Episode 942 | "Universally Cool"

**Joe Budden** (0:00)
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**Joe Budden** (0:28)
Yeah, we're going to enjoy it today, but don't look me up and down.

**Joe Budden** (0:30)
Your man always get mad right there.

**Ish** (0:32)
Your man, Parks Vallely, is always doing that.

**Joe Budden** (0:34)
That is my man.

**Flip** (0:35)
Yeah, that is my man. Make sure he remain your man, He always going to remain my man. All right, so that's it.

**Ish** (0:41)
That's it.

**Joe Budden** (0:41)
Immute up, Parks.

**Flip** (0:42)
Yeah, what you mean?

**Joe Budden** (0:43)
Yeah, he always going to remain my man.

**Flip** (0:44)
Tell him to press it.

**Joe Budden** (0:45)
Oh, you think you're not going to remain my man?

**Flip** (0:50)
Are you crazy?

**Joe Budden** (0:50)
Yeah, don't play with me.

**Joe Budden** (1:05)
What up, y'all? What up, Ish Ice?

**Ish** (1:07)
Marc, Parks.

**Joe Budden** (1:08)
What's poppin?

**Marc Lamont Hill** (1:10)
Yo, Joe is the classic YUA Tell Me Later when you told him first a year earlier.

**Joe Budden** (1:15)
I think you full of shit.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (1:17)
We all, we sat up here a year ago.

**Joe Budden** (1:19)
We sat it already.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (1:20)
And said Lab Diamond. We had three episodes about Lab Diamond's data shit, Don't Spend Your Money On Nothing Else, blah, blah, blah.

**Joe Budden** (1:25)
I never heard that.

**Ice** (1:26)
Because y'all listening to me.

**Joe Budden** (1:28)
I'm not saying y'all didn't say it. Don't attack my character. I'm saying I just don't remember that.

**Flip** (1:33)
Yeah.

**Ice** (1:34)
We've said that.

**Joe Budden** (1:34)
I thought we was all on some, no, shit, it's just me.

**Flip** (1:37)
Oh yeah, it was just you.

**Joe Budden** (1:39)
Okay, so no way to, the girl, the girl. Yes.

**Joe Budden** (1:43)
Yeah, it's happening now. It's happening.

**Joe Budden** (1:46)
After this little thing?

**Joe Budden** (1:46)
Yeah. Yeah, it's lit.

**Joe Budden** (1:49)
I'm late. I'm late to the labs. It's changing life. I'm late to the labs.

**Joe Budden** (1:54)
I'm late to the labs, works.

**Parks** (1:56)
I guess I am too.

**Joe Budden** (1:57)
Stupid ass me running around, with real men.

**Joe Budden** (2:01)
It's over that shit.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:03)
It is real.

**Flip** (2:03)
It's manufactured.

**Joe Budden** (2:05)
I'm talking about the real expensive shit.

**Ice** (2:06)
You talking about the shit that my man had his arm cut off.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:08)
Yeah, that's what you're talking about.

**Flip** (2:09)
That's what you're talking about.

**Ish** (2:10)
The old school shit.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:11)
Yeah, that's old school.

**Flip** (2:12)
The one in the mountains get that shit. The one in the mountains go get that shit. Some they can make in the lab.

**Ice** (2:17)
Some they are mining for. That'll make...

**Flip** (2:20)
We want the miners.

**Parks** (2:21)
And some they mine.

**Flip** (2:22)
No, we don't. We don't want the miners. Take that back.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:25)
That sounds crazy.

**Flip** (2:26)
But... Yeah, I get what you're saying. Lab diamonds is...

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:28)
Yeah, they good. They save you money.

**Joe Budden** (2:30)
You just got to get you a good...
Yeah, you got to... But same as having to get a good jeweler.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:36)
You got to get a good lab lady.

**Parks** (2:40)
I don't think they had that when I bought mine.

**Ice** (2:42)
It's... They had it, but it ain't as popular. Nowhere near as popular as now.

**Marc Lamont Hill** (2:45)
They weren't as popular.

**Flip** (2:46)
And they was frowned upon.

**Ice** (2:47)
Like, they was frowned upon.

**Parks** (2:48)
Okay.

**Flip** (2:50)
looked at them like... It is, boy.

**Ish** (2:52)
That's a quick... He called it, boy.

**Ice** (2:54)
It's a difference. It's a difference.

**Joe Budden** (2:56)
No, it's not. I was just telling Parks outside. Like, I'm stressed with, like, a million things that have nothing to do with my girl. And it's not real stress. I don't want to... I'm super blessed. I'm super blessed. It ain't like a real stress, but all of the, like... I ain't having to be responsible. I'm a kid, yo.

**Flip** (3:12)
Yo, responsibility is a hell of a thing, yo.