Jay Pharaoh does HILARIOUS Joe and Jada impressions, talks Eddie Murphy, Jay-Z & Rick Ross stories, SNL journey

Summary

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Joe and Jada – Jay Pharaoh Episode Summary

Episode Overview

On this vibrant, laugh-filled episode of "Joe and Jada," hip-hop icons Fat Joe and Jadakiss are joined by comedian, impressionist, and multifaceted entertainer Jay Pharaoh. Together, they deliver a dynamic mix of hilarious impressions (including spot-on impersonations of the hosts themselves), real talk about hip-hop and comedy, behind-the-scenes tales from SNL, run-ins with legends like Eddie Murphy, Jay-Z, and Rick Ross, and reflections on resilience, bullying, and the grind required to succeed.

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Main Themes

• Jay Pharaoh’s Comedy Journey and Versatility
• Impressions Galore (Eddie Murphy, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, and even Joe & Jada)
• Behind-the-Scenes in Comedy and Hip-Hop
• Resilience, Bullying, and Growing Up
• Celebrity Stories & Culture Commentary
• Success, Hustle, and Staying Grounded
• Jay Pharaoh's New Music Project "Odyssey"

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Key Topics & Highlights

1. Jay Pharaoh’s Entrance and Legendary Introduction

• Jada introduces Jay with a poetic, deeply respectful build-up (04:15), highlighting his social impact and comedic fearlessness.
• Joe jokes, “Yo, I think you need to, like, stop. Save that for wherever your documentary is,” (06:32); Jay calls Jada “the new Morgan Freeman” (06:42).

Notable Quote:
“Somebody walked in a Saturday Night Live and made the whole country stop what they were doing...stood up at the biggest comedy institution in America and said, nah, we need more black women in the building...You think fearless.” – Jada, (04:44)

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2. Impersonations and Comedy Craft

• Jay Pharaoh cycles through hilarious impressions: Jay-Z (07:14), Rick Ross, Diddy, and even Joe and Jada themselves.
• Jay shares that Jay-Z calls him "the fake Jay-Z" (07:48).
• Impressions serve as both humor and social commentary, capturing the essence and legacy of those he mimics.

Notable Quote:
“What up? Fake Jay-Z. Yeah, you the fake one. You never get Beyoncé, nigga. You know? Yeah, never.” – Jay Pharaoh as Jay-Z, (07:51)

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3. Jay Pharaoh’s Upbringing & Roots

• Jay details growing up in Chesapeake, VA, close to legends like Pharrell, Timbaland, Missy Elliott (11:43).
• Church background, performing impressions of family, church members, and learning about life’s hardships early, often inadvertently poking fun at real struggles (11:51–12:57).
• Both Jay and the hosts share candid stories about being bullied as fat kids and developing humor as a survival tool (14:20–17:10; 26:34).

Notable Moment:
“I was a church boy growing up...I always used to impersonate everybody, you know...I was just a little...I was a butthole, man. No, Glizzy.” – Jay Pharaoh, (11:57 – 12:57)

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4. Making It on SNL & Overcoming Doubt

• Jay discusses joining "SNL" at 22, the immense pressure, and how setbacks (like his sketches being pulled) affected his confidence (17:19).
• Talks about the thrill and anxiety knowing the country is watching you (17:23–18:21).
• Joy in eventually getting the Obama impression and "dominating" (17:57).

Quote:
“When they knocked my confidence down...and they started pulling my sketches, it kind of messed with me a little bit...but I got through it.” – Jay Pharaoh, (17:57)

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5. Resilience, Competition & Changing Perceptions

• Storytelling on how artists and athletes (like Michael Jordan) and comedians all face ups and downs.
• The journey is important, repeated references to hustle in rap and comedy (19:35–22:12).
• Jay: “When you can change people’s perception like that, that’s when it really counts, and it means more to you.” (21:23)

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6. Comedy, Bullying & Growing Thick Skin

• Extended banter about being overweight as kids, bullying, and developing a sense of humor to cope (26:34–36:11).
• Hilarious exchange about "fat assault" (being teased about their weight by friends and even parents) (27:02).
• Development of toughness and sensitivity, with Jay candidly talking about being a “sensitive little nigga” growing up (37:11).

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7. Comedy as Big Business

• Jada and Joe discuss how big comedians like Russell Peters, Kevin Hart, Joe Koy sell out stadiums (38:13).
• Jay shares how social media can be cruel but also how it trains you to take criticism and keep pushing (39:20–40:14).

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8. Stories from the Culture: Clubs, Games, Rick Ross & More

• Glizzy (hot dog) fan clubs at Knicks games (09:11–11:00).
• Wild stories from parties in Virginia and New York (22:34–23:02).
• Epic Rick Ross impersonation and reflection on Ross’s nonstop hustle, hosting wild shows from Africa to Memphis (45:51–48:20).

Memorable Quote:
“Rick Ross...He won’t turn a dollar down. I’ve never seen it.” – Kiss, (46:46)

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9. Jay’s "Odyssey" Album & Artistic Growth

• Jay Pharaoh introduces his new album "Odyssey", dropping June 12th, and discusses its science-fiction-inspired concept rooted in personal growth (64:31–66:04).
• Played two singles: “The Man” and another unnamed track (73:47–79:44).
• Connection between music and comedy: Jay's genuine passion for lyricism and storytelling.

Notable Quote:
“The music and the character is synonymous to who I am. Because it’s like me in another dimension almost...the most important thing is having love in your life and having God in your life.” – Jay Pharaoh, (65:32–66:04)

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10. The Real World of Beef, Squashing it, and Moving Forward

• Fat Joe and Jadakiss talk about the very real nature of past beefs with 50 Cent and how it could have easily escalated (61:11–62:08).
• The importance of squashing beef for legacy, and how the funeral of Chris Lighty was pivotal (62:58–63:14).

Quote:
“If you don’t get past it, the feds will show you how to stay present in that. Huh? That’ll put you Rico in one second. Huh? Huh?” – Kiss, (63:25)

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11. Reflections on Success, Mentorship, and Steve Harvey

• The grind doesn’t stop; artists must constantly “protect their slot” (41:11–41:13).
• Steve Harvey comes up as a model of relentless work ethic and multi-show syndication (71:00–72:24).
• Jay on Harvey: “He’s got like 15 shows. They all syndicated. That’s what you want to do.” (71:17)

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12. Hilarious Closing with Jay's Impressions of Joe and Jada

• Jay Pharaoh closes the show with spot-on Joe and Jada impressions, mimicking recurring jokes and the hosts' signature speaking styles in a rapid-fire comedy bit (80:16–80:51).
• The hosts are left in fits of laughter and admiration.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• "You think fearless. You think principle." – Jada, (04:44)
• "What up? Fake Jay-Z. You the fake one. You never get Beyoncé, nigga." – Jay Pharaoh as Jay-Z, (07:51)
• "I was a butthole, man. No, Glizzy." – Jay Pharaoh, (12:57)
• "They used to play with my breasts." – Jay Pharaoh, joking on bullying, (26:39)
• "When you can change people’s perception like that, that’s when it really counts." – Jay Pharaoh, (21:23)
• “Rick Ross...He won’t turn a dollar down. I’ve never seen it.” – Kiss, (46:46)
• "The most important thing is having love in your life and having God in your life." – Jay Pharaoh, (66:04)
• “He’s got like 15 shows. They all syndicated. That’s what you want to do.” – Jay Pharaoh on Steve Harvey, (71:17)
• “You gotta sell acid with this album.” – Joe, joking about Jay’s “Odyssey” concept, (65:21)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Jay Pharaoh's entrance, epic intro, and Jay-Z impression: 04:15–08:04
• The glizzy fan club & Knicks stories: 09:11–11:00
• Upbringing in Virginia, early comedy: 11:43–13:31
• Bullying, growing up fat, dealing with hardship: 14:20–27:17
• Getting on SNL, pressure, losing/gaining confidence: 17:19–18:21
• Success, setbacks, and resilience: 19:35–22:12
• Wild Rick Ross stories, Ross' hustle: 45:51–48:20
• Squashing past beef (50 Cent, Chris Lighty): 61:11–63:14
• Jay introduces "Odyssey" album, plays tracks: 64:31–79:44
• Jay’s impressions of Joe and Jada: 80:16–80:51

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Closing Thoughts

Joe’s take:
“Listen, you are talented, bro...Great project. I’m downloading that Odyssey me personally.” (79:14–79:32)

Jay’s core message:
“I’ve been rapping longer than I’ve been doing comedy…comedy just popped first. But the most important thing is having love in your life and having God in your life. That’s what it is.” (73:14–66:04)

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In sum:
This episode offers a masterclass in storytelling, impression comedy, and career resilience – punctuated by the unmistakable wit and warmth of Joe, Jada, and their legendary guest. Whether you’re a hip-hop head, a comedy fan, or just love good conversation, this one’s a must-hear.

Transcript

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[Jada]

it's similar to the paint stripes under your eyes.

[Joe]

Yo, they need to do a tickle me Jada. If the was getting tickled, it'd be like. And then.

[Rapper/Artist]

And then these.

[Joe]

I told you, these guys. It's always guys. Five guys. 15 with glizzies.

[Jada]

15 guys.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

What up? Yo, it's your boy Joe. Crack the dawn.

[Jada]

You know who it is. Your boy Jada. It's the Joe and Jada show. Every show legendary, every show iconic.

[Joe]

And we just can't stop Obliviate, you know, Disintegrate, y', all, man. Matter of fact, matter of fact, we giving you podcasts. The dummy bomb, like, you like to sit up. It don't go off, so think about a little bit more.

[Jay Pharrell]

Then we throw a grenade.

[Jada]

Other side.

[Joe]

Okay. Super stress mode. This, that dad introduced, you know me, you ain't hear that one?

[Jada]

The dummy bomb.

[Joe]

I heard a dummy bomb so that they think they blowing themselves up. And then that give you a couple more seconds to think about, then we blow you up.

[Jada]

When you think of today's guests, the shit we doing up here is like no other.

[Kiss]

That's a whole nother show.

[Joe]

Nah, that's this show, too.

[Jada]

You know what I mean? No, no, that's a whole nother episode, not a whole nother show because we doing of it. And I have a different meaning of doing.

[Kiss]

That's fine.

[Joe]

Yeah. Just don't just sit.

[Jada]

When you think of today's guest, you think of funny as hell.

[Kiss]

That's a fact.

[Jada]

With capital iced out. F class diamonds. Hell, that's what kind of funny. Now. That's what. That's what kind of iced out funny as hell with the meanest diamonds, you know what I'm saying? Sharp as a razor, dangerous with a voice, you know, I mean, somebody walked in a Saturday Night Live and made the whole country stop what they were doing. And that's facts. You think over 200 impressions and every single one of them is accurate. You think of the guy who stood up at the biggest comedy institution in America and said, nah, we need more black women in the building. You know what I mean? Knowing full well it could have cost them everything. You think fearless. You think principle. You think the type of dude who gets guns drawn on him during the jog, gets a knee in his neck, it still comes back and makes the world laugh about it because that's the only way he knows how to fight. You think the actor, rapper, game show host, stand up legend, you think the type of artist that don't fit in any box because every time somebody built one, he burnt it down. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Jay Pharrell to the Joe and J.

[Joe]

Tapman. Tapman got decadent

[Jay Pharrell]

after that. The show over. We done that. Can't.

[Joe]

Yo, I'm not even gonna lie to you. I think you need to, like, stop. Save that for wherever your documentary is.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, that intro, that's with his.

[Joe]

That shit was legendary.

[Jay Pharrell]

Jada, the new Morgan Freeman.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jada]

I like to be that with a little bit more skin cream.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jada]

I take that career with just a

[Jay Pharrell]

little bit of more.

[Jada]

A little more faceless.

[Joe]

What's your greatest impersonation? Your greatest impersonation?

[Jay Pharrell]

My greatest impersonation, Man, I don't know, man. Like, you know, people always ask. It just depends. It's contingent on where I'm at. You know what I mean? Like, most people ask, they say Eddie Murphy, some people say Denzel, some people say Jay Z. I don't know. I mean.

[Jay Z Impressionist]

I mean. Yeah, you tell me, you know, I mean, you know, because, you know, basically, I like what y' all did to the place, you know, It's a lot of colors, a lot. A lot of vodka in here. Yeah, yeah, you know. Oh, sorry. Tequila.

[Jada]

Yeah.

[Jay Z Impressionist]

Pardon me. I'm still. Still a little tipsy and woozy from the Metcatler, you know? Yeah, I was getting a little drunk. Drunk off the. The stuff.

[Joe]

The 1800.

[Jay Z Impressionist]

The 1800. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's what it is.

[Jada]

The closest we ever gonna get the whole.

[Joe]

I got.

[Jay Pharrell]

He called me fake Jay Z when he sees me and he laughs.

[Joe]

Oh, he says that?

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah.

[Jay Z Impressionist]

Yeah. What up? Fake Jay Z. Yeah, you the fake one. You never get Beyonce, nigga. You know? Yeah, never.

[Joe]

Yeah. AI.

[Jay Z Impressionist]

Yeah, he's the original AI. It's in his bloodstream, you know.

[Jada]

Yeah, cool.

[Jay Z Impressionist]

You know, we was rocking back in the day and stuff like that. I remember, you know. You know, back in, you know, Monsty projects, you know, we was. We was running things, you know, he was. You was beating up guys, you know, as usual, you know, sneaker hits people, you know, so. And.

[Joe]

Last night at the game. That's weird. Like, he sounds just like some of

[Jada]

that kind of shit.

[Kiss]

I ain't say none of that.

[Joe]

You know, Jay ain't go to a Knick game in about 10 years or something. Cause, you know, he. He had piece of the nets, so he ain't going, like 10 years. So, like, it was a big deal that he showed up.

[Jada]

They thought they saw fucking.

[Joe]

Yeah, we thought he wasn't coming up he lit them up so they was. It was a little turbulence. Not turbulence. Like, a lot of groupyism going on around the Jets. I had to hit him. Y' all keep it moving and get the Glizzies. No, like,

[Jada]

so soon.

[Joe]

Yo, this like one of the movies. Like, Tadaga.

[Jay Pharrell]

What was?

[Joe]

The Tidal Nights. Yo, I got a whole fan club by the glizzy stand. They all sitting there like, yo, Joe, you coming for the Glizzies? You coming for the. And I go get my glizzies.

[Jay Pharrell]

You did the. It's the fact that you did this while you was doing it. That's.

[Joe]

Yo. Oh, no, stop.

[Jada]

Glizzy fan clubs, for real?

[Joe]

No, no. Every game I have a glizzy fan club. They know I'm going to the. They tell me security is like, you're going for the Glizzies, right? I said, yeah, I'm going to the Glizzies. So, okay, I go over there. Yo, I need four glizzies. Give me the real. Give me the real mustard. This and this and that.

[Jay Pharrell]

Hey, y'.

[Kiss]

All.

[Joe]

And they filming me and all that.

[Jada]

Hold on, let me hit.

[Joe]

Yo, did. Did he come in here?

[Jay Pharrell]

Because it sound kind of. Kind of, kind of? Take that, take that. Little.

[Kiss]

Little.

[Jay Pharrell]

Little pause, you know, a little. Little playboy, you know, he's really passionate about. About glizzies. Yeah. Yes, I could see that. Yeah.

[Jada]

Otherwise, we don't have a pack of breads or Nathan.

[Joe]

No, no. But I'm telling you a true story when I get to the cassette. Cause they. Look, there's a fancy place where you go, have you been to the Nick game halftime, where they serve you steaks and lobsters and all that.

[Jay Pharrell]

You're talking about in the suite, right?

[Joe]

Yes.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Joe]

So I gotta go. So if you order a glizzy from there, they come with whack glizzies.

[Kiss]

I don't know why.

[Joe]

So I gotta go to where the real people go to the. Where they have to purchase the glizzy. That's where you get the real shit. I go there, and there's a bunch of people waiting for me with the camera.

[Kiss]

I don't know why that shit ain't viral.

[Joe]

Somewhere like, hey, Joe, the glizzies.

[Jada]

How many?

[Jay Pharrell]

Four.

[Joe]

Two for me, two for Rich. Flay to God. Don't act like he ain't eating the glizzies, too.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, that's wild right there.

[Joe]

I don't know. Saturday Night Live. How do you get this job? And

[Jada]

Chesapeake Va. Oh, man, what was it like Growing up in va. And

[Joe]

I don't think I know you got

[Jada]

some of your internal funniness from. Because it's just.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, man.

[Joe]

Where's Chesapeake located at? Near. What other big city?

[Jay Pharrell]

Virginia Beach. Seven, five, six.

[Joe]

All right, all right.

[Jay Pharrell]

You know, I'm. I'm from the same place. Pharrell, Timberland, Missy Clips, Teddy Riley, moved down, all that, you know.

[Joe]

Oh, so that's a Matt Mike Vick. That's a magical place.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, there's something in the water.

[Jada]

You let him tell us about it.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, I mean. I mean, you know, there's something in the water besides opioids. There's something in the water, you know what I'm saying? It's just we got a lot of athletes and just sick. Just sick talent. I was kind of a sheltered kid, you feel me? So I was a church boy growing up, you know, apostolic upbringing, whatever. So I was always messing with people in the church. I didn't think that it was. I was just. I thought that I was just being funny. I didn't know that people really had crippling drug addictions. I ain't know that. You feel me? Like, there was this one sister in the church, and she passed away now, Sister Wilma. But she used to do this thing in church and her head go back like this. So I'd be looking at her and I just go like this. And she'd be like, you better. Better watch it. And I didn't know that, you know, she was on drugs, but I was just doing an impersonation. I got older. I said, God dang. That's what that was. I said, shoot. And I always used to impersonate everybod, you know what I'm saying? And I used to perform for my cousins, for people, for church members and stuff. I was just a little. I was a butthole, man. You know what I'm saying? No, Glizzy. I was a butthole. You know what I'm saying?

[Joe]

No, Glizzy. God damn. You better say that for the people in the back. You was a butthole. No, Glizzy. Let me tell you something, though. Oh, they'll never forget that.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Joe]

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[Jada]

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[Joe]

Real talk. That's just what it is. It's always around for the best nights, the wins, the celebrations. Then remember that night stories.

[Jada]

Whether you're keeping it low key with the crew or you pull up to something big. 1800 fits every segment. It ain't trying too hard. It's just as dat. 1800 tequila. Real legacy, Real smooth. That's the move.

[Joe]

You know, they'll never forget that because it's like. You know when I tell stories about me getting bullied and all that. You got bullied? Every big time. Really?

[Kiss]

Yeah.

[Joe]

I used to get beat up every day by 20 guys.

[Jay Pharrell]

But the point is, there's always guys. That's so crazy.

[Joe]

What do you think? I got beat up by a girl before. I'm not. Was like, I wouldn't hit back like

[Jay Pharrell]

a young ma or like a.

[Joe]

No, not a young ma. Just a big chick from my projects that she told everybody. Probably to this day, she alive.

[Kiss]

She beat up Fat Joe, but I'm

[Joe]

not gonna hit a girl back. And she was just hooking on me, Joe. She. She told everybody she fat, y'.

[Cal Penn]

All.

[Joe]

I you up again, just like, yeah, all right,

[Jay Pharrell]

Joe, I'm gonna let you know something.

[Kiss]

That.

[Jay Pharrell]

That wasn't a woman. She had a glizzy. That wasn't a woman. But also, too. I grew up in the attitude era of wwe when the Rock was like. It was electric. So I used to do everything like the Rock. And he would talk smack, you know what I mean? My mother's from Brooklyn, too. Besta. She's from Best Eye, if y'. All. Y' all didn't know. So. And I've been coming up here, man, since I was 5. 5 years old, and staying in the summers and everything. But back to what I was talking about. I used to. I used to impersonate the Rock so much that I did it in church. And it was this deacon, his name was Brother Randolph. Shout out to Brother Randol, you know what I mean? Had a Jerry curl cockeye, you know, twinkle eye. Yo, his eye was. He'd be swimming all over the place, right?

[Joe]

And one day I told him, he got that peripheral.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, he could see you. He had the panoramic view.

[Joe]

He could see everything. Got that.

[Jay Pharrell]

Like, I'm watching.

[Joe]

He do the Bill Cosby coming out of court. Without doing it, that I like coming out of court.

[Jay Pharrell]

He told me one day, I'm watching you. I said, I know you watching, watching everybody.

[Joe]

No, no, we understood.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, full security. God, dick. But I told him, I said one day, I walked up to him, like the Rock. I said, here's what the Rock's gonna do. Jabroni, the Rock is gonna take your

[Joe]

Bible, he's gonna dust it off, turn it sideways, and stick it straight up your candy yams.

[Jada]

He said, what did you say?

[Jay Pharrell]

I said, candy yams. He told my mother, I said, ass. And then I couldn't watch wrestling for six months. Yeah, dog, that's what happened. Yeah. And I didn't do it, you know. Cause I wasn't gonna take the Bible and flip it and turn it up, put it up as behind. But at the same time, you know,

[Joe]

I was the Rock. My nigga, he was hype. He was hype.

[Jay Pharrell]

But, you know, I was that kid that was always causing mishaps. But it was just energy. I just like to like to be liked. That's what it was.

[Joe]

So, you know, it seems like for us, Saturday nights, yeah, Live, we already shaking our ass in the clubs, right? But for white people, it feels like they're home watching Saturday Night Live. Like, that's club live for them every Saturday.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Even Trump would come out and be like, hey, guy talked about me today. Like it's a big fucking deal.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, right?

[Joe]

What was that like, knowing the whole entire country is watching you?

[Jay Pharrell]

I mean, Yo, I'm a 22 year. I'm a 22 year old. the time, I just got the job and the pressure was on. But I had done theater, you know, I was used to the stage. I had been on the road with Charlie Murphy for three years. So, you know, shout out to him, you know, rest in peace. That was my uncle, you know what I mean? And it was a lot of pressure, but I was just having fun. And when I would kill people like you killed, I'd be like, yeah, and that's what you're supposed to do. So it was like I was already conditioned for that. But when they knocked my confidence down a little bit and they started pulling my sketches, it kind of messed with

[Kiss]

me a little bit.

[Jay Pharrell]

And, you know, I got in a little, got into my head a bit, like, maybe I'm not good enough, whatever. And I think I had to rise above that. And I did in the next couple of years and kind of started dominating. They gave me Obama. When I started doing that, it was kind of that Was a lot of pressure, but I got through it. And I think it was a classic. It was a classic part of the

[Kiss]

show, you know what I mean?

[Joe]

So, you know, that's what it's all about, you know?

[Jay Pharrell]

That's crazy.

[Kiss]

I did a. I don't know if I'm supposed to talk like this, but I did a deposition in the lawsuit the other day, and the man started breaking down when, yo, you had a

[Joe]

hit this year, but you ain't have a hit for five years at this time, and then you had a D. And I'm like, yo, my man.

[Kiss]

Like, what the fuck?

[Joe]

Did you ever make a hit in your life? Yeah, like, do you know artists go through different shapes sometimes. I remember my favorite rapper in the world, LL Cool J. I was always the fan. So even if LL made some shit that was like, something like a phenomenon and that nobody else fucked with, I fucked with it and understood it. But, you know, he has albums where he was the hottest guy in the universe that he puts out an album with. All right? Then he comes back with that. I think that's the journey of everybody, Every artist. And, you know, some people just think you just wake up and make a hit, or you wake up and you're the funniest guy in the world. I just think we gotta go through different changes of learning ourselves and staying committed. Yeah, to the craft. Cause sometimes you gotta. You gotta work through that shit.

[Jay Pharrell]

Like, that's not like, yo, Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan got cut at first, and he became the greatest. You know what I'm saying?

[Kiss]

So I never heard that story.

[Joe]

High school. Yeah, he got cut. He got cut.

[Kiss]

What?

[Jay Pharrell]

He got cut from the high school team.

[Kiss]

He didn't make it.

[Joe]

Biggest loser in the world. He's in Chattanooga somewhere. Where's the guy who cut him in the high school team?

[Kiss]

He.

[Jada]

Look how much it was on Mike's mind. He shot at him in a Hall of Fame speech. I coached that cut me still.

[Joe]

Let me tell you something.

[Kiss]

My brother, Rich, player, he coached 24 kids that went to the. That's in the NFL. No bullshit. He even coached Malachi, who's number one on Miami. Let me tell you something. There's this one kid, right? And he told me this story. He was like, yo, the guy was soft. He wasn't going nowhere. This, this, that.

[Joe]

His parents used to argue with me

[Kiss]

like, yo, coach, put him in the game. This. So Rich thought he was whack.

[Joe]

That draft night came. That boy got drafted eight, 10 years later.

[Kiss]

He called Rich number coach Rich. Yo, what's up? It's such and such.

[Joe]

Yo, man, you said, I'll never get to the NFL.

[Kiss]

Thank you, man, for making me tough, man. I'm in the NFL, man.

[Joe]

Thank you. Coach Rich hung up the phone. I said, you mother. You tell me that story about that kid all the time. He made it to the fucking NFL. I mean, you know, what's for you is for you.

[Kiss]

You know what I'm saying?

[Jay Pharrell]

And look, there have been. When I was in school, there was many times I was. I started in high school doing comedy. Many people like, how you. How you gonna be a comedian? You do voices, but you ain't making me laugh. I said, okay, nigga, watch. I just said, watch. And I kept going. And now they follow me on Facebook. Now they.

[Kiss]

My friends and stuff. They was cool with me.

[Jay Pharrell]

She wasn't with me shooting in the gym.

[Kiss]

You wasn't with me shooting in the gym.

[Jay Pharrell]

You know what I'm saying? But you need that. When you can change people's perception like that, that's when it really counts, and it means more to you. And then when you get the accolades and then the world gives you the acknowledgement, it's just that much sweeter, man. You know, I didn't. I wasn't the best impressionist at first. I mean, I sat in my car, I would listen to tapes back and forth. I would listen to Jay Z until I sonically got that. Sonically, you couldn't. You couldn't tell the difference. I would listen to. I would be in the car listening to Cassidy and all this. I would listen to this stuff, man. So I worked and I kept going and I said, I gotta make it out of Virginia, because a lot of people get stuck there. It's a military town. You can get a family quick, and then you can get knocked off your path, you know? So I didn't get knocked off my path.

[Joe]

Salute.

[Jay Pharrell]

757, baby.

[Kiss]

Cause we did it.

[Joe]

Bad news, va. Bad news. Yo. The mustache. You from Virginia.

[Jada]

I'm from Bad News, Virginia.

[Joe]

The.

[Jada]

I went to Mike Picks High School.

[Joe]

Allen Iverson would have shaved that mustache. You know, we got beat up and bad. You know, your man AI never admits to that. We got beat up in Bad News.

[Jay Pharrell]

He was up here. He sold.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jay Pharrell]

Got beat up.

[Joe]

Yeah. AI's birthday party. We went down there for his birthday party.

[Kiss]

Wound up fighting the whole fucking club.

[Joe]

The whole club. Everybody who cheered us when we came in, when we pull up in them in the Rolls Royce, they were like, Ali.

[Jay Pharrell]

Boom.

[Joe]

By Yay.

[Jada]

Boy.

[Joe]

Running behind. The next thing I know, they throwing bottles at us on the way out. Get the out of here. Nah, that's. That's. That's a tough town.

[Kiss]

Bad news, brother.

[Jay Pharrell]

It's called bad news for a reason, yo.

[Joe]

It's bad news. Va. That's a tough town.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah. Mustache knows. I guess I ain't never seen nobody.

[Joe]

You know you got caught in your mustache and all that, right? Like when you eat. You bet. When you got a comb for your.

[Jay Pharrell]

I do.

[Joe]

You know it. Come over and let me see your mustache. Come here. Cut. This guy.

[Jada]

My friend Pierre.

[Joe]

My friend. Yo, look at the mustache.

[Jay Pharrell]

He put that curl in his mustache. That's crazy. He look like every villain ever.

[Joe]

That nigga go get his shit permed.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah,

[Rapper/Artist]

yeah.

[Kiss]

You.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah. You look like Charlie Chaplin.

[Joe]

You look like a throwback. Raleigh Fingers, the white and black tv.

[Jada]

That's a pool right there.

[Joe]

Raleigh Fingers was the.

[Jay Pharrell]

He laughed. He laughed with subtitles. That was so funny.

[Joe]

You want to know what's crazy is

[Kiss]

I used to watch these crimes.

[Joe]

I think.

[Kiss]

What was the series? It was the first 48 or something.

[Joe]

But every time they showed, like, New Orleans or the south, they were talking English and they was throwing, like, subtitles on their. You know what I mean? New Holland, that one. And they throwing the fucking shit on the subtitles. Like, the English. Like, if it was another language. I'm like, what the they got the subtitles on this for?

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah. Cause you can't understand what they be saying.

[Kiss]

War.

[Jay Pharrell]

They were on quarter water. Like water and all that. Baby. It's up, baby. You be like, what did you say, baby? I said, what up, baby? I spent. I was down there shooting a movie before COVID movie called All My Life. I did, and it was this. It was this little Louisiana dude. He was like.

[Joe]

We had to call the waters out there for about 5 cents and everything.

[Jay Pharrell]

I said, I don't know what is going on. That's the south, though, man.

[Joe]

They don't say point. Serious food. How they say.

[Jay Pharrell]

They say Prince Perch. They say Prince.

[Joe]

You know what?

[Jay Pharrell]

For points.

[Joe]

For points.

[Jay Pharrell]

Just like Memphis.

[Joe]

That's why.

[Jay Pharrell]

What's that? What's the dude that went viral? What's his name? Was it finesse? Two times.

[Jada]

Yeah.

[Joe]

I ate noodles with no packing

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cereal.

[Joe]

With the canned mer. The powder.

[Jada]

Merc.

[Joe]

No merc. Waffle? No syrup.

[Kiss]

Jelly.

[Jay Pharrell]

No.

[Jada]

Jelly.

[Joe]

No bread.

[Jada]

No jelly.

[Joe]

Jelly, no bread.

[Jay Pharrell]

That's.

[Kiss]

I'm like, what.

[Jay Pharrell]

That's just. That's jam.

[Joe]

Jelly. No bread. Jelly, no bread.

[Kiss]

Right?

[Joe]

If you go. If you Go cereal, no milk. He said he had waffles, no syrup.

[Jada]

When it was no syrup, he had jelly on the waffle.

[Kiss]

Oh, that's what he's saying.

[Joe]

Yeah, that's no jelly on the waffles. Still sound good.

[Jay Pharrell]

I mean, not new invention. That sound like you damn bad.

[Joe]

Jelly on the waffle might be. All right, that's. Nah, I'm gonna keep it a buck with you. Like, for a fat guy, this might have been a good experiment. I ain't try that one. That's. The jelly on the waffle is popping.

[Kiss]

What the fuck you talking about?

[Jay Pharrell]

I'm a reformed fat kid, so. I feel you, bro.

[Kiss]

I feel. Yeah, you used to be fat.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, I was a fat kid. Yeah, I was. I was bullied, too. You know what I'm saying? Like you. They used to play with my breasts.

[Joe]

He.

[Jay Pharrell]

You know, they do like that.

[Joe]

They ain't never do that to me.

[Jay Pharrell]

They never.

[Joe]

Oh, man. Oh, no. They do that to me.

[Jay Pharrell]

Hey, Joe, that's.

[Joe]

Oh, no. They beat me up.

[Jada]

They ain't do.

[Joe]

They ain't grab my. Get the fuck out. Are you nuts?

[Kiss]

Joe, that.

[Jay Pharrell]

That's fat. Assault, Joe. That's assault right there.

[Joe]

No, I'm telling you right now. They play with your titties, man. That's some. I.

[Jada]

That's worth shooting somebody.

[Joe]

That would have been the first shooting massacre ever. I came back the next day with looking like Jeffrey Dahmer in this or something. Like, you crazy.

[Kiss]

Yeah.

[Joe]

They ain't violating me like that.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, it's messed up. That was my father, but that's besides the point, you know what I'm saying? No, he did it too. Everybody did it. It was a thing you never seen somebody do and then poke your stomach. Call you Pillsbury Woohoo and all that.

[Joe]

That's cool. I'm not. I'm tell. Killing everybody. They play with me like that. I'm killing everything. I'm not. I'm not playing. If they touch your nipples, let me tell you. Yo, listen, you want the. You want the most pause ever. Listen. I always say to myself, I've been through depression.

[Kiss]

I've been through the roughest times of my life. I never once felt like killing myself,

[Joe]

getting locked up on it. Never once said, I do not believe

[Kiss]

I'm capable of suicide. If some.

[Joe]

If I went to jail, some. Some guys raped me.

[Kiss]

Don't worry about it. Don't worry.

[Joe]

I'm killing myself.

[Jay Pharrell]

Oh, yeah.

[Kiss]

Absolutely.

[Jay Pharrell]

Absolutely.

[Joe]

No, no, no, no. I'm not even getting revenge. I'm killing myself. Yeah. I can't do it.

[Kiss]

Nah.

[Joe]

Imagine playing with your titties.

[Kiss]

Come on. Nah, you nothing.

[Joe]

Yo, that shit crazy. Six seven on this shit. Six seven N doing the six, seven.

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[Joe]

I can't live. That should be like the movie out paid in full. Anybody ever talk to me first? Anybody ever said anything, they gotta go like, yo, dead beat.

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I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections and it's like, okay, yo yo yo, is this indulgent? And I really thought about it.

[Kiss]

I was like, no.

[Ray Porter]

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[Joe]

but, you know, I'm a reformed fat guy, too. You know, I'm not so. Fat Joe. Yeah.

[Jay Pharrell]

You saying, yeah, you. Hey, that at one point when I was watching you with Pun, man, y' all niggas was. Y' all was half off. That was crazy, yo.

[Joe]

What?

[Kiss]

Half off?

[Jay Pharrell]

I said, wow, these n. He ain't even Fat Joe no more. This nigga. This nigga is Husky Joe.

[Joe]

You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

[Jay Pharrell]

Remember the Husky section?

[Joe]

Remember that in Montgomery Ward? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jay Pharrell]

They call it.

[Joe]

I used to go, a friend of mine was another fat guy, my man Chef Mark. And Chef Mark would come with me

[Kiss]

to Manhattan, and we just. People watch. Yeah. And he'd be like, yo, Joe, you notice ain't no old fat people.

[Joe]

We fat. Like, we. We the real Fat Joe. The real Chef Mark.

[Kiss]

We like, yo, it ain't no old fat people.

[Joe]

He said, and we only 20 years. He's like, you know, you die young fat. And I'm like, what do you mean? He said, it ain't no old fat people. We looking at thousands of people. It's Manhattan Sixth Avenue.

[Kiss]

And I was just like, yo, at Some point we gotta reverse this shit. We gotta turn it around.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, man. Cause you know, nigga, I had stretch marks on my eyeballs. It was crazy back in the day. It was wild, man. It's a fat kid, man. And look, man, it's hard, but, you know, it's hard fitting in the school when you shape like your sister, you know what I'm saying? It's real hard. You know what I'm saying?

[Joe]

Let me tell you something, man. Fat Joey. You know, I was Fat Joey since I was born. Nah, that's Fat Joey.

[Kiss]

Since I'm two years, the first thing

[Joe]

I ever heard somebody calling me was, hey, Fat Joey. And since I was a fucking baby.

[Jay Pharrell]

Were you a big baby, like, you just.

[Joe]

Yeah, I was the big. I was like one of the wrestlers

[Kiss]

you used to impersonate.

[Joe]

I live in the hood and I had blonde hair and green eyes and my whole hood is black. And I remember I used to go to bodega and the man be like, what the is this kid doing in this neighborhood? And they would always. Fat Joey, Fat Joey.

[Jay Pharrell]

You was the first gentrified of your neighborhood.

[Joe]

No, not gentrified. I'm from the neighborhood, motherfucker. I'm saying, like, I know these streets know me.

[Jay Pharrell]

You love me.

[Joe]

These streets know me a hundred years. That shit crazy, man. But yeah, yeah, that shit crazy, Fat Joey.

[Kiss]

Since I was born.

[Joe]

So I guess I never felt like there was no way to offend me with Fat Joes, ever.

[Kiss]

Cause I was Fat Joey since I was born.

[Joe]

So I never. You couldn't come here and be like, you know, in our building, we got a thousand families. We got 145 families. Everybody got 10 kids.

[Kiss]

They in front of the building at 6 in the morning. Talk about your mother. Your dick that everybody got with this is just straight.

[Joe]

Your mother got no teeth. Your mother's jabber, Joe. Oh, your sister's a whore like this every day to six in the morning in front of the projects. This is like, this is where we grew up at. So you even get a sense of humor or your ass is out.

[Jay Pharrell]

Nah, that wasn't me. I was. Nah, nigga, I was sensitive. I ain't care. I was a sensitive little nigga. You would say stuff about me. I'd be like, man, leave me alone. You know what I mean? N was trying to fit in. So I was a sensitive. I was sensitive N. I grew out of it. You know what I'm saying? You know? But I was sensitive a little N. You know what I'm saying?

[Joe]

You Know this comedy thing, right? People don't realize how big comedy is.

[Kiss]

So I follow like Russell Peters and I watch him doing stadiums. We did Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud. And we went up against Fuzzy, the fat Mexican guy.

[Joe]

He sold out Dodges Stadium. These comedians, you talking about doing shit, they doing shit. And everybody needs a laugh, no matter what it is, what the temperature is out there. I noticed that Comedians, you guys, once you get it going, I know it's a lot of struggle. Comedians, there's a lot of comedians out there right now hungry as fuck. But if you make it, the success is.

[Jay Pharrell]

Well, listen, man, it was written in the books. And let me go back to being sensitive. Let me go back to being sensitive as a fat kid for one second, you know what I mean? N told me that I was so fat I sweat chicken grease. I said, nigga, what? You ever had somebody say something to you? It was brilliant and it hurt you, but it was brilliant. So you had to be like, yeah, my. That was a good one, you know? Yeah, I had to tell the. It was a good one, you know what I'm saying?

[Joe]

Same thing.

[Jay Pharrell]

I got on Gilly the Kids. I got on Gilly the Kids.

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[Jay Pharrell]

Shout out to Gil.

[Kiss]

That's my dude. Whatever.

[Jay Pharrell]

I got on this live and my head was falling out at the time. Crazy, you know, I got money, you know, I'm good, you know, But I got up there and the top, the top was coming out and I won't wear my helmet. That's what happened, you know, I had the helmet and get the electricity to your head, you know, you wake up your follicle. And I wasn't using it. And somebody said, take your hat off. And I did. And the little nigga kids are assholes. Little nigga said, pull up to the scene with my ceiling missing. I said, I ain't never doing this shit ever again. He said, let me go ahead and put this joint back on. So, you know, I've learned how to have. I learned how as older to have tougher skin. And you have to as a comedian, you know what I'm saying? Because then you can get to the level where you are at the stadiums. Like Kevin Hart, Fluffy with Joe Coy.

[Joe]

Dang, he got a following.

[Jay Pharrell]

Russell Peters. Absolutely, man. And I've watched these guys build it from the ground. Matt Rife, same thing, same thing over the pandemic. He just kept going and then it just worked out for him. But you have to be consistent. You can't just be. You can't be lazy in the game or you just gonna stay in the same place.

[Kiss]

But you can't be lazy in no game.

[Jay Pharrell]

Nah.

[Kiss]

So at the end of the day, it doesn't allow you to be lazy.

[Joe]

And you know, shout out to Khaled. DJ Khaled.

[Kiss]

But I remember even after Khaled blew up, he started on the radio then. Motherfucker could have had Covid pneumonia.

[Joe]

He would go and I'd be like, yo, Khaled, you sick? Stay home.

[Kiss]

He'd be like, fuck that. Somebody ready to take my slot.

[Joe]

He like, yo, the minute I don't come in, somebody coming right in, and they gonna do a better job than me and take my slot. And so you almost even once you get to a level, you gotta protect that slot.

[Jay Pharrell]

Absolutely, yes.

[Joe]

It's like you gotta protect that slot.

[Kiss]

That shit.

[Joe]

That shit ain't got.

[Kiss]

Yo, T. Mark. What's up, 11.

[Jada]

You ain't get them sneakers yet.

[Joe]

That's your guy. Why you looking at me? You look at. Yo, I got some New Balances to puma. You out there. Special package break dancing joints right there.

[Jay Pharrell]

I'm looking, I'm.

[Joe]

Come on, everybody. What you do? The ga. That's to put your foot up. They gave us some. They gave us some New Balance. Them shits is the Grease Lightnings. Them shits got fire on that you list, son. What are those FP Jor that look like coach Brown sticks, yo.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, these are. Yeah, these are the oceans. Yeah, these are Swiss drawing.

[Joe]

Oh, Those are special O.C. joints.

[Kiss]

Yeah.

[Joe]

My wife told me she wouldn't talk to me again if I wore them shits because that officially you.

[Kiss]

You give into. I'm old.

[Jay Pharrell]

Oh, really?

[Joe]

Because those are the most comfortable sneakers in the world.

[Jay Pharrell]

That's what it is.

[Joe]

Technically, they're the most comfortable, but I'm gonna take it down now.

[Jay Pharrell]

Now you talking. Yeah.

[Joe]

Cause you're looking like a nurse. You're looking like a nurse. Yeah, I thought I'm looking like a podiatrist. He pulled out the nursing. Gotta stop with the nursing.

[Jada]

I said, all right.

[Joe]

Man, you lucky he ain't got his loafers on right now. He done battled them.

[Jay Pharrell]

Hey, we doing.

[Joe]

If you had your loafers too top. We doing battle them.

[Jay Pharrell]

We doing bad in VA right now. We ain't good.

[Joe]

Ladies, how y' all let your man come out with the nursing shoes? The bowling shoes right there.

[Jay Pharrell]

Hey, listen, it's your boy flat footed.

[Joe]

I was gonna do it. Tell you something. I was gonna do it one day, because I know for a fact those are the Most comfortable sneakers out.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah.

[Kiss]

And my wife said, I ain't with you. You wear them shits like. That's like moving to the middle of nowhere.

[Joe]

Hey, giving up. You ever seen them towns, beautiful towns, when you pass by, you drive by

[Kiss]

and you say, yo, this is amazing. But you say, people just come here to die. Like.

[Joe]

Like. Like West Palm Tennis 10 or something. What the they doing there? Like, you haven't drove past them towns where you be like, what are these people? Like, where. There's not even a bar around here.

[Jay Pharrell]

I think it's a state.

[Joe]

They just state they want to die.

[Jay Pharrell]

No, there's a state called North Dakota. Yeah, like that. Yeah. Everybody just ready to just. It's old.

[Joe]

They just go to die. Like it's going to die.

[Jay Pharrell]

You're not going.

[Joe]

They've been reading pamphlets all their life. North Dakota. And then they retire and they'd be like, all right, we going to North Dakota. I was surprised we went to Alaska, not Alaska. We had a show.

[Kiss]

Was it Alaska?

[Joe]

Some shit.

[Kiss]

But the people were very nice. What was that?

[Joe]

Alaska?

[Jada]

How should I know? I was there.

[Kiss]

Me, Bow Wow, Rick Ross and your man, man.

[Joe]

One of my dream guests. Somebody tell Kelly is Soulja Boy.

[Jay Pharrell]

That's a wild. That's a wild tripling right there. What you. Bow wow and Rick Ross, that's y' all were doing the show.

[Joe]

And Soulja Boy and Soulja Boy.

[Kiss]

How about.

[Joe]

I went to the steakhouse and they treated us. They were good, beautiful people is what I'm trying to tell you. The nicest people in the world. Like the tap.

[Kiss]

Somebody treated us.

[Jay Pharrell]

Anchorage, was it Anchorage? Anchorage.

[Joe]

Anchorage, yeah. Yeah, Anchorage.

[Jay Pharrell]

Never been there. Studied about it. Never been there.

[Joe]

No. Nice, deep, eerie. And the sun stay out all the time.

[Jada]

He knew where it was at.

[Joe]

He never been there.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, never been there. I hear about things.

[Jada]

I never been there either.

[Jay Pharrell]

You know, when you got nurse shoes on, they tell you stuff, man.

[Kiss]

You know what I'm saying?

[Joe]

They trust you.

[Jay Pharrell]

They trust you with their secrets. You know what I'm saying?

[Joe]

That's like a born again killer. You and you got them serial killer shoes on.

[Jay Pharrell]

Hey, bruh, you know I'm a silent killer, baby.

[Joe]

You know he got the born again killer.

[Kiss]

Shit.

[Jada]

That's an ill lineup, huh?

[Jay Pharrell]

That's an ill lineup, brother. Ill lineup. DJ with freaking Rick Ross.

[Joe]

Rick Ross, Bow Wow And Ricky Rose. Ricky Rose, me Fat Joe. Chilling, having steak. Chilling in Anchorage with white Alaskan women. But he can't touch. He can't touch. Cause his wife would kill him. So I'll have all the coochie. Bose.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, nigga,

[Joe]

Bose, nigga, Bose, Bose.

[Jay Pharrell]

I did an impression of him. He hit me up.

[Joe]

He said, yeah, I might think about it.

[Jay Pharrell]

It was about Rick Ross's furniture store. I did a skit, it's just a joint for my Instagram.

[Joe]

I have all the furniture here, but you can't afford it. It's just for you to see because none of you niggas are in the tax bracket that I live. You was with the white boys, nigga,

[Jay Pharrell]

you know what I'm saying? So anyway, nigga, hit me up. He might do it. Rick Ross's furniture store.

[Joe]

He said, that's a good idea, nigga. I might have to do that, huh?

[Jay Pharrell]

I said, yeah, nigga, you know, just gimme a little bit percentage, you know, come in and do it, you know, fun stuff.

[Kiss]

I personally, I personally have never seen a hosta like Rick Ross. Oh my gosh. Personally, this

[Joe]

a show in Africa, a show in Dubai where I know the numbers.

[Kiss]

He's getting big numbers, hundreds of thousands. And the next day he's had a.

[Joe]

A barn in Memphis, Tennessee, hosting that I never seen.

[Kiss]

He won't turn a dollar down. I've never seen it. Like somebody.

[Joe]

And I be. And I work hard and I be

[Kiss]

looking at him, I'll be like, damn, bro.

[Joe]

Like, I just ain't. I ain't. I didn't need to be 10 years

[Kiss]

younger to compete with Rick Ross.

[Joe]

And then he throws a. You know, he buys the house from Evander Holyfield, which is foreclosure, something. And you like, damn, you sure you want to get in that Ross? And he turns it into. He throws an event there every year that pays for the. He already paid the house off with an event, a car show did like, I never seen my. Like, I don't want people in my house. Yeah, I don't. No, really. I love everybody. God bless everybody.

[Kiss]

I don't.

[Joe]

You know, I see my neighbors unpleasant.

[Kiss]

I don't talk more than one minute,

[Joe]

like it's a good couple. Across the street, two Indian people. He looked like he wear them.

[Kiss]

Them shoes too.

[Joe]

He looked like. I don't. He looked like a doctor. But they walk through and I'm nice to them. They older than us.

[Kiss]

I'm, yo, what's up?

[Joe]

But other than that, I'm so sure everywhere I go. But I'm anti social in my house.

[Kiss]

But Rick ross, to take 10,000 and put them in his house. Strangers.

[Joe]

Yeah, you know, he had ship like two years ago and found people there Three, four days later, on the other side of the. His house is that big, bro.

[Jay Pharrell]

That's crazy. That's crazy.

[Joe]

But he found a way, you know.

[Kiss]

He's a big hustler, man. Salute Ross.

[Jay Pharrell]

And I'm telling you, got a whole. He got cattle. This nigga got. This nigga got oxen. My oxen, nigga.

[Kiss]

What you have oxen? He got.

[Jay Pharrell]

He got a whole bunch of animals, man. Him and Cat Williams, they got a whole bunch of animals. You know what I'm saying?

[Joe]

Cat bought a bunch of land, too.

[Jay Pharrell]

Cat got a whole farm, bro.

[Kiss]

It's like a whole.

[Jay Pharrell]

You just got land.

[Jada]

What you need to do, Boo Boo, you need to learn how to take care of chickens, take care of cows,

[Joe]

take care of livestock, because the world is about to end, Boo Boo.

[Jay Pharrell]

That's what's gonna happen. Real stuff, you know?

[Joe]

Yeah, nigga.

[Jay Pharrell]

Well, I'm sorry, nigga. You know, it's me, you know, do the voice. The Cat Williams. We did a movie together. You see it?

[Joe]

I'm not sure if I saw it.

[Kiss]

What's the name of the movie?

[Jay Pharrell]

It's called Two Minutes of Fame.

[Kiss]

You see that shit went.

[Joe]

Flew right by me, man. Them two minutes, I said, they really get to see them shits like that. But, yo, Cat Williams, he's hilarious, too. You ever went through. I think right now, I just thought of that Outkast line where he said,

[Kiss]

my favorite rappers wasn't bringing it.

[Joe]

This, this, that. You ever went through a time where some comedian you really love just like,

[Kiss]

it wasn't that hot no more for.

[Joe]

And you was like, damn.

[Jay Pharrell]

I can't say not hot, but just not working as much as they were. And I think this is a ubiquitous feeling, like everybody wants Eddie Murphy to return to Stand Up. Everybody, because he's just that good, you know?

[Joe]

Well, you think he'll be good now?

[Kiss]

2020?

[Jay Pharrell]

Absolutely.

[Joe]

Yeah. You think so?

[Jay Pharrell]

And yo, 2015, he got the Mark Twain. He got the Mark Twain Award. And he got up there, he did a bit, and he killed. Eddie is connected. Eddie is watching everything. And I would hope one day that he would come back, because, you know, he's only put out two specials, and he is arguably the biggest comedian ever.

[Joe]

That's the problem. The problem is when you put out two Illmatics, you don't want to come back all these years later and stink up the place. So I'm sure he's very conscious of, like, if I come back that, like, you know what Eddie Murphy's Raw was? I went. I always tell A story on the show. I went to the fucking ship with a hundred guys to my projects. Out of all a hundred guys, I'm the motherfucker got thrown out the movie theater.

[Jay Pharrell]

Cause you were laughing so hard.

[Joe]

So hard. Do you know how hilarious that they threw me out. I was the asshole in the movie theater. But.

[Jay Pharrell]

But let me ask you a question, though. You think that. You think Raw is better than Delirious? Cause Delirious had everything in it.

[Joe]

No, no, they all. They. What's the one with the red leathers too?

[Jay Pharrell]

That's Delirious.

[Kiss]

Oh, yeah. Delirious was just out of control.

[Joe]

Yeah, the one where he was talking about Rocky, the white boy at the. Nah, that was.

[Jay Pharrell]

That was. That was Raw when he did that.

[Joe]

Yeah, some. Yo, that shit. Sound pause. Anyway, Raw and all this shit we talking right now.

[Kiss]

Get the fuck out of here. Rolling.

[Joe]

You so delirious. You roaring like you talked about Glizzies for seven minutes. We never said that Glizzy got stuck in his mustache. We didn't say that. Eddie Murphy.

[Jay Pharrell]

And because. And because he couldn't continue just because he passed away. Robin Harris. Robin Harris.

[Jada]

I missed one, Mike.

[Jay Pharrell]

Oh, my gosh, man. That one. Oh, look at my. Look at my. Look at my. Look at. Officers of the goddamn law. Ain't this a.

[Jada]

Look at it.

[Kiss]

Look at over here.

[Jay Pharrell]

He said, I got a job.

[Joe]

Looking for one.

[Jay Pharrell]

I've been.

[Joe]

I've been on the plural so long,

[Jay Pharrell]

forgot what type of work I was looking for. He said, ah. He said the baby. He said shit of Pampers and walking at the same time. Yo, Robin Harris, Bernie Mac, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. They're my top five.

[Kiss]

Chris.

[Jay Pharrell]

Honest to God. And you can't even say Prior because Prior inspired everybody. Prior is up here. But those five guys sound like Fat Joe Down.

[Joe]

Those five guys.

[Jay Pharrell]

Those five guys.

[Joe]

Legendary.

[Jay Pharrell]

Legendary.

[Joe]

We was in Harlem. There was a polar bear strapped with the. With the Arnold Schwarzenegger chop. I'm talking about the big jaw.

[Jay Pharrell]

And then it snowed like, nigga, no, it didn't happen.

[Joe]

Did I not tell you that? Tupac Shakur. I watched Tupac. I watched Tupac fight an African with a sword. When they would. They used to sell the Brulee tapes. Yeah, I watched tupac walk on 125th and was snatching all his tapes off his.

[Kiss]

And the African pulled out the sword.

[Joe]

You for real?

[Kiss]

I swear to God.

[Joe]

And Tupac beat the. At him and took the sword off of him in the middle of 120. No, he ain't chopped his neck off. I ain't say that. That's you guys trying to take it to some other. I seen him fight a. The. Pull out a sword.

[Jay Pharrell]

Did you?

[Joe]

Tupac was on his pan in the mouth.

[Jay Pharrell]

Now, now. All right.

[Joe]

Okay, pause.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, yeah, pause. Did you. Did you see Tupac fight Michael Jackson? Did you ever see that? Because they say that happen. I don't know. I don't know if it. I don't know if it was real.

[Jada]

I got a scrap with mj.

[Joe]

You scrap with him.

[Kiss]

You heard that too? That's bullshit.

[Joe]

I know my man Junior rest in peace. Anyway. I can't say one of my guys, he's just a nice guy. He had Junior Reidinger. He passed away, but he got. That man said one day Mark Anthony was arguing with JLO in his house. He got scrapping with Marquette. That was his. Yo, yo. That JR had a scrap. Breakfast. Yeah, Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Thanksgiving, Halloween. He would always come fucking Morgan. He tried to talk to me like. I'm like, yo, my man, you gotta sit down. Junior. Yeah, he had one of them stories that. That's pretty. In Puerto Rican community. That's crazy.

[Jay Pharrell]

But you somebody you talk about Junior writer from Dipset.

[Joe]

No.

[Jay Pharrell]

Okay, cool. I thought you said riding billionaire.

[Joe]

He passed away, man. He's my mentor, man.

[Kiss]

You know what I'm saying?

[Jada]

Jr. R. Ryder would have had a

[Kiss]

fight with Mark Anthony. Would have called.

[Joe]

Would have called it.

[Jay Pharrell]

Would have called the dips up. Juels would have been in the building. Freaking Cam would have been there. Everybody would have been there. I thought you said JR Idol. You said Jay.

[Kiss]

Right?

[Jay Pharrell]

The billionaire.

[Kiss]

Okay, cool.

[Jay Pharrell]

I'm a. I'm a fail.

[Jada]

Joe and jada, show.com. we got new merch fresh off the presses. Go get it. B. Jo and Jaden. Show.com. you can get these little cold for a T shirt with a hoodie.

[Joe]

It's my favorite right there. I need an extra large [e-mail]. go there. Get it.

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[Kiss]

I was like, no.

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[Joe]

You think they would have did better if at the Versus Kiss if they would have put the playlist a little bit better. Cause Dipset got some shit man. Like like you think they would have they would have did better if they would have put the list if they would have took it more professional, they

[Kiss]

could have put some of the they

[Jay Pharrell]

left out a lot of shit that I was expecting. I think they could have you was

[Joe]

expecting they was gonna bring.

[Jada]

It was when we did the rehearsal it was they didn't play a lot

[Kiss]

of the songs that we thought they was gonna play. Hey man, you.

[Jay Pharrell]

You destroyed. You killed my you causing a distraction. You told him you causing the distraction. Yo, he started rapping.

[Kiss]

Oh man.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yalls freestyles. Both of y'. All. Specifically. I've been listening to y' all high school 05 mixtapes and I think it was all on a mixtape. I heard y'. All. It was like it was a mixtape going against I think 50 or something. It was like a 50 mixtape and it was a 50 diss and oh no. Okay. Niggas getting okay tension. I see knees shaking. Maybe I stopped talking about it.

[Joe]

Nah, I'M Go ahead. Cause I'm trying to get in the TV show, man.

[Jay Pharrell]

But y'.

[Joe]

All. 50. I want to be in a TV show.

[Jay Pharrell]

But y'. All. Y' all cool.

[Joe]

And y'.

[Kiss]

All.

[Joe]

We all cool.

[Jay Pharrell]

And let me ask you a question, though. Wasn't all of that just propped up for numbers?

[Joe]

No, no, no. It was real with me.

[Kiss]

With me, that was. It's just a physical like this.

[Joe]

Somebody might have died beyond that shit.

[Jay Pharrell]

Oh, man.

[Kiss]

Real talk, okay.

[Joe]

That's why I thank God.

[Kiss]

Everybody squashed and everybody walked away.

[Joe]

Good.

[Kiss]

It was just.

[Joe]

No way, you know, he's too much of a tough guy. We from the same town. I think I'm tough.

[Kiss]

It was.

[Joe]

That shit was sparks flying wherever we would have seen each other. It would have been like, do you smell what the Rock is cooking? Like, that shit had to go down or you couldn't have. You know, you wouldn't be able to have a reputation if you saw 50 Cent anywhere in New York City. And at the time of that Beef and Terror Squad and 50 in them, it didn't go down. Like, it almost went down at the MTV Awards. It had to go down. If it didn't go down, he would walk away like he's all mouth in Fat Joe. It was terrible.

[Kiss]

It was a terrible situation.

[Joe]

Thank God it's peaceful.

[Kiss]

Hope everybody gets along. Shout out to Tony Yayo and Uncle. They got that real report. You know what I mean? Y' all kiss is crazy, people.

[Joe]

I. I didn't.

[Jay Pharrell]

I'm sorry, bro.

[Joe]

I didn't.

[Jay Pharrell]

I.

[Joe]

No, no, it's all good. We family. Everybody's love. But that was a serious situation, you know, Natural.

[Jay Pharrell]

A kid from the Birds.

[Kiss]

It was. It was.

[Jay Pharrell]

It was very entertaining.

[Joe]

But, oh, no, it was.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, y' all was going at each other. That was dope.

[Kiss]

You know what I mean?

[Jay Pharrell]

And that's the fight.

[Kiss]

Until 50 Cent, I had never witnessed disrespect. Like, I had never felt nobody in

[Joe]

front of me, behind me.

[Kiss]

Pause, pause, pause.

[Joe]

I never witnessed disrespect.

[Kiss]

So to me, it was, like, shocking, you know? It was like, yo, shocking. Yo. Shout out to AD in the building.

[Joe]

I was Chris Lighty, you know, he discovered me at 50.

[Kiss]

And when he passed away, we seen each other at the funeral, and that broke the ice. And he always wanted us to squash the beef. And then that's why we, you know, squash the beef.

[Jay Pharrell]

That's beautiful, though, man.

[Kiss]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jay Pharrell]

You know, the fact that you can. The fact that you can get past your differences, no matter how Controversial things are. You can get back to the art.

[Kiss]

That's what it's about nowadays.

[Joe]

If you don't get past it, the

[Kiss]

feds will show you how to stay present in that. Huh? That'll put you Rico in one second. Huh? Huh?

[Jay Pharrell]

Check on Diddy. Is that a curse word here? I can't say that.

[Joe]

I'm just. I'm trying.

[Jay Pharrell]

Look, Kiss, you got the same look.

[Joe]

I seen some shit. Yo, Kiss. I seen some shit. They said Diddy's planning this coming home party.

[Jay Pharrell]

Shit.

[Joe]

Is AI present.

[Jada]

That shit is fake.

[Joe]

That was AI?

[Kiss]

Yeah.

[Joe]

You think it's fake that Diddy won't throw a party?

[Jada]

Diddy wanna have a sandwich and hug his kids and sit his ass down

[Kiss]

when they let him out.

[Jada]

He's gonna have a party. Not soon as he get out, he's gonna take a bath in the fried chicken or something. You gotta sit down with it.

[Joe]

You know, he had that soul food Sundays house to eat. All that soul food.

[Jay Pharrell]

But my question is, is he gonna have a party or is he gonna.

[Joe]

You got a rap album?

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Dropping, man. Actually, it's dropping on May.

[Kiss]

Not May, June.

[Jay Pharrell]

The. When is Iceman come out? It's June 15th. June 15th is dropping June 15th. My next single, The Man, May 15th.

[Joe]

I thought it was May 15th. The Iceman, Ice 12th.

[Jay Pharrell]

June 12th. My fault, June 12th. And my next single dropping May 15th. That's what it.

[Joe]

What's the name of your album?

[Jay Pharrell]

It's called the Odyssey. Yeah, man.

[Kiss]

Why the Odyssey?

[Jay Pharrell]

Because the character that I am playing. Cause it's a whole. It's a whole backstory for this character. So he was given power to, like, find another planet. And then this planet's like a diamond planet. So he's gotta bring the economy back and he gets all this notoriety. He's got all this power, man.

[Joe]

You gotta sell acid with this album. You saying we, the normal person, gotta understand that the Odyssey guys coming from another planet, from this and this, they don't even use drugs to listen to that shit.

[Jay Pharrell]

Well, no, no, they don't even got to do that because. Because the music and the character is synonymous to who I am. Because it's like me in another dimension almost, because I was young, got a lot of money, figured it out, had a lot of access. But I realized that, you know, that wasn't the most important thing. Because when you get those things, man, it's not going to fulfill. The most important thing is having love in your life and having God in your life. That's what it is. And that's what he discovers. So that's what the album is about. And that's the journey of it, you know?

[Joe]

You know, this journey of life, man,

[Kiss]

is so crazy, right? Because when you come from nothing, you want it.

[Joe]

And now when you get to my

[Kiss]

age and you look back and you just be like, yo, man, I was just way too young for them to give me all this. That money.

[Joe]

I swear to God, at the time, I felt like King Kong. Like, yo, we got it. But it just. Thank God I never used drugs or abused alcohol or something.

[Kiss]

Cause I'd have been underneath some shit right now.

[Joe]

Like, it was like this shit. You know, you get all that money if you. If you getting high too. Yeah, like, that must be out of control. So with me, that's. I think that's the only thing that saved my life.

[Kiss]

Life to this day, that I wasn't on drugs.

[Joe]

Because I, you know, I'm a very addictive personality. So if I was to gamble, I don't gamble. If I was to gamble, I'd be dead broke.

[Jay Pharrell]

If.

[Joe]

If I was to be getting high, I'd be. Forget it.

[Kiss]

I would have probably smoked the big.

[Joe]

I would went to fucking Antarctica and got the biggest rocket crack you ever seen in your life. I would have been breaking records, would have been like, yo, Fat Joe got the Iceman's coach, he's smoking. What is it like, game show hosting?

[Jay Pharrell]

What is it like?

[Kiss]

How you like that? What's going. Tell us.

[Jay Pharrell]

No, no, no. Game show hosting is cool because you actually. Well, you have to think off your dome, of course, and you get a chance to connect with people. And you can't fake that on television. You can see connections. Like, when people are nervous, it is your job as the host, calm them down, make them comfortable. Because, you know, you could be down on my show. You can have three family members that. That you just lost to the balls. Push. They got knocked in the water. And then you could be on edge.

[Joe]

Like, I don't know if I could throw some fucking flags at this guy off the dome. Three in the water, like, yo, what's up? You not on your flag shit today? Listen, my shit ran out. This motherfucker threw like seven flags right now. You usually the king of flags off the dome. Like, dicks in the water.

[Jay Pharrell]

This, like, hey, wait, wait, pause, pause.

[Joe]

Hey, hey, ain't nobody do that.

[Jay Pharrell]

Ain't nobody do that.

[Joe]

You could lose three family members your butthole and be like, what the fuck?

[Jay Pharrell]

Oh, man, I better pull out a flag.

[Jada]

When did you say it.

[Joe]

I don't recall. It's a Paul's Machine.

[Jay Pharrell]

I don't recall saying any of that.

[Joe]

If I catch him. If I catch him, he's a pause like this guy. Wait till you watch this episode back on. You're gonna be like, damn, I missed. Yeah, we was right.

[Jay Pharrell]

We gonna see it. You. Yeah. You did a lot of butt talking.

[Joe]

I always

[Kiss]

talk.

[Joe]

But let me tell you something. I always say. I went, oh, so let me. Let me. We did Celebrity Family Feud.

[Kiss]

Yeah.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah.

[Joe]

The part where you turned around and be like, name how many people in the thing. There was a thousand people there.

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And you got to think of the A. That is nervous Nelson. Like, you. You. Yo, it's really a audience of 500. A thousand people. You got to come up with. With, oh, what do you like in the bathroom? What do you did? That is hard, bro. I was up in there, like, Sunday checking like, that is hard, bro. That now. Now I know what the people. People at home don't realize with them people that. That kind of stress that they going through, like, coming up with that, you know, survey says that. Not the one with you with your family and all, like, who gives a. But when you go out there on that Dolo mission. Yeah, that shit crazy.

[Jay Pharrell]

You know what you would actually like. You would like my show because it's like Family Feud. Cross a Wipeout if you ever get a chance. We're in our third season now, man. We're doing. We're doing very well. I appreciate everybody for checking it out. You know what I mean?

[Joe]

Y' all do Celebrity. How can I get on?

[Jay Pharrell]

We now. We've expanded it. You can be up there. As a matter of fact. As a matter of fact, fact, all D, Like D Block could come on the show, bro.

[Joe]

The whole D Block Terror Squad come up. I always said that I want to

[Kiss]

be like Steve Harvey. I tell him in this.

[Jay Pharrell]

I told him, are you halfway there?

[Joe]

You got to. No, no, no, no. I'm up. I'm more than halfway there.

[Jay Pharrell]

Talked about my shoes. I had to say something.

[Kiss]

Tell you something.

[Joe]

No, no.

[Jay Pharrell]

Go, go, go, go.

[Joe]

I done my rounds, like, shopping the show.

[Kiss]

How about this, kids? I done my rounds in la, shopping the show one time. And so we go to all of them. Like, one is Paramount, one's the other. You know how you gotta. You need permission to get in.

[Jay Pharrell]

Absolutely.

[Kiss]

How about every single one I went to, they had a space there that said Steve Harvey right in the front. In every studio,

[Joe]

one had a Rolls Royce.

[Kiss]

You go to the other one, Rolls Royce. This motherfucker getting so this 15 years ago. You know how much money Steve Harvey getting?

[Joe]

So imagine you go to Def Jam this one, that one, that one. Everywhere you go, the got the front office.

[Jada]

There you go.

[Joe]

It's a smart car getting that bread, man.

[Jay Pharrell]

He's got like 15. He's got like 15 shows. They all syndicated. That's what you want to do. The goal is to get to 100 episodes so it can.

[Kiss]

Hello,

[Jay Pharrell]

Get to 100 episodes. And then you just. You good, bro. You know what I mean? And it's all about that syndication. Get the syndication money. He talked. That's my unc right there. Like, Steve Harvey is my uncle. I can call him up, talk to him.

[Joe]

Hey, boy, this what you need to do, boy.

[Jay Pharrell]

This what you need to do, boy. You gotta get your business line up. And you make sure you bury your money, boy.

[Joe]

Don't let these white people take your money now.

[Jay Pharrell]

Real talk, real talk. But he's so successful because he knows how to move, maneuver, and he knows once you do one show, like, you're saying people with sick work ethic. Like you were talking about DJ Khaled. Like you were talking about Rick Ross. You have that type of mindset. You can do 15 shows, you will keep going. Your whole family will be able to eat for the rest. Forever, forever generation.

[Joe]

You know what's crazy is I met

[Kiss]

Steve Harvey for the first time in Abu Dhabi preseason. And I told him. I said so.

[Joe]

He was like, yo, I love your podcast.

[Kiss]

He said, you and kiss the gentleman. I said, yo, I want to be like you. I seen his eyes. His eyes opened up like he couldn't believe. Like maybe another man was telling him some shit like that. I said, yo, man, I want to be like you, man. Like, like you successful, man. You the guy that I want to be like.

[Joe]

And I seen him, he was taking like, oh, shit.

[Kiss]

Like, yeah, you know, I guess everybody, you know, people hold shit in. I'll tell them the truth. Like, fuck it, man. You are the prototype. I don't give a fuck.

[Joe]

Yo, listen, I heard we had music. Got some Odyssey off the Odyssey project.

[Jada]

You got some?

[Kiss]

Absolutely.

[Jay Pharrell]

I've been rapping longer than I've been doing comedy. So it just happened to comedy was just the thing that popped first. I used to battle. I did all of that stuff, man.

[Kiss]

So I'm telling you, shout out to my brother Sha. Cause remind me of me and Sha when he was in junior high.

[Joe]

He liked Dana Dane.

[Kiss]

I like Slick Rick. Always argue every day Going on the bus to school like, yo, Slick Rick is better than Dana Dane. He be like, yo, Dana Dane's, that's

[Joe]

them fun hip hop top shits.

[Kiss]

You know what I'm saying?

[Joe]

Yo, which one we playing? James?

[Jay Pharrell]

Turn it up, man.

[Rapper/Artist]

I'm a pretty handsome money B teller world is my worship baby call it Rockefeller. You can own that you get own that, you can own that I could put you on that, got the smoothest s smelling the pillow talking gentlemen a pretty really ain't nobody better but you own that, you can own that I could put you on that, you can own that. Can I be your man? I want some babies in your oven, baby. Beverage plans, how about it? Cater to the best time. I'm a cooking man and let me put this big old nine up in your diaphragm. You got them lying if you thinking

[Joe]

that he better than me.

[Rapper/Artist]

I'm old school, baby like your grandma's book of recipes I got that 42 was pouring in his Julio tequila friends up in Mikasa, that's me, amigo. That body shake, I get the taste she cropped the holy ghost, she take the offer then I'm poking like Pinocchio. Massages come as mandatory, I just let you flow.

[Jay Pharrell]

Creative like a thank you, brother.

[Joe]

Drink this 1800 to the album Modesty. Oh yeah, yeah, you got me. Oh yeah, yeah, you got me, baby bop. Yo, Jim, Let me tell you something, boy. That's your mom. Survive starting to understand Survive. That's a vibe. I get in the car and I'm driving super understand that that's a vibe.

[Jay Pharrell]

And look, you didn't have to. You ain't have to be high to understand it. You know what I'm saying?

[Kiss]

I don't get high, so I.

[Joe]

You know that's a lie. How people, people say they got to get high to make music they gotta

[Kiss]

hear, that's a lie. I've been sober my whole life and put shit out the park. You know what I'm saying?

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Let's go, Jay. What's this one called? Speak for yourself. I know you need that Maserati, Jack,

[Kiss]

but get the man system going. Yeah.

[Jay Pharrell]

Oh, this one, this one right here.

[Joe]

Yay.

[Jay Pharrell]

I say what I hate to say.

[Jada]

Hey, we ain't even need your participation.

[Jay Pharrell]

Lobster with the tail, Imma need a steak.

[Joe]

Swear I can get a full jumping out of weight.

[Jay Pharrell]

Swear something I'm losing is my body weight.

[Joe]

Lot of dollars in my pocket, that's a different way.

[Jay Pharrell]

Hey, you made your bed, you can go and lay.

[Joe]

Yeah, I Keep up in the wound, you ain't never seen this before I got women that smoke willing pictures me like it's folk I keep spilling the Alphabet but I be on a rope I'm busting mocking all these chickers I

[Jada]

can get to the goat your girl

[Joe]

the fish of me I do it well I know that she flow I just have my pick of the litter ain't mean anymore oh, you tripping again,

[Jay Pharrell]

baby Ain't no sweat on my brows

[Joe]

get to switch you out now a back on the brow God dang, I'm the man hey.

[Rapper/Artist]

Got a life chicken I can boss

[Jada]

God damn,

[Joe]

I'm the man in this you can't stand with a try to

[Jada]

make a friend with this

[Joe]

I'm the business ass count us up as witness I've been watching all these wash some wash my dishes I ain't Never lacking vision 2015 no prescription then my D is in addiction like a puppy daddy did I'mma beat it I'mma beat it till the ass gotta delete it hey, hey, one question. Who the leader? Ice cold, you ride with that Got

[Rapper/Artist]

a lot of chicken.

[Joe]

James. Yo, my G. Listen, you are talented, bro.

[Jada]

Get that Odyssey album, man.

[Joe]

You are talented, bro.

[Jay Pharrell]

Look, and I. And I'm telling y', all, man, when I say I listen, I. I listen to lyrics. I'm a. I like you two and lyricist, man. And I appreciate that.

[Joe]

That crazy, man. Great project. I'm downloading that Odyssey me personally. And I need that in the system. Not going long drives and shit.

[Kiss]

You know what I'm saying?

[Jay Pharrell]

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

[Joe]

That hard right there, bro. I'm not even gonna lie to you.

[Jada]

Knocking.

[Jay Pharrell]

Listen, man.

[Joe]

Very talented. This ain't that.

[Jada]

That ain't this cracking kiss. Make some noise for Jay Pharoh y,

[Jay Pharrell]

my guy.

[Jada]

Apprec. My brother.

[Joe]

Thank you getting that album, bro. You very talented, brother.

[Jay Pharrell]

Thank you very.

[Joe]

You got to give us your best kiss and your best Joe Imper impression.

[Kiss]

Okay?

[Joe]

Well, you know, it's similar to the

[Jada]

paint stripes under your eyes.

[Joe]

Yo, they need to do a tickle me Jada. If the was getting tickled, it be like. And then.

[Rapper/Artist]

And then these.

[Joe]

I told you, these guys. It's always guys. Five guys. 15 with glizzies.

[Jada]

No, 15 guys with

[Joe]

five figures. Joe and Jada show. Let's get to it, baby.

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