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Speaker 1: and right now when it comes to legends, when it
Speaker 1: comes to people that are kings in our community, if
Speaker 1: you put these guys together, you might get Rihanna. If
Speaker 1: you get one of the DJs. The DJ is one
Speaker 1: of the first DJ to break Rihanna not only a
Speaker 1: part of discoverning them and one of the first people
Speaker 1: not in Miami I ever heard Rick Ross before in
Speaker 1: my life was on Hot ninety seven and this man
Speaker 1: played this. This man has headphones, he got speakers, he
Speaker 1: got wallets, he got glasses, he got oxygen, he got oxygen.
Speaker 1: He gives you ambitious. He makes hustlers happy. He makes
Speaker 1: street niggas happy. When when when street nigga see him win,
Speaker 1: they feel like they win. If you had to get
Speaker 1: ice out in your mouth, you had to go see him.
Speaker 1: When we talk about media rappers being media, this guy
Speaker 1: had what they considered the hip hop fight. This guy
Speaker 1: belongs everybody's mouth. Ruck Mare cannot only out wrap you.
Speaker 1: We'll get your girl her draws as Wow. I know
Speaker 1: I know the brothers very humble. I'm gonna say this.
Speaker 1: I want to say this. When we talk about the
Speaker 1: best rappers alive right now, this man is at this table.
Speaker 1: I knew him on his first album right now. When
Speaker 1: it comes to journalists, these two brothers right here are
Speaker 1: the forefront of it. One brother is a goal. The
Speaker 1: other brothers on his way to be a goal. One
Speaker 1: brother has been in every magazine from EGO, Trip to
Speaker 1: five to the X Excel to the Source. The other
Speaker 1: brother has just landed a multiple Monkey foot Job and MTV,
Speaker 1: and he's pushing the culture. People don't cash money records,
Speaker 1: your money records and don't limit records. God damn it.
Speaker 1: The one and only. I think he was like the
Speaker 1: first is like like like R and B gangster singer,
Speaker 1: like it was, who's going on? He said, Look, I
Speaker 1: wasn't ready here, wasn't read. What is that you still
Speaker 1: that your brought up to yourself? Little too? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm my sights motherfucker's sound. We'll be calling out my
Speaker 1: fishing motherfucker's mother. Hold me, Floyd May, Molly, you don't move, Bunny,
Speaker 1: jesus me drink chasm. Let's make some noise for Tory mother.
Speaker 1: I'll to my bus zero makes you beat down all
Speaker 1: your money? Now now currency, who shall make up three
Speaker 1: champs alumni? See, we don't know if you know currency,
Speaker 1: but our show is about bigging up our legends. So
Speaker 1: many people when you get ten years in this game,
Speaker 1: they want to tell you that you're washed up. I
Speaker 1: want to tell you, but not over here. We want
Speaker 1: we tell you you have ten years and more that
Speaker 1: your season, that we understand who you are and we're
Speaker 1: gonna pick you off. Because in every other culture, in
Speaker 1: every other culture, their motherfucking praise you when you get old,
Speaker 1: and ours the only culture that when we get older,
Speaker 1: it's not even a word called washed up. In fucking
Speaker 1: rocking bro, they don't even have sure you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So we're gonna celebrate you tonight. We celebrate who,
Speaker 1: We celebrate nis careers. Here you are not only my friend,
Speaker 1: but your motherfucking legend. Here, you still as the times,
Speaker 1: you still vibe and you stood there through the good,
Speaker 1: the bad, the worst, and you are the definition of
Speaker 1: a loyal nigga. I'm gonna tell your story, tell a
Speaker 1: story that speak your notes right there. Oh my god. Again,
Speaker 1: we like to celebrate our people's careers. There's so many
Speaker 1: people in this leafe that every time you got ten
Speaker 1: years and more in this game, they want to say
Speaker 1: you walk up, they want to say you're old for you,
Speaker 1: they want to say you've done but he had drink chance.
Speaker 1: We celebrate your life, We celebrate your career, we celebrate
Speaker 1: your accolades, we celebrate what you do. We celebrate you
Speaker 1: being six seven niggas in one movie. And this is
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. Goddam well, A Little, We celebrate you.
Speaker 1: We celebrate you by cell pig on your living, killing you,
Speaker 1: making you old because we trate you. That was terrible.
Speaker 1: That's her ain't so bad. I want you to That's
Speaker 1: why we set up this format because we want to
Speaker 1: get people their flowers while they hip and wanted that
Speaker 1: people to know and we appreciate it. Like I really
Speaker 1: look at hip hop like superheroes, like I can really
Speaker 1: live off for hip hop, like for real, like for real,
Speaker 1: Like I'm one of those guys, like I've really probably
Speaker 1: never listened to a whole other genre of album, Like
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because I'm not I'm that insane.
Speaker 1: But I want you to know that that I nor
Speaker 1: because I'm alive, You're gonna keep hip hop alive. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Ah, yes, you've seen that bad.
Speaker 1: You're Jamaica, Jamaica. You know this is a room staring
Speaker 1: the whole of Little but he's held down the whole
Speaker 1: label then had a whole career. I feel like he's
Speaker 1: like the hip hop Michael Jackson, Like I'm you doing
Speaker 1: in the most respectful way, Like you know, Michael had
Speaker 1: three different careers like a child star, then the middle star,
Speaker 1: grown man star. I feel like this is a lot
Speaker 1: of In case you don't know what, By the way,
Speaker 1: went platinum in a week twice on Nicks like the
Speaker 1: first time. First thing I know, they went platform in
Speaker 1: a week, Holy Mom only and represents for hip hop.
Speaker 1: In case your howl long is, I got so much accolades,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep telling that this is one of the
Speaker 1: most genuine people I've ever met. If Rain tell you
Speaker 1: he's gonna do something, he's gonna do it, and he's
Speaker 1: always had and I just want to pick him up
Speaker 1: to his face, makes him up their motherfucking dot gonna
Speaker 1: because first those we want to thank you for. When
Speaker 1: you went on the show and they talked about the show,
Speaker 1: you said drink chaps, you addressed us and a drink chat.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, but let's move on. It was it
Speaker 1: was some white people ship. I thought he was gonna
Speaker 1: avoid us. He's gonna say, yeah, yeah, I're gonna say
Speaker 1: my homeble a show. I'm getting little high right now,
Speaker 1: but no one isn't even smoking. Yeah I think not smoking.
Speaker 1: And don't worry. He started fight on the mouth the
Speaker 1: mouth of the station. See you are in the house,
Speaker 1: I said on man the whole coroner for me. But
Speaker 1: that's that's the fucking out of corners working. Just need time,
Speaker 1: just that should go. So my jersey has hung up
Speaker 1: to me every stadium all around the world, every stadium
Speaker 1: in every stadium of that of that shin rub ship.
Speaker 1: I mind you, I should have a jersey. I've been
Speaker 1: a person who followed your career from the beginning, and
Speaker 1: let's take it from the Olympics. Olympics is the time
Speaker 1: that I feel like it created the monster that you
Speaker 1: are because I feel like you you whipped the guy
Speaker 1: in the Olympics. You tore him down, and then they
Speaker 1: gave him the decision that was your only like time correct, Well,
Speaker 1: we know we're want to drink drink champs, so I
Speaker 1: mustn't have a drink first. Um. You know. Far as
Speaker 1: the Olympics, UM, I felt like it was a learning
Speaker 1: experience from me, you know, small learning experience. UM. At
Speaker 1: that particular time in ninety six, I was very very
Speaker 1: upset upset. Wow. UM. I cried about it, why, you know,
Speaker 1: by myself at that time right a nineteen you know,
Speaker 1: I cried about it. I cried. I cried about it
Speaker 1: by myself because my dad was in prison and that's
Speaker 1: the one that taught me everything. So I cried about it.
Speaker 1: You know, it was nothing. I feel like it was
Speaker 1: a a learning experience. The origin of the source, so
Speaker 1: like the beginning the genes. Okay, all right, um so
Speaker 1: everybody knows that the source started. Um in Boston, Dave
Speaker 1: May's went to Harvard. I met Dave. I was in
Speaker 1: a group called the Almighty Arvars. So go on my
Speaker 1: street thing. You didn't go to Harvard though, clear I
Speaker 1: lived around the corner from Harvard Street. That Harvard and
Speaker 1: Washington was four corners, so I had a little something
Speaker 1: to do with Harvard. But school so so and then
Speaker 1: um ours before the source, yeah, and already managed by
Speaker 1: Flavor Union. Um No, that came after. But I think
Speaker 1: the Harvards so got established in eighty five, and the
Speaker 1: Ovius was probably like eighty four maybe three, you know,
Speaker 1: I say, yeah, yeah, like we feel as long as
Speaker 1: I knew you, I didn't know that. I thought the
Speaker 1: source came was so and then actually Dave the first
Speaker 1: time we met that. How we met Dave was we
Speaker 1: was at a radio station that went that Wendy Williams
Speaker 1: graduated from Emerson College, like all the there's a lot
Speaker 1: of Yeah in Boston, Emerson College is where everybody went
Speaker 1: to college to be a radio DJ or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Stephen Hill went to things. A few people
Speaker 1: went there. Um, so they would do this thing where
Speaker 1: um it was it was like what do you call
Speaker 1: those things when people pick up the phone and they
Speaker 1: get money for you telemarket and so people were there
Speaker 1: telemarketing getting money, trying to raise it for the station.
Speaker 1: And Dave and Dave came down. We wish the all
Speaker 1: Souls down there performing live, and Dave came down the
Speaker 1: interview that that was the first time ever there was
Speaker 1: no Source, not you boy, he interviewed us. He wanted
Speaker 1: to come meet us because he had his own radio
Speaker 1: show at Harmon And that's how the Source started. Is
Speaker 1: in Toronto specifically, Yeah, well like when it comes from
Speaker 1: from But it's crazy because they showed Like I told
Speaker 1: my publicist, like I don't care. I know we're gonna
Speaker 1: do the breakfast club and all the other shop but
Speaker 1: I have to do dreams. Honestly, I told us, if
Speaker 1: we gotta do this, my favorite ship was Focusing. No, No,
Speaker 1: I want to I've been focused later because I but now,
Speaker 1: this is not an overnight thing for y'all, Like a
Speaker 1: lot of people might see you be dot on uh
Speaker 1: MTV or see you know Elliott on the Crown episode
Speaker 1: and see he pulled off for Nicki Minaj to see
Speaker 1: pulled off for Ross and people thinking that this is, like,
Speaker 1: you know, just some overnight thing. I want to I
Speaker 1: want to describe it from the beginning for both of y'all,
Speaker 1: you know, whichever way you want to take it, from
Speaker 1: the beginning, how did you fall in love with hip
Speaker 1: hop man and get involved with journalist? You know from
Speaker 1: Queen's right. So it's always been part of been part
Speaker 1: of where we at, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: I just fell in love with listening to people like
Speaker 1: yourself not that good? I agree, man, I agree. So
Speaker 1: listening listening to the greats. And when I went to college,
Speaker 1: I realized I get a check off of it. What college?
Speaker 1: I went to, Delaware State University. I remember you performed it,
Speaker 1: but I didn't come. I never say that. I just
Speaker 1: about to say this performing and was like, YO, say
Speaker 1: it's hot, jail get it. I definitely remember that the
Speaker 1: girls are easy. You're married down. So so how about you, um, um, Elliott,
Speaker 1: you've been a little bit more season in the game.
Speaker 1: We'll same thing. Growing up in Queen Run dmc L
Speaker 1: like those were like the blueprint, like you know, loving
Speaker 1: hip hop and then you know, probably first seeing the
Speaker 1: source that you could like have a magazine it then
Speaker 1: the first time you wanted to like because you know,
Speaker 1: because because being a fan of the culture and because
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people can watch basketball. There's
Speaker 1: not a lot of people who can cover basketball, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So you know, it started was
Speaker 1: sports with me. My father wanted me to be a
Speaker 1: baseball player because he is dream was to play baseball.
Speaker 1: So he actually wanted to name me Roberto Clemented. You
Speaker 1: could have been Roberto you know this black and my
Speaker 1: mom is Ecuadorian and green, just like he said. Elliot
Speaker 1: Wilson Jr. Like I was in Franks And so I
Speaker 1: grew up playing sports a lot of baseball growing up.
Speaker 1: And then by the time I got fifteen sixty and
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not good enough to like go pro,
Speaker 1: Like I'm good, but I ain't outstanding and ship. Um,
Speaker 1: so I looked at sports writing, remember, like going Wanner Wolf.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the video tape and how Yeah. I
Speaker 1: got attracted to that. I was like, oh, maybe I
Speaker 1: could do that, could be a sports report, I could
Speaker 1: be a sports writer. Um. And then when you know,
Speaker 1: I started losing more interest in sports. The music and
Speaker 1: seeing that the music could be documented, you know, just
Speaker 1: excited me. And I was like, that really was my
Speaker 1: only career goal. I told you only my first career
Speaker 1: goal was to be music out of the source. Well,
Speaker 1: I wanted to be I wanted to get all the
Speaker 1: albums before anybody else got the albums, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to give the mix out. That's my only dream. So
Speaker 1: the so the social was already copping prior to you. Yes,
Speaker 1: okay I didn't, but they were. They weren't as big
Speaker 1: as I thought they were. But but at the time,
Speaker 1: because I had Ego Trip, I had an independent thing
Speaker 1: going on with Jenkings. Yeah, so we didn't we thought
Speaker 1: the source. Once they got national, they were so far ahead,
Speaker 1: you know, and I was and again I just fell
Speaker 1: in love, I thot because it was the first like
Speaker 1: I want again. I wanted that position. I saw Reginald C.
Speaker 1: Dennis with the shades and like the whole thing of
Speaker 1: like getting access to the music. That's the whole thing
Speaker 1: about the streaming era. All fans not get all this
Speaker 1: access to the music. Whatever DSP they signed up to.
Speaker 1: And you know it was like Nory, I got you
Speaker 1: remember when your album was rolling out? Your album, so
Speaker 1: album they sent like a four tracks, yeah, and so
Speaker 1: I hadn't even before that because I was just sent
Speaker 1: it to the lab, to the pub, but this department
Speaker 1: sent it to the magazine. So at n R I
Speaker 1: think I had Body of the Trunk, I believe. So
Speaker 1: I had Body of the Trunk, had super Dog. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like this is amazing, Like this is like Dory, Like
Speaker 1: like I want to take it from the beginning because
Speaker 1: obviously all of y'all are from this like the switcher
Speaker 1: house movement, right, So in the beginning, because um, I
Speaker 1: heard you used to write uh pepsie letters and things
Speaker 1: like that. But in the beginning, how did you get started?
Speaker 1: How how did you find your love for the music?
Speaker 1: Me and come in and we grew up together on
Speaker 1: the same street, I know, in my whole life. We
Speaker 1: both was introduced to hip hop around the same age
Speaker 1: and around the same time, through the through the same era.
Speaker 1: Especially of Texas artists that inspired us, you know, because
Speaker 1: at that time there wasn't if we look on the
Speaker 1: TV or turn on the radio, there wasn't a lot
Speaker 1: of people from where we're from that we're professional in music. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Even then, it was like, I when you're living in
Speaker 1: Houston and you see, like you turn on the other
Speaker 1: you turn on TV, whatever you see kind of like
Speaker 1: how people treat rapp about sometimes we always kind of
Speaker 1: felt like we got the short into this t we're
Speaker 1: being kind of Houston like maybe being there, we're so
Speaker 1: centrally located at the South, at the bottom of the Midwest.
Speaker 1: You know, we're in the South, but we're far west
Speaker 1: on the South, so we're kind of removed from kind
Speaker 1: of what goes on sometimes in Florida, Georgia. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, although we have a lot of similarities,
Speaker 1: it was like, man, you know, we suffer part of
Speaker 1: the South, like said he said that he considered he
Speaker 1: considered that the South like the Texas because it's different
Speaker 1: time zone, right, right? Do you do you agree with
Speaker 1: that statement or that just I mean personally, I never
Speaker 1: looked at the time zone is being a reason for
Speaker 1: where being in the South because there's plenty of people
Speaker 1: in the Central time zone. Is you know, Chicago's the
Speaker 1: central time zone and it ain't south, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just more the southwest. But even then,
Speaker 1: you know, California is the southwest because Texas seems so big,
Speaker 1: it feels west coast. Yeah. And the one thing that
Speaker 1: gets lost to is it inside of Texas, we all
Speaker 1: got our own culture. So Houston and Dallas is a
Speaker 1: lot different. And if you add in San Antonio and Austin,
Speaker 1: all four of them places are four distinct different cultures
Speaker 1: within Texas. Some of the stuff we do share, you know,
Speaker 1: some of the same thing only for sound pop top
Speaker 1: Well I didn't know. I like God damn it. But
Speaker 1: as far as I remember, you was the first person
Speaker 1: not only ever sent in Toronto, but sate from He's
Speaker 1: from Toronto, so from Toronto. Yeah, I didn't. I wasn't
Speaker 1: from the same right for you. So there's a there's
Speaker 1: a lot of history and this is kind of probably
Speaker 1: the only place where we can talk about it and
Speaker 1: it would make sense. But before me like you gotta
Speaker 1: he definitely have to shout out like what I call
Speaker 1: like the Holy Trinity which is a female MC named
Speaker 1: Mischi Me. So Mischi Me. She used to actually be
Speaker 1: signed to um M C Light's father's label, First Priority,
Speaker 1: so she was on first Priority. And when you go
Speaker 1: back and check, the lady's first video was one of
Speaker 1: him when he saw like sweet ts them. She was
Speaker 1: in that video. You know what I'm saying. She would
Speaker 1: not like yeah, yeah, she was in that video. And
Speaker 1: then you gotta shout out you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: The Dream Warriors, they were actually the first group from
Speaker 1: Canada to go platinum into nationally, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's wild. It's like if you do the knowledge,
Speaker 1: you know, shout out to Premier RP Guru. But like
Speaker 1: Gangster I used to open up them, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, So, you know, shout out to Dream Wars.
Speaker 1: But then there was also another rapper named Miestro Fresh West.
Speaker 1: Miestro Fresh West, he was the first dude UM to
Speaker 1: go platinum in Canada, Like we just celebrated the thirty
Speaker 1: year anniversary. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, okay of him.
Speaker 1: Well he's from Toronto as well. His name, his name
Speaker 1: is Mike Stroke. It's wild because like he's a rapper.
Speaker 1: He's a rapper. He trust me. He listened back in
Speaker 1: the early nineties. Yo, like we used to like bug
Speaker 1: out because he was one of the first to you know,
Speaker 1: be able to do collapse. I remember he started rocking
Speaker 1: with like show busing them wild, started crazy, make them
Speaker 1: up y'all. So I mean, you know, shout out to
Speaker 1: all of them, but I mean like me, she me. Also,
Speaker 1: if you go back and check like eight seven she
Speaker 1: used to rock with with B D pre because she's
Speaker 1: on Melody Melody. This is like rock days, like Karen
Speaker 1: Scott La rock days. You know what I'm saying, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like then they got joints together and I'm site, but
Speaker 1: you started with flip DJ's flipping DJs Flip I don't
Speaker 1: smoke weeds. I don't know because when I know, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? And when I google your squad
Speaker 1: flip squad, that was that was squad. But I thought
Speaker 1: Flex was big dog pimples. I didn't know who was
Speaker 1: lay what. I'm just so you started out with yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like Flex's intern at the radio station, and
Speaker 1: then uh, he put me in the flip squad. But
Speaker 1: it didn't last long because then he left that the
Speaker 1: whole system whatever and then started a big dog peball.
Speaker 1: It's great. I remember like Tip came in the studio
Speaker 1: one time. I was in Pats work when I was
Speaker 1: telling you that I was, uh, you know, one and
Speaker 1: one foot out and I was working on trapa die
Speaker 1: and he came to patch work was just like a
Speaker 1: famous studio in Atlanta, and he came in. He walked in.
Speaker 1: He told me gonna come through. So he came through.
Speaker 1: He looked around. You know, I got the lounge going
Speaker 1: at my home, is in the account money, I got
Speaker 1: money in the vocal booth, you know everything. He came
Speaker 1: stood around and do his whole little thing. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, he probably have. I probably had about
Speaker 1: two million in the studio until go let me talk
Speaker 1: to you for a minute. So you wanted me in
Speaker 1: the bathroom. I'm like, fun, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He's like, Yo, you know you can't do both right.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You gotta make your choice.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna You're not gonna get away with both
Speaker 1: of these like something something's gonna fall. Yeah, He's like,
Speaker 1: your talented. You gotta tell him you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like you can pull this off. And in my mind,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I made a decision right
Speaker 1: there and there and everybody that owed me when I
Speaker 1: was in the streets, I just threw my phone away.
Speaker 1: I didn't even called nobody for my money. I made
Speaker 1: a decision right I went to Cold Turkey. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, the crazy thing I ever did in
Speaker 1: my life, because yeah, but I knew he was right,
Speaker 1: because I wasn't gonna walk away like that, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But him telling me that, and I
Speaker 1: was already thinking that just really made me go, like
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to make a decision now or deal
Speaker 1: with the consequence of later. And I made a decision,
Speaker 1: and I walked away, and I threw my phone away
Speaker 1: and everything I had. I gave my people their money
Speaker 1: that I owed him, and I was done and I
Speaker 1: walked away. That was there, like it was the best
Speaker 1: words decision in my life, because boy with them with
Speaker 1: the new cars was dropping and I couldn't forward. Damn
Speaker 1: you forgetting Zeke is a major part started this dwell.
Speaker 1: Zeke was did before your wells, was even before we
Speaker 1: even acquired you wells you did, I ain't a lot.
Speaker 1: One night I had a show with dip Set and
Speaker 1: Zeke said his story on Black TV, and we went
Speaker 1: and I was gonna say, I don't want to say
Speaker 1: the person's name, but I'm gonna says Mike Lady and
Speaker 1: I went in and I knew that the money was
Speaker 1: low because I got the money from correct. Don't tell me,
Speaker 1: don't seeking what I'm saying. You got big yeah? And
Speaker 1: I left. It was like, y'all think this crazy. Listen
Speaker 1: to me. You're disrespected, no one, no disrespecting door. I
Speaker 1: gotta make sure this is the same night because I
Speaker 1: know where you're going now. I love all the Lady brothers.
Speaker 1: They helped us all a lot in my career. I
Speaker 1: know you're gonna if this is the knight that led
Speaker 1: me to chasing him for two years straight in another clock.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Just now I'm told my high
Speaker 1: step and chasing the sill, he jumping over tables, everything. Bro.
Speaker 1: I didn't know when that wasn't night. Bro, I did
Speaker 1: not know that boy. I did not know you would
Speaker 1: have took the money. I didn't know somebody. I did
Speaker 1: not know you the reason no money, piece of ship
Speaker 1: ship my bro. You know back head back then used
Speaker 1: to be like who's headlines? And I used to know
Speaker 1: funk Who's headlines? And I had to Brad and Z
Speaker 1: said and this is Z. This is He looked at
Speaker 1: me and said, why are you the only nigga happy?
Speaker 1: He said, you got paid. Yeah, it's like he said
Speaker 1: it on Black TV. I kid you not the story
Speaker 1: and yeah, I think Sam. I don't want to say
Speaker 1: who they chased that. I don't want to hit the
Speaker 1: story swear cafe, what's its because I don't want I
Speaker 1: don't think to y'all said, let's tell the story. Me
Speaker 1: and Black you're doing doing time to get the money,
Speaker 1: because this is that when kids telling me I'm going
Speaker 1: to get can money like you and you know, he's like, yo,
Speaker 1: we got the money. We're telling me something. I'm like,
Speaker 1: he like, you gotta wait the money on the Monday
Speaker 1: in office. But he kind of giving me. Act like
Speaker 1: you kind of give me. He got ninety Brooklyn niggas
Speaker 1: bomb Mike, Okay, yeah, not franchise. There's called the franchise.
Speaker 1: You so you shut gravy in the all of them
Speaker 1: start coming to everybody naking it. I'll be faced right
Speaker 1: me and Black is ninety of these niggas or something like,
Speaker 1: are you sure you want to do this? Look at Black,
Speaker 1: I said, we got we gotta get to the car.
Speaker 1: Show these niggas exactly what goes down definitely part of
Speaker 1: the back back up. We're back all the way up
Speaker 1: to the door. We bust out the door. We start
Speaker 1: everything come out that niggas start coming to everybody get wrong,
Speaker 1: give me everything sense and change up Niga's pet. Yo, bro,
Speaker 1: talk about niggas getting pisted with everything. I was like, Bro,
Speaker 1: she went real left fast because it is piece of ship.
Speaker 1: Always get mad because people get at you because nor
Speaker 1: did get tone. It wasn't bad. And now look at everybody.
Speaker 1: Never wady get down that way. Give me don't be
Speaker 1: out of here. Come up, everybody, listen, listen, list my
Speaker 1: whole already Whitey when I sucking, Oh yeah, condo, listen.
Speaker 1: My friend I told you at your next One of
Speaker 1: my fat Joe called me and said, really stop it
Speaker 1: right now, buck. These guys do not continue with this.
Speaker 1: My other friends so they left at me, walked in
Speaker 1: the room and said, I don't pok with that. Ship.
Speaker 1: That's the way it happened in my mind. I went
Speaker 1: to I went to her. Laughs. I was hanging out
Speaker 1: New York, New York. I was filming. He was always filming.
Speaker 1: And then you did a verse and it sounded this,
Speaker 1: and when I turned the cames not. But you think
Speaker 1: it was just a probably a bad timing, definitely, you
Speaker 1: know what, you know, you know what, it's so bad
Speaker 1: to pat myself on the back. Yeah, but I was
Speaker 1: ahead of my time that they were for it. The
Speaker 1: thing was, I went. We was banned from Hot Nindy seven,
Speaker 1: right in front of the building, in front of Radio Stinction.
Speaker 1: I was not there, by the way, but where I
Speaker 1: was going to suppress the highway traffic Holiday seven. And
Speaker 1: the only way that could reintroduce us was through this
Speaker 1: reggae thing. So we did a record with Rain Wonder
Speaker 1: and Lexus Girl you want to take My life. You
Speaker 1: look Jamaica, look at you, look at you. So so
Speaker 1: that was how they started to reintroduce us. So I
Speaker 1: knew when I got to Jamaica, I loved this. It
Speaker 1: was just one problem. This just isn't my island. I
Speaker 1: love the island life. Jamaica taught me the island life.
Speaker 1: I just knew that a part of me belonged somewhere else,
Speaker 1: that I live a life period. Jamaica taught me like
Speaker 1: that was the first time I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm going to fall in love with the island. But
Speaker 1: I just knew it wasn't mins. So I had to
Speaker 1: go to mind and I winded up in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: And when I winded up in Puerto Rico, I found
Speaker 1: this amazing music that yeah, no one funcked with in America.
Speaker 1: So I got back to and I couldn't believe DJ
Speaker 1: or nothing and commit and these guys wasn't playing it.
Speaker 1: But I look like a hit to them when I'm
Speaker 1: saying that, I'm like, yo, we gotta play. You gotta
Speaker 1: play Daddy Yankee, and like Dan Yo, this guy like
Speaker 1: there you go, and then don't know more. They're like
Speaker 1: these names are wow, and at that time the name
Speaker 1: sound but you know, you know why, I saw it
Speaker 1: with a roll and I'm I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I'm brung for route to j I brun for Route
Speaker 1: to Nas. And they both had the similar story. One
Speaker 1: ax y shirt was so tight and the other acts
Speaker 1: y his choker was so tight forget which what? Which
Speaker 1: one was? What? But then two years later after oh no,
Speaker 1: because remember Paro didn't just blow up after Super Dog A,
Speaker 1: people think not what what? What came out of here? People?
Speaker 1: People thought we were both lucky. People didn't rush for
Speaker 1: a first. People were like okay, and then oh no
Speaker 1: came out. Then that's when Mrical came with black Yards.
Speaker 1: So Mrical was the first one and then the big
Speaker 1: dogs came. But this was a little rock fell the
Speaker 1: hole still was on payday, still was on payda. So
Speaker 1: I'm telling my mom's tell home. Ain't there? So my
Speaker 1: mom did some bullshit. She tell over and here in
Speaker 1: the room with some chick. So like I missed me.
Speaker 1: I'm all my way now that they never tell me.
Speaker 1: So I'm in the room, no watching little DVD. Chick,
Speaker 1: don't tell me come to like Joe claw Hole came
Speaker 1: in the crib like came in the room like this
Speaker 1: boom busting the rough. Yo, my nigga, this you do
Speaker 1: kick my bit y'all know that you got to go. Cindy.
Speaker 1: I didn't do that. I ain't gonna do that though
Speaker 1: I can't kicked the bitch out kicked the bitch out.
Speaker 1: That's why hold gave me the realist speech ever and
Speaker 1: they changed everything. That's when I was like, Yo, I'm
Speaker 1: never gonna fall out of line again. You rightbody, put
Speaker 1: your seat songs. He looked me at my eyes and
Speaker 1: thin can say, I've been calling you all day to
Speaker 1: come to the studio. I'm trying to give you the
Speaker 1: opportunity to change this, to change your family life out there.
Speaker 1: This is what you want, this is what you want.
Speaker 1: You want to be in a career with these dots
Speaker 1: in the hood. You know, it wasn't like jump Off.
Speaker 1: It was skos back then. You want to be with
Speaker 1: the skios in the hood and ship. He was like, Nick,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get the opportunity to change anybody life
Speaker 1: in this apartment right now. He was like, remember one thing,
Speaker 1: I'm rich already. I don't need you, you need me.
Speaker 1: Nigga got up out the crib and left. I got chills.
Speaker 1: I think it's I don't know the talk about. I
Speaker 1: think we got to drop a little off the name.
Speaker 1: I think you just O g Wayne at this point,
Speaker 1: can row with that for now, you know, Joe, But
Speaker 1: do you realize like whole generation you influenced, Like realized
Speaker 1: that you know, when you're just playing six people with
Speaker 1: seven people. Nigga, this is an impossible movie. I don't
Speaker 1: know how I did it, Like it almost killed me.
Speaker 1: How about this? This was the work schedule. I'd wake
Speaker 1: up at two thirty in the morning and my assistant
Speaker 1: could attest this to thirty in the morning, I'd go
Speaker 1: to sit and make up for seven and a half hours.
Speaker 1: After seven a half hours, I would work sometimes sixteen
Speaker 1: to eighteen hours after the seven hours I've been there,
Speaker 1: so we're on twenty three hours. Then I would take
Speaker 1: and they would have the hour and a half to
Speaker 1: take the makeup off. I would go home. I would
Speaker 1: sleep two and a half hours and have to be
Speaker 1: back on set to do the same ship the next day.
Speaker 1: That's work. One thing I learned about life, man Like,
Speaker 1: you gotta put yourself in a position that you can
Speaker 1: do what you want when you want. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like you're just gonna be working for people
Speaker 1: and hand to meet quarters and deadlines because that's a company.
Speaker 1: I'm building my own company, you feel it. So it's
Speaker 1: like I got other ship going on too. So it's
Speaker 1: like if I feel like making music, I'm gonna make music.
Speaker 1: If I feel like making history, I'm gonna make some
Speaker 1: motherfucking history. I don't need no permission for that ship.
Speaker 1: Goddamn it. The will to win. See, the thing is,
Speaker 1: there's about me and the sport of boxing. I was
Speaker 1: willing to die doing something I love. So if you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have died to do something that you love, not
Speaker 1: per cent of time, you're gonna come out on top.
Speaker 1: So just like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan's killer instinct, you
Speaker 1: know you gotta take the shot. Even if you miss fears,
Speaker 1: you gotta take the shot. So my thing is this
Speaker 1: and and it's crazy, you know, even like I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like when you just look back at my career, you're saying,
Speaker 1: who done the in front of it? From the beginning
Speaker 1: of boxing to now who's doing Floyd may Weather numbers?
Speaker 1: Who's doing Floyd may Weether numbers? Then you got everybody
Speaker 1: want to fight Connor McGregor. And I know you're gonna
Speaker 1: get to that. So I know you want to get
Speaker 1: everybody want to take the Floyd may with a route.
Speaker 1: You know you gotta realize this. I got my own
Speaker 1: fucking defense man. That's the main whe I got my
Speaker 1: own style and box that's the Floyd Mayweather style. What
Speaker 1: is that? And the thing you know? And the roll
Speaker 1: I've been trying to do the ye I don't care.
Speaker 1: My dad taught My dad taught me to show the rule.
Speaker 1: But the thing is this, I don't care, and I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about my dad. Don't care. Who done it
Speaker 1: first is mine because I mastered it. This is the
Speaker 1: part I get to raised. So Jay said, uh had
Speaker 1: an argument, had to fight. Yeah. Jay was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I was like, Yo, that that girl Rihanna's dope.
Speaker 1: They're playing it on the radio again. Reaction, I think
Speaker 1: you should sign up. And it was like a little iffy, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what. Maybe the song might be bigger
Speaker 1: than her. I'm not sure. We had an argument. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you she's dope. I'm thinking Caribbean. That's good.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. Bigger than time. She definitely surpassed
Speaker 1: all that at the time. That song was way bigger.
Speaker 1: A lot of people come out with a song like that,
Speaker 1: they never follow it right. So we had this argument
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking Caribbean vibes. I'm like, I could break
Speaker 1: this artist because that's what I do. Like. At this point,
Speaker 1: he was the President's I didn't have a familiar at
Speaker 1: that time too. After that, it was it was forming
Speaker 1: at the same time together. And to this day, that's
Speaker 1: probably off my favorite tour because we we were both
Speaker 1: coming up together. Y'all was on entertable, I was on
Speaker 1: Penalty and now we're both on death Jam. We're both
Speaker 1: like these dudes, but oh Boy is number one Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Speaker 1: then Homeboy is number one Fridays, and so we gotta
Speaker 1: so we gotta like, I'm gonna be honest to me
Speaker 1: being camp is jay Z and a nas of art generation,
Speaker 1: y'all did that? Please? Please? Can you give that listen?
Speaker 1: I got like platinum artists, hands damn album, you'll put
Speaker 1: out one platinum and she was and it was it
Speaker 1: was at a different time when certain artists wasn't going
Speaker 1: on platinum. You took that ship, Jim, some of your
Speaker 1: biggest artists that people look up to right now, and
Speaker 1: that moment in the nineties and that toum error wasn't
Speaker 1: going platinum. It might have been hot. He might have
Speaker 1: been Flying wasn't gone platinum, makes going platinum, nor he
Speaker 1: was going platinum. Kim was going platinum. DMX was going platinum.
Speaker 1: That's about it. From New York, say eminem, but from
Speaker 1: New York, let me pay attention. From New York Times continue,
Speaker 1: Hope was a different category. He's never last, He's gonna platinum.
Speaker 1: He was a different categories. And I took him a
Speaker 1: while ago platinum Like, he didn't start off going platinum
Speaker 1: like he platinum and there's no shots that hold. He's
Speaker 1: a fucking billionaire, but his main battle was making it
Speaker 1: to be platinum. He had the platinum rolling, they had
Speaker 1: everything like. It was hard for him to make the platinum.
Speaker 1: And then when he finally made platinum, he stayed there.
Speaker 1: It only got better than illa and way triller you
Speaker 1: did that in that error. He was in the same
Speaker 1: fight as all of us trying to get to that platinum.
Speaker 1: There was a group of the hole was a little
Speaker 1: bit older. He already had put his game down. The
Speaker 1: ship like that we were killing in ninety seven and
Speaker 1: ninety hold, and it was already there from ninety four
Speaker 1: and ninety five, one bigging all of them. He was
Speaker 1: shaking the ship like that. We came in at the
Speaker 1: tail end in the nineties and front that ship. Damn,
Speaker 1: there was only a few people that could have wanted
Speaker 1: the tunnel and shut it down. It's Rockefeller, Norrie care DMX, murder,
Speaker 1: murder and murder and murder was getting stupid bus. A
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know that Platinum here. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was more extra Platinum was on a different train back then.
Speaker 1: Urban Jane. How to get to the platinum into you did?
Speaker 1: I was all in the building studying everything that was
Speaker 1: going on. Everything stick got us in that building. I
Speaker 1: just was in there choking up all the game to
Speaker 1: the to the point I can make some money. I
Speaker 1: figure out how to make some moneys. Hello, you're a
Speaker 1: real good um. You're a real good host, No, I said,
Speaker 1: because I was watching you on like no one. You
Speaker 1: re got it. No ready know how to ask the questions.
Speaker 1: He knows. I'll still be kindly questions. How you know
Speaker 1: how to deliver it? Like the beginning statement being that
Speaker 1: right at the end, when you think you're going this way,
Speaker 1: you all away like good old car like drink Champs
Speaker 1: is successful because because you are kind of the shoulder right.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that you're definitely driving the yacht ye, depending
Speaker 1: on what the question is. What you don't want the
Speaker 1: question of cash. Now, I'm joking because a friend for years,
Speaker 1: I've been seeing like you've been acting, Bobby Brown Brown,
Speaker 1: and I just always wanted to tell you, Nick. I
Speaker 1: never was like, that's why when you can say that,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, Now, I don't act like I'm seeing
Speaker 1: niggact like that. I don't act like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: in your mind you thought you could take nas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's two niggas. The two niggas they go at me.
Speaker 1: They can say your mind should give you. So we
Speaker 1: got Let's get straight to the point. Do you don't
Speaker 1: even feel like EVO trying to cut you out? Do
Speaker 1: you feel like that's just that's just take a ban
Speaker 1: day right, check to the police. You don't drink safe.
Speaker 1: So it's no need to build up to this ship.
Speaker 1: There's no need to do it. You know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: try to We're gonna try to get us official drinking monsters.
Speaker 1: A little I get a monster drink. Let's just be clear.
Speaker 1: When this was your morning show, I'm a morning person.
Speaker 1: I woke up in the morning. You always use the
Speaker 1: car always the car was um um and just one
Speaker 1: morning it was the morning show until the next morning
Speaker 1: it was abro It's morning show. You had to feel
Speaker 1: a certain type of way. This is drinking chance. Come on,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't feel any type of animosity to
Speaker 1: anybody for ship like that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: There's a whole bunch of different reasons, but essentially, let's right,
Speaker 1: get down for the people that don't know. Sorry to
Speaker 1: cut you up because I wanted people, but I wanted
Speaker 1: people to understand where I'm coming from. Essentially, this was
Speaker 1: some your boss, it's the people don't understand. This is
Speaker 1: all programming. So don't listen to social media. Listen to people.
Speaker 1: I know where the laughs are and I would never
Speaker 1: do something. If I tell a joke and three people
Speaker 1: walk out, that's a bad joke. If I do a
Speaker 1: joke and one person walks out out of three hunting nigger,
Speaker 1: that's that's a damn good joke. That's a sensitive month.
Speaker 1: That's why you do the coffee because you're working. All
Speaker 1: that materialize anyway. Yeah, but nowadays they put it online
Speaker 1: and then you get sucked up for saying stupid ship
Speaker 1: with comedians. We're gonna say stupid ship if we're trying
Speaker 1: to get too good ship. Now it's one thing if
Speaker 1: you do like a special and you go, this is
Speaker 1: my refined material and now I'm ready to present this
Speaker 1: to the world. But somebody getting you on stage while
Speaker 1: you're you're in the thought creating. You have to stay
Speaker 1: stupid ship, too good to the good ship. So we
Speaker 1: have to be you know, I gotta be unforgivable and
Speaker 1: just go I'm not apologized for ship. It's overlooked in
Speaker 1: this game and how hard it is to stay relevant
Speaker 1: and how hard it is to have ten years in
Speaker 1: this game and still be who you are. So many
Speaker 1: people they do survive those ten years, but they turned
Speaker 1: into a whole different type of animals, different type of objects,
Speaker 1: and the further they get and that's still I get it.
Speaker 1: I get what what what changed? It should be changed,
Speaker 1: but it's something that should not never changed is that
Speaker 1: we're superheroes and the thing that we dedicate to our
Speaker 1: community when we, you know, put our face. I can't
Speaker 1: never take my face off and go to McDonald's and
Speaker 1: say I'm off. We can't never do that. Like this
Speaker 1: is a twenty four hour job even when we're not
Speaker 1: at it. So I want you all to know that
Speaker 1: I appreciate that you're a real big figure like you.
Speaker 1: You're figure. And it's such a presidents when you said,
Speaker 1: you know, you got an album coming out for the
Speaker 1: Rule January thirty first, correct, And um, you come to
Speaker 1: see black media, you know what I'm saying, cause that's
Speaker 1: what we quote unquote is right now is you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But we hood media and we hip
Speaker 1: hop media. You know what I'm saying. And the thing
Speaker 1: is when you come and see us, it's it's such
Speaker 1: a such a blessing. It's such a it's such a
Speaker 1: such a president that, you know what, we can control
Speaker 1: our own ship. We don't have to go outside, you know,
Speaker 1: big up to Ellen and big up to you know,
Speaker 1: traffic nowhere and all of them. You know, we're great, great,
Speaker 1: great to see these guys well, but when you come
Speaker 1: to Drink Champs first, it's just a president. And guess
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