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Hey Alexa play 98.7 ESPN tomorrow is hip hop 50. I'm going to be a stadium. I'm going to go straight. I'm leaving straight after ENN shots to my guy Thai butlers to come in and hold it down. I'm leaving at 625 maybe to get

a blade blade. You're right to the stadium. Yeah, of course, you know the chopper. I'm actually bar on the Yankee chopper shout out to the Steinbrenner. Thank you. They're going to pick me up. No, but I am I am going to get to introduce a few acts tomorrow. Bring it out ice cube. You're on the stage. I'm on the stage. But I don't have you ever seen any of you ever seen the movie. The great great iconic wrestling documentary beyond the mat. No, I think I saw pieces of it. You know, first of all for both of you. See it. Fint.

It is. Where can I consume this? Don't a WWE got a 24 seven like a yeah, but this is WWE that this is what made it cool. This is Netflix prime. You search where it's available. It could be who it's on one of them. It's it's 20 years old. But it was basically around 2000 and they followed like Jake the snake. They followed Jake. Yeah, they followed Mick Foley. Yeah, they followed Terry funk. Yeah. And a couple other people like it's amazing for a million reasons. But there's just one part where Terry Funks having his last

match. Terry funk. If you don't know, guys, it's a Texas for horsemen, baby. And a wrestling legend. He had his wars with the four horsemen and a million other people. And Terry Funks having his last match. And there's a scene where there's this local wrestler in Texas. And he's really sad because he doesn't get the phone call. He's friends with Terry to be a part of the show. And no one calls him. Terry comes up to him. He's like, you coming to the show later. And the guy's like, I'm not booked, Terry. I'm not booked. And it's like, no, I need you to be there. I need you to be there. And I was like, I'm not booked. You know,

the old rule, if I'm not booked, I can't be there. I'm not booked. Terry's like, you got to be there. Terry's the sweetest man. You got to be there. And then, and then Terry's just like, you want to referee me for spread heart? And, and the guy's like, no, the guy tries to play it off at first.

You know, he's like, no, I'm sorry. I already made other plans. But then within five seconds, he's like, of course, all of that was me and the hip hop 50. I told them I wanted to be a part of it. They didn't have a gig for me. I was like, guys, I'm, I'm busy Friday.

I just, I can't even go. That's how bad I wanted to be a part of this mold. Yeah. I'm like, I can't if I'm not booked. I can't be. I'm literally the guy in the scene. And then I get a call. And I said, like, you want to introduce

Snoop Dogg and Lil Wayne. I was like, you know what? Second thought I can make it up there. But they gave you say you say ice cube to ice cube Snoop Dogg and Lil Wayne. What I love about the ice cube stores. He represents everything that hip hop, hip hop can be right starting off as a rapper,

but also early in his years with boys in the hood and then being able to be, you know, the big three. I mean, he's, he's lived the whole, like, what you would think the hip hop life, right?

showing that you can also evolve as you go, you know, all all ready to, I mean, I want to talk to you Ninja Turtles to do is playing the villain.

Yeah.

Yeah, you got to do it. I got to do it. I got to do is hit a voice.

Do boy, like, you know, every care to you with the bad guy in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles goes, yeah, he's a fly.

But it's not what it's about. And it's, that's the thing when we talk and people like, you know, there's a sports show why talking hip hop because believe it or not,

they are a lot of times one in the same, the very parallel because it's about a, the come up, the brand, and then expanding on it to do more things and have a bigger impact on the world, the community, everything else. And that's really is what is, like an athlete is one thing. But what an athlete then becomes from that is a lot of times compelling. And you see it a lot in hip hop as well. It's sort of the same trajectory. And then and cube is one of them. He made a brand out of it. He expanded. He showed that he had a lot more depth and

just being just just a guy that can spit bars. I can also act. I can do other thing. And then running a business the way he ran it to great success.

That's the stuff that you admire. Ice tea been, you know, cop killer to being a cop for like 25 years, right? Even a cop longer than him. He better than rapper. You know what I'm saying? And I love that.

I started though a new city, right? Yeah. I watched it last night. That's the last night. I'm gonna shoot you so bad.

I gotta tell you, he's come a long way. This person. He's come a long way from New York City. Yeah. When he's like, you

remember that teacher you killed. That was my mom.

Yeah, he that was magnetic. That's what he said. When he said, I want to shoot you so bad that my is hard.

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