Drink Champs - Episode 221 w/ 2nd Round 2020

Episode Date: July 24, 2020

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode we revisit some of our favorite conversations of 2020, so grab your drinks!Listen as Tha Dogg Pound tell classic stories of working with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. We revisit our conversation with Math Hoffa about the current state of battle rap and how he'd like to create a league dedicated to benefit battle rappers.DJ Envy predicts the future as he announces how he would like to see a VERZUZ battle between DMX & Snoop Dogg, weeks before it happening. Donnell Rawlings checks in with us and shares his legendary “I’m rich, biatch" story. We also check in with LL Cool J, Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, Charlamagne tha God and more!DJ Khaled also stops by again and shares some motivational words for the DC Family!Listen and subscribe at http://www.drinkchamps.comFollow:Drink Champshttp://www.drinkchamps.comhttp://www.instagram.com/drinkchampshttp://www.twitter.com/drinkchampshttp://www.facebook.com/drinkchampsDJ EFNhttp://www.crazyhood.comhttp://www.instagram.com/whoscrazyhttp://www.twitter.com/djefnhttp://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductionsN.O.R.E.http://www.instagram.com/therealnoreagahttp://www.twitter.com/noreaga--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drinkchamps/support Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah, I might have to go out don't worry But you can't produce a whole album With, tell me if these names are right Drake, make some noise Rick Ross Nas And Jay-Z Hold on, hold on, Kyle Before you say anything, by the way

If this rumor is true You're the only person that can pull this off Well, I'll Before you say anything, by the way, if this rumor is true, you're the only person that can pull this off. Well, I'll tell you this. The rumor's not true, but it's crazy that you say this. Right. That, um,

I don't know how you be, because you really good because... We be mad, R.L. If I ever could executive produce a full album, I would want to executive produce a full album with Jay-Z, Drake, Ross and Nas. Woo! Woo! Make some noise! I don't know how you...

That's like my personal conversation. I said, that'd be dope to do that one day. You know what I'm saying? As an executive producer, I would love to do... You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good.

You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good do that one day. You know what I'm saying? As an executive producer, I would love to do it. You're good. Yo, we just want...

Get to the seminar, nigga. Drink Champs. On Drink Champs. Yes. It was really special. You know, when I left there, I didn't realize, I didn't remember one word we talked about. Because it was a great time. Until this shit came out, I didn't realize I didn't remember one word we talked about. Because it was a great time.

Until this shit came out, I went and watched it. I'm like, damn, we was in there for three hours. Talking, talking. It didn't feel like three hours. Talk. But I just want to say, man, your platform and your show is so quality

and so incredible It's so potent My fans appreciate it And the fans of hip hop I see the love It was dope man Thank you and your team for having me Thank you so much DJ It's the next episode we're dropping

After this is a family episode We had to check in with you man Thank you so much Love, bless up See a lot of y'all young boys So we driving after this is a family episode we had to check in with you man, thank you so much Boys I don't know what a real is a real is like a little dog You know back in the days you couldn't send an email You couldn't send a session you had to literally bring bring a reel. It was called a reel. And it really was like a weight. $250 reel.

Yeah, for real. I crashed my car and had to run with three of those motherfuckers. Yeah, we smoking, we drinking, we're trying to crawl. I'm finna leave. So I'm like, okay, bye. And he's driving down here. Scream! He run back to the house. I'm like, where's the reels?

What? He's like, I left them in the trunk. Oh. We had to run back, get the reel out of the trunk, and leave the car. I'm carrying three of these motherfuckers. Two of them in one. Boy, that was so motherfucking heavy. Two blocks down because I crashed two blocks up from my sister's snake house into the pole.

I went to sleep. And no, you was at Nene's. And I was at K&M coming home. I was coming to Nene's. And fell asleep at 3 o'clock in the morning coming from K&M. Yeah, that's the studio where we did everything. That's our studio. This motherfucker was like an hour away from LA.

Hour and some change Then I fall asleep right when I'm near two blocks from my sister's house on the curve And the motherfucking pose in the middle of my car I said oh shit so I got into Martin the next day I'm supposed to go to fill so I said shit So I grab my keys. I'm going to report this car stolen. That's what I'm going to do, report this motherfucker stolen. And so I just got out and grabbed my heater.

Bam, I'm gone. Got the heater, tipped down the thing. Went all the way to the house, get in the house. Boom, I'm there, knock on the door. Dad answers, come on. Sinead's there, what you doing? Oh, I said, man, I just crashed. Dad said, did you get them real?

And the pot and not worry about the police keep going oh Let's play some noise for the rails man A lot of artists can't say this you guys not only got records with dr Dre you guys are actually in the studio guys made classics without the dream This is not that it's only a handful of people that can say they was in the studio with Dr. Dre and made over 10 records with him. It's not, it's like maybe five, six, maybe 10 people in the whole world, it's a universe. How is that, working with Dr. Dre?

Is it pressure? Well, it's an experience, you know what I'm saying? Shut the fuck up and just listen to the run. You know what I'm saying? When he leave, then you go back and mess with all the shit he been doing on the board and stuff. That's what we used to do. That's real, that's real. That's Dr. Dre, nigga.

When I was young, it was just, I had a point to prove, so. My point was to prove it to Dr. Dre, so. Because Dr. Dre was my inspiration. He just gone ham. Nowadays, there is some pressure because Dr. Dre, you know, he expects a certain thing from you. If you say and, he wants you to say and.

And. Yeah, he wants you to get it right. You're going to do it 50 million times. Get it right. Get it right. There's a little bit of pressure now because satisfying Dr. Dre as easy as winning a nigga who's young. You know what I'm saying? Because he expects something out of you.

And, you know, we just ain't the same people we were when we was young. You know, we got a different flavor, different style, different way we're going about things. And Dr. Dre, he expects something out of you. So it's a little bit of pressure to satisfy Dr. Dre and Dawg. Right. Oh, yeah. I could imagine, man.

That's two biggest people in hip-hop. Oh, yeah. But they're also your homies. Yeah. That makes it worse. Right. But they're the elders, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, you got to come to the table.

And when you don't, you know, they'll tell you, quit. Go lay down. Get you some rest. Call me tomorrow. Right. And don't answer the phone. Right. Get you some rest, right?

Yeah. And you call them tomorrow. I'm ready now. And they won't answer the phone. Right. You got to be ready. Because it's hard to catch them. When you catch them and you got the attention, boy, you better just show up and deliver. You know, I didn't deliver a couple times

I had to wait damn near six months because next Opportunity we're gonna break this down. So you said you came to the studio. You wasn't prepared No, I was prepared. I was prepared till I got to this Mic and then when I laid dr. Dre was like oh my cool lay that again inside I said later it's not the same you know saying and then again again and again and again until finally died. You know what? Just need to get you some rest. I Dr. Drake for another six mother

At least the first week I call him at least five days. Well, don't be wow. I'm ready now. That's right now Wow Go ahead you're fun that like a bad kid I'll let you know when it's your time again and when you do But but I feel like like There's no difference between Battle rap And hip hop It's all under the same umbrella I don't even think that should be said

There is no difference It's all one I agree it's all one I agree I've never looked at it I just feel like Rappers are going to Fucking be looked at it. I just feel like rappers is going to fucking be mad at me.

But I feel like battle rappers, I think they more just do because they have more to lose. Like Perlite, they have more to lose. You know what's funny? Somebody pointed this out to me. It was like, yo, okay, I battle hollow.

I wrote about 20 minutes of material. 20 minutes. That's an album. That is a whole album. Especially you break it up, put some skits in there. Hell yeah. That's a whole album.

It's the same thing. It's like somebody presenting their work. The only difference is you guys get royalties. We don't get royalties. That's something I want to change in battle rap. No, that has to change. It has to change. It has to be like playwrights.

How playwrights get rights and royalties. That's what you guys are doing. That's like a playwright. There shouldn't be a battle rapper who's had a classic battle that's not still getting paid off. Especially if that's at $13 million. Yeah still getting paid off. That's the 13 million. Yeah, you fucking right. You have to change that. You fucking right. And I feel like the battle leagues, URL,

King of the Dot, RBE, all the top leagues, you guys need to acknowledge the type of work that we're putting into this shit. But that's why I acknowledge Drake. I thought that's what Drake was doing. I thought that's what he was at least leaning towards. Drake did a deal for the that's what he was at least leaning towards. Drake did a deal for the league.

The league, at the end of the day, is going to say, we want to book you and you. Okay, here's my stipulations. Like right now, URL, I gave my stipulations to battle Geechee Gotti. Okay, I just seen him the other day. Right. He battled. The reason why you're still seeing him is because we haven't been locked in yet. He's from Nutty Block, right? Yes.

See, I'm on point. Look at you. On point, nigga. Cool. Cool. I'm on point. I'm on point. I'm busy, nigga. I'm busy, nigga.

I'm on point. I want to encourage my brothers, like, build a platform. Understand your power. Nobody is coming to these battles to see smack rap. They're coming to see you. Let's all just sit back and be like, look, we can't battle until we're getting residuals off of these battles. The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States.

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the same explanation that the B-Boys and the battle DJs who feel alienated and they created their own lanes and they almost feel like they're not a part of hip hop anymore

when it's all hip hop. It is. Now what the graffiti writers have done which is I don't even know I don't know how this happened or who did it. They have a publishing?

This is what's happened. Get the fuck out of here. When graffiti writers put a mural up or do something, it's automatically copywritten, even though it's on illegal walls. I didn't know that. That's hard. And look, I don't know. How do you get paid for that?

People sue all the time. Here in Wynwood, in this area we're in, when advertisers come in and take these photo shoots, BMW, this, boom, boom, in front of a mural, they think, this is fucking graffiti. That's hell. I didn't know that. Yo, people are suing left and right and making money. That's hell. I know friends

of mine that are big graffiti artists that just have lawyers on retainer. Go. Get them. Get them. Get them. Battle lease, we don't want to sue you. We don't want to do that because we've all played our part to build this culture. But it's time for battle rappers to get a royalty off of what they're doing.

But is it time for a battle rapper to control the Battle Rapper League? See, there you go again with this good advice, my nigga. There you go again with this shit. I'm really asking.

There you go. And you know what? I feel like that... Because as much as Drake, like again, again... Shout to Space Ghost. There's a situation I'm creating

called Friday Night Fights. And I want to offer that to battle rappers. Right. You get a royalty off of whatever we put out. Not only your check, but... Not only your check, because the way that things are changing now right now...

That's what Floyd Mayweather's doing. I don't know if you've seen our interview. Netflix, Amazon, everybody's trying to get a piece of something that people want to watch over and over and over. Battle rappers want it. Battle rappers should be able, like, okay, Loaded Lux, you had a classic battle versus Calico. Yep.

You will never make another dime off of it, and people will watch it forever. That's when they broke his pops out and his pops came out? Is that that battle? No, no, no, that was a different, that was Hollow of the Dawn versus Loaded Lux. That was when he said, your pops wasn't a gangster, he was just another lost nigga. Oh, yeah. That was when he said, your pops wasn't a gangster, he was just another lost nigga.

Oh, yeah. That was like... That was horrible. But to know that Lux, you're never going to make another dime for that situation. Y'all don't get sound exchange off of anything?

No. That's the type of stuff that needs to change. I believe sound exchange has to... No, that's the type of stuff... That needs to change. Like, I don't think

it's the league's fault or problem. I think it's a bigger problem. It's a digital thing now. Right. Because once you go... You're putting it on video, it's going... It fault or problem. I think it's a bigger problem. It's a digital thing now. Right. Because once you're putting it on video, it's digitized. It's all about how you figure out those rights. Right now, battle rappers are like early rappers, slaves, where we get one check and bye-bye.

This shit could hit any type of channel or network. You should still get that check and the residual check of a publishing. If that battle goes viral and hits Harvard, then it should be a sound exchange type of vibe or something like that. It doesn't happen. We can't even repost our own battles on our own YouTube channels without getting flagged. Wow. From the league. Yes.

But that's fine. Maybe you shouldn't because the league might have the right to that but however long however many views that leagues video gets You should be able to get residuals off of that because you're creating your own property, which is your versus Watch you right now Yeah, that's right now and everybody was because it is a difference in the situation There are people coming up right now. Let's say I up right now that say, I don't want to rap. I don't want to make music. I want to be a battle rapper.

I want that to be my career. So we need to change this, and we need to make it a situation where I do a battle for the rest of my life. No matter what that battle does, I'm going to get paid. Everybody. This should be the industry standard from right now so everybody else on URL king of the dot RBE all around the world don't fly in London wherever you at this needs to be the industry standard so battle rap is gonna stop taking battles for the check and actually have a future with this shit.

That's what I'm gunning for. That is a serious stance. That is a... I think it's a doable stance. It's doable. It's doable. It's super doable. It's a multi-million dollar industry right now.

Right. That's why I commend Drake. But after 10 years, 10, 11, 12 years, there are no battle rap millionaires. That's wrong. Absolutely wrong. Hip hop moved faster than that. After six years, there was a hip hop millionaire. But that's why I respect Drake for stepping up.

I attempted to try. Regardless if it worked or not, I respect him. Shout out to Drake. Yeah, I respect him for stepping up. But you know what? It's going to take a Busta Rhymes to step up. Someone that I know, because Busta loves this shit. Yeah, I know he does. It's only a couple of other rappers I can

talk to. And Busta, let me just say something. The first time I met Busta, look it up. Mad Piper, Busta Rhymes. It's on YouTube. He knew your rhymes and everything, right? He was like, of course I know who the God is. I watched you versus Iron Solomon. I used to put money on Iron Solomon when he battled.

That situation that occurred between you two. I was like, yo. No, it's beautiful. And he's not bullshit. He really knows. He really knows. And I want to correct something you're saying, because you said about hip-hop millionaires. You guys are hip-hop and need to be the other hip-hop millionaires.

Thank you, bro. No, that's what he was saying. No, no, no. I know what he was saying. No, no, no. He was saying, I know what he was saying. Yeah. Because he said, I'm telling you, I speak to B-Boys,

I speak to Graffiti Art, and they feel alienated outside of hip-hop. Right. We are all a part of the culture, man. Like, don't let nobody tell you just because

there's famous rappers and this is hip-hop. Right. We are all a part of the culture, no matter how small, how large, whatever. That's the fact. How could I lock my how large, whatever. You know what I'm saying?

How can I lock my camera? You see the joint right here? If you lock that shit, if it's locked, then that means it's never going to flip. Oh, you trying to do some new shit to me, effing?

You just showed me some other shit. What the fuck does that even mean? I don't even know how to get to that. Look, come back. Come back. I tried to get to that shit. I got, hold on.

Look, swipe from the joint up here. Like, go like that. Like what? Look, hold on. Just swipe down. I did that. Like what? Look, hold on. Just swipe down. I did that. I swiped. And you don't see those different things?

Hold on. Hold on. I got somebody young. Hold on. Hold on one second. Hold on, Kel. No, come in. Come in.

I need you. I need you. I need you. Fucking shit. We should record all this shit. Swipe down. Do this shit they saying to do. They saying my camera angle ain't right.

Look. Swipe the joint down. And if this shit is locked, unlock it. This shit. Fuck, it's that thing at, man. It should be there somewhere. I'm swiping down. I'm swiping.. I'm swiping.

Other side. Other side. Yeah, yeah. Fucking swiping. What is he saying is locked? It's this right here. Now you. Oh.

What the fuck? I never locked that shit, dog. That wasn't even me who locked it. You see? You see? Someone locked you up. You know what I mean? It was good.

It was good, family. You know what I'm? What's good? What's good, family? You know what I'm saying? I could have been a Hollywood nigga and been like this. I don't have time for this. I need you to create the character and the character. I could have did all that.

I was like this, nigga. They gave me a shot, nigga. And I was like this. What can I do? What can I do? When I did that show, I always... Did you cough, nigga?

I tried to hold it in. Hey, yo. Hey, yo. Hey, yo, nigga. Hey, yo. Yo, give me my mask. Yo, give me my mask. Quarantine chance. Hey, yo. Hey, yo. Sir, you trying to blow that show.

Yo, give me some spray or something. Yo, sir, you trying to... Yo, you trying to blow that show. Yo, give me some spray or something. Yo, sir, you try to catch that shit, nigga. I tried to. I tried to. You went viral. And I was talking. He was like, I can cough with this nigga talking. So you say, I was like, what the fuck is we doing, nigga? Okay, but, all right, listen.

The Ashy Larry, Ashy Larry as a project nigga, as a dude that played dice in the basement. I felt like I knew Ashy Larry. Let me tell you this, bro. Let me tell you this. Let me tell you this. Niggas ask me, are you ever going to get time

people call you Ashy Larry? And I'm asking myself, Nori, I'm asking myself, why does this character resonate? 15 years, son. 15 years, son. 15 years, son. And niggas tell me, you're going to be asked for your life? I was like, some niggas don't know nobody from nothing.

Call me Ashley, LLC, whatever, tax break, small business loan. You know what I'm saying? I'm taking all that Trump shit. Nigga, I ain't no Republican. But all that shit, I'm taking all that shit shit, nigga. I ain't no Republican, but all that shit, I'm taking all that shit, bro.

That's my favorite character. I feel like I actually was at that Dicey game. You know what? You were, nigga. You were. I'm asking myself for years, bro. For years. Why? I'm like, why do these niggas love this nigga so much?

How did you come up with that? I'm going to tell you that. Nigga, can I get one story at a time, nigga? I got stories. What I'm telling you, the reason why you felt like it was you, because it was you, nigga. It was you. It was, oh, shit, nigga.

I got to come up. I'm going to take some chances. That bitch is going to be mad at me if I lose I'm going to wear that bitch got a new iPhone Nigga right That's our homie Sonny DBT Yo Noy And I asked myself that question

What do these niggas connect with about him Rags to riches nigga Right He a nigga that's trying to get it When I try to feel like I don't want nobody calling me I never say that but I'm like rags to riches, nigga. We a nigga that's trying to get it. Yo, no, I'm trying. When I try to feel like I don't want nobody calling me ashy. I never say that, but I'm like, just, why, why? I ask that question. I was like,

why does America fuck with ashy Larry? Because we all got an ashy in us. We all got to want to come up, son. We got to want to come up. We all want to be able to say, bitch, watch. And we all... Go ahead, to say, bitch, watch. Uh-uh.

And we all... Go ahead. Go ahead, Don. Go ahead, you go. And we all want to be able to say, we rich, bitch! We want to be rich, bitch! You know what? You thought you had the coronavirus early?

Yeah, I've been telling everybody that shit. You really thought you had it? Yeah, for a fact. A thousand percent. I was fucked up early January. I don't know what happened. I went home one day. I had a horrible fever, bad shivers, a cough, but nothing was coming up. I was sweating. I was tired. I think it had to be that because I usually have a fever or when I get sick,

it's like 36 hours tops. So it was like on the second night or the third, on the third night I was telling my wife, I think I may got to go to the hospital, man. This is some other shit. And I'm totally against going to the hospital. That's not absolutely me to go to the hospital.

But I was like, you know what? I'm going to try to do it. I'm going to keep sweating it out, keep sleeping in sweatsuits, and just keep drinking oil juice, oil tea, black seed oil, oil of oregano, super lysine, andrographis, vitamin C,

red ginseng. I did ginger, limes, turmeric, juice, and and lemons then i threw the cayenne pepper on top so i just got on everything that i kind of knew to do before i actually um you know checked into the hospital but then you know i knew i had it a lot of us don't watch the news we got to really start watching the news cu Cuomo, if you remember early coronavirus, Cuomo came out and said thousands of us have it. Then if you even pay attention to more news, thank you,

bro, I love you, I'm going to hit you tomorrow. If you pay attention to more news, there's a lot of doctors that tell you 80% of us carry that virus anyway. And the kids. And the kids too, so. What the? I love you, baby, I appreciate you the kids, too. Yeah. What the? Good.

I love you, baby. I appreciate you. Yeah, yeah. All right, cool. So I think everybody, you know, we got to really start paying attention to the other shit, too, you know? You heard? Am I here? Yeah, we hear you.

All right, cool. So when you started taking all that stuff, you didn't stop taking it. Did you start at some point taking all the different things? No, I always take some of the stuff, but I don't take all of the stuff.

So you ramped it up at some point? Yeah, I super ramped it up. One, I thought maybe just from me getting sick, it shocked the shit out of me. It scared the shit out of me, and I was feeling horrible. So after the two days, like I told you, when it got to the third day, and I still felt horrible and I wasn't used to that, then I just super went in and I all the way ramped it up. So how long before you started feeling better? Like how many days you think of doing your own treatment? It took me like two weeks to start feeling better. Oh shit, so it took a minute. It took me like a week to start feeling better, but it took me like two weeks to feel like I was 100 though.

And you kept it all, like you kept doing that same treatment for the two weeks? Yeah, I kept doing it. I kept juicing. Well, after a week, I started eating again, but the first few days... You fasted? Like, juice fast?

I just went, yeah, I did a juice cleanse. I did a juice, and, um, pardon me, I'm fucking high. Y'all caught me off guard. I did a juice.

Now you good. The information is worth all of this. Yeah. I did a juice, I did it it like a green juice, fruit juice, veggie juice, and ginger tea cleanse. Like I didn't want no food in me like that. I wanted to make sure I was putting the things in where I know I could sweat. Like, you know what I mean?

Where my body was flushing and a lot of water too. A lot of alkaline water. Just basically, I was going to the basics. Like a lot of us, we don't know about this shit, but this is all shit our ancestors or grandparents, great grandparents or the places we originally come from

or, you know, these are things that work for them people. I'm not against people going to the doctor or Western medicine, but I think a lot of us don't pay attention to what we put in our body. Oh, shit. Pardon me. Put in our body in the first place. We don't know about inflammation. We don't know what sugar does to us.

We don't know what salt does to us. We don't look up the shit we eat. It's all toxins. All the food we eat is toxins. You got to watch the shit you eat. And so like, if you watch toxins, all the food, you got to watch the shit you eat. And like, you got to look at it. I try to approach everything from layman's terms. Like, um,

you know, one, I'm a lucky guy to be married to a good wife. You know what I mean? We try to keep you on point with my health. And we try to, we try to hold each other down with that. But I basically try to look at, um, everything from, I basically try to look at everything from layman's terms.

If you wash your ass, your balls, ladies, your private part, your feet, your mouth, your underarms, and the whole rest of your body multiple times a day, as much as you can if possible. But how many of us worry about the inside inside right like you know what i mean so it's like flushing of the inside yeah flushing in the inside so when you go y'all clean the outside of my body a lot but when's the last time i cleaned the inside of my body i think that starts it starts hitting you in a different light and in a different way so um i'm just firm on like the you you know, I lost a lot of weight incorporating juice in my life and plant-based things. Besides the weight, it was really like, you know, I had eczema. I had post-nasal drip. I had cyanitis. I had a horrible temper.

It was a lot of things that just trying to take care of myself better made me feel better. So you start implementing it more. I think a lot of us think it's healthy shit is like geek shit or some nerd shit or you want some healthy shit. But for me, health is the biggest part of survival because mostly poor people, it's poor people. When you think about it on layman's terms, like I keep saying, it's poor people who don't have health insurance. It's poor people. When you think about it on layman's terms, like I keep saying, it's poor people who don't have health insurance. It's poor people who don't go to the doctor a lot. It's poor communities being hit hardest right now with COVID-19. So if you don't have those things, then you got to definitely say,

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I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian Dr. Randall Williams and best-selling author and MeatEater founder Stephen Ranella. I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say when cave people were here. And I'll say, it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to the American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Take care of your podcasts. because, you know, we have conversations about the Forbes and who's rich and who's got this and who's got that.

But there's people out here hurting, man, and we can't forget them. You know what I'm saying? It's not about always about the cover of Forbes and rubbing money in people's faces. Sometimes it's about connecting with the people and making sure that they are right and making sure that your community and your culture

is being uplifted. You know what I'm saying? Now, Tim, a name that's been coming up so much is missy ellie now missy missy to me is buster rimes of the females snoop dogg of the females do you see missy anybody messing with me can you, Timbaland? Can you hear me, Tim? You know what? To me, I think everybody has the same question, but if you realize it's all about curation. Missy is a monster.

And the thing about it is, like, you're not, when you're battling, like, I'm not going to say battling, when you celebrate with Missy, she going to give you the show. She going to give you how she was doing the show for real. The energy gonna be high. I feel like anybody come with Missy, her curation gonna be high energy. It's gonna hit a different way.

She gonna treat it like a video. A virtual video. Reminiscing and she still do to this day. She'll play me songs., you know, like, reminiscing, you know, and she, like, she kind of still do to this day. She'll play me songs. She's like, yo, you remember this song? And then she'd be like,

we was ahead of our time. Like, she really get it to her own. So that's going to be a fun celebration once we get it. Which we are going to get. I don't know who she can battle. I just don't know. Other than Lauren Harrell, I'm not even sure that's a good matchup.

See, that's why we're being Swiss with our heads together, especially Swiss. I got a Swiss beat throwing up the curveballs that make you be like, hmm, I see that. Why she got to go up against another female? Why can't she go up against a dude? Why does it have to be another female? It could be whoever

to celebrate. Okay. She on par to go up against anybody. Anybody. She can do that. She really can. Yeah, no, most definitely. She could go against Michael Jackson.

This shit is real. But Swiss, we just got off the phone with DMX, Swiss, right? This is our brother, both of our brothers. And when I asked DMX, you know, I came straight for him.

I said, ask who the fuck you want to battle. And you know, I want y'all to guess who he picked. I want each of y'all, Timbaland and Swiss. And he didn't hesitate. He didn't hesitate. He didn't hesitate. But I want to... He definitely probably said Jay-Z.

No! Hold on. Timberland, Timberland. Who do you think he picked, Timberland? It gotta be Jay-Z. Yo, listen. By the way, this is terrible because I can't even trick you, brother.

I mean, I kind of gave it away by shaking my head. But I like, I like, I like, I like DMX. I like DMX versus Eminem, though. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.

See? That's the curveball we're talking about. That would be ill. That's ill. Very respectful battle as well. Very respectful. They both respect each other.

And both animated in their own different styles. I like that. Because you know the obvious battles are not the ones that you're really interested in. You want the match-ups of, huh, see how y'all just like, huh. You have to think about that. Those are the bad, like Eminem versus DMX, I like that. I like that better than DMX versus Jay-Z. You know what I'm saying? I just think that that's, like, holding on to something that, you know, from a long time ago when we celebrating.

And those two brothers, you know, they can celebrate as well. We're not excluding anyone. But I personally would go with Eminem versus DMX. I just like it. Yeah, that would be crazy. It has toX. I just like it. Yeah, that would be crazy. It has to be. They both pit bulls. They both pit bulls.

They both got that energy. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I would like to ask you, to, you know, alumni, who would you like to see DMX battle? Who can DMX battle? Who want that? I don't want to smoke with DMX.

Who want to smoke with DMX? You know what would be a good one? I'll tell you why. DMX versus 50 Cent. And I'm going to tell you why. Because if you look at what DMX did in 98, DMX brought the streets back, right?

Because Diddy had everybody shining, shooting it out, and hip-hop was going in a certain direction. DMX kind of brought that street essence back. I feel like 52 did that, too, when he came out in 2002. And they both kind of had the same kind of impact coming from the y'all, because we were artists. I think DMX versus 52 would would be a hell of a battle. And they both got these sweet records that people love. That would be a good battle. DMX versus 50 Cent.

I think that would be a good one. That would be interesting for sure. See, but I think what DMX has brought to the game is so many records and so many crossover hits and how grimy it is. I don't think the 50 Cent is a good comparison. You need somebody more iconic. And not to say this will be an easy one,

but if you were just picking 20 records, 20 features, I think you put the dog versus the dog. DMX Snoop Dogg? The dog versus the dog. I love that. It's not a bad one either. I'm not mad at you Dog versus dog Great title Great fight title right there

You know One of the Things that I would like to clear up Is When people Just I think You're the only person I didn't Google

Because I said you know what I want to Whatever I don't know about him I want to learn from him A lot Organically Yes But one thing that you That does happen When you Google the FY Is I want to, whatever I don't know about him, I want to learn from him live, organically. Yes. But one thing that does happen when you Google the FOI, or Google sometimes even Islam, is the fact that they'll put this hate Jewish people thing on it.

Of course. So I would like for you to clear that up or speak on it or whatever. Actually, well, the first thing is we are the true original jews the true hebrews we are the original people let's make that very clear this is why there's a big difference between a jew and jewish jewish you say ish it means a kind of you're like so so oh okay number one so the people who call themselves the jews today happen to be the khazars these are the ashazi people. These are the ones who came from the Caucasus Mountains. These are the ones who were in Poland and all over in Germany,

etc. These are the ones who were going and escaping from that area down into Africa, which was allowing them to come to different countries to open it up, but they wanted to go back to the Holy Land, Palestine, and take that from the original people there, inhabit it, call themselves true Jews, kill the true Jews who were there, Palestinian people, and then say that this is our land, etc.

They happen to be, and they say we hate Jews and we attack Jews because we speak the truth about who controls the money, who controls the movie and film industry, who controls the music, who controls the media. And the majority of people that do that happen to be Jewish. That's all. If they were Mexican Catholic, we will say the Catholics run the movie and film industry. They run all these different things, if that were the truth. But they just so happen to be. The people who established the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve Act, those people who had a meeting off the coast of Georgia on Jekyll Island,

David Rockefeller and the boys, happened to be, 1913, happened to be Jewish. So this, just speaking the truth, brother, should never come with a label after that. So I'm speaking the truth, so I'm a hater of this. I'm speaking the truth about what a Mexican brother did or a black dude did, so I'm a hater of black

people, Mexicans. No, you're sensitive, number one. And two, you don't want the world to know about what the hell you have done and what you continue to do. You own 75% of the slaves in the South. You sponsored the chains and the ships that were owned by you. You were Jewish, including, who was his name, Christopher Columbus, Cristobal Calom? He was Spanish and Jewish.

They were the ones who helped to initiate this. You're dealing with the truth behind this. That's why we have a book titled The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews 1, 2, and 3. You get that at NOI.org. And that only is chronicling the words of Jewish rabbis, Jewish leaders. And those are their words talking about what they have done, their people have done to black people all over the world. So it's not us saying we hate Jews. No, it's just tell the truth about what you have done to black people all over the world. So it's not us saying we hate Jews. No, it's just tell the truth about what you have done to our people

and because we've done some negative things to our own people. So let's not get it twisted. But if I speak the truth about black people, I'm not going to be called anti-black. If I speak the truth about Jewish people, I'm anti-Semitic. A Semite is a black person who speaks Ugaritic, who speaks Jiz, who speaks

Ethiopic, who speaks Hebrew. Black folk. So I'm not anti myself. Knock off the lie. Like, chill out. Stop. Stop. Okay, the whole world is tired of nonsense and they have literally cornered the whole planet and everybody's anti-Semitic because we speak the truth, but you own everything.

So how is it that I am bad when you actually own this stuff? And if anybody says anything about what Jewish people do, of a sudden you blackballed your career is gone You can't speak nowhere. You can't get a job nowhere. That sounds like control to me I'm just saying so we don't hate Jewish people anybody but we speak the truth about what everyone does including black people I damn make some noise for that. Goddamn. So this is a million dollar question, right? This is to answer every hater in the world right now.

What do you mean? Let's just answer. We're going to answer every hater in the world, right? So the same person that is in DJ Khaled's position right now, same person that is in EFM's position right now, they're saying, yo, the only reason why these guys are making it happen is because they got bragged.

Shit. So, did you build your career from paying people? Nah. First of all, I used to make $100 a week. Wait, then did we iterate that? You know what I'm saying?

You were telling us earlier? Talk to these people. You were telling us earlier. Talk to these people. Night, I come from sleeping in the back of a Honda Civic. You know, when I left my mother

and father, don't get twisted, when I was with my mother and father, they raised me and they took care of me like every mother and father should do.

You know what I'm saying? It's not about where you live, it's called love. You know what I'm saying? It's not about money, it's about love love you know it's not about money it's about love but when i decided to move out the house at 15 16 so i ain't finished high school you're saying um and i decided to move on my life with my music career i was broke a hundred dollars a week

slept in the back of my um you know i had Honda Civic You know Then I ended up getting a BMW That I never paid for For like Two three years They were looking for at a hot You know what I'm saying It was a purple drum What color

Blue Blue okay You know getting evicted In all my apartments Cause my music was too loud I couldn't afford it This is a DJ college I need to understand about.

Listen to this shit. You know, shot my brother Nasty. You know what I mean? Went out when times were super hard. You know, I had nowhere to put my equipment, my records. So he let me use his garage and set up my drum machine. So anytime I wanted to go make a tape or something or touch my equipment, I would go, you know, to his garage,

because I didn't have a garage no more. And then, you know, I would stay at hotels, 25-hour hotels. You know what I'm saying? And then, you know, shit started progressing, and, you know, started making $1,000 a week. You know, then finally got me a nice little apartment in Marymount. You know what I'm saying? And then after that, started making $2,000 a week.

Speak of the house, it sounds still in America. You know what I mean? Shout out Kendall. I guess people always see your success. They never see the struggle to get to the marathon. I'm still grinding. If you think this is success, I look at it as a blessing. I'm just getting started. I'll be honest.

Puff took 14 with us. We took two with you You're not making me do lucky numbers three, you don't have to do this But I'm gonna lie. You don't have to do whatever you want me to do my three is three three shots And that's it. Let's do it. That's it. That's it. He's gonna be love with us and you could see you take it yourself all right, cool. Jay-Z's the best. Man, this shit. I forget.

I'm forgetting. This is an interview. This shit is more like. No, this is family gathering. This shit is like. This is family gathering, bro. If you're going to try what I'm drinking, you're welcome to. Can I say something?

Yeah, please. Please say something. So I've done interviews in my lifetime. And Nor, he a special one. Yes, yes. Because he know how to, like, get you right. And then he going to get all the right shit. Yeah, I need to hear it.

And then he going to come, but it's going to come in, like, and then it just, with a question, you look at him like, damn. You're not mad at him, but you're like, that was good. That was like, you know, Jordan, he got a certain way. The man can bounce and turn around and still, you know what I'm saying? This man Nori just came with so much shit. And then while you're doing it, after some shit, like a theory or something, you take a shot.

And you're like, fuck it, you're taking a toast to some shit you don't even know what the fuck going on. So it's like, then you're like, yo, then everybody cool in the background laughing and shit, then you're like, oh shit, this camera's on too. So I'm trying to figure out what we doing. This is new shit, now this is new shit I'm experiencing. Nah, you know what I'm saying. Dream chance.

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