Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Say Drake!
Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of amazing concerts, we should talk
Speaker 1: about So, you know, obviously for the past I don't know,
Speaker 1: almost a year and a half, you know, we don't
Speaker 1: do politics on the show anymore, but we might have
Speaker 1: another subject we can discuss that is not really not political,
Speaker 1: but we'll still make some people angry, which is fun.
Speaker 1: Very divisive issue is the surprisingly the Super Bowl halftime show.
Speaker 2: You like, one of the very few people that was like,
Speaker 2: why are you guys? Upset?
Speaker 1: Like I don't, I know, Well, my post on social
Speaker 1: media that night, Wow, yeah, I said, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: remember verbadeh what I wrote. I said, are Jenny and
Speaker 1: I the only white people our age who actually enjoyed
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar's halftime performance, Because from what I'm seeing on
Speaker 1: social media, a lot of you would have preferred they
Speaker 1: wheeled out Grand Funk Railroad or something, and and.
Speaker 2: I don't get that, And I mean, I really don't.
Speaker 3: We were sitting there watching it, and one of my
Speaker 3: first reactions was I loved the dancers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was like, oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: They're not a bunch of scandily clad women like they
Speaker 3: got some. I loved the dancers I loved the way
Speaker 3: they were dressed. I loved the American theme. I loved
Speaker 3: the the just the whole sequence of the way they
Speaker 3: were dancing and how they were floating across the stage,
Speaker 3: and I thought it was so odd. I really loved it.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam seriously perfect, right, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure bothered some people. Why, well we know why.
Speaker 1: But I thought it was cool. But I thought it
Speaker 1: was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: No, I love it, And I loved how you called
Speaker 3: out the world too, don't be too get.
Speaker 1: Us and by the way, too loud, and by the way,
Speaker 1: I do want to clear up one thing, though I
Speaker 1: didn't mean any in my post. I didn't mean any
Speaker 1: disrespect to Grand Funk Railroad. I hope no one takes
Speaker 1: that wrong. I mean, look, I was, They're an American band,
Speaker 1: They're coming to your they'll help you party down. They're
Speaker 1: an American band, So not disrespect. I just uh no.
Speaker 1: But but actually, so it turns out though there are
Speaker 1: quite a few uh just looking at the responses to
Speaker 1: my posts, there are quite a few white people our
Speaker 1: age and older who did, in fact enjoy Kendrick Lamar's performance,
Speaker 1: but but a lot of people, a lot of people
Speaker 1: didn't be you know, some people, uh just don't like
Speaker 1: hip hop, which is fine, you know, it's okay to
Speaker 1: not like hip hop. But some people got got really
Speaker 1: carried away when some people go so over the top
Speaker 1: with their criticism and that they're like, oh, it was
Speaker 1: a political statement and that, which which, by the way,
Speaker 1: it was not. It's certainly not overtly in my mind. No,
Speaker 1: you know, you can, you can read into it whatever
Speaker 1: you want to. But I mean, really a little bit.
Speaker 3: I think people missed the missed the punchline in part
Speaker 3: with Serena Williams. Yeah, it's not just that she's an
Speaker 3: ex of Drake. Yeah, her doing a kriv walk was
Speaker 3: a big deal because when she was at Wembley when
Speaker 3: she won goal, she did that and was absolutely poo
Speaker 3: pooed on across.
Speaker 2: People were mad.
Speaker 1: Everybody was, how dare she do that kind of dance?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Know when they do it in the end zone and
Speaker 3: football is fine, but you know she did, she did
Speaker 3: a happy dance for winning it. They were just all
Speaker 3: over her. So her I think her doing that was
Speaker 3: more than just I'm Drake's ex. It was taking back
Speaker 3: her power as a woman as doing what she did, saying, yeah,
Speaker 3: I I earned every bit of the.
Speaker 2: Respect that I should have. She did. She's an amazing athlete.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. I don't know if it is okay to
Speaker 1: do that in the end zone in football? Can you?
Speaker 1: I dance? Isn't that? Isn't that against the rules? I
Speaker 1: thought they had dancing. I don't know. Touchdown I think
Speaker 1: they somebody, somebody in the chat room can tell us.
Speaker 1: I might be wrong.
Speaker 2: I thought they were allowed to do like the victory
Speaker 2: dance when they score a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I don't think I think that's considered a show voting
Speaker 1: or something. I don't think we're supposed to do that
Speaker 1: portball sportsmanship. I might be wrong. I might be completely wrong.
Speaker 3: I think football is kind of the birthplace of the
Speaker 3: and the touchdown down.
Speaker 1: Jenny and I are not We are not fans of
Speaker 1: sports ball, so we could be wrong about these things.
Speaker 1: Just to clarify for people, we didn't. It's not like
Speaker 1: we actually sat and watched the Super Bowl. We were not.
Speaker 1: We we just we just went back and watched the
Speaker 1: halftime show later. And yeah, I'm not a football were
Speaker 1: we really enjoyed it? You know a lot of people
Speaker 1: just don't. If you don't like hip hop, then you're
Speaker 1: you're not gonna like it. And that's fine. You're allowed
Speaker 1: not to like. And I like hip hop, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: do too.
Speaker 3: I like almost all genres of music. The one genre
Speaker 3: I'm not a particular fan of I'm not gonna say
Speaker 3: because I respect all the artists and everything. They're coming
Speaker 3: here and and really it's different when it's live. Let
Speaker 3: me just say, oh, but huge difference. But I I
Speaker 3: loved the sequencing. I like how they blended into each.
Speaker 1: Song, you know, and it all built to something. Oh,
Speaker 1: it built which will, which will, which we'll talk about
Speaker 1: in a second. But Nathan Hill, who's in the chat room,
Speaker 1: who's a very talented musician, he's gonna be coming on
Speaker 1: the show soon, really looking forward to that. Nathan Hill says,
Speaker 1: only a little dance and can't be a whole group
Speaker 1: taunting type thing. Okay, So as long as it's relatively restrained,
Speaker 1: just a little, a little dance, they're allowed to do that. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Sure, But again, like that's the invention of the birthplace
Speaker 3: of the happy dance.
Speaker 1: I scored a touchdown.
Speaker 3: That's football. Is the birthplace of it, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? She was, she was happy in the moment.
Speaker 3: She has won light the greatest achievement possible in her industry,
Speaker 3: in her in her chosen field, and.
Speaker 2: She got really attacked over it.
Speaker 3: So to have her come on the super Bowl and
Speaker 3: take back her power and do that dance and say
Speaker 3: I'm proud of everything I've accomplished, I think it's more
Speaker 3: than just she's.
Speaker 1: Drake's ex girlfriend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the people.
Speaker 3: I mean sure, I'm sure that played a little bit
Speaker 3: of a role, because good for her man he was
Speaker 3: so rotten to her.
Speaker 2: She deserved every moment of that too.
Speaker 3: But I don't want to cheapen the fact that we're
Speaker 3: talking about an Olympian here who earned every right to
Speaker 3: do her touchdown chance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh absolutely, that's my opinion.
Speaker 3: I don't understand why everybody's so angry. I don't get
Speaker 3: the anger of it. I thought it was cool that
Speaker 3: there was so much. I mean, it was patriotic as heck. Yeah,
Speaker 3: got the American flag built out with the dancers. But
Speaker 3: they see why why doesn't that? Why isn't that? I
Speaker 3: thought I was pretty pretty patriot.
Speaker 1: I thought, well, like I said, you know, some people
Speaker 1: just don't like hip hop. But also but some people
Speaker 1: just just like I said, some people just go way
Speaker 1: over the top with it. And they they see they
Speaker 1: see this overt political statement, they see it a threat,
Speaker 1: as a threat to them, and maybe you feel uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: maybe you need to look. They clearly prefer kid rock
Speaker 1: or something, you know, And and I will say this though,
Speaker 1: I I do want to defend like people who didn't
Speaker 1: like it just because they don't like hip hop, or
Speaker 1: just because they didn't like the mix and they felt
Speaker 1: like they couldn't hear him clearly enough or whatever, that's
Speaker 1: all valid. I do want to I do want to
Speaker 1: defend those people a little bit because because the other
Speaker 1: the other thing that happens, unfortunately is you know, everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody gets ramped up on both sides. And so then
Speaker 1: you have you have the people who that just isn't
Speaker 1: their thing getting attacked automatically being labeled as racist because
Speaker 1: they didn't like it. And that's not cool. Either. You're
Speaker 1: allowed not to like it, you're allowed not You're allowed
Speaker 1: not to like that kind of music. You're allowed not
Speaker 1: to like that kind of performance. That doesn't make you racist,
Speaker 1: which is not to say that some of the what
Speaker 1: I saw online, some of what I saw online people
Speaker 1: angry about it, who did go way over the top. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's clearly something and more, you know, a mirror. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so some some of them. Excuse me, I'm gotting worked up.
Speaker 1: So some of those people, Yeah, especially the people who
Speaker 1: believe that it was like, uh, you know, some sort
Speaker 1: of really overt aggressive political statement. Yeah, those people, I
Speaker 1: think there's something going on there. But but I don't.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to paint everybody that way. Some
Speaker 1: people just don't like Look, if you don't like rap music,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna like that. And that's and you're you're
Speaker 1: allowed not to like that. I liked it, and you
Speaker 1: liked it.
Speaker 3: And when they did, when they did it before, and
Speaker 3: it was like, Eminem up there, I didn't hear so much.
Speaker 3: I feel like I didn't hear as much complaining about it.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's saying. Well, yes, that so,
Speaker 1: although although.
Speaker 3: It's where my head's like, you all got a different
Speaker 3: reason for not liking it.
Speaker 1: Although interestingly Eminem, though I will point out, he does
Speaker 1: he does his style and his flow, he does enunciate
Speaker 1: although he's sometimes it's hard to tell what he's saying
Speaker 1: because he's so fat. He can go very fast, but
Speaker 1: he does enunciate his words clearly.
Speaker 2: So does Lamar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but not not not as much eminem. Eminem is
Speaker 1: very precise. We could have a whole other conversation about that.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, so so you know who, Oh boy,
Speaker 1: don't later, I am struggling. Let me take another gulf
Speaker 1: of water here.
Speaker 2: Like I crave it on Saturdays, I have to have
Speaker 2: my sushi.
Speaker 1: You know who else really enjoyed it, because he said
Speaker 1: on Facebook and he texted me about it too, is
Speaker 1: my dad. And it's funny because people who don't know
Speaker 1: my dad, or people who only know my dad online
Speaker 1: from his political posts and stuff, might be surprised. But
Speaker 1: but I actually was not surprised. My dad liked it
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 2: And your dad's military, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a he's a veterinarian. But the thing about
Speaker 1: my dad is he's always liked hip hop. I remember
Speaker 1: when when they did.
Speaker 2: The I remember you talking about that a few years.
Speaker 1: Ago when they had who was It? They had Doctor
Speaker 1: dre and fifty and you know legends and hip hop.
Speaker 1: That's oh yeah, Yeah, that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: Are you to hear complaints after that?
Speaker 1: No, No, well, I with some people, some people did,
Speaker 1: but although not to this extent. But I remember my
Speaker 1: dad texting me about that, saying how much he likes
Speaker 1: seeing doctor Dre there and everything. So my dad's always
Speaker 1: liked hip hop. But my dad's always been someone too
Speaker 1: who really enjoys hearing new music. So you know, like
Speaker 1: you know, growing up a lot of people they have
Speaker 1: that generational thing with their parents where you know, their
Speaker 1: parents only like old stuff, you know, from their youth,
Speaker 1: and they don't understand the right My dad was never
Speaker 1: like that. My dad even now at his age. You know,
Speaker 1: he lives on the Sea coast and he loves listening
Speaker 1: to w u n H, the great college station there
Speaker 1: because he loves hearing new music.
Speaker 2: Great place to hear artists, by the way.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not just rock, but hip hop too. He likes
Speaker 1: hip hop.
Speaker 3: So tune into the college stations. You will be amazed
Speaker 3: at some of the artists you can hear. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: definitely worth it, definitely worth it. But yeah, I remember
Speaker 3: you talking about your dad. All is like being interested
Speaker 3: in new music and bringing that into the house, which
Speaker 3: is awesome, Like you got to kind of grow up
Speaker 3: well rounded musically. Yeah, you know, it wasn't like a
Speaker 3: particular genre that was.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: I grew up with like.
Speaker 3: The top one hundred you know, Casey Caseam was on
Speaker 3: in our house, the top one hundred Rock and roll
Speaker 3: hits of the day or whatever it was. I remember
Speaker 3: my grandmother winning a Rolling Stones album off of w
Speaker 3: b Z. Yeah, she's loved those little contests.
Speaker 1: So the other thing that I love, and you seem
Speaker 1: to be very into it as well, is the a
Speaker 1: good old hip hop beef. Yes, when people are beefing,
Speaker 1: oh now now the only time. Now, I'm always fascinated
Speaker 1: by that kind of thing, always have been. As long
Speaker 1: as it doesn't end in violence, that's bad, right, you know,
Speaker 1: because you know we've you know, of course in the
Speaker 1: nineties we lost Tupac and Biggie because of that. Not
Speaker 1: that I think I feel like I am struggling. I
Speaker 1: feel like we're I feel like we're past that. I
Speaker 1: feel like we're past all that though, in the sense
Speaker 1: that you know, nobody's in danger, Like neither Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 1: nor Drake are in any danger from any of them.
Speaker 1: I hope not.
Speaker 3: I don't think like this this is all a verbal
Speaker 3: thing or what have you. But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3: I keep go ending up on rabbit holes of watching
Speaker 3: other people reacting to when he finally because the build
Speaker 3: up is crazy. He keeps giving little little teasers about
Speaker 3: the song, and it's like, is he gonna play? It?
Speaker 1: Is gonna play.
Speaker 3: You watch some of these reaction videos and you'll see
Speaker 3: people like, he'll do a tease and people are like, Ah, he's.
Speaker 1: Not gonna do it.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna do it like I want him to
Speaker 3: do it, and then suddenly he starts it and people
Speaker 3: just go craze.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are a great moment.
Speaker 3: And then you can see people like holding their breath
Speaker 3: when it gets right to the park he's about to
Speaker 3: do it, and he just looks.
Speaker 2: That guy has got the killer grin.
Speaker 1: I love the way the way grins when he looks
Speaker 1: into the camera and says, say Drake, oh my god, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really good. That kills me.
Speaker 2: He has got the best. He does that grin more
Speaker 2: than once.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got this side eye grin that's just freaking awesome.
Speaker 3: Right into the camera, say Drake, and he just goes
Speaker 3: on and yeah, oh my god, and the whole Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: all these people a minor chorus, that lawsuit, he just
Speaker 3: might as well drop it.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, what are you gonna do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: for those who don't know about that part. So this
Speaker 1: particular hip hop beef has escalated, though legally, because Drake
Speaker 1: is suing UHL, he's suing the label and I think
Speaker 1: they're both on UMG. So Drake is like Limbiscuit is
Speaker 1: suing Universal Music Group. So is Drake, but he's suing
Speaker 1: over the Kendrick Lamar song because he's actually claiming definition
Speaker 1: of character, which it's just kind of like that's like
Speaker 1: the ultimate B move, right, and by B, I mean
Speaker 1: you know I can't say it here, but you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, right, actually actually file a lawsuit over
Speaker 1: a dis track? Like who does that? Has anyone else
Speaker 1: ever done that? Usually you just respond with another distract
Speaker 1: and you keep going as this thing between them has
Speaker 1: gone on for a decade.
Speaker 3: Yes, however, Devil's advocate here, Yeah, he does literally accuse
Speaker 3: him of being a pedalle Well yes, yeah, so.
Speaker 2: That might cross that line.
Speaker 3: This a little bit further than a general dis track right,
Speaker 3: although I mean at this point it's run how many Grammys?
Speaker 2: How many awards? Is the song one?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, She's the guy's even gotta freggin. What is it?
Speaker 3: He's got something crazy? Is not a Peace Prize or
Speaker 3: is it Pulitzer Pulitzer?
Speaker 1: Does he? Yeah? Well I got he.
Speaker 3: Got something that was like never been done before and
Speaker 3: rap for this song.
Speaker 2: He has won so many awards.
Speaker 1: For this song. It's crazy. Well not only but this
Speaker 1: just happened. The BBC is reporting Kendrick Lamar earns first
Speaker 1: UK number one with Not Like Us, So it's now
Speaker 1: it is his first number one in the.
Speaker 3: UK and people are doing like TikTok dances and stuff,
Speaker 3: and they're doing like Serena's dance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just crazy.
Speaker 3: To watch the videos, Absolutely crazy to watch the video.
Speaker 2: I wonder if that.
Speaker 3: Family that you guys played last night did it the
Speaker 3: Mother and Son the Mother and Son cover.
Speaker 1: Oh from Yeah, I don't remember what they from Retrospectrum
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Miriam was looking them up and it was really
Speaker 3: interesting to see the mix their old and news style.
Speaker 2: I wonder if they've done that song.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people do it now I've been
Speaker 1: a Kendrick Lamar fan for a long time. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like him the only uh because I remember when we
Speaker 1: used to be on weekly afternoons during Black History Month.
Speaker 1: I would play some of his tracks, which it is
Speaker 1: right now February. But I've as far as Drake, and
Speaker 1: I have nothing against Drake, but I don't dislike Drake.
Speaker 1: But the only the only track by Drake I can
Speaker 1: think of that I really like. It came out like
Speaker 1: what maybe five six years ago? Nice for what I
Speaker 1: and I played that on the show once too. I
Speaker 1: don't remember why that never play.
Speaker 2: It's for me that song has been played.
Speaker 1: It's so catchy though, very very catchy. Great book I
Speaker 1: Got You.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I've never been a Drake fan all that much
Speaker 2: myself and.
Speaker 3: Never really followed Kendrick all that much, but I yeah,
Speaker 3: I love this song. Actually, I loved the entire metally
Speaker 3: everything that they did was really great.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I liked the slowdown part and having her come out,
Speaker 3: and I really felt like everything they did was very
Speaker 3: well done, very tight, excellent performance and see any issues
Speaker 3: and boy, can we just say the Super Bowl show
Speaker 3: has had so many issues over the years, But I
Speaker 3: think they're now saying like this is the most watched one.
Speaker 3: He's beat everybody on the most watch super performance in history.
Speaker 3: All the viewership is insane, absolutely insane. But if you
Speaker 3: really want to laugh, you got to watch some of
Speaker 3: these reaction videos of people watching it. Snoop Dogg did one.
Speaker 3: There's a reaction video there Snoop Dogg watching it live.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well yeah, they're from the same area to
Speaker 3: supporting each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's fun. No, so uh yeah, it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting now to see if.
Speaker 2: What happens with the lawsuit, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm also curious who, like what happens with this beef,
Speaker 1: because it seems like this is, like, to put it
Speaker 1: in wrestling terms, this was the WrestleMania main event between them,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like this was because I
Speaker 1: don't see how Drake recovers. I don't see how Drake recovers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to me, this was the final nail in the coffin.
Speaker 3: I agree, I agree. I mean, I don't see how
Speaker 3: he could possibly top us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. If there's another example that I'm
Speaker 1: not thinking of, if somebody performing, especially a disc track
Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl halftime show.
Speaker 3: And they have it goes so viral. Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 3: the most viewed ever.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you top that.
Speaker 3: Still going crazy around the world. One a bunch of
Speaker 3: different awards. He's won a bunch of awards for it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: huge amount of awards for it. There's just no recovering
Speaker 3: from this. I'm sorry. Yeah, just put it to bed,
Speaker 3: leave it alone, move on. That's what Jake should do.
Speaker 3: Just just let it go, move on. Nothing good can
Speaker 3: come from him keeping it in the light and suing him.
Speaker 2: All he's gonna do is keep the attention on. He's
Speaker 2: better off letting it go and walking away cut his
Speaker 2: losses well.
Speaker 1: But can't he do that? Or does that look even
Speaker 1: worse if he if he walks away now, I mean,
Speaker 1: now he's put now he's in a no win situation.
Speaker 1: I mean, he looks like a bee for filing the lawsuit.
Speaker 1: But won't he also looked like a beefer if he
Speaker 1: just drops it and walks away, won't that look like
Speaker 1: he's conceding, like he's just uh uh, surrendering. Maybe he should, though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you gotta pet your loss, accept your loss.
Speaker 1: And move on. Yeah, I don't know again, I don't
Speaker 1: know what else he can do, you know, unless he
Speaker 1: finds a way to make peace with with Kendrick. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: No way that's gonna happen now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not after this, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, and then SNL picks up on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they left out.
Speaker 2: Drake's name, but they left in all the other words.
Speaker 1: You know, it can't happen though. I mean, people didn't
Speaker 1: think that jay Z and nas whatever. I mean that
Speaker 1: that got pretty pretty vicious with the distracts back and forth.
Speaker 1: What's that not this level?
Speaker 3: Well, not like it's walking around with statues because of it.
Speaker 1: I don't think. Yeah, I don't think anyone performed ether
Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Ads on your own, No, I know, Pedophile.
Speaker 1: I know there's really no reason for for them to
Speaker 1: make peace.
Speaker 3: I guess I don't see it happening.
Speaker 1: Oh hello to Tom Siracusa, of course if Syracusa, Sorry, Tom,
Speaker 1: I'm never sure how to say your last name from
Speaker 1: day to attend. By the way, their name came up
Speaker 1: again last week on the show when Ricky Mapleton was
Speaker 1: here and he mentioned he was at that show at
Speaker 1: the Aura in Portland seen Day to Attend open for
Speaker 1: Ace Frehley and had wonderful things to say about Day
Speaker 1: to Attend. However, Ricky Mapleton did not have wonderful things
Speaker 1: to say about Ace Fraley necessarily because apparently Ace took
Speaker 1: a sweet time getting to the stage.
Speaker 2: But oh yeah, didn't they say it was like was
Speaker 2: it three hours? It was hours?
Speaker 1: It was like midnight by the time he said the stage.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Tom says, good money and rivalries. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: that's true. That's the thing though about about any kind
Speaker 1: of beef, whether it's whether it's in hip hop or
Speaker 1: whether it's podcasters and radio hosts beefing with each other.
Speaker 1: You know, it does, uh, it does get a lot
Speaker 1: of attention and publicity. It does generate interest. You know,
Speaker 1: if you think about if you kind of pull back
Speaker 1: and think of it this way, would either Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 1: or Drake be As let me put it this way,
Speaker 1: take the beef out of it. We wouldn't probably be
Speaker 1: having I mean, woul Kendrick Lamar even have been had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to perform at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Because not necessarily because I don't know, I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't know I mean, not that he wasn't popular, but
Speaker 3: this particular song has really changed his world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it but in a broader context.
Speaker 2: I mean what you know when he's hit Drake before
Speaker 2: and other songs.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, they both have. They
Speaker 1: both have back and forth quite a bit. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Was it there a period of time when they were
Speaker 3: almost doing it daily, like they were coming out with
Speaker 3: thungs back to back against each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this isn't recent. This has been going on for
Speaker 1: a decade.
Speaker 3: Yeahter then they peel off the scab and do it
Speaker 3: all over again.
Speaker 1: But but there is good, you know it. And the
Speaker 1: thing is too if you play it right, everyone kind
Speaker 1: of benefits in the sense that everyone everyone involved benefits
Speaker 1: from the the interest that is generated.
Speaker 3: People are looking Drake up too, so you've got to
Speaker 3: be getting some benefit ont of it that.
Speaker 1: Way, right, right, that way, and people who like Drake better,
Speaker 1: especially probably in Canada because Drake is Canadian. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Canadians who are mad at Kendrick.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize he was Canadian.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he lives in Toronto.
Speaker 2: So does it become a Canadian American thing? Because that's going.
Speaker 3: On Oh maybe maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 1: By the way, Tom in the chat room from day
Speaker 1: to attend says, remember the early two thousand Super Bowl
Speaker 1: Aerosmith Brittany and saying Mary J. Blige, no best halftime
Speaker 1: shows ever, no drama. Well, well, Janet Jackson, there was drama.
Speaker 2: Drama and they really went after her. And it wasn't
Speaker 2: her fault.
Speaker 1: I'm still not. There were so many different explanations about
Speaker 1: what was really going on there.
Speaker 2: And he got poo pooed all over and he's the
Speaker 2: one that ripped it off of her.
Speaker 1: So but that one moment, though had But Lewis Black
Speaker 1: had the best take on it when when he said, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we love Lewis Black, the comedian. When he said, uh,
Speaker 1: he watched, Well, I have to I have to edit
Speaker 1: how I say it, but he just it's funny when
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be funny when I say it, I
Speaker 1: don't have his delivery. But when he said, you know,
Speaker 1: he talks about watching his country lose its collective mind
Speaker 1: over over over that that the Janet Jackson incident at
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Look at the world today, But that had.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden you know who who that had
Speaker 1: a surprising effect on was the radio industry, even though
Speaker 1: it had nothing to do with radio, because all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, so that happens, people are losing their minds,
Speaker 1: as Lewis Black put it, and people were losing their minds,
Speaker 1: so they.
Speaker 2: Literally stood on the stage and stripped naked.
Speaker 1: Well, and then so and then you know, there's these
Speaker 1: questions about while is the FCC going to find whoever?
Speaker 1: The super Bowl and all that and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and but all of a sudden things got much much
Speaker 1: more uptight at radio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was just I mean.
Speaker 3: They were taking it out on her as if she had,
Speaker 3: you know, jumped on the stage and intentionally stripped herself.
Speaker 2: She was mortified, horrified.
Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, the backlash from that, though,
Speaker 1: it splashed onto onto radio shows like like Howard and
Speaker 1: and Opie and Anthony, and all of a sudden they're
Speaker 1: all being told, you know, whether it was by an
Speaker 1: Imus too, whether it was by CBS Radio or or
Speaker 1: Infinity Broadcasting or whoever, all of a sudden, the executives
Speaker 1: are telling them whoa the FCC is really you know,
Speaker 1: looking at everybody now not just you know, not just again,
Speaker 1: whoever was carrying the Super Bowl that year. They're looking
Speaker 1: at everybody, so we need to tighten up. It was.
Speaker 1: It was weird, the chilling effect that it had on
Speaker 1: talk radio, which had nothing to do with what happened. Well, no,
Speaker 1: this was no, not Reagan Gore her Well, No, that
Speaker 1: was the you're you're thinking of the eighties, Tipper Gore
Speaker 1: and the PMRC. No, this was this. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I don't know why this happened when it did. It
Speaker 1: was just strange. I mean, it's one thing for people
Speaker 1: to be concerned. And look, I under I do understand it.
Speaker 1: I don't have any kids, but I understand if you're
Speaker 1: sitting there with your your kid and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you see this and you know you got to
Speaker 1: explain it. And I don't know, but I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: Well, my kid was young.
Speaker 3: I was more worried about him seeing somebody's head get
Speaker 3: chopped off.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Violence, Like nobody it's all about how you teach a kid.
Speaker 1: Nobody right, nobody ever, because nobody ever worries about, you know,
Speaker 1: their kids being exposed to violence constant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I worked in medicine. Well, I believed
Speaker 3: in teaching anatomy.
Speaker 1: But but but but just but the way it affected
Speaker 1: the radio industry was very very strange. And you know,
Speaker 1: because that was the era, you know, especially the early
Speaker 1: to mid two thousands or even into the late two thousands.
Speaker 1: But I mean that was kind of the era of
Speaker 1: the shock jock, which has now become sort of an
Speaker 1: an arcade and outdated term. Uh and shock jocks are
Speaker 1: kind of considered dinosaurs now. But but it had it
Speaker 1: really kind of shut down the shock jocks all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, this this moral panic over what happened at
Speaker 1: the super Bowl that affected things not related to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl halftime show. It was it was very, very,
Speaker 1: very strange.
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