Drink Champs - Episode 95 w/ Trina

Episode Date: September 5, 2017

N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode the guys drink it up with Miami legend, Trina. They cover Trina's entrance into the rap game, Trick Daddy, female unity, Miami, and a lot more. --- 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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Total opposite will be nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's my duty to help you snap Keep your worries long gone long Let go what you cannot take Take this moment and move on, move on I was once like you, had me in my running shoes Thought there's nothing I can do, man, I had it wrong There's something up in my eyes, make myself a steam ride

Yo, Slime, how long you been rocking out for? A 20-year career, I hope you understand I used to pitch on the block, I did it wrong I said something up in my eyes Make myself a scene right Yo, Slime, how long you been rockin' out for? A 20-year career I hope you understand I used to pitch on the block I did it under Did you hear that shit? They said I'd never make it, never be Slime, how long you been rockin' out

In this motherfuckin' game for? A 20-year career I hope you understand I used to pitch on the block I did it underhand They said I'd never make it, never be much And I agreed with them They see such

So I celebrate life. Pop the shots. This with ice. Baby, we gon' drink more. It's buttery. Just feel, don't think with me, baby. I'll be the shrink you need lately. Just one more. Don't forget, y'all, this is on iTunes right now It's cold on my ass

Let's go I wanna make money, I wanna make more She wanna fly wings, she wanna take off She wanna eat lobster, she wanna drink wine Damn good drug, that's buttery You know it's weird to try to fake you Pay attention to love, who cares who hates you We'll win one way or the other

Let's start now Drink champs! It's my duty to help you snap back Leave your worries long gone, long gone Let go what you cannot take back Take the moment and move on, move on I wish boys like you had me in my running shoes There's nothing I can do, man, I got it wrong

There's something up in my ass, make myself a scheme rise And they told me that I need to have a drink with me, baby Uno Mars, one more, just feel, don't think with me, baby Singing like Bruno Mars, did we go? I'll be the shrink you need lately Just one more clink with me, baby Talk to him, slime She wanted one more, I wanted one more

Ignored your last call, got one more We from the bottom, so we always celebrate it From the bottom, so we always celebrate it Can't help that, I wanna help that I wanna save her life, I know she felt that She in a good mood, and I agree with her I just wanna get drunk and go be with her It's my duty to help you snap back

Leave your worries long gone, long gone Let go what you cannot take back Take this moment and move on, move on I was once like you, had me in my running shoes Thought there's nothing I can do, man, I had it wrong There's something up in my eyes, make myself a scene rise And then tell me that I need to do a song Come have a drink with me, baby

This is how we feel nowadays Remember where y'all heard this shit first Drink with me, baby Let's just have a drink And like, we know Shout out to the whole Drink Chance family Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Hazardous sounds, what up? Come have a drink with me, baby My nigga Drain Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah That's how we feel nowadays We know, man Rich Blanco, what up? On the box My nigga Drainz. Rich Blocko, what up? Really? Ching Bing, what up?

What it good be? Hopefully what it should be. It's your boy NRE. up it's DJ EFN And it's Drake Chaps Happy hour Make some noise Right now Right now we have

Not only a queen of hip hop Not only a queen of Miami But a queen period When you say the baddest You gotta say her name I can say the baddest bitch I don't know You can say the baddest bitch You know you're like That's my sister You know so When you say the baddest you gotta say her name I can say the baddest bitch I don't know you can say the baddest

that's my sister you know so when you say the baddest bitch you gotta say her name she has been working countlessly she's always been in front of the camera

looking gorgeous always represented the females right I'm proud to say that in the building right now with the drink chest we got the legendary

the iconic Trina is in the building make some noise thank you how you doing Trina you looking gorgeous as always thank you thank you for having me how long have you been in this game like oh wow um I've been doing I've been in the game actually I would say well since the first record with Trig that would have been that's the first record that you recorded yeah that you ever recorded period which is not well now that's the first record I ever recorded period besides this one you ever recorded, period? Which is not. Well, nah, that's the first record I ever recorded, period.

Besides this one little thing I had did like really, really before that. Like I was probably like about 15. And I had, some of my friends used to dance for Luke. They were like his backup dancers. And we was all in the studio. I had snuck in the studio. And he was doing this song, It's Your Birthday. And it was just, everybody was saying their name.

And I just jumped in like, Trina, it's your birthday. So that got on the song. So that was like something I had did a long time ago, but nobody knew about it until like way, way later. Yeah, but besides that recording, yeah, it was a trick for the name record. That's a big first record to come out the gate with. You don't know that, man?

Yeah. Yo, you mean in New York, we ain't know. We just, you don't know that, man? That's all we just was saying. I went up to the stage, you don't know that nigga? What are you singing, Nori? Like, I got to go to Miami. They got some shit going on down there.

So, now, was hip-hop always your dream? It wasn't always my dream. I just like music. I just like, I liked more R&B. You know, I like melodic. I just liked all the ladies. You know, I was like Salt-N-Pepa fan, Janet Jackson. Like, just all the girls.

Every girl that came out. Everybody that was out, I just, you know, I just loved the girls. And once it became, like, hip-hop and rapppa fans, Janet Jackson, like, just all the girls. Every girl that came out, like, everybody that was out, I just, you know, I just loved the girls. And once it became, like, hip-hop and rap and stuff, I mean, it was guys. It's cool, but I was a girly girl, you know, so much more so than, like, into the guy thing. And then just being from Miami, it wasn't, like, a close kind of thing. The only person that was, like, known for, like, music was Luke. And I was too young.

You can't really be around Luke music. Yeah, he was booty music, right? He had a teen club, so that kind of made us... Pac Jam. Pac Jam. So you was kind young. You can't really be around Luke music. Yeah, he was booty music, right? He had a teen club, so that kind of made us... Pac Jam. Pac Jam. So you was kind of like able to get... Real Miami shit going on right now. Yeah, get involved with it.

Go ahead. Get involved with it. But besides that, like music, when you hear music from like out-of-town artists, it was like, it wasn't our style music. It wasn't booty music or dance music and stuff like that. So, you know.

So now, like, after you came out with Trick, you know, Nair Nigga, was the success immediate or it was still a grind process to that? Because us looking from the outside in, it looked like Miami just took over. It looked immediate to us in New York. It was scary. It was like right away. It was so scary.

It was like, yo, hold up. I didn't sign up for this. I didn't want to do this. The label was running me down, chasing me. I want these dudes to stop calling my phone. I'm doing a favor. Trick is my guy. That's it. I don't want to do this. The label was running me down, chasing me. I want these dudes to stop calling my phone. I'm doing a favor. Trick is my guy. That's it.

I don't want to sign a record deal. I don't want to be the first lady to slip and slide. None of that. So you weren't signed when you did the record?

No, no, no, no. I just came to the studio. Trick was like, yo, come to the studio. Bring your girls. We're going to have a good time. I was like, who's going to be at the studio?

We want to hang out with you guys. He was like, no, we're going to have fun. I want you to do something. I was like, what? He was like, you know what?

I just want you to talk shit on this record. I was like, what do you mean talk shit? He was like, I just want you to like talk shit on this record. I was like, what do you mean talk shit? He was like, just talk shit. Like, I'm gonna say some crazy, crazy stuff

and then you, you bring your girls. You know, y'all got the flip mouth. Y'all quick to cuss a dude out. I just want you to come in here and just like talk shit. And then that's kind of

how it happened. Ah. Yeah. Let's make some noise for that guy down there. The minute that Ted Lucas heard that record, he was like,

the minute he heard that record I had to change my number He was calling me like Every day No Ted Lucas Yes he called He called Trent Carter from the studio

He was like That's not Trina He was like Ted it is He was like I'm coming on my way now And I kind of left With my friends

Before Ted came Because I didn't want to Talk about no music And no record label And then he just called Every single day And he was like No you have to sign I was day and he was like no you have

to sign i was like no i was like what are you talking about and then after that i did a i did trick's birthday party and um what club was that at i don't know it was like a small little club before a lot of deal and um it was like it's me all my friends we're gonna go to the party show him love and then he decided to perform the song and they set me up and made me sneak on the stage to do the song and i just got on stage and made me sneak on the stage to do the song. And I just got on stage and I had closed my eyes. I didn't say nothing. And everybody was going crazy.

And I was just thinking, like, what is going on? So your eyes was closed. I didn't say not one word. The girl said every word of the song. And my eyes was closed and I was standing there like, what am I doing? And then after that, Tripp was like, so you don't want to sign? And then we just kind of had this conversation. And it just happened like so fast.

Like I remember getting back and a couple days after I was in Ted's office, he was on the phone with Atlantic and Atlantic was like, fly to New York, we're signing it.

And then everything changed. It went like totally different. So what was your first love before music then? Well, it wasn't really like a first love. Before I did music, I started doing real estate.

I got my real estate license. I was working for this company called ERA Homeland Realty. Hey, Sean, not at all. Yeah. It was just, it was for me. I got my real estate license. I was working for this company called ERA Homeland Realty. It's a shame not to know. It was for me. I was thinking, hey, I'm going to make money. I'm going to sell homes. I'm going to look fly.

I'm going to sell a bunch of homes. And I had got a job at this company called ERA Homeland Realty. And I had worked there for maybe like a month. And I didn't get to sell a home at first. I was taking people out. I had a lot of different customers, a lot of rentals. month right and um i didn't get to sell a home at first i was like taking people out i was you know i had a lot of different customers a lot of rentals and then right before i was actually about to sell a home that's when the whole thing would trick he came and called interrupted and i want to do the

record and i just never went back now was you ready for the fame because if like the way you're describing it right now it's like you it was kind of like a surprise to you it was like a favor for your friend and then this is like how does how does dealing with fame at that age? I mean, you know what? I mean, it's a different kind of fame. Because I'm like, this is like, Miami is my city. So I'm already was a person that was already known. I come from like a family that's already known in Miami.

And what part of Miami are you from exactly? Liberty City. That's the real Miami. So therefore, coming up with people just already know who you are. And it's just one of them things like, you know, you're just being called like your daddy's daughter

or your mom's child and people are knowing you from that. And I mean, this is fame. So now I'm doing this record with Trick and it's a whole different type of thing

because it's all over the, like people all over everywhere are now like knowing who you are besides Miami and everybody want to meet you and they want to see you and this is like, whoa. And it's like groupies

and it's girls and it's guys and guys are looking more corny because they're even more groupie it's just starting to get weird everything is just becoming real weird you know and it was it was just a fast life-changing experience right now recently i gotta i gotta say you like had almost like a trick daddy moment like because that's that's what we usually don't take to do. And I'm sitting on the head and I'm looking everywhere. And I'm like, wow. It's everywhere.

Oh, my God. First off, it was gorgeous, by the way. Your hair was done. Everything was looking right. I'm like, yo, you took time. You made sure everything was done. Yeah, you looked it. You looked it.

And I never seen you. Oh, my. You know what? Let me just say this. Well, actually, that day, I was actually doing, like, some little viral stuff for my album. So I was already, like, coming from, like, a... On that mode. I was coming from a great place. Like, I was having a good time.

I was leaving the beach, so it was a good moment. And then someone sent me, like, over this whole list of messages from someone posted. And this girl, I know her. So I'm looking like, oh, whoa, like, okay. So this is kind of salty. So then I'm thinking, oh, well, let me just write back, like, yo, what's up? Like, you know my number. Hit me up.

And then that just went into her bitch this and bitch that. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Like, that's not how we get down. There's never been a bitch conversation between me and you. So what's the disrespect? Like, what's the problem? And, I mean, it was just one of them kind of things. Like, I'm just not even a person for the rah-rah.

I'm not too much of a talker. I have very, very short patience. Like, I'm zero to 100 real quick much of a talker I have very very short patience like I'm zero to a hundred real quick so it's one of the kind of things like you gotta step outside of this

and let people know don't fucking disrespect you and that was that moment cause like you know me I said pull up you didn't pull up

so that means this is squash automatically I'm not really on all the extra that's not me I just get money I live my life

I have fun I travel the world I do what I love to do if you don't like it that's your misery not mine so that was one of the moments I do what I love to do if you don't like it that's your misery not mine so that was one of the moments and right after I was laying in the bed like rolling up and packing a bag getting ready to go to Seattle Washington it was all over and I'm back to the normal myself oh but you had no idea how viral this went this was all over I wasn't even thinking

about it then the next day I woke up in my flight I was like whoa She was on fire everywhere. No, I woke up like, yo. I woke up like, what is going on? All in the airport when somebody is greeting you like I just saw you. You didn't say the name. That was classic. No, I don't say names. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was classic. And that promo, like I helped you out.

You know, you're a little famous now. Hey, you know, get your shit off. But I just don't like to disrespect. I'm not a disrespectful person. You know what I mean? It's internet, social media. All this viral stuff has made people like get so out of character you know i mean like every single day before there was like instagram and twitter whatever you see people you may not like a shirt

you don't like a hip you don't have to vocally say that that's like your personal endeavor you don't have to make that publicly known now we have this thing oh i don't like her sock was not one was too short oh i don't like her sneaker was, one was too short. Oh, I don't like her sneaker. It's so annoying and it's just one of those kind of things. It's like always attack, attack, attack. Black women always attacking black women mainly. It's always just so much negativity, so much. I'll look at this stuff every day like everybody else.

I would never say anything about anybody that's not a positive or good thing. I don't care if I don't like something. I don't want to keep it moving. I'm human. It's stuff I. I don't care if I don't like something. I don't want to keep it moving. I'm human. It's stuff I see I don't like. I don't like it. I'm like everybody else. But I'm not going to say that because that's just so,

like, not necessary. It's like out of character. It's tacky. It's weak. Like, I don't have the time to do that. Right. You know what I mean?

So when somebody gets... Make some noise for that, y'all. God damn it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Get to your part, Trina. Get going, girl. I mean, it's just not a me

you don't hear me like I feel like it's the real me right now no it's a very calmer version I don't know very very I don't like to bring it over a four because if I get over a four it should be real

you know what I mean so I keep it to a four but I'm just saying like we have this generation it sucks to me it's one of them kind of things the most negative

derogatory disgusting hateful miserable why is everybody so mad I'm chilling I'm flying all across the world life is great

what are you so mad for we got the same 24 hours I don't have 25 I don't have 25 six and a half I have 24 just like you we both have 24

whatever I do my 24 is my business what you do is your business if yours don't add up baby that's not my problem I'm sorry work harder nobody cares that's all I know that for my problem. I'm sorry. Work harder. Nobody cares.

That's all. I know that for my entire life. I've been doing this for 17 years. I do not ask anybody for anything. Nobody could never say any of that about me. You can hear a lot of things. Trina, Trina, Trina, Trina. Half the stuff you hear, the reason you hear about these people is because I put you on.

It was because of me. People didn't even care to talk about you. I still don't rant about you because I don't have, I'm a pleasant, I'm so busy, like, I'm high in the sky, like, chilling, like,

I'm enjoying life. You only get this thing one time. When you be around people and the situations and stuff has been taken away from you and you realize how important this one life, we can get all this,

like, all day, like, tomorrow, but this one life, you got to really take care of that. Like, you're in control

of how happy you are in this life. I'm not miserable. I'm happy. I'm, like, sailing, to really take care of that. Like, you're in control of how happy you are in this life. I'm not miserable. I'm happy. I'm like sailing, yachting, flying, chilling. People speak another language like, whoa, you love me.

I'm at a concert. I don't even know if you know what I'm talking about, but you're screaming. So I'm not on this vibe. I'm on a whole nother wave. We got to make some more noise for that.

I'm sorry. She is giving us the real trainer. God damn it. You know, that's just how I roll. So let me ask you something. One thing that I see, like you see Drake and Future do albums together. You see Jay and Kanye do albums together.

Why don't more females do like collab albums? Is it true that females in hip hop can't get along? Or is that a rule? I mean, you know what? It's definitely catty. What does catty mean? Catty means like... I don't know what that It's definitely catty. What does catty mean? Catty means like... I don't know what that means.

I'm sorry. What does that mean? Catty just means like girls, like women are emotional. You know, emotions mean like you, it's a lot of things you may not like about yourself. So when that comes and you're around other women and you see confidence,

that kind of makes you salty. That's how I survive. There's no cattiness over here, darling. I'm always going to uplift you. I'm always rooting for you. I'm like, dang, you look good. Your butt is popping, boobs sitting up. Everything is looking very youthful.

I love it. Women don't know how to give other women props and credit. It's not going to take away from you. But you think that's women in hip-hop, or you think that's women in general? That's women in general, in life. I think that's women in life. It's not just hip-hop.

It's definitely in life. I always hear females say, I don't mess with girls. I mess with... Because it's always something. It's all good when we all at the bottom, but if somebody come up a little higher than somebody else,

then somebody ain't going to like that. And that's just a sad thing. I don't understand. We could all hang out. We could party together. We could drink, smoke, club together, but we can't get money together. We can't get business together.

We can't do something that's evolving and growing. And like, we can't go passport hopping around the country together. I just don't understand that. Was there any time you ever tried to attempt to like work with a female artist? I've worked with every female artist almost in this industry. So I'm one like kind of exempt from that only because I always embrace everybody. You know, I've done records with everybody from Missy to the Brat to Eve to, to Remy Ma to Nicki Minaj to everybody that's out in the game, everybody before.

Mostly all the women that came out, I did records because I embraced them because I liked them for some reason. I'm Southern, you're New York, you're Cali, you're this, you're accent, you're Caribbean. I just love that. And believe it or not, I don't really think all these dudes want to sit around and just watch a bunch of dudes on TV all day. You want to see women. You want to see beautiful collaboration songs. really think all these dudes want to sit around and just watch a bunch of dudes on TV all day. No, no, we don't. You want to see beautiful collaboration songs. That's what you really want to see. So I don't understand at what point women don't really get like, you know, like, whoa, together. We're like, we really run the world.

Like, we run these dudes all day. All y'all pay attention to that. That's a fact. That's a fact. That's a fact. So definitely. You know what I mean? Now, you said it earlier.

Now, what did you think of, like, the Remy Ma and Nicki Minaj thing? I don't get into all that because it's always been like a whole thing. You know, I just feel like, you know what, when you got women, people always try to put women against each other. It's more of that than it is, like, trying to unite women together because people would definitely love to see more unity than they would like to see that separation. But in this generation, we don't have that. We have too many jealous, envious, hateful people that rather see it divide. I don't know why.

I see so many dudes, so many guys, they work together, they don't even like each other. But I see you work together. I see you shoot a video. I see you on stage. You get in the bag. So why separate the women from doing that? Me, I'm not, I don't like that.

That's one thing I don't like because we're all women doing our thing and you have to be independent for yourself because you can't depend on nobody. Like, that's my thing. I'm not depending on, I don't care who we're all women doing our thing and you have to be independent for yourself because you can't depend on nobody like that's my thing I'm not depending on I don't care who you is what you got none of that doesn't mean nothing to me god bless the child has its own destiny I'm gonna have my own period so that's how I roll if you had a chance right they said to you right now you get a chance to do an album with any female artist there is in the world who would you pick oh boy now okay first of all this is my first choice, of course, would be Beyonce.

This is my favorite person to write the lyrics. Okay, I didn't even think like that. I mean, you can't even say that. That's like, no, no, no. No, but you know what? Like, I would say, like, I would like, like, Rihanna. Rihanna is feisty. She's like a powerhouse.

She talk that talk. She's unapologetic. You know what I mean? She's just like a, she's Caribbean. Like, she's just that. You know what I mean? So she, I love that. I would say her. Now, you're're Dominican my dad's family is from Dominican Republic

you know what we claiming you I'm Puerto Rican and I'm claiming you let me say that from now on I'm going everywhere she's down with us she's one of the Latinos let me tell you why because my mom's family is from Nassau, Bahamas. So every time it's always been like a kind of battle thing. Like you're not claiming either people. I'm just like, I'm just me. I don't want to be in a war for, you know. I'm black and Puerto Rican.

I don't want to be in the midst of nothing. People like would say any little thing just because of that. So I just try to like, you know, I'm just here. I'm born. I love my mom's family. I'm just close with other people. No, I don't speak Spanish. And I'm just close With a few people So I don't speak Spanish And I'm not close With my father

So I don't really Get into that I'm really close With my brothers From my father's side So I love them But my dad I'm Bahamian

Like I love that That's what my culture is But for a person Who speaks for The Dominican delegate Yes Delegation Delegation

Yes We're going to get you We're going to get you Some donuts We're going to get you Some donuts Some Chicharron And Pollo

Con Hueso Some Mofundo We're going to We're going to get you some We're going to get you some We're going to get you some We're going to meet you in Dominicania You know what I'm saying Let's make some noise for Gina I was very shocked I was like wow she's Dominican That would be nice for you to see That culture because You know what is crazy for me

I am Puerto Rican. But I went to Jamaica one time and I fell in love with the island so much. And what happened was I was like, yo, you know what? I love this island. But when I went to Puerto Rico, it was like even though like I was there as a child, it felt like I was here before. Like it was an ill feeling for me. It changed my whole life. So that's dope.

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or that was just something that came with the game? I mean, I think, for myself, it's just me, how I roll, like, how I carry myself. You know, I just do me, stay in my lane and keep it moving. You know what I mean? I mean, this industry is,

it's some snakes, it's some tough, it's just a dirty industry. You know, you gotta be real strong, you gotta have your feet playing in the ground to be able to survive. You know, and for me, I just stay out of people waiting And do what I gotta do And I just keep it moving

And I disrespect But just don't disrespect me And we all good You know and I mean We keep it moving We're grown We're adults And we're here to live

To make music And to like Be here for our families Have fun And you know do things That we probably never thought We would do And that's just what I do

With my life What's your favorite part Of the game? My favorite part is performing I was going to say that and do things that we probably never thought we would do. And that's just what I do with my life. What's your favorite part of the game? My favorite part is performing. I knew he was going to say that for some reason. Because you know why? I mean, because with records and albums and mixtapes and all this stuff, when I go to these places, if I'm out of the country,

and I hear fans that are saying songs, they don't even speak English, I'm just like, how do you even know what I'm talking about? Or if I'm at a concert and there's a deaf person like i have these like bunch of deaf fans that come to all these shows and they do everything in like sign language and i i had i had to write it and ask her like how do you know what i'm saying and she says because she googles my words and put it in her language and braille yeah but she can't hear me yes and i was like oh no i'm thinking and i was like wow and i mean no, I'm thinking blind people. No, with this. And I was like, wow.

And I mean, at the concert, she's doing it in their language while I'm performing. And I just be like, wow. So that kind of stuff, I just love. It's like touching people more opposed to somebody behind the CD or album they never saw you before. I just like to go out there and just wild out. Yeah, I think that's beautiful, man. Let's make some noise for that.

I think as an artist myself That's like probably Cause it's immediate Like if you Like you get to see that love You get to see people like You get to feel it The energy that night When people are just screaming

And singing word for word Every song And you're just like in awe And the song is like Ten years ago And you're just like wow Like that's just a beautiful feeling Did you ever imagine

You'd be like a role model To all I'm not a role model I mean not a role model I wanna be a role model But you like There's little girls who really live by your law. Like, it's a beautiful thing. Yeah, you know what?

I knew because I was like that before I started doing music. All my friends were attached to me. All my friends followed me. I was the leader. It was my way. I'm going to go this way. If I take the alley, we're taking the alley because I know this is the safest route. Everybody's going to follow me.

They're going to trust me because I'm not. I don't really like all the mistakes I don't like the excuses I just like to get right to it my word is my bond if I say I'm gonna do something I'm gonna do it and that's just that you know so when I started doing this it was just one of those things like okay I wasn't one of those people that was like shopping mixtapes and I mean I'm new and this is a label and this guy's his trick there's another group that was their trade plus six and then here's Rick Ross that is just like first time to the label, but he's not even on. And he's like with mixtapes

and like pushing them on me to like take on the road. And I'm just thinking like, whoa, these dudes is grinding. I'm just here chilling like the princess. And I'm seeing like how hard you want

to get your stuff on. I'm just like, I just did my one record. I'm good. Like, why are you doing all this extra struggling? I didn't really get into, I got on the road

and I really understood it. Like, I didn't do that right. I didn't have to grind it. So I just, I took it serious. You know, I went on the road with Trick. I went on the road And I really understood it Like I didn't do that right I didn't have to grind it So I just I took it serious You know I went on the road with Trick I went on the road one year

We did a tour And you know Trick is Trick He's lit Everybody The girls Is everywhere People

Me I'm at this time Like I don't drink I don't smoke I'm young I don't I'm just focused On what I'm doing

I'm on stage I got my three minutes I'm gonna do my three minutes Put my best outfit on Come out and kill it Get back to the hotel I'm not doing the after party. I'm just, I'm like not focusing because now the label is like, you got a deal.

We need a new album. We talking about Atlantic. This is an Atlantic album. Craig Calman is like down on the text message every second. And Ted is calling every 30 seconds on the dot. So I'm thinking about, forget about, this now is big, one thing. But now these whole people are like saying we need a full album this is all songs of you so we got it's going to be more than this trick then you got to be really

serious so I just like stayed in my room like one year on the road with them and just like mastered out a plan and just like execute yo yo I just received my clothes man you know it's like I got a personal style it's like I got groovy lu on standby you got that bombfell.com bombfell.com don't forget that.com you like that outfit outfit? I like that outfit, y'all. Every month. Every month. $2,500 we got. We negotiate $25 off your first purchase for all the drink channels already. Oh, $25 off.

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because after that did you think it was hypersexuality that that was supposed to be trina i i a little bit of it i just just felt like I didn't allow them to make me whatever they wanted. You know, sometimes they got like, I had one of these records that I recorded, which is called

Look Back At It. This is a record I did with Killer Mike. And this is a record that right now today is like, when I perform it, it's bigger than them.

And this is a record that I didn't want on my album. I was like, I don't want to do no records like this. I don't want to do a name. I don't want to care what you guys want.

They wanted to have that same stereotype. I was like, okay, you want me to just go talk dirty again? I don't want to do that. And I fought want to care what you guys want they wanted to have that same stereotype i was like okay what i'm gonna you want me to go talk dirty again i don't want to do that and i fought with the label i fought with the label i fought with them and eventually they of course the record was on my album and i told them okay if you give me a softer version of a record i want i'll do this record and i did the record but realistically this record right now is still one of the biggest records i perform and i'm sitting there and the girls are like screaming word for word and that's the kind of stuff that like it's it amazes me like

it's one of those things like whoa this is the record that I fought to get off of the album this is the record that you guys love verbatim every single word it's insane wow so you know now now what do you what do you like more independent or or major um hmm well, I would just say independent. When it comes to business and money and yourself and making sure that you're better. I mean, your freedom, your creativity, whatever you need to do. He hates me.

Imagine when I started and it's like a big machine behind you and you're just sitting there and you're not doing nothing because they got like a mafia of people doing whatever you need. And then when you don't have that after you do this for so long, it's like, and you're like, and the room gets smaller and everybody gets, you know, those hundred people go into like four people. You're trying to figure out how you're going to make this work. So it's a big difference. You know, it's about you and how much you want to work and whatever team you put together to make it work because it's totally not the same system.

And now with record sales, that's totally in a decline. Totally different industry. It's nothing like before. I mean, you could be on a major, and a major is a major, but that don't mean you're going to be selling major records because you're on a major. They still expect the artists not to work hard. They expect you to work ten times harder because they don't have to put the work in because all of this streaming and social media and Instagram,

they expect you to do your part opposed to back then. You don't have to do anything. So, you know, I definitely think if you're going to do it now and for where you are in music and hip-hop and just sales and just business and money-wise, you need to be thinking for yourself. You got to cut out three, four, five middlemen and, like, make sure you go after it, you know? Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, I just hate independent. Yeah.

I'm sorry. I couldn't. It's just, you know what it was? Like you said, I came from Def Jam. Yeah. I came from Penalty. Penalty, Leo, how you doing? You know, I was originally signed to Penalty in the beginning when he was an independent.

Then they got picked up as a major. Are you not with them no more? No, no, no, no. But that's my man, though. Neil is my man. So then they went major because Tommy Boy had the influence. You consider Tommy Boy a major? I thought that was still an age to a degree.

No, because Tommy Boy was the major that was distributed through Warner. Oh, okay. Remember Warner, yeah. Okay. So then Penalty got all that. So then when I go from Penalty and then Tom Silverman and Neil Levine caught their little problem. Okay. And then I went to Def Jam.

It was like, Def Jam was a major, but I loved their grind. Meaning, like they would throw me on the road. Like they wouldn't give me mad money up front, but they would give me mad tour buses and be like you're gonna keep you on the road for three months at a time something that i didn't really know that so my record would you know it would it would come out sell 250 or whatever and i was a gold dude so they just kept me on the road to just keep going gold and then from that to go oh I gotta pay for the 12 months oh I gotta pay to go from there to be like

wait a minute what you just said oh yeah and do you remember all the first class places now you thinking about the whole but now you gotta pay for it

it's different you be downgraded like slime you gotta go regular you can still come I would honestly agree on that like when you independent you definitely have to

kick out the bag. And you have to invest into yourself everything because even with an independent partner, it's still like, I have a partnership with Neil right now

and I'm still kicking out the bag. Shout out to Neil. But he knows, you still got to kick out for radio, whatever you need because they're only going to do so much

opposed to if it's major, you ain't got to do all that. But those are the things. It's a different decline. It's a different time now. And that's for a lot of new artists that don't really understand the game. Exactly.

And everybody want to get on it and, oh, I'm going to just drop Rex. I'm going to put out Independent. I'm going to do this whole thing. It's not as easy as you think it's going to be. And one thing, if you're with a major and if the record is not doing what they need it to be,

it may not be good for you. So we got to... It's just not for everybody. It's not for everybody. You got to figure it out. And don't get me wrong. I got the grind to be independent. But it's just like sometimes I want to have seven different things to do.

So meaning, like, I've been in this game since 97? 96, really. Okay. 97. What are you talking about? Don't give me an extra year. I had a song. I had a song in 96.

I didn't have an album, brother. You've been in the game alright alright technically technically but since 97 and it's like damn

this can't be my only income cause I wanna do everything else so now but when you independent you can't be independent 50%

you have to be 100 million percent you gotta call all the DJs I remember being on Def Jam and Mike Heise used to say to me

stop talking to these fucking the DJs cause the DJs would call Jam and Mike Heise used to say to me, stop talking to these fucking, the DJs, because the DJs would call me and they'd be like, yo, I need you at this party. I'd be like, definitely, I'm there. And I'm never looking at the schedule.

I'm talking to everybody. I'm at the same party. And then, so Mike Heise used to say, yo, let me speak to them. So when I fuck up, they blame me. They don't blame you.

Now, are you independent? You can't blame nobody. You gotta take the blame for that. Yeah, so that's why I hate independence me. They don't blame you. Now, when you're independent, you can't blame nobody. It all falls on you. Yeah, so that's why I hate independence. But I don't hate it. I don't hate it. You just spoil. I get it.

He's definitely spoiling. I get it. So let's get into this Trick Daddy and Trina album. I want to know, what are y'all working on? How does it sound? Just do out a record, correct? We do out a record. Smooth Selling was just one of those records.

I'm this guy, Ali Coyote. He came in the studio. He was just playing a bunch. He's a Jamaican guy, so he came with different vibes or whatever. And that's the first time me and Trick ever did a record like that. Even previous, after the Nail record, I've done records on Trick Project, and it was still more grimy, more different Miami. That's what we want to hear.

Everybody, I know that we're- I ain't going to lie. As a fan, I want to hear that. I'm sorry. I want to hear that. I'm sorry. I won't hear that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So listen,

I said that. I'm saying so Trick, okay, here we go. We're on the drum board. I'm over here, Trick's over here. What are you going to do?

What kind of record you want to do? Trick is in this vibe. He likes an old school vibe. He likes, I'm like, no, we got to go hardcore for the clubs. You got to,

and we're like on two different waves, but I'm in control. Like he's going to follow my lead because he know I knows. So we're just kind of just trying to get that record there because it's really like, we don't want like the now record because you can't duplicate that record. But we did that already. We just want that

next explosive record that's going to be just a great record that's out there, like the next record. And so, I mean, we got some records. And y'all in the studio together. We're in the studio. Y'all ain't sending records. No, no. We in there. Like, I'll go. He'll come. Like, he'll go in first. Trick is an early bird. Yeah, early bird. Everybody say that about him. Yeah, he's an early bird. So he like to go in. He likes to there. Like, I'll go. He'll come. Like, he'll go in first. Trick is an early bird. Yeah, early bird.

Everybody say that about him. Yeah, he's an early bird. So he like to go in. He likes to start. Okay, I'm working on this record. Come to the studio. Be there in like two hours. So that's what he likes to do.

So I'll come in three hours. And then once I'm there, he already started on the record. And then he'll be like, you feel this? You like this? Whatever. He'll just have a couple records. And I'll be like, yeah, I don't like this. And now I'm staying.

But when I start recording, he likes to go out. He said, my friends, everybody smoke too much. You know, Trick don't like to smoke regular weed. He just be on his own out. He said my friends they already smoke too much. You know Trick don't like to smoke regular weed. He just be on his own way. All that be happening. We've been to Trick Daddy parties. We like to go

and we know how the sessions go. We in the same studio but we not in the same studio. When I'm in he's outside somewhere but we in there together. It's a good vibe

because you know we like night and day but the same. I don't have a problem with him. Trick is real calm. He's one of those like a loose cannon but he's still in the studio. It's just. I don't have a problem with him. Trick is real calm. He's one of those loose cannon, but he's still in the studio.

It's just this natural kind of family vibe with him. If I don't like something, I ain't scratching. I'm mad. He'll get in and want to start over. It's a good energy. Well, I'm going to let you know as a pure fan, I am so ready for that album. Thank you. I'm so ready for y'all.

Because to me, that shows years of loyalty to me. To me, I'm heavy into loyalty. When I see people around people that have been around them for 20 years, it always impresses me. When I go around Jay-Z and I see Shaka around still, and I see Ty-Ty, and I see Lenny S., and me knowing that I seen them together in the 90s, it always impresses me. Just that combination, I just want to congratulate you on that. Thank you. I think we all got to make some noise for that. Thank you.

Just to show that loyalty, I think loyalty in this game has been, I think it hasn't been rewarded. So people won't make it a major issue. Like if somebody's beefing or something, they make it a major issue. But just somebody just being loyal, just me and EFN's relationship, for instance. He brought me to Miami 17 years ago. Let's not say 20. 17.

15 years ago. 15 years ago. 15 years ago. Something like that. And we've been friends ever since. And I think that that's the part of it

that people should, you know, drink chance. We have success with this. This is on Revolt TV. Thank y'all. But I don't think that that's not the biggest thing that people should focus on know, drink chance we have success with this. This is on Revolt TV. Thank y'all. But I don't think that that's not the biggest thing that people should focus on.

People should focus on the relationship and us just sitting down together and just, you know, putting what he got to do aside or I got to do aside and putting hip-hop first. Because that's what we did. We just want to interview legends. You know what I'm saying? We want to give people their flowers

where they can smell them. You know what I'm saying? Their trees where they can inhale them. Their thoughts where they can think them. And their drinks where they can drink them, god damn it. You know what I'm saying? They trees where they can inhale them. They thoughts where they can think them. And they drinks where they can drink them, God damn it. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying?

Because so many people, like we did an episode after Prodigy passed, and of course we wanted to do a whole episode dedicated to him. But what I said was, you know, maybe we should have did that

while these people were alive like it's cool to to praise people when they're gone and we know we have to do that we know we're supposed to do that but I want to make it cool to praise them right here like let's make that cool you know what I'm saying and hip-hop they don't understand like you know um when when you people get off of their job at a record label or get off their job at somewhere you know when you guys leave their building you guys could live a normal life we sacrifice our whole life like i could never say i'm not working if i leave the house i gotta take a picture yeah like somebody's gonna be like yo what's up nigga I don't even fuck up my guy I don't even fuck up my guy Z-Bomb my shit is all fucked up

I gotta be like wear it up nigga come on I can't I can't have a bad day you know what I'm saying like not in public I gotta stay in home

like tell these people how hard and you're a superstar so tell these people how hard it is no you know what it's really one of those things

like I'm really one of the most passionate people when it comes to that. Because I'm going to be honest. At 6 a.m. in the morning in the airport, I'm not with the shits. I just don't want to be bothered. It's early. The show was over.

The after party was mad late. We had an hour and a half to get to the airport. And I understand you may never see me again, but it's 6 a.m. There's some boundaries gotta be the shades on they don't care like the lady was like

I don't care if you got on pajamas or headband I don't care I'm living in another country I don't care I'm not gonna post I know you're gonna post a picture

I'm just taking because I just five minutes after she leaves you're gonna post it I look at that like you know what if I was not like me

and I was somewhere and I saw Beyonce I don't care if she had a pimple I don't care if she had paper bags on her and I saw Beyonce, I don't care if she had a pimple, I don't care if she had paper bags on her feet, I want my picture.

I don't care. I don't care what's going on so I'm just always that person. I try to do my best with that because I know people,

they want that. They don't know they're going to see you again. They see you in the airport, they don't know they're going to see you again. They see you at a concert or a club,

wherever, when I'm going to see you next. So I always try to salute that. I think I only said no one time. I was throwing up. I was like, wherever, when I'm going to see you next. So, you know, I always try to salute that. I think I only said no one time. Oh, right. I was throwing up. I was like, chill, nigga.

They still took the picture, though. They still want the picture, though, right? At least let me finish, homie. It'd be real because I understand that and it's like, that is just hard for us. So when you live and you survive in this game for years, I feel like you should be saluted. I feel like that is just hard for us so when you live and you survive

in this game for years I feel like you should be saluted I feel like this is what it is but now so getting back because like

Miami at this time all we heard was booty music right coming from New York right that's what we heard two live crew

I'm talking about before her and Trick right Luke and then there was JT Money 90s right

so then when y'all came so now I heard I seen Rick Ross do an interview right and he was like yo Trina really held him down in the beginning of his career like and he spoke so highly of you let's get into that the early what was the name of that record for the movie soundtrack no he we did um um um um um put your left foot in the game that That was the Ice Cube. Yeah, that's what I meant. What was it? All About the Benjamin. All About the Benjamin.

Well, so here's the thing. I'm just the new girl. Like, okay, Trick is my homie. He's cool. Then there's the Trey Plus Six guys. They're like the first guys signed to Slip and Slide

way, way previous. But these are like my guys. Shout out to C.O. Also, Society. Of course. Society. Oh, Society, yes. Society family.

So all these guys, like, we're all cool. This is Miami shit going on. I'm around these guys and then're all cool So I'm hanging out I'm around these guys And then here's like Okay now there's this New guy that's coming on But he's signed

A slip and slide also But you know He's from Cairns City now I'm from Liberty City But this is Rick Ross This is a big fat guy You know So he's cool though

He just reminds me Of like my stepdad He's a cool dude He's from the street So but now I'm on the road With Trick Dem And everybody's busy And everybody's Nan is popping And's from the street. But now I'm on the road with Trick Dem and everybody's busy

and everybody's nannies popping and he's not on. But on the road, he's like, yo, take the mixtape. Like, you know, taking the road. I'm just like, why?

You know, but okay, I'm going to take it anyway because... He was working too. I don't even know why I'm taking it. I'm going to just take it because I'm going to do a show.

We're going to throw our shirts. So I'm going to throw this out anyway because somebody's going to listen and I don't know, you're going to blow up next. I don't know why I'm doing i'm just doing it because you asked me do you a cool person uh you know and then it just like once we started once i came back we started hanging on the studio and then he just always been like you know his loyalty

has always been like so a1 you know and and he always like been right there like from the beginning and so once it was like okay i'm taking your mixtapes now but now here he goes here's ice cube calls and they got this record. I mean, they got this movie, and it's the soundtrack, and it's Slip and Slide got the record. So they want me to do the record. So I'm like, okay, what record? Now you got me, there's Trigg, there's a couple other artists. But it's like, okay, Trigg's already on.

Everybody's already doing their thing, doing shows. I'm going to give it to my boy Ross because he the one, like, really want me to push his mixtape. He want to grind. Like, let me give him the video. Like, let me give him the next look. You saw he was a star? You saw he was a star? I just knew he was, he just was super dope. Like dope like he was just he just reminded me of just like my life

Like he was like like my dad them like my stepfather and they was just like real street guys And that was where he came from people he hung around. I knew these guys. These guys in the streets get money So when he started talking and rapping his music was about the hustle was about streets It was just that and coming from Liberty City and knowing the guys from Kara City It's like, you know a very close connection all and knowing the guys from Carol City it's like you know a very close connection all these people know each other

and so it's like okay well Trick's already big so I don't need to let Trick do the Ice Cube soundtrack Trick already did this soundtrack

we already did other stuff so let me give it to my next dude trying to get on and it's like here's Ross I hit him up yo let's do

I need you to do the record for Ice Cube whatever and he's like you serious he was like yeah all right come on now get the studio right now come see the studio 45 minutes i'm there he's already there the song already working already and i don't even love this song i don't even love the girls really love this song and ice cube the people that call the producers everybody they love the record it was perfect for the slot for the movie and it was a

big record for the for the song and it was just i don slot for the movie. And it was a big record for the song. And it was just, I didn't even really honestly look at it as I was helping him really put him on. I just wanted to see him on the road with me and trick them. Everybody else on the road, I like stuff off his mix. We listen to it in a van while we're driving. So why you can't come on the road with us and perform? So I just looked at it as that, trying to help him out and get on. And then it was just that. And after that, he had his tight jerseys came with three jerseys

But the video, you know was done by Nick question Nick quest was a big producer and like this is our guy So like I want to help my guy get this look and that was the look and it just happened. Yeah Did you ever think he would be this big though? I knew because he was so straight He was like he he was what he was like it. You know, I mean it was not a facade It was real street came from the dudes that was he was like you know what I mean it was not a facade it was real street he came from the dudes that was holding the streets down like when he did the song

Every Day I'm Hustlin' like it was the real every I felt that Every Day I'm Hustlin' because I was hustling to help you get your CDs on the road

so I knew he was hustling you know what I mean like it was real like I know so I'm like damn like this is like you did the video in front of Carroll City

flea market like that's hustling like you was really doing that like you wasn't you ain't get the green light to get on the trick daddy bus yet to get on the road like you ain't have no records out radio ain't know who you was like you just won the home team but you ain't had earned no stripes so okay i'm gonna help you know throw our shirts

throw our cds and then bam he go i'm gonna help you get this one little look it's gonna be a video maybe that's gonna help people know who you are and it just happened now what's your relationship with dj kie dj collie i love collie collie just been there like from the beginning you know um i just remember like just when i first started like i was going to the radio station and like collie was just one of the ones that always was like supporting trina trick and ross like it was just one of the things that from it just it kind of was like a natural thing you don't have to really ask him he just did it you know so when colled would hit me up,

hey, come to my party, come do this, whatever, I would always show up. And it was just always the same. Like, we always had like a, just like this real, like, loyal connection from day one. And it always stayed that way,

you know? Even, no matter how big he got, like if I hit Khaled, I need you to do this. Like, I hit Khaled, I need you to do this mixtape intro. He in Miami came to the studio to do it.

Like right now, on my album, he starts the intro off. Yo, I need you to do this. Like, I hit Khaled, I need you to do this mixtape intro. He in Miami, he came to the studio to do it. Like, right now, on my album, he starts the intro off. Yo, I need you to do this intro. Like, DJ Khaled, talk your talk. I need to hear the clock talk. We got to talk all that. Like, you know, it's just one of them kind of things. Like, you know, I'm just like, again, I'm one of the people. I'm not, I don't bother people.

I just do me. And, you know, like, this is my man. Like, but I need you to talk on this intro. And you always come show love and show support. So that's just how we keep it. It's always family. I always support him. You thought he would be this big of a personality?

I did because his mouth is that big. He's always been that big. His mouth is just his whole lifestyle. His car with his mouth. You know what I mean? He's always had that talk. He's always had that something about his voice was just very distinct. It was very different from most other DJs

on radio. He always would be extra with it. He always would get you in the room and he'd do so much. He was entertaining. To see him now,

I've been seeing him like that for years. I'm in the studio with him and he's like that. Now the world just really get to see it. It's just like Khaled on steroids.

You know what I mean? Is it going to be Trina, Trick Daddy, DJ Khaled, Rick Ross record? Oh, wow. We need to get that though. Did I just I mean? Is it going to be Trina, Trick Daddy, DJ Khaled, Rick Ross record? Oh, wow. We need to get that, though.

Did I just predict that? No, no. You threw it in the universe. Yeah, I threw it in the universe. Because realistically, Trick was already saying

that he already won the record that Khaled was doing, and you know, I'm going to get the whole thing with 305 Miami. So I don't know how we're going to kind of

create it or what we're going to do it, but I love Pit. Come on, man. You got to keep it Mad Miami. Don't put nobody on there but nobody else.

Just keep it mad Miami. So, yeah, Trick wants that, though. So, you know, we'll see how that works out. Trick always talking to Khaled, so, you know, he's going to Khaled.

I need that record, so. Yeah, that's dope, man. Let's make some noise for that because I love seeing that unity. I love that unity. I love that unity. Oh. Now,

remember the Source cover? Source. Oh, a long time ago., remember the Source cover? Source. Ooh, a long time ago. You remember the Source cover? What was that? The Swimsuit Edition? Source Swimsuit. Was that the first time that it ever did that? Yeah, I did.

The Swimsuit Edition. Yeah. Was it the last time they did it too? How many times did they do that? I'm not sure. I'm not sure either. I remember that just being, like, everywhere. Like, that was, like, the first viral

cover of hip-hop. Yeah. So how was that? I mean, you know, I was really young. At that point, I just, I didn't really look at it all like that. I mean, it was all good. Everything was good. The Source magazine, the Keenest, all these different magazines, all of it was just that to me. I wasn't really, like,

I wasn't really, I wasn't really like Infatuated with the facade Of all this stuff You know what I mean I come from Miami I'm used to seeing all this I came from a family With money already

I'm not really impressed By much So you don't have The King covers Hanging around in the crib I have No my mom She steals everything

She don't let me like She have every single thing From everything Okay like If anything I'm missing, she has. Hold on, y'all. Let's give all. No, she has.

She has that. I'll be like, mom, where did you get that from? But yeah, you know, I just was like, it just all started just happening like so fast. You know, I think I never got caught up into the all of it because I was so busy working. I was still, I always worked. I never like took mad long times I would put out my album

every two years my album came my first album came out in 2000 that was the very first album the baddest shit then 2002 then 2004 it would always be these

two year breaks and because I was always performing traveling doing so much so I never really took the time off of out of any of it

so I never got caught up in the magazines and the whole thing and people would be like and I'd would be like, and I'd just be like, you know what I mean? I don't know why I just,

because I wasn't excited about more of that. Like, people would be like, oh, somebody has your magazine in the jailhouse. I'd be like, whoa. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, like, and I'd be like, You was heavy in the jails, girl.

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You stayed in these people's face with the music. Whoever doubted you, you proved them haters. You proved them wrong. So we want you to know that you are undoubtedly, all we want to interview is legend

and we want you to know undoubtedly you are a legend. want to interview is legend and what we want you to know undoubtedly you are let's be trying to get we're gonna talk about why you want you going to be one of those people that's going to be like talking all these rumors? So I'm just really not into it. And I just really, I really curve that stuff. I just be like, you know,

everybody ask the same old questions when you talk about this whole... Look at this, this is hip hop I'm asking you about. And it is, it's so real. And I remember the time you've been asking. Even when my publicist

called a couple days ago, she was like, I was like, Alicia, now you know. But it's Norris, so you know alright I'm just

giving the benefit of the doubt so everything don't be all good we keep it in hip hop we ain't talking you know we don't need that

because it be so much distraction and the thing for me is like for the past five six years even when I put out my album before and just eat this up

every time something comes out it's always distracting it's always somebody's beef so now when I promote my album we gotta talk about such and such beef, it's always distracting. It's always somebody's beef. So now when I promote my album, we got to talk about such and such beef. And it's always that. So you just be drawn. I'm like,

I don't, I just curve. I'm an artist too. So I get it. I get it. I understand. And that's the thing about this is, I think they quote unquote call me a legend, right? You are a legend. Let's be very clear. When they say that about me. You are a legend.

Can we clap for that? You are a legend. Let's be very clear. When they say that about me. You are a legend. Okay, good looking. Can we clap for that? You are a legend. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. So that's what we need to promote.

We need to keep bigging each other up. This is, so when, at the time, when you think about it, like artists should come here first. Artists should come here and say, you know what? You know what? Because this is another artist who understands and gets to know that. I don't want to be talking about your past boyfriends and things like that. That's not what we're here for. We're hip-hop. We're going to keep it hip-hop.

We're going to talk about the music. You know what I'm saying? But the artists have to promote the artists. Yes, absolutely. Because this is now a platform for us where we want our people to um to chill so now let's get back into some music shit right EFN let's get it come on I feel like you got some Miami question I hear where she coming from on the female angle like what advice do you have to female emcees and you know that they're gonna steer females into again going back to the

hypersexual like what what are they, what do they have to deal with coming into the industry? Well, you know, it's just, it's a lot. Like, it's a male-dominated industry, for one. And, I mean, it's, everybody makes it a whole sexual thing, whatever, not, being sexy is not a crime. Nobody wants to see an unsexy woman. I mean, as far as however you go, however you live your sexuality

or whatever, that's your business. But when it comes to women being expressive, everything that you're doing and you're expressing, every one of these women is living and doing the same thing. I don't know why they all act so nonchalant and crazy like this is all a new blind sight. It's not. Stop it. You guys are all somewhere, pop, lock, and drop in, doing whatever you're doing. Some of us are judging somebody else like, just knock it off already. I just feel like for females

you just gotta be strong you know how hard it is to be a woman and to just be like like just proceed or just to be

is there's a misconception because you say whatever you say in a song or because you wear a dress and it's two inches above the thigh or whatever that's just an annoying fact

like everybody don't have to wear their skirts all the way down to the knees you don't have to be this you know sanctified the holy person everybody don't have to wear their skirts all the way down to the knees. You don't have to be this, you know, sanctified, the holy person. You just have to be a good human being. Whether you're doing music, sports, TV, magazine, makeup, whatever.

Just be a good person. And when it comes to this music thing, if you're not a woman and you're very confident and you are, and your this is here is good, you definitely will be totally screwed in this industry. You will not survive in this industry. And I'm talking about no matter what, I don't care how much money you're making,

you can have all the money, all the money. I have all the money, and there are some times I've been at my lowest. And the only thing that's kept me up is because I know who I am as a person. And when I look at the thing that has put me to my lowest, I'm looking like, bro, pick yourself up. Are you serious?

You feel me? And that's just because I know my worth. And as women, we're emotional. You step outside of your worth. You fall down. You fall in love. You get crazy.

Whatever you do, but you're still human. You're a woman. You're all of that. But you have to own up to that. You have to believe in that. You have to make your, is nobody can take away

who you are and what you are as a person, but you. I don't care what the rumors, the stories. I don't care if you saw me. You saw me. That wasn't me. I don't care. I'm just saying, nobody can take away from you, but you. I don't care what the rumors, the stories. I don't care if you saw me. You saw me. That wasn't me. I don't care. I'm just saying nobody can take away from you but you. And that's

just real fact. And if you don't stand up for yourself and be just, you just got to be like a real, you know what a real woman is? Somebody that's just like unfazed, unbothered. That doesn't mean you don't cry. Doesn't mean you don't get mad. Doesn't mean you don't go through anything like anybody else. But you just have to be strong and inferior and know that shit happens every single day. It'll pass. You'll get over it and keep it moving. Imagine being a woman in this industry that's so critical, so male-dominated,

so nasty, so talked down upon all that for 17 years. Right? For 17 years. And still can run circles around half of these fucking people in this whole industry

and still making hit records and still so that's men and women so that's what I'm saying so for myself I've been in situations relationships public and unpublic

I'm not a person if something don't work out public we're human beings or we could get into it today we could be the best people today tomorrow we may not like each other

do that mean I have to drag your name in the mud and make you like the worst person on earth I don't have to do that because at the end of the day i still have my life i keep it moving you have your life keep it moving i don't want to be your enemy i don't want to hate you i don't want to be disgusted by you just keep it moving because you know what disgusting creature that you are you know what i mean so that's just me you don't hear me bashing

people you don't hear me talking now i just keep it moving that's just who i'm just so wavy are we talking about the fuck boy record right now i boy no no fuck boy record I just feel like we're talking about that right now fuck boy record is just one of those records that's just real facts in life like there's a lot of fuck boys and the reason

because there's so many fuck boys the reason there's so many fuck boys is what made women become like not real women like I come from

I think after my generation women have totally turned into wanting to be like men and when I say that meaning like I feel like there was a time like my friends and the people I grew men. And when I say that, meaning like, I feel like there was a time like my friends and the people, I grew up

under boss. When I say boss, women, women that like ran the household, ran the bags, the money, anything the man did, it came through them. That's a real woman. Anything happened, they held down, they have everything. Like, this is real woman. I don't know all this generation of foolishness that's going on. I don't adapt to all that. I don't play them kind of game. That's why when something don't work

out with me, with a man, I don't care how public figure he is. I'm not trying to tell you that because you already know the clown that you is. I'm going to just let you live with that. So when I say that, so now with women, my generation of women,

as a man, men do whatever they do. It's whatever you do. You do your thing. But at the end of the day, don't be the woman that turn into the man. You cannot be the man.

And so because women are starting to do that, men are just turning to fuck boys and women are just turning to totally, completely idiots. And it's just a disgraced generation that we're living in. I don't like all that kind of stuff. You feel me? We have to. We have to. We have no choice.

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yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, This is Miami, though. You know what I mean? This is Miami. You guys just keep it real. It's like a lot of love and realness going on. That's right. No, no, no. And this is what we're promoting right here. And like I said, like, you're a queen. You're a person that held it down for females, females. I wish there was a lot more female love out there.

You know what I mean? There's some beautiful females in the industry. Music, R&B, rap, hip-hop, pop. There's some beautiful females. Right, yes,, R&B, rap, hip-hop, pop. It's some beautiful females. Imagine the power that that can be if everybody was on the same mental. It would be crazy. That would be insane. No, I think, I think, I think, I think.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Just make sure. Hot champagne kill people. That is a fact. Yeah? I've seen it. No, in my mind. It's in my mind.

That's your shot? That's your shot that you're going to do? No, no, no. I want a real shot. I'll take a real shot. Oh, yeah, you have to take a real shot out there. Okay. We're going to take a shot.

We're going to pick up Diddy real quick. Okay. Shout out to Diddy. Niggas ain't having cold? Damn. You like the regular drink? What type of people? Yeah, yeah.

You got flavor. You get the flavor. Okay, no, I'm just saying, so you don't like flavor? Yeah, and we made sure there was no fresh vanilla here. That's cool. I'm not a hater. Shout out to the fresh vanilla. I'm shouting out to everybody that's getting that bag.

That's just me. I just love everybody to have a good time. That's all I am. You know what it is? I do not entertain the negativity. I just dance. I mean, it's not. Dance.

I do not. Dance. I do not entertain negativity. This is hilarious. I just don't. I mean, it's not. I just don't. I do not entertain negativity. This is hilarious. I just don't. That's how I live life, man. That's right. For real, man. Like, I got homies.

Hey, come on. You want me for old? She's going to do the other one. I don't know what's going on. I'm like, I'm way too late. This session's going to be lit tonight. I got it. I got it.

Okay, here we go. So, who's? Miami Lakers? Okay, now listen. This is everybody. This is not here to the real Miami though. Everybody raise your glasses. This is not South Beach. This is to the real Miami. This is to be lit tonight. Okay, now listen. This is everybody.

Everybody raise your glasses. This is not South Beach. This is to the real Miami 305 Live. This is to you, sis. We love you. She's realer than us right now. Hold on. I ain't going to lie.

I ain't going to lie. You made me look mad. Come on. You made me look mad. You made me look mad. You made me look mad. I'm confused. What are you doing? it look mad. You're trying to make it look mad. Oh, man. Where you going?

Come on, now. What are you doing? Yo, you made me look mad. So I'm just mad. Come on, now. Let me get my life together. Okay, so listen. This is to you, sis.

Thank you. This is to you. You are queen. Thank you. We want you to continue doing it. Thank you. We want you to continue to make these people, whatever they mad at you or whatever,

we're going to continue to be mad. We don't mind. Carry on. Just relax. Tell them to relax, EFN. Relax. They got to relax. And we're going to salute you every day.

Trina, the motherfucking queen. Salute. And we're taking this down. Real fun. We're building. Yes, indeed. I go by the name of DJ Butch Rock. You're now tuned in to the number one podcast in the motherfucking world,

Drink Champs, NYE, and my nigga DJ EFN. This the halftime intermission, a.k.a. the bogey break. In the meantime, between time, listen. Don't forget your Uno Mas Nori featuring Pharrell Feeling good about this record, y'all Goddamn, Pharrell, sing to him I hate what you're going through, baby You don't know what it is in your eyes

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It's my duty to help you snap back Leave your worries long gone, long gone Let go what you cannot take back Take this moment and move on, move on I was once like you Had me in my running shoes Thought there's nothing I can do Man, I had it wrong

There's something up in my eyes Make myself a steam rise And they told me that I ain't even do a song A twenty year career I hope you understand I used to pitch on the block I did it underhand They said I'd never make it, never be much

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I was once like you Had me in my running shoes Thought there nothing I can do Man, I was once like you, had me in my running shoes Thought there's nothing I can do, man, I had it wrong There's something up in my eyes, make myself a steam rise And then tell me that I need to do a song Come have a drink with me, baby Just chill, don't think with me, baby And like be no monster, we gon' be the shriek you need lately

Just one more clink with me, baby Outro Music Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. people before I know this I know this any pretty especially you you too beautiful you like this is not how you drink tequila you really supposed to drink tequila you you stabbed a couple of people let's talk about that back in the days I'm just a very sweet person I'm just very respectful I came like from a real like real I came from the last of the real of real of Miami like the mafia like do not play I don't play all the extra all that I'm not on the way but this industry stuff I'm not on the way but this is like it's facade

when you real you don't do all that you just do what you do like you move how you move that's how you last how you last and that's just how

I've lasted when those that thought I could not last I'm still here because I'm just too it's a real thing you know it's no fake when you fake

the mask off everybody see what's really good you know what I mean what was that moment when you realized because you know, we all have to go through it. We all thought

everybody, like the rappers is who we think they are, who they talking about. What was that moment when you was like, holy moly, this is all... What is these clowns doing? Oh, it was very... Whatever you want to take it. Because I can see you got mad shit

coming to you. Imagine just me, like realistically, I came into this industry like thinking like a dude. Because I can see you got mad shit coming to you. You know what? Imagine just me like realistically, I came into this industry like thinking like a dude. Like I came around to guys that's Trick Daddy, now there's C.O. and Money Mark. C.O., big up C.O. Then I put my boy Rick Ross on. So here's like, I got like all guys. So imagine I'm the only girl. These guys are

mad annoying. They are mad annoying. I'm just like the sister and I'm just thinking like as a girl. And were they horny Montanas? Were they out there horny? They was out of control. When I first came out, I was out there horny. Yeah, I was out there horny. No, and I'm thinking, so imagine me.

I'm thinking from the girl in and the guy in. And as a girl, what type of chicks are these that stoop so low to be jumping around from one to the next every single night? I actually do smoke. Do you smoke? Of course. I'm from the Caribbean. Of course I smoke.

Okay, my bad. My bad. My bad. You smoke blunts or you single night. I actually do smoke. Do you smoke? Of course. I'm from the Caribbean. Of course I smoke. My bad. My bad. My bad. You smoke blunts or you want papers? I'm so sorry. I wasn't a gentleman at all. I should have offered you early. I'm sorry.

Look at that. So check it, right? Yes, I'm listening. So now here we go. These are the guys. Look at the women. Yes. We like to get our guests high.

We celebrate you. We get you high, but we celebrate you. So I look, right? So now from the guys' perspective, these are my guys. But these are the guys that's taking advice from me. All these girls are here at these hotels to see you guys because of me. They think I'm going to be here, so I'm the bait. I'm the reason you guys came. Oh, we're going to see Trina.

Yeah, yeah, we're going to come. But now when Trina's not here, it's just the guys. What do you guys, what do you girls, like, what do you guys, like, what's going on? Like, that's me here, it's just the guys. What do you got? What do you girls like? What do you guys like? What's going on? That's me. My girls would never be there. We don't roll like that. No, because you said something on there, nigga, and all the girls was on you.

Oh, they are. Let it quick. Let it be straight. Make it quick. You said something. Yeah, that's what I said. I come from a bunch of girls. My friends, they dance.

They be all over the place. I come from the streets where there's real girls. I saw so much stuff growing up. Yeah Right next to me. So so many girls so grounded and humble to where I Like my bitches could tag team whoever and run circles around these dudes grab the bag and keep it moving So this is real facts. So when it comes to this industry, these dudes are like lame Cuz I can I see these girls on y'all it's over so i'm just a humble piece of pie because i'm already coming from a good place a good family money like i'm not i

didn't come into this but it's a real thing people come into this to make money of course it's a life changer i'm like you turn from one life to like a different life but my purpose wasn't like pushing cds and coming in to get money I'm doing a favorite trick now coming out I was really struck because of the fame cuz girls was like going crazy loves me They were saying every word of everything that I say and these are my homegirls that are wild and bustling wide open and they're loose And this is their life and I'm right here saying and I'm just confused that every word I'm saying you girls are saying it like even I'm not saying nothing It's a beautiful feeling and I'm watching some of these girls like react in a way that in the lyrics

But to these guys like trick Ross he's money and I'm watching some of these girls like react in a way in the lyrics But to these guys like trick Ross is money. I'm a girl I wouldn't even I wouldn't even y'all could never even convince me to come to the hotel child. That's just how that's how I am So I'm looking at it in different ways I'm from the guys perspective and a girl's perspective, but I'm putting game on these guys Don't look at these girls like I'm still doing these records now I gotta put I gotta do my album to put y'all on game Like how to do what's game like don't get played

don't sell yourself short don't settle for anything oh you was telling the girls that while tricking them to try to take it down cause that seems like you shouldn't have

been doing that in my mind of watching this I'm saying now I'm on the road with Trick but I gotta prepare my album and now in my album when I'm in my room

and I'm in my zone I'm gonna put girls on game because what I'm seeing happening, I don't roll like that. My girls, we from Miami, from the 305, we don't play them kind of games. Like, we look dead in the eye. We don't play them kind of games. Like, you already lost when you hit the dough. They don't even play what you

want you and they sit and they phase they already won. So I'm trying to figure out what, all out of the country, these girls are like, lame. Like, I could run a whole school of girls and like run over the industry and everything

in the sports world and like get the bags and go. Sounds like a show to me. I'm just saying so. I'm ready to get that show. Sounds like a show to me. I'm just saying so.

I'm in. I'm in. I just was trying to understand like because I come up from a family like I'm like a little protected like my dad is like a boss.

He's a dude in the streets getting a bag. Even the street dudes that's getting money, they can't touch me. They're scared because they're scared of my dad, my stepdad. I'm untouchable. Now, I'm in a household full of bosses. Now, when I see street dudes, y'all can't tell me nothing. I'm running circles around y'all. I'm in this already.

Now, what are you going to come like? It got to, you feel me? So I'm already thinking like a dude because I come from this. I'm around all these dudes. Trick is a loose cannon on the road. Ross is just a boss. He's a fat boy, but he's so swaggy. He got the talk so he could say whatever.

CEO of Money Mark is a cute dude, so the girls going to just, I'm looking at these girls like, bro, like, I could own a whole pimp school, like, and get y'all together. Oh, you was putting them on? You was telling them? No, I was trying to see why was girls really, like, excited to, like,

jump off out of a concert and go back with Trick Ross. Like the groupie shit. Yeah, like, I didn't get that because that's not how me and my girls back from Miami roll. We not on that. So I'm trying to figure, like,

like, damn. They were out of town. Let's not blow that part part up let's let that continue so fly. You should come to Miami. I could wave you up. These dudes is lame. He's my boy. He's my brother. His ass is ashy. Come on. You get what I'm saying? I was just trying to put game on from the beginning.

That's why when I did my album, it was more like putting women up on game. How to get the bag. How to get your money saved up. Get your weight up. Don't depend on nothing. That's how I... Because I peaked it from my dudes. Like, these are my brothers. I'm watching you guys. You guys not even much fly.

Like, y'all don't even have lotion on. Y'all looking real ashy to the chicks. Like, come on. Like, you feel me? I'm a chick, so I'm trying to, like, I'm trying to figure what's really good. So, I'm just, you know, I was in the middle of both, like, you know. I was trying to, I was me, but I was protected from them. Dudes couldn't get

next to me and i'm just like yeah dude's lame like i don't even want y'all anyway and these other dudes trying to get through y'all to me they definitely ain't gonna get through right and i'm looking at all y'all these girls is falling for y'all really like i need to teach a whole world of school of like how to get it that's what i was thinking i'm thinking that too you feel me i think that's the show you know so so so now i have to ask now yeah now is trina single or trina is happy in love and like just living her life to the fullest like that's all yeah and on the islands you know like you know just chilling you know that's what i like to do i'm a love lover i love love i believe in love i believe

people should be loved i think there's a lot less love. And I think the reason our generation is so jacked up because there's so much game playing and not enough love. Everybody's just playing the game. You know what the game is. You tell me something, I tell her, she tell him. Everybody pillow talking a bunch of bullshit and everybody's just living the game. That's not the wave.

I didn't grow up into that. Everybody start being real, then it'll be a lot less a bunch of that, you know, fuck boys will disappear. You feel me? God damn it. I feel like we got to make noise for that. So now, so now. God damn it.

Let's just keep making noise for you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I ain't going to lie. You came here. Yo, yo, yo, listen. Yo, yo. Yo.

Yo, no, no. I'm so impressed because you know what's the real shit? This is real. This is why I'm trying to, we're trying to do this. We want to promote real shit. And this is just a real moment. Ladies got to come here and realize because we need more. We're not a problem getting ladies on the show.

Well, you know why? Queen Latifah, can you come MC like? I love Queen Latifah. more we need more well you know why Queen Latifah can you come MC like I love Queen Latifah I love Queen Latifah but you know why because most of these shows it's the blogs

we ain't blogs but but but it falls under that category of blogging of talking of talking shit

and gossiping about people I'm not a gossiper I'm not a he say she say if you want to know something Trina said, guess what? Call Trina.

Don't ask Trina. Homegirl, Trina's assistant, Trina's security. Trina's going to tell you what Trina said because that's how I told Nori and Nori told you

and you told my man, C.O., and it got me all twisted. I don't rock with that. That's exactly what happened, too. You feel me? So when you get those shows, it's one of the kind of things

like it's the same thing. Like these people get up every single day to be negative and they try to tell your life down and they talk a bunch of shit and they just do a bunch of weirdo stuff and it's one of the kind of things like it's the same thing like these people get up every single day to be negative and they try to tear your life down and they talk a bunch of shit and they just do a bunch

of weirdo stuff and it's just not cool so people just don't want to be embarrassed or just be put on the forefront of some shit that they don't feel like talking about me

I'm just I'm loose like with it I don't you can say whatever see that's the thing about our show I don't know if you ever see it's something called

Inside the NBA where it's actually Charles Barkley and Charles Barkley and what's my man? Kenny Smith. He's from Left Rack and Shaq. These are all ex-basketball players. Yeah, I like them shows. They talk too much.

No, no, no. They interview the other basketball players and what I mean is they're the Inside the NBA and this is what this is. It's because I'm in hip-hop. I ain't going to put no artists where they want to feel insecure or out of place or ask them some crazy shit. I ask crazy shit. Like, I ask people what they eat ass.

It's crazy. Did you ask Trick that? Did you ask Trick that because he's the eating boy? You know I ask Trick that. Okay. Okay, got it. Okay, got it. But in your case, I got to ask, how many rappers ask they eat your ass?

Let's just throw that out there. No? No, come on. Like, in your case. Come on. You know the numbers. I count it. Of course.

We in the thousands? Jesus Christ. I'm just saying, but what's the in your case, come on. You know the numbers, I count it. Of course. We in the thousands? We so weird. Jesus Christ. I'm just saying, what's the purpose though after that? Because after you ask, I'm not calling you, I'm not going to curve you, all that. What you really trying to get out of this? You could be the greatest ass eater. I'm on to the next gig.

What's really good? Let's be very clear. The greatest ass eater. The greatest ass eater. That could be a drink test award. And we're moving on. That could be a drink test award. That's a drink test award.

You see his name there. The greatest ass eater. The greatest ass eater. I was going to say a drink chance award. That's going to be a drink chance award. That's a drink chance award. You see her name? The greatest ass eater. Oh, my God. Yo, Trina. I'm saying we got to have some substance and stuff that we do. Stuff happens all the time.

Everybody, you know. Let me just grab a moment right now, right now. Because I still don't know if you're single or not, right? She's not single. You're not single. Let's go to New? So how does a man... She's not single. You're not single. Let's go to New York City. How does a man approach Trina?

Oh, weird as shit. It's always annoying. It's so deep. Well, let me tell you something about me. For one, let's go. Let's be first. I don't go on dates.

I'm not a dater. I don't want to go to no weird-ass dinners. I don't want you sitting up staring under the lights all dim asking a thousand million questions.

That's like weirdo to me. You're very intimidating though. Let me just throw that out there. I don't know why because I'm the coldest person. I'm so cool. But that's because people get,

they're so stuck on this whole baddest bitch persona. So realistically, I'm like the person, my friends, they're here, they testify. You come to my house,

I'm cooking. These are your friends? All my friends, I'm cooking the shit. You see the meals I cook? Lobster. Like all kinds of good shit. I'm like a Caribbean chef.

I treat my friends like royalty. I make sure they're good. When you come, as a man, if you're trying to talk to me, it's like the baddest bitch, like quick, they're like,

you don't want to, you don't see me in the kitchen cooking. You're ready to think I'm on the balcony, probably like with my lingerie on, the champagne. And your visions be so fucked up till you ruin the whole moment. I'm just saying,

I'm going to keep it real. Let me tell you what happened the other day. I'm not going to say no names, right? But one of my friends going to say no names, right? But one of my friends, he meets a girl, right? Okay. And they go, they go, damn, because the chick, you better be quiet.

So the first thing he does is he goes to Instagram. He goes, I can't fuck with this bitch. And I'm like why? she's on yachts she's on niggas is like hold on man

I can't show her nothing okay so and that's intimidation that intimidation so what you want a bitch to be like in a grocery store

we don't know like at Walmart at the park we don't know I'm just saying but like that's the thing but I'm just saying like the real list

because don't get me wrong some of these people these girls on yachts I mean don't get me wrong I'm not a hater do you what's the thing. But I'm just saying, like, the real list of people, because don't get me wrong. Some of these people, these girls on yachts, I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm not a hater. Do what you got to do. You're on a yacht. I don't care what you do, how you got on there. That's your business. She owned restaurants and shit.

Do all that. It gave up. But that's a weak man. That's being weak, though. That's being weak. You're weak. Because that means you ain't stepping up to the plate. That means your intimidation game is so low, you can't even handle shorty from the get-go.

I'm just keeping it a hundo. So let's just be very real. So she on a yacht. you ain't stepping up to the plate. That means your intimidation game is so low, you can't even handle Shorty from the get-go. I'm just keeping her hundo. So let's just be very real. So she on the yacht. You trying to figure out what's really good. So she on the yacht. She on the yacht. You probably trying to figure out

what she selling off from because you trying to figure out what's really good. Don't get intimidated. Don't get weak by that. But I mean, it is what it is. And like the perception, like just the perspective of what he may think.

How are you on this yacht? Who are you on this yacht with? I don't see nobody in the background. You know, you yachting and sailing and traveling around the world and things, you know. Yeah, it's intimidating, though. I had to agree with him a little bit. I was like, word, you can't do that. But why?

Maybe she's running a business. Maybe she's doing her thing. Maybe she's pampering herself. Like, that's what she do. But, Gina, this is how I know I'm not a good friend. I was like, yeah, you can't do nothing for that. But why? Maybe she's running a business. Maybe she's doing her thing. Maybe she's pampering herself. Like, that's what she do. But Gina, this how I know I'm not a good friend. I was like, yeah, you can't do nothing for her.

But why? You should let this one go. You don't like yachts? You don't like yachts? I'm not your friend. I knew what I was like. You don't like yachts? Huh?

You don't like yachts? Yeah, but it's just that she was on one every day for like four months. Wow. She working. I don't know what she was doing. Working. Yeah, four months. Wow. She's working. I don't know what she was doing. Working. Yeah, she was up there. She's working. She should have been owning restaurants.

I ain't going to lie. I was intimidated for a while. But that's intimidation-wise, though. That's their word. But why? Are you intimidated by the chick that's sitting in the bus stop waiting for the bus to pick her up? I guess I think men always want to feel needed a little bit. Be a provider.

You can be providing. You can be providing. But just because I'm on the yacht doesn't mean you can't provide. You can't provide a yacht, maybe. You can't provide a provider. You can be providing, you can be providing, but just because I'm on a yacht, doesn't mean you can't provide. You can't provide a yacht, maybe. You can't provide a yacht, you can provide a helicopter, I don't know,

you can provide something, but hey, stop providing shit. I'm trying to figure out where we going with it. Damn, she said a yacht, what are you doing?

Your niggas is like this, see, you already told you. Cause like, I mean, you think women are, because Amber Rose, didn't Amber Rose sit here and say the same thing? Straight up. She looked at us and said, listen, she hasn't been on a date for a whole year. And we're like, what? No, women don't like dates because it's like a corny thing, honestly.

So if you're a guy and you want to go to this whole dinner, don't, if you're in Miami, let's cut the Prime 112 thing out. That's just like very thoughtish. It's very like you're going to go on a date. It's very much like very sexual. So if you don't date, what do you do? What is the first step? And I'm going to be honest. I don't really know because I'm not a dater.

So I don't know. I don't want to give that advice because if you, I haven't met a person like a new person in so long to where you start asking these questions. And the questions are the past and your life and did you date this and the interrogation of Gansanoito and it's one of those things

that's very and you're at dinner though don't be at dinner you're eating you're trying to make sure you're a girl nothing's in your teeth you're just doing

a bunch of weirdo shit it's just not a cool thing and for me the questions awkward like the staring in the eyes you're looking at the baddest bitch

first album I'm not on that I'm just I'm trying. Like, the staring in the eyes, just trying to get this whole, you looking at the baddest bitch first album. I'm skipping all of that. I just, I'm not on that. Like, I'm just, I'm trying to figure it out. Like, I don't know. I've always kind of skipped it with just. You go straight to the family? No, I'm straight to like,

I'm straight to like Private Jet to the next. Like, right there. We all know this. It's down hard. Down hard. Wait, hold up. No, no, seriously. I's down hard. Down hard. Wait, hold up. No, seriously. I'm just saying.

That's intimidating. Okay, so I'm going to intimidate you. I'm just saying, I'm really just not like the beginning dating stage. I don't like the weird questions. I don't like all. I'm just me, but some of my friends, one of my friends, she is. She's turned out people. No, my friend, she is the dater of the century.

She will go on a dinner date every day. She don't care who it is. If you take her to dinner, she's going to go to dinner. Let me just describe this moment. She's beautiful. You meet Trina. I'll send you my friend on a dinner date. Because she's going to talk.

She don't care. She's very sociable. You got your decoy. You should have your decoy. I'm not the one. I don't want to start saying. I don't want to start talking about Nan and just how they trick. back in the day and, oh, yeah, did you really date Wayne? I don't want to get into the questions.

While you're on the plane, right? I don't care about Smith and Walensky. I just don't want to deal with it. I just kind of, so I don't really date. I don't know how to even meet nobody new because what are you going to ask me? Can a dude that work at Costco be there? She only dates pilots. Well, let me explain something about Costco.

I mean, Costco. I don't even date pilots. They move around too much. I'm real with the, I just really too much. Let me tell you. Damn, pilots not even. I'm just talking about the plane on it. Trina, you're going in.

Trina, you're going in. Nah, but Costco's, let's say that. The thing about a person that works at Costco's, they, don't get me wrong, it's nothing wrong with that. Great discounts. You're independent. You have a job. And I'm a person that loves some discounts. Don't get me wrong. It's nothing wrong with that. Great discounts. You're independent. You have a job. And I'm a person that loves some discounts.

Don't get it twisted. But a Costco's guy would not be able to deal with the pressure of my life. You can't deal with a woman that's traveling around the world four days out of a week. It's too much of an intimidation. You can't deal with the pressure of where you're working at Costco's from 6 to 12 midnight stocking and bagging and shit or whatever. And then I'm somewhere like in London and Europe and then like Denmark and Christiania and just wilding out. Christiania, that's where you can smoke weed through the park. Oh, see what I'm saying?

You're Dominican. Now Puerto Rican. Puerto Rican, okay. But so you don't understand that life. That's a pressure to you Because we're on different time zones We're on different And What if you meet your soulmate

I feel really bad for this guy At Costco right now I'm just saying Not that I'm mad But that's what a pressure would be From a regular guy Because when you get off work I want to talk to you

I want to see you Maybe I don't care if it's FaceTime Whatever I'm performing You sleep You off work You at work I'm traveling

It's just a It's just one of those things That really don't always connect And then it could be pressure You intimidated Because I'm performing. You sleep. You at work. I'm traveling. It's just one of those things that really don't always connect. And then it could be pressure. You intimidated because I'm around other celebrity people that you really think I'm paying attention to that really I'm not even paying no attention to. And that's what Amber was saying. I paid attention to these people, believe it or not. If you was in my shoes, you wouldn't pay no attention to me either.

They're not that special. Just don't understand. Don't get it twisted. A lot of these celebrities, these guys, girls, whoever, they're not that special. Just don't understand. Don't get it twisted. A lot of these celebrities, these guys, girls, whoever, they're not that special. It's some regular people that I know. I chill with on a regular basis. I'm way more special than these people that are very cocky with these

egos and really just nasty unhumanized people that really ain't worth shit, honestly. You know what I mean? That's why I stay so grounded because I'm around regular people that that's real life and it's a real life thing grounded because I'm around regular people that's real life and it's a real life thing. It's loyalty,

it's longevity. It's years after years after years after years. Not the person I met two weeks ago because I was hot on the charts for the number one song

and he was riding my dick. Not you. You know what I mean? The one that's been there from day one when the song wasn't hot on the charts and when you went to the club

and they probably said, whoa, who is that? Yes, me. Them people. That's the kind of people I roll with. Now, have you ever let it get to you? Because I let it get to me at one point in my career.

Yeah, at one point I was just bogged down. Some of these cards getting broken into by a little bit. I hope it's not mine. Let's be very clear. But have you ever let it get to you? Ever? Like once? Never.

You know what? Again, because I came already from this Miami thing where people already knew who I was. It was a little bit almost annoying. You know what I mean? I mean, knowing who I was, I mean, I'm not even nobody. I'm just a daughter of a family that's already in paper. I am somebody, but I'm just a daughter of somebody. I haven't earned no stripes in the streets.

I haven't done nothing. I'm not doing anything my family's doing. I'm just me. And just sometimes people know who you are. It's almost annoying. Like, you just have this persona. You don't even want people to know who you are. You just want to be just a good person to your friends and have a good time. And you just have this

thing that people hold you so high for and you don't even know what's really going on. That's the kind of thing. So nobody's going to act like the alarm's not going off? Nobody? Somebody's crossing the line. Jesus. But yeah, so you know, it don't really get to me.

Drain, that's you, Drain. That's your car. I mean, it's one of those kind of things, you know. I always just try to just stay as what the people are. You know what I mean?

Because as high as I get, I mean, as high as I am, as big as I get, there's some people that's beneath. There's some people that still love me from day one that's never going to make nowhere near the money

I make or be able to do the things that I do. So I'm still like there for them people. I love that. You know what I mean? So the other day I was with Fat Joe. And I believe I think Jay called him and Jay asked, oh no, no, no.

Fat Joe told me that Jay called him when I seen him and he said, oh, no, no, no. No, Fadjo told me that Jay called him when I seen him and he said that Jay asked him, well, what makes you keep going? Mm-hmm. Why the fuck you keep going on this?

Mm-hmm. Why do you keep going? I think it's the energy from the fans and people. You know what? Because sometimes, like, when I'm, I just came back to Miami last night.

Mm-hmm. Like, midnight just came back to Miami last night. Like, midnight. I went straight to the studio. I was doing a record with one of the biggest artists in the game. You know what I mean? And I'm thinking, like, boy, I just flew, like, six hours. I'm tired. I'm over it.

But when I got off that plane, that phone call came. The verse was in. It was like, go to the studio. And it's just one of the things that i just love what i just love the face i love the people i just love the excitement i think i'm i'm so in love with like being on the road for those four days in these cities that i've never been to and these people that are screaming every song in another language do y'all even know what i'm saying i don't even know if y'all know but y'all are so pumped up and crying and twerking and losing it men and women to i don't have no choice but to be at a hundred like you understand so i'm i love that so away now i get

back now and when i'm just home and I'm just in my own beautiful world and I'm not doing anything I just get bored I have so much stuff happening oh I'm not working I'm not entertaining the people I'm not performing I'm not exciting the fans what am I doing I'm not doing anything I don't want to get a massage today I don't want to go on a yacht today I don't want to chill today I want to go get on the stage and make the people go crazy. I want to take all my jewelry off and jump in the crowd. I just want to go back. That's the thing that pumps me up.

So I don't know. That's what I love about it. More than any of it. Records, no record selling. I don't care. It's the fans. It's the people that I, when I get in the cut, when I'm taking a picture, you start crying. I'm looking like, you got on lashes.

I'm not messing with my lashes. So you need to stop crying and look beautiful. I love that. That's the and look beautiful. I love that. That's the thing that makes, I love that, like, more than anything. Yo, that is so dope, man. Let's make some noise for you. That is so dope.

Now, you know what? Because I be around certain artists, and I see them flip on their fans for just, you know, sneaking a picture and taking a picture. And it's like, how you just described that, that's so beautiful because the thing about it is I always look like this is an advantage for me

because meaning, they told me I was supposed to be dead at 21. Why? How I was living. And for me to be, I'm 39 now, I'll be 40 September. Don't rush my shit. September? September? September's tomorrow?

It's next month. Oh, next month. September when? When's your birthday? September 6th. Okay. Oh, okay. And I'll be 40.

What's your sign? I'm Virgo. Okay, Virgo. I'm Virgo. I'm Virgo. Exactly. Oh, Virgo. Sanctuary to Virgo, get it on.

We get it on. Yeah, that's Beyonce, Jay-Z. I'm Gemini. Oh, Gemini. Oh. Gemini's crazy. We get along really well. Yeah, that's Beyonce, Jay-Z. I'm Gemini. Oh, Gemini. Oh. Gemini. We good. We good.

But listen, man. EFN, Miami's mixtape king, Trina, Miami's queen. We are so proud to have this episode. Thank you. And we wanted to let you know, anytime you want to promote anything, we write you a decree. If we ain't at this spot, we're going to be at another spot. If we ain't at that spot, we're going to be at another spot. But it's going to be in Miami.

Miami is our home. That's where we started. I'm a rapper. Oh, yeah. I'm a rapper from Queens, New York, Lafayette City, 97-3057 Avenue, Apartment 5E, Corona, New York. 11368, Apartment 5E. This is where I'm from. Jesus, how do you get a letter?

Because you never forget your original address. You know what I mean? But I moved to Miami. Miami accepted me. Miami embraced me as their home. And I've been out here for over 10 years.

You have? Yes, I've been out here. I might be going on 12. More than 12? You love Miami? I love Miami. It's different from New York. No, because you know what?

I can relax in Miami. You can relax. I can't relax in New York. I can relax in Miami. So me being here and they accepting us and me just following your career and just following what you guys did in the platform. We want to salute you. We want to let you know that not just Miami, but hip-hop loves you.

Thank you. And hip-hop respects you. Thank you. And hip-hop should always honor you. Thank you. And if they ain't honoring you nowhere else, the Drink Champs will be the place that we honor you every single fucking moment. Correct? Can I say one thing?

Because that's what we got to continue to do. We got to continue to support our legends. She wants to say something, bro. I want to say one thing. Yeah, okay, my bad. I was going in. Yeah, you went in. I was picking you up, though.

You went in, you went in. I had to, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. You remember I told you I curve, I got curved you a couple, because you know a couple times, I curve. I'm the curve yonding, queen master of all curves. Yonde, let's do it.

Yonde, that's all curves Yonde Yonde that's me you know what I mean so when I say that because you know you don't understand this whole this gossip

you know I'm not a gossip but the thing about it is the reason I came to this is out of respect because you are a legend I do respect you and you know you remember

you came to I was recording at a studio Circle House a couple years ago we shoot a video I came out to jump in the video I don't jump in nobody's video. That's out of respect.

It's for somebody that always have been respected and always showed me respect. That's the thing in the game that people don't understand. It's a respect thing, and respect goes a long way. You know what I mean? And that's just one of the things that I just came today because I did this because of that. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have done it.

No, and that's the thing about me. The thing about me is that's all I'm about. Yes. All I'm about is just like, yo, I always have fun. And the thing about me is, you know, I'm dyslexic. I was in the resource room. I was in special education. People told me I was literally stupid.

Oh, all that? I don't care. Who laughing now? Who laughing now? Who laughing now? laughing now who laughing now so I said oh shit and for me to get money

off of words the exact thing they said I'm not good at I always looked at it like I was playing with house money so I always looked at it

like I was I'm up even if I'm down that's right look at you paid two dollars for my record I can't

I can't even use words. So, you know, I always looked at it like that, and I always looked. And now there's certain people who is book smart, and there's certain people who is great with literature and words like that. But I, because when you're dyslexic, it doesn't mean you're stupid. It just means you have to learn different. Exactly. So I learned different and what I wanted to do was I said

damn when me and my partner got together I said you know what? There ain't no hip hop show who big up hip hop. Let's big up hip hop. And let's big up our legends. There's so many people that they would get down. People want to tear them down and do. Nah fuck all that.

Let's big them up. Let's say that. Let's have fun with them as well. And let's have fun with them. Especially if they drinking. Let's have fun with them. So that's the reason why we ain't name it like 90s hip hop show

or, you know, legend hip hop show. We want to, nah, nah. It's called a drink champ. So it throws people off,

but this is where we're going to, the people who paved the way, the people who, who've earned their stripes. So But this is where we're going to... The people who paved the way. The people who've earned their stripes. So, you know, we're going to big up everybody and all the new artists. But for now, you know, the new artists have a platform. Yes. Let's... One day I heard Fat Joe talk about, like, yo, he wants to know where, you know, all the older artists, he can hear their music at.

Or he can hear something that they doing at. Besides the traditional radio stations. And fuck it. We don't have to do that. Or maybe we do. But we're going to pick up our fucking artists while they're fucking alive.

And we're going to continue to do this. And we thank you so much, Trina, for coming in here. You know, she took shots. We were usually pressuring people to do shots.

Really? She was in. I really respected you. Thank you. You came through. And, yo, listen, on behalf of hip-hop, on behalf of, you know, Miami, as a, what is it? What am I called? Honorary.

Yeah, you're definitely a honorary. Honorary Miamian. A honorary. Yeah, you're a honorary. honorary honorary Miami as a person that just loves hip hop we want to honor you we want to say thank you for your continued years of success your continued years of grinding people in this game

sometimes you could lose and people would just go away and then we would miss them so much because hip-hop we got to continue these people are out there 60 70 80 years old and rock and roll and jazz and all that and they and they respect them why we can't have that for here who cares if jay-z is 94 years old and he dropped the joint you know that's my brother i don't mean i ain't mean it like that come on chill chill. I'm scared. This nigga got every number I ever had.

This nigga called me, what you just said? Right now, too. I'm sorry, ho, but I didn't mean it like that. He's over. I didn't mean it like that. Because he got the FBI.

He following me somewhere. But, it's my nigga. I love him. But you know what I'm saying? Like, why are we ageless in hip hop? Like,

in hip hop, they'll say like, yo say, yo, this guy hit a certain plateau. Why is that possible? When in rock and roll and all these other genres of music, people continue to make music, and they continue to sell out shows. Why do we have to be limited? I don't know. I know that's a funny thing that always happens in hip-hop. Once you get more,

like once you've done so many records and it's always new people, they always think, oh, well, you should stop doing music or you should do this music with somebody else.

I don't need to understand that because that doesn't mean you don't love Janet Jackson. That doesn't mean you don't love all these people that stopped before you because I do.

I mean, Mary J. Blige's on the road right now killing it. Dancing, pop-locking, dropping it. I can't wait until the show

comes to Miami. I'm there, like ready. Who's going to say Mary J. Blige can't put right now Killing it Dancing, pop locking Dropping it I can't wait till the show Comes to Miami I'm there like ready Like who's gonna say Mary J. Blige can't put out an album Put out a record Get on tour Do you see Beyonce and Kendrick too? Let's talk about Beyonce

Let me say something We're not gonna talk about Beyonce Like Beyonce Is all the way until eternity BC After BC Whatever gonna come Before I pass whatever

And they're gonna be like I'm just gonna say I'm like the Beyonce stand of all stands of stands of stands of stands. I'm at the show like, like no makeup on, like in my untrained gear,

like class ready to like do all the routines. So we're on that kind of way when it comes to Beyonce. It's a timeless thing. Like she's the person that has paved the way and set the standard so high

for women to be like the determined force of dependent and like never giving up no matter people like if you talk about beyonce like you're a pointless lifeless waste of a social security number that's my thing period that's how i feel like i'm i'm in control of the i'm just saying you're right you're a waste of a social security number if you talk about beyonce yeah i've never seen the way for women to be so fearless and so like high

and just so like amazing you know and with so much dignity and so much and just so effortless and just grace and I mean it's a beautiful thing

you know what I mean and that's why I would love to see women in hip hop be that way you know because people in hip hop that we loved

that was before us like everybody loves Queen Latifah everybody loves MC like everybody loves Missy Elliott everybody loves these people so who would say if missy put out an album i'll record i don't want to hear that who's gonna say she shouldn't put it out like what are you talking

about this is a person that's a innovator like a creator like a person that's changed the game of music hip-hop everything is gonna be totally like something to be reckoned with you understand i'm saying so you want to see that always no matter who comes out next after that. You still want to see that. It doesn't mean because somebody new here, I don't care, I don't want to see Missy. This is a person that's just on the Super Bowl. How do you not want to see that?

You know what I mean? It's hip-hop, it's just a culture, it's just music, it's evolutionary. You cannot change, you cannot take it away, no matter how you try. And it is what it is. Beyonce could drop lemonade. Beyonce could drop lemonade, Sprite, tea, half and half, Alma Palmer, whatever.

It's just a... I'm going to just tell you, as a man, when she dropped Lemonade, it was a real nigga reunion. We just were like, yo, niggas got to get our shit together. You got to get it together. Yeah, niggas was like, yo, for real. But it makes a woman also be more secure and more comforting and more... And just be more on your shit and just want to have it together. But it makes women also be like more secure and more like comforting and more, and just be more like on your shit

and like just want to have it together and it's not really about a man, it's about yourself. You got to understand it's self first because even with a man,

you can't do nothing with that if you not right within yourself. You got to mess that whole situation up if you not right. It got to be you first, everything else got to follow,

period. Damn it. Period. I can't even ask Katrina for nothing else. She killed this. She killed this. I ain't going to lie.

She's going to make all girls want to come here now. Thank you. Thank you for doing that. Yeah, because, yeah,

I ain't going to lie. You know, that's our question. We ask all the guys. Like, yo, you eat ass. And so,

you know, some girls probably looked at us and said, holy shit. Well, it's a very intimidating thing when you got like a guy showing his guys and you want to bring this one girl and all you guys are like hovering around like ready to attack. Yeah, because my cousin came to eat out. Listen, he came because Amber Rose came. He said, yo, Amber, I'm going to smell your chair. Because he doesn't speak English that good. He doesn't speak English that good.

So see, when you have a woman that comes, you have to be a very strong woman. A very secure, confident woman to come and be in the way to stand in front of all these guys and be thinking they're going to attack. No, nobody's going to attack. Every woman can't stand for that. You know what I mean? But that's the perspective and the perception of it. So you have to understand that women are a little bit more, I don't want to be a draw guy show. You got to be a beast to handle you guys.

Yes, yes. And you handle us, I think. Let's take a break. Yeah. Let's do a bitch and a drop and be good. Yo, I ain't gonna lie. You killed this. Before we get out of here,

we just want to remind you that you can buy Drink Champs gear at your local DTLR store. So look up the store nearest to you. You can also buy Drink Champs gear We'll see you next time. Then check for the unedited video Wednesdays on Revolt.TV, DrinkChamps.com, or you can go directly to YouTube. Look out for Nori's new food show coming soon, as well as a new project featuring the upcoming single Uno Mas, produced and featuring Pharrell. Check for my coming home documentaries, coming home Vietnam documentary right now, currently airing on Revolt TV, and coming soon, coming home, Colombia. Follow us at Drink Champs on IG, Twitter, and Facebook. And Nori at TheRealNoriega on Instagram, at Noriega on Twitter. And me, EFN, at Who's Crazy on IG and at DJEFN on Twitter.

And until next week, we out of here. Peace. Yes, indeed, as we sign off the number one podcast in the motherfucking world, Drink Champs. N-Y-E-D-J-E-F-N. Signing off, your boy DJ Butch Rock. Listen. Don't forget Jauno Mas. We can cop this right now on iTunes. Nori featuring Pharrell.

Sing to him, Pharrell Sing to him Pharrell What you going through baby You don't know but it is in your eyes I think you need a 180 A total opposite of being nice It's my duty to help you snap back Leave your worries long gone, long gone Let go what you cannot take back Take this moment and move on, move on I was once like you, had me in my running shoes

Thought there's nothing I can do, man, I had it wrong Then something opened my eyes, make myself a steam rise Then they told me that I ain't even do a song A twenty year career, I hope you understand I used to pitch on the block, I did it underhand They said I'd never make it, never be much And I agreed with them, I ain't see such So I celebrate life, rock the shots, this with ice

Baby, we gon' drink more, at least one more Come have a drink with me, baby Just feel, don't think with me, baby I'll be the shrink you need lately Just one more clink with me, baby Yes, sir, G, let's go I wanna make money, I wanna make more She wanna fly planes, she wanna take off

She wanna eat lobster, she wanna drink wine The realest dude in the world is how they raise slime You know it's weird they tryna fake you Pay attention to love, who cares who hates you We'll win one way or the other Let's start now, girl It's my duty to help you snap back Leave your worries long gone, long gone

Let go what you cannot take back Take the moment and move on, move on I want ones like you, have me in my running shoes Thought there's nothing I can do, man, I got it wrong There's something up in my eyes, make myself a steam rise Then the time will come that I can have a drink with me, baby Uno, mas, uno, mas Just feel, have a drink with me, baby Uno Maza, one more Just feel, don't think with me, baby

Singin' like Bruno Maza, we gon' I'll be the shrink you need lately Yes, indeed! Just Boots Rock! Or clink with me, baby Yeah, huh Yeah, yeah She wanted one more, I wanted one more

Ignored your last call, got one more We from the bottom so we always celebrate it From the bottom so we always celebrate it Can't help that, I wanna help that I wanna save her life, I know she felt that She in a good mood and I agree with her I just wanna get drunk and go be with her It's my duty to help you snap back

Leave your worries long gone, long gone Let go what you cannot take back Take this moment and move on, move on I was once like you Had me in my running shoes Thought there's nothing I can do Man, I had it wrong There's something up in my eyes Make myself a steam rise And then tell me that I need to do a song Come have a drink with me, baby Just chill, don't think with me, baby

And like Uno Mas We gon' be the shriek in it lately Just one more clink with me, baby And relax That's how we feel Uno Mas Uno Mas And relax Available on iTunes right now Uno Mas Uno más, one more Uno más, and relax

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