Reggie Osse

I can't explain every breath.

Rest in peace, Combat Jack.

Indeed.

Yes.

He started talking a lot about like, I think maybe '17 maybe, but a lot about independence and putting out a lot of videos about it and ta- and doing a lot of interviews, and that shit was always like super helpful.

I wanna say '15, 'cause he did one on Combat Jack.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Combat Jack is where I first heard him talking, talking that shit I think.

And, um, yeah, man.

He- it's gotten real lame, and I think a lot of it is his ego and not letting shit go.

And, um, eventually, no, so initially it, it, it, it, it was gonna be, um, there was a lot of people in, in the running, but obviously it ends up being my guy Mero, you know what I mean? Like legendary, just like I, I, I, he's, he's basically as close as family to me at, at this point, you know what I mean? Like he's a dude that's just, from my MTV days, again, Infinity Gauntlets, like we were in writers' rooms together, uh, during MTV Two days, during, you know, Uncommon Sense with Charlemagne.

And you know, the first blog post that popped him off was amplified by, God rest his soul, Combat Jack, who was my editor when I was at The Source.

[laughs] You know what I mean? So it's like we just had all these tie-ins together, and he does the show for a while, but you know, once they did it, it was like, it w- it was always with the plan to evolve it at first.

So while I was disappointed that I didn't get it, he was like, "Yo, stick around because like we wanna, you know, grow this family of hosts," or whatever.

He mentioned it on my platform, right? So we was having a discussion about who was considered the podfather, right? So he mentioned about...

God rest his soul, Combat Jack.

And I had mentioned about DWI,

right?

So I was letting him know, like, look, I know hip-hop has a weird way of wanting to benefit narratives, or for that matter, when it comes to props, or giving props to who started what, or what trendsetter, what, or whatever.

So what I basically said was, he asked me, you know how N.W. Sprout was, he pressed me, I said, listen, to my understanding of what it is, Yes.

Combat Jack made it popular.

Yes.

There's a

Combat Jack episode where I did Combat Jack, like the famous podcast.

And like the first 20 minutes of it, like he came in so coked up.

I was like I'm just I talk fast so

So when I started to see that happen, I started to look around and be like, oh, I could have a podcast network.

You know, I came in under, you know, Loudspeaker Network, which is my guy Chris Moreau and rest in peace to Combat Jack, you know, Reggie Osei.

They had the Loudspeaker Network.

they brought me in as a part, you know, owner of the loudspeaker network.