Van Lathan is back on the pod today. He's in new york promoting his new book and decided to pull up on Akademiks to talk about Chicago, Current State of Podcasting and also tries confronting Akademiks on several topics including his comments on DJ Vlad. Van Lathan addresses Joe Budden for him outing his Spotify deal a few years ago and talks about his relationship with him now. Conversation also gets super deep while discussing each others upbringing. Van talks about how his dad approval mattered to him for a long time and gives us a dope story related to hunting. He talks about his time at TMZ and if he did anything wrong and how things turned out overtime.