Interview Only: Cordae discusses new album "Crossroads."

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I appreciate that. I like that, Yes, I appreciate that.

What's going on in one of the only core days here in the house with your Shirley stephen A. Smith Man. That's Saturday? Is that what that was?

Yes, sir, Saturday mornings.

Right, Saturday mornings. First of all, it's good to see you, my man. It's been a while. How you doing?

Likewise, brother, I gotta say too, Man, you know I've been I would like to think I'm an early guest of the stephen A.

Smith Show, our early friend. You had quite a lot of upgrades in this thing, my brother. It looks amazing.

It was great to start off with. Don't get me wrong, it was. It was already amazing, but now I was like, oh shit, like, okay, I appreciate it.

I appreciate it. I aim to please.

I aim to please.

Talk to me about you and where you feel you are right now in your career. Things seem to be going real well for you. Just twenty seven, you making things happen. How you feeling about things right now?

Man? I feel great, bro, Like I'm really blessed, and I'm sure you can relate to this.

Of like I've always had this mindset and still do about just like, all right, what's next? What's the next barrier to break? Through what's the next level. It's just even something amazing, shit just happening. I'm already thinking about like what's next, how do I take this to the

Like I set out and did a lot of things that I wrote down that I wanted to do.

Still a lot more to do, but I say all this to say, just presently, just very happy. Like my manager was just telling me, He's like, yo, you know, you sold like twelve million, twelve million.

I was getting ready through out the one of one of the awards, well won of Grammy, right mery My Bad, My Bad, My Bad, that nominated for Grammy, nominated for Grammy one of they sold about twelve million. I mean most people ain't doing that right now, How do you think you've pulled that off?

You know what, bro? One, I give all glory to God, honestly.

Two, I don't know, man, I'm blessed because like selling music and tour, I'm even more than like the twelve million records sold. I'm really proud of like being able to sell out a tour, you know what I'm saying, Because like now it's streaming and streaming to like numbers equivalent, it gets a little tricky, like I don't really know.

Like back in the day, it's like when.

Niggas sold twelve million records because twelve million motherfuckers went to the store and bought the shit. Now it's like streaming equivalents is weird. But with a show, it's like a five step process. In order to go to a show, you gotta pay for the tickets. They gotta wait in line, they gotta if they got kids, they gotta find a babysitter. So when somebody actually shows up at your daughter come

Bro, just pushing that pin, pushing the pin.

Did you take and I say a break, I'm thinking, mentally, did you feel at any point in time over the last few years, just with the climate that we're living in, the kind of stuff going on in this world that you needed to take a step back with think about the kind of things that you wanted to do moving forward. Or has it always been about the grind for you.

I don't think I've earned a luxury to take a break, but I got a break.

We all did in twenty twenty.

Yeah, and that was my time to where I was just thinking about, like, what do I really want out of this entertainment thing?

What is what is my goal?

And just being more intentional about everything. It's being more intentional about like my brand, what's the message, what's my mantra, what's my ethos? You know what I'm saying. And so I kind of gathered that in twenty twenty. But in twenty twenty, I was twenty three years old.

I'm twenty seven.

Like I'm a whole different nigga, now, you know what I'm saying, Like same persons, same value, same morals, but just like you know, I have a kid, like yo, it's all of these things transitioning. You know, even for the average American, for average person from age twenty three to twenty seven, there is a certain amount of growth.

So my bad, I'm going on tangents.

No, yeah, going thank you, think yeah, thank you something, all right, all right, take time, thank you.

Thank you. But I.

Got that break kind of in twenty twenty. So I don't think I haven't tooken any breaks, like it's time in between albums. But I won't even counted as breaks because let's say my last album I dropped it January twenty twenty two. I toured all of twenty twenty two in twenty twenty three, and then as soon as I get off tour, I'm in the studio twenty four to seven, and so that hasn't really been a break since I started it. But again, I feel like I haven't earned a luxury of the right for You talked.

About having a list, at least a mental one, if not a literal one, where you just checked off the things that you've done, Yeah, looking ahead to what you've wanted to do. What have you done in your mind that you can reveal to the audience. What is it that you had on your Listen, you said, all right, I want to do this, check I've done it. What has that been?

You know? What I had?

Getting the studio with Doctor Dre on the vision board and I was able to do that, you know, early on shout out to my boy Anderson Pack.

He actually introduced us.

You know how I feel about Doctor Dre.

Yeah, bro, Yeah he's real special.

No, he's real special.

Nah the goat. And it's funny too.

I had like double ExLF freshmen on the early vision board of mine. I had Grammys on my vision board and I actually had like and I put Egott on my vision board and so like, it's funny that I've won the Emmy first because that's the e So it's like I'm assuming, I assuming, you know, Grammy's next been Oscar's Ben Tony, So you know, the Lord is want me to do it on his time and in that time.

And so that was one of the things, you know, being on the Steven A. Smith Show.

You know what I'm saying, one of my twenty twenty four goals, you feel me and yeah, bro, just just one step at a time. But I feel like, you know, when you write things down, it becomes and.

You're looking at it every day.

It gives me personally, like that extra motivation to keep it going. But just a remind of like what I'm doing this for because you know, this entertainment shit is like it's treacherous, bro, How it's crazy.

How treacherous is it now compared to what it was, say even four or five years.

Ago for you man?

You know what, it's completely different even now, Like I'm still fairly new to this shit, it's only been in it since twenty eighteen, but it's completely changed.

Like even the rise. I feel like this is one of my points too.

We are in a podcast epidemic right now, Like too many of them, yes, nigga, Like we don't need that many more podcasts, like straight up like of people that's missing formed. They're spreading misinformation, you know what I'm saying, Like people like you've been doing this obviously, been doing this a super long time, Like you've earned the right to have your own platform and to speak on things

They're stealing other people's content, stealing content.

It's not original.

They're not doing any research, they're not fact checking things before they're speaking, and they're actually getting platforms an audience that are But we're in a.

Very like sheep, like a group think world in the system.

And so you got kids who might not I have even heard anything about a certain subject, and they're getting the information from this podcast who may have millions of subscribers, and they're giving them the wrong information. They're not fact checked in like even like a lot of these music review podcasts. And it's like, Yo, it's this little like and it's not a race thing, but it's more so

Ellmatic came out, but you want to make a.

Hip hop podcast.

But you know when Illmatic came out, you know what I'm saying. You don't know when Ready to Die came out.

You don't know, and you ain't willing to admit an acknowledge what you don't know. You're trying to pretend like you do know.

You know what I'm saying, So you have you haven't earned the right to make a hip hop podcast. Not again, not a race thing, but you haven't done your research. You haven't done the education, you haven't done the programming. You know what I'm saying, Like, I love this music shit Like I don't study the greats, you know what I'm saying. And so yeah, people, Yeah, I feel like we're definitely in the podcast epidemic.

You got a new single out, Noe, mad as Fuck.

Yes, that's the title of it.

Is that one of the things you mad about?

Absolutely? That's what else?

Let me see because I imagine you know, you're a deep thinker, and I imagine you're mad about more than one thing.

Yeah. Absolutely. You know. I'm gonna quote a good brother, James Baldwin.

He said, to be black, and I'm paraphrasing it, but to be black and politically not politically where, but to be black and socially aware, it's to be enraged all the time.

You know what I'm saying.

And so I'm gonna take that quote as a genesis of mad as fuck. But mad as fuck isn't It's not that my song isn't that deep.

But yeah, just a bunch of shit, just like.

I mean, we encounter things every day that make us mad, you know what I'm saying, Whether it's traffic, whether it's you know.

A bunch of shit.

You see some stupid shit people are saying online about it only even gonna be about you, about whoever. You know, the spread of misinformation, These bullshit podcasts that we're going about.

Yeah, a bunch of shit, you know what I'm saying.

A bunch of people have asked me, They said, Steven there.

How do you do it?

How do you do what you do? Every day? You on television, you know, you're doing your YouTube show, you got your podcast, you got all of this going on. They coming at you all the times.

People, How you deal with it?

I said, first of all, not a nine percent of the time. I don't know what the hell they talking about because I don't read it. I don't pay any attention to it, because I know the objective is to distract me from what I'm trying to do. Absolutely every now and then I might listen to it, j just to continue to develop my alligated skin, to show myself. I can take it, you understand, and you march forward. Sometimes the haters inspire you more than you realize, and

Where do you.

Find yourself doing in order to get through it, because I imagine, I don't give a damn who you are. If you successful, somebody got something to say. And obviously you're a successful, brother, so people got stuff to say.

Appreciate you. It takes success to no success, brother, how about that? But what was I finna say? You know what it is too.

I feel like our brains as as an artist, entertainer, anybody with a platform and just human being, our brains are more centered and engaging to negativity, unfortunately, especially when it's about us. So you may have ten thousand comments that's like yo, Steven, that you the man, go you done did this, but your brain is automatically gonna pay attention to the five hundred comments. It's like bulls snig sucks. But you know what I'm saying, And that's for every entertainer, artists, whatever.

So I say all this to say I try to keep that in mind.

Like, fortunately for me, it's been a lot more love than negativity, So I try to just focus on the love and then too, like you said, like I don't even pay attention to that shit. Like I have Instagram on my phone, I upload it, I get my news like it's like you read the news and shit.

I read the news.

If I got to upload a song or post whatever, do that and I delete the shit, and I try to only have it on my phone, like for that purpose to read the news, get updated on what's going on in the zeitgeist in the earth post. If I got to and then just delete it.

You don't get as much hate nearly as some other artists will remain nameless. I'm not gonna throw no shade on them because they don't deserve it. But you get a lot more love than hate. Why do you think that is?

Because that's what I pay attention to. This is from my synopsis, you know what I'm saying.

I'm sure there is, like you know, like you said, haters out there, negativity, but I only try to pay attention to give energy to the love.

You know. So I'm not gonna just say.

It's just all love. Everybody just loved. Everybody fuck with me. I know it's obviously it's not gonna be that. That's impossible for any artists, But I just try to stay focused and give energy to the love versus like the negativity, because I've given too much energy and thought to the negativity and it make me like second guess myself, doubt myself, overthink, and like when I just delete Instagram, Twitter, social media and I just live my actual life just like Nigga.

Like, are you a proponent of folks getting rid of their social media accounts not even having anything to do with it? You ain't got on social media account, you don't know what the hell is going on, you don't receive any of you, you don't pay attention to any of it. Are you a proponent at least in some cases of people just having absolutely positively nothing to do with social media?

Man, my plan is to do that.

I feel like I'm not quite there yet where I want to be, and it would be behoove of me, and I not behoove it would I'll be a fool to do that, not a fool, But it wouldn't be wise if I would do that right now.

Because your audience is there.

Yeah, my audience is there, and there's other ways to you know, direct to consumer ways, but yeah, my goal is to get to a place in my life and my career where I don't have to entertain that at all.

Gotcha?

You know, because it has positive you know, positives, but you know, I feel like the negatives is pretty large.

You originated WHYBN group. I mean it was filled with rappers, record producer, social media personalities and promoters from different parts of the country if I remember correctly. I want to know how all of that came together and was that the key to the group's success, the fact that everybody came seemingly from a different genre.

Well, you know, I was like probably the last member of Why Being. Honestly, it was started by Why being my Mayor and Why being Blizzion while being Almighty Jr. And they started off on the Xbox like they were all friends together on the Xbox and shit, and you know, they came up and came together, and I was just cool with Not Mayor. We had a mutual friend and whenever it was in the same city, we would link if you would. And so you know, I gotta be honest, like, Nah,

Light, you know when he didn't have to, and he owe me that.

So I got nothing but love for him and that group and like what is and what is done for me? And like you know, and just not even more so what it's done for me, but like that time in my life, you know what I'm saying, the ushers being young, making music, traveling the world and stuff. So that was really like not mirroring them, that constructed and construed that whole thing.

You talk about what was done for you? What do you believe you've done for the music industry? Hip hop?

Hmm?

I feel I don't know, this is gonna sound narcissistic, but you know I'm asking you, you know what I'm saying.

Only all you're doing is answering the question that's that day.

But I feel like I feel.

Like I bring a much needed balance to music because it's a lot of dark ship, you know what I'm saying.

And you know that's.

Cool, like how you express yourself. You know, Edgar Allan Poe is dark, you know what I'm saying. Length and Hughes had some dark poems every now and then, right, So like it's a lot of darkness and music, and that's fine, you know, like because that's how you're expressing yourself, and you got to talk.

About your environment. I mean, I got a song called matis Fuck, I got a song called broke as Fuck.

Sometimes you gotta let that get out of you, you know, like like how mad as Fuck came about. I don't really complain too much, to be honest, I don't like.

Well, just because you ain't complaining too much, don't mean you ain't feeling it in your soul.

Yeah, exactly. I would like to say, I'm a we just talked about this earlier. I'm a.

If I complain, I like to be a solution based I'm a solution based complainer. Like I was at my homies crib and shit was playing a game, and I was just thinking of my head, like damn, this Nigga TV small ast shit, but I didn't want to see it there playing the game of shit like a thirty inch TV.

Like Nigga TV, not Today's DA's got to be at least seventy.

Five, That's what I'm saying. So I was just like I was thinking.

About it, and I was just laughing, like yo to Steevie's smallst shit like my boy like what what you laughing like? He's like, what the TV's small? And I was like, I was like, nah, But I say that to say I end up and I'm not. I don't want to say like, oh, I did this for my homie, but I didn't want to bring up that TV until I got them a new one. I got him a new one as like a housewoman gift. You know what I'm saying, because it's like, yo, I want to come.

But what I think I've brought to hip hop is just like.

Just positivity amongst so much dark, refreshing sound among so much dark shit, authenticity and and just realness.

I just be myself.

I can't be compromised. I'm gonna always say what's on my heart, whether right or wrong. I'm gonna always say what I feel, whether right or wrong. I'm not don know politically correct vibes. I'm not for no huge corporation. You know, I'm not here to like, oh you you know entertainment. You know you gotta be smart, right, don't

Right and a fresh sound and yeah, just some light.

I could be wrong. I don't recall hearing you much. And I'm gonna bring this up and I'll only go as far as you want me to because this is your business. But congratulations, you've got a baby, thank Osaka. I mean, she fantastic tennis player, fantastic okay, But we know her story in terms of what she had to go through with fans and what she had to deal with.

What was that like for you, well, to be honest, when she was going through all of that stuff, like I'm on tour, while she's on tour, I'm on tour, you know what I'm saying. So you know, it's not the best when you can't be there in person for somebody, you know. So it kind of sucked that she had to, you know, go through that by herself.

And it's funny.

My first time going to a tennis event regardless, was at the US Open.

I was just like I saw you.

I felt uncomfortable, you know what I'm saying. Like, I was just like, damn, like yo, this feels like a lot of classism, you know what I'm saying, a lot of racism. I would say more classism than racism. But I just felt like a black sheep, if you would. And so I can only imagine as a black tennis player, I'm just a bystander in the crowd, and I felt like hell out of place, you know what I'm saying. Like I said, I'm myself in every venue, I'm ass.

I'm like, let's go Nigga US Open. This all cut and niggas like what you know.

So I say all that to say, yeah, man, it's hard man, because it's like when you're like and it's not like a team sport either. And I don't want to speak for her because I don't know what she truly felt, and I don't want to be eyeing her pr and I'm not her spokesperson, so I don't want to misrepresent her. But I can only imagine what it feels like when you're off there by yourself. You don't got teammates, you can't even damn.

I think they can just now start talking to the coaches. So yeah, it's easy for them to fill alone out there. And that's a whole other layer when you add you're.

A person of color, you know what I'm saying, Well, then you're a loud person of color when you speak, you know your ideality.

And it broke my heart to watch her go through that. And this is the last thing I'll say about that, because you have a right to know, you have a right to know where I stood on that issue. On one hand, I felt incredibly sad for her for having to go through it, but I covered sports and it seemed very normal to me. What people were doing. In other words, she's great. We don't want her winning. She busting people as.

Left and right tennis court.

Anything that we could do to distract her and to stop her from continuing the bus how you know what for the first for the athlete that we're rooting for, that's what they were going to do. You're Washington Commanders fan in football, right, Well, you go to you have met Life Stadium, An't nobody root for them? You go to Dallas, Ain't nobody rooting for them? So I was saying to myself as a sports fan, as wrong as it may be, there's no way to escape that because

I feel like with tennis is different because it's such the culture at a tennis MATCHSS like, nobody don't say nothing.

You know what I'm saying.

It's very like you speak when I might be the wrong representative because I've only been a not too many, you know, save here.

But I feel like sport yeah yeah, yeah exactly.

But the culture is just like quietness. You know what I'm saying. It's like quietness, you know. So it's very It's a club sport. It's a very elitist sport. It's how the vibes I get from it.

So everybody don't feel invited. I say the same thing about golf. Yeah exactly, I don't necessarily feel invited.

Yeah, so hecklers aren't as often in that sport as it is like basketball football, and whether you know heckler's right or wrong, like you said, it's a part of the game.

But it's just much more of a standout in tennis. Sport is super rare.

Versus basketball niggas like, hey, nigga, you suck every day, you know what I'm saying. And so just going back to just athletes in general and how they should deal with that, I feel like everybody has their own process.

I mean, you got headphones. I guess where you're playing, you can't put on headphones. But I don't know.

It's like everybody I don't have. I'm not gonna I'm not an athlete, you know, So I don't want to give athletes advice on how they should deal with fans, hecklers and things of that nature.

Like when I'm performing, it's all fans in there.

That's where I was going. Is it all fans when you're performing?

Yeah, because they had to pay for a ticket.

Like when I'm doing a cord A headline show, Like that's what I'm speaking of.

It's all they literally pay to see me. It's nobody else there but but me. So it's like literally like all love and admiration.

Now, let's say when we do a festival like a Coachella, Like Coachella is like a hundred other artists, you know, it ain't gonna be I haven't got any like Booze. Fortunately, I haven't got you know. I feel like I put on a really damn thing.

You would do if you did get Booze? How do you think that would affect you?

Honestly?

So, the equivalent of Booze to me performing is a is a dry crowd.

You know what I'm saying.

They're just not in act giving it back to you.

And in that case, brother, I put in both of my in ears and I just treat it like its TV performance. I just put on my in ears. I still give a great performance. I rock through it and I get my money.

You address a lot of sociations. I'm thinking about Crossroads, your third albums coming out November fifteenth. I ain't forget that, worry about it. I'll be pumping that over and in the days we theys to come, make no mistake about that. But I want to ask you, because you you address a lot of social issues, yes, sir, in your music, how do you decide what issues you're going to address?

Just about what's most important? What connects with me the most? On the day drop Saturday mornings, it was when the police killed this black woman. Okay, I can't think of the name off the top.

Of my head, and I want to sit down to research.

But I say all this to say I had to drop a single on the same day that that happened, and part of me was like, Yo, this is crazy, this is fucked up. Like yeah, we gotta protect ours, we gotta protect our black women, Like.

This is like, oh, this is crazy. This is crazy, you know what I'm saying.

And part of me was like, I didn't want to post it because I didn't want to seem like I was pandering on the day I dropped a single. It just happened to occur the same day. But I'm like, nah, I know what my heart was at. This really affected me, This really fucked me up. I was raised by all black women. I got eight aunts. You know what I'm saying, My mom Like, so I say all this to say just things that connect with me personally. You know what

To speak on You fly under the radar, Yes, sir, in a lot of people's eyes, you're pretty much under the radar. Number one? Is that intentional? Number two? How do you pull it off considering the level of success you enjoy?

You know what, It's definitely intentional.

Because even this is my first interview for this entire like, I'll roll out. You know what I'm saying, And because we have a relationship we've been locked in for years.

You know what I'm saying. I feel like it was important to do it on this shelf.

You know now, I appreciate you for giving me the space to speak, but yeah, just being very intentional because I don't want to oversaturate myself and now I don't want to mince and waste words, you.

Know what I'm saying.

I feel like a lot of people just be talking just for the sake of talking, you know what I'm saying. And like I was going back earlier of like it's too many podcasts, Like can it really be that many opinions about other things that's going on? Like, so I just try to offer a unique perspective on things, going back to the music question, whatever, I feel like I can offer a unique perspective on something that hasn't been

With somebody who's one of the greatest players in the world. How you gonna how you're gonna live a low profile for you got somebody that loss yeah yeah, yeah you yeah, yeah, Like ain't like she out there doing her thing and you you you you home, you know, working a nine to five. Yeah, yeah, yeah, how you pulling that off?

Man?

You know it's funny she moves she moves even lower than me, like in the sense of like low keyness, you know what I'm saying.

And so yeah, man, just I don't know, just being intentional.

I feel like this being intentionalble about everything, even when I go out in public, Like my hair.

Is the dead giveaway when I wear.

My hair when I'm like out like this, I walk, I gotta take a hundred pictures and I'm fine with that.

It's super cool. But like y'all just wear dude rag shades, you know, masks. So just being intentional.

You know, I'm gonna throw something out to you. I want to get your opinion on this because you brought up the you know, like the invasion of the epidemic podcasts, epidemic and stuff like that. Absolutely, here's what I detest about it, Like this shit here has earned they ain't given I put in. I put in decades before I decided to do something like this. It's not the fact that people have podcasts. It's exactly what you pointed out. It's what they're doing with it. I'm seeing cats and

Honestly, I'll be like, man, get your money, bro. I don't got an ounce of hater in me. Like, yo, get to it, bro, that don't got nothing to do with me. It is enough, fan, Like I said, it's enough everybody. It's enough for everybody.

I am blessed. Bro. I've done three headline towards across the world, all.

Of them sold out. You know what I'm saying. I do very well for myself. It's like, okay, like.

I don't get it.

Like even like when I have like friends and family that do music and they play it for me and I'm like, yo, I'm ana my pin.

But I am one human being. Bro.

It's artists out there that I think are garbage juice, bro, straight garbage juice, but they doing a thing. You can find the audience. We're in the age now. Just find your niche audience. Cater to them, and they're going to tell their like minded friends about it, you know what I'm saying.

And so seven billion people in the world.

So when I see an artist that's like garbage juice and they're like going crazy and blowing up, It's like, yo, get yours absolutely, because gold, don't get old, and like longevity, those that's supposed to be here always stay here.

Got you. That's another point that's good. That's a good phrase to live by. Crossroads. Back to that, what can fans expect.

My best work yet?

Like my whole model, like I was telling you earlier, has just been pushing that pin, you know, Like production wise, I think this is my most tasteful beat selection out of all my previous projects.

And I just been pushing that pin. Like it's some songs.

While we wrote the verses eight times, and I might end up just going back to.

The very first verse.

But the fact is I he wanted to push my pendancy if I can take it.

Further some verses.

I out of the eight verses, I row, I take a piece of this, piece of that, piece of that, piece of that, and that becomes the verse.

But because once music.

Is out, it's out, bro echoes into eternity forever. Once it's in the zeigeist is there. It's no going back. And so I just sleep a lot better at night knowing that I put my all into it and I try my very best to push it to take it to the highest level.

I can, Like creatively.

And my model right now the last year has been if I had a time machine, I go in that time machine and play the music back for sixteen year old Karda. Is he impressed with the music, not with oh my god, I made it, I got and music. Grammy's out of there, so millions of records like nah, it's just like I just go back in the time machine playing the music he needs to be impressed of, like yo.

I was able to get that good, like I was able to create something that's good like wow. And if I.

Don't think it impresses sixteen year old Korda, then it's gonna stay in the vault.

I've never met an artist that don't have an opinion about sports. Come on, so I'll let you get on out of here. Let's do what the hell is on your mind about the sports world. Let's get that out there. First of all, what's on your mind? Is it NFL? This is it NBA? What's on your mind most both of them?

Man, I'm tapped into the NFL. I see the.

Jets just got yellow GMS Aaron.

I don't know what it's gonna do for them. With Baltimore Kansas City Buffalo just got.

Yeah, that's a big pick up for them. Yeah.

Now, commanders, I see the Panthers. You know, my dad's a big Panthers fan, so I grew up heavy on.

Panally my condole sisters, your dad.

Yeah, man, Yeah.

Horrible French, horrible, Yo, the g we have the worst GM in sports.

How the fuck excuse my French. But it's the only way to say it. How to fun I'm saying excuse my.

French thirty minutes in an interview, right, But Yo, how the fuck do you trade away Christian McCaffrey for two seconds?

How do you miss that badly? On Bryce Young compared to c J. Stroup. Now, I know Bryce Young coming out of Alabama was all world, but damn you see how small he is and and and you look at the offensive line it's supposed to protect it.

I mean, I spent a million dollars. They spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the offensive line.

And then they want to talk to me like I can say something different than what I'm saying. I'm like, I can't help you. I mean, it's just that damn bad. Now we'll say this about your commanders, Jaydon Daniels. Yeah, Jadon Daniels, true, I'm trying to lay low because I don't want to jinx M. I don't want them to get hurt like r G three got hurt.

Don't bring.

I don't know, don't don't do that. Don't do that, don't do that. Don't bring up my man Rob like that.

Don't do it.

I'm doing that. We're gonna We're gonna let that go. But I'll tell you this, r G three was big time, not nearly That brother was special, no doubt about it.

For sure.

Jaden Daniels, you believe in him, absolutely, one hundred percent.

I rebuke all r G three energy.

Jesus rebuke now, Jaden Daniels the one. You know what this reminds me of, like just that excitement. They didn't do what they were supposed to do. But I remember just being in sixth grade, we had like Jason Campbell, like Hugh Lee saying, Tanna Moss Clinton.

Portis our ba handsworth.

You know that for the season started, Shad.

What a monster.

Oh my goodness, but that squad just had me so excited before the season started.

Now they went eight and eight. God, ras Sean Taylor soul.

But I say this to say, this commander's team, and it's looking real good for I think we got.

Rid of Dan Schneider. We had to get heat that something. Yeah, we had to get he was.

I don't even know he in the country. He won't come in and cut away.

Yeah, he was cursing. Man, like we good.

I know that. Listen, Josh Harris a billionaire. You paid over six billion dollars for the franchise, but part of that ownership group is serving Magic Johnson. How are you feeling about that?

I love it, man, I love it. This is this is great. Now they need to buy the Wizards too.

They don't own the Wizards, No, they don't. You do know this. They almost as bad as the Carolina Panthers. They might be, they might be worse. Yeah, well, but I mean the only thing you could say is that at least Carolina only puts us through seventeen weeks in misery. The Wizards put us through eighty two games.

And this ship, yeah, man, it's the Wizards is.

Bad all right? So who you got in the NBA this year?

NBA? I like the Masks. I think that No, let me.

Go ahead, go ahead. They just got the ass whip in the finals that you bringing up because they got Clay Thompson.

Man, I think he got a bone to pick, man, he got a point to prove, and I feel like people been playing with him.

I feel like, oh, he's big time. You know, he's big time Hall of Famer, one of the great shooters. But they think he lost the step. Golden State thinks he lost the step defensive.

And now he's the third option versus the second OPA.

If he's open, he's gonna make shots.

He's gonna hit that he got and Kyrie handing it off to him.

Here's my issue with Kyrie Irving spectacular, spectacular throughout the years. Put on a show in the playoffs, it was absolutely sensational. In the finals in Boston, he forgot how to play no. No in Boston.

We ain't gonna do that. Look, I'm gonna tell you that's my brother in real. Okay, I'm a little bias. I'm a little biased. I'm a little bias. That's my that's my tribe for that's my main man.

I got a lot of love despite what people think. We had our disagreements, but I respect the hell out of him and I got a lot of love for him.

And going back to the point of like that courage and that willingness to speak his truth.

He did. No political correctness.

He did.

And I feel like the entire world and you said this publicly owes him apology.

You know what I'm saying, Like people owe with this man in apology because he stood.

On his beliefs and his morals and we got to reward that as a community.

And what you sit in here, I look right in the camera and I'll say this, Okay, I got on him, but I got on him because I got tired him missing them Damn games. He's too great for me not to watch you play. He's too great. But I was never of the mindset, yo, take the vaccine during the COVID pandemic because it's the vaccine. I was of the mindset, yo, Kat and Brooklyn because of you, James Harden and Brooklyn because of you do what you gotta do to make sure you win in the chip in Brooklyn. That was

That I appreciate it right there.

My man. I'm proud of you, man, keep making it happen. Crossroads drops November fifteenth, All the best of you, man, always home here for you one brother.

I appreciate you. Thank you. I'm gonna take this couch with me too, man.

I need the couch. Man, I ain't got your money. I don't feel like buying another one.

We ain't gonna talk. We ain't gonna do that, brother, But you know what, all right, We're good. We're good.

We're gonna do that, all right, all right, y'all, sir,