Rap Icon Millyz PURE BOSTON superfan stories | Why Boston LOVES celtics underdogs

Rap Icon Millyz PURE BOSTON superfan stories | Why Boston LOVES celtics underdogs

Rap superstar and local Celtics superfan Millies joins the show to talk about championships and why we love a certain kind of player here in Boston. It’s right now on the Lockown Celtics podcast. [Music] Uh-huh. Be ready. It’s the scene. Who else could it be? What they going to say now? Screaming like JT Cares. We kept the madness every game, every practice. Prime time Deon D White on the sideline. Rain and J how it started. Rais how we finish. Locked on Celtics, home of the winners, baby. Hey there, welcome back to the Locked On Celtics podcast right here on the Lockdown Podcast Network. Where it is your team every day and your team is the Boston Celtics. Every day means Monday through Friday. at least for this week. Next week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, as we get into the slow period of the NBA offseason, but still more free podcasting than you’re going to find anywhere else. So, make sure you’re subscribed, watch the show on YouTube, get into the comments section, let me know what you’re thinking. I’m John Corales. I’m a beatw writer covering the Celtics for Boston Sports Journal, and I’ve written a couple of books in my 20 years of Celtics coverage. Today’s show is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can get $150 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins. Special show today. It’s Millies. It’s the the guy who made the original original locked on Celtics uh intro. It’s Rap Superstar. It’s uh I can’t even tell you how many records he’s sold, but he’s he’s on album number 13 or 14, Blanco 7, out now. check it out. Uh he’s from Cambridge. He’s uh just a mega super Celtics fan, fan of the podcast. So, uh we get into a lot of things. Later on, we’ll talk about his relationship with uh Jedakus, who is a real important cultural figure in the shift of the NBA into what it is today. Uh we talk about him being a celebrity fan, getting his hands on confetti, all that stuff. and and why we love love love a certain kind of player. Let’s just get into the conversation now with Millies. All right, this is exciting, man. I’m very happy to have Milliey’s here. Uh, first of all, how you doing, man? It’s good to see you again. I keep hitting my microphone. I’m I’m great, man. I’m excellent. H happy to be back in the vicinity of the legend, man. That’s my line for you. Um, we go we go back, man. We go back. For people who don’t know, there’s a there’s been enough turnover, I think, on this podcast where people don’t remember like you were you were making a name for yourself and and I think through Jay King, you were like, “Hey, let me just do a a an open for for the podcast.” And like our first two or three theme songs were by you. So, it’s like I mean that’s I should I think I think what I’m going to do is I’m going to try to find one of the old ones yours and just kind of play that as a uh as just like a hey this is this is what we used this is how big we used to be. We had Milliey’s out here and then Milliey’s got too big and we like okay we didn’t want to bother him anymore for for podcast opens because you’re out there making like like real big money now big music. So but I do appreciate you being there from the beginning man. It’s really It’s really great to to to see you kind of blow up the way you’ve blown up. Yeah. No, I I I appreciate that, man. I appreciate that for sure. Um we definitely got um a a crazy history cuz I don’t even remember when I did the the podcast with you, the intros. Yeah. For you and and Jay King. But I remember being such a fan of the show and then I just remember we did another one. Yeah. Cuz I think that I I I had too many references. And that’s that’s a funny thing with rap now. Like I never try to like when I’m doing a song, I never try to date my songs. So I never try to say certain brands that I know. Even if the brand is the hottest in the moment. Yeah. But it’s kind of like the same way that I had to switch those intros back in the day because there was player change over whatever was happening. Certain things just couldn’t be relevant and we couldn’t stay with that current intro. We had to switch it. It’s kind of like the same thing in rap now when when I’m making a song. Like Dr. Drece has never put a date on an album. Like you’re never supposed to say they used to do that back in the day all the time. all my favorite songs. Never ever ever do that. You don’t want to do that cuz it was kind of ridiculous for someone to say 2016. Like you don’t want to hear that. Like just let the music be timeless. So Well, it’s so funny because you said 1999 and when I think of dates, I hear like 1988. That’s how old. Yeah. I’m listening to like the Big Daddy Canes, EPMDs, like all of I’m from I’m from that era of rap. I miss I miss that. Yes, you definitely miss that. We are We are not close in age. So this I was around Big Daddy Kane though at a um at at Jada the Kisses 50th birthday party. He had Big Daddy Kane do a performance there. That’s I mean that that guy was like watch this right now. Yeah, man. Big Daddy Kane was like a life-changing experience for me because it introduced me to people that I never would have met before in college and it got me down a road of listening to samples and and I got a real education on what m what the music was, where it came from, the whole history, all of that stuff. So all of that like not not to mention like when I was in high school playing playing basketball, like that’s that’s what I was listening to. my my entrance music was, you know, EPMD, Strictly Business, and all of that stuff. So, uh, but but your music, like, look, I’m not shy in saying I’m an old man, but your music is is some of the music that I I listen to. I don’t listen to a whole lot of new stuff anymore, but I’m always I’m always making sure I’m listening to, you know, you you have I don’t know. You have a sound, you have a a style. I don’t know that a lot of these other guys I think I think maybe because I can understand what you’re saying. I think that’s what one of the things still rapping. I’m one of you know rap last rappers still rapping. Yeah. You’re one of the few enunciators that I can uh I can actually understand the words coming out of your mouth. I’ll send you some stuff though. There’s some good rappers out there. You like you know I I’m sure there are a lot of few people like one of the new guys after the age of 30 scientifically people stop looking for um new music by like 90%. Oh, really? Oh, that’s that’s interesting. What happens after 50? Do you regress? Do you forget? I don’t know. Cuz that’s where I am. Yeah, it’s probably down to like 99.9%. But it’d be good to get some new music every now and then. It keeps keeps the youth. It keeps Yes. For sure. For sure. For sure. Obviously, you’re on here because you’re a huge Celtics fan. You’re from Cambridge. Yes. Yes. I I requested this interview for everybody out here. I requested this. I said I want to talk I want to talk about the Celtics, man. Yeah. So, let’s So, one of my favorite things about seeing you now is when you when you sit courtside now, they put you on the jumbotron and they say Millies is here. Um, talk about like maybe that journey. Uh, like I you’ve gone to games. you’ve gone to games like when you started rapping and you’d be there and I mean at the beginning, you know, it’s kind of tough to get recognized and now like when you’re there, you’re getting on the jumbotron, you’re getting like the ovation and all that stuff. Talk about that little journey. And I I did halftime all of that. Um and it man that it’s the craziest journey ever because like my subject’s journey starts with my mom real young. Um, that was like our connection bonding point. Super bonding point because I just got super into basketball when I was young. I’m from Cambridge is a very very very very prominent city. We have Patrick Euan Robinson. Michael Carter Williams is really from my neighborhood like you know his his father and stuff. So he grew up playing ball in Hoyfield and stuff like that. So, I was really into basketball and I just latched on to watching the Celtics like really early. And my mom, she would take me to games. We would walk I grew up probably like maybe 60 walk, 120 second walk to um Central Square. Mhm. So we we would take the train from Central Square to the Green Line to Leech Mirror or whatever it was and we go to the games and uh I remember just sitting so far back I think I don’t know if I’m bugging but I swear they had like a obstructed view some obstructed view seats and we’d sit like just it was when there was $10 tickets. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We have a doing so many balcony games with my mom and then eventually um you know just sort of like moving closer. But I’m like ride or die Celtics fan my whole life. I never flipped on them. I was never on another team’s bandwagon. I was a I was a Kobe fan though, you know, like as a kid too. Um but the Celtics weren’t competitive. Um but I was still a diehard Celtics fan. like Antoine Walker, all of these guys, like this was like what I was really on. And um so now the Celtics just meant everything to me and it signifies even more than just, you know, a sports a sports team to me cuz it’s also one of the bonds with my mom. Like when we want to kind of escape from life, this is our escapism. The the Celtics like all right, forget talking about all that. Let’s talk about the Celtics, you know? So, um, 08 when we won, man, I shed a tear of joy. For real. I had never shed a tear of joy in my life. I didn’t even know what a tear of joy was. I shed a tear of joy. And you know, over the over the years, um, just started going to games and I really commend the Celtics organization on embracing me at the right time because they waited until, you know, I was charting on Billboard and things of that nature like, you know, like they should and and they’ve really helped me with my rap career. um you know from the players to the organization and and and I feel like I’m also you know I’m like a national voice now for them when it comes to the rap community especially like when people think um when people think the Boston Celtics as far as all the rappers man like my phone blows up the most when it’s anything to do with Celtics and this is from guys from you know the West Coast to the Midwest and and all around the East Coast. So yeah, long long story short, no, that that’s short story long. Much more with Millies when we come back. 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And we’ll have it all on the Locked on NBA and Locked on NBA game night. Both podcasts on the same feed. Go check that out. Now, let’s get back into the conversation with Millies. that I mean that that is incredible too. Well, first of all, we need a nonwahberg celebrity fan in the building. So, this is is great to have uh someone else. We love the Wahbergs, though. Well, I mean, sure, but like we need we need more. We need more. For sure. For sure. I I definitely think um I definitely think it’s very important for us to have more um more uh staples at at the games. Yeah. I mean, like, look, we it’s not New York, right? Boston’s not New York. And yeah, we’re never gonna be we’re never gonna be um celebrity row, but right, you know, but when somebody makes it in Boston, like you want Yeah, you want somebody from the 617 like that. And that’s one of the things, man. I some I don’t care about internet comments, but sometimes the Celtics will post me and I’ll see somebody say, “Why don’t you give those seats to the real fans or whatever?” I’m like, “Brother, we can go stack for stat, whatever you want to do. I guarantee And the same way that I root for my TV and you know in front of the TV and that I rooted in the balcony, I root like that. Yeah. Courtside. Yeah. I’m not too cool. I’m not sitting down the whole game. No, I’m jumping up. I’m going crazy. I’m giving you all the energy in my body from a genuine place, you know, to root for this team. So, it means the most to me, man. Yeah. No, it’s great. And it’s great to see you. It’s great to see you there, you know, on the sidelines. and I’ve seen you a couple times in the back. So, it is, like I said before, it’s it’s kind of fun. I love I love people who have their hard work pay off. I mean, that’s part of why I love being around these athletes, especially from a young age, cuz you can see like the the work, right? You can see like Jason Tatum, him from a rookie to him now. You’re like, he’s changed his body. He’s changed his play style. He’s and he’s only 19. He’s still only 19. So, like you watch a guy like come who’s coming in like Ugo Gonzalez and you’re like, “Okay, he’s got all of this raw talent. Now, let’s see how he develops all of that stuff.” Uh, what let’s go back a second here because you talked about the ’08 championship, but what about the championship a couple of seasons ago? What was that like for you? That was amazing. Um, you know, I thought, um, we almost had a chance against the Warriors. I almost felt Yeah. Oh, yeah. Um, but then just just just to finally get one and just it I don’t know. It was amazing, man. I was I caught the confetti. I put the confetti in the I got the confetti in a little ziplockc bag somewhere. It was It was amazing. See, that’s that’s great. That’s the f like you know you got to grab some of that and there was plenty of it. I got I caught the confetti. There was plenty of it but I was catching that stuff in my pockets with it. Um this is one of the things that I was like when OKC won last year like do you guys not have confetti? Like they they were like barely lack it was a little lackluster, wasn’t it? That’s why it was a little lackluster. I feel like you know um I don’t think they’re they like you know the one thing I was telling people with Indiana is I know Indiana is a basketball town for real regardless. I don’t know if OKC is a basketball town or not. It’s It’s weird. Indiana is a basketball town. They got the Hooers. Yeah, Oklahoma’s football country. That’s like football country. That’s what I’m saying. So maybe they they don’t appreciate it the same way. I don’t know. Um so where are you right now as far as like the Celtics just won a championship a season ago. Now, you know, now here they are um in a in a tough place as as like a diehard fan. How how does this We’re talking about second aprons. We’re talking about all this stuff that no one wants to hear about, but it it’s absolutely critical to understand to to kind of get a sense of where this team is, why they’re doing what they’re doing, why they’re in this position. As a fan, how are you looking at this this new collective bar? What it’s doing? Like what are your emotions right now watching what’s been happening to the Celtics? It’s tough. I mean, cuz it’s the second apron, but it also it’s so contingent on, you know, the Tatum injury, too. I feel like um I’m excited actually. I’m excited to see what we could do because I do believe that this franchise I feel like we got dogs in this franchise and that’s from Brad Stevens. D I feel like Brad Stevens is a dog. Like you know um Joe Mazoula dog. I feel like we have we got winners energy and I feel like regardless I don’t think we’re going to tank. I think we’re going to throw the um the best shot we have. I think people are underestimating Jaylen Brown. Um, we still have a good squad. The East is weak. I’m optimistic. What else can I be but optimistic, you know, and then as Tatum rehabs, I think we’re right back in it. And I think we’re damn near the favorites, man, because he’s the greatest player in the NBA. So, I like that. I like that confidence. Um, yeah. You know, I I think I think that the the Tatum thing is is going to be super interesting. I know a lot of people have given me a lot of crap for suggesting that he might be back at some point this season. And look, I don’t I don’t know what this season’s going to be, but Tatum I I do feel like Tatum is going to be when when he comes back, I have the utmost confidence he’s going to be back exactly where he was before. The only thing that he needs is the confidence in his body to to move forward. And that’s what Kevin Durant has said, all those guys. Yeah. From from my understanding, it’s hard like it takes a little while to adjust when you come back. Yeah. From a ACL, there’s there’s a there’s a a mental part that because all you did was take a step. It’s a step you take all the time and then all of a sudden your Achilles goes and it’s like how do you trust your body? It’s like if you were just sitting there rapping normally and then all of a sudden you you go for something and your voice kicks out and you’re like, “Well, how do I trust when you get your voice back? How do I trust that it’s not going to go out again?” And 100%. It’s like when Yeah. Yeah. 100%. It’s if you’ve done the same thing a catillion times and then on the quillionth time it it goes left on you, it it’ll throw a mental roadblock in there. But um he’s a he’s a different type of dude, man. And we got a different like I feel like also like just those injuries are going to progressively get better as they’re learned about more and more and more players have went through them and we’re just in the age where people are getting younger going on. So I don’t know. I’m I just got to be optimistic, John. That’s right. That’s right. That’s right. Um yeah. Yeah. I think I think Tatum’s going to be fine. I think ultimately he’s gonna be fine. Um, it’s wild. You’re right though. It’s wild because as time goes on, this was an injury that would end somebody’s career and now it’s like, ah, you know, he’s going to be out for a little while, but when he comes back, he comes back. Uh, yeah. I was originally looking at it like, well, if he’s if he’s slated to come back in what in March, is that the time? Something like that. You know, it’s it’s 8 to 8 to 12 months. So, eight months would be February and like April, May, April. And then I’m just looking like the East is so weak. And I do want to beat the Knicks, bro. I’m not We’re going to get into those Knicks fans beating the Knicks and all that stuff. How Knicks fans reacted to beating the Celtics and getting into like some NBA culture stuff with Jedakus and his seriously changed the entire culture of the NBA, him and Allen Iverson. We’ll talk about that when we come back. Thank you for making Lockdown Celtics your first listen every day. Reminder, we are going back down to three days a week next week. So, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, but they will still possibly be bonus podcasts if something big happens. So, make sure you’re subscribed to ever get your podcast. Now, let’s get back to finishing this conversation off with Millies. Can you believe I want to get your reaction to how the Knicks fans were celebrating? Like they celebrated beating the Celtics like it was like they had just won a championship and then they go out and lose to to the Pacers. You mean you But when you see Knicks fans celebrating like that, what do you I mean I live I live here. I live in New York. All right. So, and which which I did also for like seven years. I lived in New York for seven years. I see I’ve seen New York. And one thing I can say is the Knicks are a hund times more optimistic than I sound. Like at all times, like when anything goes right, if they go on a twoame win streak, they’re super optimistic. They think they could win the championship. So, I wasn’t um surprised by them being elated to beat us. It happened before. I remember when they beat um the uh KG and Pierce. Yeah. Was whatever series that was. You remember when the Knicks beat us in the playoffs? Oh, that was when was that to whenever it was when it was I remember people saying Celtics. The Celtics, we appreciate y’all and we got love for y’all, but it’s just New York’s time. Yeah. Yeah. And and it wasn’t their time. 2011. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, salute to them for being real fans, though. They’re real fans for sure. They They’re real fans, but they’re they’re delusional sometimes. Well, that’s what a real fan is. Delusional sometimes, I suppose. Um, all right. Well, I’m I’m I’m looking forward to what’s next for the Celtics. It’s going to be an interesting time. Um, I think I do think they’re going to rebuild something uh soon. Um, I love the fact that you you’re so close to Jedakus. I think Jedakus was instrumental in changing the entire culture of the NBA. His whole thing with Allen Iverson is that was I mean you talk about a a flash point in NBA history I think culturally Jakus and and Allen Iverson are such a turning point in NBA culture. It it’s, you know, um because everything was everything was um prim and proper prior to that. And actually they got they got David Stern to impose the the Yeah. the the dress code. The dress code. you know, you’re having an impact when the commissioner has to come in and be like, “Okay, we we have to we have to because now that I think that was actually like one of the the most important things to to happen when you force the commissioner to come in and say, “Hey, we we need a dress code here.” Now all of a sudden it goes from it went from this little cultural shift where Iverson was like unabashedly himself to like let’s just call it what it is. Like mainstream white America was like wait a second there’s a they need a dress code now. Slam. You remember slam? Yeah. Oh of course. Yeah. And it had uh it had Al who’s scared of Allan Iverson and he was there with the tattoo. That’s dudes were really getting inked down now. You see NBA players with face taps and Yeah. Like it’s it’s happening all I mean look I’ I’m I’m all sleeved up now. Like I I’ve got like this whole I wouldn’t be shocking to anybody in today’s day and age. No, not at all. But he’s he’s the guy that came in and kind of brought this in. Um so that’s why I’m like every time I see Jedakus I I automatically go to those, you know, answer commercials and all that stuff. So, uh, I mean, do you guys you guys have like conversations about that stuff? Like I I’m I’m kind of curious about like how like you’re around that kind of like cultural kind of icon. Yeah. Um, no, he’s he’s funny. like before I really before my run really started and we would talk about we’d get in a Knicks and Celtics argument or something like that or he’s not even it’s not even we get in a New York Boston sports argument say and if it wasn’t going his way you just flip it to like I took showers in the Boston Garden you hold on I’m not comparing my career to yours stop like he just starts flipping it on me. I took showers in the Boston Garden. They love me in the like like that. Um but now you know uh he just I ask him about iconic and legendary moments all the time and there’s so many that people don’t know about cuz he he’s been lit since 1997, you know. Yeah. But but Yeah. No, and it’s cool. even uh when we first my first time sitting courtside officially. Well, my first actual time was with the was with the NFL player who was into uh writing raps and he brought me during uh the KG era and he was, you know, supposed to do some songwriting for him. He wanted to leave at halftime. It was like the worst thing ever. He wanted to leave at halftime to go to the studio and that was the worst thing ever to me. But later on I I sat um I sat courtside with Kiss and our first game Rodney Hood jumped into the bleachers and we spilled all this beer and I remember that and it went super duper viral. So like I think that I think that helped my my cause. But n man we got a lot of uh we got a lot of good um just sports memories alone man just from him coming to the games and stuff. So, it’s it’s always cool when he comes to the games, especially and just just being with a real legend, man. A legend whose foundation is based on concrete for real. Uh let’s get into like some of your favorite Do you have favorite like Celtics moments, memories, things like that? Players that you know, a player that you just or a play or anything like that that you’re just like this is locked into my memory forever. I say Isaiah Thomas. Like there’s so many though, right? Because I go Walter McCarti. There’s so many a lot of role players over the years too. That’s one of the things I was talking to Kiss about like being That is so Boston. That is such a Boston thing to say. Being a Celtics fan, you can you can um lock it’s like you really lock in on the role players. Like that’s our like Walter Mccardi was a star cuz we love Walter like you know. And I told that to um to to one of the players on the team who’s who’s playing now, you know, um when he came over and I just said, “Listen, this is the fan base that even if you get eight minutes a game, if you bust your ass, if you if you go hard, they will love you and champion you like no other fan base.” So, I think out of any sports organization in the world, this is where we’ll really take a player, a Scallabbrini or whoever, and we will hoist them up. You can get the most out of being a a bench player or a player with limited minutes, a role player, you know, we love Eric Williams. we love who I don’t know just so many random guys that we just love and and propel as much as we can you know and then there’s people who come to the team would you say that there’s people who come to the team sometimes but they were never a Celtic like like a race of friends or like a um you remember when the Celtics were pushing Yuri Welsh yeah I do remember Yuri Welsh I do remember Yuri Welsh yes of course but like I’m trying to think of more like current day things like some people come and go and some people are just ingrained as Celtics and have it within a year like I mean all right I Drew Holiday like quick Celtic great yeah yeah then there’s then there’s others you know the guy the the role player I think that could have come here and been like a what you’re talking about but was the exact opposite and it just drives me crazy is Tristan Thompson I will forever oh yeah he could have been a good Celtic he could have And my memory forgets what he even did. Yeah. I I just remember forever at the beginning of the season when he came here uh things weren’t going well and he said like in an interview he’s like something like like the regular season is hor and went on about like it’s all about being ready for the playoffs and on and on and on and then the season ends and I believed him too. I like he’s going to be a dog in Yeah. Yeah. And then it all falls apart. Like this is the worst season and and like Brad was talking about like we never built the championship habits and so on and so forth. So I remember doing a postseason interview or or like a a mid-playoff interview with him and I was like, “Hey, remember when you said the regular season was horseshit?” And he was like he he shook his head. He kind of went back. He’s like, “I knew this question was coming.” like he knew that as soon as I started because he knew like I locked into it and I was like did you guys not build habits or what? I even forget what his answer was but that whole season like I still blame him for getting into like Jason Tatum’s ear and like kind of poisoning the youth to be like you’re not taking the you don’t have to take the regular season as seriously and like I think that kind of set the Celtics back. I don’t think the players would ever admit that. But I truly believe that he and like Kyrie like but I think Tristan especially who came in here and was supposed to be like this Hayward was never a Celtic. He and he was a guy that was he was another guy but that’s I think that’s because he just broke his foot and barring injury aside and all of that. It was just like certain people just put on the jersey and they are the jersey. Yeah. No, you’re right. You’re right. people. It’s just you would just you just play it here and you got to check, you know. That’s right. That’s right. And that’s how it’s always going to be. But I think there’s it’s that’s why I loved your answer because it’s so Boston. It’s so Boston to go to like the role players or the extreme underdog like Isaiah Thomas, right? No, it’s it’s the And that see they got to do a whole documentary on that because I mean, yeah, that that was amazing to me. That gave me hope like Yeah. Just as feeling like an underdog right around the time he started turning up. Oh, I was I was watching him and I was listening to Nipy Hustle. That’s what I was doing for real. And if you just know, you know, um if you know, you know, man, and and that just gave me a lot of hope. Nip is like this super independent rapper and Isaiah Thomas is the underdog of all time and he’s dimmed. I think he finished fifth in MVP voting. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. This is mindblowing stuff that people, you know, they rewrite history all the time, but this is mindblowing stuff. Um, but yeah, like no, I think that’s the cornerstone of being a Celtics fan, man. Like we of course our star players and we going to die for the star players, but especially like the role players. This is a place where you can come and just super be embraced, man. So for any rookies, for you know, you know, for the rookies, for I’m I’m rooting hard for Baylor. I think he could be somebody. Look what Look what Pritchard is already doing, but we already loved Pritchard. Like Will loves the player way before they hit the mainstream. It’s so funny. And then so there is that is that parallel to you. It’s and and that’s like you you are Boston. Like that’s the same idea. It’s the same thing. It’s why we we love the types of players that we love. It’s you know I’m just a guy that’s working hard. That’s that’s our identity. That’s our persona. You you you want something. No one’s no one’s like pretending out. You can’t pretend in Boston. You can’t fake your way through it in Boston. And that’s why we get the reputation of bluecollar town. It’s you got to go and do the work. I mean, think about think about what we are in Boston. Think about like in November they switch the clocks. It gets dark at 4:00. Traffic sucks. It’s freezing cold. You got to go work. Your your your traffic is like everything. You got to go. It’s honestly soul crushing. Everybody’s on edge. Everybody’s pissed off. You’re always encountering somebody who’s like you said like on edge. Exactly. And the only way to get through it is to be tough and work your ass off. And that’s why we appreciate those types of players. That’s why we appreciate those types of people. That’s why I appreciate you. You did the same thing. You went in there, you you’ve dropped what do you say 13 albums already. You probably have 13 more by the time Yeah. My my my career was definitely a uphill battle on roller skates and um like if you just even take the odds statistically about somebody cuz I’m from Cambridge, you know, specifically um but if you take the odds of it’s the 617 and if you take the odds just statistically of making it in rap from the 617, it’s very hard. But I took that Celtics underdog, just that that underdog mentality and I just really put that on my back and it helped me get to where I got and yeah, there’s definitely a correlation to the sports teams and what we praise out here for real in the 617 in general. So, and Mass in general for sure. And I I do want to say before this wraps up, man, I’m proud of you, too, cuz I remember, if my memory serves me correct, when we first connected, you weren’t officially with the team, right? I was I was I was doing my like my blog. I was blogging on reds army.com and then at some point it got to me hearing your voice inter asking the questions. Yeah. Yeah. And I’m like, that’s John asking so and so. Like, and I still have that effect when you’re asking Tatum or Jaylen Brown. And those are my guys, too. Like, but when you’re asking them, I’m like, “Oh, man. That’s a accomplishment, bro. Like, you’re really you’re you’re in the squad. You’re in this like for real. So, you’re a part of it, man. That’s that’s that’s fire, bro. I know this. And I saw you go from not doing the postgame interviews, being separate from it to just being no, I’m asking the important questions. You know what I mean? I I do appreciate that. That’s uh Yeah, man. You know, I feel I feel very lucky to have been able to kind of crack crack that. Um we’ll see. We’ll see how long it lasts, but like just like you, I’m just trying to stay in the game. I’m trying to like see what’s next. Um and like Yeah. But it’s it’s kind of fun. It’s kind of fun. Like sometimes I sit there in the locker room and I’m like, “What am I doing here?” You get that like you get that feeling of like you walk into a room and you see all of these like rap legends and you’re like, “Wait a second.” Like you know you belong, but like there’s a part of you that’s like, “Oh my god, what?” Yeah. How did Did somebody forget to not let me in? Because what am I doing here? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh that’s what we work for though, man. That’s right. That’s right. Well, man, I do appreciate I love talking to you. Um and and I again, I return that compliment. I’m proud of your success and I know there’s a lot more coming on. So, uh thank you so much everybody. Go get Blanco7. Check it out on Spotify everywhere. Thanks, man. Thank you, brother. Millies is a superstar. Even if you’re not a rap fan, uh he’s a superstar. He’s he is really becoming the face of Boston rap music. Uh he’s at Celtics games. He’s a big big-time Celtics fan. So, um I’m happy to know him. I’m happy to uh kind of share some of this journey with him. It’s really cool that he’s, you know, was doing some of our intros and it was really cool for him to reach out to me and say he wanted to hop on the podcast. you know, I’m always a little bit like worried about taking up too much of his time, but I got to remember he’s just a hardcore celebrity Celtics fan now. And so, it’s great to have him on. It’s going to be great to see him still courtside at some of these games. Uh, tomorrow’s show is a flashcard Friday. Tom Westerholm is back. We talk about all kinds of topics. You submit random topics and we have a pile of flashcards that we go through. We do them cold. Uh, so we don’t know what’s coming. you don’t know what’s coming and it’s just a lot of fun. So, subscribe to the show, watch that show tomorrow with me and Tom, get into the comments section of the YouTube page and then share the podcast. Tell everybody they should be listening to and watching the Lockdown Celtics podcast here on the Lockdown Podcast Network. It’s your team every day.

Rap meets hoops as Boston Celtics superfan @Millyz joins the show. From childhood memories to courtside celebrity status, Millyz’s journey embodies the passion of Celtics Nation.

The conversation spans championship moments, NBA culture, and Boston’s unique appreciation for hardworking role players. Millyz shares personal anecdotes about Jadakiss and reflects on the impact of icons like Allen Iverson. The duo explores how the Celtics’ “dog mentality” shapes the franchise’s identity and future prospects.

Discover why Millyz believes Brad Stevens and Joe Mazzulla are key to the team’s winning energy. Hear how Boston fans champion unsung heroes and what it takes for rookies to win their hearts.

Tune in for an insider’s perspective on Celtics fandom and a celebration of Boston’s basketball culture.

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11:26 Getting hands on championship confetti
17:46 Optimism about Celtics’ future despite challenges
25:10 Jadakiss and Allen Iverson’s cultural impact
30:25 Tristan Thompson’s disappointing Celtics tenure
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