50 Cent Bigger than Jay Z, Hip Hop Needs Beefs, & Eminem is White???

Summary

Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant with Akaash Singh

Episode: 50 Cent Bigger than Jay Z, Hip Hop Needs Beefs, & Eminem is White???
Guests: Tony Yayo (with Uncle Murda joining later), AlexxMedia, Mark Gagnon
Date: February 4, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of Flagrant dives deep into the worlds of hip hop, loyalty, fame, beef, and changing culture through the perspectives of Tony Yayo and the Flagrant crew. It’s explicit, irreverent, and filled with unfiltered takes on icons like 50 Cent, Jay Z, Eminem, and Lloyd Banks. The hosts and guests spar over who’s hip hop’s biggest titan, the role of competition (and violence) in rap, and how authenticity, street cred, and even painted nails signal shifting definitions of “realness” in the genre. The conversation is raw, funny, and at times combative—exactly as promised by the Flagrant ethos.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Tony Yayo’s Journey: From the Streets to the Spotlight

• Meme Culture & New Media Success ([00:13])
  Yayo shares how, after being laughed at for doing podcasts and commentary, his online persona blew up:

  "My get back is my success now because I haven't dropped music in 20 years."

• Life’s Gratitude and Staying Grounded ([01:25])
  Despite luxury, Yayo maintains his appreciation:

  "I appreciate everything...we living the best life that you could ever live...I'm grateful no matter what."

• Lessons from 50 Cent ([02:24])
  Surroundings matter:

  "What I always learned from 50 is like, you show your friends, you show your future...I'd rather hang with guys like you...I could learn something about this podcast thing that we're about to do."

• On the Run With G-Unit ([04:07–07:59])
  Wild stories about being literally on the run while G-Unit explodes, including faking passports, outrunning bounty hunters, and keeping a low profile as the group outsold Jay Z.

2. Prison, Authenticity & Survival

• Rikers Island Realities ([09:36–18:00])
  Tough tales from Rikers:

  “Going to Rikers Island has to be. It's like they call it Torture Island, the Bridge of pain.” ([09:36])

• Navigating Prison Politics
  Success and fame don’t always translate inside:

  “People didn’t know what Yayo looked like...I’d be on the bus and they’d be talking about me right behind me.”
  —On anonymity despite notoriety ([12:52])

• Respecting the Game
  Building alliances, respecting the “real” rules, and learning jailhouse etiquette were key to survival.

3. The Power (and Limits) of Loyalty

• Yayo on Loyalty to 50 Cent ([03:13; 112:00])

  "I’m loyal to the guy that turned the lights on and who I came in to."

• Contrasting Jay Z and 50 Cent’s Styles ([30:07, 34:25, 98:51])
  The group debates whether Jay or 50 had more cultural impact and who’s the better “boss.”

  “50 is more family than business...Jay just feel like he was more business at that point than family.” —Yayo ([98:51])
  50's relentless support for his team is contrasted with Jay's business acumen and strategic alliances.

• The Danger of Success and Falling Out
  Examples include stories about helping G-Unit members with money/taxes, then feeling underappreciated or betrayed.

4. Hip Hop as Competition—Does It Need Beef?

• Beef as Essence of Hip Hop ([119:02–124:10])

  “Let’s keep it real. When you think of hip hop, right, we're thinking of gladiator school. We want to see blood on the map. When we see a battle…”

  • Examples: Jay Z vs. Nas, 50 Cent vs. Ja Rule, Drake vs. Kendrick, etc.
  • “Harmony in hip hop? This some fake reality.” —Yayo ([120:21])
• Battle Culture Then & Now
  Nostalgia for classic competitive MC rivalries and indictment of attempts to “sanitize” hip hop.
• Violence and Responsibility
  The group explores the tension:

  “I do like violent movies...Sex sells, violence sells in hip hop. We love battles. There's nothing wrong—when it goes past that and motherfuckers start getting shot—that's what I'm talking about...” —Yayo ([129:06])

5. Race, Stereotypes & Barriers—Why Eminem Won

• Eminem’s Success: White Privilege or Pure Talent? ([13:55, 22:54, 28:04, 36:46])
  The crew riffs on Yayo giving "props" to Eminem but calling out double standards:

  “...he just don't want to give it up because they don't want to give it to the white boy.” —Yayo ([27:01])
  “It’s like a black hockey player. Everybody hated us when we signed with Em. But Em did the most for us.” ([27:04])
  The group ultimately settles on Eminem’s skills and Dre’s production making him irrefutable—but race helped the rocketship.

• Notable Quote

  “I didn’t even know Eminem was white until TRL.” —Andrew Schultz ([13:55])
  “Black people can be racist too.” —Yayo ([37:46])

6. Cultural Change in Rap: Nails, Bags, and Manliness

• New School vs. Old School Fashion
  Heated, often hilarious generational debate about painted nails (Alex), man purses, and how the definition of “tough” evolves through Young Thug, ASAP Rocky, and more ([23:32–26:44; 43:52–44:46]).

  “How can a person with their nails painted judge hip hop? Hip hop is an aggressive sport.” —Yayo ([24:09])
  “Young Thug wore the dress...he still be Young Thug. People still get shot, though, so it’s all good.” —Yayo ([44:04])

• The Role of Image and Style in Hip Hop Authenticity
  The crew ribs each other over “glittery nails” and loyalty to tradition, sparking a larger conversation about how rap’s image is shifting.

7. Numbers, Longevity & Hip Hop Domination

• Who’s the Biggest? Jay Z, 50 Cent, or Eminem
  Yayo and the crew pull album sales receipts, tour dates, and impact. The running debate:
  • 50’s “fire”—once you’re hot, how you stay hot (and how others stand “next to” you) ([36:39–36:46], [132:20])
  • Arena tours vs. club dates (50 can sell out worldwide; can Jay or others?)
  • “Nobody wants to give [Eminem] credit. Because a white boy put us on, and everybody's scared to say it.” ([28:04])
• Touring Economics ([139:43–143:56])
  Massive tours are rare. Only a handful of artists (e.g., 50, Travis Scott, Jay Z w/Beyoncé) can fill arenas worldwide.

8. Hip Hop’s Roots, Geographic Rivalries & Respect for Old School

• Regional Loyalty: Queens vs. Brooklyn ([64:19–68:05])
  Yayo’s pride in Queens’ legacy (Run DMC, Nas, LL Cool J) and playful debates about which borough “runs” hip hop.
• Saluting the Legends
  Extended segments pay homage to the art’s early architects—Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One—while noting how the drug dealer aesthetic defined early hip hop.

9. Fame, Wealth, and Authenticity—The Cost of Being Successful

• The Realities of the Industry
  Numerous anecdotes about betrayal, lawsuits, and falling out with people who were once inner circle.
• Lessons in Financial Smarts from 50 Cent ([102:32])
  50 instructing crew to “buy a house before a car,” bailing people out of debt, and showing the importance of wise investment and staying grounded.

10. Violence, Social Media, and the Next Generation

• Are Modern Rappers More Violent?
  Group reflects that, while violence is as old as hip hop, the visibility is worse due to Instagram/social media, not “real” increase:

  “Social media make it look like extra crazy… but back in the day in the streets, you had thousands of dying a year.” —Mark ([126:16])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Relationship with 50 Cent:

  “We could still go overseas. Like, I went on my own tour. Swiss Alps, Germany, Luxembourg, myself. Cause of Eminem.” —Yayo ([27:50])

• On Eminem’s Influence:

  “Imagine being on Rikers Island. It was fucking Eminem at the Grammys with a Free Yayo shirt.” —Yayo ([14:32])

• On Painted Nails in Rap:

  “How can a person with their nails painted judge hip hop?... It's art.” —Yayo ([24:09])
  “Nah, you got glitter, you got studs. Come on, you from Far Rockaway. You making Queens look bad here.” —Yayo ([44:42])

• On Old School Harlem and Brooklyn:

  “Queens and Harlem are similar. Get money, get fresh. The Bronx and Brooklyn to me was always ‘shoot you up’.” —Yayo ([76:13])

• On Hip Hop Loyalty:

  "I'm always gonna say thanks 50 because I know his fame is a part of… we a part of his fame. So it's always the appreciation there.” —Yayo ([112:31])

• On Hip Hop Beef:

  “Y’all hear that sucker?... Hip hop has not been found… Hip hop has always been found on beef. Did you like Kendrick and Drake?... Before that we was listening to Sexyy Red. Hip hop was boring and right.” —Yayo ([124:04])

• On Money and Success:

  “50 is a million dollar show. There’s nobody in Dipset or in G Unit besides 50 that get a million dollars a show.” —Yayo ([140:52])

• On Race and Success:

  “It’s like a black hockey player... It gave him the hood recognition... They don’t want to give it to the white boy.” —Yayo ([27:01])

• On Getting Canceled and Not Caring:

  “You know, I like comedians...because they got canceled before... but those motherfuckers don't care… if you care... you’re political. We need hip hop and harmony.” —Yayo ([124:56])

• Banter on Broaching Taboo Topics:

  "That’s why I’m glad I kept it street. I never went to a P. Diddy party. Nothing weird. I just kept it street. Cause I would hate to be in one of them pictures.” —Yayo ([144:36])

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Engaging, Unfiltered Bits (with Timestamps)

• Eminem is White? ([13:55])
  Andrew admits he thought Em was black until TRL.
• Painted Nails & Cultural Shifts ([23:32–26:44])
  A comic, heated argument over whether painted nails, man purses, and Young Thug’s dress “count” in street cred.
• “Numbers Are Numbers” ([33:06–34:19])
  Rigorous, comedic debate about platinum records, Jay Z's Samsung deal, and who can really claim “GOAT” status.
• On Hip Hop Needing Beef ([119:02–124:10])
  Yayo argues that “harmony in hip hop” doesn’t work—audiences want rivalry and drama, and that's the genre's DNA.
• Living Culture Abroad ([88:03–91:52])
  The crew jokes about being “culturally refined” abroad, from eating McDonald's in Germany to teaching each other how to use a salad fork.
• Hip Hop and Loyalty ([112:00–112:54])
  “If you’re beefing with my dude, I don’t want to fuck with you,” says Andrew, echoing Yayo’s code of personal loyalty.

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Commentary on Shifting Standards in Rap

• Authenticity vs. Image:
  The episode continually contrasts old school standards of “realness” (danger, street legacy, raw rap) with contemporary shifts (style, brand deals, songs going viral, painted nails, and emotional openness).
• What Sells?
  Sex, violence, and competition are argued as the bedrock of commercial success, but the line between creative battle and dangerous reality is complex.
• Regionalism Still Matters:
  Pride and jokes about boroughs/regions run throughout—hip hop’s competitive core is seen not just in lyricism but also in identity.

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [00:00–02:07]: Yayo on gratitude and viral meme culture
• [03:13–07:59]: Yayo's wild stories: “on the run” life, G-Unit’s rise, and hiding from police
• [09:36–15:15]: Rikers Island tales, prison politics, loyalty
• [22:54–28:04]: The Eminem effect—race, privilege, and industry resistance
• [24:09–26:44]: The “painted nails” debate: culture, masculinity, and generational divides
• [27:50–34:25]: Debating platinum sales, defining the “biggest” in hip hop
• [64:19–68:05]: Paying homage to Queens/NYC’s legacy in hip hop
• [76:13–77:01]: Old school regional differences, how Brooklyn and Queens shaped rap
• [98:51–101:50]: Loyalty, money smarts, and internal betrayals in rap
• [119:02–124:10]: Why “beef” is hip hop's lifeblood; competition versus harmony
• [129:06–131:41]: Sex, violence, and hype: what really sells in music/reality TV
• [140:52–143:56]: Economics of touring/arena shows: only a few can do it

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Conclusion

This episode is pure Flagrant: comedic, confrontational, and unafraid to air out hip hop’s dirty (and hilarious) laundry. The guests and hosts chop up what it means to be “real,” why hip hop will always be competitive at its core, and how money, race, and culture intertwine at the genre’s highest levels. From jail stories to epic sales debates to generational jokes about painted nails, this episode is a must-listen for any hip hop head—or anyone fascinated by the friction between old school and new.

Transcript

[Andrew Schultz]

Let's start the show.

[Yayo]

What's up, everybody?

[Andrew Schultz]

Welcome to Flagrant. And today we will eventually be joined by two. Yes, but I just want to say that we were going to wait for Uncle Murder, but Yayo specifically says start the pot early. Fuck him. That's what you said.

[Yayo]

Uncle Murder. I don't care about him. Listen, when I was. Listen. When I was doing. Listen. When I was doing Vlad and I started podcasting, everybody laughed at me. 50 murder, everybody. So my get back is my success now because I haven't dropped music in 20 years. But we ain't.

[Andrew Schultz]

You're more viral.

[Yayo]

Yeah. It's different times now.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

So I wouldn't think fast forward years ago when I did Vlad that I would turn into a meme. So you don't know what the marketing is.

[Andrew Schultz]

A meme.

[Yayo]

A meme. Whatever the fuck you call it. Right.

[Alex]

There's a new meme right there.

[Yayo]

I'm gonna give you a perfect example.

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm a meme.

[Yayo]

The Banks versus Fab thing. I'm team Lloyd Banks on that. Cause I feel like Banks have bigger heads, toured more and been more places. And plus we brought Fab on tour and Fab wanted to sign to the label at that point.

[Alex]

But you are just saying that because that's your man.

[Yayo]

No, I'm saying it because the guy that they saying is better than Banks wanted to sign to our label and we took him overseas. He didn't take us overseas. 50 took him overseas. So when you make a diss record about him. Right?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

The funny thing is people never. 50 does a lot for people, but then people always seem to turn on them. Oh, really? That's how I feel.

[Alex]

Oh, well, that's fucked up.

[Yayo]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

You've been loyal from the jump.

[Yayo]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

You're a very grateful dude. That's something that. I think why I enjoy watching your stuff so much is because, like, sometimes people get money, they do these crazy experiences and they feel kind of like entitled to it. You all. You never seem like you're bragging when you talk about your life.

[Yayo]

No, I appreciate. Cause I appreciate. I live in the moment and I appreciate everything. Last night we went to Miami. We did three parties. We did Club 11. We went to a restaurant. You know, it was a vibe, good music, beautiful women was there. Like, we living the best life that you could ever live. We staying in the Fontainebleau. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to the fountain blue. We staying in the best hotels.

[Andrew Schultz]

So there's never a moment in your life where you're just like, okay, this is how I live now. And anything below this, I'm annoyed. You're grateful.

[Yayo]

I'm grateful no matter what.

[Alex]

You a little bougie now, though.

[Yayo]

Who you think? So, hello. But I still would go to the hood and get a beef patty and some jerk chicken. That's true. I went to New York fried the other day. I was in Queens. I'm still going to the hood.

[Andrew Schultz]

Is there anything that you won't do anymore? Is there anything now that you're living this life? You're like, ah, I just can't do

[Yayo]

that single ply toilet paper, I think just going out for no reason. And I feel like in the beginning of my career, what I always learned from 50 is like, you show your friends, you show your future, right? That's what they say, right? So I'd rather hang with guys like you or you or you. Cause I could learn something about this podcast thing that we're about to do, right? So a lot of times you'll have friends around when you're younger, in the beginning of your career as a rapper. And what are they doing? They want to fuck the chicks. They want to drink all the liquor, fuck up the hotel, beat people up. Cause you lawsuits. Those are losses. So in the beginning of my career, I could have learned from different shit if I would have hung around 50. 50 was so busy that we was kind of doing our own thing. So.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, what happened? Like, you get locked up when they reach super, super stardom, right? And then you still get paid when they went on tour.

[Yayo]

Yeah. 50 took care of me. I told him I lived in Battery Park. You know, kids walking barefoot over there, no glass. What's my girl name that was here? She was like, yeah, that's like a different part of New York. Tanya. She was like, it's like a different part of New York. I'm waking up. I'm out of jail. I'm seeing the Statue of Liberty. I'm like, wow.

[Alex]

Oh, shit.

[Yayo]

We really made it. I can't believe it.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

And then I remember being in shock because I was in the shock program.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah. What's shock?

[Yayo]

Shock is like a boot camp, okay? So, like, my gun charge was. Was nonviolent, so I could get shocked. So I'm like, yo, I gotta get out of jail as soon as possible. Cause we blowing up. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, fuck, I'm missing everything. Who's crying? You be crying to yourself. They call it the why Me Cell. Every time we get Locked up. That's why they call it why me. So I'm like, why me? Why me? I gotta get outta here. So I got accepted the shot 50 had all kind of lawyers for us. So, you know, the lawyers was always there. That's why I always shot him out. The lawyer fees, he took care of.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, really?

[Yayo]

Yeah. So the lawyers, everything. I got shot. Boom. I'm in the back of the kitchen. Somebody come with like a magazine, a CEO, like, yo, this is you. It's the Beg for Mercy album. We outsold Jay Z that year. I'm like, oh, shit. Wow. She did like 3 million. Oh, damn. Cause remember, I was in the studio with Dr. Dre and Eminem on a run.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Mark]

Wow.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah. Yeah. When you were on the run?

[Yayo]

Yeah, when I was on the run, I was going. I'm like. Cause it was like, why did you

[Andrew Schultz]

decide to go on a run?

[Yayo]

Cause you gotta think about this. Where your options, right? Go to jail or your group is blowing up, taking off, just you sitting there, you hearing 50 on the phone with Eminem. They popping bottles, they signed the deal. I'm there for all that on the run. So I'm like, why would I wanna go to jail and miss all that?

[Andrew Schultz]

But how did they not catch you if you're promoting the shows wherever you're going?

[Yayo]

Because now I can move around. Like, I'm with 50 in Pennsylvania. He lives. After he got shot, he had a spot in Pennsylvania. So I'm back and forth.

[Alex]

They couldn't see him. Cause he went like this started.

[Yayo]

So if I go to the hood, I might be at 50's grandma house, but if I don't go outside, I'm good.

[Andrew Schultz]

Now. Were you on the run in New York and that's why the other states weren't aware of it?

[Yayo]

No. You could be on a run. Once you get a warrant and then they fingerprint you, they could see that warrant anywhere. Texas, Georgia, Florida.

[Andrew Schultz]

But they weren't coming up to a show going, hey, he's there. We know he's there.

[Yayo]

They didn't really know like that. And they didn't know my face like that. They had my face. They knew, like, bounty hunters and stuff would come to my mom's house and be in the neighborhood. But I was, you know, I had a fake passport member. So now I'm in Barcelona with Eminem and Paul Rosenberg. Shout to Shady Aftermath. I'm on a run.

[Andrew Schultz]

They all.

[Yayo]

No rapper has done what I went through and been through. No rapper has done what I'm done. I'm on a run with Eminem, 50, everybody, Paul Rosenberg. Nobody knows I got my brother's name. Cause me and my brother look alike.

[Andrew Schultz]

Did they know? Did 50 know? Did em know or did you just kind of know?

[Yayo]

50 knew.

[Andrew Schultz]

Okay.

[Yayo]

I don't know if somebody got paid or anything. When I went to the Social Security shit, I'm not gonna say that, but I don't know how I got away with it. But I went to the Social Security building on the run with my brother's information. Wow, this is before 9? 11. Damn right. Went in that shit. Got my brother's name on the passport. Swear to God, I don't know how we did it. I don't know how it happened. They was giving Lloyd Banks a harder time than me in there. We had to take the risk. I didn't wanna go to jail. I was like, yo, who wants to? Yo, you don't want to. Nobody wants to go to jail.

[Andrew Schultz]

But you knew you would eventually have to.

[Yayo]

Yeah, but I was just enjoying the time, living the moment.

[Alex]

So whenever you got on flights and

[Yayo]

everything you would need. I was good. It was my face with my brother's name.

[Andrew Schultz]

And your brother couldn't travel at all?

[Yayo]

Well, my brother, he was, you know, he wasn't traveling with me. I was on the run. Yeah, he was just blowing up. So it was just me, 50 and banks. Did you tell your brother.

[Andrew Schultz]

Did you tell him that you were gonna.

[Yayo]

Everybody knew I was on every. Come on. I had all this information, Social Security, everything. Yeah, that's fine.

[Andrew Schultz]

Okay.

[Yayo]

So now I got a gun charge and I'm flying to Barcelona. I'm chilling with Eminem, Dr. Drake. So I'm like, this is never going. I'm never want this to end. Yeah, I would have ran forever.

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm glad they got you.

[Yayo]

Oh, that's a long story. We came back to New York. Now is the mixtape shit is blowing up even more. So we did the Coco Cabana. Remember that? Back in the day, we did that club and it was this hip hop because, you know, we was number one on hip hop police list. Like they knew us by this time. They was like, yo, yo, come to New York. He's a target. We're getting him. Cause I ran so far. I ran. And before, remember, there's no Instagram or nothing. So you're not posting, you're not making your shit hot. Right. You know what I'm saying? The phones ain't like that. Where they could track you. It's a whole different shit.

[Andrew Schultz]

The fans must know you're on the run. So when they see you, is the reaction different?

[Yayo]

Yeah, people loving me, you know what I'm saying?

[Andrew Schultz]

Cause you're at auto.

[Yayo]

I still think they didn't know I was on the run.

[Alex]

Yeah. I don't think the public knew.

[Yayo]

Nobody did.

[Alex]

I didn't know. He was like. That story was after the fact.

[Yayo]

Oh, wow.

[Andrew Schultz]

Okay, okay, okay. So then they snatch you up at Copa.

[Yayo]

So, yeah, we go to the Copus and we had these security guards they called. We called him gun in the box because he always had his gun in the box. Like, why do you have your gun in the box? If somebody comes to shoot you, you gotta go and get shot the fuck up. So Finn used to call him Gun in the Box. He was like, why do we got these guys calling him Gun in the Box? You know what I mean? Yeah, it's Gun in the Box, right? So we started getting, you know, legal security and shit. Yeah. So legal security. So look, so we, I guess, legal security, whatever. Motherfuckers still had guns around, whatever.

[Alex]

So they were probably awesome.

[Yayo]

So they blitzed the car. Once they blitzed the car, 50 was like, nah, you know, it's over for you. And I was like, yeah. Cause once they fingerprint me, it's going.

[Andrew Schultz]

It's pop up in the system. So did you have to do more time because you were on the run

[Yayo]

or did you get to. Nah, it was bail jumping. And my charge, it was ran consistent. Yeah, but it was non violent. See, the thing about jail, if you got a nonviolent charge, you got a better chance. Once you got violence on your jacket, robbery, kidnapping, your shit is like, your next charge might be 10 years. If you have no violence on your shit, it's kind of better for you.

[Andrew Schultz]

How can you be non violent with a gun?

[Yayo]

Cause I didn't use it, I just had it. Yeah, just gotta call it, like, if you have it for protection. Yeah. Now if I shot two people with that gun, that would be a violent charge.

[Andrew Schultz]

Why'd you go with two?

[Yayo]

It might be a misunderstanding. But two is like, you are dangerous. One is a Oopsie daisy. Is that what you said? But I hate going to. Yo, listen.

[Andrew Schultz]

I hate going to jail.

[Yayo]

Is that what you said? So look, this is the whole thing though, to any of you kids out there doing crime. Cause there's a lot of crime in New York City and all around the world. Yeah, yo, listen, going to Rikers island has to be. It's like they call it Torture island, the Bridge of pain. It's just the worst. That's probably the most thing I experienced psychologically as a man. Like, that shit's just crazy, bro. Like, soon as you go in there, it's action.

[Andrew Schultz]

What do you mean? Like someone's pressing you, like just for

[Yayo]

your first time going to Rikers. Like say you just go to Rikers, right? Like my man with the long hair. What's your name?

[Andrew Schultz]

Mark.

[Yayo]

Just imagine Mark going to Rikers.

[Andrew Schultz]

What do you think would happen? I could go to Rikers.

[Yayo]

I got the long hair, she's somebody's girlfriend. I'm not gonna say that. I think it's just extortion. Probably. Like, yo look like he got some money. He got long hair. Yo send some, you know, over here, it's like everything is action as soon as you get there.

[Alex]

Even you.

[Andrew Schultz]

Like, you must have known people in there.

[Yayo]

Nah, I knew people in there, but he must. It was. It was.

[Andrew Schultz]

Cuz he was in the street a little bit too. He's not the first guy from South Jamaican.

[Yayo]

You think he go to jail? Hi, guys.

[Andrew Schultz]

There's got to be somebody.

[Yayo]

He went to private school. Yo, listen, did you. Who? Cranbrook? I told. I told him no. St. Clair's Rosedale. Shout out to St. Clair, Queens. He went to private school. Don't worry, you're not checking him. I know you're not checking him. You went to private school too? Private school, right?

[Mark]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

Yeah, from first to eighth grade. I had Haitian parents. They was Catholic. They was heavy on the religion. Yeah, we grew up, you know, first to eighth grade. I told them when I went from the yellow bus. Cause I wasn't living in the real world on the yellow bus, right to the city bus. 8th grade, I had to go to school with Springfield High School 231. These schools back then was like, they're better now. But it was crazy. Springfield was crazy.

[Alex]

I went to Beach Channel. Every time we played them in football. Always a fight to play.

[Yayo]

Yeah, Springfield was crazy. Like back in the days a girl threw acid in a girl's face. I was telling them like, you was hearing about that on the news. So I had to go on they bus route. So I was telling them like I was a rookie. I sat in the back of the bus, you know, fucking fights. Girl threw her books on my lap. I'm like, what the fuck is this? I got a uniform on with public school kids? Nah. One day I had my starter. So you're in your Catholic school uniform

[Andrew Schultz]

and a girl was bullying you?

[Yayo]

No, she didn't bully. She just threw her books on my lap. Like, fuck it. And I'm like, damn, this is the real world. Cause I wasn't living in the real world. That's crazy, though. Public school was way wider. Wow. Back then. Than Captain School.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

Captain School was laid back. There'd be a fight once, you know,

[Andrew Schultz]

probably once a year fighting off a pretty.

[Yayo]

But like, when I got to the city bus, you started seeing fights. People fighting for breakfast in the morning. I wasn't used to that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Fighting for breakfast.

[Yayo]

No, I'm just. Breakfast in the morning, it's breakfast time. Fighting on the bus. Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Really?

[Yayo]

How the is mother. So you seventh, eighth grade going through that? Like, damn, this shit's crazy. Cause you were sheltered in the Catholic school. Now you're on the city bus and you're seeing the real world.

[Andrew Schultz]

Okay. So when you go in for the first time, is there like a convo with 50 where, like, you talk to some people he might even know in there and there's people who can look out for you? Or is it you really kind of.50

[Yayo]

has so much beef, so it's pretty much you're on your own.

[Alex]

Oh, shit.

[Andrew Schultz]

Cause now you. Cause what is it? You said this before. You inherited his beef.

[Yayo]

The thing with me was, what made it kind of easy for me is people didn't know what Yayo looked like. So I'd be on the bus and he'd be like, yo, yo, yo. I swear to God, to my father, yo, yo, yo, just got cut up, right? And I'd be right behind him like, yo, they talking about me. And I'm like, so they really didn't know us. Like, it took them a while to acknowledge us. Cause remember the first mixtapes, people knew the lyrics, but they didn't know really the names. This is how to Rob Lloyd Banks.

[Andrew Schultz]

Is that the song?

[Yayo]

No, how the Rob was when 50 was on.

[Andrew Schultz]

That was early.

[Yayo]

That was Columbia days with Tone and Pope.

[Andrew Schultz]

Okay. Cause that was when I first heard shit start to pop and percolate on the radio in New York.

[Alex]

But they went on a crazy mixtape run between how to Robin before.

[Andrew Schultz]

Okay, okay.

[Yayo]

Cause after 50 got shot, it is crazy.

[Andrew Schultz]

Like, you don't realize it without social media and not seeing somebody on MTV or bet. You really don't know what these guys look like. Maybe you're seeing them in like the Source magazine or something like that, but you don't have an idea of what they look like.

[Alex]

And then they was printed out on these little grainy ass pictures and shit like that on mixtapes and stuff like that.

[Andrew Schultz]

I didn't even know Eminem was white until trl.

[Yayo]

Come on.

[Andrew Schultz]

No, I heard the song before on radio. It sounded crazy. Hi, my name is. But I thought it was a black dude making fun of white guys.

[Yayo]

Oh, shit.

[Andrew Schultz]

And then I remember seeing it with Jamil. Jamil's not here, but, like, I remember seeing it for the first time with Jameel, seeing the song. I think it was trl. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And being like, oh, shit.

[Yayo]

I always blame my success to Eminem because he's. He's actually, like, I would say, in the top five, one of the biggest artists in the world worldwide.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's not the same.

[Yayo]

Without question with him. Like, the Free Yayo shit. Imagine being on Rikers Island.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah. What did that feel like?

[Yayo]

Yo, it was fucking Eminem at the Grammys.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's fun. So, yeah, paint this picture right. So you're locked up. It's at the Grammys.

[Yayo]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

They went for what or mwims for and performed.

[Yayo]

I forgot what he went for. But he performed that time.

[Andrew Schultz]

And then he's in a free yayo shirt.

[Yayo]

Free yayo shirt. That's what I'm saying. As for him and 50, I'm always been giving them the props. Cause it's like, while I was in jail, they kept my name alive. Beg for mercy. 50 had my name on the album cover. And then Eminem wore the Free Yale. There you go right there.

[Andrew Schultz]

So what happened in Rikers when. I mean, obviously guys are shooting, so,

[Yayo]

you know, you know, Rikers is politics. So they say there's three things. You stay away from the phone, be careful with the newspaper and the tv. Okay. So, you know, so, like, I had my slide on the phone. I definitely got my phone time. Cause, you know, I was cool with the guys. You know what I'm saying?

[Andrew Schultz]

Who are the guys? Is that the cos or is that like the.

[Yayo]

Nah, the guys are never the cos, man. The guys are like, you know, the gang members.

[Andrew Schultz]

Got it. Got it.

[Yayo]

You know, or the muscle in there.

[Andrew Schultz]

And how did you connect with them? How did you.

[Yayo]

Well, you know, they knew. They was kind of like. I wouldn't say they was fans. I just was cool and realized the politics, like, don't come in there being too demanding. Like, if you come in there, learn the politics.

[Alex]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

Like, my house, they didn't, like, sneak thieving. So if you sneak thief, that was great for me, like, to be in the house. They didn't care if he was black, white, Mexican. Yo, somebody steal. Yo, somebody stole from my bucket. Cause it turns you. You don't have to come in the island being gangster. It's gonna turn you into whatever it is. Like, if he's in there, he's gonna be like, yo, so what's the rules in here? How does this work? You gotta figure that out fast. So you got these two guys that run the phone. My man Barnes, which was P. Diddy, security guard, shout to him, he got a book dropping, too, telling all P. Diddy shit and all kinds of shit. Yeah, solid, dude. My man Bonds could have used that

[Andrew Schultz]

book like, five years ago.

[Alex]

Yeah, Ex executive produced by Fifth.

[Yayo]

No, no, no, not my fifth. So my man Bonds Barnes was a real big dude. He came out, he was Puff Daddy security. And my man Spanky, he was blood. But the good thing about him is he was Spanish too. So he knew Spanish, but was blood. You know how Bronx motherfuckers is. Bronx got the illest type of motherfucking people. Motherfucker was black and Spanish, so he knew Spanish. So if the Spanish guys were scheming, he knew, but he was blood too, so it was crazy. So they kind of ran the house.

[Mark]

And you.

[Andrew Schultz]

And you connect with them early on,

[Yayo]

you just showed up? Yeah, I connect with them early, you know, they showed me love.

[Andrew Schultz]

Did anybody press you? Nah, not a single person when you came in?

[Yayo]

Nah, nobody ever pressed me. Cause nobody really knew who I was. Even the police didn't know who I was.

[Alex]

How long were you there?

[Yayo]

I did probably like, probably seven, eight months, four or five months. I'm not sure.

[Alex]

That whole time, nobody.

[Yayo]

The half of the time, nobody put two and two. Oh, wow. I was locked up the same time Styles P was locked up.

[Alex]

Okay?

[Yayo]

So I remember. And I'd be on the bus and nobody knew. So when the free yo and all that shit happened, that's when they wanted to come put me in protective custody. Cause, you know, they never want to have an artist like Tory Lanez. Shout out to Tory Lanez, you know, pray to God he's good. But, you know, it gets real in jail. Cause, like, you gotta think an artist coming to jail, you number one target. Yep, yep.

[Andrew Schultz]

And that should create a problem for them.

[Yayo]

Everybody wanna get a name off. You did any.

[Andrew Schultz]

Was. Would there. Would there ever be anybody come in that was, like, him? Like, kind of cute? What do you mean him?

[Yayo]

No, come on. I don't know about that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Like, you cute little cutie pie with long hair. And then they just try to, like, immediately violate.

[Yayo]

Well, I was in. I was in C73. So upstairs there was A house for like the gays. That's what you were

[Andrew Schultz]

exactly married to a guy. I'm straight, okay. I'm a. Oh, you tried all these,

[Yayo]

you know, kind of things in life. I don't know nothing about that.

[Andrew Schultz]

He's roast duck. That's caviar pancakes. If he walks in C73, I think

[Yayo]

they might try to extort him. Cuz there's a lot of extortion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The next thing you know, he might just turn blood or something. Blood now or turn crip.

[Andrew Schultz]

I can see, I can see he turned blood. I can see some blood dripping out your ass.

[Yayo]

I would join a game gang.

[Andrew Schultz]

A straight gang, a heterosexual gang. Now when somebody does do that is absurd. Well, Rikers is different than like prison prison.

[Yayo]

Right.

[Alex]

They're not going to be there for long.

[Andrew Schultz]

So it's more fights than it is.

[Yayo]

Like you got guys there that stay there for like four or five years,

[Andrew Schultz]

which is crazy, cuz that's got to be.

[Yayo]

But it's like, yo, you don't want to be there. Yo, bro, you do not want to be there. That to me, that was my worst experience in life. Yeah, I didn't go up top to the mountains. I did shock. But being in that alone was enough mentally, you know, you wake up dudes getting cut for breakfast or you wake up and you hear fighting. Imagine you hear footsteps, like sleeping and you hear footsteps. What's going on? You gotta alert for, yo, they fighting up there. Alarms ringing, everything's going crazy. Was CSU coming?

[Andrew Schultz]

Was there anybody?

[Yayo]

You know what CSU was like the COs when they come with the TSU. The turtles. When the turtles come.

[Alex]

Oh yeah, they just have all the sweatshirts. Like swat.

[Yayo]

Almost like SWAT before strip you naked, your ass naked in front of everybody. Put you on your knees, don't look at me. They got the fucking shields.

[Andrew Schultz]

They would do that to all you guys strip you naked?

[Yayo]

Yeah, all of us. Somebody get cut? Everybody.

[Andrew Schultz]

Was everybody. Was anybody measuring? Was that.

[Yayo]

I'm nothing. Crazy. This is crazy. He's not gonna laugh. I'm thinking about, yo, why the am I here, bro? Somebody wants to smell another man's shit in the morning. Then the guy's girl. You break up with your girl, he want to stab you. Now what the fuck?

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, so they're just so emotionally wrecked that they're trying to take out their show and everybody. All of our tour dates in less than 30 seconds. Providence, R.I. march 28, Los Angeles with Jelly Roll the Greek Theater, part of the Netflix Comedy Festival that's May 8th. August 8th, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Washington, D.C. and Charlotte, North Carolina, the weekend of February 19th. I can't wait to see you guys there. Peace and love. And lastly, if you're watching this tonight, on Wednesday, cancel comedy. Alex's show is doing a show at Dumbo house in Brooklyn. That's all over dates in 30 seconds. Let's get back to the show.

[Yayo]

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[Andrew Schultz]

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[Andrew Schultz]

Did you have one night of sleep there where you're like, ah, I got good eight hours. That was fun.

[Yayo]

I mean, you know, you know, it's crazy. If you mind your business and know how to move. Like, don't gamble. Cause you know, you gamble. He like, gambler a little bit. A little bit. They kidnapping him. No. Cause you fucking, you know, gambling debts. You know how that shit go. Arguing over tv. Like the Eminem thing, I went to people, yo, listen, I want to watch Eminem Grammys. Cause, you know, back then the Spanish dudes had Caliente. Remember Caliente? You want behind chicks or everybody in jail used to love that show. Blacks. Black dudes didn't mind watching Caliente. All right, put it on.

[Alex]

Put it on.

[Yayo]

So that's how it was. Yeah. Look, man, watch this. Caliente. Watch. Now imagine you could get this channel in jail.

[Andrew Schultz]

Wow. Okay.

[Alex]

And then they will always have the Hopper news and weather.

[Yayo]

Yeah. So we used to watch this. So dudes used to watch Kylie intake.

[Andrew Schultz]

So it's just a.

[Yayo]

It's.

[Andrew Schultz]

It's just a hundred dudes all sitting together watching Kanye.

[Yayo]

You got the hot cheeks. You ain't seeing no women. You ain't smelling women in years. I don't want to see this dude. But shirtless, dude, that's crazy. Yeah, so we didn't mind watching Caliente because you were seeing the women on there. You know what I'm saying? Bikinis and all that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Okay. But then you try to put on Eminem. So then you said, guys, can I watch the Grammys?

[Yayo]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

So then they go, all right, we're gonna watch the Grammys. Everybody's cool with that? Spanish dudes are cool with it. Yeah, everybody's cool happens at this point. They know you're Yayo or Nah.

[Yayo]

Yeah, they know I'm Yayo.

[Andrew Schultz]

Okay. So then when they see the shirt, is there, like a cool kind of recognition that's happening? Everybody's excited for you.

[Yayo]

Like, oh, shit, yo. Oh, that's good. Shit. That's crazy. Eminem. That's crazy. Cause you gotta remember a lot of dudes in the hood will be like, yo, we don't listen to Eminem in the car, right? We don't listen to Eminem. We gonna put Jay Z or somebody else over him, right? But for me, when I heard Renegade,

[Andrew Schultz]

oh, yeah, that was crazy to me.

[Yayo]

That's like Eminem's classic verse to me. That's what gave him the hood to me before I knew him. So that gave him the hood recognition. Cause to me, him and Em, who you think won that battle on there?

[Alex]

No question. No comments.

[Andrew Schultz]

All right, no comment.

[Yayo]

So just say Jay Z won.

[Alex]

He won that.

[Yayo]

I disagree.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, so does he.

[Yayo]

I gotta disagree with you.

[Andrew Schultz]

Ow. Okay, it's just one verse. It's one verse.

[Alex]

When he starts being honest about Banks versus Fab, then I'm not.

[Yayo]

So what's not to be honest on that?

[Alex]

I'm just saying Fab is better than Banks.

[Yayo]

Yo, you know what Banks would say? You got your nails painted. You can't give an eyeball. His nails is a painted. Giving opinions on hip hop, that is crazy. That's what people are gonna say.

[Alex]

It's his art. It's art.

[Yayo]

Nah, buddy, you can't give it. Nobody's gonna take that vote.

[Andrew Schultz]

If he showed up in prison with the Pokemon on his nails.

[Yayo]

Oh, nah, he know what time it is. He's supposed to be from Far Rock. He's not even supposed to have that on.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, but what would happen?

[Mark]

What would happen?

[Yayo]

Oh, yeah, he's fooled. They're gonna rob him.

[Andrew Schultz]

He's calient.

[Yayo]

That's what Banks would say to him. Like, yo, how can a person not to diss you? I don't care. It's your style. But how can a person with their nails painted judge hip hop? Yeah, hip hop is an aggressive sport. We talking about KRS1 and MC Shan. We talking about Cool G rapping, Eric B and Big Daddy Kane. It had its good side, like when we had self destruction and stuff like that with Ms. Melody. And stop the Violence. Which rappers would never do now, ever. Cause they would never do that. We are the world record that Was like the. We are the world record of rap. It came in aggressive. It came in battle. So when you see, like. I'm gonna tell you a story. Most crazy.

[Alex]

Most aggressive rappers went to private school.

[Yayo]

I'm gonna tell y' all a crazy story. Look, look. No, but listen. It's the nails. With the nails. He just put it. We've seen a meeting. We've seen a business meeting. 50's gonna be like, what's going on with this guy?

[Alex]

He was giving me that energy when he was here.

[Yayo]

Listen, I'm gonna tell you the truth. Look. So look. And this is why. Shout out to A.S.A.P. rocky. He got the, like, number one album on Billboard. Hip Hop. Hip Hop New York. Cause nobody was really on Billboard. That's true. Right? So I'm gonna give you the perfect example. One day is years, years ago. This is, like, probably 10 years ago. This is like a premiere to the movie. It's Snoop 50 Me. And ASAP pulls up, right? And A$AP could vouch the story. He the first dude I seen with the man purse ever. This is, like, 10 years ago. He had it around his strap. Cause he was familiar going to Europe and has an overseas kind of brand. Shout out to asap, you know. You know, asap Mob. They big, you know, and one of the biggest in Harlem, of course. Yeah. So he had the bag. So everybody's looking like, what the fuck is that? Like, 50's looking like, what, are they putting money in there? Everybody's looking like, what the fuck is that? He pulled me to the side and said, yo, I know you don't know what the fuck this is right now, but watch and see what this is. And now everybody has the man purse. Me, would I do it, like, buy a Birkin? Hell, no. That's more like a girl bag to me. I wouldn't buy a Birkin for, like, 15,000. But it's the style for certain dudes. But it's not my style. You know what I'm saying? I think that's. You know, I see a lot of dudes with the burgers and shit's expensive. I understand if you collect them all that. But hip hop is hip hop. Hip hop was big change. Rakim, Big Daddy King. Not Painted Nails, brother.

[Andrew Schultz]

Exactly.

[Alex]

ASAP Rocky got Painted Nails.

[Yayo]

I never seen it.

[Andrew Schultz]

I never seen it.

[Yayo]

And if he doing that, he getting paid from Gucci or somebody.

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm not getting paid.

[Yayo]

He could do that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, why are you doing this? For the love of the game.

[Yayo]

You don't know.

[Andrew Schultz]

I got A Sephora deal or some shit like that.

[Yayo]

So your bank's fab thing is not valid once you take those off, maybe. But on Renegade, I felt like for Eminem to be a new rapper and Jay was established, it was debatable. Nah, you can't say it's not debatable.

[Alex]

Oh, it's absolutely debatable.

[Yayo]

He got the hood. Cause I know when I was in the car, still selling drugs and moving around, and I heard that, and I didn't know who Eminem or never met Jay or nobody in the rap game. I was in the car and I was like, damn, who the fuck is that? I got a lion in my pocket. I'm lying. I got the iron in my pocket. Come on, bro. He just don't want to give it up because they don't want to give it to the white boy. Exactly. It's like a black hockey player. It's the same thing. Elvino hated us. Everybody hated us when we signed with Em. But Em did the most for us. So people would be like, yo, Eminem is this. He's racist. He's that. He's fucked up. He's this kind of person. But he put us on. Like, I was like, damn, this shit is like. We got on repeatedly. That's why G Unit is still an overseas brand. We could still go overseas. Like, I went on my own tour. Swiss Alps, Germany, Luxembourg, myself. Cause of Eminem.

[Andrew Schultz]

Wow.

[Yayo]

50 still touring, 103 dates. They gotta book him two times. Cause he's selling out the arena. Passing capacity. It's 20 years later.

[Alex]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

So come on.

[Yayo]

Just 20 years later, give it up for the money. Nobody wants to give me.

[Alex]

Eminem's my top five.

[Yayo]

Cause Eminem. Cause a white boy put us on, and everybody's scared to say it. It's like a black hockey player. Yeah, Any hockey. Imagine you had a hockey. Imagine if we had a black hockey player that was super nice. He wouldn't be the best.

[Andrew Schultz]

They did have one. They had a few, actually. This guy who played for the Montreal Canadiens. Yeah, P.K. sue, man. And there was another guy that played for the Calgary Flames. It was nice.

[Yayo]

Oh, see, I didn't know that. See?

[Andrew Schultz]

So there's been a few. There's been a few. But, yes, it's rare.

[Yayo]

But Eminem. A lot of people was like, oh, yo. But when everybody hated on us, we had to go to go to Detroit and the West Coast.

[Alex]

I think you got a lot of that.

[Yayo]

You heard what Irv said?

[Alex]

No, but I think you got a

[Yayo]

lot of that he said, I was trying to get Everybody to block 50.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, all them were trying to. Yeah.

[Yayo]

They said, I wish you would have signed to Universal because they would have blocked. We had to go to Eminem. So one of. Eminem had balls. He had most balls than more rappers. He stood up to Suge Knight.

[Alex]

Yeah. That's crazy.

[Andrew Schultz]

Can you tell that story?

[Yayo]

That's crazy. Y' all just. The whole thing is the industry not saying you're mad, but the critics, they gotta understand we was the most hated. So it's hard to really get traction. Like, for instance, when DJ Khaled is hot, what do motherfuckers do? Stand next to the fire. I'm gonna go get a Khaled.

[Andrew Schultz]

Right. That's every industry.

[Yayo]

We didn't have the same advantages because of the hate. So let me give you the perfect example. A lot of Fab's biggest records are what features. Other people wrote the record, and he's featured on there. Did he do a good job on it? Yes. When you go to Karma and all the records that Banks has, He wrote the hook that Avant made Joe. He wrote the hook. He wrote the record. Fab's biggest records are features, brother. And then you want to talk about J and M sold 16 million. Yes. What are we judging artists on? Are you going. You want your artists to be. Be in clubs like me? Cause it's cool. I could do. Or do you want them to be in arenas?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, arenas. You want them with their nails painted? Or do you want them to survive in Rikers 2, 3 years? But objectively, Fab is nice.

[Yayo]

Come on.

[Andrew Schultz]

Objectively.

[Yayo]

I'm not saying he's not nice.

[Alex]

That's what I'm saying.

[Yayo]

Definitely nice. But I feel Banks is better. A lot of his biggest records are features. A lot of Banks biggest records he wrote by himself, Right? Banks mixtape catalog. We was the hottest in the streets. And the reason why I give you the example. Cause Fab was on our tour, buddy. And Fab wanted to sign with us, buddy. So who's better?

[Andrew Schultz]

This hurts being from far out.

[Yayo]

I love both of them. They always try to take away from 50 get rich or die trying. It's like 25 years later, he does more shows than anybody now.

[Andrew Schultz]

You can't.

[Yayo]

Your favorite rapper can't get a Live Nation contract. Come on. Yeah, your favorite rapper. Come on. Yeah, your favorite rap. Shane, Ken with Beyonce and everybody else. No, no,

[Andrew Schultz]

your girl.

[Yayo]

Your favorite rapper can't turn down $8 million Epstein files.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, exactly.

[Yayo]

Listen, Eminem, Eminem. Eminem could turn down 8 million, bro. Yes, you done seen that. Eminem turn down towards bro. They'll be like, yo, we give you 300 million, 400 million. I don't want to do that.

[Alex]

Yeah, way back M's in my.

[Yayo]

When Haley was little. Yo, I don't want to do that. I don't want to do that to him. Damn. Eminem don't want to about talk. He's turning out 8 mil. When you see him go with the shorty dude. You know the shorty dude that's buying everything. Yeah, yeah, Turkey. What's his name?

[Andrew Schultz]

Turkey. Or mbs.

[Yayo]

The guy that does all the Jake Paul fights and all. The new guy. Yeah, he's buying all this. He's buying, like, shout to him, give me a job or something, bro. He's buying everything. He's buying boxing and everything. Yeah, come on, bro. If he have Eminem, yo, give Eminem 8 million. 10 million. That's the kind of money you talking about.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yo, that was a fire break.

[Yayo]

What did he say? How did he say that? What do you judge your artists off of? Let me know.

[Andrew Schultz]

How do you say it?

[Yayo]

Because there's only a selective rappers that get live nation tours.

[Alex]

Like, we not disagreeing though.

[Yayo]

50.

[Andrew Schultz]

Nah, you're disagreeing.

[Yayo]

We're not disagreeing. Young boy's going on his first one. Nikki, she just did hers.

[Andrew Schultz]

Now that you're saying this, fuck you, yo.

[Yayo]

Really?

[Andrew Schultz]

Fuck you. You're a little sexy ass, Eminem. You're fucking gay at whatever.

[Mark]

You get what I was trying to say?

[Andrew Schultz]

That came out weird.

[Yayo]

Look, Jay got 10 platinum albums. 11 platinum albums.

[Andrew Schultz]

Jay' incredible.

[Yayo]

Yes, he's incredible, But Eminem sold 16 million records. Okay, 11 million.

[Andrew Schultz]

So this is. This is the thing with 50. It's like 50.

[Yayo]

Well, it's a house. Oh, he's. See what he said? It's a little difference. He white. Yeah, there goes the hate racism. That's not so. What about 5th sold 11 million.

[Alex]

But that's what I'm saying. 5th is right up there with Jay.

[Yayo]

But now here's jay never sold 11 million, bro.

[Alex]

What are you talking about?

[Yayo]

He has 10 albums. This guy doesn't know his hip hop, bro. He has a million. A million. A million. A million copies. A million copies. A million.

[Andrew Schultz]

I've never touched a million copies. Million copies.

[Yayo]

He's a genius. We're talking about on Black Album.

[Alex]

Three times platinum.

[Yayo]

Pretty sure about ten times three. That's not. That's not.

[Andrew Schultz]

But we're talking about million records. Caviar in Paris. We're talking about.

[Yayo]

And look it up. Look it up. Cause the Black Album probably did a million, bro. I'm telling you. And Jay is a genius, but nah, Jay is brilliant. You gotta understand the business. Jay is a genius, but numbers are numbers. Look, numbers are numbers. But Jay is a genius. Just like one of his albums.

[Andrew Schultz]

50 Cent has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.

[Yayo]

Here we go. Okay, now go to Jay's Black album and see what it sold. And I hating on Jay Z. He's a fucking genius. He's a genius, but you gotta understand the facts.

[Alex]

But the type of career. I would want Jay's career over 50.

[Yayo]

You're fucking on drugs. Don't ever listen to. I'm J.C. you got to be. This guy's out as fucking have 11 number one glaze. He's just a Jay Z Glazer. How many number one Glazer? I'm not gonna send you a jazz.

[Andrew Schultz]

How many Jay Z Glazers?

[Yayo]

I'm not gonna see you a Jay Z Glazer.

[Andrew Schultz]

They're a good guy to glaze.

[Yayo]

I'm a Jay Z fan. I'm not gonna send you a Jay Z Glazer 50 fan. But let's. I'm an Eminem fan. Okay, okay, But I'm just saying the difference. The reason why I think. I think you sound crazy. And you just a 50. You might just be a 50 hater in this.

[Alex]

We all love 50.

[Yayo]

Now, look, look. So look, he said he'd rather have jay career over 50, right?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

Me personally, no, but yeah, listen, Jay's presentation is good. I think 50 always has the best presentation in hip hop. And what I'm saying is Jay will do a deal and we could look it up. Remember when he had the album with Samsung and they bought a million copies before he even dropped?

[Alex]

That's a fire.

[Yayo]

He always found a way to win.

[Andrew Schultz]

Jay was brilliant.

[Yayo]

He always found a way to win. When he had his percentage in the Barclays, he used that. He had a good presentation. But when 50 Cent dropped, it felt like Tupac came back from the dead.

[Alex]

Yes, but listen,

[Yayo]

no disrespect. No, no, no. And look. Cause let's keep it real. Bring the hammer down. Jay is smart enough. You got to let me finish. All right. Jay is smart enough to stand to what? Stand next to the fire?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yes. That's what this Kanye album R. Kelly album R. Kelly.

[Yayo]

Let me talk R. Kelly, who was on Jay Z. Look, when did 50 tour with Jay Z? Look it up. I was in jail. Cause he was standing next to the fire.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's smart.

[Yayo]

Jay admitted it.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's smart.

[Yayo]

50 had the most hate. Niggas didn't need to stand next to the fire to heat up. That's all niggas do. And it's 20 years later and we're still doing 103 shows. Yes, but when I saw 103 shows, still doing. Got 40 films coming out.

[Andrew Schultz]

Jay never had the clothes.

[Yayo]

And I'm not glazing, I'm just telling you. Cause look, listen. The three big dogs out of New York, you never could take P. Diddy, Jay Z, 50 Cent. 50 Cent is way younger than niggas, right? These niggas are much older. They came in the game way before us. That's what you're not thinking about. Jay was successful already. Nas, everybody was successful. We came in the 2000s, later on down the line. And 50 has more success than a lot of bro.

[Andrew Schultz]

I don't think what. I guess what I would say is like, I don't know if Jay crossed over and had cultural impacts the way that 50 did. And I think Jay definitely did a lot of things to do that. He did the crossover thing with what's the rock Cool group. Linkin Park. Linkin Park. Like, he made these efforts to cross over and he's ubiquitous. Everybody knows who Jay Z is. Massive success, brilliant guy, et cetera. But in terms of like, there's a moment in history where everybody in the world knows this person, knows the music, knows the song.

[Yayo]

Stop the world.

[Andrew Schultz]

There's only a few artists, rock, rap, country, R and B that have done that.

[Yayo]

Cause Jay don't have a.

[Alex]

This is gonna sound doom, doom, doom. Oh, stop if you.

[Yayo]

So Oprah was rocking to that. Doom, doom everybody, the whole world, if you to come on the road. He don't understand. He don't understand. When that drop, New York, our biggest enemies, Ja Rule and them even said it.

[Alex]

Yo.

[Yayo]

When that drop, we knew it was a problem. You hear that everywhere. I understand. But you see this right here? You see the dream team, Dr. Dre and him. Trust me, that was the biggest impact.

[Andrew Schultz]

Crazy songs like 99 Problems.

[Yayo]

But you know, when this dropped, it was over.

[Andrew Schultz]

Huh?

[Yayo]

When's Jay Z? We had video games, cereals, but like you said, like you said, we had pajamas. 11 sneakers. The sneakers. So video games,

[Alex]

11 number one albums.

[Yayo]

That means that's cuz Eminem blew because he was white.

[Andrew Schultz]

No, no, no.

[Yayo]

Black people could be racist too.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's great.

[Yayo]

Thank you.

[Alex]

You can tell he lives out in.

[Yayo]

He's eating roast duck. From Morocco. Listen, come on. No, no, I'm gonna keep it real. Let's keep it real. You know what I'm saying? Everybody stereotypes. They just don't want to keep it real. Yes, I'm gonna give you a story.

[Andrew Schultz]

This whole show is,

[Yayo]

I'm in my Bentley, I'm arguing with a cab dropper. He cuts me off. Come on. I call him a terrorist. And look, I was rude for that. I never. You know what I mean? Fucking terrorists. This is years ago when shit was happening, right? You know what he said? Your father see? So everybody stir for the black man. Yo, when you go in the store, you going to steal or whatever, right? Just cuz I live in the burbs. You think I don't go through when I'm in my supermarket and people's looking like, what is this doing in here? Right? You think I don't go through sometimes?

[Alex]

Yeah, I know you get stereotyped in the.

[Yayo]

Look, you get, look, you get, you get criticized in the burbs or the street. But everybody stereotypes. You might see an Asian person where you think, oh, this guy can't drive, Rob. You see, you see? Now you see consideration with ice. You see my ice. Now say ice. Man, I caught ice on you. I'm not that type of person.

[Andrew Schultz]

Right.

[Yayo]

I don't get into politics and religion much. That's not my thing. Learned that in media and training, but sometimes. Media training. But you just said, funny, yo, Eminem just sold. Cause he was white. He was good motherfucker. That's when you sound a little racist.

[Alex]

Eminem's in my time, top flop. But you know, it did help him to be a general success.

[Yayo]

Dr. Dre was his producer.

[Andrew Schultz]

I know, too.

[Yayo]

That helped.

[Alex]

That helps too.

[Yayo]

And got the best producer in the world producing the.

[Alex]

I, I'm saying that helps too. But I'm just saying in terms of

[Yayo]

stereotype, so we ain't gonna say racist. How about this? How about this stereotype?

[Andrew Schultz]

How about this? I think what he's trying to say is. Remember when Jeremy Lynn was balling for the Knicks? Remember the Asian guy, Jeremy L. Yeah,

[Yayo]

he was a sensation. He was a sensation.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yes, exactly. So I think what happened. I think what happened is that a lot of Asians saw NBA baller who was out there hitting game winning shots. He was tearing up the garden. I remember going to those games, it was like 50% Asian. I'd never seen so many Asian.

[Yayo]

This is garden. This is what? I'm insane.

[Andrew Schultz]

So I think what happened is white people who loved rap finally saw Somebody who was really good and looked like him, but he thought he was black. Wait for it. Wait for it.

[Alex]

He thought Eminem was black until he

[Yayo]

heard it, but wait for it. He's nice, though.

[Andrew Schultz]

He also happened to be nice.

[Yayo]

Nice.

[Alex]

That's what I'm saying.

[Andrew Schultz]

Because there have been white rappers before that that didn't reach that level.

[Yayo]

Yes.

[Alex]

So it's a combination.

[Yayo]

He had bars.

[Alex]

It's a combination.

[Yayo]

You was thinking, look, this is how he's thinking.

[Andrew Schultz]

He's the nicest at rapping at the. He got the best producer, and he's doing something that nobody else is really doing. Like that kind of internal angst we weren't seeing in hip hop at all.

[Yayo]

But you. But you. You're stereotyping. And I'm going to tell you why. I'm not going to say racist. Because it be always. People take it sensitive. Yeah. How can a black person be racist? We stereotype, too. Yeah, we do that. Everybody does. Like I just told you probably do.

[Andrew Schultz]

What's your favorite, favorite stereotype?

[Yayo]

They always think a black person is gonna steal when you come into the store. This is what I'm saying. In the suburbs, you act like I'm not dealing with nothing. Did you ever steal when you live in the suburbs? Now? I hate when people say that. And I had to adjust. And you know how white people jokes are. Y' all jokes are different, man.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, what are our jokes?

[Yayo]

Y' all just get little dick jokes. Like, I was showing my guy some guys some shit, me traveling. And the guy from breakfast goes, yo, yo, yo, you showing your dick pics again? Like, it's just, you know. You know what I'm saying? I know white people jokes. It's a little different than black ain't fun.

[Andrew Schultz]

We play with gay a lot.

[Alex]

Listen, over here.

[Yayo]

Listen. I got my nails painted. I experienced it, cuz I was on Kill. Tony.

[Mark]

Nobody care about that. Nobody care about that. I'm asking for the address for three, four days, and this motherfucker didn't get it to me.

[Yayo]

You ain't even miked up.

[Mark]

I'm mic'd up, motherfucker.

[Yayo]

I m. I've been asking for the

[Mark]

address for three days, and he sent

[Yayo]

it to me three hours before the sign. I didn't say I want to be on the show by myself. Exactly. That's like him.

[Mark]

You got to watch.

[Yayo]

So we was just talking about. For my boy.

[Mark]

I was here earlier.

[Andrew Schultz]

He was. He was just. Oh, so he was just saying that he thinks that Eminem's overrated.

[Yayo]

Yo, now, let me ask you. He said that. Yo, look, now let me tell you.

[Mark]

Yayo said he think

[Yayo]

you gonna flip. It's crazy. He's talking crazy, Em. Look, he was talking crazy. Look, he was talking crazy. Show. Look at show on the nail show.

[Mark]

God damn, those nails is a pause.

[Yayo]

It's not now you take years of pounds is a pause and a no video. All head niggas, man. Always old headed. You know, Diddy party gonna be dancing.

[Andrew Schultz]

Did you think about taking up the nails for today?

[Alex]

N. I didn't, but I wish I did.

[Yayo]

Sit up.

[Mark]

Sit up with Uncle Gr.

[Yayo]

And you know where he's from, Paul Rockaway.

[Mark]

Oh, my God, it's gangsters out there. I don't even know how you getting away with them nails. It's gangsters in bar right away.

[Andrew Schultz]

This is Alex and this is Mark. Yes.

[Mark]

Nice to meet y', all, man. Nice to meet y', all, man.

[Yayo]

Nice to meet you.

[Mark]

Nice to meet y', all, man. I met this guy before, so me and Andrew. All right.

[Yayo]

We good.

[Mark]

Yo, you actually.

[Alex]

You met.

[Andrew Schultz]

You met. You met Mark and Alex, I think, at msg.

[Yayo]

Yes.

[Mark]

Oh, you know what, y', all. Right, Copy, copy.

[Yayo]

That's right. Okay.

[Andrew Schultz]

Thank you guys very much for doing that.

[Yayo]

Oh, no, come on, bro.

[Mark]

It was an honor to do that shit. It was dop.

[Yayo]

Funniest murder. You disrespectful right here to her face, Diddy.

[Mark]

You are very disrespectful. Sometimes you got to stand for everything

[Yayo]

to feel like

[Mark]

no Diddy on steroids.

[Yayo]

That's no Diddy on steroids. What's my man name right here?

[Mark]

You're not.

[Yayo]

You're not. If he come into business me. You gonna take him serious with those?

[Andrew Schultz]

No.

[Alex]

So are y' all both giving ASAP Rocky because his nails are pain?

[Yayo]

I never seen him do it.

[Alex]

Are you giving Young Thug because his nails are pain?

[Yayo]

Young Thug wore the dress.

[Mark]

Yeah, he still be wearing he Young Thug.

[Yayo]

People still get shot, though, so it's all good. People still get shot. You wear a dress. You see him when he had. Right? We go, so you're saying there's an

[Andrew Schultz]

amount of violence that could be associated with you, where you could get away with some.

[Yayo]

You got.

[Mark]

There's no getting away with painting your nails, man.

[Yayo]

That's. That's some.

[Mark]

That's some fruitcake. Ain't no getting away with it.

[Yayo]

What about.

[Mark]

I don't give a fuck who it is. Ain't sad, right? Everybody, they gotta figure it out. Stop painting your nails, my niggas what about clear? Keep it gangster.

[Yayo]

Try to keep it gangster. Different.

[Alex]

Why is clear different?

[Mark]

Because paint is paint.

[Yayo]

Clear is when you just look. You look fresh and clean.

[Mark]

When you get a clear, paint is paint.

[Yayo]

Nah, nah. You got glitter, you got studs. Come on, you from Far Rockaway. You making Queens look bad here. Now, Brooklyn, we all grow.

[Alex]

We all grow.

[Mark]

You know Brooklyn. You know how we move in Brooklyn. Exactly. Brooklyn we got. Not this one, baby.

[Yayo]

You ever met a Brooklyn dude? No.

[Mark]

We ain't gonna put that.

[Yayo]

But no cleanest rapper ever paint their nails either.

[Andrew Schultz]

Let me think about it. Hold on, hold on.

[Yayo]

Let's think. Brooklyn. Wait a minute.

[Mark]

50 ain't feeling ll right now.

[Yayo]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Wait, why I still like LL music?

[Mark]

Yeah, I know, but I'm just saying, you know.

[Andrew Schultz]

So that's how you separate the art from the artist.

[Yayo]

Nah, I still like his music. I still. I like Wu Tang. Some of them don't like me, but I love their music.

[Andrew Schultz]

Why don't they like you?

[Yayo]

Because you gotta understand, when we came

[Mark]

in the game, he wasn't hit.

[Yayo]

When we came in the game and 50 had the raw, we knew we was the most hate. See how he's hating? I'm a Jay Z. Fong Jay Z. I don't want my career to be Jay Z. He wants to buy Basquiats and all the other shit. Yeah. Got 40 TV shows. It's 20 years later, we's one of the biggest brands. Like I said, Jay, no disrespect to him, but he was smart. You stand next to the fire. That's what you do. We here with you. We standing next to the fire.

[Andrew Schultz]

Okay?

[Yayo]

You think y' all bigger than him? Y' all standing next to the fire. When they start getting deals. I'm smart enough to know when I get a deal. Oh, shit. Yo. 50. 50. They know 50. I'm getting a deal. Cause I stand next to the fire. I'm quite. When you stand next to 50, you standing next to the fire. It's 20 years later, Jay, right now. Last thing I seen was him riding a bike in the Hamptons and buying. What's the guy, Tato Ado? Look up the guy that built his house. I'll say his name all wrong. And getting his house built by the Asian guy.

[Alex]

I mean, what's wrong with that?

[Yayo]

Nah, it's cool. It's artistic shit. We went to Roc Nation. They had a lot of artistic shit in.

[Alex]

But he got Roc Nation. He got Roc Nation Sports, he got.

[Mark]

I take it y' all Motherfuckers been arguing a little bit in here. So like y' all got some type of like.

[Yayo]

Yeah. Cause he started saying white. Cause Eminem sold. Cause he was white. So I said that was racist.

[Alex]

Do you think it helps that Eminem was white?

[Yayo]

Of course.

[Mark]

But dude, you can't knock him for having a complexion for the connection. That's how he was born.

[Yayo]

Motherfucker.

[Andrew Schultz]

You can't make

[Mark]

it back.

[Andrew Schultz]

Exactly.

[Mark]

He could wrap it up. Happens to be white.

[Alex]

I put him in my top five M's in my top five.

[Yayo]

You see? So now this is what you buying paintings and. And building $200 million weird cribs and all that. You going. You that type of.

[Andrew Schultz]

You want Eminem to be black still

[Yayo]

going to be chopped cheese and all.

[Andrew Schultz]

How do you want him to do that?

[Alex]

I still go to the hood. It's all good.

[Yayo]

You got to do both. You a going to far rock away with that.

[Alex]

I might wear gloves when I go.

[Yayo]

Wear gloves when you went to the office. Everything else is cool, but we ain't going to accept no opinion from you. Like I said.

[Mark]

Oh, God damn. God damn.

[Yayo]

Damn.

[Mark]

That's flagrant. I mean, we on the flag came

[Yayo]

off like, where you from again?

[Andrew Schultz]

Far out.

[Yayo]

Queens. And he came up on some like

[Andrew Schultz]

Brooklyn, like, are there no nails painting?

[Yayo]

Like I like I said Fab Def,

[Mark]

not East New York. You can't do that in East New York.

[Yayo]

Look up all Fab feature records. Look up all Fab's feature records. His biggest. Let me talk. His biggest records are his feature records. Banks records, Avant Joe, whoever, he wrote the hook.

[Andrew Schultz]

All right, guys, we gotta take a break for a second. Yes. From this incredibly calm, cool and collected conversation with no strong opinions whatsoever. We need to give Al a break. Yeah, Al, you just need to chill for one second. Poor Al, dude. Ok, you're going through it and you haven't even gotten to the end of the episode.

[Mark]

I know.

[Andrew Schultz]

You don't even know how much more he goes through it.

[Alex]

It gets worse, guys.

[Andrew Schultz]

For me or better?

[Yayo]

Way better.

[Andrew Schultz]

For me, For Mark and I, we are enjoying ourselves. I don't understand all the politics. I don't really know most of the

[Yayo]

names, but man, that was awesome.

[Andrew Schultz]

I agree with yo 100%. Okay? I would say 70% of the episode. Yayo's hand is in Alex's face as he's trying to talk. He's just heismaning you half the episode.

[Yayo]

Yeah. What are the odds?

[Andrew Schultz]

Al takes off his nail polish before next pod. What's. What are the cows on that. Do we have a number?

[Alex]

I'm a stubborn nigga. I'm a. I'm a.

[Andrew Schultz]

There's nothing you can do about it.

[Alex]

These are in forever.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, okay, but like, let's talk a little bit about this little super bowl that we got going on. We got Seattle and New England.

[Alex]

Yep.

[Andrew Schultz]

Could not care about either team.

[Yayo]

Come on.

[Andrew Schultz]

No. You're really a Patriots fan, dude. Bro, I don't think I can name three Seattle Seahawks.

[Alex]

I can't name one.

[Andrew Schultz]

Nah, come on. Richard Sherman. Richard Sherman. Okay, he was one. He was one.

[Yayo]

He was one.

[Alex]

Let's talk about Kurt.

[Andrew Schultz]

Nah. If you were, you are forever, bro.

[Yayo]

Come on.

[Alex]

That's true.

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm a Seahawks fan.

[Alex]

Sierra's husband.

[Mark]

Sierra.

[Andrew Schultz]

Sierra's husband. That's good. Marshawn Lynch. Let's go.

[Yayo]

I'm nice in football.

[Andrew Schultz]

Can you name two New England Patriots? Julian Edelman. Tom Brady. Man, you guys are nice. I'm nice, bro. I know football.

[Alex]

The gay Spanish dude that kill people.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yes. Aaron Hernandez. Allegedly Aaron Hernandez.

[Yayo]

Yeah. What is it?

[Andrew Schultz]

Isn't his name Alex?

[Yayo]

No.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, it was Aaron

[Yayo]

also.

[Alex]

You too?

[Yayo]

Yeah. Give me that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Give me that.

[Alex]

We're bringing gills back.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, give me that. Give me that neck. Yo, this super bowl fast forward. Listen, nobody's watching this. Nobody's watching.

[Yayo]

But if you are gonna watch it,

[Andrew Schultz]

the Couch Odds are 68%. It's got Seattle 33% New England. Do we have a bad bunny market? Can we, can. We gotta look at that. Yeah, we gotta watch that bad bunny halftime. Yes, bro. The biggest artist in the world.

[Alex]

That's what we coming to see.

[Yayo]

Yes.

[Alex]

I keep telling you, he's the next Michael Joy.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, who's opener going to be? I like this. Titi. Mi procunto. I'm going with him.

[Yayo]

Bro.

[Andrew Schultz]

That sounded fucking racial.

[Alex]

Yo, he nailed it, but that sounded free.

[Andrew Schultz]

These are. These are the opening song. Is that what they're saying? What's going to be opening? I think it's going to be Titi mi pork onto.

[Yayo]

That's why it's going to be.

[Andrew Schultz]

Why is that funny? You bigots? I'm speaking espanol now.

[Yayo]

You fucked it up.

[Andrew Schultz]

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[Alex]

You from Brooklyn?

[Yayo]

Niggas are just quiet.

[Alex]

Who has a better career, Fab or banks?

[Mark]

I don't really want to get into that.

[Yayo]

You see?

[Mark]

You see what I mean is.

[Yayo]

You know why I say that, though?

[Mark]

I say that because I don't want to be up here talking about them like they.

[Yayo]

They both did.

[Mark]

They think that it's cool.

[Yayo]

I'm cool with that.

[Mark]

I don't want to be talking about them. They both had.

[Alex]

I don't want to be.

[Mark]

I don't want to be up here, keep going back, keeping that going on.

[Yayo]

You know what it is for me. We talked about J and M. We wasn't just talking about that. We talked about mad stuff that wasn't, like, the subject. So you could have gave.

[Mark]

They had me late. I came in. I came in here a little late,

[Yayo]

but if you don't want to give us a. But I think.

[Mark]

I think they the same dudes look, but a little bit. You know what I'm saying? But did that. I think Fab had a little longer run than bitch.

[Yayo]

Listen, listen. Let me explain something. You know what I mean? I'll keep it real.

[Mark]

Fab had a long run.

[Yayo]

Let me explain to you.

[Andrew Schultz]

Okay?

[Yayo]

Okay. T unit was the most hated rap group in rap history till this day. We turned Hot nine into Shot nine.

[Alex]

That's true.

[Yayo]

They hated us. Radio hated us. Ebro said we ruined. No disrespect to Ebro. He said we ruined hip hop radio 50 Cent. We didn't. Our doors was closed to a lot of. So when like Fab or your favorite rapper J. Or they. Khaled is hot. Yeah, let's sign Khaled over here. Get his punk ass over here. No disrespect to him, but that's how Brooklyn. You think Jay's a nice guy behind the scenes from Marcy, from Mary. Yo, get that over here. Tell that. Come work for me. That's how Jay is. Even when what's the streaming Service Tidal, right Title. Yeah, he did Tidal. He had Nikki, he had Khaled. All these people, right? Look up and see what Jay Z sold title for. And nobody got no money. Look up that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, wow.

[Yayo]

Did somebody get any money off of that? Nikki was hot as fish grease. I hate on Nikki. She was hot as fish grease. From title drop. How much? 302 million.

[Alex]

That's a good deal.

[Mark]

People got money from there, though. You can't. Artists got money from there.

[Yayo]

Stake in music service title Jack Dorsey square. But what? 2, 2? 20, 21.

[Mark]

You got to make sure you read that correctly, man.

[Yayo]

I don't give a. We heard him. We heard you say that. Don't try to service titled the Jack Dorsey Square in 2001. Reported 302 with initial report report suggested 350 million Jay's residual. Now you making a prove himself W residual. Wasn't nothing in there.

[Mark]

I was just listening.

[Yayo]

I wasn't looking.

[Mark]

I was listening.

[Yayo]

Yo, this guy does the rapper. He don't give a fuck. I don't give a fuck.

[Alex]

N I think the apod should just be yatu y.

[Yayo]

You don't need guests. I want guests. We want guests, but we can't have guests because he do the rapper.

[Mark]

He think he don't disrespect people in these interviews.

[Yayo]

What do I disrespect? Jay Z? Thank you. Thank you.

[Mark]

He don't think he disrespect.

[Yayo]

Thank you. Let him know. Let him know. Let him know. Let him know. How am I dissing Jay Z? I said. I just said Jay z, Diddy and 50 is like the top niggas in New York. I always give Jay Z his pops. How do I say? I just say he do business different than other niggas.

[Alex]

You just said that he closed his deal and nobody got paid off.

[Yayo]

Yo, Joey, look at who got paid.

[Mark]

We breaking it down over here.

[Yayo]

Who the got paid also?

[Andrew Schultz]

He covered his mouth when he said it, bro.

[Yayo]

Come on.

[Andrew Schultz]

It's different.

[Yayo]

You know Jay Z from Brooklyn.

[Mark]

I like this. Like how we get to look up like on his always a little. A little bit.

[Yayo]

Who made money? Who made money?

[Mark]

Oh, this is interesting right here.

[Yayo]

We don't see nobody inquiring starring some who required off the top title sale.

[Mark]

He think it's become because of me we ain't going to get no guests.

[Andrew Schultz]

Exactly.

[Mark]

He think it's because of me we ain't getting no guest. This guy.

[Yayo]

Yo, this just going overseas with who got paid though? Jay Z, Rough Riders. Nobody helped him like that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, really?

[Mark]

Shout out to R. I got a bag of guns from Rough Rid. I had so much drama at that time. That helps.

[Alex]

That helps.

[Yayo]

I'm talking. You got a bag of guns. It don't matter.

[Mark]

Shout out to my D.

[Yayo]

Statue of limitations.

[Mark]

God, I shot people a long time ago.

[Andrew Schultz]

It's over.

[Mark]

It's only seven years.

[Yayo]

After that. We don't talk about those multiple. Who got paid? Beyonce. Who. Who got paid?

[Alex]

Rihanna, Kanye, Alicia, 16

[Yayo]

Nikki. What was man?

[Alex]

They had a much smaller steak because he made the.

[Yayo]

Of course. A smaller. What you think.

[Andrew Schultz]

He doing tricks?

[Yayo]

Brock Nation don't care. Nobody care about Uzi. And a couple people over there. Hold up.

[Mark]

If they say they got 8.9 million a piece or they got that 9 million.

[Yayo]

3%. Where did say 3% at? Did they get that?

[Mark]

Did they get that?

[Yayo]

That the split? 3%. 99 million.

[Alex]

Nah. Each had 3%.

[Yayo]

3%. Shut the fuck up. That ain't no payout. 3% ain't no money.

[Mark]

So was that a piece or was that.

[Yayo]

It looks like a combined payout.

[Andrew Schultz]

So they probably each got like a mil.

[Yayo]

So you go east, he got 302. See, Jay is a genius. He knows how to get.

[Alex]

Come on.

[Yayo]

When that nigga from Philly wrote Give Me that Funk that sweet, he ain't get no publishing off that. Probably Jay is a genius, you know.

[Andrew Schultz]

Who are those guys?

[Yayo]

My man from Philly. Look at him up that wrote the hook. Give Me that Funk, that sweet thing, that gushy stuff. Gucci stuff.

[Alex]

Really?

[Yayo]

Oh, I don't know. Come on, bro.

[Andrew Schultz]

Weren't they two dudes?

[Mark]

But we got to find out. They had to scoop that up.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah. Chris and Nef. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

[Yayo]

All right. There's more. There's. There's numerous. We can look up. Like you can look up when Jay Z said, sometimes the rap game remind me of the crap game. And that was his demo and Irv Gotti and was listening to it and look up 5050 comments. Inspiring. It's the same kind of record shit. You gotta. You don't know your hip hop. See, you don't know nothing. You got glittery nails. Wait, wait. Damn. Yo, wait.

[Alex]

You say Jay Z bit.

[Yayo]

That's just. Look up. Look up 50 Cent, Pimp C and Bumpy. Look up what year that was done. A pimp ain't a pimp with no hoes. And then look up Jay Z a couple of years later. With who? The same two artists with the same brain. Record content, Pippin. What was it? Look it up. You don't know Your Hip hop brothers. I'm just saying. But they know who rap is. Now. Nobody.

[Mark]

Not with those nails.

[Yayo]

So look, he's the type of. We gonna hate on the Beastie Boys, too. Oh, come on.

[Alex]

I can't wait

[Yayo]

till. Brooklyn white boy rappers. Hold on, hold on. Before we go into that, let's name a list of dope white boy rappers. Third base. Go to third base. Them n. Let's not act like they wasn't nice. I was a fan of them Beastie Boys. Was a fan of them. And Paul Wall.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yes, look.

[Yayo]

Paul Wall.

[Andrew Schultz]

Bubba Sparks.

[Yayo]

Bubba Sparks. Now listen. Now this is what I want to say. And I know he's racist.

[Mark]

I can't with this. I can't with this.

[Yayo]

Jack Miller RIP man, keep it real. Vanilla Ice went diamond. Yes, thank you. Let's not act like you wasn't rocking the Ice Ice, baby.

[Mark]

It should have that hanging over the.

[Yayo]

How many movies was Vanilla Ice song in? Ice Ice, baby. He's still getting checks. My. See, you think the wrong way. You like? Yo, this nigga's nice. You want the. In the basement. We want the.

[Mark]

And I ain't gonna Jack Harlow be rapping his ass off too.

[Yayo]

Paul.

[Mark]

Jack Harlow. Rap like a man.

[Yayo]

Vanilla ISO 11M. Let's see how many records Vanilla ISO. Over 7 million copies in the US 25 million globally.

[Andrew Schultz]

Wow. Damn, Al.

[Yayo]

Now what artist you want? The bum. You want the people. I'm black. You want that artist? I want that artist right there to make money. Cause that's what it's about.

[Alex]

So you want Vanilla Ice's career?

[Yayo]

I like Vanilla Ice. I'm not saying I like Vanilla Ice. I want one song. That song sold more than this whole album.

[Mark]

But you don't want 11 number one

[Yayo]

albums off of a song. Nah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Hold a convo. Is it Vanilla Ice or Jay Z?

[Mark]

Definitely.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's not the convo.

[Yayo]

That's not the convo. The convo is a. He's saying, look. Cause we saying. And he saying I hate on Jay. I said, Jay has 11 to 12 platinum albums, which is success big. I said he's the. I never hate on him. I just say he do business differently.

[Mark]

We might not get a Jay Z interview.

[Yayo]

But what you say? He ain't. He ain't giving either. He giving. Andrew50 would have seen with the nails. Like, yo, what the. This out of here.

[Mark]

What was the beef?

[Yayo]

Or what was the. So the beef? I said 50 sold 11 million records on one album. That's like. Only like certain artists like DMX, Nelly, like, niggas will say, oh, Vanilla Ice. It's only like a certain number of people that sell those kind of records, bro.

[Andrew Schultz]

What's that girl's name?

[Yayo]

I don't care if it's Vanilla Ice. He sold Travis Kelly back in the days. Whoever was on tour was happy as hell. Different number.

[Andrew Schultz]

I couldn't remember Travis Kelce's girl. Travis Kelce's girl. I couldn't remember how you remember Travis Kelce, bro. Dude, that's Travis Kelce, man.

[Yayo]

But come on, you don't know. I'm tired of like people. No.

[Alex]

So you got mad cuz I said I would prefer Jay z's career over

[Yayo]

50's no, I'm not mad at you. That's your opinion. I just said I would prefer 50s career over Jay Z's. It's cool. Cool.

[Alex]

Yeah, but what about they both great?

[Andrew Schultz]

What about Travis Scott's career over Jay Z's career?

[Yayo]

Travis Scott is another one too. He sells out shows. He's big worldwide. He's big worldwide. See, you just Jay. I'm not saying Jay is not big, but 50 Travis, there's other dudes that are bigger overseas than me. I don't know.

[Andrew Schultz]

I don't know. I don't know if Jay could sell the tickets with Travis.

[Yayo]

I'm trying to tell you.

[Alex]

Yeah, but people put Jay in that goat conversation. Nobody, even though Travis sells more, nobody puts him in like the lyrics.

[Yayo]

It doesn't matter.

[Mark]

He can look at Travis like a real rapper. Rapper though. I think he wants to entertain.

[Alex]

Yeah. So that's what I'm saying. If you ask me killing them.

[Mark]

I don't think people looking at people don't look at Travis Scott like I'm looking for bars from Travis Scott.

[Yayo]

They don't look at.

[Alex]

I want Jay Z's career. Cause I want to be honored for. Hey, I'm the nicest nigga.

[Yayo]

I would want 50's career because he just did 103 shows 20 years later with Live Nation. And you know, n be talking like two 300M's conversations just like Jay. Nah. And you gotta remember Jay came out

[Alex]

before at home collecting checks.

[Yayo]

So is 50. What do you think he's saying? 50's doing the same.

[Alex]

I know they both. They both doing that, but I'm just

[Yayo]

saying you just don't like 50 like Jay Z and it's cool. Okay, you just a Jay Z. You're from Queens, but you're reverse. Yeah, cuz you like Jay Z and fast. Man. We have a problem. Y' all say Houston, we Got a problem, Far Rock? We got a problem. I'm Queens all day. That's it, man. We got the best rappers.

[Andrew Schultz]

New York all you haven't mentioned Nas. We got from Queen, of course.

[Yayo]

Nas.

[Mark]

Yo, listen, N say I remind him of Biggie.

[Yayo]

Salute to Nas.

[Mark]

That's my guy. He wrote that on Twitter. That's my guy right there.

[Yayo]

Did Nas say Queens always run? You ask.

[Andrew Schultz]

Ask Russell Simmons.

[Yayo]

There you go.

[Mark]

What you talking about, man?

[Andrew Schultz]

That's from why are we asking?

[Alex]

Are we really asking Russell Simmons.

[Yayo]

Queens. Queens. Ch ll, run dmc. Yo, why the game? Why don't you rep queens, man?

[Alex]

I rep New York all day. Oh, my God.

[Yayo]

You got to understand. The biggest rap group in the world, I'm always going to say is Run dmc.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, Queens.

[Mark]

And out to my guy Red.

[Yayo]

Now, what's the song that they had with the rock group back in the days? Bring that back. Can you play? Pull that up so we could do our hip hop knowledge. And it starts from Queens. Yeah, teach them something. I'm gonna teach em. You don't know nothing. We got glittery nails. Yeah, yeah, right. Aerosmith. What was the name of the song again?

[Andrew Schultz]

Walk this Way.

[Yayo]

Walk this Way. Wasn't this the first song on MTV from a black group? Hip hop group.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, really?

[Yayo]

Yes. Let's look up Joey. That's what Joey's there for. Was.

[Mark]

It was that first rap. It was to commercialize hip hop.

[Yayo]

Came from Queens. Shout out to Run dmc. Rest in Peace Gym, Master J. Yeah. Motherfuckers don't know they hip hop. So we, you know, we could say Bronx started it, but who commercialized it? Was Queens.

[Andrew Schultz]

Russell commercialized it for sure.

[Yayo]

You know what I'm saying? Now, do you find anything, Joey, about MTV or something like that? Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

First feature on MTV was Run DMC for Rockbox. But it was Run dmc.

[Alex]

Why can't we celebrate Everybody?

[Yayo]

Remember. Remember that Christmas album?

[Mark]

He said, why we can't celebrate what?

[Alex]

Everybody, this is why G Unit has

[Yayo]

so much, much problems.

[Mark]

Told me that 50 said he started a lot of.

[Yayo]

You said, l started a lot of.

[Mark]

He said a lot of is because of this right here.

[Yayo]

See, this is why Hip hop is up. His name is Uncle Murder. He's talking about start. We can't even have a business. Me, we got a Ch to the. Lenny Gr to him. Listen to me. Hip hop is always been what, competition? Yes, right. We might say, oh, y', all. You can't even have a business. Listen, listen, listen. Every rap battle in the world, we Ate up. You was. Don't keep it real. Hip hop wasn't boring too. Kendrick and Drake, you loved it. You're a hip hop guy, right? You got your glasses.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

So look, blame it on the brain, y'. All. Look fire. So look, Blame it on the PR

[Mark]

Shout out to the PR

[Yayo]

When KRS won, right?

[Alex]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

And that's. That's like. That's one of me and 50's favorite rappers. KS won my top five from back in the days. I'mma put Big Daddy Kane, Eric B and Rocky.

[Mark]

Where's Daddy came from?

[Yayo]

But he was signed to a queen.

[Mark]

I asked you a question. Where's McDaddy came from?

[Yayo]

He was signed to a queen.

[Mark]

I want him to ask you a question. Where's McDaddy?

[Yayo]

He was signed to a Queens nigga.

[Mark]

Where M Daddy came from?

[Yayo]

He was signed to a Queens. Answer the fucking. He was signed to a queen.

[Mark]

Where M Daddy came from? Where he came from?

[Yayo]

From Brookly. Thank you.

[Alex]

Brooklyn.

[Mark]

Finish up. Go ahead. Finish that top five.

[Yayo]

So look, my top five. Big Daddy K. Big Daddy K. Eric being Rakim.

[Andrew Schultz]

Biggie, obviously.

[Yayo]

No, no, I'm talking about for we

[Mark]

see when we talk about.

[Yayo]

See when we start hip hop, we gotta start from the 80s.

[Andrew Schultz]

Got it.

[Yayo]

To the 90s.

[Andrew Schultz]

Got it, got it, got it, got it, got it.

[Yayo]

So we gotta go. We gotta go to Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, Rak Rakim. We gotta put KRS1 in there.

[Mark]

Kuji Rap. Let's go. Queens.

[Yayo]

I will put Coogy rap.

[Andrew Schultz]

What about epmd?

[Yayo]

I think I will put. But that's a group. We can go to groups.

[Mark]

EPMD was popping, so I'm not coming from.

[Yayo]

I'mma keep it real. I know fifth got a little beef with him. But I'mma put. LL has to be like before Kuji Rap.

[Alex]

The fifth.

[Mark]

That's this. Go ahead.

[Yayo]

Nah, you got to think. LL had no.

[Andrew Schultz]

LL was a superstar.

[Yayo]

Of course.

[Mark]

Nah, nah, of course not. I was on one of the LL albums I saw.

[Yayo]

It's all good.

[Mark]

I was on one of the LL albums.

[Yayo]

You put LL there and then I top five. I gotta put Slick Rick over Coog rap. Sorry.

[Mark]

I love my top. Slick Rick was that dude. I'm not gonna lie. He made me want to write stories in my rap.

[Yayo]

That's why I always say top 10. Cause I would go. I would go, Dougie Fresh, Coogee Rap. You know what I mean?

[Mark]

I never looked at Dougie Fresh as a rapper. He was the more the bugging.

[Yayo]

But he still come on. He had his I know.

[Mark]

I never looked at him like the rapper too.

[Yayo]

No, of course.

[Mark]

But I said he was like more of an entertainer than a rapper.

[Yayo]

Like that.

[Mark]

How I looked at it.

[Yayo]

He was lit back then.

[Mark]

Of course he was that dude. He was damn near like a. A puff back then.

[Yayo]

Cause we said what we said. Big Daddy Kane, Rakim. Rakim, who else?

[Andrew Schultz]

Slick Rick, we said Cool G Rap.

[Yayo]

I would have to put. I'll have to put LL right there. I go, LL Slick Rick, five.

[Andrew Schultz]

All right. What about our generation, the people that we started watching growing up? So we're talking about 90s to talk

[Mark]

about the biggies and the Jay Z shit like that.

[Yayo]

Yeah. Nas, dmx.

[Andrew Schultz]

The peak of New York hip hop, dmx, mobb, Deep.

[Yayo]

Shit like that. Where you was like, oh, man, definitely.

[Mark]

Word, they was coming.

[Yayo]

But Jay, you gotta put Jay. You gotta put Jay there. You gotta put Biggie, you gotta put. And that's another thing. What should be different? If Biggie was alive,

[Mark]

Of course it would be.

[Yayo]

Biggie to me was like, he was just the epitome of a rapper. Yeah. Because he was fat. And like, he'll say, I'm a fat black nigga with the ugly as ever.

[Mark]

However, I stay Gucci down to the side.

[Yayo]

He was just fat. So, like, the first fat dude we really seen get fly, I would say is probably. The Fat Boys wasn't Fly. They was cool.

[Mark]

You got to give that to Heavy D, though.

[Yayo]

Heavy D. Heavy D was the first Fly.

[Mark]

Yeah, I'll give Heavy D that.

[Yayo]

Heavy D was like the first fat Fly. Yeah, the Fat Boys, you know, Rest in Peace, Heavy D. Yeah, they were. They the Fat Boys. They was just the most commercialized.

[Andrew Schultz]

When you. When you were coming up and you were like in the streets, were you also going, I'm going to be around rapper one day? Like, was that aspirational or did those things just kind of converge?

[Yayo]

I'm from Queens, so the music was always aspirational. They had like the backyard parties. Like, I made my man Bobby, he was across the street. So remember when the boombox came out? Yeah. Like, my parents, they didn't get us no batteries. We couldn't walk around. We had to plug our up. And I remember me and my brother listening to Run dmc and we had to double take shit, but we had to plug it up on the porch. My man had the batteries. Then he had the Equalizer. Issue was way better. That's what it was like, plain tape. Like, I remember when the Run DMC tape came. Play a tape to the Tape pop. You know, it was like crazy boomboxes back in the days. Dookie link trains. So it really came from us watching the drug dealers. And back then, the drug dealers kind of made the style and the fashion for the rappers, you know what I'm saying?

[Andrew Schultz]

So the rappers were emulating the drug dealers. Some of the rappers were drug dealers. Definitely. To kind of make it out, you

[Yayo]

gotta think with Jam Master Jay, when he started the Adidas with no laces, that came from jail, right? So that's when. Back in the days when they was wearing Adidas, they was wearing Adidas with no laces. That was a jail thing, right? You know what I'm saying? You gotta think Adidas. That shit blew up. Hip hop brings a lot of fashion to the forefront. And now we finally getting our. Just do. When you see a. ASAP Rocky doing Gucci ads or seeing Pharrell shout out to Pharrell doing Louis or seeing what Pharrell.

[Mark]

What Virgil was doing.

[Yayo]

God bless you. Because look at Dapper Dan back in the days when he was making the dope jackets for Alpo and everybody that people are kind of emulating now. So it's like hip hop. We didn't know about coogees too.

[Andrew Schultz]

But, like, in your head, when you're in the streets still, are you still. While you're rapping a bit? Like when you connect with Fif initially, are you guys connecting on street shit first, or were you doing your own street shit?

[Yayo]

And then the connection was wild. It's because, like, we was rapping and we was.

[Andrew Schultz]

So you guys knew each other from music first?

[Yayo]

No, I knew 50 from being on the block.

[Andrew Schultz]

From the neighborhood?

[Yayo]

Yeah, from being in the neighborhood. Just being. Rapping was just like more of a hobby. So, like, our favorite DJs, like, we used to. The first people to both in my neighborhood was Lost Boys, Rest In Peace feature. Ty, we from 134 and God Brewer, they just put a mural over.

[Mark]

I was the first feature I ever did. Mr. Cheeks, man.

[Alex]

Wow, that's fire.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's crazy dope.

[Mark]

That's my first feature I ever paid for. Feature I ever paid for. If you let me talk my.

[Yayo]

I'm sorry, man. So in the hood, back in the days, we had DJs like Grandmaster Vic. That's when my man Rough Hands, he was a dj. Rest in Peace. So he was a dj. So we used to go to Jamaica Avenue. That's the good days. No computer party get shot up. All the parties get shot up. You gotta take eight days.

[Mark]

The good Days, right? Parties get shot up.

[Yayo]

Good old house. Party get shot up. Good old days.

[Andrew Schultz]

That was the expectation. That was the expectation that the.

[Yayo]

Imagine, you know, imagine you being a dj, right? Look, imagine you being a dj. Hole in the world party, you know, in the hood, that's what we grew up on. You in Queens, shit gets shot up. No computer. We gotta take eight crates now, carrying them out to the car. I mean, you know, if the shit gets shot up, he gotta get his crates no matter what. That's the experience we had growing up in hip hop. So my man basement, you know, we all sold drugs. When it get hot, we go to his crib. We all was in mischief, but we was good drug dealers. We, you know, help ladies across the street and like that. Help the community, giving people credit.

[Mark]

That's right. You only got eight.

[Andrew Schultz]

A Christmas deal.

[Mark]

That's why my man got his blessings, man.

[Yayo]

I was a nice guy. Help old ladies across the street. You know what I'm saying? So we go to my man's crib, and he had the equipment. We go down there, 50 will be rapping. Motherfuckers be rapping. But freaky time Lost Boys blew up. So, you know, everybody from my hood. Oh, oh, oh. It was Lost Boys everywhere you go. We were still selling drugs, you know. Shout to J Ball. That's his brother. Shout to J Ball. Rest in peace, Ty. What? I mean, it's Sun Rap now. Little tie. Huh, huh, huh. So everybody was not out, was they? Dance Freaky ta. Everybody was fanned out, but we was still like drug dealers. So we was looking at. At it like, oh, they taking off. And so fifth, you know, he was. He was like, drug dealer. 16, 17. Fifth was like, 16, had binges.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

So he was the man in the hood. It wasn't like he's a clown. Knew him. He was 16. Would have been 17.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

You know what I'm saying? Coming through. So he look selling my drugs, everybody, so he'll come through on his bully. Cause 50 was always a troublemaker on the block. Niggas be like, yo, hey, what's a N coming? Oh, here he go. Start like 50, saying, I'm crazy. Crazy. But he's crazy. Yeah, but he was a marketing genius.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

I'll give you an example. Back in the days, we had 31 bunnies, right?

[Andrew Schultz]

What's that?

[Yayo]

It's the size of a capsule, right?

[Mark]

So 50 capsules that you put the crack in for the people that don't understand that's watching.

[Alex]

Thank you.

[Yayo]

50's gonna be mad at. I argue in on a jet later. But this is why I say he was always a marketing genius. I don't know what Jay Z did not to expect, but 50 was marketing genius. So what he did, we had 31 bunnies about this size. You know what I'm saying? And then what he did was. What 50 did was he called up his Brooklyn guys. Cuz, you know, we always hire Brooklyn guys.

[Mark]

Shut the up.

[Yayo]

If guys had the money, we hired a Brooklyn guys.

[Mark]

They hired no Brooklyn Rusty guns. Brooklyn know what's up. That's all Brooklyn.

[Yayo]

No, you know. You know what I'm saying?

[Mark]

Fifth came to get the official Brooklyn.

[Yayo]

You got the rusty guns and stuff. So you got the rusty guns. They crazy, these guys. You know, his Brooklyn guy's temperament, you know what I mean? Was a little more violent. We on go. We on go time. Queens is like a Harlem. Like Queens and Harlem are similar.

[Mark]

I always tell him 50 like a Brooklyn look like real talk.

[Yayo]

But look, this is what you gotta understand. Queens and Harlem is the same. Get money, get fresh. The Bronx and Brooklyn to me was always, shoot you up. Well, as niggas. Oh, Bronx niggas in the Brooklyn N in the building. Where, where, where n are looking like where?

[Alex]

Oh, always, always dudes that would mess up the party.

[Mark]

Yeah, I give you that.

[Yayo]

I give you that. So that's how it was back in the days. That's what I'm trying to tell him. So you know 50 AD is Brooklyn N. And they was real. You know why? Because Queens niggas was bougie. They would get on the train, hold 50 down. They would come, we'd be on a. We be on tour. Niggas all chilling in one room. Cause they from the projects. So they shit was like, they all being one room. Know what I'm saying? They was called 551 back then. His man Ja passed away. So I went on tour with them. And it was a camaraderie. But when they argue, yo, I crippled somebody. I shot him in the back. The arguments was crazy.

[Mark]

Sound like a Brooklyn argument. We like arguing about who caught the most, who did the most shootings and shit like that. Who shot the most people.

[Yayo]

Yeah, they had a shootout at the end of the tour. And they was friends. That's how Brooklyn. These guys not like that, bro. You know Brooklyn brothers had shootouts. Man, she's crazy. Hold on.

[Andrew Schultz]

There were friends that shot at each

[Yayo]

other after we came from tour. They was on tour. This is how to roll. Okay, Came off tour. They was from Brooklyn 50 had non brook. Brooklyn niggas. They get on the train, you know what I mean? These are the guys got kicked out studio. Beyonce. We was working on Beyonce early. Remember that? Okay, respect, Respect, right? We had. We had worked with Destiny Child too, but this, I think. Before Jay Z. Yes.

[Alex]

I mean, I got a feature.

[Yayo]

We definitely ain't getting no Jay Z. Just saying we was in the studio with her early. We was in the studio. We got kicked out. So these guys, they didn't care. They bring their rusty guns. Shit was crazy. Rusty. 38, 300 and. 57s, scars on their face. One dude named his face looked like Frankenstein, had scar on his face. Guys wake up for breakfast with guns. Like, these guys are crazy. So we went on tour with them with how to Rob. This is before 50 headshot. We had records with Beyonce and all. I've been around since then. That power of the dollar always been something aggressive.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

When you look at the history of hip hop. See, he doesn't know, cuz. You know. Come on. The Glitter Nails would never rock. What I'm saying, back in the days were like fucking chasing Jack and Scooter and tutting them like that. Would never rock around the guys that you. Times have changed.

[Alex]

Times have changed.

[Andrew Schultz]

So you're saying at the end of the tour, the guy, the Brooklyn dude.

[Yayo]

Oh, yeah, they had a shootout, they shot one guy. Spent too much money on hoes or whatever, you know, Miami. They was selling that or whatever, Whatever. He went to Miami. He was the only nigga getting. I was like, how you getting, man? He was like, he's buying that. He spent all the bread. This is back in the day. He spent all the breads, man. Shot him up. Wow.

[Andrew Schultz]

And did he live?

[Yayo]

Yeah, he just got shot. The up came from limping. Yo, sun shot me, told 50 it was just crazy. And then they.

[Andrew Schultz]

They squashed it afterwards.

[Yayo]

No.

[Mark]

Oh, they ain't squashed that way.

[Yayo]

No, it wasn't squashed. One just shot the up. The other shot the out of the. You mean they squash it. It's rare that happens, right, Martin? It's not with Brooklyn. It's rare.

[Mark]

Yeah, that's why. But it happens sometimes. I was.

[Yayo]

You got understand the norm for people. Like how you wake up in the morning and he brushes his hair. Everybody doesn't live that life. There's a real world out there where people's going through in the shit. You go to Bronx, Harlem, some of these places, the kids really don't want to be there. They just forced to be there. And they evict them. Circumstances. Cause what? Cause you just live in that neighborhood. So you that gang now? Cause New York has a lot of gangs.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Mark]

And it's.

[Yayo]

They don't play.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, yeah.

[Yayo]

And LA has a lot of gangs,

[Andrew Schultz]

but the gang culture feels different here than in la.

[Yayo]

Nah, it's crazier.

[Andrew Schultz]

Not in terms of one is worse than the other, but the organization over there feels a little different. Like, I don't see the same, like a color warfare here. That it is over.

[Alex]

Less organized here.

[Yayo]

I would say. Nah, I wouldn't say that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Well, how does it work?

[Yayo]

I would say back in the day. No, I'm just saying. I would say people look at gangs different from New York because when you look at the cannabis game, which we opened in the dispensary soon. You know what I'm saying? Unit. When you look at the gang, the gang game, it's grandfather then. So gang. Gang started in la. So they gonna always get that respect.

[Mark]

Chicago too.

[Yayo]

Chicago too. Chicago too. Because, you know, LA gets that, of course, that respect because they started it. But as for gang structure in New York, there's thousands of gangs. Yeah, yeah. But that's the thing.

[Alex]

It's like they have two big gangs and then they have subsequents of those two. Big and la.

[Yayo]

La. Oh, no, there's plenty of. You got Mexican gangs, but I mean.

[Alex]

But out here is.

[Yayo]

You got Asian gangs out there.

[Alex]

Out here is like everybody's hood. You just have a clique and then all.

[Yayo]

Nah, everybody. Nah. You got blood, you got gd, you got folk.

[Mark]

There's so many gangs.

[Yayo]

You got Joe, there's a million. You got fucking Dominican power. You got Ontario, there's so many.

[Andrew Schultz]

Was there concern when you guys were traveling in the early days, like before you blow up, you're huge. The early days of traveling, you're going to these other markets. Was there a concern?

[Yayo]

There wasn't a concern. Because like I said, I'm not a glaz. 50 was a genius. Cause what he said was, we're never gonna choose a side. We're never gonna turn blood and never gonna turn Crip. People wanted me to turn blood when I was on the island, but I was like, fuck it. I'm gonna listen to what 50 never choose a side. So if we do. What's up, Blood? What up, Cut? Which is one of the biggest.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, wow. Oh, you shouting them all out.

[Yayo]

Yeah. What's one of the biggest records in the world? This guy. You know what I'm saying? When you think about that, right? No, no, you do. But you love Jay Moore and it's cool. It's not cool. Think about this though.

[Andrew Schultz]

Refuse to live in a world where someone loves you.

[Yayo]

That's like. So now when we going to la, the Bloods love us and the Crips love us because we not just like 50 said on his mixtapes. Cuz our mixtapes was killing albums back in the days. But he hated fellas. Shout to banks. Nah, I was shout out to Banks. He's on tour now. Fab is podcast. But we'll get back to that. Damn you. My podcast. So what? I was made for this. I'm natural. You have been podcast. When I go places. So they were shout to Kill Tony. I think Legend of Skanks too.

[Mark]

Legend of the podcast.

[Yayo]

Yo, so look. No, he don't know Kill Tony's another level. He don't.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, it's huge.

[Alex]

I like that you're going on both

[Yayo]

platforms like the White boys and world with you and Charlemagne for the big show.

[Andrew Schultz]

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[Yayo]

You know what's crazy? The rich guys never wear no jewelry. I told them we was at a dinner one time and we're with Tillman, the guy owner, Houston rocket.

[Mark]

Owned about 800 restaurants.

[Andrew Schultz]

Just looking regular.

[Yayo]

Me and in thanks hand. And there was. There was a big DJ there too. DJ that came there. Oh, my God. Pause. DJ came through there and he had the littlest chain and murder hat. I said, murder don't wear no jury to.

[Mark]

But guess what, though. The D. I was there, though. A big fan of this safe right here. He like, yo, wow. He was like, wow, do it open. I said, yes, it open. You got a gun in somebody.

[Yayo]

I think it was D.J. russell. It's exotic.

[Mark]

You know what I'm saying?

[Yayo]

You understand?

[Mark]

Come on, man. It's a bag right here. When you getting that money, you could do this.

[Yayo]

Yo, look, look. Listen, DJ R. So I'm looking around.

[Mark]

Shout out to DJ R. It might

[Yayo]

have been DJ R. Now he has the littlest chain in the world. Like, he has the littlest chain. This guy gets a million a show. Tillman own 900 restaurants. I'm surprised 50s. This is the kind of meetings 50 has too. Like Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. 50s would tell me, this guy owns Astro. There's a.

[Andrew Schultz]

There's a hilarious comedian named Damian Lemon who once said something to me. He goes. He goes. Sometimes dudes will go broke trying to impress broke dudes. And that could be the. The jewelry thing. Like spending all this money on jewelry to impress people who are impressed by jewelry. But Tillman don't care about jewelry, so he owns a basketball.

[Mark]

So I started looking at 800 restaurants.

[Yayo]

So I start looking at the billionaires and I'm like, yo, let me see what kind of watch you got on. Apple watch. I'm like, see? See? Murder. Told you. Don't wear them chains. You look stupid, man.

[Mark]

You don't look stupid. This is us.

[Yayo]

This is our culture.

[Andrew Schultz]

This is what we do.

[Mark]

This our culture. You had a big passport chain on,

[Yayo]

but I had some little on.

[Mark]

You had some little on that day.

[Yayo]

I came out that big. I knew what it was gonna be. It was like that day. Don't knock me.

[Mark]

Cause I wanted to be like, how about.

[Yayo]

There you go. Yeah. He wasn't like that that day.

[Mark]

So he wouldn't tell me to be quiet. No, you left this at home.

[Yayo]

When I get this, that's around a rapper's division.

[Mark]

58.

[Yayo]

That's the rappers section.

[Mark]

50 had his big on too.

[Yayo]

Did he pause?

[Mark]

Yes, he did. You was the only that didn't have it on.

[Yayo]

He was the only. That must sh my hand a little different though. Definitely ain't shaking your hand. Come on. I done shook hands with Leon. Capio? I rather have 50. I'm drinking Leonardo. Leonardo, come on. You doing the G. You can't bring Shout out Ler Le. Shout out to you.

[Mark]

Man,

[Yayo]

it's early in the day.

[Mark]

They do got us drinking real early. Boy. God damn.

[Andrew Schultz]

It is. Hey, you know what time it is in Barcelona?

[Yayo]

What time?

[Andrew Schultz]

It's late in Barcelona.

[Yayo]

Yeah, Overseas time. Overseas. We used to. Which a lot of other rappers don't do. Banks is overseas right now. Shout out to Banks. He's in Bulgaria. He got like 20 days.

[Andrew Schultz]

Hold on. Now that you guys are traveling around the world, Just out of curiosity, because you guys are traveling around the world international.

[Yayo]

I'm the first rapper in the Swiss Alps too to do a show.

[Andrew Schultz]

I believe that.

[Yayo]

Oh, remember that. And I'm just Yayo. I just work for 50. Respect.

[Alex]

That's mine.

[Mark]

Shout out to my guy Shout out

[Yayo]

to my guy Shout out my to.

[Andrew Schultz]

Now obviously you're just aware of so much more culture, so many more experiences.

[Yayo]

Of course.

[Andrew Schultz]

Cuz of the two of you, who would you say is the more culturally refined now because you're international.

[Yayo]

He already know. He. He could. He know that's me. He knows he know I do. He knows that's me.

[Andrew Schultz]

God damn.

[Yayo]

I told him about a salad fork in class. Like he's the. That we going to the restaurant. I'm trying to tell.

[Mark]

Hour and a half, I bet. Let me tell you something about this guy.

[Yayo]

I My yo Calm down. You smell like weed and you're saying nothing.

[Mark]

Listen, let me tell you something about this guy. He talk all this food, right? He's a fast food guy overseas, you hear me? I'm the guy that like five star. I'm the guy that.

[Yayo]

I don't eat cabbage.

[Mark]

All this guy be looking for is McDonald's spots, Burger King, like that. I'm a steakhouse guy

[Yayo]

overseas. McDonald's. Hold on.

[Mark]

He's not letting me too. The steakhouse. I need a steakhouse.

[Yayo]

You know, little Duvall guy.

[Andrew Schultz]

You guys know little Duvall legend, Obviously.

[Yayo]

Shout to L. Dual.

[Andrew Schultz]

So we, we were hosting the MTV2 Movie Awards, some music, I forget what it was out in, in Germany one time, right? And he goes, now Dual travels around

[Yayo]

the world be barefoot.

[Andrew Schultz]

No, he loves, he loves some sandals.

[Yayo]

He loves some sandals.

[Andrew Schultz]

Duo's his own dude. But he, so he. When he's abroad, he eats fast food. He goes, he goes, I don't trust none of this shit. And I'm like, dude, we're in Germany. Let's have some schnitzel or something. Let's have some German food. He goes, no, I'm going to McDonald's. And that's what I'm eating, right?

[Yayo]

Yep.

[Andrew Schultz]

Every one of us got sick in Germany except for one person, Lil Duke Ball.

[Yayo]

But can I break it down to you?

[Mark]

Look at that.

[Yayo]

Listen, I eat caviar pancakes and smoked duck. But you gotta understand, look, you gotta understand, look, when you get KFC overseas, that is not artificial. Cuz let's tell the truth.

[Mark]

No, let me tell. Let me talk. Let me talk.

[Yayo]

That's all you had to say.

[Mark]

I'm out of here.

[Yayo]

Now let me keep going. Now look, haven't bought me a steak yet. I got on my podcast. I get a steak yet. Listen, see, number one overseas, there's no food coloring, right? So anything you get, there's no food coloring. So they don't have no Frosted Flakes, Fruit Loops. You got to go exotic, exotic store to buy that. They don't have that. They don't have it. They don't have none of the candy with all the, with all the sugar to get that black market.

[Mark]

So now look, when you go to

[Yayo]

Subway, they have, they have the diet mayo. Mayo, diet mayo. Only when you go to kfc, it's natural chicken. It ain't no artificial shit. It's real chicken.

[Alex]

I was in Barcelona.

[Mark]

When you go to McDonald's, the McRoyale,

[Yayo]

the McRoyal, pulp, fishing McRoyal, all that shit. That shit Hit. It's fresh shit. It's not like it's artificial. That's true. It's a big difference. It's a big hit difference. When I eat fast food over there.

[Andrew Schultz]

But over here, you're also saying your culture of. Fine. You're saying you were teaching about the salad fork. Like, what?

[Yayo]

Cause he doesn't.

[Mark]

He did put me on funny.

[Andrew Schultz]

I didn't accelerate until the Titan look.

[Yayo]

I'm like telling like, murder. See, this fork is for the salad fork. Because murder is the type of. We be in the M. Hotel. My yo, my. I hate when people do that around white folks.

[Andrew Schultz]

Like, this

[Alex]

is crazy.

[Yayo]

You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't. If I'm in a restaurant with you, you don't look like the type of. That's going to be saying my exactly. Too much. Like it be to the point where on purpose.

[Mark]

Now, before you get so nervous, I.

[Yayo]

I know when I start going, yo, my.

[Mark]

He be like, I see him in the restaurant.

[Yayo]

Sit them in the back. Exactly. I feel that hotel. My, my, my bad. You smell like a ounce of bug. My, my, my, my yo. My yo, chill. My yo just chill. White people looking at. They nervous as hell. We the only black people in the hotel. My nigga, my nigga. And this right here, smoke in front of the. The White House. He don't care. My, my. We be having bets who white people gonna get on the elevator with us

[Mark]

over funniest little time. This little boy, he ridden the elevator with us. His sister was like, no,

[Yayo]

sis. He was like, sh. Was like, sis, what are you doing? What are you doing? She got elevated. She's like, no, I wouldn't get in the elevator with us.

[Mark]

Even I probably wouldn't got with us. I'm not gonna lie. I wouldn't have gotten with us either. So I wasn't even mad.

[Yayo]

They don't know us. They don't know us. You said, I'm not black no more. That was OJ. All they know is 50 out there. You and 50 everything. Oh, you good. They don't care. You can smoke in the elevator.

[Andrew Schultz]

Is there a time when you're traveling and there was just a custom or something that you just did not understand? You were like, what? Like, you ever go to a sauna and like, everybody's naked? Or like, was there ever a cultural exchange where you're like, what the fuck is this about?

[Yayo]

No, never. Never. Really. I heard. I heard something about a Turkish bath and an old man washing you, but I ain't with that Somebody said, no

[Mark]

Diddy like a Turkish bath.

[Yayo]

I ain't with that.

[Andrew Schultz]

If they hit you with like the branches.

[Yayo]

Yeah, I'm not with all that.

[Mark]

Oh, man, that's what they do.

[Yayo]

But that's the best thing is traveling. I've been everywhere when you bar.

[Mark]

I love traveling.

[Yayo]

Been of couple A, Canary Islands, Black Sand. See, Jay Z don't do shit like that. I'm just saying, his artist never did that. He never. This guy was down with Jay Z nothing.

[Alex]

Do you want people from Roc Nation on your pod or not? You're not gonna get nobody.

[Yayo]

Roc Nation ain't fucking with me, man. Just like how you don't fuck with me. I fuck with you. You think I don't fuck with you? You don't fuck with Lloyd Banks. You don't fuck with 50. How you fuck with me? How?

[Andrew Schultz]

Damn,

[Yayo]

we have 50 on the pod.

[Andrew Schultz]

That was my God.

[Yayo]

I'd rather have Jay z career than 50.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, come on, man. Nah, that's crazy.

[Mark]

Yeah, we try to realize this.

[Yayo]

Look, I rather. I think is better than. Wait, wait.

[Mark]

They going to call him, right? Andrew, Right? This nigga going to be fired in two weeks. You have to realize. Matter of fact, you heard my man. He said, I love Lloyd.

[Yayo]

Can I tell you why?

[Andrew Schultz]

He wrote his own verses. All his verses.

[Yayo]

Like I said, Fab is featured.

[Alex]

Respect.

[Andrew Schultz]

Fab is nice, though.

[Yayo]

Now that I think about it, 50 is the greatest. All time. At the end of the day, hip hop is you. You see you. You look at us versus the bad guys, right? Hip hop has always been.

[Mark]

But you just brought up banks tour dates up there.

[Yayo]

Look, my guy over here, my man is Book Foundation.

[Andrew Schultz]

He's international brand.

[Yayo]

Here we go. Give me. You remember back in the days? Give me mods.

[Mark]

Gail N gave him a gil. Oh, we gonna bring that back.

[Yayo]

My N gave him a gm. Mods.

[Mark]

We bringing that guy.

[Yayo]

He's on to o'. Neill. That is not. That's the point. See, my whole thing is people looking at art. Yo, he got lyrics. Lyrics. You gotta be the best rhyme in your basement. But if you're worldwide like Eminem and sell 16 million, I'm looking up to you. And I'm not even on that level. I'm doing clubs. These guys are doing arenas.

[Andrew Schultz]

Can we talk about acting, though? Because I think you guys are doing a little acting.

[Yayo]

Yeah, give me that. What do you mean? Yo?

[Andrew Schultz]

What?

[Yayo]

Gave him a deal.

[Mark]

Say some dumb shit.

[Yayo]

Give him a deal. I just want to try.

[Andrew Schultz]

Are there aspirations for acting gigs?

[Yayo]

Oh, definitely. I got. I Got some acting shit I did, but I don't want to talk about it earlier.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, like, it's not out yet, but you.

[Yayo]

Nah, not out, but. But it's. It's big.

[Andrew Schultz]

And are you nice at acting?

[Yayo]

Yeah, I'm one of the best.

[Andrew Schultz]

How you not know that?

[Yayo]

He trash.

[Mark]

He's trash. He got some work to do. He trash.

[Yayo]

He trash. I want to know. Bank Teller.

[Mark]

I was in the movie with Bruce

[Yayo]

Willis after Bruce Willis. Bruce Willis.

[Andrew Schultz]

Bruce Willis.

[Mark]

My S was on Netflix. We was number three on Netflix. And we was in the movie theater for sure.

[Yayo]

Go.

[Mark]

This motherfucker did a movie that was on Tombi and YouTube.

[Yayo]

I did swap, too. I was on tune.

[Mark]

Swat 2. Have you ever seen Swat 2?

[Andrew Schultz]

No, I don't know if I saw Swat.

[Yayo]

No, Swat was good. The first one with LL and them, that was good.

[Andrew Schultz]

I think I remember the.

[Yayo]

We did what? Oh, I shouldn't say Benny Boom Fish not friends with Benny Bo.

[Mark]

Do not say that.

[Yayo]

He ain't gonna say Benny Boom 50 ain't friends with no more.

[Alex]

Listen, why does 50 got so many so much?

[Yayo]

Listen, this what you. You know, I like this. This funny for the peace guy right here. Yeah, I'm black, for real. I'm gonna.

[Andrew Schultz]

Let me, Let me, let me.

[Yayo]

Let me. Let me explain something to you. There's something in this business called business, right? So you see how the big boss man is giving you a platform, Right? Right. We're all in this together, but he's still a boss. They're not coming to just see you. They coming to see me. So. So this is what you got to understand. And Arena's packing his 30,000, and I'm like, wow, this shit is crazy. But they. Yeah, they had a C50. So he's putting me on the stage, and I'm getting paid, Right? He did that with all his artists. I don't hate Jay Z. There's no Jay Z hate. But what I'm saying is I seen 50 when Buck up the money 5th helped him with the taxes. So you got to understand, when you're a black man and you're getting half a million dollars and you're buying weed and you're fucking bitches is going to the government, but you're not thinking that until months later. Facts. Months later. When that money. Listen, let me talk.

[Alex]

I mean, Jay did that, too.

[Yayo]

Listen, with who? Uzi and them. He wasn't doing it with Bleak and them. Let's go back with Kanye. Come on. Gave Kanye six. Shut the fuck up.

[Alex]

When he was Broke.

[Yayo]

Listen, let me talk. We don't know if Kanye, Lil Wayne,

[Mark]

he lived Wayne, okay?

[Yayo]

He helped Lil Wayne. But Lil Wayne wasn't in the shit. Now, let me explain. 50 was more a family than business. Jay seemed like, I love Jay. That's a fact. Jay just feel like he was more business at that point than family.

[Alex]

Got it.

[Yayo]

So Buck will go on tour. No disrespect to Buck. He'll make a half a million dollars. He's buying three or four cars on the way. On the tour, he's buying Red Monkey jeans. That's when jeans was. You know, at that time, they was 500, a thousand. Now niggas is paying 10,000. We gonna get to that later. Cause you're like, why 50? Why 50? So I'm gonna get to that. So when he fucks up that money. Cause you know you have a grace period when you

[Mark]

got my man drinking more.

[Yayo]

50 guy, he's a political everybody, everybody. He said, look. So by the time the tour is done, if your friends don't ride for you, like, yeah, yo, they not cause you a boss. So I'm gonna speak the facts. Listen, right? You always respect the boss. Art Award. Know who the commander is. That's what it tell you. That's one of the rules. Respect, discipline. Know your commander. Motherfuckers need to read books. Now, look, Chucky.

[Mark]

Y' all motherfuckers need to read books.

[Yayo]

Man up one line, he said, residual. Yo, look, remember the camera on. You want to put on out of here. Like, get out of here.

[Mark]

That's why he tried to not give

[Yayo]

me the address to have me here. I didn't want that like an hour before Joey. Yo, listen. So what I'm saying is, look, so bank. So buckle get off the road. He done made 80,000 check show money. The. You know, the money. The other money.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

At the party. I don't want to say about that. Sure, sure, he's busting that. That's what's down. You got weed, you got. Take the credit card. I was seeing all that. Take the credit card. You got groupy hoes, baby mothers all over the place. Yep, that 500, by the time you get home, you done spent like 200. Buck 50. Then you coming home, then you splurging more. And now when you down to 250 and you got to pay 250, when

[Mark]

they realize that's not even yours no

[Yayo]

more, who you think, the cleanup man 50 when catch them gun cases. Yayo parole, parole lawyer or state lawyer. Fed Lawyer. Who you think is paying all the lawyer fees? 50. When get stabbed at the Vibe Awards, Buck is scared. Oh, Talking about sending me to Pelican Bay. Nigga, who you think pay the lawyer fees? Shout out to Scott Lehman. You know what I'm saying? 50.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

Know what I mean? 50. Okay.

[Mark]

Scott Lehman turned a gun charge into Stolen Topics.

[Yayo]

Now let's keep going.

[Mark]

Oof.

[Yayo]

Smoke the Scott. No, no. Now let's keep going. Young Buck helped him with his taxes. Banks. He didn't really help banks. Did his own thing. But he put them on a platform to have records and put money. Cause people just think there's money behind a record. Who you think pays the money? There's money behind every record. You gotta put money to promote a project. He put on fucking Mobb Deep Mop. Know what I'm saying? Prodigy, he had houses back in the days. But when Prodigy came to my house was like, whoa. He was went and bought a new house. Who you think helped him rest in peace? Prodigy. He paid 50 back. Gave him. Go ahead, man. Cause 50 is one of them niggas. Yo, yo, you fucked up. Yeah. If I spent a little more taxes, then in my head I blew.

[Andrew Schultz]

Like.

[Yayo]

I mean, I gotta Pay these people 250. Yeah. Hey, get it. Just get back to me when you get it. No problem. We go to Little Meech. They was hanging with Rick Ross and everything. There's no disrespect, but I remember when he was rapping had braids in Detroit and nobody cared. Fifth. Put him on. He make making millions. He's with atl. He's with Gunnar. He's with Thugga. Getting drunk, partying. Chrome hard jeans. $10,000 jeans. You would never buy those. You would never buy $10,000 jeans. And you're super rich. You. And Charlamagne is super rich.

[Andrew Schultz]

Charlamagne is super rich.

[Yayo]

No, you're rich, too.

[Alex]

He's super rich.

[Yayo]

Charlamagne

[Andrew Schultz]

don't even put me in that Charlemagne category, man.

[Yayo]

So. So 50 always instilled in us, like, yo, you don't need to buy certain shit. Buy the house first. You know what I'm saying?

[Mark]

So.

[Yayo]

So I seen him help Uncle Murder. No disrespect. Uncle Murder's overseas. He know, yo. He. I'm not saying, oh, this cause Murder put murder. I'm not trying to throw it out there. Like, he helped Murder get his first house. But he's the type, yo, you got a house yet?

[Mark]

He made me even think about that. Cause I wasn't even thinking about this. He Made me think about that.

[Yayo]

Like, before he sign you buy a car, he's gonna tell you, yo, like, yo, yo, bro, get that house first. You know what I'm saying?

[Andrew Schultz]

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[Yayo]

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[Andrew Schultz]

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[Alex]

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[Andrew Schultz]

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[Yayo]

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[Andrew Schultz]

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[Yayo]

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[Yayo]

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[Andrew Schultz]

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[Yayo]

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[Andrew Schultz]

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[Yayo]

Light up.

[Andrew Schultz]

Everybody can stall for 15 minutes. You can say, yo, I got to. I want to take a shower. I want to kind of just like get my body smelling right for you. Let's just talk. Exactly. Tell me your dreams. Tell me something. Tell me whatever you want. Warm up your jaw. Okay, I'll warm up my jaw, too. It's a mutual jaw.

[Yayo]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

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[Yayo]

Yeah, because he was 12 coming outside when was coming outside, the average 15, 16 to hustle. Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

He was young, hustling with these guys, but, like, he had to get that knowledge from somebody who was aware of these things.

[Yayo]

Like, oh, geez, the block. The block.

[Andrew Schultz]

There were dudes on the block that had like, high levels, level, economic.

[Yayo]

I think every. Every hustler, successful hustler, had some kind of look when you look at El Chapo, right?

[Andrew Schultz]

So you reach a certain level, you

[Yayo]

know what I'm saying, of the game,

[Andrew Schultz]

and then you really know.

[Yayo]

Yeah, you just learn. It's all marketing.

[Andrew Schultz]

Right, right, right, right, right. That makes sense.

[Yayo]

Yeah, just like when we came home and he was like, we had the Jacob watching, he was like, yo, you know, somebody kill you for that. Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

So why you walking around with that?

[Yayo]

Cause you talking about that went through the realest shit and beef with the realest niggas.

[Andrew Schultz]

So this is an interesting thing. It's like if. If the loyalty is going to be

[Yayo]

extended, smoke up here too, right?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, you guys can smoke if you want.

[Yayo]

Light up. Oh, man.

[Mark]

God, man. It's all good, man.

[Yayo]

It's all.

[Mark]

This is the best.

[Yayo]

But I get.

[Andrew Schultz]

I get the. I get the. The frustration right? If you extend loyalty in one way and then you don't feel it come back at all, that's a huge violation.

[Mark]

Definitely. Oh, yes, right.

[Andrew Schultz]

Like if you know that you can take care of somebody when they up their bag, you know, you can take care of somebody if they get locked up. You know, you can take care of somebody if they're going through whatever situation

[Mark]

and then the they show you that they not loyal to you.

[Yayo]

Because there's no loyalty in the business. Yeah, because. But I'm one of a kind. There's no loyalty in the business. I'm loyal to the guy that turned the lights on and who I came in to.

[Andrew Schultz]

Can I tell you something, man? I don't know. I feel like that's not just rap. I feel like that's my business sometimes. I feel like it's a lot of people.

[Yayo]

It's like being in a gang. It's like it's the same thing if you in the dis. For me, if I was a gang member, if I was Mac Bowler, Jet Crip, whatever, I would never change that game. Like, I would never say I would

[Mark]

ride it out with this until.

[Yayo]

With that set, until the wheels fall off. To me, it's common sense. A lot of people, People have it. It's just. It's not displayed in our business. Cuz our businesses, we.

[Andrew Schultz]

You know how I think sometimes people are so hungry for success, right? Like you were saying, like, they'll sit next to the flame, right? They're sitting next to the fire because there's heat there. And the second, they look like they could. They could jump, but it's like. I don't know.

[Yayo]

I. I don't.

[Andrew Schultz]

Maybe it's different. Maybe it's a New York thing.

[Yayo]

I don't know if it's. You got to understand. A wise man once told me this Shaka Zulu in the 90s, my first time going to ATL command, Ludacris, this one, Ludacris was doing windows on radio.

[Mark]

Shout out to Shakazuli.

[Yayo]

Shout some up and all. Don't bring that up. I'm trying to turn to get off of him sometimes. And shock is my man.

[Mark]

He was there when I got my first deal.

[Yayo]

Shock is shock. That's my shooter. He said, listen, yo, success doesn't come in the masses, right? Yeah. So there's gonna only be one Andrew Schultz. There's only gonna one. Be one Shane Gillis or kill Tony. Yeah. There's only gonna one. Be 151J, one NAS. You know what I'm Saying it doesn't come in the masses like that. It's far as, like, actors. One Leonardo. Am I saying it right now?

[Andrew Schultz]

You killed.

[Yayo]

I actually shook his hand. Not with the glitter, though. Not with the glitter. Shout out to Barry. Can't take no picture. No picture.

[Mark]

My keep his hat low.

[Yayo]

He'll chop it up. See for me, like, and he'll know who you are. This is what I'm saying. The rooms that like, J Artis was in and certain. And no disrespect to him, like, that's the rooms Jay and B gonna be in. I'm in the rooms with Tillman. I done Wesley Snipes, the Kardashians. Like, I done met Leonardo. This dude just bought Supreme. Like, I'm in those rooms. Like, there hasn't been any. Like, I was like, we couldn't go to Nelson Mandela crib. Cause we smell like weed. And it was like 100 niggas with fitted but 50 went to Nelson Mandela crib. Like, I done been in Nelson Mandela cell. I done been on Canary Islands black saying, like, went to the. To. To the. To the lube. The. You know, African brothers, they can skip

[Mark]

in the line and see the Mona Lisa.

[Yayo]

African brothers. We know. Yo, see this what I'm saying. I'm worldwide. We worldwide.

[Alex]

I feel you.

[Yayo]

I feel you. When we're skipping the line, all the white folks looking like, who is these? Who is these? You know, And I'm doing the Mona Lisa. I do elegant accent. And we look nobody else. Me and murder Mona Lisa. See, that's the. I'm talking about. That's experiences. No other artist put it on solid. You know what I'm saying? But this is what I'm trying to say. Jay is not Jay artist. Jay is not even big.

[Mark]

My man. Why you keep talking about Jay?

[Yayo]

No, I'm just saying got my man

[Mark]

hot over here, man.

[Yayo]

Cuz, I'm trying to tell him, like, but there's.

[Alex]

There's a.

[Yayo]

There's a whole.

[Andrew Schultz]

So my question to you.

[Yayo]

We did this with hate.

[Andrew Schultz]

So what do you do?

[Yayo]

We didn't have. Like I said, when everybody was. When they not hot, what are you going to do? Stand next to fire DJ Khaled? We couldn't do that. So what do you do?

[Andrew Schultz]

So here's my question.

[Yayo]

We couldn't do that, brother. What do you do? We had a discipline.

[Andrew Schultz]

What do you do when you see people that don't have that type of loyalty? What is your energy with them?

[Yayo]

I just. It's the industry.

[Andrew Schultz]

You just expect that to be the industry. You have your own code and you're going to live by your code.

[Yayo]

These guys might not be friends when they leave here. I don't know. Me and him might not be friends. Like you said, me and him might not be friends.

[Andrew Schultz]

Your own personal constitution is just your own personal. You don't put that on other people.

[Yayo]

You say, yeah, I don't have expectations because I know it's the industry. It's a cutthroat business.

[Andrew Schultz]

See, I think there's sometimes where it's like, I assume that there were expectations where you just hold down the people that helped you. You hold down the people that rock with you.

[Mark]

It supposed to be like that, though.

[Yayo]

Put it like this.

[Mark]

It supposed to be like that.

[Yayo]

Like if I go get a deal or like in a film, I'm always gonna say things. 50 because I know his fame is a part of. We a part of his fame. Yes, we a part of his story. So it's always, always the appreciation there. And we gotta stop the word glazing and dick riding. That's like these guys, if he go get a deal and it's cause of you, you come back, yo, I appreciate you. This is my 50. Yeah.

[Mark]

I'm holding it down.

[Yayo]

Nobody could go. No other comedian or any other guy up top could say anything bad about you when I'm in the room. Cause to me, respect is if murder leaves the room. If he's not in the room and you talk bad about about him, I don't want to hear it. If he's in the room, you talk bad about him. I don't want to hear it. That's just how it is. This guy has a wrap up. We got beef with Jermaine Dupree, Reverend Run.

[Mark]

Yo, man, Shout out to Jermaine Dupri and Reverend Run are my brothers. Those are my guys. He keep talking like, I got beef with. Reverend Run is my guy. Shout out to Diggy Simmons.

[Yayo]

I used to work with him.

[Alex]

You can't talk to anybody that 50 got beef with. And 50 got beef with everybody.

[Yayo]

I don't want to talk to them. You don't talk. I don't want to talk to.

[Alex]

I'm talking about.

[Yayo]

But you just said.

[Alex]

You just said you want guests on your podcast.

[Yayo]

You got plenty of guests to witness.

[Alex]

50 beef with every.

[Andrew Schultz]

But that's how I feel. If you're beefing with my dude, I don't want to with you.

[Yayo]

Andrew Schultz, he's bigger than all these bum ass rappers. I get Tyson Fury, Jim Carrey, or somebody out your mouth. I was just sticking up, connected with, connecting people. You thinking about dumbass rappers.

[Mark]

He disrespect niggas all day, all the time.

[Andrew Schultz]

Everybody but his homie is disrespectful.

[Yayo]

Who do I disrespect?

[Andrew Schultz]

But it's disrespecting, disrespectful dudes.

[Yayo]

I tell the truth if they're disrespectful, no how so Jay ain't do nothing to him. How am I disrespecting Jay?

[Andrew Schultz]

You don't know.

[Yayo]

I said he was him at 50 and Diddy was the biggest of all time.

[Andrew Schultz]

You also don't know the backstory, but

[Yayo]

you ain't gonna say nothing about Diddy. Cause he's one of the political motherfuckers. See, they the ones.

[Alex]

I don't fuck with Diddy. I don't fuck with Diddy at all.

[Yayo]

But listen, before that you was.

[Alex]

Nah.

[Yayo]

Even before that.

[Mark]

Nah, nah.

[Alex]

Yo, that's crazy.

[Yayo]

That's crazy.

[Alex]

That's crazy. That was funny.

[Yayo]

Then he got a man on him and dancing and all that. And people still want to be. Now, don't tell me you politically.

[Mark]

All I'm trying to say is you be trying to tell me to stop the wrap up. Your interviews are a wrap up version. You do a rapper version.

[Andrew Schultz]

You can't stop stop the rapper.

[Yayo]

When you got little kids saying no Diddy, right?

[Mark]

You got my guy Andrew saying, I

[Alex]

can't stop the rapper.

[Andrew Schultz]

He's got the rapper worldwide.

[Yayo]

It is. It is. All right, now look, he talked about Jay, right? We ain't going to talk about the me fouls now either, right? That. That you're quiet. No, no. First of all, I'm not. I'm not saying anything. I'm just going up for what I see. First of all, I think, man, no good. Light it up. I looked into it. I'm just going off of what I see and I'm not. And I'm allegedly. Because I don't. I'm not saying nothing unverified, Unverified. Unless I don't know. But what I'm saying is what I'm.

[Mark]

This is a flagrant motherfucker.

[Yayo]

We get real about the rapping game. Like him and other people and journalists, they pick and choose. So somebody can be a rat and they'd be like, he's a rat. And then somebody else could be a rat and they'd be like, his music's good, so he gets a pass.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yep, I think that's true. But I don't think Al is like that. He really loves Jay Z. So he jokes around, he's like, ah, it was bullshit. That's.

[Yayo]

But if he brung up that funny shit that just came up. Allegedly. Allegedly. He's gonna be quiet.

[Andrew Schultz]

No, what he says is, he jokingly says like, ah, this is bullshit. But I hope it is.

[Yayo]

We all hope it is. But what I'm saying is I learned the rap game is selective politicking.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, that's the life game.

[Yayo]

So if you.

[Mark]

That's life.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, that's life.

[Yayo]

So you know what? So I'm glad. I'd rather have.

[Andrew Schultz]

But I thought we all had the same rules. Like, I thought if somebody was down for you, rode for you, really helped you out, that you were gonna be loyal them forever. But now I see the people really, their loyalty is just like what gets them to the next level.

[Mark]

Whatever can help you if this helps you.

[Yayo]

That's not loyalty. Cool.

[Mark]

That's not loyalty. Hell no. That's not loyalty.

[Yayo]

That's true.

[Mark]

That's not loyalty.

[Yayo]

There you go. It's all about how I can use you to cause like half of the people I meet. Yo, yo, yo, yo. I love you. But it's really to get to 50. Oh, my God.

[Andrew Schultz]

And you have to look through that.

[Yayo]

Look through it. I don't even hang with nobody like that. But 50, 50, 50. It's just like. And you gotta understand, like, I'm slow player too jealous of my career. You gotta remember Marvin Gaye. Look who. Joey's not here. Didn't his father kill him?

[Andrew Schultz]

I didn't know that.

[Yayo]

Look it up. Where's Joey at? Joey. Joey. They doing a drug deal. Did Marvin Gaye father kill him?

[Andrew Schultz]

Answer it.

[Yayo]

Yes. Can we find it? Marvin Gay fathers killed him. Y' all don't know nothing, man. Look it up, please. Joey. Oh, shit. Look that up. The closest ones to you. Okay.

[Andrew Schultz]

Killed by his father.

[Yayo]

Oh, thank you.

[Mark]

Damn.

[Yayo]

And what's the other.

[Mark]

Right back. I'm going to get my weed.

[Yayo]

And what was. And what was the other singer? Selena Gomez. Oh, wow. She was killed by her best friend, right?

[Andrew Schultz]

Selena Gomez?

[Yayo]

No, not Selena Gomez. I'm sorry, Selena, though. Need a joint right now.

[Alex]

I do this all the time and they get on me.

[Yayo]

See, he didn't know Marvin Gay. Y' all didn't know Marvin Gay father killed him. No. There you go.

[Alex]

I know he shot him.

[Yayo]

Yeah, that was crazy.

[Alex]

I know he was. I know he was Jack jealous of him, but that's crazy.

[Yayo]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

Selena got killed by his. Her like aunt or her like the. She was like, the head of the fan club.

[Alex]

Yeah. Head of the fan club.

[Andrew Schultz]

Manager of her boutiques. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shot the singer back in Corpus Christi.

[Yayo]

Holy. So see. Yeah.

[Alex]

But here's one thing, and you're right. I am the peace guy. Like, I do want harmony in hip hop, and I don't like harmony in hip.

[Yayo]

Did y' all hear that sucker? Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

That could never be harmony in football. It could be. Be safe.

[Alex]

Yo, if Jay and Jay and went on tour, that would be the biggest tour.

[Yayo]

But we don't care. We don't want to see that. Yes, we do. We want to see this. Think about this, right? Everybody says, right.

[Alex]

Who don't want to see.

[Yayo]

He said. He just said, we want harmony and hip hop. Which sounds crazy to me, right?

[Alex]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

What's making Durk and NBA big right now is because of they beef. You see the get killed.

[Mark]

I smell that.

[Yayo]

Let's go. Let me finish. Oh, you just. This motherfucker just. This just said harmony and hip hop.

[Mark]

This is the harmony in hip hop.

[Yayo]

Sit down. Let me break it down.

[Alex]

Let me break it down.

[Yayo]

Joey, come on.

[Alex]

Hold on.

[Yayo]

Let me, Let me. Let me finish, though. Let's keep it real. When you think of hip hop, right, we're thinking of gladiator school. We want to see blood on the map. When we see a battle. When you see KRS and MC Shan, KRS disqueens, man. And keep on making it. Brooklyn keep on taking it, and Queens keep on faking it. And we was just like, oh.

[Mark]

But still respected it.

[Yayo]

Still respected it. That's the thing, right? So you see battle rap. Battle rap, niggas. Hold on. Let me finish.

[Alex]

After.

[Yayo]

Let me finish. Now niggas is saying edify. And now your career is. Hold on, hold on. Let me. Let me finish. Come on, let's finish. Cause you block. Make points. Let's go. Let's get the points out.

[Mark]

Let's get the points out.

[Yayo]

Look. When in rest in peace. To Prodigy. When Jay put Prodigy on a summer drink. You was a ballerina. I got the pictures. I seen you, right? That was crazy. But niggas didn't know his grandmother was one of the illest dancing teachers back in the days.

[Mark]

That did hurt Prodigy. Back in the days.

[Yayo]

Now, look. It hurt Prodigy. He was. Look, that damn near killed his career. But he was a kid when he probably did one ballet course for his grandma. Recipes to be. But he was a creative guy, right? Boom. They loved it, right? Nikki and Cardi blood, we love it. 50 and ja rule. Yes. Kill him, Wangstuk. Kill him. Ethan J Jay said, I nutted on your baby seat, nigga. I'm not it on. On your girl. Your girl's baby seat, nigga.

[Andrew Schultz]

Damn.

[Yayo]

The most violation on your baby seat. Yeah. And then Nas came with Ether Etha was crazy. We want blood. That's how we're hip hop. Harmony and hip hop. This some fake reality. So now can I.

[Alex]

Can I give my tip and be.

[Yayo]

Look now, come on. Hold on. Fast forward NBA and Dirk. Dirk is in jail.

[Mark]

He don't let people talk me.

[Alex]

He don't.

[Yayo]

You can respond. Harmony and hip hop. Said harmony. And I want to see harmony and hip hop. I miss that.

[Alex]

I'll break it down.

[Yayo]

So look. Yeah, yeah. So now you Got Durk and NBA YoungBoy. It's the biggest NBA can get out of jail. He beat this murder charge. He's good. He good money they're going to. Gonna go buy his. You know what I'm saying? Pooh Shiesty shot a, got out of jail. FDL first day out. Oh yeah. Number one on Billboard. Niggas want blood. That's just hip hop. Damn. So now violence.

[Mark]

What you about to say, my guy?

[Yayo]

I'm not saying it's right, but motherfuckers ain't singing self destruction like this is the 80s. Self destruction ain't doing that.

[Alex]

So now competition has always been a part of hip hop.

[Yayo]

Yes.

[Alex]

But do you agree?

[Yayo]

Do you all agree?

[Alex]

Yes.

[Andrew Schultz]

What I would say is that we want.

[Alex]

Let me just.

[Andrew Schultz]

Let me just, just. What I would say is that we want blood. And then elegance or opulence, it's like what makes. Can I just get it all out? It's like what makes the Italian mafia so seductive. It's like you see these dudes with the suits and the fucking pinky ring and eating lobster at the nicest restaurants. But you know, on the side there's some guy shooting somebody up and there's warring tribes, et cetera. So it's like you kind of want the best. Best of both. You don't want just some street grimy. That the street grimy gangster shit isn't what crosses over to the whole world, Defin. Like glitz and glamour.

[Mark]

You gotta appeal in a certain way.

[Andrew Schultz]

It's like the.

[Yayo]

Yeah.

[Alex]

And so in robbers and in hip hop, you have battle rap. Battle rap, they say the most disrespectful. Six inches away from each other's face.

[Yayo]

Okay.

[Alex]

Talking about sucking. And then right after. Wait. And then right after the battle, they shake hands in A piece.

[Yayo]

How many battle raps got shot up and got cut?

[Alex]

But I'm just behind the scenes but can celebrate the fact that hey, you. There's competing, there's battle rap, there's disrespect. But then you can shake hands and be peaceful.

[Andrew Schultz]

You want wwe? You want wwe.

[Mark]

It's not gonna be like that. Certain things is sad.

[Alex]

But why do you not have to have this in our genre of music?

[Yayo]

Every other genre music they talking about shooting a and rap about the they shot about. So. So who's worse? You blaming it on G Unit when you need to blame. I'm not blaming it on G Unit. They do songs and say, yo, I just killed this guy up the block.

[Alex]

You think I'm blaming on G Unit?

[Yayo]

I'm not blaming. Sound like a G unit blame or some. No, I. I'm not sound like cuz he keeps saying, yo, why can't be like this? Why 50 got beef with everybody and why we need harmony and hip hop. He sound like Ebro or one of them n. So what you got to say? So for me, I'm going to keep it real. Like you got drill music.

[Mark]

K Flock, bro, we going to need

[Yayo]

you on that podcast. We got to figure out some. K Flock was one of the biggest drill rappers in New York City. You know what he's known for? Killing motherfucking designer nigga.

[Alex]

And that's not.

[Yayo]

You know what that's going to this shit is gonna sell. And that's what these little kids want. And it's sorry to be because the kids in the suburbs that don't live that life wanna see how it is. That life is just like 50 getting shot nine times. Yeah, but oh, shit, he's a bar.

[Alex]

Is that good for our culture, though?

[Yayo]

What do you mean is that good for our culture? People are just saying they truth, brother. Kay Flock is from the Bronx. It's kill or be killed, nigga. So there's two different questions.

[Mark]

Don't you sound like I sound in them restaurants around the white people.

[Yayo]

I'm not gonna even hold you. You start with sound harmony sounding like

[Mark]

me in them restaurants for the rest

[Yayo]

of the hip hop. I like my brother. Hip hop has not been found. It's been found on beef. Did you like Kendrick and Drake?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yes.

[Yayo]

You did. Did you love it?

[Andrew Schultz]

Yes.

[Yayo]

Before that we was listening to Sexyy Red. Hip hop was boring and right. And right now shout out to Sexy

[Alex]

Red now calling Drake a pedophile.

[Yayo]

Oh, now he's on Kendrick side. No, no, I'm just Saying it's about Jay Scott. He just don't like. He say what we don't like. I took media training.

[Andrew Schultz]

I agree with Yayo.

[Yayo]

I'm gonna win because I don't care. Everybody cares. See, you know, I like comedians. You know, I like you. Shane Gillis killed Tony because they got canceled before, right? Yeah, but them motherfuckers don't care. And look, they're big as ever. Yeah, because you. If you care. See, he's political. We need hip hop and harmony. He needs to listen to Talib Kweli.

[Alex]

I want everybody to get money.

[Yayo]

He needs to listen to him. You don't listen to the Andy up how to Rob. You don't need

[Mark]

shout out to mop, nigga.

[Yayo]

He doesn't listen. He don't listen.

[Mark]

Not even mention of the Flagri show.

[Yayo]

You know what I'm saying? There's never been. He said harmony and hip hop. Guys are getting shot. And they're buying into the story more. They're buying into the story more. You got the guy.

[Mark]

This is the greatest, right?

[Yayo]

Hypothetical. Well, he killed Vaughan, right? The guy that killed King Vaughn. Rest in peace to Vaughn, one of my favorite artists in NBA. And I love Dirk. I love all of them as artists, right?

[Andrew Schultz]

Vaughn was wild.

[Yayo]

Yeah, Vaughn got killed. The kid that killed him is on stage. You were an NBA youngboy. They still giving NBA youngboy plaques. And he's still getting loved by the fans. And Atlanta's giving him love and he's dissing. N and N got smoked. And Timmy's up there dancing and shit after he killed the nigga. And N are buying right into it. Even me, I'm watching the concert and

[Alex]

now, now little kids is looking and it's like, oh, so I could get on. I gotta shoot. I gotta shoot somebody so I can get on.

[Yayo]

Well, the kids, we can have competition.

[Mark]

I don't think the kids. I don't think the kids is going, I gotta shoot somebody.

[Yayo]

Rappers right now. I hate when people blame music.

[Mark]

Stop saying too. You know how much murders was really taking back in the days when we was coming up?

[Yayo]

A lot. Yes.

[Mark]

It's not that many. It happens today, but it's not that much. You just Instagram make it look like there's a lot more going on. But back in the day in the streets, you had thousands of dying a year. A thousand here. 1200, 800, 900. Now. Not saying, like it's nothing, but It'd be about 203. It's not as bad as it was.

[Yayo]

Crime is going, but it's so much

[Mark]

social media that it make you look like it's extra crazy.

[Yayo]

New York is a lot more shit. We got super. But just think about it.

[Alex]

Just think about it, if you like, and you trying to look for a way out and you see, oh, this shot Von. And now he's on stage next to NBA Young.

[Yayo]

But he might think we want that. We want to hear that. Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

So there's two things here, right?

[Yayo]

Just like when you see Scarface in the movie, and he shot everybody and that was the best scene. Just because Scarface shout everybody don't mean I'mma go somewhere that's a movie. Just because I watch a movie and hear music that's a movie.

[Mark]

It's the same thing with the music, though.

[Yayo]

They gonna make you do some dumb.

[Andrew Schultz]

Regardless if it does or it doesn't. I think what. What Al is saying is, like, you're worried about the negative effects on the culture from the music, but that's separate from what is attractive. Naturally, we're gonna watch things that are rebellious. Whether that's like rock music, saying fuck everybody. I'm gonna bite a bat on stage. I'm gonna dress in crazy outfits. We're drawn to people that are going against whatever the system is, whatever the status quo is. So whether that's violence and you see that in hip hop, or you see it in mafia movies.

[Mark]

Movies.

[Yayo]

Movies, yeah.

[Mark]

Why do you think it's love Mafia movies?

[Andrew Schultz]

Exactly. So we like that. Or the Tony Montana. Like, we like that. Naturally, we're drawn to it. The question is, I guarantee a lot of Italians would be like, well, it's up that everybody thinks that I'm a mafia guy because they watch these mafia movies. So they're upset about that negative stigma that comes with it, of course. But human beings naturally want to see chaos. Like back in the day, the gladiator, sports, you saw a dude get eaten by a lion, lying, because it was, for whatever reason, entertaining.

[Alex]

Agree on that. I know that that's what people see.

[Yayo]

You know what it is with me. But I'm gonna keep it real. I'm smart enough to know, like, I believe in God and all that. I don't want to get religious because we don't talk about religious and politics, because people get crazy already. But I know that me, I do like violent movies. I do want to watch Scarface. I do want to watch Training Day. I do want to watch men in society. I'm not. You might want to watch a Tyler Perry movie. Some laid back, some God Christmas specialist. Yo, come on what? You want to watch.

[Andrew Schultz]

Tyler Perry, he puts on the wig.

[Yayo]

We all know, everybody knows labels and everybody knows and. And like sex sells. That's why when they do an ad, a liquor ad, they're gonna get a hot chick, right? You see Megan Stallion, she's in shape. We gonna get her for pictures.

[Alex]

I know the game, I understand the game.

[Yayo]

So we know sex sells, violence sells in hip hop. We love battles. There's nothing wrong when it goes past that and motherfuckers start getting shot. That's what I'm talking about. Then I understand, but that's what I'm saying.

[Mark]

You gotta get out the pussy and back in the gym too. He just wanna make this thing. I was just thinking about the gun.

[Yayo]

Oh, no. Jump shots, right?

[Mark]

Like he been fell in love ever since he been.

[Yayo]

Oh yeah, but he got Megan thee Stallion in the hood.

[Mark]

But he gotta get back in that gym.

[Yayo]

Come on, bro.

[Mark]

They left water with it, man.

[Yayo]

Texas, man.

[Mark]

What the fuck is going on?

[Yayo]

He never had no Texas shit like that. But what I'm saying is hip hop has always been blessed for Jay Z and nas. We love 50 and Ja Rule. We loved. What else? Durk and NBA Young Way. We love that. Drake, Drake and Meek Mills.

[Mark]

We love that Drake and Kendrick. Drake and Kendrick.

[Yayo]

Drake and Pusha. We love battles because music is boring without is.

[Alex]

But we can. But we can agree. We can agree.

[Andrew Schultz]

Can I say one thing? We can have battles to that point.

[Alex]

Keep it.

[Andrew Schultz]

Taylor Swift's biggest albums are when she's going at her ops, right? When she's talking about that ex boyfriend that broke her heart and a guy that she was dating that gets the most attention. And maybe girls don't have the blood lust for violence. Violence. But they do want to see that drama, that chaos.

[Alex]

I agree with that.

[Mark]

Like, I think I should have dropped the record after the piece of her right.

[Yayo]

Baby moms. And it was arguing and she was like, the next time you call just

[Mark]

something like that, save my number under Pizza Hut. So your girl don't know it's me. Yeah, I think she should have dropped the record.

[Yayo]

Music is every time females love her. Every time she on like one of her baby fathers. Her music is fire.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah, we do want to see.

[Yayo]

They want real life shit. They want real people.

[Andrew Schultz]

We do want to see a certain level of drama. Like every one of those housewives shows is pure drama. Every one of these. Yeah, every. Every reality show. There's no reality show where like everybody gets along and everybody's high fiving. It's like they're borderline, almost fighting each other. And that's why we watch this look.

[Yayo]

Yeah, you say. You might say, yo, baddies is foolish. Cause they fight, right? But I'm checking that shit out when they. When they fight, clips come. I'm watching that.

[Mark]

You be watching the baddies then.

[Yayo]

I mean, I'm not saying I watch the show, but if a clip is on, see a girl beat. Oh, yeah, you wanna see a fight video? They get in their back. If that's what they do. They get in the room and they rumble. That's cool. Just like wrestling or anything else you see.

[Alex]

Yeah, I would just also like to

[Yayo]

see you want peace and hip hop. That's what happened.

[Alex]

I would love to see 50 inch hip hop combined tour.

[Yayo]

Let's never have that shit.

[Alex]

Would be.

[Yayo]

That's like Cardi B.

[Alex]

Tell me how crazy you wanna see

[Yayo]

Cardi B and Nicki tour too, then that's what you wanna see.

[Alex]

I would.

[Yayo]

It'll never happen.

[Alex]

Like, that's great music. Why wouldn't we wanna see both of them?

[Yayo]

I mean, it never happened.

[Andrew Schultz]

Mean, I. I mean, going to like. Going to like, what's the Mets?

[Yayo]

Citi Field.

[Andrew Schultz]

Going to Citi Field and watching like, Jay watching 50, watching Nas, like, watching the New York Goats come together and do one concert for the city. You're telling me that wouldn't be a crazy?

[Yayo]

But you got to understand that would be dope. But listen, this is what y' all not getting though, right? That's like you being a comedian. Shane Gillis kill Tony, right? It's like, listen, we all do do a show, I understand, but with rappers, it's gonna be like, yo, who's gonna be the headliner?

[Andrew Schultz]

We gotta go through that too.

[Yayo]

Now, listen, who's gonna be right? Who's gonna be the headliner? Right? That's gonna be the argument. So when 50 wasn't where Jay was at, when 50 didn't sell 11 million records, of course Jay is gonna say, you headline. Yeah. No, you can come on tour with me. Cause Jay stand next to the fire. Like I told you. He's good at that. He's a genius. You're a genius. Jake. Stand next to the fire.

[Andrew Schultz]

He's a genius.

[Alex]

He's a genius.

[Yayo]

Standing next to the fire over here. Got you, Murder.

[Alex]

He's.

[Yayo]

Right. So Look. But now 50 is the fire. He sold more records than Jake, so he's on his tour. So if they was going tour. Yeah, who's on it? Who's the headliner? Because once you Get a million dollars a show. It's an argument of who the. Is the headliner because we're all making millions. Flip a coin. You know what I'm saying? But that's business. But once you make Money, J&50 do a tour, nigga, you got to understand business. If. If it was Nicki and Cardi, who's going to be the headliner? It's going to be an argument that Nas and whoever. Who's going to be the headliner? Just flip a coin.

[Alex]

Yeah, that's it.

[Yayo]

You can switch. Nah, come on.

[Alex]

No, no, That's.

[Yayo]

That's.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's the ego.

[Yayo]

Real talk. So you think. So let me ask you. So let me ask you a question.

[Alex]

You remember when Young Money went on tour?

[Yayo]

You think Prince and Michael Jackson would do a tour together? Them two egos?

[Andrew Schultz]

Well, that's.

[Yayo]

Rest in peace.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's a good question.

[Yayo]

That's doing tour together. That's a good one. Come on, man. The rappers got the big ego, but

[Alex]

it will be fire.

[Mark]

They think they principally fire, but they. You, as you can see, it didn't have.

[Andrew Schultz]

But that's past that.

[Yayo]

Or if you could.

[Mark]

Didn't you just smoke a whole bun by yourself? Told you. Now he trying to get some queens.

[Yayo]

I want harmony and hip hop. That's like saying, we want harmony in football. We want to see blood. We want to see get hit.

[Alex]

Competition is different.

[Yayo]

We love competition.

[Alex]

Then you can piece it up.

[Andrew Schultz]

I don't think people care about competition. And the proof of that is. What are you talking about? There are more people that watch, like, influencer boxing than just some elite boxer that nobody knows about. Because the influencers might have super drama between the both of them. They've been beefing for years and they want to go settle it. And they can't even box that well. But we'll watch it because we want to see these guys fight it out.

[Alex]

I disagree. I think the influencers are much better at marketing.

[Andrew Schultz]

But what are they marketing?

[Alex]

No, but. So they're marketing the drama.

[Yayo]

Exactly. They're not marketing the skills.

[Andrew Schultz]

We're not watching them to see the skills.

[Alex]

Yes, but they're better than boxers at promoting a fight.

[Andrew Schultz]

Sure, but the point to that is we don't want to just see elite competition. Like, we don't even care about most sports until the Olympics. And the Olympics is literally about. My country is better than your country. Right.

[Yayo]

It's wars and shit behind it.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah. It's like generations of us going, yeah, we fucked. We saved the French. Fuck you. And then we're just watching so we can save them again or beat them again. So I think it's like, unfortunately, like, you would love to just see the best of the best go at it. And ego does play a big part in it.

[Yayo]

Ego? Every rapper I met had ego, man.

[Mark]

That's why it takes ego to its. Nobody cares about the All Stars.

[Andrew Schultz]

Don't give a. They don't care. We don't care.

[Yayo]

Back in the days, Jordan was in the slam dunk contest, cuz.

[Andrew Schultz]

He's like, better than all you.

[Yayo]

Tom's is different, but you don't want

[Andrew Schultz]

to see actual violence.

[Alex]

Wait, but speaking of ego, who don't

[Yayo]

want to see violence?

[Alex]

I want both of y' all to rank all G Unit artists from best to worst.

[Yayo]

Oh, wow, now you're bugging out. Now you type of disrespect. What you want to hear, man, he's on some conspiracy.

[Alex]

I mean, hip hop.

[Yayo]

Hip hop is.

[Andrew Schultz]

Hip hop is competition.

[Alex]

You being like J. Cole right now.

[Mark]

That shooting at J. Cole, too. Why you shooting at my J. Cole?

[Alex]

He's running away from the battle.

[Yayo]

He's one of them guys in the comments. Bro, you gotta watch.

[Alex]

Nah, I never cop. I never cop.

[Yayo]

Fab is better. Y' all trying to. When you're the best, everybody comes for you. When 50 was number one on top, everybody came for him. When drake was number one and helped these niggas see, you know what made 50 smart? He didn't help these stupid.

[Andrew Schultz]

Oh, wow.

[Yayo]

You started helping them later on and they still on you. That interesting. Drake helped everybody that he dissed him.

[Alex]

Yeah, that is foul.

[Yayo]

It's the game. I wouldn't help none of y'. All. Cause I know this is all fake. And you know why I win? Cuz I'm smart enough to say everybody. The industry. And that's why my podcast, me and murder. I say mine.

[Mark]

You always saying you.

[Yayo]

I am the star, Joey.

[Mark]

That's my blood out of the Joey Google. Google's the fucking star of the real report. I need to see what the fuck that shit say right now. I got it. Don't Google that shit, Joey. Cuz if that's a. I might break that screen.

[Yayo]

Look, I haven't made no music. Look, I'm hotter than I was 05 when seductive came out. I even think I'm hotter than Fab right now. No disrespect.

[Mark]

Yo, this guy here. Yo, this guy. Yo, this guy here.

[Yayo]

Listen, he got my.

[Mark]

My gown is Brandon bars, though.

[Yayo]

Cause listen, bars is not going to market you when you think about it, right when I talked about Fab and we talked about Banks, right on what's name, Banks was trending number 23 on Twitter. You hardly see Banks. He was trending 23 on Twitter. And I guarantee that's my nigga. He overseas. That's what I'm saying. No, Banks isn't. Banks is a real rapper. He don't, like. He don't care for all this shit. He's overseas. That's why I say, like, no disrespect to Fab, but who's touring? There's not a lot of rappers that tour from New York overseas. It's not, you know, motherfuckers make it to D.C. to go go. And maybe to Atlanta, but maybe not even far as Atlanta. Cause the south got their own market.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's true.

[Yayo]

We was there for the transition when they was like, fuck New York. And it was all about the South.

[Alex]

Yeah.

[Yayo]

I went through that period of hip hop niggas. He don't know nothing about that.

[Andrew Schultz]

Was it harder to tour?

[Yayo]

Yeah.

[Alex]

Yo, I fuck with you, bro.

[Yayo]

I remember one time, me and Banks went to some promo in Texas. And it was a meeting, it was all the DJs, and they was like, we gotta stop playing these New York niggas.

[Mark]

And you sitting there like, wow.

[Yayo]

It's about the South. So think about it. The South, Boosie and them, they don't have overseas. But Boosie could make millions of dollars. Cause he got Savannah right there in Louisiana. He got Texas. They got more markets. Think about the average artist from New York. Right? They don't have. We don't have a big market.

[Andrew Schultz]

You got the Northeast, we got New

[Yayo]

York, we got Connecticut. We might go up upstate towards Buffalo, but when we start in Connecticut. But as far as going towards, like DC and va, it's a rep. From there, they playing Go Go and South music, too.

[Andrew Schultz]

That's interesting.

[Yayo]

So artists from the south have more of an advantage. Why? Because the New York artist has upstate. You have Connecticut, Boston, you could probably Boston. And then you got overseas and that's it.

[Andrew Schultz]

So the New York artist has more attachments.

[Yayo]

We only got like three or four real markets, Bo. Boston, Connecticut, New York and upstate and all that. Like, well, that's New York, too. What I mean, like, you know, Buffalo. You know what I'm saying? The down south artists, they got Atlanta, they got Georgia, they got fucking. They got motherfucking Savannah, they got motherfucking Mississippi.

[Mark]

Come on, bro.

[Yayo]

They could get rich just staying in the South. That's why a Lot of the down south artists don't care about coming overseas.

[Alex]

Yo, I'm curious. I see 50 and Cam. They seem to be like, really cool right now. Can we possibly shout out to my

[Mark]

nigga Killa Cam, can we.

[Alex]

We possibly get a G Unit Dipset tour this.

[Mark]

Asking all the questions is making movies, bro.

[Yayo]

This why is that a dumb question?

[Alex]

You. You wouldn't tour. Wait, Dipset or not.

[Yayo]

Listen, shut the up with this. Is that a neck?

[Andrew Schultz]

Can I give him a neck for that?

[Alex]

That's a get.

[Andrew Schultz]

Why

[Mark]

I don't think they in the music.

[Yayo]

Like, yeah, he's one of them controversial.

[Mark]

I like the music.

[Yayo]

I grew up on you. You got this. What people, this what he doesn't understand about music. 50 is a million dollar show.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah. So if there's nobody.

[Yayo]

There's nobody in Dipset or in G unit besides 50 that get a million dollars dollars and better a show. I don't get a million. Banks ain't get a million. But nobody in G. But murder never got a million in the show. There's certain artists that's in. So how do you. When you tell 50 to do something, he's gonna say, why? When people's merch sell like a 50 cent, like his merch can do 10 million without live Nation touching it on its own. Like, I'll do 10 million, yo. Oh, shit. We. How many shows we did? We did like 30 shows. It was to count 7, 8 million. I'm like, I see why 50 wanted to keep his merch sales on that one. It's so the you talking about N. But stupid about money.

[Alex]

Yeah, but you was just in 11. How much 50 is getting for?

[Yayo]

I'm not asking 50 what he's getting 50 do plenty of private events.

[Alex]

11 is not giving him a million dollars to perform at a nightclub.

[Andrew Schultz]

It's different.

[Yayo]

You don't know what they giving them, bro. That's not me. It's also business.

[Andrew Schultz]

It's also different than a full show. Like, if you're going there, you do a couple shows.

[Yayo]

I done seen that going rooms and a touching.

[Mark]

Me see a whole bunch of Branson and LA. That's why we in Club 11 to promote Branson and what you think Nikki and them get?

[Yayo]

You think, what you think, what you think, Kendrick. Thank you.

[Alex]

I appreciate it.

[Yayo]

No disrespect to Cam', Ron, Jim Jones and Jewels and nobody. They. They made history. It's no, I love Dipset. I love D Block. We made history. It's no just back and forth. It's Internet Shit. Until it get real. If it get real, you know. But we just shot nine, seven, so I hope they don't want it to get real. You know what I'm saying? So

[Alex]

that really happened to him.

[Yayo]

So what I'm saying to him is the shooter. Nobody. But he's saying have a concert with Dipset and G Unit, right?

[Andrew Schultz]

Correct. Yeah.

[Yayo]

None of us or them make a million dollars a show.

[Andrew Schultz]

So. So there's a certain amount of money that a concert can create.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schultz]

And there's a certain amount of money that it's going to take for 50 to a concert. So you just got to run the numbers. So he's not going to cut his check.

[Yayo]

He don't, he don't understand. He don't. He just don't get it.

[Alex]

I'm asking that if I, like, if

[Yayo]

I say, like if I say to

[Alex]

him I was a fan of me.

[Yayo]

If I say to him, look, yo, I don't know if Jay z could do 103 dates by himself without Beyonce. Dante for Live Nation. Even though he's a part of Live, he don't understand business. But I say yo. Oh, Rick Ross. Yeah. Rick Ross definitely can't do 103 dates on live Nation, Yayo. Definitely. I can't do it either. Murder us. Yeah. Cause it's reality, right?

[Andrew Schultz]

I mean, you are talking, you are talking about like a handful.

[Yayo]

It's a handful of people.

[Andrew Schultz]

Not just rappers, just musicians on the planet that could do it. It's like first one, right?

[Yayo]

With Live Nation. What they giving 50 mil? Something, maybe, Something like that? Come on, bro. It's not. It's a handful of people that's doing Live Nation tours. Like Travis. Sorry.

[Alex]

I'm a fan of music and I would love to see.

[Yayo]

But you don't understand the music. You like Yo, K Canard, do you like telling yo. Michael Jackson to do a tour with Jim Jones or somebody? No, that's no disrespect. That's crazy. That's crazy. My getting a million a show. One getting on me like you getting 10th. 10,000 a show. Right, Right. You know what I'm saying? Like it's, it's a big difference.

[Andrew Schultz]

Right, right, right. There's only a certain amount of money.

[Yayo]

That's why I'm talking about the nails and everything. I wouldn't go on a business and start talking about hip hop, cuz some people's gonna be biased. Like he know about music and all, right.

[Alex]

I can't ask nothing.

[Andrew Schultz]

This is perfect. Seeing your friend get roasted.

[Yayo]

It's not even a roast. You fell with Peter and Tia. Shout out to Epstein live. See what I'm saying? No. Motherfuckers ain't gonna talk about that Epstein shit. That's why I'm glad I kept it street. I never went to a P. Diddy party. Nothing weird. I just kept it street. Cause I would hate to be in one of them pictures. Even in a picture like, yo, yo. Know what I'm saying? N had the man pictures. That shit is crazy.

[Andrew Schultz]

Isn't that crazy?

[Yayo]

But it's Internet. He's scared to talk about shit like that there. Cuz I'm for harmony. We the real report. We don't give a about. We hire security and bulletproof trucks.

[Alex]

I'm going to be the first person

[Yayo]

to subscribe to your podcast. I'm not political. I don't care.

[Alex]

Yes, I want to hear that. Can't wait for y.

[Andrew Schultz]

Is there a time in your life where you guys are going to be like, all right, I don't want to deal with the stress of beef anymore. I just want to enjoy my life.

[Yayo]

You know why it's no stress? Because I'm not where rappers are. Ah, so see 50s. On another level, we're. I say 50. So when we do shows with him. We're in Morocco. You ain't gonna. It's like we like the first. Where we was the first rapper's department.

[Mark]

Damn. With Kim Kardashian. Armenia, you can look it up. We was the first actually rappers to perform in Armenia.

[Yayo]

Like, performance. Kanye rapped by the pond or the lake or something like that.

[Mark]

No, he didn't even rap. He didn't even rap. He was just there. He was actually the first rapper.

[Yayo]

He don't understand. Like, we was like. I remember being in the studio with Kanye and he's in 50 ear. And we like, yo, I'm like, who's this nigga fifth? I don't know. And it was Kanye West. We was going to radio and Ludacris before. Oh, I remember him doing radio. I seen a lot of blow. Like out of here.

[Mark]

Pause.

[Yayo]

Like Rihanna. We gotta pause everything.

[Mark]

What's my man name again?

[Yayo]

Joey.

[Andrew Schultz]

Yeah.

[Mark]

See how he pull up the facts?

[Yayo]

You know what I'm saying? The first facts. You gotta have your facts. Worldwide tour, green light game. A lot of your favorite rappers can't do what 50 did. So when you say, I'd rather have Jay Z career, Jay Z can't do that. Maybe with Beyonce, no disrespect, he's big.

[Alex]

But 50, you can't disrespect a and then just add, no.

[Yayo]

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[Alex]

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[Yayo]

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[Mark]

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[Yayo]

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[Mark]

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[Andrew Schultz]

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[Mark]

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[Yayo]

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[Mark]

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[Yayo]

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[Yayo]

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[Yayo]

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