Drink Champs - Episode 442 w/ Beenie Man

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode we chop it up with the legend himself, Beenie Man!The King of Dancehall joins us for an episode you don’t want to miss. Beenie Man shares his journey in music and how his music has impacted the Dancehall genre.Beenie Man talks working with Janet Jackson, creating his hit record “Girls Dem Sugar” and much much more!Lots of great stories that you don’t want to miss!Make some noise for Beenie Man! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆 *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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It's DJ EFN. And this is Military Crazy World Podcast. Make some noise! When I tell you I am so excited about today's show, this man has been in this game for four decades. He's been making records since he was 10 years old. Literally. Yeah.

Self-proclaimed. The people claim. King of the dance hall. He's been doing this. Hit after hit. I went through this man's discography and I had so much fun just listening to how much hits throughout the whole time. Like this man could just

fall on a hit. Big records. There's a lot of controversy going on. Grammy award winning! I've been nominated. I ain't win shit! Don't worry, it's coming. It's over for me. I ain't won shit. Don't worry. It's coming. It's over for me.

You know, the doctor. Girls, dem sugar. It is going down. In case you don't know what we're talking about, we're talking about the one, the only, impeccable BD Momma. Yo, listen. I went through your music. It took us three days to try to get through the whole music. What? Yeah, I mean, yo, so is this rumor true that at 10 years old, you won a contest?

No, at eight. Damn. At eight? Yeah, I did my first song when I was eight. So when I won the contest, it was Tasty Stallion Show. When I won that contest, I get a contract to record. So I went to the studio and I knock out the song. I did two songs, one called Over the Sea and one called Too Fancy.

Why? Yeah, and then I did my first album at age 10. Okay, this is a lifelong question. What is the difference between reggae and dancehall? Oh, the beat. Reggae is one job, dancehall is four jobs. Reggae is one job,

dancehall is four jobs? Yeah, dancehall is drop, drop, drop, drop. Like a beach. Like a beach. Like a beach. Yeah. My ass. Reggae is the feeling of the people. Like how the people feel about the government.

How the people feel about their life that they live in. How the people feel about the system that they living in. So this is how the reggae music is. So reggae music is social commensur. So when you're doing dance i know you talk about all the people live or the girl them wind up themselves right or the girl them just or the girl them look nice so when you go welcome the girls them you see what i'm saying the difference in the music is how you express yourself. Right. Because you have some people don't know how to express themselves.

You have some people just do them thing different. But dancehall music is a different type of genre. It's a different thing. It come like hip-hop to you. Like when I used to listen to Slick Creek and it go la-di-da-di, we go to the party, we don't cause trouble, we don't burn on the body, and just let it go by the mic, and when we rock up on the mic, we rock the mic.

Okay, and then you get a 50 cent, and then you get you. It's a different type of music. So when the music come together, it kind of don't sound different, but it is different because sometimes the music speed up and sometimes the music slow down so you still got dancehall DJs like me dancehall artists that do one drop like you'd have a Sizzler, Black woman and child, you'd have a Bojo Bantam who would come and say, it's not an easy road.

So there's a difference in the music. But the dancehall artists do reggae music because the reggae music is the original music where the dancehall come from. But dancehall now, we try to make it, you know, it's coming like calypso and soca. Right. Soca faster than calypso.

You see? But dancehall is straight out reggae dancehall music. That's what we do. But it's not just tempo, it's also substance. Yeah, it's just substance. Right. You have some music that don't got no substance. They can't last.

You have someone who sing one song and it lasts for two months. You have a man who sing a next song and it lasts for six months. But you have a man who sing a song and it lasts forever. Because I always tell people that Robert Nestor Marley died, but Bob Marley never died. So he's always alive because you're always in the music. So, yeah, that's the type of music I love to sing, music that lasts forever, music that you can tour on, like, forever.

So I got an 187 number one song. Why should I want another? But you have to make music. 187? And you got 18 albums. Yeah. And seven compilations? Yeah, but...

What? I'm going to bounce around a little bit. Yeah, I got over 2,000 hit songs. But hit songs, number one is number one. When you're making number one songs, you're making songs that last forever. Right. So songs that you can go and sing.

You said 2,000 hit songs? Yeah, over 2,000 hits. We didn't get through none of his. We didn't get through halfway through his thing. Damn, bro. So I always had to ask you this question. Is Rami a real person? His big, fat sister? Oh, Rami. Rami. Who do you call him, Rami Romney a real person? His big fat sister?

Oh, Romney. Romney. Who do you call him, Romney? Romney. And his big fat sister, eh? I was like, damn, he's mean. You call your sister a big fat? I was like, damn, I got to ask this nigga.

No, it's Romney. Romney is a real man? It's a real person, of course. It's a real person. So what did he do to you? You don't even like him. No, I don't hate. I don't do hate. No, I don't hate. I don't do hate.

I don't try to hate. Hate is just a bad word. But what did he do? How did y'all catch the drama? And his sister? Why his sister had anything to do with this? I just didn't like him. I don't hate him.

He's from in the country. So he's a real person. He gets to hear this record? He's a real person. What? Not only hear it, it's just a hit. country. He's a real person. He gets to hear this record. Not only hear it, it's just a hit. It's a hit record. I would like it. If I'm talking about you, ain't nobody know you. Now everybody

knows who you are. Now, wouldn't you like that record? There you go. He might be introducing himself like, I'm the one that beat Matt Diz. See what I'm saying? If I see Romy, he's that guy we grew up with.

But then he borrow people things. Borrow your money and then he now pay you back. That makes sense. Oh, I got a lot of them, niggas. Yeah, I know. I got a lot of them. Man, I need some money to do this. And you go like, okay, here's a few hundreds.

And you come back again and, man, I need some money to do this. You get to realize that he's doing it too often now. Right. Yeah. So the last time I asked him to pay me back and there was no paying. They get offended when you ask. Yes, I get offended. So I sing a song.

I will go knock Romy out like right now, today. Right now. I will sucker punch him like right now. Sucker punch. Like seriously. But sometimes it's better to Make fun of it You sing music about people And people

Become recognizable People start to say yeah my manor If I'm on the road That's it So when you do shit like that You turn out good On their side But then you get a hit song.

And no one's lending Romy money anymore. No, no. Now, you have a legendary moment in verses. The whole verses that you got. It was the first time that I ever seen people say that it was like Jamaica won. You know how people say this guy won. That was the first time I say that was the one thing. But when the policeman came and you said, you don't want to be that guy.

I use that for everything. Like anytime somebody's doing something, you don't want to be that guy. That was a good time. So tell us what happened. Did the police arrive? It was the epidemic in Jamaica, the COVID-19. Right, the pandemic. So we were supposed to be in a studio. Separate.

Yeah, so we're in a studio like this. All of us. None of us have COVID. Right. So we were there doing the thing. And then the police just walk in. Unannounced. Unannounced. And then, remember, the prime minister of the country is then the police just walk in unannounced unannounced and then remember the Prime Minister of the country is on the phone saying wicked

then his boss is on the phone saying wicked and he just walk in Mr. Moses Davis what are you doing here I'm like what because we just take the break no so you walk in on the break you walk in the wrong time you should do that this is walking in the wrong time so same time to break we come off break so we're going back live now and he's like mr. Davis I'm talking to you and I'm like do you want to be that guy hmm I don't think you want to be that guy? I don't think you want to be that guy. And he's like, what? We say, oh, we got over 50,000 people here. 500,000.

We got 500,000 people online watching us live right now going into 600,000. And then you just walking like. At least he didn't get on camera, though. If he would have gotten on camera, I would have thought he wanted to shine. Yeah, because you see, both of them. At least he didn't get on camera, though. If he would have gotten on camera, I would have thought he wanted to shine. Yeah, because you see, both of them. Oh, it was two police guys? Yeah, it was two police guys. But there was one talking.

The next one not saying nothing. So when I look at him, I said, do you want to be that guy? And the next one go like this. He don't want to be Romy the next time. The next one want to run through the door is like, Dan, we're in camera. Fucking up this shit. What are we doing here?

So that was a nice moment for the thing. But I don't like when people try to break up the music. When you come and see the music is playing and everybody's having fun, why you want to come and break that up is playing and everybody's having fun why you want to come and break that up that that don't make no sense whatsoever so it's it's for you to build that vibes together because me and bunty killer yes we we wore for 22 years we we were nemesis like Like, seriously. The only thing we never do is

throw fists. Did it almost go there, though? Ever? No, we throw words. Because it seems serious from the outside. No fists. I'm a bad man. Don't worry about it. In situations like that, usually the crew or the people around

them get affected. Yeah. So what about that? They're the ones that get messed up because they go around fucked around. Right. You have to fuck somebody up, but that's it. But me and Bunty Killer, we never show fist because I'm not that guy that you can mess with. Like, I don't play. All right. And I got friends that guy that you can mess with, like, I don't play. All right.

And I got friends that don't play. And I got friends that don't play. And I got other friends that don't play. And, yeah. Didn't you date his ex-wife or something like that? No. His ex-girlfriend is my wife. Wow.

It's a different thing. Was my wife. Shouldn't say is my wife. Was my wife. She got a kid from me. Okay. He's a different thing. Was my wife. Shouldn't say is my wife. Was my wife. She got a kid for me. Okay. He's 18 years old. His name is Mark Lee and I love him to death.

Right. Yeah, but yeah. Y'all wildin' out there. Y'all wildin'. I was like, yeah. That's the thing. I didn't even talk to him. That's a different kind of Southern class.

I was going through this shit. I was like, oh shit, this is almost love and hip hop right here. That's where the beat started though. That's where it started. No, no. No, no. No, no. No, shit. I was like, oh, shit, this is almost love and hip-hop right here. That's where the beat started, though. That's where it started?

No, no. That's when the beat almost ended. Okay. Yeah, but, you know, you see a girl, you're like, girl, girl, like boy, boy, like girl, girl and boy get together. Baby happened. Baby happened. Yeah, that was it.

I watched one with, I think with Babyface. Yeah, but Babyface is my thing. I'm kind of biased. Don't know about it. Who did Babyface go against? A guy. Babyface go with somebody else. I don't remember. I forgot. Who did Babyface go against? A guy. Babyface go with somebody else.

I don't remember. I forgot. Yeah, I remember Babyface, though. Yeah. And then I watched New Orleans DMX. Oh, yeah. Snoop. Yeah.

Teddy Riley? Teddy Riley, yeah. Babyface. Man, you finally Googled it on time. I'm proud of you. Yo, I'm proud of you. I didn't have to tell you to do that. Okay, okay.

That's the stuff. So I watched them both. I didn't like the vibes. Because I wasn't getting the vibes from it. You know? So I said, okay, we're not going to do no verses like that. We're going to do like 1987. Clash.

Clash. We're going to be at each other like, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. That was it. It was a beautiful thing. The vibe was nice. It's not like we're fighting. We're showing the words at each other,

but we're not fighting. Right, right. So, yeah, it was. I loved that verse. I loved it, too. I watched it, like, one or two. It stood out, too. Yes.

From all the verses. Yeah. No, that was, like, the first one that, like, everyone won. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like I said, it was credited in Jamaica for winning. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because it looked really good.

But Jamaica didn't get credit, too, to a degree. Okay. And did you, I want to ask if you felt that because Billboard they covered the Versus effect. They didn't put Beating Man and Bouncy Kill. So who did they put? Everybody else. They didn't put us up. But I don't care. Come on.

Yeah, that's why. Because you see the problem is Billboard is a magazine that came out. But the world is internet loving right now. So everybody's on social media. Everybody's on this. Everybody's on that.

So the people that watch the verses, they know. If Billboard didn't want to recognize us as, you know, that's their loss. It's not mine. That's true. Let me ask you, what do you feel about Afrobeats? you know, that's their loss, it's not mine. That's true. Yeah. Let me ask you, what do you feel about Afrobeats?

I love the way all them implement Dansal in the Afrobeats. You understand? Because they say the music is from Africa, so they can do anything. They can use any music they want to use. But the Afrobeats is just nice music. You can dance to it like salsa, do all of that. It's nice. It's nice music.

So I actually love it. I appreciate the Africans to come out and show their talent. But, yeah, so when somebody loves your music and appreciates it by going and building their own music of your music, you got to give them appreciation because they show you that they love your music and you inspire. So if your music don't inspire you, it's shit. Like seriously. So you got to think about that too. So you got to think about that too. And eventually, generationallyally things will get lost history

gets lost unfortunately yeah seriously you guys just know that too you know music is music i remember the first time i i i hear a hip-hop song was um i said oh just every cocaine. It's, um, what's his name? Kid and Play. And, um... I can't picture Beanie Man listening to Kid and Play. What? Hola, hola, eh. That's a good one. What?

Come on, Kid and Play. What song? I watch House Party. What you doing? Oh, House Party. Okay, okay, okay. So what song was it? Oh, God.

Kid and Play. Yeah. Please, don't ask me to remember. It's not going to work. When it comes to music, in my household, it was reggae, country and western. Yeah, seriously. Country and western. What?

Oh, you think I know Kenny Rogers? I was about to say, you listen to Kenny Rogers? God, Brooks and the shit? And Dolly Parton? Dolly Parton? Who you talking about? You sure wasn't in the yard just now? That is what we are.

Now we're in between. How can we be wrong? Sail away with me to another world. And we rely on each other. Uh-uh. One love to another. and we rely on each other uh-uh one love to another uh-uh I'm going to play the music

pa-pa-pa we go through all of that you have this guy what's his name again Brenton across the beach there be no You'd have this guy, what's his name again? Brenton. He'd have a song and say, Across the beach, there'd be no sorrow.

I don't know what I'm doing. Who is it? It's gospel. Okay. There is no pain. The sun will shine across the reed. That used to play in my house. Your mother's a Christian. Yeah, she's a Christian.

Did you have to sneak and listen to other types of music in your own household? What? No. You got to bar across the road with a jukebox. You put the money in it and go...

Okay. What did your father used to listen to if your mother used to listen to gospel? My father's Rastafarian. So he listened to Bob Marley and listened to, you know... Gregory.

You know, Tingo, Gregory Isaacs, all of them people. Now let me ask you, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bob Marley? Or Bob Marley, Revolutionary Bob Marley? No, Bob Marley and the Wailers. Okay, yeah, that's my shit. Bob Marley and the Wailers. I like Revolutionary Bob too, but I gotta be a little bit angry. Yeah.

You get fucked up with Revolutionary Bob. Yeah. Listen to Revolutionary Bob. You wanna do something, man. You basically the revolution. Yeah. Listen to Revolutionary Bob. You want to do something. You want to go outside. Yeah. Nigga. Did you watch Bob Marley in the movie?

I saw it. You're saying it unconfident. You saw it, but what? I saw it. You don't like it? I got nothing to say about that. Oh, no. I saw it. What do I got nothing to say about that. Oh, no. I saw it.

What? What do you want me to say? This is Bob Marley, right? Can't say nothing bad about Bob. So what did you... I saw it. Okay. That's it.

Thank you. That's why he wants to leave it. What did you think about it? I loved the fucking movie. I saw it twice. And I'm about to watch it again in my house. Would you make a movie like that about Beanie Man? What?

But I can't make a movie like that yet because you know. You got more to go? Why not? Whoa. All right. Like NWA? Yeah. Yeah, but there are certain things that I've been

through that I don't want to... You're not ready to... Not ready? You can't ready for that. You're going to go to prison. I wasn't ready for that. We're not ready for that right now. I don't think he's going to do anything like that. Our life is not pretty. It's not nice. Because we grow in the wood.

And we don't grow nice. It's not a nice thing. Trust me. We just didn't suffer. Because you have other ways to make money. But see, even how you're saying that, people don't really can't visualize it like that. So that's why I'm saying it's great to have a movie like that. Oh.

If you made a, you know. I'm going to go to prison. I'm not going to. But there's some things you can leave on the cutting room floor. You don't have to. It seems like he wants to tell his real true story, but he's not ready. I can't do that. Then we're going to go to prison.

I can't do that. He's going to wait a long time. Don't worry about it. It's not going to happen long time don't worry about it it's not going to happen just don't worry about it because if I'm making a life story I'm making a life story I'm making a story of my life

I want to be truthful yeah I want to be truthful I'm going to make a Ray movie like oh Ray get blind and all of that or lose his sight and all of that I have to show you how I grow how I become who I am so if I show you I'm going to go to how I grow, how I become who I am. So if I show you,

I'm going to go to prison. I got no time for that. I got no time for prison. I got no time for cops. I got no time for judge. So yeah, cheers. So the other day I saw on Instagram a guy posting, he said,

even the poorest man from the island is richer than, you see what I'm talking about? Is richer than the average city boy because when you, from an island, you have access to clean water. Organic food. You have access to organic food. Yeah.

Like, your backyard is whole food. Yes. What? Your backyard is paradise. What? You believe that? What are you saying? All right. You see, in Jamaica, you just get up and you see a mint tree just growing in your yard like that.

And you see an acacia tree just growing in your yard like that. A breadfruit tree just growing in your yard like that. Mango tree. A mango tree just growing in your yard like that. So you can't be hungry. Right. These are natural fruits that just grow by itself. You eat a mango and you throw away the seed

and the seed grow into a big ass tree. And you looking like, whoa. You don't have to plant that. You don't have to plant banana trees. You don't have to do none of that. It just grow. So yes, Jamaica is different. And we got natural water from the mountain.

So when the mountain bus open, it gives you a spring. That's Holy Mountain or no? No, just Holy Mountains. What? What are you saying? You go to a river, there's a spring in the river. Right. The source is the mountain.

Just there you go. Right. So you got spring water that you got to buy in the bucket. Right. Or you can just go to the mountain and go like this. And fill your glass, man. Right. Yeah.

Truly clean water. Yeah, that's Jamaica for you. This is a nice place. This is a nice place. We just have wicked people living in nice places. Yeah, the's Jamaica for you. This is a nice place. It's a nice place. We just have wicked people living in nice places. Yeah, the government is wicked. What's the JLP? Police is wicked. Yeah, I got JLP and PNP.

And PNP. Don't get it twisted. Like Bloods and Crips. Yeah, like Bloods and Crips. In the Caribbean, the political parties are like Bloods and Crips. Yeah. What? And they use the people in the town parties are like bloods in cribs. Yeah. What? And they use the people in the townships to fight for them.

What? It's a ghost. Remember, we come from a place where you have to be something. It's either your PMP or your JLP. Right. But I'd rather be a musician. Yeah. Right.

That's what's up. Make some noise for that. Our show is about Giving people their flowers While they can smell them Yeah You know what I mean They thought

That's why they could think of them And they drink That's why they could drink them We wanted to give you your flowers Snoop Dogg said It's better than a Grammy Because it comes from your people As we drink in 19 crimes

Look at my flowers Yes Look at my flowers So do you want to Do quick time with slime Let's do quick time with slime As we drink at 19 Crimes. Look at my flowers. Yes. Look at my flowers. So, do you want to do quick time with slime? Let's do quick time with slime. Because I don't think he's going to take a shot. So, have him. He can drink.

He can just take. Have. Oh, no. Rasta's dry January. Oh, you're really dry January? He's drinking some sort of juice in there. That's true. All right.

Sunny D. Sunny D. Are you taking shots? Sunny D. He'll take the shots for you. Oh, God. Yes. Will you all take a shot?

Oh, you want to give me a shot? Of what? Whatever you like. I don't know what you got. We've got Marijuana from Dominican Republic. We've got vodka.

No, you don't get no marijuana. I want tequila. I was going to say, I want to do the Marijuana. I don't want tequila. What type of tequila is it? That, that,

that would fuck me up. The marijuana, I don't want tequila. What type of tequila is it? That, that, that, that fuck me up. Marijuana, I don't, I don't, I drink marijuana tea, but I don't drink marijuana or tobacco. That, no. No, that's not marijuana. That's mamawanna. No, he knows. He knows what it is. He said marijuana.

I don't do mamawanna. I just don't do mamawanna. I could take a shot of, what is that? This is vodka. Yeah, give me a shot of vodka. What type of tequila you got? Tequila, what's the tequila we got? Got some music?

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Okay. Yeah, so I like Australian wine. Yeah. And I like Italian wine. I like Italian wine, too. And I like Italian wine. So what, I like Italian wine too. I'm a white wine drinker. Yeah.

I'm a red wine drinker. I don't drink nothing. Like, yeah. My girlfriend drinks white wine. So sometimes I have to, you know, muscle up and be the man.

Like, what, what are you doing? Don't play with me. Does Snoop know you drink that? I think everybody in the world who know me know that I drink that shit. As soon as I said I hit Snoop, I was like, Beanie Man wants to drink at 19 Crimes. He sent that shit so fast. Yeah, man.

Yeah. You know I drink that. Yeah. Okay. You want to explain him the game? Yep. We're going to give you two choices. This is our drinking game.

Okay. Drinking give you two choices. This is our drinking game. Okay, drinking game. Two choices. This is really to bring up stories, anything you want to talk about with anybody we mention. Go ahead. And you pick one, nobody drinks. But if you say both or neither,

like you don't want to answer the question, we drinking. Okay. Oh, we have to drink? If you don't want to answer the question. If you don't pick. All right, let's put this aside. This is going to be... I haven't had my shot yet. All right,

you ready? I'll take the first one. Go ahead. Peter Tosh or Bob Marley? Whoa. That's an odd one. But

I will go with Bob. Go, Bob. Yeah. Just so you know, I don't make up these questions as a Dominican and a Colombian over there. They sniff, I don't make up these questions. The Dominican and the Colombian over there. They sniff cocaine and they just make up funny questions.

It's organic. It's organic though. You know what? I'll go with both. Oh, so we taking a shot? All right. All right. Taking a shot.

I'll go with both. I drink some of that vodka thing. Okay. Oh, he wants some vodka here. Yeah, I drink that vodka too. Do you want to try that, Mama? No, no. He said he don't want Mama. I just said I asked if you wanted some Okay. Oh, he wants some vodka here. Yeah, I'll drink that vodka thing.

Do you want to try that, Mama? No, no. He said he don't want Mama. I said I asked if he wanted to try it. Mama, Mama, Mama. He said no Mama, no Juana. I'm doing Mama, Juana. Here, you guys.

There's two for you. Yeah, I'm not drinking Mama. I'm not Juana. That's what happened. I don't drink that shit either. Go away. Hey, relax, man. Relax. My dog here. He shit either. Relax, man.

My dog here, he makes it. He makes it in the tub in Kendall. No, he doesn't make it in the tub in Kendall. He be stomping on it and it's no grapes. Why are you so... Why is this in the tub with the alcohol? I'm just playing.

That's kind of like prison in Jamaica when they try to give you some crushed banana. And some Irish. This black man put on his boot and he's You can't eat from the tray in the front. If he's doing that.

I'm not drinking that. I'm not drinking Mama Warner Oh you took your shot This is for Bob and Peter Oh you said both right From the choke to the liver Come on liquor let us quiver Tony Kelly or Pharrell That's good right

Oh well whoa Damn You really made that That's a hard one That's an old one. My homie made that. Wait, what? That's an old one, too. We got Tony Kelly produced all of my hit songs.

All right. And Pharrell produced Girls Them Sugar. Girls Them Sugar. Tony Kelly, is he like the Dr. Dre of Reggae and Dance? Yeah. It's both of them. It's two of them. You got Dave Kelly and Tony Kelly. Yeah. It's both of them. It's two of them. You got Dave Kelly

and Tony Kelly. Yeah, but Tony Kelly is, yeah, he's from Shabba Rankin time. Okay. Yeah. Shabba!

Yeah. Tony Kelly produced Shabba Rankin and Maxi Priest and, you know. Yeah. So both? Somebody's saying both.

Oh, boy. Salud. Oh, God. You're not going to set me up. I'm just telling you this. No, no, no, no, no. We got you.

And we got to come back after this to talk about Pharrell. Yes. Yes, the whole shot. Yes. Yeah. And I need... Can you get... Take this bug to...

Two more. If you have stories... Take that bug. You can tell them. Tell stories about them. Yeah. Okay, this one I know you're going to have some stories. Bring me the bully bug back.

Yellow Man or Ninja Man? Ninja Man. Okay, that was easy. Got any story you want to say? No, Ninja Man is my dad. He's the one that teach me how to work in performance stage. He got 20 kids, right? Yeah, I don't know how much kids.

He got like 35 kids. 35 kids. Ninja Man got like 35 kids. That man don't know much kid. He got like 35 kids. 35 kids. Ninja Man got like 35 kids. That man don't play. Now that man don't play. Ninja Man is my dad. He's my dungagon. He's my DJ.

Like, yeah, like seriously. Okay. All right, let me see this record. Okay, yeah. Tony Kelly producers. Okay. Because I see. Okay, because I see... Yeah, Tony Kelly produces this one. I see this one.

And these are from my personal archive. Beanie Man going to take his records back. Yeah, I'm going to. I need to see these records. Don't take them back. No problem. Tony Kelly produced them two songs right there. For me, for Shocking Vibe Productions.

Both of these? Yeah, both of them. No. So we took a shot for that already, right? All right. All right, so... Tony Kelly did so many songs for me because he's the one that

fight me out of the badness. Like, you need to stop do the badness and do the music. Right. Let go doing the badness and do the music. Right. Let go of the badness and do the music. Really? Was his hands moving like that?

Oh, man. What? Why was he saying that? Because I love that the badness of being... No, badness. I'm telling him a bad man. Don't go...

I'm thinking about the breakfast. Like, wicked man. No, I'm a bad man with kid in my nose. It's not... Come on, man. Stop. I got it. Let me get to bed. I'm thinking about the breakfast. Like, wicked man. That's not wicked. No, I'm a bad man with a kid in my nose. It's not. Come on. Stop. All right. I got it.

Let me get to it. You see, do you know about my wicked man, Meg? No, I want to know. I was hot. A worser man. I was hot. I have to run away from Kingston, go to the country. And I didn't know.

Like, this. Then they came my friend and my police friend come around and said you know yeah then you know we do the thing and the thing and the thing happened and the police just do the thing and the guy get knocked out and that was it. But I can't tell you all of that because I'm going to go to prison. He just told them. He told them. That's right. And that's what's actually happening.

I'll tell you again. That's how you are. Listen, dude, dude, ba-bomb, beep, bang. And I was like, yo. We can't talk about that. But we talked about it. Yeah, yeah. I just, you know.

He didn't say no names. No, no, no, no. Yeah. Okay, good. Sean Paul or Elephant Man? Sean Paul. Okay. And he's not Dominican, right?

He's from Jamaica. No, he's from Jamaica. That's why I wanted that one. Yeah. Elephant Man. Wait, what? Elephant Man. That's what I call him. Don't worry Elephant fan. Wait, what? Elephant fan. That's what I call him.

Don't worry about it. Get it, why? Yeah, this is my name for him. Don't worry about it. Okay. I can't tell a grown man an elephant. That doesn't make no sense. That devil is so unattractive.

I wasn't getting it. This is true. So you call him Elephant Fan? No, Ele-Man Fan. Oh, Ele-Man. Yeah, because he's a grown man that has the energy as an infant. Because he just jump all over the place. Energy God, right?

Yeah. He's definitely got a lot of energy. Yeah, you know. You know how things go. Yeah. I feel like he just went... Okay, dancehall or reggae? goes. Yeah. That was bad for me. I feel like he just went pew pew. Okay, dancehall or reggae?

Both. Okay, got that. Salud. Yes, every time you say both. That's why we got little shots. No, I got little shots. I'm not taking no big shots. No, we're going to keep it little shots. I got the next one.

Hold on, give me a minute. Okay. Give me a minute. One minute. Here we go. Shot. Good. All right.

Lady Saw or Patra? Lady Saw. You got a joint with Patra, though, too, right? Yeah. See, Patra is my friend from long, long, long time. I know Patra before I know Lady Saw. But Lady Saw is one of the baddest female artists from all over Jamaica. Talk about it.

She do not play. She's already OG, too. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, man. She is. She, all right. Spice is the queen of dance hall, but Lady Saw, she really rocked the queen.

Like, she was the queen before she baptized and turned Christian and all that. Wait, but don't you kind of reckon the queen of the dance hall with Patra? Hmm? Don't you kind of reckon the queen of the dance hall and this with Patra? Yeah, Patra was part of the dance hall queen.

The movie, the movie. Yeah, the whole advertisement thing, the whole movie thing. the um dancehall queen the movie the movie yeah yeah the whole thing the whole movie thing yeah that's what queen yeah yeah but it was what you're saying ladies watching is wicked i love pacha don't get twisted i love pacha that don't get it twisted i love pacha but lady saw right she's original she create music. She just come in here to beat and... Dem not know, hold me hot, you know. I'm ready for war. What you saying? That shit...

She's crazy. Pachi is wicked, wicked, wicked. But Lady Saw is a different human being. She, all right, she reminds me of me. Like, there you go. That's a way to compliment yourself. She's the female version of you. She's the best. She reminds me of me. Yeah.

That's a great answer. I'm the king of the dancer. Yeah. What are you doing? That's right. We're going to get to that. Hold on, that answer. We're going to get to that. Hold on, hold on. We're warming up.

This is what I'm saying. She reminded me. She's wicked. Ladies, I don't remember. All right. You see, she go X-rated, but not X-rated. She go in the farm up to make you want to do shit, but not do that shit that people

doing. That's definitely X-ray to beat him man. Those do you clean up with all your meat. All right. All right. See, the lady saw. All right. Remember when she come out and said, me and your kangaroo down your kangaroo sweat.

It's about the meat. It's about the meat. Yeah, my muddy aloe, that's straight. It's about the... And I'm like, what? Now I get interested. I start to go like this. Yeah, my mother, that's right. And I'm like, what? Now I get interested.

I started to go like this. I started to get interested. And then I saw her perform on stage. She got on a tights and she skinned out her foot and grabbed up her ass. I said, what? I said, what? So she break the dance hall scale. Yeah, she do.

So she make all women know how to perform. She make all women know what to sing and what not to sing, where to go, where not to go. But she come conscious too. She just don't do all slackness. No, she don't do that. She come conscious too. So what she do that she she come conscious to so what she do she

inspire me and I love her for that that's powerful yeah Oh, wow. Both. All right now. That's me. Yeah. Cheers. Give us a sizzler story. Hmm? Give us a sizzler story. A sizzler story. Or a Capleton.

Or a Capleton. A Capleton story. Okay, I wore it, both of them. Oh, shit. You actually did. I'm a man. See what I'm saying? You're not. See what I'm saying? You're not listening to what I'm saying.

Nigga, go to prison. I don't know about both of them, but Sizzler is inspirational by the music that he sings and how he delivers his words and how he sings his album. K-Petan is the fireman. Fireman. He's my performer. SZA is my recording artist.

That's a dope way to describe him. Great. Seriously. TR or Gorilla Black? What? What? Yeah, that's the Dominican and the Colombian. You messing with my friendship right now.

What? You messing with my friendship. Yeah, that's true. My friend of God. Yeah, Gorilla Black is my friend. All right. T.I., we sing songs together. Did you bust T.I.?

Yes, I did his first song. Pause wide. When we say vote. Explain, please. Yeah, you should have explained before he's busted out. Yeah, I know where I'm going. All right, so, yeah, bust mean, like, break the artist. Okay, yeah, break the artist, yeah.

So his first song was with you? Yeah, this bad man here get shot in the ear. Bad man, yeah, yeah, that's true. And Gorilla Blacks too. Right, right, yeah. First time it was me too. Did you choose? Huh?

Did you choose with him? No. No? Not yet, not yet. These black people call me and said, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I just went and go on the record. And they call me again and said, so I just went and go on the record. And they called me again and said, we need to do a video. So we go to a video.

But the problem is, it was German Dupree. German Dupree? Yeah. German Dupree. Okay, well, bad. Jesus Christ. Why American talk different from German? German Dupree called me

and said, listen, I need you in this record. And then he called me again and said, I need you in this record. So... So German Dupree

called you both times for both records? Yeah, for both records. Oh, wow. I didn't know German Dupree had anything to do with Gorilla Black. He did. What are you talking about? Yeah, I didn't know that. So she made the people you both times for both yeah Right back was the virgin I was virgin too. Yeah anything. Yeah, this is it makes sense. I was a virgin too. Yeah. Get anything? Yeah.

It all makes sense now. There you go. Don't want to repudiate. Yeah. Chairman of the PD was, you know. And you was on Virgin as well, right? Yeah. That's what he just said.

That's what makes sense of all this. Oh, yeah. I bet. I agree, man. I agree. But Gorilla Black or T.I.? Which one do you mean? Did he choose? See? I have to drink. Okay. All right. Cool Gorilla Black or T.I.? Which one do you mean? Yeah, that's what we're going to be choosing. All right.

You see? I have to drink. Okay. All right. Cool. Fair enough. Send him up. Who got the keys to my V-Map? Oh, man.

Cheers. Cheers. I told you. If you say send him up, a person doesn't say, who got the keys to my V-Map? You can legally slap them in the face. Yeah. Like, it's presidential approved. Yeah.

Yeah. All right? Okay. Spread the rumor. Cheers and bent. Cheers and bent. Salute. From the choke to the liver. Okay. Come on, liquor. Let's presidential approved. Spread the rumor. Cheers and bent. Come on, liquor, let us quiver. All right. I already took mine.

I took two for... For no reason. Tupac or DMX? There we go now. Rest in peace to both of them. Was that a crit walk? No, it was a two-pack. But I love DMX, too.

That's the problem. Yes, it is. Watch this bitch's room for my nigga. Somebody let me go. You damn yourself right now. That's one of the toughest rappers ever after Biggie Small. Biggie Small is my rapper. Don't get it twisted.

I love your songs. I'm going to be in this. I love your songs. Don't get it twisted. But Biggie Small, his flow is different. Biggie's different. When Biggie could grab a beat, he'd just grab it. Just like

Donald Trump say, you gotta snatch the pussy. Too soon. We just had a talk with him today. He's back in the office today. He said it. He still said it. That's what Biggie do.

Biggie just snatch the rhythm.. That's what Biggie do. Biggie just snatched the rhythm. First time I hear Biggie's small song, I was like. I wasn't ready. I'm either. What's up with this nigga? And then I hear the next one. And I was like, what? The man flow is different.

Tupac now, his message is different. Because Tupac sent a message. Don't play with it. Don't play with it. But DMX, this nigga bark like a dog. This man bark like a dog.

That nigga's wicked. I got a drink Okay I like that Salud Any stories with you? Are you getting drunk? Yeah Titsy

Taking my mama wanna shots Okay Are you? If I got issue with DMX Okay You came to Jamaica Take a shot Okay

Hit a shot though Okay Yeah From the throat to the liver. So he came to Jamaica, go ahead. Yeah. Who are we talking about? DMX? DMX.

DMX. Uh-huh. He came to Jamaica, and he was on one of the toughest shows in Jamaica. Like, seriously, he was on Sting. Like, Sting is one of the toughest shows. They will boot you or fling bottles at your ass. At this show. They don't play.

What are they flinging at you? Bottles. Bottles. Oh, okay, okay. What? If you fucked up, they... What? Like glass bottles?

What? And it's not good like the Juggalos. No. It's not water bottles. Like two little water bottles. Bottles. I ain't kidding. I ain't kidding. Those thick-ass bottles.'s not water bottles. Like two little water bottles. Buckles. I and the kid in the kitchen. Those thick-ass bottles.

Those are thick bottles. They're what? They're messy. But when DMX walk out, he was in a cage, and he come out, and he jump out of the cage, and he go, oh, God. Jamaica was upside and down. That nigga is wicked. I'm telling you, he's wicked.

There's few rappers come to Jamaica that move the audience. Cause Jamaica is the toughest audience you can ever imagine. Just don't worry about it. They just don't like people. It's the toughest audience you ever seen, like ever. You walk out and doing your best and they're looking at you like this. Stonefish. Yeah, they're just like, what?

What is he doing? What? Get off the stage. What? Get off the stage. Get off the stage. They don't play. This is the toughest audience ever.

But once you can rock them one time, all right. Jamaica is the only place I know that you got to win the crowd. When you go on stage, you got to win the crowd first, and then the crowd start to build up, and they start to build up, and they start to build up. Once you

win them, you're good. If you don't win them, you're not good. Yeah, it seems you're good. If you don't win them, you're not good. Yeah, see, you're sleeping in the dark house tonight. That's Jamaica. So when DMX came to Jamaica and

come out and say, what the bitches want from my nigga? What? Killed him. He killed him, man. He killed him. He killed him. And then this nigga started freestyling. Started talking about ultra riots in the beach and all that shit. I'm like, what? And talk about the weed that he's smoking and go to Nick Grell and shit.

I'm like, what? What is he not saying? They kill it. I love that. I love that nigga. Seriously. I love that. I love that, Nick. Seriously. I love them. Like, seriously.

Rest in peace. You know, he said both. He said both. Okay, we drank for that already. Yeah, we drank for that already. Are you drinking too much? Yeah. No.

Okay. Actually, he's drinking too much. Why is people dropping shit? All right. actually. He's drinking too much. Why is people dropping shit? Alright. Burning spears or the techniques? Burning spears. Yeah. Shata's a third world cop.

Fuck me up right here. I don't drink. Okay. I throw for sure Sh Okay. Oh, man. I throw for sure shattas. Me too. For sure shattas. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Let me get my shattas, shattas. That's when Khaled was skinny. Oh, fuck. More people know shattas than they know Third World Cup. You're gone too far now. Is that just here, you think? Even in Jamaica? No, in Jamaica, they know everything.

No, Jamaica know everything. Everything. Calypso or Soka? Oh, fuck. I got to drink again. No, but he's supposed to take the shot, too. Yeah, man, but you jumped in the gun. We supposed to take shots. Yeah, you're supposed to take my shot.

No, your shot or your shot? No, no, no, it's okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your shot or your shot? My shot's over here. All right. Okay. Calypso or Soka?

Da-da-dee. There, I got it. Okay. Oh, boy. Thank you very much. Jimmy Cliff or Gregory Isaacs? Da-da-dee? Oh, my God. I think you're doing this on purpose.

Hold on, hold on. Let us take a breather and look at each other's eyes and say thank you for being here today. How do you say it again? What's the toast that you say? Oh, from a troll to the liver. Come on, liquor. I know. Come on, liquor. Let us quiver.

Shabba Rinks or Boojubantan? I ain't got no more liquors. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got one right. Okay, you got one. Give us a Shabba story. Hold on, let's drink. I know you feeling good.

Don't worry for him, he's not drinking anything. He's cleansing his liver. Let's drink. Oh, okay, mother. I know you feeling good. Don't worry about him. He's not drinking anything. He's doing good. He's cleansing his liver. Yeah, he's dry January. Dry January foul motherfucker. You see, Shabba is a great Jamaican artist. We're not that close. Like, you know, because I'm a bad man. Don't worry about it. But Shabba is he's a great artist and I I love what he did he came out and he show us how to do it

and I really respect him for that I really respect him for that he called himself to him okay wow yeah because you see the the work ethics that he have is serious like serious work ethics you like serious work ethics and and when when he's in the studio or when he's on stage anywhere you find shabba shabba ranking is giving 100%. Yeah, 100%. And we really appreciate that. As Jamaican, we really appreciate Shabba Rankin. But me and him is not friends. You and him is not what? I'm sorry. Oh, we're not friends.

And I'm assuming for reasons. Yeah, I'm a bad man. But you don't have to befriend with somebody to respect their work. Right. I honor his work. I respect his work. And I honor everything that he do for the music. And I really respect that from Shabba.

He collect two Grammy Awards and show Jamaica that we can do this. Right. Yeah, and show we as dance hall artists that we can do this. Yeah. So, yeah, I really appreciate Shabba Reef. I respect that. And he didn't pick though, right? No, he didn't pick.

So that means you picked Buju? Both. Both? Yeah. Buju's great. Buju's miserable, you know. Buju's a different artist. Buju Banton. I remember Buju Banton come and say, Butch is miserable, you know. Butch is a different artisan. Butch Banton.

I remember when Butch Banton come and say, I love my car, I love my bike, I love my money and things. I love my brownie. Pamela and Dan. Who said 10 nothing? I want to cry for them thinking. And then he come and say, I don't stop crying.

I'm black and white. What? What? My joints. That's wicked. Yeah. me not stop crying he got crazy joints. He's wicked. Bojo Manton. So we're going with both? I have no idea. I say both. From chow to the liver. Come on, liquor.

Make your liver squibble? Or let us squibble. So Nas or Jay-Z? Lale. He's got a humming. But none of them is different. Two of them are losers. Nas and Jay-Z.

Two of them are losers. They're wicked. They're wicked rappers. Like, seriously. Come on, stop. Stop. Don't do that. Don't do that. They're wicked rappers. They're wicked rappers. Like, seriously. Yeah. Come on, stop. Stop. Don't do that. Don't do that.

They're wicked rappers. They're wicked. Part of them are wicked. So is that a both? Oh, I think you should. Okay, let's go. All right, cool. Cheers.

Salud. Cheers. Salud. All right, Biggie Smalls or Big Pun? Oh, you jumped. Oh, you did. You're at it. Biggie Smalls or Big Pun? Oh, you jumped. No, you did. You're at it. Biggie Smalls or Big Pun?

Yeah. That's not even a comparison. What are you doing? Biggie Smalls. Biggie Smalls. Okay. Got it. Next one.

Super Cat or Sean Paul? No, we did Sean Paul already. Why are we having him down on this list again? Because they drunk over there and sniffing cocaine Because they drunk over there and sniffing cocaine. They drunk over there and sniffing cocaine. Sister Nancy or Papa San? Stop! I won't.

That's not a comparison. Yes. I love Nancy, but Papa San. Okay. Damien Marley or Stephen Marley? What? What? Did I reword it?

Junior Gong or Steven Marley? What? Junior Gong is the DJ. I'm a DJ. Who do you think I'm going to choose? I love Steven Marley. He's one of the best producers I know from all over Jamaica. He produced some of the greatest songs. And he produced Damian Marley and all of that.

It's wicked. I'm going to drink. Okay. Oh, damn. I thought he was going with it, too. I thought, yeah. And then he said, er. So, Wayne Wonder or Garnett Silk?

Seriously. Wayne, you got it back to me, but you know it. Stop. Don't do that. Wayne Wonder or Garnett Silk. All right. That is like, oh, God. That's like you're mushing Fubu with Versace.

There you go. I don't know which one is Fubuace. Mmm. There you go. I don't know which one is FUBU or Versace. There you go. Just one, you know. Don't worry about it. Like my glasses. So you're going with Versace? And Timberland shoes.

I'm going with Garnet Seth. Wayne Wonder is my singer. I love him. He's great. But Garnet Seth and Wayne Wonder? Come on. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going do that I'm not

gonna mess up this man legacy what he left for us as Jamaican just cuz Wayne Wonder you sing original song too but Garnet still sing all origin right 100% so Garnet yes you want to do the next one? Barris Hammond or Junior Reed? What? The last one's funny. The last one? The last one. What? He can't mix Uncle Barris with Junior Reed.

Exactly. How do you do that? I told you, it's the Dominican and the Colombian over there. They're over there on cocaine. That's uptown. We call that uptown. Even though it's to the left. They do coca tea also.

Are you going to mix berries and jamon with juniper? Oh, God. Jesus Christ. Should have said berries and garnets. Berries and somebody else. You should have said berries and garnets. That should have been your first question. embarrassing. Embarrassing somebody. It's an embarrassing garnet sip. Yeah, that should have been.

And that should have been your first question. Do you want to read? No, you're crazy. No, no, no. That will never happen. There's two different things. Barry Simon is the greatest lover's rock singer

ever. Trust me. Otherwise, I'm Alton Ellis. You don't know who that is. Don't worry about it. But Barry Simmons. Right. That's my dad.

Who you picked? Barry. What? What? What? He picked. I'm not going to do that because Jamaican is going to watch this shit. Right.

I want to say both. It's not going to be good for me. That's the way you need to know. But respect the junior read. Respect the junior read. Respect. Yeah, always. Don't do the last one.

Not the last one. No, no, no. I got something. Shaggy or snow? You kind of... You found that. I made that one up And that's our

That's our love night You do Both of them Both of them are love night That was you That was you That was the Dominican The Dominican that left

He left He went to go get his car No, I think that guy was From No, it was Mr. Lee From Papua New Guinea He left He just left

The Dominican He had to leave leave to get his car. Shaggy. It's not me. It's not me. Mr. Lover, lover. But Informa was hard, too. Let's be clear. The remix with everybody on it was hard.

Not the remix. No, the song with me. I was on it. I will do anything that you do. But that was the pepper seed beat though, right? I don't know what seed is,

but... That remix is wild. I don't know anything about seed. I don't know anything about seed. I don't know about pepper seed. No, tomato seed.

Lemon pepper seed? I don't know about seed. That's what I'm a fan. I just want to tell you that Shaggy

is my artist. Okay, good. It wasn't me. I didn't say that. Carolina is classic. Jesus. Shaggy is... No, you do it.

You got to go to the beach. You see Shaggy? All right. I know Shaggy from the North Carolina. You know Shaggy Ferrell. Go Carolina. You know what?

Under the truck of Carolina. That came out. Bum, buck, rock, rock, Carolina. Carolina. You heard me, you heard me. You heard us. Bum, buck, rock, rock, Carolina. You heard us.

That was a wicked song. Yeah, that was wild. And then the man come and say and then I'm here for hot girl you know me baby I'm here for hot girl she a finna with me I'm here for hot girl and then he come and say Trump I own you I'm on pay

I got you I'm on pay I'm not talking about this big 40 million but don't do the records set up the foundation Shaggy's wicked he's not like us big, 40 million... But those were the records. They set up the foundation. Shaggy's wicked. He's not like us.

We're gangsters. Our team is like... But there's a difference between Shaggy and... What's his name again? No. You said that with a straight face. No, I can't, man.

He's a drink chance alumna. I'm just saying. No, yeah, yeah, yeah. We got to love us, though. We got to love us, baby. I love Snow. Yeah, man. Informer was wicked.

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Loyalty or respect? Respect is bullshit because people can disrespect you even though they respect you. But loyalty is love and honor. So a man that loyal to you will never disrespect you, like never, ever. He will die for you. He will do anything for you. So loyalty is boss.

Pickin' loyalty. for you. They would do anything for you. So loyalty is the boss. Picking loyalty. I'm taking a shot. I'm taking a shot for that. That was a great fucking answer, bro. That was a great fucking answer. He basically said both, though. No, it's loyalty. He said if you got loyalty, you're going to have respect.

He said it much better, though. He said it much better than you just said it, though. But he said loyalty is love. No, no, no. He's just saying, you know. No, loyalty is life. It comes with, he's saying. When somebody's loyal to you.

They're going to respect you. They'll never disrespect you. Yeah. Right. They will care for you. They will fight for you. They will do anything for you. Now, we ready?

Let's get this shot. All right. Now, right now, this is the biggest thing on the internet. Mm-hmm. Is there's two things. What? In the hip-hop world.

Yeah. There's this controversy going on between Cam, Jim Jones, and Mase. Yeah. But then in the dance hall world. Oh, my world. Yeah, man. So, sir.

Go ahead, do it. So, in the dance hall world... Do it. It is the controversy of... Beanie Man. Beanie Man, king of the dance hall. You have a record.

For 10 years, this record is out. No one's ever refuted you. No one's ever said... Never, never. No, you are not the king of the dance hall. No one's never said none of that. But there's been a concert on New Year's Eve, I

believe. I wasn't there. Yeah, we know. But what was it, Bounty Killer? That said to Vibes Cartel, I believe, and he said he's the king of the dance hall. No, he said you didn't take anybody's crown.

Okay. You built your own crown by yourself. Yes. So he can't take my crown. I'm King Kong. What the fuck? You can't do it. You can't do it.

Or you do it. You got to know this music business and the difference between me and Vibe Carter. I remember when Manu or Vibe Carter, like, when I just know him, is when he was in a

clash with Ninja Man, and they actually disrespect Ninja Man on stage. They kick him down on stage and use a backhand and lick him in his head. And Ninja Man is a bad man. That man is in prison for murder. Just want you to know, if you don't know who I'm talking about, that's a bad man.

Okay? And then a next bad man called me. This is one of my bad friends. He called me and said, yo, you have to come do this for me, please. I said, do what? He said, come check me around at my house. So I'm going to my house, and there was Vibe Cartel right there. So I said, all right, what do you feel I can do for Vibe Cartel?

And they said, yo, anything, just get them on some shows, because nobody now book him, nobody now do this, nobody now do this. And I bring him on my stage. You know, I got the video to prove, you know, that I bring him on my stage, right through. I went to country, even born to kill a Moorid for five quarter. Like, seriously, we did that. And then when somebody know that you work for your crown, you do 100% of work,

and somebody do 50 and want to get 100% ticket, I don't feel that is right. But I'm not saying no man can be king. Every man was born as a king. From your born to your mom, she's a king. Can it be more than one king? Of music? Of dancehall? Of dancehall. Michael Jackson's a king of pop. Who else

is a king of pop? Don't worry. I'm waiting. I mean, it's my float over here. It saves me. Alright. Don't worry. I'm waiting. I mean, it's my float over here. It's me. All right. Don't worry. I'm waiting. You can't answer next week.

Yeah. There you go. But let me ask you. Let me ask you. Did you take offense to that being said on stage? No, crazy. I can't take offense of that. Okay.

Because every man has the right to their own opinion. It's your opinion. I can't worry you with your own opinion. It's your opinion. I was crowned king. I wasn't asking for it. Somebody put a crown on my head

like, pow! And give me some plaque, some big plaque like, yes, you've been doing this for all my years and very, very, and that was it. Then all of a sudden you come in and say, yeah, yeah, man, resign. That's disrespectful. I'm a bad man. Like a cool boy. But did he say resign?

Did he say that or was it? The man said, him and the old king made a new king. I mean, so what are you telling you? I just feel like... I'm just... Chad GPT, break it down. What, what? No, I just feel like

we could have multiple kings, you know, in dancehall. I think you are the king, yes. You are the top king. You are the one... Wait, Bob's cartel said he's the new king? He said that himself?

I thought that... What? I didn't... I didn't new king. He said that himself. I thought that. What? I didn't see that. What? What? What? All right. You see, if he come and said, yes, I can be the king too.

Yes, it's no problem. Okay. But there's only one king. If you try to fight the king, the king is going to kill you. You know that. Right. Because you got to dethrone the king, right? What?

Some Game of Thrones shit right here. No, man. But you see, the problem is I'm not fighting him. He's a great artist. Like, he's the number one artist. Right. I'm not taking that. You're not refuting that, right. I'm not taking that. You're not refuting that, right.

I'm not. Not. Never will. Because he's a great artist. He's a great lyricist. And he's a great recording artist. Yeah. But to be a king, you have to be a people person.

And you have to be a good performer. That's it. If you're not a good performer and you're not a people person, how the hell are you going to be the king? How the hell are you going to talk to the people? How the hell are the people going to follow you? And this is what it is. It's not like I'm trying to say, okay, he cannot be.

He can be if he be everything. You see, I literally sign up for you and say, if I smile like this, he's going to smile like this. Because he want what I have. And it's not what I have. It's what I built as a person, as a human being, knowing that people need to be respected. People deserve performance. People deserve somebody who actually love the music

and actually love them. I will go out and perform for free. One time, not two times. Don't worry about it. Promote it. Get your money lined up. Don't mess around with the shit. But, you know, that's how it goes.

So I'm not talking about gays. I'm the king of dancehall forever. I never tell myself that. Somebody give me a crown. Okay. I sing one girl's song. Palm bed, palm floor, I can't swell. We sex them all till them call me.

I'm the girl's M-Sugar, that's all. Welcome to King of the Dancehall. It's a girl's song. I am saying that I'm the King of the Dancehall. But if you make the girls dance. Yes, just to make the cut. The beat was like. Yeah.

And Tony Kelly produced that song again. Take a shot. Sorry. Yeah. I'm not fighting. I'm not fighting. I'm not fighting. Thank you.

Okay, we'll take some shots. Yeah, take a shot. No, I need a real shot. I'm sorry. You don't got to be sorry. Hold on. Let everybody join together. Okay, let's do it.

Can I get some of that? I'm going to show you. There you go, sir. Pimple Vodka. First time it's been drank on the show. No, no, he's been drinking it. No, I'm talking about...

I was in New York. The, um... Eastern Parkway? Eastern Parkway. I was there with... How I knew that? Oh, somebody tell you. Go ahead. I was there, and the guy in them shots How I knew that? Oh, somebody tells you.

I was there, and the guy in them shots started coming to pit bull, like wickedly, like wickedly, like, oh, yeah, right, right, right. You're Cuban, and right, right, and this, and that. Why in Puerto Rico is saying pit bull is Cuban? He is. No, he's Cuban. I know he's Cuban, but he speaks Spanish. We're the same people as Cuban. He is. He's Cuban. I know he's Cuban, but he speaks Spanish with the same people. Oh, I see what you're saying.

They fling a bottle of beer. Wait, what? They fling. Okay. A bottle of beer to catch the beer. Back in the car. I told him about me and I don't want to say shit because I'm going to go to jail. Right.

I don't want to go to jail. But Pitbull is really a good artist. Yes, he is. No, really. He's really a good artist. You're a home team. Yeah, he is. Trust, really. He's really a good artist. You're a home team. Yeah, he is. Trust me.

And he came here and drank a whole bottle by himself. And he came by himself. And he came by himself. Yeah. I like what you said about the Puerto Rican Cuban thing. Yeah, you're right.

You're 100%. Then the Puerto Rican guy come on in and they're playing a bacala. I'm like, what the fuck? They're going to kill people? Grab the bacala like this and they go boff in the crowd. And I'm like, what the fuck they gonna kill people crap like this and I go buff in the crowd

and I'm like what the fuck they doing and you know the Jamaican shit came out of me and they started telling me that boy got buck up on the I said oh shit he's Jamaican and that was it. And Pitbull, we went back in the car together, and he was like, thank you, man. I love that. Because they're flinging a can in his head, you know. One of the times, I think they're flinging a can beer,

and they hit him. That's when I started getting involved. Because when you start to disrespect artists, you start to disrespect me. Right. And I don't do that. You can't disrespect no artist in front of me. Right. I remember you helped me down in Jamaica.

I don't know if you remember this. I do remember. I was walking to the stage, and you said, you was crushing up the weed like this, and you said, hey, man, don't run when Superdog come on. Yeah.

They're going to blick shots. They're going to blick shots. I was like, I'm like, I'm thinking he's playing. Don't run when Super Thug come on. They're going to blick shots. I'm like, I'm thinking he's playing. I'm like, okay. He's like, don't run when that come on. It's a big tomb on the air.

So I'm like, all right, cool. I come on. Even the policeman was like, hey, don't chill. So I got to act like guns fire is just normal. These niggas are like, I'm rocking in here. I'm like, oh my God, BD Man just told me to run. So I'm like this. Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run. I'm not a super thug.

You are a super thug. I'm saying run, run. But I'm a hardest like this. You can't run. The man is out there singing the song. Yeah. That everybody fire shots for. What the fuck you think they're going to do when they come to your show?

They're going to shot. They come to your show? Not a shot. They want to show you Super Thug. He looked at me, he said, do not fucking do that. Don't run. Like,

he crushed in the weed like this. He said, don't run, man. I'm like, why do I have to run? That was American by run, right?

No, I don't know you remember that. But you're part of him. I didn't know you remember that. But you're part of him. I didn't know you remember that. Imagine if you ran off the stage. No, no, I would have. I ain't going to lie.

I mean, it wouldn't have been a natural gunshot you bite. Even if a shot is not coming towards you, just hearing gunshots is abnormal. So I'm like... Because that doesn't fly out here. Listen, I didn't know that doesn't fly out here. Listen, I didn't know that you remember that.

Yes, yes, I do. Hell yeah. You got to take a shot to that. Take a shot to that. It's the first thing I say. I said, your beanie man held me down. If it wasn't for you,

because you told me, you looked at me like serious and you knew my lyrics. You were quoting something to me and I was like, oh shit. And I was like... He's like,

I don't remember that. I was walking to the stage and I was like, but did he say shots? I'm thinking this. I was like, oh shit. And I was like, I was like, I was walking to the stage. I was like, but did he say shots? I'm thinking this. I did not think they literally shot out

and was ready. But he saved your credibility because he told you if you would have did it, they would have been like,

oh man. I'm like, do not run when the gunshot's fired. When the gunshot's fired. Did not tell you this, right? Gunshot is going to fire. Alright. I see

50 Cent. Came to Jamaica and the gunshot's fired. And he go, and I'm like, what the fuck you doing? Take off the bulletproof vest. They're not going to shoot you. It's up to you. And he goes, and take off the bulletproof vest. And go up on his stage.

Oh, he fucked up. You fucked up the place. You didn't move. You fucked up the place. But boy, was I scared. That's honest. That's British. But this is Jamaica, though. We are bad people. Yeah, was I scared. That's honest. That's British. But this is Jamaica, though.

Right, right. We are bad people. Right. Yeah, I'm sorry to say that. We're, yeah. Some of us born through bad sex and things. Right. Behind a tree and things.

Money gets like. Yo. Shit. Shit like that. There's a lot of good people, too. Yeah. We are good people. Yeah. No, we are people too. Yeah, we are good people. No, we are good people.

All of us are good people. All of us who go in my mama belly behind the tree, we are good people. Yes, I'm one of them. Don't worry about it. You just have to know the environment that you're into. You see, the environment that you're into, that's what makes you who the man you are. So it's kind of like you got some chicken and you feed them on chicken. They're going to eat chicken.

Yeah, man. But if you feed them on corn, molasses, and keep them firm, they're going to be some bad folks. We like the firm. So let me ask you, right? You know, social media is a big thing. And Popcorn, like he recently posted your song on, I believe he was sitting down and he posted an old song on you. I believe he was referring to Gaza. Yeah.

Mr. O'Neill was there? Yeah, he was there. Yeah, yeah. I think they're doing that show, the cartel thing, where he's trying to be king of the dance floor. Yeah. Don't worry about that. That's nothing.

Okay. You know, I do respect these people. I do. I'm not know, I do respect these people. I do. I'm not saying I don't respect these people. But when you do all your work and you work for this man and you get this man up and put him on a stage where people can actually see him by himself without you, and then he come back and try to take your title. I don't feel it's right.

I don't feel it. I feel it disrespectful. And yeah, and that's all I have to say about that. But I do respect God, though, but be the teacher. Stay in your lane. Don't try to jump the bridge. What are you doing? You got to be, you know, stay in your lane, dog.

Would you work with him again? Who, Vibe Out There? Yeah. What? I do music. That's what I do. I don't hate artists. Okay. You know what I'm talking about, not disrespecting? I do music. That's what I do. I don't hate artists.

You notice I'm talking and not disrespecting? Exactly. Okay, good. There you go. I love artists and this is my thing that people don't understand about me. I will never disrespect an artist unless he disrespects me. So if you want to go against me,

then it's a different thing. You get what I'm saying? But I'm still not going against. He was in prison for 13 years, though. You got to give a nigga a break. Wow. So hypothetically, so hypothetically.

Wait, hold on. Before you say that, can you remember what you said? Is it true that he called you from prison and then the police called you afterwards? Yeah, they called me afterwards. What? It's a Jamaican goat. What are you doing?

The police have money to everything. But they call me because they know. This nigga got the money. Oh, so you are the one that's supporting it. I'm like, nigga, who are you? I'm like, we're the cops. I'm like, okay, here we go. So you don't have a phone now?

I don't have a phone. You read them between the lines. You don't have a phone. No, I don't have a phone. I didn't have a phone before that. But my friend go to prison, you got to get two bangers. So I get two bangers. Oh, the hell you know the banger number.

Right, the burner. The banger. That's wild. Wait, the banger's the burner? Yeah, got it. I got a burner phone. Yeah. Like, how'd they get that number?

Oh, they had to get that number. That's wild.. Yeah, got it. Yeah, the burner phone. Yeah. Like, how'd they get that number? Oh, they had to get that number. That's wild. What the fuck? So that means you have to be listening in on the man's call. Right. And know who called him. That means you duplicate the man's number. Damn.

Constant surveillance. Damn. Thank you. Yeah, and this man came out. He never called me. He never checked me. He never called nobody for me. Never do nothing.

Nothing like that. But thank you for your time, sir. Thank you for your time, sir. And respect him, man. That's all I got to say to you. Because disrespecting me, that don't make no sense why do you want my crown why do you want to be me nobody can be you you are everybody every man wants to be the king though

no is there is there a respectful way to try to say that I can be a king too? I'm asking. Because this is out of doubles. No. I'm saying. All right, my bad. What? What makes somebody worthy of the crown? What?

What makes somebody worthy of the crown? You have it. I've been doing this from 1977. Not you, but people that want to take the crown. But you've been doing this since 1977? Since he was eight years old. That's the year I was born. Well, 1977. Not you, but people that want to take the crown. But you've been doing this since 1977? Since he was eight years old. That's the year I was born. Well, 1977, he was born.

What? What? What? All right, listen to what I'm saying. Performance. Yes. Please the crowd. That's right.

Please the people. Not only singing songs and saying shit and doing that and doing this and doing that. Everywhere you're going, you got to represent the music. So being the king of dancehall to me is not just

a title. I already have titles. I'm the girls in sugar. I'm the doctor. I do all of these things already. You get what I'm saying? It's not just having a title. It's just being you as a real person. That's what makes you a king in the dance hall.

It's not the hype. I never hype. I can't hype. I can't do that. Because I know John Hype. I know Foot the Hype. I know every hype in the dance hall business. So I don't do hype. I can't hype. I can't do that. Because I know John Hype. I know Foot the Hype. I know every hype in the dance hall business. So I don't do hype.

Like never, ever will do hype. Like I never hype. You see that guy come here today? I'm trying to be here for two days. I tried to left England. And then my girlfriend didn't come to the airport. So I fell asleep in the goddamn VIP. So I have to come to Jamaica to find some people to travel with me because I'm tired.

I work. So today when I missed the flight, I'm like, somebody is working on me. And then we get the next flight and then we're here. Because if I didn't do the show today, I would, I'm not going to say it, I'm going to go to prison. So work ethic as well. Yes, this is it. You got to be firm within the music.

Okay. The other day, I saw my DJ, Dorshore, with our DJ up on the stage. We are Jamaicans. We don't do that. You don't got 18,000 people in front of you. Wait, what don't you do? I want to be clear because I heard fitchy, fitchy, fitchy. You don't do that.

So you don't want the DJ, the American stuff. You cannot have a DJ on stage. We are dancehall artists. We are reggae artists. We do band. We do drum and bass and guitar and keyboards and all these things. Live music. So this is what

we do. Live music. And you do not perform for 25 minutes on your own goddamn show. You do not. You do one hour, then you introduce a guest. What are you doing? And then you won't tell me You do not. You do one hour. Then you get the juicy guess. Right. What are you doing?

You do this. And then you want to tell me that you can't answer. I want to stop somebody. Excuse me. I want to get a knife. No, no. I'm going to stop myself. We don't want it.

Positive energy. Positive energy. positive energy positive so let's say my hypothetical scenario was let's say the respect level was patched up there you know on his on his behalf and yeah i love that i love the honor and then i love the honor then bunty killer come on and then gee well i i actually did the same thing that Bunty Killer did. That's why I'm not fighting for it. I'm not fighting against him for what he did. I actually did the same thing. I tell the people that, yo, this man, the next man, and Elman was the man.

No, this man is the man. I actually did the same thing at Sting. So, yeah, I can't fight that. You know, I can't fight what... You see, me, I'm a loving and respectful person. I respect everybody until you disrespect

me. When you disrespect me, they don't know who I am. That's just a different thing. But, yeah. So, king of dancehall, kings of dancehall tour. Yeah, yeah. Bouncy, Beanie, Karta. You'll be into that if the spec level is good.

What? And Busha. What? Okay. What you say? What? Okay. This is stage show.

I love the performance. You crazy? I'll be flying. This is stage show. I love the performance. You crazy? I be flying. Like cable time. It was like. That's what we want to see. That's what we want to see. We don't want to see two greats go at it like that.

I don't want to do that. Me either. But there is two snippets out there. Yeah, but they need to leave me alone. Leave my crown alone. That's it. And that's it. I'm not saying shit.

That's it. Let me ask you about, because that's one thing, is you have a snippet out, and it seems like it's kind of like a record addressing that. No, no, it's a snippet. Okay. It's a freestyle. What? God, that little song. I did a freestyle.

I'm that person. I don't like when you call and try to talk to me the wrong way. Or you try to sing a song and talk to me the wrong way. I go, blip, one time. So I find the rhythm that he sing the shit on, and then it's like when Tupac and Biggie Small, who shot you? That's different.

All right, this is not different. This is the same fucking thing. That's not different. The same fucking thing. That's not even the same fucking thing. So this is what I'm saying. It's not like you're supposed to say shit and I'm not supposed to say shit.

That don't make no sense. When I say shit, I say shit. So I call a nigga Humpty Dumpty. What? What the fuck did I do, fucking? What did I do walk in here? He calls somebody Humpty Dumpty. Pop culture.

I call him Humpty Dumpty. I did. And you see, it's not a disrespect. He just look like Humpty Dumpty. But he's my friend. He's my artist. I love him. The bleaching.

Oh, God. Don't do that. Oh, God. I'm going to wipe my foot. bleaching yeah oh god don't do that oh god i'm gonna watch it's not like we don't see it i'm gonna wipe my sweat i'm gonna wipe my sweat wipe my sweat okay you wiped it off a never watch another nigga. What another nigga do, that's what a nigga do. I'm out of here. Could I get a round of applause for that shit? A nigga never watch another nigga. If he bleach, he bleach.

That's his skin. That's not mine. If he put tattoos in his skin, that's his skin. That's not mine. I don't got a tattoo, and I willy bleach. That's his skin. That's not mine. If he put tattoos in his skin, that's his skin. That's not mine. I don't got a tattoo. And I will never bleach. Yeah, I bleach. Like not sleeping.

Bleach. Do you know what bleaching is? Can you? Yeah, it's chat GPT. Not sleeping. Okay, bleach is not sleeping. Bleach. I'll be working in the shooter from 8 to 8.

8 o'clock in the morning to 8 o'clock in the next morning. Okay. What? That's the Dominican that wrote it. What? What are you saying? What? We do that.

Yeah, but what? This is what I do. I don't care what they do. This is what I do. I make music. I do not. All right. If I'm in the studio, I don't know what time it is.

So you're not on the clock, Mr. Mew? That's what he means. Fuck a clock. Fuck, Mr. Lee. the clock, Mr. Mew? That's what he means. Fuck a clock. We're done. Fuck a clock. Fuck, Mr. Lee. God damn, bro. Come in.

Come in and fuck shit up immediately. Where you been, Mr. Lee? I'm in fuck a clock. I don't do time. I don't do time. All right. I would doze off for an hour. Not going to say I don't doze off for an hour.

And then I wake up and ready and I write five songs. Like build them right on the spot. Record them. Do them. Boom. Done. Everything. Harmonies. Everything. And done. And then tomorrow you mix the shit and we're good.

And we're alright and we are right. But then it's not for me to say what for you not to do. But what I do is not technical. It's unordinary. Because I build the lyrics in my brain. You don't write? what for what reason? like Biggie I graduated from school

you know how long I graduated from school? I'm 52 years of age you know how long I graduated from school? you know how long I graduated from school? how long?

fuck I'm going to write he's like fuck writing he's like I'm not in school I I'm going to write. He's like, fuck writing. I'm not in school. I don't need to write. What? I just signed. That's right. Boss move.

He said, I just signed. He's not a cat. He put it in his mental computer. And then I signed the shit. And that's it. Why should I write? The problem is, it's not writing. It's spelling the song.

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Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I make up a lot of words in my life. Yeah, I knew that too. Yes, but on Girl Them Sugar with Maya and Pharrell. Yeah. What the fuck is a Zaka Zal? Zaka Zal? Zaka Zal. Yeah, he's just. Zaka Zal. Zaka Zell? Zaka Zell? Zaka Zell.

Yeah, he's just... Zaka Zell. Zaka Zell. Can you stop? Stop. Zaka Zell mean big ass. A big ass. Zaka Zell.

Zaka Zell. Zaka Zell. Did it mean it before that, or you just made it mean that? No, it mean that. Before that. Before that. That's... I'm a sh Before that. I'm Ashanti. I'm Ashanti.

Somebody don't shoot me. I'm Ashanti. You can go to Ghana and I'll ask them what Zagazal mean and they'll tell you. Gotcha. I'm the girl's damn sugar. So if I say Zagazal, I mean the bitch shake your ass. What you talking about? Were people saying girls dump sugar before you?

What? No. I feel like you should have that coined or something. I see it on merchandise. Copyright on it? Like trademarks? I see it on merchandise all the time. How do you feel about that when you see people selling it? And Zagazal.

Zagazal? Yeah, but said it. Yeah, but you know. It's a word. Nah, but you don't want to take it from the source and then trademark it. But I mean, put it on the source

to the source. Man, I never knew nothing about that kind of shit. And I'm telling you, I love music for music. I don't love music for the money.

I didn't know that music was coming with money. I just started to sing music and then money started to come. Well, you were doing it when you were a child. Yeah, I didn't know that money was coming. Money just came.

Yeah, money just came. So, yeah, now I got to manufacture everything. I got to manufacture some t-shirts with Zaka Zell on the shirt. I got to manufacture some T-shirt with Zaka Zav and shit. See? I got to manufacture some jacket with Zaka Zav and shit.

And shit. And shit. And shit. And shit. And shit. And shit. And build some big billboard like Zaka Zav. Look at me now.

You see, when it comes to music, it's not about making how much money you can make. The music is music. Right. You got to love it. It's a sacred thing. It's hard. Why people don't understand, when it comes to music,

that you have to love the music. You got to love what you're doing, what you're into. What are you singing about? What are you singing? What are you telling me? What do you want me to do? You want me to jump? You want me to skip?

You want me to roll over? What do you want me to do? So it is music. When I go to a stage show, which is not my show, and I see an artist on the stage, I go there to see the artist perform. I don't go there to see the artist doing bullshit. I'm just there to see you do good so I can feel good. How do you deal with unruly fans?

I did see somebody jump on the stage and try to grab your mic. How did you keep your composure in that moment to handle him? Yeah, you did. Yeah, that's what I do. Take a mic.

You should take it. I'm a bad man. Why would the fan think that he could just come on stage and just... Because he wanted to be Beanie Man. So he's like, be Beanie Man. Yeah, he come on like, fuck, I'm Beanie Man tonight. Jump on the stage. I'm like, okay, there you go.

Why are you saying? Yeah. And then the security kicked him off and you let him go. There you go. You let him, you tell him when he's trying to come back. That's like... Yeah, he's doing, he's like, okay, you can handle it. And then they don't handle it. Yeah you let him go. You let him, you tell him when he's trying to come back. That's gross. That's like... He's like, okay, you can handle it and then they don't handle it.

There you go. You see, in life, you got to know, if you is the best worker at your shop and you sell, say, you sell computer and you's the best computer seller,

every time you talk about a computer, somebody want to buy it. Like shit, this is shit. What you're talking about? Wait, wait, wait a minute. Somebody has come and not talking about a computer the way you talk about a computer. Computer stop selling. Stop selling. If you can get rid of that person,

sell some radio or something, maybe go around there and sell some stereo or do something, because you're messing with my job. So you're going to give them a chance. Like, here's a chance. Do what you're doing. Try to sell this computer. He's not going to sell it because he's not selling it like you're selling it.

You're telling everybody about the computer, everything about the computer, every image, everything about the computer. It's not their passion. It's your passion. Okay. That's why I never play football. I don't know shit about that. You going to smoke a spliff? You want to smoke a spliff?

Nobody give me no spliff. Yeah, come on, man. The whole time, y'all been fucking on the beat. Yeah. You been there smoking sober the whole time. You ain't passing the... You don't pass. You don't get no blood. You don't work. You don't pass. You don't pass. You don't pass.

You get involved. You get involved in something. He been smoking in front of me. I get involved. What's wrong with me? You stole. No collaboration. Like, you know.

No, no. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Between guys. No. You crazy. If you. I got this from Jamaica. I smoke by myself because of Jamaicans.

They all smoke by themselves. They don't trust nobody. You got to smoke by your goddamn... It can't be a blunt. You can smoke a blunt? You got a blunt? Yeah. Send down a blunt.

This is I-grade beanie. What? This is I-grade beanie.? This is I grade Beanie. I grade. You want one? No. I grade. I am from Jamaica.

Give him one. I'm telling you that isn't fake. Let me ask you. Let me ask you, Beanie. Fuck! We know what you're going to say, but I got to ask you anyway. What is the best island on Earth? On Earth?

On Earth. Geez, man. That's just a lot of pressure. The highest grade in heritage is life. Life. High grade. Life. High grade. Life. life high grade life high grade life

now the weed that you smoke it's a different thing because the weed change every fucking week because and then you got chronic

then you got this is but the best high grade in the world is life. Because when you can live your life for what your life worth and what your life deserve, that is the highest grade. We said the best island. The best island. The best I? Island.

The best island in the world. Island. The best island. The best I? Island. Island. The best island in the world. Island. Oh, Jamaica. What? We were like, oh. This is my second part. Now, what's the best island in the world besides Jamaica? Jamaica.

Jamaica. And you guys want an island by yourself, buddy. You're with me. Stop, stop. You said Dominican Republic? Tell him. This nigga said Dominican Republic. Don't listen to him.

He's an island. He just happened on that. What's the best island in the world? Otherwise from Jamaica? Otherwise from Jamaica. Jamaica. I respect that. I love Trinidad.

He's like in second place. Doubles? You eat doubles? I love Trinidad. What? I don in second place. Doubles? You eat doubles? I love Trinidad. What? I don't eat doubles. Dog don't eat doubles. I don't eat nothing that dog don't eat. Thank you. Yeah, I don't eat doubles. Doubles is nice.

You don't got vegan doubles? No, I tried already. I tried like two times. You got trick peas and pepper and shit. And flour and shit. And it's nice. Then you got an excellent called trippers. It's nice.

But once I show it to the dog and the dog don't eat it. He's like, fuck that shit. Wait, time out. Time out. Time out. Time out. Time out. It's the canary in the cave

Dog eat chicken Dog eat fish Dog eat dumplings I never see Dog eat everything And the dog Wouldn't eat the double The dog don't eat the double

Where you get the doubles from? Trinidad No but I mean like a specific No I was on the roadside On the road On the strip You talking about the stray dog? You talking about your dog?

No the stray dog The You talking about your dog? No, the stray dog. The stray dog was free. Don't eat the dog. No way. The hungry dog. The hungry dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog.

The homeless dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog.

The homeless dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog.

The homeless dog. The homeless dog. The homeless dog. I'm not fucking around with that. Yeah. I see. The other day. The other day.

I swear to God, someone... Can you give me some of that back? Yeah. Someone did a study and gave a dog McDonald's and a dog would eat McDonald's.

Wow. These are crazy, so why should I eat them McDonald's? Yo, I swear to God, it's on Instagram. Send me to Burger King, dog.

Anytime. I fuck with that shit. So let me ask you, Beanie, when I went to Jamaica, I went to Jamaica a couple let me ask you, Beanie. When I went to Jamaica, I went to Jamaica a couple of times. Yeah, I know. A lot of times, right? But there's really Chinese Jamaicans.

What? Of course, man. You got Chinese, Japanese, Cantonese. Indian. Indonesian. Indonesian. Japanese. Are they considered Yacht man?

No Can they be Rastafari? Alright remember That's a good question Actually for us Remember Chinese have sex And they want to have kids

They can't have it in China They think they're going To come have a kid That's a good point It's going to start There's regulations. Population. Population control.

You said regulations. Population control. Oh, you mean in China? Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And in the yard, you could have 1,500. Yeah. What's up with this man?

They only can get one kid in China. One. The two. They got two. Yo, I didn't think of it. I didn't think of it like that. So the Chinese people come to Jamaica. I mean, they've been in Jamaica for years.

Yo, let me tell you something. Chinese been in this way. I went outside of Timothy Gardens, and I went to like a bodega, and the Chinese man was there. And I was like, he was like, I was like, yo, come on. You can't. No, he was speaking to you like that.

No, he was speaking yard. And I was like, you can't be that man. And then, this is how I knew. This is how I knew. Like, the China man was a part of the cult. You know what he did? He was born there. Yeah, exactly.

You know what the China man did? His father was born there, too. You know what he did? His father was born there. His father came there. Yeah. And there you go. Sorry.

Yeah, you know what the Chinaman did to me? He said, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, anybody. That's that real. That's that real. Yeah. No, that's Jamaican. If that sound.

No, that's Jamaican. Every Jamaican has made that sound. Once in their life. At least. That's Jamaican. Yeah. All right. When the Chinaman did that to me, I walked out.

I can tell you one word. That's come from Jamaica. I. All right. When the Chinaman did that to me, I walked out. I can tell you one word that comes from Jamaica. A fucker that. Fucker that. No, fucker. You got to say it like, fucker. Fucker.

No, fucker. Fucker. Yes. The only word, the only word I know that Jamaican use, bum buckler. Of course, yeah.

What is a bumbleclot? It's a brief, nigga. It's a lot of things. Bumbleclot is a lot of things. Your underpants that you put on and cover your ass. Your ass is your bumble. What the fuck is that? It's like saying the binga.

Hey, man. It's true. That's what it is? That's what it is. And then your pussyclot. Oh, pussy what? And then suck your mother. That's what it is? That's what it is. And then, yeah, pussy clap. Oh. Pussy what?

And then suck your mother. That's a fact. No, suck your mother. This is a going thing. We're here talking the worst shit right now. Yeah, it's the worst shit. You can't. Bootleg.

Sorry for our bootleg patchwork, everybody. Sorry, sorry. But Beanie Man is here. Make some noise for Beanie Man. When a man tell you in Jamaica about your moms, that's a different thing. Be ready to fight. Everybody in Jamaica is talking. We'll be moving up in this.

To be honest with you. What are you talking about? Stop my mother. I read that. You know, you're crazy. That's horrible. That's going to be wicked. Yeah, but they dream. It's horrible. That's going to be wicked. Yeah, but they dream.

It's fun. It's kind of like a black man calling an ex-black man, what's up, my nigga? And then a white man come and say, that's my nigga. That's going to be fucked up. That's going to be nice. Then he knock him out and say, but you niggas, that every day. I'm like, no, that's not for you.

You call me your brother or your friend, you don't call me a nigga. Because we've been true slavery for 400 years. My friend was at the airport the other day, and a Haitian called him a nigga. And he was darker than him. He's like, he put on his wings. He's like, I'm smoking here.

He's like, nigga. Mike move right here my jamaican bread your oldest jamaicans came out got into an accident and still showed up jamaica's like i ever told the the the crazy hood story saying crazy hood in Jamaica in the radio? No, go ahead. Tell us. So I was at How Can I Be Down Jamaica, 1995, I think. 97. It was early 90s.

How can I be down? Remember when it was in? Jamaica, yeah, I remember that. I think it was in Ocho Rios. Yeah. And we went to do a local radio show, me and my boys. And our name of our crew is Crazy Hood Productions. So we go on the radio.

They said, say who you are. We're like, Crazy Hood Productions. And they start giggling and laughing and saying, ooh, ah, ooh. And then we're like, Crazy Hood. They're like, oh, ha. You know why they're giggling? No, I know. They told us afterwards.

And then afterwards, it's like, you basically were saying you was Crazy Penis Productions. Yeah. It was Crazy Buddy Productions. Yeah. Yeah, it was crazy buddy productions. Oh, what? Wait, I don't understand. Hood is like... What is a dick? Oh!

We kept saying crazy things. We are crazy. And y'all kept the name after all these years. We make them. I'm fucking with y'all. I'm fucking with you. I'm fucking with you. And then you're in front of Jamaicans who is not artists. They're not mobile.

No, no, no. It was radio people. Yeah, you're like, crazy hood production. They're like, ooh. I just didn't think you were saying that. Ah. And we're like, yo, crazy hood in the building. No, no.

You don't look down. No, no. What? They were like, where you from, crazy hood? They're like, yo, Crazy Hunt. They're like, what? You don't know that? No, they're like, what? They were like, where you from, Crazy Hunt? They're like, oh. Some girl tried looking for something coming out like Crazy Hunt. It's Crazy Hunt production, man. Where's that Crazy Hunt? I thought I saw the story. Where's that crazy look Crazy look

Now I'm looking at y'all crazy You knew that would have meant They still stuck with it Crazy look That was fucked up In Jamaica But it was male or females No everybody But they knew what we meant But they was male or females? What? No everybody

Everybody Okay But they knew They knew what we meant But they was like You guys are fucked up Okay You fucked up

You sounding crazy on the radio No you can't do that Alright Jamaica my team name White As you said the wrong thing I'm gonna say white That's pause

Yeah that's pause Ah White Yeah Bono Bono. Bono. Jamaican? No, we don't want you to ask shit.

Go ahead. Go ahead. In Jamaica. On the name of Jesus? What? What? What? That's the guy who moved that question earlier.

That's Mr. Lee. All right, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm going to tell you one thing. Just go from the Christian side. I swear in music I pray. I ain't swear in a woman's name. He understood everything. I trust you that Lee does not know what you said.

Just go over by the Christian twerk. You don't want to go to his church. His church is cool. It's nothing but white people at his church. He go to an all white church. And he's Dominican. He's white. He's Dominican.

Dominican. He thinks Dominican is an island by itself. You're Dominican. You're Dominican. You're Dominican. He's going to do an all-white church. All right, which part of Dominican are you coming from? The Republic or Dominica, Dominica?

Dominica, Dominica. What? Dominican. You don't even know what the fuck you're saying. Dominican Republic. Dominica is a whole other country. Oh, okay. The half of Haiti.

He's on the other half. Yeah, Dominican Republic. Oh, okay. The half of Haiti. He's on the other half. Oh, you got that out for Haiti. Yeah. Don't worry about it. I'm not worrying. I'm not... My hands up. Don't worry about it. So, Christians,

twerk. No, you got a song that says... Move to the left in the name of Jesus. Move to the left in the name of Jesus. Move to the right in the name of the Lord. Shake that booty that Jesus gave you. Shake that booty. What? Second time.

You know why Mr. Lee's asking? Mr. Lee was like, yes, I do. Yes, I do. Listen, Twerk, you want to see the pastor behind the Christian woman in the church? She's trucking in the pastor like, hallelujah. What? Don't do that. Christian twerk.

They do that. They go to church to twerk. And they put on their best suit, too. They come out and they move big like this. And they go. They do that. He says, I guess I. Yeah. Now, people is people. They do that. Now, people do what they do.

So if you're a Christian, you go to church to praise to God. But you go to church to have fun. You don't go to church to sit down. Not his church. His church is dead work. I don't think it's church. I don't know his church. Which church are you going to say?

It's all white people. He be, yo, he be Instagram-libing. At church? He be Instagram-libing. He was like, look, I pray. No, they all look like they have. This is not answering my question. They have Ku Klux Klan helmets out there. What kind of church you go to, sir?

This is not true, Mr. Lee. I think it's Catholic. I promise you. Right, you go to Catholic.? This is not true, Mr. Lee. I think it's Catholic. You're going to Catholic. Don't get me hooked up with your church. Don't do that. I'm not exactly. I'm not doing it. You shot a video in that church.

You got a video. Oh, I shot a video there. That's down. No, but I. I let you know the church is giving out video. Video permits. Yes, I did. What kind of church you go to, sir?

He's Catholic. Yeah, Catholic. Oh, we did shoot a video there. He's Catholic. Oh, we did shoot a video there. Thank you. So you believe in the Pope and all of that? He got the picture of the Pope in his crib. No, he does not. Yes, he does.

He does. Mr. Lee. Yes, he could. He said you have a picture of the Pope in your house. It's in his bathroom. I'm right here. Hold on, hold on. He tried to take a shot.

Hold on, we gotta take a shot. Yo, now I'm starting to shock him. The pope was in your bathroom. He prays to the pope when he has to go to the bathroom. He said, please, pope, help me. Gracias. Oh, shush. I said that right there.

Yeah. I'm right here. I'm right here. I'm right here. I'm right here. I'm right here. I'm right here. I'm right here. I'm right here. I'm the bathroom. He said, please, Pope, help me.

Gracias. Gracias. Yeah, man, it's fun being here. This is nice. So let me ask you, because I'm a foodie. Yeah. I go to Jamaica. Can you take a shot?

Yeah, okay. I go to Jamaica. What am I supposed to eat when I go to Jamaica? Okay. Where are you supposed to eat or what are you supposed to eat when I go to Jamaica okay where are you supposed to eat or what he said what where and what it's a big island bro where is a lot of places alright

if you want to eat you eat swim around. We don't call it fish. You don't call it swim around? Swim around. They're fish. They swim around.

They call it swim around. I like calling it swim around. Yeah. If you want to eat some steam. Swim around. Swim around. I'm going to do that now when I go to the restaurant. I would like a fried swim around, please. I want some swim around. You when I go to the restaurant. I want to swim around, please. I want to swim around.

You got to go to the beach. If you go to the beach, then you got some good chef on the beach and they cook it different. Especially if you come to Kingston, you go to Ayrshire Beach and you get some... Yeah, that's where it's at right there.

So Kingston got beaches? I thought Kingston didn't have beaches. Oh, yeah. Now that they have the highway, there's a highway that goes straight there. I thought it was like Park and the Hood. Oh, no, no, no. They ain't got certain nice places. There's a whole strip.

It's still a big city, but it's still close to the beach. No, but it's a whole strip of fresh seafood and everything. What? What are you saying? They ain't got no beach. No, I'm not. What? I'm not. What? What are you saying? He ain't got no beach. What?

What's he saying? He's asking if there's any beaches in Canada. He's asking if there's any beaches in Jamaica. No, there's beaches in Jamaica. Do not let me come over here. Please, I'm begging you. You see, in Aishah, Aishah, it's not only Aishah, still,

because you got other places around there. Before you reach Aishah, you can turn off on the left. But they sell the best seafood ever. Wow. Like, you will never get a better taste in seafood. This is spotting in Kingston, right? Yeah. It's in Fortmore. You got to cross the bridge. Like you will never get a better taste in seafood This is spotting in Kingston right Yeah

It's in Fort Worth You gotta cross the bridge It's like saying downtown in Miami Beach Yeah Ah there you go So you go across the bridge And the beach You see

Got the best food You know like Garcia's and that whole meat Like that No Swim around got the best food. You know like Garcia's and that whole meat? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. You saying fish? No. Swim around. Swim around. My bad.

Swim around, man. Swim around. Okay. Stop saying fish. Who got the best vegan food? Who got the best vegan food? Ita. No, you got the Ita shops.

You got Ita restaurant. You got everything in Kingston. That is in Kingston. That is not in restaurants, you got everything in Kingston. That, that is in Kingston. That is not in Poma. That is in Kingston. Like, off a tree in Crossford area, yeah, you get the best vegan food. Is that normal? And then, and then, well, I know.

If you want, if you go to a restaurant and ask for vegan food, the chef can cook up a vegan food for you. Any restaurant? Yes, even though'm not sell vegan food himself even himself pork no no no no you can't fire up on a pork yeah you up bro hey man i need to learn i don't eat red meat so i'm good yeah fire up on a pork yeah fire bomb beef beef yeah yeah i mean that's why i know yeah so you can go to a restaurant and ask a chef nice vegan food right so you never ate oxtail in your life why should i just want to ask the question Yeah But why is that? I'm just saying like

That's the national dish Of the island isn't it? No No It's not Damn even Kevin Like oh my god Aki and sawfish

Aki and sawfish Nigga No Aki and the thing that spins What are we saying now? What are we saying now? Swim around No swim around Aki sawfish in Keralons. Cataloons. No, swim around.

Aki saw a fish in Cataloons. That's what I'm saying. Aki and swim around. Swim around is the national dish of Jamaica? What? Tell me. Tell me. I don't know.

What? Aki and swim around. Aki and swim around. Yeah, you can call it sawfish if you want. Okay. So it's your advice. Spanish can call it salt fish if you want. Okay. So it's your advice. Spanish people call it bacalao.

Bacalao. But you know, it's also... Bacalao. Bacalao could be used two ways. Bacalao. You know how pete bacalao? Pete bacalao. What? What?

When I pete bacalao, it's not good. What? Don't do that. What's that? Sometimes we say the woman's parts smell like bacalao. Yeah. No, no, no. You don't want that.

Yeah. No. You want watermelon. That's what you want. Oh, watermelon. What? A watermelon punana? Yes. That's a different subject.

Papa. Papa. And ride all day. Papa. Papa. And write all day. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, but I don't do watermelon. Stop. Zaka Zaka.

Zaka Zaka. That's how we like. Zaka Zaka. Zaka Zaka. You got a big one. You climbed a papar tree. No, no. Whoa got a big one. You climbed up up our tree. No, no. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

You just eat the watermelon. I don't know what's going on. You just eat the watermelon and cook in the water. I thought it was pineapple. I don't do that. That's a two. Oh, no. It was a two.

We eat the pineapple. Yeah, you got to eat the pineapple. Yeah, yes. We eat the pineapple. The pineapple. So you eat the sticky thing. You eat the pineapple. I'm like, I don't know.

It's like a towel. It's like a towel. I don't know what's going on, I don't know. I'm like, it's not good. It's not good. I don't know what's going on. I don't know what's going on. What you do, you bust the papaya and take out the seed. You got to see them right at the front. So you take them out. Oh, the papaya.

Yeah, the papaya. Yes. Papaya. Me don't call it papaya. Papaya. Okay. Papaya. Papaya. Say it. Say it like that. It sound better. Papaya. Yes. Papa, me don't call you papa. Papa, okay. Papa. Papaya, say it.

Say it like that. It sound better. Papaya. Say it again. Papaya. Say it again. He's like, he's like, he's like. So that's what you do.

That's a nice fruit. Yes. Yeah, man, that's a nice fruit. And I Yeah, man, that's a nice fruit. And I don't do what you're talking about. I know why you were talking about it. I wasn't talking about anything. You ate a timber watermelon and you just eat it. I don't take a shot of mom.

I don't know what the fuck is going on. I'm taking a shot right now, too. I'm going in, yo. I'm taking a shot. Zagazah. Zagazah. Zagazah. I think he a shot. Zaga-zow. Zaga-zow. Zaga-zow.

I think he needs some more vodka. But you work with Janet Jackson. Yes, I do that. That's awesome. Was y'all in the same studio together the same time? No, we did the video together. Okay. Yeah, because the problem is, Jammin' would never allow her to come around me,

because... Oh, is that when they around me. Oh, damn. Damn. So you only met each other at the video? Yeah, we don't want to talk about that. The video was good. The shoot was nice the day was nice

it's the best day everything was good just leave everything at it dig it dig it dig it watermelon

I have no idea what just happened papaya I don't know. They're toasting. I thought we were taking a shot. Let's go, man. Listen. How do you do your toast again?

Huh? How do you do it? From the throat to the liver. Come on, liquor. Let us quiver. There we go. Right. Cheers.

Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers.

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If you could pick which decade that's your favorite. The 90s. The 90s? Yeah, from 92 to 2009. Whoa, that's a good era. It's more than a decade, but I respect you. He said decade plus, man. Yeah, but that was the last time I got Artist of the Year 2009.

Oh, he ended it after that. He's like, no. No good after that. No, it's not no good after that. What more you going to do? This is after the Grammy? Yeah. I won the Grammy 2000.

Yeah, this is after the Grammy. But what more you going to do? You can just sing a song and it's another hit song. That's it. It's not like you're going to make your first hit song or people is going to generate to the song more than the first song or generate to the song more than the second song. It's what else are you going to do? This is what you're going to do? This is what you're doing.

You're keeping your name up. See? All right. I'm in Jamaica, and I'm going to the parties, and then I'm here and be all be the man. Sim Sima, King of the Dancehall,

all them tinga. Hold on one more time. Sim Sima! Who got the keys to my beamer? My bad, my bad. Continue, continue. A lot of people in the station, we're going to have to go slap them up.

Whoever don't say it, I answer. We can legally slap them. Stop. This is what it is. And I went and I said, oh shit, what I'm going to put in the dancer?

And I go like, I've never bust a chain, I'm going to never pick a pocket. Never see a holy man back and try to grab it. Everything we have, you know, I'm never pick a pocket never see a holy man back and try grab it everything we have you know my record for it so I don't think I got a bad mind my father every day them send me out a road I'm here floss by me wanna lick a summer have more on a glass yeah I'm sexy I'm close them so sharp so we don't like mr. Taylor boy for truck Africa and much

everything I mean we're on a sea we'd do for me career now. Them I wonder how me things them so dear. Them want kill me for the camera, me a stare, but me heart no dirty. My heart clean. All right, you see. Yeah, man, yeah, man. All right, you know, little shit like that,

it make people know where you're coming from. It makes people know who you are. It makes people know how firm it is and what you're thinking. You're thinking about life. Because I've never bust a chain. I never pick up a kid. I'm not that thief. Bad man.

I remember Mr. McKay, I said that all the time coming out of God's hand. This is how it goes, dog. that all the time coming out guard you this is this is this is this is this is this is this is

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this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is Oh, fuck that. Fuck that. Fuck that. Fuck that. Okay. Here we go. Boom. But let me ask you something, right? You know, today, like I said, I've been studying your music for all these days, knowing that you was coming up.

But today we had a 23-year-old kid come hang out and work out with us. Yeah. And as we're playing your music, this dude knew every single record of yours, a 23-year-old. Oh, that's great. I'm like, wow. Did you purposely make global music, or was this... No, you don't purposely make global music.

Okay. The problem is the music that you learn to sing music from is global music. So the melodies and the sounds and everything that you use, that's what it's going to be. So if you come and say, She don't really need a tie friend. She don't need a tie friend.

For it's global music. so you literally make your music everybody could relate everybody right so you're not only making music for your turf you're making music for their turf his turf your turf your, is everything you make in music for everybody. So if you're actually going to sit down there and go, yo, hip hop, that's the hardest shit I ever heard. Yo, I'm going to sign you right now. This is music.

This is what we do. So if you want to go, okay, let the people dance. There you go. I want you to dance. You can find again around the street and the lane and around the bend. We're dancers in here on the tiger. The body of them, the duffel bag and the cripple. I don't know why black people love it.

I don't even bother with the spine. And you dance over here. You see, it's music. Woo! We're all related to it right now. This is what I'm saying. This is music. So people can rock.

You can't be shooting every goddamn day. You can't be gangbanging every goddamn day. That's what I wanted to ask. You have those gunman tunes. You have those conscious tunes. And you have those gal tunes. Yeah, but everybody listened to music.

So he was expanding. I read my bullets while my guns now, now, now. And if you're this bad man, your blood will have to run. So he was expanding. sleeping it wake up and go straight with it not leaving it not losing it that that don't that don't say i that is recommending me for to be the best man in the world i'm just recommending music to people that love other music so when we go man about man wicked man attack man for time it's in a man, more killing this. And we go, memories. Don't live like people do.

They all remember you. It's music. Good or bad. It's just the memories. So it's not really a fire gunshot to have a man. You have a fire gunshot to people's brain. But okay, with that being said too, because your influence is powerful yeah and

even in some songs that you have you're saying that like you have pressure for them to put to them saying to stop singing those gun tunes yeah of course because i'm the guys from sugar what do you think my girls is gonna cry for me no no kev can't finish finish your thought no i'm just saying like did you have that pressure? What was it like? That's what I say, until the day I die, I'm going to get like what? My name, I'm going to get out of my chance.

I'm going to get out of my tree. I'm going to plant on the top, shoot down on the chance. I'm going to get black, get white, get slim, and get loose on your life. And get like, and then me, life. I'm going to like me. Like me. I got them. Do this.

And then I go, welcome to. This is the mix. It's a Bosman explosion right now. I'm taking a shot. I'm sorry. I'm taking a shot. You don't got to take a shot. I'm taking a shot.

Do you get what I'm saying? Mama want his mic. You have to know when to please the fans because you are singing for the fans. You're not singing for yourself. You're singing for people so people can love the music and people can love you for who you are. Yeah, trust me.

Cheers. Say less. But me, I'm not, me, I'm not. Yeah, trust me. Cheers. You want to? Yeah, pass that stinking vodka. So let me ask you, right? God comes down. Oh, boy. Before God comes down. Before God. All right, before God comes down.

I feel when God comes down, we're ending this. God came down. God comes down. God comes down. God comes down. Go, go, go, go, go, go. Well, let's take this drink really quick. All right.

Because this is Tabini, man. I'm a child to the river. Real legend. Hold on. Let me give you your flowers again. Real legend, man. Let me just tell you something. Like, you always, every time I go to Jamaica, you always was around holding me down.

Yeah. Being a good man to me. All the time. All the time. I told you, I was like the last three times before I met my wife over there. And Beanie Man is a, and he's a don, bro. What did I tell you? I said he's, like you got to see him in Jamaica.

Like he's a don of the dons. Yeah. King of the king. For real. Like for real. And always come through Every time King Kangnam

Got nothing in me That's right So I want to thank you Thank you for coming To this show But thank you for being Who you are Thank you for being

The legend that you are Like when I research Your history Knowing that I consider you my friend Yeah When I research your history I didn't know about

You coming out Since 10 years old I didn't know about The 8 years old I'm sorry Let me give you that Two years I started music search your history, I didn't know about you coming out since 10 years old. What? I didn't know about the... Eight years old. I should be eight years old. I'm sorry. Let me give you that two years.

I started music since I was five. Oh, five. I've been since one years old. No, didn't one. One in there, didn't that. Don't lie. You went... Wah, wah.

Wah, wah. Wah, wah. Wah, wah. Wah, wah. Wah, wah. Yeah. But the problem is I started music since I was five. Five? Really?

For real? I started building. I just told you. I was a... You're like the gangster Michael Jackson, yeah? Yeah. I started music since five. I started do that thing

but staying one the beat stop adding modern modern yeah from I was five what was he doing I try to tell you that he not listen to I'm saying definitely didn't know this I'd say you call Papa's on me and the one that That's my coach General Trees is my coach And yeah Respect That's the far right That's the far right

That's the far right That's the far right That's the far right That's the far right That's the far right That's the far right That's the far right That's the far right

Who got the keys to my VMA? Who am I? I don't know Before we get out of here I want to ask The sound systems The sounds The people that were moving in Jamaica Making you guys the stars

Yes Does that still exist today? What? Like the stone loves etc etc What? We live in Jamaica We do dance every night sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday and when the first day start again sunday sunday

every day in kingston montego bay that's all the main city in Jamaica, this is what happened. We party every night. Not me. I can't do that. No, I can't do that shit. Sometimes I go out. No, but I work. That's why I tell you.

I work right through. I don't ease up right now I'm making a new album and I gotta make some rhythms and shit this is exclusive nobody know this shit why do I say that

say the exclusive here right now what exclusive do we have right now I can't say that. Treat us as a sound. This is our dub play. Oh, it's not a sound. He's like, what a sound.

I see the problem. Is somebody going to catch the melody? Please. I can't do that. I'm sorry. He has a new album coming out. A new album coming out? Independent.

Yes. Independent, too. Independent too. I'm an independent artist. He just told us the melody right now. Oh, with VP? No. No.

What? VP? What is he doing? No. Is VP still around? Yeah, Chinese people still out here getting that money.

Relax, bro. They're Jamaican too. Why am I? The Jamaicans. What is he doing? The label VP? Yeah, VP's still around. Really? What is he doing? The label VP? Yeah, this the label. Yeah, VP's still around.

Really? This the little room. What is it, you're dissing Christian? Yeah. And his sister? Yeah. And his, Victor, and all of them, the chins are still there.

Okay. There's nothing you can do about the chins. The chins are hardcore. The chins are still there. I love meeting men. You see, I learned karate because of the chins. the chin's just still there I love meaning man you see I learn karate because the chin

yeah then fuck yeah we got that kapow he's like that was a real he's like he's gonna kick

somebody's head no no you hear you fucking people love I can tell with a karate chop and two punches no I'm too

don't fuck with that it's just the wickedest thing don't worry so we gonna go kapow With a karate chop and two punches. No, I have two inches. Don't fuck with that. It's the wickedest thing. Don't worry. So we didn't go kapow. The gents, they're wicked. Don't worry about them. They love music.

But they love money. Money music. So they make money from you and give you what you're supposed to get. Not what you're supposed to get. Not what you're supposed to get. They give you what you want to give you. What they want to give you. Okay. This is difference.

And I love them because they do a lot. They're the one who distribute them songs. All of these? Yes. The VP. It's on there. What? They're the dons.

This is my joint right here, though. You picked both of these. I know it's your label. I was looking at my label. But this is the joint right here. That's the shit. You know this is the joint. This is shit, man. Take back your record, Beanie Man. Fuck it. No, hey!

Yeah, but you see this? This is my label. Vibes House. My label. What's the name of label. Vibes House. My label. What's the name of it? Vibes House. Vibes House. Yeah, that was my label.

I changed it. And then this was your label too. And that's my label. You're the problem. You're off the chain, dog. You got mad labels. These are the nice songs. You know nice songs?

You put out a nice label. Be nice to my record, please. No, Booz, you went like this I'm not going to do that I'm not going to do that You crazy Alright so The girls I see I them bring out the dog

You know me Believe you me Alright good You see Alright good So you understand what, good. You see? All right, good. So you understand what I'm saying? You see, that part. This is the joint, bro.

This is the joint. Yeah, you break it. I love this record, man. I love this record right here. He's got to sign them, right? Yeah, he's going to sign them. I hope so. I'm going to go write a few letters.

Invite someone to Friday. I'm going to go check. Stand around the corner. You remember all your rhymes. Your memory is fantastic. What? Feeny, hold on, hold on, hold on. You just made me think of a question. Look, he want his record back.

But I have a real question, real question. question how do you think it's different like how hard is it for an artist in jamaica because you guys are writing on the same rhythm yeah right rhythm for us here rhythm for them there yeah no it's the same beat and do rhythms watch the rhythm do rhythms help the culture or hurt the culture but buthythm mean how? But hold on, because I don't want to divert from what I'm asking. Because the thing is that they're basically making their own song to the same beat. Same beat, yeah. But only one rises to the top. Like, really rises to the top.

One get number one. But the rest of them get popular because that one song. It helps everybody. But it becomes like a mountain, but there's only one at the top. Yeah, that one song. It helps everybody, but it becomes like a mountain, but there's only one at the top. Yeah, that's true. So how does that divert from what we're doing over here? All right. You see, in America, people make one song to one beat.

One song to one beat, one song to one beat, one song to one beat. One song to one beat. So if you become a superstar, you're the only one in that beat. So that's not helping nobody. In Jamaica, you're helping everybody. I'm sorry, did I answer too fast? Is that bad?

But there's only certain songs that become global and commercial as far as dance hall songs. But for them, if you can make the one rhythm rise, you're helping out. If you can make the rhythm rise. Jamaica. Lola Brooke had this song, then Casco Bay had this song,

and now on. Jamaica is not underground. That's three. That's the Jamaican style. The rhythms, yeah. People think Jamaica is on the underground, but Jamaica around the whole Caribbean

and the whole Caribbean community, Africa, England, everywhere. So every song you make, every song you make, Canada, everywhere. So every song you make, every song you make, Canada, everywhere. So every song you make is international. Not because you, as the American person that knows American music, don't know it.

Other American people know it. So this is how Jamaica goes. So when I'm on a, watch this, let me give you an experiment now. You got enough Jamaican artists who's not benign, but his song is bigger than him face, because I've never seen his face yet. So you have a song like, Lady, lady, lady, why do you all love every song?

Yeah, you know that song? Yeah. All right. Johnny, who sing that song? I don't know. See, I was about to say, I don't know that song wrong. See, this is the problem. Because back in the days, people never used to make music.

See what I mean? I said, girl, I've got a day. And that just means I can't stay late. Oh, all my life, I've been wanting you, girl just once or twice Tell me that I am free Like a bird in the tree Who sing that song? No idea. Who sing that song?

We have a trick question for you. Who sing that song? I don't know who sing that song. I don't know who said that. I have not. I have not. I have not. Pop quiz. Anybody?

Got a date. Got a date. Google it. Google it. You can't get it? Alton Ellis. I can tell you the name. Alton Ellis.

Alton Ellis. Sing that song. Yeah. Oh, you said you just. All right. This is what I'm saying. You see, the song is bigger than the artist. Right.

Because nobody know who the artist is. So, you see, if you're an artist, the best thing you need to do is work hard in the studio and hard on stage. So people can remember who the god damn piece remember who you are all right which one of you know tiger c-y-g-a or no not talking to russia switch tiger we talking about from jamaica a party on you girl From Jamaica. From Jamaica. Hey, Patsy and you, girl. Me here say I'm Senegal. Like, who know that? All right, this is what I'm saying. We're in class right now, people. Let's pay attention.

So you got to know that, you see, the music is not, it's not, it's not supposed to be what it is. Oh, God, man. We, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me and my brother, America. Tiger, he had the rhythm and said, Zebra, you want something like me? Yeah.

Tiger, are you? Yes. All right, Ross. Good job. Good job. That's the one up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the one up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the one up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the one up. Yeah, but you gotta to know these things. You see, all right. You see, dancehall music is the sweetest music in the world. All right.

I've been to places where people don't know what they're supposed to expect when it comes to dancehall music. And when I go on the stage and start to do this, it's crazy. People start to rock with it. sort of move people sort of groove people sort of it's it's a different thing that's why i tell you there's a different dna all right you see hip-hop hip-hop got his own dna you know that yeah yeah they say wouldn't that be here, dog? You just find a fucking melody and go boom, and the right beat, and say, fuck that, you niggas. You see what I'm saying?

Hey, watch it. And you see? You can sing that song forever. Forever. How many babies you think you made to your music? Not you. How many babies your music you think made? Yeah, about two million.

Two million? You know what I just walked into. Two million babies was born. Give me the girl that made me do it. That's stop. Yeah. Yeah, baby, that made stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop.

Stop. Stop. What? So you're like the Teddy Pendergraft dancer. I'm a dancer. Because, you see, I'm the girl that's in Sugar. So if you sing songs for the ladies, all right.

Does girls dumb sugar mean like sugar daddy? No. You're not tricking. You're not tricking. He didn't mean the sugar on that side of it. He meant the other side. I mean, you got, you got somewhere here. I'm going to take a shot. Stop. I'm taking a shot.

Yeah, you're taking shots. You got some right here. You don't have to. You are not obligated. I'm doing the gang. That's water right there. I can see you sneaking in some water. Yeah, I know. I'm sneaking out of shit.

You know where the shit go. Cheers, cheers, cheers. Excuse me. Cheers. Salud, salud. From the choke to the liver. Yeah. Come on, liquor. Let us. Cheers. Salud, salud. Come on, liquor.

Let us quiver. Let us quiver. So God comes down from earth. Okay, oh. I forgot about that. I mean from heaven. God came down from heaven. God is not from earth. Why you say God came down?

I mean heaven. I've been there. And then he says to you, Beanie Man. Yeah. What action is God talking to him in? I just want to know this. He's definitely talking to an Australian. He's not talking to a paparazzi?

What the fuck are you talking about? No, he's talking Yard. He's talking Yard. This is God. He's like, let him work. And God says, Beanie Man. Yeah. You get one chance to make one rhythm, one song.

Yeah. Any producer. Yeah. And any feature feature dead or alive what that's a good one it could be the king of pop the king of pop

don't influence this question I can see him I don't know why Michael Jackson and him in my mind they have the illest record together you said the same thing I can see him. I don't know why Michael Jackson and him, in my mind, they have the illest record together. You said the same thing. All right, I got to do two artists, Michael Jackson and Bob Marley.

Together. Fuck! Oh, yeah, who's producing it? Who's producing it? He's going to say. You can pick two now. Oh, he's like, fuck it, I'm going to produce it. Who's producing it fuck it, I won't produce it. Who producing it? Oh, God.

You say you were. Give me a minute. I would produce it myself, but I can't talk about myself. Set of Phrases, no recommendation. I don't do Set of Phrases. I don't do that. Okay. Stephen Moly. Ooh. Stephen Marley.

Ooh. You gave him an option like that? Stephen Marley. Oh. Bob Marley's son? Yeah, Stephen Marley's. What? You got Michael Jackson and Bob Marley and Stephen Marley producing. He got a

go-to. Jesus Christ. I don't remember names in it. I'm a mad man. All right. The guy that produced We Are The World. Chrissy Jones. Rest in peace.

Steven Marley and Chrissy Jones? That's a fucking beauty. No, no, no. Yeah! Chrissy Jones. Lip shot. Lip shot. Give it up.

Go, go, go, go, go, shot. Give me the gun. Record music. Yeah. Record music means classic American music. Yes. That would be a beautiful combination. Michael Jackson, Bob Marley. Beanie Man. Quincy Jones.

Beanie Man. What? On a Beanie Man record. I don't talk. Don't talk. You wouldn't getanie Man record. I don't talk. Don't talk. You wouldn't get on the record. You got to get on the record. You got to.

Do the intro. You just got to say Timber. And then have Michael Jackson say that. And then have Michael Jackson. No, he got to go second. I'm thinking on the record right now. All right. Stephen Money.

I think. I love every producer in Jamaica. See, King Jam is one of the best 80s dance hall producer.

Baba Dixie is dead right now. God rest his soul. Rest in peace. Okay. All right. We were the wickedest thing in the 90s.

Shocking vibes. We were the wickedest thing in the 90s. Shocking vibes. We were the wickedest thing. We kill everybody. Don't worry about it. Nobody feel like they're better than us. None of them both of them. Nobody like it. That's why you know, so we were the baddest.

That's my team. Ever. That's my team. Ever. They just won't know it. We kill the 90s. We kill it. But you got Bobby Dixon from Digital B.

He produced Garnet Silk. All of these people. He make all of these artists like Jesus Christ, Leroy Gibbons. Oh, God. Bobby Dixon, God bless you. Every time. And I'm glad today I met you.

Then you have Bravo. Bravo? Yeah, Bravo is the one that built Caperton. Yeah. Yeah. Number one. Now you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, so you have Bravo, then you have King James.

Then you have Uncle T, Uncle T, Boss Bunty Killer. See? And then you have Bunny Lee, Bunny Striker Lee. He's the one that really is... Oh, God. God rest his soul, too. You know? But you see, when it comes to music, you got some people that got a...

Oh, God, they got a formula for it. You have some people, after I have people, forget the formula for the music where they want to produce. Them don't even know where they want to produce. Somebody just be a reader man and say, all right, may I get some money and vice them upon it. Them don't know where they want to produce. Oh God.

You see, if they know what they have, and know the gold and diamond that they just get in the first place, they will be good in this life. And the music, reggae music and dance music would be the pop music of America. Wow. It's real. See, we sing because they don't know what they have.

All right. Look at this. All right. Somebody come and say, all right, my friend come from Africa. What's his name? Two-Face. You know his name? And he come and say, you are my African queen. The girl of my dream. I love you in the winter. I love you in the winter. Love you. I bring him up first. Never give another man yarr. The reason why I say

I got some conscience by my side. Have a look out of mine. Almighty God, never give another man sorrow. No matter what you say, I'm going to get him up. So God bless no man.

This is his first song. Then everybody now wonder, where's this coming from? Where's the music coming from? They start a search when they find him. He's drawing me and I look a piece of tread. I'm drawing me and I'm bringing me. He has one of the biggest songs in the world. It can't stop playing.

You are my African queen. Girl, have my dream. So, you see, people don't understand. When it comes to music, you have to, oh, God. Right, that's where music comes from. It don't comes from nowhere. Whether you play it, whether you listen to it, whether you sing it, whether you write it, whether you do anything about it, when it comes to music, music is found.

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All right. Neptune's. Neptune's. Neptune's got number one tune now. Zaga Zaga. All right. Neptune's. No, but Neptune was the youngest thing that was making music all about. And I'm like, what? Them boy apart, they making music all about. I'm like, what? And then I called Virgin and said, okay, I need to make a song.

And they say, what kind of song you have to make? I mean, I said, more I make Sim Simmer and Girls Them Sugar in one. As one record. As one record. Combine that. Sim Simmer, be the one of the girls. But I need a beat. I can't find the goddamn beat. So Patrick Moxie, yeah, Patrick Moxie, he called me and said,

we're going to line up the thing. So I'm just lining up what? Yeah, Neptune. And I'm like, what? I'm going to reach out to you, Neptune, and then Farrell, you know who he is. He's a very cocky guy. Don't worry about him. What studio is this, Right Track? No, it's what's on.

Sound on Sound? Next studio. Not Daddy's House. No, no,'s house Not Unique Not D&D He work at the Hood Studios It's right It's factory

Not Miami It's factory in Miami Cause that's where he started So you were in the beginning of the program You know what You were in the beginning of Pharrell. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what? Yo, you in the beginning of Pharrell. What the fuck are you doing, man? No, you right.

That's the beginning of Pharrell. Actually, why you do it? Right track is after he blew up. Yes, why you do it? Yo, damn. So what year was this? Did you see? Now you know. Now you saw that. Yeah, that's the beginning, damn. So what year was this? Did you see? Now you know.

Now you saw the oxen the right question. Yeah, that's the beginning, bro. He's right. No, he's right. Now you saw the oxen the right question. Oxen, what year was it? Yeah, what year was that? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chunchi, chunchi, wanchi, wanchi. Yo, that's real. Yeah, oxen, what year was it? Yeah, what year was it? Did he kill him? I love that year. Nah, my dad year was the best year. And Farrah is like...

That had to be 99, 2000. But wait, was it Head Factory Miami or not? No, no, no, Head Factory New York. It was 98. That's my year, bro. I know when... What's he gonna do? That's you and me. Cheers, cheers. Drink it know when I totally forgot I say it wrong

It's so cheating It makes sense You gotta drink the shot Oh sorry You can't Continue We got to drink the shot. Oh, sorry. Oh, you can't share. Chanchi no, no, no, do. Continue. And he go,

bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Bam, bam. I'm like, what? And he go, and he go in the studio. This nigga go in the studio. This man go in the studio and go, Sim, Simmer.

Sim, Simmer.. Sim Simmer. Sim Simmer. And he go and say, you got to sing God's Name Sugar and this beat. I'm like, what? And he said, yes. This is the song. And then I see this Indian girl sit down in the studio. I don't know who the head she was.

That's Maya. M-I-A. Maya. M-Y-A. Oh, I mean, Indian girl's M-I-A. She's an Indian girl. But Maya's on the song. I see this Indian girl.

I'm just saying. She's an American. But I see what you're saying. No, she's an American. So you know the shit's very different. You know Americans, they talk different. You know, they don't say this. They don't do these.

I don't know why. Or crazy hood. Crazy hood is not flying Jamaica. It was crazy penis. No, Americans don't do D. Why? Who don't do D? Fitty.

Like, fitty is... Don't. Only don't do T's. Sorry. I get it wrong. Only don't do T's. Fitty. Fitty.

Like, fitty is 50 cent. Oh, fitty. Oh. I didn't know what the fuck you was doing. No, they say 50. You lost me. Now I'm making them say 50. 50 cent.

It's 50 cent. Some of us still say 50, sir. It's 50. Jamaicans don't say three. We say tree. Jamaicans don't say three. You put tree. Jamaica don't say three. You put a tongue between your teeth. You don't say three o'clock?

I say three. At three o'clock. Jamaica, over here in Martin Dock, at three o'clock. They say, it's three o'clock. They don't do that shit. What are you doing? Even the people that

go to the university ain't got to act with too much diplomas. A university means college. I've learned that recently. Yeah, it's university. I've learned that recently. I didn't know that. I didn't know that.

I didn't know that. I didn't know university didn't mean college. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. I swear to God. I don't know who part of university. It didn't mean college. I didn't know university. We were. Where did you find this out? We got some dumb ass people here. Like two weeks ago.

Like university. I was like, what the fuck? No, no, no. I was like, what the fuck? Like English. That's college. Listen. You expect somebody in Jamaica to tell you it's 3 o'clock.

Mm-hmm. At 3 o'clock. Yeah. At 3 o'clock. At 3 o'clock. At 3 o'clock. 4 o'clock. What time now? 2 o'clock. 1 o'clock.

My Lord, get up. What are you doing? This is how we is. We are Jamaican. All right. You see, the problem is we build our own language. We never get it from nobody at all. So what do we do?

We put the English and the French and the Spanish together and build a thing named Patois. Patois has got Spanish in it? I didn't even know it had French in it. I know about French. I didn't know about Spanish. Not my everything in there. Yeah, I didn't know that it had French in it. I know about French. I thought it was just English. Yeah, I didn't know that. I know about the English and French. You know what's funny?

You know what's funny that I saw today that it said that Patois is English Creole. Yes. Which makes sense with what he's saying right now. Which makes sense with what he's saying right now. Which makes sense with what he's saying right now. All right. All right. You see, all

Jamaican bad words are clothes and woman accessories. Everything is a bumba or a boomba. Blood clad is you know what that is. Blood clad. accessories. Everything is a bumba or a boomba or a blood clot. You know what that is. Blood clot.

You know what that is. You know what a blood clot is. Really is your vegan bad word? No. No, your blood clot. Oh, your blood clot. Yeah. Because you get a blood clot that comes out of it. I mean, I'm just saying in real life, women, woman life,

blood clots happen. I'm just saying in real life, women. You don't know what it is. Women life. Blood clots happen. Oh, yes, but. Yeah, them times. I'm not making an excuse for this. I'm just saying that's what happens. You know what I mean, sir? Them times when the solitary thing never did it. So them have to have a clot.

Then it's. Men superior. But not all women. What are they doing? Not all women superior. No, he said blood clot. No, no, no. I'm not meaning that way.

Clot, like clot, like physically clot. I'm just saying where it comes from. Blood clot. Holy shish-ba. So when them say bumbo clot, where you think them attack butt? Come over here, bumbo. Because you're naked. That's the butt.

The bumbo's the butt. I got that part. I just came in on this call. I'm coming to you right now. What did you just say? Why is this happening? It's a blood clot coming out your butthole. Why is that happening though?

Your bumble, your bumble, your bumble, your butt. He said in case of an emergency. I never had a bumper car coming out of my ass but he said in case of an emergency woman you oh that's everything i don't you had an epiphany no you oh yeah yeah it And does everybody? Hold on. The blood does not come out of anybody's ass, you shit. Okay? That is not a thing.

But maybe you ate a lot of spicy food. That's not a thing. You had a lot of spicy food. You tell the people to make them time there. What? So we ain't going to swipe up. What? I get what?

Zig-a-za. Zig-a-za. Tell the people to make them time there, man. The end of them time, they're going to build their world. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Ziggy Zag. Ziggy Zag.

That's the people I met them time. In them time, they went and built their words. Yes. That was like 14 something. So these are the things that people have to understand about Jamaican. Jamaican people, we make our own words, and then other people turn it into bad words. It's not bad words.

It's the right words. Because at the time, there was nothing there to say. It's clear words. Or get some toothpaste. That's why we use toothpick. White people use toothpick. Because there's no toothpaste. It's true.

You don't know shit, bud. You like toothpicks? Don't you know stuff. You want to take a picture? Don't everybody tell you to put the stick in your mouth? Not yet. Really? Not yet?

Damn. Kev is like, I'm going in? Yeah, people used to use it. People used to use toothpicks because there was no... Because like, I'm going in? People used to use toothpicks because there was no toothbrush. I love you long time. There was no toothbrush. You couldn't brush your teeth.

You needed a toothpick. You have a toothpick. You chew the toothpick. And the wickedest thing is the cleanest thing today because the bubbles and the Rastafarian them don't stop is the cleanest thing today because the bubbles and the

rust of fear on them, them don't stop too sick because them clean them teeth right through. This is the problem. So it's not like me have a toothpaste on my toothbrush and go... You understand what I'm saying? It's not like that, what they're doing right now.

So there's a difference. So a lot of people just talk about things and don't know what it means. So you had a picture? Let me ask a question. One second. Would you ever do a collaborative album with a hip-hop artist?

Damian Marley did one with Nas with Distant Relatives. When you stop, I do music. What'd you say? I do music. That's a good question. We want to know. No, man, I do music. That's what I do.

You and T.I.? What? What? You and T.I.? What? What? Can you say something else? 21 Savage. Bad Bunny.

Sorry. I thought Bad Bunny. His bunny's not that bad. I did a song on Dynamar already. Yeah, but I will do an album of them. What? Anytime. What? What?

Anuel? What? I'll tell you, some of the songs are bigger than their names. I would know the song, but I don't know the name. Kendrick Lamar. Yo, Kendrick and Beanie would be banana.

Mark! Kendrick, if you ever watch his interview, just know it. Listen, Beanie, if Kendrick is watching this interview, what would a collab look like Sound like At least a song

Wait wait no no Give us a little Come on I can't You want me to freestyle Something Please Please bro

Please Please Please Yo This is Beanie man Alright good There we go Yeah

Well this is Beanie man And Kendrick man And everywhere we go You know We run, this is Beanie Man and Kendrick Manor. And everywhere we go, you know, we run the place and everybody turn on them car and music a play. Everybody move because them noses were the biggest. But the superstar, pussy, if you're dissing, please, don't check in.

Bad man, there you are, don't you know? We're not wrecking you, Mr. B. Stop, stop, stop, Mr. B. You're trying me, stop, stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. You turned me off. Yeah. I never love you, but you know. You're weird. You're weird.

You're weird. You're weird. You're weird. You're weird. You're weird. You're weird. All right, go, go. Now it's on you.

Two, go. Now it's on you without a beat. Now it's not me. You're missing the beat. Not me. Go. You go to the four. Yeah, yeah, you go. You go to the four. All right, you go four to three. Tell me,. It's not me. You're missing the beat. It's not me. You go four to three. Tell me.

Let me stop. Are you doing a dance all day, bro? Dance all we see. Everywhere you go, man. Bad Monday, man. Top ranking. Kill people up on the gully banking. The Swiss must work in my life. Everywhere go yon man a dekin. Badman dey a man a top rankin. Chil pipi apan de gole bankin. Ye, de Swiss me smokin.

Me nan a lajt. Kwa si kwen di seken. I'm ready for that shit. Don't, don't, don't. Say it again, say it. I'm nan yey mi sen it. What? I'm not even saying it. What?

Alicia Keys? Alicia please what? Alicia Keys. Alicia Keys. Otherwise I'm sitting in the end. I think she's the best singer in the world. That's our sister. That's our sister. I get to see. They went to high school together.

Yeah, really? Oh, I didn't know that. You went to high school with her? Professional Performing Arts, Hell's Kitchen, yeah. I think she's the best singer in the world. She don't play. Any woman that can play a piano and sing at the same motherfucking time, nigga. Watch how you do it. You know. Of course. Lauren is

the best album. I don't know what fucked her up, but she is my singer. And I love her son because that kid. Yo, her son's off the chain. That man is wicked. Yo, he is off the chain. Stop now, man.

That man is wicked. Off the chain. That man is wicked. Bruh. That man, she got two sons. You got Zion. YG. Who's the one performing right now?

He's killing it. You got a song with Busta Rhymes too. Both of them are killing it. What? I know YG. Wait, you say both of them are killing it? What? I'm a white sheet. All right. You say both of them are killing it? What? Hey, dog, I love La Rainier.

For real, for real. Look at me. Look at me. She's my only singer. If she's not my only singer, I love La Rainier too much. This, this, I, I, I, I. You, I, I, no, I'm not going to cry. I want it to come up my eyes. That's up your butt, man.

We're like stuck. That's real shit, though. I want it to come up my eyes. I can't do this shit. Just give me a minute. Just, I'm going to try to hold it. One, two, three. Oh.

Zigazah. Zigazah. Zigazah. Zigazah. I see Laranella. She's the first woman in America. In America. Does that mean?

In this country. This country of America. She's the first woman told me that. You is going to be superstar. She told you that? Yes, she told me this. What are you talking about? This is before.

Where you are not. Where you come. Before that, she told you that? Before that. What are you doing? Before she's a superstar, she tells you. I'm going told you that before that what are you doing before she's a superstar she tells you forever time listen beanie beanie relax relax bro before she's a superstar she tells you you're a superstar i'm trying to tell you this that i'm a superstar i'm a superstar from 1992. Before she is, she told you this.

I'm a superstar from 1992. I repeat myself. When you know where I'm from? Bougies. Done the argument. Done the argument. Zaga Zag. Zaga Zag. Zaga Zag.

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Zaga Zag. Zaga Zag. Zaga Zag. Zaga Zag. Zaga Zag. Zaga Zag. Zaga Zag. Zaga Zag. Zaka Lau. Zaka Lau. He'll help me out too as well. All right. I'm a superstar from 1992 when me and Dougie Fresh knew the song. You've been to some stuff before that, bro.

Let me get some Bully Vodka, please. Now I'm talking about superstar. You have been. I'm a super mega star. White people radio. I'm not going to lie. A lot of white people, they know not gonna lie a lot of white people like they know your music

yo what what cause like when I work out in front of my neighbors there's a lot of white people yeah

I can only play Bob Marley cause I didn't realize Bob Marley don't really curse but then I play it was your music for three days.

And they're working out too. And they were like, they're like, oh, they're walking through. I'm like, oh, shit. Yo, this thing is global music. They're working out too. Yes. They're working out too. They didn't know you were a bad man.

They don't know. They're not a bad man. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. They don't know. I'm hitting on white people. That's a water. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers.

Cheers. Cheers. What are you doing? Knife and fork and spoon. What are you doing? So is there anything else? That shit. Yeah, I took Mars already.

Is there anything else you want to tell your fans? I just want to tell my fans that. You can take that shot though. Oh, shit. You can tell your fans that shot. It's great. Yeah, man. He get more vicious as he go.

And you wrote songs for Lil Vicious too. Lil Vicious? Yeah, I do that too. Yo, Lil Vicious off the chain. Freak! You coming in. Am I freak? You wrote that?

Doug E. Fresh. Shout out to Doug E. Fresh, Lil Vicious. Lil Vicious is Doug E. Fresh. Shout out to Doug E. Fresh. Lil' Vicious. Hey, Lil' Vicious is my artist. Wow. Back in the day. Donovan Thomas. He was the producer of Lil' Vicious. And he brought him to me in Jamaica.

He's from Jamaica? No. I don't know. I know he's from Brooklyn. He's Jamaican, from Brooklyn. I know he's from Brooklyn. He's Jamaican, but Brooklyn. He's Jamaican, but his parents is Jamaican. His parents is Jamaican. He's Jamaican.

But you was a child star, so it only makes right. Yeah, but now you go, you must say he wants a song. So I was in the studio and I was doing, I want you to dance. I'll be in the fine again. I'm on the studio and I was doing, I want you to dance, I be in the fine again, around the street, on the lane, and round the bend, world dancers, the name on the tiger, the body done with the fubine and the kippur lamb, I don't know why black ways are hard-loving. So they followed to me now and said, I need to do

a song that the people them popular with, so them can hear the sound like the familiar sound. We just say, I want you girl, if we just fighting again. I don't know the name that he give me. I think it was his school girlfriend and he gave me a name. And I did that. And then him come and said, I got it next to my man and said, yo, some girl out. Freak. Some girl out, freak.

And then Vicious, I don't know who, somebody get to him. Oof. I don't know who. Yeah, the whole time I thought he was Dougie Fisher. Well, Dougie Fisher, that was a part of the record, but we don't know. No Yeah, the whole time I thought he was Doug E. Fresh's partner. Well, Doug E. Fresh, that was a part of the record, but we don't know. No, somebody get to him. Like, seriously, somebody get to him and say, Yo, I'm very, very, and they do the verse and everything.

Whose idea was it for Doug E. Fresh to just beatbox on the rhythm? No, Doug E. Fresh was part of the company. But I mean, as far as the production and the sound. No, he was part of the company. Donovan Thomas and Dougie Fresh. They're the ones that come. Because, all right, 1991 will come from, yeah, you know, go back there. Yeah, 1990.

1995 will come Yeah, 1990. 1990 is where I come from. Yeah, anyway, we went to the National Stadium because Nelson Mandela was released. So I went to the Nelson Mandela show. Is that when you got booed? You had to fuck shit up. I didn't know if it was that one or another. Yeah.

Go ahead. Go ahead. Finish the story. Yeah. That's the year I got booed. Okay. Yeah. We don't have to waste the story.

Don't worry about it. Yeah. So, yeah. That's the year when I got booed. How did that feel, getting booed? I'm on Doggy Fresh. I'm on Doggy Fresh. I'm on Doggy Fresh.

You know Doggy Fresh? Yes! Six minutes. Six minutes. Six minutes. Take a picture. Taking a picture. I ain't doing it. Doggy Fresh. Oh, taking the picture. How you doing?

Dougie Fresh. He's the one that built the beat. Yes. All right. All right. Dougie Fresh is my family. It's called Douglas Davis. That's his name.

And there we go. So you know what I'm talking about. Yep. Blood family? Shit, man. You gotta say a name. What the fuck? Oh.

Is that me? Yeah. For real? Yeah. That's real. Well, let's take a picture. All right. Yo.

Anything you want to say to your fans before we get about here? All right. Because we're going to get over here. We're talking too long. All right. This is what I'm saying. To all my fans, I'm making a new album. I got a new song coming out.

Can we hear a second? Relax. All right, give me a second. Easy. Oh, fuck it. What are you talking about? You can't play a piece of shit. You have a song with Palma?

Can you go get Palma for me? Are we playing? No, we're going to play it after. You have a song? Yeah, I'm playing for him. All right. You got the good yacht master on, though. I see you.

I see you, brother. I see you, brother. I see you, brother. Two-tone rose gold. I can see it from over here. I'm going to have a good eye. You got money. Yeah, I and I. Salas, yeah.

Rastafari. Hell yeah, Salas. What? I'm Rasta in my mind. In my mind, I'm Rastafari. Can I say something yes please I stopped flossing because

flossing yeah flossing with all Jesus stop yeah Jesus please don't look at me and say flossing no I love you

hold on I'm a Lego no you explain in the Lego movie can I explain myself explain Vinny please I'm bad I'm bad Vinny

please we must get out of here no I love you. I'm not saying you're flossing on me. Holy fuck. Or you're flossing on anybody. You are Nari. You got it out of your shit. I love how you said my name, Nari.

I'm now Nari. My wife's name is Nari. And now you just made us get by, Nari. Nari. He just put us together. It's fantastic. All right, let's go. Before we get out of here.

I thank you so much. Now, let me just tell you something. I thank you so much because nobody, a lot of people don't know how much, how important you are to this culture. Yeah. Some people know, but a lot of people don't understand. No, no, no, no, no, no.

A lot of people know. A lot of people know. A lot of people know. The problem is, a lot of people know. Some people do not appreciate the music like it's supposed to be appreciated. Right. And they disrespect the music.

And because, you see, the problem is, if you're a writer, artist that lasts for six months and three months, you do not love the music. If you appreciate a song, because you love the song, you do not love the music. That means you listen to hip-hop,

and you listen to R&B, or you listen to Afrobeat, or you listen to something else. That means you don't listen to the music itself, which is not disrespecting no music in the world because I listen to every music. So all we need is the Caribbean people to support the music. It's not a fight against no music you crazy

you mind we go to every country in this world we go to Spain we go to Maine, we go to Zane we go to Dane, we go to every part yeah you see what we go everywhere me and you gonna do it

I'm so involved I go everywhere. Me and you gonna do a song called What? What? What? What? What? What? Look at the picture. Thank you so much, my friend. Yeah, thank you, man.

Thank you. Were you crazy? What? Are you crazy? Come on. What? What? All right, do you know how long I know this nigga?

Oh shit, you already know. Come on, man. Thank you. No, what? What? Do you know how long I know this nigga? Yeah. I know. Yeah, I told you.

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