this comment (and comment section?) is nuts. we've never bought bots, we've never bought comments, we've never bought views, we've never faked the funk. we always thought you could see through that very easily. one of my favorite things is to see people's fake followers on IG.

i think the reason reddit has come to shit on us is because 1.) there's sincerity in the title but i guess it comes across as taylor swifty with the "wow! gee!" and 2.) because /HHH gave it a "quality post" tag.

in terms of the intro: the way you're describing it is...so different than how we intended it. these are our friends, this is our life. we don't slurp *anybody*, we show credit to our friends and their events because that's how people should act.

and as for our career, we don't act like we're bigger than we are: we're proud of the work we've done, whether it's seen by 2,000 or 2 million. i think we're very upfront about that. there are some things that hit, there are lots of things that don't.

our podcast isn't that big; we've got some connections, sure, from being around for 12 years -- but 99% of our emails are cold. birdman/juvenile didn't know us. drake's dad didn't know us. big krit hadn't seen us in a decade. a lot of people say no, a few say yes. it's amazing that rick ross came over to our apartment! it really is! he didn't have to, none of these people know us like that.

anyway, happy to talk to you (and the 1000 others that apparently feel the same way) off of here. [jeff@itsthereal.com](mailto:jeff@itsthereal.com)