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INTERVIEW: Beenie Man On Returning To America, The Spirit Of Dancehall, High Energy Shows + More
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Beanie Man
Meetings, deadlines, emails, millions of notifications.
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DJ Envy
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Beanie Man
Panoramic moonroof, ambient light, knitting bows and massaging leather.
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Charlamagne tha God
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Beanie Man
I'm happy as a clam.
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Charlamagne tha God
No conclusive scientific research has shown clams can experience happiness. It just meant that I feel really good about my coverage.
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Beanie Man
I mean, even if you took the.
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Charlamagne tha God
Clam out for the best day ever.
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Beanie Man
Visiting the zoo, taking a scenic ride.
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Charlamagne tha God
Knowing you're insured by specialists, and sharing a strawberry ice cream cone together, the.
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Beanie Man
Clam would not feel happy and your strawberry cone would taste sorta clammy.
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Lauren LaRosa
Ew.
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Charlamagne tha God
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Beanie Man
Geico expertise for your motorcycle.
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Kevin Smith
Hey kids, it's me, Kevin Smith.
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Beanie Man
And it's me, Harley Quinn Smith.
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Kevin Smith
That's my daughter, man. Who my wife has always said is just a beardless d Ckless version of me. And that's the name of our podcast. Beardless D Ckless Me. I'm the old one, I'm the young one. And every week we try to make each other laugh really hard. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? A lot of cussing, a lot of bad language. It's for adults only. Or listen to it with your kid. Could be a family show. We're not quite sure. We're still figuring it out.
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Beanie Man
It's a work in progress.
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Kevin Smith
Listen to Beardless with me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Charlamagne tha God
Do you remember what you said the first night I came over here?
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Beanie Man
Ow.
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Charlamagne tha God
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DJ Envy
Wake that ass up early in the morning.
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Beanie Man
The Breakfast Club.
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Harley Quinn Smith
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy.
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Charlamagne tha God
Jess.
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Harley Quinn Smith
Hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. And we got a special guest in the building.
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DJ Envy
Yes, indeed.
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Harley Quinn Smith
The king of dance hall, my brother, Beanyman. Welcome, Zaga. How you feeling, man?
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Beanie Man
I'm feeling good.
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DJ Envy
Good to see you, man. How does it feel? Well, how important is it to have access to America again?
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Beanie Man
Well, it's. It's a very important thing because when you don't have access to America, you have access to the rest of the world. But America is a place that you can work every week. Yeah. So it's really a nice access.
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DJ Envy
You got to get that money.
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Beanie Man
Yes. You got to get the money.
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Harley Quinn Smith
13 years.
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Beanie Man
Yes, 13 years.
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Harley Quinn Smith
So for people that. That don't know what happened, because you are always here. I thought you even had a house here.
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Beanie Man
Me, myself don't even know what happened.
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Lauren LaRosa
Oh, wow.
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Beanie Man
But things happen, you know, we're Jamaican, so we're getting a privilege to come to America. So I think something happened and they just beat everybody for it. But it's loosened up now. Everybody's been releasing and everybody's getting their visa back. So, yeah, it's a good thing.
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Harley Quinn Smith
People would think that it was. It would be different because Trump's in office and he's actually trying to get people out, so people think it would be more difficult, but it wasn't.
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Beanie Man
It wasn't. It was. Was nice. It was a nice thing because it just gave me a chance to tour the rest of the world, you know, so I've been to Africa a few times then, but now I've been to Africa like I lived here, and I'm going to England like I lived here, going to Europe like I lived here. So we get chance to visit the rest of the world spiritually.
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DJ Envy
When you have those type of setbacks, those type of, I guess, obstacles, how do you. How do you embrace it?
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Beanie Man
By doing music, making the funds. Know that we're still here, we're still alive, and we're just waiting to get to them one more time. Yeah. Please embrace it.
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Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, I was going to talk about. I saw you bring up Maya on stage, and that was like my first time in. Yeah. Ten years.
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Beanie Man
Yeah.
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Lauren LaRosa
Right. For that moment for you. How does that feel?
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Beanie Man
Well, it's always a great feelings to work with Maya and stage because she's a great performer and a great entertainer and a great person, and she have nice personality, and people do love her. So she bring a different energy to the show. So, you know, ready to call up in a. A club show or outdoor event. She always do good. And, you know, as an artist, that is the type of artist that you need with you on stage.
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Lauren LaRosa
Are there other artists now that you've done collabs with in the past that are hitting you like, hey, since you're able to perform in the U.S. now, like, we need to have that Maya moment too.
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Beanie Man
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's true. But, you know, you have to just have the right time and the right place, you know? Yeah.
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DJ Envy
Are you ever surprised about how timeless your music still is? Like, still hit to this day?
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Beanie Man
But you see, you cannot surprise when you make good music. When you make good music is lifetime music. Because as people always say, only playoff and singers of instrument will be there when the gate of Zion is open. So all you have to do is make sure that your music is there from your music is there. You are representing. Yes.
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DJ Envy
When the gate of Zion is open. So just is a spiritual process.
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Beanie Man
Yeah, well, everything is a spiritual process, you know, because life is a gamble. Every morning you wake up, you have to give thanks. Yeah.
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Harley Quinn Smith
Do you feel the. It feels like they. People have been embracing dancehall music and reggae music more in the last couple of years, Right. We've seen it with buju. We've seen it with yourself. We see it with vibes. Does it feel different now than it was, let's say, 10 years ago?
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Beanie Man
No.
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Harley Quinn Smith
Well, it's especially here in America.
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Beanie Man
All right? The difference is the. The. The original formation of the music is always there. So it feels different because we are here now. It's not like the younger generation alone is out there trying to push the music. We from the 90s are here right now, so we're still here doing the music as how we know the music to be done. So that. That's the different feelings between the music three years ago from the music today. Because we are back.
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Harley Quinn Smith
Why do you feel like the music from a couple of years ago doesn't transcend like, that music from the 90s, they feel like they come and go. But now people are going back to that era of music, back to that era.
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Beanie Man
All right? You see, music always have a phase. Every music, hip hop, R and B, each and every music in the world have a face. Sometime them mix the music with other genre of music. And other beat mix up with it. What do you call it? Fusion. Yeah. Sometimes they fuse the music. That's what happened to dancer. Dancer have been fused. But don't get it confused because the artists, them, them really are spit lyrics and they're really chatting the same ways. But I don't think they're getting across to the audience like, oh, we get across to the audience. So I feel like sometime when you're chatting some lyrics, you're straight like an eyewear. Sometimes you have to have some curves. So sometimes you got to learn to sing, take a note, do something, make a difference to the music. So I think that's the difference between us. Like we don't come and say memories don't live like people do. Then with a comedy boy, stop people another pass. It's a whole different genre music. So now. Yeah, man, just come on. You see, that's the difference. So when you have the music with a melody and more understanding and people can dance to and play for their kids and play for the grandma because alcohol woman come out at 98 and say, Be in the money of my DJs. It's feeling good to know that people like in those age and those categories can look at you and said, you sing my favorite song. So yeah.
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DJ Envy
I always wonder what that line, man, you said memories don't live like people do.
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Beanie Man
Yeah.
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DJ Envy
What do you mean by that?
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Beanie Man
Memories don't live like people do.
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DJ Envy
I feel like memories live longer.
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Beanie Man
That that's what I'm saying. God damn it. I'm an idiot.
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DJ Envy
Jesus Christ.
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Lauren LaRosa
That was a moment of enlightening for you.
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Beanie Man
That's exactly what I said.
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Harley Quinn Smith
Do you feel like Afro beats took some of the dance halls thunder?
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Beanie Man
Because it came from. It's not only the thunder, because you see. Yeah, the music is. The drum is from Africa. Anyway. So we took their jumps. Is it? So that's how music is. That come from conga music, conga drums and all these drums. That's any drums you use from Africa. But we put in a different manner. Cuz we come from reggae music which reggae music is the original one drop. But we just add three drop to the beat. So we can dance to with rock to it more. We can do more styling it. But what afro music did it wake up Africa? Because there's a lot of people that live in Africa that live from dancer music and reggae music all their life. So if them come now with that, with that original sound, which is not an original sound, they cop a piece of one still. But you know, it's their drum. So you can't argue about it. But if they come with a music that the country, the whole entire continent that Africa can follow is a great move because you have one city of 20 million people, you have one city of the next 26 million people. So if they can get all of them people there to follow their music, the world is going to follow. Yeah. So it was a good move and a great Justin and their behalf.
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DJ Envy
Do you feel like this new generation of dancehall artists are representing the culture?
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Beanie Man
Right? Well, depends on their culture. Yeah. My culture is morals and you have to have more morality when it comes to the music. And you have to respect where the music is coming from and respect the elders in the music. You know, I don't think some of these young artists respect the elders in the music and they know respect where the music is coming from. They respect where the music is, is at today. You know, famous, buy a car, get a house. Music is not about that. The music is about longevity, long living, keeping yourself alive. Because I can say Robert Nesta Marley died, but Bob Marley is still alive today. And that's what the music is. Yeah. So what does respect.
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DJ Envy
I'm sorry I was asked what does respect look like from the new generation?
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Beanie Man
Yeah, well, I. I don't know. I wouldn't know because, you know, I. We don't deal with a lot of these young generations because they don't deal with us. So you know, I can't talk about me, I can't talk about the next man. But you have a lot of them who maybe have bond with the, the love of the music within them. So them, them love the music from a mother's point of view or a father's point of view or a big brother point of view. You know, sometimes you will find out some person say yo, me used to say bontu when me I grew up on muses and their sisters and brothers. So you know that that's how the music used to go. But this time of today, our money is a man. Every man is on their own. So it's not like no one helping nobody else. And it's not like you going in there, they're helping the next artist and you don't even business this artist want to say that you help him or not. You just know that you put in your two cents and make him a firm and a better person.
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Harley Quinn Smith
Why do you think that is though? If you look at pop music, you look at country music, you'll see the, the elder statesman working with the younger artists. And making music. But you never see that in. In reggae music. You don't see that in dance hall. You don't see. Definitely don't see that in hip hop.
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Beanie Man
Yeah, it's. It's there in dance island. But as what I'm saying a little while ago is like, people get help, but they don't appreciate it. They don't come out and say, oh, you know, that man put me in the studio the first time. They just remember the first hit they get, then remember when them try and try and try until you succeed. And that's what dancehall music is about. And that's what it was about, and that's what it's supposed to be always about. So each one help one in. In Jamaican motto. That's what it is. Out of many one people. So we as a people know that we supposed to come together and help the youth. But if you them the one take help I cannot bust a beard on. Put the words out, the melody inside it. Yeah.
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Lauren LaRosa
Is there any young artists right now in particular that like you wrapping your arms around? That's doing it, right? That's doing like the respect and.
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Beanie Man
Yeah, well, I. I respect each and every man from Dejan. You don't have to like a person to respect them job, you know, you don't have to be a friend with a person to respect what he's doing. So I do respect the. The effort that they put out and they try hard, you know. So I respect all young artists that everyone, you know, seriously, because it's. It's not easy to face a 20,000 crowd, and it's not easy to face 40,000, 50,000 people. It's not easy thing you have. Man will get nervous break down backstage. You know, you have to tell him say, no, man. Just take a deep breath and take defense. Because you have more nervous before them go on stage. Even me. Sometimes you get butterfly still. Yeah. Because too much confidence cause distraction. You get that confidence when you go on that stage and the people go, wow. Then you say, okay, I got it now. Boom, I moved you. But sometimes you're going stage was too much confidence and say, yo, may have this, and you end up flap. You don't want that out of that.
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DJ Envy
First show, that first show in America. Feel when you came back, like, did you have that. Those butterflies or what?
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Beanie Man
You haven't performed in a place for 13 years. I know you're performing for different type of people. You're performing for the working class people that, you know, left work, go home. Left home, go to Work. This is their time to go out and party. So the only time them listen to Abiding man is either on the radio or watching TV or on the YouTube or, you know, anywhere else, you know. But them don't really go to a beginning man show. So these are the type of audience that we have at this Jazz in the Garden show. But when. When you go on stage and you do the first I hear the reaction from the audience, then you know you got them. Yeah. So you just give them music. It's after it, song after song. It's after it's song after song. You don't make the vibes drop. When the vibe drop, you have something to say, but make sure it's something that keeping the vibes up. So, yeah, I did have a little butterfly there because little itching going backstage with my entrance and thing. But it just work out, right.
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Harley Quinn Smith
I was going to ask too. You know, dance hall is very competitive.
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Beanie Man
Yeah.
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Harley Quinn Smith
And back then you guys were Warren.
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Beanie Man
You're like.
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Harley Quinn Smith
It was a competitive sport and like y'all were going back and forth.
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Beanie Man
Yeah.
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Harley Quinn Smith
But was there a mutual respect there? The reason I say that, because in hip hop, it seems like they want to kill each other after those type of battles. But you guys felt like it got there many times. But we've never seen any bloodshed, we've never seen any fist fights, nothing like that. But it was still competitive.
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Beanie Man
Yeah. Well, you see, all right. When it come to competition and competing with another artist, you just have to respect the artist for whom is, you know. So anyone say on stage, we are no friends. Backstage, we record to each other. That's it. It don't have to be violent. You don't have to be me. I send my friend to shoot after you. You are sending your friend name to step on my kind of as a feel of mine. And all depends on who the person is and where the person is from. Because you have artists who are real gangsters, you know, and before them becomes a superstar. So you just make that highlight. You don't have to highlight it because you have people who know who you was and what you used to do. So a next brother come to you, him just know, say him come with utmost respect. But when it comes to stage and showing lyrics, there's no respect in showing lyrics. But there's respect in you see the person you got. So boom. If you don't have to boom him face or nothing, you just acknowledge there's respect in acknowledgment. So if you acknowledge that person and Knows that that person will go there with you if you try to go there with that person. You don't try to start nothing if you don't want nothing.
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DJ Envy
So after a sound clash, if the person doesn't give you a fist bump or something, that's.
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Beanie Man
No. Well, you. You come off the stage with. With all that you got. Some people is ignorant, but they put arrogance in the ignorant. So then when you put arrogance in your ignorance, it's like you have a right to be mad. And, you know, you don't make no sense. So sometimes you just slur it down by good night tonight. Yes, sir. When we say our next night, it's going to be my night. So that is it. You just slow down all of that right there. So sometime when. Yes. It becomes a violent argument. Sometimes you just be the better man and smile, you know? Yeah.
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DJ Envy
You ever been on stage with an artist and didn't like how they was performing and snatched the mic from them or something like this?
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Beanie Man
Well, sometimes you got to.
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Harley Quinn Smith
Beanie has done that.
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Beanie Man
Yeah, Beanie has done that. I'm not going to be like, yeah, no, I didn't do that. No, I've done that a lot of time. Because sometimes you. You call up, you have artists that jump on the stage and snatch the mic from you. You have to snatch it back. You don't want to disrespect him, say, bring him out to the front and make the people them know that this is a young artist. He's trying, you know. Yeah.
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Lauren LaRosa
Somebody came and snatched. Snatched a mic from you.
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Beanie Man
What accident was. Was last year? I was in the stage, do my thing. The show was in fire. The mic is gone. What?
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DJ Envy
Who did that?
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Beanie Man
Some young kid, you know, So I have to.
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Lauren LaRosa
Oh, I see it.
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Beanie Man
Yeah. I have to make him know on stage right here that this is not how you do it, you know?
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DJ Envy
Yeah.
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Beanie Man
And people want to take him off the stage, but I said, let's leave him alone. Give him a chance.
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Charlamagne tha God
All right.
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Beanie Man
Boom. Do what you got to do. He never did well. So that make it bad for him?
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DJ Envy
Yeah, yeah.
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Beanie Man
Cause the people was getting really rowdy, so I have to get back the crowd together, and boom, the show is happy and up again.
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Harley Quinn Smith
Do you. Have you ever had to prove yourself because of, like, you got hard music, you got gangster music, but you got a lot of music for the women.
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Beanie Man
Yeah. I'm the girls named Sugar.
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Harley Quinn Smith
That's right. Did people ever think you were sweet for that and you had to prove yourself? Be like, play if you want. Did that Ever happen?
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Beanie Man
Well, I think every time I go on a stage with other artists, I have to end up proving myself.
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DJ Envy
Really. Not Beanie man, the king of dancehall.
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Beanie Man
No, but trust me, because you see, all right, when I'm on the stage show with everybody else, like, say I'm on a sunfest bill, you know, not a Beanie man in concert. So I'm on a sunfest bill. It took me to walk backstage enough as I have to do, just walk backstage, and every artist is backstage because I'm gonna wonder if it work. No America right before him, all that. That was never my problem. Whether I work first in the middle, I close the show. My time is my time. But what I like to do is watch the artists who working before me to see the vibes that they're pushing to know exactly what I have to do. Because if you stay back there, are staying at your truck, and you don't know what vibes go on. The man that work the very first could took the show, and you don't know. So this is how I build my vibes. I build my vibes from your energy. No negativity, but your energy. So if I don't have to change the starting of the show, if I don't have to change the middle of the show, I don't have to. But you watch the artist and see other artists bring the crowd. You need to keep the crowd either high that level or higher than that. So you always start. I get a middle, keep the people them up and end with that energy that you need to end with, because you ended with the energy that you need. We call it an encore. But you, you can't do no anchor because your time is up. So you end with that energy. People shouting for more. So this is the reason why I said you have a competition every night when you go on stage, but when it's you in concert, the only competition you have is the energy from the people.
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Lauren LaRosa
Now, speaking of your concert and your tours, the name of this tour is the King of the Dance Hall Tour. Yeah, I know there's back and forth with Vibes Cartel and the fans trying to figure out King of the Dance hall, but this is the dethroning this tour right here.
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Beanie Man
Well, I'm not dethroning no one. I don't come to talk about people. I'm a king because of my music and my longevity in the music and still being here. I've been here since the 80s through the 90s, and I'm still here doing the same thing, period. So yeah. So, you know, I don't have to compare myself with people. People try to compare themselves with me. It's a good thing because every artist that bus in this music business since me bus them, compare me to them. So it's a great thing to call up your name. Caught up with a young, fresh artist. So it was a great thing. I'm not fighting it, not disputing it, but, you know, that's what it is. What it is.
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DJ Envy
Do you think that's why one of the reasons artists always want to challenge you, though, because you call yourself the king. The king.
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Beanie Man
I don't. Didn't call it. Didn't I call myself the king? I was crowned king. Oh.
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DJ Envy
Oh, okay.
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Beanie Man
Big difference. Yeah.
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Harley Quinn Smith
Now, I also wanted to ask new music, are you working on new music?
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Beanie Man
Yeah, I'm working on an album right now. Yeah, I got a new music out with me and Itana. It's called Guide of Us. Yeah, it's Produced by Kemal McGregor and majority of this album will be producing by me and Kemal McGregor. We're gonna have other producers. So, yeah, we're working on a new album right now. But this is the. The new singer. It's called Guide Over Us.
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Harley Quinn Smith
I was gonna ask you, you still get inspired? What still inspires you to do new music? Cause you got classic, you got hits.
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Beanie Man
You don't get to do the people, the fans.
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Harley Quinn Smith
Yeah.
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Beanie Man
Because you see the fans when you go there, them ask, when are we going to get a new giant? When a new giant is going to jump, when you're going to put out this, when you're going to put out that. So that continuously have you in the studio. Because I went in the studio the other night and I did a song with Freddie Brown. He's a house music producer. And that beat was so wicked that I have to drop a wicked track on it. And you know, this is how the music goes. Music take me here Music take me there Music Take me to Africa to do some afrobeat. I have a new song with Maya to come out right now.
- [22:42]
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- [23:41]
Charlamagne tha God
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Beanie Man
I like a man.
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Charlamagne tha God
You like a man. What do I like?
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Beanie Man
Joe? You like a man too.
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Charlamagne tha God
We often. There's quite similar. There's some cross pollination happening in here.
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Beanie Man
Not like. No.
- [24:04]
DJ Envy
Have we?
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Beanie Man
No, no, no.
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Charlamagne tha God
Not yet. Never say never. I cannot wait for all you girls, gays and they to join me on this extremely special pink confection of a podcast. There is so much darkness in this world and what I think we could all use more of is a little joy. Listen to the Dylan hour on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Love ya.
- [24:26]
Kevin Smith
Hey kids, it's me, Kevin Smith.
- [24:27]
Beanie Man
And it's me, Harley Quinn Smith.
- [24:29]
Kevin Smith
That's my daughter, man, who my wife has always said is just a beardless dickless version of me. And that's the name of our podcast. Beardless Me. I'm the.
- [24:37]
Beanie Man
I'm the young one.
- [24:38]
Kevin Smith
And every week we try to make each other laugh really hard. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? Lot of cussing, a lot of bad language. It's for adults only. Or listen to it with your kid. Could be a family show. We're not quite sure. We're still figuring it out.
- [24:49]
Beanie Man
It's a work in progress.
- [24:50]
Kevin Smith
Listen to Beardless with me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
- [24:56]
Charlamagne tha God
Do you remember what you said the first night I came over here?
- [24:59]
Beanie Man
Ow.
- [25:00]
Charlamagne tha God
Goes lower. From Blumhouse TV, iHeart podcasts and Ember 20 comes an all new fictional comedy podcast series. Join the flighty Damien Hirst as he unravels the mystery of his vanished boyfriend. And Santi was gone. I've been spending all my Time looking for answers about what happened to Santi and what's the way to find a missing person? Sleep with everyone he knew, obviously. Hmm. Pillow talk. The most unwelcome window into the human psyche. Follow our out of his element hero as he engages in a series of ill conceived investigative hookups. Mama always used to say God gave me gumption in place of a gag reflex. And as I was about to learn, no amount of showering can wash your hands of a bad hookup.
- [25:43]
Harley Quinn Smith
Now take a big whiff, my bruh.
- [25:47]
Charlamagne tha God
Listen to the hookup on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
- [25:56]
Beanie Man
As a guy, I. I make up about that, that, that juicy rhythm with, you know, that Biggie Small. Really? Yeah, I'm trying to get Snoop up in there. So. Yeah, I'm sure.
- [26:06]
Harley Quinn Smith
Stupid. Do it.
- [26:07]
Beanie Man
Yeah.
- [26:07]
Harley Quinn Smith
Do you have to change any of your lyrics from back then? Because back then in, in the 90s and 2000, there was words that we use that can't be used now.
- [26:17]
DJ Envy
Which ones?
- [26:18]
Harley Quinn Smith
You know which ones.
- [26:19]
Beanie Man
Yeah, yeah. It's a. Music is adapt and adjust. So if that's what's going on, you got to adapt and adjust to the, to the vibes that's going on. Because in Jamaica, we were just singing for Jamaica. We didn't know that the music, music going to go worldwide international. Once the music go worldwide international, you have to sing for the world to understand where you're coming from. So you have to make some adjustment.
- [26:43]
Harley Quinn Smith
You ever look back and be like, damn, that's that. We used those words back then.
- [26:47]
DJ Envy
That was the times though.
- [26:48]
Beanie Man
Yeah, those times. That was the time when we used to do the music the way like we love it. But now the people is into the music. You have to do music for people. So you're not doing we music. My music, my music. For me, you're doing the world music. So do the world a favor, play what they want to hear.
- [27:06]
DJ Envy
I love what you said earlier too about artists just doing the music and they were doing it just, you know, just to get the cars and just to get the look. I feel like, you know, the reason people have always loved reggae music is because it has a intention.
- [27:18]
Beanie Man
Yeah.
- [27:18]
DJ Envy
So. So what is your intention when you.
- [27:20]
Beanie Man
All right, just put it like this. When I just started out when I was like 5 years of age and I started do Stage at age 7, I never know that money come with music. I never know that doing it for the love. Yeah, I doing it because I, I was born a stomach and Music is what made me talk today so we can have a conversation because I sing all the time. I sing everything. I used to sing the reading book in the school, I used to sing the Lister shop everything so I can really talk. So what I did the music for is to get my speech up to date so I can speak to people straight. So when I started to make money from music is when I used to go in DJ competition. DJ contest. You got 40 artists there. But I could do three things. I could sing, I could chart and I could dance. So I entered the dancing competition Breeze. I enter the singing competition Breeze when I enter the DJ competition now is a difference because DJ choke word and each other. So if you good enough you can build a lyrics backstage you have a lyrics that already built but incorporating a next guy name into it is this is how the DJ business goes. So you know, sometime when I said I started out age five as a dj, people think I used to play music. I play music, yeah, I play records, I play CDs, I play music because without you knowing music you're nowhere in music. So the, the, the, the DJ and the competition and the interest in music, it just came from loving the music. It's not really, you know, you get up and said I'm going to be rich because you never know that money. I never knew that money was into it until I saw King Yellowman. He come out and buy a car and walk in Jewel around. I'm like what? That's why he becomes when he becomes a star. So yeah, I try to fight to be a star.
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DJ Envy
I love what you said about you. You said you had a speech impediment and yeah you who taught you that? Like who said you know what if you sing everything it'll teach you how.
- [29:31]
Beanie Man
Nobody taught me. I really do taught myself.
- [29:34]
DJ Envy
So God just said hey sing.
- [29:35]
Beanie Man
Yeah, yeah. I think that just come in my head and it's just bam. Wow. Yeah. Because every time I'm in school and the teacher call me up and give me the reading book, everybody know they're going to get something. So the whole classroom is like this Jack, I know I'm not going to read that. Everybody know I'm a stomach kids so they know there's no reading going on.
- [29:59]
DJ Envy
So you had when you had a bad experience like the first time you had to read out loud or something. That's what you.
- [30:03]
Beanie Man
No, it's not really that. I couldn't form a full sentence in less than 10 minutes. Trust me, it was hard. You have to stamp Your feet beat your chest, do all different type of things. Yeah. So I realized that when I started sing, I don't stop because as a kid, you have sing Mir Got a Little lamp, hold my D. You sing all that, but you turn out of that in the lyrics. So you just move there, move from here, move from there, move from there till you start to figure out that when you do this thing, it make you speak better.
- [30:39]
DJ Envy
You never did it. Never thought about doing a children's album and just singing all them songs.
- [30:45]
Beanie Man
Thought about it all the time. But is. Is, you know, is. It's not really my thing. But, yeah, it's a music thing. So if I can get some reggae and some dance out together and put some children's song together, but I rather might write my original children's song.
- [31:00]
DJ Envy
Yeah.
- [31:01]
Beanie Man
More than go from, oh, my God.
- [31:03]
DJ Envy
It's just incredible how God works. Like, you know something that some people would look at and say, oh, this is an impediment. This might hold me back in life. It actually propelled you.
- [31:10]
Beanie Man
Yeah.
- [31:11]
DJ Envy
To be who you are.
- [31:11]
Beanie Man
Yeah.
- [31:13]
Lauren LaRosa
This is not about the children's songs.
- [31:16]
Beanie Man
Yeah.
- [31:16]
Lauren LaRosa
I was sitting here thinking. I remember you guys at Diverses.
- [31:19]
Beanie Man
Yeah.
- [31:20]
Lauren LaRosa
And I was wondering, because during that time, you couldn't.
- [31:22]
Beanie Man
You.
- [31:22]
Lauren LaRosa
You. You're talking about how much money you make here in the US you couldn't come here. I hear a lot of US Artists talk about how the verses that Swiss that they do help them make so much money and the catalog numbers go up. What did it do for you at that time and how did it help? Because you couldn't come here and tour and stuff.
- [31:36]
Beanie Man
Trust me, my Cadillac numbers go up. Like, seriously, my Cadillac is just. My Cadillac becomes a Cadillac.
- [31:48]
Harley Quinn Smith
Your catamount became a Cadillac.
- [31:51]
Beanie Man
It just. And just move off. Like, seriously, you get more listeners who never used to listen to you. You know, you got more streamers who never used to stream. So. Yeah.
- [32:01]
Harley Quinn Smith
And what happened? Did that police officer just walked in your house? Walked in?
- [32:04]
Beanie Man
Yeah. You just walk inside, just boom.
- [32:07]
Harley Quinn Smith
Is that how it works in Jamaica to just. Just open the door and just come on in?
- [32:09]
Beanie Man
Well, all right. Everybody was focusing on what was going on, so nobody was focusing on.
- [32:15]
Harley Quinn Smith
So for people that don't know, during the verses, a cop just walked right into the room and was like, hey.
- [32:19]
Beanie Man
What'S going on here? Like, what? We got millions of people on the live now. So what you want to do? He started talking about COVID and all this. I'm like, we're home, you know? So you're talking like, you want to get serious? Do you want to be that guy? He look into himself and say, yeah. So cop do that because they feel they have a right anywhere they see like cars gather, even though the door, the gate is closed and is indoor area, they feel like they are the police. So they have to come find out what's going on. It's not like they didn't know what's going on. They just want to come show their face. You know, I, I see with them all the time. By the time we were taking a break, that's why he could say what's going on?
- [33:09]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, it was like the only time I've ever seen a versus battle. Like, interrupted. Like a party. Like, yo, y'all making too much noise. And you were so. You handled it so well.
- [33:21]
Beanie Man
Like, well, you see the, the police officers, they're waiting for you to disrespect so they can do their thing, you know, so you just angle it in the, the best way you can. Just do that in the best of your ability to make them know, say, we not disrespect no one. We are in a closed door indoor area. We're not outside. We're not harboring nobody. You come in there, you see everybody in their mask. Everybody's good. Is only we know who's under on the versus. Just doing it raw. And I never want to do a versus, like up season downstairs gathering thing you did there and media writers. So we get a studio and we just go in the studio and just do it right there. Because this is our Jamaican road.
- [34:06]
DJ Envy
Why did you have to. Why, why would. Why was Trinidad and Tobago so mad? Just because you say you ain't like, you don't like doubles, man.
- [34:12]
Beanie Man
Well, you see people get mad at things. Yeah, yeah. I wasn't even. Not necessary for them to get mad. So, you know, that's how it goes. And I don't think Trinidad and Tobago get mad at some people just trying to say that.
- [34:26]
DJ Envy
Yeah, yeah. That was the headline.
- [34:27]
Beanie Man
Yeah.
- [34:27]
DJ Envy
And it made it seem like the whole Trinidad was mad. That's crazy.
- [34:31]
Beanie Man
I watch you the airport and I take pictures with Trinidadians every day. I go to Jamaica, take picture with Trinidadians and two bacons. So if they were mad at me, they would have tell me personally. Yeah.
- [34:43]
DJ Envy
How do you probably whisper to you. I don't like doubles either.
- [34:48]
Beanie Man
Seriously.
- [34:48]
Harley Quinn Smith
I was gonna say, how are you dealing with, with social media? Because, you know, when you. We came up in an era where there was no social media, but now, I mean, you walk down the street people take a picture. How are you dealing with social media and people picking apart your life and.
- [34:59]
Beanie Man
Well, I deal with it because I don't have a phone. I don't have to look at it every day.
- [35:04]
Harley Quinn Smith
So you don't have a phone?
- [35:05]
Beanie Man
No.
- [35:06]
DJ Envy
That's a blessing. Oh, wow.
- [35:07]
Lauren LaRosa
I don't know what I would do.
- [35:09]
Beanie Man
Oh, I got people around me got phone.
- [35:11]
DJ Envy
It was very difficult.
- [35:14]
Harley Quinn Smith
To put that out there.
- [35:15]
Lauren LaRosa
Instagram? No. Quick, quick little Insta stuff.
- [35:18]
Beanie Man
I don't do that. I don't do that because I got too much problems in my life, my real life, I got too much problems. I got, you know, not problem, problem, problem, but you got mouths to feed. And, you know, when, when, when you sit down and look on certain things, it bring you back, make you get mad and crazy over nothing. Because anything people say about you is publicity. If people call your name every day, that's every day somebody's talking about you. The only thing bad a man can say about you is when they say, you're dead. And you cannot come back and say, nah, I'm not dead. So anything bad they say you can counteract with goodness. So I, I don't listen to social media. I like it because the music is, what do you call it, Evolving, you know, and evolution is a must. That's what they say in, in science. So when they come with all this technology and everything, regardless of you, is a part or a part of what. This is a part of the world and this is what happening with the world today. So you can just adjust and adapt or just leave it alone.
- [36:29]
DJ Envy
That's how I know you an original. And you don't care about what other people think.
- [36:32]
Beanie Man
Nah, I don't care.
- [36:33]
DJ Envy
A lot of times people have social media just because they have a fear of missing out.
- [36:36]
Beanie Man
Yeah, I'm not into that. I don't have a fear of missing out because I will always be here. I sing. Sim, Simmer, come on.
- [36:43]
DJ Envy
That's right, Simmer.
- [36:45]
Lauren LaRosa
We have a producer named Sim similar. So because you're such a positive person and like your spirit is so calming, how do you deal with stuff? Like I saw when your daughter, you guys are going back and forth for. She had made those statements and then you guys had to come up with a statement and I was like, I've never seen you.
- [37:01]
Beanie Man
I was not going back and forth. People was trying to react to her because I always have this thing as I am father, she's that I think, yeah, if she have a problem, she come to me. See. But you See, sometime people that you think not gonna do certain things, they are the one that surprise you like. Ta da. Surprise.
- [37:20]
Lauren LaRosa
Your statement. You seemed hurt by having to even respond publicly to her.
- [37:24]
Beanie Man
Trust me. Because you see the problem is he's only your own kid can make you feel a certain way. You see, when you dedicate your life to take care of a person and a person dedicate their life to bring your life down, you're gonna be hurt regardless of what. Yeah. So yes, she did hurt some feelings, but I move on and I get over there.
- [37:47]
Lauren LaRosa
Y'all good now?
- [37:48]
Beanie Man
Yeah. No, but she's good. She's. She's a 38 year old woman. So she know to balance up herself and she's all right.
- [37:55]
DJ Envy
You ever question yourself like what did I do wrong? Did I?
- [37:58]
Beanie Man
Yeah, I always do that because when you know it's always be wanting or the other, it's either somebody ask or something and then they get it at the time when they want it.
- [38:08]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
- [38:09]
Beanie Man
And just take it out in you. But yours is yours, you work for yours, you know. So all you have to do is just be on the m it down and know that that's your daughter. You know, she's peak foul thing and things that she's not supposed to speak about me. And it was all lies. So it's not true. So it's not like she burst in a secret. The only secret she burst was talking about my Maserati. When I never want nobody know that I'm going to bring it in Jamaica. That was it.
- [38:41]
DJ Envy
You have to have to deal with that with people like do people, you know, sometimes like you might do something for a person 10 times, but that one time you don't do it.
- [38:50]
Beanie Man
But it's that, that's a Caribbean way. I don't think that is the Jamaican way. That's the Caribbean way. Because yeah, you do a lot of good. A lot of good. A lot of good. And then do you ever notice that a guy got a 200 problem while you got a 2 million dollar problem and his problem is more important than yours? That's right.
- [39:10]
DJ Envy
That's.
- [39:13]
Beanie Man
That's what we face every day. Yeah. So people in life just have to face life for what it is, you know, it's either you adjust or adapt or just leave life alone. But I'm not going nowhere, I'm still here. Yeah.
- [39:27]
DJ Envy
Did you ever want to leave Jamaica and live somewhere else?
- [39:31]
Beanie Man
It's not my thing, but I've spent time in firing. But I have to go back home because first of all my kids are there. So if I plan to leave Jamaica, I have to pack up everybody. I'm not planning that for now.
- [39:48]
Harley Quinn Smith
I was gonna ask you what makes you such a people person, right? Dealt with so many different artists, Caribbean artists, rap artists, R and B artists. But when it comes to you, you are very a people person. You like to meet people where they at. I mean, I tell a story of time. One time I came to Jamaica and you took me to the beach, you took me to get food. And it wasn't you and your crew, you took me around. So what makes you such a people person like that?
- [40:11]
Beanie Man
That. I think it's my mom's. Yeah, I think it's my mom's cuz she know that I'm. I'm not a church goer, but I have to go to church. It was even one day in the week. But Sundays we have to be in church. So that, that's where you start to meet people. That's where you learn to start to socialize with people and all those things. So I bring all of my upbringing in my music.
- [40:35]
Harley Quinn Smith
Because the stardom never got to your head.
- [40:37]
Beanie Man
Never. Because you see, all right, you want to become the star, you have to expect everything that come with stardom. You got to expect, you have to take pictures, you got to expect, you have to sign autographs, you have to expect, you got to kiss a baby. You got to expect, you got to live up a little kid say, oh be a man. Kid is three year old, I'm 50. And you got to hug that kid, you know, you got to sign a lot of girl for that kid. Take a picture with that kid it and yeah, that's, that's how it goes. Because people love you because of your personality. People don't love you because of your songs. People will listen to your song and dance to your song. But not buying a ticket to come out and see you.
- [41:16]
DJ Envy
That's real.
- [41:18]
Beanie Man
That don't make no sense. You know, people supposed to love you for who you are, not what you do. So you could be a TV announcer, you could be a radio announcer, you could be a journalist. You can be anything. You can be the man that picking up the garbage. You have to talk to everybody. You have to boom off the madman fist because the madman know you. He's a madman. We sleep on the girl like this and move up. Man say if you don't put my face my thing. That's it. The man we push the hand cat. The man we taxi the man we load the bus. They Are all people. So for you to grow up in a big family like mines and not a people person. Don't make no sense. My mom got 13 kids and her kids got 13 kids and.
- [42:01]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, where are you in the 13 kids? Like, what number?
- [42:05]
Beanie Man
I'm in the region. I'm in the region.
- [42:11]
DJ Envy
You said people got to love you for who you are.
- [42:14]
Beanie Man
Yeah.
- [42:15]
DJ Envy
Not for what you do, but. But you are the music, right?
- [42:17]
Beanie Man
Yeah, but not because you're a musician and not because you're a superstar. People need to know you. They need to know who Moses Davis is. Otherwise from being a man. Being a man is a man that go on stage and pull out the audience and make the girl them wine and man them down the fence and all them things. But who's Moses? It's not like I walk and sing and walk and dance. You have to be that person who people can talk to, come out and shake your hand. You know, you have to do it presidential like.
- [42:48]
DJ Envy
Yeah, the, you know, we all get older and, you know, the older we get, you know, we have to change things about our lifestyle. Did the doctor tell you to slow down on the rum in Red Bull?
- [42:58]
Beanie Man
Well, that's always in everything. And the high grade they tell you to slow down. And the rubber Red Bull, they always say that. But you are the one that feeling it. So you're supposed to know you feel. Doctor give you advice. Sometimes you have to take it. When they say critical, it is critical, you know, but if they give you time, over time, you will get to balance it. So if you drink a buckler rum today, drink albaco tomorrow, you start to drink quarter bottle, then you know, you slow down.
- [43:28]
Lauren LaRosa
I like that.
- [43:29]
Beanie Man
So you don't just stop brap, boom. And then you get into. No, I don't understand because I, I don't think rehab work for people. I think you have to rehabilitate yourself. Yeah. Like seriously. But you can do that. You can jab back. It's still the same rum. You're just not drinking a bottle. You're drinking off butter. When you reach the half body, then you just force it down to a quarter bottle and then you can go one drink a day. You can do that. You believe in your health, so you believe in your life. You can last a little bit longer. Yeah. So doctor don't have to tell you that.
- [44:06]
Harley Quinn Smith
Is going to be performing May 24th at the UBS arena on. That's a Saturday, the King of Dance hall tour. He'll be hitting the city. What other, what other cities you hitting.
- [44:15]
Beanie Man
We in a lot of place. We eat in Philly. We. Yeah, it's. It's there. You can find it. But right now, I can't tell you. On top of my.
- [44:24]
Harley Quinn Smith
Well, New York is May 24th. I'm coming. You know, the wife's coming.
- [44:27]
DJ Envy
You can go to Ticketmaster.
- [44:28]
Beanie Man
Going to Ticket. Ticketmaster. Yeah. Just check out Ticketmaster, and they will tell you everything. I. I was supposed to come with a whole thing of list and where we're going and what we're doing, but I didn't know that I was going to be here today, so I have to cancel everything.
- [44:42]
Harley Quinn Smith
I know. I called him. I said, yo. I called Beanie. I said, yo, Beanie, how you come to New York and don't come by us? He goes, hold on. I changed my flight, Bridget. I'll be here tomorrow morning. So he changed his flight to gear. So I appreciate you, but I knew that you in New York City, you had to come through.
- [44:54]
Beanie Man
Yes, man. After.
- [44:55]
Harley Quinn Smith
And we appreciate you. Beanie Siegel.
- [44:57]
DJ Envy
Beanie Man. What the hell?
- [44:58]
Beanie Man
Beanie Man. I don't know why that's right funny, because BDC got used to name Beanie Man. Really? Yes.
- [45:07]
DJ Envy
Beanie Mac. No, it was Beanie Mac.
- [45:09]
Beanie Man
Beanie Mac. It was Beanie Mac.
- [45:10]
DJ Envy
It was Beanie Mac.
- [45:11]
Beanie Man
Okay, Beanie Man.
- [45:13]
Harley Quinn Smith
Yeah, because he said philly Beanie Man.
- [45:16]
DJ Envy
Don't. Don't take. Don't be offended by that. Because he's retarded. I know you can't use that word. What's the word for retarded in Jamaica?
- [45:25]
Lauren LaRosa
Dumb.
- [45:25]
Beanie Man
Ah, dumb under cap. Yeah, a lot of things. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. I would just go with normal stupid. Yo, Envy.
- [45:38]
Lauren LaRosa
I'm gonna call you that, you normal stupid man.
- [45:41]
DJ Envy
Beanie man is the Breakfast Club.
- [45:43]
Beanie Man
Good morning.
- [45:44]
DJ Envy
Wake that ass up early in the morning.
- [45:46]
Beanie Man
The Breakfast Club.
- [45:52]
Kevin Smith
Hey, kids, it's me, Kevin Smith.
- [45:54]
Beanie Man
And it's me, Harley Quinn Smith.
- [45:55]
Kevin Smith
That's my daughter, man, who my wife has always said is just a beardless, dickless version of me. And that's the name of our podcast, Beard. I'm the old one, I'm the young one. And every week, we try to make each other laugh really hard. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? A lot of cussing, a lot of bad language. It's for adults only. Or listen to it with your kid. Could be a family show. We're not quite sure. We're still figuring it out.
- [46:15]
Beanie Man
It's a work in progress.
- [46:16]
Kevin Smith
Listen to Beardless me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get Your podcast.
- [46:22]
Charlamagne tha God
Do you remember what you said the first night I came over here?
- [46:25]
Beanie Man
How?
- [46:26]
Harley Quinn Smith
Go slower.
- [46:27]
Charlamagne tha God
From Blumhouse TV, iHeart podcasts, and Ember 20 comes an all new fictional comedy podcast series. Join the flighty Damien Hirst as he unravels the mystery of his vanished boyfriend. I've been spending all my time looking for answers about what happened to Santi and what's the way to find a missing person. Sleep with everyone he knew, obviously. Listen to the hookup on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Are your ears bored?
- [46:54]
Beanie Man
Yeah. Are you looking for a new podcast that will make you laugh, learn, and say gay? Yeah.
- [47:01]
Charlamagne tha God
Then tune in to locatora radio season 10 today.
- [47:04]
Beanie Man
Okay. Now that's what I call a podcast. I'm Diosa. I'm Mala, the host of Locatora Radio, a radiophonic novella, which is just a.
- [47:14]
Charlamagne tha God
Very extra way of saying a podcast. Listen to Locatora Radio Season 10 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [47:25]
Lauren LaRosa
From the producers who brought you Princess of South beach comes a new podcast, the Setup.
- [47:31]
Beanie Man
The set follows a lonely museum curator.
- [47:34]
Lauren LaRosa
But when the perfect man walks into his life.
- [47:36]
Beanie Man
Well, I guess I'm saying I like it.
- [47:38]
Charlamagne tha God
You like me.
- [47:39]
Lauren LaRosa
He actually is too good to be true.
- [47:42]
Harley Quinn Smith
This is a con. I'm conning you to get the dilemma painting. We could do this together.
- [47:48]
Lauren LaRosa
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