Drink Champs - Episode 20 w/ Raekwon The Chef
Episode Date: July 8, 2016N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode the guys drink it up with Wu-Tang Clans own Raekwon The Chef. The guys discuss early Wu-tang, the current state and future of the Wu, The Purp...le Tape, ODB, Michael Jackson, and a lot more! --- 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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This is your boy N-O-R-E.
What up, it's DJ E-F-N.
And this is Drinks Champ's motherfucking podcast.
Make some noise!
Yo, where the horns at?
We need the horns. Yeah, we signed autographs to the horns and gave them away.
We're foul.
But right now, we got a legend in the building.
Not only is he part of the most legendary group that could never be implicated, duplicated, or none of that in hip-hop,
but he's also his own legend.
He also made classics on his own.
He also has shoes on his own, ice made classics on his own.
He also has shoes on his own.
Ice cream trucks on his own.
He's a legacy.
He's going to continue doing it.
He's so tough out here on these tours.
He be doing like a hundred and... He be touring like a wrestler.
A hundred and ninety. 198 days.
Out the year.
This nigga be on the road flying, flossing, doing all that.
He's the first person I ever seen with a Maybach in the building right now.
It's no other than Ray Kwan, the motherfucking chef,
the first Wu-Tang member to ever be in a drink channel podcast.
Let's make some noise!
Now,
Wakewell, you're
from Brooklyn and
Staten Island, right?
Because when you grew up on the crime side,
New York Times side, you was talking about
Brooklyn. Yeah, man.
You know, I was
just talking about... First off, we owe you publishing. I. You know, I was just talking about
First off,
we owe you publishing.
I don't know if you know that.
We owe you publishing.
Every time on the drink chance,
we go,
Mmm.
And the drink chance army
doing it.
And the drink chance army
is doing it.
And we got that from you.
You don't owe me nothing.
I need to leave a hashtag.
Let's make some noise
for Ray Vaughn
and Vin and the Mood.
It ain't like this.
Come on,
make some noise.
God damn it.
So, so, though. Come on, make some noise. So you were saying,
you started from Brooklyn.
I mean, yeah.
And East New York at that, right?
Yeah, Rockaway, man.
Right in the middle,
like between Brownsville
and East New York.
It's like across the street.
You get killed right there. Boom. Powerhouses. I was there, though, You know In East New York You know It's like across the street You come from Howard houses
Howard houses
You know
I was there though
As a young nigga though
Man like
You know
I can't take no
No hood stripes
From Brooklyn
And act like I was there
At that time
I was a kid
So what time
You an ambulance?
This shit is lethal
This is the haze
From New York
It's lethal injection
Yeah yeah yeah
So what year
Did you move to Shaolin?
When I was like 10 or something.
10, 11 or something.
You know, like I said,
I ain't going to act like
I got no stripes in Brooklyn
on that level.
I was a kid, you know?
And my mom's, you know,
her sister told her,
you know, I think Staten Island
is a better place for you to live.
You know, because my pops,
he was a wild, he was a wild goon. Right, right. He was a fly goon though. Right. You know what I think Staten Island's a better place for you to live. Right. You know, because my pops, he was a wild goon.
Right, right.
He was a fly goon, though.
Right.
You know what I mean?
And, you know, he was getting into a lot of shit.
Right.
And, you know, repercussions was coming at him, I guess.
Right.
And, you know, it came to the point where my moms had to get a body.
So, y'all moved to Staten Island for a better life.
For a better life.
Y'all had no idea Park Hill Stapleton And all that shit
Nah I ain't know nothing about that
I was still a lad
You know what I mean
Now you and Ghostface
Are from separate projects
Yeah yeah
What projects is though
Stapleton
He from Stapleton
I'm from the hell
Park Hill
Yeah Park Hill
Let's make some noise
For Park Hill
God damn it
God damn it
We got a horn
We got a horn
God damn it Let's make some noise for the horn.
Goddamn.
Goddamn.
Yo, Raekwon, we are so.
We tried to get Raekwon other week, right?
It didn't happen.
We tried our best.
Yeah, you can try to get PFN.
Look, I switched back to Blank, so you wait and get Blank.
Did Harry.
Yeah, we just had Havoc here.
And we were Smoking raw cones
And the
The ambiance
And the smell
Kept bothering them
You know what I was
Thinking about
There was nothing more
Than I enjoyed
In the world
You know what I was
Thinking about
What happened with
The sprays
Right
I gotta bring those back
I gotta bring those back
Stop playing man
So what year
So now
You met RZA
Cause RZA
And ODB
Was all from Brooklyn
Right Yeah yeah So what year was that That they came out there And when you first So now, you met RZA, because RZA and ODB was all from Brooklyn, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So what year was that that they came out there?
And when you first met them, was it about music or was it some street shit?
Nah, it's some street shit automatically, though.
It's like them niggas been around since we was kids.
Like, you know, RZA, we used to go to school together.
You know, we was in like the fourth grade
or something some shit like that fourth or fifth grade and um you know RZA was a nigga that used
to come through the neighborhood because he used to live in like a private house you know niggas
that live in private houses niggas that live in private houses no no not gated but he just you
know his family had a private house you know we the project. So that's a privilege to me when a nigga can live in a private house.
That's a fact.
You know what I mean?
And you know, we used to go to school together.
And Riz was always into music.
You know what I mean?
That's one thing I can say.
He always, he loved music.
You know what I mean?
And at that time, you know, his cousins was from Brooklyn.
You know, JZA and, you know, O'Dirty. dirty you know they would come back and forth to Staten Island from now
why was they coming this because they have family it's coming to hang out with
with RZA you know when um you know I used to run with them at that time and
always used to be around him and I used to see like musical talents in the
niggas all the time you know you know know, you know, the jizzle, he always was rhyming.
Now, was the first one to put out a record?
I love you, Rocky.
That was his shit, right?
That was RZA, right? They love you Rocky.
He was the first one.
Make some noise for me, knowing my shit, God damn it.
Come on.
But jizzle was early too. No, but I think, I think RZA came first and then there was the a star classic. You know I knew my shit. But GZA was early too.
I think RZA came first.
But what was the GZA's project?
I forget. I remember his shit too.
Was it just Genius?
Words From a Genius.
Words From a Genius.
That was an official album right there.
You know that's when the nigga came back
to the hood and showed everybody.
It was like holy shit ain't got an album.
You know, we had it in our hands.
Like, it was ill.
So the whole people who put y'all all together, like y'all nine.
Okay.
Y'all nine people together.
Whose idea was that initially?
The Riz.
It was Riz's?
The Riz.
That was his.
You know what it was?
It was just that when they went in And did they thing On they own
They wasn't
The truth at that time
You know
You talking about
RZA and GZA
Yeah you know
You know
And I guess that
They felt like
You know what
We gonna do it our way
We gonna
We gonna come with
Something new
And RZA was the
Spearhead of it
You know
And RZA called
Certain niggas in the hood
And um
He always fuck with me
So he knew my potential.
Like I said, I was deep in this way.
And when he made that call, it was like, yo, yeah, yeah, I'm down just for the representation of the barrel.
I wasn't looking at it that far.
So it was more like, oh, yeah, whatever.
You want to make a record?
We know that's what you do.
Yeah, we do this, so where you want to meet at? we know you that's what you do. Yeah, we don't we do this So we want to meet at you know and we went in the home studio
He told a bike come with a hundred hours and you was already rhyming
I was you know, I mean I was splashing little he took I was a lobbyist For real? Yeah, he caught it. He paid your pay for the studio. Paid dudes for real.
That's all.
That's all.
It was for the studio.
Okay, okay.
So, you know, niggas, you know, some niggas ain't have it, but niggas is like, fuck it.
You know, but nah.
You know, he came in and he's like, yo, I want niggas to get on this record right here.
Boom.
He ain't talk about the big pipe dreams of everything going to be this and be that.
It was more or less, this the record,
and yo, I'm picking, you know,
I want y'all niggas,
all y'all niggas to get on it.
We're going to come bum rush the game.
So we's like, yo, whatever, you know?
Right.
Don't tell me this record was protected.
Yeah, this is protected. That's the first record
y'all ever recorded together?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow.
Get the fuck out of here.
I'm saying, I'm saying,
that's what created the whole shit.
But we've been rhyming for a minute.
Individually.
So Riz already knew certain niggas in the hood already had a name.
You know what I mean?
So it was like, okay, you know, when he picked certain niggas,
we wasn't all cool like that.
But we knew, yeah, he rhymed.
Who came with the kung fu angle?
Riz, you know. The whole the whole concept yeah that was his round yeah yeah no not pineapple i'm gonna do the
salsa water what carly do you have the salsa water so this light just broke away in the salsa water
yeah my bozo my bad yeah so go ahead my bad but. But you know, you know what I mean? He came with the whole kung fu style of it or whatever.
And you know, everybody back then was big on karate flicks or whatever.
I remember that when we used to rock tree-cut nylon and all that.
You know, remember back in the days, niggas rocked the nylons?
Right.
So when was the moment?
Was it when you recorded Protect Your Neck that you knew he was a part of some legendary shit?
Or you was just rhyming and paid your $100 and it was going to go on your regular deal? What was the moment? Was it when you recorded Protect Your Neck that you knew he was a part of some legendary shit?
Or you was just rhyming and paid your $100 and it was going to go on your regular deal?
It was just glad to be there thoughts.
You know what I mean? Glad to be there thoughts.
But when we did hear the record and, you know, he composed it the way he composed it.
When he came back and played it, it was like, oh, shit.
You on to something.
Was that the order?
The verses?
Was that the same order
Y'all recorded
Oh nah nah
He was just
He just was
Freaking it the way
He wanted to freak it
You know what I mean
But when we heard it
When we heard it
We was like
It should sound nice
Cause you know
Our thing was
We wanted
We wanted to do
What the hit squad was doing
Cause
I think a lot of people
Get it fucked up
when you go back
to that earlier time
and you look at
certain crews
that was doing
that thing
them niggas
was our
east coast
superheroes
you know what I mean
so we just wanted
to emulate
what we seen them do
but at the same time
still challenge
what they do
you know so
you know being that being that, um.
Boris.
Being that Riz, he felt like, yo, you know what?
Boom, we the Staten Island of them niggas.
Ray and Ghost, you the EPMD.
You know, Riz is the Rakim.
You know, you know, Jizz is the KRS of the clicker.
Right.
You know, Redman is Method Man is Red Man.
We started feeling like we had to be on their level.
And the next thing you know, once that record took off,
it started to really make us feel like...
I remember when Protected came out, I was in jail.
And all of a sudden, everybody that was from Brooklyn
was from Staten Island at that moment.
I was like, what the fuck? The was from Brooklyn was from Staten Island at that moment. I was like what the fuck? Like the whole
jail just turned to Staten Island.
I said these Wu-Tang niggas
it's crazy man.
A lot of niggas you know a lot of niggas from Brooklyn
used to hang out in Staten Island too.
So we had a lot of relationships
because you know Staten Island is
literally like 15-20 minutes from
Brooklyn like Atlantic Avenue right there.
You get there in like 20 minutes, and then you shoot down, make the right,
and you go all the way down.
Now I heard back in the days you and Ghostface shot at each other.
Is this true?
Nah, nah.
You hear that everybody shoots at each other.
Your projects used to shoot at each other.
Is that what I heard?
All right, cool.
Projects hated each other.
Your projects hated each other.
Wow, you got to break that down. Me and Capone's projects hated each other. Yeah, yeah I heard? All right, cool. Y'all projects hated each other. Wow, you got to break that down.
Because me and Capone
projects hated each other.
Yeah, yeah.
But now it's inseparable.
You can't go to Queensbridge
without seeing a left-track nigga
and vice versa.
Exactly.
Explain that.
That shit been going on
for years, man.
It been like a traditional thing,
you know, in Staten Island.
You know, certain places
don't like other places.
And, you know,
we kind of like grew up in that
where, you know, Stapleton, nah, that ain't where I go. You know we kind of like grew up In that where you know Stapleton
Nah that ain't where I go
You know in the hell niggas you know
But Ghost he was a nigga that
You know was comfortable with coming up to Staten
Island he had a lady up there so he
Was moving in and out and coming up to Staten Island
Yeah I mean he was coming from Stapleton
Oh yeah because he
Had a shorty up there you know he had
A kid so he had to come up there
So right, you know, we would see him, you know, and we knew what he was about cuz he he was a creep thing
When I say creep I mean like a crook creep. Nah, nah, nah. We understand.
That's my heart right there. I wouldn't have a plan, but he was a crook creep back then.
And you know niggas had to watch him because, you know, he had no filter.
Niggas carried them guns and they come through and it's like, you know,
niggas be on the roof watching them,
making sure they know where they going and leaving.
And they used to yak niggas. They used to yak certain niggas be on the roof watching them, like making sure they know where they going and leaving. And they used to yacht niggas.
They used to yacht certain niggas.
You know, I never ran across them on that level,
but we kind of respected each other's club because we, you know,
we know the certain power players.
Like, you know, you had to know that in certain hoods.
So even when Riz brought us together, it was like, yeah, I fuck with you,
but I don't know you, though.
You know what I'm saying?
Y'all knew each other, but didn't know each other.
I mean, we knew each other from school,
but it was still like,
it was just like just going to school.
You know, you going to school, it's like
I see you, I see you, but
after that, you know, I ain't going to be around you no more.
I'm going back up this way. You going where
you going? And we would meet up when like block parties and all that shit was popping off.
You know, a lot of times it would be, like, Park Hill Day and, you know, niggas from all over Staten Island would come through there.
And, you know, niggas would make movies and shit.
You know, niggas, somebody might get shot.
Somebody might get hit with a golf club.
You know what I mean?
Niggas was in somebody's shot. Somebody might get hit with a golf club. You know what I mean? Niggas, it's in somebody's pocket.
Somebody got knocked out.
You know, all this shit was going on,
and it was like outside niggas that you had to watch.
On the island.
You know what I mean?
In Cape Allen.
You know what I mean?
You had to watch these niggas.
So Ghost is definitely a notorious killer,
killer man, gyro nigga.
But he was cool.
Killer man, gyro.
Let's make noise for that first time.
Say it out loud.
Now, when you say that, Killer Man, Gyro, and things like that, your slang is different.
It's like, how did you develop?
It's like your slang.
Yeah, you know, it's different.
You know what I mean?
So how you developed this shit?
Like, you know what I mean?
Your aura swords?
It's just block coded.
It's block coded.
It's just, you know, I ran with a bunch of funny niggas, you know what I mean?
Fat Albert niggas, niggas that know how to snap and all that.
So, shit just start coming out that, you know, it was so ill that it made sense.
And niggas just kept it, you know what I mean?
But, nah, I don't look at it like that.
It's just how we talk sometimes.
And you worked with Punn early. Like, you was like Punn's first feature, correct? Yeah, yeah know what I mean? But nah, I don't look at it like that. It's just how we talk sometimes. And you worked with Punn early.
Like, you was like Punn's first feature, correct?
Yeah, yeah.
How was that?
Joe introduced me to Punn.
Firewater, right?
He introduced me, yeah.
And Joe was like, yo, this my nigga right here.
Yo, this my right hand.
And he said, yo, I want you to hand.
Was this Miss T's two-year-olds?
Nah, this was somewhere up in the Bronx or some shit.
I came up there to see him. And he was like, yo, I want you to meet somebody or shit. So I'm like, bet, what's up? You know what I mean? And next thing you know, it was Big Pun and he told Pun to rhyme for me. And when he rhymed for me, it was like, I looked at Joe like, yeah, nigga. You know what I mean? mean This is the one And he was like
Yo you like this nigga
You like him
I said nigga
I love this nigga man
He was just spitting
He said yo
I wanna put him on his joint
Nigga put him on the joint
And it went from there
And next thing you know
Star was super born after that
Now this is where I wanna get to
There's a classic hip hop memory
Classic skit on y'all
what ghost face you said the niggas bit off the nice shit
what was going through y'all i know later on y'all squashed it with big but at that time
y'all had to be feeling something so what was what was your mind state going through when y'all squad shit was big but at that time you had to be feeling something so what was
what was your mind state going through when y'all made that intro because it was funny as hell but
it was serious um it wasn't premeditated i'll tell you that so did y'all feel like yeah yeah
you had to say something because y'all felt like it was outright biting? Nah, you know, sometimes...
Because it was called Shark Bites, right?
I mean, you know, I got the documentary coming
out, so I'm going to tell niggas the real story
within the documentary,
but all I can say is
in the sport of
what we do,
when we came in, we wasn't supposed
to like nobody.
I say that all the time.
Let's make some noise for the niggas being foul, niggas.
It's a good story.
It was straight our nigga thing, like you said.
Like I said, we was getting money with the niggas.
We made great records with niggas, but it wasn't ever...
That's how hip-hop was. We gonna you know. That's how hip-hop was.
We gonna leave that.
That's how hip-hop was at that time.
Like, we were very involved.
Especially us.
Especially us because, you know, I'm talking about us, our generation of youngsters.
You know, like, you know, you go to another nigga neighborhood or whatever.
If you're not from there, you always feel like, watch those niggas though.
Of course.
You know what I mean?
And vice versa, because
a lot of times, people got hurt.
It was from niggas out of town coming in and hurting
niggas or, you know what I mean? So
any time, we always felt like that.
And like I said, at the end of the day,
we gonna say that one,
because that's a real thought, but
all I can say is it wasn't premeditated.
You know, it was just hungry
niggas being hungry niggas.
It was a legendary moment in hip-hop, man.
Legendary moment in hip-hop.
You got something?
Nah, one thing.
This is as a DJ side.
Glaciers of Ice is one of my favorite records of all time.
True, true.
You're supposed to say, mmm.
Come on, Ray.
You got to.
This nigga originated out of it.
Yo, listen to this.
Listen to this.
This is what we're going to do.
We're going to play a game, right?
We're going to play shots.
Amanda.
Amanda.
What's Amanda at?
We're going to play shots, right?
You don't want to take a shot, right?
Yeah, I'll take a shot.
You'll take a shot.
All right, so this is what we're going to do.
Whenever I beat you to the hmm, and whenever I beat you to the hmm, you can point at somebody
and you can make them take a shot.
Everybody's in? Yeah. Everybody's in?
Yeah.
Everybody's in?
I only heard one yeah.
All right.
So if I beat you to the hmm, you're supposed to say hmm, then you got to take a shot.
All right.
All right.
You can tell y'all boys because nobody else will come down.
All right.
All right.
Now, because you say some fly shit.
Come on.
You say some fly shit.
I tell people all the time.
I say if Ray Kwan,
if you have a conversation with Ray Kwan
and he ain't say,
hmm,
at one point,
I say,
your conversation is trash.
Right, right.
It's trash.
You know what I'm saying?
So, um.
No, no, hold on.
You're going to cut me off.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Goddammit.
I forgot.
Go ahead.
Now, am I crazy
or was there a Legend of Zelda
sample in that record?
I don't know. You mean a in that record? I don't know.
You a video game nigga?
I don't know.
That's my favorite game. I never peeped that.
I never knew that.
That's what it is?
I've searched and I've tried to be nerd about it and I can't find nothing.
But I swear to you that it's a Legend of Zelda sample in Glacier's Advice.
That's one of my favorite records of all time. You just put me on to that.
I ain't know that.
I'm going to be honest with you,
I ain't care about none of that.
You're like, the beat is hot.
The beat is hot.
The beat is just a beat, B.
Inside the label just aired,
they aired the Loud documentary.
The Loud shit.
It was so...
It was so...
Who brought that?
He brought that?
Nah, that is...
That is...
Papo hit me with that.
That's the kush.
And we smoked a haze
and he rolled another haze.
Yeah.
So did you see the loud thing?
Aw, man, it was pretty awesome.
Did you see it?
I felt bad, too,
because I wasn't in it.
You wasn't in it?
Yeah, you know, I missed that.
And, you know, I feel bad because, you know you know loud loud did a lot of shit for the game
You know shout out Steve Rifkin. Now you just solo out as well. Yeah, let's get into that right now
Like I'm gonna be honest
That was your time. We knew you was Wu Tang
We knew that but it was the time when you just broke out and you was on some off
Yo, so now niggas know who break on is You was Wu-Tang, we knew that, but it was the time when you just broke out and you was on some Mafioso.
Now niggas know who Ray Kwan is 100%.
How did that feel?
Did you know you was making a classic
when you was making it?
Yup.
Let's make some noise for that.
Goddamn it.
Let's make some noise for that.
Word, that's for something, my nigga.
Yo, let me tell you something.
Let me be honest with you, man.
You know, we had a powerful team back then.
You know, we was young niggas.
We was real strong.
You know, you caught me right there.
You know, real, real.
That's where it had to come in because it's like, it was one of those vibes.
Like, I'm sitting around the table with all god-bodied men at the time the niggas is smart and creating a plan and and you know like i said
all i wanted to do is just be a team player i just wanted to come in and do my part because
i was called in to be a part of this right so now i wasn't worried about no solo dolos i wasn't
thinking about it you know i was just know, coming in on the representation,
just to do my part.
Before we get back to the purple tape,
Ghostface just said that he's in charge
of the new Wu album.
I heard about that.
You heard about that?
I heard about that. I mean...
You think that's a good look?
I think it's a good look.
I think it's a Superman look.
You know what I mean?
Superman. That was a hmm.
That was a hmm.
That was a hmm.
So, this game ain't going nowhere
Right
Let's drink it
Let's drink it
Let me tell you something
To be honest with you
Million Ghosts always
Are the ones fighting for
You know brothers to
Step into different chambers sometimes
And not go against the
You know you talking about
A nigga that got eight rings
You know a nigga that made
Eight classics
RZA you know
And you questioning a man with that kind
of belt, he gonna
look at you like, you crazy, Lord.
I heard RZA House, you gotta walk a hundred
steps. It's like some ill-chained
Chinese theater. Like you gotta walk
a hundred steps up there, and then
catch your breath. Yo, he's real deal
karate with it.
Nigga told me one day, yo, he more
Wu-Tang than me. I said, you are.
Said, you are,
nigga. That's because he went to the temple
or whatever. He went to Korea.
Now, how does
the Wu-Tang logo go?
If y'all use it, can
all of y'all use it?
No, niggas can use it, of course,
but it's just when other niggas use it with us.
What the hell?
Gotta be a Dominican. You know, when it's other niggas can use it, of course, but it's just when other niggas use it with us. What the hell? I know.
Gotta be a Dominican.
You know, when it's other niggas that's, that's just the nature of business, you know what I mean? If you build a brand and, you know, you part of the brand, but you go do something with somebody else, that's not a part of the brand.
They gotta respect that they getting something great and they gotta pay, they gotta give back too.
So, you know, some too. So, you know,
some niggas, you know, use it
and some niggas don't use it.
So let's get back to this purple tape.
Incarcerated Scarface.
That's it.
Incarcerated Scarface.
Every time you come out
and I'm like,
wait, wait, perform with me.
You know you don't ever have to ask me
which record you gonna do.
It's always
Incarcerated Scarface. How did you, what was your, I don't know have to ask me which record you want to do. It's always Incarcerated Scarface.
How did you, what was your, I don't know.
Just tell me the story.
I don't even know the question.
Just tell me the story of Incarcerated Scarface.
My nigga, that's just a record for niggas that was away, you know?
Niggas that wasn't on the street at the time.
You know, when I was making the album, I felt like, you know,
I had to really pay respect to the niggas that wasn't here.
You know, a lot of my niggas went away early.
Right.
You know, caught some monster bids and shit.
And I was thinking about the niggas and like, you know, a lot of times, you know, you might see a nigga with a rip on his face or something.
You know, that don't make him a sucker.
Right.
Because he got a rip.
You know what I mean?
That might just be a scar that he caught. You know, nigga might't make him a sucker. Right. Because he got a rip, you know what I mean? That might just be a scar that he caught.
Uh-huh.
You know, nigga might have caught him or whatever, and, you know, that made him a stronger nigga later on.
Right.
But I was just thinking about all my scar-faced niggas, like, niggas that get money, scar-faced niggas.
Right.
You know, yeah, if you had a scar, you know, you aren't that scar.
Right.
You know, everybody, all of us, I'm sure you got scars.
Right, yeah.
A lot of scars.
Yeah, I fucked up.
We scar face,
we scar face
damn niggas though,
but,
and I'm Cuban.
Just paying homage.
You're Cuban?
Yeah,
just paying homage
and just caught a vibe
that day.
Just walked in
RZA Dungeon that day
and he had the bead on
and you know,
I write fast
if it's nice.
If you got something
real good,
I can write fast
and write,
pow. You know what I I mean Came with the hook and
Say yo that's for niggas in jail that ain't around
Let's make some noise for Incarcerated Scarface Story
Ray you've been famous for a long time
I want to know who's the
Who's the weirdest, famousest person you smoked with
Weirdest, famousest niggas
Yeah like That you smoked and you was just like niggas. Yeah, like, that you smoked
and you was just like, I can't believe I'm smoking
with you, Madonna.
Do you know something?
I don't know. I'm just throwing that out there.
You smoked with Madonna, nigga?
Nah, man, I mean. Mariah?
Nah, I ain't blowing. I ain't blowing.
Didn't you?
Me and Jill Scott, though,
we hung out one night night She cried to me
Jill Scott Harris?
Oh
Don't start
Don't start
Don't start
Oh Jill Scott
Okay
Jill Scott
Jill Scott
Word
Word
Word
Word
Nah she wasn't blowing
The branch though
But we was drinking
And shit
Oh okay
And you know
She cried that night
She had a lot of shit
On her mind
You know what I mean
Me and my homeboy
We was there
Hanging out with her
It was after
It was after
Honor Awards that we went to
And you know we all was hanging out
And you know
She was ventilating that day
And it got real
It got real
She just distilled
You know what I mean
And we was like
You know as a big brother
Yo you know we here for you Right We almost had her on drink champ? And we was like, you know, it's a big brother, yo. You know, we here for you.
Why?
Why?
We almost had her on Dream Chance.
We thought we was going to have her in Vegas, remember?
That was ill.
Not Jill Scott.
It was Kelly Price, my boy.
Look at him.
This thing is fucked up.
He's a fucked up guy.
I'm glad you noticed this, Rayquan.
This is my partner right here.
He's a fucked up guy.
Yo, so, Rayquan, we asked all our guests this, right?
Talk to me, don't make it.
Do you eat ass?
This guy.
So I look pussy?
And I'm the fucked up one.
You eat pussy?
That's how you can answer it.
That's the correct way to answer it.
But did you ever eat ass?
Have you ever?
Like, ah!
Then you do a motherfuckin'.
You be around that for six years. A monkey go, go, go, go, go! I'm like, ah! Do a motherfuckin', do a motherfuckin' monkey go,
go, go, go, go!
Monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey!
That's what you're doing, Greg Hardy, yeah!
You stupid, man!
Yeah!
This nigga's crazy with it, man!
Yo, nah, we got another chance.
I got another one when you get a chance.
Nah, she gotta be a special ass, though, nigga.
A special ass, like super clean.
Yeah, nigga, I'm just runnin' down the shower.
That's what the EFN says, super clean.
We don't just run down there.
Yeah, that's how you get my girl, first of all.
I know, I know.
You got to be my lady.
I'm just warming things up.
You call that checking the temperature.
Exactly.
You know?
Check that temperature.
What's the wildest tour you've been on?
Whose shit is this?
A hooligan tour.
Oh, my God.
I got good friends.
And I felt like Eddie was ready to jump into the ass conversation.
You met Eddie the ass eater?
Nah.
No.
Eddie, come over here and say hi to Ray Kwan.
Hello.
Over here.
Swoogler, swoogler, swoogler.
Clean your mouth, Eddie.
Clean your mouth.
This is who Janelle and Iko talk about.
Eat a booty like groceries.
This is this nigga.
Eat a booty like groceries.
Come on, yo, come on.
Share this mic with your friend.
Come on, y'all went to school together.
I got another picture.
Y'all went to school together.
Lean over.
Talk about your ass break. Hit him with the ass break. Yeah. What do you want to know? together. Y'all went to school together. Lean over. Talk about your ass crack.
Hit him with the ass crack.
Good.
What do you want to know?
Good.
What do you want to know?
Tell them about you.
How many assholes have you ate?
Can you think of it?
I know his count.
I know his count.
Let's just think about this.
You in the 50s or in the 20s?
Just assholes.
He needs an account.
30s?
30s?
He's an asshole.
Some of them are bleached, too. to how you gonna make a commercial for you if you need
your ass bleeped at the end he will teach
yeah
engaging record one that you know man the liquor provided today is my Best Buy Liquors, man. They got four liquor stores.
They got Kendall, Kendall, and Color Red.
And Naranja.
Color Bay or Color Red?
Color Bay.
Color Bay.
You know what I'm saying?
They provided the liquor that we getting drunk off tonight.
At Best Buy Liquors.
At Best Buy Liquors.
Hit them on.
And we got a bartender.
I don't know if you peeped that.
Amanda, where you at, Amanda?
Because we got Ray Kwan here.
So we got people pouring our drinks.
Her name is amanda
amanda come over here and say hi to the people last time everybody wanted to say who is why she
ain't say nothing we added a girl to the show we had too much testosterone a lot of pool sticks
and no pockets it wasn't going it wasn't working out so we added a girl to the show say what's
up say where you from go ahead yeah what up it's up? It's your girl Amanda Esco. I'm from the Bronx, New York.
And what's your Instagram and all that so the people know?
Amanda underscore Esco.
E-S-C-O.
All right.
And welcome her to the drink chats.
Hit her up on her Instagram.
And it's going down like that.
She's the drink pourer up.
Oh, yeah.
You feel me?
You feel me?
Raekwon, now the Joe Button shit,
I seen when y'all snuffed him. That was hard.
That was hard.
That was hard.
Listen, listen. That was hard.
Give me hot.
What a segue into that.
Listen.
Listen to them.
I thought Joe, like, you know, Joe's my man.
He's a cool guy.
Obviously not with the comedy. No, I'm just saying. It's a my man He's a cool guy Obviously not
With the comedy
No I'm just saying
It's a history
It's a
Historic moment
In hip hop
Okay
Right so
How did that start
He
He said something
To you about
You know
He said Method Man
Is overrated
Or something right
You know
You know it's so ill
It's like
I ain't even really
Number one I like Joe now You know what I mean so ill, it's like I ain't even really.
Number one, I like Joe now, you know what I mean? Based on the fact that I could have gotten some trouble behind that back then.
You know what I mean?
I'm getting to that.
You know what I mean?
That was serious to me, and he didn't give me away.
You know what I mean?
Because it was kidnapping.
I respect that.
I respect that.
I didn't say it.
He said it.
You know what I mean?
It was kidnapping.
Like, I'm on the bottom.
I don't think it was.
I see the dick.
I see the dick. I seen the tape.
Nah, they just hung out
in the room for a little bit.
They just hung out
in the room for a little bit.
And then, yo, you listen.
Listen.
He was talking wild shit.
But you know, he, you know.
And then you seen him.
Yeah.
And then y'all spoke
and then he went
and talked wild shit again.
And then him and Mickey Fats,
him and Mickey Fats
said some shit and then y'all seen them. Him and Mickey Fats said some shit.
And then y'all seen them.
What happened right from there?
Yeah, I mean, you know.
The tape is destroyed.
But it's not in my memory though, sir.
Nah, it was.
I still have it in my memory.
You know what it was?
It was just a moment that it was just getting taken too far out of hand.
And I tried to neutralize it.
You know what's my favorite part of the video?
I tried to neutralize it.
When you put his hat back on.
He was like, here, young man.
Yo, I said this nigga Ray Kwan is a monster.
Yo, when you snuffing like that,
they put his hat back on.
Oh, my God.
Yo, you a different type of nigga.
Yo.
Let me say something.
Let me say something.
You can't front on me, man.
I see the tape.
I didn't hit him.
I didn't say you hit him.
I didn't hit him.
But you put his hat back on.
That's what makes it worse.
That's what makes it worse.
Because, yo, let me tell you something.
I ain't never, like, I met mobsters, like, real mobsters.
I met mafioso niggas, but I've never actually seen them do mafioso shit.
This was the closest thing to, like, this is mafioso shit, my nigga.
He made them niggas, he made Mickey Facts, Googled it.
Remember?
I remember all this.
He made Google.
He went, because they said Mickey Facts.
Didn't you say something?
He was like, no.
And he's like, get him on the computer.
Nigga got him on the computer, pulled it up.
This is crazy.
This is way long ago, way more than seven years ago.
Was it at Rock the Bells?
Was it at Rock the Bells?
This was Rock the Bells.
So how do you feel about when you see him still going off like that?
Did you feel like he should have learned his lesson from there?
I don't give a fuck about what he's doing.
Make him know Ray Kwan not giving a fuck.
Come on.
As long as anybody ain't got nothing to do with him.
I'm not worried about what another nigga doing
or how he moving or whatever.
But how did y'all squash it? What happened?
Nah, you know.
You know, we never really squash
it. We left it alone.
You know,
it wasn't, you know, my thing
is, like I said,
my thing is, like I said, you know, my thing is, like I said, like I think my thing is, like I said, you know, I respect Slaughterhouse, you know, as as as as a group. And I fuck with the niggas, you know what I mean?
Like a lot of them niggas.
I like them niggas.
And it was it was just left alone, you know.
But like I said, Joe, he was the one.
He could have put me in a situation where I could have been fucked up and by him
being a stand-up, I fell all the way back because it's like, you know, we ain't here
for that.
But I really was just trying to neutralize it and just say, yo, listen, my nigga, you
got to deal with meth, but you can't be talking shit because I'm out here on the road with
niggas.
We're all here together.
Tell him, Ray.
You can't eat my man. Tell him, Ray. He's kiddingas. Tell him, Ray. We're all here together, so you can't eat my man
if you're with me.
Tell him, Ray.
You can't eat my man.
Oh, jeez, nigga,
we ain't moving back, nigga.
Tell him, Ray.
It just got to the point
where we had to address him
and just finish it.
You know what I mean?
Like, just finish it.
That's all.
Scott Deke, baby.
Scott Deke,
this is your invitation to the podcast. We need everybody else Just finish it. That's all. Scott Deke, baby. Scott Deke. Joe Weiss.
Listen, this is your invitation to the podcast.
Now, we need Joe Weiss. Everybody else is flying to Miami.
Joe Weiss, come out here.
Yeah, shout out to Joe Weiss.
This is back in the days.
I've seen the tape.
The tape got destroyed.
I don't know what happened.
Whether that tape or shit got destroyed because it was head down kidnapping.
He found me.
You a fucker.
No, fuck that.
My nigga, listen, this is real shit.
Yo, your legacy is so crazy, Ray.
You know what I mean?
You guys did that, the Jodeci, what was it?
The remix.
Come and talk to me.
We got stacks like the international house.
That is the best joint.
That is the best joint.
Yo, Casey and JoJo's on fire. That is the best joint. That is the best joint. That is the best joint. That is the craziest joint. That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint.
That is the craziest joint. That is the craziest joint. That is the craziest joint. That is the craziest joint. That is the craziest joint. session nah we was drinking that night you was drinking here you was a federali man
he was drinking that night i'm a fan i was wanting to know he was drinking but i'm the type of that i know that is getting it in because that was the era though that was that era they
used to pass me below and i'm like nah i'm retired i don't go there no more you know what i mean
but um that was the error it was like a lot of times niggas would listen to Cuban Lynx and be like,
yo, when they see me, they like, yo, I'm in that world.
Nah, I'm not going to lie because Cuban Lynx, y'all niggas was like.
It took me a mad long time to realize that that was that noise.
Like I just thought, I swear to God.
Yeah, I just thought it was.
I thought it was RZA.
I didn't realize niggas was going.
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
That's that curve of him?
I was doing that, man.
That was you?
Yeah, man.
And back in the days,
weren't you sniffing like that?
Oh, no.
I fucked around.
Let's make some noise for him fucking around.
Niggas.
Shit.
That was God.
That was that word.
You know know back then
You know
You know one thing
You gotta remember
When niggas was getting high
Back then
It was a sense of power
That you had
That you had to do
A different kind of high
From a nigga
Cause it's expensive
You know what I mean
It's an expensive taste high
It's not
It's not to down you
Look at Ray
He's opening up
This is where
Somebody get some
cocaine over here right now.
We got to go.
Somebody got to go.
We got to go.
What are you doing?
Let's go.
Mr. Lee.
Mr. Lee got to go.
I don't even trust
the blow that they got
on the street right now
even if I was
in that world.
But nah,
that was just
me at my best, man.
And just getting high
and just feeling like Montana for real.
You know?
You know?
The movie.
We love the movie.
We love Scarface.
We respect Spanish niggas, man.
Like, Spanish niggas is niggas that come up.
They the connect, goddammit.
They the save niggas.
You know what I mean?
Tell them they the connect.
You know how you got the bodega corner niggas that they used to hold the ratchets for niggas, you know what I mean? Tell them they the cut. You know how you got the bodega, the bodega corner niggas
that they used to hold
the ratchets for niggas?
Like, yo,
where the Cubans and shit?
You be like, yo,
let me see your shirt real quick.
You know what I mean?
Like, yo, papi,
don't touch that,
don't touch that.
You know what I mean?
Like, we love Spanish niggas
and I always was, you know,
a fan of how they went
and put in work.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
Nah, that's a fact, baby.
Let's make some noise
for cocaine and Spanish niggas,
goddammit.
Now, who, like,
I already asked you
who was the famous person
you smoked with,
but who was, like,
the most famous person
that told you
they was a fan of you
or told you they was a fan
of Wu-Tang?
That'd be a lot of people.
Of Wu-Tang.
Shit, nigga.
That fucked you up.
Nah, in real, you know who I seen one night?
Seen my nigga Lionel Richie, man.
Oh, shit.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm big on that R&B.
You know that music, that whole music time.
You know, we go back to the rec room parties where they used to bring the,
push the washer and dry out of the rec room
and let niggas
hang out in there
and smoke.
But that whole,
that whole 80s era
and then I met
that nigga.
And Liley Ritchie,
what happened?
What was this at?
L.A.?
It feels like
you're about to say L.A.
This was in L.A.
We was at an
air jaw party
or something,
you know what I mean?
And it was
some big shit,
some other shit. And I just seen him right
And we walked up to him
And I said
Yo what up
You know what I mean
He said what up brother
How you doing
And he was like
Oh man
If Marvin was here right now
We talking about Marvin Gaye
This is what he said to me
He's like yo
Now Lionel Richie
We talking about
Yeah Lionel Richie
He's like yo
If Marvin Gaye was here right now
We'd have been doing it With y'all niggas.
Wow.
That's what he said to me.
Imagine that.
So me, me knowing Marvin history and then looking at this man's history, that was some serious shit.
Because whatever he was doing, he was thinking about Marvin.
And I look at it like a lot of the you know a lot of the artists they
hung with each other they like fuck fuck music we just rail niggas and it made me
think of how certain niggas in the business I got relationships with why
you know what I mean and the way he said it was like yo that niggas a stand-up
nigga he would have been right here with us don't want to do things with y'all
niggas and that was just some influential shit for me right
there that's make some noise if I would have seen a lot of which I don't walk the other way like I
would have been scared of that nigga my nigga for real my mom's play that nigga in the Cribs
and Marvin Gaye to see Stevie Wonder to and shit I couldn't even approach him like you said
It was like you know he couldn't even see me
If I wanted to
You know what I mean but I still wouldn't approach him
Certain stars you don't even
Don't even want to touch them
Did you meet Michael Jackson
Yeah I met Mike
Word to A thing
Word to A
Word to A drink on the table Right right right Word the A drink on the table.
Right, right, right.
Word the A drink on the table, man.
I got to take a drink before you start.
Okay.
Yeah, I met him.
Where was this at and where?
We was saying, we was saying, let's crack this right here.
That's Aguayante.
What is it?
That's Colombian cocaine.
No, no, no.
I'm scared.
It's Colombian white.
It's Colombian white.
The bottle is stupid. I want to taste no. I'm scared. Colombian white. It's not Colombian white.
The bottle is stupid.
I want to taste it, Chuck.
This is my baby right here.
You want your dragon?
Notice, let me tell you something.
I would warn Ray Quam by mixing drinks,
but I've seen this nigga do this plenty of times.
I've seen him drink Henny and white on the same night.
But you sure you want to do this?
This is how Colombians... Yeah, I want to sip it.
This is how Colombian people die
just this is um hey what's that shit you for Asia it's you for Asia good it's
good this Colombian this tastes like licorice
he's an old-school wine let's make noise for him being an old school wino. Let's make noise for him being an old school wino. Old school wino.
That's it.
You know what I'm saying?
You know, this shit tastes like that shit that used to have
sparkles in it.
You know what I'm saying?
Goldschlager.
Goldschlager.
Goldschlager.
Oh, the Gold Lease.
Goldschlager.
The Gold Lease.
Goddamn, look at Wake on.
He know his liquors, man.
You know what I'm saying?
So, um, mmm.
You good?
Good, nigga.
Good, my man. Let's hit that. Come on, man. Let's hit that. So, um Man You good?
Good, my man
Come on, man
What were we talking about?
Michael Jackson
We need the Michael Jackson story
Nah, yo, Michael Jackson had big hands, man
What?
Don't tell Dougie Stump that
It got weird
It got weird Nah It got weird.
Yo.
Nah, super real talk, B.
But where was y'all at?
You don't remember where you was at?
Yeah, we was in Miami.
We was out here.
What?
Y'all met Michael in Miami?
Where'd we fuck was I in Miami?
He was in Kendall.
You know what it was?
He was in Kendall.
We was in the Hit Factory in the studio, you know, me and Ghost.
That's when we was living out here in Miami.
Okay, okay. I lived out in Miami. Okay, okay.
I lived out in Miami for like two years.
And we was working on an album and all of that.
And, you know, we was in the Hit Factory.
And next thing you know, you know, we looking through the blinds.
Like, we hear all these cars coming in the driveway.
There's a bunch of black vehicles just pulling up out of nowhere.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
We like, yo, looking through the blinds like, yo, who the fuck is that?
Right.
You know, and next thing you know, it's just Michael just jumped out with his two kids.
Just him by himself.
So next thing you know, you know, we looking like, oh shit, that's Michael Jackson.
Right.
You know what I mean?
Michael Jackson.
Right.
It's like, yo, that might have been the time my heart you know skipped for real
for sure
and um
next thing you know
he started to walk
towards our
our room
you know
from the outside
so you know
me and Ghost
we like
oh shit
the niggas coming this way
so we sat down
so we sat down
like
we sat down
like
signed out real quick
like yo
they walked in and shit
He walked in and shit
He walked in with the owner of the hit factory
And when he walked in it was like
All we did was just look up to him
Like what's up Mike
How you doing
You know what I mean like how you doing Mike
And yo he kicked it with us for like around a good
So Mike knew who y'all was
Did y'all have to introduce yourself
Nah we had to introduce yourself?
Nah, we had to introduce ourselves, my nigga.
It made me laugh too
because Ghost was like, yo,
he was telling Mike, like, yo, you know,
I did your joint over.
He was like, yo, he was like, yo, I did your joint over.
Mike was like, word, which word?
He didn't say word.
He was like, which one, which one?
So, you know, and Mike was just acting like, you know, like, Ghost was like, yo, you heard it?
You heard it?
He was like, nah, I ain't been here.
Yo, that shit was, man, it was super funny, man.
I had to call my mother and all that after that, being, tell her, like, yo, I met't being Yo, that shit was, man It was super funny, man I had to call my mother
And all that after that
Being
Tell her like, yo
I met Mike, you know
It's just something about
And this is pre-Instagram era
Cause back then
You would've had the flicks
And all that, man
Niggas don't do
Yeah, we didn't wanna jump up
We didn't do that back then
They probably would've done it anyways
Nah, you don't do that
When you see
When you see a star power, nigga
You just wanna be comfortable
Like that Raekwon blood That you rolled You rolled that like an hour ago Yeah, yeah You don't do that. When you see a star-powered nigga, you just want him to be comfortable.
Like that Rayquan blood that you rolled.
You rolled that like an hour ago.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You ain't like that.
Come on, man.
You don't like that.
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We're back to Drink Champs Radio with rapper N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN.
So we also have great O.J. stories on here.
Did you ever meet O.J.?
O.J. Simpson?
Yes, sir.
Nah, never met him.
You ain't meet O.J.?
How about Prince?
You met O.J.?
Yeah, I got flicks of it already.
Yeah, we blew that story up.
But how about Prince?
Do you ever met Prince?
Nah, never met Prince.
How about Justin Bieber
or Justin Timberlake?
You fishing,
you fishing.
This is our TMZ clip.
You speaking about
them TMZ.
We look at TMZ.
We trying to hold you there.
We fishing.
We got the mic for Jackson.
I think we might have
had somebody.
That was hard.
That story was hard.
Nah, but nah,
I never met them. Y'all smoked with Wesley Snipes. Oh yeah, Snipes. I smoked with Wesley Sn somebody. That was hard. That story was hard. Nah, but nah, I never met them.
Yeah, I smoked with Wesley Snipes.
Oh, yeah, Snipes.
I smoked with Wesley Snipes.
That's loud, yeah.
Then the next day, he was like,
yo, come with me to a karate competition.
I was like, all right, cool.
And I can't, you know,
I don't give a fuck about no fucking karate.
So I was in the joint.
He's like, you know what, that's the,
I was like, yeah.
That's the one that sent Wesley Snipes.
The nigga was Wesley Snipes at the moment. I'm like, yeah. That was it. That was Wesley Snipes. The nigga was
Wesley Snipes at the moment.
I'm like,
I hate karate.
Like, I shoot people.
Like,
the fuck am I watching
the karate class for?
But I was there.
I did the,
it was like a karate Olympics.
I'm sitting there
acting like I like it.
Stupid.
And we went to Club Cheetahs
and he had so many
Asian bitches with him.
Big up to Wesley Snipes.
We're looking for you.
Snipes. We would like Wesley Snipes to be our first actor on a drink camp.
I know I'm following you on Twitter.
I know you're following me.
I never hit you on there, but that night we hung out is classic.
And I also heard a night where Nas hung out with Denzel Washington, and he started smoking weed.
And Jungle took the blunt from Denzel and was like,
Nigga, you Malcolm X.
I heard of this story.
So Jungle from QB, I know you can co-sign this story, but this is a story I heard.
That's my brother Jungle from QB.
If you're out there, you know, come on Dream Champ and subscribe to the story.
Did you hear about Bobby Brown frying chicken
With cocaine?
You didn't hear about that?
Bobby Brown fries chicken
The flour
Didn't DMX tell us
He does it with Coca-Cola?
No I don't know
No wasn't it something like that?
No that was Bobby Brown
That's the Bobby Brown story
That's the fly story in existence
Niggas said one day
He fried chicken with Coke.
Well, Coke as the actual flour.
How did you think that chicken tastes, Rayquan?
That shit was fucking good.
God damn.
It was numbing.
Nigga, whole body numb.
Nigga, small intestines is fucked up.
Just confused.
Just numb and all that.
That's another level, B.
So, Ray, I asked you.
I hung out with niggas in the hood, too, that did wild shit.
That fried chicken with cocaine?
Nah, niggas that jumped off the roof and lived.
You know niggas.
That's true.
Yo.
How many stories?
You know, when I say hang out with him Meaning like you know
We see him in the hood
Or whatever
But you know
Some niggas
Like believe it or not man
A lot of times
We still gotta watch out
For niggas that
Throw shit
In niggas drinks man
Straight up
You know
I knew a nigga one time
That's fucked up
In Wet Willies
I've never been to
Wet Willies since
But um He had A half a molly hair, half a molly here, half a molly here,
half a molly here, half a molly.
And then he just stood there.
And then the bitches came and he was like, y'all want drinks?
And he was like, yeah.
He ordered drinks.
You can never see it.
And then all he did was pick up the drinks like this.
And then he served the shit.
I said, wow.
You're going to hell. why you stop going to wet willies you thought he was gonna do it to you no i don't know it was
undetectable like if he didn't tell me right like he because he had he was chilling he was
he gave me a five on everything the shit won won't move. But then when he grabs the drinks, that's how he did it. He grabbed the drink and then he did it.
I was like, oh, shit.
And then 20 minutes later, the bitches was like,
yeah, you know where we can buy ecstasy?
He was like, of course.
He had it on him the whole time.
Boom.
They was already on this shit.
So yeah, this is crazy.
But you're spiking drinks.
Did you go to Studio 54?
You ever been there?
I've never been in there.
Come on. Isn't that mad? It was the 80 to studio 54? Yeah, why would he be going there no, no that was the shit
You know me that was that was me was niggas that was going to my ass accident. You went to
Paris that was in the city. Oh, I was in the city, you know
It was a lot about the original see way in the city You know It was a lot of How about the original Fever in the Bronx
Union Square
The Fever
All that
I've been to the Fever
Yeah that was
That's the groovy
Era of hip hop
Right there
That era was just
You should just
Put your beard
And give it to me
Right now
That was the real shit
Yeah that's the real
That's the real
That's the real
That's the real era man
Like that's one thing
I can say about us
Like you know
Just coming up With a bunch of niggas That just come from Nothing and just that's the real error, man. Like, that's one thing I can say about us. Like, you know,
just coming up with a bunch of niggas
that just come from nothing
and just using their talent
and their wits
to make money
and be creative,
I felt like that was
a big thing, like,
coming back from the 90s.
And, you know,
niggas like us,
we still around.
Right.
You know, like,
we outdid some of our OGs.
That's a fact.
You know, and I guess it's because
They probably
They probably looked at it
They probably looked at it
Like fuck that
I'm here
They probably looked at it
Like I'm here
I'ma do my thing real quick
And then I'ma let
The one pass off
But we still here
Doing it my nigga
We still
That's a blessing
Like 20 something years later
And brother
People still
Niggas don't
Get it like that
Do you remember your first show in Miami?
Nah
I was at that show
Rayquan I was just warning you
KRS-One came on this show
Yo stop with this shit dude
He showed them a slip up
It was from 1912
I'm just playing
Go ahead
The spot was called Mah12. I'm just playing. No, it was at the spot called Mahi Temple, I believe.
I don't know if you remember Mahi Temple.
His memory is like an elephant.
No, this is what's ill.
Because I don't think y'all expected the reaction.
Because I remember seeing y'all faces when y'all came out on stage.
Y'all were like, what?
Miami.
To hear folks in Miami
saying the lyrics,
going crazy,
I remember just seeing
y'all faces like,
y'all were like.
It was amazing, B.
And the show was crazy.
That's how it's supposed to be, man.
Anywhere we go,
that's how we lay it out, man.
You know, Miami,
we was fucking with Miami
from the Cuban Lynx album.
A lot of niggas don't know,
I was in Miami writing that album
me and Ghost. Y'all were always saying
95 South on the records. You know what I mean?
We was here writing.
You know, getting that ocean
breeze and all that.
Miami is a special part of the town
that we always going to salute.
You know what I mean? It's just
like I said, it goes
back to like I said, growing up, you know, it goes back to, like I said, growing up
with a lot of Spanish niggas
and, you know what I'm saying, eating
on the same plates and
we share a certain kind of respect
for the Latin community.
You know, my kids is part Latin.
And it's giving back. My babies is part Latin.
You know what I mean? That's the Cuban link.
You know, it's all about mankind,
man. Mankind, man.
We ain't on no other shit, you know?
Now, me and Capone, we did a podcast in front of the Dog Pound, right?
And we spoke about me and Capone, we had a fight.
And Capone snuffed me.
I don't know if you know that.
But then I slammed him in his head.
You keep adding to that story.
So then we asked Havoc, who will win in the fight
between Havoc and Prodigy?
Who will win in the fight
between Ghost and Raekwon?
If y'all had to square up,
just like,
it's just brother shit.
No world star.
No world star.
Just in the room.
I'm not, I'm not,
I'm not gonna,
I'm not gonna lose, though,
my nigga.
All right, let's make some noise
for Raekwon.
I can't move. Listen listen let me tell you something
let me tell you something
I love my nigga
see one thing about us
just in case niggas want to know
I whip Capone I will whip his ass
but see one thing about us
it's like we would never put hands on each other
because it ain't no coming back.
Niggas is too sneaky.
Now, I'm coming close to that with Capone.
So, you know, we never had to do that.
We're going to have to shoot a fair one.
He would do his best to win and I would do my best to win.
But putting your hands on your brother is like.
It's crazy because y'all ain't really trying to hurt each other.
You just want to make a point.
You can't come back.
Nah, I ain't going to lie.
Me and Capone had a fight and then we went and performed on stage.
In Japan. Yeah, Japan. And we performed on stage
right afterwards. That shit was
the bugged outest shit in the world. And then, you know,
in the morning we squashed it and beat it.
But, you know, when you brothers, you always gotta go through that.
We go through shit, yeah. We go through.
We never had to share that though, but...
Now, this last Wu-Tang album,
this last Wu-Tang album came out,
it didn't really seem like you co-signed it
It seemed like, you know what I mean
It was a little dispute
Between you and RZA at first
And then after the last
Final quarter
It was like the final quarter of the game
And you came in, why was that?
For the fans
It's hard sometimes to
Make the fans understand what you're going through with your business, with your brothers, you know?
And sometimes it just be, you know what?
I got to stand for something I'm going to fall for anything.
You know, and you know, as brothers, we try to work shit out or whatever.
And at the end of the day, I don't ever want to disappoint the fans.
But, you know but business is business.
The last thing you want to do is feel like you're getting rooked by your brother.
That's some real super portrayal bullshit right there.
It was just a lot of bullshit in the air, but it got fixed up in time.
Like I said, I want the world to know it ain't never an issue with my brothers.
Right.
Then it's the business that makes.
It's in the middle.
We got babies to feed.
If you don't know what's going on with my business, you can't be mad why I'm going through what I'm going through.
Right.
But, you know, you're subjected to it.
And, you know, that's what it be sometimes.
It just be.
But, you know know so far everything
is good money and family is family you know what i mean like i said i'm woo forever like
that's never gonna ever ever go anywhere b right that's there for life so let me ask you when you
see things like that and you see like like little wayne going through it with um baby like what is
your position on that like is is it
like damn i can see how that is because there's brothers it's pretty much even though they say
it's a father and son you know i could relate superly because it's just all about being being
fair and being real with with your with your with your brother right exactly you know so everybody
went through this man i mean, from Ron Osley robbing
the Osleys,
robbing his brothers while they dead,
and you know what I mean, doing all kind of wild shit.
You know what I mean? It's like
you never know, so
when you see shit like that happen
to you, you know, you gotta approach it
and you gotta let a nigga know, like, yo,
man,
we can't move like this.
Right.
You know, that's fucked up.
You know, niggas get, you know.
And you try to deal with it and say, you know what, don't do it again.
Right.
And you try to live that out.
Right.
You know, and that's what it's all about.
It's all about being real.
I don't ever want my A to feel like, you know, I'm down with you, but I'm not down with you, you know?
If something's bothering you, I got to know what's bothering you, especially if it's going to fuck up our friendship.
Right.
You know, sometimes when you talk to me, you got to be like, to let them know it's real, you got to be like, yo, we're a type friendship.
We're a type friendship.
I'm taking that god damn it you
know so here no automatic oh he said the friendship so that's different like it
like that I don't keep your world is in the shit is cut off you know sometimes
niggas fall out like that man like you know you want to fuck with niggas
because you love niggas but you can't be loving the nigga more than he love you
be don't do that Don't do that.
Don't do that.
That's deep.
Let's take a shot.
Even playing for you.
Take a shit out for that.
Yeah, I know.
That's deep shit.
Keep dropping the signs, y'all.
It's self-explanatory.
It's about just knowing who you're around and knowing at the end of the day that, yo,
if I'm looking at you like a real man, just be a real man.
You know, stand for something with me and know if I got a problem with something, I'm looking at you like a real man, just be a real man. Right. You know, stand for something with me and know if I got a problem with something, I'm bringing it to you so we can fix it and move on.
But we can't be acting like.
Because it got to be weird for you because.
It's a lot of us.
You made that Only Beautiful Cuba Links 2 And that was like You really did it on your own
Your own label
And you actually conducted that sound
You kept it
What year was that?
That was a minute ago
But you kept it
Whatever year that was
You kept it up to date
But still it sounded like a Wu-Tang album
So like I know Doing that next Wu album,
I think you don't think you should have had it
to have been an executive producing,
you the dude picking the beats and things like that.
Do you think that album would have came out a little better?
It's hard.
I mean, it's hard when you want to try to dictate
what you think everybody else going to like.
It's like niggas going to feel like,
yo, you deserve that crown.
But it ain't even like
you trying to look at it
like you better than the nigga.
You just trying to add on
and say, yo, nah,
this is what it is.
But when you dealing
with so many different minds
in the building,
it's like, damn,
how I'm gonna get to eight niggas
and let them know
what I'm feeling.
You know, and sometimes
it's like, yo, you might be on your horse that niggas feel like, yo, you up there, niggas and let them know what I'm feeling. You know, and then sometimes it's like, yo, you might be on your
horse that niggas feel like, yo,
you up there, niggas, stop it.
That's where your head is at. I'm right here.
So, it's hard to tell your
brothers what you might feel is ill.
All we can do is just try to
create together and come up with something.
Now, the Secret Wu-Tang album
that got sold for two million.
Martin, what's it, Martin Shkreli, what is his name? Secret piece, right? What's two million What's it Martin Shkreli What's his name
Secret piece
What's that dude's name
Martin Shkreli
Did you ever hear the album
Did I hear the whole album
Yeah
I don't know man
That's crazy
Whoa
That's absolutely insane
Whoa
But you're on it right
Yeah that's crazy
You're on it
Whoa
No I never
I never knew that, my nigga.
I thought, oh, shit, you fucking me up.
Like, I'm befuddled right now.
Let me get some water, too.
You want some water?
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
Seltzer water?
Seltzer?
Nah, I can't do it.
Seltzer's fine.
This is Drink Chance, Ray Corn.
We don't have water and shit like that.
I'm sorry, my brother.
Wait a minute.
You didn't hear the album, no, God?
It's the Train.
This is the Elliott Wilson Train.
Every time we get into a good-
The fuck is that, a helicopter?
No, that's the Wilson Train.
It's the Elliott Wilson Train.
Elliott Wilson, he just sabotages us.
Every time we get into a good part of the interview-
He's in the train.
He's in the train.
This is how we know we in a good part of the interview right now.
But you never heard this album.
What's it called?
You know what it's called?
It's called, um, um, it's called? It's called... That's how much he hasn't heard it.
Hold up, hold up.
Well, it's called something to Shaolin.
Come on, ass.
We can't Google that.
Once Upon a Time.
Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.
It is.
Once Upon a Time.
Yeah.
And you've never heard it.
But you know your verses is on there.
Man, man.
And it's sold for what?
One million?
Two million.
So.
Two, two, two.
And that was spread throughout the Wu-Tang.
Yeah, that was, you know, I ain't had nothing to do with me.
Oh, man.
Oh, shit, right?
It don't sound right.
It don't sound right.
My heart just dropped.
Nah, you know what it is, though?
It was something that hit my desk,
and I felt like it was genuine.
It was a genuine thought.
Right.
And, you know, my thing is, yo,
running around the table
and make sure everybody feel the same way about it.
And, thank you.
And, you know, some niggas wasn't fond of it.
But the situation was...
Of the album.
Yeah, because...
Because y'all knew who y'all was selling it to?
But the concept was pretty ill, though.
The idea was ill.
Let me get to it.
What was the concept?
I didn't know.
The concept was just to do an album that...
It's an art piece.
...was sold as an art piece.
That's an ill idea.
So I was up to it on that level.
And I knew that at the end of the day, you know what?
It'll work itself out.
But it's something that's needed.
Let's do it before the next nigga do it.
Let's do it for niggas that think like us, do the same shit.
And the next thing you know, we didn't do it because we didn't do it.
But meanwhile, when the album got sold, I guess whatever,
whoever was
dealing with it, RZA,
they was handling it.
The business part? Yeah, they was handling
it. I mean, I didn't care because
I already caught a check from it
already, so it's like
I already had my shit
already on it.
But when it came down to the whole
situation and...
So y'all had a set check. Didn't matter what it
sold for later. Yeah.
It was just really that I felt
like I already got paid for it.
I wasn't chasing it, but
that money should have been
going around the table.
But however that got
broken down or whatever,
I wasn't there to see it.
I didn't get nothing.
Now, what would you wish this guy, what's his name?
Martin Screlly?
What do you think?
Because do you want that album to be heard or you don't really, it's whatever to you?
Nah, I mean, you know, shit, let motherfuckers hear it.
Yeah?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, he ain't heard it.
Come on, the Dream Chips. I mean, he had, shit, let motherfuckers hear. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, he ain't even heard it. Come on, the drink champs.
I mean, he had the beef with Ghost.
Oh, word?
That's the dude that had the beef with Ghost.
The dude in the back with the...
Bullshit beef.
Yeah.
Oh, I do remember that.
Yeah.
Super bull, though.
He's a clown.
Super wig beef.
Talking craziness.
But listen, come over here.
Come to the drink champs, Martin.
This is N-R.E.
I didn't say
All that shit
That everybody else said
I want to hear this album
Come on here
He's welcome on Drink Champs
I want to hear
What the fuck he's going to say
Nobody can't download
This podcast
Come on here and play that
He played the album
On Drink Champs
That'd be hard
That'd be hard
That'd be crazy
That'd be for the culture
Because nobody can't download it
They can just listen
To the podcast
A couple of joints at least.
Play that shit man. Five and a half joints. Play that shit.
You would watch people throw that out.
Because you didn't hit a complete product, right?
I ain't hear you my nigga.
So what's up with Cuban Lynx 3?
Oh shit.
What's up with Cuban Lynx 3? What we doing?
What we doing man? The fans want to know man. The Purple Arrow. What's up with Cuba Links 3? What we doing? What we doing, man?
The fans want to know, man.
The Purple Arrow.
What do you want? I'm going to be honest with you right now.
That's like a fucking Egyptian fucking Muhammad Ali statue.
That shit is just tucked away on y'all niggas.
But have you been working on it secretly?
Of course.
Yeah, you can tell the way he just said it.
Come on, man.
You know,
we gotta close it out,
but we not closing it out
right now
because it's like
it gotta be organic.
It can't be rushed.
It can't be rushed,
so I'ma continue
to still give niggas
new shit
and give you great,
great sound.
Great hip-hop
when niggas hear my shit.
Niggas will know that, yo, he the same nigga.
He clever.
He from the clever era.
You know what I mean?
Right, yep.
I'm listening.
I'm going to give you creative shit.
I'm going to give you cycles of excitement.
It's going to get excitement.
Excited.
On that part three.
All of that part three is just going to be.
Now, that's the last one?
We got to close the door on that one.
So that's it.
We got to close.
Oh.
Oh.
We got to close the door on that one.
Did we just break an exclusive story again?
I think so.
That Cuban Lynx 3 is on the way?
Did we just do that?
It's around.
It's around.
But I'm just telling you it ain't coming out right that? It's around. It's around, but it's, I'm just telling you
it ain't coming out right now.
It's like,
it's not,
but it's always
something that
I'm taking into consideration
and still saying,
you know what?
I know my niggas want that.
You know what I mean?
But we gotta close it
with a trilogy,
but the energy
just gotta be
where it need to be.
When you making,
when you making great albums, it's like you do it because you love to do it,
but you also do it because it's only right to do it.
That's right.
So I want to walk into it like that and really just say, yo, this is time.
You know what I mean?
When we do that, when we do it, but right now I'm having fun making other albums
and just being creative
and doing what I normally do, you know?
I'm always giving young niggas good music, you know?
It's just all about who really ready to listen, you know?
And I think of niggas from my era, of course, the young niggas, you know, they always invited
to come in and dance with the music with me.
I fuck with niggas, you know what I mean?
All the young niggas.
But I'm going to continue to represent that great music that we made.
That mean a lot.
You know, niggas hear our voices and niggas love it.
Now, who was your favorite CEO you ever worked with?
My who?
Favorite CEO.
Like, on a record label.
Was it Steve Rifkin? For my part my who? Favorite CEO Like In a record label Like you just
You know
Was it Steve Rifkin?
That's a long ass train
It's the Elliot Wilson train
Did we tell you?
No that's B-Dot's train
No this is B-Dot's train
This is B-Dot's train
Every time we get
Go something good
That's why the locomotive
Come in here
This is real shit
I respect it
I respect it man
They gone hard They going hard.
They going hard.
She's like the midnight train to Georgia right here.
Night train.
Y'all used to run trains in Shaolin a lot, but different type of trains, right?
These niggas the king of trains.
Well, I'm your favorite CEO.
Oh, nah.
You know, I'm going to give that crown to so many young niggas doing it, though.
But that you worked with and put out your music, you worked with.
That's a deep one.
You still hear that, right?
Yeah, that's the
of the trains.
That's the trains.
You gotta give us that CEO.
You gotta give us that CEO, Ray.
You can say yourself now if you want to be.
Selfish.
Selfish.
We got love for selfish people over here.
And petty motherfuckers.
We fuck with them over here.
Nah, you know, I'll definitely get that crown not saying Chris Lighty, though.
Okay.
Chris Lighty.
God damn it.
He was always around.
He was always around.
It's crazy. I've been thinking about Chris Lighty all day. Let's make some noise for Chris Lighty. God damn it. He was always around. He was always around. It's crazy.
I've been thinking about Chris Lighty all day.
Let's make some noise for Chris Lighty.
I got to let you in for this.
You know what you were saying?
You said he was around.
Okay.
Yeah.
And you know, he used to be around Steve a lot.
And you know, they was doing their thing.
And you know, a lot of times he would always come around and like say, yo, y'all niggas
is super powerful. Y'all got to. When you say Steve, you talking about Steve Stout times he would always come around and, like, say, yo, y'all niggas is super powerful.
When you say Steve, you're talking about Steve Stapp.
Nah, Rifkin.
Oh, Rifkin.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
That's what Chris was.
You know, they used to work together.
And, you know, he used to be around and, you know, he would tell us, like, yo, y'all brand, man.
Everything.
This is a brand gang, man.
And we used to listen.
And, you know,
he was just always about motivating niggas
to do other shit and,
you know, get on big TV
shows and all that. You know, niggas talking
about reality shows back then.
You know, wanting to see niggas get
on it, but we not really that
type of personality crew that,
you know, a reality show would
make sense. Right.
Just remind me,
you went,
MTV took you
to Sierra Leone,
right?
Oh, yeah.
Or somewhere in Africa.
Africa, yes.
I remember seeing that shit.
Yeah, I was in the
diamond shit.
That shit was crazy.
I thought you was
just going to die,
Nick.
You thought that shit
impacted you heavily.
Yeah, like,
how was that?
How was that?
That shit was stupid,
crazy, man.
Going out there, once I got there I kissed
the ground like you know the motherland you know me that was that was beautiful right there just
to go home and just but then when we got there it was crazy the hotel was like it was like the
hood was chandeliers yeah it's not a hotel what it was like the hood was chandeliers. Yeah, it's not a hotel.
What?
It was like the hood was chandeliers, you know?
It was fucked up.
I've never been to Africa.
You could see it.
It wasn't fucked up, though. I've never been to Africa.
No, it wasn't fucked up, though.
It was just, it was different, you know what I mean?
Like, you know, they had to sign a lot of papers and shit.
They had to sign papers.
That's why I didn't go to Africa one time.
I was on my way to somewhere else. else yeah I was on my way to somewhere
else is like it's close it's like yeah you gotta go you gotta get a shot you
saw people that were like mutilated or some a spot nah you know what it is we went to an
amputee
village
like where everybody
just is amputated
you know
kids and everything
I didn't want to see that
I didn't want to
you stayed like in the bus
or something at that point
it was deep
it was like a journey
like a pillage
for like 14 days
out there
you know talking about
the diamonds and all that
but they was just
taking us places where the rebels came through and they tore shit, you know, talking about the diamonds and all that, but they were just taking us places where the rebels
came through and they tore shit up.
You know, they came
through there aggressive and, you
know me, you know me, I want to know why they
did it. Like, why would you do that?
You know, but
it was just a big journey
of learning why things happen
like that. They took you out of Liberia?
No, right? No, we never, nah.
Did they have a W hotel out there?
I was in like the Brownsville of Africa, B.
There's no W?
No, there's no W.
There's beautiful parts of Africa.
No, South Africa is ill.
Yo, let me tell you something.
It's banging parts from what I heard.
You know what I mean?
But where I went the first time.
Nah, they took you out of the craziest.
Where I went for the first time was the hood, B.
Like, niggas was walking around with, what you call them shits?
Crutches?
Nah, nah, nah.
Them shit.
Not the little green lights in the hand.
Like a lantern?
Like a green lantern.
Yeah, like a lantern.
Niggas was walking around with green lanterns?
What the fuck happened?
To Africa. I mean, what the fuck? Africa, please around. What the fuck happened? To Africa.
I mean,
Africa,
please book me.
I've never been to Africa.
Please.
You said you didn't
want to go there.
No,
I want to go.
Show me what's
equivalent to a W.
We got some drink
chances.
They get fresh though.
They get super fresh
though.
Like Zamunda fresh?
Nah,
I'm talking about
that.
Nah,
they make nine.
Like coming to
America fresh?
Nah,
them niggas,
yo,
I ain't going front.
The living conditions they was living under was serious,
but when my party was that night and whatever,
and they came out,
the shit was like being in the Bronx or some shit, B.
Like, it was...
Everybody was just chilling.
I was proud for that.
Listen, Africa, please book me.
I've never been.
Rakimio, I'm going to avoid you.
But everybody else, you heard of Rakimio, the promoter?
Let's do that.
He just kidnap you.
Nah, they do that out there, though.
They sometimes don't want you to leave, you know?
That's where you learn to kidnap.
That's where you learn to kidnap.
Hold up.
Stop it.
Yo, but now, I've been waiting to ask this question the whole night I'm going to be honest
I need an uncut
Untold
Old Dirty Bastard
Story
I got one
But I just needed to hear it
On this show it should never be an Old Dirty Bastard
Story told first.
Unless it's coming from Wu-Tang.
That's right.
We want the funniest, retardest, whatever.
The first thing that comes to mind, we taking it.
We need the old Dirty Bastard story.
He's a legend.
He's a super duper legend.
Super duper legend.
Super duper.
Word.
That was a real nigga.
That's all I can say.
Dirty, he was the realest of the realest.
And he loves soul music.
So it's like every time you see him, that's the chain being.
He'd be listening to the Whispers or some shit.
Talking to you.
The OJs and all that. But when he was getting high, he'd be listening to the whispers and some shit. Talking to you with OJs and all that, you know.
But, you know, when he was getting high, he was just cooling, though.
But I think one night we all got real fucked up.
We got fucked up.
Okay.
And I remember going down to his room and shit.
And the nigga, we banging on the door for him.
Because, see, we was in the other room, right?
We was in the other hotel room. This is back in the day see, we was in the other room, right? We was in the,
we was in the other hotel room.
This is back in the day.
So we was in the other room and shit.
So,
you know,
niggas was up in there.
Niggas was hitting that wet.
You know,
that wet is that.
Describe it to him.
Cause we got,
we got,
we got dumb ass smart.
It's the dust.
That's,
you know,
this is that.
Angel dust?
Yeah,
dust.
You know what I mean?
Niggas back,
you know,
not,
we wasn't smoking it,
but niggas,
we was around, we smoking it. And, um, we was in the room? Yeah, nigga that. We wasn't smoking it, but niggas we was around was smoking it.
And we was in the room and shit one day, and we was just blowing.
So, you know, you smell this shit.
This shit smell good.
It's a different smell.
Niggas don't know dust smell good.
Like mints?
Yeah, it's like jelly mints.
Jelly mints.
Word.
But, you know, so boom, you know, niggas hit it mints. Jelly mints. Word.
But, you know, so boom, you know, niggas hit it one time.
So now we in there doing push-ups and shit.
I'm trying to picture this.
Now, this is Wu-Tang Clan?
Nah, nah, nah.
This ain't the whole clan.
Okay, all right.
I get it.
This is a fraction. He's not implicating everybody into the angel's story.
It's a fraction.
No names. No names. No names. No names.. It's a fraction. Great corners. No names.
No names.
No names.
You see how smooth he does.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No names, B.
Let's finish this, bro.
Please finish this story.
Nah, but you know, like I said, we was in there.
We smoked.
This was back then.
And you know, we went down to Dirty Room.
We ain't want to open the door and shit.
Nigga, open the fucking door, nigga.
You know what I'm saying?
Nigga, you want to open the door.
What?
Banging on the door. Boom, boom, boom, boom, door, nigga. You know what I'm saying? Nigga went and opened the door. Banging on the door.
Next thing you know, the nigga opened the door, right?
So the nigga just start laughing in front of us at the door.
And then closed the door back.
Boom.
So we like, yo, what the fuck is this nigga doing, B?
So next thing you know, we trying to get up in the room,
and he went and opened the door.
Oh.
So nigga start kicking on the door and shit.
Mm.
You know how that go.
Right.
Open the door, nigga.
Yeah.
And did he open the door again?
This nigga opened the door, right?
Mm-hmm.
And when he opened the door,
I don't know. Nah, I can't even tell. This nigga open the door, right? And when he open the door...
Nah, I can't give it to him. Nah, you gotta pay him, man!
Pay him, man!
I can't tell you.
I can't tell you.
That's my violation.
That's my violation.
Stay tuned, man.
Come on.
Drink a chance.
Drink a chance.
Drink a chance.
Drink a chance. You gotta chance, man. I on, man. You want a drink chance? You want a drink chance? Come on, Ray. Drink chance.
You want a chance, man.
I can't give it to you.
I can't drag it out, man.
You sure?
Come on, Ray.
030, I love him.
I love him, man.
That was like mental rape right there.
That's fucked up, man.
That's fucked up.
That was like mental rape right there.
I can't give it to you, my nigga.
You did that on purpose, man.
I can't give it to you, my nigga.
He wants to give it to you.
Come on, man.
Come on, man.
Just tell him.
Trust me. Just give us a piece of it. All right. Was he butt naked? purpose, man. I can't give it to you, my nigga. He wants to give it to us. Come on, man. Come on.
Trust me.
Give us a piece of it.
All right, was he butt naked?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Come on, his homeboy shit in the fucking drawer.
Yeah, my friend shit in the drawer.
He don't give a fuck.
He'll tell everybody.
Yeah, this is my nigga.
He shit in the drawer.
He had a dream.
He fucked a bitch, fell asleep, and then woke up and had a dream that he was shitting.
And then he shit, and he pulled the drawer out, and shit right in the drawer.
Like that.
He had a dream.
He fucked a bitch, fell asleep, and then woke up and had a dream that he was shitting.
And then he shit, and he pulled the drawer out, and shit right in the drawer.
Like that.
He had a dream.
He had a dream. He had a dream. He had a dream. and then woke up, and had a dream that he was shitting,
and then he shit, and he pulled the drawer out,
and shit right in the drawer, like that.
There you go.
And then the next morning,
he tried to blame it on the bitch.
He said, I believe you.
Said, nah, man, I believe the bitch.
The bitch told me it was you.
I can't tell you that.
Now, God bless the ODB, man.
Tell us a story you can tell.
Tell us a story you can tell about. Tell us a story you can't tell.
The PG one is.
Any ODB story.
We need, listen, right now, we got Prince, Legendary Stories.
We got Michael Jackson, Legendary Stories.
We need an ODB.
And we got, well, pun.
We started with pun, Legendary Stories.
And those stories are still continuing.
So, we need an ODB.
We got to make this guy live forever. You know, Dirty... You want me to give you an ODB. We got to make this guy
live forever.
You know,
you see me.
You want me to give you
your ODB?
No, no,
I'm going to tell you something.
Dirty know how to cook.
Number one,
he's a cook, nigga.
Water.
He was like a
seafood type of nigga
and shit,
you know what I mean?
And we used to go to his crib
or whatever,
but one night
we was up in his crib
or whatever
and next thing you know,
nigga fell asleep in the house.
So we in there playing music and Dirty seen it. Next thing you know Nigga fell asleep in the house So we in there playing music
And Dirty seen it
Next thing you know
Nigga's just cracking eggs
On the nigga head
And you know what I mean
Like you know
Just ripping shit
Yeah
Cause he was knocked out
Of the chair
But you said he was a cook
So when you said
He ain't cooking
No no no
He just
You know sometimes
If a nigga fall asleep
In the house
It's like niggas
Start fucking with you.
It's like, oh, this nigga sleep.
I sprinkle some baby powder in his hair, make him look 95 years old real quick.
Right, right, right.
You know what I mean?
Like just dip his hands in some fucking eggs or some shit or let it slide down his face or whatever.
So one night niggas was just doing some wild shit and Dirty was just putting mad cayenne pepper.
He had fucking eggs.
He had fucking celery on his nigga face.
Everything.
This nigga would not wake up.
This nigga would not wake up.
And this is an ODB man.
This is his man.
And when the nigga woke up It was like The nigga was just
He was
He was hurt
Now y'all about to go on a new tour
He was hurt
My nigga
Nah I can't tell it
I can't tell it
You giving us
Shit
But then you taking it away
Wait for us to find our nigga
He's my nigga
But um
Now you about to go on a tour
Right now
You and um
Ghost Yeah What's this tour What's this tour You're going on like 95 days My nigga. But now you're about to go on a tour right now. You and Ghost.
Yeah.
What's this tour?
What's this tour?
You're going on like 95 days.
It's the rap.
Can you bring me on tour with you, please?
Like, you my nigga.
We ain't talking about when y'all did business together.
No, that's it.
This is what we're talking about right now.
We doing more business right now.
Nah, but when y'all did the album together, come on.
No, this is a wonderful thing, man.
We got together.
Listen, man, you know you my A-Lite, bro.
Anytime, man.
Yes.
Anytime, man.
Nah, we got together.
We had fun.
We did the War Report 2.
Which is a mean piece.
On ice water.
Bigger mark.
And your love.
Mean piece.
Which brings me to the question.
That better not be another train. That's not another train. That's going to be one. You know, the rap radar, Angola. Which brings me to the question, that's another, that's,
that better not be another train. That's not another train.
You know, the Rap Radar, I don't know if you know,
Rap Radar, they pay people just to make trains come by.
Like, you know what I'm saying? They got
spies. Like, they ain't TMZ.
That's Rap Radar, niggas. Like, you know what I mean?
They just, they just sit here,
cause Ray, you know.
We bring some of the real stories here. You did rap Ray Dahl, right?
You did rap Ray Dahl, right?
No, I didn't do it yet.
You didn't do it yet?
Because it's mad boring.
Nah, go over there.
Nah, I'm just fucking with you.
They're very serious.
They're serious.
They're the 60 Minutes.
We're Howard Sterns.
You feel me?
That's what my man B-Dot said.
We're just drunk.
We're just drunk.
We're just drunk.
Those are our people.
A little bit. B-Dot. B-Dot said. We're just drunk. We're just drunk. We're just drunk. Those are our people. A little bit.
B-Dot.
B-Dot is great.
Not Elliot?
Come on, man.
Yo, listen.
They harder to book than a rapper.
I've been telling them to come on the fucking podcast.
I've been saying, yo, come out here.
Them niggas like, we're in New York.
Let's do it in the CBS office.
No, that's not where we do our fucking show.
We obviously don't do shit in the CBS office.
We don't do our show at the CBS office.
We do our shit
in the middle
of Little Haiti, nigga.
In Overtown.
We are in Little Haiti
We do our shit
in Park Hill.
We do our shit
in Stapleton.
We do our shit
in Kendall.
We do our shit
in Broward.
We do our shit
in Left Rack City.
We do our shit
in Queensbridge.
We do our shit
in Ravenswood Astoria.
We do our shit
everywhere else
but CBS, you
buck-bubububus.
And that's not a diss
because I don't even know what I said.
We might be at CBS tomorrow.
It's not what I said. It's not a diss.
But listen, you bubububububus.
Come over here and fuck with us.
I paid my flight to go do
y'all podcast. Y'all come out here and do our podcast.
Right or wrong
But I'm just warning you
I'm just warning you
It's like
If you go do they shit
You sure you ain't do they shit
Nah
I thought I saw you do they shit
Nah nah
I did my nigga Ice-T shit
Oh Ice-T
That's where I stood
That's my nigga Ice-T
Respect to Ice-T
And big up Rap Raider
I'm just playing
It's his jokes
Ice
That's my nigga Ice-T
Yeah that's my nigga
We need him on the podcast.
Yeah, we definitely need Ice T.
Yeah.
And we need, listen, Ice T.
He's my nigga.
Ooh, this was good.
With a cough of blood.
Come on, yo.
There's no more weed, boys?
Can you roll?
Branches.
Branches.
So listen, this is Ice T.
You my nigga.
You my brother.
And he did my movie.
Two years ago, I didn't know what I was doing.
He still did my movie.
What's your movie?
Super Dog.
I got a movie, Super Dog.
So, Ice-T, we really, really, really need you on.
But we want your wife to be our first female guest.
Is that cool?
That's cool.
We want your wife.
You come with us.
Both of them.
Both of them.
Yeah, both of them.
Yeah, together.
Because, listen, I'm surprised our bartender, Amanda. Amanda, come say it. You come with us Both of them Yeah both of them Yeah together Because Coco and Ice Cube
I'm surprised
Our bartender Amanda
Amanda come come
Say again
Because
We just only have men here
No Amanda
You can go
You can go on
Dory's right now
Come on
Yeah Amanda
You can come on
Yeah shout out your Instagram
One more time Amanda
Come on please
Amanda underscore Esco
Yes right
Drink chaps
We now have women
Part of the shit because
You know you know I mean like you know people
People get crazy
We have too many uh how you
Say it I don't know what are you saying we need
A female rapper to come on here
Yeah you know what I'm saying
And you know what's crazy
They love Wu-Tang
So much
You know what's crazy? They love Wu-Tang so much. Oh, they hit us up all the time.
They hit us up all the time.
We fuck with y'all.
We fuck with y'all.
Yeah.
This is real right here.
This is real.
But Ray Kwan, you do a tour like every two weeks.
A tour every two weeks.
Nah, I don't do every two weeks.
Nah, nah.
But your shit lasts for like two, three months.
Can you put me on one of those?
Of course.
I'll open up.
We're going to bring the drink champs out.
Tell him he got to have the discipline.
I don't know.
You know, he's always invited to a disco.
I don't know what the discipline means.
What does that mean?
You got to do the three months.
No, I'll always do the three months.
Yeah?
Yeah.
All right, let's go.
I'm ready.
I'm there with you.
As long as I'm okay, I'm okay.
We're putting the podcast on the road.
Let's do it.
We just do it.
Drink champs.
I'm sure. the podcast on the road. Let's do it. We just do it. Dream Changers. But listen,
how crazy is it
that the bigger you got,
the more hood
your records got,
the more white people
came to y'all shows.
That's beautiful.
How the fuck
did y'all do that though?
But that's real shit though.
Like for real.
Super real.
That's super real.
And you keep it hood, hood. That's the way you said it though. You crazy. Yeah, yeah real. That's super real. And you keep me on it.
That's the way you said it, though.
You crazy.
Yeah, yeah.
But it's like, yo, you know what I'm saying?
Like, I went on tour with you.
We love it.
I was like, God damn it.
That's that market right there.
Nah, you know what it is.
I don't give a fuck.
Who got something going on in Atlanta?
Night Raekwon got a show.
Your shit is sold out.
I seen that shit with my own eyes my name how does that feel though
that's a that's a that's a great feeling man you know them are doing people that love us man it
don't matter the color but you know it make you want to drink champagne it make you feel rock
stars though you want to drink champagne but keep finishing how you want to make it and keep talking
no please because this is crazy
I went with you
State to state
Your shit sold out
Nah I mean
It's the love
It's the love
From the people man
They know what we do
They know we come in
And we
We get it done
We get it done
You know people love
Great music
They love personality
They love character
And showmanship
You know
All that
We just try to deliver Just try to give it to them.
Give it to them in the best way we can give it to them.
And you know, the majority of the people is the white,
white, the white people that come out for us.
There's no right way of saying that.
They come out for us and we love them to death
and it is what it is.
It's like, you know, we ain't on no, we love them all,
man.
It's like we said, we're going to say hip hop is, we're going to make hip hop a race?
No, we're going to make hip hop a new race and a new religion and a new flag. All right.
My favorite hotel is the W Hotel.
What a horrible segue from Nori.
I shouldn't have took it that way?
No, your edit is great
You want me
Give a different example
I don't know
You fucked me up just now
You got me overthinking it now
God damn it
No no
Go ahead
You're good
But
My favorite hotel
Is the W Hotel
Every time I go to
The W Hotel
I see the gay flag out there
I have no problem with it
I got mad
People that's Gay in got mad people that's gay
in my family, people that's gay.
I don't care. It's okay.
But I figured
why shouldn't we have a hip-hop
flag, right? That'll let people
know that when we enter
this place, that you're accepted here.
Why we can't have the
same thing? Not comparing hip-hop
plight or hip-hop struggle
compared to, you know,
gay or LGBT.
You know, God bless them. You know what I'm saying?
We got a different plight. But what I'm saying is
why should I enter a restaurant
that if you tell me this restaurant
got the best fucking clams in the
world, right? And then I walk in there
and then as soon as I get in there
I'm the first black person
that ever been here.
I shouldn't have to,
you know what I'm saying?
I shouldn't have to
go through that event.
But if that flag is there
saying you're welcome,
this is just like,
you know,
I don't want to compare
hip-hop struggle
compared with gay people's struggle.
But I can,
you can eat somewhere
on South Beach
right now
and on South Beach
there's a gay flag
somewhere
boom
that's their sign
to say that you're accepted
that's great
that's awesome
I eat at all
them places
they already accepted
because the places
is good
and I ain't got
no problem with them
you know
it's awesome
but now
I do have problems sometimes I can walk into a place and then I ain't got no problem with them. It's awesome. But now I do have problems sometimes.
I can walk into a place, and then I don't know if my kind is accepted.
And I don't even mean color-wise.
I just mean culture-wise.
It's true.
Why can't we develop a hip-hop flag?
I think that's legit.
Am I retarded?
You can tell me I'm retarded.
Listen, let me tell you something.
Hip-hop is something
that's it's organic anyway it's like it because y'all it's gonna pull it's gonna pull the right
the right energy at the right time you know music music is always gonna soothe the minds of people
so regardless of what wherever we walk that that's there. That's why that's one of the biggest markets in the world.
But you understand what I'm saying?
Hip-hop.
Hip-hop music made a lot of money, man.
Yeah, yeah.
But we need to be in love.
A lot of money.
Listen to what I'm saying.
Y'all made music for Staten Island, Brooklyn, and it transcended through the whole world.
The world.
The world.
The whole world.
You know what I'm saying?
A lot of people.
You did, too, man.
Yes, yes. Thank you. The whole world. You know what I'm saying? A lot of people. You did too, man. Yes, yes.
Thank you.
Yeah, thank you for including me.
But what I'm trying to say is,
right,
what if there's a hotel
that you got to check into?
Wouldn't you feel more comfortable
if you know that,
like,
whatever,
the promoter overpaid you
or whatever,
whatever,
or underpaid,
no, no, no,
underpaid you,
overpaid you.
And then you look
and he's like
the hotel he booked
my con is accepted
I'm good
that mean I can
blow in the room
right
like I remember
hanging with you
somewhere
and you was like
come to my room
nigga I paid
the smoking charge
already
remember
like
like
like
like why
we can't have
our own shit
like
I'm not comparing hip-hop struggle or whatever to anybody that...
But what I'm saying is, because even gay people are hip-hop.
Of course.
You know what I'm saying?
So it's like, all right, cool, if you're gay and you're hip-hop, you're super accepted.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm sorry.
But if you're hip-hop...
Why are you sorry? You know, I'm just saying, because I don't know, like, you know, I'm saying? I'm sorry. But if you hit me, you know,
I'm just saying
because I don't know,
like, you know,
I'm trying to be
politically correct
with what I'm trying to say.
Which won't work.
Why can't we have a flag
that represents
not a race.
I ain't saying,
I'm saying people
that this is our culture.
They understand our culture.
Like the other day,
I went to a restaurant.
I Googled, what's the best ceviche in the area, right?
I went there, and it was mass soccer games.
No disrespect to soccer, right?
No disrespect.
But I didn't want to fuck with soccer.
So I was like, I'm out of there.
Boom.
But if I would have went on an app that said, this is hip hop,
I would have never wasted my time going to a place that I didn't want to see.
I wasn't in the mood for soccer.
So hip-hop motherfuckers don't like soccer?
I don't know.
What I'm saying is hip-hop, this is something that you're going to come,
you're going to eat, you're going to chill, you're going to dance,
you're going to roller skate, you're going to fucking skateboard.
You're going to fucking skateboard?
You're going to do whatever.'re going to rotoscape. You're going to fucking skateboard. You're going to fucking do whatever.
You know what I'm saying?
And you know that whatever this does, it's a B-boy stance.
In here somewhere.
We need that flag.
Am I bugging?
No, no.
At the core, I think you're good.
But when you extend it, you're fucking up.
I just feel like we need a hip-hop flag.
That means, like, if we in Barbados, we in Bermuda somewhere,
and we want to sit down and blow a tree or sit down and just have a meal and listen to Marvin Gaye or listen to, you know what I'm saying?
Like, wherever we at in the world, if somebody can put our flag up
so we know we welcome, we wouldn't, you know you know go in spots where you know what i'm saying
where we not welcome you think i'm bugging out you can tell me i'm talking about this
is it you tell me what's hard is this or is in your heart it's a flag it's already in you b but
i you know you got to know where you're going bro i don't know where the i'm going no
it's very you know you gotta know where you're going, my nigga,
but I get what you're saying, though, you know.
The hip-hop flag, this shit there.
Yeah.
Created a lot for a lot of people.
How many countries you been to in your passport?
It's crazy.
So just imagine, whatever country,
you go to Dusseldorf, Germany.
Dusseldorf.
Dusseldorf.
Ooh, look.
Tell me you know German.
You know German?
What's it?
Tell me a German word.
I got a German word.
You ready?
What?
Dunkin' shit.
Dunkin' shit?
Dunkin' change.
What does that mean?
Thank you.
Wait.
Oh, I thought you...
You want me to tell you
the other word I know?
Go ahead.
I'm waiting for Ray Kwan to go.
I knew Duncan shit.
Word for word, Jeremy.
Come on, give me some German, Ray Kwan.
You know one word.
Scheisse.
That means shit.
That means shit.
Scheisse.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
I know Blasmiaina.
Blasmiaina.
What's that?
What's that?
Suck my dick.
You know anything constructive in German?
Yes, I do.
What?
Wait.
Duncan chin, bitter chin.
That's, I don't think that's...
You're welcome.
Oh, okay.
Duncan chin, bitter chin.
You know Japanese?
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You know Japanese?
Wait, come on.
Fuck the train.
We're not paying attention to it.
You know Japanese?
What's the word you know in Japanese?
Come on, you've been all over the world. Japanese, that. You know Japanese? What's the word you know in Japanese? Come on. You've been all over the world.
Japanese, huh?
You know Japanese.
Wait, come on.
Give me a word in Japanese.
I can't give you one right now.
Give me one.
Ichiban.
I learned that from Redman.
I learned that from Kawaii.
No.
Halalulu. No. Make up your mind. You learned it from Hawaiiauai No Hallelujah No
Make up your mind
You learned it from Hawaii
You learned it in America
No
No I learned it in Japan
Niggas
You just said Hawaii
No
Okinawa
Okinawa
It's on the equator line
Of Hawaii
You've been to Okinawa
Okinawa is a part of Japan
Yeah
Oh
Yo
Rap Radar
Y'all niggas is paying
Top dollar They are paying top dollar.
They up here in top dollar
to shut down the Wu-Tang Clan interview
because they never had a Wu-Tang.
Listen, they never had...
Listen, Wu-Tang,
don't fuck with Rap Radar.
Listen, listen, listen.
They just got too nervous.
They said a Wu-Tang Clan member
and it's way far too...
You know what I'm saying?
So they sending trains
through our shit.
I apologize. We've never had three trains, though. Real talk'm saying? So they sending trains to our kids. I apologize.
We've never had three trains, though.
Three trains.
We've never had three trains.
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Did you meet Amanda?
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She's a part of the show now.
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Facts, facts.
I forgot what I was talking about. Branch is branch for branch, huh?
Yo, yo, yo.
So, um.
I like when you laugh. I like when you laugh
I like when you
So listen
Now that he's laughing
Are you petty, Rayquan?
Cause I'm petty like a motherfucker
This is in case you thought
This was a trick question
It is not
I am petty like a motherfucker
The last episode we had
He said he's not petty
You want me to break it down?
No.
Should I break it down?
I mean, I don't even remember, but go ahead.
Last episode on Friday, we had Hattie.
I said I'm petty.
Did you admit you're petty, Haz?
Are you petty?
Haz.
Am I petty?
Yes.
I could be, but not usually.
That's not the answer I'm looking for.
I'm not petty. He said he's not petty. You ready for the story? Yes. I could be, but not usually. That's not the answer I'm looking for. I'm not petty.
He said he's not petty.
You ready for the story?
Yeah.
He's dating a girl.
Oh, man, we got to keep doing the same fucking story?
Because you know why?
When I listened to the Havoc episode, I was so bad that nobody ever said that you're not petty.
I'm not petty.
I'm not going to get into the three videos.
That's why I got the tweets that I got.
Now I remember.
Yeah, I'm not going to get into the three videos.
I'm going to get into the video where you got it.
But this ends in this episode.
This is a famous story.
Let's do that famous.
First off, Kindle people love this stuff.
They love this stuff.
I'm like, who you are?
I'm telling you.
So listen, my man is dating a girl.
Somehow, someway, he finds out she's going to...
No, I didn't find out by accident.
You told me, man.
This is my story.
This guy is embellishing the story right now.
This is my story.
This is my story.
He finds out she's going to Cisco Video.
No, no.
I don't know where it went down.
He says it's over.
Just based upon that,
and then I'm going to give you the rest of the facts in my mind.
But based on that that is he petty we gotta get to the
bottom of this of course he's not petty.
All right, now.
Now.
Ray, you stick him where he's petty.
And then we're going to hit you with the rest of the facts.
Hit me with the facts, man.
All right.
You stupid.
This is my favorite part of the episode.
The other videos.
But he cut it off.
Listen.
He didn't even.
But what's. All right, listen. What song do you think it was from Cisco?
Out of any Cisco song
Damn, nigga, I don't know
Stupid, nigga, I don't know
This is stupid, man
Alright, so
If your girl was going to the thong song
Video Would she still be your girl was going to the thong song video, would she still be your girl?
If she was going to the video shoot?
Yeah.
She was a model in it.
She was a dancer.
So this is why I called him Patty.
Because he didn't know.
The thong song didn't come out this time.
She was just going to a Cisco video.
No, man.
She was doing the thong song remix.
Oh, the thong song.
Oh, the remix. I'll keep that in that box. Yeah. All video. No, man. She was doing the thong song remix. Oh, the thong song. Oh, the remix.
I'll keep reading that part.
Yeah.
All right.
So, all right.
She's going to the thong song.
Can she still be here?
As long as I know what the fuck you're doing, nigga.
You know.
But it wasn't based on just that.
All right.
All right.
Can I finish?
It's petty if you're just going to cut off because of the fact that she went to it.
No, no, no.
It wasn't cut off.
It was.
No. You might have. It's a foreign story. Look at to cut off because of the fact that she went to it. No, no, no. It wasn't cut off. It was. No, you might have.
It's a foreign story.
Look at him.
He's so evil.
No, it's not just that.
All right.
So now you ready for me to finish?
She.
This is a killer.
It's not a killer because I was not involved at that point.
So I said, E, I think that was petty.
He said, but they bullshit being alone.
Big Pimpin'.
Big Pimpin'.
Nah, nah.
She did the dog song, but she did Big Pimpin'.
How you stand with this, God?
They bullshit being alone.
That was out already. I was out already.
He was out already.
He was out.
You out too?
Crazy, man.
Is he still petty or he's evened out at this point?
I mean, you know, you got to be confident in me.
I knew what I was doing.
No, no.
Wait, come on.
They threw the champagne on her.
She can still come on?
She can still?
Yeah, still?
I'm asking.
I'm asking you.
I'm not 100% sure she's the one that got champagne.
All right.
No, but that's what you said.
We rolling with it.
She can't come on with no champagne.
All right.
Now, here's the last and third one.
Here's the last and third one.
There is more.
There is?
Man.
All right, but these three is enough. She got two more that I know of. That's a lot. That's a lot. Really, there's more. There is? Man.
All right, but these three is enough.
She got two more that I know.
All right.
Then, Uchi Wally video.
Uchi Wally Wally.
Uchi Wally Wally.
Uchi Wally Wally.
Can y'all still meet at Mushi Mushi and have sushi?
I'm like, I don't know.
At the Uchi Wally.
At the Uchi Wally.
I'm like, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Can y'all steal me at Mushi Mushi and have sushi?
I'm like, I don't know.
At the Uchiwara event, them niggas is fucking.
Let's keep it real.
She would have been shipped out, bitch.
Shipped out, right?
And then the last one is Ricky Martin.
I told him he ain't got shit to worry about.
And that wasn't bad all the time.
Yeah, the Ricky.
Was it literally the video that long? Yeah, it was. It was long. She that wasn't bad all the time. Yeah, it wasn't literally like low-key,
I know.
Yeah,
it was.
It was low-key.
She went to the Bahamas.
Yeah,
she was bad.
Yeah,
she was my bad.
Yeah,
she was my bad.
No,
no,
you know.
And she got,
and I tell you,
she got with the
Bell Fifth of O,
homie.
Now,
this is what makes you panic.
You sure she fucked BBD?
I'm 80% sure.
I don't know,
I never asked her actually.
But why,
what made you come with this assumption?
Because right when we broke up, we in the club and she's with homie.
So I'm assuming.
I know how it goes down.
I think this proves he's petty.
He's petty, right, Ray?
I'm not petty.
I understand you.
You the guest.
You got to know your bet, man.
But listen, Ray, we need that million dollar question.
I'm petty.
I'm not petty.
Listen, first of all, it wasn't foul.
She wanted to pursue a career in modeling.
And I was doing what I was doing.
Did you do a photo shoot for her?
No.
And I just said, and we both just mutually agreed.
Like, you're going to do this, and I'm going to do this, and we're good.
I'm not going this and we good.
I'm not gonna be with a chick that's in the same industry doing certain things.
Did you eat her asshole?
I don't remember, to be quite honest.
If it's you, it's my girl.
Anything goes.
That's my girl.
Yes.
That's God.
Let me leave you here for a moment
God is right
Salute you
I love this story
I'm sorry
Salute
We got to dead this story
No she's going to sue us crazy
No
She likes all the
Drink Champ pictures
And I'm just waiting
For her to hit me up
I am now stalking you
I want to know who this character is.
Wow.
Yo, Ray, I'm sorry, man.
Yo, the Wu-Tang, what was the wildest Wu-Tang groupie
y'all ever had?
Keep it real.
Shit, nigga.
You had to have a Wu-Tang groupie.
Keep it real.
Her name was Britney.
Oh.
Niggas getting shot.
Damn. Fuck it. Oh, slippers isas getting shot. Damn.
Fuck it.
Oh, Slippers is in the building.
That's another booty eater.
Slippers is a booty eater.
He eat classy booty with tuna tartare on top.
Watch out now.
Nah, come on.
What's the classic groovy story you had?
Give us a groovy story.
Don't do it.
Don't go there. Come on. what's the classic groovy story you had? Give us a groovy story. Don't do it. Don't go there.
Come on, before, before, like, when you was growing up on the New York Times side,
New York Times side, staying alive was no job.
At second hand, my boss was an old man, and you moved to Shaolin. Shaolin.
Like, that was going to convince him to tell you a groovy story. That was the worst thing anybody ever told me? The fly shit, man.
It's the worst thing anybody ever told me.
Nigga was like,
yo, I would like to be in jail with you.
That's horrible.
That's horrible.
Like, nigga, I could do a bid with you.
Like, yo, I was like, damn.
Like, it's a great compliment,
but it's the worst thing in the world.
But Raekwon, come on.
Gooby's door.
Shit, man.
Goddamn, man.
And like, just from the, um,
it was the intro you did for our album.
You said,
Shorty, give you a thousand grams.
Tell your girl let me sleep with her.
I knew you was like,
that's a sign of being a mad horny.
That is a fact.
I can tell you one night I went to go see you, nigga.
And I was in your joint.
He flipped it on you.
Is it Capone?
You use me.
I know it's Capone.
Bugger.
Use me.
Let's go.
It was one of your soldiers.
And then we came up there.
I came up there.
Come hang out with y'all niggas and shit.
Took one of my niggas' bitches.
Let's keep it real. Nah, y'all niggas was in there doing y'all.
Y'all niggas was in there bunny hopping and shit.
Nah, but the crazy shit is that, I don't know,
I was coming up there to come hang out with y'all niggas and shit,
and you know who came in there and went in the back,
that shit in the back of the room,
and niggas was like watching watched playing video games and shit.
You know,
niggas playing the video games
and like right next to each other,
niggas was sitting
right next to each other
like in a chair and shit.
And then I guess
one of your mans
up in there,
he was in there
blowing a chick
in the chair right there.
So they all
sitting there together
and he blowing her
like this.
Like a rabbit?
Like a rabbit? Like a rabbit?
He look like a rabbit?
So I'm coming in the room like, yo, what the fuck is that nigga?
Like, yo, what the fuck?
Nigga looked up at me like, yo, you good?
You good?
I said, yo, I said, these Queens niggas right here, nigga.
Then we retarded.
Nah, niggas is stupid.
That could have been Charlie, too.
It could have been Charlie Skins.
Elvis Presley. He got the Elvis Presley side.
Yo Ray Kwan man.
You don't remember that though?
Nah. I think it was Capone. I was in the other room.
My shit's real stupid.
My shit's real stupid.
So what do you think is the next step
for not only Ray but Wu-Tang or whatever. What do you think is the next step for not only Ray but Wu-Tang or whatever?
What do you think is the next step for you?
Nah, you know, the music is always going to be there, you know, for myself.
We're going to continue to make ill shit, but I'm on some filmmaking shit right now.
I got a deep vision, you know.
The Purple Tape documentary, you know, that's something that I want niggas to do.
I've seen some of it.
It's beautiful.
I want niggas to, you know, really get an opportunity to taste that.
And, you know, I'm going to start stepping into shit like that, though.
You know, I got a lot of screen flicks that I want to do.
You know, some real street tale shit.
Right.
And, you know, just keep fluctuating, bro.
You know what I mean?
Keep traveling.
And then what year
did the purple tape drop?
That shit came out
in 95.
Oh, so you've been
celebrating your 20.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
How about the Diodorus?
You were selling
Diodorus for 240 bucks.
God damn it.
Thank you for giving me
a free band.
I can't afford that right now.
God damn it.
Make some noise. Yo, yo, yo, yo. Yo, yo, yo. God damn it. Thank you for giving me a free beer. I can't afford that right now. God damn it. Make some noise.
Yo, you see
the slide? They heavy.
I got them just on the spot.
I be telling my son, my son be walking too
close to them. I be like, I'm going to snuff you little
nigga. He's 16. Told him I'm going to snuff
him for walking on my right corner,
Diodorus. You know what I mean?
And you got the
Wally Clarks, too. Are those dropped already?
Or are you dropping? That was like
a blowout.
You know, a 60 day type of thing.
60 days available. You don't get it.
God damn it. Your Garmin game
is crazy. That's that
Wu-Tang slang. Garmin game. Come on.
Make some noise for me knowing Wu-Tang slang.
We got our garment
Give me eight and nine
Yeah eight and nine
Let's big it up
Eight and nine dot com
Eight and nine dot com
We got the drink champ shirts
And we getting Ray Kwan
To sign some horns
So listen
If you guys are tuned in
Right now
We got Ray Kwan
In the building
He's having fun with us
He's my brother
We bugging the fuck out
And we gonna get him To sign a couple of horns.
Random.
Random.
You never know.
You might get it.
You can't order the Ray Kwan horns.
You might get it.
You might get like, you know, he's going to sign like, you know, maybe five or 16.
You know what I'm saying?
Five or 16 random numbers.
Random numbers.
And he's my guy.
You know what I'm saying?
And you might get your horn.
Shout out to Best Buy Lakers too
Shout out to the people
Best Buy
My nigga forever man
Yeah my nigga
Yo thank you so much
You know
The only two people
That I tried to book
And I couldn't book
Was Ray Kwan
And Busta Rhymes
Both of y'all guys
Are my brother
But um
My brother
So I can't get mad at y'all
It was
I just had to take that
As a loss
But um
When you worked on
Only Built for Cuban Lakes 2,
you worked with Busta
a little bit, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
How was that?
That's family, you know.
Right.
That nigga was there,
like, you know,
he was able to see a spark
that I didn't see
at the time in me.
You know,
and sometimes
you gotta go outside
and be around real people
and, you know,
get opinions and, you know, get opinions
and, you know,
shit that niggas
could really tell you
that might make sense
to yourself.
Right.
You know, he was there.
He was like a mentor.
Like, you know,
I always fuck with Busta.
His energy is always up.
Good, good, good,
good fella.
You know what I mean?
And we would just be,
you know,
he made me laugh
and, you know,
he knows music.
He's sharp with with music and
production and it was like that i needed that that lift and we got in the studio and you know
he was just passing shit to me just flinging a few beats or whatever because you know boss
his catalog is just amazing it's crazy this shit is amazing you got so much music that
niggas don't even know like right, he's busting rhymes for real.
Like, you know,
but more importantly,
like, he was just a good friend.
Still a good friend, you know,
and always,
always been in my corner,
you know?
Always believed in everything.
Like, yo, nigga, you,
I look up to you.
You know what I mean?
Like, and sometimes
you need that sometimes,
you know?
You need that energy, that boost.
And ever since then, it was like, you know, boom, bust out the Cuban Lynx 2 album.
And, you know, my hands started getting super hot again.
And just, you know, it stayed hot for a long time.
Now, how was it working with Dr. Dre?
Was that your first time working with Dr. Dre?
Dre was my nigga, though.
Dre, Dre, good nigga, you know what I mean?
We was gonna make
something happen,
but, you know,
kind of, like,
backed out the situation,
you know, respectfully.
Uh-huh.
And, um, you know,
he always,
he always felt like,
you know,
whatever you do,
that, that,
that thing you holding
is a masterpiece,
though, you know?
Oh, two of my,
the Cuban Leagues, too.
Yeah, Cuban, too,
so, shit, yeah.
Oh, shit, right.
So, you know, You know what I mean
We just had to keep moving on
And I decided to do it
Indie style
And just
Going in from that perspective
Just
You know, I felt
I knew the game
So
When you know the game
You can go in there
And you know
Make shit happen
According to the way
You want it to happen
And we did go with it
I just want to
make some noise for you for that success of that Cuba links to
so we open the champagne do we got different cups I need a really different
you wanna you wanna hit that champagne go right and you're right if you hit if
you hit this champagne you officially drink like seven liquors just now use a
wild nigga since back in the day, you's a wild nigga.
Yo, yo, yo, Ray.
But he's drinking water.
He knows what he's doing.
He knows what he's doing.
Listen, level spelled backwards is level.
You gotta balance it.
That water, B.
Big up to bartenders.
Let me tell you something, that water.
Bartender's giant.
No, no, not that.
No, no, no, not that.
That's your label.
That's the name of your label.
That water gonna keep you right, B, believe it or not.
Yep.
Yeah, yeah. You need to hydrate.
Because the water is three-fourths the cloth, right?
Three-fourths, period.
You know that.
You ain't got a body right now.
You used to eat pork back then.
You don't know what we're talking about.
I'm Cuban, B.
You're a foul maker.
Come on, I love earpick.
You know earpick, right?
You know it from back in the day.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, Wook Tang, man, you think this last album, would this be this last album if y'all get together?
Nah, man.
It ain't never the last album, Lord.
It ain't never.
You know, it's going to be with it.
Where by?
Look out.
Where by?
It's going to be there forever as long as we feel like we want it to be there.
You know, we all in a great space with one another, you know?
That's a beautiful thing.
Brotherhood is brotherhood, but, you know.
So what's your next endeavor?
Like, or next artist?
What's the next, you know?
I got some shit lined up, though.
You know, I can't really leak it out yet
because, you know, I want to master it.
I want to make sure that it's right
before I approach it
I ain't going to
give it to you yet
because it gotta be
it gotta be right though
you know so
great strategic
he's master
yeah yeah yeah
Toronto at one point
you had Toronto
like
like it was draped
in you
in Toronto
oh you got offices
over there in Canada
don't you
you had offices
I got a haircut
in your barberbershop.
Shit, bro.
Like, yeah, yeah, totally niggas about that.
Nah, I mean, you know, we started a label out there, you know.
You got second citizenship?
You got a Canada passport?
I said dual citizen.
Yeah, dual citizen?
I said second citizen.
I mean, that works.
That works.
It's the same shit.
You got that out there?
Nah, nah, nah, man.
Paying two taxes, nigga.
Come on, man.
That's fucked up.
So you flying private jets out there.
You a fly nigga.
There you go, man.
Yo, let me tell you something.
You shoot a 40-second shoot.
Nah, let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something.
Ray Vaughn is a fly nigga.
I was on the road with that nigga every day.
That nigga had a different outfit.
Like, I was like, damn, nigga, you don't even wear the same sneakers every day?
Like, yo, my nigga, this nigga is fly.
I'm telling you, my nigga, this nigga's shit is corporate.
Like, he get dressed corporate.
It's so corporate.
Yeah, I'm telling you.
It's strategic the way this.
I'm telling you, my nigga.
Yo, I salute you, Ray.
You've always been an inspiration to me. I salute you Ray you've always been an
inspiration to me I love you always been a brother we always been on the same side thank you so much
you know um it was like one of the first people that didn't come
but you super you super made it up and we're going to club tonight. I know that this comes out Friday, but we're going to go to the old mansion tonight, which is Icon.
Icon.
Ray coming to hang out with us.
I'm kidnapping you.
The champs.
You know what I'm saying?
Dream champs, man.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, yo, we've been recording all week.
We tired as fuck.
You know what I'm saying?
Y'all working on them, my nigga.
Yeah.
It's all about.
Yeah, because I want everybody to know, like, Ray, it ain't just about me and this guy.
Me and this guy here, Finn, is one thing.
But we got Rich.
Rich Blanco.
We got Half of the Sounds.
We got Drain.
Big Drain.
We got...
Sonny DBT.
Sonny DBT.
Mr. Super Sly.
Eddie Giggs.
Eddie Giggs.
Paul.
Boris.
Boris. Everybody is the... My man, I forgot your name. Come on. Mr. Super Sly Eddie Giggs Paul Boris Boris
Everybody is
My man
I forgot your name
Come on
Roz Kev
Roz what?
Roz Kev
Roz Kev
It's always called Roz stuff
Alright so
I'm sorry
I didn't want to be racist on here
Because you got dreads
You know what I'm saying
So
It's so many people
That come together
That's why we're doing
Our videos
Documentary style
Because I didn't want to Just be about me and EFN.
There's so many other people that helped make this what it is.
And people have been starving for Wu-Tang Clan.
That's all we've been getting since the beginning.
We are like Wu-Tang Clan.
And me and I had you.
And I ain't never even want to tell you how much responsibility I had to bring you here.
You know what I'm saying? I didn't want to tell you
that because we're friends. So I always
wanted to keep this on a friendship level.
Thanks. You know what I'm saying?
But I had a responsibility
to bring you here because of that.
And just tell us one thing about Wu-Tang Clan
that the people don't know, man.
We just found out that y'all didn't even know each other
since the group started. I didn't know that.
You got your champagne? We'll get you another cup of champagne.'t even know each other since the group started. I didn't know that. You got your champagne?
We'll get you another cup of champagne.
It's right there.
Come on, remember.
Come on.
Come on, Salou.
Come on, that's that Vive Clico, man.
That shit from France.
That shit from France.
How do you pronounce that shit?
France.
Come on.
Tell us something about Wu-Tang Clan, man, before we get up out of here.
Before we close out.
We the Invincible, man.
Let me tell you something, man.
Them niggas right there, at any given time,
can flip it.
And flip it in a way where it's like, it's real easy to do.
You know?
And when it happen, it's going to happen. You know? And when it happen, it's gonna happen.
You know? It's all
about being into
it though. I wanna be into it.
I don't wanna just do it, fabricate a stack.
And we all share
them same principles, you know?
It's just all about the
energy at the time that makes that
album come, but
business is different you know you want
to do business in a way where you feel like everything is beautiful and then when it's
beautiful everything else is greater you know we want we wanted to be great we don't want it to be
good you know so this is what i want to end it on i want to name all the members of wu-tang clan and i want you to say something about them can to name all the members of Wu-Tang Clan.
And I want you to say something about them.
Can you Google all the members?
You know all the members?
We all know them.
I don't want to put the pressure on him.
I don't want to put the pressure on him.
At least we know the main members.
All right, so I'm going to start.
I'm going to name a member
that I want you to say something about.
Yeah, yeah.
Yuga. Yuga The L
The L ball right there
The raging ball
I never saw that movie
Raging ball
But I know there's a movie
It's this called
The raging ball
Yeah
The raging ball
Okay
Master killer
The calm The calm The full fry Kim Master Killer. The Calm.
The Calm.
The Full Fry Kim.
Shit like that, you know?
Capadonna.
Slick Rick Nephew.
The Jizza.
2017. The GZA. 2017 Kane.
Back then.
Back then.
Ghostface.
Al Pacino.
Al Pacino.
Ray Kwan Speaking of yourself in third person
It's fly
Do it all the time
The almighty nigga
The genesis nigga
With
King Tut hats nigga
And
Angle bracelets and all that
Guyanese
Guyanese gold
Guyanese gold
You gotta do a record called Guyanese gold
You may get up later
Egyptian nigga
Egyptian
Method man My niggas
What
That's a hard one
It's a hard one right there
Method
He another cut
You know
Terry Cloth
I can't
Strong That nigga still rhyme hard Terry Clough I can't Terry Clough
Strong
Matthew Strong
Yo that nigga still rhyme hard
He can rhyme
He can rhyme
He can rhyme
Okay
RZA
RZA
It's like
This is like
Jimi Hendrix and
Fucking Jimi Hendrix and Fucking
Jimi Hendrix is big on this show
And his cat
And his cat
Wow
Jimi Hendrix that's it?
Wow
You ever recorded
Electric Lady
With the white cat in there?
Electric Lady
Electric Lady
You know downtown
I know what you're talking about
Yeah
You ever seen the white cat in there? Se Lady. Electric Lady? You know, downtown? I know what you're talking about, yeah. You ever seen
the white cat in there?
I've seen thousands
of white cats.
In Electric Lady, right?
Of course.
Keep it real like that.
Niggas, we're trying
to debate on this show
if that white cat
was Jimi Hendrix
reincarnated.
What do you think, Ray?
I don't know, nigga.
Come on, just say yeah.
What up? Just say word. I don't know, my nigga. Come on, just say yeah. What up?
Just say word.
I felt like Jimmy was playing the guitar through the gap.
We fucking with you, Ray.
Come on, yo.
Thank you so much.
You ain't going to leave out other Wu members.
Oh, what?
Did I?
I'm sorry.
Inspector Deck, ODB, Gizzo.
I said ODB.
I didn't say ODB?
No.
Oh, in my mind, I did.
Okay.
Come on, man.
Okay, my bad.
Let's go back to this.
Inspector Deck.
Inspector Deck is like Malcolm X, man.
And Real Night?
Yeah.
You can teach me some shit?
It's a jewel drop.
I need to have my number then.
I need people to teach me shit.
Yeah.
All right. Now, is this last? ODB? ODB. O need people to teach me shit. Alright.
Is this last?
ODB.
You didn't say Jizzy.
I think I said it.
Black Baby Jesus.
Okay, ODB.
Oh, Black Baby Jesus, man.
You know that.
Now listen, we got the drink champs.
We hate when people say,
you think ODB could have drunk us under the table?
You think he could have hung out?
You think he could have hung out?
Of course.
At the drink champs?
Of course.
I can see that.
Yeah?
What was ODB's favorite drink in your memory?
Don't tell me Cisco.
He's the legend.
He wins.
Yeah, Cisco is that shit
Mad Dog 2020
What was ODB?
You should drink that, man
Mad Dog is the shit, though
Yo, he drunk a lot of wine, too
You know?
That's your shit
Oh, he was on some lower shit?
Wine shit, yeah
Oh, yeah?
You remember White Man and the Reds?
Wild Irish Rose and all that type of shit
Hold on, hold on
I ain't fucking with none of that
That's the shit
I ain't gonna lie.
Let me tell you something.
One time I was in Rockefeller.
ODB dug in his ass and they gave a nigga a five.
I was like, aw.
But every time I see ODB, I was like, aw.
What kind of story is that?
I swear to God.
Because he was like, he did it on purpose, too.
He was just like, he was like, he was like, you know what I mean?
I looked at his face and I was like, this nigga's crazy.
I had to put the elbow, he gave me the elbow back, too.
Like, nah, I ain't disrespecting you.
But he was waiting for another white guy to come over.
He was like, he was ill.
Like, am I,
you think I'm lying?
Like, you know,
you know that was his style.
Like, he was a foul nigga.
The filthiest.
Yeah, and that was my nigga.
Like, I was in the studio with him and Pharrell
for like three, four days
before this born.
Nah, yeah,
this is a fact.
This is a fact.
But Rayquan,
thank you for hanging out, man.
You come with us to the club.
We go to Icon tonight.
We know that this podcast comes out next Friday.
We don't care.
We're having fun.
We so much wanted a Wu-Tang member.
We so much wanted my brother.
Because you're not just Wu-Tang's brother.
You are my brother.
I wanted to get into our relationship,
but I wanted this interview to be more about you
because the thing about my friends
is they come back and they step.
They appear more than One time
Dad's been here twice
Capone been here twice
You could be here
As many times as you want
We speaking to a million people
This is your home
Rayquan
We really love you man
Thank you so much man
No doubt
You know what I mean
You know what I mean
DJ EFN
You know what I mean
Hazardous sound rich
You know what I'm saying
My man
My man
Where's Sonny D at, man?
He don't sound like he get his just due.
And then Carlito, the child molester.
You know what I'm saying?
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Nobody wants that title.
No, it's a joke.
It's a joke.
And Sonny D, you don't want no props?
You don't want no props?
Come over here.
You're not sweating.
I'm proud of you.
You were sweating.
You were sweating. You want to do Mr. Super Sl of you. You were sweating, you were sweating.
You want to do Mr. Super Slav?
Tell them people, man.
Tell them you left the flea market.
I've been left the flea market.
At Mr. Super Slav, Instagram.
So your bally's don't come from 74?
No, no, no, no bally's from 74.
Your bally's come from
The Bally store now
Are you sure
Yo ask Ray Kwan
For a fucking pair
Of the fucking purple
Clocks nigga
Come on
Humble yourself
Ray already told me
They in the mail
My nigga
He go to the
You know where the flea market is
It's the bootleg shit out here
Right right
Yeah yeah
Not all of them
Some flea markets Got official shit But not where my nigga go. It's the bootleg shit out here. Right, right. Yeah, yeah. Not all of them. Some flea markets
got official shit,
but not where my nigga go.
Right.
This is my nigga,
Mr. Super Slime, man.
He's a great guy, man.
We love him, man.
We want to big you up,
Rayquan, once again, man.
Thank you very much, man.
I'm sitting there awkward
because my ass
been hurting the whole time.
We're going to take this picture.
We're going to do this for you.
We're happy, man.
Thank you so much, man.
We're going to go hang out
at Icon.
Shout out to Star Rock, Mr. Lee Promotions. Shout out to the Drink what happened, man. But, yo, thank you so much, man. We're going to go hang out at Icon. Shout out to Star Rock, Mr. Lee Promotions.
Shout out to the Drink Champs, man.
Everything is going down.
Best Buy Liquors, once again, for providing the liquor.
Big up Amanda for, you know, providing the actual cups.
89.com.
We not only got the shirts now, people.
We also got the horns, the shot glasses, and the cup.
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man. We had so much fun, and we still
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