We kick it off starting with Anthony Joshua (prayers up🙏🏾) then get into his fight with Jake Paul (3:21), NFL Playoffs are set and the duo gives a playoff preview including who we think we see in the Super Bowl (6:58), some NBA Talk including the Lakers drama and Draymond Green walking off on the team (1:02:05), is sports betting being heavily pushed on the black community (1:16:24) is Paul George a first ballot hall of famer or hall of famer period? Is Paul George first ballot? (1:28:58)
We kick the pod off with some of the 2025 Music wrap up: who we thought had an MVP like year last year, the best producers, who we think are next up, and more in 2025 music(15:55) 50 dissed the let’s rap about it podcast and we break the bars down and Nick has a very interesting theory on why there’s never been any love lost between 50 and Fab (1:15:19), Drake allegations with Stake (1:52:40), our thoughts entering 2026 (2:03:45) and more
We kick off with Nick being able to tell who’s on the aux at his job and it leads to young music listeners and their taste and takes on music, a new development for Chicago and expansion to living quarters downtown, music reviews from Nas and DJ Premier, Conway, The Game, and De La Soul, James’ son fake sick day, and more!!!!
We spoke on wrestling and the state of WWE, our own survivor series line ups we would choose, NFL match ups and NFL talk: Mike Tomlin coaching for his job this weekend? Shedder and the Browns discussed as well. We then transition to NBA as well.
we walked in with zero topics in mind yet had such a full conversation on daring to dream, finding our purpose and time to find ourselves, grief, dad issues, our view of what this podcast can and will look like, believing in yourself, and more
We kick off the pod with some Wale joints for the intro before getting into his album review (start of pod) Wale delivers on “everything is a lot” as we break the album down from the song concepts, his artistry, and storytelling (14:06) Ransom and DJ Premier drops a project as well as Che Noir, Westside Gunn, G Herbo, (1:14:00), what we think it mean to not have rap on the Billboard charts right now (1:31:14), Freako “yours truly” revisited as well make sure yall check that out (1:40:38), our love for music and certain instruments lead us to a conversation about what version of Fab we like the best (1:42:49), our thoughts on posthumous projects/work coming out (1:51:15), dating outside your race/political view points leads to us discussing Rory’s recent tweets (1:55:54), hip hop being “regional” (2:19:49) , Stephan A vs Jasmine Crockett (2:25:27), us fining our voice and presence as podcasters (2:41:16), do I look high? (2:49:36)
Intro:
Wale- power circle (self made 2)
Wale- Change Up (FOLARIN mixtape)
Wale- 600 benz
Outro:
Wale- black heroes
Wale- Cassius
We kick the pod off with some Wrestlers who could’ve got over, then get to Gambling billups rozier as well as the NBA tipoff and our thoughts on basketball this season (4:06) NFL talk (40:04) we get back to Wrestling talk and discuss the most “talented” (“legendary” status) wrestlers (1:04:25) and Halloween passed so we talked about our Top 5 candies (1:25:10)
Verzuz between No Limit and Cash Money (11:14) Album reviews including Alchemist and Hitboy, Daniel Ceasar, Leon Thomas, and more (35:39) then we chop it up about the both of us going to see JID concert and James’ date at the Giveon concert review (56:51) some embarrassing stories starting with why James is giving up p-orn (1:20:15) and we touch on our thoughts on Black spirituality (1:26:22)
We start off with our condolences to D’Angelo’s family RIP and speak on his influence in neo soul, what mixtapes, if they were an album, would be classic albums? Nas and Jay Z back and forth even after the “Ether/Takeover” moment, wanting vulnerability before respect and then love, saying someone is “better” and also being codependent in relationships, Saweetie Escort allegations, Shoutout to Kai Cenat, Lue Masters “I Been Here Before” Album Review, Mobb Deep album review, Drake Lawsuit dismissed, No Limit Verzuz Cash Money, what artist is skating on thin ice for us as fans, Wale new single “Mirroronabenz” leads to a discussion on if you (today) would have anything to tell your former self (18+) and what would it be, gate keeping your favorite artists, Gil opens up about how he runs his business
Offset, Cozz, Victoria Monet and a collab from Ice Spice and Latto (9:43), DVSN is back (30:48), Destin Conrad’s jazz album (35:59) Teyana Taylor Escape Room (40:45) , Joey Badazz mixed reviews on the album (48:00) Westside Gunn album review (58:01) Mariah The Scientist album review (1:05:05) we wrap up Mariah The Scientists album review with some thoughts on her potential growth as an artist leads to when we formed our own music taste (1:11:27), Young Thug phone calls being released (recorded before his interview with big bank) (1:22:30), Drake new single and why people in hip hop media, the ones who are mad at his choices to do media, should just stop talking about him altogether (1:55:59), Quick hits: Jussie Smollet documentary, Weapons movie review, Jordan Peele movie “Us” got a revisit from James and a change in his review, Twisted Metal season 2 review, and focusing more on our health (2:08:37)
Sports Pod
After starting the pod off with a Chicago themed intro, we start off by talking about some of our favorite places we frequented as kids growing up in South C and Chatham (6:45), do you profile your uber driver? As well as the consequences of our actions not being the sole reason for our actions (33:07), muni long joking and the rest of the internet, including lyfe jennings, took it seriously (46:15), Lil Yachty egregious rap lyric (59:15), an update on Drake vs UMG (1:04:30), Cardi B new single “imaginary players” (1:27:52), Rome Streets drops a new album with conductor (1:40:09), Chance The Rapper “Star Line” album review (1:55:26), is the Freddie Gibbs and Benny The Butcher feud over? (2:13:00)
We kick the pod off with some jokes before we get into JID’s album review for “God Does Like Ugly” 10:20) Metro Boomin’ album review for “A Futuristic Summer” and Atlanta’s sound being dominant (53:18) A theory on where New York started getting divided musically (1:08:45), other music is highlighted as well we talk about Bryson Tiller’s disc 2 for his new album, Roc Marciano and DJ Premier drop an album, and Freako single “Mike Jack” for his new project coming soon (1:16:08) we address Ari Lennox’s comments on Martin and if this is an act of revisionist history (1:25:13) The division amongst us as black people and how we feel we can be better (1:3:20) What does growth look like in a relationship?(1:50:34) Nick’s Jorja Smith Concert recap (2:01:59)
The guys discuss the unfortunate loss we had in the black community with Malcolm Jamal Warner, our thoughts on Hulk Hogan, CP3 goes to the Clippers as Nickstradamus predicted, NBA talks, Shannon Sharpe fired from ESPN, Gil’s legal woes (news broke as we were podding) and more!!!!!!