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Bill Bellamy
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Radio DJ
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Joe Crack the Dawn
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Joe Crack the Dawn
That'S odoo.com like he's trying to figure out how I'm gonna get. Tommy's a real deal. Yo, Jada, you crying? Go.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, it's funny, bro.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yeah, yeah. What up, y'? All? This is Joe Crack the Dawn.
Jada
You know who it is. Your boy Jada. This the Joe and Jada Show. Every show, legendary. Every show iconic. When you think of today's guest, you think of funny. You think it's some of the best haircuts ever. You think of some of your best movies. Come. You think of the box office, you think of standup, you think of my early career. VJs MTV was very inspirational and influential to your career if you can make it on there. Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, let's make some noise for Bill Bellamy.
Bill Bellamy
Thank you for having me. I'm in here, Joe.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yo, how you get a last name like Bellamy?
Bill Bellamy
It's just. It just worked out.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You're already rich.
Bill Bellamy
It sounds like it. Sound like I already had money. I was broke as fuck. Bill Bellamy, yo. He's here?
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yeah, he's here in Newark, New Jersey.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah. People used to say, is that your real name? I was like, yeah, because I'm actually William. But William sound too formal. You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, bill Bellamy.
Jada
The two B's, it was good.
Bill Bellamy
It goes good.
Joe Crack the Dawn
It's the same. So my man Billy, though, you switch.
Jada
It to Will, like.
Bill Bellamy
Sir William.
Joe Crack the Dawn
My man Billy Blanco. His name in Spanish is Guillermo.
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Bill Bellamy
Yeah. Guo.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Guillermo in Spanish is William. You know, I mean, that's not about it. Yeah, boy, Billy Blanco, man. That boy, you know, he was with the high school teacher. She be like, guillermo. One day we had a house party. She popped up with him. I said, damn, he taking the teacher down. What? My man Billy Blanco, many years ago.
Bill Bellamy
He got some grown booty, huh?
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Yeah.
Jada
With the teacher.
Joe Crack the Dawn
With the teacher at the house party. We all up in the house party. He got the teacher with him.
Jada
Nah.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, I ain't never had down early. He did his number.
Jada
That's numbers.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yo, Bill Bellamy. What's up? Beloved you look great.
Bill Bellamy
Thank you, man.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I love to see. I love to see, you know, our OG's looking great.
Bill Bellamy
Yo, man, I work out, I take care of myself, I laugh all the time, you know what I'm saying? I'm always enjoying that part of my life and I'm doing what I want to do, man, you know what I'm saying? We at that point, like you said, og, we got the experience and the talent, which means now we, you know, we can move the way we want to move.
Joe Crack the Dawn
It's sad cause we want everything early, but they always tell you as you get older, you figure it out.
Bill Bellamy
I wanted my shit immediately. I remember when I first came in the game, I was like, fuck the weight, let's get it today. I'll never Forget, it was 91, 92. I'm in New York, I live in Jersey, I'm coming over here doing stand up and shit, just trying to get on. This is when hip hop was popping. 91, 92 cats. We had record labels, people was like, you know, everybody was pushing their records. You know, you had your street teams. This is like vintage 90 hip hop era. And so standup was sort of like the brother and sister of hip hop. UCAS was coming to see us, we coming to see you. Everybody know everybody. And it was just one of those amazing times for me. And I just happened to get lucky to be in the right place and just get on, like, just, you know, be funny enough, have the right swag, have the right gear, you know what I mean? And then be on point. On Def Comedy, who would you say is your.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Who are some other comedians that came out?
Bill Bellamy
I got the best class ever, Joe.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I wanna know ever.
Bill Bellamy
There'll never be another class better than us. We dream team. You gotta figure like 90, 91, 92. Jamie Foxx, Martin Lawrence, Chris Tucker, Chris Rock. Damn. Listen, it don't stop. Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey, Dave Chappelle, like, I mean, just Joe, Tory, like, it's just DL. It's just like all of us came out. It was like so many funny.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Bernie Mac, come on.
Bill Bellamy
That's the funniest people I ever seen in my life. Like Tommy Davidson. Like, just think, I just had an interview a couple days ago and we was talking about there will never be a time where that many people were able to become stars. A lot of people became TV stars. We had all them sitcoms.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Were you crossing paths with like Jim. Jim Carrey?
Bill Bellamy
See, I didn't, I didn't grow up. Jim Carrey was on fire though. But he was in. He was on the West. West Coast. The only person I met back then was Damon. So I met Damon in the early part of my career.
Joe Crack the Dawn
They was on the West Coast.
Bill Bellamy
They was on. But they was from New York.
Joe Crack the Dawn
But they was living.
Bill Bellamy
They was already. Cause I remember auditioning for In Living Color, like, yo, this is show they gonna about to do on Fox. It's gonna be nuts. It's gonna be the real Saturday Night Live. That's what the. That's what the word was at the time. And so I didn. Jamie Foxx was selected to do that, and Tommy Davidson and Jim Carrey. And that show was phenomenal. That's all 90s. So you got Martin, you had Jamie, you had In Living Color. I know I'm forgetting some of the shows, but they were all on at one time.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I heard you in the interview say that Martin Lawrence was the best Def Jam comedy host ever.
Bill Bellamy
Ever.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Do we think he gets his props or is it that he's just so like. Cause he feels like an introvert when it comes to interviews and all that? Like, he don't do. We feel like Martin gets his props like he deserves.
Bill Bellamy
I don't think. I don't think people give Martin Lawrence his flowers the way they should. Because let me tell you something, there was nobody funnier than Martin Lawrence on Def Comedy Jam. Like, if two comics was in a car crash, you wouldn't be mad if Martin was hosting. Cause he gonna carry it. And the way he was hitting the audience and freestyling like it was vintage Martin Lawrence. Like, I mean, I enjoyed him immensely watching him just be natural. I didn't know Martin Lawrence was that funny. I was like, God damn.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You know, Martin Lawrence was almost like your man. Like, you know, you got a boy that's mad funny. Yeah, he became a store a comedian or nothing like that, but he was just dumb funny. But the guy put it on on tv, right? Like, everything he was saying was like, shit that we go through in the.
Bill Bellamy
Hood every day, yo, but it's off. It looked like it was off the head. Like, to me, I felt like Martin Lawrence was like a rapper that could freestyle better than everybody. You know what I mean? Like, he could just go in the studio and be like, bam, bam. He don't need to write it down. You be like, damn, how you think of that? To me, that's how Martin was. He was so fast. Like, if you go back and watch the clips and Big Bird, like, he has iconic jokes that he set off.
Joe Crack the Dawn
He a good liar.
Bill Bellamy
I mean, he tore a hidden play up.
Joe Crack the Dawn
It's true. Because you know, when the cops stop you, sir, I was over there. What are you talking about? You were like, damn, this nigga could lie. Like, on an impulse. Like, you know, oh, your wife catch you doing some shit? You know who's Burger King?
Bill Bellamy
Oh, my God.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Who's Burger King?
Bill Bellamy
Calling you at three in the morning?
Joe Crack the Dawn
What you looking at? Oh, I was looking at watches and graffiti. There's new sneakers coming out.
Bill Bellamy
They graffiti.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Don't let them see the Explorer. God damn it. That algorithm out explore paint boy. Don't let them see that. You see that? My graffiti Hip hop Grandmaster flat. Like, you better be ready for that.
Bill Bellamy
You gotta have a dummy. A dummy pants.
Jada
Gotta have a dummy Explorer.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, you gotta have a dummy show his wife he hit the phone. House paint, you know, nature's best.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yeah.
Bill Bellamy
You know, roofing.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You fix how the French people are making these breads now, Ma. Like, it's a. Incredible. It's incredible. See this?
Jada
Yeah.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I dare you. Switch that up. That'll be like.
Bill Bellamy
They used to trap on Wednesday.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You switch that bread up, bam. One time, that be like, booby trap Wednesday.
Bill Bellamy
Yo, they used to have that, like, when. When laptops first came out. Like when you was working in a cubicle and you was doing something that you wasn't supp. Do you have that dummy screen to come down when your boss come over? We need that on our phone.
Jada
The stock market comes.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yeah, we need that. That's the new app, guys. Whoever with the AI and all that, that's the shit you need to do.
Bill Bellamy
You just made me think of something funny. You know what they should do, like, for. For chicks who go on dude's phone, the phone should blow up. You just have blue stuff all over your face.
Joe Crack the Dawn
That's cool.
Jada
Like the money for the bank.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like. Like if your girl go on your phone, they take a picture and blow up.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Boom.
Bill Bellamy
So you come downstairs, she's sitting there with a whole blue face.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I say, what?
Bill Bellamy
You in my phone? No.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Social media killed love, man.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, social media is tough.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Social media killed.
Bill Bellamy
You could get in there.
Jada
It didn't kill it.
Joe Crack the Dawn
What it did was I killed love.
Bill Bellamy
You think twice.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Because every time you feel. I'm like, damn, Bill Bellamy, he been with his wife so long, then that shit come in the middle with the fucking scribble in the middle. That shit that comes out glass.
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Joe Crack the Dawn
Breaking news. She be like, bro, ah, shit.
Bill Bellamy
I've been married 24 years. It is no joke. How many people broke up in 24 years?
Joe Crack the Dawn
Oh, that's crazy.
Bill Bellamy
I mean, I remember I got married in 2001, right? People who were going out, dating, they've been together forever. They got married the same summer, and they was broke up in the fall. Like, that's how crazy I was. Like, yo, so when you live in Hollywood and you living, you trying to do your career, you trying to do everything, you don't have no, like, positive, like you said, you don't have any positive. Like, oh, man, they could go to the movies with us. No, they don't talk no more, you.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Know, but people crazy Hollywood, everybody each other.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah. And then they only like each other, man.
Joe Crack the Dawn
It's her ex, man. And the family tree is a cousin. Is. This is out of control.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, it's out. It's out of control.
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Joe Crack the Dawn
Yeah. Yo, you ever seen them? You ever seen the family trees when they do that? Yo, God bless everybody, man. I don't wish that. When I tell you, boy, the family tree, they'd be like, this one's slept with this one, and the kid is from this, this.
Jada
And everybody shits that come down.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Them shits is everybody's cousins. Yeah, yeah, everybody's a cousin.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah.
Joe Crack the Dawn
That crazy.
Jada
How hard is it making the transition from stand up? And then, boom, you're on the big screen, you're doing lead roles.
Bill Bellamy
Yo, it was. It was crazy, man, because, you know, things happened kind of fast for me. So I, like. I got on. I got on mtv. That was huge. Cause at that time, you know, that helped that wave of hip hop. We started selling records like crazy cats going on tour, me and you, you naughty Queen Latifah, all the cats that was coming up at that time, you know, it was an explosion. And I remember sitting there on my show going, man, I'm interviewing all these movie stars. I want to be a movie star that looks so fly. Like, they got their movie premiere, they got this stuff going on. So I had aspirations. I was like, one day somebody gonna interview me. You know what I'm saying? And so next thing you know, I got a little small role in who's the Man? I was in who's the Man? Yeah, I know. It was the most hip hop people would ever.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yo, you know, Joe got a nice.
Bill Bellamy
Little resume on the low cheekbone. Yo, they cut half of Joe head.
Joe Crack the Dawn
On half of my cheekbones.
Bill Bellamy
You just see Joe here in the barbershop.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yo, what's up? This was, like, it was a big look. Yeah, I think of one of the.
Jada
Funniest movies was a big look.
Joe Crack the Dawn
That's a big look when you. Nobody, you coming in the game and Naughty by Nature in there. This one and that one. That lover, Dr. Dre, Nick, half a cheekbone. I was 136. I was shown here and I think another movie. I like it like that. I played like a prisoner. They had like my eyebrows and cancer. I said they gonna see it was why they should have showed my face. Because I became a big dog in the game. Yeah, you look back, that's that value. It would have aged well. Fat Joe in that. Yo, let me tell you something. I don't get high, okay? But one of my most poor out of body experiences was that where I felt I was high was in the movie Booty Call. I could not believe this shit. This shit was so hilarious. I must have watched this shit 30,000 times. And every time got funnier and funnier and funnier. You knew that shit was gonna be crazy.
Bill Bellamy
No, no, no, no. Because here's the thing. Booty Call came from a joke. Like, I did not know that Booty Call was gonna be something that's just gonna stick this 30 years ago, bro. Like, that's insane. Like, I did the first time I did the joke. And the joke came from Mike Tyson. Cause if you remember, Mike Tyson got caught up in Indiana. So I read the article when Mike was like. I just asked her to come to the room for a second. We were talking, and I'm like, at 3 in the morning? And she missed Indiana. That's a booty call, right? I said it just like that. And I said, oh, shit, I'm onto something. I went on stage and I kept playing with it till I got it dialed in right. Boom. Took off life. Crazy movie, comedy, Taco Bell commercials, foodie call. I seen this on Friends. I seen people say it on. They jacked the. Out of me.
Joe Crack the Dawn
What about the.
Bill Bellamy
I did not. Jada.
Joe Crack the Dawn
No, no, we never fattened shit. But what about the. Yesterday's pricing, today's price? I watched bank conversions. Dudes dancing and all that shit. And then I was like, yo, could we sue? We got. Sue everybody. It was like, no, sir, we don't have it. You know, you don't have that pattern. But the scene with the fucking. The Reynolds rap or the plastic. What the fuck?
Bill Bellamy
That was. That was with Jamie. That was with Jamie and Tommy Davidson, right?
Jada
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bill Bellamy
So I didn't do. I didn't do the movie. They did the movie. You came up with the term booty. I came with the term. And then what happened? I was supposed to do that movie. I chose to do Love Jones. I had just did a comedy special called Booty Call. Then the movie came out Booty Call. And I said, I want to be a dramatic actor. So I said I'm a jump off in this movie with these real actors to kind of flip it. And that's why I wasn't in that movie. But I was offered that movie.
Joe Crack the Dawn
That's almost like being a Disney star.
Jada
But how to Be a Player was still. That was my shit.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But how to Be a Player, that was good. So I went zigzag. So I went dramatic. Hollywood came back then came back with, with how to Be a Player. So that was like 95ish.
Joe Crack the Dawn
That was dope. They ain't stereotype you and just make you like. Like Fat Joe. Always been a killer in every movie. Even if. What's the chase? You saw me in night school. I'm beating a guy up, stabbing them and fucking with comedians. It's like they always want me to kill somebody. Your voice.
Bill Bellamy
But I can see you as a good chef. I was a conductor, I could see.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You as a chef.
Bill Bellamy
Nobody wants me to be a chef.
Joe Crack the Dawn
A school bus driver, nothing. It's always he's a mafia killer, something. He's a criminal, he's a dis. I can't shake this.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah. If you was a school teacher, you'd still be a killer.
Jada
You got to be willing to wear the different haircuts like Samuel.
Bill Bellamy
You gotta throw a Mexican dude that.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Every role, he's victor. He kills somebody, you say I you man. What, what's the, what's his training dream?
Bill Bellamy
I.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You what? What's the training day? The Mexican guys, they. You ever heard your pushed in, homie? I'm like the New York. You ever had your pushed in more, homie. Guess what, Joe, we got a role for you. What's that? You're a drug dealer killer. Oh really? An assassin as well. Thank you.
Bill Bellamy
Thank you very much.
Joe Crack the Dawn
10 toes down.
Bill Bellamy
10 toes down.
Joe Crack the Dawn
That shit crazy. You know he called me the greatest storyteller in here.
Bill Bellamy
Yes, sir. Hold up. You got some stories, Joe man.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I'll tell you who could take me out. See, so I wanted to do and still want to do.
Jada
I'll tell you who could take you out. Barbara Walt.
Joe Crack the Dawn
No, I want to do a stand up. Not a stand up, a one man show.
Bill Bellamy
Oh yeah.
Joe Crack the Dawn
It's all about stories in my life and I had a Segment of it which somebody's gonna steal. Now, when they hear this, where I would take. If Bill Bellamy was in attendance, I'd be like, yo, Bill, come up here and tell your Ellis story. And after you finish, I gotta come with a better one. So I had, like, Nori on the list. I had Irv Gotti, Rest in Peace, on the list. All the greatest storytellers. And I was gonna go like, they tell a story like Rick Ross. Yo, Rick Ross came to the studio one time. He had just had that heart scare. He had something with his heart, right? And for some reason, he called us. And the first place he wanted to come was Cool and Dre studio. I don't know why. So he shows up, and we're chilling, and we just.
Jada
There.
Joe Crack the Dawn
And he just goes, fentanyl. You touch it. I don't understand. From the jungles of Mexico. Maybe sentinel plastic ain't enough. You smell through the plastic. You had to. I'm trying to. The minute that man stopped, I said, sample, sample, sample. He looked at me like, oh, shit. I said, sample. I said, yo, it's like 88. We used to walk down the block and tell the dolphin, sample, sample, sample. They come and I throw it in the air, and they'll dive like pigeons, y'. All. I don't know why I try to one up everybody in every story ever.
Bill Bellamy
Joe, I don't know. I think you are one of the greatest storytellers. Cause you just been in this shit so long, and you got good stuff. You got.
Jada
Isn't it about timing?
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yeah, it is.
Bill Bellamy
But you gotta think, Joe, for hip hop. Joe been around every single person.
Jada
You need a cabin with a fireplace, with a flannel, with snow outside. Yo, just telling hip hop and gangster stories.
Bill Bellamy
Yo, yo, yo, the one that had me in tears when you said you wanted to meet Bruno Mars because you heard he was Puerto Rican.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yo, that had me crazy producing this shit last night at the Harbor View. He ain't want the ball feed. Like he didn't want it. He knew it. He ain't want that. But that Bruno Mars crazy, huh?
Bill Bellamy
Yo, Bruno Mars is so fucking funny because I didn't see the punchline coming. I'm thinking Bruno Mars, Filipino. Like, I'm in la. I thought Bruno Mars was Filipino. I did not know he was 1000% Puerto Rican.
Joe Crack the Dawn
He was both.
Bill Bellamy
He both. Okay.
Jada
But I didn't know he was more the other one. Cause he didn't give you no love. But he quad.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I think we did something. I think we did something to his dad or somebody in a relative who was very bad guys talk to him.
Jada
They beat up his father.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I don't know the lies. I would go to White Castle, somebody say something. I said, smack his cheek off. Like in the two in the morning. Everybody waiting for White Castle. I turn around and finish the onion rings. Trying to hit me with the yellow.
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Joe Crack the Dawn
Ah, the flag. But my point is, what's up, Joe? When he. The way he reacted, I said, we must have somebody did terrorist cross a bit. But, you know. But yeah, that's one of them.
Bill Bellamy
I got it.
Jada
So you said.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You said.
Bill Bellamy
You want me to tell you a crazy story.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I need a straw. I need a stroke.
Bill Bellamy
I got one for you. I don't know. I don't think I ever told this one. So I'm brand new. I'm coming up in a game. I'm on mtb. So I'm hosting this, like, showcase. Puff is there. I don't know Big yet. Big is brand new. I want to say it's Webster hall, but I'm not sure where it's at. So Puff comes up to me and I'm hosting a joint. He's like, yo, man, this is when they was calling them Notorious BIG he wasn't Biggie yet. He was just Notorious BIG and they something legally came. He couldn't say that name. He had to become Biggie. Whatever.
Jada
Case in point, he switched Biggie to Notorious, right?
Joe Crack the Dawn
He was Biggie first.
Bill Bellamy
He was Biggie first.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Benny Swiss and Notorious B. I G. You with me?
Bill Bellamy
All right. That's where we at. So, you know, when you host and they come up with you with a little bit of, you know, information, they write it down and say, this is my man. New artist right here. You know, make sure this shit gonna get crazy, but don't bug out. Gonna get crazy, but don't bug out. So I don't know that Big got this song called partying bullshit. And so 50 come on stage and I'm thinking, it's a riot, but it's a part of the song. And so I'm hosting and I'm about. Give it up.
Jada
Oh, he thought it popped.
Bill Bellamy
Did you run out the back door?
Joe Crack the Dawn
Did you run out the back door?
Bill Bellamy
No, but it was so crazy because I was like, yo, what the fuck? I'm hosting it. It's a Rio. They was like throwing each other around and pushing this party.
Joe Crack the Dawn
And.
Bill Bellamy
And I'm like, yo, this is. Cause I'm about to die. Like a right? And then after the song was on, everybody left. But in that moment, it was like a mosh pit. Did you ever see that live?
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Jada
A fight and then the song comes back. Yeah.
Bill Bellamy
And they had it in the movie. But the guy that was in the movie, to me, it was actually me. That was me doing that scene. That was that. That scene in the movie came from that moment.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I was in Lebanon.
Bill Bellamy
Just Lebanon.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I was in Lebanon, right? I had a show. That's when they call me Ali Kashani. Salam alaikum. All my people, I do a show in Lebanon. It's so incredible. I come back to this hotel, right? When I come back, three guys stand up like synchronized swimming. Fajo, My brother Salaka. How you doing? The guys, the guys are waiting for you. Oh, the guys, they want to shoot rockets with you. I said, huh? The Taliban, they love you. They wait. I said, my got this tight. Okay, Okay. I met the Taliban, right? The Taliban.
Bill Bellamy
You bullshit.
Joe Crack the Dawn
No. So I told him, hey, hey, my plane's already leaving this. I get upstairs, I grab them bags so fast. I went to the airport like 1 in the morning. This ain't take off to 10 in the morning. Like, I ran to the airport.
Bill Bellamy
You was that. You was real pre check.
Joe Crack the Dawn
The real Taliban shoot rockets with them. Came through, was like, yo, shoot rockets out of you. Yo. I ran so fast to that airport. I was like, let's go, let's go. And everybody knew. They heard that. They was like, yo, we out of here. That let's go.
Bill Bellamy
Right?
Joe Crack the Dawn
We stood in the airport overnight, just shook to death.
Jada
It was down with you.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Why you that land up? Look anyway, that's one. Yo, we got one.
Bill Bellamy
Hey, I got another one for you. So this is another one. This is a big story.
Joe Crack the Dawn
We on the stoop.
Bill Bellamy
Can I give you this one?
Joe Crack the Dawn
I want to hear it.
Bill Bellamy
I don't think I ever told this one. So we in, we in Lake Havasu. We're doing. Remember Lake Havasu? Didn't you do it? Remember when we did the spring break?
Joe Crack the Dawn
Spring break?
Jada
I think you was there.
Bill Bellamy
You was there. It was like 92. I'm thinking roughly 90.
Jada
No, 94.
Bill Bellamy
94.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Ain't even have the bounty around his head now. Yeah, he ain't had no bounty.
Bill Bellamy
So get this. So big is on now. Nobody knows Big cannot swim. So I don't know if you remember this shit. We had the pods on the water, right? So in Lake Havasu. This is my first time going to Arizona. I get there, they tie off the boats and they party. From boat to boat to boat. Bunch of white kids, they having a good time. They drink as hot than a motherfucker, right? And so Big had to be on the pod. So I'm standing there and Big's like.
Jada
Bud, how the fuck up a good.
Bill Bellamy
Old that pod, nigga? I said, what's the problem?
Jada
It was like, nigga, I can't swim, nigga.
Bill Bellamy
With my fat ass falling that water, nigga. I was, swear to God. And I was like, yo, Big, they not gonna let you fall in the water.
Jada
It was like, nah, man, I gotta do my shit online, Boo Goo.
Bill Bellamy
But they had them floating. I don't know you. I think you was there. There was some Big go back and look. I cannot make this up. I don't know how they hypnotized him like a team to get Big on that pod. Cause he was terrified of falling in the water. That just popped up.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You wanna know who's crazy, right? So I was going to tell you.
Bill Bellamy
He got one?
Joe Crack the Dawn
No, no, I actually don't have one, but I'm going to tell you about one. Okay, listen. Somebody can put Fat Joe out of business in the storytelling game. I'm watching one day on Instagram, and Will Smith decided to tell a story.
Bill Bellamy
Okay?
Joe Crack the Dawn
He said, man, I'm hosting the BET Awards. Everything beautiful. This one and that one's there. He said Michael Jackson was in the audience. He said, all of a sudden, it turned into a riot. He said his whole life he wanted to meet Michael Jackson. Will Smith want to beat Michael. So he said they rushed him out on his security. And he said they threw him in a closet. He said he was in the closet, it was pitch black. And he was in there like, you know, the whole place was wild. And he heard a voice. He said it was Michael Jackson. They threw him in the same closet. He's like, hey, Will. Will turned around and was like, huh? He didn't even know what to say. He said, yo, I met everybody in the world I could. He didn't even know what to say. He said, oh, Mike. Mike said, that guy shook 90s messing it up again. How many know? He got so much fun. When I saw that shit, oh, my God. It was like I knew Fat Joe. Storytelling days is over. When I seen Will Smith tell us story, he's like, all right, well, it's time to go. I was like, yo, don't let this man start telling stories.
Jada
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Let's get to it.
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Bill Bellamy
But we have all been through stuff that. This is the beauty of hip hop, to me, that, you know, is so amazing. We have had the pleasure of being in the circle of so many talented people, Right? The era is never coming back. Thank God we're alive to tell the stories. Because the young people can't go back and meet Michael Jackson. They can't go back and meet Big. Can't go back and meet Tupac. You know what I'm saying? Like, I've had. You've had. I mean, golly, we can go on for days. Because they're like little movies in our mind. Like, you make me think of stuff that I wouldn't think of. Cause I'm just sitting here talking to you, and you're like, oh, that reminds me of Boom Boom Boom.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yeah, that's crazy. But, you know, I never met mj. What was it like meeting Michael Jackson?
Jada
I never met him.
Joe Crack the Dawn
That's the one.
Jada
What? Remind me in the Wynter Hotel.
Joe Crack the Dawn
No way. You saw him?
Jada
Yeah, like this.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You.
Bill Bellamy
Yo, when I interviewed Michael Jackson, right? And I'mma tell you right now, I was so nervous because Michael Jackson was the only artist to ever debut his video on every network simultaneously. I don't know if you remember that. You remember that? It was. And I was the guy in the middle of Times Square. Get ready for the history. Blah, blah, blah, blah. That was me. I was right in the middle of time Square.
Jada
Remember the time, though.
Bill Bellamy
No, it was. It was Scream. Remember History? Scream with him and Janet.
Jada
Yeah.
Bill Bellamy
Which blew up. So check this out. So I'm at Sony Music, and they like, yo, Mike, coming in. Be ready. It's gonna be open.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Well, that's about the worst thing they could do to people like, yo, Mike's coming.
Bill Bellamy
Yo, Mike. Yo. Like, you see how this is a bunch of people in here? Just imagine this times two for Michael Jackson. Security Publicist, his team, the record label Team Mike was rolling heavy. I will never forget. This is how I realized Michael Jackson's biggest star in the world, right? Mike had to go to the bathroom. Yo, they went in the bathroom. It was a dude on the toilet. My man was like, break it off, fam. My man was like, I'm not done. He said, I'm not done. He said, you done? Boom, boom, the door. My man had to wipe his ass. Get out.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I told you that story about got 5,001. He said his daughter called him or said, now pop is Joe capping. My man got 5001, the designer, they took. They. Rodney Jerk is telling me, yo, come down to Hit Factory, right? You gonna do some shit for Michael. Michael Jackson, right? So he gets Poppy. Shout out to Poppy. Me Dominicano. He gets Papi, who's with him. He says, yo, Poppy, we going downtown. We're going to meet somebody really, really, really, really famous. He said. He said, r. Kelly. He said, no, it's not R. Kelly. He says, more famous. So guys in the studio, and nobody's there yet. So guy said, yo, I'm gonna use the bathroom. He said he went to use the bathroom. And that shit happened. They started looking. They was like, you come in now. He was taking a piss. MJ walked in. He said he pissed on himself, got 5001 and ran out. He didn't. And he was like, yo, Poppy, let's go. Poppy was like, yo, but what's the matter? This. This. He was telling him, be careful. He pissed on himself and ran out the bit.
Bill Bellamy
But he was Michael.
Joe Crack the Dawn
He missed all of it. He ran. He was embarrassed. He pissed on himself, bro.
Bill Bellamy
Michael Jackson. Security was heavy, bro. And here's the thing. So I'm the host. I got all these questions and shit, right? I got like 20 questions that I think every fan would want to ask Michael Jackson. They looked at that list, they was like, he gonna answer this? This?
Jada
Yeah.
Bill Bellamy
They killed my whole list. I was sitting there like, wonk, Won't.
Jada
Won't.
Bill Bellamy
That's when Sony Music. That's when Tommy Mottola, you know that era of. Yeah, they was the Mob at that point. My bad.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Now you pointing that feet. That's my guy. Tommy Mottola, man. Listen. That's your guy. Everybody come up here and call it the Mob. Yo, Mottola's killing people, everything. He's my friend, man.
Bill Bellamy
He's your buddy. I was. I never.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You know, I saved Tommy Mottola.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, right.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Tommy, you told me I could say this story when it happened.
Bill Bellamy
Go ahead, Joe.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Tommy Mottola invites me to breakfast upstate, right? So we drive up there. He probably the only motherfucker that could get me up there like that. So he says, yo, let's go eat breakfast. And me and up Rich go up there. He lives over there. Where did Remy do the time at? What's that? Jail? Beacon? Nah, she did it upstate.
Jada
No, she was in Girls. No, it was only one.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yeah, she was in Bethel Hill. Right, right. By the way, besides that jail, it is beautiful up there, right? Drop dead gorgeous trees. Bastards. The point is, I go in this place, Tommy orders this big pancake.
Jada
We Eating.
Joe Crack the Dawn
And he starts choking. He starts choking like you gave him the high. I was about to give him the hot. Listen, I'm like, tommy, are you okay? Tommy, are you okay? I'm like, yo, Rich. Tommy, are you okay? He's like, the. Was choking to death. I was, we gotta give him the Heimlich. Then the finally went down. He said, hold up, Joe. I said, tommy, you almost died on us. I was about to give you the H. You said, yeah, you could tell a story if you want, Joe, you saved Tommy. Ven it.
Bill Bellamy
This.
Joe Crack the Dawn
That almost died in front of me. The man was choking.
Bill Bellamy
No, if you don't put enough.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Not the regular choking.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, that get caught in your throat.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I swear to God. That man was like. I was like. But Tommy, he was like, you know.
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Bill Bellamy
You never really.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I was like, yo, Tommy. He was like. He was like, yo. I was like, yo, Tommy, are you sure? Are you okay? Yo, Rich. I'm looking at Rich. I think the Heimlich. You know how to do the. He was going. He was fucked up. And I'm like, no way. Fucking Tommy Mottola is gonna die. Tommy Mottola?
Jada
That's the song we sing.
Joe Crack the Dawn
No, not with Fat Joe. I'm like, yo, the craziest we have. I was like, this is the real deal. I got scared to death. I'm catching anxiety explaining it to you. It was the real.
Bill Bellamy
It was the real deal.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I swear to God, it was the real deal. But I'mma tell you the craziest. The craziest is we leave Tommy. Tommy's going in his car. I don't know what it was a Bayback, Something fucking incredible. And the man turned around, he said, hey, I know you like to tell stories, Gab. Fucking tell a story. You say, tommy Bentola's. He killed me, jumped in the car.
Bill Bellamy
Oh, my man Jada crying.
Joe Crack the Dawn
God damn. He hit me with the cap of the cop. He was like, I know you like telling stories. Go ahead, tell him how you save time, even tell her get out of here. Gets in the car, breaks out. I'm like, you hurt me, huh? Yo, that really do. Look, I'm not. We can't demand.
Jada
What was he doing?
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yo, I'm trying to tell people this really happened. Like he said. I'm like. I said, yo, I said, tommy, are you okay? Now I'm scared to fucking death.
Jada
Tommy, I love you.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I don't want Tommy Lotola, but I don't eat Tommy. I don't want Tommy Mottola to die on you. In front of Fat Joe. So I'm like, I'm terrified.
Jada
What was Rich gonna do?
Joe Crack the Dawn
Rich was standing there. He might know the Heimlich. Rich was sitting there. I said, yo, Rich, do you know the Heimlich? He was. And you know, Tommy's. Tommy's like a real.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, he's a real dude.
Joe Crack the Dawn
He's a real deal.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah.
Joe Crack the Dawn
The last thing he wants is the Heimlich.
Bill Bellamy
And he definitely don't want mouth to mouth, recessive.
Joe Crack the Dawn
He don't want the Heimlich. Tommy don't want the Heimlich. So he's dealing with it on his own time.
Jada
Let me get something.
Joe Crack the Dawn
He's coordinating it. That hurt me.
Bill Bellamy
Over here.
Jada
Kill me, Bill.
Joe Crack the Dawn
No, no, he's coordinating this. Like, he's trying to figure out how I'm gonna get. Tommy's a real deal. Yo, Jada, you crying? God.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, he said, it's funny, bro.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I love you, Tommy. Tommy, I want to be like you when I grow up.
Jada
What was he doing? One more time.
Joe Crack the Dawn
No, you gotta.
Bill Bellamy
No, no, no.
Joe Crack the Dawn
It's not a laughing matter. What I'm trying to tell you is I was scared to death.
Jada
Show me what he was doing.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You thought it was funny.
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Jada
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Joe Crack the Dawn
If you thought that was the. You thought that was one of the funniest shits I ever said. Eddie Murphy never threw the red leather suit on, though.
Jada
What was he doing?
Joe Crack the Dawn
He was. Yo, I was scared. I was terrified. I'm telling y' all about a real story in life. Y' all missing the funniest point in the whole.
Jada
Yo, nothing funny.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You missing the whole.
Jada
All right, go ahead down off that.
Joe Crack the Dawn
The man is all the way stable. He's good. I walk him to the car. You know, Tommy Matola's the don.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I walk up to the car, brand new Maybach. I never got money with him either. He's just my guy. But he went into some fly ass car, he turned around, he said, all right. Dang, I know you like to tell stories. Tell him how you fucking saved Tommy Bitolo. Go ahead, Joe. Tell your story. So right, Tom, I t. He pulled off, man, I saw this one. I'm saving this for Bill Bella. Yo, bro, that was a great one, man.
Jada
That would have killed me if I was there.
Bill Bellamy
Oh, my God.
Jada
You just reenacted and it's killed.
Joe Crack the Dawn
No, no, but you're not listening. I was really scared. Like, I'm not trying to tell you I was terrified. I don't want nobody die in front.
Bill Bellamy
Of me, let alone Tommy Mato.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Tommy, you know what kind of.
Jada
It wasn't with Tommy Mottola.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Who was it with?
Jada
One of my bands from my block.
Joe Crack the Dawn
He caught the Heimlich.
Jada
You can't catch the Hind Nick joke. Nah, he went.
Bill Bellamy
He had some. He had a seizure, some.
Jada
It was somewhere that mixed with something. Like. He went. I lost him. He was driving. No, no, no. I lost him for a minute. Like, he.
Joe Crack the Dawn
He left for me driving.
Jada
Listen, he come. He used to drive me home. I used to give him bread to drive me to the crib. So he come pick me up one day. He go get the apple juice. He come out. He like, yo, you ready, man? I'm ready now. We going over the hill. We going to get on the sawmill. We're going to get on the spraying, I think, and we go wild. Got a lot of ills. Like San Fran, right? He'd go over, come down. Now, out of. No way, he buses a U and goes back up. I'm like, this is GPS telling me, with traffic over, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt now. He starts, like, talking about the 86 bets. He starts blacking out. He's not dead now. I'm like, oh, Lord. Please, Lord. Look, he's on. He's in the driver's side, though. Crime in the passage now praying 75 our fathers Bismillahs. I'm doing everything. I'm scared. Yeah, like you. This is worse than Tommy because he's on the wheel. You over pancakes. He's on a wheel, right? Me look. And he start going like he's talking gibberish.
Bill Bellamy
Oh, my God.
Jada
I'm saying, please, Lord. I'm looking at him. I'm looking at the thing to put it in park. I'm saying, me eye contact, Dave apart. I call his name one times loud. Yo. Now he's came back. Yo, kids, what's up? Boom. As soon as he did that, me pop. Soon as I threw it in park, he stepped on the gas. He would have. He would have went into the building.
Bill Bellamy
Are you kidding me?
Jada
Now people honking and they seeing it's me. Yo, kids, you all hide me. I'm trying to. Yeah.
Bill Bellamy
Good.
Jada
I'm really not, though. Boom. I get out. I go around. I get him out. Unbuckle his seat belt. Put them. Get them out the car. Put them in the passenger. Get in now. I'm trying to. Like, he going in and out. Hey, yo, what's your wife's number?
Joe Crack the Dawn
Hospital.
Jada
Miss you. Listen, what's your wife. What's your wife? Keep asking him. His wife's Number. Then he finally got it. I took him to his wife. I struggled, wiped his sweater. I was half. I was disconbobbulated. And then. But he didn't know at the end.
Joe Crack the Dawn
He was probably having a short wife.
Jada
He didn't know enough.
Bill Bellamy
He didn't know what that you said, the apple juice.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I thought maybe it would be like a diabetic.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah.
Jada
Yeah. Maybe now he got some other. You know, a lot of people, even with my mom. Oh, shout out to St. John's the nurses on the fifth floor and the eighth floor. Yeah. A lot of times when you go, when you don't take your medicine, it could cause like a.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Some take your medicine.
Jada
You got to take your medicine.
Joe Crack the Dawn
That's one of the biggest killers is when. When people need. You're diabetic, but you still want to act like you're not diabetic.
Jada
Yeah.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You're not taking. That's what my brother up. He walking around like he ain't diabetic. I'm like, yo, June, did you take your medicine? You're diabetic. That ain't over here. You all type of cakes. And I went to what we did the 50th anniversary of hip hop in Yankee Stadium. I went to. We had a suite.
Jada
Yeah.
Joe Crack the Dawn
So my brother's diabetic. The guy who takes care of him is diabetic. I walk up in that, they having cakes and regular. So I'm like. I'm looking down like, yo, these. These dudes want to die.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, yeah.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Shout out to Thor. They trying to kill himself. I sat next to my brother. I said I was so happy that day, but I sat next to him. I was like, I see yo, Joe. He was like, yo, what's up, Joe? I was like, what the you doing drinking Pepsis and cake.
Bill Bellamy
And cake.
Joe Crack the Dawn
No, he was on it, on it, on it, on it, on it, on it. And did you know that's the worst thing you could do is, like, lie to yourself? Like, you take your medicine, man. It's a lot of people like that. There's people like that are bipolar. Yeah, right. That they don't like how the medicine feels. And then they don't take the medicine and they. And they bugged the out.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You know, you was shook, boy. I would have been shook. Yeah.
Bill Bellamy
But you knew something was wrong. Yeah.
Jada
He went out on me, started talking about the.
Joe Crack the Dawn
He started talking JD9 Mets and like that.
Jada
It was crazy.
Joe Crack the Dawn
He started going to the hip.
Jada
And he hit the gas.
Joe Crack the Dawn
That boy Kiss was trying to. Yo, this is a art he had to figure out where to throw that on park.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, he was looking. He was looking. But you need that moment.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Okay, at what time am I gonna do the.
Bill Bellamy
Save my life. You saved your life on this.
Joe Crack the Dawn
And dive over, put the on pause.
Jada
Soon as I threw it in park.
Joe Crack the Dawn
His wife knew he was bugged out floor when you brought him.
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Jada
He was at a thing. He ain't bugged.
Joe Crack the Dawn
But she knew he had the thing.
Jada
Yeah, she took it.
Bill Bellamy
Well, if he was doing the apple juice, I'm gonna say he was diabetic. So he's probably going in the shot low. There's low blood sugar, so he. So he was. His coherency was probably off because he's doing the apple juice, probably to bring the sugar level.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I'm diabetic. One time that shit happened to me. Because when you take your medicine, you gotta eat. Yo. Diabetes is a trick, man. The fucking insulin. If you don't eat, then you go into a coma. So you gotta eat. So it's almost like it keeps you fat. But that's not the point. The point is I take the medicine. I'm going to the. Thank you, sir. Yeah, I'm on my way to a restaurant and then at that point my sugar drops, right? And sometimes you don't even know how to tell people. So I had to run in the store or get an orange juice. But that was feeling. That's probably one of the worst feelings I ever.
Bill Bellamy
Because it's too much sugar.
Joe Crack the Dawn
No, no, no, this was low. Once I drank the orange juice, I was okay. But when it dropped. That's one of them feelings. If you're not diabetic.
Jada
Nobody. They can't.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You do not want.
Jada
Drop it.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Or, you know, I mean, you do not want that. That shit is some real shit, you know what I'm saying? Tell us about the Christmas joint you got going on.
Bill Bellamy
Oh, okay. It's called Worst Christmas Ever. It's a comedy. It's family, you know what I'm saying? It's a clean cut movie, but it's about love, you know, it's about a guy who, you know is going through a divorce during the holidays. And he's trying to decide if, you know, can you get the family together for the sake of the holiday and, you know, we gotta make the right choice. Family over everything, you know what I'm saying? The kids are coming in and the feelings is weird because the wife is moving on and he ain't moving on yet. So I think it's a really fun vibe. And Then also, there's a lot of comedy. And then obviously, you know, I do that. I do that very well, man.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Let me tell you something. How do you feel about. You've been with your wife 24 years. How do you feel about your wife, all her friends getting divorced and they sitting down together talking that divorced, that misery, love. Keep that over there.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah. You know, to me, I think what you just.
Joe Crack the Dawn
She come back, like, she fully charged with that arrows. All type of rockets, ain't they all?
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Joe Crack the Dawn
Yes.
Jada
This getting divorced, it's epidemic.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, it's. It's tough, man. Like, to me, I think stay away from. The thing is, is just keep your. Keep your. Your house private, bro. You know what I'm saying? You can. Like, I'm very select about what I'm putting on social media, what I'm letting access get to. Because once you start putting people in your house, they in your house.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yeah.
Bill Bellamy
And they start affecting. Yeah. They get to change the attitude of your house or the altitude of your house. Right? And so to me, I think private should be private. Like, I hate how people put so much personal stuff on social media. Like, if me and Jada got a beef, I'm gonna talk to Jada. I'm not gonna go on social media and then say something, and then Jada gotta go on, then come back. I'm old school. I'm like, yo, we on some man shit. Like, yo, man, I thought. And it might not even be an issue. It might be some misunderstanding he ain't even seen. Now it turned into something. Cause Jada cousin called yo Bill talking reckless. You see what I'm saying? It just keep building.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Let me tell you something. They offered me all types of money to have, like, a reality show, but I knew I wouldn't have a wife after one season.
Bill Bellamy
Nah, nah.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Cause you know, I'm the type. I go, yeah, you know, this, this, that. And I walk away. Be like, bitch, like that shit on camera.
Bill Bellamy
Oh, yeah, you done. You.
Radio DJ
You done.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You cooked like you cooked. You do that shit to yourself. You know, you walk away. Yo, yo, what happened? You know, the. I'm done.
Bill Bellamy
You done cooked.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yeah, right. And that's when the cousins get involved.
Bill Bellamy
And everyone starts having, you know, opinions about your personal life. Right?
Joe Crack the Dawn
And to me, kill love.
Bill Bellamy
It kills love. But also, too. It's. You know, I think as men, you know, I think we have to protect the crib. You feel me? And then you get a chance to create your home how you want your home. You do your job, you Go out, you be the best Joe, you be the best Janet. Then you come home and then you be the best at home. Right? But they can't be blended.
Jada
It's no different than Schwarzenegger or. I mean, it's your job.
Bill Bellamy
And you go home.
Jada
When I go home, I'm Jason.
Bill Bellamy
There you go.
Jada
I'm saying.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Yeah, but Swanson, you don't got.
Bill Bellamy
Yeah, but he was knocking the bait off, I thought that's what I mean.
Jada
Yeah.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I mean, he was Milagros.
Jada
He told you. I'll be back.
Bill Bellamy
Okay. Yeah, yeah. I think after. Hey, Joe, you left your money, man. You going to the strip club.
Jada
You know, he good. I got. Oh, he dropped the. He dropped him a laws on.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I thought it was this.
Jada
I didn't see when he dropped Bottega Tony over there. Holy.
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Jada
Oh, look, I see it.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I put everything like this.
Jada
I thought he dropped something light. I buck a hole before he dropped a Mickey Rudy. Oh, I thought I was the only one who came outside with those. He got the Mickey Rooney.
Bill Bellamy
He paid for everything. Cash. Yeah, drop the Mickey Root all your money right there.
Jada
She just dropped your wallet. I looked over there. You dropped the whole bow tent. I thought you just dropped that. You dropped it.
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Jada
You going to the Moniker and. No, he cheating.
Joe Crack the Dawn
No, no, I ain't going like this. I'm going on some Monica.
Jada
I know.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You told me, Andy. I look like I'm in the Swiss watch. I'm gonna look like.
Bill Bellamy
Isn't that tonight?
Joe Crack the Dawn
That's tonight. I've been waiting a whole year for that. Then I was trying to figure out how I'm gonna bum rush or sneak in. See, if you would have with my.
Jada
Wife, I would have did it with me. And you could have did it perform together. It made it much more easy, bro.
Joe Crack the Dawn
So the point is, I've been dying to go. I was going no matter what, but I have no seats. And then they called me and said, yo, yo, we want you to perform. And I said, that's even. I wanted to sneak in my wife or best friends and like that Fat Joe performing live. But I'm coming in there looking like a mother. A movie up in that.
Bill Bellamy
You gonna go get it.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Because the story is 20 years from now, they're gonna be like one. One time during the holidays, Granny and Monica was on tour and they went to Brooklyn and they brought out Fat.
Bill Bellamy
Joe and boy, yeah, you gotta do it.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Did he come out in that white cocaine Fendi fur laser looking like he's floating in that. You know What I'm saying, yeah, you.
Bill Bellamy
Got to do it.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You don't. It got to be like that.
Bill Bellamy
That's an everlasting moment.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Dude with the goggles on. Him coming with the goggles and.
Bill Bellamy
Oh, that's how you're doing it now.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I'm acting up. That's why, you know, I brought out the, you know, artillery, you know what I'm saying? We gotta shine.
Bill Bellamy
You're a fly dude though, Joe. I give you a flowers, man. You always had a. A crazy swag about yourself.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Listen, Eddie Murphy, have you seen the documentary?
Bill Bellamy
No, I have not. I'll have to. Everybody says phenomenal. Everybody says phenomenal again.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Anything with Eddie Murphy. Any stories with Eddie Murphy? Because I'm like, like I'm on the Eddie Murphy man. I did not realize how much I loved him till I seen this doctor. You know, I'm the guy they threw out of the movie theater when war came out.
Jada
Oh, I was about to say. I thought he was about to say they wanted him for 48 hours.
Bill Bellamy
I thought he was about to say that shit too.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Let me tell you something. Eddie Murphy raw. The whole project, it was a hundred of us. And I'm talking about derelict bums. We all, we at that adolescent bum, right? Guys sneaking in the movie theater with 40 ounces and all that.
Jada
All of that.
Joe Crack the Dawn
We 40 like is the most ghetto pissed smelling movie theater you ever seen in your life.
Bill Bellamy
I got a quick hitting all the.
Joe Crack the Dawn
100 of them, right? I'm the only guy got thrown out the movie. I was laughing. I'm a.
Jada
No.
Joe Crack the Dawn
You laugh too.
Jada
Closets smoking. Me and Styles, they kick this up. What? Me, Styles and Cage, they kicked us out. We woke up cracked. The whole Bay Plaza was empty. The movie theaters, the parking lot, every.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Y' all was hot.
Jada
Open the door. That means people had to see us sleeping on the staircase. All of that. We opened the door and y' all.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Was already the last. Y' all was already the last.
Jada
It was. We didn't have an album out yet.
Joe Crack the Dawn
No.
Jada
We was about to be popping and then we. Our dudes came around one last time. But they was about to go home. The whole was empty. It was. No more workers, no more people there.
Bill Bellamy
God damn.
Joe Crack the Dawn
That's not Poppy Buddha. You smoke that? Let me tell you something. I'm in the house with smoking and they smoking so much. And that second hand smoke is real because I'm watching BET and they got my man. What was my man? Lavelle Crawford. Lavelle Crawford. The man looked like a human m. M yeah, he had some suit on. He was so fat. His head looked like. I thought the Eminem was talking to me. Like Eminem and Peanut. Yeah, I thought this was the Eminem and Peanut talking to me. He was like, you know, crack is a hell of a drug. You talk. I was like.
Jada
That wasn't weak. That's not me.
Joe Crack the Dawn
I never smoked. But I'm telling you, it was like you in the studio and 20 guys are smoking. I'm looking at him, he looked like a human Eminem. He had a suit on, his head was like crack. You know, I'm tired of smoking crack. I did. Yo, this was the funniest shit ever seen in my life. Yo. Bill Bellamy, thank you, man. This ain't that.
Jada
That ain't this. It's cracking. Kiss, make some noise for our guests.
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Thank y', all, man. I love y', all, man.
Joe Crack the Dawn
Appreciate you Legendary brother.
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Joe Crack the Dawn
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Release Date: December 2, 2025
Host: Joe Crack the Dawn (Fat Joe), Jada (Jadakiss)
Guest: Bill Bellamy
This episode of The Herd, hosted by Fat Joe and Jadakiss, features legendary comedian and actor Bill Bellamy. The trio dives deep into iconic stories about Bill's rise in comedy during the hip hop golden era, interactions with the likes of Notorious B.I.G., Michael Jackson, Martin Lawrence, and Eddie Murphy, and reflects on the intersections between comedy, hip hop, and Black culture. The episode is energetic, candid, and packed with one-up storytelling, both hilarious and poignant.
Jada shares a dramatic diabetic episode where he needed to pull a friend’s car out of traffic mid-health crisis.
The conversation emphasizes the importance of managing health—especially in diabetes—within the community, and not lying to yourself about medical conditions. (50:01–53:06)
On the golden era of comedy:
“There’ll never be another class better than us. We dream team... It was like so many funny.”
—Bill Bellamy (07:19)
On Martin Lawrence:
“I don’t think people give Martin Lawrence his flowers the way they should. There was nobody funnier than Martin Lawrence on Def Comedy Jam.”
—Bill Bellamy (09:18)
On storytelling:
“Joe, I don’t know. I think you are one of the greatest storytellers. Cause you just been in this shit so long, and you got good stuff.”
—Bill Bellamy (21:46)
On coining 'booty call':
“I read the article when Mike [Tyson] was like, ‘I just asked her to come to the room for a second. ... At 3 in the morning? That’s a booty call, right?’ ... Next thing you know, I got a little small role in Who’s the Man...”
—Bill Bellamy (16:27)
On Michael Jackson’s security:
“Yo, Mike. Yo. ... Mike had to go to the bathroom. Yo, they went in the bathroom. It was a dude on the toilet. My man was like, ‘Break it off, fam’... My man had to wipe his ass, get out.”
—Bill Bellamy (38:01–38:36)
On reality TV and marriage:
“They offered me all types of money to have a reality show, but I knew I wouldn’t have a wife after one season.”
—Fat Joe (55:14)
The episode is lively, raw, and unapologetically honest, blending streetwise wisdom, nostalgic storytelling, and side-splitting humor. The camaraderie is palpable; every story one-ups the last, often with punchlines and vivid details from the speakers’ personal experiences in hip hop and comedy.
You don’t need to know every reference to enjoy this episode: it’s about the art of living large, laughing louder, and outlasting adversity—with every story illustrating just how intertwined comedy and hip hop are in shaping the culture, and how the OGs keep those stories alive for new generations.