Drink Champs - Episode 243 “Best of 2020”

Episode Date: January 8, 2021

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode, we revisit some of our favorite moments of 2020. 2020 was a wild year, to say the least. But your drunk Uncles stayed busy as they interviewed some of the biggest guests in the history of Drink Champs!In 2020, we welcomed Lil Wayne, Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled, Nicky Jam, Pitbull and others to the DC table. While toasting with the legendary Goodie Mob, Dave East, Smoke DZA and more for the first time. We continued to share laughs with DC Alumni Jack Thriller, Jadakiss, Fat Joe and others. 2020 also brought us the iconic interview w/ Pharrell Williams and hip-hop royalty Busta Rhymes. Cheers to the best of 2020! Make some noise!!!Listen and subscribe at http://www.drinkchamps.comFollow Drink Champs:http://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 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Drink Champs, a production of the Black Effect and iHeartRadio. We'll be right back. You know what I mean? In the most professional, unprofessional podcast. And your number one source for drunk facts. It's Drink Champs motherfucking podcast. Where every day is New Year's Eve. It's time for Drink Champs. Drink up, motherfucker. What a good beat. Hopefully it's what it should be.

This is your boy, N-A-O-N-A-A. What up, it's DJ E-F-N. And this is Drink Champs motherfucking Yappy Hour. Make some noise! Those goddamn lawyers, they got me feeling pretty. I'm going to take a shot. I'm going to take a shot. So, I'm sorry to be all over the place, but take your time.

DMX was the hottest at that time. So, everyone deals with these discrepancies of people saying, when you sign to an artist, when you sign to an artist. Was that something you faced immediately or that's something that... I don't know. I was a kid. Like, my fondest memories with X is like, X an ill nigga.

I remember X went to Foot Locker and ain't buy me no damn shoes or whatever. He went in there and bought himself a bunch of shoes and then bought me a bunch of shoes.

And I was his artist when I was a kid. Yeah, you were shorty too, so you wanted shit. You had to earn your stripes. DMX stole my first piece of pussy that I ever was going to get in my life.

I need to hear this story, sir. First in your life? Yes. I almost lost my virginity, but DMX stole my first piece of pussy that I ever was going to get in my life. I need to hear this story, sir. First in your life? Yes. I almost lost my virginity, but DMX stole my pussy. That's a... It might have a little bit of an impact. It sounds like a Yakuza nigga. So we're in Toronto, Canada.

I'm with him. He's filming a movie with Steven Seagal, Exit Wounds. We're out there. We're going crazy. Like, X is on top of the world. So we go to this club because, you know, X love to play pool. So we, like, he bought out this whole little club and had bitches. Like, it was like only, we was the only niggas there, but it was full of bitches.

So X was like, yo, you know what I'm saying? Do you, shorty? You know, I like that little look for you. I'm upstairs. This my first time, like, finger fucking a girl. Like, I'm finger banging a girl inside the club. Like, smelling this scratcher sniff, getting my whole little vibe on. We get back to the hotel.

We staying at the Sutton Place Hotel. So, X had the big penthouse suite. I don't know if for some reason, because I was his artist, he put me in, like, the regular room right next to him. So, you know how this shit go. I'm in an entourage. So, the artist, you know, X drive like a madman. So you know how this shit go. I'm in an entourage. So the artist, you know, X drive like a madman. So he get there before us.

He go upstairs with his vibe or whatever. I guess his vibe didn't work out. I stayed in the car for the rest for like Ali and all the other people to like take me upstairs. I go upstairs. I'll never forget.

I mean, I think it was me and PK. You remember PK? We go up. I get off the elevator or whatever and I got the girl with me. I'm talking about, I'm literally putting the key inside

the hotel door and X room open. He like, this nigga's like a dog for real. The nigga, he open the door as soon as I'm walking

in my eye, he like, yo, hey ma, I think you left your purse in my room. Mind you, we met these bitches

at the club. He ain't never been to his hotel or none of that shit. The bitch goes in DMX room and he took my purse. And you ain't never seen a cent. God damn it. Make some noise for that. Make some noise for that. I bet you that chick somewhere needing a beat right now.

She probably need a hit maker beat in her life right now. God damn it. God bless her. You should have missed your blessing. Missed your blessing. You missed your blessing. What a way to go through puberty with DMX. Sorry. 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. Family gathering, bro. If you're ever going to try what I'm drinking, you're welcome to. Can I say something? Yeah, please. Say something. I've done interviews in my lifetime, but Nor, he's

a special one. Yes, yes. Because he knows how to like get you right and then he's going to get all the right shit and then he's going to come, but it's going to come in like and then it just with a question, you're going to be like, damn. You're not mad at 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 that, you know, the man can bounce and turn around and still, you know what I'm saying? This man Norrie just came with so much shit. And then while you're doing it, after like some shit, like a theory or something, you know what I'm saying? This man Nori just came with some so much shit, and then while you're doing it, after, like, 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...

You don't stop for a moment, God. 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 some new shit. This is some new shit I'm expressing. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Nah, you know what? Dre James. A lot of artists can't say this. You guys not only got records with Dr. Dre, but you guys are actually in the studio.

You guys made classics with Dr. Dre. 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 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?

A learning experience. You know what I'm saying? Shut the fuck up and just listen. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Shut the fuck up and just listen. 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. My point was to prove it to Dr. Dre, so. Dr. Dre was my inspiration to just go on 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. Get it right. Look, 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.

I ain't going to front. Who gave you call segments? It's Damon. Who gave me that? That's fire. You know what, Davey? It's not even a new segment of the show. This is a new show that me and you are producing. I'm out here, man.

I'm outside. Make some noise for Nyle! We're doing a Harlem episode, so it was so dope to, you know what I mean, to have you check in with your young homie, Davey. Oh, my God, baby! What's going on? Oh, shit, baby! What's going on? Oh shit, Davis, you might have won.

Oh yeah! Killed that. Thank God I got that. Who can you call? I'm on phone now. I'm on phone. Tell me, Kiersten is not giving me no points? No, no, no. It's over! Tell me Kessin's not giving me no points?

They got me on the drink, champs! We're doing a Who Can You Call? He's good. What are you doing? Oh, Ja Rule is in there! I'm on that DBZ. How you call it? Respond. I'm going to, I'm on that, Dave East. How you call it? Respond. I'm going to the booth right now.

Yeah! Ladies and gentlemen, I'm interviewing Dave East. We're having a segment called Who Could You Call? And I think you just made me win. Thank you so much, Kenny Smith. All right, my brother. Hey, what you got? Ayo, Capo, what's up? Oh, Juju!

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Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! noise. Oh! A-Y, make some noise for Maffin Man. What's going on? Oh! Yeah! My nigga.

I ain't know we call her OG. Oh, shit. DJ Khaled. No! Oh! That's what I'm saying, DJ Khaled, that's what I did. No! Oh! This is a great show. He done stopped me. I thought it squashed.

I thought it was dead. And he just keeps coming back. Oh my God, Dad, Dad's got IP. Dad's got IP. I know I see Mary not Kiss, Methamine, Meth. That's just like, they all pulled up. I'm so scared to call. And the show's four years old. That's me. And your assignment should have called them. Called them. You the one, though.

This shit would have. Black is king, baby. You know, when I hear this shit comes out, everybody's going to be like, yo, call me. Call me, watch. No, Black is king. Hello, DJ, EFN, Drink Champs. Right now, you're about to catch an inside look at our first Quarantine Champs episode. Let's go. Come on.

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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. And it's going to take us to heal us.

It's Mental Health Awareness Month, and on a recent episode of Just Heal with Dr. J, the incomparable Taraji P. Henson stopped by to discuss how she's discovered peace on her journey. So what I'm hearing you saying is healing is a part of us also reconnecting to our childhood in some sort you said i look how youthful i look because i never let that little girl inside of me die i go outside and run outside with the dogs i still play like a kid i laugh you know i love jokes i love funny i love laughing i laugh at myself i don't take myself too seriously That's the stuff that keeps you young and stops you from being so hard. To hear this and more things on the journey of healing, you can listen to Just Heal with Dr. J from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. AT&T, connecting changes everything.

My name is Brendan Patrick Hughes, host of Divine Intervention. This is a story about radical nuns in combat boots and wild haired priests trading blows with J. Edgar Hoover in a hell bent effort to sabotage a war. J. Edgar Hoover was furious. Somebody violated the FBI and he wanted to bring the Catholic left to its knees. The FBI went around to all their neighbors and said to them, do you think these people are good Americans? It's got heists, tragedy, a trial of the century, and the goddamnedest love story you've ever heard. I picked up the phone and my thought was, this is the most important phone call I'll ever make in my life. I couldn't believe it. I mean, Brendan, it was divine intervention. You can now binge all 10 episodes of Divine Intervention

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. all the way through Hit Squad, Death Squad. Come on. I don't know if we would've went through Squess or Timberland. That would've not happened. I also like, I like Corrupt and Daz against Marv. Yeah, you did, but you did it on stage. Right.

But I'm talking about the virtual aspect of it. What's up? But I'm talking about the virtual aspect of it. One love. Yeah. One love. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

On Dream Chance, we've been talking for years about creating some kind of hip-hop union or something that takes care of the pioneers and the architects of the culture and everybody moving forward. Yeah. I just had a real interesting conversation with Swizz about that. You know, on my IG Live, I do this thing, you know, every day at like five o'clock,

we talk five o'clock East Coast, I mean, West Coast, and we talk. And me and Swizz was talking about, you know, Swizz was saying that, you know, he wanted to raise, you know, $100 million to, you know, to take care of some of the founders and the pioneers and the medical and the things that are important. And I have to agree with him. I would definitely donate to something like that.

Obviously, you know, it has to be, you know, transparent and it needs to be vetted and taken care of, which I know it would be. But I'm in agreement i think that the pioneers definitely need to uh and the founders need to be looked after and respected that's why i've decided that you know i i told swiss and i made a pledge that as i build rock the rock the bells and because it's going to be a lot bigger and a lot more to come than what you guys are seeing now right now you just kind of hear the radio station and you're not sure, but there's going to be a whole platform and thing that's coming. I'm going to give a piece of rock the bells as a company.

I'm going to make sure that some of the founders and the pioneers have equity and have a piece of this and have ownership in it. I'm going to do what I can and make my pledge to keep moving the culture forward and keep contributing and keep giving. So yeah, I'm with Swiss a hundred and million percent on that. And I also think, you know, we started that four years ago. Well, not only did you start a conversation about the right thing, like, listen, listen, each iron sharpens iron, right? And any good idea you have is going to go to another level. And I think that you did. You should take credit for that because you have been giving the guys their flowers and bringing

people on, proving that people still had viable fan bases, even though they weren't at the top of the charts at the moment. And I think that you've been very instrumental in keeping the culture moving forward and keeping our, you know, like my generation, you're a little younger, but my generation and your generation connected to the people that they love. So, you know, I respect that a hundred percent. So yeah, I'm with Swiss on that. I think it's great. And it's not to knock the youth, like the youth and the new generation of artists, like the offsets and the, you know, the baby and, you know, and Tory Lanez and Lil Baby and NBA Youngboy and all of the different, they have the right to succeed and have success and get their paper and be kids and live life.

They got that right. But as men, as we grow up, we got to think about some other things, too. We should set the foundation for them to get to grow older and not have to worry as well or have something. Because I always I always say like I refer to SAG like something like a SAG. I mean, I don't know if that's the right reference, but I feel like, you know, whatever it is out of it, you know, whatever. I've had some preliminary conversations in that area. You know, we need something bigger than SAG. And not only that, I think it should fit like a criteria, like how we do on Drink Champs. Like if you have 10 years or more, then we interview you on Drink Champs.

I feel like it's the same way. Like if a person has been working in hip hop for 10 years, 12 years, 15 years, maybe he didn't hit the Platinums that L hit. Maybe he didn't hit the shit that Jay-Z hit. Maybe he just had, you know, a gold single or whatever. But he gave that same blood, sweat and tears of us. And he didn't hit the shit that Jay-Z hit. Maybe he just had a gold single or whatever, but he gave that same blood, sweat, and tears of us and he gets sick. I feel like it should be people that step up. Look, you take a guy like Special Ed.

Special Ed made a huge contribution to the culture. He didn't necessarily have a thousand albums and a thousand hits, but those records were really important. And meant a lot to all of us. So, you know, yes, absolutely. to all of us. So, you know, like, yes, absolutely. Rob Bass, guys like that. Like, listen, like, it's not, you know,

everybody's not going to have hit after hit after hit, just like everybody ain't going to have 20 Grammys. You know, some people get the things happen and you get a run and it is what it is, but we should look out for everybody. You know what I'm saying? For sure. And guys, this is where I think a little differently also is that not even just the pioneers, but like I said, even the younger guys coming in who aren't thinking about having insurance or having this or having, look at COVID-19. I was hitting people and maybe they weren't prepared for it.

And they were an artist. If as a culture and as an industry, we said we said look this is what you can pay into the minute you get in and then you're you have insurance and you have you know i think what you're saying is right i think um you know i think that that's a there's a bigger conversation that needs to be had about that i think that that's something that um really needs to be thought about you know i'm saying like the whole idea of putting something together where there's, you know, financial literacy,

where there's insurance, where there's, you know, some sort of annuity thing that, you know, is deducted from royalties, where there's something that kind of, you know,

gives the youngsters an opportunity to have something. So when they finished going through their gold chain, Rolls Royce phase, they got something left. If it wasn't, in a lot of ways, if it wasn't for him, it wouldn't be a component of Noriega. I'm honored to be celebrating

25 years. One of the most greatest albums. One of the most greatest albums. You heard that. I told you I was supposed to pop it. But we're celebrating for you right now. We're going to have a drink. Don't make the noise for the going to have a drink. Cheers.

Don't make the noise for the H-A-B-L. Cheers. Cheers. I wanted my mom to find me and she found me in the show. In Dominican Republic? Just like that, bro. That's a part that made me cry. I'm going to tell you another part that made me cry.

I told you, you got to cry. No, I didn't cry this year. I'm going to tell you when I cry. You didn't say you got to cry. You are not alone. When you, when you, when you. I am here with you. You're in my head.

I am in your way. You are not alone. Not alone. I am here with you.. You are not alone. Not alone. I am in here with you. No, I'm not. I'm going to tell you. Oye, me canto. Yo, listen.

When you... Let me correct you, though. I'm going to give you a story, man. Yeah, let's go. Chill. Let's go. I'm unbuttoning this shit. I'm signing to give you a story, man. Yeah, let's go. Jail. Let's go. I'm an unbuttoned shit. It's over.

So, like, DMX, real shit. I watched DMX. Shout out to my man, Denton. Shout out to Denton. Yeah, Denton. Growing up in Harlem. We used to run around. DMX, he lived around our hood.

They had put him in his in the, you know, shut out for... He had a dog. He had his dog, right? Bull, right? So, he battling on the corner now. Mind you,

battling all the niggas around me, right? Oh, no, he battled Dinn? He battled Dinn on the block, on the 121st, right? 7th Avenue. I don't even understand

how classic that is, but, yeah. Right? He battled him, and the nigga, he do some shit like, uh, um, oh, it's gonna guy And the nigga he just said like uh, huh? Also the Viking and the disorder member the falls to the like you some all the like you be pet Tell me my dog she might bite you and then the dog he go and then the dog She might bite you some widow and then the dog growl he's like chill mom let me get him No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, so... No, no, guys, it's okay.

Listen, guys, I cut myself. My barber cut me shaving, so this little white thing is a little thing. It's like I got black. I got the mic. Wow. And I jumped on the stage. Right.

And I say, where's Nas? Wow. Nas jumped on the stage and um i say it was nas now i jumped on the stage and i did my verse from um a song called set it off that was on one of the poets albums and um now i did his verse from live at the barbecue wow so i wasn't even on and i still was showing love that's how we was you know what i'm saying so i opened up for arabian And Rakim at the Apollo Wow So all this stuff Steve need to chill Cause he didn't He didn't do his research

Right He didn't like me He took things personal Even with the He took things personal Like You know what I think Mag I'm sorry to cut you off

This is I'm not I'm not defending him But what I think was He was invested in Nas And Nas that's it Anything came around Or

Disputed Nas He just didn't want Nothing to do with it He He You know was he was invested in Nas and Nas that's it. Anything came around or disputed Nas, he just didn't want nothing to do with it. You know, in that same show he told me he hated on me. To my face. He said, I thought you ain't go hard, Norris. He said that to my face. Well, I'm going to show you just how. I don't know what this is.

But I'm going to ask you. Complex Magazine interview with Steve Stout. There was an interview where There was an interview where Cormega was saying that you had a role in him Being kicked out the firm Here's Steve, he was never in the firm man He should have never been in the firm

Believe me he wasn't He and I truly didn't get along You're coming with the seats Nigga I'm in the seats Time out Even when Nas was shouting them out on one love they weren't cool that was cool he just got out of jail it took him a while to get acclimated to what was going on time out let me fix this right now first of all one love came out Steve you wasn't even in the picture you was not nice manager till it was written when one look came out I was in jail when it was I was there when I was

Yes, he wasn't around I was there when I met Steve so right now you're giving the impression that you was there you was Even when I was shouting him out on one, they weren't cool. That was cool. He just got out of jail. No, I didn't get out of jail. I was in jail. That's why he said One Love. One Love is a term of endearment that people write in jail. When I was writing Nas from jail, I would write One Love at the end of my letter.

Okay? Now, shall I continue? Yes. That was cool. He just got out of jail. It took him a while to get acclimated to what was going on. In a business sense, he said in a business sense, and his manager at the time, a lot of different things.

And your manager at the time was Chris? No, time out. He said in a business sense, and his manager at the time, a lot of different things. Biz? You managed Biz? Yes. Now listen to this. They didn't like Biz. Okay. Biz wasn't seasoned. He was new.

But there goes arrogant Meg Arrogant Meg again. I gave somebody from the project a chance to be my manager. Wow. There goes me showing love. Wow. As usual.

So Biz didn't have the savvy business savvy of a Mark Pitts or a Steve or a Chris. But he was somebody from the hood

that I was trying to give a chance to. Man, that's cool. But Screw, you know, Screw was a real intelligent, unique guy, man. Wow.

Even in the midst of lean. Wow. You know what I mean? I had an opportunity to meet that brother. I have to tell this story, right? Please, please tell. You know, DJ Screw, there ain't no total story.

Please tell. There's no interview. Yes. But DJ Screw, when I met DJ Screw, DJ Screw was being extorted by an artist that was connected with me. And I didn't know nothing about the extortion. But I was the one supposed to be extorting it. Because of your backing then.

Yeah, yeah. DJ, he was paying an artist, right, a monthly. No, real shit. Because they was connected to you. Yeah, because I was so spiced up. They was scared of you. This is Jay Prince money, nigga. Come on now.

I'm just playing. The artist was telling him that I had his shit. Oh, shit. So after he and I had an opportunity to get together in my office, I'm looking at the staff, right? And he said, man, you ain't nothing like they say you are. Right? So I'm like, what you mean?

And he broke that shit down to me. He said, man, I've been, have you been getting your money? Right. I don't know nothing about this shit. Like a lot of shit go on, you know what I mean? That I don't know nothing about this shit. Like, a lot of shit go on, you know what I mean? That I don't know nothing about. It's great. So, you know, Screw ended up, you know, I ended up falling in love with Screw, man.

You know what I mean? But I just had to say that shit. You know what I mean? So an artist was scoring him using your name. Yeah. Holy moly. I'm not going to ask who the artist is. As much as I want to ask, I'm not going to do it. Yeah, using your name. Yeah Let me say this about it, okay

Companies are selling clothes $1,000 and people get 10 cents an hour, but I ain't say that. That's crazy. You know what I'm saying? It's just like, man, know it, bro. You got niggas out here saying they're Muslim with a cross on their neck. You got people that are saying they're Jewish but charging interest to people that you know can't pay it. You know what I'm saying? You got black niggas that say black power, but they a shooter op.

So, for a nigga like me, I just look at it all and just be like, shit, fuck it, I'ma follow love. I'ma be lame and lame.

You wanna follow love? I'm dead ass serious, but that would change. You know what I'm saying? Cause Gemini niggas, we jump everywhere. But for a nigga like me, I just move in love, bro.

So, I know, bro, if I get popped today and go anywhere, I know I'm going to heaven. I know for a fact I'm not going to hell. I ain't do nothing hell bound, ever. I don know, bro, if I get popped today and go anywhere, I know I'm going to heaven. I know for a fact I'm not going to hell. I ain't do nothing

hell bound ever. I don't lie to niggas. I ain't capping. I don't have to lie to get money. I don't give a fuck what you're making, bro, because if I'm in your pocket,

nigga, I'm ready to rob you. Right. So anybody in your pocket want to know what you're making, you better believe they'll rob you. So I don't want you thinking like that

because I was with all that shit and I grew up around it. So I just do shit out of love., because I was with all that shit, and I grew up around it. So I just do shit out of love. You know how many niggas try me and say shit every day that I hate sometimes? And you're like, hey, guy with your frame, why you playing football? Who, you play football?

Well, that's disrespectful. It's fucked, nigga. I'm a big black guy, so I look like I play sports. I like to keep my mind together, but I love to show people, especially in this society, for the bitch-made motherfucking pussy boys, to be honest with you. Instant gratification does not exist. So therefore, to be 15, I've been 20 years in the game. You've been in the game, what, 25? Something like that.

It's 97. It's 97. I don't know all that. So, 1923. Yeah, yeah, there you go. So, you know, you're 23 in the game. I've been in there since 99 was my first contract with Luke. God bless you.

I mean, I remember getting on, I remember seeing y'all about 95, 96 when I was around certain people in Beautiful Women in Kendall. Loved them some crazy back then. When I Google you, you know what it says? It says, your first break was on a Miami mixtape. Yeah.

And I wanted to wonder, was that something that intertwined with you guys? Or break it down, because... I did a lot of mixtapes. They did a lot of mixtapes. And then we would get together to put together different verses on different things. But to get to an EFN at the time was like getting to a flex. would get together to put together different verses on different things but to get to any a fan at the time was like getting to a flex in New York or getting to a clue but I had to pick and choose. Listen, people got to pick and choose.

Because I'm going to tell you, people got to pick and choose. That was the right time for him to say that. Time out. So niggas got to use their weapons when they can use them. He was supposed to, because he was trying to prove a point to you. What I'm trying to say is this. What I'm trying to say is this. And please, at 47 years old, don't tell me how I should feel about nothing.

Nah, I'm talking out of hand. That's what I'm around you for. Time out. Allow me to speak. Yes, yes. And I do love that, but allow me to speak. At 47 years old and having a family, I've learned one thing. Nobody in this world can tell you how you feel.

You feel how you feel because of a reason. It's not to say that nobody can't give you clarification about how you feel because of a reason. It's not to say that nobody can't give you clarification about how you feel and then maybe you'll feel differently after you have the discussion. That's not what was presented

to me. Point blank, I love Irv. There's nothing, just to clear up everything. To this day, Irv can't go through nothing, and if I'm there, I wouldn't stand there and be like, nigga, it's us to the end. Still.

Still. You hear me? Stop. It's intentional for you. You're Mike Geronimo, nigga. Let's talk about Mike Geronimo, my nigga. I love you, bro. I'm here to watch you, my nigga. You crazy?

I'm not in danger of jeopardizing where I stand with people out here in the world by telling them how I feel. Nah, you got it. That's it. So allow me to just speak uninterrupted. I'm going to watch you. I'm going to watch you. I'm here for you.

I'm going to protect you always. You know that, right? So what I would say is this. Respect that. Because of what we did as people and because of the amount of lives that we changed from just one record, I will always love Irv Gotti. I don't care if Irv Gotti does a movie. I don't care if Irv Gotti does another artist. I don't care if Irv Gotti does Murder, Ain't The Reboot.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Praise to Moscow! All that pussy! Let me see, that's an automobile? Oh, this is an automobile. It ought to be an automobile. It's an automobile. It ought to order B. Order B. Order B. Yeah, this is like at least $40,000 less than an automobile.

Yeah, I paid $350 for this. This is the order B. This is at least $40,000 less than an automobile. This is the order B. Maybe I ought to be. I should have let you win. You should have let me win. I'm just audible. You should have let me wait. I'm with you on that. Yeah, if you don't mind.

I'm a scrub on the passenger side. On my best friend ride. At least 40,000 less than the old man. Who the fool? But they tried to rob you for that on your block, right? Yeah. Yeah, they definitely did. But I pushed that other one. In name of Jesus in the nick of time.

And the police came. And you told them. And I. And when I tell you. Now he hit the phone. When I tell you they came on time and I pressed charge to the fullest extent of the law. They keep my my order B.

Make my order B. And you say you got an order B. It's an order B. Order B or order ball. That's right. You got balls. You hear me? Hey, hey, hey, what Drake say?

Yo, even when the phantom's rented, them hoes want to get in it? Even when it's rented, they want to get in it? They know what this is and they know what it ain't. And they know what it should be. Hey, yo, everybody can't rent a Ferrari. Am I right? Facts. You see what I'm talking about?

That's a fact. Come on, this is one of the best replicas you will ever get in your life. Let me see. This is top of the bottom of the line. This is USA Fee Market's best scene. This is USA Fee Market right here. So shit is going to be on the beach. I'm not even going to put that on USA.

It ought to be. He said he got to order beef. It ought to be. He said he got an order B. It ought to be real. It ought to be a ring. The real is actually a ring. The real is actually a ring. The ring is actually a ring. Let me tell you something fun fact about the ring, right?

This ring was bought by DMX to my man his name he was going by Buck at the time Kenny Butler Kenny Butler how you get Kenny Butler's ring he became my

personal assistant and he owed me somebody because I advanced him and he didn't have nothing to cover it and he gave me the ring and I gave him a ring. Can I hold that ring for a minute?

I just want to touch it. I just want to see. Man, you're going to give me my shit back. You're going to get I think I seen Bob with this ring too. Yo, this the only real shit I got. Don't do that New York shit. Cause I'm not gonna ask for it back.

If you gonna give it back, I'm gonna ask for it back. He already heard you say you gonna tell, so you gonna give it back. If you gonna give it back, I ain't gonna... It's a nice ring. I ain't gonna put it on you. Yeah, what he trying to do? Get him down? He want you to get on one knee. That's how you ain't know what was going on in your crib.

That's my cousin. LeDarren. LeDarren. LeDarren. LeDarren. He has a gym company in Atlanta. In Atlanta. He's self-president.

That's why you say he's a pedestrian, bro. He's very different. LeDarren. LeDarren. LeDarren? LeDarren. LeDarren. LeDarren. LeDarren. LeDarren. He's very deep. Little Darren. Little Darren. Little Darryl? Little Darren. Little Darren. Darren. Little Darren.

Little Darren. He start doing cocaine around parks. My man, listen. I've been doing cocaine since I was 15 years old, Nori. Ain't about nobody. Ain't nobody's got the story. Nori, we're not going there. Me and you have been in situations

that we might not want to speak on. No, I just want to speak on it. I'm going to talk about it. I'm going to. Me and you have been in situations that we might not want to speak on. No, I just want to speak on it. Okay, all right? So I'm going to talk about it. I'm going to talk about it. I'm going to talk about it. I'm going to talk right now, Norby. Talk about it.

I don't smoke cocaine. I don't smoke cocaine. Remember, remember, remember. I'm just a molly. I'm just a molly. Remember, remember, all right? So let's just let sleeping dogs lie. No, I'm great.

All right, then. All right, then. All right, murder unit. No, no, no. All right, all right. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'm asking him to. Remember, wait, wait. Wait for some time. Wait, murder unit. All right, all right, all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Ask it in the room. Wait, wait, wait. Wait, let's remember whose records got played on Hot 97. Let's remember whose records got back on Hot 97. Yeah, yeah, and they banned me. This is very true. We're going to that as well, James. We're going to that as well.

We're not going there. You don't want that one. We're going to go to the nice version of it. OK. All right. I'm going to change it. Buffalo was a different thing. A lot of people don't know the poverty

of Buffalo. Like, that's one of like, that in Detroit is a very, very, very poor place. But a lot of people, when they think of Buffalo, they think of the Buffalo Bills and they think of Buffalo Wings. Y'all motherfuckers are selling cocaine. No, he's different, man.

It's different. No, he doesn't. It's different, you know? It's a hood everywhere, man. It's a ghetto everywhere. And, you know, man, it's just, we just wanted to bring

that feel, man. Our aspect, you know what I mean, of the story of the streets, man. How we do it up our way. So, you know what I mean? We just always focused man how we do it up our way so you know I mean We just always focused on that be myself. I respect that so much and I respect y'all because How y'all

Stay true to the game like y'all could Y'all could have tap dance and did all that everybody like everybody You didn't you didn't follow what nowadays people was doing. What made you want to keep it so true? Honestly, just having confidence, man, in our shit. We knew our shit was ill too, so it's like we could be ourselves. You know what I'm saying? We kind of live that lifestyle anyway, the shit that niggas be rapping and you know what I'm saying and We kind of live that lifestyle anyway this shit that you know niggas be rapping and snapping about what we just do it a different

Way man, like you said we and I we from that vein like y'all niggas You know I'm saying so we just try to keep our shit official like that and just be ourselves in the city You know man I respect that. Make some noise for that. Make some noise for that. Now, Trav, you got a very, very rich history now. What I mean by that is, Molly Moore came on here. Molly Moore said, in a lot of ways, Normie, like, I made Drink Champs.

And he was kind of... I remember him saying it like that. He didn't say it like, I put a lot more on it. I put a lot more on it. Put some sauce on it. Yeah, put some sauce on it. But he was kind of like,

yo, if it wasn't for what he did maybe I wouldn't have been here in a lot of ways he's right so I want to take it from you from the beginning cause Queensbridge seems like you know honestly

now that I I'm living it but I didn't realize how rich I was having a Queensbridge affiliation like I didn't realize that until I actually became a grown man. No, for real. I know you're laughing.

Stop. Stop. But, you know, let's think about it. You really had MC Shan, Molly Ma, Roxanne, Naz, you, Havoc. Like, y'all all from that. Like, this is crazy. So how did you know what to do? Like, how did you know to get at Molly?

I just, I just look at it like this, like, you know, I had my, I had a circle around me that helped set the standard for what I had to do. You know what I'm saying? As long as you got certain elites around you. What the hell is that dude, bro? Yo, where my joint at, man? Come on, come on, come on. You give a talk, that's it.

You gotta give a talk. Come on, come on, come on. Come on, man, drink some S-Spade, baby. You know what I'm telling you Yeah, I don't want to go to the shower. You want to get to the shower? I don't want to go to the shower. You can get to the shower. I don't want to go to the shower. Because I sipped the motherfucking, what do you call it? But we ain't got, I'm black. You ain't got watermelon? No. I like the watermelon. I'll take some foodies. What we got?

London foodies? Right. What? Okay, right, right, yeah, I'm in. I'm in. Yeah, yeah. Because, you know, I don't know if y'all know But this show is about celebrating And trash, I wanted to get you back to that But let me just give you more flowers

Let me give you more flowers In case you didn't know How much I appreciate you Like I really do, you know what I'm saying I know me and you, we like each other sometimes So we bump heads But just in case you don't know If it really wasn't for you, I really wouldn't be here like you actually pushed me you gave me the battery on my back and

You are you helping me mold to who I am so in case I never told you that to your face I want to tell you that Yeah, I'm saying it all boiled down to me having a certain kind of standard around me. Right. You know what I'm saying? Just like, once I got that standard from them, I was able to alley-oop that bag and alley-oop that standard when I started moving with you.

You know what I'm saying? Right. I might have been, you know, a little aggressive with my approach at times, but at the same time, I'm around G-Rap, I G rap around Kane and these dudes at that particular time They sharks they assassins. Yes, so I knew I couldn't be the little dude and get drowned out No, we're not having that type of over You know shit I had I had to get in you know I'm saying so It was definitely a learning experience in a good alley-oop for me man

And I appreciate your like even to this day. I always give I always give she's rat can't a bag was karate chop I'm only giving back was karate chop because they help you know because that's like difference cuz like see him in Buffalo There isn't all the artists from Buffalo, right? I mean They got us some heroes, man. Every hero got him. Every. Every. You know what I'm saying? He was one of the, you know what I mean, the elder statesman that was just nasty with his pen and doing this thing in the town. So it was a lot of artists. It's a lot of good.

You got that shout out. OK, here. Come on. You got that do say? Yeah, come on, baby. We're going to get right today, Tommy. We're going to get right today. Cheers.

Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. today. Sure, let's go. Because I imagine... Whoa, that's very true. Mariah was different.

And I'm gonna tell you why Mariah was different. Because it was your turn, in my opinion, looking from the outside in, not to be selfish. Because the Mariah record is not with you by yourself are we clear on that? very clear my brother this is the flip mode baby would you give it to me would you give it to me

I know what you want you know I got it I know what you want you know I got it that was with your fool what made you say I got a favor from Mariah Carey the princess That was with your fool. Yes, sir. What made you say, I got a favor from Mariah Carey, the princess, from the Alps of Everywhere? The Alps of Everywhere?

I don't know. I didn't think of anything else. The Alps of Everywhere is pretty decent. She's such a beautiful person. She's an angel. Like, every Christmas carol should be her. Every time I say that. person she's an angel like every Christmas Carol should be her You know what you said to yourself? I can take my Mariah Carey favor a dolo. But you said, let me put my crew on to it. Let me be honest.

I made the record with my crew before we called Mariah. Mmm. Because... She was plan B? No, she was never plan B. She was always plan A. Okay. But see, the collective of all of she was never plan B. She was always she was always playing a okay But see the collective of all of us was the plan a if the collective of all of us didn't work Then I would have had to create a plan B Yeah, he was

One time man was in the warehouse good. I'm always about before his pulses walked up to me Told me that pop was trying to get with us you know I say what do some music he was trying to see what he could do to get what he was in jail and I'm just gonna time she gave me all this information was in Clinton at that time so um you know we were just I don't even know how much we even discussed it because it was just so surreal you know what I mean that how you probably gonna get you out of jail? You know, we didn't know nothing about that I'm talking about less than a month later. He was signed a death row

He called Some family most of the belongings on would be safe. Yeah That's crazy. Imagine, imagine. That would have been, because I imagine y'all kids too at the time. Yeah, yeah. So y'all didn't know how to handle that situation. Y'all didn't know how to react, or did y'all? We did. We did because he was a comrade.

You know what I'm saying? We would have loved to have him on board. For real. So he asked to actually be a part of Goody Mob? Man, he asked to be a part of the mob. That's what the girl was telling me. At that time, I was speaking through her. I couldn't talk straight to him.

He was in prison. Everybody got a shot, because my shot is ready. Yeah, okay. That's crazy, bro. This is crazy. So I agree. And remember, listen, we going right back to Tupac.

That's good. This is the beat. All right. Cheers. This is big. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Remember that time? Yes, sir.

That was a different era. So you hit me and said, yo, I just sent Michael Jackson some beats. I'm like, I didn't understand his talk. I'm like, damn, I'm not in no Michael Jackson era at all. So I'm like, word? You said to me, you told me, nope. I don't think Nori will rhyme on that. I want you to know Nori will rhyme. that I'm like Nori will rhyme I'm just like

My life is done Listen Listen Do I Do I Yo John McClane was his manager at the time We sent him

Pretty much all the stuff you guys are hearing On the first Justified album That's all the Michael stuff Wait I'm talking about Justin Justin Timberlake. Oh, yes. Okay, go ahead. All but one song. They were all written for Michael. What era of Michael's is this?

Remember the time era? This is right after Superdog. You rock my world. Okay. Right before that. John McClane was like, man michael don't want that shit he wanted the shit that you giving nori and i'm like i immediately thought of michael the Crips in the Bloods picture. Yo, no bullshit.

He was like, yo, he want that super thug. Oh, what's that other one y'all just did? Oh, no. Oh, shit. Yo, that would have been a crazy Michael. Thanks for joining us for another episode of Drink Champs, hosted by yours truly, DJ EFN and NORE. Please make sure to follow us on all our socials. It's at Drink Champs across all platforms.

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the incomparable Taraji P. Henson stopped by to discuss how she's discovered peace on her journey. I never let that little girl inside of me die. To hear this and more things on the journey of healing, you can listen to Just Heal with Dr. J from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. AT&T, connecting changes everything. I know a lot of cops. They get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun?

Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. This is Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. Listen to Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Why is a soap opera western like Yellowstone so wildly successful? The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West

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