Drink Champs - Episode 34 w/ Dame Dash
Episode Date: September 9, 2016N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode the guys drink it up with hip hop mogul Dame Dash. The guys discuss N.O.R.E. and Dame Dash's long history of working together through music an...d films, and working together in the future. Dame also discusses his current projects and his feelings about stepping away from the music industry. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drinkchamps/support Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, Hank Sangria, hope you're savvy This your boy N.O.R.E
What up, it's DJ EFN
And it's Drink Chance motherfucking podcast
Make some noise
DJ EFN
Yes, sir
The one thing that we like to do
Is please our fans
Yes, sir
And this is We interviewed a guest earlier Yo, sir. And this is, we interviewed a guest earlier.
Whoever ringer that is, man.
Foul.
Take your fucking ringer off.
Is that City Boy D?
Is he your ringer?
All right.
You just looked at guilty.
I'm sorry.
City Boy D, big him up again.
Yeah, I'm really big him up again.
All right.
But one of these guests, the guest that we have right now, we interviewed another guest.
Right.
And these two people
As the most requested guests
Since the beginning
Since the beginning
Right now we gotta do
Who I personally seen
Take a company
From nothing
Went and got the buggy
Y'all Benz
Wrapped it
Niggas never seen
A Benz wrapped
Back then
Took a company Made it multi-million dollar worth Benz. Wrapped it. Niggas never seen a Benz wrapped back then.
Took a company.
Made it multi-million dollar worth.
Took something.
Niggas was wearing Iceberg.
And we stopped wearing Iceberg.
Because they made clothes that said, fuck that.
The nigga bought Pokeds for a couple years.
How the fuck is that?
Nigga bought the whole company.
God damn it.
He made movies.
He personally put me in five movies.
If it wasn't for him, listen, I didn't even want to act.
That nigga looked, he hung out with me one day and said,
nigga, I'm putting you in a movie because you an actor.
I said, for real?
So he's the reason why you Hollywood Nori right now.
I'm Hollywood Nori.
He's the reason.
That's not better than Hollywood Nor now. I'm Hollywood Nori. He's the reason. That's not better than Hollywood Nori.
I like Hollywood Nori.
And he's also one of my favorite CEOs.
Even if you guys heard him and you've seen him flip on people,
if you take away the yelling and just take away his words, everything that he said meant what we need and what we want as artists.
And since he's been out the game, we have not seen it.
There's only one other person I could give that love to,
like I give it to him, and that's Irv Gotti.
And since these two people have been out the game,
the game is not the same.
And before you finish, before you finish,
we've had a lot of legendary rappers.
Yes.
Now we've got a legendary exec.
First exec.
Mogul.
CEO.
Thank you. Everybody make some we got a legendary exec. This our first exec CEO. Thank you.
Everybody make some fucking noise. Hell yeah.
For not only
a person I look up to,
not only my friend,
but a person I consider my
brother. No doubt. Dane
motherfucking Dash.
Let's do it.
Dane Dash,
I don't know
how other people
look at you.
I don't know
how other people
view you.
And guess what?
I don't give a fuck.
Me and you both.
Because I look at you
like one of the smartest
people I ever met
in life.
Thank you, man.
I appreciate that.
I really do.
And
from the beginning,
from the first time I ever met you, you wanted to make sure everybody was rich around you.
Yeah.
How did you develop that model?
I mean, you know, when we was coming up, that's what our thing was.
It was the circle of success.
Right.
And it meant make all your friends rich, especially like a guy like me.
I like to spend mine or invest it as I'm inspired.
But if I'm broke and all my friends got money, all of them,
all I got to do is take a little from each of them and I'm rich again
and it ain't got to hurt.
So it's like, you know, it always made sense to keep your friends rich.
That's basically what the DNA of Rockefeller was.
And that's why it was received so positively.
You know what I'm saying?
Because it was always about making us all rich.
Like, you come up to the club, there's one car and 20 niggas walking in the party.
Or they're your friends and they taking the bus or the train or Uber.
You know, that's one thing.
It doesn't look that great.
But when all 20 of your friends pulls up in a nice, equally expensive car.
Or like, let's say, when you go in the club and one guy's buying all the drinks, that costs a lot.
But when everybody can afford a bottle, you Ten dudes Ten bottles It's just one bottle
Like last night
We went to the club
It's just like
It's like copping
You know
When you cop together
You get them cheaper
Right
You understand what I'm saying
Same shit
God damn it
Let's make some noise
For copping
God damn it
You buy it in bulk
You buy it in bulk
Dame Dash
Like you know
In the street
You get with your homies
Y'all cop together
You're getting them cheaper
Just so you know Dame Dash
From the minute we started
Drink Champs
And you see
I sent you a clip
And you sent me your
Your alcohol
Had it from day one
And we kept it on the table
I see it
You know what I'm saying
I'm the repost master
That's right
That's right
I'm a repost
And let me pick up SunnyDBT
Which is Instagram
Is Mr. Super Slime
Which is used to be yours
Used to be mine
And he loves He loves the whiskey.
So let's get into that.
Why did, because you did Armadale at first.
Which I have, remember, I have one of the first,
I have one of the bottles.
I used to do Rockefeller Marketing in Miami.
So I have that one bottle left in my crib.
So let's, why, let's just bring it from the beginning.
You guys were selling
millions of records.
It's all good.
Right.
But you guys ventured out
and got alcohol,
vodka.
Well,
what happened was
Vivendi
had bought Universal.
Okay,
now for people
that stupid like me.
Right.
Because I just found this out
and Vivendi
is the people
who own Universal
and that's also the people
that own all the water in France?
They own some alcohol. They own a lot
of shit.
They was putting out, I think
one of them, they own
the umbrella company of a liquor.
I think the family is a liquor family,
whatever it was. And Biggs was like, yo,
we should try to get the liquor thing going.
And we drank vodka.
So basically, we only wanted to sell the stuff we was using,
and we wanted to sell it exactly the way we liked it.
You know what I'm saying?
So it was like we might as well make it ourselves,
because we're guys that are used to making things or, you know, buying in volume.
You know what I'm saying?
So we were like, that's your mentality, to do it yourself,
to make it the way you want it and sell it.
And plus it was like, damn, we could sell some liquor.
But really we was in the game to sell everything.
You know what I'm saying?
It was like the music was really a commercial for everything, but we went into the game looking at it like that.
That's what people don't understand.
No artist at that point had their own liquor, right?
Was y'all the first people who had liquor?
And clothing, I think, too.
We weren't the first with the clothes.
Like Russell did it.
Oh, yeah.
He turned into an artist.
Put it like this. He's an artist. Right, right.
Put it like this.
Put it like this.
The thing is, when you think Rockefeller, you think Jay-Z.
But when I think Rockefeller, I'm thinking Cam, Kanye, M.O.P.
But Cam came later, though.
Noriega.
Oh, yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Let's make some noise for me being a part of Rockefeller.
And I fought for that. That's right. No The Rock and Roll And I fought for that That's right
No no
Listen
Let me tell you something
I'm going to tell you
My most memorable meeting
I ever had in my life
Right
I had
I did a Spanish record
And I brung it to Def Jam
Because remember
I was on Def Jam
At the time
I brung it to Def Jam
And I said
I felt bad for
That you had to be on Def Jam
I was writing like that.
Listen,
I'm going to break it down.
So look,
I went to there
and Dame,
it was a two-way,
this was back in the day.
So Dame hit me and said,
you got a meeting
with Def Jam tomorrow, right?
And I said, yeah.
And he said,
He just knew this automatically though?
Yeah, he already knew.
Like the Illuminati shit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, yeah,
that's what people think.
So he said,
do me a favor, just text me when you're in the building. But he, yeah. Like, yeah, that's what people think. So he said, do me a favor.
Just text me when you're in the building.
But he, in my mind, just said text, but I meant two-way.
It was two-way.
Yeah.
So I two-wayed you.
I walked up, right?
And then I'm in a meeting with Kevin Lyles.
And then you walk in a joint.
In my mind, it was smoke.
Like when you kicked in the door.
Like, I don't even think you kicked in the door.
But in my mind, that's how it happened. You kicked in the door. And then it was smoke Like when you kicked in the door Like I don't even think you kicked in the door But in my mind that's how it happened
You kicked in the door
And then it was just mad smoke
And then you said
Fat boy what the fuck
And then I looked at myself
Cause I was a little chubby
You know I'm a little chubby
And you were talking about Kevin Lowes
You said yo Kevin Lowes
How much money did you approve
Noriega's budget right
Let me break it down to you
So mind you
He agreed to me
Like 15
35 thousand
And I was good with that
But I didn't know
I was the number one
Record in the world
You walked in
And you said
You said
You just approved
Mariah Carey's budget
At 500
Yo whoever's talking
Please shut the fuck up
Please
As a gesture
So you said
Yo Mariah Carey's budget is $500,000.
LL budget is such and such.
Ja Rule's budget.
And Norrie is paying y'all lights for two months.
I'm not on Rockefeller at this time.
And you just kicked it.
And you made them give me $175,000.
You knew what they was going to do.
I have never had a CEO
fight for me before that
and then fight for me after that.
That was like fun.
That was my pleasure.
And you got nothing out of it too.
You didn't ask me for a dollar.
I got to make sure
you didn't get robbed.
God damn it,
make some noise for Dave.
But Dave, how are you So smart
Like how do you
How did you know
That Dave was about to
Lowball me
Well number one
They be bragging
All the time
You know what I'm saying
So
You called him
Quarter water right
Well I'm not
Again I
You know it was a long time ago
So I'ma just say this
Well we wanna know
The quarter water shit
Oh
You wanna know
Why I called him
The quarter water
Yeah please Because They So Def Jam time ago, so I'm going to just say this. Well, we want to know the quarter water shit. You want to know why I call them the quarter water? Yeah, please.
Because they,
so Def Jam
didn't acquire
half of Rockefeller.
Universal did. And Def Jam
got 25%.
And Universal had the other
25%. So they only
owned a quarter. 25%.
That's the quarter water. Yeah, and we own 50
percent. And the thing,
I said it, I'm like, yo,
you know, y'all bust down
that 50. We don't.
Y'all only own a quarter. You a quarter water.
That's why I called them a quarter water.
Wow.
I knew that,
but I needed to break it down.
I needed to break it down I needed him To break it down
Because you know
Again I don't want
To diss him
It should have been
So long ago
But it would be funny
To me how they
Would be fronting
And people would be
Believing it
You know what I'm saying
You know like
You on the block
And you know this kid
Is mad soft
He gets punked all day
But he goes on
Another block
And pretends he's
Mad hard
And you just
Watching this nigga
Laughing like
Oh
My friend Biz
He's a pussy
everywhere else
this is the whole
music business
this is the whole
like you know
I see this often
you know what I'm saying
so they act smarter
than they are
but because I do it
every day
I never was an artist
you know I was a
businessman
I'm just running numbers
the math got to make sense
it's just logic
you know what I'm saying
so every day
I'm going over the logic
as a businessman
like if you're a professional in something you got to do it all day every day
so when you're a professional businessman you focused on there's no way you could be a businessman
kind of like a real like me there's also let me just break down business right like break down
business because we don't understand shit you could be a celebrity for yourself yeah and because
of your celebrity you bring attention to a product so someone will give
you a piece of that product just because they're using your celebrity right and now you're an owner
but you're not doing no business you just there because you famous that's a business but that's
the majority of them at all that's what celebrities do they get famous so they can get paid to bring
attention and awareness to products.
So that's like
brand ambassador.
That's exactly what it is.
That's a brand ambassador.
Right.
But I'm the guy
that got to get it clicking.
I got to know how to make it.
I got to know how to sell it.
I got to know how to distribute it.
I got to know how to pay people.
Right.
And I got to make sure
everybody get paid
whether I get paid or not.
Right.
I got to invest, invest.
I got to, you know,
me now,
because I was using
their money back then.
Right.
But then I was like
Fuck it
I'd rather use my own
So like
Remember when
And pay them
And um
The uh
The uh
That video we did
With um
With Biggie
And we was uh
Playing with Monopoly money
I mean we was playing
Monopoly with real money
Dead Presidents
You know we was playing
With real money
You understand what I'm saying
Like we
We went
Make some noise
For Dane Flawson
On that
No no no
No look In the 90s,
we didn't have money like that.
But, you know,
that was what...
We was doing it the front.
Right.
But my point is,
if you're doing in business,
you're using other people's money,
you ain't using...
You're using Monopoly money.
It's not yours.
You're just moving shit around.
And I was feeling like
I was playing Monopoly.
So I was like,
yo, I got to go use my own cash.
Because I like the way it felt when we played Monopoly with our own money, not Monopoly money.
You know what I'm saying?
I want to do my own thing.
So that's a game I like to play because I do it every day.
Because I do it all day.
I'm a businessman.
That's what I do.
Every day, all day, I'm thinking business, business, business, business.
I know what it's like with Monopoly money.
It's a lot different with your own, but it's more fun.
It's better.
So you just bung it up so i just do business the question you know you asked is why i'm good at business
because i'm a businessman i'm a professional at it you ask a football player why he good or a
basketball player why kobe good because he sit there and take that shot and practice a hundred
times that's why joe is nice he doesn't just get nice it's his discipline so in business i'm just
very disciplined i don't have the time to be playing around.
That's why they be like, I'm going to ask.
I just don't have time for fluff.
I need to get to the business.
I need to math.
And I got to get to getting my money back because somebody got to get paid or else I'm going to get sued, which you see I always do.
You're patient for bullshit, yeah.
You know, it's just business.
My game is like the actual business.
I like to flip.
You understand what I'm saying? I like the way it feel to pause and get a new drug and make it flip all over again. Like these blue bottles
and these brown bottles. You know what I'm saying?
Stay in my crib and stay in the bar.
But I'm feeling, I'm loving the hustle
of it. Like I'm doing it because I
just love it. Like I'm burnt out. You know what I'm saying?
I can't help it. It's the game.
But also, now I'm like, I did it with other people's
money. Let me see if I can do it with my own.
And it's so much more fun.
You understand what I'm saying? That's why you got to do it like that.
But I learned that years ago.
But when you're an entrepreneur,
and niggas know because they be in the street,
no matter how long you hustle,
no matter when you got to run or you don't,
it's always a grind.
You can't never let the block just leave it alone.
You on the block all day,
or whatever you're doing,
it's always a constant struggle.
So when you choose business, you're
choosing the struggle.
When you're getting paid and you're
leveraging celebrity and shit like that,
you're not choosing the struggle. You're doing it to get
paid. You understand what I mean?
There's no equity in that.
But I'm just saying also the game.
If you play basketball and you don't love
basketball, it's torture.
But most people that play basketball would do
it for free. That's the
game. That's the trick. Get paid to do something
that you would do for free.
That's what we do. That's why Drink Tennis is working.
That's why I fuck with you.
That's why I fuck with you.
You know I love you. You just
brung up Biggie Smalls.
What's a great memory you can
share with us about Biggie Smalls? Every memory with Biggie
was great.
Well, give us one.
That very Monopoly money.
You know me.
I had to try him
and we got into
a drinking contest.
I got to get into
the drinking contest.
Yeah, we got into
a drinking contest.
You remember,
excuse me,
Biggie Smalls drinking contest.
You was there?
No, no, no.
I was definitely not there.
Amsterdam.
Oh, Amsterdam. You remember that day? Yeah. You tried us in the drinking contest. You there? No, no, no. I was definitely not there. But in Amsterdam, y'all tried us.
You remember that day?
Y'all tried us in the drinking contest.
I didn't lose.
No, I think it was even.
We drank all the Armadillos.
Okay, I was like...
And then my friend down
I feel like I challenged you
all around the world.
All around the world?
That's a fact.
You built me to be a drink champ.
No, all around the world.
A drink champ all around the world.
We didn't battle in London?
Yes, and Amsterdam.
I remember you used to be in my crib up in London.
We went to, yeah, all that.
He's flossing.
He had an indoor pool.
He had an indoor pool.
This is the first time I ever seen an indoor pool in Europe.
Let's make some noise for that guy.
Everybody make some noise for that.
Let me tell you something.
Y'all was so rich, man.
Listen, I know y'all rich still, still.
But you, look,
Biggs told me,
he said, yo, come outside.
Yo, whoever talking, please.
Y'all fucking us up.
Whoever talking.
You can go outside,
you can talk as much as you want.
But listen,
Biggs called me one day,
he said, yo, come outside.
I said, all right, cool.
He said, take a trip with me.
I was like, all right, bet.
We pulled up in Teterboro. I said, yo, hold on, He said, take a trip with me. I was like, all right, bet. We pulled up in Teterboro.
I said, yo, hold on.
What the fuck is this?
I understand.
I said, I don't got no clothes.
I don't got no drawers.
He said, slime.
We buy that when we land.
We get that.
You land.
Yo, my nigga, I ain't going to front.
Y'all was my favorite CEO.
It was my nigga.
We really miss y'all.
Biggs, Dame Dash.
We were just Harlem niggas,
that's all.
Let's make some noise
for you folks
sitting in your barrel.
God damn it.
God damn it.
You know, like life,
everybody dances,
but, you know,
some people dance
better than others.
Some people play ball.
You can get the shot,
but it's the way you look
when you get the shot.
You know what I mean?
That's a Harlem nigga.
You just trying to
throw that on it.
Which was crazy.
That's all.
When it was like,
you know,
everything was breaking up,
I still had to do
a Rockefeller shoot
somewhere, right?
And my boy,
Big Mado,
Big Mado,
we went to the photo shoot
and they only had
clothes for me.
And Big Mado said,
I missed a dash. And I was like, damn, nigga. I said, I said, And Big Mado said, I miss Dame Dash.
And I was like,
damn, nigga.
I said,
what happened?
He said,
when Dame Dash was here,
he made sure
everybody have clothes.
And it was something
just so simple like that
that you boosted
my whole crew's morale.
I like your crew, though.
I had every piece of clothing in state property.
Come on, come talk to the mic.
Come talk to the mic.
Come on.
That's young, really.
I had every piece of clothing in state property, too.
I mean, every hoodie, scully, thermal.
That's my nephew.
Snorkel, anything in state property, too.
I had.
Shouldn't everybody be fresh?
No, but see, Dame, I still don't think.
Why shouldn't everybody be fresh? I still don see, Dame, I still don't think... Why shouldn't everybody be fresh?
I like everybody fresh.
But I still don't think you know how important that was.
Like yesterday, not yesterday, but a couple days ago,
I went to Puff Daddy Crib.
I got to keep throwing it out there because I'm flossing.
So we went to Puff Daddy Crib,
and Puff did something very important.
He went and he shaked all my friends' hands,
and he asked for all their names.
A lot of people don't do that.
And Big Mado,
Big Mado,
we love you,
Big Mado,
wherever you at.
And he pointed it out.
He said,
yo,
when Dame was around,
everybody,
Big Mado wore a 6X.
He was this big.
So,
y'all had to do A special order for him
You feel me
And the minute
Like shit broke
I'm saying but isn't that fun
You know
Like isn't it fun to be like
Yo everybody fresh on me
Yeah
Right
I don't understand how
That's not fun to people
Yo you know
You know what else
You know what I'm saying
Drinks on everybody
Let's go
Let's go
Just watch it
Like see everybody happy
Like that's the best shit
In the world
And you're the only other CEO
That
When I went on tour
Cause we did a
Pay the fall tour
You remember that
Yeah
Me and Camron
Camron had like
Headlined the night
When his record won
Cause remember
We had old boy
And nothing
Homeboy
I came to party
At the same time
So if Camron's record
Won that week
Cam'ron would close
The next week
If I won
We would close
But it was love
We was clicking though right
Like the way our logic was
Was always math
That's it
Business all day
And
Always math
During that
A to fall tour
You made sure
The gear was there You made sure We was okay You made sure The gear was there
You made sure we was okay
You made sure that we called you
Instead of Kevin Lyles
Instead of Lee Orr
Why would I want you to call some white man
No disrespect but
You're not white
You understand what I'm saying
So I'm not saying no racism
And you also allowed me to have
A Barbara on tour.
Not a barber.
You didn't even beef.
What are you talking about?
Nah, because you think.
Why would it be any other way?
Because every other CEO beefed with me when I said, yo, my barber's 5,000 for the month.
But I'm the crazy one.
Yeah, yeah.
And you also allowed me to have a weed budget.
I brought two pounds on you.
That's a fact.
Let me just tell you this.
Let me just tell you this.
This has always been the one problem you've always had. I brought two pounds on you. That's a fact. Let me just tell you this. Let me just tell you this. This has always been
the one problem
you've always had.
But.
And you might still.
Tell me.
You never fully know your worth.
Damn, damn it.
I don't.
That'd be the problem.
That's what I'm saying.
I'd be like,
you don't understand
how big paws you are.
You understand what I'm saying?
Like, you know me.
Right.
Niggas can't,
nobody can put on you.
You know what I'm saying? Salute, God damn it. Thank Niggas can't, nobody can put on you. You know what I'm saying?
Thank you.
Thank you.
You need some ice?
Give that man some ice, god damn it.
So, for example, when they was talking and it was like, you know, I already knew what
they was going to try to do.
Right.
So, I knew you was coming in the building.
Oh, you talking about in front of the video?
Yeah.
No, I'm talking about when I went and did that with Kev.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Like, for me, I'd have to move different to protect niggas.
You know what I'm saying?
Because if they know I'm coming.
Right. Dog, what's the name used to have a lock, a buzz protect niggas. You know what I'm saying? Because if they know I'm coming. Right.
Dog, what's the name used to have a lock, a buzzer lock on his door?
L.A. Reid?
L.A. Reid.
L.A. Reid.
A buzzer lock called the Dane buzzer.
Because I used to just walk.
You know how I used to do.
I'd just walk in.
But I'm not walking in to disrespect him.
I'm walking in to save you.
I'm just like, they're not going to let me save you.
You understand what I'm saying?
That was deep.
No, this is what the whole world don't understand. All I tried to do me save you. You understand what I'm saying? That was deep. No, this is what the whole world don't understand.
All I tried to do was save everybody.
And that was very dangerous and disruptive to them.
Right.
And it still is.
You know?
You understand?
Like, think about it.
The minute I got on the radio, I'm like, be your own boss.
You know what I'm saying?
I wasn't promoting my shit.
I'm like, I don't give a fuck if y'all don't like me.
I'm telling you.
This is the wave.
You can do it yourself. Fuck these niggas. You know what I'm saying? Right. You know you did a fuck if y'all don't like me. I'm telling you. This is the wave. You can do it yourself.
Fuck these niggas.
You know what I'm saying?
Right.
No, you did.
Forever.
You understand what I mean?
Right.
Every time I've ever had a platform, I'd be like, it's like having the note in the hand,
like the napkin.
I'd be like, as soon as I get in there, I'd be like, yo, trust me, these guys are suckers.
I'm going to have you write it on.
I'd be like, here you are.
You know.
As soon as I get on, I'd be anywhere I go, I'd be like, yo, they suckers. Don't go for it. They leading y'all wrong. I mean, everybody knew that. As soon as I get on, I be anywhere I go,
I be like,
yo,
they suckers.
Don't go for it.
They leading y'all wrong.
They not letting you
know your worth.
Right.
Because you don't
ask for it.
Right.
But you saw as soon
as you asked for it,
you got it.
Right.
And that's why I said,
I'm going to do this
in front of him.
Right.
So what I said was,
I'm like,
yo,
just tell me when you
go in the building.
And they ain't want
anyone to tell me
what's up.
You ain't even tell me.
I know.
It's a fact.
I don't tell people
I be on some super chest.
Right.
So my shit got to move
because I be trying
to make history.
Right.
I want to be the best
at everything.
So let me ask you something.
So look,
so when you got there
I knew to go upstairs.
Right.
And then I knew
because I looked at their budgets.
I knew what their budgets was
because they was comparable
to my budgets.
Right.
Right.
So I knew whoever,
we know when you was going I knew you was going there composed, completely unprotected.
Mm-hmm.
And that's the thing is.
You were absolutely right.
I don't understand.
Like, somebody come on my block and they cool peoples.
Right.
And I see they about to do something that might get them put in jail or killed.
Or killed, yeah.
I'm going to tell them.
Right.
And I'm going to protect them.
Because I know that just because they don't know no better, that don't mean I got to rob them.
Right.
You're dead.
As a matter of fact, let me educate them.
Right. Because they're going to appreciate that. Plus, it make it better. You want more team players. Right. Just because they don't know no better Don't mean I got to rob them Right As a matter of fact Let me educate them Right
Because they're going to appreciate that
Plus it make it better
You want more team players
Right
The more niggas that think alike
Right
That stick together
Like it don't make sense
That we don't stick together
Right
And really that's the biggest problem
Right
Like family
Like I know personally
Like we don't stick together
Right
That's the problem with niggas
Right
They don't stick
Like they would rather
Everybody always want to prove
they could do it on their own.
Damn.
You know why?
Because that's the dude
that gets all the girls.
Right.
That's it.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
But that's it.
But the bottom line is
it don't make no,
that's my only logical
explanation for it.
Because it'd be like,
damn, why niggas
don't want the other niggas?
Like, why do niggas
only want to be
the only one
with the nice car?
I think it's more flawossing when your crew got,
if everybody in here rich,
that make me look crazy rich.
Right.
So the more better you look,
the better I look.
It's logical.
Let's make some noise for Dane making me hype.
You understand what I'm saying?
I tell that to my crew all day.
Let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something.
We flew out here 35 deep,
and we did a show for the radio station K-Day.
K-Day ain't buying not one flight.
We did it.
We did it on our own.
Yeah.
But the thing is,
we can't say we did it first.
You dudes did it first,
but that's the motto.
No, we just was the first
to let niggas know how to
Listen
Everything we was doing
Everybody was doing
But I was giving up the game
I'm like telling like
Most people once they get the game
But me I'm like
I'm trying to tell everybody
Think about it
Think about any experience you had
Where an executive tried to tell you
How to do it on your own
See that's my thing
I'm like yo
I'm gonna get you with me.
We might get some money together, but at the end of the day,
I can't just rob you if you my nigga.
Pause.
Why fuck with you like that?
I can't rob you.
Just because I could, you know what I mean?
But what I'm saying is, you gnarly, man.
Now I'm going to tell you some funny shit.
Look what's happening here.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
Let's make some noise for that, god damn it.
I don't know.
Whatever happened in here.
Nah, nah, nah.
You want some old,
just some radio show shit.
You want some old legendary number one
kicking these niggas around.
I'm watching.
That's right.
That's right.
And you're funny with it.
I'm like,
oh, this nigga's funny.
I'm loving it.
You know,
I'm like this.
But listen, listen.
Finally, somebody.
Let me tell you.
Think about if you did anything else.
Right.
Whoever keep talking,
you gotta be quiet.
It would be the same response.
It's logical.
So you do
Think about your
What did I tell you
Last time we spoke
I was like
When you first hit me
I was like
Yo run
Dame Dash Studios Miami
Let's make movies
No and that's it
But we're also signing
Your podcast
You committing to us
Correct
Me and EFN
Is gonna do your podcast
We wanna do
Dream Champs Network
Dream Champs Network
Hell yeah
Okay
Okay
But listen Let me tell you something He said it He said it But let me tell you something to do your podcast. We want to do Dream Champs Network. Dream Champs Network. Hell yeah. Okay. Okay.
But listen,
let me tell you something.
He said it.
He said it.
But let me tell you something.
I want you to be my boss.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you. I want to say no.
I got you.
I'm a running a meeting.
I'm a running a meeting.
It's going to be a partnership.
What?
What the fuck?
It's a partnership.
We do it the way you do it,
but we do it in the podcast world.
Partnership.
It's a partnership.
But Dane,
this is the funniest shit in the world.
This is the funniest shit. You my nigga. You already committed. You my nigga. podcast. Partnership. It's a partnership. But, Dane, this is the funniest shit in the world. This is the funniest shit.
You my nigga.
You already committed.
You my nigga.
Yeah, listen.
So, the other day, Randy Acker.
Randy Acker.
He's my guy.
You flipped on him on camera.
Randy Acker.
He had a lot of nerve, though.
Tell the truth.
Huh?
These niggas had a lot of nerve.
No, I'm not.
No, look.
Randy Acker would sit there and tell niggas how to act like niggas.
I didn't want to go there, Dane.
But I'm just saying.
I'm not mad at him.
It would just be funny.
All right, but...
It's like easy work.
You know what I'm saying?
They'd be like, come on, man.
Well, I got to pick you up.
Let me finish picking you up.
Randy Acker's my nigga, though.
Randy Acker's my nigga.
Yeah, listen.
So Randy Acker the other day
says to me, he goes,
I don't like that Lionsgate.
It was like Lionsgate
was hitting me direct.
So he goes,
I don't like that Lionsgate
hit you direct.
And I said, see, when Dame Daz told you that, you said that he was wrong.
And he thought about it.
He looked.
I said, you owe Dame Daz an apology.
And he said, yes, I do.
Can I break this down to you?
Yeah.
Why doesn't he like them hitting you direct?
Because the same reason that you didn't like.
Just tell me.
I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. Tell us why he didn't like... Just tell me. I don't know.
Tell us why he didn't like you. Tell me, Dave. Because you won't need
him once he goes directly to you. He won't have
any job anymore.
Whatever percentage he's getting, he ain't going to get it
no more. It's going to go in your pocket.
That's my man. He's good. You don't think that he thinks that they
take advantage of him? Was that your beef?
Because that's what you said in the meeting.
My beef was that wasn't their company.
It was mine.
So how you having a meeting
about my artist
and it's not my company?
But, you know,
you don't want to go there
like that.
So, you know,
because that shit
is in my rear view,
but it's hilarious
and it's documented.
That's what's funny.
That's why I document it.
Why did you document
everything, Dane?
Because, why do you think?
I needed a witness.
You knew? Yeah. You knew? document everything, Dane? Because, why do you think? I needed a witness. You knew?
Yeah.
You knew?
Before Snapchat, he was snapping.
Yeah.
Nigga, I was, think about, I always had a camera.
All this shit, y'all just caught up.
I've been waiting for niggas to catch up.
Right or wrong, I always had a camera.
But it was, you know, number one, people always say I'm doing shit I'm not, and they make it look like it's not.
Right.
So I hired Choke to the time to tape everything.
Big up Choke, no joke.
No, no big up to him.
Oh, no?
Why?
What happened?
Well, first of all,
all that footage is mine
that he be putting on the thing.
Oh, we did a little...
Yeah, like he would...
You know, he's the bootleg meister.
Oh, that's the last days
of Rockefeller?
That's my footage.
That's all mine.
But, you know,
I guess he made dubs and shit
and, you know,
that's what he's doing.
Okay, okay.
I'll get to that when I feel like it's his petty money. So I don't even care, but it is disrespectful. Right. But, you know, I guess he made dubs and shit, and, you know, that's what he's doing. I get to that when I feel like it's just petty money.
So I don't even care, but it is disrespectful.
But also, he ran on me in Paris when I got jumped.
You know what I'm saying?
I got jumped in Paris by about 20 niggas.
Wait, tell me, a nigga ran on you?
No, it was Choke ran.
Choke ran in Paris?
Yeah, we was in Paris.
Let me tell you.
And you had the bloody sneakers in your office?
Yeah, I was talking shit.
I remember.
That's how rich you are.
You had the sneakers that niggas jumped you in, in your office.
God damn it.
No, no, no.
First off, I had never got jumped before.
That was crazy.
You understand what I'm saying?
You said 20 motherfuckers, right?
A lot of niggas.
We was walking and shit, and I'm taping and all this, and they start yelling and shit
in French.
For no reason?
No.
Well, Choke's like, fuck them niggas.
I'm like Alright
So we walk in
And shit all of a sudden
A big African run up
Try to take the camera
I swung on him
Bomb
This nigga
Cause y'all was in the hood
In Paris right
It wasn't the hood
I didn't know
I don't know
He was going to do a radio show
It was a radio show
I didn't know
You know what I'm saying
I don't know what it was
But I was with some girls
You know
A couple of my homeboys
Biggs
I was just chilling
I wasn't trying to get into
no problems with nobody,
but anyway,
he tried to take the camera,
so I swung on him.
But you know,
he had that look in his eye
like he was a big African.
He ran up and shit.
Because you're a boxer.
Well, you know,
you're going to be in the street
as logical as you get.
You did you nice with your hands
for a lot of years.
But I just trained a lot.
I be seeing you
expressing niggas.
You be wanting to shoot
a fair one for years.
For years. For somebody. a fair one for years,
for years,
for somebody.
A fair one is all that really counts.
Right.
A fair one in the hood,
if you got guns,
niggas got guns,
but hold on,
I need a fair one.
If you a true,
real nigga,
you got to shoot
that fair one.
And if you don't,
everyone around you
is not supposed
to respect you.
Right.
That's it.
Like,
it's no more to talk about.
But I'm Puerto Rican.
I want a knife for nigga. Am I still respected? You talking about me now? Yeah. That's it. Like, it's no more to talk about. But I'm Puerto Rican. I want a knife for nigga.
Am I still respected?
You talking about me now.
Yeah.
That's my perspective.
You understand what I'm saying?
You got it, Dave.
You got it, Dave.
You don't mean me wrong.
I'm saying from my eyeballs.
That's the cloth I'm cut from.
So you in Paris.
So I'm in Paris.
They ran up, took the camera,
swung on him,
snickered, choked, ran, whatever.
But all of a sudden,
they started to mace everybody.
They had mace? They had mace?
Everybody had mace
Like the whole block
We were on like a block
You know how niggas be on a block
Everybody hustle, they know each other
That's the type of shit that was going on
Yeah, the block collapses on you
They collapse
It went from like Lovely Day to Vietnam
I was like, oh shit
And I was in front of girls
So I was like, I'm not running
You know what I'm saying?
Fuck all that So you know, Holmes I was like, I'm not running. You know what I'm saying? Fuck all that.
So, you know, Holmes, I jacked him, but he got up and shit.
You know, I'm going to take a fair one.
He started pulling out of the basket.
Oh shit, this nigga was out with a gun.
But he pulled it out.
It wasn't a gun.
I thought it was a knife.
So I took my jacket off and tried to like smuggle it.
But I said, oh shit, that ain't no knife.
I'm going to get a fair one.
So we start fighting and shit.
I swing, crack.
I get cracked.
Because, you know, he had one of them shits pulled
He flick it, so I was catching
Whatever it was
I had a hat on, so every time he catch me
It was black, but I'm like damn, I'm catching this nigga
You know what I'm saying?
Like that, that's the way it sounds
And you know what I'm saying
Everybody else had kind of ran already
And all of a sudden I'm getting jumped by everybody
And I'm getting tired, I'm like jumped by everybody, and I'm getting tired.
I'm like, oh, shit.
So for the record, Choke No Joke definitely ran, you said?
No, listen.
Listen, let me tell you.
All right.
Johnny, you know the photographer Johnny Nunes?
Johnny Nunes?
Johnny Nunes ran.
You had Johnny Nunes with you in Paris?
Yeah, of course.
Oh, God damn it.
But then he came back.
Oh, shit.
He put his camera away.
No, no.
I'm looking at him.
He come back swinging his camera on some superhero shit.
Word up.
But why are you swinging it like that?
Because that's how he was swinging it.
That's how he was swinging it.
I'm not doing it like that.
You're like Tonto.
Retardo, I'm just playing with you.
That's not what I'm doing.
You're funny, nigga, though.
Do it again.
Do it again.
So anyway.
Do it again.
Do it again.
Do it again.
Go ahead.
He's swinging the camera On niggas and shit
So Johnny Lewis went out
And I came through
And I'm on the floor
And shit getting kicked
He picked me up
And I didn't know
I thought I had just
Jumped back up
But he told me later
I start swinging
I'm tired
I try to swing one more time
Fell
Hit my hands
And all that shit
Johnny's like
Yo dawg
We gotta get out of here
Right
And you had your driver
You have a driver
Everywhere you go
No they were gone
The driver's a nigga
Driver ran too
French nigga did that shit
On purpose
He probably knew
What was going on
Fuck me up with that
Might have been the setup
Wow
Anyway so I'm swinging my chains
I had two chains
So I'm swinging them
Shit's like yeah what
Cause they
You know I had caught
A couple niggas though
You know what I mean
I caught a couple dudes
We was fighting
You know what I'm saying
So I'm like
I'm walking
And you know
They went
They fell behind
The cops came
Took me to a hospital.
I was like, take me to an American hospital.
They was mad at me because I wouldn't speak.
You know, they were laughing like nothing happened.
You know what I'm saying?
Choke pulls up to the hospital with a screwdriver, and he's like, where they at?
Right.
Now?
No, that's what he did.
Afterwards?
Yeah.
If you look at International Grizzly, we covered the whole thing.
Okay.
Because I used to have a camera with me.
Right. Because we used to, like, run around. whole thing Okay I used to have a camera with me Right
Cause we used to like
Run around
You know
We used to fill the jet up
Right
And go from like
You know
Like I used to run around
And I would do
After park
Did you hear what he just said?
We used to fuel
The jet up
God damn it
Let's make some noise
Listen
A lot of us here
Will never know
How that feels
Fuel the jet up
Listen
I want you to be clear.
The reason why we can do all that is because we had the businesses.
So we had the cash flow.
The businesses was paying for all that.
But the way I would justify it was this is our lifestyle.
People are buying into it.
And I'm not the artist, and I'm not supposed to be here.
So I'd be like, yo, if I'm going to be outside and make noise,
I have to really be able to make noise.
So the companies would throw down on it.
But I just knew how to spend the money
like a Harlem dude. You know what I'm saying?
That's what I was doing. And that's the reason
why I was like, yo, it's not even
my bread. You know, it's coming
out of my pocket. That's what I'm telling Mike
Kaiser right now. It's not your bread.
Anyway,
I just feel bad for you. You still got to do that.
It hurt. It hurt. It was like,
you know, you still got to go through that?
Right, right.
I remember it.
You see that reaction?
I don't got to go through it.
That's how I feel with the music business.
When I start hearing those names, I'm like, ah.
I just cringe.
I'm going to start yelling out names right now.
Why?
I just want to see if you're going to cringe the same way.
I'm going to know.
When you can brace your face, it's not so bad.
Leo Cole.
He's, you know know It's all good
I definitely don't believe you
I already did that with him
So you know what I'm saying
Everybody know how I feel about it
Joey IE
Again
Guys that have
These guys have black people's jobs
They've taken jobs
That black people should have
And I get aggravated
So you see how
I didn't like the way
They was trying to rob you
No you were right
You were correct It really wasn't me I didn't dislike't like the way they was trying to rob you. No, you were right. You were correct.
It really wasn't me.
I didn't dislike them for the way they treated me.
I'm going to get mine.
I didn't like them for the way they treated y'all.
Right.
You're right.
You understand?
I don't work for them.
I don't have to work with them.
That's why I can speak on it.
I don't like seeing my people, my brothers, people I care about, just being abused.
So let me ask you a question.
I went to do fashion.
I went and did art.
I did everything. You do fashion I went and did art Like I did everything
You know what I'm saying
I'm not
Music is like
Even though
I love listening to music
I love it more as a fan
And where I can do it
Like be art about it
Like do the art thing and shit
That's why I opened up
Art galleries and shit like that
Yeah
It was the first like
Art gallery
I definitely did
So let me ask you a question
I had a collective
You remember I had a television network
Like with Creative Control, maybe like 2009.
Yes.
Yeah.
So I had another question, but now I looked at Glance and Payton Fall was still playing.
Are you on it?
Don't you like to go to the side of a television screen and you might be on it?
That happens a lot.
Every time I turn the channel, it'll be happening.
That's all.
Rocky gets hyped.
She gets hyped every time.
What made you want to do Pay to Fall?
I lived it. I was there.
And this is another thing. I was there.
Sometimes I speak to you,
I'm not sure you really understand
how much of a classic Pay to Fall is.
Why? Why do you think that?
No, because
it's just me and you speaking.
It's a lot of us, but tell me.
And state property.
Why do you, but why?
No, because I be like, yo, yo.
What am I doing that you don't think?
I be like, and then you be like,
you know, that was good.
I should be frontin' more?
I want you to front more.
Like, is that bad?
No, it's not bad.
I want you to, like, I want, like,
because one day I'll say,
I'll say, yo, I say, oh, damn,
I want to do the, oh.
You know why?
I don't own it 100%.
That's why I'm more happy about two honorable. That's what I'm saying. Like, I use my own bread'll say, oh, damn, I want to do the... You know why? I don't own it 100%. That's why I'm more happy
about two honorable.
That's what I'm saying.
Like, I use my own bread.
See, people have different wins.
Sometimes people want it
to look like a win.
But can I put you on the side?
That shit ain't a win to me
if I did it with somebody's money, man.
I got to do it with my money
to be a real win.
I met an old lady
that lived in my hood for...
But no disrespect to it.
It's the best shit in the world.
I met an old lady
that lived in my hood
my whole life. Her name was Rhonda,
right? Where's Bizzle at?
What's her name? Rhonda?
Good morning, Vietnam.
You still go with your whole same crew.
That's how I have to. So listen.
So listen. So Rhonda
Rhonda lived in left rack
my whole life. And Rhonda
told me, she said to me one day, she said, I don't own this, but this is mine.
And that made total sense to me because what I mean is she lived there for 30 years.
That don't make sense to me.
She didn't own it, but it was hers.
It's not.
I know.
But there's people who think like that.
I'm not one of them.
Okay.
And you don't agree with that theory at all.
It doesn't work for me.
At all.
And you know, you can do that, but that's just not me.
Okay, now let me ask you this.
I'm sorry.
There's a word called blackballed.
Hey, yo.
Do you think...
Do you think...
The way you said it.
You know, blackballed.
Getting blackballed, getting blackballed.
Say it a little quicker.
Say it a little quicker, man. Pardon me for a minute. I'm going black ball. Say it a little quicker. Say it a little quicker, man.
Pardon me for being a mother of light and bogey in here.
Say it a little quicker, buddy.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
You enjoy saying it.
People told me I was black balled.
I didn't feel it.
Do you think that exists with you?
Do you think you were black balled?
Or could they be blackball you?
In any way, could they?
Like, logically?
Yeah.
Without emotion?
Uh-huh.
The only way I could be blackballed
is if they were in the industry
I wanted to be in.
Mm.
So, like, it's like, let's say...
That's why you went to fashion.
That's not why I went to fashion.
Right, but do you feel
you was blackballed?
Like, in that...
I just told you.
No?
Like, put it like this.
Let's say I'm on a block
and I'm selling nickels.
And I leave the block.
And I never come back ever to sell nickels.
That business doesn't affect you anymore.
Whatever goes on, politic-wise, whether I can or not,
Dame ain't got no flies on all this, it doesn't matter.
I'm not going over there.
Right.
So they can say anything they want.
I'm not coming back.
Right.
I think they were saying that
Just so I could try to come back
And prove it
I'm just not doing it man
I can't get you back
To the music industry
Why?
There's not enough money in it
For what?
I don't know
You enjoy it
I'm a businessman
Logically why would I do it?
I don't know
Because this just pisses on people
But the thing is
I make music
Let's get on with Kelly
Let's get on with Kelly
Come on
See
Tell him
Because I don't think he knows Say it again He did projects that he Most Dime and the Black Keys. Come on. Listen, thank you. Now, see, tell him because I don't think he knows.
Say it again?
He did projects that he enjoyed.
He just liked the artistry.
You know I put like the Black Keys, like a rock group.
And was it Blue Rock?
No, listen, listen.
All right.
You could go Google Black Rock.
I'm on the Google.
I'm a dumb nigga.
You could talk to a friend.
I got niggas who Google for me.
You could do that.
Hey, yo.
That's serious.
I'm about to get out of here.
You can Google my name. No could do that. Hey, yo. That's serious. I'm about to get out of here. You can Google my name.
Trust me, it's happening.
No, no, don't say that, bro.
You know what I'm saying?
Now you see my pain?
You can try it.
You know you old school.
You just starting the path.
Have you tried and it was difficult?
Yes, I did.
What did you do?
I Googled some bullshit.
Seven pages popped up of porn.
I was like, what the fuck?
So what's wrong with that?
I Googled a sandwich.
You must have Googled porn.
So what did you do wrong?
I Googled a sandwich.
I Googled a sandwich. I Googled a sandwich. I Googled a sandwich. I Googled a sandwich. I Googled some bullshit. Seven pages popped up of porn. And I was like, what the fuck?
So what's wrong with that?
I Googled a sandwich.
You must have Googled porn.
So what did you do wrong?
I Googled a sandwich.
What did you do wrong?
And they showed me images of a real sandwich, a different type of sandwich.
No, I'm saying, what did you do wrong?
What did I do wrong?
Yeah.
No, I'm just not that smart.
No, no.
He only likes using phones.
You don't want to do whatever on the computer.
You ever know the guy who rode on the yellow bus?
You ever laughed at him, niggas?
Who I am?
Nah, man.
Get out of here.
I'm a yellow bus nigga.
Turn it off, man.
The short resource room.
That nigga.
I was in special education.
You know where the resource room is?
In what?
In school.
No.
The resource room.
Because you was in the smart class.
No, I got kicked out.
I got my GED, my nigga.
Yeah, I was in the resource room.
That's like the... Special ed? It's got kicked out. I got my GED, my nigga. Yeah, I was in the resource room. That's like the...
Special ed?
It's like seven teachers.
Were you in special ed?
No, I was lower than special ed.
Oh, get out of here, man.
Resource room.
You got seven teachers.
That's the special students.
So what you're telling me
is you're the smartest
stupid nigga in the world?
That's a fact.
No, God damn it.
God damn it.
I'm the smartest.
Yo, make some noise
for him.
He knew it or no.
God damn it. God damn it. God damn, the smartest. Yo, make some noise for him. He doing a nose.
God damn it.
God damn it.
God damn it.
So Dame Dash.
Right.
But anyway, back to the black ball pause.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And get to those projects too, man.
Please.
I didn't feel it.
If it was happening, I hope they have fun.
I hope they felt better.
Right.
You know, I send my regards into that world.
You know what I mean?
It's just not my bubble. I'm in a different bubble. Right. You know what I mean my regards into that world. You know what I mean? It's just not my bubble.
I'm in a different bubble.
Right.
You know what I mean?
Like, it don't matter.
You know what I mean?
But I do wish everybody well, to be honest.
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Dipset
The Rockstars
The what?
The Rockstars
Like to me
Those Dipset were
You know they're Harlem niggas
But they were the Rockstar Harlem niggas
You know what I mean?
Now was this true That you made Cam
The vice president
And that
Like
Started like
Turmoil
Like
Well can I tell you
I mean you and
Dream Champs
This is not
I didn't get upset
About anything
You have to explain it
I love this nigga
I mean you know
Your question
You know the answer
You want to hear.
You're a really smart, dumb nigga.
Thank you.
Wasn't a smart, dumb question.
You know, if I'm a real smart nigga, I'm going to pretend I'm stupid.
Exactly.
That's what I was saying about him.
I know what he's doing.
Stop.
Stop.
You're my partner, man.
Could play along with it.
Could you do it on me? I'm telling you. Anyway, what happened was, can I just tell you from my perspective man could play along with it could you do it on me
I'm telling you
anyway
what happened was
can I just tell you
from my perspective
yes your perspective
this is all I know
this is what I did
so me
I like to empower everybody
right
so I had given Cam
or we had given Cam
a label
Dipset
and we had given Beanie
a label
State Property
so my thing was
just title wise
if you had a label
then you could be considered
a vice president.
That's all it meant.
You understand what I'm saying?
That was it.
Nothing more, nothing less.
And of course,
Cam being the Harlem dude
that he is,
went and made an announcement
and made it sound fly.
Right.
I'm the vice president.
He never said anything else.
I mean,
go back and hear the interview.
Right.
And then all of a sudden...
Close the door? Go ahead. All of a sudden... Close that door?
Go ahead.
All of a sudden, everybody was mad about it.
Like, you know...
Like, when you say everybody.
Well, there was like a call.
You know, we made a call.
I had it.
We did it.
I got to remember this shit because, you know, Jay was taking his first vacation.
And it's the first time.
This is the first time.
You mentioned Jay before me.
That's cool.
But you asked me a question that would invoke me saying it.
That's a setup.
Stop.
I just wanted to throw that out there.
You want to do that to me?
You want to do that with me?
This is Barbara Walters.
Why me, though?
Don't do that to me.
You my nigga.
You know we going in.
We about to hit some dusk.
We about to hit some dusk.
You know, don't make it like I'm asking a question.
I'm going to have to say homie's name.
I just wanted to fair some, though.
I didn't bring him up.
No, you did bring him up.
You asked me about the vice presidency of Rockefeller.
Anything that is bringing it up. Now you want to add dumb. Yeah, you mad bring him up. You asked me about the vice presidency of Rockefeller. Anything that is bringing it up.
Now you want to have dumb.
Yeah, you're mad smarter than me.
You're all right.
You're all right.
You told me he wasn't smart.
That's right.
So continue.
Why are you surprised?
Continue being smart.
A dumb guy is smart when the smart guy is smarter than him.
Good, good.
Continue being smart.
Good logic.
I'm just going to be honest.
I'm just going to be honest.
So there was a call and everybody was on it.
I don't have to get into the names, but everybody was just worried.
And I just couldn't understand why.
But the thing was, no one was acknowledging that Beans was the vice president as well.
Not even really Beans.
You know what I'm saying?
I was like, yo, you're the vice president.
We had this conversation So I just think When people are worried
About perception
More than the reality
It sometimes causes confusion
Always
Now state property three
Put it like this
Okay
As a man
I don't want to be around
Other men that are confused
About things
Or from my vision
So I'll be like I
And if you remember
I have moved
Close that door
Close that door
If you remember
I had moved out of Rockefeller and went to Rockware.
Yes, you did.
So my thing was it was out of, like, loyalty to Rockefeller that I was still even fucking with rock.
Because I was already done with that shit.
I was older.
I wanted to do other things.
If you remember, I made Pain and Fool.
I made movies.
I didn't even want to do music unless there was a movie component to it.
That's why I made State Property
because we had State Property, the label,
State Property, the clothing line.
We would make a compilation album
where it didn't have to go out
of none of their personal budgets,
but they would all be able to get videos.
You understand what I'm saying?
And then if anything cracked,
then boom, you know what I mean?
Let's make some noise for Dane Perspective
because a lot of people don't know that.
There was no recouping.
I thought you thought it was obvious. No, no, no, no. But you know recouping in that. Because you're not as obvious.
No, no, no, no.
But you know why?
You know why you're thinking that it's obvious?
You're thinking it's obvious between us.
But a lot of people in the world don't know that.
Like, I know that.
I told them.
Yeah, but I know.
It's not a secret.
So, state property.
Right.
So, then if you look at the movie, you see, you saw the Armadillo was in it, the Rockaway was in it.
Every single thing that we were selling, including the music, was in it, the rockware was in it. Every single thing that we were selling, including the music, was in it. And if you do the logic,
who was the biggest artist
basically of all time,
musically?
I would say Elvis, right?
Overall music, yeah.
And Elvis really was...
I'll say Michael Jackson.
They're comparable.
But the Beatles, no?
That was well.
Everybody you name
made movies.
Right.
Everybody you name.
I just set you up to say that.
You understand what I'm saying? So is that why you
did Streets is Watching? It makes sense to make movies.
Yeah, we did Streets is Watching because we did
that Sunshine video and we had the shiny suits trying
to be like Homeboy and it didn't work out.
Who's Homeboy? Puff.
Puff? Yeah. Let's make some noise for Puff.
Come on, Puff.
At the time, he was killing it.
And the shiny suits was doing this shit
and like hype,
like gave him,
gave Paul's,
Jay the banana
in the tailpipe.
So you wasn't with
the sunshine video?
Listen, the first treatment
had Jay's nose as a balloon
and him popping it.
I was like, yo,
how you trying to make us
look stupid, dog?
You know what I'm saying?
Oh my God.
Yeah, we had an argument
about it.
But anyway,
it came out.
You know what I'm saying?
Fuck it.
You know,
it was like niggas
was clowning us.
So I was like, fuck it, maning us so i was like fuck it man
we gonna go back into the streets just watching and do the b-side because i like the beast i
really don't like singles i hate singles because i want to be the first to know i don't like when
everybody knows something and everybody i like to be the nigga that know shit that nobody know
yeah okay i like i don't want to do i've never the thing i don't understand it's not logical
like people want to be like everybody i that's like like I don't ever want to be like anybody
I want to be like me
You understand what I'm saying?
I do anything I can
To make sure I look like
I have my own point of view
I don't want to look like everybody
If I see somebody wearing something in a magazine
I'm not wearing it
So was that a musical?
Huh?
In the streets you watch it
It was the B-Sides
And it was videos
But it also had a component of acting in it
So we just brought
the b-sides the life because they were movies anyway they were like true stories and then it's
also a visual you know i'm saying like every visual you have something like a movie in a movie
you can sell everything the clothes the music every product you see can be sold so that's why
i'm like damn i make movies And I make the products
You know I could be
My own country
You know what I'm saying
Like I ain't got to talk
To nobody
All I need
I don't need a million people
I need a hundred thousand
Fifty thousand
All I need is real people
That can understand
The taste that I have
That I can connect with
And just sell it all to them
And that's why I make a liquor
That's why I make clothing
That's why I make socks
That's why I make motor oil You know that's why make clothing. That's why I make socks. That's why I make motor oil.
That's why I just make shit. Motor oil shit
is crazy. That shit is ill.
Thank you. But again, I just did it just
to be... That was one of them companies I did just to
do it. To be like stunting and say I sold motor
oil. Because nobody did it for my world.
Because you could.
I just like to do shit. That's
how my perspective is. And I like to
be able to say I did it with my own money or independent or figured it out.
Whatever way it is, I'm addicted to the game.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I just like the game and I don't like playing with other people's money.
That's not the game.
But Streets is watching.
So that was your own money as well?
It's like we're in a fake jersey.
You understand what I'm saying?
If you're saying you're in business and you're using somebody else's bread, that's like having a fake jersey.
The Bobos. That's the fake a fake jersey. The Bobos.
That's the fakey, fakey.
And I don't do
fakey, fakey.
And I started feeling
fakey, fakey.
Pause.
I don't like fakey, fakey.
So that's what
Endorse is the streets
is watching?
No, it's the streets
is watching.
Going back to that,
I just got on another tangent.
Okay, go ahead.
Because I started
understanding.
No problem.
You go anywhere you want to go.
Again, you know what it is.
When you start making me
think about when other people were putting up their money, it aggravates me.
Yeah.
I'm no longer aggravated.
Damn.
Because it's mine.
That's right.
You know what I mean?
It's mine.
But the street watch was your own money.
Nah, we had to put it up first.
But then they gave it up.
They gave it back.
I was like, fuck y'all.
I told you all.
Because what happened was we had put that video out.
You can't get a nigga high and then think he't gonna go all kind of You know what I mean
So that's why it's happening
But when we put the video out
It was because
You know
We knew it made us corny
And you know
Lior straight up was like
Yo you're cold
We ain't giving you no more bread
Wait but
After the Sunshine video
Y'all had y'all separate meeting
And y'all felt like y'all was cold
Yeah we didn't feel it
We knew it
You know
It was like
Oh that shit
Look we got The shit was whack It wasn't us It. We knew it. You know, it was like, oh, that shit, look, we got, the shit was whack.
It wasn't us.
It was us trying to be like them.
And it was obvious.
The shit was whack.
All right.
So you know what?
That shit happened.
So what?
All right, now we're going to double back, and we're going to give them streets as watchers
so they know we're not the shiny suit niggas.
And that was your idea?
I was like, yo, hey, it was my idea.
You know it was my idea.
Don't fight with me.
See, what are you doing right now?
No, no, I'm just saying you got to the people. I was like yo get the get the hardest record pause on the record and i just want to see some
guns and bullets flying and then at the end i want to say it was senseless because i didn't
want it to be looked at as we glorifying it which is that's how it was they can start shooting for
no reason that's what it's like that's actually the shit we're trying to get away from right you
know you got to remember the reason why rockefeller Rockefeller was Rockefeller is because we did a lot of white people shit.
I always made sure that we did that.
Start with the name.
That's what I'm saying.
We were imitating white people.
It wasn't like be better than black people.
You know, they ceiling to me was kind of low just because of
what's been shoved in our brain.
This is the mentality.
I'm going with your mentality.
I wanted to stunt on you.
I wanted that kind of money. And I'm not going to stop. I don't to stunt on you I wanted that kind of money
And I'm not going to stop
I don't want to look like
I have that kind of money
I need to have that kind of money
And I'm not a celebrity
You understand
Like I got to sell work
I don't sell fame
So my work got to be good
You understand what I'm saying
That was hard
Huh
Make some noise for that
That was hard
Yeah hold on Before you I got something Before I forget Before I forget You got a lot of questions Let's make some noise for that. That was hard. Yo, hold up.
Before you...
I got something.
Before I forget.
Before I forget.
You got a lot of questions.
Drunk facts.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
One of my favorite artists.
Drunk facts.
You're not drunk.
Drunk facts.
No, drunk facts.
Drunk facts.
We off by a year or two.
I'll take the role.
Come on.
Nah, he's good.
He's good.
One of my favorite artists.
Big L.
Yeah.
I need to know.
Was he supposed to be...
Was he going to Rockefeller?
Yeah, Big Miguel was my man
Pause
Like that was my dude
But you know
Um
Initially
I was managing
In the beginning
Beginning
Beginning
It was the children of the corn
Right
With Mace and everything
It was Mace
Was McGruff part of that
Kinda yeah
McGruff
Yeah
Cam
Bloodshed
Who's Cam's cousin who passed
God bless
God bless
Yeah
You know
And they
You know the thing was
They were from like...
We love you, Cam.
Come on the fucking show.
That's my brother.
You know, Bloodshed was from 1199.
All right.
But Cam was from 140th.
You know what I'm saying?
So I used to see him when I was uptown, but I'd also see him downtown.
Okay.
So we was all kind of close.
Pause.
And like Cam, he was like...
So that's how you came into the game, managing?
Yeah.
So you managed Jay?
I took years on the corn.
Yeah, but don't get away from the Big L stuff.
I want the Big L stuff, man.
And the original flavor.
And Big L.
Yeah, but not the same.
You know, it was different shit.
Like my career has been ill.
But as far as Big L goes, yeah, I was going to sign him.
But my point is our history.
I was giving you our history.
Right.
And also we all knew each other. Like it wasn't like, it was some shit where it. But my point is our history. I was giving you our history. Right. And also, we all knew each other.
Like, it wasn't like, it was some shit where it was like we knew each other really from day to day being in the street with Big L.
Like, we'd be on the block.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
139th, I'm from 142nd.
But, you know, like, I'm from 1199, but I used to be on 142nd.
And I would call that my block.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
And I saw Big L all the time.
You understand what I mean?
So, when I got in the music business, we would talk.
And Big L had the first deal.
He had like a single deal with Columbia.
And he had Indie when he did Flamboyance and his entertainment.
Yeah.
And even like one day, Jay actually battled Big L on 139th Street.
Oh, wow.
Now you're talking about battles.
That's what he used to do.
DMX and Jay-Z battles.
Yeah, yeah.
That was in the barbershop
in the Bronx.
Who won?
Jay.
Jay won.
DMX told me he won.
I think DMX,
for what he wanted to do,
he did win.
But for what he needed for me,
he convinced all my friends
that he was real
because they used to tease me
about Jay.
You understand what I'm saying?
All right.
Yeah, break that down for us.
No, I didn't understand
what you were saying.
Well, like, you know,
Jay was like a Brooklyn dude,
so, you know,
Harlem dudes don't just
accept Brooklyn dudes,
you know what I'm saying,
back then.
And Jay's swag
was a little different.
Like, just look at it.
You understand?
Look at who I am, Sophie.
Right.
It's completely different
than Rockefeller Jay.
You understand what I'm saying?
So, I used to get teased
for fucking with
Brooklyn niggas.
So, basically,
I would come uptown and all day my crew, the best out.
The best out.
Would tease me all day about this nigga.
You understand what I'm saying?
Like shit on him, you say?
Like just, you know, tease me about the fact that his swag was different.
You know what I'm saying?
Like I'm fast rapping.
That's why the battle happened.
Okay.
Because they was teasing me so much.
And I just, I knew what Jay was, but no one else really.
So how did this battle happen?
You and D and Y?
No, no, no.
Me and my man Steve Mack.
Steve Mack.
Steve Mack.
Yeah, Steve Mack was from 3333.
You know what I'm saying?
Okay.
And he was managing these guys, Wynn.
And damn, I can't remember everybody.
They're going to be mad at me.
Go ahead.
But Wynn and Les Oils.
Okay.
And the Harlem Knights. Less Oils. Okay. And Harlem Nights.
The Harlem Nights.
Okay.
Harlem Nights.
That's what DMX said on this show.
Right.
So the Harlem Nights.
Damn glad I remembered that shit.
That's what DMX said on the podcast.
Yeah.
And, you know, me and Steve Mack went to high school together, but we was also in the best
out.
Right.
I'm from Lenox.
He's from Broadway.
It was a crew of us. We were from different blocks. You know what I mean? But we was also in the best out Right I'm from Lenox He from Broadway It was a crew of us
We were from different blocks
You know what I mean
But we hung out tough every day
And we rather like laugh
Than be fighting
So they said that
So they used to be
Shitting on me every day
Cause original
You know
I'm from a
I'm from a crew of hardcore people
I'm in an extreme circumstance
Right
That's not what they was talking about
Like Jay used to rap fast
Right
And he didn't dress the same
You know it was different
And then also
The original flavor
They weren't like gangster rappers
It was about jazz
It was about music
They didn't get that at all
And I was like
You guys only see hood shit
And I'm trying to get away from that shit
But I knew they could rap
So I was like
Alright let's
We set up a battle
I'm trying to always argue hard
Every day
And the Tone Hooker's
Original flavor
Tone Hooker Tone Hooker the one If he was an original flavor Ski Chubby. And the Tone Hooker is the original flavor. Tone Hooker,
Tone Hooker the one,
if he was an original flavor,
Ski, Chubby Chub.
Chubby Chub.
And Tone Hooker was the one
that made the name
of Rockefeller.
Wow.
Yeah.
I heard that.
Yeah, that's the truth.
I heard that before.
So, boom, we ended up,
so we all met up
at the Gaucho Gym
in the Bronx.
In the Bronx.
Right, and then we headed over.
That's on Gerard.
And Tone Hooker had,
Tone Hooker's man
was in a wheelchair.
I actually think I saw him in a picture with my OG Daniel the other day.
I got to ask if that was him.
But he owned the barbershop because we had to meet on like a neutral ground.
Right.
So we got in there and we got to battling.
Big L taped it.
Yo, see?
Yeah, he said that.
Big L taped it.
X said it.
DMX.
Oh, yeah, it was crazy.
No, DMX did not co-sign. Who said it? No, that was Biggs who said that Big L Tape DMX Oh yeah it was crazy No DMX did not co-sign
Who said it
No that was Biggs
Who said that on
On another podcast
Drum facts
Yeah
But look
But a lot of shit happened
But um
Jay's part we taped
But Wild wouldn't let us tape
Cause we hadn't
Cause it shit wasn't copyrighted
So in your opinion
Jay did win that battle?
Because I'm telling you,
in my perspective,
like the next day,
like Biggs and Bob
called me and was like,
yo, he said that money
dancing on the ceiling shit,
and niggas saw it,
the vision.
Like he could rap,
you know,
and then the lifestyle
had to come with it.
You know,
so you got to remember,
like the Rockefeller
was really a variation of my original crew,
the Best Out.
You know what I'm saying?
And our thing,
all of us used to throw money together
so it would look bigger.
Our thing was a lot of flash,
no cash.
And we was young.
Create the perception.
Wait, did you say a lot of what?
A lot of flash, no cash.
Low cash?
A lot of flash.
No cash.
No cash.
A lot of flash, no cash.
But you know what?
Some of my crew
Would be like
You know
We were like
Like me
I used to think
I'm on some white boy shit
I'm thinking about
Trying to get white people money
But some of my other crew
Big up
That's the twin
That's him
You know he out here
With a hundred dollars
I'm rich
You got a hundred dollars
More than me
Listen
He came to Vegas
For three days
With eighty bucks
And he made it back home
Let's make some noise
For him
Money's not part of it man Wait Wait He came to Vegas for three days with 80 bucks, and he made it back home. Let's make some noise for him, God damn it.
Money's not currency, man.
Wait, wait.
Break that down?
Money is not currency.
Your wealth is your happiness.
Money doesn't get you where you got to go.
You get you where you got to go.
Either way, you're going to get there.
You don't need money to do shit.
Really, that's what I'm saying.
Money was put here to control our brain.
Honestly, if a nigga had a billion dollars, but he's unhappy, is he rich?
No.
Damn.
Why do all these rich people be killing themselves?
Why you go to third world countries and they happy the motherfucker? You know how depressed you have to be to kill yourself?
You understand?
Like, a lot of people that are looked at as wealthy end up, you know what I mean?
And it happens often.
Yep.
Wow.
That's when you become a slave to money.
Money is dark, dog. And it was put there to fucking blind you. Right. You know what I mean And it happens often Yep Wow That's when you become a slave The money Money is dark dog And it was put there
To fucking blind you
Right
You know what I mean
Like that
Like Champagne Dame
You know like
All that shit that I did
It was like
We got the bread
I'm spending that money
We gonna have fun
And not just me
All of us are
Right
No you didn't
But it was about having fun
What's the purpose of having money
If you ain't gonna have fun with it
And if fun isn't seeing the people that deserve it
get just as much money as you,
then your perception
of your reality
is just different than mine.
Stay over there.
I don't want no parts of that.
I'm not going to lie.
Let's make some noise for that.
That's why we got
the Ching Bing,
Mike Booth podcast
about the set off.
Ching Bing, Mike Booth,
tell them where it is.
Can I ask you a question?
Okay, let's go. What did you think about the whole thing? what it is. Can I ask you a question? Okay, let's go.
What did you think about the whole thing?
The whole what?
Let me ask you a question.
The whole what?
After the Rockefeller breakup.
Right.
What happened?
Tell that story.
Because you was a Rockefeller.
Nobody ever asked you that?
Nobody ever asked me that.
What happened?
I was confused.
But what happened?
I didn't ask the emotion.
Tell me what happened.
I was... I'll be honest with you. But what happened? I didn't ask the emotion. Tell me what happened. I was, I was, I'll be honest with you.
You know what?
I knew how dope he was.
You're not telling me what happened, though.
I'm telling you.
I'm getting into it.
He's like, this is smart nigga stupid shit.
Yeah, smart stupid shit.
Answer that.
So listen.
What?
You told me what happened.
Bottom line, it was never the same.
But what happened to your situation?
So Rockefeller breaks up. And you have to, whatever. What situation did they put you in? same But what happened To your situation So Rockefeller breaks up
And
Yeah
You have to
Whatever
What situation
Did they put you in
And then what happened
The situation was just crazy
Because Rockefeller broke up
Then
L.A. Reid
Had took over
I had no relationship
With L.A. Reid
And I didn't think
He wanted a relationship
With me at the time
So
I asked to be released
He probably didn't
I asked to be released I realized probably didn't. I asked to be released.
I realized Cam had asked to be released first,
and they gave him his release papers.
What happened was we demanded that Cam be released
when they made certain people the president
because it was a conflict.
We already knew he had an issue.
Right, right.
So he was like, no way Cam got to stay here.
Right.
So L.A. Reid did the right thing.
The thing about L.A. Reid is
when you got in front of him,
he always did the right thing. Yep, he's Reid is always a great guy. When you got in front of him, he always did the right thing.
No. Yep. It's a great guy.
So once Cam had got released and then I believe it was like a Method Man or Red Man project.
And I realized they didn't spend the marketing dollars that was supposedly should have been spent.
So what I did was I did the same.
I follow Cameron's footsteps and I asked To be released and I left
Trying to remember what happened I left up out of
There I can't remember what happened
What with me afterwards
Yeah that's pretty much
What I just said yeah I mean
What did he just say
I said that Cameron
No this is what I said
No this is what I said
I said Cameron had asked to be released,
and once Camo, you had iterated something else.
After Cam, you asked to be released?
Yeah, I asked to be released because...
This is what happened.
Like, all the artists had to, like, it was like,
it was crazy because, again,
I didn't really want to have a label.
I wanted to do the fashion thing,
but I wasn't going to leave everybody out there
because everyone would have got dropped.
Right. So I was like, all right, I'll just make Dame Dash Das music group Y'all run that shit and whatever happens happens, you know
You supposed to sign Beanie label, right?
Well, it'd be it was like if Beanie wanted to he could come with me or he could do what he had to do
Right, so, you know, he chose a different route. But the thing is are we gonna get a state property 3?
I hope so. I don't know what it's going to be. We all got on the phone.
Remember that?
What I wanted to do was take it to like China.
You got to have a passport to be in that.
Yeah.
I got a passport.
You know what I mean?
I wanted to do it like, if I'm going to do that, I didn't want it to be like it was.
I wanted it to be like.
You said something to me that was super interesting, right?
Me, you, and Beans was all on the phone.
It was all great.
Right?
And then afterwards, we never got on the phone again.
And then I think Beans did an interview and said something.
And then I asked you, I called you and you said, did you hear Beans say that to me?
And it was very interesting to me because he did not say that to you.
So, like, what do you think your issue is i don't know
i don't know i have i don't think there's an issue there's i have no issue right so you know again
a lot a lot of times i hear about issues but no one ever has the conversation with me so i never
know what somebody's mad about i always hear about it i've never you said that it makes total sense
my perspective is if i've done all this good shit, and let's say I made a mistake in this
something, I at least deserve a conversation about it.
Right.
You know, but sometimes I don't think it would be a conversation that would be logical.
You know, because, you know, again, that's between us.
No, I keep it real.
You made me go to Bean's court date.
You said, yo, Slime, this nigga need to have support.
And I drove all the way to Philadelphia just to come to Bean School.
You remember that?
Yeah, I did it every day.
God damn it, my nigga.
Like, this is real shit.
And I came there, and then, you know, this is a good day.
Let me just say something.
Go ahead.
In fashion, I never had to go to no trials.
What?
Totally different. I never had to tell niggas
To do none of that shit
You understand?
In movies
You understand what I mean?
But every day
And you made
It's a lot of work man
And you made sure
Jay-Z and Beyonce
Came to that court date
One day
I remember
It's a lot of work
I remember
I remember
Yo what was
When you guys did
Death of a Dynasty
Was that fucking autobiographical?
What the fuck was going on there? I knew what was going on. I found it funny and I made a movie about it
So you really like that's really you know and what's happening. I'm gonna make a movie
I never heard you say this before
You might have been drunk. Yeah
You said you knew this didn't know
I made a movie about it,
so what more can I say?
I'm back.
I'm back, yo.
Like, you understand what I'm saying?
Yo, that's crazy.
But you knew that was going to come into fruition?
Did I use that word right?
Yeah, absolutely correct.
I saw that shit early, nigga.
Why you think I was doing mad shit?
I was like, this thing ain't trying to,
you know what I'm saying?
Like, even at the end when y'all get,
that shit look awkward.
You knew it, nigga?
They know what's happening, man.
You knew it was happening, nigga, a long time ago. Y'all get That shit look awkward Like I was like They know what's happening You knew what was happening
Nigga long time ago
Y'all thought
Shit how Ben was exiting
You saw me
I had already moved to fashion
I'm like this nigga's bugging
I'm out
So alright
Let's get to
Yeah I made a movie bug
We had Myth Bleak on the show
Oh yeah
You called me
I didn't
Well okay
Did I call you?
Yeah I tell you
You're a funny nigga
You heard that show right
You checked out I didn't hear it I don't be. You heard that show, right? You checked out.
I didn't hear it.
I don't be really, you know, it's hard for me to do because I can't say nothing.
So I don't even try to engage.
You're saying something tonight, motherfucker.
It doesn't matter.
It's that Poppin' Tin.
It's a Poppin' Tin lighter.
Oh, let me get that lighter.
It's mine.
You can have it.
It's mine.
Can I borrow it?
Mm-hmm.
See, now I'm borrowing something I paid for.
Listen, let me just tell you something.
That's all.
So let me just say something.
This nigga Dave.
Let's make some noise for Dave.
He's in red form, man.
He's in red form right now.
I'm in red form.
Let's take a shot.
Let's take a shot, Dave.
Let's take a shot, Dave.
And then we're going to get into this private jet.
I'm with Norby.
That's like being with a friend.
That's family for y'all.
I hear you. You are a friend. A brother. It'sby. That's like being with a friend. That's family for y'all. I am.
You are a friend.
A brother.
It's like, you know,
this is a mic.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, Norby's a personable guy.
He knows everybody.
That's why this makes sense.
We'll be going back
to State Property 3.
I forgot where I was about to go,
but it's okay.
But do you remember
that y'all tried to challenge us
in drinking in your crib?
Which one?
Do you remember that?
Which crib?
Oh.
Yo, I ain't go front.
You have mad cribs. I still do. I just move around a lot. In the art district. In Tribe crib? Which one? You remember that? Which crib? Oh. Yo, I ain't go far. You have mad cribs.
I still do.
I just move around a lot.
In the art district?
In Tribeca?
Mm.
Mm.
You had the biggest table I ever seen in my life.
Let's make some noise for that guy.
He had a table.
That shit was like the seven suppers.
So.
When you're using other people's money,
you can do all that shit.
When you're using other people's money,
I want you to learn from this, really.
Like, all of that shit only happened because at the time, I didn't have to use that table right now.
I would have to pay for a camera.
Or I have to pay for some fucking staff.
Or I have to pay for some lawsuit or a lawyer.
You understand what I mean?
When you're using your money, it's like cracks and leaks of a wall.
And you ain't even got enough fingers.
But that's part of the game.
That's why I do it in bulk.
I'm like, let me get it all over
With it one shot
You know what I'm saying
You're Costco's
I mean
I'm not Costco's
I'm more like
Bergdorf Goodman
I don't know what that is
But that sounds a lot
It's the most expensive
Department store in the world
There's only one of them
That's why we don't know
What the fuck it is
Yeah but if he would've
Stuck around
He would've known
He'd be shopping there right now
I think he shitted on me
Let's make some noise
For him
You shitted on yourself
You said I don't know
Nigga you said I don't know
Dumb smart shit
So you don't miss the music business a little bit?
I don't miss anything
But making music
And I make music all the time
My son makes music
That's right
The thing about it is
If I have the ability to make people famous
Which I do
Then why won't I make myself or my son famous?
Why would I put my energy into other people
that don't appreciate it, that are going to walk away at the end of the day?
Because it's actually theirs.
I'm renting it. The minute we're not friends
no more, I can't get no money with that person.
And I'm not a guy that, you know,
holds his tongue. You know, I pause.
You know what you told me one day?
You said, you know, you said
to me, I called you, I called you, like,
I just want to soak up game from you. And you Like just I just wanted to Soak up game from you
And you say
I said what's a coach
Of ultra Dame
And you said
Any person that is
Not going to fuck with you
When you can't do
Something for them
And listen
There was a person
Who asked me to
Hook him up with CBS
Oh yeah
You know this person
I don't want to say
Their name
Did you pass it on to me
I passed it on to you
Because I'm busy
And he was like
Yo hook me up with CBS And I'm like Yo listen I don't fuck with them me? I passed it on to you because I'm busy. And he was like, you hooked me up with CBS.
And I'm like, yo, listen, I don't fuck with them.
I don't talk to them.
You know what I'm saying?
Not like in a bad way, but I passed them off to you.
CBS said they didn't want to fuck with them.
The minute he said he didn't want to fuck with them,
the niggas stopped fucking with me.
I said, this nigga Dame Dash told me this.
But weren't you happy?
You don't be wanting to fuck with niggas anyway.
That's a fact.
I love women. You know what I'm with niggas anyway. That's a fact. I love, I like,
like,
I love women.
You know what I'm saying?
Invest in women.
That's it,
because,
what's the worst that's really gonna happen?
You know what I'm saying?
You know,
women really like,
they gonna rock with you
if you rocking with them.
They gonna be happy
when you win.
Right.
They not,
you know,
dudes have testosterone.
Balls.
You know,
we got nuts.
You supposed to wanna be number one.
You supposed to go
and eat the food you kill. That instinct is all the time. You're supposed to want to be number one. You're supposed to go and eat the food you kill.
That instinct is all the time.
You're supposed to be a savage at all times.
So I'm not trying to be around a bunch of savages all the time.
I'm a savage.
You understand?
I want to be around women.
Now, other niggas, women.
You don't miss the music.
Not a little bit.
Let me ask you a question.
What would I miss about it?
You tell me.
I don't know.
So why would I go back?
Why are you trying to get me?
No, because I just...
What's the purpose?
Because you know why.
Why don't we bring
the music business with us
someplace else?
You know why.
That's what I used to do.
That's what I'm saying.
Like, I had niggas
making movies.
I was taking niggas...
Like, I was taking you
to Europe.
I wanted to educate you.
Yes, you did.
I was sophisticating you.
Yes, you did.
That's why I started
opening up art galleries because hip-hop was getting too stupid to me. I was likeating you. That's why I started opening up art galleries
because hip-hop was getting too stupid to me.
I was like, yo.
I'm not saying that I'm that powerful,
like I'm the Wiz.
I'm just saying if I can lead by example,
then I'm going to start doing things
like taking care of my kid in public.
I'm going to start doing things like art.
You're the best hip-hop dad.
Let's make some noise for him.
He's the best fucking hip-hop dad.
I'm saying that on camera. we talked about it on the podcast
Do you think it's out of the realm of possibility
To have a union in hip hop
Like SAG
Yeah I want to have a union
He wants the flag
We talked about the flag
I want a hip hop flag
I think the union
Or like SAG
You can tell me I'm retarded
You can tell me I'm retarded
It's not retarded
Ideas are great
Right
Especially when you're drunk and you're high
They say I'm good
Well that's all the time here in Drink Champ But you have to think about the amount of work It's going toarded. Ideas are great. Right. Especially when you're drunk and you're high, they sound good. Well, all the time here at Drink Champ.
But you have to think about the amount of work it's going to take to make that happen.
But, you know, actors got sag.
Why we can't have...
Do you hear what I said?
Yeah, it's a lot of work to get that.
So that's why.
So who's going to do it?
You?
A lot of legalities.
A lot of paperwork.
I'm going to pay somebody to do it.
Exactly.
All right.
That's a lot of paperwork.
Who's going to do that?
And who's paying for it?
A nigga named Tito from L.A.
I'm paying for it. But a nigga named Tito, he lot of pay. Who's going to do that? And who's paying for it? A nigga named Tito from L.A. I'm paying for it,
but a nigga named Tito,
he's going to sit for a lot.
He's going to put his credit card
in his pocket.
Let me make some money
with Tito.
Goddamn it.
But listen,
damn.
You know what I'm saying?
Like Big Al.
Big Al.
He got murdered, right?
I don't know who paid
for his funeral,
but shouldn't hip hop
come and pay?
Like I said,
like one time, me, Snoop, and Raekwon was trying to do something.
I forgot what he was calling it.
The hip-hop.
Wasn't Irv Gotti trying to do something too?
Nah, we was trying to do it.
Like we was all at a video shoot and we was like, you know, we all had these conversations.
Right.
But we're all really creative.
Right.
You know, like infrastructure and execution and cash flow and convincing people and all of that other shit.
You know, I got to take care of my kids.
And I got to make sure that, you know, that I'm doing it in a way that my kids will be taken care of and their kids will be taken care of.
And I'm doing it under, I'm under a lot of scrutiny and shit like that.
So everyone has their own set of problems.
I'm human.
We all human. We all want to relax. of problems. I'm human, we all human.
We all want to relax.
We all chose this creative life so we ain't got to work.
It's going to take some very non-creative people
to execute that, but non-creative people
usually don't see the need to care about a creative.
It's like a gift and a curse.
But who's going to execute it?
So who did it for the actors, for SAG?
You know what I'm saying?
Some white people, man.
Exactly, but I'm saying it's going to take someone to step up and do it.
Who's going to do it?
I'm going to pay for it, but I'm not going to do the action.
You're going to pay for that over your Christmas gifts for your kids?
No, no.
What are you saying right now?
I don't get it.
So you're saying it's a good idea, it's just not realistic.
It's not executable, yeah.
It's not executable.
You know, you've got to pick and choose your wars.
Right, right.
So it's like, yo, how much time is it going to take to do that?
How much money and what can I do in the time I'm doing that?
You're going to lose your life doing it.
Yeah, that's something that you can step onto and it's moving.
But to make that go, it's going to take a lot.
It should happen.
But who the fuck got time to do all that?
Who got enough money?
Some very rich fan would have to fund that.
So maybe you can, you know.
No, but what I'm saying is, Dave, right?
I'm telling you, the idea is great, but
it's the execution that's
not going to happen. Right, right.
Because we just need to get...
We're going to say no to that. Yeah, it's great.
I should be a billionaire, too. I want a football team.
Yeah. Yeah, but so...
A football team. If they don't just give it to me.
Your dreams is bigger than an average nigger.
Absolutely. Niggers just want to play football.
Two-hand touch. You me ask you a question.
You want to own the shit.
What other way
should my dreams be
after my own?
There'll be no cap on shit.
What other way
should I be thinking?
Niggas want to play
in the wing,
two-hand touch,
and you want to own the wing.
Let's make some noise
here.
God damn it.
God damn it, Dave Dash.
Pick up your brother,
Bobby Dash.
He from Leftrack.
You know that, right?
Of course I know that.
He's my brother.
He's from Leftrack.
You got Leftrack in you, bro.
Come on, Leftrack City, man Listen, listen
I used to be in Leftrack
To see my brother there
Oh, that's right, that's right
Swapping and all that
And you did the reality show
I respected that, man
Ultima Useless?
No, um
With your brothers
Oh, the one in, uh
Yeah
Yeah
It felt like you became
A better person there
Did you feel like
A better brother, at least
A better brother
Nah, but you
Come on, Dame Let's leave it like that You're not a better brother Of course Anything can feel like a better brother? Yeah, they added it like that. Come on, Damien, let's leave it like that.
You're not a better brother?
Of course, any therapy makes you a better brother.
If I'm not a better brother today
than I was yesterday, then I'm sleeping. I'm always supposed to
be evolving. You know what I mean?
But yeah, it was good.
It was logical. It definitely helped me because I needed
the therapy because at the time I couldn't see my children.
So I was like, damn.
The thing was, I had a lot to talk about.
I was like, yo, I want to talk about this shit with my kids
because that shit is fucking hurt.
That's what I wanted to talk about.
They never really showed a lot.
They didn't show what I was
upset about. It was just one-sided.
But we did a lot of therapy.
So they edited it a certain way.
But you got to remember, it'd be like
out of one therapy session, they could have gave you a whole season. It was that long, you would be in therapy. So they edited it a certain way. But you got to remember, it'd be like out of one therapy
session, they could have gave you a whole season. It was that
long you would be in therapy. Can I buy that
CEO line from you?
I brought you some of the bag.
No, I want to own a CEO line. Can I get
that? What you talking about? Let me buy it from you.
Let me get that CEO line.
You want the whole line? Yeah, I want the whole line. Let me get it.
I don't even know what's going on right now.
I don't know. What are we talking here, dude know what's going on right now. I don't know.
What are we talking here, then?
What are you drinking, man?
I don't know.
I'm just trying to be mogul with you for a second in front of people.
You're playing with, you're doing the Monopoly mogul right now.
Oh, you're saying I'm playing with it?
Nah, you already did your mogul shit.
You know what you did?
If you want to do that, why don't you say, look, we're doing a partnership for our podcast,
which is true, right?
And we start to talk about, you know, what the situation is.
So what's the situation?
This nigga's a great businessman.
You see, he did not let me get away with nothing.
Let's make some noise.
I'm a businessman.
Let's make some noise for Dan Jazz.
You know what I mean?
Make some noise.
Can you imagine if you give him our numbers and he goes to bat for us with the numbers?
I know the numbers.
I'm watching.
Listen, let me tell you something.
What do you mean?
I'm reposting.
This is the reason why I keep asking you if you miss music. Because you know why? I know the numbers. I'm watching. Listen, let me tell you something. What do you mean? I'm reposting. This is the reason why
I keep asking you
if you miss music
because you know why?
I listen to music.
Let me just tell you something, Dane.
I've never seen a CEO
rep for an artist
the way you rep.
Well, that's how I'm repping
for my son, Bugs.
That is hands down.
Let me just tell you something.
I appreciate that, though.
That is hands down
the most...
Like, when I was young, like, when you did that
meeting with me, and you
got me a big number
that I needed at the time... But why would you
trust them anything else they would say after that?
No, but I didn't know, because, you know,
at the time, you was yelling.
And you was insulting them, but when I took
out the yells... He was having fun with it. It was like those
punching bags, man. I realized everything
you said was right and exact.
And everything you've been saying has been right and exact as I got older.
So what you're saying is if I could have...
And there's nobody like you in the music.
We need you back, Dane.
Do you know how old I was back then?
But, Dane, we need you back in music.
You know what I'm saying?
Can I get a lighter back that you gave me and you took it back?
Petty gang.
We need you back in music, Dane.
You know what I'm saying?
Listen to me. Look at it from my perspective. No, but you're not listening to me. We need you back in music Listen to me
Look at it from my perspective
No but you're not listening to me
We need you back in music
I said it like four times
Can we
Can we listen
Because you know
You know my man
Ali Sammy
I don't understand what you're saying
Ali Sammy
It's rhetorical I guess
We're going to set up
A management company
And we're going to set up
Some shit
But we need you back in the music
How about I'll advise you
I like that
Advisor Advisor Consult all day I'll advise you? I like that.
Advisor.
Advisor man.
Consult all day.
I'll advise you. I'll tell you.
Let's make up a word.
Advisor man.
Why make up a word and not say I'm going to advise you?
Advisor man.
Come on.
Roll with it, Dave.
I love it.
This is Drink Champs.
We're changing my show.
We're just at 840.
We can make it whatever way we want.
Advisor man.
I just, I thought we were doing business.
Dave is now Drink Champs.
Doing a business meeting.
Ali, Sammy.
Environment. Randy, Mr. Lee. doing business. Dave is now Drink Champs. Doing a business meeting. Ali, Sammy. Environment.
Randy Acker, Mr. Lee's.
Tito.
Yeah.
Advisorman.
Let's make some noise.
I'll Skype.
Advisorman.
I'll Skype.
All right.
We'll Skype.
Skype?
Yeah.
Damn, you mad rich like that.
You don't even want to go to meetings.
We don't even need you in the meetings.
That's the thing.
You want me to come to a meeting with Randy Acker?
Yes.
And I want you to be.
For like entertainment? Like for what? But y'all are on the same time. We're on the the meetings. That's the thing. You want me to come to a meeting with Randy Acker? Yes, and I want you to be there. For, like, entertainment?
Like, for what?
But y'all are on the same time.
We're on the same side.
Okay.
And now this time.
Why don't you?
Let me tell you what you didn't know.
Can I do this?
Can I say this?
Okay, go ahead.
All right.
I have no problem with getting in the room with those people.
If we're talking about something that's a little more evolved.
Like, I keep telling you, I don't want to do something that I've done before.
So why would I want to do this right now?
I'm fucking feeling.
You don't want to train no more.
I'm 45 years old.
You ran trains a lot of times.
What I'm saying is, logically speaking, the music that you're talking about, the demographic is 15.
Did you run trains?
It's 15 to 25.
No, he's being serious with you, dog.
Come on, man.
It's 15 to 25.
I'm 45. It's not logical. It's 15 to 25. I'm 45.
It's not logical.
16 to 24.
See, that's how far I've been away.
You know now.
So now the millennials, it's 16 to 24.
I'm still 20 years older than the oldest demographic.
So why would I want to go and be fucking around with people that aren't even going to understand what I'm saying?
And that age demographic
didn't understand me
when they were my age.
But you know why
you need to do that?
go to nursery school.
But let me explain.
Because you got to let
a rock star be a rock star.
A 25 year old
got to be able to go
be a 25 year old.
Right.
Like I just don't understand,
right?
When we was doing this
with all this money,
we was in our 20s.
What the fuck?
How they was expecting us that?
The thing that was dope about it
Is that we didn't do
Stuff that nobody did
So we gonna take your son
We just
He gonna be a part
Of the management
He could be a part of it
If he wants to
Come on
You can ask him
What I teach him
If you don't enjoy it
Don't do it
If it feels like work
Do not do it
Life's too short man
It makes no sense
Not to monetize
Something you love
Because you become
The best at it Because you enjoy it So I don't do nothing. Life's too short, man. It makes no sense not to monetize something you love because you become the best at it because you
enjoy it. So I don't do nothing
unless it's... If it's not
100 fun on my
terms, which now I've done enough where I
can do that, I'm not doing it. I just learned
that word monetize.
No, you didn't. You lie, man. That means
watch everything. No, make money.
Make money off of shit. Monetize means...
My bad.
Yo, but come on. You lied. You, make money. Make money off of shit. Monetize me. My bad. CBS told me that word.
They said,
that's why it's not on SoundCloud
because they can't monetize it.
Didn't they say that?
Oh, CBS, yeah.
CBS.
We're also going to do
a beer together, right?
Yeah, we're going to do a beer.
A rosé beer.
All right, we just said it.
We're doing a beer together.
A beer.
A rosé beer.
Big up E-40.
He got his beer here?
No, but that beer was fucking good.
You like it?
The E-40's beer. I don't drink beer and I was drinking the shit out of that beer. Yo, so what's next for y' E-40. He got his beer here? No, but that beer was fucking good. You like the E-40's beer?
I don't drink beer, and I was drinking the shit out of that beer.
He was drinking it.
Yo, so what's next for y'all?
What's next for, oh.
I see you're turning into a business.
Hey, yo.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
This is a one-sided conversation?
What the fuck's going on right now?
We're going televised.
Yeah, but.
We're not saying who will.
Yeah, the business ain't done yet, so I don't want to talk about it yet.
The business ain't done yet, but we're going.
It's probably somewhere around.
If and when, maybe.
Dave is good.
It's logical.
No, I mean, the business ain't done yet, though. I mean, y'all in the house.
That's right.
You take it.
Yeah, you should.
They don't take it.
The techs are here.
I'm like, I know what I would do.
I'd be like, yeah, all right.
So we're going televised.
Puff is logical. Big up Diddy, man. Let right. So we're going televised. And then. Puff is logical.
Yeah.
Big up Diddy, man.
Let's fuck it.
He's excited.
He's excited.
All right.
The ink ain't dry.
But we ain't going nowhere else.
Fuck it.
So yeah, fuck it.
I guess you just blew it up.
Thank you, Dane Dash.
I mean, you made it obvious.
I did?
Yes.
I mean, when you snapped his puff.
It's the biggest bottle on the table.
I could have been a survival boy. It's the biggest bottle on the table. I could have been a Ciroc boy.
It's the biggest bottle on the table.
Damn. Nah, we actually like the
Prada. I got you. That's why it's not
open. And we like your Prada, too.
I do, too. You give us all love.
You're the most consistent bottles on the table.
Let's keep it on it. I'm not missing.
If I could control the applause, I would be like
applause, because y'all look out.
Let's go. God damn it. I respect. I respect. I even, I would be like, applause, because y'all look out. Let's applaud. God damn it.
Let's applaud.
I respect.
I respect.
I even asked him.
I said, are we getting a check?
Because you're my friend.
Everybody else got a check.
You know what's crazy?
I said, Dame, I could never ask you.
No, I was like, but you know what?
Honestly, I wouldn't expect nothing less from you.
That's why we still friends.
Because you're saying I'm a stand-up nigga.
Yeah, I always.
You want to make noise for me being a stand-up nigga?
If you want to, just do it.
Yeah, yeah.
God damn it. God damn it. God damn it. Dame. Yo, I always... You want to make noise for me being a stand-up nigga? If you want to, just do it. Yeah, yeah. Goddamn it, goddamn it.
Dame.
Yo, you my nigga, Dame.
Let me tell you something, man.
It's not a day that go by
where I don't miss you
in music
when I do music.
Because I don't do music
a lot anymore.
You're a smart, stupid guy, right?
Yes, right.
Self-proclaimed.
Self-proclaimed.
So there's a little stupid
and a little smart stuff.
Yes, there's a fact.
So it's smart about the music, but there's something dumb about what you're saying.
Can I tell you what it is?
Because you're saying don't miss you in the music.
I don't know, man.
Listen.
I want to miss you in music.
Wouldn't you rather make, wouldn't you rather talk to more people, make more money, and have a better quality of living?
Yeah, I'm doing that.
But I still miss music.
It's my first love.
Listen to me.
Oh, so you're saying do it on some fun shit?
Yeah, with me.
On some fun shit.
Let's just fuck out.
Let's fuck out.
This shouldn't be this.
Let's fuck out.
That's what black rock was, though.
This is what I want to do, Dave.
That's what I'm talking about.
That's what black rock was.
I put the black keys.
I saw that.
Super cool.
And Mos Def and Jim Jones and all of them for fun.
So this is what I want to do, Dave.
I think we're with Currency after that.
And Merz as well. You know how much you're waiting. You're talking about. I want to do. You know what I'm talking about?
And also, why do you keep saying I'm not in the music business?
I want you in the music business with me.
That's why.
Oh, okay.
But I've been in the music business.
I'm selfish.
It's just been a different business.
Like, I just turned into vinyl.
But this is my plan.
This is what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go to a major.
I'm going to go to a major.
I'm going to get signed.
I'm going to make them love Ali.
I'm going to make them love Ali. I'm going to make them love Ali.
As soon as they love Ali too much, Ali is going to be like, it's time.
And then they're going to call me in.
And then they're going to be like, boom.
They're going to be like, this is my advisor.
So you're going to walk in.
It's going to be smoke.
Why do I got to walk in, though?
Well, I want Purple Smoke to walk in.
He wants to Skype in, man.
Come on, just listen to my shit.
Stop, stop.
You're too much of a boss.
Just listen to my shit.
Let me just tell you what this is going to become. Purple smoke is going to come in.
And then in my mind, you're going to have on basketball shorts, you're going to dunk a ball.
It's not even going to be a court.
But you're going to dunk it.
Boom!
Like, Dave is now talking for me, Ali.
I would do that.
You would do that?
Yeah.
Let's make some noise for Dave.
That's not good.
He's talking different things.
We can do that.
You're going to have some fun.
I just want me niggas to get Daniel. That's not dangerous though. He's talking different things. We can do that.
You're going to have some fun.
I just want me niggas to get scared.
Because you scare white people.
Was you aware of that?
That you scare white people a little bit?
The videos you made?
You want me to smoke that?
Yeah.
I don't know why you passed it to me the way you passed it.
It looked a little crazy.
I was there.
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We miss you in the music business, Dane.
You're not in the music business.
You're in the radio business now.
No, I'm in the media business.
Thank you.
So why do you want me to be in the music business? Because I want to fuck people up.
Like I said.
Just for fun.
Like when I said I did the motor oil for fun.
Motor oil.
Let's make some noise for motor oil.
God damn it.
Everybody.
Everybody. Everybody motor oil. Let's make some noise for motor oil, goddammit. Everybody, everybody. Everybody needs oil.
Where you get motor oil at?
In A-Rabs?
No, he's making it.
You make it yourself?
No, we get the ingredients, we get the meat.
Resourcing it here?
In America?
Williamsburg, in Brooklyn.
I make the oil in Brooklyn.
Goddamn.
That's a lot of money, man.
Boogs ran it for a while,
and then Boogs used to throw parties in the factory.
Wow.
And you got cookies, too, right?
Yeah, he sell cookies.
And you got chips.
Chips.
He got a video game coming out.
He got a second season of his television show.
Growing up hip-hop, right?
And he got a single.
He started producing, but now he's editing and directing, and he's doing everything.
All right, one of my favorite TV moments just passed
Where Jermaine Dupri said
I felt sorry for you
What was that about Dane?
You roasted him
Bob like you keep roasting right here
He said he felt sorry
He didn't have your phone number or something?
I'm asking
I don't know
Cause he did rap Radar
Let me ask you
So um
I gotta
Why would someone
That's never called me ever
And asked me
Or checked up on me ever
The first time they do it
Why would they do that
On television
I'm asking you a question
Why would they do that
What's your logical
I don't know
I don't know
That's what my
You saying he was making
Television you saying
I just asked you a question
I didn't ask what you say... You're saying he was making television, you're saying? I just asked you a question. I didn't ask what you say.
Okay.
I think he's making television.
Because he said...
Can I borrow the mic?
The part that I didn't like is when he said he felt sorry for you.
I didn't like it.
Who said that?
Jermaine Dupri.
I found it amusing.
Right.
I didn't like it.
Because, like, if you know Dame, you know Dame is great forever.
He going to get money. Like I said, I didn't like that. Because, like, if you know Dame, you know Dame is great forever. He going to get money.
Like I said, I found it amusing.
And then you said to him, you said, well, why you ain't call me?
Yeah.
That fucked him up.
That fucked him up.
That fucked him up.
I don't know why.
He said shit.
He said shit.
He said shit.
He said shit.
No, no.
If I'm fucked up, don't tell me you feel sorry for me.
Leave the lunch box with money in it.
Oh, I got that. And don't say nothing. That's my weed in there. I was saying. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, leave tell me you feel sorry for me. Leave a lunch box with money in it. Don't say nothing.
That's my weed in there.
I was saying.
Don't even talk about it.
With weed or money?
No, money.
If you feel the way.
Or if you think I'm not high, leave me some weed.
If you think I'm fucked up and you want to bring it to my attention, bring some money with it.
Right.
What's the purpose of telling me?
So you feel better?
Like, what the fuck?
Let's make some noise for Dame Dash.
Never been fucked up in this life.
This is my nigga.
I'm always fucked up.
I spend it all every day.
I bet the bank until I get what I want.
I'm going to keep betting the bank
until I get a football team.
So I'm going to stay broke
because I'm always having money in the street.
I heard you say that before.
If y'all want to call that broke,
then call it broke.
But break it down for the people
that don't know.
Call it living.
I need to get that football team.
So you're saying every time you get it.
I can't get it with 25 million or 60 million.
I need like a billion.
So you're saying every time you get cash, you actually put it back on the street.
She puts it back for her.
Have you ever seen me not?
Nah, but I just.
So why are you asking?
No, I just want the people to.
Because, you know, we got dumb fans.
You can tell it to me.
Sometimes you can tell a story about it.
So, yeah, because no, no, no.
Because I heard you say that before, but I actually.
Everybody knows that, B.
I'm not holding no money until I get what I want. I'm going to always put it in the street. Because no one's going to give it to me. So I got story about it. So, yeah, because no, no, no, because I heard you say that before, but I actually... Everybody knows that, B. I'm not holding no money
until I get what I want.
I'm going to always put it in the street
because no one's going to give it to me,
so I got to take it.
But you need some bread.
You got to have some money
on the street to take it.
And you know,
sometimes it's what it is,
man, until you re-up, man.
But think about it.
In the street, right?
You get an eighth,
you're going to fucking flip down
every dollar you got
to go get a quarter.
Right.
Maybe just keep a little bit
because you know you're going to get that cash flow anyway. And the minute you're at the street, you got money to touch. quarter Right Maybe just keep a little bit Because you know You're going to get
That cash flow anyway
Right
And as soon as you're
At the street
You got money to touch
But as soon as it comes back
Then you're going to
Keep flipping it
Until you get that bird
Everybody want to get to a bird
But you're going to
Keep flipping it all
You're going to keep
Whatever's in your pocket
Right
Whatever's going to
Hold you down
For a couple days
Until you can get
Like in ten minutes
After you cop it
Bottle up and put it
On the street
You got cash
Right
But you're always
Flipping everything I don't know I don't know how to do it No other way Right I just keep flipping But like in 10 minutes after you cop it, bottle it up and put it on the street, you got cash. But you're always flipping everything.
I don't know how to do it no other way.
I just keep flipping.
So when I make money from Rockefeller, go to Rockwell.
When I make money from Rockwell, I went to Rachel Roy.
When I make money from Rachel Roy, I go to Dame Dash Studios.
And making my movies.
And building my platforms.
Like I got Dame Dash Studios.
I got a streaming service.
I got what everybody else got, but it's just mine.
And the network.
You got the TV network now.
I got a 24-hour TV network.
I launched it first on the internet,
but it's 24-7 Dame Dash.
And everything I'm talking about,
I'm showing it.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I ain't gonna just talk about it.
I taped it.
Everything you said,
even down there
when you brought back
to the Memphis Bleak conversation,
that's on tape.
You know it.
You know it.
Yeah, talk about that.
That just, you know,
I love Bleak.
Bleak is my brother No matter what
But the conversation was
It's good to hear you say
Hold on fuck that
It's good to hear you say
Let's make some noise
For that god damn
Cause you know why
You know me better than that
I know that
I know it
But people
I'm really mad
But the rumor is
Listen listen
You're like don't do that
No I won't
Don't ruin me
But I won't
Don't do that
I know better than a rumor.
I speak to you all the time.
You my nigga.
But the rumor is like, you running around bitter.
And I know you've never been bitter.
I know you never, you always do your thing.
So I just want the people to know that.
Because that's my job.
I'm not going to ever say I'm bitter.
But if you discuss something, people, like, you got to remember something.
Disappointed?
You think you're disappointed?
Listen, listen, listen. Every day in my life, if I'm in a but if you discuss something, you got to remember something. Disappointed? You think you're disappointed? Listen, listen, listen.
Every day in my life, if I'm in a certain area,
I'm getting questions asked about it every day.
So it's always going to be talked about.
So like right now, you ask me questions about it,
and you my nigga, I'm not going to not answer it.
But it's going to look like I'm talking about it.
Like in a breakfast club, y'all had light-skinned bitches?
Yeah, that's why I didn't want to talk about it.
Envy, was that light-skinned beef? Yeah, that's why I didn't want to talk about it. Yeah. Envy,
was that light-skinned shit?
Or like,
you put envy on.
I didn't consider that beef,
pause.
But like,
what was,
like,
cause.
I just was saying
what I felt.
I was being poetic,
I was being an artist.
And envy?
What about it?
The sky.
The sky.
Is that a little bit?
A little bit?
You think I'm thinking
about another dude?
Oh, I'm just asking. Ask me about a bit? A little bit? You think I'm thinking about another dude? I'm just asking.
Ask me about a chick.
Envy?
Wow.
Come on, man.
That's my nigga.
That's my nigga.
I ain't making music no more, so nigga can't do shit to me.
That's my nigga.
That's my nigga.
I love him.
Why would I be thinking about him if I'm not in the music business?
I love him.
I love him.
I'm sorry, Envy.
It don't make logical sense.
That was a joke, Envy. I rhymed in your mom business. I love him. I love him. I'm sorry, Envy. It don't make logical sense. That was a joke, Envy.
I rhymed in your mom's basement.
Forgive me.
Wow.
And Angie Martinez, forgive me as well.
I don't know why Angie.
She's not taking my calls.
It was with the Cisco with the Vegas episode.
But that wasn't my fault.
It actually was your fault.
But I, I, I, Angie, I'm so sorry.
I apologize.
That's your people.
You can't be mad with Angie.
I know, but that wasn't my, like, I'm so.
But you didn't violate it?
No, I didn't violate it.
No, somebody asked me to ask about her,
and I didn't know that she didn't fuck with him.
Right, no, you didn't know it.
No, I didn't know.
So Angie Martinez, I apologize.
I'm texting you and calling you.
Please call me back.
I apologize.
Nah, shit.
Well, we can't have her.
She don't want to come on the show?
No, she wanted to, and then she reneged. And I. Well, we can't have her. She don't want to come on the show? No, she wanted to and then she
reneged. And I'm sorry,
Angie. She's like Angie's sister, so
you know if she's really that offended
because she's not like...
It was just personal shit.
It's not that. I'm saying, for my interaction
with Angie, she's always been pretty
stand-up. I can't
see her reacting unless she's really
upset. So if she's really that upset... It was personal shit that came up. You should talk to her. I have to. I'm sorry, Angie. I can't see her reacting unless she's really upset. So if she's really that upset...
It was personal shit that came up.
I have to. I'm sorry, Angie. I swear to God
I would never violate you or put you
in a position. But let me ask you, Dane.
Do you...
You don't miss the music industry.
You don't miss the music industry.
You asked him a million times. Don't go for it again.
Do you miss the original
crew, like how y'all had it in the beginning?
Do you miss those days?
Because, like, listen, my nigga, I'm going to keep it honest.
Akineli used to bring me on tour.
Akineli is my nigga.
Akineli used to bring me on tour, so I seen it.
We had Akineli.
I seen it.
I always see everything on IG.
But, yeah, Akineli is my brother, too.
Do you miss Do you miss
Good dude man
When it was
I don't want to say no money
Let me ask you a question
Do you miss summer camp
I've never been to summer camp
But I definitely
Where did you relax
And get your nice place
Like when you were younger
I went to DFY
Did you
Do you miss DFY
No
That's jail
Oh
Where did you have fun at
When you were a kid?
What was the best thing you had?
Section 2.
That's fucked up.
Yeah.
I mean, I was from left to right.
You did a lot.
Yeah.
But do I miss that?
Yeah.
As a kid?
Yeah.
No.
The way you feel about that is somewhat a way I feel about the music business.
But I'm talking about y'all was all friends.
And I'm not, you know, just a crew.
Like Big Face Gary, Lenny S.
Listen to me.
Understand me.
I'm 45 years old.
This is not entourage.
You understand what I'm saying?
So in this very moment, raising my daughter and raising my son and having puppies and having a girlfriend.
Like the thing about the music business And the music biz
It's a lifestyle
You can't raise your kids
And be in the music business
Not properly
And you can't really
I don't want to just justify it
Like I'm sending money
And all that
Like I really enjoy
The time I spend with
Like you said
You see what it is with me
So I know what it is
You know I had Boogs
He grew up in the music business
It became a lifestyle for him.
He was with me everywhere I went.
He made me feel mad at old.
Because I see the nigga as a kid.
But the thing is, you have a single dad at eight.
He lived with me since he was eight years old.
We need to praise you more for that.
Well, nobody told us.
We need to praise you more.
Think about it.
Everybody make noise and clap for that.
For real.
For real.
For real.
For real.
Continue. No Nah continue now
Cause I ain't gonna lie
So to me again
You always had your kids around
To me like
The fact that
I was able to take
Everything I got
From the music business
And now provide
A good life for my children
It's like a drug dealer dog
Once they get the big lick
They out
They not trying to go back
I didn't
I wasn't doing that
because I loved it. I loved it.
We were friends, but I want to be
around my girl
all day, every day,
24-7.
Big ho. Yeah. You know.
Rocky.
That's funny, right, Rocky?
And I want to be with my kids 24-7.
I have to tell her I love her Because you know why
I can tell you love her
I know
And if you love her
I love her
I already know
And you know what
Like I knew you for almost
Like 18, 17 years
And I can tell you happy
My brother
Yeah
I can tell you really happy
If I was happy
I'd be trying
If I wasn't happy
I'd be trying to get
In the music business
That's what I'm saying I'm so happy So I'd be trying to get in the music business.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm so happy. So let's just make him unhappy a little bit.
You understand what I'm saying?
I've been able to architect my life where I can work by a pool or move around as I choose.
I can work because it's my money.
So that means I can move when I feel like it.
And I can pick my kids up anytime I want and anytime I'm allowed to.
Like, I gotta also fight shit that
people don't usually have to fight for. I got to
fight to raise every one of my kids. I ain't got to go
to court. It's crazy,
right? But I'm not gonna do that.
You understand? Yeah, we don't have to. But my point is
We don't even want to talk about what you want to talk about.
But just like how no one really talks about
publicly that I'm a single dad
and have been this whole time. Nah, you're one of the best dads I've ever met.
But publicly, why would the people that are trying to make you believe something that's not showcase that?
Why?
To showcase that I'm supposed to be such a bad guy.
Why they don't ever show the good stuff ever?
Why?
You remember when I turned the camera on the girl and I was like, why y'all just keep talking about the same shit for the last 10 years?
Oh, yeah.
Isn't that weird?
In the court. I just, I don't'all just keep talking about the same shit for the last 10 years? Oh yeah, I'm in the court.
I just,
I don't care.
I'm just curious to know why.
Like,
why niggas keep talking
about the same bill
for 10 years?
That shit is hilarious to me.
Right.
It's a reason,
you know what I'm saying?
Or why you don't showcase
my art galleries?
Right.
Or why you don't showcase
that I open them up
around the world?
I have a gallery
in the Lower East Side,
South Becker,
Hong Kong.
And you had Beijing,
Hong Kong,
that's a real... You know, Charlotte, I Becker, Hong Kong. And you had Beijing, Hong Kong. That's a,
that's a,
you know,
Charlotte,
I mean,
rather Charleston.
Right.
And in Charlotte as well.
Right.
Like,
that's just a good thing.
It's not,
the one time I was
in the newspaper for art,
they tried to make it
like I sold kiddie art
because I did,
I let them do some,
kid do,
like a child art
kind of gallery,
like a,
Exhibition?
Not an exhibition, it was a charity. Wow. They a charity in my in my gallery and they bought the paper but they were like
damon selling kiddie art like it's crazy why they make things that are they try to make everything
bad everything good look bad and it's like why you know what i'm saying like like they never
talk about the fact that i own r Roy. That's a fashion company.
So just because it's not music, I don't have a company that's doing 50 million for the last 10 years straight.
I'm fucked up.
Not about the investment you made early on.
I was smart.
I did it where I had it.
And now, you know, that's another thing.
Like, fuck around Donald Trump.
He could flip all those investments he's talking about.
Every single lawsuit I have, they always put it in there and pause.
But when I win, the only time they ever announced that we won is when it was with Kanye with Los Adas.
They made a little light announcement, but they never make it.
But when I get sued for the stupidest shit, it's like everywhere.
All right, your son not around no more, so now we got to ask you this question that we ask every artist.
Oh, man, come on.
This is where we lose Johnson & Johnson?
This is where you lose ass.
You eat ass, Dame Dash?
I'm not answering that.
Thank you, man.
Stop, man.
What did Rick Ross?
He doesn't want to say that.
He said I eat jerk on.
He don't.
Litter pepper on Rick Ross.
I'm not talking about my personal business like that.
Let's make some noise for Dame being professional.
God damn it.
That was not normal.
God damn it.
We would lose all endorsements.
No, we lose endorsements. No, no. We lose it. No, No, we lose endorsements.
No, we lose it.
No, we lose endorsements.
I'm not even worried about your endorsements.
We got business here.
We retarded over here, Dave.
I don't think you're retarded.
I think you're pushing the bar.
Yeah, because you know what?
Nobody else can ask you that.
Why would somebody want to know?
Obviously, this guy wants to know.
Snoop Dogg.
Yo, there's too many niggas in the room to be talking about eating ass and all that.
That's like watching a porno
with a bunch of niggas.
We never knew that.
We never knew that.
That's why you want to be in the music business.
No, no, because it...
Because we do a million.
God damn it.
God damn it.
And they love this.
This is the fans.
He took a shot.
He took a clear shot.
I didn't take a shot.
You were taking a shot all fucking day. What are you talking about? I didn't take a shot. You were taking a shot all fucking day.
What are you talking about?
I didn't take a shot.
Let's take a shot together.
Come on.
You want a Dusko?
Yeah, why not?
Let's drink Dusko with you.
I'm going to do it.
All right.
Because you know why?
I'm going to support anything Dame Dash does.
And it's good though.
If you want to sell pink toenails tomorrow.
Why would I want to sell pink toenails?
It doesn't matter.
This is the type of nigga I am with you. This nigga's crazy. If you sell pink toenails tomorrow, it doesn't matter. This is the type of nigga I am with you.
If you sell pink toenails tomorrow, I'm going to support it, God damn it.
That's good toenails.
That's good toenails.
I ain't been the same since you left.
I know.
You need to come with us, dog.
You know, but you're doing it.
At Art Gallery?
I already did that, dog.
I'm going to need you to.
I hate art, game.
I don't even understand. You don't hate art. We're doing art. Listen to me. I like though. I'm a movie turd. I hate art, Dame. I don't even understand.
You don't hate art. We doing art. Listen to me.
I like graffiti. I don't do it anymore. That's art.
I had art galleries. Now, my wave
right now is I have a television network.
So I'm making movies. Let's blow that up.
Where can people see the television
network at? Dame-studios.com
Dame-studios.com
You got your own Netflix.
Didn't you have a hoodflix?
No
Or something like that?
Nope
Alright listen
I've never drank whiskey in my life
This is my first time my nigga
Here you go
I'ma do it with you
I feel like I'ma throw up right now
Like as you pour it
I feel like I'ma throw up
Before you do that
That would be bad for business
Alright let me get a glass
Maybe that shot shouldn't be so
Why you wanna do a shot?
Maybe we'll drink it slow.
You should sip that, though. That should be sipped.
I gotta get it over with.
He should sip it.
Mr. Lee,
you got a big butt. That's your butt?
Yo!
What's going on with you today, man?
It's my flag ring.
My socks is going down.
This nigga's tripping, man.
Nigga's ass broke the fall.
You ready?
We're going to do a shot.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
You ready?
We do it.
That's nice.
This nigga is tripping hard.
You ready?
All right.
I'll show you how we do shots.
You ready?
You got a shot?
Come on, Dame. I'll take a shot? I'll take the picture.
I'll take the picture.
Come on.
Get your shot ready, Dame.
You got to drink your own shit on camera.
I know, but you got to drink your own shit on camera.
50?
You made 50 Cent drink his own shit on camera as well.
You don't have to make me do anything.
I volunteered.
No problem.
I just said, just give me a second.
All right, cool.
You know, like, we about to have a race.
It don't mean we got to go when you say so.
That nigga's so much of a mogul, he can't stop being a boss. You can't stop being a boss.
I'm not used to it.
He should never stop being a boss.
He felt like I was pushing him.
You are pushing him.
I'm trying to get my mind right.
I'm like, this nigga is killing me.
You want some slurricane, Drew?
Hey, man, that shows the friendship, guys.
Now, this my nigga, my nigga.
This my nigga. This my nigga. Yo, you know, you're a funny ass nigga. This my nigga. Yo, you remember when we used to, guys. Nah, this my nigga, my nigga. This my nigga.
This my nigga.
You're a funny ass nigga.
This my nigga.
Yo, you remember
when we used to,
yo, I ain't gonna front.
You told me to come
to a photo shoot one day
and you had the model bitch,
the black model bitch.
I was like, damn.
I hope you're not cool with her.
I called her a bitch.
I didn't mean that.
And he brought Mariah Carey
to the hood live.
And you brought Mariah Carey
to the hood live. Yo, listen Mariah Carey to the hood lab.
Yo, listen, I was paying mad.
I paid a lot of rent.
But I didn't know how to be fly with it.
See, you had an apartment downtown.
I ain't gonna front.
That was one of the flyest lofts I ever seen.
But I ain't want to take your swag.
I seen your shit.
No, because I want to do my own shit.
Because I'm a boss, too.
In my mind, for sure.
Back then.
I ran to the studio and I invited
you and you said, I'm going to bring MC through.
And I was like, alright, cool.
Tell that nigga it's all love.
Because I ain't know what the fuck you meant.
This nigga came through with
Mariah Carey.
And this is the craziest shit in the world, right?
Mariah Carey comes upstairs.
Nigga Dame immediately flips on her security.
He's like, yo, she's with Nori.
She's okay.
Get the fuck out of here.
And the guy goes, he goes, yo, Nori, is it cool?
And I'm looking.
I'm mad confused because I don't want to offend him.
I don't want to offend the security.
I'm like, I got Mariah Carey in my studio.
We only been open two days.
I'm like, yo, I don't want to offend.
He said, if you tell me he's good, he's good.
I said, yeah, he's good.
And then the security walked out.
And then Mariah kept walking around, right?
And this is the funniest shit in the world.
Mariah kept walking around.
I told my nigga, stop following her.
And she said, no, it's OK.
This is the only time they're going to see me.
So, like, she said.
Now, Mariah stunts.
Yo, she was like, yo, let my niggas.
She said, let them niggas follow me and like my weed.
Oh, excuse me.
Did I say it?
I didn't say she smoked weed.
I didn't say that.
I didn't say that.
Mariah's stunt game is on 5,000.
I mean, you can't fuck with Mariah.
She's on it all day
Mariah we love you
Come on drink champ
She talks that talk
She's good money
She's solid
She's good money
We gonna do this shot then?
Honestly she'll probably
Yeah
Where your shot at?
Right here man
Did you pour it?
Look at that
To Dusko
Thank you
Make sure you
Can you possible
What?
That's why they listen That's why they listen.
What did you say just now?
You going to rewind that slow?
Never rewind it.
Never rewind it.
Never rewind it.
This is why we win.
I don't even know what the fuck he said.
Sal, look, come on.
Eye to eye.
Eye to eye.
What are you talking about?
Amapia style.
Did you, oh.
Ah.
No better than that.
Look at you.
Look at you Look at you
It's a zipper
Get it together
That's a zipper
Get it together
Let's go champ
Let's go champ
Grab me
It's fantastic
Give me your chocolate
Give me your chocolate
You wanna use mine?
My nigga
Don't worry
Please
I only eat my wife pussy
That's it
I don't eat random pussy
I don't do that
I am married And I'll stay married.
Oh, look, EFN, God bless you, God damn it.
High five.
He's my partner, DJ EFN.
Well, he's my partner now, too, right?
That's right.
That's right.
And we doing the Dame Daz Podcast.
What are you naming it?
CEO?
Whatever you want.
So can I buy the clothing line from you?
Let me just give it to me.
CEO.
I just feel like it deserves me.
I feel like you're worried.
Yeah, you're random with that one, though. No, no, I feel like you're worried enough. So I feel like I'll buy it to me. CEO. I just feel like it deserves me. I feel like you wore it.
Yeah, you ran him with that one, though.
No, no.
I feel like you wore it enough.
So I feel like I'll buy it from you.
You're going to hold the camera.
Let me ask you a question.
And let me get that.
You think you could get drunk off my liquor and rob me?
No, I'm not robbing you.
Damn, damn, stop.
I'm just playing.
I'm playing.
Damn, stop.
Why can't I have fun with it?
I just feel like CEO should be me.
Why can't I have fun with it?
Because right now I feel like, no, but I feel like you ran your course.
How about we do this?
Okay.
Yeah.
And then let me buy it from you.
Not buy it.
All right.
Let me take it from here.
You know what?
Why you up, man?
First wait.
I've never seen you so close in my life.
Never.
Never.
But let me see what you do with it.
I'm wearing your hat, nigga.
No, you ain't got to wear it.
No, backwards.
You already fucked up.
You ain't got to wear it.
Listen, I'm not saying that. I'm saying take the company and do something with it. All right. There you go. I'm wearing your hat, nigga. No, you're not wearing it. No, backwards. You already fucked up. You ain't gotta wear it. Listen, I'm not saying that.
I'm saying take the company
and do something with it.
All right, there you go.
I want to see your company.
Listen, listen,
but if you ain't doing
nothing with it,
then I'm taking it back.
You're gonna take it back?
Yeah.
All right, give me a time period.
We're gonna do it
like six months.
Okay.
You just gave it to me
to get back?
Give me a year.
Why don't you just tell me?
Why don't you just tell me?
Does he get a right of refusal?
Yeah, yeah.
Why don't you just tell me?
Because I'm not gonna... Tell me. Tell you what? Why don't you just tell me? Does he get a right of refusal? Yeah, yeah. Why don't you just tell me? Because I'm not going to.
Tell me.
Tell you what?
How long do you want?
I want six months to a year.
I'm going to take the coal line.
I'm going to bring it back to Harlem.
I'm going to bring it back strong.
Listen, listen.
Do what you got to do.
Yeah, because you know why?
We're going to take it and we're going to say hood CEO.
Hood CEO.
Whatever you have to do, just do it.
Because hood CEO, street CEO.
I just want to see what you got to do.
Block CEO, gym CEO. It's a bigger picture. you're going to do. Block CEO, gym CEO.
It's a bigger picture.
Let me take this vision and let me make it more.
Drunk CEO.
That's what makes it so nice for me.
Hustling.
Hustling.
Can I just tell you something?
Yeah.
Most CEOs are always drunk.
Oh, shit.
We did not know that, Dane.
Nigga, we make liquor.
I'm running home.
Shout out to Columbia White.
Nah, niggas drink.
Nah, nah.
See what you do with it.
You got a year, right?
So Biggs,
Biggs just came home.
He been home for a year.
A year,
and this is your first time
seeing each other
when he came to L.A.?
Yeah.
How was that?
How was that?
It was good.
It was good to see Biggs.
Good to see him?
Family?
Always.
He's my brother.
Always.
And are y'all planning to do anything together or no?
There's no plans in the works.
He's doing his thing, you know?
Okay.
You know, like, people like to do things on their own.
Right.
Because they have different points of views and different timing.
You know, I think what Biggs is doing is good, and I'm happy that he's happy.
Right. But that's just not
I've done it
I don't want
You know what I mean
Maybe I don't know
If we're inspired
Like I move as I'm inspired
But like if you notice
Like I don't really like
That whiskey is hitting me
Fucked up right now
It's fun
You want another shot
It's good though
I thought it was good
No no no
It's doing all type of shit
To my body
Nah that shit was smooth
That shit was smooth
You want another shot?
Let's get away, no.
You know, I'm in, Damien.
Nah, he shouldn't go there.
He shouldn't go there.
But, can I continue?
Because, you know what?
Yeah.
You want to continue?
What are you talking about?
I forgot.
I forgot.
Biggs.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah, so if you notice, like, this has nothing to do with anything in my past.
Mm.
Brand new, fresh. Yeah. So, like, when something's in my with anything in my past. Brand new, fresh.
Yeah.
So, like, when something's in my rear view, it's just really in my rear view,
not to say our relationship, but the business that we do.
Unless he wants to do what I'm doing, he's got to do what he's got to do.
You know what I'm saying?
Fourth of November is doing great.
And that's good.
It's a great thing.
That's a good thing.
And, you know, I'm really happy for him.
And I wouldn't, you know, Biggs is a genius.
So, you know, I wouldn't think, I've always thought that if he was this person he is today
back then.
Right.
You know what I mean?
Right.
It was ill.
Biggs was always a little bit, you know, it's a different Biggs.
Mm-hmm.
But this is the Biggs that we all been waiting for.
Okay.
You know what I'm saying?
So this is what I want to do before we leave.
I'm going to throw out, I've never.
That's it?
We done?
No, no, no.
I thought he was doing a shot and all that.
Oh.
That's a good shot. Another shot, Dave., no, no But I want to take a poquito shot
What do you mean a poquito shot the Mexicans
In the Mexican borders only the Mexican
I'm gonna, you're the Cuban. A Cuban's in the sand, too. I ain't going to do that to him. All right, let's do it. I ain't going to do that to you.
Yo, James, don't do that.
You know you challenged me in London.
And what happened?
We ran out of Armadale.
So what are you saying right now?
So nobody won.
I can't say y'all won.
I can't say I won.
Because we just ran out of Armadale.
And then you remember,
this is how I noticed how these niggas is rich back in the days, right?
I remember they're probably rich now.
Yeah, I was there.
But listen, we had a whole hotel, right?
So I called the shit in London.
I'm like, yo, I need more wine and chicken.
The guy flips.
He goes, you guys drink all the wine and chicken
in the whole hotel?
And I'm like, damn.
Because I'm like, yo, Dave said,
listen, everything is taken care of.
You ain't never heard a record label tell you that in your life.
I wasn't a record label.
I'm sorry.
I had a clothing line.
I'm sorry.
And a liquor.
Was that offensive when I called you a record label?
No, it's offensive that you don't understand it.
Like, I want you to understand it.
Like, I don't take offense.
But I'm like, yo, I want you to know.
That's what the rest of the world needs to understand.
The reason why Rockefeller
Was Rockefeller
Because it wasn't just a music
It was a lifestyle
And we were monetizing
Every single part of it
From the liquor
To the clothing
I looked at us
Like you know what LVMH is?
That whiskey is doing
All types of shit to my body
I don't want it to happen
But I'm going to continue
LVMH
LVMH owns like Louis Vuitton
But they also own Moet
They own Hennessy
They own Givenchy They, they own Donna Karan.
They own a lot of shit, right?
So I wanted to be LVMH.
I wanted to own a lot of companies, but I wanted to be high end, but still authentic.
And I'm doing all of those things on my own now with my own money.
And it took me to really be like, yo, I know what I want to do.
I want to have a television network. I want to have a television network.
I want to have a streaming service. Remember, that's the
reason why I had the art gallery, just so I could look
at them, create things, and tape it so I
could have content. Because I knew in the future,
content was king. And what have I been
doing the whole time? Content.
I've always known that. That's my shit.
I said content is king.
But was I telling you that back then?
You just said that. I'm a time traveler.
We were both in the moment.
I go to the future, and then I come back, and then I handle my business.
That's what I've been saying.
That's my new slogan.
How the fuck you just say my slogan?
And we didn't even talk about that.
Content is king.
I've been telling you that.
All right.
You did?
Yeah.
I got it from you again?
Were you in movies?
Did I steal your shit?
Did I put you in movies?
You can tell me I stole your shit.
Nobody steals it.
But you did.
No, I'm not going to lie.
When I do something, listen to me.
Every time I do something, it's for the world to be influenced.
I don't get offended by that.
I can't front.
I met you, and you said, in two seconds, you was like, I'm putting you in a movie.
All right, content.
The movie is content.
I thought you was crazy, my nigga.
Everybody does.
And you said, am I really crazy?
You was like, yo, I'm putting you in a movie.
I was like, all right, back.
And he's like, tomorrow. I was like, all right, back. And he's like, tomorrow.
I was like, what the fuck?
And then I did Paper Soldiers.
Who starred in that?
Kevin Hart.
Kevin Hart.
Oh, shit.
I took him off the stage, too, didn't I?
Yep.
Let's explain that story.
We need to hear that.
OK, what happened?
You seen Kevin Hart on stage?
Yeah, me, Rachel, and Jay Black, my man from The Best Out.
Right.
You know, I was doing a movie, so I was going to look for comedians.
And I seen him.
He was funny because he was like white people, but black people.
He knew how to tease himself.
Right.
Went backstage.
He said some funny shit to Jay Black.
Ooh.
That's the gangster.
Jay Black is the gangster, correct?
I mean, he's my brother.
You know what I mean.
I don't know.
I said he's my brother.
All right, cool.
Continue.
But that's it. But anyway. Pick up Jay Black. Definitely. He's my brother. You know what I mean. I don't know. I said he's my brother. All right, cool. Can't say anything. But that's it.
But anyway.
Pick up Jay Black.
Definitely.
He's a legend.
And, you know, so we went backstage and put him in a movie the next day.
The next day.
Something like that.
So Paper Soldiers.
Yeah, Paper Soldiers.
I directed it.
You did the same shit with me.
Michael Rapaport was in it.
I was drinking with you one night and you was like, you ever acted before?
I was like, what does that mean, acting?
He was like, tomorrow, come to Jersey.
And I came, and you made me the barber the next day.
Yeah, he killed that shit, too.
Let's make some noise for you, Shell.
Nobody don't know.
And listen, let me also make noise.
I was mad fat.
You got a joint stand?
You got a politics?
What's going on right now?
Y'all should sit down.
Let's also make noise
because a lot of people don't know.
I came to audition for Alpo
and paid him for it.
I didn't do good
and I was fat.
I was fat at the time.
There's no way
I could have played Alpo.
Nas came out for that too.
Nas came out for Alpo?
Yeah.
Remember,
we walked into
What Happens That Day.
No, wait up.
I don't know the Nas part.
Hold on.
Nas came to audition?
Yeah.
For Alpo World?
Yeah.
Not the day I was there.
I don't know what day it was.
Thursday.
But break this down.
And this is why y'all beefing?
I'm not beefing.
What are you talking about?
No, I'm talking about
You know, like, you know
Takeover
I don't know
That shit wasn't real to me, man
It was fucking music
You think I really take that shit serious?
I'm sorry
You beefing over music?
I feel like
I feel like I should say sorry
You should
The way your face just
Cause it's like
It's like
What kind of nigga you think I am?
So Nas came
Y'all think I
Y'all think I get man over a record?
So why did Nas get it?
Do niggas get man over records? They records So why did Nas get it? Do niggas get manned over records?
They records.
So why didn't Nas get it?
Somebody would get fucked up over records.
Because Cam got it.
Why else?
Let me ask you a question.
Let me just do logic.
Let's do...
You're from Queens,
so you're not getting my advice.
Yeah, I would pick Nas.
I'm from Queens.
But you're from Queens.
But the logic...
The character he played
was not from Queens.
He was from Harlem.
So why would I have a dude from Queens
playing a guy from Harlem?
That doesn't make logical sense.
And Cam did a hell of a job.
Yes, he did.
We got Cam.
Cam, come on the show,
God damn it.
He did.
He did.
Cam, come on the show,
God damn it.
We're going to kidnap
the dude to God.
Honestly, it would have
made sense if I would have
brought like a Queens character
in and Nas would have
played that role.
That would have been dope.
I called you one day
and I said, let's do the Queen side of the story.
Yeah.
Is that something you're interested in?
Yeah, let's do it.
Let's do it.
I always talk to Bimmy about doing their story, and I know Irv doing his story.
Now, Bimmy has a good story.
And Irv.
And Irv, they got their own thing.
Yeah, but everyone has a perspective on a lot of the same stuff.
It's like one thing happened, and it affected a everyone has a perspective on a lot of the same stuff. It's like one thing happened
and it affected a lot of different people
in a lot of different ways.
Like I could have did Payton Full
from my perspective.
I just chose to do it from AZ's.
Right.
But I had a perspective.
And then AZ had a quarrel with you after that?
He did?
I think he...
What are you talking about?
Listen, a quarrel isn't when someone
says something on a show or something.
That's not a quarrel.
Right.
You know, there's no action.
So there wasn't a quarrel.
I don't know of any.
Right.
I think he said, like, the situation happened.
I don't want you to tell me what he said.
Right.
That's not the conversation we usually have.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Because we're not chatty patties.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Chatty patties.
Wow.
Yo, this is my nigga.
Yo, Dave Dash, we really love you, my brother.
I know that.
You're a real dude.
We're partners now.
You always, yeah, listen.
We're naming the Dame Dash podcast.
Is there any money on the table?
We get money?
Come on, stop that.
I just asked.
Stop that.
We got shot glasses and some plastic cups and a t-shirt.
I just asked.
I just asked.
You know, for years you paid me in clothes.
Are you going to pay me a CEO?
I'm going to pay you in liquor. For years You paid me in clothes For You gonna pay me a CEO I'm gonna pay you a liquor For years
For years
You paid me in clothes
I ain't give a fuck
You was a great guy
Let me ask you a question
You gave me the best opportunity
The shit that we talked about
Offline on the business
I'm not gonna ask for the specifics
Did that come true
The shit you was waiting on
You was like
It ain't
You know it happened
But it ain't
You know
I gotta put that
You know what I mean
When you were Is it what you expected Nah cause You was like It ain't You know It happened But it ain't You know I gotta put that You know what I mean When you were
Is it what you expected
Nah cause
You know why
I fuck with you for real
So
Like if
If you was a nigga
I didn't fuck with
I'd be like
Yeah
But I don't know
Cause I got so much shit going on
Check it out
But
Yes
But listen
Dame Dash
But other opportunities
Are presenting themselves
Behind it right
Yes
But no
But listen
But for you But for you We want you to be with us Dame Dash Podcast But other opportunities are presenting themselves behind it, right? Yes. But no, listen. Like the answer to everything.
But for you, we want you to be with us.
I want you to be.
Dame Dash Podcast.
Let me ask you a question.
I always said let's do some business together.
Yes, that's right.
So whatever it is, it doesn't matter what it was.
You said a beer.
I said let's do a beer.
The movie company, I said, yo, let's do the movie company.
So finally you want to do something?
Yes.
I'm here.
We want to support the Dame Dash Podcast.
I want to support anything you're doing too.
Right.
And if people know, I want to address the people.
No, no, no.
I'm drunk, but I'm also sober.
You got him drunk.
What the fuck?
No, I'm drunk, but I'm also sober.
Yeah, I know, I know.
And for the people that know.
Come on, let's do a toast to it.
I did a whole interview with my brother, my guy, my friend.
And not once did I bring up Jay.
Why you keep saying it? You brought it up just now.
Not once, you just brought it up. I did.
Second time, actually, second time. How you bring
it up by saying you didn't bring it up?
No, no, but I want people to understand
that you can do a whole fucking
shit and you ain't got to
speak about that man. Thank you.
You know what I'm saying? you for that respect Because I respect you
And I respect your legacy
And you know what
You personally helped me
Oh I'm sorry
You looking at it
If y'all can take it or not
Yeah you have to drink it now
I'm sorry
All right
Y'all should have sipped it man
That shit with ice
Would be better man
What's going on with my man
I thought we was doing this
Now you got him dancing
I got Mary dancing.
You got dancing.
It's like Big Pimpin' right now, man.
This is what is happening all over the world.
We used to do this.
I don't know why.
Let me tell you something about Sid Dusko.
There's a shooter out of you.
It don't hit you immediately.
That's what it is.
It did hit you immediately.
You started dancing.
No, no, no.
This is the problem.
That's the other shot that hit me.
Now it's going to come in like two seconds.
And then I'm going to just start another one.
What'd you do?
Dance like an Egyptian?
Can you take a shot of Seraph for me?
I mean, it's no.
My son and I.
That's more of my shit.
Yeah, he's good.
Thank you.
That's more of my shit.
Take one, man.
That's twin.
That's the brokest nigga we know.
I'm the brokest richest nigga.
Nah, you look like the richest nigga.
You look happy, man.
I'm just sad.
I'm the brokest richest nigga on earth.
I always tell someone.
Go with everything.
Go with everything.
Where's Bush Rock?
Go with everything. You want to take Where's Bush Rock? Go with everything.
You want to take one with me, Dan?
You just.
Wait, wait, no, because I want to have more of this.
What?
Again?
Damn, it's enough for me.
I got to do another interview.
You quit, you quit.
I'm with it.
Oh, man.
Quit quitting, man.
It's a challenge.
Nah, he said he missed the drink challenge.
No, I never said I was a drink champ.
You didn't?
CBS told him. I told you he was a drink chat. No, I never said I was a drink chat. You didn't? CBS told him, yo.
Nah, nah, nah.
I told you he was a drink chat.
Can you take my shot?
You're not taking a shot.
Look.
Damn, damn.
Real talk.
That shit should be drained with ice.
That shit should be sipped on.
It should, but he wants to take shots.
Poor.
He started.
He did start it, but why y'all got to keep this?
Y'all been doing this for a while, I see.
Nah, we did this in London.
Y'all been doing this. Me, Down Leezy, Nah, we did this in London. Y'all been doing this.
Me, Down Leezy, him, and Biggs.
And we just kept going at it.
Let's drink.
Let's do it.
Are you on one too?
I'm with it.
He's in.
He's in.
I don't give a fuck.
I can't do no more.
Give me that cup.
I'm going to blow a horn because I just feel good about life.
What is it?
I feel good about life.
I'm glad that you're happy.
I'm glad you have a beautiful wife.
How you doing?
I'm glad you have dogs.
I don't want to take no more whiskey.
Look, just keep it on.
I'm so glad this is what I take.
I'm so glad this is what I take.
Let's go.
Come on, Dave.
See what happens?
You got a beautiful...
You want to drink with me?
Yeah.
It's up to you.
Dave, are you ready?
If you're switching my drink
I'm good
Can you take one shot of Ciroc
Show Puff some love
He's like
He's like halfway from Harlem
Right
He's like Mount Vernon
Harlem
Listen
Alright
Now
He's like halfway right
Listen to what I'm saying
Is he a Harlem nigga
Puff
I seen you go to the office
Office
What'd you say
He went to Puff's office
Oh It sounded like an echo Cause at first You thought he was By you cause he bit Money making Mitch I seen you go to the office. What'd you say? He went to Puff's office.
Oh, it sounded like an echo.
Because at first you thought he was biting you because you bit money-making Mitch.
Oh, you thought I'm not on point?
I'm on point, Slump. And I got the CEO hat on, and you're not getting it back.
One year.
Let me ask you a question.
When you saw Puff, did you ask him that?
No, I'm about to ask him that right now.
But I'm asking you because you here.
Puff's my nigga.
But did you feel like he was biting you with the money-making bitch?
We made an agreement that we don't do that, so we're not going to do that.
But you did kind of feel it.
Out of respect.
Because that's why that agreement happened.
Whatever was said in that meeting was, yo, me and you don't play like that with each other.
You know what I mean?
When did that meeting happen?
I don't know.
But whatever it was.
It wasn't a G check.
No, it was a conversation amongst men.
Men should be able to talk to each other. But whatever it was, earlier. It wasn't a G-check. No, it was a conversation amongst men. Mm.
You know, men should be able to talk to each other.
Absolutely.
If I just suddenly made you uncomfortable,
just like you just did with Angie Martinez.
I did.
I'm sorry, Angie.
I'm sorry.
Relax, relax.
But, you know, sometimes people can be unintentionally, you know,
Yeah, I didn't mean to.
All I'm saying is You always give a man
A conversation
And real men
Can sit down
And have a talk
So I gotta give Puff
His props
Cause whatever he felt
It was always a conversation
And whatever I felt
Was always a conversation
And honestly
We've always respected that
So on that respect
The question as a Harlem nigga
He's always
To me
When we've had interaction
Except for a couple things
We've always given each other The respect of what we agree to.
You understand what I'm saying?
And that's respect.
So we agree.
That's my nigga.
Let's big up, Puck Daddy.
Let's big up.
But Dane, all right.
Here's the reverse question.
Everybody in the world thinks like you're somewhere in the world, fucked up, broke.
That's what they think, right?
They think you bitter.
But you're the exact opposite,
and I know that because I speak to you.
I know that personally.
I think what sometimes people get or misunderstand
is like, if I tell you something,
it's really your subject on how you perceive it.
You can either get mad at it or you can laugh at it. You understand what I'm saying? Just because I might you something It could It's really your subject On how you perceive it Like you could even get mad at it
Or you could laugh at it
You understand what I'm saying?
Like just cause I might say something
Don't mean I'm mad at it
You understand what I mean?
It's just said
Like I've been through too much therapy
To be mad at anything
And I'm enjoying my life
And I know what I love
You know what I'm saying?
So like
If something comes up
And it gets discussed
It might just
It is what it is
It doesn't mean bitter
You know what I mean? It doesn't mean bitter.
You know what I mean?
Like, I'm not bitter.
How could I be bitter about anything that's happened with Rockefeller?
Look how rich we got and how much money and the lifestyle.
And, you know, we're legends behind it.
Right.
So, you know, how could you really be a man and be bitter about winning? Like, you know, you got to wait.
Like, everyone's not going to do everything right.
And everyone's win isn't the same win.
Right. You understand what I'm saying?
Right
I'm a guy that believes in friendship
And I believe in integrity
And I believe in honor
And that's it
You know what I'm saying?
And you've seen that
Respect that
No
And you also know I'm a guy that likes to laugh
Yes
That likes to drink
And you'll break on a nigga in a minute
You know I'm alright with my knuckles
You know what I'm saying?
Like just not to be a tough guy You really think
You like the jazz
I'm alright
I'll have interaction
When I was younger
I'm 45
I'm not doing that no more
I put my
I'm not in music
I don't have to fight no more
What
Would you
That was a shot
But would you
That was a shot directly at me
No no
It's not a shot at you
But would you
Would you have changed anything
If you could
From those days
From playing Rockefeller?
Let me ask you one thing
Before we get about that
No, no, I want him to answer that
If he would or wouldn't
He did Rockefeller
Alright
Is there anything that you regret
From that time period?
That's a good question
Like if you play
Any game
If you could come back
Of course you would adjust
And do things so it's perfect
So you don't waste time
But at the end of the day It was Rockefeller Right, right But I mean if you could talk to Of course you would adjust And do things so it's perfect So you don't waste time But at the end of the day
It was Rockefeller
Right right
But I mean if you could
Talk to yourself
It was Rockefeller
There's nothing
No more to be said
Like we did
Like how could you be mad
We made Rockefeller
Right
It's Jay Z
It's Kanye
It's Cameron
It's like what
I'm gonna be mad
It's Beanie
Right
Like all that other shit
Niggas be worried about
Is Petty
The big picture is
We was Rockefeller
So just cause we don't See things the same It don't take away From the fact that From the impact Like all that other shit niggas be worried about is petty. The big picture is we was Rockefeller.
So just because we don't see things the same, it don't take away from the fact that we was,
whether it could have still been or whatever, in that moment, nobody never did that before.
So how did you be mad at it?
You don't need to spend time being bitter.
No, I don't.
Like I hung out with Jay-Z.
We laughed.
I got drunk with them niggas and shit.
Whatever I felt, it didn't matter.
We did Rockefeller, and that's the respect we have for one another.
We ain't got no time to be talking about petty shit.
You know, it's the future.
That shit was 20 years ago.
Right.
You know what I mean?
Like, you can't be doing that shit for 20 years and be mad about something.
In the moment, you could feel a certain way, but you got to evolve.
Right.
But nobody's mad. We made Rockefeller.
I walk around, I'm not a regular nigga just because of Rockefeller.
Even though I did other things, Rockefeller's heavy.
Even though I put Lee Daniels in business, who does power, and Kevin Hart, and Rachel
Roy, and every other thing that I've done, I got Rockefeller with that.
I don't have to do nothing, and I got Rockefeller.
Everything else is extras.
You understand what I mean? So how could else is extras. You understand what I mean?
So how could you be mad?
It's too much time wasted on being mad.
But that's not what I said. I didn't ask you if you were mad.
You said bitter.
No, I said the people say that.
Another thing is, who cares what people say?
No, I just said, you know, I got a job.
You're bleeding what people say.
Who cares?
I don't know. It's flies. It's real.
No, that's a gangster fly that's in here.
It's a gangster fly. You understand in here. It's a gangster fly.
It's flies.
You understand what I'm saying?
I'm never worried.
I'm not.
You can't.
Yo, let me say something.
You can't.
You can't.
You can't be a public figure if you care what the public thinks.
That's dumb right there.
Wait, say that again.
You can't be a public figure if you care what the public thinks.
Of course.
That's stupid.
Have I ever done anything?
Anything. Have you ever done anything, anything,
have you ever seen me care?
No.
Other than about
the people I care about,
but like,
care about what people think?
Right.
If I cared about
what people thought,
people thought Jay was whack.
Period.
Go back.
Rewind a little bit further.
Look at what the fight was.
We had to convince niggas
he was, you know,
a different dude.
Right.
Look at it.
Right. It wasn't easy. Ask Clark Kent had to convince niggas He was you know A different dude Right Look at it Right It wasn't easy
Ask Clark Kent
Ask these niggas
How hard was it
Convincing people
That he was the truth
Ask that
Ask Kev Louse
Cause Kev Louse passed
Steve Rifkin passed
Russell
Everybody passed
When y'all was shopping
That's why we had to do it
On our own
Wow
That's why y'all went independent
Yeah we had no choice
It wasn't like we came through
Like let's be independent
Everybody gotta get that record deal
That label was like a freestyle label
That y'all did the first deal with
We just had to get distribution
We was like we gonna do anything we can
But they not giving it to us
We gotta do it ourself
But we went everywhere dog
That shit was a fight
You understand what I'm saying?
Right
But in the music business
It's a fight
Right
Like I'm saying
That's why I don't You know I mean I'll do it different and plus there was no internet right there was no
podcast right you know i mean we was doing hand to hand we had the person we was moving around in
a pathfinder and shit like that pathfinder yeah putting up posters now now um jim jones you got
problems what's going on i don't talk about it No You don't want to talk about it
Big up Jim Jones
Big up Dave Jones
Move on
And that
Difficult
What
No cause I don't
I don't want to
Come on man
Yeah let's just move on
Let's move on
I'm 45
I'm 45
You're 45
Really I am
I'm 30
I'm 8
You got two more
He 40 said you 40 already
Yeah he 40
Try to give me
Tell me I'm 40 You said you gotta round it off 38 But I'm gonna. You got two more. He 40 said you 40 already. Yeah, he 40 trying to give me, just tell me I'm 40.
He said you got to round it off.
38.
But I'm going to be 39 this year.
Yeah, you got to round it off.
You're seven years older than me.
You're seven years.
You ain't going to want to do the music shit.
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So, Dipset, everybody else is good.
You and Cam is good.
I've seen them promoting the Dusk Gold Block. A lot of Harlem listeners. There's no such thing as civil war. So Dipset Everybody else is good You and Cam is good I seen him
Promoting the Dusk of Lock
We all good love
All of them
Listen
There's no such thing
As civil war
I'm never gonna have a beef
With another black man
That shit is stupid
Thank you
You understand what I'm saying
So whatever
I have no beef with nobody
Keep promoting that
Keep saying what you're saying
What you mean
That's hard
That's consistent
That's stupid for us
To ever fight each other
Over stupid shit
So no beef with nobody
We all made history
How the fuck we gonna be mad about anything
Tell that story
But you asking me these questions
A roving reporter
No I'm a bozo
Nah you're more of a roving reporter right now
You are
You're a probing reporter
I still don't know what that means
Have another drink.
All right, let's do it.
Look, right there.
Right there.
Right there's his coat.
No, no.
I can't do that no more.
That was yours, man.
Come on.
What do you mean you can't do that?
Dame Dash.
It's my nigga.
We did this all around the world.
Why would we stop now?
I know.
It's the music business.
So I can't say no more.
We were in the music business.
Isn't this what we did?
This is what we did.
And we never, like, actually, like, cleared it.
It was like a draw.
What do you mean?
Everywhere.
What, you think you won the drinking battle?
I didn't think about it at all.
I actually forgot.
I think I won.
Okay, think what you won.
Oh, no, I didn't win.
Enjoy the thought.
I knew it was even.
Can we keep it even?
No, I think you lost, man.
No, in London knew it was even. Can we keep it even? No, I think you lost, man. No, in London, it was even.
Listen, I've been wanting to quit, Dane.
Oh, you said you quit?
No, I definitely.
You said I've been.
You heard what he said, right?
I said I wanted to, but I never said I quit it.
But you want to quit.
Yes, I do.
Oh, so, but.
No, I'd rather.
What do you want to quit?
What do you want to quit, though?
What do you want to quit?
I want to quit this shit.
This shit, right?
Yeah, whiskey.
We saw the wrong podcast.
I'm a vodka guy.
Salute.
No, no.
You didn't look in my eye when you toasted.
All right.
There you go.
All right, go ahead.
Go first.
You're a drink champ.
Yeah, go first.
Because this is your...
I hate this shit.
He thugged you out with that one right there.
My shit is not going to be a smooth one.
Take the shot, man. Take the shot. Do Going to be as smooth as that Take the shot man
Take the shot
Do you see how he did it
Take the shot
He was mad white with it
I'm going to be honest
Whatever man
Take the shot
And you know I'm tracing
It with a vodka
Y'all drinking that Liquor raw man That ain't ice man Y'all fucking love And you know I'm tracing it with a vodka.
Y'all drinking that liquor raw, man.
That's these ice, man.
Y'all fucking love.
That's some funny shit right here.
Dave Dash is in the building.
Make some noise.
You know Elliot Wilson?
How can I not know Elliot Wilson?
He's a corn boy, you know him?
Let's take a shot to that.
Oh.
He's a corn boy.
You want to take a shot to that?
Listen, I'm going to drink a vodka.
Drink a vodka to that shot.
You going to quit?
Well, how did you meet L.A. Wilson?
Does he quit or not?
Because we're drinking. I'm not quitting.
I'm not quitting.
So are we taking another shot or not?
You got to take a shot of vodka with me.
Well, listen, you don't change liquors.
That's how we do it.
We've never done that before.
This is my show.
Slum.
You remember?
Slum.
Slum.
Slum.
Can you fuck with me?
I've been fucking with you.
All right, let's make that the...
I don't drink whiskey.
But I've been fucking with you.
You should now take one shot of Ciroc, and then that's it.
And then the interview is over, because...
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Not the interview.
I mean, the other interview that I got lined
up. It's a wrap. It's a wrap.
But come on, Dane. How about this?
We'll finish it with a shot of...
Can you show Elliot Wilson for me?
Do you have a bad story about him?
Do you have an agreement?
I don't remember bad stories. I put them in my
rear view. No, can you?
You want me to relive his therapy? Yeah, because we don't
fuck with him over here.
I thought you squashed it with Peter
Oh I did
I did
Oh my bad
I forgot
Yo let me ask you a question
Take a shot god damn it
No fuck that
We had an agreement
Try to get me drunk
You got it
You acquired
You said I got it
You got it
Well let's
Take a shot of vodka
If we done
Let's take a shot of vodka
Are we done though
No we ain't done So then we not Let's do this We'll take a The shot of vodka. If we're done. Let's take a shot of vodka, Dave. Are we done, though?
No, we ain't done.
So then we not, let's do this.
We'll take a, the shot of vodka will be the last thing we do.
That'll be the finish. All right, here we go.
Let's go, let's go.
I'm not done.
You want to do that?
You got to pour it.
You pour it to other joints.
This ain't not done, man.
Let's just have it.
We'll make that the last thing we do, but we can have a shot of this.
Nah, fuck that.
Let's do this.
You're going to ask you?
Let's do that, Dave.
You're going to ask you and then shot your ass? No, you're talking to him, man. Come on, Dave. Let's do that. You're going to ice cube? Let's do that, Dave. You're going to ice cube
and then shot your ass?
No, you tuck it in, man.
Come on, Dave.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
I can't take a shot
with ice cube.
But you're the best CEO
in hip hop.
We're trying to get you.
We're trying to bring you
back to hip hop.
You're trying to choke
a nigga's pores.
Look at him doing that.
What?
You don't like ice?
Not in a shot glass.
We take a shot.
Yeah.
You want to sip in a shot glass? Because take a shot. Yeah. You want a sip
in a shot glass?
Because you older.
In a new millennium.
Oh, he pulled
an older card.
In a new millennium,
we take shots with ice.
Okay?
Boogie doesn't do that.
He's the youngest one here.
You raised Boogie right.
You got to raise
niggas wrong.
He's very millennial.
You realize that
this is what we do.
You consider yourself
a millennial?
No. I don't know what a millennial. You realize that this is what we do. You consider yourself a millennial? No.
I don't know what a millennial is, but they fucking want a podcast.
We're not that age group.
We're there.
They are not.
Let's make some noise for the millennials.
They are not demographic, though.
Okay.
And we are at apartment 4B.
Yes, sir.
Correct?
Apartment 4B.
Also, and where is this at?
Fairfax?
Fairfax.
Fairfax.
Los Angeles.
Also, I'm Queens.
You didn't come to
The Reasonable Without
I didn't get invited
Also I'm gonna do
The Poppington University
Cause
Where I'm shooting
All of my
Stuff for my network
You know
It's a Dame Dash Studios
Like a sound stage
There's an auditorium there
So I'm gonna be teaching
Like a class
The Poppington use
I just do them in my gallery
So I'm doing this September
You could be like
The Tony Robbins of hip hop If I feel like you could be like the Tony Robbins
of hip hop.
If I feel like it.
I like to relax a lot.
A shot of vodka for us?
Well, I mean,
I don't know if it's needed,
but...
I'll do another one.
You gotta do a shot of vodka.
At the end, we're not done.
I fucked with you
the whole night.
You're the one.
I said when we finish,
we're not done.
If you say we're done,
we're done.
Say you're done.
No, no, no.
He's done.
Dame, this is not your show.
You gotta relax.
Let me control this. I thought we were drinking. I thought we were drinking No, no, no. He's done. Say you're done. It's a dame. It's not your show. You got to relax. Let me control this.
Come on.
I thought he was drinking.
I thought he was drinking.
Come on.
Glory.
Tito, please, please.
You piece of pizza.
He's been in control too long.
Come on.
Yo, Tito, help me.
Come on.
He's quitting.
He's quitting.
No, no.
He's quitting.
All right, give him Dusko then, and then give me the vodka.
Yeah, I'll do that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, you do a shot of Ciroc, I'll do a shot of Dusko.
Let's do that.
You got it.
Come on, you pump that.
I'm going to do it anyway.
I'm saying I'm going to do it.
I'm going to do it when I'm finished.
I'm going to do it anyway.
I'm never saying I'm not doing it.
It's a matter of when I'm doing it.
This nigga's really on his drinking shit, right?
Is this Drink Champ?
You said I challenged you all around the world.
You did.
It was a draw.
So we have a finished business, right?
So you want to clear it right now?
I ain't ready for you.
Okay.
He heard that.
I heard enough.
You got it.
I'm not ready for you.
I'm not ready for you.
Because I know how brutal it is.
You said you kept it on me.
I kept it on me.
The money from drink champs is not ready for me.
I'm not ready.
You take it there.
I like that you said it.
You take it there.
And we have indoor pools. Now take it there. Thank you. So we have indoor bowls.
Now take a shot of the Ciroc.
And then I'm in with you, I'm in with you.
Can you pour me a shot too, Dan?
Why you gotta put the ice in the shot?
Cause you gotta be sophisticated.
All right, you know they have ice cubes.
I don't know how you're gonna do a shot with ice cubes.
Yes, you got a little fuckin' shot with ice cubes.
Big shout out to Puff, man.
This is good shit.
No, no, you got to give me a little more of that.
Oh, no, no, that's good.
That's good, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I didn't look at it.
Sorry, Dane.
Please, forgive me.
Forgive me, Dane.
All right, and you going to take a shot?
You want to take a shot, Seraph?
Go ahead, pour it.
Oh, you want me to pour you? He take a shot? Yeah. You want to take a shot, Sarai? Go ahead, pour it. Oh, you want me to pour you?
He's a gangster.
When a nigga tell you he want him to pour you a shot, that's some gangsters.
I just poured yours, right?
But we're even.
Look, look, look, look.
You're going to take mine.
Oh, look at that.
I'm in.
Let's do it.
Eye to eye, I told you. What do in. Let's do it. I told you.
What do you mean?
Why do you think it's mine?
I don't know why I keep doing this show.
It's not proper.
I went to Runyon Canyon today, and I was like, why did I do this?
Like, what did I accomplish?
Can I take the ice cubes out?
Nah, that's not gangsta.
I never took a shot with ice cubes.
Nah, but you in my world now.
That's not gangsta.
You gotta do the whole thing.
It's a different technique.
Do the whole thing.
Come on, inventing that technique from Harlem.
And the slurping's the noise, I heard it.
Come on, man.
Let's make some noise for Dame Dash right there. So Dame Dash, man. Let's make some noise. It's Dame Dash right there.
It's Dame Dash, man.
You finished?
Nah.
Nah, we ain't finished, nigga.
Good.
You did everything in the world.
You want to do another shot?
A dusk?
I'm going to be honest.
City Boy D is going to take a shot.
Come on, man.
No, no, no, no, no.
You want to take a shot.
Yeah.
Stop, Dame.
All right, all right.
Dame, stop. All right, all right. You won. You asked a lot a shot. Stop, damn. All right, all right. Damn, stop.
All right, all right.
You won.
You asked a lot of questions.
You won.
You asked a lot of questions.
I know.
You're going to keep it going.
You did ask a lot of questions.
And you want me to keep it going, all right?
No, it's cool.
It's cool?
I'm going to ask like two more.
Then you have to take a shot.
I'm going to take a shot, Ciroc.
I'll take a shot.
I'm not a whiskey guy, but.
I like that shit.
I'll take a shot.
All right, that's cool.
All right, then my partner is going to take a shot. That's a fact. I'll take a shot. All right, my partner doesn't get a shot.
That's a fact.
I'll take a shot.
Let me ask you a question.
How dope is it that, like,
we all have,
the ones that do
have our own liquor?
Right.
You know what I mean?
It's like not to be
taken for granted.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's a beautiful thing.
I support rapper liquor.
It's not...
When did I ever lay a verse
in your music?
No, but you're a rapper.
I'm supporting you.
But why you said rapper?
Because I'm black. I don't look like a rapper. I'm supporting you. But why you said rapper? Because I'm a rapper.
I don't know the culture
of this rapper, really.
But I'm not.
All right.
You know, the thing is,
I'm the only CEO
that never laid a verse.
Can I sign you as well?
I want to write your raps.
You've been drinking
that Ciroc now.
No, no, no.
You see the question you asked?
You had a lot of vocals
on the morphing.
You said Ciroc,
you just wanted to sign me?
I'm on. I'm hard, Slav.
Huh?
I'll write your shit.
What are you talking about right now?
I don't know.
Let him live, man.
Come on.
Let him live.
Let him live, man.
Let him live, man.
Let him live.
All right.
One more shot.
One more shot.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
One more shot.
All right.
I'm not doing that.
I'm not doing that.
No, we all got to do the same thing, man.
Dusko is very harsh.
It kills me. It didn't kill you at all. In my mind, it killed me we all got to do the same thing, man. Dusko is very harsh. It kills me.
It didn't kill you at all.
In my mind, it killed me.
I got to smoke a cigarette.
You coherent, man.
You good.
Let's do it.
Yeah, it's good.
I'm smoking a bogey right here.
You said that shit with emphasis.
So you said you wasn't invited to reasonable doubt?
No.
Yeah?
You get in the box, in the blue bag, give me a shot cup.
You know where it was.
Why you asking me?
No, I'm just asking.
Because it's the people who want to.
I don't care what the people want to know.
But I did call you and tell you to come through.
You remember that?
In the box.
So why you didn't come through, Dane?
I was watching my kids.
Let's make some noise for Dane being the best hip-hop father in the world.
Look, I'll give you that.
You're the best hip-hop dad.
When the show comes and evolves in events,
and they say hip-hop dads,
I want you to executive produce and be involved with it.
Because I'm a better dad because of you involved with it Because That's what I'm doing
I'm a better dad because of you
Thank you
That's the best thing
I am
That means more than anything
I am a better dad
What's more important than being a dad?
Nothing at all, man
I can't think of nothing
It's gold chains
A car
You smoke cigarettes?
No
Smoke a cigarette with me
No, no, no
That'd be gangster
No, it wouldn't
If you smoke a Camel Crush with me
It's not gonna happen
It'd be gangster
It'd make you cooler, dang No, no, I don't. If you smoke a Campbell Crusher, me. It's not going to happen. It'd be gangster.
It'd make you cooler, dang.
No, no, I don't need to be any cooler.
You ain't get the peer pressure?
You already got peer pressure.
Junior high peer pressure.
High school?
You don't even want me
to get one Iota cooler.
That was very big words.
Iola cooler?
I say Iola cooler.
What did you say?
An Iota.
An Iota.
You don't even want
to get a Duffy.
Like, whatever the littlest Not your coolness
You don't want me to do that
Nobody does
But Dame Dad Studios
I'm already too cool
You got the streaming system
Yeah streaming service
Streaming service
DameDadStudios.com
You got the
Dusk Gold
Poppin' Tim
Riesling
Wine
Blue Bottle
Yup
Got Poppin' Tim
You got the
The Whiskey
The Whiskey
Yeah
What else you got going You got the whiskey The whiskey, yeah What else you got going on?
You got the moguls on BET
Yeah
I see you, I support you
I watch the show because you're on there
Right
And you're my brother
And I gotta respect that
I appreciate that
I would definitely watch you on any show
And you got your son growing up
I already told you
I was like, yo, let's just make some TV shows
You remember I said that?
Yes, you did tell me that.
But you, you know.
Yeah, I fucked with the white people.
I fucked up.
What do you mean fucked up?
What are you talking about?
You're doing well.
You're doing what you love.
I'm sorry.
What do you mean?
You got your crew with you.
Y'all still fresh?
I'm happy.
I like that shit.
Be fresh, right?
Yeah, y'all still up.
Us Queens niggas look good?
Y'all Queen niggas do.
Don't forget about Miami, motherfucker. Don't forget about Miami, motherfucker.
Don't forget about Miami, man.
Team Miami.
I'm sorry.
Come on, man.
You know.
Five, Miami.
Y'all definitely look like y'all know some Harlem niggas.
We got like two Harlem niggas with us.
Yeah, you know, it feels like you've been around the world with a Harlem nigga.
I'll tell Mike.
Bronx niggas.
And Mr. Lee.
It feels like you've been around the world with a Harlem nigga. No, Mike And Mr. Lee It feels like You've been around the world
With a Harlem nigga
No we got two Harlem niggas
You gotta keep a Harlem nigga
With you
Can we go to school together?
Shout out to Beantown boys
Huh?
Oh shit
Come over here Mr. Lee
Come over here Mr. Lee
We can't hear you
He's on every
Pussy T album
Ever invented
Come over here Mr. Lee
Who's Pussy T?
Pussy T
Oh I didn't understand
He's doing a shot right
What you're saying? I got mine Let's go I'm sorry Let me get the pass Okay Come over here Who's Pussy T? Pussy T Oh I didn't understand He's doing a shot right Where's your shirt
I got mine
Let's go
I'm sorry
Let me get the pads
Okay
Let's go
I respect that man
He was there when I saw Biggs
Yeah
It's a part before me
Right here right
Ask him
Ask him then
Let him sit down for a second
Don't worry
I got spread
I'd rather somebody else
Speak on it
No no no
Sit down
Don't get you
Nah nah nah
Cause it's better If I say it I'm gonna look like a hero All the time You wanna hear from somebody else Let somebody else speak on it. No, no, no. Sit down. Don't hit you. No, no, no. Because it's better when I...
If I say it, I'm going to look like a hero all the time.
You're going to hear it from somebody else.
Let somebody else tell it.
But Big's your brother.
Always.
Always.
Always my brother.
You're my brother, too.
Right?
You saw that?
You saw that?
You saw that?
I'm not your brother like Big's.
Family.
Don't put me on the same level as Big's.
Say that again? You can't put me on the same level as Biggs. Say that again?
You can't put me on the same level as Biggs.
Okay.
As your brother.
Thanks for telling me what I can do.
Biggs is your real brother.
You're a good boss.
No, I'm asking.
You told me.
You're all killing me.
I did tell you?
You're all killing me, man.
I did?
Yeah, you told me.
Come on, let's do this.
Because it ain't no problems.
What do you mean problems
What are you talking about
Do you know what problems are
Death and jail
Not being healthy
Anything else is not really relevant
Biggs is happy and I'm happy
That's all that should count
He's smiling he's doing his thing
I'm smiling I'm doing my thing
We're men
We all have a desire to do our own thing
That's why we have testicles
We want to do things on our own So. That's why we have testicles. Paws.
Right.
We want to do things on our own.
So this is it.
This is the last question we asked you. Why is it the last question we're drinking?
Kick your shot, bro.
I got mine, bro.
I'm just waiting.
Take your shot.
Where's your beer?
Miss Vodka, I'll take it.
Then do it.
See?
Damn, I was the guest.
Nah, you got to drink Dusko, man.
Come on, man.
I've been drinking Dusko for 1900 weeks.
Can I get a pass?
If you must.
Cause,
cause Barkley.
What was that?
That was like
an ice cube worker.
And it's an ice cube
in there.
What's going on
right now?
What's going on
right now? Come on. Take the Dus that. What's going on right now?
Come on.
Take the Dusko, man.
Take the Dusko.
That's a real shot.
Take a half a Dusko, if anything.
You want me to mix it?
No, don't mix it with that.
Pour that out.
You're already mixing.
You tripped it.
But it's not enough.
How it's not enough?
Look, man, you got ice cubes in your shit.
I'm trying to thug you out right now cubes in your shit. I ain't on front.
I ain't trying to thug you out right now.
You can't.
I'm not trying to do anything.
I'll try to drink the drink, champs.
This is the drink, champs?
Well, not right now.
All right.
Friendship, brotherhood.
Let me get one minute.
You got a call.
The alarm went off just now.
What?
Your blood level up or something?
Your blood level calling you?
Nah, they ask people if we drink more.
He told his man to call, didn't call.
We have to get back.
I'm going to send you an address. I told him to give him the signal.
Tell him you in trouble. Tell him you in trouble. I love you. Tell'm gonna send you an address. I told him to give him the signal. I'm in the middle of a block. Tell him you in trouble.
Tell him you in trouble.
I love you.
Tell him you in trouble.
It's my wife.
I love my wife.
And I love her too.
That's your wife?
I love her.
You said you love my wife.
You guys are awkward, man.
I like my wife.
I just said what you said.
I love your wife.
I said exactly what you said to me.
Oh, my bad.
You did, absolutely.
So I'm supposed to take a shot, right? Yo, speak. did, absolutely. So I'm supposed to take a shot, right?
Yo, speak.
What did you say?
I'm supposed to take a shot.
Yo, I'm going to hold it down with my dog, North.
Fuck this shit, man.
I got you, man.
I got you, man.
I'm going to take a shot.
I'm trying to, man.
But you went in deep early, man.
That's going gonna do that man
You know who Elliot Wilson is?
You know who Rat Radar is?
Nobody knows who the niggas is
You ain't ask me about
No girls or nothing man
I'm talking about some chicks or something
Some money or something
I like when you was talking about us doing some business
That shit was buttish
And this is the way CEOs do business.
They drink a bottle of something.
Especially in Japan.
Right?
So I'm supposed to drink this, right?
No, pause.
Oh, yeah.
Don't do the toast.
To good business.
To 20 years later, we're doing big business.
That's a big-ass ice cube.
I ain't going to say nothing.
Because if any of you guys drink it slow, this shit is funny.
Go ahead, get your hook.
Here, here, now, cheers with me.
I ain't do mine yet.
Come on, let's go.
Get your hook.
Go.
No, cheers, my boy.
Go, dude.
Cheers.
That's your man right there.
It's my turn.
With the ice cream.
I told you he ain't finished, dog
Come on
Come on, finish that
How you doing?
That's water
I'm just fucking with you
That's water
Let me ask you a question
Do you still wear everything new every day?
Like how you always sit back and do
When I go outside
You go out?
If I go outside
You know what I mean?
Like cause
You never wear it again
Nah, cause sometimes I be liking my outfits and shit
because I be making them.
I put it like this.
If it's someone else makes it, then I'm throwing that shit out.
But if I make it, I can't throw my shit out.
You know, my shit is fly.
You know, I like my shit.
I'm wearing this shit.
I can't stop wearing shit.
It's butter.
It's only acceptable then.
You know what I'm saying?
I gave Nori some.
I pulled some socks.
Made in America.
Why you? Somebody fart? You know I'm saying I gave Nori some suppose some socks made in America with white so my foot
So bossed up You always in control
Of everything
I wanna know
Have you ever been
Peer pressured in your life
To do something
You ain't wanna do
Be honest
Growing up
To be honest
Be honest
Be honest
Yeah
What
What you did
I ain't gonna say no names
But like one time
An older dude
I was hanging out with
You know
He was cooking up a quarter
But he get
You know they got high back then
So he was like You know take some some shit. So I got some cocaine
He was the older nigga with a quarter I was like young but I had a car and I switched my car
How was that? Listen, listen listen you know who's the graphic kid charlie charlie uh charlie clips yeah his father
leon you know we used to be on the same block and he had a golf and we had switched up cars but i
had a maxima and i didn't want i didn't want to take the golf back because i lived on the east
side so i was like so i that's why i was up there waiting and then he was cooking and you know what
i mean but then some other crazy shit happened.
But it was crazy.
What was that? What happened?
It would be crazy to talk about.
I'll tell you offline.
But it was like I was put in a position
where I was put in a position
to do something to somebody.
But they didn't show up.
And it was good.
It was like God always protected me like that.
Because I couldn't say no. I was the older nigga. I'm high. And then when I, you know, and it was good. It was like God always protected me like that because I couldn't say no
because I was the older nigga, I'm high.
And then like, you know, when I was on my way out,
the kid we was looking for actually showed up
because I was a little nigga.
He was like, yo, come here, shorty.
Go upstairs.
And I was like, now I'm getting in the cab.
I was in my shit without a chain.
He just, he had just robbed some,
there was a lot of shit like that.
It was like, I've always been in situations
where I didn't like, I never had to do anything that I couldn't step away from.
Like, it was always I was able to, right when it got too crazy,
like, I would, like, put myself in boarding school.
You know what I mean?
Because it gets a little ridiculous.
You know what I mean?
Like, it just don't make sense for us to be hurting each other.
You know, why niggas hate each other?
That whiskey hit me in ways I don't even understand. You want to do another shot? You just hurt Nori. You hurt Nori, man. Why are you hurting each other. You know, why niggas hate each other? That whiskey hit me in ways I don't even understand.
You want to do another shot?
You just hurt Nori.
You hurt Nori, man.
Why you trying to hurt each other?
Let's do another shot.
Did he hide it?
Oh, yeah, it's over there.
Let's do another shot.
This nigga trying to hide my whiskey.
Let's do another shot.
Fuck it.
How you keep getting
so many ice cubes?
What the shit's coming for?
Why the shit's not moving?
It's magic.
What the shit's magic, What is that, dawg?
What is this magic, man?
Drink Champs.
I don't want to do no more shots.
Thank you.
Yo, man, I can't even let you.
No, man, no more shots.
I'm cutting everybody off here.
I don't care.
Dang, we love you.
Dang, man, thank you for doing that, Drink Champs.
You're never invited back again.
Thank you.
No, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Damon, take your phone and drink your hands.
You're never invited back again.
Never invited back again.
In the fountain.
No, no, I'm still standing here.
I'm good, man, I'm good.
I don't want to know.
Hey, he's just pretending.
That's how we get down right here.
He's pretending.
He's acting bold right now.
Oh, I bet you don't like it.
He's good, he's pretending. I'm just kidding. He's acting bold right now. He's good. He's good.
It's all for entertainment.
It's all for entertainment.
All for entertainment.
I'm done.
Yo, Dave, he can't even play ball, man.
He won.
He won.
Don't give us that, man.
You acting like Nori right now.
What are you talking about?
OK.
You want to take a shot?
I'll take a shot.
Let's go.
Take a shot.
Take a chance now. I'm good. I'll take a shot. Yeah, you good. Okay What are you going to say? Break the flag? I quit a long time ago.
I don't know why I'm in this.
I'm Cuban.
I'll drink, motherfucker.
I'm Cuban.
I've been quit.
So you're done?
No, I'm going to drink that shit.
Damn, relax.
I got you. I got your my show
Never seen things that I want enough liquor you want more
Oh, he drinking the dust, girl. He's going in.
I don't know, what the fuck?
Yo, you found this out, man.
You're a stranger.
No, hey, I'm not gonna let you look at me
like you not found it out, man.
Oh, man, this nigga.
Take your shirt off.
You talking about me.
Go on, go on.
Cheers, cheers, cheers.
Cheers, cheers.
What'd he say, What'd he say? Shut up.
Shut up.
Yo, what's going on, yo?
Come on.
What was the other thing he said?
He said, you're black balls.
You know, it's like getting trippled on the back.
Yeah.
Like a black ball.
Tripple. Where's Gus? It's like it's tripping on the back. Yeah.
It's tripping.
Where's God?
Yeah, y'all ready?
Yo, let's go.
Let's go, man.
Let's go.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Come on.
I don't know why I'm drinking this fucking foul shit with you.
Yeah.
Come on, cheers.
You got that?
Come on.
I got a cheer.
Yeah, it's a cheerio on me, too.
Come on.
Come on.
Drink that, dog.
Don't do that. Don't do that.
Don't do that.
Nah, this ain't gonna get stuff, so I don't give you no headache.
It's good. I don't know why I did that.
I love Dave Dash.
Because we having fun, man.
We having fun.
Dave Dash.
In the building.
Your shit is real.
And dusk goes smooth, man.
Dusk goes smooth.
Can you tell the people?
Before you leave.
We leaving? Let me stay here.
I have a fix in my brain.
Can you tell this is real?
Can you tell?
Can you tell this is real? My brain is in a different
Different time zone and shit
There's a different section
I'm glad nothing changed B
Right
I kept it real right
From the beginning
Thank you my my brother.
I love you, Dan.
I don't know why we keep giving each other five.
You set me up.
Nah.
You set me up.
What are you talking about right now?
Yo, he came ready for drink chance, man.
You came ready for drink chance.
He's ready for drink chance.
Dame Dash and the motherfucking Bill.
You got some water for him?
I don't need a fucking water.
Just one little shot?
Let's go.
Nah, yeah, yeah, I'm going to cut you off now.
Let's go.
Oh, Lord have mercy.
Nah, not whiskey, though.
Oh, no, it's got to be whiskey.
It's got to be his shit.
No, I'm going to keep it real.
What you want, man?
I can't do that whiskey no more.
But you want a wine cooler?
You keep going back and forth.
What?
Oh, shit.
Relax.
I don't know what I want.
I'm going back to it.
All right, man.
Piazza a O.
Piazza a O.
Piazza a O.
Make some noise.
Let's take a picture.
Let's take a shot.
Let's take a shot.
No more whiskey.
No more.
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