Drink Champs - Episode 320 w/ Scott Storch

Episode Date: July 1, 2022

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode, we chop it up with legendary producer, Scott Storch! Storch lit the game on of fire by producing hit records for artists like Beyoncé, Chris Brown, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne, Eminem, Fat Joe, Busta Rhymes, Capone-N-Noreaga and more! Scott shares stories from his legendary career, from working with Dr. Dre, dating Lil Kim and much much more! We are also joined by the one and only Steve Lobel!  Lots of great stories that you don’t want to miss!! Make some noise for Scott Storch and Steve Lobel!!! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆   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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This is what it's every crazy world radio. Drink, chaps, motherfuckers. Y'all can't wait. Make some noise! And right now, as we do every episode, we make a playlist and we listen to the artists that we're about to study, the artists that we're about to, you know, interview. And when I tell you this man has worked with everyone from the poppest of the poppest to the hardcore-est of the hardcore-est, you know, back in the day, you used to say, that's a certain sound sound His sound is so

Complicated So He can make anything If you don't say He's in your top five Your top five Says that he's in their top five He's a producer producer

Not just pianos He's a whole Fletch He's been out here. Not just pianos. He's a whole flesh. He's been out here doing what he gotta do. Pulled up in a Ferrari in the dawn. Just in the daytime. Because that's how he wanna do. He's been doing it so long. And continue to do it.

Success upon success. In case you don't know who the fuck I'm talking about. I'm talking about the one, the only, Scott Muffler! Scott! Andrew Chance, alumni as well. Andrew Chance, alumni. It's not his first time on here. Last time we had you on here was the homeboy Steve Lavelle.

And I know he's trying to be incognito, but we're going to get him a little later. For sure. But, Scott, I immediately, as soon as I noticed this, as soon as you pulled up, I immediately noticed Ferrari and the Dawn. I love that.

But I also somewhat feel sorry. Not feel sorry in a bad way, but I feel sorry because you can't never not do that. I don't want to not do that. If you come into Dodge Chryslerler niggas gonna be like Scott Give a fuck if my boys want to judge me I'll go out in the regular car.

I think I've known you like 20 years, and I've always seen you in the foreignness or the Europeaness. And where does that come from? What is that, like, that you want? I mean, obviously I know, but I want the fans to know that. I mean, we work hard, and, you know, these are just symbols

and medals of honor that we get from putting in your work, man. Right, right. You know what I'm saying? It's inspiration to others. get from putting in your work, man. Right, right. You know what I'm saying? It's inspiration to others. Right. It's like Khaled says. Right.

It's just for inspirational purposes only. Right, right. I love that. I love that. Work hard, play hard. I love that. So that's the thing. When I'm going through your discography, you can really work with people.

What's that man's name? Adam, what's his name? Adam Hicks. You work with Adam Hicks and DMS in the same week. How does that work out? I mean, you know what it is? I'm a chameleon. I just love all music. Good music

is what I like. If music is good, it's good. I don't work on whack shit, but I like all different kinds of music and it's a challenge to go where I haven't gone before, you know what I mean? And excel at it. Let's bounce around a little bit right because we see the verses when you and Manny Fresh right I don't think you ever kind of addressed that you lightly addressed it have you ever addressed it not really okay well tell us explain to us exactly

what happened because was that the time when you guys weren't in the same room, correct? Yeah, this was the beginning of Versus. This was like literally like the birth of Versus. You know, Timberland and Swish are brothers of mine. Right. And it was something great that was going on in the beginning of the pandemic. And it was so exciting because motherfuckers were stuck in their house. And it was a chance for people

to shine and we had no idea like how big it was going to get but it was still even at that time you know like crashing Instagram and shit like you know like it was an amazing thing and I think

I could have had a better suited opponent. I'm not sure if that's a shot or not. No, it's not a shot. Our catalogs live in a different place. No, no, I'm saying our catalogs live in a different place. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying?

No disrespect, man. Fresh got joints. You know what I mean? I got a lot of joints. But you felt like you won that night. Let's be clear. Oh, for sure. I didn't even go in the bag.

I didn't even go in the whole stack. Right, right, right. You know what I'm saying? You didn't even go in the bag. I left a lot of my poppier stuff out. You know, because at that time, I mean, this rule kind of fell out the window, but it was like song for song type stuff, like what you got for this, like that. You know what I mean?

So now people just put whatever, like it just goes. Now let's put this, let's put this, oh, you was done with that, right? I'm done. Okay, cool. Let's put this to room,

to rest. Fat Joe always says he made candy shop. I just can't see Joe. Damn. Damn, damn. He always says he made it. Fat Joe Is my brother

Yes My brother too One of the most talented motherfuckers Yes he is And he changed my life In so many ways When he said my name On Lean Back

Yes And me and him Would hang out in the studio And do different stuff Right And you know The bulk of the Main part of the song

You know what I mean All that Like yeah Obviously it's my language It's my language, it's my keyboards, my drums, all that stuff. And, but, you know, I sat, and he was an inspiration to me during the making that. And then his suggestion to put the do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. But he ain't hit no buttons. No, I mean, he doesn't hit no buttons. Is he a writer on the record? Is he a writer on the record?

I mean, technically, yeah. By saying, let's use this. Yeah, that is kind of producing. Yeah, like, you know, I'm not taking credit away from you. Look, I love collaborating with people, but you know, yeah, in this particular instance, we were in the room.

But I was making that song for him. For him? For him. I was making that song for 50 Cent. him? For him. I wasn't making that song for 50 Cent. So how awkward was it when 50 Cent actually wants this record? And they're beefing at the time. Well, no, here's the thing. Okay, put it on. I was like calling, after we made that song, I was like, yo, we got one, bro.

This is like, to me, in my eyes. Fat Joe. Yeah, I was telling him like, yo, this is fire. He's like, I don't know, it's a little soft. It seems like a bit poppy for me and this and that. I'm like, Joe, this is a hot record.

He's like, nah, I don't want it. I'm like, okay. So I have certain, you know, little, like, at that time, I think we were using CDs or DAT tapes or something and collections of beats when artists come in,

I'm playing for them and this and that. 50 came into something and collections of beats when artists come in. I'm playing for them and this and that. 50 came into Miami and he heard that beat. It was on my little playlist of stuff I was selling. Shopping. Shopping.

And he went crazy for it. So again, because of the beef and because of all the crazy shit, I called Joe and I was like, oh man, if this happens and then he changed his mind. I was like, Joe, I have a client that wants to buy this beat. Scott, enough with this beat already.

I don't want the beat. I'm like, you sure? You sure? You sure? You sure? I don't want the beat. I'm like, all right, cool. He didn't ask for the client.

That day. He made it that day. He made that shit that day. And just a little bit right so just a little bit yeah

Jesus two joints and I remember right before that shit came out I got a call from 50 and he was like bro

for whatever reason I don't know what the politics behind the call was but he was like yo you saved me he's like you gave me you gave me fire

wow and I'm like okay cool I love it. And then boom, they both hit amazing videos, amazing songs, and went crazy. They all chart-topping songs. Goddamn it. Make some noise for that.

Yeah! Let's be clear. Joe is both our brothers. Was he a little confused with some Takeda? I'd gladly pour it for you, sir. Why not? What else you got? We got Tequila. We got Ace of Spades to kill them. I hate you. You want to uh, you know, I mean I mean I'm on drink champs. Yes. God damn it. God damn it. Make some noise So what was it like when Joe actually finally got to here? He was cool.

He was cool. He knew what was going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Joe's family. That's family. Yes. So moving on. We had Game on here.

Game made some serious allegations. I didn't know how to... If I don't answer these questions, I got to drink, huh? No, no, that's not it. You're watching the show, Scott. You're watching the show, Scott. But Gaines said something

that shook up the internet. I'm not even talking about you yet. I'm not even getting to you yet. I'm just getting to a generic part of Gaines' interview. I'm going to smoke for this one. He said, he said, he said, Kanye has done more for him

in the past two weeks that Dr. Dre has done his whole career. How much y'all gave him to drink that day? No, this was before he was drunk. He brought it for himself. He wasn't drinking at that point.

That was the very beginning. People say things when they're in a mood or they feel in certain ways about certain situations. I don't know the politics or the dynamics behind it. Right. But I can tell you this. Right. Dr. Dre paved the way.

That's all I can say. Dr. Dre has done so much for so many people. Right. So even, I don't know. I don't want to have an opinion. Because I love game. It's the only... Of course.

And it's a weird business, man. Right. And you got to be real careful about politics. Right. You know what I mean? Right. Like, honestly,

I've had so many difficult moments, you know. I worked with Tekashi69. Yeah, we just heard that on your playlist. We skipped that part. Yeah, we skipped that part. And now it went bad. You know what I'm saying?

At the time, we made what I felt was a fucking crazy record. You can't take that away from the man. You know what I'm saying? And it's difficult when you're in person and all of a sudden you see somebody and you're like,, shit, now I'm going to have to take pictures and this and that and blah, blah, blah. And people are going to shit on me, you know, all that shit. It's hard, man. But you didn't work with him after. No.

It was before, right? No. Okay, yeah, that's respectable. You got to get that money, man. I'm just saying, like, I've been, you know, it is what it is. You got to, you know it is what it is It's where the art meets the business yeah, I will say this Takashi records be streaming boy

But no I'm not working with him. All right. Would you work with him now that he... No. Yeah, yeah. No. I don't see a reason why to. No. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You've worked with so many people.

Like, I ain't going to lie. I ain't going to lie. I really was listening to his discography today. And I was just like... A part of me is like, why do you even still love this game like this? Like, after completing everything, like you worked with Dr. Dre, you worked with Jay-Z,

you worked with everyone that's the top tier. I generate money from other businesses. From, you know, we'll get to that later, from my HHC's, you know, hits by Storch product, we'll talk about that later. There's a part of me that cannot let go of music. I love it. I don't care if I make a nickel for music. It calls you still.

That's what we're born to do. Does Dr. Dre need to go into a studio for the next 500 lifetimes? He got enough money literally. He won't stay out of studio he loves it it's in his heart and soul that's what we do you know that's what you do yeah you know what the craziest shit is you're part of my journey bro i don't know if people know this but

i was in the roots yes that was my first musical experience. It's that gumbo, baby. That's that gumbo. That gumbo is hot. That's it right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big gumbo. We need to get some of that twisted up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on. Come on, we got Diego.

Diego, baby. Come on. Diego. Now, for real, a lot of people don't know, right after The Roots, I was a keyboard player. I wrote a lot of the songs. I made probably the biggest song. That was your first album? Do You Want More?

And I did a lot of stuff over the years. The only one I really didn't work on of the original albums was Illidelf Half-Life. Okay. But I did the You Got Me song, which put us really on the map. No, what I'm asking, I'm sorry. I know you're trying to say this subject, but let me just put it back in perspective. Like, if I had a wish list, right, of people or artists I wanted to work with,

and me just looking at your discography, you have them all. Like, what makes you... Besides the money, okay? You know, we know you're going to make great money, but, like, right now, like, right now, I wouldn't really want to interview Jay-Z. Like, a lot of people are sitting to me and going, why wouldn't really want to interview Jay-Z.

Like, a lot of people are sitting to me and going, why wouldn't you want to? Because I have nowhere to go after that. I really have nowhere to go after that. No, man. Have you ever felt like that? Because you've really worked with the top of the top of the top. You know what? I think it's, to me, about being new and staying.

Like, my whole career, especially when I reunited or when I excuse me when I united with Steve LaBelle he showed me the importance of building new artists and forget about it's easy to get a hit with like a legend cuz it's gonna go it's gonna go like alright so Scott Storch makes a song with Drake and it goes big yeah of course we know that we know it's going to be big. But how about when I, you know, came back after my little hiatus from being a drug addict and I came back into the business

and LaBelle said, work with new artists. I'm like, really? Really? And then they all blew up. Every single one. A Boogie. You know, this one. Russ. You know, so many. Triple Red. So many of them. They were all new and they all blew up. You know, so many. Triple Red. Right. So many of them. They were all new, and they all blew up.

Now, let me ask you something. Roddy Ricch. Roddy Ricch, yeah. They all in my notes. But let me ask you, how is it working with a new artist as opposed to working with a seasoned artist who you know is just going to come in, as soon as you play the beat, they're going to rhyme? Do you have to shape and mold these new artists?

Some. Okay. I mean, if it's... Well, give me a sense. I don don't think they're gonna be legends if i have to do that like you know real legends they know what they're doing it don't matter if they're 16 years old or whatever it is they're gonna spit fire they're gonna write some fire shit right but um you know there's always nip and tuck with the hooks and stuff and maybe making making the hook the best it can be and things like that but but getting back to the point i was just saying i just wanted to complete the thought yeah no problem i started out in the roots and i left the roots to become a producer um i felt like i wasn't a producer at the roots i mean i was a band member okay yeah we were all technically producing.

Okay. You know, certain people, I wanted to take all the credit for it, but I don't really care. That one I'll let go. Right, right,

right. But, but, I started my road to being a producer. Me and Derek Jackson were hitting the streets in New York.

Oh, Derek Jackson, my man from Tommy Boy. He used to work at Tommy Boy. Derek Jackson, you know, Derek L.A. Jackson. Oh, yeah, right. Oh, Derek Jackson, my man from Tommy Boy. He used to work at Tommy Boy. Derek Jackson, you know, Derek L.A. Jackson. Oh, yeah, right.

He got me connected with these guys, CNN, Capone and Noriega. Oh, yeah. I know those guys. You know those guys. I know those guys.

And I was doing a session. I was in New York. I was like, okay, I got somebody to believe in me. Noriega, believe in me. Yes, yes. Capone's coming home from jail today. Yes, yes, yes. somebody to believe in me. Noriega, believe in me.

Capone's coming home from jail today. And we're going to make some shit. Yes, we did. And we did three joints. And those were the first three joints that I ever did as a real official line producer. Goddamn, goddamn, goddamn. And my second believer on that same trip was Busta Rhymes. Wow. I went downtown over there, and we made some fire.

We made a song called Blah-Dow. And I was on my way between you and Busta. That's beautiful. And that's blossomed my whole career, man, and we went on to. So let me ask you, right, bouncing around, going back to another part of the game interview. He says that he feels like he wasn't invited because he's dangerous. Who? Game.

He said, as an artist... Talking about the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl. Okay, my bad. I should have said the Super Bowl. I apologize. I'm just... I'm honest. I want coffee. I've never fucking drank coffee before. She was crazy. I'm like jumping around. I'm sitting here calm, but don't believe I'm calm at all.

Like I'm running circles. I was like that for eight years. Yeah, yeah, so, so. Wasn't coffee though. Yeah. So, when we got to here, and then we see the Super Bowl, right? And I think I asked Snoop this,

believe I asked Gabe this, and I said, me off top, I believe, as soon as I seen the piano, I felt like that part should have been Scott Storch. I was there in spirit. I got a chance to listen to my music through the whole Super Bowl arena, and it was beyond that. It was literally like, I think either Make It Rain or Lean Back was on in the crowd, just playing through the whole shit.

And then the halftime show was a lot of my shit. But you know what I mean? It's Dre's moment. It's not Scott Storch's moment. And the world already knows that I'm responsible for that song. Did I want to be there? Did I want to have a chance to do that? Yeah.

No. I mean, of course I did. Of course. Of course. I would have wanted to be there,, of course I did. Of course. Of course. I would have wanted to be there too, like Stevie Wonder. Come on. Of course. That's some lifetime achievement shit, but, you know, that's Dre's moment.

And I love Dre, and they had a plan for the way the show was going to be, and that's the way it was. You know what I'm saying? Maybe the next time. Let me ask you, right, because I actually sat down with Jay and I was like, yo, you know, whatever, he told me,

you know, Eminem called personally. He said Eminem called personally to him and said, yo, can we squeeze 50 on there? Like, it was like a humbling moment. I knew it was happening before it happened. I talked to Dre about it. So why does this guy,

me personally, like Nori, I don't care about being told no. Like I don't care. Like a nigga can tell me no 50, 100 times, I got the same pride of a man. Does Scott Storch ever like humble himself and say,

yo Dre, let me be a part of this. Of course I did. Oh you did? Oh shit. Oh okay, did I know that. But he did tell me that, you know, they wanted him to play it. You know, it was an epic moment for him. You know what I mean? Playing, and he learned to play the song, and he played it, and you know. Did he at least tell you to teach him how to do it? I mean, it's for, you know, he figured it out. Dre's a, he made the music for his whole life. Right, right, right. He plays a little piece.

You know, like a certain thing that you do. It is. I mean, you know, I play it a little differently. Right, right, right. Right. And you always smoke it when you play in the piano. Yeah, dude. Listen.

Would you put a smoke in the Super Bowl? Huh? On the piano? Would you put a smoke? I don't know. I don't think they would. I know backstage Snoop would light up. Snoop didn't light up. Snoop didn't light up.

Right before, yeah, they cut it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right when the shoot was on television. No, this is... That's what I mean when you hear Diego smoking, you mean at Donald Trump's house. Yeah, I see y'all. I see y'all. I see y'all.

I see y'all. He was in the Mar-a-Lago smoking. Boom. So everything is cool. I think it was a great moment. But... Of course, it was FOMO like a motherfucker. Right.

It was. I mean, I wanted to... It was. I wanted to... I wanted to... I wanted to... I wanted to... I wanted to... Boom. So everything is cool. I think it was a great moment. Of course, it was FOMO like a motherfucker. Right. It was. I mean, I wanted to be there, but it is what it is, man. Dre has done so much for me.

How am I going to be worried about that? Meanwhile, they killed it. And I think all the artists that did end up performing, that's what he wanted. That's his moment. That's his prerogative. If he didn't call me, if he didn't call Game, whatever. That's not us. Let us earn a fucking ability to get on the Super

Bowl and have your life's work there. Real talk. I ain't gonna lie. Me personally, if they would've did a Queens show and involved all the Queens artists and I wasn't there, I would be salty. But I would also be like, yo, you know what? It's yeah you know what it's a good show it's a good show you know what I mean but um yeah but I would have been a little so yeah but thank God that you not and you're getting money pulling up in Ferrari's god damn

it I'm happy Millie. Why is everybody from L.A. moving back to Miami? It's the taxes, God damn it. Miami is the shit. No, I don't even talk about the taxes. I'm telling you, it's the whole vibe, the energy right now. It just feels right. What made you leave Miami in the first place? L.A., L.A.

Oh, you know, you've seen me leave L.A. before. I was in Scarface and Manson before. A lot of cocaine. Everybody knows my history With drugs And all that shit And I really was trying To

Get clean And get my life Back together For my children's sake So I don't die So I can make good music And not You know

Abuse the god given talent And I had to make A geographical change To anywhere Right Because it was Too many people It was too Because it was too many people. It was too accessible.

It was too, just like, you know, at that time, like, anytime I wanted cocaine, it was there. It was out there. It was out there. Yeah. You know, people know I blew a whole bunch of money while I was doing cocaine. I blew a bunch of money. It was never from buying it. People were giving me bricks for free.

You know what I'm saying? It was from the decisions we made. People were giving you what? No, I'm saying people would give me more cocaine than I could do. They're giving them bricks, you said. Yeah, I'm saying. No, bricks is different. It's not an egg ball.

That was a few weeks. That was a few weeks. But it was the decisions I made being fucked up and blowing through so many millions of dollars spending a million a week. Because cocaine is not a cheap drug. No, it wasn't the cost of cocaine.

It wasn't cheap because of the decisions I was making. And I stopped working. I did nothing but snort and fuck. That was what I was doing. Paris Hilton, right? Jesus. I mean, I saw an opening

and I had to go through it. I saw an opening. Literally. We've all come a long way. She came a long way. We all came a long way. It was cocaine, marijuana. It was cocaine America

for one point. Cocaine and Molly. Woo. Yeah was cocaine, marijuana. It was cocaine America for one point. Cocaine and Molly. Now, I ain't gonna lie. I came to the studio with you one time. You have Molly. A whole clear thing of Molly. You must have spent like $50,000. I don't know. That's what I thought. And you was just running around

and everybody was just going like this. I was like, let me get a little bit of that. I was like this. Yeah, it was like before they had no pills. I was like, I was like, let me get a little bit of that. I was like, oh shit, this is, you're here, Molly. This was not like the pill shit.

It was like, you remember this? This was the raw shit. This was the raw shit. I was, I'm still high from that right now. Yeah, yeah. I still feel a tickle from it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, when I, so, and then we're going to get off of this because, but you know what? Because like, I swear to God, when I so I knew we gonna get off of this because but you know what because like I swear to God when I google your name so many synonymous females you know

you know from the Kardashians Hilton's to Mariah Carey's why not Mariah Carey that was the homie yeah we heard though though. That one was wrong. Nah. With her frostbite, man. That one was wrong. With her frostbite? Nah, nah, nah. We'll get back to it. Don't worry about it. What I'm saying is, where is this Leonardo DiCaprio playing Scott Storch Wall Street movie

at? We need this. We're midway on the movie. Yeah. Okay. My buddy hit me up and was like, yo, these people want to do a movie on your life story. He's one of the biggest

movie producers literally in the world. This guy, it's Atlas Entertainment, Charles Roven. Finally, I think the script is completely done. It's been two years since I signed the deal. Right.

And it takes a long time. It's a long process. It's a whole different timetable. And, you know, Warner Brothers kind of picked up the funding it. And we're attaching a director right now. We're hoping to attach Jonah Hill to it, me personally. Jonah Hill can play you. Jonah Hill can play Diego.

He can't play you. We're going to figure it out. Jonah's an electrician. He could definitely play the later music. He's an electrician. I started Making music at 15 You know

Professionally at 16 And um You know He could definitely Do the later part I think he could do it I think he could pull it But it makes for a crazy movie

I'm a Jordan Hill fan I follow him on Instagram It's a crazy story But I'm just thankful That it has a happy ending Because here's the deal Scott I think in that story You gotta keep it. Because here's the deal, Scott.

I think in that story, you've got to keep it real. It's raw. I wasn't able to decide what was going in and what was not. I don't look like an angel in this movie. I'm definitely fucked up in my life. And you're fucking in here, too. I fucked up. Huh? Because you're fucking in here, too, right?

Oh, yeah. Okay, sure. I definitely made some mistakes. It makes me look like an idiot, though, an asshole, right? Oh, yeah. I definitely made some mistakes. It doesn't make me, it makes me look like an idiot though, an asshole, a douche, whatever the fuck you want to call me, but with a good heart. Hey, man. I never didn't have a good heart.

I just was high as fuck and had too much money too fast. Okay. Now, every one of these famous stories, right, where a person says it's a drug problem or it's a cocaine habit or whatever, it always starts with one female. I don't know. I don't know.

Your smile is different. He's getting to look like he knows that one female. I don't know, by the way. I'm fishing. I made the choice to put that shit in my nose, and that was it. But there were definitely some people co-starring put that shit in my nose and that was it but so there were some definitely some some people Co-starring in that shit with me and with the co-starring in that bathroom You think it's cool to be a rat I'm not gonna rat people out

I'll let you say you know who I was standing next to I want to say Paris Hilton. I want to say that We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. I was a nerd in the studio. Honestly, I was a nerd. Lizzie Rohan? Oh, come on, of course. I was a nerd. I was a nerd in the studio.

Never did jack shit my whole life. I smoked a whole bunch of weed. I had million dollar cars that didn't go nowhere because I was in the studio all day, every night. My friends, my boy Raul Terra Squad, he would come to the studio, hang out, go to the club, come back to the studio after the club, and I'm still there, and I'll be like,

yo, how was that shit, dope? And, you know, I had a little social anxiety. I wasn't cool yet. Like, I was just this mad scientist in the studio. Then Paris came in, and it was like paparazzis. We were supposed to be working. We hooked up You know I'm saying like we became thing and Introduced me to a nightlife You supposed to go wrong

Throw it out there All these men in this room My pullout game is strong, so. Okay, all right, all right. I can continue. So she thugged you out, basically. She thugged you out. No, she turned me on to the fucking, like, I had so much fun in the beginning, bro. Right, that's what's up.

She turned me on to that night left. It was paparazzi, pink cocaine, fucking trips to fucking exotic places. Miami or L.A.? The whole world. Everywhere. But we met in miami we met when she came when i met her she showed up at my house that i had on indian creek island that avonka trump just bought for 30 million jeez ice floss yeah continue at any rate that's where i met her and there was a connection and

you know we made a cool album for paris i know y'all gonna look like yeah par and we made a cool album. For Paris, I know you all are going to be like, yeah, Paris. Paris, we made a cool-ass album. It was fun making it. There were some cool songs on there. Joe was on there. Jadakiss was on there. We had fun making that shit. We respect you, Scott.

We respect you, Scott. Listen, we skipped that album. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You got that direct, though. For what it is. Yeah, I got the bag. You got the bag.

And I got, you know, it ended up backfiring, that whole shit. For what it is. Yeah, I got the bag. You got the bag. And I got, you know, it ended up backfiring, that whole shit. On you or on her? No, just in general. The publicity of working with her, A, and then B, the type of shit that I was doing because I stopped working

and I was just partying. You were immersed in that world. She opened the door for me to partying and shit. And so that's the where, like, because... That was cool all of a sudden. Now people knew who I was. I mean, a thousand records.

Nobody knew who the fuck Scott Storch was. Hanging out with Paris Hilton. Now I'm a star of People Magazine and shit like that. Right. So it up... My stocks went up, but then they went down real fast because I wasn't utilizing it. I wasn't working.

I just wanted to hang. I had so much money at that time, I was just like, fuck it. Let's just party. Let's go here and there. It's a great life, though. I mean, I'll show you some of it. Then she and I split up, and I ended up hanging out with her assistant.

You're hitting assistants out here, Scott? Her assistant. That hitting assistants out here, Scott? Her assistant. That was Kim. Oh, Kim. Also, blew the fuck up. Okay, you're going too fast. Let's call you again. I'm going to have another beer.

Let me get you another shot, sir. Let me get you another shot. All right, okay. That's a little crazy. You want the raw truth. I mean, I'm not saying... Listen, man. Listen, man. I ain't disrespecting nobody.

You're not disrespecting nobody. Come on. So, okay, at the time, you're knocking down patterns. I break up. You run into an assistant or you had the eye on the assistant for a long time? I mean, of course I had an eye on the assistant, but it ended up no sex tape at this time

No, it ended up no, I'm asking Paris and I split up and She called me to meet her in central pay Paris Paris, this is how y'all get down? Yeah. Break up and y'all still go to Saint-Tropez? And then she was like, yo, call me Saint-Tropez. I want to see you, whatever.

I showed up to Saint-Tropez, but I think she had already hooked up with somebody else before my private plane was able to show up there. And then I ended up seeing Kim and we ended up hanging out and shit and became friends and whatever. I'm not sure what to do at this moment. Yeah. I know that's great. That shit happened. Right before.

Yeah, with all respect. Yeah, that was hell. He gave it to us, sir. He gave it to us. Yeah. I don't know where to go from here. I mean, it's part of history. It to go from here. It's part of history. It's part of history. Take your shot, sir. Come on. It's old.

It's old. I'm cool, Kanye. So, I think it's time. You know, I don't know if you know. Um... No, no, no. I'm Flowers, brother.

Relax, man. Relax. No, no, no. I'm a quick time of slime. We've been building him up for a quick time of slime. He's getting warmed up. But we want you to know, our show is not about bigging you up when you're not around.

It's not about bigging you up when, you know, something happens. We want to big you up to your face. We want to give you flowers. Thank you, bro. You are phenomenal. I've worked with you plenty of times. You're a phenomenal producer.

You're a phenomenal friend. You're a phenomenal human being, phenomenal person, and we want to give you your flowers right now, motherfucker. Thank you. Thank you, brother. Oh, that's crazy. That's fire. Yeah, yeah, real motherfucking flowers.

I wasn't expecting dried roses. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was expecting drink champs, but damn. So we hear this story that Jay-Z says. And then we see him, you know, seeing them perform this record at the Super Bowl. And we see Jay-Z's quote, word for word, word for word. When you made Still Drift, where's your mind frame?

What is going on? You give it to Dre? Or you make it in the studio and he's there? I told this story a hundred times. Yeah, but not on this motherfucker. We bigger than this shit now. Tell that motherfucker I get it. There was a period where me, Dre, Mike Elizondo, and Melman was all beat mining. We were searching for the best fucking beat, and Dre's standards were so high.

And the Chronic 2000 album was legendary. Everything on there. So now Dre's got all this fire, and he's looking for the first single. He's like, I don't have it. We all look at him like, all right, you got 100 of them. But, cool. So the rest of the project is done already. Well, yeah, pretty much.

We're like at the end. And this was that last minute fire. I make, I'm in there in the studio with Dre. And he puts, like, he's always programming some fucking fire ass drums and he put that boom, zap, boom,

it's like this, kind of like crazy feeling kick snare pattern and I remember we were in, we were working, I think it was

Encore and there's a kitchen literally right outside the control room. Encore's a studio job? Yeah. Okay. In Burbank.

Okay. There's a kitchen right outside so I was. Of course, the studio. Yeah. Okay. In Burbank. Okay. There's a kitchen right outside. So I was thinking all night about something like, kind of like piano piece that's wrong but right. You know what I mean? Where it's like off, kind of off beat like that. And I was like, oh shit, it goes kind of with this drum pattern. And I started playing the bling, bling, bling, bling.

Instead of going ding, ding, ding, ding, it was like the notes were kind of like, I was playing it it sloppy on purpose. And Dre just ran in the room like, that's it, man. That's the fucking thing right there. When you were playing it sloppy. And then we started, yeah.

And then he came back in, fucking sandwich in his hand or whatever the fuck. And we went to work immediately. He was immediately like, his radar is impeccableable like you know i mean i probably played 50 things that day like just trying to come with some shit and i was like he came in he was like that's it right there and i and i started doing the boom and we was on our way we was on our way the We was on our way. The track was done in 20, 30 minutes.

And I just remember Dre, I'm going to send this to Jay-Z. That was my next question. I'm going to send this to Jay-Z. Did they try to lay vocals and it didn't work? Or from the beginning, he heard it and was like... Dre knew we wanted to put Jay-Z on it. I remember Xzibit was in the studio trying to write some shit to it. And it was cool, but it wasn't exactly what Dre wanted.

Right. And, like, this was all happening, but I think it had already been sent off to New York. But what is your mind frame? Because you're making this for Dre, and you're like, why would you send this to Jay-Z? I'm like, I think I'm going to have a big-ass record. Oh, I knew it was. You knew it? Yeah, I was like,

oh, shit, this is going to be crazy. It was almost like immediately the vocals came back, Jay-Z's demo version of this I was like, oh shit, this is going to be crazy. It was almost like immediately the vocals came back. Jay-Z's demo version of this shit was insane. And then Dre just destroyed it. Wow. And I'll flash forward to the first time I ever heard that shit on the radio. I flew back to Philly for a while. And I was doing this performance thing at the Wetlands in New York. So I was driving

from Philly to New York every Sunday and I was back and I was getting ready to go back I was going to move all my shit and go back to LA and just live there permanently. But I was there for a little bit. So this was right as they were releasing it and Funkmaster Flex the bridge was frozen up

leading to Holland Tunnel and that motherfucker dropped bombs on Stildre for 45 minutes before one vocal was in there. Flex dropped bombs on your record? I'm sitting there frozen up stuck on the bridge. I was

happy as shit because the song finally started playing when I made it to the bridge. I mean to the tunnel, to the bridge. Right. I mean, to the tunnel. Right. To the Holland Tunnel. But that was an amazing moment, man.

That was a life-changing moment. I was like, I think I'm going to be a big fucking record producer. Wow. Because I knew how impactful that record was. Right. I heard 45 minutes of... Right. Crazy moment. crazy moment now how is that because you know although a lot of people who who's industry

friendly and industry uh you know know know about uh knows that you're the creator of that but even even if you like outright and even if the outright said you know scott stores produced that the fact is standing next to dre people think he just produces everything. Is that... But he does produce most of his shit. He orchestrates a whole room of people. He does shit by himself. He's a music motherfucker.

His body of work is ridiculous. For me to be part of it and be part of his, like, you know, repertoire is an honor. Like, I'm not dick riding. I'm not ass kissing. I'm not nothing. That man is a— We get flowers over here. He's the motherfucking godfather, bro.

Yeah. I don't care what you say. You can—anybody. You put anybody up, you can get them saved in the shit where you have to take a drink, whatever the fuck. Quick time of slime. We got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Dre.

Yeah, yeah, Dre. Don't even ask him. It's just Dre. It's just Dre. I love that guy. I love that guy. I love that guy. I love that guy.

I love that guy. I went to Dr. Dre University. I learned so much. At one point, you and him fell out. What was that over? Never fell out. Oh, y'all just didn't work together? Bro, I was too fucked up.

I was high. Yeah, you did. I remember collapsing in the live room hiding behind the shit that people record the vocals in, those walls with the wheels on them. And I was hiding between there because I was so dehydrated I collapsed in this shit.

He gave me chances, chances. He would've still gave me chances. Then I just stopped coming. He never turned his back on me. Damn, what were those conversations like when he's trying to help you through that? I remember him saying to me one day, he's like, yo, was the bite worth the bellyache? And I was just like, oh, shit. I'm sorry.

I love analogies. I don't understand that one. Like, basically, the food you eat gave me the stomachache. Like, the drugs I was getting. Is it worth it? Is it worth all that? Oh, shit. So, Dan, this is very interesting because to me, Dre comes off like a person.

If you got problems, I don't want to be around. Hell no. You got him wrong, man. My brother cares about people. Wow. He's a serious dude. Yeah, that's a beautiful thing. He's a serious dude.

You know, I know a lot of people and every year, man, like Christmas or my birthday or whatever, I get a text from Dr. Dre. Wow. He remembers

like holidays and shit. He's like a real, true friend, bro. Wow. He's a really, really, and I can't say that about many people, man.

Right. I can't say that about many people. So what's the word on detox is what I'm doing right now. I can't say nothing about that. You were very fast. I learned how to say that about me so what's the word on detox is what I'm doing right now I can't say nothing about that you did

you were very fast I learned I listened I got a call one time like fuck is she talking about I'm like so no

I don't know shit okay so we don't know if it's scraps we don't know I don't know shit me neither I don't know shit neither god damn it

but we as we you know pulling up your discography you have a single But we As we You know You have a single With Yeah So what happened

That was a pandemic record That was a club record during the pandemic Where people couldn't go to the club But it still did I don't know 100 million streams Or something but it was a fire ass record Where I interpolated Just a little bit, the joint I did with 50 Cent But in a reggaeton vibe

And it's fire, it's a fire ass record It's an underground hit though I'll put it on, I'll be in a club somewhere And people will be going crazy Out of nowhere, the DJ puts that shit on And it's just hit And Atlantic, I don't think they They treated that record Atlantic treated that record on and it's just hit. And Atlantic, I don't think they, they treated that record,

Atlantic treated that record. Just go out there. They fucked it up. They fucked it up. They treated it like, because it's my first single as an artist, like, you know,

how Cal is an artist where we have artists on the songs, but they're still the artist. Right. So they treated it like that. They didn't treat it like Ozuna and Tiger

were on a record. Right. They treated it like Scott Storz still got proven as an artist to radio. ABC rollout,

no promotion. Right. But that record to me, I'm proud of it. Right. I put that shit out, I'm proud of that record. And Tiger and Ozuna

did that shit for me on the strength. Right. Fire. And showed up to a video shoot. Like Ozuna was in Puerto Rico, Tiger in LA, I'm in LA, three separate shoots for that video shoot. Like Ozuna was in Puerto Rico. Tyga in LA.

I'm in LA. Three separate shoots for that video. During the pandemic. Nobody was allowed to leave their house type shit. And like Ozuna went to this video shoot. And like there was a law I guess in Puerto Rico at that time. Like you had a curfew. You had to be back or the police could arrest you if you did shit.

And he like pushed the curfew for me. Everything. We had a curfew for, like, 20 minutes in Miami. Yeah. Yeah. They don't give a fuck out here. Yeah. Yeah, continue.

Happy to be here. You know what's crazy about what you're saying about this record, though, is that you remade your own record. That's crazy. And that must be insane with such a vast catalog that you have of stuff you've done. I got a whole lot more on the way. You make your shit a hit, make another hit out of a hit. Yeah.

I'm doing an EP right now with my partner. My partner's on, I don't know if you know about my vape company, but I got this vape company. That's the nigga

Team Vape? Team Vape. Okay, cool. Yeah, me and my partner. Let's show the people. Let's show the people. Yeah, pick it up. Put the camera right there.

Show it to the camera. Whiff. Whiff. Yeah, man. It's incredible, incredible. Oh, by Scott Storch. Whiff. Whiff. Yeah, man. It's incredible, incredible. Oh, by Scott Storch. Your face is on there. Yeah.

Fire. It's fire. We got like 20 flavors, whatever. My partner's on there. We're doing really well with this. We decided we're going to invest some of our money that we're making on a Scott Storch album. So we're doing it independent. Right.

And there's going to be some legendary shit. Right. I got some tricks up my sleeve with that. But, you know, that's, I'm going to do a couple more of those interpolations where I use some of my melodies from original records that I've done. Not the whole project, but there's a couple of them. But there's not many producers that can do that. Yeah. As well, like, as much as you have to work with. And most producers run away from their old hits.

Like, if you ask a producer, like a producer, can I get a lean back, you're probably pissed off. You know what? I've been getting a little bit of that because I feel like there's a resurgence in people wanting to have genuine, cool melodies and stuff. I've been going for that raw shit lately.

I'm proud to say that for a guy who people know my age, I'm 48 years old, I'm able to make trap music and shit that kids fuck with all day. I didn't get stuck there. But I'm going to go back to some of that shit, too. What was the worst session you ever had? You walked in, this guy was horrible.

He had his vocals fucked up. He came, he had to punch it out. Who was the worst? Oh, man, I can't. who's fucked up like he came he had to punch another guy who's the oh man I can't I mean I just know there was like bad vibes

in certain studios certain sessions but I never really worked with any horrible artists maybe some unknowns that were like paper bags

or whatever but it was bad vibes you said there was a couple of vibes that was really just not right

but you know we ended up working out working our way through it but like It was bad vibes you said? It was a couple of vibes that was really just not right. Okay. But we ended up working our way through it. But I remember one time I was waiting in the studio for hours for Petey Pablo to show up. And this one he got the, North Carolina, come on and stand up. That's a crazy record. We're going to turn it off. He didn't show up.

So I called the studio and I was like, yo, I want the studio. Let me take over. I want to pay the bill for this tonight. This is in New York? I feel like it's in New York. I'm going to pay the bill for this. I want the studio. I'm going to work on some other shit.

I'm in there smoking weed, smoking shit out and this and that. And he came in late as fuck, like 2 in the morning, thinking it was still his session. And I got yelled at for smoking weed in there and all kinds of shit. It was like a really awkward moment. One of the most awkward moments of my career. But we worked, yeah, it was like, you know, I don't smoke weed in my session.

Like in my studio, wherever the fuck it was. Yeah, I was kind of like, alright, and Ialled Yeah I was kind of like Alright And I bounced But I was just like I was kind of offended But we worked our way through it We worked it out

Oh shit I didn't know that I didn't know you But that was a weird story Were you the rapper Yeah bro I didn't know that either I thought that was obsolete

That's crazy That's your time For quick time on slime Let's go Come on You bringing in your ringer I might still be able To talk about these things That I want to talk about Absolutely Let's talk about it right. Let's just have a quick time with Slav. Let's go. Come on. Are you getting your ringer? Am I still going to be able to talk about these things that I want to talk about? Absolutely.

Let's talk about it right now. Let's do it right now. Let's go. One of my favorite things I got going on right now is this company. Hits. Which is Hits by Scott Storch. Hits. Because, you know, every so often there's a new cannabinoid in weed that's introduced.

There's THC and CBD and Delta-8 and Delta-9. CBD don't get you high. I'm not interested in that. No, not really. But HHC, which happens to be derived through CBD, is this. This is called HHC. This shit gets you fucked up. So that's like the highest form? And it's illegal.

Yeah, and it tastes amazing, like straight weed taste. Is it like ecstasy? John, which is the one that's really tasty? The pig russ is actually the one. Pig russ? Trust me, this stuff, how you nice, it's legal. Why do you keep saying it's legal? I'm saying, no, I'm saying, yeah, it's weed, but it's derived from CBD.

It's legal in 50 states, whereas, like, but it's legal. Oh, so you're saying even in states that... I can ship this anywhere in the fucking world. Okay. And it gets you high as shit, tastes good, and it's weed. This is beyond that. This is a new shit. HHC.

So it's weed, but it's not... It's by Scott Storch. Got it. I'm looking a little crazy. How do I do this? Okay. Okay. And this goes back in there, right?

Awesome. Wait, how do I get this one? Okay. This is tasting pretty good, huh? Oh, there's a little... Tastes like lemon Icy Cake. But you could be just sitting there, you know, smoking this shit. You got kids, you in the fucking room, it don't matter.

They tried to kick me out on the plane for this shit one time. When the big first game out, you know they got the NBA girl in the home, WNBA girl locked up in Russia, Ukraine. Nobody want to get her. It's not good. She could have been smoking this shit. It wouldn't have been what she had though. It's because of the war. It's not good. I've been smoking. She could have no see what she had Oh, yeah, it's cuz of the war is not gonna give me shit. Yeah, but

Yeah, it's by Scott's to his boss guy and they could get that anywhere do I'm talking to his and then they could get it Anyway, yeah hits by Scott storage calm right now. Yeah, okay Everybody lost it on 420. I think you should drop a 419. Please say it already. Everybody lost it on 420. I think you should just drop on 419. Just to be different. Fuck that. 419, man. We're going to play Quick Time with Slop. You want to explain the rules? Let's go, yeah.

It's going to be two names. Two things. You answer one or the other. If it's politically correct, we drink it. So if you say both or neither, we're taking a shot. And Diego's taking shots for you, correct? Okay. Yes, Diego's going to take shots. We're drinking with you.

I have to choose a side. You choose one or the other. But if you choose, and then you don't drink. If I say both or neither, I have to drink. You have to drink. That's it. All right, fuck it. And I'm going to use the bathroom first.

Go ahead, go ahead, brother. If you want, I can have a cigarette. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go. Perfect timing. Perfect timing. You know what I'm saying? I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes.

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Diego's your ringer. Take a side, man. I said come on, bro. How you doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you might as well. Holy. What the fuck's he doing?

I'm talking to that driver, bro. No, I'm not talking to him. Perfect. He's going to ask. Yeah, you going to keep it real? Yeah, you going to keep it real, Scott. Sonny D. Come on.

Quick time with Scott Storch. Let's go. Rick Ross or Fat time with Scott Storch. Let's go. Rick Ross or Fat Joe? Give me the drink. What you want? Fuck, man. Why you went there? You can pour it out.

Pour it out. It's a long beer. That's two fucking legends. You can't even. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like. Oh, I forgot. Pagani. Pagani.

Like what? Yeah. You got to take two. Give me another first class. Shit. Out the door. I'm fucking... I thought this game was easy.

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You got that daily one on camera? You see the sign? You see the y'all? Is it chill? Yeah, get a good picture of this. That's so chill. That's so chill. I'm going to just put this on.

I believe it. Put it in the house. Daily on? You ready? I'm ready. I suppose it. Put it on. You ready? I'm ready. I suppose. Jay-Z or Nas? Another one.

No, no, you know, honestly, I love Nas. Jay-Z, to me, though, I connected with that as, like, part of my education

and the university of hip hop. So I say Jay-Z. Okay, no problem. You and Nas have worked together? Yeah. With the records? We did, shit, what the hell is the name of it?

We did like three records. I forget all the titles. I mean literally like 2,000 songs. Okay. Right. You literally worked with everyone, in my opinion. Everyone who not, you worked with everyone. Right. In my opinion. Everyone who is someone, in my opinion.

We actually, Nas and I worked pretty recently as well. Wow. Yeah, on a song with this kid, Armeen. We did some stuff. Okay. DMX or Snoop Dogg is close friend of mine amazing MC DMX to me

is up with like Tupac as a rapper to me like he is a special rapper what he talked about like moved me you know what I mean it was like poetry in a way he was a brother

I tried to save his life you know talked about, like moved me. You know what I mean? It was like poetry in a way. He was a brother. I tried to save his life. You know, he's, so I would have to say DMX. Okay. But Snoop Dogg is an incredible artist. You're talking about rappers that are like really. He's an icon, yeah.

He was some jewels that are special and, you know, may change your way of thinking in life. You know what I mean? That's fair. Chris Brown or Justin Timberlake? Chris Brown. And I'm working with Timberlake right now.

I love it. But Chris Brown. You sure you want to take the shot? I'm going to take the shot. I'm going to take the shot. Timberlake is good. No, no, no. I don't care.

No, no, no. You're a lawyer. You're a lawyer. Who wants to hear our shit today? Chris Brown changed R&B music. And he could dance too. I don't know what you're saying. I just did.

Chris Brown changed R&B music. He, I compare him to the Michael Jackson of our generation. So you're saying if Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake do a versus right now, Chris Brown is smoking fine boo? Chris Brown got a lot of records. Think about it. Yeah, he do. Chris Brown got a lot of motherfucking smackers.

Justin Timberlake has records. I made one of the biggest He's most awful white boy there ever was yes there is ever was. Ever was and is. Yes. He got Color Me Bad all four of them. Yeah, he's the most soulful white boy. And his voice is dope. He's a writer.

He got all four of them. Yes, yes. He was by himself. Chris Brown is motherfucking Michael Jackson reincarnating type shit. Crazy.

Yeah. And I started with him. He was 15 years old. I had him in the studio. And we made a number one song. We did Run It. Like, yeah. Everybody said he was 15 years old i had him in the studio and we made a number one song we did run it like yeah everybody said he was 16 we said you hit that shot i'm gonna tell you something all right i don't know if you remember running session it was something that it was something something what and let me i don't know if you remember i had the best session i don't know if It was something that... Sean Garrett, me. Something what? I don't know if you remember.

I had the best session. I don't know if he was there. And Tina Davis asked me to switch studios. Because I was on... Tina was on Death Jam at the time. Was it Hit Factory? Yeah, it was Hit Factory. Chris, she actually had the small studio for him upstairs. I would not work in that studio.

They know that. They made that clear. Scott would not go in there. As a favor, would I actually switch? And I switched. And I took a little... And that's what... I knew you didn't know that story,

but I knew Tina Davis had told it to Chris Brown. And I had never seen Chris Brown since then. So I'm in Puff's house, I'm just walking through, and Chris Brown stopped me. I don't even see him, he's looking crazy. When I say he's looking crazy, he was just incognito with the hat on. And I'm walking through in LA,

and he stops me, he goes, I remember what you did, OG. And I was like, for real? incognito with the hat on, and I'm walking through in LA, and he stops me, he goes, I remember what you did, OG. And I was like, for real? Because I was like, I always wanted my props! But I just didn't know the hat for him, like, you know what I'm saying? And I was sitting there, and he gave me his number,

he was like, yo, come here, and Chris Brown. He wrote the rules for you, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he did wrote the rules for me. And Chris Brown, I really respect you, I really love the love that you showed me. I respect you, brother. So I definitely respect the end of his run. And big up to Tina Davis, too, by the way.

Big up to Tina Davis. And Mark Pitts. And Mark Pitts, yes, yes. Okay, this one, I think you're going to take a shot, but I could be wrong. Timberland or Pharrell? Give me a shot please Okay I will gladly

Pour your shot sir You know And Diego You're talking about Welcome Diego to the table It's like It's really kind of like Comparing

Just two different Brands of like Amazingness Right You know what I mean The same level Right So

Cheers Take a shot to the My next meeting Is going to be quite interesting Yes Amazingness right you don't mean the same level right so Yeah, okay now this one no no no I'm know where you gonna go with this one Dre or pop daddy As what your crisis Just take a shot. As a person, any criteria. Whatever the criteria is. Give me a double, fuck. Okay, I got it. We got that deal.

You don't have to, man. Here, here. Okay. You have to. You want me as a double? Okay, got it. More questions. Cool, cool, yeah.

Damn, damn, getting fucked up. Cheers, cheers. Spin it around. You're talking about the mogul. You're talking about, come on. Those two. Did you hear about Snoop Dogg and Puff coming together, making a bad bro or bad boy situation?

It's gonna be like an NFT label. We had just a collaboration. A collaborative NFT, right. My, my, we've come a long way. Yeah. We've come a long way. My, my, we came a long way. Yeah. My mind would come a long way. Okay.

I don't know where you're going to go with this one. I'm going to pour up. It sounds like it's going to be about some ladies. No. That's the ending of the list. Oh, shit. Busta or Eminem? Busta or Eminem. Just give me a shot

Cuz I always say the word I always say when people like who's best MCs as well I'm like Busta Rhymes is one of the greatest MCs to ever do it. Yeah ever Ludacris too, these are people that I feel like are like legendary fucking, you know, changed rap type shit. Right. Okay, we're gonna need you to take a shot. Fuck! Yeah.

I'm trying to play it out, too. Down low, down low. We got to beat these two up. I'm glad I'm the only yellow. Okay, um. What's Ramadan for me right now? Black, thought, or Mos Def? Black Thought. Unequivocally.

Look at that Philly love. Did you see that? No, I'm fucking Mos Def. Okay. I work with Mos Def. I did the Brown Sugar shit with him. That movie, I don't know if you remember that. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. That's my guy. And we did a Hurricane soundtrack thing, too. Really? We did a bunch of shit. We was the soundtrack thing too. Really? He did a bunch of shit. Well, it was the soundtrack Kings together Black thought is Bro, he's one of the illness and he was MCS ever in the world I would watch him spit for like three hours straight literally

and when he going to yeah, I mean just He went in the bag, bro. Hey guys, let me get one of them new gumbos, y'all. Gumbos, man. You ain't got nothing rolled up already? Come on, dale, cabrón. We need black tar here at Dream Chiller. Let me get that new gumbo, y'all. So, okay, we said we went to the black tar.

You know what's fucked up? I played this game so long that even though I'm not playing this game drinking, I feel drunk. It's just embedded in my system. You understand what I'm saying? So we're going to have PTSD of this game in the future. Yeah, yeah. We're going to make this a board game.

We're going to really make this a board game. Jadakiss or Fabless? Jadakiss all day. Sorry. Okay. Love Fab. Jadakiss is one of my favorite, favorite MCs. And Styles P like a motherfucker.

What did Jadakiss say to retire him from Big Time? Oh yeah, I'm sorry. He just faced the book today. He said retire me already. How you gonna put the lots against Red DMC? I was just like. It's the middle of the video, I'm taking a shit. I don't know this, and these are...

How many of these motherfuckers are there? Yeah, this is a lot. It's 32 million. That's not. 50 Cent or Ja Rule? 50 Cent. They both great. Both queens.

Yeah, all amazing melodies and this and that, but 50 Cent has some of my favorite joints. Some I made. A lot of them. Gene in the joints, all that. That's family.

Like, you talking about, you know. Scott Storrs picked you again. Look. Of course, Of course. What up, man? What up, man? I got the most quick time in the world. We're going to retire you.

But I didn't get drunk. That's your question. I answered it. We're going to put your jersey up. That's one of the few questions I answered. Okay. At this point, it don't even matter you kick me, Scott.

Love, baby. I'm honored just to be here, brother. You know I love you. Love, love. If you continue, let's get back in and cook up more. Ain't no more, I'm coming back. Yes sir. I ain't white, ain't gonna make too much noise.

There's no more white. No more white. There's no more white. No more white. No more white. Ain't no more, God bless you. Make some noise. Make some noise.

Make some noise. Make some noise. Make some noise. Make some noise. Make some noise. Make some noise. Make some noise. Make some noise. Make some noise. Make some noise. Here's to no more white men. Just kidding. Just kidding. Now, the next one. Beyonce or Rihanna?

You work with both, right? I know you work with both. No, I never work with Rihanna. Honestly, that's one of my things I always wanted to do, is work with Rihanna. With Ri? Yeah, with RiRi. I'm going to get to the answer in a second, but I have the most uncomfortable Rihanna story.

Let's go. I'm a greenhouse in New York. Greenhouse. I uncomfortable Rihanna story. Let's go. I'm a greenhouse in New York. Greenhouse. I remember Rihanna. I finally get a chance to meet Rihanna and say, I want to work with you, blah, blah, blah. She's mad cool. I'm going to go up into her little VIP section where she's at, say what's up, cool, blah, blah, blah. And I gave her a hug, blah.

And my shirt got caught on her hoop I just walked up so bad. I'm just going to walk here super bad. But Beyonce, man, she's the shit. I never worked with her, with Rihanna, but I worked with Beyonce. And I can tell you, that's the best vocalist I ever worked with. Like, her voice is an instrument. Like, that goes into the arts and sciences of music levels and shit. Like, God-given talents, creative person, and just believed in me. And we made, on one album, we made three, like, fucking number ones or whatever. And I still work indirectly for her.

I'm doing stuff for her with Chloe and Hailey right now. We got a Grammy nom last year for the song Do It that her group, Chloe and Haley. And they just called and said we got another one. So Beyonce all day. Beyonce.

Evil Remy Mark. I would have to go with a drink. I was going to say, that was dangerous. I ain't going to go with a drink. Remy Moss, family, and spit her ass off. But that was Eve, and Eve's Philly to me. And Philly, right. People don't know this, but Eve connected me with Dr. Dre.

Her old brother, E-Rex. Because I know she was Eve in Instruction. Yeah, and she was on Aftermath. Yes. And, you know, she was my friend from Philly. I ran into her the first time I ever went to L.A. And she's like, yo, I just got signed to Dr. Dre. And I was like, please let me meet him. And she's like, all right.

Get to the studio. Wait, if I've never heard this story. Let's take that shot. Let's make sure you finish this, too. I'm watching you, sir. You're not. Okay, so he was the one who killed the guy? So he was the one who killed the guy? Without me, there was no Dr. Dre's guy.

We've heard this, actually. We've heard this before. I don't remember. I think you might have told us this the first time you was here. No, I don't remember. I had no idea. I was going to L.A. for the first time in my life. I'm at idea. I was going to LA for the first time in my life. I'm at the martini lounge doing an open mic thing with the roots and Eve was there, told me she'd

been signed. And then the next day I was waiting in the lobby for like five hours for Dr. Dre to come out and meet me. She convinced him like let me whatever. I I didn't have no jazz or CDs or nothing. So he's like, play some keys. I played some keys. Within an hour, I had, like, fucking keys to the motherfucking La Montrose Hotel. He was like, stay here, work for me. We're going to make the chronic shit, this and that, bread, everything. I had a fucking, I had back in Philly, even though I was in the roots and all that shit, I was still broke.

I was still a month and a half behind in rent and shit, about to get evicted type shit. And I started working for Dre. Now I'm driving nice whips and fucking chilling and making the biggest album ever in the world because of Eve. Let's make some noise for EVE. That's the answer. But that also goes back to what you said about Dre, that he heard instantly he knew the talent.

He's got the radar. I'm not letting this go. Yeah. That's a fucking beautiful thing, man. That's a beautiful fucking thing. Just from playing piano. Beautiful fucking thing. Eminem got repeated? No, yeah, we doing...

Okay, that's a second one doing Game or Pusha T. Game. To me. Game. I mean, I like Pusha T a lot. I've worked with Pusha T. But Game has a unique sound and a unique tone

that to me is, you know, up there with the best of them. You know what I mean? Yes, sir. We got joints together. I was part of West Side Story. This is my nose. I'm talking about my nose, Scott. Let's ride.

Come on, Scott. I got a nose now. I'll be releasing that series with my nose again. You don't have to brush it. Look at this. I'll be releasing that series right now. I got notes. Like, hey, you know where it's supposed to be? Miami or L.A.? Miami like a motherfucker right now.

I can't believe. I can't believe. I can see it in your eyes. I'm just going to miss Dan Tana's. Dan Tana's, God damn it. I love that chicken farm.

Oh, I love that chicken farm. I'm too damn, you got, I'm going there Saturday. It's going to be hard. I'm going there Saturday. But we got Carbone. Yeah, Carbone, Carbone. Let me see what dad on there. Carbone, Oh, I love that you got a lot of damn you got I'm going this out of the order I'm going this time. We got carbon so yeah, I bought a couple Let me see what that on the old car balls of the entire. That's a good one. That's a great car bone

If you really know what's up my round I mean what I want That that's it beat you both just gained 12 pounds as you did. Yeah, as a kid. You ain't even got the... Stevie Martin run on coots better than all the motherfuckers combined. You know what's crazy? He's actually the one cooking it. That's what makes it so dope.

If he ain't cooking it, I ain't going. Big up to Steve. I go there when he ain't cooking it and it's still the same. I mean, he trained his people to make sure. Matter of fact, I'm not sure if I would have been there if he wasn't cooking it. I'm of fact I'm not sure if I ever been there and he was a good guy He was nice He sold his own chickens down You're right I'm not just saying

I thought I had Yeah you're right Circle House or Hit Factory Okay Thanks Mr. I was doing server thank you And I'm you know Put together over here. Circle House or Hit Factory?

Boy, Trevor, the Hit Factory, I don't like to answer this question. But I made so many hits at the Hit Factory, and it's great. It's expensive to me. It's great, but it's expensive. And the vibe that I've, this new Florida tropical vibe that I've been on lately, that shit worked for me It was incredible, but right now it's circle house for me because it's so sexy over there, but you're chillin It's a pool. Yeah, it's a motherfucking. I work in the cabana Yeah

Miami it's it's it's like in the hard working there lately Yeah, maybe it's part of my new like fuckingend at Bernie's type of vibe that I'm on. Come on, Inner Circle. It's just cool. You guys are great. It's not corporate. I'll tell you another Hit Factory story.

You ain't never going to take me over there again. One time we was there and you said to me, you said to me, you ever have mushrooms? And I was like, ah.

He was like, but you ever have mushroom tea? And you gave me mushroom tea. I was there, ah. He was like, but you ever have mushroom tea? And you gave me mushroom tea. I was there that day. And I felt like I was the bionic man. I was moving like this. Yeah, mushrooms are amazing, I think, for healing, for so many things. But do you remember making mushroom tea?

I do. Yes. Yeah. I think I want to fuck with some more mushroom tea. I think you should. I don't like mushrooms. And I don't like, because I always eat the chocolate shit. And you ate it that day, too. I think you should. I don't like mushrooms and I don't like, because I always eat

the chocolate shit and you ate it that day so it's too far. It's too far. And I don't like the raw mushrooms. I like mushroom tea. I'm going to say this.

Me and Steve LaBelle are co-owners with our partner Frank Sid on a rehab center that is a drug rehab called THC, the Heavenly Center. And it's an amazing thing where we let you.

I didn't know that's what it said. Yeah, THC. I mean, we don't, like, give you weed, nothing like that. But we will tolerate the use of cannabis when people piss for us. You know what I'm saying? And they piss. You can piss weed. You can smoke it after 9 p.m.

You know, but we give a real conventional recovery. That's dope. And the groups, everything that we do. But getting back to your point, I believe the future, there's going to be psilocybin intertwining with rehabilitation for anxiety, for drug abuse, for whatever it is. It's definitely, I think, something that's done responsibly. Microdosing. Microdosing.

It actually sharpens your mind. There's a lot of studies going on, but maybe y'all might think I'm crazy. No, we've been on it. We've been talking about it. Peyote, yeah. The world ain't ready for it yet, but it will be.

It'll go there. But it's ramping up. It's starting to get into the mainstream. Heavy. But what's that shit called? Peyote? They giving people Peyote? I don't know about Peyote.

You're dealing with heroin. Just saying. Like in five minutes, they just throw that shit in your face. Bop. It's all heroin. Like just... Right. It's the Turtles on that shit.

The psychedelic shit. Ayahuasca. How people use that to get off of heroin. That's not Ayahuasca. Then again though, the Ayahuasca shit, I know... Like you die That's it to get off No, you got people that like you got to do it in I don't know It's gotta be done. I think I'm going back they ain't bounce back But shrooms I think they cool.

Done right. Okay, I'm in. Anyways. And you did say Circle House, Oprah? Yes. Trevor, sorry, bro. We okay. Who the fuck we at?

Okay, Biggie or Big L? Biggie. Tupac or Nish? Rest in peace, Big L. Yes, rest in peace. Rest in peace, both. Both of them. Tupac or Nish? Man, I got Steve Rubello over here.

I'm going to get a shot. I'm going to get a shot. Okay, my bad. I forgot to watch this but um recently it just came um uh Nipsey's third year that he didn't pass

man it's crazy it seems like five minutes ago yeah let's take a shot for him we're gonna have a moment of silence yeah so everyone you know we're gonna take a moment of silence. One, two, three. We should've just 60 seconds, right? Yeah.

Let's do 60 seconds, come on, time it, Cash. Ready? Yeah. Let's do 60 seconds. Come on, time it, Cash. Ready? Yeah. Go. The Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Alright cool Let's finish up With a quick time assignment I want to bring in Steve LaBella

And everything Okay MPC 2000 Or the MPC 3000 3000 2000 for flexibility But overall sounding Right

The 3000 sounds The Like it's just the best. Okay. Are you using machine at all? Huh? Machine? No, but I am using a secret little weapon. No. When I leave here, I'm going to work for Akai.

Wow. Today. They have a keyboard? No, no, no. They got a keyboard. They got a keyboard. Made, no, no. They got a keyboard. They got a keyboard made for you and Alicia Keys.

That's made for a motherfucker that want to make the best music. It's the most wicked. It's going to change everything. It's going to change everything.

Trust me. I experienced this shit yesterday. Are we supposed to make some noise for a cop? Make some definitely make some fucking noise for a cop.

Yo. They're serious. They ain't playing right now. That's dope. KRS-One or Rakim? Love Rakim, but KRS-One's a motherfucking man. Chris is the...

He's the man. The man. Tory Lanez or The Weeknd? The Weeknd. Lambo or Ferrari? Ferrari all day. Sorry, John. That was your theme music walking by. Lambo or Ferrari? Ferrari all day Sorry John That was your theme music

Walking by That was John Chapp baby Okay Ferrari all day Ferrari all day Okay Paddock Or Richard Mille?

Both Get your shots ready God damn You did not hesitate And then I'm going to ask As a watch guy I'm getting shots From the damn watch company Do the shots. Get your shots ready, guys. Do not hesitate. And then I'm going to ask you, as a watch guy. I'm getting shots from the damn watch company. Yes, yes, yes. I want to ask why you got them even.

They're my favorite watches. Oh, both of them? Paddock and Riff. They're my favorite watches. I've got Paddock in my bag right now. You just got an extra Paddock? No, I got to do a wardrobe change later. And just got an extra panic just for no reason? No, I got to do a wardrobe change later.

And the yellow ain't going to work with it. So when you get a Richard, they don't come with other bands? They don't come with another band? Yeah, you can. It's actually pretty easy. Okay, well, God damn it. Let me see this factory. Okay, my bad.

I suck your ass. My fault. You out here looking nice. You know what I'm saying? God damn. That shit wardrobe change. Holy moly. Shit is real. You at the Oscars. You can't. You at the Oscars all the time.

I got, you know, Steve Bell said I needed two wardrobe changes, so I just made sure I was matching. But I gotta go blot out. Rich talk. I love it. I gotta go blot out talk I love it I don't blot out on drink chance okay watch I don't write these questions I'm not even one cigarette from this

damn man y'all fabulous I'm gonna go take a sip of that this is not my questions by the way Paris Hilton or Kim K? I mean, I would have to go with Kim. You know. Shot.

It is what it is. Who said shot? I mean, come on, bro. I'm sorry. I love Paris, but... Kim's one of the most beautiful women ever. Okay. You ready?

Alright, let me go back to the questions. Hold on. You ready? You ready? Lindsey Lohan or Lil' Kim? Lil' Kim. Who's Lindsey Lohan? He said Lindsey' Ham. He said Lil' Ham.

See we're ham after a while y'all. What you want me to do? Lil' Ham. For the record, set the record straight. Never was with Lindsey Lohan. I did drugs with her. I did drugs with her. You did drugs with Lindsey Lohan.

But you ain't finger popping. I don't be nothing. You look like a finger popping. Look at this. Look at this. No. Maybe cocaine in the azore. But no finger popping.

What? The Bentley. Oh, I'm sorry. Holy moly, I was not on point. I thought that was like a cool word. I ain't even gonna lie. Okay, the Bentley. Okay, my fault.

I gotta pay attention. Podcast or radio? I think right now podcast. Goddamn it. Primo or P-Rock? Primo. I like it. I'm a gangsta motherfucker at first.

Rest in peace, Guru. Kanye or Swiss Beats? Give me the drink, please. I got it for that for you, sir. Two legends. And obviously, we're talking about production. Yeah. Well, Swizz is an artist, too.

Yeah, Swizz is an artist, too. Cheers, fellas. Take that shot. Scott, you ain't never going to rhyme, right? You ain't going to rhyme. You ain't going to rhyme. You're going to just... I feel like you spit on the record.

I knew you spit on the record before. Let's not talk about that. Let's not talk about that. You spit on a record before. Let's not talk about that. I got to do the shots, man. I'm sorry. I'm the shot boy. You are the police right there.

It's usually me that's taking the shots. That's why. Okay. Damn, your Kai motherfuckers is going to get a drunk story. Okay. Rapsody or Yo MTV Raps? I'm Yo MTV Raps, guys. Okay. Pro Tools or Logic? is gonna get a drunk story okay rap city or yo mtv raps i'm yo mtv raps guy okay pro tools or logic that's not really a good question

i use both at the same time okay at the same time no it's not a shot. You got a big one. At the same time. Yeah, he's a big shot. He might be a big shot. You might have said, broke, or you might have said. So the engine didn't have to take a shot on that one? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. Hey, hey, hey.

No, no, no. What you gonna say? You gonna say, take a shot. Take a shot. You gonna take a shot. You gonna take a shot. You gonna take a shot. You gonna take a shot.

You gonna take a shot. No, no, no. We said you're not allowed to take a shot. I'm not taking a shot. I'm not taking a shot. A lot of people are recording a lot of people are recording We don't make you too comfortable We don't make you comfortable We're recording

That's what he said You're recording It's the time of show He said that Hey man I always wanted you to take a shot. Take your shot. Take a shot of fucking Lucha.

Hey, don't get mad. You talking about recording vocals. This is the last one. This is the last one. Loyalty or respect? Both. I got you. Like a motherfucker, baby. Chi Chi get the yayo.

No no no don't. Don't get it. Don't get it. Don't get it. Don't get it. You don't respect me you ain't loyal to me. That's real. That's real.

So let's take those shots fellas. Hey hey relax bro. We got a little bit of a brotherhood. Let's go. Let's see if we can be honest. You think we can be honest? You think we can be honest? You think we can be honest?

You think we can be honest? You think we can be honest? You think we can be honest? You think we can be honest? You think we can be honest? You think we can be honest? You think we can be honest? You think we can be honest? Hey Let's knock it out your drink champ, bro. Come on Scott. That's all the order. I look You look typing you Texas on the now yeah my wife sorry family first so scott okay scott looking back at recovering everything what do you think the the biggest lesson that you can convey to someone that that's going through that path right now um that the greatest high in life

comes from the experiences we have in life, not from some drug. Fuck drugs. And what's the biggest struggle, the honest struggle you have staying sober? Struggle? With drugs? Yeah, with drugs.

Pussy. Another drug. Another drug. Another drug. But, I mean, in real life, it's the one thing that could potentially destroy your sobriety. Derail it, right. Derail it.

We love pussy in life. And pussy sometimes loves drugs. And, you know. Yeah. Yeah. So we just have to learn to deal with pussy that doesn't love drugs. Or to control your own. Yeah.

And have the self-control and the strength and willpower and everything. Right. But, you know, life is precious. And, you know, it can all go bad in five seconds. Especially now with drugs and it's not like... They're putting that fentanyl on people. Put fentanyl, all that shit. Not even that is just an excuse, but I'm just saying in general.

Like, there's so much incredible shit that we could be doing with our lives besides doing drugs. That's just a weakness. That means you're weak if you do drugs. Real talk. Be strong, Steve. That's right. Well, I'm going to start. You know, I'm just going to skip around.

We got Candy Shop knocked out, that rumor. Scott still made it. Joe contributed. We got that. Candy Shop knocked out that rumor. Scott still made it. Joe contributed. We got that. But how did... That technically means we made the shit. That's right. No matter what the percentages of the shit was. You and Joe make a beat for me.

I'm in. So you can say he's deep. Yes. Lean back. How did we make this? Lean back. And did you? Okay. Because is this your first national worldwide hit or no?

This is my first hit where somebody said my name on it. Right, you mentioned that. And that was huge. I used to come to the hit factory. We used to have a cheese line around the corner. DMX, Lori. I had mad hits. I had mad hits.

You're like the secret weapon now in the open. I didn't know or understand the value in the tag on the track, on the showing up to the video shoot. Creating a brand. I was just like happy in the studio

making my shit um but it's crazy like my boy uh Raul Terror Squad

that's right big up Raul who was one of my literally lifelong best friends it's Diego you know what I mean right right

that's right and motherfucking Raul and Chris Jones like we were just like Chris Jones used to be my Heineken brother he's over too God bless him we gonna get him back on the right track

what the fuck terrible phrase I think this is for my guys soul right now I hope that you can learn how to drink responsibly I'm a guy that's sold right now. Yeah, yeah. Later, later. I hope that you learn how to drink responsibly. Yeah, that's it. Continue those. But, Raul, the first time I ever had like a, no actually it was the second time.

First time I met Fat Joe was in Rob Tulo's office at Atlantic Records. Brief. Brief. And I was with Fat Joe. I met him. We were in a room. And the motherfuckers, I was smoking weed. And Rob Tulo's office was the size of his table.

And we smoked weed. We was high as shit. Joe was in there. He wasn't smoking weed. No, he wasn't. They told me that he got a contact high. He was high as shit. Joe was in there. He wasn't smoking weed. And they told me, they told me that he got a contact high. He was high as shit

because he tried to sell me some rims while I was in there. But he said, there's only three of them but you can just find the fourth one. It was a bunch of shit. Flash forward

a couple years later. The real, technically the real first time I hung out with him on a different level was at the Hit Factory. I met Raul in front of the Hit Factory. And he came to listen to some beats.

And he ran over to Joe and was like, yo, Joe, this white boy got this fucking beats over there in the studio. He's in A, I'm in studio E, whatever the fuck it was. And he's like, he got some fire weed, but isn't that Joe's like, ah, he just wants to smoke, whatever. So the next time I met him, I met Joe that time, whatever, I didn't really get his attention, but the next time I met him, this guy that passed away, Joe Bentley, that used to own this car rental company that me and Joe were both mutually friends with convinced Joe

to come out to my house in Weston at the time and drive 45 minutes and Raul was with him. Raul didn't know where he was going but he was like

There's cows out there. Yeah. Yeah. Raul shows up and I'm at the front door and Raul says oh my god it's the fucking guy

that I tried to tell you to go to fucking, he heard my beats and he was like, listen to that. So Joe was like, let me hear some shit. I'm like, let's just make some shit. Joe described what he was making, he wanted to make. What he wanted to make, yeah. And I did it, literally in 12 minutes, I had to lean back. And then Joe was like, we need an intro. It was just like in the Candy Shop. He was like, oh, we need an intro. So I was like, So, Joe took the beat with him. He didn't cut nothing that day. I made the beat. We made it literally 12 minutes.

12 minutes, another three minutes for the intro. And six months later, I get a call from Joe. We're going to have the anthem of the summer. We're going to Summer Jams with this record. The record's not out yet. He's calling you. We got the record. I'm like, really?

Okay, cool. So, what we did that day paid off. And you gave him a two-track that day? the record's not out yet he's calling you yeah we got the record I'm like really right okay cool so what we did that day paid off and you gave him a two track that day or you gave him everything I gave him probably

everything whatever I don't remember but yeah definitely got the two track and they made a record him and Remy fucking murdered

the fuck out of that record right to the point where we were on I remember we went to do the MTV Awards and performed that shit.

At that time, Paris was my date to the motherfucking show. Goddamn. That was a good flex. That was a good flex at the time. Yeah, yeah.

I remember that. I'm just taking the picture. The drink channel. I remember, yeah, and we performed that shit on MTV Awards and Bruce Willis was in the motherfucking audience I remember I remember yeah we performed that shit on MTV Awards and Bruce Willis

was in the motherfucking audience leaning back Bruce Willis leaning back I remember that yeah and then lightning struck twice

and we made Make It Rain and you know Joe and I I think me and Joe should go back in the studio and make it

the next absolutely like a motherfucker right right I think me and Joe should go back in the studio. I think yes, you go back next man Like a motherfucker Joe I'll drink to that Yes, we back and I will give you a double because I want you and Dray to make another still trade You just can't talk about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You might have done something already. You're going to the NBA. Take it.

God damn it, make some noise. So, so, oh shit. Hold on, hold on. What is, what do you want? We are filming, sir. Stop calling us. This is Scott Storch. We're in a video here.

Come on. Hey, hey, hey. Don't ever call me on FaceTime with your hair slicked back, man. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.

I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. Stop calling us. This is Scott Storch. Really? Come on. Don't ever call me on FaceTime with your hair slicked back, man. I'll hit you back. I'll hit you back. His hair slicked back, man. Come on.

I got moves to this shit. I'm going to smoke my head by Scott Storch. He's Italian-Filipino. Are we finished? We finished a quick time of slime? I got notes now. We need Steven. We need Steven.ch. He's Italian, Filipino. Okay, are we finished? Finish a quick time and slide. I got notes now. Bring Steven, man.

We need Steven. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's bring Steven LeBron in, man. Come on, get it done. Go, go, go. Let's do it real quick. Real quick, real quick. And hey, I got my own.

Where's your hands? Yeah, I got my own. Brother, take it. I'm real about to move on. You get a chair, I get a chair. I'm real about to move on. Okay, sweet. I got it.

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Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Worked up. Alright. That's just a little, they Cartier make them for you. Me and my partner, Ellen, we designed these joints. These are Storch Design, made in Italy. Italy? Yeah, this is real shit, this is no blight. We went over dimensions, every part of that motherfucking glass. Oh man. Woo, and they feel good too.

I feel richer. I feel richer, man. You know what I'm saying? Originelli, baby. Yes, sir. Storch Design. Storch Design? Yes, sir. Storch design. Storch design, make some noise for Storch design. Yeah!

Yeah! You are a sunglasses motherfucker. That's why we mad. Like even at night time you be having sunglasses on. And you looking cool doing it. Some niggas can't wait for that off. Yeah, some people wear it and they can't see. Try to pull it off.

I take my shit out and work it out for me, y'all. I can't. Some of the girls are like, oh, you got blue eyes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, yeah. Oh, yeah. But I like wearing sunglasses. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

See, it's like, if you got blue eyes, that's what white people wear. But black people would say, you got good hair. You got Indians in the family. Yeah, let's make some noise for Indians. Hold on, we're ready for... And yo, where Mr. Lee? Damn, nigga, what's going on? What's up, man?

We on Ramadan, y'all. What's up? Where the hell is he? I didn't even know they make that out here. What is he doing right now, bro? What is he doing right now, bro? You got the yallas? Yeah, so Steve, we know you was on? Yeah, bro. You got the y'allas? Yeah.

So, Steve, we know you was on Drake Chats before. I love that. And we knew you didn't want to, we wanted to let Scott shine, but we also, we owe you a gift as well. So, you know what I'm saying? Because we give up. We know you weren't the Satan to the side, but we said nah. I owe this man too.

Yes. Thank you. You helped me get my life back together. I owe this man, too. Yes, yes. You helped me get my life back together. Yes, yes. He don't play that. He's a big way. God get done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He don't play that.

So, I mean, let's, I mean, he said that. Let's elaborate. And I know we said this before. I mean, we did this before. But I want to elaborate on y'all, you guys' relationship. Like, how did it even start? How did this, you know? I mean, to be honest with you, about seven years ago, started a podcast myself called live with steve lobell oh that's right

and you know i was a little ahead of my time i interviewed jay cole to afro jack to i mean so many people right and i would just pull up to them you know i'd go to soldier boy's house and get on his balcony or go to afro jack on the studio jay cole to his house and just pull up with a blackberry and just interview people. I thought I was going to be Johnny Carson. Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. So I seen Raul and Scott on Instagram. So I know Raul back from the Terror Squad days

when we used to drive around the country with him and Fat Joe and Big Pun, rest in peace. And you was with Bone Dogs. Yeah. And, you know, I got a long career. You know, I started with Jam Master J and R.E.M.C., so I didn't forget that. Rest in peace, Jam J. And, you know, Eazy introduced me to, you know I got a long career you know I started with Jam Master J and we did MC so I didn't forget that and you know

Eazy introduced me to you know Bone Thugs and I worked with Nipsey with Big U and you know a long long career I've been blessed but when I did the podcast

I interviewed Scott you know and shout out to Fat Joe man cause you know that's family and Raul and me used to drive around the country

like I said so he said come to this house. So I pulled up to this house in Tarzana. Scott was sitting in the backyard by himself. And I was like, where's Raul? He said, he's not here. So I interviewed Scott. And I pulled out my Commillionaire plaque because I won that Grammy with Dad.

We're crazy going to play in the skills. The Ground and Dirty. Yeah. And Scott was on that album. But I always wanted him to sign the plaque. And we never even knew each other, really. Yeah, we never was on that album, but I always wanted him to sign a plaque and we never even knew each other Yeah, we never really knew each other. So I interviewed him and then he asked me to manage him So in 24 hours, I said give me 24 hours and I said let's rock and roll not knowing what I was getting myself involved

Why'd you say 24 hours? I just need to think about it because I never managed a producer Oh, okay, and I had a lot going on. And I said, just give me 25 hours. And under 25 hours, I said, let's rock and roll. And it wasn't easy in the beginning. You know, I really didn't know him and his history and stuff that he's been through. But one thing I did tell him, just trust me. And I was going to put him in with the new artist that no one ever heard of.

Right. That I just, you know, either knew them or knew someone to work with them. Right. And the rest was history. Like, perfect example, Roddy Ricch, them or knew someone to work with them. And the rest was history. Like, perfect example, Roddy Rich, man. Shout out to Kiefer. But a lot of people don't know his father, his key to rock from the 60s, who was the only crip down with Death Row.

He got NC on his face and got Death Row, and he's doing life. Hopefully he's coming home. But he called me and was like, Uncle, I got this new kid named Roddy Rich. I asked Scott, like, bring this kid over. And Scott, of course, was like, is there an advance?

Is there money? But you know what? Let's do it. And we made Down Below. A Boogie was in L.A. I said, he's going to pull up. Scott was like, he had 40 people with him. A Boogie.

A Boogie had 40 people. I said, Scott, just go in the session. And this was way before they found Boogie, though. So I said, Scott, go in there and work with that kid. Don Q him and PNB Rocks and I let them use

Scott's car to shoot a video in the house and Scott was making records and they wound up blowing up and so on and so forth. But I'm going to keep

it real with you, man. You know, you guys are talking about game, right? And I call him Chuck. I was at a restaurant with Wack and we had a sushi restaurant

and we were eating lunch and I said I'm working with Scott, I would love Chuck to come work with Scott. And Whack was like yo we've worked with Scott in the past and last time in Miami things didn't go great but you know what man, I'm going to have Chuck pull up. And Chuck pulled up the next day and that was the first record we did with Scott. All eyes on me, put Jeremiah on the hook, and I said, Scott, you got to say Scott Storch on the record. Have a girl say Scott Storch.

And y'all get a little bit, because, like, you know, no one's ever did a little tag. Well, we did the tag, and it went to Power Little Six, and the record blew up, and that was just me. That's making some noise for Game and Whack-A-Rack. That was the first record that I worked with Scott doing and that record went platinum And I was just like wow now that was the first comeback Damn my next question was down below by Rowdy Wigg. So yeah, yeah, I mean I broke it we think alike man from Queens

But let me love you How did that come about? That's a question for you. I wasn't nowhere around. I was looking right at you. Oh, okay. My bad. I thought you could see my tits. Y'all doing more than something like that. I told the story yesterday

for the Akai people. Let's go. I'm just letting it rip. I'm just letting it rip. So, I'ma just let it rip. Yeah. I'ma just let it rip. So I made the record with Ne-Yo, my boy Cam, and we cut it here in Miami. Now, Pooh Bear? No Pooh Bear? Nah.

Okay. I'm just trying to get my breath back on the track. Okay. But'm just trying to get my breath back on the track. Okay. But I guess. I thought it was an amazing, immediately I thought it was a hit record. I went with Larry Jackson. My man, we're on Apple right now. We're on Apple Music to play it for Clive Davis. Clive didn't like it.

He said the shit was whack, basically. Shit on me in the meeting. You in the meeting? Yeah, I'm in the meeting. The Clive Harry, he went straight for it. I feel like he had a business. No, he was falling asleep in his chair.

Damn. Like, I don't give a fuck. I just tell it like it is, bro. I'm letting you see behind the veil. Yes, you have to. He said the shit was whack,

basically. Six months later, a guy named Peter Edge, the person who was over at the label, said, this English guy, he's like,

Scott, the record is brilliant, mate. Isn't it? From London? He's from London, yeah. the record is brilliant, mate. Isn't it? From London? He's from London, yeah. He's from London, bruv? Okay.

Well, he wasn't bruv in the middle of the show. Okay. It was earlier. Okay. But he liked the record, and he got behind it and made it the first single. And the man who owned the motherfucking label who didn't like it, Clive Davis, I guess he ain't know any better,

but that shit became the longest running number one song ever in the history of music at that point. Wow. Yeah. So he was wrong. The label was always wrong. The label was always wrong.

Let's make some noise for that. The label was always wrong. I'm serious, bro. I've seen so much crazy shit. Records'm serious, bro. I've seen so much crazy shit. Records that got slapped on. You see,

this is where the next question should be. We always talk about the debate. Major or independent? What do you like more? Major or independent? Independent right now.

Yeah. What can the label do that you can't do? What do you think, Steve? I mean, you know know you get to a point you start independent he started that's what that's not a little bit of a temptation you you know back in the day a lot of people you know from too short to eat 40 you know Tony Draper suave outside the truck you know and you

know a lot of people independent if she was any kind of rest in peace then at the end of the label comes you know look I look at it like if you want to go to another level as an artist sometimes you need to get at the end of the label comes, you know, look I look at it Like if you want to go to another level as an artist, sometimes you need to get to the major Yeah, because they'll take you to certain places that you can't do it yourself I'm sorry, you know starting off That's not what we said because you've advocated for you like just majors without explaining that what I've always said is be independent So you could take advantage of that machine once you're there you can leverage that's for what I said okay to go to a major label and think that that's gonna solidify you and

make you bigger or greater or better it's not you want to wait till the major wants you right not say you want it you want the major to be coming wants you. Right. Not to you want it. You want the major to be coming at you like with the bag bag, the priority, you're a priority to them. Like you already got some shit popping.

Right. They're going to work for you. But you pull up on the label early on, too early. Right. They're going to give you whatever.

You know what I want to say? Regardless of independent or major, every artist out there or anybody trying to get into a business, learn the business. Understand the business because this is a business.

Absolutely. You know what I found out the other day? That owning someone's music is illegal. What do you mean? Like, the label... Intellectual property? Yeah, like, you ain't supposed to... Like, there's somebody who just found out

that it's actually illegal to say that I own this music. Like, it's, Steve Stout was one of it. It's some conversation I was watching and I'll get more of it but that's like crazy. Like, to me, it should be illegal. But I feel like we spoke about Make It Rain, right?

How it was made or was it? Did we speak about it already? Yeah, how it was Make It Rain? The same way we made Lean Back, man. Same way we made Get It Poppin'. Same way we made a lot of these records. Me and Joe just go in the studio and just...

He explains... I just remember him saying, yo, at the time it was like... I mean, it was really trap shit, but... Yo, let's make some of that down south shit. Right. Because that shit's poppin'. Because he was seeing a lot of slack for that record.

Yeah. In New York. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone else in the world loved it. Down south shit. And he made it. No, yeah, because he remember. But Joe was messing with the south for so long.

Yeah, but he made a 95 south chain at that time. It was supposed to be 95 north. You understand what I'm saying? I received the'm standing in his market Cause You know That shit That

That tempo It's all about tempo Man It's music It ain't about some Sad shit It ain't about where you from It's the tempo

That's how we felt about Super Thug When it came out It's the tempo That's it Yeah And the motherfucker is dope And he was ready to spit on some shit like that Right So that's what that was And make it rain All I know is I got a call That's it. Yeah. And the motherfucker is dope, and he was ready to spit on some shit like that. Right.

So that's what that was, and make it rain. All I know is, I got a call from one of the homies, he was like, motherfucker, if you ever make a song like that again, I'm going broke from that damn song in the strip club.

Oh, okay, okay. He was like, bro, every time I play that shit. Yeah. Yeah, I couldn't stand that shit. When I was in the clubs, and they was just like, Norris in the house,

like, what the fuck? I can't just come in here and chill? Like, nigga, I make you throw money. Yeah, yeah. I couldn't stand that shit. When I was in the clubs, they'd just keep saying, Norris in the house, like, what the fuck? I can't just come in here and chill? Like, nigga, we're making your money. Yeah, yeah, I couldn't stand that part of it. The record was actually amazing. Yeah, but yeah, that was crazy. I did make the East Coast, no, Worldwide Strip Club amp.

Yeah. You ain't no Birdman or Lil Wayne. What about me? How was it making that record? Oh, you ain't know? Yeah, you ain't no Birdman, Little Wayne. What about me? How was it making that record? Oh, you ain't know? Yeah, you ain't know. Fire. I did the video.

I was on a few videos. You in the video. I'm in the video playing keys. They gave me so much love with that record. But I have a confession. I literally went around that whole video and got almost every one of the girls' numbers. I probably knocked out every one of the girls' numbers at the video.

I probably knocked down every girl in the motherfucker. You ain't no video. You ain't no video. You ain't no video at some bad ones. Where's this video at? Video was in like a restaurant or something, like clubs.

I forget what it was. It was like some roaring 20s looking shit. I brought my, I had at that time, I had like one of them classic,

classic Bentleys like from like back in like the you know, gangster days with the big joints and I brought it to the video shoot

and everything just for no reason. Dressed up like a gangster. Yeah. Just because. All the bitches is flocking. I literally got, I think I got every girl's number in that video. Almost. Just because. All the bitches is flocking. I literally got,

I think I got every girl's number in that video. Almost every single one. Look at that video. You're definitely haunting my time. So,

another thing, you're the first person I ever seen with a Bugatti. Is this true? Are you the first person in hip hop with a Bugatti? Let's just throw you the first person in hip-hop with a Bugatti? Let's just throw it out there

In hip-hop, yeah Look, Bugatti was a car that's been around for hundreds of years Hold on, you can't skip over that I'm coming back to it The first person in hip-hop with a Bugatti? Absolutely Because when the Bugatti came back It came back with a car called the Veyron.

The Bugatti Veyron. They got the Chiron now. They got all different ones now. But the Veyron, yeah. They kept like two cars. The Bugatti kept like the car number one, number two. Ralph Lauren got car number three through their own polo. I got car number three through their own polo i got car number four and if you look at my mtv cribs you see i opened the hood i got car number four the fade ride i was the

one of the first people i plucked down a little two million on that and bought that shit when everybody that was buying like European cars and high-end cars, you was maxed out at like 500K. That was all you were spending. Came in with the two million. In 2000? Before everybody, in 06 or something. 2004, everybody, I like that year.

I like that year. 2000. Let's just say first. 2000 BC you should have a whole section of the show called first first of everything and I remember when the car got delivered Rahul Terror Squad and I

we got the car it came off the truck and it was sitting in my parking lot on Palm Island and we, I said Raul, you can ask me this let's be the first people to ever smoke a blunt in a

Bugatti Veyron and we sat in my parking lot we couldn't wait, I had 30,000 square foot not joint, blunt blunt, it was on my level. Yeah, we were smoking a blunt. We smoked. We christened the car.

We didn't even move it yet. We smoked a blunt in that motherfucker. In the driveway. And we were the first people to smoke a blunt ever in a Bugatti. Goddamn. Raul, make some noise. Raul. That was ill to me because.

This ain't folklore. These are true stories, bro. Right. Because who. How did we even hear about Bugattis? Was it James Bond or that's Austin Martin? That was ill to me because This ain't folklore These are true stories Right Cause who How did we even hear About Bugatti's Was it James Bond Or that's Austin Martin

Nah I didn't even know It was just We The motherfuckers knew It was the millions And like that's what I wanted to be I wanted to represent

The guy who had The multi-million dollar shit The 30 carat Diamonds on every Fucking finger And all that shit Like I I painted myself in the corner

with that shit a little bit because you had to like live up i'm like damn i'm gonna show up in a spaceship to the club and like lower me or something yeah yeah like something but like there was a guy his name was mike gordon he owned fort Lauderdale Collections, car company, and I would go there and the dude would send me home he would say, Scott, you have every car already, they don't make anything that you don't have

and then he finally called me the one day and he's like there's some new shit, it's some two million dollar Bugatti Veyron shit, and I was like I'll take it, I didn't even know what it was. Two million, I'll take it. I got that motherfucker and smoked a blunt and then we rolled.

Have you ever got pulled over in that? Because I feel like the police just shit. I feel like they just look at your car and be like, let the nigga live. They didn't know what it was. They didn't know what it was when I first had it. And then they found out and it was like, oh, shit. So did they pull you over or they never pulled you over?

No. I had a cop pull me over one time in South Beach, in the Bugatti. All right. And I thought I was definitely rotting dirty. Okay. Like a motherfucker. And the cop got out and flashing lights behind me the cop walked up and sang james ingram one in a million for me went next to my car and walked literally was singing r&b classic r&b shit

for me to show me how he could sing i thought i was going to jail oh Oh, shit. Oh, he was doing a demo. The motherfucker was singing a demo for me and telling me he was a writer and everything. Were you relieved or annoyed? I was relieved and annoyed at the same time. Did you take his novel? Of course. He actually became friends with Officer Jones. Oh, really? You went in the studio with him afterwards?

He was always in the head office of Jones. Officer Jones. Gary Jones. Gary Jones. Gary Jones. Gary Jones. Gary Jones. Gary Jones.

Get her another man. No, no, no, no. Not Big Bang Ball. No, different guy, okay. I'm gonna stick a shot just to get this fucked up. I gotta kill him, too. I should have killed this too. Yeah, smoke a joint. It's 4-4-4, right?

No, no, no, no, both of these. Come on, come on. We won't get you over this. Okay. I don't smoke my hits. yeah okay now this is a good one oh shit baby boy Sean Paul

Beyonce how did this make up the rude man call you say hey man no rude man say hey man I met Sean Paul

when I was working with Common I was working I was working with Common Common Sense yeah me Common and Questlove went to Jamaica to work on Common's album.

Sounds like a vibe. Nothing done. Oh, shit. Don't lie. Anyways, I met Fire and Hype. I met Sean Paul, and we were working at G-Jam Studios. And I just do what's dope. And then I seen that he did the shit in Belly the Deport Them shit

and the snacks and I'm flash forward to working with Beyonce at the Marlin Hotel we did all that shit there at South Beach Studios

Marlin Hotel yeah classic spot which was owned by the dude that owned Island Records and Best Coconut Shrimp

you ever had in your life not to be confused with Island Boy no Island Records Island Records the label that signed Bob Marley yes And best coconut shrimp You ever had in your life Not to be confused With Island Boy No Not an Island record Not an Island record Yes The label that signed

Bob Marley Yes So It's a legendary spot Yeah Yes But anyways And so

You give Sean Paul the beat No I'm working with Beyonce We made Baby Boy And I told Beyonce I was like yo Oh this is Beyonce's record I thought it was Sean Paul's record No it's Beyonce's record That's Dangerously In Love Okay And I told Beyonce, I was like, yo. Oh, this is Beyonce's record? I thought it was Sean Paul's record.

No, it's Beyonce's record. That's Dangerously In Love. And I told Beyonce, I was like, we need to get this dude on the record. This dude, Sean Paul, is nasty, blah, blah, blah. And we made that record. She hadn't heard of him at that point? She might have, but I mean, I was the one that was like, yeah, let's put Sean Paul on this shit. Not just reggae, but Sean Paul in particular.

Yeah, he was, you know. He was on fire. Sean Paul's a man. Yes, he is a man. We supposed to be coming on a drink chance, right? We've been talking about it, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Respect the idea of Sean Paul. I don't know.

My gimmick action is hard. Your patch was there. It was the coolest part. At least I'm trying. At least I'm trying. Okay, I got more. I'll drink to your patch while. You want to drink to that? Okay. I ain't going to lie, Scott. You got to finish that. I'm not, man. At least I'm trying. Okay, I got more. I'll drink to your Pantawa. You want to drink to that?

Okay. I ain't going to lie, Scott. You got to finish that. I'm not giving you another shot. I think so. I'll take your last shot. You can't be the only one that ain't finished.

You should not explain the card. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Boom. This is a good one. I did not know you produced this. Girls in the Hood,

Megan Thee Stallion. I didn't know you produced this. So, I Hood, Megan Astaire. I didn't know you produced this. So, I mean, you were around when that record, the original record, was made. I mean, I was in middle school. Megan wasn't, so how's this, you play how this beat and... No. Okay. They requested it.

Yeah, shout out to Celine from 300 Entertainment. Yeah, Celine was like, yo, we got a challenge for you. He reached out, he said, flip it, and you know, shout out to Tamika Wright. You know, he's white.

Right. You know, she cleared it. Right. And the record blew up. Right. So that was the direction? The direction was to flip Boys in the Lair?

That was the objective. It was like, wow. And then how... And then how did it put that drop on it. Right. How much of an honor, because you worked with Easy E, Easy E. Yeah, you know, rest in peace to Easy E.

Rest in peace, man. I've told this story, I think, I don't know if I told it here, but straight out of Compton movie, I was with Easy at the Tunnel. You know, legendary tunnel in New York City. Right. I had a few members of Bone Thugs. It was the first day I met them. We brought them to New York. Right. And we ran into Ice Cube at the tunnel. you know, legendary tunnel in New York City. Right. I had a few members of Bone Thugs. It was the first day I met them. We brought them to New York. Right.

And we ran into Ice Cube at the tunnel. Yeah. Wow. And that's when they were beefing and stuff. And, you know, they had a conversation. Two of the Bone members were with us. The other two were at the hotel. Right.

And he had a flannel on, a Pendleton. And he said he was going to walk back to the hotel. It was freezing out. Right. He had his two Simone bodyguards, the twins, and he walked back to the hotel. But I said, get in the limo. But you know, like him and Pac and certain other guys, they would like to walk in the city, you know? And it was so easy again. He went back to L.A. and passed away. So, you know, rest in peace Eazy-E.

Without Eazy-E, there's not a lot of things, man. How accurate, you know, for you being around, at least for, you know, some of the parts, how accurate you thought the straight-out carping the movie was? I thought it was like 95%. 95%? That's pretty close. That's pretty close, yeah. Somebody was, who was on here that said that they thought it wasn't too accurate?

There was somebody. I don't think they said it wasn't too accurate. I think they said that they couldn't fit pox whole life in the three hours Oh, you know, which I'm on in the way The peace pocket movie, you know You can't put a pop story into two and a bow now managed to pass group the outlaws for years You know rest in peace Gaddafi, you out Napoleon and Castro and Noble and Nitty. Real talk.

Shout out Raul, man. He's been through a lot with me, Scott, Fat Joe. If you listen to Scott's interview, Raul comes up a lot. That's beautiful. So now, The Watcher. Now, this was Jay-Z record and you presented it to Jay-Z or this was

you and Dre giving it to Jay? I mean, we did The Watcher on the Chronic album. Mm-hmm. The Watcher 2. Okay.

What was it? Blueprint 2? It was on there? I forget what it was like. Okay, I forget what album. What is the album? I guess he liked the record so much he wanted to, we redid it.

Right. Watch it too. Fire. Yeah. Goddamn. Never, you know, unconventional, cool shit. Okay. So earlier you tried to get this story out.

I want to, because one of the, one of the things that I feel like in hip hop that we lost when these brothers Fell out Was It was the first time We got to see the West coast and east coast Come together

And strongly Like I'm Bigging up Let's move up to Crooked letters And Joe Ortiz Right now Crooked eyes

Crooked eyes I'm sorry And Joe Ortiz Right now But When I hear Game and 50 Cent Together

And I know I'm naive And I know I can never hear A real album of them together in these days, but I've been wishing for that. And one of those records was, you know, West Side Story's Game and 50. How was that session was, you making that? I mean, that was just me and Dre doing, we had a run, me and Dre.

Right. We was doing one after another, and that was just a day at the me and Drake. Right. We was doing one after another. And that was just a day at the office, man. Right. Were they at the session? Yeah. Okay, okay. Because that's how we made music back then, right?

Of course, we were all together. We were all there. We weren't sending a pack of beats. We made that shit that day and motherfuckers cut it. Right. Fresh off the bridge. I think we should make some noise for that. I'm not a pack of beats motherfucker. Yeah, you wanna make it in the end.

Yeah. Yeah, that's fire. Do you ever throw away beats as you're making it and the artists get mad at you? I mean, I'll skip past some shit all day, you know what I'm saying? But I just, I know when the room is loving I'm not gonna stick

the room with a beat that my voice is like I feel the energy is cool and that's more fucking artists it's like this is the shit then I'm like

oh okay this is the shit let's go to me I love those producers when they sitting there and they just looking at you

and to you until they actually feel you but not to the beat yeah of course but can't that be producers when they sitting there and they just looking at you and to you until they actually feel you but yeah yeah of course but can't that be misleading as well like this i've always thought that when you're in a studio session and everybody's like vibing because they look at each other and they looking for that approval the music you know the studio the speakers give you that that sound it might not resonate the same way when it goes out to the world. I feel like sometimes everybody's like,

they're hypnotized in each other's presence. There's been plenty of times I've got a beat and the producer's been like this. I don't want that. How do you navigate that? I'll tell artists to be brutally honest and when you're really feeling something, don't jump the gun.

The first thing I play might be cool Right, but like just like you let it happen Let me know when you really fucking something moves you and you're like I got an idea for this, right? That's when you know, it's like baseball you don't you know, yeah labor All those have been done before on to Gems, but I gotta take a piss, man. No, no, no. It's never been done. We do it all the time.

I gotta take a piss. It's a part of drink gems repertoire. All right. That's a bad one. That's the Amazon from the fucking Amazon. So, okay. Anyways, back. Adam Hicks.

Film it. We good? We spoke about Adam Hicks. We did. Hold on, hold on, guys. Yeah, yeah, we did that. We spoke about Adam Hicks. That's right. Okay, so, we're going to do a little bit of a... We're going to do a little bit of a... We're going to do a little bit of a... Anyways, back. Adam Hicks. Film it. We good? We spoke about Adam Hicks.

We did. Hold on, hold on, guys. Yeah, yeah, we did that. We spoke about Adam Hicks. That's right. Okay, my man, Russ. Rife you up. Oh, man.

That's my man, Russ. Russ is amazing. He's a dope kid. How did y'all link up? How did this record come about? Russ is such a great guy, man. He's such an artist. He's such a unique character.

But I never, I met a lot of artists in my life. But he's a producer, but he's like, you're a producer. He showed so much love and opened the door for me to, and believed in me to, like, carry the torch and fucking, like, create whatever the fuck I was feeling. You know, get into the vibe and make, we made classics, man, together. We made, like, in one run, the first time we started working together, like, five records. And every day we would make the record. He's like, at the end of the day, I'm going to drop the record every day. Five days straight, like, we dropped a record every day. And it was crazy man was like it was

so we got plaques off the flute song and wife you up but you know look it's all about giving roses right um my little nephew Ryan reached out to me and said yo you need to get with this kid named Russ and Milan who's his manager I used to deal with back in Toronto years ago. And Russ came to Scott's house. And he don't work with nobody. And Russ does everything himself. And he looked up to Scott. And he idolized Nip.

And I remember FaceTiming Nip. Nip was in the barber's chair. And I FaceTimed and he picked up. And Russ got to meet him. And Russ was like, wow, like, Steve, you have no idea what you did for me. And he was a fan of my podcast, too. Russ is really a hip-hop guy. No, hip-hop, for sure.

Absolutely, absolutely. And then he set the record to Nip that he was supposed to get on, but he passed. But Russ is a different type of kid, man. I have a platinum plaque in my house for a record I did with Russ. And I wiped you up? We got two plaques. On the flute song, he wrote

to Scott Storch, The Reason Why I Started Making Music. And that shit just went down. He wrote that as well in his book. He wrote it on the plaque. And he wrote it in his book. Because he said he never worked with no one in his life. He mixes, he masters, he engineers.

There is still some physical chords between us. That's a great chance. That's a great chance. That's a talented time. He's a great chance alumni. He's going to come back and do a chance. He's going to come back and do a chance. He never did it himself.

He's like, I've never worked with nobody. And he came and banged out so many records with Scott. But he's a great kid. And you know what? Not to cut you off. He knows about hard ticket sales. He knows the business, man. I was about to say.

He knows the business, bro. Have you been to a Rush show? I've actually never experienced a Rush show. Not to cut you off. He knows about hard ticket sales. He knows the business, man. I was about to say. He knows the business, bro. Have you been to a Rush show? Right. I've actually never experienced a Rush show. He got a fucking cult-ass following. He got out to Red Rocks. Yeah, I performed with him.

But, like, I never seen anybody react to an artist like that. They sing every word. I did Coachella with him once. And he just the fans are just real cult fans. Like sold out. Stadium shit. A different breed, man.

He don't need radio. He's a good dude. He's a special kid. He does his thing. That's why I'm like all independent. I'm surprised the war shows don't recognize him more. Yeah, you don't get the recognition he's supposed to in this industry. To me, he's like, and I know this is going to sound a little crazy, but he's like the white Tyler Crater to me.

You know what I'm saying? Like how Tyler Crater does his own thing, has his own thing. Outside the box. Does not need radio. And so it's amazing to me that Russ doesn't get the same accolades when it comes to award shows. You know, it's so funny He did go to Sony for a deal and he wanted them to get him radio And they didn't get him the radio he wanted he went back independent. Hmm He knows the business man, you know, he's got a great family and he's a good kid man. Yep

Rich kid He's rich. Yeah, by the people he's here so on his album. You can tell how much he loves the culture Yeah, I think I was listening to a record with him and Bini the butcher Yes, he was just tell like this kid loves you could have both of them Love and write me and shit like I just love that. Well, I don't get to see that I you know just part of me hates the business. Part of me is like, fuck this shit.

Well, I had to find my inspiration and my love for it again. And I did. Right. You know. The business is funny, man. Okay, let me ask you this. Yeah, absolutely. Sorry,

Chris Brown, featuring Rick Ross. How did this record come about? Man, that was robbery right there. Robbery? No, I'm just kidding. That was supposed to be my record. That was supposed to be my...

When he was making Yowl? Yeah, it was my first attempt at making an album, and then it went on hiatus for a while after that. Why? Because that was supposed to be my record. And, yeah, it went to Ross. To Ross. But you got the bat?

Yeah, I mean, we made a classic. I don't know but I wanted that originally. How you gonna say no to the boss? Right, but you wish you would have said you wish you would have kept it for yourself or no? Yeah, I mean, but it may not have went down like that. Right. I tell Scott save a lot of records for himself. I wanted Down Below to be my record. Wow. Wow. Okay. Now, one of my close friends, we spoke about him earlier, but I want to know how this record was brought about. Lord, give me a sign.

DMX. Were y'all living together at this time? I think he lived with you. He was staying with me. For like a week or something like that? I mean, yeah, it's kind of a crazy story. It's like the blind leading the blind. I've told this story before. Honestly, even back then, I always wanted to help him.

And I remember I was like snorting my brains out and I'm telling him who was smoking the shit, like, that shit ain't cool, man. You gotta stop doing the current man And I said come stay with me and um, I Remember I put him in the rehab and everything and back then not my rehab that I plan now But in Hollywood, Florida's recovery first the place I went to and failed miserably but I in Florida, Recovery First, the place that I went to and failed miserably, but I told

them to go there. We were making that record in the simultaneously with all that, and then some crazy shit happened, and I remember X called me from the

Hard Rock Casino, which was across the street from the rehab center, and telling me that he was with one of the nurses from the rehab center at the Hard Rock. Gambling?

I mean, I don't think they were gambling. It was a hotel. But at any rate, I remember, like, I was just like, man, put on a hoodie, something, and just come to the crib, and I'm going to try and get you back in there. And they wouldn't accept him back in the thing. Because he left with the nurse.

Yeah, and it was a court-ordered situation. It was a court-ordered situation. And I remember I was at the Mondrian Hotel sipping mimosas like four days later. And I got a call from my home security and they were like, there's 50 federal agents at your house right now. And they're here for X. And it was sad, man. But I tried. I've always tried, like even in the horrible state I was in, to help him because I got so much respect and love for that man.

And then, you know, flash forward to me and Steve, we tried to help, you know, and it was already too far gone, and then we lost him, man. Yeah. He was actually hanging out with me for the last, like, six weeks of his life, almost every day. He rented a hotel right off the block with me. I would see him almost every day. But, I don't know.

It's crazy. Yeah, yeah. He definitely closed the door. Did you ever get to work with Pond? No. You ever met Pond, though? No. Oh, wow.

I've had so many moments where either Raul or Joe would say, yo, he would have really liked to work with you. He would have really got a kick out of you. Yeah, y'all would have never left the studio. So who's your favorite person to collaborate with? Because we heard about the Timberland, you guys collab, you and Dr. Dre. What is your ultimate favorite collab?

It's a two-part question. Who is your favorite person to collab with, and who haven't you collabed with that you would like to? In terms of producers? Producers, whatever. Producers or artists? Both. Both, whatever, whatever you want.

I wanna work with Drake. Drake. It's ice cold Canada. D-R-A-K. I wanna work with The Weeknd. I wanna work with, no, it's awful Canada, it's crazy. I wanna work with The Weeknd. It's awful, Canada. It's crazy. I want to work with the weekend.

The weekend. Able. I want to work with Rihanna. I want to work with Rihanna. And if some of these artists would just not ask me for a good time and get in the studio, they'd be pleasantly surprised. I promise you that. So that's the three people that you haven't worked with that you want to work with.

It's Drake. Rihanna. The Weeknd. Rihanna. He's only trying to change his name to Abel. Abel. Not with no last name.

Not Abel Weeknd. Just Abel. Abel. Yeah, he's going to be like, yeah, yeah, it's just yeah. I think it's going to happen. I think it's going to happen.

The name change or are y'all working together? I really fuck with Sal XO. Sal. And XO Entertainment They get a lot of money I'm doing a lot of shit Cash Sal and Cash

Sal and Cash They get a lot of money over there And great people Yes So I think that's gonna happen On the weekend side For sure Weekend side

At any rate Your original question Was Your favorite collab My favorite collab. You know who you haven't come out with? As a producer,

my favorite collab, I think, in order like this, I mean, I don't know if it, I would say definitely Dr. Dre and Timberland. That's what I was going to say. I was going to put that.

Working with those guys as producers yes my favorite working experience I think with artists

with artists um would have to be the making of Dr. Dre's album as an artist 2001 making that album

was one of the most incredible experiences of my life I got a chance to hang out with like everybody like when we were making that album

like you know what I'm saying like I found myself a young kid in the studio smoking joints with Snoop Dogg doing all this

fly shit bro going to the Playboy mansion to like you know what I'm saying that collaborative effort of that album and you got what i was there no i went there to do a reggae donate but jay invited the most important 100 djs

you know the core djs this one now now all these different DJs were in that motherfucker to do a listening party. And he sent for everybody to be there at the Playboy Mansion. Wow. And it was lit. That was one of the most fun experiences of my life, to be part of that. Have you worked with Kendrick? No. No, I haven't worked with Kendrick.

That's surprising. Shit happens, too. I would love to work with Kendrick? Uh, no. No, I haven't worked with Kendrick. That's surprising. It is. Shit happens too. I'd love to work with Kendrick. Yeah. Shit, I'd love to work

with Tyler, the creator. There's a lot of artists that I want to work with. And I'm fancy. Tyler just won drama.

Yeah, and drama. And DJ drama. Oh yeah, that's right, because it's a mixed thing. I feel like me

coming back to Miami right now, I'm creating a recording studio and I'm creating a recording studio and I'm putting this thing together right off the beach and everything. Literally, it's going to be the sexiest studio possible. I am going to be going so hard

for the next 12 months. You're going to see some shit that you weren't expecting to see from me. Okay. Nas and Hip Boys came up with three albums together is there somebody you you got that you want to do a whole album with a lot of people I would do a whole album with but I think right now the most important thing for me is to lace artists with big records and make my own album. I want to make my album and follow

in the blueprint of what Khaled is doing. Khaled's a monster and he's so inspiring to me. When I'm looking at him, I'm like, man, that's a lot of work that goes into that. People think it's just cool, but the dude puts in a lot of fucking hours

of fucking labor. The vocals are in. The vocals are in. All that shit, bro. And all the time doing social media, all the time doing this, being the personality and then the creative aspect of it. It's an exhausting task. That's my inspiration. I need to not be lazy and I need to get in there because I have the talent to make unlimited amounts of hits.

So now it's time. I think I'm finally acclimated in the right place at the right time. And Miami is going to be where it happens. Do you think that it's turning the camera

on yourself now? Like a Khaled, like you're saying, like taking advantage of social media for you to brand yourself? I mean, that's just one facet of it.

It's really about putting in the time and energy and being creative and working smarter not harder I can't explain it

it's what he always says and like doing the right thing man and making shit for myself you know I've been a producer for hire

for others for so long and I've made so many so many hits it's time to make some shit for me it's real talk so hopefully you got you on the album man i'm trying not to rap I was going to do the Dream Chants album, man. I was thinking about it. Who had me? Who had me? Benny the Butcher the other day.

But I didn't write it wrong. I didn't write it. So I said, I got an AP. I said, I got to watch more of it. And it's stainless steel. He's like, I ain't paid crazy for it. I got it for retail. So I'm like, I got to relax. got it for retail. I got to relax. I got to relax.

And it's not as good. It's nothing. If you had to blame, like, you know, when you did go down for a second, if you had to blame, what would you blame more, the drugs or the females? For me, they go hand in hand. It's a seesaw. One way or the other. It's they go hand in hand. I need to go on one without the other. It's a seesaw for you. I mean like, they're both addictions, man.

It was Cocaine and Pussy together. Ever out of the cut. That was the deal. Is the name of the album Cocaine and Pussy? It should be. It should be. But Cocaine and Pussy together. That should be a name for a song. Cocaine and Pussy. I love that. but cocaine and pussy together whatever it was whenever immediately I would do

cocaine I need wasn't so they it was just like a thing. And that combination together just was recipe for disaster for me. And how about doing pussy? The pussy was my thing. Just Pussy is great. Straight pussy. No tracing. Cocaine's poison. So the album is called Just Pussy.

Well, yeah. The greatest hits in just pussy. So, damn. Make us a cinnamon roll cinnamon. Man. Listen, man. We're not going to let Steve leave here unless we ask him about this versus, man. Versus.

Bone Dogs, Three Six Mafia. Never knew they had beef, by the way. All thought, deep person. They didn't have beef before that, did they? As a fan. As a fan of both of them. When they're selling the fight, I'm thinking it's all seafood yalla. I'm thinking they all like playing around.

I'm thinking they're just doing this. And then when they did, they threw the mic and then they crossed paths. I get to see Steve LaBelle, who's probably the only white person on stage. And you got in there and you just, because everyone knows Steve LaBelle. You us.

But describe the situation. Definitely white boys are going to stand up. Right, right. You know, look, I worked with Bone Thugs and still do over 25 years. Right. I worked with 3-6 Mafia. That's right, at Loud, right? For a long time.

No, this is way before Loud. Way before Loud, okay. See, I heard, and Steve Ripken's my brother, heard what he said. It's basically bone was discovered by EZ and they went through ruthless relativity. At a time, though, loud had bought relativity. So that's how they got acquired that.

But I worked with Three Six Mafia and Bone Ducks for a long time and they always had beef back in the day. Oh, they did have beef? Yeah, back in the days. Oh, they did have beef. Yeah, back in the days they had beef. Not real beef, you know, just beef of like the tongue twisting,

just like Kusher Conflict and Do or Die and stuff like that. Who created what style first and so on and so forth. But, you know, so when Swiss reached out and Timbaland reached out,

I was like, we're going to put it together. But I wasn't going to do it without Busy Bone. Because Busy Bone doesn't really come and do a lot of stuff with the group. Even when we tried to drink champs, Crazy Bone came by himself and saluted Crazy Bone. He showed me mad love on this, and I appreciate that. But those guys are all my brothers, and we made a lot of history working on the movie together and a lot of stuff. But I also told DJ Paul you got to bring Gangsta Blue

and Crunchy Blackout as well the Three Six Mafia is just not Juicy J and DJ Paul so Versus realized that and said you know what yeah we need to go hard and do this so we kept trying to find dates and we found a date and everybody agreed to it

and we were like should we bring out features? You know, a lot of people bring out features. I'm like, Bone got so many hits. Tweesee's got so many hits. You don't really gotta bring out features. But organically, we brought out some features and they brought out some features. But, you know, they were mocking Busy Bone.

And look, from where I come from, Queens, and the music business, men, sticks and stones, whatever that saying is saying is like as long as you ain't telling someone to suck you you know what or fuck your mother You know it's hip-hop. You're supposed to just violate and chop, you know disrespect. That's hip-hop So they were mocking busy bone and then uh, you know Juicy says suck, you know, Juicy said suck, you know. Where I'm from, like, that's fighting words, you know. And I called Juicy Jordan, and he said, suck my you know what, and Busy threw the mic and ran, which he shouldn't have ran, he should have stayed there, and he left.

And it got ugly. It got really ugly, and the cameras went off. We had about 300 people with us with Bone. They were in the balcony. They came running down. The front was like full of Latinos, Mexicans, who love Eazy and love NWA and love Bone. And they were ready to rush the stage. You know, and Juicy was like, oh, we can get this on right now.

And I said, Jordan, like, why are you going to keep instigating this, right? And I love all those guys. And we didn't have no security. And, you know, they had some security. When you say our boat yeah boat dogs and you know three six had some security but you know some some paid security that knew me and some of the homies that knew me and no one wanted to even have a problem and do that but it could have got ugly because both sides are not pussy. And I took the initiative as a diffuser to stop it

because it could have got ugly. And if I didn't diffuse it, fans could have jumped on the stage, fans could have started throwing stuff because Busy Bone left and I begged him to come back. Those guys could have beat each other up and someone could have got hurt, stabbed, shot, physically beat up.

Then what happens? Lawsuits galore. What happens if I got got hurt, stabbed, shot, physically beat up. Then what happens? Lawsuits galore. What happens if I got beat up or stabbed or shot? It's a whole nother problem. So I diffused it. And a lot of people in the industry called me and said, you know, that's what a real person does, diffuses it. Most people instigate and they want to see violence, especially amongst Afro-Americans. So at the end of the day, I defused it. And I told Swiss and Timbaland, I didn't get to puff with Sirach because he sponsored it, and Trilla and Versus and the Playdium. Where was your security? Y'all didn't even do nothing.

I defused it myself because both sides respected me. And I could have turned it up real quick, but why would I do that? You fuck up people's lives, family, business. And again, you know, and that's what happened. So love my manager big you can make a call the next day and told it You know about something You want you want them Scott you want to feel cut like a weird relationship you and sugar man It's like y'all mess with each other, but you you mess each other. Do you still keep in contact with him to this day? I do.

Is that true? Yeah. Really? I talk to him from jail. That's ill. I mean, listen, I'm not part of what went down, you know, in a lot of the shit that was, you know, in his life. But I know that I moved into a community in Beverly Hills. He was my neighbor, and he came at me the right way as a person,

and he never tried any funny shit with me. He's always kept it real, and I know he got caught up in whatever he got caught up in, and I know I met his children and, you know, from one father to another, you know, he's inside, I'm outside. Any way I can help that man and do whatever the fuck I can for him, I help, you know what I mean?

I do what I can. I talk to him. Yeah. That's real. That's real. The same guy that went in got Tupac out of jail. Wow.

You know what I'm saying? Real talk. Yeah, Free Simon Simon man, I call him Simon I know Simon a long time and they call Simon cuz assignment says no It's his name. Oh, that's really He did a lot for hip-hop man and I can't just throw him away into a cage and tell him you know He's not part of history. Absolutely. Yeah. Too many people stereotype people and judge people and label them and assume, and they just get to know certain people, you know, not taking away anything that anybody ever did. But, you know, he's a big part of this community that we're in and that we live for and we

dedicate our lives for. Right. How many times have you seen that when people go away, like people just change and change and disregard them and disregard them but in Shudder's case it's a little different because

like you know going to jail I mean not going to jail I'm just saying people going to jail and people falling off or people just you know not doing that

but there's so many accusations of Shud you know what I mean so it may be sometimes a little different when it comes to him or I mean you know this industry is funny man right you know when you hop you hop right and when you warm you warm when you

cold you cold we've been blessed to stay cruise control and i hate the fact that when the industry just turns it back on you like if you make a mistake or you become cold because anything goes up could go down but it could also go back up again right so reinventing yourself is a big thing in this in this business but there's a lot of you know culture vultures in this in this in this community a lot of uncle toms in this community people just taking advantage of the artist you know one thing that we're doing at our treatment center the heavenly center is we're gonna make health insurance cool right you know a lot of artists artists that are Latin and Afro-American, they don't think treatment is cool.

And treatment is cool. And why don't labels give artists, you know, besides Music Cares, you know, health insurance? Why is most artists, when they pass away, bigger, dead than alive? Like King Von and Pop Smoke and Nipsey and stuff. So give the artists the health insurance for that. They're dealing with a lot of mental health and addiction right now,

but why do executives got steady checks and health insurance and 401Ks and expense accounts to go to Mr. Chow's and strip clubs to build back to the artist? At the end of the day, a lot of people just push you to the side. They just want to stand next to you when you're hot. To me, and I'm speaking for myself, is corny. Now, Scott, what kind of weed is that? You just got weed on the table.

What is that? What is that, y'all? This is the new Snoop Dogg weed right here. Oh, okay. Is that what we had already? When we went to Snoop's compound? I'm sure. It's different than when we smoked at Snoop's.

It's different? This is a fresh pack. Okay. Yeah. This ain't the package. That would be like before it goes in the bag I never see I never seen over so happy after that Happiest boys ever seen

Yeah, that was fire Yes, just to try this gumbo. I think some of those joints you got is gumbo in them. I'm not sure. I got a row, too. Two of them are gumbo. They right here. And we also got smoke chants for you right there. Let's smoke some gumbo right now. Yeah, we also got smoke chants for you right there.

Smoke chants. We're going to take that with you. That's our shit right there. Okay. And it's Spencer Reese installs. But, Scott, where did you get the Hits by Scott Storch shirts? Where did you get that at? I mean, my partner, John, you know, we're doing the merch

and you can go to Scott Storch, hitsbyscottstorch.com, order the product and the merch, everything. And you will get, you will get the Yala on there

or just the shirts? Uh, on, on, on the Hits by Scott Storch. I mean, the shirts are going to be on there very soon,

the whole merch line. The whole merch line. Yeah. Okay, but not, oh, these things? Oh, that Yala.

Yeah, because this is the hits. The hits by Scott Storch. It's legal. It's legal. It's legal, man. It's got scottsnorts.com. Order some. It's fire. I love the Yala.

I smoke that. Yala. Be anywhere smoking this. It's the pink ones. In the movie theater. I got a big hit of that one. That one was serious. Thank you, brother. Got my damn mother one that one was serious I asked Scott this earlier

let me ask you Steve do you still really love the game? I diversified into so many businesses but I never forget where I come from he loves the game I love the art of the deal I love doing business

um i like reinventing things i like changing the game i like being innovative creative just that my thing with the industry is that there's not a lot of integrity no more loyalty um people are selling their souls for a check or just to look cool so it's just hard man when you get with the artists you try to build that artist up, they might get amnesia, so. Right. We're gonna keep going because, you know, we got too many people in heaven that, you know,

we gotta keep their names alive, and they wish they were here, trying to still do it again, so. I'll never forget where I come from, so I always do music and love music. So, when we Googled you, a lot of records with R. Kelly popped up. Do you still speak to him?

No. There are certain things, honestly, there are certain things. There are certain things. I have a daughter, like I'm saying, like I don't fuck around like that. But it is a sad thing because musically, I'm not talking about who he is as a person, what he's done. There's no excuse for anything like that. Ever. That's not debatable. But his music

is so sad to me. He is one of the greatest to ever do it, bro. It's so sad. But, you know, it's part of life. So let me ask you right cause on the verses right we spoke about it earlier

we established that you felt like you won right and you and Matty did have a kind of relationship but he did kind of take a little shots at you right yeah was you expecting that was that a call that was made like oh Scott I'm gonna make a little a call that was made? It was like, oh, Scott, I'm going to make a little fun.

Or that was all an element of surprise? You know what? That shit was mad corny. You know what I mean? Like, for someone that had drug addiction or whatever, and you know what they went through, and they got through it, to take that shot, that's below the belt.

It's not cool. But I talked to Manny about it. He apologized for it. That's a man. He's a man. And that's, you know, whatever. I don't hold grudges. But that shit was corny.

I didn't want Scott to go against Manny. We don't do respect to him. But when he got on there, he was taking shots. And when he brought up the drug addict shit and all that, the next day I called him. Oh, you called him? Oh, I called him and got him on the phone with Scott, and he apologized because, like I said, there's limits, you know?

Right. You can't tell this man he's a drug addict even though it's passed, so don't bring it on that platform, just like someone saying fucking your motherfucker or suck my dick. Right, right. So, yeah, we spoke like men and called him. And that was a separate. So now that we all outside, masked man days, refused to give it a second chance at versus. Who would it be?

Who would it be? Who is Scott Storrs coming outside? There's rumors that I might be doing another one. Against? I don't know who it would be against, but I would go against quite a few people. Jermaine Dupri would be one of them. There's a bunch of people that I was thinking about for it. Murdo on the beats? Different catalog, different time.

I think Jermaine Dupri makes a lot of sense. Like somebody who is my peer at the height of my career. You know what I'm saying? Somebody's catalogs kind of coincide with each other. Even though I'm doing music now,

Right. we know I'm 48 years old. I'm just honest with myself. Trying to figure out what you think. What you think. Not Pharrell. Pharrell could be a good one.

Yeah, I was saying Pharrell got some shit. Yeah, Pharrell could be a good one. That one, I kind of had to go. Yeah,

I mean, you're going to have to fight to get to the degree. You're speaking all of your existence. That's a good one. That's a good one. There's a few people.

And it would be very respectful, too. I think that was one of the things that through all verses when we had Dream go against Sean Gary. Polo to Don.

Polo to Don. That's an L1. Me and him were doing, because he was doing hip-hop shit and he was doing pop shit and doing was doing pop shit and doing whatever shit.

So, I feel like that could be cool. Right, yeah. You know, there's a few people. Okay. There's a few people. I'm having for Mavdeep.

Nah, different catalog. Yeah, I don't think that matches up. Different catalog. I worked with him. I worked with Mavdeep. Okay.

Goddamn. So what's next for Scott? We spoke about the products. The whiff, the hits, .com, the glasses company, which I'm going to give you these back, right? No.

I love these guys! I think I said it before. I love the glasses! I think I said it before. I'm about to take Miami back. Are those Scott's glasses you got on? No, these aren't. These are Porsche designs. Go on, Scott. As long as they're Porsche.

I love my glasses. You're a glasses guy. Yeah, I'm a glasses guy. I gotta make some blue joints. I don't quite have the guy. Yes. But, you know, I got to make some blue joints so, you know. Why? I don't quite have the blue shit yet. Yeah.

It's next coming. Next skew. Man, so... But, yeah, I'm back in Miami. I'm taking my city back. Back in Miami. I'm about to fucking go crazy. We've also seen the news

where some shit happened in your old crib or some shit like that. In my old crib? Yeah, in L.A.? Oh, in L.A.? Yeah, is that why you're here? Yeah, not my house, but, yeah, in L.A.? Oh, in L.A. Yeah, is that why you came? Yeah, not my house,

but, um, yeah, there was a, there was a, um, uh, you know, a home invasion. Yeah, so many home invasions in L.A. I mean, it was not like anything,

you know, it just happened to be the lottery ticket that came up for a home invasion. It wasn't my house, it was my ex's house. Okay.

Yeah. Is that part of the reason why you're not driving? Anything that happens that somebody that's related to me, my name comes into it. That's very famous Okay. Yeah, is that part of my name? That's right anything that happens there. You've related to me My name comes into this very I wouldn't in that house for a year and a half when it happened I was in Miami when that shit happened. Is that happening still in LA? These home invasions? This shit's crazy.

It's wilding out. Everywhere is wilding out. You might hear one, but 20 happened that day. Third. Yeah, shit's fucked up. I seen a judge that I know who's like, man, I'm getting the fuck

out of LA. I was like, you a judge? How the fuck are you saying that? They even robbing judges' houses. Yeah.

If you go out, you get robbed. Wow. If you stay home, you get robbed. Wow. If you stay home, you get robbed. You get robbed. Fuck that. Right.

I see y'all in Miami. Don't be too comfortable here. Shit's happening here too. No, shit's wild. It's a whole different level. It's a whole different level. This shit in Miami is wilding out too.

It's wilding too. Especially, you know what's fucked up? The wild that it gets South Beach, it's like the hood. And the hood is more safer than South Beach right?

I needed my seven questions, so I could have drank my shots man The questions those were those are great you did with Scott. Yeah, what do you guys call it again? Quick time was locked. You were making a board game. Let's do Scott Yeah What do you guys call it again? Quick time It's live We were making a board game Let's do it You know Put it aside

So what were we saying? I forgot I don't know Again I did my job Because if you wouldn't remember Then my job was not done But

So anything you want to say Getting up out of here? Oh shit man I just appreciate you Having me back on the show This is your show I got so much love for you. Yes, yes. This is your show. You were one of my first believers.

Yes, right. I've got love for you forever. I'm still here, baby. I'm still here. I'm not a believer. I'm not a believer. Have you ever worked with Justin Bieber? I have not. You have not? Okay. You got a plan on that list? Yeah, I would definitely work with him. Okay, yeah.

I like him. I like who he has grown to be. It's one of the dopest footages I've ever seen. Footages. It's him going to his New York City apartment, and the paparazzi is outside, and a whole bunch of these fans is outside, and he politely says to them,

listen, guys, this is my real life. Don't you guys want to go home and, you know, have peace? And I was like, oh, shit, because I want to say shit like that, but I can't be articulate like that. And these people actually laughed. They were like, oh, shit, we're invading this man's privacy.

I saw that. And you saw that. That was so, to me, that was like the ultimate superstar coming to being the ultimate human. We're going to wrap it up and give you a smoking cigarette. Wait, wait, wait.

Hold on, hold on, Scott. That's about the way. Let's's be clear I'm not trying to get you To stop smoking cigarettes Because I My cigarette habit was so bad I couldn't fly straight to LA

I would have to connect to Houston To sit down and smoke a cigarette But what I can say Is these The cowboys To the cowboys Brad We gotta get you

Off of Marlboro Red Please go Marlboro Light Please go gotta get you over Marlboro Red. Let's go Marlboro Light, let's go Marlboro Light, Marlboro Gold, the Reds. I'm just gonna smoke my head. Listen, this, you gotta have cowboy boots on with this. Cowboy killer. You know, I wanna say this, because tomorrow's never promised, right?

And you guys, this is a big platform, right? Yes. And we watch your growth. Yes, thank you. And life is about growth and change. Yes. When you guys came to L.A. Yes.

And we sat down on Fairfax to interview, but, you know, a lot of people reach out to me and do interviews, and I don't really like to do interviews and stuff and talk, but a Justin Bieber situation, right? Right. That little kid was at Sony Epic Records. I'm there with Nipsey and Big U. Wow. And they passed on him. And school was sitting there and they said,

they went to all these labels and everybody passed on him. And then, you know, a year later I was blessed. The kid blew up and went on tour with him with Sean Kingston. Wow. And I was on tour with him a year. And this footage was floating around YouTube. I'm telling him, like, you just sold out Madison Square Garden in five minutes. Justin Bieber. Yeah, that's Run's house from Run DMC.

So to watch Justin Bieber's growth and to even see his maturity, to say that to the paparazzi was amazing. And I want to say this, and I'm going to take control of the show. Like, what you guys gave me this gift, man, means so much to me. And I opened up the first ever hip-hop museum recording studio, Dispensary Grove. And I have so much nostalgic shit in there. Nostalgic shit. And I'm going to put this in the museum.

I'm going to put this in the museum because I do have a drink champs cup that I took from you guys five years ago It's in the museum and whoever comes out to California and Van Nuys in the private airport You'll see something that's never been done before a hip-hop museum recording studio dispensary to grow in one Again I appreciate y'all just jumping in with Scott. I want Scott to shine man man, because he's an icon, he's a legend, and he's my brother. His life changed around, he grew, he's got so much going on, but more importantly, he's an incredible father. Nah, but Scott, let me just say this like this. Make some noise for Scott. Hey!

You're one of the greatest producers of all time. I didn't say greatest white producer or greatest rap producer or greatest pop producer. I said greatest producer of all time. When the history says itself, they're going to put you in the likes next to Quincy Jones. They're going to put you in the likes next to Dr. Dre, which you already are.

And you are really one of the greatest producers. I've seen you work. I've seen you work on the spot. I've seen you do anything. I've seen a person say, yo, I want to beat that sound like Deleon. I don't even know how Deleon sounds, but you would just make a beat. And you would just do that. And I just want to tell you, like, I've got to witness it

for 20 years and like I said, you're one of the greatest producers of all times. We love you over here. We want to give you your flowers, give you your respect. Steve LaBelle,

you're one of the hardest working, you know, people that you're always hustling. I always respect you. I always come to you for advice. I always come to you to just kick it. And I just want to say both of you brothers, man, God put y'all together.

You know what I'm saying? For a reason. Y'all know the reason even more than me. But I'm telling y'all it's working. You know what I'm saying? I don't ever, I never, I always see y'all complimenting each other. It's never like, you know, one is another's crutch and bringing each other down. All I see is y'all bringing each other up.

So I want to recognize that. I want to salute that. I want to tell y'all, both of y'all, thank y'all for coming again, again, again. The last time we did this, this was the last episode we did before we got on Revolt. So this is an episode that will be on Goddamn Revolt. And we're going to be on television.

So I just want to say thank y'all, man. Thank you for so much you're doing. And we're going to be on television. So I just want to say thank you. I'm going to thank you for so much you're doing. And we're going to take a flick and do some promo. And that's why I'm here. Thanks for joining us for another episode of Drink Champs. Hosted by yours truly DJ EFN and NORE. Please make sure to follow us on all our socials. It's at Drink Champs across all platforms.

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