Drink Champs - #Throwback Episode - w/ Raekwon | (Ep. 20)

Episode Date: June 25, 2025

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs and we're taking it back to some of the most legendary moments in Drink Champs history Classic interviews, unforgettable stories, and iconic guests who shape...d the culture.In this classic throwback episode of Drink Champs, N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN welcome a Wu-Tang legend to the table—Raekwon the Chef. This ain't just another convo; it's a celebration of bars, legacy, and real street wisdom. Raekwon pulls up with the same raw energy that made Only Built 4 Cuban Linx a classic, breaking down the Wu-Tang come-up, the highs and lows of fame, and the art of staying solid in an industry full of smoke and mirrors.The drinks are flowing, the stories are rich, and the Chef serves game with precision. From his first meeting with RZA to his respect for Nas and the golden era of hip hop, Rae keeps it all the way real. He opens up about industry politics, solo success, and what it takes to survive as a lyrical assassin in a game that’s constantly evolving.This episode is filled with gems, laughter, and moments of reflection that only a vet like Raekwon can deliver. Whether you're a Wu head or just getting hip to the legacy, this one’s a certified classic. Pour up, press play, and step into the purple tape zone—Drink Champs style. Wu-Tang forever!Make some noise for Raekwon!! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:22 The most professional, unprofessional podcast. The most professional, unprofessional podcast. The most professional, unprofessional podcast. The most professional, unprofessional podcast. The most professional, unprofessional podcast. The most professional. You know what I mean? The most professional unprofessional podcast. This is drinks champ rated where every day is New Year's Eve What it could be hopefully is what it should be this your boy in ORE what up is DJ EFN And this is drink chance motherfucking podcast chance motherfucking broadcast make some noise! Yo, where the horns at? We need them horns. We signed the autographs to the horns and gave them away
Starting point is 00:02:50 with faps. But right now we got a legend in the building. Not only is he part of the most legendary group that can never be implicated, duplicated, or none of that in hip hop, but he's also his own legend. He also made classics on his own. He also has shoes on his own, ice cream trucks on his own. He's a legacy. He's gonna continue doing it. He's so tough out here on these tours. He'd be doing like a hundred and, he be touring like a wrestler. A hundred and ninety eight days out the year.
Starting point is 00:03:29 This nigga be on the road, flying, flossing, doing all that. He's the first person I ever seen with a Maybach in the building right now. No other than Ray Kwan, the motherfucking chef, the first Wu-Tang member to ever be in a Drink Check podcast. Let's make some noise! Woo! Woo!
Starting point is 00:03:51 Woo! Woo! Woo! Now Ray Kwan. Salute, salute. Now Ray Kwan, you from Brooklyn and Staten Island, right? Because when you grew up on the crime side, New York Times side, I was talking about Brooklyn
Starting point is 00:04:07 Yeah, man You know, I was just talking about first off. We owe you publish. Oh, I don't know if you know that we owe you publishing Every time on the drink chance we go In the drinks hands army doing this is doing it and we got that for you. You don't owe me nothing. I think they need to get hashtags. I need money. It ain't licensed so. Come on make some noise. So you saying that you started from Brooklyn. I mean you know yeah. And East New York at that right?
Starting point is 00:04:30 Yeah Rockaway man like you know right in the middle like between Brown between Brownsville and East New York. It's like across the street. Come from Howard Houses. Boom. Howard Houses. I was there though as a young nigga though, man. I can't take no hurt strikes from Brooklyn and act like I was there at that time. I was a kid.
Starting point is 00:05:01 So what time? Ambulance? That shit is lethal. No, this is the haze from New York. It's lethal injection right there. So what year did you move to Southland? When I was like when I was like 10 or something, 10 or 11 or something. You know like I said I ain't gonna act like I got no stripes in Brooklyn on that level. I was a kid you know and my mom's you know her sister told her you know I think Staten Island's a better place
Starting point is 00:05:25 for you to live, because my pops, he was a wild goon. He was a fly goon though. You know what I mean? And he was getting into a lot of shit, and repercussions was coming at him, I guess. And it came to the part where my mom's had to get a body. So y'all moved to Staten Island to get for a better life. For a better life. Y'all had no idea Park Hill, Stapleton, and all that shit existed.
Starting point is 00:05:49 Nah, I know nothing about that. I was still a lad, you know what I mean? Now you and Ghostface are from separate projects. Yeah, yeah. What projects is though? Stapleton, he's from Stapleton, I'm from the hell. Mm, Park Hill. Yeah, Park Hill.
Starting point is 00:06:02 Let's make some noise for Park Hill, god damn it. Yeah. God damn it. God. God damn it. God damn it. Oh, we got a horn, so we got a horn. We got a horn. God damn it. Let's make some noise for the horn.
Starting point is 00:06:11 God damn it. God damn it. Yo, Rayquan, we are so f***ed. This is it. Yo, we tried to get Rayquan other week, right? It didn't happen. We tried our best. Yeah, you can try to get P.F.N.
Starting point is 00:06:22 Look, I switched back to blanks so you ain't get blanked. Did heroin. Yeah, we can try to get P.F. in. Look, I switched back to blanks, so you ain't get blanks. Nah, I did heroin. Yeah, we just had havoc here, and we were smoking raw cones, and the ambiance and the smell kept bothering them. Yeah. You know what I was thinking about? There was nothing more than I enjoyed in the world.
Starting point is 00:06:37 You know what I was thinking about? What happened with the sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss I gotta bring those back. Yeah, stop playing, man. So what year, so now you met RZA, cause RZA and ODB was all from Brooklyn, right? Yeah, yeah. So what year was that that they came out there? And when you first met them, was it about like music or was it some street shit? Nah, it's some street shit automatically, dawg. It's like, them niggas been around since we was kids. Like, you know, RZA, we been around since we was kids. Like, you know, Riz, we used to go to school together.
Starting point is 00:07:08 You know, he's in like the fourth grade or something, some shit like that, fourth or fifth grade. And, you know, Riz was a nigga that used to come through the neighborhood, because he used to live in like a private house. You know niggas that live in private houses. Niggas that live in private houses. He had gay community back then? Nah, nah, not gay. But we just, you know, his family had a private house. You know, we from the day. Niggas that live in private houses. He had gay community back then? Nah, nah, not gay. But he just said, you know, his family had a private house.
Starting point is 00:07:27 You know, we from the project. So that's a privilege to me when a nigga can live in a private house. That's a fact. You know what I mean? And you know, we used to go to school together. And Riz was always into music. You know what I mean? That's one thing I could say.
Starting point is 00:07:40 He always, he loved music. You know what I mean? And at that time, you know, his cousins was from Brooklyn, you know, Jizza and, you know, O'Dirty, you know, they would come back and forth to Staten Island from Brooklyn. Now why was they coming? Because they had family in Staten Island? Yeah, yeah, because he was coming to hang out with RZA,
Starting point is 00:07:59 you know, and I used to run with them at that time and always used to be around them and I used to see like Musical talents in the niggas all the time, you know, you know on the jizz. He always was rhyming That was the rest of the first one to put out a record. I love you. Rocky That was his shit, right? That was real. They love you. Yeah, but he was the first one Make some noise for me. No, my shit First one, make some noise for me knowing my shit, god damn it. Come on.
Starting point is 00:08:23 Come on. That was just to start blacking. Soon as I knew my shit. But Jizzle was early too. No, but I think, I think Rizzo came first as well. I think they were both. But what was the Jizzle's project? I forget.
Starting point is 00:08:35 I remember his shit too. Was it just Genius? Wait, I can't answer the whole half off. Words from a Genius. Yeah, it was Words from a Genius. That was his, that was official album right there. Like, you know, that's when a nigga came back to the hood and showed everybody. It was like, oh shit, this thing got an album.
Starting point is 00:08:50 We had it in our hands. It was ill. So the whole people who put y'all all together, like y'all nine, okay, y'all nine people together, whose idea was that initially? The Riz. The Riz. The Riz? The Riz.
Starting point is 00:09:04 That was his... You know what it was? It was just that when they went in and did their thing on their own, they wasn't the truth at that time. You know? True, but Riz and Jizza. Yeah, you know, you know, and I guess that they felt like, you know what? We're gonna do it our way. We're gonna come with something new. And Riz was the spearhead of it, you know? And Riz called certain niggas in the hood and he always fucked with me so he knew my potential. Like I said, I was deep in this way and when he made that call it was like, yo, yeah, yeah, I'm down just for the representation of the barrel. I wasn't looking at it that far.
Starting point is 00:09:41 So it was like more like, oh yeah, what up? You want to make a record? We know you. That's what you do. Yeah more like oh, yeah, what up you want to make a record? We know you that's what you do. Yeah, we don't we do this So what do you want to meet at you know, and we went in the studio? He told everybody come with a hundred hours. He was already rhyming. I was you know, I mean I was splashing little He told you I was a lobbyist ramen. He's a store. Yeah. For real? He made your pay for the studio. Paid you for real? That's all. It was for the studio.
Starting point is 00:10:11 OK. OK. So, you know, niggas, you know, some niggas ain't have it, but niggas is like, fuck it. You know, but now, you know, he came in and he's like, yo, I want niggas to get on this record right here. Boom. He talk about the big pipe dreams of everything going to be this and be that. It was more or less this the record. And, yo, I'm picking, you know, I want all y'all niggas to get on it. We're going to come bum rush the game.
Starting point is 00:10:35 So he's like, yo, whatever, you know. Right. Don't tell me this record was protecting that. Yeah, this is protecting that. That's the first record y'all ever recorded together? Yeah, yeah. Get the fuck out of here. Yeah, this is this is the first record you ever recorded together I'm saying I'm saying that's what created the whole shit cuz that we've been rhyming for a minute So Riz already knew certain niggas in the hood already had had a name You know what I mean? So it was like, okay, you know when he picked certain niggas
Starting point is 00:11:03 We wasn't all cool like that. We we knew, yeah, he rhymed. Who came with the Kung Fu angle? Um, the Riz, you know? The whole concert? Yeah, that was his rhyme. No, not pineapple. I'm going to do the salsa water. Khalid, do you have the salsa water? So this light just broke?
Starting point is 00:11:20 How close do we get to salsa water? Yeah, my balls up. My bad. Yeah, so go Yeah, my bad. So go ahead, my bad. But you know, he came with the whole Kung Fu style of it or whatever. Everybody back then was big on karate flicks or whatever. I remember that when we used to rock tree-cocked nylons and all that. Remember back in the days, niggas rocked the nylons?
Starting point is 00:11:43 So when was the moment? Was it when you recorded Protect Your Neck that you knew he was a part of some legendary shit, or you was just rhyming and paid your hundred dollars and it was gonna go on your regular hit? It was just glad to be there thoughts, you know what I mean? Glad to be there thoughts. But when we did hit a record and you know, he composed it the way he composed it when he came back and played it, It was like, oh, shit, you want to saw was that the order the verses? Was that the same order you all recorded? Oh, no, no. He was just he just was freaking it the way he wanted to freak it.
Starting point is 00:12:16 You know what I mean? But when I heard it, when we heard it, we was like, it should sound nice. Because, you know, our thing was we wanted to do what the hit squad was doing. I think a lot of people get it fucked up when you go back to that earlier time and you look at certain crews that was doing that thing. That's right, hit squad, yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:36 The Niggas. Taz effects, K-Town Low. The Niggas was our East Coast superheroes. You know what I mean? So we just wanted to emulate what we seen them do, but at the same time still challenge what they do right you know so you know being that um Being that Riz he felt like yo, you know what? Boom we the Staten Island of them niggas Ray and Ghost you the EPMD
Starting point is 00:13:00 You know Riz the Rakim you know you, Jiz is the KRS of the clicker. You know, Redman is, Method Man is Redman. You know, we started feeling like we had to be on A level. And the next thing you know, once that record took off, you know, it started to really make us feel like, oh shit, we on the south. I remember when Protect Your Net came out, I was in jail. And all of a sudden, everybody that was from Brooklyn
Starting point is 00:13:27 was from Staten Island at that moment. I was like, what the fuck? Like, the whole jail just turned to Staten Island. I said, these Wu-Tang niggas, it's crazy, man. A lot of niggas, you know, a lot of niggas from Brooklyn used to hang out in Staten Island too. So we had a lot of relationships, because you know, Staten Island is literally like 15, 20 minutes from Brooklyn,
Starting point is 00:13:48 like Atlantic Avenue right there. You get there in like 20 minutes and then you shoot down and make the right and you go all the way down. You're in the heart. Now I heard back in the days you and Ghostface shot at each other, is this true? Nah, nah. You hear that everybody shoots at each other.
Starting point is 00:14:03 Your projects used to shoot at each other. Is that what I heard? Your projects hated each other. Why? You gotta break that down. Me and Keplone projects hated each other. But now it's in separate rules. You can't go to Queens Bridge without seeing a left-wrackin' nigga and vice versa. Exactly. Explain that. That shit been going on for years, man. It's been like a traditional thing in Staten Island. You know certain places don't like other places.
Starting point is 00:14:26 And, you know, we kind of grew up in that where, you know, Stapleton not. I ain't anywhere I go. You know, in the hell, niggas, you know, but Ghost, he was a nigga that, you know, was comfortable with coming up to Staten Island. He had a lady up there. So he was moving in and out. Coming up to Staten Island. I mean, he was coming from Stapleton.
Starting point is 00:14:44 Oh, yeah. Paul Keele, because he had a shorty up to Staten Island, you mean Stapleton? He was coming from Stapleton, which is Paul Kip, because he had a shorty up there. He had a kid. So he had to come up there. So we would see him, and we knew what he was about, because he was a creep thing. Right. Make some noise for Ghostface, baby.
Starting point is 00:14:58 Yeah, yeah. Right here. It's super. Hear the crowd. It's super, boy. When I say creep, I mean like a crook creep. Not like a creep. Not like a creep.
Starting point is 00:15:08 We understand. We understand. That's my heart right there. I would never play it, but he was a crook creep back then. And you know niggas didn't have to watch him because he ain't had no filter. You niggas carry the guns and they come through and it's like niggas be on the roof watching them,
Starting point is 00:15:26 like making sure they know where they going and leaving. And they used to yacht niggas. They used to yacht certain niggas. And you know, I never ran across them on that level, but we kind of respected each other's cloth because we, you know, we know a certain power players. Like, you know, you had to know that in certain hoods. So even when Riz brought us together, it was like, yeah, I fuck with you, but I don't know you though. You know what I'm saying? Y'all knew each other, but didn't know each other. I mean, we knew each other from school,
Starting point is 00:15:55 but it was still like, it was just like just going to school. You going to school, it's like, I see you, I see you. But after that, I ain't gonna be around, mom going back up this way, he going to school, it's like, I see you, I see you. But after that, you know, I ain't gonna be around, you know, mom going back up this way, he going where he going. And we would meet up when like block parties and all that shit was popping off. You know, a lot of times it would be like Park Hill Day and you know, niggas from all over Staten Island
Starting point is 00:16:19 would come through here and you know, niggas would make movies and shit. You know, niggas, somebody might get shot, somebody might get hit with movies and shit. You know niggas somebody might get shot, somebody might get hit with a golf club. You know what I mean? Niggas just in somebody's pocket, somebody got knocked out. You know all this shit was going on and it was like outside niggas that you had to watch.
Starting point is 00:16:36 On the island, in Cape Town. You know what I mean? You had to watch these niggas. So Ghost is definitely a notorious killer's killer man gyro nigga. But he was cool with the rest of it. Killer man gyro, let's make noise for that first time. Say it with a heart. Yeah!
Starting point is 00:16:51 That is hard. Yeah! Now when you say that killer man gyro and things like that, your slang is different. It's like, how did you develop? My slang like your slang nigga. Yeah, you know it's different. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:17:02 So how you developed this shit? Like, you know what I mean? Your how you developed this shit? Like, you know what I mean? Your aura swords? It's just block coded, man. It's block coded. It's just, you know, I ran with a bunch of funny niggas, you know what I mean? The fat album niggas, niggas that know how to snap
Starting point is 00:17:17 and all that, so shit just start coming out that, you know, it was so ill that it made sense, and niggas just kept it, you know what I mean? But nah, I don't look at it like that. It's just how we talk sometimes. And you worked with Pun early. You was like Pun's first feature, correct? Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:33 How was that? Joe introduced me to Pun. Firewater, right? He introduced me, yeah. You know, and Joe was like, yo, this my nigga right here, yo, this my right hand. Right. And he said, yo, what you hand?
Starting point is 00:17:43 Was this Miss Tim Stooyearls? Nah, this was somewhere up in the Bronx or some shit or something. Okay. I came up there to see him and all you know He was like, yo, I want you to meet somebody shit. So I'm like that was you know, I mean and next you know It was big pun and he told pun to rhyme for me. I'm gonna be wrong for me. It was like I looked at Joe When he rhymed for me, it was like, I looked at Joe like, yeah, nigga, you know what I mean? This is the one. And he was like, yo, you like this nigga? You like him?
Starting point is 00:18:10 I said, nigga, I love this nigga, man. He was just spittin'. He said, yo, I wanna put him on his joint. Nigga, put him on the joint. And it went from there, but next thing you know, Star was super born after that. Now, this is what want to get to. There's a classic hip hop memory,
Starting point is 00:18:29 classic skip on y'all with Ghostface. You said the niggas bit off the nines shit. The niggas bit off the nines shit. What was going through y'all? I know later on y'all squashed it with big but at that time You had to be feeling something. So what was what was the up mind state going through when y'all made that intro? Cuz it was funny as hell, but it was serious It wasn't premeditated I'll tell you that
Starting point is 00:19:03 So did y'all feel like you had to say something because y'all felt like it was outright biting? Nah, you know sometimes. It was called shark bites right? I mean you know I got the documentary coming out so I'm gonna tell you the real story within the documentary but all I could say is in the sport of what we do when we came, we wasn't supposed to like nobody. Right. I say that all the time. Let's make some noise for the niggas being foul niggas.
Starting point is 00:19:32 It was a straight hour niggas thing, like you said. Like I said, we was getting money with the niggas. We made great records with niggas, but it wasn't ever... That's how hip hop was. That's how hip hop was at that time. Especially us, especially us, because you know, I'm talking about us, our generation, the youngsters. You know, you go to another nigga neighborhood or whatever,
Starting point is 00:20:03 if you're not from there, you always feel like, watch those niggas though. Of course. You know what I mean? And vice versa, because a lot of times people got hurt. It was from niggas out of town coming in and hurting niggas or, you know what I mean? So anytime we always felt like that.
Starting point is 00:20:18 And like I said, at the end of the day, we gonna say that one, because that's a real thought. But all I can say is it was a premeditated. You know, it was just hungry niggas being hungry niggas. It was a legendary moment in hip hop, man. Legendary moment in hip hop. You got something to me? Nah, one thing, this is as a DJ side.
Starting point is 00:20:37 Glaciers of Ice is one of my favorite records of all time. True, true. You're supposed to say, mm, come on, Ray. You gotta get your originate out, Ray. Yo, what are you listening to? Listen. Listen. This is what we're going to do.
Starting point is 00:20:49 We're going to play a game, right? We're going to play shots. Amanda. Amanda. Listen to Amanda. We're going to play shots, right? You don't want to take a shot, right? Yeah, I'll take a shot.
Starting point is 00:20:57 You'll take a shot? All right, so this is what we're going to do. It's a great chance. Whenever I beat you to the hmm, and whenever I beat you to the hmm, you can point at somebody and you can make them take a shot. Everybody's in? Everybody's in? All right?
Starting point is 00:21:11 It's only her one, yeah. All right, so if I beat you to the hmm, when you're supposed to say hmm, then you gotta take a shot. All right? All right? All right. You can tell y'all boys, because nobody else will look up to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:22 You think about it. All right, all right, all right. Now, because you say some fly shit. Come on, man. You say some fly shit. I tell people all the time, I say if Ray Kwan, if we know what y'all say. All right, all right, all right. Now, because you say some fly shit. Come on, man. You say some fly shit. I tell people all the time, I say, if Ray Kwan, if you have a conversation with Ray Kwan, and he say, hmm, at one point, I say, your conversation is trash.
Starting point is 00:21:35 Right, right. It's trash. You know what I'm saying? So, um. No, no, hold on. You're going to cut me off? Oh, yeah, yeah. God damn it.
Starting point is 00:21:41 Ray Kwan. Shit. I forgot. Go ahead. Now, am I crazy, or was there a Legend of Zelda sample in that record? You in the video game, nigga? You in the video game, nigga?
Starting point is 00:21:52 Aw. I've always, I've always thought. That was my favorite game, I never peeped that. I never knew that. I never peeped that, that's what it is? And I searched and I tried to be nerd about it and I can't find nothing, but I swear to you that it's a Legend of Zelda sample in Glacier's's advice. That's one of my favorite records of all time.
Starting point is 00:22:08 You just put me on it. I ain't know that. I'm trying to be honest with you, I ain't care about none of that. You're like the beat is hot. The beat is just a beat, B. Inside the label just aired, they aired the loud Documentary. The loud shit. It was so dope. in the loud documentary. The loud shit. It was so, it was so,
Starting point is 00:22:27 Little Branch, Little Branch. It was like, it was like, Who brought that? He brought that? Nah, that is, He brought that. That is,
Starting point is 00:22:35 Poppo hit me with that. That's the kush, and we smoked a haze, and he rolled another haze. So did you see the loud thing? Aw man, it was pretty awesome. Did you see it? I felt bad too, because? I felt bad too cuz I wasn't in it You know I wasn't in it. Oh, yeah, you know, I missed that and you know
Starting point is 00:22:49 I feel bad cuz you know loud loud did a lot of shit for the game, you know Shout out Steve Rifkin. Now you did your solo on loud as well. Yeah, let's get into that right now Like I'm gonna be honest That was your time. We knew you was Wu-Tang. We knew that. But it was the time when you just broke out and you was on Samaphyoso. Now niggas know who Ray Kwan is 100%.
Starting point is 00:23:13 How did that feel? Did you know you was making a classic when you was making it? Yup. Let's make some noise for that, god damn it. Woo! Let's make some noise for that. Word, that's what's up, my nigga. Yo, let me tell you something. Yeah. Let me be honest with you, man. You know, we had a powerful team back then. You know, we was young niggas, we was real strong. You know, you caught me right there.
Starting point is 00:23:25 You know, real, real. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard.
Starting point is 00:23:33 That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard.
Starting point is 00:23:41 That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's real hard. That's where it had to come in, because it was one of those vibes. I'm sitting around the table with all God-body men at the time, and niggas is smart and creating a plan. And like I said, all I wanted to do was just be a team player. I just wanted to come in and do my part, because I was called in to be a part of this.
Starting point is 00:24:02 So now I wasn't worried about no solo-dolos. I wasn't worried about no solo-dolo's, I wasn't thinking about it, you know, I was just covering it on the representation, just to do my part. Before we get back to the purple tape, Ghostface just said that he's in charge of the new Woo album. I heard about that. You heard about that?
Starting point is 00:24:19 I heard about that, I mean. You think that's a good look? I think it's a good look. I think it's a Superman look. You know what I mean? Superman look, that was a hmm. That look. I think it's a good look. I think it's a Superman look To be honest with you man goes always all the ones fighting for you know brother's to Step into different chambers sometimes and not go against the you know, you talk about a nigga that got eight rings, you know
Starting point is 00:24:44 I mean a classics sometimes and not go against the, you know, you talking about a nigga that got eight rings, you know, nigga that made eight classics, RZA, you know, and you questioning a man with that kind of belt, he gonna look at you like you crazy, Lord. I heard RZA House, you gotta walk a hundred steps. It's like some ill Chinese theater. Like a Buddhist temple. Like you gotta walk a hundred steps up there. Yo, he's real. And then catch your breath.
Starting point is 00:25:03 Yo, he's real deal karate with it. Nigga told me one day, yo, you more Wu-Tang than me. 100 steps up there and then catch your breath. Yo, he's real deal karate with him. Nigga told me one day, yo, he more Wu-Tang than me. I said, you are. Said you are, nigga. That's because he went to the temple or whatever. He went to Korea. Now, how does the Wu-Tang logo go?
Starting point is 00:25:20 If y'all use it, can all of y'all use it? I mean, no, niggas could use it, of course, but it's just when other niggas use it with us. What the hell? Gotta be a Dominican. You know, when it's other niggas that's... That's just the nature of business, you know? I mean, if you build a brand and, you know,
Starting point is 00:25:38 you part of the brand, but you go do something with somebody else that's not a part of the brand, they gotta respect that they're getting something great part of the brand, they got to respect that they getting something great and they got to pay, they got to give back too. So you know, some niggas, you know, use it or some niggas don't use it. So let's get back to this purple tape. Incarcerated Scarface.
Starting point is 00:25:57 Incarcerated Scarface. Every time you come out, I'm like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Scarface. Every time you come out and I'm like, you're way performing me. You know you don't ever have to ask me which record you're gonna do. It's always Incarcerated Scarface. How did you, what was your, I don't know, just tell me the story. I don't even know the question.
Starting point is 00:26:14 Just tell me the story of Incarcerated Scarface. My nigga, that's just a record for niggas that was away, you know? Niggas that wasn't on the street at the time. You know, when I was making the album, I felt like I had to really pay respect to the niggas that wasn't here. A lot of my niggas went away early, of course some monster bids and shit, and I was thinking about the niggas.
Starting point is 00:26:38 A lot of times you might see a nigga with a rip on his face or something, that don't make him a sucker, because he got a rip. You know what I mean? That might just be a scar that he caught. You know, a nigga might have caught him or whatever and that made him a stronger nigga later on. But I was just thinking about all my scar-faced niggas, like niggas that get money scar-faced niggas.
Starting point is 00:27:01 Yeah, if you had a scar, you know you aren't that scar. You know, everybody, all of us, I'm sure you got scars, I got scars. Yeah, I'm fucked up. We scarface, we scarface damn niggas though, but just paying homage. You're killing me? Yeah, just paying homage and just caught a vibe that day,
Starting point is 00:27:19 just walked in RZA dungeon that day and he had the beat on. And you know, I write fast if it's nice. If you got something real good, I can write fast. And write, pow. You know what I mean? Came with the hook and say, yo, that's for niggas in jail, that ain't around.
Starting point is 00:27:34 Let's make some noise for the Carcerase Scarface story. Yeah! Yeah! Ray, you've been famous for a long time. I wanna know, who's the weirdest, famousest person you smoked with? The weirdest, famous niggas. Yeah, like, that you smoked and you was just like,
Starting point is 00:27:51 I can't believe I'm smoking with you, Madonna. No, no, no. Do you know something? I don't know, I'm just throwing that out there. You smoked with Madonna, nigga? Nah, man, I mean. Mariah? Nah, I ain't blowing, I ain't blowing Mariah, though.
Starting point is 00:28:04 Didn't you? Nah. Me and Jill Scott, though, we hung out one night. I mean, I'm a riot Me and Jill Scott though, we hung out one night she cried to me Now she wasn't blowing the branch though, but she was You know, she cried that night. She had a lot of shit on her mind. Oh, what? You know what I mean? Emotional obsession.
Starting point is 00:28:30 Me and my homeboy, we was there hanging out with her, whatever. It was after, it was after honor awards that we went to, and you know, we all was hanging out. And you know, she was, she was ventilating that day and it got real. It got real. She just distilled, you know what I mean? And we was like, you know, it's a big brother, yo. You know, we here for you.
Starting point is 00:28:49 Why? Why? We almost had her on Drink Chance. We thought we was gonna have her in Vegas, remember? That was ill. Not Jill Scott, it was Kelly Price, my boy. Look at him. This nigga's fucked up.
Starting point is 00:28:59 This nigga, he's a fucked up guy. I'm glad you could notice this, Rayquan. This is my partner right here. He's a fucked up guy. Yo, so Ray could notice this Rayquan. This is my partner right here. He's a fucked up guy. So Rayquan, we asked all our guests this, right? Talk to me, I'll make it. Do you eat ass? This guy.
Starting point is 00:29:16 That's how you can ask me. That's the correct way to answer it. But did y'all ever eat ass? Have y'all ever like... Ah! You motherfuckers. You be around that shit. You be around that shit. A monkey go, go, go, go. I swear to God. I'm recording that. You stupid, man. This nigga is crazy, nigga. Yo, man.
Starting point is 00:29:28 We got to get another one when you get a chance. Nah, she got to be a special ass, though, nigga. A special ass, like super clean. Yeah, nigga. I swear he offensive. I swear he offensive, super clean. We don't just run down there, nigga. We don't just run down there, nigga.
Starting point is 00:29:36 We don't just run down there, nigga. We don't just run down there, nigga. We don't just run down there, nigga. We don't just run down there, nigga. We don't just run down there, nigga. We don't just run down there, nigga. We don't just run down there, nigga. We don't just run down there, nigga.
Starting point is 00:29:44 We don't just run down there, nigga. We don't just run down there, nigga. We don't just run down there, nigga. We don't just run down there, nigga, she gotta be a special ass though, bitch. A special ass, like super clean. I swear he offense that super clean. We don't just run down there and do this. I said you gotta be my girl, first of all. I know, I know. I'm just warming things up. We call that checking the temperature. You know? Check that temperature.
Starting point is 00:30:00 What's the wildest toy you been on? Who's shit is this? Oh my god, my girlfriend. And I felt like Eddie was ready to jump into the ass conversation. You met Eddie the Ass eater? No. No. Eddie, come over here and say hi to Rayquan.
Starting point is 00:30:14 Swung a little, so swung a little. Clean your mouth, Eddie. Clean your mouth. This who Janelle Ico talking about. Eat the booty like groceries? This is this thing. This is eat the booty again. Come on.
Starting point is 00:30:23 Yo, come on. Share with everybody you're a fan. Come on. Y'all went to school together. Y'all yo, come on. Share it with everybody at EFN. Come on, y'all went to school together. Y'all went to school together. Lean over. Talk about your ass crack. Hit him with the ass crack.
Starting point is 00:30:30 Good. Good. Tell them how you eat ass. How many assholes have you ate? Can you think of it? I'm going to count. I'm going to count. You definitely, let's just think about this.
Starting point is 00:30:38 You in the 50s or in the 20s? Just assholes. He needs an account. 30s? 30s? He's an ass-hitter. Someone's going to bleach too. I'm going to pass. this you in the 50s or in the 20s just asshole he needs an account 30s? 30s?
Starting point is 00:30:48 Someone will bleach too We're gonna make a commercial for you If you need your ass bleached Eddie Gage will teach This is a fact Yo make some noise for Eddie Gage Follow them at Eddie Gage and Ray Quarren We want to let you know man the liquor provider today is my best buy liquor.
Starting point is 00:31:08 They got four liquor stores, two in Kendall, one in Colour Bay. They provided the liquor that we getting drunk off tonight. At Best Buy Liquors. At Best Buy Liquors. Hit them up. And we got a bartender. I don't know if you peeped that. Amanda. Amanda. Because we got Ray Kwan. I don't know if you peeped at
Starting point is 00:31:28 Because we got Ray Kwan here so we got people pouring our drinks Her name is Amanda Amanda come over here and say hi to the people last time everybody wanted to say Who is watching say nothing we added a girl to the show we had too much testosterone a lot of pool sticks and no pockets Wasn't working out so we added a girl to the show. Say what's up, say where you from. Go ahead. Yo, what up? It's your girl Amanda Esco. I'm from the Bronx, New York. Mm.
Starting point is 00:31:50 B-B-H. And what's your Instagram and all that so the people know? Amanda underscore Esco, E-S-C-O. All right. And welcome her to the Drink Chats. Hit her up on her Instagram. And it's going down like that.
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Starting point is 00:36:07 No, because Joe Biden's a chiller. Listen, listen there. I thought Joe, like, you know, Joe's my man. He's a cool guy. Obviously not with the company. No, it's what I'm saying. It's a history. It's a historic moment in hip hop.
Starting point is 00:36:15 Okay. Right? So how did that start? He said something to you about, you know, he said Method Man is overrated. He said Method to you about, you know, he said Method Man is overrated or something, right? You know, it's so ill, it's like,
Starting point is 00:36:33 I ain't even really, number one, I like Joe now, you know what I mean? Based on the fact that I could've gotten some trouble behind that back then, you know what I mean? I'm getting to that, but go ahead. That was serious to me and he didn't give me behind that you know what I mean? I'm getting to that you know that was serious to me and he didn't he didn't give me away you know what I mean? It was kidnapping. I didn't say it, he said it. It was kidnapping like a mother fucker. I see the thing. I see the thing. Stop. They just hung out on the room for a little bit. Listen, uh, listen. He was talking wild shit. But you know he, you know.
Starting point is 00:37:08 And then you seen him. And then y'all spoke and then he went and talked wild shit again. And then him and Mickey Fats. Him and Mickey Fats said some shit and then y'all seen them. What happened right from there? Yeah, I mean, you know. The tape is destroyed, but I, it's not in my memory though, sir. Nah, it was, you know what what it was it was just a moment that
Starting point is 00:37:29 It was just getting taken too far to hand and I try to neutralize You know it's my child I try to neutral you snap another and put his hat back on? Oh my God! Yo, you a different trippin' egg of a... Yo! Let me say something. Let me say something. You can't front on me.
Starting point is 00:37:53 I didn't hit him. I didn't say you hit him. I didn't hit him. But you put his hat back on, that's what makes it worse. It's like you minding your own business. That's what makes it work. Because, yo, this is, let me tell you something. I ain't never, like, I met mobsters, like, real mobsters.
Starting point is 00:38:11 I met mafioso niggas, but I've never actually seen them do mafioso shit. This was the closest thing to, like, this is mafioso shit, my nigga. He made them niggas, he made Mickey Fax google it. Remember? Ah, I remember all this. He made Google, he made, cause they said Mickey Fax, didn't you say something? He was like, no, he's like, and he's like,
Starting point is 00:38:34 get him on the computer. He got on the computer, pulled it up, this is crazy. This is way long ago, way more than seven years ago. But, so how do you- Was it at Rock the Bells? Was it at Rock the Bells? Was it at Rock the Bells? This was Rock the Bells. So how do you feel about when you see him still
Starting point is 00:38:48 like going off like that? Did you feel like he could have learned his lesson from there? I don't give a fuck about women. Make him look like Ray Quartern not giving a fuck. Come on! Yeah! Let's go! I don't have to worry about what another nigga doing
Starting point is 00:39:01 or how he moving or whatever. But how did y'all squash it? What happened? Nah, you know, we never really squashed it. We left it alone. That's my fiozo shit. My thing is, like I said, I respect Slaughterhouse as a group and I fuck with them niggas, you know what I mean? Like a lot of them niggas I fuck with them niggas.
Starting point is 00:39:25 A lot of them niggas, I like them niggas. It was just left alone, but like I said, Joe, he could've put me in a situation where I could've been fucked up and by him being a stand up, I fell all the way back because it's like, we know, we're here for that But I really was just trying to neutralize it and just say yo listen my nigga You got deal with meth but you can't be talking shit cuz I'm out here on the road with niggas Can't eat my man You can't eat my man. Oh, jeez, nigga, we ain't moving back. So, nigga, it just got to the point.
Starting point is 00:40:05 It just got to the point where we had to dress him in and just finish it. You know what I mean? Like, just finish it. As well. Scott Deek, baby. Scott Deek, yo, what? Yo, listen, this is your invitation to the podcast. Everybody else is flying to Miami with your what? Come out here. Yeah, shout out buttons. This is back in the day.
Starting point is 00:40:26 I seen the tape. The tape got destroyed. I don't know what happened. Whether that tape should have got destroyed because it was, I'm kidnapping you. You're a foul man. No, fuck that my nigga. Listen, this is real shit. Yo, your legacy is so crazy, Ray.
Starting point is 00:40:42 You know what I mean? You guys did that the jealousy Okay, see and Jojo's on fire at that time. How much cocaine did they do at the video show? I don't know. Oh, shit. Or at the session. Nah, we was drinking that night, man. You was drinking? You was a federale, man.
Starting point is 00:41:15 Nah, we was drinking that night. I'm a fan. I'm the average one, you know. We was drinking, but I'm the type of nigga that know that nigga's just getting it in. Because that was the era, though. That was that era. They used to pass me below, and I'm like, nah, nigga, I'm the type of nigga that know that niggas is getting it in because that was the error though That was that error. He's just passed me below and I'm like, I'm tired
Starting point is 00:41:29 Go there no more. You know me but um, that was the error It was like a lot of times niggas would listen to Cuba links and be like, yo when they see me They like yo, I'm in that world. I'm not gonna cause Cuba links It took me a mad long time to realize that that was that noise. Like I just thought, I swear to God, I just thought it was... I thought it was RZA, like making sounds. I didn't realize niggas was going... Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
Starting point is 00:41:59 I was doing that, man. That was you? Yeah, man. And back in the days, were you sniffing like that? Or no. I fucked around. Let's make some noise for him. Fuckin' around. But when niggas is getting high back then it was a sense of power that you had that You had to do a different kind of high from a nigga cuz it's expensive. You know what I mean? It's an expensive taste high. It's not it's not the down you I don't even trust the blow that they got on the street right now. Even if I was in that world. But nah, that was just me at my best, man. And just getting high and just feeling like Montana for real.
Starting point is 00:43:00 You know, the movie. We love the movie. We love Scarface. We respect Spanish niggas, man. Like Spanish niggas is niggas that. They the connect goddamn it. They're niggas, same niggas, you know what I mean? Tell them they the connect.
Starting point is 00:43:13 You know how you got the Bodega corner niggas that they used to hold the ratchets for niggas. Like yo, wear the Cubans and see. You be like, yo, let me see your shirt real quick. Niggas like, yo, when he like, yo, Papi, don't touch that. don't touch that don't touch that I mean like we love Spanish niggas and I always was you know a fan of how they how they win put in work right you know I'm saying it's a fact baby let's make some noise for cocaine and Spanish niggas got damn it
Starting point is 00:43:44 I already asked you who's a famous person you smoked with but who was like the most famous person that told you they was a fan of you or told you they was a fan of Wu Tang? That'd be a lot of people. Or Wu Tang. That fucked you up. see my nigga Lionel Richie man. Oh shit. You know what I'm saying I'm big on that that R&B you know that music that whole music time you know we go back to the rec room parties where they used to bring the push the washer and dry out of the rec room and let niggas hang out in there and smoke but that whole
Starting point is 00:44:21 that whole 80s era and then I met that nigga. And Liley Richie, what happened? What was this at, LA? It feels like this is in LA. This is in LA. We was at an Air Jordan party or something, you know what I mean? It was some big shit, some other shit. And I just seen him, right? And we walked up to him and I said, yo, what up?
Starting point is 00:44:42 You know what I mean? He said, what up, brother? How you doing? And he was like, oh man, if Marvin was here right now, we talking about Marvin Gaye. This is what he said to me, he's like, yo. Now Lionel Richie we talking about. Yeah, Lionel Richie, he's like, yo, if Marvin Gaye was here right now,
Starting point is 00:44:56 we'd have been doing it with y'all niggas. Ooh, wow. That's what he said to me. Imagine that, Lionel Richie. Me knowing Marvin history and then looking at this man's history, that was some serious shit because whatever he was doing, he was thinking about Marvin. And I look at it like a lot of the artists, they hung with each other. They, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:45:18 Like fuck music. We just real niggas. And it made me think of how certain niggas in the business I got relationships with right you know what I mean and the way he said it was like yo that niggas a stand-up nigga He would have been right here with us Don't want to do things with y'all niggas and that was just some influential shit for me right there Yeah, if I would have seen a lot ofie, I would have walked the other way. Like I would have been scared of that nigga, my nigga, for real. My mom's played that nigga in the Cribs and Marvin Gaye too.
Starting point is 00:45:51 Hot grits nigga. I seen Stevie Wonder too and shit. I couldn't even approach him like you said. He was like, you know, he couldn't even see me if I wanted to. You know what I mean? But I still wouldn't approach him. Certain stars you don't even want to touch them. Did you meet Michael Jackson?
Starting point is 00:46:09 Yeah, I met Mike. No! No! No, no, no. Where the A thing? Where the A drink on the table? Right, right, right. Where the A drink on the table, man?
Starting point is 00:46:20 I got to take a drink before you start, OK. Yeah, I met him. Where was it at, and where? We was in, okay. Yeah, I met him. Where is it at and where? We was in, we was in, was crack this right here. Mmm, that's Aguayante. What is it? That's Colombian cocaine. No, no, no, I'm scared of him. Colombian white, is this Colombian white?
Starting point is 00:46:36 The bottle is stooped, I'm gonna taste it, try it. This is my baby right here. You want your dragon? Notice, let me tell you something, I would warn Rayquan by mixing drinks, but I seen this nigga do this. White is plenty of time. I seen him drink Henny and white on the same night. But you sure you wanna do this?
Starting point is 00:46:54 This is how Colombians do it. This is how Colombian people die. They just go in there and they drink this. Take a shot. This is um, I'm gonna take a little sip. What's that shit? You for Asia.
Starting point is 00:47:04 It's you for Asia. Good's you for Asia, good. It's good. It's Colombian, it tastes like licorice. He's an old school wine. Let's make noise for him being an old school wine. Yeah! Old school wine. Yeah!
Starting point is 00:47:18 All right, what's up, man? Yo, this shit tastes like that shit that you saw the sparkles in it. Mmm. What's that shit? Goldschlager. Goldschlager slaggers the gold leaf gold slag He knows liquor's man Yo, Michael Jackson had big hands man
Starting point is 00:48:04 Yeah, we was we was in Miami. We was out here. You met Mike in Miami? Where did you meet Mike in Miami? He was in Kendall. You know what it was? We was in the Hit Factory in the studio. You know, me and Ghost, that's when we was living out here in Miami. Okay, okay. I lived out in Miami for like two years. And we was working on an album and all of that. And you know, we was in the Hit Factory.
Starting point is 00:48:12 And next thing you know, we looking through the blinds. Like we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these cars coming in the office.
Starting point is 00:48:20 And we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these cars coming in the office. And we hear all these the album and all of that and you know, we was in the head factory and next thing You know, you know, we looking through the blinds like we hear all these cars coming in the driveway Bunch of black vehicles just pulling up out of nowhere We like yo looking through the blinds like yo, who the fuck is that?
Starting point is 00:48:38 You know, the next thing you know, we just Michael just jumped out with his two kids just him by himself So next thing, you know, you know, we looking like Michael just jumped out with his two kids. Just him by himself. So next thing you know, you know, we looking like, oh shit, that's Michael Jackson. You know what I mean? Michael Jackson. It's like, yo, that might have been the time my heart skipped for real.
Starting point is 00:48:56 For sure. And next thing you know, he started to walk towards our room, you know, from the outside. So you know me and Ghost, we like, oh shit, the niggas coming this way. So we sat down, like, we sat down, like, I'm down, bro. Like, yo, they walked in and shit,
Starting point is 00:49:17 he walked in and shit, he walked in with the owner of the Hit Factory. And when he walked in, it was like, all we did was just look up to him like what's up Mike how you doing you know me like how you doing Mike and yo he kicked it with us for like a minute. So Mike knew who y'all was? Did y'all have to introduce yourself? Nah we had to introduce ourselves my nigga like you know it goes it made me laugh too because Ghost was like yo you know, it made me laugh too, because Ghost was like, yo, you know, he was telling Mike,
Starting point is 00:49:46 like, yo, you know, I did your joint over. He was like, yo, he was like, yo, I did your joint over. Mike was like, word, what you doing? He didn't say word. He was like, which word, which word? So, you know, and Mike was just acting like, word, which word? He didn't say word. He was like, which word, which word? And Mike was just acting like, you know, like Ghost was like, yo, you heard it?
Starting point is 00:50:10 You heard it? He was like, nah, I ain't doing nothing. Yo, that shit was mad. It was super fun to me. I had to call my mother and all that after that, being telling like, yo, I met Mike, you know. It's just something about those things. And this is pre-Instagram era, because back then, you would have had those flicks about this is pre Instagram ever cuz back then you would have had this place
Starting point is 00:50:26 And all that niggas don't do yeah, we don't want to jump Anyways, nah, you don't do that. You see when you see a star power, then you just want to be comfortable like that Rayquam blood you roll you roll that like an hour So, um, we also have great OJ stories on here. Did you ever meet OJ? OJ Simpson? Yes, sir. Nah, I never met him.
Starting point is 00:50:51 You ain't meet OJ? How about Prince? You met OJ? Yeah, I got flicks of it already. Ooh, that's cool. Yeah, we blew that story up. Yeah, that's the story. But how about Prince?
Starting point is 00:50:58 You ever met Prince? Nah, I never met Prince. How about Justin Bieber or Justin Timberlake? You just like, you fish fishing, you're fishing. This is our TMZ place. You speak about them TMZ. We look at TMZ. We're trying to hold you there.
Starting point is 00:51:15 We got the mic with Jackson. I think we might pass it. That was hard. That story was hard. Nah, but nah, I never met them. I smoked with Wesley Snipes. Oh, yeah, Snipes. I smoked with Wesley Snipes. Oh, yeah, Snipes. I smoked with Wesley Snipes.
Starting point is 00:51:26 Then the next day, he was like, yo, come with me to a karate competition. I was like, all right, cool. And I can't even, you know I don't give a fuck about no fucking karate. So I was in the joint, he like, you know who did that? I was like, yeah. That was it.
Starting point is 00:51:38 That's the shit about Wesley Snipes. The thing was Wesley Snipes at the moment. I'm like, I hate karate. I shoot people. The fuck am I watching a karate class for? But I was there. I did the shit. It was like a karate Olympics. I'm sitting there acting like I like it. And we went to Club Cheetahs and he had so many Asian bitches with him. Big up to Wesley Snipes. We're looking for you. We would like Wesley Snipes to be our first actor on the drink camp. I know I'm following you on Twitter I know you're following me. I never hit you on there, but that night we hung out is classic and I also heard a night
Starting point is 00:52:15 where Nas hung out with Denzel Washington and these niggas start smoking weed and Jungle took the blunt from Denzel and was like nigga you Malcolm X So jungle from QB I know you can co-sign this story this is a story I heard that's my brother jungle from QB if you out there you know Come on drink champ and uh, let's describe the story. Did you hear about Bobby Brown frying chicken with cocaine? Bobby Brown fries chicken with cocaine? You didn't hear about that? Bobby Brown fries chicken, the flour. Didn't DMX know he does it with Coca-Cola? No, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:52:52 No, wasn't it something like that? No, that was Bobby Brown. That's the Bobby Brown story. That's the fly story in existence. Niggas said one day he fried chicken with coke, well, coke as the actual... Flour. Flour. How did you think that chicken...
Starting point is 00:53:07 That's banana. How did you think that chicken tastes, Ray Quon? That shit was fucking... God damn. It was numbing. That shit. Like a whole body numb. Nigga, small intestines is fucked up.
Starting point is 00:53:15 Just confused. Numb and all that. That's another level, B. So, Ray, I actually... I hung out with niggas in the hood, too, that did that. That shit. That shit. That shit.
Starting point is 00:53:23 That shit. That shit. That shit. That shit and all that. That's another level, B. So Ray, I asked you... I hung out with niggas in the hood, too, that did what I see. That fried chicken with cocaine? Nah, niggas that jumped off the roof and lived. We know niggas. That's true.
Starting point is 00:53:38 How many stories? You know when I say hang out with him, meaning like, you know we see him in the hood or whatever. But you know, some niggasiggas like believe it or not man Mm-hmm a lot of times we still got to watch out for niggas that don't shit niggas drinks man You know I know a nigga one time that's fucked up. It's really Willie's I've never been a wet Willie's since but um he had a half a molly here a half a molly here half a molly here, a half a molly here, half a molly here, half a molly here, half a molly here, half a molly.
Starting point is 00:54:08 And then he just stood there. And then the bitches came, and he was like, you all want drinks? And he was like, yeah. He ordered drinks. You can never see it. And then all he did was pick up the drinks like this. Wow.
Starting point is 00:54:18 And then he served the shit. I said, wow. You're going to hell. I was like, wow. So why you to hell. I was like, ah. I was like, ah. So why you stop going to Wet Willys? You thought he was going to do it to you? No, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:54:30 It was undetectable. Like, if he didn't tell me, like, he was chilling. He was, he gave me a five and everything. The shit won't move. But then when he grabs the drinks, that's how he did it. He grabbed the drink and then he did it. I was like, oh, shit. And then 20 minutes later, the bitches was like, yeah, you know we can buy ecstasy? He was like, of course. They was already on this shit. So yeah, this is great, but you spiking drinks. Did you go to studio 54?
Starting point is 00:54:59 Never been in there. Come on. Isn't that mad? It's the 80s nigga. Yeah, why would he be going there? Nah, I been in there. Come on. Isn't that mad, monster 80s nigga? Yeah, why would he be going there? Nah, I never went there. You never know. That was the shit, you know what I mean? That was that era.
Starting point is 00:55:10 We was niggas that was going to Red Parrot. Like that's actually nigga you went to Willibert. You heard of Red Parrot? Red Parrot. Where was that at? Red Parrot, that was in the city. Oh. That was in the city, you know, it was a lot of
Starting point is 00:55:20 Union Square. How about the original Fever? In the Bronx. Union Square, the Fever, all that. I've been in the Fever. Yeah, that's the groovy era of hip hop right there. That era was just a super era one. That was a little shit. That's the real era, man.
Starting point is 00:55:38 That's one thing I can say about us, just coming up with a bunch of niggas that just come from nothing and just using their talent and their wits to make money and be creative, I felt like that was a big thing, like coming back from the 90s. And you know, niggas like us, we still around. You know, like we outdid some of our OGs. That's a fact.
Starting point is 00:56:00 You know, and I guess it's because they probably looked at it. They probably looked at it like, fuck that. See how long Rayquan had the book? They probably looked at it like, I'm here, I'm going to do my thing real quick and then I'm going to let the one pass off. But we still here doing it, my nigga. We still, it's a blessing like 27 years later. People still don't get it like that. Do you remember your first show in Miami? Nah, I was at that show. Listen, Rayquan, I was just warning you.
Starting point is 00:56:30 K.R.S. 1 came on this show. Yo, stop with this shit, dude. He showed him a slip-up. No, it wasn't him. It was 1912. The spot was called Mahi Temple, I believe. I don't know if you remember Mahi Temple. His memory is like an elephant. And this is, nah, this is what's ill, cause I don't think y'all expected the reaction. Cause I remember seeing y'all faces when y'all came out on stage.
Starting point is 00:56:57 Y'all were like, what? To hear folks in Miami saying the lyrics, going crazy, I remember just seeing y faces like I was amazing Be it was the show was crazy I was that's supposed to be man anywhere we go. That's how that's how we lay it out man You know Miami we spoke with Miami from the Cuban links album like a lot of niggas don't know I was in Miami Right in the album me and ghosts. Yeah'all always say 95 South on the records. We was just here, we was here writing, you know getting that ocean breeze and all that.
Starting point is 00:57:32 So Miami is a special part of the town that we always gonna salute you know what I mean it's just like I said it's you know it goes back to like like I said growing up with with a lot of Spanish niggas and you know what I'm saying eating on the same plates and we share a certain kind of respect for the Latin community. You know my kids is part Latin. And it's giving back. My babies is part Latin.
Starting point is 00:57:55 You know what I mean? That's the Cuban link. You know it's all about mankind man, mankind man. We ain't on no other shit you know. Now me and Capone we did a podcast in front of the Dog Pound right? Man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, Who are winning in the fight between Havoc and Prodigy? Who are winning the fight between Ghosts and Rayquan if y'all had to square up just like it's just brother shit. No world star. No world star just in the room I'm not I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not gonna lose though
Starting point is 00:58:38 Let's make some noise for Rayquan I killed him Listen, let me tell you something I'm sure Ghosts will say the same thing about us. See one thing about us. Just in case niggas want to know I will whip Capone and I will whip his ass. But see one thing about us is like we would never put hands on each other because it ain't no coming back. Niggas is too sneaky. Now I'm coming close to that with Capone. So you know we never had to do that but.
Starting point is 00:58:51 We gonna have to shoot a fair one. He would do his thing. He would do his thing. He would do his thing. He would do his thing. He would do his thing. He would do his thing. He would do his thing.
Starting point is 00:58:59 He would do his thing. He would do his thing. He would do his thing. He would do his thing. He would do his thing. He would do his thing. He would do his thing. He would do close to that with Capone So we never had to do that boy. I have to shoot a fair one He would he would do his best to win and I would do my best to win But putting your hands on your it's like it's crazy because you ain't really trying to hurt each other
Starting point is 00:59:16 You just want to make a boy you can't come back I ain't gonna lie me a poem how to fight and then we went and performed on stage and Japan Yeah, Japan we performed on stage. In Japan? Yeah, in Japan. We performed on stage right afterwards. Exactly. That shit was the bugged outest shit in the world and then, you know, in the morning we squashed it and beat it. But you know, you're brothers, you always got to go through that. We go through shit, yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:33 We go through it. We never had to share that though, but. Now this last Wu-Tang album, this last Wu-Tang album came out, it didn't really seem like you co-signed it. It seemed like, you know what I mean? It was a little dispute between you and Riz at first and then after the last final quarter, it was like the final quarter of the game
Starting point is 00:59:53 and you came in. Why was that for the fans? You know, it's hard sometimes to make the fans understand what you're going through with your business, with your brothers, you know? And sometimes it just be, you know what, I got to stand for something or I'm going to fall for anything. And you know, as brothers we try to work shit out or whatever. And at the end of the day, I don't never want to disappoint the fans, but you know business
Starting point is 01:00:20 is business. The last thing you want to do is feel like you getting rooked by your brother Right, you know that's some real super portrayal bullshit right there So right, you know, it was just a lot of bullshit in the air But they got fixed up in time and you know, like I said, I'm always represent I want the world to know it ain't never Issue with my brothers. Right? It's the business that makes me mad. If you don't know what's going on with my business, you can't be mad why I'm going through what I'm going through.
Starting point is 01:00:55 But you know, you're subjected to it, and that's what it be sometimes. It just be, but you know, so far everything is good money, and family is family, you know what I mean? Like I said, I'm wooed forever. Like, that's never gonna ever, ever go anywhere, B. That's there for life, BW. So let me ask you, when you see things like that
Starting point is 01:01:15 and you see like Lil Wayne going through it with Baby, like what is your position on that? Like, is it like, damn, I can see how that is because this brother is just pretty much, even though they say see how that is because it's brothers, it's pretty much. Even though they say it's a father and son shit, but it's brother. I can relate superly because it's just all about being fair and being real with your brother.
Starting point is 01:01:36 Right, exactly. You know, so everybody went through this shit, man. I mean, from Ron Osley, robbing the Osleys, robbing his brothers while they dead, and you know what I mean, doing allley robbing the eyes least Robin is brothers while he dead and you know what I mean doing all kind of wow shit You know what I mean? It's like you never know so When you when you see shit like that happen to you, you know You got to approach it and you got to let a nigga know like go man We can't move like this. Right, you know, that's fucked up. You know, the niggas get, you know?
Starting point is 01:02:06 And you try to deal with it and say, you know what? Don't do it again. Right. And you try to live that out. Right. You know, and that's what it's all about. It's all about being real. I don't ever want my air to feel like, you know,
Starting point is 01:02:23 I'm down with you, but I'm not down with you, you know? If something's bothering you, I got to know what's bothering you, especially if it's going to fuck up our friendship. Right. You know, sometimes when you talk to me, you got to be like, to let them know it's real, you got to be like, yo, words to our friendship. Words to our friendship. Oh, I'm taking that, god damn it.
Starting point is 01:02:41 You know, so he had no automatic, oh, he said the friendship, so that's different. Like, if you don't keep your word, the shit is cut off. I'm taking that god damn it. You know so he had no automatic. Oh, he said the friendship so that's different like Keep your word is if the shit is cut off. You know Sometimes niggas fall out like that man You know you want to fuck with niggas because you love niggas, but you can't be loving a nigga more than he loved you be Don't do that. Don't do that. That's deep. Let's take a shot. No, even playing for you. Take a shit out for that. Yeah, I know. That's deep shit. Keep dropping the signs, y'all.
Starting point is 01:03:09 It's self-explanatory. It's about just knowing who you're around and knowing at the end of the day that, yo, if I'm looking at you like a real man, just be a real man. Right. You know, stand for something with me and know if I got a problem with something,
Starting point is 01:03:24 I'm bringing it to you so we can fix it and move on. But we can't be acting like... Because it got to be weird for you because you made that Only Beautiful Cuba links 2. And that was like you really did it on your own, your own label, and you actually conducted that sound. You kept it, what year was that? That was a minute ago. But you kept it, whatever year that was, you kept it up to date, but still it sound like
Starting point is 01:03:58 a Wu Tang album. So like I know you, I know doing that next Wu woo album I think like you don't think you should have had it to bring an executive producing you to do picking the beats and And things like that you think I would have came out a little better like it's hard I mean, it's hard when you want to try to dictate What you think everybody else gonna like it's like niggas gonna feel like yo you deserve that crown But it ain't even like you trying to look at it like you better than the nigga you just trying to add on and say yo nah this is this is what it is but when you're dealing with so many different minds in the building it's like damn i'm gonna
Starting point is 01:04:35 get to eight niggas and let them know what i'm feeling you know you know and then sometimes it's like yo you might be on your horse that niggas feel like, yo, you up there, niggas, stop it. That's where your head is at. I'm right here, so it's hard to tell your brothers what you might feel as hell. Now all we can do is just try to create together and come up with something. Now the Secret Wu Tang album, that guy sold for two million.
Starting point is 01:05:00 What's it, Martin Screlli, what is it? Secret piece, right? What's that dude's name? Martin Screlli. Did you ever hit an album? Did I hit a whole album? Yeah. I don't know man.
Starting point is 01:05:09 You lit, you lit. That's crazy. Whoa. That's absolutely insane. Whoa. But you're on it right? Yeah that's crazy. You're on it.
Starting point is 01:05:19 Whoa, now I never knew that my nigga. I thought, oh shit you fucking me up up like I'm befuddled right now Let me get some water to ask the world So some water so now I can't this is drink chance we call we don't have water Now this is a train Wait a minute, you ain't hearing the album, dog? It's the train, it's the Elliot Wilson train. Every time we get into a good- The fuck is that, a helicopter? Yeah, that's the Wilson train.
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Starting point is 01:06:15 Each episode, I'll be diving into some of the lesser known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian Dr. Randall Williams and bestselling author and meat eater founder, Stephen Rannella. I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say when cave people were here. And I'll say, it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to The American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or
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Starting point is 01:09:06 or wherever you go to find your podcast. Adventure should never come with a pause button. Remember the movie pass era? Where you could watch all the movies you wanted for just $9? It made zero sense and I could not stop thinking about it. I'm Bridget Todd, host of the tech podcast, There Are No Girls on the Internet.
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Starting point is 01:09:57 Close your eyes and tell me what a tech founder looks like. They're not going to describe someone who looks like me, and they're not going to describe someone who looks like you. I created There Are No Girls on the Internet because the future belongs to all of us. So listen to There Are No Girls on the internet on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You never heard this album. What's it called?
Starting point is 01:10:16 You know what it's called? It's called, um, um, it's called, um. That's how much he hasn't heard it. Hold up, hold up. What is it called? Something to shout out? Come on, we hasn't heard it. Hold up, hold up. Well, there's something to Shaolin. Come on, As. We can't Google that. Not once upon a time.
Starting point is 01:10:28 Once upon a time in Shaolin. It is. Yeah. And you've never heard it. But you know your verses is on there. Man, yeah. And it's sold for what? One million?
Starting point is 01:10:36 Two million. So. Two, two, two. And that was spread throughout the boot tag. Yeah, that was, that was, I mean, the only thing, that ain't got nothing to do with me. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man.
Starting point is 01:10:44 Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, that was spread throughout the boutique. Yeah, that was, that was, you know, that ain't got nothing to do with me. Oh man. It don't sound right. It don't sound right. My heart just dropped. Nah, you know what it is though? It was something that hit my desk and I felt like it was genuine. It was a genuine thought. Right. And, you know, my thing is yo, running around the table and make sure everybody feel the same way about it. And thank you. And you know, some niggas wasn't fond of it.
Starting point is 01:11:16 But the situation was. Of the album. Yeah, because. Because you guys knew who y'all were selling it to? But the concept was pretty ill, though. The idea was ill. Let me get to it. So you know.
Starting point is 01:11:26 What was the concept? I didn't know. The concept was just to do an album that It's an art piece. Was sold as an art piece. Like you know something that means good. That's an ill idea. You know so I was up to it on that level
Starting point is 01:11:37 and I knew that at the end of the day, you know what? It'll work itself out. But it's something that's needed. Let's do it before the next nigga do it. Let's do it for niggas that think like us, do the same shit, and then next thing you know, we ain't do it because we didn't do it. But meanwhile, when the album got sold,
Starting point is 01:11:56 I guess whoever was dealing with it, RZA, they was handling it. The business part? Yeah, they was handling it. I didn't care because I already caught a check from it already. So it's like I already had my shit already on it. But when it came down to the whole situation and... So y'all had a set check, didn't matter what it sold for later.
Starting point is 01:12:22 Yeah. It was just really that I felt like I already got paid for it Right, right. I wasn't chasing it but that money should have been Going around the table. Well, you know, but however that got broken down or whatever Wow, I wasn't there to see it wasn't out. I didn't get nothing now What would you wish this guy was me Martin? Chris? Screlly? Now what would you wish this guy was a main mark Mark Scully What do you think cuz you want that album to be heard or you don't really It's whatever to you. Nah, I mean, you know shit like motherfuckers here. Yeah
Starting point is 01:13:02 I mean he had the beef with ghosts The dudes in the back with the bullshit beef. Yeah. Oh, I do remember that Super we be talk about craziness My listen come up here come to drink chance Mars is telling this out Welcome on here. I want to hear you all you're gonna say nobody can't download this podcast Come on here and play that he played out my treat. That'd be hard Crazy that before the culture cuz nobody can't download it They can just listen to the broadcast a couple of joints at least play that shit man five and a half joints playing You were what she would throw that out
Starting point is 01:13:45 Cuz you didn't hit a complete product right? So what's up with cuban links three Shit, what's up with cuban links three? What's what we doing? What we doing man? The fans want to know man the purple arrow. What do you guys I'm gonna be honest with you right now That's like a fucking Egyptian The purple arrow. I'm going to be honest with you right now. That's like a fucking Egyptian, fucking Muhammad Ali statue. That shit has just tucked away. Have you been working on a secret league?
Starting point is 01:14:16 Of course. Yeah, you can tell. The way he just said it. We got to close it out, but we not closing it out right now because it's like they gotta be organic It can't be rushed. They can't be rushed So I'm gonna continue to still give niggas new shit and give you great great sound Hip-hop when niggas hear my shit niggas know that yo, he the same nigga. He clever from the clever era You know, I mean, you know, right? Yeah, we from the creative I'm gonna give you creative shit. I'm gonna clever era you know I mean you know right creative I'm gonna
Starting point is 01:14:47 give you creative shit I'm gonna give you you know cycles of excitement it's gonna get exciting man excited on that part three that part three is just gonna be now is this that's the last that's the last one. Oh, you gotta close the door now Did you just break a exclusive story again that cumin lynch 3 is on the way Around it's around but it's I'm just selling it ain't coming out right now It's like it's not but it's always something that I'm taking into consideration and still saying, you know what? I know my niggas want that, you know what I mean? But we gotta close it with a trilogy,
Starting point is 01:15:32 but the energy just gotta be where it need to be. When you making great albums, it's like, you do it because you love to do it, but you also do it because it's only right to do it. So I wanna walk into it like that and really just say, yo, this is time. You know what I mean? When we do that when we do it,
Starting point is 01:15:53 but right now I'm having fun making other albums and just being creative and doing what I normally do. I'm always give y'all niggas good music. It's just all about who really ready to listen. You know, and I think of niggas from my era, of course, the young niggas, you know, they always invited to come in and dance with the music with me. I fuck with niggas, you know what I mean? All the young niggas.
Starting point is 01:16:19 But I'm going to continue to represent that great music that we made that mean a lot, you know? Niggas hear our voices and niggas love it. Now who was your favorite CEO you ever worked with? My who? Favorite CEO, like in a record label, like you just, you know. Was it Steve Rifkin? That's a long ass train.
Starting point is 01:16:44 It's the Elliot Wilson train, did we tell you? No, that's B-Dots train though. No, this is B-Dots train. This is B-Dots train. Every time we get it, goes something good. The other guys with the locomotive coming through. This is real shit. I respect it.
Starting point is 01:16:56 I respect it, man. They go hard. They go hard. She's like, the midnight train to Georgia right here. This is the night train. Yeah, I used to run trains and shit. Iolin a lot, but different type of trains, right? These niggas the king of trains. Well, who your favorite CEO?
Starting point is 01:17:14 Oh, nah. You know, I'm going to get that crown to... Uh-uh. Uh. So many young niggas doing it though, you know? Mm-hmm. Uh. But that you worked with. Mm-hmm. That put out your music. You worked with.
Starting point is 01:17:37 Mm. That's a deep one. Mm-hmm. You still hear that, right? Yeah, that's the mm of the trance. That's the deep one. You still hear that, right? Yeah, that's the mm of the trance. The trance. The trance. The trance.
Starting point is 01:17:52 The trance. You gotta give us that CEO. You gotta give us that CEO, Ray. You can say yourself now if you want to be... Selfish. Selfish. We got love for selfish people over here. And petty motherfuckers.
Starting point is 01:18:06 We fuck with them over here. Nah, you know, I'll definitely get that crown now saying Chris Leidy though. Okay. Chris Leidy, god damn it. He was always around. It's crazy, I've been thinking about Chris Leidy all day. Let's make some noise for Chris Leidy and I gotta let you in the room. What you were saying?
Starting point is 01:18:26 You said he was around? Yeah, you know he used to be around Steve a lot and you know they was doing their thing and you know a lot of times he would always come around and like say yo, y'all niggas is super powerful. When you say Steve, you talking about Steve Stapp? Nah, Rifkin. Oh, Rifkin, okay. Yeah, yeah. That's when Chris was, you know about Steve Stapp? Nah, Rifkin. Oh, Rifkin, okay. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:18:45 That's when Chris was, you know, they used to work together. And you know, he used to be around and he would tell us like, yo, that brand, man, everything, this is a brand gang, man. And we used to listen and you know, he was just always about motivating niggas
Starting point is 01:19:01 to do other shit and you know, get on big TV shows and all that. You know, niggas talking do other shit and you know get on big TV shows and all that you know niggas talking about reality shows back then you know wanting to see niggas get on it but we not really that type of personality crew that you know reality show would make sense right you just reminded me you went MTV took you to Sierra Leone right oh or somewhere in. Or somewhere in Africa. Africa, yeah. I remember seeing that shit. That was the diamond shit. Yeah, that was the diamond shit.
Starting point is 01:19:27 That shit was crazy. I thought it was just going to die, nigga. Shit was weird. You know how that shit impacted you heavily. Yeah, like how was that? How was that? That's the spot. That shit was stupid crazy, man.
Starting point is 01:19:37 Going out there, once I got there, I kissed the ground. Like, you know, the motherland, you know what I mean? That was beautiful right there, just to go home and just, but then when we got there. It was crazy. The hotel was like, it was like the hood was chandeliers. Yes, not a hotel. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:19:58 What? It was like the hood was chandeliers, you know what I mean? It was fucked up. I've never been to Africa. You could see it in my head. It wasn't fucked up though. I've never been to Africa. No, it wasn't fucked somewhere else and they was like, it's close. They was like, yeah, you got to get a shot. I was like, a shot? I ain't living in some shit. I ain't living in some shit. Nah, you do. So I ain't here. You do.
Starting point is 01:20:08 You had to go. I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot.
Starting point is 01:20:16 I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot.
Starting point is 01:20:24 I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot. I had to do that shot. I had to do that and it's like, it's close. It's like, yeah, you gotta go, you gotta get a shot. I was like, a shot? Technically, I'm not gonna make it. Nah, you do it. So I ain't get that tour. I had to do that shit, you know what I mean? But you saw people that were like, mutilated or some shit, right? Nah, not mutilated. What happened?
Starting point is 01:20:34 They took you to a spot and those people fucked up. Nah, you know what it is. We went to an amputee village. Yeah, OK. Like, where everybody just is amputated, you know, kids and everything. I didn't want to see that I ain't one you stayed like in the bus or something at that point. It was deep It was like a journey like a pillage for like 14 days out there You know talking about the diamonds and all that but they were just taking us places where the rebels came through and they tore shit up
Starting point is 01:21:01 You know, they they came through, they're aggressive. You know me, you know me. I want to know why they did it. Why would you do that? You know, but it was just a big journey of learning why things happen like that. They took you out of Liberia? No, right?
Starting point is 01:21:18 No, we never, no. Did they have a W hotel out there? I was in like the Brownsville of Africa, man. There's no W? No, there's no W. There'ssville of Africa, dude. There's no W? No, there's no W. There's beautiful parts of Africa, too. Yo, let me tell you something. It's banging parts from what I heard.
Starting point is 01:21:32 You know what I mean? But where I went the first time. No, they took y'all to the craziest place. Where I went for the first time was the hood, B. Like niggas is walking around with, what you call them, shit? Crutches. Nah, nah, nah. The shit,, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, please. You said you didn't want to go there. No, I want to go. Show me you.
Starting point is 01:22:05 Nah, you got it, girl. We got some drink chance for you to go there. But, yo, when they get fresh, though, they get super fresh, though. Like Zamunda Fresh? Nah, I'm checking my... Nah, they might not. Like Coming to America Fresh?
Starting point is 01:22:16 Nah, the niggas, yo, I ain't going front. The living conditions they was living under was serious, but when my party was that night and whatever and they came out, shit was like being in the Bronx or some shit, B. Everybody was just chilling. I was proud for that. Listen, Africa, please book me. I've never been. Rakim Yo, I'ma avoid you, but everybody else. You heard of Rakim Yo, the promoter? Let's do that.
Starting point is 01:22:44 Did he kidnap you? Did he just kidnap you? He you he just kidnapped you not he do that out there though yeah they sometimes they don't want you to leave you know I've been waiting to ask this question the whole night. I'm gonna be honest. I need an uncut, untold, old dirty bastard story. Listen man, I got one, but I just needed to hear it. On this show, it should never be an old dirty bastard story told first, unless it's coming from Wu Tang. We want the funniest, retardedest, whatever. First thing that comes to mind, we taking it. It don't matter, we need the old Dirty Bastard story.
Starting point is 01:23:32 He's a legend. He's a super duper legend. Super duper legend. Super duper, where, that was a real nigga, that's all I could say. Like, Dirty was, he was the realest of the realest be like and he loved soul music So it's like every time you see him, that's the chain being like, you know, he'd be listening to the whispers or some shit Talking to you the old J's and all that, you know, but you know when he was getting high he was just cooling though
Starting point is 01:24:03 But I think one night we got we all got real fucked up I got fucked up. Okay, and I remember going down to his room and shit and um The nigga we banging on the door for him cuz see we was in the other room right we was in the we was in the other Hotel room this is back in the day. So we's in other woman shit So, you know niggas up in there niggas just hitting that way You know that wet is that describe it to because we got Smart
Starting point is 01:24:32 Yeah dust, you know You know not we wasn't smoking it but niggas we was around with smoking it and um, we was in the moment shit one day And we was just blowing So, you know you smell this shit shit smell good. It's like it's a different No, niggas don't know dust smell good Like me good. Yeah, it's like Word but um, you know, so boom, you know niggas hit it one time bomb. So we in there doing pushups and shit. I'm trying to picture this. Now, this is the Wu-Tang Clan?
Starting point is 01:25:10 Nah, nah, nah, this ain't the whole clan. Okay, all right, I get it. This is a fraction. He's not implicated in everybody. He's a little fraction. No names, no names. No names. Let me see how some of you done.
Starting point is 01:25:22 Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. No names, B. Let's finish this, please finish this story. Nah, but you know, like I said, we was in there, we smoked, this was back then, and you know, we went down a dirty room, we just went open the door and shit. Nigga, open the fucking door, nigga, you know what I'm saying? Nigga went open the door, banging on the door, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Next thing you know, the nigga open the door, right?
Starting point is 01:25:44 So the nigga just start laughing in front of us at the door And then close the door back So we like yo what the fuck is this nigga doing B So next thing you know we trying to get up in the room And he wouldn't open the door So niggas start kicking on a door shit. Mm-hmm. You know how that go Open the door nigga And did he did he open the door this nigga open the door, right?
Starting point is 01:26:16 Then when he opened the door Not getting it Nah, I can't even tell. Hell nah! It's the code. I can't tell you. I can't tell you. That's where the fuck niggas up. That's violation. Stay tuned, man. Drink chance. Drink chance.
Starting point is 01:26:38 Y'all have a chance, man. I can't give a fuck. I can't get out, man. Oh, come on, Rick. I love him, man. I can't give it to you, I can't get it out of me. You should have more, right? Oh, I love him, I love him, man. That was like mental rape right there. That's fucked up, man. That's fucked up.
Starting point is 01:26:51 It's like mental rape right there. I can't give it to you, my nigga. You did that on purpose, man. I can't give it to you, my nigga. He wants to give it to us. Come on, man. Come on, man. Trust me.
Starting point is 01:26:59 Give us a piece of it. All right, what's he butt-nagging? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Come on, his homeboy is shit in the fucking drawer. My friend shit in the drawer. He don't give a fuck, he'll tell everybody. This is my nigga, he shit in the drawer. He had a dream, he fucked the bitch, fell asleep, and then woke up and had a dream that he was shitting, and then he shit, and he pulled the drawer out, and shit right in the drawer like that. There you go. And then the next morning, he tried to blame it on the bitch. He's like, I believe it.
Starting point is 01:27:28 Said, nah man, I believe the bitch. The bitch told me it was you. I can't tell you. Now God bless the ODB, man. Well tell us a story you can't tell. Tell us a story you can't tell. The PG one is. Any ODB story.
Starting point is 01:27:41 We need, listen right now, we got Prince, Legendary Stories, we got Michael Jackson, Legendary Stories, we need an ODB story, we need, listen right now, we got Prince, legendary stories, we got Michael Jackson, legendary stories, we need an ODB, and we got a pun, we started with pun, legendary stories, and those stories are still continuing. So we need an ODB, we gotta make this guy live forever. You want me to give you an ODB? Nah, nah, I'ma tell you something,
Starting point is 01:28:02 Dirty know how to cook, Number one, he's a cook. Water. He was like a seafood type of nigga and shit. You know what I mean? And we used to go to his crib or whatever, but one night we was up in his crib or whatever, and next thing you know, nigga fell asleep in the house. So we in there playing music and Dirty seen it.
Starting point is 01:28:20 Next thing you know, nigga's just cracking eggs on a nigga's head and you know what I mean? Like, you know, just wreck is cracking eggs on a nigga head and Yeah, right cuz he was knocked out of the chair, but you say he was a cook so when you say I think cooking no no no he just you know you know sometimes if a nigga fall asleep in the house It's like niggas start fucking with you. It's like all this nigga sleep. I Sprinkle some baby powder in his hair make him look 95 years old He's asleep, all right. Sprinkle some baby powder on his hair. Make him look 95 years old real quick. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:28:46 Like, just dip his hands in some fucking eggs and some shit or let it slide down his face or whatever. So one night, niggas was just doing some wild shit and Dirty was just putting mad cayenne pepper. Yeah, he had fucking eggs. He had fucking celery on this nigga's face. Everything. This nigga would not wake up.
Starting point is 01:29:09 This nigga would not wake up. And this is the old DB man. This is this man. And when the nigga woke up, it was like the nigga was just, he was even, he was hurt. Now you're about to go on a new tour. He was hurt, my nigga, now I can't go on a new toys hurt when they get down kids. I like that. Yeah Yeah, you you you you give us shit, but then you taking it away
Starting point is 01:29:31 I'm gonna find a good reason my nigga, but um now you about to go on the tour right now you and um goes Yeah, what's this tour? What's this? Oh, you're going on like this 95 days? That's this this this is the way I? You're going on like 95 days. It's the rap, dude. Can you put me on tour with you, please? Like, you're my nigga. We didn't talk about when y'all did business together. No, that's what we're talking about right now. We're doing more business right now. Nah, but when y'all did the album together, come on. No, this is a wonderful thing, man. We got together.
Starting point is 01:29:59 Listen, man, you know you my A in life, bro. Anytime, man. Anytime, man. Yes, yes, yes. Now we got together, we had fun. We did the war report too. Which is amazing. On ice, ice water, Bigga Mop. And your love.
Starting point is 01:30:16 Which brings me to the question, that's another, that better not be another train. That's not another train. That's gonna be one. You know the rap radar, I don't know if you know, rap radar, they pay people just to make trains come by. You know what I'm saying? They got spies. They ain't TMZ.
Starting point is 01:30:29 That's rap radar, niggas. You know what I mean? They just sit here, because Ray, you know, we bring up the real stories. You did rap radar, right? You did rap radar, right? No, I ain't do it yet. You ain't do it yet? Because it's mad boring.
Starting point is 01:30:37 Nah, go over there. Nah, I'm just fucking with you. They're very serious. They're serious about this. They're serious about this. They're serious about this. They're serious about this. They're serious about this. They're serious about this. They're serious about this. Because it's mad boring. Nah, go over there.
Starting point is 01:30:46 Nah, I'm just fucking around. They're very serious. They're serious. They're the 60 minutes. We're having fun. You feel me? That's what my man B-Dot said. We're just drunk. We're just drunk. Those are our people. A little bit. B-Dot is great.
Starting point is 01:31:02 Not Elliot? Come on, man. Yo, listen. They harder to book than a rapper. I've been telling them to come on the fucking podcast. I've been saying, come on here. Them niggas like, when you in New York, what you doing in the CBS office? No, that's not where we do our fucking show. We obviously don't do shit in the CBS office.
Starting point is 01:31:17 We don't do our show at the CBS office. We do our shit in the middle of Little Haiti, nigga, in Overtown. We are in Little Haiti right now. We do our shit in Park Hill. We do our shit in Stapleton. We do our shit in Kendall. We do our shit in Little Haiti, nigga, in Overtown. We are in Little Haiti right now. We do our shit in Park Hill. We do our shit in Stapleton. We do our shit in Kendall. We do our shit in Broward.
Starting point is 01:31:30 We do our shit in Lefrak City. We do our shit in Queensbridge. We do our shit in Ravenswood Historia. We do our shit everywhere else but CBS, you buckbubububus. And that's not a diss, because I don't even know what I said. We might need a CBS tomorrow. It's not what I said. that's not a diss, because I don't even know what I said. It's not what I said. It's not what I said.
Starting point is 01:31:47 It's not a diss. But listen, you boobles. Come over here and fuck with us. I paid my flight to go do y'all podcasts. Y'all come out here and do our podcasts. Right or wrong, but great. I'm just warning you. I'm just warning you.
Starting point is 01:32:01 It's like if you go do that shit, you show you ain't do that shit. I think I saw you do that shit. You show me do that shit, you sure you ain't do that shit? I think I'm sure you did that shit. You sure? Nah, nah, I did my nigga Ice T shit. Oh, Ice T, that's what I'm sure of. That's my nigga Ice T. Respect to Ice T.
Starting point is 01:32:12 And be the rap reader, I'm just playing. It's just jokes. Ice, that's my nigga Ice T. Yeah, that's my nigga, yeah. We need him on the broadcast. Yeah, we definitely need Ice T. Yeah. And we need, listen, Ice T.
Starting point is 01:32:23 He's my nigga. Ooh, this was good. With a cough of blood in his rancher laces. Come on, yo, there's no more we boys? Can you roll some? Branches, branches. So listen, this is Ice T. You my nigga. You my brother, and he did my movie.
Starting point is 01:32:37 Like two years ago, I didn't know what I was doing. He still did my movie. What's your movie? Superdub, I got a movie, Superdub. So, um, but Ice T, we really, really, really need you on. But we want your wife to be our first female guest. Is that cool? That's cool.
Starting point is 01:32:52 I'm cool with that. I'm cool with that. You come with a Both of them, both of them. Yeah, both of them. Yeah, together. Because Coco and Ice-T. I'm surprised our bartender, Amanda, come and come and say
Starting point is 01:33:02 because we just only have men here. No, man, you can go on. You can go on, Norrie's right now. Yeah, they smoked the whole thing. Come Amanda, come come say it again. Because we just only have men here. No, man, you can go on Dory's right now. Yeah, smoke the... Come on, come on, come on. Yeah, Amanda, you can come on. Yeah, shout out your Instagram one more time, Amanda. Come on, please. Amanda underscore at escow.
Starting point is 01:33:16 Yes, right. Drink champs, we now have women. That water is the shit. Because, you know what I mean? Like, you know, people get crazy. We have too many, how you say it? I don't know. What are you saying? We need a female rapper to come on here. Yeah And you know what's crazy they love Wu-Tang so much Yeah, this is real right
Starting point is 01:33:43 You do a tour like every two weeks. A tour every two weeks? Nah, I don't do every two weeks. Nah, nah, but your shit lasts for like two, three months. Can you put me on one of those? Of course. I'll open up. We're gonna bring the drink champs on. Tell him he gotta have the discipline.
Starting point is 01:33:59 Nah, you know, he's always invited to a dance school. I don't know what the discipline mean. What does that mean? You gotta do the three months. No, I always do the three months. Alright, let's go. I'm ready. I'm there with you. As long as I'm okay. I'm okay. We're putting the podcast on the road. Let's do it.
Starting point is 01:34:16 Dream Changers 4. Listen, how crazy is it that the bigger you got, the more hood your records got hmm the more white people came to our shows That's beautiful Do that though, but that's real shit though like When you said it though, yeah, yeah, but it's like yo, you know the same like I want to talk with you I was like, yeah, man, that's that market right there. Nah, you know what it is? I don't give a fuck.
Starting point is 01:34:50 Who got something going on in Atlanta? Night Rayquan got a show, your shit is sold out. I seen that shit with my own eyes, my nigga. How does that feel though? That's a great feeling, man. Them are people that love us, man. It don't matter the color, but it make you feel rockstar-stove. You want to drink champagne?
Starting point is 01:35:12 But keep finishing your shit. How you going to tell me? Drink it and keep talking? Please, because this is crazy. I want you to state to state your shit is sold out. No, I mean it's the love, B. It's the love from the people, man. They know what we do.
Starting point is 01:35:26 They know we come in and we get it done. We get it done. People love great music. They love personality. They love character. And showmanship. You know, roll out. We just try to deliver.
Starting point is 01:35:39 Just try to give it to them. Give it to them in the best way we can give it to them. And the majority of the people is the white people that come out for us. There's no right way of saying that. They come out for us and we love them to death and it is what it is. It's like, you know, we ain't on no,
Starting point is 01:35:58 we love them all, man. It's like we said, we're going to say hip hop, we're going to make hip hop a race? No, we're going to make hip hop a new race and a new religion and a new flag. All right, my favorite hotel is a W Horrible segue from nori You want me to give a different example, I don't know you fuck me up just now You got me overthinking it now. God damn it.
Starting point is 01:36:27 No, that's like, go ahead, go ahead. You good, you good, you good. But my favorite hotel is the W Hotel. Every time I go to the W Hotel, I see the gay flag out there. I have no problem with it. I got math, people that's gay in my family, people that's gay, you know, I don't care.
Starting point is 01:36:42 It's okay. But I figure, why shouldn't we have a hip hop flag, right? That let people know that when we enter this place- You're accepted here. That you're accepted here. Why we can't have the same thing? Not comparing hip hop's plight or hip hop struggle compared to, you know, gay or LGBT community.
Starting point is 01:37:03 You know, God bless them, you know what I'm saying saying we got a different plight. But what I'm saying is Why should I enter a restaurant? If you tell me this restaurant got the best fucking clams in the world, right? And then I walk in there and then soon as I get in there, I'm the first black person that ever been here I shouldn't I shouldn't have to you know, I'm saying I shouldn't have to go through that event. But if that flag is there, saying you're welcome. This is just like, I don't want to compare hip hop struggle with gay people's struggles.
Starting point is 01:37:36 But you can eat somewhere on South Beach right now, and on South Beach, there's a gay flag somewhere. Boom, that's their sign to say that you're accepted. That's great, that's awesome. I eat at all them places that they already accepted, because the places is good, and I ain't got no problem with them. You know, it's awesome.
Starting point is 01:37:56 But now, I do have problems sometimes, I could walk into a place, and then I don't know if my kind is accepted. And I don't even mean color-wise. I just mean culture-wise. That's true. Why can't we develop a hip-hop flask? I think that's legit.
Starting point is 01:38:12 Am I retarded? You can tell me I'm retarded because. Listen, let me tell you something. Hip-hop is something that's organic anyway. It's like it's gonna pull it's gonna pull the right the right energy at the right time You know music music is always gonna soothe the minds of people So regardless of what wherever we walk that that's always there. That's why that's one of the biggest Hip-hop music made a lot of money man man. Yeah, yeah, but we need to be in love.
Starting point is 01:38:46 A lot of money. This is what I'm saying, like y'all, y'all made music for Stout Island, Brooklyn, and it transcended through the whole world. The world, the world. The whole world. You know what I'm saying? A lot of people, you did too, my nigga. And, and yes, yes, thank you, yeah, thank you for including me.
Starting point is 01:39:00 But, what I'm trying to say is, right, what if there's a hotel that you got to check into? Wouldn't you feel more comfortable if you know that, like, whatever, the promoter overpaid you or whatever, or underpaid, no, no, not underpaid you, overpaid you. And then you look and you're like, the hotel he booked, my kind is accepted. I'm good. That means I could blow in the room Hanging with you somewhere you was like come to my room. They got paid the smoking charge already remember Like like why we can have our own shit like I'm not comparing hip-hop Struggle or whatever But what I'm saying is because because even gay people are hip hop. Of course.
Starting point is 01:39:49 You know what I'm saying? So it's like, all right, cool, if you gay and you hip hop, you're super accepted. You know what I'm saying? I'm sorry. But if you're hip hop, you know, I'm just saying, because I don't know, like, you know, I'm trying to be politically correct,
Starting point is 01:40:02 what I'm trying to say. Which won't work. Why wouldn't, why can't we have a flag that represents not a race? I ain't saying, I'm saying people that this is our culture, they understand our culture. Like the other day I went to a restaurant. I Googled what's the best ceviche in the area, right? I went there and it was mad soccer games.
Starting point is 01:40:23 No disrespect to soccer, right? No disrespect. But I didn't and it was mass soccer games. No disrespect to soccer. Right? No disrespect. But I didn't want to fuck with soccer. So I was like, I'm out of there. Boom. But if I would have went on an app that said, this is hip hop, I would have never wasted my time going to a place
Starting point is 01:40:40 that I didn't want to see what I want. I wasn't in the mood for soccer. So hip hop motherfuckers don't like soccer? I don't know. What I'm saying is, is hip hop, this is something that you're gonna come, you're gonna eat, you're gonna chill, you're gonna dance, you're gonna roller skate,
Starting point is 01:40:55 you're gonna fuck a skateboard, you're gonna fucking- Fuck a skateboard? You're gonna do whatever, you're gonna, you're gonna, you know what I'm saying? And you know that whatever this do is, it's a B-boy stance. In here somewhere,
Starting point is 01:41:09 we need that flag. Am I wrong? No, no, at the core, I think you're good. But when you extend it, you fucking up. I just feel like we need a hip hop flag. That means, like, if we in Barbados, we in Bermuda somewhere, and we wanna sit down and blow a tree,
Starting point is 01:41:25 or sit down and just have a meal, listen to Marvin Gaye, or listen to, you know what I'm saying? Like wherever we are in the world, if somebody can put our flag up so we know we welcome, we wouldn't, you know, go in spots where, you know what I'm saying? Where we not welcome. You think I'm bugging out?
Starting point is 01:41:42 You can tell me I'm bugging out. You can tell me I'm retarded. The flag is there, so it's in your heart. The flag. It's already in you, B. But you gotta know where you going, bruh. I don't know where the fuck I'm going. No.
Starting point is 01:41:55 It's very fucked up. You gotta know where you going, my nigga. But I'm not getting what you're saying, though. You know what I'm saying? The hip hop flag, this shit there. Yeah. Created a lot for a lot of people. How many countries you been to in your and yeah your passport is crazy mm-hmm so just imagine whatever country you go to Dusseldorf Germany
Starting point is 01:42:14 Dustin off tell me you know German you know German what's it Tell me a German word. I got a German word. You ready? What? Dunkin' shit. Dunkin' shit? Dunkin' change. What does that mean? Thank you. You want me to tell you the other word I know?
Starting point is 01:42:37 I waited for Rayquan to go. I knew Dunkin' shit. Wow. This is word for word. Come on, give me some German, Rayquan. You know one word. The eister. That means shit. That means shit. Sche on. Give me some German Rayquan. You know one word That means shizer. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I know blasmi I know
Starting point is 01:42:53 Blas me. What's that? What's that? Suck my dick Wait Duncan Shin bit asian. That's, I don't think this is... You're welcome. Oh, okay. Duncan-Chen, Bet-a-Chen. All right, you know Japanese? Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. You know Japanese, Wake-Hong? Fuck the train, we're paying attention.
Starting point is 01:43:13 You know Japanese? What's the word you know in Japanese? Come on, you've been all over the world. Japanese, huh? You know Japanese, Wake-Hong. Give me a word in Japanese. I can't give you one, Wake-Hong. Give me one.
Starting point is 01:43:21 Ichiban. Ichiban. Ichiban. Ichiban. Ichiban. Ichiban. Ichiban. Ichiban. Japanese, huh? You know Japanese, Lake Horn. Give me a word in Japanese. Can't give you one right now. Give me one. Ichiban. I learned that from Redman.
Starting point is 01:43:34 I learned that from Kawaii. No, Hallelulu. No. Make up your mind. You learned it from Hawaii? You learned it in America. No, I learned it in Japan, niggas. You just said Hawaii!
Starting point is 01:43:46 No, Okinawa. Okinawa. It's on the equator line of Hawaii. You've been to Okinawa, right? Okinawa is a part of Japan, yeah. Oh? Yo, Rap Radar, y'all niggas is paying top dollar. They all paying top dollar. They sat down to Wu-Tang Clan
Starting point is 01:44:02 interview, cause they never had a Wu-Tang... Listen, Wu-Tang, don. Because they never had a Wu-Tang. Listen, they never had a Wu-Tang. Don't fuck with Rapper at all. Listen. Don't fuck with him. Listen, listen. They just got too nervous. They said a Wu-Tang Clan member and his wife,
Starting point is 01:44:13 born to? You know what I'm saying? So they sent in trains to our city. I apologize. We've never had three trains. We're talking. Three trains. Three trains.
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Starting point is 01:44:51 such as Western historian, Dr. Randall Williams and bestselling author and meat eater founder, Stephen Ronella. I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say when cave people were here. And I'll say, it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which
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Starting point is 01:48:01 The single greatest marketing campaign the music business has ever seen. I decided to ask people how they felt about the penny going away. Listen to Everybody's Business wherever you get your podcasts. Did you mean Amanda? Amanda, she pours the drinks.
Starting point is 01:48:16 She's a part of the show now. She's a part of the show now. Facts, facts. I forgot where the soda. Branch for branch, huh? Yo, yo, yo, so um... I like when you laugh. I like when you laugh. So listen.
Starting point is 01:48:34 Now that he's laughing. Are you petty, Rayquor? Because I'm petty like a motherfucker. This is in case you thought this was a trick question. It is not. I am petty like a motherfucker. This is in case you thought this was a trick question. It is not. I am petty like a motherfucker. The last episode we had, he said he's not petty.
Starting point is 01:48:50 You want me to break it down? No. Should I break it down? I mean, I don't even remember, but go ahead. Last episode on Friday, we had a habit. I said I'm petty. Did you even make you petty? Has?
Starting point is 01:49:04 Are you petty? Has. how you petty has my petty Yes, it could be but not usually that's not the answer. I'm looking for. I'm not petty. He said he's not petty You ready for the story? Yeah He's dating a girl Because you know why when I listen to the havoc episode was so, it was so bad that nobody ever said that you're not petty. I'm not petty. I'm not gonna get into the three videos.
Starting point is 01:49:32 That's why I got the tweets that I got. Now I remember. Yeah, I'm not gonna get into the three videos. I'm gonna get into the video where you got... But this ends in this episode. This is a famous story, man. Who's that famous? in this episode. This is a famous story. First off, Kindle people love this story. They love this story. I'm telling you. So listen, my man is dating a girl. Somehow, Anyway, he finds out she's going to... No, I didn't find out by accident.
Starting point is 01:50:05 You told me, man. This guy is embellishing my story right now. This is my story. He finds out she's going to Cisco Video. No, no. I don't know what the way went down. He says it's over. Ha ha ha.
Starting point is 01:50:21 Ha ha ha. Just based upon that, and then I'm gonna give you the rest of the facts in my mind. But based on that, is he petty? Can you remember that? Can you remember that? Because we got to get to the bottom of this. Of course. He's petty?
Starting point is 01:50:42 I would think so, yeah. All right, let's make some noise for E.M.S. He's trying to separate himself from me. He's trying to separate himself from me. He's trying to separate himself from me. He's trying to separate himself from me. He's trying? I would think so, yeah. Alright, let's make some noise for E.O.M.S. He's not going to separate himself from me in the last episode. I'm not petty for him, man. He's not petty. Alright, now. Now. Ray, you stick him with he's petty.
Starting point is 01:50:50 And then we're going to hit you with the rest of the facts. Hit me with the facts, man. You're stupid. This is my favorite part of that episode. The other videos. But he cut a hole in it. He's like, I'm going to hit you with the rest of the facts. He's like, I'm going to hit you with the rest of the facts.
Starting point is 01:50:58 He's like, I'm going to hit you with the rest of the facts. He's like, I'm going to hit you with the rest of the facts. He's like, I'm going to hit you with the rest of the facts. He's like, I'm going to hit you with the rest of the facts. He's like, I'm going to hit you with the rest of the facts. He's like, I'm going to hit you with the rest of the facts. He's like, I'm going to hit you with the rest of the facts. He's like, I'm going to hit you with the rest of the facts. He's like, I'm going to hit you with the rest of the facts. He's like, I'm going to hit you with the rest of the facts. He's like, I'm going to hit you my favorite part of that episode. The other videos.
Starting point is 01:51:09 But he cut it off. Listen. He didn't even... Alright, listen. What song do you think it was? From Cisco. Out of any Cisco song. Damn, nigga, I don't know. Stupid, nigga, I don't know. This is stupid, man. I don't know. Stupid, nigga, I don't know. This is stupid, man.
Starting point is 01:51:26 I don't know. So if your girl was going to the thong song video, would she still be your girl? If she was going to the video shoot? Yeah. She was a model in it. She was a dancer in it. So this is why I called him Petty.
Starting point is 01:51:43 Because he didn't know. The thong song didn't come out this time She was just going to a Cisco video. No man. She was doing the thong song So she's going to the thought so she still be here As long as I know what the fuck you doing,, nigga. You know. But it wasn't based on just that. All right, all right. Nah, you can't. Can I finish?
Starting point is 01:52:08 It's petty if you just gonna cut off because in fact, she want you. No, no, no. It wasn't cut off. It was, it was, it was. No, you might have made a story of that. It's a far story. Yeah, yeah, look at him. He is so evil.
Starting point is 01:52:16 Nah, it's not just that. All right, all right. So now you ready for me to finish? Shoot. This is a killer. It's not a killer. It's not a killer, this is not a killer because I was not involved at that point.
Starting point is 01:52:27 So I said, E, I think that was petty. He said, but they pushin' beat on her. That was a big pimping. Big pimping. Nah, nah, she did a dog song. But she did big pimping. How you stand with this guy? She ain't pour champagne on him!
Starting point is 01:52:48 Laughter That was out already. He was out already. He was out. You out too? Crazy. Is he still petty or he's evened out at this point? I mean, you know, you gotta be confident in it, man.
Starting point is 01:53:04 No, I knew what I was doing. No, no, wait, come on. They threw champagne on her. She can still come home. She can still, y'all still, I'm asking. I'm asking you. I'm not 100% sure she's the one that got champagne. All right.
Starting point is 01:53:18 No, but that's what you said. We rolling with it. She can't come home with no champagne. No. All right, now here's the last and third one. This is the last and third one. Really, there's more. There is.
Starting point is 01:53:30 All right, but these three is enough. She got two more that I know of. All right. Then, Uchi Wally video. Uchi Wally Wally. Uchi Wally Wally. Can y'all still meet at Moshi Moshi and have sushi? I'm like, at the Uchiwali video, them niggas is fucking. Let's keep it real.
Starting point is 01:53:53 She would have been shipped out, bitch. Shipped out, right? All right, and then the last one is Ricky Martin. I told him he ain't got shit to worry about. And that wasn't the last one. Yeah, that was the last one. That was the last one. That then the last one is Ricky Martin I told him he ain't got shit to worry about and that wasn't that long ago
Starting point is 01:54:10 was it literally the video that long ago? yeah it was it wasn't oh my god she was behind she was behind yeah she was behind no no you not and she got with the vote homie
Starting point is 01:54:20 nah this is what make you pay you sure she fucked BBD? I'm 80% sure. I don't know, I never asked her actually. But why, what made you come with this assumption? Because right when we broke up, we in the club and she's with Homie. So I'm assuming I know how it goes down. I think this proves he's Patty, right?
Starting point is 01:54:44 I'm not petty. I understand you. You the guest. You got to know your back, man. But listen, Ray, we need that middle of the question. I'm petty. I'm not petty. Listen, first of all, it wasn't foul.
Starting point is 01:54:58 She wanted to pursue a career in modeling, and I was doing what I was doing. Did you do a photo shoot for her? No. And I just said, and we both just mutually agreed, like, you're going to do this, and I was doing what I was doing. Did you do a photo shoot for her? No, and I just said, and we both just mutually agreed, like, you gonna do this, and I'm gonna do this, and we good. I'm not gonna be with a chick that's in the same industry doing certain things. Did you eat her asshole?
Starting point is 01:55:17 I don't remember, to be quite honest. If it's she was my girl, anything goes, it's my girl. Yes. Probably. To be quite honest. If it's she who's my girl, anything goes. It's my girl. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 01:55:29 That's God telling me leave here forever. God is right. God is right. God is right. God is right. God is right. Salute, I love this story, I'm sorry. We gotta dead this story out.
Starting point is 01:55:41 No, she's gonna sue us crazy. No, she likes all the Drink Champ pictures and I'm just waiting for her to hit me up. Oh, shit. I am now stalking you. I wanna know who your ex-captain is. Wow. Yo, Ray, I'm sorry, man. Yo, the Wu-Tang, what was the wildest Wu-Tang groupie y'all ever had?
Starting point is 01:55:57 Keep it real. Shit, nigga. You have to have a Wu-Tang groupie. Keep it real. Her name is Britney. Oh. Let's get shit. Keep it real. Shit, nigga. You have to have a Wu-Tang Groobie. Keep it real. Her name is Britney.
Starting point is 01:56:08 Oh. Niggas getting shot? Damn. Fuck it. Oh, Slippers is in the building. That's another booty eater. Slippers, Slippers is a booty eater. He eat classy booty with tuna tartare on top.
Starting point is 01:56:25 Watch out now. Nah, come on. What's the classic groovy story you had? Give us a groovy story. Don't do it. Don't go there. Luke, come on. Before, before, like when you was growing up on the New York Times side, New York crime
Starting point is 01:56:38 side, staying alive was no job. At second hand, Mark bumps on old man, then you move Sha-Lang. What's going on? Like that we're gonna convince him to talk about groupie stuff. Oh, man, yo, wake up, man. We love you so much.
Starting point is 01:57:00 Niggas at Alcatraz specialist. A specialist. He was hypnotizing you right there. You know what the worst thing anybody ever told me? The worst thing anybody ever told me. Nigga was like, yo I would like to be in jail with you. That's horrible. I can do a bid with you. I was like damn, it's a great compliment.
Starting point is 01:57:25 It's the worst thing in the world. But Raekwon, come on. Who be adoring? Shit man, god damn man. And like, just from the, there was an intro you did for our album. You said, Shorty, give you a thousand grams. Tell your girl let me sleep with her. I knew you was like like that's a sign of
Starting point is 01:57:46 being a mad horny I can tell you one night I went to go see you nigga and I was in your joint he flipped it on you is it Capone you use me I know it's Capone but yeah use me let's go it was one of your soldiers and then came out there that came. I came out there come hang out with y'all niggas this shit Took one of my niggas bitches. Let's keep my y'all niggas was in there doing. Yeah Crazy shit is that I don't know. I was coming up there to come hang out with y'all niggas and shit You know came in there and went in the back and shit in the back of the room And niggas just like watch playing video games and shit You know niggas playing the video games and like right next to each other niggas was sitting right next to each other like
Starting point is 01:58:38 In a chair and shit Then I guess one of your mans up in there, He was in there blowing a chick in the chair right there So they all sit there together And he blowing it like this Like a rabbit? So I'm coming in the room like yo what the fuck is y'all niggas Like yo what the fuck Nigga looked up at me like yo
Starting point is 01:58:59 You good? You good? I said yo I said these queens niggas right here, dude. Then we retarded. This is the fact. That niggas is stinking. That could have been Charlie, too. It could have been Charlie Skitts, yeah.
Starting point is 01:59:11 With the Elvis Presley. He got the Elvis Presley side, bros. Yo, Ray Quon, man. You remember that, though? Nah, nah. I took Mr. Quon home. I was in the other room. My shit switched, too.
Starting point is 01:59:19 My shit switched, dog. So what do you think is the next step for not only Rape but Wu-Tang or whatever? What do you think is the next step for you? Nah, you know, the music is always going to be there, you know, for myself. It's going to, we're going to continue to make ill shit, but I'm on some filmmaking shit right now. I got a deep vision you know. The purple tape documentary you know that's something that I want niggas to do. I see some of it as beautiful. I want niggas to really get an opportunity to taste that and you know I'm going to start stepping into shit like that though. I got
Starting point is 02:00:02 a lot of screen flicks that I wanna do. You know, some real street tail shit. You know, just keep fluctuating, bro. You know what I mean? Keep traveling. And then what year did the purple tape drop? That shit came out in 95. Oh, so you been celebrating your 20.
Starting point is 02:00:21 Yeah, yeah, yeah. How about the Dior Dores? You was someone with Dioradoris for 240 bucks. God damn it, thank you for giving me a free pass. I can't afford that right now. God damn it, make some noise. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. You sit on the spot, they heavy.
Starting point is 02:00:36 I got them sitting on the spot. I be telling my son, my son be walking too close to them. I be like, I'ma snuff you little niggas. You see, I told him I'ma snuff him before walking on my great corner D'iggas. I told them I'ma snuff them for walking on my great horn of D'Adoris you know what I mean? And you got the Wally Clarks too. Are those dropped already or you dropped? That was like a you know like a blowout you know like you know a 60 day type of thing.
Starting point is 02:00:58 60 days available you don't get it? God damn it your garment game is crazy. That's that Wu-Tang slang, Garment Game. Come on, make some noise for me knowing Wu-Tang slang. We got our Garment Game at 8 and 9. Yeah, 8 and 9. Let's big them up. 8and9.com. 8and9.com. We got the Drink Champ shirts.
Starting point is 02:01:20 And we're getting Ray Kwan to sign some horns. So listen, if you guys are tuned in right now we got Ray Kwan in the building he's having fun with us as my brother we plug in the fuck out and we're gonna get him to sign a couple of horns random random so you never know you might get it order the way Kwan horns like you know you might get you might get like you know he gonna sound like they know maybe five or sixteen you know I he gonna sound like, you know, maybe five or 16, you know what I'm saying? Five or 16 random numbers.
Starting point is 02:01:46 Random numbers. And he's my guy, you know what I'm saying? And you might get your horn. Shout out to the people Best Buy Lakers too, nigga. Shout out to the people Best Buy. My nigga forever, man. Yeah, my nigga. Yo, thank you so much.
Starting point is 02:01:54 General. You know, only two people that I tried to book and I couldn't book was Ray Kwan and Busta Rhymes. Both of y'all guys are my brother. But, my brother, so I couldn't get mad at y'all. I just had to take that as a loss. But when you worked on Only Built For Cuban Lakes 2, you worked with Busta a little bit, right?
Starting point is 02:02:16 How was that? That's family. My nigga was there. He was able to see a spark that I didn't see at the time at me. Sometimes you got to go outside and be around real people and get opinions and shit that niggas could really tell you that might make sense to yourself. He was there, he was like a mentor. I always fuck with Buss, his energy is always up.
Starting point is 02:02:42 Good, good, good, good fella. You know what I mean? And we would just be, you know, he made me laugh and you know his music, he's sharp with music and production. And it was like that, I needed that lift. And we got in the studio and you know, he was just passing shit to me, just playing a few beats or whatever.
Starting point is 02:03:02 Cause you know Buss, his catalog is just amazing. It's crazy. This shit is amazing. I know your Buss guy. He got so much music that niggas don't even know, like he's Buss the Rhymes for real. Like, you know, but more importantly, like he was just a good friend, still a good friend,
Starting point is 02:03:19 you know, and always, always been in my corner, you know? Always believed in everything. Like, yo nigga, you you I look up to you You know what I mean? Like and sometimes you need that sometimes, you know You need that energy that boost and ever since then it was like, you know Boom bust out the Cuban links to album and you know, my hands started getting super hot again and just You know, it stayed hot for a long time. Now, how was it working with Dr. Dre? Was that your first time working with Dr. Dre?
Starting point is 02:03:47 Dre was my nigga though, Dre, Dre, good niggas, you know what I mean? We used to make something happen, but, you know, kind of like backed out the situation, you know, respectfully. You know, you know, he always felt like, you know, whatever you do, that thing you're holding is a masterpiece though. Oh, some of the Cuban too. Cuban too, shit, yeah.
Starting point is 02:04:10 So, you know, you know what I mean? We just had to keep moving on. And I decided to do an indie style and just going in from that perspective. Just, you know, I felt I knew the game. So when you know the game, you go in and make sure it happens the way you want it to happen. I just want to make some noise for you, for that success of that Cuba Lynx Tour.
Starting point is 02:04:34 Let's move you over to champagne. Do we got different cups? You want to hit that champagne? You're right. If you hit this champagne, you officially drink like seven lickers just now Use a wild nigga. It's back in the day. He was a wild. Yeah, you build a ray. He's drinking water Go backwards is level you got a balance Big up the bar to me. Tell you something
Starting point is 02:05:02 Big up to bartenders. Let me tell you something, water? No, no, not that. That's your label. The water gonna keep you right, believe it or not. Yep. You need to hydrate. The water is three fourths of cough, right? What is three fourths?
Starting point is 02:05:18 You know that. You're eating our body right now. You're a legend. You used to eat pork back then, you don't know what we're talking about. I'm Cuban. I'm your foul maker. Come on, I love EFN. You know EFN, right?
Starting point is 02:05:30 You know them from back in the day. Yeah, of course. So, Wu Tang, man, you think this last album, would this be this last album if y'all get together? Nah, man. It ain't never the last album, Lord. It ain't never, you know, it's gonna be with it. It's gonna be there forever as long as we feel like we wanted to be there.
Starting point is 02:05:49 You know, we all in the great space with one another, you know. Brotherhood is brotherhood, but you know. So what's your next endeavor, like, or next artist? What's the next, you know? I got some shit lined up though. You know I can't really leak it out yet. Because you know I want to master it. I want to make sure that it's right before I approach it.
Starting point is 02:06:13 I ain't going to give it to you yet because it got to be right though. You know so. Great strategic. And then what's up with you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Toronto at one point you had Toronto like, it was draped in you, in Toronto. Oh, you got offices over there in Canada. Don't you?
Starting point is 02:06:29 You got offices. I was out there though, yeah. I got a haircut in your barber shop. Shit, bruh. Like yeah, yeah, totally needs some of that. Nah, I mean, you know, we started a label out there. You got second citizenship? You got a Canada passport?
Starting point is 02:06:42 She said dual citizenship. Yeah, dual citizenship? I said second citizenship. I mean, that works, that works. Dual citizenship. Yeah, dual citizenship. I said second citizenship. I mean that works. Dual citizenship. It's the same shit. You got that out there? Nah, nah, nah, man.
Starting point is 02:06:50 Paying two taxes, nigga. Come on, man. So you flying private jets out there. You a fly nigga. You a fly nigga. Let me tell you something. He shoot 40 seconds, shoot shit. Let me tell you something.
Starting point is 02:06:58 Ray Vaughn is a fly nigga. I was on the road with that nigga every day. That nigga had a job. He was a fly nigga. He was a fly nigga. He was a fly nigga. He was a fly nigga. He was a fly nigga. He was a fly nigga. He was a fly nigga. He was a 40 seconds. Let me tell you something. Ray Vaughn is a fly nigga. I was on the road with that nigga every day.
Starting point is 02:07:08 That nigga had a different outfit. I was like, damn, nigga, you don't even read the same sneakers every day? I like your money. This nigga is fly. I'm telling you, my nigga, this nigga's shit is corporate. He get dressed corporate. Yeah, I'm telling you, this shit is strategic the way this... I'm telling you, my nigga. Yo, I salute you, Ray.
Starting point is 02:07:32 You've always been an inspiration to me. You've always been a brother. We've always been on the same side. Thank you so much. You was like one of the first people that didn't come. It's the first time you've ever been. But you super made it up. And we going to club tonight.
Starting point is 02:07:48 I know that this comes out Friday, but we're gonna go to the old mansion tonight, which is Icon. Icon, Ray coming to hang out with us. I'm kidnapping you. The champs, the champs. Drink champs, man. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 02:08:03 Like, yo, we've been recording all week, we tired as fuck. You know what I'm saying drink champs man. You know I'm saying like yo, you know, we've been recording all week We tired as fuck. You know I'm saying and and yeah working on money Yeah, cuz I want everybody know either like Ray It ain't just about like me and this guy me and this guy here finish one thing, but we got rich Rich Blanco, we got half of the sounds. We got drain. No big drain. We got We got Half of the Sounds. Big Drain. We got... Sunny DBT.
Starting point is 02:08:28 Eddie Giggs. Paul. Boris. Everybody is the... My man, I forgot your name, come on. Roz Kev. Roz Kev. It's called Rasta. I'm sorry, you want to be racist on here because you got dreads.
Starting point is 02:08:44 You know what I'm saying? There want to be racist on here because you got dreads, you know I'm saying so It's so many people that come together That's why we do videos documentary style because I even want to just be about me and EFN There's so many other people that help make this What it is and people have been starving for Wu-Tang Clan. That's all we've been getting Clan where me and I had you and I ain't Wu-Tang Clan, I mean, I had you, and I ain't never even want to tell you how much responsibility I had to bring you here.
Starting point is 02:09:11 You know what I'm saying? I ain't want to tell you that because we friends. So I always wanted to keep this on a friendship level. Thanks, that's for sure. You know what I'm saying? But I had a responsibility to bring you here because of that. And just tell us one thing about Wu-Tang Clan
Starting point is 02:09:24 that the people don't know man We just found out that y'all didn't even know each other since the group started. I didn't know that You got your champagne? We get you another couple of champagne It's right there Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come you even pronounce that shit? France. Come on, tell us something about Wu-Tang Clan, man, before we get up out of here. Before we close out. We the invincible, man. Let me tell you something, man. Them niggas right there at any given time could flip it and flip it in a way where it's like it's real easy to do you know
Starting point is 02:10:08 and when it happened it's gonna happen you know it's all about being into it though I want to be into it I want to just do it fabricated stuff and we all share them same principles you know like it's just all about the energy at the time that makes that album come, but business is different. You wanna do business in a way where you feel like everything is beautiful, and then when it's beautiful, everything else is greater. You know, we want it to be great,
Starting point is 02:10:43 we don't want it to be good, you know? So. This is where I want to end it on. I want to name all the members of Wu-Tang Clan. And I want you to say something about them. Can you Google all the members? You know all the members? No, we all know them.
Starting point is 02:10:57 We all know them. But I don't want to put the pressure on him. I don't want to put the pressure on him. I mean, at least we know the main members. I'm going to start. I'm going to name a member, and I want you to say something about. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:11:05 Yeah. Ugar. What the hell? The L-Ball right there, the Raging Ball. I never saw that movie. But I know there's a movie, is this, called the Raging Ball? Yeah. The Raging Bull, yeah.
Starting point is 02:11:26 Okay. Master Killer. The Calm, The Calm, The Fourth Rock Him. Shit like that, you know? Capadonna. Slick Rick nephew. The Jizzah. 2017 Kane.
Starting point is 02:12:00 Back then. Ghostface. Al Pacino. Ray Quon. Speaking of yourself in third person, it's fly, do it all the time. But Almighty, nigga. But almighty nigga. The Genesis nigga with King Tut hats nigga and ankle bracelets and all that bullshit.
Starting point is 02:12:34 Guy in these gold on nigga. Guy in these gold. We gotta do a record called Guy in these Golds. We may get up later. Egyptian nigga. I need Make it up later. I Gipsy Okay method man My niggas yeah, what that's a hard one You could use a hard one right there. Mephiz and Mephiz, he another cut, you know?
Starting point is 02:13:09 Terry Clough. I can't. Terry Clough. Strong, Mephiz Strong. Yo, that nigga still rhyme hard, man. He go rhyme. Oh, okay. He go rhyme, he go rhyme.
Starting point is 02:13:21 Okay. Reza. Reza. Reza? It's like, this is like Jimi Hendrix and fucking... Jimi Hendrix is big on the show. And his cat. And his cat. Wow.
Starting point is 02:13:40 Jimi Hendrix, that's it? Wow. Yeah, you ever recorded Electric Lady with the white cat in there? Electric Lady? Electric Lady, you know, downtown? I know what you're talking about, yeah. You ever seen the white cat in there? Seen thousands of white cats.
Starting point is 02:13:56 And Electric Lady, right? Of course. Keep it real like that. Niggas, we're trying to debate on this show if that white cat was Jimi Hendrix reincarnated What do you think right? Come on just say yes Just say word I felt like Jimmy was playing the guitar through the gap We fuck what you wait on you'll take you so
Starting point is 02:14:21 Other members The deck you wake up on your thank you so much man. You ain't gonna leave out other rule members. Oh what? Did I? Oh sorry. ODB, expected deck, ODB, jizz off. Who said ODB? I didn't say ODB? Oh in my mind I did. Come on man. Let's go back to the expected deck. Expected deck.
Starting point is 02:14:38 Despected deck is like Malcom X. In real life? You can teach them some shit? It's a jewel drop. I'm out of my Okay, ODB. Oh, black baby Jesus, man. You know that. Now listen, we got the drink champs. We hate when people say You think ODB could have drunk us under the table? You think he could have hung out?
Starting point is 02:15:18 You think he could have hung out? At the drink champs? I can see that. What was ODB's favorite drink in your memory? Um. Don't tell me Cisco. He's the life shit. Nah, yeah Cisco is that shit. Mad Dog 2020. What was Old D's favorite drink? He used to drink that man. That dog was the shit though. Yo, he drank a lot of wine too. That's your shit. Oh, it was some Nori shit? Wine shit, yeah. Oh yeah? You remember White House? Wild House, Rose and all that type your shit. Oh, it was on some Nori shit? Wine shit, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 02:15:45 You remember White But every time I see him, I swear to God. Cause he was like, he did it on purpose too. He was just like, he was like, like he was like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. I looked at his face and I was like, this nigga's crazy, like, I don't know. I had him with the elbow, he gave me the elbow back too, like I ain't disrespecting you.
Starting point is 02:16:25 He was waiting for another white guy to come over. He was ill. You think I'm lying? You know that was his style. He was a foul nigga. The filthiest. Yeah, and that was my nigga. I was in the studio with him and Pharrell for three, four days.
Starting point is 02:16:35 Word is born. Nah, this is a fact. Ray Quon, thank you for hanging out, man. You come with us to the club, we're going to the club. We're going to the club. We're going to the club. We're going to the club. We're going to the club.
Starting point is 02:16:43 We're going to the club. We're going to the club. We're going to the club. We're going to the club. We're going to the club. We're going to the club. I was in the studio with him and Pharrell for like three four days where it was born. Nah, yeah, it's a fact It's a fact. Ray Kwan, thank you for hanging out man. You come with us to the club We go on an icon tonight. We know that this podcast comes out next Friday. We don't care. We having fun We so much wanted a Wu-Tang member. We so much wanted my brother because you're not just Wu-Tang's brother. You are my brother I wanted to get into our relationship but I wanted this interview to be more about you because the thing about my friends
Starting point is 02:17:08 is they come back and they step. They appear more than one time. Dad's been here twice. Kappong been here twice. You could be here as many times as you want. We're speaking to a million people. This is your home, Rayquan. We really love you, man.
Starting point is 02:17:21 Thank you so much, man. You know what I mean? DJ EFN, you know what I mean? Hazardous much man. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? DJ EFN, you know what I mean? Hazardous Sound Rich, you know what I'm saying? My man, my man, where's Sonny D at man? He don't feel like he can get his just due. And then Carlito the Child Molester.
Starting point is 02:17:37 You know what I'm saying? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, it's a joke. And Sonny D, you don't want no props? You don't want no props? Come over here. You're not sweating, I'm proud of you. You were sweating, you were sweating. You want to do Mr. Super Slime? Tell them people, man. Tell them you left the flea market.
Starting point is 02:17:57 I've been left the flea market. At Mr. Super Slime, Instagram. So your ballies don't come from 74 No, no valleys from 74 Fucking pair of the fucking purple clocks nigga. Come on humble yourself. Ray already told me they in the mail You know the flea market's the bootleg shit out here. Right, right, right. Not all of them. Some flea market's got official shit, but not where my niggas go.
Starting point is 02:18:34 Right. This is my nigga Mr. SuperSlime, man. He's a great guy, man. We love him, man. We want to big you up Ray Kwon once again, man. Thank you very much, man. Because my ass been hurting the whole time. We gonna take this picture. We gonna do this.
Starting point is 02:18:47 I don't know what happened man. But yo thank you so much man. We gonna go hang out at Icon. Shout out to Star Rock, Mr. Lee Promotions. Shout out to the Drink Champs man. Everything is going down. Best Buy Liquors once again for providing the liquor. Big up Amanda for providing the actual cups.
Starting point is 02:19:03 8and9.com. We not only got the shirts now, people, we also got the horns, the shot glasses, and the cup. It's the whole party, so when you partying with us, the cups, the shot glass, everything. Ray, thank you so much, man. We had so much fun. And we still kidnapping you. Make some noise for Ray Park, everybody! Drink Champs is a Drink Champs LLC production, hosts and executive producers, NORE and DJEFN.
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