot glasses. That's what I'm gonna do.
You almost made me spit that shit out, bro.
I want to spit mine out.
Oh, fuck.
So Am spits.
Hey, hey, Doc. Doc. Doc. Where the dog at?
I like this interview already. This shit gonna be cool.
We're gonna get stupid.
Ready? All right.
Of all of your releases, which is statistically your most successful song versus what's your most meaningful or important song to you?
My most successful song that I still get booked for and it's like a song that I never care for is called Beat That Pussy Down.
Oh, hell yeah. Man, I've been listening to it.
Yo, that song is off the charts.
Shout out to Tom and Dan.
If y'all know who Tom and Dan is, one of the biggest podcast guys in Orlando, they're worldwide.
But the first time I ever been on a podcast was with them and I never understood like what the fuck is this?
We talking about 12, 13 years ago, joining a community.
You know, I adapted to their fans and their fans welcomed me in with open arms.
And one song that they used to like off my Mohawk Dawn album was this song called Beat The Pussy Down.
And it was like one of my outrageous songs that we just having fun on.
And I got to perform that shit in front of a big ass concert they had.
They had like a 10 year anniversary and it was over with five, six thousand people at a street.
They had shut down the street and I performed that fucking song.
And the motherfuckers song that shit, Word for fucking Word.
I love that.
They sung the shit better than I did.
But that's my most probably successful song.
One of my most meaningful songs is a song I got called Me and My Swisher.
And it's about just at the time it was just about it was just me and my swisher.
It was me and my swisher and my problems I was going with.
And I just wrote all that shit down on the run.
It's on YouTube if you want to check the video for that shit.
But that's one of my favorite meaningful songs that I was I was actually serious on.
That's on Magnificent Asshole One, right?
Yes. Yes.
It's on Magnificent Asshole One.
I've been bumping it, bro. I've been bumping it.
I'm here in Southeast Asia.
It's a D-Rug, dog.
Nobody, they don't.
I spread love out here, baby.
I appreciate that, man.
We might have to like link that A&R.
I'm listening to all of them, homie.
I appreciate that, bro. I appreciate that.
And I got the second best collection of CDs.
Thank you. Thank you.
Have any of your music goals changed dramatically from where you started until now?
It definitely changed dramatically.
When I first started, I wanted to be the baddest rapper ever.
You know what I'm saying? I was that kid that just, oh, you spit. You spit.
Check this out.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And you know what I'm saying?
And I was on every scene, every open mic, every this, every that.
Now it's like, I'm cool.
I just do it for the fuck of it now.
You know what I'm saying?
It definitely, definitely changed dramatically.
I don't even have a goal for the music no more.
Right now, the music is just, I just do it because I got a studio in my house.
You know what I'm saying?
You got love for it.
Yes, all day. All day. It's totally the love, man.
I tell the Jets all the time, man.
If you don't love this shit, get out of it.
That's it. Fuck it.
Some people don't love it and just do it for money.
I respect it.
Yeah, me too. But there ain't no money in this shit no more.
I do this shit because I love it, man.
Yeah, I love to do this shit. I love to create songs.
Freestyle to be in the crowd of people. You want to freestyle? Let's go.
We're going to talk about what's going on right here.
I love that shit, dawg.
I still do that shit.
Especially going back to your, me and my Swisher, like, I think AM and I kind of really relate to that
because to us, music is therapeutic.
It's not for buzz. It's not for females. It's not for sales.
So when you said that, I was like, okay, I could see where he came from, his thinking with that.
It's definitely, this was a little bit more of your therapeutic music in your whole discography.
Anyway, what's crazy about this song is at the time, I was staying with my partners.
As a matter of fact, my boy Lee Nicky who made the beat and his brother Mills,
we've been friends since we was 10 years old.
They've been on this hip hop journey with me too.
But that particular day, they locked me in the studio.
You know what I'm saying? They went out that night.
They talked shit to me and everything.
Motherfucker, you stay your ass here tonight.
Finish some songs because they felt I was bullshitting.
This is when we was making, because actually that song was on the Mohawk Don 2 first.
Oh, wow.
They was on my ass. They were saying I was slacking or whatever punishment they had for me.
That was the punishment was to lock me in the fucking studio while they went out.
Yeah, bitch, we're going to have fun. You can actually do work.
Yeah. I was just like, fuck it.
That's what happened. That came out.
When they came back, the excitement, when your dogs come in, hit some shit,
and they'd be like, hell yeah.
The excitement I got watching them, yeah, I showed y'all motherfuckers.
You know what I'm saying?
Switching gears from podcasts, mad face TV, arrogant assholes,
and all the other platforms you've been on.
I've watched you. You've interviewed.
Oopsie, oopsie, oopsie.
Oh, fuck.
Good job, Doc.
Oh, let's go.
I just threw myself.
Y'all going to say that I word a lot, man.
That's a big part of me, though.
That's a big part of me is the I word.
It's written in this motherfucker.
Hold on, we shotting again, we chugging again.
AMA lion, though, I wrote this shit and I'm fucking myself up.
Doc, and it's crazy because I'm looking at the fucking screen.
I'm like, what the fuck? Oh, no, it is right there.
And it's right there.
Good luck.
Salud.
All right, I've watched you ask questions to people.
Some of the big dogs that you and I respect that I grew up on.
So I want you to spill a little bit tea for us.
Was there anyone in particular that was cooler or more humble than you expected?
And then vice versa, was there anyone who rubbed you the wrong way or was unexpectedly weird?
Definitely Plies, man.
Plies definitely one that I didn't expect.
This is around the time when the Ozone magazine was doing the Ozone Awards.
And we was the media for the Ozone magazine.
And in the media room, like back in the days when they do the media rooms,
when you go inside the media room, it's different little booths you can go to and get I word.
You know what I'm saying?
Our tent was at the end.
It was all the way at the end of the door.
We were the last ones to get I.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
And you know, you had BET, you had Channel 9 News, you had Vibe magazine.
So they just walking around these tents and stuff to get I.
And I'm the last one.
And at the time, Plies, this is before Plies blew up.
He was hot at this time, but nobody knew what he looked like.
We would just listen to the mix tape and shit.
And at the time, the mix tape was like super gangster.
So we think he this big ass motherfucking super killer.
You know what I'm saying?
But he walks in and everybody like, oh, Plies is here. Plies is here.
And we had A&R to come go get everybody to bring them to the show.
And I'm looking like, that's Plies?
That motherfucker's like five feet.
Like, he looks cool.
One thing I noticed, they wouldn't let him.
He was drinking.
They had like him and his boys had some Hennessy or whatever.
And he was drinking and they wouldn't let him drink while he was interviewing.
Oopsie, oopsie, oopsie.
Oh, fuck.
Oh, shit.
Fuck.
What's wrong?
I love you.
If I don't make it to the end of this podcast, I love y'all.
Besitos.
God damn it.
That's what I said.
That's going to be a hard word.
Hey, I love you, bro.
All right.
I told you.
Last time I woke up on the roof.
They was eyeing him.
You know what I'm saying?
The whole time they was eyeing him.
Not that eyeing, but you know, microphone.
Asking him questions.
Oh, no, I know.
I'm fucking with you.
So they wouldn't let him drink while he was on these shows.
But when he came to my show, my show was uncensored.
You can say what the fuck you want to say, do what the fuck you want to do.
And the first thing I told him before I eyed him, I was like, man, bring your drink over,
cuz you can drink.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
He was like, what?
And from that point, we built the relationship.
He was cool as fuck.
Like, he gave me all kind of game.
And he was like so intelligent.
Because you know, when you eye a lot of these rappers, they give you that, man, you know
what I'm talking about?
You know what I'm saying?
He was real, like, intelligent, like, you know what I'm saying?
And I'm like, what the fuck?
This ain't the Ply's I listen to in the car.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
So he ended up being real cool.
So Darius, before you go into the negative, I share a story with these guys all the time.
So the Tampa Music Conference, it's an annual conference in Tampa.
We go into it.
I went to it in 2002 when I was a Jit and just started rapping.
And then later years, I actually paneled it.
So I brought my cousin Tony Ganja from New York.
This was right before Ply's dropped What You Hating On.
So this is like pre-fame, pre-mixed tape even.
Oh, no, he was hot around that time.
No, this is pre that.
Oh, yeah, before that was before the first album though.
Yes, yes, yes.
Yeah, What You Hating On wasn't even on the first album.
Put it like this, that's around the same time I met him.
Funny thing was, as a DJ, I support anything that's in Florida.
I love T-Pain.
I loved anything that came out of the Florida area.
I had never heard Ply's in my life, ever.
What?
Never heard him in West Palm, never heard him in Boca Raton,
never heard him in Miami.
What?
Never.
All I did was to risk Carlton.
What?
No, no, Rob, all that stuff's after What You Hating On.
So that's funny.
We, let me tell you, Ply's fucked Orlando up, bro.
So this was pre-36 Ounces too, by the way.
So what's crazy was, as a DJ, I saw these flyers going around.
Now, the Tampa Music Conference, you got to actually dress up.
You got to be at least, you know, don't be tied, but you can at least go to dress shirt.
Ply's, what was crazy with him was, I thought his name was Piles.
Like no one, no one in that Tampa knew who the fuck he was.
It was crazy.
He lived out there.
I think he lived out in Tampa.
He's from Fort Myers.
No, he's from Fort Myers, but he lived in Tampa.
It was crazy.
So check this shit out, right?
So we were talking about radio and people not having the registrations to get there and stuff.
So after the first, after that dinner time, there's like an after party event,
an after after party event, after after after party event.
We did the after party event and Tony and I, first of all, Tony didn't want to spend money.
So we were like, he's like, we got leftovers from, I think everyone went to macaroni grill.
So like we all got to sit and eat dinner.
So he's like, yo, I don't know what you're thinking of, but can we just go back, change out of these dress clothes and like eat our leftovers?
I'm like, fuck yeah.
I don't want to spend like, I don't want to pay for parking and bullshit like that.
So we go back, we change out of our dress clothes, wear basketball shorts.
The microwave, they had like a whole lobby kitchen area.
We go down there and Plies and his boys are down there in basketball shorts and wife beaters too.
So they did the exact same shit we did.
They didn't care for the after after party.
Talking to him, just like you said, he told us his real name, Al Jannad Washington.
He didn't like, he corrected me.
It's not Piles, it's Plies.
I'm like, what the fuck does that like?
What's his real name, dog?
Al Jannad Washington.
I'll never forget that.
They call him Nod.
I won't forget it now.
So introducing to my thugged out cousin, it's like this guy, like you said, he's actually very intelligent.
He has two different college degrees from USF in Tampa.
So it's like he's actually intelligent.
And my cousin was very, very like floored, impressed.
Like this guy, he'll probably get signed.
Like this guy will probably blow up.
And he did, he did.
But what's crazy is day two of that conference, when they walked in, we're there like, yo, what's up?
What's up?
And he comes in and like he, the slang came out, the ghetto talk came out.
And it's like, wait, where did the intelligent motherfucker come?
Like go.
And it's like, and the interview, the guys asking them questions, they're asking them like, you know, they even said Piles, Plies, please, Plies.
He's like Plies.
And they're like, what does that even mean?
Plies.
What does that mean?
You know, the tool that tightens things.
No, not Plies.
And they're like, oh, like Pliers.
You know, I learned something new at that moment.
But just, just like you said, though, he floored me too, because he was so intelligent the night before.
And I feel like 90 percent of that Plies persona is fake.
Like he's an actual intelligent person.
So that was that was one that we shared with you.
It was crazy.
Yeah, man.
Like I said, man, he and I was just like, what the fuck?
Like, whoa, this is what not I did not expect this, bro.
Like different person night and day.
He was so cool, bro.
But he showed me a lot of love, bro.
He showed me a lot of love.
And then when it's because, you know, he taped his first video in Orlando.
I started with T-Pain.
Yeah.
He shot that in Orlando.
He's had more videos before that, but first mainstream video.
Yeah. The first real like the big song, like the big song.
He shot that in Orlando.
You know what I'm saying?
He would cross town and I pulled it up on him.
You know what I'm saying?
He see me at the time.
That's when I have a mohawk.
Mohawk.
What's up, bro?
All right.
So D-Rug, tell us the other side of the coin.
I want to hear who rubbed you the wrong way.
It was kind of like a dick to ask questions to.
Twistler.
What?
Whoa.
Twistler.
I don't know what Twistler was going through that night.
I'm going to put y'all in the scene right here.
We in Miami.
We had Club Sobe.
I remember them drinks, Sobe drinks.
Remember the Sobe?
All day.
All right.
So we knew his pops and his son.
His son's name was Stax.
And Stax had through this big ass party had Paul Wall, Little John, Abomb, JG, Twistler.
Matter of fact, Nas even slid through that bitch.
I ain't get to talk to Nas, but Nas slid through that bitch.
I had everybody that I mentioned.
Paul Wall, Mike Jones, Slim Thug, Little John.
I did everybody but Twistler.
Twistler was one of my favorite rappers, bro.
I love Twistler.
Even to this day, I love Twistler.
You know what I'm saying?
And once he performed, he got off the stage and it was time for him because I had my shit.
I had my shit set up on side of the stage.
So the way I got everybody was I get them off stage and I eye them after that.
You know what I'm saying?
So Twistler, I'm excited about.
Fuck Paul Wall, not saying fuck Paul Wall, but Paul Wall, whatever.
Cool.
But Twistler is somebody I was a fan of.
So I was like, oh shit.
You know what I'm saying?
You were looking forward to it for sure.
What?
Twistler comes off the stage.
I'm like, yo, Twistler, what's up, man?
Let me get that eye.
You know what I'm saying?
He walked past me.
He walks because the VIP was right next to us too.
It was kind of behind us.
He sits down and at the time, you know, iPods was big.
This is iPod era.
This motherfucker is in the club by himself in VIP.
He done kicked the bitches out.
He done kicked everybody out.
And he's in the club listening to his iPod.
And I'm talking about I'm trying to get his attention.
I'm trying to talk to him.
His bodyguard is like, yo, he don't want to be bothered right now.
He just want to listen to his music.
And I'm like, listen to his music?
He's in the motherfucking club.
This motherfucker got on some headphones.
What the fuck is you talking about?
Like, you know what I'm saying?
But you know, now that I'm older, I realized I don't know what he was going through at
the time, but Twistler, he ignored me, bro.
Damn, that's crazy.
I'm with you, D-Rug.
Fuck that.
Like, I'm with like.
What the fuck you doing in the club with your headphones on?
Hey, tell me, fuck me.
Just say fuck you or whatever.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't want to be bothered.
Say it.
You know what I'm saying?
Don't ignore me.
That motherfucker ignored me, bro.
Yeah, I met a lot of.
Well, I met a couple of assholes.
Trick Daddy was an asshole too.
Really?
Trick Daddy was an asshole, but he's like.
You expect that from him.
I was doing a mixtape called Doc J Presents Dirty Dancing.
It was a strip club mixtape.
And he was absolutely like.
Because he kind of was getting out of fame at that moment.
And because I'm from South Florida, I want to represent Miami Cats.
And he submitted me like a new single and I just threw on the strip club mixtape.
No questions asked.
And he was super nice to me for that one.
But yeah, I mean, I think you hit the nail on the head.
People can have things going on.
So, I mean, that's why I always ask that question.
So.
Yeah, yeah, man.
You mentioned your early influences of Michael Jackson.
Snoop Dogg and the Immortal 2, Pac Shakur.
Are there any new artists today that influence your music now?
I don't want to hear his answer for the future.
Fuck you.
I love you, bro.
I'm one of the biggest future fans.
I love you.
Yes, bro.
I love you.
I had a paid internship at Epic Records in the legal department.
I don't work there anymore because I reviewed a future album wrong.
Which one was it?
I mean, I worked there from.
So I got the job at MediaBase in 2018.
So it was from 2016 to 2018.
Whatever album came out in that window.
And at a six stars, I gave it half a star.
And they're like, yeah, I would have fired your ass too.
Fuck you.
No, but they told me that, you know, if you work here, those are one of our clients.
So you have to do that.
How can you give future a half a star?
They were like, you have to give this five and a half to six stars.
I'm like, that would be saying the album's classic.
No, I'm going to review this the right way, respectful way.
And they're like, then you can't review why you work here.
And I'm like.
Future is one of my favorite artists, bro.
You know, I love you.
I love you.
But fuck you.
I love the way future records, bro.
He don't give a fuck, bro.
He don't. He just wants him, bro.
Well, you know what's crazy?
I have a heartbreaking story about future.
What's that?
No, I'm not going to say it.
I can't. You don't say it.
No, you just said it.
We got sound effects I can do.
I'll tell you some real shit.
I can't.
D-Rod gets the exclusive shit from us.
Okay. So why is this?
So I'm in a restaurant, right?
And there's a party in the restaurant.
And in this party is a it's an employee party sort of thing.
Futures, people's.
So everybody got champagne glasses, but they empty.
Future says, no, don't give him champagne.
Give him ginger ale.
God damn.
Sensational.
He gave everybody ginger ale.
And made them believe it was champagne.
Oh my God.
This is thinking was.
They think it was champagne.
D-Rod, this is what he does to y'all.
He hypnotizes you with the fucking auto tune.
This is a real street report.
I was there.
I put my blood on that.
That's ridiculous.
I can see Rob working there and be like as Smollier,
like I would recommend this type of champagne.
He's like, no, I want ginger ale.
He says, no.
Ginger ale, please.
I'm sorry.
So, so future, if you hear me, I don't fucking hate your music, but.
So D-Rod, D-Rod, this is that 9% of music that you and I will never see.
I die on 91%.
You and I are like perfectly on par with it, but not this 9%.
So I love, I love future, man.
I'm a big future fan, bro.
Future.
But the ginger ale, the ginger ale story is true.
That's crazy.
That's crazy to me.
Hey, Amazon, you my brother.
I got it.
I'm fucked up.
I ain't even, we ain't even nowhere near.
We're not even past the interview yet.
Oh, fuck.
Oopsie, oopsie, oopsie.
Oh, fuck.
Damn it.
See, he did that shit on purpose.
This is the best show ever.
Dude.
D-Rod.
How many times do I have to say that?
That shit on purpose right there.
Rob, Rob.
Everybody got to take the swigs.
Please.
Damn.
I'm not that, I'm not that fucked up yet.
I'm fucked with Rob, man.
I'm fucked with Rob.
Hey, bro.
Hey, I love you, bro.
I've been telling your shit for three weeks.
I'm fucked with Rob, man.
Come see me in South Beach, dog.
I'll holler at you when I go to Orlando.
I'm in South Beach all day.
Definitely, definitely.
We definitely going to do that, bro.
I'll fucks with your vibe, bro.
Hey, nobody can fuck with me out here, baby.
Look, come on, see me.
Please come see me.
He gets the people going.
He does.
Look, we love Rob.
But you know something?
This is why I had to stop.
I love y'all more.
I had to stop drinking hard liquor last week, bro.
It's okay to chug.
We like to chug.
I like to chug.
I got crazy, bro.
I fell on my fucking face and like cut my nose up.
Y'all can't see no more.
D-Rud, when you posted that post that you were done for good, my heart fell from my chest
to my dick.
A week before the show.
Yeah.
Hey, no, Doc called me.
Doc was like, hey, man.
He called me.
You're not drinking no more?
And I'm like, yeah, I'm drinking beer.
Why?
Wait one more week.
I'm like, you know we got the show coming up.
He said it in the comments and everything.
Hey, man, you know we got the show coming up.
I'm like, what?
I was worried.
I was twisted.
I was like messed up.
I was like, what are you doing to me, D-Rud?
He called me the same way.
Yo, Doc called me.
He's like, yo, I don't think D-Rud's drinking, bro.
No, I had to stop drinking that liquor, bro.
I was getting too fucking crazy on that tequila, man.
I hear you.
As writers ourselves, I love Doc and Rob the deaf, but we have different sacred ways of
writing our rhymes.
Please describe your unique writing process.
Well, as far as lately, I haven't wrote a rhyme.
My last album, I punched in.
I did the new school shit.
I did the new school.
I freestyled for two or three bars and punch in.
That's what made me want to rap again, because I ain't going to lie to you, I hate right
now.
It's too time consuming.
But back when I did used to write, I basically just jotted down whatever was on my mind.
I'm one of those guys that whatever come to my mind, jotted down.
It could be four bars at the moment.
It could be 10 bars.
It could be whatever.
But I was always the one that always jot down whatever comes to my brain first, because
my mind runs 100 miles per hour, so I be trying to get that shit out.
That's why it's so easy and cool for me now to do the punch in freestyle thing.
I won't call it freestyle, but what I had did, I did a lot of research before I made
that album.
I was in the studio with a lot of the young guys and I watched how they was recording
and none of them motherfuckers don't write rhymes.
None of these young boys write rhymes, bruh.
And they punch in and they do shit.
Shout out to Tony Boy, shout out to Luce Cannon, shout out to Leap Baby.
I sat and I watched them in the studio and when I seen them do that, I was like, oh,
I could do that shit 100 miles per hour.
You know what I'm saying?
That's easy.
You know what I'm saying?
It's easy to come up with something real fast and, all right, stop me right there and listen
to it and go over it again.
You know what I'm saying?
So once I figured out that shit, it was a wrap.
All right, all right.
I'm going to put you on the spot and change gears for a second, right?
I know your brain's like mine.
You are a Rolodex of artists.
So who is personally on your two Mount Rushmore's of singers and rappers?
So that would be your top four of each, all time and in order.
So you want to hit singers first?
Singers first, your top four in order singers and then we'll go to rappers next.
Hey, I don't give a mammy fuck what nobody say.
R. Kelly.
Thank you.
R. Kelly, number one.
I don't give a fuck what nobody say.
This is my twit, bro.
Then I got to go with my boy Bobby Brown.
Okay.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm a big Bobby Brown man.
And then I definitely got to go with my boy, Michael Jackson.
One time.
Three.
That's three.
One more on your Mount Rushmore.
One more.
And I definitely got to go with my boy, Charlie Wilson, man.
My name is Charlie.
Last name Wilson.
All right.
Unc, what about your two, your, your top four rappers, your Mount Rushmore of rappers?
My top four MCs, all time and order.
I always get flack about this because I'm not your typical word play MC.
So, so, you know, who my favorite rappers are Snoop Dogg, number one, a goddamn too
short number two, number three, Pimp C, number four, Tupac.
Thank you.
See, if you said future, I was going to, I was going to say the I word for you.
No, future, future is my new school guy.
All time though.
Thank you.
I like, I like your list.
Your list does remind me of your music too.
So.
Yeah, definitely.
That's all.
That's all my music come from, man.
I can't even put my eyes on you guys easily.
All right, Rob, it's all on you, bro.
All right.
D-Rub, at this point in your career, what would be your top dream collab-o now that
makes the most sense?
Oh, me definitely working with Snoop Dogg.
I want to do a Snoop Dogg song about Reefer.
Like I can paint my, like I got to get Snoop on paint my eyes red three or something.
Like I got to, you know what I'm saying?
I got to put that lingo in Snoop Life.
He got to know how to paint his eyes red.
My yeah, that's definitely one of my ultimate goals is to do something with Snoop Dogg,
whether it's a movie, a song or something.
But yeah, I want to do something with Snoop.
That's what's up.
So I'm all about our legacy.
So when you die, what is something you personally want to be remembered for?
Definitely.
I want to be remembered me being me.
I want to be remembered as when you hear that certain song, be like, man, I remember, I
remember D-Rug, he's played that shit.
That's D-Rug shit.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
I want to be remembered as being the life of the party.
You know what I'm saying?
I want to be just be remembered for me being me, man.
I definitely want to be one of those people that no matter what, it's going to be a lot
of shit that reminds me of reminds them of me.
You know what I'm saying?
All right.
So if you could choose one person living or dead to have dinner with, a shot with, shotgun
with whatever you want to call it, who would it be and why?
Definitely Tupac.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Yes.
I want to sit down with Tupac and just, you know, just him talk.
I just thought he was just an amazing man.
You know what I'm saying?
I always just would love to sit down and have a combo with him.
You know what I'm saying?
I feel like Tupac one of them niggas that talk to you about anything.
You know what I'm saying?
And that's somebody I would love to sit down with.
Hell yeah.
So Cindy Rugg, one that we like to always end with, which is more important to you,
loyalty or respect and why?
Definitely loyalty.
Loyalty means that no matter what they're on your side, y'all can fall out, y'all can
fight, whatever they loyal to you.
You know what I'm saying?
Respect shit.
You respect dogs and cats.
That's right.
That shit don't mean shit.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
You demand respect everywhere you go.
You know what I'm saying?
You demand loyalty everywhere you go.
So I definitely would say loyalty.
I feel that dog.
For real 100%, I feel that shit.
Thank you.
Real quick.
So now look, we're going to move forward.
Segment four, let's turn back the clock for the time capsule.
December 8th to the December 15th.
Taking a quick look into those days through all of our TV and music history.
First and foremost, I got to give props and pay respect to those who have passed away.
There's quite a bit this show.
It's just not good.
Ten too many.
So AM, why don't you kick things off?
Because it always makes me sad, but we're going to start with December the 8th.
John Lennon, 1980.
We have Juice World, 2019.
I just made a reel about Juice World too.
Recipes of Juice World.
We have Ralph Tavares, 2021.
December the 9th, we're going to have Slim 400.
That's going to be 2021.
December the 10th is going to be Otis Redding, 1967.
Damn, that Otis Redding story is so fucked up, bro.
Now picking up from where AM left off, December 11th, we got Sam Cooke, 1964.
December 12th, Ike Turner, 2007.
Mr. Slap Around the World.
December 13th, Alan Thicke, Father Robin Thicke, 2016.
December 13th, we have Twitch, AKA Stephen Boss, passed away in 2022, tragically from
suicide unfortunately.
And December 15th, we've got Wanda Young from the Marvelettes.
She passed away in 2021.
Rest in peace.
Rest in peace, man.
So before we go to the next slide, of those names that we said, and I know we kind of
fired them off, Darius, but of those 10 cats, what would you say is one or two that actually
touched you that you actually really cared about their discography and what they did
to music and meant to music?
Juice WRLD was dope as shit.
Now no disrespect to none of the other legends that we had that you mentioned, but I listened.
I actually listened to Juice WRLD.
When I went to Chicago, that was one of the first things I wanted to do was visit his
memorial.
I just think Juice WRLD was just dope, man.
He was like, if you ever get a chance, just watch that kid freestyle.
I'm talking about 20 minutes off the head, 20 minutes, like no fuck ups.
And he used to be fucked up.
Extremely fucked up.
Yeah, he used to be fucked up, but that boy could go, bruh.
But fortunately, he was part of that generation where they indulge in them drugs, but he was
very talented.
There was some couple of other ones that you had mentioned too on there, man.
You got to get up to Ike Turner, man.
We wouldn't have Tina without how hard Ike pushed her.
Yeah, Ike was a bad man.
You know what I'm saying?
Hey, bitches, if you die, I'm going to kill you.
I think Otis and Sam were the two that touched me a little bit.
John Lennon.
Yeah, Otis and Sam, man.
Yeah, man.
Damn, he died in 07.
Ike Turner?
Yes, sir.
Wow.
And then Wanda Young.
So I always do this to Rob every episode.
I'll throw one curve ball in there.
It's like, do you remember who this is?
So from the mark of lights.
No, I don't.
I don't at all.
You always do that because you know I won't remember.
I ain't going to even lie to you.
I thought you was going to say Wanda Sykes.
I was going to say, man, she ain't dead.
But she did know Wanda Young was a Marvelette.
So wait a minute, Mr. Postman.
Yes.
All right.
So moving on to something happier, Rob, I kick us off on a much happier note.
So let us celebrate all the special birthdays coming up.
We got a lot this week.
26 exact.
So Doc, why don't you jump into the big birthday shout outs?
All right.
Oh, my goodness.
There's so many.
All right.
So your birthday was December 8th.
He did pass away, but he would have been 99.
He looked like he was 99 when he was alive.
Going down south to the ghetto boys, we got Bushwick Bill, whose birthday was also December
8th.
He passed away as well, but would have been 58.
Shout out to Bushwick.
Hell yeah.
I ran into him a couple of times when he was out here in Orlando.
That motherfucker crazy, bro.
Rest in peace, man.
We got R&B vocalist, Crissette Michelle.
The birthday is December 8th.
She turned 42.
The same exact day and same exact year, we got Nicki Minaj, December 8th.
She also turned 42.
So they're both the same age as me.
And then we got Cannabis, December 9th.
He turned 50 years old.
Cannabis is the human version of German engineering.
Shout out to Cannabis.
So we're going to have Camouflage, December 9th.
Would have been 50 years old.
Rest in peace.
You said Camouflage?
Do you remember who that was?
Camouflage would have been 50?
He would have been 50 if he stayed alive.
You know his daughter raps now.
I did not know that.
His daughter's that girl from LSU.
Which girl?
She got the song with Lil Wayne.
What's Camouflage's daughter's name?
LaFloj.
What's her name?
Oh shit.
Yeah, Roger LaFloj.
That's Camouflage's daughter.
Ah, that's what's up.
She dope as shit too because she harder than the motherfucker.
I love Camouflage.
Matter of fact, I would just listen to Fuck Friends not too long ago.
Yeah.
I got it.
Are we going to have PNB Rock, what have been, 33?
Damn, he would have been 33, man.
Rest in peace, PNB Rock.
He was like in a restaurant or something, right?
Yeah.
He got raffle, raffle, chicken and raffles.
Yeah.
They said that one of the employees set him up.
Yeah, nigga, set him up for his chain, bro.
So, Kanava, that is Kanava from?
D12.
Good.
D12, yeah.
It's going to be 48, December the 10th.
Last but not least, it's going to be Glasses Malone.
He's going to be 45 on December the 10th.
Shout out to Glasses Malone.
I fuck with him too.
Me too.
Whose Glasses Malone?
Glasses Malone.
Oh my God, Rob, we got to open up your listening pleasures here, man.
West Coast, West Coast, West Coast, West Coast, West Coast, West Coast, West Coast.
Did records with the game, did records going back with Cricket Eye.
He's done quite a bit.
Okay.
One time for Glasses Malone.
Hey, I'm here to learn.
I'm here to learn, y'all.
I'm here to learn.
You never heard the song he had about who killed Tupac?
Yeah.
Look at Rob's eyes.
Rob, you got to listen to that shit.
He got this shit about Tupac, bro.
Yes.
He gave his theory about who killed Tupac, that shit was dope as hell.
One time, December 10th, she's going to be 38 years old, Natty Natasha.
We also got, that's my girl, on December 10th, turning 34, Tiana Taylor.
Yes.
One time.
Yeah.
That bass.
Turning 93 on December 11th, Rita Moreno.
Wow.
And guess what, our boy Jermaine Jackson on December 11th will turn 70.
That nigga take that leather purse off his head, boy.
That nigga got the greasiest fade in history.
Yo, for real, and it's always been like that too.
It has been like last two decades.
For real.
It's like clay, don't it?
DJ Yella, NWA one time, December 11th, he'll be 57.
Shout out to DJ Yella.
Bro, I was just listening to World Class Recon Clue last night.
What's crazy is every time planning your show, you know, D-Rug, every time I see you're live in the morning, I'm in the courthouse, unfortunately.
But I watch that shit so intensely because I'm like, all right, let's see if he hits the points that I'm thinking of.
The reason why I like these records, these historic records that have anniversaries, and you every single time hit the point.
So it's like, I know you got your historian dude up in there.
We just need to get the future out of there.
The future ain't going nowhere, man.
So, but picking up from where Rob left off, I'm going to go to December 11th also.
Most Def, Mighty Most Def turning 51.
Shout out to Most Def.
R&B Great Diva Dionne Warwick, December 12th, 84.
She still looks good too.
That's crazy. Her and Teyana Taylor has the same birthday?
Two days apart, two days apart.
Oh, because you know that's when she wanted to play her in the movie.
Yes.
So that's dope. I think she should get that role.
Just from their birthdays alone.
Yeah, the birthdays alone and she looked like her.
Like she could play her.
December 12th, we also have B Love turning 24.
I think he's the youngest person we have on these slides.
December 13th, we got comedian and R&B artist Jamie Foxx turning 57.
I'm ready for that. I know he dropping his new special tomorrow.
Turning 57.
We also got Toronto Underground Great classified, December 13th turning 47.
After that, we're going to have King T, December 14th, he's going to be 56.
King T?
From the West Coast?
Yes, sir.
Hell, fuck yeah. I used to listen to that name.
Shout out to King T.
56, 56.
So we're going to have Tone Def, December 14th, he's going to be 48.
Steph Landon, December 14th, she's going to be 33. Offset, December 14th, he's also going to be 33.
Tori Kelly, December 14th, she's going to be 32.
And then Imani, 53. So my brain started singing a goddamn song.
That is Imani from Joe Button.
No, that's actually Imani from Farside.
Oh shit, that's the other nigga name.
Really?
Yep, Imani from the Farside.
Fuck me up with that one.
I'm back y'all.
Can't keep running away.
Yes, thank you.
That was that second album, that second album, crazy.
I got to open up for Farside too when they came down to Miami.
Bro, trust me.
You know what, hey, can I say this?
Yeah.
I think they have the most, one of the most...
Creative.
Biggest songs in hip hop history.
Are you talking about Run In or Pass Me By?
Pass Me By is probably...
I love Pass Me By too.
Pass Me By is like, I think we, I think we at that time in our life that we have to add that to one of the greatest songs.
That's one of the greatest hip hop songs ever, bro.
That song is so great, bro.
Legendary.
And it's been in movies, it's been in everything, you know what I'm saying?
So I think it's that time that we have to, and not even can't keep running away too, it's sick too.
All right, so moving out of the time caps, we're going to move to segment five, 100% Facts.
This is actually what I do for work.
So up next is 100% Facts.
Here we go into the guts of radio success, facts of how artists are performing at radio,
and what I do for work weekly at Media Base.
Rob, why don't you go into who's the number one spot this week?
Here's who performed best and snatched that tippy top radio chart spot.
Residuals from Chris Brown with over 6,396 spins per day last week, also number one in club.
Officially shipped to radio on September 10th, 2024 by CB Entertainment slash RCA Records.
It had some crossover out the gate on week one and debuted at 36 on Urban and number 49 on Rhythmic Club.
It went TikTok viral, it earned some sync licenses, and is nominated for a Best R&B Performance Grammy next February.
It's also charting top 20 in four other countries.
And for Chris's, it's his 51st top 10 Urban hit and his 14th club number one hit of his career as well.
So tell me who...
Residuals.
I love that song, dog.
I knew that song was hot before I even did the video.
I pretty sure that shit wrong. I thought it was gonna go 10 to 20, I think, doc.
Put it like this. I'm gonna tell you how hard that song is. Me and my partner, we be ride. We two real niggas, bro.
But we will ride to that motherfucking song there. Bang!
Shout him out. What's your partner's name, bro?
My dog. But shout out my dog, Rob. You know, since Celebrity Bell's laws go.
Yo, Rob!
Yeah, I got a dog named Rob. Celebrity Bondsman, bro. We go ride out to Miami. That's who I go to Miami with to go see the hurricanes.
You need to hit me up next time you come down here, bro.
His son played for the hurricanes, so we slide out there a lot, bro.
Come down here and see me, D-Rug. I'm a fan, homie.
I got you, bro. I got you. I'm coming to see you.
But that song is crap, bro. The way he's singing on that shit, just everything. Chris did that.
A.M., tell us a little bit about the description of the record.
Co-produced by Eric Hudson and Black Tuxedo. It's a somber, well-written electric guitar-filled emotional ex-lover ballad.
D-Rug, you got to ask, what was your opinion on this record? You kind of were giving it to us, but what was your opinion on the record when you first heard it?
It's crap. I knew. Y'all telling me that song is number one on the radio, and I'm not even dissing. I know that shit is crap, bro.
I loved it the first time I heard it. Shout out to Chris Brown for that one. One thing about Chris, he going to make him a hit.
I'm going to tell you Chris Brown's problem. His albums are too goddamn long.
Yes.
That nigga albums last three, four days. You don't even listen to all them shits.
That last album he came out with, when I first heard that song, I knew that was it. That was it right there, bro.
To piggyback off of D-Rug, one thing I'm a big fan of is really good writing. If you write it well.
So much Chris Brown's stuff is very upfront and forward and simple and basic, but when he started using metaphors, how residuals of royalties, comparing it to an ex-girl and who she's giving her royalties to, and residuals, I definitely fell in love with it.
I knew it was going to be a hit. It's definitely something that we had to review, right, AM?
Yeah, yeah. It is something. Also, we reviewed here at Twisted Critics back in mid-September for RCA Records.
No doubt, no doubt. So six of us reviewers showed up that week. Myself, AM, Rob, Ms. Singh, Nigel, and Christina from Tampa.
Darius, you know I predicted it correctly. No surprise, no surprise there, right? But I wasn't the only one this time. One more reviewer guessed it right. Rob, do you want to guess who guessed it right?
I want to guess AM, man. He's the one, bro. AM looked like he knew what he was talking about when he heard it.
AM knows everything. He knows it all, bro. Like there's nothing he doesn't fucking know. It's amazing.
There's some weeks that he goes super low and then some weeks he just nails it. So this time.
I knew it. Once I read it, I did my post and I read it. I was like, this is totally going number one. I mean, doc, I love you, but listening to you is cheating. So I listen to AM.
If you listen to me, you make some money. Nobody can fucking detect where your song is going to chart on the radio better than this man right here.
All right. So of the six of us, Nigel from Chicago guessed 10 through 20 at Urban and 25 to 35 at Club. He was closer with Urban.
Miss Singh from Bronx, New York. Miss Singh guessed 10 through 20 at Club and 20 to 30 at Urban. Rob from the Mob from Miami guessed 10 through 20 at Urban and 20 to 30 at Club.
The third best was Tina from Tampa guessed 5 through 15 at Urban and 20 to 30 at Club. Second best was AM. He guessed top 10 at Urban.
I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. But he also guessed 30 to 40 at Club. It don't matter. It was top 10 at Urban.
I was just going to ask something about that. Rob, we definitely say, how do you determine shit that's going to get played in the club though?
So radio stations... I go out every day. I would not expect to hear that song in the club.
So what's crazy is radio stations have different formats that are designated to what? So you have Urban, which is hip hop and rap.
You have adult R&B contemporary, which is R&B, traditional R&B, classic R&B. And then you have rhythmic club, which is what's generally played in clubs and club stations.
So that's kind of the definition of how it's designated that way. The person who was with AM the best on this one was Doc J.
Myself, I guessed top 10 at Urban and I guessed 5 through 15 at Club. So I actually got Rob. I got Club wrong too.
Yeah, you got Club wrong, but you knew it was a top 10 and I should have known that. You should have copied me. I'm still a student.
You would have gave the same answer I would have gave. Because like I said, I wouldn't expect to hear that song in the club, but it can be a club banger.
It is. They play it. That song is fire. That's one of the songs that I get behind no matter what train is behind.
Yeah, I went a little soft on it. I should have known, but I knew it was a great song. So I didn't know.
I just didn't know. And I knew Doc knew. But sometimes I'm like maybe Doc's wrong. And I'm always wrong when I say that Doc's wrong.
You know, check this out. New breaking singles. Okay. Here we highlight which new songs broke nationally entering on the Urban Radio charts.
We had four new debuts this past week. Doc kick us off. All right. We got one that we didn't review actually. So Kendrick Lamar featuring Lefty Gunplay TV off.
Yeah, turn the TV off. Turn the TV off. That's number one TV off. Turn the TV off. I don't know if it's number one. We'll see what happens.
It's number two behind squabble. Well, no, you're talking about Billboard not radio though. So it was shipped November 30th, 2024 debut and at 37 and Urban with over 771 spins per day last week.
Distributed by PG Lang slash Interscope Records group produced by Soundwave Jack Antonoff. That's a that's Taylor Swift producer, which is crazy.
Mustard. Yep. Yeah. Jack Antonoff won so many Grammys last year. I think he's going to win the Grammy, right? Yeah. He's a producer or engineer. Producer. Producer. Really? Yep.
Antonoff, baby. So Kendrick got the Swifties on his album. Yes, sir. Soundwave Jack Antonoff, Mustard, Kamasi Washington and Sean Momberger. I like that name. Momberger. It's like six, seven producers on that shit. Yes, sir.
Great name for a restaurant, right? Second single off his newly released GNX features the relatively unknown Cali rapper Lefty Gunplay and from streaming alone, it went number one on Billboard also. Shipped to club formats too and his debut unit clubs at 34 with over 750 spins per day.
I give it another week. It's going to be in the top 10. So hold on. So, D-Rug, we'll go through this one. That one we didn't get to review, but the two on this list that we did get to review, you'll get to kind of agree or disagree with us. We'll see what happens.
So second is going to be Bigger in Texas from Megan Thee Stallion. Shipped on 10-29-24. Debuted at number 41 on Urban with over 706 spins per day last. Distributed by Hot Girl Productions Warner Music Group, produced by Bankroll Got It, Sean Source and Truckee Street.
Second single off of her Megan Act. Is that a two or three dot three? Has a two. Megan Act Two album that has some bursty, bassy, mid-tempo, play-alistic Southern hip hop with a Texas UGK type of vibe. She does that a lot. I like that.
Famous rapper, Spim C. By the way, you can tell, you can tell. Debuting on club format at number 48 with over 269 spins per day. Right up after that, right? Right after that. It's going to be Ella Mai, Little Thing. Shipped 11-15-24. Debuting at number 42 on Urban with over 611 spins per day last week.
Distributed by 10summers slash Interscope. Co-produced by Mustard and Guiltrip. First single off her new three EP. That's a minimalistic, heartfelt battle with harps. Warm keys. Love those. And it's dedicated to her baby daddy. NBA player Jason Tatum. Shouts out to the Southwicks. Shipped to club formats as well, but not yet, Shardik.
You said who got a rap song?
So no, Ella Mai's single is actually dedicated after her baby daddy, Jason Tatum. So the whole song is basically about him.
I got to listen to that. I haven't heard that one. I don't have an opinion on that. But that just made me want to listen to it.
So hold on. You will hear all of our opinions and us kind of argue on this one for sure.
You put that on the playlist? Yeah, that's on the playlist for sure. The bump it in number 22.
I got to check that one. I got to check that one. Miami Heat, baby. All right. So following after that. Let's go.
I believe in Magic. Orlando Magic is actually my second favorite team.
You know what? Miami is my second team. I used to I like going up there and I love when Orlando come down.
I go back and forth. I swear I fuck with Orlando. I love you. I love you both.
But I hate both those motherfucking teams. Man, whatever. My teams every single year are Spurs and Celtics, whether they're good or bad.
I used to have a. You know what? I'm in this interview. You like. Yeah, I'm telling you. Tell them something. Tell them something.
Oh, I hate the Celtics, but I hate I hate the Celtics more than any team in any sport.
Me, I'm the type of motherfucker, bro. I like throwbacks like, you know, I'm Sam.
I love throwbacks so bad, bro, that I want to damn I want to Reggie Lewis jersey or Larry Bird.
I got a Larry Bird jersey and I want to always want to Reggie Lewis one.
You know what I'm saying? But Richard Lewis. Yeah, I know Reggie Lewis. Reggie Lewis from the South.
You're talking about. Yes. Oh, hell yeah. Because he passed away from the heart.
Yeah, the heart attack. Yeah. Yeah. He snorted the cane and died. I always wanted a jersey.
I cannot put on the motherfucking Celtics, bro.
No, I'm never Boston, bro. It is. It is. You ain't got a I will never wear a Celtics jersey.
You can't. My last name is Boston. I would not put that fuck shit on, bro.
Rob, slide into the very last one for us. Let's go.
We're talking about It's My Ego by Ice Cube shipped on November 7th, 2024 and debuted on number 44 on Urban Charts
with over three hundred and forty seven spins per day last week, distributed by Lynch Mob slash Universal Music,
produced by E.A. Ski, first single of his new album, Man Down.
It's a vibrant, unapologetic West Coast bop with chill keys and G-Funk guitar.
Also charting and performing better on club formats.
Presently number twenty nine with over one thousand one hundred and seventy one spins per day last week.
All right. Now, D-Rug, of those four, we were tasked for Hear My Voice and Twisted Critics.
We were tasked in the previous weeks of doing formal reviews for two of them to their labels.
Little Things from LMA and It's My Ego from Ice Cube.
So let's see how each of us reviewed them before they got a chance to actually get on radio,
because we definitely disagree on a few of them. Now, in regards to Little Things LMA, we had six reviewers.
Basically everybody but Rob. And of those six reviewers, we had six week bumps.
So basically everyone liked it. They didn't dislike it, but they didn't love it either across the board.
But before we dig into it, D-Rug, you haven't heard this record yet, right?
You know something, I ain't going to lie to you, I'm going to hate on that record, bro, because she was talking about Jason Taylor.
Just because y'all said that, I'm going to hate on that record. That's my girlfriend in my head a little bit.
She don't know it yet. That's my girlfriend. But that's my girlfriend. I love LMA, bro.
Oh my God. And she got a song about Jason Taylor. I'm hating, dog.
All right. So if, if. I'm hating, man.
So Rob, Rob, if you didn't do a review, could you at least do me a favor and read Nigel's In Missing?
Okay. On November 26th, Nigel said, I enjoyed listening to it, but I feel it's not as strong a single as her usual.
Mustard did his thing on the production. I'd like the guitar and the beat. That was the ear candy for me.
Hook is cool. Good verses, good mix. She delivered vocally too.
This EP was just something to keep the fans satisfied until the album comes next year.
And I felt the same for this song. He guessed 30 to 40 on Urban and 35 to 45 on Rhythmic Club.
And he gave it a weak bump. On November 26th, Missing said, Little Things is a reminder of why she's a staple in modern R&B.
Her silky voice glides effortlessly over a minimalist beat of light synth pads and crisp percussion.
The song's theme of cherishing the small moments in love is both relatable and heartwarming.
While not her most groundbreaking track, its simplicity works in her favor, delivering an authentic and comforting vibe.
She guessed 25 to 35 on Urban and 30 to 40 on Club and gave it a weak bump.
I got y'all. I got y'all. Look, on November 26th, Candy said, Very, very lush and warm vocals. Nice beat.
Cineminal ballad with romantic vibes. I enjoyed the song personally, but wasn't sure if it did enough good for a strong bump.
The rhythm was basic and at some points the vocals almost got lost under the beat. I still liked it though.
Gave it a 40 to 50 on Urban and a 40 to 50 on Club, but then I weak bumped it.
But me, myself, on November 26th, I said, Strong vocals from the start. I wonder who mixed this.
The vocals shine, but the beat is lower than the vocals. It's not a horrible song. I do want the beat to be louder and the vocals to be lower.
The vocals are dope, they're strong, and they are also well written, but they are loud. I said loud so many fucking times.
I thought the issue with the vocals were the speakers. Nope. I went outside and listened to it in my car.
I listened to it in my headphones. I'm actually listening to it while I rewrite this, and I wonder how it got this far.
The vocals are amazing. They're just loud. I think I said 40 to 50 Club, and then I said it's not going to chart on Urban.
And I also gave it a weak bump. Hey, you broke that bitch down. That Urban's going to hurt you though, because it's a beauty at 42.
You didn't think that was going to chart at all? You looked at that as an engineer, didn't you? He did.
Yeah, because you broke that bitch down. You know what's crazy? I'm doing that now. It could be some shit I see on my phone.
For instance, Snoop and Dre is dropping Missionary. Friday, Missionary come out.
The songs I've been hearing, I was just like, damn, these shit ain't catching my attention like that. They're not bad.
I like the song. The first one they put out, then the second one, and I like the new one with Sting.
But when I listened to it, I had to make myself like it. I don't know if that makes sense.
It makes perfect sense.
I put the headphones on, and I'm like, oh yeah, this shit banging. You know what I'm saying?
So I feel where you're coming from with that, bro. I feel your breakdown, dog. You broke that bitch down, bro.
I feel that not charting on Urban is going to hurt you a little bit.
It is. It's important to you right now.
But that was a nice song.
It was. I like the song.
So to kind of dispute AM, Christina and I came from different sides on this. So Christina in Tampa, November 26, she said,
Ella Mae is just a whole vibe on her own, and I love her music. This has a nice, smooth R&B beat that her voice really compliments. Distinct vocals, great mix, and you can tell that this song is an Ella Mae song. I really like the smooth vibe that the song gives off and the sentiment.
And I'm sure the song would just make it far up the charts. She guessed top 10 at Urban and 15 to 25 at Club. She gave it a weak bump. I think that's a bit high.
That's crazy. If she put it up that high, why she gave it a weak bump?
That's what I'm saying. I would think you would strong bump it if you felt it was a top 10.
It's okay, but I'm not going to be listening to that shit every day. Thank you.
Top 10 is a banger. Why would you give that a weak bump?
Interesting. And then I closed it out on November 26. I said she enters her 30s in motherhood this August with a new 3 EP, and here's the outro ballad turned into a new single.
Buzzing online already how it's dedicated to an NBA player and her baby daddy Jason Tatum. Simple harp strings, crickety high hats, warm keys, pads, bass clashes, and the whole nine.
Minimalistic opening with a silky tone and all types of vocal runs. Nice pen describing her catering to a good man. And her gratefulness after all these failed relationships.
She had really good imagery of them sharing breakfast too. Heartfelt, relatable, well written, well mixed, not over sung.
To me it was a slow burner as it took me a couple listens to actually like it more. So as I listened to it more, I liked it more.
So while I think it's getting Curiosity at Club first with the type of mustard beat that it has behind it, I feel it will debut first on Urban and Higher also.
So I predicted 10 through 20 at Urban and 35 to 40 at Club. I'm sorry, 30 to 40 at Club. And I also said please ship this to Adult R&B also. So weak bump.
I think I like your answer. I probably would have put it up more with the Club. But other than that, I'm thinking on what you're saying. Like I would have said the same shit.
Even though I haven't heard it yet. Slow burners mean a lot to me as a DJ. Yeah, slow burners are the ones. You know what I'm saying?
You got to think right now it's so weird how music is displayed and put on wax and how people listen to it. It could be some shit that was dropped August and it's going to catch on in February.
And that's where we at right now with music. And the way y'all describing this song, I haven't even heard it yet. And it's Mustards on the Beat with Ellen Mae talking about Jason Tate. That song's gonna fly.
Just off of that. And remember you like the co-producer guilt trip or glitter trip like AM said.
Yeah, glitter trip. But nah, I'm gonna definitely check that one out, man. Because I'm a big fan of Ellen Mae. I love Ellen Mae, man.
Reviews aside, we were pretty unified on that one. That was six reviewers, six weak bumps. So we were pretty unified on this one. This one, not so much.
So for the next one and the last one with It's My Ego Ice Cube, we had Rob that week but no AM for this one. We had four total reviewers resulting in two weak bumps, one weak dump, and one strong dump.
So we were kind of all over the place of this record. First of all, you've heard this record, D-Rug?
Yes. By the way, shout out to Ice Cube. Got a hard ass album right now.
Shout out to Ice Cube.
Cube album hard as fuck, bruh. You gave us the Cube album, bruh.
D-Rug, talk to my heart here. What did you think about It's My Ego?
It's my ego. I loved it. I loved it. I loved the video for it. I love... Ice Cube is one of them guys that's in my top 10. You know what I'm saying?
So I love when Ice Cube get in his rapper mode. And Ice Cube is in Ice Cube mode if y'all haven't heard that album yet. You know what I'm saying?
That's one of the albums I have in rotation right now. And put it like this, you just got to be an Ice Cube fan to love it. And Ice Cube always made hits. He's like Will Smith, bro. You know what I'm saying?
So D-Rug, they are movie stars that can still rap. They're still at the top of their game when they need to be.
D-Rug, your Miami twin right here definitely disagreed with us.
I did. I did. You're my twin, but me and you, we on the same page on this one, dawg.
No, no. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool.
Because you know something?
I feel like Ice Cube is in the quiet taste when it comes to rapping right now.
Did you listen to the War and Peace album?
Yes, I loved that one. My favorite song on that album is Get a Vet.
Right, Get a Vet. Or you could bet I'm a vet.
That's the greatest Ice Cube song ever made.
I love the production of Get a Vet by the way.
But the peace side.
Was trash.
Yeah. So okay. So you know, I love me some Ice Cube, but that motherfucking album, that war side was like that.
Yeah, war was good. Peace was bullshit.
I did not like this. It's my ego shit. I strong dumped the hell out of it.
I said, I'm going to say it. I was the only strong dump. On November 19th, I said Ice Cube's too rich to be making music like this.
Listen, I do like the OG West Coast vibe, the beat rings.
And of course, Ice Cube's legendary voice. But the song just ain't doing it.
Somebody else needed to see that hook.
The flow of the lyrics should have used some work.
It would have been better if this would have come out in 1995.
Bitch, he's had hits in 2004 and 2006.
No, Ice Cube's name.
This is the problem we have with the old guys. Like we can't do shit because people say stuff like that.
No, but he owns the big three, dog.
Listen, Ice Cube's one of my favorite artists, but I'm passing on this.
I said it was going to be 15 to 25 on Rhythmic Club, which is a blessing, and 25 to 35 on Urban.
I gave it a strong dump, dog, that just wasn't cube. And yo, Westside Connection is in my rotation.
I ain't mad at you, dog. That's a very good statement. I can't argue with that.
You know, like we doing it for real. We here. He's so rich.
Rob.
You know what made me like that song, bro? Is I seen the video first.
D-Rug, the benefit you have with videos is when we get sent it for radio, there is no video yet for it.
But you know me, I'm an internet man, so you know I be on the internet.
So the day he dropped that shit, I watched it and I was like, oh yeah, that shit ride.
Yeah.
I like the video, you know what I'm saying? Because you know, sometimes you got to see the visual of a song to like it.
Yeah. So I mildly disagree, as you can hear with Rob, just a little bit.
On November 19th, I said his six year returns a Westside vibe, unapologetically being himself,
smacking people and standing firm on his beliefs.
EA Ski provides chilled keyboards, snappy drums, snares, and that faint guitar adds a G-Funk spice.
Easy laid back hook sets the theme, it's easy to say, for radio.
Lyrics are a bit mad, but good vocal mix.
Couple cool bars like, I was Kendrick before Kendrick, I like that line.
He's not the sharp, hungry early 90s cube I grew up on, I agree with Rob on that one.
Yet he's still a rebellious voice and presence.
Wish he tried a slightly better flow and swear I, God, I remember CeeLo Green on a similar beat to this.
I just can't find it.
Heard the rest of the album, including a larger remix of this song with Killer Mike and Busta Rhymes that I performed more than the single.
But it's decent quality and has club appeal.
In my opinion, it stands out in 2024 against the microwaved repetitive club trap that gets old super quick.
So I think with a name like Ice Cube, his presence and that type of hook, it's likely going to be 15 to 25 at club and 35 to 45 at urban.
I give it a weak bump.
I ain't mad at that.
Strong bump, strong dump crazy rap.
I'll never listen to that shit again.
Damn.
Hey, look, even though I said I'll never listen to that shit again.
I've been listening to D-Rub for three weeks, cuz.
Hey, bro, I said I ain't never listen to that shit again.
I'll never listen to that shit again.
God damn it.
You ice cold, bro.
Not at all.
Where the ice cold at?
I feel like I said the same shit about, hey, one thing about me, the more y'all talking to me, the more I'm going to get y'all the rawest fucking opinion on the song.
That's what we want, though.
If I like the song, I like the song.
If I don't, I don't.
But it's a good song.
It's a great song.
It's not bad.
You just give a strong dump to a great song.
What the fuck?
I ain't listening to that shit.
Listen, you might not like mangoes.
That don't mean it's a good mango.
It's not a good mango.
I just I just like your first line.
You were like he's too rich to make a song like this.
Bro, give it up, man.
We tired.
Are you done?
No, man, we need you.
He's not my son.
We need his son for movies, but we need Ice Cube in hip hop, bro.
We need him, bro.
He's still a rebellious voice.
He's one of my favorite artists, but that song just wasn't doing it.
I love the album.
I like the album a lot, too.
I love the album and we need that, bro.
Like sometimes I need to tap in because shout out to all my old school emcees that then
came out this year.
You know, Rakim dropped the album this year.
MC Light dropped the album this year.
LL Cool J dropped the album this year.
Ice Cube dropped.
So, you know, I love to see those those those people I grew up on do quality music.
You know what I'm saying?
It might not sound like the it might not sound like what Ice Cube 93.
It ain't gonna sound like that.
That's like 30 years ago.
Ain't no way he going back to that.
Like you know what I'm saying?
But like like like Doc said, you know, he's still rebellious.
He's still he's still Ice Cube.
You know what I'm saying?
And he's slapping motherfuckers in the record.
He slapped people like Will did Chris.
I ain't listening to that shit.
All right. All right.
All I know seems like both Missing and Nigel were split as well.
On November the 19th, Nigel said when this song dropped, I really wanted to love it.
It's not horrible or bad.
It might just be the beat to me.
The first verse is OK.
Second verse has some steam to it.
And the third verse, Cube was angry, which is cool.
I just bought him with that.
I was expecting similar finesse to his recent group album, West Matt Westmore,
better using the vet status that he has.
Beats too happy in my opinion.
Though with both coming back, I honestly would have loved.
OK, I got it.
I honestly would have loved the Redman feature here.
He says since Redman is rapping again, I got it.
Wanted something a little darker and melodic for Cube himself, but the hook fits radio well.
My guess is 25 to 35 Club, 30 to 40 for Urban, and I gave it a weeb.
Vice versa. On 19th of November, this is Missing.
She said Cube returns with his.
While his presence is undeniable, the song feels a little dated.
The beat's heavy with West Coast funk influences, a booming bass line, and 90 synths.
Cube's flow is intense, but the hook falls flat and lacks the punch needed to elevate the song.
I feel like this is like a throwback to something fresh.
Respect the Cube, yet I think it misses the mark for today's radio market.
Maybe a 40 to 50 for Urban and a 40 to 50 for Rhythmic Club.
She also gave it a weak dump.
It's at 29 at Club right now.
Let me just let everyone know that.
Oh yeah, it's a phenomenal song.
29 at Club right now. It's doing better at Club.
And you heard me in the review. I think it's going to do better at Club than Urban.
It's at 29 right now at Club.
29? Wow.
1,171 spins per day last week on FM Radio. Yes.
It's a great song.
Hey, one time for Ice Cube, dog.
This guy ain't like that shit. I don't mean no respect.
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with not liking the song.
Yeah, I just, I just, you know, I'm not going to put that in my car, but it's cool.
We stuck in this generation where a motherfucker can't say they don't like something.
Like, you know what I mean? It's totally understandable.
Like, you know what I mean?
All right. So, okay. It's time for just the stats.
Here we separate radio from streaming and the men from the boys.
Everyone knows the old saying, men lie, women lie, numbers don't.
So let's go through the more meaningful stats and movement on US radio.
Doc, hit us with the big winners.
All right. The three biggest risers on Urban Radio this week was number one,
a Gats, which is all girls are the same to, I guess, subtitled insecure by juice world featuring Nicky and Minaj.
It's up 10 spots from number 44 to number 34.
It had one hundred and three point four percent more spins and it's now at one thousand and twenty five spins per day.
The second biggest riser was sticky.
Tyler, the creator featuring Glorilla, Sexy Red and Little Wayne.
It's up seven spots from number twenty three.
That's that shit.
That's that shit. Yes, sir.
I think it's up seven spots from twenty three to sixteen.
Forty seven point three percent more with now at two thousand four hundred and eighty five spins per day.
And the third biggest riser was fat by the baby.
That's someone that one's a little surprised to me because that's got that whole Jersey be more type of that shit right there.
Yeah, I like that.
But you know, baby, been doing no type of songs for the last couple of years.
Yeah, man, for real.
Yeah, this is him trying to capture the lightening the bottle from the last one, I think.
But it's up seven spots as it is performing well from twenty twenty nine to twenty two now.
Twenty eight percent more and it's now up to one thousand five hundred and sixty eight spins per day.
Before we move on, I'd like to know from you, Mr.
D-Rug, of those three biggest risers, who would be your like dark horse to kind of to pop off that you like the most?
Um, I definitely got to say that Tyler, bro.
Yes, I figured that was my guess for you.
That Tyler that Tyler because one thing shout out to Tyler Creator.
Um, he had a dope ass.
I fucks with Tyler Creator, man.
I like I like his creativeness.
I like how dope he is.
I like because, you know, Tyler could spit.
He can he can do all that shit.
He's different.
I love everything about Tyler.
And when that album dropped and when that song came on, that's the song I press repeat on.
Like, you know, I backed that song up because it was just so different.
You know what I'm saying? Come on. It's him.
Sexy Red fucking gorilla like they blew in.
You wouldn't expect them motherfuckers to do that type of song or whatever.
You know, and it had the whole it had the whole like high school beating on the beat to I thought it was different.
It's that's definitely going to be a slow burner, man, because one thing about Tyler, bro.
Tyler's the man, bro.
And he actually pulls in those Grammys, too, unlike the man, bro.
The other rapper last couple of albums been crazy.
You know, he's a big for real fan like he he studied.
He studies for real.
So, you know, I mean, anybody anybody that studies for real and get into that to that lane that for reals in is always going to do good.
So shout out to Tyler creative for that one.
But that's going to be my dark horse.
I'm a big I'm a big Tyler fan.
I'm a big for our fan.
That's you.
Did you see that for real movie?
Yeah, no, I see.
I see a couple of interviews.
I got to watch the movie.
I love that movie.
The Lego movie.
That's crazy.
Exactly what you talk about.
So with that being said, we all want to say on the same page age, the biggest three drops this week.
Start at number one is going to be baddest in the room by Friday.
Down seven spots from 16 to number 23.
Thirty eight point four percent less spins with now fourteen hundred and fifty seven spins per day.
Number two is going to be on that money.
Rob forty nine featuring Cardi B down six bucks from number twenty four to number thirty thirty three point three percent less now with one thousand and ninety spins per day.
JT coming JT coming by JT's down six bucks to number thirty one three three point six percent less now with one thousand and sixty eight spins per day.
All right. So respect to the Indies or the independents this week. Number one, the largest.
That was the track that was the track club currently up to number eleven with three thousand one hundred and sixty six spins per day distributed by United Masters distribution.
Number two cowgirl by Marquis Houston.
I told you I like the song.
Yeah, we all love this record actually currently up.
I got to check that.
I hear my track the video the video they got like some whole Western vibe about the cowgirl.
I'm like just yeah it was great.
Have someone in riding them backwards like it was great.
Backward cowgirl all day cowgirl Marquis currently up to number fourteen with two thousand six hundred and fifty three spins per day distributed by Phoenix Music Publish.
And number three she keeps calling by October London one time October London.
What?
Currently number twenty with two thousand one hundred and ninety two spins per day distributed by Death Row.
Yes.
I just interviewed him.
Oopsie. Oopsie. Oopsie.
Oh, fuck. Oh, shit.
I didn't know that.
Hold on. Hold on.
I got to take a shot.
I said I were.
Yeah, you did.
It's going to be an early night for me, fellas.
Salud my brothers.
Salud, bro.
Well, shout out to October London, man.
I got a chance to eye him at the Funk Fest we had this year, man.
Real down to earth dude.
I'm a big fan of him.
He sounded like Marvin Gaye.
I love it.
Like what I like about this new project to the first album.
He sounded just like Marvin.
Yeah.
Now this one now this one is kind of expanding out and there's like a little bit of Sam Cooke.
There's a lot of Stevie Wonder.
Like he's doing a lot of different sounds.
You know, that's why Snoop signed him is because he said that he gave him that old school feeling of what his mom and him used to listen to.
And he couldn't believe that coming from a young dude.
Like, I mean, that's what's up.
I probably probably because, you know, I got a I got a new show debut on TV.
So, Sean, the Man Face TV.
We back.
You got a fan right here, D-Rub, right here all day.
I'm talking with Rob from the mob.
I'm trying to join the mob, man.
Yo D-Rub.
I'll be just fighting this baby.
Come see me please, dog.
D-Rub, we have a segment right before you guests come on and literally it's called What You Drinking On.
And this dude always comes with the fancy special shit.
So he's got like bottles that are shaped in the letter, the number eight.
Like, what is that?
What is that, by the way, Rob?
Educating.
This is Kendall Jenner's tequila, man.
This is Kendall Jenner.
Kendall Jenner really identifies herself here as nah.
No, man.
This is her tequila, man.
I'm going to represent.
She show your boy some love.
And I'm a big fan.
So I'm going to support her brand all day.
One time.
One hundred.
I don't care how big you are or how small you are.
When you're on your journey to do big things, man, I got nothing to do but support you.
Hell yeah.
One hundred.
That's just how the way I am.
And anybody that knows me knows that this is the truth.
All right.
So to close out segment five, the 100 percent facts, we're moving on to radio RIPs this
week and in December 1st, 2024.
So, yeah, I'm fair.
I'm unbiased.
I like to review all music, but I'm also a little crazy, too.
I generally hate when a song gets repetitively played out.
I just that's grinds my gears a little bit.
So I think this is one of my favorite parts.
I hate when she gets, whoa, was everybody else star?
At least to what I don't like it no more.
Me too.
Doc always is excited.
If I could put a clapping in it and it's tracking on it, Doc would be the all hands, all the
hands.
He'd clone himself.
Here's a final farewell to the singles who officially died and fell off national rotation
on commercial FM radio.
This week, we had six condolences to mourn and bury Rob as Doc often says, Why don't
you grab your shovel and let us know who?
That makes Rob laugh every single time.
Yeah, I have to grab my shovel really.
At number one, I like this track.
I'm sorry for me by low shimmy.
It was shipped mid September with a two and a half month run.
It peaked at number 28 in urban and number 30 on club.
It doesn't get no plaque.
It was a good track for me.
For me.
Yeah, for me.
Who was the song for me by low shimmy?
Who the fuck is little shimmy?
Yeah, that's exactly what I said.
But I like the track.
Little shitty, low shimmy.
Yo, the track is hot.
Okay.
Yeah, I know he is the track.
So I thought so.
The track is not hot.
The track.
Yeah.
Put like this.
That's that.
That's that shit.
Mark.
He is like, and then number two, big, big things by young John featuring K Daniel.
It shipped late August.
It had a three and a half month run and it peaked at number 33 on urban.
It didn't get no plaque piggybacking Rob right now.
Just do it by Jalen Brown from the Celtics featuring ASAP Ferg ship.
Early October had a two month run on radio.
It peaked at number 36, but did not earn a plaque trash.
I, I, I, it was an okay track.
He actually has lyricism, but zero charisma.
That was the problem.
This is the NBA.
He's in the NBA.
We ain't playing that shit in the ride.
Hell no.
I don't want to do that again.
Shaq Shaq was the only NBA player I listened to.
That's it.
Now you, your boy who plays for the play for Damien Damien.
Yeah.
Damien Lillard.
Yes.
Damien Lillard.
Dope.
All right.
Number four.
We had 10 AM in Miami trillion who was Buster.
I'm a son by the way, shipped early August, had a four month run at radio, a climb to
number 23 at urban, but it did not sell and earn a plaque.
His budget ran out.
He ain't hanging.
He wasn't paying.
Dude, I didn't even know.
God damn bus.
I'm so there is, if I'm going to tell you the truth, that shit, we all kind of dumped it.
And I think it was like trash.
It was four strong dumps, one weak dump.
And literally we all kind of said the same thing.
This came out of Buster rhymes jeans.
Like what the fuck?
He's like, I haven't even heard bus around talk about that.
Now, let's write trash too.
Now, now I love bus.
No, I love Buster.
Don't say that.
Don't do that.
Buster.
Don't care what you think about me.
I'm not a shit.
Take that shit back.
All right.
So I got a bus.
I fucked a bus to two at the trillion.
That's that's a dope ass name.
No, that's name.
No skills.
I think it looked in the mirror.
That's what it is.
That's it.
Yeah.
What's that?
The billion trillion.
That's the same.
You guys see on that bitch with a money sign through that.
Oh, okay.
All right.
My bad.
It's going to be weight on it.
Jeremiah featuring B.
Tiller and Chris Breezy ship late June, 5.5 month run pizza number eight and made it to
23 on a club club and it got a gold plaque.
I like that song.
I can hear it in my head.
Yeah, that's all crap, bro.
Shout out Bryson Tiller.
Yes, sir.
It's all three of them.
They just brought Chris.
They're killing it.
Hey, Jeremiah.
All them boys is killers on the mic.
So we're going to do blow for blow after that's going to be T.
Breezy.
T.
Breezy like a bear featuring J.
Cole shipped on early October, two month run peak at number 38 on urban and did not receive
a plaque.
I knew that someone going to do that shit because you know, I dirt did that shit first.
He did the J.
Cole feature first.
So it was weird with what you said.
I agree with you.
And I think I even said that in my review of it.
I think T.
Grizzly believed that this was going to do the same thing for 21 Savage and little Dirk
that it would do for him.
And it did not.
Yeah, it don't know.
That's what happens when you try to capture capture light in the bottle more than once.
And the thing is, shout out to T. Grizzly because he dope as fuck, bro.
I love T. Grizzly.
He really is.
I love the way he pronounces words.
No, he's dope.
Do you know he put out a whole-
I think of them drags, he got like a bunch of them.
What does that shit called?
You know, he just put out a whole story album.
Like his last album before this new one came out, the whole album is story rhymes.
Like everything is stories.
Like he got this series called Robbery.
Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
Robbery number eight.
Yeah, bro.
Like yo, T. Grizzly is dope as shit, bro.
Like he's dope as fuck.
You heard Robbery number eight?
Oh, bro.
I'm so caught up in that shit, bro.
Like it's crazy, bro.
Like T. Grizzly lyrically is dope.
He's from Detroit.
He got that Detroit shit too.
Cause right now the game sounds like Detroit right now.
You know what I'm saying?
A lot of these cats sound like Detroit.
This shit meant to be though.
I'm with you 150.
But I fuck with T. Grizzly.
But yeah, even when I heard that song-
He got a bunch of them.
Robbery one, two, three, four.
All of them.
Like all of them were dope.
But even when I heard the song with you, I was like, I'm gonna go with T. Grizzly.
I said, this is for T. Grizzly.
He's like 20 minutes long.
He trying to do what that damn Dirt was doing and 21 Savage did.
Yeah.
You can't reduplicate that, bro.
Cause you don't, I don't think his style mixed with J Cole.
And even though 21 Savage didn't mix, but the song mixed, like you know what I'm saying?
Rest in peace to that song.
I like how D-Rug understands how much I love that segment.
I like the Barry, like the Barry play out record.
This is the best episode ever.
You know you say that every episode.
Because it is.
It's true.
He said that on every episode.
Damn, he made me feel good for a second.
But it's true because it is right now.
Best episode?
Yes.
Till the next one.
Best episode ever.
I know the next episode, you're gonna say that shit too.
It's a new lick.
I probably will.
But right now, this is the best episode ever.
All right.
So moving on to segment six, Edutainment.
This was a well-respected part of season one that we haven't actually done one yet in season
two.
We're really going to try our best to experiment with this and do a little extra extra for
y'all, y'all listeners and resubtitle this part, Edutainment, us, you and y'all.
And basically this is still a quick fire music business questions segment where myself, AM
Rob and our special guest take questions open table style that our listeners email in and
try to help advise y'all and direct y'all through with the legal proper meanings, instructions
and steps.
This us, you and all in part, we're adding to this is to remember that we're human too.
And we have our own frustrations, anger and even questions with the music industry.
So it opens up things for us and the guests to ask questions, maybe constructively air
out some of our issues, the us represents us three co-hosts and you who's going to be
representing the guests that we are interviewing and hanging out with each episode.
And then the y'all will represent everyone else that's going to listen and tune into
the drinks that we do with us.
That's all across the globe.
Yes.
And now since it's the triumphant return, it's only right.
We start with one of our own and it's gotta be my boy, Doc J.
Oh, here we go.
Here we go.
Doc.
Yes.
The doctor has been privately stressed and dealing with work dilemmas is November 26,
basically against one of the biggest artists on the planet.
So our very first us part of edutainment and I'll introduce it is Doc's newest problem
with Drake.
All right.
First of all, and I'm going to take this from my boy, Nigel from Chicago.
I no longer say the term Drake.
I just say the Canadian.
You don't say Drake no more?
No, fuck that.
I just say Canadian.
Go ahead.
Hey, go ahead.
Give your ass because I'm a clip this.
This is going to go viral.
But you give us your take on that being a person that has to deal with what's going
on right now.
All right.
So I'm just going to say the Canadian because it keeps his name out my mouth.
We don't have any open.
He's called the Canadian.
The Canadian.
The fucking Canadians got some problems.
Right.
So November 26, the day after Thanksgiving weekend, he put out two petitions.
So I want to clear up the Internet.
Everyone's saying that he's suing Kendrick.
He's suing Universal Music Group.
He's suing Spotify.
He hasn't sued anyone yet.
This is a petition for suit.
All that means is this is what I inquire to do.
I acknowledge that I have a problem with these agencies or companies and I would like to
inquire some documents back.
And based on what you give me and the dates and the names on these documents, I may sue
your asses for it.
That's what Drake did with those petitions for suits.
Oh, I love the way you put that.
I try to bring it.
Hey, that's so bitch made.
He did that.
I try to break it down where both my my industry cats and the people of the courthouse understand
it.
But then like where I'm from and the people in New York and people in the hood understand
what I'm saying to.
So the Canadian.
Right.
So the first petition he tried to disguise as I'm doing this for the independent artists.
I'm doing it for everyone that's getting screwed by Spotify.
By the way, all streaming platforms actually do this.
Spotify is the only one that tries to stay transparent about it.
So them trying to stay transparent about it, saying they're screwing you.
Title does the same shit.
Apple does the same shit.
And Amazon does the same shit.
But regardless, the first petition he tried to disguise as I'm doing this for the indie
artists that when a big record gets fraudulently pushed to number one, they get to steal all
that that buzz and the biggest payout from streaming platforms goes to whoever is the
biggest market share.
For the last 14 years, Drake has been the biggest market share.
So by the way, Drake has been benefiting from whatever bullshit scheming has been going on
for the last 14 years.
But now that he's not number one and he lost the beef and not like us has taken over the
entire planet.
I mean, it's number one in like 13 different countries.
He's mad and he's saying that Spotify and different streaming platforms and then he
named media base and I Heart Radio said we're even fraudulently messing up the numbers at
radio.
We're making this record that's just an average rap song into a global cultural icon.
And we did it by funk in the numbers, messing up the numbers, boosting the numbers, playing
it more than it should and lying about numbers.
So since Monday, I've had to turn in documentation, me and my staff, three people with me, had
to turn to staff to prove the amount of spins we've been counting for Kendrick Lamar's Not
Like Us at radio.
I've had to go back with my charts and luckily these guys know I keep every chart I make
on Excel.
They wanted me to go back all the way to January.
And I'm like, not like us even.
It came out in July, August.
Like why do I got to go back to fucking January?
So let me ask you a real question.
Was that an organic song or not?
I think it was definitely.
Here's the funny part, right?
Here I'm my degrees in copyright trademark law of all those diss tracks.
Drake's pushups was copyrighted.
The one before that like that, which is Future, Kendrick Lamar and Metro, that was copyrighted.
Every single diss track to the end of it, except for Not Like Us was not copyrighted.
So none, none of the motherfuckers got paid for those records.
But they was beefing.
This is a shit.
They was beefing.
They was because this is why I say this is the greatest beef of all time, because we
actually watch this beef in real time.
You know what I'm saying?
So they was dropping shit like you can ask my lady, my lady, I tell you, I was so in
tune to that beef.
I'm pretty crazy.
It took me.
And I think you're right.
I'm pretty sure every like two or three days after they recorded, they released it.
They didn't give a fuck about copyright.
It was beef.
Like they would drop this shit.
They would copy shit.
But Kendrick actually had Not Like Us copyrighted before all those records, which is kind of
cool to me, crazy to me.
Right.
So that one actually is monetized.
And that one became, like you said, I think that became an organic West Coast cultural
icon type of record.
There was motherfuckers tick tock into it.
Girls tick tock to it.
Thugs crip walk into it.
Like that became a cultural icon.
I'm going to tell you when I heard that song, bro.
We went to the beach that day.
Me, me, my girl, my kids, we all went to the beach that day.
Right.
And this is at the this is the pinnacle when they're beefing.
They drop and shit.
Drake just dropped the what it was family manners with Drake drop.
Which I liked, which I like because it got dark.
Oh, that shit was crazy.
Like at that point, because if you could go back to my post, as I was saying, OK, Drake
winning.
Drake got this.
Drake got it.
You know what I'm saying?
And then all of a sudden, fucking not like us came out.
My boy calls me.
He was like, yo, because he had dropped.
He just dropped something about Drake.
He was dropping something about talking to his son or some shit.
So my boy called me.
He was like, yo, you heard that new Kendrick?
And I'm like, oh, yeah, that's cool.
Like, you know, he's like, no, you heard that new Kendrick is a new one that came out.
I'm like, what do you mean a new one came out?
He's like, I'm a sentence to you and call me back.
This nigga sucked me to fucking they not like us.
I pulled over.
Me and my family, we ordered pizza.
We in Daytona at a pizza shop.
I'm in the fucking parking lot.
I didn't want to get out the car, but I'm listening to this fucking song and I say,
it's over.
It's over.
It's over, dog.
This is it.
Like this is it.
This is that one.
He did a Drake on Drake.
I said that day, I said he did a Drake on Drake.
It's over, bro.
The fight is over.
He knocked him out.
I mean, then you could do.
So with you saying that Drake is trying to suggest in this petition that that record
was just a mid record, an average record and all us agencies tweak the numbers, use bots,
scammed it so that the different platforms streamed it more than it should have.
I agree with Drake.
Anywho, I'm going to ignore Rob.
He's high right now.
But Rob, they named your boy, they named Media Base and iHeartMedia in on the scheme.
You think I'm in on the scheme on the Canadian?
Listen, man, we all love Drake before Kendrick.
We did not love Drake before.
I did not.
I love Drake.
I had Drake winning, bro.
Like I had Drake winning.
But he's just like, all my fuck up, bro.
Like I love like I love Tupac.
So all my biggie lovers kiss my ass because I like Tupac.
So let me let me let me go back to that point you just made because you and I are kind of
the same on that one.
So there's this petition where faking the numbers, we had to turn the shit in.
So my last week from I had Friday off, so Monday to Thursday, we had to turn in Excel
spreadsheets for the radio charts for Not Like Us going all the way back.
It didn't get onto the radio to August, but they wanted me to go all the way back to January
to make sure I wasn't funking the numbers at radio.
I think his case he's trying to make is more streaming than us.
But the fact that he named us was just a bitch move.
Now, if that was the only move he made, he's disguising it as looking out for the indie
artist, trying to clear up the market share.
Drake is not the market share anymore.
He's not the number one artist.
It kind of moved over to someone else.
Now I think he's saying if someone if I can't be number one, fuck everyone, I'm gonna take
everyone down because I'm pretty sure Drake knows for 14 years the type of schemes they
use to push him.
So I'm pretty sure he's going to just sing like a fucking canary and tell on what Universal
did for Kendrick.
That's mo she if Drake if Drake released an album right now, it'll be a number one album
in the world.
Oh, we're not holding on.
Hold on.
We're not denying it.
But the last of the next five Drake singles after Not Like Us, they all flopped.
The highest one that climbed was 37.
So that timing, bad timing timing.
Exactly.
OK, so point you should fuck up right now because you don't got knocked the fuck out.
Yeah.
So OK, so there's that one.
Right.
If I had only petition to sue, I would have been I'm still not OK with it, but I would
have been OK with it.
Disguising it as I'm looking out for the little guys.
I look at it like this.
If there was no if there was no Drake, there'd be no Kendrick right now.
Hold on.
I don't know about that one.
But anyway, I don't know about that one.
I disagree with that one, buddy.
Like that song is about Drake.
If it wasn't about Drake, what is he going to sing about?
Kendrick has plaques, multi platinum plaques.
Kendrick was always the guy behind him.
Swimming pools.
Poetic Justice has Drake.
I'm a big I like Kendrick Lamar.
Don't think it don't kill my vibe is double platinum.
I'm saying right now the biggest song in the world is not like us.
Right.
Sure.
OK, so if it wasn't for Drake, that song would not be number one.
Just one song.
Only that song.
Not not the entire discography.
OK, great.
That's right.
The discography is cemented.
So so I can clear up this and we can move on to the next question because I work wrong.
I'm a I'm a Kendrick Lamar.
I like Kendrick Lamar.
I like baby came.
I like everything they got.
I actually don't.
I actually don't like baby came.
I think I do.
Yeah, baby came his ass.
All right.
So the story.
So Rob, I want you to look.
I want you to look at me as I look at D-Rug too.
So part two of the story was six hours after putting that petition in for the first suit
of tweaking the numbers, there's a whole industry wide scheme where we're faking the numbers
and making Kendrick look bigger than Drake.
He's mad that he looks bigger than Drake.
Six hours later, he put a defamation of character lawsuit again petition against Universal Music
and Kendrick Lamar for basically saying that the song was fraudulent.
He was saying lies.
It was so mean that now and the reason why he's putting the petition in, it's causing
financial fucking hardship.
You lost.
That's what happens when you lose a battle.
I'm looking at you both.
We're all the same age pretty much.
Tupac and Biggie were beefing when they were beefing and when Big Tupac said, I fucked
your bitch, you fat motherfucker.
If Biggie put in a lawsuit again, he ain't say a motherfucking thing.
No, he just put another diss track out.
Like, yeah, we like who?
Beware.
Biggie went back and forth with you with Tupac.
He did not.
He's done shots.
He's done shots and where you you.
I fucked your bitch, you fat motherfucker, you can't come back from that.
Shit the pop.
Can't come back.
But that's the same shit with 50 and Ja Rule.
Thank you.
50, you know Ja Rule.
And you didn't see Ja Rule.
You fucking.
No, don't fuck Ja Rule.
Ja Rule is first.
Alright, let me tell you all a story.
Let me tell you a little story.
Can I tell you a story why I say that?
Sure.
It's not because of his music.
Listen, I don't hate anybody for what they do.
I hate what they do because what they do to me.
Okay.
Ja Rule tried to get me kicked out of a club because I smoked a blunt.
Oh, well, that's a personal thing.
Fuck that shit.
Yeah.
Fuck Ja Rule.
Okay, okay.
But you see what I'm saying though, like from the time that all of us are from, all four
of us are from, if Tupac said I fucked your bitch, you fat motherfucker, and Biggie put
a lawsuit against him for defamation of character.
Biggie's a bitch.
We would have crucified Biggie.
So the fact that Drake's doing that, why are we crucified?
Not even that.
Drake said some fuck shit about him.
His wife is cheating on him.
He's a wife- He said his wife is cheating on him, his homeboy, that's his homeboy's
child.
He beats his woman up.
He said some foul shit about Kidrick.
That could have fucked his brand up.
I've never bought a Drake CD in my life.
But you just said you're the biggest Drake fan ever.
No, I didn't say that.
You'd be lying to yourself to say that Not Like Us didn't hurt him.
It did.
It really did.
I did it the day it would, but it fucking did.
So I vented enough.
I did my homework.
I turned it in.
My week of stress is over.
But the world's going to say I'm a hater no matter what I say.
So enough of my issues, right?
For the you part of edutainment of this portion of our show, D-Rogg, I'm going to turn the
mic to you, right?
The three of us want to really get to know you better and learn your stresses.
You and I were talking on the phone yesterday, actually, and I think you told me one Bernie
music question that you had that you were dying to get answered, and you even told me
that you were kind of doing it wrong.
So can you ask that question to us?
And we'll talk about it.
Round robin.
I definitely want to speak to you about poor man's copywriting.
This is something, this is a practice that I always did starting off, you know, back
in the days, you know what I'm saying, because, you know, we like the knowledge.
But I always was told by big, big industry people, everybody, they always told us, hey,
send the copy to yourself and never open it.
You'd be all right.
I'm a little serious with that.
I'm going to look at these two gentlemen, since they've known me so long, they heard
my broken record of bullshit, right?
Is a.m. and Rob is a poor man's copyright legal in the year 2024 2025 fucking not, bro.
Copyright, copyright, copyright, copyright.
Thank you, Doc, for coming into my life to explain how important the copyright is.
What about you, Am?
Oh, you already know.
You already know.
I'm watching my music shut down already for not copyright and shit.
So copyright, copyright, copyright.
I'm in the same boat.
I'm here to learn, man.
You know what I'm saying?
So I'm 44, but I'm here to learn.
Let me school you something.
They've made it super easy on the Library of Congress website.
L.O.C. dot gov.
You should probably go bookmark that when you're off the show.
Www dot L.O.C. dot gov.
Library of Congress dot government.
When you're there in the middle bar, it's going to have all their different departments,
archive, library, blah, blah, blah.
Go to the U.S. Copyright Office.
They break every single copyright in their archive from 1978 to present and 1977 back
to the beginning of time.
The Library of Congress started sometime in the late 1800s, by the way.
So they've got all this shit up to 77 and then 78 and on.
The reason why that dates very, very important for poor man's copyrights, there was a section
called 413 that came in 1977.
In that section, they basically proven that let's say you and I are funk artists.
You know, we're Earth, Wind and Fire in the 70s.
We're the fucking anything, the Manhatens, anything that makes funk music, right?
A.M. comes through our booth section and hears our record.
He records that shit on a tape recorder, eight track recorder, wherever you want to do.
If he mails that shit to himself before we do, he owns our record and he actually sues
us.
And that shit was happening so many dozens and dozens and dozens of times, no judge can
uphold a poor man's copyright anymore.
So the last time that one in court and was allowed was up to December 1977.
That's why they break the U.S. Copyright Office in 78 and on, because that's all non-poor
man copyrights.
Everything older than 77 can allow poor man's copyrights.
So that means if you haven't filed a record or register with Library of Congress, there's
actually no document or government proof that says Boston, comma, Darius or D-Rug owns this
song.
So let's say me and Rob heard this record in Spotify, this beat that pussy up.
We could take that record, scrape it, pull it off Spotify, file that copyright, and now
we sue you for stealing our record.
So that's the easiest way.
It's crazy, right?
It's crazy.
It's the easiest way I can explain it.
The one thing that helps you a little bit is it's been out.
You actually have a date that you put on streaming platforms.
They try to prove that they put it out before you.
And the streaming platform's probably going to defend you a little bit.
Like, well, he put it up in... I mean, when did you beat that pussy up?
That shit old as fuck.
He did it, but it was like, oh, wait.
So they're going to try to say, oh, we got computer files that say we made it in 07 and
D-Rug stole it from us.
That's what they're going to try to do.
I got the Pro Tools session.
We copy... We pole man that bitch.
I pole man everything.
So if that person didn't get a copyright and you don't have a copyright, that's when a
judge will pull into your Pro Tools sessions.
If someone has a copyright, 100% it wins.
No questions asked.
So that's... It's crazy.
So copyright, there's five rights it gives you, but the fifth one's the one that matters
most to me.
It's the right to litigate.
So if you don't have a registered copyright, me and Rob in AM can sample your record and
you'll be like, well, shit, you're making money off me.
Without a copyright, you can't sue us either.
So that's the two things that really hurt you without copyright.
D-Rug, you fucking with the goat right here, dog.
I see.
I'm not the goat.
I duck, man.
Duck, duck, duck, duck.
Dropping at science right now.
I know in 30 minutes you trust me with your life.
This man is the truth.
Number three and last but certainly not least is the y'all part.
You listeners, before our show kicked off, I posted emails and randomly pulled one of
your lucky questions out of a hat.
So for today, the individual we'd all like to mutually thank and give a live shout out
to is Burger, AKA Mr. Quinones.
Quinones, Saulo, what's up?
Rob knows who that is.
What's up, Burger?
So what Burger asked us was, why do you think most artists don't ever copyright their music,
doc?
I'm going to ask you.
All right.
So him and I have worked very closely.
He actually has three copyrights for t-shirt logos now and companies he's trying to create.
And when he started getting them back in the mail, he realized that so many artists that
he looked up don't have fucking copyrights.
So he's like, he actually made a post on Facebook said, I got more copyrights than some of you
bitch ass rappers.
It was funny, but at the same time, it was true.
So I kind of was proud of him.
But yeah, Brooklyn, New York and you know, stand up for that.
And that's where I'm from.
But easy way to answer that.
Why do I think most artists don't ever copyright their music?
So I think it comes down and I think D Rug said it earlier too.
It's a lack of education thing.
I don't think people understand what a copyright protects you for and gives you eligibility
for.
So like me at radio, like let's say a D Rug record from the new project is sent to one
of the radio stations in Orlando.
The PD, the program director to that radio station will reach out to media base and ask
for an inquiry to show us for us to show them proof that D Rug not only owns this record,
but it's registered correctly with one of the societies, BMI, ASCAP, CSEC, SoCon.
I'll pull up the records and look up his copyright if there is one and a look up if your songs
register a BMI, ASCAP, CSEC or SoCon.
If it's not, I will let the PD know that it's an invalid record.
They can play it in a mix show.
They can play it on local love, but you will never get paid for that record on FM radio.
And that's all stemming from the copyright.
Like that's one of the biggest proofs that show that D Rug owns that record.
So to answer Berger's question, I think it's a lack of education and also maybe it's a
lack of money.
I mean, every copyright cost $65.
You do a 10 song album that's $650 just on copyrights.
I get it.
But if you can sue someone for a million dollars later, $65 is well worth that little band-aid
to rip off.
So I just think it's a lack of education.
They just don't really know.
And I know his brother is a mixtape rapper in New York too.
And I know where he's coming from with this question.
I just think it's a lack of education.
They just don't realize what a copyright does.
And D Rug, the one thing cool with us, like me and AM and the deal we have with everyone
to hear my voice, legally by the government, whoever's a writer or producer on that record
is supposed to split that copyright fee.
So like take a group like Wu Tang, when you have nine writers, you break a $65 copyright
fee by nine times.
It's fucking $7 each.
So like let's say you, AM and me and Rob did a record, right?
And it's got the whole, it's got the New York sound from the Nas type of style for me.
This man ate rabbit AM is fucking Busta Rhymes meets Black Thought.
Like that's what he's going to come with it.
Rob is going to sound like a miming version of Bun B. And your motherfucking like pimp
C like over here, we would split that copyright four ways just to save everyone money.
And it's so cost effective that people don't understand that you can do that.
So that's one thing I've been teaching these guys to make things more budget friendly.
Make that part of your split sheet before you even record with a motherfucker.
Like give it to them like, hey, we feel that this record could be pushed to radio.
I'd like to make sure we can copyright it.
I'd like to make sure that you sign the split sheet that we're going to split that money.
But we had our education stance right now.
We had our little education moment.
I want to drink again with y'all brothers.
So we're on segment seven, seven degrees of separation.
It's almost over, boys.
Just in case we haven't drank enough.
I got a little bit more left.
Here's the spot where we change that and fuck shit up.
We use this little game to test our musical knowledge and history and memory.
And I want you guys to understand why we call it this.
All right.
A theory from 1929 from 1929 and resurrected by the movie industry in the early nineties,
there was a joke concept or a joking concept that every actor actress was somehow related
to or related to or linked through movie roles to Kevin Bacon by six degrees and or connections.
We're crazy enough to test that same theory with urban music and curate our own seven
degrees Spotify playlist.
It's a rapid fire game.
Seven connections by collaborators only.
Ten second guesses.
And obviously you can't use Google.
That's cheating.
All right.
Hold on, Rob, before you take over here, I kind of want to do something off script that
we haven't done previous episodes, but I want to do every episode from now on.
I love this.
OK, so so D-Rug, you got your phone next to you, right?
Yeah.
I'm going to make you put it away in a second, but are you using it to film you?
So that's OK.
OK, so I want you to go to Spotify and find the Twisted Critics podcast and follow it.
Me, A.M. and Rob, I think Rob already follows your motherfucking ass.
We're going to follow your Darius.
You know, D-Rug.
Yeah, I follow him, bro.
You all haven't listened to Magnificent Asshole one and two.
I have.
Hey, I've been listening to that shit all week, bro.
But I think it's only right that we get him more viewers and more spins.
And that's and that's the whole idea with one right here.
Rob's gonna be your A&R in a second.
I don't know what I'm doing with that.
All right.
So you're followed by me, by the way, now.
So Rob follows you.
I follow you.
I'm about to follow you now, too.
So I'm the hardest 44 year old rapper.
I am 42.
So I don't have to compete with you yet.
All right.
So now, Rob, tell him the rules now that we're following each other and getting each other
some more spin in this game.
Each mistake of us, any of us make, we all take a shot.
No questions asked.
And the worst part is y'all three are playing, but I still have to take shots.
So my life is in your hands.
He didn't know.
D-Rug, D-Rug.
He didn't know about that part, by the way.
Yeah, I didn't.
I didn't.
Last episode, it was me.
I went last and I left off on the song Money Trees by Kendrick Lamar and J-Rock.
J-Rock.
Yeah.
My shit.
Mine too.
NAMs too.
Darius, you're the first.
You're the first on the clock.
All right.
So D-Rug, you're on the clock, like Rob said.
What are you connecting to Money Trees, Kendrick Lamar featuring J-Rock?
Future Kendrick Lamar, like that.
Oh, that was an easy one.
All right, I'm volleying it back to you.
Gloria off the GNX album, Kendrick Lamar and SZA.
Oh, no.
SZA.
All right, let me write that shit down.
All right.
Sorry, by the way.
So Doc J has Gloria or I'm sorry, has SZA or Kendrick Lamar.
I'm going to go an AM route.
I'm going to go SZA featuring Don Toliver used.
Hey, SZA.
I love it.
I knew you were going to hit the SZA.
Go ahead.
I knew it.
Big Don.
And now it's on D-Rug's turn now.
So I'm doing SZA featuring Don Toliver.
Don Toliver and Kodak Black.
Damn, what's the name of that motherfucker?
I love that song too.
Oh shit, hey look, if you don't get it, I got you.
Help him, help him, help him.
Stone Brothers, Stone Brothers.
Don Toliver and Kodak Black song.
Yeah, there you go.
Brother Stone with Kodak Black.
Oh, damn.
I said it.
Yeah, you said it.
You said it.
I call it Stone Brothers.
Hey, I'm counting on you.
But he said it though, yeah.
But that's not hard in the motherfucker though.
AM, Don Toliver and Kodak Black, it's on you.
What are you connecting to them?
I'm going to connect, shit, I'm going to connect Kodak Black, right?
And then I'm going to fuck the fucking song title up because this is how y'all going to
wind up drinking, but y'all go ahead and artist.
It's Kendrick Lamar.
I got you, I got you, I got you.
It's Kendrick Lamar on two albums ago.
Oh fuck.
Dude.
What?
I mean, it was dope.
What was it?
Kodak Black's verse was dope.
Push these niggas like, mmm.
I know that song.
Damn, you right.
I don't know the name of that motherfucker, but I know the song.
I don't know the name of the song though.
I don't know the name of the song either.
And I know it was such a obscure fucking song in terms of the album.
Push these niggas like, mmm.
Push these niggas off like, mmm.
I don't know what the name of that song.
All right.
Push these niggas off.
All right, we taking a shot, but what is it?
Kodak Black featuring Kendrick.
We're drinking for this one, by the way.
I'm calling it Push Them Off, but I know that's not.
I know what they call Push Them Off either.
I just know that's what Kodak be saying on that, man.
Are you talking about Silent Hill?
That's Silent Hill.
D, I would never knew that shit was called Silent Hill.
And that's a Kendrick song actually, by the way.
So Kendrick Lashley's on that step album.
Yeah, I did not.
Damn, we're taking a shot for that one.
That's like the hardest song on that album too.
I'm stressed out, stressed out, stressed out.
I need a heart and a heart.
Salud to y'all boys.
Salud.
All right, Silent Hill, Kendrick Lamar featuring Kodak Black.
All right, so I got to pick up from that.
I'm going to take Kodak Black.
I hate fucking Kodak Black, but I'm going to do Kodak Black and Dochi.
Wasn't that called What It Is?
I think it is What It Is.
Let me see, What It Is.
Dochi.
Interview.
Oopsie, oopsie, oopsie.
Oh, fuck.
Yeah, What It Is, Black Boy.
Oh, dude, what are you doing?
Did he take one?
Oh, shit, hold on.
We got a special guest in here.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
We got a special guest in here.
Was it Dochi featuring Kodak Black?
Yeah, I think it is.
Dochi featuring Kodak Black.
All right, so D-Rug, this is our third host, Candelario Villareal.
He's from South Texas, but right now with season two in his work schedule.
He's here, Kandi.
What's up?
What's up, brother?
Kandi.
Kandi, we are in seven degrees of separation.
We were on six songs into it, and we've only taken one shot.
That's impressive.
That's impressive, right?
Very impressive.
Because D-Rug knows his fucking music, and A.M. knows his fucking music, and I know my fucking music.
It just, the names fuck all of us.
Names of hearts.
Give me a look, Kandi.
All right.
What's up, brother?
Kandi, the next segment will kind of slide you in.
We're just going to outro it out of it, but I definitely want to finish off the segment with D-Rug.
So D-Rug, you're taking us home, the last connection.
What it is Dochi featuring Kodak Black?
What you connecting that to?
I'm going to hit you with a good ass one.
Gucci Mane, Kodak Black, and Bruno Mars.
In the sky.
And that, dude, that went like six times platinum.
It was fucking crazy.
I know.
That's why I said I was going to hit you with a good one.
Dochi Mane featuring Kodak Black and Bruno Mars.
Kodak Black.
All right.
We survived.
We only took one shot out of that shit.
I can't even see your faces.
Y'all like I'm.
How are you going to work today, man?
He got to go to work today.
I'm going to make it happen.
I'm going to work today.
I'm going to make it happen.
I'm going to work today.
You're going to work today?
I'm going to work today.
Man, don't go to work today.
No sir.
I'm going to get fired today.
Yo, Mrs. Jenner.
If you do go to work, you're going to fall out.
Go to cover Amalands on you.
By the way, Ms. Jenner, because of Rob Lawrence, we'd like to get a sponsorship or something
with your liquor.
That'd be great.
So with that done, man, AM, take us home, bro.
Every single time that game.
It didn't get us this time.
So, D-Rug, I truly hope you enjoyed your time as much as we had.
Doc was not lying.
You were funny, motherfucker.
We laughed the entire time.
This is one of my favorite shows we had.
I'm glad we got to peel back the onion layers and get to know you a lot more.
We related to you.
You could hear me and Rob the entire time.
That's me, Spider-Man.
I can't wait to hear your new music.
You already heard.
We've been listening.
I can't wait to see you in your future role, in your movie role that you got bubbling coming
up right now.
You officially have survived.
You have graduated.
And now you are a real twisted critic.
Seriously, D-Rug, you handy.
That ain't got a gang, son.
You ain't got a gang sign yet.
No, no gang sign yet.
Not yet.
I mean, our gang sign is a shot glass.
I got a shot glass.
That's what you got to do.
That's a gang sign.
Everybody got to throw up that shot glass.
Throw up the shot glass.
This is my gang sign.
I'm a gang member.
I'm going to be mean for a second, right?
So we appreciate your stories.
You handed yourself well, your personality, your knowledge, your point of view.
I hope my brothers here saw that.
I got so much love for you.
And we're really thankful for your time.
Collectively speaking for A.M., Rob, myself, Candy down there who's actually in with us.
We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
We definitely thank you from the bottom of our hearts for sticking with us, thinking
with us, and drinking with us.
And because you are on all these different platforms where you interview motherfuckers,
we should probably take a shot just once more.
Oopsie, oopsie, oopsie.
Oh, fuck.
That's my last little bit.
It's my last little.
Chug it, baby.
You've been chugging that beer for a minute, D-Rub.
Salud, salud.
That was the last drop there.
Salud.
I was able to twist this off.
This is how y'all know I messed up.
No, on the real, though, the beauty with Twisted Critics is now you have an open door invite.
Anytime you have a new project, new event, new single, new news, new role, new life, win.
I don't care if you have a new baby coming.
Give us a call and consider us your second home to come back and talk about your victories
because we got lots of love for you, and I think it's just a natural place where we can
have fun and talk about all your wins.
Yes, I definitely will be doing that because shit finna get crazy.
Got a new movie coming out called Levels.
I'll be in Levels, and then I'm about to start filming this Christmas hood movie.
That'll be out next Christmas, and I'm definitely dropping probably at least two EPs next year,
guaranteed.
You're gonna get some EPs from me.
Before Rob goes to the final conclusion, I am starting on a brand new EP right now.
I just had producers sending me beats.
I know AM's gonna be on a couple records.
I know Rob's gonna be in a couple records.
I need the pimp player in the place.
I need Willie Simpson on that type of record right now.
That is, man, send me some.
Let's do something.
We definitely, we're gonna come, what I'm thinking of with you particularly, I'm thinking
Nas and Scarface, Favour for a Favour type of record.
Give me something, bro.
Trust me, I'm a rapper, rapper, dog.
I ain't into all them bars and shit, but you know I know how to make a song that I can
flow.
My shit gonna make sense.
We gonna do this shit, bro.
Like look, we all, what Doc just said, we all mean that.
We appreciate you being here, seeing your hard work.
We love talking to you through the charts, sharing drinks.
We hope you learned something too.
Like, I definitely did.
This is amazing, bro.
So before we bounce, we're gonna use this spot now to big up yourself, your socials,
your contacts, and plug everything, anything you got coming up.
All right, let me get you out of the loose spiel I do every night on the podcast.
You already know what it is, man.
It's your boy D-Rug, aka the bald head Don, aka Mr. Thorpe and your bitch, aka Mr. Paint
My Eyes Red, aka I don't wear no rubbers because it's too hot out here.
Y'all gotta fuck with me, man.
Y'all make sure the new album, feel like it's the new EP gonna be called Holdin' Monkey
Ski.
You know what I'm saying?
So Holdin' Monkey Ski coming.
Then, you know, we're gonna do the Darius album after that, but y'all be on the lookout,
man.
Orange County Urban Media podcast every Monday night.
Matter of fact, tomorrow night, man, I got a motherfucking legend on the show tomorrow
night.
Y'all used to watch BET back in the days.
Of course.
What's the name coming on there?
One of these bars?
Like Joe Thorpe?
Madden-Lewoods.
We got Madden-Lewoods on the show tomorrow.
Oh, Madden-Lewoods.
Remember Madden-Lewoods?
You know, Tribeca Quest talking about her in the song.
But we got her coming on the show tomorrow night, man.
So make sure y'all tune in.
Orange County Urban Media.
That's the new podcast I'm doing now, man.
Shout out to my team.
Ashley, Renee, Amber Lowsky, and we got a new come, Chase Banks, you know what I'm saying?
But it's definitely something like this, but we on the stage with it, you know what I'm
saying?
And we just talk about shit like how y'all do.
You know what I'm saying?
If y'all want to check out my old podcasts, make sure y'all go tune in to Magnificent
Asshole Podcast and Arrogant Asshole Podcast with my partner Just Black, you know what I'm
saying?
And go and download all my motherfucking albums, man.
Them shit's on all streaming sites, man.
We in it all five.
We in it all done too.
Magnificent Asshole one every.
So man, thank y'all for having me though, man.
This is probably, hey, don't nobody interview me.
Oopsie, oopsie, oopsie.
Oh, fuck.
So y'all gotta be interviewed.
We the realest, cuz we came with you with the realest, baby.
I think D-Rug is just trying to make me drink more.
This is the best show in my voice entertainment history.
D-Rug, I'm so happy to be a part of this.
AM, before we get out of here, why don't you plug what you got coming up and next week
in your contacts too.
Rapper AM, rapper AM.com, Angry Man 410 everywhere else.
For real, rapper AM, rapper AM.com.
Go there, go there, go there.
My next week until Christmas, I'm working.
I got five days, 11 hours a week right now.
Working on stuff always.
Doc already know we got stuff coming.
I got stuff coming.
If anybody comes to South Florida, it's Art Basel weekend.
It's lit out here.
There's no comparison in any corner of the world that can compare to what's going on
in Dade County right now.
I'm coming.
I'm in Miami all the time.
I'm coming.
I got my pull up.
I'm on my ass, boy.
I'm in Miami and you need some, you need the plug.
You holler at your boy, Rob from the mob.
All right.
So Rob, Rob, before you get out of here, because I don't want you to be late for work, plug
your contacts and what your next week looks like.
Listen, text me 305-746-5380.
We out here.
Put his phone number on that bitch.
You just pulled the bike, Joe.
You just gave everyone your number.
Girl, I got nothing to hide.
Hey, I'm so transparent, dog.
You can't even fuck with me.
I ain't trying to hide nothing.
All right, Candy, you got it here, Mad Label.
Why don't you give us a little plug and what you'll be doing next week?
As Candy, my voice a little hoarse, I'm a little sick right now, but I should be finding
out the gender of my baby, hopefully next week.
By the way, Candy, I have not told them that, so this is news to them.
Big news.
Go on, drop in the news here first.
You already heard.
Damn.
Big news.
Take that, take that.
How many months along is she?
She's going to be, I think, 11, 12 weeks.
Still early on, but too sweet in the streets, extra spicy in the sheets.
Extra spicy is.
You proved it.
You just proved it.
She got a bell pepper in there right now.
More than a bell pepper.
It's extra spicy.
That's a habanero, bro.
Extra spicy in the sheets, baby.
That's some awesome news, bro.
I'm really proud of you and I'm happy for you guys.
Bro, bendiciones, bro.
Gracias a yo.
I'm going to turn it on a second.
All right.
You need an Uber.
You need to hit up Elon Musk and teleport to work.
You cannot be driving.
I got an hour.
I'm good.
Can you imagine me ordering food from this guy?
He's going to be like, I suggest to you a.
I'm not going to remember any of this.
It's fine.
One time.
This is why I stopped drinking last week, man.
I get like Rob.
I thought I was going to get like Rob this episode.
I'm kind of like I'm a GM.
I'm a GM.
I feel bad that I'm more drunk than you are, Doc.
It takes a lot.
Sorry.
A lot of people have tried to challenge it and they just keep losing.
So I'm not going to remember any of this.
I'm Rob.
Rob from the motherfucking mob.
Nick was happy.
There is another thing with Rob, too, is we did a Grammy episode and this dude kind of
came like classy dressed and he had like some expensive bottle of liquor.
And this last year was the very first year I was eligible to vote for the Grammy.
So like every step of the way, I kind of educated these guys on what I'm going through.
So I made a playlist for them so they knew like once I put my votes in, I'm like, all
right, what do you guys think I should have voted for?
And we did a whole episode on it near the like the last like let's say it's like one
fit, like the fourth fifth of the episode.
This bitch like disappeared and passed out.
You guys have me drinking, bro.
I would drink it.
I'm getting fucked up.
It was ridiculous.
So to close out my week, I'm going back to the courthouse tomorrow.
I work a full week next week, Monday through Friday.
It'll be the first week without my assistant director who looks out for me.
So that's going to be brand new.
Hopefully I don't got the Canadian on my ass, hopefully anymore.
That fucking stool pigeon.
But anyways, he's a rat.
But no, he's a goat, doc.
He's a goat.
Oh, you missed the whole the whole spiel with that.
He's a fucking rat.
He's a rat.
You're mad.
He's singing.
I love Drake.
But he got not bad.
It's real.
He's singing like a canary.
Like, you know me, I'm semi Drake hater.
But to what he pulled on us was the biggest bullshit ever.
So you know what my slides like my PowerPoint, my Excel spreadsheets for the radio charts
I put up every Monday candy.
So they wanted to know that they named in that petition for lawsuit media based slash
I heart radio.
So I heart media.
So they're basically saying that we're faking the numbers for Kendrick Lamar's song, Not
Like Us.
So they wanted me to go back with all of my Excel spreadsheets back to January, even though
Not Like Us didn't hit radio until August.
Fuck Drake.
No, that's good.
That's why I don't go outside.
It's real oppie outside.
You got doc.
Doc's the op.
Doc's the op right now.
No, actually, actually, Drake is the op.
But that's why I don't say his name.
It's the Canadian.
I stay away from Canadian.
Canadian.
With that said, if you guys want to check us out on social media's Facebook backslash
twisted critics, you guys can drop us questions there for next and any next episodes that
we're going to have.
And if you're an artist or comedian or producer or radio record exec, you can actually turn
in a bio to us and be on this guest of this podcast.
You can listen to D rug himself.
I think he had a pretty good fucking time.
Hell yeah, I did.
I did.
And we just want more people that are real and actually talk with their emotions.
And D rug hit every base on that one.
He had Grand Slam.
And like I said, I'm getting producers beats in now to work on my own EP.
So I'm going to have what I'm doing.
And D rug, you can hear it out.
I'm writing hooks first.
And once I lay down the hooks, if this hook sounds like Rob on the sentence Rob, if this
hook sounds like a M on a sent to a M.
If this hook sounds like D, I'm going to send it to D.
Rod.
Yes.
Send me some.
Let's work.
Yeah.
With that, with that, we're going to peace out and say goodbye.
Have a good evening to all our listeners.
Y'all have a great weekend.
Great week.
And we'll see you next episode.
D.
Rod.
Thank you, bro.
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