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So, Vlad, there's something going on between you and Nori.
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Man, what's going on with that?
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Okay, so, I did an interview on Academics Platform recently where I talked about a situation with me
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and Nori where I did his podcast, did big numbers.
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I reached out to him about doing mine.
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He agreed.
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And over the course of a year, he kept giving me the runaround.
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He would agree to do a date.
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That date would come.
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He would go ghost.
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He would apologize.
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We would send another date.
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I'd be in his city.
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He'd agree to do it.
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And then, you know, not set a time and keep doing it over and over again until it finally just broke down.
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And we basically, you know, a bunch of fuck yous back and forth on text message.
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And I brought it up on the show.
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and he decided to respond on his show, Drink Champs.
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And number one, thank you, because he actually confirmed everything that I was saying.
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Yeah.
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And he said, yeah, I fronted on you.
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Yeah, I changed my mind.
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And he said, really the gayest shit anyone's ever said to me.
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He said, I bent you over and I fucked you.
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Just like you fucked the culture.
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New York guys talk like that a lot.
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Man, listen, I was kind of shocked, right?
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Because no one ever said anything like that before.
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But then I thought about it for a second, right?
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I thought about it, and I realized, and this is something you could probably relate to, is that from the age of 15 to the age of 18,
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Norrie was in jail.
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I was in a boy's home with boys and girls.
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Right.
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But he was in jail.
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He was in a boy's home.
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In jail, right?
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So during the time that boys my age were discovering vagina, I think he was discovering mangina.
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Yeah, yeah, now I can't relate to that, Vlad.
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We had, yeah, yeah, I was messing with, yeah, boys and girls, or where I was at.
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But you didn't see no boys messing with each other in these?
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Oh, on Dom 2.
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That's what I'm saying.
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He's a Dom 2 type dude, I think.
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So I think during that time, he was introduced to mangina, or maybe he introduced his mangina to someone else, or maybe he was both ways.
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He really said he he said I want to bend you over fuck
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and he had like this fire in his eyes That made me a little nervous right?
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I've never heard anyone say that to me. That twinkle.
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That twinkle right?
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And you know the first thing I want to say was no Diddy, but then I realized That he had been rocking with Diddy this whole time.
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Dying to the boy.
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Man listen drink champ started on Diddy's platform.
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Yeah.
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Revolt.
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On Diddy Loup.
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He doesn't have on he doesn't have his own YouTube channel All his work is on Diddy and there's a video.
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There's a video of Diddy giving him a Maybach And did it just don't give you something for nothing.
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Oh man listen He was smiling.
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Diddy just don't give you something for nothing.
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We're gonna show the video right now He looked like he got his first piece of man-gina in that video.
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Let me tell you.
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He's just smiling
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I don't know what the f, that's new s* when you say a happy man You know what I'm saying?
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Word up Hey yo, if you know better, you do better That's right, I appreciate you my brother
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50 sent in a video where he said
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that Diddy want to take him shopping And he said nah man I ain't doing that
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Nori has no problem having Diddy take him shopping Now what he did Ooh we were
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Whatever Nori did to get that What's that?
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He got a Maybach from Diddy.
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Yeah.
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And his record wasn't selling at the time.
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Man, listen, listen.
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I don't know what Nori did to get that car, but if there's a video that comes out of an oiled up Nori with Diddy in the corner, I would not be surprised.
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He ain't never spoke out against Diddy, have he?
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No!
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No!
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I think Diddy got something on him.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Or got something in him.
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Or put something in him.
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Yeah, Nori, you want that Bentley next?
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Yeah.
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Take that, take that.
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Yeah, take that.
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Take a little more baby oil up there.
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Take that.
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But look, but let's actually address what Nori said in that video, right?
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Because in that video he said, the reason why I canceled on you is because you snitched on Rick Ross.
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You're a rat and you tried to put him in jail.
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Now I understand that Nori's a high school drop-off, right?
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I know some really smart high school drop-offs.
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Nori's not one of them.
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Yeah.
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because you gotta be a fucking idiot to think that a civil lawsuit that I filed in 2008 means jail time,
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means that I'm a rat.
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It's a civil lawsuit, you fucking idiot.
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It's a civil lawsuit, you don't go to jail for a civil lawsuit.
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Trying to call you a snitch, they all file civil lawsuits.
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And here's the thing.
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Let's just say Nori's stupid enough to believe that a civil lawsuit means I'm a rat.
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That happened in 2008.
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In 2009, Nori, when he was just a washed-up rapper with no podcast, came to Vlad TV.
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Oh, really?
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And there's a picture of him saying, I made it on Vlad TV!
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He looked like he just got, you know, his first bandjana taken from him.
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Like he was so happy with that video.
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So, so, so, so, this is what, this is what get me.
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The same one that sat on your platform say you done stole from the coach?
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Man, listen, he came on in 2009.
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We'll show the video.
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This is your boy NRE, and I was fiending to be on VladTV.com.
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I'm here, baby.
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2011. And we're doing it at VladTV.
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You know how we do it since back then to right now.
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Vladimir, my dude, Russian vodka.
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It's going down.
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NRE.
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Banga.
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2013. I think hip-hop obsession with Illuminati is because we don't really know if it's real or not.
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Like, there's things that make you be like, hmmm.
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And then there's things that make you say, I don't know.
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And then I went on his show in 2024.
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Ooh-wee, Lori.
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Over and over again.
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But yet, I'm the snitch.
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I'm the rat.
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I'm bad for the culture.
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So, so, so let me just say this.
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If I don't like a white man that I think bad from the culture, I'm gonna tell you that and not lie to you for a year.
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I'm gonna tell you, say I ain't doing nothing but you white.
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I'm gonna tell you that.
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So it be understood so you don't be leading me on, or I'm leading you on for a whole year thinking, no. No, no, no, talk that shit from the beginning.
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Look, look, man, when I put that information out there, dozens of people hit me up and said I had the same experience with Nori.
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Like, for example, Ben Baller did his show.
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And then when he asked, yo, come to my podcast, same bullshit.
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Nori's always been a piece of shit.
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He's always been a fucking snake.
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And here's the thing, right?
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The thing is, is that it wasn't about money because a Nori interview in 2026 really don't fucking matter.
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Nah, nah.
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He likes to get other people to talk shit on his platform, but he wants to protect all his little industry friends and not, you know, do interesting interviews.
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Like his last interview, I looked it up.
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It was on Hot 97.
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They have like 5 million subscribers.
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You got 12,000 views.
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For me, it wasn't about the money or the views.
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It was about, listen, it's fair.
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I did your platform, and let's take a look at what happened.
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My interview on his platform did 1.9 million views.
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1.9 million, more than damn near any other interview he did.
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If you look at all his interviews now, and he's got big celebrities like Lizzo, it'll be like 80,000 views, 100,000 views.
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I did 10 times.
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We could show all the numbers of all the recent interviews.
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my interview did 10 times what all his other interviews are doing these days.
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And the thing is about Nori and Drink Champs, here's the thing, right?
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Because you always feel, oh, I'm the hottest shit ever, whatever else.
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But the numbers don't actually lie.
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No, numbers don't lie.
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Numbers don't lie.
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Drink Champs used to be a hot podcast.
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Three years ago.
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Yeah.
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In 2023, Nori was number five on the complex hip-hop media power list.
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last year he was number 11 and this year 25
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damn near the bottom of the list he's declining
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I'm a number 3 by the way this year
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I just want to put that out there I'm number 3 so it wasn't about
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oh I'm about to make a bunch of money it was about yo
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you gave me your word you could have said I don't want to do the interview
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let's just put it on hold for now I would've been cool with that, but he kept saying over and over.
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I'm going to do it.
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I'm going to do it.
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I'm going to show the text messages where he did it.
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And then he fucks up and he apologized.
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He could have.
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I'm ready ASAP. For what?
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Just calls.
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Your interview I met.
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I'm in Miami, weekend of the 24th.
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Saturday 24th is free to interview you or you in EFN.
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Are you in LA?
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I got the hint.
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Won't ask again.
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Oh shit, just saw this.
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Just remember when I did your show, there was zero runaround.
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I set a date and showed up the first time.
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LOL, not true.
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You told me no for years, but this isn't a get back thing.
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I'm truly running around.
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I actually not avoiding you at all I respect you and your craft.
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I got love for you.
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Sorry.
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I wasn't and will never front on you I will make it happen, and if I seem like I'm wrong I apologize because that's not my intention.
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I actually enjoy our relationship, and I will honor it
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He could have done the interview and changed the trajectory of his numbers by talking about
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What he got a problem with you about?
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Oh, no. Yeah man the man exactly he didn't do that shit He couldn't take advantage because he's a punk
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And the thing about it is, is that...
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He kept wasting my time over and over again, and then he would come to my city, ignore my calls and do like big boy show like playing with me.
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And it's like, I finally just got tired of that shit.
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And when I called him out, then it's like, oh, I'm not your slave.
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You're not a slave master.
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Brings up the racial shit.
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Oh, Vlad's racist.
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He's a KKK.
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Like whatever else.
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It's like all the deflecting bullshit.
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Yeah, yeah.
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When you get caught for being a fuck boy to now
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you got to bring up a bunch of racial shit that has nothing to do with anything, because when you look at him, when I'm on the show, he praised me for like 20 minutes straight and gave me the flowers and all that,
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and I'm going to deal with that in a second.
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But at the end of the day, Drink Champs have been falling off.
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They should have been and got me on now.
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Man, listen, and here's the dark side of Drink Champs that people don't really want to talk about, right?
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Nori, and I'll show the text messages.
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I'll show the text messages of what I'm talking about right now.
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In 2022, Nori, who don't fuck with Vlad, said, hey, I want you to come to Drink Champs.
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And I said, yo, you're my man, no problem, I got you.
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But I just don't want to drink on the show.
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I'll drink soda and just pretend to drink.
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He said, no, no, no, you gotta drink.
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You gotta drink, this is the show.
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And I'm like, bro, I don't drink on camera.
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This is just not what I do, I've never done that before.
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But I'll go along, no, no, Yo, you made all this money off the culture, you gotta give back, or you rich so you don't care, and all this other shit.
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He's guilting me and forcing me and coercing me into drinking to the point where I said, man, I don't even want to talk to you anymore.
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When you ready for drink champs?
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Whenever I'll be drinking water, though.
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I thought we had drinks together before.
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We have, but I wouldn't be drunk during an interview.
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That's the whole point, to be loose and have fun.
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That's why I never pressured you, because the point is to not be on point L-O-L.
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I feel you bro, but there's no way I will do an interview with anyone while intoxicated.
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I run a company and deal with legal issues, so anything I say could have serious consequences.
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But you wouldn't say anything drunk that you wouldn't say sober.
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L-O-L.
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That's exactly what happens when you're drunk.
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I can drink some water or juice, but I wouldn't do an interview with Good Morning America if they required me to drink or smoke weed first.
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We ain't Good Morning America.
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We hip-hop.
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You made millions off hip-hop, and sometimes you gotta give back.
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And at least it ain't money.
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All you gotta do is show the real you if you in AA cool.
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But if you drink off camera, give us an hour on camera and have fun.
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FYI, the Caps was a mistake, LOL.
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I can't do it.
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I don't drink and work, appreciate the invite, but can't accept it.
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Didn't know that drinking was a requirement for the show.
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When I accepted, I thought some people drank juice or water, so my bad on assuming that.
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But, two years later, I thought about it, I said, you know something, man?
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I fucked with this dude, I respect him, I liked his music.
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I'll come to your show and I'll drink.
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I'll fly myself out.
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I fly first class.
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I stay at the Ritz.
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Like that whole, I get my own security.
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That whole trip probably cost me about $7,000, $8,000.
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I came and did it anyways.
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Yeah.
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But the thing is, Nori's like, you're a culture vulture.
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You're the, you know, you're bad for the culture.
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But when you look at what Nori fucking does on that show.
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If I get drunk.
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Let me tell you something.
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He had Lamar Odom drinking on his show.
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Lamar Odom had almost overdosed and died not that long before.
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He had DMX drinking on his show who later died from an overdose and had a lifelong drug and alcohol problem.
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He had Kanye, Kanye, who is a self-proposed alcoholic,
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drink on his show, starts blabbering about, I can say whatever anti-Semitic thing that I want to say, and Adidas can't fire me,
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and he gets fired immediately after,
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losing $1.5 billion, the biggest loss in hip hop history, all because of Nori.
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All because of that fucking show where he's coercing people to fucking drink the way he did it with me, and then he gets liquor sponsors to come in and pay for the shit.
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Okay?
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He called me the Jerry Springer of hip hop.
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If I'm the Jerry Springer of hip hop, he's the Jack Kevorkian of fucking hip hop.
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The doctor death of hip hop, people die financially or die later on for fucking overdoses fucking with this dude.
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Seriously, fuck Nori.
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Yeah, yeah, they go say you wrong for pointing out the drinking, but uh...
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you don't take an addict to a drinking platform.
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Exactly.
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And ask them to drink.
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Okay, and I'm not done yet.
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DJ EFN.
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DJ EFN, who's laughing along and talking shit with Nori and everything else like that.
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Let me tell you something.
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Dealing with Nori for as many years I dealt with him and his greedy snake ass,
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I am almost positive that DJ EFN is not getting an equal cut of that fucking show.
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Because every time I see DJ EFN, he looked broke and bummy.
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He looked dusty.
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Nori pulling up with nice watches, designer clothes, motherfucking EFN showing up in motherfucking Marshall's,
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you know, gear and bummy shoes and an Apple watch.
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Let me tell you, and here's the thing.
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Nori could pull this off with DJ EFN.
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Because the reality is, and everyone knows this, including Nori, that if DJ EFN stopped showing up to Drink Champs, nobody would notice.
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Nobody would notice.
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He has no fucking personality.
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I've been on that show.
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He barely contributes anything to that show.
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Drink Champs featuring just Nori?
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Yeah, that's regular.
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Take Nori out the picture.
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Drink Champs featuring just DJ EFN and no one else?
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It goes away.
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Goes away.
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And EFN knows that and at his age he knows
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that there's no plan B that he gotta just go along with this dude
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and Go along with anything he says because here's the thing if EFN was a real dude and Norrie starts Yeah, Vlad I fronted on you I canceled on you.
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EFN would be like wait hold on Norrie hold on Vlad came to our show.
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He must have no say so.
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EFN gotta get his shit together.
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He has no fucking spine, right?
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And he doesn't do shit.
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He has the personality of one of the drinks Maybe you're a dick
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and producer or pressure the button somewhere you don't see, Vrlac.
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Man, listen.
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This Brokast talking shit about me? About me?
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If he was a real dude, he'd be like, you know something, man, Vlad came to our show and did his thing on here.
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He did bigger numbers than anybody.
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Like, yo, you know, you shouldn't be just, you know, laughing about canceling on him.
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But EFN's a pussy.
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Vlad...
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He has to go along with that shit.
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Fuck EFN too.
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They think we don't need you.
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We need you, Vlad.
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I'll go down now
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and say take Vlad TV out the course of what we
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got the breakfast club don't put these people here We don't
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put these people take Vlad out the course of what we got people
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Nori you and I are not on the same level
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because the other day I own my YouTube channel with all my content all your shit is on diddy shit.
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It's on revolt They're gonna make money off your shit forever.
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Yeah, okay They don't really know but you do the dumb rapper shit
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Which is taking up front checks you chase up front checks
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and give up all the back end to everyone that's going to make the real money off you.
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They'll make money off those interviews forever.
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Now, you can say, oh, well, I'll take them off that channel, put them on mine, and then there'll be a dead property.
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You can't take a bunch of old videos and put them on your shit and think they're going to keep reacting.
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You'll fuck up the whole algorithm.
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You're stuck with Diddy.
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You're stuck with Revolt.
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I have my own platform.
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My grandkids will keep eating off my interviews.
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You have to keep chasing up front chicks, bro.
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You're a fucking dirtbag.
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You're a piece of shit of a human being.
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And I don't need an apology
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because I've already had those they don't fucking mean anything You'll
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never see me on fucking drink champs fuck nori as a rapper a
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podcast a man ago if you fuck with fucking nori fuck you too
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and Everyone who goes on nori's platform just know
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that he's a greedy piece of shit that will take every fucking penny You want to call me a culture vulture?
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I paid over 1.5 million dollars in appearance fees You've kept every fucking penny for yourself.
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I know that for a fact.
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Every fucking penny for yourself.
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I've paid you multiple times.
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I've paid Boosie, I've helped people start their careers as a Terrence Gangster Williams.
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TK Kirkland transformed his career, he said that multiple times.
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Bob James, who was just on this show, changed his whole life.
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All these comedians that I've been helping out financially during the pandemic and so forth that fuck with me.
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I help people for real.
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You take every fucking penny and you keep it for yourself, you greedy ass bitch.
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So fuck you, flat up and down.
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Straight up and down.
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I'm cosigning, I'm cosigning.
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Yeah.
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That's right.
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Yeah, I'm cosigning nigga.
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You know something?
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And finally, before I go, this right here, the most worthless thing that anyone's ever given me,
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these are the flowers, these are the flowers that they gave me for being on Drink Champs.
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I'm gonna show you what I think about these flowers right here.
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This, where we going, Vlad?
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All right, I'm gonna show you what I think about these bullshit ass drink champs flowers, man.
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Open the door for me.
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Let's go big doll, come on, let's wrap home.
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Who we heading to?
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Where we heading to?
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The shitter!
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We going to the bathroom.
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We going to the bathroom.
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Come on, we'll get the lights.
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We'll get the lights on.
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Other side, other side.
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Other side?
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Other side, other side.
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Let's go big doll.
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There we go, baby.
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Come on, what we got?
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There we go.
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Wow!
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Oh, man.
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In the toilet.
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Down the toilet.
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In the toilet, man.
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Down the toilet.
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Where these fucking drink champs, fucking bullshit-ass, cheap-ass fucking flowers belong, man.
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Fuck Nori, straight up and down.
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You will never see me on Drink Champs again.
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If you go on Drink Champs, you don't get paid for it.
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You're fucking stupid.
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Yeah.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 401 sentences and 3710 words to shadow. The speech runs for 19:30. The speaker talks fast, about 190 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
- champ /t͡ʃæmp/ (verb) — To bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
- flower /ˈfloʊɚ/ (noun) — A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual…
- lawsuit /ˈlɔˌs(j)ut/ (noun) — In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution.
- podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ (noun) — A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on…
- toilet /ˈtɔɪ.lət/ (noun) — A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.
- penny /ˈpɛni/ (noun) — In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p.
- cancel /ˈkæn.sl̩/ (verb) — To cross out something with lines etc.
- apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/ (verb) — To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends
- rapper /ˈɹæpɚ/ (noun) — The knocker of a door.
- greedy /ˈɡɹiːdi/ (adjective) — Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
- revolt /ɹɪˈvoʊlt/ (noun) — An act of revolting.
- overdose /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌdəʊs/ (noun) — An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
- chase /t͡ʃeɪs/ (verb) — To follow at speed.
- discover /dɪˈskʌvə/ (verb) — To find or learn something for the first time.
- juice /d͡ʒuːs/ (noun) — A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
Phrasal verbs you will hear
- think about /ˈθɪŋk əˌbaʊt/ (verb) — To ponder.
- look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
- come on /ˌkʌm ˈɒn/ — Come along with me; join me in going.
- deal with (verb) — To handle verbally or in some form of artistic expression; to address or discuss as a subject.
- go along with (verb) — To acquiesce to or comply with a proposal, despite lacking a desire or value for it.
- go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verb) — To continue in extent.
- bring up (verb) — To mention.
- give back (verb) — To return, restore (a thing to its original owner or location etc.).
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 157 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, worthless /ˈwɜːθ.ləs/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: racial /ˈɹeɪʃəl/, shock /ʃɔk/, wash /wɑʃ/, intention /ɪnˈtɛnʃn̩/, shoe /ˈʃu/
- Long words — get the stress right: apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/, apology /əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, comedian /kəˈmiː.di.ən/, alcoholic /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like champ, flower, lawsuit.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | have been falling · I've been helping |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've never heard · Nori's always been · He's always been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was introduced · be understood · be drunk |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.