Absolute DMV
Absolute DMV
Egogh’s Birthday Bash and Aging-humor and DMV Delicacies
Ever caught yourself groaning just to stand up or noticed your body making those all-too-familiar "crackle pop" sounds? Join us for a hilarious exploration of aging in this uproarious episode of Absolute DMV Podcast! We're putting the spotlight on birthday honorees Nongo Tamadina, Mikayla, and our very own Egogh, who proudly wears his "old head" badge. We'll be sharing laugh-out-loud stories about the subtle—and not-so-subtle—signs that Father Time is catching up with us. Mark's tales of working with kids and moving a bit slower will have you nodding in agreement, and we can't help but discuss the freedom that comes with embracing our inner grumps as we age.
Switching gears, we're diving into the irresistible charm of a famous chicken spot in Laurel and its cultural impact on predominantly Black neighborhoods. We question the marketing tactics behind Hip-hop Chicken and Fish and critique the sparse presence of Sonic in the DMV area. With a nod to Royal Farms' expansion featuring Tesla charging stations, we also touch on Raising Cane's chicken tenders appearing in unexpected places. Finally, we tackle the controversial inclusion of breakdancing in the Olympics, with a spotlight on U.S. breakdancer Ray Gunn's journey and the mixed reactions from the breakdancing community. Don't miss this episode filled with hearty laughs, deep dives, and spirited discussions, all wrapped up in the birthday celebrations of our beloved Egogh and his stellar career as a music producer.
DMV. Welcome everybody to another episode of the Absolute DMV Podcast. It's your man, ace Boogie, and I'm here with a few good guys. I'm here with my man, mark.
Speaker 2:Hey, what's going on everybody.
Speaker 1:And Ego on the board. I'm on the board, man. Before we get started, I want to wish a special, special happy birthday to two people in my life my cousin, my younger cousin, Nongo Tamadina. Tamadina, Love you, cuz. And also my baby Well, not my baby, but she is my baby One of my babies. Mikayla happy birthday.
Speaker 3:Happy birthday, michaela. She got to say her birthday is you know, uno, as this guy this guy.
Speaker 1:It's my birthday, it is Ego's birthday, happy birthday.
Speaker 3:Yo, yo yo, Thank you, thank you, thank you. Everybody send some comments and shit.
Speaker 1:Spam. A happy birthday for my man. That'd be appreciated. And shit Spam. And happy birthday for my man.
Speaker 2:That'd be appreciated. The old head's getting a year older.
Speaker 3:Hey, I'm an old head. Old head, new feet.
Speaker 1:I don't know. And before we get fully into it, everybody remember, like I said, like comment subscribe, definitely Hit the notification bell so you can get the notifications when the podcast drop. That'd be greatly appreciated. That would help move the podcast in the direction that we're trying to see it move in.
Speaker 3:No, definitely.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much.
Speaker 3:But, yeah, thank y'all. Thank y'all, for you know what I'm saying. It's another year conquered, you know what I'm saying. So you know, but better things are going to come. You know what I'm saying. The podcast is going to be on fire, uh. And also, you know other things. We got things we were talking about. I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean another year forward. Uh, we got big things that we're working on and you know we're all here together getting uh a little older and everything. Eric, do you? Uh, do you notice, like, cause, I'm about to turn 35 in November, so I know, I think I'm the youngest out of us here. I'm a young buck here.
Speaker 1:I'm a young buck here. I wish I was 35. In some circles I'm ancient in some circles.
Speaker 2:I'm young, that's how I go too. Yeah, I noticed because I work with kids for the therapy job that I do, so there's a lot of moving around, a lot of moving in sensory rooms and picking kids up and whatnot and playing, and part of the thing I noticed, I started doing this last year, just totally involuntarily, without me being aware. If I'm on the ground, I get up, I put my hand on my knee now to help me boost up sometimes. Been there, done that.
Speaker 3:Is that just like a subconscious thing you just start doing at a certain age, that's when you get older? You need to brace yourself just in case you fall the other way, Because what happens is when you put your hand on your knee you feel like all right, I at least got this knee good, I got this knee supported, I mean because the thing about it is most of us we were really active as kids or when we were younger. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:And now that we're older, we're just not doing that anymore. We're not spending three hours outside playing a day type thing running around, just you know. So, yeah, once you stop doing that, you stop using those certain muscles. You just end up getting up like me, I, I sound like I sound like a bag of chips every time I stand up.
Speaker 3:It's crazy everything is crackle crackle pop, I know, and the mo like the, the grunts oh yeah, the grunts too, because you like. Even though it's not that serious, you just make it more serious. You're like oh damn, and my girl will be like you, all right.
Speaker 1:I'm good, ain't nothing wrong. Ain't nothing wrong, ain't nothing wrong. It don't really hurt, it just feels better.
Speaker 2:It's funny because when I go to the gym I'll be lifting weights and I'll be just doing my thing in my zone, not making a lot of noise, but then when I get home, I'd be like getting up off the sofa, be like you know, like.
Speaker 1:I'll be there when I am there. I don't know what happens, it's just like. It's like it's like a rite of passage, I think. So I'm allowed to make sounds when I sit down and stand up. Now I'm just allowed to.
Speaker 2:And then when you become a grandpa, you get old, you get to make noises, just like sitting and breathing, oh yeah like grandpas will be sitting in a chair making a whole ruckus just not doing anything.
Speaker 3:They're at a point. They don't. They're not there. They're impressing nobody.
Speaker 1:I ain't gonna lie, I am not gonna lie. I cannot wait to get old, so I can kind of just be that grumpy old man. I'm already there.
Speaker 1:I know you are I've been there like for 20 years 10 to 15 years I've been that grumpy old man I just want to be grumpy man, I just want to hate everything, just just, you know, just hit that point in life because I guess, you know, as we're at the age we are right now, we still have to be understanding to almost everything. We got to be understanding to the people who are younger than us and be understanding to the people older than us, true, but when you hit a certain age, you don't have to understand shit, no, but what you understand and you could just be like you know what.
Speaker 2:I hate that and I think stop doing that I think at a certain age you get to the point where people just kind of write you off too. So even if you like right now, like there's a certain societal pressure that we feel to not say something, like obviously no one wants to say anything crazy, but if you're like 80 years old and you say something crazy, people just be like, oh, he's just a crazy old guy.
Speaker 3:Like he's just senile, Like he would just write you off. That's what y'all say about me. Sometimes You're like yo, Eric, just that's just. Eric, Eric, just be wild, eric.
Speaker 2:Just, that's just.
Speaker 3:Eric, he's just the old head, that old head talking.
Speaker 2:Dementia kicking in Early onset.
Speaker 3:Alzheimer's, like Earl, I'm going to go ahead and let y'all know now. But no, it's crazy because, like you already been through some things or whatever since you were young, you went through your trials and tribulations. So when you get older you pretty much say, all right, I've been there, done that young buck. You know what I mean. So the way you carry yourself is I'm not here to impress you. I've already been impressed. I did my years of impression. So I feel like I mean I'm the type of person like you in front of my dude, somebody getting next to my house, like what you doing, like you better move that damn dog. And they'd be like, damn, I'm just walking by. I'm like that's that old head, you know how like it's, kind of like I got to protect my own. You know what.
Speaker 2:I'm saying I did my junk.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean, samuel.
Speaker 2:Jackson and Black Snake Moan.
Speaker 1:Yep, that look Exactly that face Just staring.
Speaker 3:Oh, anybody, oh no, people park in front of my house.
Speaker 1:I'll be standing in the doorway like uh-huh.
Speaker 2:See you like this black snake mode yeah, I saw a tiktok, where this lady pulled up to this dude's house, plugged in, not only blocked the driveway and then plugged in her tesla into his charging station and he came out with a phone being like I said.
Speaker 1:Can I help you? Excuse me?
Speaker 2:and she's like oh, like my battery's almost dead and and I'm pregnant, so like I just need to charge it for like 10, 15 minutes. And he's like so polite, he's like well my wife's about to be home. This is our parking spot and it's our charging station and you didn't ask, so I'm going to need you to leave, please. She's like, but do you know?
Speaker 1:what the messed up part about. That is the reason why she even knew it was there is because Tesla on the map put that as a charging station. Oh shit.
Speaker 3:So yeah, that's what.
Speaker 2:Tesla did Damn it.
Speaker 1:Elon, that's what they do Anytime that they're like all that stuff is GPS. All that stuff is connected.
Speaker 3:So anytime they do that.
Speaker 1:Everybody knows. People with Teslas know hey, this is where a charging station is and it'll pull up in your neighborhood, pull up in your driveway and start charging your stuff.
Speaker 2:Anybody watching who's got a Model S, y or 3, or a Cybertruck. Have you? Ever had anybody pull up in your driveway and start charging due to something like your house?
Speaker 3:is on the map. Yeah, leave the car man, that would be wild.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let us know if this is a thing that anyone has experienced, because that's wild to me that's an excuse to freaking. That's invasion of privacy right there.
Speaker 1:I've heard it because I had a friend who had a Tesla and at the time they would tell you every time you start looking for charging stations you could end up in a neighborhood because somebody's house is showing as a charging station.
Speaker 2:You have to turn it off or something like that. Maybe there's some privacy setting that you have to opt out of.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think you have to turn off the setting or something like that, for it to not pop up. But if you get it done, you got a Tesla. You want all your settings on.
Speaker 3:That's what rich people think.
Speaker 1:I mean Teslas are pretty affordable. Maybe not that Cybertruck, I mean the Model 3, honestly is cheaper.
Speaker 2:It's like the starting price with the tax back credits from Maryland.
Speaker 1:Hey, this is not an ad for Tesla alright.
Speaker 2:No, it's not. No, it's not. It's not If it is we need money.
Speaker 1:Sorry to cut you off, but I just wanted to make that clear.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, not at all. I'm just saying, like some of them, unless Elon you sending over some Teslas for us to figure this out, Just not the hold on to the Cybertruck. I don't want that shit, hey no, go ahead.
Speaker 3:I mean I don't like it, but you can send it to me.
Speaker 1:I'll figure it out, Dude.
Speaker 3:I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 1:If I have a Cybertruck and another Cybertruck pull up to my crib to charge, I might not be mad. I might not be. I might be like. You know what it's like Jeeps? We're in a little special club now.
Speaker 3:It's weird, though, but don't you get charged? I mean, you have to pay that bill though. Oh yeah, you pay your electricity bill, so that's.
Speaker 2:That's. The other thing about this guy in the video is like, not just are you taking my space and you're coming up on my property without asking, but like you're running up my electric bill too. So like the end of the day, like I still have to pay what my house uses, I'm just taking mine. So like Target.
Speaker 3:A lot of the public, lots around here in DC and stuff have the charging stations. Yeah, I'd take it leave it and walk it.
Speaker 1:Come back Real quick. I mean real quick. I know this has now become a DMV thing. It used to be a Baltimore thing, so it's now become a DMV thing. What's up? How familiar are you guys with Royal Farms chicken?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean not really. I know that there's the royal farm royal farm chicken.
Speaker 3:Boy, you a fan of it. I mean I don't eat chicken, but when I did eat chicken, okay I was about to say you're vegan. I'm gonna be like you outing yourself right now no, no, no, no, no, no so I, I mean I, I well, it's like crack technically, I think it's some kind. I don't know what they put in the chicken, but I, I do have the waffle egg. I'm not vegan, I'm vegetarian.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right. Is this like the same sort of thing? Because I'll let you speak, because I don't really know much about it. Oh, the gas station, it's a gas station. Royal Farms yeah.
Speaker 3:Royal Farms. So technically it's kind of like a Wawa or a little mini convenience store at a gas station, but it serves chicken Like that's their thing.
Speaker 2:And the chicken is really addictive or really good.
Speaker 3:They call it world famous chicken Dude Bro, I mean, I mean there's people that people order cater order chicken from there Like every time I'm in Laurel I go People walk up and they're like yo, can I get my order? And it's like back crazy. They said yo, you have to wait about 20 minutes for you.
Speaker 2:Look, I just know some people really get into you know, and then again there's an art like I had. I was telling you guys I think off the, off the camera or off the mic. The other day, like I know, I was over my buddy uh annabelle's house and a friend of his brought in, uh, chicken from the hip-hop chicken where they put in like they fry it, so it's like fried chicken wings, but then they they put on sugar and stuff in the fry once it's done. And it's so salty and sweet.
Speaker 3:Isn't it called crack? They call it crack.
Speaker 1:Which.
Speaker 2:I feel like is controversial.
Speaker 1:I'll be perfectly honest Hip-hop chicken and fish. Y'all should not have done that shit. I stopped eating y'all after I found out that shit was called crack, because how the hell you going to come up with hip-hop chicken and fish feed it to black people and then give us crack.
Speaker 2:Yeah, name it hip-hop or primarily black genre. Bro and put it in the hoods. It's only in the hoods and then call one of the ingredients crack.
Speaker 1:Until you put a hip-hop chicken and fish in Bethesda. I do not want to hear that bullshit. Nah bro. Hip that's bullshit. Nah bro, I'm sorry, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:You know Hip hop chicken and fish.
Speaker 1:Count your goddamn days, all right, oh, they ain't going nowhere, they not.
Speaker 2:I'm just making a high up but even it out. Put some shit in, put some shit in Potomac, put some shit in Bethesda.
Speaker 3:You know, even it out, See Potomac.
Speaker 1:They.
Speaker 2:Except the Tesla charging people, though apparently. They all drive Teslas.
Speaker 1:But I'm sure they turn it. But if you're in Potomac and you have a Tesla, I'm sure they don't mind, or they got gated communities to keep out the low-battery Tesla people All day, all day the low-battery the people. The hybrids.
Speaker 2:You have a hybrid. You can't get in here.
Speaker 3:You need a full-on electric car to get to Potomac.
Speaker 2:Tesla Model S are up, no 3s allowed.
Speaker 1:Well, since we forced that DMV segment. That was a force. That was a force. I mean hey. But now y'all know that Potomac don't allow people in, that ain't from Potomac. Now y'all know that hip-hop chicken and fish be feeding people crack in the hood.
Speaker 3:And then Royal.
Speaker 1:Farms.
Speaker 3:Royal Farms has now touched Gaithersburg oh really that's who you're trying to get at. There's one in Gaithersburg. I have to look at that.
Speaker 1:And it has a whole Tesla charging bank for the Tesla. That was the tie-in. That's why I thought about it.
Speaker 3:That's crazy.
Speaker 1:Royal Farms is out there, I know.
Speaker 3:Wawa, they got Wawa. I think they got's pretty much. Baltimore, or if not, pennsylvania, is now moving out this way.
Speaker 1:I mean, Royal Farms is huge, though Apparently it's huge the arena in Baltimore now is called the Royal Farms Arena.
Speaker 2:I will say this If anyone is watching from Sonic you guys need to do better and represent the DMV better. I got to drive all the way out to Delaware to go to one of your stores.
Speaker 3:No, you can go to Frederick.
Speaker 2:Frederick. They're going to Frederick. Do better, though. Come to Germantown.
Speaker 3:Frederick is still far People from.
Speaker 2:DC. That's far as shit.
Speaker 3:Actually, isn't there a Sonic in?
Speaker 1:DC. There's a Sonic in Frederick. There's a Sonic in I want to say it's District Heights.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay. Well, you've done a little bit better. That's good, but still.
Speaker 3:I'm just waiting for to bring Bojangles. I don't care about it.
Speaker 1:I saw one of them raising canes the other day and I was so lost.
Speaker 3:Apparently chicken tenders. Yeah, they're in gas stations. There's one raising canes in one of the Walmarts.
Speaker 1:now this is fat, sorry, all right, no, this is fat, nah. So this episode, once again, is the happy birthday episode for Ego. We want to give Ego his flowers, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Or at least allow Ego to give himself his flowers on his birthday, you know so I won't get into it because ego is the man on the boards. This podcast would not move if we didn't have ego. I cannot be here. We will move on, mark and I be here, we would move on, but ego not being here, we won't have a podcast. Ain't nothing happening the backbone.
Speaker 1:Right, I have the back, definitely old ass bone though, but it's okay definitely want to give us that's a pause, but definitely want to give this man and and eric has got a lot going on.
Speaker 2:I mean, I don't know if y'all a lot of y'all know this, but he's a dope producer too. He's produced, uh produced records, uh, dope records. Uh, we did a record together. We got a whole album coming out together. Yeah, definitely, um, he's done records with a lot of really talented artists from the DMV.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Priest Nomad.
Speaker 2:Priest Nomad Shout out to him yeah, we got some stuff happening out with my brother.
Speaker 3:Hold on, hold on, hold on, before we get into all that.
Speaker 1:Before we get into all that I like that, I mean because we're going to get to that I want to know, but real quick, let's get it started from the beginning. You know what I'm saying? I want to know what? Because we all, of course. Mark is a rapper. He's currently rapping. He has a song out. Y'all should go check it out. I forget the name right now, which is I'm being an asshole.
Speaker 3:On and High, on and High.
Speaker 1:Sorry about that, but I was a rapper. Ego got into beat making, producing. So I want to know I mean, because hip hop obviously is a big portion of all of our lives and very influential genre of music when, how did you get into beat making? Like, when did you realize, hey, I can't rap, let me make some beats. Beat making like, when did you realize, hey, I can't rap, let me make some beats? Or when did you realize that I would rather be behind the the boards?
Speaker 3:than so it took. So the boards didn't come into pretty much my my 20s. What it got me into pretty much beat making is the rhythm. I actually used to break dance. So I used to do like hip-hop dance and then breakdance. And you know how, back in the day, when everybody wanted to be like you know, dancing, like New Edition, new Edition had the like you know, the fancy stuff. Whatever I did it when I was a kid. I wanted to be cool because I knew I was dark Back then, you know, dark dudes didn't get that much love. That was I'll be short phase. You know what I mean. So the only thing you can do is to have a talent, either sports, either sports.
Speaker 1:When you said sell crack rock, I have a wicked jump shot, yeah, wicked jump shot.
Speaker 3:So what it was. I didn't have both. I wasn't, I didn't have both. And then my mom there's no way, you know whatever, a cell crack or whatever. So the only thing I could do is to keep like I started dancing. I used to go to the dances and like, start doing the things, the running man and everything like that. I mean I had hammer pants, I had the outfits and everything Y'all got to understand that.
Speaker 1:I'm sitting here I'm laughing inside because he's kind of dating himself, because he's showing that he grew up really, really in the 80s 80s I was a huge 80s baby. He grew up really really in the 80s Because in the 80s is when it was cool to dance. There was people who would get together. They would have gangs Of dancers. It was gangs of dancers and they didn't fight. They would go to the clubs and they would dance against each other.
Speaker 1:Dude that's how you pulled girls. That's how Beast was handled. That's how girls decided who they were going to go with by who was the better dancer Like y'all got to understand the era that this was.
Speaker 3:The era was so fun Like it was a fun era. You didn't have to worry Like your parents didn't worry for you to go to a party, and it was before AIDS AIDS dropped. You didn't have to worry, like your parents didn't worry, for you to go to a bar, and it was before.
Speaker 2:AIDS? I don't know.
Speaker 1:It was AIDS, hold on. Aids just dropped yeah it just because that wasn't AIDS.
Speaker 3:It was definitely AIDS, I thought I thought, yeah, it was AIDS, but it was almost like it was almost like rappers later, you know, would get into cyphers.
Speaker 2:It was almost like everyone's sort of like you got a beat going and you got you know dancers in a circle and taking turns and showing off.
Speaker 3:No, that's break dancing.
Speaker 2:Oh break, dancing so break dancing, was that?
Speaker 3:No, like dancing. Like school you had to go to functions. Like you had to go to little parties. Like in high school you had people hold house parties or they'll hold like a block party. And that's when you will get ready Like it. And that's when you will get ready Like it'll be an event for kids like, say, under 16, 18, under 18, definitely High school kids, High school kids.
Speaker 3:And you will go and you will get ready. You knew like I need my outfit ready, I need my crew with me and I know the what. Like I practice all dance moves for every kind of song that go on and then, yeah, please, Please also understand that I'm dying inside, it's the truth dude this nigga is 6'4" Dude, do you understand?
Speaker 1:I'm just thinking of this dude.
Speaker 3:I will go to post Terry Cruisin' no, I'm going to post some old. I have some old photos I found in my parents' house. I had a high top fade. Oh shit, no, no, no, no, it was crazy, I had. So my boy you remember. So back in the day they had a rapper called Kwame. I was about to say you had the Kwame, the. Kwame. I had the. That's what I said.
Speaker 2:The polka dot phase was what happened the polka dot phase, the three hole punch if y'all don't know what we talk about.
Speaker 1:Please look all this up so you can really understand what we said right, I'm speaking so much history.
Speaker 3:So what happened is I had me and my boy B Chon, barry Chon, he was my best friend back in high school. He had the high top fade with the blonde streak on one side, but he had also his hair kind of had a point. He had the Gumby. The Gumby too. He had the Gumby. So he did his Gumby, he did a Gumby, I did a Gumby. But my Gumby was different. I had dreads on one side. Oh, with the Gumby on the dude, oh, it was fire. Yo, it had like the half PM Don slash. You know, yo had the Killmonger before.
Speaker 1:Killmonger. Yeah, yeah, I had the.
Speaker 3:Killmonger. I had a dreaded and it was blonde, and then the other side with the top fade, and then imagine having polka dot shoes and then the empty hammer, the empty hammer pants, and then had those shiny ass shoes. Uh, what's it called the empty hammer shiny shoes when?
Speaker 2:I was dancing.
Speaker 3:So imagine having that flavor and anything that came on. You had to kill it and you were tall. At that point too, dude, I was six. I was six, I was six foot. When I was freaking out of middle school I was tall the whole time. So then that, moving on, I was like we're going to go then. And so after that I got into pretty much. I met some break dancers. One of my home actually one of my teachers who was one of the biggest break dancers in the industry, is now Flowmaster. Flowmaster came from Pooleville, maryland, pooleville, maryland. He went to New York, joined Rocksteady crew and now he's in California. He dances for Usher Nice. He dances like he's an official dancer. He actually was one of the coaches at the breakdancing US event for the Olympics. He was part of that.
Speaker 2:Was he one of the judges?
Speaker 1:No, he was a coach. He olympics he was part of that. Was he one of the judges? No, he's a coach, he was one of the coaches. I'm not mad then, because see, all right, I'm sorry, I cut you off yeah, well, I know ray gun wasn't.
Speaker 2:He wasn't coaching ray gun. I know that that break.
Speaker 1:Dancing shit at the olympics was was embarrassing. No, it was embarrassing and I don't even want to say, and truthfully I don't want to say yeah, see you, gotta you're digging't want to say yeah see, it's all, ray got you dig it. I'm going to say it, I'm going to say it, say it, I'm going to say it.
Speaker 3:I am ashamed that we, as the US didn't even top as the.
Speaker 1:US didn't even top Top three, but not even just that, bro, I mean. And three, but not even just that, bro, I mean, and this is terrible and this is terrible for me to say because I don't even really be like this, but though, where were, where were the black people who were break dancing? So we have lost the culture, so much it's. We didn't even have the black people break dancing, like. But I see the youtube clips, I see all the other dance competitions where we're there and we're dancing our asses off and we look great, but why were we not able?
Speaker 1:to represent yeah, in the olympics so let me why were we not able to represent all through the world? Because I get it, japan, I get japan, so I get it that they love the culture so much.
Speaker 3:We talked about that in one of the episodes.
Speaker 1:Recently there was a rapper named Lecrae who said the difference between Drake and Kendrick is Drake is a fan of the culture, while Kendrick is a product of the culture. And I felt that Is a product of the culture and I felt that, but breakdancing at the Olympics? Let me know that that statement isn't always accurate, because Japan is a fan of the culture, yes, and they won. So that lets you know. Sometimes fans can respect the culture more than the people who are products of it.
Speaker 3:So that, yeah, so sorry to cut you off, but like, coming from all the people, all the breakdancers who talked about this, the real people who actually do breakdancing, competition year on, year on didn't want to be part of this because they knew it was bullshit. Like, to be honest, it's like kind of having a rap battle at the Olympics. Even though, yes, it brings awareness of hip-hop, it doesn't bring the real awareness of hip-hop right by just rap battling. It's like having what's that rap battle? What's his name? Sprit, sprint, smack, smack. What's his name? Imagine them going to the Olympics right and having the top, like you know, don, don or whatever.
Speaker 1:No, no, I'm just talking about. I mean, but see, but even with that I got to counter with. So you have an opportunity to go mainstream and you decide not to. You have an opportunity to go mainstream and you decide not to. Like you have an opportunity to get more eyes, get more sponsorship get more opportunities. But do you like you're so, you want to gatekeep your culture so much that it's so weird, because us is a mixed pot anyway.
Speaker 3:So what can you? You couldn't put a whole black team versus everybody else, right? Why the fuck? Not? Because it's US's mix, with not just black people. There's black people who are good, but there's white people that's just as good or even better than who you pick how many white people are on the Olympic basketball team. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1:All right, then, that's my point.
Speaker 3:But the thing about it is just like you said about Japan won. Japan won because their skill level is. They weren't there in the beginning, it's just their skill levels is ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Well, I think part of it also is that the I mean it could be that there were a lot of break dancers who are really dope didn't want to partake because this is again, this is the first time it's being included. Maybe they wanted to see are they going to represent it the right way? That's going to elevate the culture? Are they going to do it? Is this going to be something that's not going to be good?
Speaker 3:maybe they don't want to jump in on the first round until they see how it's done but also like, I'm sorry to cut you off, but also there's probably rules that they had to abide by too that normally breakdancers don't follow, because when you do breakdance, there's rules like, okay, you can't touch them, you can't do this and you can't do that, you can't do like gestures or whatever, which you probably is in your routine, right. They're probably like nah, you're really just limiting what I normally do anyways, right To be clean, a clean plate.
Speaker 3:And that's what I thought, even the girl who breakdanced for us. She was represented for the. What's her name? I met her too in DC the Asian girl. I forgot her name. I can't think of her name, right now yeah. She lost, yeah, First round and she as the coach. She was dancing on beat and everything, but she didn't do as many power moves as the other one where people like yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Like it's subjective at the end of the day, and that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:It's the situation of excuse me, yeah, it's the situation of Olympic basketball. Olympic basketball, they used to send college players and then, when the Soviets smacked them, one good time and they were like, oh, this don't look good for the world.
Speaker 3:Then they started sending professionals. Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's when the dream team came out and given why would you? You have one opportunity to really make this, to really make this happen? Yeah, yeah, you have one opportunity. Why don't you make sure that you're the one that's in there and you're the one that's going to represent it well to? So, when it happens and it can continue because, if I'm correct, breakdancing is no longer going to be in the olympics because it went, so it was so bad well, yeah, I mean, what I'll say is I think that, um, yeah, we should have definitely done better.
Speaker 2:um, I think there's so many talented, amazing breakdancing artists, um, that you know not to take any credit from anyone who was there, but I think that it should be something that, again, hopefully, will continue in some capacity. I don't think so, because I think it can be done. I think it's a great sport.
Speaker 1:No, I agree with you. I definitely think it's a great sport. I definitely think it should continue. Shout out to Ray Gunn Get your money girl. Well, yeah, I was going to say shout out to ray gun get your money girl. Well, yeah, I was gonna say we beating ourselves up too hard when I was really over there get your money yo she is.
Speaker 3:She made this an opportunity and she did the best out of it, so I ain't even mad at her. You know she was the one. She's the. She's the person that voted herself in do you understand I?
Speaker 2:heard a little bit about that.
Speaker 3:No see, I know, I know you're, you can't hate, but the thing about it is she representing a country and they did bad on it because you could have been better if you had somebody.
Speaker 2:I know that there's better break dancers out there in Australia. I've seen Australian people how selfish that is too.
Speaker 3:Also it's like okay, I get it. Get your money, girl, but then again you better be the best out of the whole country to get your money. You can't say, oh, get my money and I'll be mediocre.
Speaker 1:She's a social media star.
Speaker 2:She became social media because of her being horrible Because of how bad it was.
Speaker 3:Not because of her skill. She's like Hawk 2.
Speaker 2:She became famous because she said Hawk 2, and everyone's talking about her Now she's capitalizing on it.
Speaker 3:She doesn't have a skill, she ain't a good breakdancer.
Speaker 2:There were better break dancers that didn't get the opportunity and she got it. And then she did that wobbling, weasel move and everything.
Speaker 3:People are making fun of it.
Speaker 1:Mark. We in America celebrate white mediocrity all the time. We do, we do so for that to happen two more times. I'm not going to kill neither one of those young ladies for that. Hawk Tua, get your money. Hawk Tua, get your money. Ray Gunn, get your money. But let's finish this up, man.
Speaker 3:Ray Gunn, take some classes, we'll get better. Okay, next time we will bring this back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we definitely will bring this back. We need to get Sonny on for this. Yeah, yeah, definitely he go outside of the pod?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because, yeah, I was going to talk about it earlier what else you got going on? What else are you working on or what do you hope to be working on in the future? All right, so in the past.
Speaker 3:Like I said, we were getting there and how I got into pretty much making beats. I literally was a breakdancer, a breakdancer. I got to a point that I felt like I needed to contribute more to the hip-hop game than just breakdancing. So, since I had the rhythm, I also met one of my homeboys named Ben Evil Ben. What up, evil Ben Evil Ben got me into making beats because he heard me. Like you know, back in the day you used to hit the tables with, like in a cafeteria.
Speaker 2:Yeah, with the pencils. Yeah, Boom clack.
Speaker 3:He heard me on rhythm doing some stuff and somebody was freestyling. And somebody was freestyling and he's like you, you sound dope when you've been doing that. So then he put me on fruity loops, fl studio or whatever you call it now. Then I learned from there. I got into literally like, oh, this is a craft to learn, right, it's not literally just putting things together, what you have to literally know. The craft got into that.
Speaker 3:Everybody said I said sound dope with the break beats or whatever. And then I got really good at my craft and then, uh, I put some stuff out on social media. Actually the um loz beats is part of like I said there's a loz is a break dancing crew from dc. I got put on from my music and me and, uh, sunny, sunny, tran ghost, uh, to everybody pretty much you know we started our own production. The LOZ beats started. I've been doing stuff whatever my brother I did it on his album and other people around the way, local people. Then I met Mark. That's a whole different mix we can get into. Later Met Mark me and Mark Mark heard some of my beats. He's like yo, your shit is dope, let's do an LP together or EP. Is it EP LP?
Speaker 2:EP. It's an EP, but honestly it's a long EP. It's a long EP, so it might even go into LP as many beats as I keep coming up with.
Speaker 3:So I started coming out with beats. Mark got some beats came out. We put out one track already TikTok Tick out on streaming. Go check it out.
Speaker 2:It's in every social media pretty much All platforms, all platforms and things like that.
Speaker 3:But we got better. I think we have way better, hottest shits coming out. Look out for that, and so that's going forward. That's what I'm looking forward to do. The podcast is one of my babies, but also LOZ Beats is my baby too. You're going to hear a got some new stuff I'm working on, as currently we're working on finishing on the album currently, so hopefully, we'll put it on the podcast.
Speaker 1:Oh no, absolutely no, it's definitely going to be absolutely mark my performance.
Speaker 2:Yeah I'll be happy. Actually, no, no, actually honor.
Speaker 3:The high wasn't gonna be, but I did we did play it a little bit. Yeah, you did a little tweaking on something production to that a little bit, but, like I said, we're gonna do some new stuff coming yeah but uh, yeah and shout out to priest the nomad you did that record with him and dj cool and that was really really cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got, I got a track.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna talk to priest. I'm gonna see if I can play that. It's, it's.
Speaker 2:It's literally a dope ass track it's called it's called uh turn up the volume right no, no, that's that's.
Speaker 3:That's another track oh, uh this is called uh uh, I forgot what it um. Sicker than the average oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Sicker than the average is a dope ass.
Speaker 3:Beat anybody who think it's sicker than the average. They can rip on it. That's. It's a pretty much straight up battle. Beat um, I feel um, but yeah, that's what I'm planning on doing. You're gonna hear more stuff from ego. Uh, loz beats um and yeah yeah but yeah well, happy birthday bro. Happy birthday to me.
Speaker 1:Happy birthday to you, sir.
Speaker 2:Cheers man.
Speaker 1:Cheers.
Speaker 2:And cheers to y'all. Thanks for watching.
Speaker 1:Thank you for y'all watching.
Speaker 3:Like comment subscribe. Did you just share an empty cup? Yes, I did, because I sipped on my sip man. Come on man.
Speaker 1:Hold on, all right, man. What are we doing over here? We can't be having that Shout out to RR.
Speaker 2:Brandy, when I was in Armenia I saw the factory there and had to pick up some from my man Ego.
Speaker 1:Come on, man Get back in your spot, man Get back in your spot.
Speaker 2:This guy's a fool Dancing around. It's my birthday, I can do what I want to all right, yo man cheers cheers, cheers, happy birthday yeah, thank y'all. Thank y'all.
Speaker 1:Peace and love y'all, we'll do better next time. Once again. Like comment, subscribe notification bell all right peace.