Live from New York with Roy Wood Jr. and Marie Faustin

And for the first taping of his podcast right here in New York City, give it up for Devon Walker! What's up, New York City, what's going on? How are we feeling? Thank y'all for being here, I appreciate it, I appreciate it, I appreciate it. This is, yeah, this is the first ever live show that we've ever done in the city. So this is like, it's a special moment, it's a special moment. You know, it's nice, it's nice, it's nice. We got need, are y'all regular listeners? Y'all be listening? Y'all be listening? Y'all be listening? What's your favorite episode? She said, "Ah, I didn't know you was going." Yeah, shout out, Sid. Yeah, that's early, okay, Sid, early up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, shout out, shout out, what about what's your favorite up? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of strip club discourse and that one, a lot of strip, what about you, what's your favorite up? Yeah, yeah, yeah, and you know what, speaking of which, I guess we got in a motherfucking building, can we get some noise? Can we get some noise? She's one of my best friends, you might know it from her podcast, and then I don't keep it up, keep it up! You might know it from her podcast, Master, now please welcome to the show Marie Foster! (cheering and applause) What's up? Oh, okay, a little piece of a section, oh, yeah. Yeah, that came from the green room. This your mama's couch. That came from the green room. We got a little corner, you know what I'm saying, a little corner. This is nice, I need corners at the crib. Come on, come on, anybody out here working, sofas? We got any sofa individuals in the building, 'cause we looking, we looking. I just moved into a new spot, we trying to figure out Marie, how you doing? I'm great. You're my friend, I've never once bumped into Marie, and she was saying she was doing bad. You know what I'm saying? Marie is one of my doing well friends. I do bad on the inside. (laughing) I've never, every single time I've ever seen Marie, she's like, I'm doing incredible, and that's what I'm trying to get like. Sometimes I do be doing bad. But only people who know that is kind of the national grid. (laughing) I like it 'cause on one hand, they could just know you not paying your bill, but on another hand, that could be you calling in and being like, "Hey Mr. Codd, man, it's been a challenging time." Those are bills that I do not pay until they tell me they about to turn them off. I have the money, I just don't want, you said I know, thank you. (laughing) That's what I'm saying. You're seeing me. Yeah, of course, I got you for it, but also you can set it up so that. Huh? You can set it up, you can put it on auto-pairs. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. I don't believe in auto-pay, except for my phone and my files, right? Okay, for the internet and for the. Interesting. Right. Not electricity. No. They give you, first of all, you could not pay for mad months. Hmm. How many months could you go? Oh, like four. (laughing) And they'd be like, "The last termination notice?" And I'd be like, "All right, I'm gonna pay it." And then I'd just pay the whole thing. Hmm. You don't keep it interesting. You might be the first person that I know that got money for the bills and just not paying them, like, by choice. That's not true. It's other people in here who got the money. We just don't want to pay the bills, like. You be moving like that? Yeah. (laughing) She's like, "Yeah, I'm actually very rich." Yeah. I just don't, I don't pay my bills on principle. That's really what it is. Yes. (laughing) "Mind you now, Connet will email me and they don't email me under the name Connet." It says, "What does it say? Consolidated Electric." They use it and they call it. I don't like how many of y'all are familiar with this. I don't like how many people finish the Senate. I didn't like that. I'm like, "Oh my God, Consolidated Electric." I guess I got to pay this bill now that you said they full name. They use it in their own government name. Hmm. I'm still not gonna pay it. Hmm. Marie, um. Thank you for being here. You were one of our very first guests. Oh, and we didn't even really talk about music. No, we talked about a lot of. Y'all go back and listen that episode. It's me and Marie talking about, like, drum line or something like that. Tyler Perry movies. Yeah, we're talking about Tyler Perry movies. Which, you know, he's still up to it. He's still got a lot of shit going on. And somehow, it's. He has like 30 movies out at any given point. And they're all the worst thing you've ever seen in your life. But we're not here to talk about that. Right. I'm like, "You see how Devon trying to talk about Tyler Perry?" Yeah, he can't. (laughing) I got a lot of thoughts. I got a lot of thoughts. All right, I save it for the Patreon. We got to talk about music today, because we didn't talk about it before. Marie, what did you come up listening to? What was Young Marie? What was Young Marie listening to? Uh, you know, hip-hop. Uh, pop. RMB. Okay, if you could say maybe some artist. (laughing) Okay, I'll give you a pop. I was like, Marie, what was you listening to? She was like, "You with music." Hey. She's like, "I have a lot of songs, music." (laughing) Uh, for pop, I'm saying like a Britney Spears between that of your Leroy type situation. Of course. Um, and then, uh, honestly, like, whatever my brother was downloading to the laptop, I mean, to the house computer with the, with the viruses, I wasn't listening to that. The kids still know about the house computer. Is that like, is anybody, is anybody here like Young? Like, like, like, you know, like, it's not, how do you, how do you, pink shirt? How do you, ah, it's, okay. But you talk to people. (laughing) It was, I, it's just, it's just, you look, you look, baby. You look, baby. I thought you were gonna say you were like 22. Is there anybody in here younger than 27? Oh, the girl not paying her bills. Oh. That's why you're not paying them. You're front to love, not to pay them. (laughing) It's kid in there, you working on it. Wait, how do you, okay, is anybody younger than 24? Well, we got the youth, we got the youth in the crib. Wait, do y'all, y'all people of that age, did y'all have like one family computer? Is that still a thing? Oh, that still exists. Okay, I thought that was over. I thought, I thought one family computer was over. Cause that's, that's certainly how we were living. Yeah, oh my god. Like, what the, what the, what the, what the, um, dial up, on the dial up, on the dial up, you can't get on the phone. Yeah. And you just have to do everything on there. Yep. You just have to, I was downloading big files and just hoping nobody knew about it. Huge files, yeah. Okay, so you asking what I used to listen to, you, you would download something and it would, it would have all like the DJ drop. Woo! A random door slamming shut. Sure, sure, sure, sure. And the aim, like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I do, I know exactly what you were talking about. Used to like, rev it up and every song used to be like, used to be, that's when Wayne was really popping. And like, every single Wayne song at the beginning would have like 30 different Niggas names at the beginning. Yeah. You know, it'd be like, it'd be like, "The Empire." Damn, damn son, where to find this? Damn son, where to find this? Where to find this? And then be like police sirens and like, there'd be 30 different, and they'd drop it any different. But once I remember one would just be like, mixjamp.com. Yeah. You know, the website I'm familiar with. And then I would hear the song clean on the radio and he'd be like, where's the, like, you would miss all the extra notes. Where's the mixjamp? Uh-huh. Remember the one guy would be like, "The affiliates, nigga, holla at your boy." Remember him? Yeah, remember the affiliates? The affiliates. You gotta be above a certain age to know about the affiliates. Yeah, I don't know that. I know. She, yeah, Marie also. Marie also, 22. Marie, you brought some lyrics. You brought some lyrics first. They said they was going to print them out for me to print them out. We got them on the laptop. And we'll also, we'll put them up on the screen. Is the family laptop? Yeah, it is. It's the family's for everybody in the building. If y'all wanna look at websites or download porn on here, y'all could do that all on here. Download porn. That's what I was mainly doing on my family computer. I was, you could just download the porn. No, you could just watch it in Cognito and then you shut the window. I will, now you can do that. Now you can do that. I remember, I'm always in incognito mode when I'm on that type of time. But I remember talking to one of my homies and he was just like, I don't know. Like, I just, it's in there with all the rest of my stuff. And I was like, that's terrifying. I don't want, I don't want, you couldn't get that information out of me with a gun. I don't want, nobody know what I got now. You could have a privacy screen on his phone. Oh, on his phone. I think he was talking about his laptop. Oh. Also, for the people with privacy screens, what y'all hiding? What y'all hiding? What y'all got going on? Y'all got privacy screens? I don't, but I need one. What kind of, yeah, I don't need it. I'm also like, I feel like you shouldn't get to have a privacy screen unless you're like the president. Otherwise, it's like, what kind of family secrets you got? No, Trump don't need no privacy screen. You know his font. Biggest hell on him. You know, you're looking at it like that. One, one big finger. Marie, you brought up some lyrics today. I did bring some lyrics about. I was listening to this song the other day. And as I was listening to it, I just kept being like, dope. Yeah, dope. I mean, it's an incredible song. Listen, do you want to give us the artist name and the song title for the people? So the song that I want to. And this is not my favorite lyrics, but this is what I feel like we need to dive into tonight. Yeah. 21 questions by Fittysand. Yeah. First of all, it's not even 21 questions in the song. I hope you know that. Do you know how many questions are in the song? I don't, but it's not 21. No, it feels like a lie. It feels like it's at least 52 questions. But that don't got it. That don't got the same type of hook to it. 52 questions. That's probably not getting on the Billboard charts. I mean, this bar from the Sun. specifically really stood out to me. 'Cause he's asking, y'all are familiar with, round of applause, you're familiar with 21 questions. (audience cheering) - Yes, all these white people in here, they know who 50 cent is. (audience laughing) - And the whole premise of the song is he's basically been like, you know, are you still gonna love me if like all these hypothetical situations happen? You know, he's basically, he's basically, he's been like, would you love me? It's easy to love me now 'cause he's 50 cent, it's 2003 and he's up. But like, would you love him if he was down and out? Would you still have love for him? That's the whole, that's the-- - Thank you and Nate Dogg. (audience laughing) - That's what this is, but that's, you know, Nate Dogg really let him know and it's, yeah, I heard this one specifically stood out to me 'cause he's talking about, if he got locked up and sent us to a quarter century, could I count on you to be there to support me mentally? - Absolutely not. - There's no chance. - A quarter century? - No. - There's no chance, there's no chance. - And then, support you mentally. (audience laughing) - How do we want to do that outside? (audience laughing) - It's also fucked up 'cause it's like one, it's like a quarter century when it's like, nigga, what did you do? - What did you, what did you do that you got locked up for a quarter century? - A quarter century. - That's not like a weed charge, you know what I'm saying? That's not a weed charge, it's not like, what's the longest you think you could wait for somebody if they got locked up? (audience laughing) - Wait. (audience laughing) You don't think, what if they, what if they, what if they, what if they, what if they was like, all right, I'm doing a year. What if they was like, what if they was like, I'm, I'm sorry for the year. And then when you come out, we'll see what you look like. (audience laughing) If you got like hot prison buff then maybe. But if you look, you know, like you've been in jail for a year, with no sunlight and you've been sleeping in a bunk bed. (audience laughing) - What if they've been doing pull ups? What if they've been doing pull ups and they came out, Jason? - No, because you're gonna be doing pull ups on the street signs outside. (audience laughing) - Okay, that don't pair well with what I got going on. (audience laughing) - Okay, so what if they like, all right, I'm doing six months. - For what, Kevin? - You know what, okay, what if it's this? What if, what if, what if, what if y'all was spending the night? What if y'all like, how to night out? - Okay. - We've got how to night out as somebody who's being disrespectful to you. - Okay. - And he like, got in a fight like over your honor. And he like, and he got sentenced. - To six months? - Yeah. - I mean, how hard did he say that? (audience laughing) I don't know, it depends on what season he go in. Like, some of the time I'm outside. (audience laughing) If you go in in the early fall, you might still be here spring. - Yeah, let's say, let's say he, let's say he go in on October, he get out in March. - We gonna see what the body look like. (audience laughing) - We go, we gonna check on it. Yeah, we gonna check on it. - Yeah, I'm not making any promises. I'm young and turn. - Yeah. - You dumb and in jail. - Sure. - The answer is no and no. - Yeah, yeah, it's, no, I get it, I get it. I'm trying to see what some of the other questions were that he got into. If I fell off tomorrow, would you still love me? - No. (audience laughing) - If I didn't smell so good, would you still hug me? - No. - Okay, and then we go into the bar that we just came, if I went back to a hoopty from a bench, would you poof and disappear like some of my friends? - Maybe. (audience laughing) Because if your friends not riding, why am I? They've known you longer and like, I don't need to be able to hear the car before you pick me up. You know what I mean? - Mm-hmm. - I'm looking out the window. I'ma just meet you there. - Okay. - I'm a Uber. - What if, if I ain't rap 'cause I flip burgers at Burger King? 'Cause would you be ashamed to tell your friends that you're feeling me? - No, if you were, if it was a hot dude flipping burgers at Burger King and all happened to be there, I'd be like, "Girl, he's fine." And then we would leave. (audience laughing) But, and I would fly with him too. I hope you put some extra fries in the bag for me. (audience laughing) And then if he asked me for my number, I'd be like, "What?" - Oh, let me see. - No, no, I don't, no, I actually don't even eat fast food. I don't even know what. (audience laughing) (laughing) - He also says, "I treat you how you want to be treated. Just teach me how, which is nasty work." (audience laughing) Nasty work burger. He's like, "I'd be a good person if you tell me what that is." That's. Anyway, there was another one that said, "If I was with some other chicken, "someone happened to see, and you asked me about it, "and I said it wasn't me. "Would you believe me or up and leave me? "How deep is our bond if that's all it takes for you to be gone? "You are with somebody else, and then you lied about it, "and you're telling me how deep is our bond if that's all it takes? "Why are you lying about it? "And who is this hoe?" You met her at Burger King? That's a 20 second question. (laughing) - 50 cent is an asshole. - Yeah. You don't come out good. - No, but we notice about 50. Like 50 is like, you know, bored and childish. - That's true. - So really, everything that I know about him plus these questions, it's gonna be a no for me. - It's kind of a no to all 21 questions. - Also, I'm not jumping in a hoopty with you 'cause didn't you get shot nine times? They lookin' for this raggedy ass part. (laughing) And I'm not a shotgun, like a dizzy, dizzy beach. No! You're not about to two-pop me in a hoopty. - What if we got the bulletproof whip? - Bulletproof whip? - Yeah. - That means I gotta be in the car at all time. Like I gotta dive in every time you pull up. - Sure. - You wanna say what I'm saying? Like, I don't wanna know, no. - No. - All right, well, 50 cent of your listening, we know that you are. - The answer's no. The answer's no to all of the questions. - He's not checking for me, but yes, all of the song, all of the questions are bad. There's not one good question. - And then you brought us another song. - I did, 'cause this felt topical for the summertime. - Yeah, you brought us another song, which I would say is probably the song of the summer for the African-American community. - African-American community. - You know what I'm saying? I don't think this is made it. I don't think there's a white people's song of the summer, but I do think it's like-- - What do you think the white people's song of the summer is? - I can't speak to that. (laughing) I can't speak to that. - That has nothing to do with you. - What? - What did you say? - LFO. - LFO. - LFO. - Oh no, he's talking about the song. - No. - That's a song from like 2000. No, no, no, no, it's a song of this summer. Not the song of summer, 2001. (laughing) - That's, that's a no. - You say y'all talk about 50 cents? That's all. (laughing) - He's just saying stuff from when George Bush was president. - Yeah, before the towers hit, you want us to talk about music from that era? - No. - Can we get-- - It's an off the shoulder bitch lady right here? - Yeah, what white people we got in here? - White people anthem of the summer. - Yeah. - You don't know, you're not tapped into that. Do we have any, we got white lady here up here? You can't speak to that. You said it's not your business. - No, nobody listen to Taylor Swift in here. That's crazy. - Charlie XCX. - What song? - Oh, what's she got going on right now? - What's that? - Spring Summer 26. - That's, that's what her song's called? - Yeah, it's called Spring Summer 26. Is it good? Is it better? - That's all I have to say. - Okay, she said the dance floor is dead. We're in a rock stage, so we figure it out with her. - Okay. - She's like, I hate my life, and I'll look for a paint girl. - She says, I hate my life. - The beat are fired, it's my life. - So she's depressed. And y'all like-- (audience laughs) - Sounds like, from what we can tell, the white people are struggling this summer. It sounds like it's, it sounds like the white people are doing bad to found their anthem, but-- - Recession in Decatur. - For us. - The black people up. - You brought us, you brought us the black people song in the summer, which is-- - Spend it by Young Miami. - Come on. (audience cheers) Where are my-- - Can't believe that. - This is it. - Can't believe that. - Honeycash, go y'all back. - Where y'all at? - Where y'all at? - So let's do it y'all back. (laughs) - Rattle a punch for yourselves. - Yes! - Devin, do you know the dance? - Uh-huh. - Do you know the dance? - No, I don't know the dance, how we go? - It's all the, all the bros is doing it online. - I'm not, I'm not participating in that, I can't, I can't be dancing on the internet. I'm not in that, I'm not in that stage of my life yet. - Okay. - If you see me dancing on the internet, like Tay Diggs, just know it didn't go the way that I wanted. - Is Tay dancing on the internet? - Oh yeah. (laughs) Y'all see, round of applause, if you see Tay Diggs dancing on the internet. He's, that's like most of what he's doing now. - No. - Yeah, yeah, Tay Diggs. - Well, okay, yeah, I'm gonna be dancing today. - Talk to us, talk to us about your friends on the side. - Well, this song is about simulating the economy. (laughs) After you steal some shit. - Uh-huh. - Right? - Yeah. - Well, um, yeah. 20s, 50s, honey, it's cash. So also, she's using cash. I don't use cash no more. Anybody using cash? - Right. I use Apple Pay. - She's using, I got a lot of questions about what you got going on. You're here by yourself. You're not paying your bills. You're using cash. - And you're 24. - Yeah, she's 24. She might be a cocaine kingpin. (audience laughs) Oh. (laughs) Tell us about, yeah, what's your, how do you feel about this one? I mean, young Miami is not the best rapper alive. - Of course. - Yeah, famously. - But the song. (audience laughs) - The song. - The big part of her whole situation. She don't really be rapping like that, but she's so pretty. - The song just feels good. - Yeah. - Right? - It does. - She's talking about boosting. She's talking about going to the store, stealing stuff. Then taking that, flipping it, making money, and then spending that money. - And entrepreneur. (laughs) - Yeah, this is talk about prosperity. - Prosperity. - Yeah. - This is what Ronald Reagan was talking about. (laughing) - This is all about trickle-down economics. (laughing) - This is all about making and then giving it to people who are less fortunate. - 100%. - Do you think that's what the scammin' has, Nick, 'cause it's doing? Do you think the scammin' has, Nick, are passing their money down? - Well, listen, now it's 20, 20, 60. There's a bunch of different types of scam. - Sure. - People are buying real stuff, the name brand designer stuff. Then they buy in the dupe, returning the dupe. As the original. - And that's a comma. - Now when I'm on essence buying my stuff, I'm like, this feels fake, and now, you know, anyway, so I'm in a dispute with the website. (laughing) They're like, we sent you something real, I'm like, this is fake. But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I just, I think, you know, we're singing about stealing. I love that. - Yeah. - If you are even really American, if you not stealing, (audience cheering) - Sure. (laughing) That's, I like that. I've never attributed, okay, yeah, I'll take it. I like, I like how many people clap to it. I was like, we be stealing as well. - We be stealing as well. - Maybe I self-check out. Let me tell you something. I went to my target the other day, you know, just to see. To pee, I went in there to pee. And I was like, where is self-check out? They did away with self-check out of my target. - What's your target? What's your target? - The one on gold? No one would have come up to trade a joke? - Yeah, the one right there. - That's your target too? - Yeah, yeah, I go to that target. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - We live right around the corner for each other. - Yeah, we do. But maybe you go to the hood, the hooder target. - Where's that at? - On Atlantic. (audience laughing) - No, that's not, we go, we at the same target. (laughing) We at the same target. - You don't wanna push a button when you need to get your products out the case? - I don't like that. Anytime I gotta push a button, I leave. Anytime I gotta push a button, I'm like, I'll go to a different store. - Anytime I push a button in the person, it's all with some like young teen with like mad keys and an attitude. They unlocked the thing and then they walk away. So I could steal. - Yeah. - I don't, but I could. - And that's what this is about. That's what this is about. This is about making the most of whatever type of situation you've got going on. And it's been- - Well, I mean also, this maybe comes from a place, you know, Diddy. (laughing) You know, she was famously dating Diddy right before he got locked up. - Yeah, she was a Diddy data. And you know, he probably was giving her an allowance. That allowance is going. She out here stealing now. She gotta be. - Damn, that doesn't, it doesn't feel like a coincidence that once Diddy got locked up, she was like, "Nah, time to make music again." (laughing) She'd have no songs, no mixtapes when she was with Diddy. And now- - Nothing! - Yeah, now she back out here, bro. - Now she's back out here. Talking about a go-yard bag. That's not even a cute bag. (laughing) Feel a better bag and then stuff the stolen goods in the better bag. - And for the people that's out here trying to steal, what type of bag should they be stealing? - Oh. - I don't know. - 'Cause we got thieves in the crowd, clearly. - Nah, I don't think there's no thieves. Is this one girl? - She clearly up to something. We don't know, what's your job? What do you do? - Where you work? (laughing) - I work the corporate. (laughing) - The way she- - Oh, criminal, don't work. She a criminal, she'll be doing bad stuff. - The way I work, what it is. - Your voice went up for a corporate. (laughing) - It's a waffle wall street. (laughing) - Corporate, yeah. - Corporate. - Don't be stealing from me, actually. - Speak to me, wait, yeah, no, she's speaking to it. Boots Riley. - You gotta start stealing. - Boots Riley, she's saying it. - Did you just hit me with a black power fist? (laughing) - Okay, I mean, there's a lot of stuff going on here. There's a lot of stuff going on here. She don't got a job, she black power in. - She got a job that she came talk about on the records. We gonna get to the bottom of, what's your name? - She don't- - She don't want to say her name! What time is she to be doing? Oh, we gonna get to the bottom of it. She don't want it on record, okay, all right, all right. - It's a lot to unpack. - Yeah, we gonna talk about it before we start. - We gonna talk to your deems. - But Marie, that's all the time we got for you right now. - Thank you so much. - I give it up for Marie Fawson. - Spin that shit. - Spin that shit. (upbeat music) - And we got another very, very special guest. You might know him from the daily show. You might know him from his show on CNN. Have I got news for you. He's one of the funniest comics in the world and he got some lyrics to talk about. Y'all please give it up one more time. Give it up one more time. - For all one junior! (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - What's going on, young? How you doing? (laughing) - What's going on? - Good to see you, man. - Good to see you. You're like the only person I would lead a house for. - Yeah. - That's true. We've been trying to get Roy for a minute. You, I'll say, you're one of the most required, when I like ask people, who do you all want to hear on the pod? You're one of the most requested questions. - Oh, really? - Yeah, people like that. - Well, I'll take that. Well, thank you, people. I'm about to let them down because none of these songs are from this decade. - That's true. (laughing) - You know what though? I like when people bring stuff that feels, you know, for those of y'all who listen, I like when people bring stuff that's less expected. 'Cause it's like, I'm from a specific era. I'm from a, I'm from the kind of like blog, like mixtape era. That's when I was a kid. - Okay. - I know. - And all of them. Very tapped into Big Sean for better or worse. For better or worse. We're trying to get Big Sean on the pod, bad. I need, I need Big Sean on there. I need Big Sean on there. That's truly a dream guest. We gonna try to figure it out. You might. If you know anybody who's in his camp, let's talk about that. - I don't know, but two people in Detroit. (laughing) Now, I came up, you know, I'm from perspective, I'm 47. So I came up, my rap era is 90s gangster rap into bling era, into punk era, into like shiny suit, puff daddy era, like all of that stuff. Like that's my sweet spot. I did more than radio, I did hip-hop radio for 14 years between Birmingham and Atlanta. So I mean, for better part of a decade, I had a front row seat to that era of hip-hop. - And did Birmingham kind of have its own scene of rap? - It was just kind of flowing off of Florida. - Birmingham was kind of a copycatty. I know folks from Alabama have a like for me to say that, but we did not have a unique sound like Memphis, like in the Orleans, like Atlanta, like Miami. And the reason why those cities has such a specific sound is because the local radio station invested in the local artists. So if you weren't from Memphis, it was twice as hard to get on the radio in Memphis. So you had to be something that was of that culture. And so that makes the sound more unique. Whereas Birmingham, we didn't get a hip-hop radio station until the hip-hop dedicated radio station until 1995, which is pretty late into the splitting between hip-hop, R&B, and so, 'cause back in the day, black radio would play all genres on one station based on the time of day. Like when old niggas is up, they play gospel. And when it's time to fuck, they go quiet storm. And you would get hip-hoppin' at afterschool to 9 p.m. window, but you got rap for like five hours a day. So when hip-hop started permeating into Birmingham, the bulk of the station was staffed with people who weren't from the crib. And as a result, those people put on a lot more artists from Memphis and Atlanta and all of that. So Birmingham did not have the unique enough sound to be its own. Now, the one thing that I think a lot of people sleep on with Birmingham, but because of that, so many Southern artists, if you're going to have the hit, at some point, you have to come through Birmingham. You have to perform in Birmingham. And Birmingham was a great litmus test market. For whether or not you got some shit, they could actually blow up and leave the South. Like when Jay-Z and Kanye did their watch the throne tour, the rehearsal show before the tour started was in Birmingham. Like that's like where you come to get all of the kings out of the song or whatever, like it really is. And it's just an interesting place musically. One of the few markets where there's four black morning shows on the radio. At the time when Terrestrial Radio was really a stronghold, a city that small should not be able to support four individual black morning shows. But they did on a regular basis. It was our local show. There was Steve Harvey. There was Tom Joyner. And then just a rotating door of Russ Parr and Tony Scott. Like there was just a gang of black syndicated radio at the time. So for me, hip hop was extremely Southern. I didn't fuck with East Coast. In the '90s, just because we would just claim in our own thing. And some West Coast permeated. Like that time. And then in college, I came out of college 2001 by that point. Cash money is often running. Ludicrous is on the rise. TI had just dropped something serious. So in that era, like in Southern hip hop, that's just what I was bathed in, man. And Florida's a whole different beast. Like you had, you can trick daddy dollars. Who at the time was still regional. Like he wasn't the trick that we see now. Yeah, like an auntie talking shit about everybody. But you know, one person, remember, old trick. But you know, you had Luther Campbell and two live crew. Miami base. It was a lot of booty music. And at that time, Florida people down the floor. Everybody down the floor. the shake they ask. So we got a Florida people in the building. Yeah, so then they know. Yeah. Just, uh, it is just you alone. Can you corroborate everybody in Florida shake ass? Yeah. Yeah. It's not it because she dignified. No. Yeah. She put that part of us. We do shake the ass. What would you say? God bless. Yeah. God bless and happy pride. But yeah. But yeah, you had like 69 boys, man. You had a black pack. Like it was just such a black pack. Yeah. This is what's black, what's what is black pack going on? The black pack was a conglomerate collection of gentleman. That also that sounds like a group of guys who made a dope film. Have you seen Dancing in Florida in the 90s? Old brother. Sure, sure, sure. Booty, booty music in Florida looked like a damn porn. It looked like. Wait a second. Roy, I got to ask you this because you're the first guest. I think that we've had that I could ask this question to. Did you attend Freaknik? No. Why did you all say like I asked him if he had like a secret son? What was it like in the civil war? Oh, you go to the civil war. So what was it like? Well, that's scattered ass out there on the freeway. Just rapid sexual harassment up and down the street. No, didn't go to Freaknik. My car broke down. You are on your way. 1995. I was in high school and if you timed it right because Freaknik was in April, I played high school baseball. If you timed it right, I could tell my mom, hey, I got we playing a double hitter tonight. I won't be home till 11 p.m. Get to school. Get there in time for first roll roll call, sneak out after the tardy bell. Get the fuck to Atlanta. See some freaks. And then get back to Birmingham by 11 p.m. And my car broke down in Tallah fucking Daga. Did not go to Freaknik, but I did go to Daytona Beach Week, which is essentially the precursor. That was like Freaknik before Freaknik and so Beach Week is like Black, Black Week, and Myrtle Beach where it's just Black folks on the strip and it really is love and there's definitely a degree of like just male testosterone. Anytime a woman's walking by, we call them daisy dukes and koochi cutters and like super short shorts or whatever. They call them what they call them now boy shorts now or whatever. My day, we call them goddamn koochi cutters. And so we went, we went to Daytona Beach and you're on the strip. You don't A1A, you don't beat your F right on the water and it's just everybody drive and slow spinners. Folks got flip-flop, chameleon pain on their dunks. It's a car show. It is a fashion show. It is a pep rally like for blackness. It is a celebration of love all at the same time and then at random just a topless woman. Luther Campbell at the time, he was still, he still had a presence in music. He wasn't like the community leader we know him as now, but like two live crew made extra vulgar songs just about. Like one of the hit songs and I quote, "Hey, we want some pool of say." They don't know about the classics. You should have picked that song. You saw them dead face of the band. Yeah, I didn't. Yeah, trust me. 92, it was the shit. He had something called a freak van. And that's where the black pack would be. The thing that was signature with two live crew is that they had Luke dances. Any time they did a live show, they had women on stage and g-strings who were just basically just stripping without a pole, just popping everything right. Whatever the line of legal nudity was for that particular city, they would come right up to that line and touch it with their nipple. Like they were like, "Right." And so during Daytona, Beach Week, Black Bike, and Myrtle Beach, and I heard it freaking he got never saw it, Luke would have a van. And the van had plexiglass on each side. So inside the van, there's Luke dancers and there's speakers. It's just a truck of speakers and just barely almost naked women just shaking their ass as the van rides down the street. And motherfuckers are chasing it like an ice cream truck. That's what it was like. That's what like music was like. I never went to freak me, but I've definitely been to some outdoor festivals where I got super sexual and I'm glad that I'm not on anybody's VHS cassette. Sure. Miss behavior. You know how much joy it would bring me if somebody popped out of oil. If somebody found like you, like a footage of you at like 19, there's fully in the in the background of the plexiglass, in the background of the plexiglass, you're up in front of it, breathing, fucking up the window. That'd bring me a lot of joy. The worst you got on me. And I know this because I gave it long thought before I started at the Daily Show. And you got it. Before you get one of those jobs, you really got to think through everything you've ever done in life. Because this was back when they were fine to shit when they would announce it. Normally it used to be you get the job. Then they find the dirt. But now when the press release come, I'll be like, ah, ah, here's the clip. They look before. Yeah. Now, when I was 20, you got footage of me somewhere of me 20 years old at Mardi Gras, like asking women to show their tits, but that's for beats and that's a understood transaction. That's we've all got harassment. I asked. I didn't say. That's just the rules of engagement. Exactly. It's an exchange for this plastic, which also titties for plastic terrible exchange. Terrible for them. Terrible. Yeah, it was out of the interaction. No, no, man. I was I wasn't on that like mob mentality crazy stuff, but that was really my experience with music growing up. I didn't do concerts. I just didn't like concerts, like because for my era, like especially in Birmingham, which is top 10 murders, a concert is where you go to get shot. That's that's how I equated it at that time. So I'm just like, I don't I'm straight on that. So if it wasn't if I wasn't working for the radio station and I was employed to be there, I hadn't seen it. And my biggest regret is not going to see outcasts when they had their equiminite. The equiminite album was like the last true A&R tour where we're going to do 40 cities of night clubs or whatever, you know, the stankonia album. They toured a little bit, but at that point, you know, big boy and Dre, I want to consider it a beefing, but the creative differences were starting to show. And they didn't tour speaker box love below at all. Oh really? They didn't not not where I could go and see it. It wasn't till like that's why when they finally did Coachella for 15 years later, it was a huge deal. And I just I can't go to Coachella because there's just too many people like I just like I like I love people. I hate crowds. Like this is enough like in this like anything over like 80 90 people. I just like I don't know if I want to be in the middle of that. That's what before I and I'm sure a lot of that is some PTSD from being at the whatever the fuck concert in high school and they got the shooting and then it turns into a stampede. So for like maybe I could go now because I feel like the type of rap I listen to those fans are not murdering. Like they did in jail. The ones who was going to shoot up the cash money concert is safe now. Ain't nobody getting popped at the KRS one show. That's a that's a safe for me. I'm not that over. My bad. My bad. You could have said LL coupé. That wasn't the same time about this. Yes. That was like around the same. My bad. Roy, you brought up some lyrics today. Yeah. You brought up some lyrics that you want to talk about and let's what do we have at first? Can we put up? Is it goody mob or is it the um yeah we do we got goody mob up first and we got the whole we got the whole song oh you got it as well. Yeah it's still standing but it's just the verse like I know y'all y'all told me your producers were like pick a song. I'm like the whole song don't speak to me my fuckers sometimes you ever just have a favorite verse from a song like the whole song is fine but it's like this song uh this is still standing by goody mob but it's silo greens verse at the very end like goody mob always enjoy it because they were like very earthy and like cerebral with their rap in an era where everything was money and koochi and bin dova and I shot them and I'm murder and then goody mob this is silo's verse you want the whole verse you just want the part I can't talk about. Whatever part seems to you to whatever part you want to talk about we can talk about it we don't you don't have to you don't have to do a whole thing if you don't want to. Nah it's whatever whatever yeah yeah okay so silo each and every element that exists in this universe is manifested from a thought first through the inner mind's eye of the unseen power in the sky gave birth to mother earth and all it's worth to you and I. This most loved invention my consciousness is an extension of him yet I'm flesh and bone with a mind of my own to dig deeper than the surface but I learned from your up. or your downfalls, we all have individual purpose. It's amazing how the streets do a majority of raising of children who end up dead before hearing what you said. And it's sad. So all I can write about is what I had. Interpretations of life good and bad with the pen and pad. It seems like an abortion when I just write a small portion. It's either crumpled up a torn without letting that thought be born. Young minded and blinded in those days, I didn't want to have a thought I couldn't raise, nurture, and care for, be there for it to help prepare for the times ahead when someone doesn't agree with what it said. Like, those four bars right there, define stand-up comedy to me. Like, I didn't want to have a thought I couldn't raise, nurture, and care for, and be there for it to help prepare for the times ahead. Like, you want to make sure that this thought gets the attention and the polishing that it deserves. And that's pretty much all that's worth reading. The last part of it is what I really appreciate when someone goes to the store and purchase it for 10, the album. The life cycle starts all over again. And I was granted this music as my soul mate to procreate and give back what I was given a life worth living. And I am still standing on skate and it goes into the hook. So for me, that part, give back what I was given a life worth living, you know, I started stand-up because I was on probation. I was supposed to go to prison in '19 for credit card fraud. And so, we're almost getting out of this niggas show. Where am I scamming at niggas at bullsh*t ass song? It's a bunch of-- Not because she's not a good artist. She's just talking about a bunch of fucking misdemeanors. Have some fucking courage. If you boosting from this stuff, mother fucker, I had a work study at the post office on purpose because I knew credit cards came pre-approved in the '90s. And then I'd take them bitches to the fucking gas station to circumvent the idea that you had to show. And then you'd take that fucking now fresh credit card to fucking deal it, and you'd buy $5,000 worth of shit, and you'd sell it on fucking campus, like a fucking man. And so I got caught. And the depression, the idea that I am going to go to prison, I started doing stand-up to deal with those thoughts while I was suspended from school. I ended up getting probation. I ended up getting back in school, getting my degree. And so I just kept doing comedy. So like that line, give back what I was given, a life worth living, like that verse, like that off that line alone, it just summates so much of me, bro. I feel like I just picked songs that were just all about career shit. No, you did, though. And it's like, I like when guests bring a variety of stuff, because it's like, when I had the idea to start this podcast, it was because of like goofy shit, that big Sean and Nicki Minaj said, you know what I'm saying? And Drake, of course, the star of the show. Truly the star of the show. The stars of the show, I guess. Hold on, who's like a true future, of course. Future Drake, no, future and Drake are probably the biggest stars, one way or another. Future from a place of appreciation and Drake from a place of like, man, I love you, but you got to stop saying stuff like that. You got to say stuff different than that. I don't want you to talk that way anymore, please. If you wrote Drake lyrics and didn't tell people it was a song, do you think people would like check on you? Of course, of course, if I just wrote down all of my ups, they did. Why don't they gas me up? Where does it go? My head. If I wrote that down, people who love me would call me. They would-- they'd be like, clearly. Clearly, you're not in a headspace to be doing OK. Like an wellness check. Yeah, but I appreciate when people bring things that are heartfelt and things that are earnest. And that leads us into this other song that you brought, which I actually had never heard before. Did you want to listen to it? Do you want to lead people into this one? Oh, sorry. Oh, yeah, I got it right here. This is the entertainer by Billy Joel. And it's one of those songs that I feel like every performer no matter the genre, if you do shit on a stage in front of strangers, you should know this song. Because it literally encapsulates what you go through and all of that shit. I am the entertainer. I bring to you my songs. I'd like to spend a day or two. I can't stay that long. I've got to meet expenses. I've got to stay in line. I've got to get those fees to the agencies. I'd love to stay, but there's bills to pay. So I just don't have the time. Then there's another line a little later. I don't think they have a queue to up. But he talks about, ah, it's not in it. But he basically talks about he had a hit song. It was a beautiful song, but it ran too long. If you're going to have a hit, you got to make it fit. So they cut it down to 305. And granted, this song is from back in the radio era in the '70s. But there was a stretch. Like your grandparents' music was like, it was not a normal-- it wasn't uncommon to have a fucking eight-minute song. All the time. Like all the time. Like, all that acid and then my fucking zip songs was long. Like, so fucking-- like, shaft? It's fucking-- it's two minutes before he opens his mouth. It's just-- [INAUDIBLE] And then it'd be two minutes before the song starts. Then the actual song would be like three minutes long. Then for another four minutes, they just kind of groove. They just-- - It's grooving. Just kind of-- - Drugs. They just-- - Yeah. They're fucking hot. And then the songs wouldn't even just-- they wouldn't end. They would just fade out. They would just-- they'd be like, all right, we got to know. We got to cut it somewhere. So Billy Joel, talking about having a hit song in his record label, making him cut it to 305, is because he has to cut it and optimize it for radio. How the fuck is that different from that standup clip that you had that the algorithm has decided? It's three seconds too long. And now only 1% of your followers fucking saw. But if you cut it-- if you took that 90 second bit and cut it into 330 second bits, then it's fucking amazing. That's the same shit Billy Joel is fucking talking about. And I don't know, that verse, but the verse about, I'd love to stay, but there's bills to pay. I told my son one time, he was asking me about all the places I've gone, and we're just talking about travel. He's 10. And to a child, the world is still the world and whimsy. And man, when you were over there, when you went to Kansas City, you know who's it? He liked it. Daddy, tell me about Pittsburgh. I can tell you about the airport, the hotel, and the venue. And on a good week, I can tell you about a bar. But I don't go see shit. I didn't try to remain as mom was still together. They would go and do shit in town while I just worked and rested and write jokes and look at clips and polish the fucking bit. And I don't know, it just dawned on me that I was like, I've been everywhere, but I've seen nothing. And that's what I told him, and like, that's like-- Yeah, and they hit somebody all for real. That's something that was poetic. Is it or is it sad? It's like, you know-- Well, brother, they can be both. As a huge future fan, I know things can be poetic. And sad at the same time, sometimes they go together. Yes. So yeah, so that song, that whole song, man, it just talks about how much he loves performing, but how empty it can be sometimes if you're not careful. And you don't protect yourself. But it's just a lot of industry gripes and a song from, I think, 1971 that are still prevalent today, just in a more digital form. I did not know this song until you submitted the lyrics, and I was reading it being like, yep, no, I know about that part. And that part, and that part, and then you got to pay the agents more than it feels like they've-- Yeah. You don't mean more than-- Sometimes you're paying an amount that you're like, you're like, I probably don't need all of that. Yeah, probably don't need all of it. All the parts about the women, too. You're related to that part, too. You know, let me read some more, and then we'll talk about it back stage. Even in the entertainer, I've been all around the world. I've been to all the palaces. I've laid all kinds of girls. I can't remember faces. I don't remember names. What the hell? You know it's just as well, because after a while and a thousand miles, they all become the same. [LAUGHS] So yeah, you can relate to that. OK, cool. Ladies and gentlemen, Roy Wood Jr. [APPLAUSE] Thank you, brother. [APPLAUSE] My god. [MUSIC PLAYING] We're bringing back out, Murray. We're doing the sand portion. Y'all give it up for Murray, he's sketching. Yes. The fallen chair. Yeah, down. Take this off. No, Roy, you know, we could have shared. I got a little butt. It's fine. I don't like how hard you left it. My small butt said it. That's true. You were like, I was just thinking about that. He said it. Oh, there it is. [MUSIC PLAYING] Oh, yeah. OK, y'all, this is the portion. and some of the fans who are here submitted some lyrics and we're gonna talk about what they brought to the table. So let's get into that. We've got to lyric, all these people are here, right? All these people are here, correct? Okay, all right, we've got to lyric from Dash. Where's Dash at? Where's Dash? Dash, can we get you up here? Yeah, we need you all the mic. Oh, Dash! She's gonna love it. Dash got his good-blow song tonight, boy. Yeah. So summertime, he got the buttons loose too, come on! Oh, boy! We've got to chest out! You better on Dash! Come on now. That is about to be a heat wave. He's about to be a honey. No, you're right, you're right, it's chest out time. Dash, you brought us, you brought us a lyric. Do you want to give it to the people? I don't remember. [LAUGHTER] It's from Tony Yeo. Tony Yeo. You know what you picked Dash. Yeah, look at that. You did this today. Tony Yeo. OK, gee you now. OK, gee you now, yeah. It was a junior song. Tony Yeo's verse, he goes, "I'm in Cancun with a model in the bedroom, her pussy tight, like in the airplane bathroom." [LAUGHTER] And what do you feel? Come on! You've got to give it up for Black Artistry, baby. That's what we're here to. You've got to give it up for Black Art, dog. That's what we're here to celebrate. What do you think? Thank you so much, Dash. Thank you. Devon, what do you think the essence of Tony Yeo was trying to say when of a vagina is as tight as an airplane laboratory? What would it be? You know, I think he's pointing out, you know, just one of the dichotomies of life, right? I think he's pointing out the fact that like being tight, sometimes you're in an airplane bathroom. I'm six foot three. I'm in the airplane bathroom. I'm not having a good time. I'm doing that. I can't. You don't want to touch nothing. It's hard for me to make a pivot. It's hard for me to make a turn. But then the same thing that's negative in the airplane bathroom, you get in a pussy and you're like, well, the tightness is incredible now. The tightness, now just the thing that used to be bad to me is now good to me and life can be like that. And I think that's, I think he's pointing out like the beautiful duality that life could contain. The duality of men. Yes. How did that hit you? Marie. Marie, Marie. You can't even look at it. So, I'm just impressed that he was able to arrive. You can't call him with bathrooms, you know? I wouldn't even have thought to do that. Come on. That's special. And that means he was in the bathroom. He probably touched something. He was like, ugh. And then he thought about it and he was like, okay, okay, we got to keep it push in. We got to lyric from Austin, where's Austin? Yes. Man. Yes. Okay. Keep it going for Austin. Yeah. Keep it going for Austin, you know, I love this man. My listeners can look like anything. I got a variety of different types of folks. Shout out to Austin. Yeah, he don't even have on a silk blouse. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Silk blouse in Austin is what lick is all, we all family in here. I'm here with my girlfriend. Okay. Why did you say it like that? Why did you say that? Well, I'm flurry with him, dad. My girl here. It's like, don't be talking about my lady right there, dog. My lady right there. That's right. He's looking in my eyes like that. I didn't like that you felt the need to say that. Okay. Well, Austin, what did you, what did you bring for us today? You guys listen to Dave? Yes. I do listen to Dave and I like the song that you chose. Okay. You got to read it. Can you give the people the name of the song? It's called Sprinter. You guys know it? Yeah. Yeah, Dave is, he's like the Drake, but like British version. Yeah. His lyrics are so goofy that when you listen to it, you have to laugh. British rap is inherently, it's inherently, and I like British, I enjoy British rap. I do, I like British rap, I play, I like skepta. They just, they speak plainly in a way that if you set it in an American accent, wouldn't quite play. It wouldn't quite like, what God, what does skepta say? I mean, in my mind I'm sitting there, and we got the point. Skepta has a lot of, Skepta has a lot of this playboy card he saw where he's just talking about a meal and he goes, look at this fucking food, look at this fucking feast. And I'm just like, yeah, yeah man, you got food in front of you. Anyway, I'm sorry, Dave, what did Dave say? Give us the people. He said she got curves like a Brazilian. My friend wants her. I want her affiliates. Yes. Yeah. And how do you not laugh when you hear that? Yeah. And he also says that British would add something different, you know what I'm saying? I can't do it. Because she turns, because Cypriot comes Brazilian. I want her. But bro, what's her affiliate like that? He wants her affiliates. He doesn't want, he doesn't want her homegirl, he doesn't want her friend, he wants her affiliates. Her colleague. Her colleague. He wants her peers. Yes. Oh. Roe, you got anything? No. (laughing) - Y'all give it up for us to give it up for us to give it up. - I'm gonna give it up for us to give it up for us to give it up. - I'm up here taking notes. I'm like, ooh, no music. - Her affiliates. - I know he's still naming songs. It's like 10 years old, but my old ass, I still be in a fucking indoor rock. - Are you familiar with this song? - Yeah, I'm familiar with the artist, but it's just, I never get around to the songs. Like when I left Daily Show, my give a fuck about pop culture change. (laughing) I had to know it to work at the show. And I put the CNN, I'm like, I'm never talking about rap on CNN, fire up the goody mob. - You and Michael Lee in black, not getting into Playboy Cardi? - He probably does, yo, that boy is hip-hop catalog. - Really? - Michael Lee in black, you should have him on the show. - I would love to. - No bullshit. - I would love to. - Yeah, he's fucking good. - He taught me everything I know about the '80s. (laughing) - I see what you did there. (laughing) - That's really true. That's like, most stuff I know about pop culture in the '80s, I learned from that show on VH1. - Yeah. - It was on in the summertime. - Yeah. - You were like, be home, and it was-- - That shit's on. - I love that night. - You know what I mean? - Yeah. - We got time for like one or two more. Ooh, what do we want to talk about? I know exactly which one I want to talk about. Where's Justine at? - Oh, boom. - Justine. Justine. Justine, round of applause for Justine. (audience cheering) - Lean with it, rock with it? - Yeah, I'm familiar. - Ah. - Oh. - By the white t-kicks, the franchise boys. - Yes. - Rock so damn hard you break your spleen with it. - Yeah, of course, of course. - You're not gonna give us a-- - Yeah, shall we say? - Yeah, can you hit us a little-- (all cheering) Wait, it's like you gotta toss it up, you gotta-- - Oh, I don't-- (all cheering) - I'm sorry, I'm sorry for putting you on. - Yeah, that's too much, that's too much, I'm sorry. - Where are you from? - Virginia. - Okay, nice, yeah. - 'Cause I'm trying to put the pieces together, I'm like, "Why don't you bring it in the sun?" (all laughing) What you know about them franchise boys? Virginia, okay, that check out Virginia. (audience laughs) Yeah, they were good, they were good. - Did you ever heard of it when breaking their spleen? (laughs) - I mean, when you snap in in a way that they was snapin', yo spleen could be a risk. - Snaprap had a really good, quick flash in the pan, but I think the crunk era just came in like a wave. And then after that, it was the soldier boy, kind of the beginning of your blog era. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, Soldier Boy also essential theme of my podcast, actually. A true pioneer, the first internet rapper, and also the first rapper to do many things. And the crazy thing about Soldier Boy is he will tell you he was the first rapper to like do X, Y, and Z, and then somebody will post a video of him doing it before you ever. He was, I remember once, like, when the weekend was doing the Super Bowl, he was like, I was the first rapper to ever listen to the weekend. And then somebody released a video of him in like 2009, listening to like unreleased weekend songs and I was like, he did it again. He did it again. He called it, "I still like turn my swag on." You have out the bed and you turn your swag on? Come on. I'm brushing my teeth and nothing. Come on. Come on, he brings joy to your heart. He's kind of a joke now and I will say that but it's just like when you hear that beat and you go, "Hop the about the bed, take a look at them and let them out. - Yeah, go get one. - Come on, something that I don't bring joy to your heart. Yo, one more time for our guest, one more time for Boywood Jr., one more time for Marie Fawston. Give it up, give it up, give it up. - Thank you, dad. - Yeah, thank you for pulling up, thank you guys. - My favorite lyrics is a production by Disco Now. If you guys like what you hear, leave a review and tell a homie about the show. And make sure to follow us at my favorite lyrics pod on all social platforms, except for Twitter, we offer that. This week's guest and the my favorite lyrics team by checking out the show's notes and thank you to the guys that made this show happen.