Drink Champs - Episode 365 w/ Joseline

Episode Date: May 26, 2023

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode the Champs chop it up with The Puerto Rican Princess, Joseline!Joseline talks about her journey and shares stories of her career. The realit...y TV personality/rapper/actress talks about Love & Hip Hop, music, relationships and much much more! Lots of great stories that you don’t want to miss!!Make some noise for Joseline!!! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆 *Subscribe to Patreon NOW for exclusive content, discount codes, M&G’s + more:  🏆* https://www.patreon.com/drinkchamps *Listen and subscribe at https://www.drinkchamps.com  Follow Drink Champs: https://www.instagram.com/drinkchamps https://www.twitter.com/drinkchamps https://www.facebook.com/drinkchamps https://www.youtube.com/drinkchamps  DJ EFN https://www.crazyhood.com https://www.instagram.com/whoscrazy https://www.twitter.com/djefn https://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductions  N.O.R.E. https://www.instagram.com/therealnoreaga https://www.twitter.com/noreagaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:09 It's time for Drink Champs. Drink up, motherfucker. What it good be? Hope it is. What it should be. This your boy N-O-R-E. Oh, I forgot. EFN is not here. EFN is out with COVID. I think.
Starting point is 00:02:28 I don't know. No, I'm just like, I got to throw that shit over there. This has been the Take Me Crazy World Radio Drink Chats Happy Hour Make Some. Now, we got,
Starting point is 00:02:41 today we have the Puerto Rican princess. Did I make it stutter? Yes. Yes. Yes, more we can bridge she showed up late To show them like the latest guest this year. So I gotta say that We're still in the first quarter. You showed up DMX style. This is DMX style style of work But listen, listen, I had to do it. I had to make sure that when I came in here... You had to do it like it's your B-day. Absolutely. Do it like it's your B-day. Come on. Come on, God damn it. So tell us what's going on. Well, first of all, can I get a joint?
Starting point is 00:03:10 Of course. Holy, holy, holy. I was waiting for you. Can I get a joint? We usually have plastic, but now we got glass. Let's smoke it, smoke it. Yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:03:17 You got a joint. Thank you. He gonna unroll you some more. So let's take it from the beginning, right? When we first seen you come on the scene, it was obviously through love and hip-hop. Yes. And I believe y'all was the first season, right?
Starting point is 00:03:31 Because I believe it was New York was the first season and then it went to Atlanta. But was you in the first season of the Atlanta one? What's that? Ooh. I like that sound. I like that sound. So, I was in the first season.
Starting point is 00:03:43 I think I was in the first season Of Atlanta Because I think it came out In New York first I'm sure With Jim Jones And Chrissy and them Yes And then
Starting point is 00:03:50 I think it went straight to Atlanta Yeah And then I was I was 23 when I did Love & Hip Hop I was I had just met Stevie J
Starting point is 00:03:59 Which I'm sure You were Of course You guys know him Yeah and I started doing I had met him I actually had met him like a week prior
Starting point is 00:04:07 to doing Love & Hip Hop. Oh, okay. So this is something, because I did a season of Love & Hip Hop, right? Miami, right? I did Miami, yeah. Just one season.
Starting point is 00:04:15 I liked it, I'll tell you the truth. But to tell you, let me ask you a question, because this is a rumor that everyone thinks. Everyone thinks that, you know,
Starting point is 00:04:24 this is a setup. Meaning, they'll come in and say this person's going to throw a drink and then y'all going to... Was it like that for you? Okay, so the first season of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta, right?
Starting point is 00:04:38 Mm-hmm. I want to say they had producers that were doing their jobs, which is amazing. You got to do your motherfucking job, right? But then I want to say they had audiences like me that was going to come and be their selves
Starting point is 00:04:53 and just push the limits. And everything that I went through in Love & Hip Hop was real, real. I don't really never blame the producers. I usually... Wow. You know why I can't blame the producers? Because I feel like you have to take responsibilities for yourself. You're going to go on TV, anything can happen,
Starting point is 00:05:12 and you're being open, especially, like, in a reality TV show. And, I mean, you know, everybody got to do their job to have a great show and they're great producers. So, like, I highly doubted that the producers are in there, but, like, you know, throw a drink at that bitch. Like, you know, slap that bitch. You know what I'm saying? I'm not saying nobody has never said that like, throw a drink at that bitch. Slap that bitch. I'm not saying nobody has never said that. I'm sure they have said that.
Starting point is 00:05:29 But I don't really think that was the deal with Love & Hip Hop the first season. I think it was just so raw. You had Stevie J with Mimi. You know, to tell you the truth, me being an outsider looking in, when the New York was like, but when it got to Atlanta,
Starting point is 00:05:44 it was like, wait a minute, this is now television. Well, you're having it right there. Yeah, I was like, now this is television because the first season, and by the way, I watch every love and hip hop. I'm a big love and hip hop. That's the reason why I did it.
Starting point is 00:05:55 But it felt like that was like the breakout season when it went to Atlanta and it was like, it was no host ball. There was everything going out. And that's why I always wanted to wonder because it was so good TV. It was like, damn, did they set this up a little bit?
Starting point is 00:06:07 Like, you know, but you're saying they put you in the room. Salud. Salud. Salud. Hey! Hey! So, you're saying your part
Starting point is 00:06:15 was really, they get you in the room and just straight to it. I mean, I'm saying that they, you know what I'm saying? I'm saying that, okay, for example, like, I didn't know my baby daddy had a whole woman at home. I mean, I'm saying that they, you know what I'm saying? I'm saying that, okay, for example, like, I didn't know my baby daddy
Starting point is 00:06:27 had a whole woman at home. You know what I'm saying? Wait, you kept calling the Mimi the maid at one point. Well, you know, I mean. How did you come up with that? I was like, what? I was sitting there.
Starting point is 00:06:38 I was throwing up. Oh, my God. That's funny, because I just put that in one of my songs, my new EP that's coming out. I just had to go. I just had to go.
Starting point is 00:06:44 I had to go. Let's go. Let's go. I respect EP that's coming out I just had to go I just had to go I just had to go Let's go Let's go I respect that You know what I had to go back And do a bunch of my Like liners
Starting point is 00:06:51 And put them on my new EP Because I just feel like They deserve it You know what I'm saying I just feel like They need to hear that But shout out to Mimi I think you know
Starting point is 00:06:58 Here's the thing Mimi's a great person Let me just say that She's an amazing woman It's dope to hear you say that Yeah no She's an amazing woman Right And's dope to hear you say that. Yeah, no, she's an amazing woman. Right.
Starting point is 00:07:06 And you know, Mimi grew up in Scientology. Really? You guys didn't know that? No. The religious Scientology in California. She lived in the Scientology building from the age of 12. I mean, I'm sorry, from the age of five all the way to the age of 13. And Mimi is really a great person, but her mother was in the church really bad.
Starting point is 00:07:26 And so Mimi just really grew up just knowing that. So it was really easy when you, so when you grow up in like a cult type of church, it's easy for anybody to come and play games with you. Because I mean, Stevie is all right, but he's not like the greatest player. You know what I'm saying? Like, I mean, let's just be real.
Starting point is 00:07:43 And so I just feel like she like, I just feel like She's a great person And you know I hated to call her Molly the maid But the bitch used to do Clean houses Right right right
Starting point is 00:07:52 You know what I'm saying And when I called the bitch Molly the maid I swear I did not plan that It was just like Bitch Put on your t-shirt
Starting point is 00:07:59 And go do what you do best It's clean The motherfucking dishes You know It's not like it was planned I still think She's a great woman A great mother And a great mother, and a great person.
Starting point is 00:08:06 All right, goddamn, make some noise for that, man. That's what... So let's talk about Zeus, right? Is it Zeus, you guys? Network. Because I heard somewhere that you are a owner of Zeus? No, I do not own Zeus,
Starting point is 00:08:22 but I do own Jocelyn's Cabaret. Okay, so you own your show on that. I own my show, which a lot of people that's on Suze, they don't have the same deal that I have. I hear what you're trying to say. I know what you're trying to say. I hear what you're saying. Go ahead. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:08:35 I don't want to get into details because I don't want to fuck up nobody's way of doing things. You don't want to hurt nobody's feelings. Yeah, and I don't want to fuck up anybody's company on how they operate and do their things. It's just that when I came on board, coming from loving hip-hop for so many years, and I just felt like, you know, I made VH1 Viacom billions of dollars. Goddamn it.
Starting point is 00:08:56 Like, yeah, I'm going to say that again. Goddamn it. Yes, billions. Yes, yes, yes. And the reason why I'm going to... Noriega, you've been in the industry for a very long time. You know how this shit works, right? It's horrible.
Starting point is 00:09:10 Well, the thing is, what I'm saying, what I'm trying to get at is I made the people so much money. Right. Like, I had a friend that's a lawyer in Atlanta. And for years, he's a black man. For years, we were, like, he's a black man. For years, we were like talking and ownership
Starting point is 00:09:28 and EP property and stuff like that. And so a lot of people don't know, you know, intellectual property is very important for you to gain or get as you're growing up in the game. And it's going to be hard for you
Starting point is 00:09:39 to get it in the beginning, but you could actually get your intellectual property if you stay on top of your shit and really focus on getting that You know what I'm saying And so coming from doing something like Love and Hip Hop
Starting point is 00:09:48 I just always feel like I was just like wow I come from nothing The I grew up with no shoes in Puerto Rico The projects of Puerto Rico It was hard you know Right right well
Starting point is 00:09:58 And I feel like sometimes You gotta just go there You gotta just say You know what fuck this shit That's right We gonna have a You we gon' drink up. We ain't gettin' emotional. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:10:11 We gotta celebrate. Because our show is literally about giving people their flowers. And I want you to know, we saw you come from the bottom and to where you at, it's amazing. And you deserve your flowers. That's what our show is about. So yeah
Starting point is 00:10:45 Dog said it's like a gram Thank you guys so much. I love it. Thank you guys. I know. I was getting emotional. But look, being able to get your intellectual property after you grew up with nothing and worked for the white people for so many years, and then you come and you actually could own something, like Jocelyn's Cavalry. I started putting Jocelyn's Cavalry when I was probably like 20. And what season are you on? I'm about to be on season four. Damn.
Starting point is 00:11:05 I would have already shot season four, but I went to go do College Hill. Oh, College Hill. That's right. Which is coming out next month. You, Amber Rose, Ray J. Who else? Who else was in there?
Starting point is 00:11:15 Kwe Kwe, the boy that be wearing the wigs. Okay. The basketball player. Tiana Taylor's husband. Yeah, Tiana Taylor's husband. Amar Shepard. Yes. Amar Shepard. Yes. Amar Shepard.
Starting point is 00:11:26 He was on there. The girl that acts. What's her name? Pee Pee. We'll call her Pee Pee. Okay. Parker. Okay.
Starting point is 00:11:32 Parker. Okay. She was on there. She played one of the shows with the Wayans brothers for many years. She's a little thot. She was up in there dancing to my song, shaking that ass. I was like, bitch, how old is you?
Starting point is 00:11:47 So let me ask you, how did you and Amber Rose get along? Because I remember seeing that picture. I remember the internet kind of like going crazy and we found out
Starting point is 00:11:54 you guys was doing Collar's Hill, making it over. But I remember people were saying like, those are two strong women personalities. New York was there too.
Starting point is 00:12:01 Oh, New York, from Tiffany, okay. Yeah. But how was it meeting? Did you know Amber before that? Yeah. Well, not hanging out, but I met her before. Okay. Followed each other on Instagram before. Yeah. Just from like the industry. Okay. Because that's what a lot of times they say girls can't get along. Right. And is that something that you feel like is true? Can I tell you something? Sure.
Starting point is 00:12:25 I feel like the house was hanging on me bad. I was not ready. I feel like the house was hanging on me. The whole house? The whole house. Let me tell you, like, I could really dress. You know what I'm saying? Like, I got on a $1,500 dress just to come see you guys.
Starting point is 00:12:38 Goddamn, goddamn, goddamn. I knew it. Let me get a light. Let me get a light. Do it like it's your beauty, eh? Let's go. I got on a $7,000 purse. Goddamn it. Do it like it's your beauty, eh? Let's go. I got a $7,000 purse. God damn it.
Starting point is 00:12:48 And I got a $2,000 shoe. I got a $150,000 change, $2,000 watch, 60 on this hand. And I was in school like this every day. Yes, god damn it. They ain't like that shit. They ain't like that shit. They ain't like that shit. So y'all was one.
Starting point is 00:13:00 They had beat. Nobody liked that shit. I was the last one on that motherfucking bus and every time I went out there to get on the motherfucking bus, everybody seen out there wait, what she got on today? One of them changed three times. Bitch, you still look like you.
Starting point is 00:13:13 Bitch, you changed 20 times. Bitch, you still gonna come out. So I really like, honestly, like, if I could just take out one person that was not feeling a certain type of way about me, it had to be Neiman and Omarion's brother,
Starting point is 00:13:28 Orion. The guys. Well, I just said two people. Right. That's the guys. There's more guys in there. Oh. She talking about the guys
Starting point is 00:13:37 she felt was hating on him, man. Okay, so this is what I'm saying. I feel like the whole house was hating on me, but I feel like two people was not hating on me. And they both happened to be guys. And they both happened to be guys. But not because I was hating on me, but I felt like two people was not hating on me. And they both happened to be guys. And they both happened
Starting point is 00:13:45 to be guys. But not because I was a cute girl, because those two guys have ladies at home. They're married men. But because I wasn't wearing heels
Starting point is 00:13:55 and little dresses like this. I was wearing like, you know, like, you know, like, Dolce & Gabbana, like, jean jackets with the pants and the shoe.
Starting point is 00:14:02 He don't know nothing about that. College students. He don't know nothing about it. No, listen. He don't know nothing about that college he don't know nothing about it he don't know anything about class or anything he don't know anything so like i wasn't get the lighter i wasn't going like wine out of a glass you fancy baby no no you're fat you fancy he didn't tell you that he He ain't tell you that's $4 wine, though. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. This is a...
Starting point is 00:14:26 This is a 100-pointer. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Okay, continue. Where the fuck you find it, Mac? I don't think I find it. Oh, I got it. He don't know
Starting point is 00:14:33 what a 100-pointer is. You want to try it? You want to try it? Don't let him fool you. He don't know what a 100-pointer is. I want you to try it. And then I want Jocelyn
Starting point is 00:14:40 to try just a little sip. And then she can tell you if it's 100-pointers. I don't care for wine. This has to be the last thing on the menu, and then I'll be like, fuck it, let me get it. Really? I'm going to drink gasoline if it's the last thing on the menu.
Starting point is 00:14:51 You seem like a tequila type of person. You know what? I do like Jose Cuervo. Okay. Deleon? We Deleon over here. Same thing, right? No.
Starting point is 00:15:03 No, Deleon is way fresher. Two different people. Actually, my cabaret, can I say it like that? Actually, my cabaret ladies just started like having me on the tequila because them hoes began fucked up.
Starting point is 00:15:13 Like before, I was just like drinking champagne. How do you find them? So I do an audition, right? And so I was the first person on Suze that is like put the whole program together. During COVID, right? Su that's that's a club
Starting point is 00:15:27 in New York no Zeus is the network the network oh Zeus oh my bad I thought we were going to change it up my bad she don't pronounce her Z's like that I get it I get it during the COVID I had already got uh picked up for season one because I got picked up for season one before the COVID, I had already got picked up for season one because I got picked up for season one before the COVID. You know, I had met, me and my fiance had just left
Starting point is 00:15:52 the boot camp, celebrity boot camp. I get that too. We get a lot of the same checks. Make some noise for us. A lot of the same checks. I respect that. Get that money for the recess.
Starting point is 00:16:08 We actually had just left that And I met the owner of Suze At the hotel We met him at the hotel I gave him my whole thing What happened WeTV had originally They did like my You know like
Starting point is 00:16:19 They put it together for me I gave them Yeah WeTV I gave them the idea They put it together for me They spent like Three four hundred thousand dollars But they never picked it up They thought it was too explicit Right I gave them that. Yeah, WeTV. I gave them the idea. They put it together for me. They spent like $300,000, $400,000, but they never picked it up.
Starting point is 00:16:26 They thought it was too explicit, right? And so I was like, okay, well, shit, thank you for doing this shit. I showed it to Lemmy. He was like, let's do it. And it was just to make WeTV to come back around and license my show to put it on their network,
Starting point is 00:16:36 which I thought it was like, I mean, you guys are, like you had it first, right? And so during COVID, I was like, shit, we got to get some money. We can't be outside. How about let me let the girls audition for the Cavalry?
Starting point is 00:16:50 Right. So, I was the first one on the network to, like, do an online audition. So, basically, the girls were sending their audition tapes. I remember you viewing the tapes. Yeah, and I was viewing the tapes and doing, like, what you guys basically do, like, just commentary, just talking shit, right? Right. And so, like, that's how we kind of picked out the girls. Then my producers would pick it out because like I ain't got time to go over 3,000 ladies.
Starting point is 00:17:11 They nail it down for me to like 20 girls and then I go in and then I start working. I want this one, I want this one. It's all creative. I mean, I created Jocelyn's Cabaret. Right. I created the theme. I created the music on there.
Starting point is 00:17:23 Well, I'm signed to my husband's label, so he makes the music for me, but I write the theme I created the music on there Well, I'm signed to my husband's label So he makes the music for me But I write the music I create the show I do all the episodes I do everything So that's how I started doing the auditions That's how I find them
Starting point is 00:17:38 That's how I find my ladies And you'll be surprised There's so many of them, you know And we actually just left tour I was into Obviously, you guys played my One of actually just left tour. I was in tour. Obviously, you guys play my, one of my most famous songs when I walked in.
Starting point is 00:17:52 I was on tour for six months in 2022, right after the cabaret. Damn. I mean, my shows are insane. Like, people, first of all, people just be crying. I'm like, girl, I'm just jostling. Please, relax. Like, relax.
Starting point is 00:18:02 I've noticed that about you. Like, I follow you, and I noticed that about you. When people are, the people who, your fans are, they are fans. Like, relax. I noticed that about you. Like, I follow you, and I noticed that about you. When people are, the people who, your fans are, they are fans. Like, they really go all out for you. Is that something you saw in life before, or is it still surreal for you? Well, look, when I was five, I knew I wanted to sing and dance, right? And when I met Stevie at 23, I had an artist.
Starting point is 00:18:26 I was managing this little girl, right? Wow. She was 18, I was 23. And I was still stripping. I was stripping in Onyx in Atlanta. Onyx, yeah. They got the best wings. They got the best wings.
Starting point is 00:18:37 That's why I think- You look just like my homeboy. That is crazy. I swear. You look just like GB. GB was the guy that- He's a married man. He used to go in there. You know, he GB GB was the guy That He was He's a married man He used to go in there You know he's the type of guy
Starting point is 00:18:48 That get like $50 worth of dance It's insane You on your way Here's a drink Like one of those guys And it's like When it's a slow night Hey let me get that 50
Starting point is 00:18:55 Let me get that drink You know what I'm saying So he's one of them So I'm like Damn GB Do you know what Do you know music Do you know music producer
Starting point is 00:19:00 I need to I need to I need to get out this strip club I'm 23 I don't want to be up here At 25 You know what I'm saying I got shit to do So he introduced me. I'm 23. I don't want to be up here at 25. You know what I'm saying? I got shit to do.
Starting point is 00:19:06 So he introduced me. Yeah, I got goals. He introduced me to the girl. And he was like, you need to be doing music. But prior to that, you know Brian McKinney? Yes. Yeah. B-Mac.
Starting point is 00:19:18 B-Mac used to always want me to do music. He wanted to sign me to his label and stuff like that. Because I met him when I used to be a stripper too. And I'm like, Brian, fuck you and the mic. I'm not doing that. I got to make some money. Stop talking to me about that. So that was when I was like 18 or 19. So then when I met Stevie, I was like, damn, why everybody keep telling me to do music? And when I was a little girl at five, I knew, I was like, damn, I want to sing and I want to dance. But growing up in the ghetto, nobody got no money to do shit. I'm like, shit, I got to go out there and try to get me some money from these niggas.
Starting point is 00:19:44 They want to throw it at me. Fuck it. So I was never like, okay, this is what I'm going to do. But I got the opportunity to want to be discovered by somebody like B-Mac and then Stevie. And I was like, shit, I'm going to do it. And what really helped me, because, you know, no one's perfect. Stevie's not perfect, but I really learned from him, and I appreciate him for that. And also, what really got me to be to where I'm at right now, I sat up, him and I appreciate him for that. And also, what really
Starting point is 00:20:06 got me to be to where I'm at right now, aside of Brian McKinney or Stevie J, is my fiance Ballistic. He really, when I told him this is really what I want to do. Mind you, he's been seeing me on Love & Hip Hop with Stevie for seven years, trying to do music. He probably like, bitch, you're not serious.
Starting point is 00:20:21 But when I got with him, he's like, oh my gosh, she is serious. So we really took it there. And like, one of my songs got 100 million streams on it. Just one of my songs. I feel like, you know, coming from Brian McKinney to Stevie J and then to my fiance, soon to be husband, Ballistic, he just really saw the
Starting point is 00:20:42 and you know my fiance. We've hung that before with your wife and stuff like that. He really just allowed me to be creative. I think Stevie and I had a lot of problems. And I just feel like... To tell you the truth, me as an outsider looking in, I kind of felt like you and Stevie's music kind of sounded forced. It didn't sound like the chemistry was there as opposed to where it sounds now.
Starting point is 00:21:04 I feel like you're being more you And just more like Natural Yeah Does it feel like that? Well The reason why you feel like that is I think it's because
Starting point is 00:21:14 I have more creative control now Like I'm just like I'm not going in the studio Like they telling me what to do I'm actually When I go in the studio with Ballistic I'm going in the studio He makes the beat right there
Starting point is 00:21:23 And I write Like do it like it's your B-day I wrote that in five minutes In the studio With Ballistic I'm going in the studio He makes the beat right there And I write Like do it like it's your B-day I wrote that in five minutes In the studio Vegas Welcome to Vegas baby I wanna ride I wanna ride
Starting point is 00:21:30 Like that's the most Trendiest song on TikTok Even to this day No other song Has ever been more trendier Than Vegas And they sped it up They sped it up
Starting point is 00:21:38 And it went even more crazy I'm like I've been number two Number one on TikTok For a year Just after that one song You know And I feel like Just being in a relationship with Ballistic and just really, you know, I think in the relationships, when you work with each other, you have to respect each other. That's right.
Starting point is 00:21:54 And just really be serious about the work. And I think that's why I finally became successful with the music. I mean, I made, listen, I made $700,000 on my tour. That's a lot. We're independent. We're independent. Nobody's game was any money. This is $700,000 on my tour. That's a lot. We're independent. We're independent. Nobody's gave us any money. This is the money.
Starting point is 00:22:08 This is my money, my management money, and my fiance's money. We do everything with our own money. So for you to make that type of money on a tour, that's fucking epic. So how do you find the balance between the relationship and then the work? Because that can't be easy. The relationship with my partner? With Ballistic.
Starting point is 00:22:27 The relationship between man and woman and the work. It's like a lot. You know what? I think that, okay, so when me and Ballistic fuck,
Starting point is 00:22:37 we're going to fuck for like seven hours that night. Okay. We wasn't ready. I wasn't ready for that. My bad. She ain't want me. She just went right now. I'm just saying. that. My bad. She ain't want me nothing.
Starting point is 00:22:46 She just went right now. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, you got to do what you got to do to suck your woman's pussy all night. No, God damn it. Sonny ain't even ask that at all. Sonny ask nothing.
Starting point is 00:22:55 I was being good. I was being good. You guys are so petty. I swear to God. We are petty. Yes, but... But we're here for everything. A little bit later.
Starting point is 00:23:04 So, look. Listen, this is what I'm going to tell you. Okay, so look. This is what I'm going petty, I swear to God. We are petty. Yes, but we're here for everything. So, look. Listen, listen what I'ma tell you. Okay, so look, the, the, this is what I'ma tell you. The balance, right? And so, I'm not, I don't sit on my husband's cock every day. I'm not doing that. He gonna work for this pussy. Okay.
Starting point is 00:23:19 I'm talking about he gonna work for this pussy. Okay. Nigga, you gonna work and you gonna talk that, you gonna talk for three hours to tell me. He acting like he balanced. Iga, you're going to work and you're going to talk that, you're going to talk, you're going to talk for three hours to tell me. He acting like he got it. I'm telling you how he got it. She's breaking it down. I love how she's breaking it down.
Starting point is 00:23:30 I'm breaking it down for you. Okay. No, this is what I'm trying to tell you. This is how I'm breaking it down. So, when we work, we work. What? And there's nothing more.
Starting point is 00:23:41 I only go in the studio in the daytime. He be there all day. I leave him there. Peace. Do your thing. At home, we got a baby. We taking her home. You know, he takes the baby to school every day
Starting point is 00:23:50 and pick her up every day for the past three years. Right. The past three years, you know? Take care about him. That's it. Shout out to that. So, you know, we're not fucking every day, and I don't want to fuck you every day.
Starting point is 00:24:03 You know what I'm saying? Nigga, I want you to motherfucking... like, he bought me these chains for my birthday. God damn it. Beautiful. Beautiful chain. Yes. And I was like, nigga, you think you sleep. You will buy me something that say Puerto Rican princess.
Starting point is 00:24:12 So, I just always have it in my face. Just know it came from you. Why the fuck I couldn't buy myself? You know what I'm saying? Like, next time when I get mad, I got to wear that shit. Oh, he bought it. Fuck. I hate him.
Starting point is 00:24:20 You know? Right. So, like, I like to be, you need to finesse me. Even if you are my soon-to-be husband, nigga, I'm not just finna fuck you. You ain't that cute. Nobody's that cute. You got to remember, I came from nothing.
Starting point is 00:24:30 When I first started out, I was young. I was going out the door just to get somebody to pick me up to let me get that check. And that had nothing to do with me opening up my list because I always had that game. You know what I'm saying? I've been a pimp. I got bitches working for me,
Starting point is 00:24:42 and they're going to work for me forever. This motherfucking check from my cabaret is into the motherfucking world goes under. I get paid. When I die, my kid get it. When she die, her kid get it. It's like motherfucking good times. When that bitch is playing,
Starting point is 00:24:56 guess who getting paid? Me. Okay? Madam Jocelyn. Call me that. I'm ready for another whiskey. Well, at the end of the day, like, you know, I respect myself, and I make my husband respect me.
Starting point is 00:25:08 Like, nigga, you ain't just... What you done this week you want to get this pussy all night? What? Fuck you done this week. Oh, fuck. You want me to send my fat Puerto Rican pussy on your dick for what? Look, yesterday, yesterday, he's like, you drop something. He goes, you drop something.
Starting point is 00:25:24 I go like this, Lord. Jamie, I need a drink. I go like this, Lord. He's like, you drop something. He goes, you drop something. I go like this, Lord. Jamie, I need a drink. I go like this. He's like, no, turn the other way. I'm like, you're not going to get no peekaboo. Because you want to get a motherfucking peekaboo? Fucking peekaboo by me today. Peekaboo, baby.
Starting point is 00:25:42 So to answer your question, we basically just balance by me respecting myself as a woman, me giving him responsibilities as a man, and me taking responsibilities as a woman. That's how we balance. And it works. I think it does. I like it. I like it. I'll get another whiskey because I think that could work as well.
Starting point is 00:26:01 You are so petty. I cannot. No, no, no. You killed it. You killed it. So let me ask you right It was a famous scene right In the reunion show
Starting point is 00:26:10 Okay And it was like You and Stevie on one side And then it was Benzino Althea Althea On the other side Hotea
Starting point is 00:26:21 They used to call her Hotea Oh my goodness Ho Hotea Like a hoe But why. Hotea, they used to call her Hotea. Oh, my goodness. Ho, ho, Hotea, like a hoe. But why they say that? Why they say that? I, listen. All right.
Starting point is 00:26:31 I've been asking. You know when them hoes be in California? I didn't think I was going to be at all this much. When them hoes be from California for too long? All right. That pussy be loose. That pelvic floor be on the floor. Ooh, Lord Jesus.
Starting point is 00:26:42 They pee and that bitch is down. You ever seen porn and the girl... Have you guys ever watched a porn and was crawling through and then you see, like, somebody's pussy's, like, literally outside? It's your pelvic floor.
Starting point is 00:26:51 You never... No fucking way. Noreen, you know what I'm talking about. Yes, we do. Good to hear. You know what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about.
Starting point is 00:26:57 Okay, I'm going to ask you another question. I might have seen a pear singer, too. Okay, have you seen the porn where the girls are getting fisted and the whole asshole come out?
Starting point is 00:27:05 Oh, I don't know. That's not the one I watch. No, I'm playing. You know that? Hold up, he don't even got to watch. Hold up, but this is not nothing you got to watch. If you search porn, if you search porn, everybody knows you got to fucking scroll like Instagram. So when you're scrolling, you see them booty holes out there, red, pink, everything in your house. That's the one I go past.
Starting point is 00:27:25 The guts be outside. I ain't got shit to do with them holes going in to get pounded like that. I'm just asking you, have you seen it? No, I don't watch that. I cannot. What's up, Drink Champs Army? Ready for a staggering statistic? Nearly 77% of fathers settle for their lady's uncomfortable baby bag when they're outside with their kids.
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Starting point is 00:29:06 Y'all rushed towards them. And then... Oh, yeah, because we went from talking about Hothia to fisting. What the fuck? Yeah. I'm trying to stay focused. Yes.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Let's stay focused. All right. So, you know... Okay, so... Like, okay, like, let me go back. So, when I first started doing Love & Hip Hop, like I said, I was 23.
Starting point is 00:29:22 And I was, like, really trying to, like, do the music. And, like, that was in 2012. Like 2023 now, I had a successful year doing my tour, doing two seasons of the Cabaret, doing College Hill, doing everything that they say I will not do. Let's clap for that.
Starting point is 00:29:37 Yeah, let's clap for that. I need everybody to clap. Y'all can clap. Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. Wake up, wake up. Come on now. That's right. You know what I'm saying? That's right. Wake up.
Starting point is 00:29:45 Wake up. Come on now. Come on now. It's been too many years coming. From Puerto Rico, in the hood, having nothing. It's been too many years coming. And I just felt like when I first, I felt like, can I tell you something? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:54 The reason, I think I really feel like a lot of my beginning failure was contributed by Love & Hip Hop. Ooh. Because the people that's on the show, let's say the cast members, instead of them supporting each other, they always throwing you down.
Starting point is 00:30:12 And I feel like, you know me, I'm not no hater. I always give a bitch they pops. I be like, when somebody say, you see her doing,
Starting point is 00:30:19 good for her. Because I learned one thing, the universe, the universe is very tricky. You got to be very careful See I'm not a Bible thumper I'm not a Bible thumper
Starting point is 00:30:29 What's that mean? That means that people Always hold in the Bible Oh Bitch the scripture says Ho shut the fuck up Bitch Don't hit me with the
Starting point is 00:30:39 Motherfucking scripture Because you suck dick in the back Ho Don't talk to me about that So I'm not saying I'm an atheist. I'm far from an atheist. I am a good God woman, right?
Starting point is 00:30:52 Because people are always hollering, God, bitch, who's your God? Your God could be Satan. That's true. Your God could be down there, bitch, burning in hell, bitch. We all there. Everybody there. You know what I'm saying? So for me, I feel like...
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Starting point is 00:34:22 People, me now, I walk with cautious. In Love & Hip Hop, I was going through a lot. I was trying to make it in the industry, which I always knew that I would, because I always knew. Nobody could tell me I wasn't. I did it not for them. I did it for me. They showed me what the fuck I was going to be able to do coming from Puerto Rico
Starting point is 00:34:41 in the projects in La Esmeralda in Puerto Rico sin tener nada. You know, without having nothing. I knew in my mind there's no way that this is what the good universe that I belong in
Starting point is 00:34:52 has for me. Right. No. Right. No, and so I feel like just doing love and hip hop going through a lot. I stay focused
Starting point is 00:34:59 but I did went through a lot because they used to downplay me a lot with the... You think because from that episode my bad. And that's why
Starting point is 00:35:05 I beat their ass because I was so sick of them motherfuckers like the whole fucking time that's why I beat their ass because it's like okay here I am I'm 23
Starting point is 00:35:12 I'm trying to do the music y'all know Stevie sold millions of dollars worth of records whether what it sounds like whatever it sounds like it don't matter he's a genius
Starting point is 00:35:20 and I'm not a bad bitch so y'all chill let me get this right right but they weren't trying to let me get it right so they talk and they talk So they talk and they talk And they talk and they talk
Starting point is 00:35:27 And you know A lot of the bitches Used to hate too Cause like, you know I was popping shit On Love & Hip Hop I come in there And I let them bitches
Starting point is 00:35:32 Know straight up Bitch, you ain't shit Bitch, I've been getting money Way before you thought About even knowing What money was Like, cause from the mud though From the mud
Starting point is 00:35:40 When I was a kid From the mud, my nigga You know what I'm saying? So I'm that bitch You gonna respect me I'ma respect you If you don't, bitch I'ma beat your ass And I always been a fighter Cause I had to I. You know what I'm saying? So I'm that bitch. You're going to respect me, I'm going to respect you. If you're dumb, bitch, I'm going to beat your ass.
Starting point is 00:35:46 And I always been a fighter because I had to, I had to like, when I used to be a stripper here, you know, I used to dance at the Rolex, my nigga. Yeah, I've been to the Rolex.
Starting point is 00:35:53 What's the other one at the Rolex and the other one was the other one? Coco's. Coco's. Oh, yeah, I've been there. And take one. And take one.
Starting point is 00:36:01 So coming from that, I used to have to fight them old bitches all the time. Them old hoes used to be mad as fuck because I was young and I had some hot pussy and I was getting the money. They were mad.
Starting point is 00:36:09 Bitch, why is you mad? Bitch, why are you mad? So I used to fight. I remember one time I was giving a lap dance like this, right? And the guy was sitting behind me and the girl,
Starting point is 00:36:18 the light-skinned girl I roll is, she had a blade to try to come cut me. But she didn't know I had a blade under my waist so bitch, you're going to get cut too. So I ran up on that hoe. That bitch ran outside.
Starting point is 00:36:27 She was gone. Yeah, bitch. Because bitch, you're not going to cut me and I'm not going to cut you. Bitch, we're going to cut each other. Let's hope you get to me. So what happened at the reunion? I think... Cut.
Starting point is 00:36:39 Oh, she got cut. Oh, man. Sorry. Because I think we never... At the reunion, what happened at the reunion, I was so sick of them hoes. You had, you know, all of them just hating on me. I said, you know what? If I'm going out, I'm going out with a band.
Starting point is 00:36:53 I was ready to quit that day. I didn't quit for another like two seasons, but I was ready to quit that night. I was ready. I threw in my towel. You ever heard of people throwing in their towels? Yeah. So if I was going to throw in my towels, I'm going to beat all y'all bitches up. And them bitches
Starting point is 00:37:05 were still sitting there. How you going to see me beat this one up, this one up, this one up, and y'all two still here? Y'all bitches got to get up. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:11 Get ready for the fight. You definitely went and grabbed and snatched some wigs off. I snatched everybody's wigs off. And I threw a few hits at everybody because I'm a fighter.
Starting point is 00:37:18 I got into a fight in college too, but I ain't going to tell you who. Mmm. Because they still owe me like $60,000. I got to get the $60. Because they still owe me like $60,000. Got to get the $60,000.
Starting point is 00:37:28 Got to get the $60,000. But I need that $60,000 though. I have to want somebody else. So I went to college here. And I went to... They were trying to get me to do it last year, but I was doing... The college here films the same time I filmed The Cabaret.
Starting point is 00:37:43 So last year, which was the first year they did it, I was like, I can't. I'm shooting season two. Like, I cannot. But this season, I was like, okay, I'm going to push season four back, and then I'm going to do college here, which was the best thing that happened to me. I went to, I've never went to college.
Starting point is 00:37:57 I never even graduated high school. So, it's real school. It's real school. Yeah, it's real school. I had all hundreds. I had all hundreds. Okay. Listen, my professors was coming at the end,
Starting point is 00:38:05 and these are 60-year-old people, professors, coming at the end, hugging me. Like, they couldn't believe it, because, you know, I was real, I was, like, in there. Like, I'm going to give it my all, right? And so, I guess they was like, okay, Jocelyn is coming in here.
Starting point is 00:38:17 She's probably like, just like, no. I'm, like, really like. Do you think they got special education? For you in college? In College Hill, because that's the only party how they're going to accept me. Well, here's the thing.
Starting point is 00:38:27 It's an action. No, I did get the joke. I did get the joke. I think you should do it, by the way. No, I did get the joke. No, I did get the joke. Ray J called me about it.
Starting point is 00:38:35 Because I'm telling you, you're going to be fine. In College Hill? Yeah. I think you'll do great. Because the thing about college. It's real school. I was going to tell you,
Starting point is 00:38:43 the thing about college. It's not like school. Well, I hated school, too. I heard about a check real school. I was going to tell you, the thing about college. It's that I don't like school. Well, I hate it. I heard about a check, though. I heard the check is nice. I know nobody got more money than I got. Ooh, 60 on the way. And guess what?
Starting point is 00:38:55 So you can imagine how much I got, baby. And that's not my last 20, but 10. All right. And look, but here's the thing, though. Here's the thing. College, college, I didn't even And look, but here's the thing though. Here's the thing. College, college, I didn't even, look, whatever it is,
Starting point is 00:39:07 you don't have to finish high school or go to college to be a successful person. It's what's in your heart. That's correct. And then your plan and then the universe. You go to the universe.
Starting point is 00:39:16 You give the universe what you want. I'm not a Bible thumper so I'm not going to be here talking about God. I'm going to use universe because we're from a universe. The earth, right?
Starting point is 00:39:23 We're in the universe. There's other planets out there We're in the fucking universe Right God is real I ain't saying he not I created everything Whichever God you speak of
Starting point is 00:39:32 Right Because people Always use different gods He's a thumper He's from Dominican Republic God damn You a thumper Alright
Starting point is 00:39:38 So like I ask the universe For what I want And I receive But the college year Will be great for you because Not only that you learn but you actually get to know yourself being black It's a HBCU college that I want to make the door fight because we was in a fucking classroom. Tell us who it was No, I'm not somebody try to attack somebody try to attack me and I motherfucking Put they motherfucking Head through that glass
Starting point is 00:40:05 They You know My other homie called me He was like Bitch you know the motherfucking You know the stain From her head Is still on there
Starting point is 00:40:12 I was like Y'all niggas ain't Wipe the shit down Fake ass niggas So She try to She try to She try to run up on me
Starting point is 00:40:19 Cause we was in We was in our literature class Right She said she Now we already know It's a girl I ain't gonna be fighting no niggas. I ain't going to never fight no man now.
Starting point is 00:40:28 If a man want to fight me, he got a problem. Yeah, for real. No man should never want to fight me. That's right. I don't care how much. I might put my money on you with some of these guys out here. I would never fight a man, though. Don't do it.
Starting point is 00:40:37 I would never do that. So, you know, I'm in the class and I'm doing my thing. You know what I'm saying? Look, look. I told everybody that it was conversation about the success that we're having now. And I'm like, shit, I'm the biggest. I got up, I said.
Starting point is 00:40:55 Okay. Because I used to get up to get my interviews. Yeah. Because, you know, you got in college, you can get up to talk about what the subject is. Okay. I said, I'm the motherfucking biggest. I said, when I was five, I knew I was the motherfucking biggest. I said, when I was five,
Starting point is 00:41:06 I knew I was the motherfucking biggest. Ain't nobody out here bigger than me. So then we was in the class, everybody was like... And I'm like, that's why they're not the biggest. They set up instead of applauding me. They were staring. They wanted to give me smoke in the back,
Starting point is 00:41:20 but I don't see y'all niggas that wouldn't want to be. Because I'm that bitch. So, mind you, we, you know, I can get into too much details, but they try to attack me. Hey, assholes. Guess what? Bitch, you can never attack the princess, bitch. I stay on deck.
Starting point is 00:41:37 I like this. Bitch, how you going to attack the attacker? She makes a good face. How you going to attack the attacker? She makes a good face. How you going to attack the attacker? This is true. That's not a good idea. Not really. So, you know, when the bitch attack me, man, I dog-wad that bitch.
Starting point is 00:41:57 Bitch, I don't care who you feel like it is. I ain't going to tell you. I feel like it's Tiffany. I ain't going to tell you. Feel like it's Tiffany. I ain't going to tell you. Yeah, her in New York, I don't see them in the same place. Listen, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something.
Starting point is 00:42:13 And every time I see that bitch, I'm going to drive there, pussy asshole. Every time I see that bitch right now, I'm going to stop this shit, go beat that bitch ass, and come back here. Every motherfucking,
Starting point is 00:42:22 every chance. Because you know, it was on some hate shit. Bitch, I'm giving my speech in college. Why is you worrying about what the fuck I'm saying, bitch?
Starting point is 00:42:27 If you was to start thinking like me, you'll be somebody, hoe. And you won't just be walking around here sucking dick and slutting in your asshole for nothing, bitch.
Starting point is 00:42:35 You'll be somebody. You'll be great. You'll be great. So, you know, I just feel like, you know, college was good. It opened up my mind mind I really got to know Who I was as a person
Starting point is 00:42:47 All the college kids Knew my music Right I'm talking about I had the college on lockdown Yeah Oh you're When you guys are doing that
Starting point is 00:42:54 The college students It's gone Yeah Listen I had the college on lockdown They had to secure me Cause the kids was running up to me Like
Starting point is 00:43:02 Oh there was other I thought it was just y'all No Man the students The students The girls All the girls wanted to quit you and me. Because the kids was running up to me like... Oh, there was other... I thought it was just y'all. No. There was other students. Man, the students, the students, the girls. All the girls wanted to quit to come do the cabaret.
Starting point is 00:43:10 I said, y'all got to stay in school. How you going to quit the school to come do... Wow. No, that's him. That's some corrupt shit right there. No, that's him.
Starting point is 00:43:16 I'm like... That's him. Listen, they literally... Every lady on there wanted... I'm talking about 18, 19, 20. I'm like, now, you got to be 21 to be in the cabaret.
Starting point is 00:43:25 Right. Not 18. Right. And they all wanted to quit. I'm like, now, you got to be 21 to be in the camera. Right. Not 18. And they all wanted to quit. They was like, man, fuck school. We go with you right now. They were ready to ride. Because they see the picture. They see I've been on tour.
Starting point is 00:43:35 Right. They come to my shows. Anything is possible. Man, 16, 17, 18, 19-year-old kids be outside that can't get in my shows. That's 21 crying with their mamas. They made their mamas. Am I lying Robert no
Starting point is 00:43:46 they made they mamas they made they mamas drive them hours away to come take a picture when I come out my shows and I do it all the time they be crying can you
Starting point is 00:43:53 no you can't get in babe you gotta be 21 this is XXXX my bitches be sucking pussy on stage damn I be not ready for none of this shit
Starting point is 00:44:02 none of it I be thinking I'm used to it It's just something And I'm just fucked up I don't be doing I don't be doing all of that I don't
Starting point is 00:44:10 I stay a lady But But it's very It's very Can I have a little bit more champagne Of course please It's very It's very sexy
Starting point is 00:44:18 It's very like you know Sensual And yeah Sometimes we show tits And we show a lot of ass And it's a whole performance I've seen you kick some ass on your show
Starting point is 00:44:28 oh did I? yeah this last season? I don't think I fought last season not last season I don't think I fought on my show in a long time
Starting point is 00:44:35 I don't think you fought on your show but I remember seeing something I think it was on Hollywood Unlocked oh yeah who I beat up? I don't know it was one of your
Starting point is 00:44:43 employees yeah yeah she said something yeah yeah but let me ask you she's probably talking shit Oh, yeah. Who happy, though? I don't know. It was one of your employees. It was one of your employees. Yeah, yeah. She's that thing. Yeah, yeah. But let me ask you. She's probably talking shit. I was trying to make... I know we jumped around.
Starting point is 00:44:52 But since that... Jumping around is good. You get a lot of conversation like that. But... Because Benzino is a person I know. I actually think I hung out with me, Ballistic, and Benzino on time. But since that happened...
Starting point is 00:45:04 But Tito's going with Ballistic. Yeah, so since that happened, Benzino hasn't been on the show. Do you think that has something to do with it, him not being on the show? On which show? He hasn't been on Love & Hip Hop since then, after the reunion show.
Starting point is 00:45:16 Do you think that has something to do with it? No, I feel like he could have been on the show. I feel like maybe he didn't want to be on the show. You think so? I don't... Look, with those type of TV shows you gotta be prepared for growth and prepare for taking yourself to another level and go somewhere else because it's always like they looking for new talent you know what i'm saying they always they always want new talent right and so if your storyline
Starting point is 00:45:37 is not like up to date they like they're gonna kick the boots actually when i left i heard that they brought the price down on a lot of the people that were original, like, loving hip-hop. So, like, prior, you know, they were getting, like, let's just say, you know, I don't know, $25,000 an episode. They took them down to $15,000. And so, like, you got to, like, you got to, like, you know, you got to grow as you go so then that way you can continue to get
Starting point is 00:45:58 the money that you want to get. Because, you know, this white folks be flaking with that bag. Wow. The white folks? I'm with that bag. White folks? I'm saying like Viacom, like the owners of this, on this networks or labels. Okay.
Starting point is 00:46:13 Yeah, they got black people working under them just to do the dirty job, but they ain't the ones giving the money. So yeah, you got one lady up there working and saying, okay, well, we got a budget for Jocelyn for 100,000 episodes. We got a budget for Mimi for 10,000 episodes or whatever the case may be. You know, we got a budget for Jocelyn for $100,000 an episode. We got a budget for Mimi for $10,000 an episode or whatever the case may be.
Starting point is 00:46:27 Or, you know, Carly Rae for $25,000. I don't know. Whatever. I like how you said $100,000 for you, though. Yeah. I like that.
Starting point is 00:46:33 Well, I charged $100,000 for an episode. Wow. That's fire. So one episode might take three days to shoot, but that cost you $100,000 for me. This is big money talk.
Starting point is 00:46:45 This is big talk. And my price is going up. Guess what, baby? Guess what, baby? All you got to do is call me. I'm going to do your deal. You know who do my deal? You know who do my deal?
Starting point is 00:46:57 You have been telling me that for a long time, though. You know who does my deals? Me. That's what's up. That's what's up. So, um, oh, damn.
Starting point is 00:47:03 Fuck. I lost my train of thought. Don't do that. No, no, no, no. Damn, I'm going to remember before I do this again. Don't do that. No more drinking. Let's what's up. So, oh, damn. Fuck. I'm going to try to throw it. Don't do that. No, no, no, no. Damn, I'm going to remember. Don't do that. No more drinking. Let's take his drink away.
Starting point is 00:47:09 No, no, no, no. We're good. So, okay. This is what I was going to say. At that time, I had never seen someone go against Mona Scott. I had never seen the one talk down.
Starting point is 00:47:23 Like, Mona, I've been in violence since 1997. I had never seen the one talk down. Like, Mona, I've been violated since 1997. I was, and this is a real, real strong woman. Haitian lady. Haitian lady.
Starting point is 00:47:34 And you're the first person. Don't nobody care about that voodoo. Don't nobody care about that voodoo. Don't nobody care about that voodoo. Listen, let me tell you something.
Starting point is 00:47:43 Guess what? Guess what? Ain't none of them. Mrs. Princess. Ain't none of them prayer people she got going on got shit on my prayer people. She better know that. And that's why I could stay. I step out.
Starting point is 00:47:54 They the same people. I step out. Because my people good. And that's why I was telling you about the universe. I have to watch what I say out of my mouth. Because I could send you a cut one real hard. You might not weigh back up. Right.
Starting point is 00:48:04 So, I have to. Oh, my out of my mouth because I could send you a cut one real hard. You might not weigh back up. Right. So I have to. Oh, my God. Calm down. Calm down. I'm making the point. I had never seen nobody go against Mona. Like, what happened? Because it seemed like, you know,
Starting point is 00:48:16 Mona had a lot to do with you blowing up. And at one point, it just felt like you was despised. Was it you was despised with love and hip hop or you was despised with Mona? Because I remember you calling her a devil or. Mona's not a good person. Oh, okay. Meaning? You know, okay, so.
Starting point is 00:48:42 I feel like in life to be successful And to really get What the universe What the universe owes you Because it's what you are The universe Is only going to give you What you are The universe Is not going to ever
Starting point is 00:48:52 Give you what you're not Never You could You could goddamn Hang yourself From that motherfucking thing Up there And commit suicide
Starting point is 00:48:58 It's still not going to Give it to you Because you're not that You can pray 666 And do a star on the floor and goddamn bitch, you belong to the devil. That don't mean shit. The universe not going to give you shit that you don't
Starting point is 00:49:12 own. And so I feel like with her, I just feel like she's just like a jealous person. Like, she don't really never want to see nobody win. Because you got to remember, Mona was not the best looking thing Walking around
Starting point is 00:49:25 She was a puppet Honey Damn it I wasn't ready Always had that curly wig Y'all can laugh It's funny Stop acting like
Starting point is 00:49:31 Y'all niggas is kids Holy shit So like I just feel like You know And you know I was so young When I first started doing
Starting point is 00:49:38 Love and Hip Hop So it's like For me I always be like Please Mona Could you please help me Like literally beg her Lick her fucking Big old nasty black ass
Starting point is 00:49:45 But I ain't really do it I ain't really do it Cause I like I like black asses But they gotta be clean And I don't lick niggas asses My husband not with that shit Bitches asses
Starting point is 00:49:53 So literally I'm like You know like Help me out Like help me like You know help me with the stuff Help me with the music Help me with the You think she did that
Starting point is 00:50:00 No She did everything to sabotage me And nothing to help me But how about How about being devil's advocate Let me just be devil's advocate You can do that I'mage me and nothing to help me. But how about being devil's advocate? Let me just be devil's advocate. You can do that. I'm still telling you
Starting point is 00:50:07 the truth about the bitch. But how about like she did give you a platform like this. She didn't give me a platform. She needed me to do Love & Hip Hop. I'm going to go back
Starting point is 00:50:16 to the story. When I first met Stevie, I had just met him a week prior to going to Love & Hip Hop. Is that how you got on Love & Hip Hop? That's how I got on
Starting point is 00:50:23 Love & Hip Hop. That's what I'm telling you guys. So you feel like Stevie is more of the credit for that? No, neither one of them, because as cool as me and my fiance are with Stevie and would respect him and would cool, Stevie needed to bring me on Love & Hip Hop too, because there was nobody on Love & Hip Hop
Starting point is 00:50:40 but Mimi, Carly, Stevie, a few people. It was nothing going on. Stevie had a whole other artist that was already on Love & Hip Hop, and he brought me to Marley, and she was like, go, a few people, like, it was nothing going on. Stevie had a whole other artist that was already on Love & Hip Hop, and he brought me the money, and she was like, go get a green screen, look. Yeah. And I'm like, damn, what happened to your other artists?
Starting point is 00:50:52 The other artists never came on the show, because she was like, man, we need her. I went from making the first day $1,100. You're saying there was other artists that were signed under Stevie? Stevie had another artist. Oh, wow. And it was like the other cast members on the show,
Starting point is 00:51:03 including Mimi and Carly And all of the All of the people That was in The first season of 2012 Love and Hip Hop right Stevie took me to Mona To meet her
Starting point is 00:51:12 Okay Right And I wasn't I didn't know he was Doing the show The nigga never told me He was doing the show Who Stevie
Starting point is 00:51:19 No He just brought me to Mona And next thing I know The next day I'm doing green screen I went from making $1100 one day To the next day Making $5 know The next day I'm doing green screen I went from making $1,100 one day To the next day making $5,500 The week making $1,100
Starting point is 00:51:28 And then $20,000 the next month What the fuck going on? Yeah Sounds good to me Yeah, the shit was going on But you immediately knew That they needed you From how the salaries was changing
Starting point is 00:51:39 Well, here's the thing Because if you're not a main character You wasn't a main character In the beginning Or was you? She made me a main character The first day I met her She made me a main character Because you wasn't a main character in the beginning, or was you? She made me a main character the first day I met her. She made me a main character because he brought me, I had on all Versace.
Starting point is 00:51:50 Green, too. Green like money. Manolo Blahnik's on my feet. Manolo Blahnik's. I had them shits on when I was 23. I had on all Versace, Versace purse. I always had nice jewelry. What year was that?
Starting point is 00:52:01 It's 2012. And I was 23, 2012. I think I had a Versace jacket in 12. You got to relax. That's not what the conversation's about. We know Yoshi was with a P,
Starting point is 00:52:17 plus Sachi. I cannot. So basically, she was like, shit, you don't, she made me a cast. They did my makeup the next day. I had brought clothes because she was like, bring She made me a cast Like They did my makeup The next day I had brought clothes
Starting point is 00:52:27 Cause she was like Bring three outfits And I'm just like Damn what's gonna happen You know but you know I'm 23 I'm like shit I just told this nigga
Starting point is 00:52:33 Last week I need Remember my homie GB in Honest Remember I was like Yo homie The nigga that look like you
Starting point is 00:52:39 I was like yo I need a motherfucking producer I got this artist Blah blah blah Right A week later The nigga's like Nah you need to work with me I got this artist Blah blah blah Right A week later The next is like Nah you need to work with me
Starting point is 00:52:47 I was like shit cool Fuck the artist I drive that bitch But you gotta give Mona A little credit Because that was her Giving you the green light Here's the thing
Starting point is 00:52:56 It was many It was many times after That I tried to reach out to Mona And to make peace But she just never wanted peace And I just feel like She knew that I would do exactly what I'm doing
Starting point is 00:53:07 becoming the biggest Latin superstar that there it is I have a long way to go but I've been working since 2012 and I've proven myself to everybody
Starting point is 00:53:16 I did everything they say I would not do that's right and so she know that she has to face that she has to face the fact that I told her
Starting point is 00:53:23 I was going to and bitch I would die doing it. But what if, just me being a devil's advocate, what if somewhere, because I know you, Cardi B, so many different people. Shout out to Cardi B. Shout out to Cardi B. So many different people that made it through Mona's platform.
Starting point is 00:53:42 Like, she's, I'm telling you. Well, first of all, let me tell you something. New York people stick together. Yes. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I disagree. No, no, no, no, I disagree too. I disagree.
Starting point is 00:53:52 But let me explain what I'm trying to say is, like this is a success story. You are a great success story. Cardi B's a great success story. And most of us... Anybody... You got... Can you put some gravel on this? Oh, maybe a gravel? Yeah. Anybody got gravel?
Starting point is 00:54:05 Nah, I don't got no gravel. I'm not seeing. Thank you. Yeah, okay. That's my son, by the way. That's your son? That's my son, by the way. Yeah, I'm pulling out gravel.
Starting point is 00:54:13 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Okay. Hi. But so many people, like, you know, that's a success story. Like, when you see where you at in life, the reason why I'm saying this, I'm just trying to be... I know Mona's proud of you.
Starting point is 00:54:34 I know Mona brags about you. I know she brags about Cardi B. I know she brags about these certain peoples because some of us wouldn't have known how ill you are without seeing this through love and hip-hop. You know what I'm saying? Some of us wouldn't know that. I would love to sit down with her. I would love to sit down with her,
Starting point is 00:54:54 but I just don't think that she want to sit down with me. You know what I'm saying? Well, you grown. Let me tell you, that's the best thing about Ballistic, that y'all together, is I could tell that when you got with him, like, I don't want to say you calmed down, but it was like, all right, cool. You there.
Starting point is 00:55:12 You know what I'm saying? Like, you're thinking clear. That's what it... I'm an outsider looking in. That's the inside looking out. You know what I mean? You're right. And what I say about that is because I have spent so much time in my career, right?
Starting point is 00:55:24 Like, being mad at somebody that I shouldn't be mad at. You know what I'm saying? Me personally. And I've always looked at it and I say, you know what? Now that I'm older, I say, damn, I do appreciate that opportunity for a person giving me that chance back then. Even though I feel like I made myself great. I'm going to be honest. I feel like I made myself great. Like that going to be honest. You did. I feel like I made myself great. You did. Like that Snoop Dogg speech when Snoop was like, yeah, I want to thank me. I feel like that a lot.
Starting point is 00:55:49 But the more that I've grown and the more that I succeed, I also say, you know what? That little push that I got from him, I needed that. I need, like, you know what I mean? It means better to me now to be successful now.
Starting point is 00:56:04 The bitch know if she call me tonight, I'm going to get on the phone. That's hard. That's what we want to hear. That's what we want to hear. My bad. She don't even got to go through too much.
Starting point is 00:56:13 I still got the same number than what me and you talk on. That's right. I got that number. I had that number since 2012. You know what I'm saying? So like, she can always call me
Starting point is 00:56:20 and I'm going to always fuck with the bitch. You know what I'm saying? At the end of the day, she just had to understand that I wanted it so bad and I went after it. And now be proud of me and tell everybody, hey, I had something to do with that. And be proud of saying that. Yes.
Starting point is 00:56:33 And I'm going to say she did. Yeah. I ain't going to hate on her. Would you ever do love and hip hop some more? Or are you past that? Well, you know. And we know about the bag and all that. But would you ever? Meaning. Good know... And we know about the bag and all that, but would you ever...
Starting point is 00:56:46 Meaning... Good one. Meaning we know. Another one? Jay going to get some money. What? But would you do it? I'm not going to say no to anything.
Starting point is 00:56:55 Okay. Because where I'm at in life, I feel like this was a great opportunity. I apologize for being super late. No, no, no. But it was... We're apprentices. Well, no, it was last minute.
Starting point is 00:57:05 They texted me late last night. You can vouch for me. It was like 8 p.m. I'm like, I'm going crazy. I went to the mall last night to get this dress at 8 p.m. I woke up out of my sleep. I missed yoga and everything.
Starting point is 00:57:14 I was like, shit, I got to go get something to wear. She just keeps hitting us with rich shit. After, after. She's hitting us with rich shit. Yoga. Straight rich shit.
Starting point is 00:57:21 Can I tell you something? The reason I owe my life to yoga I would literally be Like a drug addict right now If it wasn't for yoga I've been Yoga you're saying Yeah I've been doing yoga
Starting point is 00:57:31 For seven years And it saved my life My whole My dad died of a heroin overdose My family comes from A lot of drugs So just being able to Have that in my life
Starting point is 00:57:40 It really changed my life I would not be where I'm standing without doing A big crumb High yoga I wouldn't be here. I would probably be dead. Big crumb to hot yoga? Yeah. Oh, should the Indian do? You know, he was
Starting point is 00:57:49 touching a lot of y'all. He's a freak. Yeah, he's a freak. He's a freak. He's a freak. He's a freak. He's a freak. I see his documentary. He ain't right. He Harvey Weinstein.
Starting point is 00:58:04 He ain't right. Thank you so. He Harvey Weinstein. He Harvey Weinstein and we're plotting. He ain't right. Thank you so much. We need to be stopped. He was a super freak. He was a super freak, right? But I'm going to take
Starting point is 00:58:12 his freakiness away from his job, right? Because I'm going to always get... Here's the thing. So you still listen to R. Kelly too? I love R. Kelly music. Good damn, Chesley.
Starting point is 00:58:25 If I'm in a car and somebody playing it, I will not tell them to. Good damn, Jocelyn. Yes. Good. If I'm in a car and somebody playing it, I will not tell them to turn it off. So let's be clear. We like R. Kelly and we do Bikram yoga still.
Starting point is 00:58:33 But here's the thing. Let me tell you something. They are not canceled in Jocelyn's world. I'm not, listen, I don't cancel, I don't cancel certain people for
Starting point is 00:58:39 what they've done when it comes down to their artistry. When it comes down to their artistry. I ain comes down to their artistry. I ain't going to fuck with you. I'm not going to vouch for you. How about Bill Cosby?
Starting point is 00:58:50 Well, you know, Bill Cosby is a little older and I never really got into his shows. I never really got into his shows, but music, I'm a musician,
Starting point is 00:58:58 so I love music. So if I hear, you know, if I hear like an I'm telling you song. If it's the key to ignition and the hop in the kitchen How do I even know that song
Starting point is 00:59:08 And why did that just came out of Like who gonna listen to Joe's baby So you are not turning it off And come on in your car I'm not gonna tell someone To turn it off Like listen Listen I am an advocate
Starting point is 00:59:22 Of being able to separate the two I am a big advocate for that I am a big advocate for that. I'm a big advocate for that. Like, nigga, you a freak, you a rapist, you be in jail, but the shit you don't
Starting point is 00:59:31 did 50 years ago, I'm going to listen to that shit and somebody playing it in the car. I mean, what the fuck am I supposed to do?
Starting point is 00:59:38 I don't have his music on my, I haven't bought his music obviously in years, but I ain't going to tell somebody to turn this shit off. When I play that shit, I'm going to be... Especially if it's one of those ones, huh?
Starting point is 00:59:51 Exactly, because he got them, you know? You know, being a genius comes with a lot of responsibility. Quick time slot? The responsibility is that you have to, the responsibility is that you have to be able to, like, kill your demons in your mind.
Starting point is 01:00:06 The demons that aren't good for you to let out. So being a genius, it comes with a great responsibility. So I just feel like it's unfortunate for him that as good looking as he was and talented and a genius that he was with the music, it's unfortunate for him that he could never get help from dealing with those demons to be a better person. It's unfortunate because we all have demons. You know?
Starting point is 01:00:29 I ain't gonna lie. Like, when, um, like, um, the tape had came out, the first tape, I never seen the nigga just... He was peeing all over.
Starting point is 01:00:38 Hell, you... Y'all ain't need to piss it. I be telling Melissa, pee on me, bae. What? Oh, my God, we wasn't ready. Y'all don't... Y'all don't like all the it. I be telling Ballista, pee on me, bae. What? Oh, my God. We wasn't ready. Y'all don't like golden showers? No, I like water and soap.
Starting point is 01:00:50 So you never... Wait, hold up. Wash my... Hold up. So you never got a golden shower? No, ain't nobody ever showered me golden. Who are you people? By the way...
Starting point is 01:01:04 We are normal people. By the way, Kelly's going to see this episode and be like, why am I in jail? Well, you're in jail because you had sex with kids. That's right, that's right.
Starting point is 01:01:13 It wasn't golden showers. My bad. I forgot, I forgot. We're talking about peeing, but golden showers is golden showers. It's an enjoyable, amazing, sexual thing,
Starting point is 01:01:22 especially if you do it. I've golden showered plenty of pretty bitches. So how does this work? Are you supposed to taste it? Just... So you taste it. Huh? I've never got golden shower on, because I'm...
Starting point is 01:01:32 You the golden showerer. Yeah. You don't get golden showers. Okay. She said... She wants us to do... But she told me to try. She just threw us into the river and told us to do something she ain't even doing.
Starting point is 01:01:43 But listen, never let me do it on him. Okay. Yeah, don't do that. That's my man. I don't want to look at him like that. But listen, he's gay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my man.
Starting point is 01:01:51 He's gay. Okay. Okay. I wasn't ready. But golden shower is a great thing. Look, the thing about sexuality, as long as you keep it clean and you just have one partner,
Starting point is 01:02:00 it's awesome. You can do whatever. That's what's up. I respect that. I don't like it in the butt, though. Okay. Won't do the butt thing But I will But I will let a girl
Starting point is 01:02:08 Stick her whole face In my asshole I'm talking about the whole face If you're going to lick my asshole It's got to be from top to bottom A girl And you got to put And she got to put
Starting point is 01:02:16 Her whole face in it Everything Everything So she probably has to have A small nose No she could have a big one I don't discriminate Okay
Starting point is 01:02:24 I got Listen I like them dark White Spanish Everything They got to be You know what I'm saying So she probably has to have a small nose. No, she could have a big one. I don't discriminate. Okay. Listen, I like them dark, white, Spanish. Everything. They got to be, you know what I'm saying? They got to meet certain standards. Standards. I mean, I have some. I'm with you on that, too.
Starting point is 01:02:38 Because I, like, listen, on my new EP, you will be able to hear how freaky I am. I think I started, you know what? I think that white, that's why I do it like it's your everyday Vegas and all those songs. What's the standard, though? I'm curious now. On the girls, how'd she look? Yes.
Starting point is 01:02:49 Well, I mean, I like skinny girls. I like, you know what? I like big girls, too. Gordo? Gorditas. Shit. Que le gustan comer mucho. I don't mind the bigger girls, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 01:03:01 But the waist got to be a little bit smaller, right? The waist, though. A little bit smaller. It don't have to be, like, super smaller, but it definitely got to be a little bit smaller right the waist though a little bit smaller it don't have to be like super smaller but it definitely got to like be smaller than the butt the butt could be like this all right but the waist got to be about like this okay you know what I'm saying I could do that because you had beef with prima donna too right you sent her a pig like that was like I didn't understand I was like wait a minute because I thought at first then I seen I said oh that's what I'm Puerto understand. I was like, wait a minute. Because I thought at first, then I seen, I said, oh, that is. First of all, I'm Puerto Rican. I love pigs.
Starting point is 01:03:27 All right, that's what I was confused about. And I'm y'all cool now because, you know, you guys are kind of. Can I say, can I say something? I don't know anything about her. Oh. I know nothing about her. Okay, I don't know where this is going. No, I'm just, I don't know anything about her.
Starting point is 01:03:43 I swear to God, I don't know anything about her. I thought y'all was both from Miami, both of y'all. Well, I'm from Fort Lauderdale. Okay. I never hung out with her before. We never talked on the phone. We never did any of that. But like I said, like, you know, I mean... So how do you catch people
Starting point is 01:03:55 someone you don't know, essentially? Well, you got to ask her, because look at her and look at me. Okay. There's no connection. Okay. I just feel like when you don't have no connection with anybody, it's like, bitch, what are just feel like when you don't have
Starting point is 01:04:05 no connection with anybody, it's like, bitch, what are you talking about? I don't even know you like that. But y'all both smart. Y'all both entrepreneurs. Oh, I'm not saying... Y'all both doing...
Starting point is 01:04:12 You've done great stuff. I like that. Absolutely. So that's why I'm saying, why do you guys have beef? And y'all should get it if you do. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:21 Because y'all both smart. I swear I don't even know the lady. I promise y'all, I do not know this lady I've never met this lady In my life like that I swear to God Never
Starting point is 01:04:30 And I don't have Listen Congratulations to all the ladies Getting money Including her That's what I'm saying I would never I would never come up here
Starting point is 01:04:38 And listen I like when bitches get paid You know what I'm saying Like I just really Me too I just really don't know Know her like that. I got to be real.
Starting point is 01:04:47 Couldn't tell you nothing about the bitch. But we hope the best for y'all. We hope the best for y'all. Everything is fixable but what's not fixable is hate.
Starting point is 01:04:54 No. So you can't fix hate. Okay. I agree with you on that. And one thing I seen you say earlier, you bigged up Cardi B. I liked that.
Starting point is 01:05:03 I liked that because you know, me being, I'm half Puerto Rican, half black. You know what I mean? That's so hard to be. I'm full Puerto Rican.
Starting point is 01:05:12 Yeah. And it's so hard to be. After you tell me about Cardi B, I'll tell you why. No, but I was so happy to hear you big up Cardi B just now because one,
Starting point is 01:05:19 I don't want females to fight you in period, but as two Latinas and two Latinas who took, who kind of had the same road and both successful i love to see y'all getting along like that that so when you said big up cardi b just now and i could i could hear the sincerity in your voice but at one point was y'all beefing was there something that was wrong i think i think the situation with loving hip-hop
Starting point is 01:05:41 and the people in the audience just made it bigger than what it was. But I really love Cardi B because she's Dominican. I love Dominicans. People always think I'm Dominican. My family is Dominican. People always think I'm Dominican too. Yeah, I have a half Dominican family. And one thing I respect about Cardi B is that she is the, she is, when you say.
Starting point is 01:06:05 The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves. This medal is for the men who went down that day. It's for the families of those who didn't make it. I'm J.R. Martinez. I'm a U.S. Army veteran myself, and I'm honored to tell you the stories of these heroes on the new season of Medal of Honor, Stories of Courage from Pushkin Industries and iHeart Podcast. From Robert Blake,
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Starting point is 01:09:05 or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Ad-free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Somebody that built her life to be great, she's that. She got a husband. She has her children. She has her career.
Starting point is 01:09:31 I always tell people, maybe not in the media because I don't really do a lot of interviews, but people that know me from my hair, my makeup, and everybody, I be like, Cardi B is a bad bitch. Cardi B not only came and did her music She got a husband She got her kids She got a home She built her life Yes That's bigger than
Starting point is 01:09:49 Anything She not only just built her career She has built her life Yeah And so for me it's like And then you know She tweeted one day Do it like it's my birthday
Starting point is 01:09:58 Do it like it's my birthday It's stuck in my left In my left brain Somebody please stick a knife in it I was like oh my gosh That's great because it's like So dope I see her and she sees me I it I was like oh my gosh That's great because it's like So dope I see her and she sees me
Starting point is 01:10:07 I think she's great Yeah I think she's great too That makes a noise for Cardi B And you know what The thing I love The thing I love the most The thing I love the most about Cardi Is how she was able to
Starting point is 01:10:20 Build her personal life With her husband Her kids And then the music That's what really drew me to her. I'm like, whoa, that's a bad bitch. And you can do it all at the same time. And you know what else?
Starting point is 01:10:30 You know, because a lot of us, when people get rich, we forget, you know, that we have feelings. And you know what I noticed? A lot of people didn't even say, like, rest in peace to... Take off?
Starting point is 01:10:43 Bob, take off. It's Cardi B. Everyone should be saying cardi beach everyone should be saying yes rest in peace like uh to to quavo and to um offset as well because they have no regards because i just be seeing it like and i see they're hurting things and people don't really even say people don't really even say rest in peace and i want to say that to all of them because they was all a family at once, regardless if there is or isn't no more. But I want to say that because I felt like, you know, on behalf of a drink chance, I would like to tell, you know. I thought he had some. Oh, half grab.
Starting point is 01:11:18 What do you mean half? Half grab. Oh, OK. Meaning it's not football. Nobody got gravel leaving him? Hold on. Let me make this point real quick. But to Quervo and to Offset and to Cardi B,
Starting point is 01:11:33 all I would like to say rest in peace. You know what I'm saying? Because I understand how hard it is to lose somebody famous like when Pun passed away. And I remember a lot of people just not really caring because they're like, ah, cool, Nori, you're up, you're platinum. Why would you care?
Starting point is 01:11:50 And Pun was my closest friend. I hung out with Pun every single day. I'm talking about no exaggeration. Out of 30 days out of the month, I would be with Pun like 12 to 15. Like for real. That's hard. For real.
Starting point is 01:12:06 How did you get over the hurt? I never got over the hurt. I never got over the hurt. I never... How do you want... Because I've never lost... I've never lost...
Starting point is 01:12:14 When I lost my father, I was 13 years old and my mom came and told me and my brother because my mama got five baby daddy. She's a ho-ho. She told me...
Starting point is 01:12:23 Wait a minute. She told me... Wait a minute. She told me and my brother in the kitchen at 13, your daddy died. I'm looking at this bitch like, this bitch is really psychotic. That is not a way to break the news down. So like now, right, as I'm older, I'm more in tune, you know, with who I am
Starting point is 01:12:41 and the universe and prayers and stuff like that. So I light a candle, a white candle for him and I put his picture when I feel him too much I turn it off and I'm like you gotta go you gotta go
Starting point is 01:12:49 you gotta go dad you gotta go so it's like well he's dead now your mom with your mom cause
Starting point is 01:12:55 listen if my mom if my mom need anything I'm always going to be there to support her but sometimes your family be your biggest
Starting point is 01:13:02 hell back I agree with you on that and I hate to say it cause somebody go get me some fucking gravel leaf but let me tell you about my father But sometimes your family be your biggest hellbent. I agree with you on that. And I hate to say it, can somebody go get me some fucking gravel leaf? But let me tell you about my father. Can you see if I could get some gravel leaf? A real one? A real one.
Starting point is 01:13:14 My father's death, I was platinum. I was platinum and I went on tour. I say that to say this. You went on tour? No, I was on tour. I was platinum. And I was in the middle of my father's death. It was July 3rd, 1998.
Starting point is 01:13:28 And the crazy thing was Chris Lighty and Mona Scott had to come to see me and say, yo, you could either stop this tour. That was nice. Or you can continue because your pops want you to. And this was the first time. And I had to do it. So like I said, I was famous losing my father
Starting point is 01:13:48 and had to come outside every day with a smile on. Because if you have a bad day being famous, that's why I can't come outside. Still got to do your job. I still got to do my job. I can't go to McDonald's and be like, yo, I had a bad day today.
Starting point is 01:14:01 Someone is there going to be like, and I'm going to ruin their day for not taking a picture with them. They're like, you shouldn't have a bad day. You know, nigga, nigga. Yeah. I'm sorry to change the subject. I swear to God, one time,
Starting point is 01:14:11 I swear, I was in Pathmark, three o'clock in the morning. What is that? It's a grocery store in New Jersey. And I was there at three o'clock in the morning. I don't want to say in New Jersey because I don't know if Lauren still lives there. But I seen Lauren sneaking into a path mark
Starting point is 01:14:27 At 3 o'clock in the morning Which Lauren? Lauren Lauren Hill Lauren Hill, yes Oh, okay I guess that's the time she could I mean, I thought everyone knew who Lauren was
Starting point is 01:14:37 I said Lauren So I saw her sneaking in And I started to realize I said, oh, this is how some stars do it They don't go They go at 3 o'clock in the morning and go food shopping. So I'm going there, I kid you not. I had a pimple like the size of this drink.
Starting point is 01:14:51 For being stressed? No, I just had, I don't know what happened. I just had like a pimple in the middle of my fucking pimple. Did she bust it for you? No, no, no, I was horrible. So when I walked in, it was a fan. As soon as I walk in, and this was the time where. The flashing. No, the actual was the time where the flashing.
Starting point is 01:15:08 No, the actual, the plastic cameras. The disposable shit. So the fan just come straight up to me and was like, bang, yo, can I get a picture? This was before Instagram. And I'm like with the pimple right here. Like it's this. He don't care. It's this second from getting bust.
Starting point is 01:15:24 And pus gonna be everywhere. He don't care. And I was just like, yo. He wanted a picture with a legend. Did you take a photo by no people? No, I did not. I regretted the shit out of that. But I also was like, yo, bro, I need one time.
Starting point is 01:15:39 It's me. I need one time. So I was like, nah, I didn't. And then recently, I was in the Bahamas and this lady just came up to me and she was like, can I take a picture? So I was like, nah, I didn't. And then recently, I was in the Bahamas, and this lady just came up to me, and she was like, can I take a picture? And I was like, okay, why? You just see me take pictures with everyone else.
Starting point is 01:15:53 And what'd she say? She didn't know who I was. So I was like, no. Yeah, she don't got to know who you are to want to take a picture with a star. I was like, no. I was like, yo, I said, what do I do? And she couldn't say. All she seen was other people taking pictures of me.
Starting point is 01:16:08 And then she wanted to get in the line. And I said, no. This is reserved for my fans. Yeah. For people who fuck with me. That makes sense. I agree with you. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 01:16:17 I went too far? Oh, fuck her. Fuck her. Fuck her. Bitch, go through your heart. Okay, now this is a part of the game. It's called Quick Time with Slime. Okay.
Starting point is 01:16:28 We're going to give you one or the other. Oh, no, I'm not doing that first question. Y'all are not. Uh-uh. Do it, do it, do it. Don't be scared. No, this is retired. I want to see the questions.
Starting point is 01:16:39 I don't want... I don't want... I don't want no beef with women. I'll just tell you like this. Listen, I don't want no... Listen. Listen. What the fuck is this? Listen, I don't want no... Listen, listen. What the fuck is this? Listen, if a woman called me about this show,
Starting point is 01:16:50 I'm going to be honest with you. I'd be scared to death. I'm scared of y'all women. Why? I'm scared... No, no, it's even worse. I want to see it. It might be even worse.
Starting point is 01:16:57 Next time I talk to these bitches, I better have some motherfucking gravel for me. No, no, no. Listen, listen. We are not asking that first question. Make sure he finds some gravel. Let's see. You might think it's bad. Yeah. No, I know Listen, we are not asking that first question. And make sure he finds some gravel. Let's see. You might think it's bad.
Starting point is 01:17:07 Yeah. No, I know it's bad. I don't smoke gravel all the time, but when I'm in this type of environment, I need a hit. Yes. You want the squishes? Do you got squishes?
Starting point is 01:17:16 I already wrote, yeah. I didn't know if you liked your brunch. That's why I didn't offer you. That's why I offered you joints. Let me see what kind of squishes are, though. Why are they so white? Yeah. No, it's brown.
Starting point is 01:17:26 It's not white. He's Peruvian. Yeah, he's Peruvian. He's Peruvian. You're Peruvian? Yes. Do you speak Spanish? Yes.
Starting point is 01:17:35 Spanish. We thought him in just to go blunt. Because a lot of people say, I speak Spanish, but he says, a little bit. Yeah, he's a wrestler. There you go.
Starting point is 01:17:44 Okay, I'm from Carolina, from Puerto Rico. Carolina. Carolina. I'm from Carolina. Yeah he's a wrestler There you see Okay Yo soy de Carolina De Puerto Rico Carolina Come here Soy de Carolina Yo me crié en las emeraldas Say tú ¿Cómo?
Starting point is 01:17:53 I also have family In Carolina ¿Qué? Fajardo Fajardo's my man Sounds familiar But I don't know if they say
Starting point is 01:18:00 Habiki or capuchin Habla bien brother Turn into Spanish champ I was young In Puerto Rico Con Vico C Con Vico C I don't know if they're saying Habiki or Cabichi. Turn it to Spanish, champ. I was young in Puerto Rico. The artist? Let me get a light. All right, we get it.
Starting point is 01:18:20 Y'all speak Spanish. Hey, we get it. It's an English show. I'm fucking with y'all. Y'all sit out there. Y' baby, get it. Go ahead. It's an English show. I'm fucking with y'all. Y'all sit out there. Y'all sit out there. Hey. Okay.
Starting point is 01:18:30 Okay, quick time. What's wrong? Huh? No, I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't. I can do it. No, no, no. I don't want it on my shoulder no more.
Starting point is 01:18:36 You don't understand. I got calls from both sides. What happened? I'll tell you later. Oh, yeah. I got to be tired of the question. No, I'm going to stick with this. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:18:48 Can you change your answer? No, no, no. It's not even answered. I'm going. Skipping it. Okay, you ready? Yeah. This is good, but this is... She can get away from this. All right, cool.
Starting point is 01:19:03 By the way, did we explain the rules? No, no, no. You didn't tell me shit. My bad, my bad, my bad. Because they scared me. What the fuck? Why did I open this? I thought I had to.
Starting point is 01:19:14 No, it's already. Oh, it's already rolled. It's free, bro. I'm going to fuck y'all up. I'm going to fuck y'all up. We told you we fly in just a row. Oh, you want this? Oh, yeah, that's already rolled.
Starting point is 01:19:26 No, it's already rolled. Yeah. Why the fuck did I tell you? It's a pre-roll. All that Spanish I was talking, you couldn't say that? Yeah. No, you wanted a regular one so you could roll it yourself then. No, I didn't know he gave me something that was rolled.
Starting point is 01:19:39 Okay. All right, hold on. All right, let's, all right. So we give you one or the other. We give you one or the other, we give you one or the other. If you pick both and be politically correct, then you have to take a shot. But if, but if not,
Starting point is 01:19:54 Can I just take a shot of champagne? I don't drink like that. That's cheating. No, we got it. You got to take a shot. Well, can I tell you something? I mean, Dallion? Well, I've been fasting for two weeks.
Starting point is 01:20:03 So I haven't, I haven't ate anything right now, and I only eat at 7. I'm doing Ramadan. Okay, but you on drink champs. We just wanted to remind you. Well, that's why I'm drinking something and smoking something. But I don't want to be passed out on the table and just be like, what happened? It's okay. The fans want to see it.
Starting point is 01:20:18 I've been fasting for two weeks. No comida, like nothing. At 7 p.m., I eat one meal, and that's it. Okay, now. So I have to take it. But we are going. Take it right. But 7 p.m. I eat one meal and that's it. Okay now. So I have to take it. But we are going in. Take it like a little bit. Look at.
Starting point is 01:20:29 You here, you ready? It's little, I can take that. What is it? We're not joking. Yeah, it's little. What kind? De Leon. That's De Leon.
Starting point is 01:20:37 De Leon, the best tequila ever. Who tequila is this? It's Pau Pau. Oh, okay. Yes, De Leon. De Leon! Get the motherfucking hat! OK, OK. Oh! Oh!
Starting point is 01:20:46 Oh! Oh! Oh! Fuck it! Fuck it! We didn't start the game yet. It's De Leon! I got to take a shot!
Starting point is 01:20:54 We can talk in the back! Yeah! Yeah! What's happening? OK. Are you ready? Yeah. Hector Lavoe or Marc Anthony?
Starting point is 01:21:02 Hector Lavoe. Que te pasa? Because there wouldn't be a Marc Anthony after level get the pasta Because there wouldn't be a more Anthony. I heard the level. I respect the both of them But my heart is with actor level. I was a little girl listening just sorry and Okay Evil now I'll see you I see what y'all doing. By the way, this is my favorite.
Starting point is 01:21:28 Like, you have no understanding. This is, he is my spirit, Adam. I am home to sing like him one day. Hector Laval. Oh, yeah. You a little crazy, but I got you. Hey, listen. I love him.
Starting point is 01:21:44 Yeah, I love him, too. So, shout out to Mark. Okay, hold on. I love Hector. Okay, listen. I love him. Yeah, I love him too. So shout out to Mark. I love Hector. Okay, boom. This one is going to be good. Bad Bunny or Drake? Bad Bunny. You said that very fast.
Starting point is 01:21:57 You sure? I'm Puerto Rican. I got to look out for my Puerto Rican people. Come on. I love the racism too. No. No. No.
Starting point is 01:22:04 Listen. Listen. Listen. Tuesday or water? Tuesday. Okay. Daddy Yankee or Don Omar? Don Omar.
Starting point is 01:22:15 Okay. She ain't trying to drink. Okay. No, but I believe she's... Evie Queen or Trina? Evie Queen. Okay. That's what I told you. Puerto Rican Evie Queen. Okay. That's all you. Okay. Carol G or Becky G?
Starting point is 01:22:34 I'm going to go with Carol G. Okay. Ann Well or Osuna? I got to go with Osuna. Okay. El Farsante. I don't know what that means, but I believe you. Farsante is like... Farsante. Yeah, no, he's Dominican, though.
Starting point is 01:22:54 No, pero el nombre de la canción es así, porque... Oh, Farsante, sí, la canción. La canción. Okay. I would never put this question... He's Puerto Rican, but he can hardly speak Spanish. But my producers put this question... By the way, the two people who... He makes these answers, and he makes these answers. Good question. He's Puerto Rican, but he can hardly speak Chinese. But producers put this question. By the way, the two people who he makes these answers,
Starting point is 01:23:06 and he makes these answers. Good question. Colombians and Dominicans. I love, I love, I love. I just feel like it's, oh, I like this. And Colombians have always had good relationships. He's Colombian. He Colombian.
Starting point is 01:23:16 I always have good relationships. Yeah, he Dominican. He Dominican, he Colombian. Yeah, I love Dominican. Okay. I would never put this question, but I'm going to put it because they put it there, and they had me pussy out on the first question.
Starting point is 01:23:25 Big pun or Fat Joe? Take a shot? Yeah. You took a shot for Puerto Rico. Big pun. Oh, shit. She should still take a shot for big pun then. Bugger.
Starting point is 01:23:35 Oh, we ain't got another one? Okay, cool. Listen. Yes. Let me tell you something. I love Fat Joe. Yeah. And he's always so respectful to me
Starting point is 01:23:45 And Balitza when he see us He's one of the people that I met He's like you Noriega Fat Joe is like you He's such a good person You got to take the shot Or don't count He's such a good person
Starting point is 01:23:59 I love My brother I miss you Fat Joe I haven't seen you in like six months I miss you Yeah he's I just think he's so His spirit is so good Great guy Great guy I love just think he's so, his spirit is so good.
Starting point is 01:24:06 Great guy. Great guy, I love him. His spirit, thank you, baby. His spirit is so good. He reminds me of you. You guys remind me of each other. That's my brother. Everything about you guys is 100% real.
Starting point is 01:24:14 That's right. Goddamn, make some noise for us. Okay. Oh, I like this one. Missy or Eve? Missy or Eve? Missy. Okay. Doja Cat or Meg the Stallion?
Starting point is 01:24:32 Megan. I like this question. Rolex or KOD? Rolex. I'm taking a shot for that. I'm sorry. I'm taking a shot for that. I'm sorry. I'm taking a shot for that.
Starting point is 01:24:46 I'm taking, I'm taking. I know. She wear the Rolex, the original. Go ahead, let's have a look. Yeah. You could go in there, look at some nice things and get, shit is crazy. It's right outside. You could, people were going to die.
Starting point is 01:24:58 Right? Rolex was the best club they ever made in Miami. I'm sorry. I've been in a Rolex with the Miami Hurricanes football team before when they were the you winning show you Rollers is the best call they ever made in Miami. I'm sorry. I hate to say But you're gonna roll up that one I'm over here smoking Set again trick daddy or we grow chick daddy. Mmm That's the spirit, bro. All right. Trick Daddy or Rick Ross? Say that again. Trick Daddy or Rick Ross?
Starting point is 01:25:26 Trick Daddy. Tupac versus DMX. DMX. Yeah, I don't know why the fuck you put versus on this. I know where he, Tupac or DMX. DMX. I got the next one. DMX?
Starting point is 01:25:41 DMX, okay. I like this one. Puerto Rico or Miami? Puerto Rico. Okay? Puerto Rico. Okay. Puerto Rico without a question. They call me the Puerto Rican princess in Puerto Rico. That's it.
Starting point is 01:25:51 As soon as they see me, Puerto Rican princess, what you doing here? It's my hood. Fuck you, man. Pitbull or Flo Rida? Pitbull. BH1 or Zeus? Zeus. Radio or podcast? Zeus. Radio or podcast?
Starting point is 01:26:06 Podcast. Loyalty or respect? Loyalty. Why? Because sometimes you ain't going to respect me because I'm going to talk that shit, but you're going to give me your loyalty. God damn it.
Starting point is 01:26:18 That was ill. That was ill. You love it. So what do you like more? Making music or making television? Making music. Making music? I know.
Starting point is 01:26:35 You know. Since you was five. Since I was five. I've been trying to run away from it. It's very difficult. I've ran from this thing for such a long time. And it just bit me in my ass. Right.
Starting point is 01:26:44 You know? Because, you know, my thing is, like, it was always so... Is that based on financial? No, no, no, no. I'm not speaking money. I'm speaking, like, hurt. Okay. You know?
Starting point is 01:26:56 Like, meaning through music? Yeah, because, you know, a lot of people could be like, tell you how bad you are when you truly know you're not. And so it could get hurtful. So... But why... I don't like talking about that stuff. But why listen... Like, you know what's crazy? I have a friend
Starting point is 01:27:15 that sometimes he wakes up and he goes and kind of Googles himself for the bad shit that he hears about him own self. And I'm looking like, yo, why can't you do the same exact thing for the good? Like, he wakes up and he wants to be in a negative, bad zone. So he'll Google bad shit about him to look at it.
Starting point is 01:27:34 And I'm like, why not do the same exact thing? Maybe that's just the way that he copes. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You can't tell people how to cope. You know, I think that trying to show people your talent could get really, it could get really dreadful. You know, it's almost like maybe you don't even want to be here sometimes.
Starting point is 01:27:55 It's like you're trying so hard to give people what you know they need. And it's almost like they dismiss you. And that can get really hurtful. You know, it was, it was, it was plenty of times I was going to give up,
Starting point is 01:28:07 but you know what? I didn't, because I was like, I'm not going to give up on myself. Amen. That's right. Like, I could give up on anything,
Starting point is 01:28:13 but I'm not going to give up on myself. And so, you know, when I was five, I had heroin needles on my foot, running in Puerto Rico, in Carolina, to my mom's house. Like, I got a needle on my foot, because you know, we all run outside with our shoes. Heroin was big in Puerto Rico in Carolina to my mom's house like I got a needle on
Starting point is 01:28:26 my foot cuz you know we all run outside with our shoes. Heron was big in Puerto Rico back then. Yeah my dad died of a heroin overdose and I was I'm an 80s baby and so you know being in Puerto Rico like I'm just really blessed not to be a drug addict this is all I ever been around my whole you know teenage years I've been around a lot of drug addicts and in Puerto Rico just seeing that. I literally go downstairs and I see somebody hitting the pipe or somebody hitting the needle. Literally. And it's like you still got to go to school in the morning if you see somebody hitting the pipe.
Starting point is 01:28:58 What that mean? You just got to go to school smelling like crack. And so for me, it was just like, I've seen it so much. It's just like, you know, it's like, that's why, you know, listen, being an artist, it literally has been biting me in my ass
Starting point is 01:29:14 since I was five. But it was just a difficult situation. And I just didn't, I felt like I'm already dealing with not having a father, having a mother that's not that good at raising her children. My mom has six kids,
Starting point is 01:29:30 five baby daddies. I told y'all she was a ho-ho. She's young, man. Yeah, but my thing is as a human being when you go to a certain age, but for my mother, I'm not mad at my mother
Starting point is 01:29:43 because my mother went through a lot. You know, her father, my mother's father is a white man with green eyes. Her mom is a black, like, this lady. So, she came from two different words, right? Trauma, trauma. Two different traumas. So, it's like, I'm never upset at her, but, like, when you get a little older, you have to know what's going on. And so, for me, I've always just felt like I'm already trying to
Starting point is 01:30:06 figure out how to live a life without parents. And now I'm trying to have a life for the world? That's very difficult. It's very difficult. But you doing it. You got this. You got this.
Starting point is 01:30:21 You are doing it. You are doing it. Just think about it. That's why I don't like doing interviews, because I like to get real, real. Yeah. I like to get real. And I don't feel like some people deserve my realness.
Starting point is 01:30:36 Because some people might not believe what I'm saying. No, we definitely believe you. Look at that. I still remember growing up in Puerto Rico like it happened yesterday. Of course. Like it happened yesterday. Yeah, of course. And so I remember not having shit. I like it happened yesterday. Of course. Like it happened yesterday. Of course. And so I remember not having shit.
Starting point is 01:30:48 I remember my mom not teaching me nothing. I literally had to teach myself how to wash my own body. But maybe she didn't know. That's the key. But this is not about her. This is about me. I got it. I'm not talking about her.
Starting point is 01:30:59 I'm talking about me. That's real. It's very difficult coming from where I came from to be where I'm at now. I had to fight a lot of demons to be here right now. A lot. I had to fight
Starting point is 01:31:10 a lot of people. And in case you don't know, you won. A lot of people. You did win. You won. A lot of people. Let me come on
Starting point is 01:31:18 some more champagne, please. And not only that. Yes, we come on. And not only that, I'm still fighting every day. And I'm going to tell you right now. It's not regular people.
Starting point is 01:31:29 I go through the same shit regular people go through. Yep. Even war shit. I'm with you. I see it all. I'm a good mother. I take care of my daughter. I know that.
Starting point is 01:31:37 If it wasn't for Ballistic and my daughter and yoga, I would probably be dead somewhere. I would have probably took my own life. That's why I believe probably be dead somewhere. I would have probably took my own life. That's why I believe people always look at me like this is just what it is. This is not just what it is. I have a heart. I have a brain.
Starting point is 01:31:53 I have feelings. I have emotions. I have the things that regular humans have. And people don't really consider people like me like I'm not going through nothing I'm going through a lot
Starting point is 01:32:06 I'm going through more shit That you're going through I have to I have to I have to try to be The best I could be For an audience That might not want
Starting point is 01:32:14 What I'm giving them For years I got Denied My stuff I know I was good I'm better now And I'm going to get better Right
Starting point is 01:32:21 But how many years Did I get denied How many years How many ladies came After me or around me that dropped their career because it took so long? How many?
Starting point is 01:32:30 I'm proud of me. Yeah. I'm proud of me for it. We proud of you. We proud of you. Yeah. And what I was trying to say to you is...
Starting point is 01:32:39 I hate to get emotional because there's a bunch of boys here and you guys don't get it. No, we do get it. But what I was trying to say to you is, this is what I was trying to say to you. And I understand, you know, the adversity and everything.
Starting point is 01:32:52 But for you to get better, you have to start to forgive. And then the people that deserve it the most on your forgiveness scale would probably start with the person that deserve it the most on your forgiveness scale would probably start with the person that gave you life. Like what he was saying with Mona Scott. I love my mama. The opportunity. People that gave you the opportunity.
Starting point is 01:33:12 I love my mom. I love Mona. I love all of them, but at the same time... You got to forgive them because they didn't have no rule book to how to go about it. They're forgotten.
Starting point is 01:33:21 They're not perfect. I forgive them and I love them, but to respect me and to love me is to do what? It's to focus on me. They're forgotten. They're not perfect. I forgive them and I love them, but to respect me and to love me is to do what? It's to focus on me. They're going to be there. If they want to be in my life, their doors are open.
Starting point is 01:33:31 Right. But I still have to focus on me because I'm still the same little... Sometimes you got to be the bigger person. But I'm still the same little... You got to be the bigger person. Can I tell you something? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:33:39 Can I tell you something, love? I'm still the same little girl that came from Puerto Rico. I'm still that girl. The tears is that. No, not the tears. My mind, my body, everything. I'm still that person.
Starting point is 01:33:52 That's not going to ever leave me. You need to understand that. And they also need to understand that, too. I got to respect myself, too. Yep. You can't. It's not, this is not about anyone but me. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:34:04 I don't care about anybody else. I can't It's not This is not about anyone But me Yeah I don't care about anybody else I can't If I do I'll die I can't care about anybody else I'm not going to do that I'm not about to start doing that They need to care about me
Starting point is 01:34:17 It's enough I've cared about people My whole life Now it's my turn For people to care about me I deserve that Yeah I deserve that
Starting point is 01:34:24 That's where I'm agreeing. Yes, I'm agreeing with you. I'm agreeing with you. And I'm going to take a shot because we're going to get back happy in this motherfucker. Yeah, we happy. Come on, let's get happy. Wait, hold on, hold on.
Starting point is 01:34:36 Hold on, hold on. This is a good tear. This is a good tear. You guys are my therapist right now. I feel like it. I ain't going to lie. You the first. You the first.
Starting point is 01:34:45 Yeah, you the first person. I'm happy. I have all boys to going to lie. I love it. I love it. Yeah, you're the first person. I'm happy I have all boys to be my therapist. This is awesome. Yes, yes, yes. And we got, because you know why we got your back. Because I don't cry in front of bitches. Bitches is like, they think it's a joke. And it's like, man, like, I cry in front of my friend, like, my management, Melissa.
Starting point is 01:35:00 Shout out to her. Like, I cry in front of her. I cry in front of Melissa. But in front of my daughter, my daughter be like, Mommy, don't cry. I'm here forever. So crying is trust for you? Yes. God damn, she trust drink cheers.
Starting point is 01:35:11 I trust drink cheers. Does she have another shot? And I'm going to tell you this. I know for a fact, I know for a fact, and I put my hands in fire, this has been the best interview with the best great energy y'all ever had. God damn it.
Starting point is 01:35:27 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Say it ain't so. Say it ain't so. Say it ain't so. Say it ain't so. Say it ain't so. Say it ain't so.
Starting point is 01:35:34 I got to take a shot with you. Where's your drink? Say it ain't so, though. Love, of course. Where's your drink? She don't have one? She got one. She got one?
Starting point is 01:35:40 Salud, salute. Salud. Listen, because our platform is about celebrating our artists. It's about celebrating our legends. It's about celebrating our people. And we want you to know that that's what we're here doing today. We are celebrating you.
Starting point is 01:35:52 Can I tell you something? Can I tell you something? Yes. The reason why this platform is the way it is is because of you. Thank you. No, no, listen.
Starting point is 01:35:59 Listen to me. Listen. We love you and you deserve your flowers. God damn. Listen, listen. Make sure niggas ain't smelling them in your flowers God damn Listen I stopped by Make sure niggas ain't smelling My shit
Starting point is 01:36:07 Listen I stopped by And I told them I said And I wanted to buy I wanted to buy you some jewelry I'm like oh my god No no
Starting point is 01:36:14 I'm rich too Like I'm like oh my gosh Like I have nothing I got the text last night I'm like I have to bring something I'm like I can't bring liquor They have everything that we need So I'm like
Starting point is 01:36:22 I know for a fact that Like everybody loves you Yes thank you I appreciate it like not because of nothing but how your heart yeah it's pure got a great heart so you have a good you got a good heart pure your wife got a good pure heart and you have a good team behind you but nobody will nobody will come sit down here and talk if you wasn't here. You're like legendary. I'm not trying to toot your horn, but I'm not sitting
Starting point is 01:36:51 I'm not, exactly. You're my sister. I would never like, I wouldn't like, it's like it's certain things I'm saying I'm going to do, but I was really excited to come here to sit down with you guys. I was excited for really excited to come here to sit down with you guys. We was excited for you to come here.
Starting point is 01:37:06 To sit down with you guys because I feel like... The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves. This medal is for the men who went down that day. It's for the families of those who didn't make it. I'm J.R. Martinez. I'm a U.S. Army veteran myself, and I'm honored to tell you the stories of these heroes on the new season of Medal of Honor, Stories of Courage from Pushkin Industries and iHeart Podcast. From Robert Blake, the first black sailor to be awarded the medal, to Daniel Daly, one of only 19 people to have received the Medal of Honor twice.
Starting point is 01:37:52 These are stories about people who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor, going above and beyond the call of duty. You'll hear about what they did, what it meant, and what their stories tell us about the nature of courage and sacrifice. Listen to Medal of Honor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. A lot of times the big economic forces we hear about on the news show up in our lives in small ways. Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding, but the price has gone up. So now I only buy one. The demand curve in action. And that's just one of the things we'll be covering on Everybody's Business from Bloomberg
Starting point is 01:38:36 Businessweek. I'm Max Chavkin. And I'm Stacey Vanek-Smith. Every Friday, we will be diving into the biggest stories in business, taking a look at what's going on, why it matters, and how it shows up in our everyday lives. But guests like Business Week editor Brad Stone, sports reporter Randall Williams, and consumer spending expert Amanda Mull will take you inside the boardrooms, the backrooms, even the signal chats that make our economy tick. Hey, I want to learn about VeChain. I want to buy some blockchain or whatever it is that they're doing. So listen to everybody's business on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network, hosted by me, writer and historian Dan Flores, and brought to you by Velvet Buck.
Starting point is 01:39:26 This podcast looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode, I'll be diving into some of the lesser-known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian Dr. Randall Williams and best-selling author and meat-eater founder Stephen Ranella. I'll correct my kids now and then. They author and meat eater founder Stephen Ranella. I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say when cave people were here. And I'll say it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today.
Starting point is 01:40:07 Listen to The American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I feel like this is like one of the greatest things that I could do as an artist is to come and sit down with you guys. God damn it. Did you hear what I said?
Starting point is 01:40:23 I got to take a shot to this. Come on. I got to guys. God damn it. I got to take a shot to this. Come on. I got to take a shot to this. I got to take a shot to this. Okay. All right. You know, loyalty and respect is always there. But I just figured one out based on what you said.
Starting point is 01:40:35 The View or Drink Champs? Oh, no, no. Leave it at all. Drink Champs. That's right. But that's a good... You co-hosted The View. Ain't nobody... Yes, you did. How was that? You co-hosted you Ain't nobody
Starting point is 01:40:45 No I co-hosted the real Oh okay okay The real So First of all the girls The girls was like They didn't know What the fuck was happening
Starting point is 01:40:55 So I was I was out there Talking about shit And they was all Looking at me It was really They actually sent me a contract They sent you a contract
Starting point is 01:41:03 Yes Because I mean They sent me a contract To They sent you a contract? Yes. Because, I mean, I swear. They sent me a contract to become one of the cast. Period. Wow. Yeah, because at that time, that's when Tamar has left to do bigger things. Okay.
Starting point is 01:41:15 That's when they sent me a contract. But I chose not to do it because I just always felt like I was so young to sit out there and just be talking. I need to shake this pussy. I was like, uh- pussy. I was like, uh-uh. I was like, I'm not doing that. The music.
Starting point is 01:41:29 You got a big, bright future. Let me tell you. Thank you. I'm like, I'm not finna sit down here. So they was like, okay,
Starting point is 01:41:35 we love you. I'm like, listen, thank you. Thank you. But I am not about to like, spend my early 30s, my late 20s,
Starting point is 01:41:42 here sitting down talking to y'all. I'm about to go shake my ass, go on tour, have a cabaret. I'm on my thirdall. I'm about to go shake my ass, go on tour, have a cabaret. I'm on my third season. I'm about to go on the fourth season.
Starting point is 01:41:48 I just did College Hill, come out in this month. I'm going back on tour. I'm with Drink Champs. Like, what the fuck? Like, it don't get no better than this, but that's where
Starting point is 01:42:01 you get my tears from because with much success comes much responsibility. So, if I'm not crying to my friends, who am I crying to? That's right. So, let me ask you though, is that something that you will ever...
Starting point is 01:42:12 Huh? The lighter? Lighter? Oh, my bad. Is that something you will ever get in? Because I see you like as a late night talk host. Definitely your own show. Your own show.
Starting point is 01:42:26 Is that something? That's a lot of responsibilities. Yes. Yeah and no. Because with technology nowadays, you can shoot four episodes in one day. And no one really knows. That is very stationary.
Starting point is 01:42:40 And I like to be free like a bird. I do not like any control. I like to have my own creative control. I like to be free like a bird. I do not like any control. I like to have my own creative control. I like to be free. I cannot work for the men. I got to go. I got shit to do. I got to be in Dubai, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos.
Starting point is 01:42:54 Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic. You know what I'm saying? Like, Idaho. Idaho. Idaho. You ever been to Haiti? Idaho!
Starting point is 01:43:03 I haven't been to Haiti, but I would love to go, and I am going because I love Haitian people. Haitian people, I like Puerto Rican people, Dominican people. They used to always think I was Haitian growing up. I can tell. Yeah, they always thought I was Haitian. So my fiance's best friend, he's a Haitian. My hairdresser's a Haitian. So I have a lot of Haitian people around me.
Starting point is 01:43:24 But I grew up with all Haitians in Rolando, though, because everybody that I went to school with was Haitian. Wow. Just saying, man. We're there. We're outside. You got to relax. You got to relax. You got to relax.
Starting point is 01:43:36 I'm mad I never learned how to speak Creole, because I'm like, damn, all my Haitian friends, they speak Spanish, but I never learned how to speak Creole. So I just always thought that was tough. Yeah, we speak every language. Yeah. We speak all of them. I literally told, I literally told my fucking hairdresser that the other day,
Starting point is 01:43:51 I'm like, fucking Haitians speak every fucking language. I'm like, the Puerto Ricans, we only speak, the Spanish people only speak two languages.
Starting point is 01:43:56 I'm like, Haitians speak every language. We created language. I'm like, so you get, you, what do you give him? He's going to take a mile.
Starting point is 01:44:04 I know he's talking shit, but them Haitians do be speaking a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I ain't going to lie. The first place we checked in, we checked in the Turks and Caicos, and the dude was Haitian. He knew every goddamn language.
Starting point is 01:44:18 Are you going tomorrow? I was. I am not anymore. Because my wife... Let me get you at home. I'll go tomorrow. My wife has a dinner because... You got to come to my wife's juice bar.
Starting point is 01:44:32 My wife has a dinner. She has a juice bar. Yeah, and she recently did a collab with Nike. With what? With Nike, yeah. Not even because she's my wife. She did a collab with Nike because they like her juice bar. And she had a two-day event, so they were celebrating her on Saturday.
Starting point is 01:44:49 Oh, I didn't even go. I didn't even go, yeah. I didn't even go. I was out of town. Yeah, but Saturday, yeah, Saturday, yeah, yeah. I'll be here. Yeah, so let me say congrats to my wife. I got to say that.
Starting point is 01:45:00 Yes! Man, we knew it. So let me ask you, because one of the things that was a major part of loving hip hop was when you and Stevie had like somewhat beef, he would always throw the management contract at your face and he'll be like, oh, well you, you can't come out or you can't perform or you can't do that. What was the difference between you being with Stevie and having under that contract and you now being with your fiance, but
Starting point is 01:45:27 you still under contract? What is the difference? You know, I truly respect Stevie. We're friends. We're friends. Yeah, now. We're friends. He... He's really pretty... He's a cool person.
Starting point is 01:45:44 I think that ladies grow faster than men grow That's correct No, no, you are correct I know that for a fact Yeah I know that for a fact Women are way more mature than men Not all men, I'm just saying
Starting point is 01:45:55 Well, not all of them But you know what I mean, like most So, like When I think about it now It's like funny to me Because it's like We share the same blood. Right.
Starting point is 01:46:05 Yeah. Beautiful, beautiful. Thank you. Yeah. We share the same blood. So when I really think about it now, it's funny because I know he ain't mean that. And I know he's very proud of me because he always be like, man, I'm proud of you. I hear your music.
Starting point is 01:46:19 That's dope. He always tells me that. That's dope. Always tell me that. He's like, I'm proud of you. That's dope. I hear your music. He talks to Ballistic. They talk to each other on me that. He's like, I'm proud of you. That's dope. I hear your music. He talks to Ballistic.
Starting point is 01:46:25 They talk to each other on the phone whenever they, whatever is happening or whatever. Right. They communicate. So it's like, he's like, now he's like a brother to me.
Starting point is 01:46:34 Right. Like, I want him, I want him to win. I expect him to win. Aw, one, two, three. And he wants to speak for you. Aw. Okay.
Starting point is 01:46:43 Okay, that's dope. I want him to do, I want him to do great So it's like When I think about it I think it's hilarious But I think we were both young Because even though
Starting point is 01:46:49 He was older than me He's a man So you guys mature A little bit slower than we do No it's true So it's like I'm a man I can say it On TV
Starting point is 01:46:57 Being young He had made billions of dollars I'm starting in the game He feels like he gave me An opportunity And it's like Yeah and we were like that. But I promise you, he is one of my closest friends.
Starting point is 01:47:09 He has to be. We share blood with the baby. My husband, but listen, my fiance has been raising Bonnie since she was two. But Stevie, through his hardest and his best to be there, when she tells him, man, I want to see you, he'll fly in time. He really tries to be in her life as much as he can and I have to say that
Starting point is 01:47:27 because it's true. So let me ask you because... And he feels... He loves his daughter. He wants to see her happy and he wants to see her and spend time with her and he does that
Starting point is 01:47:37 with all his children as much as he can, as much as you pressure them. You know, Bonnie's like, where the hell you at? You know? Let me ask you because when we Googled you online, it said that you had at one point lost custody.
Starting point is 01:47:48 Was that true? It was true. It was true? It was true. He was being super petty back in those days. And he felt like I wasn't trying to let him see Bonnie. But I wanted to go shoot the boot camp with Ballistic. And I left Bonnie with her grandmother.
Starting point is 01:48:03 And so when he called me, I'm like, listen, I'm at work. Bonnie is with theistic. And I left Bonnie with her grandmother. And so when he called me, I'm like, listen, I'm at work. Bonnie is with the grandma. You know, he's like, he did a move on me. He was like, man, you ain't going, you know,
Starting point is 01:48:12 it was one of those things where I really couldn't even answer the phone. Wow. You were like, he's, you know, he's trying to get his daughter. He wanted to spend time. I got a new man.
Starting point is 01:48:21 He's probably like, damn, she ain't going to never listen to me. But he wanted to like that. So he felt like he needed to go and get custody of Bonnie. He's probably like, damn, she ain't going to never let me see my wife. But he wanted to light that. So he felt like he needed to go and get custody of Bonnie. He had me really hot. But then when we went to court,
Starting point is 01:48:30 he missed court and I got her back. Got her right back. Because he missed court because he don't... No, he missed court because... He missed me too. No, he missed court
Starting point is 01:48:38 because he didn't give a fuck to me in court because he don't care. He was just trying to make sure that, oh my gosh, am I going to ever see my kid okay when he realized it went like that it's like I'm not gonna fight her like for what so I just thought he was we were you know it's probably been like six years so he had her he had custody of her for
Starting point is 01:48:56 like a month right which I knew I was gonna get her back it's not even that I get it do that right you know I'm saying I'm not I'm gonna be upset, but I'm not going to fight with you. So it was like two weeks there, two weeks here, two weeks there. But now I got custody, but he gets her. He gets her all the time.
Starting point is 01:49:11 He's in Miami all the time now, so he gets her. So it's like, listen, at the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have my husband take care of my daughter every day, and I'm very lucky to have her dad Stevie be in her life and come and
Starting point is 01:49:27 see her and they can all communicate and hang out and it's all love how long did it take to get to that place it's been a while I mean it's been a while a long time yeah it's been a while listen and you say I actually I actually he just got a divorce from his wife right he calls me I didn't even know he got married what do I'm like, what do you mean, where's Ballistic? He was married to who? To Faith. Oh, yeah. So he calls my phone, and look, I mean,
Starting point is 01:49:53 He divorced her already? I'm in the car with Bonnie, and he's like, where's Ballistic? Stevie outside, Stevie outside. I'm like, Ballistic is, I don't know where Ballistic is at, but I'm with Bonnie, you all right? I need to talk to Ballistic. I just got a divorce. And I was like, well, let me call him and see where he at.
Starting point is 01:50:11 So, like, he wanted to. It took like 10 years. He got divorced in one day. From the initial paperwork. I don't mean his business like that, but when I know he called and he was like, I want to talk. I want to celebrate with my bro, Ballistic. I'm like, Ballistic is not in the car with me and Molly. And chill, because me and Molly in the car. She's like, Spook, what do you mean you Ballistic. I'm like, Ballistic is not in the car with me and Miley. And chill, because me and Miley in the car.
Starting point is 01:50:25 She's like, Spook, what do you mean you got a divorce? She don't know what's going on. So it's like, we're that cool where we talk like that. And it's been years. I mean, I really think he's a great person, and I wish him the best from the bottom of my heart. I think that's just it. From the bottom of my heart.
Starting point is 01:50:38 But that's what I'm saying about you. To me, that's the growth in you. You know what I mean? Like me hearing you speak about certain people that was in your life like that, that's the growth in you you know what i mean like like like me hearing you speak about certain people that was in your life like that that that's that is the growth to me you know what i mean that's definitely the girl for me because niggas be played but no i tell you something i sent him all my great energy and i hope he gets back on top the same way he was when he made his millions of dollars and i believe in him and i hope he gets back on top the same way he was when he made his millions of dollars
Starting point is 01:51:05 and I believe in him and I know he gonna be alright. Yeah. Do you think that overall, was loving hip-hop good for you? It was the best thing that happened in my life. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:51:21 I started having Bonnie Bella. That's what you were saying. Actually. Mona Scott. You started having Bonnie Bella. Right. That's what you were saying. Actually. Mona Scott. You used the word, you know, loving hip hop and Mona Scott
Starting point is 01:51:30 is kind of like the same word. But it's not. But it's not. But it's not. No, it's not. I'm not going to get into it. I get that part. Because one is an entity
Starting point is 01:51:37 and one is a person that is part of the entity. It's two entities, basically. Pretty much. Because she's an entity herself. She's done a lot. Right. But, if it wasn't for Love and Hip Hop,
Starting point is 01:51:47 I wouldn't be here. Actually, Bonnie was born on a special that I executive produced my first time when I had Bonnie. I executive produced my first delivery special. That's how I became about being an owner and being an executive producer and a creator because when Bonnie was born on VH1,
Starting point is 01:52:00 she was born on TV. I had her in a water birth. Wow. And that was my first time ever producing a show when I had her. I didn't know you produced it. I know that show exists. I didn't know that. If I would have known better then, I would have owned it too, but I just executive produced, but now I own everything.
Starting point is 01:52:13 Wait, wait, wait, wait. So how does this happen? You said, I want to executive produce this? No, I didn't ask them. I told them. Okay. One thing you're going to learn about me, I don't ask for nothing. I tell what I want. So you went to the... When I speak to my universe The way I am with people The love I give
Starting point is 01:52:30 The energy that I give out The words that come out of my mouth The sexiness I literally worked my whole life To be the most desirable woman in the world When I speak to my universe My universe owes me what I ask for I like it
Starting point is 01:52:43 I give you what I give you You're going to give me what you need to give me. If not, I'm going to be a nasty bitch and you don't want me to be nasty, bitch. I'll burn you the whole fucking down. Universe, no more universe. You fuck with me. Don't burn some shit. Everybody down. Everybody dead. So when that
Starting point is 01:52:58 bitch, that bitch, that bitch know, don't fuck with me. Because I could just be just as destructive. But I'm not going to do that. Because I don't like that. I don't like that me because I could just be just as destructive but I'm not going to do that because I don't like that I don't like that I like love I don't like destruction
Starting point is 01:53:08 I could get there I could get there that bitch know not to fuck with me so respectfully I ask for what I want every morning and I receive let me ask you because this is my friend
Starting point is 01:53:19 he just walked in his name is Eddie the ass eater there it is but remember her if she's going there it's only going to be women Eddie the ass eater. There it is. That's it. But remember, her, if she's going there, it's only going to be women.
Starting point is 01:53:30 Listen. No, no, no. I want to ask. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I'm married. No, but what I want to ask is, when you hear somebody, hold on, when you hear somebody
Starting point is 01:53:37 named Eddie the ass eater, as a woman that wasn't, if he wasn't married, he wasn't getting, what, is that attractive or should we change his name? Because he's clearly an ass eater. I think it fits him.
Starting point is 01:53:51 Yeah. No love in your face. It's all over. It's official. Yeah. Your name will never change. It fits him. If he was a woman. I ain't another woman. He fits him. If he was a woman, would he fit the Johnson to meet your...
Starting point is 01:54:12 He thought, listen, he looks like a man only. He's giving all man. But if he was a girl... And he got the Goonie shirt on. Between the cheeks. But he's not a man. He's not a woman. He's not a woman. He's a whole man.
Starting point is 01:54:26 That's a man right there. That's a real man right there. You can't see him as a woman at all. No. All right. No. Okay, I got it. I'm just trying to see if his face can get in between the cheek.
Starting point is 01:54:37 Nah, he's a real... If he's a woman. That's a whole man right there. No, no. So when we said, yo, we book at Johnson, the whole group was like, jeez, what the shit? We live. We live. Listen, I... That's like, jeez, what the shit? We lit. That's why she wins. I'm really excited to be here with all of you guys.
Starting point is 01:54:50 We excited you're here. We're excited. I'm excited. I know I was like, too. I was late, but it was a lot. I had to get myself together. And I could not disrespect the best show in the world. That's right.
Starting point is 01:55:03 You win it for you. Come here. Like, not looking like a bad bitch. No, come on. And then, you know, I had to get the baby. I had to get my baby to school in the morning. I had to do my yoga. I told you yoga saved my life.
Starting point is 01:55:16 So I know I was saying I apologize. Sorry to anyone. No, you're good. Thank you. Thank you for waiting. But this is like, you know, this is great. I want to say something about your yoga. We celebrate our people. This is great to be here. And it's not, you know what? this is like you know this is great I want to say something about your yoga
Starting point is 01:55:25 we celebrate our people this is great to be here and it's not you know what can I tell you something you want to celebrate the people but sometimes you cannot
Starting point is 01:55:33 because people are so dumb they come here they come here with this prior yeah they come here with this prior assumption that you guys
Starting point is 01:55:42 are going to be assholes it's like let's not let's not direct so much let's be real from the heart and that's how guys are going to be assholes. It's like, let's not direct so much. Let's be real from the heart. And that's how you're going to always win. And I just feel like you guys always take it
Starting point is 01:55:52 back to realness, but it's a lot of people that come here and it's like, they can't handle it. It's not, because you know why? Because they're so fucking fake.
Starting point is 01:55:58 And it's like, they be in a rush to go nowhere. It's like, everything is so planned. It's like, you know? I love it.
Starting point is 01:56:04 I don't give a fuck. Keep going. Keep going. She's right. And I got to take another planned. It's like, you know? I love it. I don't give a fuck. Keep going. Keep going. She's right. I got to take another shot. I got to snuck you another shot. I'm going to fuck you up. No, I'm just being honest. We're celebrating you. This is all you, Salou. Who driving me home, eh? Yes. Eh, you got to leave your car behind.
Starting point is 01:56:18 Where's Melissa? He went to get Bonnie? Yeah. My husband went to get the baby. Look, that's it. Salou. Salou. That's it Salo Salo That's it I tell you what He's the best man I ever had in my life I ain't gonna lie
Starting point is 01:56:28 This is for Ballistic Let's go there again One, two, three One, two, three Thank you guys for those I'm gonna be honest I knew Ballistic Before I met you And I'm gonna be honest honest. I knew Ballistic before I met you.
Starting point is 01:56:46 And I'm going to be honest with you. I'm not trying to, like, you know, talk your back what I am. I never see him smile like how I see him smile with you. And that is, like, that's beautiful for my man. See, the only thing we want is a lady to compliment us us back you know i'm saying like that's that's like i know like that's giving up a little man game like because we're in a man castle but when i see a man meet a woman and his gestures change and his posture change and everything and i see
Starting point is 01:57:21 that with you and him and i love that And I know how to say it Because I remember Nas telling me one day He ain't just leaning over Don't talk about Nas Because if I was not married to Ballistic But I remember Nas Don't do that Let me tell you something
Starting point is 01:57:37 Let me tell you something Ballistic is No, listen Ballistic is the only man that I desire But if he was another man in the world I didn't want to go there, dude If. But if he was another man in the world... I didn't want to go there, dude. If he was...
Starting point is 01:57:47 If he was another man... Let me tell you something. If I didn't get married to that... Ballistic is African. I love him. And we are married. I just don't tell people. Yeah, you didn't get married.
Starting point is 01:57:56 Listen, listen. Yeah, you did. I say fiance, but we're married. By papers. You can Google that. It's all out there. Because you and Stevie said y'all was married at one point, too. No, but you can go online right now.
Starting point is 01:58:05 Okay, wow. You can go online right now and put them papers up. Legit. Did we take a shot to that? I feel like we should take a shot to that. Why not?
Starting point is 01:58:12 I'm sorry, Jamie. I'm sorry. I feel like we... How did we not take a shot? You know I'm good. I didn't want to talk about it because I got a wedding special coming out.
Starting point is 01:58:20 Oh! Oh! That's for real That's why I kept That's why I kept That's why I kept saying Fiance Cause
Starting point is 01:58:29 You know I got Carly Sheil coming out next month And then I got it With BET Plus And then I got it Running special with BET Plus I was I was
Starting point is 01:58:40 I was trying not to say nothing That's why I kept calling him My fiance But fuck it That's my husband And so you know Like He's the most amazing thing That happened to me Honey. That's why I kept calling him my fiance. But fuck it, that's my husband. And so, you know, like, he's the most amazing thing that happened to me, honey. But Mr. Nas.
Starting point is 01:58:49 I like that. I listen to Blue Bands every day. And I'm going to tell you who put me onto that song. Ballistic. Wow. But let me ask you, as a person, you know, you had a very public relationship that, you know,
Starting point is 01:59:01 ended in public. Was it hard for you to jump into another relationship like that? I hope everything that we talk about right here goes on this tape. Oh, no. We don't edit. Y'all don't edit? No.
Starting point is 01:59:10 Good. How long is the episodes? We don't give a fuck. Three, four, five hours. How much y'all want to bet this is the highest episode y'all ever watched? You keep saying that. We're going to hold you up to it. We're going to hold you up to it, y'all.
Starting point is 01:59:21 We're going to hold you up to it. I'm going to take my five. Oh, I got to take my five? Hey, what's the? How do you call yourself? Jamie. Definitely not Spanish. How?
Starting point is 01:59:30 What's your name? Jamie. Russian? Dutch. Oh, honey. Listen. No mas alcohol. What that mean?
Starting point is 01:59:38 All right, this is it. Come on. No more alcohol. Salud. Salud. Don't come over here with nothing. Salud. Salud.
Starting point is 01:59:42 All right. You got to take it or it don't count. No, don't give me no more. Y'all got to go home to my baby. This is the last one. I'm going to fuck your life. What does that mean? This is the last one.
Starting point is 01:59:51 Make sure she knows, okay? What was the question I just asked? I was so into that. What was that? I don't remember either. Damn, all y'all high motherfuckers. No, no, no, no. I said, so how, was it hard from jumping from, you know,
Starting point is 02:00:07 like you and Stevie J was really, really, really, really public, right? And then, you know, everyone knows it didn't work out. But then was it hard to trust somebody else? No, because I, okay, so when I was pregnant with Bonnie Bella, I didn't have any sex with Stevie because we were separated. And I was without a man for three years. Basically, the whole time I was pregnant a man for three years. Basically, the whole time I was pregnant.
Starting point is 02:00:27 And then two years. But at least it came into my life when Bonnie was two. And so, I was like free. I was waiting for the right guy. And then I played my cards right and he was it.
Starting point is 02:00:37 He still got to work for it every mother... Hey, look. He got... Congratulations, my brother. He got papers on this ass But he not finna get this pussy Just because
Starting point is 02:00:47 Listen man We heard you loud and clear I'm a lady I'm a lady And I like nice things And then I feel like Really in life Like people need to learn
Starting point is 02:00:55 How to respect each other Whether it's a woman or a man I brought you guys flowers Cause I don't care If you guys are Men He said he never had flowers before I'm so happy I brought him
Starting point is 02:01:03 Cause I'm like I'm Don't do him like that Stop it Let me tell y'all something He is one of my best friends But he don't deserve no goddamn flowers I was mad when you beat for him
Starting point is 02:01:17 Listen Everybody listen Where's EF in that when you need him You made me feel special Thank you, baby. Can I say something? You are special. You are special.
Starting point is 02:01:31 That's my friend. That's my brother. You're my friend. We had lunch. Go ahead. Same. We had lunch. Meaning, people have a misconception of you.
Starting point is 02:01:44 Oh, can you say that loud for the back to hear you? People have a misconception of you. Thank you. What would you say to those people? This is drink champs, not water champs. Right. But she might need a little peace. No mas, look.
Starting point is 02:02:00 Oh, she going in. Yo, but listen, I'm going to be honest. The fact that you're Puerto Rican, you have to keep drinking. Can I say something? I'm being honest. Okay, let's talk about that. Let's talk about...
Starting point is 02:02:10 What is the misconception? Because I... Okay. Listen, this was pre-pandemic when we was at Houston's. You know, we had a great time.
Starting point is 02:02:21 I even had dinner with her at a vegan spot. I know we both wasn't vegan. We had dinner a lot of a vegan spot. I know we both wasn't vegan. We had dinner a lot of times. Remember the vegan spot we went with Stiles Me?
Starting point is 02:02:29 I know you did not like it. But wait, the vegetable tasted like chicken though. They don't know this girl. Can I get some water? Yeah, you go get the water. Yes, I'm fucking with you.
Starting point is 02:02:40 No, no, no. It was great. I know. I had a great time because y'all was there. I love Stiles Me. They were there. Everybody was there. They don't know who, listen. It was great. I know. I had a great time because y'all was there. I love Stiles B. And they were there. Everybody was there.
Starting point is 02:02:47 But they don't know who she is. That was, what was the name of this? Planta. Planta. Planta is actually a good vegan spot. It is. It is. So the question is.
Starting point is 02:02:55 Yes, I had a great time. So the question is, what's the biggest misconception about you? I already know what it is. They lost. Which one it is? No, I already know. What they think about John Cena,
Starting point is 02:03:08 Puerto Rican princess, oh, they are all over the place. That's TV land. But what's yours? What did you see the most? The biggest misconception? Misconception about you that you see every day.
Starting point is 02:03:21 Maybe it hurts. That I'm not the greatest. Okay, girl. I like that. greatest. Mmm. Okay, girl. I like that. Great answer. Okay, girl. Okay, girl. I'll take it.
Starting point is 02:03:30 See, now, but now you fucking me up. And they do it on purpose. Because now I want to take a shot to that. See, you fucking it up. Yeah, they be booking. Yes.
Starting point is 02:03:37 And I know she's good. She's good people. Okay. Cool. Let me ask you. Human-wise. Okay, you feel me? And artistry-wise.
Starting point is 02:03:44 Ain't nobody, hold up, hold up, hold up. We got that. Hold up, let's get before the music. Hold up, before the music. Hold up, let me ask you Human wise Okay you finished And artistry wise Ain't nobody Hold up We got that Hold up Let's get before the music Hold up before the music How many years I entertain the people
Starting point is 02:03:51 A long 2012 2013 Thank you baby You're still here Still winning Still here Still winning
Starting point is 02:03:58 That's it Before anything else I entertain You know You know all the ladies Because I think people Be thinking You can't even say hi to her,
Starting point is 02:04:06 she's going to slap you in the face. Oh, no, honey. Why would I do that? I'm just saying. I don't think people think... But they do, though. They do, because my makeup and my hair... Definitely my makeup, Candy,
Starting point is 02:04:15 she's always like, you know what, Jocelyn? Everybody always asks me how you are and this and that. And she's like, she's so fucking cool. She's like the sweetest person. Super cool.
Starting point is 02:04:22 She's the sweetest person ever. But can I tell you something? How I knew I was the one? During COVID, I wrote this song called Campesino. Who know what Campesino means? Okay, I'm a campesina. I'm a campesina, right?
Starting point is 02:04:39 So I wrote this song, Campesina. What does it mean? What does Campesina mean? Country. Country. Yeah, but it's different. It's different in Spanish. So during COVID, I don't know. What does country mean? Country. Country. Country. Yeah, but it's different. It's different in Spanish. So, doing COVID-
Starting point is 02:04:48 . Exactly. And I have- I don't trust his English. So, look, this is- It's not in English. This is very important. I want y'all to hear-
Starting point is 02:04:56 I got a spraise of greed. I got a spraise of greed. What? Spraise of greed, yes. I like it when- I want y'all to hear this, because this is very important. I'm in. This is very important to your question. I like it. I want you to hear this because this is very important. I'm in. This is very important to your question.
Starting point is 02:05:07 I like it. On what people... You said you asked me what people... I think people don't view you well. What is it? Misconception. Misconception. Misconception.
Starting point is 02:05:15 How about me? This is the answer. Thank you. I have to tell you. I have to answer your question, but this is a great answer. Okay. So, during COVID, I was waking up at five in the morning every day, right?
Starting point is 02:05:31 And I was writing a lot of music. Every morning I would wake up and I would write. I started writing when I was five. Look at the numbers. Look how the numbers align. Look how the numbers align. I started writing when I was five. I used to write letters to my mom that were very detailed. My mom was like,
Starting point is 02:05:46 how do you write these letters? This is crazy. I was writing better than my mother when I was five. See? No, I used to write my mother letters and my mom would tell me, how am I writing these letters at five? Because I was using big words.
Starting point is 02:06:02 Did she go to school, your mom? Yeah, she went to school, but I don't think she graduated, though. But she went to school. I asked, because my mom never went. Yeah, I didn't graduate, but she went to school. Maybe she did. I don't know. I don't think she did. I don't think she did, but I'm not sure.
Starting point is 02:06:18 Y'all brothers or something? Yeah, come on. Both of they moms didn't go to school. First of all, we the first. Damn, y'all don't make me forget what the fuck I was... What was I talking about, man? in the Dominican Republic. Yeah, come on. Both of they moms think it was cool. First of all, we the first. So, damn, y'all don't make me forget what the fuck I was... What was I talking about, man?
Starting point is 02:06:27 They don't make me forget. No, I'm so sorry. Misconception. Thank you, misconception. Thank you, baby. So, misconception, right? He and his mothers out here bullshitting.
Starting point is 02:06:37 That's why we... We trying to tell you... Let me tell you. Let me tell you the misconceptions. Hold on. Before I forget. So, basically,
Starting point is 02:06:46 basically the biggest misconception about me, right? So, my mom used to say, what the hell? Bonnie, my daughter goes to that's like top school in the country. It's top school in the country. It's A, B. You got a C, you kicked out.
Starting point is 02:07:00 She earned that spot. There's no money that I could possibly pay if she was an idiot. Like, you have to be a genius and you have to have a certain IQ to go to that school. And she was on the waiting list for, it's supposed to be a year. She was only two months. They was like, we want her. She's like a scientist. She builds, she builds, she's built, but I built, I build shows. I build shows. She builds space. She built spaceships. So, um, you know, I was always a great writer. I was always a great writer. I was always the best at what I wrote.
Starting point is 02:07:26 You know what I'm saying? Always, always, always, always the best writer. So the biggest, how do you say? Misconception. Misconception. About me is that I'm not the best because it's like, I've been doing this my whole life. Right.
Starting point is 02:07:40 You know what I'm saying? I wrote this song, Campesino, during COVID because throughout the COVID and throughout the last six years of my life, I've learned that the world needs to hear me. These birthday songs, Vegas songs, TikTok songs, that's cool. Come on, guys. That's cool.
Starting point is 02:08:00 Let's do it like it's Aubrey Day. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. That's cool. Let's do it like it's Auburn Day. That's cool. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. That's cool. That's cool. But when I really knew a few years back during the COVID that I couldn't stop doing music, no matter how hard it was, it's because they have to listen to what I have to say. Because I have to say certain things from where I come from that the kids need to hear that.
Starting point is 02:08:24 Because if they don't nobody would tell them and I knew that's when I knew that I had to do the music I don't care about the music
Starting point is 02:08:33 fuck these people you think I give a fuck about shaking my fat Puerto Rican good pussy on stage for these niggas you really think you think
Starting point is 02:08:41 what you really think what you really think what you really think I can't what you really what. But you really think I care? And then you talk about your Puerto Rican face. But you really think I care? The tears go back in my face. You really think I care?
Starting point is 02:08:52 You really think? You really think? Just. You really think at my grown age, you really think at my grown age that I'm pressed for that? You really think that? Or do you really understand the fact that I was touched by my ancestors and the way I write, the way I write,
Starting point is 02:09:11 the way I pen. Things that nobody heard that I wrote four or five years ago, that's timeless. Like Hector Lebeau. You're talking about Mark Anthony. Mark Anthony ain't nobody to Hector Lebeau. Hector Lebeau is like 50 years compared to the 25 years. This ain't no,
Starting point is 02:09:28 this ain't, this ain't no, you can't compare the two. Do you understand what I'm saying? So things that I wrote during COVID that I can't listen to,
Starting point is 02:09:36 I cry when I listen to certain of my songs. Campesina. It's so detailed. I'm a fucking campesina. I'm supposed to be nobody, my nigga. I'm supposed to be nothing. I'm supposed to be nothing I'm supposed to be
Starting point is 02:09:47 I'm supposed to be a fat bitch Goddamn growing vegetables In the fucking country In Puerto Rico I'm not supposed to be who I am I'm not supposed to be who I am I'm supposed to be Living happy with my husband
Starting point is 02:10:00 We both fight a thousand pounds With the babies They all 500, 600 pounds We grow Eating Baking the pork Baking the pork with my husband, we both fight a thousand pounds with the babies. They all fight a hundred, six hundred pounds. We grow up in, in, in, making a point, making a point. I'm not,
Starting point is 02:10:09 I'm not supposed to be that and I was cool with being that. And guess what? I'm still cool with, I'm still cool with being that but I have to,
Starting point is 02:10:17 I have a job to do. The job is to let people hear, the kids hear. Inspire. Because you know what I got to say? What I got to say
Starting point is 02:10:23 is very important. You know why? Because I cried a lot of nights. I cried a lot of nights to get what I got. We're so glad you're here. I'm so glad you're here. That's why.
Starting point is 02:10:34 We're glad you're here. Let me ask you something. This is something that we've never seen in hip-hop and music business. Right now, Blac Chyna is like being the total opposite of what she was supposed to be.
Starting point is 02:10:49 She deserves that. And I believe her. She deserves that. I see why she's doing that. She deserves that. I believe it. Can I tell you, and I'm glad as a man. She's helping a lot of people.
Starting point is 02:10:58 I'm glad as a man you see that, because I could see bullshit. I'm different. You're a man. I'm different. What do you mean by that? Say that again. I'm glad that a man could see bullshit. I'm different. You're a man. I'm different. What do you mean by that? Say that again? I'm glad that a man could see that
Starting point is 02:11:06 because Black Shina or a girl like me, we didn't have the opportunity to really love who we were and what we look like because we didn't have the mother to teach us that or the fathers or anybody.
Starting point is 02:11:20 Some napkins, Jamie. So she deserves to go back and fix ourselves. Right. That to go back and fix herself. Right. That's the least she could do. That's real. I like that, that she took out
Starting point is 02:11:31 all of the this, all of the that. She's even the nails. She's like, nah. I don't wear nails. I haven't worn nails in so long. In so long?
Starting point is 02:11:40 No nails? I don't do none of that. That's so weird. That's crazy. I have to come in here looking good. It's my job. I have to get in here looking good. It's my job. I have to get my hair done, get my makeup done.
Starting point is 02:11:47 But when I'm at home, I'm in yoga pants. You know what I've always said? If I was a woman, if I was a woman, I'd step out every day with no makeup, nothing, because I know whoever hollered at me. They like it for you. They like it for you. That's why you're not a woman, dude.
Starting point is 02:12:07 You wouldn't need makeup if you was a woman, Sarah. Yeah, and your friends ain't shit. You want the guy to like you for you, right? It's true. It's very true. I'm stepping out with no makeup this night because I know whoever holler at me. No, you know what? He's kind of right. If I was a woman.
Starting point is 02:12:24 And I hate agreeing with you, and you know that. I hate agreeing. I don't want to agree with know what? He's kind of right. If I was a woman... And I hate agreeing with you and you know that. I hate agreeing. I don't want to agree with you but it's kind of right. That would be the point. So when you do this and you do that
Starting point is 02:12:32 and you do all this other stuff, you are inviting guys that just want to smash. That's all I'm just You're kind of right. I hate agreeing. Why do you feel... And they don't want to... They're not thinking long term with you. They're just thinking short term. Okay hate agreement Why do you feel And they don't want to
Starting point is 02:12:45 They're not thinking long term with you They're just thinking Okay but why do you But why do you feel like we're doing it for y'all I don't feel that way Because guess what Sexist conversation I'm out of it
Starting point is 02:12:56 I'm just witnessing I am Let's go 51 Savage Yes 51 Savage That's Show your ID Show your ID Yes, 51 Savage. Show your ID.
Starting point is 02:13:07 Show your ID. Show your chest ID. Show your AARP card. 51. Can I do something funny? 51, can you do something funny? We go places, they be like, give us an ID. But, no, no.
Starting point is 02:13:23 Oh, yeah. When they ask me for ID, I pull my shirt down and they go like, I me some ID. But. But. No, no. Oh, yeah. When they ask me for ID, I pull my shirt down. And they go like, I'm so sorry. I'm being disrespectful. Sorry. But that was always my thing. By the way, you're the only person I know with nappy chest hair.
Starting point is 02:13:39 I think everybody got nappy hair or something. Yeah, I ain't going to lie. Buster Curly. I ain't going to lie. I can't do hair. Buster got ass curl. But listen to me. You can't do hair on the chest? No, but listen, don't have. The ones that he do, he go through with a shaver. No, I'm still curly. I ain't going to lie. I can't do hair. My shit got ass curls. But listen to me. You can't do hair on the chest? No, but listen,
Starting point is 02:13:45 don't have, the ones that he do, he go through with a shaver. No, I'm confused. I ain't going to lie. Because you a Puerto Rican princess. I don't need all that. You can't do chest hairs.
Starting point is 02:13:56 I shaved my underarms once. I got to go back and shave my underarms. You can do it. So you can't do hair. Shampoo said that to me the other day. But you can do piss.
Starting point is 02:14:04 Yo, my underarm hair is like, oh, yes. My you can't do hair. Shampoo said that to me the other day. But you can do piss. Yo, my underarm hair is curling. Oh, yes. My underarm hair is curling. I said, wait a minute. And then shampoo said that. I was so offended. She was. You know I love her more.
Starting point is 02:14:15 I'm sorry. I love her more. What? She said, I can't do hair. So I can do piss. It's a little. It's like a. Listen, I respect her.
Starting point is 02:14:33 That's a champ. So look, here's the thing. 51, can you do something for me? But listen, remember, I've never, I've never got golden shower on. I do all the showering. The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable,
Starting point is 02:14:57 showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves. This medal is for the men who went down that day. It's for the families of those who didn't make it. I'm J.R. Martinez. I'm a U.S. Army veteran myself, and I'm honored to tell you the stories of these heroes on the new season of Medal of Honor, Stories of Courage from Pushkin Industries and iHeart Podcast. From Robert Blake, the first black sailor to be awarded the medal,
Starting point is 02:15:23 to Daniel Daly, one of only 19 people to have received the Medal of Honor twice. These are stories about people who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor going above and beyond the call of duty. You'll hear about what they did, what it meant, and what their stories tell us about the nature of courage and sacrifice. Listen to Medal of Honor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. A lot of times the big economic forces we hear about on the news show up in our lives in small ways. Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, So now I only buy one. The demand curve in action. And that's just one of the things we'll be covering on Everybody's Business from Bloomberg Businessweek. I'm Max Chavkin.
Starting point is 02:16:16 And I'm Stacey Vanek-Smith. Every Friday, we will be diving into the biggest stories in business, taking a look at what's going on, why it matters, and how it shows up in our everyday lives. But guests like Businessweek editor Brad Stone, sports reporter Randall Williams, and consumer spending expert Amanda Mull will take you inside the boardrooms, the backrooms, even the signal chats that make our economy tick. Hey, I want to learn about VeChain. I want to buy some blockchain or whatever it is that they're doing. So listen to Everybody's Business on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 02:16:55 The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network, hosted by me, writer and historian Dan Flores, and brought to you by Velvet Buck. This podcast looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode, I'll be diving into some of the lesser known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian, Dr. Randall Williams, and bestselling author and meat eater founder, Stephen Ranella. I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say when cave people were here.
Starting point is 02:17:26 And I'll say, it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to The American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Yes. So if you're going to piss on somebody,
Starting point is 02:17:57 does it matter if they're hairy or not? You're the one doing the peeing. Well, I will only pee on a lady and my bitches get waxed. What if she's hairy? Nah. You want to wax
Starting point is 02:18:12 before you pee? I need to see that pussy. I need to see what the fuck on it. So you want the shit going to it? I need to see the inside.
Starting point is 02:18:19 But you see when we got hair on us, shit don't get in our pores. So you want them to be shit. Okay, hold on. Let me ask one question. All right. So how does this... I'm sorry. I don't get in our pores. So you want them to be shit. Okay, hold on. Let me ask one question. All right.
Starting point is 02:18:26 So how does this... I'm sorry. I don't know how this shit go. I'm trying to learn. So... Educate everyone. Only ladies. Only ladies.
Starting point is 02:18:33 Well, first of all, look. I've only been married for a short time, so I haven't had a threesome with my husband yet. Oh, shit. Can't wait to... And I haven't had a sex...
Starting point is 02:18:41 I haven't had sex with a lady since I've been with Ballistic, right? Aw. One, two, three. Oh, man. Not that I don't want to. It doesn't matter. You're compromised.
Starting point is 02:18:56 You're good. Well, I can't cheat. I can't cheat, right? Because I love him. I love him dearly, so I can't cheat. That is dope. No, I would bring her home. I would bring her home.
Starting point is 02:19:05 Listen, let me get this right. If I get, he get. You know what I'm saying? But here's the thing. This is what I'm trying to tell you. We haven't found... Well, here's what we always talked about. We always talked about
Starting point is 02:19:20 eating out of the country. See? I'm sorry Together Yeah You eat He eat And we're not talking about food Together
Starting point is 02:19:29 But y'all both eat We got to Yeah Everybody eats me Mmm Y'all taking that Harlem shit too far So we talked about that But
Starting point is 02:19:38 If The times that I have done Cold in the shower You know what I'm saying I'm I'm never gonna really Fuck no bitch Without paying her I ain't gonna never I shower, you know what I'm saying? I'm never going to really fuck no bitch without paying her.
Starting point is 02:19:47 I ain't going to never, I ain't going to never like, I'm not, like I'm not going to ever have a lady in my bed without giving her some money at the end. I'm not going to ever do that.
Starting point is 02:19:54 Listen, would you consider that if you stay on this one? I'm not going to ever do that. You're tricking. Yeah, yeah, stay on this one. Yeah, I'm the biggest trick in life.
Starting point is 02:20:01 Okay, that's all I want to say. It ain't tricking if you got it. Yeah, that's it. It ain't tricking if you got it. Yeah, that's it. It ain't tricking if you got it. Respect. 100 shows. You back in the drinking game?
Starting point is 02:20:09 You back in the drinking game? I ain't never stopped. I just stopped taking the shot. You got a sip or it don't count? No, no, I stopped taking the shot. All right, don't count. And we got more aces paid. I got $40.
Starting point is 02:20:19 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Give us some more aces paid. No more shots. I got $40. You know what I'm saying? You got 51 savage going crazy. No, no, no. Well, listen I'm 40. You know what I'm saying? You got 51 Savage going crazy. No, no, no. Listen.
Starting point is 02:20:27 Old people. You know, we old. I'm old. I got $40. Jonathan, what can I get for $40 in Miami? That's a question. Okay. In Miami, shit.
Starting point is 02:20:39 You could get a lot of shit. You could get a lot. You could get a lot. You could get a golden shower for $40. You could go to... What's the name of that strip club over there? I forget. PMP.
Starting point is 02:20:51 Pussy Amp. Pussy Amp. Booby Trap. Booby Trap gonna get you far with that. Oh, Booby Trap? Gonna get you far with that. Oh, shit. $40.
Starting point is 02:20:57 Booby Trap gonna get you far with that. I ain't going there. I ain't going there. No, they not talking Booby Trap on the river. She might be talking about... Booby Trap on the river. She might be talking about booby trap on the river. Booby trap 24. Booby trap on the river going to get you fired with that 40 bucks.
Starting point is 02:21:11 Listen, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Listen, listen. Let me tell you something. Hold on, guys. I got to go. I got to go, guys. Listen.
Starting point is 02:21:23 Listen, a lady like me, a lady like me, a lady like me, I'm going to spoil the ladies, right? So I'm going to take you out of the country. I'm going to let you shop. I'm going to give you some money. Oh, you ain't got no money. I'm going to send you $500,000, $1,500,000, $2,000, $2,500,000, whatever.
Starting point is 02:21:39 I can move around that day because I'm never broke, but it's always about moving money the right way. So I'm like, you know, you might have to wait a few days, but I'm going to always look out for the ladies.
Starting point is 02:21:49 If I have any thought of getting you there or anything, I'm going to always be nice and make sure you're straight. You know what I'm saying? Because I'm a lady. I would want to be
Starting point is 02:21:57 treated like that. That's the only reason why I do it. If they don't have it. No, I would want to be treated like that by my husband. If you treat the ladies like that, if they don't have it.
Starting point is 02:22:07 I don't care if they don't have it or not. I'm still doing what I'm doing. And all bitches like gifts. It don't have to be what you got. They all like it. Like, you like, why wouldn't you give a lady a gift because you think she's rich or wealthy? I like to give her flowers. You crazy.
Starting point is 02:22:21 Yeah, not just flowers. You got to give her some money. We want money. Fuck all that. Are you still staying? You'll be on and off. They like flowers. You crazy. Yeah, not just flowers. You got to give us some money. We want money. Fuck all that. Are you still staying? Because you be on and off.
Starting point is 02:22:28 I don't like you charming in or her shit. In my mind, I can see Lee getting pissed on, man. Why? I can see her laying down. I can see Lee laying down like this. Wait, what did you say, Sonny? You said- I said, in my mind, I can see Lee laying down like this.
Starting point is 02:22:41 And like 10 women pissing on him. 10 women. Dominican style. I'm not going to lie. you say, Sonny? You say, I say in my mind I can see you laying down like this. And like, ten women pissing on him. He look freaking fire. The Dominican style. I don't give a fuck
Starting point is 02:22:50 with that peach shirt on. Peach shirt on? Oh, you just put your peach shirt on. Did he bring you a fan set? You know, he like... Would you piss on a guy
Starting point is 02:22:58 with a peach shirt? Why is your ear so red? Well, I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't piss on no other guy but Ballistic if he lets me Okay
Starting point is 02:23:05 But he don't let me Ballistic you better relax You better not do it He my friend He don't let me do it Yes But he peed on me before In the shower
Starting point is 02:23:12 I gotta use the bathroom Right now I've been holding I'm gonna use the bathroom Right now You're gonna use the bathroom I was holding my shit too Oh Okay Yeah Have you Have you ever seen Golden Oh wait I was holding my shit too. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 02:23:26 Have you ever seen golden, oh wait, have you ever seen golden shower toilet porn? No. That's not the category. Y'all ain't gonna say shit. That ain't freaks. Look at my friend Diego.
Starting point is 02:23:42 Do you see his face? Look how appalled he is. Your wife pissed on your face. You got those eyes. Does he look it? No, he has a face. He goes to Columbia. He goes to Columbia.
Starting point is 02:23:57 Oh, you do all type of freaking shit there. Oh, my god. Don't, please. When you talk to me, talk to me from back there, because I know what you're doing, Columbia. Yes, we all know what he does in Columbia. That Columbia bitch is stepping on your face with their ass.
Starting point is 02:24:16 They doing ass. You know what the Columbia bitches should do? Hey, they doing face mothering on your ass in Columbia. I know they are. Look, he laughing. Did you guys hear that? That face mothering on your ass in Colombia. I know they are. Look, he laughing. Did you guys hear that? Face mothering. Hold on.
Starting point is 02:24:31 Hold on. Did you say face mothering? I don't know what that means. I don't know what that means. Face smothering. Never heard it. Smothering. Please explain.
Starting point is 02:24:39 Ed. Where's my potato? Ed. Ed. Ed, the ass eater right here. Ed, the ass eater Right here Ed the ass eater Ed the ass eater Ed
Starting point is 02:24:47 Come on this side And take some pictures Of the table for me Oh you're talking about Your photographer Okay alright alright cool We're here together But what is
Starting point is 02:24:55 I was saying What's face mothering Yeah So you never So you never had a big old You never had a big old Haitian good fat black Big old asshole
Starting point is 02:25:03 Smother your face My face My face Your face nigga Girl Listen I don't even got Pimples man You know what I'm saying Like you can tell
Starting point is 02:25:12 There ain't nobody Greased me up Like I ain't been outside You ain't got the right Bitch to suck your Young ass out I ain't been outside Yeah you didn't
Starting point is 02:25:20 Bitch to suck you out Cause he's like what That's why I used You said suck Why Oh man So you would not want A beautiful black Or white or Spanish Or anything Yeah, you did a bitch that stuck you out. Because he's like, what? That's why you said it stuck. Why? Man. So you would not want a beautiful black or white or Spanish or yellow ass, big, beautiful, smelling
Starting point is 02:25:32 good ass in your face? I kind of do. A woman's ass. You heard what Lee said? Lee said, I kind of do. Y'all let me. Right? I heard you.
Starting point is 02:25:43 Eddie asking. Eddie asking. Eddie asking. Eddie you. Eddie the Ass Eater. What's your name again? Eddie the Ass Eater. Who are these people? Right. Eddie, can you teach them, baby? I'll help you.
Starting point is 02:25:57 You know what he said? While you was in the bathroom. Can I tell you something, Eddie? The Ass Eater, they not living life. Eddie, come here, baby. Now, hug hug me Eddie. There you hug. Oh! Hey, John.
Starting point is 02:26:13 I got the hug. Buggy, you got the hug. I got a, no, no, no, no. Hold on, hold on, hold on. First of all, you taller than him. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, listen, walk into the bathroom so we can talk to you.
Starting point is 02:26:24 Hold on. No, no, I'm like, just walk into the door. No, listen, walk into the bathroom so we can talk to you. Hold on. No, no, I'm like, just walk into the door and we can talk about how you feel. No, I'll be waiting to get it all on camera. I want everything on camera. That's why. But listen,
Starting point is 02:26:32 first of all, first of all, you're taller than him. Yeah. So, he definitely feels like the little bia. You know what I'm saying? Don't call my friend that.
Starting point is 02:26:43 Don't call my friend that. No. And you know what he said? He said, I can't imagine his height. This is what I'm saying? Don't call my friend that. Don't call my friend that. No. And you know what he said? He said... I can't dance in his house. This is what he said. And he said he would definitely
Starting point is 02:26:51 let you pee on him. And I said, I can't... Look, if I wasn't married, I would be all for it. I would be all for it. And I said, that's my friend.
Starting point is 02:27:01 I said, that's my friend. I can't allow this to happen. It's karma. See, I checked because that's my friend. Look, if I wasn't married, I can't allow this to happen. It's conversation. I check, because that's my friend. If I wasn't married, I would line y'all niggas up. Okay.
Starting point is 02:27:10 How much money, how much, how much money you got? Look, how much money you got? No, I'm just kidding. It's a joke.
Starting point is 02:27:18 Relax. Yeah, yes, yes. But look, there's nothing wrong conversating about sex. It's a beautiful thing.
Starting point is 02:27:23 It's a beautiful thing. And I'm not, I'm not one of those girls that get uncomfortable because you remember, you got to remember, when I used to be a stripper, an exotic dancer, an entertainer.
Starting point is 02:27:32 You had to break the guys. Well, I had to like, listen, the guys were coming in, they're paying us to have a good time. They want to laugh. They want to have fun. It's not sexual.
Starting point is 02:27:39 I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you all. All men in the room. It's only one other lady which is a bartender. Shout out to her. She's great. She's awesome. Jamie. All men in the room. It's only one other lady, which is a bartender. Shout out to her. She's great. She's awesome.
Starting point is 02:27:46 Jamie. Jamie, yeah. Jamie. We love Jamie. Jamie and I, I like. She could deal. No other ladies in here
Starting point is 02:27:55 but Jamie and I, right? Yes. So you know she has a strong, positive energy. That's what we need. Where it's like comfortable. Just because we're talking about a little golden shower
Starting point is 02:28:04 and a little sex and a little that, I'm not going to get uncomfortable. Like I did that my whole life. My first career was to entertain people at Rolex and Cocos and Onyx in Atlanta. So it's like I've been around. How much you used to charge to pin somebody? Well, can I tell you something? And give us a name.
Starting point is 02:28:22 I tell you the truth. I tell you the truth. If you can. I tell you the truth and only the truth. When I used to be a stripper, I never was so open as I am now, so I knew nothing about that then. I kind of learned doing the other things, the bigger things, like after I stopped dancing. Because you got to remember, I stopped dancing when I was 24.
Starting point is 02:28:42 Remember, I started doing love and hip-hop. I met Stevie when I was 23. He introduced me to Mona because I was looking for a way out. I was managing. Remember, I started doing Love & Hip Hop. I met Stevie when I was 23. He introduced me to Mona because I was looking for a way out. I was managing the young girl. So you wasn't a peer as a stripper? No, because you know what?
Starting point is 02:28:53 If I was, I would have made so much money. I would have been like, yeah, niggas lining the fuck up. But it would have been a million dollars
Starting point is 02:29:02 a piece entrance fee, though. Eddie, you out. You out. Don't play entrance fee, though. Eddie, you out. You out. Don't play. No, no. Eddie, you out. No, Eddie not out. Eddie wouldn't want to go hustling that money to come get some of these feet.
Starting point is 02:29:11 Stop playing, nigga. Fuck it. And you know what? Guess what? I don't think that's the way to work. One thing I know about the peeing thing is. What? Are we still on peeing?
Starting point is 02:29:24 Yeah, it's cheaper in the morning. You guys love it. It's cheaper in the morning. That first morning piss is so yellow and so ill. You need to drink it to water. You got to get a discount on that. He needs water. You got to get a discount on the early morning pee.
Starting point is 02:29:41 But let me ask you, right? I believe they on Zeus as well. Listen, he needs some water. He needs some water. But let me, right? I believe they on Zeus as well. Listen, he needs some water. He needs some water. But let me ask you, I believe they on Zeus as well, right? Blueface and, what's her name? Chrisette.
Starting point is 02:29:56 Chris-Sean. Chris-Sean. Chris-Sean. I think it's done. All right. What do you think about them? Listen, everybody goes through things. Everybody has problems.
Starting point is 02:30:07 You going live right now? I don't mind. No, I'm not going live. Hey, fuck it. It's okay. No, no, I'm not. I will not do that to y'all. I'm just filming myself.
Starting point is 02:30:14 And I won't even put it on. No, no, no. Okay, come on. You know me. I'm respectful. I feel like, yeah, yeah. I've been here for three hours. The first video I do, you want to check?
Starting point is 02:30:23 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would never do you like that. No, we're scared to death. But how do you feel about Blueface and Christian? Because they like the new Bobby and Whitney. I feel like they love each other. I think so, too. There's love, right?
Starting point is 02:30:35 No, he asked me how I feel. I don't know what nobody's doing. I feel like they love each other, and I send the best energy that I can to them because I was their age before, and I've been through a lot, and I send the best energy that I can to them because I was their age before and I've been through a lot and I will not be the one to judge them. Hopefully, they
Starting point is 02:30:51 have a beautiful life and get money and maybe we could see them happily ever after because to me, when I look at them, I feel like they love each other. They're in lust with each other and they love each other. I think they're going to be invited. I just feel like, you know, everybody go through things. And unfortunately this generation in the media is so much easier to go on your phone because it's
Starting point is 02:31:12 like, like I said, I'm being here crying to you the whole fucking time I've been here. It's like therapy. So I feel like when they go online and show what's going on with their relationship is maybe it might be like therapy. Like who are we to say, Hey, don't do that. Why are you showing your business out there and all of that? Fuck everybody. Like, if that's their therapy for them to not kill each other or for them to not do anything weird to each other and just go in and show the world. That's just, they live that life. So, like, they just got to grow out of that.
Starting point is 02:31:36 And we love it. It entertains us. We watch it. We see it. We laugh at it. We love it. We love their relationship. So, I mean, what the fuck?
Starting point is 02:31:43 Who am I to judge them? Like, I'm going to turn the other cheek. I'm like Jesus. Because I'm not here to. I'm not here to. Huh? Not Jesus. Martin Luther King.
Starting point is 02:31:53 Well, I'm saying Jesus turned the other cheek. Yeah. I thought it was Martin Luther King. He turned the other cheek. But I don't see. Martin Luther King turned the other cheek, man. Y'all are fucking out. Martin Luther King.
Starting point is 02:32:03 Not Jesus. Jesus ain't turn no other cheek I wish I wish everybody's relationship but she's not gonna get hit and turn the other cheek I don't see
Starting point is 02:32:12 I thought it was Marla I mean I listen I've had to turn the other cheek a lot of times but after getting hit
Starting point is 02:32:18 well no I'm a bit of a bitch ass but but you asked yeah well you asked me about a relationship I just feel like they should work it out. I actually like them together.
Starting point is 02:32:28 I like it. There's definitely some artists that I wish were still here. I'm such a big fan of Michael Jackson. I swear. I tell my daughter and my husband, I'm like, I feel Mike inside of me. Inside of me, I see that's my homie. Like, we're in this together. Like, I love Mike.
Starting point is 02:32:47 Who's your top five? Michael Jackson, Lila Downs, Hector Lavoe. Lila, who you said? Lila Downs, La Mexicana. Oh, okay. Ella Mexicana, la cantante, La Mexicana. You got three. So at the level, who farted?
Starting point is 02:33:08 Nobody farted. Oh, somebody don't fart. That's his weed over there. That's the Peruvian guy's weed. What? Yeah. What the fuck is that? You out here bullshitting.
Starting point is 02:33:17 Oh, that's Eddie the ass eater. You know, when his mouth opened up and shit got weird. I know I'm not the only one that smell fart. I know it is. I got Creed. I you got rid of that smell fart Dookie I got I got I got I got I got My my nose and my throat every day when I do Big Chrome Yoga Can I tell you I filter my throat
Starting point is 02:33:50 So I smell everything Can I tell you about yoga Can I tell you something I have not ate one time today I'm fasting to 7 o'clock I can only eat at 7 You smell everything I've been fasting
Starting point is 02:33:59 Yeah I've been fasting for 2 weeks I've been doing Ramadan for 2 weeks I eat at 7 one time So let me tell you something I'm not a Muslim My husband is He's African He's African Yeah, I've been fasting for two weeks. I've been doing Ramadan for two weeks. I eat at seven one time. So let me tell you something. I'm not a Muslim. My husband is. He's African.
Starting point is 02:34:09 He's African. No, I don't practice for that. Two, three what? This time because... Oh, top five, yes. I wanted to lose some weight and stuff like that only because of that. No, I like to eat. I don't practice that shit.
Starting point is 02:34:19 Huh? Ramadan, regular... I'm doing like two months. Shut up, shut down. It's supposed to be a month, but it's from... You can't eat. Like, I only eat when the sun goes down until like 7, 7.30. And like two months. Shut up, shut down. It's supposed to be a month, but it's from, you can't eat, like I only eat
Starting point is 02:34:26 when the sun goes down until like 7, 7.30. And then the rest of the day I'm doing high yoga, like no food. That's me. But I have more energy than never before though.
Starting point is 02:34:34 And I still be smoking my shit and doing what I do, like I ain't stopping that. But it's like very little, like micro dosing. I'm like a micro doser. And what do you mean? Whatever I do, it's going to be microdose.
Starting point is 02:34:46 Hold on, we got your top three. Micro, micro. Except today, y'all had me fucked up. Yeah. I would have never did this at home. We got your top three already, right? We got your top three. We need two more?
Starting point is 02:34:57 Yeah, we need two more. You got your top three. Who is it? Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson. Heck the level. Two more. Lila Downs. Lila Downs. And Michael Jackson. Hector Lobo. Lila Downs.
Starting point is 02:35:05 Lila Downs. And... Michael Jackson. Mr. Lee. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Don't say Mr. Hold on. I'm fitting a piss on his ass.
Starting point is 02:35:22 Nina Simone. Ooh. And if this one takes you more than 10 seconds, put yourself. Well, I wouldn't dare. I have not done what they've done. I can't put me on the list with them. That would be very disrespectful.
Starting point is 02:35:38 I don't know. It seems like you're motivated. Marquise, are you finished? Yes, I am. We need that fifth one. Let's do hip-hop. No, you don't tell her what to do.
Starting point is 02:35:50 Tell her. Let her do what I do. I would have to say Beyonce. Oh, I like that one. That's a good one. I can't leave the queen out. That would be the best. I like that.
Starting point is 02:35:58 To the music industry. Yes. And she's a queen and you're a princess. So it works. She's awesome. And by the way, she's a queen and you're a princess. So it works. She's awesome. And by the way, she's been working
Starting point is 02:36:08 her whole life literally since she was a fucking kid. By the way, fuck all y'all people who took my little footage of the Isley brothers and tried to make it seem
Starting point is 02:36:16 like I was going at Beyonce. You fucking idiots. Yeah. Don't nobody believe y'all, you bozos. Ain't nobody going at the bee or the beehive when I have Ace of Spades
Starting point is 02:36:25 here everyday Jay's is my man I speak to him almost god damn every week you bozos I hated that you dildo
Starting point is 02:36:32 bozos I'm not even gonna tell y'all the media outlet cause this media outlet is a bozo damn yeah
Starting point is 02:36:42 we would never diss Beyonce we would never diss Beyoncé. We would never diss Jay-Z. Never diss Rock Mason. Never. We all rock Mason. We all Jay-Z. We all Beyoncé, you bozos.
Starting point is 02:36:51 And guess what? Nobody believed you. Nobody believed her. You know why nobody believed her? Because everybody in the world knows that she's one of the greatest. Of course. So you have to put her in that category as being one of the greatest. Of course.
Starting point is 02:36:59 I could not finish five without Beyoncé. Of course. So Hector Laboe, I'm not going to say anything. I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, knows that she's one of the greatest. So you have to put her in that category as being one of the greatest. I could not finish my five without Beyoncé. Of course.
Starting point is 02:37:08 So Hector Labo, Lila Downs, Michael Jackson, Nina Simone, and Beyoncé. That's the beautiful five. That's how I like my five that I know for a fact in my heart, in my soul, in the way I feel when I listen to them, in the work ethic, in the persistence, in the love and passion and just telling the truth or creating or performing. It's got to be them.
Starting point is 02:37:42 Goddamn. So is there anything That you regretted Like you regret That you could take back If you could take back Anything in your life Right now Nothing
Starting point is 02:37:51 Ah that's real That's real Nothing Yeah cause you started From the mud So you cannot take Nothing back from the mud You know what
Starting point is 02:37:59 Can I tell you why Yeah Because Like I said During the COVID 2019 I discovered That the kids And the people Need to hear because like I said, during the COVID 2019, I discovered that the kids and the people need to hear
Starting point is 02:38:09 what I put on that paper. And when I started in 2019, when I wrote this song at five in the morning, when everybody sleep, the whole world is asleep at five in the morning. The whole world.
Starting point is 02:38:22 The whole world. I hear the trees. Everyone's asleep, he's up. Well, I'm speaking during COVID. That's why I know you, my sister. You sound exactly, that's why he keeps saying this. That's exactly what I was doing.
Starting point is 02:38:35 I didn't write a hit record, though. You won. You won. When everybody's asleep, my daughter's asleep, my husband's asleep, during COVID, it's just, I don't know. And mind you, I'm like a late sleeper. I was a stripper my whole life before I did this. From 17 to 23, I was a stripper.
Starting point is 02:38:52 And then from 23 to now, I'm a fucking entertainer. It's the same shit. I've been entertaining my whole life. I'm going to sleep late as fuck. It's true shit, real shit. I'm going to sleep late as fuck. That's literally been my whole life. So when I, you know, I don't listen to that song Campesino
Starting point is 02:39:06 because it's literally, every time I play it, I cry. It's like, it's something in me, like because of what I'm saying. Like, I don't know. It's just like that show me that I'm not giving up with the music because the world needs to hear me.
Starting point is 02:39:18 And the song is all Spanish. It's all Spanish because I do Spanglish. I do everything for the cabaret, which is in English like do it like it should be day or like Vegas or like
Starting point is 02:39:28 that's the 100 million streams Vegas got 100 million streams so the first one the first one that I 2022 was the biggest year for me like I would've never thought
Starting point is 02:39:37 like I've I've passed what I thought I not really but like being humble like I could've been thinking one way and like work hard
Starting point is 02:39:44 but then the numbers don't lie. So I could just be real positive. But me being positive and actually working towards the project and really believing and loving it, and really believing in me and believing that this is what I was born to do. The birthday song, which is Timeless, did nothing compared to the Vegas song, which was my season three. The Vegas song, there's so many much more. I got 10 million, 11 million views on a video
Starting point is 02:40:11 on that song, 100 million streams on that song. I just got a check from BMI. I get them all the time. They looking good. They looking really good. They helped me out with my life, my pay for my daughter's school, pay for my life, pay for my career. 60 on the right hand. Okay, I, with my life, I paid for my daughter's school, paid for my life. Big up BMI. For my career. Sexy on the right hand.
Starting point is 02:40:28 Okay, I don't forget. Doing the things that I need to do, but that song, but that song, Campesino, is so special to me because it's like, at five o'clock when the whole world was asleep and we were on a shutdown, I wrote it one morning. It was literally so fast. It was like so fast.
Starting point is 02:40:46 I had... I had... Did you tweak the song? What song is it about? So, so... Campesino is a hard name. What does it mean? I'm sitting here, I'm like, Campesino.
Starting point is 02:41:05 Like a farmer. Yes, farmer. Farmer. Farmer. That's the definition for Campesino. It's a farmer. That's the... Thank you.
Starting point is 02:41:15 That's the definition for Campesino. I'm a fucking farmer. I'm a farmer-ass bitch. So I got really detailed, like... You know, like, just... It's like, I like, like, I can't hear the song without crying. No matter what I'm doing. It's like, if something goes here, I choke. And that's when I knew, like, my ancestors, my life.
Starting point is 02:41:36 I was meant to be the biggest Latin superstar in the world. And just because it's going to take people 20 years to see, I'm okay. I could go 20 years I've already I've already went 13 I'm that close I feel like that was So
Starting point is 02:41:50 I've already went 13 That was like the Greeks You know what I'm saying Like when the Greeks break a glass I feel like that was the clap I'm sorry It was real shit Well
Starting point is 02:41:58 Well Josh You're my sister Let me just tell you something man Every time I ever seen you You always been so pleasant You always showed us love Showed me and my wife love You're my sister. Let me just say something, man. Every time I ever seen you, you always been so pleasant. You always showed us love, showed me and my wife love. You and Ballistic, I really enjoy your relationship.
Starting point is 02:42:14 I really enjoy y'all together. I really enjoy you getting money, and I wanted to give you your flowers. I love you. I was so glad that you know. This is like a trophy to me. No. It's like a trophy. Yes. Like this is going in the house.
Starting point is 02:42:23 Snoop Dogg said that's the black people's Grammy. He said it's the black people's Grammy. See, I see, and I didn't even hear him say that. This is like a trophy to me. No, it is. It's like a trophy. Yes. Like, this is going in the house. Snoop Dogg said that's the black people's Grammy. He said it's the black people's Grammy. See, I see, and I didn't even hear him say that. This is like a trophy. Just so you know. Yeah, this is like, and I love Snoop Dogg. I feel like he's one of the greatest. I feel like, Nori, you're one of the greatest.
Starting point is 02:42:34 But I want to give you not only your flowers. Literally, I also want to give it to you mentally because what you did as a person that's from the hood to come out and you, you know, change everything about your whole life. Can we talk about being black and Hispanic? Yeah, I'm going to finish. I'm going to send that to you the last one. Let me give you your flowers. Let me give you your flowers. Let me give you your flowers.
Starting point is 02:42:56 Like, you know what? What you did. And I'm telling you, I've seen every episode of Love of Hip Hop. I'm talking about every single episode. And it was a time before I even met you that I would just tune in. I was like, I want to see what she's going to say. And I'm every week, Monday night, eight o'clock, whatever it was, six o'clock, whatever. And I would sit there. And for me to see you go from where you were there to where you are now. It's something that we have to salute. Every person in this room has to sit back and say,
Starting point is 02:43:30 God damn it, because that is the legendary thing. Coming from nothing and making yourself not only something, but even more than that. And you have done that. And I want to salute you. I want to salute you. But we can end it. Because I like this question that you just asked.
Starting point is 02:43:51 And you said, how difficult it is being black and Puerto Rican. Now, I am literally black and Puerto Rican. My mother is black. My father is Puerto Rican. My mother kind of looked like back in the days. My mother kind of looked like, back in the days, my mother kind of looked like Nicki Minaj and my father kind of looked like Hector Laval. Yes!
Starting point is 02:44:11 I got a picture of them. I was like, you was outside, ma! Looking good. Yeah, looking good. And they birthed a star. That's what them genes do that. So how is it being, because you are black and Puerto Rican just like me. Like you are, so how is that?
Starting point is 02:44:31 It's good. It ain't easy. Let me tell you something. Go ahead. I was born in Puerto Rico. My mother and my father both were born in Puerto Rico. My grandmother and my grandpa was born in Puerto Rico. Wow. Their grandparents was born in Puerto Rico. My grandmother and my grandpa was born in Puerto Rico. Wow.
Starting point is 02:44:45 Their grandparents was born in Puerto Rico. Wow. The other parents that come before the one, two, three, the third generation, they were born, one in Spain and one in Africa. Wow.
Starting point is 02:44:56 That's where it comes, that's where it comes. That's where my mother's parents, one is white with green eyes, the dad and the lady, the mom, her mom is black. From Spain. Well, her mom was from Africa.
Starting point is 02:45:08 She was a black woman. Wow. And it's difficult for me to sit down and talk to my friends and talk to African American ladies that were born in America with African ancestry. Because I always throw out the thing where I'm black. And they look at me like, but you're not black, you're Puerto Rican. And I tell them, I'm like, you have to be, well no. You know your history.
Starting point is 02:45:40 You have to be very ignorant. Are you an atheist? No, no, people need to be. Black did not start that. No, no, no. People need to be. Black did not start that. No, no, no. That's where she's going. This is, listen, I had an A in this class in college here that's going to drop next month. Okay.
Starting point is 02:45:55 And the paper that I had to do was on a black Hispanic that was born in Puerto Rico. I have to constantly remind people that no matter where you're born, when you walk in the room, they're going to always remind you your color. Deep. I love it. And a lot of people always forget that.
Starting point is 02:46:16 So I make a lot of black girls that are, American black girls, uncomfortable because they feel like I'm not black. But I tell them, look at my skin color. And so my whole life I've had to fight for the, with the white people. It's like, fuck you. I know I'm black. And with the black people, it's like, what are you saying? Well, what are you saying? What are you saying? So when I went to college, I got into a fight that same exact day.
Starting point is 02:46:46 I beat that bitch ass. She attacked me. Because I was speaking on facts. Facts are that when your color is your color, your color is your color. It don't matter what the fuck or where you were born. And so I've always feel like I always have to explain myself.
Starting point is 02:47:00 It's like when I tell black girls I'm black, they be like, I'm like, look at my, forget where I was born at. Look at the color on like, look at my, forget where I was born at. Look at the color on my skin. Don't, don't, don't worry about
Starting point is 02:47:08 where I was born. You was born, you was born here in America and your mama or your ancestors was born in Africa. My ancestors was born in Africa too.
Starting point is 02:47:15 Same shit. Relax. Okay? Ain't no Christopher Columbus fucking found nothing. That motherfucker came from England. He don't know shit.
Starting point is 02:47:22 He stole everything, okay, from the Indians. Correct. Please don't talk to He stole everything Okay from the Indians Correct Please don't talk to me About none of that None of that weird shit Talk to me
Starting point is 02:47:29 Like Like Talk to me Motherfucker Talk to me Talk to me When I walk in the room I'm
Starting point is 02:47:39 Be happy that I'm proud to be black I'm not proud to be black Cause I'm Puerto Rican And I have the perks Bitch ain't no perks You black you black You black you I'm not proud to be black because I'm Puerto Rican and I have the perks. Bitch, ain't no perks. You black, you black. You earned it.
Starting point is 02:47:48 You black, you black. You don't have to have. And I don't feel like that about Spanish people that are lighter. I feel like that about Spanish people that are dark. Because Spanish people that are lighter, nigga, you white. You Spanish white person. It was an advantage for you. And then, and whatever, whatever, whatever it was, I don't care.
Starting point is 02:48:05 Whatever it was, do what you do. But I know for a fact, since I was a jet, I knew I was a nigga. And I don't give a fuck where I was born at. I always knew I was a nigga. And I made people feel real uncomfortable. Even in the college. That's coming out next month. The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States.
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Starting point is 02:51:42 They expelled me from school And you know what I said? I said, y'all crazy as fuck I said, I get attacked And I get expelled from school But this is HBCU And I'm the blackest bitch you got in this motherfucking house Okay, I don't want to rest in peace
Starting point is 02:51:59 Get the fuck out of my dick Man, I walk out the mall Man, I walk out that shit so fast I'm like, man, ain't nobody gave you what I gave you with the history. We went into the museum that you could see the slaves and the babies and all of that, you know? Like, we went there, and I'm just like, you know, my whole thing is like, because I feel me being black.
Starting point is 02:52:19 I'm not a white person. I'm far from being white. I don't care about that European blood because you know what I care about? I care about my skin color and how they never let me forget it. So now I just embrace it because it's beautiful.
Starting point is 02:52:32 I love being who I am. I love being to a place where white people think I'm ghetto and ratchet. Guess what? The black people don't think I'm ghetto and ratchet. Black people like me think I'm fancy.
Starting point is 02:52:41 You could think that I'm ghetto and ratchet. I want you to think that I'm ghetto and fancy because my people think that the people that have the same color as me, they think I'm fancy. You could think that I'm ghetto and ratchet. I want you to think that I'm ghetto and fancy, because my people think that I'm fancy. The people that have the same color as me, they think I'm fancy. So if you that don't have my color don't think I'm fancy, cool. Why would I care? Cut the chat. Why would I give a fuck about
Starting point is 02:52:55 how you think? So like, for me, it's very important to really embrace your blackness, whether you was born. Listen, I'm telling you, Mike, two, three back ancestors back was all born in Puerto Rico, but I know that my mom's dad's side of the family,
Starting point is 02:53:10 they was all white with green eyes and my mom's side of the family, they was all black, black like this cloth. And I, and I enjoy, and I enjoy, and I enjoy,
Starting point is 02:53:17 and I, the thing is, I enjoy it. My father had green eyes. Listen, I enjoy, I enjoy telling my husband, you know,
Starting point is 02:53:24 fuck this black person good, suck this black person good. You know what I'm saying. Listen, I enjoy telling my husband, fuck this black person good. Suck this black person good. You know what I'm saying? I enjoy saying that. I'm not ashamed of it. I love my skin. Every morning when my daughter wakes up before she goes to school, she's like, I love my skin. I love my hair.
Starting point is 02:53:37 I love my color. I'm a nice person. I'm a good person. I love my parents. This is how I teach my daughter to talk. That's right So I'm At three years old I taught my dad
Starting point is 02:53:48 My daughter How to love her skin color How to love her hair Her coarse hair How to love her kings How to love her Her skin How to love her body
Starting point is 02:53:56 How to love everything about her And she gonna tell you She love her skin At six years old God damn it And I think a lot And I think a lot of people whether they're like black that was born in like a Spanish island or a Spanish country or there are or there are black born in like America from African ancestry I think that you all really enjoy their color it's a
Starting point is 02:54:22 beautiful thing it's a beautiful thing and let's a beautiful thing. And let me tell you something. I've always only dated black men. I've never even dated my own kind because growing up, I've always dated. In Puerto Rico, I've always seen lighter skinned people where I was raised up. Everybody was lighter. But I love my color and I accepted it. So when I came to America at like six or seven years old, I've always was attractive to the darker skin because I just thought it was beautiful.
Starting point is 02:54:45 One of my brothers is super dark. My other brother is lighter than me and then my oldest brother, he's like brown. So I've just always thought it was beautiful
Starting point is 02:54:52 and then all my mom's baby dad has had that color. So my mom is very fair. She's lighter than me. And so I just always enjoyed the darkest skin. I thought it was always beautiful. Puerto Rico's America too.
Starting point is 02:55:04 Well, I know it's America, but I'm speaking if you come from Cuba, Santo Domingo, or other places like that. Josh and me take my lighter the whole night. I respect it. Where is it? I know you from the hood. I get it back. Hood niggas take lighters all the time.
Starting point is 02:55:20 And Josh... How's my lighter the whole... Can I get a lighter, Eddie, to ask you? Can you? Everybody's lighters is gone? and Jocelyn house my lighter the whole can I get a lighter Eddie to ask can you everybody's lighter is just gone give me your lighter I don't want to give my lighter
Starting point is 02:55:33 alright me but I will trade you a lighter for a bottle of I think I want to take a good roll we can trade
Starting point is 02:55:42 you know yeah it's got to be good. I've been talking to Issa Rae about acting. I'm always like on her DMs like, bitch, what's up? Because she put a couple of my songs on her show Insecure and Rap Shit. Issa Rae.
Starting point is 02:55:55 That's dope. That's dope. Yeah, Issa Rae. Issa Rae is the shit. Yeah. Oh, she is the shit. Yeah, basically he was like, are you open to acting?
Starting point is 02:56:02 And I was like, I don't really like acting, but I'm ready for like a good role. Why not? Because I never wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a singer and a dancer. You know, I never wanted to act. It all goes together, though.
Starting point is 02:56:13 It all goes together. You can do anything. Selena, everyone. And God, you know. But that's what I, this is. He's singing, you're kind of acting. This is what I'm, what I was just telling him. When you sing, I thought you said when you see me. I was just telling him. When you sing,
Starting point is 02:56:25 I thought you said, when you see me. I was just... Wait a minute. Videos. Reality TV. What's your name again? Paul. That's Paul.
Starting point is 02:56:33 I was just telling Paul that when I find the right role, then I'll do it. And because Issa Rae used like a couple of my songs in 2022. Gangsta. In like three shows i was like oh my gosh i love you thank you isa is so yeah so i always be the i don't got her i don't
Starting point is 02:56:50 got her telephone number or anything but like because we follow each other i always hit her on the damn like listen isa you need to write something for us together so she text she dm me back and she was like i got you bitch i was like yes i kept DMing her because when she used my songs, she paid me to use my songs. Issa Rae's paying me to use my songs. I'm big. No, listen to me. I'm huge. I got three checks from Issa Rae 2022. I was like, what the fuck?
Starting point is 02:57:15 To play on her show, she used my songs on her TV shows. And not only she used my shows, she used Jocelyn's Cavaray clip on her shows. Listen, by the way, let me just say something. I was like, I was like,
Starting point is 02:57:29 please, please, use me on your shows. So I was begging her. I kept DMing her. I was begging her for like a month. Please,
Starting point is 02:57:36 write something for us, please. So she finally DMed me back. I got you, bitch. Oh, no, no, listen, listen, listen. Let me just say this. Issa Rae,
Starting point is 02:57:43 about that fucking life. Yes. Man, I kept begging her. I was like, Issa, listen, listen, listen. Let me just say this. Issa Rae, about that fucking life. Yes. Man, I can't beg you, Issa, I watch all your shows. She's also my sister. I love her as well. But what I'll tell you is, if she says it,
Starting point is 02:57:58 she does it. Oh, I believe her. I promise. I believe her. Listen, first of all, it took her like a year to respond back. What? I mean, she promise. I believe her. Listen, first of all, it took her like a year to respond back.
Starting point is 02:58:05 Well, I mean, she busy. She all busy. I'm sure that she wasn't the one that was like, oh, I just want Jocelyn up in here. Somebody probably gave her the idea to play the songs on her show in the cabaret. I don't know. I'm not. You know, so when she did that, I was like, oh, my gosh, what the fuck? So I was DMing her 2022.
Starting point is 02:58:24 I'm like, please, please, because I just love how she acts. And I actually enjoy her acting. And I think she's beautiful. And I think that she's one of those people that really embrace her blackness like I do. Fuck where I was born at, because I hate when bitches be on that. Bitch, why is she wearing my wear? I was born at. Look at the color. Look at the energy.
Starting point is 02:58:40 Look at the energy. Look at the vibe. Look at me, bitch. You ain't trying to mess me with the bullshit, bitch. You ain't trying to mess me with the bullshit, bitch. Don't mess me with that. You know what I'm saying? I love that about her because I just feel like she's a great black color woman. Whether she's black or white, she's still going to be her. Her tan, her color, her blackness don't mean nothing.
Starting point is 02:59:00 She's still a genius. The human. But let me also big you up, too. I'm so mad that my son Went to the bathroom At this time My son went to the Oh
Starting point is 02:59:09 Oh It's okay I'm glad it wasn't the wine I'm sorry We're sharing I'm so mad that my son Went to the bathroom At this time
Starting point is 02:59:16 Because what I was saying was I was like alright cool And then Like when we We interview people We go and do our research. And so we was looking at interviews of you. On Twitter.
Starting point is 02:59:30 And going on Twitter. But my son was like, nah, Pop, you got to understand. They listen to Jocelyn, music in the hood. This is my, he went to the bathroom. So he was like, we have to listen to the playlist. He went to the bathroom. He's not here. That's why I know you went to the bathroom, so he was like, he was like, we have to listen to the playlist. He went to the bathroom. Because he's not here. That's why I know he went to the bathroom.
Starting point is 02:59:49 Listen, how long has he been in there? Get him out of there. No, but that's what I was trying to say. That's epic. That was like, so I was like, all right, cool. And then we went and we started going through the, it was like, yo, Johnson outside. God damn it. So listen.
Starting point is 03:00:04 Listen, listen, just an outside. God damn it. So listen. Listen, listen, listen. Because this is what I would like to end it with you. Because I'm not saying to end it, but what I would like to say is I want you, because I told you about my friend who wakes up in the morning and he Googles himself the negative part. What I would like for you to do, for you,
Starting point is 03:00:26 because you've made it to the level where women want to be you. They really do. So the thing about what you should always do is you should Google the good part of you. Every single day you wake up and you say, what's good about me? And when you see, because it's...
Starting point is 03:00:48 I'm scared. I never really... I've Googled myself my whole life, maybe like, I want to say like four times. But let me finish my point, because... Can I get one more, Jamie? Nothing for him. No, no, no.
Starting point is 03:01:01 Let me just tell you why. Because you're dealing with something I dealt with before. Fame? It's called survivor's remorse. I don't understand. Oh, I know where he's going with that. It's called I made it. So sometimes I kind of...
Starting point is 03:01:19 Feel bad. I kind of feel bad because I made it. And this is what I feel like you're dealing with. Maybe I'm wrong, but when I see you get emotional, I feel like that. I feel like... Actually, I feel... I feel... emotional because I don't believe it.
Starting point is 03:01:40 No, no, listen, no. I know it's true. But I'm like, wow, how did I ever do that when I was bound to be a drug, a druggie, nothing, dead, young, black, weird, Latin, ugly, dunking bitch. Oh, but look. Can you look at me for one second? That's cause of Iverson Monk. Yes. What you're dealing with
Starting point is 03:02:11 is you're saying, I've done this. No, I know I do. No, I want you to stay with him where he going. Yeah, but what I want you to do is fuck that.
Starting point is 03:02:23 You made it because you deserve it. Thank that. You made it because you deserve it. Thank you. You made it because you deserve it. You need to be here. Put it away. And the more you wake up every day and you don't see it. And I dealt with exactly what you're dealing with. Because you're like, all right, cool.
Starting point is 03:02:39 I got to do more. I got to be at a different place. So you're kind of almost downplaying the position that you're at now. No, no. Can I tell you something? Yes, please. A book that I bought that really changed my way of thinking, Take the Leap by Steve Harvey. I like that. Steve Harvey has been my guidance to waking up positive and happy to be alive.
Starting point is 03:03:11 Right. You want me to tell you something that I know for fact is going to help? Say it again. You want me to tell you something that I know for fact that's going to help? What? Whether it's right, wrong. We're not picking sides. Who's right wrong we not pick inside who's
Starting point is 03:03:27 right wrong repair and forgive the relationship with madre your mom trust me now you're
Starting point is 03:03:39 gone but here's the thing here's the thing let me tell you something you're doing everything you're doing she right she right listen she right she right're doing. She right there.
Starting point is 03:03:47 I love it. Listen. She right there. She could always get me. Listen. Listen. Listen. Repair is the word I used. I'm busy. She right there. You know what I'm saying? All you got to do is give me a call. I'm up to what you need.
Starting point is 03:04:02 I'm with you. Of course. All my family do. I've had the same number for years. I got two phones. They all got it. It ain't. 2012. What you mean? Listen, this, this, this, listen, this got nothing to do with me and everything to do
Starting point is 03:04:13 with them. I'm going to still do what I got to do. Because guess what? When y'all niggas call me, hold up, when y'all niggas call me, because y'all ain't got it, guess who got it? Yep. You know what they call me at my mama's house? I believe you.
Starting point is 03:04:23 You know what they call me? You know what they call me at my mama's house? I believe you. You know what they call me in my mama's house since I was five years old? Española. You know what they call me in my mama's house since I was five? Reina. La reina. What does that mean? The queen. The queen.
Starting point is 03:04:34 In my mama's house since I was five, they've been calling me la reina. So they know what I'm about. So the queen are going to always answer the phone for the family. But guess what I'm not going to do? Guess what I'm not going to do? Apologize? I know what you're going to do. You don't have to. Guess what I'm not going to do? Hold on. I'm going to tell you what I'm not going to do Guess what I'm not going to do Apologize I know what you're going to do You don't have to
Starting point is 03:04:46 Guess what I'm not going to do Hold on I'm going to tell you what I'm not going to do I'm not going to waste a second On something That does not Serve me any purpose Bitch fuck
Starting point is 03:04:58 Hold up Bitch Hold on Hold on Bitch Fuck you I love you If you need me the more
Starting point is 03:05:04 I'm here for you Whatever you need Hey no more, I'm here for you. Whatever you need. Hey. That is it. That is it. But guess what I'm not going to do? I'm not doing that. Can I tell you why I'm not doing that?
Starting point is 03:05:12 Can I tell you why? No, no, no. Let me tell you why. No, let me tell you. I want to answer, though. I just want to answer. Can I tell you why? Tell me and I want to answer.
Starting point is 03:05:20 Can I tell you why? Can I tell you why? Look at me. Can I tell you why? I want you to tell me. Can I tell you why? I want to you why? Can I tell you why? Look at me. Can I tell you why? I want you to tell me. Can I tell you why? I want to answer that, though. You know why?
Starting point is 03:05:27 Because I have no time to play with people. I don't... I respect it. I don't give a fuck. I'm listening. Mammy, listen to me. Mammy, happy, husband, daughter, son, friend,
Starting point is 03:05:46 cousin, sister, brother. Now, why would I give you that when you ain't over there? You over there still in the hood where we grew up at. Hold up.
Starting point is 03:05:54 Hold up. Let me focus. Hold up. Let me focus. I, you my, you my peeps. We got the same blood.
Starting point is 03:06:02 I'm here for you. You gotta just know when to call and stay out my motherfucking way because I'm here for you. You got to just know when to call and stay out of my motherfucking way because I will not let you be a burial in my livelihood. I'm with you. You're going to be right there and I'm going to love you.
Starting point is 03:06:13 Hold up. I'm going to buy you a house. I'm going to give you some money when you need it. I'm going to pay your hospital bill. I'm going to bury you nice. I'm going to do all that. But what I'm not going to do, I'm not playing no games with no regulares.
Starting point is 03:06:30 I don't know what that means. I don't play games. It's you. I don't play. I'm leaving this shit. No, no. Yeah, I'm not. Listen.
Starting point is 03:06:40 I'm a regular. Exactly. What I'm not. What I'm not. I'm a regular. Listen, what I'm not going to do. Sounds like some shit I don't know. No, we ain't going to do. No, we. I'm a regular. Exactly. What I'm not, what I'm not, listen, what I'm not going to do, no reggaeton,
Starting point is 03:06:47 no reggaeton, no reggaeton. What I'm not going to do, I'm not, I'm not going to play with no regularities. I'm not, you could have been,
Starting point is 03:06:57 you could have been in birth with me for 20 hours. I'm not going to play with no regularities because, because I got shit to do and I'm doing it
Starting point is 03:07:04 not just for me but I'm doing it for the regularities that I share blood with? I got shit to do and I'm doing it not just for me, but I'm doing it for the regulares that I share blood with. And that's cool if you're going to be a regular. Because we still family. We share blood.
Starting point is 03:07:11 I love you. You can come to the show, whatever. You in my pockets my whole life, bitch. I ain't tripping. I love you. You my bro.
Starting point is 03:07:17 We got the same blood, sis. Everything you got, everything who you are is because of me. It's because of me. You know what I'm saying? I lead by example. I'm talking about my blood.
Starting point is 03:07:27 I ain't talking about people from the outside. I'm talking about my blood. If you want to be a regular, that's cool. Be a regular. Your people not going to be there. You know what I'm saying? You know you can call me. You know where I'm at.
Starting point is 03:07:37 You know where I live at. You know everything about me. You know all you got to do is do what you got to do and come by. I got you. But what I'm not going to do, I wouldn't dare waste a minute. Nigga, I'm going to do you
Starting point is 03:07:47 and I'm going to show you and I'm going to do that like I do everybody one day in my way. Listen, I would never have a problem with the person that birthed me.
Starting point is 03:07:55 Always love that one. Listen, I would never have a problem with the person that birthed me. I've been showing what's in the Bible what the man wrote
Starting point is 03:08:01 I've been showing. You should honor your parents. I've been honoring my parents. All right, that's not like your parents. I've been taking care of my mom Bible, what the man role I've been showing. You should honor your parents. I've been honoring my parents. All right. That's not like your parents. I've been taking care of my mom since before I was supposed to take care of my mom when I was a little teenager. Me too. 13, 14, I was already taking care of my mom.
Starting point is 03:08:13 So you know what the fuck I'm talking about. I do. So I'm not like, I never have beef. But what I do have is boundaries. I like that. My daughter is not allowed to touch my face. Your daughter? No. My daughter plays a lot. touch my face. Your daughter? No, my daughter plays a lot.
Starting point is 03:08:27 She thinks she's... No, she's six and she's a genius. You got to remember, she goes to... Top in the country. She's a genius, okay? She can't touch your face. She... Huh? You said she can't touch your face?
Starting point is 03:08:40 No. Why? She does it to, like like run me. To like make sure that she knows that I'm beneath her and she's above me. She be like like she's real. Like with me she tell me what to do
Starting point is 03:08:58 what not to do. It's like she, it's unbelievable how she talk to me. It's like she's the boss of me so I told her I ain't mad at her who your daughter? my daughter
Starting point is 03:09:07 I'm being honest you made my daughter yes you deserve it yeah cause listen why? she was there at the lunch no can I
Starting point is 03:09:13 can I be honest with you what do you mean I deserve it? yes our kids she's not my boss she's gonna be the next princess she is your boss why is she my boss?
Starting point is 03:09:22 she is your boss because she's the next princess that's the way this works that's the way boss. That's the way this works. Because she's the next princess. That's the way this works. That's the way it works. It's the way it works. I'm sorry. I got six in the possible. I don't know how many kids I got.
Starting point is 03:09:31 But I'm outside. So, so, so. I got princesses out there. So I told her, I said, listen, money. You got to respect your mom, please. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like. Yes.
Starting point is 03:09:43 Just when you want it. Oh, no, she respects you. Because she'll hold my face. And she'll I'm saying? Yes. Just when you want it. Oh, no, she respects you. Because she'll hold my face, and she'll kiss, look, she'll hold my face like this, and she'll kiss me like this. Oh, that's it? You melt, you melt, you melt.
Starting point is 03:09:52 And I'm like, Bonnie. You melt, yes. Bonnie, stop holding my face like that. So look, so the thing is like this. She runs my house. My makeup, everybody be like, oh, she run you like. I'm like, no, it's not.
Starting point is 03:10:04 I'm a great mother. I have her. She runs you. The thing makeup, everybody be like, oh, she run you. I'm like, no, it's not. I'm a great mother. I have her. She runs you. The thing is, it's like, I just have to give her boundaries. I'm like, Bonnie, please stop touching my face
Starting point is 03:10:13 like you on my face. I don't on my face. I don't really like nobody touching my face like that. You know what I'm saying? So she's like. Can them niggas just drink an Ace of Spades?
Starting point is 03:10:19 I'm not sure. All right, man. That's all, man. Let Paul win. She's on me. Watch you. I get it. I'm the same way. I've always man. That's all, man. Let Paul win. You know, she's on me, and so... Watch this. I get it. I'm the same way.
Starting point is 03:10:27 I've always been the same way with my mom. It's like I'm her mother. But if you make me your mother... No. ...then I got to do what I got to do. And not only is my mother
Starting point is 03:10:36 my daughter, my whole family members are my kids. And this is not a bar. I'm not trying to... That's not a bar. I'm not trying to be... That's not a bar. I'm not trying to be Nicki Minaj. I get bar. I'm not trying to... Hold up. I'm not trying to be... I'm not trying to be Nicki Minaj.
Starting point is 03:10:48 I'm not trying to be Nicki Minaj. This is... But this is not Nicki's bar. This is real shit. Like, it's like, I've been taking care of y'all
Starting point is 03:10:56 my whole life. Like, when is it going to be my turn? When am I going to... When am I going to wake up one day and not think about how many people I have to take care of? When am I going to wake up one day And not think about how many people
Starting point is 03:11:05 I have to take care of Yeah When am I going to wake up And just know that it's just for me God damn How many years am I going to live Life is short Hold on
Starting point is 03:11:15 Life is short I could be I'm like I've been taking Care of your niggas for 30 years Let me get a break There's no breaks I would never But sis
Starting point is 03:11:24 Sis You know what I'm saying There's no breaks But I would never. But sis, sis, sis. There's no breaks. But that's okay. But can I tell you something? Can I tell you something? Can I tell you something? Can I tell you one thing?
Starting point is 03:11:31 Yes. Pal, it's okay. We're taking a two, three, four year break from your parents, from your brothers. I agree. From your nephews, from your nieces to get yourself together, to lose your weight, to get your money, to run your show. I agree. To take care of your wife, to take care of your kids. I agree. From your nephews, from your nieces, to get yourself together, to lose your way, to get your money, to run your show.
Starting point is 03:11:46 I agree. To take care of your wife, to take care of your kids. I agree. But sis, let me just tell you something. What the fuck? Are you a slave to your family? No. Are you a slave to your family?
Starting point is 03:11:58 No. Me neither. They're not a slave to you. And I'm not about to... Hell no. And guess what? And guess what? Can I tell you something? Can I tell you something? If they were slaves to me, I would be slaves to them.
Starting point is 03:12:07 For them. But you're going to be the slave to them. But guess what? Always. And that's what they take me for. It's always something. But you can never help me out. Because it's different.
Starting point is 03:12:16 Yes. I've learned that from him. I learned that from him. I learned that from him. I'm just trying to tell you. I'm trying to give myself boundaries as a young, beautiful lady that came from nothing. Yes, you are. Because guess what?
Starting point is 03:12:28 My parents didn't give it to me. Anybody didn't give it to me. I have to give it to myself. And we're giving it to you, too. Thank you. We're giving it to you. But I'm going to leave it on this note. What I want to say to you is
Starting point is 03:12:42 I love the fact that you brought me my flowers. I love the fact that I gave you your flowers. But I also want you to understand that you deserve your own flowers too. Because that's like one of the things, and I'm sorry to be a
Starting point is 03:13:01 therapist. You said it. But I feel like you're my sister. Like, I feel like you're, like, a person. We're connected. Yes, we're connected. I'm sure you made sure everybody stayed here, even though I was so I would say you. Y'all ain't going nowhere. No, no.
Starting point is 03:13:14 They're part of my comparison. You didn't have to. Right. But what I want to, I want to big you up. I want to also tell you, like, you're your own genius. You're your own, you know what I mean? Everything that you do,
Starting point is 03:13:31 you have to actually, because if you don't recognize you, it kind of wipes it out. And I get the fact that, you know, sometimes you're looking at everyone else, but I want you to super realize
Starting point is 03:13:48 that is you who made yourself great as well and you should always salute yourself because we salute you and we're gonna continue salute you they was it was so funny like we were sitting here waiting for you and everybody was like, Johnson going to come through about that lot. Did I make the expectations? Yes. Thank you. Yes. So what I'm saying is...
Starting point is 03:14:15 But this has been... This has actually been the most real and comfortable and excited that I've been with any interview for TV.
Starting point is 03:14:23 Alicia Keys said that too. Anything else? Thank you. Alicia Keys. And too. Anything else? Thank you. Alicia Keys. And can I tell you something? That's why I love the Queens. Can I tell you something? I love the Queens
Starting point is 03:14:30 when the Queens come through. It's not because... Take a sip. Take a sip. Take a sip, girl. You know how it go. Or it don't count. It's not because
Starting point is 03:14:39 of who we are. It's because of who you are and because of who you are and the preparation that we are in at that moment. Thank you. That was so deep. That was deep. Let me tell you,
Starting point is 03:14:51 and I understood every word of it. Thank you. Jesus. All right. But, you know, I really appreciate you so much for coming through, being exactly who you are,
Starting point is 03:15:04 giving us the real person. Thank you for having me because you could have instantly been like, bitch, bye. No, why would I? Why would I? I'm going to be honest. You're a legend, Eric. You're a legend. You're a legend.
Starting point is 03:15:14 In the making. No, you're a legend. You beat the odds, man. Who was on a reality TV show and then went from going from a reality TV show to having their own reality TV show is a motherfucking legend. Listen. I know. She met Stevie.
Starting point is 03:15:34 Hey, listen to this. I know, I know. She met Stevie two weeks or less before. A week. She said a week. Why are you giving her two weeks? She said a week. She said it like 15 times. Because I'm the type of person that's going to give you an extra week. You're going to give her an extra week. She said a week. Why you giving her two weeks? She said a week. She said it like 15 times.
Starting point is 03:15:45 Because I'm a type of person that's going to give you an extra week. You're going to give her an extra week. No, but it was definitely a week. That's what I do. Yeah. But that's crazy. And to get on this one, that's legendary. My baby daddy, Stevie J.
Starting point is 03:15:58 Shout out to my husband, Ballistic. Bonnie's father. With Stevie J They both take great care Of Bonnie We love them Shout out to Mona
Starting point is 03:16:09 Shout out to Nori Shout out to Fat Joe Shout out to EFN Shout out to Shout out to Shout out to everybody That constantly
Starting point is 03:16:20 Give me opportunities To come on their platform And be great Cause I know I'm a lot To deal with And I'm a lot to deal with and I'm a lot to like, okay, Jocelyn can say anything.
Starting point is 03:16:27 She's a bitch. She's like, but no, I'm just like, I'm who I am and like, I just want people to appreciate me
Starting point is 03:16:33 for who I am and really understand me as a person and who I am as a person is real. I can sit in a room with 20 men like I have been
Starting point is 03:16:40 for three hours right now and talk about anything and not get uncomfortable and sit down like a lady the whole time and right now yes and talk about anything and i get uncomfortable and sit down like a lady the whole time and talk about life and talk about careers and talk about people and color and stuff like that and i'm never going to say the wrong answer i'm going to always give you the right answer because i'm going to always go out for pure heart yes i'm never going to go with my answer those those days are over i I was young and dumb. Now I'm growing and smart. That's beautiful.
Starting point is 03:17:06 That's the beautiful part. It's so beautiful to hear you speak about Cardi B, Stevie J, everybody that you're talking about and you bigging them up. That's so beautiful because that's how I live. I want people to know
Starting point is 03:17:21 that everyone is great. And to hear you say that, it's so beautiful, man. Come on. We're going to wrap it up. Drink Champs is a Drink Champs LLC production in association with Interval Presents. Hosts and executive producers, NORE and DJ EFN. From Interval Presents, executive producers, Alan Coy and Jake Kleinberg.
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