LL Cool J | Drink Champs (Full Episode)

hey hank said great hope you're stopping you this is your boy n-o-r-e what up it's dj efn it's a [ __ ] drink chat podcast right now legendary [ __ ] we have what i would like to call the king of hip-hop what i would like to call the king of alternate what i mean by that is after your career has been done he's the person who put out the blueprint right for what you're supposed to do after your rhymes this [ __ ] is the king of queens i'm saying it i'm from queens i feel like i have the authority he's the king of queens the king of new york the king of hip-hop first artist ever signed to def jam records which means that i might not existed if it wasn't for this one a lot of people would have existed a lot of people wouldn't exist because you know my dmc wasn't even this real [ __ ] and right now we got the godfather i might i might just call him the father of [ __ ] queens new york and everything else we got llc in the [ __ ] building appreciate that love l listen can i call you of course in my mind and my mind i always call you uncle in my mind i don't know why like i just know like even when you say what's up to me i'll be like oh you know like i just love i got so much respect for you thank you enough for you man and then and then you came to my hood though you remember of course it came to my heart it made me like and then run dmc came to and diggy simmons came and then diggy simmons he's he's smashing all the little girls in my hood now but um [Laughter] he put a foul thought in his mind he didn't want his pictures run running around putting out fires [Laughter] how how how important you mean to queens thank you man uh not only queens because if you look at queens you look at people like you nas run dmc you gotta look at the whole spectrum of hip-hop yeah so if you say a person was a leader of queens a person was actually the leader of a whole generation so now you have people like drake you have people like ja rule you have people all these people who actually they can't say they they didn't pattern their style after you right how do you feel about that well you know um you know hip-hop is you know hip-hop is a complex thing man i mean at the end of the day like you know you know if you're a decent looking fella you got to damn near kill yourself to be accepted by goats you know what i mean by foods yeah pretty much the [ __ ] [ __ ] with you i mean look at pot you know you know his handsome dude but look what he had to do you know i mean if if i made one more chance they would have called it a love song but from biggie it was something else you know man that's right so you know it's kind of like you know you gotta you gotta have it takes courage to do what you love and to do what you believe in you know what i'm saying and that was my thing it wasn't a matter of you know i just wanted to have girls you know me i you know most of my friends did too i mean for the most part you know i figured i'd make some songs and try to get something you know you know i didn't realize that that was like you know because you know the thing with hip-hop is that you know if you're not if you're not hit if you're not spitting gumballs and talking about packs you that goat title is going to be elusive for you because you know most of the time the voting members that's what they really you know the fellas really that's what they really want to and not to you know what i'm saying but you know i i just decided that i was going to do what i wanted to do i i had the balls to just do what i wanted to do so you know i did hard records and love records and hard records and weird records and creative artsy [ __ ] do you think because i i think that l perfected the hard record and then the crossover record after that and then biggie kinda took that style and the reason why i wanna ask you have you ever thought like that because of the flavor in your air it was like they kind of try to keep you closer this is me as a fan yeah i have no flavoring yes i mean flavoring here first of all flavoring is so crazy because so many people thought hey [ __ ] though i saw my [ __ ] or some [ __ ] you know shout out to my mayor todd fife right that was something that we used to say all the time you know what i'm saying just to hit you when it was on and popping i had no idea that when they was gonna spell out the syllables we was gonna be and you know all with all love and respect you know trannyville you know what i mean i didn't know he's gonna be there you know with all love and respect to everybody you know do what you want i ain't beefing you know what i'm saying but um uh yeah you know look man whether it's big or nice or you know the other guys like i respect all the artists for what they do you know what i'm saying and um i respect anybody who's original and and does it from the heart does it from the soul like you know i was listening to that kendrick record and and when he had said uh um you know he does it from the soul you do it you know for you it comes from the meds i'm paraphrasing what i'm saying um i just love i love hip-hop you know i love the culture you know i love everything about it but the thing was you know also at the same time you know i was never gonna be a slave to the music business meeting so meaning that the first time that i went and sat down and said oh i'd like to get x amount as an advance to this album and somebody like this shoulder shook a little bit was this when you broke your radio [Music] you know look man i just like to do everything you know i don't feel like you should limit yourself right you know if you have to tell me that if you have the talent to do many things you shouldn't be afraid to do that because dreams don't have deadlines and you know a lot of times you know in our culture especially in the black community and as young males you know we get boxed in to what marginalized well no not just marginalized by mainstream society but boxed in in the sense that you know you feel like there's certain things that you might have dreams but you don't think it's cool you know what i'm saying you might want to be an adult you might be in the origami you might be into something like like knitting like blankets like right and putting them over gates like you think because you think because you're not a rapper or you're not a basketball player you're not cool and we gotta take that out we do that to ourselves with our music too right because we don't give ourselves yourself we don't give ourselves freedom you know what i'm saying like we don't give ourselves the freedom to do what we want to do we always feel like you know every every time i make a song i got to worry about what what this particular set of friends thinks forget my imagination but i might be imagining some other [ __ ] it's not that i don't want to make records that my friends like but what if i think of something else why can't i do that right why can't i do that and so that's the thing that i kind of i always acted on that impulse you know i never um you know i never was like i just wouldn't listen to that you know you know what i mean like i just do what i want to do because who do you love yo but i gotta i gotta get to this i've never yo i've been seeing you for 20 years mm-hmm and i never asked you this question what is pink cookies in a plastic bag getting crushed by buildings they're getting crushed by buildings no no i was on the phone with a girl right and um you know i was at molly's studio and she was talking molly mom molly was placing a little smaller molly molly room all right uh i smelled some weed but i didn't inhale you know you know after i smelled the weed um you know after smelling the weed i laid on the couch and i was talking to this girl and she said i was like you know yeah yeah she was like what are you talking about i said baby i don't know i'm thinking about big cookies in a plastic bag getting crushed by buildings right now and she said she said what and what she said i was like oh that's a song all right [Music] it was so complicated that i knew the explanation was man yeah yeah it wasn't nothing you know yeah i'm not even i ain't come here to lie and run for office you know it's what it was you know and i had miniature satellites floating in closets spawning in pockets i had a few of them all right well i got more of them jumping out of a cot of football um jumping out of a helicopter into a football stadium filled with cotton candy and [ __ ] oh i know you don't know you taught me this i know you don't know you taught me this but i was on a top 40 tour right and i only have seven dates on the top 40 tour y'all had like 70. right and i didn't ride on a private jet i was commercial everybody else sorry but it was you fat joe uh puff daddy ja rule this is this this this that type i got seven days so every date that i i had had with you like you had your room and then you had your room for your people right and i never disrupted you i never came in there but it was one day i was like you cannot speak to hell and i was like who is it and they said no he said let that [ __ ] in here yes and i felt like he was shadow boxing i don't know i do that before the show so you came in and i said yo because you had gave out roses this night you had gave out roses right so i said ow like i'm 18 19 at the time i'm so young so i'm like ow every girl in the crowd is for you why are you not out there and you know what she told me huh you said i rolled my wife and i said why he said because i never get in trouble yeah yeah yeah yeah and let me tell you something to this day i rolled my wife you know man you know the crazy thing is younger brothers come up to me and be like yo norrie why are you rolling with your wife and i just be like i'm going to use that now would you say i don't want to give my money back but you know you know i you know i have moments nori in my life you know i mean i've uh you know you know uh you i didn't know though when you told me that yeah yeah i was like alex bargain and then i had to actually live and then when i lived i said so you thought he was bugging out when he told me that oh no i i of course in my mind that party said of course he's [ __ ] like in his face and then years later i was like you got it i understand that reminds me of a story i was you know i won't say his name because i don't want him to say his name nobody listens to us it's rap dude you know back in the day he came with me like yo yo you know let me hold something you know some paper yo let me hold something you know i tried i tried to tell him about um he's like yo let me hold something and i tried to tell him you know talk to him about stocks and bonds and [ __ ] like that he was like yo hell me tell me some style let me oh something man so that reminds me of that like at a point at some you're not you you only can understand it when you're ready for it mm-hmm you're doing what's not ready for it and a lot of times you know and that's true with music too because you can do music and put it out there and people just don't understand it and it flies over their head and they catch it later you know what i'm saying sometimes that happens too who ever seen ll perform before raise your hands god damn it there should be more people raising their [ __ ] hands let me just tell you something at one point in the show he takes over his shirt and he just gives every woman a flower and they super wet you could just tell cause their heads that's the goal so i'm a kid i'm 18 19 years old chris lighty's like yo you gotta go you gotta follow hell i'm like alright cool and i'm doing it they're all on private planes it's okay i'm getting there it's commercial well this is okay i'm still happy and i'm like al and al is like he knocked none of them down yeah i couldn't believe it like yeah first i was like yo yeah yeah yeah and use oh you know content and now you can't handle it i live like do you improve my lifestyle all type of bones and costumes get away from that wristband spines hanging over the closet dog skulls this is not for the for the podcast this is not for anything mm-hmm this is because i've sincerely respect oh cool i love l.o.l cool j i looked up to l cool j but you did kind of crush cannabis career early and i never knew why like me personally like you don't know why no i i know i know the industry answer why i mean you know the real did he disrespect you in the session what happened because you're a queen's [ __ ] and i respect it whatever wait i'll tell you exactly what happened you know um i mean the real honest answer is that you know one day you know we was i was on my way to study and he came up to me and you know and you know my you know uh because you're crazy he's a little taller than me i'm not going to crush his career my heart was a little taller than me a little bit so you know he walked up and he was like yo you know yo your tattoo man like your tattoo him and get one like that i said no you know you gotta get your own you know you know i didn't understand that like mentally i just didn't understand that man you gotta get your own joint no i just didn't understand it like there was no disrespect i was like you got your own yeah you could get one like that and then after we had that conversation when i got when i went in and heard his boss he said is that a mic on your arm let me borrow that and i just like was like i just did not understand i just you know i couldn't understand it homie i just i blinked okay all right and that was it take me from that moment no but he already had is it true that you already had reverse and then you changed it is that no no that's not true no no the truth is i went in i heard what he said and i responded to this [ __ ] on your record you didn't take him off here right now i was too ignorant for that [Music] a smart guy you know jay-z would have took him off the record you know let's do it smart i was an idiot anybody ever did that ignorance just ignorance just leave me alone do you know what's going on but i i'm acting like i'm i'm dumb i'm like no yeah ll is battling cannabis but he's dead serious someone's looking at him but mind you i know i know what's going on but i'm like work he's like yo but then yeah yeah but see the thing is what people don't know is that i you know after that i saw him cannabis and after you crossed his career well no no this is this is before the battle record i saw him and i said yo he was just debating about putting a song about about me out i said yo don't i went to him i said yo you know what okay it happened on the record i said first of all nobody's gonna know if you don't make a record i said that's the first thing i never knew and then that's a very important part of it yeah i told him this so what are you saying before before before reaction recognition before his reaction record came out i met with him i didn't even know i said yo i said don't put no record out nobody's going no just leave it and you know i got a little high-headed let's see what you have it's between us okay that's a leap he said ah nah if i don't put it out it'll be politics and i'm like you know and then why cliff's over in the corner aiming [Applause] but then he put the record out and then you know then the re cause i told them i said yo let's just do a record together oh you know what i mean you said that yes i said that so of course i said we should have did a wreck let's just do a record together we could you know because i didn't really want the drama but you know it is what it is you know right and then i you know i just responded and that was it you know and we we did what we did and you know you look around knock out every turn of the ripper yeah and you crush this career let's make some noise all right we're gonna make noise don't worry about it we're gonna make noise [Applause] how did that start um because it seems like ow you might not start it but you definitely finished well i said i said on the record i said i'm only 18 making more than your pops and he felt offended by that making more than your pops and he was offended because he thought it was the wrong message because then i was making more than his pops well no no he thought i was sending a bad message to to young kids out there like i was because i you know look when i coming up when i was growing up you know 16 17 18 like 17 18 19 i i was always with rich porter i was always with alpo and az and my man big chuck from mount vernon took me with them so that's who i used to be always hanging out with i would be on 132 and you know i was always uptown not not fat cat even though he was from queens i know preem and i knew you know the futaro brothers and all of them i knew i knew them but i was like no not now real drug dealers they was giving me warm champagne like hey man you're begging for champagne you know what i mean but when i started hanging out with chuck you got cold showers yeah yeah yeah yeah i got cold cold all the champagne is going it's cold it's not yeah i don't so when i you know when i used to hang with with you know with alpo and when chuck would take me around and hang with alpo and az and and rich and and all of them and black just used to come a little late like yeah rest in peace um you know i just came up you know in a different you know thought process you know what i'm saying and i just tried to do things right you know what i mean that's all basically did you know bimmy was the biggest drug dealer in queens when he was hanging with him at one point i'm sorry yeah i'm sorry i know ben was my man you know saying i i hung with bim you know you know the whole time i you know i i was i but you know what the thing is about that what people have to understand about that is that first of all we don't want to glorify that no this is not cute we do not um and it's a tough life tough and it destroys lives and and most of the guys that are really doing it for real wish they weren't okay and the ones that are really successful at it really wish they were successful at something else anything else this is a horrible way to live okay and we can front and act like it isn't but it is it's a very tough way to live all right because i've seen it firsthand for real and um but you know it it it taught me a lot though i learned a lot you know i forgot the point i was trying to make because i was no because you know why you know i'm telling you the point that you're just trying to make because at one point oh cool d all right cool so so so basically he thought that i was glorifying that lifestyle when i said 18 million so he wanted to you know be conscious about that but what he didn't understand is that you're going to crush no that i'm an 18 year old young man and i don't know anything else but this you know you're growing up in the hood and you're growing up yeah but when you're growing up in the hood and i see a car drive by that's all i know it ain't and i see a guy how he gets it that's all i know it's not about i'm not even thinking about right and wrong and consequences and ruining my life and you don't even think on that level that doesn't even come into your brain the only thing you think is i'm here and the money's there and where do i gotta go to get it that's all you really think about now when you're older you get in your 30s your late 20s and you know maybe 40 you can start reflecting and kind of cleaning up your life so i think he had the right intention but the problem was that he wasn't merciful and understanding that i was a young kid and this is all i was thinking now on the mc level you know you know i i've never shied away from trying to snap somebody's head off i mean i'm not gonna lie you know i feel like you're still going to battle right now right now i feel like you still want to battle a [ __ ] right now but [ __ ] [ __ ] i felt like you was gonna beat up charlemagne recently what happened did i think no no no my thing my my thing with homie is you know you know he he he likes to get on the radio and bully people you know what i'm saying okay i don't like bullies me neither you know what i'm saying i really don't like bullies and you know i understand he's a small guy i get that but the bully thing didn't work for me and i felt like he was picking on me and undermining my my my brand and my resp my my vibe you know what i'm saying but i wasn't gonna go up there and do the baby thing i just told him look i just told him listen where you go i love baby that's my man but i wasn't doing that all right i'm not gonna go to your show but my thing was look you know i said look let's just box the charity you know i'll give hundreds oh you gotta stop that i wasn't going to beat people up i got it nobody i was aggravated you're gonna get sued no no no no not for charity no you're gonna not when you're boxing for charity i'm gonna be honest with you i'm not i have no problems with them i wish them the best just leave me alone and don't pick on me just so you don't pick one i don't like to give everybody watching this podcast don't bully don't be bullies and don't pick on people because that was my only problem with all right and you felt like he was picking on it yeah because he's always got something to say like he doesn't understand like i'll give you an example like you know everybody was mad at me and i understand that point of view but everybody was mad at me about you know the whole accidental racist record you know what i'm saying okay and that was a big conversation right okay and they thought you know or else you know aiding and the betting of us for getting slaves listen to your verse your version when you're saying the change yeah so what they didn't understand is that you know now fast forward and look at the shape the country's in and you think about what me and him was attempting to do it was ideological but look at where the shape the country's in now you did people at that point thought that i was out of my mind for talking comparing a do-rag to a confederate flag but now you're seeing little brothers get shot down every day because of the outfits whether it's a hoodie it may not be a do-rag but maybe it's a hoodie with trayvon maybe some sagging jeans maybe it's a brother outside of a suv getting shot down that's the thing i was talking about i was trying to humanize us i would never suggest that we forget our history that's absurd okay it's ludicrous but you got to be willing to like i'll give you another example like people was mad at me when i said oh r.i.p robert e lee oh i hate hell yeah how could he say that robert e lee r.i.p robert e lee they hated me he was a general in the confederate army yeah i understand how people feel all right but when that when that racist dude ran up in that church and he shot up all of those people and that black church down south and then those black people got together and said you know what you know we're praying for them and we forgive them and we want to send love to them the country held them in high esteem because they were able to get beyond their emotions and see the bigger picture and that's what i was trying to show people you know what i'm saying but it took four years and all these people dying by the hands of of corrupt police because not all police are corrupt you know what i mean but dying by the hands of some of these corrupt policemen and dying at the hands of in the wrong way for people to understand that what i was saying and what me and brad were attempting to do was very real you know what i'm saying but that's why that hole they laugh at you then they ignore you then they fight you then you win thing is true because they laughed at us then you know yes and now everybody was laughing at us you know but then when you re and then they ignored us but now look at what's going on now they trying to fight that same they trying to promote those same vibes those same values that we talked about so you know that's about the courage that's about art you know that's what art does it provokes people you know what i'm saying uh uh i just want to say to you if you don't know how much you appreciated in the hip hop no but i appreciate hip-hop no but listen let me just tell you something if it wasn't for l cool j there wouldn't be a nas it wasn't for nas it wouldn't be a mob deep let's roll mob deep there wouldn't be a component noriega so me personally i want to look at you face-to-face eye-to-eye man of man and tell you how much that not only queens because we're not queens it's limited even though queens we run the world y'all can make noise for that around the corner from his from his house i'm not gonna lie i was this close to buying a condo next in his building because it's it was cost effective oh you came one day i'm shooting a black money video yeah the most disrespectful record on my album and i call for l j to come through and llc comes through my [ __ ] house first of all i always love your music oh no no i always loved your music i always felt your music you know what i'm saying what what all of that you know i mean you introduce the world to the neptunes and all that i mean you put you can make no noise for that but i i met pharrell because of you i came to your session and met for real and that's when i did love you better i ended up ultimately doing love you better all americans but you know you you've done a lot you know you're an important person thank you what we're doing that's why the the podcast is so successful i've been watching it we're watching episodes and enjoying that cbs and me and efm we got some deals to bring you i got you company and the lip sync battle yeah was that your idea or was that somebody else well the idea came from uh john krasinski and steve merchant and they brought it you know through they sound rich i don't know where they are but they sound rich now it came to us in uh basically you know but i own the format along with my partners and um we've sold a format in over 150 countries around the world and we have like a partnership with like carnival cruises and uh you know the app is starting to grow now and really doing well um the lip sync battle app and uh i mean the show and we've also um we have different versions of the show around the world so like in thailand there's like a you know it'd be a thai host doing their lifting battles and we just did like ukraine and we did a deal in russia and we did a deal you know in china we just did a big deal in china for lip-sync battle so that thing is global and then you know what people don't know is with like ncisla i also have a a vested interest in the show i'm not just an actor on the show i haven't that's the guy where you just say i'm hanging with the shirts yeah um and that's in 200 countries around the world as well you know what i'm saying so it's it's you know it's really going well it's going well listen i'm not gonna lie when i looked at hip-hop right i was tired of hip-hop i was just tired like i mean i loved it i still wanted to make it mm-hmm but i couldn't god bless the dead after chris lighty died i couldn't actually attack it the way i wanted to attack it so i said [ __ ] it let me just think of something else right and all i did was look at you i looked at you and said what the [ __ ] is l doing and al you because you in shape i'm not i wasn't in be watching your instagram and i said what can i do to do something else other than hip-hop because music just gets boring even if you're making money music is just just boring nah but you know what noise let me tell you something man i don't i don't feel that way i think my thing is i just never limit myself and like i said if you have more than one talent you should utilize them all you know what i'm saying um if you're a dion sanders and you can play baseball and football play both play both um you know music is not off the table for me you know i'm not telling you that i'll never make another record it's just right you're gonna make another record right well right now my priority is oh make some noise great business move great move i'm i'm sorry that was definitely beautiful all right so you know i'm not saying it's over but you know you gotta you gotta try different things you gotta you know you gotta move you gotta you know what i'm saying like make things happen and not be like afraid to like fall back for a second like i'm not afraid like i don't feel like you know if i if i make a song it'll be like i never left because after the record go off because in 2d yeah this movie oh yeah that was yeah that was you stuck a pole stick up a [ __ ] ass eight ball back pocket i didn't know you you actually took that you took it eight ball [Laughter] don't worry al don't worry y'all don't worry the videos you know the movies are still out i'm sorry yeah no it's all love when it comes to the uh the movies i don't limit myself with the characters whatever role it is you know um i'm not above any role or below any role it's if if i respond to the role and i feel like it's something good i'll do it right now i'm playing sam hannah on ncis los angeles this is a lot of fun we're going into our knife season i'll be seeing like this let you you pull out your gun very professional now oh but let me tell you i gotta tell you i can tell you professionals [Music] like the marines and the special ops guys the sailors down there um you know uh hung out with a uh a master gunnery sergeant from the marines who told me a lot of i went to swat school you know and did a lot of let's go back to the train you stick the [ __ ] in this yeah yeah yeah yeah he got it what is the next question do you eat [Laughter] but when that's a brutal scene if you haven't seen it too deep go check it out it's a brutal scene yeah yeah but going back to music real quick you're one of the first new york artists to kind of be bi-coastal yeah when you worked with pooh l.a posse and all them how did that come about um basically what happened was uh you know at that time you know after my first album rick rubin left def jam all right and uh we were trying to figure out what what my next move was going to be because he produced my first album the whole first hour yeah yeah we did the whole first album together um it was his first album too first full album and um so after that i don't know he can't just say that let's make some noise so after that are you over both cameras you got to start climbing too clapping too i understand climbing but you listen revolt cameras you got to clap too i'm sorry you too tattoo guy all right let's go terrible terrible i'm sorry so now so you know uh you know i went and russell had heard you know the la posse because they had made some records that he felt was in the zone so he introduced me to him i met bobcat um big up to bob you know from l.a l.a west coast you know l.a reckon was it wasn't um with the radio who mine my first album was radio my first song was i need a beat my first song came out in 1984 it was i need a beat then i had i was born in 77. yeah well thank you for giving my child thank you my child and the second one came out like 85 the album came out like 85 and then it went from there but the the second album came out around 87. but the first album's on def jam it was on yes this is because sealer rock is yours was on death jam productions it was an imprint on street on party time it was party time records it was def jam productions and wow and rick was having problems him and russ were having problems getting the money from party time for the is yours record so they decided to start their own label and um and i was the flagship artist and we made the first album and i actually you know first side note i owned a piece of def jam as well and i sold it yeah yeah i sold it back to them yeah yeah but the first record was radio radio on rock the bells radio all of that was on first right here yeah and they went and got the deal with uh i rocked the bells no no no cbs cbs yeah we got cbs right here in the building cbs yeah yeah you know queen's [ __ ] getting money with cbs oh yeah [Applause] this is what i want i want you to describe back in the days cause it was so rough walking down jamaica ad oh god i mean i mean listen people think it's rough walking the jamaica ave in 2017. crazy they have no idea what it was in the 80s and 90s can you describe it it was like every any piece of clothing that you had on that was mildly mildly or remotely valuable was like asking people to rob you like like if you had to pay at gazelles or you would buy somebody your gazelles would say to them excuse me it was like the gazelles were talking if you had a sheepskin to be it was crazy it was crazy and listen crazy to describe to people listen let me inspire people because one day nas has told me he said one day me and i was just kicking it be talking and now i said and he came in the left rack and he's like he came to the left right he was like i can't believe the amount of respect that nobody don't bother you here and i was like this is my hood right he said do you imagine what al went through in those days mind you we had no facts but remember remember i you know you know i was hanging with you know the guys i was hanging with you i wasn't really having a lot of problems like you know you hear these weird rumors oh ll got thrown through a coliseum i was with guys that was so official and thorough in the street that you know i you know i mean it i wasn't having those issues no no and um and i wasn't looking for him either because you know what i've learned i don't i never i never in my life have tried to be a tough guy and i never hung around gangsters and tried to act like i was one because that's how you get yourself in trouble mm-hmm just be who you are that's dude just be yourself you know me and so i never had a lot of issues i had a few fights you know i grew up fighting you know i wasn't you know having shootouts we could tell you guys down we just a little mischief okay so when i was a little kid you know when it was snow outside we decided it was a good idea you know though like no no no to take rocks and cinder blocks and cover them with snow and then throw them at cars like don't ask me why we thought this was a good idea right so one day so one day i'm in my grandmother's yard and i throw a goddamn big ass rock with snow around it because you know the car's not going to stop they say oh look at the little kids with snowballs and there's like goose right why did yo we were so he was in there my man came around the corner and i was looking over there and i seen the window rolled down like that all i see was little flashing lights yo i was running i hid behind a snow mound right did you hear me a snowman snowman bullets were swimming and then i like ran and fell down in a uh uh basement yes [Music] and you know how to in queens the basement windows got that that i don't know oh we know it's like a you know it's like a thing down at the on the house for the so you can open the basement window so i fell down there tore my ankles up and all that so i had a little mischief in my life a little bit but for the most part i stayed out of trouble you know what i mean no and i'm sorry to bring this up but i have to bring it up we all was managed by violator management we all was under the tutelages i don't know if that's a word but you know what it is of chris lighty right i asked 50 cent this i actually all violated the artists when they come on here like how did it because it still affected me well first of all i love chris deeply and um his daughter tiffany is is a good dear friend of mine my kids and uh she's at the house all the time and uh you know she hangs with my wife and hangs with the kids and all that um first of all chris and my relationship was a little different from probably yours in 50s because chris got in the business after me so we had a different you was already and yeah yeah i was already so you know we had a different type of relationship you know and um you know we were friends right and uh we were you know i looked at you know we looked at each other as counterparts and he managed me he did he made a lot of things for me but our relationship you know was um what you think all right what you think let's get x let's get wild like i remember when he was interning at def jam and stuff like that but the thing i remember most about chris is that he was a really really really really smart guy and he was a good dude right and he wasn't so like i remember chris used to let me in the tunnel when he was a bodyguard at the tunnel chris used to do security i've never heard of this story yeah chris used to do security let's get into this and he would be outside i heard i heard he was running a tunnel i never heard his security oh yeah yeah chris was you know he may have been involved in the business aspects too but when i seen chris right he had a bulletproof vessel on outside the front door like yo like mr smith mr smith come on in yo yo he's like the good fella you know he was a gangster you know chris was he was a real guy i'm glad i met him later he was like yo i'm telling you and um but i mean all the all of the people you know like i'll tell you just to switch gears for a minute like leo the first time i met leo leo was a promoter in l.a and when i met him he came to pick me up from the airport because i had a show where he was a promoter didn't open i mean the passenger door didn't open you had to get in the car through the driver's side both of us and we drove and he was telling me how we're going to change hip-hop and let me tell you something he was prophetic though cause everything he talked about came true but he was very much you know i mean this was a guy that was walking around with you know no laces in the sneakers you know behind like chasing behind jam master j with a joint in his mouth you know what i'm saying like he was a real like like he wasn't this the corporate titan that he ultimately became but i always had respect for him because leo is the one who made the deal see i owned my whole catalog you still you owned it from the beginning i owned my cat no i didn't but i owned it ultimately with my deal you know when i got to a certain position with def jam i did a deal where i owned my catalog right leo is the one that did that deal wow so i have to always respect leo for that because you know he didn't have to do it they were trying to figure out how to make a deal that was rich enough for me to want to stay right and you know at the same time they wanted to come up to a certain number but not go beyond that so you know i said well you know give me a catalog and they said wow okay we we worked that out and we got the catalog so defjam has a really small interest in my catalog i i own it and so when you hear ll cool j so mama say knock you out all laps when you hear your own mama saying yeah cali said i need to love all that mama yeah yeah mama said yeah all that you know you know so when you hear my my records in movies and on tv and stuff i've licensed that right you know anytime you hear ll cool j song ll has licensed it okay that's another goal i'm going to take after you yeah i took i took the wife [ __ ] it worked out you know but let me let me be transparent the reason the reason i'm sharing this is because i don't think the hip hop community understands a lot of the things that you know i've been doing in my career i think that it's been kind of a mystery and i never was a guy that like asked my publicist to get me in forbes right i've never been the guy who really um went out of his way to try to market myself as smart and i just never did that because i came from more of a pure place of just wanting to rock the mic you know and it was never like i'll give you another thing like there was this whole rumor back in the days that oh ll cool j you know he's upset because he didn't become the president of death jam which is i was going can i can i just say something like i can't even describe to you how ultimately and utterly ridiculous that is and let me explain to you why why would look i'm i'm i'm i wanted you to be do michael jackson want to be the president of motown like i ain't confront i don't relate to michael i didn't relate to al i wanted l to be the president never wanted that i wanted to make music see but i wanted to get a budget from you i know i know it's a beautiful thing i just always i just wanted to be an artist lori right like i'm not ashamed of being a rapper like i don't i don't need to i don't need to convince you that i'm more than a rapper like i'm okay with that so that's all i wanna all i wanna do is be a rapper and be the best rapper like that's what i grew up wanting to do so let me ask you something right as a wrapper right when you hear stories like little wayne right where little wayne is getting maybe taken advantage of we don't really know yeah we already know what we see it's nothing you know what let me tell you something there's there's nothing that little wayne did wrong and i'll tell you why i'll tell you why because like i told you i own my catalog and i told you that ultimately i got a great deal but you know what if russell was the worst piece person in the world he could have easily taken advantage of me he could have easily gave me one of those bozo deals that you hear nightmares about but you know what russell wasn't that kind of guy you know what i'm saying i mean you know early on we did my publishing 50 50. ultimately i got all my publishing back of course but early on it was like that but even then with my first contract he only went 50 50. he didn't take it all so so a lot of that a lot of times when you hear about guys with bad deals that says more about the executives that they were dealing with than the actual artists it's not about them being dumb it's not about them being done because you know what some guys i give them credit like some of the guys you know like i told you i hung around a lot of street guys but i wasn't that's not who i was right i wasn't a hustler personally those were just my friends but so some guys who are actually hustlers hustlers and actually had that life they get to benefit from all the experiences that they had hustling so when they come into the game they're able to make better deals earlier but some of us because we weren't hustlism because we didn't experience you know getting cheated and screwed and scammed we didn't we were just innocent kids rapping we may have been from a rough community but we were really just innocent kids who loved rhyming so when you go in and you sign your deal it's not the greatest deal in the world because you're just excited to be there then you don't have that maturity and that grit and that you know that grizzle that allows you to you know make a better deal early so some of these guys did benefit there were benefits for some of them some benefited some didn't but i don't blame any of these younger artists you know now what i would say is that now with the internet because the internet wasn't what it was well it you there's access to information research you have information out there right so you got to want the information you got to want to make a great deal do you want to make a great deal are you patient do you have the balls to say no because are you comfortable saying no that was the crazy thing is when when death jam we got themselves together i asked them like are you bringing back ll and they never answered my question well they do but but you know to be to be fair your def jam is leo right kevin loud i understand russell simmons i'm asking no what it is is that you know look i you know when you're young and you don't know how to play the political game um you up you can rub people the wrong way like you are the death jam yeah but but you didn't rob nobody the wrong way no no no but you can like what i'm saying basically is that man like you know nobody's perfect man i don't you know i don't begrudge those guys nothing because you know the resistance that i've you know don you know pressure makes diamonds man you know i can bust pipes but it makes diamonds so the resistance that that i felt and the little things that they did just encouraged me to go out there and do something greater you know what i'm saying and just do something and be a master jose oh now if i drink another bottle of rose you know we might fly back to queens yo i have never been a man more than i was the man when i had you come to my hood now i had you listen this day i had camera on come to my hood i had jim jones coming to my hood i had one dmc come to my hood i had everybody come to my hood but the one thing that everybody said was like we're not going inside al was the only person who said i'll go inside and i'm looking at you like you sure you don't remember you said you said i'm with you i'm good i love my people i ain't i ain't we ain't nothing but i still feel like you don't feel like you don't really realize no no no no let me give you a process please i have to do it i still don't feel like you realize how much that you meant to people in queens now efn is my partner he's from miami he's born in l.a he might have a whole totally different thing but for us in queens there was no other [ __ ] that we wanted to be i mean nice i mean i i remember one time me and fat joe we had an hour and a half conversation or who means more to him ll to him or to me oh man that's how you feel like he's gonna fight that's beautiful man that's the first time i feel like joe's gonna fight i said fat joe you can't claim al you from the bronx you gotta relax you gotta stop i love joe man if i was like what i love about i'm like by default you don't love him as much as i love him by default and he just didn't like i'm talking about we seriously arguing i felt like this argument happened six times that's crazy and it's a blessing man i love it man but that that's that's how real hip hop this is what drink champs is about i don't know if you know al drink champs is about giving these stars flowers when they can smell them and giving them trees when they can inhale them yeah yeah because every other genre every other music when these people become icons or classics they support them why doesn't hip-hop have that platform well you know you know al yeah you don't have this plan you're doing it you're doing it goddammit don't get smart on me we got it already left rack city and i'm gonna be honest i was so embarrassed because i was like i was like yo you know you need to walk through you walk through i was like i hope a crackhead didn't pee it was bad and i'm looking at him i'm like this nigga's going to leave what don't act like he didn't smell the bee he didn't see the bee what's that what's that i don't know i don't know [Applause] [Music] but not only that you not only filmed the video you actually came and chilled in capone's van fantastic and we started watching the videos i remember and you actually like people got to really understand how cool because you know why we put you on a pedestal in queens and we should you deserve that pedestal and you should stay in that pedestal but at the same time people should understand how cool you are how down the earth you are how how you you'll shake anybody's hand you know what man even no matter what i'm doing in my life you know i always tell people you know i'm in hollywood but i never went hollywood you know what i'm saying and um you know keep talking so you know that was the thing you know this is a funny moment right here but you know that was the thing you know that was the thing for me brother you know what i'm saying whatever happened to cook creator man um see i'm gonna take the dj opportunity here yeah yeah now jay jay philpott is my man you know what i'm saying um we just i just felt like creatively i wanted to stretch a little bit and try some new things but that he's always my friend he's still my friend we speak um and he does like tom joyner he does different crews he does different parties you know what i'm saying so he's good working yeah yeah he's still working you know but i've been using z trip you know what me and z you know dj z trip has been djing for me for damn um featuring the toilet flush oh man that was crazy that might be the five heart beats or some [ __ ] toilet flushing and all that yeah listen i'm gonna be honest when you walk through my hood this guy went to peeping and come right back on it like that that there that's that's how it happens but um i'm not gonna lie i wish my my nephew was here he's here he's there you gotta relax [Applause] i didn't know you was here but it meant so much to our hood it meant so much to our neighborhood when you came out because we've been the farmers we understand what farmers is the red block the red black and green rock yeah how crazy farmers boulevard is like from back then i see a lot of people wrong like farmers is almost gentrified now almost a little bit no i see you got home fools you gotta hold up feel like they got organic places you're gonna juice them all once you got a juice bar it's over not if jamaicans is running it that was that joy gotta give it to jamaica i got my homies in there they're like juices and fruits and juices ain't gentrified but you know it's a beautiful community it may not people may have may not have a lot of a lot of money but they got a lot of dignity and they want to you know they want to make something better for their families and they want to have a life you know what i'm saying you got a melting pot of people you got haitians you got jamaicans you got dominicans you got you know people you know from all different you know right just like all in that community it's a beautiful i think it's a beautiful place well my friend steph steph is from farmers right okay can we ask him if there's a whole foods because i'm really not sure no he's crazy he's oh he's taking meds i can't even talk to him but i love him but step is from farmers boulevard so i used to go to farmers whatever i used to sit on the rock the red black i just sit on it as a chat oh that's crazy but this then then you came out and i was like oh my god i got killed yeah that area now it's you know that area has been some it's definitely it's like all the any other took five that shots is crazy 57 was at the bar how many shots did he take bruce i didn't quit thank you i didn't put two or two together the way you wanted to pick you up that's my man that's my men but i don't drink though i don't drink it like that no i drink occasionally but now i don't drink like that occasions i mean like drink champs i'm at a podcast called drink chips how can i sit here and drink oh [Laughter] let's go back to cannabis because i just wanna i just want you to i just want you to understand how you destroyed a man's career but it was dope i mean but he can't eat i brought him out at the barclays center when i did the concert yeah but he's already broke no but i brought him out i put my arm around him and brought him out there i did i i feel like it was too late you crushed them too late too late baby but in your mind in your mind you said i gotta crush this little [ __ ] but why did you do that because you know why i was defending myself because he was he was he was like computer literate at this time when nobody else he was the only [ __ ] writing rounds on a computer and i had a session with him and i said what is he doing he wrote a rhyme on a computer i didn't like it me personally but you you you acted on them yeah you asked it you ain't liking this i don't know high five for being petty let's make some noise yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i got some petty pills i take a petty pill every now and then take petty pill you're taking part a petty pill every now and then i take a petty pill every day not every day i'm taking it every day i think i'm trying to cash out you know i try to do my you know they go higher the best though you know i don't want to see anybody have see exactly that's what i'm saying because you know some people they don't understand that when you crush a person's career like you actually crush their life do you are you ever like because you know kumondi has never had a hit record since you you slaughtered him what why why why why why why y'all where's the funeral he knows this he's never had a hit record after you dissed him i'm just throwing it up you got to make your own decisions he got to make decisions decision yo you get you know you get to the crossroads you got to pick right or left l you crush these people career can you say something nice for them no no no no not nice but say something the reason why because oh why did i do what i did i make it very easy for you my thing is this you know this was my feeling my feeling is you know i have a fan base i have people that you know look to me and enjoy my music and celebrate my art if you come out talking about you know me and a far away and trying to undermine me you you're trying to get in my pocket and you're stepping on my toes and you're in the way and i got to get you out of the way immediately and mine that was my thinking on it and mama said knock you out at a minimum at a minimum pretty minimal yo listen listen make sure you're out damn it i'm sorry continue your story i'm so sorry that was it that was it and and and then but cannabis i just felt like you're just staying on no because you know what i know this is my nephew you gotta relax you gotta relax why are you tapping me i wanna ask him something good ask him something what's up i heard you gotta fight yourself with jamie foxx sound like that oh i was getting it any given sunday i seen that i've seen that movie yesterday oh that's right i don't know why this is why god is good all the time i'm i'm like i can't sleep because you know why i stand up listen them petty pills just keep you up yeah whenever i interview an artist i want to give them the most respect ever amen because because hip-hop should be a celebration um we i sat down with leo cones the other day and he said the reason why you're winning that's where you're going to do something so i look at it and remind you i forgot i had did like two or three songs for you so i was like oh my residuals business but then i'm looking and i'm like damn and then when you and um jamie foxx actually interacted and me hearing the rumors yeah i'm actually looking at it like this is great cinema this is a really great cinema like this is actually no i'll tell you what happened please tell us what happened we don't know what really happened you know the real story is that i um you know when we were doing the scene you know i think you know jamie although he was experienced to someone he was still a little green i wasn't quite as green but i was green too and um you know you know meaning and experience you know what i'm saying so i uh when we were doing the scene i was being aggressive when i was like yo you got but this is character to character i'm like yo you gotta you know what i'm like what scene are we talking about we talking about the scene or well he didn't something like that i did the huddle yeah and i'm like yo you gotta and i'm slapping the shoulders and this and that no you know so he got upset and he's like yo you know stop being so rough with me so i was like you know they didn't compute so we thought i came out no no tell me we're following you so we did another take okay and i was rough with him again and then you know i don't know why but you know he thought it was a good idea to punch me in my face not in the script no it wasn't the script nah this wasn't scripted wait wait wait wait wait wait no no no no he punched me in my face so i i looked at him after he punched my face i said why'd you do that wait tell me you looked at it yeah he pushed me in the face when i looked at him i said well i would describe this scene i was tight you know i was giving them tight i was tight i was getting them so i like looked at him i said why'd you do that he said um look and he like was turned to the side you know he was square he got his helmet on he had his helmet on he was turned to the side he said i told you before don't put your hands on me period so yo when he said that my left hand grabbed the face mask and as i was pulling his helmet off my right hand was punching his chin you know queen and then you know he was laying there [Music] then the whole team jumped on me right so they they wrestled me down you know the whole team so i'm under the huddle and i'm like yeah yeah and then somebody tries to reach in and like give me a little eye gal somebody did that right so oh yeah that was but not a good idea because i turned my head to the side and went oh he caught his he caught his head in this he was like see that's the thing with the whole mma thing juice picture yeah you're gonna give me a leg like i'm biting your esophagus off like all that leg lock [ __ ] i'm gonna bite your throat off me like we go we got to get it in like this the bruise is out so so i came here to the side and he pulled his hand off the thing and then they finally broke it up and then and then but but since then me and jamie got cool and we have left about it i heard that we haven't laughed about it we made songs together like we're cool so i don't mind telling the story now but you know what it is it's just you know but you know oliver is crazy oliver stone here out of the stone yeah he was the director that's actually the guy that's actually the sports announcer in any given sunday he's actually the guy yes that's in there and i'm i'm looking he's like he's who wrote scarface yeah he's amazing so you know it was just a funny time you know what i'm saying but you know that was the thing you know it's just you know jamie you know he just got off you know he was he was on his willy beaming and i couldn't take it and all that but like you know you know because you know you know and under the right circumstances you might let a punch slide you might right i mean you know it's not impossible not everybody's not a straight murderer all the time dude hit you under the right circumstances you were like if he would have said to me like you know yo you know i just and i'd have been like you know i don't even know if i could have took it then i take that back yeah yeah i could have told you i couldn't tell i couldn't handle that [ __ ] because you couldn't handle it you would join me insane i would have been waking up in the middle of the night just like he played me like i just couldn't take it yeah yeah yeah so cause you even beat [ __ ] up who broke it in your house the [ __ ] that broke in your house you pounded them out yeah i don't wanna that's that's a rough one though because the difference with that is that that wasn't funny because i was terrified oh wow of course i mean you know listen man if it's one in the morning you know and you come down and this is cali why i gotta tell you your segues on the questions you're very effective it's a smooth smooth and subtle it's a nice thing you're doing because you hook a scene you get it nice you bait it you set it up you tee it up and the next thing you know people are talking it's pretty good that's good that's good it's good that's good that's good that's good that was good [Music] [Applause] very smooth i'm so sorry it was amazing like i just it was like it was wonderful to watch now when the dude broke in my house the difference is that you know i have fights growing up and we've all of us i'm sure everybody in this room have fights in the hood and different things you scraps or whatever but but how many of us have really fought for our lives maybe yeah yeah dudes in jail you might get that feeling you know you did a big you feel like you're fighting for your life fighting for your life doesn't it's not the same funny feeling like fighting like in the whole just you know let's get it let's get it you know i'm like you know i'm like like i'm really scared the only thing this is for keeps you know i'm gonna get it in like whatever i only read it on tmz yeah i was having no idea and so it was one in the morning and uh you know the alarm pad went off but it's you know how you have an alarm and like if for those who have an alarm it'll give you a minute to put your code in it'll go and you have to turn your alarm off well mine just went and so i went to the keypad and some more sleep and i'm looking at the keypad and i'm like um family room and she said family wasn't it and i so i'm thinking what do you mean i think that's the word so you know you know i'm in my drawers this one in the morning so i just say you know what i'm thinking it's like my daughter's sneaking in you know maybe i don't know she's coming in with that too i'm like yeah let me go down here and see what's happening so i'm just walking downstairs i got my draws i took the alarm off walk downstairs i come down and when i was going towards the kitchen he's coming out of the kitchen and then we face the face and he's got all black on he's got a big bag he's got the man the long manson bed boots you know he's looking at it is he black no he's white he's a white dude oh you you're pounding him out i mean oh god oh god let's let's go there oh god i mean you know i'm like rick rubin but it wasn't really it was freaky it was freaky i think you know stupid mother you know and then i you know i got him down and then it took the police but wait about you you skipped yeah you got him down no i don't want to uh yeah but how did because we we scared the rock for a minute and you know you hit him with [Music] and the same one you give to all your guests it was just like you know it was tiring he was like oh and it just yo we just had to rock like right now and then you know in the pro i'll tell you the deepest thing though you know this is the part that's not fun even is that there was a point when i had to decide whether or not he should stay alive you mean you and him no when i had him subdued because i didn't know if he had anything else to do with me when i had him when i had control of the situation when i had him on the ground on his back no on his stomach finished and you know laying there i had to make that decision because i didn't know if he had someone upstairs you know i didn't know if people were coming from so i had to think i didn't have rope available like i'm not and i had to make a decision you know you know and i credit i credit simone cause she's like todd just just just wait because she's calling the cops she got on the 9-1-1 you know i saw my daughter come down the steps and she's like what's going on with the drawers i'm like this is freaky and my youngest daughter slept through the whole thing she had a playmate she had a playmate or a play date and she had you know somebody over the house they slept through the whole thing and then her parents it was the interesting thing her parents called the next like that morning when we woke up they was like oh you know yeah yeah she can stay you know it's no problem like if that was my daughter like i'm so cute you're letting me enjoy the state i had an intruder i just said oh no she's safe i'm like yo they must be having a really good time whatever they're doing they got some really big rings this is a really big thing okay you know so so that was it because people were telling me you gotta leave and i gotta respect you because i really love you but before we get up out of here i need to know about raise down she was raised represented queen she was raised representing i represent queen she was raised in brooklyn what about it i just need you to break that down i represent queens because angie martinez forever authority it was about her they're serious not saying the record was about her i'm saying she represented that record oh okay no no i'm not saying that let me get now i'm so excited i didn't mean like that but i've been like because she was oh yeah yeah nah nah it was just a record like you know that was uh um it was what it was you know it was it was funny because you know that was a beat that rashad had let me hear this lights are blinking don't worry about it oh i thought it was the road that's the revolt that's the road i just uh that beat you know puffy actually had wanted that beat for biggie when uh you know he called me i want my beat back saying not so much i love you but not so much nah but you know puffs my man and big understood you know what i'm saying i i it was mine it was what it was it was just like you know you know how producers they play everybody beats and biggie you know he really you know god bless him he rests in pieces of talented artists yeah um he really had his heart set on that one you know but you know that's how it went who's your favorite producer producer yeah i'll get in the studio witness and say [ __ ] there's some amazing producers out there man it would be i mean give me one ah i don't even want to say man all right give me two i don't even want to say but yo what's some crazy producers give me three give me a top three producers some top three yeah oh top three okay um i think uh i think dre is serious i agree i think um i think timberland is serious and uh didn't expect that one um you know it's been a while but you know molly was really really serious you know what i mean and primo and primo you know primo series really i really wanted you to say marley mark i really wish i was going to do it like yo i yo listen man i yo i love all of these dudes man they're all good go my son my son is scared to walk through what's up man yeah give him five give him five give him five i'm being good and you're on revolt tv goddammit all right [Laughter] because this is because this because you know your people is telling me you got to go and i got to respect your people yeah yeah yeah so and you know what because i respect you because thanks if it wasn't for you in a lot of ways it wouldn't be me thanks and i i always respect i respect you too but i have to ask because i feel like you brought this to hip-hop the gulp the greatest of all time yeah that phrase came from jake you know i got it i got it from ali you know what i'm saying damn we didn't know that from you know ali you know i was saying the greatest all the time but i made it to go you know what i'm saying all time i think i i probably have one of the greatest careers you know i think that on any given day somebody can make a better song but it's really about a career um and it's about so can i floss for you yeah you are the greatest all time you know a lot of times a lot of times you got to remember that you know i don't know you know but who was like if i got popped when mama said knock you out came out maybe people would feel different about me you got to relax because you won that you know you want to know what i'm saying i'm saying like if if something had if i was if you know got shot or was finished out or got done you got if somebody didn't let's not wish that no i never i don't receive that at all god knows i don't know if rock kim would have went away what i'm basically saying is that that there is something magical that happens with great artists when they're not here yes and they get you know looked at people grow to appreciate them but it's magical happening with you right now while you being doing tv i'm blessed this is magical so just in case lip sync battle we are all sitting back for hip hop like everything is hip hop all the moves i and you and you [ __ ] hip-hop thank you thank you but i just want you to know that if you've never heard it before even though you brought this um phrase to hip-hop you are the greatest of all time thank you i appreciate it and what's what's really are you alive i am i am i'm truly i am there's a lot of people who say greatest all time rest in peace that's true that's true i remember saying recipes i'd much rather be alive and debating it how about that one we're saying the greatest song come on we used to be alive and debated baby you know but listen al we really appreciate you al i know you got to go we know you on a schedule we understand everything you do this is what we do what our our culture our society excuse me everybody up there be quiet our society is about giving our legends flowers when they can smell them and giving them trees when they can help them and because you know why our culture when you get to 30 years you get to 40 years you get to 45 or 50 years they ride us off but meanwhile motley crue is out there touring meanwhile [ __ ] rolling stones and i don't got no beef with them i don't give a [ __ ] about them i'm alright myself i understand but i want to continue to support our culture and you know also what would help that yes is you know if the veteran artists make better decisions and if they value themselves because you know i i am humble that's true but i do know my value no i we know you know yeah and i understand who i am yes i'm clear about that unless you do and you know my business decisions and the moves that i make reflect that yes and you know you know i think a lot of our artists you know they forget who they are and they you know they think that it's about your last hot record but it's not it's more than that it's more than just that i need to hear this it's not about just your life everybody be quiet because i ain't gonna lie i need to hit it you know it's not it's about your career it's about you know that's one of the things russell taught me earlier is about having a career you know i could go out and play you know you know and have 50 60 70 000 people out there i can go out there and you know do festivals i can go do different things and i think that you know our veterans sometimes they forget that right they forget who they are they get lost they get discouraged because they they make it about the radio they make it about only 14 year olds they make it about but you can't live without your radio yeah yeah well i got a television now um you know so i just you know i just think we just have to know who we are we got to believe in ourselves you know i would what i would say to you to all the viewers is that you got to remember that dreams don't have deadlines and you got to remember never to limit yourself you know colonel sanders started kentucky fried chicken at 65 years old there are no limits on this thing you can be successful as long as you want to be successful you know michael jackson had he may rest in peace had hot records he had a sold out world tour coming he was 50 years old when he passed don't under don't you know overestimate the gift of youth and underestimate the gift of experience you know what i'm saying because you know and like i say to all the artists out there like there's a lot of a lot of people found out when they put their records on soundcloud that it's not as easy to make hot [ __ ] as you thought huh from four views huh how you like them four or five views how's that feel how's that working for you you know remember you remember when you were critiquing my album the one you said was trash you know you one thing i will say about hip-hop is a funny just a sidebar if hip-hop was the nba it's like they took the ball and threw it to the stands it's like the mic like we just said they just threw the audience in the crowd and said y'all do it yeah so now everybody's you know because for every chance the rapper who is truly talented and amazing yes for every one of them there's a thousand of them that didn't do it so what am i saying basically what i'm saying is there is some skill involved with this and it does take talent and it isn't luck we all need a little bit of luck sprinkled in our lives of course but the guys who made it yourself some of the other artists you name some of these guys your favorite rappers and artists they are talented right and you know so what what the internet has showed us is it's given us the opportunity to find out that guess what rappers really are talented these guys really have talent and they really are artists because if that wasn't true then everybody would be on would be on if they're not yeah there's a few hip one hit wonders here and there but this thing takes talent all right you know so you know i think that that's just something that and those old school guys out there they need to just make better decisions and remember that they're talented and not be not be overwhelmed by this idea that you're obsolete and irrelevant this is not you know you when you're 35 years old you don't need to keep going back to your prom you know you don't have to live life like you're going back to the prom i'm 39. exactly i'll be 40 this year young young i'm doing three parties la new york and miami i love you can i have you a part of one of them i don't know i don't know why i threw that in there i don't know what happened i mean how do you feel we got here unbelievable let me tell you i mean really look around at the life you've created like yeah like really look at this like this is unbelievable you're amazing i love you let me tell you something l i love you where's capone he yo listen i'm i'm gonna snuff him soon as he pull up because he told me he's supposed to be here because listen listen listen i don't i don't i don't invite him to podcast but went out how is that oh man he hit me as well you told him earlier listen you know i lie cause i come from violator so i lied to them oh yeah yeah yeah you told them twelve seven twelve i know i had you locked in at two thirty but i told them of course you did because i come from chris lighty school i know well i'm two hours but we can't we can't fall asleep in the getaway car though you know people fall asleep in the getaway cars like take the bucket of chicken off your lap and get out the car please it's like you know we gotta you gotta be on time that's another thing yeah i'll be on top you can we teach the youth about being on time because let me tell you something just now recently uh i i've been you know doing what i got to do so leo hits me and leo goes i need to meet you at the polo lounge right this isn't good this is why he's laughing you know no because i know it's loaded his scheme is already set he's like i really need to meet you at the poll up i have a we set it all up but me and ali is only there so we pull up at 7 45. leon's already there but he told us to meet us at 8 o'clock but this is what i'm trying to tell young people is be on time he told me to meet him at eight o'clock we pulled up at 7 45 and he was already ready there you go he's sitting there like this let's go and i'm like yeah holy [ __ ] whatever you want to have the best chair in the meeting and all that did i say get there yo listen so this is what i'm trying to tell young people yeah just show this since the wall is you're not supposed to show up at 8 15 when it's eight o'clock right now you're supposed to show up at 7 45 and scope out the join and also i i would also say this i would say that you know the cockiness is great for the records yes if i make a ready to come to business if i make a record tomorrow it's going gonna be the cockiest thing you've ever heard in your life right but in between it's it's okay to be humble no i'm not humility humility's okay i didn't say pseudo yeah i didn't say pseudo i don't know what pseudo means yeah you know i'm talking i'm from third grade yeah yeah i'm fourth but you know i studied the dictionary false like fake humility like you know you know all right you know but just be humble you know what i'm saying and um you know people want to help you then you know you ain't got to be you know all that all the time you know leave it on the wreckage leave it on your music leave it on stage but other than that just be you you know what i'm saying and uh i think you get a lot a lot further you know in your career okay before we get you get out of here because i know you got to go yeah because claude is over there yeah yeah yeah yeah i know you got to go but you actually have it's not just lip sync battle it's not just you know you playing these other you actually have a production describe to these young black kids yeah well you can actually help help people out well well i co-produced um the grammy nomination show for for uh about five years i um i'm a producer on lip sync battle as well did you know how lightly he said that you know what i'm saying um i think we should make noise for that if somebody has you know if somebody has you know tv ideas or ideas that i think are worthy i'm not gonna like everything and if i don't like it if i don't like it if i don't like it i'm gonna tell tell the person like can we send them to claudine yeah something like that you know we got to be easy it's a million people over here no clue let me just tell you something one thing for charlotte anything for certain when violated dispersed yeah it was probably the saddest day of my life it was crazy because i didn't know anything other than chris lighty i didn't know other things other than uh claudine laurie dublin's and so on and so forth scott i didn't know nothing i feel you so when when when chris went away it was probably the saddest day of my life i feel you because i just didn't know what i was saying too man i don't know what to do i felt i feel called buster and buster was like already had another he had no name he was with james at that time for a minute right but it was like another management it wasn't wasn't like james was bothered at that time and i was just lost like i'm just now finding myself me doing a great job me personally and one of the the very first person's people i'm sorry i said persons i'm i'm like dyslexic it's all good it's claudine and i said claudine was she has never ever made me question her he has never ever done anything and the fact that claudine is with you it lets me know that you really living out violated brotherhood and i love you my brother i love that woman i love that woman i love like claudine i love clothing like you don't understand and she actually said yo i want to meet your wife and i i made sure my wife came just to meet claudine because she means so much to my life like i'm i'm gonna be honest with you and i went and looked for her and when i said i said she went out i can't i can't afford her if l paired up [ __ ] up i [ __ ] up i said okay so came last i can't thank you enough because you know what out of everything that's what we owe chris lighting no we owe chris lighty to keep his legs first of all first of all i you know i owe chris on so many levels i mean my mr smith album him connecting me with the track masters we did that whole doing it record you talked to me doing it well this was down with me when we did that song um you know chris you know she was in the queen she was raised first time together i got a meeting but um yeah chris was he was a special guy and you know he's definitely be sorely missed and um i try to pay it forward by you know looking out for tiffany you know when she's in la she stays with me um you know making sure that she's good cat l nori and buster created a new violator and and because you know you know al let me just tell you something al and i'm sorry this is gonna get very touchy not for you not for anybody here but the other day dmx performed right where in the barclays center okay the whole hip hop said ah dmx don't look good dms you know he looks like he's smoking whatever but isn't it hip hop's responsibility to say that this man gave us 10 million records this man gave us such and such why don't we just come take him and put him into rehab or put him into whatever he needs to do to be safe but you know what hip-hop don't have a union to do that l is great nori's great efn is great rich blanco is great randy acker's great shouldn't we give one percent of something so that if anything like this happens like chris lighty passing tiffany don't have to worry like uh dmx you know have to go into rehab we can take care of that i feel like hip hop old's hip hop that am i bugging hell no you're not bugging you know but um that's that's a very complicated thing you know i mean you know what you're talking about i mean you know sunscreen sag i know i understand sons can't get their mothers off drugs man you know that's a tough one no no i understand what you're saying but in terms of you know unionizing hip-hop and you know it's something to think about um strong management can you know can create that kind of a vibe right it's not nice look the laborers look the people the guys on the ground floor the guys who had three four songs the guys who you know it would be great if they had medical or something come on we took my better because you said three or four songs but look rob bass and dj eazy rock don't deserve to be um they they had albums but they're the first they're the first one when i say songs i just mean hits okay i i think yeah i don't think it's nothing wrong i think that's a good idea but you think people it takes a lot of time and a lot of commitment there's real there's you know you have to be real about things like but if you gave 10 years of hip-hop right right you dedicated to hip-hop now you you you develop some type of disease it only takes 40 000 to get to take to get rid of your disease and there's people like us who have it i'll give a band you'll give a band jay-z give a band whatever sitting that person's you know i would always be willing to contribute to something like that as long as i know dudes ain't you know no no we it's transparent taking it and buying it it's transparent yeah exactly yeah it's transparent we got to be yes because you know why because the thing is i don't want to give an extra five thousand that i don't wanna i would totally i would i would have no problem with uh you know look you're not gonna be successful if you don't give right period anyway that's just part of it you know that comes with territory so if you think you're gonna be able to be a selfish prick and be successful it's not gonna happen you're gonna be because the people that are successful are successful because of the things they do right and they the parts of their life where they fail they're unsuccessful because of the things they do incorrectly and so you know because a lot of times people think a evil guy is successful because he's evil no he's successful because he's doing something right he also will reap the the rewards of being evil in another area so don't confuse it people are successful because of what they do right period damn i ain't gonna know and they lose because of what they do wrong you know what i mean it's like sports you win because of what you did right all right but there'll be repercussions for the other [ __ ] but there's repercussions for other things flagrants you know whatever overturned you know turnover like so you know it's consequences you mad small i just got to make noise for you being mad tomorrow let me get out of here one drop piece of love y'all you need any champagne to go no no i'm good i got you whatever you gravy

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Length: 99min 46sec (5986 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 02 2017