Listen to the show enough and from time to time you get the off-the-cuff Z-Ro. He opens up as he’s done numerous times on his records.
On one recent show a chat about high school performance gets directed towards Z-Ro, and he leans into his microphone. In the softest growl he tells a quick story about how getting shot in his back with a .357 magnum ended his lifelong dreams of joining the NBA, and eventually led to him dropping out of school. “You cannot pass a physical with a bullet lodged into your back when you’re 16,” he says.
Adams takes the moment and spins it back into the theme of the day’s show, which is individualism. It’s the making of something out of yourself, bootstrapping and hard work.
At many points the show can verge off topic, not always serious, and usually in a hilarious back and forth between Adams and Z-Ro. The rapper deadpans his responses to whatever Adams can throw at him.
With his deep background in law, Adams also gets to expound gloriously on legal-related matters of the day. When the topic switches to the Philando Castile case, something Z-Ro wanted to discuss, Adams first asks the Mo City Don what he thinks about the jury acquitting Jeronimo Yanez.
“I think it’s the norm. You were an officer,” Z-Ro says to Adams. “You put your life on the line every day. If anything ever comes up between an officer versus a civilian, that officer is going to be held in such a high regard just because of the job that he is doing. I think that plays a major role,” he says.
In a lot of ways it seems like Z-Ro enjoys the feedback he gets on his social media from people whose minds are boggled by the idea that Z-Ro can articulate his thoughts. “I don’t want to say that people take me as a dumb n-word, but I mean, a lot of people probably do,” he says.
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