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This your main man? Memphis Bleak right here. Welcome to Rock Solid, a production of iHeartRadio and the Black Effect Network in partnership with my guys over at Drink Champs. Big whipping. Yeah, Memphis, I'm back at it. Notice the difference. Just more grown prezi, no stones. This episode right here is powered by Doucet. You already know the best cognac to sit. Doucet. Yeah. You already know what it is. Y' all back at it with another edition of this best podcast, Moving Rock Solid. And this is a special collab show right here with my brothers over at Drink Champs, you know, efn, Nori, and everybody over there making it possible to be Drink Champs, and they the fucking champions. This the collab show here, and it's Rock Solid Drink Champs. Let's go. Yeah.
Host
So let me ask you, are you liking this podcast space?
Memphis Bleak
Who, me? Yeah. Hell, yeah. I'm loving it, man. You know what I mean?
Host
Getting a lot of love out there.
Memphis Bleak
Let's make some noise for you. Definitely getting a lot of love out there. Definitely. But I feel like it's a new space of unlocking information, right? With some of these guys, I wanted to know, like, you know what I mean? Interviewing Young Chris and Freeway. You sitting there in the studio with niggas or in the club with niggas, you can't be like, yo, so, fam, how you get that Mariah? Like, how was it working with Mariah? Like, yo, dog, we in the club. Shut up. You know what I'm saying? So it's a little different now, being able to pick a nigga brain and see what's really behind the madness, you know?
Host
Now, we was in Roc Nation the other day.
Memphis Bleak
I seen y' all niggas, man.
Host
Joe and Jada was filming, and I realized to the left of them is the actual Rock Solid logo.
Memphis Bleak
You lied. Yeah.
Noreaga
The speaker, the other boombox.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah. Oh, yeah. They know. They know. Stop playing with me. Them niggas took my headquarters, too. Pors they gonna shoot in the big room. They asked me the other day, bleak, why don't you do Episode here? Cause then they gonna say, I'm copying. How can you copy at your own? Ain't that crazy? Now I'm a copycat in my own crib. Yeah, he played the foul game.
Host
Oh, shit.
Memphis Bleak
Word up.
Host
Are you drinking? You drinking this?
Memphis Bleak
Yeah. Hell y' all drinking, baby.
Host
I'm ready for that. Heaven say.
Noreaga
Oh, you want? Where Jamie at?
Host
He right here.
Memphis Bleak
We drinking, baby.
Host
We drinking and we celebrating. We celebrating.
Memphis Bleak
We here. We celebrating. Drink Champs. Rock solid. Yo, so I had a question.
Host
Go ahead.
Memphis Bleak
So, efn, you know, I know you been running an underground scene in Miami forever, right? What. Who you think held the mixtape scene down after your mark? Cuz you, they, they. From what I know and what I heard the streets say you was. You was the clue of Miami during.
Noreaga
The cassette era for sure. And in the beginning of the CD era.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, you ain't getting no cd, love.
Noreaga
No, no, I did, I did. I just started falling out of love with it when it went into like the Napster digital era.
Memphis Bleak
Why?
Noreaga
I just wasn't the same. I'm an analog dude.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, chill, man. You wasn't. He need to walk me after walking said it. It's over, y'.
Host
All.
Memphis Bleak
I quit. I quit. Yo, but Cali held it downtake. DJs out.
Noreaga
Wasn't a mixtape DJ. He put out some mixtape.
Memphis Bleak
See, I wasn't outside in my.
Noreaga
I was the uniquely mixtape. That was my lane.
Host
There's a DJ cover that they got. They got him Khaled, DJ Epps and Iri.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah.
Host
And like, that's pretty much.
Noreaga
It was mixtape magazine.
Host
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's pretty much like the DJs down here. Down here. Like, you like. Sorry.
Noreaga
There was a lot of other DJs.
Host
Just, I mean, you know, I recognize the mixtape DJ. Sorry to change the subject. You. You. You put me on to my man from the Bay.
Memphis Bleak
Like, oh, friend, the lay back. Yeah, Franny.
Host
So, like, what was his affiliation with rock back then?
Memphis Bleak
His affiliation was. That's why. See, that's what I meant. Like, why I love this space. Because I knew how Franny met Jay Biggs and Danes.
Host
Wow.
Memphis Bleak
Like, so when I, you know, went on the. Back then, it was called the Chitlin Circuit. So, you know, you was doing college radio. KMEL was one of the first radio stations to let me up there without a name, without a voice, without being heard. You know what I'm saying? So. And that was the guy. And they was like, yo, when you get to San Francisco, you tapping in with DJ Franzen. And I'm like, how niggas know a DJ in the Bay already? But I never asked how they linked or nothing. So when I met Franny the first time, like, I said the N, like, yo, bleak roll up. And we.
Host
For people that don't know that's a radio station.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, that's like you being at Hot 97 and Flex telling you, yo, roll up. That's not happening. It's never happening. So that was like, yo, why I could smoke right here? And ever since then, it just been locked in it every single show. I don't care whether we was in San Diego, Seattle, Louisiana. San Francisco, or the West Coast, Vegas. He was there. And everybody knew him, like. And then seeing the love that he used to get from Snoop, you know what I mean?
Host
The exhibits, doctors, that whole Bay Area, San Francisco area. Right.
Memphis Bleak
And I always wondered, yo, bro. Why you never did the mixtape game or, you know, tried to make an album. And he just.
Host
He would have been the West Coast Khaled or the first Khaled.
Memphis Bleak
Yes, for sure. He was out before Khaled. For sure. Like a lot of DJs respect, Franny. Cause he paved the way, especially bridging the gap between the east and the West. Cause he was the first west coast dj, I believe, playing a lot of east coast music.
Noreaga
He's in the Bay, right?
Memphis Bleak
He was. Now he in Vegas.
Noreaga
Okay.
Memphis Bleak
But he on the station.
Host
He was the first person played Juicy.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah. So that's a fact.
Host
So you said that how they met each other? Dame.
Memphis Bleak
And they met at a. I think at an event with Biggie.
Host
Wow.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah. Was it a conference or what? Like a conference out there in the Bay. Remember? I used to do the music conferences.
Noreaga
I remember going to the rapper.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, bro. I remember going to the Wreck It Pools, where you'll be in the hood store in Oakland somewhere. Word. And Richie Rich took me to my first dj. Richie Rich in Oakland.
Host
Rapper Richie Rich.
Noreaga
We were supposed to have him on drink chant.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, I used to move around the Bay. Yeah, I used to move around the Bay with Richie. That's my guy, man. For sure. Like, shout out to E42. That's why I feel like rock solid. Going to be able to expose a lot of relationships that I have that a lot of people in this game that's been solid and been real true friends, like, you know what I'm saying? People, they never got a chance to see that side. Like, you know, there's a million rappers. That's my guys. Like, Rascast is one of the first rappers I ever hung with.
Host
Get outta here.
Memphis Bleak
Ever.
Noreaga
That's the homie.
Memphis Bleak
Like, I got west coast in New York. In New York, Radscats took me to some chick's crib in the Low.
Noreaga
I would have never put y' all together like that, to be honest.
Memphis Bleak
This is what I'm saying. And we went to some chick's crib in the low after a club. Lower east side. Yeah. Yo, these Girls had about 90 cats in the crib. I swear I never seen one.
Host
I smell that crib right now.
Memphis Bleak
Still right there.
Host
I can smell it.
Memphis Bleak
Smells like this tablecloth Yo, I swear, I'm like, yo, we gotta get the fuck outta here. That nigga was like, nah, I'm getting right. First word. Raz, my bro, man. Shout out, Raz.
Noreaga
Yeah, shout out to Raz.
Host
Is there anybody, like, who's reached out to you that you was like, really?
Memphis Bleak
Yo, I ain't gonna lie. I did a show with you.
Host
Okay.
Memphis Bleak
We just did the show in Jersey at the Spot. We shut it down and leaving the Spot, I saw Michael Bivins, and he was talking to me about the podcast, and I'm like, damn, Michael Bivens checking.
Noreaga
Up podcast for people that don't know.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah. And he like, yo, I gotta pull up. I'm like, nigga, of course pull up. You bugging.
Host
And new addition to it. Yeah, yeah, of course.
Memphis Bleak
New additions. I had to let him know, like, bro, it probably wouldn't be a Memphis Bleak if it was never no Michael Bivens. If he would have never signed another Bad Creation, I probably wouldn't be rapping. Like, seriously, how do you put that.
Noreaga
Together with you, though?
Memphis Bleak
Why?
Noreaga
Why do you.
Memphis Bleak
Because me looking at them showed me I can do. It was like, because of the.
Noreaga
Because you were that same.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah. And then they was rapping about a girl named Aisha, and Aisha and Marcy wasn't the same girl they was rapping about, so I had to write the remix. Aisha. You know what I mean? So it was a little different.
Host
Aisha left wagon. Queensborough was not the same that they were talking about either.
Memphis Bleak
You know what I'm saying?
Host
I'm sorry. They still out there. I keep forgetting it was a good.
Memphis Bleak
She was a good girl, but it just wasn't that. Aisha.
Host
Okay, so is there anybody show that you want to do? Like, you want to get on?
Memphis Bleak
I never thought about it, like, doing it, but until they, like, I just got a little, you know, from the homies in the street. They reached out. I say, cam show. Okay, we talk. Or it is what it is.
Host
Because he got two shows. Talk with Flea.
Memphis Bleak
Either. Either one. It is what it is that doing everything. Even the book. We could talk in the book, too. Whatever.
Noreaga
Shout out to Cam. He cameoed in the new Happy Gilmore.
Memphis Bleak
That Blew My Mind podcast.
Noreaga
And I'm like, who? I wonder who from the hip hop side.
Memphis Bleak
Nah, that was dope.
Host
You see him?
Noreaga
That was dope.
Memphis Bleak
And then shout out Blinky Blink too. Blinky blink hit me and said he got to pull up the rock. Silent too.
Host
That's fire.
Memphis Bleak
I told J. He J, he looking for you.
Host
Oh, yeah, cuz. They supposed to battle, work out. Let's make some noise with camp.
Memphis Bleak
That's right. Shout out, baby.
Host
So.
Memphis Bleak
But yeah, man, what's up with you, man? What we doing? Birthday? What we.
Host
Where we going, baby? You know, we do it every year.
Memphis Bleak
Where we going?
Host
Listen, only reason why I'm leaning towards PR this year is because I. I can do a couple of things. I can bring my cousin. I have my cousins already there. They already live there.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, chair.
Host
You know what I mean? Like, it's like. It's like cutting the crew a little bit. They already live there. Everybody's easier to get access. And we all want to go to Bad Bunny concert. Like, you know what I'm saying? You know, what Bad Bunny is doing for Puerto Rico has never been done. Never, ever, ever, ever. Like, he's. He set up a residency in Puerto Rico. You know, everyone sets up a residency like Miami or, or Las Vegas or. Like it's traditionally in Las Vegas, right? He's the first person in the music history that I know that set up a shop for Puerto Rico's economy, so. Meaning, like, if you. If you fly to the island and you get the package deal, like, like they hook you up with the hotels, they hook you up with like T shirts, they hook your flights up. And they boosted the economy by hundreds of millions.
Memphis Bleak
No way.
Noreaga
How often does he do it?
Host
Like, how is it? I think. I think it's. I think it's.
Memphis Bleak
What is it?
Host
Yeah, yeah, I just said that, sir.
Memphis Bleak
And that's crazy, man.
Host
That's amazing how many times he performing, right? But it's until a certain amount and then he's going to go on an international tour. I think he's actually skipping America.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Host
He's doing it all. Puerto Rico and the same, like, not.
Memphis Bleak
Saying America, but he was protesting the deportation. Yeah, that's what it is. You got to respect it.
Host
I heard him say, yo, man, like, he visioned Puerto Rico without Puerto Ricans and that's just like, scary. Just think about that shit.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah.
Host
You ever been in Dorado?
Memphis Bleak
No.
Host
No, no. What is it? It's Dorado or Condado. No. Yeah, Dorado.
Memphis Bleak
Condado. Dorado. That's in Puerto Rico? Yeah. What's happening out there?
Host
Tax free.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah.
Host
So one. Tax free.
Memphis Bleak
They did.
Noreaga
Wait, that's a tax haven?
Host
Yeah. They there, bro. I'm too mom, yo. I'm too much.
Memphis Bleak
Hey, yo, I'm black, all right? I got the complexion for correction, not the connection. They're gonna be like, he's scamming.
Host
It's a whole black community there. I swear to God. Community.
Memphis Bleak
Are they black Puerto Ricans or they black and black. Black like me? Black.
Host
Black. They came. He was speaking English. He was like, yo, I just want you to know I know who you are. And I. Wel, everybody that's.
Memphis Bleak
Come on now.
Host
No, no, no. Hell no. Not now.
Memphis Bleak
No, no, no, no.
Host
Not. Not now. But that definitely crosses my mind every time I go there.
Memphis Bleak
Is there any country I would ever move to? Like, would you. If you ever left America, what country would you.
Host
Monaco.
Memphis Bleak
Monaco said Colombia. You know what my man go do? He trying to lose John Hancock out there. Yeah, he want to lose John Hancock. You think you love me?
Host
You been to Monaco?
Memphis Bleak
Nah, Nah.
Host
All right, cool.
Memphis Bleak
I just did St. Barts fire. Yeah, that's where y' all rich, man. I'm coming. I'm getting there.
Host
Let me give you a Saint Bar story.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, put me on.
Host
We're in Saint boss. And, you know, dude is, like, taking care of everything, so I wanted to take care of lunch. I was like, yo, that. Let me take care of lunch.
Memphis Bleak
Boom.
Host
You know what I'm saying? Swipe the car. Swipe the car. So another one of the homies, Rondell, he's like, yo, I want to take care of the tip. So I'm like, islam, I took care of everything. I'm not one of them dudes. I take care of the bill. And, yo, y' all spit the tip. Like, that's not me. I got everything. I got anything, right?
Memphis Bleak
That's right.
Host
So he's like, ah, I still want to take the tip. So they. They go in the back, and they must have been. They must have been. They was like, amanda, whatever this girl name is. Amanda.
Memphis Bleak
Amanda.
Host
Amanda. So the way they said that, she's walking over there, she's like, oh. I'm like, wait a minute.
Memphis Bleak
They don't do that with the bill. Yeah.
Host
So I look, he just. He just. He's bent. He got his credit card. I look, you know how much they. They try to get this for? For a tip? This is a tip.
Memphis Bleak
Twenty bands, A hundred racks.
Host
Oh, for a tip, we have wings, yo.
Memphis Bleak
A honey racks.
Host
A hundred rats. I feel I was exaggerating this. They think that Americans want to do that. Like. They think that. Like.
Memphis Bleak
So they added what Americans? Not us.
Host
Listen.
Memphis Bleak
Apparently black blacks.
Host
Yeah, yeah.
Memphis Bleak
Not the blackity blacks.
Host
It was the way. So I was like, yeah, you got to take that off.
Memphis Bleak
100 grand tip.
Host
I was like, you gotta. Yeah. I said, you gotta do something better about that. You know what she came back with was 20. And I'm like, yo, bro, I think.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, put your card up.
Host
This is his car. I already paid, remember? He wants to.
Memphis Bleak
He wants to put the tip. Yeah.
Host
This the reason why they, like. I guess that's code word out there. Extra tip. Oh, he's bald. Yeah, he want the whole ball.
Memphis Bleak
And, yo, listen, I don't know what.
Host
He wind up tipping, but it wasn't 20 and it wasn't 100 racks. I wasn't letting that happen on the trip.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, listen, St. Barts is beautiful. We went out there chilling. Everything was lit. Ain't nothing happened to me. I just seen Leshawn McCoy and had to let him know. G Men, nigga.
Host
Oh, oh, nah.
Memphis Bleak
But I showed them love. LaShawn McCoy shout out to the homie out there in St. Barts, riding around dolo, living fucking life, and just won the championship. But I still. Still had to let him know, Giants, nigga don't play with us.
Host
So you saying St. Barts is the place you moved to?
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, I moved to St. Barts. I moved to St. Lucia. I moved out.
Host
Yo, Turks and Caicos, they gotta calm that shit down.
Memphis Bleak
They shooting shit up out there.
Host
Yo, yo, yo. At my spot.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, word, word. We went there last for your birthday. Yeah, they shot it up. Yeah, but I just told my man, tell his cousins to chill out. Cause it's Haitian. Haitian or Haitian. And he Haitian. So I told him, make a call, Tell them.
Host
Fool, you don't do that in that country.
Memphis Bleak
You know what I mean? They wilding. Not in Turks, man. Go fight in the middle of the ocean, dog.
Noreaga
In the middle of the ocean.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, like the Westerns used to do. Take 10 steps and draw. Y' all niggas take 40 paddles and draw, man. Fuck it.
Host
Yeah, that hurt me. Come on, word up.
Memphis Bleak
Not in Turks, man. I just went one time. The Prince crib. So you fucked up my Turk's trip. Cause it's like, I can't just go and be in the hotel. Nah, we need Prince crib.
Host
I fucked that on purpose.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, purple joint. We need to.
Host
I don't think no one came on that trip to go back to Turks and be regular.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, like I can't be regular all day. Like, we got to have a boat pulling up to the joint. We was disrespectful. We climbing over other people. Yeah, that's the name of the little.
Host
Really a cheap spot. That. That's so dope. It's like so dope. But we went to the. We went in the water. But not only that, we had a beach. Like, literally. Like, I'm not exaggerating. Like, like, like it's, it's a. It's a block.
Memphis Bleak
Why you don't vacate, huh?
Noreaga
I got little ones.
Memphis Bleak
I ain't going nowhere.
Host
They could go too, bro.
Memphis Bleak
I meet you. What you got no 5, 7 year old? Come on. You act like you had NBA young boy numbers, bro.
Noreaga
I don't give a.
Memphis Bleak
Come on, man.
Noreaga
I'm keeping them stable at home, consistent. That's all I'm doing.
Memphis Bleak
So they can't see the world? No, they can see the world. Yeah, you got your little locked up. They want to see Disney World.
Noreaga
That's all the they want to see. I ain't spending money taking them when.
Host
They don't give a.
Memphis Bleak
About cost more than vacation. Disney World for you, your wife and.
Noreaga
Two kids enjoy Disney World.
Memphis Bleak
Hell you. Yo, he a cheetah. He won't go to Epkai and eat around the world.
Host
That's right. I ain't going to lie. I want jig around the world. You done that.
Noreaga
That is dope.
Memphis Bleak
I did it too. That's why I know about it.
Noreaga
And it's safe with the kids.
Host
That's where Mario World is at.
Memphis Bleak
He said, and it's safe with the kids. He talking, see, we talking about they shooting up Turps. Aruba is safe with the kids. They shooting up Aruba. They taking nowhere to. They ain't going nowhere.
Noreaga
Actually, I'm taking them to Spain soon.
Memphis Bleak
They going nowhere. But they going to Spain because we got family there. Yeah, see, no Saint Barts, is it, bro? I did all three, but I did. I ain't going front.
Host
You did Saint Martin and Anguilla?
Memphis Bleak
I did, yeah. We flew into Saint Martin chilled. Then we did St. Barts and we did Anguilla. But I told my wife, listen, my wife, this was for her birthday. So I fell in line. But she damn sure put us on the chitlin circuit of vacations. She had me taking the boat of cross with the regular. I ain't gonna say that. Cause we regular people too.
Host
But the Rikers island boat. Yeah, okay. Like a ferry?
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, the ferry.
Host
Yeah, the ferry.
Memphis Bleak
So you know. Yeah, yeah. I ain't know. She telling me, yeah, it's a 20 minute ride. It's 30 minutes. I get on this shit. This shit like the Staten island ferry, cuz. So I'm looking at her like, you know, we supposed to have our own boat, right? We supposed to rent a boat to go here, then rent a boat to go there.
Noreaga
She like, yeah, you guys are amazing.
Memphis Bleak
But it's only 35 Dol Islands and it's this. And it's like, yo, shorty, never again, man. I said if I invited some of my good like. And I told him if Nori was here, he would have been appalled.
Host
He wouldn't have went with us.
Memphis Bleak
He would have been like, yo, I just got my nails done. I'm not getting on that boat.
Host
I'll get my nails done. But that's funny. I didn't know about that one time. And I got on the boat, and this is like, how you know to go to Vieques? Oh, my God. I'm still scarred from that.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, listen, my homies threw up. Two of my homies had to go outside, get air.
Host
Yeah, it's like the gym. It's like the gym. Oh, yeah, Those are the worst.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, you be need. Y' all be needing Dremeline. I never heard of Dramamine until my man wife said it. We was in Italy and she can't. She used to drive it. So she said, I don't sit in the back of the car. I need Dremelmine. So me, I'm like, what the fuck is Dramamine?
Noreaga
Motion sickness.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah. Yo, bro, they got that shit in every flavor now. When you go to the airport, you want Chips ahoy. Dramamine, they got it like, yo, I swear I never heard of it until that one time. And now everybody I'm around be like, yo, I need Dripamine. It's like, what the fuck? When so many people get motion sickness, man.
Host
And what is that? What is that like?
Noreaga
It's a medicine.
Memphis Bleak
You get seasick, you know, riding roller coasters, riding in the back of the car. They just like, me, I'm. We crazy. Me, all my kids, we want to be in the front row of the roller coaster.
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Host
Oh, I was scarred.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, you get on them.
Host
As soon as we got off the regular boat, I was like, book the book.
Memphis Bleak
You get on them fairies, man. You start seeing the locals and you'll be like, I'm not them.
Host
And it's not that, it's that, like that bathroom. Yeah, bathroom. When they open up that bath, these.
Memphis Bleak
Are like, come on.
Host
They pissing on the toilet.
Memphis Bleak
They pissing on the wall this bad. It's like, I can't do. I can't do it, man. Like even in Amsterdam one time, my wife, I'm telling you, she be trying to go with the major budget express and I be trying to tell her we ain't gotta do this why are you using coupons overseas? Like you said, she using Groupons. Overseas coupons even worse. Yo, we in Amsterdam. We want to do something, and she like, we could just take the train. We don't have to get a Uber like Shorty. You ain't see what just happened with them Americans stopping the terror attack on the train. This is around the same time. I'm not that American. Just listen to me. I'm not. I'm a. I'm not that one. They got the. We getting off next stop, baby. I'm not defusing the shooters like you bugging. Nah, I gotta work out with Jai and them a little bit more. Him and Blinky. Blink and Jim Jones. Let me work out with them for two years. Yeah. Then I might. Yeah. If I could do pull ups like. Like Jada.
Host
Yeah.
Memphis Bleak
I diffuse us. You ready to diffuse?
Host
Pick up the giant. We got giants coming out. That's the bartenders. We got them coming out.
Noreaga
You worked out with them, right?
Memphis Bleak
How was that?
Host
Yeah, I got them coming out to Orlando. You know, we got the wellness retreat in Orlando.
Memphis Bleak
How did it go when you were.
Noreaga
Working out with them?
Host
Oh, yeah.
Noreaga
What y' all do.
Memphis Bleak
What was that?
Noreaga
Workout routine.
Host
Filmed it.
Noreaga
It's coming out in Run.
Memphis Bleak
Sh.
Host
It came out on my Instagram. It's on my grand.
Noreaga
No, you ain't doing the movie.
Host
The movie. You busted out with me.
Noreaga
That's not a part of it.
Host
No, no, I went just to see him.
Memphis Bleak
These. These just running all over the world.
Noreaga
He's running just to run.
Memphis Bleak
He gonna have a soon. You gonna get on your peloton, and they gonna have a map. Nori map. That's the movie. You know what I'm saying?
Host
No playing. We was at Peloton another day. That. That was a great joke. Say it again. It's a great one right there.
Memphis Bleak
They gonna have the Nori map.
Host
This is. What this is was real talk about that. And I promise you, I knew you. I know you didn't know what you. How. How smart that. What you just said. When I took the pictures in front of Peloton, people were asking me like, what. What. What is that? And I was like, y' all don't know what Peloton is. It made me realize, like, how far some people from the hood is removed from regular life outside the hood hood. Like, this is Peloton Barry's boot camp. Like, it's a whole bunch of these things. That is, like, the biggest thing in. In the health industry, right? The hood is not. Not abreast to that, you know, orange theory. Like, things like that. Like the fact that the hood is not abreast of that. Like, bartenders, like, they not like.
Memphis Bleak
I mean, like, we not good runners, right? Don't like riding bikes and shit.
Host
Me, peloton and people, the fact that they didn't even know it, it was like, you know what? One, it made me disappointed. But two, it's like, you know what this is? This is who I'm selling to the that don't know. You know what I'm saying?
Memphis Bleak
See, I got a peloton in the crib, shout out. My man Paul, he bought one and said, yo, I don't want to use it. Bleak, you think you want it? I say, yeah, I use it. Never use it.
Noreaga
Coming with the nor upgrade soon.
Host
You got the bike or the treadmill?
Memphis Bleak
The bike.
Host
Okay.
Memphis Bleak
All right. My wife keep track.
Noreaga
I didn't know that. I thought it was just bikes.
Host
So you really didn't see the picture. All right, I'm going to send you out on office with the girl who runs the whole. Yeah, we with her. Oh, yeah, yeah, Right. Yeah. Los is here.
Memphis Bleak
Tell us in that discount, we'll get the treadmill, right? Tell us in that discount code, we'll get. Salute to the discount code, we'll get the treadmill.
Noreaga
That way we can roll with you. Wherever we at, we can roll with you.
Host
Well, you know, this is a collab episode, but still, you, you, we. You're at drink chance office. So we want to give you flowers, Continue to give you your flowers.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, yo, I'm gonna have. Yo, yo, I ain't gonna lie. I love my niggas. I'm gonna have about 40 briefcases in the crib of gold roses.
Noreaga
Make a ward.
Host
Let's go.
Memphis Bleak
Word up, man. Appreciate my G. That's when you get.
Noreaga
The rock solid studio. You put that in the rock solid studio.
Memphis Bleak
That's right, man.
Host
We.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, we. So we so we don't have no destination. We out here shooting anywhere. We go. I'm ring cameraman.
Host
That's fire.
Memphis Bleak
And you know what?
Host
Let me just tell you something.
Noreaga
I told you it doesn't work earlier.
Host
Me.
Noreaga
No, no, no. Take it out. Don't listen to.
Memphis Bleak
As I told you already, it works.
Host
Let me tell you something. Look, it's there already.
Memphis Bleak
Take that the off, bro. Yo, take it off, man.
Host
But the best thing is, like, even when you tell me other day you said that tax stone gave you an idea, and it's like, you know what? Even in this day and time, big up to Tax, shout out.
Memphis Bleak
Tax free. My dog, man.
Host
But what. What you got to do is. Is just listen to the fans. Like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, the first couple episodes is you learning.
Memphis Bleak
Yes.
Host
And then after that, it's like, everyone's not a hater, and everyone is not. You know what I'm saying?
Memphis Bleak
Like, wishing you well. I know you gotta look at both sides. And Tax is my dog. That's my bro. So nothing he say, I'm ever look at it as hate or it's always criticism. And me, I take criticism very well because I feel like if nothing, everything can't be perfect. So if it's nothing wrong, everything is wrong. So if it's only one thing wrong, that mean you on the path to be perfect. You know what I mean? So I love it. He always give me criticism, like, tax just hit me out of nowhere. Bitch ass nigga, what you doing? You ain't getting no money. You ain't out there working. I don't know. I think he j. He hov. He think he hove. Cause he be calling me on the same bullshit like, yo, what y' all niggas doing? I'm in jail making more money than. Chill out, my G. Wow. Word.
Host
Hey, I'm gonna take another shot.
Noreaga
Of course you are.
Host
Quick time with slime. Tom, we got quick time.
Memphis Bleak
Quick time. Y' all still got quick time.
Noreaga
You guys said no time with slime.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, yo, listen, yo, chill, chill, chill. Quick time with slime. I'm glad we here. Cause certain shit I can't bring up on Rock Solid. Okay, But I can bring it up here.
Noreaga
All right, let's see.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, yo, what's up with your man Fat Joe, though? Yo, he called himself crack God. Allah. Like, no, crack him Allah.
Noreaga
That shit is hilarious.
Memphis Bleak
Crack. That wasn't real.
Noreaga
No, the one with him and fairy tale.
Memphis Bleak
Oh, yes. Crack killed. But listen, I don't respect. I'm never knocking nigga going, you 5 percenter. Whatever you want. Your religion is, follow it. But why? My man? Every thing he into got crack in it. There's no way no religion put crack like you crack him. Yo, I gotta have him on Rock Solid. Cause we gotta stand on that one. That the religious religion people said crack.
Noreaga
Yeah. That's wild.
Memphis Bleak
That was wicked. I hope you hit him. It was like, bro, you out of line. Not on that one.
Host
I hit him on a whole bunch of other shit. I felt like there's too much. I just want to. You right, but you know why Joe going crazy? You know why that he says why they used to call him crack? It's not because of crack. It's because, like, he used to. He was fat like a plumber's crack. Yeah, plumbers crack. Yeah, yeah, yeah, plumber.
Memphis Bleak
But he said he robbed 60 with no gun and they helped him carry the stuff.
Host
Yo, that was.
Memphis Bleak
He the best Y. I love it.
Host
Yo, listen, did he say his barber told him that he lost? He was six years old and he had 20 niggas with him.
Noreaga
It's like the most interesting man.
Memphis Bleak
You know those commercials? I love that. Yo, that nigga definitely read the Inquirer as a kid. He definitely picked that up in the store. He bought the Daily News at the inquiry.
Host
I'mma take a shot for that. Take a shot. Little crack. Crack him all up.
Noreaga
Why did he say that, though? What was the reason why he brought that up?
Memphis Bleak
He said they had a nick neighborhood that was, I don't know, 5% hood, like Dayton era.
Host
Here's what's crazy. He's not threatened. It just sounds so crazy.
Memphis Bleak
Crack him alive.
Host
Yeah. I mean, Forest projects were kind of known as like. Like the God projects.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, the God.
Host
It was known for that. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, certain places in Brooklyn. I forget the places in Brooklyn is known for that.
Memphis Bleak
My nigga, right by Tilde projects in Brownsville. That was the God central nigga, right? As a kid, I used to think it was drama because them telling me, yo, the five Percenters was on some back then so deep.
Host
And I know that era, so I know he's. I know what he's.
Memphis Bleak
You was talking your too. Yeah, because you was on your 5% of. On your first album on CNN. Hard body.
Host
I'm still 5% to this day, but not crack him a lot. I got corn do. Corn do self esteem plus degree a lot. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, I keep it clean, you know, say that's my. My bro, though. But I do know what he's saying.
Noreaga
But you saw, you saw that AI that they made. They made a picture and then the shirt that said that.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, Crack Kim, though.
Noreaga
Wild, wild, disrespectful man.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, that right there had me like, yo, I love them. Joe and Jada. Yeah, yeah, them is funny.
Host
I like, I like, I like the fact that they, you know, they, they. They showing that chemistry. Like, like Jada's is disagreeing with. With most of it. And it's like, that's. That's dope.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, definitely Having fun, man, that they definitely having fun. That's the best part about it. But my man, they called him the Cap. God, he had.
Noreaga
He had mad cap names.
Host
When we were there was Captain Crunch. I was gonna come out on this show with the Captain Crunch box. They call him Captain Crunch just to with him.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, you know what?
Host
He he, one, he could take it. And two, I think he kind of likes it. He's having fun with it. I know he can take it. And you, I can almost see him having fun with it.
Memphis Bleak
I was just telling niggas the other day on some G shit, this is disrespectful and I apologize to every mom and every woman out there. But if you from New York City or you from any hard inner city growing up and you made it to this music business and you let a fan that you don't know never met on the Internet, social media, crack that shell, use a lemon head. Because if you think about it, and though we grew up with the most disrespectful friends. Yeah, yeah, our friends was more disrespectful than anybody on the Internet. I remember racing my friends to the store like last to the store. Mom sucked dick running for mom's life like rip talk, yo, you ain't get slapped first. Their school eyes. Mom's a crackhead. You like, damn, son, you just was eating in my crib last night playing Nintendo. Now my mom smoking crack. Damn. So when you from that era, I don't think it's nothing in music or, or, or on social media that could penetrate. You know what I mean?
Host
I agree with you because for real.
Noreaga
I think, I think what it is, it's a numbers thing too. Especially if you're reading it. First of all, you shouldn't be reading this.
Memphis Bleak
But if you read it, I read it. I love it.
Noreaga
You might be good with 10 foul ones. The 11th one got you.
Memphis Bleak
No, no. I love listening to talking like, yeah, he only out there. Cause Jay Z paid for it. Like, yeah, I wish Jay sent that credit card. I won't be out here. I'll be up there. Up there, out here. I'm out here on my own budget. Give me his budget. I'm up there. You won't see me again. Straight up.
Host
So let me ask you. Right now, it feels like it's the year of the man that used that used to stand next to his man, right? Meaning, like, I think Spiff Star will drop a podcast right now. It'll go through the roof.
Memphis Bleak
Roof.
Host
I think Tony Yayo would Drop a podcast right now. It'll go through the roof. I think Jungle will drop a podcast right now. It go through the roof.
Memphis Bleak
I seen something telling Yayo said, hov don't look out for me. Like, 50, look out for help.
Host
Oh, word?
Memphis Bleak
He said, I just want to clear that up. Hope don't have to.
Host
All right.
Memphis Bleak
You know what I mean?
Host
All right. Okay.
Memphis Bleak
I'm chewing a lot on my own. If hov look out, I'm telling you, I'll be up there. So when y' all see me out here, that's the blizzard budget. But. But back to you. I'm sorry for cutting you off, but I just want to let know Hope don't have to.
Host
So, for lack of a better term, Jim used to be that for Cam. Now it kind of feels like being that for him.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah.
Host
Do you feel like this is the year of that?
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, I'm the big homie now, man. Now hovo's the big homie. I can't talk shit. I just was with him in Vegas. He came out on the show like, yo, I'm. Yeah, yo. He just came out on the show, and my. They went stupid. I said, listen, I know you working. Save me a verse. He's like, all right, I got you, right? So if it happens, it happens.
Host
But listen, you know, we gonna run with. That's rumor.
Memphis Bleak
I don't care. That's right. We working, baby bleak back coming to age three. Drop it. But nah, but nah, man. Like, I don't like to see what's going on with Cam and Jim and.
Host
Jim, Cam and Jim, okay?
Memphis Bleak
I don't like to see that, man. You know what I mean? Like, I feel like real bros should never beef on the social media. It's like the same thing in my own crew, you know what I'm saying? Like, when I see Dame or Beans or anybody talking shit that don't need to be discussed on media, it's like, you get with your homies, whether you gotta pull up, meet them somewhere, call, do something, you handle it that way, man. For the public to be in the middle of the drama is whack, man. It's like, even when relationships, it's like, fam, don't bring me in the group chat, my nigga. I ain't asked for that. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm chilling. Like, I don't want to know what you and your wife in the crib arguing about.
Noreaga
They all over it.
Memphis Bleak
You know what I mean? But to see the homies that really built Came from nothing and created something. And everybody's successful. Everybody. Healthy kids is. Grown kids is college graduates. Graduates. To get this far in beef, it's like.
Noreaga
Yeah, it's crazy.
Memphis Bleak
It almost makes the journey unworthy.
Host
Right?
Memphis Bleak
You're not. Not even worth it. Like.
Noreaga
Yeah.
Host
I was gonna take a shot to that, but we got quick time with slime. Yeah, yeah. It's short, but we gotta give him shots. Jamie, do we have a.
Memphis Bleak
Come on. I got shots right here. You know, I'm mix. I'm mixed, kid.
Host
It's short. It's. Sure it's mixed.
Memphis Bleak
Kids. No, I gotta live the rest of the day. I gotta relive the rest of the day.
Host
Oh, okay.
Memphis Bleak
You're good.
Host
Okay.
Memphis Bleak
Y.
Host
Listen, it's a short one. Pause.
Memphis Bleak
I need a. I need a trash can right here. So I feel like I was doing with the girls in Minnesota, acting like I was taking the shots.
Host
Oh, sh. All right. Remember Mr. Lee and Columbia has makes.
Memphis Bleak
That what they made what the quick time was. So if I get mad, I get mad at Lee.
Host
You get mad. The cocaine section.
Memphis Bleak
Just get mad at Lee said the cocaine section. I'm done. Yo, chill.
Host
Okay.
Noreaga
You ready? One day we're gonna. The cops. Where's the cocaine?
Memphis Bleak
They got Gilbert. Yeah. The chair. Yeah.
Host
Yeah. We going to relax. No, it's not.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, Chad. Yeah.
Host
Reasonable Doubt or in my life. Lifetime.
Memphis Bleak
Huh? That's the same. In my lifetime. What? Volume one. Volume two. Because it's not just in my lifetime.
Host
Volume two.
Memphis Bleak
Reasonable Doubt. Reasonable Doubt.
Host
Reasonable Doubt.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah. Volume two. Both of them is my. But Reasonable Doubt.
Host
Okay. Coming to age or apartment 3D.
Memphis Bleak
Apartment 3D.
Host
Some new shit. Right? Let's take a shot for that. Even though you ain't have to.
Memphis Bleak
You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
Host
Well, let's take a shot for that new shit.
Memphis Bleak
Apartments 3D out now, baby. That's right.
Noreaga
Congrats on that, by the way.
Memphis Bleak
Thank you, my brother. Thank you, my brother. You know what I mean?
Host
Independent, Correct.
Memphis Bleak
On your own, definitely. Independent on your own. On Memphis Bleak Records.
Host
Okay. That's Do It Yourself Records. Yeah.
Memphis Bleak
Shout out. Shout out every producer that held it down. Especially my guy that's in the building. My man Sharp. I recorded every record in his living room. His wife used to be like, y' all, man. Yeah. His wife used to be like, yo, I'm going to the gym so y' all could do y' all thing. So for those who think hov right for me, he must have came to the O and came to shock Crib and wrote all those joints. I told Shock I'm we gonna put the documentary out of hov in his living room.
Host
Okay?
Noreaga
Was it all about the Benjamins or like life?
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, life, sure, man. Come on. That's my movie.
Host
Yeah, that's my movie too.
Memphis Bleak
Come on, man, we don't want that.
Host
Now, mind right or high tolerance?
Memphis Bleak
Mind right? Man, you tripping. What's wrong with you? My right exotics, man. There's stores all over Maryland, man. Story the dispensary minor if you can't find stores.
Host
Okay?
Noreaga
All right.
Host
It's Dark in Hell is Hot. Or Flesh of My Flesh.
Memphis Bleak
I was just talking about this album. Flesh of My Flesh is the one where he had the blood all on him, right? Yeah. Flesh in my flesh, man. Rest in peace, dog.
Noreaga
Man X Rest in peace, man.
Host
Grease or Aruba?
Memphis Bleak
I need a shot.
Host
All right, let's go.
Noreaga
Jesus.
Memphis Bleak
That's the one that makes you take a shot. Because I love both, okay? I love both. Grease and Aruba. Shout out, my man. Sniper. Aruba and Aruba.
Host
You know what's crazy? I've been to Aruba and it was just mid for me. I must have went in the wrong time.
Noreaga
It was what?
Host
It was weird. It was mid.
Memphis Bleak
You ain't go with me, man. I got. You know what I mean?
Host
That's a great question, great answer.
Memphis Bleak
You know what I'm saying? You ain't go with me, baby. I got to take you over travel.
Noreaga
Agency for the islands. That's what you guys need.
Memphis Bleak
I got a TV show I'm working on with him and North. I mean him and J.
Host
There you go.
Memphis Bleak
It's going to be true. Trap war.
Host
Yeah, Travel wars. I like it. Joe and Jada or million dollars worth of game.
Memphis Bleak
Joe and Jada. I don't put it like this. I'm not going put it like. I don't fuck with a million dollars worth of game. I never met Gilly and I never met Wallow, my nigga. I never spoke to them all. Like, Jada and Joe are my dogs. Like, so I can't put people that I never met over my dog. Like, if I knew both of them, it would be a fair question.
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Host
Is or Joe butt shot.
Memphis Bleak
They both my dog. See what I mean Joe my dog Cam and Mace. Mace he kind of my dog. He'll pray for his dog so he my dog.
Noreaga
You gotta have a Joe Button episode.
Memphis Bleak
With rock solid Joe Button getting Too much money 20 million years we talked.
Noreaga
We talking into existence now. It gotta happen.
Memphis Bleak
We're gonna talk through elon satellite.
Host
Oh oh Bink or just Blaze?
Memphis Bleak
Just Blaze.
Host
Okay well I thought that was gonna.
Memphis Bleak
Be hard for you Bink my but.
Host
Just Blaze cuz you had just Blaze.
Memphis Bleak
It's kind of like yeah I Just.
Host
Kind of like F right there.
Memphis Bleak
I told him he got to pull up, man.
Host
You gotta have both.
Memphis Bleak
Just. Just been around more, you know.
Host
Cuz Bink gonna come on and he.
Memphis Bleak
Gonna reveal some B gonna flame me.
Host
Bink been trying to want to tell his side of the story. Story.
Memphis Bleak
Come on, man. Pull up Rock Solid. That's why I got the platform. Come talk, talk that.
Host
And after he go on rock, they go and drink chance. But his story need to first be told on rock Solid. Because this is a rock and fell story. Especially that part of the story. Pull up him and just blaze part.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, I'mma wait for my part. But Big is where he's a wild dude, man. I love my guy, B.
Host
Okay. Doucet or A Suspicion do say it's the mafia.
Noreaga
Ace of Space.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, chill.
Host
You know I speak. I speak their language. So you speak Mr. Lee.
Memphis Bleak
Because that wasn't his do say mafia for life, baby. You know what it is?
Host
Cross cam or mace?
Memphis Bleak
Cam. Cam was on the rock, baby. You know what I mean? They said two shots for Cam for taking over the Rock, but ah, one shot.
Host
I'll take a. We taking a shot for that.
Memphis Bleak
One shot. One shot. What's up?
Host
Jada or Styles P.
Memphis Bleak
Another shot. Damn. Ghost and Jada. Is that they? Come on.
Host
Okay, you pick Jada. Take a shot. Take a shot. Okay.
Memphis Bleak
Both.
Noreaga
Bigs or Dame?
Memphis Bleak
Bigs.
Host
Ray Korn or Ghost Face?
Memphis Bleak
Both. Take a shot. Shot. Shot. Shots.
Host
It's getting pretty easy now. Capone or Noriega?
Memphis Bleak
Noriega. Take a shot. Just. And I just met Capone. He a cool ass nigga.
Noreaga
You just met him?
Memphis Bleak
Yeah.
Host
Get the out of here.
Noreaga
All these years, but y' all ain't.
Memphis Bleak
Never met before that? No. At the show in Atlantic City.
Host
In New Jersey.
Memphis Bleak
The first time in Atlantic City.
Host
Because the other one was Newark. I'm bugging out.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah. The show in Atlantic City, he thought he had. He brought sexy backing, sexy back.
Noreaga
He was on his. What routine is Capone on?
Memphis Bleak
He's on the peloton.
Host
I'm just telling you. I'm telling you. Everyone used to always think it was me. Like, people forget that he got locked up. So he probably. You probably didn't see all of his image. He's the. He's the outgoing person. I had to kind of become that person because I had to, you know, fill two seats. But you see, he got right in rapper mode, bro. In Atlantic City, that was. It was. He was okay.
Memphis Bleak
But in New Jersey, New work. Oh my God.
Host
Come on's.
Memphis Bleak
A Superstar that was outside. He had his ladies with him, he had his daughter with him. That like, he had his shirt and p. Smooth, man. He SM had his shirt open like he was genuine. Like he was about to say. He, he. He had his shit. Like he was about to say how you fit in those jeans? Straight up.
Host
Yeah, he was definitely sick pony. And you know what? I'mma be honest. As. As you know, a person that's a part of a group, I haven't done groups, you know, together so long. I did miss that. And I did. I did miss the crowd was like, see, it's never been me, guys. Look, I'm the cool one on the road.
Memphis Bleak
Nah, man, that always is dope. Like, that's what I wanted to ask you too, man. How is it because he been locked up then the whole career?
Host
Not really, no. He came. Well, he was locked up for the.
Memphis Bleak
For the main two albums. Yes, man. That's what I mean. Come up like. So how did it really. How is it you feel to have your bro back with you on stage reliving those moments where, you know, most people, most artists, they career die out, so when they get back on stage, it's over. But you kept the flame lit.
Host
Yeah.
Noreaga
They brought it home live on mtv.
Host
Word up. Yeah.
Noreaga
That was crazy.
Host
That's what real.
Memphis Bleak
Do you know what I'm saying? Shout to that man. Yeah. I mean, my Gno. I know Pong gotta be happy, like. Cause poem was phoning home. Now he home and living.
Host
So. So that's what I missed. And I'll tell you what else I missed. And I know, you know, this is that overseas crowd. That overseas crowd. Like, all right, so like most of the time when you're like a legendary act, you get from like 6:00 clock to 9:00 clock to perform.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah.
Host
And you kind of like go home and like, if you chill with your kids. What's crazy is I actually have like two careers kind of like. Right. So at the 9 o' clock or 12 o', clock, I can actually go and do reggae tone. I can actually go and do Homeboy. I could actually do my solo hits.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah.
Host
So that's the one thing I do miss. Like, you know what I mean? Like, besides performing on stage, period. Like, like when I seen him wilding out, it kind of. It kind of like, like, it made me happy. I was like, see, now the world get to see. It's never me who was the wild person.
Memphis Bleak
Because that War Report album was. And I feel like he missed that run is insane.
Noreaga
That's crazy. I don't think a lot of people even remember or know that.
Memphis Bleak
That he had.
Noreaga
That's how we met.
Memphis Bleak
He was on for.
Noreaga
For the CNN album.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah. That's how I met him. By itself with the GS's. And I'm like, where pone that? And then that's when I knew pone phone home was real. That wasn't recorded in the studio. That was real. Po was phone at home. He remind me of, you know, a artist I had my man H Money bag.
Host
Okay. Yeah.
Memphis Bleak
That's so much potential. Super nice. He home now. Like, he home now. But it's like, you know, just the law just. They could never just escape the grasp of the law, man. Just, you know, And I feel like that cut. They. They chances a little bit, but at least poem still get to live and.
Host
Live Just had g depp on, bro.
Memphis Bleak
I know, man. And that was crazy to see. He said he never regretted credit yo turning himself.
Noreaga
Oh, yeah. No, he doesn't.
Memphis Bleak
That's the number one question everybody want to know. Hey, dog, what was you smoking? Yeah.
Noreaga
He says that people in inside were.
Host
Telling him, I'm gonna be honest with you, because I asked him the question like, five different times. Because I, you know, I watched all of his interviews to, like, try to, like, try to, like, you know, like, get him. Just in case he was uncomfortable talking about it. I wanted to talk to him about it in a way that he is comfortable.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah.
Host
So I asked him five different times, and I didn't want to just be like, yo, why? You know? And when I. I asked him why, and he was like, he's like. Like, he didn't regret it.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah.
Host
Not one time. I was like, you're a much better dude than me.
Memphis Bleak
Yo, listen, listen, listen. I don't care if I'm Jabba the Hut from Spaceballs. Pause.
Noreaga
Jabba Hut from space.
Host
I'm a Jabba Hut from space.
Memphis Bleak
He ate himself to death.
Host
It's not he and me that.
Memphis Bleak
Ain't nothing in this world gonna make me go to them and tell them, hey, cuh, I know what I did last summer.
Noreaga
No, he, he, he, he. He understand that. He paid this.
Memphis Bleak
What?
Noreaga
He said the people that didn't have bodies would never understand. He said the people that have bodies inside understand.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah, he right. I don't. You right. I don't have nobody. I don't understand.
Noreaga
Everybody without bodies didn't understand.
Memphis Bleak
I don't understand.
Host
I do not need.
Memphis Bleak
But I don't understand, like, the way.
Host
He broke it down, like that was. He broke it down where it made sense.
Memphis Bleak
Every man has their own journey, their own path, right? So I don't knock nobody for the decisions and choices they make, because you got to live with those. And he decided to live with that decision. He came home a better man. I hear him talking. I see his interviews. His mind is sharper. He fresher than what he was when he was on the street. So he might have the illest business plan, business model lined up. We don't know. Everything ain't about rap, but you know what I'm saying.
Noreaga
He didn't know that he had a body when he went in. When he turned himself in. He wasn't sure. He wasn't sure what.
Host
What it was.
Memphis Bleak
Nah, he was sure. No, no, no, no, no, no. He says it.
Noreaga
He didn't know. He didn't know what happened to that person.
Host
Like, he thought. He thought he clapped to y'. All. He know. He.
Noreaga
He didn't know what happened.
Host
He bodied the Y spams.
Memphis Bleak
Okay, yeah, the y' all are. That happens. You body the y'. All. That's the old. But that's how it happened. My 90 of these bodies is caught by mistake. You know what I'm saying? Not intended. They just want to shoot to scare somebody or shoot to hurt them real quick. And them lay there and stretch shooting. You shooting. So that's what I'm saying. You pull that ratty out, boy, is there was only one thing that you should have on your mind is the intent to kill. Don't pull that ratty out to scare nobody. Cause you gonna be sa.
Noreaga
Lives are changing one way or the other.
Memphis Bleak
That's a fact. Like the boy. Like the OG Sebast say 30 seconds to 30 years. You pick which one, you better make the right decision. Word up. 30 seconds or 30 years?
Host
So let me ask you the last one, and then we get back.
Noreaga
No, I got another one.
Memphis Bleak
Go ahead.
Host
You got another one. You go. Because I was gonna end it with.
Noreaga
No, no.
Memphis Bleak
We got.
Host
We got a couple more. You got a couple more.
Memphis Bleak
Oh, couple more. Come on.
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Noreaga
Big Daddy Cana Rock Kim.
Memphis Bleak
Ooh. Big Daddy King cuz. He taught me how to get these hoes.
Host
Oh, no.
Memphis Bleak
Oh, okay.
Host
Here's. Here's. Here's a. Here's a legendary one on drink champs.
Memphis Bleak
What? Who?
Host
Scarface. Excuse me. Ice Cube or Biggie?
Memphis Bleak
Biggie, man, come on. I never met Cube. I. With Cube. I never met Cube, though. You know what I mean? Cuba Good, dude, man, if I never.
Noreaga
Met you, I'm not picking You.
Memphis Bleak
No, it ain't even that. I never met you. No, but Biggie is my guy, man. Like, come on, man. Biggie is family. We been in the crib with Biggie. First time I seen the elevator in the house was in Biggie crib in Teaneck, New Jersey, man. Cube never showed me nothing but Friday, man.
Noreaga
He showed you a lot.
Host
That's a lot.
Noreaga
He showed you. There's a way. There's a way.
Memphis Bleak
He definitely showed me a way. And I love his transition because it's crazy. My son think I Ice Cube is just a actor. And I'm like, nah, he gangster. Gangster. He gang. Gang. He like, whatever. Dad, are you. Are we there yet?
Host
Guilty. I double on talk. Yeah, you say you got more.
Noreaga
No, no, no.
Host
He killed me with the big dedication or respect.
Memphis Bleak
Loyalty or respect. I feel like loyalty brings respect back.
Host
Okay.
Memphis Bleak
You know what I'm saying? I feel that they gotta respect you just for your loyalty.
Noreaga
Okay, now I'm gonna add one.
Host
Okay.
Noreaga
Being a podcaster or being an MC Artist Podcaster.
Memphis Bleak
I get to talk my. Without a beat. Sitting there trying to think of some that gonna. With or like. It's just. It's not easy.
Noreaga
Podcasting is easier than. Than being an artist.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah. Cause this is. Yo, you know, Jay told me years ago, man, I swear, this is. I think when Ludacris first came out, because Jay, we always used to crack jokes to do, and he would be like, yo, bleak. When the world get to see your personality, bro, your life gonna change, man. Like, why you don't put. Why you don't put your personality in your music? And I'm like, I'm from the.
Host
The.
Memphis Bleak
The era where. And that might cut all we gang, gang. I ain't no way. I. I ain't. I'm not Buster. I'm not Luda. I'm not Missy. Like, it just.
Host
And what you saying about that is like a character for you.
Memphis Bleak
I want you to say that.
Host
Can you say that people take it the wrong way?
Memphis Bleak
No, they could take it how they want to take it.
Host
They was.
Memphis Bleak
They was animated and doing. You know, they were entertaining. I'm not that type of entertainer. But then when you fast forward, when you take a buster, you take a Missy, you take a ludicrous and you build that up. You get a 2 Chainz, right? You know what I'm saying? 2 Chainz is the one who. I feel like, damn, I could have did it that way. Cause when something be spitting, I be like, he killed that. He a funny motherfucker.
Host
He Different.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So when I hear him, it's like, yeah, Virgo. I never thought about that. That angle of it, I thought about.
Noreaga
So they were telling you before that you needed to put more of your character into your charact.
Memphis Bleak
Ben told me because he was like, yo, your personality, you one of a kind. There's nobody in the world like Bleak. So it's so weird that after the pod dropped and I seen him at the Cowboy Carter show in D.C. nice floss.
Host
Nice floss.
Memphis Bleak
He was like. He was like, yo, Bleak. This is it, man. He was, like, years ago.
Noreaga
Approved by him.
Memphis Bleak
Yeah. He's like, years ago. I thought it would come through the mirror.
Host
Give a shot for that. Give him a shot. He don't got. Let's give him a shot.
Memphis Bleak
I got a shot right here, man. I'm literary. No, that. Listen. So he was like, yo. He was like, you got the podcast, like. And now they get to see what I saw. And he was like, bro, don't stop. I love what you doing. Continue. He even was putting pressure on in the room. I ain't gonna say no names, but he was looking at, hey, dog, y' all better put Pull up. Pull up the Rock Solid.
Noreaga
Just say one name.
Memphis Bleak
Nah, nah, I can't. Nah, nah.
Host
We see. We see the pictures, we know the names.
Memphis Bleak
We don't word. But everybody wanna know when Jay coming to Rock Solid. I told him whenever he got some shit to say. Pull up, man, you know, my podcast is. Your podcast. Come through and talk that shit you wanna shit on. Niggas come on them on my platform, right? Cause I'm a shit on them with you.
Host
Now, that's a great segment for me because I know you off camera, too. And one, you're the most loyalist person, my brother. You're real. And I know your love for Jay, right? But Jay is at the level where he's so big, right, Paul, right? He's so. So much of a. A character, you know, like. You know, untouchable, like, image, right. That everyone wants to go at because they know if one lucky guy gets him to respond, they might have a career out of that.
Memphis Bleak
But how you get a career of A on you?
Host
No, but what I'm asking.
Noreaga
No, people get careers off of that.
Host
So what I'm asking you is with your loyalty and. And, you know, y'. All. Y' all really grew up in the same building. You from 3D, he's from 5E or 5C. 5C. I'm from 5E. Yeah. Not in Y' all building, you know, my building. But has it ever been a time like, where you. You seen somebody say something. One that wasn't incorrect, or you just seen somebody that said something that wasn't qualified. Qualified. And you. You wanted to say something back, but then you. It was. It was people telling you, yo, chill. Hold back.
Memphis Bleak
You know, everybody, okay? The whole industry. Any of these that ever talk, I be ready to, you know, but tell me, hey, dog, don't pay them no attention. You know what I'm saying? Like, we bigger than that. We don't got to respond to that like, you know what I mean? The best. The best form of. Of the best response is no response because it drives a madman crazy. You know what I'm saying? On my end, Like, I be wanting to fire that all these. Cause none of these is built like they say they are, bro. Like, I see all these in the street, and it's like, y' all think y' all cool with me, but you want to on the. Bro. Y' all is soft like. Cause if I'm a. On a. Your whole team getting shitted on, I'm not cool with one out the team. Like, oh, bleak. It's nothing with you, but. Nah, nigga, it's something with everybody, right? And I be. But it's just, you know, know we from that cloth where we ain't going to expose who we are or our feelings to the media, bro. We ain't. We ain't gonna crash out. Like, these young boys say, I'm not on a crash out moment. These is crash, dummy. So we let them strap up, put their seat belt on.
Host
All right? Yeah, yeah, that.
Memphis Bleak
But I definitely be wanting to. You know, that Mossy, that young, that be like, man, I slap this like, that should definitely be. Be there. Like, y' all think this is playing with me, man? Like you playing with the team. Like, we ain't really been outside or we ain't. We ain't with them niggas. That really. Come on, man. Like, everybody got a crew of them niggas, right? But niggas better not forget, man. This is Marcy, man. You niggas could not come, man. And we still with them guys.
Host
You want a shot for that?
Memphis Bleak
Of course, man.
Host
No, no, no, not for that. Come on.
Memphis Bleak
No, this is a shot. This is a shot.
Host
Shot. Tiny shot.
Memphis Bleak
I'm lit.
Host
Yeah, that's right.
Memphis Bleak
And they just better not forget.
Host
No, no, Give them a tiny shot.
Memphis Bleak
They got me talking. They got me talking.
Host
Listen, that's it.
Noreaga
That's the last one look that do.
Host
Say that great.
Memphis Bleak
Salute. That's it for today. And you know it's always shout out to Doucet when you come right here. Rock solid. We get real stories, real conversation station and of course with some real smooth cognac, shout out Doucet. Yeah.
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ROC Solid Episode 10: Collaborating with Drink Champs (Part 1)
Released: August 12, 2025
Hosts: Memphis Bleek, Drink Champs (Noreaga and Guests)
In Episode 10 of ROC Solid, Memphis Bleek teams up with the legendary Drink Champs crew, featuring Noreaga, to delve deep into the heart of hip-hop culture. This collaboration brings together raw conversations, untold stories from the Roc-A-Fella era, and exclusive industry insights. The hosts navigate through personal anecdotes, industry experiences, and reflections on loyalty and authenticity within the hip-hop community.
[03:32] Memphis Bleek:
"I feel like it's a new space of unlocking information... being able to pick a nigga brain and see what's really behind the madness."
Memphis Bleek opens the conversation by contrasting the transparency of podcasting with the often guarded interactions in the club scene. He highlights the value of having unfiltered discussions that reveal the true personalities and stories behind the artists.
[04:27] Noreaga:
"This is Rock Solid, a production of iHeartRadio and the Black Effect Network in partnership with my guys over at Drink Champs."
The collaboration leverages the strengths of both platforms, creating a space where deep, meaningful conversations can flourish without the usual antics of nightlife venues.
[05:14] Memphis Bleek:
"I know you been running an underground scene in Miami forever... you was the clue of Miami during the cassette era."
The hosts reminisce about the influential role of DJs in the mixtape scene, particularly spotlighting DJ Franny. They discuss his pivotal role in bridging the East and West Coast sounds, enhancing the mixtape culture, and his lasting impact on aspiring DJs like Noreaga.
[07:47] Memphis Bleek:
"He was the first west coast DJ playing a lot of east coast music. He was on the station."
DJ Franny's legacy is emphasized as a cornerstone in the development of hip-hop, fostering connections across different regions and shaping the musical landscape.
[12:10] Host:
"The only reason why I'm leaning towards PR this year is because I can do a couple of things. I can bring my cousin... everybody's easier to get access. And we all want to go to Bad Bunny concert."
Memphis and Noreaga share their adventures traveling to hotspots like Puerto Rico, St. Barts, and Turks and Caicos. They recount memorable experiences, from extravagant parties to unexpected challenges, painting a vivid picture of their lavish lifestyles.
[15:17] Memphis Bleek:
"We went out there chilling. Everything was lit. Ain't nothing happened to me."
Their stories not only entertain but also shed light on the camaraderie and occasional chaos that come with navigating high-profile events and destinations.
[16:08] Host:
"We trying to take care of the tip... they want the whole bill."
A humorous yet insightful discussion ensues about cultural differences in tipping practices during their travels. The hosts navigate awkward social situations, highlighting the importance of cultural awareness and mutual respect.
[17:46] Memphis Bleek:
"They wanna see Disney World... but they shooting up Aruba."
This segment underscores the contrasts between tourist expectations and the realities local communities may face, emphasizing the need for nuanced understanding when visiting different regions.
[31:28] Host:
"Hey, man, what was you smoking?"
The Quick Time with Slime segment injects humor and spontaneity into the episode. The hosts take shots while engaging in fast-paced, candid conversations about industry figures like Fat Joe, Biggie, and personal anecdotes.
[32:05] Noreaga:
"He said they had a nick neighborhood that was, I don't know, 5% hood."
This segment provides listeners with unfiltered opinions and heartfelt reflections, showcasing the hosts' genuine connection to the stories they share.
[39:35] Memphis Bleek:
"I don't like to see what's going on with Cam and Jim... real bros should never beef on social media."
A critical discussion emerges about the importance of handling conflicts privately within the community. The hosts advocate for maintaining loyalty and avoiding public disputes, which can tarnish longstanding relationships and legacies.
[40:40] Host:
"It almost makes the journey unworthy."
They ponder the cost of public feuds, emphasizing that true loyalty and respect should prevail over transient conflicts, ensuring the integrity of their careers and friendships.
[37:24] Memphis Bleek:
"Jay told me years ago... why you don't put your personality in your music. And I'm like, I'm from the era where we had to keep it real."
Reflecting on guidance from icons like Jay-Z, Memphis discusses the balance between authenticity and personal expression in his career. This introspection highlights the evolution of hip-hop and the importance of staying true to one's roots while embracing growth.
[56:45] Noreaga:
"He said the people that didn't have bodies would never understand."
The conversation delves into deeper, sometimes somber topics like the consequences of violent actions, showcasing the hosts' ability to tackle serious issues with depth and empathy.
[62:50] Memphis Bleek:
"We're gonna talk through Elon satellite. That's why I got the platform. Come talk, talk that."
As the episode wraps up, Memphis and Noreaga express their commitment to using their platforms to share untold stories and foster meaningful dialogue within the hip-hop community. They hint at future collaborations and projects aimed at preserving and celebrating the culture they so deeply cherish.
[66:50] Host:
"It's Rock Solid. We get real stories, real conversations station."
The episode closes with a reaffirmation of ROC Solid's mission to provide an authentic voice in hip-hop, ensuring that the legacy and stories of the past continue to inspire and educate future generations.
Podcasting as a Platform: Provides a space for authentic, in-depth conversations that aren't possible in traditional music industry settings.
Influence of DJs and Mixtape Culture: DJs like Franny played a crucial role in shaping hip-hop by bridging regional sounds and fostering community connections.
Loyalty and Handling Conflict: Emphasizes the importance of maintaining personal relationships and resolving conflicts privately to preserve integrity and respect within the community.
Personal Growth and Authenticity: Reflects on the balance between staying true to one’s roots while evolving personally and professionally.
Future Directions: ROC Solid aims to continue fostering meaningful dialogues and collaborations, celebrating the rich history and future of hip-hop.
Memphis Bleek on Podcasting:
"It's a little different now, being able to pick a nigga brain and see what's really behind the madness." [03:37]
Noreaga on DJ Franny:
"He was the first west coast DJ, I believe, playing a lot of east coast music." [07:50]
Host on Loyalty:
"Real bros should never beef on social media." [39:35]
Memphis Bleek on Handling Criticism:
"If nothing's wrong, everything's wrong. If one thing's wrong, you're on the path to being perfect." [30:30]
This episode of ROC Solid, in collaboration with Drink Champs, offers an engaging blend of nostalgia, personal stories, and insightful discussions that resonate with hip-hop enthusiasts and newcomers alike. Through candid conversations and shared experiences, Memphis Bleek and Noreaga provide listeners with a deeper understanding of the culture, the people, and the unwavering bonds that define the hip-hop community.