Drink Champs - Episode 131 w/ Nick Cannon

Episode Date: June 26, 2018

N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode the guys drink it up with Mr. Wild'n Out himself, Nick Cannon. Recorded on location at Nick's new Wild'n Out bar in South Beach. --- Support t...his podcast: https://anchor.fm/drinkchamps/support Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:36 It's Drink Champs motherfucking podcast. Where every day is New Year's Eve. It's time for Drink Champs. Drink up, motherfucker. What it good be over this? What it simple to see your boy N-O-R-E. And this is Sonny D-B-E-T. And this is Drink Champs motherfucking podcast.
Starting point is 00:02:57 Happy hour. Make some noise. And right now, even though we're not a live podcast, it feels like we're live because we're one of my favorite entrepreneurs in the game. And when I speak about entrepreneurs, I want to just tell you that this man can act. This man can produce. This man can direct. This man can be the record label guy. He can be whatever. He can do whatever.
Starting point is 00:03:23 And he's a super entrepreneur. He's out here. We're at his restaurant right now. He can do whatever. And he's a super entrepreneur. He's out here. We're at his restaurant right now. He just opened up a new restaurant. We're going to plug him to get the Drink Champs Lounge on the other side because, god damn it, you know we're alcoholics. God damn it. That's where it was at. For motherfucking Nick Cannon and the Boonie, make some now Nick now Nick we we quote-unquote kind of like have the
Starting point is 00:03:51 hood right right so I want to be because if you don't understand how hood you actually are actually from Cali yeah we're part of California is it is it Englewood no no no South East San Diego. Okay, South East San Diego. Okay. So now, in a gang-infected environment, some people look at you and they see you on Nickelodeon, they see you, but they don't understand. You could have been,
Starting point is 00:04:16 so what, gang man? You could have been that guy. Nah, absolutely, man. And that's the thing, I never really tried to glorify where I came from because it was just real. That's where we were. So when I got to Nickelodeon and all that, like that was, we made it out, that was squaring up, that's what we all wanted to do,
Starting point is 00:04:31 so to go from our projects to go to something where I could do legitimately, it was a look, so I just stayed that course. But even like, I even just saw an interview not too long ago, one of the OGs from the hood, Mitchie Slick, who's like a... Mitchie Slick, big up Mitchie Slick. He read Green a lot. That's my guy. But even like, my pops is his OG, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:04:51 He started, you know, the gang out in our hood and all of that. So even just to know that cats like that give it up, because I never really have to talk about it, but those cats give it up like that just to let them know where we come from. That's a beautiful thing. You know why I always knew? I always knew the moment. I ever seen you on television. You always smile For me see people who are weak minded people who are weak minded people see people who are smiled as weak people But we were strong-minded see people who smiles people who've made it already
Starting point is 00:05:19 I mean, I'm not talking riches. Yeah, I'm talking in spirit Yeah, so I saw all the first time I ever seen you on camera, I seen you smile, and I said, I identify with that. Real talk. Because I've been so sad my whole life. I want to smile.
Starting point is 00:05:34 God damn it, everybody smile. God damn it, smile. Come on, God damn it, smile. I was like, I'm smiling for the hood. When you make it out of something like that, it's real, you got a reason to smile. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:05:44 Like to understand what you got to go to smile. You know what I mean? Like, to understand what you got to go back to and everything. But I was even saying, like, though, the first place, you don't even remember this. But, like, I was signed to Violator. Wow. I remember this. Like, when I was a kid. You know what I mean? Like, Chris Lighty had me.
Starting point is 00:05:59 I remember I had my Violator coat. And he used to have the little situations at his crib, like, during the holidays and stuff. Right. And I remember I met you, like, just in the hallway wait wait you're in jersey jersey oh damn i do remember this is west orange yeah and i was like yo that's nori right there just like me a kid coming from like from nothing and like rocking and being able to do that and like you was always like the big homie as a young m, I always looked up to you, man. So, you know, this is what I want to do, Nick.
Starting point is 00:06:28 I want to bring it back to the very beginning. Let's get it. What was your very first job you ever had? Oh, shit. The very first thing. Legitimate? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
Starting point is 00:06:40 What was the first thing you ever made money from? I mean, like, as a kid, like, just growing up in the hood and stuff like that. Like, I was always doing little hustle stuff like that like I was Selling now ladies Yeah, from selling now ladies to I think he used to sell them Now ladies He was like a now ladies Selling all his whole life
Starting point is 00:06:55 Nah, real talk, even like people don't even know like you know my mom was married to one of the biggest D-boys in San Diego So like I watched even you know you run something over here to run something over there you know like that I was as a kid but then the first first legitimate situation I was working on cars I used to work on cars to get get studio time it was a dude in the neighborhood so I used to like 15 16 doing breaks wait wait we say working on cars I need to understand work in the world like where you can go yeah I can't go to Nintendo yeah my playstation is fucked up for me I can't change all you all I see that's how I'm a car dude to you know you know we got all of that it
Starting point is 00:07:40 started like you know working on like foreign cars to like back in the day like in the hood so we had anything from like Porsches Maseratis and stuff so like I learned how to work on all of that stuff. San Diego, Orange County. It's a different kind of hood. Big up to my brother cows in San Diego yeah I'm out there with the you know um the oysters and some of the best oysters I ever had in my life and it also in San Diego they got this drink where it's like half tomato juice and half beer and it's like it totally fucks you up but for that moment you like I'm in I'm good so now you get signed a job yeah yeah yeah how does this happen well see before that like I started off
Starting point is 00:08:27 doing stand-up you know I mean yeah so people watch that was your first I was doing music and and stand up at the same time just like trying I was doing talent shows and we were Ron and I would tell jokes and the first thing that ever popped off for me in San Diego, we got to open up for OutKast. Wow. It was me and my gurus. Wait, tell me. He said that without trying to floss. Let's bring him up.
Starting point is 00:08:52 Hold on. His first gig was opening up for fucking OutKast? God damn it. I was still in high school. You know what I mean? We were still in high school. And one of the comedians who was like the host Was guy Tori Joe Tony's brother
Starting point is 00:09:08 Wow, I went up there and start rocking on him tone like a crackhead version of Joe Tori all that shit And he was like yo this kid is kind of funny to be 15 and he was just rhyming so he invited me up to The Comedy Store I ain't on sunset in Hollywood. He was like yo you can get up there I'll give you some time and then he he started giving me like a little two minutes and shit like that. It was crazy. I'm sorry, I got to eat.
Starting point is 00:09:30 Always got to make sure the aura is good. I got to spray some good cologne. Make sure the aura is good. I'm sorry. Keep going, man. And we're going to get you to drink today. Listen, I'm just going to drink. I'm on like the super health kit.
Starting point is 00:09:42 I know you don't drink. I'm going to go in because you my man. And you know why? We got to celebrate the opening of the Wild N Out. The opening of the Wild N Out. We got all the fruity drinks and all that. I'm in. I'm not a fruity drink drinker, but I will drink. You just told me you drink tomato juice and beer.
Starting point is 00:09:54 That's not fruity at all, by the way. Tomato is a fruit, my nigga. No, not when they mix it with pepper. Once they mix it with pepper, it's a fruit. I'm not a fruit. I'm a fruit. I'm a fruit. I'm a fruit.
Starting point is 00:10:02 I'm a fruit. I'm a fruit. I'm a fruit. I'm a fruit. I'm a fruit. I'm and beer. I know. That's not foodie at all, by the way. Tomato is a fruit, buddy. No, not when they mix it with pepper. Once they mix it with pepper, it's like drinking dirt. Yeah. It's like drinking dirt and mud together.
Starting point is 00:10:14 I'm going on some champagne, though. Some celibatonia shit. You know what? Champagne is my go-to drink. Yeah. So let me ask you something. Yes, sir. Are you single now?
Starting point is 00:10:24 Single is a slice of cheese. Okay, okay we did see Wendy Williams but I posted you with what's home girls are always posing me with someone yeah you time with you. Oh, shit. Cab? Big up, Cab. Yeah, I don't touch married women. That's why I'm talking live. All right. All right. Okay. All right. So take us through there.
Starting point is 00:10:50 So what does this photo suit represent? This photo suit represents your new music? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, break it down. You know, we got a lot of stuff going on with the, obviously, you know, I got a label, Incredible. Incredible. Bigger than Incredible.
Starting point is 00:11:01 Yeah, we got the Incredible headphones. We got to make sure the podcast is on the line. Oh, yeah, yeah. Please give me some headphones. God damn it. We do it. That's easy. That's an easy call. Yes, yes. label incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible
Starting point is 00:11:09 incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible incredible models. That's what I've been told. You live a terrible life. If anybody never told you, your life is the worst. You get to hang out with models all day and wear Malcolm X jackets and glasses with turbans on and big gold chains. It was terrible. I was like, yo, through the label, like Fashion Week, all that, I was was like y'all want our music to be the soundtrack for That fly shit. So when we in Milan when we in Miami like I was like yo, let's make model music So for that I got with like every supermodel from Heidi Klum Cynthia Bailey Jessica why all these different models that we saw was just one. Yeah, it's mad more. It's joints coming. It's joints coming You're very sneaky
Starting point is 00:12:05 All day speaking of that, yes It's joints coming. It's joints coming. You're very sneaky like Kanye West. You're Kanye West on another level. All day. Speaking of that. Yes. Uh-oh, it got quiet. You're a hip-hop fan. Yeah, 100%. One million percent you're a hip-hop fan.
Starting point is 00:12:15 Yeah, yeah. What do you feel? I mean, I've been hanging around Ye from the beginning. I remember when Ye was slanging beats on the 2-way. You know what I mean? Did you go there? Yeah. I remember when Ye was slanging beats on the two-way, you know Did you go there? Yeah, he's been my guy and he's been the same dude from the gate. I think there's a couple of things I think he actually he's one of those introverts that has a problem communicating You know, he can't articulate he that's why he's an artist and he has to like I think we all honestly knew that he
Starting point is 00:12:44 Know he knows better than to say something ridiculous And it's ignorant of slavery is a choice of course, but I think it's just more of a distraction I think I'm more upset with the media for going in like that TMZ shit was garbage to me because it was like to use my Man like that knowing that they was going to try to get sound bites and stuff. No, Nick, pause. You went too deep. I'm bad. Pause. Pause, Nick. Pause, pause, pause. This is what I want to say. Yeah. Is, did you see Drake coming at Pusha T this fast?
Starting point is 00:13:15 Oh. Because. Now we going to go there. Okay, this is where it gets. And then we're going to come to Donald Trump afterwards. Yeah, yeah. But it will end there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:24 But this is, because I know you are a battle guy. You tried to battle Eminem. But go back to the end. We don't get there. You got to relax. I knew you were my man. You got to relax. I wish I had your number back then.
Starting point is 00:13:36 I was going to say, you think you got a chance. But listen, Nick. You see this happen, right? Right, right. Push is known as the bar, as in the happen, right? Right, right. Pusha is known as the bar, as in the words of my man, Shampoo, who I see in the background. He's known as a bar lord. Right, right. I like that.
Starting point is 00:13:53 A bar lord. Bar lord. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Drake has not kind of been. Yeah. But Pusha kept pushing him. Kept pushing him. In the sake of his name. Right, right. Pusha kept pushing him. Kept pushing him. In the sake of his name.
Starting point is 00:14:05 Pusha kept pushing. Right. And Drake finally responds. But here's how he responds, Nick. And you're a hip-hop guy. You got to give us the... Where's his drink at? Come on, please.
Starting point is 00:14:17 This is the time to drink champagne. Give him a Monta, a Vulta Coso, or something. I don't even know what a Vulta Coso is. I just made that up. We can get the champagne. So, he responded. How does... Because Pusha T, I don't think Pusha T was expecting this.
Starting point is 00:14:34 Because if you understand, remember, they've been going at it since Mr. Me Too. Yeah. Yeah. Remember that record they had? Mr. Me Too. I don't think... You're saying saying That camp Yeah yeah yeah
Starting point is 00:14:47 The camp I see you have Big up for that man They actually performed that On On Wild N' Out Back in the day Who Mr. Me Too
Starting point is 00:14:54 Pharrell And the clips came on Did Mr. Me Too Oh no Pharrell Don't want no smoke He don't got no No wild n' do And Puss had been on
Starting point is 00:15:01 Wild N' Out Mad times And like With the smoke And always Respected him As a bar lord. So when you heard Pusha T go at Drake this last time on this seven song. He went at the whole camp.
Starting point is 00:15:13 He went at Kanye. He went at Baby. He said, Baby, I didn't kill a baby. Yeah. That was hard. It was crazy. It was crazy. So what did you feel when you first heard that?
Starting point is 00:15:21 I respect Pusha's body of work. We always going to give him the respect for his bars and as an artist but Drake body he did he came when he came back so quick and then he came back and went away yeah he came back in a way where he just said it all he thought he threw his fiancee name in there and not getting her a ring. Did y'all catch that? No, I did not. Virginia Williams line? That's his fiance's name and he was like, and I'm going to let it ring.
Starting point is 00:15:52 Something like, I'm going to let it ring like Virginia Williams. That's what Drake said. He subliminally threw it. I thought that was a cigarette. Nah, that's his chick. Oh, Virginia Slim! No! Yeah, it was so crazy. I'm telling you, Drake And that's what, yeah, it was so crazy. But then you're way off.
Starting point is 00:16:09 I'm telling you, Drake is a technician with it. And then to come and follow up with the invoice for the career revival. Disrespectful. Disrespectful. Disrespectful. The Canada niggas are disrespectful niggas. Let's make some noise for the Canada niggas. Let's make some noise for the Canada niggas. But.
Starting point is 00:16:24 What's up? Let's go. Push it ain't going, ain't standing by. You think he coming back? Make some noise for the camera. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Starting point is 00:16:32 Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Starting point is 00:16:40 Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Barlow I want to tell you that what is Tuesday what would Tuesday be what they want is that we between I say that push is gonna drop something Tuesday is insane and he just he just wants the billboard spot and i've got to respect him and anyway he was like yo not and he said don't mess with him when he in album mode he focused but you know push his bars if you had to bet your last dollar right and i'm not saying lyrical i'm saying i'm saying
Starting point is 00:17:16 overall right now i've said this too i've talked about this like to me drake is crazy with he's going with the pen and the pad but if we going back to like even how we do on wildin out like bar for bar like we use all the battle cash out the hitman holler conceited all of what we do on the show Drake's not that dude he's calculated you know I mean he gonna go put an invoice together he don't expect that he gonna send bottles to Charlamagne he gonna make sure your enemies is right. He gon' go pay off the tuition to all the kids in the hood that you ain't never rocked with.
Starting point is 00:17:49 He gon' do that type of stuff. But battling, if it was Pusha T and Drake in front of each other, I might have to go with Pusha off that. That's just how I'm saying it, just MC to MC. But artist to artist, so Nick Cannon. Oh y'all, you didn't get me dirty with the fruit drink?
Starting point is 00:18:06 What happened to the champagne? Come on. Oh, we over the champagne. We over the champagne. So, so, Bake Click. Give me some, give me a manly drink. Give me a shot. Yo, bake some champagne.
Starting point is 00:18:19 OK, we got a shot of champagne. I want, I want him. So, Bake Click, Bake Click says Nick Cannon went with Pusha T. Let's make some noise. God damn it. Clickbait. Clickbait. Clickbait.
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Starting point is 00:25:27 what he did. Until this day, I still feel like he's one of the greatest artists. I'm actually, I'm probably going to be one of the first to even say we're going to have
Starting point is 00:25:33 that top five conversation. I'll probably be one of the first person to say I'm going to put Drake in my top five. Cats ain't did that yet. They ain't want to give it to him yet.
Starting point is 00:25:40 But after this pusher and all that, I got to give Drake. Drake going in my top five. He taking Slick Rick's spot and that's my that's my Okay, let's hear it first I'm gonna go with J you gotta go with Jay. Z. Z. Yeah. All right. But that's not even my number. If we go in order? No, you do whatever you want.
Starting point is 00:26:06 Because I'm going to go Pac. Pac is the one. Pac is the one. Hail Mary, they run with you. Yeah, I'm going to go Pac. Go ahead. I'm going to go Pac. And then I'll probably go Jay.
Starting point is 00:26:16 Even before Jay, I'm going to shock a lot of people. Number two, I'm going to go with Eminem. I got to do it. Even though all our shit aside aside if we just go on But the beef is on. Relax! I don't know. You gotta ask him. Let him finish. Let him finish. We'll get back to that. Yeah, but I have to just I gotta give it up. So I'm gonna go Pac, MJ, Andre 3000.
Starting point is 00:26:43 And then I'm gonna go Drake Because this is we gonna go cry yeah, he'll go fix it will say we won't go criteria six Yeah, you got to go substance You got to go bar for bar Then you got to go numbers You got to throw the numbers in there like accomplishments and and who's selling and all of that and then you got it what they've done for culture game like they flow and all of that type of stuff that's why I gave I had to get a South with 3,000 pot is he's beyond he's the culture M&M what he's done number wise you got to get us Elvis you know I mean like you gotta give him that and
Starting point is 00:27:22 then Jay-Z for his business accomplishments and everything he's done for culture so those yeah the, he's down for culture. So those are my culture choices. Yeah, culture choices. So Drake, for this new generation, what he's done for this culture, like, I got to give it to him. Two names I didn't hear. Hold on, hold on. Okay, okay.
Starting point is 00:27:36 Two names I didn't hear. Okay. I didn't hear Biggie. And I'm going to tell you why. And I didn't hear KRS. Or not. Going with the OG. See, that's a three.
Starting point is 00:27:46 Slick filled that spot for me for my OGs. Okay. Like, it's tough not to have an OG on there. And for the culture, I'm going to tell you why big. And this is every, first off, let me give another disclaimer. Be careful, Nick. I'm going to be very careful. Just be careful, Nick.
Starting point is 00:28:00 There's Brooklyn niggas around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Trust me. I'm the way because she's my man. Life after death., yeah, I know. That's what's with the little C's. I'm the way, because this is my man. Life After Death, and I'll stand firm on this. Life After Death is the greatest hip hop album ever created. And I'm going to tell you why.
Starting point is 00:28:14 Track for track, it has more hits than any other hip hop record, because I'm a numbers dude. Like What The Death is the second album. The second album, every song on there we all know as hits hit hit so I'm gonna give you that everywhere from 10 crack commandments to more money more problems crazy hip hop album ever now the reason why he's not in my top 5 one we only got two offerings from him we only got two albums and in those two albums he flow was crazy, but Snoop had already switched up to the slow flow.
Starting point is 00:28:49 So Snoop, to me, originated that slow flow laid back and then Big took it for New York. I got answers. And then so other than that, I can't really say what he did for culture because Puff was cultivating the culture moves. He was just a dope MC that he cultivated. And because if you if you like big you got to give it up to fat
Starting point is 00:29:09 joke you gotta give it up to heavy D I like that people don't get you know Joe is Joe is real big big was borrowing and seen those cats move and he just perfected it and he perfected it so much that he was allowed to make one of the dopest probably be dopest hip-hop album ever but I can't put him in my top five I mean I think this shit out more hot champagne yeah that is more Hennessy than hot champagne well that's interesting this to see you take that because so many people they misjudge you yeah as a person that is just saying out there corny this is not hip-hop right I would rather say that that was me I've been around you I've
Starting point is 00:30:04 seen you I see how the key I see how live that. Because me, I've been around you, I've seen you. I've seen how live you are. But so I can't see what they see, but I also have to pay attention at the, you know, just listen to what the rumors say. I listen to the rumors about me all the time, right? I don't give a fuck. You know what I'm saying? I know that shit ain't right. Exactly. Lions don't lose sleep on their opinion of shit. How crazy is it for you to love hip-hop in the way that you love hip-hop? And for you to be misjudged in the way you're misjudged? To me, it's like they said, you know, save the accolades, just the dope.
Starting point is 00:30:34 Like, that's real shit. Like, I've been doing this one rapping since the 80s. Since 88. My first demo was 88. Like, I've'm in DJ since 96 you can't just say shit like that without us clapping god damn it his first demo was in 88 god damn it I was born in 77 god damn it
Starting point is 00:30:53 I was born in 1980 right god damn it I was born in 77 this nigga had a demo before I was I don't even know what age god damn it keep going and then you know I was DJing don't even know my age. God damn it, keep going. And then, you know, I was DJing in high school, in 96, turntables, all that. So like, I really lived this culture in a real way. And then for somebody to kind of go and have their own sports bar, the first real hip hop sports bar chain,
Starting point is 00:31:16 we doing like, I'm doing it for the culture, in a real way, that other cats can never do. Let's be louder than that, guys. We got the longest running hip hop television the other cats can never do it. You gotta be louder than that, I tell you. That's right, that's right. We got the longest running hip-hop television show in history. Wild N Out. So we do it for the both of you.
Starting point is 00:31:34 But I've been scared to come on because I'm like, I don't like, you know, I don't want nobody to hurt me, or fill in, or like too much. I came on your show, you gotta come back. I've been scared for years, I've been avoiding you. I'm like, I like your name.
Starting point is 00:31:50 Yo, that's everybody in the game. Drake tell me all the time, yo, I gotta do the show. Hit me tomorrow. Crickets. I don't want nobody to jerk up, laugh laugh at me, like my lips or something. I'll be like, hey, man, I got big lips because that's the way it happens. You know what I'm saying? I used to eat a lot of pussy. I still do.
Starting point is 00:32:11 A little bit. But it's just happening. It's just happening. But I'm sorry. I went too far. I went too far. I don't know why I went there. You took it too far.
Starting point is 00:32:18 You took it too far. You took it too far. But that's why I take it back to that's why I would go with Pusha. What was Drake? Yeah, because Pusha been on the show why I would go with Pusher. What would Drake? Yeah, because Pusher been on the show. I seen him. He not scared to freestyle. He'll do that.
Starting point is 00:32:31 You know what I mean? Certain people ain't blessed with that skill. When you came up with it back in the day, you had to do it on the block. Nick Cannon goes with Pusher T. One more time, make some noise, goddammit. For Nick Cannon going with Pusher T. But I put Drake in my top five. But Drake is going to text you tomorrow. Bring Cannon go on but I put Drake in my top five but Drake is gonna text you tomorrow
Starting point is 00:32:46 bring your ass on the show Drake okay this is great so now you signed the job yeah yeah they come to
Starting point is 00:32:59 do Violator Chris Lighty all of that wow you did touch on that earlier so you go in to make your first album right right what is are
Starting point is 00:33:07 you are you recording the battery studios battery that's where it was okay battery was so crazy because you had jive upstairs and then when you got job records that's like everybody from KRS one like that's a classic hip-hop layer. Tribe Called Quest. Tribe Called Quest. So it's all of these people signed to the label. E-40. E-40, shout out to my OG, 40. And then downstairs you got the studio.
Starting point is 00:33:35 That's probably one of the first record labels that had a studio in the building. So you would see all of these cats. In the can of knowing his hip-hop. Yeah, man. You would see these cats. In the can of knowing his hip hop. Yeah, man. Keep going. You would see these cats in the studio. I'd be in there as a kid, like yo, just trying to get on. Even from that process, Biz Markie was in the studio.
Starting point is 00:33:52 He produced one of the records on my first album, just on just being in the vicinity and stuff. All the time. They looked out for me. Going back, see this is something that a lot of cats don't know too. Before I got signed to Jive, before I violator the first person the first working deal I got first person ever signed me was Will Smith I got signed to Will Smith when I was 16 Hold on time out everybody this was the ultimate floss in case anybody didn't know we just
Starting point is 00:34:21 begged him off for being signed to a multi-million dollar company named job, right? But news no even outcast was on job, correct? Yeah, he just said well, you know when I was younger than that I was signed to Will Smith. Goddamn, make some noise for that. I didn't even know how you got signed to Will Smith. Nah, as a kid, they saw me doing stand-up and stuff around the way. Wait, so what age
Starting point is 00:34:51 was you doing stand-up? Like 16. I was 16 years old. And he saw like I was doing stand-up. I was trying to, you know, get into the television game. I was doing music.
Starting point is 00:34:59 And he pulled up on me and was like, yo, you remind me of me when I was your age. He was like, yo. And I was like, that's an honor to hear the Fresh Prince tell you that. I reminded him of himself.
Starting point is 00:35:08 He was the Fresh Prince at this time. Yeah, yeah. And he was like, and this was just when he was starting to turn up. After parents don't know how to stand. So right there at the table at the meeting, I was like, yo, I got my own script. I got a TV show. I got a record. I got slid all of that to him.
Starting point is 00:35:20 I was like, yo, I got, it was a pilot. It was called Loose Cannon. And it was like the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but it was me in the military school. He bought it on the spot, signed me to his record label. And he was like, we shot the pilot for the WBR. Shit didn't get picked up. But it was like, at that time, like, yo, my dreams that came true. Because one of the biggest dudes in the game had signed me and took me under his wing.
Starting point is 00:35:42 And so from there, that's how I got hooked up. And he put me in hip-hop boot camp. Got me DJ lessons from Jeff. You got to give him a drink, please. Hurry up and drink. But go ahead, hurry up. All of that. We was doing the...
Starting point is 00:35:54 No, no, he need a shot or something. I want to go in. I want to go. I want to eat him to sweat a little bit. Go ahead. But no, we did... I was on the road with Biz Markie carrying his crates, all of that stuff. So I did a hip hop boot camp in a real way.
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Starting point is 00:38:54 I'm not talking money. I'm talking experience. This is what I'm trying to say. So this is what I, I was so happy to see him yesterday because I know the background. I know what he stands for. I know who he is. But the thing is, I also know what the people try to label you as. Right, right.
Starting point is 00:39:16 And just to hear that, like, your history might be richer than mine. I wish I could have held Ken in place quick you know I want that that right there is really honorable like the thing about it is you have to pay your hip-hop do you guys and a lot of people who's relevant in the 2000s and 18s or 2020s yeah they they been relevant with you in the 2000s and 18s or 2000s and 20s, they ain't been relevant with people in the 80s. Nah, not with the real culture. Nah, hell no.
Starting point is 00:39:50 Nah, real talk. Hell no. So that is just, I'm just honored. I'm honored to show this part of you because, you know, our show is a real hip-hop show. They just really want the hip-hop is shit. Yeah, yeah. The happens. show. They just really want the hip-hop is shit. I'm so proud to focus
Starting point is 00:40:10 on your life. I appreciate it. Of hip-hop. So now, you get signed to Jive. Yeah. Boom. We on. You on. Is it your idea to do a record with R. Kelly? Honestly, at the time, still a huge R. Kelly fan and to me he's a musical genius.
Starting point is 00:40:30 And he was on fire at the time. If you go back, he was a huge fan of Drumline because that's when I did all of that. And I was DJing down here in Miami at that time. The cast didn't even know I DJed. And he pulled up on me in the club and was like, yo, I want you to be the DJ in my video, in the Ignition video. And if you look at the Ignition...
Starting point is 00:40:50 It's the keys of Ignition. I'm the DJ in that video. Oh! So, and we shot that, I think it was at one of the club bands, back in the day, one of them joints. That's what I'm talking about. I got a story to tell you about that. This is just moving in the background.
Starting point is 00:41:04 Niggas is watching shit. We in this I love this so once we did that no he was like yo we gotta get in I got some hits for you and that's a crazy thing like he got arrested. I thought you meant him post-piss. That was like in the heat of it. He got arrested on the ignition video shoot. We had to like, they had to go down and bail on all of that crazy. And how old were you? Because you were kind of young.
Starting point is 00:41:38 I was like 19, something like that. Your manager must have been like, bro, what's going on? I was moving out here, so I was like 19 20 years old I just want to clarify when you say you was moving like how you was moving you wasn't pissing too nah I was I was I was pissing on girls I'm just saying I'm just saying to each his own but that's not how I get there so I'm just I'm just mad
Starting point is 00:42:02 but at the time but at the same time, Ignition was on fire, like everything. It's the remix to Ignition. All that. The church, the kitchen. All that. All that. That's my nigga. I did a record with him too.
Starting point is 00:42:13 I'm on his album. Yeah. I'm on his album. We fly high, right? Yeah. Google it, Hazz. Come on, nigga. What you doing?
Starting point is 00:42:21 Google it. I was on R. Kelly's album. Nigga, I got a plaque for it. Come on, nigga. Something like that. Google the song. Kelly's album, nigga I got a plaque for it. Come on man, something like that. Go with the song, come on, what are you laughing for? That's what it was, so we got a name, we did a bunch, he actually did about four or five joints on my first album. He's there.
Starting point is 00:42:33 I worked with everybody on the first album, from Puff to Biz, like Mary J. Blige, like Pharrell, like everybody was on my first album. That budget was stupid, like Kanye, everybody. So, I read the other day that you are a Donald Glover. If it wasn't for Nick Cannon, there wouldn't be a Donald Glover. I don't know. Like, you know what?
Starting point is 00:42:55 Even that one guy. But hold on. Have you heard that rumor? I ain't heard that rumor. You heard the rumor. You got Twitter. Hey, come on. They saying that you paved the way for Donald Glove
Starting point is 00:43:05 I mean, I'm probably paved the way for a lot of cats who started off on television and doing He's the only one that you relate the to the comedy Yeah, like and then allowed to be themselves, you know I mean like I never tried to fake the funk like I was anything other than just myself I was happy smiling. I was happy being that guy. And then that's how it moved. You know what I mean? I couldn't do anything but be myself. And when you see cats like Drake, when you see cats like Donald being themselves and being comfortable with being themselves, that's how it moves.
Starting point is 00:43:40 And this is America. There it is. Salute that. So you never, for the record, you never seen R. Kelly piss? I never seen R. Kelly piss. What's that on you? For the record. I'm just saying, early days.
Starting point is 00:43:55 I believe you. I didn't either. I said, did you? I had a session with him. I didn't see it. I had to go, like, damn. But I ain't gonna lie. Like, I started watching the shit. I didn't see him. I had the ones I was like damn. But I ain't gonna lie.
Starting point is 00:44:07 I started watching the shit. I said this nigga's a... But you going too far. You can't say you watched it. I definitely didn't watch it. That's illegal. I definitely didn't watch it. You never watched it.
Starting point is 00:44:15 I never watched it. You saw somebody watching it. I heard about somebody watching it. When I heard about what they heard about it. And he's like that's why. I said this is not good. Exactly. But I wasn't involved.
Starting point is 00:44:23 But Jigolo, so what was your first thing when you heard R. Kelly? I'll tell you how this shit went down. And working with R. Kelly is some interesting shit. He'd be playing basketball at 4 o'clock in the morning. I got a great R. Kelly. He's on his Prince shit? Yeah, he make you wait in the studio. So I was in a session just by myself, just in this room, and they sent the beat in.
Starting point is 00:44:50 It was a joint that Tony Polka, Trackmaster. Trackmaster, big up Tony Polka. Yeah, those my guys, and he did. And I was just sitting there bored. And you know, at the same time, the same way the label was like, yo, we want to do some stuff where you not, you know, we want to keep it clean, safe for Nickelodeon, all of that stuff. And they call R. want to keep it clean safe for nickelodeon all of that stuff and they call r kelly no no they were still like you know he's still a cat that rolled out at that time niggas don't know yeah like so but they were trying to be clear just for my trying to keep it they wanted they didn't want me cussing so i'm, by myself, just the track R. Kelly gave me. And I was like, fuck it, I'm going to just write what I want to talk about.
Starting point is 00:45:28 So I just started writing about chicks, went in the booth, just like saying what I wanted to say. Pimp bones in my body, all that shit. Not thinking it's going to go anywhere. I got on the plane, didn't even see R. Kelly. That's it. I was gone, like on my way. Then I get a call like weeks later, I'm on the road. And the label was like, yo, we love that Jiggalo record. I was like, what the on my way. Then I get a call, like, weeks later. I'm on the road. And the label, like, was like, yo, we love that Gigolo record.
Starting point is 00:45:48 I was like, what the hell are you talking about? Gigolo, baby. Gigolo. So I guess R. Kelly had went in, heard what I did, put the verse on it, and sent it to the label. That shit went to radio before I even, like, knew what the name of it was or anything. It was out of here. Oh, he only did the verse or he did the hook? He did the hook.
Starting point is 00:46:04 Yeah, I'm saying he just, he put the hook on hook on I did three verses and he just put the hook on He called it gigolo. We was gone and it was gone. Yeah, it was fantastic Yeah, so then now when you hit allegations how did what was your thing? Yeah, and like I said, I didn't see him piss my business what that man is doing Never took a leak because this is what we're going to go deep. Pause. So when you think about looking at somebody
Starting point is 00:46:31 like Elvis Presley, don't ever say nothing about that. His wife Priscilla, they met when he was 14 years old. No, no. She was 14. Wow. How old was he? He's a grown ass man. He was Elvis But don't I ever talk about that? I never ever talk about Jerry Lee Lewis
Starting point is 00:46:50 Nobody ever talk about Steven Tyler getting cut custody of a young girl that he made his girlfriend who was super underage in the 70s God dammit, man. When it comes to black men, they want to villainize. Give that man a shot. Somebody give him a shot. God dammit. So we don't talk about everybody. God dammit. God dammit. But not condoning anything, because I'm like, hey, I got a daughter. If any of the allegations have been, like R. Kelly's dying if he did anything, that's
Starting point is 00:47:20 to my daughter. But if we're going to villainize someone, let's villainize the whole community. And that's the whole thing. When they start going at all of these cats let's get at all of them because recently spotify just um took away yeah kelly and i think our guy named extension yeah like his suicide and that man the man yeah yeah but they got i like that his music coming back but that's what i'm saying like that's a that's a crazy line because if that's the case, then you need to go take Elvis' music off. You need to take Steven Tyler's music off. You need to start taking all that.
Starting point is 00:47:50 Talk that shit, man. I'm just saying, if we're going to go there, you got to go there. Right. And not condoning anything. If you break the law that we operate up in, in this system, then you got to pay the fine. You got to pay the time. You got to do that. Make it equal, though. this system then you gotta pay the fine you gotta pay the time you gotta do that make it
Starting point is 00:48:05 but exactly especially if the allegation if the you got certified criminals that have been convicted that they just overlook right but when you never hear about it yeah exactly like sid and nancy and they they kill people their music still on there so it's like so i'm just saying if we gonna go there we don't have to go all the way we need you we need you to step up yeah absolutely just step up have you run to be mayor California open up wall now I'm day of Florida I'll be like a cinder it promoter my criminal record so fuck that I don't want to stand next to you.
Starting point is 00:48:46 So I'll stand like you don't even got to claim me ever. I'll just be on the other side. You'll be a lobbyist. You'll be a lobbyist. You don't got to claim me. Like I'll be like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'll just be like your stepchild. You bring out a hood, niggas.
Starting point is 00:49:00 That's right. I'll just be like your stepchild. You recognize me like at home. Like just like this. I see you, bruh. You recognize me at home. I see you, man. No, but for real. Like, yo, because I feel like hip-hop, we have to stop complaining about what's happening in politics if we're not willing. Like, T.I. speaks so too much elegant to not be the next mayor of Miami.
Starting point is 00:49:19 Right. Or Atlanta. Yeah. Using them big words. Killer Mike views are so much identified with. It's, it's, it's,
Starting point is 00:49:29 it's, it's inevitable for him to be the governor of fucking Georgia. Absolutely. You understand what I'm saying? Real talk. Uh, Luke, with all the great things that he's done,
Starting point is 00:49:38 doing, the Miami community with the youth. Yeah. He can go straight to being the governor. Let's go straight. Let's just, let's just stick to the mayor. We gotta get into it. We gotta get into it. You already been the mayor, Luke. Yeah. We can go straight to being the governor. Let's go straight. Let's just step the man up. We got to get into it.
Starting point is 00:49:46 You already been the man, Luke. Yeah. We going to let Trick Daddy, and we ain't going to tell him, you don't even got to get off drugs, Trick Daddy. We're going to keep you the same. This is because- Shout out to my man, Trick. That's my nigga.
Starting point is 00:49:57 We love him. So, we feel like hip hop should start running our own community. Real talk. And not just our own community where it's not official. We actually have titles. Real talk. And I mean, that's what we were doing in the 70s before the crack epidemic hit.
Starting point is 00:50:13 Black Panthers. We was controlling our own communities, but they didn't like that. So that COINTELPRO jumped in, and they came in, and they switched us up, and they got it. They shift our narrative. Instead of building each other,
Starting point is 00:50:24 we start trying to floss on each other, and we start trying to be fly. And why do you think that we haven't been able to turn that around? I mean, it's— Why is the seafood yalla? Yeah. Why did it reach so far? You know, real talk, we've been conditioned.
Starting point is 00:50:40 You hear it on something like it's that crab in a barrel mentality of just like we've been conditioned to think that we in Competition with each other when you had you know Kings ain't supposed to bicker with Kings Yeah, they got you going at each other then it's a distraction in the top 3% laughing at it Yeah So so real talk if we we got to start with our kids and letting them know how powerful they are within and that they True gods and true kings within and then you go from there. Shhh. Yep. Permiso. No shots?
Starting point is 00:51:07 Let's do a shot. I just need one shot. We got time to vote? I need one shot. I'll go on that. On the real shit, we gonna go in. I need one shot. Nah, cause Nick, let me tell you something. I was real. I was real. The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, showing immense bravery and sacrifice
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Starting point is 00:55:35 There it is. And we have to, because see, the thing about it is, Nick, in our culture, in our community, when people have a certain amount of time in this, they want to done us off. they want to say you gone yeah they want to say you finished and what's the new shit you washed up yeah yeah it's crazy how about fuck y'all that's right real tough I want I'm at my age I want to dress the way I want to dress we don't give a fuck about your cosign yeah my bills is paid we diversifying you got a little go ahead
Starting point is 00:56:08 if you don't say I'm too old no we're gonna do this shit and I know that's why you wear turban yeah I'm doing the fuck I want to do some noise with a turban Get this man to say it's time for him to start sweat Please a chill shot or something But for real but break it down for you for your followers for the people that that you just started wearing this turban I don't know where now, you know, what is really a cultural understanding thing from the from the more science And then even going to seek is Standard you're real when you guys Every Christmas I'm going to Haney every Christmas to make sure I put a kiss on an orphanage. Oh, you thought it was a game?
Starting point is 00:57:05 Yeah. Oh, you thought it was a game? How did you even know that? All I'm saying is the first black independent country. All right, I know what he's saying. You got to relax. I'm going to have to tell you to relax. He knows his history.
Starting point is 00:57:19 All right, but can I ask you to do that again? All I'm saying is from that understanding, doing a lot of studying, I mean, I started attending Howard University. In D.C.? you, Nick. All I'm saying is from that understanding, doing a lot of studying, I mean, I started attending Howard University. In D.C.? Yeah, yeah. I go there, like, for real go there. Not on something like show up on graduation. Not just when it's Wale Berger.
Starting point is 00:57:35 So, and then through that, I started getting all of this knowledge and information, knowledge itself and all of these things and understanding that in so many different cultures, from the Sikh to to the Muslims to the mores to all these people to turn and actually represented something that was of security and safety and sovereignty and when you say sovereignty that means to be self-governed you know I'm not governed by this criminal justice system you're not government words yeah and then it goes for safety royalty and sovereignty so when you think of those three things together it was a positive thing. So if you saw a man in a turban, you gave reverence. You gave respect.
Starting point is 00:58:10 And then because of this society where we are now, they demonized it. They turned it into a villain. They made it seem like it had something to do with terrorists and all that. So I was like, yo, you know what? I'm going to rock it to show that, take it back to the core of what it's really about. And that's what we're doing. Are you rocking on planes too? Planes?
Starting point is 00:58:24 I was at the Indy 500 today in a turn the Mario and I didn't even want to say what I thought. What am I doing? I hate you. My mom's got mad, you know, every morning. That's why you thought he was hating you? No, I said, you got mad, I hate your friends. Because it's very ancient stuff. We probably invented the turban. It's a real shit. Okay. So how did you even come up with Wild N' Out?
Starting point is 00:58:58 Like, what was your thought? Because at the end of the day, right? Yeah. You're a comedian. Yeah. You had to already do stand-up. You already did albums. You already worked with some of the best in the game bumped heads with some of the best in the game what made you say to yourself you know what i'm gonna do a show that's outside
Starting point is 00:59:14 of the box it's crazy yeah so early 2000s when i was you know i was doing the movies all that tv like i was i was popping but i was still doing-up. I was still going to all the clubs, hanging out with my guys. He did a movie with Rosalyn Sanchez. We'll get back to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She smells fantastic. Amazing. I did a record with her.
Starting point is 00:59:30 I never smelled her. But I believe you. Amazing. I never smelled her. Oh, my God. Like roses. It's beyond roses. It's something better than roses.
Starting point is 00:59:39 I don't know what it's called, but it's something better than that. But good. It's very rich. So I was popping. I was popping. But, go ahead. So, I was popping. I was popping, but my guys in the club, they was just stand-ups working. And they was like, yo, when you going to do something for us? When you going, like, yo, you got all this attention.
Starting point is 00:59:54 And I was like, you know what? I'm going to do a TV show right here in the comedy club. And it was cats that people had never heard of at the time, like Cat Williams, D. Ray Davis, Kelly Hart. Because in all retrospect, sorry to cut you you off I do not want you to arm But this is your version of deaf comedy can real talk. Yeah, this is your version This was the generation so we had a D Ray Davis a beyond cross you can let me give you more respect Yeah, this is your version of deaf comedy jam slash and color. Yeah, yeah. Bang. Yeah. Did I kill that? Yes, you did.
Starting point is 01:00:25 Did I kill that? You killed that. Make some noise, God damn it. Champagne. Did you hear the names that he started talking about? I heard it. These were cats. These were cats.
Starting point is 01:00:35 They didn't know who they were at the time. But they was like my mugwit. Like, Cam's still one of my best friends. So we was in the hustle together. And I'm like, yo, you eating? So I was like, you know, I'm going to put my money where the mouth is and and we rented out a club I ran out the club got all my dudes together renting some cameras and we shot the first episode you put Kevin Hart on too as well I ain't gonna say that you my guy he's my guy
Starting point is 01:01:01 like I said, that's how, the same way when you see cats like Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn come up together and, you know, Ben Stiller,
Starting point is 01:01:11 like that's, I feel like we, that generation of these young urban cats that have stuck together, that's really getting an opportunity to do it for the black culture.
Starting point is 01:01:18 So, me and Kev came up together. Me and Kat came up together. D-Ray, Atheon. When you say Kat, you're talking about Kat Williams.
Starting point is 01:01:24 Yeah, he was on the first season of Wild N' Out as well. If you go back to the first season and watch out, this cat says, you know, cooking now. That multi-millionaires that started off just being on the show. So that's really why we created it, to give my friends opportunities. You know what I mean? In the same way I wanted to put comedy and hip-hop all in one venue and do it for improv. A lot of people didn't really know what improv was. They didn't even know about freestyle rapping.
Starting point is 01:01:50 So I was like, yo, if we take that same passion that we put in freestyling and then put it into some curriculum of improv, it's all the same shit. And that's what we did. Man, this man needed a shot. So mad. This man needed a shot.
Starting point is 01:02:05 He's answering these questions way too professional yeah it is I don't give a fuck I just want to ask a question give him a shot that's if you're cool with Jay Z everybody here know I don't drink like ooh if you go there ooh that's heavy I'm gonna let you handle it and then you tip you you put a sack I'm not gonna lie. I'm a survive guy. I'm a survivor. I want to kill you. Yeah, you'll kill me
Starting point is 01:02:31 I don't want to cuz I got to go to pop daddy's party today So I'm gonna make you go you gonna make up a make up to rock it out. Yes I'm okay. Can you get a guy's name is getting cool down? All right, give me a give me a shot of this please, please, with some ice. Because we got motherfucking Nick Cannon in the building. Everybody, make some fucking noise for Nick Cannon. So, Nick, you done did comedy. You done did hip-hop. You done did acting.
Starting point is 01:02:58 You done produced, directed, probably owned a restaurant. What's your number one passion when it comes down to it? I mean number one number one passion I mean obviously other than family kids all that but I'm gonna just go I'm gonna say the community's are like even right now Like just know what the community like community us can talk like building our culture giving giving these young people the opportunity. Goddamn it. Somebody gave me a shot, so I got to give a shot. And I'm going to take a shot. And I got a shot. Hold on. No, no, no.
Starting point is 01:03:30 Come on. Give him a little bit more than that. Give him a little more than that. That's all right, girl. Give him what you gave me. Look at him. He was looking out for me. He was looking out for me.
Starting point is 01:03:38 We got to call him. I've never been drunk before. Please, we don't want you drunk. We want you copacetic. No, no, no. I got my shot already. That's it. I've never been drunk before. Please, we don't want you drunk. We want you copacetic. No, no, I got my shot already. That changed my life right there.
Starting point is 01:03:50 You got it. We did it. Let's go. You all right? I'm going to be honest, that one right there changed my life. Changed your life. Is this a shot? So what do you say your favorite part of the game is?
Starting point is 01:04:05 The community man, give it back to me because hip hop is really the culture of the community. To be able to, all the things that I've done from having consumer electronics to restaurants to television is like to be able to go back and speak to these kids man and let them know that it's Southeast San Diego, Compton, Chicago, like I'm in these places every single month making sure I'm building with these kids in a way to let them know they can do whatever they want. Man, the sky's the limit. And that's what we do with this. Make some noise for Nick. God damn it, sir.
Starting point is 01:04:37 And you also took down Kim Kardashian first. There you go. There you go. Did we have to go here? Yeah, we got it. Did we have to go? Yeah, we got it. I thought I was going to get out this whole thing without talking about chicks. Just a little please. I'm so sorry, man.
Starting point is 01:04:53 I took a shot. Shut up. He was like, you got a shot? You're good. You're good. It also feels like you hit it first. Is that true? No.
Starting point is 01:05:08 Like in a good way. I mean before long. I don't know if there's a good way. She was married at 17. Oh, okay. I did not notice. Yeah, yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 01:05:17 So he was first. My husband was first. She's a good girl. I wasn't ready, I wasn't ready. much of a comeback. I don't know. But you was the first black guy photographed with her. Is that the truth? Is that fair to say?
Starting point is 01:05:40 We love her too. I met her. She's great. I'll tell you this. I was the first person to ever love her too. I met her. We love her. She's great. You know, I'll tell you this. I was the first person to ever get her a magazine cover. Complex.
Starting point is 01:05:49 Her first cover. I remember the head shots. I told my guy, Marcus. Oh, you was managing back then? Yo. You was a manager? I was already buying. I was popping.
Starting point is 01:05:58 And there was a son. So I went, he was like, yo, I need to put somebody on. But pop that over there. Because you remember Complex used to be two covers. It'd be the rapper on one side and then the chick on the other side. And so he was like, yo, I need to put somebody on. Yeah, yeah. But pop that over there. Because you remember Complex used to be two covers. It'd be the rapper on one side and then the chick on the other side.
Starting point is 01:06:09 And so he was like, yo, I was sitting with my man who run Complex. I was like, yo, you got to put this chick. Okay, but Nick. First magazine cover was Complex. But Nick, me and you, we both know Kanye. We both love Kanye. 100%. We're not disrespecting in no way, shape, or form.
Starting point is 01:06:22 I think I introduced him. Damn, Nick, stop. You went too fast. I introduced him. Stop, Nick. Stop. I'm going to bed. You're going to bed. Look at the pictures on my birthday board at P&B Nation. That's the one on the clothing line at the store on Melrose.
Starting point is 01:06:38 That was your shit, P&B. I wore a lot of P&B. You owe me a little check. Don't worry about it. Go ahead. Kim threw me the party at the store. So Kim told me the party at the store. Yeah, he came through From there like I'm pretty sure that was the first time they met Go by now they got kids and families and so you feel like you're the check. I feel like you should give a check. I'm something. He produced a couple beats for me, so I'm good. We gotta let it go.
Starting point is 01:07:07 We gotta let it go. We good. We bigger men than that. We bigger men than that. But you, you seeing this beautiful woman, she's a beautiful woman. 100%. Obviously, because you only, you only smash beautiful women. I look at the wild out girls.
Starting point is 01:07:19 There's no wild out girls. It's easy, you can't see. Nobody said you smashing them. Exactly. We just said, but we said you're a good picker. I have a good, I got good taste. You're a good pick wildlife, girl. What's that, girl? Up the season, you check, see? Nobody said you're smashing them. Exactly. We just said, but we said you're a good picker. I have a good, I got good taste. You're a good picker. You're a good picker. When you picker up, picker up something, you picker up something good.
Starting point is 01:07:35 I got taste. So you saw her first. Did you think she would be this multi-million dollar, be in there? 100%. What? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Tell me. You knew she would be? I knew that she, being there? 100%. What? Wait, wait, wait. Tell me. You knew who she would be?
Starting point is 01:07:47 I knew that she... Wow. When I tell you that woman's business mind is crazy. From then? From then. First of all, because she started off, she was a stylist. I'm going to tell you. She was actually Brandy's stylist. You went there, Nick.
Starting point is 01:08:01 You went there. Did you go there, Nick? You went there. But when I tell you she had a business... You went there Nick. Did you go there Nick? But when I tell you she had a big... Her business was so crazy that like she had it together even back then like her styling and all that stuff. And like even knowing that she was going to be a brand and she was doing it back then. So I was like I already knew her the whole play and she was actually best friends with Paris Hilton at that time. Yes, I remember that.
Starting point is 01:08:24 And that was like she was like known friends with Paris Hilton at that time. Yes, I remember that. And she was known as Paris' friend. And then for me, she just took off and started doing her thing. She planned it all out. She knew she was going to be a mogul. She knew she was going to take over. So you take down Kim Kardashian. That's the headline. That's the clickbait.
Starting point is 01:08:39 Let's start from there. I want a little clickbait. Let's start from there. So you do that. Then now, this is Big and Better Things. There's a lot out there. Your resume is great.
Starting point is 01:08:52 It's a beautiful ocean. It's a beautiful ocean. You got a lot of Haitian friends. But the biggest, the biggest fish in the sea. I need to understand how this even happened. How'd it happen? Well, I'll tell you how it happened.
Starting point is 01:09:13 My story sucks. But I'll tell you how it happened. You want to elaborate on what you think? I'll let him tell the story. Because I definitely don't agree with nothing you're about to say. I want him to go. As far as the poor guy's way, the way it happened is he met the yaller. The yaller.
Starting point is 01:09:35 He was the yaller. And he was the yaller. And they yallered. That's it. They yallered at each other. They yallered. That's it. And y'all learned at each other. And y'all learned. That's the story. I just definitely needed the English for the fans.
Starting point is 01:09:55 No, no, I understood. I understood. I understood. No, that's the second word. I understood. I understood. But Nick. Nick.
Starting point is 01:10:01 Nick. Yeah. Now you the guy, man. Yes, sir. You got your album out. You done seen R. Kelly piss on bitches. I like. You out living your life.
Starting point is 01:10:12 You doing what you got to do, comedy shows, you did it. All that. Listen, I'm going to be honest. You was confused by it. No, no. I'm not, no I'm, no If I was in your position I would've gave up five And kept it moving
Starting point is 01:10:30 Really? Cause I would've been shook Really? Cause I'm like I'm like a scared guy Right I'm a little A lot of people don't know that
Starting point is 01:10:36 Right, right I'm a little scared Right But you was not I'm a hunter and a gatherer Like I was seeking Like it was a Any challenge Okay, hold on Any challenge I'm a hunter and a gatherer. I was seeking. Any challenge, I'm up for that. So how was this challenge set up when you seen the queen? Me, honestly, being a huge fan from a kid like we all were. I mean, seeing, I remember
Starting point is 01:10:58 I saw the Vision of Love video. What's the age difference? Like 10, 10 years. That's what's up? Yeah, she's 10 years older than me. Ain't nothing. And so I was a fan. You know what I mean? I was a fan. So I always approached it with respect. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:11:14 I see you had a couple of award shows and all of that. And just all, even they ask you who your celebrity crush is and all that. I say Mariah Carey. She's putting it out there. And then she was across the path at one of them award shows. She was like, I heard all those nice things you've been saying. I was like, I turned it up. You give me a shot, I got you.
Starting point is 01:11:33 Thank you, dude. Thank you. Thank you, God. And then from there, it's funny. It was a couple of things. They called one time, and she wanted me to be in one of her videos like as the love Is but first real talk it was the touch my body video
Starting point is 01:11:49 And that was like a nerd do I got? Was like hold on though. It was like it was the hurt me in the video They wanted me to cause I can't play that part. I was like I'm not I was like call me when you got something fly You got a black. I can't I can't you rich already. So yeah I'll tell jokes I could be kept but I'm not gonna be a her being a video like oh so you got because of Rose even wore me girl sweetheart I'm not on point continue on, I'm finished, this is the Mariah Carey story. So then, she, they call for her next video for her second single, and not only did she want me to be in the video, but she wanted me to direct it.
Starting point is 01:12:34 So that's when the power of no, when you tell a chick no the first time, they gonna come back even stronger the next time. Nick, I gotta disagree with you. I gotta. You gotta tell them no. It's the power of no. Nick, Nick, Nick, hold on, I need to disagree with you. You got to tell them no. It's the power of no.
Starting point is 01:12:47 Nick, Nick, Nick. Hold on. I need to do this. The power of no. The power of no. I need everybody to come out. I need everybody to relax. Listen, Jim.
Starting point is 01:12:54 Listen, Jim. All right. So you're trying to direct a video. Let me get this right. You're trying to direct a video. Yeah. They said no. No, they wanted me to be in the first video.
Starting point is 01:13:05 They wanted me to be the funny dude in the video. They wanted you to be Steve Urkel. Yeah, I was like, nah. And you said you okay. Nah, I'm good. You already know Jemele White. You're okay. I'm with it.
Starting point is 01:13:16 So then they call you, and then they say they want you. They wanted a private meeting with you and Mariah. By the end of the meeting, I was directing the video, and we was taking the jet to the island The first one I said no once later private meeting Probably late private island to the private girl. Okay, please Everybody I gotta take a piss and I'm going right back to right where we at. Please please nobody nobody move cuz I'm so focused Keep it going. That's right, that's right. The power of no. The power of no.
Starting point is 01:14:05 The power of no. The power of no. You got to tell people no. Yep. When you tell people no. I think I'm hired, right? Watch your reaction. Take everything.
Starting point is 01:14:13 What have they wrong? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. It's the power of no. What you say? You say no. Everybody.
Starting point is 01:14:21 How you doing, brother? How you doing? How you doing? How you doing? How you doing? How you baby? What's up? What's up? What's going on, baby? What's up? No. My brother. Everybody.
Starting point is 01:14:28 How you doing, brother? What? How you doing? Hold on to it. I'm going to push it back. I'm going to push it back. I'm going to push it back. You don't say the number yet.
Starting point is 01:14:35 No, I get it. I'm trying to get him on the spot. Oh. On all my sessions. Please, please. Please. Oh, we got a new show. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 01:14:41 Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. We're gonna make sure everybody, we're gonna make sure everybody be straight. I hope he's drinking deep. You all good? You good? How's your shot? It's good. I think Nick's ready for another shot.
Starting point is 01:14:51 Good? Shot number two? That's our brother's number two. I'm ready, goddammit. Come on. Come on. Come on. Hey.
Starting point is 01:14:59 Hey. Nothing. Shh. We're gonna drink the fruity drink. Okay. All right. Are we ready? We're gonna make fruity drink. Okay, alright, are we back? We got rosé for you. Shot two?
Starting point is 01:15:07 Shot two. Oh. And a shot. Oh. And a shot. Oh. I've never been lit a drunk before. Smoke all the time.
Starting point is 01:15:17 Never been drunk. So is that what's about to happen right now? Yeah, this is about to happen. And we have three chaps. So, so Nick, where were we at? You, you wrong. Right? You're wrong. No, I'm, so then, where were we at?
Starting point is 01:15:26 You, you, um... You were about to play. No, the word no. The power of no. The power of no. Second meeting, second meeting. Second meeting. Directed, and really, after that second meeting, after we went and directed the video, the song's called Bye Bye and all that.
Starting point is 01:15:41 Uh-huh. We were inseparable since then. We was, like, weeks later, we was married. married mmm we just went in now come on when you're later these late night night night we slayed be more specific please please weeks weeks like no more than being the first encounter like where you actually was like yo this is your real talk and take it down you know that we was at the meeting at the Beverly Hills Hotel you know like the security this is um with the Houston dog no no not that that's the Beverly that's the Beverly Hilton on okay this is Beverly hit the pink one over there. Oh, yeah
Starting point is 01:16:31 Security come damn in frisky. Let's show everything Yeah, and she walked in like maybe 20 minutes at that I've just been sitting there trying to get my grown man on and then we said and we built up I laid it all out. And from there, like it was inseparable from there. So how does that happen? You gotta know what you want, man. You gotta speak shit into existence.
Starting point is 01:16:51 It's facts. You just gotta, and we just went straight at it. She caught my vibe. Wow. But hold on. The, cause I know where you're going with it.
Starting point is 01:17:01 You said weeks into they got married. Weeks. I wanna know what the weeks is exactly straight to the island you know she got the private island with their all like we went to I never had a rich girlfriend like you and I. A rich, whether you call it a girlfriend, a wife, whatever it was, it's a beautiful thing. Okay, because listen, let me just describe this to you, Nick. You're talking to Sonny D. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Starting point is 01:17:34 Let me just describe this to you, Nick. Say it to him, but you don't say it to me. Let me just describe this to you, Nick, right? In normal life, most people, they'll go master the girl, right right and a girl got more money than them right or something right and that's their purpose right they're not physically attracted to it just going there straight for the bag they go for the back thing when it's very seldomly when a person is a
Starting point is 01:18:01 physical attracted to this person. Individual. Amazing. Amazing. Right. And the world is physically attracted to this one. The one. Amazing. Right, right. And then,
Starting point is 01:18:15 we're also together and it's amazing. Yeah. Nah, it was, it was. That's not normal. It doesn't happen. That's why I said I was living the dream. Like it was truly, I mean, no pun intended, but, like, it was like a fantasy. Like, this was my dream girl that I was, like, you know, one day, and it actually happened.
Starting point is 01:18:32 Come on, everybody give him a hand. But I'm not going to lie. In history, that's one of my favorite celebrity couples of your life. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I'm not going to lie. I felt like y'all invented a celebrity couple. That's one of my favorite celebrity couples you have ever had. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I'm not going to lie. I felt like y'all invented a celebrity couple.
Starting point is 01:18:49 Do you feel like that? You feel like what? Y'all invented a celebrity couple. The ones that we loved and were honest. I mean, because that was like the... Jay and B was kind of the ones that... They the holy grail of that. They the holy grail of everything else. Come on, just saying.
Starting point is 01:19:02 You don't know? We'll be on the Mount Rushmore of that. We was right. We did some beautiful things. We made some beautiful children. So let's just speak to the people in the hood. Yes, let's talk to them. The people in the hood, there's so many people that say,
Starting point is 01:19:18 I would love a girl to take care of me. I would love a girl. Oh, let's talk about this. All right. Let me hear you. I know you want to talk. One more shot for that. a girl to take care of me or love a girl. Oh, let's talk about this. Alright. I know you want to talk. One more shot. Give him some champagne. Give him some champagne.
Starting point is 01:19:33 I'm here. I'm here. Give him a shot. You know, because you know why? Because there's so many people from our community, right, that will say, they will say, if my girl got more money than me, right,
Starting point is 01:19:49 I'm cool with that. Right. You get some points for that. I thought about that before. Chill, chill. Let me finish. It's all about being equally yoked. But let me finish.
Starting point is 01:20:01 So, and then there's so many other people who will say, I can't mess with her because she's doing so much more. Listen to me. I'm going to say this guy's name. He's around. He's around. Right. We're all around.
Starting point is 01:20:16 A couple of my other famous rapper friends, I can't say their name either. Can't say their name either, but Nick, stay with me. I'm with you. I'm with you. So we're around. And one of my homeboys, he's here. He's around. And we say, all right, cool.
Starting point is 01:20:31 Chick is nice looking. She's nice. She's, you know, she's nice. But so my man looked at her grab, and she was in Dubai. Yo! I came from Dubai. Yo! I can't. No one said your name. You got to relax.
Starting point is 01:20:51 She was in Dubai. She was in fucking Santorini, Greece. This nigga said, I don't want her. She went everywhere. I can't get her nothing. Do you think that, because Instagram sometimes it fools people.
Starting point is 01:21:08 So a friend of mine, I don't know where he's at. He ain't even in the room. I don't know. But he was intimidated. He was like, in his mind, he was like, what can I give her? She got everything.
Starting point is 01:21:24 And this is real shit. So women, this is what women In his mind, he was like, what can I give her? She got everything. And this is real shit. So women, this is what women don't understand what's going on. Sometimes they post everything and they post on this luxury, but they want a person to love them. And the person that really want to love them is like, I got fat burger money, baby. Fat burger money. You want to go to Craig's? And Dan Tana's?
Starting point is 01:21:52 I'm going to give you, from my perspective at the time. But he can make the Craig and Dan Tana's money. He just needs that powerful pussy. There it is. There's some powerful pussy that can make you. It's called motivation. Yeah, it can make you. It can make you. I'm going to tell you how it really happened for me.
Starting point is 01:22:05 Clearly, when. Did I go too far? I did not go too far It's some powerful pussy I'm just being honest There it is Because when I first started with it When I first got married I'm sorry I went too far
Starting point is 01:22:21 When I first got married She had... Powerful bullshit? Yes. In a sense to where I wasn't making that much money. By the time it was over, I was making more money. But was there a time you felt, like, intimidated? Never.
Starting point is 01:22:39 It takes a strong man to be with a strong woman. God damn it. That's right. God damn it. Let's drink up. I went in, like, I made ten times the amount of money. And it wasn't even, it was just like my hustle turned up because I saw that. I was like, yo, if I want to be a true head of the household.
Starting point is 01:23:01 Enlightenment's a good word? Yeah. If you want to be a real head of the household, you got to step up. That was a challenge. You know household, you got to step up. That was a challenge, you know what I mean? I stepped up, I went in there and I literally became the leader of the household.
Starting point is 01:23:10 You know, not only being a father, but being a breadwinner too and being a provider and to be able to say, you know, I own homes together with Mariah Carey,
Starting point is 01:23:19 I own islands, like to be able to say that, I would have never thought that type of stuff before I met you. You on my island? I'm saying type of something before I make some smart investments I have dinner at your house all the time My wife's cooking has to do with that. He's bringing up your wife's cooking. What's dinner like in a household with Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey? I eat at his crib and they're going to throw Sonny D a little piece. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:23:59 And I love him. Sonny's going to get him. His wife cooks it from scratch. From scratch. I'm gonna keep people who don't know this. Mariah cooks? An amazing cook. Wow. Like everything from black-eyed peas to linguine with clam sauce.
Starting point is 01:24:15 What's up, Mariah Carey? Real talk. I'm cooking black-eyed peas. You know who else is amazing? You know who else is an amazing cook? Kim Kardashian is an amazing cook. Soul food. He's calling it now.
Starting point is 01:24:28 Real talk. How you going there, man? I'm going there. When I tell you amazing cooks. Amazing. Both work. Mac and cheese. Crazy.
Starting point is 01:24:42 Two potatoes. The hard cheese on the top and the soft cheese underneath. They know how to get it in. Collard greens. They cooking for it. Greens. Collard greens.
Starting point is 01:24:52 You got me asked, bro. I went too far? Yeah, you went too far. I went too far. You got to clean them shits. Well, anything else, we good. Good. We good in the land.
Starting point is 01:25:03 All the way. God damn it, Nick. Let the land all the way god damn it Niggas gave me a big shot with ice. Like it's cool. It's not cool at all. Yo, Nick motherfucking Cannon. You wanna do it too? I got it. I got it. He better fucking do it.
Starting point is 01:25:36 Look how big my shot is compared to y'all niggas. You got the fruity drinks and the champagne. Almost rubbed my nipples. Almost, almost rubbed my nipples. Akinelli is down the block. I heard Akinelli, because I was trying to be the first black owned business on South Beach. And you got it baby. But I heard my man Akinelli is down there.
Starting point is 01:26:06 What he putting in they mouth down there? Woo! He putting booty in there, bro. It's a lab. It's a lab. Shout out to Akinelli. Yeah, big up to Akinelli.
Starting point is 01:26:23 He's from Black Businesses. He's from that... Black businesses. He's from Left Frack City. And now, that's real shit right there, Nick. Because I'm glad you went there. Yeah. Because, um... Black excellence.
Starting point is 01:26:34 The other day... The other day, I seen a picture of you. I hit you. And you said, you're coming to the bar. And it was important for me to support your business. I appreciate you. Dorian, big homie. You said you're coming to the bar. It was important for me to support your business. I appreciate you. Dorian, big homie.
Starting point is 01:26:50 From the Bronx, BX. I didn't want no drink tickets. I like to. You bought your drink. I like to go. You support it. This is who I am. Brother to brother. Because that's real shit.
Starting point is 01:26:59 Why would I come knowing I got it to not? I don't need no drink tickets from you. Like, I don't need none of that shit. Kings recognize kings. What happened was, it was so many people that took my headline. And I didn't know that I was unique. I thought this is how everybody should think. So, so many people took my headline and they kept me posting it.
Starting point is 01:27:20 It was like, yo, support your people. Support your own family. And so, am I a unique people. Support your own family. Am I a unique person? I don't know. I think it goes back to that mentality that we talked about. You know what I mean? We don't operate as kings often because we've been told that we are feeble-minded
Starting point is 01:27:37 and less of this, so we always looking for a hookup. But when we know that we are royalty from within, you want to support the next man. You want to support black businesses. You want to be able to support and say yo I made my chicken over here so I'm gonna go and spend it with the people that I know that I can cultivate with so so real talk like it's just really shifting that mentality and like you have it already like we get to a point like cuz we get in that hustle mode and even it goes back to the idea when people say you I'm
Starting point is 01:28:02 trying to make it out the hood like nah you why we we don't want to make it out the hood we want to make the hood We want to make each other we want to build each other You want to make enough bread so you can continue to build your community up? We ain't trying to make it out We're trying to bring everybody back to it and that's really what it is And that's how we support each other and I always tell people like you know like back in the day like when you was from Harlem, Oakland, Bronx, what like those were the places that made our culture. Like Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance, you wanted to be there.
Starting point is 01:28:30 Every black person in America was trying to make it to Harlem, you know, make it to Chicago, make it to these places. Right, it's a big city. And those were the hoods. That's where we were. But then they shifted it. Like I said, we got to that place where it was like now we're trying to escape each other. Now we're trying to have these crab in the barrel
Starting point is 01:28:45 Mentalities where we try to get away from each other But we know how to build and operate amongst each other to where we don't need to be policed We can function amongst ourselves without a black Panther ourselves exactly There it is we gotta have motherfucking Wakanda Wakanda up in this joint. Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!
Starting point is 01:29:08 All day. You're right, young fella. Yo, listen, man. Nick, I can't thank you enough, man. Man, I appreciate it. I could keep going on and on and on. I'll come back. No.
Starting point is 01:29:18 But I want to be clear. We're in your establishment on South Beach. Yep. 11th and Ocean? Yeah. Between 12 and 11. Between 12 and 11. Between 12 and 11 on Ocean?
Starting point is 01:29:31 Yes. Yeah. On Ocean. So vacation. Prime real estate. Prime real estate. Black people, we are out here. Right at the Victor Hotel.
Starting point is 01:29:39 Sugar factory. Right next to the Victor. You know, that's my first name. Victor. Victor. This your hotel? Not really. Victor. Victor. This is your hotel. Not really. But I'm here to support.
Starting point is 01:29:51 Next to the Versace mansion. Next to the Versace mansion. Next door. And listen, if you guys are anywhere near the Wild and Out Bar, and you don't come on here and take a piss. The bathrooms are beautiful. Yeah, bathrooms are beautiful. Cut your toenails somewhere.
Starting point is 01:30:12 Get a drink. That's it. You gotta support the establishment, because if we don't support ours, who are we gonna expect to support ours? There it is. So this is what we gotta do. Nick, we appreciate you for coming through. There it is. So this is what we got to do. Nick, we appreciate you for coming through.
Starting point is 01:30:27 I appreciate you. You've always been my guy. I've seen him in a hotel in New York. I said, Nick, it's time. It's time. They gave me a five. And I said, you're coming on Wildin' Out. And I'm coming on Wildin'. I'm going to come on Wildin'.
Starting point is 01:30:41 I'm going to be honest. You got to relax, guy. I got to relax. That's wild. That day, I'm going to just come. I'm going to just him on. I'm going to be honest. You got to relax, Carter. I got to relax. That's all. That day I'm going to just go like, I'm just going to do it. Hey, why not? Because I just like, I don't like to lose.
Starting point is 01:30:52 Like, I always win in jokes. I know. We're going to make sure you win. No, but in my mind, I can't lose. Don't do it. Put you with all the best collegiate. Who are the best collegiate? Please.
Starting point is 01:31:04 We want a cheat code. A cheat code, I'm good. Because I don't want somebody, because I'm going to put you with all the best comedians. Who are the best comedians? Please, give me one of Chico. Yeah, Chico was good. Because I don't want somebody, because I'm a second person to them. When I see them outside, I'm like, oh no. And then I'm in jail for 24 years. Oh, we ain't going to let that happen. I definitely shouldn't.
Starting point is 01:31:18 We're not making that up. I definitely, that joke was not that bad. No, I'm in a cell. No, no, we're not doing that. Listen. Nick Carlin. Wildin' Out. The beautiful females of Wildin' Out.
Starting point is 01:31:32 The beautiful Wildin' Out queens. The beautiful females of Wildin' Out. We respect y'all. We will never neglect y'all. We will only connect y'all. Protect y'all. I feel like I'm getting married right now. I need you to not like that at all anymore. But listen, this is Dreamchance on the road.
Starting point is 01:31:58 Hazardous sounds in the building. Motherfucking drunk motherfucking cousin. I think I know them all pretty well. the building motherfucking drunk motherfucking twin that both twins in the building between the end mother fucker young twin is in the building and we do we gotta do thank you so much for coming hanging out with us. And we're in your establishment. Yes. Oh, you got a little shot? I'm in. Yeah, we're in. We're in. One more. We're in. We're in.
Starting point is 01:32:26 We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in.
Starting point is 01:32:30 We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in.
Starting point is 01:32:34 We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in.
Starting point is 01:32:38 We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in.
Starting point is 01:32:42 We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. We're in. Yeah, I was gonna be able to put like some white water and something for kids and But Nick let me just let me just establish something real quick I think the police is here somewhere I'm a medical marijuana patient. I don't know if you know that. I got an ID. No, I got my ID.
Starting point is 01:33:06 You want to show it? Oh, you smell and stuff. You can read it out loud. You can read it out loud. No, I'm actually, for real. Why y'all laughing at me? I don't like it. I'm dead serious.
Starting point is 01:33:14 You're calling yourself a patient. No, I am a patient, motherfucker. I'm like, I'm out of the hospital. I'm one. All right, hold on. Hold on, let me show y'all. Y'all think I'm one. I don't like it.
Starting point is 01:33:22 I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't hot medical. I won. All right, hold on. Hold on, let me show y'all, because y'all think I'm playing. I don't like it. I don't like it. Y'all laughing at me. We believe you.
Starting point is 01:33:32 We know you got the card. All right, let me show you the card. Let me show you the card. All right, cool. I'm going to show you how happy I am with my card. Just very happy. I'm very happy. It's nice.
Starting point is 01:33:42 It's very good. All right, cool, cool, cool, Nick. Little, little, little Nick. Look, look, look Nick. Look at me. This is how a nigga look from New York City that moved to Miami. That's you. Look at that.
Starting point is 01:33:56 That's Santiago. Aw. You won't go to say that part? No, no, no. But listen. I don't know why. Show that idea. No, I'm not showing that idea to the camera. It's not the way this works.
Starting point is 01:34:13 You got to relax. All right, so listen. On behalf of the Drink Champs, on behalf of Nick, for being a person that I want to focus the light on. I appreciate you. I want to get the hip hop stamp of approval. Yeah! I want it to be official.
Starting point is 01:34:32 Yeah! Official. From one king to another. But here's the deal. You've been had the hip hop stamp of approval. Appreciate you. That's the thing that you didn't know. The stamp of approval you was looking for was from people who want hip-hop
Starting point is 01:34:59 you already got on behalf of drink champs we'll have a while now Nick cannon and everybody in the building, and I'm sorry. Listen, I wanted y'all to come to our office, but y'all wanted us to come to y'all. So we smoking y'all shit out. Police going to arrest us, but they have no idea I'm a medical patient. I'm dead serious. This is from Florida.
Starting point is 01:35:22 What is it called? Health Department. I got agriculture. They all cleared me. I'm good. But thank you, Nick Cannon, for coming out and participating. Thank you for holding it down. Incredible, the movement.
Starting point is 01:35:36 It's on. Incredible gang. Incredible headphones. Can we do the sponsorship? Can we do it? Yes, yes, yes. I got them upstairs for you right now. Yes, please, please.
Starting point is 01:35:48 And before we leave, Cory Gunz. We need to hear what's going on. Cory Gunz, we got to get him back. He ready, he ready. He all the way ready. So you're not letting him go? You're never letting him go. That's my family for life. So Cory Gunz, you're going to hear a lot from him. You're going to hear a lot from the Black Squad, Militia Gang, all that incredible.
Starting point is 01:36:04 Make some noise for Nick Kennedy. Good job. Good job. And the picture has to be done. Thank you. Thank you. I'm gonna put it out. Put it out.
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