Nickles and Dimes (with Glasses Malone)
The Gangster Chronicles
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Surprise guest Glasses Malone falls through, and discuss shifting podcast formats toward limited series and more story-driven content. They critique today’s culture as manufactured, driven by false narratives and social-media follower “disconnect,” arguing microphones and screens reduce accountability and push people to perform rather than be themselves. Norm recounts arriving broke to Long Beach in 1990 via Greyhound, the shock of gang politics around Long Beach City College football, early hustling on Anaheim and Ohio, and learning neighborhood rules. They share memories of early Long Beach rap buz, honoring legacy artists like Ice-T and LL Cool J, supporting TDE’s long grind, the Power 106 era and Julio G, and a plan to build 3140 TV to better control narratives and restore hip-hop as a boutique cultural product, and asks the question...When did people become so plastic?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to the Gangsta Chronicles podcast, |
| 0:23.4 | the production of IHeart Radio and Black Effect Podcast Network. |
| 0:26.9 | Make sure you download the IHeart app and subscribe to the Gangsta Chronicles. |
| 0:30.4 | For my Apple users, hit the purple mic on your front screen, |
| 0:33.2 | subscribe to the Gangster Chronicles, and leave a five-star rating and comment. |
| 0:36.6 | But you already start recording it without telling me, how are you just going to start recording without telling me so I can start the show up the right way? This is your show, shit. I mean, even though I've been here since the first day. Shit, it's all good, bro. Man, you know what, to be honest, with you willing to get a pie together in about probably six or seven months, huh? You've been mad at me for a long time. |
| 0:55.7 | I'm pretty sure how much of a dick I could be, so. Well, no, I wasn't mad if you were nothing like that. It was just... How to hell we ain't pired at seven months then? I told you somebody brought that up. How you still ain't pied? I'm like, I don't know, man. man i just had a lot of stuff going on man you see i can't even get eighth to show up to the damn show |
| 1:13.7 | well i got eight How you and still ain't pot? I'm like, I don't know, man. Man, I just had a lot of stuff going on, man. |
| 1:11.5 | You see, I can't even get eight to show up to the damn show. |
| 1:14.3 | I got eight. I'm his crippling for today. Well, you know what, man? I shouldn't say that. I shouldn't talk bad about the homie. Man, he got eight got a lot of stuff going on, man. Listen, man, you got his young homie to fill in for him. |
| 1:26.6 | You know, I'll be La Awax today on this episode of Menace to Society. |
| 1:32.2 | You know what? |
| 1:32.9 | We should do... |
| 1:34.9 | Allow me to take over your pie sometimes, I don't want to, but it'd be a lot of stuff |
| 1:41.1 | I'd be wanting to talk to you about that. |
| 1:42.2 | I don't really get a chance. |
| 1:43.9 | The most brilliant thing you told me was that all these extended podcasts kind of are like a thing of the past. |
| 1:52.7 | So if you wasn't in on the other side. |
| 1:54.6 | But imagine we did like a minute, a minister's society limited series podcast. |
| 2:03.8 | That would be due. And and and tiring coming in right and we just talk around that time period that pod that everything |
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