Episode 339 | "Paying for Positions" (with Lama)
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
The Need to Know crew returns with laughs and real talk about checking in with your people before addressing ongoing Apple Podcast feed issues and why full episodes are temporarily on YouTube (0:00). Lama steps from behind the boards to share behind-the-scenes stories and the grind that brought him to the mic (6:30). The team debates rappers entering podcasting, the future of the medium, and how oversaturation is reshaping the space (12:40). They revisit the viral Jay-Z VERZUZ debate—stacking LL Cool J, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, and Future as potential challengers (22:30). Then it's Drake's rough week: alleged bot-inflated streams, gambling scrutiny, and Gracie Bond's viral claims, all tied back to the lasting impact of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" (33:50). The crew reacts to the GRAMMYs splitting the Country Album category after Beyoncé's win (1:00:00), folds in a quick look at award-show bias (1:04:30), and closes with thoughts on Big Sean and Jhené Aiko's rumored breakup and what honesty looks like in relationships (1:08:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, we are back, another episode of the Need to Know podcast, man. |
| 0:04.8 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:05.4 | What's going on, eh? |
| 0:06.0 | Me and this piece, man. |
| 0:06.8 | What are my guy? |
| 0:07.2 | How are you feeling good? You're good. I'm good. I'm okay. Okay. I'm okay. That's fair. I'm doing all right. I'm doing all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How are you doing this very loaded question now? |
| 0:19.4 | I tell the truth. |
| 0:20.5 | I like that. |
| 0:21.2 | Yeah, I tell the truth. |
| 0:21.9 | I actually appreciate when somebody answers how they actually do. How are you doing this very loaded question now? I tell the truth. I like that. |
| 0:20.9 | Yeah, you got to tell the truth. |
| 0:21.9 | I actually appreciate when somebody answers how they're actually doing. |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.6 | Like, I asked somebody the other day, like, yo, how are you doing? |
| 0:27.9 | And, like, just a very casual way. |
| 0:29.6 | And it was like, hey, I'm having a really bad day at work. |
| 0:31.9 | My boss is a piece of shit. |
| 0:32.9 | And this is why it's a piece of shit and I feel like this because he is like you know and all that oh wow I always I'm so |
| 0:38.4 | accustomed to getting I'm good right I'm okay I'm fine so it's actually nice to be answered when |
| 0:44.5 | you ask somebody hey how are you yeah facts I agree with that yeah yeah yeah but I'm doing well |
| 0:49.2 | I'm happy to be back back um there's a lot to talk about here on the podcast today what I do |
| 0:53.9 | want to say, before we |
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