Joe and Jada - 2 Chainz talks NEW BOOK, Atlanta's hip hop legacy & WILD Jay-Z story

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Herd with Colin Cowherd

Episode: Joe and Jada - 2 Chainz talks NEW BOOK, Atlanta's hip hop legacy & WILD Jay-Z story

Date: March 17, 2026
Host: iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
Guests: 2 Chainz, Joe Crack the Dawn (Fat Joe), Jada Cadiz, 2 Chainz’s Mother (Mrs. Epps), G. Dep

Episode Overview

This episode of The Herd (Joe and Jada show segment) welcomes rapper, entrepreneur, and Atlanta fixture 2 Chainz for a lively and candid conversation. The discussion centers around 2 Chainz’s newly released book The Voice in My Head is God, his journey in the music industry, Atlanta’s unique collaborative culture, lessons in family and ambition, and behind-the-scenes hip hop stories involving legends like Jay-Z and Kanye West. His mother joins for an intimate segment on upbringing and legacy, and Harlem’s G. Dep drops in for an appearance.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Atlanta’s Hip Hop Legacy & Community Unity

[04:35–07:56]

• Atlanta’s evolution: 2 Chainz breaks down how Atlanta’s sound moved from bass-heavy and dance-driven, into the trap era, maintaining its DNA through all trends.

  “Being from Atlanta, you have to adapt. That’s an advantage; you learn to survive any room.” (2 Chainz, 05:45)

• Unity: The city’s unique success comes from collaboration, not just artistically but in business.

  “We’re all open to working together... That removes the pocket-watching and jealousy you see in other areas.” (2 Chainz, 07:14)

2. 2 Chainz’s Mindset, Hard Work, and Self-Belief

[08:11–09:57]

• Persistence: After early group success (“Duffel Bag Boyz”), 2 Chainz emphasizes self-motivation and the internal drive that powered his solo rise.

  “You can’t buy ambition. I always knew I was gonna be something.” (2 Chainz, 08:11)

• Humility post-success: Once in the spotlight, he chose to humble himself, learning that arrogance can isolate you.

  “The arrogant, on the way up, rub people the wrong way. On the way down, people don’t care because they remember how you made them feel.” (2 Chainz, 08:41)

3. The Book: “The Voice in My Head is God”

[09:57–15:26]

• Origin and meaning of the book: 2 Chainz explains that the “voice” is intuition, a gut feeling he identifies as divine guidance.

  “If you ever said ‘something told me’, that’s God. It’s your conscience, intuition, gut feeling.” (2 Chainz, 10:10)

• Why share his secret? He feels the need to leave a legacy of growth, not just autobiography.

  “It’s about something real—growth, evolution… This is bigger than bars or after-parties. Intuition is a sixth sense, a real superpower for me.” (2 Chainz, 14:42)

4. Family, Upbringing, and Breaking Cycles

[30:26–37:30]

• 2 Chainz’s mother tells stories of his ambitious, self-sufficient childhood, being the only child, the first in his family to attend a private school, and her initial reluctance to have children.

  “He’s different. He’s smart, caring, compassionate. … He’s kind of been self-sufficient, even at birth.” (2 Chainz’s Mother, 31:48)

• Generational progress: Both 2 Chainz and Fat Joe discuss their poverty-stricken upbringings and the importance of breaking generational curses:

  “Eventually you give birth to something that breaks whatever curse came before… everyone has that in their family.” (2 Chainz, 34:00)

5. Notable Hip-Hop Industry Stories

a) The Jay-Z (Hov) “Turn-Down” Story

[40:52–44:32]

• Miscommunication: 2 Chainz debunks the “turned down Jay-Z” myth—instead, his loyalty to his team (his former DJ, Tech) complicated a meeting with Jay-Z and Jermaine Dupri.

  “My moral compass was saying I ain’t want to leave dawg… At that time, my compass is saying, stick with your team.” (2 Chainz, 43:28)

• Loyalty: Chorus of advice for younger artists—be clear about evolving roles and always value your core tribe.

b) Working with Kanye & GOOD Music

[45:52–47:16]

• Describes process: Getting “called” by Kanye and being thrown into a creative ‘boot camp’—showing up ready to work in front of people at any time.

  “I call it Benihanas… cooking in front of them, throwing shrimp in niggas’ mouths. ... I’m bootstrapped and ready.” (2 Chainz, 46:23)

6. Fashion, Confidence, and Personality

[19:17–21:25]

• 2 Chainz claims credit for NBA players getting into fashion:

  “I feel like I’m the reason brands started making [clothes] for hoopers… They see a tall guy who can put it on.” (2 Chainz, 19:36)

• Attention to detail: Whether it’s the zipper on a coat or sneakers on court, confidence comes from details and being meticulous in self-presentation.

7. Parenthood and Legacy

[35:07–37:30]

• Pride in family: 2 Chainz’s mother says what makes her proud is his role as a father. 2 Chainz discusses his kids’ milestones, including his daughter heading to college.

  “That’s what I’m most proud of—him being a family man.” (2 Chainz’s Mother, 35:10)

• On fatherhood:

  “House won’t be the same without the kids… there’s no manual for this but we did the best we could with what we had.” (2 Chainz, 36:42)

8. Artistic Vision & Audiobook Creativity

[37:32–39:42]

• Book cover: Illustrates his flair for creativity; the cover is pastel art by Derrice Walker, not a photo.
• Audiobook: 2 Chainz produced the audiobook with music and soundscapes, making it an immersive experience.

  “I got production… when I’m reading certain parts, you hear the scene in the background of the audio… It’s layered.” (2 Chainz, 38:23)

9. Hip Hop Camaraderie & Fun

[47:16–54:23]

• The atmosphere is light and filled with mutual respect, jokes, and storytelling.
• G. Dep makes a guest appearance, celebrating overcoming personal adversity.
• Joe Crack, Jada, and 2 Chainz trade playful barbs about rap status, “bougie” uncles, and who gets the most feature requests.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• 2 Chainz on Intuition:

  “I have this compass, this internal compass that helps me make decisions daily—from business to what I’m gonna wear.” – 2 Chainz [11:51]

• On Success and Arrogance:

  “The arrogant, on the way up, rub people the wrong way. On the way down, people don’t care… they remember how you made them feel.” – 2 Chainz [08:41]

• Fat Joe on Humble Beginnings:

  “I walk around my house and look at the light bulb and think: We got these light bulbs—this shit crazy. You believe we got this light bulb?” – Joe Crack the Dawn [22:45]

• 2 Chainz’s Mother on his upbringing:

  “He’s kind of been self-sufficient, even at birth.” – Mrs. Epps [31:48]

• 2 Chainz on his audiobook:

  “The audiobook, I got production. It’s scored… you get to hear the scene in the background.” [38:23]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [04:35] — 2 Chainz on the evolution of Atlanta hip-hop culture
• [07:14] — Explaining “collaboration over competition” in Atlanta
• [08:11] — 2 Chainz on ambition and adapting after Duffel Bag Boyz
• [09:57–15:26] — Deep dive on the new book, voice of intuition, and faith
• [30:26–37:30] — Family legacy, interview with 2 Chainz’s mom
• [40:52–44:32] — Jay-Z meeting story: loyalty to his team and miscommunication
• [45:52–47:16] — The Kanye/GOOD Music story; creative bootcamps
• [38:23] — Innovations in audiobook storytelling
• [47:16–54:23] — Fun, camaraderie, G. Dep’s return, rap scene reflections

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Conclusion

This episode is a tapestry of humor, wisdom, and reflection. 2 Chainz’s journey from Atlanta’s streets to global hip hop—powered by faith, resilience, and a trusted inner compass—offers inspiration beyond music. Candid stories, family insights, and entertaining anecdotes with legendary guests and friends make it a compelling listen.

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For those new to 2 Chainz or Atlanta’s hip hop scene, this is a crash course in culture, creativity, family, and integrity. And don’t miss out on his new book—whether you read or listen, you’ll get the full 2 Chainz experience.

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[2 Chainz]

Something told me. Something told me to come to the Joe and say when I come to New York, I got to figure out a way to come rock with Joe and Jada Cadiz. My guys.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yo, what up, y'? All? This is Joe Crack the Dawn.

[Jada Cadiz]

This is your boy Jada. You know what it is? The Joe and Jada show. Every show legendary. Every show iconic power. And you see my man got the links on. We crush.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Daniel, lover. I got my brother Nadine in the. I'm gonna bring Nadine in. Like two today's roll out.

[Jada Cadiz]

Today's guest. When you think of today's guest, you gotta think of the south, you know what I mean? You gotta think of Atlanta. You gotta think of bars, you gotta think of swag, you gotta think of basketball. You gotta think of very family oriented, Even got Mama Love in the building. You gotta think of great businessman. Gotta think of somebody that does stuff for the community. Annually, yearly, daily. You gotta think of someone who's able to overcome adversity. He came in as a member of group, bought himself out of his contract, came back solo, duct taped himself to a rocket ship and took over the world. Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for my brother.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Two chance, two chains.

[2 Chainz]

What's up, player?

[Jada Cadiz]

What's up, my brother?

[2 Chainz]

How y', all, man? What's good? I'm happy to be on here.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Atlanta, the A.

[2 Chainz]

That's right, man.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Man, that is so prestigious to me. I tell him every time. Every time I go to Atlanta, I feel like home. You know, restaurants. And. You a legend, huh?

[Jada Cadiz]

I thought you was gonna say the restaurants.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

I love everything about the A. I love everything about the A.

[Jada Cadiz]

And the fact that you didn't buy a house there back in the day,

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

when I was supposed to. I was supposed to buy a house. Like, I. I was like, miami, Atlanta. I'm saying I was in Miami 23 for. I ain't have it. Like, maybe I did. I wasn't. Listen, I'm a ghetto dude with some money, you know what I'm saying? I take baby steps, you know what I'm saying? Sometimes I was pulling the trigger, sometimes I wasn't. But I love Atlanta. You're a major fixture in Atlanta. What's it like coming from Atlanta from day one? How many years you been rapping now and in your career you've seen so many people blow up from Atlanta or before you. What's that like being from there?

[2 Chainz]

Just being from the city, I was able to see it evolve, go through many eras, go through heavy bass driven, heavy, maybe dance driven to the trap to, you know, all the different eras, but they all still very much remain in today's music. Parts of it, like DNA from it. And just having Atlanta as your landscape coming up, I think builds resilience and also gives you discipline and you gotta be able to adapt, you know what I'm saying? Coming from Atlanta, like it's just any given day these situations have changed. So I think adapt building. What am I trying to say? Being able to adapt is like an advantage coming from Atlanta. You know, once you leave the city, you're able to take those, the skill sets that you learned in the city and just apply to every room I know I have. So every room I'm in is still like Atlantis there with me. That's the energy that I'm always holding on to.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

We not from there. So we always. I've always seen unity in Atlanta. That's how I've always felt. I always felt like these guys stick together, they push each other, they work with each other, they support each other. Tell me about the unity coming up in Atlanta. You know, what's that about?

[2 Chainz]

Collaborating is, is always like a good idea in the city. Not just in music, but in business too. I think we're all open to working together in some sort of way. And that removes a lot of the pocket watching and the jealousy that you would see in other areas because of the fact that we are Open to share LLCs or share a mic boo. So, you know, music is just an extension of the energy that the city has as far as working together and being, you know, being collaborative.

[Jada Cadiz]

How do you feel after Duffel Bag Boys? For those that don't know how long you've been on the grizzly doing your 1, 2. It seemed like right after that the elevator was stuck on the up.

[2 Chainz]

Yeah, man, just man, my commitment and my resilience, man, I'm self motivated, you know, like you can't buy the motivation, you can't buy ambition, you know what I'm saying? So through my self evaluation, man, I get up and I just got that energy like I'm him and I can just reach heights. And early on I was one of those that was arrogant before I got in the game. I used to look at everybody in the game, look at all my peers, and be like, I can get with this person. I can get with this person. As soon as I got in the game, I started to. I became more humble because I saw, like, the arrogant people, how their energy, how it kind of played out over time. Like, the arrogant, on the way up, they rub people the wrong way. And then on the way down, people don't care much about them because they remember how you made them feel. And so I kind of dim my arrogance once I got in the game, but it's still very much internal, you know what I mean? And when I got in, I just had so much to prove to not just everybody else, but to myself, you know what I mean? I just. I ask people all the time, like, you knew you was gonna be this, like, people. That's an issue. Like, when did you know you was gonna be a rapper? Cause I felt like I was gonna be something. I always knew I was gonna be something, you know what I mean? And I always knew I was gonna be successful. And that's kind of like what some of my book is indicating. Like, I got this inner monologue. I got this divine guidance that navigate. It's like my navigation. It just leads me to success. Man.

[Jada Cadiz]

Speaking on the book, the voice in my head is God.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yeah, what a title.

[Jada Cadiz]

Title was amazing. I think that voice is captivating.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Could you hear God?

[2 Chainz]

Well, that's what I'm trying to tell you. If you ever said something told me, you know, something told me to call. My man's a pill to get this. Whatever. Something told me to.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

This guy wasn't good.

[2 Chainz]

Something told me or something.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Something told me a million times.

[2 Chainz]

That's it.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

He's dumb.

[2 Chainz]

That something is it. I did it. I'm the guinea pig for this. I done listen to this. But when I ain't listening, I done had different outcomes. When I listened, I just been. You know what I'm saying? It's just been like. And it's. The thing is, it's not like a loud voice, but it's clear. It's telling you, man, Joe, stay your ass in the house. It's saying, hey, kids, man, don't even answer the phone or make sure you answer the phone. You know what I'm saying? You miss that call, your homie text you from prison, man, this such and such, man. Something told me I don't answer calls. I don't, man. Something told me I should have answered the call, you know, I done missed my whatever that is. So I'm in the book, just using examples of how that is God, the title, the Voice is my conscience. Intuition, Think, intuition, gut feeling. You know what I'm saying? Gut feeling. Something told me to get out of here. Something. It's time to go. I'm one of those people that just lead places. I'm really one of those people. I'm rolling. It's time to go. Just something just tell me it's time to go. Like, it don't mean somebody finna shoot up the place. It just be like. But it just mean, like, give a fuck.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yeah, shoot up the play.

[2 Chainz]

So when I'm putting something out to the world, this is like, something for my community to try to tell a player. Like, it's okay to, like, hush down the noise and listen to that voice and actually believe it. Like, the voice is like, it warns you before it. I mean, it comes before trauma, ego, fear, any of that stuff, right? But you can't see what it's trying to. So you gotta kind of have faith on, like, whatever it's trying to tell you, right? Cause it's like, hey, I'm telling you, keep straight, but you don't know why it's telling you to keep straight instead of turning left. You know what I mean? And I'm really. I tell you, I have this voice and this. I almost feel like, man, people ask me, bro, you always coming up with something. How you come up with this stuff? Like, nah, I'm just gonna tell people in the book, this is really how I've been operating so long. It's almost like a secret. It's not a secret, but this, how I've been moving, whether you believe it operating those terms or not, but I have this compass, this internal compass that helps me make decisions daily. From business decisions to what I'm aware. Everything, bro.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

You know when. When it happens to me? Well, for years, I didn't know God was sending me messages and stuff like that. And then once I noticed that whenever I can't sleep, because I can sleep anywhere, shit will be, I'm sleeping when I can't sleep. Now I know I've been through it enough that now I be like, all right, God, what you trying to tell me?

[2 Chainz]

Yeah, so.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

So I start thinking of everything. And then that's how I come up with, like, a plan. Whether it's business, life, family, whatever. When I can't sleep now, I be like, all right, what you trying to say? Cause you know I know I can't sleep. Cause you trying to Let me know something.

[2 Chainz]

And then you going over with yourself internally, you know what I'm saying? And I think that's just the message I'm trying to. I'm trying to put out. Like, you have to have experience. You have to go through life to know, like, this means something. You have to not sleep for so many nights before you realize, like, this is God trying to speak to me. So that's what this book. You have to. I couldn't have wrote this book when I was 20, 30. You have to live long enough. You know what I'm saying?

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yeah, yeah. Let me ask one more question. People so selfish, right? What made you share this in your book with the world and let people know what you know? What's your secret to success, your drive to success? What made you share it with the world? Because a lot of people. I'll tell you my story about it. KISS heard it a hundred times. But I'll tell you my flip side of the story. But what made you say, yo, I'm going to share this with the world?

[2 Chainz]

I think legacy, leaving something behind, some type of literature that's not just an autobiography or anything like that. Like something real that has substance, something that shows growth and evolution, something that speaks to an audience outside of hip hop as well. When you speak about intuition, this ain't just about no bars or about what after party to show up to. This is bigger than that. So when I talk about intuition, I talk about it like it's like a sixth sense. It's a real superpower for me. Like, you know what I'm saying? I'm not going back and forth with something that's inside of me. They telling you this whole time, boy, God is in you. God is the blessing is coming from within. You done got all these hints and you're here.

[2 Chainz's Mother]

That's what I'm hearing here.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

What I'm hearing is it's the God in me that I practice. It's the God, it's the God in me. That's what I keep hearing. Mary, Mary.

[2 Chainz]

Yeah, it's crazy.

[Jada Cadiz]

I was reading some excerpts from the book and I seen you saying, 2012 all star. You already felt like him before you got in the gym, but once you got in there, you got the love was in abundance. And you went to your seat, which was a little couple 20 rolls up. Like, screw that, man. I'm gonna work my way down courtside and just got more love for Mary and people like that. So I understand that intuition, that confidence.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

So you said one day I'mma get there or you just went down there?

[Jada Cadiz]

No, he had tickets.

[2 Chainz]

He was up.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

I sat next to you. You know, like before three or four.

[2 Chainz]

Me and you, I done squeezed between. I done done all type of stuff before. This is really what happened.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Dude, you're your son.

[2 Chainz's Mother]

Mama.

[2 Chainz]

Listen, bro, I went to All Star.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

He's a funny dude.

[2 Chainz]

I did something.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

I hung out with him at All Star. Listen, things he be saying in there.

[2 Chainz]

Listen, I went to the All Star one year and one of my homies disrespected a young lady that worked for the.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

I saw you need.

[2 Chainz]

Yes. You know what I mean? So, you know, that trickled down to me. So what connection I used to have was almost like I had to start figuring things out on my own. But I really loved the game. I really love basketball so much that I go and just figure it out. So this is one time I went, I'm up. And you know, you just know. You don't even supposed to be up here. Like, I know, like, it ain't like I'm being ambitious. I either done sold some weed to some of these rappers. I actually done verses and songs with them. Boy, I done just got up, you know, security be. Let me get you. Let me get you. I tell everybody if you act like you supposed to be there, them folks, hey, man, you get to looking at them folk like they trying you. They disrespecting you. Asking for some, you know, credential or lament. Boy, I get to walking and do what you do. You don't be looking them all in the eyes and face. You just. You know what I'm saying. Cause see, this is my other take. Anytime you rhyme and you see twill, you look twill right in the eyes. You finished, you bout to get whipped over, man.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Well, if you don't look at them, they'll pull you over too.

[2 Chainz]

No, no, no, no. If you don't this. When you're not a criminal. You don't care about the police, bro.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

You don't care.

[2 Chainz]

Only people that's criminal. We the only one do all kind of old little shit that they trying. I'm telling you right up on.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

I'm telling you, man, look in the mirror and all that.

[2 Chainz]

Hey, that's why you don't post to listen, man. You supposed to not even stun them, man. So that's how I am with. With knowing I'm supposed to be somewhere I ain't. I'm just so. I'm just ton of business.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

But yeah, those got Nadine in the building at Daniel's level. Come here, Nadine, man. The man, the man up here with the store. No, no, no, we got it. But I mean, you know, go to that store.

[2 Chainz]

He got a plug. He got. He got to plug his plug.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

This is the infamous Daniel for your

[2 Chainz]

ass coming out here on my set. I'm gonna need something over there. Oh, that's for a long time from the ring, y'. All.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

N crossing.

[2 Chainz]

All crossing. All cross crossing. All my. I'mma need that in a Tony size. You dig what I'm saying?

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Get him a life long. I already worked with him before, but I'm coming on.

[2 Chainz]

And you keep talking about before past 10. This ain't about EB we talking about. Hey, listen, with his height, gonna be player. She gonna be flair. You know, I don't have to do much, but with that height.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

He over here. Yeah, I'm sitting with him, all star. And he talking shit about the basketball players he had. You asked some Versace shit. Only Kanye wore some shit. You was like, you see this Versace, Joe the seven foot, they wish they had this Versace.

[2 Chainz]

No, no, no, no, no. I'm telling you, no, no. Let them become clean. I feel like I'm the reason why brands start making shit for Hoopers Hoop niggas used to see me and be like, hey, shawty, what size shoe you wear? Cause I'm having on something just. You know what I'm saying? I'm having on. And they see me, I'm a real true 6, 5. I'm an NBA point guard size. You get what I'm saying? So when they see me having it on, I believe it is my belief that early on, when they started caring about dressing, they didn't used to care about dressing, bro. Basketball player didn't used to care about dressing. But, like, you see somebody tall, like, can put it on. You know what I mean? Then I think it, no, you super

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

tall guys, you all talk the same shit, right?

[2 Chainz's Mother]

Like.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Cause Dre from Cool and Dre, he be like, you know, six, seven, I jump out the Rolls Royce, they think, you know, they automatically know I'm the ball player. I'm like, yo, J, they always got that same monologue, man. Let me tell you something, yo, two J's, you bugged out. But I thought I was the only one that thought shit like that in my head. Like, when I wear that shit, I be like, yo, I got him. But you was speaking it out loud. The voice in you was out loud.

[2 Chainz]

Well, sometimes that's when they get to say, man, you got imaginary friends. You talking to yourself. So that's when they get like that. But for the most part. Most part, Joe, you care too much not to talk to yourself and your. You really give a fuck about your appearance. So I know in your head you like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna go pink on him.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yeah. I'm the witness on that.

[Jada Cadiz]

Yeah.

[2 Chainz]

I'm coming to kill him. I'm going. I'm still

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

absolutely right for him. Every little detail. Even the coat that he's wearing. He chose the zipper. We had to find this zipper and this slider. He was so specific about how it should time out.

[2 Chainz]

What's the first thing I say when I seen the coat? What's the first thing I said about the coat Zipper?

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

I know you talked about the zipper.

[Jada Cadiz]

Yeah, I said, yes, he's sending the zippers.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Can't buy super expensive coat and have a cheap zipper on your got to be quality.

[2 Chainz]

No, no, no, no.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

I mean, that's the. That's why you can't wear links in this whole team running, trying to find. I ain't got to be like this and all that. You know, people try to cut corners, man, and, and. And do like cheap. I'm not. Listen, I ain't into the cheap, man.

[2 Chainz]

You ain't in the current corners, you

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

know, I ain't have. You know what I'm saying? I don't want to curse too much in front of your moms is off the camera. But I didn't have nothing. So I tell these guys all the time, I had nothing. I was a bum. I had nothing.

[2 Chainz]

What's wrong, kids? You tired of here?

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

When I was a little kid running around in elementary, the teachers was looking at me like, yo, this going to jail. He dying.

[2 Chainz]

You heard this one before? No.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

You heard this one?

[2 Chainz]

It's a rerun. Every show, it's a rerun. This the biggest.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

So that's why that you never forget when you came.

[2 Chainz]

You never forget.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

I don't, I don't. I don't.

[Jada Cadiz]

I wake up, you could buy your projects now.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

I walk around my house and I look at the light bulb.

[2 Chainz]

Mom.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

I look at the light bulb and like, yo, we got these light bulbs. This shit crazy. You believe we got this light bulb? Like, yo, we ain't had nothing. You know, he trying to guess he didn't have the light bulb. No. I think I'm gonna do ancestry.com just to really, really bring out the proof of how we ain't have for like three, 400 years. I'm gonna bust out the whole generation.

[2 Chainz]

By the way.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

By the way, yo, cousin Tito wasn't. Cousin Pablo wasn't.

[2 Chainz]

Yo, listen, listen, listen, Auntie Miriam, listen, listen, listen. This why I ain't do no books.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Cousin Miriam, I love you.

[2 Chainz]

This is why my book not an autobiography. Because rappers gonna go 300 years to let you know how bad it was for him. I ain't want to compete with the struggle. Like, how bad it was. I ain't want to compete with another. You read another man, you had a bad. You read bruh. Bruh said he slept in a. Yeah, he didn't even have light bulbs. Like, who gonna beat that? Like I tell you my struggle. And then Joe say, we got the light switch, we got the crib.

[Jada Cadiz]

We don't light.

[2 Chainz]

But we ain't got no light bulb. But if we had the light bulbs, we have light, we'd be good.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

You know, I went to my apartment in the projects, and I'm gonna be honest with you. Rest in peace. My dad, I cannot believe that he stood for that shit. I just. And my father's always been a hard worker. He probably was just too scared to buy a house or some shit like that when he died. Left me a couple of dollars. My father's not no bum. But I just couldn't believe when I went there, yo, how he went for this shit, how he had his kids in here, how he had his fucking wife in here. This was some bullshit. Even if I was fucked up and I was a baker, mechanic, I'd have got my ass out of that shit.

[2 Chainz]

If you don't know nothing, like, as

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

a grown man, as a kid, I ain't know no better. I'm looking at this shit, you don't know. You only hear what you're saying when I got grown. And so that I said, no, man,

[Jada Cadiz]

you don't want your pops to have

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

your frame of mind.

[Jada Cadiz]

Now, back then with the money that

[2 Chainz]

was, you got to think about it. Yeah, it's like that, bro. Do what he can do.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yeah, that crazy, though. I can't do it.

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[2 Chainz]

My mama told me all the time like like like she don't know where I got this thinking from like like why I want a big house she said like when she was like people around her like having wanting a trailer was like a thing. Your own trailer was a big thing. So for some mama I'm not Gonna lie.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

I need you here. Mama, come here for a sec, please. She gotta or sit right there. Give her the mama, they want you out here closer to me. She'll be better right? Here's the only second mother we got. Allen Iverson's mother was the first one to change marks. The second one.

[2 Chainz]

Baby, come on here, baby.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Mama got that shit on too. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you.

[2 Chainz]

Mama got the full length. Hey, hey, hey, hey. My dog Nad, you say her come in with the full length mink motherfucker. Now we gonna need a different color, the same length for her.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yes, yes, sir.

[2 Chainz]

No problem.

[Jada Cadiz]

You heard him.

[2 Chainz]

Now you don't lie to women.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Now you like good.

[2 Chainz]

Stand up.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

No, he don't. He's an honorable man.

[2 Chainz]

Mama, Mama say he got a police

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

slather, the biggest in the game. Mama, Mama, you go back, how many years do you. How many years can you go back in your family? Like could you think as far as your grandfather, can you go to your great grandfather?

[2 Chainz's Mother]

I can go to my grandmother and grandfather.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

So you go back to your grandfather?

[2 Chainz's Mother]

Yeah, my grandfather.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Anybody thought like your son?

[2 Chainz's Mother]

No, no, he was different then. He's smart, he's caring, he's compassionate. And he being the only child and I really didn't want any children, to be honest. And then I thought, well, I want to see what my offspring would be like. So I did conceive and had him, didn't want anymore. And he's kind of been self sufficient, even at birth, you know, he was no problems. He was the first kid to go to the all white private school in lagrange at the age of four. On account of his birthday came in September and back then we went to school in August. But your birthday, your birthday came after registration. So it wasn't trying to leave you behind if we had left you there. So we had to move you to the private school so you could stay ahead. And he's been like as long as he had the good old boy guitar and the games, Pac man games that he had and his tricycle that he didn't want to give up or a bicycle, he didn't want that. And he had a father. His father was very nurturing and trainable. He, you know, taught him a lot at an early age, like trying to have him drive at.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

How old are you?

[2 Chainz's Mother]

Driving over the projects, driving a car. And he's just been, he's smart. I love him.

[2 Chainz]

Okay, mama, we did. You did good.

[Podcast Host]

You did a lot.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Because I like, you know, when I look at guys like 2 Chainz and Kiss and me and stuff like that. Yeah, we might have had great families, great upbringings or whatever the case, but there's something in the mentality of entrepreneurs, you know, Go getters won't stop at nothing, you know? And we talking about this family lineage, and you was right there. So I said, yo, let me ask if. Because, you know, they think I'm bugging out. When I be like, yo, I could think back into my family as far as I could go, wasn't nobody really thinking like me, you know? So it was like, I'm trying to figure this out, like the DNA of an artist or something, right?

[2 Chainz]

Or it's evolution, man. It's evolution, and it's inevitable for hopefully your bloodline to grow into something. You know what I mean? And it takes your ancestors to build you up to that. But I think eventually you give birth to something that breaks whatever curse that came before that, you know what I'm saying? That becomes the first entrepreneur. Well, I'm not the first entrepreneur, but the first millionaire or whatever that is, you know, I think that's in everybody's family, man. Everybody. It was only a small amount of people that never struggled. Like, I just know we all were a part of the struggle. Like, I just know we all were. You know what I mean? And. But we are doing a great job of not letting. Not letting it happen again, like, moving forward. I know we all have kids that we just pour so much into, you know what I mean? Like, for a fact. Everybody on here, you know what I'm saying? We just. Everybody know we care about our kids, brother. It's just like.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

So, Mama, what are you most proud of your son?

[2 Chainz's Mother]

The family man that he is.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

He's a good father.

[Jada Cadiz]

Congratulations to your daughter, too. She just got accepted, right, too.

[2 Chainz]

Yeah, my daughter's headed to college. Yep. She on a senior trip right now, man, and I just need you to come home because she went. They went to Mexico, and I did not want her to go to Mexico. I did not want her to go to Mexico. But, you know, sometime the media be. Cause she having fun. She ain't thinking a bit about what's going on over.

[2 Chainz's Mother]

You know what I mean?

[2 Chainz]

But I'm just like. I'm just being that parent that's like, man, all right, you straight? Everything cool, but they having a good time. And then I got. I have a middle. I have three kids. My middle child is 13. She about to be in high school. And then, like, a lot of people know my son Halo. Cause we have a podcast together, and he's 10 years old, and that's who I'm. That's it, man. This is like my little Brady Bunch for real.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

The little Tribe. I'm the same way with my daughter, you know what I'm saying? Product I ain't plugging in. She got a podcast called as if y' all want to check her out on YouTube. But I'm the same way. And I've been, like, looking at the house, I've been thinking, like, ahead. I've been like, yo, one day, this girl gonna get married. Like, she not gonna be here forever. You know what I'm saying? That's crazy when you think about that. You know what I'm saying? Cause you like, yo, she gonna leave one day. Like, that shit crazy. Like, House won't be the same without House.

[2 Chainz]

Won't be the same without the kids. But, you know, I think we all. You know, you've heard that there's no manual to teach you how to be a parent, but I think we all did the best we could with what we had. And, you know, I know my mom did an amazing job with me being a single mother, coming from that household, you know what I'm saying? Being jointed by the hip, you know what I mean? You know what I'm saying? Just staying down. If she just knows that I'm an ambitious person and I got that hustle, I got that grit, and it's just really unexplainable. It's like, for real, like, being, like. It's like being raised by wolves. Just know how to. I keep saying, I just gotta know how to adapt, man. And I think that's one of my superpowers.

[Jada Cadiz]

You doing a book tour for the book?

[2 Chainz]

Yeah, I'm doing a book tour. I've been in New York a couple of days, running around, dropping some gems about why now. You know what I'm saying? And what's the book about? You know what I mean? And even this right here, it's just, like. It's just another way for me to be creative, man. It almost feels like I'm dropping a project, right? But, like, even this cover, it's pastel art done by an artist I found. His name is Derrice Walker. He's an artist. He's like an independent artist. Not a part of gallery. But I'm gonna plug him. Cause he a brother, and he got. So this a drawing of me. This is not a real picture. This a drawing.

[Jada Cadiz]

That's fire.

[2 Chainz]

Yeah. I'm just Everything I do, fire, Joe. Let me tell you what else. Fire. About this book. Let me tell you what else. But let me tell you what else. Let me tell you what else is fire. If you're not a reader, I understand there's a lot going on.

[Jada Cadiz]

A lot of rappers can't read.

[2 Chainz]

Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. No, I was on this one. I'm getting into. I did my audiobook in my words. It's fire. Let me tell you why it's fire. I'm finna kill you. The audiobook, I got production. It's scored. So when I'm reading certain parts of the book, you get to hear the scene in the background of the audio. I'm just over at the other station. I had to do. Miss. I had to do Gayle King this morning. I'm on platform. I'm Tony, right? I had to do stuff like that. Look, look, look, look, look. Old white lady say, I just listened to the audio. She said it's amazing.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

She said it's amazing, Joe. She said it had, like.

[2 Chainz]

She said it had noise and stuff going on in it. And that's just the mind. I have layers, I think, in layers. And so this book, the voice in my head is God, is just me. My interpretation of you, of someone saying, something told me. It's right here. Something told me. Something told me to come to the Joe and say, when I come to New York, I got to figure out a way to come rock with Joe and Jada. Cause these my guys, to be honest

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

with you, none of them other Gayle Kings and all them don't matter. It's once you come on this couch that matter. These other guys playing yourself. Why would you waste some lifer like these People ain't got shit movement like us. We got the motion. Sorry.

[2 Chainz]

You act like I didn't come here. You're like.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

You act like I didn't tell you.

[2 Chainz]

You like you said, and I ain't there. I told you I was at.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

You know, that's. I'm here to talk, irritate the competition.

[2 Chainz]

Oh, you doing that? Y' all New York, man.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yeah, we on that, man. We. I mean, like, let me tell you something. We gotta do it. I do it all the time to you guys.

[Jada Cadiz]

Joe and jadashow.com.

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[Jada Cadiz]

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[Joe Crack the Dawn]

a hoodie right there. I need an extra large show at Jadishow. Dot com. Go there, get it.

[Jada Cadiz]

I was young.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

How about that number one Gas. What?

[Jada Cadiz]

From the book? Eat.

[2 Chainz]

Either.

[Podcast Announcer]

Eat.

[Jada Cadiz]

He turned down Hov. He wouldn't get his man, his dj an extra flight. He turned the whole meeting down.

[2 Chainz]

That's not. That's not. That's not.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

That might have not been the right thing, man, turning down Hove.

[2 Chainz]

That's not true, man. That's not true.

[Jada Cadiz]

Everything happens for a reason.

[2 Chainz]

No, this is. I hate to quit bringing the man name up because I have other contexts and other things to talk about, but it is. But let me just talk about. Let me just tell you about this. It's a chapter in here called JD and Jay Z on three Way. So I got a call one day.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Saw that. I read that.

[2 Chainz]

Yeah. So I got a call one day with JD on the phone, and I guess him and ho were about to do a partnership, right? All right. My man that I'm with right now in the corner right now, his name is Tech. His name used to be DJ Techniques, right? So when I first started piping up in the streets, Tech came to me and said, hey, man, I think you're a star. I said, nigga, me too. You know what I'm saying? And he said, I feel like I can do whoopty whoopty woo with my resources and blah, blah, blah. And I said, man, if you can run that, if you can help me get that right there, then I'm locked in with you. And we shook hands. Fast forward like eight, nine months later. I'm piped up, I'm moving around. Okay? He's really not a DJ anymore because he's taking more of a management role, right? He's not a dj. And so when I get this call during the phone conversation, I'm just trying to. And I don't know why I can't even articulate this, that I wanted to bring him with me. They thinking it's a dj because I'm trying to say his name. But JD really don't even know who this is because it wasn't like he just tapped into Atlanta like that at the particular time. You know what I'm saying? This is like an Atlanta dj. You know what I mean? And so they like, bro, what do you probably never. In retrospect, I probably sound crazy. I probably sound stupid saying, but I'm bringing my DJ to a meeting. Like, bro, you don't have no show. But I wasn't trying to do that. I was trying to bring my mans who had said, man, I see something in you. I had already seen some in me, but I just told you how arrogant I was. I used to be frustrated. Cause I'm like, why this ain't happening for me? You know what I mean? And it's really about you getting your internal team. Once you get a team together, things can flourish. So once I got my team, I started getting on everybody's radar. So when that call happened and whatever happened throughout the call and I didn't go, I talk about it in the book. Because people ask me, like, what the hell was the voice telling you to do? Then when big homie called? You know what I'm saying? When big homie called. And the thing I tell somebody, like, at that particular time, my moral compass just saying, I ain't want to lead dawg and say, I'm going to tell you about the meeting. I can't sit here and tell you I ain't want to fuck with Dawg or don't want to do business with dawg. I seen the track record. I'm not ignorant. I'm highly intellectual, actually. But during that particular time, my compass is saying. And so that's another reason why I tell DJs like Khaled or Drama or him, you need to take the DJ shit off your name. Niggas think that's your first name. So take that off your name.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

No, I got a boy named Rich the Barber. Used to be a barber. He's rich as fuck right now, and we still call him Rich the Barber. But he be like, yo, I'm not the barber no more.

[2 Chainz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, so that's the story. It was. No, it was not.

[Jada Cadiz]

Like, it's a miscommunication. A mis. They received it.

[2 Chainz]

Yeah, because I was excited. I was definitely excited about the call. And I was excited too, you know, but this is before, you know, the album. This is before all this stuff came. You know, I can't say everything that I done is right or wrong. This is just like, part of. This is just a part of my life. You know what I'm saying? And so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But so I'm, you know, Different. Yeah.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Obstacles to go through. And to me, even when you fall, it's just a lesson. You gotta look at the lesson. Everything don't go your way. You gotta look at the lesson. These lawyers right now, they killing me, Pete. These prices is all the way up yesterday price. And I'm just like, yo, Joe, it's temporary. Temporary. Keep. Keep your head up and keep it moving. Because certain things happen to you. Where you be like, at that moment, you could be frustrated, but then you just gotta look at it and be like, yo, this is a lesson. Everything's a lesson. So it's like. It is what it is. I wish you would have went to see, but, you know, you never know, dog. How did the Kanye. The Kanye. Because to me, that was some of your worst. Not worst. Your best work with that whole good family that what have you.

[2 Chainz]

It be unking sometimes.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

No, no, I'm bugged out. I'm not. I'm not.

[2 Chainz]

I'm fried.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

But what I mean is, I love how you was going crazy on that Kanye work. When y' all put that album out together, you know, you was going nuts on that joint right there. How did that whole thing come about with you? Like, y' all had like a superpower team push y'.

[2 Chainz's Mother]

All.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

All of y' all with me. Sean.

[2 Chainz]

Well, no, yeah, he called me. I'm telling you, I'm so piped up. These folks calling me. You know what I'm saying? And they.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

You call. You said, y', all, I want you to be a member.

[2 Chainz]

I'm calling you. I want you. You know what I mean? I went through like a little. I wouldn't even call it a boot camp, like, you know what I'm saying? Homicide want somebody to record something now, and I'm fire like that. I call it Benihanas. I call it like cooking in front of the little choo choo choo choo, throwing shrimp in niggas mouths and shit. I do all that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I do the whole heartbeat shit. I do. I cook, I love. You know what I mean? So you want to tell me. You want to tell me, like, let's do a song in front of these people. Like, that's. Yeah, that's one of my. That's one of my things. I'm prepared. I'm bootstrapped and ready. So after I did that a few times and the stuff I'm doing high level, it's not like, you know what I'm saying? No, Boof I lay. It's real high level, you know what I mean? No cut on it. So after you do that a few times, man, you might get. You might get a few phone calls, Joe. That's all I can tell you. Joe. Hey, I mean, your phone might start biting. Joe.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Sit here with this guy all the time. He top five, dead or alive.

[2 Chainz]

What you mean? Nasty, man.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

These guys, they be like, yo, can I get your number?

[2 Chainz's Mother]

Kiss.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

I need you on a song? Don't nobody ask me to be on a song. I'mma just say it. Be rich as. Excuse my language. That's all I ever do. Every time they come to him. Yo, Kiss. I want to do a song with you. I'll be like, yo, did you see the links?

[2 Chainz]

Joe, you get down. Joe, Joe, let me tell you something, man. I'm going tell you this right here, man. Let me tell you something, man. You make wonderful songs, man. You're a great song maker, bro. I'm gonna come when it comes to my top to bottom, like a song, full song. You do that shit. That's like. That's what you like. You fire at bro Chase.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Nobody gives me your music.

[2 Chainz]

Yeah, yeah. No, you're a good song, man.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

You ain't gonna play some props every show, man. You don't get. I at the Nick game with him. Every rapping. Yo, son, I need you on.

[2 Chainz]

No, but he like that, though.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Me like I'm chopped liver.

[2 Chainz]

No, no, no.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Rags his spouse, his hits out the park.

[2 Chainz]

The bougie. That's a bougie uncle. No, no, no, no, no. You don't got bougie. You the bougie uncle.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Bring one more surprise guest. Got nothing to do with you. But I was coming up and I seen him and I said, your brother come through. My brother? G Depp. Come. Come here for a second. G dap the deputy. Harlem Zone. G Duck.

[2 Chainz]

Let's get mom. All right. Thank you.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Thank you, Mama.

[Podcast Announcer]

Thank you, mama.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Thank you, mama. Thank you, Mom.

[2 Chainz]

You look beautiful, baby. Thank you, baby.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

My mama.

[2 Chainz]

My momma be 76 this year. Might not be 76.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

76.

[2 Chainz]

She'll be 76 this year.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Let me give you another surprise. You go to Daniel, Lever that fur on me. You pick out whatever you want. There's some shit. Make it touch the ground, mama. Make sure the fur drag on the floor. It's on me.

[2 Chainz]

Oh, man, they cap in New York.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

That's no cap. Right after this, Mama, I don't play those games.

[2 Chainz]

I don't play that.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Hold on.

[Jada Cadiz]

I made it. I introduced them. When he came in, I entered.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yeah.

[Jada Cadiz]

Changed the death.

[2 Chainz]

Hey, I'm telling you, man, it's real

[Jada Cadiz]

hip hop shit right there,

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

bro. I told them a little while ago, there's no lean back if it's no G death.

[2 Chainz]

Okay?

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

When I was writing that verse, I was thinking G Depp the whole time, he had to take that from his flow keep going like. I don't know how to explain it to you, but it kept Coming like,

[2 Chainz]

which flow home got.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yeah, he got range. Which flow got different. He had at the time was so on fire that he was just. He had like a continued.

[2 Chainz's Mother]

Like.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

I don't give a fuck about fortune Misappers. We from the Bronx, New York. Yeah. Kiss. Clapping Sparkly. See, that was that G Depth.

[2 Chainz]

Chop Liver.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

No, no, no. I'm just saying, that was that G Depp.

[2 Chainz]

That was that G Depp, man.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, at least in my mind, I thought I was rapping like G Depp.

[Jada Cadiz]

We was off Bad Boy already. And I was on the Cease album. And he got a song with him, Season Buster.

[2 Chainz]

He was.

[Jada Cadiz]

I'm like, who the hell they like. That's G Depp.

[2 Chainz]

Wow. Great.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

That's crazy, man.

[Jada Cadiz]

The Rush, right? What's his name of that song?

[2 Chainz]

The song with More Dangerous.

[Jada Cadiz]

More Dangerous, Yeah.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Crazy Depp, you been home close to what, a year now? Almost two years.

[Jada Cadiz]

Make some noise for that.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Thank you, man. Thank you, man.

[2 Chainz]

I mean, it's beautiful on this side, man. No doubt. That's right.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yeah, man. I seen you on a freestyle in YouTube. You was killing it up on that joint. You still got it, man.

[2 Chainz]

Thank you, brother. Appreciate it.

[Jada Cadiz]

He told me you got a project with him and Black Rob that's coming out.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Oh, that's. Get on that. You should work everybody. Nobody want me tonight. You don't want one of them Mrs. You don't front on. Fat Joe. You tell the truth. It's okay. I'm trying to go, man.

[2 Chainz]

Fat Joe, man. Listen, Fat Joe, he's scared to ask you. Bougie, man. Bougie, man.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Out of this range, you courtside.

[2 Chainz]

Everywhere you go, who you enrich? You enrich the Bob,

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

yo, let me tell you something, yo, but Gap, man, we proud of you. Being home for two years, definitely out of world. And because you. You in there. So you got cell phones in there when you was locked up, or you. Was it crazy when you came home? Because I knew when you first came home, I could tell what was moving out here. Or the way this shit was looking was, like, weird to you. Like, you was in jail how many years?

[2 Chainz]

Thirteen.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

You came out. It was modern technology. I could tell by watching you on the gram. I was like, oh, man, this guy, he gotta adjust. I said, he gonna get to it.

[Jada Cadiz]

That's usually anybody who's off the street

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

foot, but it was. It was.

[2 Chainz]

You know, they had.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

We had the tablets in there, so we kind of.

[2 Chainz]

You know what I mean?

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

A little assimilated to, like, the you know, the little icon movement and all of that.

[2 Chainz]

But it was definitely, definitely a culture

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

shot when I came home and things was different, right?

[2 Chainz]

Yeah.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Everything was just so instant, you know what I mean? I tell everybody, you know, before I left, you couldn't order from McDonald's and all that. Like, just, you know, somebody, you know, that crazy. Now you watch tv, ring your bell and pass. You watch TV and the thing just says, if you want to order this right now, it could be a big. This guy's wearing the shirt on City Lab. You don't want to order. I swear to God. It's like that on the TV. The video game 2K, you go all

[Jada Cadiz]

the sneakers you can order, you can get this. Yeah, they got everything.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Two chains. Let me tell you something. The God in my head is an ill title.

[2 Chainz]

The voice in my head is God. Man, you been doing some. You doing some real.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Saying the wrong title.

[2 Chainz]

Man, your ass burnt, man. Hey, man. Hey, your ass burnt. Hey, Joe.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Hey.

[2 Chainz]

I ain't gonna lie. This, like. This is Benny Hunter show. I'm this like, seeing you through the screen different like this, man. You burnt out for real, boy. Like, when I see it, I'm like, man, stop it. I'm like, yeah, I'm thankful I ain't know.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Oh, you thought I was no, right

[2 Chainz]

this close to you.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Nah. Something wrong.

[2 Chainz]

I'm looking at you, bro, you tripping something.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

You tripping.

[2 Chainz]

My head is gone. The voice of my head.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

If you can read, it's a great read.

[2 Chainz]

My audio gonna get a emu or something. Oh, they do Grammys for the audio?

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Yes. Oh, God.

[2 Chainz]

I'mma get it, bro. They do Grammys for the audio. Audio. Look, who got the last one, dawg? Who got the last one? Look, I see he googling that shit.

[Jada Cadiz]

Dalai Lama won the last.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

That's you don't worry about. Yo, you got that. The Dalai Lama wanted last, man. Let me tell you something. The name of this book is the

[Jada Cadiz]

Voice in My Head is God.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Thank God I ain't get a flag thrown on me. Yo, listen, thank you. Thank Mama for coming through, you know, that's the biggest, you know what I'm saying?

[Jada Cadiz]

And thank Nadine. Thank the deputy.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

Damn. We had a whole list of others. This shit was crazy.

[Jada Cadiz]

So y' all get the book.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

You gotta get the book. You know, I'm a big 2 Chainz fan regardless, you know what I'm saying? So if you. All your albums, I get em, you know what I mean? I like the 2 Chainz album on the fucking airplane where I ain't got no discrete scratching. I'm going to LA. I play that then you know Natina's your number one fan. She was talking big like yo2t just dropped you gotta get this. I'm like yo Latina, I'm gonna n like that.

[2 Chainz]

Yeah, for sure.

[Joe Crack the Dawn]

So she and what was this today we were singing There Comes the top. Yo, this ain't that.

[Jada Cadiz]

That ain't this. It's cracking. Kiss make some noise for two chains and I guess today.

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