Nersey

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nersey.substack.comThis episode is old as hell so we decided to invent a series called “The Lost Files” so it seems like we waited to put it out on purpose and weren't just too lazy to edit it. Anyways even though we recorded this thing at the beginning of June we talked about a bunch of stuff that ended up happening because Slava's on steroids now and they've made us all…

First things first: Donwill is a rapper both as a solo artist and one half of Tanya Morgan, and also a producer/comedy guy/DJ/the host of the Webby Award-winning Almanac of Rap podcast, whose third season is dropping August 1 courtesy of Okayplayer. He is also, unbelievably, the latest guest on the Nersey podcast, AND THE FIRST PERSON EVER TO FREESTYLE ON THE POD LIVE IN STEEL TIPPED DOVE'S STUDIO.In this episode, we talk about the following things: will.i.am making an AI, doing man-on-the-street interviews, the legacy of the Okayplayer message boards, the time he got kicked off a couch so Kanye could sit on it, the marriage of convenience between certain corners of hip-hop and the Republican establishment, and, obviously, how the game still needs Lil Mama.Stay tuned for the end of the show (or fast forward to the end, whatever) to find Donwill kicking a pair of freestyles to Cam'ron's “Get ‘em Daddy” and 100 gecs' “Money Machine,” both of are absolutely perfect and the ultimate manifestation of the five mics mentality which is a thing I just made up.Subscribe to Nersey on Substack plzTIME TO PLUG DONWILL'S VARIOUS PROJECTS: The new season of Almanac of Rap drops on August 1; that night he's also DJing at Elsewhere with Hannibal Burress. Listen to his East Village Radio show, Too Much Rap, Wednesdays at 10am on eastvillageradio.com. Tanya Morgan is dropping a new album on August 26 and it will be good. He does other things too so follow him on Twitter and Instagram to find out more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

How do you do, fellow kids? This week's episode finds Certified Internet Genious coming into the auditory octagon for some FULL-CONTACT BRAIN ROT EXPLAINATIONS AND/OR COMBAT. Yes, my fellow youths, we're talking about mewing and mogging and jelqing and looksmaxing, which is different from girthmaxing which is not a thing you do in preparation for Chilean Sex Trance because that has more to do with trashwave than it does edging, gooning, things of that nature, etc. (Yes I know what all of those words mean, and no I am not going to tell you.)For real though we spend a lot of the episode talking about memes and microgenres and super crazy internet stuff from Kieran's generation and ours, plus how Kieran used to be a high-level memelord and was almost cast on Survivor. GT's. BTW read Kieran's piece on brain rot stuff here.we're gonna do a paid bonus episode next time, tap in.Nersey is hosted by Trey Smith, Slava P, and Drew Millard; our producer is Steel Tipped Dove and our music is by Craig S. Jenkins. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

This week on the pod we've got Alphonse Pierre, who in addition to being the proprietor of an excellent substack called The Leaks, writes over at Pitchfork and is widely agreed to be the foremost expert on contemporary rap music in all the land. Topics discussed include teenage Alphonse taking the Staten Island Ferry into the city to go to St. Marks Place, the influence of Pressa on Canadian rap, and whether Ian could impress Alphonse by dropping a Broken Arrow reference. This is also kind of a Remember Some Guys episode, in that we spend a lot of it Remembering Guys who were and maybe still are rappers.Nersey is hosted by Trey Smith, Slava P, and Drew Millard; our producer is Steel Tipped Dove and our music is by Craig S. Jenkins. Please consider supporting the pod by becoming a paying subscriber on our Substack. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

Greetings, fellow culture enthusiasts. Today on the pod we're joined by Meaghan Garvey, who is the proprietor of SCARY COOL SAD GOODBYE, America's premiere vibes-based newsletter, and also our friend. We talk about Meaghan's “viral review” of Charli XCX's BRAT for Pitchfork, how Salem is secretly the most influential band, what the vibe this summer is going to be, Meaghan's theory of “Midwest Supremacy,” and many other fine topics that I'm not going to tell you about because I've got other stuff to do.Nersey is hosted by Trey Smith, Slava P, and Drew Millard; our producer is Steel Tipped Dove and our music is by Craig S. Jenkins. We were gonna make the last bit of the episode paywalled but had to cut it due to “technical difficulties.” If we had actually managed to squeeze that thing out then you would have had to pay to hear some extra stuff, so with that in mind, please consider becoming a paid subscriber on our Substack. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

SHOW NOTES IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE WE HAVE TWO VERY COOL ARTISTS ON THE POD TODAY AND ALSO I HAVE TO WRITE THE SHOW NOTES QUICKLYIT'S CAVALIER AND billy woods IN A CONTEXT YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD THEM BEFORE (PROBABLY)AKA ON A PARASOCIAL STYLE RAP PODCAST CONTEXTWE TALK ABOUT SMOKING WEED IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND DJ VLAD STYLE INTERVIEWERS AND CAV'S NEW ALBUM AND DREW ALSO TELLS THE TIME HE GOT PUNCHED IN THE HEAD BY A MEMBER OF TR*Y AVE'S CREW BECAUSE OF AN ARTICLE HE WROTE (woods said we had to keep the story in for posterity)SLAVA COULDN'T MAKE IT BC HE WAS DOING OTHER STUFFAFTER UR DONE WITH THIS EPISODE LISTEN TO CAVALIER'S NEW ALBUM DIFFERENT TYPE TIME, IT'S OUT NOW ON BACKWOODZ STUDIOZWE'RE ON THE PHONE WITH THE CEO OF APPLE PODCASTS HE'S TELLING US HE HAS GIVEN HIS STAFF THE OKAY TO DEPLOY THE MOST POWERFUL SERVERSNERSEY IS HOSTED BY TREY SMITH, SLAVA P, AND DREW MILLARD, OUR PRODUCER IS STEEL TIPPED DOVE AND OUR MUSIC IS BY CRAIG S. JENKINS, PLEASE TYPE YOUR EMAIL IN THE BOX BELOW AND CONSIDER BECOMING A PAID SUBSCRIBER, WE USUALLY DONT TYPE THE SHOW NOTES IN ALL CAPS WE PROMISE This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

this episode is part of the nersey guide to ethical hating, a series featuring some of your favorite people on the internet talking about the concept of “the hater” through the lens of their personal expertise. find each episode here once it's up. sign up on patreon or substack. - - -On today's edition of the Nersey Guide to Ethical Hating, we're joined by Bauce Sauce, a veritable internet legend who, no b******t, has:* Been a pro wrestler* Played basketball in college* Gotten to level 50 on Pokémon Go* Fathered two children* Hunted a Lizard-Man and wrote an article about it titled “Reptile Dysfunction”* Hosted videos for Complex* Interviewed Gudda Gudda, who is his favorite rapper* Successfully rhymed the word “orange” in a rap songHe is, by and large, also the happiest person we've ever met. So, we decided to have him on and convince him to be more of a hater. It kind of worked I guess? Mainly we just got to bask in Bauce's hyper-posi aura and watch in awe as he cut an insane wrestling promo in which he threatened to beat Slava in a game of one-on-one basketball. Other topics include being online in your thirties, trying to convince his daughter not to clout-farm, and whether you should respond to a stranger's unprovoked aggression with a comic amount of aggression.Good episode, long episode, listen to it the night before they pick up the recycling and you're gonna have to spend an hour and a half crushing cans.- - -nersey is hosted by trey smith, drew millard, and slava p. we are produced by steel tipped dove and our music is by craig s. jenkins. follow nersey on twitter and instagram, plz give us money on patreon and substack. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

Nersey is a podcast by Trey Smith, Drew Millard, and Slava P. We are produced by Steel Tipped Dove and our music is by Craig S. Jenkins. Our show is technically about music. We publish new episodes most weeks, plus blog posts sometimes. Paid subscribers get access to bonus episodes and bonus segments including our legendary “Joe Budden Podcast-Style Sleepers Section.” Sign up for a paid subscription on Substack or Patreon. ---Every geriatric Millennial rapper is beefing right now, and as geriatric Millennial music podcasters, this is our time to shine. So obviously, we “seized the moment” by recording a super chaotic episode about all of this and then failed to put it out until now, when Kendrick Lamar has released another diss song that has added to “the beef discourse.” So just imagine there's an extra ten minutes at the end of this podcast where we yell about “Euphoria” or something idk. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

this episode is part of the nersey guide to ethical hating, a series featuring some of your favorite people on the internet talking about the concept of “the hater” through the lens of their personal expertise. only paying subscribers will have access to the entire series, so sign up on patreon or substack. / / /Today on The Nersey Guide to Ethical Hating, we've got Luke O'Neil, the legendary proprietor of the Welcome to Hell World newsletter, on the pod. We recorded this a few months ago, and we've been waiting for the exact right time to drop it. A lot of the episode deals with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has only become more dire on the ground — and contentious in America — in the time since we had Luke on. But Luke is one of the most passionate and astute observers of politics around, and he helps us navigate the situation with the appropriate amount of righteous rage — directed at both the fact that such atrocities are happening to innocent people, as well as at the complete and utter intellectual dishonesty of the politicians who enable this to happen. Listen to this episode and then go protest somewhere.FYI, this episode is mostly serious (probably not surprising given the subject matter), but we also discuss sports haterdom, a big pile of snow in Boston that was definitely a hater, and also Luke's most recent book, A Creature Wanting Form, which you can buy from OR Books./ / /nersey is hosted by trey smith, drew millard, and slava p. we are produced by steel tipped dove and our music is by craig s. jenkins. follow nersey on twitter and instagram, plz give us money on patreon and substack. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

trey took the week off, so drew and slava decided to record a formal, timed debate on a topic thats been pondered since time immemorial: does j cole suck, or does j cole not suck. slava got to take the position of “j cole obviously sucks cmon dude,” while drew was forced to defend j cole because he is from north carolina and j cole is too. our producer steel tipped dove played the role of moderator.WHO WILL WIN THIS HEATED BATTLE IN THE TIMELESS ART OF DEBATE???? will it be slava, who had the advantage of taking the position that most people who listen to this podcast probably agree with? or will it be drew, who loves being a contrarian and is in no way above baiting slava into breaking the rules of the debate? there is only one way to know, and that is by listening to this episode of nersey.to support us, subscribe on patreon or substack. it's $7 a month and you get all kinds of good s**t This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

this episode is part of the nersey guide to ethical hating, a series featuring some of your favorite people on the internet talking about the concept of “the hater” through the lens of their personal expertise. only paying subscribers will have access to the entire series, so sign up on patreon (https://patreon.com/nersey) or substack (https://nersey.substack.com)ruby justice thelot is the smartest person we know. buy his book a cyberarcheology of checkpoints, which is about using the internet to find community in ways that capital does not intend (specifically in the comments section of a youtube video containing the soundtrack of donkey kong country 2), or else.he hopped on the pod to talk about the positives and negatives of fan culture, the quasi-lacanian nature of the stan-to-idol relationship, which fanbases are the most powerful in their haterdom, the political power of the furry community, how a new roman emperor's first move was to eliminate all his haters, and the time that ruby was flown out by ysl to just hang out at their fashion show in paris. ruby's so ridiculously good at being on podcasts that at one point trey announced that nersey now belongs to him. nersey is hosted by trey smith, drew millard, and slava p. we are produced by steel tipped dove and our music is by craig s. jenkins. follow nersey on twitter and instagram, plz give us money on patreon and substack. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

this episode is part of the nersey guide to ethical hating, a series featuring some of your favorite people on the internet talking about the concept of “the hater” through the lens of their personal expertise. find each episode here once it's up. only paying subscribers will have access to the entire series, so sign up below:nersey patreon - https://patreon.com/nerseynersey substack - https://nersey.substack.com/subscribefor this edition of The Nersey Guide to Ethical Hating, we got our homie, the rapper/racontour/rapscallion fatboi sharif, on the pod to talk about rap beefs. though sharif has a lot of opinions on both rapping and beefing, he's not really into taking shots on wax: “i'd rather just come to your show and beat you up,” he says.in case you've been living under a rock, fatboi sharif is one of the brightest, realest, and most avant-garde stars in underground hip-hop, and he just so happens to work closely with our producer steel tipped dove — check their joint album decay out asap if you're unfamiliar.other topics we touch on in this episode include the cartoonish villainy of diddy, stanley kubrick movies and their corresponding conspiracy theories, and drew being insanely bad at dancing. also, slava and sharif have a freestyle battle at the end.nersey is hosted by trey smith, drew millard, and slava p. we are produced by steel tipped dove and our music is by craig s. jenkins. you can follow nersey on twitter and instagram, and you can support our work on patreon and substack. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

Nersey is a podcast by Trey Smith, Drew Millard, and Slava P. We are produced by Steel Tipped Dove and our music is by Craig S. Jenkins. Our show is technically about music. We publish new episodes most weeks, plus blog posts sometimes. Free subscribers get to listen to the first half of each episode; paid subscribers get to listen to the whole thing, which includes our legendary “Joe Budden Podcast-Style Sleepers Section.” Patreon: patreon.com/NerseySubstack: https://nersey.substack.com/subscribe--drew had covid when we recorded so slava, trey, and steel tipped dove boldly forged ahead to talk about the issues of the day. namely: cryptocoins being up, the world being in mourning because of the death of the dragon ball z guy, and the department of defense having a stage at sxsw. trey and slava ended up blocking each other on twitter as a bit, joe offered a grand theory of how to dj when planet earth is playing at a bar, and then drew came on at some point towards the end to talk about how he definitely didn't get covid at the big shoegaze festival in philly. this one is extremely a subscriber only episode and should quite frankly be listened to by no one. also if drew had been there for the discussion about sxsw he would have told the following story:at sxsw in like 2014, this guy who was throwing a big party at a convention center with a bowling alley was like “hey you should meet this guy i manage, he's an r&b singer and a rapper and i think he's gonna be big one day maybe.” he then grabbed the guy, introduced us, and then immediately walked away to do other stuff. the r&b singer/rapper and i started chatting and ended up getting along and hanging out for like four hours backstage at this big party thing. at one point some video interview person came up to the r&b singer/rapper and was like “hey can i interview you” and the r&b singer/rapper was like “yeah for sure but also you gotta meet my new protege, troy abs. he's bringing real new york rap back through physical fitness” and pulls me into the camera frame with him. so he and i spend ten minutes doing this bit about how i'm a rapper and all my songs are about proper pull-up technique or whatever and the camera person just keeps rolling, i can only assume they knew we were joking but i've never seen the footage and it probably never made it to youtube so really i have no idea. later, i told slava about this experience and he was like “dude you shouldn't f**k with that guy, he's got a kinda bad reputation around toronto” so i stopped being his friend.this was fortuitous, it turns out, because the r&b singer/rapper in question was tory lanez. the end.anyways, nersey is hosted by trey smith, drew millard, and slava p. we are produced by steel tipped dove and our music is by craig s. jenkins. follow nersey on twitter and instagram, plz give us money on patreon and substack. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

this episode is part of the nersey guide to ethical hating, a series featuring some of your favorite people on the internet talking about the concept of “the hater” through the lens of their personal expertise. only paying subscribers will have access to the entire series, so sign up on patreon or substack. https://patreon.com/Nerseyhttps://nersey.substack.com/subscribe-----what does it mean to be a hater, but in an ethical way? what if there were an, uhhhhh, ethics,,,, of being a hater? since we decided to make a whole ass series themed around (once again) being an ethical hater, we decided we needed to define our terms here. and who better to help us do that than brandy jensen, the absolute legend and h8r extraordinaire who is now technically a professional advice-giver. there was some yelling and also some deep thinking and occasionally both at the same time. together, we tackle thrilling questions such as:* what counts as “being a hater,” and when is it warranted?* is there a difference between being a hater and talking s**t?* is haterdom ever a result of how we feel about ourselves? who was the greatest literary hater?* who do we, personally, hate? and relatedly, will any of us suffer either professional or personal consequences as a result of things we said on this podcast? for the answers to all these questions and more, put the sounds of this podcast into your ears.nersey is hosted by trey smith, drew millard, and slava p. we are produced by steel tipped dove and our music is by craig s. jenkins. subscribe to brandy on substack: https://brandyjensen.substack.com/support nersey on patreon and substack:https://patreon.com/nerseyhttps://nersey.substack.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

this episode is part of the nersey guide to ethical hating, a series featuring some of your favorite people on the internet talking about the concept of “the hater” through the lens of their personal expertise. find every episode here. only paying subscribers will have access to the entire series, so sign up on patreon or substack:https://nersey.substack.com/subscribehttps://www.patreon.com/Nersey we spent a bunch of time putting together this super secret series and you cannot listen to most of it unless you give us money. it's about how to be a hater. an ethical one. this is the first episode and it features the pulitzer prize nominee critic craig s. jenkins, who popped in from his post as new york magazine's in-house arbiter of objective musical quality to weigh in on what's worth hating on and not, how to use magic to manipulate people's minds, when to stop going so hard on twitter, and whether ramriddlz or sia has made the worst song of all time. if you've ever wondered if the writer craig s. jenkins was the same craig s. jenkins who makes our music, the answer is yes. craig is a budding synth wiz and we talk about that in the episode too. lotta good nersey lore in this episode in general tbh. --nersey is hosted by trey smith, drew millard, and slava p. we are produced by steel tipped dove and our music is by craig s. jenkins. we put out episodes most weeks, and free subscribers get to listen to the first half of each episode. paid subscribers get to listen to full episodes, including our legendary “joe budden podcast-style ‘sleepers' segment.”follow nersey on twitter and instagram, plz give us money on patreon and substack. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

We decided to make this episode of Nersey entirely free, just like an issue of VICE Magazine sitting in American Apparel circa 2006. Nersey is a podcast by Trey Smith, Drew Millard, and Slava P. We are produced by Steel Tipped Dove and our music is by Craig S. Jenkins. Our show is technically about music. We publish new episodes most weeks, plus blog posts sometimes. Free subscribers get to listen to the first half of each episode; paid subscribers get to listen to the whole thing, which includes our legendary “Joe Budden Podcast-Style Sleepers Section.” We're also on Patreon. Batten down the hatches and put on your raincoats, sailors, because we're headed straight into some damn unfavorable economic headwinds. By that, we mean that once again, VICE has laid a bunch of people off and is generally in trouble. As all you Music Man heads know, trouble starts with a T, which rhymes with P, and that stands for “podcast.” Our podcast. Which, today, is about VICE. We're joined by mega-genius Zachary Lipez of Creem Magazine to help us figure out what VICE was, because he was in the NYC scene back in the 2000s when the mag was really popping off; meanwhile, we were all dumb teens who would grow up to work at VICE in the 2010s. Other topics discussed include Zach's excellent piece on the downfall of music journalism, how bands used to take a bunch of money from cigarette brands, performatively not taking care of yourself, the lost art of talking s**t in incredibly low-stakes contexts, and also electroclash. Special thanks to Yuri for letting Drew record at his house and also informing us that VICE created a “virtual Lower East Side” in like 2007. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nersey.substack.comlotta important topics touched on in this episode. like the super bowl, which at this point isn't very topical but whatever. and kanye's new album with ty dolla $sign, which came out like a week and a half ago and that you probably didn't listen to and/or forgot about and/or didn't realize happened. look man you don't listen to nersey because we're some hipster dipshit alternative to npr, you listen to nersey because of other reasons. reasons you cannot understand. reasons nersey doesn't even understand. nersey is its own thing. we put the end of the episode behind a paywall as part of our ongoing attempts to “monetize” nersey. only the paying subscribers will get to know what we talked about, if you want to solve the mystery, click below. substack already has your credit card number probably it'll take like two seconds just do it. also you're gonna wanna subscribe trust us nersey is hosted by trey smith, drew millard, and slava p. we are produced by steel tipped dove and our music is by craig s. jenkins. follow nersey on twitter and instagram, plz give us money on patreon and substack.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nersey.substack.comhey. have you ever wondered what it would be like to listen to an episode of a podcast where the hosts talk about other episodes of their podcast that they've put behind a paywall. because that's what this episode is. a long ass advertisement for the upcoming NERSEY GUIDE TO ETHICAL HATING, which is a series we recorded over the past few months featuring some of our favorite people talking to us about how to be a hater without being an a*****e about it. by the time you're done listening to it you're gonna be ready as hell to go to patreon dot com backslash nersey and/or nersey dot substack dot com and become a “premium subscriber.” once you do that, you'll be able to listen to the second half of the episode. honestly can't remember what we talked about but it seemed good at the time. oh and there's also a segment in there where we talk about how drew and slava are washed but trey and steel tipped dove are not. that's some classic aging millennial hipster podcast content right there.anyways, nersey guide to ethical hating is coming to a patreon and/or substack near you soon. we might give you the episodes with craig s. jenkins and brandy jensen for free to “stir up mad hype” tho. nersey is hosted by trey smith, drew millard, and slava p. we are produced by steel tipped dove and our music is by craig s. jenkins. follow nersey on twitter and instagram, plz give us money on patreon and substack.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nersey.substack.comslava had the genius idea to make us recap the grammys despite the fact that none of us actually watched them. this is a music podcast. about music. then we talk about the apple vr goggles which will definitely make you crash your car, which somehow turns into us pitching each other shark tank style inventions. if you paid for the bonus episode you'll also get to listen to us talking about how toby keith is in hell, as well as listen to our PAID SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE segment, which we call “the joe budden podcast style sleepers segment.”plz subscribe and also plz pay we're not giving y'all full episodes anymorenersey is hosted by trey smith, slava p, and drew millard. our producer is steel tipped dove and our music is by pulitzer prize nominee craig s. jenkins. also follow us on twitter and/or instagram plz, AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SIGN UP FOR THE PATREON.

nersey is back and better than ever, babeyyyyy! we're joined by the one and only jeff weiss to talk about conde nast's bizarre and overarchingly tragic decision to kneecap pitchfork and fold it into GQ, thereby ending music journalism as we have known it all our lives. our conversation is funny in a “god this sucks” kind of way. then we offer up our predictions for the year 2024 and jeff judges them because he is a Professional Critic. also, “josh” is the new word for “mid.”btw, you will notice from the “call to action” above that we have “turned on the paywall” over here. we were initially planning on chopping this episode with jeff in half and releasing the second half for paying subscribers only, but it turned out that the recent layoffs at pitchfork were only the beginning of a truly unconscionable week to have a job in media, which we know lots of our listeners do. so, rather than asking people to pay to hear our cathartically angry conversation with jeff in full, we're making this episode free. in the future, we're going to be releasing subscriber-only pods and other “exclusive” bits of “content” such as playlists, sick blogs, and trey's home address. why are we doing this? well, two of us still don't have jobs (slava is a millwright tho), and our unfathomably talented producer steel tipped dove deserves to be paid way more for his contributions. plus drew would at least like to make the money back on the two used books he read to teach himself graphic design.HAVING SAID THAT: if you're a recently laid-off media worker or even just a media worker who's been negatively affected by this doodoo-ass economic times and would like the FULL NERSEY EXPERIENCE without spending the money that you suddenly have way less of, reach out to drew on twitter (his DMs are open) and he'll hook you up with a free subscription. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

it's a new year and a new us. slava's installing machines and you're not invited. trey's recording on microphones inside of rooms that got rooms. steel tipped dove is producing beats in the third person now. drew is reading a book on graphic design. needless to say we're going full ceo mindset. 360 degrees of total content optimization mother f*****s. episodes on the reg. blogs on the reg. yachts on the reg. only hopping in the uber if it's a denali.please accept the second part of our “THE BEST OF NERSEY” series as but a taste of what is to come.subscribe to the pod and pledge before we raise the price. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

merry day after christmas, nersey podcast is back. to wrap up the year we've got a two-part BEST OF NERSEY series featuring all of our ‘classic segments', now REMASTERED BY OUR PRODUCER STEEL TIPPED DOVE. relive all the excitement and thrills of the nersey episodes you either forgot about or didn't know existed, presented in a format that cuts out all the stuff that made it super clear that we had no idea what the hell we were doing back when we started. we will be BACK with a VENGEANCE in the YEAR OF OUR LORD TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FOUR.also let's take a moment to give dove his flowers because he had a hell of a year. first off he produced albums for damn near everybody in underground hip-hop: r.a.p. ferreira + aj suede, fatboi sharif, andrew, nosaj from new kingdom, alaska from atoms family, plus aj suede again. a lot of those came out on his vinyl-focused label fused arrow, which also reissued premrock's 2013 tom waits tribute mark's wild years. ALSO, dove put out a bangin solo record featuring (among others) r.a.p. ferreira, shrapknel, donwill, big baby gandhi, and mc paul barman (!). ALSO ALSO, he engineered billy woods and kenny segal's maps, which pitchfork just named the best album of the year. ALSO ALSO ALSO, he made a song for a compilation that drew put out featuring songs in the made-up genre “golfcore.” ::extremely infomercial voice:: BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! dove also just dropped a double cassette featuring 53 of his beats from this year. one cassette is silver and the other is gold and the case kinda looks like an old-school ipod. ok we just gave you like a million links so if you pride yourself on supporting independent music click on at least one of them and buy some s**t.follow nersey on twitterfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterwe are produced by steel tipped dove and our music is by craig s. jenkins. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

welcome to the Nersey Responsibility Era™. we've got a new producer named joe aka steel tipped dove, and he's got trey recording in the stu, making us sound sick as hell, and helping us actually get episodes out the week we record them. nersey taking over for the 99 and the 2000 and also the 2023 and the 2024. however, i'm still gonna write the show notes in lowercase because nersey is a leftist podcast and therefore against capitalism in all its forms including capitalizationism. which is a word.this week we've got a sick ass guest who's cool as hell: the rapper and producer jimmy prime. he's a toronto legend who literally invented the term “the six (6, 6ix)” and once beat justin bieber in a dance battle at a party drake threw, which is an insane string of words to type out. we obviously talk about the bieber dance off, plus we get into the most problematic film and television characters of all time, jimmy's new podcast northern ruckus, how much of a pain in the ass it would be to actually have a gold toilet, etc. etc. etc. type ur email or don'tfollow jimmy on twitter and instagramfollow nersey on twitter and instagramfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterfollow joe on twitterour music is by craig s. jenkins This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

bandcamp used to be owned by the fortnite company, then it got sold to a company called songtradr and now it's fucked. we got our friend keegan bradford aka twitter user “franziamom” to come through and talk about it, because he is in a BAND called CAMP trash. haha see what i did therewe also talk about gorillas using ipads, dirtbike mentality, an anti-polish holiday that seems to only exist in buffalo, eating the benghazi wings at gay hooters, mens underwear with ass padding, things of that naturefollow keegan on twitter and listen to camp trash you cowards.u wontfollow nersey on twitterfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterwe are produced by steel tipped dove and our music is by craig s. jenkins. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

kyle kramer is many things:- our former colleague at that place we all used to work- nature respecter / forest protector- writer of a blog post about lil wayne every day for a year- manifestor of the t-pain/lil wayne album as a result of t-pain reading one of the blog posts he wrote about lil wayne every day for a year- winner of the vice office hot dog eating contest- recipient of giant novelty check (unrelated to vice office hot dog eating contest)- namesake of the kyle kramer memorial elevatorthe list goes on. but one thing he is not is someone who has never appeared on this specific podcast.also discussed: doing praxis by letting invasive plants take over your yard, the relative quality of different atv brands, slava got to harvest maple syrup in prison but did NOT get to tend to goats, drew talks about how he once got his face stitched up in a random apartment instead of going to the hospital, and trey proves that jocks ONLY listen to the Jock Jams CDs. pretty good episode tbhfollow nersey on twitterfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterall music by craig s. jenkins except for the outro music which is from the t-wayne album that kyle made happen, t-pain if ur reading this pls don't make us take it down :( This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

we took a few weeks off, we're sorry it won't happen again. it wasn't that we got too busy to edit the episodes for a while it was that uhhhh that was the end of season one of the pod? yeah definitely that one.anyways. we talk about a bunch of stuff like the possibility of the old vice office getting turned into an airport CBGBs, asap rocky's veganism, and slava's theory of “the canadian internet.” we also celebrate the return of the REAL blink 182 by drew talking about how he recently saw a ufo, slava talking about his traumatic childhood memory of accidentally playing an extremely profane blink song in front of his mom, and trey making the bold claim that eminem supplanted blink 182's place in culture. featuring a cameo by friend of the pod derek mead, who called trey while we were recording so we put him on speaker and turned it into content.follow nersey on twitterfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterall music by craig s. jenkins This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

it's a damn grab bag episode as we mourn jimmy buffett and smash mount guy, celebrate bg's return home, debate the efficacy of various money laundering tactics, and submit an application for slava to be martin shkreli's bodyguard. despite our best efforts this episode is actually pretty good. don't subscribesongs used:jimmy buffett - “margaritaville (live 1978 version aka the version where he screams about cocaine)”cam'ron - “go outside”bg - “bout my paper”dj screw chop of the biggie verse from “flava in ya ear”our theme song is “sportscenter” by lil waynewe don't own any of the music on this podcast. you can sue us about it but joke's on you we don't have any moneyfollow nersey on twitterfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterproduced by john This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

today we're joined by leslie horn peterson, certified Man Expert, to help us create the definitive Taxonomy of Guys. is a guy different from a dude? what about a bro? a jock? a meathead? also, should leslie take slava's advice and start her son on steroids now that he's five, and how will they affect his reaction if he ever asks Future AI Google if his mom's ever talked about on a podcast?in other news, drew and his new friend OMB Peezy won a golf tournament together, leslie tells us what it's like to be hit on by an incel, we try to figure out oliver anthony's whole deal, and trey reveals that he has a freezer full of popeye's chicken bones that he's saving up for a really sick broth.follow leslie on twitterlook we don't want you to subscribe to the pod. we think its good actuallyfollow nersey on twitterfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterproduced by john This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

we interrupt our regularly scheduled quasi-music programming for an episode about the NBA. after james harden went to China, went ballistic on his own GM in front of a bunch of teenagers, and then did some tiktok dances, we decided to call up our friend Yaron Weitzman, NBA writer for Fox Sports and author of Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports, and have him help us understand what the hell is going on here. yaron also told us about a very funny story about the time he interviewed james harden, the particulars of being an NBA reporter, and whether he's worried that Paul George is going to steal his job. we recorded this episode on monday and are very glad that nothing really huge happened with the james harden thing while we were editing it.subscribe to nersey on substackfollow yaron on twitter and buy his bookfollow nersey on twitterfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterproduced by john This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

this week we're joined by mano sundaresan, founder of no bells aka one of the only things in music journalism these days that gives us hope that s**t isn't completely fucked. mano gamely answers our questions about running a music blog in 2023, tells us what's up with zoomers, and explains to us Olds what “plugg music” is.also discussed: trey is a confirmed Furry Defender, drew has never heard of yeat, and whether we can enlist the anticapitalist whales to command an army of Cocaine Sharks in our inevitable war against the aliens.subscribe to nersey on substackfollow mano on twitter, check out no bells here, and support the site on patreonfollow nersey on twitterfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterproduced by john This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

sup y'all,after you finish this podcast you will understand that the only ways left to make money these days are (1) being mrbeast, (2) doing the tiktok npc thing and hoping that timbaland tips you to pretend to eat ice cream, (3) going on strike until you get paid residuals for having created online content that's still generating revenue for somebody else, or (4) prostrating yourself at the altar of the internet platform of your choice (ours is substack). also discussed: what counts as “reading” a “book,” drew complains that nobody listens to golfcore, AND YO WHY IS IT CANON THAT PEOPLE EAT POKÉMON AND/OR DRINK THEIR BODILY FLUIDS.plz subscribe to nersey on substacklisten to drew's golfcore compilation heresrsly subscribe to us on substack we see how many of you listen without subscribing c'monfollow nersey on twitterfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterproduced by john This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

we like to have fun here at nersey, but we also like to get mad. this week, we're joined by friend of the pod emilie friedlander — writer, editor, and co-host of the culture journalist — to get mad at rich people who cause all our friends to lose their jobs. VICE, aka the place we all used to work at (including emilie), continues to go bankrupt as hell, and new court filings are showing exactly how the company spent its money — and on whom — in the weeks leading up its chapter 11 declaration. spoiler alert: all the executives got bonuses. no war but class war babey!!!!also discussed: AI takin' our jobs, drew's semi-delusional belief that the seth rogen movie long shot was secretly based on his life, and why the hell slava was shaving his head mid-recording. follow the culture journalist here. donate to laid off VICE workers here.follow nersey on twitter and substackfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterproduced by john This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

nersey's back and ready to serve you a giant garbage bag of pure facts (mixed up with milk). trey and drew celebrate the fourth of july by answering slava and john's questions about guns, geography, and whether or not they remember the pledge of allegiance. then we get to the bottom of this whole “people throwing s**t at concerts” thing, take turns reading from drake's new poetry book, and familiarize ourselves with slava's favorite jail desserts + the smooth sounds of victor oladipo. follow nersey on twitter and substackfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterproduced by john This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

hey guess which album just turned ten years old. yeezus. that album had it all man. chief keef doing a duet with the bon iver guy. kanye having extremely inane conversations with jesus christ. armpit farts from daft punk. the phrase “michael douglas out the car now.” sharks with fricken laser beams attached to their heads. etc. it's also EXTREMELY a product of its time, and that was a time when we of nersey were all in our 20s and cool. so upon this momentous occasion, let's all take a stroll down memory lane.also discussed: which kanye collaborator is the best basketball player? drew discloses his extremely “dude from north carolina” footwear choices. trey admits that slava once convinced him that canadian people call breadsticks “dough cords.”subscribe to us here: https://nersey.substack.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

boom pow surprise this is a podcast about sports now. jk but the saudis are taking over soccer and golf so we talked about that stuff, plus lazy king nikola jokic and his debilitating horse addiction and drunk king jack grealish and his non-debilitating inability to find england on a map. we're joined by alex robert ross, editorial director of the fader, who in addition to being a chill dude who knows a lot of stuff about sports is british so he probably called it “football” at some point. please subscribe to our substack so we can provide soup for our families. seriously type your email address in here plzfollow nersey on twitterfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterproduced by john This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

we took a week off but nersey continues, unabated and unafraid. this week we've got our first guest, patrick cosmos aka @veryimportant on twitter, a self-proclaimed “fake lawyer” who was kind enough to join us for reasons we still don't quite understand. first we talk about the slow-moving car crash that is the young thug trial. then we talk about how the washington wizards are secretly the most important franchise in the nba and it's not just because gilbert arenas once pooped in a guy's shoe (allegedly). we also finally explain why slava went to jail (it involved trafficking some embarrassingly mid cocaine) only to end up with a prison sentence and a line on his official record that says he “did it for the clout.” stay tuned for next week's episode, in which we will all get subpoenaed. please subscribe, next week we're gonna talk about sportsfollow nersey on twitterfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterproduced by john This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

this is the first episode we did, we put it on soundcloud like a month ago and now we are putting it everywhere else.we talk about vice and how shane smith bought the mansion that the entourage in the show ‘entourage' lived in. trey makes binding determinations on which games make you look cool when you play them and which ones don't. what will *your* job be when the economy crashes? follow nersey on twitterfollow trey on twitterfollow slava on twitterfollow drew on twitterproduced by johnpsst hey wanna subscribe ? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

you know that thing music critics do where they're like “this mainstream musician is good but i like them for different reasons than everybody else.” well we do that with taylor swift. we get educated on “cereal season.” slava thinks he's the only one who's heard of mukbangs. and oh my god trey has so many fast food apps on his phone.follow us on twitter:treyslavadrewproduced by john This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe

this is also episode 1 somehow, it's about soup and rap music and hyperpop and also ja morant plus some other s**t. just to be clear i do this podcast with trey and slava but idk why it's showing up as just my podcast. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nersey.substack.com/subscribe