Best of Rory & Mal: Week of 1/12
New Rory & MAL
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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This week on New Rory & Mal, we call out Mal for (kinda) being wrong about a surprise album drop, 9th Wonder gives his two cents about Mal's "Andre 3000 is overrated" take, Rory was correct about Mero being the new host for Hot 97's morning show, and Baby D joins the show from bed to give her reaction to J. Cole's album announcement #volume
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:23.1 | Guaranteed Human. The volume. What's going on, man? I'm good. How you feeling? I feel good. I feel like we should get right to it. Let's get right to it, man. I feel, I'm in a mood today. I feel some type of way today. I feel like you owe the culture some push-ups. Why? I feel like you owe it's 10 push-ups. For what? |
| 0:58.0 | Because on Friday, nothing dropped, but another variant of COVID. Mad albums dropped. Nah, I know, but one of the most anticipated albums of all time did not drop. Mad albums dropped. Mad songs, singles. I'm so happy to see that the wave is free. We'll get into the French and Max B tape. I don't know. I don't know. No, you didn't know. No, that's what everyone is saying. Moll did not know. I know. Come on, man. Don't do that. Don't do that. Christmas, we gave you a mulligan. Sample clearances or whatever. Yeah. But you were certain that something that we have been anticipating, which could only really be three people when you get down to it, if we're talking rap. |
| 1:02.0 | If you said across all genres, you throw Beyonce in there, whatever, but we were thinking, |
| 1:06.0 | and I guessed you were talking about Jay Cole. I don't think Iceman is done yet. I don't think Kendrick is dropping in the first quarter. So that would only leave one, which we assumed to be based off the clues that you gave us, was Germain Cole. So I feel, even though I would not speak for the culture, just in the room, I'm the only one with the mic that wasn't wrong in this situation. I feel like, yo, it's 10 pushups. |
| 1:27.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.3 | 10 pushups for the culture, just for getting us all excited. Had a great weekend, right? Rob Markman made a good point. I don't know if you're talking about you or not. But I feel like as podcasters, maybe we should get fine for misinformation. Why? Like we should put like, you know the swear jar? |
| 1:42.1 | We should do a swear jar across the board for all podcasters. |
| 1:45.4 | Listen, I owe a lot of money if that's the case. |
| 1:47.3 | Yeah, but if I said a name, that's different. But I did think I did, I did have very good intel that an album was dropping that we will all anticipate. Okay, I don't know what happened. I feel like this is almost like woman semantics because we knew based off the clues you were given there was really only |
| 2:02.0 | one person that it could have been okay who else do you think it could have been well I know who |
| 2:07.1 | I was talking about but I didn't say did they drop no okay why I don't know I don't know things |
| 2:13.3 | happened I don't know why it didn't drop but I have very very good conversations that it was supposed to drop. But, you know, things happen. So it is what it is. |
| 2:23.3 | Do you think I was wrong that one time. I'm sorry, y'all. I apologize. But I didn't give that information without great resources. That's all. Which, which I understand. I've been in that situation. Sometimes you get good information from great sources and things change. Yeah, yeah. You already went out there and said some shit. It's okay. I'm not like others in the culture where they don't, you know what I'm saying, apologize for their mishaps. I'm a man. I apologize, y'all. My work's still good my stamp is still good though you know what |
| 2:52.1 | saying players fuck up too yeah the work just got intercepted at the border that's all it's |
| 2:55.6 | Trump Trump is being all out here that announcement was your 92 bricks yeah now you're |
| 3:00.5 | crawling back it's okay it's all right it's all right we still here do we think that that uh |
| 3:05.6 | all right I'm done playing the guessing game I me personally thought you were talking about J-Cole. You did not say it was cold. I felt like you were talking about Cole. Whatever album it is, do you think maybe this Friday? Do we think it's just off, it was either last Friday or we don't even know? Is it just getting pushed a week? I don't know about a week, but it definitely was, again, off the information that I had, |
| 3:29.0 | it definitely was slated to drop Friday. |
| 3:31.6 | With, okay, with the falloff being rumored, not just with you, there was, there was, |
| 3:35.1 | you were not, you were the first person, not the only one that talked about what an album |
| 3:39.8 | was dropping Friday or around that time. With Iceman, |
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