Rick Ross, A'ja Wilson, Gunna, Steve Stoute and LeBron James

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Listen to Hurdle with Emily Abadi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I swear, everybody in my family been asking me. They know I know all the rappers, all y'all. They asking me what it stand for. I said, listen, when I see Gunna, I got to ask her. Because I don't fucking know what it means. But the shit sounds so good, and I know it's a vibe. So I'm going to ask her. So I'm pushing Pete, too. Come on, man. You're getting a haircut during the interview, man. That's overly Pete. I can't believe you. Come on, man. I can't believe you. Stop what you're doing. This is a prime example of pushing Pete. On this episode of Uninterrupted, The Shop Podcast, LeBron James, Maverick Carter, and Paul Rivera are joined by Rick Ross. More should always inspire you. And they can. There ain't nothing wrong with that. We can't fall into the traps that you fall into at 16, 17, 18. There's so much more life to live. Asia Wilson. My biggest thing was just getting that money. Of course, championships and winning. But at the end of the day, I'm trying to provide for myself and my family. Gunna. Our OG dope boy, man, they was Pete. They was pulling up. When Boosin' them was riding D.U.B.'s floaters and chargers, we had some OGs in our hood riding them, too. Telling us, like, this how you pull up. And Steve. Steve Stout. There's always been a role for a record company in an artist's career. There's always been a role. I think that role has diminished over time. Because in the beginning, you needed a record label in order to find an audience. Now, you find an audience before you find a record label. Check it out. For you, Asia, when did you realize you could get the contract you got? Oh, the bubble. The bubble? The bubble. After the bubble, I was like, I need this shit. Like, this is mine. Like, I'm here for the take. What was in the bubble? I don't know. I think just, like, being away and having, like, nothing there and really locking in on your craft, that definitely made me realize I could be good at this. So, yeah. When we told him about your contract, he was like, damn, she pushing P. That's scrum. You got the biggest deal in this. It's like, you set a tone. And you open the doors for us, like, and the ones who didn't think they could. For sure. You can. It's like weight lifted off my shoulders. I feel like this was, like, my first, this was my first big contract. Like, this was the first time where I could. See, when the money dropped, damn, I did that. You did that. And, like, I guess the process, I just kind of kept quiet. I kept a little key. A lot of things, of course. P was talking, oh, is she going to stay in Vegas? Is she going to do this, that, and the third? But my biggest thing was just getting that money. You wanted your pay to run. Honestly, like, that's me. Like, of course, championships and winning. So, for me, once it dropped, once everything came out, I was like, thank God. Like, I'm done. I'm good. I'm out of the way. So, it was a lot of fun. I'm excited. For you, you were like, I just want to make some money. But, like, we're going to look back 10 years from now, and you were the one. Pioneer. Pioneer some shit that's going to change on this pay gap shit. Have you thought about that? No, I really haven't even processed that. I mean, going into the league as a rookie, I wanted to be different. I wanted to be something that's like, I want to change it. I want to break that glass ceiling. I want the younger generation to come up and say, hey, we don't have to go overseas to play. Like, my rookie year, our season ended in April. The draft is in April. And then you go straight into training camp, and it's your season throughout the summer. Then when October comes, if you make it through playoffs, that's when you got to go overseas. Play another season. And play another season overseas, wherever that may be. So, it's literally year-round basketball. And you probably got paid more there than here, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And unfortunately, some of them, they go over there and won't come back. Yeah. They're like, I miss everything that we have in America, but, like, this pay raise over here. I'm not coming back over to that shit. The bag is serious. The bag is serious. And I'm going to put this grind in for 10 years or whatever. Then I'll come back. Then I'll come back, yeah. 100%. And that's why a lot of us in our league take that chance to say, hey, I got to provide for my family. I need this money. I need this bread. And so, they go overseas, and you make it. But at the same time, you're losing everything that you could be doing here in the States. I'm ready to hoop at this point. That's, like, the worst part about not going overseas. Like, you're not in, like, you can't get in game shape. Oh, yeah. Some people coming in on game shape, and I've just been training. So, that's the worst part. How many games does it take you to get in game shape? Ooh. Give me a good, like, 10 games, maybe. How many did it take you, bro? It took me about a good 10, 15. Yeah. No, nigga, you're too old, though. No, shit, you got me fucked up. No, hey, listen. How many did it take me? 10, 15 games. You ready to get close to the biggest game? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're in game shape? Yeah. Rosé. But I'm in game shape. Look at me, baby. I'm in game shape, baby. Look at Rosé. I'm in the game shape. I'm in the game shape, man. You feel me? I'm up up. I'm up in the suite, bussing bottles. You know what I'm saying? Put me in, coach. You feel me? You put me in, coach, already. You put me in, coach. How you getting to rap, Rosé? You know, just loving it. It was just natural for me from day one. Just loving the music, the artistic side. You know what I mean? I was just so caught up in that shit as a youngster. I would have bought your album based on the car you had on the cover. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how it was, yeah. Yeah, I was looking at the artwork, and you had graffiti on your shit. I'm in. I want that one. I've always felt like you're the first person since Biggie to be able to paint a picture on a record and take people to that place that you're talking about. When you say, I'm in a drop-top wind. Drop-top. Drop-top blowing, wind blowing. Yeah, the wind blowing under the city lights. You can really vision yourself in that moment. And the reason I feel that is is because I really feel that shit. You feel it? I feel it. I'm telling you to play. Like, I'm in the white house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You really feel I'm in the white house. I swear to God. And when I wrote that record, I rapped that record, I meant that. And when I bought Evander Cribb, I painted it white. Yeah. It took four months, but we painted it white. I got to say something about the house, because, like, I got to, like, that house, right, is a monument for me, because I stayed in Point of Reach, and that house. From Point of Reach to that house is maybe, like, three, four minutes. That's my street. Like, I stayed 20, maybe 20 years. Like, I ain't, I had to really get myself up out of there. Did you ride by the house and see it? Every other day. This is my monument house. Just to get motivated. Like, this is the biggest house we ever had and never could see, like, in our neighborhood. Yeah. And it's off an old National, like. Yeah. You know, that's why I do the Walmart giveaway every year, because this is my side. This is where I used to steal from this Walmart. 100%. Like, this is my Walmart. Like, old National Drive, right into his house. I was broke when he bought the house. Man, I remember this, like, vividly, like, what? He got my house, like. I was really, like, mad at you, like, man, I'm finna go around. Because Jose was pushing that pig. He pushing the biggest pig possible around that time. It inspired me, too, as a youngster. We would go down to Atlanta, go shopping, then ride back out to Fayetteville just to ride by the crib. Pull over on the side of the road and smoke one just looking at the crib. It inspired me. When you coming up and you, whatever it is you have, more should always inspire you. And ain't nothing wrong with that. And I let the youngsters know that more should, because it's so much more out here. You feel me? It's so much more life to live. What is it that you want so much, Jose? What is that thing you want? Making history. Making history. Yeah. The money gonna come with it. It'll follow. Yeah. Once you. You go from nothing till you get that first million. That's the hardest to make. Oh, you better believe it. Because the culture we live in, a lot of times, 90% of these people only convince what's the first 10 convinced. Yeah, right. You understand? Once you riding big, oh, I see the vision. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bitch, you got to see the vision when I'm up goddamn six nights in a row. You're supposed to see it then. You ain't see it then. You feel me? It's like when you're watching Brum shoot them motherfucking threes from the goddamn sideline, you got to see it then. But we can't blame them. We ain't going to hold that against them. Everybody ain't visionary. We always talk about, I tell a lot of people, sometimes it ain't about what you know, it's who you know as well. So you got to have a little luck, too, during this journey. Just don't be an asshole to people, because you never know who the fuck you may be talking to. You never know who might be in the room. That's the truth. You might miss an opportunity. That's rule number one. That could have goddamn X10, X25 on your money. Right. Just because you was an asshole to somebody. I've had the good luxury of, first of all, my mama raised me the right way. Always treat others how you want to be treated. Child on glow. Treat others how you want to be treated, all right? If you want to be an asshole, then asshole people are going to come in your life. My OGs, they just raised me the right way. They always told me, like, my uncle Kurt, he was one of my OGs, he always told me, like, listen, I'm going to give you some money, nigga, but don't come to me next week asking for some more money. Right. Not next week. Like, I got you in a few weeks. Like, if I give you $10,000. If I give you $10,000, go ahead and spend a couple of them, but stack the eight now. Yeah. Stack the eight. Game. Yeah, like, give me the game. Like, he just gave me the game. Like, so, like, I've learned. So valuable, man. We've talked about how this generation's a little different. They have options. Yeah, yeah. The game, obviously, is different today than it was, you know, when you came up in terms of the opportunities, but the grind isn't. It'll always be the same. It'd be great. It'd make history. If that's the bar, the bar's going to be great. That would never change, no matter what. Regardless of how on the way, on the road to riches you can make it look a little better than it is through the, you know, we got social media, certain things done changed, but to make it to the top, the mountaintop, the work going to still be the same. People be making that shit look a certain way. I be seeing ballplayers doing all type of crazy shit in the summer. Yo, they trying to make a fat dude feel a certain way. But you can't let yourself get caught in that shit, right? No, no, no, no. It's really only inspiration. Do your thing. I think at the end of the day, listen, if you want to get better at your craft, you'll get better. You don't got to tell me. You don't got to tell the world. You don't. No, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you what I need to do. Exactly. And that's it. You know what you're not doing. During the NBA season, like during the NBA season, man, listen, you go to practice, practice is going to be 12 to 2, 11 to 1 or whatever. If you're a young team, they might make you get your ass up early, 10 to 12, 12, 30. And after that, man, you don't have anything, you have zero responsibility. For a young guy, most of the time, they ain't got no kids. They're not married. My rookie year, we have practice. I go home, take a nap. I go back to the gym. I go to the gym at 5, go eat dinner, and sometimes I go again before I go to bed. For no reason. I just wanted to be great. For no reason. And I didn't have, like, an on-court trainer at the time. I just had an assistant coach. Yeah. Assistant coach meet me at the gym, rebound for me, you know, use the cones and chairs and shit like we was when we was kids. But like, Ron, you obviously, we always talk about this, you love the process, but I want to ask you a different question. Now you're year 19. Yeah. You're obviously not going to play forever, so who knows how much longer you're going to play. Maybe you'll play forever because you're crazy. It's going to scare you to think one day you're going to wake up and not have to go to practice. No, no. Before we let him answer it, the streets need him. We need that motivation. We need that inspiration. You know, the streets call that where the king. You can't get that shit if you ain't earned that. He can't leave the court. Gunner said you can't leave the court. If he leave from playing basketball, he better be coaching, right? Why, Gunner, why? Because we need him on the court at all times. No, we need the homie. No, come on. No, come on. You know, we watch the process of becoming not just an excellent b-ball player, but just taking it to another level. And one of us. And that shit connected with this generation. It's dope as fuck, though, because they don't realize that I need them. No, I get inspiration from them, too. When I seen him at the game a couple weeks ago. Turned up. He's going to turn it up. And I ain't never been so close to him like that. You severe on that court, you lock in. By the way, you pushing P, right? Believe it. I never seen a nigga this big. With a beard trim, with sunglasses. With sunglasses. You got to be pushing me in. You got to be pushing me to do this. Gunner, so you got to tell us, what's pushing? Where did it come from and what is it? How do you define it? Man, it started in nine. It's done just, it's out of my hands. By the way, Gunner, you got to tell us, what's pushing? That's a beautiful thing. It's a great thing. You gave it to the world. Yeah, but pushing P really started. At first, it's just me just pulling up this player. Like, I pull up just on some player. Mike got me a vibe with me. My homie's like, okay, you might come back around. I'm doing the same one with a different type of vibe. Like, you still going? You pushing P now. Now you pushing it. Now you pushing this player shit. Like, it's coming. Now it's like, now I'm trying to make sure, like, I'm capitalizing. I'm capitalizing on the P. Now, now it's, hey, y'all pushing P or what? And where does that come from for you? Like, that, like, wannabe, like, player? I can tell you exactly where it came from for us. Where did it come from? It came from that Porto Ridge over there in the neighborhood. Like, that's, like, really the older dope boys. Like, our OG dope boys, man, they was P. They was pulling up. When Boosin' them was riding DUBs, floaters, and chargers, we had some OGs in our hood riding them, too. Telling us, like, this is how you pull up. And I looked up to them, got my game, and ran with it. Ran with it, right? Kept it P. I just thought it was some player shit, period. Like, whether it was some Atlanta shit, some Cadillac shit, like, it felt like that. And then I started seeing all the people from Oakland saying, wait a minute, they stole our shit. Right, right. And we came in here to defend it. Right. And I come to find out, they just come from player shit, too. Yeah, so we all player shit. That's what I took from it. Like, bro, everybody been player? Like, you know your uncles and aunties? Player. They was player. So that's what you did. That's what I'm saying. Mine, too. By the way, Atlanta players won. I didn't understand it. They were like, no, that's our term. He stole our shit. And then he snapped back, the shit went away, and then all of a sudden, Nike started pushing P. I didn't know it. I hopped to it. He said they got pushing pancakes. They're pushing pancakes. I hopped to it. And then you went over to Europe in the middle of all that, and they was pushing P over there. Paris. They pushed my P out there in Paris. They got me. You did go to Paris. Yeah. Yes. But that idea of corporations taking black culture, you and I have talked. You were the one that was, you were at the forefront of this whole thing. Well, the thing that's fucked up, and it's good you're here, Russ, on this topic, is I always felt it was fucked up that brands would hire an artist. Like, when I was doing it, I'm like, stop. I always wanted the brands to do something with artists where they had the same shared values. You knew exactly who I was when you got in business with me. That's why you chose to get in business with me. Right, right. The brands would get in business with me. They would get in business with Ross, Lil Wayne, and as soon as somebody said what they already said, then all of a sudden they pull back and shit on the artists. They did it to Ross. They did it to Wayne. They literally did a deal with them and then used old lyrics to say that they fucked up and they said something wrong because somebody wrote about it. Them lyrics were there when the deal was done. It was the same lyrics. You knew what you got into when you did the deal. And to see 10 years later, brands are saying pushing P, they don't even know what it means. They don't even know what it means. But if somebody in the New York Times writes, IHOP pushing P, P stands for pimping, playing, da-da-da-da, then all of a sudden they're going to be like, shitting on you. Right. That's what they do. They are so fair-weathered. That is the point, is there's nobody black at that level and those places that go, wait a minute. We need more black people. Yes, exactly. And that's why we're changing it. But that's why it's supposed to keep changing. That's why we're changing it. That's why we're changing this shit. And for you, Asian, talk to us about, like, for NBA players, like, just like, if I average 20, I get paid. For real. Yes. Like, I get paid. That's it. I average this, I do this. Yeah. The NBA players, you got to do that and, and, and, and, and. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's, that's the biggest difference. Like, on the men's side, you make X amount, you score this amount of points, you're going to get that next check. But for us, if you do that, you have to be marketable. You have to sound a certain way. You have to look a certain way on social. And it just seems like we can never just break that barrier in itself. It's like, if I'm not marketable, I can't make any money. I could be the best player in the league, ever, scoring 40, 10, and 5, easily. Asia, you feel like that? You feel like, it doesn't matter the performance, it's got to come with all those other things to be able to get paid. Yeah, for sure. Wow. Like, that's where it all comes from, because it's like, if I'm not marketable, I'm nothing. It doesn't, I can put the ball in the hoop, but if I can't go to a Nike, or if I can't go to, like, a Pepsi or a Mountain Dew, and be like, hey, sign me, it's nothing. Because that's where a majority of my money is going to come from, because our league is still building that. But that's the hardest thing. I think that's our biggest barrier, is we can be that best player, but if you're not marketable, if you don't look a certain way, sound a certain way, especially being a black boy. What makes you marketable? That's what I was going to say. What makes, in your head? I think, I have to credit Coach Staley to this, because she allowed me to be me. I think I connected with fans and people, because they're like, okay, she, that's who she is. She's going to be happy, go lucky, she's going to laugh, she's real cool, she chill. And, like, that's what connects us. That's what connected people to me, and then that fan base just carried over as a professional athlete. If you had a way to help grow the game, what would it be? What were some of the things that you might can, you know, bring to the table? I think our biggest thing would have to be sharing our stories. I think that's where it goes missing. Everyone's great to know me as a basketball player. Oh, she can put the ball in the hoop. But outside of that, who is she? And it's like, okay, I'm connected to her because she's dyslexic. I'm dyslexic. I've opened up to that community. And it's so welcoming. But then now that young dyslexic girl wants to watch me play. She wants to buy my jersey. She wants to buy my candles. So things like that. I think if we can tell our stories, and it's not necessarily on the ESPN platforms, on like small platforms. I may know a couple, a group of people that may be able to help you share your story. Yeah, for sure. I think that's like. And you're saying that is extremely powerful because I feel that applies to artists as well. For sure. Young artists sharing the knowledge, which is the true wealth. So when you're a young artist, you don't have to go in and feel like you have to meet an attorney this week and close your eyes. You don't have to go in and feel like you have to meet an attorney this week and close a deal two weeks later. You actually could study from knowledge that Gunna shared, Rosé shared. Now, Rosé, how do you feel being independent? You ready to go do your thing? I'm looking forward to this new trek we on. You understand? I most definitely enjoyed, you know, my previous, you know, experiences with Def Jam and Epic Records. And now we finna take it to another level. You know, and most definitely when you talk about being independent, it's, you know, totally about ownership and creativity. Thinking about ownership and talking about that, it's like, especially in the music business. The music business, even listening to rappers talk, you hear ownership and masters and all this shit. How has that affected the music business? Like, you've seen it too, right, Rosé? Most definitely. And I love the fact that that's the topic of the conversation. So as young artists, you know what they're going there speaking for. And not only that, now it's time to put in the work. Because what good is having your masters if they ain't worth shit? Exactly. That's a good point. Now it's time. Now it's time to turn up and go get it. Really go get it. Take this shit around the world. Owning the masters is cool. You got to put the work in. I know, like, for you, like, the process, right? Yeah. Now you got to make the masters valuable. Yeah. Like, we both was the number one pick. But once you're the number one pick, you get to this thing, it don't matter. Now you got to put the fucking work in. You got to validate why you was selected number one overall. Right. Like, yeah, we did. I did what I did at St. V. She did what she did at South Carolina. Okay, cool. Now what? Now what? And once you put that work in, it becomes priceless. You understand? Once it becomes something that nobody's ever seen before, it becomes priceless. Let me ask both of y'all. Do record labels still matter, in your opinion, in 2022? Without a doubt. They do. You can't say they don't. Most definitely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to most definitely, you got to put yourself in a position and establish a relationship that's going to be profitable, which is hard work. No four-year-old nigga coming from the streets, a quick advance is going to make you happy. They understand that. But now, whatever position you put yourself in, you got to work yourself out of. Rose ain't going to cry. We finna grind our way out of this until we own everything we want. And that's what we did. You already built an audience, so it just is money. And if somebody is lending you money, the terms of that loan that a record company provides is just outrageous. It's your money that they're giving you advance on, and it's like, and then they own the property. And I feel like the artist should always own the property, and the artist should give them a percentage for distribution, and it should work like that. Now, at certain times artists, you know, they want the bag, and if you want the bag up front, that's going to absolutely come with some penalties. But I think now, I know now, that the artists of tomorrow, they need technology behind them. They don't need managers so much, they need chief technology officers. So when you see NFTs and Web3 and the metaverse, you need to have somebody or a platform that is absolutely clear that you can plug into and reap the benefits of that. If there's 200,000 people that love you, you could make a fuckload of money. A lot of money. If you own the shit. But if you are signed to a record label that's 200,000 people who love you, you're not even going to really feel the impact of that financially. Some people be like, "Well, fuck the labels, we don't need labels." But you count these like really business partners, how I look at it, like you shouldn't say fuck the label, because they taking the chance on you, and they give you money, they taking the risk too. It's up to you to really make this money back and go make more money. And like, for like all like young artists who coming up. Like, I want to tell them just like, man, don't look at it as like, it's a bad deal, you're not getting what you want in the beginning, because it can always get better. I'm a contract killer. I call it like contract killer. You better believe it. You give me the contract. I'm going to kill it. Your point is working. And I'm going to get another contract. It's my terms, conditions now. Same thing with me. When you come into the league, you get a rookie scale deal. You don't have no, there's nothing you can do about that. That deal is already scaled. You're a rookie. Your deal is scaled. Three years, four year option, all that, it's scaled. If I put this work in, in these three, four years, I'm getting the max. And now you can tell me. I'm getting the max. Now it's on my turn. The meat and potatoes of it all is motherfuckers don't want to work. Everybody wants, everybody wants instant oatmeal. When that get on your nerves. That get on my nerves. You know it. No, no, no, no, no. That ain't what you want. Everybody wants instant oatmeal. Put this shit in the microwave and it should be done in a minute. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It'll hit your stomach and allow you to go to sleep, but that ain't what you want. Rosé, one of the illest things with you is you never felt like you were chasing. You've never chased a wave, a vibe, a fad or nothing. You've always been Rosé. Thanks. Like where's that come from in terms of just. It may come from the fact of dealing with being unaccepted so many years before I got on. I was ghostwriting and writing and collaborating with others, but I refused to make what was working for them for myself. That wasn't for me. And it took me months. It took you much longer to get on, but the reward was much greater. When we were at your listening party, you said, "I did this, I did that, but the most important thing is the lyrics." We're going through a phase now where it's all about vibes and that's being rewarded and the lyrics are being overlooked for the most part. And you're saying that to market yourself to an audience, you have to do X, Y, and Z. You could do 40/10 this. And I'm saying for a writer, you could write the hottest bars, the slickest shit, the dopest and the deepest, triple entendre shit, but if everybody's gravitating and incentivized towards vibes, then the writers are in the same situation that she's in because that's what's being rewarded. Have you ever put a verse down, sent it to a rapper, and come back and like, "Damn, I gotta change my verse." I would've made a few players change their verse. I would never say their name. I would've made them change their verse. That's what Rosé. That's all I ever did. That's what Rosé's about. Many people change their verse. I wrote a verse, two or three verses right then, just to let Kanye hit a vine. And I was like, this is my verse right here. This is the verse I want. He listened to it, walked off, came back an hour later, "Rose, I know you." You know, this is like the first time somebody ever told Rose, "I know you, you could go harder." Whoa. Because he's a producer. He's a producer. Hold on, so when he said that, what did you do? You know, Rose? You know, Rose? You know, Rose? I ain't used to that. How did Rose even respond to that? Oh, man, this might be like confusion. Right. You might have to get on a plane. This feeling like confusion. Right. Hold on. Because you like, he questioning what you wrote. You don't like what you wrote. That's what he really saying. Yeah. That's exactly what you saying. After he did three or four verses, like, I just dissected this. I looked at him. Yeah, because he went, vibed to it, came back an hour later. You know, I'm listening to this emotion. You done moved on. This is Rose. This easy. He came back, "Rose, you know I know you. This verse right here, you could--" and I looked at him, "What?" I go, "What?" I go, "What?" I go, "What?" "Don't even finish that. Just chill. Come back and holler at me." He closed the room. I said, "This nigga crazy." And I went back in immediately. Right then. And wrote that verse we heard. The verse you heard. He was right. Wow. He was right. That's why he is a great producer. Yeah. Without a doubt. He most definitely going to challenge you. Yeah. He most definitely going to bring, and that to me, to be great and make sure everybody that's in the room with you great, you have to challenge and not just accept. Is there anybody you've never done a song with? That you want to do? would like to? Of course, Sade. That's one of my favorite artists. Why? And why? Just the sound. That's your vibe, for sure. When I think about Maybach music, when I think about just the level of class, when I think about certain artists, when I think about a black queen, I think of Anita Baker. I think of Sade. I love how Anita Baker carry herself. I never met her. Sade. You feel me? Right. When I think of certain things, certain sounds, when I think of just the rapture. And what about you, Gun? Who's the artist? And why? Man, it's a few bros, for sure. We got a lot of artists. Why do you say? Just right now, because we just brought him on the spot here, and I really know a lot of him. I'm a real fan of his music. From way back, Port of Miami, all the way up to just, like, two times to the day, even when we just hearing bad songs that fuck me, you know I got it, like, I've been listening to him and having hits for years, like, years. And I know, like, me and him getting up, we're going to make us a few of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A few of these. We're creative artists. We play us. We tease. We tease. We tease. We tease. For sure. For sure. Because Anita Baker, Sade, that's up my alley, too. He's a player. I feel like my next album is going to be, like, on some more grown-level shit. He make that real grown-man music that, you know, like, hey, you can drink lean out of a glass. Yeah, exactly. Asia, what about you? Who you ever play with that you want to play with? Ooh, Candice Parker. Really? Why? Yeah, number one. I mean, I feel like she's the first player that looked like me that I'm like, oh, I could do this. Like, just to play alongside her would be, like, a dream come true. What about you, Bron? Who you want to play with? Bronny is number one on my fucking list. That's dope. He's number one on my list that I want to play with, for sure. You want him to beat you? You think? Nah, he can't beat me. Hey, Bronny. Meet your daddy, man. Not too long ago, I said, um, I asked him, I said, you want to, what you want to do with this? Like, you want to get to the pros? What you want to do? He's like, yeah. I said, why? He said, because I want to make a name for myself. Ooh. Yeah. And when I heard that. That's more motivating than money. Yeah. I was like. That's a bigger motivator than money. What you going to say to that? Nothing. I said, well, let's fucking get it. Let's get it. Let's get it. That's all I need to hear. What he said to your face is, I appreciate what you did, but I want to beat me. Yeah, and I love it. By the way, he changed his name to Bronny. I didn't. He changed his name to Bronny. He's LeBron James Jr. Yeah. Oh, you made him a junior. Yeah, I made him a junior. He's Bronny, though. But he Bronny. And he Bronny to the world. Yeah. He Bronny to the world. You know? Sure. Who else you want to play with? Um, in today's game, shit, man, there's some motherfuckers in today's game, but Steph Curry. Yeah. That's the one. Steph Curry's the one that I want to play with, for sure, in today's game. All time. Um. It's crazy, man. I love Scottie Pippen, bro. Really? Yeah. Scottie was, like, the shit. Like, I mean, obviously, MJ was crazy. Kobe would have been another one. But, like, Scottie Pippen and Penny Hardaway was, like, my two. Because I seen myself in them. Same how Asia just said what she just said. Yeah. Like, I saw myself in Pippen and Penny. Tall guards, point forward, get everybody involved, defend in all type of positions. But, like, right now, Steph. Why Steph? Man, I love everything about that guy. Lethal. Lethal, man. When he get out of his car, you better guard him right from the moment he pulls up to the arena. As soon as he get out of his car, you better guard him. Oh, start guarding him? Yeah, better guard him. You might want to guard him when he get out. Get out of the bed. The parking deck, I swear to God. He's serious. He's serious. Please guard him as soon as he got in the car. Don't let him touch that. There's some other motherfuckers, too. I love Luka. He's my favorite right now. Luka Cole. Luka bad. But he a lot like you, too, man. Yeah, yeah. Me and Luka, we good. And, Rosé, speaking of hooping, I know you love him. He's your man. You and Khaled, for the money, one-on-one, we need to know how this ends. I do. I'm dirty. You can move. Brother, you're a motherfucker. I'm in great shape right now. I'm okay right now. No, man. I'm doing dirty. You obviously own a bunch of Wingstops, Checkers. What made you go into that space? Wingstop, it was just really on some cool shit. I just wanted to pull up in the sports car with a date. Yo, walk in. Y'all know what I need. What you want? Yeah, Pete. Yeah, yeah. That's Pete. That's Pete. Thanks for listening to Uninterrupted, the podcast. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review wherever you're listening to the show. 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