Episode 942 |"Universally Cool"
7/1/20263 hr 14 min
The JBP kicks off this episode with a discussion about Atlantic City (29:00) before turning to their thoughts on the 2026 BET Hip-Hop Awards hosted by Druski (39:30). The crew also shares their reactions to the D'Angelo and Lauryn Hill tributes (1:05:14), Bow Wow's Tiny Desk appearance (1:28:05), and Amber Rose on the message she gives to her kids (1:48:32). Also, Jussie Smollett appearance at Harlem Pride (2:03:27), Malik Beasley has been indicted in sports gambling probe (2:25:05), former Titans running back Chris Johnson's ALS diagnosis (2:47:18), and much more.
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First 90 secondsJoe Budden· Host0:00
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Ice· Host0:27
Yeah, we gonna enjoy today.
Joe Budden· Host0:29
All right.
Ice· Host0:29
But don't look me up and down, yo.
Queens Flip· Host0:30
It's your man. Always your man right there.
Ice· Host0:32
On God.
Queens Flip· Host0:32
Your man, Parks.
Ice· Host0:33
What I do?
Queens Flip· Host0:33
Always doing that.
Ice· Host0:34
That is my man.
Queens Flip· Host0:34
Yeah, your man.
Ice· Host0:35
That, that is my man.
Queens Flip· Host0:36
Yeah, make sure he remain your man, nigga.
Ice· Host0:38
What's that?
Joe Budden· Host0:38
He al- always gonna remain my man.
Queens Flip· Host0:39
All right, so that's it. That's it.
Ice· Host0:41
Hey, mute up, Parks. Man, yeah, what, what you mean? Yeah.
Queens Flip· Host0:43
I'm- He always gonna remain my man ... I don't mean to tell him no business.
Ice· Host0:45
Oh.
Queens Flip· Host0:45
Nothing.
Ice· Host0:45
You think you not gonna remain my man?
Queens Flip· Host0:47
Tell him. Tell him.
Ice· Host0:48
[laughs] Oh, you ... [laughs] Oh, good dude.
Queens Flip· Host0:49
Of course I did.
Joe Budden· Host0:50
[laughs] You crazy.
Ice· Host0:50
Yeah, don't play with me.
Queens Flip· Host0:51
My boy for life.
Ice· Host0:52
Yeah.
Joe Budden· Host0:52
Yeah.
Queens Flip· Host0:54
Yeah.
Ice· Host0:54
Fuck is popping?
Joe Budden· Host0:56
We in the building.
Ice· Host0:57
Day 19 of the Knicks championship summer. [laughs] [laughs] We in this bitch. What's popping though?
Queens Flip· Host1:04
Say less.
Ice· Host1:05
What up, y'all? What up, It's Ice.
Joe Budden· Host1:06
What up, what up, what up, what up?
Ice· Host1:07
Mark, Parks.
Queens Flip· Host1:08
Yeah, what's good?
Joe Budden· Host1:09
What's, what's popping?
Queens Flip· Host1:09
This nigga crazy.
Joe Budden· Host1:10
Yo, Joe is the classic, why you ain't tell me later when you told him first, like a year earlier.
Ice· Host1:14
Who? I think you full of shit.
Queens Flip· Host1:16
Who?
Joe Budden· Host1:17
Nigga, we all ... We sat up here a year ago- I said it already ... and said lab diamonds. We, we done had three episodes about lab diamonds.
Ice· Host1:23
Yeah.
Joe Budden· Host1:23
They the shit. Don't spend your money on nothing else.
Ice· Host1:24
Mm-hmm.
Joe Budden· Host1:25
Blah, blah, blah.
Ice· Host1:25
I never heard that.
Queens Flip· Host1:26
'Cause you don't listen to niggas.
Joe Budden· Host1:27
You don't really listen.
Ice· Host1:28
[laughs] I'm not saying y'all didn't say it.
Joe Budden· Host1:29
Just, just said, they said that a couple times.
Ice· Host1:29
Don't