Joe and Jada - Common on Fat Joe SAVING HIS LIFE in Ice Cube beef, Chicago hip hop & Jennifer Hudson

Summary

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The Herd with Colin Cowherd: Joe and Jada

Episode: Common on Fat Joe Saving His Life in Ice Cube Beef, Chicago Hip Hop & Jennifer Hudson

Release Date: October 30, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Joe and Jada Show (with Fat Joe and Jadakiss), a recurring segment within The Herd with Colin Cowherd, brings hip hop legend, actor, and Chicago native Common to the mic. The conversation is a lively, candid, and often humorous journey through Common’s career, his Chicago upbringing, harrowing moments from hip hop’s wilder days, his diverse creative ventures, community, love life, and more. Not only does Common recount the infamous story of Fat Joe intervening during a life-threatening beef with Ice Cube, but the trio dives into hip hop’s evolution, acting, and the impact their upbringings have had on their values, relationships, and successes.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Fat Joe Saving Common in the Ice Cube Beef ([07:14] – [09:49])

• Common reflects on a moment during the Ice Cube/Mack 10 beef when Fat Joe “practically saved my life” in California.
• Tension escalated during a commercial shoot, and despite truces, an associate of Common’s reignited old issues, putting Common in danger.
• Fat Joe recalls:
  “I literally begged for your life. I got in the middle, was like, please, he’s my brother. … I said, this literally my brother. And I was begging them because it was the serious ones.” ([08:06])
• The respect Fat Joe commanded helped dissolve the situation.
  Common confirms: “After that day. But you settled that.” ([09:00])

2. Origins in Hip Hop & Early Connections ([05:07] – [07:14])

• Relativity Records era: Jadakiss, Common, The Beatnuts, and Chi Ali started nearly simultaneously.
• Jadakiss expresses pride in seeing Common transition from rapper to acclaimed actor.
• Jadakiss: “No but so you don't know how proud it makes me that there's kids that don't even know you rap.” ([05:42])

3. Moral Integrity, Relationships, and Jennifer Hudson ([13:10] – [17:32])

• Common discusses his approach to relationships, honesty, and “seeking the kingdom first” (faith before anything else).
• On Jennifer Hudson: Both Joe and Jada praise her strength.
  Common: “For her to have light and be good to people… just still be bright about life, that’s a strong type of warrior.” ([17:08])

4. Chicago Upbringing & Staying Out of Trouble ([17:37] – [19:48])

• Common grew up surrounded by black church, street life, and gang culture (Black Stones, Four Corner Hustlers, Vice Lords).
• He credits ambition (“had something to live for”) and community support for avoiding going “too deep” into street life.
• Common: “When people start seeing you doing something, they support you... they kind of wrap their arms around you.” ([18:46])

5. Financial Wisdom & Family Lessons ([19:59] – [21:54])

• Jadakiss recalls Common’s early investments in Chicago property—a move influenced by his mother’s advice.
• Common: “My mother was like… you don’t know how long this gonna last… you should invest in some property. … I started doing it, and she was the one that schooled me.” ([20:32])
• Joe and Jada joke about how most rappers blew advances on chains and cars while Common invested.

6. Winning Major Awards: The Pressure and the Pride ([22:40] – [24:31])

• Fat Joe shares pride in seeing Common win major awards, including the Oscar.
• Common: “When I’m up there, I feel like I’m representing us. … We all the tribe, man. … When I was on that Oscar stage, I felt like I was representing Gods, Black men, black people, hip hop, Chicago.” ([23:07])

7. Keeping It Real and the Dilemma of Positivity in Hip Hop ([24:34] – [28:51])

• Fat Joe tells of making his first “positive” song and seeking Common’s approval, only for Common to encourage him to keep his authenticity.
• They discuss KRS-One’s artistry—“the teacher” whose positive message created a different audience rapport.
  • KRS quote via Joe: “I rap about positivity and unity. You rap around gangsta shit, they gonna make you prove you a gangster every time out here. Me, they just smile. I pose no threat.” ([28:51])

8. Challenges in the Music Industry ([29:11] – [38:38])

• Common reflects on being lower priority at his label versus Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, learning to pursue his truth over chasing sales.
• Fat Joe’s ‘invisible train’ metaphor about recognizing and seizing risky opportunities (like leaving Relativity for Atlantic, and later signing Big Pun).
  • Fat Joe: “I feel like there’s this invisible train… But it seems so risky. But you gotta have faith and believe in yourself and jump on that train.” ([37:03])
• Common relates this to his leap into acting: “That was that invisible train for me … I love acting as much as I love music.” ([39:24])

9. Making the Transition: John Wick & Acting Stories ([40:58] – [42:13])

• Common’s breakout in John Wick 2, juggling filming in New York and Italy.
• Younger generations now know him more for acting; even Uber drivers are surprised to learn he rapped.
• The crew jokes about younger people not knowing “Common Sense” was his original rap moniker.

10. 'I Used to Love H.E.R.': Iconic Track’s Legacy ([43:06] – [47:13])

• Common details the creative process behind “I Used to Love H.E.R.,” and how its metaphor of hip hop as a woman was a revelation.
• His song inspired the movie Brown Sugar, and collaborations like “Love of My Life” with Erykah Badu.
• Common: “As soon as I said, ‘Who I’m talking about, y’all, is hip hop,’ that N grabbed his head like, ‘Oh!’” ([45:21])

11. Missed Opportunities, Regrets, and What-Ifs ([47:17] – [49:00])

• Fat Joe and Jadakiss share roles they turned down (Joe could’ve been “Peoples” in Shaft), reflecting on life’s sliding doors.
• Common is asked about his own “missed opportunities.”

12. Basketball, Chicago Bulls Memories, and the NBA ([49:49] – [51:49], [56:35] – [59:13])

• Common fondly remembers being the ball boy for the Chicago Bulls—witnessing Jordan’s debut.
• Discusses playing a pro baller in Just Wright (with Queen Latifah) and the challenges of acting in sports films.

13. Rap’s Transition to Acting: Top 5 Rappers-Turned-Actors ([54:23] – [55:19])

• Common’s list: Will Smith, Queen Latifah, Mos Def, Ice Cube, and Tupac (with himself, humbly, in the mix).

14. Chicago Hip Hop Shoutouts, “Victory” NBA Theme ([59:13] – [60:59])

• Jadakiss hears “all the Chicago spitters” in Common’s new NBA on Prime Video theme “Victory.”
• Common highlights Chi-town’s contributions: Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Twista, and freestyler Juice.

15. Legacy, Wellness, and What’s Next ([62:22] – [64:09])

• Common teases his TV series Silo on Apple, his line of wellness and grooming products, and reflects on themes of health, legacy, and moving authentically.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Fat Joe on loyalty and intervention ([08:06]):
  "I literally begged for your life. I literally got in the middle, was like, please, he’s my friend. He’s my brother."
• Jadakiss on hip hop and positivity ([28:51]):
  “I rap about positivity and unity. You rap about gangsta shit, they gonna make you prove you a gangster every time out here. Me, they just smile. I pose no threat.”
• Common on acting and new beginnings ([39:24]):
  "That invisible train. For me, that’s what acting became … I love acting as much as I love music."
• On Jennifer Hudson’s resilience ([17:08]):
  “For her to have light and be good to people and still be bright about life, that’s a strong type of warrior.”
• On founding ‘I Used to Love H.E.R.’ ([45:21]):
  “As soon as I said, ‘Who I’m talking about, y’all, is hip hop,’ that [my friend] grabbed his head like, ‘Oh!’"
• Common on representing the culture ([23:07]):
  “When I’m up there, I feel like I’m representing us… We all the tribe, man.”
• Common’s top rappers-turned-actors ([54:29]):
  “Will Smith, Queen Latifah, Mos Def… Ice Cube… Tupac was fire… I’m gonna put myself.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [07:14] – Common tells the story of Fat Joe saving him during West Coast conflict
• [13:10] – Relationship wisdom and discussion of Jennifer Hudson
• [17:37] – Chicago’s influence, gangs, and community
• [19:59] – Jadakiss recalls Common’s lessons in investment and property
• [22:40] – Fat Joe on pride watching Common win big awards
• [24:34] – Positivity vs. authenticity in music
• [28:51] – KRS-One, Hip Hop’s audience, and reputational dichotomies
• [37:03] – Fat Joe’s ‘invisible train’ and professional risk-taking
• [39:24] – Common’s leap into acting and the experience filming John Wick 2
• [43:06] – Genesis and influence of “I Used to Love H.E.R.”
• [54:23] – Common’s top five rapper-actors
• [56:35] – Creating the NBA on Prime theme “Victory” and Chicago hip hop homage

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Tone & Style

The conversation is:

• Fast-paced, familiar, and filled with inside jokes and honest self-reflection
• Intimate yet instructive—mixing personal anecdotes, advice, and nostalgia
• Unfiltered and witty; heavy on camaraderie and respect among iconic peers

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For New Listeners

This episode is essential listening for anyone interested in hip hop history, Black culture, and the personal journeys behind rap’s biggest names. Through stories of loyalty, risk, triumph, and creative evolution, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, and Common illustrate the long arc from street corners and basement studios to Oscars and NBA soundtracks.

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Listen for:

• Stories of street loyalty and near-misses
• Inspirational wisdom about self-worth, growth, and seizing opportunity
• Unfiltered hip hop history and Chicago shoutouts
• Hilarious admissions of missed acting gigs and lyric flubs
• The friendship, tough love, and everlasting bond of hip hop’s true OGs

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Transcript

[Fat Joe]

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[Jadakiss]

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[Common]

Man, you practically saved my life.

[Jadakiss]

Oh, get the other flag back.

[Common]

Yo, that man really saved my life.

[Jadakiss]

Yeah, yeah. What up, y'? All? This is Fat Joe the gangsta.

[Fat Joe]

It's your boy, Jadakiss. You know what it is? The Joe and Jada Show. Every show legendary. Pow. Every show iconic. And you get just what we tell you you're gonna get. Today's guest. You think of hip hop and you think of bars.

[Jadakiss]

Speak on the dog.

[Fat Joe]

You think of a strong black man. When you think of morals, principles, when you think of craftsmanship, when you think of transitioning to becoming a very great actor, one of the best on screen and a voice actor, you think of the south side of Chicago.

[Jadakiss]

That's right, Chi Tam. What's good?

[Fat Joe]

Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for our brother, Comet. My intros is getting better and better, my brother.

[Common]

Brother, that, that, that intro, man, that, that was, man, that's, that spoke to my heart, bro. To be honest, man, I, I, I never heard nobody intro me like that saying, a man of integrity like that. So I want to say give thanks, brother. My brother Joe, I'm glad you are, man.

[Jadakiss]

But you are, though.

[Common]

I'm glad to see yourself do the real deal, bro. Thank you, brother.

[Jadakiss]

First of all, in this show, I don't know if you've been watching, but I count people's pockets.

[Common]

Wow.

[Jadakiss]

Flag off the, off the brick. All right. Yeah.

[Fat Joe]

History.

[Jadakiss]

Nah. 1993. I mean, Cabrini, Cabrini Green projects. What people don't know. Okay, you want to throw your, Take your flag back and don't throw one because I'm going to tell you some real chick. Okay, Let me tell you.

[Fat Joe]

All right, I leave it there after the story.

[Jadakiss]

I start at Relativity Records. Me, Common in the Beat Nuts and chi Ali. The first artist signed, he signed 1991. That's cool. He's before me, but we on the same label.

[Common]

Same label.

[Jadakiss]

So you know how you was seeing Biggie in one studio and this, me and him, we started together, like literally infancy, point blank.

[Common]

You the second person that I've known in this whole industry. Well, the Beat Nuts was the first shout out juju, Juju left dope. V I C. I appreciate you for that. Like yo, you just yo.

[Jadakiss]

No, but so you don't know how proud it makes me that there's kids that don't Even know you rap. And I just see you in movies and see you doing things, and I just be sitting back like, wow. And then I tell guys like him that. Then I started with you. He throws a flag and tells me I'm capping. And I'm like, no, I really know him. We really grew up together.

[Fat Joe]

Came from saying, I don't know if you know whether or not on this show.

[Jadakiss]

I Pocket watch.

[Fat Joe]

I watch.

[Jadakiss]

Pocket watch.

[Common]

No, no.

[Jadakiss]

But I'm trying to say that's another flash.

[Common]

Yo. Hey, Joe. But this is the thing. It's two moments in my life, in my career that I could cite you for and just want to say thank you, bro. It's like, you don't know what it meant to me. One was you putting me in the video. And your video hustling is the key to sex.

[Jadakiss]

Me, you, Nas.

[Common]

Hell, yes, man.

[Jadakiss]

Like, you know, them pictures come out, like, once you see them pictures, like, it's gonna be here forever.

[Common]

I love that, man.

[Jadakiss]

We was kids in the. But you pulled up to the Bronx.

[Common]

That missed something, though. That missed something. Because let him give you flowers coming from Chicago, man, One of the things we wanted was just to be heard by New York and for you to be like, yo, come on. Even though he's on the same label, if you. If you thought I was on some weak, you'd have been like.

[Jadakiss]

Back off that. Thank you, beloved. Thank you.

[Common]

We get the flag.

[Jadakiss]

The beloved of all beloved. I'mma tell you some shit.

[Fat Joe]

Hit me in the second one.

[Jadakiss]

The second one.

[Common]

Well, the second one we didn't talked about a lot with you, man. You practically saved my life.

[Jadakiss]

Oh, get the other flag back.

[Fat Joe]

Take the.

[Jadakiss]

Cooperate the flag up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Common]

Yo, yo, Jay, Jay, he got his flag. Yo, that man really saved my life. Like, I was out on the west coast with my guy. One of my guys I knew through one of my close homies, but he was my guy. And he just wasn't happy with the whole situation. The whole ice cube Mac 10 beef that we had told him we had squashed it. We doing it. We sitting there doing a commercial. This was the most money I was getting paid ever for something at that point in time. So we at peace. We like, yo, we things is good. Everybody was saying, my guy just. He from Chicago, he just couldn't hold it. He couldn't hold it. So he started ruffling shit. And, man, it just got a little heated.

[Jadakiss]

And I want to say that it's not because Fat Joe's tougher than anybody. I Literally begged for your life. I literally got in the middle, was like, please, he's my friend. He's my brother. You know, he, you know, some people take things personal. And they finally saw him, and he was on there, saw you, and they was talking crazy. And I was like, no way. This guy. I said this literally, my brother. And I was begging them because it was the serious ones. I was like, please, this is my brother Joe. You know, we've been. We've been waiting to catch this guy. I said, listen, I can't. I just couldn't do. I just. And basically I stood in the middle, like, please, guys. Like, I cannot do it. But they, they said it was over after that day, right?

[Common]

Correct. After that day. But you settled that. Like, like, I'm like, man, we are on. We in California. Don't start nothing my homie already. Because they already, like you said, they already wanted a piece on me no matter what. Because so my guy out there, he just. He's just going off. And anyway, I knew Joe, I ain't even hit him, but I ain't know everything he did, but, oh, no, he did. I knew it was him that said, yo, this can't happen. And because he had a, you know.

[Jadakiss]

A relationship, super relation still, my brother. Shout out to.

[Common]

And yeah, shout out to.

[Jadakiss]

Shout out to Inglewood.

[Common]

Yeah, Inglewood.

[Jadakiss]

That's my family. Inglewood family. What's good?

[Common]

That's when Fat Joe the gangsta. I was like, this nigga here is. Cause he straight up was like, you can't do that to my man. It was like one of the movies we used to talking about. Good fellas, good fellas. You can't take it.

[Jadakiss]

Hey, once again, I begged him. I was in their mercy. And I was just like, please, this is my brother. This is my family. I did that one time for Rich Player, my best friend. One time they was about to do it and not saying rich and them ain't Real Deal, where he was getting into it with a seven headed monster. A guy who just kills. He's in jail for too many bodies. And I had to jump in the middle and be like, yo, yo, yo, I can't. It's like, yo, fat boy, get out the way. I was like, oh, no, I can't. This is my family. I can't. I knew what it meant. They Real Deal. And this other guy's, you know, a Jeffrey Dahmer. And I'm a monster. And I'm sitting there like, yo, listen, please let me get in. I said, no.

[Fat Joe]

Shout out to knock him dead, Ed.

[Jadakiss]

Knock him dead, y'.

[Common]

All.

[Jadakiss]

Eddie. Yeah, up there. But they go. But they go. The men go. Because the first argument I ever had with him, right, he goes the next day to Rich, and they a block on Cyprus and says, if Joe got in the middle, that means you're good guys. Let's become friends. And they wound up being best friends. My man's still in jail 30 something years, but he went the next day, he took it on himself and said, if Fat Joe threw himself in the middle trying to squash it, these guys got to be good guys.

[Common]

Yeah.

[Jadakiss]

And it was all over, you know, staring at each other in the club. And a couple of girls and you know, these guys, they kill each other over girls. These gangsters, man. A lot of gangsters in jail killing over girls. I'm telling you. I had a guy, this guy was a main. He's still in jail, too. 40 years, right? And he was. Meaningless dirt is the scared straight. No, no, because. No.

[Common]

A lot of wars have come over women.

[Fat Joe]

Most of them.

[Jadakiss]

Yo, but listen, this guy, all I'm gonna say to you is this was a mass murder. He's still in jail 40 years. He would come to the club and he'd go, he's Puerto Rican. He'd be like, I. And I'd be like, yo, what's up? I? The nendna he's talking about, his wife was bad as shit, too, but she was dudes.

[Common]

Yeah.

[Jadakiss]

Like, she was loose. See? Come on, then. You know Jimbo from the barbershop? Yeah, he was with the net with Everybody of his 10 guys. Not Jimbo, he didn't. Yes, with the net. Net. Jimbo won't be around in two more days. Like, he would come all. One time I argued with the nigga was like. I said, no, I don't want to hear that. You're a liar. She's the most decent girl in the world. She didn't do it. Yes, the nana and everybody knew what that was. Somebody was disappearing over the ninna. Yeah, no, I know maniacs like that, man. But you know, common, man, you're the beloved of all beloved. Let's keep it peace. Hey, I said, you know, I said smoking. What's that like, smoking sage or something?

[Fat Joe]

It was supposed to protect us from that story.

[Common]

It's similar to, say it's Palo Santo. It's Palo Santo. And you know, it come from the trees down in Chile. Bring in the good energy. Bring in the good energy. Move.

[Jadakiss]

Negative energy, you know, you guys, I know you in a Serious relationship.

[Common]

Correct? Right now? Yes, sir.

[Jadakiss]

But you guys, you nice guys, you always got the baddest chicks because they think you nice guys, you know, Scumbag's a scumbag. You come with a smile. They don't comment. He's the beloved of all beloveds. What a nice guy. The beloved of all beloveds. And you, Palo Santo, you know. You know, this shit, he got. He got that new shit out there on the streets, boy.

[Common]

Hey, man. Yo, you know, I gotta say, you know, like, at the end of the day, you know, I've definitely dated some beautiful women, amazing women. But I think, you know, it was like they respected me as a man. They knew I was coming as a man. I had the love. But I'm a man, too. It's like, I'm gonna lead the way. I lead. And I was giving them that, you know, that realness, man. I'm authentic, man. I'm true, bro. I don't be trying to, like. I ain't gonna act like. Like nothing for. For nobody at this point, obviously, but then even at that moment.

[Jadakiss]

But you just say you always. You never been like a. Like a bullshitter.

[Common]

You always been a straight shooter, like. And no, nobody I've been with is like, none of the women that I, like, have relationships with go be like, damn, that nigga just did me bogus foul. Like. Like, I had the integrity. I mean, I'm a man. I did, you know, some things wrong, man. You know, But I'm saying it ain't been bogus where it's just like, I ain't been out there, like, bogus. And, you know, I. I'm the type that. Man, if it ain't working, I'm gonna say it ain't working. I ain't gonna keep you going, like, forever. Cause you got a life, I got a life. We wanna live happy. So, yeah, man, I just. I mean, that's. I guess nice guys do.

[Jadakiss]

How you know when it ain't worth truth? How you know when it ain't worth having said that?

[Common]

The Dr. Phil.

[Jadakiss]

What do you want me to do? Yo, Jada, we had some real life shit. We trying to help. Somebody's in the struggle right now. Somebody they don't know whether they want to be together or not. Maybe he can give us some knowledge and maybe it's time to move on or stay strong.

[Common]

Yeah, I mean, seek the kingdom.

[Jadakiss]

Seek the kingdom. Every side.

[Common]

Seek the kingdom and all shall be added.

[Jadakiss]

You got to seek the kingdom.

[Common]

No, man. Listen, man, J. J just said it, man. I'LL be like, man, I try to listen to God most and foremost. All like, that's in everything I do and especially the most important things in life, Whether it's like, career, my purpose, a relationship, shoot, Dealing with my family, dealing with how I'm gonna go speak on something. Like, if I get an opportunity to speak to people, man, I'm always going seeking the kingdom first. So I think in a relationship, it's important that. Man, the reason why I feel happy and great in the relationship with Jennifer is man, God is first and we just building from there. We not perfect human beings, but we communicating, we growing. We just trying to be the best children of the most high and still have fun, too. You could be godly.

[Jadakiss]

I know you ready with your intellectual questions, but let's go back to Jennifer. The reason why I love her so much, besides her being so talented, but the hard things she been through in life, and to see her just keep her chin up and walk through the fire and still be strong and still be, you know, that's what I respect about humans the most, is the adversity you have to overcome in the tough times and all that. And then her, you know, she had it the toughest, man.

[Common]

I mean, I don't know if it get no tougher than what she's.

[Jadakiss]

Nah, I don't get it.

[Common]

Don't get no tougher than what she.

[Jadakiss]

I never been able to tell her that. Cause, you know, I sit next to her and all the games and all that, and I, you know, we always having fun when I see her, but they, you know, she's like, man, you.

[Common]

Know, she's a g. She would appreciate that, man. And I. And I gotta say, that's one of the things that I was like, man, how this person got. Still got light, light after all, like, losing, dealing with what she dealt with. I'm like, for her to have light and be good to people and like, just still be bright about life, man, that's. That's a. Ooh, that's strong type of warrior. That's a different.

[Jadakiss]

That's a different type of strong.

[Common]

Yeah, but. Yeah, that's what it is. I mean, I ain't the relationship expert.

[Fat Joe]

I want to know what was the south side of Chicago like? Early 90s, 80s and 90s, man.

[Common]

Chicago, a lot of our people are from the south, so we got something that's rooted in the south, but it's really. Chicago is a city, so we got that movement of a city and the slickness and the culture. But growing up, it Was like, I experienced everything from black church to liquor stores, gang banging cultures. Like, no matter, I don't care how smart you are, whatever you're gonna be around gang banging culture.

[Jadakiss]

We hoops, like it's just nowhere around it.

[Common]

There's no way around it.

[Jadakiss]

It's the one city. Well, LA too. Cause I seen grandmothers in all red cars with red seats with red tires. Principals in schools coming in red suits and blue suits. Yo, they I speaking of Mac 10 and them. I'm out there shooting a movie with them. I'm thicker than water and grandmothers is all red and principals of schools is coming and the cops is throwing this shit up. I'm like, it's like that in Chicago, where every is pretty much. How did you escape?

[Common]

I grew up around stone black stones, four corner hustlers and vice lords. And that's who I was with. And man, that's what it is. I mean, I don't mean I ain't have like friends that was folks or whatever. But overall, I guess I escaped it because I started feeling like I had something to live for. So I wasn't going too deep into that. But I, you know, me and my guys, that's how we had to make it to a certain degree. But just like we know the stories from. I don't care if, you know, it's the bx. I don't care if it's Yonkers, if it's Atlanta, if it's, you know, la. When people start seeing you doing something, they support you. Like you coming from the hood, they like, man, especially doing something good, they kind of wrap their arms around you and be like, we ain't gonna let nobody get to this cat. So I mean, that was part of it. And then, man, blessings, man, like what you just talked about. I could have not been here. I've been around stuff and I could have not been here. But you know, blessed by the most.

[Jadakiss]

Now back to the first flag he threw at me. Reason why I said, counting pack, right? I meet you 90, 92, 93. And I go to Chicago with you, right?

[Common]

Yeah.

[Jadakiss]

And we're sitting down. This is when Chicago, it wasn't even the downtown, it was just the real Chicago, the good times Chicago. And I remember sitting out there with you and you was like, yo, I'm buying all the properties. And you was telling me your grandfather had properties and he taught you how to buy properties. And why I counted your money because I said this, man, I'm just buying a chain, a car hooptie, and you Was buying properties at that time.

[Common]

Yeah, but, man, really, it was my mother who was really the. Like, my father used to say to me, get the land. Get the land. I ain't grow up with my father. But when he was. He would say certain things. It'd be like, get the land, man. They can't take the land from. But my mother was like. As soon as I started, like, first album, I ain't really make no money. I'm trying to, you know, survive. Right. None of us. Right. Maybe I'll make none of us.

[Fat Joe]

Nobody make only a fair handful out of.

[Jadakiss]

They went and bought a kilo with their advance, the lot.

[Fat Joe]

You're talking a good story. Yeah.

[Jadakiss]

All right. I'm just trying to let you know they had a side of us. While rapping.

[Common]

I mean, that's what. Hey, that's what it was. We wouldn't make it. But. But my second album, my mother saw that I was, like, getting somewhere, like, just more than. More than what? You know, like, I had before, and just. She, you know, she was like, man, you don't know how long this gonna last, man. You should invest in some property. And I was like, man, that's good. I started doing it, and then she was. She was. She was the one that schooled me. And then I got a friend named Mo who got into real estate, who started breaking it down even more. So that's when I really started getting into properties and seeing the value. I mean, I really honestly wish early on I was up on, like, investing in. Cause I got all on the health shit early. Like, the healthy, like, should have got down with us.

[Fat Joe]

We would have. We would have been franchises.

[Common]

We'd have been franchise. I came to the opening of y' all in Brooklyn.

[Jadakiss]

Yeah. Yo, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna start smoking this Briscotto thing. What's the shit right here?

[Common]

You say you don't smoke, but you.

[Jadakiss]

Always ahead of time. I don't smoke, but this shit. Look, I'm gonna. Some of that stock of the.

[Common]

Man.

[Jadakiss]

What's it called?

[Common]

Palasanto.

[Jadakiss]

Pa. You always ahead of the curb on everything. Yeah, that Palasanto gonna make some money?

[Common]

Yeah, for sure.

[Jadakiss]

We gotta invest.

[Common]

I'm gonna come out with my own Palasanto first. You know, I'll be. I'll be on some wellness. That's why we looking young, huh?

[Fat Joe]

When you going source?

[Common]

Yeah, maybe Chile. It's got to come from South America. Yeah, it's gonna be a good one. It's gonna be a good One. Yeah.

[Jadakiss]

Cause I got too many.

[Fat Joe]

Now fast forward. How does it feel to win every goddamn award? And I feel good whenever I see you win.

[Common]

Thank you.

[Fat Joe]

Because I know what you stand for, what you represent, where you come from. When they let one of us in and you just dominate the way you've been doing, make me feel, man.

[Common]

I love that. Because win for us, bro. It's a wimp. Like, let me tell you, when I'm up there, I feel like I'm representing us. Because we all. We all the tribe, man. Like, we know where we've come from. We know what we do. We've been through it together. We ain't got to see each other all the time to know. We just. We from. We just the tribe, bro. We love each other. So when I'm out there, man, I ain't gonna front. When I was on that Oscar stage, I felt like I was representing. I was representing Gods, Black men, brown men, black people, like, hip hop. I saw Chicago. It was a lot that I felt like, yo, this is. This is what I'm. This is why I'm up here. And my ancestors, I felt all of that. And I'm like, I'm so grateful that you feel that way. Cause I'm like, man, when I see y' all do. I came in and said, man, I'm proud of y', all, man. Definitely. It's like, what y' all doing, man, this is, like. It offers so much to people. People who, like, need it. We need it. We need the fun, we need the joy. We need the wisdom. We need to come in an authentic way. So to see us. Us, like, just. Man, it was 93. 92, bro.

[Jadakiss]

93. 93, 92, bro.

[Common]

So to see us finding ways and real ways to actually impact life and culture and be doing great things and taking care of our loved ones and families. And, you know, y'.

[Jadakiss]

All.

[Common]

You know, the same way. I feel like we all want.

[Jadakiss]

No, I'm gonna tell you crazy thing. I wrote my first ever positive song right now. You don't remember this? You know, I'm gangsta fat jaw. I smack your baby at the Christian, And I'm doing. You know, I'm. I'm talking all this crazy shit. And I made one positive song, and I went to you. I seek the kingdom, never forget. And I played it for you. I felt like, yo, Kah's gonna love this shit. It's a positive song, and I played it for you. He was like, that's dope, Joe. What the rest of the album Sound like, like you wanted that raw shit from Fast Joe. I came with the beast. Black man this, that Farrakhan formed a million man. And he was like, yo, Joe, what's up with the rest of the album? I was like, yeah, yeah, the album is hard, but I came to you with the positive joint. Like, I thought Comet was gonna be like, yes.

[Fat Joe]

No, he ain't want that.

[Jadakiss]

Nah, he want that Joe crack fat gangsta shit.

[Common]

No, no, but, nah, but you know, it was at the end of the day, you was showing the evolution. But sometimes it's like, you know, we all climb and go our way. We grow in our own ways when it's time. I mean, for me it's like positivity ain't gotta be like out preachy much. I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that in movies. I don't like it in, in music. I don't like it in church. I don't like me either. I don't like the judgment. I don't like it self righteous. I don't like. Man, I'm conscious now, you know, like you was doing the goodness out there, to be honest, even you know, like, you know what I'm saying? Like bringing people on. That in itself. But I feel like, you know, I kind of remember when you played that joy, but I played that joke.

[Jadakiss]

But you know what happens? You know, somebody like KRS1 who had the machine gun in the COVID and we thinking it's coming. He's airplane slave saying it's overseas, people dying, politics is lying, I'm trying not to escape. That shit was like a fucking, a rose blooming. I remember I hopped the train, I had the walkman and I played that shit. And then he was like, airplanes flying overseas, people dying, politicians lying. I'm trying. And I was like. It was like a rose. I was like, yo, what the is this?

[Common]

Yo, man, KRS KRS want and hip hop in itself at that time too, man. Taught me so much about who I am as a person. It's stuff I ain't know. Like, I ain't know like what even what, what he was just talking about or just certain things about Africa that.

[Jadakiss]

I benica, man, why isn't that slower in your. Why is that? He was going.

[Common]

He was going in there even to be able to break down the. The books of the Bible when he was. Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac was the father of Jacob. Jacob had 12 sons for real. The knees were the children of Israel. I'm like, man, to get us to be singing that and rapping that, like, man, that dude just elevated us all, man. Hip hop did at that time. The teacher, teacher, man, the teacher. And he made it sound good, but that's what I'm talking about. Like, he made that joint sound good. Like, I had to get to that. I had. It was a point where in my music and career where I felt like I was getting stuff and I wanted to spread the word, but it was too, like, self righteous. It was too, like, you know, you gotta find a balance. Life is a balance.

[Jadakiss]

So it's like, you know, me growing up, he was my hero, my idol. He still is. But KRS1 was God in the Bronx, right? And then Fat Joe yes. Became the new, like, you know, the dong. We going double platinum. We on fire. I used to walk the streets with KLS1 and everybody teaching look at me like, you know. You know, we had attitudes. And I asked him one day, I said, yo. I said, yo, Chris, how come everybody comes up to you smiling with the teacher teacher and then looked at you? He said, that's easy. I rap about positivity and unity. You rap around gangsta shit, they gonna make you prove you a gangster every time out here. Yeah, Me, they just smile. I pose no threat.

[Common]

Yeah.

[Jadakiss]

I was like, wow, that shit was so deep for me at the time where it was like, yo, he's like, yo, they look at me like, this is the unified. They look at you like, yo, you still Fat Joe the gangsta out here. So we went right back to the.

[Fat Joe]

Studio and killed some more people.

[Common]

That's a fact.

[Jadakiss]

More babies hit than Christian.

[Common]

But that's when for me, I knew, like, okay, man, I wasn't selling a lot of records, Joe. You know, I remember walking into Relativity Records and it was. I tell people this story. It was. It was Bone Thugs at harmony. Fat Joe. I don't know if the Roughhouse Riders were performing like Fat Joe. And so maybe 20,000 this week. Bone Thugs has sold 40,000. This week I sold 5,000. So it was like that board let me know the priority of the label and what was going to be put into my career. So I knew that, man, I got to go on my truth no matter what, and stay who I am. Because record sales wasn't it for me. Like, to be honest. I mean, I did have some great ones at times, but some good ones, but. But overall, it was like, man, my integrity of what you saying, like, just putting positivity out there, putting creativity out there, putting that light out there is what to the end of the day. Some people ask me, man, why you still doing it? That's why I'm doing it. The passion. Yeah, the passion.

[Fat Joe]

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[Jadakiss]

Let's get to it.

[Fat Joe]

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[Jadakiss]

Every now and then I rinse it.

[Podcast Narrator/Host (Various)]

Out and I need yummy R tonight and I need it more My kid.

[Jadakiss]

And the smell never leave I don't know what to do I'm always in the dark the sweat and dead smells like a d.

[Fat Joe]

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[Common]

All I know is what I've been told and that's a half truth is a whole lie.

[Podcast Narrator/Host (Various)]

For almost a decade, the murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

[Common]

I'm telling you we know Quincy killed her.

[Podcast Narrator/Host (Various)]

We know a story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national tv.

[Fat Joe]

Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran.

[Podcast Narrator/Host (Various)]

My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist producer and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find.

[Fat Joe]

I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or burn or any of that other stuff.

[Common]

That y' all said.

[Jadakiss]

They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her.

[Common]

They made me say that I poured.

[Jadakiss]

Gas on her.

[Podcast Narrator/Host (Various)]

From Lava For Good. This is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame.

[Jadakiss]

America, y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people and small towns.

[Podcast Narrator/Host (Various)]

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[Jadakiss]

I'm gonna try to speed this story, but it's just too relevant and it's a very motivational story. I say it when. When I do motivational speaking. We at Relativity. It's me, you the beat nuts, Chi Ali. And they shooting $5,000 videos for us, right? But we think Relativity ain't look fancy or nothing. We think we on the come up. Yeah, and they run in. Alan Grumblatt runs in with a video and he says, yo, I want to show y'. All. I want to show you. There's a group I just signed, a group I just signed. And he puts it in. And this Bone Thugs in harmony, floating in the air.

[Common]

This, this, this.

[Jadakiss]

And I said, yo, Alan, this looks like a million dollar video. He turned around and said, it is a million dollar video. We spend a million dollars on this. At that moment, I knew they didn't believe in me like they believed in Bone Thugs. Because it takes money to make money. So I turned around and told everybody, yo, we gotta go. And I remember some rappers was like, yo, Joe, we got chains, we got cars, apartment. I was like, yo, they don't believe in us. They just spend a million dollars. And at that moment, that's when I left Relativity. It was scary. Cause I did have a chain of car apartment in Droznik. And I just went and no longer than six months later, I signed Terror Squad Records with Atlantic. They gave me a million something dollars, right? I only had 2000 in my bank account with a gold chain and a car at Relativity. But I say in everybody's life, whether you're a beautician, you a farmer, you a whatever it is. I feel like there's this invisible train that comes in front of you. It's a train, the opportunity. But it seems so risky. But you gotta have faith and believe in yourself and jump on that train. And I jumped on that train. Maybe six months after that, I signed Big Pun. So we was really on a raw. But I remember that happened when they showed me that Bone Thugs video. And by the way, Bone Thugs, I love y' all to death. Those are my. Listen, I miss my Uncle Charles. Yeah, yeah.

[Common]

You know, my Uncle Charles, too. God bless his.

[Jadakiss]

You know, on Friday, I fuck up my own lyrics. Last week I called him my list. My uncle Georgia, let me tell you. I gotta tell you something. Joe Buttons, I see him at the Knick game last night, and he asked me one on one on the side. He said, yo, Joe, say the truth.

[Fat Joe]

You really thought it was Uncle George?

[Jadakiss]

You really thought it was Uncle George or you was trolling? I was like, yo, I'm fucked up. I'M five, man. Yeah, I really said uncle. I really thought it said Uncle George. It was Uncle John. I get my own lyrics fucked up. I know they put me on the spotlight. When you do TV shows and be like, all right, you gotta go. And it's just a TV chair, I'll be like, oh, my God. My own songs.

[Common]

But that train. I hear you on that train. Like, that visible train. That visible train. For me, that's what acting became for me. Like, acting was like, yeah, Jay, it was like I hit a ceiling with music for a minute. Like, where I was like, man, what am I gonna do? Like. Cause I was like, striving to do some super artsy shit, and I'm like, man, these niggas eating my. I released this album called Electric Circus. It was out there. In fact, Primo. I went on tour with Gangstar, and he was like, man, I ain't like this album till we started perform. Till I saw you performing, and I understand it more. But it was like one of those things where I was just like, man, I'm trying to blossom and do something. Something else. And then I was trying different things, man. I went to acting class and then, man, that was that train for me. That invisible trainer, like. Like, man, ah, man, I love this. This is something I can work at the craft. I can. I can do this. Because I wanted to do it when I was younger. I was in a play when I was younger, and my mother. I was in the play. And after I finished the play, my mother kept talking about how good Derek, my homie, was in the play. Oh, he was good. Derek was amazing. Derek is my brother.

[Jadakiss]

Oh, my God. And that's day one.

[Common]

So, Jay, I was like. I was like, I wasn't no good. Yeah, I was no good.

[Jadakiss]

Like, what's up?

[Common]

So then, anyway, I fast forward when I got the opportunity to go to acting class. I was like, man, this is it for me. I. Man, I love acting as much as I love music. I mean, music hit me in a different place, but I love acting just as much, you know what I mean? And it comes across the screen, bro.

[Jadakiss]

This shit, you know, I like gangsta flicks. I'mma skip a bunch of shit. Jada gonna get mad at me. But John fucking Wick, they told you the day you was in John Wick, you knew that shit was gonna be ill, right? You was like, yo, I'm gonna be on John Wick, yo.

[Common]

But what's crazy, though, is, you know, I was in John Wick, too. So where y' all filmed it. We filmed it in New York and then in Italy.

[Jadakiss]

I thought it was in, like.

[Common]

It was dope, man. It was Europe. It was like, yeah, we was in Italy for some.

[Jadakiss]

You passed them. Y' all bumped into each other. I said, oh, shit. Yo, let's go. Let's fucking go.

[Common]

Yo, I love, man, the people that checked out. John Wick, man, that blow my mind, man. I begin in cars like you said. Some people don't know I rap. I get an Uber to do like, yo, I know you from somewhere. I know you.

[Jadakiss]

One thing they don't know is that you Common sense.

[Common]

Oh, no, they definitely don't know.

[Jadakiss]

Yo, my daughter looks at me like I'm a dinosaur. I'd be like, yo, common sense. She'd be like, his name is Common Dad. Like, I said, no, that's Common sense. No, dad. It's called. You sound like a dinosaur, dad. You sound like a. I'm like, yo, that's common sense. Yo, man, they don't know what.

[Common]

Yeah, I ain't gonna front. I was surprised. I just did this whole campaign with BMW, and they was like, man, we want the campaign to be about. Say it's common sense. I was like, how y' all know. How y' all know about that? It's somebody in there that knew. Yeah, that knew. Like, that's what the campaign is. It's common sense. I said, damn, I'm gonna do this. We made it fly, too. But it was like, bro, like, a lot of people don't know. I be in college. Like, I was. I'd be. I like to ride in the car sometimes. Like, just riding around. So I was in there. The car was in Boston. This driver, this dude, a young dude, he was like. I was. You know, I put in my music and start playing. I'm rapping and stuff. He was like, common. I ain't know you rap. I was like, yeah, I had that argument.

[Jadakiss]

I've had that argument about you.

[Fat Joe]

That means you're a great actor, though, man.

[Common]

I'm grateful for that.

[Fat Joe]

They see you in that space, and it overpowered this space that they didn't know about.

[Jadakiss]

We got to go to. I used to love her. Okay, okay, right. You knew that was like a lean back. When you finished that bitch, you was like, oh, I knocked this shit out the park. Like, yeah, what was making. I used to love it. Where did that come from? What was the inception of that idea? Because to this day, I mean, we did it in so many big. L did. The Ebonics did this Everybody did some version of it, but that was like the epitome, man.

[Common]

Whenever God dropped that idea into my spirit, bro, I was. I was geek. I just know. No idea made this dope beat. He was dope. He accepted him. George Vincent, shout out to Killed that. Yo. I was sitting at home. My homies had just left the crib, and I was staying with my guy Rahsaan. We had. We had a crib together, like an apartment. And, man, I was sitting up, it was 2 in the morning. I just had that beat playing. I was like, man, what if I made hip hop a woman? And then I just started writing. It used to take me. I don't know how for y' all are, but sometimes I be taking. I'll be taking a while to write it.

[Jadakiss]

Back in the days, it took a while.

[Common]

Yeah, back in the day, it used to be like, back in the days.

[Jadakiss]

You be busting your bubble brain. Like, what your brain to come up with some shit.

[Common]

That one started coming to me. And then I started, you know, just understanding the metaphor. Not understanding, but just getting into the metaphor of it and taking it through the whole ride. And I was like, I ain't gonna front. I was. I did feel like, damn, this is. This is something.

[Jadakiss]

Halfway through, you was like, yo, this is some shit, right? Like, as that shit start going, you like, yo, yo, man.

[Common]

I was like, yo. And then by the time I got to the third verse, it was like, summing it up and got to who I'm talking about y' all is hip hop. I was like, man, I knew that it could have something, it could hit somebody. Cause when I was in that studio, landed my guy. Rashawn was. He was. He was like. I could see him through the booth. I was sitting there rapping. And, you know, we young, so he like, what, girl, you. Yeah, he like, yo. He like, why you doing this love song? He didn't want to. You know, he like doing a love song like this. As soon as I said, who I'm talking about, y' all is hip hop. That N grabbed his head like, oh.

[Jadakiss]

Like, you want to know what's crazy Is when you came in here, I know how much you love Illmatic. And so we throw on some Illmatic and similar. I used to love her to Illmatic is. Over the years, every time I heard I used to love her, I picked up something new, and I learned something new. And I was just like, yo, this shit gets better, you know, like, it don't matter. You can still. Like, right now, we all could have rapped and didn't know the word. Yeah, the right word, right? Caught a body halfway Houston. What the fuck he meant with. Caught a body halfway Houston. Head for Houston, Head for Houston, yeah.

[Common]

Caught a body, Head for Houston oh, quarter body. Head for Houston, yeah Catch a body.

[Jadakiss]

You know, it's like, so you could keep. Like, that's how the lover was for me. Like, every time I heard it, I would hear something new and something new and be like, oh, shit, that shit crazy, yo.

[Common]

What, What. What hit me, too, was like, man, that was the first time I really started. Like, I remember, you know, back. Back in those days, you would have, like, people give you a quote for your album. Biggie gave me a quote, and, like, I was like, damn, I'm actually getting respect from, you know, more and more people. But then that movie Brown Sugar came out, and Brown Sugar was based on I Used to Love her.

[Jadakiss]

And, wow, I didn't do that.

[Common]

Yeah, it was based on I Used to love her. That writer, shout out to him, Michael Elliott, he. He had come to me to write something, like, write some movie stuff with him. But I was like, a little bit. You know, I ain't know how to do that. So I was just moving, you know, I'm just. So he ended up writing Brown Sugar. Boom. Then me and Erykah. Me and Erykah Badu did a song for Brown Sugar, which was Love of My Life based on I used to love Her.

[Fat Joe]

Love of My love.

[Jadakiss]

My Friend.

[Common]

So I was like. It was. It was one of those things that kept evolving in a way. Like that song.

[Fat Joe]

It was a seed.

[Common]

Yeah, seed. The seed keeps growing.

[Jadakiss]

And you know what's crazy is being that you're saying that I'm just. You know, I was supposed to be in the movie Shaft. I was supposed to be peoples what. You know, that act is a big, big. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Fat Joe]

Okay.

[Jadakiss]

Yo, rest in peace. John Singleton, he was coming to Jimmy's Bronx Cafe every Friday trying to convince me to be in Shaft. But we was too much on that party. Like a rock star, we was like, we ain't give a fuck. We young, rich rap niggas. Big pun, double platinum. We don't give a fuck. John Singleton was in the trenches. He was with me in Washington Heights and fucking bummy apartment house. But he had no business being there. Like, yo, Joe, I got this role. You could be people's. Cause, you know, what's my man? Famous actor. He played people that he. You see how he was speaking with his Spanish? Yeah, he ain't Spanish.

[Common]

No, no, no. He from that.

[Jadakiss]

Joe was supposed to be people, bro.

[Common]

You turned that road down.

[Jadakiss]

Dumb. Like a dumb. Every time I watched that movie, I.

[Fat Joe]

Was supposed to be in Glory.

[Jadakiss]

All right, what's something that happened to you that you had an opportunity and you was like that? I'mma stay at D block with y'. All. This. I ain't doing that shit. But now when you look back, you like, damn, I should have did that.

[Common]

Yeah. Have you had one of them?

[Jadakiss]

You got some of those?

[Common]

What? You gotta give us the last thing of power.

[Jadakiss]

The last episode of Power.

[Fat Joe]

Last season of Raising Canaan, I had to take my wife to the Usher show.

[Jadakiss]

I saw you at that back.

[Fat Joe]

I couldn't get a private. It wasn't meant to be. It was one of them be sad or be happy.

[Jadakiss]

You know how big that Raising Katelyn was?

[Fat Joe]

Shout out to.

[Jadakiss]

I got another one.

[Common]

I saw you at the Usher show that time.

[Fat Joe]

Yeah?

[Common]

Yeah.

[Jadakiss]

Oh, you was there, too?

[Fat Joe]

Yeah.

[Common]

In Vegas. Yeah.

[Jadakiss]

You know, you go to Usher, man. He forced you to do the greatest hits. Yeah, like, I'm over there trying to go. All I want is two free tickets, right?

[Common]

That's it.

[Jadakiss]

It turned into. It turned into. It cost you more.

[Common]

I know, man.

[Jadakiss]

My brother Fat Joe, the light come like this. You on stage shaking.

[Common]

You got another word.

[Jadakiss]

Then they throw another one. Another one, another. I'm like, shit, is this the fat joke?

[Fat Joe]

Mars is making you do a little concert?

[Jadakiss]

DJ Moss, my guy, it's an honor.

[Fat Joe]

Your bucket. My bucket. You love basketball?

[Common]

Yes, sir.

[Fat Joe]

Played in high school as a ball boy for the Chicago Bulls from 11 to 13 years. NBA. Yeah, he seen NBA. He seen Jordan debut, right?

[Common]

Yes, I seen Jordan. First comedy first. I got a pitch that Friday.

[Jadakiss]

No, I might be putting him on blast, but I think Khaled was a ball boy for Orlando Magic, too. I never heard him say that before.

[Fat Joe]

But he caught Shaq.

[Jadakiss]

Yeah, Shaq. Nick Anderson, all that. Dennis Scott.

[Fat Joe]

He played the NBA star in the movie. How the hell was that? How did that fit?

[Common]

Yo, that was, bro.

[Jadakiss]

That was a movie.

[Common]

Cause we love basketball.

[Jadakiss]

Yeah, we love basketball, Joe.

[Common]

I know you love basketball.

[Jadakiss]

Basketball is my life.

[Common]

How was it, bro? That was like a dream. A dream. Two dreams of one dream inside a dream. Cause that was my first lead role. And then I'm playing a basketball player, and then I'm like. In the movie, I'm playing against D. Wade. I'm like, damn. I'm trying to really do something. I'm trying to do something. I couldn't do nothing with him, though.

[Jadakiss]

Them dudes are strong.

[Common]

And then one time I was driving, you know, the scene was like, yo, I don't keep score. I'm supposed to score over Dwight Howard song. He sake I'm scoring over him. And then just by the third take, he just smacked that shit. He said, I'll show you what I really do to this shit. I said, damn. But man, that was amazing. That was an amazing experience. Queen Latifah, I gotta give her love, man. Cause she, you know, the producers was looking at other people. And then she was like, I think he can do it. And the producers really believed in me. And I had a tough time on that movie. Cause it was my first lead. So they. At one point, man, they was thinking about kicking me off. Cause I wasn't getting the scenes right. And man, it was crucial. And then I did this one scene and they ended up being like, okay, cool. And it wasn't even. You know, it's like the story you hear about. I mean, I ain't gonna put myself on that level, but the story you hear about Al Pacino and Godfather, you know how.

[Jadakiss]

No, I ain't hear it.

[Common]

Break that down.

[Jadakiss]

From the Bronx.

[Common]

Al Pacino, he from the Bronx.

[Jadakiss]

That's right.

[Common]

That man is he.

[Jadakiss]

You that.

[Common]

Yo, that man. That man is mean.

[Jadakiss]

But listen.

[Common]

Al Pacino. While they was filming the Godfather, the studio wasn't really happy with his work. They was like, this dude ain't delivering. So as Michael. As Michael. So the director, he decided to move that scene up where he, you know, where he. Where he first shoot them dudes. Where the gun is. In the bathroom.

[Jadakiss]

Oh, yeah, the cop.

[Common]

Yeah, the cop.38 in the bathroom. He moved that scene up because you know, they were watching. You know, when you filming a movie, you get to watch what they call dailies. You watching at what y' all shoot every day. So he said, I gotta move this scene up so they can see how cold this dude is. And they see. They move that scene up.

[Jadakiss]

Dude, that gun. Like, they said, make sure you throw the gun.

[Common]

Yo, that's commenzo.

[Jadakiss]

And them, they told him, throw the gun.

[Common]

Gun.

[Jadakiss]

Yo, wipe it down. Throw the gun. He threw the gun.

[Common]

Yo, just him. The tension when he's sitting there. When he's sitting there with them. Yeah, the tension right there. Like, oh, man, Al Pacino, man. Shout out.

[Jadakiss]

They beat him up. He had the. His shit was broken jawed and he sat down. Yeah, I understand this and that. When the bathroom killed him. But I got to tell you something about Queen Latifah. Queen Latifah's in the studio with Cool and Dre. One day, I'm hanging out with her. She looks at me for no reason, sis. Well, you think you fucking tough? She pulls the knife out. You got the key. She chased me around the studio with a knife. Come here, motherfucker. You ain't that tough. She had one of those. You ain't that tough, motherfucker. She start chasing me around the studio. I said, yo, Latifah, please, Queen, please. She don't play that shit. She chasing me.

[Common]

The truth, bro.

[Jadakiss]

She got a. I chased Fat Joe out. The studio story. I'm telling you, she did it in real life.

[Common]

Jada flipped that shit.

[Jadakiss]

Like they say, it's the Puerto Ricans. Everybody got a knife in New York.

[Fat Joe]

You gotta keep the hawk. What new projects you got coming?

[Common]

I'm working on this TV series for Apple. It's called Silo.

[Jadakiss]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I seen that.

[Common]

Yeah, check that out. Like Silo deep, right? Yeah, it's fresh, man. It's really fresh. And my man Tim Robbins is starring in it. Tim Robbins from Shawshank Redemption. And I like Mystic Mix, the River and this woman, Rebecca Ferguson. Some dope ass actors and dope actors. And story is mean. It's dope.

[Jadakiss]

What's your top five? Rappers turn actors. That's a question.

[Common]

That's a great question. I had that Will Smith. Gotta be Will Smith.

[Jadakiss]

There you go.

[Common]

Queen Latifah. Most deaf. That man was mean.

[Jadakiss]

No, no.

[Common]

Ever since.

[Fat Joe]

16 blocks.

[Common]

16 blocks.

[Jadakiss]

Yo, he quit rap, he'll quit act. I don't know where most death is. 3.

[Fat Joe]

Let's go eat in Barcelona. Chilling. Shout out to y' all say yeah.

[Common]

Shout out to y' all I love y'.

[Jadakiss]

All.

[Common]

That man is. He is one of the three. Let's go. Okay, I got you.

[Jadakiss]

Will Smith. Queen Latifah.

[Fat Joe]

Most dead.

[Common]

I'm gonna go Ice Cube. That's four. And then who else?

[Jadakiss]

Who else is out there?

[Common]

Oh, there you go. Thank you. Pac was fire. I'm gonna go put myself.

[Jadakiss]

Tupac was cold. You there, though.

[Fat Joe]

Stephanie in there.

[Jadakiss]

You know, we don't like to, you know, our era don't put ourselves in, but you in there.

[Common]

Smoking Aces was my first movie. Man, that's fire. That was fire. So good to get. That's the first movie I did, Joe. And then like, man, that was my first call back. You know, I've been auditioning. Auditioning. And some of the movies I was going for, they didn't even want to see me. Cause I was a musician. They like, we don't want to. We good on that. And in fact. Cause they had already had Alicia Keys in the movie. The director was like, I don't know if I want to see him. But the cast of director was like, check them out. So I did the tape, and then they called me back. I was so geek, man. It was my first call back, and I was flying from doing a show. I landed and went into that audition, man, I felt it. I was like, yo, I'm about to light this shit up. And I did it maybe about a couple. About three weeks later, the director called me like, yo, you got the job. You got the job. Like, I was crying. I called my mother. Then I had to go tell Kanye, like, yo, can go on this tour, man. I got a movie. And he was like, man, do your thing. Do your dream, brother. Do what you gotta do. I was like, thank you. Appreciate you. That was my first movie, bro. That mean everything to me.

[Fat Joe]

Another bag. You just got the theme for prime for the NBA.

[Jadakiss]

Yeah, we saw that. I saw that, bruh.

[Common]

Let me tell you.

[Jadakiss]

I saw that.

[Common]

Hey, as we said, I'm representing us. I feel like, man, to be able to have the theme song, like, for the NBA. What, on Prime? You could have never told me, like, me. James Poison. James Poison is a producer who did a lot of Lauren stuff, did a lot of our stuff, play with the roots. Like Erykah Badu. He this incredible producer pianist.

[Fat Joe]

We have it. Let's. Let's check it out.

[Common]

Yeah. And Kareem Riggins. We did that all together. Let's check. This is the same song. It's called Victory.

[Fat Joe]

I'm immediate. That's slapping right there. Victory is the name of it, baby.

[Common]

Yes.

[Jadakiss]

Shit it.

[Fat Joe]

That's my ball.

[Jadakiss]

I like, right?

[Common]

Yo, I mean, I'm gonna tell y', all, like, this is one of. For me, is one of the first. I gotta give it up. James Poison and Kareem Riggins, we co produced that together, the theme song. But we. And back in March, we submitted. You know, they was taking submissions from different people. Amazon was. And, man, we got together in the studio and just started creating that, like, getting our musician cast together and just, you know, putting together this. This theme song. And we knew we wanted it to feel like. We wanted it to feel nostalgic before it. Cause, you know, it's like Amazon is doing something new with the NBA, but we still wanted that Earth, Wind and Fire, but. And it needed to Be something. I could come to Joe and Jada, and we still like, yo, you know, like, you know, so, man, we.

[Jadakiss]

Man, you want to know what's so crazy? I hear Chicago all over that beat. Like, I hear Lupe fiasco. I hear you. I hear all y' all spitters.

[Fat Joe]

I hear everything.

[Jadakiss]

Yeah. I hear all the Chicago spitters just going crazy on that beat right there. Like, that's sick. Chi Town. Like I said. Lupe fiasco, Kanye West, I always say. There was this one guy, he was a freestyler.

[Common]

Juice.

[Jadakiss]

Juice. And I would go to see this guy Spit. Whenever I went to Chicago, I'd be like, yo, where the guy Juice at? And they'd be like, yo, he's. They got some shit tonight. And you. What you go with Yo.

[Common]

Juice was like. Like, it's like almost like a hoop legend that. Like, that. You, like.

[Jadakiss]

They didn't make it to the league.

[Common]

But didn't make it to the league.

[Jadakiss]

He was like.

[Common]

He was. I want to give him his love. Cause that, man, he was incredible.

[Jadakiss]

He was feeding on, bro.

[Common]

He'd be like. He'll sit there freestyle for, like, do a whole show just freestyling, and it'd be good.

[Jadakiss]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, just sitting there, bars to death. And you sitting up in there, like, looking at him like, oh, my God.

[Common]

Yeah.

[Jadakiss]

And shout out to Twister.

[Common]

Yeah, Twist up, man. Come on, sir. Yeah. We wanted to bring that. Like, we wanted to bring that soul to that theme song because it's like, you bought it, you know, like the stuff we grew up, you know, Point blank, there's some classic joints. The one that we hear heard on NBC, that's the classic. Yeah, right? So we, like, man, you know what?

[Jadakiss]

To me, this is your version of that. Nah, Pusha T made up. I think he made up. I'm loving it. Right? Yes. For McDonald's, push your teammate up. I'm loving it.

[Common]

Yeah, I did.

[Jadakiss]

That's what you want. You want this shit. The 20 years from now, when they show footage.

[Common]

See and remember that. That's what.

[Jadakiss]

I know what that is.

[Common]

And, man, just fit for us, like, as black artists to have a theme song for major sports. And that ain't. That ain't happened. Like a theme. Like, if you couldn't have told me.

[Fat Joe]

I was a boy part of that. For them people to let you be a part of that collectively with the other guys in the people playing the instruments is a win for us.

[Common]

It's a win for us, man. We represent us, all of us.

[Fat Joe]

They get that.

[Jadakiss]

You Was one of the first guys I called to try to get you on this box. Rewind the tent. Cause you got that legendary beard. You know, I try to get. You know, you got whiskers. You ain't got no beard. Man, why you keep looking at me.

[Fat Joe]

Like, I don't want to have a beard?

[Jadakiss]

Okay, so Common got the beard. He said, y' all don't. I ain't ready for that right now. I'm like, why fight the time when you can rewind your time?

[Fat Joe]

I never wanted to have a big.

[Jadakiss]

Why be 53 when you can be 42? Why be 42 when you can be 31?

[Common]

Let me see.

[Jadakiss]

It's the Rolls Royce for your movies.

[Fat Joe]

Kids cafe.

[Jadakiss]

I'm already drinking it.

[Common]

Yeah.

[Fat Joe]

I'm saying, the best coffee on the bar. I'm still talking three generations. Me, my dad, and my son.

[Jadakiss]

You know, I mean, Sorisa Rum, straight from Puerto Rico. So Lisa rum straight from Puerto Rico. Right? So these.

[Fat Joe]

So Lisa, we own it. It's everything we own. It's all we own.

[Jadakiss]

Yo, listen. Yo, comment? But I'm telling you, if you need the little. You know, I do. That's the quicker picker upper.

[Common]

No, I got great.

[Fat Joe]

I can't be doing that one.

[Jadakiss]

Drake. Yo, that's Rolls Royce of hair coloring. I'm not.

[Common]

That's right. Okay.

[Jadakiss]

Some. Some black and brown people, they get allergic to it. Our Is sensitive pneumonia free. We thought of everything. Is it vegan? It's not vegan. That's Styles P's version of that.

[Fat Joe]

See what I'm saying?

[Jadakiss]

You a vegan, so you can't even use it if it ain't vegan.

[Fat Joe]

Yeah, it can't have.

[Common]

No.

[Fat Joe]

It gotta have.

[Common]

No.

[Jadakiss]

Let me tell you something. I throw my birthday party every year. I might have 72 mountains of food just there for no reason. Everybody, you walk by, grab a grape, whatever. It's just too much, right?

[Common]

Yeah.

[Jadakiss]

Styles P, come. Yo, Joe, what you got for vegetarian?

[Fat Joe]

Vegan.

[Common]

That's right.

[Jadakiss]

For vegan, I go. Hold on.

[Fat Joe]

He identifies as plant based.

[Common]

Plant based.

[Jadakiss]

My sister. I go in the house and come out with the coconuts. You know the one you get the spoon with and scrape the inside with the spoon. I bring them the coconuts and pour them. He said, wow, Joe, you got these. Cause them shits ain't from New York. They from somewhere. They from Chile.

[Common]

From the.

[Jadakiss]

I bring him the coconut switches. Soon I'm like, I felt so good. I was like, yo, I. I got the coconuts, man.

[Common]

Yeah, Joe, you gotta have you gotta have something for the vegans at the party? Yes.

[Jadakiss]

My party's a flagrant.

[Fat Joe]

I gotta get some of that.

[Jadakiss]

Yeah, you always ahead of the time.

[Common]

Make sure y' all get that, because I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm gonna be coming with a whole, like, not grooming, but that's one of the reasons. Like, it's like, I'm doing some oils and stuff, too, and some natural things. Oh.

[Jadakiss]

So I gotta get running, huh? My number one cbs Sally's all over. We number one.

[Common]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Jadakiss]

So we selling boxes. I found my first customer. I went to CVS over there. Across the street from the Beverly Center.

[Common]

Yeah.

[Jadakiss]

In la. And it was a white guy. He had a fucking box in his hand. And I said, yo, he didn't even know I'm on the box or nothing. Like, I was like, yo, you used to rewind it. He said all the time. If it's good enough for him, it's good enough for me. And he shows me. Cause, you know, we got Travis Kelce on the box. Turn over and go. It's good enough for him, it's good enough for me. I was like, yes.

[Common]

Yo, that's amazing.

[Jadakiss]

Yes.

[Common]

I gotta give it up for this.

[Jadakiss]

I was like, yes. You got Travis Kelsey, Travis Kelce, Brody, Jenner. Yeah, we got Gallad Nicky. Jam Reggae Tone, Superstar. Like, we not playing. We got a white boy called Wonder Boy. He was that ufc. You know, we good ufc. You ufc. You know, Trump might not mess with you if you got one of them on the COVID You know what I'm saying? You know, that's his thing we pushed up in the front. My UFC guys over there. Leave us the fuck alone, bro. We don't want no smoke.

[Fat Joe]

This ain't that.

[Jadakiss]

That ain't this. It's cracking. Kiss.

[Fat Joe]

Kiss. Make some noise for our brother. Coming, y'.

[Common]

All. Yeah. Yes, sir.

[Jadakiss]

Legendary.

[Fat Joe]

Appreciate you, my brother.

[Common]

Brother, I appreciate y'. All. Love y'. All.

[Jadakiss]

What's that sound? That's the sound of Downy unstoppable scent.

[Common]

Beads going into your washing machine and giving your clothes freshness that lasts all day long. There it is again.

[Jadakiss]

It's like music to your ears.

[Common]

Or more like music to your nose. That freshness is irresistible.

[Jadakiss]

Let's get a Downy Unstoppables bottle shake. And now a sniff solo. Nice.

[Common]

With Downy Unstoppables, you just toss wash. Wow.

[Jadakiss]

For all day freshness.

[Fat Joe]

Hey, I'm Kalpen, and on my new podcast here we go again. We'll take today's trends and headlines and ask, why does history keep repeating itself? Each week I'm calling up my friends like Bill Nye, Lilly Singh and Pete Buttigieg to talk about everything from the space race to movie remakes to psychedelics.

[Common]

Put it another way, are you high?

[Fat Joe]

Look, the world can seem pretty scary right now, but my goal here is for you to listen and feel a little better about the future. Listen and subscribe to Here we go again with Kal Penn on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Podcast Narrator/Host (Various)]

The Big Take podcast from Bloomberg News keeps you on top of the biggest stories of the day.

[Jadakiss]

My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day.

[Podcast Narrator/Host (Various)]

Stories that move markets.

[Jadakiss]

Chair Powell opened the door to this.

[Podcast Narrator/Host (Various)]

First interest rate cut impact politics, change businesses. This is a really stunning development for the AI world and how you think about your bottom line. Listen to the Big Take from Bloomberg News every weekday afternoon on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Jadakiss]

What's up everybody? It's snacks from the Trap nerds. And all October long, we're bringing you.

[Fat Joe]

The Horror Boogity boogity boogity. We kicking off this month with some of my best horror games to keep you terrified.

[Jadakiss]

Then we'll be talking about our favorite horror and Halloween movies and figuring out why black people always die first.

[Fat Joe]

And it's three Return of Tony's Horror.

[Jadakiss]

Show side Quest, written and narrated by yours truly.

[Fat Joe]

We'll also be doing a full episode.

[Jadakiss]

Reading with commentary, and we'll cap it off with a horror movie battle royale. Open your free aha Radio app and search Trapped Nerds Podcast and listen now.