1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Now they tell me I'm on the Naked Show. I said, damn, man, 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: I gotta come ready for this type of thing. You 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: know is this is this whom I wrote my fill 4 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 1: on with me. Hey, everybody, you guess that Fat Joe 5 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: is on today's episode of Naked. But first, here's this. 6 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: Every champion and carry champion is to be a champion 7 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: out of champion and carry champion and carry chapion of 8 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: Champion and carry champion and carry champion raiers, raiders and 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: sports and entertainment and naked in the world of vulnerable considered, 10 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 1: we come and remove the vail from entertainment elite. It's 11 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,279 Speaker 1: a difference between what it's real and with the public seas. 12 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: So here's your favorite celebrities behind the scenes. It's refreshing. 13 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: Then the whole story specific life, all to rendevents to 14 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,279 Speaker 1: shape the person that you. We got a champion, they 15 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: carry champion. They did. It's the greatest sports and then 16 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,040 Speaker 1: the sameing can make it with Harry Champion. They carry 17 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: champions to be a champion, a champion, they carry champion. Champion, 18 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: they carry champion, they carry champion. I'm excited about today's guests. 19 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: I'm excited about today's guest that Joe his evolution is 20 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: something special. I love evolution and what I mean by that, 21 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 1: I love to see people start as this and evolve 22 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: to that. I love to be people. I love to 23 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 1: see people rather hit the scene as one thing and 24 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: really really take advantage of whatever the platform is and 25 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: make it more. You will hear about his career. You know, 26 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: many of you know obviously him as a rapper, but 27 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: he'll tell you without without thinking, he was a don. 28 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: It was a boss. He was into the illegal activity 29 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:11,239 Speaker 1: that was his life. UM and listen, no judgment here 30 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: because again I'm going to tell you his naked quality 31 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: is evolving. And when he evolved, he did so in 32 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: a major way. Became a rapper, became a guy who 33 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: discovered others big pun, like get out of here. He 34 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 1: walked out of a bodega and discovered big pun. How 35 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: does one do that? May you rest in peace, But 36 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: the reality is and even I'm I listened today, even today, 37 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: as you listen to this podcast, Fat Joe has become 38 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: even more of a personality. UM, an influencer, a businessman 39 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: and entrepreneur, beloved. The adjectives go on and on and on. 40 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: It didn't take long for me to sit back and 41 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: listen to him and think, this is why you have 42 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 1: it right. It's not so much about him being a 43 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: rapper somebody discovering. He says his best talent is that 44 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:09,799 Speaker 1: he can discover talented people. But what I hear when 45 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: I listened to him and even when I see him, 46 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,919 Speaker 1: he has what we call box office jen I s 47 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 1: qua box office genness. A qua is I want to stop, 48 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: I want to pay attention and I want to listen. Now, 49 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: I think when he went viral Today's price, that just 50 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: made sense. How often do we sit there's so much 51 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: content out there, how often do we sit and listen 52 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: to someone recap of versus and be enthralled. He is 53 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: a magnificent storyteller, that is. That's what we were able 54 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: to see. That's what evolved because with that versus, we 55 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: paid attention to what he said. Now, mind you, mind 56 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: you listen. I'm not a hip hop head. I'm not 57 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: a rap head like most of these guys. But the 58 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: Jada Kiss versus dip set, I mean I was locked him. 59 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: The memes were hilarious, the conversation was great. Jadakiss is 60 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,119 Speaker 1: a genius. I've always loved him. Shout out to Jada kiss, 61 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: I love you if you're listening. Um. But when Fat 62 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: Joe did the recap, we saw him there, right, we 63 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: all saw him there. But his recap was stellar. It 64 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: was phenomenal. It made you feel as if you were there. 65 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: He was like Harlem was in the house, and so 66 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: and so was in the house. And then he follows 67 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: it up with the recap of his birthday party. He 68 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: was wearing Tiffany Blue or May's. I'm not doing him well, 69 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,159 Speaker 1: but that's what he says. I was wearing Tiffany Blue 70 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 1: or May's. My sister a Shanty came in the house 71 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: and she was giving him hell. I said, Shanty, give 72 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: him hell. My, My Fat Joe's had a good It's 73 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 1: not a great impression. But what I will say is 74 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: that he had me locked in as he did you, 75 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: as he did everyone, which is why he went viral. 76 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: And I gotta respect it. I really, really truly have 77 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: to tell you, only certain people can do what he does, 78 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: and that means captivate an audience, make them pay attention. 79 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: The price just went up. The price just went up. 80 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: He has the ability to make people stop and pay attention. 81 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: Tell me that's not a part of the vernacular. Tell 82 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: me that yesterday's price. You're not hear that everywhere? I 83 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: mean literally, it is everywhere. Everyone is paying attention, and 84 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: that is because he's an amazing storyteller. But what's even 85 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,359 Speaker 1: more amazing is that he seems like just a really 86 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: good dude. I mean, I know, I'm just from the 87 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: business and high and buy. But when you sit and 88 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 1: listen to him on this podcast, he's with Kali by 89 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 1: the way, shout out to Kali. We could get you on, 90 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: but you were there. Um, he's he's got a story 91 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: and it's special. And that genes aqua, that that French 92 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 1: word that I use, that attractive ness and not in 93 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 1: the sense of what you look like, but I want 94 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 1: to be around you. Moth to the flame type of 95 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: attractiveness where you're just interested, tell me another story. I'm 96 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: learning so much. I'm also entertained. Very few people can 97 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: do that. He has his own podcast. He definitely is 98 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: about to have his own show, or in the process 99 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: of working on yet another show. And as we get 100 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: ready to welcome in Fat Joe, you already know what's 101 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: coming up, right. That's why we held this that's why 102 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 1: we held this for y'all versus Fat Joe versus Job 103 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: Rule who you got live from New York City. Oh 104 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: my god, this is about to be fire, y'all. Y'a 105 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: all ready, Tuesday, September four, y'all ready, I'm ready. I'm nervous. 106 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: I'm ready. I might have to rerun this podcast the 107 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: Monday before, just so y'all remember, sit back, relax, get educated. 108 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: You're about to learn a lot and you're gonna be 109 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: tickled too. He's so damn funny and they got life lessons. 110 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: I mean, it's everything. I get it. I get it. 111 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: I know why he goes viral. I get it. He 112 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: has literally taken his ways and put them into American 113 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: culture for us, for the culture for us period. Today's 114 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: price is not yesterday's price. Tiffany Er Mays give them 115 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: hels us. He's about to give us hell. Everybody, sit back, relaxed. 116 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: This is about to be fun. Fat Joe own naked. 117 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: First of all, um, thank you for being here. Let's 118 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: start the podcast now. Uh, talk to me a little 119 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: bit about where we're at, because if someone sees this visual, 120 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: I want them to understand what you're feeling. Right now. 121 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: You don't have to give specific locations, but what we're doing, No, 122 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: we have the Bahamas. You know, my brother Kalib was 123 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: at the B two Awards. I was, I was just 124 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: date for the night and then we jumped in that 125 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: plane so fast and we flew all the way out 126 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: to the Bahamas. We're gonna be out here for like 127 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: two weeks. And I like it because the sun. I 128 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: love the sun and makes my eyes about even more. So. 129 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: You know, I work on my when I'm out here. 130 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: I'm on my son's tanema for real. You I mean 131 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: no disrespect. I don't want to seem disrespectful, but you 132 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: do look sexy. We got on this shirt, we got 133 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: this chain, we got this pillow. So they said that 134 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: they said the show was called naked. No, I had 135 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: to come in that ms self and look, don't hurt 136 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: of like you ain't carry Let me tell you something, 137 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: and I started with nothing. I'm gonna give them hell 138 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: to the wills fall off till the wills fall off. 139 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: And I appreciate you for that, like you made it 140 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: and now you made it and you're about to know 141 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: about it. I tell me how you grew up. I 142 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: don't I don't know much of that story only outside 143 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: of what I've read. Tell me where you grew up, 144 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: your lifestyle and who makes you you. I grew up 145 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: in the South Bronx birthplace and hip uh um I 146 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 1: Puerto Rican and Kiban. But I grew up in the 147 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: neighborhood that was ninety nine point nine percent black and 148 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: in the projects and uh and when I gotta tell you, 149 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: it was like gladiated school. It was like you even 150 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: saw for you coming out to play. And you know, um, 151 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: one thing about the cart to Gina boys, we got busy. 152 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,439 Speaker 1: Me and my big brother, we was out fight rid 153 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: clock back back, whole projects out there, thousand deep. We 154 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: out there getting busy. And so I came up the 155 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: rough way to Hallway. Made a lot of dumb choices 156 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: growing up. You know, my mom's never got high, my 157 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: father never got high. They never went into a legal activity. 158 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: You know. Me, I wanted to be a hustler. Um, 159 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: I guess I'll take the quote from fifty cent. I 160 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 1: wanted to get Richard Drive died trying. Um. I don't 161 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: recommend it for the onst this, but that was the 162 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: path I took until I discovered hip hop. And in 163 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: the minute I got signed on for a record contract, 164 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: I changed my own entire life and went totally legit, 165 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: like a like a Robin Hood Cinderella story some credit, Like, Yo, 166 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: this is it, I'm out. How could you walk away? Though? 167 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: How could you walk away? You had so many times 168 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: you were deep in the community, and I was a boss, Gary, 169 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: I was a boss, like like like a don for real, 170 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: and I was just like your m out because you know, 171 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: everybody was dying, everybody was going to jail, but I 172 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: mean real jail. My best friend is still in jail 173 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: for life. This twenty six years later. So it's like 174 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: the type of crowd I was with, they're still in there. 175 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: So I knew, like, yo, this is my one shot. 176 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: Let me go over here. And you know people are 177 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: gonna make it, whether I tell you, whether they're big 178 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: first uh, doctors, the school teacher, whatever, you know, if 179 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: you're gonna make, you know that poor life and for you, 180 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: you just gotta figure out what's the system to get 181 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: you to where you want to go. And so for 182 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: hip hop, for me, this was it. So I went 183 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,719 Speaker 1: totally legit. And when we we discovered Big Pun, that's 184 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: when I learned because pun first Laptino to sell two million. 185 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: That's when that money was coming in on another level. 186 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: So when I felt that, I was like, yo, I 187 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: like this and we never stopped since. No, you like 188 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: the money. I love the money. Listen. I love God first, 189 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: I love families second. But after that, I'm all about 190 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: the Benjamin all about it. Look, you look as a 191 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 1: don and you gotta explain that. Give that to me 192 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: because I'm I'm school kid, Carrie. You know what I mean, Like, 193 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: talk to me about what the dawn is. Yeah. No, 194 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: like even if you are, you know, we watch all 195 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: these damn movies, it's still so hard to leave. So 196 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: you just like I'm out. I'm walking away, y'all leave 197 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 1: me and my family alone. Everybody gonna jail, everybody dying. 198 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: You know, my brothers in them sitting in the game 199 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: and they all got locked up, like fifty of them 200 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: in the like conspiracy, and I came up in their 201 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: conspiracy like eight times where oh they had me down 202 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: as held girdo that means the fact guy. And you 203 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: know we had guys calling me, you know, they tapped 204 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: your falls and it was asking me something. I was like, yeah, 205 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: I don't know nothing. I don't want to know nothing 206 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: about that. Leave me alone. I don't know what you're 207 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: talking about. And that's how God bless me and I 208 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: changed my life. But I had to move in the 209 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 1: positive direction. I wouldn't be here talking to you twenty 210 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: five years later. That's a beautiful story, because that's a hell. 211 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: That's hell of a discipline, right because if that's all 212 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 1: you know, and you know you want more, and people 213 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: are calling you and trying to put you in situation, 214 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: sometimes the streets just keep taking you in. It's hard 215 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 1: to cut cold turkey anything drinking. Can we need drugs? 216 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: All of it? Well, you know I'm always paranoid. So 217 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: as I'm talking to you on paranoid, I'm paranoid all 218 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: the time. I never pillow talk naked naked. Don't pillow talk? 219 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: Do you not hello talk? And even though I'm pillow 220 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: talking and so off, shout out my brother d J. Kellen. 221 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: This is this collaboration with don't Jacobana. Oh nice, you 222 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: know that's my brother. You know what, car, we gotta 223 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 1: get you a pack and can give me a package. 224 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: I'm here for it. I love Bingo season. Listen, I'm 225 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: here so and so. I'm always paranoid. And when people 226 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: start going to jail, and they're like, such and such's 227 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: going to jail. And and they was talking on the phone. 228 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: And what happened with these guys? They were talking on 229 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: the phone and they was so I learned to not talk. So, 230 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: you know, my thing was like, you know, somebody said, remember, 231 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: I'll be like, remember what, Like, I don't want to 232 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: remember a thing, you know. I mean, I'm serious. I'll 233 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 1: tell you a story that's crazy. One time my brother came, 234 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: I'm already fat Joe the rapper, you know, it's like 235 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: lean back. My brother comes to Miami to visit me, 236 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: and he keeps asking me like, Yo, you remember this? 237 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: You remember that? Yeah? I'm like, no, Jo, don't know Joe, 238 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: you remember this? You remember? I said, you know what? 239 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: We went downstairs. The beach was in the backyard. I 240 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: got naked at the beach, walked in the water and 241 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: told him getting naked. He got nicked my own brother. 242 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: I went in the water. When him, I was like, 243 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: what the what do you want to remember? What are 244 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: you trying to remember? I'm like, Y'll forget that. That's 245 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: the plast Let's move on. Like, you gotta be kidding 246 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: me to remember something. What do you think that is? 247 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: Why do they want you to remember we? I mean, 248 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: I know you were paranoise, but what did your brother? 249 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: Why did your brother want you? What was not my brother? 250 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: He was just bugging out and you want to remember 251 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: stuff not my brother. The point I'm making is if 252 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: I don't trust my brother, I'm not trusting nobody. So 253 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: you ain't gonna come talk to me about remember the 254 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: time we sold this or we did this? No, bro, 255 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. I make music, 256 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: I rap. I love that, and I also love your music. 257 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: I need you to tell me. I need you to 258 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: tell me the transition when you got turned onto music 259 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: and you knew this was a thing, and y'all found 260 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 1: punt and you knew money could be made. How did 261 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: it become your your mission? How did you know you 262 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: had that talent to go to make it to that 263 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: next level in music? Or you know when I discovered 264 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: it punt right, I'm I'm I'm in itself. No, Lie, Gary, 265 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: forget that Joe the rapper. I'm a hip hop the 266 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: story I was there from the roots since it started 267 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: as a little kid great dancing right and graffiti. I'm 268 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: at the parties. I grew up around Grandmaster Flash and 269 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: my brother was was a great boy for grand Master Flash, 270 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: the grand Master Flat back in the days they used 271 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: to DJ with Final. My brother used to carry the 272 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: Final to the chance. So I'm all in this right 273 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: and um. And so I've been studying the apop so long. 274 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 1: When I met Punt, I knew he was the greatest 275 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: at the time, just from him spitting to me. I 276 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: was like, because at the time Nas was the best, well, 277 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: Cougi Rap was the best lyricist, and then Nas took over. 278 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: And then I discovered Punt, and I was like, oh wow, 279 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: this guy's different. And so I knew because I knew 280 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: pump Daddy before he had money. I knew Biggie before 281 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: he blew up, so I saw what he did with that. 282 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: So I said, I'm gonna make big Punt of the 283 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: Spanish Biggie and I'm gonna be the pup Daddy. And 284 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: so I put my own career because I was next 285 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: to Blow, I was already on my second album. I 286 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: put my own career on all so I could bring 287 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: Punt out and you leverage all my relationships, everything to 288 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: make sure he becomes this superstar. But I knew what 289 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 1: he I knew he was incredible from the first time 290 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: he ever wrapped for me. I was like the same 291 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 1: thing with Remy the first rap Remy ever did, I 292 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: was like, she's incredible. Can you what do you call that? 293 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 1: Because I know people always especially then, would be like, hey, 294 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 1: I want you to hear this. I want you to 295 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 1: hear this. What do you call that? When it hits 296 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: your when it hits your ears and there's just something 297 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: that moves your spirit. That's my greatest talent. It's my 298 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: greatest salent. Not making hits. My greatest talent seeing the 299 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:48,159 Speaker 1: talent and people before they blow. So like with Kalin, 300 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: I blew up kaliin. I'm the one who discovered Kalid. 301 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 1: I'm the one who discovered pit Bull. I'm the one 302 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 1: who discovered uh Remy Pon and and it's just cool 303 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,479 Speaker 1: and trade. I just know I'd just be like, yo, 304 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: the people got to hear this person. I have a 305 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: young lady now, she's this R and B singer name 306 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 1: is Angelica Villa. It ain't never been a lot thing, 307 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: no singing like she Dominica Fly I'm like, Yo, she's 308 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: gonna blow. Everybody's journey different. Car. I don't know how 309 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: you got to where you at right now, but everybody's 310 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:23,719 Speaker 1: journey is different. Some people might have You might have 311 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: came out of college like, yo, I want to be 312 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 1: a sportscast. I want to do my thing. You've seen 313 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 1: other people just blow and you was like, damn, how 314 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 1: do you blow like that? Right? But everybody got their 315 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: own journey. Everybody got their own journey. That's a beautiful 316 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: talent to have to be able to see the talent, 317 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: to be able to hear it and see it and 318 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: know this. The people got to hear it. How long? 319 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: When did you know that was it for you? Was 320 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: it Pun? Was pun your first? Or was it? No? No, no, no, 321 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 1: no no no. I've been knew it, but I didn't 322 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: know it was my talent to lately. I've been doing 323 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: podcasts and all that, you know. I thought it was 324 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: just making hits, like you know, I got a bunch 325 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 1: of number ones anthems, you know, And one day I 326 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: was like thinking about it. Somebody actually, yo, what's your 327 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 1: greatest talent for hip hop? And I was just like, yeahn, 328 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: why do you walk out of a bodega, find a 329 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 1: four and fifty pound guy and turned them into a 330 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: sex right. That's graz crazy. No, listen to what you 331 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: just said. I walked out of a bodega so four 332 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pound dude and turned him into a 333 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: star and the ladies loved him. That don't happen, and 334 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: the ladies loved him, and the ladies loved him. Oh 335 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: my god, this is crazy. When you us not, I 336 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 1: wonder and and so when do we go into you 337 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: pursuing you? When you after pund? How soon they're after Pund? 338 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: Did you say it's my turn to go back to 339 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,360 Speaker 1: me and focus on me. We have to run it up, 340 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:03,399 Speaker 1: like you know, that's all about the money. I told 341 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: you so once once so so I'm leveraging all my 342 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 1: juice for fun. As he's blowing up. I'm in every 343 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 1: video with him on purpose, I'm at every show with 344 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: him on purpose. Is bringing up my brand and my 345 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:23,719 Speaker 1: notoriety as an executive slash recording artist. And then when 346 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: I dropped the next album, we start to blow me too. 347 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:33,360 Speaker 1: So we didn't invent this. That's been around since Rick 348 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 1: James and Tina Marie. It's been around since before me 349 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 1: and you were born. You know, stuff like this, but 350 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: we didn't call it branding, right, it just recently. We 351 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: don't know nothing about Brandon. We don't know nothing about Brandon, 352 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 1: not real talk. We know nothing about Brandon. But you 353 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: were doing it and and that is is that's just 354 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,199 Speaker 1: the hustler that you have always been though, right, Like, 355 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: how do I make money? This is how I make money? 356 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:11,880 Speaker 1: It made sense to you. I I always think that everyone, 357 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 1: especially I'll use you as an example. I just think 358 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 1: it's an incredible way to watch you grow and become 359 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 1: the the entrepreneur, the businessman that you are today. The 360 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,199 Speaker 1: different seasons that you are allowing your fans to have, 361 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,640 Speaker 1: and people who are sitting back and watching you turn 362 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 1: into a different man. Now Now I see you now, 363 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,919 Speaker 1: and I'm like, I see a father, I see a 364 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,679 Speaker 1: loving figure. I see somebody who don't take ship. But 365 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: I still see so much more in you, right, Um? 366 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:47,479 Speaker 1: Is that intentional? It's intentional. So my thing is I 367 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 1: want to be known I've been. I want to be 368 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: a household named to the day I died. That's first 369 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 1: of all, right, meaning if I'm seventy years old, I 370 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: want to be at some rock and roll Hall of 371 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,160 Speaker 1: Fame getting a ward somewhere. I'm gonna be in people's 372 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: faces no matter what. Right. Um, I'm messing with the TV. 373 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,399 Speaker 1: I'm messing with the movies. I sold a movie to 374 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 1: Warner Brothers. Um. I wrote a book that will be 375 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: out next year about my life. That's gonna be crazy. Um. 376 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: And so I'm a businessman, like I like, and I'm 377 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: in this business, you know. And and anyway, if something 378 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,199 Speaker 1: else comes out ten years from now, I'm gonna be 379 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: in there. You know. I gotta get mine. But how 380 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 1: do you do that? You know how many times someone 381 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,360 Speaker 1: comes to me, we do these seminars people talk about 382 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: for a pay pay money, and it's and they use 383 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: the words, how do you pivot? How do you reinvent yourself? 384 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: You do it effortlessly? Or that's how it looks. How 385 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 1: does that happen? Someone's listening right now and they're like, 386 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,239 Speaker 1: I want to do that. I want to know how 387 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,919 Speaker 1: fat Jo went from this to that to that. Really 388 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,479 Speaker 1: don't know how to tell you. Gary. It's just something 389 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: in me that's like, you know, it's the hustle in me. 390 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: You know, I won't stop you know. Just now, I 391 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 1: had a uh an incredible phone call with one of 392 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: my good friends, Al Harrington, who used to play. For 393 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,640 Speaker 1: the basis, my brother used to play. Yeah, he used 394 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: to play. He used to play for me at the Rucker. 395 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 1: So that's my family. And I called him up for 396 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,360 Speaker 1: some advice because you know, they got the legal cannabis 397 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: in New York. Yeah, yeah, they just passed the law. 398 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: So I'm like, you're my brother, your brother, I'm you know, 399 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 1: I got the ten ms. Like I'm ready, you know, 400 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,880 Speaker 1: tell me what I got? Could you gotta have the money. 401 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 1: You gotta have the money in order to play that game. 402 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 1: You gotta have him, like the first thing they tell 403 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 1: you anybody you sit with about that game, because like, dude, 404 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 1: you got the ten ms. I'm not, Yeah, I got 405 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: the ten ms. What we gotta do? You know? It's 406 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: it's it, that's it. That's just the way it is. Well, 407 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,439 Speaker 1: I just saw out at his wife Saturday at the 408 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: Culture Creators luncheon and he and I and I said, 409 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 1: I'm really proud of you because you know, we live 410 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 1: in California. Everybody's been on viola for a minute. It is, 411 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 1: it is considered its household it's like McDonald's. You know, 412 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,439 Speaker 1: it's McDonald's of cannabis out here. Everybody wanted has it, 413 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 1: talks about it. But you know what's crazy is, let's 414 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: start see the thing I've been trying to do on 415 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: my podcast and just with everybody, let's start changing the narrative. 416 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 1: Talk to me about black people and brown people and 417 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: the propaganda that's been plagued against us, plagued against us 418 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: for many years. We're actually intelligent, We're actually great entrepreneurs. 419 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: I don't Ammerton. You would look at him as a 420 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 1: stupid basketball player. Shut up and dribble. And this man 421 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 1: is gonna be a billionaire off the cannabis business. So 422 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 1: on with Lebron doing space shams and he Wade got 423 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: his own TV show, and and so it used to 424 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 1: be you could be a great athlete. Once you retire, 425 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: you don't hear the crowd world no more, and you 426 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: faith the black If you saved some money, you're good. 427 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 1: If you didn't, you got a problem. And so now 428 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: it's like it's beautiful to see our athletes, Paul laying 429 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:34,640 Speaker 1: into life after sports. Jordan made it because we don't 430 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 1: give him enough problems started he made people don't count 431 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: Jordan's Drake. You know that they don't. They don't count, 432 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: and that they did the e. There are aliens on Earth. 433 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: They're like aliens with human suits, like those guys Jordan's 434 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 1: jay Z Drake. Those guys are aliens with human suits 435 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 1: like they live them guest pedestrians. Yeah, but I you 436 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: mentioned d Wade. I just had a conversation with him 437 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: and I said, I want to know one. He was like, 438 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 1: I didn't. He was like, people wanted him to I e. 439 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 1: The Miami. He wanted him to buy a team, to 440 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: be a part of a part on our team, but 441 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,360 Speaker 1: they were only it was with stipulations. He was like, no, 442 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,160 Speaker 1: I got the ms, as you say, and I want 443 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: to own a team. I want to be an equal partner. 444 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: That's the only way I'm gonna do this, because that's 445 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: the only way I'm gonna make my money. And I 446 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: thought that was so smart. And he had the people 447 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: behind him to believe in him, and yes he had 448 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 1: the money, but he was like, some people will do 449 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: it just for namesake, right, they'll buy nothing's wrong with 450 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,120 Speaker 1: that either. You gotta start somewhere. But his mindset is 451 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: I too want to be a billionaire. And what's happening 452 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 1: is is as you just pointed out. I believe because 453 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: Jordan is, You're right, an alien. Lebron gave these people 454 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: leverage once they realized that they mattered and that they 455 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: didn't have to do what everybody said they had to do, 456 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 1: and they saw him making business moves. I think it 457 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: inspired that entire generation of players, right from Kevin Durant. 458 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, I just said that movies up. I just 459 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: said that, Kevin, I mean crazy right, and he's and 460 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:17,160 Speaker 1: he's used to be. It used to be. You got 461 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: your basketball money. See you in Scottsdale, Arison Zone. Hey, like, no, 462 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: it's real talk. I would do a show. They would 463 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 1: come out to the show, y'all. Bonzi Wells was suck y'all. 464 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: You know, say it was something to all the guys. Mike, 465 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: maybe it ain't like that no more. They they they 466 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 1: have their eyes on the prize and they're saying, you 467 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 1: know what, when this thing is over, we're gonna have 468 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 1: a new thing. And I commend them for what they're doing. Uh, 469 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's Uh, He's the reason I owned sneaker storees. 470 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: You know, so I opened, and I'm not disrespecting Nike. 471 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,639 Speaker 1: I love Nike. I'm disuspecting no way to shape or form. 472 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 1: I love Nike. Let's get that clip. But I have 473 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 1: been supporting Jordan's brand and Nikes for so many years. 474 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,919 Speaker 1: I thought I could just open the store. So I 475 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: went to spend a half a million dollars white Marvel win. 476 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 1: The hood smell like DIPTI candle chandeliers. You know. I 477 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 1: make the store. And so when I sit down with 478 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 1: the Nike guys, they say they don't work like that. 479 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: Who told you to make a store? I said, Yo, 480 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: I thought I was making. I want to make a 481 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: sneaker store for the Hood, beautiful and my employees. You know, 482 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: I'm into the sneaking coach. And it was like, oh no, 483 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: if you don't have to mition you, you wasted your 484 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 1: money building this stake right here. And so I didn't know. 485 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 1: But like two days later, I went to a Jordan 486 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: brand party where he was given welcome in neymar Junior, 487 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: to the crew and all the Nike people in there, 488 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: to Jordan peoples. There were small Kelly Bowling was performing 489 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: Beautiful out of Nowhere, louder than the music and everything's 490 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: Big Joe, Big Joe. Everybody looked like somebody was screaming, 491 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: and it was Jordan's with a cigar. I'll be at 492 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: your store opening day. Yeah, I'm at your store opening day. 493 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: I swear to God. The same guys who told me 494 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: no rushed over to me and was like, I guess 495 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: you got a store. Oh, we're so happy. The space 496 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 1: looks amazing. And so if it wasn't for m J 497 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: co signing me, I wouldn't have I wouldn't be able 498 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: to give up these job opportunities. I wouldn't be able 499 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: to do what I've been doing for the her. We've 500 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: been giving back schools, computers and tablets, sponsoring teams and 501 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,959 Speaker 1: food to the to the border. You know, it's almost 502 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: become a safe haven my stores in the hood, where 503 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 1: we take care of everybody. Let me tell you something. 504 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: And I don't say this publicly because I'm not proud 505 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: of it, but I'm just in New York, they have 506 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 1: one hundred and seventies seven sneaky stories. One hundred and 507 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: seventy five stores got looted. I'm sorry, God forbid. The 508 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: only two that didn't get looted was Fat Joe stores 509 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: in the hood because we take care grandma, uncle, everybody. 510 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: They know that's the store to feeds everybody. So they 511 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 1: protect us and so we try to show. You know, 512 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 1: I've been on phone calls with a bunch of business owners, 513 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: you know, and I've been like, yo, ya, gotta give back, man, 514 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: This is a trickle down to fact. You guys got 515 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: mansions off these businesses. You gotta look out for the hood. 516 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: And so you know that's the concept. But listen, that's 517 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: so damn beautiful because again that we are changing the narrative. 518 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 1: We're not just we're not just singing and wrapping and 519 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,239 Speaker 1: playing ball. What we're what we're doing is taking care 520 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: of our own. Everybody doesn't do it that way, and 521 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 1: you do it really like people who know no and 522 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: I and I respect that. I respect that they respect you. 523 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: And that doesn't always happen. We always feel like sometimes 524 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: a white man's ice is colder and they don't respect 525 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 1: what we do. So once we start taking care of 526 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: our own, it's a beautiful thing. Yeah they respected. Yeah. Respect. 527 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: You be on the phone to talk to everybody else 528 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: to be like, look what Joe and number doing. Love it. 529 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 1: That's how you don't get looted. You love it. Listen 530 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: to Joe and I'll be like, yo, let's take good, 531 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: take care of the community. It's just that simple. That's it. 532 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: That's why I say to you the it's a beautiful thing. 533 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 1: And I don't know, of course you know, but if 534 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 1: you see it from the outside looking in, and it's 535 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 1: not so much about a career longevity, it's about a 536 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: lifestyle longevity. And you have been doing it and doing 537 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,479 Speaker 1: it well and smart and a good host. And the 538 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 1: talent that you have, while you say you're the greatest talent, 539 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 1: is finding talent. The talent that you have is making 540 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: others better and and that's in every possible way. Maybe 541 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 1: it's the same thing that you consider. I need to know. 542 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 1: I want to know about what you feel you have 543 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: given to the culture. I've given a lot. Cal've given 544 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: my life to the culture. My family has played second 545 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 1: place in this thing. The only way I could be 546 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 1: consistent and continue to put out hit records, stay in 547 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: the loop, be in l a and the next day 548 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 1: at the conference in Atlanta, the next day in New York. 549 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 1: My family has been very very patient with me, and 550 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,600 Speaker 1: I have supported me, but I gave my life to 551 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: the culture, and and not just the culture, just showing 552 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 1: people we could we could come from a negative to positive, 553 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 1: you know. And then yeah, I don't want you to 554 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 1: live in the projects for your whole life. But when 555 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,680 Speaker 1: you make it out, can you can you reach back? 556 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 1: Can you reach back to show a young brother and 557 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 1: sister how to get to it? And so my conversation 558 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: with my employees, and I have no line, maybe fifty 559 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: sixty employees, And just when I get on the zoom 560 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,240 Speaker 1: with my employees, I'd be like, I want you to 561 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 1: be a boss. I want you to own whatever you 562 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 1: want to own. I want you to not think as 563 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: a worker, think as a boss, as an owner, think 564 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: as a future owner of a business and entrepreneur their 565 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,480 Speaker 1: owners man and and and so we gotta think more 566 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 1: of that, because you know, I have a weird concept. 567 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:48,240 Speaker 1: And don't kill me, Cary, But I don't really like college. 568 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:54,480 Speaker 1: I think in cam you know, I think college prepares 569 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 1: you to be a worker. That's right, It's just my opinion, 570 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: I think. And then never teach you what you're really 571 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,400 Speaker 1: gonna go on in life and do. And so now 572 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 1: if you have to be a doctor, you have to 573 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: be a lawyer. You gotta go to college for all that, right, 574 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:18,560 Speaker 1: But uh, I'd rather spend money and send and get 575 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 1: my daughter business she wants instead of how much we're 576 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,800 Speaker 1: spending our college three hundred sixty thousand for the four years. Mama, 577 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:30,120 Speaker 1: we got three hundred thousand. What you want to own? Oh, dad, 578 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,399 Speaker 1: I want to own it a boot a boutique, or Dad, 579 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 1: I want to own it. This your dad? All right, 580 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 1: let's throw the money in there and let's help build 581 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,600 Speaker 1: you as a business owner. You know, it's just the 582 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 1: way I think, you know, and it's the right way 583 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: to think. I literally just talked to to Luke James 584 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 1: and he was like, school got in a way. He 585 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 1: talked about high school. He was like, you got in 586 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 1: a way. I knew then, I knew what I wanted 587 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,879 Speaker 1: to do. But that's that thing they make you do, right, 588 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 1: you gotta go to high school. You have to do 589 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,799 Speaker 1: those things. But he gets in the way of really 590 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,799 Speaker 1: showing you how to live life. And it does teach 591 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,280 Speaker 1: you how to be a worker, which is why so 592 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,399 Speaker 1: many of us have that scared mentality. When I left ESPN, 593 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,239 Speaker 1: it was like, but what what are you gonna do? Now, 594 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna take the platform and then 595 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 1: that I've built over these few years, and I'm gonna 596 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: become my own boss. People know me, people know what 597 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 1: I do. People will I will do my I can 598 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 1: hire myself out. I don't have to break my back 599 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,719 Speaker 1: working for the four letters. Right. The reality is is 600 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,399 Speaker 1: that that's the smartest thing I have ever heard. By 601 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,640 Speaker 1: your buy your daughter a boutique that instead spending that 602 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:36,600 Speaker 1: money on scott by her boutique. Like if that's what 603 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,520 Speaker 1: she wants to do, you know, it's like, you know, 604 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,840 Speaker 1: I don't get it like you you go to school, 605 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:44,759 Speaker 1: you work. A lot of my friends that get bad 606 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 1: at me say I don't. I don't family and friends, 607 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 1: And I say, yo, listen, man, all that thing is 608 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,720 Speaker 1: doing to you is preparing you to work at a job. 609 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,719 Speaker 1: Like you don't get rich working at a job. That's right, 610 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:04,279 Speaker 1: You get rich being an owner. That's a message. I 611 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 1: don't never get mad when I see the man now 612 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: selling the oranges on the side of the highway. Let 613 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: me tell you something. Watch this glary. You see the 614 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 1: man selling the oranges on the side of the highway. 615 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 1: Come check that man out of three or four years, 616 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,799 Speaker 1: he's gonna own a store and it's gonna be a 617 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 1: fruit market in the jewel shirt there, and he's gonna 618 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:32,840 Speaker 1: get rich. And so we have to all eliminate these stereotypes. 619 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,640 Speaker 1: These ego pride can hurt you. You know, as long 620 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,920 Speaker 1: as you provide for your family and you go out there, 621 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,799 Speaker 1: you do it the right way, legal way, righteous. We 622 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,440 Speaker 1: need to support everybody who does that. Hey, everybody, we 623 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,279 Speaker 1: gotta pay the bills. We'll be right back with Fat Joe. 624 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,640 Speaker 1: Every champion and every champion is to be a champiot 625 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,960 Speaker 1: a champion, and carry champion and carry champiot a champion 626 00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 1: and carry champion, and carry champions and entertainmaking. I can't 627 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 1: work Harry Chappion and carry champions, Champion, the champion, they 628 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:14,600 Speaker 1: carry Champion, Champion, they carry Champion, they carry chap The 629 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,279 Speaker 1: price just went up. The podcast just went up to 630 00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,719 Speaker 1: here's the rest of Fat Joe. Can you you post it? 631 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,239 Speaker 1: You've posted before, but there was a couple of posts 632 00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,319 Speaker 1: that you've had when you talk about Joey that that 633 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:31,120 Speaker 1: really just brings tears to my eyes. And talk to 634 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:35,040 Speaker 1: me about your relationship. I mean, man, the love and 635 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,080 Speaker 1: the pride is special and I know you have it 636 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,560 Speaker 1: for all your children. But when you say that he 637 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,399 Speaker 1: touches you in a way, we feel that through through 638 00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,719 Speaker 1: a damn post. We feel it, you know, he said, 639 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:52,719 Speaker 1: don't right. It's so like he's older than my other 640 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,319 Speaker 1: two kids. And when we have dinner, he sits at 641 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 1: the seat like the Mafia down sits on at the end, 642 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 1: and he looks at my daughter. He laughs at her. 643 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,120 Speaker 1: He looks at my son, he laughs at them. But 644 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:12,839 Speaker 1: he's seen them grow up. Uh. He's really really intelligent. Um. 645 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 1: But you know, unfortunately he can't speak and he can't walk, 646 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,719 Speaker 1: so um. The one thing about him that God has 647 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:27,920 Speaker 1: given him is is complete happiness. And so Joey's always happy. 648 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:32,680 Speaker 1: So you're not like you you argue with your girlfriend, Uh, 649 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,160 Speaker 1: things are going on like Joey, he don't know. He's 650 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,759 Speaker 1: only on the happy. He's only on the happy. He's 651 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,000 Speaker 1: always smiling, He's always on happy. He's always having a 652 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:47,040 Speaker 1: great time. He's happy to see everybody. And so what 653 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,640 Speaker 1: I learned by opening up about Joey, because for for 654 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,439 Speaker 1: a long time I was very private about him, because 655 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,560 Speaker 1: you know, this rap game is real day not dangerous, 656 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,080 Speaker 1: but dirty so you get into rap beas next you 657 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,160 Speaker 1: know that your son will be on the cover of 658 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:06,480 Speaker 1: a distract and that I can't take right that that 659 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,319 Speaker 1: that that again right, And so I've always protected him 660 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,879 Speaker 1: and his privacy. But as I started speaking about him, 661 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,040 Speaker 1: more and more parents are started meeting more and more 662 00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,480 Speaker 1: parents that have kids on the spectrum. And I never 663 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,279 Speaker 1: really knew that most kids like that. They're they're like 664 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,640 Speaker 1: introverts and they don't like people in crowds. This guy 665 00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,319 Speaker 1: is different. He wants to go to the party. This 666 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,200 Speaker 1: guy want to go to home deep on and wave 667 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,799 Speaker 1: at everybody. He wants to you know, he's just a 668 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,600 Speaker 1: great spirit. You know, he's a kind spirit. And uh, 669 00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:43,120 Speaker 1: I'm proud of him. I love him, you know. I 670 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,520 Speaker 1: don't know if you know the story when Joey was born, Uh, 671 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:50,320 Speaker 1: me and his mother wasn't together, and when the doctor 672 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,200 Speaker 1: told us that he was gonna be autistic, she said, 673 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:57,600 Speaker 1: I can't raise him, Let's give him up for adoption. 674 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,719 Speaker 1: And then that's my mother all but was with me. 675 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,799 Speaker 1: I was only nineteen, and they was like, oh, hell, 676 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,640 Speaker 1: this is our baby. You're crazy. We're raising him. He's ours. 677 00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,799 Speaker 1: We don't and so oh That's one thing I'm sad about. 678 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,440 Speaker 1: He never had his mother in his life. You know 679 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,600 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, He never had that love because you know, 680 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,759 Speaker 1: you need the blessings from the mother and the father. 681 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,560 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. That's just the truth. It's 682 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,480 Speaker 1: the truth. I hear you. I hear you. But how 683 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,440 Speaker 1: special is he? I feel when you say all he 684 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,440 Speaker 1: knows is happy? That puts things in perspective. You have 685 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,399 Speaker 1: a bad day, things that going right, and you see 686 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,680 Speaker 1: somebody who's just always happy and understanding that life could 687 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:40,239 Speaker 1: be even harder, but he's just happy to be. That's 688 00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:45,560 Speaker 1: a beautiful thing. He keeps my parents alive. My parents 689 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,840 Speaker 1: aren't in the best of health, but they they stayed 690 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,239 Speaker 1: living for him, you know what I mean. They love 691 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,319 Speaker 1: him so much. You know, they don't even trust me, 692 00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,440 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, maybe like yo, you know, 693 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:04,879 Speaker 1: oh my god, he's people crazy, man, you know. Yeah, 694 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,640 Speaker 1: they love Joey so much. Man, I love Joey too. 695 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:11,120 Speaker 1: I'm so blessed to have parents, you know, who helped 696 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:16,880 Speaker 1: me down. You know, I was a kid, baby baby 697 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,359 Speaker 1: that there was something like this, and I was trying 698 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,520 Speaker 1: to turn my life into making music and all this 699 00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,520 Speaker 1: and if they weren't there for me, you know, I 700 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:29,520 Speaker 1: wouldn't be here. So I can't make up Oh, the 701 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:33,319 Speaker 1: strength of that my mother gave me. You know what 702 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,960 Speaker 1: I mean, I can't make you can't make up for it. 703 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,840 Speaker 1: You know, there's there's nothing I can do that I 704 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,879 Speaker 1: feel is good enough for what my parents have done 705 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:48,280 Speaker 1: for me. Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow. That's powerful. 706 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,239 Speaker 1: What do you get from your parents? What do you 707 00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:51,640 Speaker 1: get from your mom? Or what do you give from 708 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:57,880 Speaker 1: your dad? You know, my father, he uh, he never was. 709 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,440 Speaker 1: He wasn't a runner, he wasn't a track start. You know, 710 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,800 Speaker 1: my mother survived cancer, she had a one percent chance. 711 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,799 Speaker 1: She speaks to a trade. She got a hole in 712 00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,920 Speaker 1: the neck. My father never ran away. He held her down. 713 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:16,080 Speaker 1: He kept a one thousand. So I get that from 714 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:21,200 Speaker 1: my father, right. Um. As far as my mother, uh, 715 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,320 Speaker 1: that's where I get my vulnerable side, my nice guys side, 716 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,040 Speaker 1: my giving back side. You know, back in the days, 717 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,000 Speaker 1: my mom's would take a cab and we were pushed, 718 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,600 Speaker 1: we was bullshit. She would have five dollars to the 719 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,640 Speaker 1: named the cab was only two. She gave the man 720 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:40,319 Speaker 1: a three dollar tip, right, and so just to give 721 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:44,479 Speaker 1: you a perspective. You know, my mother refused to move 722 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,600 Speaker 1: out the projects even though I had money. I would 723 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,279 Speaker 1: beg her all the time I move out the projects. Male, 724 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,480 Speaker 1: let me buy you a house. My let me take 725 00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,440 Speaker 1: She like nine, this is my home. I know everybody. 726 00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,120 Speaker 1: So when I would randomly go to my mother's house, 727 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:04,040 Speaker 1: that this is that Joe's mother's house. Uh. In fact, 728 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:09,840 Speaker 1: Joe not to be described too much. It's a serious 729 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:14,759 Speaker 1: guy still, even though he raps. They don't play with him. Right. 730 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,279 Speaker 1: I would walk in my mother's house un announced. Her 731 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:21,200 Speaker 1: door was always open. They be crackheads making sandwiches in 732 00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:24,719 Speaker 1: the kitchen, right, and I'll be like, yo, y'all, don't 733 00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:28,359 Speaker 1: get the man. I'm willa stab one here. So they're 734 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,440 Speaker 1: going in out of the house with the sandwich. And 735 00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,480 Speaker 1: my mom would be like, no, Joe, that's little Handy. 736 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:38,160 Speaker 1: I know, since he was a baby. That's little Greg. 737 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:39,840 Speaker 1: I know, since he was a baby. I'll be like, 738 00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:43,560 Speaker 1: your mom, I'm tired of catch crackheads in your house. 739 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:48,680 Speaker 1: Like no, I'm not. Mama hurts something, you know. And 740 00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,640 Speaker 1: that's just the type of person she's always been. Man, 741 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,920 Speaker 1: She's always been giving back you know, showing love. They 742 00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,600 Speaker 1: love them, they love it. Whenever I mention on my 743 00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,720 Speaker 1: show all the common to be like Miss Ruby one thousand, 744 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,920 Speaker 1: miss that you know they love mama, Man, Miss Ruby 745 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,319 Speaker 1: is right, she's all the way right. Did she ever 746 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:14,200 Speaker 1: move out? Yeah, she moved out. You got her out? Okay? Yeah, 747 00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,040 Speaker 1: yeah you you weren't playing no more. Yeah, you gotta go, mom, 748 00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,320 Speaker 1: it's time, it's time. I love you. I had to 749 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,000 Speaker 1: lie to her telling they were gonna kill me like 750 00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,440 Speaker 1: I had beef in the neighborhood. They were gonna kill 751 00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,839 Speaker 1: me coming to see her. And she went for it. 752 00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,000 Speaker 1: And she's like, all right, that's how it happened. Wow, 753 00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,319 Speaker 1: you had to go that extreme. So she would leave 754 00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,759 Speaker 1: her house, she would not move and and and and 755 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:39,319 Speaker 1: then if you don't know the intricacies, if you don't 756 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:43,120 Speaker 1: know the intimate thing, you almost looked like, Yo, what 757 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:44,880 Speaker 1: the hell is fact? Yo're doing in a half a 758 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:48,360 Speaker 1: million dollar car and his mother's in their checks and 759 00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:52,160 Speaker 1: she's sitting in front of the building with his son. No, 760 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,440 Speaker 1: it's great, bro, I'm gonna pull up in the fandom 761 00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,040 Speaker 1: and I'll be like, yo, mom, like we can't we're 762 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,759 Speaker 1: doing this. Man, like we we can't. And you know 763 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,160 Speaker 1: it was all love dejects to this day, you know, 764 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:11,160 Speaker 1: not in the bragging way. I give thanks that my 765 00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,600 Speaker 1: hood embraces me to where to this day I can 766 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,120 Speaker 1: still walk through my hood like nothing. I just did 767 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,680 Speaker 1: it last week, hung out in front of the building, 768 00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:23,759 Speaker 1: chill with everybody and um. But you know it's because 769 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,560 Speaker 1: they allowed. It's not that I'm tougher than them or 770 00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,759 Speaker 1: nothing like that. But they love Joe Crack. They say, 771 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,440 Speaker 1: welcome home. I'll come back to the hood. It's like, Yo, 772 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:35,640 Speaker 1: welcome home, Crack, welcome home. It's just no side eye, 773 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:39,080 Speaker 1: no heye, no nothing, just love. We proud of Joe. 774 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,440 Speaker 1: How could you not love though? How can we not 775 00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,000 Speaker 1: love you? I don't know name somebody who don't like you, 776 00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:46,799 Speaker 1: and I don't know. I'm sure they out there. That's 777 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:52,839 Speaker 1: why you know what this let me, I'll give you. 778 00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,920 Speaker 1: I'll give you a key that me and call it use. 779 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:02,000 Speaker 1: We imagine we have beef. We imagine somebody wants us 780 00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,919 Speaker 1: to just lose it all. We imagine that somebody don't 781 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,120 Speaker 1: want us to be successful, and so we worked so 782 00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:14,359 Speaker 1: hard every day to prove them wrong, to be more successful. 783 00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,880 Speaker 1: To make more money, to make more history, more legacy. 784 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,600 Speaker 1: And so that's what we do. And you know what's 785 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:24,640 Speaker 1: crazy is I've noticed that the great ones, uh, the 786 00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:28,840 Speaker 1: great ones through that. When I was watching the Jordan documentary, 787 00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,279 Speaker 1: he walked past the play if forgot what was he said, 788 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,000 Speaker 1: Oh you said that to me? He did never say nothing, 789 00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,640 Speaker 1: but m J was punishing that boy, like, oh, you're 790 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,600 Speaker 1: trying to disrespect me. That was like damn, Like why 791 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:45,880 Speaker 1: but you gotta tell yourself that to be greater and 792 00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:50,839 Speaker 1: um and and happiness is key. Whatever makes you happy. 793 00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:56,799 Speaker 1: I truly believe whatever makes you happy is cheap. That's it. 794 00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,719 Speaker 1: You want to be happy. There's people miserable and and 795 00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:04,239 Speaker 1: million dollar homes behind walls. They're not happy. Whatever makes 796 00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,360 Speaker 1: you happy, that's what you get. That's what you should 797 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:11,520 Speaker 1: be doing, Joe. That's beautiful. I I I so imagine 798 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,680 Speaker 1: that there are people. And when you mentioned that, I 799 00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:15,520 Speaker 1: was gonna say, oh, that's Jordan's style. You gotta you 800 00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,839 Speaker 1: gotta imagine that's beef out there so you can stay great, 801 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:22,720 Speaker 1: which I appreciate. Um, but it's hard not to like you. Um. 802 00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,080 Speaker 1: I fell in love all over again. I always thought 803 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,600 Speaker 1: you were a sweetheart. I've never not and I respect 804 00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:29,319 Speaker 1: you so much so for what you do and what 805 00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,080 Speaker 1: people may not know um is that you don't have 806 00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,440 Speaker 1: to do it. But that's just your heart. M hm. 807 00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,759 Speaker 1: That's actually crazy that you say that, because the other 808 00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:43,120 Speaker 1: day I was at Dave Chappelle's for a show with 809 00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:47,640 Speaker 1: Radio City. Now. He's the goat, you know, Richard Bryant 810 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:52,279 Speaker 1: and and and of our time, Dave Chappelle, right, and 811 00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,200 Speaker 1: so whenever he called me for twenty five years, I 812 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,360 Speaker 1: come free, I'll come perform. You know, he's the goat. 813 00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:03,879 Speaker 1: It's certain that's another aliot. He's another alien. And yeah, 814 00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:06,719 Speaker 1: yeah when they call and human suit, you gotta go 815 00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:11,799 Speaker 1: and so and while I was there, oh, he was 816 00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:13,600 Speaker 1: telling me something like that. He was like, Yo, you 817 00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,040 Speaker 1: know you really don't got to do this, like you 818 00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,440 Speaker 1: already showed them you did everything. You ain't got to 819 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:21,920 Speaker 1: do this, like you know, I know why you do it. 820 00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,239 Speaker 1: He's running down I got Instagram. I see you on 821 00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:29,640 Speaker 1: yachts and you He say, yo, man, you ain't got 822 00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:31,600 Speaker 1: to do this. Do you know you ain't got to 823 00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,880 Speaker 1: do this? And I'll just be like, yo, man, I 824 00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:35,680 Speaker 1: just want to give him hell man to or so 825 00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:39,560 Speaker 1: I gotta give it to him. I gotta give it 826 00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,799 Speaker 1: to him that Joe, Ladies and gentlemen, I adore you, man, 827 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,000 Speaker 1: I adore you. I do whatever let me well, not 828 00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,239 Speaker 1: whatever I mean like if you need something. You know 829 00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:52,319 Speaker 1: what I'm saying with the man. I love you to 830 00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:54,920 Speaker 1: you know you, my girl. I appreciate you. You always 831 00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:56,920 Speaker 1: hold me down. And I and and the community need 832 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,080 Speaker 1: you loved you and you inspired me. This truly inspires me. 833 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:01,880 Speaker 1: That's all. That's what you put on talking about your 834 00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:04,080 Speaker 1: greatest talents. I got twenty great talents. I don't know 835 00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,160 Speaker 1: which one I'm gonna call out more. You've got twenty 836 00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:09,120 Speaker 1: great talents. You have a lot of talent um, and 837 00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:11,719 Speaker 1: you make people want so much for having me on here. 838 00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:20,120 Speaker 1: You gotta love him when I tell you, his naked quality, 839 00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:24,120 Speaker 1: which is a rare quality, is evolution. Now. Why I 840 00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:26,680 Speaker 1: say it's rare is that we see people evolve in life. 841 00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:30,000 Speaker 1: We see our friends change, we see them do different 842 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,680 Speaker 1: than they did before. But it's rare. What it is 843 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:38,480 Speaker 1: so meteoric, meaning he could have just been a street hustler, right, 844 00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:42,279 Speaker 1: he could have just been that don that boss. But 845 00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:45,239 Speaker 1: he wanted more, and he found out how he could 846 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,480 Speaker 1: use a talent to make it more and then find 847 00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:51,080 Speaker 1: his talent to find other talent and then take those talents, 848 00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,680 Speaker 1: take that sensibility and make him a part of the conversation, 849 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,480 Speaker 1: our culture, our life, and then become this business entrepreneur. 850 00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:00,600 Speaker 1: Not only is an entrepreneur, he's a ever. He gives 851 00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:04,640 Speaker 1: back people really full with him heavy. You can't say 852 00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:08,160 Speaker 1: that about everybody in the business. And I'm saying in 853 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:11,160 Speaker 1: my business, which is you know, sports slash entertainment, and 854 00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,040 Speaker 1: his business is the world in which he lives in. 855 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,200 Speaker 1: He runs in a crew that I know nothing about. 856 00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:18,920 Speaker 1: But like he explained about his birthday party, y'all remember 857 00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:22,560 Speaker 1: that recap. He was like, I had the businessman, I 858 00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,520 Speaker 1: had the street guys, I had the ladies, I had 859 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,600 Speaker 1: the actors. I had to this. I had to And 860 00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:31,480 Speaker 1: they were all living and enjoying themselves because it was 861 00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:35,040 Speaker 1: Fat Joe's birthday and they wanted to be there for him. 862 00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:38,600 Speaker 1: Because he's the guy. Because he has that moth to 863 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,920 Speaker 1: the flame attractiveness. I made that up right. He has 864 00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,319 Speaker 1: that ability to bring all groups together because he's a 865 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:48,200 Speaker 1: great storyteller, a great human and we're learning so much 866 00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:52,000 Speaker 1: about him. And by the way, everybody hasn't always been great. 867 00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:56,400 Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. One thing that I believe in 868 00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:01,640 Speaker 1: is that you should allow people to grow and be different, 869 00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,080 Speaker 1: and we can't leave them where we met them because 870 00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,560 Speaker 1: they are not the same. I get so mad personally 871 00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,759 Speaker 1: when people will be like, I mean, I know the 872 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:15,040 Speaker 1: rap on me, she's tough, she had an attitude, blah 873 00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,799 Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah, right, whatever it is, um 874 00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,160 Speaker 1: and and it's not that none of that is is 875 00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:23,200 Speaker 1: really what the rap is. I've evolved. I'm a businesswoman. 876 00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:28,399 Speaker 1: I'm an entrepreneur. I came to quote unquote fame as 877 00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,640 Speaker 1: a sports journalist. You all knew me from ESPN. I 878 00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:35,719 Speaker 1: left and bet on me. I have transitioned successfully into 879 00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,960 Speaker 1: becoming someone who doesn't just cover sports because it is 880 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,840 Speaker 1: so niche. I can do entertainment, I can do culture, 881 00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:45,560 Speaker 1: I can do politics. I have my own show with 882 00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:47,439 Speaker 1: one of my really good friends. I have my own 883 00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:52,880 Speaker 1: podcast featuring me. I have separated myself from those four letters. 884 00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:57,279 Speaker 1: I have evolved. What hasn't changed is my work ethic he. 885 00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,600 Speaker 1: What hasn't changed is how hard I go to be 886 00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:04,200 Speaker 1: great and how hard I go to deliver excellence. So 887 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,359 Speaker 1: those around me, I want you to be excellent. When 888 00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,560 Speaker 1: I hear oh, she's so tough, tough you know, she 889 00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:14,120 Speaker 1: don't play. No, that's just called excellence. If I was 890 00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:16,760 Speaker 1: a white man, you wouldn't trip. You'd be like, oh, okay, 891 00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:21,520 Speaker 1: that's the standard. It's something about being a brown woman 892 00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:26,040 Speaker 1: where you are often faulted for wanting excellence, and to 893 00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:29,120 Speaker 1: define us, you put us in a category that makes 894 00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,680 Speaker 1: you feel comfortable. She got attitude. She thinks you all 895 00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:36,560 Speaker 1: that those are simple things. Right, I've evolved. I'm a businesswoman. 896 00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:44,920 Speaker 1: I'm chasing wealth, generational wealth, but not just money. Spiritually, mentally, physically, 897 00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,240 Speaker 1: I am trying to do what has not been done before. 898 00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:51,239 Speaker 1: And it's hard and it's a daily practice. Trust me, 899 00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:55,440 Speaker 1: that jose evolvement didn't happen overnight. It was consistent, it 900 00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,040 Speaker 1: was daily, and I'm sure it came with its trials 901 00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:01,080 Speaker 1: and tribulations, currently still with its trials and tribulations. Because 902 00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:04,200 Speaker 1: he lives in so many different worlds, but he remains 903 00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:07,440 Speaker 1: the same person at his core in terms of his kindness, 904 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:12,439 Speaker 1: his his his nature, which seems to be good right. 905 00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:18,960 Speaker 1: Those are the values, you know, but the evolution is 906 00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:23,239 Speaker 1: with the man and who he has become. Character is 907 00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,240 Speaker 1: still the same. I'm sure people would always say he's fun, 908 00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:31,000 Speaker 1: he cool, nice to be around, good guy. But I'm evolving, 909 00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:34,760 Speaker 1: Fat Joe. Thank you for letting me know. It's okay 910 00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:38,000 Speaker 1: to evolve. It's okay to be different, It's okay to 911 00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:41,560 Speaker 1: want more for yourself and those around you, and expect 912 00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:44,480 Speaker 1: more from yourself and those around you. You don't think 913 00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,799 Speaker 1: that this boss is a boss in every aspect of 914 00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,440 Speaker 1: the way, not in the I'm in the streets way, 915 00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,240 Speaker 1: but I'm a boss and I gotta hand of my business. 916 00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:53,799 Speaker 1: You representing Fat Joe? If you work for me and 917 00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:56,759 Speaker 1: you work with me, I'm representing Fat Joe. That's what 918 00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:59,880 Speaker 1: he's saying about himself. I'm Fat Joe. I'm bringing the excellence. 919 00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:02,480 Speaker 1: It is not an accident that every single time we 920 00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,040 Speaker 1: see him do a recap or some sort of talk 921 00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:08,520 Speaker 1: to us on the Graham, this is about us, Iraq 922 00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:10,920 Speaker 1: and maybe some PEPSI it might be something there, but 923 00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:14,600 Speaker 1: he's letting us know he is sponsored and he's getting paid, 924 00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,040 Speaker 1: and he's doing it the right way. And I'm at 925 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,120 Speaker 1: get Joe bag. As he pointed out, he's got the 926 00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,319 Speaker 1: ten ms. He's ready to open a dispensary. He got 927 00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,839 Speaker 1: the ten ms. I ain't got the ten ms yet, 928 00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:30,080 Speaker 1: but I sure him inspired. I love a story of 929 00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:36,759 Speaker 1: evolution because I feel it in my bones. Now. There 930 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,000 Speaker 1: will be people who won't want you to evolve because 931 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,160 Speaker 1: then they can't judge you and say you are who 932 00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:45,440 Speaker 1: you used to be. That will bother them. But as 933 00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:49,799 Speaker 1: you evolve, you got to shake some people off the 934 00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:53,120 Speaker 1: same way that Joe was like, Uh, what you're talking about? 935 00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,879 Speaker 1: I don't know what. Look, I don't know. I don't 936 00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:57,480 Speaker 1: know about that life. I don't remember what we used 937 00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:01,479 Speaker 1: to do. I'm a new man. Hey, hell say that? 938 00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,280 Speaker 1: Give him hell fat Joe, because I'm a new woman. 939 00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:10,120 Speaker 1: I don't remember that. That is no longer me. So 940 00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:11,719 Speaker 1: you can talk about that if you want to with 941 00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:16,200 Speaker 1: them other simple people. But I'm a new woman. Evolution 942 00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,839 Speaker 1: is a beautiful thing. I encourage you to try it. 943 00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:21,759 Speaker 1: I encourage you to not be the person you were 944 00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:26,439 Speaker 1: a year ago in whatever simple way, because it's there. 945 00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:31,120 Speaker 1: It's there for the taken, and then you can say 946 00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:37,920 Speaker 1: today's price is not yesterday's price, vice versa. Yesterday's price 947 00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:42,960 Speaker 1: is not today's price. That's called evolution. Yesterday's price is 948 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:47,520 Speaker 1: not today's price. That's evolution. Folks, I'm about to give 949 00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:51,320 Speaker 1: y'all hell. Thank you Fat Joe for coming out naked. 950 00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:53,920 Speaker 1: Talk to y'all next week.