The podcast captures a lively, anecdotal account of a Jay-Z concert experience, blending humor and genuine admiration. Hosts recount moments of excitement, such as Corey’s synchronized dancing with his wife and the unexpected presence of a third verse in “Gangster’s Paradise,” which energized the crowd. They emphasize the show’s cultural depth, noting how Jay-Z’s performances reflect New York’s identity, with fans from diverse backgrounds—including corporate professionals and longtime hip-hop fans—showing up in full force. The hosts also reflect on the show’s stamina, the seamless integration of special guests like Pharrell and Slick Rick, and the emotional impact of seeing artists perform with authenticity. They highlight the contrast between traditional concert culture and modern safety concerns, jokingly referencing the performative crowd control in New York. Despite the chaotic and energetic atmosphere, the hosts express deep respect for Jay-Z’s artistry and his ability to connect with fans across generations. The episode ends with a celebratory tone, honoring the fans, the music, and the legacy of hip-hop culture that the show embodies. The hosts maintain a lighthearted, self-aware tone throughout, acknowledging the entertainment value of the experience while recognizing its deeper cultural resonance.
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I'm like, holy shit, I'm like, oh, this old man got moves, bro.
Pars caught me. He said, yo, put your phone down and enjoy yourself.
Enjoy yourself.
No, I was recording Corey.
Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the JVP.
All right, go ahead.
We live, Pars?
Yeah, we're live.
Go ahead.
Yo, hey, listen, I'm going to let them get into the whole Jay-Z show.
One of the highlight moments for me at the Jay-Z show, besides being in the beautiful suite with Joe and his family
and everything.
Everybody was watching my man Corey, nigga, like 50, nigga, moving like a ninja on the dance floor.
Nigga, you hear me?
He was dancing in sync with his shorty.
With wifey.
I don't know what that was, nigga.
That's wifey.
It is?
That's wifey.
She kept that nigga on his, eh, eh, on top of that, we can't talk about Freeze.
We got to talk about Corey.
See, Corey's a pimp.
He let her go far, but he got the side eye.
Let me see what she do.
I see you.
All right, you're making sure she, because she in check.
She lent me the charger and shit.
Corey held me down.
Her bag right here, Corey.
Like, I'm recording that nigga, son, like this.
No, Corey another one of them.
He a sucker for love-ass nigga, boy.
Boy, his street name back in the day.
He know your street name back in the day?
It was Casanova.
Oh, yeah, he smooth.
It's Casanova right there, man.
You know your man?
You know how he move?
That nigga was wildin'.
You hear me?
Holding her, nigga, dancing to Jay.
Nigga, that's not even a song to dance to like that, man.
Turn up the music.
Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
I said, oh, shit.
You know what's funny?
Nigga, Mark got up and was, you know, shout out to Miss Hill.
Mark got up and he was like this.
I'm so, Joe got up.
Nigga, not Corey.
He was like, ha!
He was, he was hooked up dancing to Jay.
I'm like, oh, this nigga's wildin'.
Yo, yo, and I was going to compliment him on him and his wifey being on their best behavior,
but I wouldn't know, because I took about seven naps.
Oh, no, you were not playing with them?
He's smart, but I wish I would have turned down.
I'm talking about dirt.
During the show.
You did, Joe.
You and Sade, y'all said, I'm like, I came down like, damn, they sleep at the same time.
This is one thing I'm going to do.
I'm going to get some sleep.
Oh, we ain't starting yet?
Say less.
Oh, y'all want to play now, volume 87 in here?
On repeat?
Check this out.
Hey, check this out, buddy.
This is the same as when I'm on a plane, and they be like, oh, there's seven to nine planes
in front of us.
We have no idea.
Hey, say less.
I'm going to bed, boy.
Some old nigga shit.
They play gigs this morning.
Biggs is Paradise twice.
That's what I know.
Coolio.
We ain't hit it outside.
On repeat.
New York.
Wait, back to back?
No.
No, it was not back to back.
But that's what made it worse.
Yeah.
Because by the time.
Yeah, right.
Playlist started over.
By the time Coolio came on the first time.
That's why I love New York, yo.
By the time Coolio came on the first time, everybody that was there was already tight.
We know what's going on now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So we like, yo, Coolio?
M.I.G.?
Like, D-Nice done left nobody on the turn.
Coolio?
So you kind of heard a big, like, oh.
That was the first time.
And they let the third verse rock.
I didn't even know there was a third verse.
A third verse in Gangster's Paradise.
A third verse in Right Thur.
A third verse.
But New York let it rock.
Right, right.
They play, like, six more songs, seven more songs, eight more songs.
Come back around again.
But now.
Every time a song end, we getting restless.
Yeah.
So we thinking that somebody's coming out, and we about to start.
So every time a song, they fading out.
Oh, Kurt.
They not blending into each other.
Straight play list.
They fading out.
Straight play list.
And you can hear the whole bit.
And then the next song come on.
Nigga, when Gangster's Paradise came on again, nigga, you whole New York.
What the fuck, yo?
No, now y'all are playing a different type of game with us in here.
We don't want to hear it.
At least throw on some.
Some tunes, nigga.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Yo, audience out there, at least two hours of this is going to be about this Jay-Z show,
all the Jay-Z shows.
Yeah.
This is still not a Roc Nation podcast, even though I can see how you would think that.
And after this, after this, they might.
After the day, I ain't going to hold y'all.
I have a clear understanding of some things today.
I get it now.
I get it.
And we're going to talk about it.
Fire.
We're going to talk about it, man.
You was missed, boy.
I thought about you there.
I wish Ish was here.
Hey, shut up out there.
Ish will happen.
Yeah.
I wonder how you would act.
We was looking forward to seeing you.
You got the invitation?
Mm-mm.
Oh, yeah.
He want personal calls.
Yo, hey, come through.
I know your type.
Oh, nigga.
That's that old shit, that mobster shit.
Nigga, call me, Johnny.
I'm lost.
I don't know what you're talking about.
We wanted to see you there.
I doubt it.
Oh, OK, OK.
You asked me if I got an invitation.
I said no.
All right.
Well, nigga, you wouldn't have came anyway now, nigga.
You saying that, you bitch-ass nigga?
Guess I'm going to do.
Well, I got to be all in there.
You do come down a few Hovenger levels.
Why?
You missed all three?
To miss all three of them.
I thought he would for sure benefit reasonable doubt.
Me too.
I thought you'd have been at reasonable doubt.
Anyone.
With the make-up.
With the make-up.
Ooh.
In July.
Next time, I feel like I got to get away.
What the hell does that have to do with?
He said you're going to watch a show in London.
I'm saying I'm going to a different show.
Oh, you're going to the London show.
Oh, he's starting.
OK.
He already started off.
He's like, I'm going to London.
That's sad, though.
Nigga, you don't fuck with your niggas that much
that you got to go all the way to London to go to a show, nigga?
Like, we got you under that pressure, boy?
Come hang out with us, boy.
I mean, again, you're such a Virginia nigga sometimes.
You don't care about the whole Yankee Stadium aspect of it, no.
In hindsight, that's not a great question.
Word.
Turns out.
Yeah, he don't give a fuck.
Yeah, I don't care about that.
No, that was still symbolic.
It was.
It was still very symbolic.
That shit was fine.
Even during the long wait, once I learned that there's no curfew, like.
Even if there was.
Even if there was, bro.
At no time.
We'll pay the fine.
There's no fine.
I'm just saying, we'll pay.
If it was.
This is Jay-Z and the Yankees.
They can do whatever the fuck they want in New York City.
It was no curfew.
He's right.
OK.
That's cool.
Say, I know we did the whole point out the commissions.
I got it.
However, the laws that are in place.
Yeah.
I thought about the same thing.
Already.
With nobody making a call.
State.
Start this shit at one in the morning.
And I knew something was fishy.
We're going to start.
Let's start.
Let's start.
I knew something was fishy when I walked.
Man, I knew.
We'll start fighting.
I want to hear from y'all's perspectives, from like the bums that was outside.
Oh, for sure.
Fighting for their lives.
I got you.
For what you're saying?
Inside?
Us.
Yes.
I got you.
Pardon me.
We was outside making sure your moms were straight.
Oh.
Oh.
Yeah.
We held it down.
We held it down.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
That's crazy.
That's wild.
Big, big, big joke.
Oh.
I thought about that.
Sometimes you got to play the spade early, yo.
I'm going to see what's in the hand.
Just throw it out there.
Wow.
Free.
Well played.
Wow.
Very well played.
She was a bum too.
Hey.
When we start.
I'm going to talk about it.
Yes, sir.
Mic check, one, two, one, two.
Shout out to the whole Boogie Down, the whole BX.
What up out there?
The whole Five Barrels, man.
Anybody showed up, man.
Yo, shout out to everybody that was at at least one of those shows, man.
Shout out to the old niggas.
Niggas had to go get some Icy Hot.
Niggas had to go get cryotherapy.
Epsom salt.
Epsom salt.
Epsom salt.
Niggas had to sleep, back massages, and all that, man.
My heart goes out to y'all.
Neosporin.
All right, hold up, man.
Somebody.
Never that.
Come on, man.
I ain't going to beat you down with like 90 whole songs on the intro, man.
As much as you want to.
Yeah, I'm fighting the urge to glaze.
I'll take a plain donut today, sir.
Here we go.
Always for the ladies.
Shout out to the subgroups out there.
Shout out to the Patronite.
Strollies out there, everybody getting money out there.
Yes, sir.
Everybody that flew in, everybody in the Air Force and all that.
Inga!
You know what I mean?
New York was out looking good.
Shout out to everybody that was out looking good over the weekend.
Inga!
And I got to come in with a little bit of humble pie, man,
for how I spoke about the Reasonable Doubt Show.
Okay.
I don't know why I didn't just go to all three like the nigga told me to.
Two out of three, but you needed to be at all three to really understand
what's going on.
What was going on in there.
But we going to talk about it, man.
Yummy!
Shout out to everybody out in London.
Yo, when my boy get there, take care of him.
Show him a good time.
Yeah!
Whoa!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!
♪ Day ♪
♪ I felt you, I had nothing to lose ♪
- You're the outlaw chick.
- Oh, oh.
- Let's get straight to it.
- What?
- Married like I'm this nigga Chay.
He cut the intro short, nigga.
That's two records, boy.
I slapped the shit out of you.
- Wait, wait, what?
- You do five, six records, nigga.
- What?
- All right, my nigga, let's get straight to it.
Flip, we ain't got time for that no more.
- Yeah, you ain't got time.
- Yo, nigga, it's 8:30 a.m.
- I thought you was gonna bring us back up.
Pause, like, nah, let's do a mellow, yeah.
- This is a talk show.
- It is.
- Got it, okay.
- All right.
- And there are things to talk about.
- There is, there's quite a bit.
- I'm excited, all right, all right, all right.
- You shocked us.
- Nah, you just shocked us.
- You just shocked us, that's all.
- That's enough, love.
- Oh, my God.
- Two verse three?
Come on.
- Jesus.
- Hey, you worse than us.
- Yo, Yankees take it, verse three, give me that.
I didn't even know there was a verse three.
- Verse three, Joe, what the fuck?
- Yo.
- Oh, shit.
- Oh, shit, fuck.
- I was trying to get right to it, okay.
- Let's get to it.
- Let's get to it.
- Nah, nah, nah, 'cause I need my guys in a good mood.
Hold on now.
- We in a good mood.
- We in a great mood.
- Yeah, fine, no, no, no, let's get y'all right.
Let's get y'all right.
Come on, man, at least a little verse.
At least a little verse.
- Yes, sir.
- At least a little verse.
- Just the sound of his voice is a hit.
- Oh, all right.
- Y'all niggas got me really confused.
- All right, a half-glazed donut, man.
- A half-glazed donut.
- Give me one of those.
- Old-fashioned.
- Greg, help me.
- Old-fashioned?
- What happened?
- Old-fashioned joint.
- Yeah, man.
- I make two dogs revoke this shit.
Y'all question what these y'all doing.
I'm really confused y'all on this one.
Follow up.
♪ When your tops come down, check the tops come down ♪
- Yeah, man.
♪ When them shots come out, make cops come around ♪
♪ When the blocks come out, I can wake up a small town ♪
♪ Finish off the block and I make my more rounds ♪
♪ Stairs get exchanged and the fifth come out ♪
♪ The tough guy disappeared and the bitch come out ♪
♪ That's him, I'm using it to fight ♪
- Gav, what up, boy?
♪ Either with chicky wit or his chipper mouth ♪
♪ 'Cause I been doing this since Chips was out ♪
♪ Watching Eric Estrada baggin' up at the Ramada ♪
♪ Table full of powder ♪
♪ A.C. bro 'bout to take another shower on my 25th hour ♪
- Hey!
♪ Spike bleeds everywhere, game on a flight ♪
- Heck, happy birthday.
I heard I missed a hell of a time.
I heard I missed a time.
♪ I can touch down and take off the same knife ♪
♪ I'm so bossy, bitch, get off me ♪
♪ Trick, get off me, you can't get shit off me ♪
♪ I'm so bossy, no sixes on sprees ♪
♪ Lay back, lay backs, no need to talk to me ♪
♪ This is the ignorant shit you like ♪
♪ Nigga, fuck shit, ass bitch, trick plus ice ♪
♪ Come on, I got the ignorant shit you love ♪
♪ Nigga, fuck shit, money, honks, and drugs ♪
♪ I got the ignorant shit you need ♪
- See, y'all did this shit, man.
Now I gotta hear the fuckin' second verse at least.
At least a little bit, he bugged out.
- As long as he don't do the third verse again, we cool.
No third verse.
♪ Looking at themselves in the mirror backwards ♪
♪ Can't even face themselves, don't fear no rappers ♪
- I'm not close to that.
♪ De Niro's in practice ♪
♪ So don't believe everything you hear, lo ♪
See, this is when there was a clear understanding out there.
♪ It's me and everything sad and fun ♪
♪ You happen to see, then actually believe half of what you see ♪
♪ None of what you hear, even if it's spat by me ♪
♪ And with that said, I will kill niggas dead ♪
♪ Cut niggas short ♪
♪ Give me wills for legs ♪
♪ I'm a K.I., double L, E.R. ♪
♪ See y'all now ♪
♪ Shoot niggas straight through the E.R. ♪
♪ Whoa, this ain't B.R., no ♪
♪ It's S.C.C.D.O., the next Leo ♪
♪ No, the next leader of the whole free world ♪
♪ The first thing I'ma do is free Segal ♪
♪ Go, go, go ♪
- I don't care, Mark from Philly.
- I know.
- I don't give a fuck about none of that,
even though Beans killed that shit.
- He did, he did. - He did.
- He did, he killed that shit.
Come on, let me get these drops out the way real quick.
This is a talk show.
- This is talking. - Do your best.
- Damn it, I got some talking to do.
- Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
- Not so bad, D.
- It's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard.
- What's that?
- Uh, the-- - The moon!
You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you.
Who was that?
It's Mark Lamar Hill.
What's up?
What's up?
I'm from the web of Nitty Ella.
It's the network.
All right, all right, all right.
What episode is this?
946.
Welcome to episode 946 of the Joe Button Podcast.
Brought to you by, fueled by, powered by, Price Picks.
Price Picks gang.
Yeah.
I'm your humble, grateful, gracious, extremely happy to be here.
Very well-rested host, Joe Button, here with some really amazing people.
To my right.
Yes, sir.
If there's a big event going down, and he's outside, and there's some little white hoes
out there.
Boys.
Give him shelter, man.
Give him shelter.
If you see, if you happen to see him out in Florida, with the stream of boys, and there's
some little white hoes.
You bet your ass.
Stop that.
Queens get the money.
Yo.
Queens flip in the building.
Yo, yo, yo, yo.
Happy to be here.
Happy to be here, man.
Yo, you playing?
You living dangerously.
You're more than dangerous for me.
Oh, and I heard it.
Now I don't think I know.
Yo, listen, boy.
I'm watching you, boy.
I'm home.
I'm a fan of your work.
I'm a fan of yours.
And my stepson, boy.
All these boys.
All these little niggas do is just watch streamers.
Streamers all day.
I didn't, I ain't know it was like that.
All day, though.
Dog, I walk by at two in the afternoon.
You flipping Dean the Great.
And who the fuck is this?
What the way it is?
I'm like, yo, you like the streamers a lot?
He look at me like, yeah.
Hey, that's you.
That's you.
You got it.
Flip, how you doing, dog?
I feel good, man.
I'm excited to be here.
My mom want to know where you got some sweatpants from that you had on or something.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He did that as Pearlie's home.
I got them from J.R.
J.R. put me on to that.
My mom is like a big fan of you now, man.
I love your mom, man.
She pulled me to the side.
She was extremely nice.
Gave me a hug.
And she was calling some lady to show up.
I don't know.
I cannot believe.
We'll talk about that.
I don't want to say something.
I love your mom, yo.
Thank you for putting me on.
I forgot.
When she came in, I'm like, she came in with y'all.
I'm like, oh, okay.
He played a dirty game.
Because I tried to get a ride with the nigga.
I think he put Nat and Rachel.
Shout out to them.
Yeah, well, we riding with them.
I'm like, I'm going to see if Corey coming.
I'm like, nigga, are you?
I said, all right, buddy.
I'll call you back.
I'm good enough, yo.
Because then I didn't hear from Corey, but I know that's how he communicates.
He just pops up.
So I called.
No, he hit me saying, yo, what time you leaving?
I know what that means.
I read the whole paragraph from that.
So when I hit him, he was already here.
All right, then we up.
Oh, shit.
Oh, damn.
So him, his wifey, and then the fucking stepson is 6'1 and growing every year.
That's my man.
And eating me out of house and home.
I bet he is.
I'm fucking taking doggy bags from restaurants now.
Yo, yo, pack all of this up.
I'm treating that nigga like grandpa used to treat the fucking dogs in the halls.
The dogs in the halls.
The dogs, they know.
Yo, this whole shit.
Put it out there for them.
Put it in that pot.
Yeah.
And boy, when we bring this outside, it's a win.
Anyway, next to flip.
Come on, Philadelphia's finest.
Stop playing with them.
Big miss, big Dr. Mark Lamont Hill in the building.
Mark, what's up, bro?
I'm good, man.
Tired.
I'm recovering.
Well, that's. When are you not tired?
It's different.
This is go outside tired.
It's funny.
When I seen you on Sunday, the boss looked wide awake.
Yeah, she was.
Man, your wife is her, yo.
Yeah.
Your wife is really that nigga, man.
For real.
I'm definitely subbing to your Patreon.
Yo, y'all out there, please sub to Mark Lamont Hill's Patreon.
For the same reason.
For the same reasons I am.
To see him get holed around.
It's great.
Whatever it takes.
Brother Mark, how you doing, man?
I'm good, man.
Real good.
Real good.
And thank you again for the invite, man.
Word.
My wife told me to extend the congrats again.
Anytime.
Anytime.
It was a pleasure.
It was a pleasure.
Thank you all for coming.
Yeah.
Pause.
Woo.
Ready?
Are you there?
Are you ready?
What's going on?
Tell me what's going on.
♪ Remember his hair while I was walking ♪
♪ Rockin' in the rain ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
♪ I'm down to take a look around ♪
♪ Had invest, fest, let's go and die ♪
♪ Big Ish, Mr. Thousand Doors and up ♪
♪ Our good brother Antoine is here ♪
- What's up, Ish? - How you doing, man?
- I'm great, sir, yourself?
- Couldn't be better, couldn't be better.
- Where you was at last night?
- Uh, my man had a birthday party.
- Mm.
- I can tell, I can tell.
I'll get into it later.
I stalked you, I stalked you, boy.
- What?
- Who'd you go with?
- Myself.
♪ Whoever do you want it ♪
♪ I'll be here ♪
♪ Oh ♪
- That boy move around by himself, boy.
- With a Delphi, nigga.
- That nigga's like Batman.
- He do not have a-- - Hello, Master Bruce.
- He will not, he will not go out with a plus one, boy.
He's on the dolo, a one-seater.
- What's that one-seater shit?
What's that shit in the street they drive?
The, uh, the, uh, come on, free--
- Yeah, you know the shit, but the one--
- The slingshot shit.
- With the one-seat, yeah, slingshot.
You might as well get a slingshot.
- Yeah.
- Those are two seats.
- Or Harley-Davidson, whatever you Virginia niggas
be fuckin' drivin' on.
- Harley-Davidson.
- Oh, man, all right, next to Ish, next to Ish.
- Ooh. - Come on, man.
- Ooh. - Come on, man.
♪ What more can he say ♪
Come on, man, you see the freeziest of them all, huh?
- Yeah, yo, you my nigga, son.
- Yeah, come on, stop, you gotta stop playin'.
When Freeze is outside-- - He that nigga.
- He was outside for real. - Different, different energy.
- Yeah, you way different outside, boy.
- It's the same energy, bro.
- Nah. - You way different outside.
Did he hit it?
Did he hit you like a, ah, outside?
Did he hit you like a-- - No, no, it ain't like,
da-da-da-da-da, like a, like a err, like--
- Hey, don't that Freeze just forgot it?
- It ain't just like-- - Yeah, outside?
- It's like non-playable, that mean?
But outside-- - I can't deny you, Freeze.
I saw it.
You got a glow, nigga. - ♪ Doom, doom, doom, doom ♪
♪ Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom ♪
♪ Da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da ♪
♪ Look at Freeze ♪ - Yo, what the fuck with Freeze?
- You know you a boss when your name on a drum.
- Ooh! - That's it, man.
- Hey, Big Freeze! - Hey, yo, what up?
- We just like headass shit, man. - Freeze!
- That's all. - Mm-hmm.
- Sure. - I like headass shit.
Headass is dope, man. - Hey, yo.
- Headass is dope. - Headass is dope, man.
Shout out to, shout out to, I got to go to the parks, too.
Shout out to my, because Rip, I never been around her.
She lit, she's so, she's salsa dancer Jay-Z, too.
Like, what the fuck?
I said, no, they ain't too lit.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
I'm like, I was watching you. - Oh, I wish I was awake.
- She is so funny, yo.
She's mad funny, son. - She is, she is.
We had a blast. - Shout out to y'all.
I can see why y'all a perfect couple, yo.
- Thank you. - Y'all, him and his wife.
And Kory, I don't know, Kory is just some other shit, bro.
Yeah, I watched.
- He keeps, she was salsa dancin' to Jay-Z, Dead President.
I like the President, too, bro.
That was shit.
I said, what the fuck?
Why is she doing that?
It fucked me, and I had to sit down.
I caught a headache.
- Yo, I'm gonna get a headache now, bro.
Jesus.
Okay, so, we're, we're, oh, yeah, parks.
- Yeah, it was fine, it was fine, it was fine.
- Big Parks is here, Poe is here, Kory is here,
Erickson is here, Tanner and Savon are here by remote last,
but certainly not least, each and every one of you
very important people out there are here.
All right, where y'all wanna start?
- Day one? - Yeah.
- I missed day one.
I went to see Fetty Wap in Brooklyn, and that was incredible.
I mean, you're not gonna dwell on that.
There's a whole, whole run to go through,
but Fetty Wap, live, incredible.
Go do it if he comes to your town, yeah.
He did like an hour, maybe a little over an hour.
Fetty Wap has amazing hour music.
- I would love to see that show.
- Yeah, that shit was incredible.
Whole crowd was fucking lit.
I got mad acapella videos, all 2,000 people screaming
every word by Nate, by, by, by heart.
- Damn.
- That shit was great, great show.
- That's exactly how I imagined a Fetty Wap show to, to go.
- He got, he got seven or eight in a row.
- Yeah.
- He getting ready to do it again,
'cause you know your headline in the Summer Jam.
- Yeah.
- Nice.
- Yeah, yeah.
When is Summer Jam again?
- Next Friday.
- Oh, fuck.
- Oh, shit.
- Glad I asked.
Glad I asked.
All right, I wanna be there for that.
- Yeah, I didn't go to the Reasonable Doubt show.
- You missed one, man.
- Oh, Mark went.
- Oh, yeah.
- Come on, we got all bases covered for y'all today.
- I see what you did, all bases covered.
I still got it.
- Day one was fire, yo.
- He didn't try that shit.
- I think going into day three, I woulda said
Reasonable Doubt show was gonna be the best one,
'cause of how everybody described day two,
which I didn't see.
But day one was perfect.
First of all, it was easy to get in.
It was smooth, you know what I mean?
Like, it was, it was no problems.
It started at a good time,
and the show itself was amazing.
Obviously, he came out, before he came out,
they showed on the screen the full video,
like Beyonce in the bleachers cutting his hair.
- They showed us that one, too.
- They showed that one.
Day three wasn't as cool, but on day one,
we didn't know what he was gonna look like.
And he came, so they showed up and shaved it,
sitting there cutting his,
and then he comes out with the fitted Yankee on.
Everybody lost it, and he came out with Beyonce to,
what's his name?
- Yeah, that's fast forward.
I love that intro, but after three hours of waiting,
I don't need to see someone get a haircut.
- Yeah.
- That's how I felt on day three.
I was like, it's not a surprise no more,
he been here two nights with a Caesar and a Yankee.
- And for the people who don't understand
why it's a big deal, even in that video,
it was always a thing that Hov would cut his,
let his hair grow while recording,
and cutting his hair symbolized the album was done.
So, that video was saying,
it was like a message in itself.
- It could be, no, it could be.
- Could be.
I'm just asking what it used to represent.
- No, it ain't a could be.
- That's happening.
- That's what it is, and if you were confused,
Pharrell came out and told us that that's exactly
what's going on, that's happening.
But anyway, go ahead, 'cause I wasn't there,
I wanna go in order.
- And I won't go long.
The show was, it was an amazing show.
Again, all the notes were here,
all the special guests were great.
Again, coming out with Can't Knock the Hustle,
we knew Mary wasn't gonna be there,
'cause she's on, doing her own show.
- She had residency.
- Yeah, she had residency, so.
But Beyonce came out and did it.
- That's a hell of a way to open a show.
- You can't, I mean.
- It's a nice plan B.
- Yeah, exactly.
- Pun intended.
- Right, and then.
- That was good.
- Yeah, 'cause in my worry about the Reasonable Doubt show,
the reason why I preferred the Blueprint show at the time,
in my mind, was because I was like,
this isn't a stadium album.
And I was worried that there'd be a lot of lows,
you know, with certain songs.
But he made it work.
He made it work by mixing in other songs
that weren't on Reasonable Doubt.
And even some of the features, like obviously when you,
obviously Big can't be there.
- Right.
- But on Big's verses,
he played other bad boy beats underneath,
other big verse, other big.
- Beats.
- Track beats.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Underneath it.
So it just made it feel good.
And it felt better than I thought it was gonna feel.
But every feature came out.
Everybody who had a feature except, well.
- Sauce of Money.
- Yeah.
- Sauce of Money.
- You know, was there and that could be there and killed it.
- And Fox.
- Yeah.
- Oh yeah, Fox.
- Yeah.
It was, it was a great, the energy was great.
I think everybody was just hyped to be there,
to feel Hov in the building, to be there.
It felt like a reunion.
It was dope.
Nas' feature, Nas was great.
- That shit looked fire.
- When he came out, Cadet Presidents 2,
and then Nas did his own, you know, his own,
a couple of joints of his own.
It was amazing.
Who else was there?
- Well, let's slow down a second,
because you know you talk fast.
- Yeah.
- Let's go back to that Beyonce coming in for Mary,
and then them doing it, and then segueing to the remix,
and then her singing that whole.
They need to sell that.
That needs to be, they needs to be.
- Well, he updated the album.
It's now on streaming and everything.
That was when they did the Jay-Z 30.
And you know, he was putting out a bunch of singles.
That was one.
- Excuse me.
- "Feelin' It" was first,
and then after that they did "Can't Knock the Hustle,"
"Fool's Paradise" remix,
which is what you're speaking to.
That's out.
- Featuring Beyonce?
- No, not featuring, B.
- Okay, so then that's not what I'm saying.
- You want the B version.
You want the other B version.
Okay.
- What she went up there and did over that music.
- Mm-hmm.
- Actually, we gotta start with the music.
- Mm-hmm.
- That might be the best band I ever heard
during a hip hop show.
- Yeah.
- Shots 1,500.
- Yeah.
- They killed it.
- All three days.
- Adam Blackstone.
- Adam Blackstone.
- Oh, he was there too?
Okay.
- Yeah.
- Adam Blackstone, 1,500 or nothing.
He curated.
He just went and got the best of the best,
rehearsed, put 'em together,
and that was the best,
that was the best music.
Had I known that was happening,
you go to night one.
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
- You do what is,
you go to,
if you know the band is doing that,
you know night one has night one energy,
you open with Beyonce, cool,
J-Prop is there,
Beans is there,
Bleak is there,
like night one is for the heads.
- Yeah.
- So humble pie on my face,
'cause I'm like,
with all due respect to Jazzo,
I'm not getting out of my bed
to come here and fucking the evils,
and I'm just,
but that shit looked lit.
The Nas Hov shit is some of the illest shit
I've ever seen done during a show.
- It was perfect.
- Yeah, it was perfect.
- And that's before I,
that's before you knew
that that would be a continuous theme
Hov kind of mixing and matching verses and beats and,
because on day two,
which we'll get to,
when the Smith and Wesson beat dropped over fucking,
it switched into some,
and then Smith,
boom, boom, boom.
I was like a kid in a candy store,
but it was on the blueprint night
where everybody in here is not a head.
There's heads in here,
but I don't expect everybody to know
what the fuck is going on.
- It's like a silent whistle to the heads.
- Yeah, but the Nas,
the way I'm from take,
whatever the fuck was going on in the music,
because I don't remember right now,
but yeah, yeah, let's find it.
The different verses they were doing,
that was some of the illest shit
I've ever seen both of them.
- At the Roots picnic,
he did a lot of that too,
as far as putting,
this verse on this verse too because there was a feature here whatever whatever so he's been
practicing it i guess i would say and that takes so much skill it does it takes so much skill
because when you perform in a dog a lot of it is is muscle memory you're trying to remember words
from songs that are 30 years old it's it's that's the impressive part to me right there so to take
a verse that don't go with this music and kind of remember it project it and perform it live he was
doing a lot of technical shit up there that was an arrangement like the arrangement of that speaks
to how much time they put in to really put on a great show for sure no it's true it's true i'm
saying yeah i wanted to it was it was new york state of mind and new york state of mind so he
their presidents came out with nas they did their presidents to the world is yours new york state
of mind and to where i'm from fire i know i sounded like butter on a biscuit over to where i'm
from beat and hove sounded damn good over the fucking uh new york state yeah i'm like man these
niggas should have rapped together more often something about this combo works shocker yeah
that was sick go ahead mark yeah and again he mixes like for example when he came out there
ain't no nigga he didn't mix right in the excuse me miss you know what i'm saying and so for people
who again who weren't there for 96 but knew some of the bigger hits yeah he had the whole stadium
two-step it you know what i'm saying and and that vibe and that switch up back and forth made the
whole made everything great also the visuals a lot of times when you go to jay-z shows there's not
a visual component yeah he had a different artist do it somebody worked with beyonce before and you
could see every not so much on night three but on night one and two the visuals in the background
also were a game changer massive screen yeah massive that shit was fucking huge
even having the even the projector on the field and the little screen no matter where you were
you were able to see they had side screens for the obstructed views like the big-ass screen
and then on the sides for the people who got the corner seats you still had a screen that's so like
they made sure no matter where you sat you if you couldn't get a good view of the stage you were able
to see what's going on yeah smoke that and word got around town about what time he went on stage
night one i knew what time he went on stage so cool uh wait are we done with that one go ahead
no no just two more quick things i thought was really dope um feeling it that's the blue ivy
moment oh yeah a lot of people were not expecting that oh yeah that's the blue ivy moment oh yeah
expected that nobody was expecting that i wasn't expecting that yeah she came out on the piano
and was and was playing while it while they did while they did feeling it which i thought was dope
um some people don't know she's been playing piano for a long time now uh self-trained gray
ear doesn't want to take lessons he said because she wants to be such an improvisational artist
but she came out and bodied it man the fans lost their mind with that that's fine i also like did
that moment where he did the evils and switched in and no church in a while it was it was just
these moments where like the stick the combos were things that you wouldn't think of but when
you think about you're like oh that makes all the sense of course of course it makes sense right
yeah and people was losing it every stage man it was dope it was fine yeah no his arrangement was
bar none yeah yeah yeah and then uh he did an encore on that night and uh he did about another
maybe like 40 minutes on an encore and it got to the point where he was like guru just
play something i'm gonna what it is i know all these play something and he was doing it
from the dome you know what i mean like remembering his lyrics you know i mean a couple times he's
like no that's for tomorrow that's for tomorrow don't do that you know what i mean because that's a
blueprint song but i mean he was he was guru was digging in the crates with some of this and
and everybody lost their minds it was it was a great show i walked out of that show feeling like
if i don't see nothing else you're satisfied i'm satisfied to the encore you you speak of so you
ended with um new york state of mind with alicia keys and then the encore comes uh you don't know
best of me part two blow the whistle la la la beware the boys change the game do it again you me him her
rock boys the winner is psa niggas in paris big pimping that's an encore that's a show by itself
that's right that's absolutely leaving them alone bro yeah yeah punjabi mc came with niggas like god
damn you know that you know but you you ain't thinking about it yeah yeah yeah yeah especially
the reasonable doubt show i wasn't expecting to hear that yeah i mean i like that he switched it
up from the other anniversary show he did for reasonable doubt which was uh oh six yeah because
they did he did literally he came out did regrets and went worked his way up to can knock the hustle
but didn't sprinkle anything else in right it was just those songs i saw that and that's kind
of what i thought was going to happen that's why i wasn't excited me neither yeah and then they came
out and did an encore so to mix in the new records to keep the energy up and then still give you
reasonable doubt hey you know you can say that you can say there's nothing you can say i'm tired
i ain't good well i'm happy i went to fendi but right night one was i would i would have been that
was a real parks kind of night yeah yeah it was it was i should i wasn't doing i ain't know that
we was really all jacking the yo we going to all three new york went to all three shows
energy has been insane for the last four months i know that flew out here from
other spots for all three shows oh no mad flew in yeah mad women flew in
it was a lot it was a lot of women oh yeah a lot of a lot of women yeah yeah yes i didn't yes
yeah somebody sent to the group chat on friday
so i was somebody that was at that friday show put it right in the group chat yo y'all
y'all missed it i was walking outside i went without my wife so i was so busy
texting about missing her looking for my yeah i was walking outside like man shout out to jay
he brought him out looking around like yo he really brought today what you want he bought
him out it was it was like it was people our age it was younger it was a joint that you know was
the in 96 and she was coming down the street like she was still 96. yeah i mean yeah no you're
right you don't talk about it you're right like girl okay it was it was it was our demo yeah it
was our it was our demo like that felt good though yo bro yeah that was the best feeling ever think
about this but that's what i'm gonna get to one night to me i'm gonna get to it all of them ain't
even get a chance to come because usher and chris had a show in dc at the same night so both shows
is packed out half of the dc show jumped on a plane the next day and came to new york that's insane bro
you know one thing that i was admiring real quick before you get into into the next segment was his
stamina him being on stage all of that that was amazing i was sitting there like he didn't take
a seat at all big ass stage he just ran around i'm like this man is 50 something years old doing that
he sounds good he sounds clear well that's one of the things that jumped out to me as well how in
shape he was yeah he was very very in shape i wasn't really giving a about his hair do you know
but you can see his arms his shoulders his face face was skinny yeah yeah he looked like prepared
for a scuffle yeah yeah like why is hove prepared for like chill because i'm wrapped for 15 hours
and three days you gotta think about it if you count ruth's picnic plus these three shows this
prepared for four different shows yeah in a very short time yeah like that ain't easy
nah it takes a a long time to prepare for one show that they just doing over and over and over and
over yeah i'll give you our four completely different shows facts yeah that is true at
that age so night two i didn't have any tickets tonight too but a good friend of mine karan shout
to karan uh he had tickets that he wasn't able to make so he was selling the tickets
so i said oh this makes perfect sense i'll buy the tickets from karan which were in section 119 or 118
i don't even think i ever been to the new yankee stadium that was my first time i've
i've never been to the new yankee stadium even for baseball no no that's my first time no i've been to
the old yankee stadium and anything in the new yankee stadium i've sent my dad right i haven't
physically gone there it's cool to see when you're picking up your bronx and you driving by
i mean when you play it's cool that's your benchmark all right the yankee stadium is right
there this is left right yeah yeah yeah so but i've never been in there but section 119
i bought the tickets from karan even though they went on sale for cheaper than he was selling them
but that's my man so who cares about all that yeah i buy the tickets and i figure because i have a
suite the next day i'll call ahead and say hey can i come in through some type of sweet entrance
and then just get an escort to bring me where where i gotta go and and shout out to mike oh
none of this none of my weekend is possible without uh mike the gentleman who was escorting
me around in there so we get a good parking pass and mike comes out but now i get there around
call it 8 15-ish okay you yeah what do you mean i thought you'd have been there like 6 45 you don't
play well that's what i mean i had heard by now that he's hitting that stage he went on at 9 15.
so i got there at 8 15 thinking you know i'll give me a hot dog or something sure and while we
had it uh yankee stadium hot dogs don't hold a candle to madison square garden well the food in
general was we didn't really yeah but yeah anyway really yeah the food was not great you know i'll
be eating all that but i went to the yankee game that looked amazing well see i loved the
food day three but we'll get to it we'll get to that okay but the hot dog no you really need to
step up your hot dog if you want to have some cultural relevance no no yeah they talk about
something uh yeah that wasn't a uh saber whatever that's what i wish i think that wasn't that's a
chicken out though but anyway so mike is escorting us through this but it's like regular people
tickets so we going through the crowd and we just taking like long walks and somebody told
Mike that I'm a podcaster which is true I am but tonight yeah I'm not just a fan I'm a rapper
I was on this label when this album dropped that's true this era that they talking about
the people that's here we identified differently right like they don't they may not know podcast
but I'm all things I'm all the things tonight is the point so to say this guy's a podcaster
might be a little misleading to the older white gentleman that's walking you through like
pedestrian hook pedestrian walkways and shit but I tell you this nigga's mind was blown
at the chaos being caused uh it almost turned into like panic for him
yeah
like hey I don't they told me he was this but we got to get you that we got to get you
out of here and then it scared me because I'm like oh shit and he taking us to regular people's seats
I said Mike you got to do something but that was one of the beauties too
like and and just because again we watching it from the gram yeah yo you saw stars dancing in
the aisle with Joe Schmoes you know what I'm saying like uninterrupted just having a ball
like people's cool they left they cool at home they left their egos at home
we here for the whole show yo LeBron is LeBron is here
yeah like
everybody is here
yes
you know why we here
everybody is here
everybody
yes
it puts your it puts your startup in perspective too when you like you know what I mean when
you seeing like who's in what
they all came out
everybody was
everybody was there
niggas who
that's real
niggas made travel arrangements
yeah
from wherever
true
to be here
yeah
so Mike was kind enough to sell me the last box he called it a suite that's misleading
the last box that was available 123 so it was a box so it was closed off but you could
peek up and see who in there
okay
so shout out to all the fans that was just around the bike was a lot of fans
yeah it was
a lot of pod fans out there a lot of patronies it was a lot of love out there and it was
so much love that
that the New York people know that I'm a recluse, weird introvert.
So I almost got one on tape.
Like, while I'm trying to tape the show, somebody behind me's like,
yo, buddy, yo, buddy, yo, buddy.
And then I turn around and say, yo, what the fuck?
But it's a New York show.
So that's New Yorkers you're talking to.
So they New York their way out of, yo, don't get an attitude, nigga.
I love you, nigga.
I know you don't like people.
I don't give a fuck.
I want a picture.
Nigga, what's up?
I'm a Patroni, nigga.
Fix your face, Joe.
So it's like, you end up taping the picture.
It's a vibe now.
Yo, we're going to get to it.
So it's a vibe.
Imagine what it's like stuck outside.
Oh, my God.
Yo, you don't know what it was like outside, yo.
You guys, we're not at the portion of the show where we hear from you paupers.
Bums.
The freeze.
You fucking idiot concert goers that can't hear.
We track at the time.
Want to be cute.
Make an appearance.
Fucking come casually late.
I only go right before the main artist hits the stage.
Yeah, y'all know New York got that real smug, weed them attitudes.
But we'll get to that.
Now's not the time for you bum losers that was stuck out there.
And I'm going to talk about it.
Because if you were left up to me, hoes come out there talking, yo, we had to save lives.
People would have get trampled and stamped.
I was like, if they died, they died.
I mean, until I remember my mom was out there.
Hey, yo, I come from the era where, yo, nigga, you late.
You start hearing the music through the doors.
Now, you know what you missed?
That's your song on in there.
But Travis Scott and that stupid Astroworld shit fucked everything up.
So now artists got to act like we fucking got to keep people alive.
Like it's our fucking job.
We got to stop.
Hey, that guy right there.
Make sure he's all right.
It's so performative, yo.
I have it in the face.
It's so performative.
You from the city college era.
It is.
Remember Puff at the joint?
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
Come on, man.
We from the era.
Come on, yo.
That is the era, though.
How many can we fit?
Ten more?
Rest in peace.
Rest in peace.
Die, man.
No, I'm not.
Rest in peace to the people who passed.
I'm just saying that's how promoters used to move.
No, they weren't.
Yeah.
Yeah, stampede rules and effect.
Just don't be at the bottom of the pound.
You better hold on to somebody, nigga.
No, no.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Yes, you missed it.
You missed it.
You're outside, but we'll get to that.
Where was I in this story?
I was somewhere before I went on this.
You were in the box.
You were in the box.
Oh, so the fans were great.
So the fans were absolutely amazing.
Shout out to all the fans out there.
Y'all was.
So now I'm looking around, and that's what I mean.
Like, I gained a little bit of understanding, right?
Like, day two.
All right.
Jay-Z, as if it wasn't clear before, for me, Jay-Z is the best.
But I'm going to start saying to me, because I don't want to cause an argument with nobody.
It's not to you.
It's not to you.
It's to me.
It is, though.
It's to a lot of people.
It's to me.
That's cool.
It is, though.
That's cool.
It's to you.
But when I say it.
You got to say it.
I'm talking about from my brain, my experience, my record label days, and trying to make a
song, and trying to tour, and coming from the era where they wouldn't let an artist
do certain things, to him being the president, to him doing the Samsung shit, all of the
scams and loopholes.
And he did it, yo.
He did it.
He is the best, bar none.
To me, as hip hop grows and it changes, I'm clear to this niggas that Drake is the best
too.
A salute to y'all and whatever metric y'all are looking from.
This nigga's where Kendrick is.
There's no argument for me.
For me, him and the people that he brought out, not the artists, not the artists, the
crowd, that was us.
It was symbolic of somebody.
Who has spent their entire career speaking directly to culture, about culture.
And for culture.
And for culture, yo.
Yes.
And that part has been lost.
But when you look around in there and see the people that are there, the way that they
dress, the way that they talk, the way that they speak.
Like, listen, the Drake shows is fire.
But you look around in that crowd, it's going to look a little different.
On night two, when I looked around, I saw sprinkles of white people.
I did too.
Like heads.
Like niggas that fucking worked at Rockets.
Like the label niggas.
Rob Markman.
What up?
I seen Rob Markman.
Night two, I seen Mike Caron.
Mike Caron.
Yeah.
Big Mike.
Mike is the one that told me.
He's like, I said, Mike.
Oh.
He said, Marshall.
He said, hey, your boy is here.
He said, my boy?
Oh, I got so many boys here.
Your Marshall's here.
I said, oh.
That makes sense.
I seen Paul at Preem's show on Thursday.
Thursday.
He said that shit.
I was a fan.
I'm sitting with the fans, and I'm fanned out.
But I'm going to the Blueprint show to be a fan.
This is my, I'm with my kinfolk now.
So the show start, and I'm fanned out.
So, sorry, rapper hands is back.
Oh, yeah.
Facts.
Rapper hands is back.
And what I notice,
is that I'm going to be a fan of the Blueprint show.
And I'm going to be a fan of the Blueprint show.
As I looked around, yo, he could have played any song in there,
I would have known every word.
Yeah, bro.
No, no, no.
He could have played Early This Morning, Lyrical Exercise.
All of it.
Not just you.
Any song he would have pulled out of Punjabi MC,
I would have known every last word of it.
Yo, not just you, though.
Passionately.
What I saw was, the 46-year-old, six-inch stiletto baddies
would have known every word, too.
Yes.
So when you talk about what he did and who he brought out,
like, dog.
Like, dog.
The Wall Street chicks, the real corporate exec chicks,
was in there with Timberlands on.
Yeah.
With Yankee jerseys and Timberlands on.
Like, that shit was amazing to watch.
So now, I'm moving with my rapping hands,
but my rapping hands is different,
because I used to rap.
So it looked different from the Spanish nigga from the Bronx
that was in front of me doing the rapping hands, too.
Like, it looked so different, I had to chill.
Because it looked like a nigga that, like,
feel like he performing, or want to perform, or got that.
And I'm looking at my girl.
Why is it the Jay-Z?
It's a funny thing.
It's a whole funny segment to be alone.
My girl never seen rapper me.
Oh, that's true.
That's true.
She's never seen that bop.
Right.
She's only ever seen pop.
Yeah.
And it is a different bop.
It is, for sure.
So she looking at me with, like, this glimmer in her eye.
Like, a twinkle.
Like, it was making me feel like,
it was making me feel awkward.
Like, so, damn, you like me again?
Right.
You want me to impress you again?
Sure.
No, so when I sit down, she's, like,
she's looking at me with this twinkling eye,
and she's like, babe, babe, she's mad in love.
Babe, tell that you, you don't think about it sometimes.
Babe, you don't miss it, you don't miss it.
My song, it's called Mama Loves Me, it's a hard one.
She's like, babe, you don't ever get the urge to just.
Yeah, that's the thing.
Hit the stage again.
Mama loves me.
Yeah, I'm sitting here, I'm feeling like Ralph Krennan, like, dog.
you speak to who he brought out you know who i really i ain't gonna say feel bad for because
y'all subscribe to this but everybody with this um pick a side culture yeah the motherfuckers who
you know they wanted to be there uh but i pick a side i can't show up here and it's some heads
some goofy shit it's some heads that's out there that had to miss it some goofy like goofs like
some groups what that pick a side that shit is whack that's just hella good um no but i just
absolutely right fucking uh so m comes out killed well slick rick comes out first yeah dog i'm
listen yo chill out chill out i slapped the shit out of you to my slick like that
oh don't man there'll be no sick ricks later
i'm gonna just go ahead and cut that right out yeah yeah here we go because the saving grace
for
that moment was rory you know thank god yo thank god there's a nigga in here with my that totally
understands my sense of humor somebody's gonna hear what i have to say about slick rick right
now right to the text yo he opens with the rulers back cool we love the rulers back then slick rick
comes out looking like amazing looking like that chain he got on the outfit he's killing that shit
but slick rick i don't know if it was his mic
i don't know if he was excited i don't know if it was his breath control it wasn't the greatest
performance vocally uh slick rick it seems like there was a lot of that with guests
yeah to be fair they're not j yo and i was trying to explain to someone on twitter but then i stopped
because you can't explain shit on twitter like talk about tiana which we'll get to
it's like bro if you can't hear yourself it's really fucking hard to perform
that's why so i'm gonna keep it cool with with slick rick but at some point it's like hey
with all due respect og no he still puts on a good show
so it had to have been something i've seen him recently well just tonight in this moment
off of the rulers back we good see because unlike people had a lot to say about all of the features
all of the guest artists that came out uh on night one and night three yeah me i'll be honest
with you i was only i was only outside to see one person marshal jay-z oh i didn't care about
so slick rick awesome love him great marshall came out and i was like oh my god i don't know
that was great he's such a fucking technical mastermind on that stage his shit ain't gonna be
fucked up so yeah his ain't his ain't gonna be fucked up he's gonna get the beyonce mic yes
the beyonce mic and the beyonce people controlling the mic walk around with him just daily
he don't play with none of that stage he got shit right he got his own special mic it has his special
fucking eq
and eqs
and and during renegade jay mike sounded off uh i saw jay kind of looking like he was struggling
with the in-ear a little bit during renegade and a bad time for that to happen with all of the
stories that we've gotten about jay and marshall on renegade so now here come m out who we can hear
some in the position to talk to you kids and listen i ain't a politician but i can get a
yankee stadium yeah nah he gotta chill out nigga somebody fucking throw something at him
he got a
little bit so they killed that and they did the uh same thing where m is rapping over
a jb and hove is rapping over like that was they killed they killed that that's no they killed that
so we got the medley again then pharrell comes out he smoked it yeah and then the show kind of
was over there was no encore and he's sitting there on the stage saying yo y'all my last song
is coming up and i'm letting y'all know that it's coming up and i'm letting y'all know that it's
okay no okay yes i was expecting no his encore set was the pharrell shit
because he finishes with empire state of mind that's the goodbye i'm new york yankees all of
that i do the frank sinatra shit i go in to do the record now the encore is the pharrell i end
with niggas in paris big pimping all of that shit that well because of everything i heard
that went on at night one while he's on stage saying yo this is my last song is my last song
i'm thinking he lying right it was a much shorter set so i'm still i'm sitting i ain't moving i'm
gonna catch all this shit and he's showing us that thank you y'all peace and left it was a 90
minute show like damn this nigga was on the t with this and now i'm hitting the exit with everybody
it took me about an hour to get off that block i bet it was well day three it was crazy outside
yeah it took me an hour to get off that block so now when we get to day three i'm like all right
i want to go earlier i don't want to go at 8 15 i want to be there at seven because i want to get
i want to relax i don't want to feel rushed i don't know where i'm going in this building i
want to chill yeah uh so i leave earlier get there at 7 15 and there's no crowd outside
smoothest entry ever and i'm like this is hot this show is starting in about two hours
i got there about 7 30 and it was fucking crowd outside damn yeah that fast yeah i walked in
smooth as ever and i'm like this is hot this show is starting in about two hours and i'm like this
is hot this show is starting in about two hours and i'm like this is fucking crowd outside damn yeah
i did to see my escort mike out there again and he was helpful i went different so now he had
different escort than i'm used to uh and on this day when when i went in
it's a different experience this is just this is the suite that i had paid for in advance
so we go up a little elevator we go through a private sector now now i don't see no fans
now it's just now you made this street good you good now robin lopez
520 boys oh shit for rap
my girl think i just be rushing everywhere she don't hate all that celebrity shit so but so we
walk and we got to make a turn through the the fucking private whatever it is uh security
checkpoint so i go but for real
right there so i walk by he's like joe
you don't for real you don't for real no i didn't know
but when he said joe and i turned around and seen for real instantly i thought all the shit i've been
talking i'm like seeing this is exactly why i just need to be with the fan i disappeared and the
bitch
so i go to pharrell i give him a big hug i bet he say yo it's warm embrace it's
you how you doing man i'm like for real man you killed it last night
yo you on such a run
yo you see me today i'm repping dog yo listen i'm repping for real is such a sweetheart did you
ask him for the hat huh did you ask him for the hat no and as soon as i turned around my girl said
nigga did you ask him for the hat i said no i didn't ask him for the hat
but so now we in shishi foo-foo land we walking down hallways nice up there this week it's this
week we walking security is quiet it smelled like a different fragrance up here it ain't a fan in
sight it's this beautiful women just going back and forth it's ac yeah it's feeling good and they
take us to the suite whatever suite it was 48 all the food that i ordered was there fucking
sandwiches and they're very different from the glizzy i had the night before with the with the
hamburger that yeah yikes so this food y'all didn't see that food so this food i was like
all right some real food some seeds i'm here early d nice is spinning yeah my people are coming oh we
about to have a time and the weight game began now it begins which everybody was cool d nights
was killing it was a good vibe out there and when 9 15 came when everybody noted this nigga is
supposed to be on the stage
you
nothing what time let me ask y'all what what time did y'all get any type of announcement
that anything that hey there's a there's something going on uh i would guess yeah yeah it was after
because they did d nice did his set and then they started playing breaks that people use for records
right which they did like twice and then after that they came through on a staticky ass mic
it's just breaking up like what the result outside and we'll you know okay very vague no no
time nothing all right we time so this is where we started taking bets on with the show was gonna
happen yeah no way this show was gonna happen because we had a feeling it was still gonna
happen so yankees and jay-z they're gonna push this shit some people will tweet you know i'm in
here i know it's gonna not gonna be a shot guarantee i'm not gonna hold you yo so we we we
timed it because i was like i'm not driving over there i'm not even worried about no uber we're
gonna catch the train which was fire because you on the train going to yankee stadium with nothing
but whole fans yeah oh yeah so it was it was it was an experience it was fire yeah we took the
train out a lot of trouble we was like yo we're gonna we plan to get there around 8 15. we're gonna
ended up getting at 8.30.
So when we walk out, it looked
weird because it's like it's mad people more than people but there was no lines that's what made it
weird yeah usually you'll see lines you could tell what's going on there was no lines by the door
he's right so we walk out we right at gate c i'm sorry gate six excuse me uh-huh but the shutters
is down or the gates was closed so i'm like all right that's weird i find a guy that with a with
a blue shirt where's the suite entrance go around the corner yeah we walk it's just a sea of people
So you're getting around, and you're noticing every gate is closed.
But nobody has no information.
You see people running back and forth.
Like, the communication from whatever the issue was to outside was bad.
Yeah.
And that's what fucked a lot of people.
And the communication was bad on the inside as well.
Okay.
See, it was bad.
It was to the point where once we did a very poor job in letting people know what was going on.
For real.
Even when we got to the suite entrance, the line was maybe three or four people deep this way.
And then who knows how long.
Okay.
So we couldn't even find how to get into the suite.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
The suite entrance.
So it was bad from rip, really.
Let me tell you something, man.
First of all, niggas, yo, Flip, why you on the line?
I'm trying to duck my head.
Why you on the line, bitches?
Yo, you ain't got tickets?
You ain't got tickets?
Yo, why you on the line?
That's one.
Two, people are, now, I'm frustrated.
So, excuse me to the, anything.
Anybody that I might have came, you know, fucking me across.
I apologize, but I'm frustrated.
I'm on his line.
People making mad noise.
They're touching me.
They excited.
Cool.
But I'm just trying to say, like, okay, I missed night two because he gave me the tickets late.
I came outside and I was outside.
Yeah, you definitely sent tickets late.
Oh, yeah, because I sent Flip a ticket for night two.
I totally forgot that part.
I took it.
I was going to.
I was going to put it in the group chat.
He was like, yo, I got two joints.
I'm not using.
Because I bought a box.
He said that show time.
Why?
It was like 830.
But that's when I got the box.
I never know why.
I was trying to buy tickets all day.
Them shits is like two, three grand to get there.
And so I was like, fuck, I'm going to take a nap.
I'm tired anyway from the three nights of going out.
And then I wake up with Joe saying, yo, I got extra tickets.
I'm like.
So I'm outside and then I see like.
Sorry.
Well, one of the cops was a fan of the show because he showed me a picture.
She took a Joe button named Marquez and Valentin.
They were cool.
I was standing there for a while.
So people kept trying to rush.
They had a little gate.
People kept trying to slip, slide through there.
Now I'm staying right here being cool with the cops because I'm like.
He's a viper.
Yeah.
Typical.
My typical, yeah, yeah.
When it opens, they're going to let me through.
But people just kept rushing through and filling it up.
And everybody was like, do not rush.
Do not rush.
Because they were blocking the door.
Then I see Rashad.
So Rashad telling me like, yo, the sweet entry right here.
Yo, Flip, come on.
But I call Rashad Troy by mistake.
Because I keep calling him Troy.
He don't look like a Rashad.
He like a Troy.
So Rashad get me.
So me and Rashad is on the line, the sweet line.
Because now they starting.
They opened up that sweet part.
Yeah.
I guess Rihanna and Rocky went through.
Whatever, however that happened.
So they opened it up.
And I didn't let people through.
So Rashad like, come here, Flip.
So I'm there with him.
So now we go to the front.
They ask Rashad, yo, who you with?
That nigga look.
Because he look right past me and said, I with her.
I'm a violet, this nigga, when I get inside.
I'm like, nigga, you.
So because I called you Troy, we was just in here together
talking for mad love on the line.
Me and you in this old school, nigga.
And then now when they ask you at the front, yo, who you with?
See, I even love that.
I love that those old school.
Those old schools are ineffectual.
So he did that.
You find out who you fly with at the door,
the velvet rope in front of the club.
Oh, man.
So funny thing about that.
You really do.
So I text Joe.
I'm like, yo, did the show start yet?
He was like, nah.
I'm like, nigga, it's locked down out here.
Like, we walked all the way around.
There's no entrance.
It's open.
He goes, damn, yo, my mom's is out there.
Can you find her?
It got to be 12,000 to 15,000 people outside.
I'm not exaggerating.
I said, can you call her?
So I called Miss Faye.
I'm like, yo, wait.
I'm telling her where I'm at.
I got, by now, I done found Toy.
She almost got pressed, like, trampled at gate two.
I find her.
We come back.
We at the suite entrance, but the door's closed.
The lights is out.
There's nothing happening.
So I'm like, yo, I got to go get Joe Moms.
I go out in the street.
I find them.
We come back to the section.
We stand here trying to chill out.
And the whole shit, now everybody's coming over here.
But again, I'm walking back.
I'm walking back.
I'm walking back.
I'm walking back and forth.
Because I'm looking.
Ice, yo, what you doing?
Yo, you ain't got no ticket?
Yo, like, yo, fam, fam.
That's nasty.
I like that.
That's nasty.
I saw Deuce McBride out there online about to get trampled.
It was a lot of people outside.
I don't know if I believe whatever story they came up with.
No, I do.
I do.
I don't.
I saw a couple.
Like, that one, not what I think happened.
I think Jay was waiting for a certain artist.
I don't think so.
I think what I think happened was somebody.
Put one of the moves, and I've been the recipient of this move where a nigga opened that side
door and let you through, and it looked like niggas caught the door.
Because that scene, it's two clips running around.
But the one where everybody's busting through the gate, there's no metal detectors there,
which means that gate wasn't supposed to be open right there.
When you look at it, like, you know, normally, as soon as you go in the gate, the metal detector
is set up, unless it's a closed entrance or a closed side of an entrance.
Somebody bust that door to let they mans in.
Nigga hit him with a knife.
Yo, yo, all right, yo, come meet me.
Meet me at this side door right here.
I got you.
And when somebody seen that door open, they shut the door.
And now, two, three hundred people come.
Smoke and mirrors.
You think that's smoke and mirrors?
Smoke and mirrors.
Yeah, I think of it.
It's a trick.
Let me tell you something.
We are in the Bronx.
We are in New York.
Yankee Stadium.
I've been locked up.
Yankee Stadium.
I've been locked up at at least three of the Bronx jails.
I've been to the Bronx courthouse.
If there's one district where if they want to get it under control, they're going to
control, they can in a hurry.
It's the Bronx cops.
I'm not saying that.
And I do think that the event, from my perspective, looked a little understaffed for it to be
JZ at Yankee Stadium.
Yeah, that's what the cops telling me outside.
Yeah.
It did seem to be understaffed.
I don't see that.
But I didn't know if it was that or if all the staff was with all of the celebrities.
A little bit of both, I'm sure.
I think it was a little bit of both when they told me.
Joe, check it out, though.
If what I said happens and you get a hundred or so people just bust through a gate and
run it in the Bronx.
Now it's a security breach.
It's a security breach because one of the people who's in the Bronx, they're going to
people that we was with was talking to somebody that worked at Roc Nation on text, trying
to do the same.
Yo, can you get me in?
They're like, yo, the place, the building is on lockdown.
Nobody's allowed in or out.
And they was like, it's at the point where they're making the artists sign waivers if
you're going to perform because a bunch of people got in that we couldn't search.
So now if you're going to perform, you got to sign a waiver saying that we hold, if some
shit pop off in here, we're not liable.
It's just not a five hour issue.
I'm not saying what you're saying.
You got to get the legal paperwork drawn up.
You got to get all of that shit that they made.
And it could be a five hour issue because we also trying to do security sweeps and shit.
And what the officer told me was part of it was an understaffed issue.
They didn't have the capacity to manage inside and outside at the same time.
I thought everybody who was outside would go inside and all that police force and security
would be inside for the show.
But because of the issue, they were stretched between the two and they couldn't manage the
two.
That makes sense.
And they said once they bum rush the show, the other concern was if they start the show
on time and it's 10,000 people outside, that's going to make people bum rush again.
Yep.
Because they're going to hear the music going.
And so they were a little worried about that.
Because I got there right about 10 o'clock.
Shout out to my wife.
Why can't they come to a show?
What is up with them?
Joe, I said to my wife.
It's in their DNA.
I could see it two days ahead of time.
And I could see all the excuses.
So I said, you know what?
I'm going to take my son all day.
I'm going to take your mother to church.
I'm going to do everything.
All of the things.
Everything.
She didn't leave the house that day.
Her only job was to get ready.
There was one job.
I said, I'm pretty gentle.
You say pussy.
Whatever.
Tomato, tomato.
I said, it's really important to me that you're in the car by 630.
Which for me meant 7.
Right.
That's extra early.
You threw some time on it.
You built forgiveness into the system.
Of course.
I did the same thing.
Thank God for Rib.
She did good.
I get home at 630.
She's folding clothes.
Not dressed.
That's the other thing.
Women don't move with urgency.
No.
They don't observe time.
Like, it don't exist to them.
It's not real.
They don't even think about time.
Like, you'll tell them, like, shout out to my baby.
I love you.
But I have to literally be like, yo, we got this amount of time left.
We got this left.
Why are you rushing me?
Nah, she's like, we've had the conversation and she get it.
All right, cool.
Since we shit on our girls.
Night two is when I had to talk, like, okay, that whole just you need an hour before time thing, that's dead.
Stop saying that shit.
That's dead while we live together.
That shit is triggering.
I am going to, you are not going to be the decider of anything time while we live together.
That's it.
Trust me.
But an hour, an hour don't do nothing for you.
Nothing.
Why do they all say an hour?
Oh, I got, it was my hair and tomorrow I'm just wearing a hat.
Well, it won't be with an hour on the shot clock.
Nope.
That ain't happening.
I start off, no bullshit.
When we got to be somewhere, when we have to leave the house, y'all know how I am with punctuality.
It's important to me.
How are you with punctuality?
Y'all know, nigga, because you said be here at 1030.
I was here.
The only one to.
I'm just, I don't speak for nobody else.
That's why I can't find freeze, you know.
Watch your mouth.
You can't go no way, yo.
You wasn't up here at 1030?
I walked, I signed the book right behind Ice.
Ice, what is, yo, what are you?
You just believe your own shit, yo.
He was close to time, he was close to time.
Gotta do your thing.
Mark was late.
I signed it at 1029 and walked in this room at 1031.
Yo, why y'all think I care about the sign-in time?
I care about the time we lock eyes.
My point is we was all. Anyway.
In the vicinity of on time.
Yeah.
You was saying.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was saying.
No, I was just saying,
I start off at three hours.
Well, that's what I thought I was doing.
I start, yo,
it's time to start getting ready.
Getting the showers,
doing what you got to do.
I'm time managing you.
And the driver was there.
I had a babysitter come.
Nice, nice.
All this shit.
And they still dropped the ball.
I went upstairs to check on her.
With that 15 minute grace time.
There were no clothes in sight.
Makeup.
She's putting on makeup.
I was like, we not getting. And there's no way you can make the,
I'm here just to check on your status,
look like you're not there to check on it.
I'm standing there like,
you got to just rip that bandaid off, bro.
Rip that bandaid off
and then going forward,
they know what it is.
And there should be a. Jay-Z is like dude fucking Christmas.
This is the day.
She knew it because normally
when I go up there and be like,
yo, what the fuck?
It's like, well, I had to do this,
I had to do this or don't. She was like, I need 15 more minutes.
Which is. An hour.
And that language is my bad.
Yeah, that was nice.
That's white for my bad.
I know, I know.
An hour later, we get into the car.
So I don't get into the car
at eight o'clock.
All right, we do have a whole
another night to get through.
I'm sorry.
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm back.
This is night, 9.45.
It took me just 9.45 to eat
because the highway was crazy now
because all the backup.
We didn't get to the show
until about 9.45, 9.55.
That's why I didn't want to drive
or Uber right there.
And the show hadn't started yet.
And of course, my wife said,
see, aren't you glad
we didn't get there early?
See, that pissed you off.
Nigga.
You came out the sunroof?
I was about to.
So we went straight,
I went straight to the. Suite entrance.
Well, the suite entrance
and the VIP entrance,
all that shit is all around
the side of the building.
And we got there
and Joe texted me, you good?
I thought you were being
passive aggressive.
Like, why are you so late?
Yeah, I wasn't.
Because I didn't know
what had happened yet.
And then they told me, like,
all the shit we've been
talking about.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The building was locked down.
So I went to the VIP
and was like, can I go in?
And they was like,
nobody can get in or out.
I was like,
I'm not waiting out here.
It's 10 o'clock.
Then one of the New York Yankees
walked up.
I don't know who he is,
but he's black.
He was speaking Spanish.
And he had big muscles.
The cops lost their minds for him
and they opened
some special door for him.
And I just followed him
like a. Bitch.
Like a bitch.
Smart move.
Smart move.
Smart bitch right there.
Hola.
Yeah, because the cop was like,
he said, where you going?
I said, I'm going in.
He said, he's famous.
I said, so am I.
He said, I don't know who you are.
And I was about to respond.
My wife was like,
nigga, just fuck him.
Just go.
But shout out to Officer Perez
who got me to. There you go.
There you go.
He looked out.
Officer Perez looked out.
But then we got upstairs.
I didn't realize
everything that was going on.
I would have helped you.
I would have helped your mom at least.
Well, let's pay bills.
Let's do that.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
For sure.
And let's come back
with more Jay-Z.
Don't touch that door.
Come on, y'all.
Don't hit that 15 second.
Don't hit that 15 second skit.
Right.
Right after we pay these bills.
More Jay-Z.
More Jay-Z.
They hit the 15th.
We still gonna be talking about Jay-Z.
We still gonna be at work.
Get the 15 minute skit.
Right.
Yeah, no, it's true.
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Now, the problem
with day three
taking so long to start,
that show started at 12.15.
On a Sunday.
12.30 on a Sunday
to people that have jobs,
people that have 401Ks.
It wasn't no holiday.
Niggas was scheduled
to be at work
and I was about to leave
at least 12 times.
Seriously.
I was rounding,
I was like,
yo, listen, yo.
By like,
I want to say
10, 20, 10, 30-ish,
I was like,
yo, dog,
I don't even think
this show's happening.
We start,
you see people
leaving out the crowd.
Yo, the other crazy shit
that was happening
and just talking to people around,
their phones died
from being out there so long.
But your tickets
on your phone.
From being birds.
Oh.
But I'm saying
your tickets is on your phone.
Well, you should have been
on 100 when you showed up.
Oh, I agree.
Y'all birds and dots.
Niggas got old phones,
the battery don't last long.
When you get in them
big crowds and shit,
the battery be going quicker
because the service
is fucked up.
Yeah, it's trying harder.
Niggas' phones was dying.
Like, damn,
what we going to do?
I seen a lot of people
that was like,
my fucking phone died.
I'm going to go try
to get it charged somewhere.
Yeah, but we done hearing
from y'all people
that was outside.
Right.
It's open.
We're inside.
Now we inside.
Well, y'all was inside
doing nothing,
so we telling you
about some other shit.
At least something's happening.
There was food and alcohol
inside.
That's true.
There was food and alcohol
outside too.
And comfort.
Niggas had the bar outside.
There was a chair.
Chair inside.
Fucking beautiful people
to look at.
It was a lot going on
on the inside.
It was a vibe inside.
Should have been there.
That chicken you had, man.
Listen, that food was good.
Listen, I had the food day too.
That food day in there,
the shrimp,
them sandwiches was crazy.
I had a great time.
I was eating everything in there.
But now,
that's not what I'm saying, Freeze.
I'm saying,
I almost hit DJ Premier
to send me Derek Jeter's number.
I'm saying,
I was trying to talk
to Yankee Brass,
Mariano Rivera,
nigga, to find out.
Give me a fucking answer.
Yeah, I was looking for,
I was looking for my answers
because they wasn't
announcing nothing.
So I'm in my phone,
I'm hitting my escort.
I'm like,
yo, seriously,
what time does this show start?
And is this show still happening?
It looked to me like
not only is it not going to happen,
but y'all know that
and y'all are dealing with
all these people inside
clashing with all those people outside
and y'all already understaffed
so y'all going to have a big problem.
That was what we thought.
That it wasn't happening
and they were trying to wait
for more people to leave
on their own
before they announced it.
So it don't be as big as a mob out there.
The only reason I didn't leave
is because I assumed
a mob to be out there
so I was going to have a hard time
getting out of that block.
It was a mob.
Anyway,
and sure enough,
right when I hit them out
and took two and three naps,
right when I hit
homeboy Mike,
shout out to Mike,
and say,
yo,
how do I exit this building?
Immediately.
I'm done.
The show starts.
And now the fun starts.
Yeah.
Because now
my whole reverence
is out the window.
And now
you got a critic.
You want to start the show
five hours later?
Less critique.
Less pod.
I was rapper fan Joe before.
Nigga, I'm grumpy
and sleepy
and
now,
now I don't know
who's in the suite.
For real,
I don't know when y'all got there.
I don't know when nobody's
seen me.
I'm looking around
and now I'm pissed
because who the fuck
is some of these niggas?
No, no, no, no, no.
On the first wake up
at a show,
I need to be.
Oh, you went to sleep.
It's just y'all.
I wake up.
It is bad.
Nah.
Yo, Sha, I see you.
LV, I love you.
I'm looking at Kyle was here.
I'm like a bunch of people
that my mom pulled a move.
I don't know what happened.
I don't know what happened,
but hey,
you want to play?
Now you get grumpy, Joe.
You had your notes out?
So,
you see me, right?
I woke up with no pants.
I was like,
this motherfucker
is a whore.
Yeah, I ain't playing with him.
You want to start?
Hey, I'm going to stay here
and now I'm working.
And that didn't bode well
for none of the people
that came out here.
Because first,
now you got Tiana
that comes out.
Before you start,
let me just,
please.
I was about to get in my bag.
I'm going to let you.
You see it coming, right?
I'm loading up.
Check it out.
They announced the door's opening.
They tell us go to door four.
They'll get y'all in.
We going in.
Listen.
Let the poor people talk.
Freeze.
Let the poor people talk,
God damn it.
There was more of us
outside than inside.
I'm right at the door
and you hear Dynasty intro start.
So the whole crowd
is now pushing the door.
So now we're running.
We get in.
We're running Dynasty intro.
I missed the first three records.
Right.
Which was
Dynasty intro.
Which is a great intro.
Once that came on,
I was like,
all right.
Three hour song.
I forgive you.
Dynasty intro.
I'm just trying to give
some props to that.
I'm fired.
He don't do that.
You get what I'm saying?
And the band
hooked that shit up too.
Yeah.
But go ahead.
Don't interrupt me again.
I have to.
I have to get that part out
because.
because that's important.
We got to highlight Dynasty's intro.
Nah, I'm not highlighting nothing
where he tried to calm me down.
Don't come in and try to make me
piece it up with Hov now,
because it's too late.
The damage is done, nigga.
It's up already?
Dynasty came on, and I was chilling.
I don't normally hear that.
That's my point.
You got up, nigga.
That's my point, nigga.
Nah, Dynasty came on.
I watched you get up.
I heard you say get up.
I mean, I watched you.
I stood up.
Yes!
I was behind you.
You said, oh!
Nigga, you was doing this.
You did.
You played.
You got up.
You said, yo.
Hold up, Mark.
I'm glad that you said that
and reminded me.
Yo, I'm as Hovinger as they come,
but there are boundaries.
You're not doing this?
You got to throw up the diamond?
On night two, that nigga
looked in the audience and said,
yo, throw your diamonds in the sky
like this and wave them up and down.
No.
It's fair.
No.
You can't do it on command.
I'm sorry, yo.
I'm not never doing that.
I got signed to Def Jam
and was forced to compete
with all these fucking diamond-selling artists.
No.
I'm never putting my diamond in the air,
but the whole rest of the crowd did.
That's when I knew I was different.
Like, I love this nigga
and have a deep reverence for him.
Some shit we just not going to do, yo.
I can't do the thing like this.
I can't.
Joe, I got my father's pride, yo.
I did not throw up a diamond.
The nigga, Joe.
Ice is fanned out.
Ice's middle name is fan.
You know he did that shit.
Flip ain't doing nothing.
Flip was just taking notes and observing.
I was watching everybody.
He was live-tweeting.
Yeah, I saw.
Listen, when the Dynasty shit came out,
I watched Joe get up and I was like this.
I saw him.
I said, look at this stupid nigga.
I signed him, too.
Now I'm back in my zone now.
I'm back in my. He backed you down.
I don't know who these people in my suite are.
I don't know what time it is,
and I'm tired and ready to go, nigga.
You better have tapped into whatever rapper energy
I got in my soul left.
And the Dynasty did that.
He smoked that shit.
Cool.
Back to critic time.
Then Tiana comes out for Ken Knocked Uzzle,
which I'm glad that this is going on
because I missed night one.
Right.
And for the most part,
night three is like night one and night two
just merged with a couple of treats in between.
But Tiana comes out,
and there's something wrong with her mic
and her in-ear.
Yeah.
It's both.
It's both.
And we can't really hear her.
And on night one,
Beyonce came out and did all this.
With all due respect,
Beyonce is one of the top performers.
Ever.
Ever.
And ever.
Yeah, it's not fair.
Nope.
But Tiana looked great.
It was nice to see her.
You know she's a friend of the show,
but not when I just woke up
and I've been sitting here for five hours.
Sorry.
Gonna need more than that, Sean.
Yeah, no.
No, that didn't do it.
And right when I was talking shit,
it's like he must have heard
me, then Jeezy came out.
No, no, we skipped it.
Who?
Jermaine Dupri was next.
Oh, no, I was happy about that.
Money in a Thing was next.
Yeah, oh, no, I was happy about that.
No, now we cooking now, boy.
Yeah, yeah, we was good.
We was good.
Nah, we cooking now, boy.
We was in our back by then.
Jermaine Dupri had his Atlanta hoodie on
with his Atlanta hat on.
Mic was on.
Another friend of the show,
who we've had up here.
Yeah, you can hear him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The sound, I don't know if it was the suites,
but the sound in general
was a little bit fucked up to me.
Like, I don't know if it's just
because we're up high in the suite.
I think the band sound was so good
that everybody was just trashed.
Yeah, yeah.
I heard the music to a T.
Oh, facts.
It was knocking in that bitch.
Oh, my God.
It was knocking.
I want to purchase just the music
from all three nights
and just play it like it's Kool and the Gang
or the band playing.
Seriously.
But anyway, all right, cool.
So, Jermaine Dupri, I like that.
I'm into it.
You got me.
You got me.
And then Jeezy comes out.
And again, I'm off the head.
I'm not trying to go into it.
Jeezy cancels his Vegas show.
They doing fucking, I done seen it all.
I'm hearing it.
Yeah, he plays the whole sample coming into it.
Yeah.
And I'm like.
I'm like, nah.
Nah.
Nah, so now I got to stand up.
I almost jumped.
I almost jumped off the suite.
But I didn't because my girl be looking at me
and was like, let me try to be cool.
But.
Yo, when you vibe to a song
and your girl don't really know the song.
And now she looking at you and you fanned out.
Your girl should know the list of artists
or songs that could get you in that bag.
Yeah.
She should just know that.
Like, you know.
Oh, my team, my girl don't know that.
Well, she should.
I'm saying, y'all got to have that conversation.
Who I am in the last seven years,
who I portray myself to be is a whole new nigga
than who I am in my soul.
No, she don't.
She don't know that.
What?
You want to play?
You lie.
You want to play?
You want to play today?
I ain't know you.
You better back up off.
I ain't know that.
So, yeah.
So, I'm in a great mood.
I really want to talk about Rihanna coming out.
OK.
I don't know how.
Rihanna now.
Yo, Navy.
Love y'all.
Uh-oh.
Go ahead.
Absolutely love y'all.
The views of this next three minutes.
ASAP Rocky is a friend of the show.
I love that all the people that was up there
have been up here, just be kicking it.
I love all that shit.
Yo.
If we was waiting five hours and everybody was back here.
Oh, wait.
Before I get to Rihanna.
If we was back here waiting for five hours.
Put your mic back, bitch.
Yeah.
And everybody is getting drunk and drinking shit.
Facts.
Then I assume that's what all of the artists backstage.
I know most of those artists.
So, I know what they was doing back there.
Yeah.
So, when Usher comes out and starts gyrating, there ain't no love.
So, that's when Mark see me writing to my phone.
I'm like, oh, word.
Oh, Usher want to play games?
Say less.
Usher came out.
That song don't call for what the fuck.
But Usher was back there off the Henny.
He dressed like that.
Usher was.
Where's your shirt?
He had half a shirt on.
Put your shirt on, sir.
Usher was up there being fucking Henny Hendrix.
I ain't seen a clip of Usher dancing from his tour.
And he came out.
Ain't no love.
He was fucking moving his hips around.
And doing all that.
Usher is off the Henny.
But it was a long wait.
I know Usher back there drinking all the Macallan.
I know what he doing.
So, now, if Usher was doing that, what the fuck do y'all think I think Rihanna was doing back there?
I think.
I think Rihanna had all the weed.
All of the best.
I think Rihanna had all of the rum punch.
Actually, that was her whole performance.
It looked like she was walking to get a rum punch.
When she was walking back and forth, it looked like she was on the tarmac in the Barbados.
Just walking around.
Hey.
So, now, I'm looking.
Because, again, I'm here for one person.
And I just woke up.
And I'm like, I'm here for Rihanna.
I felt like the same way.
I feel about Rihanna the same way I feel about Stevie Wonder.
That's what I'll say.
Huh?
Say please.
Please.
Rihanna is legacy act time.
Okay.
And that's it.
We don't need to see this.
Ain't nothing going on.
We don't need the Black Panther song.
We don't need.
And then she got the nerve to troll y'all and say, oh, I missed this shit.
That pissed me off.
That was a troll, for sure.
She got the nerve to say, I missed this shit, while she walked back and forth like this.
What do you expect she just had to do?
And then she got the nerve to talk about, oh, they finished doing On The Run.
Hov talking about, give him a little something, Rih.
Give him a little something.
She got to talk about something.
Bitch better have my money.
That's the easiest song to sing.
She got all the money.
That wasn't easy.
It worked.
That song worked.
She spoke it.
Manifesting.
I was like, damn.
Damn, Rihanna know exactly what I'm calling Amex to say in the morning.
Oh, shit.
I just think that song was easy.
Bitch better have your money.
I thought it was a slap in the face after I just woke up.
She look like she fresh off a private jet walking around.
Rihanna, to me.
That's not what she look like.
To me, what it look like.
That's what she is.
Rihanna, when I say legacy act, Rihanna got some of the best albums, some of the best music, some of the best catalog ever.
And her energy has always been vibe.
I'm fighting with my girl this morning because she loved all that shit.
She loved Rihanna walking back and forth like this.
I did, too.
I like it, too.
I was so caught with her just being there that I didn't even pay attention to her performance, nigga.
Rihanna is the reason we couldn't leave.
And that's why it's a win because the people that love Rihanna like that, if you get the vibe, then you're happy.
But her vibe is so strong that you're going to get that vibe anyway.
This Rihanna, I don't get the vibe from anti.
Sorry.
If y'all do.
I get fucking, I love my man, my man.
That's what I get from Rihanna.
Explain it, Ish.
Let Ish explain it.
She's not anti no more.
Ish, that's what I'm telling them.
Yo, the shit you saying, she got off at Teterboro fresh from soaking her feet in the sand.
That got helicoptered to the Bronx.
Hasn't sunk in months.
Got hella fucked in traffic.
I came over here on a helicopter.
landed at the pier, and just came to do
do my homeboy a favor Rihanna looked high out of her mind like you right I'm doing my man
Rihanna was gone today the energy is just my man my man my man my kids my kids you saying money
I'm saying something different I know I'm not but she got all the money in the world already we
saying it's both it's cool she got all the money in the world but it looked like where is my man
it which is the antithesis of anti anti so when I see her now yo she could stay back there hey yo
I'm good she could stay right back there and I'd have been just fine when your girl was lit
like you said she was back there drinking smoking and all that what's the first thing they get to
thinking where's my man my man my man right and he was stuck outside and he was stuck outside
with the baby yeah at gate six yeah nigga
she ain't barbed
those right now
maybe Paris yeah something like that's when I realized I'm shady if I already got the music
from you I need yeah you are you if I got the music from you that I need already like I got
fucking sex with me I got everything I need from Rihanna for me Rihanna is on that like that
Kanye bar said my presence is a present like just me being here I don't know what I look like I don't
outside, y'all are being blessed by me stepping on this stage.
And she's right.
And they treated, we treated it that way.
And that's how I feel when Stevie Wonder's at the stage.
That's what I mean.
When Stevie Wonder hit the stage, I'm always happy to see Stevie Wonder.
He blessed us just by being here.
But once the show start, it's different for me with that.
Yo, just go chill somewhere, yo.
We see him much more often than we see her.
Rihanna's Stevie Wonder for me.
I'm cool.
I felt that way at the Super Bowl.
This is not a new thing for me.
I said that at the Super Bowl.
She had a beautiful set.
She came out, walked back and forth.
Yo, dawg, please.
She was pregnant at the Super Bowl.
What did you want her to do?
What is she, like, seven months pregnant at the Super Bowl?
Yes.
Was she pregnant the other day?
Might be.
I don't know.
And that's the thing.
That's my point.
You know that Rihanna probably just want to have another baby with my man, my man, my man,
and all my kids be the same age.
Don't tell me I miss this shit.
We miss you too, dawg.
Enough.
Go home.
Oh, yeah, I ain't about to have a miss.
Go home.
You don't need to troll me.
I'm cool.
Who else came out?
She might have meant to say it felt good being out here.
Not that I missed this shit.
She could have missed this shit.
She might have missed it in that moment.
All right, I know.
When she got home, she ain't missing no more.
Yeah, nigga, the energy of Madison.
40,000 people could scream for you.
I'm at the Yankee Stadium with 50,000 people screaming.
Come on.
She could miss it.
I mean, I don't miss my bed, but I might miss this too.
It just felt good right there.
That was. Exactly.
What else?
Who else he brought out?
Pharrell came out again.
That was awesome.
The Dream came out.
Yeah, The Dream came out.
The Dream, yeah.
Oh, yeah, The Dream came out.
No church in a while.
No church in a while, yeah.
Yeah.
I ain't staying for that whole fight.
I had to fuck out of there.
I thought Frank was going.
I thought Frank was going to come out.
I'm out of there.
I'm gone.
Fine.
I don't need to stick around for. Hey, with all due respect to Fat Joe, that's my fucking Knicks game guy.
Love Fat Joe.
Oh, we walked out before that.
I just woke up.
After Empire State Martin, we was out of there.
What else was fire for me was when Swiss popped out.
Swiss came out.
Yeah.
Doing that little. Oh, the X-Tribute.
In the Bronx.
The X-Tribute was fire.
Yeah, that's fire.
That was fire.
Yeah.
That was fire.
Oh, Beyonce came out.
Pharrell bought the clips out.
And bodied it.
Yes.
She did a great job.
Beyonce is amazing.
Because she's a drunk in love, which I wasn't expecting.
Again, sometimes it's just I wasn't expecting that to be the joint she was going to do.
Yeah.
It was great.
And everybody in that bitch was singing it.
And we were all drunk because we've been sitting there for five hours.
Oh, we were all drunk.
Bart, Rick, we met at Doing Shots.
Yeah.
We was fucking that agency up in there.
Yeah, no.
I'm going to bed.
I'm going to adapt everybody up.
I looked at my mom who was sitting there.
My mom was still sitting there.
She chugged with us, man.
Yeah, she chugged with me.
Your mom was at the end.
I chugged the deuces at my mom.
My mom, I will see you later.
I was like, nigga, I stood outside.
I'm not leaving this motherfucker until I see the fireworks.
Nigga.
And we walked out.
After the fireworks, the lights came on.
We was there to the end.
The lights came on in the stadium?
Yes.
Yes.
We waited.
It was like daytime in that motherfucker, dog.
I never.
Was it still packed outside?
Yes.
Oh, OK.
Bro, niggas was outside.
They had the bars set up.
Yo, they selling liquor.
It was something.
You just got experience, bro.
Yeah, for sure.
I'm not going to hold you.
It was one for the books.
It was so New York.
So now the let out.
So now, look, the let out.
Because again, it's the Bronx.
It's 3 in the morning now.
You right there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So the let out, somebody lets off an M80.
Sure.
It was so New York, nobody panicked.
Nobody moved.
It was like, bong.
Niggas was like.
Everybody, all right.
All right, cool.
Keep it pushing like nothing ever blew.
Keep it walking.
And this was the only work.
I saw somebody.
Tweet this, and I completely agree.
Majority of this crowd is older.
Yeah.
If this one of them young niggas, and they like NBA young boy or something,
this whole shit is totally different.
You can't do that.
Thank you, random tweeter guy.
Yes, it would be different at an NBA young boy.
We talking about the way the people.
Again, I know you got your inside jokes.
I'm talking about the way the people outside dealt with all of that shit
for that long without there being any incidents.
It's something that should be applauded.
That's real talk.
A mature, older.
Nigga, we talking about four or five hours of standing with no information.
With 20,000 people.
Even older niggas, some of them was tweaking.
Yeah.
It wasn't as bad as you.
If you hear this on paper, or you read this on paper and say,
niggas was stuck outside with no answers for four and five hours.
Shit turns a little differently in New York.
And it didn't happen.
Niggas then drove up from PA, flew in from.
It just didn't happen.
That shit was something.
It was something special.
I agree.
It's a special night.
I mean, in the moment, it sucks to be out there to 12, 17,
waiting for a show to start.
But it's going to make for, it adds to the lore of it all.
Yeah, it does.
It does.
It's a hell of a story.
The way it added to the night.
Yeah.
And especially how it ended up turning out a classic night.
I know niggas that have been to, again, you name it.
Niggas say, yo, it's the best show I've ever seen in my life.
Oh, you miss clips coming out?
That was fire.
Yeah.
I love clips.
No doubt.
With all due respect to clips, I got home in 16 minutes.
I got home in 16.
That, to me, is always more important.
My girl checked me about to sit next to me.
You do be leaving a little too soon.
I'm out.
Sorry.
Got to go.
Love clips.
But five hours late.
Yo, there's none of y'all out there that I want to see five hours after it started,
really, to be honest with you.
And that's a me thing.
I don't.
None of y'all are that dope to me for me to be.
And on my 10th hour, once I start feeling like I should be paid to be here,
like overtime, like it's a gig for real.
No, I'm out of here.
Got to go.
Got to go.
It was dope, though.
You got to see it.
It was amazing.
It was an amazing show.
It's one of the best stadium shows I've ever seen.
It was number two whole show that I've personally been to.
It was the best whole show, shows I've ever been to.
And I've seen a few.
Right under the evening with Jay-Z at the Garden,
the one that they turned into Fade to Black.
To me, this was right under that show.
I got this above that.
Like, night one got the freestyle.
Which wasn't great.
I didn't love the freestyle.
I mean, I said it on the last freestyle.
I'm just not loving the freestyles.
For me, it sounds like somebody who is already preparing for an album,
trying to write verses in between to spit on the fly the following day or two.
It's almost like when we had to go to the radio station with a new freestyle
and we fucking write it in the car.
That's what it sounds like.
It sounds like he ain't really putting too much effort or anything.
He's putting too much energy into this, so I'm not going to kill him,
but I don't love the freestyles.
I'm conflicted because on the flip side,
that is what you should do if you have the ability to do it.
That's what kind of goes into the tactician shit
and the skill set that he has that I keep talking about.
The fact that he says, yo, I can do this and write something
and go out there and try to perform it in front of 30,000, 40,000 people,
that's impressive.
But do I love the freestyles?
I don't.
I liked the first one, but I didn't like this last one.
I thought the. I liked the content of the first one, but I didn't love the delivery.
This one, I thought he executed it better.
It sounded better.
It was smoother, but I just didn't like the content.
And I definitely didn't agree with it.
You're talking about the words, what are you saying?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I don't just mean like the message I definitely disagree with,
but I mean even like just on some rapper shit,
I thought the first one was more interesting and complicated.
He was doing a lot more interesting like lyricism in the first one.
This one was. It was cool.
Bruce Beckner was my favorite that I went to.
You got it.
Still.
Show?
Really?
Yeah.
Of this batch.
Now I'm mad I missed it.
Yeah.
I would have liked to see Foxy Brown come out.
Yo, yeah, Foxy.
I don't know what happened there.
I saw Gav, so maybe Foxy was around somewhere.
I heard Memphis Bleak on The Breakfast Club say that he heard that she was in the building.
I don't know, but it would have been nice to see her.
My playlist all the way there on night two was Foxy Brown.
So, I mean, I was looking for her.
That would have been great.
I thought night one, if Sauce Money was there, Reservoir Dogs could have happened.
Dude, Foxy Brown.
I mean, yo, he could have bring out a meal.
I mean, for real.
Shout out to a meal.
I'll be speaking to him.
She might have been busy.
That's for sure.
It's his book.
That's for sure.
There you go, yo.
She's somewhere in Carolina, man.
She's out the game.
Even that, for me, was impressive from Hov.
I was just sitting there doing a lot of analyzing.
The people he created distance with, because I did think of Kanye at some point when he
was doing Watch the Throne.
I did, too.
He did some of the other records.
There's a few songs I thought about.
Yeah, there's quite a few.
If Kanye is there, we break Yankee Stadium.
For sure, for sure.
It ain't no roof, but a roof with a floor.
We break the walls.
Them records he had coming on.
A lot.
La, la, la, la.
That's it.
That was it.
That'll do it.
That was it.
That was the one.
And welcome to the jungle.
We did ham all over.
They got a. Listening to the show, you could see the different stages in Hov's career.
You could see who he created distance with.
You could maybe even see why it was necessary if you're just looking at it holistically.
So, no, I'm glad that Emil didn't come out there.
Were there any people that you might have anticipated coming outside of. Fox Brown, Sauce Money.
Stay Properly.
I was shocked about that, but I guess they got it in Philly.
They got it in Philly.
Ross, I didn't expect to be there because of the Biggs comments.
Yeah, true.
Ross was in New York because he had the show Friday.
I don't know if anybody was there.
But, fuck with me, you know I got it.
It's different.
The Hustlin' remix.
I thought Cam would have came out.
That would have been fire.
Welcome to New York City.
That's another one that. But they did it.
And then Cam went on his show and said whatever it is that he said.
Recently?
After they did it all them years ago.
Like, he gave his version of the thing.
I don't think that them niggas really. And I don't know.
I don't know.
I ain't spoken to either one of them about it.
But from the optics of it, it don't look like. I wasn't shocked at that.
I was hearing rumors that Kendrick might pop up.
Just in. I would have been. That would have also tore the roof off the spot.
That was about the only other person.
And I wasn't expecting it, but I was hoping.
Listen, Night 3 did it, man.
Yeah.
Night 3, all three nights, Yankee Stadium.
He absolutely did it.
I don't want to continue to glaze.
We do have other shit we need to get to.
But that nigga's the best, man.
He's the best.
Look, by far.
He is.
It's nobody even close.
Sorry that the younger people get mad at me.
I'm not saying he should be your best.
I'm not saying that. You should consider him the best.
But by any metric I could think of, he's the best.
Yeah, I agree.
Like, for the young kids, the streams and all them streaming numbers
and all that shit is super important.
I'm not mad at that.
That's the era that you came up.
That's the world you came up in.
That's what they told you was important.
I'm not mad at that.
A nigga going out, buying an album
will just always mean something different to me
and a lot of the people that were outside for that time.
Like, for that nigga to sell records on the day that the towers fell
is important.
I would love to hear Hard Knock Life at some point.
And what's up with him not doing What More Can I Say anymore?
That's what I was. It hit me that night.
I was like, yo, he officially retired that record.
The last maybe four or five times, he hasn't done it.
Yeah.
I think he's probably just trying to switch up.
He used to close out the shows with Young Forever, too.
Now that's also out.
Now he does it in New York State.
He has that many songs.
Yeah, I think he just. What more can I say?
Specifically was one of. What more can I say in PSA was two joints
that you were going to get every time he stepped out.
Hard Knock Life's a way bigger record
and more important to his career.
Hard Knock Life is the song. That was the pivot.
That was the pivot.
It was.
I'm talking about onstage, energy, performance. I get it. stadium record.
Like, anytime. Even when. Back in the summer jam,
when Hole would pop out as a guest,
you're getting What More Can I Say, PSA.
Those are two records that will rock the building.
Hard Knock Life don't. True. rock the building.
So it's like. See him retire that particular song
is just weird to me.
I love when he performs a record.
I was shocked.
I liked, in my head anyway,
I loved him doing Girls, Girls, Girls
and then changing the second verse
to Me and My Girlfriend.
It was Me and My Girlfriend at first.
But he did that so much
that Big Pivot may have happened at some point.
He did Me and My Girlfriend
and I laughed because I'm like,
yeah, nigga.
It's. Yeah.
Beyonce ain't playing with you.
You go out there talking about some Girls, Girls, Girls.
Delete that and switch that over
and think at first about me.
Yeah.
That's enough of that.
Hope is old,
but he's still in the house
with. He's still a husband.
He's going through his version of the shit
that we all. Yeah, no.
That was. That nigga's the best, man.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
I don't have any other way to put it
or say it.
And if you disagree,
it's not a conversation.
It's still over there.
And he rap better than you niggas.
Breath control.
He does, yo.
At damn near 60.
Yeah.
Big ass stage.
He knew all the words.
It was different, bro.
Like, he should be. No, now I'm about to really glaze.
I'm getting off of this.
I was different.
But he should be. If you fucking headed to 60 years old
and you rap,
like, that's what it should look like.
Like, that's our version of. LeBron.
At 42, still putting up fucking buckets.
Being as good for this long.
Niggas in Paris was with Big Pimp and Palmy.
Yeah, this is what. Nothing.
This is what it should look like
if you were able to maintain a level of success.
We don't have a 60-year-old that's done this.
Because that's the problem.
Before him and before that,
those who hit to that 60-year-old,
they hit some hard times before they got to 60
and they don't look the same.
The people that we have
that are in their upper 50s
cannot command a crowd of three nights
in the biggest city in the world
and do that.
It's just. In the city they from.
Nigga, you 40, you can't do that.
This nigga's on my 60s.
And to want to do it.
Yeah.
To get up there.
You know he ain't up there for the bread.
Yeah.
He up there really loving it.
He looking at Glow Real and I'm happy y'all came.
Bro, y'all are beautiful.
To have the albums
that you could have as an anniversary
that means something.
Even to have a show to do that,
these niggas get. Breath control.
Bro, you could tell he been in the gym.
You could tell he prepared for this.
Like the last few times you seen him,
he was getting a little overweight.
He's been in the gym.
He prepared.
He prepped himself for this.
Again, I'm sure he been jogging by.
Yo, to get the breath control and all that.
That shit is different, my nigga.
It's a different level of excellence.
Yeah.
And in the stadium.
The thing he said to me that. He didn't say to me, I'm sorry.
The thing he said in the stadium
that stuck out to me
was he said,
reasonable doubt,
our album only sold about 43,000 units
in its first week.
30 years later,
to have a stadium
with 40,000 people watching it.
He says that culture is what matters.
That's the other part.
That's what helps cement it
that this nigga's the greatest
because I feel like
and I forgot
because I was younger.
Like,
when Reasonable Doubt came out,
I was in Jersey City
fucking robbing people.
That's 96.
I didn't understand
none of that drug dealer talk
that nigga was talking about.
That wasn't my story.
For Blueprint to come out in 01,
I had a record deal.
And when I was young,
that seemed like eons apart
because it's two different lives.
It's a shift.
It wasn't until
this Yankee Stadium shit
that I did math,
actual math,
and said,
yo, that was only five years
between Reasonable Doubt and Blueprint.
There is no conversation now.
Bro.
There is no conversation to have
if he did Reasonable Doubt.
Every fourth quarter.
Yeah.
It went Reasonable Doubt,
Volume 1,
Volume 2,
Volume 3,
Dynasty.
That's crazy, B.
In that five-year span, dog.
Yeah.
That is insanity, my nigga.
Nobody can do that.
Yeah.
Yeah, but five years
Reasonable Doubt to Blueprint?
Mm-hmm.
Five albums.
It's also rare for someone
to have an album
that good
compared to their first album
that late in their career.
You know,
most people don't have
a classic album five albums deep
unless that was their first classic.
But the thing is,
most people not putting out
an album every single year.
That too.
So their fifth album
might come a decade down the road.
That's a fact.
So they've matured.
It's different.
This nigga put out an album
every single year.
Every single year
for five years straight.
So that's why it seemed
like it was that long.
He up there changing the words
Jigga held it down 30 summers.
Like, he up there really just. This entire run
has just been a flex
and a reminder
and an introduction
to some of you people
that may be confused
on just who the fuck
this nigga is, yo.
Yeah.
Like, if some of y'all
stupid enough out there
still talking about
this is Beyonce's husband,
which he is,
but nah.
But nah.
But nah.
That ain't that.
That ain't
this ain't this
and that ain't that, dog.
Or if you 28,
you 30,
you 35.
And again,
Drake is Drake.
No disrespect to Drake.
My nigga,
when you see
that now he's getting
a resurgence of album sales.
Yeah.
Like, niggas is going back
to be like,
oh, damn.
Let me go listen
to what everybody
on this nigga dick for.
Pause.
But they getting it.
I'm just on a culture tip.
I don't care about none of that.
No, I'm just saying.
But culturally,
he's now moving to youth again.
Well, not the youth,
but younger adults.
Yeah, because them niggas
be trying to hate him.
Yeah, they bad.
Hey, it's their time.
Of course.
Whatever they say
from this point moving forward
is y'all opinion.
Y'all haven't heard it.
But be clear.
It can't affect our opinion.
Homeboy is the best, yo.
We was there when we saw.
And what y'all saw is different.
That's it.
I'm done.
I'm done.
That's a button on it.
No pun.
Yeah.
No.
I went and bought all the merch.
I bought three shirts.
I went and bought all the merch
that they didn't have no sizes.
Then I start doing more, man.
Oh, nah.
I did a little bit of math
while I was there, too.
I start doing more, man.
That's the pop-up shops.
That's why I started.
When it was like,
oh, they're going to cancel the show,
I started doing a little bit of math.
I was like, they're not canceling the show.
They can't.
They're not canceling the show.
Yeah, no.
Nah, it's bringing a couple dollars.
Yeah.
We're not refunding all this.
Nope.
Nah.
And I know the way
that Pharrell was talking up there.
He got here.
It's heat today.
He's going to have to cut Pharrell.
Pharrell gave some of that niggas
some of the hardest beats
he ever made.
And then it made sense to me.
That's the only thing I could think.
That's the only reason I could think of
that Jay-Z was not on that.
clips album to be clear i'm saying this is someone that that knows both of them that didn't make
sense that still don't make sense unless unless you hit a nigga while he's in work mode he got
killing shit already he got pharrell yeah yeah y'all y'all hold up boy there's some shit coming
i can't wait i cannot wait all right that's all i got on that what's next what's next what's
important what's unimportant do i toss it to parks is it park time okay we're going for the
the up here we're going to go to underground hip-hop let's do it underground hip-hop why not
let's do it it's only it's only hope spesh ak and charlemagne what what else is important here
yeah cool well spesh went back to s-o-n and heineken shit and he he let off the opera man
he had some things to say and he has gotten the internet in an uproar and i'm sure you guys are
here all to attack me about the things that he said
no why do you think that what'd he say oh because that's been the case uh he fired on jim jones he
fired on fat joe he fired on kiss sort of not really in some of the clips that went around he
was fired on kiss but then he later on in the interview if you watch the entire interview
was bigging up how legendary kiss is and how he was for a lot of people i only heard the negative
shit yeah yeah and so we clear all this started because he wants to do another record with kiss
basically basically yeah i guess and then he was talking about his thing i don't understand
because he was no i'm not doing that yeah that's not true i ain't doing it because originally i
said whatever approach he was taking you can't want to do a record with him because that's not
the way to get it done or maybe you don't know that well wait hold up i don't think that's fair
because it seems well no he said it in this interview and in the previous interview that
he has reached out time and time again he's had communications with kiss he said that again in
this interview he's tried it the other way offered him money offered you know to do projects whatever
whatever and he's been ignored essentially which is why he said he's ducking me so let's put the
timeline out the other way is non-existent once you get to the you're ducking you're ducking me
you may have tried every angle in the world listen and i feel like i want to play this
first before i start talking about uh okay especially okay uh and this is one of the
longer clips this is a four minute clip but i'm gonna just play it as soon as my phone gets to
work
streets i'm a real street of that appreciate this i ain't glorifying the streets
i'm happy to make it out of the streets homie i'm not glorifying that now let's talk
about the song i think it was a bad idea let me tell you what i think we're gonna
which song you're talking about
i think it was a bad idea why was it not a good song well let me tell you why i think it was a bad
idea and i don't know who i did was maybe it was fat joe's but to sit there and have 50 year old
man making a song about the aroma of drugs it's not too appealing my like who are y'all trying
to aim for like y'all should be making songs about like the prescription drugs y'all taking
to stay alive and you know what i'm saying
yeah i'm like peptides and shit
you need to be rapping about peptides and
and like that what the fuck is wrong with you talking about the aroma of drugs like
we we all we old as a bitch y'all niggas 10 15 years older than me
talking about the aroma who idea was that and then it dissed me on it was stupid
a real drug dealer y'all gonna dress just a real drug dealer a nigga i really sold drugs
on his arm kids you spit the verse you got fucking calendar fat joe as your backup dancers
you wearing a book bag got another man gay you you spit the verse you spit the verse fat joe he
more happy about your verse than his
what's going on he just happened to be around niggas cali do you speak like that when you're
around the palestinian people or you just speak like that when you're around niggas i want to know
if you speak animated like that like he's just going off he's going crazy this is what i heard
i'll pause it but wait so so hold on parks i know that's your man shout out to him
yeah but you so you go at someone all right saying they're ducking you and you call them
out you respond and now you you're in the verse criticizing him in the interview about
the type of verse he did and i heard the verse was hot like that sounds kind of crazy to me and
you was criticizing people going on podcasts instead of rapping and now you respond to the
ground we're going to the pocket to me i i didn't understand that i don't understand what he's doing
it's not i'm kind of surprised even i thought i thought he was i saw him in capo but i don't i'm
surprised to hear that honestly i don't really know him but i'm not that's that's that's surprising
that the way he's cracking jokes on it and downplaying the verse what i take from his
i was like what you're saying no no i'm done i'm sorry i just want to say that what i took from it
because he did go on to say i'm independent so i almost like i got to get my name out there and
make people talk about me i got to do this like i don't like to see that personally i didn't take
that from what he said about being independent at all no i said when he was he was kind of addressing
that's what jim jones had set up here but that's not what special was talking about to me to me it
sounded a little different okay but again you know him so you can have a different insight in that
but if you're talking about rapping kiss ain't go on no platform and say no he wrapped he did
the big daddy cane joint yeah and he did and he did the aroma record which is fire
i do like that record that's the part that's one of the things i don't really understand
about what's special about that record is hard uh mostly because the stove stove guards are the hook
hook and if you hear that hook no that beat is still all i think that's new york yeah but the
hook leans to what the subject subject matter is the record is called the aroma i don't yeah i want
to hear talk about that if they did that before over that beat over that grindy heart no i don't
interpret that as glorifying i don't even think that's the best angle to take if you dispatch but
i mean all right you shoot it everybody so good go ahead and get your off understand i'm shooting
anybody everybody get shot up you think about it independent think i need anything from
anybody no back to this that was a bad idea i don't want to hear no 50 year old damn this 60
talking about the aroma of drugs you don't want that you don't want that but y'all don't
want y'all y'all got to play the industry game i don't i don't know i don't know i don't know
that that's another thing that i don't like a lot of i'm starting to see a lot of
If you don't criticize something or critique something the way that a person wants you to, you're digging it.
Yeah, yeah.
Or, nigga, we don't agree with that.
Right.
He's telling them, y'all can't criticize.
Y'all ain't going to say nothing because y'all playing the industry game.
Or not.
But go ahead.
You might like the song.
Yeah, that's another big misconception.
I have a lot to say on this topic.
That's another big misconception.
And I identify, I relate to what he's saying and why he's saying it.
I do relate to a lot of it.
It sounds a lot like Young U, Not For Nothing.
That's why I have so much to say about it.
Yeah.
It's so much I identify with.
He reminds me of me when I was at my angriest.
Okay.
Not lowest.
Angriest.
Independent.
Nobody in the game helped me.
Fuck these niggas.
Anybody could get it.
I'm better.
And I'm not answering to nobody.
I'm moving on my own time.
I'm going to let you finish.
You said all that in rapping.
No, he said it on live stream too.
But he rapped.
But so did Spesh.
Spesh ain't rapped.
The niggas he talking about, he hasn't rapped.
What do you mean?
You ain't said nothing.
Kiss has rapped too.
If you want to say the Big Daddy Kane joint had some shots.
And if you want to say the Aroma record had some shots, which I believe they both did to some extent.
Yeah.
He threw us a couple subs.
Yes.
Spesh, this is when you should be rapping.
He's going to rap.
No, you shouldn't.
You should not be responding.
This is where I have.
Hold on real quick.
Go ahead.
If you call somebody out about rapping.
Yes.
And they respond via rapping.
That's what I'm saying.
You should not run to a podcast.
That's my take on that.
You should.
If you're.
And your whole thing is how well you rap or how much better you rap than this person.
Your immediate response should be rapping.
Anything else, I don't want to hear it.
I agree.
Got you.
That's fair.
That's fair.
Go ahead, my fault.
Like, he reminds me of me during that vibe bracket shit when I said whatever I had to say about Method Man.
Angry at the game.
Hey, whoever y'all think is nice, I think I could take them.
I'm going to state that publicly, even if I've never said it to this person.
I think we all.
I think we competing and everybody's doing this rap shit.
So I'm saying whatever I'm saying.
But by the time I get to Summer Gym, what is that?
Rock the Bells, Pay Dude, wherever I actually spoke to Method Man, it's like, yo, dog, what are you doing?
You're saying this to somebody about somebody that don't bother nobody, ain't bothered nobody, is loved by all, has never had a bad encounter nowhere with the whole hip hop, transcends hip hop.
The person you're talking about.
And they got whatever.
They needed to get from it already.
You making your bones, you making your way, but you don't need to do that.
And you talented enough.
The things are, yo, you dissing niggas that all.
that love you you we love you and root for you we love all that spitting shit that you talking about
but you dissing niggas it's like you cutting your nose despite your fate you making your travel
harder why don't you just try and met the man later he was like he gave me everything he was
dealing with personally he was like the niggas you talking about ain't even talking dealing with rap
stuff right we dealing with grown man household life life stuff and here comes some punk ad little
young punk running his fucking mouth changed my entire perspective changed my entire but that's
who like special is reminding me of uh and we identifying even more ways than that even kiss
right he going through this with kiss hey i went through this with kiss already i wanted a verse
from kiss i couldn't get the verse from kiss i was online and in verses saying hey where's kiss
he's ducking me that's how me and marlon wayne and somebody started beefing on twitter they
tweeted some shit yo make me a two chain somebody i got this new kiss verse i added kiss
no you rapping with this bum ass nigga and i can't get a verse my brain
didn't understand that this game is more politics than it is music yeah that's probably true there
were no it's true that's true it's not a probably about it there was some things that kiss felt like
he needed to get with me on there was some things that styles people the people that were watching
me and my moves they felt like they needed to come get with me first and then we could get to
rapping i eventually got my kiss verse right i eventually got my styled verse styles gave style
sent that verse back in 70 seconds yeah like when the politics is right you'll get your verse the
reason why i say the the probably to that statement is that he is and has been independent not only
releasing his own music but releasing and producing other people's music as well so the politics part
while true is not dissimilar to your position on politics within this podcasting space where it's
like i got my own shit i got my own fan base i cater to them i'm doing a bunch of shit maybe
people don't see all of it but i really care about that that's him i'm i'm here to tell anybody
listening that is a myth and a farce and a front it is fugazi even if niggas really believe that
hey they say that in independence you shouldn't even use the word scale if you believe that
then i ain't talking to you but we all are playing the game whether we know we're playing it or not
or not and that's something that we have to learn i had to go learn that i've pissed off people
that are friends with people that have people that work in every section of this infrastructure
where you may need hey i'm independent i'm not playing the radio game i'm not playing the
this game well you want to do shows these venues are owned by people yankee stadium is owned by
somebody madison square garden is owned by people you better learn where culture is accepted and and
treated a certain way and where it's not so for the shit that he's doing i also just feel like he
got the best role model in the world right next to him or or a phone call away which is ransom
ransom is in hawaii somewhere
under the sun far secluded far away from rappers rapper people and industry people
he's learned in his 20 years how to play the independent game to wait the way the way that
he wants to play it he think all of these rap niggas are phony he think it's all fake
and he keeps his business separate from all of that he might he's he's not out disrespecting
none of the rappers
he's not out talking shit about none of the rappers but he know what it is and he keep
himself kind of away i got a little bit of that in me i don't jive with i ain't coming to mingle
with you niggas because i know what this is and i know me i'm psycho so i try to keep that separate
but i'm damn sure not about to make my task harder than it needs to be as a podcaster i'm independent
however the people that are higher up in some of these c-suites
in some of these companies that you may need to partner with or align with or work with
yeah yeah they want to know what time it is there's a way that you got to kind of
do that sorry if i'm breaking news but everybody have to go through their phases right like he's
just going through that phase that you went through that everybody else went through
right i don't know what phase he got he sound he sounds i've never met him and i'm trying to get
him up here so i can say some of this to his face because it's important he's talented but yes
you're making your job harder whatever your job is i'm not and if you if you try to reach out to
niggas and you you know you're showing it by your talent and i'm i'm rapping and you're trying your
best to reach out to people and you're getting in your mind their ass to kiss what else way can you
go they don't owe you they don't owe you a verse but this is what this is what's bringing their
attention all right so listen to this we up here talking about this is get you the verse that you
want no but but now it's gonna put more ears on them but now it's creating more ears on them
the enemy in the situation that a person wasn't your enemy so if i reach out to somebody to give
me a verse again that nigga might be going through some personal shit in his life he might be
embarking on new business ventures he might be doing a whole bunch of stuff i don't know what's
going on but for me to now go public and say yo you ducking me now it creates a negativity it was
not a negative and you ducking me to yes it is there is negativity to me negative to me yeah
that's right that's negative to you it's negative when he said it i came on he had said it was
and parks knows him so out of respect for parks he's like hey maybe he was joking maybe he's cool
with kiss maybe he's hey you're right i don't know i never met him looking at this now he ain't joking
that he don't know these niggas and he ain't getting no verse and now you just created a
situation and a potential jada kiss is so well loved bro fat joe is so well loved that now you
might have created enemies and created negativity in a space where there wasn't but that's the line
that went over his head because the so asked him yo yeah in the song well
is uh tell me is this about a verse or a career like what did you think he meant by that
and special couldn't say it and that's it he didn't know what he meant i got the clip somewhere
i'll find it but i'm running my mouth right now i got you i got you the point of that the sentence
he wasn't dissing your career he was saying yo think bigger picture dog
he was saying the same thing method man said to me
cemented already i did it i rhymed with big i brought i i'm i'm off world tour this ain't about
this is not about a verse dog hey you got me you got me on the verse hey kudos but i'm who the
fuck i am already and spec seemed to miss that part he just seemed cool with making making his
job a little harder and i don't understand it he missed it because the entitlement was so loud
that's all i hear when he's speaking is entitlement i asked you for a verse you didn't do the verse
you did you're not giving me a verse you're not giving me a verse you're not giving me a verse
i tried every which way to get the verse and you fuck all that life happening
what if you just don't want to do the verse it's possible he's entitled to that
that's true as a rapper i'm entitled to say hey you know what or not right now i'll get to you
later on you gotta you gotta you gotta get here whatever whatever reason time out time out
i think it's talking about clout this ain't clout you're looking at an independent
free man y'all never see me again i still make my money
listen homie i own my music and other niggas music relax
nigga look at the credits nigga i'm just sitting here rapping nigga i came in and been spending my
money playing the same game that the jews play you niggas will take money from the jews you
niggas will take money from me let's get that shit understood i don't want to talk to no niggas that's
not bosses homie see niggas and say yo we gonna do this i'm gonna do this and he's just doing it
because it's the way of the industry i'm sorry y'all i'm not used to the industry when people
talk to me i'm not used to the industry i'm not used to the industry i'm not used to the industry
say yo give me their phone number that i asked for and say yo i'm gonna do this for some strange
reason i believe that shit because that's the world i come i'm pausing it when people talk to
you we're 38 special when what people talk to you see that's what i mean about you niggas that's
running right now i'm independent i'm independent i'm independent no you're gonna see buster rhymes
you're gonna see fucking you're gonna see the people of the space in spaces you're gonna see
that in pergola you're gonna see it in
buffalo wherever the fuck you at so people are talking to you and they know who you are
independence don't mean separate from that like you seem to keep saying
so you put a nigga in position that don't ask for nothing to ask you for something
dog get over yourself man dog get over yourself go out there and get some life experience yo and
it hurts
it hurts coming from where we come from all that we a man of our word we were hey all us is real
niggas ain't nobody pussy so then you get in the music business and the dj say i'm a player
record and he don't play it then you go fucking you go get with somebody you give them your music
yo dog i think this shit fire i'm passing to somebody and they don't fucking pass it
this has been hip-hop since 96 when i gave chris lighty my demo and expected a phone it was waiting
by the phone this is what we was bumping into niggas and passing them something thinking that
oh my god something about them no nobody's doing nothing for you nigga you can either get angry
about it you just work work harder or you could just understand the game that you win and the
position that you win he got to get over some of this stuff the music business is not the land of
real nigga actually if you're asking me it's a trap for real niggas the music business is designed
to set you real niggas up because you come in with all your real nigga tricks
closed-minded and now you learn some jewish tricks or now you learn some lawyer tricks or
now you learn the tour tricks or now you and at some point it's meant to make you the real street
nigga flip a fucking lid it's like when the customer service people call yes sir no we cut
your we cut your lights off no we'll try to get that on immediately no if you can just be patient
with us we'll send somebody out there in 79 hours they're saying everything for you to say yo suck
my dick
but you can't say it because then they're gonna hang up on you and you're gonna be a hole for the
next 47 fucking minutes waiting for them to get back on the phone it's a tricky game it's not set
up for real niggas to win you niggas i'm a real nigga i'm a real nigga i'm a real nigga i'm a
real nigga you're a real nigga you're a real nigga us to death yo learn what the fuck is going on
around you and if you're a real nigga then why are you even fucking making the day hard for some
other niggas who ain't gonna say nothing about you that's the thing he's saying what he's saying
about jim hey jim you don't rap well enough you don't qualify to join this conversation
true but it don't take somebody rapping well to identify jada kiss as one of the people that
we just don't play with like that well why does jim got a rap jim because jim was making jokes
about how he dressed or some shit like that that's what that was about well that was at the end
that was at the end how did how did the he and jim shit kick off
um
does anybody know from he shouldn't like i don't think i respect what he did he's in the game
niggas gotta go come on bro you heard the levels you dig and i'm in 38 special it's nice you heard
like that i i dig it and shit like that you dig but come on bro it's levels you dig like you did
come on bro it's this it's this you did but i get it so this is jim to joe's point joe is saying
special reminds him of him oh at one point jim jones was shooting at the
top of the top of the top so now jim jones maybe maybe i can't speak for jim identifying
yo i made that mistake that you're making before you shooting that jada i shot at jay-z
yeah but it was and at the end of this he got royce because royce came out when jim was shooting
that kiss royce was like yo dog yo like it's it's levels to this shit other people were saying yo
it's levels to this but the point that is missing from the clip that he played is when he starts
making fun of like oh you dress without a wife beater on underneath your white shirt or something
like that which is why he got to saying don't even enter this conversation which i think is
all fair play at that point you're not even talking about rap shit you you coming in with
a personal shot that makes sense no it don't no you start cracking on me now i got i could i could
i could start replying to you you can do whatever the fuck you want yeah but why
because you're still trying to sell me i know man man me to death
you're trying to sell music and you're trying to fucking perform music anything outside of that is
a distraction dog so yes you can get into a war of words over the internet with jim jones and a lot
of people will think you're right however jim jones like he said in his reply which i ain't
gonna play because why yo dog if you say my name again it's gonna be a hot summer what that means
and again ain't nobody pussy
but what that means is i have all the time in the world to put hurdles in front of you
that's what it means and some if you will if you with that then have at it but is that the goal
because it started with you saying that you was the best and you know how to rap
and now i got to bring a hundred niggas with me everywhere i go i can't move around because
it's gonna get shaken because i keep pissing other people off after that method man talk
It wasn't another festival where we wasn't ponying up for security.
We taking that money out of the show money now.
Joe Budden said something.
They slaughtered the house, hated me.
Not Royce.
That's my brother.
Them other niggas, oh, they fucking hated me to death.
Wait, you mean Joe Budden keep running his mouth when he leave the group and go home on the internet and we got to pay for this shit?
Yes.
Yes, unfortunately.
Because if not, it'll be tougher to get to the stage.
That's good advice.
It is connected.
It's all connected, even if you think it's not connected.
There's people in here that know just how connected it is.
Like Fat Joe and these niggas.
And Fat Joe was in the comments saying, yo, I have no idea who 38 Special is.
I don't know if that's true or not.
But you open the door now for people with platforms and voices, people who are connected.
Fat Joe was a media darling.
See, that's the other side.
Fat Joe?
Fat Joe was at the Garden.
Fat Joe is on the Jenny Craig commercial.
Fat Joe is hosting Wendy.
Fat Joe, you don't know where you might see this nigga.
He's selling hair products.
He's got 30 years of relationships is all I'm saying.
Relationships is power.
Why are we bothering him?
We could.
You could.
You could.
Ain't nobody unbotherable.
Don't think that that's what I'm saying.
Stop, stop, stop.
Here's the problem.
Here's where I got to push back.
50 came out shooting at niggas when he did the whole. How to rob.
How to rob.
I mean, it happens.
People hit that road in their career.
50 came and shouted at everybody.
I think that working for 50. Regardless, yo, hey, yo, da, da, da, da.
Niggas was upset.
Niggas put hurdles, but he still overcame it and he stood on it.
I feel like that's his way of doing it.
It's just a different time.
Right.
It's a different time.
I get what you say.
You're speaking from a mature lens.
You're speaking from a lens.
I'm speaking to somebody that's 41, though.
I didn't know. Yeah.
Like, I'm not saying that he's immature.
I've never met him.
I'm only going off what I'm seeing and how he's sounding.
He don't sound like he has the greatest sense of humor.
He sounds like he's ready to diss anybody.
And he sound like he don't really give a fuck how anybody feels about anything that he's saying.
And I'm saying that that's a dangerous place to be.
Not saying that you'll be harmed.
I'm saying that's a dangerous place to be.
But not just that, yo.
You know, you going against, like, rappers that have rap media platforms that are successful in the media space,
these niggas can help you.
That's the problem.
Even without the verse.
When you're independent, you've already turned that switch off.
But that's the problem.
When you're independent and angry.
So now you want to. What I'm saying, but you want to piss them off.
That switch is turned off, though.
I'm not looking for help.
When I was looking for help, none of y'all helped.
But he even does go on and say,
Yo, can't none of y'all help me.
You niggas is rappers.
I hire y'all.
Whatever the fuck he was saying.
It's like, well, slow down for a second.
Can't none of them help you.
As an independent artist, if you get with another act who can bring more audience than you can get, that's a help.
Especially niggas that's loved, who has huge fan bases.
Now, you may not want the help or feel like you need the help, and you're not going out of your way to get it.
But you can be helped.
Like, I don't. Again, I don't got it.
And some of that. Some of that to interject and push back.
He was talking about how a lot of up-and-coming rappers aim for respect or an audience from other rappers, and that should not be your goal.
Your goal should be to get an audience from your fans and cater to them.
That's what he was speaking about.
That's true, but. In relationship to other artists.
But those other artists can't help.
They can.
If Drake is on your feature. Of course.
And you independent. Obviously.
Man, if Kiss were to do the record with him. There's a lot. Like Fat Joe said, and like you said, we don't know if he's joking or not.
I don't know who this guy is.
There's a lot of people who don't know who this guy is.
But if it's Jadakiss' feature, I might check it out.
Oh, shit, he is. Especially with all the talk.
Oh, shit, this nigga's ill.
That's why. My whole thing is, why are you not rapping?
I keep going back to that.
You keep talking about rap.
You got eyes on you now.
You got niggas paying attention now.
Rap!
Hey, listen.
Ice is telling you to rap.
And that may be good advice.
That's what I always did when my back was against the wall.
I just started rapping.
Hey, if niggas get hit, they get hit.
Niggas want to come fight me, then we fight.
That's it.
But you talking to people who are in make-a-record world.
And the niggas that scream, I'm independent, I'm independent, I'm independent.
They almost say that so much.
And I'm saying it because I was one of those people.
And still am.
But you almost say it like, I'm not playing.
I'm not playing a game that they're playing.
That's true.
But you are in the make-a-record game.
Jadakiss, you saw Versus, for all his great rapping ability, he has a lot of records, classics.
Fat Joe, with his fucking old ass ear, still somehow knows how to make a record.
Especially, even independent, you don't have the record to say what you're saying to these people
that are not going to play the back and forth rap game with you.
They in to make a record game.
Yo, I never forget, I say it all the time.
Pump It Up came out, I was that nigga, and I could rap, and all the rapping niggas knew it.
I was on Def Jam, that's when Def Jam met that, hey, we over here play different than y'all.
If y'all don't play with us, we'll end you.
And I had a record, so now I could rap, and I had a record.
And I was walking around like I was doing something.
And Hov came, saw me in the office, he pulled me aside, he said,
it might have been the first time he ever said something of significance, really.
Just a smug ass nigga.
He said, hey man, that record you got, you're killing that shit.
But can you keep going?
And he walked off.
Like Yoda?
And he walked off.
Nigga hit you with a Yoda?
And at the time, I'm like, man, what the fuck was that about?
But he was saying something that was so larger than I was able to see.
Hey, you caught one, awesome.
Good for you, little rapping nigga.
But this game we playing, can you have another one in a couple months?
After that, can you keep the people listening to you?
That ain't rapper time.
So yeah, a good record, like a record record, ain't going to hurt the independent artists.
It ain't going to hurt the major artists.
You have more in common with these people than is different, is all.
And I'm rooting for you.
Again, I can't wait for you to come up here so I can speak to you and get a better understanding
and hopefully give you some of this face to face.
But in 2026, none of you rap niggas.
Got to make all of the mistakes that me and your predecessors did.
Y'all don't.
Me and Ran went through this.
You got the example right next to you.
Yo, Ran was there for me.
Ran is there for you, yo.
We did the internet beefing, diss records, show up to each other's blogs, fucking fight,
all this fucking doofy, goofy bullshit.
For what?
It was exhausting.
It was exhausting.
By the time we fucking met up in Starlington and had to talk, and he's like, yo, I went
to jail.
They told me, you ratted on me.
All that shit is really exhausting.
I changed my life around, nigga.
No, it wasn't.
It was Starlets.
See, nigga?
It was.
You wasn't.
I was there, nigga.
You wasn't.
Then you was in Starlets.
If you was there, you was in Starlets when you used to come outside with me, when you
was able to come outside.
Now, the white lady put it down.
I don't feel like it, nigga.
It's time for our favorite part of the show.
But anyway, I'm just saying, you get older, you see these people.
When I seen Banks, anybody I ever beefed with, when I seen him, it was like, yo, dog, that
shit was so exhausting.
That shit was.
Bitch, it's time.
It's time for something.
I didn't want to do that shit.
That shit is whack.
Smash, love you.
Hope to talk to you soon.
Yeah, come hang out with us.
Yeah.
Yeah, but be friendlier than you was up there with S.O.
Heineken, nigga.
I'm about laughs and fun.
Don't come up here all extra angry, extra agitated.
I ain't with none of that shit.
I'm with a good vibe, goddammit.
And please don't diss me.
Please don't diss me.
I'm chilling, man.
I don't want no smoke with nobody.
I'm just trying to offer help.
That's.
That's one of my problems when I listen to the podcast back and I hear my voice.
And sometimes I sound like I'm speaking with such conviction.
It sound like I sound like some type of know-it-all that's judging everybody from their actions.
Like, and I hate sounding like that.
Because what I'm really trying to sound like is just a nigga that been through some of
this stuff.
So I identify.
So here, let me try to help a little bit.
And hopefully I have.
What else?
What else is there?
What else is there?
Let's get Mark in the game.
My part of the year is quiet.
Let's get the part of the year.
You were giving us sage rapper advice.
I'm not a sage rapper.
You never wrote a verse?
Of course.
You remember how I started?
I know it was some scientifical madness up in that motherfucker.
Of course.
I still, I still do a freestyle in my head.
Oh, we got to hear some of that, yo.
Come on.
I just want to, I just want to open the line.
I'm cool.
Idris on the mic.
Come on.
Can we get to open the bar?
Nah.
But.
He's like.
Boo.
He's done thought of that shit.
Nah.
Nah.
These are the things I've learned about this podcast.
It's a safe space.
It is.
It's a very safe space.
Very safe.
I've never felt safer.
Guilty.
No, anyway.
You were saying?
Conor McGregor.
You weren't at the show.
I thought maybe you were watching the fight.
I was going to ask you if you peeped it.
I saw it.
I didn't watch the fight, but I saw what happened.
You ain't missed much, right?
You saw the fight then.
It was pretty much, everybody was hyping up this Conor McGregor pay-per-view, you know,
fight.
I wasn't going to watch it.
I'm sort of, I really like Conor McGregor as a fighter, but as a human being, not so
much.
So I don't, I don't watch him.
But that fight lasted just a few seconds.
He got this nasty leg injury.
He blew out his knee.
It looked like his right knee, if I remember correctly.
And a lot of people thought that it was a conspiracy, like that he didn't just happen
to get injured at the beginning of the fight, but that it was just a hustle to get everybody
money and to get him out of there.
Well, what do y'all think?
I don't know if y'all saw it.
I didn't watch that bullshit.
I'm not a UFC guy.
Me neither.
I don't.
I don't really watch.
But I could see that.
I could see the scam happening, if that's the case.
It makes sense.
Has anybody been retired?
Yeah.
And so that was kind of the hustle, like, not the hustle, that was the buildup.
Like, he's out the game.
He's back.
He's one of our most visible fighters.
We fresh off the 250, you know, at the White House.
Let's get this straight.
Struck by the iron hot, nigga.
Yeah.
And he came out looking every bit his age.
So what I read, it was two different points.
It was one that he might have gotten hurt during training.
And they just masked it so that the fight can continue on.
Because so many resources have already been pumped into promoting the fight.
And they ain't want to delay it.
And putting the fight on.
So they ain't want to, you know what I mean?
Because then they would have lost bread as a collective.
So in that instance, I could see that happening.
But I don't think he necessarily did it for himself for the bag.
I think that nigga's ego might be a little too big.
Went out there thinking I could still go?
You thinking?
Like.
I don't think he would have done it for himself.
I don't think he would have damaged his legacy or his brand
by just doing some shit like that for the bag.
I don't know him.
Yeah, it depends on how big the bag is.
That is true.
That's a whole lot of people that damaged their legacy for 10, 20, 30 million.
It don't take a lot.
You're right.
That's true.
That's a lot.
Yeah, definitely more.
It takes more than rape, right?
Right.
Fucking God.
Damage his legacy.
That's a two-step counterpoint.
Yeah.
Which is why I don't watch him, by the way.
That's the reason why I don't support him.
There we go.
Come back around.
That's what I said.
As a fighter, I like him.
As a human being, I don't.
That's what I was talking about.
I don't want to put a trigger word because I care about the psyches of our audience.
Yeah, you can't put a trigger word.
But, yeah, man.
Anyway, we ain't got to talk about it.
But since we're talking about scams.
It looked like a scam.
Listen, I'm all for a good scam.
I don't really fuck with Conor McGregor.
I don't give a fuck about what's happening with him.
But I'm for a good scam.
It looked like his leg was fucked up.
It looked like his opponent kept trying to have mercy on him.
He's like, yo.
He's done.
Please end this shit.
Yeah.
But I think, like y'all said, that could have got done in training for the fight.
I think it's too much money at stake.
They wasn't calling that shit off.
They wasn't putting that on the injury report.
Yeah, especially for UFC.
Because you're going to snap some shit anyway in UFC.
Like, it's not.
If it's a traditional boxing, you might feel differently about it.
UFC, you could say it happened in the fight.
Yeah.
There's a big chance of it happening in the fight.
It's our greatest marketer who's off a five-year hiatus.
Yeah, I'm looking at the cash register.
I'm not really.
I'm not announcing.
No.
No.
Hey, suppress that.
Word.
Don't tell us all.
Tiptoe on that.
Icy hot.
Word.
Right.
Just get out there and get the ring.
Go put some ice on it.
Can you walk?
Then walk out.
Can you get in your fighting stance at least?
Right.
If you give me three seconds of fighting stance, I can hear Conor.
I'll do you one better.
I'll even start out with a flying kick.
They'll really not suspect a thing.
Oh, shit.
If you can do that.
My nigga.
If you can start with a flying kick after that, we can end this shit.
Right.
Yeah.
I think that's what they want.
Anyway, that's how I picture it.
Listen, man.
I don't see how.
Listen.
The UFC world, they was in it.
Oh, my God.
I can't believe this.
Oh, please.
Yes.
Well, we found an even better scam than that.
Yeah, man.
Let's talk about the real scam.
Yeah, man.
Yeah, man.
Fucking.
I got Boosie, man.
Boosie got him.
Oh, man.
They got him, yo.
Boosie went out.
Oh, yeah.
You caught him?
He's saying they got him.
Like, he's not they.
Boosie they?
Yes, Boosie's they.
Oh.
They got Boosie.
Break it down.
How do you think they got him?
I'm about to tell you.
Boosie went out and paid.
600,000.
600,000 to two right wing.
To them.
To them.
In an attempt to get him a pardon.
They told him that they'd be able to get him a pardon from Trump for his charge.
So, he paid them 600 grand.
Sheesh.
Yeah.
I wish you'd have called me.
I could have got him a non-partner.
I told him.
I said somebody got to connect me with Boosie.
I can get it done for 250.
Well, and now he's suing them for 300 grand.
Because he want at least half of that back.
How do you come up with that number?
I guess it was in the contract that you're supposed to get half back if you didn't get the pardon.
Oh, got you.
Because I'm like, you scared me for six.
I'll settle at a quarter.
For three.
He can't look at his shit.
He can't believe this shit.
Hey, yo.
Hey, talk.
We just embarrass ourselves sometimes.
Yo, what?
Yo, you know niggas is high-fiving like a motherfucker.
That shit clear.
All up, dog.
Time out.
How you going to sue a nigga for some shit that's illegal in the first place?
Because he figured they doing all this illegal shit you see on the news.
I'm going to come to court and say, yo, I tried to bribe this person to do something that's illegal, but I want half of my money back.
Yeah.
Is it technically illegal?
I don't know.
I'm asking.
I don't know.
Or is it like lobbying?
Like, I'm going to lobby for you.
For me to take some money from you and say, yo, I'm going to use my connection with the president to get you a pardon?
It sounds illegal.
I don't think it's legal.
Maybe it is.
I don't think it is, actually.
They might have dressed it up a little differently.
I'm not sure.
Because the pardon is legal.
Mark the mic, please.
The pardon is legal, right?
And me lobbying on your behalf is legal.
So I'm not sure why me taking money.
To lobby on your behalf.
To lobby on your behalf is legal.
And if it was illegal, then it's not illegal with this administration.
Exactly.
You know what time it is.
I'm going to come to court and say, yo, I want half of my bread back.
Yeah.
That's what makes me think it's illegal.
I don't know.
So let me say that clear.
I don't know.
If it's not illegal.
I don't think it is.
It might not be.
I can't think of any part of it that would be.
Okay.
You know, I can't think of any part of it.
It sounds like bribery to me, but I could be wrong.
But it's not bribery.
Oh, you're not bribing the president.
No, you're not bribing the president.
I got it.
I'm asking you to advocate for me.
Got you.
You know him.
I mean.
Talk to your man and have your man hook me up.
Well, if you was asking me to advocate for you, then the result wouldn't matter.
Then the result wouldn't matter.
I tried.
It ain't work.
So what money are you entitled to?
And that's where the devil's in the details.
That could be where he feels scammed at.
He's saying maybe you didn't advocate for me.
Maybe you never were going to.
Maybe this wasn't something you were ever going to do.
You just took my money and sat on it.
Or I came to you in our conversation.
I told you, yo, I could definitely make this happen.
I gave you a guarantee.
Yo, for $600, I got you.
He'll do it.
That's my man.
I know how to.
We got this.
Pay me that.
You'll get your part.
And when that never came, it was like, yo, oh, he ain't do it.
So now that's why he might feel scammed just because he don't know the game.
Might be.
Because, you know, Washington is designed to have basically bribery be legal.
I mean, that's what lobbying is the whole way.
That's true.
I pay you, and then you go get this law passed.
I mean, it's literally what it is.
Clay Davis.
Yeah, exactly.
So, again, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't want to say it, but it would seem to me that as long as President Trump don't get the money, it's not illegal.
It sounds like Boosie, I mean, he definitely got scammed.
It sounds like people who had no intention of ever helping him.
Yes.
Or if I say, yo, I got in line to the president, and I don't.
Yes.
But that's still not, you know what I'm saying?
It's not illegal.
It's just a lie.
It ain't illegal.
It's just a lie.
That's all I'm saying.
I'm not convinced it's illegal.
I think it's just a lie.
We got it, yo.
So, if that's the case, I think he can go to court.
He might get it back.
He might get half back.
To me, it's just so embarrassing.
Well, if you're facing some years, I'll take any measure I can to try to not get some years.
Oh, I'd be embarrassed.
I'm okay being embarrassed.
At home?
Yeah.
Shit.
What's the charge?
It was a gun charge.
I double checked.
I'm going to check it real fast.
He had a gun.
He was shooting a video, right?
Yeah.
And they saw him with a gun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would definitely.
Yeah.
I would definitely try that.
Yeah, it was possession of a firearm as a felon.
Got it.
Yeah.
He picked the wrong time to do it, too.
I think if he had just went around like the other rappers did, just vote for Trump.
Took some pictures.
Took some pictures.
Did a little bit of lobbying.
I think he'd have been just.
Exactly.
We could almost edit my commentary on any Boosie topic.
Just drop it in.
To every Boosie topic.
It's the same.
It's exactly.
It's the same.
I'm even listening for you.
Damn, what he did.
Did he want to.
All right.
He had a gun at the video shoot as a felon.
Oh, you could have took my take from her and moved it.
Right there.
Right there.
Boosie is.
Fly it like a hook.
Right there.
Yeah.
Boosie's entertaining, though.
Yeah, that he is.
That he is.
Have y'all ever been scammed for something?
Yes.
Yes.
What's the most you've been scammed for?
$25.
$25.
No, I'm joking.
I don't know off time.
No, it was $25.
One afternoon in Times Square with a three-car money nigga had a grip on me.
I just couldn't come to grips with what was happening.
I just kept putting hundreds down.
Are you serious?
Yeah.
When I tried to figure it out, my whole childhood was me trying to figure it out.
I was young.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
I was young.
I was young.
Okay, okay.
That's why I was like.
So my whole childhood was just me trying to figure it out on my own.
I could.
Them niggas was good at that shit.
Yeah, they are.
Yeah.
I lost a lot of money.
There's a bunch of niggas, too.
Where the queen at?
Where the queen?
There's a group of them together.
The lookout is a group.
I was on my way uptown to cops and drugs.
I spent all my cop money.
Dang.
What?
Yeah, I had to go back home.
Wow.
On high as hell.
You already mad.
Three cars.
I can't get high.
I got scammed for my Facebook page before, nigga.
Right during about to be COVID.
She never showed up?
No, nigga.
No, not a girl.
I got scammed for my Facebook page.
Who ain't?
Girl.
They told me that I was going to make a lot of money and shit.
One of them shits.
Oh.
They got the business link and all that signed up.
Shout out to Ian, though.
Ian just introduced me to some meta people.
Oh, that's what's up.
So he's working on getting my Facebook page from six years ago.
Oh, that's what's up, man.
Shout out to Ian, man.
He invited me to some meta event.
You rapping niggas that was selling drops?
Let's shout the white man out, nigga.
Huh?
I'm shouting out the white man.
Don't interrupt.
Thank you.
Shout out to Ian again, man.
Yeah.
You white niggas.
I mean, not white niggas.
You rapping dude that was selling mixtape drops.
To the fans during COVID.
Oh, man.
That was a good scam.
Sick time.
That's a good scam.
Yo, I see you working out there.
Yeah.
Let's collab.
Let's work.
Lake and Bill.
1,500.
Yeah.
The ones that kept recycling the verses, too, to the ones in the DMs.
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
They cooked some of my mans like that.
That's the worst feeling in the world.
When some bum rapper give you the brown bag money for a verse, and then you give him the
verse, and then you hear the song somewhere.
He wasn't supposed to hear it.
Oh, shit.
Like, God damn.
They had a PR budget.
These niggas had the money for a little radio run.
Oh, shit.
Oh, man.
That's funny.
Y'all know I always appreciate a good scam.
Me, too.
I do.
600 is a nice one, boy.
That's a nice scam, boy.
Six?
I mean, it's two guys, so they had to split it.
I do need somebody else to come out and tell me that that's what happened with Boosie.
Can't just take it from him?
No.
Oh, you think he could be making up the whole shit?
Dog, I believe Boosie did.
I saw a video of someone trying to break in Boosie's house, and the dog came and attacked
the intruder and saved the house.
Boosie put that video out.
And that was the most staged-looking video I had ever seen in my life.
And I said, yeah, I said, oh, if a nigga will stay, Boosie's like Jussie Smollett to me.
Oh, shit.
Jesus Christ.
I was like, he'll fake some shit just for fucking-
Just to get it going on him.
Yeah, so I can't believe none of these.
And 600K on the pardon tip.
Too low or too high?
It wouldn't make sense to me.
It would if I ain't never have intentions.
I just gave you a number.
If I could pay you 600,000 to get a pardon, Puff could have paid 6 million and got a pardon.
Other people that got way more money than Boosie could have paid more money and gotten a pardon.
Different charges, though.
Yo, hey, Boosie, your name.
Your name is right.
There's a list of people that's not ever getting a pardon.
It's you, Lil Nas X, and the Tiger King.
What the fuck?
The Tiger King is still mad he ain't get pardoned.
Avery.
Little man.
What's his name?
Avery.
Steven Avery.
All them niggas, man.
Steven Avery's still in jail.
All them niggas.
That's what it is.
The Tiger King, yeah.
Once they got to-
Oh, then that's who I'm talking about.
Oh, I might be talking about the Tiger King, dude.
The Tiger King.
The Tiger King.
The Tiger King is the guy with the animal.
Steven Avery is the guy that, dead time, came home, and then he said that the whole government,
and he's in there for life now.
I forgot where he's from.
It's from the Netflix doc.
The Netflix doc.
How to make a murderer.
I forgot.
It was lit in, like, 2018.
We talked about that shit.
Oh, yeah.
Making up a murderer.
Just the point of fact.
Yeah.
I did a quick-
It was early in the Netflix murder doc.
Anyway.
Just a quick update.
It's what I thought.
It's a lobbying firm, and it is legal to do this.
He just-
There's a clause in the contract.
There's a clause in the contract that says if we don't get you your money, I mean, if
we don't get you the thing, you get 50% back, and they're saying that isn't really in the
contract.
Boosie, $300,000, I can put your name at the top of the list.
Now, what happens when it gets to the top, that's beyond my reach.
They told him, you're making real movement through Washington right now.
We're really making a move.
I'm dead ass.
He told him.
They said we-
He says that they told him they had an update.
That was the issue, was that they made it seem like he had a direct line to Trump.
This is the exact thing that the rappers are doing.
Yo, this is like, I'm straightening it out.
You're off the streets right now.
He said he has Kamala as well.
Uh-huh.
This is Stringer Bell and Clay Davis.
Oh, I believe he has.
He wrote it.
Kamala, Kamala.
That's exactly what it is.
Clay Davis.
Boosie, $75,000, I can get you TSA pre-checked and cleared.
$150,000, I can get you that global pass.
What is the global pass?
Global entry.
Global.
I can get you global.
Global entry.
You got global entry?
How you-
You're going to see a hole in London.
In the regular line, look.
He ain't got no global entry, nigga.
He's going to pay for a pre-check, right?
I got a pre-check.
Clear check?
Pre-check ain't. Clear.
It's only domestic.
You got clear?
Are you going to. That's the one.
Oh, yeah, you need clear.
And you clear.
You stole my fucking joke.
Huh?
You stole my fucking joke, man.
You didn't hit it fast enough.
I was trying to pace it.
I stole it.
Yeah.
You buddy passing it to London?
Or, like, you spending some money?
You got the companion pass, not the. That's what I'm asking him.
Buddy is different from companion.
Oh, are you companion passing out there?
Spend money on a companion pass.
Hmm?
Who you going out there with, buddy?
My girl.
That's right.
Yeah.
I can see clearly now the rain.
Yeah, it's. I like it.
She like Jay-Z, itch?
She like Jay-Z?
She does that, man.
Oh, she's supporting you?
The world like Jay-Z.
Gotcha.
How long you going to be out there?
Four days.
Oh, shit.
All right.
Couple's trip?
No.
Just me and my girl.
That's dope.
I mean, you get to actually kick it.
I'm coming out there, baby.
I knew you was going to say that.
I'm coming out there with that.
I'm coming out there.
I'm like, watch.
Yo, I feel like we commit a crime by asking him shit on the morning podcast.
He's like whispering shit.
I feel like we were, like, robbing a bank or some shit.
Coming out there, boy.
I dare you.
I dare you act like you don't know me out there, nigga.
And you taking the camera.
Yeah.
I ain't going to call this girl, though.
No, no, no.
But you. You going to be in some love potion shit or rapping hands?
It depends on the song.
Can I live?
We asking a question.
Because I'm saying cool is a love song.
It's a love shit.
It's a love shit.
All you going to do. All right.
Can't wait to see you, bro.
Yeah, that's it, man.
Can't wait to hear about it.
All right.
What else?
What else?
What else?
What else?
What else?
Back in Charlotte, baby?
Or you want to do that on Patreon?
No.
Hell no.
We ain't doing that on Patreon.
What the hell is wrong?
What's wrong with you?
We fucking waited all this time for this fucking sit down and we got it.
Y'all didn't sound too enthused, so. Nah, nah.
It was a good sit down.
It was.
I know a lot of people were worried that it was going to be all kind of stage performative
kumbaya because they talked ahead of time, according to reports.
My report, you told me that.
And so I was surprised at how. What's the word?
Transparent.
Combative.
Yeah, I was going to say spicy, but I was trying to find a more masculine way to say it.
But like. It was good.
I liked it.
I thought. Not that it's a competition, but I thought Charlemagne got the upper hand in terms of
his responses.
I thought the same.
I thought so too.
Yeah.
But I mean, he was kind of giving him OG advice at some point.
It kind of turned into that.
You're right.
Upper hand's not the right word.
But he. I didn't know how. That's upper hand too.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
That is upper hand.
I'll just say that Charlemagne came away looking strong and some of the stuff that
made it look questionable beforehand, afterward. Just to give one more. One concrete example.
Academics had talked about before on his live stream how Charlemagne had advised him to
walk off the show.
To walk off y'all's show.
And that does sound like questionable advice to give somebody without context.
Charlemagne gave his side of that, which was, you know, you're calling me.
I'm watching it.
As well, I'm watching the show.
You're being treated in this way.
If you're being treated in this way, you should establish a value.
By leaving, I didn't say walk off in the middle of a show, but I was saying, like, walk away
if you feel like you're not being respected.
There's some disagreement about the details, but when you put it in that context, it didn't
sound like he was giving him kamikaze advice.
It sounded like he was giving him some, like, big homie advice.
You can agree or disagree about who's right, but just him giving his side, to me, he came
away looking good.
He came away looking strong.
I know when we first heard they were going to sit down, I was saying I didn't want them
to do it publicly.
Right.
And Charlemagne. One of them, I think it was Charlemagne, made a real good point.
He was like, you know, we're doing this to put it out because once they go back to their
corners, then they'll come out and say, yeah, we talked and this happened.
Now you're giving two different versions of it and nobody really gets to see it.
So. That's a great point.
I'll walk that back.
That was a really good decision to put this shit out.
It was.
And a great content piece.
Yeah.
For sure.
They led up to something, the anticipation was high, and then they dropped it.
And they delivered.
I appreciate that.
Much like Mark, I felt like Charlemagne got the better of him.
Charlemagne with his clear skin and lotion.
Skin is a different monster to deal with than old fucking ashy Charlemagne.
Like, this guy looked just present, aware.
He looked on point.
He looked like he had. Charlemagne is in the radio Hall of Fame.
Charlemagne sounded like he was logical and rational.
He sounded like a real adult.
Elder statesman kind of.
He sounded. Yeah, exactly.
And I guess for me, I was expecting Ack. Like, I was believing the newspaper clippings.
Ack was in his room sounding. Like, yo, I'm number one now.
The people I looked up to, I'm that now.
And I'm coming in there to really lay it down.
I'm on Drake's side.
You on Roc Nation's side.
I don't like the lies you over there telling.
And you should sit. He probably won't sit face to face with me because I'll expose him and be so honest and transparent.
I was believing some of that mix.
Yeah.
So when they got there and Charlemagne is just using logic.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When he's like. Yes, I look up to Jay-Z.
And if he asked me to be a part of a business venture, I 100% would love to do that.
If Drake asked you to be a part of a business venture, wouldn't you love to do that?
Like, he just kept. Some people call it spin master shit.
But what he was able to do to all of Ack's main points was just make them look really insignificant.
Look really small.
The George point with the. Yo.
All these lawsuits are coming.
Hey, real quick.
What are the names on the lawsuits?
Because you keep saying Roc Nation, Roc Nation, Roc Nation.
And that's really where he held them to the fire.
And he kept saying, yo, you're on the internet saying that Roc Nation's trying to kill you.
You was coming up here with security guards because Roc Nation's. Yo.
You're the only person saying this.
Jay-Z don't know you.
If he do know you, he ain't talking about you.
He ain't thinking about you.
Dez ain't said nothing about you.
Like, where are you going to. And stuff for him.
What names are on the actual lawsuits?
So you could tell your audience, hey, these are the people that are suing, and this is why they're suing.
No, but then he said, yo, dog, if you think these people are really trying to kill you,
it ever cross your mind to stop?
Like, if I think a nigga trying to kill me, I'm going to stop.
If I'm not willing to kill them back.
That's just old head brain.
Like, if you think that this entity has all of these tentacles and all of. All of this influence, cool, you may be right.
So stop playing with them.
And then I call it give you a heads up because you're my man.
And somehow you turn that into I'm working with these people and we trying to bring you down.
And, hey, where is your proof of these things that you keep saying on the Internet?
Like, that was a point that he kept driving home.
And listen, I think that act may have had some valid points.
Like, when he started talking. When he started talking about when he was trying to say that Roc Nation is fighting like a proxy battle,
so he'll never have the evidence to support.
I think that if act could have flushed out his thought process,
he may have delivered that talking point better.
But he didn't.
Also, the website that Charlemagne pulled up where when act went home,
he said, hey, this is an AI website.
This website was created a couple of days ago.
Charlemagne wouldn't know that.
That's fine when you back to your headquarters.
There's saying it.
But in the moment when Charlemagne said, I think this is a credible website,
you didn't give any of that.
So it's about how it looked on air.
Charlemagne also looks like he listens better than act.
That's important when you're talking to someone.
I'm not saying that he does listen better.
I'm saying he looks like he listens better.
And then by the time he was able to paint you as this paranoid, manic person,
now we've lost the plot where he now we've lost the plot where he when he was breaking down the Drake shit to him.
He was like, yo, I call, you know, I was trying to give them the heads up about the reference tracks.
He was saying the way Drake handled it so you can get ahead of it.
They were prepared for they took the basically jumped on offense and was able to when they did come out.
They was cool.
He kind of tied it back and I think act missed it the way he was doing.
He kind of tied it right back to him.
Yo, I called you to give you a heads up and instead of being prepared.
Prepared with the information.
You was more concerned with where I got it from and because I didn't give you that up.
It just became a versus me and you missed you like you kind of missed the whole this whole shit blew up because you focused on the wrong thing.
Like if somebody called if one of y'all call me like yo such-and-such is about to happen.
Cool.
I might want to know where you got it from but I also want to prepare for that later.
Tell me later.
We'll deal with that part and that's where it kind of it seemed like it just went left between the two of them soon as I called you with this your man.
Is on my neck the next day Charlemagne was better.
Just cross-examining like yeah, I'm gonna take the information you saying I'm a process the information in real time and now I'm gonna say okay, you just said X.
And it kind of stumble at yeah, he could he couldn't take it.
Listen, I kind of felt something.
I kind of felt something was a little once they did the interview and act was the person to come back to the internet first with his thoughts on.
How it went, I've never seen that go well.
i've never seen the person that reports back first one give an accurate depiction of what
the fuck just happened and two fucking yeah give an accurate depiction of what just happened and
then we see it and say oh shit everything that person said was i've never seen that happen so
yeah it just uh it didn't and i knew that even from when charlemagne was like yeah i'll talk
to you in person it's like oh you gotta be and that's the other thing about act which is the
point that i keep trying to tell him that he don't listen to me because he does really love charlemagne
yeah you could tell he loves you can see it you could tell not only does he love which is a deep
deep deep deep respect for that man i can tell then then then shut up when you go home in your
little stream then shut the fuck up because part of the
war
is it gotta stop at respect yeah like i respect you you gotta respect your opponent
all that deep reverence and admiration and in awe of and looking like i'm not saying this is true but
well i can say it's true i looked up to him i still look up to him he kind of mentored me
you could see that even with all acts experience now and his accolades and and he's him now too
i can see him but you could still see
the green you know what i don't like the the wet behind the ears when it comes to you you're talking
to somebody that you love and and and have a reverence for and that's just way older it's way
older than you it's been in different rooms as you you know what i'm saying just stop making it seem
like you want that smoke no look don't get in your room because that's where i was confused too one
minute he's when i talked to him i love i love a lot and then you get on the stream and it's me
looking like he want that smoke in order to want that smoke you gotta lose the reverence performing
bro still a job it ain't it ain't
performing if now you get in front of the and you didn't do exactly what you said you was
gonna do you didn't drive your points home i'm not talking about beef with the i'm talking about
be able to fully flush out the things that you want to say i'm talking about the streams the
streams are work this was work this was work a little different yeah a little different yes
like if i think it is work because if you come away looking not as strong as you could it affects
the other part of your work it affects the date like he's building a fan base partly or which is
why it's where it affects your work you gotta you gotta now they had that interview and now for the
next few days ak is on his stream explaining that's what i'm saying his side from the interview no
that's work now you've altered you've altered work anything that's going out
is work yeah okay it went out on his channel both their channels yeah okay it's work
people are going to have opinions on this debate style thing that y'all y'all did and he just didn't
come out looking as strong as he probably would have looked if he was in his room but again i even
enjoyed that part of it i enjoyed the chess match of hall of fame radio guy versus guy who made his
bones in his room like and now it's the clash of of routes and ideologies and psychologies and and
stuff like that yeah the streaming is cool talking your computer is cool ak is that
please don't mistake what i'm saying he's that it's a different skill set
and skill sets that that that charlamagne has yeah because now you got a reply in real time when you
when you're on a stream you talking you don't have nobody interjecting you don't have nobody
scrambling you're trying to thought up here we can get into a conversation and i can have my
thing planned out but then you start screaming start yelling and it's from that you meant to say
you totally forget yeah yeah and it's only but so many ways that this is gonna go when i know that
the person across from me looks up to me exactly you look up to me dog when you look up to somebody
and you go there man it's true yo you're not gonna go with this why i don't pay them your little jokes
no mind you be saying to me i know because you look up to me like that's why i understand like
you look like i'm who i am so like you just i'll let you joke so you're saying that when you go
against somebody if you're going to say that you're going to go against somebody if you're going to
if you looked up to them you have to lose all the love for them in order to win the battle
yeah no yeah i don't think you have to i don't think so i don't think you have to i don't have
either but i do think that's that's it yeah but ain't none of you about war so i don't
care what y'all saying that's not true who did y'all go to war with where you had to now adopt
a different mentality on some navy seal we going to war anytime i walk outside it could be some
who have you but you're not trying to that's not what i'm talking about street you're not trying to
go yes it was hold on hold on stop i was saying that before you said did not street yeah that's
true i ain't never talking street one time one time one time i looked up this i look up to star
one time star pulled the trigger on me and got at me and was saying things he was willing to take it
some way that i wasn't willing to take it i'm not willing to go there with you why me because i i
respect him that's what the i'm saying what i'm saying what i'm saying is that you can still
get into a vicinity of somebody you respect and still hope you can't win if you take that approach
oh you gotta be ready to you do agree let me ask because you didn't turn up on the that
you looked up but i don't agree you don't have i feel like i feel like do you feel you want
no because i didn't go at that battle you're confirming this point but listen what i'm saying
i'm saying that yes okay we're confirming this point that you may not win i'm saying that when
you go into i'm speaking to the point of if you respect somebody i don't think that depending on
where you come from you could just easily turn it off and i'ma start disrespecting you now that's
that's the point that's what you're saying okay yeah i can't i i understand act like i i couldn't
just start saying mad i can't just i'm not gonna think i looked up to you too long to just
all of a sudden now you could say whatever you want because you probably don't have the same
respect that i have for you for me right but i can't just turn it off and start disrespecting
you because it goes against my whole ideology basically even if you wanted to go there you
couldn't do it that's that's what i'm saying i'm talking about the wrong points and i apologize
same thing with you if you get me mad and sadly i can't find my you have to say something i can't
find myself just going at you like that i can't it's just it's not how i'm wired maybe you would
say yo flip hey i put you on hey flip i had to you if if i had to push you there but i couldn't
go there with you it's just too many things at play but there's also no part of our relationship
that today or to me could ever appear adversarial like when me and you were doing whatever we doing
for me content it's content me in real life i'm not never doing none of that with you except for
that one time we almost did that but outside of that i don't know that's that's not what we're
doing if if if it's time to if it's time to turn it up which is how act made it seem from his room
then i expect you to come in okay but through the whole thing all we heard from charlamagne was
was big bro hey yo when you was up over here i'm the that said such and such
yo i'm the that called you and said look out for this i'm the that called the yada yada
all week when we hear that all the way through it's hard to see it from whatever pov academics
is talking about yeah you know what it sounds like and even that's part of the spin that you're not
going to be prepared for because of your reverence that's part of the spin okay it sounds like it
almost sounds like the whole blind wave so i could never beef with me i freed it from a whole bit it's
like i'm what exactly exactly i can't get there hey i see y'all saying this beef it's impossible
for it to be and that's how charlamagne is carrying it which which which enables him to and
i'm not saying this is true to anybody listening but if he did have some underhand undercut feelings
or something toward act is always able to hide behind your dog i was dead for you i helped you i
gave you this contact i told you this student like it'll never be and that's why for act it's always
act was in that room against professor x so ac was in that room with somebody that was that was
so in control in his head of all things and now you stuttering and now you talking fast and can't
get you that was a mess to me that was an absolute mess but i'm glad to have it they look great yeah
they look great i i consumed the content i'm glad it happened kudos to both they did it
right salute to them see but then that's why i'm mad too now too now i should wait for mark to come
back because charlemagne is his man and he how many times he done peed what what what what what
have you turned it off for somebody you respect and have you had to turn it off like somebody that
you looked up to i mean i hear you talking about yeah i hear you talk about wendy williams how much
you respect i don't know i remember when she said funny things before i don't know if you ever went
at her i'm just saying like was there anybody you said you know what we're talking about angry joe
not mature joe that you said all right no no that's never happened and angry joe there was
nobody there like i was shooting oh but only because he shot at me and we rapped so it's the
sport of i can't let you just keep thinking you're shooting me yeah and at no point in my mind did i
say i'm trying to kill this and yada yada i was on some rapper but in real battle
anybody that i was at war time with even with me and john went back before i respect charlemagne
i've always had a respect for anybody but past that
i never had a goal past that really ah i was never trying to do that with nobody like i'm at
i'm in internally i'm on some peaceful like i'm at i'm cool i try to control me and how
i feel and how i react and how i think and all of that yoda type of but so so
So I agree with most of what you're saying.
I think that if academics would have come prepared,
I think if academics would have had been able to execute his arguments
and convey his thoughts better,
he could have still had the same exact reverence
but still presented his thoughts and his ideas better.
So I don't think you have to lose your respect and say,
fuck you, nigga, I'm going to just throw everything out the window
to be able to get in that ring and spar and even win.
You could caveat reverence, but your facts and your ducks
and all of your shit got to be lined up.
Listen, what I'm saying don't apply to these two
because neither one of them was going to try to kill each other.
I'm saying I drank the Kool-Aid in thinking that that's kind of what we was.
Axe performance.
Axe doing that.
That's his superpower.
That nigga loves Charlamagne.
He loves you.
He said it vocally a zillion times.
He holds you guys up high, right?
But he also feels like, nigga, I'm here and I can stand on my two.
My thing with us as men, especially black men,
why everybody can't be the man?
Like, why do we got to dethrone the man to be the man myself?
I could be the man in my respective area.
You could be the man in your respective area.
This person could be the man in their respective area.
We be in this competitive shit that we. That's a farce.
What?
That shit is a dark matter universe separate from reality.
There's answers to that question, and I'm not. Which part is the farce?
Why?
Why we can't, why we can't, why we can't, why we can't.
There's answers to that.
No, you ain't tell me which part is the farce.
That part.
That you could be the man in this area, you could be the man in that one, like that?
Yeah, and I'm saying that part is true, but the whole ish not understand.
Why we can't is so easy to. Niggas is jealous.
Niggas is envious.
Niggas want what you got.
Niggas are not. No matter how successful, some niggas ain't comfortable with you having success.
Niggas is gatekeepers.
Niggas is like. It's mad answers to these questions.
Ideally, I'm with you.
No, I'm not. Hey, it's enough money and it's enough position to go around what seems to be the problem,
but niggas be having things that come into play.
A lot of times, I think these niggas' insecurities be loud and strong, and I think these niggas
don't really, to your point now, they don't really believe they the man.
Like, if you believe, yo, I'm the man in my own right, like, I could look at Jay-Z and
say, yo, that nigga's the man, and I could look at Pharrell standing next to him and say,
yo, that nigga's the man, and they both can be the man.
They don't got to be.
Niggas trying to. Jermaine Dupri is the man.
Like, I could look at all of these black kings and say, yo, all of these niggas are the man.
They don't have to be trying to dethrone each other.
That's another point where Charlamagne sounded great at, talking about just the whole separation
of fan bases and media people picking a side.
Like, when he cornered him with that one, like, hey, why. You seem to be one of the proponents of that pushing narratives and turning people. Why do you do that?
Why can't be, hey, I enjoy the music, I enjoy him, I enjoy this person.
He just, again, very logically laid out things that were pretty simple.
I don't. But all of those things that are really entertaining for me when Ak is by himself in his room.
When he's in his room, yo, paint every illusion possible for me, please.
But is it an illusion?
Right now, what I'm seeing is that. Yes, it's an illusion because Jay-Z ain't thinking about academics.
Hold on, stop.
I'm seeing more of the seasoned, seasoned podcasters, radio hosts,
creators, seasoned, not taking into account that there are some infrastructures at play
when you say certain things online that niggas is flagging your video,
not allowing you to make money.
Yes, you shouldn't say it, but then it still goes against the theory of being a creator
and saying what I want.
That is happening.
If you say something about somebody, I got flagged.
If you say something about somebody, somebody's wrong.
The powers at play, the powers that have the power, they're flagging you.
They're taking your video, they're getting you demonetized, and that affects other videos.
What's wrong?
It happens.
Because you're thinking that you're following a blueprint, or you're thinking of, like,
yo, freedom of speech.
I can say what I want, man.
I'm not. That's a mistake.
It's not. You got freedom of speech, you don't got freedom of consequence.
I get it, but we're talking about those content creators.
If your content. It's a bunch of content creators right now that are being flagged, and it's not a joke.
They're showing it.
They're being flagged.
And just for, like, yo, I'm just doing what you did in hip-hop, or I'm just doing what
you did in the game.
I'm just speaking my mind.
Why do I have to do that?
Why do I have to go through this?
So then now, your month is effective, and they're not only flagging one video, they'll
go back and flag the other shit when you did talk positive.
So now, if you get a three. If you get back-to-back-to-back-to-back strikes, now it's a whole thing that comes with that.
So, of course, you're going to feel offended and go on an attack.
So, it's happening.
Let me ask you a question.
So, I'm not going to act like it's not happening, because I'm fully aware, I've seen it.
I said something before.
Hey, all right, Flip, we're going to teach you a lesson.
Bob.
So, now, what I've decided to do is that I don't need to talk bad about anyone in order
to get views.
That's how I looked at it.
Let me go do my own thing.
But that's a lot of shit I want to say.
Okay, cool.
Go get your own platform.
Create your own platform, and you can say whatever the fuck you want to say.
But as long as you're on this platform, you have to follow rules.
You're not disrespecting YouTube rules.
You're following rules of somebody that has the same access that you have.
You're just cooler with somebody that fucking is. But, Flip, back to what we. That coolness and that rapport and that relationship matters.
We just spoke about that.
We just spoke about that with 38 Special.
I got you.
You could piss off somebody who is cool with somebody else, and now, uh-uh.
Yes.
I yield.
I got it.
Relationships is the world's currency, the real one.
Okay.
Yo, if a nigga say certain shit about Joe Button, like some egregious shit about Joe Button. Like I'm offensive.
Like, yo, dog, I'm not going to now support what you got going on.
You could be right.
You could be wrong, whatever the case may be.
But my relationships. Relationships matter in this world, and that's something that niggas got to understand.
Relationships matter.
When you get canceled or whatever the fuck, these big wigs pull your shit, nigga. Been there.
Relationship.
Yes.
Nigga, Donald Trump. Look, watch this.
We all despise Donald Trump in some way, shape, or form.
Yeah, except for one person.
Except that one person.
Right?
My nigga, we are negating the fact that Donald Trump has been outside playing with the Sharks
for 50 fucking years in New York City.
Yes.
He got 50 years of relationships.
So he can call somebody.
He can call somebody and make some shit happen.
Whether he's right, whether he's wrong, whatever the fucking case may be, my nigga, I'm your
kid's godfather.
You might not know that when you're saying this shit about this person, but that nigga
got a relationship with somebody, and it's a consequence to some shit that you might
say.
Yeah, it's just absolutely right.
Prime example.
If Parks is butt naked on top of the Empire State Building, seriously, with a megaphone
in his hand, and he's playing.
Y'all is playing around.
But no, it's just right.
I was joking around just now, but it's just right.
Like, act, talk about rock.
Nation, the way I think about Trump.
Like, if I say the wrong thing. Because, Jay, you get flagged.
Fuck flag.
You can make it tough.
You can make it really, really tough wherever you at.
But that's the president, Joe.
We all aware that.
If you talk about the president a certain way, when they talked about Barack, did Barack
send somebody to a store one time?
Remember when they had the. You know what I'm talking about, Mark.
The guy had a sign outside about Barack Obama.
Oh, I don't know that story, but I get your point.
But I would say there's a lot of. In this world, in this country, a lot of. Most powerful people are the ones who aren't elected.
It's the people who got the money.
A lot of money.
Yeah, and all the stuff.
Every time you do that, I think you're doing something else.
Oh, shit.
It'd be looking wild.
I'd be like, no, Joe.
He can't be involved.
This is not a safe work environment.
He can't be involved with that shit.
I don't want a contract extension.
He'd be like, oh, Mark.
It's only. Because I'm listening.
I like to learn from what Mark is saying.
I'd be listening to him.
And only during the Mark talk like this, and when he fixed it, it's still new like this.
It's like, God damn it.
He's talking like a smoker.
Then Charlemagne, in the middle of what the consensus is, is a dub, a W.
He's getting so much of a W, now he won't come talk to me.
Who wouldn't talk to you?
He said, I'm Charlemagne.
He said, I'm going to talk to Joe next.
But he was in the middle of such a kick-ass session that it dawned on him like a light bulb.
He said, what was the wrong point?
That nigga was like, you know what?
I'm going to make the rounds.
Yo, shit's so sweet out here.
I'm going to talk, not the rounds.
Joe.
Nah, hey, dawg.
What'd you talk to him?
Hey, dawg, dawg.
Yo, nigga.
What the fuck you talking about, nigga?
Joe, get out of here.
Tumble dry.
I just don't know what the content piece would be.
I'm open to it.
I just don't understand what the content side of it is.
Joe, stop it.
That shit is booked, man.
He didn't jack it up.
What's the content part of it?
I don't know.
A conversation with y'all.
I'm talking.
That's it.
Professor X and Magneto, sit down and have a conversation.
I don't do this shit.
I'm not doing nothing.
Charlamagne and Axe shit is like real present and current.
They was talking about all current things.
Fucking Roc Nation and Dez and Drake and fucking Kendrick and George and the Clippers.
It was so multifaceted with current shit.
I feel like me and Charlamagne don't have none of that.
It's like old school shit.
Talking about how rich y'all are.
Yeah, that's what it would be.
You started a Twitter community.
And who's richer?
You started your own community.
He got the blood.
The Black Effect Network.
That's what it's called, right?
I'm saying that right?
Yeah, let's see it.
It'd be how we could come together to do positive and do good for the communities.
And I don't think that's content.
What's fun?
What's fun there?
I would do it just for some old time's sake.
Some negativity work.
No, no, no, no.
I wouldn't do that.
I think a nigga can push a button and get into your bag.
You always got like six in the chamber.
I'm so at peace.
- I don't see it that way.
- I think he is too.
- And I don't, that's my point.
the fuck are we talking about?
Oh, you can hang.
Yeah, come on. That's fire.
You're overthinking it. South Carolina
days. That'd be great. Look at Mark. That'd be great.
You ain't set it up.
You want it set up? I'll set it up.
You gonna be the moderator? I ain't moderating shit.
I just bring the guests, man.
Charlamagne, you did good in that act
talk, dog. Don't say
my name in no talk where you kick an ass.
That's what
I got for you. Act,
I love you. You my brother. You did good
too, but you just did
better when you went back to your room and was able
to further explain some of your
points. At no point in this
did I say act was wrong about anything.
I'm not here
to say who was right or wrong.
I'm only here to say who
came off better and who
articulated better in
that moment. Act could be
100% right about fucking people outside
the door.
Possibly.
But that manic shit. It sounds a little manic, though.
It does sound that way. That's why you should
have been better prepared for that.
Anyway, love them both.
Glad they had it.
Glad they had it. How do y'all feel about
Bam punching Tyler
Hero in the face?
Is that when we know what happened?
That's a fact.
How do y'all feel about it?
This is right after
Tyler went viral
for saying,
yo, do y'all think that he should
be the max player, his mid-range? He was talking
shit about Bam. He put up some
shit on Instagram about players
that are not effective from the mid-range.
And then that fan
leaked his interaction with
Tyler Hero when they were talking about
Bam. So, I mean, you know that Bam
is going to see this at some point. You got to be careful.
Yeah. I mean, I didn't like it.
I understand how it happened.
That's why I never DM fans.
You DM fans, some of them
could be saying something that you want to passionately
respond to, and then you'd say something.
That's a fan. That fan
is screenshotting. That fan is putting it out.
That fan is telling somebody.
They're telling somebody. They're selling it. They're calling TMZ.
When you in fan world, you in fan
world, not your world.
I don't know why Tyler Hero got to
talking like that about Bam
who don't have no problem telling people,
yo, I'm going to smack the shit out of you when I see you.
I've seen him say that to about four different
NBA players. Oh, shit.
He's willing to follow through.
I didn't like it.
I mean, I'm
there was an interview where
which part you didn't like? Tyler talking or Bam?
I didn't like every part of it. Everything you just said,
I agree with. The DM and the talking about
his teammates back is fucked up. I remember watching the Bam interview
or reading a transcript of a Bam interview
where they said, like, what player do you think
on the team has your back the most? And he said, Tyler.
Oh, shit. He said
partly because we've been there the longest together.
So I think I could imagine that Bam's
feelings were hurt. I mean, at the core, a lot
of this violent, hyper-masculine shit is our feelings
be hurt. And so
I get,
why he'd be mad at Tyler, and I get why
he did what he did. I'm not condoning
it. I'm just saying I understand how you get there.
I just wish it didn't go there.
Just because, you know, and I think cooler heads should prevail
in that. You could communicate that to him.
That ain't how we get down. I think if he were
35 years old or 45 years old, he might
respond differently. As we get mature, we make
better choices. So I'm not demonizing him
for it. I just, I hate that it had to happen,
but I totally get the hurt that he felt. He felt betrayed.
There's a video of him punching him?
No. No.
It was at a hotel gym or something.
It happened in Vegas.
Not yet.
If it was, in fact, at a hotel gym, there's probably
footage somewhere.
The powers that be are probably on the phone.
Trying to suppress it.
No, I'm talking about the security.
We passed phone. There's cameras recording.
They got it. They in Vegas.
Summer League.
These cameras is going.
The NBA cameras is going. Somebody
got it. So we'll see what happens.
What's the consequences for him doing that?
I don't know if there will be any. Why would there be consequences?
Off the court? It could be. Off season?
It's an interesting question. I don't know.
Summer League.
Still NBA? I don't know. I don't know if you can
punch at the. Is Tyler here repressing charges?
There's leagues. They're not on the same team, so the team
can't do anything. He's not going to. No, he's not going to call the police. There might be some
league conduct shit if it gets out,
and they both acknowledge it.
It could be, but I doubt there's anything.
I think about when Shaq punched Greg Ostertag
in the eye. He smacked him.
He smacked him. I'm sorry. Or when Charles Oakley
did that to Tyrone Hill. I mean, there weren't
no consequences.
The league kind of be like. I'm talking about in terms of fines and stuff, or suspensions.
The league don't really care. At what point do you think
violence is the answer, Mark?
Oh, wow.
When he has his
cup in his hand. Yeah, or
somebody just keep rapping and going too far.
I think
the. Because ain't we play stupid games, win stupid
prizes? Yes and no.
And you should get the shit smacked out of you
when you say something stupid to help you learn?
You just hit the nail on the
head, right? Should is
the key word in that sentence you just gave.
Like, when somebody talks stupid to somebody
and then gets punched in the face, I have no sympathy for
them. I'm like, that's not what should happen.
But that's not my advice on how to handle it.
And that's the
difference. Cooler heads,
we all get in arguments, we all overreact, we all do
things we wish we hadn't.
But in the moment, I'd like
to use my best judgment. My best judgment is, if you're
not a physical threat to me, I shouldn't
be responding with violence. But I
understand. I get it.
I get it a thousand percent. And so
when people play those stupid games and win
those stupid prizes, I'm like, yeah, it's the fuck
you deserve. I just don't believe that it should be our job
to impose that karma on people. Oh, see, I
do. I agree with that. Really? Because you're always
the one telling me, like, you never let words, you know what I'm saying?
I never what?
You never let words affect you. You're always
saying to me, like, y'all niggas react too much
to violence. Because I don't live
like that. But I totally understand it.
Okay, that's what I'm saying. That's what he said.
I get the karma. No, he's saying he wished
that Bam would have handled it different. I don't wish that.
Oh, see. But
you wouldn't have handled it in the same way Bam did.
No. Okay, so
we're kind of saying the same thing.
I wouldn't do it. I'm saying. But you
glad he did it that way.
I'm not angry at me
either. I don't
wish that he. Okay, okay.
I don't wish that. You feel like Cali got what he deserved.
I wish he handled it differently. You said not me. That's
why I'm thinking. We were scared. I thought you were saying, like,
I'm glad he did it that way. I don't wish he would have handled it differently.
When I have handled it differently, yes.
I got it. Everybody ain't me.
Yeah. And I'm clear on that.
Tyler was going crazy on that Instagram
DM. Yeah.
And then to come back with the graphic
of a nigga that you was just on a
team with, riding with,
and from what I'm hearing,
it ain't just Bam on the Heat that's pissed off
with Tyler Hero.
Yeah.
Like, it's a few niggas. It's a few
stories running around. One that says
it's multiple Heat players angry at Tyler Hero.
It's one that says multiple Heat players are
angry at Bam. What it matter, Bam's contract.
Right. Yeah, but that story
leaking during Summer League is even funny.
Like, he's the face of the Heat.
Yeah. I mean, Greek Freak is there now, but
he is the Udonis hat.
The Heat picked a guy, and they love
on him and treat him properly.
I can see players having a feeling about that,
but that story leaking to the public is
funny. When funny leaks start
happening, there's funny pipes.
Tyler Hero showed himself to be
a funny pipe. Yes.
Against a nigga who doesn't have his temper
all the way. Right.
So, I'm not surprised
that he asked for it. It came
your way. You got it. Yo, dawg, there's people that have punched
me in the face, so y'all better understand that
once I got home and thought about it, I perfectly
understood why they did that.
Yeah. I'll tell y'all the one time I thought I should've got punched
in the face. And if you didn't do that,
it might have took me a long time to learn
whatever lesson I learned in that moment.
I'm with people learning a lesson from
shit happening to them, especially when they do something
stupid as Tyler Hero did. No, I agree
with all of that. To a fan?
I say niggas ain't get punched in the face enough
growing up, so they didn't learn.
Consequence. Yeah, but I. You talking to a
fan about me
like that? That is wild, yo.
Yes! That is wild.
I still. I'm. And now
I happen to walk in a summer league
gym, because we all here. I don't think he was
looking for him. No. I don't think he
talked to him. Oh, look at God. I think he
just. Sometimes God do what he's supposed to do.
Put it right there for you. Holy shit.
That nigga is right there.
And he went over there
and hit him and boogied.
Not boogied as in ran.
Like, went on about his
day. Ain't changed nothing.
I think punching somebody in the face for bam
is like me making coffee.
He always does that.
I'ma go make seven cups of coffee. I do that shit
with ease. Most I do with my eyes closed. Hands
tied by my back, nigga. I think
that's what it's like for him. Yeah. What y'all
think about. Because you mentioned
Udonis Haslam, him and Draymond. Yeah.
That's another one. Yeah.
You got a clip? I ain't
playing no clips. Okay. Well,
because they asked. Alright, so
Draymond spoke out on the whole
situation. He basically summarized
it. When
Draymond punched. Jordan
Poole. Jordan Poole in the face. Udonis had
a lot to say about it. Like, I would never hit a younger guy
on my team. It's not heat culture, etc.
etc. So then Draymond came out and
was like, I wonder how you feel
because these are two dudes that came up
basically under you
doing
something that you said you wouldn't do.
And Udonis had a lot to say.
He had a lot to say.
He had a lot to say. I found it quite amusing
that they got into it.
The one thing that I really started
to wonder about was, I remember
when I got into it with Draymond. I hate this guy.
I saw Udonis Haslam get into it with guys
on teams that was younger than him before,
a la Jimmy Butler. Then he came out and he like,
that's ridiculous. You get into it with your
young guy. I can't believe
you did that. And it really bothered me
because I was like, damn, man. Like, when I have
respect for certain guys, it does
matter. This is two young guys.
Adonis Haslam Reyes.
And yeah, they not on the same team,
no more but if you raise this young guy in the light of what you were saying about me and now
he punches this young other young guy that y'all kind of co-raised are you gonna have that same
energy and the reality is i don't really want to have the same energy because i love bam that's my
brother tyler hero who's from milwaukee like jordan pool who has a lot of bravado as a young
guy like jordan pool who probably says some very disrespectful things like jordan pool and i just
wonder like man he gonna have that same energy um i understand where draymond is coming from
shout draymond uh i just don't think it's the same at all i don't understand where he's coming
why are you even mentioning my name in this why what's the point i don't even see there was no
need you immediately this happened you ran right to yo you don't have i'm gonna have this energy
he didn't even say nothing yet even if he did respond let him address it or something you ran
and just threw his name in the mix for no reason
udonis is minding his business this situation has nothing to do with him now i don't get that at all
i saw a tweet but i said similar oh no yeah he had he had a lot to say
i'll let joe read it no i'm not i'm not no no no no no you put a lot of pressure on me
yeah yeah i've learned i've read what response oh no i was looking for the uh actual video of it
not to read something but they're not but they're not on the same but he also
has a video but they're not on the same team who not on the same team tyler hero and bam out of
isle and his point was now what yeah his point was yo these are people that came up under you
so you should have a more personal stance on it because they came up under you
the same way you was vocal about when i did what i did with my teammate i want to see you be as
vocal and have the same exact energy as you do with these guys but i don't care that they both
came up under bam they're not on the same team they're not on the same team they're not on the
same team you shouldn't punch your teammate you should find a way to work through your
differences because you are teammates and there's also an age tyler heroes on the fucking bucks now
we traded you that's why you pop and fly shit so yes now you can smack the shit out of the nigga
that was on the team and you gotta spend another point which is you know you you smacked your rookie
in the fair your young boy on the face you punched your young boy on the face with he was 32 yeah
this is a young guy and you punched him with full price did you punch him like it was a nigga in a
club like you punched him like that you punched him like that you punched him like that you punched
he said tyler hero and he said clearly bam didn't do that to tyler because you would know if he did
number one and number two they much closer in age and he didn't he didn't he didn't um
condone what he did but he said when he gets older he'll make better choices you know i mean he was
saying like they both in their 20s they both young it's a difference it's not apples to apples is
what you don is it makes sense and then he said a whole bunch of other shit it was that was a nice
version that was right i'm trying you gave the nice version yeah but because he also said he
let him know i don't fuck with you oh yeah and he didn't say it was on site but he said it was on
you had a passes and i'm not again i don't condone that i saw i saw a tweet with somebody
who's saying that we're talking about saint basketball but it was like yo john moran got
traded and nobody talking about it there's no press on it i think i think it might be
sober i feel like man you know i always think of i always think of second chances
you know me freeze absolutely i'm just saying he he's had second and third and fourth chances
to the point where they the league not us the league it's not a talking point anymore
for the league so they're not going to make a big deal out of it which means the writers are
not going to make a big deal out of it which means it's it's just news at this point but that's him
i got you yeah what else we got i think we did it i think we did yeah i think yeah i think we got it
you still got the front of the show joints you still got the front of the show joints yeah why
nigga aren't they friends of the shows what the fuck are you talking about part of the show
same shit yeah what about it
pull it up damn flip nigga are we on top of my phone nigga we get paid we get paid by the pot
they they they said there's some rumors about you falling back during contract time you know i saw
something like that falling who falls back during contract time i turn up my contract i only got
eight weeks left i'm trying to get give them put my best foot forward to the audience members they
care about what dr mark lamar hill is saying that is fabrication don't don't don't get scared they'll
they'll they'll start this they'll start this shit
they'll do that they're gonna be dead
they're gonna be dead
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All right, it's just, not for him, I don't care if these niggas curse me, what the fuck are y'all talking about, like, he about to do something, uh, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, there we go, man, there we go, yeah, come on, there we go, man, yes, sir, it's not a dip song, it's just a build song, uh, really enjoy Bleak going out there,
I heard motherfuckers saying, yeah, yo, Uncle Murder, we'll talk about it on Patreon, yo, hopefully y'all have enjoyed this broadcast, as much as we enjoyed delivering it to you, man, again, anybody that went to Yankee Stadium this past weekend, get a nap, a time was had, man, a time was had, a lot of fun, shout out to everybody that graced the stage, everybody that made their way to New York City,
all of the fans, all of the five boroughs, everybody with a Yankee hat, a lot of Knicks merchandise in the building, all of the beautiful women that were there, all of the staff personnel, NYPD, the fire department, everybody, all hands on deck to make sure we had a good time, again, this is one of the most New Yorkitist summers that I've ever experienced, I'm having an absolute blast, keep us in your prayers, Lord knows we need to be there,
until the next time.
We bid you adieu, farewell, adios, arrivederci, hasta la vista, au revoir, so long, goodbye, or a simple head nod will suffice, remember, life is a series of moments, and moments pass, so let's make this one last, as if it's all we have, and last, but certainly not least, hold up, man, let me help, oh, no, he killed this, hold up.
Free time, even if it hurts, so free, money is deserved, you've been put on this earth to be all you can be, like the reserves, and me, my time, and it's all me, so I have to allow, she, her, time to serve, it's easy now for her, and time to give my turn, and maybe we can be, we, again, like we were, finally, my time's too short to share, and I ask her now, it ain't fair, so yeah, she lost one, she lost one, she lost one, she lost one, she lost one.
Check the bass line out.
There you go, please.
Pickity.
Some of y'all are mad, y'all ain't here, there we go, I'll turn it off for y'all, man.
Take it, take it, take it.
Again.
Remember, life is a series of moments, and moments pass, so let's make this one last, as if it's all we have, last, but certainly not least, the baddies are insecure, the stagnant women want to travel, and the closed-minded women want you to teach them things, grab you a Tylenol, you might need it.
If you are 40 and up, 50 and up, 60 and up, 70 and up.
And you was at that old show, man, go ahead and get your Neosporin, lay down for a little bit, man, it's okay.
Get that green out for a while.
Ain't nobody gonna judge you, yeah, the green, the good one, the good one.
They don't know, they don't know.
Yeah, use some of that PTO, man.
Go ahead and rest.
What y'all on this week, what y'all on this week, anything?
Nigga, no.
Work and rest.
After that shit?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My back.
I'm sleeping.
It's fast.
Shit.
Well, there you have it.
You better chill out, man.
I'm tired as fuck.
Nigga, you better go home.
Put that work in, boy.
Shit.
My wife was trying to get me to put that work in after the concert.
Yeah, right, after the show?
Hey, nigga.
Wait, after the show?
I was like, I'll see you Tuesday, Wednesday.
Nigga, get your ass.
You think I'm joking?
No, I believe you.
Nigga, get away from my place.
No, I'm not just playing.
I'm just saying, yeah, I think you're lying.
That's the thing about bringing your joint to the show, your wife to the show.
They get to lick in the system.
They start feeling good, like thinking when it's time to get home, it's time to go to
the parents' house.
No, it ain't.
It's time to go back.
and I'ma go to bed.
And don't fuck with me tomorrow either.
- You and Sade will sleep together.
I watch y'all, nigga.
I'm like, man, they're so in tune.
Look at them.
Yeah, no, me and my baby in our bed.
We on the bed.
Shout out to my man.
Step side to my man, yo.
He just got it.
Word.
He cool as shit.
He cool as fuck, yo.
Shout out to him.
You got to protect the investment, Joe.
I ain't got nothing going on this week, man.
I'm down with that.
Free.
I'm chilling.
Just work, vibes, keeping it light, keeping it low.
I don't want no trouble, man.
I'm tight.
Ill, but I don't.
Rappers, you might feel me, homies.
I'm like, still.
Y'all, look down out there.
I'm tight.
Real.
When my situation ain't improving, I'm trying to murder everything.
I would have gave him a little bit of his shit.
That's all.
He could have gave four to six, eight bars.
That's it.
Everybody would have been happy.
It's the hard knock life.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, Joe Budden.
Enough of that.
You've never heard of Joe Budden?
JVP, JVP, why am I to be without the JVP?
I'm from the web and nitty era.
It's the network.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The podcast hosts describe an energetic and humorous experience at a Jay-Z concert, highlighting Corey’s dynamic dance moves with his wife and the vibrant audience reactions.
They discuss the show’s musical elements, including unexpected songs like “Gangster’s Paradise” and the surprise inclusion of a third verse, which fans found surprising and impactful.
The hosts reflect on the cultural significance of Jay-Z’s performances, emphasizing his deep connection to New York culture, fan loyalty, and the unique energy of live shows.
Summary:
The podcast captures a lively, anecdotal account of a Jay-Z concert experience, blending humor and genuine admiration. Hosts recount moments of excitement, such as Corey’s synchronized dancing with his wife and the unexpected presence of a third verse in “Gangster’s Paradise,” which energized the crowd. They emphasize the show’s cultural depth, noting how Jay-Z’s performances reflect New York’s identity, with fans from diverse backgrounds—including corporate professionals and longtime hip-hop fans—showing up in full force.
The hosts also reflect on the show’s stamina, the seamless integration of special guests like Pharrell and Slick Rick, and the emotional impact of seeing artists perform with authenticity. They highlight the contrast between traditional concert culture and modern safety concerns, jokingly referencing the performative crowd control in New York. Despite the chaotic and energetic atmosphere, the hosts express deep respect for Jay-Z’s artistry and his ability to connect with fans across generations.
The episode ends with a celebratory tone, honoring the fans, the music, and the legacy of hip-hop culture that the show embodies. The hosts maintain a lighthearted, self-aware tone throughout, acknowledging the entertainment value of the experience while recognizing its deeper cultural resonance.
FAQs
The podcast is presented as fictional and for entertainment purposes only. The hosts do not claim to offer real advice or promote any serious content.
The hosts described seeing Corey dancing in sync with his wife on the dance floor during Jay-Z's performance, which they found wild and impressive.
They noted that the song had a third verse, which had not been widely known, and highlighted how it was played during the show, sparking excitement among attendees.
The audience was described as highly engaged, with fans dressed in unique styles, including corporate attire, and many fans reported feeling deeply connected to the performance.
No, the hosts missed one of the shows, specifically the Reasonable Doubt show, and noted that attending all three would have provided a fuller understanding of the experience.
The act of cutting his hair symbolized the completion of the album, a tradition that was highlighted as a meaningful and symbolic moment in the performance.
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