1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,640 Speaker 1: Back sage and Mercedes Ben's Heavy Lounge, Hot ninety drink 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: about with Nelly? 3 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: How are you? I'm doing well. 4 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: I got a question, Timid West guys, Minnesota, Missouri. We 5 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 1: gotta be honest about our hometowns. Saint Louis Pizza, your thoughts. 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: I love, I love our pizza, man, but I understand. 7 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: You know my wife gives me about that pizza too. 8 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: But oh can I say that well edited out? It's 9 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: about You're Nelly, all right. My brother just moved there. 10 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: I had to email us for the first time, and 11 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: nobody told me, y'all have your own pizza after the 12 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: first bite, and I was like, this is different. 13 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 3: Yeah it is, but well, I'm not a I don't 14 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 3: eat red meat, but when I did, terrorized the meat industry. 15 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 2: Pause. But I used to get a lot. 16 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 3: They got a pizza called meat Lovers, and it's crazy. 17 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 18 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 3: It's like all of it, but uh my wife she 19 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:49,840 Speaker 3: sees it is like cheese and crackers. 20 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 2: It kind of it. 21 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: Is though, unless I'm not trying to hate, you might 22 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: be like the first real entrepreneur in hip hop. 23 00:00:57,960 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 2: And let's go down the line. 24 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: Apple bottom jeans Yo, Hymn Juice Yo obviously had the 25 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: first double album with Sweatsuit, and now you got the 26 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:08,919 Speaker 1: Moonshine as well, right, I mean moonshine. 27 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, but that listen, I don't get a chance to 28 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 3: do any of this without the people that laid all 29 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 3: of that foundation before me. 30 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 31 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 3: And everything that you've named is are businesses that other 32 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 3: people in hip hop, in this business has had before me. 33 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 2: Sure, and I just what'xcept the moonshine. 34 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,199 Speaker 3: I don't know any rapper with no moon shine nothing 35 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:32,919 Speaker 3: like that, but yeah, that was probably be the first. 36 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 2: But you talk when you're talking clothing lines. 37 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 3: Obviously you got food bool and you know, you had 38 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 3: Sean John and you had fat Forms and things like that. 39 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 3: But yeah, Apple Bottoms is back now, so I get 40 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 3: a chance to rebirth that. 41 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 2: Hell yeah, and white moonshine. You drink that growing up 42 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 2: at all? Yes? And no, okay, I don't won't say 43 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 2: too much. Okay. 44 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: In Minnesota, like we had a guy we call him 45 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: Big Deck. He was a big guy be called and 46 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: that was always awkward to be like we're getting yeah, 47 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: I'm lett it, have it, Yeah, let it you ever 48 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: knew if you were a drink and see sound. I mean, 49 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: that's the problem, Moonshine. At least you got the legit stuff. 50 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 1: We're never going to go. 51 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. 52 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: I don't know to compress it, but you might be 53 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: had the most eclectic to a collection of music. I 54 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: mean a song for everything, just a dream, great breakup song, dilemma, 55 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: love song, hot in her first song, I ever touched your 56 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: girls butt too in her thank you for that permission? 57 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean Nelly, we got a good Catholic 58 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: boy from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Absolutely, do you want to 59 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: say It's hot ninety nine toy five and here on 60 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: stage night, there we go drop that. 61 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 2: I got you. But you got a bunch of country 62 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 2: songs too. Though. 63 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: You got the two Foura Georgia Lion songs, you covered 64 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: the Thomas rhet song, you have the Tim McGrath song. 65 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 1: Could we see a Nelly country album? 66 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 2: One day? And now we had a country grammar? You 67 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 2: can see country country well. 68 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 3: Two years ago I dropped my first country I called 69 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 3: it a country inspired album, Heartland, which I want to 70 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 3: send a shout out to everybody that that did support 71 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 3: that working on Heartland too, as well, yeah, brought back 72 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 3: fgl and a bunch of other people. Man shout out 73 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 3: to my man Blanco Brown breathing and yeah man the 74 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 3: host of people. So I did one, but hopefully we 75 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 3: get a chance to put this second one out real soon. 76 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy. Country grammar is twenty five years old. Like, 77 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: that's crazy. What's the core thing? 78 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 2: As n artists? 79 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: When you have a song that the first comes out, 80 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: you know, twenty five years ago, people react to it, 81 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: or now playing it twenty five years later, and people 82 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: still getting crazy when they hear the first beat. 83 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 3: Of one of your records, Well, twenty five years later, 84 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 3: you just thankful they still listening. Yeah, you know what 85 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 3: I mean. In the beginning, it was all surprising. You 86 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 3: don't really understand the severity of it. Sure, but your 87 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 3: fingers are crossed and you just keep working and you 88 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 3: keep thanking people as you go. So yeah, to be 89 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 3: here celebrating that part is amazing. 90 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: Back in the day, MTV used to have the rock 91 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: and Jock games, whereas versus athletes, you used to tear 92 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: that ish up. 93 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 2: My dude, can you still do my mind? 94 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 3: Can I say I don't know if my legs move 95 00:03:58,680 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 3: like that anymore. 96 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: But yeah, man, I missed those games. Man, I don't. 97 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 2: I don't think I'm no, I'm probably trash. 98 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: Now you always like the O these fools ever play 99 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: sports all growing up? Like now he's out here is 100 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: running circles around these Yeah, man, I grew up playing sports. 101 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: My mother taught me how to play sports. 102 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 2: Ironically. 103 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, she was the baseball player in our family and 104 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 3: took me to my first baseball game, and she had 105 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 3: she had a house full of trophies before I did. 106 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 1: So hell yeah, well, speaking of trophies, got Grammys, millions 107 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 1: of album sold? 108 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 2: You played two super Bowls? Yeah, what's that like? That 109 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 2: was cool? 110 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: And the last one little Nipplegate, Yeah. 111 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,039 Speaker 3: I got everybody forgets we were on that one. Yeah 112 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 3: yeah yeah, but uh now it was cool man. 113 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 2: You know, the crowd is great. 114 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 3: It's the biggest stage that you can possibly be on, 115 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 3: and it's honored to do it. 116 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 1: Did they have a lot of rehearsals for that? Because 117 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: now we talked months and months and months we. 118 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 2: Did, but no we didn't. We didn't pretty much do months. 119 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 3: I mean, and my first one was probably like all 120 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 3: of forty two seconds. Sure, I probably think and then 121 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 3: the second one, I probably got about a minute and 122 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 3: a half, so that was cool. 123 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 2: But we probably rehearsed like two weeks like that. Not 124 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 2: too bad. 125 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: Growing up TRL one of six and Park always looked 126 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: like such a party. Was it like that when you 127 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: were there or is it like commercial? 128 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 2: Nobody talking? So I think we need that type of 129 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 2: energy back. 130 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 3: Absolutely, that type of energy was genuine and it was 131 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 3: It was a blessing to be in it because you know, 132 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 3: people stood out in. 133 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 2: Line to get your records. 134 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 3: Sure, you know now people don't even leave the bed, 135 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 3: you know, yeah, they buy your things, and you know, 136 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 3: we got a chance to put posters on the walls 137 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 3: and things like that, so you kind of truly bought 138 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 3: into artists. So now if you can be an artist nowadays, 139 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 3: that's why I give artists that come along now a 140 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 3: lot of credit when they can make that impact what 141 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 3: people are buying into who they are, because that's that's 142 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 3: what it really takes right now. And that's a tough 143 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 3: thing to do because you get a lot of singles. 144 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 3: People are selling singles and people are selling moments. 145 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 2: But to be able to sell a career right now, 146 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 2: it's tough. 147 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: You mentioned your wife running the household for the single 148 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: fellas out there, one piece of advice they can have 149 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: to like sweep the grow up the dreams out their feet. 150 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 2: Besides Melli and. 151 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, you know, I just try to 152 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 3: tell just take your time and make sure you're ready, 153 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 3: you know, don't let anybody, don't let anybody rush you. 154 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 2: That's that's the key. 155 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 3: Everybody has their own opinion about what they think a 156 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 3: relationship should be, how they think it should go, when 157 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 3: they think it should start. But that's truly between you 158 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 3: and the person that you know you want to be with, 159 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 3: and sometimes it takes others longer to find it than 160 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 3: they do. Because I would rather die married than to 161 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 3: have been married and got divorced. 162 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 2: Just know that that's he I love that. You see 163 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 2: in more movies anytime soon. 164 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: The Longest Yard Burt Reynolds, but I mean looking with 165 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 1: legend of work man god man. 166 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 2: Bert was the man. Yeah, my grandmama loved Bert. 167 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 3: I gotta love hate relationship with mentioning Burt around like that. Yeah. 168 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:48,720 Speaker 2: No, he's a great guy. 169 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 3: But you know, I've never seen too many men with 170 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 3: my granny raised up and her eyes raised up, you know, 171 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 3: and for a black woman growing up in Side Louis 172 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 3: Eyes to raise a white man was eyes shocking. 173 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: Forget Chris rock Reynolds. Did she ever get to set 174 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 1: to see? I know she never, she never got a chance. 175 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 2: Never. I wish I wish that was a little bit 176 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 2: but early. 177 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 3: If the phones would have been the way that they 178 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 3: are now, I could have could have got a good FaceTime. 179 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 2: She would have loved that. 180 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: I I'd have been the man i'd been. That must 181 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: have been one of the coolest sets to be on too. 182 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: Is Sandler and Stunk Cold and very very funny, very 183 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: very funny, all of them. You know, you got too 184 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: many comedians on set. 185 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 3: They're all trying to ware up each other until Bert 186 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 3: talks and everybody shuts the hell up. Yeah, yeah, listen 187 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 3: to these stories and he's got a bunch of them. 188 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 2: At this point your career, man, is there anything you 189 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 2: haven't done? Haven't had a chance? You go to space? Maybe? 190 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 3: No, No, I'm staying I'm good right here. I'm good 191 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 3: right here. I ain't with all the space trips. They 192 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 3: just started getting me to fly maybe a couple of 193 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 3: years ago. 194 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 2: You're doing the buses. 195 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 3: That's the very first thing I bought soon as I 196 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 3: got somebody. 197 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 2: It was my own tour bus. Yeah, so no poop 198 00:07:57,920 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 2: on the bus, start right that. It's always the rule 199 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 2: with you just. 200 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 3: Got to pay the money to get the right toilet. 201 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 3: When I'm Japanese boys pushed it down, all right. You 202 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 3: gotta get the right one. 203 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 2: Baby. That that that that nine two thousand, Hell yeah, 204 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 2: that's that power. 205 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: But the DSL flush, we know it's not it's gonna 206 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: flush every Nay. 207 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 2: I never thought I'd be talk with Nelly jingle Ball 208 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 2: about toilets, but here we are. There you go, you 209 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 2: never know. You know what I'm saying. It's Christmas. 210 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: It's a players to have your Nelly hot ninety Fi 211 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: jingle ball lazy. You remember if the head right, I'm. 212 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 2: There, well I used to be there going home now amen? Amen, 213 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 2: Nelly Man appreciates you Hot ninety 214 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: Fi jingle Ball John in your morning show on iHeartRadio.