Drink Champs - Episode 428 w/ Uncle Luke

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode we chop it up with the legendary, Uncle Luke!Drink Champs Alumni, Uncle Luke joins us once again to share the most craziest stories you can imagine.Uncle Luke shares stories from the early 2 Live Crew days, the impact they made on music and the influence they had on their fans and much much more!Lot’s of great stories that you don’t want to miss!!Make some noise for Uncle Luke!!! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆   *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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This is your boy N-O-R-E. What up? It's DJ E-F-N. And this is military, crazy world, drink champs, yappy yowl. Make some noise! And what I tell you, this man fought for us. I mean that. This man is like, he is an icon.

He is a legend. When you bring up hip-hop and you bring up shaking that thing music, he's number one. He's put it on for the South. He's put it on for the whole world. He's went from Doodle Brown

to sitting with the VP of the United motherfucking States. And again, we here to give him his flowers. And so I want to make some noise and I want to give him his flowers off top.

Let's give him his flowers off top. Thank you. Thank you. You know, the last time you was on the show, we started a tradition. We started a tradition. So we wanted to... I appreciate that. We started a tradition. So we wanted...

I appreciate that. We wanted to give you your flowers and tell you what you mean to hip-hop because you fought for us. So that means that this show, with our vulgar language and our vulgar behavior... We wouldn't be here.

Which means we wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for motherfucking... I'm here! Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Now, off-top, right? You know, we were so excited to get you, shit. Now, up top, right, you know, we were so excited to get you, right?

And I'm going to do Habiki. So, we were so excited to get you. So, what we do, we got a tradition, is we play the music. So, I played the music in the neighborhood I lived at. And I didn't realize, like, how crazy it was. Three white neighbors came out out and we're sitting there and he goes hey

I was like oh shit it was the first time I was like maybe you should turn it down a little bit what I'm saying is back then what made you even take the chance of like making that type of music like cause you was the first

yeah well you know first off thanks for allowing me to come back no no thank you of making that type of music? Because you was the first. You was the first. Yeah. First off, thanks for allowing me to come back. No, no. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, man. You know, I'm a big fan of the show. Oh, thank you. Appreciate that.

I follow you guys on all social media, and I love what y'all be doing. Appreciate that. And how y'all been doing. And just like you say, y'all ain't got big time. Yes, yes. Yeah. Yeah.

That's right. That's right. We were doing good. No, we wasall done got big time. Yes, yes. We was in the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right, that's right. We was in the... We was doing good. Nah, we was good. We was good. Y'all done got big time and shit. So I was like, okay, hold on.

You've already got big time. One day, but then I appreciate y'all having me. Hell yeah. But to answer the question, man, you know, I was a DJ. Right, right. You know, first of all, you know, ghetto style DJs. You know, Is spending DJing around here, doing parks, doing

dances, doing high school dances, skating rinks and all the whole shit. Basically, we would start bringing down hip hop artists. It was a guy named Tiny Head. He brought Jekyll and Hyde down the first time. Then when we saw him doing

that with his DJ group group then I started bringing down dudes like T-Rock and Mantronics and all kind of stuff like that artists like that I mean Divine Sounds you name it and so I ended up you know I was embedded into the New York

culture of hip hop and had a clear understanding of what it was all about. You know, it was the stickers. It was the breakdancing. It was the whole style, you know, that was going on. So I'm like, okay, you know, end up with 2 Live Crew. They came down and they didn't have a label.

They were on with Cola Records, the same label that Ice-T and Ice Cube and all of them. They came out of L.A. from L.A., right? Because he told me something today. He said 2 Live Crew came out of L.A. from L.A., right? Because he told me something today. He said two live crew came out of L.A.? Yeah. That messed me up. Yeah, Mr. Mix was the only one from Miami. No, none of them.

None of them, Mr. Mix? No, Mr. Mix from San Bernardino. Oh, I thought Mr. Mix was the one from Miami. Yeah, no, no, no. He's from San Bernardino. Oh, so none of them. And Paul said, Paul wouldn't let this argument drop. He said one of them is from New York.

Two of them from New York. Oh, Paul, you won the argument. Paul, you won the argument. I can't believe he know. Brother Marquis is from Rochester. And Fresh Kid Ice is from where? From Brooklyn. Rest in peace to both of them, by the way.

Yeah, rest in peace to both of them. You know what's crazy? Me listening to the two-file crew back then, all I could see is, I thought it was all Miami. I couldn't see LA, none of that. So when you said that to me outside I was like get out of here man

so yeah how does that go from LA to over here to you so they were in the military right that's what they meant they all they all met in the military

before it was a another young man in the group it wasn't Marquise Marquise was in Alabama at the time it was another dude named Uri Vila so you had

two sides of the record. So you had two sides of the record. You know, you had Beatbox, which was a kind of dance song that I spent down here, got hot. And before you know it, you don't start bringing them down.

Then the other side was Revelation. Revelation was more like a conscience song. So if you can imagine, two live crew was probably one of the, you know,

one of the original conscience song groups. And so, you know one of the original conscience song uh groups and so you know when they came down they were like yo we ain't got no label we trying to do this and i'm i'm promoting shows i want to be like al hayman you know i ain't trying to be no damn record executive so at the end of the day i was like okay well let me i know some record companies around here let me hook y'all up and then everybody was like hell no they don't do no hip hop in the South.

You tripping. You know, they were doing dance music, like Trenia and stuff like that. So the bass music wasn't that back then? No, no, it wasn't. It was early, early.

Yeah, this was early. I mean, you know. There was just the sound, the DJ crews. Okay. Yeah, just us DJing. So I ended up, make a long story short,

I ended up like, fuck it. I'll put the record out. So then it was like, we had this song, we had this little thing that we used to create dances in the dance. We had one dance called Ghetto Jump, where everybody, we used the Wild Wild West theme and everybody ghetto jumped. And then they would jump. And then we had another dance called Throw the D. So they would throw the D, you know, the guys would throw their dick. They, so they was going to ask,

throw the D, you know, the guys were throwing the D. They were throwing the D. Yeah, yeah. And so what ended up happening, I was like,

okay, well, fuck it. We'll put the record out. I'll create, we created a dance and everybody was doing it anyway because we were, we were doing skating rings.

Before the Pac Jam? Yeah. We called it the Pac Jam Skating Ring. Oh, okay. So I made the money from the Pac Jam to. Before the Pac Jam? Yeah. We called the Pac Jam skating rink. Oh, okay. So I made the money from the Pac Jam to then buy the Pac Jam. So we had a skating rink. We did Carroll City saying hi. Then we did the skating rink.

Then we did Out of Powder. So we were doing these parties. And then Sunday, we would do African Square Park. So we were in the front of like almost 10,000 people on a weekend. Right. So we would be able to break a record. And they all moved over here then, I'm assuming, at that point. Yeah.

Yeah. And so at the end of the day, we just, you know, I said, fuck it, we'll do this song right here. And then we did Throw the Dick. Right. And then that shit was hot. Right. And it went crazy.

And that was like the first dirty song. Right. And then after we did Throw the Dick then it was that was the days of answer songs so the motherfucking mob told me hey look here man you know I was taking the record around it had one distributor and one distributor was like yo

you gotta I was like give me my money for this fucking record I ain't trying to be in this shit and they were like yo for you to get your money for that record you gotta give us another record. So then that was the days of Anson Records. You had Roxanne Shantae,

real Roxanne. So everybody was doing Anson's back then. So I ended up, I got my little niece, my little cousin. I was like, yo, you got to do a fucking song.

She ain't no fucking rapper. No, we're going to write this shit. You're going to go in there, which is the group and quit. And she went in there and did Throw the P, Throw the Pussy. Oh, the response.

Yeah, so we did a response song. Okay, give me my money for this shit here. This shit hot right here. And so that's how I ended up. And then I was like, well, you know, this street hustle shit ain't really getting it. I need to be hustling some motherfucking records. So at the end of the day, then, that's when I flipped over to doing that. And we just went from song to song

and back then, singles was hot. And I was like, fuck that shit. Because the thing is, we had down here, what people don't realize in Miami, which helped me out a lot, was every major record label would press their records down here to go to uh columbia

and all over the islands mastering guys were out here exactly so you had record companies here but then it would they were they were cutting the records and there were uh the cassettes and the records and all for dirt cheap yeah so you damn like you, like, you know, I would get, this right here cost me 21 cents and the cassette was costing me 30 cents. So I'm like,

oh shit, I need to hustle this shit. And then I was like, fuck these singles because the industry was like, yo,

it's all about singles. I'm like, hell no, we're going to do an album and then I'm going to cut the price on the album and I'm going to cut the single right because you

was the record label yeah I was the record label and you know we was we just pumping this shit all across the country I mean it was

it was a great time and one of the first sorry but one of the first independents in hip hop yeah if not the first yeah no doubt about it like you guys

and maybe Rap-A-Lot was around the same time no they came out after us after yeah everybody everybody basically was out there and that's what people you know people don't give us the credit first. Yeah, no doubt about it. Like you guys maybe Rap-A-Lot was around the same time? They came out after us. After? Yeah, everybody basically was out there. And that's what people, you know, people don't give us the credit for we created hip-hop in the South.

No question about it. It wasn't nonexistent. God damn it. It wasn't, you know, you had you know, you had, I mean, you talk to Baby, Baby will tell you, you trying to sign up with us. We signed an artist from New Orleans named Bustown. Okay, yeah, I heard the story. We signed MC Shadi out of Atlanta. You know, so it wasn't maybe I'll tell you you trying to sign up with us we signed an artist from New Orleans named Bus Down you know we signed MC Shadi

out of Atlanta you know so it wasn't they didn't have companies you know nowhere in the south we went to

fucking Houston I signed up H-Town you know so it was you know it was a lot of you know okay how the fuck we do this

and then I was trying to fucking sign up Master P when he had the Ice Cream Man song. P told me, nah, I'm trying to do what the fuck you do. Hell nah, I see what you're doing, how you're moving. Which was mad respect. And that wasn't popular back then,

especially a black man owning his own label. So what made you, I know you had music that was explicit and all that, but that's still that boss mentality So what made you, I know you had music that was explicit and all that, but that's still that boss mentality. What made you say? You had to

because you had to because there were no record companies in Miami. I mean, it was dance record companies. You, saying you got a hip hop

record from Miami is like, you tell the A&R motherfuckers. Especially back then, right. They were like, hell no,

we ain't doing that. You know, it was all, either you were from New York and Philly was, you know, doing their thing and California was doing their thing. And even at that time, you know, most of those guys, N.W.A. and everybody else, Egyptian Lovin', all them, Dre and all them, they was on Mercola Records, the same distribution company that Two Live Crew was on. Right. All them dudes was over there.

And at one point you had a relationship with Atlantic, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when I did Band in the USA, I was like, okay, I want to blow this shit up. Right. And then, you know, okay, I need the big machine. Okay. And then I cut the deal with Atlantic. That was a real interesting deal because, you know, I went in there.

I went in there. I went in there. I mean, it was Tooch Aaron. Sylvia Rome was running it. Sylvia Rome. It was crazy because Doug Morris brought me in the office. It was me, Craig Cowman, and Jimmy Iovine. Wow. And it was all three of us.

One was doing music and the other one, uh, uh, Craig had a house label in Chicago. What? And so we all was sitting in the fucking office and, and Doug Morris office. Uh,

and he was like, y'all, y'all are three next motherfuckers. They're going to be running the music industry. So before Interscope, this is before all that. And it was like, y'all three motherfuckers is going to be running the music industry. So before Interscope? Before Interscope. Before all that. And it was like, y'all three motherfuckers is going to be running this shit.

I'm sitting up in there like, okay. I'm sitting back like, y'all are going to be the industry. You know, like, I leave out the office. I say, not knowing what was going on because, again, I'm from Miami. I'm not too familiar with the music business, you know, like that. Like, you know, I was impressed.

You know, my lawyers was trying to explain to me who these big time dudes was. They had this big old $5 million check that they put in the front of me. I'm a street dude. I'm like, what the fuck is this money finna do to you? Right? So I'm looking at the money like this. But my first instinct was like, you know, hold on. Before I do this deal, I got to go around there and holler at Sylvia Rome.

Right. And so I said, I need to get her a blessing. Now, mind you, they got this $5 million check sitting there. And I'm like, no, I need to go holler at this black lady. But actually, was Sylvia at Electric at that time or she was at Atlantic? She was at Electric. Oh, Electric.

Okay, all right, cool. Because we were on Electric Atlantic. Yeah, but they were doing the marketing. Oh, okay, okay. For everybody. They controlled everybody. And so I looked at her like as if she was the Don. You know was the, the, the Don, you know what I'm saying? I got to go run this past her. Cause I don't want to be, you know, I'm already making money.

I don't want to be on this label unless she give me a blessings. And so, you know, I went around there and it was looking, you know, a lady was looking kind of crazy. She was like, nah, nah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But then at the end of the day, it wasn't really true. She wasn't trying to give me her blessing. Oh, wow. It was all about fucking us. Wow. You know, so we signed up, did the deal. We did the Band in the USA album over there.

You know, we did that. Actually, what you probably don't know, that was the first downloaded song ever in the history of music. Really? Yeah. Because what happened is I told him, I said,

look, I want to put this record out on 4th of July at 12 o'clock. So I'm assuming that we're going to ship this motherfucker. Right.

Right? Wow. We're going to ship the record to us. And it's going to be a real-life story. And we're going to tell the record companies,

not the record companies, we're going to tell the radio station don't play the record until 12 o'clock. Right. You know, because it was, for station, don't play the record until 12 o'clock. Because for me, it was an emotional record. We had to win through all the bullshit.

And we wanted to play it on that time. And they were like, yo, we got a better way to do this shit. And I was like, what? And they said, download. They were like, we're going to download it. I'm like, huh? Download it? What year was this? I got to give you the year. This was pre-Nap Download it? What year was this? I got to get the year.

This pre-Napster even? This was pre-Napster. It wasn't Napster. It wasn't even heard of. So how would they convince you that this is something that the masses are even going to know?

Because he's saying he wanted to drop it at that time. I know, but how do you know the masses even have access to that? These motherfuckers had access to the computer

where they downloaded that motherfucker to every radio station. Oh, to the radio station. Yeah, the radio station. My thing was I wanted the record to be on the PD desk

and then everybody collectively played that bitch at 12 o'clock on 4th of July. That's crazy. And they say, oh, we got a better way. Wow.

We're going to download this motherfucker. So if you go look through the history books, it says that that record is the first downloaded record in the history of uh music period right so so let me ask you right one of the pluses pros and cons rather of having this job is

people come up to me and no matter where i'm'm at, airports, you know, they just think I'm just drinking 24 hours. Ah! You got to take a shot. Do people come up to you and twerk all day? Like, do the real! Do people do that to you? The dudes come to me and say, Luke, where them hoes at? I can be with a girl, you know.

Or a lady. They'll be like, Luke, you know, or a lady, and be like, Luke, what am I up to? Bro, you see me with a mother, a fine-ass girl, what do you mean? And then if you're in the wrong place, the girls go to like, Luke, is this qualified here? I'm like, God damn, I'm here with my son. Like, what the fuck are we doing right now

yeah I mean I live a beautiful life cause you like when I look back at it I feel like you invented the twerk I'm mad at that fucking word I'm mad at that fucking drink

drink comes out and do the song twerking and and everybody didn't change the motherfucking song. I'm like, hold on, change the dance. No, it's booty shaking. Yeah, it's pop that pussy. Doodle Brown.

It's all three of them. They got three motherfucking things. That's what it is. It's ass shaking. I took enough heat for that shit's ass shaking And we took I took enough heat For that shit You know we took heat

Down in the south Because you know You had You know you had Motherfucker like Method Man And Red Man They get on the record What's up dog

What's up dog Oh man They do booty music Them niggas down there In the south Do booty music That booty shit Them country ass niggas

Do booty music I'm like I didn't take You goddamn record So now everybody What's up? Do booty music. That booty shit. Them country ass niggas do booty music. I'm like, I didn't take you goddamn right. So now everybody, all these damn girls want to shake their ass. You want to change our shit to fucking twerking? And they put the bitch in the dictionary. Wait, so hold on. Hold on.

You find that now. That's crazy. So twerking is a new word. In the fucking dictionary. But I didn't even know. I thought, damn, you're right. Because it was called, yeah, that's right. Man, I'm like, man, booty shaking around here.

I'm like, hold on, man. And something real quick. You want to show them one album cover real quick? I thought we was going to hold off on that. Where is this young lady? No, no, no, no, no, no. Yo, yo. Oh, my God. Yo.

Yo, you know you're not getting away with this now. Yo. Listen, listen. Can a person... That's a... Listen, man. Is that beautiful or what? Yo, yo, yo.

That's a fucking worker arm. Why you got to listen to these cousins up there like that? Look at that. Look at that. Look at that right there. Man, low mileage on the pussy. But hold on. There's no parental or there is no parental advisory.

And this is what everything that you went to court for. This is after court. This is after you win. And you just want to throw it back in their face. I can do whatever the fuck I want. I was just pushing the fucking envelope. They was fucking with me. I was like, okay, I'm in court. I'm a couple million dollars into this shit right now.

Everybody coming after me. My lawyer basically told me, say, and by the way, we created the sticker too, just so you know. You created it? Yeah. We'll get to that. They're fucking with me. I'm like, okay, y'all fucking with the wrong one.

You know, because I came up, I really, you know, my dad, my dad Jamaican and my uncle Bahamian. Wow. And I used to live, I used to go back and forth to my uncle's house. And so that, you know, them motherfuckers don't let you look at no cartoons and you got to sit there and listen to Malcolm X tapes. Right. You got to read by H-Rap Brown and all this.

You know, the struggle, the real struggle way back then. So I was like, y'all picked the right motherfucker to fuck with. Right. You know what I'm saying? Because I already know everything goes in circles. They always told me, yo, you're going to have invisible chains on you. I'm like, what the fuck y'all mean? Y'all niggas ain't, y'all ain't going to be free. You know, they're going to try invisible chains on you I'm like what the fuck y'all mean y'all niggas ain't y'all ain't going to be free

you know they're going to try to lock your mind up so I was always taught on that you know and everything going circle ain't black man with any power

you know and that's the readings and everything that I was in they had me reading up on was any black man in power they're going to

either kill you or put you in jail you know if you got a voice in you're going to be able to move people in a certain type of way. So then I looked at myself like,

shit, I'm not Marcus Garvey or H. Rap Brown or one of them dudes, but I'm looking at it like, man, I'm doing this music from down here.

I'm not affiliated with no company. You know, I don't got no muscle behind me. You're battling a system. I'm battling the fucking system. All right. Now, how did this Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre beef initially happen?

Oh, shit. How did it start? And mind you, we've talked about this the first time, but we're going to circle back to that every day again. Snoop Dogg, to this day right now, that's my dog. Yeah, I love the picture of you, Snoop, and Suge. I think it was at a Miami game. Yeah.

That's when we squashed the beef. Yeah. What was it? It was at a Super Bowl. Just imagine. It was San Francisco and Cincinnati. Right. And I tell the president of the Dolphin about this story.

I was like, do you know, it could have been the biggest shootout. Right. In Super Bowl history and that motherfucker. Right, right. I was like, do you know it could have been the biggest shootout in Super Bowl history in that motherfucker? Right, right. I mean, you had everybody. Right. You had Jimmy. Right.

And all the bad guys. You know, you had New York and Miami and it was like some of us that couldn't get in the room and it was like,

yo, we need to have a conversation about this shit here. But it started off, I mean, How it start? The but but it started off i mean how it started the beat the it started i i said something and i said something in an interview and then snoop them you did dre at first right it was just dre yeah and then snoop the young snoop he was young snoop it was young snoop and so i i did Dre, and then Snoop came, and that's when Snoop wasn't popular then, and they did the song.

What, Deep Couple? No, no, no, it was Dre Day. Dre Day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dre Day was the record that came back. Yeah, so they did the song, Dissin' Me. But why'd you diss Dre in the first place? I don't know what the fuck was going on.

Y'all smoking that weed. I'm a guy. And I'm fucking half Jamaican, so you can think I'm. So you don't even remember where the shit started at. Started at right now. This motherfucker got a whole bunch of money. God damn. Because it's an honor to have you, brother.

And we had to give you And we had to give you Your flowers man Appreciate it Appreciate it Appreciate it So we ended up With the damn

We ended up I dissed them They dissed me And then we did Cowards in Compton Right Wow We did the

Cowards in Compton Song They had Originally they did You know The Snoop Diss And then we did the Cowards and Compton song they had originally they did you know the Snoop diss and then we did

our diss our diss obviously wasn't as popular as theirs but it was popular down here how mad was you when you realized Snoop wasn't from Compton

yeah I was like what the fuck Cowards and Compton just sprayed in the I was like what the fuck that's what Compton Just sprayed in David Right Oh yeah I was like What the fuck

That's what You know Yeah That's what Fucked me up Because I thought Everybody You know

I didn't realize He was from Long Beach Right Right It was like God damn I was supposed to be

We were supposed to add Long Beach In this motherfucking song Right But no We had the whole God damn West Coast after us

Then So at the end At the end of the day We did We did the beef We did the songs back and forwards. You know, again, again.

You guys saw each other though, right? At Jack the Rapper or something like that? Yeah, we saw each other at Jack the Rapper. I went to Jill, who's Jack the Rapper's daughter, who's really hosting the event

because Jack had to go. Totally, right? And I was like, yo, y'all got to chill with this shit. We got to meet. We need to meet because the shit going to go from zero to 100.

You know, because all the tough guys from Miami had to migrate it to Atlanta. And they was running the dope game in Atlanta. You feel me? And so at the end of the day, you know, they had to take the game up there. And so, you know, again, the life before me was a tough guy. You know, it was... So I know a whole bunch of them dudes. You know, and it was kind of crazy

because, you know, the beef was going back and forth. It became some real serious shit because, again, dudes who I came up with, they really own that shit. And so they didn't know how to handle that. And at the end of the day you know one day I we was up there getting ready to go to Jack the Rapper and then knock on the door like 12 motherfuckers from the crib who I used to roll with like yo we here we got a

problem you know what I'm saying like what the fuck y'all motherfuckers here for weenie cause they knew Def Road was there too. Exactly. So somebody, you know, one of the boys, hey man, look,

and so they end up coming in before, you know, I'm trying to cool these dudes off. Right. Because they wanted to, you know,

these motherfuckers, they wanted to do something to everybody. So at the end of the day, we cooled it off to a degree where it was just a fight. It wasn't really, you know, ain't nobody died.

But it was bad, you know, because then it became all the dudes who were from Miami. It was in Atlanta. Then we all ended up at the hotel. And then they tore up the hotel, and people got stabbed. I don't know. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. It was a lot of things going on.

And people had to end up getting on a plane and going back home. But at the end of the day, like I say, like I tell people all the time, we went through those situations. But y'all got through, man. Yeah. Y'all got past it. Right now, we got past it. And that's why I try to tell these young dudes

who are out there, you know, they're making these records, you know, and they going about that shit for real. You know, it's a lot of real shit going on in these streets right now. And I tell them, look, man, don't, you know, if you're doing good music, just do good music.

Leave that shit alone. So we all learn from that. You know, me, Snoop, you know, we you're doing good music, just do good music. Leave that shit alone. So we all learned from that. You know, me, Snoop. You know, we all became friends. Suge and all that shit like that. You know, we ended up, it was like, look, we got squashed and shit. And that's how we ended up at the stadium. Oh, that was the first day you got squashed?

I thought you had squashed it off the stage. No, no. It was hanging out already. It became your- That day. Yeah, because they had another Jack the Rapper the out already. It became, yo. That day. Yeah, because they had another Jack the Rapper the next year.

It was in Orlando and I guess they brought a whole bunch of motherfuckers and they kind of tore that motherfucker up. Right. And that was the end of Jack the Rapper.

But then it was like, yo, let's sit down. So, you know, I ended up linking with Shug and we ended up saying, okay, I'm going to welcome y'all down here for the Super Bowl.

You got San Francisco. And then we'll sit down and chop it up saying, okay, I'm going to welcome y'all down here for the Super Bowl. You got San Francisco. And then we'll sit down and chop it up and work it out. But then it wasn't really about working it out with just me because you had this whole New York thing. So you had, just imagine in this fucking room, you had New York gangsters in the room and it was us and then it was them.

And I'm like, yo, we're going to do this shit in the peaceful way. In between the East Coast, West Coast. Yeah, it was in between all this shit. So that's adding on top of that. Yeah. So it was like, hey, look, let me just bring everybody to the table. And then we all went in the room and we, you know, motherfuckers had words and shit. You know, and we say, okay, we're going to squash this shit.

And that's how I kind of, it kind of deadened. That's why you see the picture of me and Snoop. And if you look on the back, you see dolphins on the wall. That was in the damn dolphin suite at the Super Bowl of Cincinnati and San Francisco. What would life would have been like if you had a chance to speak to Pac and Biggie? I did. Like together in the same room. I tried to get them together. I mean, I would speak to both of them separately.

Separately. Because, again, you know, Pac was my guy also you know when he was with Digital Underground they would do shows together you know

me and him would always end up in the room vibing and shit talking about all kind of shit you know largely black history

you know Panthers and shit because I wanted to pick his brain about his mom you know being in that and then same thing with Big about his mom, you know, being in that. And then same thing with Big.

Big would come down, you know, to Miami and chill at my condo, you know, with a bunch of naked women and shit. Yeah. He always went, hey, him and Hun got stuck in the fucking elevator. Him and Hun? Damn, they got stuck in the elevator. They got stuck in the elevator. They got stuck in the elevator. That was the funniest shit.

So we, you know, but me and him was down like that. I mean, you know, and that's how, you know, we end up, anytime I would go to New York, I would hang out with Big. We did records together

and shit like that. And the same thing with Pop. You know, Pop got out of jail. I went and interviewed him, you know, at the Suge Night Club in Vegas. 662. You know, and most people were like, yo, them niggas gonna set you the

fuck up. You know, you're already not eating the beef. Your mother was like, them niggas gonna set you up. Nah, we going in that motherfucker. It was me. Here's the crazy part about it. It was me, Trick Daddy,

and Moose Adi. So Trick Daddy wasn't even out yet. It was before Scarred. Before Scarred. Before Scarred. Yeah. Trick Daddy just got out of jail.

He's staying with me at the condo. You know, he fucking all the girls at the, at the goddamn beauty. You know, fucking all the girls at the goddamn beauty school downstairs. But he was,

so we, it was like, you know, I don't want him to go back to jail because he just got out of jail. So it was like, no, fuck that shit.

Fuck that shit, dick. I'm going with you too. You know, and Shane, most people are like, yo, I'm going, we going together. So we went to go tape an interview, excuse me, with them at the 662 Club.

That's why if you ever see any clips of that interview. Wait a minute. So you're telling me Trick Dabby, who has all this thug music, title. I believe all of the titles of his album has thug in it. I love it. A lot of them. It's a possibility if Tupac would have fronted, he would have went. Listen. I'm just asking.

It's a possibility. We would know. Hey, listen. We didn't go in there without no tools. That's what I'm saying. But it was crazy. It was crazy. I mean, but we it was crazy. It was crazy. I mean, but we went in there.

It was peaceful. You know, motherfuckers was watching their back and all that in the club. We eventually did the interview with him because he at first just got out of jail. And that's when you see him, you know, I'm doing the interview. I'm trying to squash the beef also. But shit, he just went from zero to a thousand. He started talking about, you know, faith and all this and the girls and all this.

And he just was on 12 up in that motherfucker. Who were you doing the interview for? For the peep show. Oh, for your show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah.

That's crazy. Yeah, that shit was, that was wild. Yeah. Very suddenly. You didn't see the peep show? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm in the ballroom. That's in my nose, wow. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, that shit was, that was wild. Yeah. Very suddenly. You didn't see the peep show? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hold on, that's in my notes.

Chill, we getting, we getting. Hold on, that's in my notes. Okay. Hold the fuck up. Very suddenly we get people that knew Pac, but, and when we do get people that know Pac, we only get people that knew one version of Pac, like the digital underground or just the death row Pac. What was the difference between you, when you first of Pac, like the digital underground or just the death row Pac?

What was the difference between you when you first met Pac? Like I imagine in the digital underground days to the Pac that, you know, you know. Right. Became the superstar. Yeah. Or was it even even a difference? It was really it it was when he became being digital underground days, he was more laid back. You know what I'm saying? Because it was about Humpty. Right, right.

So he was- He was more of a supportive role to digital underground. He was one of the guys. It was no different. It was, he was no different. You know, and that's why I always, when I'm around the superstars, and then I look at the other people who are around. Right. And then those ones who are soaking up the information, getting the information, they're going to be that guy.

I mean, same thing with Jay-Z. Right. You know, Big told me he next. Oh, wow. Right? And he was just hanging out with Big. He was one of the guys in the crew. Wow.

I was like, I'm thinking he's getting ready to save one of the guys in the crew. Wow. I was like, I'm thinking he'd get ready to save one of the junior mafia guys. Wow. You know, and so, so I would always gravitate to them young guys who would be

in the background. You saw something for sure. Yeah, yeah. I knew he had that it. You know, and very few people, you know,

you could see that. And so I'm looking at him and I'm vibing and he really want to be in the business. A lot of people don't realize them guys would be hanging out, soaking up the information. They ain't really getting no money. They really

want, they really, you know, they really putting their network in the business. Whether they roadie or whether they just there or trying to find their way. And so when he became this superstar and he got big,

then he would come down again, hang out with me, go to some of my parties and shit. Then it became, versus this quiet dude, it became like George Jefferson. That Napoleon Complex. He had the big chest. He'd walk like this.

You know, the little short dude. He had it going on, which was good. He had the big chest. He walked like this. And, you know, a little short dude. And he had it going on, which was good. He wasn't really, Pop was never really a dude that would shit on nobody or talk bad about nobody.

He just had, you know, he would feel, he'd just feel himself, you know, like that. So those were the two different, the two different people.

And even when I, like I said, when I did that interview with him in Vegas, it was the same thing. And even when I, like I said, when I did that interview with him in Vegas, it was the same thing. You know, he was feeling some kind of way just getting out of jail.

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Do you ever watch that Jay-Z clip you got? What? Oh, you was going, we going to reenact that right now? No, no, no. I don't think we got the prompt for that. Goddamn. Can we get a girl? With that type of money?

No, no, no. You know me, Jay-Z. We both marry men. We both marry men. Yeah, yeah. I know. I saw y'all. Yeah, yeah. My wife over there. Yeah, yeah. We both marry men. We both marry men. I know. I know. I saw y'all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My wife over there.

My wife over there. Is that Boss Eddie? Yeah, yeah, yeah. My wife over there. My wife over there. Hey, that's Boss Eddie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right.

You've got to be here. That's right. Newcomer shit. Newcomer. Fuck that shit. Yo, yo. That is very funny. We ain't doing no fucking bitches.

Y'all just talking about your pussy bollocks. That shit was a wild shit. That was another name for it. Whenever now and then, I like to see, look at it, to see Jay-Z's uncomfortableness. Oh, hey, man. Because I've never asked you this, right? Did he know that was going to happen? No.

Okay, I knew it. I knew it. I described it. Describe it. Okay, tell the people. Let me tell you. When I did the Peace Show, right? Uh-huh.

It was really about, it was, you know, I was like, I came up with this shit. I'm like, I'm going to do a show because all these motherfuckers talking about sex and this and all this wild shit on the record. Now that I liberated everybody and made it okay for you to say what the fuck you want to say on the record, people just lose their mind. Hockenellie, put it in your mouth. That's right. Hey, okay, we're going to interview you. And we're going to have some girls sitting there ready to suck your dick.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. So you're really not keeping reals a whole lot different. He's going to do an interview like, yeah, hey, I can help you. You made this song, put it in your mouth. Okay, hey, sweetheart, come on in. Put it in your mouth. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Let me get it. Let me get it. Hey, Aaron Hall. Hey, Aaron Hall. You say you freaking in R. Kelly. Hell yeah, fuck that shit. Well, eat your ass. Whoa.

Right on the camera. Yo, what's up, man? Hey, Lil' Kim, you fucking making all these songs. The Lil' Kim one is epic, too. Oh, the Lil' Kim one. It's crazy. She walks in there. We got a whole harem going on. We got everybody fucking each other and shit.

Lil' Kim walking up in there. She ain't got no titties and shit. And she's like, what whole harem going on. We got everybody fucking each other and shit. Kim walking up in there. She ain't got no titties and shit. She's like, what the fuck is going on with you? Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey. Go ahead. I'm saying so. I'm trying to

picture myself. But Jay is a smooth guy. He's always been smooth. Smoother than my heart. I've never seen him not smooth. That's the only time I might have seen him a little uncomfortable. So I wanted to always know for myself, like, did he know him? You say you didn't know him.

So describe what happened. So the thing is, again, Big say, you know, J ain't Big right now. He said he ain't J. Right. And so Big was like, you know, hey, man, put my guy on the fucking show. Right? I'm just booking Jay-Z. Oh, okay.

He wasn't J. I don't think he had a record out or nothing. Did you have this song with Big already? The Busta Nuts joint? Before, we probably did. Probably did. So then it was like, man, put my homeboy on on the show and all that, right? Jay was the first one that wasn't, had a big record. He had no records about doing nothing. You feel me? And so I'm like, okay, we're gonna interview him. So then we ended up interviewing Jay. And so I'm like, okay, we're gonna set this shit up. I got

these two girls and then they gonna, you know, cause I always like, okay, we're going to set this shit up. I got these two girls and then they're going to, you know, because I always like throw people's mind off. Right. You know, so the girls is eating each other out.

So if they're eating each other out, then I'm going to ask you a question. Like, I'm looking at you asking the question. I get everything

because you ain't going to bullshit me right now because you distracted. He's like, Jay sitting up there like, yeah, yeah, yeah, everything. Same thing with the rest of them.

Lil' Kim and all that, yeah, did you fuck Biggie? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he was sitting there. I mean, it was fucking epic because people, I see that clip all the time, I'll be laughing. And, you know, because I didn't

know it was that time of the month with one of the girls. Oh, shit. Oh, no, wait, wait, wait. Wait a minute. This is a collector. Wait a minute. No, the girl's face came up and it was red. And Jay did it like that. And Jay did like that.

I'm like, whoa! This wasn't a part of the goddamn motherfucking script. You know, if he got whoa. I was like, hey, I had to check myself. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. And you know, obviously,

she didn't know what was on her face. The other girl did. And we had cut, cut obviously she didn't know what was on her face. The other girl did. And we had cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. Did that part air? I don't remember that part. If you really look at it. It was not air on the videotape. If you really look at it, you can see it.

Crazy. Wow. That was some wild shit. I was like, man, when we cut, I was like, why would you do this right here? Right. When you know it's that time of month. Right. Oh, damn.

That was a bad scene. Yo, you was wildin', dude. Yeah, I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready. You weren't ready for that. I wasn't ready for that. I did not know that.

You're like, okay, let me smoke another joint. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That fucked my notes up. I wasn't ready You weren't ready for that I wasn't ready for that I did not know that He's like okay You smoking that Yeah yeah And I'm like That fucked my notes up That fucked Okay so look You get ready to segue Into some other shit

Yeah I'm going to get Into something else I said this last time He was here And I'm going to say When How Can I Be Down Came through He had the boat parties

And first of all The promo items that he was giving out and I brought it last time that he was on the show was these little view things that you look through and it was like a scene

the scene he's depicting is scenes like that the peep shows the peep holes and the little view I still got them joints and then you get on the boat for How Can I Be Down convention

and it's chill and the minute that shit takes off from Bayside I think it was Bayside right? yeah yeah yeah then the music starts and the stripper's coming out of nowhere.

And this shit is, everything he described is happening on the boat. I think Red Alert was one of the DJs at one time. This shit was wild, man. Wild. So let me bounce around

just a little bit, right? Because we've seen the Freaknik documentary, but I'm thinking about that. Why? Where's the Peep show documentary? Oh, yeah. Oh, that's it.

Because one thing about you, I was saying, I would always say to other people, like, Instagram wouldn't be alive. Most artists wouldn't be alive back then, if they had Instagram. But the difference between you from everyone else is you kind of, like, documented all your shit with the peep show.

I documented all that shit, yeah. So your freak was out in the open. Right. I had to do that because every city I go, like for instance, I went to South Carolina one time. And, you know, they would say that I would have the girls on stage naked. So then I was like, OK, fuck that. I'm going to just start videoing all my shows and everything so people can actually see that I ain't got nothing to do with it. Right.

You know, and I went to South Carolina one time and some girl from the military got on stage with my dancers. My dancers made love to her and all that. She ended up going back to the base talking shit. The girl dancers? The girl dancers. The girl dancers. Okay, okay. They were the bad guys. Right, they were the bad guys,

the girl dancers. Oh, yeah. They were no Freaky Red. Right. Freaky Red was an animal. She's on Love & Hip Hop, right? No, no. Okay.

My dancers can't be on shows like that. Okay. The X ones. Okay. Yeah, they can't, no, they can't, ones. Okay. Yeah, they can't know. They can't know. Okay. They would pull out pearls

and shit out of their vagina and have babies on stage. Yeah. Wait, tell me. Wait, hold up. And they was doing that shit on the boat, too. When you said have babies?

Yeah, they put a little dog baby in them. Oh! Pick up bottles, 40 ounces, or 32 ounces. Yeah. There was a lot of shit going on. I had, 40 ounces or 32 ounces. Yeah. It was a lot of shit

going on. I had to get a hold of myself. Right. Yeah, it was a lot of things going on. We were pushing that envelope,

but... To say the least. I've never been like, wait a minute, what's going on? The whole eight years of this show. So we would go

city to city doing this shit. And that's, again, that's how that whole Freaknik thing started. When we went to Atlanta, it was a nice little party. And we just went there and just turned the motherfucker out. No different than Galveston. Galveston was a nice college weekend. Turned it out.

You know, we went to Daytona Beach, same thing. And so I documented all that. I got all that footage. What made you document this, though? Out of safety for yourself? Let me tell you. Let me tell you.

It was... I saw New Kids on the Block. New Kids on the Block? I never thought that was going to come out of here. No, no, no. Fucking New Kids on the Block I never thought that was going to come out here no no fucking new kids on the block oh my god it's your boy new kids on the block

they were doing they were doing backstage footage and selling it on DVD and on VHS so I was like oh shit so Billboard had a whole chart and the chart was filled up with

artists doing backstage footage. And I said, well, goddamn, why don't I do some backstage footage? You know, and then at that time, Master P was doing his movies and shit. And then I'm like, you know, I could make a lot of money doing this shit. Everybody always asks,

what the fuck happened this weekend on tour you know what happened next and everybody asks where the hoes at where the hoes at right so I start documenting it

and this is before Girls Gone Wild you were the original Girls Gone Wild original before that he stole that shit I don't know how you

didn't come here no we made money we made a lot of fucking money he should have licensed it from you exactly you know he did

the white version of what I'm doing. Fucking girl. It went around trying to act like he was cool. You know how that shit go. Oh, let me do. Oh, shit. I see some shit. Let me try and do that and imitate this dude. So at the end of the day, that's what

we were doing. So we were documenting it and we were putting it out. Like, we did the peep show. I went to, and this is why, this is why the guy who used to run BET, what his name? He don't like me to this day.

Stephen Hill? Stephen Hill hates my guts. Wow. Because? Because he wanted to do the brown. Whoa, whoa, whoa. No, my bad. I don't know.

That was a sign of weird. That's my friend. It, whoa, whoa. No, my bad. I don't know. That was a... That's not a wig. That's my friend. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Go ahead. I might need a joint. No, I'm okay.

No. So BET had this network called Action Pay-Per-View. And they weren't really doing nothing with it. Okay. You know what I'm saying? So Playboy had... Playboy had the dark, whatever. your place doing all the uncut videos and so i went to bob johnson at the time and say look i let me put these peep shows on action pay-per-view you know how i own them so bt actually was the

one who's airing the peep show wow on the on the affiliate that they own oh it's affiliate right people didn't know it was BET. They own Action Pay-Per-View. Right. And so when I came in the big boardroom, and that's when Steven had just got in there, and Bob was like, fuck that. I'm going to do this.

You can do this, Luke. And I never got a video played on BET at that time, so it was almost like a little beef that I was doing that shit on there but I owned the peep shows and we would shoot them put them on pay per view make a lot of fucking money and then I just said okay fuck it

they sold the network then I then created the freak shows and that was me going around to a caption what we were doing on tour even BET uncut they didn't play your

that was way after I think I'm saying like they didn't play like the throwback videos BET uncut no? no on pay per view on action pay per view I was we programmed that so what I did was I did the Lil' Kims, the Jay-Z's, and all that stuff like that.

And then we added the uncut videos in it. Because what I did was basically, I know I want to get my videos played, so I used the adult version of the lyrics and then did the videos. Like an explicit rap city? In the club, yeah. And so I just took those videos and other people started doing the videos. Like an explicit rap city? In the club. Yeah.

And so I just took those videos and other people started doing their videos with the uncut version of it and putting it on there. And so it was between us and Playboy Channel that was playing uncut versions. Oh, okay.

Well, God damn it. Let's praise him for that. I still can't imagine the boardroom meeting where you show the first episode like hey check this out guys

yeah Stephen Hill was like I hate this motherfucker that's why it wasn't until it wasn't until Connie Johnson became the president when Connie ran the network

is when I got honored I never was honored until then I was her first honoree. It was like, they was shitting on me ever since then. There's always a woman that shows me love.

Now, what happened to the Grammys that you didn't go back to the Grammys for like 20 years? Oh, fuck them. What happened to the Grammys? I just made up with them fucking 20, 30 years later. Okay.

I mean, it was crazy because I'm going through this shit. I'm going to court. I got three cases. People think it was one. It was actually three cases. One, the record was deemed obscene. The other one, we went to jail because we went and sung an obscene record. And then the other one was the Roy Orbison

where I was going to the Supreme Court. So it was three fucking cases. That was for free speech. All of them were intertwined. Then I had this George Lucas fucking suit because my name was Luke Skywalker. So I'm getting sued all over the fucking place.

damn, I just mentioned all of them. I lost track of what you asked me. See, I'm getting fucking old. What's that I asked? Let's go, Paul. It's that fucking, yeah, the Grammys. The Grammys. So I'm going through all this shit.

I'm going to all these courts. I'm fighting every motherfucking body. And the Grammys invited me to the Grammys. So I go to the Grammys. I get dressed up. I got my homeboy, Versace Neil. God bless his soul. He's in lockup again.

I love Neil. Neil was Carlito in Carlito's way. Right. You know, my dog. Neil, me and Neil, we go to the fucking awards. We get on the plane. We go there. And then, you know, and then people get up on the thing.

And we want to take this moment because we know artists are going through, you know, this free speech and this censorship shit. And we're not going to be allowed. We're not. We're going to support artists that get censored. And I want to honor our artist today that we brought here. And ladies and gentlemen, Madonna. I'm like, Madonna? Not this bitch.

Madonna? What the fuck she did? She ain't spent one day in motherfucking jail. I just got out of jail for this shit For music For music They put my black ass in jail You know, I'm going to fight in every court in the land

Madonna? Right? So I'm sitting there like Ain't this a bitch? I had a Rodney Dangerfield moment You know what I'm saying? I'm like in shock These motherfuckers talking about Madonna?

You know, no disrespect Madonna, she a freak and everything. But goddamn. You know, Madonna. And I'm sitting, man, bro. Man, I got so motherfucking hot. Man, I went and hung out in the city. I was like, I ain't never going back to this shit ever in my life.

You know, and then later on, Betty Wright, God bless her soul. You know, our queen here in Miami, she didn't say, Luke, you got to fucking, we got to sit down. And so I sat down with some of the guys from the Grammy and, you know. She was on the Grammy board. She was on the board. Oh, okay. Yeah, and so she was like, yo, you know, we got to make this shit right. And then I ended up going lobbying

for them in Washington DC and then I still was I ain't really fucking with y'all like that and and so but I you know she say do something mama do it and then I kind of chilled you know I really didn't get too active and then they came to me with the 50. Yeah. They were like, look, we want to do something special. We understand,

you know, we fucked up way back then and we want to make this shit right. And so, they ended up kind of,

you know, giving me a little tribute in the 50 and then saying some good shit. Right. Because at first, you felt like

they didn't include Miami in the 50-year anniversary. Overall. Overall. Right. Because at first you felt like they didn't include Miami in the 50 year anniversary. Overall. Overall. Yeah, overall, yeah, yeah. Overall, I was hot. I was hot because, you know,

at the same time, man, you know, what we did and what we stood for and what we fought for in the courts and the amount of money and the shit that we went through,

you know, it's hip hop. You know what I'm saying? Absolutely. You know, it was a part of hip hop, whether people like it or not. And so everybody got all this 50 anniversary and 50 this, 50 that, and not to include Miami into the conversation in any kind of way. You know, because what people didn't realize even way back then, and I told people, you know, I remember going to New Music Seminar saying, you know, hip hop is going to be global. You know, because one guy was on the panel was like, yo, somebody mentioned 2 Live Crew.

And it was like, oh, that shit is a fad. It's going to go away. I forget the guy's name. And then I stood up in the middle of this shit. It was like 2,000 people at this hip-hop panel. I was like, fuck that. Hip-hop is going to be global. Right.

You know, and one thing about the South, you know, once it catches on the South, then it's going to be bigger than just New York. It wasn't no disrespect. Right, right. It was just going to be what New York created was going to be global in a major way. And so what I predicted was actually the truth because, you know, you then had P.D. Pablo and you had the Swisher House. You had all these guys

from all over the South. You had, you know, Three Six Mafia. And then, you know, the guys in New Orleans. So it became what I envisioned it to be, which people didn't realize it. People didn't,

they didn't think it was going to be this serious, which, you know, which when you look at it all and you say, okay, you got 50, you know, we all, we need to be in that conversation because we created and started. You've been out like 37 years, right?

How long? Yeah, I lost count. That's 37 or 50? 30, yeah. Next year, no, next year will be our 40th year anniversary. 40th year. So, yeah. It was like mid to late 80s for sure. Mid 80s.

Yeah. Next year, next year. Miami belong, belong. Good, man. It's not. Now this comes from, this comes from, from, from somewhere I can't tell you, but did you ever get hit on stage? Yeah, I did. What?

Shit, Rick James was eating pussy. I had to do something. I'm not reading what none of these guys said. So when you saw Akineli, you was practicing what you preached. Oh yeah, I always practice what I preach. I'm not reading what none of these guys said. I was in Japan. Oh shit, the way he said it, that makes it bad. Yeah, I got hit in Japan oh shit the way he said it

that makes it bad yeah I got hit in Japan is that when you got you in the hometown that's when you got hit yeah that's being the means my bad

my bad my bad my bad they sued the shit out of me they sued the shit out of me hell yeah

that's a big movie though no yeah I did that and that's a big movie though no yeah I did that and that's you know and then I had the settlement

was they gave me $50,000 and told me I had to do a song on New Jack City soundtrack which I was like

I'll take that fucking settlement all day so we did the song Dick in the Dust on there okay my bad

wasn't ready I got you boss I got you I got you, boss. I got you. I got you. Well, it's a deep and in-depth degree.

That's why you got to go. That's why you have to come here. I have to be here because y'all once I say it, y'all be like,

oh shit, yeah. I can't go to a fucking Shannon shop and have a conversation. I can't have no conversation. I can't have no conversation. I can't have that conversation now. I mean, it'd be lost like a motherfucker. Dick in the dust.

Blue Jack City, South Trot. Hold the fuck on, you know? I got to come here. I got real hip hop. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up.

Give it up. I forgot the question. It's in the dust. Paul, help me out, Paul. Huh? I forgot what was the question. We were just segwaying. No, we were talking about the settlement.

It was head on stage. It was in Japan? Yeah, so the girls, we were touring. We going to Osaka, Yokohama, Kyoto. We just touring because I basically was staying in Japan and going back and forth. So we set up this big-ass tour. That was, again, that's after I left 2 Live Crew and all that.

So I'm over there. You know, I embraced the culture and all this shit. We doing these shows and all that. So I'm over there. You know, I didn't embrace the culture and all this shit. We doing these shows and these venues, me and JT Money, and every night, I go to the front of the stage, and the girls, the stage was like right here, and they could touch you. So all these fucking Japanese girls

were just grabbing my dick every night. And they were doing this right here. I'm like, so now you, mind you, we got like 12 dates over there.

And so I'm like, yo, if they fucking grab my dick again, one of you motherfuckers gonna come on stage and give me some fucking head. So then.

This was not planned out. This was not planned out. No. This is random. Okay. We going through the shows and they just grabbing all our shit. It was me and JT Money, right?

I'm like... So it was like, okay, you know, they rode by. We rode by the jailhouse, and they was like, them fucking Japanese jailhouses fucked up. You know, like the real jailhouse. I'm an escape artist. No choice but to escape. You're signing up to jail? I'm signing up to jail.

I just escaped from so many goddamn places you can imagine. Right? So I'm like, fuck that shit. This is the last show. The last show. Somebody grabbed my shit up here on this stage. I'm bringing them up on stage, and we're going to get our dicks sucked. You're a cleric.

You're our. And I'm hearing about Rick James got Tina Marie on stage eating a pussy. Right? So you know about that? Man, y'all love me. I had Instagram back then. It was only one channel back then. So I'm like, fuck that shit.

I got to do better than Rick James. And then it ended up being that show and the girl come up on stage we got the girls up on stage they were

you know they just started giving us heads wild and that was the last song we didn't have the energy to finish

we were completely drained. We didn't know what to drink. Oh, shit. Oh, shit, Luke. That shit ended up on national news and everything. Over there or everywhere? Oh, yeah. You can find that shit online.

What was the news over there saying about it? I'm curious about what did they say over there in Japan? I don't know because I didn't go back. I was like, I'm getting the fuck out of here. It's like an international incident. You ruined relations between America and Japan. Why have relations?

I did some things. Y'all ask me questions. I'm just realizing how much wild ass shit I did. I'm sure there's more than we know. Christ. Because last time you was here. I know. She said, this lady looking like this motherfucker crazy.

I know I'm the reason you're here today, sweetheart. I'm sure your dad was popping that pussy. All y'all. Oh, y'all my kids. Yeah, I'm a daddy. I got a G like me. The last time we was here, we didn't play this game.

Now, you don't have to take shots if you don't want to. You can take sips. Are we playing quick time? Oh, shit. Or point somebody out and they'll take a shot Somebody could be a designated Alicia Keys

Alicia Alicia Keys, okay. Oh. I pulled up the wrong list. Hold on. I'm on the wrong list. Here's the rules. This is our drinking game. We're going to give you two choices. You pick one. We don't drink. If you say both or neither, meaning the PC answer, like you don't want to answer it,

then we all drink. So if I pick one? If you pick one, nobody drinks. Nobody drinks. Not you, not us. Don't pick one. Because we all drink no matter what. So if I don't answer, but I always answer everything. But this is a part, like people think it's a

verse, like oh we're saying pick one. We just want to bring up people's names, any stories you got with them. It's about bringing things up. You've got stories with them. It's not a negative thing. We're not trying to diss anybody. All right. You got to do this because it's Miami.

All right. First one. Brother Marquis or Fresh Kid Ice? Rest in peace to both. Brother Marquis or Fresh Kid Ice? Yeah. You can say both. You can say neither.

You can say one of them. Neither. Okay, we drink. So we're drinking. You can sip. You don't have to take shots. We're going to take shots. Was the fallout that bad that you said neither?

No, I said neither because I didn't want to pick between the two. Oh, you would say both if it's more. Oh, both. Yeah, yeah. Both. Both and neither. We're drinking anyways, though. Both.

It's the same thing, yep. Yeah. Exactly. Both. Okay, neither. We drinking anyways, though. Both. Okay. It's the same thing, yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Both. Okay, okay. Yeah. Trina or Carisha? Oh, shit.

Trina. Oh, okay. She the first. She's the original. She's the original. And Carisha would appreciate that. I believe you're correct. J Prince or Tony Draper?

Oh. Both. Okay. All right, we're drinking. Damn. Y'all going hard up in here. And any stories? Remember, any stories you got with your buddy?

Man. J Prince, my guy. Right. I would love you, J J Prince to have a label together I yeah that would be interesting J that's my guy I'm for with J right

Tupac or DMX rest in peace to both Tupac you ever met DMX yeah that was that first interaction met DMX? yeah okay yeah how was that first interaction with DMX? it was uh

it was it was like we were at an event like passing so it wasn't really like I'm vibing with him or anything like that right

we were at an event chilling okay no limit or cash money? whoa god damn yeah I'm gonna get my CS

oh man shit bro okay yeah I'm gonna get my my shot ready Whoa! God damn. Oh, man. Shit. Okay, yeah, I'm going to get my shot ready. She pulled out some shots for you if you want them right there. You got the brown? Brown make me act like a clown now. What, you getting brown? No.

No, don't give me the brown. What? I'm a Jamaican. No, no, he's drinking. Oh, no, you don't give me the brown. What? I'm a Jamaican. No, no, he's drinking. Oh, no, you don't know. Bacardi Limon. Bacardi Limon. No brown.

No, no, no, that's brown, baby. With cranberry? Oh, you trying to be nice. You didn't give me the real shot. My bad, my bad. Okay, okay. Okay, that, my bad. Okay, okay. Okay, okay. Yeah, that's your drink.

Okay, that's gangster. All right. This is Miami shit. So was I supposed to take a shot? No, you good. You already drank some. You good, yeah. 2 Live Crew or Poison Clan?

Damn, boy, y'all are hardcore. Poison Clan is also baby 2 Live Crew. That's what they were originally known. Both. Okay. Both. Okay. Cheers. I owe a shot. I owe a shot. I poured too heavy on that one. Oh, okay.

Life's a bitch, so why marry one? Being in love with a bitch is very dumb. PC hoe haters that's the most classic fucking line I've ever heard in my life that's JT Money nah JT's a

he a fucking legend man fuck that shit school ain't for me man that motherfucker man J that's my guy that motherfucker yeah well there you go J JT Money or Trick Daddy? Both. Both.

Big up to JT Money and Trick Daddy. Trick Daddy. Both my family. JT Money was the first gangster rapper. Let me tell you how me and Big became real good friends because he was a he was a Poison Clan fan

wow and I was surprised that he knew anything about that he was like no no no I'm a fucking that JT Money

I'm a fan of his and I called Jay up and was like man you know Big like your shit you know and again. And this was when Big was blown up?

When Big was big. He said he listened to fucking Poison. Poison could influence a lot of people. That's dope. I felt like they was like the NWA of Miami or of the South. Yeah, yeah. I would say the South. You can't just say Miami because you got to... Well, I mean, I'm just saying originally when they first came out, it was very local but then it grew big. Oh, okay, okay.

Yeah, I get what you're saying. Yeah, and then they sped off into... It was home team. Yeah, Pick It Up, Pick It Up. That was a big record, man. I love that record. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then Society, I mean, that's not a part of it, but Society was a part of that time.

Yes, indeed. Yeah, that was a huge record too. Yo, look, I ain't gonna lie, yo, yo, let me tell y'all something. And all that was New York, nigga. Get out of here. Yeah, that was a huge record, too. But look, I ain't gonna lie. Yo, yo, let me tell y'all something. We were in Miami. And out of it was New York, nigga. Get out of here. Yeah. Society came with Professor Griff.

Down there was New York. Oh! Society came up here, you know, when Griff got kicked out of Public Enemy. He took him in. I took him in. I was like, come on, Griff. I got you. Wow.

Yeah, and they were all mad at me and shit. Why the fuck did you sign this motherfucker guy here and everything? And then society was in it. But society repped Miami when he came. He repped Miami. No, society, yeah. Same thing with home team. They repped Miami.

Yep, yep. I love when Miami started talking about Miami. I love it. I love it. I love it. You be getting very excited. It's in his blood. I've been here 16 years, so it's like...

16? Yeah, 16. He's from here too, man. Yeah, bro. You great. I have been. I'm the doctor. You great, brother.

You good. Okay, yeah. He's living in multiple areas. Hey, man. Hey, man. Okay. KOD or bo come down. Hey, man. Hey, man. Okay. KOD or booby trap on the river?

You should have asked that question. Oh, fucking KOD. Do we drink? No, no, no. KOD. KOD, if you pick one. Did we take it back? KOD.

Huh? You didn't take it back? Strip club wise. Yeah, but you know why you picked KOD over Movie Trap or whatever? KOD is the original. KOD is the original.

Disco Rick, he the one started KOD right there. Disco Rick is a legend. We got Disco Rick in the building. He a motherfucking legend. Yeah. KOD set the standards for strip clubs. Yeah. KOD set the standards for strip clubs.

Right. Even though, even though, even though the Rolex. That's my next one. The Rolex is first. And Coco's, and Coco's. Coco's and Rolex. Yeah, I was going to say that. Rolex is before, for sure.

Rolex got, Rolex got body. Take one, take one too. Take one. It still stayed open. Take one, take one too. Take one. It still stayed open. Take one had the jukebox. Take one had the jukebox. They got a jukebox. See, that's what I'm trying to tell you.

See, they give Magic City all the glory. In Atlanta. Because they're in Atlanta, because you don't magic city. Okay, yeah, yeah. You're magic. That's my guess. Shots out the magic. But shit, that shit started at the fucking Rolex.

Wow. You know what I'm saying? That's true. That shit, the Rolex started, you know, it was originally the Climax. That was the original name of it? That was the original name. Now, listen. Look, a lot of Atlanta people are going to watch this.

I don't give a shit. But they didn't even do full nudity at- No, they understand. They understand. Okay, listen. Now, look, a lot of Atlanta people are going to watch this. I don't give a shit. But they didn't even do full nudity at- No, they understand. See, I'm certified at that. You know, that's why I was able to produce the freak nick. The freak nick, okay. Even though they tried to say some other people produced it, but they know how I produced it. Right, right.

We know. I'm just saying, yeah, we know. Hey, but at the end of the day, no, the shit started there. A lot of people thought I owned a Rolex. Wow. Because what I did was I got the strippers out of the Rolex,

some good shit here, and I was like, hey, everybody got these models on the videos, right? So I would get the models and use their face and then take the strippers and use their ass. Wow. You was. So if you look at my videos,

shoot her face and then shoot the ass. He was doing some AI shit before AI. He's the original AI. You're the original AI. Hey, hey. Before BBL.

I'd be like, make love to the camera. And then every now and then it was a nice, not bullet wound stripper. I'd be like, make love to the camera the same way you making love to this unattractive motherfucker that you want to make, get this money out of them. And they would dance.

And people found those videos to be offensive. And they had all their clothes on. Right. So, we're going to get back to Quick Time on Slam, right? But let me ask you, when, because, like, the strip club went from, like, at first it was like a negative place, right? Like, people just go on there to whatever, whatever. And then it went from, like, this is where people kind of hang out, right? Now, me, I'm thinking that it started in the Players Club.

In Atlanta? No, the movie. The movie, the Players Club. You think that culture started with that movie? No, I'm asking. This is what I'm asking. Because remember, hanging out in the strip club. I mean, in New York.

I'm from New York. In Miami, it was a way of life. This is what I'm asking. This is what I'm asking. I'm asking why we had to go travel all the way. But as a Miamian, right? When you see it, because that's when, like, to New York, like, when we seen the Players Club, it's like,

these guys hang out at a strip club? Like, we didn't understand that. Right, right, right. So was Miami doing that before the Players Club? Oh, hell yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Because that was in high school. It was a rite of passage.

You could eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the strip club. Oh, come on. You remember when I took you to Showgirls? I can understand it. If you had Ice Cube on, if you had Ice Cube on, he would tell you.

We didn't say that, though. It had to be, it was inspired by Miami strip clubs. You know, it was all kind of rumors that some girl, you know,

kind of came up with the idea and then, you know, because there ain't nobody getting naked in L.A. Nobody. They don't have naked clubs in L.A. No.

But Ice Cube basically plays club on Atlanta, right? So if he did that, that's fine, too. But at the end of the day, it all originated and started here. In Miami. In Miami. And so the thing is the thing is with the my first strip club I went to was right across the street from

the Pac Jam skate rink. Wow. My bouncers was white guys. Their mom owned a strip club in North Miami right from Houston's. Right. And so The Houston's that they're right now? Houston's. Right. Right? And so... The Houston's that's there right now?

Houston Restaurant. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's still a club. It was a strip club. Yeah. Okay. So my bouncers, like, yo, I got to take you over here. And across the street from the skate rink was Tootsies.

Not the Tootsies you see now. Right, the old Tootsies. It was the old Tootsies. Okay. And so they took me in this motherfucker right now this was before Rolex and all that they took me in this motherfucker and was like yo

I was like look black people don't go in those how old are you at this time when they taking you I had to be fucking 19 well not even in your 20s black people don't go in those strip gloves and it was like yo you with us big white

bouncers and shit. Rocco and Damien. That's what they're named. I think one of them died, God bless him. So they took me in this fucking Tootsies, and I saw that shit. I was like, whoa. Now, Tootsies was a white club? White club. You know, you see the movies,

strip club, motorcycle guys, motorcycle guys, Aryan Nation type shit. Right, like the movie Porky's and shit. Yeah, yeah. Which is my head for the motherfucking strip club. And when I went in that motherfucker right there and saw that shit, it was like, wow. You know, so it kind of added on to everything. And then they started up the Rolex.

And then, you know, know again that was a part of our culture and we we had to display that on video because I wasn't getting ready to try to be like

New York and have breakdancers in a video you know what I'm saying I wasn't going to put that on an album cover a train with stickers and shit like that

you know and you know hey look this is where the fuck we from we have naked every motherfucking day we got strippers you know what I'm saying this is where the fuck we from half naked every motherfucking day we got strippers

you know what I'm saying this is what the fuck we gonna do and this is us and that's how you broke records out here in the strip club that's how you broke

the records you broke it in the strip club yeah that's why you got girls on the cover with their ass on the beach I'm like they're like what the fuck are you doing

this is where we from right this is what we're all about right this is what the fuck we're all about. This is what the fuck we're all about. Facetown. That's the way we like to fuck.

Oh my God. I swear to God, we got two different loops. He was running for politician at that time. The last time we got... Oh, yeah, yeah. Last time, he was light.

He was running for office. It's too different. Yeah, we got PG loops. We got PG-13 loops. Uncle Luke. This is great. No, we ain't Luther Campbell. We ain't Luther Campbell.

That motherfucker. Last time, we almost had pg-13 luke i'm gonna just tell y'all right now fans we got breathing oh go ahead let me go to the next one oh man would you one. I thought that was some Miami shit. I don't even know. Oh, I mean, I know the LaJuan Love or the Puppies. Is it LaJuan Love? Is that the way you say it? LaJuan Love.

Yeah. LaJuan Love. I know the Puppies. Tell me, I don't know about LaJuan Love. LaJuan Love. LaJuan Love was, he's a damn state trooper right now. He was one of my artists. You know you know again I'm trying to build this record company around guys from

Miami you know and so I'm getting I'm getting artists signing them up and he did this song Everybody Say Yeah oh yeah that's a classic yeah and so that's a classic that's LeVon Love

and so we put a classic that's a classic that's LeJuan Love and so and we put that I'm telling you I didn't know that was the name of the person that was the that was the rapper LeJuan Love

so he was probably one of my first solo rap oh wow yeah as a kid he was a little kid alright let's go okay I got this one

I got this one no no you do this one oh okay you want me to do All Miami yeah you gotta you gotta take all oh shit I thought you was gonna give me Let's go. Okay, I got this one. No, no, you do this one. Oh, okay. You want me to do All-Miami? Yeah, you got to take All-Miami. Oh, shit. I thought you was going to give me a red parrot.

Go ahead. Rick Ross or Pitbull? Rick Ross or Pitbull? Pitbull! Because, I mean, he was signed to Lou Breckner. Yeah, I signed him up. I found him, got him off the streets, got his life in order, put my arms around him. Did Lonely Pop.

I loved him. And how special he was. Shout out Big Teach. Yeah, Big Teach. I mean, Pitt was Pitt was, you know, let me tell you how that came about. I saw Fat Joe and what Fat Joe and Big Pun was doing.

God bless Big Pun. I did a song with Pun and I said, this Puerto Rican rapper in New York doing big things. I like how you said Puerto Rican. Is that the wrong way?

No. Puerto Rico! Puerto Rico! Puerto Rico! My bad. My bad. So you saw what Matt just said. Puerto Rico. Oh! My bad, my bad. So you saw what Fat Joe... So I saw what they were doing with Fat Joe and Big Pun, right? And I was like, I live in Miami.

I won't be complete. Because I'm all about being complete. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, I got to fucking do a goddamn Cuban rapper. I'm Miami, and it to fucking do a goddamn Cuban rapper. That's right. You know, I'm Miami, and, you know, we, it's Cubans here. Absolutely. You know, and my great-great-great-grandmama is Cuban, and my daddy met my mama in fucking Cuba.

You know, and shit like that. One thing we established, you every race right now. I'm talking about. Eddie gets headed to Japan. Eddie gets headed to Japan. I didn't shoot up a club in Japan. Maybe in Amsterdam. So you said, wait a minute.

I'm not ready. He said, no, Jimmy has to invest in that. Maybe it was at the Yum Yum Club. You see what Bun and Joe is doing. Yeah, I saw what they were doing, and I was like, man, I won't be completed if I don't get a Cuban rapper. Right. Right? That's right.

I got to have a Cuban rapper. Miami, you know, all my friends and people. Kid, you already been working with Laz, and Laz has been doing stuff, right? No, he wasn't working with Laz. No, you had been working with Laz before that, no doing stuff right. No, he wasn't working with Laz. No, you had been working with Laz before that, no? No. No? No, no, no.

No, I give you... So Laz, I love Laz to death. That's my guy. So I told my A&R guys, Julian, Boot, and them, and I was like, we got to find... At the time, Teach was working for me. He was doing street team.

It was Jeff Sanchez, And I was like, we got to find, at the time, Teach was working for me. He was doing Street Team. It was Jeff Sanchez, who had to do NBA entertainment. Jeff was working for me, all of a sudden, I got to find a fucking Q. You had the South Beach office, right? We had the South Beach office. Yeah, where everybody, we got no work done at all. We got motherfuckers coming in looking for girls and shit. But hold that. That's what they tell you, right?

Yeah, I'm going to take you up on that. I ain't going to give you no Gloria Valera stories. Wait, that's you just bashed it. It's in my notes. Luke, calm down. All right, all right. Let's stay on topic. Stay on topic.

Okay, stay on topic. I love this. I love it. So, I love my job. So you did some fucking research. I've been all day, all fucking week. Oh, this motherfucker right here. We see you on live.

We say, get him. We need him back. Come on. So we ended up, see, we lose track all the fucking time. Yeah, that's right. You talking about Pit. Pit. Pit Bull.

You said. You said you wanted a Cuban artist to feel complete. So I wanted a Cuban artist. And I'm like, yo, I got to find a fucking Cuban artist in order to be complete. I done found the R&B artist in H-Town. H-Town, amazing record. You know, shit. You know, I want to be a real fucking record label.

I don't want to be booty. Like they say, it's just booty. You know what I'm saying? So I ended up all right, finding Pit. You know, they brought me the tape, battle rapper and shit. And I'm looking at this dude just fucking

crazy. He was like with the cornrows and he was battling trades. And Opelika selling everything, you name it. Like Pitbull, that guy you see right now is a nigga. He wasn't no motherfucking

Julio Ramundo. He's a nigga. Julio Ramundo! I don't know if I should be offended or not by that shit. You know Chico, hey, he's a nigga. Hey, came down with nothing but niggas.

Hey, and this motherfucker came in there with the braids and shit. And I'm like, okay. This motherfucker here, right? I mean, on 12, you feel me? This dude here, I'm like, okay, well, what the fuck is he doing? Well, you know, so I'm like, okay, well, what the fuck is he doing? So I'm vibing with him. What you doing? Okay, well, he out there in the streets.

He hustling. Right? Okay, all right. This motherfucker got too much fucking talent. Now, how do, this was my first time trying to produce a guy that was a battle rapper to being a, you know, because battle rap, they just keep going.

Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? No bars. No structure. It's like a wild animal and shit. How do I tame this fucking wild animal

to get him in there doing songs? But then at the same time, I got to get this dude to let him understand that he got a gift because he like, yo, I got to get money. You know what I'm saying? I got to get this dude to let him understand that he got a gift because he like, yo, I got to get money. You know, I got to get this money.

You know, I got to feed my family. You want to see the long game. Yeah. So I'm like, yo, no, no, no, no, no. You know, you got this gift, you know. And so at that time, everything that I put out was like, OK, everything was gold. It was everything was gold. It was, everything was hot. You know, so I was going through

the whole fucking bankruptcy and the court hearings and shit. So I was kind of distracted with the music and we did a song with him and everything. But then most importantly, I took him on tour

with me. And I think he... That changed his life. Yeah. And that changed him. Yeah, he says that all the time. Yeah, so when he went on the road with me, it was more like he was in my hip pocket. Wow.

Like learning the business. He wanted to learn the business because I'm like, I got to keep this motherfucker by me because if I don't have him, if I let him go to the streets, I kept him busy. So he can, you know, so he pick up shit, you know, all those street dudes, we pick up, pick up shit. So he really, he picked up everything about the business

and then he applied it to himself. So the first record didn't work. And then I was like, the Lollipop with Lil Zayn. And I was like, I'mollipop with Lil Zayn. And I was like, I'm not, I was kind of burnt, burnt out because I had artists who I'm going through the Bay rough city. These motherfuckers here talking slick.

And I had other artists, you know, it was, it became where I was like, I'm not fucking with this anymore. Right. And then that's how, you know,

he ended up teach them, ended up working with it this anymore right here and there. And that's how, you know, he ended up, T-Stem ended up working with the TBT thing. But with your blessing, right? With my blessing and all that. And so I always, like, stay in the background, like, schooling him about shit. You know, when it came to the business and

everything. To this day, that's like my son. God bless. He always pays homage to you, man. Yeah, I know. I love that guy. I love that guy. Now, this question, I'm definitely taking this one. Okay, here we go. Ice spice

or lotto? Oh, shit. Ice spice. Yeah, he answered that question. I'm with ice spice. Oh, shit. Ice Spice. Yeah, he answered that question. Ice Spice. Okay. You see Ice Spice, little girl, turn around and her ass be shaking? Ice Spice is certified.

I certify her. Never met her in my life. What does that mean when you certify her? What do you certify her? You shaking. Her ass is shaking the right way and it's moving and you know,

it's hard to explain. It's natural? It's hard. You got to be a pussyologist three steps out of the gynecologist to explain. So the ass,

I mean, no, I spice, I spice is, is the real one. I never met her before. One day I'm going to meet her. Shit,

if she come to the drink shop, you coming through over here. Yeah. Would you guest host? Yeah, we have to have y'all. If we get any of the... I want to sit over there. Oh, that'd be gangsta. Now we give you a mic over there. But you still have a mic.

Yeah, we give him a mic over there. And then we're going to have to have poles with some chicks everywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we're going to have to have poles with some shakes everywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, all right. It's going to be a different drink chance. This is what we're going to do. You should have said

I spice sexy red. No, we got sexy red coming up. Oh, you got sexy red? And we don't come up with it. These guys over there come up with this shit. By the way, look at his legs crossed.

I know y'all like this. The Dominican and the Colombian comes up with this. The Dominican and the Colombian. The Dominican right there and the Colombian. Who Colombian? He Colombian. And the guy with his legs crossed? His legs crossed is Dominican.

He's Dominican. And here's what's weird. Shout out to DR. And here's what's weird. Get okay, get okay. The fucking concho. His was weird that's my cousin who is But I feel like he traded his citizenship for being Colombian. So this is why. Because they be going to Colombia. Wait, what, you live in Medellin? Yeah. So I didn't know, huh? He traded. See, see, see, see, see.

He traded. And Bobby. Bobby. He traded his citizenship. I don't blame you, man. Have you ever took the peep show to Colombia? Oh, man, that should be a different kind of peep show. No, not at all.

Where's Diego? He's banned from Columbia. Let's try to finish Quick Time with Slime. Let's try to finish Quick Time with Slime. All right. The Pac Jam, I mean, this is going to, I know you're going to answer. Pac Jam or Studio 183? Pac Jam or Studio 183?

Both. I would have said Pack Jam. Well, damn, both. Okay, let's drink. I'm going to tell you why. We need to hear it. I'm going to tell you why. I see a lot of first artists at Studio 183.

Here's the deal. So both of them I created. Really? Here's the story. So I'm over at Carroll City City High doing dances. So I'm making all this fucking money doing dances.

Then the next night, Sunday night, I'm going to the Pack Jam. And so this guy named Zeke comes over to me and say, hey, look, I got this JCPenney building. I'm the building manager.

What the fuck can you do with this? Can you bring some people in here? So then I got with Zeke and was like, hell yeah, we can make this out of venue. Put a stage right here, do all this right here and everything like that. And at the end of the day, and not too many people know this story.

So that was a JCPenney? It was a JCPenney. I'm in there with the fucking, the shit that JCPenney left, the hangers and all that. I'm losing slang. You talking about the real JCPenney? No, the real JCPenney. I'm in there with the fucking shit that JCPenney left. The fingers and all that. You talking about the real JCPenney? No, the real JCPenney. He said the space with JCPenney.

And that is the first time Pac performed here. When I brought him to that month. First time Outkast, first time Goody Mob, first time a bunch of people. First time I seen a lot of people there. Tribe Conquest 2

yeah so Zeke bring me over here and was like yo what the fuck you can do with this and so I was like yo do this right here

do that right there and then before you know we started doing parties in there and obviously the shit got big and and

and they started having other people come in there and everything but we we opened up I came up with the idea you know based on this guy And they started having other people come in there and everything. But we opened up. I came up with the idea, you know, based on this guy coming and saying, hey, look, I need to know what the fuck to do with this building.

And that shit was a JCPenney. It was a fucking JCPenney that closed down. That's a dope ass story. Most people don't know that story. That's a dope ass story. That's why I say both of those is I came up with both of the ideas. They're really close to you, right?

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Oh, shit. Disco fucking Rick. No question about it. That's a good one there. That's a good one. I was not going to say both of them. Under no circumstances. Under no fucking circumstances.

You got the name? Y'all motherfuckers sober as fuck. Y'all might as well start drinking. We're not sober. I'm not prepared for the house. You're fucking me up this whole time. I'm like, what? Oh, shit.

Cardi B or Eve? Shit. Pour my shit. All right. Cardi B or Eve? Shit. They pull my shit. Eve, I always had a crush on Eve. I just imagined so many nights that I was knocking her down. Then she married the white man. I was like, I'm a rich-ass motherfucker. Rich motherfucker.

I was like, I ain't mad at you. I was like, I ain't mad at you. Shout out to Eve, man. Shout out to Cardi B, too. I'm a Cardi B. She cool, man. She seem cool. I'm like, I ain't mad at you. I was like, I ain't mad at you. Shout out to Eve, man. I'm a Cardi B, too. She cool, man. She seem cool. I'm Cardi B all day. Yeah, Eve cool people. Both of them seem like down to earth women. Eve got a vibe out of this world.

I was just like, what the fuck? But the rich motherfucker, he was a rich motherfucker. How the fuck did you get to England, Eve? What happened? Hey, man. motherfucker. He was a rich motherfucker. How the fuck did you get to England? What happened? Hey, man. Why you looking like that?

I learned and I have a face expression when I'm shocked. You fucking me up, Luke. Oh, Luke. Excuse me. Let me not forget the Uncle Boy. That fucking monster was so great.

Shout out to Excuse me. Let me not forget the Uncle Bob. All right. The fucking monster was cold. That's right. God damn it. Shout out to the monster. Shout out to the monster, man. Shout out to my homie Jay in the building. That's right. All right. This is going to be an easy one for you. Shout out to Jay Landlord, too.

That's right. Sugar Hill DJs. Jamponi Express. Oh. I can't imagine you saying both when you're part of one. No, no. I'm ghetto style that's right ghetto style

Uncle Al Sugarhill DJs rest in peace Uncle Al shit so you can pick between these we gotta take a shot okay I gotta go Jam Pony Express from Tampa right

Jam Pony is from Fort Lauderdale I wanna say both let's say both but shout out to both got to go on. Jampony Express from Tampa, right? Jampony is from Fort Lauderdale. Okay. I want to say both. Let's say both. But shout out to both, man. Let's shout out both. They legendary. Yeah, because they legendary. I seen a battle with

Sugarhill DJs and Jampony Express and it was the craziest battle I ever seen. It had to be classic. Crazy. Okay, Al. God bless his soul.

I mean, Slick Vic. I mean, I mean, I mean, Slick Vic. I mean, you talking about some deep shit. I gotta say both. Even though Al is a Miami guy and I'm a Miami guy, but you know, I

gotta give props to both. Are there any other DJ crews? Because those are the Ghetto Style DJs, Sugar Hill DJs, and Jam Pony Express. Are there any more crews that we don't ever talk about international DJs party down DJs where Rick used to be with you had uh uh South Miami DJs Tiny Head which was the one I mentioned earlier who brought down Jekyll and Hyde. Okay. You name it. Shit.

It was so many DJ crews. They were all over the place. I'm probably missing people. Who was, what is Boat of Love with? Boat from the radio station? Yeah, Boat of Love. We got a DJ group.

Really? There's quite a few DJ groups. Yeah. But they wasn't all doing the sound system shit. Yeah. Yeah? Everybody bought Christmas time? Oh, shit. With all the speakers and everything coming out? You set up on the park, you had to battle. Everybody had 64 speakers. 70

speakers. 16 speakers. Oh, you got your ass blowed out. Get the fuck out of here. And do you think that's where bass actually comes from because of that? The sounded out. Get the fuck out of here. And do you think that's where bass actually comes from? That's where bass came from. Because of that, the sound system. That's the reason I created it. They had a driving bass in it.

You know, even when we did the records, like these records, we would cut the lacquer. If you know how close the vinyl is when it becomes so much harder, driving bass, we would add, enhance the bass from what they would have in the studio. Wow. So it was about having a sound where we're from. Right. You know, and it was very little highs, but it was all bass.

People would just sit in the bass speakers, the bass bands the uh to be able to get the bass then they had bass enhancers so we couldn't do nothing but bass music wow so now this is another curveball broward or dade dade. I mean, how's that curveball? Jesus. He's from Dade. Dade. Oh, Dade. Okay. Yeah.

Made in Dade. My bad. My bad. You know, we all got a love affair. Now, you'd ask me this shit 20 years ago. Yeah, it was a problem. You know what I'm saying? But I'm always going to say Dade.

Broward and Dade? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Miami typically had a north and south beef. There was always these beefs. We're used to barrels. Queens, Brooklyn. Here, it's north and south beefs, always. It's always been that way, even with sports.

Yeah, the state is a dick. So it's only going north and south. Okay. You don't know where you live at for 16 years? No, no, no.

Look at the fucking map. No, because they pointed it to a gun. The gun station. No, no, no, no, no. That's for... That's for gangsters. But actually,

the state I lived in for the last 16 years is a dick. Hey, by the way, you're at the head. He said, you's a dick rider. That was horrible. No, you're ridiculous, man. In Key West, it's the piss.

Oh, damn. I'm not ready. Look at the map. Fuck. It is, it is. And then, all piss. Oh, damn. I'm not ready. Look at the map. Fuck. It is, it is. And then... Or something else. So, all right.

He said, oh, fuck. Damn. I'm fucking up. Come on, let's move to the next one. DJ Khaled, Chocolate Milk? Yeah. Okay. We represent DJ motherfucking Khaled

chocolate milk. He got a fucking Nestle. Hell yeah, we fucking represent. I'm getting that sandwich. That's another one of my kids. Yeah, you put him on radio for the first time. Yeah. 99 Jams. You know, he did Mix 96, but

then you put him on. He was on the Freak Show first. Really 6, but then you put him on... He was on the Freak Show first. Really? Wait. Before you put him... Yeah, Khaled was on the Freak Show. Khaled, Khaled, Khaled don't seem like a freaky nigga, though. Wait. How was that Freak Show?

I'll be honest. What Khaled show was... I'm going to have to put this shit out. Put it out. I'm going to have to go get all these fucking videos. Give us clips so we can put it in this episode. I'm going to give you the clips. Okay, what?

Khaled, what? Khaled what? Khaled was, Khaled has always been Khaled. Yeah, he's been the same person for sure. Before I put him on the, before I did the radio show. From Mix 96 days, he was always the same dude, yeah. But Khaled sold everything. Typical A-Rab. Damn.

Shout out to my A rap brothers. Just the way you say A rap. He sold every fucking thing. He been like that. He was a hustler. So when you met him, what was he selling? Brick phones.

Yeah, and his family had stores. Yeah. Caled, old girl was from New Orleans. Yeah. By way of Orlando. Orlando. He didn't move to Orlando. Right.

And they wouldn't put him on the radio in Orlando. And so he ended up coming down here and he was doing the Mix 96 with Butterfuko. Butterfuko. Shout out Butterfuko. Right. Shout out Butterfuko. And then I heard him on there and then I was putting this mix show together because we had no, we'd never had a mix show.

We was way behind. Way behind. So I created this show with Calak because I really thought he was from New York with his sling. And he was down with Terror Squad already, I think, by that time. He was down with. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mix 96, he was down with Terror Squad.

He was down with. He always, him and Fat Joe always. Yeah. Right. So then, and I had a party I had a Super Bowl party so Fat Joe and all the guys

came to the fucking party and Khaled came and we had the cameras going and shit and Khaled comes in

with the goddamn brick phone trying to sell everybody a fucking brick phone at the party? at the party oh At the party. Oh, I got the footage. It's golden.

I got the footage. Hey, while we got PDs and PDs and MDs and back rooms screwing women and the A&R guy, the radio guy. Oh, I shouldn't have said that? No, no, you can say it, but it happens in your car.

And it was like a little bit. Oh, we trying to get records played, God damn it. That was your pay-o-lock. No. Fucking up people's life and shit. Bros in there, yo, I got these big phones and shit. Shoot that motherfucker right there. He got the phone.

And Mushroom Man, Fat Joe came up with one of the guys in the group. He called him Mushroom Man. I don't know what the fuck that meant to this day. When y'all see it. Well, there's a promoter named Mushroom, so I don't know if it's the same person. He called one of the guys Mushroom Man because they was doing all this stuff. Everybody was doing. The girls was in there being the girls.

Okay. Okay. I don't know. Just before everybody. Yeah, you. just before everybody yeah you a little bit but i i'll send you the video you can cut up what you need to cut yeah it was a it was an episode of the peep show holy moly you're out of control you really out of control you've been out of control Verb or Dislock? Verb or Dislock I gotta go with Verb Okay

Okay Verb, one of the best rappers Did not really blow up like that Verb was on On Scarred He was supposed to be the next guy Because what I would do always Piggyback artists Scarred is Trick Daddy's breakout record he was supposed to be the next guy because what I would do always piggyback

artists it's Trick Daddy's breakout record yeah and Verb was on there with Trick Daddy now mind you keep in mind I'm going through fucking bankruptcy I'm mad at everybody I'm mad at the fucking 2 Live crew because they sided with this

little guy and I'm fucking pissed off so then I said I'm going to do a bigger mix I'm going to do 64 track mix and we ain't going to be doing the 16 shit that we were doing with 2 Live Crew and it's going to be big massive mix

I'm going to go find some two new motherfuckers that nobody ever heard of I did a big old battle with a rap battle at the Pac Jam Teen Disco and I'm going to find me another motherfucking rapper because I do this shit

you know you motherfuckers don't make me I make motherfucking music so I was angry real real angry so I find Bird Trick Daddy wins a four week battle at the pack jam and then I get him put him on the record and I'm like

yo I'm going to show these motherfuckers and then I did Scarred Scarred was really angry it was a real that's the original yeah this is the original man yeah original vinyl original vinyl yeah

when I did that song it was like you know and now I got two brand new artists nobody never heard of right never been out and probably the biggest mix I ever did because everything was you know eight tracks 16 tracks at the most you know I got all the strings coming in Barry White and all this shit going on I'm like I'm going to show these fucking 2 Live crew and Mr. Mix and all the rest of them that who the motherfucker is and then I ended up doing that

song and that shit blew up and you know Trick Daddy got a big career behind that where was it recorded at? it was recorded at it was recorded at? It was recorded at Chris Blackwell's studio. Oh, in South Beach. On South Beach at the hotel.

At the Marlin. The Marlin. At the Marlin? It was at the Marlin. The Marlin is crazy. Infamous. And why'd you put these two records together on a record, on vinyl? Scarred. And the Biggie joint

and the Big well Scar was on his own and then I did the Biggie joint cause these are together right this is the A side and B side

oh no this is the full this is the full EP yeah yeah the Biggie joint I did separate yeah but Scar was I that was that, I'll show you motherfuckers who the motherfucking Don is. And I feel like it dropped during the How Can I Be Down too.

I don't know if I'm wrong, but it felt like it was a soundtrack, one of those conferences. Yeah, I always would drop a record around a holiday weekend. Right. Especially when a lot of people coming down. A Memorial Day weekend. A Memorial Day, something like that. When people coming down here, you know something like that, when people coming down here to then take the

shit back to where they came from. Because we consider it a breakout market. Analog or digital? Both. Both. You got to take another shot. I think it's a boy there. Yo MTV Raps or The Box?

Ooh. Yeah, The Box was in South Beach. Oh, shit. The Box, music, television, you control. Yeah, you control. You pay for it. Which box? Ralph McDaniel's box?

No, The Box that was in South Beach. The one that you ordered from I'm just fucking with you yeah actually shout out to Ralph McDaniel's but we

we wasn't we didn't out here we didn't have that so exactly no that's what I'm saying when y'all talk about it I'm saying

I know respect him but we didn't have it yeah oh my bad y'all I said video mix in the box and then we had cable TV

with Rhapsody and NMV. Yeah, I said both. Both. Both. Because it's, I mean, yeah, we got. We already took a shot. We took a shot. Let's take another shot.

Another? Damn, fuck. Just because. I mean. You got a whole bunch of cups there. And the bots in the, she waiting to get her ass again. DJ Laz or DJ Khaled? DJ Laz.

I love Khaled to death. Both, both, both. You picked? Then you went backwards. Both. I got to say both. I got to say both. Both.

I love both of them boys. I was trying to ask you before. I thought that you and Laz had recorded. He was part of either production or something early on with you. No, no, no. Laz was doing his own thing. On radio? On radio.

And he did his music with... And you didn't put out any of his records either? No. Laz was doing his stuff with... What was it? Pandis or somebody? And I did the

Pitbull music and everything like that. And it's so crazy how they ended up being together because, again, them two Cuban rappers. You know, Laz was the first. He's a legend, yeah. He was the first Cuban rapper in Miami he was doing bass records

DJ Laz? we need to have him on here too so I did Pit and it took a little time before they kind of linked up together but eventually they linked up and I'm so happy that they

and shout out to the Diaz brothers too that were part of his career as well early on um well we kind of well Rolex or Take One I already know what you're going to say oh both oh yeah I didn't know you were going to say that

fucking us up so you like the jukebox you gotta have the jukebox I mean fucking Rolex is a classic The take Take one is out of control Happy hour to take It's a little

That's part of the jukebox Little round Andrew James on take one now Hall of Famer He on take one That's my guy You got this Nori The next one

Okay hold on I don't even know where I? The next one? Okay, hold on. I don't even know where I'm at. You can do it. Okay, hold on. I believe in you. Where we at? Take one? Yeah.

Rolex? And then go down. Oh, podcast or radio? Uh-huh. Podcast or radio? Podcast. Goddamn it, guys. I like podcast.

Do you feel you never got your fair shake in radio because of the records being so... I'm underground. Yeah, because of my records. I mean, the first record I really got put on the radio was H-Town,

Knockin' the Boots. Because so many record labels would be like yo we can't play no fucking Misa Oni we can't play Throw The D no matter how clean

I made the record they wouldn't play it so then when I did when I did said okay let me find an R&B group and then I went

and found H-Town right and their name was The Jits and shit I had to change that shit their name was The Jits? no their name was the Jits and shit. I had to change that shit. Their name was the Jits? No.

Their name was the Jits. They were saying that in Texas too? Their name was the fucking Jits. Did it mean the same as Miami? Like little kid, like Jits? Yeah. That's Miami slang. Yeah, I mean, I never knew that any other way.

I've never heard Jits from Southern shit. I've never heard Jits till I came to Miami. Yeah, they're fucking, I'm like, what the fuck is this shit? That's hilarious. I'm like, bro, I can't fucking go nowhere with heard Jits talk until I came to Miami. I'm like, what the fuck is this shit? I'm like, bro, I can't fucking go nowhere with no Jits. So damn... And you poppin' pussy and all this.

Yeah, yeah. And I end up, you know, because Greg Street was doing the radio in Houston at the time. Shout out to Greg Street. Greg Street from Atlanta? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was doing radio in Houston at the time. Shout out to Greg Street. He's a legend. Shout out to Greg Street. Greg Street from Atlanta? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was doing radio in Houston.

So that's my dog. And all I heard was fucking H-Town this, H-Town that, H-Town this. And then I was like, yo, we're going to name you motherfuckers H-Town. You know, and that's how the name came about. That was genius, actually, to name them H-Town. The Jits was a terrible name. Oh, it was not. It was not.

I wasn't going nowhere with that shit. And that's why the first song was Knocking the Boots. You knowits was a terrible name. Oh, it was not. I wasn't going nowhere with that shit. And that's why the first song was Knocking the Boots. You know what Knocking the Boots means. Of course. Yeah, smashing.

Smashing. That's some Texas shit. So I was like, yo, we got to have that kind of song, yeah. Okay. They were singing in Texas regularly?

Yeah. That was their thing. I only heard that in Miami. I never, listen. I mean, I thought when I was a kid, because I was a Jit when I heard that record, and I thought they were from Miami, Miami. I never, listen. I mean, I thought when I was a kid, because I was legit when I heard that record,

and I thought they were from Miami, too. I never knew what the fuck knocking the boots was. They had to explain it to me. They were like, yo, look, yo, look, man, you knock them boots, man, you knock them boots there. I'm like, what the fuck is that? They were like, man, that girl right there, you knock them boots. And I'm like, huh?

Oh, I get it, because boots in Texas, I guess, makes more sense. Exactly. And I was thinking about it. As a New Yorker, I always thought it meant Timberlands. Oh, come on,

man. Oh, shit. Come on, man. No, get over that. Don't blame my region.

They're just accepting me as a Miamian. Let me just tell y'all how we thought in New York. We thought everyone wore Timbs everywhere. Okay. It was a shock to us. They was like, wait a minute.

They don't wear Timbs in Miami? I wore Timbs. Yeah, motherfuckers wore Timbs in Miami. Yeah, yeah. Come on. I've been full of fucking Timbs. I had the black ones, beige ones. I had all the motherfuckers. The black ones means you

a savage. If you wear the tan ones. And we had fake Timbs out here with the M&M boots. Remember the M&M's in the flea market? The fake ones? No, I don't know. You don't remember M&M boots? No, no, no fake boots.

Nobody remember them shit. Sonny, come out. Where's Sonny D at? No, no, no. Where's Sonny D at? I know you wore the fake boots. You wore M&M's. You wore M&M's.

Where the fuck is the M&M's? You don't remember M&M's? No, I don't know the M&M's. Not M&M's. Down south at USA. Marshall Mathers don't remember Eminem? No, I don't know Eminem. Marshall Mathers, not Marshall Mathers. No, no, no. US One flea market sold him for sure. What's the store name, Eminem? No, no. Flea market boots.

There was like Timberland knockoffs. Yeah, no, I ain't. Y'all was wilding out here. Go to the next one. Kodak Black or Boss Man D-Lo? Kodak Black. Gunplay or Iceberg?

Damn. Both. Okay, fuck. Shit. Now I got to play that. Oh, shit. Here go my shot. Slip and Slide

or Poor boy records? Boof. Fuck. Damn, Luke, you making us drink. Fuck. Y'all got these hard shit. Let me ask you this, though. One of you motherfuckers under the bus.

What was your relationship with Ted Lucas, and how did you feel when Trick went to slip and slide? How was that relationship? I had no relationship with him Lucas and how did you feel when Trick went to Slip and Slide? How was that relationship? I had no relationship with them at the time. The story behind that, I was in bankruptcy. So you were going through some shit. I was going through

some shit in the bankruptcy court. So I technically when I put Trick out, I was going to sign him but my lawyer said if you sign him then you will be a property of the estate

you're tying him up which he would be in the bankruptcy yeah you're tying him up so I didn't sign him so we did the song while I was in bankruptcy Scarred did a whole album for Island Records with all that.

So I told Island Records. Island Def Jam? Yeah. Well, before Def Jam, probably. It was before Def Jam. It was just Island. Just Island, yeah. Island Music.

Yeah. So it was Hiram Hicks was running Island Records. And I was like, I can't sign you. And so one day he called me up and said, I did a single deal with this record company. And I was like, shoot me the contract. Let me look at it. And then it said he had signed. I was like, that's not a single deal.

You signed a full-fledged contract. And I was like, best of luck to you. I can't really talk to you about it because it would be torturous interferenceledged contract. God damn. You know, and I was like, you know, best of luck to you. I can't really talk to you about it because it'd be torturous interference of a contract. Oh, wow. Damn.

And so, we stayed the best of friends even to this day right now. Nah, he has the most respect for you. Yeah, that's my son.

Like, you got everybody that you touch, I think they all feel so much respect for you just like yeah that's my son like you got the everybody that you touch I think they all feel so much respect for you and they show you love on this show particularly

yeah yeah keep on hearing that's my guy I mean that motherfucker again him like Pitt you know I took him on my side

he actually lived with me you know what I'm saying you know Trick yeah Trick cooking all the food and shit so he lived with me when he got what I'm saying? Trick? You know, Trick. Yeah, Trick would be cooking all the food and shit. So he lived with me when he got out of jail. Was he cooking food back then?

Yeah, hell yeah. That motherfucker was cooking back then. He was selling crack and cooking. No, he wasn't selling no. He wasn't. Relax, man. No, he came back. In my mind.

He came out of jail. When he got out of jail, he was staying with me. Which he was doing good then. Go to the next one. Crazy as fuck. Love him. Ball Greasy or Billy Blue? Both.

God damn. They got a strength, though. She got me shots and a fucking drink. And I ain't eat no food. My base ain't right at all. We would have had Chef T. Something for you. We got pizza stock next door.

We got it all. Sexy Red or Glorilla? Glorilla. Don't do that to me. Sexy red. Okay. All right. J-Lo or Shakira?

Damn. How many times J-Lo was married? That got a smile on her face. J-Lo or Shakira I don't know that I would say both no no no J-Lo J-Lo got a

nice ass at least J-Lo with fucking the brothers I don't know Shakira gave no brother no ass. Oh, you just fucked it up. Who, Shakira? But why you got good? What the fuck is that?

Jimmy Butler? She was fucking with Jimmy Butler? Is he black? Jimmy Butler black? Alright, so you said J-Lo. It was a rumor with Jimmy Butler? Alright, we don't care about her dating life, man.

No, that don't count. You fucking Jimmy Butler don't count. J-Lo fucked Puff Daddy. That don't fucking count. Jimmy Butler is a black boy guy. And she was one of the Wayne brothers, too. She was one of the Wayne's too She was one of the Wayne brothers Yeah man J-Lo fucking was a dancer

Wesley Snipes She was with Wesley Snipes Shit J-Lo certified man J-Lo got a stamp on that thing Last but not least That's it you good No just this question. We're not done yet.

Oh, I thought we were done. I'm going to take a pistol after this. Yeah, I got one too. Oh, so this is the LeBaron attack. The grand finale of this. I can't even find it. I'll tell you. You ready?

Yeah. Loyalty or respect? Yeah. Both. Fuck yeah. Cheers to that. We always think it should be both. We always think it should be both.

We don't understand why people pick one or the other. Who the fuck does that? When you can have both. You got to have both. Got to have loyalty and respect. Please, before you go to the... Before I take a piss, go ahead. You don't know where this shit been going.

No, I got it. I know exactly where I'm going with it. Perfect time. You on IG Live. Man, everybody in the world on IG Live with you. And you said, man, these motherfuckers owe me a check and then you start naming names and I'm gonna give you

this is my personal story oh shit it's before you made it I'm in St. Thomas and I'm listening to these artists that you particularly named. And I was just like, oh, listening to them. It's just what the algorithms was playing. I'm in the pool, maybe 1230 at night.

And I'm like, oh, they just and what they said I'm like what is going on here then I see and I know what you're saying but then I go did I know what you're saying. But then I go, did I listen to you? And I was like, holy shit. I couldn't.

I was so, like, blown away at how much you were accurate on what your statement was delivering. I was like, it was the same and by the way it was white people who walked away and walked around and it was like it's the same shit that i did and i was like holy shit but you had did it so many years before so in my opinion now this is my opinion i thought he was playing with the girls just telling telling them, like, yo, you know, y'all all owe me or whatever. But I need to ask you, face-to-face man to man, for all the masses, what did you mean by that, R.G. Post, when you said that about, you know, all the women who is actually taking your formula? Some know it, but some probably don't even know it. Right, right, right.

What is your stance to describe that very moment? It was not like, okay, I need a check. I need some money. It was more of a form of you guys

need to understand where this shit came from. Pay homage to your history. You know what I'm saying? Because I was called everything but the child of God from women. Whether it was C. Dolores Tucker or everybody, oh, misogynistic pig. You this, you that. You going to court, you know, can't really do major tours because of the music and the dancing and all this stuff that was going on. And then I'm looking at it and I see a lot of artists, not new artists, not paying respect to older artists who really paved the way. And I'm like, okay, add on to this twerking

shit. Do y'all really know the history behind this? You feel me? And so let me just say this on here, on this platform, so I can give y'all a little history lesson of where the fuck y'all came from

and where all this started. Because you drop it and like it's hot. Like if you go and pull up any one of my videos, you'll see that. The same dancing 30 fucking years ago, 40 years ago. You know what I'm saying? So basically saying y'all need to pay respect to it.

Like I've had conversations with Sexy Red. You spoke to Sexy Red? Yeah, I spoke to Sexy Red. You spoke to Sexy Red? Yeah, I spoke to Sexy Red and Ice Spice hit me up. I was supposed to link up with them, have a conversation. It's more

of, hey look, y'all, I love what they're doing. Even when I got the award, when they honored me here in Miami, and I saw fucking Cardi B sitting there, she going through the same bullshit, saying she ain't hip-hop, she ain't this because of the music she's doing and the vibe that she was on. That's why I kind of gave her respect at that moment.

Keep doing, giving her words of encouragement. It's the same thing with these young ladies. You're doing this music, you're getting criticized from one part of it. People love what you're doing, but at the end of the day, know where this shit came from and who paid the weight. It's all about history with me.

I respect the fuck out of Quincy Jones. You know what I'm saying? People like that. You know, I know these, you know, I know Sugar Hill Records and all these people who've kind of paved the way for us to do what we're doing. And I just wanted to say that to the ladies. But don't you think it's probably less their fault and more the culture's fault that doesn't want to teach history, doesn't want to keep passing down the history of the culture? It's not really the culture.

It's more of the Stephen Hills and people them like them like the media that controls certain things. Who control media and who never told our story. You know, Source Magazine was pretty much one of the only people

to tell the story of Miami. And they were pretty accurate. They were pretty accurate. You know what I'm saying? Fab by Freddie. I had to tell him, I'm not going to New York to do no goddamn

Yo! MTV Raps. No, you're going to come down here. And he would. And they came down here. It was the first time the show ever traveled. Just like they went to Compton. Just like that.

Then they started traveling to places. They went to Miami first? They went to Miami first. I didn't know that it was first here. We were first. Embracing the culture and understanding what we're all about was very, very

important to me even then and at the time. Again, I love what these girls are doing because I laugh at it. I think it's fucking brilliant. Your style has lasted all this time.

All this time. Look at y'all motherfuckers shaking y'all ass right now. When they thought you was degrading women, the women took it over. That's how ill it is. That's some fucking brilliant shit. Thating women, the women took it over. That's how ill it is. That's some fucking brilliant shit. That these women, the women were coming after me.

I was the worst motherfucker in the world. And the women have taken over it and they whooping the men's ass right now. You like it, don't like it, up here in between, or in between,

the woman is fucking kicking ass, and they're winning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're fucking winning. I'm telling you. And women in hip hop. They're winning, man. And like, even with Sexy Red,

we did the award show, the BET Music Award. Okay. And my homeboy owns, owns the label. Shout out to my man Stan. Stan, pick up the stand, that's my man. Stan was trying to get her on the red carpet.

Right. Nobody noticed her. He was trying to get her on the red carpet too. It was the original BET or it was the last year? The year before. When I went there, when they did the 50. Okay. Oh, the 50, yeah, yeah, yeah. They were trying to get on the red carpet.

Right. Couldn't get on the red carpet. And because of her music and what she was representing, they wouldn't let her on the fucking red carpet. So Stan, my dog, you feel me? Yeah. You know, that's his artist. Yeah.

I'm like, fuck that shit. Get in the car with me. Oh, so you drunk sexy red on the red carpet with you? Get in the car with me. Fuck that shit. You going on there. You don't go, I ain't going. This is my dog right here. I fuck with him. You feel me? Right. Did she make you rain on the red carpet? Hop in the car. And so she's

sitting in the trunk. She said, I never did this shit in my life. I don't know what it is. I'm nervous as fuck. And was like, look, you're going to see your ex on the floor. That said, I never did this shit in my life. I don't know what it is. I'm nervous as fuck. And I was like, look, you're going to see your ex on the floor. That's where you stand at.

Don't fucking hold my hand whatever you do. I cannot be dating sexy red. You never hold my hand sexy red. You come on and so eventually

it was like, bro, you know, like, she can't come on the red carpet. No, no, no. She with me. At the BET Awards. At the BET Awards. So Sexy Red ended up going on the fucking red carpet. If you see the first picture, you'll see me and her in the first picture.

And then, you know, with the first stop and then we moved and I say, okay, well, you with this other girl, y'all just go and, you know, kind of coast up on the red carpet and I took off. And I saw y'all. Hold on, hold on. We just tell you how gangster that story is to lead to this story.

We seen sexy red on the red carpet last year. And you know what she did on the red carpet? What's that? She made it rain everywhere. She walked through it. I was about to be like, hey, Sexy Red. And I was like, she started making it rain.

Everybody was like, nah, I got it. Because you don't want to be the nigga in there. On your face. You don't want to be. You don't want to be. Sexy Red done made it rain on you and shit.. And I'm going to take some random rain on you and shit. Yeah, I'm going to take a... We're going to take a small piss break.

If you want to take a piss break. Yeah, oh my God. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. This is everything I thought it would be. And more. So this is another something

that I was very... Interesting to me see you say. Right? You living through the Biggie Tupac thing and then you seeing an incident with Ross in Canada. Now these individuals might have, I don't know,

been just random individuals, but you spoke on it. You was like, yo, Drake, now you kind of like, kind of like got a ride with that because he posted it. What was the reason why you said that? He liked it.

Yeah, he liked it. He liked the picture why did why did you comment what made you want to speak on that what what the the thing is you know i'm um you know i'm all about peace in hip-hop uh number one. Then a Miami first, you feel me? Right. And so, that incident that happened,

you know, it was fucked up, what happened. You know what I'm saying? Because it's obvious that Ross didn't go there looking for that. Right.

You know, you... Or they wouldn't have went there. Yeah Oh, they wouldn't have went there. Yeah, they wouldn't have went there. They would have went there a little more deeper than what they went there. Right. You feel me? And so at the end of the day,

I'm looking at my dog, Sam Snead, you know, in the fight. And then I'm looking at this other kid who Ross brought out there with him from, you know, one of the guys who used to roll with him, brother who passed. You know, one of the guys who used to roll with him, brother who passed. You know, these young guys out there going through this

and this shit happening. So it got a little bit deeper, you know, and I'm like, okay, that shit there is fucked up. You know, however it went down, it was fucked up. But then when Drake liked it, it became you condoning this shit so that mean you on that and people saying oh this is your crew and all that you fought these dudes and everything like that i'm like yo that's that's fucked up right mind you you keep rolling down to miami thinking it's sweet like that right you feel me with you know, hey, look, you know, Ross,

he live in Atlanta, he live all over the place, but you, you know, this is Miami shit, and then you got the same time, you got 50 commenting. And so it's a lot of, I just took it from the standpoint, a lot of motherfuckers is like really thinking we sweet down here. They ain't really sweet like

that. You know, we don't play like that. Right. You know, and so, again, maybe because a lot of dudes have moved down here and, you know, hanging out, doing their thing, which is okay, which is fine. Right. But then at the end of the day, you know, we ain't on no sucker shit. Right. And so I feel like, you know, okay, all right, you know,

y'all need to squash that. Because again, now I speak for two different worlds around here. A lot of people are like, yo, nobody never want nothing bad to happen to nobody. But at the same time, and that's why I'm always the peacemaker. No, no, no, it ain't like that. Let me deal with it, you know, and things like that. And so at the end of the day, I just felt like I needed to say something, you know, more so than anything because people would take it for a joke, you know, and when you

mention Miami and 305 gangsters and shit like that and all that, nah, nah, we ain't doing that. You know, you can have all your jokes and all that all you want, but don't play with us like that. Do you think that derived from you not forgiving him for when he kind of like, it felt like Drake took a shot at you. Tell Uncle Luke we in Miami too. Well, I looked at, even with that, right, I didn't, I had to, I had to put in my mind that's, you know, that was okay,

you just saying you out here. Some people say it was a slight diss and then and how did you take it and and originally i was like oh buddy being slick right not the nigga who just got his arm broke by puff daddy really you me? And so I'm like, but then I channeled it. Again, I'm on some peace shit right now. I channeled it. Oh, okay. All right. You just saying, telling my mom out in Miami

because what really happened was it was with Birdman and them. It was with them dudes moving down here and me saying that if y'all gonna live here, you gotta embrace the culture. You gotta do something in the fucking community. You know what I'm saying? It wasn't nothing hard on them.

Like, y'all got all these motherfuckers. You got to be a part of the community. There's a lot of people moving down here, right. You know, just, you know, go to the park and say hello to the kids and read a fucking book. Go to Winn-Dixie. Go to Public. Exactly. You know, and so I guess, I don't know,

he probably felt offended that I didn't mention his name. But, you know, I don't know. But I didn't take it as a diss because if I took it as a diss, then I'd have had a conversation with him. You know, but I was like, don't take this as a diss. One little man say, man, nigga tried you just now.

And then the other little one say, hey, nah, nah, nah, man, nah. But he just,

you know, he just trying to, you know, do some comedy shit, you know, and all that. And so I, I,

the little, the other, the good guy, you know, cool the bad guy off. Put it that way. I can say it like that. But I, I didn't, you know, cool the bad guy off. Put it that way. I can say it like that. But I didn't, you know, but people would, oh, tell Uncle Luke I'm out of Miami.

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What do you actually think about what happened in the Super Bowl? Do you think, especially the greatest thing about this is your past with cash money and Lil Wayne. But traditionally, you said it, most people that's from that town, when the Super Bowl happens, it's not that talent. So do you feel like Wayne was snubbed? Or do you feel like, you know,

this was this man's job? And most of the time, they pick the talent before they pick the city sometimes. They pick the talent based on sometimes, sometimes. I'm not saying all the time. And sometimes it doesn't align. So this is me sitting back and shutting up. I would like to hear nothing. You're a football expert.

And this part, I am not an expert at. So, you have Instagram. You are an expert. No, no, no, not in football. But this has nothing to do with the sport. Okay, okay, entertainment, okay. This is the entertainment part of the sport. Okay, okay. Entertainment, okay. It's the entertainment part of the football. Okay, so you commented.

Where was you at and how did you feel when you heard that? I just wanted a natural response. It brought up fucked up memories of when the Super Bowl happened in Miami. Because I said something then. Okay.

You know, I said something then. Okay. You know, and I said something, and I called J-Out for it. J-Lo? J-Z. Okay, all right. He was a part of the Miami one, too? J-Lo and Shakira. I think that's when he eventually...

When he started? That's when he eventually took, from my understanding, he took over the entertainment part of it and booking the artists and everything. And me and him had a conversation. You know, I love him to death. You know, that's my fucking guy.

So we had a conversation about that. Right, you put sex behind him in your show. It's cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so it ended up, and I expressed my feelings toward that. You know, these two girls ain't from Miami. You know what I'm saying? And he told me his part of it, you know, why he thought they, you know, I'm like, look, look, Miami is, you know, I explained to him, this is a melting pot.

Right. You know, and I know y'all doing something globally, but we got some global artists too. You know, Pitbull is global rick ross is global you feel me and so you know uh those artists should be and it ain't nothing about me those artists you're advocating consulted with somebody around here before doing that, because I only found out when I saw the fucking commercial. You know, it was like, oh, you know, so we had that. Okay, well, we'll work something out with this.

And so that situation with Wayne kind of brought that back up in me. But then moving forward, after the Miami shit, then they did it right in L.A. They did it right. Right, right, right. You know, they did that shit right. Okay. After Miami.

After Miami, because, you know, I was fucking hot. Even before Miami, the dudes in Atlanta felt some kind of way. But I don't think the people were involved.

Because we were room five in Atlanta? Exactly. Yeah. You feel me? Oh, I didn't peep. That's like some very white man. Atlanta had problems at first. Oh, fuck.

So then, yeah. If you want to do that shit. I didn't peep that. I'm so sorry. Exactly. That shit went over my head. I got you. Right, right, right.

If you want to do fucking Maroon 5 and all that shit, book the goddamn game in Buffalo and Kansas City. In Denver. In Denver and Minnesota. You can have all that. Do you want Country Weston? Book the game in fucking, in goddamn Nashville. Right. Great.

It's like, I wouldn't, if somebody was to call, if somebody was to say a hip hop artist doing a fucking Super Bowl halftime in Nashville, I would be the first one to say that's fucked up. Because Nashville is the home of country western. Right. Okay. Goddamn New Orleans is the home of blues and the home of cash money and masterpiece. Right. So it's only fucking right that you do that.

You know, so whoever involved. So that's, you know, it's like, look, man, let's do this shit right. You know, I love Kendrick Lamar. I love what the fuck he do. I never met him in my life. I love his music. But he's black and New Orleans is a black motherfucker. I understand that.

He's black. He's everything. Hottest fucking song ever. And he's one of the a black motherfucker. I understand that. He's black. He's everything. Hottest fucking song ever. I don't look at it like a diss to Lil Wayne. I look at it as a snub of New Orleans music. I look at it as snub cash money and no limit. And everything that New Orleans music is all about. I think they could have did a beautiful

halftime show that encompassed all of that. But Rihanna performed, and she was nowhere near from that city. Who? She from... I forget what Super Bowl it was. Yeah, San Diego.

Right. But those are places you can do. No, no. There ain't no Super Bowl in San Diego. They ain't got no football team. He could drink a million drinks. Get a team in San Diego. But to Jay's, he commented on this. He commented a long time ago.

He said that he couldn't stick consistently to picking artists from the specific city because that would hold him to something he couldn't do consistently because not every city would have. Arizona, you can have anybody in Arizona no disrespect to the music community in Arizona but you know when you look at 32 teams in 32 cities

right you got some country western cities you got some black ass cities you can really build the entertainment around that you go to Tampa you know

I love some of the Tampa artists but it's on a global we're talking global global artists if you got global artists in that town people watch television around the world people don't even watch television no more

exactly so again if I'm going to do the halftime in Tampa, I can have anybody. If I'm going to do the halftime in Minnesota, I can have anybody. If I'm going to do it in Nashville, I can have anybody. Right, see what you're saying. These are NFL cities.

You feel me? But then now when you go into Atlanta, Miami, New York. Culturally, historically, these cities have something. You go to fucking Buffalo and just put it, whoever the fuck you want to put on there. You know what I'm saying? So I understand the argument that we can't tie it to that. But yes, you can.

Because Buffalo getting ready to build a brand new stadium, you need to have a Super Bowl there. You had a cold ass Super Bowl in Jersey. So you take all the people. You're going to put Benny the Butcher and Griselda Blanco on. That's up to you. I mean, I would. Griselda, the record label.

Griselda. Who? Those housewives? Those are my niggas. I love everybody. No, no, no. It's artists from From Yeah that's artists from

From Buffalo From Buffalo that are dope Hip hop artists Are they global? Those my niggas Yeah yeah No that's That's the point

So the point is Global Yeah and Lil Wayne Is global Oh absolutely Lil Wayne is global Lil Wayne is global And by then

It would be Lil Wayne Let me tell you the moment I would If it was me Lil Cash money Lil Wayne is global. But then it would be Lil Wayne. Let me take a moment. I would, if it was me. Lil Cash Money, Lil Wayne. And then we bring in Kendrick Lamar. Right? I know.

I know. I know he's on the label with Drake and all that. But then that would bring peace to the situation. That's what I think people are thinking. And think about it, though. Actually, bringing cash money and no limit together is like bringing peace to the city

because they had issues before. So that's even a bigger situation. Of course they had issues. No, I'm talking about cash money, no limit. I'm saying bringing those two crews together from their own city would be wild.

That would be, the city would go crazy. That'd be banana. That'd be banana. You'll get the same vibe that you got with the LA Super Bowl. And they both got hit records. Major hit records. But can Kendrick still do that? Still perform and bring Cash Money and No Limit?

I think it's possible. I think it's possible. You can make it happen. And Kendrick go right in the middle of that motherfucker. I think Kendrick got something up his sleeve, to be honest with you, that's going to make something right out of this. I hope so. I think so. I hope so.

Y'all got me hyped right now. Because Kendrick is ill. Both of y'all opinions, I did not think of. What? No, like how you just broke that down. Like, I swear to God. I just thought that the NFL commission just said,

give us the hottest artists. And how y'all just broke that down, like both of y'all, it had two different opinions. But if that was to happen, but then, let's just be honest. Canrick really bring out little wayne at this moment i mean i think i'm asking it's not impossible it's not impossible i i don't i'm

it's not impossible because the thing is again everybody have a sit down a conversation maybe it's a little rough because lil wayne will feel like you know okay man you know i'm some side or something like that and don't want to do it but then because y'all should it should have been really the other way around me uh bringing him out and then now you know, it ain't going to be a it ain't going to be a New Orleans thing. It'll be more of a feature. You know, you coming in on. So it'll be

shit. I've seen a lot of things happen, but for me, if it was me and it was you know, that would be hard for me to go do. And let's be honest. We don't know until it happens. You don't know until it happens.

Because they might do something that we don't expect. Yeah. Maybe this is a whole setup. And got us all talking about this shit. And we all like, yeah, man, man, man. This is a setup for Kendrick and Drake to squash their beef on stage. I doubt that. Yeah, that would be a good setup.

They not like us. That's wishful thinking. It would be amazing. I'm spreading the wishful thinking. It would be amazing. I'm spreading the rumor right now. That would be amazing. That would be amazing. Yeah, but that's what, and that'll bring, you know. Kendrick and Drake is squashing their beef on the Super Bowl stage.

Yeah, you say it, fucking someone. In the world, like. I'm playing. And everybody in Buenos Aires is like, what the fuck is that? That's true. That's the thing. We're talking about local shit in a sentence, and this is a global thing. Global thing, yes.

People outside are like, I don't give a fuck about none of this shit. What the fuck are they talking about? What's their issues? You know what's the craziest shit? Hip-hop from Y'all Beef to whatever these people beef is. I believe, this is what I believe the biggest hip hop beef was there to beef just now because no matter where I went

everyone asked me because of the internet because of the internet and they actually executed everything on the internet on social media it was all done live we could all just watch Twitter, watch

Instagram, and they was dropping the diss records in real time. By the minute, they was executing in five, four, three, go. Let's go. Smurf would put out a million records. I remember that night when the shit was going down, I was there. My wife and my kids, I was like,

I'm going to my office, I'm coming out until it's just done. Make some noise for how big his house is. So, I know it's a cliche question, but I need to ask you. You ever think that hip hop would make it this far? I always knew it would. You knew it would? Yeah, I always knew it would.

Okay, now let me ask you another question, real fast. You ever thought your style of hip-hop would make it this far? Because it's crazy. One of the things that you said in the blog, it's like, yo, I could tell you was playing. You know what I mean? Yeah, I'm fucking with the girls.

You're messing with the girls. I could tell. I know. You know what I mean? You messing with the girls. I could tell. I know that. I know that. But for everything you got critiqued with and I swear to God I listened to the radio the other day

I almost counted how many words was clean. It was like 52 words. The whole day? Like, no, I'm talking about one record. Like one record. It was like... No, and the words that were clean,

the phrases were outrageous. Yes. And I'm like, I'm like, yo, I'm a little courageous. Like, you actually have a whole genre of music that really does owe you. I know you was playing around. But did you think, I just asked you, ever thought that hip hop would make it there for you. Have you ever thought your version of hip-hop that you created with your own mind, your crew,

would not only make it, but it's the forefront. Years later, you... No, I never thought that. In a million years. I always, when I took the business series, I always wanted to be like the OJs as an artist. I wanted to be like Frankie Beverly, God bless his soul.

Because them dudes perform. I know in order to stand the test of time as an artist, you got to be a great performer. You know? And so when I do shows, I perform. You know what I'm saying? And that's why I love Doug E. Fresh and people like that. shows, I perform. You know what I'm saying? You know, and that's why I love Doug E. Fresh and people like that. Oh, they best perform.

They put on fucking shows, you know. And so doing the music, I know sex sells, right? It would allow me to be able to go down a highway with no traffic because ain't nobody. It's your own lane. It's your lane. It's my own lane. Even doing these album covers and shit. We got to cover up, though. Sorry.

Yeah. Yeah, you got to cover that up. Fucking married guys. I'm the only one that's not married no more. Oh, man. You're not married, you said? No one that's not married no more. Oh, bad. You're not married, you said? No, no, no, no more. That's why he was different back then.

He was married back then when he was on Drink Chance earlier. No, I was running for office or some shit. And married, and married. I was a fucking politician. I'm back at this now. I'm sorry. No, no, no.

But yeah, it's... I'm back at this now. I'm sorry. No, no, no. But yeah, it's... See, we trail off into the... No, but let me ask you, is there any regrets to anything you've done? No. Like you as the... Because be honest, you're a family man.

You got kids, maybe grandkids. Do you have grandkids? one grandson is there anything that you feel like I regret because of that it reflected on the family in any kind of negative way no not at all

how do you separate Uncle Luke from family Luke I know it's two people I know I'm an entertainer, right? My job is to entertain. My job is to do music. My job, you know, I'm like fucking Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie.

I'm shooting up the fucking place, you know? Well, you're shooting up in a different way. No, I wasn't shooting up the club with the girls. So I got, and then there's Luther Campbell, who my mom raised and all that. And he's the businessman. He's the record executive, the guy who has to be creative and be the father. Because my kids right now, I mean, my son, 15 years old, I've never had a kid ask me about music.

And they never seen the peep show? I don't know what the fuck they saw, but they never came and asked me about it. So you keep it separate? Oh, totally keep it separate. Now, I know this internet shit and these phones. Right, you can't keep it separate now, right? Oh, that's my old man and shit. You know, they know that. But I've never had a kid

come to me and say, hey, dad, so what the fuck you think about when you did this? So you never had that conversation with your kids?

Never had that conversation. So the birth of B's didn't include saying, hey, when Jay-Z and this was happening behind their dad, is this how it works? Never had that conversation.

I mean, you know, I'm an old school dad. You feel me? I'm like, okay, we doing this, this, this. Clean up your fucking bed and do this. Bring me some good grades.

I'm going to throw that PlayStation in that goddamn lake in the back. You know, they... Man. I'm like, you know, so they... I guess they'd be like,

I'm not fucking going up in there talking no shit about no music with this dude here. And they respect you enough to not even question it. Yeah, yeah. Right. Yeah, I don't even know if they even know anything about it. I mean, they obviously know. They obviously know, yeah. My son goes up to bat and they be singing songs and shit.

Yeah, yeah, they know. They know. But obviously that must be. They can't be playing they can't be playing that way or something that's just crazy

my poor fucking son nah but obviously they have so much respect for you that they're not going to come with you the way that you made the household

they're not going to come with you that bullshit yeah yeah you do what you do exactly I'm like really old school

when it comes to that. I don't put them around shit. I don't talk certain shit around them. The vibes is, you know, my house, you come to my house, what are you thinking? Some poles and shit going on. I mean, that's what I think. I go to your house, there's gonna be poles

and they coming out the ceiling. Yeah, ain't none of that shit going on. You'll be like, what the fuck? Most people coming there like go to your house, there's going to be poles, and they coming out the ceiling. Yeah, ain't none of that shit going on. You'll be like, what the fuck? Most people coming there like, this your house? Yeah, nah, motherfucker. There's no hoochie mamas. No. No.

Do you realize how popular that word is? Hoochie mamas. You know where I got that from? No, we do not. We need to know. Okay, here we go. So Ice Cube sent me, we go. Ice Cube sent me it was

Ice Cube sent me, he's like, yo, I need you to do a song for for... This is when you beefing with Death Row and Ice Cube's like... Nah, that was when he had to beef with someone. He wasn't being vindictive. Nah, he was like, yo, I got this

movie. No, Ice Cube had nothing to do with the Death Row beef. Wait, wait, come on, come on, come on. Because Hoochie Mama's just so crazy. Okay, wait a minute. So, it wasn't no vindictive shit. It wasn't like... No. He had nothing to do with Death Row. Remember, Ice Cube was out of that situation. That's what I'm saying. I'm thinking Ice Cube was being vindictive.

Oh. Let me get Uncle Luke. Because Uncle Luke Is beefing with Death Row So it had nothing to do with that Oh no no I didn't I wasn't aware of that

But Q was never beefing with Death Row He was beefing with Ruthless Oh I'm bugging Yes So he ended up saying Hey look man I need you to do a song

And then he sent me the clip Of where he wanted to place The song in the movie Okay And the girl was And the girl was on there saying, oh, you Hoochie Mama. No, the dude was calling the girl a Hoochie Mama and all that.

And I was like, oh, there it is right there. Hoochie Mama. So Hoochie Mama came from L.A. again. Yeah. It came from the clip. It came from, it was slain. L.A., Miami, yo, that's how we. Exactly.

It was slain out of that clip that they were calling the girl a hoochie mama. And I took that and then I made the song Hoochie Mama. And then the crazy part about it, two live crew had to went crazy again. And then they came back, oh, we want to do music again together. And, you know, and then I was like, OK, if y'all really want to do some shit, we'll do something together. And so I took this song, saying that, okay, we'll do this song. It's going to be on this big movie.

We'll do this song together. Then we'll put an album out afterward. So we did the song. Boom. Song came out. The motherfuckers went crazy again. It's like, okay, all right, I gave y'all gas. Again, they went crazy and I never

did anything else with them after that point. What was the specific thing with Lil' Joe? What happened there? Lil' Joe used to work for me as an entertainment How did he get ownership of stuff? In my opinion, he conspired with with uh richard wolf this is my opinion he conspired with him who he went to college with

another lawyer and they then orchestrated some legal bullshit to uh to steal uh those masters. You know, he hired a lawyer. Like physically steal the masters? Well, not physically steal. Like legally? Legally. Right. Legally. And so, you know, he hired this lawyer named Manzini.

Manzini then end up getting disbarred because he was the worst lawyer ever, in my opinion, and in the court's opinion and so then he worked on the 2 Live Crew and got them you know, the side with him

they had not, they were getting ready to re-up with me and so their contract was over, they never re-signed with me, they were supposed to re-sign with me doing that Hoochie Mama record. Two Live Crew. Two Live Crew. And then they went, sided with this guy.

And then I had all these lawsuits going on with this MC Shadi, which they were saying, oh, he sold all these records. And then, mind you, I had, then I ended up into an involuntary bankruptcy. Lil' Joe went to different creditors because, if you don't know, you can have three creditors say that you didn't pay them, and they can put you into an involuntary bankruptcy. All you got to take is three. One motherfucker say your light bill, you ain't going to pay.

Another motherfucker say the mop man and the cigarette man. So I ended up into that. He orchestrated that. The court found him guilty for that. For doing that? For doing that. Oh.

We actually went to court because, again... Like a conspiracy type thing. Yeah. And so, you know, I had all these other cases going with all this other sample shit. And so I was like, okay, how do you spell relief? You know,

fucking chapter 11. And so eventually I ended up going chapter 11 and then buying my way out of it. But then how in it they then kind of got the ownership of the name I gave it to Fresh Kid Ice

you gave it to Fresh Kid Ice yeah I always say I always said majority rule in the group because I again you know I license everything and I'm like yo y'all want to move that direction, y'all, good luck. You know what I'm saying?

Right. And so they got the name. And eventually when they got the name. Two Live Crew. Two Live Crew. They lost the name to him because Fresh Kid Ice had to file bankruptcy. Whatever happened, he wasn't getting paid. And he ended up filing bankruptcy. Whatever happened, he wasn't getting paid, and he ended up

filing bankruptcy. Then Joe ended up getting control of the name. And then Brother Marquis, God bless his soul, he ended up filing bankruptcy because, obviously, they were on that label, and they weren't getting paid for their

understanding, and they had to eventually file bankruptcy in that case. And right now, the most interesting part of it all is how me and Marquise came back together and Chris came back together. It's through their families. Because we're right now going to court to take the masters back. From Lil Joe. From Lil Joe, because 35 years of copyright. They revert. Yeah, it's supposed to revert.

So we got a hearing, actually in October, here in federal court. They will get it right back to you. To get the masters back. And Marquise was living when all was going on. Started, right. He sided with us. Mr. Mix is over there with them. With Lil' Joe?

Yeah. Really? Fresh Kid Ice family is here because Mr. Mix is running around as the 2 Live Crew. Right. They book him. So you see a show, 2 Live Crew. You think a 2 Live Crew is coming? No. It's him only. crew right they book him so you see a show two live crew you think a two live crew is coming no

it's him only and probably some of his other friends uh on stage singing the songs right you know i'm saying so that's what you get like i get a lot of people ask me like yo you performing here in newark no you know i'm saying so um uh he allows him to use the name because he owns the name. It's like licensing. Yeah, he allows him to use his name. But whatever deal they got, I don't know. But at the end of the day, we'll be in federal court down the street.

Damn. That's unfortunate, man. Hopefully, you know, God willing, we get this catalog back. And the beautiful part about it, because, you know, Mark we get this catalog back and the beautiful part about it is because you know

Mark didn't die God bless his soul God bless that you know getting that catalog back those their families

can be able to you know feel they be able to take care of their family right if they decide to sell it or if they decide to

let it mature and do whatever they want to do. Because, I mean, there were a couple of times in the in the they try to settle in the court proceedings. I was like, no, fuck that. You know what I'm saying? I was like, look, whatever he offering y'all, I'll give you double. You know, and to the family, to Chris family and Mark when he was living. And I was like, look, I'll give you double. You know, we're going to see this shit to the bus out because that music don't belong to him.

It belongs to us. We made it. I mean, we fucking was living in apartments doing music. You know what I'm saying? And this fucking guy, in my opinion, you know,'m saying this fucking guy uh uh in my opinion you know got away with murder all right let's talk about this biopic world packer is this still happening yeah yeah i mean the crazy part about i mean we have a couple wrinkles that we're working out that i'm pretty much working out on my side of it.

You know, because when you get into these biopics, you kind of want to be able to – You've got to be there to do it. You've got to have some kind of control. Yeah, you have to. Yeah. And now the Strater Compton one set the bar. You've got to –

Yeah, yeah. You've got to be – Yeah, so you can't be like – you can't be, you got to, you know, so that's where the sticky parts of it at. Like I was talking to my lawyer today about it. But it's still happening. Yeah, it's still happening. I mean, I got like a couple of different, I should sign that contract no later than the next two weeks. You and Will Packer.

Me and Will Packer, yeah and Will Packer, yeah. Will Packer is very important for him because he's our... Back director and super talented. And he's from Florida. That's important. Wait, I didn't know that. I thought he was from Atlanta for some reason.

No, he's from Tampa. For some reason, I thought he was from Atlanta. Yeah, and he's from Florida. That's important. So he lived that shit. He understand. He went to FAMU. You know what I'm saying? Will understand. He he lived that shit. He understand. He went to family. You know what I'm saying?

Will understand. He was at the parties. He was at the parties. He understand the party. He know the culture. At least he wasn't at, his mama was at the parties. Whoa,

whoa, relax, man. You went too far. Stop that. My bad, my bad. My bad. Will is my man.

Yeah, but that's. Great fucking guy. Great guy. I mean, so it all makes sense. And then it all makes sense to do that right now. I mean, I love the good part about it. I mean, we did Freak Nick and Warriors documentary.

I did that with LeBron. I love this. You know, Shaqem kind of pushed me. Played with you in the Shaquem? Yeah. Kind of pushed me to get into the. Wow, Shaq's in it, man. Shaq's in it.

Yeah, Shaq. I'll bless you. He pushed me to tell stories on, you know, through video, through visuals. So I've been. You have to. You're laying down history, man. It's needed. Because if you don't tell it, nobody else will.

If you don't tell it, nobody will. And that's the beautiful part about it. You know, nobody knows our story. Nobody knows it. You know, I used to feel real fucked up some kind of way that we ain't on the cover of Vibe. You know, we only got Source and nobody's talking about us. But then when I look at it right now,'m like damn that's some good shit because we got so many stories to tell

you got IP I got the shit you know I got all the fucking I got the fucking Daytona Beach I got you think Freak Nick was this and I got all you know and I got the whole plan it was the first Instagram you think so? yeah

you documented all this shit. That's deep. So I need a fucking check from Instagram. The girl's at Instagram. Let's go. Let her fuck y'all. You got to give me Instagram. Send me my motherfucking check.

Bitch better have my money. Let me ask you a question. Everything you've been through. You got kids. You got kids. You got grandchildren. You said one. One. Congrats.

Goddamn. True look fashion. You still never watched Star Wars? I used to watch it. Don't watch it. After they sued. No. Never watched it.

Fuck that. No, you said you used to. You used to. Before. Don't watch it. After they sued. No, never watched it. Fuck that. No, you said you used to. You used to. Before they sued me. Right. I was just, you know, fuck Star Wars. Fuck George Lucas. Damn, man.

I like Star Wars. God damn it. Fuck Darth Vader. Fuck that. No, J. Joe Coles, he just rest in peace. He's dead. No, but nobody knew he was really Darth Vader. You know what I'm saying?

We know that. No, but a lot of people out Darth Vader. You know what I'm saying? We knew that. No, but a lot of people out there, they thought it was. Because you know when the guy took off his mask, he was a British dude. Listen, they put the black man in a black outfit. Yeah. He was the fucking bad guy. No, he was just a voice. Really, he was a British white guy.

Your voice is who you are. Oh, it's true. It was who the fuck he was. The black guy. Fucking George Lucas. But he was the illest dude. But let me, no, no. The British white guy. Your voice is who you are. That's true. It was who the fuck he was back then. Fucking George Lucas. But he was the illest dude. But let me, no, but real talk. I mean, George, I mean, this motherfucker got $500,000 from me.

You had to pay? That back then. You had to pay? I want my fucking money back. You had to pay that lawsuit? I want my money back. I ain't playing. Hey, George Lucas, I doubt you listen to drinks just because. Pay, motherfucking Luke. That's the motherfucker. Pay him back? I want my money back. I ain't playing. Hey, George Lucas, I doubt you listen to drinks yet, but pay motherfucking Luke.

That's the motherfucker I want my money back. He got how many from Disney? Half a million dollars. What did he get from Disney? He got billions? Billions. Give Luke his money back. This motherfucker here with interest.

But why did he sue you? Luke Skywalker. Tell us. Break it down. I'm like, I'm a DJ. My DJ you? Luke Skywalker. Tell us. Break it down. I'm like, I'm a DJ. My DJ name, Luke Skywalker. Right? So.

Why'd you pick that name? Just so we know. I kind of got the idea from Kenny Skywalker. The basketball player. Yeah. Right? I think during that time and so it was like

Luke Sir Luke my first name was Sir Luke he was a he was a British gentleman no one would have sued you

he was a knight so no but I wouldn't have got sued Sir Luke would have not got sued but how the fuck that have been

what history Sir Luke Rutgers you never know the fucking might have been? World history. So many records. You never know. What have been the queen's favorite? Like H-Town, the Jets. The Jets and the queen would have been twerking. You got to learn. You got to learn.

Go ahead. I was thinking these cool ideas. I mean, no strippers and shit. No twerking. No twerking, y'all. Yeah. No twerking, y'all. Yeah. No booty shaking. So at the end of the day, come on, that's my DJ name.

Luke Skywalker, Luke Skywalker. It was really, I want to say it was before the Star Wars movie. Then the Star Wars movie came. I said, okay. Then I started this record company because my DJ name's Sir Luke, then Luke Skywalker DJing. So then now I end up going, what ends up happening? You got this Star Wars shit going on. I actually said, well, you got New York life. You got this.

You got Kenny Skywalker, you know, you can have, you got Miami this, Miami that. You know, I'm not doing, I'm not the white guy with no shit. I'm not doing a movie. You know, so in my mind, I was okay. It deals the same lane, right. I was, because I wasn't doing a movie and I wasn't portraying the character and I wasn't in a movie and I wasn't portraying the character and I wasn't in violation of no copyrights

in my mind so this during the controversy I still this is me because I know how the bullshit works I still got a letter from George Lucas asking for authorization

to use the name. He's asking. He's sending you a letter? I sent him a letter. You sent him a letter? And I got authorization to use the name. Oh, to ask him.

And he gave it to you? Yes. What the fuck happened? So all the controversy going on. You got the president of the United States, vice president, saying, oh, this 2 Live Crew music is horrible. You got the president of the United States, vice president, saying, oh, this two-life group music is horrible.

You got the governor, Martinez. Oh, this shit's horrible. You got these lawyers writing letters to George Lucas. How the fuck? Dolores, what's her name? See, Dolores Tucker. You got the world coming down on me, and they sending letters to anybody,

to venues, to radio stations. They bulldozing CDs and shit. And so they bum-rushed fucking George Lucas with letters talking about, how dare you let him use the name Luke Scott Walker? You got to sue this motherfucker. So it was about really draining me for all my money. It put me out of

business. That was the whole plate. You feel me? And so he then sues me. But you couldn't use that letter that he gave you the rights to do it? I used the fucking judge. They fucked the letter. Oh, my God. Bro, I was going through so many fucking hearings.

Even on Me So Horny, the girls who was, you know, on the beginning of the- It wasn't horny anymore. I got sued from everybody. I was in court. The judge was like, yo, the only way I wanted to hear this case was I wanted to see the bitches. What? The judge brought me in the back. He's like, Mr. Campbell, I need to see you in my office without the lawyers.

And I go in the back and he was like, yo, man, where the fuck are me so horny bitches? Oh, my. I said, motherfucker, you got me up in here with the jury sitting out. You can tell him, throw out the case. He threw the case out. Oh, he threw it out. Oh, he's a good, he's a real nigga. I went through so much shit, bro.

And look, there's so much shit I done forgot. Now you got to put in the movie. It's hard. That's why it was hard for me to do a movie because I originally had to deal with Lionsgate to do the movie. And then... Biopic. The biopic.

But I was like, look. Documentary. Biopic. I'm like, it's too much shit. So that's why I started cutting up stuff. I did the Warriors with LeBron. Right. On my football team.

Then I did Freak Nick. Then I have another show that I have that's a part of my life story. I say because I can't put it all in one. You know, I could spend a whole movie on the whole censorship part of it. You know what I'm saying? It's difficult when I start looking at it. I'm like, I may need to do a scripted series because this shit is really difficult. Like Wu-Tang. Like Wu-Tang.

Ooh, that would be hell. Yeah. That would be crazy. So we kind of, I was able to cut up a lot of stories to be able to get those stories told. I've carved out quite a few of stories to be able to get those stories told i i've carved out uh quite a few other stories that i'm doing as projects in this thing because again you know when you sign up with paramount or anybody like that they want all your fucking rights and so i did all these

carve outs of all these other projects deals back then yeah then? Yeah. Now, so I did Carp House because I know what the movie is. I know what the strip is. We know what we're going to accomplish with that. But then I'd say, okay, I need to be able to do these stories right here. You can't tie up my life rights for all these other stories.

Right. You know, my boy Evan worked with you that worked with Cocaine Cowboys. Yeah, we did. Evan's a good dude we did Warriors of Liberty yeah yeah and he always advocates for everything you're doing

yeah yeah good dude yeah Evan good guy Bruce Springsteen how the fuck oh banned from TV banned in USA banned in USA

that's a ban from TV that's you yeah yeah you put me in you banned from TV you put me in. You put me and him together. Did they kick you out of TV? Yeah, kind of. What happened?

Because I was following you. And you was banned from the USA. He wanted to be just banned from TV. So you whipped out on TV? Yeah, yeah. He says, suck it. All right, so you beat the court case. I never looked at you as that kind of guy.

Because you're my uncle. You're my uncle for real. Oh, hell yeah. You're my uncle for real. But everybody realize how big Bruce Springsteen fucking is. Yeah. You beat the case. How the fuck you get Bruce Springsteen

to clear the sap or did you not? Yeah, yeah. He had to have cleared it. We need to know. No, he cleared it. I mean, the thing is... Okay, what happened?

It was... That was the time I was signed on. Atlantic? I did a deal with Atlantic. The weird joint? And so they facilitated that. Toon Chair and him facilitated the conversation with me.

And I was like, yo, I want to do this song, this band in the USA. I'm going to do this through Springtains. Because this shit was born in the USA. This shit was born in the USA. I'm going to do this through Springsteen. This shit was born in the USA. This shit was born in the USA. And you flipped it to a band. Exactly. And I didn't want to do it similar to...

I didn't want to go down the line of using it without his approval and consent. Because I just won the parody case. The Roy Orbison Pretty Woman parody case. So I just won that motherfucking case in the Supreme Court

and I could have clearly said that that was a parody. Because these are, see, you're speaking Chinese to us right now. Parody case meaning that you could emulate a record a certain way and it's legal. Yeah, the shit what Will and, the shit that they do every day on Saturday Night Live,

matter of fact, they filed a brief in support of me where you could poke fun. I can, you know, they got a case. You could be similar to something,

but that's the parody. Exactly. You hate save sounds like. Like, what's it called? Weird Ali Yankovic. He's doing parodies all day long. Bobby Jibby and all them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So those are, you know, it's satire. There you go, satire. Basically, so when I went, I could have did it like that. But I said, and that's why I say all these other fucking artists, when y'all sampling people's voice and shit and putting them on record, you know, the respectful thing to do is call a person up. You know what I'm saying? You know, call a person up. That's why, you know, even with the French Montana thing, I was like, felt some kind of way, like, motherfucker, call me up and be like, yo, man, I'm using

your voice in this shit, whether you sample it or whether you paid Lil Joe or whoever the fuck you paid, you got my voice in this shit. You feel me? Out of respect. Out of respect. So I think... French is a great

guy, and he's a great friend of mine. And eventually somebody's going to sample French. Right, right. Exactly. And so I did that with Bruce. And like I'm

I had the conversation with him. Look at me. I need to speak to this man before I use this shit. Right. You know, I want him to wake up and see me on MTV. He cleared it. That was another bet that we all Do you think he cleared it because he understood what you shit. I want him to wake up and see me on MTV. He cleared his sample. That was another bet that we all... Do you think he cleared it because he understood what you was doing with the record? He cleared it.

He understood the mission. That music should not be used, should not be censored. So he understood the whole vibe and everything that I was fighting for. And he was like, yo, I'm going to prove this and I believe in what you're doing and all that.

It was a nice little conversation me and him had. And I was like, okay, that's some good shit. But I really think it's really important. And I love all these artists. I'm flattered by the French Montaners and everybody else who sampled my voice in records. But then at the same time, I think you should get on the phone and call, whether it's me or anybody else, and be like, yo, I'm going to... I just tapped in. Yeah, I just tapped in.

You feel me? I figured out how to use you actually in the record, like in the video or something. Is that considered checking in? Yeah, you got to do it. That's not checking in, though. It's not, no. It's not that. Paying respect to what you're using.

Checking in is when you go somewhere. That's not checking in. No, that ain't checking in. See, back in the day, they used to check in when they come to Miami, but then everybody got a little soft around here.

He threw a shot at the whole city. Hey, hey, hey, hey. But if my mother had to check in for real, hey, yo, I'm coming down. Okay, all right, okay. Yeah, but now, you know,

I left some other people in control, and they just fucking opened their legs up. But... I mean, you helped them, Luke. But anyway, anyway, meanwhile, back at the ranch.

Back at the joint camp. Yeah. I'm going to tear this up for one second. You smoked all them fucking joints? That's what you're talking about? That's right here. That's why you put them...

Oh, okay. God, man. Well, Uncle Lou, man. We really... I'm not speaking for you. I'm speaking from fucking all the rappers that say some dumb shit.

Not dumb shit. All right. That say the shit they relate to. If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't have none of that shit. Do you realize that? I just go about my business doing what I do. You know, like a lot of people tell me that, you know, and they use them legend words and all that. And I don't feel a certain kind of way.

You know, I'm just humble. You know, I'm respectful for when people think of me in that manner. And, you know, I appreciate it because I've for so many years, I've not gotten any credit for anything or any respect. And my city has not gotten any respect and credit for the things that we've done. You know, and I, you know, so I appreciate it, you know, I really appreciate it, but I don't, I just, I just do the right thing, you know, if I'm going to fight for free speech, I'm going to fight for free speech, I'm going to fight for my community, I'm going to do that, if I'm going to fight for hip-hop, I'm going to do that. And so wherever it leads to being, you know,

wherever it leads me to be or where my place in history is, it becomes, you know, alright, that's for other people to determine. That's not for me. And so when you know, when folks say

that, like you and you guys, you know, giving my respect and other people, I'm humbled by it. You know, I appreciate it. But at the end of the day, I just go about my business trying to be the person that my old girl raised and my dad. Well, let me say something, though. Hold on. No, no, no. One of the things that I'm most proud of,

that people, they always think that Drink Champs was born somewhere else, is born and bred in Miami, Florida. Oh, yeah, yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I'm always proud of that. Being from here, like I always tell people, nah, this is from the crib, born here, with a legend from New York, but is born in Miami, Florida. You know what I'm saying? They're from Miami and New York coming together. And you know what?

Uncle Luke, we truly, sincerely love what you laid down. Because I was. Turks and Caicos. Turks and Caicos. You keep going back to that. He just celebrated his birthday.

St. Thomas. Now, look. And the ladies, I had, like had like you know all my family and they was celebrating I was like wait a minute y'all listen to their language and I was like ooh

and then you're speaking English though the language that I was hearing and I was like, oh shit. Because I'm 47 now. So I was like, I don't know. But then, I remember

the first time I heard that shit is when my mother fucking took a picture. So, but, Uncle Luke. Hold on, because we... What?

I got a couple... You got a quick time to slide? No, no, no, it's not one. I'm going to take one more. You got to take another. Yeah, man, I'm a piss guy. All right. And you...

We established that you didn't watch Star Wars. Yeah. I know. I watched it before I got sued. Well, after, I think I got sued after it came out. Before, I don't know. But I know I don't watch that shit. Because of?

The George Lucas thing. I respect that that I got someone Monster Energy Dream yeah we wrapped it up applause applause

wait wait let's EFN let's I ain't gonna lie I gotta give y'all Miami guys Wait, wait. Let's EFN. Let's see if we know. I ain't gonna lie. I gotta give y'all Miami guys like a little extra time. What is this?

But at the Pac Jam at 17. Rolling paper? Damn. Getting a long way from them goddamn zigzags. Talk about how you're that close

to the community. Are you close to the young kids and the rich? Oh, man. I mean, shit. You know, I think, you know, I was a kid growing up. I was a kid growing up in Liberty City

and I would have to go to South Beach to play football. Because that's the hood, right? Yeah. Overtime right there. And then you got Liberty City where I'm from. My old girl lived in town. That's where they came from.

And I used to get bussed to Miami Beach all the time to play organized sports. And so I always said if I would make two cents over my lunch money, you know, I would have it where kids don't have to get bussed six o'clock in the morning all the way to Miami Beach to go to high school in a city where back then, if you were black, you had to be off the beach at six o'clock. Other than that, you go to jail for overnight. OK, hold on. Let me stop you for once. Because this is in my notes.

And then we all watched Scarface, right? We all looked at Scarface and we was like, we thought we was welcome in that same beach that Scarface was. He was on a beach. You said that black people wasn't welcome there?

No, no. Black people at that time had to be off the beach. You couldn't get caught on the beach after 6 o'clock. You go to jail, spend the night. Even black entertainers would go to South Beach. It's like Sammy Davis and all them. They would have to leave the beach. I literally love. Like Sammy Davis and all them. They would have to leave the beach. I literally love to say Sammy Davis.

Yeah. You're telling me Sammy Davis would have got arrested? Oh, hell yeah. He dealt with that a lot. He dealt with that a lot. Even in Vegas. You couldn't even stay on the beach.

You couldn't stay at the hotel that Black people are going right now. This is the same Miami Beach. Same Miami Beach. It's south. It's still south. It's still second grade. Miami Beach is Same Miami Beach. It's south. It's still south. It's still a second case. Miami Beach is still,

they did a spring break. The same place. That's why you see this. Is that Black Break? Oh, it used to be. There's no break now. They did it Black Break. They did it, yeah.

Oh, fuck. But I mean, when you know the history of Miami Beach, that is a part of their history of being racist toward African-Americans. When you tell African-Americans you're going to go to jail and stay in the jail overnight and then get out at sunrise. I mean, how bad that can be, you know? And so, you know, people don't be understanding and knowing those histories.

Like, you know, I did. I opened up a club over there out of spite because of that. You took over Coco Bongo's. Exactly. And I put their club over there. I'm like, well, I had it first. It was a strip club, actually. Really?

Yeah, it was a strip club. They were trying to strip club. They were trying to open up a strip club on Miami Beach, and then they suckered them into building it, and they had to pose and everything, and it was like, oh, by the way, you can't get naked. So it was Luke's before Coco Bongo's? Yeah, yeah.

And you did the Players Club there, the Players Bar. I remember I DJ'd. Yeah, I did all kinds of shit there. Ice-T was there and everything. I DJ'd there. Oh, no, I didn't do the players ball. That was something Shane did in my garden. Oh, you remember that one? Oh, Mike did that? Yeah, that was

their first party. They actually fucking went broke. You got to hear the Mike Gardner story. No, I know all them. Yeah, yeah. They had Bishop Don and all them. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I was DJing with Ice-T. Yeah. Ice-T was there. You see Mike's story. You'll see him.

It was like, yo, we lost all our fucking money fucking with that party there. And we owed it to everybody. But yeah, that was some good shit. I love when you're Miami niggas. By the way, as a New York nigga that's been here 16 years, this was so great. Thank you. nigga that have been here 16 years. This was so great. My uncle Luke, I just want you to know, you're my uncle.

I heard that lyric, Uncle Luke, we in Miami too. I want to say, change that lyric and say, Uncle Luke, you are my uncle too. Oh, I and say, Uncle Luke, you are my uncle too. Oh, I like that. Hell yeah. You are my uncle too.

We love you and we want you to know that this is something that I'm a New York guy. He's a Miami guy. We made this in Miami. This is your platform. Sometimes if you want to go on Instagram live, you can.

Just come here. But it's better. Just come here and go live with us. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Better than come here. I appreciate it. Music,

everybody. Exactly, exactly, exactly. And fucking thank you. All right, before we get up out of here, we've never done this before. Anybody got a question for Uncle Luke? Go ahead, Sonny.

Damn, fuck. Why the fuck y'all call him Sonny? He dark as fuck. Is that like a joke? That's his name. That's his real name. Sonny? Okay, they named me Sonny. Okay's his real name. Sonny. Okay. Name me Sonny.

Okay. Sonny B. Sonny D. D. Nobody ever mentions the Carver Center. Oh, the Carver Center. The Carver Center. I love the Carver Center.

I used to go to the Carver Center all the time. You went to the Carver Center, Sonny? I don't believe you, man. Why? Damn, he went to the fucking Carver. I don't believe you, bro. Did you ever do anything at the Carver Center? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, at the Carver, yeah. So, I don't know if the Car the car this is the way I remember the car it was an abandoned movie theater or a theater of some sort yeah graffiti everywhere

rats in that motherfucker yep but we enjoyed every show that happened in that motherfucker let me tell you

hey it's so many yeah it's still closed it's so many I mean I'm sure it was condemned yep yep did you go to the concert at the baseball stadium it's still closed. There's so many fucking... I mean, I'm sure it was condemned. Yep, yep.

Did you go to the concert at the baseball stadium? The one where I brought Public Enemy and Ice-T and all them. What year was that? Man, let me tell you. I did that

at the Miami Baseball Stadium. It's tore down. It's a fucking apartment. No. No, the old one. Bobby Martinez. What was it? Bobby Martinez Stadium? Where the Orioles used to play

their summer games at. And I had this big fucking car. That was the first time Chuck D and Public Enemy ever rode on a jet. Because I had a jet then. And I sent, they were doing had a jet then. And I sent, they were doing a show

in Atlanta and then I was like I need y'all to do this show down here because I had the baseball stadium back, the school jam or some shit. Probably had like 40,000 people in that motherfucker and I sent my jet to pick them up

and I thought they had been on jets before. You thought they had been on jets And I thought they had been on jets before. You thought they had been on jets. I thought they had been on jets. Them motherfuckers fucking played the funniest shit in the world. They hopped off that motherfucker like, I never been on no shit like this in my life. You know, but that was crazy. Because, again, back then, you didn't have social media.

Right, so you didn't know what they was dealing with. So my brother gave me the jet, and I would do a show here, a show there. I would do three shows in one night. Wait, your brother gave you the jet? Yeah. Who's your brother? Tony Montana? Something like that.

You got two fucking jets right now sitting in the house. Pablo Escobar's your brother. We don't know this. Yeah, but I motherfucking bought three golf courses and shit. Still got money. But so way back then, he had a fleet of jets. And so he was like, yo, you got to shit. Just pay the fucking money on it and the maintenance and everything.

And so I would do shows that you could do it because there wasn't no social media. I can do a show here, a show there, a show there. I had to party somewhere else, and I'd fly to these different places and do three shows a night. Close enough that nobody would know, right? Yeah. So when I did that show, I was like, oh, let me just send my jet dad to pick you up. That's why I be laughing at people right now with these jets and these yachts and shit

that's why Big when me and Big did the song he was like deep throat on loop boat when the moon rises and coming in your eyes is just the way players play every day we was on my boat

and then we went to New York and then he did this fucking song I was like this motherfucker sitting up in there like this I'm like okay we done cut this song when B gonna go up in this motherfucker that motherfucker went up in there and hit that shit fucked me all up one more thing

I just remembered that I wanted to ask you this how much did Blowfly have an influence on you major major it was more so Mr. Mix because Mr. Mix was the one who was doing the music and was doing all the samples.

I loved the Leroy Skillets and the Blowflies of the World. Because they was talking crazy on their record. Yeah, because I had them records. Mix had the records. That's why me and him was able to connect, like how we connected. That's records, Mix had the records. That's why me and him was able to connect.

Right. Like how we connected. That's what brought y'all together. That's what, yeah. Okay, I get it. Right. Through that,

because, okay, we was on the same vibe and then if I'm like, man, we playing, I'm DJing. I'm playing Firecracker. Man, we need,

that's a hot song that we DJed. Right. You know, the breakbeat of that. Hey, Mix, do this right here. And then I'm looking at this movie, Full Metal Jacket, this girl on there talking about Miso Horney,

put that shit on there with the firecracker, and that shit going to pop. Right. And so he would go cook it up, you know, and all the blow, then he would add the blow fryer, Leroy Skillet, the unanswered. People didn't know she was on fucking Sanford and Son, but cursing like a motherfucker. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. How happy are we of DJ Khaled, man? Shout out to Khaled, man. Shout out to Khaled. We love Khaled. He's doing his motherfucking thing, man. I'm fucking Nasty Quick, dude. Can you believe that shit?

The motherfucking traveling phone salesman. This nigga loves the Nasty Quick. That motherfucker sell everything. I love it. I love it. That's my guy. Come on. Everybody makes a noise with these dudes.

And you say he sell everything. That's what Cali do. Yeah. Cal he sell everything. That's what Khaled do. Yeah. Khaled sells everything. He's been saying another one since back in the day. Another one. Nasty quick, another one. This is another bun.

That's what they call it? Yeah, no, no, no. Because you're supposed to have Nasty Quick, another bun. Uncle Luke. I'm going to be honest. Yeah, no, no, no. Because you're supposed to have the next request, another bar. That's what's up. Uncle Lou. I'm going to be honest. We all owe you in hip-hop. Anybody who's ever dropped an independent record.

Anybody who's ever tried to live on their own you know I tell my friends all the time man live beyond your means get the fuck out your motherfucking mother crib and go motherfucking live but I get that from you

any independent artist in the world you're the first we wanna give you your flowers and that's one part of it is giving you your flowers physically

but it's always the second part of it is letting you know how much we love you and we honor and respect that path that you paved for us because me and this motherfucker right here, he don't want to be the same way.

And you are the path of the way of being. Stay in your motherfucking ground. Don't be nobody different. And that's what we have done. That's what made us successful. But that pathway has been Uncle Luke, two live crew, and we want to give you flowers. We gave it.

But we want to continue to tell you how much it's real. And we love the fact that you can comment on the new generation we love that that shit is so beautiful make some noise I'm gonna finish my thank you man

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