Michael Beasley’s Unfiltered Smoke: Kevin Durant, Pat Riley, Derrick Rose, Kevin Love, OJ Mayo

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back, another edition of All the Smoke Show three.

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Speaker 2: Welcome my guy. I was gonna make it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, normally when that kind of shit happened, you just take it back in. No, ya, I ain't seen you on in a minute. You know, you've been holding the show down and shit, and I've been in home trying to heal up, so I had.

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Speaker 2: To get it. I ain't, Jack, what's up with you? Ain't I ain't back, but don't get it fucked up.

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Speaker 1: It's still with that. I'm still that. Yeah, yeah, ain't. I'm fucked up right now. But don't try me. I'm back back on set, nigga. Welcome back, five man. We got a good one today, Jack, someone I've always had a lot of love and respect for. Uh Man, one of the best one on one players on the planet. McDonald's game MVP two thousand and eight Big twelve Player of the Year second overall. Pick your favorite Hooper's favorite Hooper Man, Welcome to the show, Michael Beasley, Brody, what up in the next chapter? You went up there and dig your thing. You made Lance dance talk to us about the lead up the ship it talking and then actually getting out there on the court and doing what you've been doing.

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Speaker 2: I mean to me, it was just you know, another day. Yeah, it's just something to do on Thursday, you know, not to disrespect, right, So you know it definitely he definitely stronger than what I thought, right, But nah, I was just you know, just doing what I do.

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Speaker 1: And you know he was just what's that that you do? For those who haven't seen.

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Speaker 2: I just don't lose. I mean a simple as that. You know, I've just been the best of my whole life. Just that's it. And people will combat that with well in the NBA this and the NBA that, and then I will combat that with I've been a point a minute my whole career. Like I think, I think a lot of the coaches and I think my attitude got in the way of me playing right. But if you look at my pert thirty six, like you know, match up with something like that.

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Speaker 1: So you look back now because just I mean, with you thirty five, thirty six, thirty six, eleven year NBA career but still in great shape, could still put the ball in the basket, still play the game. As you get older, do you kind of start because I think when we're younger, we blame a lot of different situations, and we have a lot of different situations that may come up through they jeopardized. Now when you're older, how you look at you?

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Speaker 2: No, I mean I think. I think. I think because I feel like you're the I feel like you're a mystery, Like I feel like you had so much game.

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Speaker 1: In People like how come you didn't play fifteen seventeen years because nich I think. I think they want a nigga to be a sucker, and.

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Speaker 2: I think so or my moduation process. One thing I've learned, right, everything that happened to you, good and bad, you will. You are the common denominator. Yes, you understand every every time you take credit for the good when it don't for you, you gotta take credit for that. And that's hard from you. So whether it was your fault or not, you got to understand what you did wrong. You gotta stand what you could have done better. Understand right. So that's just how I look at my career, right. I don't blame no coaches. I used to blame SPO a lot. I used to blame a lot. And the older I got, the more I realized, like my rookie year was his rookie year, and just as scared as I was of Rouse.

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Speaker 1: He was just you know, more because he used to be the film guy. Yes, yeah, but was longer than yours to mess up though. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But no, no really no, but no, no no. But that's the number perspective. You gotta think. I come under Frank Martin, I come under David Cox, I come under real I put my foot in your ass coaches, So it could have been SpongeBob in that head coach spot. And yes, say I respected it because it was head coach. I was scared of that Gatto, understand. So I was more scared of s Fold than I think he want to believe you understand. I didn't know how to display my frustration in any other way but anger, because it was just blow up, right. I was not thinking, could anybody get in your ear? Can any of the ves? You have the vets on your team? That's that's so, that's one of that's one of the things I used to get mad at. The vets were also right, uh. I thought it was more of a challenging thing, and looking back on it, it was more the media that put me in U D against each other more, you know, and then at the same time, are we really calling a four year player of VET right? So U D was still fighting for his next contract the way he wanted. He got the finals MVP, so he got the luxury of extending his contracts understanding. But most people don't get that fourth year understand So when I look back on it, the help I wanted and the men that I wanted them from just wasn't on the team at the time, understand. And I couldn't say that at nineteen to a twenty four year old to a champion too.

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Speaker 1: Two of the guys you're talking about that didn't help you are past guys. They life was they still there? So you was looking for help for guys that already had no No.

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Speaker 2: So I ain't gonna say dead because because now now d Wade man man, I got memories with d Wade that you understanding that I fall asleep to same thing with fucking U d U D. You D the reason I can walk around Miami the way I can walk around the day, So like it's it's things they taught me that I wasn't. I just was necessarily I was just too young. I came into Miami in nineteen I wasn't supposed to be outside in y'all clubs. I wasn't twenty one. I was supposed to every club in Miami was supposed to be turning me down. Like so my my case in point to that, I went out in Vegas and bro I went out with d Wade fucking Kobe d white House, and I'm sitting at the door and they're like, bees, we know who you are. No, they turned it down right behind Kobe, you understand. So it's like Miami should have treated me the same way. You understand.

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Speaker 1: Almost hindsight speaks, almost protecting you from yourself.

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Speaker 2: Almost protected me from myself. I was nineteen right now, I'm not placing blame on everybody eye because I still did what I did, smoke with I smoked, fucked who I fucked, understand, And I love my kids right right. But at the same time, like if I had to put a vet on that season, like because d Wade, he taught me some things, but d Wade was like d Wade was just getting into his celebrity, so he was around like like I remember he was around the cast at girlfriends and shit. Then you know Gab and all that shit. I just they was just too grown for me. At the time U d was, he was missing Miami. So Youd had me in every fucking hood you want to. I'm talking about every cookout, everybody's birthday for I'm talking about nigga. You just gonna kick it and it's it's fun. But you know, he was still finding his way too. But when when we traded for Jo, Jayo really like that. Yeah, jo Jo really taught me how to start stop saving my money, how to start investing, how to move. He started how to move like a real man, understand But and I still wasn't ready for the lessons how we talk. I was nineteen. I was my first year I got drafted. I was nineteen. I ain't turned twenty until January. We drafted for We drafted for Jo, and I think February, right before the All Star breaker, right for him. Yeah, I want to say Toronto reb Simi when I think, I think it was. But Jayo really didn't stand took me under. But at the same time I was fighting Spoil And then I wasn't ready for brother fucking pat Riley Bro. I wasn't ready for him, and not in a bad way like man Pot treated me like a son, and you know, like like, come on, Dad, don't kiss me in front of the guys. Dad, I don't want to talk to you today, Like like, but he made me sit in his office every fucking week or whether I was listening or not. And I live by the moments he taught me. You know what I'm saying. But it's like, just I was just nineteen, bro, I was just twenty. I was just I had too much money for my age.

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Speaker 1: What did you get at that time? Not to be in your business? But the number two pick compared to what we get? What would you get at that time? Compared to man, I got some short shit because when I got at nineteen, you got way more than me.

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Speaker 2: Like yeah, but you want the number two pick though, I'm saying, so you took the crazy route we used to talk about you. I went last pick. Motherfuckers when Juco and she just said fucking just jumped in the draft like got you know that's different. But I think d Boys got five million his first year. I got four million. I think my whole my total contract might have total like twenty one million. Yes, So I mean it was good money, don't get me wrong. Like nigga me, me and my family were still eating today. But it definitely not not with these niggas. Get to day.

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Speaker 1: Oh there, we want parts of that. Let's start the top. I met you when you was young. I'll let you tell that story. But I met you, you know, when you was coming into being Mike Busley as a teenager.

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Speaker 2: No, I wasn't Mike Beasy there. I wasn't into coming into you were still. I think I think I might have been ranked. I think I might have been ranked. I think you was ranked there. So I got ranked. My first time been ranked was eighth grade. I was like number two pick. Then I skipped the ninth grade, and then I was number two in the tenth grade. That's around the time I met you.

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Speaker 1: Skipped the ninth grade. You just went to tenth grade. You jumped up. Everyone wants to jump down, maybe once or twice, but you jumped up a grade.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because we found out we heard that they was going to change the rule.

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Speaker 1: Oh so you want to hear and get the least.

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Speaker 2: I was here and got out of high school.

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Speaker 1: So you classed up out of eighth grade. You went to tenth grade.

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Speaker 2: Wow, which is what I think about it. Yeah, I think it's a million paths to the top of the mountain. But when you get this on the one view, you're right now. I think people need to stop. I think I think comparison is the thief of joy and forces us to rush. Right. But no matter how much money you have but don't have, tomorrow don't come no faster, right. You know what I'm saying. No matter how fast you want and how slow you are, tomorrow don't come no faster. Right. So I think everybody should slow down, take their own path.

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Speaker 1: Everybody got their own wave to catch. I always say that everybody. But tell the story how we met though you.

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Speaker 2: I met jack a. You practiced the first time. He pulled up smelling like a bag, definitely smell like a bad I was just get some money. I was just starting to get some money.

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Speaker 1: He was in league already, Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't in legal I was overseas right, Nah, was already. I think he was a dispersed Okay, so I was my secondear league. It was yeah, because you was playing the Wizards. Because uh, you pulled up in the range or escalated. I forgot which one.

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Speaker 2: Me and Mike Brown you had that fly ship. I think had a mink coat on flysh.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: So like we we went to the game, like man, we caught the train to the game, and you know we had we just thought he was gonna leave his tickets. He left us the family passes to see him after the game, you know, the little turning we walk in and you know, he chopped it up with his told us some shot. You know what I'm saying, told us would not do all that bullshit. You know, the nigga gotta give you that school speech all fluff. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, pulled out. Think I'm talking about the motherfucker Porter at the time, Like at the time, I was poor. I understand you gottastand so it looked like a kajillion billion dollars. I was like, god damn. But he probably pulled out like ten bands, all hundreds.

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Speaker 1: In my whole check in my pocket, gave a nigga my account, everything in my pocket.

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Speaker 2: Gave Nolan one, gave me one which which I'm playing n I l causin Nigga that that's it, how to fuck you up. But real ship that was, that was that was the first hundred dollar bill, I've had my hand like you know that that that somebody ain't telling me to go get my mother. At the time, I think I was. I was I was no younger than fifteen, no younger than fifteen. I'm probably fifteen sixteen, but I think I was going to might have been going to house. Yeah, oh yeah, that's the first time I met Jack. Shout. I Knowlan too, know just gotta Tennessee state. Yeah shout, I know. Even call me by my son too, So I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 2: Uh, let's start mine work two jobs. Let's go back to the beginning. You got four six Oh, my mom worked three jobs, three jobs like my mom, Bro, My mom was a gang. To talk about it. My mom had a nine to five. She would get off, she would get off work. Mm hm, I would say, you know, she cout up heard like three four o'clock. It would be like an hour and a half after we get up, get home from school, right, then should make should make sure my older brother Diamond make dinner, and then she would go she had a little part time six to ten. You understand, then she she'll come home from that what's your brother name, Diamond, Well, that's his nickname Leroy, his nickname Diamond. But then uh, chick home from that, make sure you know what I'm saying, sleep and then should she would go to her graveyard. Yeah know what I'm saying. And graveyard like you know, you don't even see her, Like she'll be home before we wake up, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: But like the job after do my mom worked grad yards too, like you know that that's from six to six. So like when we get up to go to school, she's just getting home by the time we get no.

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Speaker 2: No, no, yeah, my mother she she ain't worked no work like she she was in the club. I don't know what I'm saying. I ain't gonna say my mother, SuPAR this nigga sick, That's what. That's what I ain't gonna say. No, don't real you or not, I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you like when I first got the inclination, right because you when I was young. I was young. So like like when she goes to her last job, she would give us a number to call, right man, one time I called it. You know what I'm saying. I forgot what Diamond did to me. Diamond did some bullshit. That's only time I call my mother, but it's signed like because I was always the biggest in the house. So if I ain't tell her first, they all tell the story and then just like now, niggas, is you the biggest? So it's like get my ass up. So I was like, I just gotta make sure I write this down. I got to write the time there like my five twenty nine. These niggas broke that ship. They gonna take you, but whatever. So I'm in by call her and the dude on the phone was like, Yo, she she worked. She got to call her back. So I called again, like, Yo, you're working, she worked, y'all call her back. Call again, Yo, you gotta she going. She said, you got to call her back from two to five minutes and some shit like that. Right, So on the phone counted like maybe twenty you know what I'm saying, called back, and then I just remember her a getting you know, my mother yelling at me like what whatever, whatever, you know whatever. Fast forward to when I'm twenty, I mean fucking toessies. Right, look, look I'm in ship and I'm trying to take this. You know, I'm at this little joint I'm trying to take her home. I'm trying, like, you know what I'm saying. You know, I'm trying to go home like that night, dropped here all night, now practice in the morning and all that ship. Right, So she walking away, I'm like, bro, go get dressed. Bro, I'm trying to go home. She like, yo, I'll be back in two to five minutes. I looked at her. I picked up my phone. I called my mother. I said, Bro, you got something to tell me? Yeo. And that's when I put together, like yo.

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Speaker 1: At two to five minutes, yea.

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Speaker 2: I just I just got it, like, oh my god, Yo. But my mother worked hard. Bro, my mother worked hard. She she literally got us. She just made sure we ain't want for ship. I just remember that, you know what I'm saying, Like, I ain't know. We was in the hood soil I started biting my friends over you know what I'm saying, I ain't know roaches was not a regular thing until I went to people houses and then understand like we really, like you know, we grew up in shelters and ship. My mother just she just made sure we was cool. I'm saying, we can get evicted every six months we be in our crib and we didn't know. We didn't know that was struggling though. Yeah, yeah at the time, like I tell people all the time, like I ain't know I was having Like like I'm gonna tell you when I first knew I was poor, Like when I first knew I was poor, I stopped playing with Nolan, right because me and Kad we used to live in the same neighborhood playing Saint Jam's ship. So me and kd we nigga, he got roaches, I got roaches, Nigga, you underm staying like that's normal. Yes, Like we get on the same bus. I get on the bus to go to this house on my mother you feel me, like that's what we chill. Nolan, Bro the first time of the nigga came to my house. This motherfuckers like you, I lived right on Martin Luther King, you know when I met Nolan right now Belle Haven, right on Bell right across the street from the foot lock all that ship. Nola came over. That motherfucker was like, Bro, this this, this, this is what you're getting out of there, you know, Like, yeah, Nigga's when we watched our closed that right across the street. Nigga's where we get shoes at. You know what I'm saying, we get our groceries and so well, you know this is Nigga just run away mother fuckers. Like and that's when I really started looking at like where I'm living at, like you know, and then you know, he hed pay attention to the sirens and sirens that like before Noland, like you don't hear the motherfuckers they just come up. But then He's like damn really, So then you know, I started staying with Noland. You know, life just like got and his mama. He had a good household. Bro. Like I go home and it's nine of us in the two bedroom. Back in the two bedroom. You understand, I go to Noland. I got the basement by myself. He got his own room. I got a bar downstairs. I got fined up for juice, Cranberry juice. You know, like I used to I used to like I used to hate leaveing tho. I was, oh my god, to the point where like my mother just let me move in. Man Oland just attached for the hip from like thirteen till when I left the college.

00:18:56
Speaker 1: At the hip, you said, you got the hot Hand January NFE, nineteen eighty nine.

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Speaker 2: What they mean, born with it? Yeah, burst the woe with it, burstfly fish swim, you know what I'm saying. And I just do what God made me to do. Like y'all y'all say I'm the best one on one or y'all say I'm the best ice, so like, to be completely honest, I don't even like iceold basketball. You just you understand, Like I'm like, I really like five on five playing the right way, and I grabbed my io off the right situation. But every situation they make for ISO, but everybody, like it's like people project right, everybody see me as the best hoop for the best one on one and one. You know, I get it. It's just because I can do it so well that makes sense. Like I don't want to do it all the time, but I'm fortunate because like every time I catch the ball, the whole arena is just looking at it. Just go, especially big three, go get me. It's like and it's like, damn, I got it. If y'all want me to, you feel me, yo, And but I just like I just like I just like to play the right way. You know what I'm saying. Sometimes I got to hand, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I'm making shots something that you know what I'm saying, But you shoot the right shots, the right thing is gonna happen at the right time, you know what I'm saying. And I just played on that that role. I played on that mode. Know what I'm saying, Well, you know who you credit to putting the basketball in your hand? Who I credit to putting the basketball in my hand? My uncle Party, Yeah, rest peace artist. He died like a month after my mom did. I just remember he used to drag me. I hate going to practice because I was. I was trashed when I first I was playing cold. We all was hey, I wouldn't we always? I had forty two with five I was. I was like, but I was trashed, but like I was not. I'm not sure if I like wanted that. I just ain't. I used to hate going to practice and doing all that dumb ship like you understand. I was a real hood niggas, so like all them squads and writing with hands like this and ship. You understand. I hated that ship. But you know I stopped doing that shit. I played with John Howard. That was my first thing. Uh, but then my uncle got locked up and so I stopped and then I stopped playing and uh Church League Dupop Park, you know that's like my family church Southeast. I stopped playing, you know. And that's when like I don't know, I don't know. That's I guess I got good. I guess I don't Maybe I just got tall. I don't know. I was always talk about whatever. And then uh I met Curtis Malone. No, No, first I met p K, p K me and me and KD and p K too, like like like like your sons, you know what I'm saying. And that's when I first started like having fun with basketball. Met KAD like what age nine, just turning ten? I was like ten, y'all the same grade, right, same year? KT older than me?

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Speaker 1: How many years?

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Speaker 2: One or two? Like KD the first that I met that like love basketball, Like I think he made me fall in love with basketball, you know what I'm saying. Because like when I met KD was the gym every day and then I had to worry about, uh who I had to walk past when I get home or who wanted to fight me because I looked like that? Or you understand like you know, just a little neighborhood ship that like you know what I'm saying. I was just into everything and I was into I was into a lot of shit just because I was talling for my age, you know what I'm saying. Like when I met KD, that's when I was like really like into the gym, like into the gym, like you know what I'm saying. So I would say, my uncle got means a basketball to aswer your question. But then like I say, he got locked up, like PK find me, PK and KD stink all them niggas at the Jim Chuck Cars, Scott Trivis, all them niggas saguate. That's when I really like fell in love with that Shi again when he said Curtlin's belong That's that's another step box, I don't know. That was the step that when I met Kurt, I was playing with PG Jaguars for like four years, right, but I was playing the same shoes for so long. I had blisters on my feet. I met Kirk, Kirk gave me like five pairs shoes, tell me to be in practice.

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Speaker 1: D And I ain't these made niggas he talking about on that side. Now he just these just made guys. Kirk played a major part in my life. Man too, But I paid for that best. Okay, memories, and how did you survive there? Because I barely made it. I'll tell you my craziest story.

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Speaker 2: You tell me your crazy story, my craziest story. Okay, I used to I used to be some ship. Can't help it. I'm smarter than with y'all. Uh I'm saying I know that. I'm just no, I'm just smarter than what what you even think? You right? Just burn God, The worst thing for me is idle time. Like if you want to see a fire like just giving, you know, all you need is these hands and a lack of a head of supervision. Like I get some ship going, you know what I'm staying Like, I really get some ship going. So like I used to have girls from Gottlinburg. What's that got not Gotlinburg? What's the school down the hill from Okay, Gotlinburg and Tennessee is Charlotte though, okay with mouth of Wilson, right, yes, and it's gonna come to my name. But it's a high school, like a public school that's right down the street. You know, we've had. We had a female sneak up.

00:24:47
Speaker 1: Now he got a line. But see this, so this this this happiness. No it ain't Jefferson, no mouth for Wilson. I think it starts with the Yeah. Yeah that's it.

00:24:59
Speaker 2: That's the good job dealing.

00:25:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.

00:25:03
Speaker 2: Yeah we had. I mean, I ain't gonna say the old thing everybody want with the ships. But you know what I'm saying, I used to have a gay Lex girls, Gaylex girls.

00:25:12
Speaker 1: But this is what I've just how fro nested you know you girls once so I joined the choir. They used to leave and go sing. Had his chicken named Karly told them not to win on draws, skirts, the back road.

00:25:26
Speaker 2: The whole ride braw to Look now, you want me tell you I used to do it.

00:25:31
Speaker 1: You know she got kids in the face.

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Speaker 2: Man, she probably don't watch it. She was like one of the all black they were all black. She was god, she was a god, she was God love. Look whoever I wanted for today, right, whoever I wanted for the day. I tell him, I tell him go to the nurse right and just tell them. You know what I'm saying, telling me, I had, You know, I knew it was two things you couldn't check, which was a headache and the back thing. Understand. So I tell whoever chicken, yeah, you know, just just tell the nurse. You know, I'm saying, you got you gotta go to the doctor. Got crazy head? They going and I you know what I'm saying, till I got you know what I'm saying, We'll be in the back of uh the nurse van. It's locked up.

00:26:15
Speaker 1: Like I was gonna figure, I'm f the miss So you know how four go to lunch then the bottom floor stay. You know what I'm saying.

00:26:24
Speaker 2: They go like that. So I had a chicken named Emily. Shout out Emily, So look, why are you such a snitch? They cool. They they're probably happy I'm telling these stories. You don't know that, man, they're probably happy I'm telling these stories.

00:26:37
Speaker 1: Man.

00:26:37
Speaker 2: They probably married to some white guy telling that nigga. I ain't never know you did at sixteen, that niggas They probably they're probably telling them. Man, they ain't never been with no nigga the house, not because ain't no way these chickens, man, ain't no way. They don't They look like they Yeah, the whole lunch.

00:26:57
Speaker 1: Right the whole the first floor go to lunch, the bottom floor stead they take times, so the whole flow goes.

00:27:02
Speaker 2: She doing class. She grabbed my hand and put it on the skirt. Man.

00:27:05
Speaker 1: As soon as everybody left, banged in the classroom. Class Man walked around school sticky all day.

00:27:10
Speaker 2: I didn't like no finger popping ship Chris smelling Now.

00:27:14
Speaker 1: She just wanted to let me know his own So I met. I met her back in classroom. Used to take your past down and just undo your zipper now right to the knees. Okay, it's the quick pumps. It was a quick one.

00:27:27
Speaker 2: It was a quick one. He's always been alertic the contents. I got it off, I got it off. It was was Miss Smith. Was Miss Smith's there? When he was there? What's he sexy? I never looked at her like that. I had my school. I had a crush on you didn't have his pool. I had a crush on this well, I ain't ever. It was like mama, though, That was like everybody. Mama. My mother was Smith. I'm saying, Ura roll her rod and y'all tripping mother.

00:28:00
Speaker 1: Loaded high school class top five insane. I'm gonna give you some names. Tell me the first thing to come of mind.

00:28:05
Speaker 2: Derrick Rose. Derrick Rose was fucking dog in high school. I remember when I met Derrick Rose. First time I met Derrick Rose, like he was the first nigg I wanted to be like mm hmm, smooth nigga quiet understand like like he caught like like like like I don't like I don't go through phones, I don't be in people businesses and ship like that, whether it's a female male, you know what I'm saying. I heard the Rose say that ship when I was sixteen erstand like you understand, Like the Roe, the coolest niggas ever met, Like I was like, spend more time with them, but like like good spirit him. Oh J Mayo, Yeah, tell me about the flyers niggas you ever want to meet? Bro? I like first time I first time I seen you know O J. Males with Katie and Memphis. You know what I'm saying. We was in the bleachers Washington man, bro that motherfuckers Mike Jordan's in seventh grade. Understand Like OJ Mayo was just like like he was the NBA player, like like I was chasing male, know what I'm saying, Like if it wasn't for him. You know, no, Lyn know what I'm saying, But like I was chasing him on something as far as being number one ship, Like right, I finally got that ship in the twelve break.

00:29:16
Speaker 1: But like.

00:29:18
Speaker 2: Eric going in BRO, we had like our class was dog Kevin Love. Kevin Love wasn't even that great in high school. He was Kevin Love understood Team Bow before us. That motherfucking fast break was easy. What I remember we played. I think we was in New York. I forgot we was in New York for Bro. The nigga threw me a four core. Oh you know, so we got three sixty that MoU far like like the mother he just gets like he get that rebound on some west that yeah, Like he understood that ship when we were young, Like like like now this scoring k Love like I was. I was in Minnesota when he turned it to Da Killer right now, i'mderstanding like I was, Like I watched that ship. That ship was fun.

00:30:07
Speaker 1: He was throwing up thirties and twenty.

00:30:09
Speaker 2: It was with you when he gave Lake thirty and twenty eight. Man, listen the best game I ever watched, The best game I ever watched it Like I was injured for this game. But I'm so hoigh I wasn't part of this game. Oklahoma, Uh, Minnesota. Timber was fucking I think K Love had like fifty, KT had like forty. Russ had thirty in the Tiple double, maybe twenty in Tiple double. JJ Barre had a triple double. Rubio had damn near triple. It was Nigga. I'm talking about it, like one forty. It was one of them. I was like, we was watching that ship. Nigga Kat was his some shots. Nigga. I was like, oh my motherfucking god, that nigga boogie understand and k Love, Oh my understand. Like, but in high school, K Love was more of a team like he had he had a brand of Jennings around him. He had niggas like that, Like that was running the break before we all even knew. M hm.

00:31:12
Speaker 1: How do you end up in Kansas State school that hadn't necessarily had any successful a while before you went there?

00:31:19
Speaker 2: Uh, looking back on it, Fucking Bobby Huggins too smart for his own good, right, So like when I stopped playing for DC AsSalt Bro, I ain't get no burn. So I used to kick it with the Lanta Hill a lot. Me and D D Hill got real cool, you understand. So I just made a problemise with D Hell because you know, I just fuck with the Hill and I just all right. I went to fucking Laurenberg Prep by myself, and I didn't have no cell phone and I didn't know how to use the fucking payphone and ship. So Nigga, I ended up not talking to nobody in my family for like the first two months, three more, and them Nigga sent me down there with fucking forty dollars, understand So Nigga pinched that forty dollars for like two weeks. After that, Nigga, I had to rely on everybody else, which I made some good friends, my Nigga, Ricky fucking Regis Coombab, fucking Keith Boken's like this is niggas. Some niggas really took care of me, understand But like Nigga, when I finally call home, like Nigga, I just like that. That's why I'm saving numbers now, Nigga, I gotta remember every number because.

00:32:27
Speaker 1: Like Nigga, hold on, you remember every number crazy, like understand.

00:32:31
Speaker 2: So, like I just made like I was just scared of shit, Nigga, my mother ain't called. I was mad as shit my mother. Now I finally called my mother, like nigga, I was fucking fourteen, like nigga, ain't nobody think to check up on me or nothing? Nigga to fuck And then you know, Loanbird, bro Longbird fucking you gotta figure that shit out. Laurdbird North Carolina. We was in the middle of the hood, like nigga, right by a cemetery or that man whatever. I So, so when I got cool with d Hill, I had that in my mind and I just told him, like nigga, I ain't trying to go to college and not have nobody there. So wherever you go, I'm gonna go.

00:33:06
Speaker 1: So you was leaning on the friendship and the love.

00:33:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you understand wherever you go, I'm gonna go where else where else?

00:33:12
Speaker 1: Are you being recruited at any other schools that cross mind? Really?

00:33:17
Speaker 2: And this is why because as soon as he left DC, so he went to No Carolina Sharlotte. So I committed there because like when he left, that's like out of nowhere. I just got popular. I just got understand, and I just understand. I just don't like, I don't fake it in front of niggas. Niggas don't understand, Like if you can't take me, you can't take me. You know what I'm saying, Like like your driver pissed at me, I'm gott pissed a him because Nigga, he got mad at me.

00:33:45
Speaker 1: Real ship, all the smoking. Can't smoke in a fucking carss create.

00:33:49
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I just told I just sold d Hill like Nigga with you. I just told the hell like, nigga, wherever you're going, I'm going. So he went to he went to, uh, Charlotte, you want Seecharlotte. That's what it is. You don't see Charlotte. He went to un and see Charlotte and and Nigga, I was, I was really gonna go there. I was. I committed there, nigga, That's what I was. And honestly, I skipped the ninth grade and I was just gonna go to the NBA. You understand. So that was that was my plan. I just ain't want nobody recruiting me. I just ain't want like none of that fake ship going on niggas coming.

00:34:23
Speaker 1: You went from not some one year in college and to the number two pick.

00:34:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I work hard.

00:34:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously I didn't work hard.

00:34:33
Speaker 2: I'm consistent like the same way I work now like, And that's one thing I can't thank Curtis Malone for. But like I said, I work like. I can't thank him because I paid it. I paid for that, so I understand. I really thank myself for that. But like Nigga, he like instilled that from the day I met him in the gym for at least two hours a day every day I'm talking about, I don't give church. I don't give its birthday, I don't give its mother birthday. I'm gonna give fucked the only day you convince it if you did, you understand. My grandfather used to always so it's like it's always it's always a good day to you miss them, you understand. And my mother used to always tell me, like Nigga, if you if you're only feeling good, when you're feeling good, you ain't gonna get shipped done understand. So Kurt used to always just have me in the gym, you understand. So like even now, like Nigga, like when I be fucked up, when I be whatever, understand stomach be fucked up. Nigga bank account be fucked up whatever, anything, whatever, Yes, nigga, get my ass in the gymnigg that's the only thing that makes sense. That's the only thing that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, So that's you know what I'm saying. You know, that's that's one thing I took from my child over Kirk. But like I said, I paid for that ricky year when you got drafted. Talk about what happened with you, Rio Andre Arthur. You want me to be real. Yeah, you want to be all the way real. Have you ever been fake with me? Your people in your life used to tell you not to like you just teach you not to get in trouble. Try to. Yeah, these teach you not to get in trouble. Us. My mother, gangster, she knew who I was and how miss mischiefous, miss how she understands. She just knew. I like, I'm gonna figure whatever out. So my mother never taught me how to not to get in trouble. She always taught me how not to get caught, right, m hm, you understand.

00:36:11
Speaker 1: So So.

00:36:16
Speaker 2: I'm kicking it one night right at the fucking transition camp, and I got my baby mother at the joint and you know, I snuck in. She want my bag mother at the time, but you know I snuck in, understand, and this first time I'm telling the whole story, right, it's just because they said so appreciate. So so I got my baby mother. You know what I'm saying. She wanted all the time. But whatever, we're kicking in the hotel and shit, right, So so Mario Mario called me, right, Rio right Mario called me and was like, Yo, I got some bitchess coming through the hotel and I'm like, no, I'm cool because you know I'm saying. I'm saying it was a situation. I never having four little kids, which is stand so it's like it was like a situation. He was like, Yo, they bringing some weed and Nigga, you know the transition can niggas the cold Turkey for like before they So I was like, fucking Nigga'm gonna go. I'm gonna go, yes, staying uh yes, hit the jack and up to this point, nigga, I got drafted in this game, is nigga, I've been smoking good like three four months.

00:37:29
Speaker 1: Now different once you get that money, all right, So.

00:37:33
Speaker 2: I get Tomorrio room and the real author there, you know. So We're sitting there waiting for these females come through. Apparently they some females that went to Kansas or whatever whatever that I don't know. I don't know these bitches from the color blue, what I'm saying. So they come in the room like if anybody ever known me in their life, they know me for smoking bibles or leaf like this. These bitches bring dust dust mashes, the long gas dust masters too. And then they without some dime bags, which nigga like, I told you, like, you're smoking good. Yeah, I ain't, Nigga, ain't nigga.

00:38:07
Speaker 1: I ain't. Like.

00:38:08
Speaker 2: Then we're gonna get three of them, right, So so so I'm like, man, funk, I'm not gonna I'm not I'm not smoking with these motherfuckers. I'm gonna check my Facebook and get out of because at the time we had as all that ship. Yeah, I'm gonna check my Facebook. Get then about it. So I go check my Facebook, and by the time it gets to men, god, I don't want that ship. I closed my Facebook and nigga, I walked to the door, right.

00:38:42
Speaker 1: Y'all, was just smoking in the room regular, no towels, no bathroom, and listen, dumb niggas.

00:38:47
Speaker 2: And at this point my introduction to Miami was was was was Ricky Davis my lord nah no no no nah nah ce ce that that's why I love Ricky. Niggas. I met Ricky, understand, and Ricky showed me the coolest time ever, understand And I used to always wonder why Ricky wouldn't come work out with me, or while Ricky wouldn't come hop with me, Ricky set me down, was like, nah, bes on, no nigga, not not in public. And I didn't understand this at the time, understand, but he was like, no, nigga, I'm not good for your image. Understand. We get a lot smarter than what your niggas. Give me a live nigga, but he can get it off. But we all get down while we gotta talk about his downs. That's what man a known for. But don't do my man like that. I don't like he wasn't this cool. Long as I want to know this, that's my that's my nigga. Nigga walk into the door right and soon as I go grab the fucking nah nigga, boom boom boom boom boom. I look at the people nigga, fucking Robert Gansing and Robert Ganson. I apologize because you know what I'm about to say, Robert Kanson, fucking what's all that fucking name? Tim? Like all the like Nigga, everybody in the NBA that that was at the camp at the door behind them, fucking hotel security behind them, fucking like I felt like I was in the fucking Marvel movie. Nigga, like Nigga behind them, the fucking police behind them, the five five fire fire station, right Nigga. So I went to the door, I say, I mean, I went back to them niggas. I said, Yo, this ship going damn. First thing I thought, Nigga, I go to the window, jump out. I was about to jump out, but he was on the third floor. So I'm thinking, in my mind on some adrenaline shit, I can make it. But Nigga, last thing, I need to be missing the season on top of a broken leg, on top of this ship. So nigga, fucking them niggas scrambling, niggas, them niggas scrambling. So I don't know if we had the same hotel y'all had, but the hotel we had had the doors had the doors that swing open like this, you understand, you know the one that swing open like this. We having a little the safe right there. You know what I'm saying. Right there on the floor. You know what I'm saying, You hang it out. So I'm at the window and I'm like, shit, bro, I don't know what the fuck I'm gonna do. I see Mario try and get under the bed and it's one of them joints that block it right. So I'm like, Damn, that ain't gonna work. I see cru the rail author and owner, and I the only reason I'm saying names because I tell ya why the end of the story. I'm getting to a point, nigga. I seen the real author fucking try to go in the shower. You know what I'm saying. So I'm like, damn, that's calling. So I go to the doors, right. I look at the closet doors, and the closet doors right here, and the front door right here right. So I look at the doors. I open the mother fuck up and I look at the safe and I say, all right, bro, if I sit on this fucking safe, open this one halfway and open that this one halfway. Because I've been an elephant my whole life. I just know how to hide and play. You understand, Open this one hole, open this one halfway. When they open that door, it's gonna crash. And it's niggas fucking tempercent chance I get a dumb nigga that's gonna close both of these doors. Robert garantuine Like I said, I'm sorry, brouh, I sit down on the mother fucking safe. Let that one go halfway, fling that one all the way open. Understand, because I watched long order them niggas a nigga. Nigga never searched a room that with the open door. Nigga closed the fucking door. Search everywhere else, and especially if it's a closet and shit right, So I sit down on the motherfucking I sit down on the seaf and exactly I'm talking about nigga. Exactly what I said happened happened. The nigga came in and it was thirty or forty of them, God damn. So you gotta understand that many niggas getting in the door, they not trying to hear the door jammed up, nigga. They just pushed the door and came in they try and see what the fuck going on. They think it's a fire. Understand that that shit helped me a lot. So they pushed the door in and just like I said, that one closed. Nigga. I'm sitting there like this, Nigga rober caancing. I'm I'm looking at everybody has just walked in robber dancing. Nigga grabbed that door and closed that motherfucker. Nigga, I sat in that motherfucker's safe to six yuherstand. I'm talking about every every two minutes, every like two hours, like maybe thirty minutes. Niggas felt like two hours every thirty minutes. How poke, I peak out and I see them niggas got in trouble like them. Niggas really got in trouble, like yinderstand, they really really got in trouble, like Nigga. I'm watching this shit, Nigga, I'm watching all these niggas. Why watch like all like in the closet, then ask right right them niggas leave like six am. When niggas leaves like six am, And once they leave, I get out and I sit there with them niggas for like five minutes, like yo, y'all so real niggas, understand, and you gotta mind mind you that these niggas was second round picks. So this is the part that hurt my feelings. Yeah, some real niggas, you stand, I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna make sure both of y'all taken care of. And in my mind, I don't know what that I like, you know, in my mind, I was thinking like one hundred thousand apiece, you understand, like, But then at the same time, you know, I was just you know, when the niggas come to mind, I just sat nigga good time, Mario. I don't know what the out, but I was. I was definitely gonna go and through them niggas a solid because understand them niggas, you feel me, they held their water, right right, they held their water. Let me finish the story though. So I get back to my room, Shorty mad because she gotta get up and go to work, you know what I'm saying. So I explained to her what happened the closet the whole night, right, Yeah, I explained to her what happened, right, you know what I'm saying. Sh ain't believe me, of course, so she get mad Nigga. The only thing kept us together that that that's she got pregnant. But niggas she was dumb, my dumb shit whatever. Whatever. The next day, Nigga fucking David Stern at the front of the fucking podium, got everybody there, and you know, the energy like I'm gonna tell y'all, will go on with mother fucker play with me. He and now a y'all, I think this is a joke and this not woo woo woo. So Nigga, I get small in the seat like this, but he called Mario, he called the rail and he ain't say nothing. So I'm like, all right, bro longs these niggas hold they water. I'm cool, right, I said, back up, Nigga, they get the I woo woo. Nigga kicked them niggas out immediately. Nigga, get your back, get the fuck up out of here, right, and he ain't curses. David David Stern kicking these niggas out. Understand cool, Nigga. I finished the whole week back the regular schedule program. Nigga first beautless ship. Nigga, you understand, like, Nigga, shit, you said, we were jogging right, I get back home to Miami. My mother, my mother, the funniest motherfucker I ever met, shorty nigga. I get back home in Miami. I'm shooting my ship. I'm shooting this little episode. I got a little rookie episode I got for ESPN. Right fucking my mom called me. Was like she just stopped singing that trapped in the Closet ship from r Kelly, Right, Like, mat the fuck is you talking about? Every every time she she responds to you, understand, she respond with the lyric like everything I asked her, she responded from alyrit from the song. I'm like, what the talking about? And you know she's my mother. Sinister's like me, So the nigga she dropped a joke, makes sure wait five years let that ship play out. So she just called me. Every time she called me, she's singing and trapped in the Closa ship, right, So I'm like, what the fuck is you talking about?

00:47:49
Speaker 1: Bro?

00:47:49
Speaker 2: Like, what the fuck on on? Them niggas get fine? I think like twenty dands a piece. I think them niggas only getting like eight hundred thousand for the seasons for that ship was standing like all right, pat Riley called me in the office and he asked me about this. Understand. So I'm like, and my nigga, like, pat ain't gonna let you know he found the sauce out with him. He's gonna tell you exactly what the source said. How the source said. So this is the first first and this is why I told you hurt my feelings. They get fine. The real author caused this agent like, yo, that ain't fear that we got fine? And Bees is there too, That's right, right. So now I'm now I gotta hold my ward. I thought that ship was done at the camp. Nigga, I gotta hold my water against you. Understand, pat Riley, Understand that motherfucker gangster shorty I'm talking about show that he did everything but water dropped me. Hear like, nigga, shawty, I'm talking about that nigga. Put the pressure on you, pressure on you, short, pressure on you. Ain't gonna lie to you, understand. But I held my water. I did what I had to do. Understand. So I called Mario. You understand like you know. So now they're doing an investigation. Oh shit, So Robert Ganson apologize again. This is why I mentioned his name. He the first nigga, I seen the peephole. He the first nigga I see. He checked the room. He did a nigga that closed the door. Understand. So from Robert Ganson's perspective, you gotta understand, nigga, I was never in that fucking room. Right. So when Pat and Pat David Stern, they all got me on three ways and ship with Robert Ganton. He the only thing I got to hold on to because that nigga on the phone, like nigga, I searched the room my damn self, every inch. Nigga, he was in the fucking room. And I'm sitting there using my size. Nigga, I'm like, bro, I'm seven feet, three hundred pounds, What the fuck if I was in the room? Man, listen to the man. They gotta been in the right. Yes, Dad, I'm saying he was in that, understand So they say, they say on the phone, all right, well we gotta call Mario because Mario the only one we only side of the story we don't have, right, dumb niggas, let me hear that ship. So I called Mario and I said, Yo, Mario, I don't need you to lie for me. I need you to tell them after I've seen the jay, I walked towards the door. Just say that. I don't need to say. I wasn't in a room. I wasn't in a room. I don't need to say. I just need you to say, I walked towards the door, understand, and and yeserstand, I thought you feel me. I thought that was it, but then it wasn't. But then, man, fun, I'm not gonna but then one day you can see it, can see it. Power called me, right? What's that? Yeah? You can look around. Power called me right. And and and only reason I'm telling the story because man, Mario, we talked about this ship. We got over this ship whatever, but you can see power. Power called me and was like, Yo, put your phone on speaking right. Yeah, I'm staying so I'm hearing it right. And by the way, Yo, go subscribe to my pot threes and ones and go buy my ship. We the ones? And what's this on my head?

00:51:48
Speaker 1: My ma?

00:51:48
Speaker 2: DJ damn. Sorry, I'm bad, but said Power. He called me like, Yo, Yo, put your phone on mute again. When I call you, I'm saying, p saying from my phone speaker, I need you to hear some ship and saying exactly what he said about whatever I'm saying short, Robert Ganson called Mario, and what I'm saying Mario was the reason I got understand And it just ended up being what they said versus what I said, you understand. So that's the part to hurt my feelings because I thought I'm saying so I thought some niggs had my back. It was good. Yeah, I thought it was good, understand and.

00:52:31
Speaker 1: To keep it the buck. You didn't even smoke, you know. So what happened from that some bullshit, That's what happened from that, just to find I.

00:52:39
Speaker 2: Ended up getting They got fined twenty. I ended up getting fined a hundred. My fucking shoot all dropped. I ended up signing the bullshit shoot and you know we like my my my, my, my name in the NBA was fucked understand, Like we went to fucking past is after that, you know NBA ship David Sterns came, shook everybody hands. Yeah, looked over mine. I was next to Chris corn and Mark Blant just like looked over mine and shiptand and I get him sad. I got one over on them, and I really did instant, but instand like. You know what I'm saying. Niggas got over on me. That's so, that's it, all right, here we go. One album you can listen to No Skips one how I'm not gonna listen to No Skip Miseducation.

00:53:28
Speaker 1: By lauryn Yes Indeed Classic, m J. Bron, Kobe Rankle, m J. Bron or Kobe ran top Uh Bron, m J Kobe. Five dinner guests, Dead or Live You plus five having dinner talking.

00:53:44
Speaker 2: Five dinner guests Stevron Crumb, Fatima Smith, David Jones See this Smith, I see this Jones. I'm sorry, and maybe Mona you get the whole game back hood Crush. I don't know if you know somebody run away? I had ship. I ain't know what you saw, what you got? Yeah, what's all what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying, little little little.

00:54:13
Speaker 1: The funniest teammates you have, the funniest teammates you ever had.

00:54:16
Speaker 2: The funniest teammate I ever had Ship. I was I was one Mark Blunt. He was funny.

00:54:27
Speaker 1: I love I don't know Mark at all, super funny. I would have never get he had such a serious like look, yeah, like blake Ye dry here. That's funny. Like my one guess you want to see on All the Smoke, but you have to help us get your guests on the show.

00:54:44
Speaker 2: One guess that I would like to see on All the Smoke. You gotta help with what direction y'all want to go? Whatever you actually want to take us.

00:54:51
Speaker 1: Y'all want go like the nigga, y'all want go like it doesn't matter except oh, we've done everything.

00:54:56
Speaker 2: That should get into the white world. Like like like with some the Cone and and Ship start doing, start doing guess like Cone and the Ship. That's when you started making real a listers. Yeah, like a listing people. You know what I'm saying, Like, that's what's saying. The shop did wrong? After that, nick uh, that Cat Williams ship, he's supposed to go right to the white people.

00:55:18
Speaker 1: He went right back to the He's stupid. That's a wrap. Michael Beasley. You can catch this episode of All the Smoke YouTube and the Draft Kings Network. You see y'all next week. Mm hmmm.

00:55:35
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, mm hm mm hmm