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Met the man is there we in a cipher Is one of them conferences he pull that yo was pop. That's how I met Tupac Shakur.
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What's up, y' all? It's your boy Jada.
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It's Big Joe. Crack the dawn.
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Hip hop is definitely not hip hop. Being an artist, being a hip hop artist, producer, whatever, what have you, is very dangerous. Definitely one of the top, most dangerous jobs you can have.
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Your shit is top five, dead or alive. You know, I be seeing guys out there fishing for lobsters and, and dudes doing. Putting tar on the floor in Phoenix in 100 degrees.
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Why you gotta be. So what we.
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I'm trying to paint the picture, some serious jobs out there. But tar on the floor, Phoenix, top.
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On the floor, it's hot as fucking Phoenix.
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The worst job I ever seen. It was Phoenix, 130 degrees, and the guy was dressed like a hot dog. And he had. Here we go again. The man had a hot dog suit on. It must have been AC in there, because, yo, listen, he was flipping. You know how they do the arrow. Like, yo, hot dogs this way. Yo, I'm telling you, that was a dangerous job to me. It's so hot in Phoenix. I see the, the, the. The steam coming up off the floor. And I looked at the guy with the hot dog uniform. I say, yo, my man. Like, this is. It's some crazy jobs out there, right? Some law enforcement to say they got the hardest job. People shooting at them every day, whatever the case. But hip hop, you know, they bring you up, they glorify you, break you down, break you down. And then. And then the hate sets in. And what I've known in my studies of hip hop with violence is you and me, maybe you a little bit less because, you know, you wanted the most loved rappers in the world. But the chances are we'll be murdered in Yonkers or in the Bronx before Compton or Chicago or something like that. It's always where you from, where people think they know you that much. And they got the real jealousy and envy. You see Nipsey Hussle, the guy who killed him, he's in pictures standing behind Nipsey Hussle. We could do that with all the hip hop. Jam Master Jay was set up by his own friends, right? So what is it that where you from? And we go, you, you represent Yonkers across the world. We represent that. I represent the Bronx to the moon. Why is it they want to kill me in the Bronx more than anywhere else? Why they want to do it to you? Where you from?
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I think throughout, all the hate you can receive is none more than where you came from. I mean, as much as they love you, they hate you, I think, 10 times more because they feel like they really know you. Opposed to other demographics of the world. You know what I mean? There's dudes in the BX that's like, huh, I know that before you, when he was just regular Joey or whatever it is. And then that, that sets in and it turns into a thing that keeps growing. It's like a hate cancer. And then it spreads. And then it. You know what I mean? And then I know what it is. Because as much as they see people happy for you, that makes the hate cancer spread even more. And then they able to spread it to some other dudes that feel like that. And then it gets. It stays crazy. Funerals, though. A couple funerals. Couple. Couple murals. Shits like, yeah, a couple murals, couple funerals. Mummy raps like that. And then they get. It goes back down a little, you.
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Know, I start with Scott Larock. I was just a teenager.
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Rest in peace to Scarlet Rock.
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I was just a teenager playing basketball. I was in my grandmother's block on Washington Avenue, the 9. And it just was like this. Before Instagram guys, before social media, and it was just like, yo, yo, Scott Larock got shot. He got killed. Scott LaRock. BDP was everything to me. And yeah, we grew up violent, but that hurt me because I was like, these was the guys putting on for our neighborhood and couldn't believe somebody killed them. Senseless murder. Which was the one that out of all the hip hop, which is the one that got you, and you was like, wow. Like, I can't believe this happened.
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By far. For me, it's big. My first time the locks it was our first time in LA when Big got killed.
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So y' all was out there, he.
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Was at the party. We was with him before. The day before we, you know, we was in. It's like, did you have.
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Not feel like it was dangerous being in la? And he had the East Coast, west coast beef, and I felt it was.
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Dangerous, but we really didn't know how to. We know what I'm saying. We. We know what was really going on. We knew that shit was going on, but we didn't. We never been there. We thought we was heavily protected. We thought we was good. Know what I mean? We thought we was the same way. I mean, we kind of was because we was with. We had Bad Boy in. We had D in them. We had a different kind of army brigade with us. We had extra. We had extra protection.
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Shout out to D and Ice Pick J. You know, they saved my life. Ice Pick J. You saved my life one day.
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I heard that story.
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That's a real story.
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Heard about it.
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They was gonna get me. And, you know, I had a lot of beef with the West Coast. I'm probably. And we're not stirring nothing up, but I'm probably the only rapper from New York they had physical beef with the West Coast. Like real physical war. It went down, right? So when I go over there, me and pun out there for the Grammys, there's a million cop cars in the street. And, you know, it was like gang beef. So they had a guy with Jheri curls, a bubble goose. It was hot as hell. And the gun was to his A. I don't know how there's 1 million cops out here. They don't see the guy, old dog from the fucking Menace to Society. Like the man in the middle of the street dripping the fucking Jheri curl juice with a machine gun with a bubble goose on in the summer. And we don't rat, but I'm looking like Jesus Christ, don't nobody see. And he looked at me like he could not go back to the hood without clapping. Fat Joe not clapping, killing me. He had a machine gun. And so it was a million cops out there. I fucked up because we had the mansion, we had strip. We knew whatever was gonna happen, you know, don't go out over there. And we still like dummies went out, shout out my brother Tone. Patron held it down, all of us. And so I'm sitting out there and the guy's dead. There's a girl standing next to me, and she sees what's going on and she looks at me and says, a girl from New York, she said, now, I'm sorry. She was like, joe, I'm sorry. I'm sorry this is happening to you. She could probably see, like, death in my face. Like, the guy was. He was trying to figure out how to shoot me and get away from the 1000 cops. But he couldn't go back to his hood without shooting me. So he was like. He looked like a dog enraged. And then out of nowhere, the door opens and Dee comes out. And Dee comes out. He's like, yo, Crack, what's up? This and that. And I looked at him. I said, yo.
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I just nod in the head.
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D from the Rough Riders, he looks over there, General. The General looks over there. He looks back over. He said, that's for you, Crack. I said, yeah, it's for me. He said, yo, Ice Pick is going to turn this corner in a white van. Y' all better just get in there, get out of here, right? So the van pull up. Ice Pick ain't even know he was saving us, right? He was coming around to get D. The van pull up. We got in that like the fucking painting from Good Times. You remember Good Times? They. They had to sit where everybody was dancing sideways and shit like that. Good Time like, yo, we slid in that motherfucker, yo. God was with us. What's crazy? It was like six or seven of us. We got in that bitch and left in the van and looked back. That guy was so confused. He didn't know where the fuck we went because it was, like, too crowded. We got in the van. I was like, yo, I think thank you saved my life. You don't understand this. He was like, what happened? I said, yo, nigga had the machine gun. They ready to clap us. This D told us to get in there. So he took us to the mansion, which a couple of blocks away. After that, we stayed. We went to the Grammys with guns on us, me and Big Pun. That picture that you see us looking like superheroes, we actually had hammers on us in the Grammys, because that was too much. We stepped outside. The point is, the danger, you know, is always there. I think of Big L, right?
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Rest in peace to Big L. Yeah, yeah.
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I'm saying he would not hurt a fly. Big L gamble, rhymed, had fun. Never bothered the human being in his life.
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He loved the ladies.
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He loved the ladies. He chilled. He was funny. My little brother. And they murdered him on the block that he talked about in every one of his realms. 1, 3, 9. I remember rushing up there. When they told me I was at D and D cam and them was outside, I'm outside, they still got the body on the floor, right? And so he got murdered on his block. Same thing with Jam Master Jay. And so you say to yourself, you say, you know, we work so hard to better ourselves. At the end of the day, you got something to say. You rap, you want to rap about whatever you want to rap about. You want to show the world you're the best rapper, then obviously we get financially smart till we see that there's money out here and we figuring out how to do this. I think backer in the day, it was more celebrated.
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Yeah, I think I like that word.
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Backer in the day, old school, it was more celebrated. So we saw the hustlers, we seen everybody showing they shit off and they inspired us. But over the years, with social media and all that, I think it's like bittersweet because it's more people looking at you with jealous eyes and hatred.
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That's definitely. I think technology definitely plays a part of it because before you, it was just, you were here of the Boy George's and whoever it is that was in Queens or Harlem, you might can see them. If you could make it to the Fever or one of them parties or the Rooftop or some shit like that, you might have a chance to get a glimpse of somebody. But other than that, you just heard who was getting busy in the Bronx, Ohio or Queens, Brooklyn. And it didn't put the hate, the cancer. The hate cancer couldn't spread. Now you can just scroll down and the switch could hit on any social media platform. You know, I mean, you can look on Facebook, you can go on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok. They can create their own narrative of hate that somebody could just say, I don't like Fat Joe and just make a whole page in the whole of them.
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Tell me about it.
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Couldn't do that back in there.
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That happens. Yeah, it happens to everybody, huh? And what's crazy is if we take it to modern day, Skip a couple of errors. These kids are like getting murdered on video like Nipsey Hussle got.
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I think everything's on video now. Crack. That's the old. Everything was. Everybody was going like this or the eye in the sky. That pole has a camera that goes to the White House. The leaves on that trees is connected to Albany. It's really no way to do anything right now. Opposed it. Back in the days, you had to see somebody somewhere passing that Jew man or in the train Station or sneaker store, club. And then it would go down. And if he wasn't there or nobody got killed, or if they did, it just happened. Now before your family know, the whole world is crazy. Well, I walked the track at Kensaco Dam one day. Is an old lady, she's working out, she's coming down, I'm going up. A elderly lady that's working out is coming down. Two young chicks is coming down. The lady, because the stairs is tilted a little, the lady tripped, loses her fluidity and goes off to the side. Ah, to the woods, grandma. Now the girls is in front of me. I'm thinking, they gonna go get us. First thing they do, phone me. Yo, y' all crazy. I go help her up, dust her off, curse them out a little bit, keep going up the stairs. But I'm like, this is a shame. This lady was 70 some 80 something years old.
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One thing I take pride in, right?
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Privacy.
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No, no, I take pride. No, no. One thing I take pride in is that just like you, no matter how successful we are, we move around in the hood, get a lot of respect. And so one thing I love doing is supporting the community and supporting the local businesses. So whether it's Melvin's in Harlem or the Bohillo in East Tremont in the Bronx, the Puerto Rican restaurant, I'm in.
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There, pharmacy for life.
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And Scarsdale, pharmacy for life.
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I mean, juices for life. White, plain and.
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But what I'm saying to you is one day I'm in East Tremont in the Boho, and two people starting to get down. My daughter, I can't lie to you, she Little House on the Prairie.
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Yeah, they don't know. They can't imagine none of the shit we've been through. They don't know none of that.
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We seen this regular guys arguing over an elevator, whatever. She don't know. And she just like. And we in the hood and she looked like Little House on the Prairie. A little fur, white hat. They knew this girl ain't from around here, right? But two girls start arguing, they bout to fight. They in the Puerto Rican joint, you know, one of my favorites end up eating. And like a 70, 80 year old lady got up, pulled out her camera and said, world Star world saw an 80 year old lady, got up and then threw the camera in my face. Cause I'm in the building.
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She gotta get you. Yeah, that's gonna hit 80. She gave Joe Crack on there.
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My Titi barber. She know what time it is, you get in the car wash. She know Every young person's raps. Like, I met your aunt in City Island. She was telling me records and raps.
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She loved Nelly.
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I mean, but she was telling me, yo, the cold rocks. She was throwing words, so I knew she loved hip hop. My aunt's like that too. But I don't think my aunt gonna get up and go world star. Like, the lady got up and said, what? Yo, I had a moment with myself. I sat there, I said, yo, this is fucking going. It's like the Maury show on the streets now.
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It turns off.
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It never turns off.
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That's another thing why I say we had the best era of music, because we had privacy. All of the memories of shit that happened got to stay in the brain, you know what I mean? It was not a bunch of soon as they sent something mad, phones go out, man.
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Let me tell you something. They murdered Nipsey Hussle on video.
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They murdered everybody on video. Damn near the last. The last year since shit was, you.
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Know, I'm saying, yo, Jada, we should do a podcast on. On how dangerous hip hop is. It's like the Voice hit the Instagram and immediately, the first thing I did, I opened Instagram. And they got the young brother in. In Detroit two days ago.
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Skilla, skilla, baby.
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And they shoot at him 25 times. He get hit a couple of times.
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3. He got hit him three times.
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I go up a little bit more, I see my man Rod Wave, who sings Nothing for positivity. He was the first one that almost got it right. He was saying, I'm a retire. I made enough money, go chill with my family. He gets arrested for all type of felonies and shit like that. I believe he's innocent. I don't. I just believe he's innocent, right? But in hip hop, why does it feel like, you know, I always thought of, yo, we got in this game to get about the dangers of the hood or better our lives and better our community and our friends or whatever the case may be. But why there's always some shit where you not officially ever signed up for a phone plan, thinking, wow, great price. And then a few months later, it's like, surprise, your bill is higher. With Boost mobile, you pay 25amonth, forever. That's unlimited talk, text and data starting at just 25amonth. No price hikes, no contract forever.
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Talk to you no more?
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No, Justin Bieber. We do every now and then, but Justin Bieber. I'm gonna tell you what me up with Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber gets arrested just driving crazy around Miami. Raul, rest in peace, calls me up and says, yo, they looking for somebody to bail out Justin Bieber. It wasn't no money. It was nothing. Couple of hundred dollars, $1,000. We used rich players, girl, to bail them out. So I bail out Justin Bieber. A hundred dollars?
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No real money. This is an ill show. No, that's. Ew.
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It's. Cause it was in Miami.
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He didn't have no money at the time.
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No, he got money, but he ain't no criminal.
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Oh, he didn't know what to do.
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To the point we bail a man out.
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Hold on. We got.
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He's young.
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You bailed out Justin Bieber. Rich as fuck. He always been rich.
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What happens is we all got friends in common. And they was like, we not fucking.
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They didn't know about them.
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The bail bondsman, rich player at the time, was dating d' Amati the bail bondsman. And so we just got. It was about nothing. I'm trying to tell you. I'm not trying to get clout off of this. This is nothing. The problem is he calls me to thank me and start saying, yo, I'm a gangster now.
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Since he got arrested. Oh, shit. Nah, he was in traffic. What? He got arrested for speeding, right?
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But he start telling me he's a gangster. Joe, I went to jail. I did this. I said, yo, Justin, listen, bro, you gotta stop like this. Nah, straight up. You gotta stop like, we don't want you gangster. We want you singing, Baby, baby, this. And I think he took. I think if I would have gassed him like some of these OG gang guys gassed the young kids, he'd have been like Fat Joe. But I hit him with the. Yo, we don't want you on the news, bro. We don't want you getting arrested. We want you to succeed. You're Justin Bieber. My daughter worships you. We all love you. And that kind of messed up my relationship with him at that moment, because he really was like, he wasn't trying.
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To hear that shit.
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Nah, he was just like. He felt like, you know, yo, this guy, you know, I'm the fun killer, fucked up the moment. The problem is we can't glorify going to jail or getting arrested. And these rappers acting like it's some sexy shit. Because I know that the most I was intimidated, right? I walk into jail, right, and I'm not scared of nobody. And I swear to you, Jada, you will not see. I'm not scared of no man.
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Not even a boogeyman.
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Not the boogeyman either. But I walk in this jail, and there's 2,000 guys, Aryan Nation, Jamaicans, Haitians, Puerto Ricans, they all cock diesel. The shit is like the movie metal. And when they see me, it's like the Game of Thrones, the Dragon Without Fire. They're like. They screaming like. Like, I never heard no shit like this. It's almost like a hundred motorcycles screeching and went. They jumped from all over. I'm like, I'm Fat Joe before rap rapper walk up in that jail. He fooled. I already know. Walking up in there, I said, oh, man, somebody gonna run up on me real quick with a knife, talking about, yo, you got to pay. Whatever, whatever. And I actually got intimidated. And while I'm walking to my cell, I gotta talk to myself. And I never gotta talk to myself. I gotta tell.
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I do it every day.
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No, no, no, no.
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I talk to myself.
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I talk to myself like, yo, Joe, you ain't pussy. Don't fall of this shit. Yo, Joe, don't let niggas play you. Like I'm walking to my cell, giving myself a prep. Talk in my mind. Cause it's 2000 guys screaming at one guy. I'm not even from there. It's not New York. It's not new. I'm in Miami. So I don't even know one person.
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You had to. You did your time. You did time in Miami, sdc.
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Yeah, because they threw the change up. I'm supposed to go to New York now. This is the bragging part. I had 300 guys waiting for me in every jail in New York. Legendary, you know, giving speeches. When he come through here, this. We had that Albanians, whatever you name. They was all waiting for Joe Crack in the jails in New York.
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New Jersey, jail bit.
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No, I'm being honest.
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He the illest thing in the world.
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Last minute on a Saturday. I'm thinking the borough of prisons is hearing all this shit. They switched and shit, send him down there. Cause he lived right down there. They sent me the rusty ass dirty building. I'm like, oh, my God. So I had to walk up in there. The point is, it's intimidating. You being an artist going in jail. We talk about Tory Lanez. They was not playing with Tory Lanez. I do not know. When you get two lungs collapsed, they stab you in your head, stab you in your chest. They try to really murder Tory Lanez. Right. It's nothing cute about it. I don't care how you look at it. But why Tory Lanez? Why you think he and all the prisoners had to get stabbed up 14 times and all that?
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Sure he ain't the only person who got stabbed up over there? Correct.
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Yeah.
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I understand that over there is probably crazier than any jail you could think of as far as gang shit. You know what I mean?
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I knew that when he went in.
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And the guy that stabbed him is already in there for doing crazy. He was already a killer. He was playing with Remy.
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Does eight years. In her prime. In her prime. Lean backs number one, this that she goes through eight years. They sent her with murderers.
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It ain't that much female prisons over here, though. Anyway, she was in the Bedford.
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Yeah. They could have sent it to the Martha Stewart. They sent it to where all these girls got murdered.
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Shit wasn't federal. Russia was state, though.
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Russia was state, but. And I'm asking.
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She was in the rib. She was. She was in the trenches.
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Yeah, she was in the trenches and really fighting chicks the size of aja from fucking Vegas, you know, Remy was like, yo, we at the Squabble Up. Nah, I'm just saying, yo, I'm being honest. She had to fight fucking Brutus and shit like that. Like, she was like, what. What you said about me. All right, let's go. You know, but it wasn't cute. They put her with the murderers. Some people do time and they go to a camp. They go to a dis. They that they threw her because her crime was with violence. With a bunch of murders. Tory Lane. Cause his shit was violence. And so rappers out there, if you watching this and you want to learn anything, there is no.
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They're not playing. They're not playing with rappers.
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Club Med, a spot in his mind. Big Pun thought they were fucking swimming pools and tennis for rappers. That's not happening. They got a big knife for your ass when you go in there and they cutting you or you gonna learn the extortion game really, really fast in jail.
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Stay out of it. It's not the plan for me.
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We go on pop Smoke, man, was so talented. He was the next superstar from New York City. He was gonna be a superstar.
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He posted the address of where he was at off of a Mary bag or something, though. That's back connected to technology and hip hop. You couldn't. That would never happen. If you over on Rodeo going crazy with the bag, when you get back to your suite, you're not gonna post it. Not gonna post what you just bought and have the address on it. So it's a messed up situation.
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I believe that Pot Smoke was murdered. I believe it was a hit.
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No, he was definitely murdered. But they got where he was at.
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Yeah, but they didn't take social media. They didn't take his money. They came in there and killed him.
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Social media got them to know where he was at, which we didn't have, which saved a lot of rappers from our era.
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We try to do that a lot now, like, not post where we at on Real Time and get up out of there and post after. Because guys like PNB Rock, you know, posted, he's in Roscoe's Waffle and Chicken.
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And you said, yeah, well, my first time in LA is when Big got killed. But when they give you the laws from not being in LA and you go there, that Roscoe's is that they tell you, never go to that one. You know what I mean? When they told us, we. That was. Yeah, it was erased from my brain to ever even think about going. And then fast forward all these years later after the success of pnb, and he just thought he could just go there with his girl and have a meal and. You know what I mean? They murdered him. That's fucked up. I wonder if they told him that Roscoe's is forbidden or. He just didn't, you know, he just. Just wanted to go have some food with his girl, wherever he wanted to go. And unfortunately, that happened. But they definitely told us, da, da, da, da, da. This is this. And this in this specific. If you want to go to Roscoe's, there's one or two that you should go to, but this one right here, don't ever go there unless you with. Don't ever go. No matter who you with, just don't go to them.
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Don't go. Tupac Shakur, one of the most prolific rappers in the world. I think the realest rapper in the world ever. Just my opinion, right? Every time I seen Tupac, if we talking violence and we talking that he was in some shit, every single time I laid eyes on him, I look at him. Yo, you seen such and such pulling out the ham in the middle of the club. Yo, over here. They was bootlegging tapes. He beat up like 25 Africans on 1 25th. I'm watching them broad daylight, putting in work everywhere I go. When I met him, he had a red bandana with two guns. I didn't even know who it was. I'm in Atlanta. He come up, yo crack. I don't know who he is. I'm looking met. The man is dead. We in a cipher. It's one of them conferences. He pulled that, yo, it's pop. That's how I met Tupac Shakur.
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The first time I ever seen him was in Atlanta, too. I Jack the Rapper.
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Did he have two guns? That's where I was at. Jack the Rapper.
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Jack the Rapper.
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He didn't do that to you?
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No, I didn't.
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Did it to me.
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Yeah. Stick it crazy. You was at that Jack the Rapper. I was there. I wonder if it was the same one.
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It had to be the same one. The girl was like, I seen your age on the cake. I thought you was way younger. You was at the Jack the Rapper, same way.
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You just gonna point me at any event you was at.
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Listen, you was at the same one. I. I thought you was like 10 years behind me.
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Everywhere he was at, you was at the Fever.
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You was at the mess. You was there. Listen, we was at the hotel. And the girl kept going. Death froze in the house. Long Beach, Calton, the girl that was in the Chronic, she was singing that shit out there. Left Rose in the house, Long Beach. And I was like, you know, we just kept making the sing that. But Tupac pull up. My point is, he gets locked up. Let's just say the white people in the record label, no matter how much he was selling, no matter how much we seen him on tv, no matter what, they did not go in that bag to bail him out. This is the number one rapper at the time. You couldn't escape Tupac. Tupac was on the news. He was on everything. Was selling so many millions of records. They did not bail this man out. It took Suge Knight to come from LA to bail out Tupac. That's how he got signed to Death Row, right? So if you think the record label's coming to bail you out, you know, I know they support you at the beginning or whatever. You got Little Dirk right now. Lil Durk is facing life, right? If you think he's thinking, I don't know, man. God bless him. If he's thinking the Record label.
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I don't know about none of that. But fast forward to times from Pac to dirt. Dirk got. He's making mad off. He got mad. He's trying to put up mad M's buildings all. He's still. They denying his bill thus far. But Pack, they didn't have that to put up. So, man, listen, is it like a.
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It goes.
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How you feel about that with the Times? Because as big as Pac was, look, he should have had. You don't think he should have been able to get. Listen, without you, his back is going.
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He ain't have it.
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No, but you just said. He was everywhere on the news.
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But he didn't have that bag. He didn't have that bag or he would have bailed himself out. He didn't have the money to bail himself out. Sometimes we living day by day. We just living by different.
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Why is it because Dirk got the money?
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You think you check the check? You think you check the check? You working every day check the check. We check the check. If we buying $300,000, watches, house, homes and everywhere, we check.
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That's why you got to keep working.
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That's why you got to keep working.
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Everybody's. Everybody is so rich. Then why they fucking still working? Cause you gotta fucking work.
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When I see Smokey Robinson and all the motherfuckers still at Vegas and l.
B
Stewing, I just seen Rod Stewart about to do something 180.
A
All right, so what does that mean? Does that mean that they love to do it? Or does it mean, like, you got to pay the bill?
B
Yeah, you got bills.
A
You got kids in college. You got all type of shit going on. Mortgages, you got car notes. You got like. I mean, guys 80 years old, still performing, touring. I mean, just two days ago was Patti LaBelle.
B
Yeah, my mom went there.
A
I would have went.
B
My mom in the win.
A
I was in Vegas, stuck. I had a show. Patti LaBelle, my girl, Stephanie Mills, Gladys Knight, Shotgun. Come on. That's a must see tv. But either they doing it for the love and the passion or they still got to get the money to pay these bills. Cause these bills just keep.
B
They don't stop. The bills don't stop.
A
The bills keep coming. I don't care.
B
The bills is coming now.
A
The bills is coming now. The train is coming. And so what happens is I don't care how much money we make. It's almost like shampoo. The shit just slipped through your fingers. I'm not safe. No, I'm Keeping it real with you. I am not safe with no amount of money. You don't know how many times I made a million dollars. And that shit was gone in like a month or two. And it's just regular shit. Yo, Pay the lawyer, pay your insurance, pay this, repeat process this, this, that. And then you turn around, it's like, yo, where's the bread? Yo, bro, you know Louis Vuitton ain't cheap, bro. All that shit you doing out here looking cute, it ain't cheap. And so there's always a check to check. I don't care how much money you make. It blows my mind. When I'm sitting down, I'm like, yo, I just made a million dollars last month. How the fuck you telling me? The amex builder. This, this, this, this done washed up two quarters of the shit, like, real quick, like. And you thinking you in the. When I was in the projects, I thought I could buy a cloud with a million dollars. A cloud. Like, I'd be like, yo, I could buy me a cloud. A million dollars. You looking at the fucking cartoon, they going, a million dollars. They was acting like you could buy the whole Bronx of that shit.
B
Check this out, though. Fast forward. We started from cassettes. Now it's all the way to icloud. And all your music is in Lives in the sky. How the fuck is it with all of this streaming and all that? Is it more money? It's definitely more money because they just. But how?
A
Because they made it so that if you stream a record certain amount, Remember, we. We. We was one and done. Or maybe two and done. I bought the Locks album. Listen to it 10,000 times on CD. If I really loved it, I would keep living listening to it. If it broke, I went and bought it again. The way the streaming works is they actually pay you less.
B
But people listen.
A
Like, why you think Reggae Tone got this shit on Smash? There's so many Spanish countries where all they do is look at YouTube or stream Spotify, whatever. You listen to the shit 10, 15 times. It goes down as an album sale when we put it out. You gotta go through snowstorms to buy the new album. Me and Pun waited 6, 7 hours to get the new Eminem album, right? You had to go physical, right? Now you just take it on your phone. And if you love the song and you keep playing that shit up, we gonna make it 20 times on the album.
B
The numbers don't add. 1500 streams is one spin or one record sale or something that ain't that. Whoever the fuck made that up. They hate us.
A
The shit. The whole system. The whole system been a scam from the beginning. You talking to the wrong guy. The math never added up with the record labels. You know, we look at the music like. If you want to look at this as a business, Dr. Dre, the music, it means everything. But the music is just like a coffee book. It allows you to go in rooms.
B
Where you wouldn't be excess stepping stone. Yeah.
A
So you now you in Soho House. You hear there you meeting somebody, rza. You meet the greatest movie guy who. Who love you from Wu Tang. And now he starts getting you to score movies and acting it and this and this and that. It's just a talking point. And so with us, we figured out, like, you being around you doing this show, right? You do know I'm all about the money, Jada.
B
I watch store. This whole shit is, where's the money? Where are we getting paid?
A
Yeah, the train is coming, baby. The train is coming. Because the point is, I'm looking at you, and you don't even know what you said. You like? Yeah, I went to the boxing match. I did. You know, I work. You know, I went there for work. I'm over here. I work. This ain't even no more about bars or I have to do a feature or I had to. This, this, this. This ain't no more about bars or songs. It's just we work and we do different assignments, and at the end of the day, we come up with the pile of money. So it's not really based on selling records or the streams. If we put our music now, which I just put out an album, the world changed on me, which is phenomenal, right? It's really art for our fans. We're not trying to strike it rich off this shit, right? And so we do all these different things to just bring home the money at the end of the day. And so that's where hip hop is. Hip hop is just a talk. That's why you got coffee. You never in your life sitting in front of that gas station in fucking Yonkers. I know the gas station. What was that? Halliburton.
B
That was never here. That's never here.
A
That's the gas station, right? You never thought you selling coffee? I never thought I was gonna sell hair dye for men. Rewind at 10. But that's what we graduated to, being entrepreneurs. Now we sell hair. You know, I sell fucking beard dye. You know what I'm saying? Rewind to 10. And sneaker stores. We in the sneaker store. Now, you know, I mean, we selling.
B
Juices.
A
Pharmacy, dynasty, commodities, pharmacy for life. We got everything. Don't put us in jail, guys.
B
This is legal. This isn't.
A
This is all legal.
B
Animus is legal.
A
We got everything. Don't put us in jail.
B
We got everything. Don't put us in jail. We gotta get the hoodies. We got everything. Don't put us in jail.
A
I'm dead ass. I'm like, yo, we don't want to go to jail. We're not trying to. We encouraging you to be an entrepreneur. You see what we do? You see how we walk? And just try to have an easier life than us because we worked really, really hard to get to this point right now. This ain't. This wasn't for everybody. Blending Vice's signature dynamic storytelling with the high octane world of sports, Vice Sports.
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Programming that goes beyond the game catch action packed live events and exclusive sports documentaries and profiles. Only on Vice tv we seen many of our friends. You know, I went one night, right? So I. Look, I'm not trying to brag or nothing like that, right? But it costs a certain price to get Fat Joe to perform. It's just the bottom line.
B
That's what, that's, that's inevitable.
A
No, no, I'm just saying it costs a certain price. Somebody paid the price, I show up and it's an old school at noon. But Fat Joe's the headliner, but I'm in Philly. So everybody, me and you came out with they on the lineup, right? So these are all legends at a time or whatever the case. I'm looking at dudes, they missing they fucking teeth. They looking at me like I'm a fucking hieroglyphic. I've had rappers grab my shoulder and stare in my face to see if it's Botox or some shit. Like, they looking at me like, how the fuck I don't get high, guys, I don't do nothing wrong. The most I do is drink a Diet Pepsi. Other than that, you fucked if you gonna catch me. So they. I've watched rappers, my peers, look in my face, grab my shoulders, stare at me like I'm a Egyptian pyramid. Like, yo, how this still looking? All right, this, this, that. You guys got no teeth. I see this one guy, they would.
B
Have thought the same about me if you put my age on the cake.
A
Yo, but let's now, you doing great. You doing phenomenon. You have me, fool. Yo, I'm looking at one rapper, big time legend. He's dancing Around a Hennessy bottle. He's dancing. And so I'm telling y' all, I've been in Saint Tropez a long time. Dubai. I've been doing big tours and festivals for a long time.
B
He's not dragging. He's not.
A
No. Somebody afforded me in the old school at noon. Somebody.
B
Yeah, they had the.
A
Yeah, Joe. When I pull up, it's former female sex symbols. They fatter than fat Joe. And so I'm looking at this, I'm almost peeking out the window. Like out the door. I'm peeking. I'm like, yo, this is crazy. Like, is up. But the point is, you gotta take care of yourself, Preserve yourself. Know that you gotta be. You know what I'm saying?
B
I ain't saying fruits, vegetables, vitamins, Diet Pepsis, Pepsi.
A
Let me tell you something. Shit. Yo, listen. Shit crazy out here, man, but you gotta take care of yourself, man. Because it's a horror show if you don't. And so we see shit out here sometimes where it just. It don't make sense to me, you know, when I see legends looking up, I see people looking up. I see people not taking care of themselves, man. It's just too much shit. And at a certain age, you need to adjust and take care. You can't sniff a mountain of cocaine at 50 something years old. You know, you over there thinking you Tony Montana at 30. I'm not advising that you sniff a mountain of cocaine at 50 because your ass is done.
B
I'm not advising you sniffing mountain cocaine at any age.
A
I'm in my crib, Miami, and I'm always early. Right? I think you beat me here today, right?
B
First time, Sack the Mundo.
A
He beat me here, but I'm always early. So I'm ready. I'm up. Ready to shoot the shit from the house. They like, yo, Jada's a little late. I said, why? He said, he's in the gym. I had to respect that. I said, damn, this guy's in the gym. And for 50 years old, you could do all that shit. I see you up there, push ups and somersaults and shit. You doing some shit on one arm like that?
B
Shit.
A
What the fuck? Was your pops Cop Diesel or something?
B
Not at all.
A
No, I'm asking you.
B
Nah.
A
So where do you get this shit from? Doing the ball work? The dis. The that.
B
I'm looking at you, Jim Jones.
A
It's Diesel. It's a snowstorm.
B
He works out every day. No, no, get to this.
A
No, in the snow, he's doing push ups. Anyway, Is that something special or something? Like he's doing push ups in the snow with a chain on him. And like, my thing is, yo, this.
B
Thing is nice, yo.
A
Nah, I'll be looking at y' all working out. I'm like, yo, this crazy. I'll give it up to you.
B
I mean, just move a little. Just do a little move. No, I move around. I move.
A
I'm good, bro. I'm just not Diesel. I don't believe my body. My body is like Tyson Fury.
B
That was a good comparison. Oh, that was the second best thing he ever said.
A
Let me tell you something. He'll knock you out.
B
Hell, yeah.
A
But he looked flabby and sick like you looking at Tyson Fury.
B
You don't look flabby as shit.
A
No, I don't look flabby as shit. The man looked like he was.
B
He was the chair. He retired. Oh, he's still fat.
A
The man can't get a six pack.
B
He knocked in there. Yeah, right. Yeah.
A
So I'm like that, you know, I'm not Diesel. I'm not hanging on the side of the clip show.
B
That's the clip. Listen, that gotta be a clip. I'm like Tyson Fury. That was the hardest. I'm trying to get crazy.
A
So I think about Jam Master Jay, one of the, you know, back in the day, it's before your time, Jada.
B
Thank you.
A
Before your time. The DJ was more prominent than the rapper, than the emcee, definitely. So you had like Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. You had run DMC. Jam Master J, you know, the DJ Scott LaRock and Kara. The DJ was really, really famous at one time. And Jam Master J, not only was he an insane dj, a member of one of the greatest groups, but he brought artists to the game like Onyx. I think he was the first person to sign 50 Cent.
B
50.
A
Like, he was ahead of his time and, you know, he got gunned down, unfortunately. But I think about Jam Master J, what a producer, you know, and it just leads me off. I said this, this episode been really insightful. But I get to thinking about, like, who's the top five producers of all.
B
Time with what you just said, you know, the DJ turned into the producer. If you ask me, a lot of them, a lot of producers can actually DJ and a lot of DJs, most of them are, you know, cool. And Dre with DJ's name, you know that, right?
A
You know, we could just shut one.
B
Of the greatest producers ever, his name is still dj.
A
You know, we could shut that Swiss was A dj.
B
Manny Fresh is a dj. All his legendary producers, Timberlink a D, you know what I mean? So it's almost like if you think.
A
About a rapper with ghost writing, right? Do you rate a producer that has a bunch of other producers bringing shit to the table? Or do you think the producer needs to produce by himself, everything sampled by him?
B
I think it's different. A rapper with a ghostwriter shouldn't be compared to a producer that has a staff that. I mean, you might have instrument players. He might have a certain engineer to get the sound that he want. Somebody might come in and only do this drum pattern for him. But if he created it from the beginning and they just helping him enhance it, that ain't the same as a ghostwriter with a ghostwriter.
A
So in that case, man, there's some serious producers out there. Because I only had one main one on the list, which is what you said. The obvious primo. Cause I watch him chop everything up and do it himself. I've been in the rooms. You've been in the rooms with somebody like Kanye that got a bunch of producers, and of course he's throwing the. The sprinkle to it, and he's getting what he wants out of it. Or say, like a doctor. Dre worked with Scott Storch. You know, Scott Storch did all that.
B
He plays the instrument. Hey, man, Swizz, Swizz. I've been with Swiss since he. We was telling him to get out of here. He plumb in, pull out his npc. We told him go back to the drawing board for years till he finally got it. Then the whole room, it went from the whole room going, oh, nah. To the oh, holy. This is crazy. So is. It's a journey. And. And then once you get your sound and you hook the people, I don't know what you do from there, because I ain't a producer. So I say, DJ Premier, be careful with your five. This is why this is going to keep going, because it's more than five. But go your five. I'm going five.
A
There's way more than five. But we only got you the top five. Ha ha. Top five, dead or alive. I heard you say this. A thousand. And really, top five of anything. Golf top five.
B
It's an argument of anything.
A
Top five of paint is really your creation. When you say, yes, Every jeweler I meet is.
B
I'm not taking.
A
Bobby the Jeweler. That's because Jacob the Jeweler was the original one that blew up. You started that top five forever. You'll Be in the library. Top five book, dead or alive. That's reference back to you.
B
I appreciate it, but I'm. I'm a. I'm a lightly declined.
A
I'm not going to be credit for that. I'm going to say DJ Premier, let's go. I'm gonna say Dr. Drake, let's go.
B
Cheating.
A
I'm not cheating.
B
Them too, right?
A
You talking about the best in the game.
B
I can use my five. Could be whatever.
A
You want to skip my.
B
You want to skip my five? Because you still in all the five. Go.
A
All right, you say two then. I don't want to snatch. I don't want to snatch. Do two.
B
No, you face.
A
No, no, no, no, no.
B
We gonna go too now.
A
You go too. I'm trying to get you in on this. All right, let's do five. Yeah, DJ Premier.
B
Do any five.
A
Hold up.
B
Five is five.
A
Shut the up.
B
Let's go.
A
DJ Premier. Dr. Drake, Deriza, Kanye west, and I go Havoc for Mobb D. That's. That. That's.
B
That's a mean five.
A
Well, you wanted me to shoot my. I try to give you a play for play, you know, five. And the honorable mention would be Donna.
B
D from D I T C. I ain't added shit. See, he twitched the whole room.
A
I'm not.
B
Yo, listen, but now I'm kind of going back. We should have fucking left Dr. Dre and them niggas out of it, cuz they you cheating. But still, I'm going with Swiss.
A
He started with me to 10. I'm going swish, cuz it's not the.
B
Top, cuz he got to make the list because that's my brother. There you go, right, Pharrell, you know what I mean? I'm going Scott Storch.
A
Yeah, that's a mean pack. You got Squiz, Pharrell, Scott Storch, right?
B
Oh, me think about.
A
Just because I said a guy don't mean you can't double down on it.
B
I know I could use them. I'm not. I'm just. I'm not going to use it for personal purposes.
A
You got a phenomenal team there, Swiss.
B
Pharrell, Scott Storch, Timberland.
A
Timberland, R and.
B
B, Timbaland F. Timberland just as Timberland. All the shit he did for me. Yeah, all that.
A
What's the shit with Jay Z and Beyonce?
B
All of that.
A
All that. All that. I'm a movement by myself. Jimbo. Got the joints.
B
What though? Just blaze.
A
I mean, I needed something like that from you because from you being The Underground King you definitely went commercial on.
B
I want to go big. It still left out Bank. We left out Manny Fresh. We left out Pete Rock. We left out.
A
Q Tip.
B
Q Tip. We left out Mad Dog, Professor. We left out Crazy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I know. It's mad. We left out Shame on you, huh? Because on this, my producers know that I love them.
A
Man. Let me tell you something.
B
Wow. We left out. That's not supposed to get left out, but it's hard when there's only five.
A
Little top five. Cause that's your shout out to Boost Mobile. Go get yourself the whole trap of phone everybody. The block. The whole bus ride. In the summer, you know, in the summer, we used to go to Six Flags. Great Adventures. The whole block. That was Dorney Park. Like, get the whole bus.
B
What's the shit in va? Mobile phones. Oh, me and Pun had a show they used to do. We the shit we go with in your family in VA where we used to. It ain't there no more.
A
Hershey, Pun.
B
King's Dominion. Nah, man. Wrestling Me and Pun ass, y' all. King's Dominion before Kings.
A
Virginia.
B
Yeah. Me and Pun had a show there.
A
I got stranded there one time. That's a long story. Stranded. The whole bus broke down. My whole project was sitting on the side of the road for, like, 20 hours. Another bus came and brought us back to the Bronze Kings. Of Me and Shout out aj, gp. All of them will do it together. This has been Joe and Jada. We flaming out there. That ain't killing y' all.
B
This ain't that.
A
And it's cracking Kiss. And it's number one. And we not gonna stop now. I'm headed to Dubai. Shout out Rasha Bilas to get married. I'm going to a wedding. Then I'm going to end up at St. Tropez in Monaco because my brother Nori, his wife Neri, it's her birthday.
B
Happy birthday to Neri. Happy future birthday. Happy belated. You know what I mean? I'm celebrating as well.
A
And then we gonna land back on Plymouth Rock and we gonna shoot a bunch of. Don't think if I'm not. I'm not.
B
Landed on us.
A
Landed on us. Yo. Hey, yo, Shout Out. I gotta say what's up to Ben Crump, Attorney General Black.
B
I gotta get with Ben.
A
I gotta get with Ben Crump. And shout out to Malcolm X family. I went to his 100th birthday up in Harlem. It's crazy because they. They took over the center where he got murdered.
B
Him through the party, celebrated yeah, they did.
A
Hundredth anniversary of his birthday. So Lauryn Hill, our sister, came up there, right? And you. You know, I started with the fugees. I don't know if you know, Fuji.
B
Started with digging in the kids.
A
Fuji la was my beat. Salam Remy made for me.
B
See, I left out Salaam written. Look, dog, he was supposed to make the list.
A
Norm went up there, spoke some words of wisdom. She ripped it down. Legend she started. Funny how money change situation. And so I haven't seen Lauren face to face in a long time. And so I pull up on Lauren, I'm like, sis. She said, I love you, Joe. I felt so good that night. I got in the car, I drove to Jersey, and I was like, yo, Lauren says she loved me, man.
B
And that's the perfect way to end this show. Yeah.
A
Yeah.
B
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Podcast Summary: The Herd with Colin Cowherd
Episode: Joe and Jada - Fat Joe & Jadakiss Share UNTOLD Stories of Tupac, The Notorious B.I.G., Big Pun & More Rap Legends
Release Date: May 29, 2025
Introduction: The Perilous Path of Hip-Hop
In this riveting episode of "The Herd with Colin Cowherd," hosts Fat Joe and Jadakiss delve deep into the often-overlooked dangers that come with being a hip-hop artist. Initiating the conversation with a profound statement by their compatriot Jim Jones, who declared, "Hip hop is the most dangerous job in the world" (00:48), they explore the multifaceted risks artists face in the industry.
The Shadow of Violence and Jealousy in Hip-Hop
Joe and Jada discuss the inherent dangers tied to the hip-hop scene, emphasizing how success can breed envy and hostility. Joe articulates, "Hip hop, you know, they bring you up, they glorify you, break you down, and then the hate sets in" (03:30), highlighting the volatile environment that many artists navigate. They recount tragic losses, such as the murders of Nipsey Hussle and Jam Master Jay, underscoring the perilous reality behind the glamor.
Key Points:
Survival Stories: From LA to Miami
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to Joe's firsthand accounts of surviving violent confrontations. At 07:00, Joe recounts how he and Big Pun navigated a potentially deadly situation at the Grammys, narrowly escaping harm thanks to friends like Ice Pick J and D. These stories serve as stark reminders of the omnipresent dangers in the hip-hop world.
Notable Quote: "We went to the Grammys with guns on us, me and Big Pun. That picture that you see us looking like superheroes, we actually had hammers on us in the Grammys, because that was too much." (07:00)
The Modern Menace: Social Media’s Role in Amplifying Hate
Joe and Jada critically examine how the rise of social media has exacerbated tensions and spread hate within the hip-hop community. They note that platforms like Instagram and YouTube allow for the rapid dissemination of negative narratives, contributing to an environment where artists are more vulnerable to online and real-life threats.
Key Points:
Supporting the Community: Giving Back Amid Success
Despite the challenges, Joe and Jada emphasize the importance of staying connected to their roots and supporting local communities. Joe shares his commitment to backing local businesses and maintaining respect within his neighborhood, illustrating a balance between personal success and community responsibility.
Notable Quote: "One thing I love doing is supporting the community and supporting the local businesses... I'm in." (14:55)
Evolution of Hip-Hop: From Cassettes to Streaming
The hosts discuss the transformative journey of hip-hop from physical album sales to the streaming era. Joe reflects on how streaming has altered revenue streams, often disadvantaging artists compared to the tangible sales of the past. They debate the financial implications, with Joe critiquing the current system as a "scam" that doesn't favor artists (36:30).
Key Points:
The Role and Recognition of Producers in Hip-Hop
A significant segment is dedicated to recognizing the unsung heroes behind the music—the producers. Joe and Jada engage in an animated discussion about the top producers in the industry, highlighting legends like DJ Premier, Dr. Dre, and Swizz Beatz. They emphasize the critical role producers play in shaping the sound and success of hip-hop.
Notable Quotes:
Preserving Health and Legacy in the Music Industry
Joe and Jada stress the importance of maintaining physical and mental health amidst the pressures of fame. They caution against the lifestyle choices that can lead to an early demise, urging their peers to take better care of themselves. Joe shares his own experiences in jail, highlighting the intense intimidation and survival mechanisms he had to employ (22:05).
Key Points:
Honoring Legends: Remembrance and Reflection
The episode concludes with heartfelt tributes to hip-hop legends like Jam Master Jay and Tupac Shakur. Joe reminisces about his interactions with Tupac, providing unique insights into his character and the circumstances surrounding his untimely death. These reflections serve as a poignant reminder of the loss of key figures in hip-hop history.
Notable Quotes:
Final Thoughts: Entrepreneurship and Moving Forward
In their concluding remarks, Joe and Jada highlight the shift from purely artistic endeavors to entrepreneurial ventures within hip-hop. They discuss the necessity of diversifying income streams to ensure financial stability, reflecting on their own business endeavors alongside their music careers.
Notable Quote: "We encouraging you to be an entrepreneur. You see what we do? You see how we walk? And just try to have an easier life than us because we worked really, really hard to get to this point right now." (40:08)
Conclusion
This episode of "The Herd with Colin Cowherd" offers an unfiltered glimpse into the lives of Fat Joe and Jadakiss, revealing the dark underbelly of the hip-hop industry while celebrating its rich legacy. Through personal anecdotes, critical analysis, and heartfelt tributes, Joe and Jada provide listeners with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and triumphs that define the world of hip-hop.
Notable Sections and Quotes:
Introduction of Hip-Hop's Dangers:
Personal Survival Story:
Impact of Social Media:
Financial Challenges in the Streaming Era:
Tributes to Legends:
Encouraging Entrepreneurship:
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Disclaimer: The episode featured advertisements for Boost Mobile, which have been excluded from this summary to focus on the core content and discussions.