Drink Champs - Episode 314 w/ A$AP Rocky

Episode Date: May 13, 2022

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode we chop it up with the one and only A$AP Rocky! A$AP Rocky joins us as he shares his journey in hip-hop and the A$AP Mob. Rocky shares stories of JAY Z, Fabolous, his own whiskey “Mercer + Prince” and much much more!  A$AP also talks about directing his own music videos, fashion, his relationship with Rihanna and the upcoming birth of their child!  Lots of great stories that you don’t want to miss!! Make some noise for A$AP Rocky!!! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆   Listen and subscribe at http://www.drinkchamps.com  Follow Drink Champs: http://www.instagram.com/drinkchamps http://www.twitter.com/drinkchamps http://www.facebook.com/drinkchamps  DJ EFN http://www.crazyhood.com http://www.instagram.com/whoscrazy http://www.twitter.com/djefn http://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductions  N.O.R.E. http://www.instagram.com/therealnoreaga http://www.twitter.com/noreagaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And all that Make some noise! Now, right now, we have to the left. When New York was dry, when New York was seeming like we was getting kicked out the game,

this man and his crew single-handedly brought back the city. i know you humble you probably don't want to say shit like that you probably don't brag like that but i'm gonna brag for you i remember me being so proud this is the way we go when i heard that said what is going on this man here is a star but the first, was like, wait a minute. Because he didn't sound like the traditional

New York City style. But boy, are we proud. Fashion God, icon, Kanye West sat on this same show and said, A$AP Rocky dresses better than me. I never thought I'd hear that in my life. So when you got Kanye saying shit like that,

you know this man is a legend. I don't even know. I'm so proud of you and where you at and everything you're doing. I don't even know how far you could go. But he's here, and he has whiskey. We've been on some whiskey waves. So in case you don't know who I'm talking about,

we're talking about one, the only, A-Step Motherfucker! I'm a big whiskey drinker. I'm a big whiskey drinker. This off top, I look at it, and I think

the Queen of England drinks this. No? I hope so. Let's just ride with it. Let's just ride with it. The Queen of England drinks this. No? Hope so. Let's just ride with it. Let's just ride with it. The Queen of England. It's royal.

It looks like some real royalty. How did you get a part of this company? How did you be a part of it? I heard you designed this on a napkin. Yeah, man. Okay. We wanted to, like, revolutionize the whiskey industry, man. I think it's real traditional old-fashioned, right?

But, like, I think this puts a contemporary... Oh, you know that's's real traditional, old-fashioned, right? But, like, I think this puts a contemporary... Oh, you know that's how they make an old-fashioned. Yeah. Ah, ah, ah, double entendre. You starting early. You starting early.

Okay, okay, okay. I heard you quite the connoisseur, too. You love Japanese whiskey. Yes, I'm on that Japanese yala. Yes, I'm on that Japanese. But go ahead. Continue. So how'd you...

Go ahead. I think, no, we just wanted to do something that had a sophisticated touch, but still something that was innovative. So that's why we got the two cups at the bottom. Continue. So how'd you go ahead? I dig. Now, we just wanted to do something that had a sophisticated touch, but still something that was innovative. So that's why we got the two cups at the bottom. Right, yeah. You know, you can share it with somebody.

You know, it's decorative for the house, so you can lay it vertically, horizontally, sideways, straight up, however you like. Definitely made for a drunk nigga. He don't have to put it down. You're definitely going to mess it up somehow. So if you're drunk, that's the fact you can't fuck it up. That's great. You know what I mean? You don't really gonna mess it up somehow. So if you drunk, that's the fact you can't fuck it up. That's great.

You know what I mean? You can't fuck this up. So, so this, this liquor was already made or you went and, um. Nah, man.

So it's basically, it's blended, like it's a Canadian blend. Mm. But it's really inspired by Japanese mesonera oak barrels and stuff like that.

Yeah, so it got that scotch taste and it gives it flavor and whatnot. And we kind of wanted, like I said, we wanted to do something that was kind of sweet, but snuck up on you like a nutcracker from New York and all that. Did you just say nutcracker? Yeah. Just make some noise for me. Just make some noise for me.

Yes, yes, yes. I miss nutcrackers, by the way. That's like Rucker anducker and Kingdom and all that. Yeah, man. Speaking of Rucker, this is a famous story. You met Fab at Rucker. Yeah. And he didn't want to give you an autograph.

Yeah, he done my shit. And you took him off your top five immediately. Yeah, like, I think it was hurt and all that, right? Like, I probably was like 12. Right. And I saw Fab, like, listen, this is at a time when Cam and Fab and them was just my idols. Right. Ain't nobody flyer, right?

Right, right. So this probably like when Fat Joe had the record shit on Smash, right? So his Terror Squad team was playing. Everybody walked in, Ja Rule, everybody. This was like 2002 or some shit. I don't know. Man, Fab come in at the A, everybody wild late, but son had on

like the Raptors fitted that never came out, a throwback Raptors Jesus piece that looked like big joint. I was number seven joints, I was clocking all that, like I seen that. I was like, oh shit. Like, adrenaline going. So after he leaving, after it's over and all that, I got my courage up together and I'm like, yo Fab, like, adrenaline going. So after he leaving, after it's over and all that,

I got my courage up together, I'm like, yo, Fab, if I could get a picture or autograph. He's like, nah, shorty, like, what? What? What? Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. I thought it was the security. I thought you had the story wrong.

Nah, Fab was about, he was with a little nigga, he was just like, nigga like my age type shit. I was just like, what's up, a nigga like my age type shit. I was just like, yo, Fab, I'm like 12 or something. Like, yo, my heart pounding. Yo, I could get a picture or an autograph. He said no to the picture, then I asked for the autograph. But I could tell, like, he was looking around and all that type shit. So I guess he was trying to be on 10.

He was trying to be on point. So, you know, as a kid, it really ain't registered to me. I was a little hurt. So I went home and ripped down all his family. Oh, shit. That's still my nigga though, man. Did you ever tell him the story? Yeah, I told him.

You know, he was like, wow, yo, it's crazy how shit turned out. But I just learned from it. Like, I always try not to tell kids, you know. Because I always think of this future story or future just say he met Scottie Pippen and Scottie Pippen didn't want to give him a picture So he fucked this bitch Oh my god That's the fuck

Niggas better make sure y'all start taking every picture She gonna come back and get you man I'm gonna go ahead and smell this man You know what I'm saying I'm gonna go ahead and smell this man. You don't say I'm gonna go ahead And if you're gonna do a shot of something we got you know me this is this shit go down easy and clean be We don't got those cubes Okay, yeah, if and being on point That's right, no, I'm going to join you

Fuck all that It smells very good Look, I know you're a professional, but you got to take it easy Word on, it smells very good I ain't going to lie, it smells way better than I expected I expected it to smell good, but that smells way, way better I'm telling you Perfect

Let's do it. It look like that Japanese. Dollar Chico. Shut up. The yell's above, you know. Yes, the yell's above. Yes. Yo, cheers, fellas.

Cheers. Salute to you, motherfucker. Appreciate it. And your career and your life and everything you got going on. Thank you, brother. Thank y'all for having me, too. So. That's good. Thank you, brother. Thank y'all for having me, too. So let's just describe

how I was hitting everybody for information. You know, I didn't just want to just Google and maybe, you know, so I was hitting everybody for information. And one thing someone told me, and it was like, y'all got similar

to two instances. While my album dropped, my father passed away. I had the number one album and I had to stay on tour. I gave back the bag. Back then, that's how you used to pay us. For the whole half of the whole tour

and if you ain't had to do it, you had to give back half of the money. So Chris Light had to fly me out. As I'm number one, but my father passed away. Chris Light had to fly me out and explain that to me. Like, if you stop this tour, you're going to have to give back all this money. So they said, me and you relate to on that.

They said, me and you relate to on One Train. It's almost like Banff on TV. It's almost like the new version of Banff on TV. And I was like, oh shit, I've never really looked at it like that. And then they also said, I have the same, you know, I had the same case with a fan. It's just that I wasn't,

we have Instagram back then. We would have been in jail if we had Instagram back then. But a fan ran up on me. This is real talk. And I never spoke about this. A fan had ran up on me and threw is real talk. And I never spoke about this. A fan had ran up on me and threw a bike at me. Where you was at? It was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

I used to live in Harrisburg. I heard about this. You heard about this? I heard you was duffing niggas out, though. No, that's a lie. I'm glad you clapped me clean. That's a lie. Thank you. Thank you for asking that question.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no're my fool. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's real. Allegedly. No, no, no, no, no. That did not happen. Not allegedly. Allegedly is what you say when you're still saying you did it.

You know what I'm saying? No, that didn't happen. Honestly, honest. Fans was following me. And this is what happened. I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you how similar it was.

The promoter didn't have the rest of my money. The promoter gets on stage and says, no, he says he doesn't want to perform for y'all because y'all's not, you know, whatever, whatever.

I can imagine how the crowd is feeling. They're like, what? He has the number one record. He's here. They don't understand the business. So they follow. So we get out. The security's like, yo, we got to get out to they don't understand the business. So they follow, so we get out, the security

is like, yo, we gotta get out, this is kind of ill, so the fans follow us, and they literally follow me. And we tell them, yo, chill, man, the promoter's lying, literally, and throws a bike. So then my boys get out, and they do their business, but I had a $750,000

lawsuit that day. Boom, well, not that day, that, you know, and had to get arrested. Had to get all that for a fan following me. Word. This is a fact. So you was being antagonized and all that. Targeted. You know who made me beat the case?

Who? A police officer came and said that was a lie. Norby never got out the truck. And that's how I beat the case. Word. A police officer. Same one that arrested me. He said he couldn't lie.

He couldn't lie. And for that, you know, I'ma cheers to that guy. What a hit, man. What a hit. I'ma cheers to that boy. What a hit.

Ooh, it is smooth. Smooth, man. I ain't gonna lie. This is impressing me. It's hard to impress me with whiskey. It's not Japanese. It's not Japanese.

With that bullshit man i'm saying we don't drink champs yes i had to come right drinking it this is hard but now that's crazy though because uh that whole situation is parallel to my swedish situation that's what i was yeah for sure because i got this i had to watch it today just because you know i'm doing and i can literally see the guy following you yo Yo, you know I ain't want no smoke, right? Of course. Yeah, I ain't want no smoke. I ain't even that type of nigga, man.

We not going to Sweden for smoke. I was looking for architecture and furniture design and shit. Yes. I was walking around looking for furniture stuff. So how does this turn into a case against you? I think it's like, it was a bunch of factors, bro. Number one, we was in a foreign country. You know what I'm saying?

They got their own rules over there. They got their own way of doing things and shit. You know what I'm saying? A lot of this shit was prejudice, you know, racism, classism, all that shit. You know, that's definitely a factor. But shit got funky when, like, Trump and that motherfucker started getting involved in shit. When they tweeted, that didn't help you?

That hurt you? Low-key, like, that's when they started trying to, like, apply pressure to us and all that. Like, and they was, yeah. Oh, like the police in the jail? Yeah, the authorities over there. Wow.

It's crazy. Yeah, they was on some sucker shit. They didn't even let us see the embassy or nothing like that for like two weeks. And we ain't get no visits. Solitary confinement, no regular jail cell. I'm going to be honest, though. I think Trump was a gangster for that.

That was a gangster. That was a gangster. That was a gangster. That was a gangster, right? You're saying, okay, all right. We don't never make noise for Trump. I don't think we've ever made noise for Trump. I'm not scared to make noise for him right now.

But that was appreciative. Because I ain't going to lie. I don't think Joe Biden would have came and got you. Nah, I don't even think I don't think Joe Joe ain't even coming outside. What's wrong with Joe? Like since he got elected I ain't really been seeing Joe like that. Joe was a letdown.

Joe was a letdown. I'm not what's it called? Democrat? Republican? I'm not even independent at this point. I don't know what I am, but I ain't a Joe Biden fan. I can tell you that. He ain't been outside at all. I know you think he got all of those minority votes.

And he made a crack law to smoke crack. What do you mean a crack law? He passed crack pipes. So it's legal and shit in Oregon and other places and shit, but you gotta realize this motherfucker's still going down over Rico and conspiracy

shit and all that from the 80s and 90s is still serving time for the same shit that they allow, the same rules that they wrote. He passed those laws. He's been in Washington forever. Yo, no lie. We saw Kodak with

Trump. Would you go see Trump? Now that everything's out the way. I think it would have to be an agenda. It would have to be a reason. You know what I'm saying? At the end of the day, I think it's just like I ain't never, thank you brother, I ain't never want to come off unappreciative and like make it seem like, you know what I'm saying?

Like an asshole about it. Because like when you locked up and you don't have communication with nobody, like you dead ass. Like you just want to visit a letter or some shit like that. You know what's funny? I'm walking into one of my restaurants and they pull me to the side. It's like, yo, somebody want to see you back there.

So I'm like, all right, cool. I go back there. It's Ye. And you know who Ye was? What's his name? Jared Kushner. You know, that's the actual guy who sent the people for you.

Yeah, he's a terrorist dude. Yeah, he's a terrorist. And when he described that story, I was like, this shit is ill. It's different. What they did, like I'm saying, what they did, that was kind of like gangster to me. No, it was, though, because look. And he tweeted it out at first.

I was like, wait a minute, that tweet might have been wrong, but he did it. That's fire. Yeah, nah, like, so I was on three-way calls with Lou Binger, and he was like basically the only person I could call that was on my list after two weeks. Right. So I used to, after my man Lou, he would call like everybody up or whatever, so he's like, yo, call Ye or whatever. So we called, we called Bari.

My man Bari like, nah, call Ye, fuck all this, we got to do something about this. We called Ye, Ye about to hop on a jet like, yo, I'm coming over there now. I'm like, yo, they not going to let me out, bro. It don't work easy there. That might make it worth it. on the jet like yo I'm coming over there now I'm like you're not gonna let me out they let me out like three weeks later you know what I'm saying three weeks in the Swedish it was a month it was a month yeah you were on tour living that life I was sick you in the Swedish I was sick they speak a different language they speak a different language and all that but the brothers like, like, so, you know, for

23 hours or whatever, you got to be in your room, but you get, like, at least an hour or 30 minutes upstairs or whatever. It's like this little outside area. So, I was speaking to a lot of the brothers that was locked up out there, wasn't I? You know what I'm saying? And they'd translate for me, like, what they was talking about on the news, because I didn't know what they was talking about on the TV every morning. This was headline news.

That's all they had to talk about. They had nothing better else to talk about. What do you think about the girl that's in Ukraine right now? No, in Russia. In Russia. WNBA. Yeah, she got caught with Vapra. Yeah, but that's because of the war shit right now.

Oh, I thought that was straight. I thought that's happened before. No, they're using that. They're using that. Oh, wow. No, but they're using that. They're using that. Oh, wow. No, but they're using that. That card against her. What advice could you give her?

She got cold. She got cold gas? No, vapor. They say they caught her with something. That's the excuse they're using. Yeah. And they're saying she's looking like five years or something. Something crazy.

She's eating five years for a bulky. That's what they're saying she's looking for. They're trying to give her five juniors. Something crazy, yeah. It's all because of the political shit right now with the war. That's what it saying she looks like. They trying to give her a five, Junior? Something crazy, yeah. It's all because of the political shit right now with the war. That's what it's all about. Yo, that's different. Damn, yo. That's different. She still in there? Yeah. Still in there.

And that communication is broken down because of all the beef. Yeah, all the beef all the beef yeah i've seen something like that but like i ain't even word i ain't even know shorty was still over there yeah yo well you gotta pray yeah pray for people right now that's real not for nothing i was just i was happy about like a lot of the support that i was getting a lot of that shit was just the thing to say motherfuckers was just saying it because it was the thing to say at the moment a lot of people really was like damn that's fucked up you know what i'm saying and i appreciate all the support i had so like i definitely need to support shorty i ain't even

know no funny shit that's crazy yeah no i'm gonna tell you i'm gonna tell you in our community and when i say i say our community i'm not even talking about black community right about entertainment we felt that was a message to us. Like, it wasn't just about you. It was a message to everybody who goes to Sweden, goes to Finland, and certain places like that, that

it's, you're nobody over there. You're still, you know what I mean? We could go back to back in the days. It's just like, I think Will Smith's smack wasn't to Chris Rock. I think it was to all the internets and the memes. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I agree.

He's rich as shit, but you still can't play with a person's thing. Nah, he going through it. Who, Will? Yeah. Yeah, Will going through it. Yeah. What did you think when you said, Will, I hear smacking niggas at the Oscar? Yo, I was shocked because I thought it was staged. Will, what did you think when you said, Will out here smacking niggas at the Oscar?

Yo, I was shocked, because I thought it was staged. I started seeing memes, but, and after that I said, damn bro going through it. Yeah, he going through it. Yeah. You a fan, you know Will and Chris? I'm a fan, man, like, you know what I'm saying?

Like, I'm a fan of Will, Jada, Chris, all of them. They OGs yeah I think it's unfortunate that like he emasculated another black man in front of all them people like that you know I'm saying but I do think that like it's some built-up shit that probably wasn't really targeted at Chris Rock I don't know it just seemed like it's more like from what you said it seemed like it's more than just a G.I. Jane joke. Yeah, because one, sometimes when you play with somebody that you know, it's kind of disrespectful. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

Because you know me and my lady going through something. This ain't just for TMZ. So it depends on if him and Chris had that relationship. I always tell Michael Blacksman, I never agreed with him when he kept going at Kevin Hart, when Kevin Hart was going through his thing. And he was like, no, but no jokes is, it's never overboard. No jokes is off limit. And I'm like, yeah, I think so.

If you got a relationship, I'm not tuned to do no shit like that. You know what I'm saying? No, I get it i feel like i think that um i think comics and shit like they got like this this underlying like you know i'm saying like a agreement whatever you want to call it just a code nothing's off yeah that i think that they got that code nothing is off limits you know i'm saying rocky we got that code. Nothing is off limits. You know what I'm saying? Rocky, we got that same code too. When it's a current event, if down the block, Coyo Taco just explodes,

I'm not thinking off top. My friend owns Coyo Taco, so if I say I'm blowing up like Coyo Taco, I'm not meaning disrespect to him, but I'm using the current event at the time. You understand what I'm saying? But there's still feelings involved. Yeah. I don't know, man.

I don't really know them grown folk business enough to... Yeah, me neither. I don't want to know. But they made us... I mean, Jesus, we... Because I'm saying, don't they always say, yo, we can't get y'all nothing. They finally gave us the oxygen. We got Will Smith fighting out here. Shit is real.

Shit is real. Shit is real packing and everybody.. Like, shit is real. Packer and everybody. They had a meeting. Tyler Perry, Denzel Washington pulled Will inside. Like, it was a game. That's the illest shit. Like, it was a game intervention.

Like, you came down with the illest shit. Yo, you see that? Yo, you saw it? You saw the photo? I'm like, damn, this shit is ill. And what's crazy, they didn't kick him out or nothing. He still won the Oscar. Still won.

He killed that. He killed it. He killed it. That is some tough shit, man. That is some tough shit. You know, A$AP, one thing that threw me off

about the liquor collaborations, I always thought you would drop a clothing line first. Yeah. Like, I always thought that you would,

especially after hearing like Kanye, one of the most stylish people in the world say, A$AP Rocky dresses better than me. Yeah. Like, I always thought that you would, especially after hearing like Kanye, one of the most stylish people in the world say, A$AP Rocky dresses better than me. I'm like, that's the name of

A$AP Ryan, right, clothing line right there. A$AP, you're dressed better than me. Why you never got into clothes? Nah, no,

I'm into clothes, bro. Yeah? Your own? All the time, bro. Really? Yeah, we do ghost designing for some of your favorite fashion houses.

Ghost design. Ooh, ghost design. That's like ghost writing? Yeah. Yeah, bro. Really? Yeah, we do ghost designing for some of your favorite fashion houses. Ghost design. Ooh, ghost design. That's like ghost writing? Yeah. Yeah, basically. So, like, say if, like, I'm the head designer at, I don't know, Chanel or something like that, right? Like, I could go and get you to, you know, I could commission you to design something for me if I fuck with your ideas and styles like that. We've been doing that for like eight, nine years now.

I got my own brand. It's Aug. Okay. You designed with Nico, too, right? Nico? That was a collab with my brand, Aug. We did a Mercedes-Benz collab, all type of shit. Yeah, man.

You see the Gucci collab coming out? Come on, dog. Nico! Nico! Your shit must be so high fashion. G-collab coming up. Come on, dog. We ain't coming. We ain't going. We ain't going. Your shit make me so high fashion. We ain't going. It's just too high. That's what's up, man.

Holy moly guacamole. So. Nah, yeah. Trust me. Like, we the reason, like, when it come to fashion, like, a lot of the names that's, like, dominant now, we the reason that, you know, they lit right now, kind of, so to speak. I'm a little tipsy. Nah, nah, don't worry about it.

I'm about to take some champagne because this is a celebration show. Let's get the flowers. Call my voice, too. Nah, nah, you good. Don't worry. We heard you was in Brazil tearing shit up. We heard. We heard.

We understand what's going on. We understand what's going on. But we want you to know our show is about giving people their flowers, showing their love to their face. So we want to give you your flowers personally. I said flowers. Flowers personally. You know what I'm saying? Make some noise.

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What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? Yeah, yes, yes, they're so decorative. Yes now pull it out No, no, you love him and this is a brand I got over this elegance right here. Yes. I'm dead at your thank you for this Oh love my brother The way to get it was back in on the water. Whoo. Yeah damn nigga. I'm throwing it on the wall Yeah, I got you. Yeah. Are you cutting my house? That's a brand I got. I'm going to need this. That's what I got.

Thank you, bro. Fly Dads, yeah. Fly Dads, we like it. Yeah, man. I can get those cups you were using up, right? Yeah, go ahead. There you go. So let me reiterate what I said earlier. There was a time in New York we just was quiet.

Quiet. 100%. And I don't want to say you came out of nowhere. No, we kind of did. But, and I remember that video with you in the basement, I think it is, and you rolling dice, and you got the bandana. Yeah. I'm like, oh, shit.

Yeah. I'm like, oh, shit. What made you make such a, because you can one million percent know that's Harlem. Yeah. What made you make such a Harlem video when at the time we're quiet? Because we's broke as shit. What I had to love it. He was dead ass sharing 40s

and Don Pax and Hayes type shit. Like, you know what I'm saying? 40s and Don Packs of Haze type shit. Like, you know what I'm saying? He still sell Don Packs of Haze. Nah, like, we're all chipping. Everybody, like, four niggas on one Dutch type shit. But, like, we was just showcasing what we was doing every day. Like, we literally, all we cared about was buying clothes, fucking bitches, shit like that. Like, we was young, man.

You know what I'm saying? Now, things have changed a little bit. So I think our perspective and our capability and accessibilities is widened, and we got more access to do more innovative things, except showing you the minimalistic shit. And that was just like an insight to what our everyday life was 12 years ago. Who was directing those visuals? Me.

You were? Yeah. Wow. See, that's what I'm saying. You're looking at a renaissance, man. Yeah. I direct mostly all my films, man. Yeah, that was dope.

If not, I'm working with my boy Haji, you know, Haji Films. A lot of all guys, Dexter, you know, a lot of my folks, man. Yeah. We visionary. So it's really about raising the bar. Like when it comes to visual components and shit like that, I think that that's like a dying, that's a dying sport. You know what I'm saying? Because right now it's all about like 15, 45 second kind of clips and vignettes.

It's not really about like full length music videos, shit like that. So unless you're doing a feature film, most people don't give a fuck, but I still do. So I'll be making videos. Yeah, something that pulls you in to that environment. That's what I get out of these visuals.

Say that again. It's stuff that pulls you into the environment. That's what I'm getting out of these visuals you do. Nah, thank you. I mean, I think you come from the old school, brother. So, like, that was another component. So, you couldn't put out a song or nothing without, like, a video back in the day and none of that. Like, this shit just started changing in the past, like, five years, four years or whatever the case.

Really, three. You know what I'm saying? just start changing in the past like five years four years or whatever the case really three yeah let me ask you because um this is an ongoing question that we we always have here it's like you know the new york show you love and uh and and well i bring it back to the to the conversation because i asked jay this i said and jay goes new New York didn't show me love. Like, he said when he first came out, he said New York didn't accept big. How was it for you when your first came out? Did the city automatically accept y'all or you had to build it?

Wild love. They just didn't know where the fuck we was from. If you was from Harlem or the X, you knew us type shit. Right, right. Motherfuckers was like, yo, these niggas from Cali or these dudes from Memphis or the Midwest, Cleveland or Texas, where these dudes is from? But you wasn't using the traditional New York sound.

You was using your sound, though. Yeah, it was something we developed, and that's why we felt like the world needed to hear it. I'm all about developing sounds. That's why it takes so long to release music and shit. I be on some other shit. I only fuck with people. I mostly admire people who got their own kind of style and sound.

You know what I'm saying? Yo, my voice sound crazy right now. Pardon me. Drink some more of that Mercer Prince, god damn it. It'll even you out. You know what I'm saying? You drink some of that? I got y'all.

Drink some more. It's good. Drink some more. It's good. It'll even me you out. You'll say you'll drink some of your fat? I got you. Come on. It's good. It's good shit. Well, let me go on and fill it up again. Man, shit's sneak up on you. Oh, quick time of slot? We ready? Yeah.

OK. You got it? You sent it? Cool. You sent it? I ain't sent it. You sent it? Oh,.

OK. All right. Take him, n cabron. Okay. Alright. Pick him, niggas. Quick time, Steph. Quick time, Aslan. This is a game we play with all our guests. Got you. You can pick one or the other.

Oh, yeah, I saw this. Okay. If you pick one or the other, you're cool. But if you pick both... Or neither. Or neither, you got to take a shot. We can take little shots, though. We drinking it at your shit. We taking shots at your shit, okay?

Prince Mercer. Mercer Prince. That's the street in New York? Yeah, that's the cross street. That's not where you from. You from uptown. That's downtown. That sounds rich.

Yeah, I used to... It tastes rich, too, man. But it's premium, so, you know, to... It tastes rich, too, man. Yes, right. But it's premium, so, you know, it's affordable for everybody, accessible for everybody, but... 30 bucks, they said.

Yeah. Whoa. For this design and all that, like, we just wanted to make sure it was accessible, though. This beautiful-ass bottle. Yeah, you got to think about it. Just to let you know

you care about the people way more than me. I would have made this 300 easy. Easy. I don't got a little thing to... Fuck that. And I would have made this 300 easy. Easy. I don't got a little thing to fuck that. And I would have only

sold it to my fans. I wouldn't have sold it to them if they didn't fuck with me. You got the war report? Then you can buy it. You ain't got it? You ain't got it?

This ain't for you. This ain't for you. That's how I would get down, Rocky. That's right, Bill. That's right. Let's make sure you love because he cares about y'all. He cares about y'all.

He's making a great product in a great bottle, and he's making it affordable. So you could buy a case. Anybody could buy a case of this. You know, people don't really walk around with cases, but you could buy a case of this. The case is crazy, too. The box design and everything. Yeah, I ain't going to lie. Y'all took your time on this.

I appreciate that. Absolutely, I ain't gonna lie. Y'all took your time on this. I appreciate that. Absolutely, man. Thank you. Now remember, if you pick both, you take a shot. A little shot. That's gangsta. It ain't gotta be crazy. It's a long game.

DMX or Tupac? Damn, why you do that? I'm freaking out. It's meant to trick you. I ain't going to hold you. Yeah, take a little shot. Take a little shot. It's very smooth.

It's smooth without the ice. Yeah, you got to drink it neat. Straight. Yeah, I ain't going to lie. That's how Jay drinks his. Okay, but it's kicking me up. Hold up. Hold.

Let me slow it down. All right, come on. Get you to answer some of these questions. Pun or Coogee rap? Damn. All right, hold on. So I want to say Coogee rap flow is different. Yeah.

But pun flow, I mean, that in the middle with little Italy, little diddy know. There's a middleman who didn't do diddly. Everybody know that. Everybody. And that shit is hard to know. Memorize that. Yes. little diddy know it. Little, little, little, little diddy know it. Everybody know that. Everybody. And that shit is hard to know. Memorize that. Nah, everybody know that. If you don't know that, you not rapping.

You got to take your hip hop card away if you don't know that. That's a fact. I'm going to say, damn, gang. I feel like without no disrespect, it wouldn't really be a Nas or something like that. Like a Coogee rap or something like that. You know what I'm saying? It wouldn't be a lot of motherfuckers, but Have to go My voice gone This is the witness game. All right, cool. Let me load up. Let me load up. I'm trying to explain.

My voice gone. It's much different when it's cold. Woo. That hot one fought me back. Okay. Jada Kiss or Fab? Oof. Oh.

You got to realize, like, Fab is always going to be, like, Fab is always gonna be like, Fab is always gonna be my idol. Like, you know what I'm saying? He always gonna be like one of my number one idols. Like, I don't care. I put him up there with like Pharrell and Ye and them. Just cause like, you know what I'm saying? Fab raised me.

Like killing them niggas, gymming them, they raised me. But um. K to Kiss? Kiss got that one. Kiss, like, Kiss different. Yeah, he different. You know what I'm saying?

Fab different too. Yes, he does. But it's not right you making me choose between both of them. It ain't me, it's my evil producer over there. Those guys are fucked up. Yeah, they're fucked up. That's crazy to make somebody choose between Kiss and Fab,

and you know that. They be doing tapes. They neck and neck with it, bro. They even did the verses together. Let's just be clear. Yeah, I'm going to go with Kiss, though. Okay. Makes sense.

Still ain't over that Fab shit. I respect it. Petty gang mafia. I respect it. I respect it. I'm a petty nigga myself. I respect it. No, Fab petty nigga myself. I respect it. Nah, fat mom, man. Nah, I'm fucking with you.

What you raising? All right, this one goes to the name. I don't know which way you could go. Rakim or Kane? Rakim. You named after Rakim. Yeah, but like...

How gangster was your parents? This is... Make some noise for your parents. Like, don't sleep on Kane Flo. No, never. Absolutely not, don't sleep on Kane Flo. No, absolutely not. Don't sleep on Kane Flo. Obviously, like, Kane was that nigga because, like, I mean, like, he might have fucked around, had a threesome with, like, Madonna or some shit back in the day. We've seen the pictures.

We've seen the pictures. We've seen it. Naomi Campbell, all types of shit. And his drawers was a little crazy, but. It was the 80s. He was street balling. Oh, he was street balling? crazy but he was street balling oh he was street balling okay

he was street balling he had no drawers it was very artistic I'm on guard he was on his pretty flaco shit back then but like

I fuck with the pretty boy shit you know what I'm saying that's why I fuck with Kane but Rakim took flows to another level you know what I'm saying he took flows

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You don't got to go crazy. Get a little shot. Hey, yo. Yo, you different from that. ready. You don't got to go crazy. Just get a little shot. Hey, yo. Yo, you different for that. Whatever. It don't matter. It's your criteria. It's your criteria.

Whatever criteria you want. You can't just ask no vague question like that. That's what the whole game is about. It's the vaguest game ever. I mean, give me, like. It's whatever you want. Whatever you want. See, man, like.

All right, I'm going to explain before I make my decision. You can explain. Mase was that nigga, bro. Like, Mase took this, like, he took the Harlem World shit to another place, and I mean, essentially, he put Cam on and all that, right? But, um, Mase flow better, but I got to go with Killer.

Mase flow better, though. You giving an explanation why you're going with Killer? I'm going with Killer because, like, he... When I was growing up, he didn't really tap out. Like, he didn't quit. You know what I'm saying? Like... Not to say Mase quit, but he... Nah, Mase quit for a little bit.

Oh, yeah, that's right. He found the Lord. He found God. He quit. That's right. Why are y'all laughing? Why are y'all laughing? Why are y'all's right. Why y'all? Isn't that wrong? Why the God? Why the God? Why the God? Why the God?

Why the God? Why the God? They laughing at the man. Why the God? Why the God? It seems like he's turned the corner and found God. Oh, oh, oh. He did.

You know what I meant. Kanye found God. Like, he was happy for him. We got to be happy for Mase, man. Yeah, we be happy for Mase. And we happy for Kanye, too. Yeah, man. Nah, I got to go with Killer, though.

Because Killer, like... This one, I don't know, I gotta go with Killer though, cause Killer like... This one I don't know where you could go with this one. Dipset or the locks? Damn. I'm gonna go and get my drink ready. Nah, I know who I'm gonna pick. Okay. I know who I'm gonna pick. This shit just crept up on me too. Yeah. I want to drink some more so I'm trying to get you not to pick Buggerhead. If I had to... Damn, damn.

Nah, I'm going to do a shot. The Harlem in me, I got to do a shot. They all watching. They all going to send a clip to each other. Shout out to Ella Wex. Shout out to D Block. See, he's had pictures such and such over such and such. Yeah, this is a part of the game. Drake or Lil Wayne? Weezy.

Because without Weezy, it ain't nothing. And Weezy, to this day, he can't be fucked with. Nobody rap better than Wayne. And Fasta neither. He sent you back a record like this. Well, K-Dy and Eminem up there with the rapping fans. Like nobody rap better than Wayne and faster neither. He sent you back a record. I know a lot well Kedah and Eminem up there with the rabbit fast. Yeah Turn it back the record now wiener embarrass you

Okay, we talk about to them things I'm sorry when I embarrass you cuz he do it quick. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay Okay, I teach you man on bars. Yeah, but yeah, yeah. Yeah, just send it back in the hour. Yeah Fuck we, yeah. Okay, okay, okay. I thought you meant on bars. Yeah, but he, yeah. Yeah, throw him out. Yeah, yeah. He'll send him back in an hour. Yeah. I fuck with Weezy. Okay. Big L or Biggie Smalls? Big L. Back to Harlem.

Yeah, Big L. A hundred percent. Shout out to B.I.G., though. Yes. Wu-Tang or N.W.A.? Damn. You fucking me up, gangster. I'm going to go and get a shot ready. Not for this one, for the? Damn. You fucking me up, gangster. I'm going to go and get a shot ready.

Not for this one, for the next one. You know what I mean? So I'm ready, you know? All right, so I'm going to explain this. Yeah, you could. I got a lot of elaborating to do. I got to explain. This is your show.

Thanks for having me. Look, when it comes to what NWA did for culture and all that, that's different, right? You can't really compare it. But, damn, I'm tipsy. Who the other? Wu-Tang. Wu-Tang. I ain't gonna lie, I gotta fuck with

the Wu. I ain't gonna lie, I gotta go with the Wu, man. I'm gonna come clean. Like, RZA, that's different. RZA, like, that's different. RZA, like that's different. ODB, like, you know what I'm saying? My favorite rappers are from Wu-Tang for the most part was really like, was Ghost and Meth. But like, I ain't gonna lie, Inspector Deck was that nigga.

Oh, yeah. Inspector Deck was really that nigga. Rocky's showing his hip-hop cards. But like, Gzy was the philosopher like the niggas get too ill yeah like you know i'm saying they get too ill like don't get me wrong and wa gave us birth ice cube and you know dre and shit like that like easy like come on now like you know we can't forget about that but like i ain't gonna lie what woo did for me being the east coast new york nigga, it was different.

I'm going to go with Wu-Tang. See, I always got to go with both on this one. I can do that. Yeah, that's when you should take a shot, though. Oh, yeah. Remember, that's why you want to be validity. That's the deterrent. Yeah, I want to take a shot.

But I always go for both because of my childhood. How much, you know, when NWA came out, I didn't see their videos. We didn't have videos like that. So I had to hear their music and I had to visualize. And I was just like, I never want to go to Compton. Like, I was scared to death for Compton. That shit was like, the way they were describing that shit, I was like, hell no. That might have been the first time that that kind of emotion was in hip hop music and rap music at the time.

That was the birth of gangster rap, right? Right. Well, I mean... If you could credit Ice-T for a little bit before that... I'm talking about that emotion. Oh, okay, okay. That emotion, the first time I heard it. Yes, yes, yes.

Before, you know, you got before that, you know, Doug E. Fresh, Liquid, all that great... Right. But that emotion... I thought Scooley D was like... That was the... Right, right. Yeah, yup, yup. That's real gangster rap.

Paid in for? On state property, too. The movie? Yeah. I ain't going to hold you. I was watching State Property 1. Right. 2 was gangster.

Yeah, I ain't going to lie. You killed El Poirot. Look, my son. I ain't going to lie. I ain't going to lie. On real list, I'm in both with him. I'm in pay to afford, too. I'm in pay to afford, too, yeah.

I ain't gonna hold you. Hold up. Let me think. Where you was at in pay to afford? I was the nigga. Yo, he dropped a razor out his ass. You know what I'm saying? He was talking to AZ. I killed 12 seconds. 12 seconds. Nah, you did your... I killed... I owned my 12 seconds. It might have been 35.

I got the best 35 seconds in cinema history. I got to go with Peter. Yeah, go ahead. I'll tell. I'll tell. Of course. Which is ironically bringing me to the next.

Rich Porter or AZ? See, AZ was a real get money nigga, but he started out like a snot nose and shit. So I respect the hustle, but like Rich, like being a fly nigga was just in him. Broke or not,

he was just a fly nigga, right? He like, him make a honey look like a mil, so like he used to make that shit look good. He used to put that shit on. Right. So when it came down to it, I'm going to have to go with Rich. Right, Rich.

Okay. Rest in peace. Hayes or Sour Diesel? We smoking sour. Okay. Okay. We smoking sour, but I ain't smoking. I'd rather do Kush, though, bro.

You trying to take niggas to Autobahn right now. Yeah, it definitely is. You trying to get the peck right now. I miss sour diesel. And I miss, my man has some haze. Nah, haze tasting like Reggie these days. That's what they said. That's what they said.

Haze tasting like Reggie right now. That's what they said, but I ain't going to lie. That shit brings me back. You got gotta remember, it was a time that only Uptown had the Haze. So me having Haze coming from a Queens nigga,

going Uptown in a national cab, and coming back with a kicker pre-tape and some Haze, I was flying. Like, niggas was like, yo, you ain't got no Haze, nigga. Like, we had Blackweed in Queens at the time.

It wasn't the best. Y'all had Arian Chocolate. We had, we had, we had. At that time. It wasn't the best. We had Arianne Chocolate. We had that at that time. The Exotic Reggie. Oh, yeah. We here now, though. Dame Dash or Puff Daddy? Yo, come on, Noah.

Take a shot? All right, hold on. Man, like the accolades of both of them, brothers, is crazy, man. Like, you know? We take a shot? Yeah, we got to take a shot. All right, let's do it them, bruv, is just crazy, man. Like, you know? We take a shot? Yeah, we got to take a shot. All right, let's do it. I can't choose between those two, man.

I love them both. All right. Yo, we badass or Action Broxson? Ooh. Yo, y'all niggas is random. That's crazy. I ain't going to hold you like... For me, like, Bronson, he ill because, like,

his voice sounds so similar to, like, Ghostface and shit, right? So, like, he sound like Ghost and all that, but, like, he put his own twist on it. His own creativity, too. Yeah, he put his own twist on it. And I personally got so much love for that dude. It's not even funny, bitch. That was Big Body. I got so much love for Action Bronson.

But I'm going to go with Joey based off the fact that I feel like he pushed that agenda more for like real East Coast, like boom bap backpack, like real, like, you know, nostalgic golden era hip hop. Rob Markman He reminded me of a close to a boot camp clip. Steve Winick Exactly. Rob Markman By himself, one man though. Steve Winick Yeah. Rob Markman But he modernized the sound. Steve Winick His crew though, you know what I'm saying,

they on the same time. Rob Markman Bigger boot camp clip boy. Steve Winick Yeah. Rob Markman You know, know pro ever RIP Steve You know what I'm saying Much love to Bronson And And

Joey man Word Big Demar Both dope yeah Wait wasn't they They both was on one train That's crazy Wow

Yeah That's why we picked it I'm bop right now Noah Uh Ron Fabio or Tyler the Creator? I had to laugh with that one too. What the fuck?

You're crazy with deuces, man. It's not me. Ayo, man. Shout out to Fabi, man. You know what I'm saying shout outs I'm just taking a shout out of this that's too random

to answer I know Tyler's like y'all really like brothers yeah man he retarded man he plays with you

in ways I can tell you don't like he's stupid bro he's stupid I can tell y'all really like brothers and really like each other

but I can tell you don't be liking some of his jokes you know damn well I do. I be looking at the internet to it. Yo, that nigga the rapping Dave Chappelle, he a clown, bro. He play too fucking much. That's my buzzer, though, man.

That's my boy, man. He play too fucking much, though. Let's make some noise for Tyler. Come here. This one might be designed just for you. All right. Pusha T or Travis Scott? Push.

Push it, like, lyrically. Push can't even, like, come on. Yeah. Just answer that quite fast. Because it's like, OG, it it's like OG, you know, against somebody that's arguably more of a newcomer type shit. I'm going to say something real quick because, you know, I had to Google you because I wanted to do my job, right? And like I said, I also was making phone calls. But one thing that kept popping up on the internet is Travis Scott stole his whole style from A$AP Rocky.

Yeah. He's trying to figure out how to ask this question. Thank you for reading my mind. Thank you for reading my mind. Is that something that you entertain? Nah, you can't. You can't feed into petty shit like that. You know what I'm saying? Right.

Like, at this point, that shit trash at this point. Right. But did you feel like that at one point? I mean, I saw similarities for sure. Right. You know, I saw that he was inspired and shit like that. But that's what we in it for. Yeah.

Like, that's good sportsmanship. Right. I'll put it to you like this, like, if niggas wasn't, like, biting off, you know, imitation is the best form of flattery. Right.

People wasn't trying to imitate you. You're doing something wrong. Right. Because it's like, I'll tell you something that made me, I used to hate being compared to Marv D.

Like, I see that. Like, CNN? Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for correcting me. Thank you for correcting me. Thank you for correcting me. Not Nori. CNN. And, cause we were different.

I get we made the same type of music, but we were different. But for me, when I did my solo, for me to get away from it, it was like I had to mess with someone like Pharrell. Someone that was something totally from out of my world. You know what I'm saying?

And then that comparison never happened again. Super thug. Super thug, yeah. That record changed me forever. No one ever compared me again to Mark Deep ever again. But I had to do that. Is there ever been something in your career where you just felt like, yo, I gotta do it

just to make my mark where I'm A$AP and they know that I, they know no one can do what Rocky do right here. Everything I do. I love that answer. I'm going to keep it humble. I'm going to keep it modest for everything I do, man. I just really want to push the bar like innovation and raise it.

Right. That's fire. That's fire. That's fire. Okay, let's move on. Kendrick or Cole? I respect both. I'm gonna go with that though.

Kendrick. K-Dot, yeah, I'm gonna go with Kendrick. Yeah, I'm not that close with him, I gotta call him Kendrick. Yeah, Paul- Not in this plan, just- I'm a fan of all these brothers. Right, right, right, right. ODB or Biz Markie? Come on.

Damn. I'm going to go with ODB because that was more my era. Biz Markie is one of my favorites. Okay. It was... Not the Breakfast Club, the Juice Club. Juice Crew. Juice Crew. Juice Crew.

Juice Crew. Juice Crew. Juice Crew. Juice Crew. Juice Crew. Juice Crew. Juice Crew. Rest in peace to both. Rest in peace to both of them. Rest in peace to both. Yeah, that's crazy.

Fat Joe or Ross? Oh, shit. Yo, I like them for like Different reasons That sounds like a shot to me Yeah, that's a shot Sounds like a shot to me I'ma do a hot one too

Bro, you really like Y'all doing major shots right now Take it easy, man I told y'all this shit This shit This shit got to be displayed Hey, man You're supposed to take a couple sips Let it sit in the house for a little bit Nah, I'm drinking it right I got the marijuana shots This shit This shit Hey man This shit Hey man Like

You're supposed to take a couple sips Let it sit in the house For a little bit Nah I'm drinking it right I got the marijuana shots And I'm drinking this Today Salud

Salud Salud Salud Salud Yeah I did my shot too I ain't trying to go crazy It fights back It fights back

Gunplay Or Denzel Curry? Damn. That's a good one. Good one, guys. That's a good one. That's a beautiful one. Shout out to the home team.

Damn. Yo, Gunplay tough, yo. Like, I love him. First of all, Gunplay slept on him. Absolutely. Gunplay slept on him. Gunplay's hard. Gunplay slept on him.

I've been saying that. I ain't say he slept on him because I live out here, so I get to feel his appreciation. Word. The people out here. Yeah, no, we love him out here. Word. So he gets his love out here, but he's supposed to get more love. Way more love. He was on my first album. Oh, that's hard. Yeah, I ain't sleep on him. That's hard. You know what I'm saying?

I got to go with... And Denzel's wild with it. Denzel is just... Denzel tough. I'm going to go with Denzel right now. Just right now. Just because I feel like gunplay made his mark. But I think we didn't see the rest of Denzel.

You know what I'm saying? I get it. Max B or Jewel Santana? Damn. All right. I'm going to come clean. I'm going to go with Max because he the wave. Wave.

But Els, young Els. Young Els. Can't feel my face, Els. Bandana. Don't play with that man. Like, that was a crown on his head. You know what I'm saying? Do rag under the hat, Jewel. He wasn't fucking. Bandana. Don't play with that, man. Yeah. Like, that was a crown on his head. You know what I'm saying? Do rag under the hat, Jewel.

He just wasn't fucking with Santana. Like, I love Santana to death, man. Like. Let me ask you. Why do you think he ain't putting out as much music right now? Like, I literally sent out a tweet the other day, and he hit me. He was like, I got you. I was like, yo, man, I want to hear some new Jewel Santana music.

Like, what's going on? I really don't know. That's crazy, though, right? I think, um... I think it's probably got other hustles and shit going on. You know what I'm saying? Just like you, Nori. You don't want to put out music.

No, I'm saying I don't want to put out music, though. I'm keeping it 100. He's saying he want to put out music, and that ain't coming out. When he said that. Yeah. No, Juel? Juel's been saying that since he came from the can.

Yeah. They're going to drop this, and I'm a fan, so, you know, I want to hear that. Maybe he's being a perfectionist about it. I want to get in my car, and I want to bump. You know what I mean? I think it's a different playing field than when he was in the game or when y'all was in the game, so to speak, bro. It's different. I don't know if maybe he's studying the playing field right now.

Yeah, that's true. And he getting that love of hip-hop money, too. That love of hip-hop money. Oh, he on that? Yeah, it ain't no bullshit? Yeah, that's true. And you get that love a hip hop money to love a hip hop You know that yeah, that ain't no bullshit. Oh, that's chicken. Oh, yeah, it ain't no bullshit. Especially if you doing other things. It's I It's not for sure for sure. I don't know nobody hustle go get it. Danny Brown or yellow wolf Yeah, I'm gonna go with Danny I'm not The reason why Look

Yellow Wolf is tough But the reason why I'm going with Danny Is because Yo this shit I could talk about this all day Just so you know I love it

I see how hip hop you are I see how hip hop you are Nah I ain't just like Faking a funk But The reason why Is cause like Danny give you the bruises

Like he Meaning like He got artists and shit That's just like eclectic And different in they own way You gotta check out a lot of his artists Like Z Loopers and all of them Danny is really the godfather

A lot of this Like cloud rap, weirdo rap Whatever you want to call it He wanted to He wanted to Mount Rushmore type niggas type shit Dave East or Votto? Damn.

That's a hard one. That's really a hard one. Is that a shot? That's a shot. Okay. I ain't going to lie. I'm going to go with Votto, though. I'm still going to take a shot.

I was halfway in. I was halfway in. Wait a shot. Hold up. I can answer this. I can't take back a shot. I was halfway in. I'll go with you. Yo, I can answer this. I can't take back a shot. I was halfway in. I'm going with you.

Yo, you fuck with that shit on the ice, on the rocks? On the rocks. I'm liking both. Yeah, I like it. I can't see which way. It'd be too watered down. No, see. But with whiskey, that water is supposed to do something. It brings out the flavors.

It enhances the flavors and taste. So I like both so far. I'll be like, fuck all that. That's how Jay-Z drink it. But he's trying to get lit, though. Yeah. Yeah, he's trying to get lit. Yeah, I'm on that mission right now.

I ain't gonna lie. I'm gonna come clean. I'm gonna get a little tipsy. New Jack City or Original Gangsta? New Jack City. Feels like you want to explain. They both were amazing movies. But the Carter was at Harlem.

Yeah, come on. But it was too close to home. Just seeing like Nino Brown hanging to go off the George Washington Bridge and all that. And that building is still there, right? The Carter's still there, right?

Yeah, Wayne shot there for his... Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's a legendary building. I'm going to have to go with New Jack City. Yes, yes. I respect that. Japanese whiskey

or Canadian whiskey? Oh. It's Canadian-Japanese whiskey. I'm going to take a shot. Take a shot. All right. I'm going to pour a new one. I'm going to pour a new one.

We're going to go with Japanese-influenced Canadian blend. That's how you got to do it. You got to do it. Shout-outs, Mercy and Prince. Shout-outs, Mercy and Prince. A man, James, right? Yeah, man. Shout-outs, James. Shout-outs, GBE. Man, James, right? Yeah man, shout out to James, shout out to GBE.

I thought he was from Australia, I found out he's Irish. Cause no one knows how you hurt an Australian accent. I was like, yo man, my Australian friend. His accent game is off. I'm terrible at accents, I just love it. But, I be thinking I'm on point. And you said it would come, you're like, you're Australian, right? You're Australian.

Can't reason on it, right? Wallabies and shit. I swear to God. This is the last one. And it's not really a trick question depending on how you, how deep you want to go with it.

Say that. Loyalty or respect? It depends on what it's pertaining to. Like, what is it pertaining to? Whatever you want it to pertain to. That's too much of a vague question. Because, see, me, I always say both. Yeah.

A lot of people want to break it down. Yeah, they break it down. One is more important than the other. But I think that loyalty And respect is subjective What you might think is respect Might be disrespect to me Or what you might think is loyal

I think is Not some stand up type shit So it's subjective Sounds like we taking a shot Nah I answered that fair and square So you said both Right. So it's subjective. Sounds like we're taking a shot. Nah. I answered that fair and square. So you said both. Basically.

That's still a shot. That's still a shot. I don't know how that's for shooting me in the back. All right. Let me just say something, Rocky. First time I ever heard of you Was a guy named Genocash

That's crazy Genocash is bragging about you He's telling you all these things Then it start working It starts blowing It starts going And he invite me to a show I went

We all went Yeah That show That was crazy I almost got caught up Back there I almost got roped up You must know You must know what happened Yeah that show that was crazy. I almost got caught up in back there. I almost got roped up at that show. You must know what happened, right?

Yeah, that show almost got me fucked up. At the film one. Oh yeah, yeah. I almost got arrested back there. But by the way, I'm sitting around, they're like, you know, these are nice kids, man. They're good people. I go with no security. I go with like one person.

I'm sitting there. I'm rolling my bloods. I'm like, let me go enjoy the show. So people was like, yo, you don't want to go backstage? I think I came and gave you a five, gave you a five. But I was like, no, let me stay on the side of the stage. I want to watch the show. I don't know what happened, Rock.

I saw it all happen. but the show didn't happen or maybe it did and it was like I was like is these the nice kids that you were talking about you niggas was off the I'm looking like

wait a minute you sure they not gangster rap like it was y'all reminded me so much of me and what did I do I was scared of y'all

I was like nah I gotta go these young niggas is crazy yeah that shit was wild so nah we was wildin' back then bro we ain't really have a lot to lose

right I think um I was way more reckless back then I've grown yes I'm a young man now I was a young reckless back then. I've grown. Yes. I'm a young man now.

I was a young lad back then. Right. So, we was going crazy. So, what was it? That was God saying, thank you, thank you for growing up.

That was God saying that. But, but what was that? Was it Space Ghost Purp or something like that? Yeah, yeah. So, what exactly happened? It was the Big Money Homies, right?

Yeah, so basically, like, it was a bunch of niggas out here that kind of, like, came after the show that we had smoke with or whatever the case was, right? Me and homies smoke, like, stemmed from way back when or whatever, right? We out here, they saying that they was outside looking for niggas. So everybody just got into it. We heard they was back there. So niggas wanted to see what the smoke was about.

I saw a lot of people went to jail. We had to pay a lot of fees. Yo, they were grabbing everybody. Yeah. They locked up security. Had my car trapped back there. They would grab, I'm out of here. I had to leave my car.

That's because the police came. I said, man, fuck my car. Yeah. Uber wasn't even involved. It was invented back then. I had to make up an Uber. You know, like, niggas don't squabble no more, right? So, like, niggas don't shoot the fair ones.

So, like, I think everybody just, like, had to, like, subsequently pay for that. And that kind of shit don't pay, man. Like, that kind of shit costs too much. It's just stupid. Thank you for learning. Yeah, I mean, when you broke, you got time to deal with, like, you know what I'm saying? Yo, you was lit at that time. I can't, I can't, I don't think.

But that's not a comparison to who I am today. Oh, yeah, right. Okay, he was broke a bit. Usually he was lit, but it's a different thing now where he's not lit. But that was the thing was, to me, I was saying to myself, damn, I wanted them, I wanted y'all to learn off of me. Because I had to go through shit like that. And then, like, I was banned from every club in New York City. Yo, wasn't, like, hold on.

You know, growing up, I thought you was on the run. The whole time. I thought he was on the run. I got older. I found out that was a campaign shot. Yes, and this genius tells me. I fooled you. I got you.

Of course. I got you. Make some noise for me, bro. It's around the same time as this Harry, bro. Yo, I swear to God, when I seen you. I got you. Make some noise for me, man. It's around the same time as this Harry Bird. Well, I swear to God, when I seen you guys, bro, and I've seen that young, I don't give a fuck energy, but what's crazy about it is when you're on your way up, like Denzel said it to Will,

when you're going to the highest, that's when the devil comes. But I knew at that moment i said these is new york babies they are the descendants of the locks mob deep a wu-tang clan of capone and oriega just because they sound sounded a little different the make yeah, I was no different Well, we inspire about oh yeah, well, so you know that like we grew up on y'all You know, I'm just trying to like tickle your fancy right now. I am just my man. I know that I know that yams love you. First of all, don't get me started. Right? Yeah, I used to have a blog

It was called real nigga tumblr.com And basically that's how I popped off. I'm taking a shot to that. I'm sorry. Yeah, shout out to Stevie. Best of peace, A$AP Yams. You know what I'm saying? Best of peace.

I'm definitely taking a shot. Y'all ghetto birds going crazy over here. Yeah. But yeah, Yams. I used to speak to Yams so much, Rocky. I don't know if you know. Yeah. Because I think he hit me on Twitter.

So this is to Yam. So we all going to take a shot. Yeah. And we're going to all rest in peace to Yam. Rest in peace. He had two different souls. I'm going to tell you what he had. He had one of the purest souls I ever met.

And he had one of the oldest souls I ever met. I did not know he was young, bro. I thought that nigga was my age. He knew everything about that era. So I never had, I never got a chance to say, yo, how old are you? Because I just knew he was my age

because of how knowledgeable he was. So let's talk about that relationship because I feel like had it gone on, that was your dame dash. Yeah, what? That was your pup daddy. Absolutely. You know what I'm saying? Absolutely. So how did y'all even connect?

I know y'all both from Harlem, but. We really connected on some street fashion shit and some fashion street shit. Wow. Wow, that's fire. Nah, like, basically, my crew was named MDB, right? And ASAP, like, I was in between, like, both crews type shit, right?

MDB was more like a get money, like, Harlem type of crew type shit. ASAP was, like, more of, like, get fly, go downtown, get some, get girls, get money type shit, right? From the Bronx and Harlem, kind of. From the Bronx and Harlem type of crew type shit. ASAP was like more of like get fly, go downtown, get some, get girls, get money type shit. From the Bronx and Harlem kind of. From the Bronx and Harlem type shit, right. But we would go down to Soho, we would go down to like

Lower East Side and all that downtown and shit, hang out. Those fly niggas. Yeah, yeah, type shit, right. So basically one day both of my crews was fighting or whatever and like probably like, this probably got to be like 06. Around the time like I used to just see them all in Harlem or whatever. I used to be like, yo, y'all wear skinny jeans

too. Y'all know what YSL, like they used to wear Yves Saint Laurent back in like 06. Like you know what I'm saying? Niggas were wearing trues, but we was wearing Pradas and Mauries and all type of shit. Like, don't get me started with the name brand. John Richmond, all type of shit, right? And antique denim, sevens, true religions, all that was popping, right? So, basically, they, like, you used to have to get girl jeans or you used to have to go to a tailor to get your jeans, like, tailors to make them skinny. Because nobody sold skinny jeans back then, right? So, we used to buy, like, girl jeans or you used to have to go to a tailor to get your jeans like tailors to make them skinny because nobody sold skinny jeans back then, right?

We used to buy like girl jeans. We used to buy seven jeans that was for women but we used to wear them skinny. We started the skinny revolution. I know you're looking at me crazy like y'all niggas did what? No, we're wondering how they don't start. You're breaking it down. I thought Pharrell started

the skinny jeans. If you want to be technical, Subi and Hedy Slimane, like, Dior started skinny jeans. If you want to, or Saint Laurent started skinny jeans. Christian Dior? Christian Dior, or if not Saint Laurent, yeah, man. No, I'm not a fashion nigga at all. I didn't know Christian Dior make jeans.

Yeah, they make denim. I'm out of the loop. I'm going to continue nigga at all. I didn't know Christians y'all make jeans. Yeah, they make denim. I'm out of the loop. I'm going to continue though, sir. Nah, so basically like back in like 05, 04, 05, Hedy Slimane was the creative designer, creative director for Dior at the time. Right now he's the creative director for Celine. So all the shit that you see, like that's him designing it or whatever. But back then he was doing Dior.

He used to shit like He used to look at like the Australians And how they used to cut they jeans Like New Deal By way of Ireland See I got to mix that man I'm only explaining all this Because I'm drunk

And besides me being drunk I'm trying to give you all the origin How it started But to make a long story short That's how I met them A$AP niggas. They was just like all them dudes was wearing skinny jeans and shit. And they used to have a different style and a lot of fitted shirts and just t-shirts, dirty jeans, sloppy joe and all this other shit. And nudie jeans, all that, Subis.

But long story short, I met them. And when I met them, it was in Harlem. It was a mixture of Bronx and Harlem dudes. When I came in, I'm just like, yo, I know how to take this shit to the next level. But, you know, I was on some rapping shit. Everybody was on some just get fly and fashion model shit, right? So I was just trying to figure out how to monetize it or whatever, you know what I'm saying? And capitalize.

So they always told me about Stevie E. He was like, yo, he the guru. He started this. But niggas in ASAP used to treat yams like he was like Yoda or some shit. Like, for real. Like real shit. Yeah, they used to praise him. But you never see him.

You know what I'm saying? You hear about him. He got tattoos. He got this. He got that. So like two years passed. And finally, ASAP. And I'm rapping for him over the got tattoos. He got this. He got that. So two years passed, and finally, ASAP. And I'm rapping for him over the phone, all type of shit.

This before Instagram and all this other shit. So I'm talking to him all the time. He telling me the codes. He telling me how to keep everybody straight. He fake was on some Superior shit. You know what I'm saying? He fake was treating this shit like on some gang shit type shit. It was a set. You know what I'm saying? E-Fake was treating this shit like on some gang shit type shit. Like, it was a set,

you know what I'm saying? And at some point, you had to fight to get in, like. You had to get walked in and shit. Like, you had to get in this shit. You couldn't just be like,

oh, I'm just hanging, like, you know what I'm saying? And then before you know, when we got famous, everybody started throwing that shit up and, you know, got infiltrated.

But, like, before, you used to have to fight. You used to have to get your one-on-one to join ASAP type shit. But, basically, Yens was just like, before, you used to have to fight. You used to have to get your one-on-one to join ASAP type shit. But basically, Yens was just like, yo, you know what I'm saying? Like, when I come back, we're going to get it shaken with the music. We're going to do this. We're going to get it started.

And he never came. He never came. And then one day, my crew, my old crew, my new crew was having a fight. And I see this short motherfucker with mad face tats. Before, face tats was a thing you know I'm saying and um it's like who the fuck is that he said yo that's Stevie E that's how I met my mans and you know I'm saying I left that that crew that day ASAP one I left the crew and um that was that was the start of it i don't like the fact you got me tipsy right now i feel like i just answered that question mad long for there was just tedious

let me just tell you something bro um yams has to be remembered you know what i'm saying he has to be remembered he has to be praised um um like i said you know when you start popping and i start speaking to them I didn't even speak to them knowing that y'all was related at this time I was speaking to them just I had just got Twitter and I was just a fan thinking like oh everyone that's on here likes me

you know what I'm saying boy was that a rude awakening cause I was just like oh okay everyone was so nice at first Twitter's my most negative. My mother's going to start following you as the only one that likes you. Remember, this is very first started. So I'm on there.

I'm an old nigga. I'm sitting there on Twitter. Niggas is like, yo, you a king? I'm like, word. Let me follow him. Like, yo, yo, yo. That wasn't until a nigga said, shut the fuck up. I'm like, what the fuck?

I thought everyone loved me. So I started my relationship with him. And he was an oracle. He would have been on Star Island next to Puff Daddy with his own goddamn crib, everything. I feel like I put him up there with Dane, Irv. Yeah, me too. I put him up there with Puff. He had an eye for it, but he was so strategic. He had, me too. I put him up there with Puff. Like, he had an eye for it,

but he was so strategic. Right. He had an air, too. How was he so young but still know about the old era? And it wasn't... If Google existed,

it wasn't popping. Yeah. So how did he know... He was doing another game. Yanz was different, so, like, he would collect... Like, if you went to his crib, he had Vibes,

Source, XXL, like, magazines. Wow, makes sense. Yeah, like, if you went to his crib, he had Vibes, Source, XXL, like, magazines. Makes sense. Yeah, like, Soul Train, Ozone,

like, he just had magazines stacked, and he really wanted to be a ghetto journalist. That was his thing, he was going to be a journalist, so that's why he started Real Nigga Tumblr,

because he wanted to give another eye, and that's why everybody hopped on that appreciation for the old wave shit, like, you know what I'm saying? Right.

Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy, man. I'm going to take another shot to Yams, man. Yeah, man. I'm going to fall back on this shit. I miss Yams. I miss Yams like crazy. Yo, for real, for real, man.

Not to just be saying it on camera, man. Yams loved you, B. Yeah, no. I love that. I love him, too. Yams loved you. Like, for real, though. Good.

He was really a fan of y'all, bro. Yep. You know what I'm saying? It's like CNN. Different. He expressed that. I love them too. He just loved you. Like for real though. He was really a fan of y'all, bro. You know what I'm saying? It's like CNN. Different. He expressed that. You got the CNN Supreme shirt. Of course. I made it.

You still got one? I could get one. You're doing bad, man. Man, I ain't going to lie. You're going to pay a lot for that. Yo, listen. I ain't going to lie. When I seen the resale market.

Resale price. I got a skateboard. I would like to give one of his family members a skateboard. Whether it's a Supreme skateboard. Nah, I can make that happen. No, I got it. It's done. Because Supreme already made it.

You got two of those? Yeah, I got one. I'm saying, I'm giving it to you. You need to sign it, too. It's signed, sir. I'm going to get one of his moms. You know what I'm saying? I got to get one of his moms.

Yeah, his mom. That's what I'm saying. I would like to give it to his children. For sure. Thank you. So, y'all got to get one of his moms. Yeah, his mom. That's what I'm saying. I would like to give it to his children. For sure. Thank you. So y'all got Yams Day, right? We got Yams Day. It's been going on.

I think with the whole COVID thing, like, we kind of just, you know, treat it more as a memorial for a celebration opposed to trying to, like, do, like, events and festivities and shit. But who knows if, like, you know, next year we'll do something, you know? Because, like, um. That shit was up. Yeah, something. That shit was up. That shit go up. Like, Yam's Day, that shit was looking

like Hot 97. We had it at Barclays. Barclays, that's right. So, what the thing that happened with Travis, does that make you scared to perform? Because they want to blame you? And you guys

turn up. Your music is not for the people to sit around and chill. I would say ever since that horrific night, shows, they've been real like- They changed the whole live show system. About how you like my show. Like I was just out in Brazil and all that, and they just stopped the show. Like, yo, some people like it's getting a little rowdy in the front, trampled and stuff. They just stopped the show, and I just like, cool. You know, I get it.

I think people are going to take precautions now. They stopped you from performing? Nah, I was in the middle of performing. They parked it. They parked the show. We continued after them. But I think that everybody taking pre-precautions now just because of what happened. More so than ever, I don't think that like even Live Nation or just any kind of venue

seen this kind of like travesty or lawsuits before. So, you know, I think this is new for everybody. So I think a lot of people trying to take it easy. But we still going crazy at my shit. We still going stupid. Like, we part of a, that's part of our culture. Like, we really got a,

we rap, but we got a punk mentality to this shit. Like, really and truly, that's where that don't give a fuck shit really come from. Like, wearing the same shit

you had on for like four days in a row type shit. Like, that's like, you know, it might be some shit, but niggas had it on for a while. You know what I'm like that's punk right you know you go to a show you get out anger you get out energy and you know what i'm saying you get socked in the face you take that you take that on the chin pause like you know what i'm saying you don't really take it as like oh people

throwing things on stage at you like but out of love nah see that's different like i i like if you throw something On stage Depending on what it is Like, women throw bras and stuff Like, I'm not That's cool You know what I'm saying But

And flowers You know what I'm saying I was I was in I was in But hold up Did you know How closely the

The history of punk and hip-hop The beginnings of hip-hop How closely Absolutely, like So, punk and hip-hop Was both originated Like, 77 in New York Right That's the year I was born Yeah, right I think, like hip-hop the beginnings of hip-hop absolutely like iso punk and hip-hop was both originating like 77 in new york right yeah i was born yeah right i think like don't get me wrong i mean you you

the genre might have been around in like 73 74 but like it really was established they say right it's like 76 77 so it's hip-hop in the same city, New York. And it started out from struggle. It started out with people with minimal resources. Counter-culture, both of them. Yeah, counter-culture. And it started out with people with minimal resources. The only reason why hip-hop exists, people be like, yo, Kanye always was sampling

and shit like that and da-da-da-da-da. But that's really where it started. We only had our parents' records. So you'll love a beat from this. So you'll take the first 10 seconds from this, let it play. And you'll love the synths on this one. So you'll let that play. You put them together, then you should start rapping.

And that's what we do now, essentially. That's where hip-hop started out. Just motherfuckers doing it for fun. And the punk type shit, you know what I'm saying? And in the punk clubs, we had Grandmaster Kaz here. And he was talking about the fashion and the venues were shit. You know what I'm saying? And in the punk clubs, we had Grandmaster Kaz here and he was talking about the fashion and the venues were shared with punk.

Yo. Yeah, he said that. AC, DC, all that. Yeah, because some of the venues, the only place they could do hip-hop events was at the punk venues. That's a fact.

And they would basically be interacting and the clothing would be interchangeable. That's a fact. Yeah. One of my favorite punk bands is Bad Brains, man. You know, they black and, like, they was wild.

They was, like, some funky dreadheads and shit. Like, it was, they shit is tight. Nah, punk. It's like that shit. Now, I heard that you originally didn't want to do problems. Nah, you know what it is, Noah? It's like... It's something that you can never describe

unless you're an artist, so only a niche demographic is going... You know how, like... You hate your hits. I hate oh no. Huh? I hate oh no. My hit oh no? Oh, oh No. Huh? I hate Oh No. My hit Oh No.

Oh No. I can't stand it. He's performing it. I love performing it, though. No, you don't perform it. You stand there and go, all right, y'all take over. Stop blowing me up.

I ain't going to hold you like, you bugging for that. Now you wowing. You about to say you ain't like Robbins. You just throw it on me. They just know about you. This is a fucking hit the record.

So you get it though, man. I get it, I get it. Nah, like, that record, that was fire. It was a dope time and all that, man. You know what I'm saying?

What made you not want to, what made you not like it? Get over it, man. Because you look like you trying to play the scope of the game. Like, you know what I'm saying? At the end of the day, you come in and you kind of want to do your own thing.

It's a formula. Every few years it changes, right? So now the formula is do a TikTok or do this, do that, do that. At the time, it was like, you know what I'm saying? Get on a song with Drake. Get with 2 Chainz. That's going to make a hit. Like, you know, make this kind of song with this BPM.

It's going to be a hit. And sometimes, like, you know, a this kind of song with this BPM. It's going to be a hit. And sometimes, like, you know, a person like me, I just was like, I was afraid of looking like I was trying, but I don't give a fuck. Like, it is what it is.

You know what I'm saying? It's a fucking dope-ass record. It is. Crazy record. So what club was this at that didn't let you and Riri in? and how much is they that they let us in on them they let us in oh that was that was the internet that was just me

first of all me and my lady was just walking around because that's what we do like you know what i'm saying we had a new york i love smoking chilling and i'm like yo you want to go to this spot like yeah so we walked up to this arcade. Beings that we had so much shit going on, the owner was just acting like he was being a fucking dweeb. Do we shit on this club right now? Because I would love to. Nah, don't shit on it because it's an independent joint and it's not a club, it's an arcade.

An arcade. It's a bar arcade. They fucked up. They fucked up, but they let us in. They just gave us shit at the door like, yo, you bringing all these people? We look like we with these motherfuckers. We look like we going to bring cameras in here. So can we bring your man in before we wrap it up so we can talk about the Mercer a little

bit more? Man, let's do that, man. Come on. Let's bring a chair for him so we can bring James in from Australia, Ireland. By way of Canada, by way of Ireland. Yes. I ain't going to lie. You got me dumb bop right now.

Nah, you good. You good. We can give you your flowers, my brother. Nah, you is. I appreciate it, though, no? You deserve it. And we're going to pick up this company, man. For sure.

I'm going to do something with y'all. Yeah, no problem. You got to see. I want to show you the commercials and shit we shot, man. We directed. It's crazy. He showed me one. But I bet you didn't know my dad dropped.

My dad died. I swear to God, I ain't. Yeah. So that was 99? 98. 98. I actually said it on the ride. My pops died on July 3rd, 98.

So now a nigga need mad earth. But I was number one. And that shit was like horrible for me. Yo, no funny shit though. It's just like. I had no time to. To let it settle in. Yeah.

And then when they told me that about you, they was like, you know, he lived that same exact shit. And I was like. Nah, you told me this though. You told me this story. Okay, okay. You told me this story. You know what I'm saying? Someone told me that. So I wanted to give you. Nah,, you told me this, though. Right. You told me this story. Okay, okay. You told me this story one night at Puck Creek. Yeah, no, no, because I'm saying someone told me that, so I wanted to give you the same shit.

You told me this story, though. It was on Thanksgiving, and I started sharing the tip. I don't know if you remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Puck Daddy Creek. I started sharing the tip. That's where it was at, right? He was in the back, and you just was like, yo, bro, I fuck with you.

I got so much love for Yams. Something even more crazy is this. Your wife was there. It was cool and it was beautiful too. What up, James? What's going on? Yeah, I'm sorry. I lost my butt, bitch.

Let me introduce y'all. This is my man James right here, man. GBE. Like Chief Keef and them. Okay, okay. So let's get straight to it. Is the mic on? Are we good?

You need levels? No. I respect the hustle because this just keeps us here a to it. Is the mic on, Haz? We good? You need levels? No. I respect the hustle because this just keeps us here a little longer. But let me ask you, how did y'all connect? How is this Prince Mercer thing happening? Yeah, we connected about three, four years ago. You're not blocking his face, right? I don't want your product.

I know your product is you. It's crazy. Yeah, but we ain't blocking his face, is we? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember, we can switch it you. It's crazy. Yeah, but it ain't blocking his face, is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember, we can switch it horizontal. Okay, cool. We want you to shine, James. So, yeah, tell us what...

It's crazy, man. Back in 2013, I moved to New York from Ireland a long time ago. And I was walking the streets. I was opening a bar in New York City. We were building the place. And I saw Rocky walk by one day into the restaurant, and I said, holy shit, he's one of my idols. I've been following this cat since day one.

If I could just get him to come to my bar one time, I'd have made it in New York. You had a bar in New York? 2013, back in the day. I used to have bars there. So then a few years later, when I developed the company in the liquor business, we connected. And it's crazy. It's like we just connected kind of creatively in terms of what we wanted to do.

In terms of what he wanted to do. He showed me a napkin sketch, which I think you were a little slow to show it to me. So basically, I didn't really want to present it to him. I just drew on a napkin how I wanted the bottle and shit and how I wanted it to function and the duality of it. And he got it right away. He didn't even laugh, none of that shit. So this is the original sketch like this? Yeah.

Yeah, we brought it to life. So a lot of companies, my mantra is with musicians, with the creativity that someone like Rocky has, as such an intentional creator, how can we translate that into a product? The big companies don't want to hear it. They don't want to do it. It takes time, headaches, barriers. They just want to put a name on something and put that.

They just want a white label. No endorsement type of shit. Like this is just my shit. For us, if it takes two years or eight years, it doesn't matter. We want to do it right in the way he wants it. So, you know, behind the scenes scenes running the business 24 7 making sure the businesses work and making sure we can own the business together it's not pay to play you know we own it it's equity it's it's ownership that's important because a lot of people have been ripped off for a long time let's make some

noise for that he said that so eloquently man No, no, that's real because the spirits game, if you play it for the long run, is very, very lucrative, correct? Yeah, so it's a long-term play. And there's a lot to it. You know, there's distribution, there's importation, there's compliance,

there's a lot of unsexy stuff day to day. Those foundations have to be there. But if you can connect on a creative level like me and Rocky have been able to connect in terms of creating this, that's when some magic happens.

He's such an intentional creator and the vision he had for this. He knew exactly what he wanted and it was a pain in the ass at times to make it work, but the end result was so worth it. It was the cups, man. That's the part that everybody looked at. This is fire.

Why make this beautiful bottle fire no yeah this beautiful why make this beautiful bottle this expensive looking product and didn't make it affordable yes that's the point though yo bro you ever see that's the issue right you know how you just asked me when i first came on how come you ain't got no clothing brands that's because all the shit i do be too expensive i I could just start naming mad collaborations that we did throughout the years. I did a rap...

Kanye was name dropping over here, so you can name drop. You can name drop. Let's go. You know what I'm saying? We did a Needles collab. We did a J.W. Anderson

collaboration. We do so many collaborations. Marine said, Amita Maudie, I made heels for women. You know what I'm saying? Just like, we do collaborations all the time that sometimes it's not accessible or it I made heels for women. You know what I'm saying? Just like we do collaborations

all the time that sometimes it's not accessible. It's not affordable for people. So that's why I wanted to do things in a range or medium that would be more accessible, like even clothes, like doing things with Paxon. It's not cheap. It's just like more accessible. You know what I'm saying? And by no means is this cheap. It takes so much to, like, manufacture the bottle. And we just really want to give people what they're paying for. Like, you know, at the end of the day, it's really the liquid. The elixir itself, different. You know what I'm saying?

I don't even got to guess it. I know you're feeling it, right? No, I'm fucking with it. Look, look, I'm still shooting. Will it be a part of a product line, or is this just one? It's a standalone brand. It's on two feet. Look, whiskey's been so traditional and so stereotypical.

It's been male drinkers. Why do men drink whiskey and women don't traditionally? It got that. Our taste buds are all the same. That masculine facade. It's a masculine facade. And I think that, like, the point was just to really disrupt tradition. And we kind of figured, like, whiskey would be the best space to do that in

because it's like, it's none like, it's no other areas that's like it, you know? And I feel like when it comes to people who try to do things, it's right now the thing to do is just be like tequila, all that other shit that is easy. Like this literally tastes amazing. That's why we fuck with it. That's why we did it. And were you a big drinker before this, or? I was more of a

smoker, you know what I'm saying? But I was more of a meticulous drinker. Like, I was very precise and specific. So I wanted some Henny, some D'Ussé or something like that, some Closet Azul, something like that, you know what I'm saying? Keep it black on. You want a Deleon. You want a D'Ussé. This is a liquor I'm saying? Keep it black on, you want deli on. You want a duce.

This is liquor I'm coming out with. What? Japanese liquor. What? You doing a whiskey? Oh, Japanese whiskey. Ah, we got to collab on something. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We got to treat it like fashion. You gonna collab with me? I ain't gonna lie to you. You look expensive. Man, come on. I ain't gonna lie to you. Shout out to Noah, man. Yes, yes, yes.

Shout out to Noah. Yes, yes, my man. So when you said that, well, we're putting it together because I wanted to be Japanese whiskey. I wanted to actually be Japanese whiskey. This is fucking fantastic, bro. I'm telling you.

No, it's amazing. It tastes great. I ain't even saying this because it's yours because if it wasn't, I got to be filled with my fans. I got to be like, yo, yo, it was okay. We've had some instances where an artist brought liquor and it was foul. And I was like, I'm switching back. wasn't I gotta be filled my fan I gotta enjoy myself so I can't be that you have another you have a tequila coming out with Kevin Hart yeah we've got a couple

of projects but again it's all intentional it has to be we have it's a journey these things they come out and it looks like oh you put this together a Yeah, we've got a couple of projects. But again, it's all intentional. It has to be. It's a journey. These things, they come out and it looks like, oh, you put this together a few months ago. This has been years in the making. These projects take time to get them right. They have to be perfect. And again, it takes time. It just takes time.

So when are y'all going to do a sipping tasting in Miami? Y'all should do like a. I mean, if you host it. Oh, no, we already host this sir. I say that Okay, yeah, we already Let's make this happen Nah, nah, we doing it. We hosting this at Tasting I'm dead ass though

Yeah, yeah, yeah Alright, say that, say that This is beautiful, man. This is, I'm really proud. I'm really proud of Nah, thank you. You know, I was real, um Obviously, I like, I was a precautious because I know you know your shit Oh, no, no, no, Iutious because I know you know your shit. Oh, no, no, no, I do. Nah, I know you know your shit. Yeah, I do.

And the fact that you're making Japanese whiskey, and this is inspired by Manzanora Japanese whiskey barrels. Yes. Like, you know. Because this, like I said, this is actually, I can tell y'all put all, like, manpower. I tell y'all I all, like, manpower. I tell y'all, I care about the product because of how it tastes, how it looks. Because this shit could be mad. This mad pretty bottles of liquor that shit.

You'd be like, yo, why the fuck did y'all spend this much on making it look good? That's why. That's why they spend it on that. Not on the product. I think what this bottle have is just, like, elegance and functionality. Right? Like, a woman could hold this and look right. A man could hold this and look very elegant. I think what this bottle has is just like elegance and functionality, right? Like a woman can hold this and look right. A man can hold this and look very elegant. Or, you know, you might be in a club.

You might be at home. You might be anywhere. It don't matter where the occasion or the environment. I think it's appropriate. I wanted to make some shit that you would be proud to just leave in your crib like a boss. Like just leave it there. I know you just shot the video with Nas. Did you give Nas something?

I ain't give Nas none of this. He's a whiskey connoisseur, too. You bullshit. Yeah, Nas and Jay, they all whiskey connoisseurs. Yeah. Word. I got it from them.

Got you. I thought Jay was a wine connoisseur because he know the wine. It's pretty much both, sir. It's pretty much both. Got you. He came out and drank with me just to test me to make sure I knew my shit. And you know, he got way more money than me.

So me keeping up is not easy. It's not easy. I'm keeping it at 100. I'm keeping it at 100. Now, we got to give it up for Noah on that note. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'm not keeping up. No, no, no. I'm not lying. You kept on with Jay? No, no, I'm not keeping on with that note.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because by the way, you know, we had to just let him know that we drink, because I have a line in the record where I say,

I drink more Ace than Hov do. So he heard that line and said, man, I think he do. I don't know. He said, he admitted it.

He said, damn it, you're trying to floor something, you know what I mean? He said, but I would have said that line. And I said, man, I think he do. He said, damn it. You're trying to floss on me, you know what I mean? He said, but I would have said that line. And I said, well, good, because I said it. And I'm not taking it back.

But that's crazy. This is the funny part is we walk into a restaurant and the restaurant is closed. But Jay's like, what do you mean it's closed? They're going to open when we say open.

So he walks in. He walks in, and I'm like, I'm like, and then the people walk over, and they're like, oh shit, that's Jay-Z. And then he walks out, and I said, I cannot try this. I am nowhere near this famous. They're going to call the police on me. Me trying to walk

into a closed restaurant. But hey, I'm not going to lie. You that famous right now. Are you walking to the department stores and they just taking shit off of mannequins and putting it on you? I ain't going to hold you in the fashion industry, man, and just in the fashion world.

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Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st, and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Yo, you want to know a funny story about Jay and Ace of Spades, though? Let's go. Let's go. It's crazy with Ace because growing up, I always knew like Puffin and Hov and all of them for like. Chris Style. Yeah, Chris Style.

They was promoting Chris Style, right? They're on your record, you said. Right? So look, when I first came out, I'm like, Chris style by the cases. Or, you know, maybe that was racist. I would prefer the Aces. Ain't no different when you taste it. Like, I ain't no J on Ace of Spades. How was this call?

How was this call? I ain't going to lie. I don't think he was jacking it. So did he call you or did he see you in person? Nah, like, he seen some little ASAP niggas back in the day. Like, he seen, like, ASAP Bari and all. And he called them to the side, like, yo, come in, yo. Let me holla at y'all.

This is, like, my first song without Peso. I don't even know. He know them niggas. Like, you know what I'm saying? So he's like, yo, your man's like, what's up with that line? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, because I might have said some crazy shit. Like, we sent Chris and fucking Ace.

I didn't know that it was on by the day. Wow. Wow. You know what I'm saying? So he was just like, yo, you know, they don't really support us. They not for us. Chris Dow, they racist. Like, you got to, you know?

Right. From that moment, that's when I knew, like, oh, shit. Yeah. I mean, that's what's fucked up about us is we'll blow up a company and make a company mad important. And we find out who they are. And you're like, whoa, that's how they feel about us? That's a fact. Like, it's crazy.

It's even, I love Pinot Grigio wine. And people I know tried to get a meeting with people that own Santa Margarita, and they're the same people as Chris Stile. Damn.

They said, we don't want no meeting. We don't even want y'all drinking it. Let me stop. I don't remember if they're saying they didn't want us drinking it. It sounds good. Just throw it in there. Yeah, but they definitely was like, nah, we good. We don't remember if they're saying they didn't want us drinking it. It sounds good. Just throw it in there.

Yeah, but they definitely was like, nah, we good. We don't want no rapper brand. We don't want no rapper endorsements. And it was just like, how about a relationship? Right. Like, it don't always got to be

rapper endorsements. How about just, you know, I like your product. You know, should you respect me? And just, you know, let's make a relationship. That's why I do respect Habiki. You know what I'm saying? Like, Habiki reached out to us and was just like, yo,

you know, if anything, if I can't, we would like to do business, but if anything, let's just develop a relationship. That's fine. So this is the reason why I'm fucking with y'all. Thank you. Because if anything, we got a motherfucking relationship. Yes. Motherfucking Prince Mercer Prince

Yes sir You know I'm dyslexic So I might call it The opposite way Mercer Prince And you know what I'm saying Still make that shit hot Yo I gotta ask you

Some questions though Yes you can ask me Yo I'm in I'm in What was your favorite You enjoy Pardon me I'm tipsy But you enjoy Disclaimers all day Disclaimers all day But did you enjoy What was your favorite? You enjoy Paul M. Tips.

You enjoy disclaimers all day. Disclaimers all day. But did you enjoy filming State Property 2 or Paper Soldiers more? Man, this nigga got deep on me, huh? This nigga got deep on me, huh? No, I'm going to take a shot. I'm going to take a shot. I'm going to take a shot. I'm going to take a shot. I'm going to take a shot.

He got ASAP with Rocky. I got the answer. What you said again? You said paper soldiers? Oh, state property. State property. Oh, state property too, hands down. If you say both, you got to drink. Yeah, I'm drinking if I say one.

But I'll explain. Oh, Jay, the kiss is calling. Come on. Kiss. Come on. Come on. Kiss. What, come on! Come on, come on! What's going on? Yeah, we all dream chaps. That nigga volume don't work?

Like, zoom in on it. Zoom in on the guy. What's going on? Let's go make some noise for Jada motherfucking Kidd. Hey yo, Kidd, they sure do me dirty. They gonna ask me, you a fat?

I don't even got no voice. I'm over here hoarse. They doing me dirty right now, Kidd. I ain't gonna hold you. What you say? What you say? No, no. Tell him what I said, no?

Tell him what I said. No. Oh, he definitely said you. He definitely said you. No, bro. Yeah. You know, you know, you know, my son Rocky, I had Rocky at my son's 16th birthday party Wow But

Um My son is Like an ASAP member Right So I'm like the uncle ASAP kiss That's a fact I used to do the merch

For Bad Boy So I got a lot of affiliation With the ASAP family You know That's my brother That's my little brother. I love him, wish him nothing but the best.

I know he was going to pick me, Nate. Yo, kiss to Allah. Thank you for checking in, my brother. Allah, you kiss? You know that? Gangsta. Yo, what was he talking about before this? About state property and paper soldiers.

I'm going to tell you why. That shit crept up on you, huh? No, state property was my favorite ever. Yeah. Because everyone knows I freestyle all my movies. I don't give a fuck what line. Was that your first movie? That's my first starring movie.

Nigga, that's my first movie. I was in Paper Soldiers before that. I was't give a fuck what the line... Was that your first movie? That's my first starring movie, nigga. That's my first movie. I was in Paper Soldiers before that. I was in it. But it was crazy because they wrote it for a black and Puerto Rican dude. It was Petey Crack's role. Petey Crack got locked up. So they came to me and was like, yo, we want you to play this role. So I read

it and it said Pedro. And I said, I can't play Pedro. I said, I don't care what I can do. I ain't Pedro. I'm the y I can't play Pedro. I said, I don't care what I can do. I ain't Pedro. I'm the yalla yalla. I'm the yalla yalla. We're going to. I said, the only way I could do this, if y'all change it all up.

And they said, change it up for what? I said, I don't want none of these lines. I want y'all to base y'all lines off of what you think I'm going to say. Because I'm going to freestyle the whole shit. So I Larry David the whole movie. I never, I never. You said Larry I'm going to freestyle the whole shit. So I Larry David the whole movie. I never, I never,

Larry David. I never read the script. I made them change the whole script to me. The director do, the writer do had this hang with me in the hood lab.

I had a famous studio called the hood lab have a Rykeri drinking out of styrofoam cups in there. So legendary stuff. Legendary. I'm a legend.

Yes, I've been doing this. I've been doing this. I've been doing this. So I told him, I said, I'll do it as long as y'all alter the whole shit. So I altered the whole shit

and they actually literally let me do whatever the fuck I wanted to do. Dame did not understand. Dame looked at me and was like, you know you gotta say this line.

And I was like, bet, I'm gonna say that line. But I'm gonna say a whole bunch of other shit before it and a whole bunch of other shit after it. And it made people fall in love with me. And I love the fact that that movie really showed what they call acting chops, my chops.

You know what I'm saying? So, yeah, that was an easy question for me. Now, Paper Soldiers was the first time I met Kevin Hart. That's his first movie, right? Yeah. That's his first movie. That's Kevin Hart's first movie. So if you look at his first scene interacting is with me.

And for me to see where Kevin Hart went from there, holy moly, I be hitting him all the time. I actually got a meeting with his company tomorrow, or is it Monday? Forget it. I always thought Smokey was going to be like Smokey funniest shit. I say that. That's why I brung it up.

Smokey was actually the funniest dude on the set. Because me and Beans, to keep it 100, me, Beans, and Dane was baking on all the comedians. We wanted to out funny the comedians. I don't know what's wrong with us. That was not a good idea. Like, you know what I mean? But then they came back. And then I seen Kevin and Soul Plane.

And I still didn't think he was, I'm not sure. But then. After that. Then after that, along came Pauly. And I was like, he's gone. What's crazy about Paper Soldiers is your character had to clown the nigga Smokey for wearing a Supreme jersey. Supreme 33.

And we didn't know what Supreme was back then. Nigga said, that's some fake Pac-Yo. Oh, I didn't even peek that. Supreme. Supreme. Fake Pac-Yo, my nigga. Oh, the Supreme. And you got a Supreme seat.

Oh, I'm a legend. Oh! Oh! I didn't even know it was who like a Supreme back then. I didn't even peek that. You had on some fake Pac-Yo. Yeah. No! I didn't even repeat that. See, that's why you're a fashion legend.

Somebody's style is good. Yeah, yeah. Let me tell you why I know I'm not a fashion nigga at all. One day I'm wearing an outfit, right? And the socks I had on, I knew it didn't go with it. I knew it didn't go with it. But I was like, damn, if I wear these other socks, the outfit is correct when I'm uncomfortable. And I said, fuck it.

I'm going to be comfortable. I came outside not matching, knowing I'm not matching at all. That does not make me qualify to go to Fashion Week ever. Correct? That might be Fashion Week. Yo, honestly, it's about comfortability, bro. You gotta really, for real, for real, like, be comfortable. That's what people don't understand.

Like, being cozy, being... Fashion is a sense, right? So it's like a mood. You gotta just be comfortable. Like these mood. Like, you got to just be comfortable. Like these boots. Like, the fuck is these? You know what I'm saying?

Oh, you got the Uggs, y'all? Nah, these ain't Uggs. These are wet made. You know what I'm saying? Okay, okay. These are wet made boots. They ain't out yet, but these fire.

You feel me? But we in Miami. Right, yeah. You got to pick your battles. You want your Yeezy shit with the leather coat and all that. Nah, I'm just a flaco shit. No, no, no. Right, yeah. You got to pick your battles. You want your Yeezy shit with the leather coat and all that. Nah, I'm going to look fly, I'm going to shit.

No, no, no. I meant hot, because you ain't hot at all. Oh, yeah, nah, I'm cool. I'm shit. Double entendre. I'm taking another shot to that. I'm taking another shot to that. My son don't do a shot to Yeezy shit.

You funny. We got to go back to the first time he was actually on Drink Champs. Oh, do you remember that? You know, you're Drink Champs alumni. Yes. I felt like you walked up like you had maybe seen the show already. You knew what it was. Nah, that was like probably like third or fourth.

So you had never seen it? You had seen it? No. But I felt like I hadn't seen the show. You know me and T.I. was really going to get it on. Yeah, we saw what's up, niggas. What happened? We like best friends now.

I know, but what happened? That shit was an awkward night. There was some animosity. No, no. What happened was he didn't understand what podcasting was. He didn't understand me saying, yo, you know, niggas smashing. Like, nigga, I'm not the police. He thought you was asking so much but he was like he was like he was like no you ain't got to answer that you do not have to answer any of these questions

and then he was like what you got in your cup to me? I'm like, what? No, that was what made Drink Champs. Because we had to understand organization. And then I had to understand that. I mean, that was a wild Drink Champs to start with. Because you got to remember. That was in our session. Listen, you got to remember.

We went there for French. I seen you. I was like, all right, cool. This is in LA, by the way. French goes. But I went to TI to join, too. I knew I had a relationship with you. Me and you. I was like, all right, cool. This is in L.A., by the way. French goes, but I want T.I. to join, too. I knew I had a relationship with you. Me and you knew each other.

I knew French. I knew T.I., but I ain't know T.I. Word. And it's coming right off the Mayweather fight. I got to ask. Come on, my dude. I ain't going to. I'm not going to avoid.

This is the biggest thing. And I'm like, and T.I.'s like, yeah, but you know, that's that street shit. I said, let's make some noise for T.I. I still think he in the street. You are the furthest thing away from that, sir. You are a star. But anyway. Ain't that beautiful though? Nah, that was beautiful.

When it's just like, when it's just like unintentional. Right. It was the start though. It was a misunderstanding. Yeah, but it was unintentional how it happened. Yep. Now look at the way it's happening. It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like,

it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, It's just like unintentional. Right. It was the start though. It was a misunderstanding. Yeah, but it was unintentional how it happened. Now look at like what, five, six years. Six years. Six years. This month to this month.

Six years later. You know what I'm saying? This shit beautiful. Now we got our shit together. Yes, now we got our shit together. No, but I want to say, I always remember him coming to the table and he looked like he was so confused. No, at first he looked down with drinking. He's like, I ain't have fun with y'all.

And then it got weird after that. Nah, because I noticed you wasn't drinking nothing. No, we was drinking, but we didn't have our setup. We bummed our studio. We didn't have our bottles. We had nothing. Y'all had some bottles, but y'all wasn't drinking them. We didn't have our bottles. We had nothing. Oh, yeah. We had some bottles, but y'all wasn't drinking them.

We was drinking them. No. French kept wanting to take the big-ass shots like this. Because French was all like, y'all at that time. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And we came drunk, by the way. We got there drunk already.

You wouldn't know. I was babysitting that night. I swear to God. Yeah, yeah. I saw y'all babysitting. That's what they doing. That's what you was accusing us of. Y'all was babysitting.

I saw it. Yeah, yo, listen. For sure. That was an what they doing. That's what you was accusing us of. Y'all was babysitting. I saw it. For sure. That was an episode. We made it. That was organic. It was real shit. T.I., French, and you can always say we was a part of the very beginning. Yeah, that was the very beginning.

So I just want you to know, just in case you don't never know that, if you want to promote your new toilet paper line if you want to promote your new toenails line if you want to promote pink toenail line yeah yeah if you want to promote your new candle line i don't give a fuck what you want to promote this is your house this is your show man this is your show we are proud of everything we're doing we are proud of your smile because i could just remember me seeing you starting out and me seeing you, you know. Also, like, the thing about me seeing you at that show in Miami was almost like you were still like, I might not even belong in hip hop. And for me to feel you saying, damn, like, yo, man, don't fuck up your opportunity. And me, you know, calling Yanz and being on, and for it to go from there to be at where you at.

And I could just, I believe your smile. I believe your happiness. And there's certain people that sit here, and I'm like a therapist. I know. I get right through them. I know. I get right through them. I know. A bottle of Ace, some hollanda, and I can get through them, and I can tell you sincerely are happy. I want to say congratulations to your child on the way.

I want to say congratulations to your wife-to-be. I want to say congratulations to your wife-to-be because I'm a married man and I believe in that. So I want you to, you know, lock it up. It's time, baby. It's time. Get on that one knee. You know, I had to read. You see my wife over there.

You know, I had to. My wife told me when I proposed, I never got on one knee. I saw that in the show. You see my wife over there. You know, I had to. My wife told me when I proposed, I never got on one knee. I saw that in the show. So you saw it in the show. Did I kill that? He get ready. I saw the show.

You had to, you know. Yeah, even the judge. He seen the ring. The judge said, go ahead, Norton. Go ahead. You stepped it up. So I ain't going to lie. I wish that on you.

I hope. Thank you. That, you know what I mean. So I ain't going to lie. I wish that on you. I hope. Thank you. That, you know what I mean. Pharrell sat in this chair. And Pharrell said, he turned around. He said, where's your wife at? And he pointed to my wife. And he said, you changed this man.

And obviously, it's changed for the better. And I love that. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. So I'm not. I don't work for Rihanna, by the way. Because the way you mentioned it, I mean, like, you're, like, you're a kink and shit. No, I'm keeping it 100 with you. When I watch the show and shit, like, just to watch the dynamic of everybody in that house and shit like that.

I know, I mean, obviously, it's a challenge show. But, like, I can see the realness between both of y'all and shit like that. And I can really tell, like, y'all been through some shit together. Y'all been through a journey, and it's real. It's actually, it's not fabricated. It's actually real. And that's what I aspire to keep. Just genuine, real shit.

Just fuck what the outside world got going on. Fuck what the outside world think and shit like that. It's really about understanding between two components. You and your significant other. That's it. You know what I'm saying? Nigga, A$AP Rocky breaking. Now three components.

Three components now. Yeah, three components. You got that. You got that right. That's true. I'm proud, man. And this is first? This is first?

That's dope. That's so dope. Congratulations, man. We taking a shot to that. We taking, there's no way you can't take a shot to that. Nigga, I'm down there done your bottom, man.

Come on. Come on, bitch. Yo, that shit crept up on you yet, though? Nope. I'm like, take it. Nah, I'm leaving. I'm leaving. But I know I gotta make you look good.

So do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm looking bad right now. I'm out of here. I gotta make you look good, man. Yo, baby, bro. And this is like the part of my last question. Thank you.

What are you like before performing or making a record? Take the shot, bro. I'm taking a shot, bro. This is like the part of my last question. Thank you. What are you like before, performing or making a record? Take the shot, bro. I'm taking the shot, sir. I'm trying to do both. He don't think we drinking, man. We got to take a shot. Yeah, take a shot. By the way, I got three drinks.

I got a cold one, a hot one. Listen, I got a beer. I got a drink. We going, man. We going, man. I think I like... I can't really choose one, but I do like... Let's take a shot for that, then.

All right. Damn. I like the experience of performing. It's that part of the job. Yeah. Because I ain't going to lie, Rocky, and I ask all the artists this, but I don't think you can choose.

I think you equally like both. I think you equally like making the record. Cheers, man. And I think you equally like making the record, and I think you equally choose. I think you equally like both. I think you equally like making the record. Cheers. Cheers, man. And I think you equally like making the record, and I think you equally love performing the record. So you can choose. I'm gonna take one shot over there.

Oh, oh, James! Come on, man. By the way, I don't know if you know James. That's my middle name. There you go. You gotta take a shot for that. You're Australian too? I'm Australian too!

Yeah. And Irish. I'm exactly what you are. No, you're just Australian. I'm just Australian. It's crazy because, like, I'm telling too. I'm Australian too. And Irish. I'm exactly what you are. No, you're just Australian. I'm just Australian. It's crazy because, like, I'm telling you, bro, like, I remember when you had to change your name from Noriega. He said, this is your interview.

I just want you to know. Oh, my, my, my. I'm a fan. Go ahead. I don't get to see you or nothing. Nah, do your thing, man. Do your thing. Thank you.

You gave me flowers. Yes, yes, yes. Come on, man. No, but this is your flower nothing. Nah, do your thing, man. Do your thing. I can tell you, thank you. You gave me flowers. Yes, yes, yes. Come on, man. No, but this is your flower day. Please, can I? Because it's your second time on Dream Chats. But the third time on Dream Chats, you'll give me more flowers. I'm going to give you.

I'm going to give you more. Fair enough, fair enough. I can go through my notes. Just know that when it comes to y'all, man, like, we don't fuck around, bro. You got to realize y'all raised us, and we comes to y'all, man, we don't fuck around, bro. You got to realize y'all raised us, and we thankful for y'all. When I say y'all, I'm putting you in the same box as all y'all pioneers,

because it's a lot of y'all, and it's not a lot in my generation now, that I would say. You know what I'm saying? So thank you. You know what I mean? Let me ask you a question, right? Pops, the record that you redid.

Yeah, for X. For X. For Ferg. Was X alive at that time? X was alive. Did he get to hear that record? Yo, I never met X, man. Oh, my God.

I never met X, bro. Swiss could tell you. Sean Cruz, my cousin, my blood cousin. I never met X, B. I never met X. You know, that's crazy, and I'm saying it here. When you made that record, was he passed away already or he was-

Nah, he might have been locked up or some shit. I don't know. You know what I'm saying? But I know we was trying to get X on the record and- Never met DMX. Never met X. Ferg, that's Ferg's record. Ferg was trying to get X on the record and we couldn't.

We didn't even get to meet him and all that. But I think Ferg met him, though. Yeah, that's crazy. I was sick, though. I'm still sick. Yo, X is different. I'll be watching all his interviews now. Right.

We had him here. Nah, that second interview with us. Yeah. I saw that. Well, it was the third, actually. Right before he passed. Yeah, we did the quarantine episode. We did the quarantine episode.

Right, right, right. I thought I only seen two episodes. During the pandemic, the quarantine, we did a Zoom episode. Which is horrible, by the way. Don't use Zoom. None of those episodes are great. Zoom interviews. Anybody tell you to do a Zoom interview,

tell them no. There's no human expression in it. How can someone... Hey, man, be careful because we might have to do it one day again. We don't know. Fuck that. They kept the bills, man.

We've been calling the COVID people. We all get tested. Pharrell told us that. Pharrell made us all get tested, and then his ass came in and didn't get tested. I was pissed. Yeah, it made no sense. I was pissed.

You understand? He might have gave it to us. Yeah. Listen, do you understand? He made the whole... You see all these motherfuckers be back there, and this is the time where the swag... We got to do blood.

The blood shit. Shit is back there. It's looking real. It's looking bright as, we back there, and this is the time where the swag, we got to do the blood. The blood shit is back there. It's looking real. It's looking like Rikers Island back there. Mother is like, ah! It's blood everywhere. Like, what the fuck? We in the four building. I'm like, what's going on for real?

You was locked up with Casanova, too. Yeah, I was locked up with Cas. We got to say, because you know what? Free Cas, man. Free Casanova, because Casanova, I know how you feel right now. You're not feeling the love. People ain't, you know, reaching out. You know, it's crazy. I ain't even go see that man. That's not very real nigga like of me. You know, I need to go see that man.

But you got to be on the list when it's the fest. I know they told us that, but I'm quite sure that, you know, I could. You accept motherfucking Rocky, my nigga. It's only right.'s where I'm gonna go shit. Yeah, I'm gonna lock castles He was ten toes since that was a Brooklyn nigga fucking with a Bronx Harlem nigga So because what's the story the story was y'all was in jail together? Yeah, so so my first time going to the island. I was like 16 He probably was like 17 or whatever the case is.

And you in there with that fly, so ho, how shit? Yeah, I had all that shit on me. So ho, how shit? So like every time it was time to get a shake and something like that, he was just there making sure niggas ain't jump me, none of that shit. Right, right. It was my first time. So you know how like if you ask the wrong nigga, he gonna make an example out of you.

But I asked him and he just kind of was just like Nah It was my first time And nah don't do that Don't do this Like don't fuck with them They shysty Ah shit like that You know what I mean Right

That's dope That's crazy And how And I mean Obviously you ain't seen him In a little while But how are y'all When y'all see each other

On the streets Yo My motherfucker with Cash Yo first of all Cash got me hot right now Cause Yams day This man gon' scream Fuck FDNY They gon' Now FDNY don't fuck with cash. Yo, first of all, cash got me hot right now, because Yams Day, this man going to scream,

fuck FDNY. They going, now FDNY don't fuck with me. We can't use pyro for, you know what I'm saying? So FDNY, please, you know, allow us to get our pyro back, pyrotechnics. Let me just say something. I've heard fuck the police songs. Never heard of fuck the fire department.

Yeah. What is wrong with y'all? You know what I'm saying? Fuck the fire department. never heard of Why did he say fuck the fire department? Because he was supposed to get off stage because he already did his two songs. He wanted to do another one. And the fire department said he got to go. Because the fire department got to let off the fire, the pyrotechnics. Oh, I thought it was because of the crowd. Yeah, his time. So everything is time.

You know what I'm saying? And he was just like, this for years. This for rock. Nah, I'm taking this personal. Like, what you mean? I'm here. Like, you know what I'm saying? This family to me.

Like, so he started telling the crowd, champ, fuck FD and Wiles. Yeah. I got on the mic. Nah, nah, nah, nah. Like, yo, you bugged out. You bugged out. What's the thing about the fires thing? It's just crazy.

Well, yeah, nah. Cash is a stand-up dude, and I think, like, he got hit on some conspiracy shit, whatever the case is, and it's fucked up because it's just like, you know what I'm saying? It's really nothing I could do, but it's just fucked up, and I hope going to see him or writing him will uplift him. I think you should do that. Yeah, for sure. Do you think being a rapper is one of the dangerous jobs in America?

I think that is one of the most dangerous facades. You know? At the end of the day, like, you don't got to work to be yourself. Like, there's a lot of niggas that want to be gangster rappers. There's a lot of motherfuckers that want to be clout rappers and all that other shit. But I think this is the only genre where people actually get murdered like that. Unless we're talking about real, like, heavy metal punk where them Norwegian niggas be killing each other for no reason. Like, yeah, they bought it.

Oh, they with all the shit. They bought that smoke? They a killing nigga, take his skin, make an album cover out of it. Yeah, that type of shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All jokes aside, look it up. But it's Norwegian, like, death metal shit. But we the only, like, you never heard of, like, One Direction or Harry Styles or somebody getting clapped just because they had beef with Blink-182 or NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, Never Caught the Fade.

Like, you don't hear about that, but you hear about that in our genre. And I think that's just the stigma of just being, like, being minorities. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's just what it is. It comes with our our territory So a part of that I feel like a lot of rappers feel like they gotta like fake be tough and all that other shit Like you just be cool be yourself. Whoever the fuck you is if you tough be tough if you not right Be you you watch God no, nah

I'm really like a more like Victorian jewelry type of dude. This is all bone right here and shit like that. That's like real bone? Yes, that's real bone and it's rubies and diamonds. I can't disclose what kind of bones it is. We talking about Norwegian death metal and all that. You know the face because of the Illuminati's right there. I don't need PETA on my head either.

Right, right, right. So now, Ferg Pops. Ferg Pops? Yo, I did not know. So he did the N-O-R-E? Yeah, Gino Bruncum to me. You shitting me? Yeah, that N-O-R-E.

He didn't do the logo. The logo, I invented. But my first N-O-R-E press shirt, blue, was we was going to Canal Street, and Go said, man, I got a dude uptown that could do it for the same price. And he was like, for real?

And he's one of us. So I went uptown and it was funny as shit because I believe Geno brung me uptown to meet him. But when I got there, my boy D-Boss was there for Murder Unit. He was at the actual store.

So I'm like, what? I said, why you didn't tell me? There's a guy, he's like, you know, I never want to get in your business and shit like that. I'm like, I was about to go to the Chinese people down in Canal Street, but I could just do this uptown. So my whole shit, I had no idea. Even when I was like, A$AP Fer shit, I had no idea. Yeah. Even when, it was like, ASAP Ferg, I didn't put two and two together

until everyone was like, you know, that's D Ferg. Yeah. Son. Bro, that's bugged out. He did your shit.

He did the bad boy shit. Oh yeah, he's a legend. That's bugged out. Yo, Kim and Votto and them always showing like D Ferg. Right.

Real love. So you met D Ferg? I never met D Ferg. Never met D Ferg. Yeah. Like me and, D FerFerg? I never met D-Ferg. Never met D-Ferg. Like me and D-Ferg died when Ferg was like 13. Okay. You know what I'm saying? So like me and Ferg was friends when he was like 16, 15, 16.

Right. So I didn't meet him until after his pops died, like three, four years type shit. But Ferg an ill nigga, man. Like I remember when my pops died, like he gave me a painting That he drew the day After his father died By John Lennon And it's still in my house To this day man

Shout out to Ferg He a real one too I'm about to ask you that Cause you know People I think Signal when you gotta go So Describe your relationship

With Ferg Because at one point I believe Some ASAP guys online And they was like ASAP is over And then you and Ferg the next day. Yeah, we posted pictures and shit.

Yeah, posted pictures and shit together. I think that was brothers going to the internet, and I don't really condone that. Like, internet, like, if you got a beef or if you got, you know, a disagreement with a nigga, like, you know what I'm saying? I just think you can handle it in real life. If y'all throw hands, if y'all keep it verbal, whatever the case is, just don't really bring that to the internet. So that was just my only thing on it. I feel like it was just two brothers that had just a disagreement. They was going at each other. And this was inside the ASAP camp.

Yeah. You could have been kept in. I think so. I don't think it was necessary for the internet, but people hate me for that. They say I'm too secretive these days. I don't really be posting shit about my life and all that. You know what I'm saying? So that's just my perspective. But everything is good within the ASAP. Everything lovely, man.

You know, we all blessed to be here. Yes, y'all. It's all evolution, man. Yeah, everybody doing their thing. Everybody eclectically kind of like progressively being creative, doing their own thing. And when we all come together, it's love. And that's all that matters. It's just like the hardest thing to do

is to keep a group together and shit like that. You know what I'm saying? That's the hardest thing, bro. Like you was a duo and you know what I'm talking about. You know, so imagine five, six, seven, eight. No, y'all were collective, which is harder. You know what it is. Money is the most complicated thing in the world.

It is. It's easy and complicated at the same time. I think money is the best divider. You know what I'm saying? A lot of people be like, money change you, and I feel like money change the people around you sometimes. I feel like money change the world. You know what I'm saying?

I think money kind of like coming into a play when it wasn't there. Obviously, when people broke, it always split some shit up. Right. That's bound to happen. Every time. So let me say one more thing. Because. This man does this drunk, by the way.

That's incorrect. You are, you kind of, you take the cake for journalism. I'm trying to. I don't know nobody who could do like. And I'm smoking blunts too. And smoking. Yeah, yeah. It's multitasking. All my props. Yes. I don't know nobody who could do it like and I'm smoking blunts to don't Yes, but um One thing I did when I when I tweeted out and now I remember I spoke about Twitter earlier

But Twitter is also my negative is social Media platform for you. No, I'm just saying they just like to be negative It's negative like when I could be like, yo, man, Prince Mercer's good. They're like, fuck Prince Mercer. Like, damn, you ain't even happy.

Like, you don't even know what I'm talking about. But that's trolls, no? Right, but one thing they said today when I said, this is what they all comply with.

I said, ASAP, right? They said, white people love them. I'll take that. They didn't give you no negative hate. As long as there's love involved. I was like, why would they say that?

Then my friend right there, his stepdaughter, sends him a picture. Oh, you got to show him the picture. Show him the picture. With ASAP tattooed. No, let him show it. Don't even say what it is. I'm going to show it. She not white though, right?

She's white. Yeah, she's white. It's a stepdaughter. The stepdaughter. He can't make children. He can't make children. He can't make children. I'm sorry.

He was mad confused. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm just making sure he told him what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm just making sure they tell me what to say. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. This is Step Jordan. He can't make it.

Look, look. Oh, she's wild for that. Oh, she got the lip tap. Yeah. He see it. Oh, yeah, that's real. He can see the lip, bro. He see it. He can see it. That it closer. He see. Oh, yeah, that's real. He can see the look, bro. He see. He can see it.

That's different. Can't tell you the speed of day. That's different. You know. And he didn't even know she was in the gang. She gang gang. He had to talk to his wife last night. It's crazy. I feel like when it come to just, when it come to just like females in general, I never

had it to where it was just like only like white girls loved me. It was generally like women just fuck with me. You know what I'm saying? I'm keeping it a hundred. Yeah. Amen. A million percent.

Yes. What are you insane? I have no idea. I come from Capone and Noriega. It was not a different crowd. It was different crowd. People was getting hurt at my shows. Describe an ASAP Rocky show for a person that never been there. Today. You're talking about today.

Today. What does an ASAP Rocky show contain of? I think it's marsh pits. Absolutely. But then they pause you for a second. They clear it up. I mean, they just did a show. They just did a show.

They just did a show. They just did a show. They just did a show. They just did a show. They just did a show. They just did a show. They just did a show. They just did a show. They just did a show. They just did a show. They just did a show. Today, what does an ASAP Rocky show contain of? I think it's... Marsh pits? Absolutely.

But then they pause you for a second. They clear it up. I mean, they just did that, man. You know what I'm saying? But I think the energy exchange, that's what you could expect. My shows be crazy. It be lit. You know what I'm saying? I'm just happy that we still doing it and selling out them big arenas and shit to this day.

You know what I'm saying Like I put out an album Once every three Four years And you know Still being able To headline every show Being able to

You know what I mean Close everything out 15 20 thousand That's beautiful You know what I mean We just did 60 thousand

Are we supposed To make some noise for that Hell yeah Hell yeah We just did 60,000. In Brazil? Yeah, we, uh, in, uh, in, uh, Chile. Chile?

Yeah. Santiago? Yeah, um... Santiago de Chile? You, you, look at you. Look at you flexing. Where we at in Chile? Santiago, yeah, yeah.

That's the capital, right? That's my, that's my name. Yeah. I mean, using the y'all. Yeah. That's, uh, that's my name. Yeah. That's my name.

Yeah. That's my name. yeah. That's the captain, right? That's my name. Yeah. You know what I mean? Using the y'all. Yeah. Is that right? Yeah.

Big money come up. Oh, man. Holy moly. I mean, to be real, though, man, it's just like you give me like 1,200 people, you give me 500 people, it's going to be the same kind of show. It's really an exchange of energy. I'm engaging with people who's inspired by me or who fuck with me. It's a cult following thing. I can't really explain it.

You know what I'm saying? It's just people who grew up with me. And I think I'm fortunate to be one of those artists that don't really have to stay in that rat race of like, you know, the formula, the game or whatever the case is. I could kind of like play by my rules and hope that it just go how I want it to go. You know what I'm saying? Meaning like to stay relevant, you really got to do a lot of like clout chasing shit. You got to do some shit, doing all that shit. Like I'd be really on some like a lot of like, clout chasing shit. Yeah. You got to do some- Going viral. Yeah, doing all that shit.

I be really on some like, just, I be on some chill shit, but I like to do it more in a creative aspect. Spending that money too. That's all we got to do. You got to spend it all. Man, it's not spending it all, but enjoy that motherfucker. He got the kid now. Yeah.

Yeah. Putting the kid's name now. That's something else to enjoy, man. I come first, you know? Yeah, that's fire, man. Well, let me just tell you, man. We proud of you. Thank you. We fuck with you.

What's your favorite place to perform before we get out of here? Before we get out of here? In North America? It could be anywhere. Might as well be anywhere at this point. Love the floss. Niggas ask me in North America? I could be anywhere. Might as well be anywhere at this point. Love the floss. Niggas ask me in North America? Let's go continent by continent.

Holy shit, I wasn't even ready for that answer. That's how you know the answer was so good. I wasn't even ready. I was shocked. Wait a minute. Am I asking North America? Nah, like... Yo, no, I ain't gonna lie. I bag different, But I'm humble bro

I come from humble beginnings bro I grew up in shelters And all that shit You know what I'm saying Like we really grew up In Harlem Bronx I'm really happy to be here You heard me

Like I'm happy to be here Like here Thank you for having me Thank y'all for having me You know what I'm saying Like I'm happy to be here And this shit More than anything though Like I pray though, I pray to persevere,

and I just try to always just raise the bar. Give him a shot for this. He's throwing it at you. I'm taking a shot with you. I'm just throwing it at you because you're getting very churchish, and I'm with this. Let me say something real quick going back to that time that we were in the studio with T.I. and and everybody And you came through

Okay For me it was That you walked up And I didn't know that you knew Drink Champs Yeah But it looked like you did No I did And it was like our second third episode

And to me that was big I was like yo He's fucking with us Yeah And this is early Drink Champs So it was huge for us So I want to thank you for that I want to thank you for that. I want to thank you

for that too, but I wasn't as impressed as him because I knew you came from Yams. Yeah, yeah. And I knew Yams knew everything. Like, I was so impressed

of Yams. So I'm going to take this shot for Yams. Man, shout out so you know. Yes, yes, yes, man. R.I.P. Shout out to all

your ASAP y'allers, man. Shout out to all the ASAP y'allers, man. Shout out to all the ASAP y'allers. Because what y'all did was take the tradition of what we all did in New York, and that was put someone, you get on and put the next one on, have the next one come on, and then keep going. And doing dope music. That's what I think was the game changer. Y'all make dope music. Thank you, bro. You know what I think was the game changer. Y'all make dope music.

Thank you, bro. You know what I noticed about studying your music? What's up, brother? These past couple days. These past couple days? Yeah. No, because I had to do it.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. No, no. No, listen, listen, listen, listen. No, no, listen, listen. No, no, real quick. Because I had to do my research. I only do it for two days. No, these past couple days I had to study it, no, real quick. Because I got to do my research. I only do it for two days. No, these past couple days, I had to study it.

I heard it before, but I had to study it this time. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Study it, study it. I had to study it, study it. My bad, my bad. No, these past couple days, I had to study it. I had to become you. I was you for two days.

I had braids. I was running around. I had to become you. I had braids. I was running around. I had to become you. He had the boots. And what I need to say is you are probably the best beat picker in the game. Damn, thank you. Like, I can't lie. I'm like, damn, this nigga ain't pick a whack beat yet.

I'm going through this shit. I'm like, he got to make one. Like, you could seriously A&R for your whole team. Nah, thank you, man. Like, you're not a producer. I'm a producer. You're a producer.

That's no wonder why. You've been cheating. Oh, you've been cheating this whole time. Okay, now I understand why. Okay. It's like Chase said, 100% are like producer. He does the visuals. Wow, that's true, like producer, he does the visuals.

Wow, that's true. He did say he did the visuals. Yeah, so we're going to end it on this. This was beautiful, man. Yes. I really want to show you how proud I am of you. We are, man. When I say I, I mean we.

And you know what? I'm going to put hip hop on my shoulders right now because I know how proud hip hop is of you as well and sometimes we don't we don't give it to each other I've learned to do that I've learned it makes me

a better person absolutely to show other people that they're better persons or they're great people I love that I love giving flowers I love telling people

how great they are it doesn't take nothing away from me as a man. I'm very confident in who I am. I come outside every day, biggest smile on, biggest blunts, and I'm going to be who I'm going to be. But to give props to people when

they deserve it is something that comes natural to me. I've seen your growth. I've seen you from the beginning. I see you here now. We are so happy that, you know, everything you did, your accomplishments, your albums, your, yeah, that's the last question I forgot to ask you. Oh, which each album meant to you. But I feel like you got to go, so we're going to hurry this up.

But what I mean, we're so happy. And you know what else we're happy of? What's that? You and we, we going through the know what else we're happy of? What's that? You and Riri going through the hood. Yeah, we got you. You're a real nigga because I would've stayed

in Beverly Hills. I would've stayed in Manhattan. Yo, she ten toes. You be going to Harlem. She thorough, bro. Yes. That's my lady. She thorough.

Are we making a list? I'm taking a shot for Riri. I'm taking a shot for Riri. I'm telling you, I'm on group chats with some rich niggas and niggas are like, yo, Rocky doing it right.

I can't think, I can't, obviously, the cameras is right. Niggas is like, yo, Slav, Rocky's a real one, bro. Like, niggas wouldn't have did that.

Niggas wouldn't have been in motherfucking Harlem. Now we had to, bro. Yeah, yeah. We went to my grandma Duke's house. That's fire. So, Rocky, we're going to end out on this note. Prince Mercer, Mercer Prince.

Yes, sir. Thank you. We outside. My man James from Ireland and Australia. You got to get an Australian passport. As long as you don't say Ireland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'm just playing.

Oh, I like your shot. Hold up. Hold up. Let's see if you're going to take that down. This is as you don't say Ireland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, I just play. I just play. Oh, I like your shot. Hold up. Hold up. Let's see if you're going to take that down. It's your product. It's an Irish pour. Okay.

Oh, you are. That's right. That's an easy guess. Okay. I'm going to destroy this too. Okay. Ah! Okay.

Okay. Hold on. Ah! Hey! Relax. Thank you. It's a chain. Man, fuck y'all chains, bro. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man.

Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man.

Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man.

Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Cheers. Oh, damn, man. I got to take double shots. It's not different. Word? Damn. I drank y'all shit for real. All right, so is this done? We finished? Yeah, but I feel like you got something to say, though. Off camera.

It's not personal. It's not. Everything here is on camera, sir. I'm sorry. I cannot turn it off. Was Game able to walk out of here when he drunk that bottle of Closet Azul by himself, or he had to get carried out? He had to get out.

With help. With help. Yes, with help. He went and partied after. Yes, he held it down. Let's just be clear. No, he went and partied after. Let me be clear. Let me be clear. Yes, he held it down. Let's just be clear. No, no, he went and partied after it. Let me be clear.

Let me be clear. Yes, yes, Game stayed out and went to... Listen, but let me be clear. Game did have the super cheat code, which is what he did. He brought his own bottles. No, no, no. I'm not talking about that part. When he went to the

bathroom, when he went to the bathroom, he came back and ate a whole plate of food. Oh, he did, he did. So for a lot of people who don't know that, if you're a real drinker, to survive longer than them six to seven hours, if you eat something on the side, it will absorb it, especially carbs.

That was... Yeah, because he took the longest bathroom break ever. But he wasn't in the bathroom. So then when I looked, I said, oh, he's smart. Because I used to do that. My friend right here, my friend right here used to try to challenge me drinking every weekend. I had him throwing up. Yo, yo, Rocky, I had him throwing up through his nose one time.

What? Yeah. He came to my crib on Thanksgiving like this. Nigga, let's go. He had it planned out. He just come over to my crib. He wanted to beat me in drinking. I said, alright. I had a little meal first.

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