Drink Champs - Episode 136 w/ Lil' Duval, Don Q and Al Branch

Episode Date: August 23, 2018

N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode the guys sit with Drink Champs Alumni; Lil' Duval, Don Q and seasoned music industry executive Al Branch. The talk comedy, making music, and give some gems about career building. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drinkchamps/support Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. Listen to Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Why is a soap opera western like Yellowstone so wildly successful? The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to the American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Michael Kassin, founder and CEO of 3C Ventures and your guide on good company. The podcast where I sit down with the boldest innovators shaping what's next.

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And this is season two of the War on Drugs podcast. Last year, a lot of the problems of the drug war. This year, a lot of the biggest names in music and sports. This kind of starts that a little bit, man. We met them at their homes. We met them at the recording studios. Stories matter and it brings a face to them. It makes it real.

It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And it's Drink Chats motherfucking podcast. Make some noise. He's a legendary Queens rapper. Hey, hey, it's your boy N.O.R.E. He's a Miami hip-hop pioneer.

One of his DJ EFN. Together, they drink it up with some of the biggest players. You know what I mean? In the most professional, unprofessional podcast And your number one source for drunk facts 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 could be, hopefully what it should be This is motherfucking Drink Chats Podcast. Make some motherfucking... Wait, wait, wait. Who you be? I forgot. I am EFN.

I'm N-O-R-E. And this is what we doing. Right now, we got a legend in the building. Al motherfucking Branch. Been all over the world. Did what he gotta do. He's here on Drink Chats. We got Lil Duval coming up.

But, Al Branch, we heard about the Rockefeller stories What's one of the famous Rockefeller stories that you can go off the top of your head? The Paris story? Y'all gonna talk about the Paris story? Nah, I was... Best Rockefeller story was uh, every day is a story with Damon Dash Now, Damon's the best man. One thing I like about Damon, he gave you all the knowledge. He didn't hide anything from you, man So, you know, you guys salute Damon you all the knowledge. He didn't hire anything from you, man. So, you know, you got to salute Dane always for that, man.

That's hard. Without Dane, I wouldn't be here right now, B. That's hard, man. Dane believed in all the artists. That's hard. He went hard. That's hard. He did his thing. He's a legend, man.

Yeah, definitely. Unsung hero, man. Okay. Dane Dash. You caught that episode with us? The best story. The best story. What was the best?

What was the funniest or craziest or wildest? Whatever fucking story you want to say. The best story is Big Pimpin'. Let's go to Big Pimpin', God damn it. Big Pimpin' video, right? We follow it, train that.

So, you know, we're in this crazy ass hotel that's doing carnival. We're like, damn, I thought it was a lot of women in train that are doing this time. We was in the middle of nowhere.

Then we get to the video shoot, shoot the video, and the next day, we found out Hype had all the girls, all the girls in his mansion, him and Lil X, with like 30 other girls. We had no idea.

And y'all had no bitches. He said all the girls on the island. Y'all had a rocker full of mansions with just mansions. Yeah, mansions. Nothing. Just mans. Nothing, B. Holy moly guacamole.

They're going to be so mad when they hear this. This is fantastic. You know, they want to fight hype for real. Yo, you know I got the same hype story. I got the same hype story, somewhat, kind of, right? He's a genius, though. He's a genius for that. No, hype is a genius.

You want me to say you stay focused? Yes, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No treatment.

You got treatment? I never got treatment. I was on hype. No treatments. Damn. I don't know. But what's your hype story from the first or second? No, remember the Mr. Chow's?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He hit on the Mr. Chow's with the chicks. It's fantastic. So you've been working with Nicki Minaj. You worked with Jay-Z. Yeah. What is... Drake, Kanye.

Drake, Kanye. Lil Wayne. What is one of the most proudest moments of you in hip-hop? The proudest moment is like when we took Jay-Z, Ain't No Nigga, Gold for a gold single for an independent label. Wait, tell me, what did you just say? You took Jay-Z, Ain't No Nigga? Gold. Gold?

Gold single, baby. Completely independent originally. Yeah, for real. And that label wasn't even a hip-hop label. It was a freeze record. Yeah, freeze. Yeah, yeah. It And that label wasn't even a hip-hop label. The Indie label. Freeze Records. Yeah, Freeze. Yeah, yeah.

It was. Wasn't it like a dance label? No, but check it out. Will Sokoloff was sleeping bag records. He got EPMD in the hop. Ah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Mmm. You know. I didn't know that. Yeah. I didn't know that. Legend shit, B. So, now, what era is your favorite? Man, I didn't know that legend should be so now what era is your favorite? Man, I don't know. I think every era is my favorite cuz I that was definitely way too political for drink

We're not accepting that you know why because I drink them Come still in the fucking clothes. I'm still doing my I'm still in the clothes. You have a favorite you have a favorite It's not your kid my favorite one probably be you got to have a favorite. You got to have a favorite. It's not your kids. My favorite's going to probably be like. If you have a favorite kid, you a foul nigga. My favorite,

my favorite's the 80s. Like you have a favorite era. My favorite's the 80s when I was a kid. There you go. Yeah, when like, you know,

when Jekyll and Hyde, Swimming in the Ocean, you know, that shit. Rob Bass? We were talking about, what era? Rob Bass.

Rob Bass. Easy Rock. Rob Bass. Run DMC. You know a song I never liked, but it was the biggest song ever? I can't get the Milk Is Chilling ever. I think it did milk is chilling record Oh, come on

Somebody gotta take your hip hop You know, I have a date on your car should be revoked about lyrics and what the fuck are they talking about? My record I had him on my record. I had him doing that. I love that shit. You want to hear some funny shit? All right, cool. Listen, so Wyclef sent me this today.

Oh, the rebuttal to cannabis? Yeah. It wasn't a rebuttal. He just... Oh, I sent him that. Is he the king of Haiti now? He was trying to be the president. Is he the king of Haiti? He just Like a soldier with dark clouds, blackout light And can't control it, I felt like my moral compass was broken Medication was potent, I heard voices coming out the notebook Looked up and saw circling vultures, the high tree is slightly out of focus

I wouldn't wish that on no one, they still talk about that Cool, my man, Red's no fool, I took my black ass back to school Remember that feeling on Hot 97 when Flex dropped the bomb I can't front you, I said what you feel And despite what they said, I admire your zeal Okay, hold on, sorry. yeah okay Hmm. What? Okay, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Listen, listen, listen. I wanted to hear it in front of you. Did anyone ever...

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The hottest motherfucking artist in the world. In the world. What's up, man? The hottest artist! The rappers ain't got shit on billboards! And this nigga got shit on billboards! The hottest motherfucking artist in the world! Go ahead! Give him that shit!

It's my mic! It's Hollywood! Last time we made you up! I'm a smoker! I'm a smoker. I got you. I'm a smoker. You smoking? We smoking.

You ain't smoking? Come on. Come on. Take two of those right there. You got a mic though? Take a third one. These boys are small shooters. Watch out what y'all get.

What are those? I need to still finish that story with you. What? About what you... Okay, hold on. Okay, hold on. Are we recording? Yeah, we recording. We ain't stopping. Okay. But I need to finish that story with you what about what you okay?

Oh, okay. Hello. Are we recording? Yeah, we record these Okay So the ship out we ain't recording We Know he said on the record He's saying that we were supposed to send him a flight no he wanted to rent we said we're gonna get him a car we'd ask a good cannabis it's either you're learning that you made this up no who did he talk to Taboris he talked to Boris that they speak to us nigga cannabis come on come on everybody. Hey, buddy. Get it together. We would Please clear out That's my dad! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh!

Please clear out and give a shot. So you have room and you're not in his way. I'm not going to lie. Are we ready? Because I'm ready to start. No, let's- Hey, Clay. We already started.

So can y'all just back up, please? Back up, please. We got like 25 minutes. Make sure all y'all are on silent if you're staying in the room. Can y'all hear me on my mic? Because it fell. Yeah, I hear it. I hear it.

She wouldn't be. She wouldn't be. Oh, the other mic. Hey, guys. Bring it on. Bring it on. Bring it'all hear me on my mic? Because it failed. Yeah, I hear you. I hear you. She want to eat? She want to eat? Oh, the other mic.

Hey, guys. Yeah, that's the TV mic. He needs to get up. I will start it. Who's going to come back? Wait, I want to go back. You can go back to this mirror. I cut.

Everybody cut. You can call me when I'm done. Shh. Brother. Man. Excuse me. Excuse me. All right.

No one can be in this area. Sorry, guys. Come on, man. All right. No one can be in this area. Sorry, guys. I apologize. Sorry, come on. Let me just check. What up, Noah? I'm good, baby. So proud of you, man.

Hold on, let me shut up until we got it on. Let me get, let me. I'm sorry, this area has to be clear. They're going over to stand with him. Yeah, go over there, come on. Hurry up. Go over there, boy. Hold on, wait, wait, wait, baby. Where the cameras gonna be at?

They all over here. Over here. Oh. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you have a picture? Yeah. You good?

Excuse me. What's up, man? Lil' Duval, I'm just saying, Lil' Duval is shining right now. You know what I mean? Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. You know up, man? Lil Duval, I'm just saying, Lil Duval is shining right now.

That nigga walking through like Pep Bishop Dolls. That nigga looking good. I'm proud of you, nigga. I got to put this on camera. The last time was DJ Pooh, right? DJ Pooh, nigga. That was like a year ago. That's when he first started smoking.

That was like a year ago or two years ago. It was mad embarrassing because when I'm hanging with him, he's just smoking everywhere. Like, he had no etiquette to it. You're supposed to have etiquette to this shit? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I ain't going to lie. You had no etiquette. I still don't.

What's the etiquette? But what's the etiquette? Like, I mean, you got to make sure you ain't violating someone else. This nigga, we was at the elevator, nigga, lit up. I said, damn, nigga. We were wild. That was at their hotel where they shut that bitch down. We shut down.

Did we smoke that bitch out? That's what you told me. He's ready to do the party. I said, he's ready. I said, he's ready. You ready? Come on. No magic.

Are you good? I thought we was already rolling. Nope, not yet. Stop rolling. All right. That's cool, goddammit. Make sure our audio is good. All right.

Speed. Now I hear you, brother. You good. You good. Put that slate in. Y'all popping, man. Y'all on a whole nother level, man. Put that slate in, niggas.

Put the slate in front of the loads of wall faces. We got slates and shit like that, man. Y'all niggas is popping. Y'all niggas, this nigga here would do that bitch anywhere. He said, man, you do a podcast? I said, yeah. I said, what are you doing? He said, we can do it right now. It's still like that. We still like that. We still doing that. Oh That's a slate girl already, god damn it. Here you go. All right. Perfect.

Ready? Shit. Yep. What it good be, hopefully this is where it should be. This your boy, N-O-R-E. What up, it's DJ EFN. And it's Drink Chance, motherfucker. Happy hour. Make some noise!

And right now, we got one of the hardest artists in the world. And I'm proud, because that nigga just went and just says smile bitch and made a classic I just say a smile bitch and then he said I'm living my best life yeah man then the most important part what I ain't going back and forth with you never never, but we live in a back and forth universe. I understand that. How did you come up with the knowledge to not go back and forth? Because realizing going back and forth

don't do nothing for you. Talk to the president, please. I don't think we should go back and forth with Trump. He's going to do what he's going to do. He's going to do what we need to do. He's trolling everybody. He's trolling all of us. He's a 6'9". back and forth with Trump he gonna do it he gonna do what we need to do right everybody Trump man is there more in there is the morning please pop another one didn't they go come on what's the last trade please because you know this is a

special place I don't we gotta win this shit Yeah, yeah, please. I don't want to keep doubling. Because this is an expensive place. Don't we ghetto in this shit out? Now, y'all doing y'all thing, man. Don't we ghetto in this shit out? Look, by the way. Y'all got slates and shit. Yeah, we got slates. Look, by the way, listen. When you come to New York a lot, this is what you do.

You get your own locker. By the way, Slime Fathers right there. Okay. Just in case you ain't know. What up? What up, brother? Come on, Al. You're fucking me up right now.

Look, that's it all. I see it, man. You got gotta get your locker that's what you're gonna get me yeah you're gonna get your song make people smile what the made you come up with something like this like you know said dog q i see you i'm pulling you in right now What made you come up With this This This song Anthem Like yeah Cause it's really me You know what I'm saying

Like the song I've always This song has been my formula It's a joke I take a joke And put it in the song And like most of my stuff But what was the joke

Hold on The joke is smile bitch Smile bitch Smile bitch That's what I tell people When they be getting On my goddamn nerves or when they saying something, when I see them stressing over bullshit.

Like, what is you stressing over? Smile, bitch. No spill? No spill. Did you have to show this nigga? Because you know this nigga. I told you this nigga had to open up champagne. So I got to make sure.

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known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian Dr. Randall Williams and bestselling author and meat eater founder, Stephen Rinella. I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say when cave people were here. And I'll say, it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to The American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun?

Sometimes the answer is yes, but there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multibillion-dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated.

I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad. Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Ad-free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. My name is Brendan Patrick Hughes, host of Divine Intervention. This is a story about radical nuns in combat boots and wild-haired priests trading blows with J. Edgar Hoover in a hell-bent effort to sabotage a war. J. Edgar Hoover was furious. Somebody violated the FBI and he wanted to bring the Catholic left to its knees.

The FBI went around to all their neighbors and said to them, do you think these people are good Americans? It's got heists, tragedy, a trial of the century, and the goddamnedest love story you've ever heard. I picked up the phone, and my thought was, this is the most important phone call I'll ever make in my life. I couldn't believe it. I mean, Brendan, it was divine intervention. You can now binge all 10 episodes of Divine Intervention on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Lott.

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It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all reasonable means to care for themselves. Music stars Marcus King, John Osborne from Brothers Osborne. We have this misunderstanding of what this quote-unquote drug thing is. Benny the Butcher.

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I smoke. You're a smoker. I always, I mean, well, I always smoke, but that's all I do. I never drink. Why? I'm not a drinker but smoking i just started like two three years ago when we had him on the show you said you just started i just and y'all made a movie about it made a movie but i didn't smoke weed when i did the movie no but listen i told you he didn't have smoking etiquette like i was just talking to this nigga in the lobby

and he just lit up i'm like yo whoa we just checked into the hotel you can't just like i was like yo this nigga you were supposed to get kicked out off top. I'm going to be honest. I almost told on you. I was like, that's that nigga right there. No, no, they shut it. They called the people. They shut it down because we smoked it out.

Right. The fire alarm went off. The floor, I heard the whole floor. We got a chair for Don Q. We got a chair for Don Q. Come on. Behind the cameraman. Behind the cameraman.

You get a chair for Don Q. Keep talking. Keep talking a chair, but dog cute. Okay. Keep talking keep talking I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's that good shit. Which one is that one? So I got my own strain too much. You got your own strong that goddamn or g5 cultivation. Well, I got my whole color I'm gonna let you hear the piece of you tell me Clay who should have been oh gee clay Oh This is gonna turn into smoke jams. You know that, Dark Q? Dark Q, you got balls. Hold up, he didn't tell me how it is. I don't know how you told me. Let him live, let him live.

Let him see something that we write. Nigga, I've been smoking too. Yo, Dark Q. I recently see you on the LA Leakers. Going crazy. Guys, put the mic down. Let me see some of that weed, Nord. Huh?

Let me see some of that weed. Oh, please. Here you go, sir. Here you go. Here you go, sir. This is my smoke. Tell me how you feel about it. Let me tell you.

Let me ask you something. High Bridge, right? That's what it is, right? High Bridge. That's not the South Bronx? Yeah is the South Bronx okay because the west side of the south room funny no the South Brown they got east side west side so we lost my damn I didn't know that I thought I just thought we had a so in South I didn't even know it's a Westside. No, we got Westside Queens. We got Westside Queens, okay.

Yeah, Westside Queens, that's what we're in for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wouldn't everywhere have a Westside? The street sign, the street sign that say 165W, some street sign that say 165 East. Okay. Guys, I'm sorry. Uh-huh.

To be a bear of bad news. We gonna give him 10 more minutes. So listen, so listen, so um. It ain't recording. No, no, we're going no we can't smoke come on no crack no crack so listen you being from Atlanta correct no from Jacksonville okay Jacksonville Florida okay but you've been spending a lot of time in Atlanta right Atlanta was the first like to crack the strip club code, right?

So now... You said the first? Florida, Florida, Florida. Florida, Florida. Florida, Florida. The strip club culture. Okay, alright, Florida and Atlanta. But now the whole world is a strip club culture.

How do you feel like seeing that evolve? It's amazing. It's a blessing. I think we need to see more. Because us in New York, we didn't fuck with strip clubs. Why not? Back in the days. Back in the days back in the day Why not? Can you know because there was rules you don't you don't you don't eat in the strip club

You don't watch shit in the cashier club and you don't spend money in a strip club my first weekend I'm moving to Miami. I broke all three of those rules I'm just throwing it out there, but now it's everywhere best food is in the strip club. I noticed that now. At least in Atlanta. Not in Miami. In Miami, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tootsie's got gourmet chefs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs.

Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs.

Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Cheetahs. Atlanta. They got the best. It's a white strip club, but they got the best food. So what is Onyx? Onyx is a black strip club.

What is Follies? Follies is a black strip club. The daytime in Follies is fantastic. Magic City. I was about to say, Magic City not around no more? No, Magic City ain't never going nowhere. It's just a historic building now. It ain't going nowhere.

They got good food in this. Yeah, yeah. They have them wings. Come on now. So what's the historic strip club in the Bronx? Sin City? There's no... That shit is over. Sin City's's over and i've never even been there you've never been to sin city it's crazy it was crazy i heard for a little while it's over i should be going for a

flight so you've never been to room boss room boss that was like that was the old fee rumbles i've been That's like Skaky arrow that's Kiki every week so was you surprised that your record hit actual billboard? Yeah, I mean I knew I knew it was gonna be a hit But I didn't know it was gonna be like this this. I wasn't trying to get in. You could be Jamie Foxx right now. You know what I'm saying? Pause. I don't know if that was a pause.

You felt it. I got what you were saying. You know what I mean? Jamie was playing around, and no one took him serious, but then he worked with Kanye, and it took him serious, and then he won Oscars and shit like that. I just have fun with whatever I do. We understood you was having fun, but now this is serious. You can actually become Ray Charles.

That'd be your next role. I mean, I'm just going wherever it takes me. I'm riding this wave, see what it do. I mean, I'm having fun. Music thing comes easy to me. I mean, I have fun with it. I do what I do. Smile, bitch.

Come on. You know what I'm. Smile, bitch! Come on. You know what I'm saying? So, I'm just living my best life. The song is really testament to who I am. I'm really true to what I say in my rhymes. I was just rocking your shit yesterday, nigga. I see that. I'm posting your shit right now.

New York, get the bloody money. I ain't gonna lie. You was ghost whipping. What was that? What's it called? Ghost riding the whip? I was in the backseat. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's almost like ghost riding. I was going to put the hat back. Semi-ghost riding the whip. I was in the backseat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's almost like ghost ride. I was going to put the hat back. Semi-ghost ride in the whip. Motherfucking Don Q, man. Look, because they're wrapping us up. We're going to give them another fucking five more minutes. No, we got eight minutes. All right, come on.

Listen, man. So, Don Q, you being the leaders of the new school, and I heard someone ask you this. You said the king of New York. You said everyone should feel like they're the king of New York. Yeah, if you and I heard someone ask you this, you said the king of New York, you said everyone should feel like they's the king of New York. Yeah,

if you feel like you putting in work, then you should feel like that. Right. That's what you feel? When 50 was yelling at it, Jay-Z wasn't bitching. Right.

Diff said wasn't bitching. Niggas wasn't complaining. Good point. I feel like I'm the king of the south in comedy. I feel like you're the king of the south in comedy.

And you might be in R&B now. Not yet. I ain't gonna front, I feel like I might the king of the South in comedy. I feel like you're the king of the South in comedy. And you might be in R&B now. Not yet. I ain't going to front. I feel like I might be knocking on your door and say, holy, slow down. You might be Chris Brown. Living your best life. Chris Brown might try to have dance music. Chris Brown from Virginia, though.

He from Virginia, though. That's the South? Ain't that considered the South? Yeah, I think it's considered the South. I thought he said Atlanta. God damn it. What's the South? Yeah, listen.

I ain't going to lie. You keep fucking around. So you got another single. What's your song? Yeah, listen. I ain't going to lie. You keep fucking around. So you got another single. What's your... You hot. All right, look. You can be a one-hit wonder now. Even if I was, I'd still win.

He ain't need it. But guess what? That was hard. But guess what? My next song better than this one. No cap. I need a preview. No cap.

I need a preview. I ain't going to do it yet because I'm going to let this ride out first. You got to decide. This shit might last the next year. Because cap. I need a preview. I ain't gonna do it yet, because I'm gonna let this ride out first. You gotta just slap it. This shit might last until next year. Right. Because then I'll drop that shit. Nigga, like Jack Thriller would just come in and just take your shit, right?

No, no. Jack Thriller been trying. What he try what? Try the same? No, he been trying the same. He been trying. Yeah, yeah. See, he trying.

I don't be trying. I just be doing me. Okay. Like, I got in the game doing music with my song about the bitch who is my girlfriend. That's how I got in the game Doing music With my song About to bitch you As my girlfriend That's how I got In the comedy game

I flipped that Buy a girl a drink In the club With Music Soulchild I made it my shit You know what I'm saying So I flipped it And that's how

That's what people Start fucking with me with So I've been doing The music shit Just now People get it I guess now Alright fellas

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What you gonna say, oh Duval had a one hit? Nah, you know what I mean. Immediately. Yeah, you weren't supposed to start with me. I wasn't supposed to, n***a. This is what I'm telling you. Get two, you kill them. This is what I suggest.

You get another one and then you use the cheat code, right? You go and get Eddie Murphy or something. And just get Eddie. And Eddie can sing too. Just be talking about, oh what's the shit? Mr. Eddie Murphy? What's the anniversary? Party all the time. Party all the time. That's the shit? Mr. Eddie Murphy? What's the Eddie Murphy shit? Party on the top.

You do that over? Party on the top. Ain't no one in the world that you do party on the top. I do party on the top with Eddie Murphy. With Eddie on it. Party on the top. Party on the top. That's the third single though.

So you got a legitimate- No, I got another single. You got a legitimate- I got another song. Okay. He got a full album rollout from what he's talking about. I'm doing my thing. Stay woke. Stay woke, baby.

Stay woke. No, but no, I'm just having fun with it. I don't, I mean, whatever, if the motherfucking album, my EP do, numbers, if it don't, I'm going to steal it and be cool. My fans are going to like it, because even before this, Smile Bitch, they liked my other songs, like Killing With The Shoes, Droppin' Dick, all the other shit. I remember Droppin' Dick. I got a lot of What That Mouth Do.

Let me ask you something. Get me on the track, man. We live. Come on, man. Come on. He got to be on the track with Eddie Murphy. There are tough times. There's tough times. What tough times? Right on the track with Eddie Murphy. It's tough times.

It's tough times. What tough times? Right now, I'm just period. It's tough? You know, people. I'm living my best life. No, no, no. I mean, just in general, us as black people, we're going through.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. How hard is it to still be funny in these tough times? Because, you know, every time we turn on the news, someone's getting killed. I think this one is most important. I think this is when it's most important someone I think this one is most important I think this is when it's most important so that's what I'm saying because once you get to a point

like if you know older people don't be tripping off death like that I loved it when you said that they don't

cause they done seen it so much and they don't even realize what life is like death come with life too so they get it so it's like

it's not too much to stress on we know it ain't that much time so they get it. So it's like, it's not too much to stress on. We know it ain't that much time, man. So, nigga, live it up. It's coming. It's coming regardless. Live it up. Do what you can do.

I mean, money cool, but you can't chase it. You know what I'm saying? Like, I didn't chase this for money. I'm just having the fun. And money came with it. That's how we do it. Yeah, the same thing. We got Jeremy.

Good boy. Good job. This was something y'all learned. Dude, doing this shit. You got to clap a little faster, y'all learned. You gotta clap a little faster, y'all. God damn it. It's my time. We wasn't supposed to

have all these cameras. And if y'all didn't, if y'all still be doing and chilling. Right. Just like with me, if the song, because I put out a song

like once a year. Right. So I would put out something next year. And next year, I wouldn't give a fuck. Right. You know?

Right. Now, Don Q, y'all niggas pounded out the nigga You wasn't there I was and I was in New York I was he that was the hardest answer He was don't know to that any guy was like a little And he admitted he was like yo a boogie niggas done pounded me out back there. That was that was I Was some bullshit What was his name? What's his name? Oh? little me Yeah, you gotta watch out little B. We'll put a curse on you

But he didn't know a curse on none of y'all niggas from high bridge I wasn't niggas beat him for real like a different type of me Said I don't even curse y'all curse James Harden Went too far He got MVP James Harden he cursed him he cursed him. He took the curse off of him. He just took the curse off. We just really talking about some shit that ain't happened for real.

He took the curse off. He was purging. We grown. You don't believe that. You know he put the curse on. The curse is real. I believe Chris Junior got it off of him. Chris Junior got it off of him.

So now, earlier I heard you say 6ix9ine. This nigga is funny ain't got it off of him, okay? So now, earlier, I heard you say 6ix9ine. This nigga is funny how he segwayed to like, hey. There is no segway. There is no segway.

This nigga is hilarious. But earlier, I heard you say 6ix9ine and you say trolling. What do you feel about that? Like trolling and these things?

I feel like he's good at it because he be having us all in suspense. Yes. Right? I just wouldn't want to be his friend around this time. I don't know, the trolling might go left and it might go right.

It's like Trump, like we said. Trump friends. Could you imagine being in security? Like that is hell. Like I wouldn't want to be like, man, we finna go, we don't know what's going to happen. Oh, we fucked up? Yeah, we... What? I mean, just keep going. Okay, we fucked up? Yeah, we. What?

I mean, just keep going. Get, uh. We gotta move to the other room. OK, all right, cool, cool. All right, go ahead, but finish your statement. What was I saying? Uh, just be in his security. I said white men walk this way, and you know that.

Right. I'm from the South. All right. You see a white man walk this way, you're like, uh-oh. I told my dad that. This nigga done got fucking smoking etiquette now. Like, now. Nigga, I told you that in the hotel last time. I don't know.

I know better. But I forgot what you're talking about. But look, being here is security. You're talking about trolling. Oh, trolling, trolling,

trolling. No, I was just saying like, I couldn't imagine it having to be there. Cause if something do go wrong, you right there. But he's good. He's been letting this long.

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