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Episode 476 | God Speed

April 3, 2026·1 hr 32 min·7 clips

Rory reveals he's shooting a music video in LA and asks listeners to be extras.

Meek is the spark. The room goes right to the old Drake battle, when people kept saying Meek had something devastating coming. Damaris gets name-checked almost immediately. Her confidence becomes part of the joke, because the battle-rapper bomb everyone waited on never really matched the hype. The Undertaker barely survives the memory test. Someone admits the Meek response did not stick, then still gives Warpain its credit without turning the segment into a pile-on. That is the rhythm: laugh at the failed moment, then stop the easy version from taking over. Charlamagne becomes the next target. His claim that Meek was never the same after Drake gets treated as too neat. The pushback is blunt. Meek, they argue, had his best album after that beef and still put platinum singles on the board. The internet clowning happened. Nobody tries to clean that up, and they admit Meek needed time after the public hit. But they reject the career obituary. The panel separates embarrassment from actual decline, which is the argument under all the jokes. Meek takes some blame too. They say he sometimes feeds the campaign against him, even if the campaign is real. The whole thing stays loose, with a stray beat, a half-remembered record, and a quick Ella Mai reference keeping it closer to a hangout argument than a recap. The take lands anyway: losing the meme war did not mean Meek lost the music after it.

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A Meek Mill debate that turns hip-hop narratives into a lively, running argument.

The episode settles into a back-and-forth about Meek Mill, the Drake fallout, and how hip-hop narratives can harden into received wisdom. The conversation keeps moving between jokes, skepticism, and firm conviction, which gives the debate its edge.

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