Drink Champs - Episode 54 w/ Naughty By Nature

Episode Date: January 6, 2017

N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode the guys sit with the legendary Naughty By Nature! Vin Rock,DJ Kay Gee and Treach talk about the early years of their career, their take on the current state of hip hop and the keys to longevity. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drinkchamps/support Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and ridiculous selection this spring at Total Wine & More. Cheers! Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You see the hate to see us winning. So I know they got some issues. You see the hate to see us winning. So I heard they got some issues. Outro Music Ay yo, what's feeling back, Litty? It feel like 98 again Real gonna love it and the fake gonna hate again Other niggas frightened, acting like they make it more than me Million dollar meetings and jeans, I dress accordingly

Oglemail, upgrade from Hoagie Original slime and hip-hop, they all owe me My city needed me, I read on Hoodopedia Killed it on the music and started killing the media Spitter, Rittle, Phil, Indica, Sativia. That a nigga sick like they run with leukemia. You see they hate to see us winning, so I know they got some issues. Issues, issues, issues.

You see they hate to see us winning, so I heard they got some issues. Yeah, they hate to see me win, nigga. You see they hate to see us winning, so I know they got some issues. But we gon' get this money with dollars, y'all. You see they hate to see us winning so I know they got some issues You see they hate to see us winning so I heard they got some issues Who you know iller than really riddle me that All my real niggas know where I'm mentally at Wake up drinking pain what's the issue with that Malibu in the hills where I'm physically at

Checking in with the hood, conversations is whack I don't think I'm too good, I'm just stating the facts Four door or the coupe, I'm debating with that Flying in and out of town, people hating on that Yeah, they tell me I'm a star, I'm just trying to get these stars Niggas telling me to rap, I'm just trying to move the heart Sweatpants in the rollie, I don't do Balenciaga Just star out the mouth like I'm blowing on a cartridge

You see they hate to see us winning, so I know they got some issues You see they hate to see us winning, so I heard they got some issues You see they hate to see us winning, so I know they got some issues You see they hate to see us winning So I heard they got some issues Hey yo they hate to see us winning So I heard we got some issues No prob they trip I'ma blow em like some tissue Riding with the OG 16 by the hip like a whole P

Nigga violate I'm a OD Shooting for forever like Ginobili I don't believe nothing Motherfuckers gotta show me Trying to level up But the streets want to owe me Keep it to myself I did three for my Cody

The nigga told Hit things with the give and go Grease on Crisco Gas on shit go And I let my shit go They know what it's hitting for Heard what I get it for Imagine what I'm sitting on

You see they hate to see us winning So I know they got some issues Issues, issues, issues You see they hate to see us winning So I heard they got some issues sitting on We got some issues, issues, issues, issues. Yeah, what's up, y'all? What's going on, brother? Dream Champs Radio. He's a legendary Queens rapper. We'll be right back. The most professional, unprofessional podcast and your number one source for drunk facts. This is Drinks Champ Radio, where every day is New Year's Eve. Let's go!

Hey, Hank Sangria, hope you're sobbing. This is your boy, N-O-R-E. What up, it's DJ E-F-N. And this is Drinks Champ's motherfucking podcast. Make some noise! And right now, I have to introduce one of the most phenomenon groups in history. Not in just hip hop, but in history. These guys made countless hits repeatedly, back to back. And when I heard DJ Khaled the other day say that he was the anthem king, I had to test him.

I had to be like, I'm sorry. But every record these brothers had that was a hit was an anthem. And I had to say, it wasn't no hate, but I'm just saying, you might be the second anthem king. But I had to keep it real.

I had to say, I think Naughty was the first Anthem King. These brothers, just like me and Capone, went through problems, trials and tribulations, came back together, and stuck together through brothers. They out here right now on a New Year's Eve special. I'm sure they doing something phenomenal. Oh, yes, we are. By the time we drop this episode, they'll be already out.

So they out here with Pitbull. That's right. I think, what's the nigga? Clive Davis just took Pitbull's room in Prime 112. It was a little wild over there. But these brothers have, you know, stuck it out through time. And they're still here. They're still relevant.

They're still a part of what's going on, what's now. One of them is a phenomenal producer, produced R&B. The other two is phenomenal MC, lyricist. Yes, sir. With the tribe coming back and doing their thing and De La Soul coming back and doing their thing, I can't wait for a new Naughty, Naughty, Naughty album. And right now, with no further ado, I would like to introduce some people

that I look up to personally. Naughty, by motherfucking nature. Hold on, before you make a call. It's not KG and Tretch. It's not Tretch and KG. It's not KG and Vinny. It's not Vinny and KG It's not KG and Vinny

It's not Vinny and Tretch It is all motherfucking three members Norty by fucking nature I'm so much of a fan of you guys I had to go research a couple of interviews I haven't seen interviews with all three of y'all in a minute. Am I bugging? No, you're not bugging.

Okay. It's been a minute. This is a moment. A lot of radio stations don't have it. That's why we banned some DJs. Yeah, we ain't radio. We ain't radio. Some DJs can't even come to New York.

Yeah, we don't get to that. They don't invite us to the station no fucking way. So we wait outside with the hood. It's fucking. Yeah, stop. We come to the station no fucking way. So we wait outside with the hood. It's fucking weird. We come to the real shit here. Okay, so look, let me ask y'all. Because all of y'all are from East Orange, correct?

All three of y'all. But are y'all from different parts of East Orange? Well, pretty much the same hood. The same hood is about a five block radius from each other. I'm from 15th Street. K is from 18th Street. Trutch is right across under the bridge at Grove Street right there. But you could moonwalk to each of our homes when we were kids. Three square mile radius of the whole hood.

Different middle schools and everything else. But everybody was there. Funny story. I'm born in Newark. So a lot of my family is from Newark was there. Funny story, I'm born in Newark so a lot of my family's from Newark right there. Me and Redman, we was little homies

that we hated each other just because I was from East Orange and he was from a block over in Newark. I always thought you got along. No, we was little. You feel me?

We got cool. Me and Redman got cool because we was a little... No, but I'm asking the hoods. The hoods? No, the hood. Never got along? It's so close.

Newark is the biggest city in Jersey. But after the riots and everything else in the 60s and everything else, a lot of people moved out of Newark. So they either went to East Orange, West Orange, boom, everything else.

But our whole family is Jersey, one of the smallest cities in there. But it was the most ghetto city out of the smallest cities there at three block radius. So how did... So you guys knew each other growing up? High school and stuff, yeah. Junior high school, all that kind of thing. Football, playing

Rams, and then high school we met up. Vin used to beatbox. So I knew Vin first. We in high school. I would think KG would be the one that used to beatbox. So I knew Vin first. We in high school. I would think KG would be the one that used to beatbox. Vin and K grew up 15th Street and 18th Street, three blocks away. You took Vin's shit.

Keep it real. So this nigga do what I'm doing with the machines. We went to the same high school out the bar, but Vin, I met him, and then we used to just, he used to beatbox. We used to rock out of health class all the time. And I was behind, and he beatboxed. I used to break dance and beatbox. he used to beatbox. We used to rock out of health class all the time. So I used to breakdance and beatbox.

So I would beatbox. Actually, our brother Jabril Peppers, Michigan Wolverines, they play in the night. But his father, I used to breakdance with his father. His father taught me how to breakdance. So I have to breakdance and I beatbox. But KG lived right across the street from me. I used to go beatbox for K. And then in health class

Tretch he always had he was a fan of Freddy Krueger back in Long nails and The front of your rap. Every day this kid would come with new lyrics in health class. Instead of fucking around with health, he would spit new bars to me every day. So I told K one day, like, this kid in my health class is the truth. We all, you know, linked up, did this talent show, and that was it. It was the new staff. Wait, so when y'all did this talent show, that was as a group, or y'all was doing it separately? Yeah, well, we did it. We wasn't really a group at that point.

Yeah, we wasn't. We just came together. We were just coming together because I'm a year older than them. So it was my senior year in high school, and they were having a talent show. And like Vince said, I was DJing, and I wanted to get in and do something. So I was just like, well, Dad, if you beatbox and I scratch, we're going to need an emcee. And then he said he brought Tretchen to it. So we just went in, and we weren't even a group. I just scratched in we just we put together really

We didn't have a name or nothing We was just practicing that we'd be up in like in my son porch up there like Vincent I used to be across street, so he would hear me practicing in the Sun porch So up there we were practice for this talent show and part of our routine scratched in the Beastie Boys. It's the new style. We had a name

and we needed it like that day. What's the name? New style. New style. That was after the talent show went over well.

We killed the talent show and we was like, yo, that whole shit kind of work. And we started off With the new style Let's call ourselves The new style Wow

And let me tell you Something else Okay Let's do what he is I'm learning hip hop history His family is from Queens You know I know that

We gonna get into that Oh whoa I'm not South side of Jamaica Left rack Left rack Yep South side Family So he had to get Coach on We said we gotta go To the talent show Southside Jamaica. Left rack. Left rack, yep. And left rack. And Jamaica. South. And left rack.

Family. So he had to go on. We said, we got to go to Town Show. We got to have coordinating shit. We the new style now. So he took us over. Shirt kings. Shirt kings.

And we got the new style jackets. Oh, classic. From Shirt Kings. OK. And boom. So all of that was going on. I'm trying to connect With everything So who shut down

New Style Who said We can't be New Style You know what Who shut down That was actually ShotKam and Chris Lighty Oh ShotKam

Flavor Unit Flavor Unit ShotKam Flavor Unit And Chris Lighty Alright wait a minute Let's get in the story Alright cool We ended up being on Sugar Hill Gang Records, which was Bon Ami.

Yeah, yeah. With New Style. So y'all see that picture of us with the New Style? K had the high top fade. We had the Gucci suits. That was signed up for Sugarhill Records. Wow. Bon Ami.

So we actually signed. Not Bon Ami. You talking about Bon Ami. Bon Ami. That was their subsidiary. After all the Sugarhill artists sued them and got off the label, they had another label called Bon Ami. So anyway, we signed a contract with our calling lawyers. We sued the Sugarhill Gang and signed it.

Right. And underage. Right. It got robbed for everything. Right. So the good thing that happened, I had my homie Moo Brown, Big Moo Brown. He had the quantum And everything else

We had to get off the contract So we was riding down Route 4 To T-Neck Technons and everything Up in there We gonna make these niggas Sign us off on a napkin

Wait till my sugar hill Okay You motherfucking right Right We caught an accident Had all the guns, everything up in it. He said,

hey, yo, I ain't got no license. The police about to come. We got these bags of guns, everything else. I said, well, you go that way.

I'll take these shits and I ran the fuck away and left. We was going to get our shit released like that. And it was a God blessing that we didn't because we was going to do some real nasty shit to get our release.

But when we came, we was like, yo, how we got with Flavio on it, try it out, boom, boom. Patchy, rest in peace. Patchy. We got a sign to Flavio. So are you basically telling me that you guys changed the name because Sugar Hill? Well, no, no, no, no, no. See, what happened is like when we were New Style,

we got with Flavor Unit and we were, actually we were doing talent shows and all that. So everybody around the hood, all through Jersey and all that, we had already started building a name. Everybody knew they were doing talent shows

and we were coming there and they would have the crowds judge it. They would let the crowds judge it and we would win every there and they would have the crowds judge it. They wouldn't let the crowds judge it. And we would win every time. So then they started feeling like we were coming with our own built-in crowd. So they changed and started bringing celebrities in like Biz or some different people and we still kept winning. So we were just like, man, we got to start spreading this out and start getting real

with it. Through that whole thing, Flavor Unit, 45 King, Tretch was already dabbing over there with them. They were like, yo, what's up with this group? New style. And at the time, they had Flavor Unit MCs, but they didn't have the management company at the time. So they were just starting the management of Flavor Unit management.

Shaquem and Latifah were starting that. And they wanted to get some new groups to sign, and we were one of the first ones. Especially from Jersey. Especially from Jersey. And they brought Apache over to sign, and we were one of the first ones. Especially from Jersey. Especially from Jersey. And they brought Apache over to us, and Apache co-signed us. And then we threw a party for ourselves at Upsala College out there in Jersey. And we invited them over, and they came and saw us perform, and they loved what they saw.

So then they took us on from then, and we started working on stuff and doing stuff. They started shopping our demo. Most of our records even recorded. We had OPP already on there. Wait, wait, wait. Prior to shopping your demo, you already recorded OPP? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, man.

Stop, stop. We went to the studio and all that. Y'all made OPP before y'all got signed? Absolutely. We was out in the block, man. We was out in the block. We was 18 years old when that record was written. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. It ain't even come out until like 1990. Okay, because I want to get straight to the point before after this. So, but how did that name Naughty by Nature arrive? That's what I'm getting to. That's what I'm saying. So, in between all that, in between all that, in between all that, we was dabbing out. We was dabbing out in the block and doing whatever we had to do.

So, we was in the studio. We recorded our demo. We had everything. We was, we had, like you said, go we was in the studio. We recorded our demo. We had everything. We was, we had, like you said, go to Shirt Kings. We did all that stuff. We was building it up, building it up, doing the grind, doing the grind. And we had actually, we even had shopped our demo with Tommy Boy before Flavor Unit. And they turned us down.

The same exact demo now. OPP, all that on it. But once we got the politics behind us, actually Tommy Boy never even signed us. Warner Brothers signed us. Benny Bedina signed us to Warner Brothers. Why are you skipping stories now? How it went from Naughty by Nature to New South Wales.

No, no, because we didn't get to that. No, you went past when we Warner Brothers signed and shit. Can I tell how it went from new style, high top fades and all of good in the fucking go ahead. Go ahead. We had the biggest drug block in Jersey. He's always talked to old man day, rest in peace up there.

It's like, why you always talk to the old man over there, man? Like you always talk to the old heads. I'm peace, up there. It's like, why you always talk to the old man over there, man? Like, you always talk to the old heads. I'm like, you don't know the jewels that they have. Nigga, I'm over here looking. Old man Dave told me one time. He got legs out.

He was in war, all that kind. He said, let me tell you something, little son. I don't know who exactly, but it's somebody on this motherfucking block. It's probably one of them old bitches over there. Just saying what colors y'all got on. And anytime you see when the cops come, DTs come, you know, they go to y'all and roll right up in the alley. It's one of them old bitches or something up there. I said, for real?

From New Style to North. All right, shut up. Now, all the motherfucking defades'm trying to say how we was clean looking And we was fresh in the late 80s You know you had to be fresh We had the Bally's, the Suede Suits Gold Nugget, nigga the Gucci Links The motherfucking real gold

Not from Canal Street 18th Street Old man said I said yo Anybody have a meeting I called him I said yo somebody out here Saying what we got knowing we are from this fucking day on. Yo, you didn't get this chain off of you. We take a look.

Yo, you robbed the old. No, everybody all black. OK. A by dirty as fuck. 15th Street down there. All of them. They had bands. There's looking like painful.

All the heat on them. They was dirty. That's when the was looking like Payton Ford. All the heat on them, everything I was reading was dirty. That's when the fades turned to braids. Time to braids. Yep. Everybody came in black. Grandmama's kids, the DTs roll around. What they got on all black? They see motherfuckers and, cause they put some strollers in the baby all black.

Like, everybody all black. I go up to the college, I feed dollar. I feed dollar. They like, oh, that's a fiend block. From new style to the college. I feed dollar. I feed dollar. They're like, oh, that's a fee block. From New Style to Norty. This nigga's dirty. They raving. Everybody else all the fuck around.

And so that's when the, and we had a song from New Style. And it was like, I was just looking through titles. I'm like, yo, we need a name. Fuck New Style. That's the 80s when we, and the name of one of our songs was Norty by Nature. I said that. Yeah, Norty by Nature was the name of a new style. Hold on, can I like my Naughty by Nature lighter that he gave me?

That he gave me a year ago. Let's go, yo. I got that. Let's make some noise. Let's make some noise. Let's make some noise. We came here a year ago that I didn't even know I was going to be here. Hand in my pocket.

That's what's up. All right, all right. So Naughty by Nature was a name of a song. It was a title of a song. When we were new style, we had a song called Naughty by Nature. That's crazy. So when we got the flavor unit, flavor unit was like, all right, y'all are new style, and y'all signed to this old Sugar Hill label.

We got to bed all of that. So we didn't clear it. We switched that name. Tommy Boy had to go because we ain't tell Tommy Boy that we was on contract over there in New South. And the crazy thing about this. They bought him off. Crazy thing about this, back then, right? And this is what's crazy about the evolution of, you know, the hip-hop executive.

Real nigga shit. Back then, we used to be on the block. So when it was time to change from New Style to Naughty by Nature, when we was first pitching the name Naughty by Nature to Shaquem and Flavio. They said it's too long. They was like, it's too long, it's whatever, but you know who was there with him? We had Shaquem from

Flavio Unit, Chris Lighty, and Jimmy Henchman. All three of those guys were on the block with us. They pulled up in that truck. And all of those cats was good friends, man. Nobody on the block. They pulled up in that truck. And all of those cops was on it. Nobody on the block. They was like, man, man.

You just hit. Ain't nobody all black just come out on the mother. Everybody, hold the fuck up. Where's the group? They said, it's them three niggas. Them niggas there. We was very niggas. 70 deep rolling clubs, nigga. And we said, we some Jersey motherfucking there. We was very niggas. 70 deep rolling clubs, nigga.

If we said we was from Jersey and motherfucking Spice, we'd get motherfucking booed. We said, we got booed one time. All right. Nigga, we going to New York. All right.

70, 80 fucking deep every time. You had to back then. You know, you couldn't. Yo, Brooklyn niggas,

man, they was so deep, they was robbing their own niggas, by myself. Right, right, right. Like, nigga, we coming in. We in Jersey, goddammit. Let me ask y'all.

So you're saying that you did the actual OPP record prior to the demo? That was like the demo? Yeah, I did. I was on the record. OPP, like, Everything's Gonna Be Alright. A couple of songs off the first album, like Rhyme Will Shine on. Well, no. The songs with Afro on it No like

Everything's gonna be alright Was done when we were Working late at night That was done when we was Working on the album I was I was fucking this broad My first pussy I had

I fucked in the park And it was this other nigga bitch That I ain't like And he just was hating on me And I was like OPP Like it's a person It ain't come like all of them.

And broke then. We had the truth. You went too fast. Hold on. You were bad. You were too fucking bad. I got my first piece of pussy in Raleigh Park.

In Raleigh Park. In Raleigh Park. R-I-L-E-Y. I was homeless. I was sleeping there hustling all night and eating stars up the hill. And I got my first piece of pussy

up in there and it was this motherfucker I was never fucking it was like sis sis and then he was all like a little

dirty ass nigga boom boom boom you know I had the braids all that he sleep in the park nigga this motherfucker

boom boom boom and he just can't come by I fuck this bitch in the bark in the fuck it was like OPP

and Moo Brown that we was talking about before he used to always say yo I'm done with OPP and Moo Brown that we was talking about before he used to always say yo I'm down with OPM and then he made up OPP what's OPM

other people's money money cause he was like the big homie yo I'm down with OPP so we always like and then Vince was like we always back and we come back

and Vince was like well I'm down with OPP he said what's that other people pussy hey our reality is and then I had to round drive straight to it I heard the our reality is... And I had the rhyme that I was waiting to it. I heard the hook.

I said, would you... You had the hook? No, he said that. I said O.P.M. He said O.P.M. He said O.P.M. He slept the whole song. But I had a verse already about fucking this nigga bitch that was pissing me and shit.

Anything else. My pussy that was other people pussy. And I said, oh, let me make it for the girl. Yo, that song went like 10 years, motherfucker. They even knew what it meant because they would have never played it. They was bleeping out. They was bleeping out. OPP got there.

I remember a lot of babies was made. I remember making that record. We was sitting on 18th Street in my bedroom. There was bunk beds in there. And I remember Trey sitting there with his arm were sitting on 18th Street in my bedroom. There was bunk beds in there. And I remember Trey sitting there with his arm on the top of the bunk bed with it. And just with the notebook up there. And saying it to me. And I just remember that day.

I was just like, dang, this is crazy. You knew it was going to be a hit? No, I didn't. I just thought it was dope. Because at that time, you probably made hit records. No, I didn't make hit records. We were out. I was making hit records, but I'm tomorrow I didn't make It wasn't

First hip-hop record the MTV broke like really really broke one really got behind it because I'm MTV I'll never say ho ho ho to MTV bro I'ma give it to my motherfucking forefathers right alert Run DMC

we don't even got ass trash stickers on the shop Run DMC rock box walk this way and open that fucking shit

for hip hop or MTV as far as MTV you ain't never going to break the record even. Alright, man, fuck that. You just said we open the doors for MTV.

No, no, no. No, he's saying that song. That song. I know what you're saying. You're talking about a record that MTV did a real campaign for. Yes, yes, yes. Hold down with MTV.

Can y'all tell the real fucking story? Nigga, what made that shit? Orlando Brown out this. I'm not going to say anything about sugarcoating. I tell these motherfuckers. Damn, I already got charges, nigga. Nigga, I'm going to go in here. Listen, man.

What turned this shit around was video jukebox. Jukebox, yeah. That is true. we change the whole shit that I get any time you fall in the video play OPP play 24 hours all day said we got The video jukebox, when you call in, and every time you call in, there's some time to make stuff. Man, Ralph is the OG. He played our shit before. We played new style shit. You know what I mean?

But the video jukebox, when you paid 99 cents or whatever to see the video all day, it was 24 hours a fucking day, right? Yo, they had to change the format. Like, wait a minute, man. These motherfuckers is getting heavy plays. That's why MTV jumped in. Yo, MTV had to end. Fab Five, Freddie, Dr. Dre, and Lava.

Yo, MTV Raps. Down with MTV, yo. Yo, MTV Raps. When yo MTV Raps came out, then we got everybody. We was doing the spring breaks with it. Top one. Charcoal Quest, Buster Bull, something like that. Everything.

All of that. You feel what I'm saying? So with them opening the doors for us, it was like when we came in, he was a genius where he just had the substitution tracking and put a fucking ABC, we was like, how are we going to clear this and it's Warner Brothers with Benny Bedini he was like um

well um you probably just won't have no uh production uh you have writers but uh 100% publishing are going to go to

the Jackson 5 and we say yes yes was sampled by the Jackson 5 no they said yeah I always thought

I never thought y'all cleared that sample we cleared it I always thought it was um y'all cleared that Oh no we cleared that I always thought it was Chopped up They took a lot of attention They took a lot of attention

They took a lot of attention No I said hey look Hey Norris you know how Premier Yeah yeah yeah Now I tell you what did happen We'll still be selling dope on 18th Street. If I tell you, I'll tell you what did happen, though.

We wasn't getting no paper on that, didn't we? We ended up getting sued for Hip Hop Parade. Because K-Chef spat out. Hold on, everybody. Hip Hop Parade! Oh! Hey! Oh! Hey! Oh! So good. Hey! You know, there's a lot of platforms out there where the people interview new artists.

There's a lot of platforms where artists can get broken off of these platforms. You know, I looked at me and my partner. I looked at inside the NBA. And we see, you know, that's Elliott Wilson training. Don't worry about that. It's a hater guy training. As long as we ain't on the track, nigga. But listen, he trains all the time.

Nigga, you ain't from New York. I'm from Jersey. We looked at inside. As long as we ain't on the track, nigga. Why you want to do that York. I'm from Jersey. We looked at inside. I was really on the track, man. Why you want to do that shit, man? Like, we worried about some training. We were all three, y'all. Listen, so we looked at,

we looked at, it's Helly Winston training. We looked at inside the NBA, and we said Charles Barkley, and we seen Shaquille O'Neal, and we seen my brother from Left Rack City, Kenny Smith, and we said, damn,

there ain't a platform for hip-hop to do that right right but not only that even with them they will interview new artists this platform is to is is to continue to salute our legends we want to give them flowers when they can smell them and we want to give them trees when they can inhale them exactly you know what I'm saying because you know why

so many of us when it comes to certain time in our life so many people want to write you off. You got five years in the game. You got ten years

in the game. You can't do it again. You got 15, 20 years and they just always want to write us off. I want this to be a platform that our artists, our legends

can always come on and we can salute them and praise them. Exactly. And we don't ridicule people and we don't talk about if you got caught with this chick on 13th Street. No, ain't no gossip shit.

We don't do that gossip shit. All we do is salute our legends. And we want you to know that tonight we are saluting Naughty by Nature and Homegirl with the Glasses. Please chill out. We hear you a lot. Make some noise!

Naughty by nature. I'm with him like... He be hearing shit on here. He be hearing shit on here. I can't take you nowhere, that's why I take you everywhere. Everywhere. Hip-hop and rap. I think the thing is, what you guys

are doing here, and you create a platform where cats like us could come through, man. That's right. People need to understand about longevity. That's right. Even DJs, MCs, longevity, creativity, brand management. Because a lot of people don't think. Longevity is disposable nowadays, and I want to be the exact opposite of that. So continue what you're saying.

Well, the thing is, is like, look, we just coming from rehearsals with a cat like Rob Bass, It Takes Two. Shop the hall in New York. That record came out in the 80s, man, and cats look at Rob Bass and they think, yo, he don't work, he not eating.

Rob Bass is still grossing. He's grossing millions of dollars a years and just touring alone you know what i mean so the thing yeah yeah but look this is the thing about veteran artists we out here man there's tons of them out here we eating we're on this package right now it's called i love the 90s tour right so salt and pepper and vanilla ice like cats that people can vanilla ice you're not thinking about this cat yeah the reality is is that salt and pepper and and vanilla ice just headline a tour by themselves all arenas and amphitheaters 110 dates Salt-N-Pepa and Vanilla Ice. Salt-N-Pepa and Vanilla Ice. They sold over 600,000 tickets.

600,000 tickets. Over 600,000 tickets sold in 2017. So this is what we about to re-up on in 2017. It's two legs of this joint. And not only that, let's also just big up other legends that drop music nowadays because it seems like the music is coming back to the realness.

Right. And we have to salute people like De La Soul. That's right. Who hit number one. Yeah, I'm building it. That's right. Who are independent.

That's right. Then we got to also turn around and also salute Tribe Called Quest for doing not only a phenomenal album that sounds like 1990 now.

Exactly. Like, it sounds like what's happening now. album that sounds like 1990 now. Exactly. Like, it sounds like what's happening now. But it sounds like our shit. Because every time we describe real hip-hop,

people will say, that's that 90s shit. And I think that's ageism. You know what the problem is? I think that's ageism. Can I have translations? Mm-hmm. Let's go.

You got these radio stations and program directors, man. Mm-hmm. That let you After 30 in hip hop Like you gotta retire Like you knew these guys Like you ain't got it no more

And it's a whole thing Instead of a mixture And everything else When you chop off the head Of the elders The young run wild Exactly Like Chicago

In my opinion Just in the music as well In my opinion When Chicago locked up They ain't the music as well In my opinion When Chicago locked up They ain't the music as well It's just hip hop And they locked up All of these

These big dances In Chicago Look how crazy Chicago is So I understand What you're saying I'm sorry Trust me No you are exactly right

Because it's like The animal in the kingdom When you see the elephants And anything else Or the big bulls They kill them For the touch bone The bulls

The little ones run wild Because they ain't got the mail. They don't listen to the moms. Right. It's the same thing when you take the head off of hip hop. Right. You kill the culture

and then the young ones is running wild and they ain't talking about nothing because they just about the paper instead of the culture. Damn. So when the program directors don't have a mixture, it used to be a time

when you go to West Coast, you'll hear 70% West Coast music with everybody else. Midwest, you when you go to West Coast, you'll hear 70% West Coast music spilling with everybody else. Midwest, you'll hear liberal. East Coast, you'll hear 70%. You know where you at.

You turn on the radio. Now, everywhere you turn on the radio, you think you're down south. And they think boom, boom, boom. Well, that's because it's become corporate and all those radio stations

are owned by a select group. So they have one radio playlist. They have one playlist that's spread across the board on all of their stations. So it don't matter what city it's in, it's the exact same format. It's the exact same format across the board. Gifts and shit. Start playing all this shit the same sound fucking shit. And they're syndicated as well.

Not only are they playing the same records, they sound the same. You don't have nobody that's homegrown. But listen, that's the beauty of today's technology and tools. I'm not the guy that plays the old school game and say records,

labels and radio stations. You have the internet now. You have podcasts. You have social media. And the reality is that the labels, they did the work for us. You know, they did the work alone. I gotta disagree. I gotta disagree.

They did the work alone with us. So tell me, bud, so how the fuck was we running up in there with snakes and rats dropping them off in there, pulling plugs, having releases on napkins for translation? So what you have now is,

what you have now is, you can do it all yourself. Windows are draw. They still play our catalog every day. So it's not about what's playing on today's 9 to 5 radio.

You got satellite radio. You got on-conjure radio. You're going to direct the fan, too. Right. You're going to direct the fan. When you have this type of wave that y'all put this message out. And it's coming back to direct fans and everything. So it's a do-it-yourself business.

I like to play the South Pizzeria joint. We built this joint with our head. And now the internet gives us a chance to just keep managing our brand by our hands. And my mind, I own do-it-yourself records. Exactly. You can just post anything and the whole world see it. So it's like, it's so the labels so the labels You like fuck y'all now We 99 C singles

But the good thing is too as well is that We came before that whole 360 time and all that other thing Of all of that because Exactly a lot of us did And that allowed record companies To spend millions of dollars on our Brand like you look at our local

Look at our local And they can't take that money back companies to spend millions of dollars on our brand like you look at it stayed out that it kept the whole hip-hop like we still here like own anymore. They spent millions of dollars to help us build this, and now we walked away with it. Right. Yeah. You know, you can't do that when you get 360. You can't do that today. You can't do that today. No, not today.

And that's why the model is changed. If you sign, they're going to lock you in. That's why the model is changed. If you want to do a podcast, if you want your own liquor, if you want anything. But you know what they call it now? Translation. It gives them an offer they can't refuse. They're not calling it 360 deals no more.

They're calling it content deals. Right. Content deals. So it sounds a little bit more lenient. Yeah. But you know what? Leo Combs was the person that invented the 360. Exactly.

And it stuck with him. But now other people are doing it, but they're doing it understaffed. You know what 360 is? I can't drink it, baby. Translation still. You know what 360 is? Still. A fucking circle.

You got to have one drink. I don't drink. You don't drink at all? I don't drink. I don't drink. I don't drink I don't drink they don't drink curse fornicate none of that baby we good

you need one of those guys on your team you need somebody you need somebody designated driver yeah designated driver

big ol' ass motherfuckin' I tell you this don't know me I could put on my businessman hat and I'll understand because of the transition that happened in the record industry game.

I could kind of understand the 360 deal because, you know, back in the day, they got paid off for physical content. That was the albums, the CDs, the cassettes. That was tons of money. Tons of money. Tom Silverman told us, look, when I finan i financed your album i made y'all sold over two million copies of a cassette a six dollar cassette you sold over two million copies that's 12 million dollars i already recouped your album long before i even put it out it was the rest of the money that's why i had to go up in that motherfucker and tell the whole translation

motherfucker so now but that was because of you had albums, you had cassettes, you had CDs, you had physical content. Now with everything streaming and, you know, once you go up on the internet, it spreads like wildfire. So music is basically a loss leader right now. You basically give, well, back then. It's disposable. Back then. It's not the way now, though. But back then.

Translation. Translation. Translation. The average of 150 shows for the past 25 years. 25-year anniversary for Naughty by Nature. Let's make some noise. Woo! Translation. He was saying the hustle.

You're hustling. You're hustling. Let me put it like this to you. Because remember back in the days, A person would come out with an album And you would live with it Like nobody really said Illmatic was a classic When it came out that week It was the next week

They digested it I don't know where you was at Nowadays everybody just said Stuffed in the linen they threw us And left rack threw us You hear the eyes say oh shit I was in the first day motherfucker Let's toast to that Something that Lyndon They threw us And Left Rack threw us We was saying You hear the eyes Yeah oh shit Yup I was in the first game

Motherfucker Let's toast to that I don't know where you at Come on where you at But what I'm saying is What I'm saying is Right now People don't do that

People don't Analyze the album People just look there And people will be So much stans Meaning there's so much Fans of these people That they just say

Their album's a classic And their album Been out 72 hours Well a lot of people Don't's a classic and their album's been out 72 hours. Well, a lot of people don't even do that now because it's been more of a singles game the past decade. What the term you're talking about, right, the term you're talking about is back when we came up, when you created an album, it was called The Body of Work. At first, it was an album. You were listening to every song without fast forwarding. Every song without fast forwarding. Every song without

fast forwarding. And you were in the credits. And you were saying, yeah. And you wanted to know who was juicing. And you were saying, why? You wanted to know the end on. Right now, you get a digital album. Mr. Lee, welcome back. We missed you, my brother. I gotta toast because when we talk about albums, right, we

talk about the skits, the everything. And R.I and RIP to our brother Ricky Harris the comedian oh that's right you know skits with death row and all of those cats man so we got a big up Ricky Harris but see that that's the difference from our era. Like, I remember about maybe four or five years ago, I just wanted to shop an album

because I always, you know, created our own music. And we make it and then we shop it from the beginning. So I had went, and this is like four or five years ago, and I went to a company and they offered me a good deal. But when I sat down with them, they said, play me this. And I played it, and they played me this, and I played it. And they was like, all right, cool, we'll make the deal. And I was like, you don't want to hear the B-sides?

Right. You don't want to hear the belly? Right. You don't want to hear the gum under the table? You don't want to hear the belly. Right. You don't want to hear the gum under the table. You don't want to hear, you know, my fingernails off of my big toe. Like, that's the whole, what is it called? A body of work. So you got to hear my whole, hear the top of my head.

But they only wanted the two singles. They heard me have some... They had you at Hello. Yeah, I know. I didn't take the check. Oh, come on. You said they gave us the check. I didn't take the check. I think right now...

And you're swagging and everything. I think right now, even with what you guys are doing, Norby, even back then, four years ago when you were shopping at Demo, you may not have known the importance of your brand until you do the podcast. You may not have realized how many motherfuckers out there love you because you're still shopping the Demo instead of going straight up the middle. I'm going to be honest with you, man. What it was was I had did so much projects independent and I started spending so much of my own money, $15,000 at a time, $50,000 at a time, $75,000 at a time. And what we just found out is that people, this payola shit is being shut down in our

city and I got to applaud that. You understand what I'm saying? But back then, I didn't know that. And I'm independent, so I gotta applaud that. You understand what I'm saying? But back then, I didn't know that and I'm independent so I'm doing that. So I'm like, I don't want to spend

my own money no more. Let me go back to a, I know this label don't exist, a era stuff. Let me go back to a epic. Let me go back and when I did that,

but this wasn't that. This was one of them new labels and they, you know, I had a little buzz at the time, another buzz I got now and they said, let me hear the single and I played it and they said, I had a little buzz at the time and they said let me

hear the single and I played him and said let me hit number two and that was it but I had a whole body of work I want to play I love my life for Carl Thomas and you know that might not make the radio but the streets is gonna feel that you put your heart into it the money the money But look the money The money you Guess the fuck what What you said The money you invested in there And motherfuckers don't know To invest in they self

Everybody wanna deal Or big shit When you did You see what it did All over Y'all was known Like you put it in The station boom

It all worked And da da And then the radio station Don't play us Fuck that When they call us For they motherfucking shows We charging triple I mean the station boom it all worked and da da and then the radio station don't play us fuck that when they call us for they motherfucking shows we charging triple

I mean do you think about even now we might have a day we can fit in we can't even go to a record label now and just

charge them triple it's all business no more you gotta build you gotta build you gotta have you gotta have followers

you don't need them you don have followers. You don't need them. You don't need them. You don't need them to describe Let me ask you that KG. So when an artist does build his own following, Why do you need that? You don't. You don't need them.

Now, now, now, no, no, no, no. But if you, unless you want, they throw a bag of money at you and take it. Yeah, yeah. Why not? This a bitch and hoe, though, not a bag of money, let me tell you. We gonna have these cousins over here on the 15th. I'm talking about crazy.

They write you a crazy check. No, no, no. If they write you a crazy check, you gonna take it. I think they know me. My thing is we own our shitby, my thing is like this. We own our shit. Veteran artists, when you're creative with your brand, once you're established, we're all musicians. We all have classic hip-hop shit.

Hip-hop is about the diverse hustle. It's not only the liquor. It's not only the podcast. Look at what 50 is doing with Power. All of these guys went. It's about being creative with your brand. You create another lane.

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Hip hop is a global culture. So what you doing, I was here last time. I sat through it, man. For you guys to travel the world and go in different pockets from Brazil to Vietnam. And your father was a war vet. I thought he was going to die in Haiti. Right. Just to see all these different hip-hop cultures around the globe, man.

It's crazy. But it's being creative with your brand. It's being creative with your brand. Because. It's being creative with your brand. Because the thing about this, the thing about this is this, right? I can tell that everybody here,

at some point, if we wouldn't have got paid for what we love to do, we would have continued to do it. Exactly. I would have continued, like in the beginning.

Yeah, but we would have been in some houses tying motherfuckers up, getting safe set the time because this shit was fucked up. Let's make some noise for Trey. All right, n the beginning. Yeah, but we would have been in some houses tying motherfuckers up, getting safe at the time because this shit was fucked up. Let's make some noise for Tratton. We're talking about hip-hop and love, but he wasn't tying niggas up.

Translating hip-hop says a whole lot about what we're doing with Tiffany's Pimple. It's definitely saying a whole lot about people. Many people hope where we had shit to do, God damn it. Because... Love hip-hop. And that's what the love of hip- damn it. Because, and that's

what the love of hip hop is. The other day, they had a hottest MC list. A lot of people were offended. And I understood why a lot of people were offended because but then when they break it down, they say the hottest MC

list. Well, we have to take MC out of there. You just got to say the hottest. The hottest rappers. Artists. Or just the hottest. Just the hottest. You know how they trick the whole gang? You can't have the top 10 in hip-hop.

You got to have like a top 50. Yeah, that's true. That's true. You'll cut the whole lot of motherfucking chatter off the side. You disrespect it. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. Man, lyrics, I don't get to that.

K-R-S-1 could take a live motherfucker straight off the dome without even writing nothing down. They'd be making, like, what MCs you talking about? Right, right. And that guy could bring to the motherfucking show and everybody just stand... And tear, right. And that guy, I could bring to the motherfucking show and everybody just stand

and tear asses. The thing is, when you get into that, it's a never-ending argument because it all depends on how old you are, where you live at. Wait, when you say hottest,

what are we talking about? Like just, like your top five or top ten when you get into any of that. It all comes down to where you from. It's an objection. It's an objection.

Or, you know, how old you are. What was the 80s? What kind of music you went to. 2000. Where you grew up at. You can't ask a guy from Cali or expect a guy from Cali to have the same list as a guy from New York. Let me ask y'all something.

Recently, a guy named Lil Yachty said he thought that Biggie was overrated. I absolutely didn't take no offense to it. Not because I don't love Big. Of course I love Big. Biggie's my homie. He wasn't raised on Big. But he wasn't raised. It's like if you ask me if Joe Louis was ill.

And I'm going to tell you, yeah, from Joe Louis is ill from the replays I saw. I've never seen Joe Louis. I'm going to tell you you Floyd Mayweather is the greatest boxer I ever seen period because that's the truth but I doubt if you would have said he was overrated Joe Lewis I wouldn't say he was overrated that's a new joke but I think the problem is my big brother Mike Tyson was the best I ever saw my brother Mike Tyson I think the problem is if you're asking another current lyricist. See, Lil Yachty, he does his music, he does his style of music. That's like Kendrick Lamar or Chase the Rapper or J. Cole saying, you know what, I think Biggie was overrated.

Because now you look at, you know what, you're a lyricist and you know what? I think Biggie was overrated. Because now you're looked at, you know what? You're a lyricist, and you know that. You know in comparison. There's different names for MCs. You're a lyricist. We sing that part right there. That part. What's my nigga name that sing that shit?

That part. That's my nigga. Man, man, man. That's the lyricist. Have you got it? I respect you, Schoolboy Q. Here's another thing. That's N.O.R.E.

And you started following me on Twitter. I respect that. I've seen the follow. Shout out to T.D. Yo, man. Yo, man. No, we buildin'. We buildin'.

We buildin'. Man, listen. Half of the hip in hip-hop need a hip replacement. You feel what I'm sayin'? I don't know what you mean, but I love the way we felt it. Man, listen, half of the hip in hip-hop need a hip replacement. You feel what I'm saying? I don't know what you mean, but I loved the way you said it. Yo, man, half of the hip in hip-hop need a hip replacement.

Because we trying to say... Because that shit crippled these men. Sabia Hito. Yeah, I understand. Fuck the world, don't ask me for squat because I'm strapped with them shots that'll make your pop lock. You in it to win it, don't make me to game, it's on top of the line of tennis.

Ain't that damn thing winning. Say it on your video, right from the getty, y'all. Wanna see a Vinnie float? Toast ass and titty show. Make a dirty city glow. Can't stand a shitty show. Fuck who that Vinnie know. Let your hoker Minnie know.

We smoking enemies like chimneys. Holla Hennessy. The industry got four or five mini-me's. The home of stolen cars and new tags. Buddha bags and do-rag The industry got four or five mini-me's. The homer stolen cars and new tags. Buddha bags and do-rags that trade one ring for two jags.

And if you ever hear them hip-hop niggas like tell them the T-throw to the E3 to the C3 is back. Let's goddamn

make some noise for Webber. That was hot. That was hot. These niggas can't do this. Niggas said, can I rhyme for you? I was with my baby mama's dropping off some money and shit in the Bronx.

And he was like, I was like, do you know, punk? I said, if you can't say this, I don't even want to. Dead in the middle with little Italy. Little did we know that we riddled some little men who didn't do literally. All right, I won't rhyme, but I said, I bet the fuck you won't. You know what they want't do literally Woo! All right, I want my box. Yeah, exactly. I bet y'all fucking want it. You know what they want to say?

They want to say, let me go see my box. You know what they want to say? I'm late already. I'm on that lane. My jeans mean. I'm on that lane. If you too high to battle,

yo, you get fucked up saying some shit. That's how they want to lie right now. I'm all fucked up. I'm all off the cat in that lane. You getting fucked up saying some shit. That's how they want to lie right now. I'm all fucked up. I'm all off the cat and then lean. You're getting fucked up. That's a hit record right there. Guess what, Bill?

Guess what? This is what I caution. This is what I caution. I wish the nigga wore like a kitchen cabinet. What? This is what you get. What the fuck? That was hard.

What did you just say? What did you just say? What did you just say? Nigga, the promoter's like, you know what? You can't roll another one. He's a big booty because he got a big booty. Yo, man. Yo, yo, yo.

This is what I got to call shit. They going to fuck him up. He said what? We all must be careful. We all must be careful. Hey, Norby, I want you to hear this too. I think we all must be careful. Hey, Norby, I want you to hear this too. I think we all must be careful, man, because one thing's for sure is things evolve. Music evolves.

And we need to pay attention to hip-hop music, what we know it as. A lot of people are complaining because they hear it sonically, lyrically, evolving beyond what we grew up on. It's the same thing from bebop and cab calloway days that was all young music so are you saying hold on okay fast forward to disco music or soul music teddy pendergrass and all of those disco music hip-hop took out disco music so that whole genre if you watch a unsung all of those guys that were hot back in the day and try to do it by the time you try to redo It it's evolved on to something else. That's why you feel like you don't have a ear We need to cherish and and really protect hip-hop man because if it evolves off into something else

You're gonna be stuck like in a time. And what he's saying in translation is, these motherfuckers would play a whole lot of different shit, because when you see it, them out of that range, they got talent, but they think they got to make it all, and all of the shit you hear

sound like one fucking song. All the 70s, 80s, 80s, 90s, all that shit, everybody's shit sound different. They have to. Now they got them all sounding, got a sound like that to be there. They only sound like one fucking track.

Guess what? Your next level of Lil Yachty and those next guys are like, my music ain't even hip-hop. I don't know what y'all talking about. You were saying genres took over genres. The difference with hip-hop is it's cannibalizing itself. It's changing within

the same genre. And it's a lot of hot. Yeah. It's changing within the same genre. And it's a lot of hot new music that don't sound like it as well. It's just like biology cancer cells. It's definitely going to evolve into something different. No matter what, even if it's cannibalizing itself, the eventuality is that it's going to evolve into something different. That's why all the EDM cats Is you know Blowing up

And a lot of hip hop DJs Y'all know that For the past five years A lot of hip hop DJs Just went straight EDM I'm out I'm out They bail

But let me ask y'all Both a question Or three of y'all a question But should hip hop Be categorized Like you know Hip hop Like sub genres

Within hip hop Yeah Like sub genres In, you know, hip-hop. Like sub-genres within hip-hop? Yeah, like sub-genres in hip-hop. Like real hip-hop. Classic hip-hop. Authentic hip-hop. I mean, we do it to ourself anyway. Some people call it backpack hip-hop. Conscious gangsta, this, that, right.

But you cannot cage. You can't box in creativity. Yeah, that's true. You can't tell hip-hop what it is and what it can't do. All you can do is work to the bricks It's like the pyramid that you don't have a little pyramid some of them fucking pyramids is so big so many people worked on that Pyramid that it's bigger than yours It's bigger than yours so

Creativity you don't ever want you can you could put your own stuff out via in the humanity You don't ever want to do that You can put your own stuff out That's the evolution of humanity And own yourself You ain't got to pay nobody off You can't be from Africa and go to Europe And combine cultures And come up with some fly shit To move global humanity forward

No Stay over here because this culture is that That's that That's what Translation stay over here little nigga Translations, stay over here, little nigga boy. That's why. Little nigga boy, stay over here. Yeah, we're going to start saying change.

And look, and he's the other thing. This is why I came to you. And he's the other thing, though. Then you get into, and you're crazy. Then you get into, but then you get into this. Look, hip-hop is born from wherever it's born. So many people from so many different cultures, regions, ethnicities, they all participate, love, absorb hip-hop.

And then when they try to regurgitate it, this Asian nigga shouldn't be rapping. The white boy shouldn't be rapping. This guy shouldn't be rapping. That's not fly. Can't do that. guy shouldn't be rapping. That's not fly Can't do that. You can't do that Translation fuck you radio station Translate for you. I mean fuck y'all we do our so when you got shit like this. I'm going to whip out on you. We got to quit it. Come on. We ain't got no gifts.

We got gifts too. Oh, shit. Where are the gifts at, Ray? It's this nigga's translation. He said it ain't gifts. This nigga's translation. Yo, Ray, translation. We need gifts.

Translation. I already sent the gifts. I sent those gifts already. I'm just showing y'all how we bringing in the new year, y'all. Yeah, you better be leaving some of that work. You gonna get jacked pulling that shit out, nigga. And those are the... What size you wearing? I'm ten and a half.

Yeah, yeah. I sent them. I'm in. I ain't gonna lie. If I got those, I'm framing those. I'm not wearing those. I'm putting that in my... I'm putting that in my kitchen. I'm putting that in my kitchen. You're not wearing one design. Yeah, the kitchen. We got that footwear work. I'm putting that in my kitchen.

Yeah, the kitchen. We got that footwear work. We bringing in the new year. See, listen. I don't know if y'all know this. I only support rapper shit. So I look, look. Besides Hennessy, they're going to cut a check eventually. But everybody else, they either cut a check or they rap.

We support rap. We got F and vodka. I don't know why they didn't bring out the F and vodka. Hold on, man. And we're the Tiger Ball. We're the Tigern Vodka. I don't know why they didn't bring out the F'n Vodka. Hold on, man. And we're the Tiger Bowl. We're the Tiger Bowl. We don't have no Tiger Bowl.

And they need no sponsorship. But we're going to take another shot. It's time for shots. Oh, shit. Security. Oh, you are security. Tress ready. Another shot, god damn it. This is your KG. Oh, this is yours. Why you pour it?

Because I'm about to say, I'm working on it. You're working on it. We're not drinking nothing. No, because it's the same as what rapper's doing. Because I'm about to say, I'm working on it. You're working on it. You're working on it. You're drinking nothing. You're working on it. You're working on it. No, because he's saying this for a while. I'm like, who's next? This is for a while. You're doing smoke, right? Yeah.

Now you want more hot sauce in my shot? Nah, I'm not trying to. To some of us boys, hot sauce in shots. Come on. You sneaky ass nigga. Nah, I'm kidding. I get it. I get it.

I mean, shit. Oh, you're not taking a shot. I'm sorry. Nah, I'm not. You got a shot? You take a shot of Ciroc. You can take a shot of Ciroc. You've been on white. Don't it. That means shit. Oh, you're not taking a shot. I'm sorry. Nah, I'm not. You got a shot? You take a shot of Ciroc. You can take a shot of Ciroc. You been on white.

Don't switch it up. Yeah. But that's a mixed drink, right? That's a mixed drink. So, yeah. Not that strength. We're going to call that strength. That blue dot strength.

Oh, you do blue dot strength, man. And I got a big up. I got a big up Diddy and a Diddy D-Rock and a Ciroc family. Yeah, big up. We did our 25th anniversary pool party this year. So Ciroc came through with the sponsor show. I just wanted to show you how we do it. Hey, no, you came to the, like, one of the cookouts in the past.

Of course I did. Yeah, I remember you came before. Yeah, yeah. I came to, like, I came to one before nobody knew me. And you know K.O. and the brother, poof. That's right. That's right. Come on.

You was over in West Island for a minute, right? I used to live in West Island. Yeah, yeah. I got a shot of what? Could you look at this motherfucker? Do this look like a double shot of water? Don't talk to me like that. You know it's a goddamn shot.

Yo, translation, man. Translation. This shit is on this motherfucker. Let's go. Yo, real quick. Fun fact. Y'all told us to be crazy. Fun fact.

And I told videos the last time. Y'all had to remember the craziest video. The remix. Yeah, the remix. I'm in the remix from the Miami. The Miami niggas is the craziest. Oh, okay, yeah. It's me and my crew.

Oh, yeah? And what's the video? Why don't we show Broward County? We showed on the license plate. You found us out because you showed the Broward County license plate. That ain't Dade County, my nigga. That, we was showing all the kids in Chicago. Tell that boy

I'm at it That's when we all at here Remember Alfonso Party Records I remember that's the homie that used to roll with y'all back then Oh word Those regionals I'm gonna tell you some funny shit I'm in Japan right

This like gotta be like 99 2000 maybe 2001 In that area though Not anywhere above that I meet this I'm in Japan just randomly do come up to me Is it my guy a bing bong you definitely said my guy a bing bong but he said Translation! Translation! Translation! You know what that means. Translation! I said, yo, homie, like,

you seem like you from the town. Like, the way you talking, your swag. He said, yeah, I came out here with Naughty by Nature a year ago. And I never came back ever since. I'm from London! London! I was in London. That was London. I was in London.

Japan was London. That was London. Translation. Translation. When you travel all over the world, nigga, you might not get the right spot. Because his nigga passport be pimping. Tell him that. Tell that boy that's how. might not get the right spot. He's going to pass for a B-Pimpy. Tell him that.

Tell that boy that's how. You know I'm not bullshit. LP. The nice can be high. One of our regional radio reps, she worked for Tommy Boy and she was the London regional. We took him out there. He bagged and knocked her up and never came back.

Yes, he came back. Y'all know how that regional game works. When I him out there. He bagged and knocked her up and never came back. Yes. Yes, he came back. Y'all know how that regional game was. Well, when I was out there, he ain't come back. He said, no, I ain't coming back. He said, no, I ain't coming back. I ain't coming back.

I ain't spending different type of money. Excuse me. Translation. Translation. This motherfucker will come back and get deported

from the country he's from, which is the U.S. Because this nigga, they like, LP? Oh, no, leave his ass in London. But he living in London. He been over there.

He'll come back, I think, I think, like, you're talking like, like, nigga, you up from the hood, nigga. But you know how a lot of times you meet somebody and somebody be like, yo, I'm down with these niggas. And you want to call them? I ain't even call none of y'all niggas.

I know he's a bitch. I know he's that bitch. He's a bitch. down with these niggas and they don't, yo. I said, nah, he good. I believe every word that nigga just said. You know, one of your relatives. Your relatives go everywhere. But he touched. Yo, we all got the eye. Like, that shit I heard on this side. He's got it tatted on the wrong side.

But he's like, yeah, I just wanted it over here. What? Like, he like that. Like, he just touched. Right. But, you know, he touched. That's my man. Yo, that's my man.

Big him up. LP. LP. I already knew his story was the truth. I've never asked him. Definitely. I've never seen y'all for 10 years straight. I've never even brought it up.

Right, right. Because I just knew when he said it to me, I was like, I believe you. LP. You ain't got to. Definitely. LP. But listen. Okay ain't got to relax. Definitely. But listen, okay, now, KG, so you produced for the group,

you produced for New Style, what was it called? New Style. New Style. New Style. Then you produced by Naughty by Nature. What makes you say, I'm going to branch out, start my own label, and incorporate R&B? Because that's what it felt like your label was.

That nigga was a hustler. What you talking about? That nigga had groups. He's going to kick up. I'm talking about shit. Go to Hawaii and go big. Nobody going to see me. Listen, man. Once we got on board,

I was running. I was running. on the nigga on the menu. Nobody gonna see me. Listen, man, once we got on board, man, I was running. I was running. So what happened? Arista came to you and Arista, because that's where your label was at first, right? Yeah. No, no, no.

Motown. I said Motown. Motown. Jhane was the first group, and I was on Motown. Hey, Mr. DJ. Fan for the Brian Rascals on there. That was on Motown, yo.

I mean, I always loved R&B from the door. Like, even if you listen to, like, the first Naughty by Nature album, like, the way that it was done, there was a lot of musical stuff on there. Even if you go back and listen to new style stuff, I mean, I was sampling the Eagles, a bunch of different stuff like that. Like, I always listened to a bunch of different records like that or to the side. I mean, as a producer, you have to anyway.

But growing up, especially in R&B and soul music, like my parents is originally from the South, and then that's when my whole Queens thing came in. They got together, and they grew up in Queens. So my family's from Jamaica. My mother and my father, Jamaica, Queens. Grew up in Jamaica, Queens. South side.

Let's pick them up. South side. 110, 21 and Wood Street. Right there, Jamaica, Queens, man. Let's make them up. 100-7, God bless. Roberson family. All right, Pete Face.

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Waz. My little cousin Koshan is out there Koshan Like And You know Like I said They grew up in the south So my My grandparents

Was down there And some of my My father's Like sisters So we would go to the south Always playing And my father Always just played

A bunch of soul music That's my younger brother Right there Like he sang He know every record And he's way down He know every record. Booyah! And he way down in the air. The big Booyah.

He know every record, every movie, and that's all because, I mean, because of growing up. Like, when my father, like, that's all he did. Translation. They just played those records. He's a genius. This nigga's a genius. Yeah, no, he's a genius. They beat us in the head.

Like, they beat us in the head. That's why he about to fall asleep. They beat us in the head. Like, he beat us in the head. That's why he about to fall asleep. They beat us in the head growing up. So when I got the opportunity to do that, man, I just, I wanted to do something different. Because I just said, you know what? I'm going to flip the script and I'm going to shock people because I'm going to come left field. Everybody's going to expect me to do hip hop. But I'm going to come and do something that's hip hop influenced.

Who's the first? Jhane. Jhane. Jhane first. Jhane. And next. Jhane. Jhane. Jhane first. Jhane. And Jhane. Jhane. Jhane.

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Jhane. I feel like it keeps it, it keeps the record alive. Because that was your shit. And you know what's what's crazy about that. Translating, walk to the mailbox with the check. And you're fucking putting your fucking deposit. I'm bigger than that. That's my whole thing. I'm going to walk to the mailbox. And that's the thing.

Like, eventually, my thing is just like, man, we got to put in the hard work now just to put on our flip flops and walk to the mailbox and ain't got to work no more. Yeah, see?

So, people like that, people like that, like people like that, like people like that, like the white always lying, and even these movies, like if you look at a movie like The Office Party. I'm gonna send you the chat.

We got flip flops and walk to the mailbox and I'm just waiting. Y'all got the slides. I make the noise slides. You walk to the mailbox with those, man. Yeah, walk to the mailbox. You are! You are! You are! You are! You are! You are! You are!

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You are! You are! You are! You are! You are! You are! The statue of limitation I can't get a choice If you look at movies like Office Christmas Party That just like basically took and remade Like we was talking about earlier on OPP Office Christmas Party remade that And licensed that Like you talking about when they did Down on MTV

And you said why you always lying like that So I say like I'm not mad at stuff like that That keeps it going Keeps your brain alive It keeps your publishing flowing and going and allows you to walk to that mailbox When his when his views like when that guy Yeah, his views go up. What happens the publishing company call you or you? It spins call you or you are the original record over the internet it makes it more recurrent it becomes a

recurrent record everybody has been that money on promotion and the thing that's weird and crazy about that right my daughter my daughter i have a daughter that's 16 years old so she was playing that record and viral video viral that why you're always lying So I said You know what I said You know that record I said That's my record She's like Get out of here She didn't even know

She's like Get out of here I said Yes it is That's Nex's record Like the group Nex She was like Really

I was like Yeah And I played it She was like Oh Give me the other one She's like Whatever with that And that's what I'm saying But that's the cool part. She like, like, whatever with that.

And that's what I'm saying, but that's the cool part about it. It's like it introduces you to a whole different audience as well. So it allows you to bridge the gap, like you said, and it becomes recurrent. Okay, so now I'm going to twist the turn. Even though I know, Tretch, you wasted. Who? In a good way. You said, Tretch, you wasted. Who? In a good way. You said Tretch, you're wasted. You're wasted.

You're my brother, though. You know that. You're wasted. Well, I'm the Bomberama that's giving you baby mama drama drama about his final, final Bomberano. Holy Toledo, Jack in New City, Bitty's a badass, Nino throwing C-Love, fuck that's him. He know we do, baby.

Damn, dirty ass. He kill a silly, crafty pappy. After I creep, they try to trick or treat. Who's back with a new guy? Who's drag man or who that? They better burn. Better run the nigga

till he move back. I got the jelly knocking down popo like Rajo Billy. Illy Ollie's got me silly. If you feel me, split a Philly. Really feel me.

Spilling an infinity to fine flows. Company and coochies in the condom combos are prime problem. Mind flow, mind flow. Anything less to be a test anymore, only the nine notes.

Take still and after nine shows of five-fold mind flow, mind flow, shit shows that time shows. How long has nigga been like that? Did you ever say I was famous? I'm just about to spit around for you. I told you. I had your bottom

in the Bronx, nigga. I had your niggas was on. I had the bottom block. Like, what comes to me every day? All the big mamas in the Bronx, nigga. I had the niggas was on. I come on out and they come through and they like, what's up? He's like, translation. Translation. That is translation, nigga. I got you. What's that translation?

Translation. I had to run my way through the block. They're like, oh, that's translation. Trigger, yeah. There's a record I need to know the making of. Uptown, that's Trish. Trish. Trigger, yeah. There's a record I need to know the making of. Uptown Anthem.

Yeah. Please tell me the making of Uptown Anthem. How that came about. I didn't even... I didn't even like it. I didn't even like it. I didn't even like it.

I didn't even like it at first. Translation. Oh, my God. I didn't like it. That was the wrong... No, that was the skeleton of the beat I didn't like. The skeleton of the beat I didn't like. The skeleton of the beat I didn't like.

Juice. Yeah, I said, what happened to this track? He had like a thing in there. It was in the garbage. I said, yo, this is, this was. Wait, wait, translation. Translation. I went to jail because of that.

We had to do, they came up, they were, they came up. This nigga is translation. He translated this and it's trapped. I said, what happened to that music? You came down the block. I don't understand the translation. He came down the block. He said, yo, Tommy Boy is on us.

They want us to do a record for this Jew soundtrack. What are we going to do? What do you want to do? I said, I don't know, man. And I start playing. The movie's already done, though? The movie was done. So he's already in it.

It's already done. Yeah, yeah. That stuff was done. But it's not out yet. It wasn't out. But Tommy Boy wanted us to do a record, and they said, we need to get a record for it. So they came

up there, and I was just like, ah, I got this one joint. I was like, but it's a skeleton. I don't really like it or whatever. And I played it, and I was like, I don't really like it. I put it in real quick, took it out, then started playing some other stuff. And he was just like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Go back to that other one. Go back to that. Which one? Go back to that other one. This? Yeah that. Which one? Go back to that other one. This?

Yeah, that's it. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. How'd that verse start? Oh my God. Hey, let's play the clip of the Cineworld. Oh, I love to touch. You know they never designated us to touch your heart.

I be happy. You know I'm happy to be happy. Me and these black waist guards and flack with these dudes dancing back there. We're the real, we're the real competition. We out! Sporting all the outboxes, reading the nationwide, Shin Chan and the Flim Flams. You can run, but you can't hide, you can't go far, no matter where you go, here you go. We gonna dance, we gonna rock,

we gonna rock, we gonna rock, we gonna rock, we gonna rock, we gonna rock, we gonna rock. Yeah! Yeah! Oh, my God. I love that, man. That's such a classic rap. Everybody that has wins is fighting each other. Everybody else is cool, Yeah!

Everybody had winners fighting each other. Everybody else was cool. Oh, shit, they got us. And then we got sued. Was that right? We got sued for that record, too. Yeah, we got sued for that. The last time you did that, no happens. That one worked out.

Well, we said it without a score, because goddamn it, that roll was dope. We got sued. We sued. of court because, God damn it, I rolled off. We settled it out of court because, God damn it, I rolled off. We settled it out of court because, God damn it, I rolled off. You know, I...

Everybody settled out of court with me, God damn it. We settled it out of court with me, God damn it. They sued us. Motherfuckers. They settled it out of court when they fucked with me.

They don't fuck with my brother. Yeah, it was. They sued me. Oh, shit, I think we want to drop this. It's a gang of little niggas and hoopties outside that just keep following me and shit and everything. It's just saying, dredge, dredge, dredge,

naughty, naughty, naughty, love you, love you. I don't know. Let's drop this lawsuit. Who is these motherfuckers outside? Ain't true story, statute of limitations. So, I want to ask you some serious Seriously

Translation some serious. All right. Who did you meet first big or pot? Pop yeah pocket introduced me to be when pocket big dot nigga. I died with them. I'm just here haunting niggas with the truth. Real deal. Them was my niggas. So, now, when did you meet Pac? I met Pac, we were doing Roller and Flavio and everything. And on the road, it was Queen Latifah, Heavy D, Public Enemy, and Digital Underground. So he was doing a Humpty and A.

The dance, he was the dancer, right? And I was a roadie. No, see, that was the part. Translation, that's when they told him, get this nigga crazy off the block. He was drifting. Like, you hear him on the road? He's like, we ain't on the road. And they said, take him out on the road.

He would just be drifting around the hood. We was just like, you know what? And who said what, so who, nigga? We stable, we cool, we gonna hold it down here. You talking about this nigga? Yeah, they said, get him out the hood. You know what, yo, man, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something about this nigga.

Take him. Look, this nigga. You know how you grow up in a hood? You know how you grow up in a hood, and you got your clit and you know you got cats. Like, yo, these niggas are some wild niggas, right? Tretch has always been that cat. I've been in denial all these years. I'm like, yo, Tretch is a wild nigga, but Tretch ain't really that wild.

This is a wild fucking nigga right here, man. I'm just learning about this cat. What you need? Don't worry about it. They are, when we were in the beginning stage, we skipped that earlier though, but in our beginning stages of Wit Flavor Unit, we were naughty by nature

at that time, and we were starting to get everything together, and Latif and them was going on tour, and they was just like, we was just like, yo, just take Tretch. Let him be a roadie. Just take him. All right, translation. Just take him. We all.

Leave us alone. We fine. We don't have to go. We brought everything up. Everybody played their position. Nobody never killed nobody from the homies and nothing. Nobody snitched on nobody, nothing. It was codes, rules, everything else.

Everybody played their position. It was codes, rules, everything else. Everybody played their position. I was the motherfucking. We peaceful. They didn't force that for anybody. Fuck with my motherfucking brothers and I

whole clique. You feel me? They did. They part. They do. Everybody played their fucking position. And the niggas come.

I didn't say no more. They said, oh, fuck that. But you remember the first day I met Pop, though? The first time. Man, when I met this nigga, yo, they had the... We was on the road. We was roadies. What roadies are, people?

We got a little per diem. Per diem is when you get paid a week or something. You know. And you carrying bags. And you happy, you happy. Yeah, we wasn't there. You happy to be, because they sent me out. You were on a roadie with Latifah, though.

Yeah, they sent me out, and that's how I met Paco. I'm too wild on the same. When we signed with Flavor Unit Management, right, we were still on the block, basically. But when we signed with Flavor Unit Management, they took Treks on the road so he could go and freestyle in the middle of like they force me these my brothers He the way. He the way. He the way. He the way. I don't get no reason for it. He's like, translation, go.

We're translating. We ain't got no deal. Get out of here. Let me tell you something about this nigga, man. We used to be on the block, right? So everybody, we would shut down the block for the day. We'd go on a great adventure, Nardi. We'd go on a great adventure for the day.

This nigga would stay back. Nobody's on the block. He's out there setting his own prices double the rate cuz nobody's out there everybody's in fucking fuck up translation Oh real nigga I said they say yeah I been getting these. You ain't been getting. I said, we up in the fucking park. It was like, motherfucker. I said, yo, I take y'all vacating. Them niggas going.

I'm taking them. They call me Trigger. I go serve shit with them piss. He never wanted to go to Great Adventures. Fuck that, nigga. Niggas going. Let's make some noise for Tress never going to want to go to Great Adventures. He is a foul man.

I ain't going to. Somebody going to take out loud. I want to go to the great adventures every chance I get. Yo, they going to get it from 15. They going to go up the hill, get the shit. Yo, niggas ain't going to come. I can't wait to go to the great adventures. Nigga, right now, today. Fuck that, nigga.

They ain't go there to block. Hell, come on over here, nigga. We didn't grow up like that. We was in all black. Everybody in all black. We locked down the block, you remember all kind of music coming around. Y'all never go nowhere. All the niggas used to come around, go to

fly events. We just anchored down on the block, just getting it. But we translating this music. Nigga, y'all don't want to go to great events. Y'all don't want to go do shit. No, look. We was beefing with our We was beefing with our We was beefing with our... We was beefing with our...

We was beefing with our... We was beefing with our... We wasn't going nowhere. Translation. Nobody out there. Translation. We was beefing with our relatives. We wasn't going nowhere, yo.

We 18th Street, 15th Street. They fresh as hell. They looking like they fresh out of motherfucking P4, Alpo and shit. They got the BMW big change. We dirty as shit on the block. And when they get ready, they want, yo, can we come over here?

What the old man from Friday say? No. Nigga, nigga, y'all niggas is hot, nigga. We dirty. Y'all ain't coming over here and bringing them Benz's and all that shit in them gold chains They just see all these niggas and we're yeah, they'd be over there when we go out We got our minks and shit doll our mother by and they got them Gucci shoes and about now y'all not come

so So I a bite I try to go through the block from the og ski and and all of us everybody will have motherfucking god damn

straight at even if somebody they still for they grandmama yeah like you are a nigga trying to take

the block over to him I got a question what is your multi-colored logo hold on hold on oh shit

yo he's a multi-colored logo hold on you can't control this. Hold on, no. You don't want to do the multicolor?

No, no, hold on. Translation. Yo, translation. Let's get this press up. Drink, Jim. Show him, no, just show him. Step, step, step. No, just show this.

That's when we thought we was Latin King. Latin King. Well, guess what? And Juice got kicked back. Yo, this is... And Juice was the Latin King. I was not with the Latin King. Well guess what? And Jews got kicked back? And Jews got kicked back I was not with the light day I was a fucking

They said you was from I was from Washington Heights I was Dominican Tell that Riverside motherfucker Yeah we 50-50 I know how shit can get lost in translation You know what it is You represent every race.

You know what I mean? Because on the real, you know, I need champs. Me or me or Konyo Bobby. I wish I could say Drink Champs is this type of podcast. It really isn't. Drink Champs is just for every culture.

And it's hip-hop. It's hip-hop. That's why I feel like hip-hop should be its own race. Like, I feel like, I know this is retarded, but it might be genius. I think that the next

presidential race, people should run as hip-hop candidates. Yeah, they say Kanye, but... Okay. And, I mean, maybe we need somebody else.

I knew I was going to hear that. You was for Kanye before. I was for Kanye. I'm confused. It's just their thing. But there's people like David Banner. Killer Mike. There's people, Killer Mike.

There's people, what's my other brother that was on Def Jam? Young brother. On Def Jam. Big K.R.I.T. Big K.R.I.T. Big K.R.I.T. On Def Jam. There's people that we can

listen maybe we don't gotta rush them to the presidency okay maybe we'll take them to the mayors but why not

but maybe maybe with David Banner like David Banner I suggested that you know he did it in Mississippi I suggested that when Talia Kweli

sat here you weren't for Brooklyn Council and the thing is a lot of us cause I remember when I was told to Russell Simmons I remember Mississippi. I suggested that when Talia Kweli sat here, you weren't from Brooklyn Council. Right. And the thing is, a lot of us, because I remember when I was a tutor to Russell Simmons. A little bit of status. I remember I was a tutor to Russell Simmons.

That's right. I was in Hip Hop Summit. Remember back in the day, Russell Simmons would do the Hip Hop Summit. So Russell Simmons, I did like 17. And at just one point, I was like, Russ, you're getting me out here. Because wherever I'm at, I did like 17 And at just one point I was like Yo Russ I know it's enough Right

You getting me out here Cause wherever I'm at He's pulling over My whole bus Niggas is like I'm a death camp At the time Right

Wherever we at They're like Your show is cancelled tonight You gotta do a hip hop summit She's just right I'm like yo Russ At some point What we doing

Can you give us back that Right And Russ is like He's like so what do you mean i said why don't you run for president and i know i said this story on the podcast a couple times but i'm gonna say it again he said no i mean i smoke dope i said hey buddy smoke weed russ right he said nah i heroin. Bush did coke. But back then I understood. I was like, you know, Russ, all right, cool.

You smoked heroin. Cool. Right now, if Donald gave us anything, he gave us the hope that they don't give a fuck. Right. As long as you create your following. Yeah. Right. It's just like Kanye. I mean, whether you agree with Kanye or don't agree with Kanye

his followers still follow him that's what happened with Trump he used social media to make him he's the social media

president I said it from this podcast from the beginning what did I say Trump turned politics into a smack DVD

they didn't care about what he was saying was factual or what not. It was the better line. Line for line. They don't give a fuck

that you can tell this factual. You can't hit them with facts on a smack DVD. But if you got the better line. Right. Translation. Donald Trump was

ignorant as a motherfucker. And everything he said was ignorant as a motherfucker. As opposed to hip hop. Right. He was ignorant as a motherfucker. Democrat. I'm-hop. Like a Democrat. I'm going to fucking build a wall. Can't we have David Bannon?

He was great. Yo, hop in. He was saying what the majority of the voters was going to say. Who? Trump. We got to protect this. We got to go this. We got to have this. We got to be for us.

We got Bill. You know what I this. We gotta be for us. We gotta move on. We gotta build, you know what I mean? The separation and everything else. Fat Joe's the president. And everybody was going back to him. But here's another thing though, Noreen. And build an economy up. Not only do, I think the better players for all of us, if we're involved in politics or whatever, it's just like you putting on the next artist. Mike, relax.

It's just like you putting on the next artist. relax It's just like you putting on the next artist I'll go to the political meetings They tell them this Let me go back to hip hop It's not like you putting on The next artist You just co-signing the next Urban politician

Or your next young politician So we provide the mouthpiece We provide that international connection when you're talking about hip-hop as a race. It's going to be a global race. It's going to be multicultural,

multi-ethnic. It's one voice. So what we need to do is we need to keep doing what we're doing because we're connecting the dots. And we're cosigning the people

who are going to be there entrenched. Look, look, look. Let me say this. Look, look, look. They mostly, like they'll do, like I said, we play our parts. He's great with the, you know, the politicians, all that boom, boom. I'm in the streets with homies.

I'm having homies doing games together and everything else. We got to play games with the rivals there. Put on the lights in the city. No, we pull the cars up, put the headlights on. Everybody got waters, bombs, uniforms. We have different blood in the Crips. It ain't bloods against Crips. It's like teams switched all up. So when you break bread together,

you see in the streets and they go back out. Now you know that's my people. That's my people. You know what I mean? Because that's what we need in a black community. Like a little bit to just put back to the community when you have any type of connect. That shit goes far and hip hop is all within it.

You feel me? Right, because you know the point I'm kind of trying to get at is sometimes us still being in the hood, still being involved with the hood and still being around the hood. And we're not giving something back. The thing about it is we have to we have to push it forward because the era that we live in with black men being murdered every day. Slaughtered. Chicago. That's self-inflicted genocide. I'll get to Chicago next, but I'm saying, you know, just on the streets getting pulled over for a traffic light.

Getting pulled over. Like, we're at genocide already. Yeah. How can we commit our own genocide that's right so like i can't i don't really want to be for anybody i don't want to have problems you have to be with anybody you have to have problems because we have fucking war sister soldier but i'm saying within ourselves i'm saying within ourselves it always hurts and always it always hits home because it's like Damn I guess what

Don't we have The same news station Look Don't we have The same internet How are we still beefing When we came up All of us

We had 40 ounces We had low drinks We got some rock right now We have No no no It's a rock right there I had to change it up A little bit

I got too political We did a different thing These kids Now they getting How shit I had to change it up a little bit. I got too political. I got you. I'm sorry. We did a different thing. These kids now, they getting high off shit. Yeah, sure. That I'm the motherfucker. It was like, it's Sherman all right.

They have old shells and lean. Oxycontin. Oxycontin. Oh, yeah. Pergocet. Them niggas wake the fuck up and say what? Sandys. In jail for life.

Like, what happened? Oh, you killed three motherfuckers. Two was your homies. And then once I'm, I be Like, what happened? Oh, you killed three motherfuckers. Two was your homies. And then once I'm, I be like, what? They so hot. Like, we wasn't on that type of shit.

It wasn't cool to be a fucking fiend. Translation. It wasn't cool to be a fiend and then killing. Guys are just scared to just have a fair one

and just walk away from it. Like, that's what it used to be. Because that's how y'all solved y'all problems. Yeah. We go to the park. Y' and just walk away from it. That's what it used to be. That's how y'all solved y'all problems. Y'all all went to the park. Take the guns out of the home plant. I'm not talking about home. Put up them dick beaters. That's how me and Gabon

solved our shit. I mean, if that's the mentality. Oh, we got gift basket. Oh, shit. That thing is going to stop showing off. We showing off back. Oh, shit.

We got drink cap bags? I never seen that. I never seen that one. I never seen that one. Yo, yo, yo, I never seen drink cap bags. You ain't going to try to take it back. Translation. Translation.

You're late. Translation. You're getting this one. What do you mean you ain't seen them? That's right. That's all I did. Because you know why? You got them without the gifts, man. You got them getting this one. What do you mean you ain't getting this one? That's right. That's what I do. You got it without the gifts, man. You got it without the gifts.

Let me just say something. We're going to get back to everything that we was talking about. But you know what? You guys raised not only me, not only EFM, but you raised hip-hop. You guys stood there. You stood strong. You consistently stayed the same. No matter, I don't

care when I'm going to hear a new Norty record, as long as KG is on the motherfucking beat. Exactly. As long as nigga, as long as Stretch is kicking that shit

and then Viddy is coming in there with that butter on that bread, that's exactly what it is. And hip-hop needs to continue to surprise you. I said surprise. Let's roll with that. Surprise, surprise. Surprise. Translation. Surprise.

Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise.

Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. That's great. I felt that way. I feel that way. That one. That one.

It's a praise. It's a praise. Oh, it's a praise. It's a praise. Oh, Trey. Trey. Trey, you drunk right now. No, no.

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and then if he go to the bathroom, I take care of his bill. If I go to the bathroom, we take care of my bill, and we out there living good And just having fun And it's like I didn't want him to just tell that to me I wanted to talk to the world That we out here still living Just because you don't see a person

On the hottest MC list Don't mean he ain't the hottest MC Right, right Oh niggas Niggas ain't working at U. Right, right. Oh, niggas, translation. Niggas ain't working at UPS or shit and working out there. I'll tell you a funny story. UPS, I got relatives, but yeah, niggas

all around, worldwide. Passport Pepe, translation. That's where I was about to go to. That's right. But listen, let me just tell you something. 1998, I was number one record in the world. You know, platinum album. I go to London or something like that,

and I see De La Soul. This is my favorite group at the time. Pajos in my lawn is my shit. Now I'm on Tommy Boy. They telling me, fuck Tommy Boy. I don't understand them, because Tommy Boy gave me a million.

Yeah. So I'm out there like, what? And I see them and I say, yo, what are you doing out here? They said,

we got a show like two weeks from now. And I laughed at them. I literally was like, what? You're just out here for two weeks? Because I was so young,

I didn't know what happened. So, all right, cool. Here's the album, went platinum, whatever, whatever. But when things went down and I was just in Europe for a month. Just getting it. Oh, that's what they were doing.

That's what they were doing. I understood. Right, right. But I was so young at that point that when they said, you're just chilling in Europe for two extra weeks? I have no idea about features. I have no idea about hosting mixtapes.

I have no idea. But I'm sitting there because to me, Europe at that time was like, why be here? I can be in Harlem. I can be in New Orleans. I can be in Miami. I can be in New Orleans I can be in Miami I can be in LA And then years later when I sat back And you know what? Hip hop might live

Real hip hop The hip hop that we're all talking about Might live more in Europe Than it does in the United States Currently it does I do shows in Europe These niggas is out there Six o'clock In the afternoon

And I'm like Yo what time to close The club open They're like nine o'clock I'm like wait a minute Why are they out there While I'm out soundcheck They're like

Cause they wanna be The first people in there And they're out there Breakdancing This nigga's doing graffiti I'm talking about At the fucking venue Yeah

This is crazy The best thing about I ever when they got that Where you can see The old school Or the throwback The 90 90s, say this, like America, and this is like the world compared to. Us, our era, we could go all over and tour. If you ain't got that content like that, you got Japan.

Yeah. They breakdancing still. Yeah, they breakdancing still. They look at you. Germany, they breakdancing still Yeah They breakdancing still They look at you Germany They breakdancing still London They don't know

English Everywhere You say some bullshit Here's one thing I want to tell you guys And I want to tell The rest of the audience man Do not take your own

Backyard for granted Because like we told y'all Those new style stories We got fucking Established as the new style right there in our backyard. It was our high school auditorium where we got our first audience. Then we mastered our backyard, and then we took it where we took it. Don't keep letting people or don't let people tell you all the money is overseas.

When we have all of these, we have the whole United States right here. That's true. Like right now, I'm telling you. Let me just say this real quick. Let me just tell you this real quick. I'm going to drop it on you. 2017, we will be doing easily 100 amphitheaters and arenas in the United States. That's not going to Canada.

It's not going nowhere. 8,000 to 10,000 people, man, on this I Love the 90s tour. Working with our agency and the game is evolving. The game is evolving. These package dates are the shit. But how about these new artists, right,

who throw out a record and it's hot on the internet. And the good thing and the bad thing about the internet is when it's hot on the internet. And the good thing and the bad thing about the internet is when it's hot on the internet, it's hot in places we don't know. Right. They can't really build a foundation.

Like, I forget this guy. He's a white guy. He said, the white guy. All he needs is a good booking agency. You know that. No, not Post Malone. The guy, he said he's not about that life.

Oh, Slim something. Slim Jesus. Slim Jesus put out a record. His record blew up in... He couldn't even... Even if he wanted to build up his own hometown, he couldn't because

when he threw it up on the internet, it blew up everywhere else. So how about these guys? Like this... So you get a booking agency and you look at where the record is popping and they don't pay you to go. I know what you can do too.

Even going back to just as far as relating to us and going into to piggyback on what you're talking about. It's like even with us, we felt like I guess my point I'm trying It's like even with us, we felt like, I guess my point I'm trying to say is even with a slim Jesus or anybody like that,

you have to continue to plan and continue to build. Like you said, you can still build that home as well as outside, even with us. We locked our hometown down at home and our city and then our state. We said it's time to spread out now.

And we went to New York. And the first time we went to New York, it was Red Alert's birthday party. They booed us out of that place. And we thought we was the bomb. It was who's birthday party? Red Alert. We thought we was the bomb. Just because we said we from Jersey. It was Red Alert's

birthday party, right? So back then, and this was the 80s, we were the new style. We weren't even naughty by nature yet. So there's De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, KRS-One, you name it, you name it. All of these at Red Alert's birthday party. We come there because K's brother was managing us at the time, and he knew the promoter who was throwing the party. So he's like, Beck, we'll put y'all on as the new style to just open up before whatever else happens.

We got up there and this was the craziest shit like in December. We got up there. You got up there. Well, even if I was first, I'm saying that we're from,

naughty by nature, we're from Jersey. We got booed before we even dropped the record. Then when we dropped the record, they booed us out the building. The craziest part is when we pulled up, the streets were clear like this. By the time we got booed and had to drive back to Jersey,

it was like three feet of snow out there. And we got the longest drive to Jersey. And all of you niggas like, yo, why the fuck you say we from Jersey? Oh, my God. Why the fuck you say we from Jersey? I don't care who it is. Why the fuck you say we from Jersey? We sat there contemplating that. And I'm doing the same shit I do to you. That's what's happening in the whole show.

That would never happen again. Never again. Can't say. Can't say. We went back to the drawing board. That was it. We went back to the drawing board. And we're going to do it right.

We went back to the drawing board. Let me know when to do it right. We went back to the drawing board. Let me know when y'all finish. That's why, like, till this fucking day, man. I don't care about what, yo. We got the brand. We got the legacy. We got the love of the people. You have the internet.

You have the proper tools to own and operate a business. Roll up your fucking sleeves. Invest in yourself. Stay on top of your shit. And you can manage and build and maintain and diversify your fucking brand. That's the fucking one, Larry!

You know what I'm talking about! Because that's what it takes! Nigga, Larry, you know it! Niggas would count you out a million times. They say, I'm not trying to hear that shit. You banging out with Capone, trying to figure out new music. You came left on these niggas with drink champs. Whole different lane, man.

All right. And that's what the game is about, man. We had a guy who said, we already voted for you, nigga. I must find a brand and stay on top of your shit. Anybody can do every fucking thing. Absolutely. We already voted for you already. We already know, nigga.

That's how I roll, man. That's how we do this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the politicians like a motherfucker. We do this shit, man. We've been doing this shit for years, man. We had a man before we were in New York, he said, yo, don't say we from Jersey

because the niggas going to trip. Who the fuck going to go in there to go we from Jersey? It's hard shit. We from Jersey. There we are. We going to go to Jersey.

Do not say we from Jersey. Let's rock that motherfucking place. Yo, niggas in hip-hop don't know, man. If you wasn't from them five boroughs back in the day, I was a dad. What year we talking? What year we talking?

This was like before. This was 80 something. It had to be 88, 89. We signed the flavor unit in 99. And then OPP came out in 91. This is 88, 89. 88, 89. He's 18, 19 years old. You couldn't be

from fucking Jersey ever. You're just like, we're in Manhattan. Let me ask you one thing. One thing, one thing. Was Run DMC was sort of like your inspiration? Everything's about us. It was all a dream. Run DMC was sort of like your inspiration? Everything about it.

It was all a dream. I used to read word of it. I used to read word of it. I used to read word of it. It was the same shit. Every Friday night, Rap Attack, Let's Win a New World. Let me tell you this too.

We did all of that shit. I had a trench coat in middle school with a briefcase with Mercedes in that motherfucker. You can't hear the radio playing motherfucking rock and pop. Fucking season shit. And all that motherfucker. It's like, yo, watch this little. No, but you know how, like you said, you get out there and start feeling yourself? LL was my shit.

I was Lord LL. Fuck that. We came out. When we came out, it was not LL. I was mad because Kumo D, it was like he took out dark-skinned niggas. But I love LL. You feel me? I'm like, no, my eyes move for Modi, too.

But then dark-skinned niggas, man. He's like, I'll be sure all these niggas Man man We need Darcy and niggas Coming back You know Big Daddy Kane I'm just saying Big Daddy Kane Big Daddy Kane

Put the chocolate back But you know what On another Speaking of Run DMC Like we've always been Like I said We've been Everything we do

Is built off of Run DMC We call it Like everything's after them Like we But we When we came out in 94 No, 93 We came out with Hip Hop Array

Hip Hop Array Oh Hey Oh Hey They said They said we would never top O.B.P. Hip Hop Array

Hip Hop Array Hip Hop Array We gonna backtrack to that record, the creation of that and the evolution of it. But even with that, we were, like you said, about filling yourself. We came out with that. After our first album, we sold millions of records. We come out with this. We back on top.

We got our own tour. We like, yo, listen, we love Run DMC. This is who we came up on. And at that time, people were starting to sleep on Run DMC. Like, oh, they over. We put them own tour. We like, yo, listen. We love Run DMC. This is who we came up on. And at that time, people were starting to sleep on Run DMC. Like, oh, they over. We put them on tour. We put them on tour. We want Run DMC.

But now, listen. Well, we were saying to ourselves, but our audience going to come see us. We going to murder them. Man, the very first show. Richmond, Virginia. No, Richmond. Richmond. Before we got there. Tell a story, yo. They said, no. man the very first show Richmond Virginia no Richmond Richmond tell the whole story yo they said no

we man tell it man motherfucker I'm talking about us out there I said no we don't want Run DMC we said fuck it

cancel the tour Run DMC can't come out I'm not I said that we want we took it tell the whole fucking story anyway

we said yeah tell that motherfucker we we was out there we was like, yeah, tell that, motherfucker. We was out there. We was like, yo, our show is crazy. We're going to go out here. They can do whatever. We're going to kill them.

Man, run to MC. We're out there. We're going to kill them. The very first night. And every show. Murdered us. Nigga, we ain't going to hold them. Send us back to Jordan.

We're going to play our position. Go on before them niggas. Because position, going before them niggas. Because you're going after one of these. And y'all was the headline. We're going after one DMC. If you let somebody set you up with that one. They can shoot us out there, man. Nigga, go after one DMC, nigga.

Oh, man. You better rock it up, nigga. You don't want to do that. You don't want to do that. We don't want to do that. And a lot of people don't want to go on after us. You don't want to do that. You don't want to do that. You don't want to do that. And a lot of people don't want to go after us. A lot of people, they're like, yo, you can't go after Nori. Brandon C is one that we like.

We on the billboard. We not going to him. I don't think anybody could go after him. Rick Dougie Fresh, don't go after him. I was actually my first deal I'm the only Tommy boy That Def Jam inherited me Because I didn't like Tom Silverman

He kept coming to the meetings with eyeliner on his line I just thought it was weird Translation He was doing a homo promo Translation He was doing a homo promo in your office Translation You grew up on some bros. Translations.

You grew up on the Norby, Russell and that. Yeah, and Nas and Akineli and- Yo, that nigga had one of them little closets. He came out, came out of the closet, but where- And he got away every time I came in here looking for niggas. He definitely had allies at home just for no reason. For no reason. He just met me. It was like

Oh he met you like that? Nah that nigga He ain't there when he Whatever you are So what do you guys What do you guys think of the game today? What do you think it is? You know what I think of the game?

The half of hip hop It needs a hip I think half of me says They're not doing real hip hop But then the other half of me says they're not doing real hip hop but then the other half of me says they said the same thing about you when you were doing it I listen to what my kids

want to listen to I listen to that I see the good shit in there I say it all the time when we first came out I'm not the grumpy old dad that's like no I'm like

I'm into it cause it's certain shit I'm like ooh you know I like the gutter shit No, I'm like, no, I'm like that. No, I'm like that. I'm into it. How that out? Because it's certain shit. I'm like, ooh, what am I going to make? I'm about to. You know, you know, like, I like the gutter shit. You feel me? It's the shit.

It's like, it's like, you know what happened one day was I went to a club. I started living here. I started living here. And no matter what, you go to a club. And the club, they play the young nigga shit. Right. So, you know, I'm cool. And then one day, my son, big up Nassim, I love you, I miss

you. He's in basketball camp. Motherfucker. Call me. You know, you don't want to call me because he is popping now. Translation, yo. Call daddy. He miss you. God damn it. Are you playing ball? Yeah, he ain't playing ball. So anyway, I used to walk past my son

in the room and I used to hear the shit that I heard in the club. So now I started to get curious. And I started to be like, alright, well why is he

listening to this? So I would tell him, come out, yo here, take the Beats pill. And he'll be like, you don't want to hear my shit pop.

I'm like, first of all, don't call me pop. I'm dad. Dad. Dad just seen him flicker. That's how I'm calling, first of all, don't call me pop. I'm dad. Dad. Dad just seen my flicker. Dad sound cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Pop sounds like you hear. Pop sounds like I got pop. Pop sounds like my eyebrows is great. You know what I'm saying? Pop's tripping.

And then I started to, I started to, you know what? I'm not going to judge my son because my parents ain't judging me. So I'm going to let him listen to what

the fuck he listen to. And that's what kind of got me into the new generation. Like acceptable. Like I could care less. I'll be in a club. I was say so be loud, but you Ivy, dream. Story. Story. And I'll be in there and I'll be like, and I'll find myself loving this shit. Not even liking it, loving it. The same music that I know that if I was to listen to it in the 90s or in... Or if you go on the left rack and listen to that shit. No, but...

Amongst your peers. No, amongst my peers that shit. No, but here's the deal. Amongst your peers. No, amongst my peers, no. Yeah. But here's the deal. The kids think you have a racket. And left rack. The young kids and kids. The young kids everywhere.

They are listening to this. Yeah, they are. So instead of me being like a dude like, ah, fuck that, I started to listen. Right. Well. And you stopped being a rocker. You know what I mean? You stopped being a rocker. No, no, no. See, but the thing is. Right. Well, I think, I think, I think, you know what I mean? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

See, but the thing is, no, no, no, but the thing is, you know what it is? I think a lot of people, I think, not, not, not all of them, but I think some or most of them that do have the total, total, like, shut out of and just be like, ah, that, that, is that because they don't have kids. If you have kids, they will open you. You start to understand it. You start to understand it. Right. Because you see how they react to it and you listen to them

listen to it. Like you said, the same thing what you said, I can relate. Can we all do a project together? I was 17.

Translation. Let's go. Can we do a project and I think I can solve it? I have a 17-year-old son that's been playing that stuff for years. Right.

And I just hear him playing it and I hear them saying these songs two, three months before they even come out. Because all those kids do, they explore, they get off the internet, and then they play it in their rooms, and then all of a sudden,

the radio starts playing it later. But you've been on her, them playing it for months. Yes, exactly. It's internet hit. And Bobby Sturton with a perfect one. My son was all in this shit

for a day and a half. Oh my God. That project for it, I think it changed this motherfucking game. I had the motherfucking new motherfuckers do a project.

We got the old throwback tracks from the era. Have them ride money. And Kazi, our nephew there, he had a hit and all that.

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I know you got certain feelings. And it's younger new style. No it's not younger new style No match me man. I'm listening to the section I'm listening to the track. No match me man. I'm sorry I'm sorry. That's what I'm saying. I'm sorry What is he saying? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. What? When you make a fucking trap beat today. I did.

I did. I did about two years ago. And I didn't like it. I didn't like it. Translation. I didn't like it. I did it. It wasn't me.

And translation. If you mention the certain motherfucker, we don't fuck with. Nigga, you get your money with that. We don't fuck up your money or anything. We got something over here that he gets. Don't go through boundaries. You get yours, don't say, hey, we rolling with you. Two years ago.

Yo, let's do a project. You played yourself. You played yourself. You played yourself. You played yourself. Thank you. I wasn't comfortable in that. You know what?

You know what? You don't have to do that. You don't have to do that. You don't have to do that. Trap didn't do that. That's a bridge. That's a bridge. That's a bridge. No, we got the biggest podcasts in the world.

No. I know. It's five years before that, though. I hope to be in a home of these niggas. But that's a bridge. I tried trap music. It didn't work for them. I'm not saying trap.

It didn't work. I did. I did trap. No. I did. Translates, you went hard. You didn. We did! We did! We did! It's like an old mom movie. Yo, you had to connect.

Who else sponsored it? Spongebob? I did. You never let us in. Yeah, yeah. We gonna get party. Why don't you fucking use the connect and blow up? You come straight off the metal.

You don't be sharing. Yo, you a stingy. No, you with Pharrell. Go get him. You come straight up the middle, yo. Pharrell just text me, oh, Merry Christmas. Nigga, tear that motherfucker shit up. Merry Christmas. And we gonna support him. We come with like 1,000 Jersey niggas up to the middle, bro. Oh, Pharrell just text me, oh, Mary. He ain't going to tear that motherfucking shit up. Merry Christmas.

And we're going to support him. We're going with like a thousand Jersey niggas. Yeah, nah, nah. North Train Camden, yo. Pharrell's a great nigga, but. You know what I'm just saying for the video. Yeah. Show him, like, thank you.

We're going to do it. You got to take a piss? Yeah, of course. God damn it. I didn't take a piss before. So where is that, Nori? What's the relationship with the homie? Who?

Pharrell. Pharrell, that's my brother. He just text me, Noreen? What's the relationship with the homie? Who? Pharrell. Pharrell, that's my brother. He just texted me, Merry Christmas. I wished him a Merry Christmas. I've been texting a wrong number because my iPhone hasn't been backed up in 36, 38 weeks. 38 weeks. And it's because I'm a bozo. I'm a guy from resource room, from special education that'll kick your ass

in science class. How you gonna elevate a special education on the storage right now, huh? I'm good at two subjects. I knew he was about to do it.

I'm the nigga that fell out every other class when I was good at two subjects. You ain't gonna get thrown out of the court. Translation. Translation. You full of shit.

I know how to keep with the kick. I know how to keep with the kick, but you know, that's the homie. I know the keyboard kick. But, you know, that's the homie. I haven't spoke to him because what happened was we were doing this. That's always been my thing. So what happened to the tracks we done when we was in the studio? I thought he was doing the whole side of your album.

Hold on, man. We got a question. It doesn't matter. I threw that in existence. I was making that up. I'm not even going to say it. Hold the fuck up. I was picking that up, but I couldn't say it. Hold up. And he hit me.

Hold the fuck up. What are you doing? I said, hold up. This is me on the board of the bosses. Hey, sometimes you gotta throw the fuck up. It happens. This is me on the board of the bosses. It's enormous.

You got the saying. It's good, man. This is me on the board of the bosses. I want to know, what happened on the floor? They shot the jump, yo. I'm going to give you real quick. What happened on the end zone? They look at each other. They're get rid of the angel we fight each other

we got a saying and it's called pie PIE and this is what you all need to understand PIE positioning is everything positioning it's how you position yourself. And without giving up too much, Norby, you're doing your thing, blah, blah, blah. How has the podcast and journalism game helped you? I saw when you saw, you were like, you went to, I follow you on social media. You were going to one of these

fucking journalism media events. You're like, you know what? I'm'm really seeing this is my first time showing up at one of these motherfuckers as a journalist yeah it's true so what's the experience the diversity people need to learn from you too how do you work that brand diversify that brand find other avenues to reinvent yourself well uh i'll just reiterate what I was kind of saying earlier was the brother that sits right there,

DJ EFN, my brother, he kept telling me, yo, we should do something. We should do, because we had a radio show

at first. And then this was Sirius Satellite and XN combined it because remember at first, Sirius Satellite

and XN was separate. remember at first, Serious Satellite and XM was separate. So we had a radio show and it did pretty good. But then when they merged it together, I believe I had just moved to Miami and they was like, yeah, I could do the show

if you do it in New York. I forget exactly what it was and then we stopped doing it. But EFM, he sort of knew what we had when we did the show so EFN kept reiterating it to me kept saying let's do something let's do something

and I did a podcast you know long story short and then we started doing this and then our idea was, fuck it. I listened to Hot 97. I listened to Power 99 out here. I listened to all that.

And all these platforms is based on the old nigga that's hot or the new nigga that's hot. Why don't we praise our legends? Or Salada in between. Why don't we sit there legends why don't we sit here and say you know what I know we quoted some of y'all records but you can go through your albums

I know your words they still got old school they used to have that they do have it the reality is we understand that look Norrie what you're saying. The reality is, we understand that it's business. Look, Nori, what you're saying is,

the reality is with corporate America, all the corporate radio stations, it's business. It's not personal. We all know, all of these programmers, people who run these stations, they would love to do more,

but they have to follow the order of the day. And it takes cats like you, who you know this side of the game to bring a Nori in and create your own. My favorite quote is, if it doesn't exist, create it. So that's all it takes. You listen to all of this shit. You see what's going on. You say, you know what's

missing? And that's what Pac said. Keep the weakness in the game and sew it up. And there's so many people that I know that's real hip-hop lovers. You used to complain about hip-hop. And the thing is, I love what they were complaining about, but I didn't want to complain. I wanted to do something about it.

So me and my partner got together. DJ EFN. Eric, I don't know how to pronounce your last name. That shit is like German. It's Italian. No, see, I mean. But I say, yo, let's, you know, we interviewed KRS-One. Niggas say, oh, yeah, that nigga's crazy.

And you know what we did? TMZ picked our shit up. Picked it up, right. And I'm like It ain't about If a nigga hot Got a project out You know what it's about Praising what the fuck

I grew up loving Right Praising what the fuck He grew up loving That nigga got a beard on Cause you know That's not hip hop V-Dot Right

To him You know how When your little relative He still play vinyl Translation Exactly Vinyl Purist

Purist Vinyl I wanna know What happened Pyrus, Pyrus. Vinyl. I want to know what happened to all the tracks we did. You know how like your relative from Queens come to Jersey and shit, and you're missing some of your old school CDs. I got that hard drive. Yeah, where the fuck are you supposed to send that shit?

I still got my third-rate lunch money as well. Tell that shit right now, nigga. Why haven't all this? You had my favorite. You had bad records together? Yeah, dude. I think me and Trash Mike are mixed. I'm mixed in. I't all this? You had my favorite. You had my favorite. You had bad records together? Yeah, dude. We have just some motherfucking good records.

I think me and Trash might have a mixtape together. I think me and my- I think me and my- Yo, we have- Yo, yo. And me and Point have a mixtape together. Like, I'm fouled. Yo, you-

I'm fouled. I'm fouled. You ain't the favorite, bitch. I'm talking to your Janet Jackson. Oh, yeah. Janet Jackson. The live one. In the hood lab.

This nigga- In the hood lab, nigga. This nigga Trash. This nigga Trash is the last one here. Yo, you got me. I heard you. I know. I know. I know her. So, look, look, Norby. Here's another thing. Talk about some of my wife's. Right here, y'all.

Just a kiss. Hey, wifey. In the bottle. Goddamn. All right, split. Bottom break. This is Apple. It's already cracked.

You can measure it. It's your back. I'm J. Nell. Pairs later, we'll cut that bottle out of it. Translation. It's already cracked. The commercial is Shabak and J and L. Pairs later, we'll cut that bottle out of it. Go ahead, baby. You won't even see it. So look, Norrie, we have a Jersey-Queens connection. Yes, we do.

And Kay's family, we got Southside Jamaica-Queens, and then we have Left Frack. Yes, you do. So y'all got to try to chop that off and talk about that similarity. Then my baby mama was Southside Pepper from Salt-N-Pepa. You know, she's Jamaican. Let's give it to your baby mama. God damn it.

Baby mama. Baby mama. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Straight up, straight up. They from Kingston, Jamaica. Jamaica crazy. You already know.

Ain't Kenny Anderson got one? Spenderella. Spenderella. Listen. Don't be missing up shit when you're talking about my baby. No, no, no. You said Kenny Anderson. You heard some shit.

I ain't even going to. Kenny Anderson? You can't even appreciate me talking about my baby. All right, all right. When did Soap and Pepper come out? What do y'all think? But yeah, let's estimate. I would say Showstopper, that had to be 82, 83.

Okay, all right. Showstopper. So now, look, look, look. Showstopper might have been when we was in high school. That came in 86. Now, listen, listen. 87. But hear me out, hear me out.

87, 88, Showstopper. Listen, listen. 87. But hear me out. Hear me out. 87, 88. Okay. 82, 83. So now listen. The year I was born was 77. And we born in 70. So when I'm looking at these females. I'm a young boy.

I'm sorry. Not really. I'm a young boy to you. All right. Continue this story. I'm 900. It's the. All right, continue the story. No, I'm not. It's the reason

to break or break, nigga. Where the fucking songs we did will continue the story. I said, damn,

Kenny Anderson done had Spender, brother. Tres done had. I said, it's old for me. I'm seven years old.

So, Pepper was my kid. Hell yeah. I swore years old. So I'm purple. Was my kid. I swore I was going to marry one of them motherfuckers. I never met So I'm Purple. You never did? So I'm Purple or Spinner Brother.

We all out tomorrow night, man. We doing this shit. Come on in and go backstage with me. You got to get in play. You coming with us, god damn it. Translation. We know we're in full. We know we're in full.

Take you right into my baby mama and all them dressing room. Nigga, when I go out and do what you just talk to him, take selfies and everything. You interview all that. Check his numbers all that. But you smashed a lot of celebrities. You put my business. You have to do a lot of celebrities. You put my business right in the middle of it. It's a big fight. Oh, yeah, motherfucker.

I took your place. Take another shot, Trash. Let's get you loosened up. God damn it. You smashed a lot of celebrities. It's been over seven years, God damn it. Over seven years, God damn it. And I might have broke the record in them motherfucking Magnum condoms like just to have them and shouldn't use them with the goddamn wet

And they got damage makes a noise All six kids I got, I wanted them. You know what I mean? Chosen to break a magnet with the wet, nigga. Chosen. All my six kids, I wanted them. God damn it. Wow. That part. That part. Ain't no more mischief.

Ain't no mischief, it's splashing. Ain't no just all over the station board, it's just raw splashing, you know. Donate a bottle. You got some more ice over there? Yeah, we got ice, nigga. Give him the ice. Tell me, where the hell is the song when you gonna email like the three of them we did? We had like two nights we was there.

It probably is like five songs. He a politician. These two niggas, I'm telling you. Y'all can take over all the Spanish world. This motherfucker can take over there. And y'all niggas is good. So KG. Y'all niggas good, nigga.

Did you ever picture. You see he still ain't answering my shit. No, no, no. I got a KG question. I ain't sure if I ain't paperwork. Did you ever picture yourself as top five producer of hip hop of all time? Nah. They be cheating them, man.

This ever is where you go, and he always was like, nah, man, fuck that, man. Listen, all them niggas, they stop rating shit because I took it personal, and I went the fuck up to their little rating spots and said, for real, y'all disrespectful, and showed them the top that I think with it ain't known. And he ain't on there, you motherfuckers. Stop doing this shit if you ain't going to keep it funky. Tell that part. You don't consider yourself top five? He is, goddamn it. He number one in my motherfucking shit.

So that's what I'm saying. Who the fuck up? That's all that matters. That part. No, you know what matters? I don't go for number one. You know what matters? I ain't nervous. I that's what I'm saying. There you go. Move the fuck up. That's all that matters. That part. No, you know what matters? I don't go for number one. You know what matters?

I ain't nervous. I don't go for number one. No, no, no, no. Leave me. And I'ma tell you, listen, I'ma tell you something that really matters. Because all these lists exist. It's the motherfucking publishing checks.

That's what really matter y'all can debate all you want sitting the goddamn barbershop look at the work I will look at the blood translation look at motherfucking any food or anything loyalty has no expiration date Look at naughty by nature you see you produce and written no matter what anybody share from that shit Family that stays together get paid together for life We got all our publishing producing together no matter whoever rolled up reduce anything. We got it all So how'd you back pepper? How did this go down?

Nigga, let me tell you how I got this motherfucker. Because you know, like everybody was like all out of state with me. You ain't hit Janet, right? We ain't got like a spring break. You ain't hit Janet, right?

Oh, I can tell you that one. I was chasing out. You didn't hit Janet. No, I was chasing Parker out of first. He was in. After the aid test and it didn't happen,

then Parker ran up in. Ah, man, I'm going to just tell about different things that happened with him. Anyway, I know I did. I would tell you about Hopped on him one time. But never. No, no, no. Would you try? Everybody got to try Janet.

It's Janet. Come on. No, I never got to close to her. Come on. My wife is Janet right here. My wife would tell me. Go ahead. It's Janet.

God damn it. You don't choose Janet. Janet is J-Lo. You got to get rid of her. Your wife would tell you that? No, I'm just playing. I'm just trying to get it out of you. I'm trying to get it out of you.

You say, can I get Janet? She say, nigga, you want Janet? Right. And the gun I just gave you. No, but, but, but. Yo, she like, nigga, go get it. But how was it you met Janet? I've met her many times.

Yo, it's. We met Mike, yo. Listen. Tell us the Mike's. What are we going to do? Janet, Mike, or Mike or Janet? No, Janet first. Janet first a Janet? No, whatever. Janet first.

Janet first. Let's go, Tresh. Put me on a planet, damn it. Just stop it, man. You always was walking in the bright spots of the spots of the clubs that I was in the back. And it's kind of dark and stuff. So we spoke sometimes. You ain't got no incriminating.

I'm telling you. That's your limitation. And I ain't telling no nasty shit, nigga. You know what I'm saying, man? Kinda did. And we kept with, you know, what we done. I'm in, though. And bam.

And cool. And that's all. And that's all I got to say about my Lord. Oh, yeah. Kumbaya, my Lord. Kumbaya. You trying to say I'm alive, nigga God You trying to say I'm alive, nigga?

Oh my God I'm alive You nigga You been lying about Sending me that Goddamn 500 songs We just made that up Right now

Yeah, yeah We just totally made that up But nah Let me tell you something Naughty by nature Y'all had a Luxurious life You missed the Michael part

They said that Michael too No, I was going in in the Michael part. I'm sorry, but let's go straight into it because your man says he's a go. Well, the time we met Mike,

it was like, here, another triple OG in hip hop. Would everybody please give it up for the overweight lover MC Heavy D.

Rest in peace. So y'all in Heavy D's session? That was the reason we met Michael Jackson. Break the story down. Hev did the Space Jam. First of all, rest in peace Heavy D. Rest in peace Heavy D. Hev did the soundtrack to Space Jam,

the Michael Jackson little Bugs Bunny movie, right? Yeah. All right? So he was out there. Hold on, time out. I've never heard somebody describe it as Michael Jackson, Bugs Bunny movie, right? All right? So he was out there. Hold on, time out. I've never heard somebody describe it as Michael Jackson, Bugs Bunny movie, and leave out Jordan.

I respect that. I continue to continue to come and say that. I've never heard anybody leave out Jordan in my whole life. In my whole life. The way it went down, that's what happened. So our manager, Quint Latifah's manager, Shaquem,

he fucked with Hev real heavy. Real, real heavy. So he was out in Chicago with Hev and they were shooting the video to the soundtrack, Space Jam. So it was Hev, Michael Jackson, Jordan, they was doing all that. Space Jams early.

Shaquem. And this is the importance of branding. We always flooded our whole family with just naughty merch. So Shaquem had on a black pilot jacket with the Naughty by Nature logo embroidered on it. Michael Jackson

hit him and was like, hey, Naughty by Nature, I know those guys. Sha was like, yo, I managed them. I managed them. I'm here with Hal. I like them guys. I can get them out here. Yo, Mike made the call.

Shaw made the call to us. We flew out to Chicago. Wait, you met Michael Jackson in Chicago? Yeah, we've got what you call a ooh, wasn't that. We were there all day. We filmed for hours. We were there for a half a second. Ooh, wasn't that naughty?

And then another shot. Ooh, wasn't that? That's what half a second. Who wasn't that naughty? And then another shot. Who wasn't that? That's what we call a who wasn't that in the music video. I digged it, dude. But we did get to meet Bubbles.

That's when we got Mike. The monkey. The monkey. Bubbles. Bubbles. And Bubbles got a pair of naughty by nature boxes. You remember

the naughty boxes? Yeah. We laced them. Yeah, that motherfucker was sharper than me. Yo, and I don't know what youaced them. Yeah, that motherfucker was sharper than me. Yo, and I don't need to. Yo, we gonna do business, baby. But these, I call them the Michael Jackson gloves, though, for the feet.

Because I'm rocking these. This is air. This is how I'm bringing in the new year. Those are the Michael Jackson gloves for the feet. If you give me those, I'm not gonna wear those because there's way too many niggas I shot that's gonna feel disrespected. Yo. I mean, these are the Malrick's.

These are the Malrick's. These are the Malrick's. These are the Malrick's. These are the Malrick's. These are the Malrick's. These are the Malrick's. These are the Malrick's. These are the Malrick's.

These are the Malrick's. These are the Malrick's. These are the Malrick's. These are the Malrick's. These are the Malrick's. those, I'm not going to wear those because there's way too many niggas I've shot that's going to feel disrespected. Yo. 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. Yo. I love them. I'm married, you know. We are together forever. But I can't wear those in public In my kitchen, my wife is here. I love her. Yo. I love her. I'm Nary Norby. We are together forever.

But I can't wear those in public. Because if I wear those in Queens, niggas going to be like, that, the nigga that shot you, son. I'm good, man. We have, we have, we have. We have to go to the station. It's an emergency. I see you, son. I see you, man. I see you, man.

I see you, man. No, no, no. It's after the limitation. We're ready. We good. We good. I'm coming in while I'm here. I'm standing in while I'm back. I'm standing in while I'm back. No, no, no. Statue of Libertation. We're ready. We good. Statue of Libertation. I said it right?

Statue of Libertation. Statue of Libertation. Statue of Liberty, nigga. No, it ain't Statue of Liberty. Statue of Libertation. I never cared about it. You say it ain't Statue of Liberty. You say it's Statue of Liberty.

I'm pleading Statue of Liberty, nigga. You can't lock his ass up, this nigga. Yo, but listen. Statue of Liberty. Lordy by nature. I'm pleading Statue of Liberty. You can't lock his ass up, this nigga. But listen. Statue of Liberty. Lordy by nature. I'm bleeding Statue of Liberty. You can't see me. Are you bleeding Statue of Liberty?

So give me a story about Big. Give me a story about Big. Here's my story about Big. If you follow my Instagram at UncleVimRot, deep down inside I have a picture, one of those Polaroid joints that they print out, slide the joint in. A Biggie. This was when he was first coming out.

Very early 90s. Partying bullshit? Before that? Somewhere in there. But somehow, me and Biggie were down at Howard University. And we was fucking with DJ Ron G. Ron G will tell you this story. Get Ron G up here. will tell you this story.

Get Ron G up here. That's the classic mixtape niggas and all of that shit. Ron G. Ron, he was doing a party down in Howard. Somehow me and Big was down there. And Ron needed help with fucking crepes, yo. His crew wasn't even right. We were already rolling as naughty.

So I had crispy Timbs. If you look up this picture, Big had little nasty Timbs on. He was still in that. He was signed, but he was in the stage for that first joint. Man. And we helped Ron G carry his fucking crates in that Howard joint. Wow. You and Big. Me and Big, y'all.

And Big knew who I was and we knew who Big was. He came to one of our shows, but Big linked up with me. And North Carolina, y'all. And then once we helped Ron G, he was like, yo, Vin, let's take a picture.

So we took the pictures, snapped up twice. He took one and then he gave me one and he wrote down his beeper and his fucking home number on the joint. Hold on.

Time out. Let's make some noise for Vin having Big's beeper number. That's hard. That's hard. Check my Instagram. That ain't a story. That's facts.

That's hard. That ain't a story. That's facts. You know, listen, whenever a nigga say beeper number, you just gotta just shut the fuck up and just listen. And it says Big's hand writing. Big wrote that shit. You know Listen Whenever a nigga say Beep a number You just gotta Shut the fuck up Just listen Anderson Biggs

Hand writing Bigg wrote that shit Give me a big story Alright Well This was like 95 Roman's 96

Where it was like Tension between East West I can beg But We on tour Naughty and bad boy Mmm

Act it Wait Wait Let me just Describe this we on tour naughty and bad boy mmm at that wait Tom where I mean just let me just let me just let me say so much I have to think about this this is the middle of the East Coast shot in New York that is fucking time that came out riding on East Coast, West Coast, all that. And you were on tour with Bad Boy. We were on tour with Bad Boy. And Pac, I'll do it. Let me just shut the fuck up.

Well, for the first three, four nights. That was their first major tour. Translation. For the first three, four days, I'm like, yo, man, we in San Antonio. Yo, where y'all be at, yo? Why you don't go out to these parties? Me and me and Sugar, two bucks,

I said, my brother, two bucks. Hold on, nigga. When you're saying this, you're talking about... I'm in the hotel. We stay in the same hotel room.

But they never left the hotel room and never leave it. What's your relationship with Eddie and I? Yo, man, I'm like, man. Way, way fucking back. Why y'all motherfuckers, they like us at camp. The doors open, they in the hotel, never going nowhere.

Why y'all never go to the party when we're men's shoes? I'm like, man, let me get this goddamn phone. That's when you had the phones like that and shit. Man, the long joints with the headband. You know, you put the speaker on, and I'm like, yeah, man. Yo, what's up? Hey, what's up, man? Who the trick?

Oh, yeah, it's Sherry. What's up? I'm like, what's up? Oh, right here. You're like, what's up, man? Like, man, these niggas, I'm out on tour with these niggas, man. These niggas don't even want to go party with me or nothing, man. These niggas are like, yo, man, what the fuck?

Man, tell them bitches, like, tell them bitch ass niggas go out with you. We ain't going to fuck up your money, you relative, family, everything else, and all the rest. Pac going to make some records. We're going to bomb him out. He going to make records. We going to make money.

Tell them motherfucking bitch ass niggas to go out with you. I got it on speaker. Them niggas came out. They was coming out with the shiny suits that we show, like that shit. After that, them niggas came out with Timbo coming out with the shiny suits every show. Like, that kind of shit. After that, the biggest came out with Timbo boots and naughty boxers.

With their ties on with no shirts. Junior Mafia. I got Big and Ken, Lil' King, Junior Mafia going on the hood with me. And strip joints and shit, all of us. And East Coast.

We was on tour, coast to coast. Bigged him up. Big up. Big up. Big up. Yeah, every fucking night we're puffing them fucking gals.

Let me ask you something. Yeah, you still ain't come back with that last fucking sack, nigga. You got real slick. Lucky the mama cones. You know that's OG, y'all. Slap box, yeah, y'all.

You that big bag. It would be nice to get again, Puff Daddy. You know, that's OG, yo. I slapbox you, yo. You that big bag. It would be nice to get again, Pup Daddy. You know that's my relative. That's how we talk, man. Translation. Translation. Translation. I'm a father, but I'm a slave.

I love you, daddy. I love you, daddy. I slap back. Welcome to Play It, a new podcast network featuring radio and TV personalities talking business, sports, tech, entertainment, and more. Play it at play.it. We're back to Drink Champs Radio with rapper N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN. So let me end this conversation with this.

I want to big all three of you brothers up. And I want to say that, again, like I said in the beginning of the interview, when they said we're going to get naughty, I said, yo, who are we going to get? Because sometimes naughty can be KG, Tretch. Different configuration I ain't talking to you This my motherfucking Family

Let me keep picking you up Come on Tretch Come on Translation I love you too I love you and make me cry I'm going to tell you this I'm going to tell you what you got

I'm going to tell you what you got. I'm going to tell you what you got. And everybody in social media and all of this shit, I'm going to tell you all what y'all got. When Nordy, we had the problems a couple of years, my two brothers, they went up to the breakfast club and they did an interview. So ever since then, this is the first interview. Yes, it is.

All three of us doing this kind of podcast. Yes, it is. So we are going to do this. Yes, it three of us Yes it is So we about to do this We about to do this And it's positioning So you brothers are doing your thing I understand what y'all doing with your podcast I understand the platform Understand all of that

I understand advertising I'm coming through with the sneaker company We going to put up that sponsorship money and do the right fucking thing. And let's rock. And let's rock out, man. It's about being creative, yo.

It's about being creative. We got the tools, Nori. It's about being creative. It ain't about blaming nobody. So when Translation he going to be in the office with them He's got the tools, Norrie. It's about being creative. It ain't about blaming nobody. So, man, translation. He going to be in the office with them and with the mayor and all that shit. I'm going to be playing the ghetto. Got the warriors.

So, when you ready, we do this whole movement, all this shit. We all roll together. We deep. And we going to have some studio sessions. And then everybody in this motherfucker. And they think I'm some hustler. And take it to these stations. They going to play a translation. All the fans are going to ask. Everybody in this motherfucker and take it to the station. They're going to play a translation.

All the fans are going to ask. That bar right there. When is the next Mordy Tower? Because KG got all the beats. Can I get a copy of the fucking tracks that we fucking did? Can we really get back to that before we close out? The time is five. You're very right.

Here we go, y'all. Let's give it up for Drink Trap. Give it up, Nari. Give it up, baby. That's right. Yeah, baby. No more time. The fans are going to kill us. When is the next

Real Naughty by Nature? Listen, let me just tell y'all something. Don't cut me off. Because I know you're about to cut me off. I ain't cutting your ass off, nigga. You always try to cut me off more than I cut you off. I can't cut you off. I've been quiet as shit.

Fuck you. Don't put my business down. I can't cut you off. But listen, we need the next Naughty by Nature album. And we are aware of technology. So we're aware. The reason why music

sucks now, because back in the days when we made music, don't cut me off. Nope. Niggas ain't driving. Listen, the reason why the music was so great back then is because I couldn't send you an email. You know how big

them rates, what's them shits? The rails? Niggas ain't want to bring them rails. The rails, the rails. So you had to go to a person's studio to make that music. Just listen. This is why music is

disposable nowadays. Because even what you recorded on is disposable. Back then, you couldn't throw that Dorf away. That nigga was a Dorf. Translation, Norby missed us and he wanted us to come to Queens.

I want y'all To do a real Nori We can do it We can do it We can do it I want y'all to email us I've been in the hood 7 years

First thing was translation First thing was translation Fuck up man He want us to come to the hood I just mean it First single's translation First single's translation With T-Sex compilation Fuck up man You want us to come to the Norian It's not a real Norian record

Unless KG is producing That's what I believe And somebody That motherfucker People And that's And that's real So

Some people will argue If you hear Wu-Tang record And RZA didn't produce it It's not authentic Wu-Tang I don't care If RZA don't produce it as long as RZA arranged it. Oh, fuck that, man. Dre ain't do a lot of that.

RZA put it together. And that's how I feel about Norton. That it was great new producers he put in there. You know what I'm saying? I was one producer in there. That makes it special. It's different. It's the brand that fixed what it does.

We ain't doing this forever. Why? That's like an original Eagles. Where the hip-hop Eagles? Mm. Not Philadelphia though, right? No, no, the group. The band, the band, the band.

Eagles. I'm like, I'm being football. Nigga, I'm the Giants. Nigga, let's go Big Blue. Eagles. I'm like, what the fuck

can we tell them about Philadelphia? You know, I'm not feeling it, but God damn it, man. Let's go, Big Blue. Are the Eagles fans going to fucking try that? Are the Eagles, nigga? How do you want to be the hip-hop Rolling Stones?

I was making noise for Tretch being the drunkest nigga in the building tonight. And we love that. Oh, shit. He was the drink champ tonight. Where's my boy? There's always a drunk nigga to put it on you to run the show and shit. I see how sneaky you are. And he drunker than me, he won.

He came in the booth. I'm usually the drunkest nigga in the building. You want me to run again? You came drunker than me. He won. You got to have an honor where we drink. We're putting it on the right there. Oh, Puff took our shit?

Listen. Oh, you want me to run again our shit listen you want to read what happened to Puff yeah what happened to Puff no because no we used to have

a little chalice like the nigga that won but Puff came here like a trophy like a trophy yeah

and he took every drink from every table but we don't have the foulest shit that we had before because we were

statute of limitations right statute of limitations right so and preach bro and he took it with him. He's a foul nigga. He poured every alcohol on the table in there. Yeah.

So we all... A question. Has this motherfucker here that I know all this goddamn time for these decades, has this motherfucker ever won the drunkest motherfucker shit? One more time? I'm seeing... Yeah. All right.

He's a drunk shit. I won it with you. And then you got kicked out of the hotel because I told you you couldn't smoke translation translation you didn't get kicked out you didn't say that in front of

you didn't get kicked out you got charged you didn't smush me you brought some old shit up you say you love me I made you miss your flight. Cause you was in the room smoking with me. You told me not to smoke it. I gave you the good weed and you wrote it. How can I leave you?

I just need to speak to you. I know this weed is good. Are you in the room smoking with me? I know it's weed. Oh, you was, yeah, in the room smoking weed. Say, nigga, I'm smoking you up. No, no, no. I told you not to smoke in the room. Yeah, why you was in the room smoking? And what did you tell me?

You said, smoke in the room. Why you in here smoking with me then? And then you went and smoked in the room. You in here smoking with me then. And then you went downstairs and then they charged me. I said I told you so He act like

I was asking him for money I was just telling him They charged me Fuck you Yo tell the whole story You piece of shit Tell the whole story I know man

Yo listen Tell the whole story You piece of shit Yo listen Yo listen Vin Tretch KG

On behalf of Hip HopFN, Drink Champs, Hazardous Sounds, Drain, Rich Blanco, Mr. Lee, Sonny D, BET, Pray for DC Twin, everybody, all my people, Hakeem Green. You know what I'm saying? We want to salute you for what you did to hip-hop for raising us. Most of us wouldn't have been raised right if we didn't know that there's other people's pussy out there. Bam! Boing, boing!

So relax. It's not your pussy. It's other people's. Don't catch Phil. We would have never been raised right if we didn't have Hip Hop Parade. We would have never been right without your music, without your contribution to hip hop. And hip hop owes you, and we're going to salute you that.

And we're going to continue keeping hip hop going because that's what we do. And I don't know, our puff gave us this tequila with this heavy, very heavy top. Yo, Puff, you didn't give me that last bag. This is out. Yo, Puff, yo. I got eternal love for him.

You know you my bro. 25th anniversary pool party. This is for me. Damn, man. Pick up Diddyaps in the wind. To break cameras, man. This shit is sick. Pick up Diddy, D-Rock. But I could never thank you brothers more.

Hakeem Green, thank you. I will never forget you for bringing cameras. Come over here. Throw something in here, Hakeem Green. Yeah, why don't you? 1986, East Stars High School talent show. Turn to the mic. 1986, East Stars High School talent show. Talk to the mic. 1986, East Stars High School talent show, right? You had KG and Tretch about to wreck it down.

Sound system goes out. Vinny, who was the host of the talent show, starts beatboxing. Tretch just goes in. And I started dancing. Let's hear your beatbox for the record, man. Just for the record. Let's just hear how it go, boss. Let's just hear you move.

Let's just hear you dance some water. Double shot of water. I bet you trust me. I bet you. No, no, no. I'm not going to do it. When you talk about the essence of hip-hop, the essence of hip-hop,

to see it go down in 1986 in front of my eyes, we went to high school together. We went to high school together. So to see it go down in front of my eyes, the next thing you know, four years later, I'm here at OPP. I'm at Irving, Texas. Because you're from Jersey, too, right? I'm from Jersey. We went to high school together. We graduated from Joseph's, right?

We graduated. Me and him was from middle school together. We graduated from middle school together. I know him with Jackson Cain. We was in middle school together. The first time I heard of a KRS-One, I walked in a homeroom class and he's holding an album up like this. What's these cats doing? We was in middle school together, man. Guns and joints is out. And you got fake blue eyes, right?

Cool. Is that real blue eyes? We got fake blue eyes. We got real blue eyes. Let me check those out. Nah, this is real. Yo, they ain't reset. This nigga was just- Translation. We went translation. out. Nah, this is real. Yo, then we say, you miss niggas.

Translation. We went translation. Went to school with us, nigga. You say you got fake. Man. You can't jump out of the jersey for a minute. We don't go to commercial. Three Chats Voices jersey, too.

Where you at? I'm playing for 25 years. I've never seen you for 25 years. I've never seen you with blue eyes, nigga. We gonna have to talk over here. That's blue eyes, nigga. You never been in right as I am. As soon as he go, nigga,

we call him nigga. You know you my nigga. Cause you never been in jail with those. Yeah. Oh, you know. Oh, nigga. Don't go. I ain't afraid to go.

We can't. We all know how to look. Everybody has this. Everybody has this. Everybody loves this. Wait, who's going to jail? You keep coming back. Wait.

Wait, Norrie. Norrie, this was going crazy. Tell that old man out. Hold up, man. We got pretty niggas looking for a go. Hey, Norby, man, we can't do that shit right now. Wait, man. Hold up.

Yo, that's the stuff we got in my head. Yeah! Oh,. This is a rock and roll game. This is a rock and roll game. We doing a picture A picture and then I bet y'all edit that shit

No, let's This is hip hop We have fun We love that shit, boy Hey, yo, Haz Hold up one second Want to let everybody know They can check us at

Drinkchamps.com Follow us at Drinkchamps on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Check Nori out at attherealnoriega on Instagram, at Noriega on Twitter, and NewYearNori on Snapchat. You can check me, DJ EFN, at who's crazy Instagram, at DJ EFN on Twitter, at who's crazy on Snapchat. Make sure you follow the team, our visual media manager, Rich Blanco, at Rich underscore Blanco on Instagram and Twitter. Our engineer, Hazardous Sounds,

at Hazardous Sounds on Instagram and Twitter. Our photographer, Big Drain, at Drain on Instagram and at Big Drain on Twitter. Our graphic artist, AKZ, at AKZ916 on Instagram and Twitter. Also shout out the whole CBS Play.it team. Follow them at at Play.it on Twitter. And make sure you grab yourself some Drink Champs shirts,

shot glasses and cups and all that merch at DrinkChamps.com or check our homies at 8and9.com. Head over to iTunes and pick up the singles For the Win, Moguls, and Petty, as well as the Drunk Uncle Project from Nori. Also, my album, Another another time is out now available on itunes spotify google play or physicals at crazyhood.com check hazardous sounds project save the culture and you can check that at hazardous sounds.com or check it on all digital platforms also look out for nori's cooking show coming very soon and my coming home vietnam film which you can see

the previous films about haiti cuba and peru currently on revolt tv shout out the whole drink chance army we really appreciate your support and we out of here Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You see the agency is winning. So I know they got some issues. You see the agency is winning.

So I heard they got some issues Issues, issues, issues You see they hate to see us winning So I know they got some issues Issues, issues, issues You see they hate to see us winning So I heard they got some issues Issues, issues, issues Ay yo, what's feeling back, Litty?

It feel like 98 again Real gonna love it and the fake gonna hate again Other niggas frightened, acting like they make it more than me Million dollar meetings in jeans, I dress accordingly Ogremail, upgrade from Ogie Original slime and hip-hop, they all owe me My city need me, I read on Hoodabedia Killed it on the music and started killing the media

Spitter, Rittle, Phil, Indica, Sativia That a nigga sick like they run with leukemia You see they hate to see us winning So I know they got some issues Issues, issues, issues You see they hate to see us winning So I heard they got some issues Issues, issues, issues

You see they hate to see us winning So I know they got some issues Issues, issues, issues You see they hate to see us winning So I heard they got some issues Iss we gon' get this money With dollars You see the hate To see us winning So I heard they got some issues Five seconds Five seconds Really?

Really? Who you know iller than really? Riddle me that All my real niggas know Where I'm mentally at Money Wake up drinking pain What's the issue with that?

My wife Malibu in the hills Where I'm physically at Checking in with the hood Conversations is whack I don't think I'm so good I'm just stating the facts Four door on the coupe, I'm debating with that

Flying in and out of town, people hating on that Yeah, they tell me I'm a star, I'm just trying to get these cars Niggas telling me to rap, I'm just trying to move the heart Sweatpants in the rollie, I don't do Balenciaga Just start out the mouth, like I'm blowing on the cartridge You see they hate to see us winningnin' so I know they got some issues You see they hate to see us winnin' so I heard they got some issues You see they hate to see us winnin' so I know they got some issues

You see they hate to see us winnin' so I heard they got some issues And yo, they hate to see us winnin' so I heard they got some issues. Issues. Issues. And yo they hate to see us winning so I heard we got some issues. No prob they trip I'ma blow them like some tissue. Riding with the OG 16 by the hip like a whole P. Nigga violate I'm a OD. Shooting for forever like

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Gas on sicko And I let my shit go They know what it's hitting for Heard what I get it for Imagine what I'm sitting on You see they hate to see us winning So I know they got some issues Issues, issues, issues

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