So folks, we'll get to all the news in just one moment, but I have to tell you that today is for me a sad day.

So a couple of days ago, fact by my friend Tom McDonald featuring me, dropped from the top slot on iTunes right after the Grammys.

After 10 days of pure magic, it is still the number one rated hip hop song in America on iTunes.

But rap Hanukkah is officially over. And so, with tears in my

eyes, I have a big announcement to make. To all the little homies who have been lifting me up

since I began this journey, it was an inspiring moment. Some have called it a musical supernova.

But now, the time has come for me to walk away from my art.

And so today, I have to announce I'm retiring from rap to spend more time with my family.

It's been real dogs.

And never forget, music never dies so long as the beat is in your heart.

RIP, Dr. Dr. Dr. Dredel.

I know, I know.

I've been getting a lot of sad messages from people, people who grew up with my music, people whose lives

were changed by the beats and by the flow. But, you know, I've decided to leave the industry

to a young generation of truly great artists, of truly great rap artists, artists like Ice Spice, she of the rhyming name.

So I have been informed reliably that Ice Spice is a human and that Ice Spice also has a brand new charting the song out.

No, she has not surpassed facts on the charts yet. But we can only hope that for the sake of Western civilization, eventually she is widely appreciated by the masses in the way that she so richly deserves.

So Ice Spice has a brand new song out.

And the nature of this song is, I think, quite deep and requires a bit of explication. You know, we've deconstructed the culture on this show before. In fact, it was probably my extraordinary rendition of WAP that led eventually to my hip-hop stardom, and then, of course, to my short-lived but brilliant career in the industry. And so we have to deconstruct a little bit of the culture that I am now leaving.

He's like, I'd be honest.

I was being drawn into, I mean, in that week, in that week where I was the top charting rapper in America, you know, I have to say, went to the clubs, sipping on some henny, was wearing the bling.

My wife, she was really getting into the lifestyle as well.

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