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I always knew I was going to be all right. So I know God got me. I. Like, I don't know where, but I know he got me. And I couldn't just let it scrape me out. I had to be strong for everybody out there.
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Yeah, yeah. What up, y'? All? This is Joe Crack the Dawn. You know who it is.
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Your boy Jada. Pardon me? Crack. This is the Joe and Jada Show. Every show legendary, every show iconic. And we stay ten toes down to our word. With that, today's guest. When you think of coming up, you know what I mean? From the bottom, making something out of nothing. When you think of Atlanta rap scene, when you think of staying 10 toes down, being solid, individual on the music scene, off the music scene, you think of a family man, you think of a good father. Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for our guest, wifen Lucci.
So what's up, my brother?
G
What's going on?
B
Y' all good?
H
First, I want to give you some.
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Another one.
H
Just had to sit for a minute. Stay solid. Never said nothing throughout the whole thing, did you? Got back out. Got back to the money just like it's supposed to go. Before we even get into any of that, tell us about growing up in Summerhill. What was it like, man?
G
Man, growing up in Summerhill? Let me see. Like in the other hood, you know, you got the good and the bad. You got your hustlers, got your robbers, you got your killers. Shit, you got your. Your ball players. And we all just trying to find a way out. Shit, we all trying to make it out. No, that shit hard, you know, but, shit, we made it through.
H
I always wonder why, because you got a different type of. Your voice is a. But it got something else with it. But now I see your pasta. Jamaican. So that's you cheating. You got the cheat card.
Yeah. You got the cheat code. I never knew that you cheating. Who were some of your inspirations before you actually got your rap deal?
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Night run up.
H
Yeah.
G
Got down nobody. Jay Wayne, of course, y'. All.
H
You don't gotta tell him that. Cause he's sitting there, he already gassed up.
G
Well, Jeezy.
H
No doubt.
B
50.
H
I mean, that's a pretty good goddamn list right there.
B
Sound like my lineup, too. Know what I'm saying? You know, the first time I seen you was very, very, very, very, very, very beginning. And you Were performing on top of a car outside of a club in Atlanta. When I seen that, I said, man, that man grind is different.
G
I'm sure.
B
So we coming out the club, he performing on top of a car outside. You remember this, right?
G
A little bit, but I don't remember what we were.
B
Yeah, and then it was like. It was in Atlanta. We come out of the club, and you was performing car. And everybody was like, yo, that's why I found Lucci. And this. That's the first time I got to see you. And I said, damn, bro, this boy is hungry out here. He, you know, next thing you know, you blew up. You know, but that was the first time I heard of you. I seen you promoting like a motherfucker out there in the atl, man. Like you said, growing up, it's so hard to even think coming out of the hood like that you could even make it. You know what I mean? And. And the fact that, you know, you and the A, what gave you that motivation? Cause, you know, we say the same shit here. You know, everybody who comes say they wanted to be a ball player, they want to be a rapper. But you actually became a rapper.
G
Yeah.
B
You know what I mean? So what was that big break or what was that thing that just said, like.
G
Just saying, nigga, from my. Like, not my hood, but from the A. Like, nigga, like trouble, corn, rich, home of corn. By seeing all these boys started making it and like, damn, these nigga from where I'm from. So it's like, this shit ain't too far. You feel like, if they can do that shit, I can do that shit. My boy Johnny Cinco, he had just got a deal, like, Cinco, my real boy. And I watched him get a deal. I was like, damn, I know I can do this shit. I just gotta keep grinding.
H
Oh, yeah.
G
You feel me? I kept grinding. I stayed down.
B
That's crazy. That's what happened to me. You know Lord Finesse, legendary rapper, he from my projects. And North Finesse used to sell the newspaper, right? So North Finesse would go buy the newspaper in the store, come in the building, and be like, paper. You pay a dollar instead of going to the store. He paid 50.
H
Cut it all.
B
The point is, he kept telling me he gonna be a rapper. And one day, I turned on the radio, they play like, three or four of his songs. And I was like, that's it.
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I'm a rapper.
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Nest made it out to bacon. You know, sometimes we got to see it to believe it.
G
Yeah.
B
You know, and so that's great. Atlanta is just filled with so much talent, so much success.
H
A story like that is crazy because X was like, already like Bruce Springsteen and wild.
B
That's what you know. I'm telling me I had it.
H
Yeah, he was already like, a star. But this is before anybody thought about getting a record deal. Then when he got with Rough Riders and he came and got us, but we got a record deal before him that was crazy about the. We got signed, then he got signed, and then he went fucking crazy after that. But he was supposed to sign, and then we were supposed to sign because he came and got us, but we got the deal before him. That's.
B
You ever signed dmx made a lot of money and was geniuses, but that was a real, like, imagine DMX coming up and all that. You like.
This.
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The addict, his best friend was a dog. He always had a dog. Went on tour with his. With 12 dogs on the tour. He had more dogs on his bus that he had a bus with him.
B
And dogs on.
H
All of the bunks.
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Got dogs on that's.
H
And one in the big room with it.
B
That's fucking crazy. You home, man. You went through some shit, man. So and so, you know, I. I know all about it. You know what I'm saying about being the target in your own hood. It seemed like even they want to kill you the most in your own hood for sure. And the police want to take you down to your own hood, right? And so they don't want no Robin Hoods. They don't want nobody to make it up out the hood and be successful. I don't know why is that. And that ain't just your hood. It was the Bronx. It was Cleveland for Bone Thugs. It's the same when you come out in la Yonkers. It's like, we hate it the most where we from and where we represent. You've been through a serious journey, you know, making music, then getting locked up. Like, just being locked up. The people don't know how real that shit is. Being locked up, being famous. You got to walk in that bitch. Famous, right? You. They put you in the jail. Famous. And niggas like, oh, shit, yo. And this. They don't know that. That's a diff. That's a different.
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You don't understand his power in there. YFN had their own side. He had to go over there. And they know what I'm saying. Shit, it was real in there. Giant and went where he was at Fulton.
G
Yeah, yeah, they went.
H
Imagine them came to visit Them.
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You was in there when Trump came through there?
G
Yeah, Hell, yeah.
B
The whole chair was like, yo, Trump in this?
G
Yeah, they. They shit everything down. But he was in and out, though.
H
I know.
G
Yeah, he was in and out. He was.
B
Them locking everything. Yo, but Trump came through, though. You in jail. Trump went to jail, nigga. Like, them niggas was in there.
H
Like, Trump was in the barbershop, man.
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You know, we.
G
We have. We have phones and so waiting to see the mug shot.
B
Oh, yeah.
G
When we see the monster, like, damn, I really was there downstairs.
B
Trump came through, yo. Came through the jail, man. That crazy. I never forget when little Kim gave herself in this.
G
I heard.
B
I wasn't there, but I heard the whole jail was banging on the fucking. You know, it's. It's the. They said the whole. It was like a hurricane.
Like, the whole jail was like, oh, little Kim walking up in this. You know, you. You home. But you know that people don't know how hard is that?
G
How'd you keep your. That shit? Definitely be hard because you gotta think coming from where a nigga that came from. Living good condo, big house, driving whatever you want to drive, eating whatever you want to eat.
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You sit in that bunk and it says, Chico 147 was here and all that, you just like, yo, we was just. Every day, we lit, like, come on, man. What that is, like, right there.
G
I ain't gonna lie. That shit. You gotta be strong. You feel me? Gotta be a strong nigga. Cause that shit'll tear your ass down just sitting in that room all day. You know you ain't got shit. You ain't got shit in the room. Ain't no tv, ain't no nothing, Man, I was in my room by myself. I ain't have no cellar. You feel me? So I gotta sit in the room by myself. I had to figure out a routine. So, shit, I started reading. I was working out at first, but.
B
Then I was like, man, you stopped working out, though? Wife, we are giving the Jada Kiss.
Some niggas go to jail, work out all day, but I can't just eat.
G
Or work out by myself. Yeah, you need to be somebody to work out with to keep you going when you don't feel like it.
B
That's a fact. For me, I felt stupid. I ain't even going to lie to you. When I went up in the cell, it wasn't even. How about, it wasn't my fault. Guys almost threw me out of jail. We eating and like, yeah, I'm in jail for robbing the bank, Yo, I'm in jail for counting, yo. I'm this. And I get up and I'm like, hey, guys, I'm really innocent. Like, get the fuck out of here, you nigga. That nigga was just going crazy. I'm like, fuck out of here. That was just. Like, I realized I just got caught for all the times I got away.
G
Yeah, that would it be.
B
You know that. Come on.
G
That's all it be.
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You know what I'm saying?
G
That was a older nigga told me one time. He was like, maybe he ain't do nothing this time, but, shit, you just doing time for something you been did.
H
Mm.
B
Oh, that's a fact. And so you just gotta take that and just. You know. But I felt a little stupid and shit. I was just like, damn, what the fuck I'm doing in here, man? I've been working to get to where I'm at. It is. And I'm never in this place. And then now I'm in this place.
G
I felt the same way. I felt the same way. Cause, you know, I was looking at that shit like, man, all my life, I ain't never went to jail that long. You feel me? I think I was like, I was 30. I was turning. I just had turned 30. I'm like, man, I'm 30 years old and I'm in fucking jail. All this shit I got going on.
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I was 40, okay? I've been lit since I'm 19. I've been on a couch at a club since I'm 19, popping bottles, thinking I'm 19. I go in thinking I'm 19. I'm thinking I'm 19 every day. Imagine you lit, you rich, you fly, you. You on the couch. You think you 19, right? So my thing is, I'm on the couch thinking it's all good. But when I go in there, so they do a 40 and overly. So some young dude come up to me like, yo, G, what's up, yo, you joining the 40 and over basketball? I said, disrespect. I wasn't in that sad. And I said, yo, you 40 years old and niggas know it. Why you ain't playing the league? Fuck the league. That was just a learning lesson for me. That. That put me really. You know, you can't sit a nigga like me down. So that put me in perspective. I said, oh, shit, the window really closing, Joe. Like, you gotta do whatever you gotta do to secure the future because you 40 years old, nigga. Like, how many niggas Nobody ever was 40 years old and hit a record out the park ever. I don't care who you talk about.
G
Right, right.
B
So me, I'm thinking like, yo, I gotta get back out. I gotta make a hit. I gotta get my money, right? I gotta get businesses. I gotta get. But that taught me, right there was like, yo, I had to get serious. The window was closing, probably was closed. You opened it back. Nah, I opened that shit back.
G
So I hear what I'm saying.
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I got to the fucking bag, you know, I went. As soon as I came out of jail, I went straight to the studio. It was the era of the young niggas. So they all had, like, yellow hair, purple hair, green hair. They looking at me like, this old nigga washed up. Fuck he doing in this studio, right? And so I was up in there every day just working. So you sat down, you praying to God for you to come home because you was facing stupid time, correct?
G
200 years.
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Hundred years. What was your relationship with God?
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Fuck it.
B
Hold up. You in the cell facing 200 years. What was your relationship with God like?
G
When I first got in there, I used to talk to. Now one of my. One of my dog name, Rory, Fred, Rob. So I was just telling like, that don't know how to pray, bro.
H
Like that.
G
Like, bro got to talk to God. Like, you talk to me N. Like, talk to him. So, you know, every night I used to talk. But I think this lady, she told me, like, when you pray, you gotta. You know, you ask for what you. You want, and then you let it go. So I pray that, you know, he let me out of my situation. He made sure I'm good. I only did that one time. And then every other night, I. I let that go. And every other night, I just. I thank them. Like, I thank them for being alive. I thank them for being able to still provide for my family while I'm in hell. When I wake up, I thank him.
B
For waking you up. People don't understand that. Juels went to jail for two years. I'm going to be honest with you. I ain't know how he was going to pay his bills. Do you know what it's like?
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I know what that man had in store.
B
I don't know what he got. I know what I got. I know I did four months. And, nigga, I came out a cripple nigga, like, on my knees, like, you paying these bills, these family, they don't know you got a lock up.
In jail. And you come home and you come home and your Wife is like, yeah, I bought a new car. This like. I'm like, you don't know. We damn both. You talking about like, this shit crazy, like. So I see the man go to jail for two years. I'm like, God damn. How do you pay the rent for two years of this? So you thank God that you was able to pay the bills while you was locked up. Fucking right. That wasn't no. No regular fucking shit, man.
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And.
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But my thing is because if I was facing 200 years, I would have a little more, you know. But Fat Joe, that's why they call me the greatest storyteller of all time. I would explain how they was fucking knots on my knees from praying so much.
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On my knees, I would have been facing 200 years.
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My shit was brick.
H
I would have been smaller than the.
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J.
I would have been.
N. I'm telling you the truth. I'd have been on my knees so hard, praying to God, that legend.
You. You gotta wake up every day thinking y' all might go for 200.
H
That's a fact.
G
See me, man, I. I don't know. I just. I always knew I was gonna be all right. I looked at it like, bro, I ain't no bad. I ain't no up. I ain't never did no fucked up shit to nobody. He said, I know God got me. I. Like, I don't know when, but I know he got me. And I couldn't just let it scrape me out. I had to be strong for everybody out there. I used talk to my mama every day, and just to hear her sad, hear the cracks in her voice, I know she crying. She acting like she ain't crying. So I had to be strong for everybody else. No, like, man, I'm good. You ain't got to worry about me. I'mma be all right. You feel me? And I just had faith. I had a lot of faith.
B
That's crazy.
G
Ain't no tell you, like, when I walked out of that, I knew I was coming home.
B
You walked out like it was AI.
G
Huh?
B
You walked out. This was AI, nigga. You was like, yo, this ain't like. I ain't gonna lie. They. I only did four months, but when they came and got me in the new bends and I seen the dashboard and all, I felt like I was AI. I was like, what is this? This was crazy because it was. I had to get the halfway house. So it was either have sex or eat a steak. I ate the steak.
I told my mother in law, y' all make the steak Man, I'm coming. Because you had to go straight. Yeah, to halfway. You couldn't make. They were so specific.
G
I probably would have had sex.
B
It has to be back up in here. You gotta go direct.
H
I might have the.
G
I would ate that later.
B
See, y' all had it good. If you had your own section and all that. I know y' all had a good. I had it bad. So they were like, yo, this nigga coming in here, he got money, this, this, that. If we catch any of you, police take any money.
I was in there bribing. I don't get high, bro. I was in there trying to bribe niggas. Joe, bring me a stank, nigga, my man will give you 6,000. Of course niggas would not give me a ste. One cop told me he was mad cool. He said, yo, you disrespecting me, B.
I just. I'm fat Joe, man. I need to eat some good. So they got this correction officer lady. She looked like throw mama off the train. That's the ugliest in the world, right? She come through, she violate me, my Joey. Oh, my Joey. I tell my girls about my joke. This so ugly, man. I'm looking at. Thank God I ain't have 10 years, right? I'm looking at. I'm like playing it off one day. I tell, I said, miss such and such. He said, yeah, Joe, anything for you. I said, give me. I need a steak.
G
No, but so, hey, look, them young niggas, they used to always tell me, I be like, man, they like, look, bro, you gotta flirt with the officer, bro. They gonna give you whatever you want.
B
I can't flirt with it no way. Crazy looking lady. Now, if you got 200 years, you got 100 something. You gonna flirt with any but young lady, but you gotta trust the process. But I was like, at least did.
H
She get you the state?
B
Nah, she never got. That was the end of communication. Oh, you never told that broke ass up. Cause I'm over here entertaining the bitch. She over here. Hey, my Joey. Oh, I was telling the girls about you and all this. I'm like looking at this bitch. I'm like, yo, I said, listen, could you bring me a steak?
I can't do that, Joey. That was.
Ain't no reason to even be nice different.
G
You get steak, you get Bennett Hunter, you get whatever you want.
Man. I'm in that eating Benny's.
B
I got a chef and all that. No, no, no, no. I had a chef and all that, but I had to do it my way.
G
I Was getting the real Benny.
B
Yeah, that's disrespect. That's for a nigga like me. You doing. Yeah, you was doing disrespect for me.
H
But for me, I was happy when he fixed it with Doug because I. With both of y', all, so that's a part of the time. I'm glad that I wasn't from Atlanta, so I can just mind my business beyond it.
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Fix it.
H
Hey, I did a horrible job because I was able to detect. Yeah, we worked together. When y' all tried to do the social media shit, I said, these. Got his phone again, and then y'.
G
All.
H
Yeah, at work. Yeah. No, they couldn't. I. I knew that they worked together before the world knew.
B
Let's. Let's get back to this. Was there a deep hate between. Between serious drama. I'm telling you, I'm a journalist. My.
The barber shops want to know. I'm trying to put them in real time, so it's a real hate. You thinking we killing him one day. He's thinking we killing you one day. And what was this epiphany? What said, yo, the man, 200 years, the man Jesus, you know, he got too smart. He think of the answers for the people.
H
I'm usually telling him to let him talk. Let him talk.
B
You thinking you're going to kill him. He thinking he going to kill you. You know, that is beautiful for the youth to see, but how did that come about where you just said, yo, this ain't about shit. Cause I had a similar situation.
G
I'm so.
B
Know what I'm saying. I came home, I made peace with 50 cent, made peace with everybody. And the doors open, the floodgates open. Because when niggas got to pick a side, so there's bags that they won't even let you get to, because they'd be like, yo, if I'm fat Joe, got the rewinded shit, and I'm thinking of YFM Lucci. I'm like, yo, I'm about to ask Lucci. Ten other niggas will come and be like, yo, these niggas won't fuck with you no more. If you with. I went through that. That's your little sneaker deals all type of shit. Because I had beef with niggas. And them niggas was like, yo, he can't eat over here. He can't eat. So what was the process?
G
Just sitting in jail, bro, just thinking like, bro, is all this worth it? You know, got a kid. I'm standing here, I'm away from my kid.
B
We.
G
We beefing with them. Ain't right, though. Goddamn taking care of my kid. I ain't. I ain't looking out for my kid while I'm in here. You feel. But a. I want you to keep up the though. But when you get took away from your family, you realize like, yeah, bro, my family need me. You feel me? My kid got to grow up in this. I want them growing up in OB My kids ain't no gangster. They ain't from the hood. You feel me? They cool. Ain't gonna just let nobody with them. But you know what I'm saying, like, bro, can come together, make some money and change the narrative and help the youth. Look at this. If they can do this, bro, we can do this. Because it ain't all about that. And now today, that about money not taking care of your family and you need the money to take care of.
H
Yeah, that's it.
Load that. They need to push that more.
For all of the. They don't never highlight them segments are these type of interviews. Those are the shits that don't make it. But on Joe and Jada, you get that. You know what I mean? That's why we the fit.
B
That's right. That's right. He got that today. He on that.
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Is Eva Longoria from Hungry for History with Eva Longoria and Maite Gomez Rejon. Hi, everyone. Happy holidays. Let's talk about those two words about keeping the holidays happy. Because let's be honest, even the happiest season could use a boost. You've got to take a minute for yourself, a little me time, and refill those joy reserves. So there's still plenty left to share. Maybe that means taking a break from wrapping, planning, cooking, hosting to recharge with a refreshing Coca Cola.
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First of all, I want to know, how could you afford this entourage? About a hundred niggas.
H
There he goes, exaggerated again. Ladies and gentlemen, there's seven individuals over there.
B
17 right now.
G
Back in the day, it would have been 17. It would have been 17.
B
It would have Been 20, 37 right now. See this we like.
G
It's my team.
B
This is working.
G
Everybody over here working right here. You feel me? We all working.
B
You know I did it. It's famous. I've talked about it before, but I'm also. I told him I think I invented the entourage. Where I'm telling you the truth. Don't flag if you want. I don't give a fuck. I'm telling you, you ask anybody, you know, Terror Squad, you see us, you know you was down. It's all good. But I'm being honest with you. I think I invented the entourage. I would walk around with 45 niggas, two tour buses, private plant, wherever you could think of 47 lobsters and steaks. And bottles every day for years, right? And one day, God told me, yo, call all these niggas up. We was in Puerto Rico, them niggas was buying bottles at the bar. You know, we had it like that. And then I stepped to them and I said, yo, guess why? I said, guess why? I'm broke. Said, that's it. I'm broke. I can't afford this no more. You know, shit is fucked up. Which wasn't even true. And out of the 45 niggas, only five of them said, yo, Joe, if you dead broke, I'm with you every day, my brother. I love you. The other 40 got the hell on. And it was the best thing that ever happened to me in my life, right? But the type of shit they were saying to me, yo, we did this. Yo, we did. I'm like, niggas ain't made no song. Nigga ain't going no tour with me. Well, what are these people talking about? And they start thinking you owe their money is your money.
G
They being entitled. They be feeling entitled, entitlement. They feel like, you gotta do this.
B
I worried when I see such a large entourage, because I know what happened to me, and I wish I would have did that 10 years before. I would have saved millions and millions and millions of dollars. Office, we're fucking with all these people, you know? And what about you? Do you have, like, a survivor's guilt? Y' all grew up here? I got it.
G
Yeah. I just got a big heart when I first made it. You know, I love. I love uncle my. My hood. We grew up together. If I fuck with you, I felt like I'm getting to see the world. I want to take y' all to see the world. Come on. Like, shit, we from something here. Some niggas ain't never been to fucking Macon, Georgia. You feel me? So we got down. We going everywhere. We saying different shit. And you know, to some people, that shit open up your mind when you get to seeing different shit. But some people, they don't get it.
B
They just want to stage that bullshit. That's why they said that everybody can't go. Shit, I'm in Dubai. First of all, if y' all don't know, there's a lot of people here. You know, this is the type of place I read about. But when I'm in the projects in the Bronx, I never think I'm going to no fucking Middle east, no Dubai. That's the last shit. You think you going to Egypt or some shit like this. So not only am I In Dubai. I'm in the royal palace where the kings and queens and the prince live.
H
What's your name over there?
B
Ali Kishani. Salaam alaikum, everybody. Bismillah. My thing is, I got a different name over there. But my thing is I'm walking in the palace and the nigga I got with me, he got his pants under his ass. He got his ass, his in the royal. I look at this nigga, I said, man, I'm about to punch you in your face in front of these people like you. You a real disrespectful nigga, you know what I'm saying? Type of nigga. You sit there station live cause he all in chicken tenderloin, you know what I'm saying? He don't know what they. And he's violating in that shit. I said, yo, everybody can't go. You want to show him. You want to be like, yo, check this out.
G
I was in the club one time by myself. I usually go to the club, you know, deep all the time. But I was in there by myself one time and the girl, she walked up to me and she was like, you look better by yourself. But back then I never got what she was saying. But it took me to go to jail, sit down. And I thought about that shit again. I'm like, damn, that what she meant. Cause now I'm gonna. Everybody know.
B
I'm gonna tell you where else you look better at by yourself when you go do business for sure. Cause we be scaring niggas away. That's why all the weird niggas get the money. Them niggas who walk in with a skateboard and shit, looking like fucking nerd ass niggas. They walk up in there and they're friendly.
H
I love you skateboard community. No disrespectful.
B
We love all you niggas. But the point is, I'm saying the point, I'm saying, you know, I used to literally go in meetings with the record label and be like, my N Pete came home for two murders. This is Johnny Box Box cut a hundred niggas face. This is one that them niggas probably was like, scared as fuck. This nigga out of here so fucking fat. Let's let his project flop so fast. We do not want to deal with him. We went next. The other nigga come up in there with the skateboard and shit, looking all weird with the fucking tie with the thing that who you think they want to work with because they think we already dangerous confrontation. Once we learn what the bag is. It is what it is. We about to turn up on them. You know what I'm saying? The most dangerous, even in the drug game, the connects want to give the pussy niggas the work. They don't want to put this guy who's killing everybody in the world. They don't want to put no bricks in his hand because he going to turn around and say, suck my dick. I ain't got to pay you, you pussy. I'm not. That's how I go. Same thing with business. So just. Just a gem. When you walk in them offices where you trying to pull off that bag, you. You look better by yourself, I'm sure, because these niggas are scared to death. And they'll look and they'll be like, oh, no, we can't do this. Know what I'm saying? That's why I always respected the Birdman, because he always came out, he can't. He had tattoos on his face, all type of shit. I see him in all the meetings. You knew they was dealing with him because he had so much value to him. Because they would never deal with a guy like this.
G
So.
B
But they, you know, it was respecting this and this and that, but he had the roster. He got Drake, Lil Wayne, this, that, the cash rich. So they had to deal with him. You understand what I'm saying? But he's sitting up in there. I see him in the meeting, I'm like, damn. They never thought they'd be giving this nigga a billion dollars, but he is what he is. He's the source of whatever the case may be. But at the end of the day, keep it clean. Yeah, you keep it clean.
H
What was it like recording your first song after you got out? How did I.
B
You wasn't on the beat. Was you on beat?
G
I was good. When I did my first song, it wanted to make it like I'm trying to make the hardest. I just wanted to hear my voice again, see how I sound. Once I did that, I'm like, oh, I still sound. The sound good. Went back the next day, started smoking.
B
You thought your shit changed. Cause you know when you hear yourself.
G
In so long, you like, damn. I wanna.
B
You know. You know, I went in the studio the other day, first time in a year, I sound pretty good. Yeah, I was impressed. I said, damn, for an old nigga. Young, old nigga. I said, damn, man, you still got it, man. You talking that shit.
G
You good.
B
Go like. I think this is the first time I check my. So this is the first Time I went in the studio, and I was like, yo. I said, yo, I still got it. I ain't retired, but I ain't going to studio in a year. I just ain't going. And so when I went up in there, I was like, oh, I'm still like. You know what I'm saying? Because, you know, people fall off when they get older.
H
I might die if I don't go to the studio for one whole year.
B
You Boston Rhymes. There's a lot of rappers that really.
H
In there, gotta go to the studio. That part of my life. Even if I didn't go to the studio for a year, I'll probably be.
B
Like, something might happen to me. This is what I'm trying to tell you. I went in the studio, I went.
And I think I knocked one out the park, too. I'm not even gonna lie to you. I got that.
G
Oh, I got like.
B
I know how to knock that out the park. I wouldn't have been there. That was sounding like something I said, oh, not only I ain't going a year, I. I might have caught a motherfucker. Like, I'm talking about a boy. You like, yo, this shit crazy. Like, you got one. I was like, y' all walked out of that bitch. I said, damn, Joe. Like, you. You know, and so you. You got a big story to tell. You went through so much shit, just so relatable with so many people going in the studio. That might have been like. Cause you already was feeling that pain before you got locked up.
G
It made it easier that how I feel. Because I had a lot more shit to talk about.
B
Yeah.
G
You feel me?
B
So I was getting.
G
I was getting all them songs. Every song I did. I. I think I made my album like 30 days down to every song that I made first. Made that.
All them hard.
F
Yeah.
B
Cause that's that real pain.
G
Oh, for sure.
B
I'm saying you talking about that like the pain where it's at. You know what I'm saying? You just gotta let them know what you're going through better than even. You know, when me and Kiss came up, it was more metaphors and bars and this and this and that. I just feel like the pain if you talk about reality.
G
So everybody can relate to that shit.
B
Everybody can relate to it. And then, you know, now I'm rich, so I be rhyming about a lot of rich. So nigga be like, yo, my ain't in the balency. Chill out, Joe. Like, you going. Cause I'm going hard. You know what I'm Saying I'm trying Malay and Kelly's distance. Like, yo, Fat Joe, fans want to hear how you kill a couple of how you this, this, that, that. They don't want to hear all that, Joe. That fancy.
You know what I'm saying? They don't want all that. But I see they want to hear.
G
That sometime though, that you feel that's inspirational for me and make a.
B
Want to go get that and motivation.
G
I gotta go.
B
That's how. That's how I look. Let me tell you something. I don't deal with jealousy. I don't deal with hate too. My biggest album ever was called Jealous One. Still envy, because for me, I've always looked at people who do better than me as motivation, inspiration. It got to a point. Well, at least social media wise, when niggas ain't happy for niggas no more, they like, yo, fuck that. I'm fucked up, I'm popped. What are you rubbing it in? Why you keep flexing on the gram and all that shit? And then you be sitting there, you be like, is it me or just. We just didn't have social media when we grew up to hear these guys. Cause you know when niggas talk a certain way on social media, they bums. You know, they're bums. These guys never got a got a bag in their life and they just mad at everybody because they didn't find a way to get a bag. You know, that's. That's where I judge. Yeah, that's where I judge. These IG comments and all these comments, I'd be like, yo, these guys are bums, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, as long as you bless and you work hard for whatever you get. Don't mind how I do it. And me, I try to inspire and try to tell me some things you've done for like your community, the youth.
G
Dude, you know, we do give backs. We do back to school drives, we do Easter drives, we do got Christmas drives, Thanksgiving get by turkeys.
B
And let me explain something to you, right? We always got critics, maybe even in our own communities that say, yo, hip hop never did shit for nobody. This and this and that. Well, how about the Easter drive, the turkey drive, the Christmas drive, the this. When I grew up, they didn't give me.
H
They drove right by.
B
You know what the is? They didn't give me a lollipop. My know what I'm saying? They ain't giving me a date. Them ain't giving me a. You understand? They ain't give Me a thing. I just want y' all to take the human. I want you and every barbershop, wherever, whoever's watching this, take this human aspect. Think about when you was growing up. Did anybody ever come to your school or your community and give you shit? I'm talking about shit. One thing. A fucking ice spot. No. And so now you got an artist they always want to point the finger at. But yet you the first to. You know, you got so many artists sending airplanes full of food to Jamaica right now because of this shit. It's artists. You know, you got guys doing give back you. Every year. I watch y' all give turkeys and everything. And Jim give. And we give thousands and thousands of family. Thanksgiving's coming up. We feed when I say thousands. And this year is going to be worse. They ain't got no snap, though.
H
Yeah, the line's going to be long.
B
The line double now, right? Line double. And my line go around four blocks in each store. I got three stores. My line goes like this. This shit gonna probably go through the hole, like 10 blocks. So, you know, sometimes I get to the store, I don't know how we gonna give them the food. Cause we don't get. We give them the turkey, the rice, the yams, the soup, the beans. These niggas go with winner take all. My. They leave, yo. They leave, winner take off. Every person feeds the family. I'm hoping they say a little prayer for Joe Crack, you know what I'm saying? Like, we're cutting the turkey, yo. Thanks to the fat guy he fed us. You know what I'm saying? Protect him, God, you know what I'm saying? Because the prayers are seized. Soup, everything. Kiss, kiss. You invited to my giveaway. So you can see I don't play every cover for the soup. But we're still on the line. We're the bad guys. Yeah, we everything guys. We ain't shit. We don't give a fuck about nobody. We all about ourselves. We this and this and that. And that is not true. I even watch Shout out to Jay Z, Roc Nation for. You know, provide us this beautiful space. But Jay Z the other day, he raised $20 million for reform. Paying for lawyers, people's bails and all that. And I'm reading under the comments, he a billionaire. That ain't shit.
H
This.
B
Your father ain't buy you an underwear nigga. Your father, the man who birthed you, ain't give you a lollipop. Fuck you looking at a man who raised $20 million to give back. And you like, yo, that ain't enough. This the fucking game. The streets got the game fucked up.
G
That's right.
H
It's the comments, man. Stay out of the comments.
G
Yeah, people just be writing shit to write shit.
B
Yeah. Nah, it's incredible. But you gotta know it's out there.
H
He seen every comment.
G
I ain't gonna lie though. I read comments too, but I don't take.
H
Not every.
B
He's seen everything anybody ever said he catches or. I forget who I sat next to recently. Somebody super duper famous. I'm talking about like a white girl or something who was super famous and what she was doing reading the comments. I looked to the side I like, huh. I'm telling you, I was at an event, you don't read the comments where somebody super famous let him go into some. Some white girl that's super famous was sitting next to me. She was reading the. Fuck all of them.
H
No way you could fulfill the smoke of every comment.
B
Oh, yeah.
G
See, I don't trip out the comment though. I just want to not sometimes I.
B
Say, you know, I gotta.
H
He gotta come back. I was it.
G
Oh, you gotta say I wasn't.
B
Yeah, I just thought. I don't give a. How rich you think I am, how much this, this that. I don't care if you the he came home for 20 years and you think you got a new blog. I'll tell you, suck my dick quick. I don't give a.
H
Excuse me, ladies. This is a family show. How was it performing at the welcome home concert?
That's different than going in the booth going on now.
G
That shit was different. You know, like before I went to jail. I ain't never did State Farm by myself. You get what I'm saying?
B
Yeah, that was a big deal to.
G
Come home and goddamn sell out State Farm. And it was wiser and Lucy and friends, but we didn't announce no friends. And it been sold out and got.
B
Love for you, man. Yeah.
G
And I feel like I got all because I did like 20. Feel like 23 songs song. The whole stadium, word for word.
B
Everyone.
H
That'S like, there's no feeling better than.
G
So I ain't gonna lie.
B
That felt dreamed about, right? Like a dream come true.
G
Yeah.
B
Sold out stadium. And they. They singing every word. You was just fighting 200 years in jail, so. And now you on the stadium. That shit must have been. You probably couldn't sleep the night before, right? Like, that's one of them shits.
G
I was getting up. I was ready for that. I was like, I can't Wait, he.
B
Was hoping somebody was there, right? That was that type of shit. I never forget. I had a show, my first show in the Bronx. You know, we tearing up the Bronx, man. We giving them hell at this time, you know. You know, we wasn't the most, like, in the Bronx, you know what I'm saying? Cause we just. And I remember I'm waiting for my first show was at the Fever, and then I. I'm waiting and waiting, and I sent my mans over there. He was like, yo, there's lines around the block. That's hobby. I was like, yo, they with me.
H
They coming.
B
Holy. Went over there. That was like a dream come true. Because you thinking like, yo, is people even coming?
G
Like, my man, they. They. Every time we have some, I've been like, man, you think this gonna be bad? He was like, hey, bro, get out my phone, bro, get out my phone.
B
Yeah, because some. Well, now, you know, you filled out the stadium. There's really no question.
G
See, I wasn't nervous about that because it said sold out. So, you know this or it says sold out. Yes. Yeah, yeah.
B
Sold out.
G
Sold out. So I know they finna be in here, but us, certain shit that you don't know.
B
You know the game. We in the game. Let me just school you. First wife and Lucci, we've been around a lot longer than you. You definitely could go from the sold out Atlanta to the Memphis, Tennessee. Three people in the front, like, right?
Like, yo, everything. As long as you got paid. Hey, yo, Kiss. Is that the rule? You got paid, Gave you your. You like, yo, they ain't promoted, right? That's what I've been telling myself my whole life. Yo, these niggas ain't promoted, right? It be Red Pat. They don't know. Cause you get somebody, he a hustler, he want to invent that. He gonna be a promoter. He ain't promoted, right? If people knew that, it'd be ran past. I've been in shows, bro. Let me explain. Sending you. I got one for you. It's a motherfucker. We lean back number one. Like, yo, listen, no disrespect. Lean back number one.
H
That means disrespect is coming.
B
It's coming. Lean Back is number one. I fly into private. The dude comes to me with the. With the money, duffel. But too much money, right? He and Owen Versace and shit. This shit in like, Fayetteville, North Carolina. This nigga Versace down, his girl Versace. Everybody like, you know, they getting the money out there. You know, these Doughboys, nicest hotel. These people treated us like kings. We show up, it might be two people.
When we walked through the back, they brought us through the back. It was for what? 10,000 followers of Crystal nigga. Like, he thought he was the biggest drug dealer allegedly. And he thought n was just showing up at his joint. So he either got enemies or he ain't really promoted, right? This Leanback's number one right? At the time, like, we on fire. Two people in his family money. And I'm performing. And I couldn't help it. I just started laughing. Those things. There's nothing I could do. Yo, they was gonna kill us. He gave the money. He ain't complained. I walked through the kitchen. They had like, 10,000 bottles of Cristal. This nigga thought this was gonna be players ball. I go on stage, he got one. Dude, listen.
The Kid might have been slow.
C
The Kid.
H
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
B
Oh, no, no.
C
Is doing.
B
The Kid might have been so. And he doing this Y.
And I'm on stage, and I start. I'm laughing so much. Any would probably be like, yo, my man, you trying to play us? Was like, I'm waiting for. For this. Like, I just don't. I can't help it. I felt like. I said, this is crazy.
H
Maybe he booked it for that. That was doing that.
B
Yo. And they were doing the Euro Step. And I said, yo. And at the end, this is over. I'm like, yo, my man, man. And he was like. He might have tore that whole town. Or he was like, all these niggas, I go to their events, I blow the bag. Niggas don't come to my. I was like.
G
Damn, I'm playing to.
B
Get the fuck out of here. Cause this guy, I don't blame him. He was tight, though. He was like, yo, he just knew. It's lean back number one. He got back Joe in the town. He bought 10,000 bottles of Crisco. They Gucci down to the sock. Everybody's Versace down. Shit, the whole family had, like, a uniform. Nobody came.
Nobody came.
H
You got that backing.
B
I got the front end. He was the most honest nigga I ever delegated.
H
He gave the money.
B
Who does that? He came to the airport with the bread. Like, yo, here you go, and best hotel in the world. And, man, these guys are such good people. But nobody showed up, huh?
H
They gotta eat.
B
Next day was a new day. I showed up somewhere else. It was ran packed.
G
I think everybody been through that. I done had them same situation.
B
We like it to be crowded. Though we, like, already legend. You gonna do a tour?
G
Yeah, we. We going on tour. Top of the year, like, 15, 20 cities.
H
No doubt. Yeah, make sure y' all get great.
B
I pack my shit out.
G
I don't need to.
B
Yeah, we don't need none of that.
H
We need every show pack every city, every show, Ram.
B
And it's very important, Mike, because now, you know, you did in Atlanta, but now they want to see you do it, and then they see you sell them tickets, and then that opened the bigger tour. You know what I'm saying? So that's how that shit go. They be like, oh, he moved tickets wherever. Now let's put him on. Him and Bison Teller or him. Like, you know, the big shit. You know what I'm saying? That's how that shit go. You know, you enjoy your tour and all that. I'm too old for tours, man. My knees don't work the same. You know what I'm saying? I go do one off. Show here, show there. I ain't doing the whole fucking tour for nobody.
H
He got the legs for that.
B
I ain't got the legs for that. You know what I'm saying?
G
What do they got to do? What do they got the biggest bag in the world. You still ain't doing no.
B
I'm going on tour. Biggest bag in the world. I'mma bring two massage therapists. I went up to Harvard yesterday. Harvard's the number one school in the world, and there was so many black and brown people there, I couldn't fucking believe that we in Harvard like that. But you know what I did? We drove about four hours. I went straight to the. I had, like, an hour to chill. I went to the nail salon, paid the lady, just rub my feet for like, an hour. And I was like. She was like, yeah, but are you sure? I said, listen, man, nobody here is gonna pay you like me. Just rub my feet. You hit a home run today. Don't worry about. These ain't paying. Yo, they give you $2. You know, I'm. I'm like, yo, you good, mama. But she rubbed my feet. I went in that Harvey Meat.
I was light on the feet. You want some flat? What did I say? You crazy. Rub my feet.
H
Those flags is just for you being crazy.
B
This thing is. Yeah, the biggest bag. I'm definitely taking two massage therapists. Shout out Simone. Yo, Simone. What's up, girl? I'm taking my crew, y'. All. What's up, man? I'm taking my crew. We going.
G
Not for sure.
B
You know what I'm saying. But it got to be something out of control. You know, I'm too spoiled too like I'm spoiling. Like I like fly shit. So like if I go, I want to be Four Seasons walled off Astoria. Some of these places you going to, it ain't even your fault.
H
They don't even got.
E
Yeah, they don't even.
B
Have you ever been in La Quinta Inn, Motel 6? They ain't you could do about it. I've been on all the tours. You pull up, they'll be like, yo, what the fuck? We was just at the Waldorf in la. Yeah, well today is La Quinta.
You're in Fairfield, California. They're selling grapes out here. Like you have no. You know what I'm saying? That's the wax about tall man, that sometimes you got to go out there. It should be the wacky ever.
G
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one. You stay on the bus and the bus.
B
You stay on the bus.
H
I love the bus.
We pull up to them shits. Four Seasons, all that. They go in, I'd stay on the bus. I just go in my room, take a shower, steal the comfort and go back on the bus.
B
Gone.
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Yeah, I think that's something I've been thinking of because I Like small pillows. And I don't care how expensive they the hotel is, they always come with them big ass pillows. I'm really thinking. No, I've been really thinking about traveling with my own pillows.
H
Yeah, come on, dog.
B
Come on. I say it all the time, never done it, but I do. Cause they give me the hard pillow. I don't like.
G
You got flowered them too.
B
That's what I'm thinking about. I swear to God. Might be some old man shit, but I'm about to start bringing my pillows. Put them in two soft pillows. Like right now in my house, I might have 20 soft pillows. You know what I'm saying?
H
I don't like that.
B
Look, I go to the fanciest hotels and we have a problem with that. We definitely with the pillow. No, no, with the fanciest old. We spend a lot of money, bro. Is why we gotta constantly work. And it's my whole crew. We all at the walled off, we all at the Four Seasons. We all at the same region.
H
Yeah.
B
I don't do one of them roll out.
G
They want like a thousand a night.
H
Foul. When you stay there and you send your man and them to the La Quinta.
B
I'm thinking about this.
But for some reason they got the hard pillows. They ain't got the soft pillows. So I really been thinking. I don't know.
G
I ain't gonna lie. I ain't never been in a hotel with no hard pillow.
B
Yeah, I don't know which.
G
I got soft pillows.
B
I like super soft. You know what I'm saying? In the pillows. Super soft pillows. Like, I like super soft pillows. Not them hard shits, man. Them shits like. But in any case, in the winter, you get what you get. You ever been in a hotel, you felt like taking a shower with your tims on?
H
Hell yeah. I've been to hotels. I know they was hustling upstairs. Somewhere in this hotel, somebody got bricks and wallets.
G
I've been being in jail, man. You know, we got to stay shy with our shoes on. I mean.
I couldn't wait to get in the shower.
B
One of the biggest arguments I had was over the shower. And then nigga tried. I said, yo, who the fuck?
F
Hold on.
H
What happened?
B
So it's a shower. It's three showers and it's 2,000 niggas. It's a hundred niggas waiting for a shower and all that. Like, it's not like what you think. It ain't at home. I'm going to take a shower. It's like so I'm next to take the shower. They cut you Puerto Rican, try to come up like, yo, this is. I say, yo, papi, you gotta be out of your mind. You think you come up this shower, this. He looked at me. I said, I don't give a my. Like, you gotta be outta your mind. You think you jumping. You coming to this shower right now. But I'm in line for this. You crazy or something. That never talked to me again. But it was like, yo, I don't know. I don't understand what they were trying to say.
G
That was. He was trying to say this.
B
He looked like he was trying to walk in the shower in front of me.
H
Oh, he trying to cut you.
B
That no matter where you at in life is a violation. So he tried to cut me. And I'm looking at him like, yo, my man, you gotta be. What you think? You think I'm pussy or something? Like, you think this shit's sweet? Man, get the fuck in the back of the line. Y' all violated that nigga. But he was over the shower.
H
I can't take.
B
You know what I'm saying? It was. It was like. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, in jail, you have arguments over the dumbest shit you ever seen in your life.
G
Man, I ain't gonna lie in jail. I realize you can't argue with nobody, man. Some young nigga might be talking. They trying to tell me something that I know. Like, bro, it can be some dumb shit. Cause young niggas, they dumb as hell. I ain't gonna lie. They in there talking about. I asked them who the first black president. One of y' all niggas said, martin Luther King.
So he arguing with his friend. He like, man, I don't give down.
B
What you talking about.
E
Then you can't tell me Martin Luther.
G
King wasn't the goddamn first president.
B
So they like, hey, Luke, who the first black president?
G
I say, y' all tell me who it was.
B
Sugar Ray Lennon. Huh?
Said Sugar Ray Lennon. Leave that alone, yo, these so dumb, man. Let me tell you. Martin Luther King was the first black president.
G
And he ready to fight you about it. Like, I know I'm right.
B
Yo, he was standing on can't tell me I'm wrong. Let me explain something to y'.
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All.
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I hate to be the burden of bad bad. This is the problem with jail. Where do you think the dumbest and the worst niggas on earth go to jail? You are sitting here with the dumbest niggas, worst, foulest niggas. On earth, shit could take off at any minute. I had this Mexican dude, he used to make me the nachos with the food. This, this, that, we playing spades. And I swear to God, I thought this was a nice guy. He just came out of nowhere. He said, oh, you trying to play me this? I swear to God, I wasn't trying to play him. He was a good guy. And so he sounded like he wanted to get busy. So I got to run back to myself. The problem is in jail, you got the slides on. I got to run to myself to throw the kicks on right quick so we could, you know, get it popping. So I go back to the nigga, take him into the church there. I said, yo, what you want to do? Nah, you know, my bag that. Look, jail is a place where somebody's wife can leave them. You don't know what they dealing with. Their mother just died. This, this, that. And them niggas could snap at you at any time. And if once again, I'm trying to explain to them the bid you make when you're famous. All right, motherfucker, just get. They put me in the building where motherfuckers get 100 years in jail. I had no business being there. I should have been in the Martha Stewart spot.
They put me in the building. Where you going on trial? YFN just got 200 years, nigga. You go on the elevator. Fat Joe's talking about Skip to my loon, my nigga. This, this. He floating through like this. He got four months. Nigga might want to stab me in my neck. Just cause to add to the 240, he in jail.
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I kill 40.
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Fat Joe, I'm dead serious. I know what I'm dealing with. I'm in the elevator with. Nigga just got 89 years. This to that. He could just stab Fat Joe. Cause, hey, fuck it, Fat Joe. I'm the nigga that stabbed Fat Joe. This, that is. That's what you dealing with. That the nigga game told me. But you know, la different. He said he went to a jail. He did like six months in jail, and there's like seven floors. He said every second of the night when they locked you in the cell, every second was a hundred different niggas. Yo, blood, we gonna kill you, nigga. Your blood. Fuck your mother, nigga. Blood. Fuck you, nigga. You bitch ass nigga. He sat from seven floors, was screaming for more. Bitch ass nigga. When we like, he said, yo, Joe, you going to jail? I said, yeah, I'm going. He said, you're not gonna like it being famous. I said, your game watch. Know these? They wouldn't let me sleep. They just kept telling me they gonna kill me from seven floors. And you know, jail's not a nice place. Guys like especially.
It's not a nice place, especially you. You almost had any. Anything in there or your.
G
I got into it.
B
Got into it over the dumbest shit.
G
I don't know. I got into it and he tried to stab me, but he stabbed me. A little cut. A little cut finding shit.
B
You did that taekwondo on that nigga, right? Pull out the shirt, let's go. Nah, you gotta go. You gotta go. You know, that's the whole thing about jail is when you gotta go.
G
Yeah. When it's time, it time, whatever.
B
To get right with like 7ft tall. What could I say? So I don't get a flag, meaning.
H
Mustache at this point. Is any. You can say anything you want.
B
What a diesel out is. He's a seven pack like that.
G
I'm putting the whole commissary for the whole prison on his ass, man. You think you're gonna play with me, man? I got a whole jail on your ass like a commissary for the whole year. Free commissary, man. Get his ass out of here.
B
I never seen the. I don't know how they found it. Him. I'm in jail. I never seen this guy. I don't know where he came from.
They put him on me. I got into some beef with some other who should have been able to beat my ass. He was cocked Diesel 6 something. He's supposed to beat me up. Me and him could have fought. He had a good chance, right? So I told him, let's get into it. He played pussy. But he. When I came from the visit, it was a look like. Like the guy from 300, the movie. The guy they was carrying around. He was that.
H
Come on.
B
I don't know where they found this nigga, right? Cause you stuck on the floor. There's nowhere to go. You should know everybody in there. So he's waiting for me. He's like, yo, Joe, we don't like what you talking to this, that. But once I realized that the nigga was trying to, like, come on some violent shit, I swear to God, like a movie. I looked over his shoulder. I said.
You talking violence to me was like, yeah, me and my. You need 99 niggas with you. You got to be kidding me. If you think you step in the fat Joe by yourself. Like, who the fuck you Think you. You think your muscles. You know what's gonna. I started going crazy. I said, nigga, I need Pappy Mason. I need Boy George. If that Joe get beat up supreme McGriffin gotta. You niggas, you are not authorized. I know you think you cock diesel, but you are not. Man. Let me tell you something.
You think you brolic like do you know, start going crazy. But the point is, do we have these new songs? Yeah, I mean, so you said the try to stab you and all that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This funny. This funny it. I'm telling you. He. He know he watching this. He know he is.
He watching this. He was fronting. He was fronting. He looked this small. By the time I screamed on him and he disappeared, he was like, yo, that didn't went from all the way down to like a midget. That was like, oh my God, this is crazy. But yo, I don't know. It is what it is. We gonna hear some new music already.
H
Legend all platform on. Don't stream it.
B
You know, this is the minute we play some. That is up, wife. I'm just being honest.
H
Oh, we about to boast the numbers right now, baby. Don't.
B
Yeah, your numbers is.
This up. They going to tune in real quick.
E
Already legend out now. Go get that.
Still screaming long little bit. Look, I remember days he would say I be this big on the. Like, I can't piss even if I get in your ass, man, I'm in the can't be playing on the Internet. Look, say the small talk for your dogs ain't Internet. Hey, I'm a dog dog. When they buy the check. Hey, if I fall, then you better catch after our dog. I tell her next. Okay, little Penthouse on game. All of us in there, if you let me hit once, you always gonna spin back. She told her friend, now they all in my business on her friend now they all in their fly told me not to not down so I ain't listen. I up. Cause everything come with consequences.
You gotta spend it. You better thank God I went to prison. Got your main point. Begging me to put the tip in. I was just playing in the mouth. We ain't kissing. I just put 200 in my mouth. Ain't no French kid. And I went Picasso in the house on some real. And they keep telling me that I'm different. Mom knew I was a problem since an infant. I just spent over a million in an instant. I just came home like I never lost a penny. Dominicans, black, long hair Indians, we gonna get that money and leave it out 20 road truck back to found out tr.
That's a billion I can't take advice from no du you're some billion you ain't never scratched I don't need your opinion you don't know the feeling when your pawn steady ishes you know I fought with bro because he ain't with precision we ain't aiming that man we aiming for a trillion cardiac frame solitaire do your big one all road go scaly plane need a big one like I'm Boston George one never talk to them boys.
G
That ain't enough I just came home.
E
You still playing catch up the pain on the catch up you got to stop lying to the whole word to TR and when you don't tell the truth it make it hard to open up when the w bully prove the door hard to open up when the car is a coup you got to all set on when you pray about it make it all better when you pray about it make it all better we were up and ain't nobody help us we were up and ain't nobody.
B
Help us yeah nah yeah. That's what I'm talking about. We was up ain't nobody helping help us nobody help us out of here.
H
That was that now we gonna hit other look what I.
B
Damn, Kai, you going crazy, huh?
E
Hey look what I did I took every loss and then I turned that to a profit I can't reach my goals with everybody in my pocket I can't trust the soul but I know.
G
Pain but I can't block it I can't block it hey look what I.
E
Did hey they can't hear me like big bro let lost lock in but Wayne ain't locked in.
Yeah hey Lord I did I went from a chrome into a million with no college I turned my nissan into a Benz with no mileage know my phone ringing but I ain't picking up for nobody but I just talk to got it Ross say you a legend you ain't got arrest for nobody 20 roll trucks back to back to how you you pop it this catastrophic this came from wifey I was in my cell with 20000 on my eyelid we the trending topic everything a profit my new ain't toxic grew up without an option popping way before the insta cost a hole on my felster that was just a hiccup joke sipping out a big club I was in good even though I should have been doing a thousand sit ups that you pulled that's on the hood that's how Little bro got hit it up. Sam, who with us?
G
Think about it. Yeah.
E
Yeah hey, look what I did I took every loss and then I turned that to a profit I can't reach my goal everybody in my pocket I can't trust the soul but I know pain but I can't block it I can't block it hey, look what I did hey they keep hitting me like big bro let lock in But.
B
Wayne ain't locked in.
We ain't locked.
G
In.
E
Hey, look what I did.
G
I can't read my goals with everybody.
H
In my pocket.
I can't reach my toes.
Already Legend is out there right now Tour top of the year. He's in coming to your city. We not we selling out everything or we ain't even talking about nothing else but selling out. Sold out arenas, sold out theaters, sold out venues already Legend, you know what I mean? This ain't that, that ain't this. It's cracking. Kiss. Make some noise for my brother. Yfn Lucha.
B
Hey town. Hey town.
H
Appreciate you for coming through.
B
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Date: December 9, 2025
Hosts: Fat Joe and Jadakiss
Guest: YFN Lucci
This episode features rapper YFN Lucci joining Fat Joe and Jadakiss for a candid, unfiltered discussion about his journey from Atlanta’s Summerhill neighborhood to hip-hop fame, his five-year ordeal in prison, navigating street beefs (notably with Young Thug), seeking redemption, and returning to music with his new project, 'Already Legend.' The conversation dives deep into the struggles, lessons, and growth that come from adversity and reflects the raw, streetwise humor fans expect from these hip-hop icons.
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Lucci on Faith in Hard Times
“I always knew I was gonna be all right. I looked at it like, bro, I ain't no bad...I know God got me. Like, I don't know when, but I know he got me. And I couldn't just let it scrape me out. I had to be strong for everybody out there.”
— YFN Lucci, [18:17]
Fat Joe on the Entourage Trap
“Out of the 45 niggas, only five...said, 'Yo, Joe, if you dead broke, I'm with you...' The other 40 got the hell on. And it was the best thing that ever happened to me in my life...”
— Fat Joe, [32:07]
Lucci on Squashing Beef and Maturity
“Just sitting in jail, bro, thinking like, bro, is all this worth it? You know, got a kid. I'm away from my kid...Why not come together, make some money, and change the narrative?”
— YFN Lucci, [24:15]
Fat Joe on Hip Hop Giving Back
“When I grew up, they didn't give me a lollipop...Artists always want to point the finger at, but yet you the first to... Hip-hop gives back.”
— Fat Joe, [43:00]
True to the personalities of Fat Joe, Jadakiss, and Lucci, the episode is candid, raw, and frequently hilarious—an insider’s view into the real-life struggles, setbacks, and redemption arcs that define hip-hop’s legends. The conversation is sprinkled with bravado, hard-truths, wisdom, and plenty of laughs, but always circles back to resiliency, growth, and giving back.
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This episode is an unvarnished conversation about street dreams, the price of fame, redemption, and maturity. Lucci’s journey—motivated by family, re-centered by faith, and driven by real pain—comes full circle with 'Already Legend,' reminding listeners of hip-hop’s capacity for both personal transformation and profound community impact.