Drink Champs - Episode 143 w/ Swizz Beatz

Episode Date: November 2, 2018

N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode the guys drink it up with returning guest Swizz Beatz. The guys are also joined by guest host Angela Yee. They talk Harvard, Swizz's new album, Lil' Wayne, Nas, relationships and a lot more! Follow Drink Champs http://www.drinkchamps.com http://www.instagram.com/drinkchamps http://www.twitter.com/drinkchamps http://www.facebook.com/drinkchamps DJ EFN http://www.crazyhood.com http://www.instagram.com/whoscrazy http://www.twitter.com/djefn http://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductions N.O.R.E. http://www.instagram.com/therealnoreaga http://www.twitter.com/noreaga --- 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.

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We are talking about the legendary, the great, Swiss Beats. God damn it, man. I need that intro for every show. I got you. I got you. Sample that right there. We need Noria to intro the show, show, show when we on the stage. I got you, brother.

That intro right there. I got you. But you know you was talking about yourself, too, so. No, no. I'm talking about, you know what? You know what? I can actually, this is why I drink champs work. I can actually always step aside

and big up another artist because that's beauty. Right. That is actually the definition of beauty. When you can sit back and say, something else is beauty. Facts. Something else is beautiful.

Did I kill that? I ain't gonna fight y'all. I feel like I have to clap. I ain't gonna fight y'all badly. Y'all badly. I feel like I have to clap. So, Swiss, I'm going to be honest Swiss, your transition is unbelievable.

Like I remember for me booking the session and they saying, you have to have a session with Dee's nephew to, that was your name at first. Dee's nephew. Dee's nephew. was your name at first and then from if you really from New York and you have an album or you have anything and you don't have an input on this person shit niggas don't even even pay attention to it hmm do you know that mm-hmm okay I'm telling you that that's that's how deep you are in this game like niggas like Swiss has to have something to do with your project they have to listen to your project whether it's main or whether it's busted rhymes

they have to come see you and cosign before they can drop do you you didn't know that no i didn't know that that's all you are brother i just i just know that you know i got a vibe with our coast heavy and you know a lot of the artists that i grew up with working with i grew up working with you i grew up working with a lot of artists and then you know even with the younger artists and artists that's been around i just i just feel it's my job to just protect our craft you know i'm saying by any means let's just protect our craft and you know be a part of be a part of the solution and things that you want to see change. Be a part of the change instead of just sitting back, just commenting, criticizing on what should be changed.

Like, fuck it, change it. You know what I'm saying? Be proactive. Yeah, be proactive. So a lot of people like to sit on the sidelines. And I'm like, man, I can't sit on the sidelines no more. I got to be active. So I'm going to be honest with you.

I seen the Instagram video. You had a soccer stadium on the yacht. Am I correct? Damn. Nigga had a... Nigga. Nigga. Had a soccer...

Are y'all niggas paying attention to the fuck I'm saying? You know how big a soccer look I don't all y'all niggas paying attention to the fuck I'm saying you know how big a soccer shit is like you know how to kick some shit what was it

to kick some shit and you had a soccer stadium on a yacht yeah you are doing fantastic why the fuck

is Swiss in the studio bro why are you making music like that's what got him with the soccer stadium on the yacht Fantastic. Why the fuck is Swiss in the studio, bro? Why are you making music? That's what got him with the soccer stadium on the yacht. I didn't mean for him to say that. I mean, you know. Because if I was you, I'm going to be honest.

I'm going to be honest. I wouldn't even fuck with me. Like, if I was you, I wouldn't fuck with me. Like, Nori is just not in my, like, I wouldn't have. You got my phone number. You call me. Me and you hang out. Facts. Why the me and you hang out facts

Why the fuck are you hanging out with me? Stadiums on your yacht and then your yacht had a yacht do you remember? another Boat to go with your boat the The dinghy was a yacht by itself. And then, I'm disrespecting you. I'm disrespecting you, son. You went, you had one yacht, and you said that was not good. Am I correct? You know, you're saying line for line.

I was walking, I said, this is my nail. You are getting on my nerves. No, because, you know, they tried to gas me up With the photo Right so I think They stretched Or they tried to Sifu Yali you Yeah they tried to

Hit me with that And I had black coffee Coming you know I was hosting them Out there And when I get Cause I was on I took my kids

On spring break So that's why The soccer thing is It was about them That trip was about them And so I get there And the soccer goals are

like outside as you're walking in the ball I'm like damn why didn't you put that on the boat yet I get to the boat so you made the soccer goal did you make it this is even richer thank you I had the body goals you know because the kids don't they don't care about floating around Dubai and all this. They want to play and have fun, right? So I get to the boat, and I'm like, this ain't the boat I seen in the picture. And I just thought they was trying to play me. And I was like, I want this one. And, you know, the real thing is, like, when we go to these different countries, you know, like, we like to get gifts and accept a lot of different things. But I think they need to see us come to different countries and do our own thing.

Don't accept no gifts. Go there. Be with your family. Because I don't think that we're being represented when we leave correctly, when we take all these gifts from all these. They think we got play money. A little bit I just feel like I just feel like it's cool

and we thinking that we playing them but they technically playing us when we go there and say that they had to take care of all

they had to give this person that they had like you can't do your own like you can't stand on your own like they bought you and shit yeah you know what I'm saying

bring your own helicopter we don't need anything. Goddamn, let's make some noise for Swiss. Goddamn. This is the richest conversation. I don't know if y'all, I don't know if y'all guys caught what he's saying, but that is real shit.

So, Swiss, you coming from the BX, being a DJ, transition, turning it all over. Right now, the dog, DMX, we've seen pictures of him floating around in the internet. He looks healthy. Yeah.

I want to have a heart-to-heart conversation with you. I know there's other people that's listening. I know there's other people that's going to be tuning in. But a part of me felt good. Meaning, I knew the dog was sober. Like, I knew the dog,

he's getting his life together. You don't have to agree with me. You can... I agree. Yeah, but it was a part of me that was like, fuck yeah. Not that he's locked up.

We're not happy that he's locked up. But we're happy that a part of him is... We might be happy that he's away for a we happy that a part of him we might be happy that he's away for a little bit getting his mind together

cause I ain't real facts you know I think that I think that he knew that it was time for him to even take that time out

you know I feel he was a big part of why he's in there right and sometimes people sometimes people they express themselves

in different ways that it ain't even nothing to talk about. He knew if he was going to do X, Y, and Z, where he was going to be, and I feel like he did that for his own reasons. His family is straight as long as I'm straight, and it's just been the vibe, and he's in good spirits. He gained wide weight. He definitely had to hit that gym, you know.

But at the end of the day, that's my dog no matter what. I'm a ride for him, we slept on floors together, you know, we done everything together, so, you know, for me, there's no big I's and little U's, you understand? And you know, and that's just forever. So, what was the first thought you thought when you seen the picture? What was the first thought you said? I was trying to say, you and that robbing niggas for their lunch?

Yeah, yeah, you definitely look healthy. Yeah, right? Exactly, yeah. Right. I ain't never seen you eat like that. No, that's beautiful. That's beautiful. It was good, man.

I knew that the process was taking place. Because even in prison, you can get whatever you want. You understand? The prison is the streets. So that means that he's making an effort to go, you know, to set the tone in a way that's positive for him. You know? Because we got music.

So music is the last thing that we ever need to talk about. Is he in a program in there? Or no? I don't think he's in a program. We don't know. That's the dog. The we ever need to talk about. Is he in a program in there? Or no? I don't think he in a program. We don't know. That's the dog. The dog is just being a dog. He'd be pissed if they put him in a program.

Yeah, yeah. I definitely know 100% for me knowing X, he is not in protective custody. He's not. He's not. He's walking around with regular y'alls. That's why you see him in photos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm talking about programming for addiction Yeah I wouldn't think he'll do that

I think actually being in jail Is his program This is me I don't know any facts But me Knowing him I would think That's who he is That's what hip hop is What is it called Disruptive That's who he is. He's just, he's, that's what hip, hip, hip hop is,

what is it called? Um, disruptive. That's what we are in hip hop. We're disruptive. If people, if we could sit here, you could play,

you know, any type of music, but if you play hip hop, it's disruptive people. Right. So I think that's what, what the God is. And I, and,

you know, I pray for him because I know that he's 100% one of the greatest people I ever met. And I remember walking him to a car and him walking me to a car. And I'm walking him to the car like, nigga, none of us is never going to leave. He fuck with you. That's my dog. He fuck with you, baby. One of the greatest people I ever met.

So now, Swiss. I spoke to Busta Rhymes. I spoke to Nas. And these guys are like, Swiss album is incredible. All right? They're not lying, though. No, no, no. Let's make some noise for that.

God damn it. Let's make some noise for that. They're not lying. But what gives you that energy? Like, why at this point, you have the most beautifuIst wife in the world, you have the most, you have Lotus deals, you got Zenith deals, you got Reba.

What the fuck makes you wanna go to the studio? Cause I'm just now starting my life. Okay, hold on, let me grasp that. Say that again. I'm just now starting my life. Okay, hold on, let me grasp that. Say that again? Honestly, I'm just now starting my life. I'm gonna be 40 on September 13th. I'll be 41 on September 6th.

Let's make some noise for Virgil. Virgil's in here. I'm gonna be honest, you niggas gotta start clapping louder. That shit was the weakest clap I ever seen in Jay Chapp's history. I'm gonna be weakest clap I ever seen in the Drake Chaps history. I'ma be honest, I know everybody's stars over there, but today, no one's a star.

Please, let's show some love. Okay, so, go ahead, you gonna be 40? Yeah. And I'm, you know, I said, I'm just now starting because I'm just now really understanding what my purpose is. We got success super early. We got financially straight real early.

But what did it mean? What's your goals? What does it all mean? Because this shit comes fast and it goes fast. There's never really an explanation really on what's the right way. What is your purpose, right? Which is the reason why I went back to school was to also find that discovery.

You went to Harvard? Yeah. I'm not going to lie. Niggas got me something. That shit's crazy. I'm not going to lie. That is a real story. Can we order some wine?

Can we order some wine from downstairs? Tell them to bring up a bottle of Pinot Grigio. From the Bronx to Harvard, by the way. Yo, but I'm not going to lie. I was looking at your Instagram. I said, this nigga is what. And you had the niggas with the shit on, too. Like the, what's that shit called?

Yeah, them niggas got the shit. And the Swiss is sitting there. I'm looking. I'm like, and you got the loafers on? I said, holy moly, guacamole. You really went? Yeah, it was the best three years of my life. You know, because I say this all the time.

You know, when I went in the room, the room was super small. The dorm room was small. And I was like, you know, this same room could have been my jail cell because it's about the same size. But I'm in here to get educated rather than reprimanded, right? So that's when I was just like, man, I'm going to thug this out. Because a lot of people were staying in hotels and stuff and then come into class

and I was just like, no. Because they rich too. Everybody in OPM is owners, president, management. So it's all owners of the biggest companies around the world, all the presidents of the biggest companies around the world, and they teach them how to manage their companies after success success so this is this is the course that you have to have success already and then because most people

when they sell their companies the companies go out of control right because the hardest thing in companies is merging the company because you have so many silos so when you sell the company and new people come in, then your company starts losing business because people can't get along. It's just basic shit. You know what I'm saying?

But it's on a massive scale in these billion dollar companies. And so, you know, integration is the key. Did you have a major? Did you have a specific major? It was business. Okay.

Money, nigga. Money is business. Yo, I'm going to be honest honest the first time I ever felt bad for Timberland in my life you took advantage of that man that was awesome three chance that was off the drink champs no no no the wisdom just blazes off a drink so that's what it was. Just Blazers. No, they all start over. They all came in and burned by drink time. They definitely did. But I'm not going to lie.

Like, Timberland, he's rich. He's out there. He has all type of crazy shit. The only time I ever felt sorry for him, like, you almost abused him that night. You don't agree? I don't think so. No, that's good. Because you're being humble, it's okay.

I got you. I'm just telling you as an outsider. No, Timberland, Timberland know you don't want no smoke.'t think so. No, that's good. Because you're being humble, it's okay. I got you. I'm just telling you as an outsider looking in. No, Timberland know he don't want no smoke. I tell it to him like I tell him. But I feel like he did his thing that night. When he dropped that, it's that joke. I was like, oh, okay. Now, in his defense, as a fan of Timberland as well,

because I'm not going to lie, it was uneven because you 100% New York City, the Dr. Dre of New York City. This is what you are. In case you don't claim it, I'm claiming it for you. I can feel that. I hold that. I don't even think that the Poison album is the East Coast Chronic in some ways. I heard that. I heard that.

Let's make some noise for that guy, Tim. I heard that. I heard that. Let's make some noise for that guy, Tim. I heard that. Would you dare to give Timbaland a chance in Virginia? Anywhere you want to go. Because he got fans everywhere, right?

His fans in New York. Timbaland got the women, right? See, that was his secret weapon is like, he got the women and I tested

because his core base in LA right we was at a valley event um he came and a bunch of people there oh let's make some noise for you having valley as well and I like the way he do that red shit in there you You know, I was in the back. Nigga, come on. You got all this shit. Let's go. Facts. Timberlake came and sized me up a little bit. Okay.

So like, we was talking about... Because you know, he's diesel-er than you, so how did he size you up? I need you to understand. You know, he came,

he slid to my vent and just played the corner. But what I did was started playing all his records. Right? I started playing all his records. But when I did that,

it gave me a chance to really take a deep dive into his catalog of how people are going to move as an audience when he plays certain things. That's when I was like, oh, he got the women. Right? But that's a DJ shit. You understand what he's just saying? That's some real DJ shit. Yeah, that is a DJ thing.

That's some DJ shit. So let me ask you something. You battled Just Blades. You battled Just Blaze. Mm-hmm. You battled Timbaland. Yeah. But people think I lost at Just Blaze. And some people think I lost at the Timbaland thing, too.

But we both win it. Who are these people? Because I don't know them. Please, can you give me their phone numbers? Because, my nigga, I've been searching for that same answer. It doesn't exist. First of all, Jeff Blades himself told me that night. He was like, oh, you ain't beat me. I was like, okay, no problem.

Justin's my friend. He's my friend, too. Justin's my friend. He's my friend, too. Everybody that I'm bad on, I respect, right? Timbaland's my friend. Anybody that I'm willing to bad on, I respect. If I don't respect you, don't even be in front of me.

I'll be ready for this next question. Let's go. I'm a little nervous. I'm a little nervous for this next question. Let me take a sip then. Please take a sip. Would you battle Pharrell? Of course.

I'd battle Pharrell. Pharrell? Of course. I'd battle Pharrell Pharrell was poppin'. And that's my brother. But you know, I wanted Pharrell to battle Timberland but they didn't want to. No, no, no.

That's too close. The Virginia shit, you got to let them live. I'd battle... Hold on, hold on. Swiss, let's take a time out. Swiss. It's just music, King. You know what I'm saying? Swiss, let's take a time out. Swiss. It's just music, King.

You know what I'm saying? Swiss, let's take a time out, Swiss. You on Dream Camps, please. I don't know who wins that. Like, listen, when you battle, because you know why? Let me just tell you something. Your energy is remarkable. No, no, no, no.

No, it's cool. I'm going to brag for you. Relax. I got you. Your energy is remarkable. No, no, no, no. No, it's cool. I'm going to brag for you. Relax. I got you. Your energy was remarkable. I remember Tom Swift was just playing me a beat. I won that!

Because your energy is remarkable. You went to just blaze the Rockefeller guy. He crashed with all of Jay-Z's classic hits. You took him down. Then you brought Timberland to your hometown the way you should have. You gave him the Jimmy Superfly snooker. You know who Jimmy Superfly snooker is? The old school wrestler.

Off the top rope. Off the top rope. Where would you and Pharrell's battle take place? If this was to ever happen. Because I know we all family. We love him. I just took off Pharrell's sneakers to put on yours. We love each other.

Of course. We love each other. We love each other. He sent me the friends and family package. The friends and family package. I didn't know how to rock him. My wife told me, you are looking very Puerto Rican today. Because I don't know how to rock him.

But it's okay. I don't know how to match. So if in your ideal, Pharrell says, yes, I'm in. I'm with this battle. Where would you want it to take place? Wherever you want it to take place. Damn, Swiss, I need a little bit more want it to take place? Wherever you want it to take place. Damn, Swiss, I need a little bit more pacific to take.

It's just simple. Wherever you want it to take place, we can take it. Pharrell is a problem. Timberland is a problem. Jazz Blaze is a problem. They're all problems. But at the end of the day, you know, this is music. And I feel like we came up with challenges, right? So to challenge one with music and creativity,

there should never be no backing down or being shy about that. I feel like you just said Miami, but this is where it's happening. Oh, Miami. At DreamChamp Studio. At DreamChamp Studio. Yes!

We just built a DreamChamp Studio, we're big up to Revolt TV. Everybody make some noise for Revolt TV. We just built a drink chest. We're big up to Revolt TV. Everybody make some noise for Revolt TV. We have a backyard. We're proud of that backyard. Yeah, I'm very proud of the backyard. I feel like that's where it should

happen, but... Okay, now I gotta go crazy. Let's go. Would you do the same thing I know what you're gonna say Go ahead With Dr. J I'm just asking Listen Swiss

I have no idea Your answer right now I knew your answer Was Pharrell a little bit But Cause now Now Swiss Please before you answer it

Please Cause I thought about this For a long time Before you answer it, please. I thought about this a long time ago. Because technically, he would want you to say, yes, I want this battle. I want this smoke. But would you, like 100%, in your mind, think can you win it? Would you go against Dr. Dre?

Look, man, you know, at the end of the day, I'm in the sport of music. And when people used to say this, even recently, like a couple of months ago, I was like, nah, nah, nah, nah. But it's like, running from what? For what reason?

He got classics I got classics He a legend I'm becoming a legend No you're a legend nigga Stop being humble You're a legend I told you

You a motherfucking legend I told you I started If you think I'm a legend Nah you want drink champs nigga This is with me We help you out You are a legend No real talk

If you think I'm a legend now. He wants to raise the bar. I'm telling you, like, this shit I did is cute. We ain't even started yet. I promise you. I didn't even know what I was doing. I'm telling you, this is very calculated shit from this point on. So if Dre say yes, you want that song?

Of course. I would love to be on stage next to that should be crazy I'm gonna feel I'm gonna feel those blows but you know what it's gonna do it's gonna push me to do some shit I never did before because he's kind of that's why and that's why I like it I like that type of challenge right now because because a lot of people I'm super underrated in a lot of different areas like if you don't really know me like that I'm not in those areas where you under, I'm super underrated in a lot of different areas. Like, if you don't really know me like that. I'm not in those areas where you're underrated.

I'm just throwing it out there. I know because you know me like that. I'm just throwing it out there. But, like, I don't. You're not underrated in my section. Just want to throw that out there. I don't have a publicist for a lot of shit that I do. It just happens. So, it's like, you even know it, you don't.

I'll hook you up with a publicist. I got you. No, we know the publicist. But, I just feel like, fuck it. You know what I'm saying? But, I feel like I'm underrated in a lot of different areas, so put me on stage

next to all of these different people that are legends themselves that people feel like I have no smoke with. Right. Right? Mm-hmm.

Let's go. Let me just do my thing. I've been doing this since 17. I'm ready. I mean, I'm just starting. Nah, that's what makes you the most hip-hop producer out there. Let's make some noise for Mark. I'm not going to lie.

I don't want no smoke with Dr. Dre in no way, shape, form, or fashion in any way. The fact that you just took that challenge is fucking fantastic. You know, it's going viral. Name five more people. Let's go. I'm in music mode. All right. Now that you said that. I'm in mode. I'm in music mode. All right, all right. Now that you said that.

I'm in mode. I'm in mode. That shit should be a tour. Now that you said that. Yeah, we working on something. That should be a tour right there. Now that you said that, something like that. DJ Premier.

That was dangerous. Now I ain't playing with hot fire. But let's go. Why not? I got one more. You know, me, all all of my producers we got a producer chat they're gonna go crazy when they see this right but i'm saying what they should say too right like enough of that like running from this and running from that like we are all musicians

it is for me it's more of an honor to even be mentioned to have a particular battle or situation with these people. Your attitude is more than anything. One million percent the beautifiest thing I've ever witnessed. But if I don't feel that I can battle

Dre, Premier, anyone then I'm not on my fucking A game. Then what am I doing this for? If I can't step in the room with those people and strategically come up with a plan to defend myself what am I doing this for? If I can't step in the room with those people and strategically come up with a plan to defend myself, please, what am I doing this for?

Tiger ball. Tiger ball. I ain't gonna lie. That's work, though. No, you gotta think about it for me. I didn't think about Dre, Pamir, Farrah. I think about everybody the same fucking way because everybody's talented. The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States.

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Jadakiss on it too. Jesus, I apologize Jadakiss. Later on, remind me to say sorry to your face. But, in the middle of the battle, you throw this on. You shut the whole shit down because everybody's like this. They're listening. So this was a different part of the battle, Swiss. Yeah, because you got to be calculated.

I knew he was going to play PSA. I knew he was waiting too long PSA. I knew he was waiting too long to play it. On the surface of the mountain. I knew he thought I was going to play Rough Riders Anthem or something like that. It wasn't a part of my plan. You got to get strategic.

You know what I'm saying? I'm going to have to do that in every battle, every time. You just got to be strategic and then, you know, let it fly. I'm just going to be honest. And then, you know, let it fly. I'm just going to be honest with you. Who the fuck has a record with Nas, Jay-Z, and T-Mex and just holds it? You're the only nigga in the fucking world. Who the fuck has this record?

Why isn't this record out? I'm not holding it. Why isn't it in the book? I'm not holding it because I want it. You named a bunch of complicated people that's on that record. Is it Clarence's? Yeah, those motherfuckers is talented, but they complicated. I'm not kissing nobody's rings, so we can forget that part.

Nah, I ain't gonna lie. That's why. You're a better nigga than me. You just named all the most complicated people in hip hop. Listen, you're a better nigga than me, because if it was me, that should have been on SoundCloud. I'd be like, I don't know who the fuck. I don't know who the fuck put that shit out. They're the kids, 17, 44.

The party ain't over yet. As soon as the jury chance, we'll take the blame. We got to sign the file. We'll take the blame. But you know, there's some respectable reasons. Right. But the world's going to get more than what they asked for. Okay.

Okay. With that being said, Busta Rhymes is one of my favorite, one of my closest friends in the world. Yeah. He called me and said, Swiss Beats has the best Nas verse since Illmatic. Now, let me not quote him

because I don't understand if he said the best Nas verse or the best Nas project. I don't remember. he said the best Nas verse or the best Nas project. I don't remember this both of those and He was hmm. Okay. Yeah, that's all that project. No, I'm gonna talk about it. Mm-hmm No, he's talked about it, but we gotta wait You know, I already got this up, but we gotta be gonna so stingy with the Virgo. Nah, I'm not going to lie. You know, I already got that stuff. But we got to, we got to.

But he's going to sting you with the thing, bro. The tiger? I thought you poured it. Yeah, you got the cup right there. All right, cool, cool. Can you do the honors, Swiss? But Swiss, listen, this is not Bacardi. You got to pour it lightly.

You got to pour it lightly, Swiss. Because I know you all know this. Oh, that's not lightly, Swiss. Okay. All right, I'm going to give you half of my shot. That's three shots right there. Yeah, yeah, take it lightly, Swiss. Take it lightly, Swiss. Grab a cup, grab a cup. Cool, that's too much lightly Swiss. Okay. Ah. All right. I'm going to give you half of my shot. That's three shots right there. Yeah, yeah. Take it lightly, Swiss.

Take it lightly, Swiss. Grab a cup. Grab a cup. Cool. Cool. That's too much, Swiss. Come on. All right.

Come on. Let's split this one. Swiss, we love you. Zone, zone. Oh, shit. All right. Cool. I'm definitely going to throw up.

Cheers. This is the episode I'm throwing up. Cheers. All right. Throw it out. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers.

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Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. I ain't throwing up. Let's do it. I got no water. Water? Are you taking a shot? I ain't taking no fucking shot. That's the point. You got to take it down. Come on.

That was terrible. That's horrible. That was terrible. Sinus problems is gone. Oh, yeah. You good. It just happened. Come on.

Talk about shit. Are we going again? What was we at again? We going. We going. Where was that? Tiger, where you at? Tiger, where you at? Tiger, where you at? Tiger, where you at? Tiger, where you at? The sinus problems is gone. Oh yeah, you good. It just happened. Come on, talk that shit. We going on again? What was we at again?

We going on. We going on there. Where was that? Tigerbone. Holy moly guacamole. I ain't gonna lie. We talking about the Nas album. You got a little bit more of a tan. Yeah, definitely. So, when Busta just said that to me, I'm from Queens. Wait, but that verse is on his album, Nas verse.

No, no, no. It's on the album that's on his album. It's on Swizz's album. No, Swizz, don't take another one, Swizz. I need the ice one. Just let me buy it. I've never seen Tiger with ice. No, it turns red.

It turns red. That's Tiger's blood. You know what Charlie Sheen was talking about? No, relax. This is not Tiger's blood. Yeah, this is it, when you put it with ice. But Busta said to me that Swizz has the illest Nas verse.

I don't know if he said the illest Nas album or the illest Nas verse. I don't have an ill album than Illmatic. Let's get that clear.

We talking a lot of big talk. Yeah, because that was it. We ain't going to talk that big talk. Yeah, yeah. Let's be all the way a thousand.

All right, I love that. What we have is a great, great, we way a thousand. All right, I love that. What we have is a great, great, we have a great body of work that I think that people appreciate that loves Illmatic. Right?

It's not taking you out of the zone of one great poet that's in his prime. Okay, you want drink champs? So I'm just going to be honest. That answer sounds like you said

that you have the better album than the album that he just dropped. I'm just being honest. That's that answer sounds like you said that you have the better album than the album that he just dropped. I'm just being honest. That's what it sounds like. Because you're Andre Chatham. I feel that I have a different body of work. You do feel like you have the better album.

If you was to put that... Yeah, I do. I do. That's what I'm talking about. Talk that shit. That's what I'm talking about. This is the one that RZA's connected to? What's RZA's role in this?

So listen... No, wait, wait, wait. What's RZA's role in this? So listen. What's RZA's role? Oh that's another project. That's a song. Cause they've been seeming like it's something. This is Illuminati.

We in Illuminati now just in case you ain't know. You forgot about the Kanye battle cause that's where it started from. It started there. You forgot about the Kanye battle, because that's where it started from. It started there. So I'm out. You got three. And now you brought the Nas project up. It was the Kanye battle.

Yeah, that's where it started, the whole thing. So you ready for the smoke? I don't feel that me and Kanye on... On the same boat? I don't know what you're about to say. No, no, no. I don't feel that when me and Kanye battle, I don't feel it was like me and Juss battle, me and Tim's battle.

You bullied him as well. I'm going to be honest. You bullied him. He had records, though. That was Kanye. I ain't going to lie. Kanye and Pepper Hot. Swiss, you're such a great nigga. You're such a great nigga that I didn't realize you're a bully.

I am a bully. You're a bully. You're a bully. I'll be watching you online like, damn, that's Swiss. No, I'm not a bully. You bullied J. I'm a fucking bully. You a bully. I be watching you online like, damn, that's Swiss. No, I'm not a bully. You bullied Jess, I'm going to be honest. No, Jess started to fight with me. How am I the fucking bully?

No, I don't think Jess started to fight with you. Yes, he did. He heard what I said on Drink Champs. Yeah. Spazzed out on me on Twitter. I even told him I'm not battling Jess Blaze. He had killed me just to get it off the table. I'm like, damn, it's 2017.

I'll keep listening. I can't have no problem with Jess Blaze. I'm listening to you. I'm listening to you. I'm listening to you. I'm listening to you. I'm listening to you. I'm listening to you. I'm listening to you. I'm listening to you. I'm listening to you. I'm not battling Just Blaze. He had killed me just to get it off the table.

I'm like, damn, it's 2017. I can't have no problem with Just Blaze. I'm listening to you complete your case. Go ahead. You know what I'm saying? And he confirmed that he had a problem with me since 2002. 2002? Oh, he dated the year on Twitter?

He told me. Guys, you got to pull his tweets up. And he got this on. And he got this. I went and, wait, where was he coming from? And I did his show. China? Coming from China. And he got this. I went and we was coming from and I did his show coming from China. Straight landed the plane from China to come do a show. Because I was like,

you know what? Maybe this is what he really want me doing. And this is he want to get my attention. Well, his show mean like the Combat Jack show or something like that? Whatever show that he had, I think it was Netflix or something like that. And I was like, you know what? Let me let me go do it. I'm gonna do a show. I respect his word. And that's what's up. I do it. And so I was like, you know what? Let me let me go do it I'm gonna do a show I respect his word and that's what's up. I do it And so I was like, well, maybe that's why he's getting a little you know

This is terrible It was that was that was that routine you can you a foul nigga Because this is important. Very important. Right? So I did the interview. And then towards the end of the interview, he brought up the battle. And he said, Jesse, bro, he's like, yo, so what are we going to do with this battle?

And I was like, you really want to battle, dog? Like, what are you talking about? And he told me about him and his cousin had a beef with me when I made Money Cash Hoes. So you'd hear about this story. Right? And so I was like, why you got a problem with me with Money Cash?

And he was like, yo, I know the real reason. We don't know the real reason. I'm not going to get into all that. You don't have to. I'm not going to get into all that. Unless you want to.

Because I don't really have a problem with just like that. No, it's love. This is hip hop. If I did, I'd get into it. Yeah, this is hip hop. We don't got no beef with nobody.'m gonna be fine yes let's go let's go let's go you with you brother so then y'all seen on the Instagram just tell me what you gonna do

to me I'm a bad Swiss I'm a killer small fucking dead-da-da-da-da-da-da Friday. And that was it. And then we did the interview on a Wednesday. And that battle, was that battle in your house? No, that was in my own. Your guest house? My studio in the city. It was his yacht.

His yacht's yacht. Yo, I ain't going to lie. I'm not rich like that, King. No, nigga. I'm not rich like that. I brag about you. Please. Let me just keep bragging about you, my nigga. I, game. Nah, nigga. I'm not rich like that. I brag about you. Please. Let me just keep bragging about you, my nigga.

That's my nigga. I'm okay. I brag about you. Like I told y'all, I ain't even started yet. You tell me. Remember I told y'all this on Drink Champs. I ain't even started yet. Like the things that we think that's the next level, that shit is nothing, man.

And it's cool because we you know we already started from nothing and then we actually get something but just know that when you get to that point sky's not the limit

it's just the view you understand and traveling the best investment you could do with your life is travel because you get to

get outside of this box and see and see what's really out there and then measure your skills based on a global compass. If you're not thinking global mindset, then you ain't even...

Don't even talk. Don't even sit at the table. Can somebody roll me a real blunt? Yeah, that part. I'll pay you for that. I ain't gonna lie. Look, this shit is fucked up. Look at the fuck I'm smoking.

You're gonna roll me a blunt and you're fucking up my interview because he made me a blunt. I ain't gonna lie. Look, this shit is fucked up. Look at the fuck I'm smoking. Come on, roll on the button. You're fucking up my interview because he's in the blank. That's right. Please. Please. Someone roll on the button. He's talking about global mind.

You know what I'm saying? No, but now, Swiss, how the fuck did you even get with Zenith watch? How did I get with Zenith? Yeah. I said it wrong, Zenith? Zenith.

We could Zenith, Zenith. It ain't no time. It's not the TV. Right. But, you know, in our culture, we buy so muchith. We can Zenith, Zenith, it's not the TV. Right. But, you know, in our culture, we buy so much jewelry,

we buy so many watches, but we don't understand the movement of time. We don't understand how many jewels is in the watch. Most of us don't. And,

you know, that's something I've been a connoisseur of, just watches. Like, I helped many brands launch from Hublot

to APs to Richard Mills. Okay, I'm telling you, about you going way too fast. No, but I'm just breaking down the history of them. You helped launch Hublot and AP, and then we're going right back to Zenith. I need to understand that. What is your role in that? You're consulting them to do?

Hublot, what was your role? Being the first with it at those particular points, right? And so Zenith was was was the brand that I was watching and placing my bets on because I know everybody don't have it people not wearing it and mr. Beaver who you know started Hublot and took you low to that company he came over to this company and so I knew that very rich language they just don't know mr. Bieber at all mr. Bieber if you if you listen to this Google mr. Bieber mr. Bieber yeah okay yeah from Hublot from the news and if he's legend, 40 years of watchmaking.

And he's an icon. And to be with an icon in the watch world. So he left Hublot. He looked at it. He said, yo, y'all, I'm not going to be with Fleet Charles no more. He's still on that thing. Mr. Charles over here. Yeah, he's going to do that.

And you went with the y'all. Yeah, and then my watch, you know, bringing the culture to the watch world in Basel and Switzerland and selling out in less than 48 hours, you know, it just was mind and mental for our complexion to be doing these different things in a different area where they don't really see us. They see us on the receiving end,

but they don't see us on the building and infrastructure side of it. Right, so I wanted to open that up for anybody that's watching this that that's just interested in watches and more than just wearing them and the jeweler telling you whatever like the jeweler's is giving everybody bullshit yeah you know i'm saying like that's the fact right like you're gonna be able to negotiate better once i once i give you this education on what you need to know on multiple levels, right? And so I've been blessed to take these things.

And, like, a lot of people get the jewels and keep them for they self, right? I'm going to do talks, seminars, promo. Oh, that's my sister. You know, that's my boss, by the way, right? Because, like, I just feel like I got so many things that i need to i need to give back to the people you know i'm saying i need to give back to as much as possible because we're losing this race just based off of knowledge and i and i understand why education is so hard to get because fuck man if you have it you dangerous dangerous. You a weapon. With education, you a walking weapon.

You understand? And that's why they made that shit not cool for us and not really investing in it for our coaches and our cities. Right? Because if they invest in education and arts, then we become the new Einsteins. We can't become the new Einsteins. That's dangerous. They barely can tame us just being naturally smart from the hood i got kicked out of every school and end up graduating from harvard like

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all the new art Let's talk about culture being workers instead of home cuz I see you post something the other day, and you said, I don't want to do anything unless ownership. Is that where I'm, did I go to the right place? You said that. And the reason why, I've been doing that, but I put that as a mainstream line for people because I want people to start really thinking about what I already just said. Explain that, please.

You know what I'm saying? Please. Everybody can't be an owner out the gate, right? So it's not, let's not like, let's not be not naive about this. Yep. Right? And so, but it come a time and point

where you get to a certain point that, you know you're supposed to be an owner at this point. But the comfortability of the check keeps you a slave. Right? And it's the reason why I left music for eight years, because I came back because I came back as a free man. I left as a slave, came back as a free man, right? Because it's all timing.

I was the first person in music ever to pay cash to get out of my deal. When they used that as an anchor to keep me in. I was the first person in music ever to pay cash to get out of my deal. When they used that as an anchor to keep me in. What label were you talking about? This is Arista? No, this was when I was at Universal. Oh, okay. I paid cash to get out of my deal because they wanted me to be,

I wanted to put out my record. This is when I had this Me Bitches and Me, Bitches, and Money in the Bank. This is that album. And then I had a record on there with Coldplay, and I wanted to shoot the Coldplay record. And then this artist, which is super, you know, super cool guy, named Ron Browse, they wanted me to do a Ron, like, I'm supposed to sound like Ron Browse? It's me, bitches. You know what I'm saying? Like, whoa, like, I'm ready to go.

They wanted you to do a pop champagne? They did. This is very breaking news right now. Are you telling me that... What label is this again? I don't want to really... The fact that they stopped asking you to do it at that point in your career already.

These people take these things personally. I no longer don't. you but I use it to educate people Yeah, all of these things and these hard times you gotta imagine you all the way up there, right? So they actually came to you and said you should do Oh Ron Brown plays the song for me like I ain't know it like if you watch artists to pop champagne all the whole shit Yeah, but anyways shout the mom brows. He did do he cop less right? like I ain't know it. Like if you was a new artist too. Pop Champagne or? The whole shit, yeah. Get out. But anyways, shout out to Ron Browse. He did do E.T.

God bless him. Right? But. This is good shit. I had to watch. I had to watch. I had to watch everybody else

come with Coldplay when I had Coldplay early. And I knew where the vision was going because I'm not just a rap producer. I'm a producer, period.

And which is. But the only other nigga that have a Coldplay was hold after that so you know Chris Martin Chris Martin is a good guy Chris Martin is a good guy you know so is that the cold Coldplay I'm all them guys I'm saying with a Kanye yeah everybody had it but I would have been like four years earlier maybe more with the vision that I had and

all my creatives out there like don't let these people tell you your vision just because they paying for your studio time you know what I'm saying

like stay stay in your own zone stay in your own zone I've been passing this nigga blunt for 24 years he's never hit it. We're going to start this year. Once?

I'm going to dance with you one time. One time. But the music ain't right yet. A little later. The music ain't right yet. Okay. Wait, wait. That's one thing.

Why does producers want to make your album so, so perfect? Why? I could never understand. I don't want to make your album so, so perfect? Why? Like, I could never understand. I don't want to make my album so perfect. I want to make a body of work that reflects... The time of now? Culture. Right?

And I had 70 songs and narrowed it down to 11. Yeah. And I didn't narrow it down. I just did a bunch of listening sessions and let the people narrow it down. Because we too personal with our shit. As artists, we too technical, we too personal. We stuck in our own, we get in our own way. Because we put some stats on the boards back then.

Like, this is a different day today. Yo, Nori trying to get the cameraman lit so he can. You want me to film the ceiling? Nori, why don't to get the cameraman lit so you get No, I said what I said so listen No, but I said what I said. So, listen. Nigga, let's get to the smoke. Talk to me about that shit. What do we want to talk about? Let's turn up.

You got to relax. We never... This is the only show besides Angelique's show. Okay, we're going to bring Angelique out. Yay! We might get a chance. Yay! We might get a chance.

We might get a chair Yo listen I'm not gonna lie I love y'all I love that We got a beautiful Black woman working for us Working with y'all With us

That's what I said I spoke to Angela You can come sit here Can I get the mic Because we lit That's what I said. But I spoke to Angela. She can come sit here. Come on, we got another mic too. Can I get the mic? Because we lit. Forest closer. You know what I'm saying?

Shout out to my epic fam in the building. They actually came. Because you can't smoke on the breakfast club. So, Angela, you can. Woo! You cannot smoke on the breakfast club. If you hit it, then I got to hit it. All right.

Yeah. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! For the sake of Swiss. This is not the Revis Club. Y'all come on in the morning.

We come on at night time. Y'all come on in the morning. We come on at night time. This is a different show. This shit tight as a motherfucker. I ain't going to lie. Whoever wrote that, I respect you. Can you roll one more, please?

Because I need you. Yo. Let me tell you something. Go more, please? Because I need you. Yo. Let me tell you something. Go ahead, please. I seen Angela outside, and I just wanted to congratulate her for being a universal spirit. Right? She's a universal spirit. Numerous conversations come up, and I hate her name, whether it's referencing people for jobs that's going to help their family whether it's organizations like the

consistency and the work that this sister right here has been doing is unmatched for the culture you know what you messed that up just now Just now, because you asked for wine, Swiss is trying to give me a compliment. I wanted to salute to it, but I didn't want to salute to it to Tiger Ball. You think this mic ain't on? You know how much shit is on this tape? You talking about wine? This ain't no fucking wine interview, King. Red wine? I'm in. No, the Tiger Ball is right here.

Come on, baby. The Bacardi H right there. What are we doing? No. Get that fucking note. What is that? What is that? You got a nip? You got a nip? Right there we doing no get that fucking With the twist off cap? You right, you right. With the twist off. I got the wine with the twist off cap. Come on, man. I told y'all to order some vino grigio. Yo, but Swiss.

Mm-hmm. You heard the pull? The pull was nice. Come on, keep it real. You got wine and a Bacardi cup. That was a little bit of a scene. I bought my first piece of art and everybody was like, you got to call Swizz and ask him about art. And ask him, how do you know how to buy art?

I'm going to be honest. Swizz, how the fuck? Because the thing about your shit is, it's no commission. Meaning, the people can post their art, and they actually don't have to pay to post their art, but they get paid for posting their art. Yeah, they, you know. Did I say that?

Did I break down that article? I think I did. Not really post, but. The commission would be that if they sell it, they don't have to pay a commission, right? There you go. Yes. There you go. That's hard.

But I'm not a, I don't own an art gallery. I'm not a broker. I'm not a dealer. Why should I charge artists for commissions on their art? Right. Because I'm Swiss? Fuck that. It's a celebration

for the artists and they should keep 100% of what they sell as a celebration. I was lucky enough to create the entry point for art. It was 100 countries involved, billions and billions. Even

Abazu last year was 33 billion impressions. It's bigger than the entire Basel. You know, we've given back millions of dollars back directly into artist's pockets. And we ain't even start yet. God damn it. I feel like you're making some noise for that. I feel like you need to do more.

We should do something for all Baselists here in Miami. We should all do something. Well, I'm doing something. Y'all might need to have a drink at Champ Station. Let's do it. Because everybody's going to be drinking. Well, Nor, you buy art? No, I don't. I'm doing something. Y'all might need to have a drink at Champ Station. Let's do it. Because everybody's going to be drinking. Well, Nor, you buy art? No, I don't.

I'm a foul. I'm a foul nigga. I bought art and I hate shit. And I didn't know what I bought. Because you know when people are doing the same, most of the people always buy a Scarface poster and stuff like that. They buy the same. I know.

I'm going to show you how to do it. You do have a Scarface, don't you? I know it. I know it. Scarface with his face on scar face. That's what they be trying to sell to coaching, man. Stop. So what is the difference between regular art and real art?

How do we know? Because you know why? You know why? How do we know? How do we know this is great art? You know what I'm saying? For real. There's no bad way to do art.

It's all expression. You can relate to it or not. You understand? You know what I'm saying? Like, for real. There's no bad way to do art. It's all expression. You can relate to it or not. You understand? For me to sit here and say who art is good and who art is bad, that's a personal thing. I can't do that.

You know what I'm saying? So if I buy Shrek smoking a blunt, I'm still good? Yeah, you good. That's you. That's what you value. That represents you.

I think some people buy art to invest in it and some people buy it because they just like it and they want to have it in the house. Shrek smoking a blunt is hard to make. But what you said is important. But my thing is I think some people buy art to invest in it, and some people buy it because they just like it, and they want to have it in the house. But what you said is important, but my thing is invest in your heart.

Invest what you feel, right? But there's also, if you do research on the certain things that you buy, you won't waste no money. I can give you 250,000 artists that you can go green light with. And a lot of people think that art is just for rich people. I can show you a piece for $30. I can show you a piece for $5,000. I can show you a piece for $100,000, $50,000, whatever. Whatever is your entry point is your entry point.

Just because you can't get a Bentley as your first whip, you don't drive. You see what I'm saying? Stop that fucking lot. That nigga's better clapped. That's that hard to talk. drive all right you see I'm saying like stop that fight I'm definitely jacking that line my nigga. That's that one week course you took. If you see it on Twitter just ride with it. You gotta ride with it.

I know it's not a joke. I promise you and I'm still a student you could be a boss on the student at the same time. You have to be to grow. It's his own. I love that. Let's get to that shit, Norrie. I love that. No, no, no. I'm never going to put you in jeopardy, brother. Put me in jeopardy? Put me in jeopardy.

I'm never going to do that. But let me, I'm going to tell you something that I honor. That I really honor is every time, like, you know, it's Christmas time or holiday time I see you with your ex-wife with your old wife

that's so beautiful nice with my old wife he nice and the old lady what the fuck I wasn't supposed to say it like that I wasn't supposed to

come on help me out when you say your ex-wife and your old wife your old wife sounds like it's an ex-wife too why does that sound crazy I mean your wife I know you know what I mean your old girl your old wife you're trying's an ex-wife to you. Why does that sound crazy? I mean, your wife and your... I know.

You know what I mean. Your old girl. Your old wife. You're trying to fix your shape up, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To me, that's beautiful because at the end of the day, your old life is there. And everyone... Like, my wife took my ex-wife to the airport.

Hold on. Let me tell you something. There's no... That's hard to... Wow. That's big. That's hard. My wife now took my ex-wife to the airport. Hold on. Let me tell you something. That's hard to me. That's big. That's hard. My wife now took my ex-wife to the airport. She volunteered, but I ain't going to lie. And she ain't crashed the car?

No, they good. That's called progress. But I'm not going to lie to you. When I seen it with you, I said, oh, it's possible. This chick can really have it. I was telling Swizz outside, I just seen Meshanda a couple of days ago. And they have a book coming out about the blended family. Yeah, all three of us.

Oh, shit. It's called Blended. Oh, shit. You know what? I really like that you're clapping for that because our coach is trained to only put the zoom lens on negativity. Right. You know, when we launched the cover of this book, it was no smoke. Now, if Meshana was doing a tell-all and all this shit here, then it would be a lot of smoke.

You understand? And, like, we got to stop pulling our own down. Right? What me and my ex went through was a bunch of misunderstandings. You know, we was young at this particular time. I'm so ready to clap. Keep going.

You know what I'm saying? But I'm so ready to clap. And like, nobody's perfect. She's not perfect. I'm not perfect. And we don't live in a perfect world. But to come together

and, you know, and be able to celebrate each other. Now, hold on. Hold on, not yet. And to be able to celebrate each other and to see, you know, and be able to celebrate each other. No, no, hold on. Hold on, not yet. And to be able to celebrate each other and to see, you know, Mashanda going to the next level. And she always had a gift in writing, you know. But my thing was like, listen, you know,

use your gift to give back, to give back to the culture. Because our culture is a scarred culture, right? So, you know, women in our culture are scarred because, you know, we get in situations that we're so young at those times that nobody wrote the rules on what we're supposed to do at 19, 20, 17, 20. Like, nobody wrote those rules.

And there's not too many families that we know that's really together. So the culture's really out there by themselves. And so when people see um negativity they feel like um it feels very personal to them right because like a sister might have really went through some real things right and then so you seeing that she went through some real things with this other person that went through some real things now you want to shoot at that person because it's not kind of like no no it kind of reminds you of what you've been going through.

But you got to understand people are emotional and people go through things. But at the end of the day, for Meshana to be sitting at our tables closer to me than my wife in that particular picture

at Thanksgiving because there's no big guys or little yous. It's not like I need to sit here to feel like this tables closer to me than my wife and that particular picture at Thanksgiving because there's no big guys and little yous it's not like I need to sit here to feel like this or this and that no man like you know there's really a great positive energy it's a great union and y'all need to stop being mad at some shit that we ain't even mad at Can I clap now? If it ain't no peep If it ain't no beef, it ain't no beef. It's not for everything. My mother's got beef

more than it's machina. Bro. But you know, you see Jada Pinkett Smith talking about her and Will Smith and his ex-wife and they all go away.

I definitely didn't see that. I see that. That's serious. Yeah. It's a human thing. A lot of times things don't work out the way you planned.

That's okay. That life don't got nothing to do with that life. You know what I'm saying? It's okay. That life don't got nothing to do with that life. You know what I'm saying? That's okay. But I'm going to tell you one thing that was so fantastic to me. It was one day. Yeah, he be tuned in.

You see this guy? You are filming. I always got a tan, too. Oh, he look my aunt. Okay, yes. You are filming at the Porsche building and I'm looking at your snap, but then I'm looking at the view

and I'm like, this nigga's right here. You remember that day? Yo, my nigga, listen, I'm looking, because the Porsche building, by the way, it's very disrespectful. My view because the Porsche, by the way, is very disrespectful. My view is the Porsche built. What, Abbott's world? You get away.

You're not going to say anything. You're going to edit that part out. So I'm just looking. Because I had no idea that they was building. Because the Porsche building is my fantastic, my fantastic is best building in the world your car goes up there just you know locks up but I'm looking at a snap and I'm looking at my actual view. I'm like, this is the same fireworks. Because you remember, that's like the 4th of July.

This nigga is saying... It was a real time at the same time? This is my nigga, listen to me. It was the same exact time. He's not watching the fireworks, he's looking at the grass. And I got this nigga's phone number, so I'm like, hold on, hold a minute. I said, this nigga Swiss, the move in the Porsche building, he didn't even tell me.

I'm like, oh my gosh. I look at you, yellow, yellow, purple, purple. This is green as well. This is this nigga. So I hit him he said okay, I'm over here be popping fireworks No, you're the only thing because there's a lot of these they say fool y seafood yallering saying they live in the Porsche building. Oh, they do? Did I say that out loud? Did I say that? Y'all heard that? I haven't seen nobody in the building yet.

You're the only nigga I've seen in the building. Yo. That's a good vibe. That's a good vibe, man. Something in the Porsche. All right, listen. Let me describe this because I know Swiss is a humble guy. Tell them what-

You got to explain what the Porsche building is. Tell them what- Let's bring the people to the table. Tell them what- Tell them what- Tell them why we really in the Porsche building. I don't even- They own the whole building. Let me find it. Please, because-

I need- Actually, that's about the concept of the Porsche building. If that's the truth, then I need to make an investment- He designed it. Because I need to be in there somewhere. You designed the Porsche building. No, Porsche designed the Porsche building. I designed the Porsche building. concept of the Porsche building. If that's the truth, then I need to make an investment. Because I need to be in there somewhere.

You designed the Porsche building? No, Porsche designed the Porsche building. Okay. But I was a very intricate piece of the process of the Porsche building. Gil Deza's a legendary builder in Miami. Great friend. Great brother. What's his name?

Shout out to Gil Deza. Yeah, we got to write notes. No, I name? Yeah, we gotta write notes. Tell him you know the guy who pulled the chairs. I don't even wanna compare you to who I know. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. The Swiss is flossing all over.

Can I ask both Swiss and Nori the same question? When did both of y'all get like so, to use a Swiss quote, fancy? Like when did you make that transition From being like It's Swiss turn Both of you

Cause both of y'all fancy You Both of you are somebody's rich friend Angela you my friend Y'all both fancy He's in the porch building You across from it Yes

Listen I just want to be clear That's why I'm with you Is this cross from The Canaanites I'm not that close I wouldn't say I'm fancy I would say I'm cultural

Like when did that happen When did you wake up And be like This is crazy I don't even This is why Every day I be there But like before

Like at some point You have to be like Cause you know When we're young We have no idea What life is gonna bring us Right At some point

You're like okay I'm aspiring toward this and then you achieve it i can tell you my moment it was a long fucking time ago stop drop when i seen every car passing by playing that song it was over from that point on i i knew that i had something to work with in this life and it was because of that song sitting on the stoop in front of 125th street in front of the mart on a fire uh the little fire thing that you could just sit on the two heads come out pause um and i just watched cars i watched 80 80 i think it was like 89 cars and like

an hour and a half i counted them motherfuckers playing my song That's when I felt fancy Your porch building all that stuff. That's cool stuff. That's materialistic things We could talk Porsche building talking but like if the Porsche building talk don't match our portfolio and it doesn't mean anything anything. All right. God damn it. Let me make some noise for that. If I was going to use that, I don't know who took Porsche Bill and shit. I'm going to be

honest. I'm going to foul make it. When was your moment, Nori, when you were like, I done made the transition?

I'm still trying to make that transition. Stop lying. You done made that transition. All right. Let me talk about you on your show

now. I just came to Dumbo House, okay, as I'm here to see Victor Santiago. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Let me talk about you on your show now. I just came to Dumbo House, okay, as I'm here to see Victor Santiago. Shout out to Mike and Carrie, the owners of the Dumbo House. God!

God! God! I did that on purpose. I don't know. I actually don't know. I actually don't know. When I stopped wanting to hang out in the hood, when I stopped wanting to hang out in the hood, I was just like, I was doing this dumb shit.

Me and people were in some old house. Me and people were anywhere. Anywhere other than the hood. You know what I mean? Because I knew every time I was in the hood, I was doing something dumb. So I can't tell tell you what yeah i can't tell you whatever but that was it says it was what what what what what what i know what time it was no i ain't gonna lie let me tell you something you was in the desert let me tell you something let me tell you something

swiss let me tell you something the beat that we were supposed to do before BAM from TV. Do you remember that beat? I don't. How the world did that beat? No, I heard Jungle had an intricate part of BAM from TV. No, I'm just telling you that. Here, here, let me just picture you. There's Queen stories now. I'm going to tell you what happened. Let's get to the real talk.

What happened is this. I'm going to see who you're going to battle, too. I got some questions for you. I'm in, I'm in. I'm back down, leave me now. Well, listen, I'm going to battle, too. I got some questions for you. I'm in. I'm in. I'm back down. Leave me, y'all. Well, listen. But listen, I'm going to tell you what happened.

What happened was I walked to the firm session. That's how we filmed I'm Leaving. Dr. Dre was the engineer. What? Oh, yeah. Because that's Firm Album. He was the Firm Album. He was the actual engineer. So he was like, yo, are you ready?

And I was like, oh, shit. Because they didn't tell me what's going on. I just walked in the studio. I was like, oh, fuck. He's checking levels. He's like, yo. So Dr. Dre, the engineer. So I'm leaving.

This was actually nature's session. No, but you replaced somebody, right? This was the, huh? You replaced somebody. No, no, no. This was nature's session. So it was, right? This was the huh? You replaced somebody, wasn't it? No, no, no. This was Nature's session. That's right. So it was supposed to be Nature's.

Isn't that why Nature got the shot at the beginning? This is why Nature was on ban from TV. Oh, that's right. That's right. So when I laid, I'm leaving. No. It was Nature's session, so Nature could have easily said, fuck Nori, take him the fuck off of this shit. Why would he do that?

No, I'm just saying. I'm just being honest. You know, this is the era we lived in at that time. So nature didn't do that. So the reason, this is why I'm bringing up Banford TV. So what happened was I wanted to pay nature back. On which way? On Banford TV. Listen, listen. I'm tuned. On which way? On Banford TV.

Listen, listen. I'm tuned in. But it wasn't Banford TV at this time. So we came there, and you played me one of the most amazing beats in the world. And I wrote a whole song to it. But nature showed up. And I had to pay him back for not hating. You had a smoke with nature?

No, not. You had to give him a beat cuz he took his session. I took his session in LA Oh, I'm a real nigga and No, you play you play you You're looking listen, okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Give it up That's not the motor so So you play you play every beat you played I had a verse for but then Play bad from TV But that was the intro to the beat and that was a loop to be right I remember some shit that I've lost but yeah I won't give you so when you did it nature was like he didn't

even say he likes it he just don't like this and me and you you just look this shit cuz memories to its rails and you just put the shit in and like you said we never actually loaded the real beat. Bam from TV. It's a loop. No. It's an intro. No. Yes. Bam from TV what you hear is the intro to the beat that was made. They didn't even want to get to the beat. They just kept rapping on the... They just kept rapping on the mouth for the whole time. I'm like, the beat never dropped. The beat never dropped. The beat never dropped. Young Swizz was so stressed.

He was like, yo, you know what's up? I'm like, I can't... That's fine. I'm telling you, when it dropped to that other piece, they just ignored me the whole time. So now, let me just tell you. Let this man get to the beat. They just ignored me the whole time. So now let me just tell you. Let me just tell you what happened. And you can stop me at any point if I'm wrong. What happened was I wanted to pay Nature back.

So Nature, Swiss played 17 things. No, about 30. About 30. Nature didn't get it. But once he played a band for the TV, this is where Swiss is one million percent members was incorrect cuz it was just the intro and nature orders whole shit to that at that time Rojo you pun everybody did that let me finish it even got a beat one of those the great papayas. You remember, community electric granny. You know I'm on point.

I was laying on the couch sideways. So Pun comes to my session, he disrespects everything. So he just comes there and goes, yo, you didn't tell me to come. So I was like, yo, this is some Queen shit. And he's like, I go, boom, I go over downstairs, smoke a cigarette. Pun lays a whole verse. Champagne on the rocks. And I come upstairs. And mind you, I'm like, yo, Pun, this is disrespectful, man. God bless the recipe.

I'm like, this is disrespectful. He's like, you want to erase that? And I just looked at him like. Was he pressing you? No, no, no. I ain't going to lie. He was. So I was like, I'm going to erase that.

Knowing there's no way I'm going to erase this. And then Cam. Because who comes next? Come on, Has. Where you at? Has right there, bud. Cam.

Cam comes next? Yeah, Cam comes next because... No, no, no. Not kids. The locks. Just the interims. The locks. Over that shit.

So now let me just tell you something. Styles, I love Styles. The first time I met Styles, I wanted to kill him. I'm going to be honest with you. It's called the entry point listen if Styles land in Miami right now

I'll give him the keys to my house and I will not ever look I will not even question him what you gonna do with my house

yo Styles hold on Styles is the same fucking way I'm working on some shit with him I went to Styles he said yeah

you know I'm with all the goofy shit he stood like I'm like on some shit with them. I went to Styles. He said, yeah, you know I'm with all the goofy shit. He stood like, I'm like, yo. Yo, Swiss, listen, hear me out. Why do you still want to smoke? Back then, he comes to the band from TV. He says, you got weed? I said, yeah.

Nigga grabbed my weed, rolled it up, smoked it right in my face. And never passed it to me. He never passed it. I've never seen Styles pass a blunt ever in my life. It was the most disrespectful shit I ever seen. I'm looking at him like, who is this nigga? I knew who he is. SP, send him a fucking pound of tea. No, no, no, no, no. This is my brother. But I looked, I just couldn't, just couldn't understand. And then later he actually like,

he actually like crushed up some weed and gave it back to me. But at the first I was like, damn, this guy is, he's the worst guy I ever met. Now he's, me and him is like this. I give him my motherfucking, but this is Bam from TV Session. You made that beat.

What was in your mind destruction excuse me destruction i thought he's being humble a little bit no humbleness let's go fuck that destruction you're not humble i'm humble all the time but sometimes i gotta say what it is destruction destruction i thought destruction you just throw the lighter down? No, I ain't gonna... I was with him. I'm with destruction, nigga. Destruction. Destruction shit.

Norris, I'm in the mood, bro. Yes. Poison. Poison. Let's talk about that, Al. Right? In life, we gotta face our poisons in order to poison.

I got a track list. I need a track list. Nah, I can show you, but I'm not gonna tell you. All right, let's... I don't even want to show you. Listen, I need a track list. No, I can show you better than I can tell you. All right, let's, I don't even want you to show me. Listen, I just said some shit.

In life, we gotta face our poison in order to poise on. Because you know you was born from your mother and you a poised son. Understand? That was hard.

Like, what we gonna get to in this record is serious. Oh. Right? And a lot of people want to run from the poison or secretly fuck with it. Mm. Right?

But this, when they see my album cover, they going to think I'm on some old, some whole other type of satanic shit. Olumladi? Whatever they want to call it. A bunch of mathematiciansombardi. Whatever they want to call it. A bunch of mathematicians. That's what they want to call it. Anarchemy. A bunch of mathematicians.

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Bell Biff DeVoe Isn't it Mad Black? No you haven't heard of that Bell Biff DeVoe It's Bibi they not Bibi Andy Bell Biff DeVoe You put the A on it You put the poly-A on it

You put the B on it Wow Y'all think it's Hyphen and hyphen Y'all making fun of my dyslexia We had Bell Biff DeVoe At the show That was hard But you know The album is way different Isn't it That nigga's just hyping and hyping. Y'all making fun of my dyslexia? We had Belle Booth DeVoe at the show.

That was hard. But, you know, the album is way different. Once I drop this album, I got three more coming. Wow. Jeez. Right? One of them is with Nas? No, no, no, no. It's nothing to do with that.

Actual Swiss album. Yeah, yeah. What? My next album is an R&B album, Beauty and the Beats. Right? actual Swiss album yeah yeah what my next album is an R&B album Beauty and the Beats right and then my next album after that is Return to Showtime which is all energy

so imagine Party Up on 10,000 on every song right because people they look at me for the anthems and the energy

I want to give them a body I want to curate you gotta save me a track for that one I want to curate I got you about to be busy alright more than you are alright right so. I want to curate. I got, you about to be busy. All right.

I got you. More than you are. All right. Right? So what I want to do is curate all of my works because I can't put all my expressions on one body of work and expect people to feel some spiritual shit from it and feel the zone, right? Like, imagine I got this Nas verse that y'all talking about,

or, you know, this Wayne track. I'll show you the video off-site. It's pretty crazy. And then I come with... And you shot a video with Jim Jones, too, right? Zone, yeah. And Young Thug, too. We watching you, Nick.

Zone, zone, zone. Shout out to all of them, because everybody responded on it. And just at some point, you got to tell young Thug, slime comes from the y'all. I don't know why he thinks. Hold on.

That's my friend. That's your friend. But I'm going to tell you what. He's not my friend. I'm going to tell you something. I don't know him, but he needs to know. Well, he did on my record joint. I ain't over the world.

I ain't never had that. No, that's dope. I ain't never had before. Come on, nigga. You know, I'm the, what is this shit? If that's a hater, I'm the other side of the room. I've never been a hater. But, you know, he got a slime language.

I feel like people should know that, you know, slime comes from me. The original slime. 2001. That's it. I don't want nothing. I just think that y'all both got different meanings to the word. No, there's no different meanings. Come on, let's be honest.

This is Drink Champs. I bring this game, that word to the game. No, there's no different meanings. Come on, let's be honest. This is Drink Champs. I brung this game, that word to the game. You did say slam a long time ago. I said slam in 2001. No, hell no. They turned it into blood. Got it. Shit, but that's okay. And I don't mind. We're not gonna fight over no name.

I don't want that name. I don't own it. I don't give a fuck. He might acknowledge that you was a fucking blood. Maybe he don't own it I don't give a fuck you acknowledge that you was maybe you don't know maybe we need to make that's why I said someone needs the idea that's why I said that's a I don't know you know you know you acknowledge it or not you know a lot of people a lot of you bring your motherfucking my god people the y'all are King you know a lot of people A lot of people King You know a lot of people Not on this earth

Because of miscommunication It's simple shit Like if you look at the things That's happening Even in In Chicago And all these different places It's off of miscommunication

Off of something That one brother Could have just said Yo I walked by I was going to pick up my kid. I was rushing there. So when I gave you the fake handshake, it wasn't because of no smoke.

It was because I was really focused on something else at that time. Damn, I thought you was disrespecting the zone. No, I wasn't. I was doing this. Oh, we don't communicate with each other enough as a culture. That's real. You understand? So toast to that.

I respect the young blood. Toast to that. You know what I'm saying? There's too much pride in the game. Yeah, yeah. We got to. No. There's too much pride and we're too fucking emotional.

Yeah. As a culture, we're too emotional. We so emotional. We so emotional. We so emotional. We so emotional. Jackson right now. We so emotional.

Bolt dissed me. Hold on. You chose to do that. You chose to do that. You chose to do that. You chose to do that. Medium line guy. You chose to do that.

The new Bolt is my people right now. He made me forget what the fuck I was going to say. We're talking about pride. We're talking about pride. We're too emotional. It's okay. Too emotional pride. Let me tell you something, Swiss.

Let me tell you something, man. I seen you. Hold on. We're too emotional that we don't handle business. Let me tell you when you lost your... You know what we do? Tell us. We get in front of a person that's on a higher rank. You know what we do? Tell us. We get in front of a person that's on a higher ranking.

You know me. I need one more. We get in front of a person that's higher ranking. What do we tell them? They want to do a big deal with us. We do shit like this as a culture, and we got to stop it. We get in front of this big guy, this big fucking tycoon, and you know he's the guy, he's the biggest guy.

Billion dollars, whatever the fuck their money is. And you got drink champs. You're Noriega, the Don. Can we use somebody else as an example? Because I don't want, because I feel like you're going to say this is from fucking the situation. Okay, sorry. So use somebody else. EFN.

I got drink champs too. You just got you, got you somebody okay you said next to the Don Don he's worth a billion dollars or she's worth a billion dollars you on her boat she paid for you to fly her in a plane and they want to do a deal with you and you know that what you have is a good product then they sit at the table and they you know why people want to meet with you you know why people have meetings at dinner you know why I know you know why but the reason why they want to know how much they can take advantage of you. You understand? When they sit down and they want to have an out-of-office meeting with you, they want to know.

They want to read your body language. Fuck your body language. They want to meet your mind language. They might have $100 million on that table. But you might leave out justifying $10 million based off of your conversation that night. They smoozed you. You got comfortable. Right.

You got agreeable. It wasn't even about the deal at that point. It was about, yeah, you know, I went to Stanford, and you're talking about I went to the zone of the streets of creativity. You're just coming up with streets of creativity you just coming up with whatever the fuck you coming up with and that's why Nas's power is his

so at that at that meeting they assessing how they should handle you going forward and we gotta know that when we sitting down and we going

I need to be able to tell you more about your company than you fucking know man you know um this year could have been a better year I know you took the loss on this and that but if you would have did, this year could have been a better year.

I know you took the loss on this and that. But if you would have did this, then it could have went up by like 15%. And then this, this, and this. You got to flex on these motherfuckers, man. Like, let's stop being sitting ducks that's waiting to get shot. We just so happy to be in position that we're fucking ignorant about the position. If they talk to you, they need you. You understand? He's just so happy to be in position that we're fucking ignorant about the position. If they talk to you, they need you. You understand?

No, when a person come to you, they already know how they can take advantage of you. We got to stop being the sitting duck that's waiting to get taken advantage of and we got to know our worth. You understand? If Andrea Lee is 10 million, then fuck it, it's 10 million. You got 10 million?

I would like the ball. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. You better talk to them both, Lord. I'm just saying in general. Whoever. Whoever. Whoever it is.

And there's no color on this. Education has no color. All right? Education has no color. So let me ask you this. Why did you go to Harvard? You up already. For education. Yeah. Why did you go to Harvard? You up already. For education.

Yeah, why did you go? I'll tell them the reason. Go ahead. The reason why I went to Harvard was because I was doing mergers and acquisitions. Wait, you're talking about what?

Mergers, meaning merging companies together and acquisition of that company, buying another company due to... I got to go to Harvard. I'm just throwing it out there. No, you know what?

You know what? I still don't know what the fuck you're saying. But let me not mislead the people. You don't need an Ivy League school to be educated. I went to Harvard as a challenge to myself. It was something that I wanted to like, it was a wall. I wanted to knock down.

But everything I learned in school, you could learn online. But you know the networking you could do at a place like that with people who are involved with other companies. You're right. That's what those Ivy League schools are for. Now the networking you could do at a place like that with people who are involved with other companies. You're right. That's what those Ivy League schools are for. Now, the networking, second to none. Hands down. I give you that. But the educational piece that you're going to process internally, you can get in many places.

And no disrespect to my Harvard alumni. I love y'all. I'm sending y'all my Gordon Parks collection. Yes. Right? We zoning out. You y'all my Gordon Parks collection. Yes. Right? We zoning out, you know, the biggest Gordon Parks collection in the world is the Dean collection

because we got to start owning the culture. We can't say we fuck with the culture and don't own the culture. We talking about we culture and don't own no parts of the culture. What part is that? There's no black label. There's no black-owned labels 100%.

So you believe in the term culture vultures? Facts. There's a lot of them. If I ever got down to it, if I ever, shit. We ain't going to do that tonight. What'd you say? We ain't going to do that tonight. No, I'm going to do real talk because I'm going to put a lot of people in bad shape.

Well, we can talk about it if we would like to. No, because I don't, the thing is, I could put a lot of people in bad shape, but I could also hurt the immediate family

that's in these situations as a culture. You understand? So everything is based on timing and everything is based on education. I hated school. I got kicked out of every school I went to.

You can look at my records and whatever, you know, possession of this, this, that. You know, but when I changed my mentality, I changed the way that I would intake education. You know, people tell us

the keys of life since young. It's just what we listen to and what we choose not to. Now, did you have to live on campus or you chose to? I chose to and what we choose not to. Now, did you have to live on campus or you chose to? I chose to and had to. Did you? You could have got a nice apartment.

That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, you could have done it. But let me tell you something. Shit, my dorm was no slouch. We had 100-point wine. Cuban, excuse me. Did you have to share the bathroom with the whole floor? No, we had our own bathroom.

We wasn't doing that. No, Kyle, we had to share the showers. the whole floor no we had our own bathroom we wasn't doing that we had to share the showers nah there's other domes there's other domes that do that but

I'm about to say no commission but OPM pays more in Harvard than any other

situation so they kind of give us a little bit of a space you know but when I graduated they gave us a space

I was like damn we could have been like this the whole time, shit, right? But they're doing a case study on me at Harvard, and my goal was to be the first case study from the Bronx in Harvard, and I think we accomplished that. And then I said, you know. That's all, that's know. It's serious.

And I had to add my wife as a part of that because, you know, you need to get a male and a female side because women are powerful. Aw, come on, Ava, give him a turn. Aw. Aw, listen. We don't get a lot of aws on drink champs. No, but.

But that was aw. That's aw. Give him one more, y'all. That's beautiful. You know what? I love my wife, too. Let me be honest. I give you awes.

Nigga, you want me to awes from you? I said that motherfucker, too. All right, cool. Let me just take something. I'm going to write it and say we said awes. Let me just take something. I feel like that should be more appreciated than hip hop. A lot of us us because if a person

goes out there and they do the wrong thing that should be showcased it'll be whatever. But alright, cool. Now, you love your wife. You with your wife. What home is doing. What I'm doing. It's like, I think that should be more showcased. Envy.

I knew you were going to say envy. We're not going to showcase that Because The society has built the tales Apart from one another Yeah but how do we change that though We change We change that by not compromising

Per what the viewers Want to hear and see You understand If we want to Project positivity We be the leaders in projecting I love seeing Remy and Papoose though I love Envy And and Papoose though

listen your wife Mary could get me to do something faster than him keep a soccer court on your yacht did y'all niggas see the soccer no listen let's go back to the soccer court if y'all remember the story about that shit man you had a soccer nigga I never seen this I was looking like this is my nigga

it was football not soccer It was football, not soccer. It was football. It was football. This nigga had a bag. Yo, yo, Slime, am I lying? Slime, you were there. Nigga had a soccer court on a yacht. I said, I've never seen this.

It's called the soccer court. Soccer field. Soccer field. It was crazy. He had a full court basketball court. It was his own. But you know what? I want to show, I want to, Saga field it was it was crazy. I had a full court basketball court But you know what I want to show I want to As you should and everybody should I want to show my kids things to to where when they when they grow older and people try To entice them with materialistic things. It doesn't mean anything

They've been doing that since there was a baby Let's get to the position where we teach and I kids that these materialistic things don't guide their life. You understand? It ain't nothing but a fucking thing that floats on the water, and they just happen to have a cycle on it. You understand? God damn it. Let's not make these things important. You talk to any of my kids, you take them to any store, they only pick up three things.

No, one of your kids, the oldest son is my nigga. Nah, this is the one. He trying to chop everything down. He trying to chop every little girl down. He was a facility owner. Is he hanging out with your son, though? No, no, no, no. Now, yeah, I didn't connect him because he was in Bell Harbor.

And I said, nigga, you rich. You just hanging out in Bell Harbor. He not rich because my money is my money. He got to earn his. God damn it. You understand? Don't let your kids think they rich

because of what you earn. Let them think they rich spiritually first of what they earn and then, you know, put your work in and then you earn

what you earn. You understand? I gave my son, he got an old Cadillac that was AK Mother's car. God damn it. I don't care about his friends riding around

in Porsches. Those are the same one that's going to pay no disrespect but OD on some bullshit.k.a. mother's car. Goddamn. I don't care about his friends riding around in Porsches. Those are the same one that's going to pay no disrespect, but OD on some bullshit. Yep. Let them earn their way. Oh.

You understand? Let's not, the one thing you can't do, and this is the realest thing I might say tonight. Yes. You can't, you can't

pay for time. You can't pay for time you can't pay for time right there's no exchange with cash for time right most people they give this money and think that that means something the time that you put in with your kids is more valuable than a fucking currency the currency of time and education and talking and father time or mom time with your kid is the most valuable thing you could ever do in life is it there's no payoff of that I don't give a fuck you get a move got it they'll crash that shit and you'll still be the deadbeat dad you understand fuck that put your time with your kids educate them and give them freedom too because they can't be saved from this world. What's going to happen is going to happen.

Let them have their freedom, but give them the goals to understand the meaning of why they're here. And give them the blueprint to start to discover why they're here. Because life is a discovery. We'll never know why we're here. Even when we die, we'll still be figuring it out. Because it's still a process. It's a growing process. And we we got to teach our kids how to give back my kids we give allowance it's three buckets when you save when you

keep and the other you give away I don't care what amount it is whether it's birthday gifts cash whatever you've got to raise your kids on the give back you got to raise your kids on the saving You've got to raise your kids on the give back. You've got to raise your kids on the saving. And you've got to raise your kids on how to celebrate themselves too. Because we don't celebrate each other enough as a culture. You understand? We only want to celebrate Aretha Franklin

because she's not here now. We was all these posting all these pictures of when she was here living, kicking, chilling. Ain't nobody give a fuck about what the queen was doing. Now we want to do all these tributes. Like, come on, it's too late. That's what Drink Champs is. Yeah, that's why we started. Drink Champs.

We want to fucking celebrate our artists while they alive. Thank you, Swiss, for giving me the alley-oop. Alley-oop. You know what I mean? Rest in peace to the Queen. Yeah, definitely rest in peace. But that's what Drink Champs is about, is because all these people, they celebrate you exactly like you said, after they die. But we want to celebrate you while you're alive.

We want to give you flowers while you can smell them. We want to give you your thoughts while you can tell them. Your drinks while you can drink them. I forgot the other one. They always say when you live your life, you got to think about how you want people to remember you when your life is over. That's how you should live your life.

No, but that's the lack of our culture, like he said. That's the only thing. We're always competing with each other. What about fuck the competing? Don't let me get talking on that. Okay. I'm not trying to...

Why do we have to compete with each other when we can... You know what people get messed up? They think that they're separated from us. When you mention rap music as a genre,

you mention everybody under that umbrella. Hov, I know you're a big dog. Puff, I know you're a big dog. Everybody, Swiss,

Nori, I know we're all big. But we in the same categories are everybody that we might not even fuck with. We think that our currency separates us from that in society. It doesn't. It doesn't.

You understand? So there's no fucking big eyes on the youth when it comes to the culture. So you can stand on stage and there might be 50,000 people there, but you might not be no better than Tekashi69 in that particular episode, whether you like it or not. Look at the world as a whole. It's a genre. It's a culture.

It's a movement. And our financial status doesn't separate us as much as we think we do. We might be on a fucking boat or a plane a little bit more than others. But when it comes to the music, we all mention it in that same fucking sentence. Goddamn resources. Relax. Goddamn resources. So what's next?

Is this TV show happening? Which one? I saw that you guys are supposed to be doing a show about the blended family. Shonda's leading the way with that. I think that's her dream. You know, those are her assets. You know, even with the book that we did, she has full ownership. Nobody took nothing in that.

Because, like, if you're going to do something, and this is another thing. If you're going to do something for somebody. Are you the best human being? No. Jesus Christ. I'm flawed like a motherfucker. I'm going to shut the fuck up. I'm sorry.

I'm flawed like a motherfucker. I'm just realizing who I am. I love this shit. That's hard. I'm just realizing who I am. But, like, imagine if we got this book come out called Blend. Me and my wife own 60% of the book. Is that a real gesture or is that like, what is that?

You know what I'm saying? Are we paying her to do this? Are we doing this because we really want to do it? Are we doing it because we really want to do it? So there's no compensations on helping people fix their households on a difficult situation that we had to deal with. You understand me? So you gave her all the rights. Because she earned all those.

This was her concept. This nigga's twisted. Why not? Oh my God. Seriously. Why not? She wrote it. And I see Alicia wrote the foreword.

Yeah, we participated. What's the foreword? The beginning of the book before the book started. The beforeword. What's that? You are the Farrakhan. of the book before the book start. Ah! The before book. Sickest. What's up, Sam? You are the Farrakhan of hip hop. No, no.

God damn it. Hold on, hold on. Don't give me no props. I give my wife props. Right? I give my wife props. Let me tell you why I give my wife props. Baby, I'm coming home tonight different.

I'm just standing there. Because this thing is fucking me up tonight. I always talk the best thing in the world. It's over right now. It's the best thing going to work. No, let me tell you something. I give my wife props on a grandiose scale because she took shots that didn't even belong to her. You understand?

And that's real talks in my kids' lives. My wife took shots that didn't belong to her. I'm sorry, this is Drink Champss so we actually have to ask the shots. No, no, you know the shots. You see them. No, I don't know. It's not me. I'm not going to get into it because I don't want to, right? Okay, okay. I respect that. You know what I'm saying? But my wife took a lot of shots and she stood up tall.

Beautiful. And for her positive, she even gave me positive advice in a dark time of things that we was going through emotionally and my wife took

a lot of shots that didn't belong to her. All of them that you've heard of. Those shots don't belong to her and she took them and she's still supporting

and she still is about my son KJ and she's still about Mashanda. Look, we about to go to Egypt together as a family on Tuesday.

But how do you fix that? I mean, give advice to people. Like, you know, I'm just being honest. I said that earlier. Like, you know, I flew my ex-wife

and my kids out and they stayed with me. And my wife now, she offered. Like, I't take you out of the airport you know she may touch that up and you talked to, she's like, we got narcos. He might have killed the dog. So listen, so how did you start? He might have killed the dog.

She was protecting a narco so crazy. We ain't gonna talk about narcos. Let's go. How did you, because listen, for everybody that needs advice, you know what I'm saying? Everybody, because you know what it is, sometimes you have a divorce from somebody and you move on. It doesn't mean you're a bad person from that situation So how did you start that initial situation where like?

The way that I started that was blaming myself For my wrongs Taking responsibility. Hold on. They're doing too much. Wait, did you say Swiss? I had to take responsibility of my wrongs. I just felt like you gave us the Malcolm X answer. I would like the Swiss Beats from the Bronx. I'm always Swiss Beats from the Bronx.

And much respect to Malcolm X. But real talk, as men, we got to accept our bullshit. You understand? We got to accept our bullshit. You understand? We got to accept our bullshit. I'm not going to sit here and watch two queens go to war because of things that I might have done wrong at that particular time. You know, particularly with my ex being young. You understand? And it's like, yo, man, we just, nobody never told us how to get married.

There's no books on, like, how we should behave ourselves coming from the jungle. Right. There's no rules as black men. There's no rules as brown and black and Hispanic and however you want to name it. You know,

fuck, man. I got to take responsibility for my part. You know what's crazy? You never really been single the whole time since you've been popping. You've never been single. But when you say responsibility. Let me answer that. I would love to answer that. But you say responsibility for your part.

I don't understand because what do you mean responsibility for your part? Your part of what? Responsibility that I was in a situation that I outgrew. And we both was in a situation that we outgrew. And to let two women fight, like, why my name was never really brought up in this? Why was this all about my current wife?

Me and a particular spirit and sister was going through something, but why I never got the blame for none of it? I look at all this media and nobody talking about me. No, they did talk about you. No, no, no. It's not because of her status, too. I'm going to be honest.

It is. It's because of her status. If nobody knew who she was, it would have been. Yes, yes. Right. Right. So. So for me, I seen all the headlines and it was about.

Like I got stolen in a fucking bank robbery or something like I'm a strong man. I'm from. I'm rough riders. I'm from the Bronx. I'm not a clown. There's no way to steal me. Anything that I'm doing is because I want to do it and because it's time to do it. You understand this? You can't steal me from nobody. I'm a loyal person. I'm not, you can't just steal me. I'm not a clown. I'm not a toy.

But you just feel like you could have did things differently. Um, man. Like everybody could have. I'm not a clown, I'm not a toy. But you just feel like you could've did things differently? Like everybody could have. I could've did, I did everything, I didn't, man that's a fucking question because, you know. That's why she's here. You know, you know. Sorry, sorry.

You know what I think? Sorry, Chris. I think me and my ex could've did things differently. You understand? And that's your friend and that's my friend today. I'm still, and you know, KJ is a bright kid and I love my son.

But at the end of the day, you know, we was both dealing with something that wasn't really nobody's business. But it was very public. It was public because one felt some type of way, no disrespect, but my ex was dating three people before I dated one.

Before we was, you know what I'm saying? But let's not get to it, right? Because I don't want to hurt nobody, but at the end of the day, my wife, she took shots that wasn't deserved to her. And that's just to fuck it. And I'm not even, I don't even like it. You know what I'm saying? Because when we on our eight-year honeymoon and people on these particular sites talking about sis that only been respectable. And it's like in a negative way because she's supposed to be on this level and now everybody that can

feel like they could be on her level by bringing her down as a man, I don't like it. But let me bring you back to an actual question that I actually asked. Because I ain't answering that. No, no, because you guys are at the most beautiful level.

I see you and your ex. And so how did that? That was my original question. It probably takes time. You had to vent? I respect that. So I let you go.

I told you shit, but you know what? Because it's so beautiful. You know how we got to that? It was Thanksgiving or something. You know how we got to that? It was all at the same time. You know how we got to that? Yeah.

Because everybody took responsibility. Now, just think about it. Angela. Mm-hmm. Would you be able to sit next to me and my family if I tore your fucking life apart? No. Maybe after eight years. No.

This is before eight years. No. No. Absolutely not. No. What? Real talk. But forget all the drama.

What we did was we created a communication that had kids involved. Right. And these kids that's involved in as a being in this world. And us as adults, we have to be the leading examples of what we want them to be. Right? So if we want them to be at this greatness, we can't be sitting here showing out because of our egos. We got to be showing up because we want to help them get to the next level. And I can't say it wasn't easy.

But the time that those two powerful ladies put in was very epic and monumental. It didn't really even have nothing to do with me Like that They was communicating And it's like Babe I think we should invite Machando for Thanksgiving Damn You feel like that Yeah

That's the KJ's gonna be there Like we want him to be comfortable That's his mom You know what I'm saying Why she She's supposed to be Sitting at our table

That's dope For the kids Let's go And then it takes Machando Saying yo You know what I'm gonna come there I'm ready to do this too

it's an equal exchange of greatness but the culture us as a culture we got to stop standing in line for our downsides and our downfall

we got to be in we got to stand in line for our greatness you understand use me and my ex and my current wife like use us as examples of how to move forward because there's a lot of there's a lot of reasons of us to move

backwards but there's not a lot of reasons of why we should move forward use us as a reason to move forward you understand forward your fucking mentality forward your thinking forward your intentions forward your life you understand you might not be cool with this person today, but you might be cool with her tomorrow because your kid didn't ask to be here. You understand? Understand why we really here. Seriously.

Don't make me zone out. Now let's get back to you having never been single in a long time since you've been successful because you got married young and then right after that situation in another situation. How does that work for you? I'm sorry, Swiss.

This is a different part of Drink Chance. You just got to roll with it. I really like to answer that because, you know, I learned a long time ago that stability was the key to life. Right? And even when I was

separated it felt super lonely I'm saying that you go to the club this dab at them I don't trust nobody I'm a Virgo yes I don't trust nobody I don't trust nobody right so like imagine like coming home to the club with somebody you don't know. I don't know how to do that type of shit. I got to know you, know you, know you for you to be in my community. And so, an OG once told me that stability is the key to life. And everybody that I was with, I felt I had stability with at that time, which is the reason why I wanted to build families with those people that I was with, I felt I had stability with at that time, which is the reason why I wanted to build families with those people that I was with.

I just wanted stability. Because imagine being successful, being black, financially being stable in America. It's only shaitan that's waiting for you at the end of the day. It's only the devil that's waiting for you at the end of the day. It's only the devil that's waiting for you at the end of the day. And I watch everybody that had that freedom. They even went to drugs or they went just like it just was the ending wasn't good. And so like this OG told me one time, yo, you got to be stable, even in business. If you're not married, business people won't take you serious.

You are a risk. If you don't have Stability You a risk in business They want to come And visit your family They want to visit your kids They want to do If you don't have

Those things You a life I think that Dinner with schmucks You seen that movie Dinner with schmucks I did see that That's his reference point

Yeah That shit too I'm not gonna lie Nori's wife Makes me like him more. I don't know where this came from. It's true. I don't know.

I don't know where this came from. I like you because of Neri. Tell him, tell him, tell him. The reason I'm here today is because Neri was like, come meet us. Jesus, I had no idea. Neri got that power. That's right. Neri and Nori.

She got that zil, zil, zil, zil. Your wife, you got a beautiful wife, kid. Thank you. Thank you so much. She wouldn't even let you hurt the dog. No, no. I'm not gonna lie. I be throwing the dog sometimes.

I'm cozy. Throwing the dog? A little bit, though. Have to report that. Don't throw the dog. Don't throw the dog, bro. Take that out. Take that out.

Don't throw the dog, bro. You gonna have pizza, whatever you need. We don't throw dogs every book. I don't know if you're an alien. I'm not Hercules. Hey, J.D., what we doing, huh? I'm not Hercules. Get to that talk.

And can we give it up for Norrie, who had one of the best album release parties I've been to in a long time. I didn't go. I was there. I don't even go out. You invited me to your party? He didn't invite me, but I crashed. And then you did not come, but you came the next day. That's a funny thing. And I love you.

That's what we're brothers do. We was downstairs getting so turnt up. And we had a hot dog with everything on it. No hot dog. No hot dog. So you had a bun.

Yeah. No, because I don't know what is in a hot dog, so I don't know what it is. You just had the bun. I had a bun. I had a bun. He's the architect of the crash.

But Swiss, I'm going to be honest. I'm so honored to see your growth, brother. Thank you, man. To tell you the truth, when I first met you, Ruff Rydell was one of the wildest people ever. You just don't see him. No, no, no.

Everybody going to see him. Ruff Rydell was the wildest man ever. Stassi would still take all that weed and smoke the whole thing and not pass it to you. But here's the crazy thing. Here's the crazy thing. Was you was the person who impacted their energy through music. Meaning they would have. But if I'm that guy, I don't need that.

You was the guy who brought the actual music to life. I think we both. I think we all brought the music to life. No, no, no. But I'm saying for me, like for me, because I didn't need their lyrics. I didn't need their energy.

I just needed that music. And when that came, I can't believe, I can't believe how incredibly proud I am of this kid that came in my studio. It was like, I got everything, Nori. And like I got everything Nori and I'm looking at you know I'm you know I'm testing you I don't know if you remember this day hey I'm testing me King no I was like yo play this type of record

boom we had every record that I asked my show the record that I picked was it banned from TV it was was Nature who picked it. But for me to see years later, and I'm just, and mind you, I'm watching all your album promo, I'm watching Jadakiss, I'm watching The Young Thug, and you still have that same fucking energy. Because if you lose that energy, don't do it no more. If you don't got that energy that you started with, don't do it no more. You know, your energy's going to tell you

when you need to move on, right? You got to listen to it. It's going to tell you. When you don't feel that thing in your stomach, you don't get butterflies before you go on that stage, it's time to switch it up. Like, we got to listen to our energy. We ignore a lot of it.

We know what our body is telling us to do and sometimes we go north south east or west but you need to go where that shit is directing you to man i'm a freedom i'm a freedom warrior meaning that i go wherever the energy tells me to go like we could be sitting here today there's no there's no day that's the same i could be sitting here right now i get a email or a text i might be in in Cambodia trying to figure it out. I like the week in Cambodia. It's fantastic. I ain't never smoked.

But I'm just giving you an example of be free to the zone. Listen to your zone. You know what I'm saying? Your zone will tell you everything. Don't ignore your zone. Don't ignore your power. It tells you your purpose. Actually do some real homework and research on what's your zone. Don't ignore your power. It tells you your purpose. Like, actually do some real

homework and research on what's your purpose. If I asked everybody in the room, what's your purpose? It'd be the hardest question in the world. It shouldn't be. It should be the easiest.

We should fucking, people should know what their purpose is of being born on Earth. Should we try it? Should we try it? Same thing. What do you want to be remembered for? Your ass.

What's your purpose? To make y'all sound good. Audio. Is that a good answer, Swiss? That's his immediate purpose. I like it. It's cute, but... It was cute.

But he wasn't born... He was... It's a deeper purpose. It's a deeper thing. It's a deeper thing. Boy, that's Boris. That's something that you got to think about. You can't...

Boris. Boris. Hello, Boris. We here. We here. We thing. Boy, that's Boris. That's something that you gotta think about. You can't... Boris! Boris! Hello, Boris.

We here. We here. What's your purpose, Boris? This is a tough question. Yeah, good try. It's true, man. I told you later. Ask this question.

Who are you? Hold on. Mato, what's your purpose? What's that? You know what? You know what? You know what? You know what? You know what? You know what? You know. Mado, what's your purpose?

You know. What's that? You know what? Everybody fucked up, Switzer. Give us an easier question. I'm not giving you a question. I'm not the question giver. I'm not the question doctor. But I can tell you that we need...

Survive. Survive. Oh, yeah. Man, stop. Stop. The most important thing is to look in the mirror and to know who you are. That's your mission every day. Not just today.

Every day is to look in and to know or to figure out who you are. Because you're not going to know who you are ever completely. You should because you're a guy. No, not because you're a guy. Because life is a continuous education course. So you're never going to fully understand who you are. Even if you're 90 years old, you still got some room to be another person. Yeah, you can change who you are every day.

You can change who you are, right? So every day we got to challenge ourselves of who we are and what's our intentions. So me, I can go to sleep at night because I have good intentions. Deal might not have been good. Vibe might not have been right. This and that. But that's not on me.

My intentions for everything I dealt with that day was good. Everybody else got to figure out everybody else got to figure out

how they're going to deal with trying to fuck me. My intention was good and I'm not going to let you fuck me. So you got to figure out how you're going to deal with trying to fuck me. My intention was good, and I'm not going to let you fuck me, so you got to figure out how you're going to deal with that. You understand? Yeah, a little, okay. You got to do something.

Yeah, don't point at me like that. That was weird. I'm not looking at you. I'm looking past you. I'm pointing way over there. I ain't pointing to one goddamn time, okay? Yeah, but what would be one advice? Why am I the only one drinking this motherfucking bottle though?

I'm drinking it. What, the Tiger Ball? I'm drinking that shit too. This is not good. Yeah, that shit changed us for real. But listen, hold on, hold on, hold on. We got Angel Lee in the building. Yes, she's co-hosting. She's co-hosting, and she came at the last minute. Hold on, hold on, hold on. We got Angelina Yee in the building.

Yes, she's co-hosting. And she came at the last minute. That's real, real. No, she was at the last minute. No, no, I got her. No, no, no. I broke her in the last minute. That's what I'm saying.

No, what he's saying is that I didn't know I was doing this until right before I walked in the door. You know why I'm sweating? You deserve it. I like her. You know why? Because she's a wife walked in the door. You know why I'm Swiss? You deserve it. I like her hair. You know why? Because she's a freedom fighter of the women. That's what she is. I deserve a slow clap.

I know what she is. Slow clap, slow clap. Slow clap. You know what I think for women? I think women, a lot of times, we try to be really, really humble. And we feel like we have to be. We don't like to talk about it. I'll be on The Breakfast Club, and be Charlamagne, can talk about all of that.

I'm like, I don't want to say too much because I don't want people to hate me. Well, you don't drink, Chaz. Goddamn it. Tobias, what the fuck are you talking about? Goddamn it. You do whatever the fuck you want to say. What do you think about Charlamagne on your show? What I think about him?

Yeah. I think- I seen the episode. I forgot who it was. Which one? Which one? Oh, I'm living my best life. I forgot which one is my We see I want to do water before my god and I need Angela I need everybody him on my birthday list

Street party, you know in the streets party We playing football. This is not an industry party. Go. It's an industry party. Please, I'm coming. Please, can someone invite me? Somebody invite me. I'll give you my email, my fax machine. Catch a fax machine? Listen, listen, I'm going. I used to not go to niggas' parties before, but now I'm like Soul House. I'm a Soho member. Your niggas laughing at me?

Dumbbell. Soul House is fantastic. Nori go to places that- Make some noise for Soul House. Nori go to places that- I'm- Nori go to places that- I'm-

Nori go to places that- I'm- Nori go to places that- I'm- Nori go to places House. I'm a Soho member. Your nigga's laughing at me? Thumb up. Soul House is fantastic. Make some noise for Soul House. Nori go to places I've been going to.

He got a locker. Shout to the Carys. What? This is how you know he's rich. He said that Mariah Carey. I don't even know the fuck he just shouted out. The Soho members. It's the owners, baby.

Goddamn. Goddamn. So Swiss. I know the manager. Hold on. We got Randy. No, the baby. Goddamn. Goddamn. So Swiss. I know the manager. Hold on. We got Randy. No, the owner. No, the owner.

We got Randy Acker in the room. Randy Acker. We'll wait to know. All right. Let me tell you about Randy Acker. Oh, shit. Let's go. Let me tell you something.

Let's go, Swiss. He never compromised his craft. He's not a Leo in the business. Leo in the business? I don't even understand. No, I'm not going to get into that. I need you to. But Randy Acker has been a stone in this

for the zone, zone, zone, zone. A long time. So a round of applause for Randy Acker. I understand. That was hardcore. That was hardcore like that, Swiss. And the fact that you were in Drink Champs, he's still in the mud. He got his Drink Champs t-shirt on. Stop, he gonna raise his commission on us.

Stop, stop. No, I'm not. But like, you know, I always seen him around things he believed in. Nah, that's his day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. If Randy Acker's around, he believe in that shit. I respect that. He not wasting his fucking time. I respect that. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one.

Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one.

Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one.

Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Since day one. Let me do it You know That makes fun away with Tiger ball. I'm not doing that I didn't know you and you might get a tight line disrespected lucky if you do that if you Let me do what I'm gonna do Puffy's my brother like nobody you you you you'll be the winner if you would pour that in there I'm not trying to win anything

As I'm team Bacardi. As I am and he knows that. And yes you are but the fact that this man got a good product and we need to support this this is independence the only way that you're gonna be a billionaire is doing things that which you're starting to do. Independence, ownership, ownership. Own this shit, bro. This drink test partner. This shit tastes good. Own this shit. Thank you.

We're gonna change your name from Effin. No. No. No. No. No. God damn it. See that party, Mike?

God damn it. God damn it. God damn it. We gotta put this on Eb damn it! God damn it! God damn it! We gotta put this on Ebay. No. So now. I'm gonna sign this bottle too. Let's go.

White. The Glamco. This album. Listen, I'm gonna be honest. I know you since 1990. Can he go to the bathroom right now? Of course. I'm gonna take a pee pee break.

I'm gonna take a pee pee break too. We're taking a pee pee break. I'm gonna go to the bathroom right now. Where's the slag? Where's the slag? Last time I did drink champagne, I went to the bathroom. I never came back. We thought you was went to the bathroom. I never came back. It was nice.

We thought you was going to do it. You're right. No one got me on blood. No, go, go, go, go. We all going to take a pee pee pee. Mute my fucking mic, man. No, it's OK. It's OK.

Mute my fucking tape mic. I totally forgot. So another thing that I want to point out to you, Swiss, is, yo, everybody out. You know who's talking? Yeah, no, no. This is what I want to point out to you Swiss is uh yo everybody out you know talking yeah no no this is what I want to point out to you is because I went and looked right and you know Revolt had um they um made a whole new staff change why did you do that uh that's that's beyond my pay grade some people got laid off yeah that's beyond restructuring no I think got laid off. Yeah, that's beyond my pay grade. Restructuring.

No, I think it's a restructuring. You know what happens when they try to save money. It happens. And it's not personal. It's business. Right. Shout out to my girl, Cherise. Cherise, baby.

Michelle, what up? Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay. But one of the moves that happened was to say, Swiss wants to do drink champs. Want to do drink champs. Early. And listen. We say, Swiss wants to do drink champs. Want to do drink champs? Early. And listen, then we just... We're going to be a partner in drink champs.

Who are we talking about? Let's get the cake where we need to be. Who are we talking about? Slap. Slap. You're getting the power. We're talking about JD. No, but for real, when I actually speak to the Revolt staff,

and they say, Swiss, personally, he wants to do Drink Chat. First meeting, that shit really... That shit really canceled to do this. No, that shit really canceled. Moe. Can we get an R? Aw. Was that an R moment?

That was an R moment. Nah, nah. Because Swizz could have forgotten about me. Swizz could have fired him. I ain't forget about you. You cut out. You cut out. No, I'm just saying you could've.

Hold on. Let me tell you something. He's the only artist in the world that could put me on this album and I don't know about it. I don't do nothing about it. He's the only artist in the world that could put me on this album and I don't know about it. And don't do nothing about it. I said, oh, that's gnarly. Now, wait, wait. I bet DMX could do that.

Yeah. No, but Nori, I'm on his album, I'm on his list. He could do that, he could do that. I didn't even know I was on his album. Like, the lawyers are calling me like, and Frenchman said, no, that's Nori. It's okay. Is that facts, Reezy? Yeah, thanks.

Reezy, she sent me the track. She was like, and there was like, and I was like, he's like, zom, zom, zom. Make some noise. You gotta relate. Pop ball. Shout out to Moe for trying to do the right thing. N-R-E don't need no Clarences on Swiss Beats. I like a Swiss Beats song because it come with the hook.

Can I ask all three of y'all something? Because the other day I met Janet Jackson. I was very excited. You met Betty from Good Time. No, she met Janet Jackson. I was very excited. I love Janet Jackson. I almost lost my mind.

There's probably only a couple of people I feel like that about, right? If I met Sade from Janet Jackson. I almost lost my mind. There's probably only a couple of people I feel like that about, right? If I met Sade, Janet Jackson. I just want to ask y'all. Because we are still fans of somebody. Who would you lose your mind that you haven't met yet? Well, I met the person that I would lose my mind off. It's Sade. I happened to get her sister, which is Alicia Keys.

So I'm very, very comfortable. Please make some noise for that man. Sade was on my bucket list, but then I met her younger sister that keeps fucking falling for me. One, two, three. Ian, friend, I got gotta throw it to you first. Well, rap-wise, hip-hop-wise, remember it was Cube, and I was mad shy in that episode. You got shy? Yeah, I got mad shy.

You got shy when you met Nas a little bit, too. You got shy? Because he called me a legend, and I wasn't, that was weird. All right. All right. You got shy when Nas called you a legend? Yeah, yeah. He said he got shy when you called him a legend.

You understand? You a legend? Yeah, yeah. You should have got shot when you called him a legend. You understand? You a legend, King. Appreciate it. So Ice Cube and Nas for you. Yeah, but artist-wise, he passed away. Robin Williams, I would have liked to have met him.

All right. Wow. Okay, okay. I feel like he was ill. Good morning, Vietnam. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, man. Or Mark and Mindy.

Or, who did we lose recently? Anthony Bourdain would have been ill too We like good zones on the documentary series. I do coming home. Okay, it's kind of cater You know, it was following his footsteps, but hip-hop was about you Nori Bam Bam Bigelow I would have put him in the headlock y'all That's my nigga That nigga not around I'm sorry did I disappoint sorry, what did I disappoint?

Did I disappoint? Swiss, did I disappoint that I said Bam Bam Bigelow? You fainted, you said Bam Bam Bigelow? That was hard. Keep it real. Zone, zone, zone, zone. That was zone, zone, zone. Zone, zone, zone, zone.

No, I had no idea. She don't know Bam Bam Bigelow. Do you know who Bam Bam Bigelow is? No, no, no. I knew you don't know. That nigga come on with the top rope. I know he was somebody from the Flintstones. That's Bam Bam. He hit you with the yaw. No, no, no Who's on the who's on that's not delicious classic material Thing thing on no, we gotta relax with

I don't like to relax. My name is Tony. Kata. You are actually how did how did the Zenith thing even happen? I got Lotus? I keep telling you, Zenith. I got McLaren. It's a McLaren thing, ladies and gentlemen. You off the Lotus? When you come to hear my album, it's going to be a McLaren thing, huh? You want to drive a red car? You come see me. You want to go fast? You come see me, huh?

Boys on. I'm not going fast. You want to go fast? You want to go fast, huh? You want to go fast? I want to show you how to go fast. Come see me. You want to go fast Fass? You want to go to Fass? I want to show you how to go to Fass. Come here and see me. You want to go to Fass?

So, all right. Excuse me. So, you have a McLaren deal? Yeah. Jeez. I am the McLaren deal. It's a difference. I apologize.

I am the McLaren deal. I was driving McLaren since McLaren wasn't McLaren. Yeah. You understand? A lot of people was cool with their Lambs and their Ferraris. I was in a seat that was in the middle of three. McLaren me. Zone, zone, zone.

Tell me what they're going to do. Tell me what they're going to be. Drop the paper. Drop the paper. I might give a McLaren raid just for my neighbors. I throw the light in the air just to save you. Oh, you put the cross on your chest for your savior? Goddamn, don't disrespect me.

They're going to pull up on you, respecting me. You tell us when to clap, so it's because we ready. Well, I got a point. I'm so proud of you do you know why because you know what and hip-hop we need to have that we need to have people that is over there bullying shit getting the money that we know we need a hip-hop uh-huh we didn't we need to know that we could do it all oh we could we need to know that we can do it all. All. We need to know that we can do it all, and we need to know that we have it all. You understand? That was hard. We need to know that we have it all.

When I was in school, they taught me. Harbit? That was hard. The H. It was hard. I was in class one day. Nigga got to break some bones with that. That was hard, man. You was all. I was in class one day. Nigga got to break some loaves with that. That was all, man.

You got to start clapping harder. I'm going to be honest. I don't know who... If you don't clap, I'm going to shoot this whole shit up. Stop, Swiss. Stop, Swiss. We got to keep you home. But listen, let me tell you. My professor said... My professor said... My professor said...

In Harvard, correct? Yeah, my professor in Harvard said, you want them to feel like they win? Make them feel like they own something. I mean, I'm in class. He said, you want them to feel like they're going to win? Make them feel... I might get banned from Harvard, but fuck it You want to make them feel like they own something they want you want you want to make them feel like they win

Make them feel like they own something Hmm They literally teaching people how to take advantage of us But listen, he said you give up with that thing deal, but it's not really a labor deal. Oh, gosh, you get into it. But let me show you the dynamics. Did I knock it down? It redeals.

It redeals. I felt so good. I felt like I was in there. You understand. I got to relax. I'm going to relax. You have $2 in your budget. You know who your superstar is.

And your superstar knows who he is. He comes to the meeting. You got $2 in your budget. This is your superstar. He comes. He knows that he's a superstar too. He's overqualified. Oh, man, you know, this is great.

I love what you're doing, but the position is gone. The superstar's through. It's gone, but I'm the best guy. I'm the guy for it. I can't, you know, the job is finished. Just take this

power away from him. It's done. The superstar no longer thinks that he's the superstar. He's got a fax machine? Fuck that. The superstar no longer thinks that he's the superstar because

you told him that the position was done. But you know you got $2 in your budget. So the superstar will say, man, I'm qualified, I'm this, I'm that. I know, I know, I understand. You're the guy. And I know that you're the guy, but they hired this guy.

And so you took the power away from the superstar, come back and say, listen, whatever you need me to do, I'm willing to do. He said, call me tomorrow. Call the guy tomorrow. I'm telling you what they taught tomorrow. He called the guy tomorrow. I'm telling you what they taught me. You call the guy tomorrow. Yo, you know, they gave me a good report on you.

They say you really, really should have got this job instead of this other guy. I don't have two dollars to pay you like you was your name. I have a dollar. You give this guy a dollar. Say, yo, you know, you gotta work more than the guy that's getting two dollars.

But I'm gonna give you a dollar. Because I'm not even supposed to have you here because we got who we wanted. Fuck what you're meant to, right? You give this guy a dollar, he's working so hard. Hard, he's grinding his life off. Because he don't feel like he's in that position that he was supposed to be in. So he's going hard.

He's not even sleeping. And you walk up to him in the grass while he's cutting. You say, man, you did all this? You cut all this grass? Yeah, that's me. That's my work. I'm me. Wow. I knew that you. I'm me. Wow.

I knew that you was one of my special guys. You know what? Don't tell nobody. Let me give you another dollar. But you had $2 in your bank. To start with. You had $2 to start with. You made him slave now.

Because he only thought it was a dollar involved. He wasn't qualified. But you knew that he was your target this whole time. You played him. You gave him a dollar to start with. You gave him another dollar

to enhance. You gave him another dollar to enhance his influence. So now you got this guy working for you on a nonstop condition because he think you really care about him. But you never cared about him. You been had two dollars from him but you gave him a dollar first, made him grind it out and then made him earn the other dollar and now he think you really care about him.

He think he's indebted to you. Facts. Fuck that shit. Know your worth. Know what you hold. Know you withstand. Don't play that shit. Know your worth. Know what you hold. Know you withstand. Don't play those games. Make some noise. Yeah, listen.

They said that shit to me. I'm like, the label deal. Damn. Oh, yes. I'm like, I'm going crazy. So Swiss makes one last beat. This can be multiple, but I'm going to start with these two. I like this one. one last beat. This can be multiple, but I'm going to start with these two. I like this one.

One last beat. This is for the rest of your life. And Nas is in the A room and Jay is in the B room. You don't even have to mention those two names. And I love them all. No, I got

another multiple choice. Let's go. But this is the first two. I know who I'm going to do. Nah, that's interesting. And you know who I'm going to do. I actually don't. You do. I need to hear it.

You do. A room. We don't. I don't give a fuck if it's an A to Z room. The person that I started with is going to be the person that I ended with. This DM makes the fucking great. No, no, no. That's the third question.

He's not even in the room. He's not even in the room. I'm going to put him in the room. He's in my heart. I'm going to put him in the room because he's in my heart. Cool. We're going to put him in the room later. He's in both rooms.

Okay, give me the trivia. Is Jay-Z and Nas, which room do you walk in? Cool we go we go for him in the room later. He's in both. Okay. Okay. Give me the truth Okay, and now which room do you walk in I seen him at the Jay-z concert Me at the Esco mother who phone is that what's up? Yeah for niggas is very unprofessional. That's Big Mado. That's Big Mado. Yo, this is not reggaeton, niggas. This is not reggaeton, niggas. Why you gotta bring the one Latino here? The one Latino. Come on, man. All right, so look.

Which group? Which group? This is the last beat you can make. What's this one? A's. That's an A's. What the fuck? He gonna put it on the same track.

It's a remix. So Nas is to the left, Jay is to the right. You love them both. Come on. I know you love them both. I do. But, you know, I'm not gonna say I Jay is to the right. You love them both. Come on.

I know you love them both. I do. But this is the last track. Yeah. Which room is Swizz going in? The room that I'm going in is the room that I'm going to create. Versus, versus, versus. Nas versus Hov.

Hov versus Nas. Both of them on the same song. I can't split up. That's cheating. He went to that middle room. I can't split up. That's cheating. That's cheating. He went to that middle room. Come on, come on. Come on, that's cheating.

Just for the moment. Just for the next 10 seconds. No blended song. Next 10 seconds. Which song would you pick? Me? Yeah. I'm on Queens.

I'm going to Nas. Which song would you pick? Which one would I pick? Yeah. I like you and Jay-Z. No. Okay, which song would you pick? Which one would I pick? I like you and Jay-Z No What song would you pick? I don't wanna be a part of this

I'm a DJ I want both of them on the track No no no Me too DJ niggas gotta stop with this fuckin' careful shit It's not careful shit I want both of them on the track I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna pick I'm gonna pick Nas because he's a poet and and hope was a poet I know that if Nas

had if Nas had an album coming out and hope had an album coming out, and Hov had an album coming out, and I mean, don't let me get into it. I'm good. He got a whole project with Nas coming out. No one listens to us. I was about to get into some real shit. No one's listening. Go ahead. Everybody's listening. Go ahead. Everybody's listening. This is what I'm listening to right here. No, you know, Nas specializes in something. And my brother Hov, he specializes in that bullshit too.

He's a zone, zone, zone. Don't get it twisted. That man is special. You understand? Just because I said Nas, I don't think that Hov is special. I know a strong point. I never made a non-hit without him when I was fucking with him.

On to the next one. That was where I was literally at at that particular time. Hov was a GOAT with four legs. Yeah, I ain't gonna lie. I'm gonna be honest, you're my brother. I've always meant to tell you this. I feel like Jigga was my record.

Oh, man. You're me. I'm going to tell you what record that was. I'm going to tell you what record that was. Jada. Jada. I was wrong. I knew it was for somebody else. I knew it was for Jada.

What happened? He ain't like it. Wow. K.I.N. Keep it moving. Wait, but that's it? That's the only two studio sessions? No, I ain't going to lie.

I always wanted to talk to him about that. I was like, I'm going to go to the studio. I'm going to go to the studio. I'm going to go to the studio. I'm going to go to the studio. I'm going to go to the studio. I'm going to go to the studio. What happened? He ain't lyin'. Wow. K.I.N. Keep it movin'. Wait, but that's it? That's the only studio session? Nah, I ain't gonna lie. I always wanted to talk to him about that. I felt like that was mine.

And then there's one more, the Trackmasters. No, no. I actually have the record, but it's saying, Lorie, lorie, that nigga, Lorie. And it's, jigger, jigger, that nigga, jigger. I ain't do that record, though. That was Trackmasters. jigger, jigger, that nigga jigger. I ain't do that record though. That was Trackmaster, that's it. I did the real jigger.

No, but I'll- The Trackmaster did. What the fuck, what are we talking about? Well, Nuri, let me ask you a question. I don't want to battle all these niggas. I feel like I ain't gonna be- What? Let me get me started on this.

Let me ask you a question, Nuri. Nuri, let's pop off. Who? What? I'm sorry, all right. Let's ask Nuri a question. I invited you in. You got the best verse of your life, okay? You can give it to Nicki Minaj.

Or you can give it to Cardi. Nicki. I'm going with Nicki. He went quick. He's going quick every time. I'm going with Nicki because of Queen. That's not the question. But go ahead.

Give me the question. No, I know he like both of them. I love Cardi. Because he love Cardi. I love Cardi. I super love. But you know what loves Cardi. He loves Nicki. I super love. But you know what?

I don't even know Nicki. I don't even met her once or twice. How you don't know Nicki? Because I'm from the other part of Queens. I'm from the west side of Queens, nigga. She from the east side? She's from the south side. She's from the south side. South side.

What's that? Oh, okay. That's me, Nas, Akanele. Southside Okay, you know that's the mean Akanele we're all from the right the west side of Queens was was the real side though No, everyone's the world side in my opinion. Okay, you got to take it my time. What's the advisory? Hit me with another question. This might be the first time I edit. Come on, come on. Hit me with another question.

No, no, no, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. You're not editing. We're not editing. I never edit. I never edit. I never edit. I never edit.

You want another question or do I have to do it? Oh, you want some more? You want some more? I definitely don't want no more. That was enough. OK, you got another question. Get him with that smoke, Angela. Cormega. Ooh Okay, you got another. Get in with that smoke, Angela. Cormega.

And you got AZ. Who are you going to give it to? Pause. I don't want to give it to neither one of you. The best. The best. Why don't you go Quince again? Hold on.

Hold on. No. Cormega or AZ. What are we doing? He's going to go Quince again. One chip. What are we doing? Going to the motherfucking.

Yeah. It's the best verse. It's the best verse. It's going to the billion dollars. My best verse. The billion dollars. What are. We're going to the motherfucking... It's the best verse. Yeah, she said it's your best verse. Going to the billion dollars. My best verse. A billion dollars. What we doing? He's going Queens.

You give it to him. He's going Queens. Everybody from Queens. Okay. Queens, we're talking about. I thought you were gonna ask Swiss, Biggie or Pac. Oh. It's Biggie.

He's from New York. I mean, would you just ask? I'm talking about it. You can ask. I was waiting for you to ask. No, no, no. It's your turn. No, no, no, ask. All right, all right, I got one.

You said biggest. Y'all too regional with this shit, man. Please, New York. No regional, no regional no more. I don't got no beef with no rabbits. They're like that. Because that's not real beef. That's real.

Real beef is when you really can't go to sleep. That's real, that's real, that's real. Real beef is when you really can't go to sleep. Real beef is when you really can't walk the streets. And it's in my family. Take another shot, Ty. That's beef. My family been involved with real things.

And the reason why my family is powerful is because we are helping people. We are helping people. We are helping people. We are helping people. We are what I'm saying? My family been involved with real things. And the reason why my family is powerful is because we help people more than we can hurt people. You understand? A lot of people, everybody got people that can sling. Everybody got people that can pop up. But how many people can you help?

My family has been known to help people. You understand that? That's our power. So if you're looking for me to hurt you, you got to go all the way out your way for me to help people. You understand that? That's our power. So if you're looking for me to hurt you, you got to go all the way out your way for me to do that. But the chances of me helping you is way greater.

You understand? And it's like all these rappers and this and that, I know this is a lifeline for you to keep your lights on. You know what I'm saying? I've been a part of this for a long time. I see many come and go.

You know, if you choose to I've been a part of this for a long time. I see many come and go. You know, if you choose to disrespect me, then, hey, man, deal with what is going to come with it. Because I'm,

you don't see, I don't got no security in here tonight. You know, nobody in here feel comfortable because I'm in here. I feel comfortable

because I'm in here. Because I know what I'm going to do. That's right, man. You know what I'm saying It's add to Moe who you've been working with for like a decade. How long you been working with, how long Moe been working with you? About 12 years baby. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. How many years? Hold up, Wheezy.

13 and a half. 13 and a half? I'm sorry Moe, but you my nigga. Like I'm sorry. Like Like, I know that's, like, bad to say that about a girl. That's wheezy. She's my nigga. You know what? That's my homie. You know what?

As a man, if you can't empower a female. Yo, there'll be times I don't even bother calling you. Why not? Just, yo, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like, yo, Mo. Yes, no, Reese is over there. You see I wasn't on time not perfect yo I swear to God usually you don't know the champs if you push it you know why

you know why you You know why? This is the only time a female came on Drink Champs. This is the only time a female... She was the first! She was the first female on Drink Champs. No, no, previously. No, no, no. No, no, no.

They like, yo. They don't want no other female on Drink Champs but Angela Yee. No, you got Amber Rose on. You know what? No, that's why. Co-host. Yeah, you're great. They love that.

Why would they want another female on? No, no, that's it. This is it. Moni Love was dope. Yeah, Moni Love. I'm not going to lie. That was exciting for me to meet Moni Love. And she in the middle.

Yeah, I was so hyped. She's so nice. And she follows me on Instagram now. So that was exciting. Thank you, Nori. No, no problem. Hold on, Nori. Yes.

But you one of one. None before and none to come. And we love everybody. Moni is in the middle. And you just happen to be in a different space. I'm on the right. So I'm on the left. I'm on the right.

I'm on the left. I'm on the right. I'm on the right. I'm on the right. I'm on the right. I'm on the right. I'm on the right. I'm on the right. I'm on the right. You happen to be in a different space You got the watch company What's the name of that company I got all your motherfucking company, okay? No, no, I knew you gonna bring God see what you did in Harlem I thought that was so hard you know what the best I want to tell everybody yes, please When they see me give away the shoes and Harlem I was honorable. It's gonna be the Swiss Hunt They see me giving away the shoes in Harlem. That was honorable. It's gonna be the Swiss hunt. Like, you know Manhunt?

I'm gonna do the Swiss hunt. What they got? They got the Pikachu shit. What's that shit? The Pokemon? The Pokemon hunt. Yeah, you gotta do the Swissie-mon. I got it, Swissie-mon.

Swissie-mon. Swissie-mon. Swissie-mon hunt. Slightly Jamaican. J.E., J.D., listen. The Swissie-mon. The Swissie-mon hunt, right? That's hard, listen.

This shit. I'ma post the link. I'm's hard. Listen. I'm going to post a link. Hold on. I'm going to post a link. When I'm about to give out, I'm giving out cars, watches, jerseys. I might be on the Swizzie Mon punk thing. I'm trying to. You better be. Hold on.

I need to know this thing. Hold on. Because. Or McLaren. Whatever you want. I'm giving away all of those. Ah, so that's. Watch this all of those watch this be on the home the sneakers was cute that was nice yeah yeah go put them on table okay we

see that A.O.J. You go. You go. The Swizzy Man hunt that I'm going to do in New York, Cali, Texas, Atlanta. What is it? Swizzy Mom. Swizzy Mom. I'm going to give away McLarens. What? Damn, dog. Damn, Swiss.

I'm giving away serious zones. Apple's in this. I'm giving away iPhone Xs. I'm giving away so much. Can we start here? Boris needs a knife. I just gave you one of the fucking sneakers. He got the sneakers.

That's makes it look like it's me. We only get one. No, but listen. But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but,

but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, We can receive a lot of things, right? But going in the Harlem and do what I did and I displayed it on my Instagram, I watched those people pick those shoes up with pride. And it's not a Reebok thing. Reebok has nothing to do with it. But we also big enough Reebok as well. Fuck everybody. Oh, shit.

Okay, Swiss. It wasn't ready. Okay, clear. It's a cultural thing. It's a cultural thing. It's a cultural thing. It's a cultural thing. They're byproducts. It's a cultural thing. You'd be surprised how many people

really care about the culture. You'd be surprised. Real shit. You understand? Real shit, I understand. Right? But it was a people thing. And to see those people take them shoes

and hold it like this of something that was created. And they give it back to the people, man. And me putting it out there myself. Because we can see celebrities' gifts. They'll wear it or might not wear it. But, like, fuck the celebrity. What is a celebrity anyway? Exactly.

A person that's overrated for their currency of time. Maybe. Like Boris. But the people, but the people, the people are the real currency of culture. Right? So I'd rather give my shoes out to the people that never thought they would ever be able to afford or get my shoe. You know what I'm saying? So what I did in Harlem, which I'm going to do all around,

when they see what I'm about to give out, I'm going to be in a challenge of my fucking self for shit that I'm giving out. I'm like... But these are called the DMXs? Yeah, but not because of the rapper. The technology is DMX before DMX. Damn. That's hard.

Makes sense. That's a coincidence. So the dog is not going to be mad at you. Because, I don't know, it feels like DMX. I'm the only person. I'm the only person. Because it ends with a D-MAX. Hold on.

Now we can get to it. I'm the only person at this current time that's supporting his family while he can't. No, we didn't have to go there. But thank you. No, we got to go there because what I do is infectious. And that's my dog. That's my king. That's my brother.

All right. Tell him to tell me who's there for him now. Beautiful. Don't talk to me about when he got a hit record out. who's there for him now beautiful don't talk to me about when he got a hit record out who's there for him now right who's feeding his family now beautiful

skinny motherfucker from the Bronx right you understand but the DMX is a technology so every shoe has technology

and the DMX technology is before DMX even came out as a rapper right and we just happened to use it you know the DMX technology before DMX even came out as a rapper right and we just happen to use it you know but DMX don't wear even if it was his own you don't hear me wear Tim's yeah I couldn't even get DMX a Reebok there because you know what I'm saying but let me tell you something when you're out here with the

dogs you gonna come with it's gonna change people's life. He got a song called Cancer Survivors. Wow. It's going, it's going, man. But another thing I've just seen, I've seen the Lox

and you guys together. As you should. And that's for your album, I'm assuming. No, that's for their album. The Lox album. My album is done. I don't need

nothing else from my album. They got me. They got you. They got you. They fooled me. Boom, boom, ka-boom, boom. I thought it was yours. I was like, oh, this one's got a lot. I got another album.

No, man. I love to see that. We got to give more than we take. You understand? There are lots. We are the streets. Listen to We Are The Streets. Tell me what album is better than that.

And everybody might have a vibe, but literally, tell me what album is better than that. I don't give a fuck about who's your best group. That song that you love from is one song. I'm talking about an entire composition of work. And we're going to continue that. Long live the Locks. Style, chic, Jadakiss zone zone zone

man I'm not going to lie we can't end it any better than that we can't end it any better than that it's all I'm going to say because you can't end it better than that

but all I'm going to say is I really love y'all love for each other yeah I fuck with everybody. And I love that. And that's a beautiful thing. I was in the dungeon when you were younger, by the way.

We was in the zone, man. Yo, listen. I don't know how I met D from World of Riders. You know how you met him. I know how you met him. No. What happened? What happened?

Relax, Swiss. What just happened? How'd you meet D? Relax. This is June Champs. You know where the people want to know. And I said, yo, I need to have a beat. And he said, I'm sending my nephew down.

And I didn't really understand. And even Jay the Kid said to them, who did the beat? I said, Dee's nephew. And them niggas said, oh, KB, good. They didn't listen to the beat. It started right here. Before they even listened to the beat. Who was on the song from the locks? No, this is Bam and D.

Who was on the song from it? The locks. Just Jada. They went in and out? Yep, went in and out. That's how long ago I did that one. Goddamn it. Give me some love, my brother.

I forgot who was on that one. Yo, listen. Let me just tell you something, Swiss. I did that one. Goddamn it. Give me some love, my brother. I forgot what I was going to say. Yo, listen. Let me just tell you something, Swiss. I've seen your growth. I've seen you from the beginning. Mashallah. I've seen you. Alhamdulillah.

Not the ending because we know we're near the ending. I didn't even start yet. But, yeah. So I see it. I promise you. And I'm so proud of you. I didn't even start yet.

No, but I'm so proud of you. I'm proud of you. I love you. Hold on, but listen. The fact that I'm on your show. Again. No, 2018. That's a great thing.

God damn it. In 2018, that's a great thing. And you know why? Because we connected in... We still connected in... 1990. No, no, no. 97.

97. Because it came out in 98. Because remember, we had to record. record tell you to throw in a beat right now oh my god you're about to do a song tell you i don't want to be right now what are we doing he said no he said no please no i was zoned out i'm not ready i'm always gonna lie don't fucking be right now come on let's do it. I dare you. Come on, Nort. We got speakers right here. We got speakers. We got speakers right here.

Bluetooth that motherfucker. Let's go. That's what made me say that. But listen, let me just tell you something. Y'all rappers look good. Let me beat you up. Let me beat you up

for a second. This guy has been the same guy from when I met him back then to when I meet him now. Tell me when you see me now. Tell me when I see him now. To when you see me now. To when I see him now.

Both of y'all have been like that, though. Because for me, like, coming up, you guys have both always been very great to me. Just always. No, for real. Like, that's it. You know what? You know what, Angelina? You've been great to yourself.

That's the greatest thing. Thank you. You've been great to yourself yourself nor used to his people outside like it was the black and queens outside hanging out I remember Capone I was young as hell I was like 22 I'm gonna be honest I just told that to my man

was I was a real like shooter guy so I wanted to leave my hood. So when they gave me the actual shit to leave, I would actually go there every day. Every day they was there. Every day I would be in Mel's team. I was like, do they work here?

I was just like, because I know if I go home, this guy Tyron might come back. But that's how labels are so different now. I hate this nigga Tuesday. This nigga might come back Thursday But that's how labels are so different now. I hate this nigga Tuesday. This nigga might come back Thursday. That's how labels are different. I used to work for Wu-Tang. They all used to be in the office every single day. I remember.

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