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Joe and Jada
Jeff Hamilton breaks down Kobe's ICONIC jacket photo & drops gems on fashion world
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Narrator/Announcer
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Joe Budden
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Jeff Hamilton
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Joe Budden
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Joe Budden
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Jeff Hamilton
This.
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Jeff Hamilton
Was frozen in my mind forever and of course everybody showed up and that just became the most iconic picture of fashion sports history.
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Joe Budden
Yeah, yeah. What up y'?
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Jeff Hamilton
All?
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Joe Budden
This your boy Joe? Crack the dawn. You know who it is.
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Jeff Hamilton
Your boy Jada. You know what it is? The Joe and Jada show, man. Every show legendary, every show iconic. And we stick to our word, you know what I mean? No matter what it is. Music, fashion, sports, lifestyle. When you think of our guest today, you think of that fly shit, you.
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Joe Budden
Know what I mean?
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Jeff Hamilton
Think of the early 90s, late 80s, I think of Mark, 1:25, I think of Genesis. I think of searching all around the city looking.
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Joe Budden
You know what I mean?
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Jeff Hamilton
Sometimes I would find it. Sometimes I would come up short. When you just think of fly, you.
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Joe Budden
Think of the NBA and you think of all major league sports, you think.
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Jeff Hamilton
Of winners because you see his logos and his leathers.
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Joe Budden
Whenever there's winning involved.
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Jeff Hamilton
Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for our guest, Jeff Hamilton. Great to be here. Welcome to the couch, my friend. Thank you for having me. Honor to be with two legends like you guys.
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Joe Budden
What is that? What kind of leather is that?
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Jeff Hamilton
This is my corporate look. It's my crocodile jacket look. My black leather crocodile.
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Joe Budden
So this is the most elite level of leather. It's a crocodile leather, right? Correct. You can't go bigger than that.
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Jeff Hamilton
That's the most expensive. Yeah, that's kind of like. You don't have to even put designs on it, though. I actually did a jacket for. For Pharrell that had all crocodile and designs on it. Virginia beach one that was a different level.
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Joe Budden
What? You know, as I'm looking to you.
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Jeff Hamilton
Right.
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Joe Budden
Good friend, I'm thinking of Kobe Bryant. Right. That Kobe Bryant jacket that he wore when he won the chip, how did you get that to him, and how did that even happen?
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Jeff Hamilton
It was a fierce process. You know, the whole thing started with Michael. So in Michael Jordan in 91, when he won the first championship, I said, you know, I really want to make him a championship jacket. This way, when he wins it, you know, everybody has a T shirt and a hat, but nobody thought about the jacket. So I said, let me just have the jacket. Because on the jacket, you really could tell the whole story. And also, you get kind of the idea of getting the trophy or the ring without having to wait five months to get the ring. So you get kind of a moment of instant gratification when you win and you get the jacket. And so it happened slowly with Michael. And Michael expected every year when he chant as soon as he pulled up to.
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Joe Budden
To. To.
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Jeff Hamilton
To the. To the locker room, I was right there with the. The jacket and put it on. And. And it just went viral in Chicago in the 90s. That's all people wanted. They don't want my championship jackets. And Kobe, being such a student of the game and such a student of.
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Joe Budden
Of.
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Jeff Hamilton
Of Michael just took it to a different level. So in 2000, when he won the. The first championship with the Lakers, his first, he had it. We had the moments, the locker room. But the second year in Philly, it became so iconic because. And Jada, as you did the pose when you did the verses, I mean, that pose became iconic. There was a moment in time that was frozen. Him being a kid from Philly and loving the Sixers, growing up with his dad playing for the Sixers and being booed the whole night and still winning and also knowing that his parents were not in a sense looking at him winning, which is the biggest moment of his life, a back to back championship. And so he had that meditative moment and so he wanted to isolate himself. And he took the trophy and went to the shower, locked himself out, and nobody knew where he was. So I knew better to follow the great Andy Bernstein, the Hall of Fame and photographer, because he, he had all his team looking for the trophy. And we walked into the room and there was only three people, just all three. And he was there like dreaming. And that moment was frozen in my mind forever. And of course everybody showed up and that just became the most iconic picture of fashion, sports, history.
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Joe Budden
You know, I think everybody's trying to emulate that picture. And I think it's had rappers make the album cover like that. Who did that?
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Jeff Hamilton
Yeah. Wow.
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Joe Budden
Like the COVID of the, of the.
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Jeff Hamilton
Patrick Mahomes, Lil Messi, Caitlin Clark. LeBron did it with the 2020 championship. So it's been. And I think also pushing it in a way. I mean, you did it with the verses. So Jada. So the idea is that it became. It's a symbol also of winning, but also reflecting and embracing the moment and taking a pause and not being in the champagne and the whole thing. You can do that after. But that moment was isolated. All the hard work that you put in for a year and the hard labor to get to win the championship and then just take a little few seconds to enjoy it.
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Joe Budden
So you was in retail in New York, right? Did you always just have your, your jackets or you decided, I'm gonna make my own? The Jeff Hamilton.
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Jeff Hamilton
I, When I moved to america in, in 1980, I moved a wife and two kids. I married when I was 19. I was 24. I just turned 70. And. And I came with $6,000. And my dream was to become an accountant. And I love numbers. And I was. I mean, I was a smart kid because I was a nerd. So I was a good student. And, and one thing. But I also was a hustler. I wanted to make money. I really was chasing money. I care about wanting to come as an immigrant and try to. I came with no papers, illegal. Try to. To find my way. I Stumbled upon some people that were starting a new brand. And. And I said I didn't have any experience of designing, never designed a thing in my life. Didn't know about patterns, didn't know about management of a business. And. And I got the rights to do the menswear for a new brand that just came out in the market, and that was Guest Jeans. So I founded. I was the first licensee of Guess Jeans for Men. I founded the first. The company that was doing it and with. At the time, with 20 grand that I started in 1983, took the company to $75 million in two years. And. But I was a kid. I was in my 20s. I mean, I was just. I didn't even know how to handle it. I barely spoke English. I mean, thank God I spoke Spanish because I was my first language, being born in Morocco and French. And I managed my way through to doing it. And I really just, really was not a plan of me to do it. Like, I'm doing it constantly right now to stay in the culture and do things because I'm passionate about it. And really not chasing the money at the time was all about, I need to just make a difference. And all the haters, including family members, you know, that, that, that. That saw me leaving France with the kids and with my babies at the time. And, and my son is 48. You know, it's not like kids and, and, and, and going out and, and succeeding was like a sweet kind of moment for me to just. To do it.
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Joe Budden
You know, I see you work hard. Like, I work hard, right? And I admire other people that work hard, hard. And now, you know, you up there in age, but one day I see you in la. One day I see you Miami. One day I see you in France. One day I see you this. And I'm like, man, this guy. You really are the true definition of a hustler. And working hard, what motivates you now to work that hard?
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Jeff Hamilton
Often said the main reason why I am where I am right now is because of the failures. You know, the dark times were the best time in my life. When I suffered not long ago. I mean, when I lost everything few years back after all those things and the marriages and divorces and, you know, the partners screwing up, and you reflect on those moments and you understand that all we can do is do the best thing that we can do every day. Wake up. We have the willpower that God gave us for us to work as hard as we want to do. Never take anything for granted. Being respectful to People being as good as you can. And also we are lucky, I mean, we are blessed to know that we wake up every morning doing the things that we are. We're getting paid to do what we love. I mean, if Michael Jordan was not worth a few billion dollars and it was not Michael Jordan, he'll be in his backyard shooting hooves, shooting baskets, because that's what we do. I'm shooting basket every day myself. And I'm happy every morning that I do. And I don't care if it's one jacket when we make few hundred dollars or it's going to be a thousand jackets. I work and address everything with the same way. I don't care if I'm dealing with a big celebrity or I'm dealing with a busboy. I treat everybody the same and with respect and integrity.
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Joe Budden
Do you get more respect now than when you was doing it earlier?
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Jeff Hamilton
Much more, yeah. I took it for granted. I mean, that's why pretty much also I lost everything is because I took it for granted. I thought that was the man. I mean, I thought, you know, I'm in my 20s, I'm making 6, $7 million a year. You know, I'm doing 7 million 5 million sales. And, and I'm, I'm like, like with Billy Idol and I'm with Guns N Roses and I'm here with Andrew Dice Clay and I'm here with the, you know, you know, James Caan and, and I think I'm believing my own bullshit. Then at that point, you know, then somebody like God comes in and taps you on the shoulder and say, well, wake up. You know, you're nothing. You're just simply a, a channel of the energy that I'm giving you. So follow the rules. And, and when you're young, you don't know, you, you don't have the experience. And, and we made mistakes and. But learning from your mistakes are the good signs. And you start appreciating that.
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Joe Budden
Let your darkest moments bring you most clarity. Yeah, you'll learn who. Who's really your friends.
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Jeff Hamilton
Absolutely.
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Joe Budden
Really got your back.
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Jeff Hamilton
Who.
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Joe Budden
And like you said, you know, God gives you these lessons and you gotta, you gotta absorb it and you gotta say, oh, I gotta change this and that. A step, a game up.
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Jeff Hamilton
And not everybody does it. You know, you get, you, you get the fall and you get up and people don't learn the lesson. And many times I fell and got up and I made the same mistakes and fell back again. But there's a moment, there was a shift when I was 64 years old to make a comeback actually. When you and I met Wally's in LA, you know, and I reach out to you like on Instagram. So yeah, I want to meet you, I want to see you. And there was a shift there that I felt like it was. I'm changing it. I'm learning from my mistakes and I want to be better, I want to be. And I understand that there was. Up to that point, I never saw myself having a place in the culture which I respected from day one. I stayed consistent from day one and I stayed in one lane. I never went for the big money and the big sellouts of different things. And even when I did nascar, which was anti culture in a way, like because it was such not. You wouldn't think that the kids in the street would wear a NASCAR stuff. I brought it to the streets and where it became. Everybody was wearing the M and Ms. And the Tides and the Dylan Hart stuff. And people had no idea that Dylan Hart was bigger than Michael Jordan at the time. You know, as far as a certain segment of the population. And it just. And that realization for me to understand when I start coming in like six, five, six years ago and going to. Like day in Brooklyn at Barclay center and, and young kids, 17 years old that, you know, that were not even born when, when Kobe had that moment and. And I say, what's up legend? Such an honor to me. Just me for what. I mean I, I only did it for the money at the time and I started appreciating more that and it was non ego stuff. And when people come and ask me for a picture, they think I make them happy. They don't understand that they're making me happy. They, they, they basically a validation of all the hard work and passion that put behind it. They gave me the seal of the stand of approval, seal of approval for all of what we do.
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Joe Budden
That's how I feel when I see Jeff Hamilton. I feel like Jeff Hamilton, you know what I'm saying? That's just me, you know what I'm saying? Like a roller. His jacket was like a roller.
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Jeff Hamilton
It's like you made it when you got a Jeff Hamilton.
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Joe Budden
Oh yeah, you feel that because you said. Because you, you, you said Genesis and this. You had to have money to walk in Genesis and buy real leather. Like they was levels. You had Jew man, you had Delancey. And then you get the Genesis, then you get to another level. Who are some of the designers that you seen come up and you had no clue they were going to get big like that. And you was like, wow.
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Jeff Hamilton
I mean, the easiest one is this is the first belt that Kromhardt ever made. First one ever. That's the first, like, top. Top five. I mean, probably this is like. I mean, I've been offered stupid money for that. But, you know, Richard, you know, when I had Guess jeans, I mean, he was a salesman that was selling me leather. So because I came at the time in the 80s, when I came, I wanted to make the denim, so I wanted to do something different. So I made the denim jeans with the leather parts of. Part of it. I did the jackets with the leather on it, which nobody had done. So I was buying crazy, crazy quantities of leather. And then he was a republic, and it was. And I loved him because he was, like, riding on his Harley and coming to the office with the long hair. My hair was long. We were all rock and rollers. And I'd rather give him the business than give him the best. To the guys from back east with the white dudes that were all square with a suit and tie. And it was just like, I felt it. And, you know, just mind you, I'm like 25 years old, and I'm running out 400 employees working, and I'm learning every day on the business because I, like, I said I didn't know how to design. I became a designer by necessity because I didn't like the way the people were doing it. So I went to my closet, I start pulling stuff out and try styling myself. And I said, I don't want to do that. I like that pocket. I want to do that pocket of that jean. And I start creating stuff. And then, of course, organically, it became more an urban brand for me. I never. Even though the guests wanted to be more department stores, Saks, Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus, myself, I started selling stuff in Detroit in the malls, where like, there was all the. All the guys with the fur coats and the jewelry way before Detroit.
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Narrator/Announcer
Players.
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Jeff Hamilton
Yeah, real players. I mean, and then. Then we just start getting that. And. And it just became viral. And we had no Instagram. We had no. No advertising. Everything just came from word. Word of mouth. And because we're the first one to do, like, fashion crazy, the sizes and stuff like that, so. So Chrome Heart is probably the biggest one that. That I saw around and then. And they well deserved because, I mean, it's beautiful what they've done and. And the hype that they've done. I mean, but. But it was like guys like True Religion, they were they were for me. I mean seven genes that work for me. Citizens of humanity, they work for me. I've worked with the guys from J Brand, I mean all, all those guys at one point in time they all have, I've touched all those guys, you know, like, like even, even the gallery department. I mean he was my sales rep when I was buying, you know, Ralph Lauren, who is my favorite designer by the way, still is. My favorite designer is Ralph Lauren and for me it's like the goat of goats when it comes to fashion. I'd like to think that I had my imprinted a bit all along the way with a lot of designers. There's always a point of reference that I have. I mean this is a 45 year career that I've had and still working 15 hours a day, seven days a week. And, and, and I, I, I'll go out, I mean, I mean it on Instagram it looks like I'm having fun, which I am, I'm having fun, I'm having fun working. But you know there's a grinding, there's a grind before behind everything there is like I, I Monday morning I'll be at 8 o' clock in on my computer, I close my door, I won't leave my office till 6pm and I'll do everything from still accounting, still production, still you know, negotiating deals, you know, licensing deals, selling.
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Jeff Hamilton
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Jeff Hamilton
I'm Hans Charles.
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Joe Budden
I'm Menelik Lumumba. It's 1969. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr have both been assassinated and black America was at a breaking point.
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Jeff Hamilton
Rioting and protest broke out on an.
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Narrator/Announcer
Unprecedented scale in Atlanta, Georgia. At Martin's alma mater, Morehouse College, the students had their own protest. It featured two prominent figures in black history, Martin Luther King Sr. And a young student, Samuel L. Jackson.
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Joe Budden
To be in what we really thought was a revolution, I mean people were dying.
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Narrator/Announcer
1968, the murder of Dr. King, which traumatized everyone. The FBI had a role in the murder of a Black Panther leader in Chicago.
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Joe Budden
This story is about protest. It echoes in today's world far more than it should, and it will blow your mind.
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Jeff Hamilton
Listen to the a building on the.
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Narrator/Announcer
Iheartradio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jeff Hamilton
I'm Bowen Yang. And I'm Matt Rogers. During this season of the Two Five.
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Narrator/Announcer
Rings podcast, in the lead up to.
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Jeff Hamilton
The Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, we've been joined by some of our friends.
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Narrator/Announcer
Hi, Bud.
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Joe Budden
Hi, Matt.
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Jeff Hamilton
Hey, Elmo. Hey, Matt. Hey, Bowen. Hi, Cookie. Hi.
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Narrator/Announcer
Now the Winter Olympic Games are underway, and we are in Italy to give you experiences from our hearts to your ears. Listen to Two Guys, Five Rings on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What do you do when the headlines don't explain what's happening inside of you? I'm Ben Higgins, and if you can hear me, is where culture meets the soul. A place for real conversation. Each episode, I sit down with people from all walks of life, celebrities, thinkers, and everyday folks. And we go deeper than the polished story. We talk about what drives us, what shapes us, and what gives us hope. We get honest about the big stuff. Identity when you don't recognize yourself anymore. Loss that changes you. Purpose when success isn't enough. Peace when your mind won't slow down. Faith when it's complicated. Some guests have answers. Most are still figuring it out. If you've ever felt like there has to be more to the story, this show is for you. Listen to if you can hear me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Joe Budden
What's something you got coming out this big?
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Jeff Hamilton
The biggest thing I have, I think is probably the World cup, you know, the World Cup. So I have a global rice for the World Cup. So that's. That's pretty big. You're one of the World cup jackets, man. We need an instant.
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Joe Budden
He gonna get you. He got you. Let me tell you, said Jeff Hamilton always picks up my call. Like, like, like you right about. Nah, nah, he always picks up my court. What's up, brother? What's going on? I'm like, yo, where you at? He said, I'm in Italy right now, but what do you need, Joe? I said, y' all need a white jacket. This. It's coming your way, Joe. Don't worry about it. I mean, always accessible, always A hard grind. I tell people when you're not around. Has nothing to do with you. I could be driving in my car and I think about you. Because I'm 55 and we all hustle. He works hard too, because you can't make excuses. Them bills come no matter what, so. But often I just think. And I think of you. I'd never seen nobody your age work as hard as you. I just have never seen it yet.
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Jeff Hamilton
Especially like I'm 30 years old. I act like I'm 30 years old. I just enjoy every second. Like if I. If I. I don't move differently than if I was 30 years old. The only thing I don't do is that I won't ride motorcycles. I. I won't. I won't really exercise. I eat right, I. I walk. I. You know, I'm just. I'm very careful.
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Joe Budden
You might not get married again, right?
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Jeff Hamilton
Yeah, I just, you know, for sure we'll get them everything.
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Joe Budden
I don't give up half of the World cup, man. Come on. Don't just stop. You gotta learn from your lessons.
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Jeff Hamilton
I have a great relationship with my ex wife.
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Joe Budden
You gotta learn from the lesson. Don't do that, please.
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Jeff Hamilton
I'm blessed with my grandkids and just, you know, it's a blessing for me to be the stage of my life.
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Joe Budden
You're originally from Morocco?
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Jeff Hamilton
I'm Jewish, born in Morocco, so I'm an official African American, so. But I moved to Paris when I was 11 years old and moved to America. I was 24.
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Joe Budden
So you don't know the little guy from Marc? It's the little man this small from Marrakesh. Marrakesh? French Montana. Knows him. It's a little guy.
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Jeff Hamilton
I don't know him.
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Joe Budden
Now, you know, we got to bring this guy in if he could get a visa or something. Yo, I gotta bring him. I pay for it. Let's find a little guy I want to fly on. There's a little man. You ever seen? No.
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Jeff Hamilton
I met one little man like that in. In Abu Dhabi. The third Turkish kid.
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Joe Budden
You talking about asphalt as fell's a little bit tall. I'm talking about little man as well as a little man. Those are my guys in Santo Domingo. They had a guy named Nelson. Little guy like this, he used to party with us. Jump on the. Jump on the chair. Jump on. Nah, this crazy man. You met Astra, Astral's the man. But Astra's a little bit bigger than these guys. These guys are like really, you know, French knows the guy. You know What I'm saying.
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Jeff Hamilton
But like, on Howard, they have Beetlejuice. No, Beetlejuice is great.
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Joe Budden
Yeah.
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Jeff Hamilton
He was the greatest, right?
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Joe Budden
Howard Stern is probably the first original legendary podcast for sure.
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Jeff Hamilton
Yeah.
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Joe Budden
Like, he had. He was doing whatever the he wanted.
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Jeff Hamilton
Yeah. And it still does. I mean, it's. You know, so.
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Joe Budden
And he still goes to the bank regularly. Like, they. He gets the bags like nobody. I think the girl. What's the girl? Robin.
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Jeff Hamilton
Robin.
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Joe Budden
She made 10 million a year. Like Robin or more. Right.
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Jeff Hamilton
But. But, you know, listen, they have the audience. They have the stuff that they do. And. And, you know, they. They had the ups and downs. But I've done stuff with him since the 90s when he was not even, like, syndicated everywhere. So first time he called me, and I had made a jacket for Slash for Guns N Roses. So I want to make me the same exact jacket, but instead of having the top hat and the hair and the guns, I want to do my long hair, a skeleton of my face, and I want two microphones. And he came in and he came into my hotel, and I delivered the jacket. And he put the big checkbook. Remember how we had the three part check checkbooks? And he put in the checkbook, wrote the check, carried the balance, and did it all himself. And he answered his own phone. And he won't think it's just like Bergman.
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Joe Budden
Hey, listen, the first investment I ever made, like, investment, like in stocks.
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Jeff Hamilton
Serious.
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Joe Budden
I don't even know where it's at. Like, when Howard Stern went to Sirius XM, I might have threw 40, 50,000. I said, oh, no, this is going to be a big stock. You know, I'm not a stock guy. I don't really do stocks like that. But that's the one stock I bought now. I don't even know where to find that shit right now. I don't know. Work, money, not is something.
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Jeff Hamilton
There's something.
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Joe Budden
It's something there. I don't know what it is. But Howard Stern, you know, he a legend in the game, just like you. The World cup is going to be crazy. They said they charging 200. They taking over every parking spot. You heard about that? They said they taking over every parking place, every parking lot, and every car. That lease is 200 a baht.
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Jeff Hamilton
They're letting you know off rip on the platform. I was looking the other day, we're talking about the World Cup. The average ticket test, like a good seat was $11,000 a ticket.
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Joe Budden
Eleven?
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Jeff Hamilton
Yeah. There's 104 games, 16 different cities, 48 countries.
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Joe Budden
48 countries. I went to the, to the World cup in Qatar.
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Jeff Hamilton
Qatar, yeah.
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Joe Budden
I'm saying I went and there was 36 teams. That was 36 teams.
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Jeff Hamilton
Yeah. No, it's like it's a month and a half. It's going to revolution. And it's three countries. Mexico. Three. Three cities in Mexico. Two in Canada and 11 in the States. It's going to be here. Yeah. It's going to be metlife. It's going to be the finals.
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Joe Budden
The finals is in New York.
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Jeff Hamilton
Yeah.
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Joe Budden
You know we gotta go.
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Jeff Hamilton
So we're having a lot of pop.
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Joe Budden
Ups, you know, Jeff Hamilton.
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Jeff Hamilton
A lot of stores are going to be open. A lot of pop ups with that. So I'm doing a lot of last time, hopefully some big collaboration coming up with that.
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Joe Budden
Also shout out to Haiti in the World Cup.
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Jeff Hamilton
Yeah.
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Joe Budden
Know what I'm saying? They got in for the first time. They've been through so much, you know what I mean? Just the fact that they could represent the country out there in the World cup is an amazing thing. Jeff Hamilton, man, we never had a fashion icon on this show. We was excited to do this. I know you gotta get going, man. We love you, brother. Keep putting your name out there. Keep doing your thing. Keep smiling. Now you always smiling, man. But let me tell you something, you just stepped my game up. Cause now. Cause I got a problem. I got a fashion problem. I spend too much money. I love it too much. But now you made me, I got some crocodiles. But now because you told me it's the most expensive, I' ma start looking for some crocodile with a fur on. Like I need to come in here with the glowing, the dark crocodile. You know what I'm saying? I gotta take it to that because you know, it's certain things self explanatory, right? No crocodile, they already know what it is. Yeah.
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Jeff Hamilton
You don't need the furry, you don't need the logo, you don't need anything.
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Joe Budden
You don't need nothing.
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Jeff Hamilton
But you need the right crocodile.
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Joe Budden
That's just. I'm not going to say the designer.
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Jeff Hamilton
Okay, you can say the designer.
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Joe Budden
No, no, I don't want to say it. Right. Because he's a nice guy. But I, I called this. You want me to say it? Okay, so I went to do a show for Philip Klein, right? Right. Who? Philip. That's your guy. Philip Plein looks like the richest guy in the world. Right? And he probably is, right. But he told me, he took me to his store, he said, anything you want, Joe. And it was a crocodile, right? There. I said. He said, oh, no, Joe, nothing. Anything but that. I said, philip Blind, you're the richest guy in the world. You told me to pick. He said, joe, this is my showpiece. He said, you take that. I have nothing to show. Like, this is. I would say, yo, but, you know, I went for the bet. I went for the gusto. I went for the big.
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Jeff Hamilton
I did one for Arnold Schwarzenegger through Bijon, and that was 150 grand for. For like. Like a blazer, crocodile. And even. Even like, something like that. Like, that directly would be like, 35, 40 grand.
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Joe Budden
You should have saw this guy earlier. Had the camouflage.
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Jeff Hamilton
I saw it. Does that look good?
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Joe Budden
Down to ankle? That's what I'm talking about.
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Jeff Hamilton
That was. That was really good. That looked good. The whole fit.
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Joe Budden
Yeah, the whole fit was crazy, right?
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Jeff Hamilton
Really good. Yeah.
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Joe Budden
You know, sometimes. You know, like the other day, something I'm a big fan of. We are. Was Bottega.
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Jeff Hamilton
Yeah, me too.
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Joe Budden
Bottega. A lot of urban don't understand Bottega like that. They don't know what that thing is right now. They starting. Yeah, they starting to know. Yeah. Scammers, hustle. You got. People always want. Like me. I just said, yo, you got guys who want the best no matter what it is. They like, oh, that's the shit I need to get. And so that woven print.
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Jeff Hamilton
Yeah, that.
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Joe Budden
That woven fabric, it's beautiful. I seen Cardi B. At the football game with the burgundy, and then she had. All the way down to the boots, all the way down to the.
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Jeff Hamilton
Even the sunglasses are beautiful. I mean, I just, you know, they're beautiful stuff. I mean. But the key when it comes to branding and fashion, branding and luxury branding, is number one, you have to flex for yourself. You're buying it because you love it yourself. You know, if you love it yourself and you put it on yourself and you feel good when you look at stuff in the mirror, then 98%, 99% of the game is done. Of course, you want people to see your watch and your stuff.
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Joe Budden
You know, I could tell you, but.
- [35:41]
Jeff Hamilton
It has to come from you to become authentic to come from you. We, like, people follow up, and then people recognize it, you know, Let me.
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Joe Budden
Tell you something, Jeff, right? Because I have a real problem with fashion. Spending money on fashion. I've spent so much money on fashion, but one place I've always been able to walk out of, Fendi, furs, to me, are the best furs. The best. I don't want to say I could never afford it. But it's so expensive. I never pulled the trigger. I have walked out the store, seen stuff that I really want, and I said, walked it off and went out. But recently, maybe like a month ago, I finally bought my Fendi fur. And it felt so good. I felt like I accomplished something in life.
- [36:34]
Jeff Hamilton
That's for you.
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Joe Budden
I mean, after everything I ever bought in my life, I started bragging to people. I was like, I did it. And they was like, say, Jim Jones, wife, Chrissy, my sister. I said, chrissy, man. She was at my house with my wife. I said, chrissy, I did it. She said, what you mean? I said, maybe 20 years, I walked out of Fendi. I loved every fur but never pulled the trigger. I said, I fucking pulled the trigger. And she said, yeah, Joe, you took it to the max. I said, yeah, I took it to the max. Listen, the best thing about Jeff Hamilton is everything quality. Every jacket I ever got from you is just supreme quality. You know, it's quality, timeless. And, you know, you put in so much work in the game that people gotta salute you and just be like, you know. And everything comes back right. In fashion nowadays, my daughter dresses, my nephews dress. And they try to show me stuff that we wore in 92 and be like, yo, this is the new wave. We got the fly. I'll be like, yo, ho. I throw the flag on the plate like, yo, hold up, man. I told you. You know what I did the other day? Somebody. All right, I can't. Okay, Somebody wore this beautiful fur, a white fur, right? I'll tell you this asap. Ferg, right, who I love very much. He bought his. He did it right. He wore this white mink to his ankle with the visus and all that. And I went to looking through my pictures because I remember I wore that white mink before, back like 20 something years ago. I said, call Terrell, my stylist. I see. Yo, T, you remember the time I rocked the white mink? He was like, yes, brother. That was like the day before the MTV or the Grammys, we look for that. And I found that where I wore that white mink. I said, yeah, I wore that shit before. Like, I just knew. But we love getting fly. We love staying fresh, you know, rest in peace. My brother, Clark Kent, he had this thing, I think it was called Addicted to Fresh. And he be like, yo, I don't care. I'm just addicted to fresh. And you, my friend Jeff Hamilton, are addicted to fresh. This ain't that.
- [38:53]
Jeff Hamilton
That ain't this.
- [38:55]
Joe Budden
It's cracking.
- [38:56]
Jeff Hamilton
Kiss. Make some noise for Jeff Hamilton.
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Joe Budden
Yeah. Oh, jeff hamill. Yeah.
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Narrator/Announcer
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Jeff Hamilton
As an H VAC technician, he and.
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Narrator/Announcer
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Joe Budden
1969. Malcolm and Martin are gone. America is in crisis. And at Morehouse College, the students make their move.
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Narrator/Announcer
These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson locked up. The members of the board of trustees.
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Jeff Hamilton
Including Martin Luther King senior.
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Narrator/Announcer
It's the true story of protest and rebellion in black American history that you'll never forget.
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Jeff Hamilton
I'm Hans Charles.
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Joe Budden
Our menelik Lumumba.
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Jeff Hamilton
Listen to the a Building on the.
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Narrator/Announcer
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Joe Budden
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