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What's up?

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Everybody? Welcome to the latest edition

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winning rapper, actor, television

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Who better to talk to the one and only Snoop Dogg?

1:01

My brother? What baby? Easy?

1:03

What's the baby?

1:04

How you doing?

1:05

Man?

1:05

How's every big emotion? Man?

1:07

I'm I'm happy for you and your next

1:09

that y'all. You know, y'all look good.

1:11

You know I got to start it off by saying that because I know

1:13

you a die hard.

1:15

But you can come on the air.

1:16

You don't sound see it with this ship.

1:18

You sound because

1:20

my Lakers is in cancn.

1:22

That's okay.

1:23

I can halfway room for you. I just don't want

1:25

to see Boston when anybody but Boston.

1:27

So let's go, nigg Let me let me ask you this question.

1:29

I mean, let's stick on basketball for just

1:31

a few seconds here, because you know I'm here to talk about.

1:33

You know, this Bowl game that you got associated

1:35

with Snoop Dogg jenn and Juice doctor dreda hoole.

1:38

Now we're gonna get into that in a little bit. But

1:40

you brought up your Lakers first. I didn't do that. What

1:43

the hell happened to them?

1:44

Man?

1:44

We I mean five games never took them out. I mean

1:46

they didn't get swapped like they

1:48

did in the conference finals last year, but then they didn't

1:50

get out of the first round this year.

1:51

I'm gonna tell you what we did.

1:52

We saw for them up for the timber Wolves, And

1:55

if you're watching, you could pay attention to what I'm saying.

1:57

We showed all they little poles, all their weaknesses,

2:00

and we didn't have the height to deal with them, and we didn't

2:02

have the the young gangster

2:04

to deal with them. Now they up against

2:06

somebody that's not afraid, that don't know nothing

2:08

about nothing, but we just finna kill everything

2:10

in front of us.

2:11

I like a I love how you get down. We

2:13

didn't have that. We had the makings

2:16

of and we had spurts of it. We had to leave.

2:18

We was up by twenty and we lost. They beat

2:20

us two games with last second shots, So

2:22

they let you know that we wasn't bad and we

2:24

wasn't far off. We just didn't have that killer

2:26

instinct that the Timberwolves got. When

2:28

they get up they killed. We let people

2:31

come back.

2:31

How you feel about Darvin Ham getting fired.

2:34

I don't think it was his fault. But at the same time,

2:36

it's like, you know, the organization, I trust

2:38

in Genie. I know she does what's best for the organization,

2:41

and at the end of the day, that's what

2:43

the results has gotta be. We we used to win the championships,

2:46

were not used to being knocked out in the

2:48

first round, barely getting in the playoffs. Like

2:50

it's a it's a certain, you

2:52

know, level of attention and detail

2:54

that we had when it comes to Lakers, And

2:57

as a fan, she knows

2:59

that, you know, as fans really depend

3:01

on her and them to make the right moves and

3:04

no championship, no job.

3:07

I got nothing bad to say about Anthony

3:09

Davis and Lebron James. Lebron James

3:12

thirty nine years of age, twenty first season

3:14

he's approaching. I mean, this brother is

3:16

something special. There ain't no denying that

3:18

A d played seventy six games this

3:21

year. That's the first time he's done that pretty much

3:23

in his career.

3:23

Any balled out.

3:25

I didn't say nothing bad about him on Instagram.

3:27

I usually said a little something about him, but this year

3:29

I had to give all due respect because he played

3:31

his ass off. He showed up, he showed

3:34

out. You know, he came to play.

3:36

You know, he didn't have all those injuries, he didn't have those

3:38

street clothes on.

3:39

Charles.

3:39

You got to give him a new name.

3:40

Now, stop it all That't

3:44

call him that no more chuck.

3:45

He showed up, but the rest of these cats did

3:47

not as far as I'm concerned.

3:49

But that's why I think that bringing in the right coach

3:52

who knows how to go find that young talent.

3:55

This league is young. It's always been a

3:57

young league.

3:57

The veterans could get it to a certain level, then there's always

3:59

a young somebody, a young team

4:02

that come and knock them off, and they just feels like this year

4:04

is gonna be a bunch of young teams playing

4:06

for that ship. Because on the West

4:08

it's set up like that already. All of

4:10

them teams over there is young everybody.

4:12

The Nuggets, don't they The Nuggets is young.

4:15

If you ask me, they're not all right. And then

4:17

on the East, what you got? The Knicks got,

4:19

the Pacers, you gott

4:22

and Cleveland just.

4:23

Hit the believe hello, Donovan, put something

4:25

on them, put something on them. But

4:28

I'm looking at your Los Angeles Lakers,

4:30

and I'm just saying to myself, Look, i

4:32

don't know what you can do, because.

4:34

I do good.

4:35

You can clear that locker room out, That's what

4:37

I'm saying. That's the first thing you can do.

4:39

Get rid of them players.

4:40

Get rid of the morns. That's not the ones. I can't find

4:42

you. Some shooters.

4:43

If we're gonna have a three point offense that we run

4:45

it, we have to have three point shooters. When we

4:47

had that team with Danny Green, Rondo and

4:49

White Howard and all them, we had shooters,

4:52

and we had big men, and we had a point going.

4:54

We gave up half of them for Russell Westbrook. Kyle

4:57

Kuzman. Okayous

5:00

all, well, we won a championship with Devil last

5:02

year on the squad. The shill Alex Caruso

5:04

walked away in free agency, went to ch Cargo.

5:06

That's what you gave away from Russell.

5:07

Westbrook, hey

5:10

Man.

5:11

Sometimes the cars don't fall what they should. You

5:15

know, it's like no disrespect to nobody

5:17

with that situation. It just didn't fit. Like

5:20

I don't think we had the right coaching to write anything

5:22

when it came to that, because you got to know how to coach talent. One

5:24

thing about great coaching. You

5:26

can have all the talent in the world, but if you don't know how

5:28

to coach it, then you just wasting time.

5:31

Sometimes you got to have a coach that can coach

5:33

all that talent. Look at Phil Jackson when he had

5:35

the talent, what he was able to do. Look at

5:38

certain coaches that you give him. I like the coach

5:40

from the Nuggets. I can't from him. He cocky

5:42

as fucked.

5:43

I like him. I thought he should have.

5:45

Got thrown out the other day Game

5:47

two because any other referee that

5:49

you running their face and cussing them out like that.

5:52

But then again I had to think.

5:53

I said, oh no, this referee saying

5:55

to himself, I'm gonna let you take this.

5:57

You gonna take this?

5:57

No, no, no, he said it to us.

6:00

I mean, he wasn't thinking that. He was talking shit

6:02

to him. You'll get out of my.

6:04

Face take this.

6:06

I thought I heard him say take the sass, whip it, but

6:08

I'm okay.

6:09

Felt it felt like that's why he didn't

6:11

do it.

6:12

He was like, you're trying to run to the locker room

6:14

and get out of here. Nah, you're gonna take all

6:17

of this. I ain't throwing you out. No, And

6:19

then the Murray thing that

6:21

right there threw me for a little.

6:23

Yeah.

6:23

I gotta bring it up because Patrick

6:25

Beverley throw a basketball, they give him

6:27

four game, that's right.

6:29

He throw a towel. Then he throw the

6:31

other thing, which could have an injury.

6:33

Is he is he rapping you?

6:34

Come on, man, you gotta give him one game. One hundred thousand

6:37

dollars don't mean nothing to a man that's making fifty million.

6:39

I agree, But how would you feel if Minnesota and Denver

6:41

going up against one another tonight in Game three

6:44

and Denver's on the verge of getting swept. And what

6:46

you do is you compromise him because

6:48

you take out their sharpshooter.

6:50

You're not compromising. He compromised hisself.

6:52

He did that.

6:52

This the NBA, These rules been there for

6:54

a long time. You can't throw none on the court and get fine.

6:57

You're supposed to get suspended. Ejacket. One of the two

7:00

has nothing to do with the game. What type of game?

7:02

And if it's the finals, if it's the last game, your

7:04

behavior is your behavior. If it

7:06

was if it was Draymond Green, what would

7:08

happen?

7:09

He got suspended for how many games?

7:11

At least a couple?

7:12

Okay, then in the playoffs the one game regularly

7:15

it's at least a couple.

7:15

See, you can't judge it like that.

7:17

It's like when the when the Super Bowl, when it Juju

7:20

got pulled man that they shouldn't have

7:22

called the flag at that time. He shouldn't have held

7:24

him. A call is a call.

7:26

Now, I'll say this about the referee. They make a lot of

7:28

bad calls and a lot of miss calls that

7:31

what are we gonna do about that?

7:32

How do we fix that?

7:33

At the end of the game, when they showing you the two minute report

7:36

and all the mistakes they made.

7:37

What's gonna happen to them for that?

7:39

Because the two minute report don't mean a damn thing. It don't

7:41

because you ain't doing anything. It's not like you retroactively

7:43

punishing them for messing up a call or whatever.

7:46

I mean, you stuck with it. So that's a problem.

7:48

They should just get rid of that because that's just making them look

7:50

weaker.

7:50

Now, you're my brother, and you know I got love for you, and I don't

7:52

mean to depress you. I care about

7:54

you, but I gotta ask this question.

7:57

You know, Anthony Edwards is in the West?

8:00

Mm hmm.

8:00

Luka, don Chick is in the West, right, Kyrie

8:03

Irving, It's in the West.

8:06

Denver still in the West. They

8:08

sent the Lakers home two years in the row. I

8:11

mean, when you look a

8:13

Sacramento Hell beat y'all four times

8:15

in the road the regular season.

8:17

Everywhere.

8:18

Look everywhere I'm looking. I'm Oklahoma

8:20

City. You see them young thoroughbreds.

8:22

We beat them three to one.

8:23

I'm saying, I guess what I'm asking,

8:25

Snoop, is that how

8:28

hopeful are you for the future? The Los

8:30

Angeles Lakers, considering what's lying

8:32

in their path in the Western Conference.

8:33

I'm hopeful if we can get us a Klay Thompson,

8:37

get us up.

8:37

That's what you're trying to do. You're trying to get Clay. I knew

8:39

it. I knew when you told me you had something to tell me.

8:42

I knew you kept that ship from me.

8:43

That's who you're trying to Well.

8:44

His daddy is Michael, who works

8:46

for the Lakers. It's an easy transit.

8:49

Just come on down the road, man. I mean, he

8:51

don't fit out there no more.

8:53

He don't fit out there, and you don't fit. I agree with you with

8:55

that because kamingas out there, this cat.

8:59

Out there, and he don't fit with him.

9:00

He need to be on the team when

9:02

he wide opened, and we love getting

9:04

him that look right now, he's fighting to get

9:07

the ball right, and.

9:08

That ain't what he do.

9:09

I know you were happy when Lebron came to LA,

9:11

but you know what you you love Kobe

9:13

Forevan always, God rest his soul, the

9:15

whole bit. How do you feel

9:17

about how Lebron go? There

9:20

you go? How do you feel about

9:22

how Lebron James has

9:24

represented Laker Nation?

9:26

He did that In the beginning, it was tough

9:29

because the Clippers kept beating our ass, and

9:31

Kawhi and them had the commercials and they owned

9:33

the city.

9:34

We had to listen to that shit every year. But the Clippers

9:36

still don't have a ring.

9:38

So niggas is in the same spot, y'all

9:40

was heying we was in the last time we talked.

9:43

But in the beginning it was rough because it

9:45

was like, we want a championship

9:47

right now, and it didn't happen right

9:49

now, and then when it did happen, they

9:51

try to put an asterisk on it, like, oh, it was in the bubble.

9:54

It's still NBA players playing the game, no matter

9:56

what you played. If you play at the Rutger, you play at the park,

9:59

if the game is a game, you got refreezing, it's

10:01

organized.

10:01

It's a game.

10:02

So we win that championship, and naturally

10:04

we want more because that's.

10:07

What we want. We ain't getting no time, so we want.

10:10

So he gives us the title that

10:12

he takes from Kareem, the scoring title. We

10:14

can live with that. Then he gives us the

10:16

little preseason title.

10:18

We can live with that. We're taking seem

10:20

were taking.

10:21

All that shit. Everything matters so

10:25

if the Knicks would have one that you wouldn't be happy.

10:27

I'd be happy, thank you. So stop playing.

10:30

Listen, listen.

10:31

I'm not taking then the title and the

10:33

bubble away from you, like like George

10:35

call, former coach, tried to do. I'm not doing any

10:37

of that. I'm just simply saying, y'all, they

10:39

haven't done anything else. And I can't see

10:42

with these young thoroughbreds how the Lakers gonna

10:44

be relevant in their future.

10:45

They gotta get some young dogs to match that. That's

10:47

the only way you can get it is you gotta match it. The

10:49

league is a young league now, it's moving forward.

10:51

It's fast as shooters, it's defenders,

10:53

it's leapers, it's caaraderie.

10:56

Like them young boys they play together.

10:57

And I'm starting to notice like either they had

10:59

a relationship in college, they had some sort of relationship,

11:02

and now they taking that relationship to

11:04

the big leagues. Because when I look at the Knicks and I

11:06

see them Villanova players and how they went to Philadelphia

11:09

and played like they was at home and

11:12

the fans was there, Like I'm watching the league

11:14

change. You would never have more

11:16

fans than your fans at

11:19

your stadium. And a playoff game.

11:21

Right this ship changing.

11:23

How's that happening? That's that's that's saying that the league

11:26

is young. And then I think about

11:28

Caitlyn with the women's basketball. When

11:30

I was watching the n C Double A, I was

11:32

watching men's and women and.

11:34

Both, she was doing the thing. She was Caitlyn

11:36

Clark doing that thing basketball, but not

11:39

enough to knock off South Carolina and doing

11:41

still.

11:41

You know, he got them dogs, she got them,

11:44

she got them.

11:44

That's what it's all about.

11:46

Beat me and you right now.

11:47

Ain't ain't saying much at this point, ain't saying

11:50

much.

11:50

Before before we go to commercial, I got to ask

11:52

you this question, man, who you got going to

11:54

the finals and win the NBA

11:56

Finals?

11:57

I got the Minnesota Timberwolves against

12:01

this.

12:01

Boston's gotta be Boston.

12:02

Nah, Which you think Boston gonna lose

12:04

before the finals?

12:05

Yes?

12:05

Oh, I don't think they

12:08

getting out of uh. They may get

12:10

past Cleveland, but I think the Knickerbockers can hit

12:12

him.

12:12

I really do.

12:14

Without Julius Randa, without Mitchell Robinson,

12:16

with aut Bogdanovich.

12:18

It don't matter that dog number eleven is a monster.

12:20

He hard to deal.

12:21

So you think Jalen Brunst is gonna carry the New

12:23

York Knicks to the finals.

12:25

I watched Steph Curry do the same thing, same

12:28

little point guard, moving around, dipping,

12:30

dodging, shaking and bacon.

12:32

They didn't think he could do it. He did that.

12:34

Look, man, don't get my hopes up.

12:36

Bro, I'm just telling you what I seen.

12:37

I've seen.

12:38

I didn't believe it when I seen Steph do it. I

12:40

watched him.

12:41

Plus stop pulling up from forty.

12:43

But I'm saying when it happened, it happened right

12:45

We was watching it happen, just like you watching it happen

12:47

with your team right now.

12:48

You're watching how he's showing up.

12:50

And the games that y'all lost, y'all

12:52

lost them games.

12:53

They didn't beat y'all. That's true.

12:55

That's true.

12:55

It's a big difference.

12:56

It wasn't beat on one leg. Though. It wasn't

12:58

beat on one leg. Max, He's no joke.

13:00

And now you got a situation where you look like a

13:02

damn infirmary and.

13:03

You can't coach the other team.

13:05

Steven, I

13:07

feel you on that. I feel you.

13:08

I don't care what's in your locker.

13:09

Are you ready for this? One who's

13:11

the new face of the NBA.

13:13

The new face of the NBA.

13:14

I think this is an easy one.

13:16

Anthony Edwards off the rep he

13:19

on another level and a classy guy

13:21

on another level. He's a classy guy like you gotta

13:23

respect his get down, like he know what this game

13:26

is, like him challenging KD and

13:28

doing all that. Then when they asked him about Jordan and all

13:30

him and how he deferred, like just the way

13:32

he carry himself, no off the court

13:35

situations, just a ball.

13:36

He's a great actor too.

13:38

He did a great job in Hustle. He did a

13:40

great job in Hustle. He was fantastic

13:42

in that movie.

13:43

He was he made me like him. I didn't know who he

13:45

was, and then I seen that movie.

13:46

I'm like he Then I seen

13:48

him in the USA balling with him and I'm like, Okay,

13:51

they need to put him on the team with the big dogs

13:53

when they go back to Paris, right so he can get

13:55

some redemption because he ain't had too much help.

13:57

By the way, somebody else I know is going to perish that

14:00

Who that that be?

14:01

Who that would be?

14:03

You?

14:03

You gonna listen, You're gonna be partnering with

14:05

Mike Tarico, my former colleague of the ESPA, doing a

14:07

great job on Sunday Night Football. Obviously, NBC

14:10

Sports that got the Olympic rights. You're

14:12

gonna be doing the Olympics. The Olympics,

14:15

bro.

14:15

Yeah, this big business, Steven.

14:16

But me and you talk a lot of times off the air about

14:19

you know, my analysm me

14:21

being in this field. I

14:23

just know that I love sports and NBC

14:26

and they recognizing that and they want to make it

14:28

a little bit more hip or they want to make people like

14:30

us pay attention to it, and they want to make

14:33

people understand that the Olympics is for everybody.

14:35

That's not just a situation where

14:37

it's been always categorized. You

14:40

hear it this way, you see it this way. Now

14:42

we're gonna give it to you a little bit different.

14:43

This year they got to they invested seven point eight

14:46

billion dollars over the next several years.

14:47

How much you got? Am I getting? And be

14:49

saying them kind of number stream?

14:50

What I mean, I'm saying those kind of numbers should

14:53

what the numbers?

14:54

You should have called me.

14:55

You should have called me for what I did.

14:56

The deal.

14:56

I don't know what billions in.

14:58

Seven point eight billion, your precious

15:01

law take my handball.

15:05

I know you're gonna be doing basketball. Anything else you gonna be doing.

15:08

Uh, what is the thing with the horses?

15:10

The questrian equestrian subsagesage

15:14

dress side. I don't even know the name of this ship I got.

15:16

Martha Stewart helped me with that. I got,

15:18

you know, my granddaughter helped me with French.

15:21

I think I'm gonna give me a French poodle. I canna

15:23

have a little dog to walk around and sit in, you know, fancy

15:26

some tea, you know what I'm saying.

15:27

Some cool shit, some.

15:28

Shit I've never done before, Steve, And I mean, I'm just

15:30

trying to have some fun, man.

15:31

You know, enjoy Peers.

15:32

When I usually go over there, I usually have like a concert

15:35

and I go to my hotel and I don't get to go out

15:38

because it be so much going on and people

15:41

rushing me. So it's like I don't get to enjoy

15:43

Paris. This time, I really get to go there and enjoy

15:45

the sights and the location.

15:47

And how you're gonna pull that off? They still gonna notice, is you?

15:50

I mean, I mean, what the hell you think you're gonna give it? You

15:52

think that just because you cover it up, that you're

15:54

gonna get to be somebody under this snoop dog

15:56

and shit that you ain't gonna be able to do that.

15:57

You still, Snoop Dad, you ain't gonna be.

16:00

Probably, there's so many stars there that I

16:02

may just be able to blend in.

16:04

They may just be on, you know, the gymnastics

16:06

people that they or the or the swimmers

16:08

or.

16:09

The swimmers the nice and gymnastics

16:11

is nice.

16:11

Beach volleyball, that's

16:13

definitely nice.

16:15

That's definitely nice. Snoop

16:17

stephen A in the house more than stephen A Smith

16:19

show in a minute. Don't go anywhere the man Snoop

16:21

nogs be back in a minute.

16:23

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Now let's get to today's winning picks.

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Winning picks. Call Anthony

17:32

Towns for the Minnesota Timberwoads more or less than

17:34

twenty points, please, he

17:37

just dropped twenty seven other night. Call Anthony

17:39

town six foot eleven with a three point shot. He

17:41

did that in Denver. Now they going home to Minnesota where

17:43

they're gonna be hyped it. Ready to go and try to get the broomsticks

17:45

out and sweep these brothers. He's gonna score more than

17:47

twenty points tonight. I promise you that, unless

17:49

it's a blowout to the point where you got to stay in and

17:51

sit on a bench because there's so much garbage song, which

17:54

I don't see. I think Denver's gonna be highly

17:56

competitive tonight, but ultimately

17:58

Minnesota find a way to pull it out. I think

18:01

Carl Anthony Town scores more than twenty points.

18:03

So the answer to this question is more Ob

18:06

Topping more or less than

18:08

ten and a half points.

18:12

I'm gonna go with more. Obi

18:14

Topping. Kids got skills.

18:17

I personally didn't think the Knicks needed to draft them years

18:19

ago because he needed a point guard at the time because they didn't have

18:21

a Jalen Brunson, and I thought they should have drafted

18:24

Tyreese Halliburton. But with that being

18:26

said, I think Obi Topping has proven himself

18:28

to be a talent that belongs in the NBA, and

18:30

I think that he's gonna do fine and ten

18:32

and a half points in this particular game, Indiana

18:35

desperate on their home court down oh two in

18:37

the series, with all the Knicks injuries that

18:39

they have, I think he's destined for more

18:41

on this one, Let's go to the next one, the man

18:44

himself. There was once Jordan,

18:47

and then there was once Kobe Bryant, and

18:49

now there is Anthony Edwards.

18:53

He's that dude. Points,

18:56

rebounds, assist. The number

18:58

is thirty nine and a half more or less

19:01

than thirty nine and a half points, rebounds and assists

19:03

for Anthony Edwards easily more. First of all,

19:05

I think he might score forty points. But

19:08

if he doesn't score forty points, he's damn sure gonna

19:10

have about five rebounds. He's damn sure

19:12

gonna have about three or four assists. Yes,

19:14

more than thirty nine and a half points. Absolutely,

19:17

more and more and more. Last, but not least,

19:20

nikolaokicch the now three

19:22

time league MVP for the reigning

19:24

defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets

19:27

more or less than twelve

19:29

and a half rebounds. This

19:32

is tricky because

19:34

if Minnesota's hitting shots ain't bein't gonna

19:36

be too many rebounds to grab. But

19:38

I don't think they will shoot that well, and

19:41

I think Denver will miss his cheer of shots that

19:44

Nikoli Jokicic will grab rebounds from. So

19:46

do I think he's gonna get more than twelve and a half rebounds

19:48

in this game. My answer to

19:50

that would be yes, he

19:52

will. So the recap more

19:55

and more and more and more on all four.

19:57

That's called Anthony Towns, Obi Topping and

20:00

Fan the Edwards, Nicola Jokic more,

20:03

which is appropriate cause when you're talking about prospects,

20:05

you damn sure ain't talking about less.

20:12

What's going on? Everybody spig snoop dogg coming

20:14

at you live and direct.

20:16

As you know.

20:16

I'm doing the Olympics this year live from Paris.

20:18

So I wanted to get some lessons

20:20

on French. So I went out and hired me a

20:23

French teacher to teach me some

20:25

words. Say hello to my French teacher

20:27

Cordoba.

20:34

The word is ice cream?

20:35

I think how you say it?

20:37

Creamly?

20:38

A glass

20:41

glass class? How

20:43

do I say Eiffel Tower tour?

20:48

If tour ephail?

20:50

I thought we was gonna be eating ice cream and

20:52

cake and stuff?

20:53

How do you say goodbye?

20:56

I rely?

20:56

I will I. Well,

21:02

there you have it. I got me some French lessons.

21:04

Learned a couple of words, a little bit of etiquette,

21:07

how to pour some tea, and how

21:09

to eat some candy. Be sure to check

21:11

me out at the Olympics twenty

21:13

twenty four Hot Ease, France.

21:17

An welcome back to Steve A. Smith

21:19

Show right here over the digital airways of YouTube.

21:21

You saw that that that's a different name.

21:23

That's grandpa Snoop.

21:25

Sir, that's what that was.

21:26

I can drink to that, you know what.

21:28

Hold on for sake, Look what I got. I got this

21:30

right here. I was gonna wait till end.

21:32

This is yours.

21:33

The book.

21:33

Talk to the book.

21:34

Hello.

21:37

It's not bad, bro, That's the best like waking

21:40

up.

21:40

I like this.

21:41

The best spot of waking up

21:44

is not giving a fuck.

21:48

It' snoop Grandpa.

21:50

Yes, sir, I saw a little

21:52

glow come over your face and all that. Baby.

21:56

It's like it's like having a baby all over again,

21:58

right. You know, when you have your then they outgrow

22:01

you and they start having their own lives and building

22:03

their own families, and when they bring back

22:05

babies, it's like you get a chance to

22:08

be a parent all of again, and

22:09

you're more gentler with

22:11

them, and then you let them get away with more. So

22:14

I say that I'm like the grandfather that we

22:17

got a bowl of candy in the front and

22:19

they don't let my granddaughter eat candy Mooreen.

22:21

She come over here.

22:21

I take like nine lollipops, walk

22:23

her in the back, give her one and

22:27

I say, put another one up later, give her another

22:29

one and she go out to her face stick here, MoMA,

22:31

Like what.

22:31

You been doing? I was with Papa snoop,

22:34

But did he give you candy?

22:35

Uh?

22:35

Uh? Then I give her

22:37

another one?

22:39

Like I love that relationship that I got with my grandkids,

22:42

my grandson and my granddaughters, Like

22:45

they don't look at me like every other kid

22:47

look at me. They look at me like their grandfather.

22:50

And I love that because that keeps me ruty.

22:53

Did you feel that way or rather, how

22:55

different did that feel? Does that feel rather

22:58

to being a parent, to being a dad instead

23:00

of grandpa?

23:01

Well, I don't have to watch them seven

23:03

days with twenty four seven. The

23:06

time that I get with them is precious,

23:08

and it's like I get to analyze

23:11

my parental skills with

23:13

my grandkids. But the mistakes I made

23:15

with my kids, I try to like not make

23:17

with my grandkids, like to be

23:20

a little bit more attention and detail with them,

23:23

like I wasn't with my kids because I

23:25

was so busy doing shows traveling

23:27

this and that. But with my grandkids, it's

23:29

like I really sit down with them and I watch

23:31

programs with them, and I play with them, and I talk

23:34

with them and really get a chance to understand

23:36

them, so that way, when they grow older, they'll

23:38

have those memories of my grandpa spent

23:41

time with me.

23:41

Do you ever find yourself tempted

23:44

or have you ever actually really really

23:46

sat down in a defensive

23:49

posture when you're talking to

23:51

your children and explaining

23:53

to them over time, I

23:55

was doing all of this for you. I was out

23:57

there on the grind. I was out there torn. I was out there

24:00

making this money, creating these opportunities to make sure

24:02

that you have been like I asked that question

24:05

to be honest with you, on a personal level, it was

24:07

a dad or two daughters. I sit up

24:09

there and I'm like, I'm unapologetic about

24:11

being on my grind and working my ass off to make sure

24:13

that they never have to experience the life

24:15

that I have. But I also find myself

24:17

praying, man, I hope they see

24:20

my intent. I hope they appreciate

24:23

what I'm trying to do, as opposed to

24:26

resenting dad for sometimes not being around.

24:28

The key to that is communication. Though,

24:30

Stephen, you didn't raise

24:32

no.

24:35

People that read minds. You

24:38

raise people that communicate, so you

24:40

should communicate that. When

24:42

I didn't communicate that, it was issues because

24:45

while you're always going, while you're always this, then

24:48

I have to sit them down and tell them,

24:50

this is why I'm gone, so that way you

24:52

can have this. That's why you have this,

24:54

That's why you're able to go to this school. That's why

24:56

when you need something, you never have to worry. That's why

24:59

this is this said, would you like me to stay

25:01

home every day all day where we don't

25:03

have nothing. We're trying to figure it out. We

25:05

don't have nothing to eat, nothing to do. It made

25:08

sistent men, how old were they when you made

25:10

that?

25:15

Teenagers?

25:16

Was younger? That shit?

25:17

I got ship to do and I got way more customers before

25:19

I get to you, because

25:22

that was my job as a provider, because

25:26

I was learning as a young man. I didn't know how

25:28

to be a man. I didn't know how to be a leader or father.

25:30

I was learning on the job. So my

25:33

main focus was to be a provider. Because the men

25:35

and my family provided for the women.

25:37

They provided. They were, you know, go

25:39

getters. So I followed their lead

25:41

as far as like my wife ain't

25:44

never worked that.

25:44

Day in our life. And

25:46

I'm proud of that.

25:48

You know what I'm saying, because I feel like that's my

25:50

job to make sure that

25:52

you covered on every aspect of

25:54

finances, spiritual, mental, sexual,

25:57

whatever it is. That's my job to cover

25:59

that for you, so that when I'm walking

26:01

through this crazy world, I

26:03

got stability to come home to, to keep me

26:05

saying and to keep me on the right path.

26:07

How do you feel about men

26:09

in this day and age? You would have a completely

26:12

different approach. They'd be like, yeah, help

26:14

paying all them damned bills.

26:15

Help with that.

26:16

I work, she gotta work. I'm paying bills, she gotta pay

26:18

bill bump all of that shit. I ain't trying

26:20

to have I ain't trying to do everything like that. That's how you

26:22

hear a lot of men talking and this thing, not all,

26:24

not most.

26:25

But a lot.

26:27

How do you feel? What do you say to men that

26:29

have an entirely different attitude than somebody

26:31

like you or myself? When it comes to that approach.

26:33

I can't say nothing. It's all about your upbringing,

26:35

it's who you are. Be the best version

26:38

of you. You know what I'm saying, and you'll find somebody

26:40

that will go half with you and love

26:42

that fifty fifty relationship what Teddy Pentagram

26:44

say talking about.

26:45

A fifty fifty love.

26:47

So you could play that game with somebody like that, or you could

26:49

just do what you're supposed to do

26:52

as a man and provide

26:54

for the woman that's taking care of you and making sure

26:56

that you're all right, because it's gonna come a time when

26:58

you in a relationship with one of y'all may not be as

27:01

strong as the other, and one of y'all may need

27:03

the other more than more more than the other,

27:05

and that's when it balances out. It's

27:08

not always about finance. It's about the

27:10

love and the care and being there for somebody.

27:12

Because I don't make money to make money. I make

27:14

money to make a difference.

27:16

Speaking of that, making money to make a difference,

27:18

that's a perfect transition, in my estimation

27:21

anyway, to what I'm about to bring up right now. Snoop

27:24

dogg Arizona Bowl,

27:26

Yes Sir, Presented by Jen

27:28

and Juice, Hello by Dre and

27:31

Snoop Yes Sir. A damn Bowl

27:33

game with Snoop That's big that's

27:35

big time.

27:36

That's big time to hell's happens

27:38

happened. It happened due to

27:40

me being a football coach.

27:43

Snoop youth football league, Yes, have my.

27:45

Own league, and then the kids that came through my

27:47

league that went on to play great high school

27:49

football, college football, NFL football,

27:52

and just my association and affiliation with

27:54

the game. And I feel like college

27:57

football is in a place right now

27:59

where they're trying to show

28:01

that they're not the bad guys, because

28:03

for many years they've been to bad guys, you know,

28:05

with the money yep,

28:08

with the nil, with the taking Heisman's

28:10

back and the banning teams and all

28:12

the stuff that was associated with them, and like why

28:14

y'all make all the money, Well, when we

28:17

try to make the money, it's a problem. So I

28:19

feel like now what they're doing is open

28:21

up the gateways to people like myself and

28:23

people that can bring some flavor and show that this

28:25

is a business, but it's a

28:27

business of running it the

28:30

right way. And they know that my football league

28:32

and the players that come out of my league are ran the right

28:34

way. So it made sense for me to connect

28:36

with a bowl game because I'm so tired

28:38

into college football and a ball game that's so close

28:40

to my heart because I've always did

28:43

games in Arizona with my youth

28:45

leagues, playing against teams from out there. So it just

28:47

made sense. And the brand that we got

28:49

can sponsored and supported. So we're

28:51

just looking forward to just trying to do different things and bigger

28:54

things and think outside of the box and not

28:56

just be regular basic. Oh

28:59

I'm a rapper in my when my career is overWe I

29:01

am this. No, I want to think outside

29:03

the box. So that way, when that young person is at home

29:05

watching me, he could do anything

29:07

he can translate into any

29:10

you know, form of business that he wants to

29:12

just from watching me do it. I have no college

29:14

degree, I ain't never went to no business

29:16

schools, none of that shit. This

29:19

is straight observing, learning, watching,

29:21

listening and taking it and making it mine.

29:23

So you did go to school, you just didn't pay an institution

29:25

to do it. You went to school. You went to school school

29:27

of life. That's what it is to me. And you know, but

29:31

gin and juice alcohol being

29:33

associated with a Bowl game, that's not something the NCAA

29:35

has ever done before, ever done

29:38

before. So I want you to paint a picture

29:40

for the public out there, take us to

29:42

win. You went, because I know it's gonna require you. I know how. They

29:45

ain't no way in hell. They just look.

29:46

You got a great team. You got a great, great team.

29:48

Okay, but I know good and damn well, it wasn't just

29:50

your team that had to talk to them at some

29:52

point in time. They needed to see and hear from

29:55

the man himself, Snoop dogg. If for nothing

29:57

else to fall over you and get your damn autograph.

29:59

Okay, not enough for that.

30:01

Take me to that moment where you had to speak

30:03

to these people, because I know that happened.

30:05

Now you know what's grazy? Sarah?

30:08

Can I lie you when me tell the truth?

30:09

Tell truth?

30:11

I have not spoken to these people, wow,

30:13

because the brand and the things that

30:15

I do are so powerful, and they

30:17

know that my business is handled in a professional

30:20

manner. It's like they don't need me to they

30:22

need me. They need me to come in and add the spices

30:24

and to see what the whole week will

30:26

look like, and what will the trophy look like,

30:29

and what type of different things will

30:31

we have when we have a youth football

30:33

game earlier that day, when we have

30:35

some sort of special Stars

30:37

presentation where I got kids that have special

30:39

needs to be there to present certain

30:41

things. You know, they thinking about what will

30:44

I bring to this bowl game. That's me to

30:47

make this bowl game feel like it's mine. And

30:50

I make it a quarter perfect.

30:51

I make it on the mic, and you know through

30:53

the first quarter.

30:55

It's my bowl game. I mean, it's yours.

30:58

You doing it at the Olympics. So

31:00

why not do it?

31:00

You're doing Jake Paul fights for crying out?

31:03

Why not do that?

31:04

I think I'm gonna do that, Steven that you just you heard

31:06

it live. You're on the stephen A podcast. This

31:08

is where it's going down. I may do that.

31:10

First quarter there we go.

31:11

Do that? Well, you know what I would suggest? How

31:13

about the fourth?

31:15

Oh, that's when it gets real.

31:15

That's when it gets real.

31:16

Say that, did you change first

31:19

quar.

31:19

That's what I love about a veteran, right, see a

31:21

young player coming here, think he posts. You

31:23

know what I'm saying, do this stuck og

31:26

like, slow down, man, take your time, walk down

31:28

the hill.

31:29

That's right. Fourth quarter.

31:30

Let me read this quote that you gave about

31:33

this deal for the snoopd Dog Arizona

31:36

Bowl. College football fans are exhausted

31:38

by the constant talk around n I L name

31:41

image like this. Of course, conference realignment

31:43

because Arizona State going to the Big twelve. Arizona's

31:45

going to the Big twelve. Now you got some kids going to the Big ten

31:47

at C and un C l A going to the Big ten. They

31:50

going to the Big twelve, right because the back twelve no

31:52

longer exists. So you got conference realignment,

31:54

coach movement, transfer portal, and

31:56

super conferences. Okay, so it's time

31:58

we get back to the root of college football. What

32:01

it was focused on. The colleges, the players,

32:03

the competition, the community, the fan experience,

32:05

and the pageantry. That was your

32:08

quote. Yes, okay, you

32:10

obviously feel passionately about that. What

32:12

do you think is missing

32:15

from college football that you Snoop

32:18

Dogg is gonna bring to

32:20

college football? College fotball is already big

32:22

time in the NFL, but it's pretty damn close. But

32:25

obviously they feel they needed you.

32:27

You know that what you think you're gonna

32:29

bring.

32:30

I'm gonna bring an exciting ball game that's

32:32

outside of the you know, the big ball

32:34

game, the one that they playing forward with the playoffs.

32:37

Yep, you gotta have something to appetize them.

32:39

You know, I'm gonna be a great appetizer, something that you

32:41

can eat, and that's gonna be good and wholesome

32:43

and feel you up until you get to the big game and

32:45

it's gonna be entertaining, and you know, it's not gonna just be

32:47

a game. It's gonna be a whole event that we're putting

32:50

around it to make sure that we solidify

32:52

ourselves in this entertainment field.

32:54

As far as what a bowl game looks like. When

32:56

you think about bowl games, what is

32:58

it that's exciting about the bowl game?

33:00

Is it just the game? Is it the things that goes on

33:02

around and that the merchandise, the.

33:03

Branding, the experience, the

33:05

things that the kids get to do, the things

33:07

that the players get. The experience. You know, I

33:09

used to watch back when I was a kid. When you see

33:12

a bowl game, you would see two teams. They

33:14

would go eat together and they would go

33:16

to Disneyland or wherever whatever amusement

33:18

park was in that city. They would go there, and like

33:21

that kind of experience. What are we gonna give them

33:24

that they can feel like, I

33:26

want to plan in that bowl game, even if I go

33:28

to Alabama or asc or whatever. That's

33:30

the bowl game I want to plan. I feel like I'm gonna bring

33:32

that to the table to where this bowl game is gonna be

33:35

so exciting that teams may lose

33:37

some games to try to get in.

33:38

This bowl game.

33:39

Damn, it's gonna be like that. That means you're gonna

33:41

have an event. You're gonna turn it into an event, a big ass

33:43

party, that's what it's gonna be.

33:44

And we get some big name teams up here that have

33:46

changed the game. You never know.

33:47

Man, I'm looking at this right

33:49

now, and I know that you care not just

33:52

about the game, but your primary objective is

33:54

the kids and the well being and the kids. That's what you've always

33:56

been about. That's why you got involved in your youth

33:58

football league and everything else that

34:00

you've done. In the aftermath of all of that, How

34:03

concerned are you about

34:05

the state of college sports

34:08

in light of the transfer portal

34:10

to NIL, etc. And

34:12

how much of a role did that play

34:14

in you wanting to get involved with this

34:17

and having your name attached to a game

34:19

as big as it is.

34:20

I think that makes the game better. When

34:22

you got kids able to move like coaches, it's

34:25

fair now right. It wasn't fair when

34:29

steven A recruits me and

34:31

I come play for steven A and

34:33

then we have a bad season, and

34:36

then next year, steven they don't even talk to me.

34:38

But he got a job at this other college getting a hundred

34:40

million dollars and I gotta be stuck here with

34:42

this new coach that don't know me. Now I'm sitting on the

34:44

bench. Why didn't we have

34:47

the abilities to move like they moved. They

34:49

was able to move and shake, so the players should be

34:51

able to move and shake. And then on the other end,

34:54

coach gets six million dollar contract,

34:57

jersey number twenty, my jersey,

34:59

they wearing it all understands it's selling out like

35:01

crazy.

35:02

I don't get no money, so

35:04

now the game is flip.

35:05

I get paid for my name, my image, and my likeness

35:08

and I can move around like you, coach if I don't

35:10

like how you get down, so guess what you're dealing

35:12

with a grown man now instead of a boy. And

35:14

now you're training me for the NFL

35:17

because now I know how to handle money. I'm learning

35:19

financial literacy, some things that I

35:21

didn't know when I got to the league ten

35:24

years ago. And I got this twenty million

35:26

dollar check, and I went and bought my mom my house, and

35:28

my sister, this and that and that.

35:29

Now I'm broken.

35:30

I broke my leg and now I can't make no money and the

35:32

other money ain't guaranteed because I didn't

35:34

have financial literacy. Now what

35:36

the SAA is teaching. You're

35:39

handling money, you have responsibility.

35:42

Oh there's a guy named Uncle Sam. He's

35:44

gonna come out of nowhere. So and the

35:46

more money you make, he's gonna.

35:48

Really show up.

35:48

So all of these things are being taught now. So

35:51

that's the blessing of this move

35:53

with the NCAA. I look at the positive things of

35:55

the financial literacy because my son was

35:58

playing Football's plan

36:01

and everybody was like, man, why.

36:02

He ain't could have been a five star thisn't

36:04

that.

36:04

But his business right now is

36:07

ten star wow, because he's doing

36:09

business. He's doing moves and all

36:11

sorts of things. And there's a lot of players that play

36:13

with him who don't play anymore

36:16

and don't know what to do with their lives

36:19

because life after ball is serious.

36:21

So this money game that they

36:23

teaching is preparing them for life after

36:26

ball. Because some of these guys will have a career

36:29

in modeling and marketing,

36:31

branding when their football career is over

36:33

with, and that's still a check that's coming in,

36:35

and it's still some form of business where they

36:37

don't depend on if I'm gonna make the

36:39

team, I'm a make the roster. Now

36:42

it's a different mind, stay with his money.

36:44

What are your thoughts about coaches like Nick Saban

36:46

who's now retired at Alabama, Dabbo

36:48

Sweetey who's still at Clemson, and various

36:51

other coaches and stuff who've been outspoken

36:53

about the advent of all of these things, how

36:55

it's changed the landscape of college sports,

36:58

and how they believe it's the detric.

37:00

To the sport.

37:01

They have an opposite position of what.

37:04

I'm just give you my speculation,

37:06

and I'm just speculating. They

37:10

mad because they

37:12

ain't the only ones paying them off no more. It

37:14

used to beat them on the ones that was paying them off. It wasn't

37:16

no accident. While the kids was going to them schools,

37:19

they was doing the big payola. And

37:21

now the gat the bag is open and

37:24

everybody can do it. They're threatening

37:26

and they're not winning anymore. Isn't

37:28

that crazy? You're not winning

37:30

anymore because you don't have the master key

37:33

to I got all the money, all

37:35

the power, kids from California

37:38

flying all the way to your university on

37:40

sc right down the street. Oh but he

37:42

ain't got that paper y'all got and that big

37:45

action on that TV, you

37:47

know, contract or whatever.

37:50

But that's why I said what I said.

37:51

The super conferences, all the stuff that I said in that

37:53

quote, it all makes sense. So you got to

37:55

really look at that and level it off and say, okay, well

37:58

it's really a money thing, you

38:00

know, when we're gonna make the most money.

38:02

And they was looking at it like they was

38:04

winning championships. It started to get repetitive

38:06

where Clemson Alabama every

38:09

year like all right, so

38:11

nobody else is good in college football. Nobody

38:14

else is good. Okay,

38:16

let's open this thing up now. The transfer

38:19

a port them and

38:21

if they put more teams in there. That's

38:25

what football is supposed to look like. It

38:27

ain't supposed to be predictable. We

38:29

didn't know the Chiefs was gonna win this year. You

38:32

gotta let them get down there and lock up, lock

38:35

up, And that's what it's doing now. It's starting to open

38:37

up to where now the playing fields even

38:39

now because kids are disgruntled with

38:42

playing for you when I can

38:44

go play for him and get a hell

38:46

of an nil deal over here. And it's

38:48

my style of coach. I'm going to play for coach

38:50

parme.

38:51

Do you realize that when you speak the way that

38:53

you're speaking, it ain't just about them balling.

38:56

It's about them elevating their financial document,

38:59

gaining financial literacy. That

39:02

seems to be just as much of a mission

39:04

for you as it is to have

39:07

a football league as it is to have a

39:09

bowl game in your need. Yes, it

39:11

seems like you're on this personal mission

39:14

to give people access

39:17

to capitol, Right? Am I right about

39:19

that?

39:19

It's so right, And that's what it's about, like

39:22

to like I said, I make money to make

39:24

a difference, and making the

39:26

difference is making sure that other people know how to get

39:28

it or get to it, or that I provide for them

39:30

or an opportunity so somebody in their

39:32

organization can learn how to take this thing and run

39:34

with it. I didn't know that I could become

39:37

a business man until I started doing it, and

39:39

I lost more than I won.

39:41

So it's okay to take.

39:42

That chance and stumble in the fall, because

39:45

you only see the greatness in me right

39:47

now. You don't see the failures and the mistakes that I

39:49

made, but that comes with being great.

39:53

In that segment on that bro and you do know that, how

39:55

about that about that

40:00

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No snoop. Welcome

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41:30

of YouTube. I got

41:32

on this fly a death row jacket. You gave baby

41:34

congratulations on this, but this damn ice

41:36

cream. You got your own ice cream now and

41:39

it's the lifted. I'm eating ice cream on

41:41

the air. That's what I'm trying to.

41:42

Tell you, doctor Bombay Stephen, that this was

41:44

a n f T, right,

41:46

Doctor boon bab was the NFT that I bought.

41:49

And with the n f T S, you

41:51

own the IP right.

41:53

So what I thought of with my son Cordell

41:57

is how do we take this ip and

41:59

create business.

42:00

This is off of it, so it won't just live in

42:02

the metabus.

42:03

The first idea was clothes made,

42:05

some t shirts, got deal

42:07

with sketches made, some shoes, and I

42:10

was like ice cream. We got

42:12

with this company that knew how to make great ice cream.

42:14

We put it up, came out with four styles.

42:17

It was good, and then we came back with another force. So now

42:19

we got eight that are available in stores

42:21

everywhere. The one you eating right tears, that strawberry

42:24

melow with them light skinned oreial

42:27

cookies up in there.

42:29

Me not the black ones, but the lights on.

42:32

She's really really good.

42:33

Bro mm I

42:35

don't even eat money.

42:38

Look, make sure your sister gets some of this too.

42:41

I wanna make sure she gets the s'mores, the

42:43

waffle and we got on one called

42:46

birthday party.

42:47

That's the thing.

42:47

My sister Calmon is back there.

42:49

Yeah, the queen, that's the queen. You hear me.

42:52

I'm gonna give her a gift before she leave. I got

42:54

a gift for comedy.

42:55

She could cook anything. She could cook anything

42:57

for real.

42:58

She's special, you hear me.

43:00

She ain't give me, she ain't she't make me no ice cream we're

43:03

gonna talk about that. She ain't make me any ice cream, Okay,

43:06

But you was just talking about

43:09

the IP and obviously end of the metal

43:11

verse. You're talking about just having complete control.

43:13

That's something that you've been preaching about big

43:15

time, over and over and over again,

43:18

this businessman that you have

43:20

become. If somebody

43:22

would to look at you now and

43:25

they said something about Snoop Dogg. With all the things

43:27

that you've accomplished, what

43:29

do you want to be recognized for

43:31

most at this particular juncture

43:34

in your life?

43:36

For love? For the love

43:38

I give. That's what I want to be known

43:41

for. For For how people you

43:43

know, light up when they see me because they know that love

43:46

just.

43:46

Walked in the room. That's

43:48

that's my mission.

43:49

But you know that's hard for you, right let me tell you why

43:51

it's hard because you're straight you straight

43:54

up.

43:54

You will listen when.

43:56

Anthony Davis was playing bad, that wasn't

43:58

love.

43:59

You're mad as hell.

44:00

It was love. It's tough love. It's tough love, okay,

44:03

Okay.

44:03

I mean you will speak your mind without

44:06

hesitation.

44:06

You know, hey, my mother raised me to stand

44:09

on business and I'm a labor so I

44:11

just do what needs to be done. I like

44:13

to, you know, be upfront and

44:16

let people know what it is early, so that way we

44:18

don't have no misunderstandings down the road, right.

44:21

I was really interested in knowing this from

44:23

you on a macro level. The

44:25

culture that we're living in now, you and

44:28

obviously doing all the things that you're doing. Now you're

44:30

venturing into sports. I'm in sports. We know where I stand.

44:32

You know, I'm gonna let you know where I stand and how I feel,

44:35

et cetera, et cetera. It's

44:37

very difficult in this day and age for

44:39

people to separate you critiquing

44:42

what they do without

44:44

embracing it is you talking about who they

44:46

are. They seem to have no

44:48

inclination, no desire, no effort

44:50

whatsoever to the compartmentalize between

44:53

the two, and as a result, every slight

44:55

insult is taken to the extreme

44:57

in this day and age, I think more so than

45:00

ever before, and from

45:02

a societal perspective, it's got a lot of people

45:04

worried. How worried does it have

45:06

you?

45:06

I'm not worried at all, because a lot of these people just sitting

45:09

behind computers and typewriters and

45:11

they really not real. It used

45:13

to be a day in time where only you

45:15

know people like yourself, and writers had

45:18

that, you know, narrative. Now

45:20

everybody controls a narrative because you've got a phone,

45:22

you got social media and different platforms. So

45:25

you just got to continue to be you and

45:27

know that who you are is gonna be who you are, and

45:29

whatever they say about you, if it's true, it's true.

45:31

If it's not, you got to keep doing what you do.

45:34

And with that being said, so you talk about not

45:36

being worried about anything, and that's

45:38

cool. The flip side to it, there's

45:40

an awful lot of people that find themselves

45:43

worried about a lot of things going on in this

45:45

world. I believe it's because if you don't

45:47

have yourself knowledgeable about your business,

45:50

you're gonna be lost. It happened

45:52

to me when I got let Go in two thousand and nine. I

45:54

didn't have a set, I didn't have a backup plan, I didn't

45:56

have a game plan because I wasn't knowledgeable about my

45:58

business. Let me go. Now they could be a little

46:00

bit different, right. It's just my thought when

46:03

you see the kind of stuff that's

46:05

transpiring, whether it's in sports, music,

46:08

anywhere else? How

46:11

are you feeling about where we're going?

46:14

I think the leaders need

46:16

to lead, and I'm one of the leaders, so

46:18

it's my job to lead, and I

46:21

try to do my best by putting out different

46:23

things to show that you can diversify

46:25

your portfolio and at the same time

46:27

stay rooted. And I just think,

46:30

like the things that we do, people

46:32

are watching it now. Not just are people, but

46:34

everybody watching. So we got to be very

46:36

careful about how we move and who we move with. And

46:39

those who care about themselves they care about others

46:41

and they'll show you that by the way they move. And

46:44

I just feel like I'm one of the examples of that, and

46:46

it's a lot of people like me. They just

46:48

don't have the platform or a vision on them like

46:50

I do. So I just represent for those

46:52

people who care about making

46:54

the world a better place and just trying to be more love

46:57

than anything.

46:58

Two of my favorite people to

47:00

talk to in the music industry. I mean, of course,

47:02

you know know jay Z a little bit, talk to h from time to

47:04

time, stuff like that, and his creweer

47:06

people og Wan and all of them, got mad

47:09

love for them. But you and

47:12

LLL are two people I

47:14

love talking to LL. Grew up five minutes

47:16

from me and Carmen and Farmas Boulevard, Thomas

47:18

Boulevard, right right there, Hollis Queens. I

47:20

think he's a brilliant brother. I think he's somebody

47:23

who's withstood the test of time. I think every

47:25

time he opens his mouth he

47:27

has something profound to say, doing

47:29

great things with rock the bell.

47:32

And he's getting back to all of the MC that

47:34

I grew up too. They got jobs over there now,

47:36

they got radio shows. He playing all

47:38

hip hop. I love Uncle Ll, no doubt about

47:41

it. I mean, do you when you look at him and

47:43

you look at yourself? Who

47:45

are others like Snoop like Ll?

47:48

They got a lot to say that. Folks need to listen

47:50

to more, Folks need to hear from more. But we

47:52

may not. We may we may be missing

47:55

a bolt on listening to them a little

47:57

bit more. We might need to pay attention. Can you think of anybody

47:59

like that?

48:00

I think those people come to life like we did,

48:02

You know what I mean. You can't crown them until they crown

48:04

and today have became kings, you know what I mean? And

48:07

I think that the things

48:09

that we go through put us in that position.

48:11

Me and Lell we've been through a lot, but

48:13

we've conquered a lot and we helped a lot, and

48:16

that next one to do that gotta do the same

48:18

thing. And it's just in this nature. It's not gonna be something

48:20

that we're gonna be able to pinpoint.

48:22

It's just gonna happen and it's gonna be that. Just

48:24

like when you call out Lell name, you call out

48:27

Snoop name, you just know it's that. It's

48:29

gonna be that. It's gonna be that person that does

48:31

that work, that puts it in and makes

48:33

the community feel like, you know, you're the people's chair.

48:35

I'm gonna say something to you, man, and i Aint never thought

48:38

i'd say before. Bro, I'm not gonna say

48:40

I'm gonna do it, but you know, consider

48:43

it. How brilliant you are, how

48:45

accomplished you are. You

48:48

got me think about smoking some week.

48:49

Oh wow.

48:50

Yeah.

48:51

Gonna lie to you man, I'm not gonna do it.

48:52

I'm not gonna do it. You know what I'm I'm not gonna

48:54

do them.

48:56

I'm not I'm governor for you.

49:00

Let me ask you this question.

49:01

Let me ask you this question. What would

49:03

Stephen A. On weed, be

49:07

like.

49:07

Boy, you wouldn't be loud, and not because

49:10

you'd be in pockets. You'd be arguing with somebody

49:12

like this. Let me tell you something. Let

49:15

you see that you be a whole

49:17

other perspective there the

49:19

mellow Steve, but you're still getting your point

49:21

across.

49:21

Would you just be so in pocket? Where do you

49:23

check a motherfucker?

49:24

So quietly?

49:27

Don't make me get up and put this motherfucking

49:29

left hand on your as.

49:32

It'd be one of the things. I mean, listen, man,

49:35

I'm just saying. I mean, you know, you never

49:37

really look stressed.

49:38

You always on the move.

49:40

You know, you keep doing your thing, You on your grind.

49:42

You got energy that most people

49:44

would pray for wish they could have. And

49:46

I'm going like, this is this what

49:49

weed does for you? I mean, I

49:52

don't.

49:52

Know for me, it does. It does this

49:54

for me. For me, it does and

49:56

it's like I don't do nothing else. So it's

49:58

like all that other ship that distracts

50:00

you is not in my portfolio.

50:03

So this thing right here is my medicine.

50:05

I treated as medicine. I don't treat it as you

50:08

know, recreational.

50:11

It's more medicine. It might have to keep me medicated

50:14

to keep me feeling good, and

50:16

I only do it when I need to.

50:17

It's not like twenty folk saying.

50:19

You and I go back damn near twenty years.

50:22

You never lied to me, but

50:25

one time what I told you?

50:27

You told me you quit smoking.

50:28

Oh I did. I fucked you up with that one.

50:30

Yes, it did.

50:31

You told me you quit smoking, and I was like, I

50:33

said,

50:33

I want I.

50:36

Went on social media. I said, say it ain't so. I

50:38

said, what have I done?

50:39

I said, what have I done?

50:40

I didn't mean to do that.

50:42

I literally went on social media. I didn't

50:44

need to do this to you because I don't want you to stop smoking.

50:47

It was marketing.

50:48

Yes, I didn't know that for twenty four hours.

50:50

Dough.

50:50

Then I seen Seth Rogan the other night

50:53

and he said, when

50:55

you said that you stopped smoking, I

50:57

thought you really stopped smoking. Come

51:00

on, Seth, I will never leave

51:02

her my baby. We

51:05

connected. This is holy matrimony,

51:07

not holy MACARONI.

51:11

You so crazy man. You sit up there.

51:14

You were you were promoting a smokeless

51:16

outdoor barbecue bit.

51:20

That's what that was all about all about.

51:22

Did it work? It worked? It worked? They went

51:24

out of business.

51:29

I said, Look, I said, what is he doing?

51:31

What is he doing?

51:33

Now you have to admit this though, we

51:35

affects different people different way and do because

51:38

certain basketball players, certain football player, they

51:40

don't even be doing it. Basketball player don't mean

51:42

even doing the hockey, don't even be doing that shit.

51:43

The same with alcohol. Some people canna handle

51:46

alcohol, some people can't. And it's just

51:48

that I got some friends that when they drink, they just turn

51:50

into full on drunks. Then I got some

51:52

friends that can just drink, drink, drink in the whole

51:54

day.

51:54

They cool. It just affects people

51:56

differently.

51:58

By the way, let me transition to sports before

52:00

we get on out of it getting

52:03

I'm getting to that. I'm getting to that.

52:05

First of all, there's some good fight.

52:07

Can I can? I can? I fess up to you. This

52:10

is why I have a hard time talking

52:12

boxing with you. First of all, you do a great job,

52:15

your phenomenal color commentary, fantastic

52:18

job. But it hurt my heart because

52:20

you you called the Jake Paul Nate Robinson

52:22

fight.

52:22

That hurt my heart.

52:23

It hurt it hurt my heart because

52:26

I was going for Nate, by the way,

52:28

and he got put to sleep.

52:30

He came out there with basketball shoes on, so I knew

52:32

the fight was over with.

52:33

And then that was like me throwing out the

52:35

first pitch, except I wouldn't get hit. You know,

52:37

That's what That's what the hell happened. And and

52:39

then now you know, God bless him because he needs

52:41

a kidney transplant. We wish him nothing but the

52:43

best. But he had no business in that ring

52:45

with Jake Paul. But but, but I will

52:47

say this, Terrence

52:50

Crawford right now is the best pound for pound fight in

52:52

the world in my estimation. Do you agree with that or not?

52:54

You're talking about Terrce Bud

52:56

Crawford. You said his name wrong the

52:59

first time. What leave out the bud.

53:01

Ter Bud but Bud Cross, Harris.

53:05

Bud Crow.

53:08

Is he the best of the world to you?

53:10

The way he whipped on Lord,

53:12

because Earl Spencer is a great fighter, yes, and

53:14

the way he handled him it was

53:17

shocking.

53:17

It was it was stunning, and it was great

53:19

boxing. It was boxing at his finest,

53:22

the technique to style.

53:23

Them, he destroyed them.

53:25

But him and Canelo, I don't

53:27

like that, Snoop. I don't need the Carnelo too

53:29

big that's right.

53:31

That's what I'm saying, Like, I don't care

53:33

how great of a boxer you are. First of all, Cornelo

53:35

can fight. And when I interviewed Candelo before his fight against

53:37

mung Gea a week ago, I interviewed him

53:39

to night the day before and he was like, hey,

53:41

nobody said anything, but I fight bigger guys.

53:44

Said, wait a minute, you can box,

53:46

plus you can punch. So when you fighting

53:48

a bigger guy, you got a chance

53:50

with that damn neck of yours is yes, here's

53:52

neck? Can on this brother?

53:55

Why there's a wall.

53:56

And then I'm going like this.

53:58

I saw Charlie, who I think is very good,

54:01

and the first round feeling out. The

54:03

second round, Canillo ran

54:06

across the ring and spent the next

54:08

eleven rounds.

54:09

Just stalking them.

54:10

He clearly could not be hurt. And

54:12

so I'm looking at Bud Crawford and I'm like, yeah,

54:16

so I'm like, you you gonna hurt him.

54:19

I can't see that. I don't like it.

54:21

I don't underestimate Bud technique.

54:24

It's just the size. I know the

54:26

size and just matter when

54:28

they get to them. Yes, that's

54:30

only my only concern is the size.

54:33

But who is in Bud's class that he

54:35

can fight Charlo.

54:37

At one four. Remember he

54:39

moved up to way classes to fight Canillo

54:41

because his big brother wasn't ready to.

54:43

Go and Charlo and them cool with Spence,

54:46

yes, and they can't.

54:47

They like family, they would

54:49

fight each other.

54:50

So Bud gotta fight their whole.

54:52

That's what I'm saying.

54:52

Well, well, just the one, just the one, the

54:55

one.

54:56

The whole.

54:56

C you. I'm just saying, you're

54:58

saying after that as whipping is necessary.

55:00

I mean, he said something to

55:02

the nigga while he was fighting in the middle of

55:05

dropped to the haddening you

55:07

know you can be in here getting his neck.

55:09

He got up.

55:09

Yeah, he back up, hold on hold

55:12

God, Like I said, you know you

55:14

can get up in here and get something this here too, right,

55:16

That's what he said. I like that kind of boxing

55:19

because when I grew up watching boxing, it

55:21

was always a great fight on ABC. Tommy

55:23

has Wide World, Tommy Hearns, Marvin

55:26

Hagler.

55:26

Sugar Rayfreido

55:29

Bernita, Hello for pino Quavers

55:31

Hello, until Hearns knocked him

55:34

out one punch, his head, one air and that's

55:36

before he did the same with Roberto Durin.

55:38

Marvel, marvelous

55:40

haggler.

55:42

No question, the marvelous

55:44

one, no doubt about it. Hernell sweet

55:46

special. Let's

55:50

not forget Aaron.

55:50

Pryor, Oh you mean the incredible hole.

55:53

Let's not for get Aaron Pryor.

55:54

Let's not forget what he did to Alexis Aguelo.

55:56

The stuff, the stuff, Give me this stuf incredible

55:59

hal give me the stuff.

56:00

Now you know this one boxing was

56:02

we've seen a good fight every week.

56:04

We gotta wait nine.

56:05

Months and then it's they don't want

56:07

to fight, they don't get down.

56:09

That's why, that's why the UFC has

56:11

grown, because well, Dad

56:13

White, they gonna let you.

56:14

They're gonna let you avoid fat.

56:16

You get in the parking lot.

56:17

And White would run out to the parking and say, hold on, hold on,

56:19

hold on, let's make some money off the ship.

56:21

Don't you get you down. You

56:23

gotta get down in the UFC. I love that.

56:26

One of my all time favorite, Salvador Sanchez, who passed

56:28

away years ago, but he was he was,

56:30

He was something special, no doubt about it. But

56:32

I look at this now and so I

56:34

was sad for Deontay Walder. He fought

56:36

in the trilogy against Tyson Fury. I

56:39

thought that he was too small.

56:40

Tyson legs legs. When you watch

56:42

that fight, it's the legs on me that

56:45

man.

56:45

He lead on him even when he missed the lead, but he got it.

56:47

You gotta work your legs water, get

56:50

them legs up, get them thighs up up.

56:52

I think he took too much of a beating. And then

56:54

you saw what Anthony Joshua

56:57

did to Francis and Gonald for the usc Sorry,

56:59

put them to sleep right tracked? Okay,

57:01

I mean that that that was very, very bad.

57:03

So is he gonna fight Fury?

57:05

Well, Fury's gotta fight sick first, but.

57:08

He lost his last fight while you bullshit

57:11

Francis and to Francis and Ghana,

57:13

which is why Francis and Gonna walked into the ring thinking he could

57:15

beat Anthony josh.

57:16

Wag Gonna put the sleep rocked Jackson.

57:20

With snoring, and

57:22

you gotta put to sleep. That's what I'm saying.

57:24

He welcomes to man, What time of party?

57:26

What's your favorite fighter in the world right now, right

57:28

now, in the world the

57:30

world your favorite fighter.

57:33

I ain't say the best, your favorite.

57:35

My favorite fighter to see right now? Hm,

57:38

that little Asian is cold.

57:40

I don't know now you know, you know

57:43

your cold. He might be the best

57:45

dog, might.

57:46

Be shipped out of people. He might watched him

57:48

beat the dog ship out of the motherfucker.

57:50

I was like, damn, he fast,

57:53

he witty, powerful, he don't

57:55

play no games. And if you fighting him in his

57:57

home country, it's over. So rap

58:00

I like him.

58:02

What level was he?

58:03

Well, he's one. I think was it lightweight?

58:05

No?

58:05

No, no, like featherweight, the featherweight. I

58:08

think he's a touchdown. He's small. He's

58:10

small because he ain't at the Javonte Davis class.

58:12

He's a monster.

58:14

Tanks a monster. And and is he gonna

58:16

fight this kid? Frank Martin's getting ready, Frank Frank?

58:19

Is he live? Is he eventually gonna

58:21

fight scha course, Steven said, I don't know.

58:23

We gotta find that it ain't gonna happen with that fight.

58:26

I ain't betting against Tank Davis.

58:28

That what he's just a dog.

58:30

I ain't betting against him for nobody, because he's the kind

58:32

of person that will catch you. All you gotta do is

58:34

catch you. You saw Ryan got seeing what happened with Devin

58:36

Haney. But They also said that he touched

58:38

the positive for the steroids. He came in.

58:40

Sterl Roy don't make you fight better.

58:42

It makes you bigger and stronger. Though he

58:45

does do that, it doesn't. It is

58:47

legal for a reasons.

58:47

He came in there drinking beer, smoking

58:49

weed.

58:50

You know what, you could do that when you know you juiced.

58:53

You can do this when you know you juiced. Maybe that's

58:55

why he did that. And remember he didn't.

58:57

Have three pounds old

58:59

wait nigga one.

59:00

Point five million and gave it to him.

59:02

Think twice about it, and then I want to

59:04

take a posit. He did whip them. He did whip him

59:06

though I thought.

59:07

That deal hanting him.

59:08

David then my guys man, But it just I don't know what

59:10

happened, and I thought he was gonna win.

59:12

I thought Devin Hainey was stupid to take

59:14

the fight. Now say that because

59:17

if you don't meet the weight limit, don't fight him.

59:19

Oh you mean when he when he was overweight, that

59:21

that was just why.

59:22

You should You should have backed out.

59:23

You shouldn't afford because he has the advantage.

59:25

Now you're the champion, you undefeated. He needs

59:27

you.

59:28

He's trying to regain this recognition because Tank

59:30

took him out. Why would you take the fight if you know he's

59:32

three pounds overweight, he and honor in the cloth.

59:34

And then if he wins, he don't get your belt.

59:36

So you're going to lose, lose if.

59:38

You lose, that's right, And

59:40

that's what happened.

59:41

Damn. I didn't think about it like that, right.

59:43

So now we got Ryan Garcia and hopefully

59:46

the test to be sample, the second test

59:48

comes back negative, and but if it doesn't,

59:50

he's gonna be stayed, he's gonna be marred. We

59:52

know all of that. Here's the fight. I can't believe.

59:55

I gave you three chances to bring this up, David

59:58

Benefitez versus

1:00:00

Canilo. That is what I told

1:00:02

Canilo. I want to see, I said, todd Ale, this shit.

1:00:05

You're great, we know how great you are. But

1:00:07

the middleweight, you're

1:00:09

the super middleweight champion at one sixty eight.

1:00:12

You fighting cats that's moving up two weight

1:00:14

classes to fight you. There's a guy at your

1:00:16

weight class now is undefeated, who

1:00:18

is a knockout artist that is waiting

1:00:20

for you, and you won't fight him. And Vanilla

1:00:23

said, I beat his ass tonight. He said

1:00:25

to the money, right, he said, I beat

1:00:27

this kid, I'll beat him the same night.

1:00:30

I don't even have to try.

1:00:31

You know what I think.

1:00:32

I think the boys from overseas got

1:00:34

to come with that bread. I've been watching, yes,

1:00:36

sir, I'm watching how they position in the game.

1:00:39

They got the real money.

1:00:40

They got the money to cut the shit, meaning

1:00:42

that these agents out here and these promoters out

1:00:44

here have been playing for so long. They got

1:00:46

their system in place, and they making sure

1:00:48

that you get this, you get this when they come to

1:00:50

play, they like.

1:00:51

We give you whatever you want. We give you whatever

1:00:53

you want. Come fighting.

1:00:54

I don't know how you feel about this, but I've stayed a disposition

1:00:57

live like you know, the Sauties in less than the lit

1:01:00

golf and all of this, right, I never had a

1:01:02

problem with it. You know why, if the United

1:01:04

States government could do business with foreign nations

1:01:07

despite human rights violations and all of this stuff

1:01:09

people want to bring up, if the government could

1:01:11

do business with them, why can't individual entrepreneurs

1:01:14

in America do business with them?

1:01:15

I have no problem with it whatsoever?

1:01:17

Do you no way? Because it's

1:01:19

business, and that's what this world is

1:01:21

built on. Business.

1:01:22

Like they always try to bring in politically

1:01:25

what's going on behind closed

1:01:27

door. But if you come to America and look behind

1:01:29

our closed doors, there's a lot of shit going on over

1:01:31

here too, with our government and our policies,

1:01:33

and shit not right, homelessness

1:01:35

and people being treated wrong, people

1:01:38

being shot, and all that shit. The same kind of shit

1:01:40

that goes on over there goes on over here. So

1:01:42

business should be ran accordingly. If you can do what

1:01:44

you should.

1:01:45

Be able to for, I'll let you get on

1:01:47

out of here. Last word, what you want?

1:01:49

I mean, you got special Olympics kids you're

1:01:51

helping with. You got still Stoop

1:01:53

Youth Football League. You're gonna be at the Olympics

1:01:55

in Paris. You got

1:01:58

the Gena Juice you understand them. The

1:02:00

Arizona Bowl, the Snoop Arizona

1:02:02

Bowl by Jenna Juice and Dre and Snoop. I

1:02:04

mean, you got all of that going on. Anything

1:02:08

else you want to let anybody know about. When it comes

1:02:10

to Snoop dog.

1:02:10

Man, yep, I got a dog Pound album

1:02:12

dropping May thirty first on Death Row

1:02:15

DPG. Back together, A lot

1:02:17

of rappers is at each other, We

1:02:20

loving each other. We back home, back

1:02:22

in position, and we're going on tour May

1:02:24

thirty first to June twenty fifth in Canada,

1:02:26

So make sure you get your tickets.

1:02:28

We will be in.

1:02:29

Cannot die Canada. Gotta

1:02:31

go to Canada first, man, what it's

1:02:35

a maple leaf kind of situation.

1:02:37

Maple leaf kind of situation.

1:02:39

You know what their logo is? Right? What Canada

1:02:42

logo was a leaf? Yes? I

1:02:45

got it, I got right it home.

1:02:46

I got it, I got it. Which city first?

1:02:49

Halifax then Quebec City.

1:02:53

Gotta go to Toronto.

1:02:54

Definitely going to Toronto. I'm going to hold

1:02:56

Montreal, Winnipeg.

1:02:57

I've heard special things about Montreal. I've never been.

1:03:00

You may not leave,

1:03:02

you may not leave.

1:03:03

Montreal is like that.

1:03:05

Toronto was like that, like that, but

1:03:07

Montreal was like that.

1:03:09

So who's gonna be go on tour with you?

1:03:11

I'm taking uh DJ quick

1:03:14

Warren.

1:03:14

G always warrened G.

1:03:16

Love that brother. Yeah, that's my family.

1:03:17

West Coast Snoop doge love

1:03:20

you love you more?

1:03:21

Same here, baby, stephen

1:03:23

A. Smith show in the house. You like

1:03:25

that, you got a little more for you in

1:03:27

a minute, be right back, steven A Smith Share,

1:03:29

don't go away.

1:03:35

Welcome back to steven A Smiths. Shall right here, with the digital

1:03:37

Air was a YouTube lie from the Compound.

1:03:40

Snoop's Compound. Had a

1:03:42

blast talking to my brother right there. Always

1:03:44

good talking to him. Want to really really talk to him

1:03:46

about the Arizona Bawl

1:03:48

or Snoop Arizona Ball and what that means to him

1:03:50

and what his objective is. It's not the last

1:03:53

time we'll speak. We got a lot of stuff to talk about

1:03:55

in the months to come, make no mistake

1:03:57

about it, because of all the things that he's got going on,

1:04:00

and so major, major props to him

1:04:02

obviously doing big things as always.

1:04:04

And let me tell you something right now, he

1:04:07

don't have to because he's made enough damn

1:04:09

money. He's got enough success and enough ventures.

1:04:12

But yes, it is true. He could take most

1:04:14

of our jobs in sports. The

1:04:16

brother is brilliant sports commentator.

1:04:19

I can't wait to listen to him during the Olympics.

1:04:21

He got to call some of the basketball games. He's

1:04:23

got to do it, and he's gonna be working alongside

1:04:26

Mike to Rico, who used to work with me at

1:04:28

ESPN. The Brother called NBA games, NFL

1:04:30

games. Mike to Rico is

1:04:32

a brilliant broadcaster. Hall

1:04:35

of Fame caliber broadcaster. Let

1:04:37

me tell you something right now, him and Snoop calling basketball

1:04:39

games Dad would be special to watch. Make

1:04:41

no mistake about that USA basketball against

1:04:43

some of these other teams. So major, major props

1:04:45

to the one and only Snoop Dogg for yet

1:04:47

the latest venture of his that's

1:04:49

no doubt is destined to be successful.

1:04:52

Before I get on out of here for today, let me transition.

1:04:56

It's not some negative stuff. It's not

1:04:58

something along the lines of A

1:05:00

Drake and Kendrick Lamar and how excessive

1:05:02

and extreme and off kilter that

1:05:05

has gotten. But Shannon

1:05:07

Sharp and the Brothers

1:05:10

at Nightcap irritated

1:05:13

the one and only Shaquille O'Neil because

1:05:16

they were talking about Shaq

1:05:19

and and Gilbert Arenas's

1:05:21

case. He was saying, Hey, Shaq, he

1:05:23

want to be that autpha. He want to be He don't

1:05:26

like big men. He's always critiquing

1:05:28

them. My paraphrasing, of course, was I don't have the quote right in front

1:05:30

of me. And in the case of Shannon, Sharpe

1:05:33

said, it's about m vps.

1:05:35

It's about MVPs because he knows Shack

1:05:37

should have had more than one. And

1:05:39

then Shaq came out with

1:05:42

the disc track. I don't know if we

1:05:44

could play it for you or not. I'm fine trying to find out, trying

1:05:46

to find out we could play it for you. We could play it for you. I

1:05:48

will definitely definitely do that right

1:05:51

now.

1:05:52

When it comes to Shaq, Shaq.

1:05:53

Hates every big man.

1:05:54

Did he ever noticed?

1:05:56

He does?

1:05:57

He doesn't like the big man rightfully

1:06:00

so, because that's his position he

1:06:03

is. In his mind, he is the

1:06:05

eight X predator. No matter what

1:06:07

no one says.

1:06:08

We don't care. He don't care what you say. He don't care.

1:06:10

You can throw all the championships and all that. If

1:06:13

we laced him up and we

1:06:15

had in our prime, had to play

1:06:18

against each other our prime. He thinks

1:06:20

he's the APEX predator. Those

1:06:22

awards hurt him. Take the hell out of him.

1:06:26

It's the n VP's guild, it's

1:06:28

the n v B because you only have one,

1:06:30

one one.

1:06:33

They didn't think that I would be in but one.

1:06:41

Precation.

1:06:42

I'm the best in the world. I'm number one.

1:06:45

I'm the best in the world. I'm number one.

1:06:48

I'm the best in the world.

1:06:50

Number Oh no, shup

1:06:52

man, you wait beneath me.

1:06:54

Your whole the meaning is fake.

1:06:55

That the new wrapper b feet, you're soft

1:06:58

before.

1:06:58

You get flying.

1:06:59

You're rather tweet me how was in three

1:07:01

different cars when you wasn't three feet?

1:07:03

All I see is down at signs. They come in

1:07:05

in three D making hot. Ain't

1:07:08

nowhere around my ten greedy, you

1:07:10

are not in my spot. You are like a pe

1:07:12

with you like got them calling me rocky.

1:07:14

Either way I read read, I get to the

1:07:16

green bag. I don't mean a law more

1:07:18

chet.

1:07:19

Flying, foreign driving test spying. You

1:07:22

heard right there what Shack had

1:07:24

to say. It's

1:07:27

not bad, it's nothing

1:07:29

extreme, it's nothing excessive. So

1:07:32

guess what. Ladies and gentlemen ain't much to say about

1:07:34

that. Don't act like there's some war between Shannon

1:07:37

and Shaq. I got news for you. Both

1:07:40

of them are Hall of famers. Both

1:07:42

of them were elite. Both

1:07:44

of them were champions. Shaq

1:07:46

got four rings, Shannon

1:07:50

got three. It's

1:07:52

a conversation that most of us have

1:07:55

no business partaking in. So

1:07:58

I'm not about to be the one. I just wanted to let you all

1:08:00

know about it because demit Shack texted to me on my

1:08:02

phone and said, damnit, play it, hell

1:08:05

with all, let's play that shit. That's

1:08:07

what he said, okay, and that's why

1:08:09

I brought it up. That's the only reason I brought it up. But

1:08:12

that's all I got to say. I hope you all enjoyed the show. Hope you

1:08:14

all enjoyed my time with Stoopid Dog. Hope y'all are gonna

1:08:16

enjoy the playoffs tonight. I expect the Knicks to lose

1:08:18

Game three, but probably win Game four.

1:08:21

We'll see what happens with that. And even if they lose games

1:08:23

three and four, I don't even care. As long as Ognnova ultimately

1:08:25

comes back in this series and the New York Knicks,

1:08:28

and he's playing on the court with the New York Knicks, I think the New York

1:08:30

Knicks will win this series. Outside

1:08:32

of that, I can't

1:08:34

wait to see Anthony Edwards in Minnesota go up

1:08:36

against Denver because I think Denver's on the verge of being

1:08:39

swept. I hope I'm wrong, because the

1:08:41

longer series goes, the more riveting it is.

1:08:43

I just don't see it happening. So

1:08:46

Oklahoma City lose the Dallas I think that series

1:08:48

is gonna go seven games. I think Minnesota's

1:08:50

gonna sweep Denver, even

1:08:54

though I think Oklahoma Cibity will

1:08:56

win this series if it goes seven games. Kyrie

1:08:58

Irving in the game seven would look Lord

1:09:01

at Mercy. I'll be worried for oka.

1:09:03

See.

1:09:05

And in the Eastern Conference, Donovan

1:09:07

Mitchell was showing himself to be that dude,

1:09:09

that dude that I wanted on the New York Knicks, by

1:09:12

the way, with Jalen Brunson, not

1:09:14

instead of them.

1:09:16

But again I digress. We'll

1:09:19

see what happens the New York Knicks. We see

1:09:21

whether the Boston Celtic is gonna step up and start handling

1:09:24

their business. Outside

1:09:26

of that, I want y'all all, I have a wonderful, wonderful week,

1:09:28

and I hope y'all enjoyed the show. I know I did. It's

1:09:30

always great talking to my man Snoop Dogg. Until

1:09:32

next time, everybody, Peace and love, Stephen A

1:09:35

signing off