Joe and Jada - Joe and Jada - Fat Joe & Jadakiss react to Pacers-Knicks Game 1, Joey Bada$$ vs. TDE beef & Biggie's birthday

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

Fat Joe and Jadakiss react to Tyrese Haliburton and the Indiana Pacers coming back to shock Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Jada was front row to witness Aaron Nesmith catch fire in the fourth quarter and Haliburton channel Reggie Miller's choke celebration in another huge comeback in this year's NBA playoffs. Also, Joe and Jada shout out The Notorious B.I.G. and Havoc from Mobb Deep on their birthdays and talk Joe's days with the Diggin' in the Crates crew with Big L, Lord Finesse, and Diamond D, Joey Bada$$ trading diss tracks with Daylyt and Ray Vaughn, Bad Bunny hosting Saturday Night Live, Chris Brown getting out on $6 million bail to get back on tour, and YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s tour making waves. Joe also tells the story of linking Biggie with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony for their legendary “Notorious Thugs” collaboration. 3:00 - Pacers SHOCK Knicks in Game 1 13:00 - Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's MVP speech 25:00 - Happy birthday B.I.G. & Havoc 29:30  - Joe’s days with D.I.T.C. 47:45 - Joey Bada$$ vs. TDE 55:30 - Joe linking Bone Thugs & Biggie (Timestamps may vary due to advertisements.) Visit your nearest Boost Mobile store or https://promo.boostmobile.com/webuiltanetwork/ytb/ #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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game one it crushed me crush me I got my outfit ready I was preparing all day to go to the garden we get there everything's going great

once again Halliburton hits a fucking last minute two point of foot on the line When you see this, the choke, what is that about, man? Like, I'm like, at this point, we got to fight, shove each other. Say, it's the biggest disrespect. That's worse than Trey Young throwing the dice on the floor, man.

We got the curse. We got a jinx. We got a jinx in the curse on us, Lord. Well, I wasn't there, Jada. You know, they usually do a name thing. That might have been it. We need it. Jada, they usually blame me.

But I see you sitting pretty courtside next to C.C. He's charging it to me now? We lost because it me. No, no, you ain't the jinks, but I was here. I'm in Miami by crib in Miami. I'm watching you sit pretty the whole game. I said, damn, Jada there.

He where he's supposed to be. And so, well, I can break down so much, right? the next man you know in order you got to understand in order to go to the chip and you're in the Eastern Conference finals you can never

fall asleep they had a lead they were playing so good that they fell asleep nobody picked up Naismet he was shooting them threes wide open knocking them joint he was unconscious in a matter of seconds

though but why can't nobody just rush this guy and make somebody else do it. If he hit three, three threes in a row, why nobody attacked him to make sure to get the ball out of his hand? What you're saying is it was bad coaching.

Yeah, it could be that, or it was just moving to, you know, Halliburton is getting on my nerves. Because I'm, I'm getting on your nerves. No, I'm going to keep it real. Like, I know you don't like using this word, but he almost got me hating him right now. Like Halliburton, you know, I didn't talk to Reggie Miller for 30, 20 years.

I would be a party, Jordan parties. I wouldn't talk to him. I finally ran into him in Newark Airport, and we'll talk about that later. Face to face, and he said, yo, Joe, I'm a fan. You ignore me every time. It's over. It's 20-something years later.

I gave him my hand. We became friends. Halliburton is starting to get on to Reggie Miller. But we could not let these guys come up in there. He took the heart out of New York City to Seoul. I mean, every bodega, every corner. Every bodega. They like, like, do you even think we could come back?

That's the biggest question. I don't even want to, we got at least split in the garden and we got to steal one it in the end or, you know, and get ready to go to Kabul, Kalahari, Betsy head. These are the type of losses. One of these pools. Look, if they shut us there, the wildest city in the world,

what do you think they did to the Knicks? How deflating was this loss right here when you know you were 14 in the last two minutes and they come back to tie it than winning overtime? It crushed me, dog. It crushed me. Being in the building,

then watching it, on TV today, the shot went off the camera. It went out of the damn arena. That was the luck of the Irish. That was great. We got to stop. Like, that was a destined shot. Like, that shot,

come on, bro. He couldn't have called that shot off the back of the rim, went to the sky, came back down, and went in. They got to stop with that. My thing is, for the first time in my career of being a fan, I

wanted and I thought of breaking my flat screen. So first time in my life, when I see these guys after the Super Bowl and all as they break their TV, bro, I had to walk and look out the window for a second. It was bad. It was really, really bad. Like, it broke my heart in pieces that lost yesterday because I know those be the type of losses that, you know, an O.G, right? Let me tell you something.

O.G. had bad body language yesterday. O.G. didn't look. O.G. wasn't really happy yesterday. When they were subbing them out, when he... I mean, O.G. And they looked like they... You were right there. You're right next to the coach. You're right there. You're seeing their faces.

Yeah. Me, let me tell you about O.G. Right? Not just O.G. to me, the hardest sport in the world's boxing, meaning they... The worst on you... because you could be 50 and O and somebody knocked you out,

now you're a bum in every barbershop. Everybody, you're always washed up. He took an L. Even me, I'm guilty of it. You got to be perfect as a boxer. So now, oh, gee, I love him. I'm a huge fan. But yesterday, when he missed that one shot,

the one Frito, immediately I thought of 200-something million. Because somebody told me how much OG got. He's the most peasant. Knit player, and the minute he missed that shot, I thought of that 200-some M's. I was like, yo, 200-some M's. No, I got to keep it real.

It's not my money, right? But they gave him the most money of all time. When he hit, he missed, and I love OG. I love him. But when he missed that one shot, I immediately curled up on the couch and said, yo, 200-something million, you're going to miss that shot? He wasn't happy all game, though.

I was right there. I was on the bench, damn me. When he was subbing in, subbing out, he didn't look. He looked like he wanted to put Tibbs in a cobra clutch if you asked me. He was, he was, something was up with OG yesterday. See, they outcoached us, right? And I didn't want to say it, but there's bingo.

I'll say it because I love Tibbs, but they out-coached us. At the very end, they took Turner out, who's a dog. Turner's a dog. They took them out. They put Seacom and the 5th. Then they brought O.B. Thompson at the 4. And these guys turned into Sonic, boom. Like, they're too fast.

They're running and gunning. They shoot and they're this. And so another thing is the coach got to play more players. There's just nowhere around it. The way the paces play is they running up and down that court. You're going to run us off the court. Brunson was dead tired. At the end, that's why they kept taking the ball from him and throwing him around.

He was dead tight. He played every minute of the game at Big Body Brunson. They subbed them out. Listen to this. They subbed them in the end and we was up. It's okay if we can win with Brunton on the bench. That's a plus for us. As soon as we was doing good,

your man, Tibbs, gentlemen, went all wrong. Yo, let me tell you something, man. I was proud of our team. I thought we was going to take one. We had it, and they lost focus. That's all that happened yesterday.

They lost focus. Not all. It's bad to lose game one, man. We needed that. We needed. They took the fluidity out of me. I'm down right now. I'm not even the same.

Me evil, man. They took the heart of every boat game. They took my joy away last night, though. No party on 7-5 last night. Seven-Vive had cemetery silence after the game yesterday. All I celebrated it did yesterday was cemetery silence when I came out of it. Yo, let me tell you so, Seven-F-F went into nuclear zone, bro, that shit got cleared out.

Like, it was, it was bad last night. And you know the type of party we would have had that we were the one last night? Yeah, we were to party like we won the damn chip. That's why we might have needed that. We got to get game two, though. We have to steal game two. Game two is not even the...

It's a must. Yeah, game two is a must. Or we can get our swim trunks and all that ready. I mean, start getting your feet, that was. Believe it or not, I had a little more rage in me against Boston and Indiana. I don't know why, because they beat us last year. But I'm very upset with Indiana now.

Like, I'm really not a fan. And I know that we got to get them game two. The question is, because everybody want to see New York, Minnesota, Randu, Kat. That's the, do we have to shift over? to OKC and possibly facing Indiana for the chip. I know the ratings ain't going to be as if the Knicks had it,

but do we have to like ship because they do have the most valuable player for a reason. SGA. Shout out to Shea for winning the MVP. But like you said, they look, I'm scared at OKC more than anybody. They look unstoppable. They look untouchable right now, crack. I'm just saying we got to get to them

because Indiana's not laying down, bro. They're not going for that. And what I'm saying to you is, you saw SGA's, you know, I'm chilling. I hear his MVP speech from the back of my, like, I'm listening to him, and I'm like, why?

Did you see the speech? I've just seen a piece of it. He gave the great. He gave the greatest speech in the world. And the whole time I'm looking, I'm like, damn. You know, I just lost my mom's. So I'm listening to him, and I'm like, you ain't nothing like a mother.

I'm getting sentimental, right? This guy's talking about this woman and, yo, save my life. I can't wake up without it. This, this, this. The most incredible speech. But you do know at the very end, it was about his wife. It wasn't about his mother.

He was his wife, yeah. You know, I'm like, yo, I'm fucked up. I mean, we, you know, we love my wife. Yo, you got to do that? And yeah, I mean, you know, I was fucked up. Yo, it was like your moms. If you're speaking about your moms,

I'm listening to the speech. I'm thinking the whole time he's talking about his moms, he turns around and about his wife. We need girl viewers, so let's just big up that. But what I'm saying to- All the Females, man. Shout out to the ladies. We need all the females to tune in.

But let me tell you to me, he's like losing his, Orra. Like, SGA, let me tell you some. SGA is the flyers. If you watch him, his drip is phenomenal. Nobody could fuck with SGA. He's calm, cool, collective. You know, that speech he gave,

I think it's only equivalent to a mother speech. Like, I never seen no shit like this. I'm shocked. Like, I'm sitting there. I'm like, all love our wives. Of course. There's nothing wrong with that. But your MVP speech?

I'm thinking the way he's talking to have mother all over it like KD. Yeah, like KD gave that speech. Yeah. He might have been in the doghouse in the crib and he was getting himself out without us knowing.

He said, oh, way, I'm going to do my MVP speech for you, baby. Let me tell you something. He gave it up. Like, he gave it up. Legend. Let me tell you something. And let me tell you, think about Halliburton.

He was rated by his peers the most overrated player that might be fueling them imagine if they call you the most overrated and you're like, word, I'm a show y'all. Come on and start busting ass. That's why he's going crazy. Ain't nothing overrated about this, man.

Yeah, all that, yo, yo, listen, I can't. You know, I'm glad he did it early because if I'm a Nick player and I see him celebrating like that and I still got a whole series to go to prove them wrong. You use that as motivation. Thank God.

Because they usually do it. You know, I never like all boxes. Let me not point nobody out by that name because then that'll be too much. Don't start. Don't get us in no beef with no boxes, dog. I'm not going to do it. But what I am saying is I hate when boxes,

you know, fight somebody toe to toe. And then once they know they got them in the last rounds, they start clowning them and so I never liked that I'm like yo just beat him up he celebrated too early Halliburton he celebrated too early

and so let's see what the series I'm gonna say that though when you go when you go another person's home is still game one that's worth a celebration but not the choke the choke is like ha ha ha he was just

he was just showing love to Reggie the joke is like New York That's like stepping on the buildings That's like stepping on the buildings That joke Yo, that joke was like New York You see me in streets

All of you, I know me well You're like this is like He went for that Too early You understand He got a whole series to play Shout out to Indiana for that win My man, Ann Farris

I'm watching all of them Mike Apps Yeah, Am Harris I see All our Indiana people We'll see you. Yeah. Lance Stevenson.

I see all you guys celebrating. Steve Jack. Antman against SGA. Do you think Minnesota comes back really, really strong? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I ain't counting Ant man. I was only game one. You know what I mean?

He's a tiger. He's a killer. He's the new face of the NBA, whether he like it or not. And I think he's going to come back and adjust. You know what I mean? I don't know how I heard his ankle is because you need your wheels But other than that

I think I think it'd be a nice series I don't see it being a sweep Or a lopsided series Even though OKC is very tough I think Minnesota will come back strong You know what I mean Don't count Ant Man out Don't count my man Julius out

Don't count them all They got some young warriors over there And they come in they come in the fight You know I mean I feel the same way I think Ant Man and them take tonight not that my predictions

is going well you see what happened with the Knicks not Nick's hurt me man I haven't been shit was a nightmare yesterday

it felt and I don't want to say this but it felt like same on Knicks this is the reason when we went back the Knicks were Knicking again the Knicks was

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to finally solve the unsolvable. Listen to America's Crime Lab on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I want to switch it up and give a big week of birthdays, you know what I mean? B.I.G.'s birthday. You got to give

a shout out to my brother, B.I. Happy birthday to Biggie. It was also Havoc's birthday, Buster's birthday. You know what I mean? Man, I know it was Havoc's birthday. Shout out to Havoc. He came to my mother's funeral. I thought that was really, really, even though we kept this small and tight,

I thought that was really, really beautiful of him. You know, I have my camaraderie just, you know, my comrade just show up. You're talking Buster. Biggie went to the same high school. You're talking Havoc. Just a week ago, we were talking about they had the greatest album in history. So these three birthdays back to back, you know, B.I.G., it's my man. You know, I love Biggie.

Shout out to Miss Wallace. Definitely. She recently passed. That's in peace, the Mama Wallace. You know, I felt like, I don't know if I'm weird, but I felt like she was the mother of hip-hop. It seemed like she's everybody's mother, yeah. That's a fact.

Yeah, she feels like the mother of hip-hop. And I'm like, and so when she, and shout out of Phoenix, of course, she died a couple of years ago. You know, it's always going to be big and power. There's nothing, you know. That's the standard. That's the bar.

That's the standard, you know, and they both are powerful women. But shout out to havoc, man. Shout out to Buster. Shout out to B.I.G. I mean, these guys mean, these guys mean so much to me. You know what I mean? I believe.

I believe. that if I'm on my deathbed and there's one request it's going to be that music it's going to be that music I gotta hear the music I'm my whole genetics you know if they go

into your DNA your blood work your bones your this everything it's about music connected to the music yeah it's like I got to hear music at every time of the day whether it's on the plane

whether it's in the car whether it's working out, whether it's... It's savage beats, music. We needed the soul of us to keep us balance, keep us under control, you know what I mean? You got that Michael Jackson shirt on, man. What M.J? You know, I tried to explain to my driver the other days.

I threw some M.J. on, and he's a young Dominican kid. And I was like, yo, you know Michael Jackson? And he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know him, but I say, he said... He got to this country when Mike would die. And that was like, that's when he arrived here when Mike died. Yeah.

So he's like, he missed, he missed the world. He missed the moon wall. He missed the Motown 25th anniversary. Like, so I'm sitting there and I'm like, I'm like, so how you know? He said, when I came, he died. And everybody was telling him, this is the greatest of,

Oh, this is the greatest. Then he started listening to his music like, wow. You know, MJ to me was so futuristic. He was ahead of his time. And everything, everything they argued with him for, you know, they're doing it now. You know, Botas, this, that, everything he ever did, you know, I got my, I got my tooth pulled the other day. They put me to sleep. So I'm telling Remy, yo, my dentist put me to sleep.

She was like, yo, when they put you to sleep, that's the best sleep in the world. Yo, how we get that? I said, your Remy. No, no, no. No, no. No, Remy. Uh-uh, Remy. Your Ramb.

That's the perfect for you. I try to tell her, yo, Rem, you don't want that type of shit. That's that, that's how MJ died. Yeah, don't know. Could you imagine the prokofor how they turned around and had them on anesthesia every night to go to sleep? That ain't the thing to do. Shout out to MJ, man, from the cage to the stage.

Music, since we're talking about music, I was just thinking, you, how was it in the, how was it in them digging in the crates days? You were in the stew with finesse, big ass, L, O-C, show biz, you know what I mean, show and A-G, all of the, what kind of in it? How was y'all creating and what was the processing in? How, what was it like with just all of them, all of them, all of them. It's probably like, you know.

You know how y'all lyrically spa. You know what I'm saying? You got, you got the locks. It's all love, but you're all spitting. You know, digging in the crates with your crew of spurs. You know what I'm saying? So it's like you got Finesse. Fennesse was king at the time.

Crazy. You kidding me? Farr Knais Fennesse, when Lord Finesse came out, it changed. He shifted, he shifted shit. His flow, his slow flow of his wordplay was just crazy. The shit he was saying was incredible. I think, you know, Finesse, The only other rap I saw

besides like maybe you when you came out in hell is maybe Poo-Bah, right? So, Grand Poo-Bah is one of the ones, baby. One of the ones. So it's like, Finesse, if you went to his shows,

people literally was there for bars. So he'd do his songs, but they want his freestyles. And they were like, oh, And then he'll say another bar. Oh, they said another, like,

I've never been to nobody's show where they just waiting for the bar, the bar, the bar. They was going crazy for him. You know, Poo-Bah is another guy. I remember I was at a club in Manhattan. It was rampack and everybody was there. This one, everybody danced.

You know, the Benetton bags, everybody going. And then the DJ said brand-new Grand Poo-Bah. And I watched the whole club. Stop dancing and run by the speakers to listen to Graham Pooba. That's how he had it like that. Now, A.G., very underrated. A.G. Definitely.

Shout out to A.G. My bro. He might be my favorite digging in the crate's rapper. Wow. Like, A.G. is very underrated, right? He got bars. Then you got Diamond D. who's like, to me. Shout out the diamond.

I forgot to give my big bro to ultimate. Diamond. Diamond sets his whole thing off. Kidded me? To me, I think he's the first producer rapper to where he was producing the hottest beats but also making classic comedy stunts and hip-hop.

He's making fire production and his bars was fired. And you know what's crazy? Whenever I sat with Pharrell or I sat with Kanye, they both would ask me Diamond D's stories. They would be like, yo, how he produced,

Sally got a one-track mind. Was you there? You know, the honey did, you know, so they salute them on another level, right? You got showbiz, who was the streets, and he could rap when he wanted to rap, but he could produce incredibly. He was everything. O.C. I was there.

I ain't in the niacist. I ain't in the niacist. He was in Brooklyn. He was in Brooklyn, and I was there when we, you know, they came to me. and it was like, yo, we're thinking about O.C. I was like, yo, we need that guy on the team. That guy is spitting crazy. Shout out to Buck Wild with his reduction.

Buck Wild story to tell. Whoa, my lifestyle. Several. I mean, crazy. Buck Wild, one of the greatest deuses. I think I need a documentary, crack me. Big Al is the only rapper that ever threatened me before we did a song, Not even pun, not even you.

Nobody has ever sat me down. Because, you know, I was the first one to go golden digging into crates. So he sat me down and he said, listen, crap, we're doing this song. I'm going to destroy you on this song. I'm going to take all your fans. All your fans are going to be mine. You just sold a half a million. I need them.

We've in D&D studio. He sat me down and talked this shit crazy. then that's what we made the song The Enemy that Primo produced So I had to step them balls up It's actually my favorite rhyme I haven't said in my life Enough's enough

That a rouse trying to set me up Put me in cuffs and crush what I lust Into dust Plus they want a brother's soul But they know Big Joey crack They never rat a cat I had to be On my A game

Because he sat there and watched me Write the rhyme in his face Threatened me It was so crazy, but I love that song. And shout out to the DITC, because there is no fat Joe without digging in the crates. And also I feel like I was the wackest one. If we're keeping it a buck.

Like, they were so good that, you know, I wasn't as good as now. That's it. That's just the bottom line. Over the years, I stepped up. You still had something. You still is still. You know what I mean?

you have something in you to keep, they make you want to keep going and turn into an iconic star such as you are. So that I think being in them rooms and being in them studios and them environments, they engage something in you for a longer, you know what I mean, your longevity in the game.

To be here now from Flojo is impeccable. So I don't care what's going though. There's still dudes like you, Buster, LL, to still be getting money, still active, still relevant from the Flojo single to now, somebody, they owe you fly out, they owe you shit. I mean, real talk. James up, man, you brought up L.L. Koujee, my favorite rapper of all time.

You know, him and K.R.S. 1. And so, L.L. KooJ., man, I tell you an L. Story, man. Video music box. Rob McDaniels. got it on tape. Shout out Ralph McDaniels. There would be no hip hop if it wasn't. Rob McDaniels,

we rushed on. Y'all used to run the home to see video music box. Kidding me? U-31, man. You had to turn your TV. This is before all of the futuristic shit. You had to go up.

You had to put your anger. Click it. Yeah, the TV with the hanger and turn it to U-31, man. Video music box. He must have stopped a lot of violence because after school, everybody ran home.

And you stop at the store. Get your little snacks and then go catch Ralph. Yo, Ralph gave me the opportunity to host. So he saw this ahead of time. I met him in the streets. I'm trying to be a rapper, changed my life. And then he was like,

I used to go down to his office and walk 31 flights of stairs. Wow. The elevator never worked. And this fat, fat, fat joke. You know what I'm saying? Three fat. Oh.

This is fat, fat, fat, fat. Yo, this is really Golden Corral, Joe, Sizzler. At that time, it was Sizzlers. Oh, remember Sizzlers? All you can eat, Sizzlers. So I'm going up there, and then one day he said, yo, host the show. And I started hosting, that's how I got a bigger buzz out there.

But Ralph McDaniels, I threw a birthday party at the fever. And I had just met, Flojo was out, I had just met L.L. So L.L. said, yo, come with me to this charity he had for kids. I went with him. He pulled up in my project. So you got to understand, L.O. Kuljay was like Justin Bieber to us. Back. Or bow wow.

Like, he was so big. He wasn't a regular hood rapper. Like, we wouldn't see him in the streets like that. Or I wouldn't. So when he comes pick me up, he's my idol. He comes into convertible bends. And he puts his hand out the window. I never forget, he had a roll he on.

And I walked up to the car, I said, nah, man. I said, you got to get out. Like, like, there's, because the windows was tinted. I said, you can't come to my projects and not get out. Like, so he got out. My mom's was there. My son, Joey, was there.

Everybody took pictures with Elle out. So on the way back from the charity, I'd shot my shot. And I said, yo, Elle, I'm doing my birthday, party this Saturday at the fever. He was like, oh, the fever is still open? I say, yeah, it's the fever part two, but I'm

going to have everybody you name come. And let me tell you something, I had Puff was in there, Lady of Rage, gangstar, Lord Tareke B, the Guns, O.C. The whole thing,

anybody that was popping at that time was in that motherfucker. Like, it was like, Like a DJ Khalid birthday now, right? Right. So we in there, oh, KRS 1, the walls are sweaty. This is where KRS 1 is king of the Bronx still, right? So the walls are sweaty, it's rampant.

All of a sudden, like 2 in the morning, KRLS is performing, and I hear some girls, they start going crazy. It's a red baseball cap, and he walks right on stage as L.L. Kool-J in the South Bronx. He grabs the mic from KRS 1 And he tells the DJ Yo Throw that flavor in your ear beat on And he just started

Freestyleing some shit I never heard him say it on a record And Changed my life, man That both my items Was on stage with me in the Bronx Very early on So shout out to LL Koojay

You know, the living legend Rock the Bells He's doing so much for the people out there I'm iconic Iconic Every time I'm I see him, I give them, I give them nothing but praises and flowers. From the, from the cage to the stage, Chris Brown,

$6 million bill for allegedly throwing a bottle. Six million. They made his bill six amps. Six. This on your own recognises in New York. You're out. I've seen guys for murder get out on their own recognises. six million

and his response was from the cage to the stage they won't stop that bad he went he did a show when he got out or he he just saying like yo the show goes on he's out on bail

now he's able to do this talk globally worldwide and so first of all the bell I already told you how I feel about that and the bell just triple proves how I feel about

$6 million bail? I mean, Bernie Madoff paid $10, and he stole $71 billion. Yeah, that was nothing for Burt. That was nothing for Madoff. They should have made Madoff shit crazy than that.

They should have made this shit a billion dollar bail or some shit. Not real talk. If they're going to do that, shout out bad money. I know it's reggae tone. But the man, the biggest stream in the universe, he did Saturday Night Live.

I never knew Bad Bunny was also an actor. He did SNL. He destroyed Saturday Night Live. Killed it? What? I'm watching it. I'm like, damn, yo, this guy's just way too talented. Like, he could act, he could rap, he can sing.

Shout out to Bad Bunny. You know them seats you was in last night. I usually sit there. And, you know, they kind of gave it to Bad Bunny while I was, they had me in the corner over there. You know, I was, you know, I salute the God, but I realized he was in town for Saturday Night Live, a senior section, you know, y'all was popping over there.

You know, I'm watching you on TV, Jada. I don't know if you know Easton Concert's Finals. I would not love anybody other than my business partner and my brother, Jada Kiss, all them courtsides, looking amazing on TV. And guess what? I got that jacket you had on last night, too. You know how we do, baby.

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So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own. Listen to finding sexy sweat on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What you think about this hole, I really don't want to get into it, but. The East Joey Badass and what he's doing with, you know, Ray Vaughn and Daylight and that and them dudes over there. Well, the way that view this, right, is there's two ways rap battles can end. They can end with violence or they can end with peace. And recently, they ended it, they sparred, they spit at each other.

I think it's still going, but I think they keep in it. I like the field what they're keeping it on, but it's peace. Rap battles is always therapeutic for the rap culture as long as they go right. You know what I mean?

That's what I got to say about, you know? Everybody have their own opinions and this and that. You know what I mean? May the best man come out swinging. I feel the same way. Listen, this tush push. Oh, shit.

The tush push. Right? Now, listen, it's always Philly, too, right? They're the only team that do it. They just perfected it. You know what I mean? And I think it went off. It was better when they had Jason Kelsey.

It was unstoppable. And then they got a little bit, a little bit more containable after he retired. But I don't know. They abandon it. What do you think about that? They'd be tampered with shit too much, man. The reason why I said,

Philly. He mastered it. They was the masters of the touchpunch. Well, they did the same shit to AI with the crossover. It's like,

you can't stop. You can't stop it. Ban it. You can't stop it. AI had the killer crossover. They were like, oh, he's bringing

it to a carrie. Yeah. Yeah, it's a carry. So they do this shit to Philly all the time. Look at what they're doing in the touch push. Yo, if it worked,

everybody's like the torpedo. Everybody could do it. If they perfected it, why are you hating on now? That's. I'm with the touch push. You got to find a way to beat them. I agree. Shout out to the young boy, NBA Youngboy.

Now, he announced the tour, and it sold out in seconds. My daughter called me. She already, anywhere, can you get me tickets to any one of his shows, Dad? First he hit me. Did you know NBA, Young Boy? I knew it was coming. that then. Let me tell you something. This tour is scarier than the Rockefeller

Rough Rider Tour. Like, you know what that was like back in that day? Rockefeller Rough Rider Tour, like, people were like, yo... Hard-knocked life. Yeah, this hard-knocked life. You know, you got NBA Young Boy got every so-called firecrack on this tour with it. So, like, it's an over and under of if it's going to get popping in every city. You know, he got the guys. He got the guy pissed on your grave, all that, like that.

You know, we got to keep our eye on this one. He got those guys. If he's able to make it a successful tour, it would be some good, it would be good media. I think I think after them a couple bids, running with the law. I think he's going to just get out there and get his back. He can't control what happens out of his power.

You know, but I think, I think the shit he's just coming from being involved in. I think he's going to try to have a good, successful tour. Shout out the NBA young boy, man. What's going on in Newark Airport? Oh, you know, you hate flying. How do you feel about these Newark issues, man? I'm going to be honest with you. I ain't touch it, Newark.

I ain't going to touch it no time soon. No. I ain't flew out of Newark in the way. I only usually fly out of there if there's no other flights. No, I fly it. You know, I live in Jersey, so I fly out of Newark. Oh, yeah. It's the prettiest airport in the world.

I think they made it, but it got glitches. I'm flying out of Newark, bro, because they ain't got enough manpower in the towers. Now they went on their fourth blackout. Like, they ain't even got power. Like, you know, when you got an airport telling you, yo, don't come here. That ain't good. And now everybody went into LaGuardia or Kennedy. So that's backed up crazy.

Drive. No, no, no. I can't drive to Dubai. I can't drive to Dubai. I'm going out to Dubai next week. I can't drive to Dubai. I got to get the up NYC and get my little yachtis. Are you going to get the little yachtis?

They need them, man. Slow just hit me back, hopefully. Uh-oh. No, no, we got them little yachties. They are playoff for the old, I think, the old LeBron Air Force. The patent lovers. Yeah, yeah, the joints we used to rock. Yeah, the joints we used to rock.

They brought them shit back and put the old. Little Yolly logo on there. Shout out the Little Yachtie, a real sneaker collector. Shout out the Waleigh. I'm talking about rappers. 21 Savage got an ill collection. Offset.

Offset got a mean collection. I mean, guys, we always hear you. We always hear fad. We always hear fat, Joe. Clark can't. I'm not in it. I don't got a main collection. My collection ain't.

I'm nowhere. Yo, Jena, you buy a lot of sneakers. I don't even. know where you put them at. You might have a house for sneakers. That's PJ. That's PJ Tucker. Yo, shout out to PJ yesterday in the huddle.

They in the huddle. He pointed down to the mellow P.E. Tens he had on. He's seen me with what I had on yesterday. The low top 13th. Those are 12s or 13th. The mellow 13th? No, I had on one of the, one of the classics.

One of them joins with PJ Rec. He posted. be listening to tips, he pointed out to I can see his joints and he's like, I'll see you, kiss. I said, I know, he's been flexing the hard. He'd be killed. And he's like a size 15. Now, actually, he's

a 13. He's a 13. So whatever mellows I got, they like size 15. Yeah. Like, I never could be, could wear him. And so just like the jackets, I just collect everything with the knit color waves. I even rocked at Cleveland.

Remember when they had the black joints with the knit colors. I don't know how Cleveland made a knit color sneaker joint. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jordan. But, uh, that's crazy. Remember the calves got, they had the blue and orange uniforms back with, with Elo and Mark Price in them.

And that's what they got. That's what they did. They got the Nick, I think they're the fours. They got the Nick Force. They got the Nick Force. Crazy. This, that color wave, the Nick Color Wave. And whenever I wear it, I wear it. I went with some Nick shit,

but they quit the Cleveland to hit me up. Like, yo, that's a Cleveland wave. Don't think it's the Nick. You know, you know, everybody, what they just do. Shout out to Cleveland, man. My brother's bone thug and harmony. One day I'm going to get up in there

and talk some bone thugs and harmony stories. Those guys, biggest in the game, 30 million sold. They were the Michael Jackson's at hip-hop. They're the first guys I've ever seen to get that big. and, you know, Big had asked me to plug them in with him to do Bonin Biggie.

And so, you know, because they was cool with Tupac, they were like trying to play, you know, and so I had to convince him like, yo, I need y'all to do this so big. And Big was, he was smart enough to know, yo, Joe, those are your people's, you could get him. I said, you know, I tried. They sold 30 million.

I ain't even had a boss to ask them to do a song with me yet. I was like, yo, and I was with him every day. So I stepped to them and that's how that boning biggie, biggie, bone and biggie, big he came about. And so, you know, there's certain songs that every time I hear it, I just, I know where I was at at the time. That's what it does for you. Music, music make you think of where you was at, how you felt, or what was going on in your life at a time when you hear it. That's what's so good about music. You can just put, you can put a playlist on and it can take you around the world and bring you back to a little kid

or bring you back to somebody that you're missing that was alive or, you know what I mean? Music does a lot of things for you. It's crazy because Mother's Day- It's the Savage Beach. Yeah, you know, Mother's Day, I couldn't listen to the, I always love my mama. She's, I would play that for my mom since I was a kid.

And so this year, she passed away just before Mother's Day. That was the hardest day for me, you know what I'm saying? Like, I ain't want to fuck with Instagram. I ain't really want to talk to nobody. You know what I'm saying? That, that touch a super duper nerve. Well, Jeter, you want to touch the top five one-hit wonders or something I came up with?

Top five, one-hit wonders? One-hit wonders. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, you know. You know, you know, this is why I'm hot. This is why I'm hot. Like, that was one.

That's a big one, but that's, that. I can't think of five, one hit one. You, that's, who else you think? Who are you thinking? Who you do that? I told you, that was home boy. This is why I'm high. Mims, right?

Mims. Yeah. What's these guys? God, you know, it's true, but that ain't it by. Millie Vanilly. Don't you know, Kevin Lows got writers credit for that song. You know, let me tell you.

Did you ever know that? Yo. Kevin Lous is the writer for Billy Van Nilly. Milly, shout out Kevin Liles. Milly was actually dope. Yeah, to that one mishap when they pulled it,

when the things start skipping. I think that's most rapists today. I go, when I go to these young boys shows or I got shows with them, They're not saying one word. They're letting the shit play and they just ad-lived their shit. That goes back to craftsmanship, man. You got to, you know, you got to learn your music.

You got to learn out of rhyme over the TV track. You got to learn your song. You got to try to sound like the record. Vanilla Ice Ice Baby. Vanilla Ice had more than one though, right? But Ice Ice Baby is the one. No, sir. Ice Baby was his biggest song ever for a one hit one.

he might be the historian of one-hit wonders. Yo, he lived on Star Islander for one song. This guy was superior. Cake up. Ice, ice, baby. You know, when you get a white boy to get one to go, like to go, you know, that's crazy. I would say Bubba Sparks got more than one.

Nah, no, no. Don't put my mid Bubba in there. Bubba ain't one of them. You know who's one of them. I got five on it. Hell no. But the Loonies ain't no one hit. Wonder crack, you crazy.

What's the next hit? They got shit. They got shit. No, they got music, but I'm talking about a hit. Party like a rock star. They what? Party like a rock star. That's it.

That's the only one they got. Yo, listen. To be a one-hit wonder is the biggest blessing in the world. You know how many millions of people wish they could have one hit? They never was able to walk the red carpet. Get the right one.

You only need one. You only need one. Now, if you got two or three, you're straight. If you got a whole catalog, you see my man, panda, panda, panda. Oh, yo, panda, panda, panda is the one hit. Yo, he sold 10 million on that, right? Maybe more.

He made a little shit. a load of money off that short. Yo, man. You know, they called him jerky on then on the plane. Yo, yo, that's it. That's it, James. James! You know what's crazy?

I seen him in Dubai in the airport that day. The same fucking day, he seemed so normal. I'm like, yo, what's up, man, panda, pandit this. And the next thing I know when I arrive in the same. States, jerk yonder You know, jerk y' It was tumbling dice Yo, that shit.

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