Joe and Jada - Mary J. Blige on "My Life, My Story" residency, Dr. Dre & Jay-Z stories & her BIGGEST hip hop influences

Episode Date: January 27, 2026

Mary J. Blige joins Fat Joe and Jadakiss for their FIRST show on Netflix! The Queen of R&B tells Joe and Jada about her "Mary J. Blige: My Life, My Story" residency in Las Vegas, why she isn't sorry about being happy, the funny way she wound up on "Can't Knock The Hustle" on Jay-Z's debut album 'Reasonable Doubt,' the reason she considers Jadakiss, Styles P, and Fabolous to be her family, and the story behind making "Family Affair" with Dr. Dre. 7:00 - The "My Life, My Story" residency 18:00 - Do the women at Mary's shows "hate men"? 34:00 - Mary's biggest hip hop influences 48:00 - How Mary wound up on 'Reasonable Doubt' 53:00 - Story behind "Family Affair" with Dr. Dre 58:00 - Mary considers Jada & Fabolous family 1:01:30 - The movie Fat Joe & Mary did together [Timestamps may vary due to advertisements.] All lines provided by Hard Rock BetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You know, Hope's the best. You want my old music, go buy my old album. It's the Godcrack Kim. You know who it is, your boy, Jaila. It's the Joe and Jada show. Every show legendary. Every show iconic. And we crushing these nakes.

Now, what are you thinking today? Today's guest, we're going to have to cut it a little short because we can be here for hours when you think of today's guests. You think it's genuine. You think of the queen of hip-hop soul. I'm not talking Bridget. You think of coming from a household with some good-ass fool. You think of some of the best siblings. I know you know DMX bought us to Rough Riders, but you don't know she passed out actual demo.

tape, which actually got us our first record there. You think of being able to withstand and persevere through all of the errors and just evolve and get better and get richer and get more

everything. Ladies and gentlemen, no, no, no, we got to keep going. You want to keep going? You think a slow bomb. Oh, yes. You think a WIO. That's right. You think of Yonkis Ha! Yeah, motherfucker Mary Jane Blas.

You think of Artis. You think of brown eyes. That's right. D. Leon's. That's right. Think of wheels. Ladies and gentlemen, makes a noise for Mary Jane Clyde.

Bye. Thank you. Thank you. Thank y'all. Thank y'all. That's the biggest, boy. Your sis, you looking like. You're looking like a bag of money out there.

Everybody turned their ringers off. Looking like a bad money. Because we got a live studio audience in case of some of you all too young and you don't know about the shows that used to be taped with a live studio. Today, if you say anything too loud or your ringer goes off, you're going to get kicked out. This is a very serious, important show to me. Biggest. My bag is not in here today.

My bag is not in here, right? Because my ring is on. You get the past, though. Your phone can ring like, you can go like a slap machine in Vegas. Your phone can ring all the whole episode. You're good. Let's on you, listen, that shit you got on. I'd see you already got your insurance money from the chimney fire.

Yo. You got to see this shit. He's shooting at me. I said it's crazy. Insurance fire. He got the fastest insurance money, motherfucker. I haven't seen it. My house said, my chimney didn't.

catch on fire me. I had to open your thing. We're it. Our sister is in the building. It's a birthday. Can we, we hit, no, we show love here. So ladies and gentlemen,

you sing happy birthday and the rest of me. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday then Mary. Happy birthday to you. Thank you.

Thank God Mary ain't my wife. Because she knows how to convince me. She looked at you. She was like, Joey, I like that chain. Joey, I like that chain. Joey, I like that chain. Oh, fuck it. Let me go buy Mary this chain.

She told me today you ain't get me no gift. I said, well, did Loreno get you? She said, yeah, that's the same bank account. It's done the same fucking family. We don't miss on the gifts. Like, you gotta stop. Sis, we love you so much. The whole thing is that the whole world love you.

So we don't got, like, we can't overlove the whole world. The love, like, passion. I over, I ever much the world lover, I love a little bit over the world. Because I wouldn't really be it. Right, man. You know what I'm saying? That's incredible.

I know you said Chris Lighty pulled up to your project. This and this and this like this, the way you'd like to go. This, that this. We had a lot of meetings. They curved us a lot. We was hearing a lot of shit. We finally got the demo that we thought was strong enough. Shout out to my brother, Jay Bob, Jamarco Miller.

That's your cousin. Yes, sir. Make some noise for my man Bob. That out of it. You know what I'm saying? Yo, it's also Latanya. L.T. Definitely.

On his birthday. Happy birthday to L.T. We got stuff for help. You call her yesterday to sing a happy birthday. I did. I'll sing it to her right now. Sis, how are you feeling? You don't just promote.

Boy, do you promote? Like, you'll stay quiet for a minute, but I don't seen you on Good Morning America. Sherry, this. Different level. You're not fucking around, talk about this residency. I have to. I mean, it's a huge deal.

It's, I mean, at this point of your career, this is where you're supposed to be. You know, touring is one thing. It's amazing. But, you know, it's a lot of getting on buses, getting on planes running up and down the road. But this is like, you know, we go to Vegas. You sit there.

You sit in a mansion, hotel. And then you go to the place. And for you. We ain't going to buy. We're going to rent the mansion just to go to her show every night. Okay. We're coming.

Nicky coming. I know if you know. I don't know if you know. You come in California. I just told out to you. Hell yeah. You know. He's coming.

The man. He's coming. We're going to beat him. I don't think we're not going to beat it. I don't think you know when they first announced it, the world, it was like COVID. You know about Barry's cut. My mom even called me. Jason, I heard Mary.

I said, Ma, I got you. Don't worry. My God. So that's how it was crazy. Let me tell you, it's two, right? It's true that's crazy. Lorenzo's brother from Colombia, Lucito, my brother. He don't speak much English, but he knows Mary, but he don't really know Mary.

because he's into reggae tone and all that shit. So where he asks me, I said, well, she's the English Mark Anthony. That's the best way to describe it because Mark Anthony Legend, he sell out Madison Square Garden right now. He'll be like, tonight's show, sold out. Like, that's how Mary is. So I'm trying to explain them, you know, Mark Anthony, all the year's number one hits. That's who she is in English. But Mark Anthony got a residency out there too.

So we all just. Oh, nice. Wow. You're not yours. Or the win. Cesar is or the win. I don't know. He out there.

I don't know. I don't know shit. How about that? I just pull up. My new shit is I'm sneaking into everything. I just pull up. Hold on. This is for LT.

Don't like to get on camera, but this for Mary and L.T. Bringing it. Scarface. Don't like this, man. Excuse me. We're seeing you on. Hey, man.

Another one. One, two, three. Happy birthday. to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday and you're happy birthday to you.

That's a nice cake right there. That's a beautiful cake. A beautiful cake. Thank you, guys. Happy birthday. We love y'all, man. Thank you, Joe and Jay the show. We love you.

So much. Tell them how big is this day. this show right here, America. Don't front. You'll be watching this shit. This shit is massive. Oh, I got to hold it. Blow it up.

Oh, it's two time a felon. Two time a felon. The show is massive, man. This is legend. How you say, legend. Oh, that's it. Legend. This is huge.

Nah, we love you, man. We got you. You are actually first show on Netflix. Really? And you're on, congrats on the Netflix. Congrats on getting. So the bag, bag, bag. You know, I delivered on my promise.

You know, my business partner was looking at me. He was like, he was like, yo, Joe, what's up with the bag? I said, yo, don't worry, y'all. We're going to get that bag. We're going to get the legendary. We're going to smoke them out. He said, yo, Joe, but what's up? He started getting antsy.

And God came with the, you know, that type of shit. You know what I'm saying? So we got to put in the ass, Mary. We like, this disrespect. Up to the knees. I want these guys to hurry up to quit. Up to the niece. I want these guys to quit already.

Like, everybody in podcast, man, give it up. Go to fucking time. We don't go retire. This shit different right here. There's that real shit right here. You see the Louis. You see the Louis. You see the Fendi Furb.

We shitting on it. And we ain't even cashed one bag in yet. This is rap money. That's a fact. Yo, sis, you love this shit, man. And let me tell you something. I remember Patty, LaBelle told me,

because you know my favorite singer of all time, was Luther. You knew Luther in all the line? No, not really. I met him once brief, but I didn't know him, no. Yeah, I'm with it.

You know, he's from five blocks away from me. Here we go. Today's Y.O. My brother. Today's Y. No, I'm with you. Today's Y.

That's in peace of Luther. Who's the old school lady from YO, the first one that popped off? Oh, Fonda Rade. Man. Factor Rade, man. Fast back. See, look it out.

Yeah. I was under raid. Why, yo, baby. I was talking to him about her one day. He was like, yeah, I see her at the supermarket all the time. Like, she's really from Yonkers. Yeah, she lives in seven pines now. She's very good.

You sung, rest of peace, Andre Harell, right? You sung to him Anita Baker. So, go ahead. Let me tell you this story. It's okay. Right? You remember the gallery in White Plains, right? Remember they, it was a big thing about them getting a karaoke machine. Yeah, they heard about it.

So we went to the mall and I recorded, which was my favorite song at the moment, it was caught up in the rapture. And I recorded, caught up in the rapture. And I bought the tape home of my mother's boyfriend, who was my stepfather. We called him my stepfather. He worked at General Motors with Jeff Red and Mount Vernon. And Jeff Red was already on. He had you called and told him.

me, Jeff Red gave the tape to Andre Harrell. Andre came to Slovan and came up to my house. I sang the whole Anita Baker-Rapcha album because that was my album at the time. Rest is history. You know what's crazy, man? Shout out. I don't want to

disrespect, but shout out my best friend ever in life. He dead long-time Tom Montana, but he was one of them fly L.L. KooJ. type. He had every girl you wanted from Harlem in the Bronx, but he had this this chubby girl and I used to be like

your tone because he had no no I'm fat I'm fat Joe but he had this girl that didn't fit his normal profile so we over there sitting in the house and all that Washington prizes I'm like yo my man what's up he was like she sing

she used to sing Anita Baker to he was sitting in his lap and she was like caught up in look how she singed to me that's what I sing because of caught up in the rapture yeah caught up in the rapture was every hood girls.

You know, we were all wanting to be in love, when it was somebody to love us. And that song just made us melt. It made us think about, you know, the man we wanted. Not to get all mushy, but, you know, I'm a chick. You had that conversation with Anita Baker. I know I see if you perform it with her, but you actually told her, you know, like he said the demo, right?

Yeah. You don't sing Anita Baker. We don't hear Mary J. Blige, as we know. That's right. Well, it wasn't caught up in the rapture that put me on to Anita Baker. It was angels. You're my angel. That's what maybe like, oh.

That's what they're in the Neatigga's so. Yes. Angels that shit. Yes. Then I fell in love with Anita Bacon, saying her songs, you know. Then I eventually led to doing all the stuff she did that led up to do. You remind me. When you remind me came out, it was like everybody got hit the honor roll in while.

We, it was like we couldn't hear nothing. We were still there. So we were going to like parties and slow by my eyes. Shirley's running. That shit was like a hundred times in a row. The basement or the thing in. They're playing back for hours, dog. Buff Daddy with the drums?

So. The first first. I know what the drums, the drums. Who put the drums? That was Dave Hall. That's the best of the Dave Hall. He did the Bismarstmore. That's what you remind me.

He's the song. Oh, he's the judge sung to Yeah, that's the loop that I sang over And he did this keys over the drums And it was a strictly business soundtrack. Remember the movie? Yeah, yeah, business soundtr. That's the movie.

So Andre didn't know what to do with me because he was looking at me like, okay, she's no Whitney Houston, she's not going to wear a gown, she looks like a little tomboy, right? So I was shelved kind of, but it was strictly business, the strictly business soundtrack

where you remind me read alert, pulled the song off, put it in the mix show, all the DJs ran with it. And then they introduced me to Huff, who was like, oh, I know exactly what to do with her. And Jodicey was already out. And he was like, she's going to be a female Jodicey.

And put a hat turn back, was give us some tough lines. You know, because I ain't going to lie. I hear them drums anywhere I go out to see the Puff. Daddy danced. I knew that Diddy Bop was with them drum. Like when I, you know, music is music. It's like a fucking, you know, it takes you right to.

Yeah, not anything. He knows about hip-hop. Yeah. He didn't have one thing to do with the drums. No, what, but he, Dave, old. Stetics. What she's saying, man, them drums remind me of that ditty bob. That, you know, that shit right there.

Like, you know, me and how we battle the wop in the crib. I'm not lying. I don't even know why you, motherfucker. A good challenge her. I don't even know why you got the gumption. You can. That's one thing we ain't got to convince you much of. If the right music come on,

you fucking dancing your ass off in the door of the kitchen. Because we got to convince you for everything. But that shit like that? That shit, it's a whole thing. What we went to see, Chris Brown? Yeah, God, we all went to see. We walk through the concert and all that shit. I knew that Mary Jake Blas don't do shit like that.

So she's walking, we got to walk through the shit. I become her security. When I'm with her, I'm security. I am not the number one object. It's like, all I, like, I will fuck 20 niggas up for her. Like, I got to, like, I got to turn into Joey from the Bronx with him with us. I mean, you had a beautiful time. But I kept fighting with Ralph McDaniels because he had footage of you when you was like 18 to 19.

I think it was in Mount Vernon. It was one of your first shows. And I asked Ralph, I asked Uncle Ralph, I see, your Ralph. man, like, he said, bro, I knew. The second I saw her rocked, he was like, that shit turned upside down. He was like, oh, she's going. You know, many, you know, the women at your show, they hate men. They hate men.

That's a flat. Charlie, that's how they. I don't think they hate men. I think they just tired of being hurt. They don't know how to process. Like, none of us knew how to process. process what we were going through with men back in the days. So I don't think they hate them.

They just don't know how to, you know, process the hurt that they're going through with men or how to even love themselves out of it, you know. I don't think it's hate for you. I think it's hate for the fact that they don't know what to do with this feeling. You get what I'm saying? I reach up I go to your show and feel like I'm getting sad with a bunch of women and one with the same feeling. Listen, I've been going to her concerts with my wife for 30 years.

And she go, I don't know if you know, she'd be snucked. Joe, my brother Joe, here, my sister, Joe. They do the right thing. I'm like, what the fuck? Chicks from upper deck and throwing glissies at me and shit. I'm like, oh, my God, I come over here to get cursed the fuck out. Joe, I was like, yo, they like, you got to be a strong man to take your girl there and stand. I'm going down.

You feel like they cut to everybody. I'm going down. It's a decent way of cursing every guy out in the universe. And you're sitting in there like, yo, Mary, I love your shit, but why they got to curse me out, like what I'm doing wrong.

But that empowerment, you know, and it's sad because so many years me watching you is fucked up. But they say, yo, Mary, you know, she got to be going through some shit so we can get the best work from her, like, you know, them painful records. And it's fucked up because your biggest songs come from your personal

experiences and heartbreaks. And tell us about that. When you fucking crush, that's when you do your best shit. I used to think that was the situation. But I think that just like the fans, they can only relate to you from where they are. So I was where I was. So I was sad. I was suicidal.

I was crying over some nigga all the time. That was very relatable to a lot of the... Exactly. And so I was honestly just given where I was at. So when I sang just fine, I wasn't, you know, just fine. I wanted to be just fine. I wanted to be happy.

If you look at my life, I want you to see what I'm living, what I'm going. Look at my life to see my life. So it's just about being relatable and just letting people see where I was, you know, honestly, through my music. And I still do the same thing.

And I can't please everybody. Oh, I want Mary to be sad again. You know, Hope's say the best. You want my old music or buy my old album. You know, because I can't stay miserable for you guys. But I understand. I totally get it. So where I am right now, you'll get where I'm at right now.

But I'm not saying, oh, you know, the hell with the girls that's brokenhearted. Absolutely not. But I can't get what you in certain places anymore. You understand? I'm saying without a doctor rock yesterday. I get on my knee fucked up, so I get to therapy. I called you with Dr. Rob. I'm trying to plug me.

He called me. He plugged me. He's a hospital name after Dr. Rock. By the way, the fucking building says, I'm taking you to the Dr. Dre of fucking knee and foot doctors. Like, I'm right, but I'm there. And I come outside and there's this Cuban dude. And he's always so happy, right?

Dark-skinned Cuban dude. Oh, fat. You know, I'm half Cuban. Yesterday he was crying. He said, my wife, leave me for some guy in Atlanta. Take my two daughters. No, this real shit. And he want Fat Joe to really therapy him.

Like, you know, I'm trying to, my wife waiting in the car. I'm trying to get up out of there. He's like, fuck. So I got to sit down with this man. Thank God he got the other security and worked with him. He was like, yo, Joe, I'm sure. I said, by the way, this guy's fly, too. No pause.

Whatever you want to say. He ain't no ugly dude. He's fly. And he worked hard. He said I work 14 hours a day. Not hot. The point is I'm trying to make. What did you tell him?

I'm telling him I had a friend. I don't know. I got to talk him off the ledge. Right? Give us a quick. I have a friend that they call me one day and said he's killing himself. His wife cheated on him. And so, Joe, please come over here.

Right? So I go over there. Yo, my man, you the man, you know, I'm doing whatever I can. You the man, this and this and that. Long story short, he was crying. He's a, you know, tough guy, this and this and that. I see him a year later and the man run up to me. Yo, Joe, you won't believe it. I have a new wife.

Beautiful Dominican. She's a pastor. She doesn't want to go out. He shows me pictures beautiful. This guy was going to kill himself the year before. So I'm telling him, no heartbreak, no matter male or female, is fucking devastating. Yeah.

You could be a man and be crying. Like, that man was crying in the middle of his job yesterday. I had to take some time out to talk to him and try to talk them off the ledge. But that's what your music does for women, men, everybody. Yeah, I was talking to, this was a long time ago. I was talking to a guy. and he was like, do you know

what's one of my favorite songs? I'm talking about like a drug dealer, like, you know, one of those. One of those. He was like, you know what one of my favorite Mary Chay Blatt song is? I thought he was going to be like, every day it rains and shit like that.

He was like, I'm going down. I was like, wow. Yes. And so in these concerts, there's men singing the song. Like I'm talking about men, men, men, singing the songs,

drug dealers. I mean, construction work is Yeah, and they said it helped them through I'm going down, helped them to stay on the corner and sell the drugs that they were selling. And that's no, I was like, what?

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So no, I am not your guru. And back then, I lied to my parents, I lied to police, I lied to everybody. There were years right where I could not say your name. I've decided to go back to my hometown in Northern California, interview my friends, family, talk to police, journalists, whomever I can, to try to find out

what actually happened. Isn't it a little bit weird that they obsess over hippies in the woods and not the obvious boyfriend? They have had this case for 30 years. I'll teach you sons of a bitch to come around here in my wife. Boom, boom, this is the red weather. Listen to the red weather starting on January 28th at the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This show contains information subject to, but not limited to personal takes, rumors, not so accurate stats, and plenty more.

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Explore the best selection of audiobooks, podcasts, and originals all in one easy app. Audible. There's more to imagine when you listen. Sign up for a free trial at audible.com. You know, I got dead dirty. Everybody got dead dirty. I don't know about anybody else, but I got done filthy. I had a girlfriend.

I used to tell I hate that dude Black Dave. I hate Juanito. I hate Chico. And he dis, she fucked all of them when I broke up with her. Every last one of them. Everybody, yo. They was like, yo, Joe, three in the morning calling me. I'm like, yo, what's up?

She's walking out with White Danny. Everybody I ever told her I didn't like, she fucked them all. It's horrible. It's horrible. Lucky for me, he was strong. No, no. I'm strong. I ain't want to be with her.

You ever been in a relationship where the guy is talking? Like, I was in a relationship with a girl that she's talking all that hot shit. And the whole time I'm looking at it, I'm like, bitch, I don't even want to be with you. Like, I'm sitting there like, huh? What? There's one thing when you madly in love, you go through the motions. There's another thing when you checked out already. Usually about that time women, they're making their exit plans.

They got their money. They cash. They had saved up. They're getting the fuck up at. They get jokes on you, guy. You was asking me a question? Yeah, you ever been with it? This thing is crazy.

You ever been in a situation where the guy's talking all that shit and you're looking at them like, yo, I've been done. Like, that's shit crazy, right? When it's done, it's done. When a person is not giving you peace, it's poison.

So you already almost out, you know, now they whack, they're ugly, they're not bringing you the things you need. So now they ain't cute no more. their nose is bigger than what it normally is. Their stomach is fatten than what it is. And so you're like, you're wack and ugly anyway. This is what you're saying to your mind.

I'm out of here. But he's still thinking he's hot. I know what you're saying. He's still thinking, yeah, I'm that, nigga. You're like, you don't leave me. Hello. Like, you're sitting there like, hello.

Like, bitch, you're on the chopping block right now. Like, you ass started, you better hold on to whatever you got. And, you know, salute the guys that had girls, bought them a couple of things and let them leave with their things. because this would be some rich niggas that want to keep the bet. We got my man the fucking boxing. He sued the girl.

He went to federal court. He wanted the Birkins back. The boxer. What's his name? Devonaaney absolutely went to court, broke up with his baby moms. It was like, y'all, I need the Birkin bags back,

the earrings. Like, come on. I mean, that's why. I don't think that's cool. You guys charge that. Like, that's... Can me an Indian game. Yeah, no back seats.

Let me tell you. Let's keep the fucking bag. I fought with my wife one time and I started looking at the diamonds and all the watches. I said, man, she got more money to me. I'm like to stick around, boy. Fuck that. She got the bag right here. Like, so Mary, we're a hip-hop show.

Yeah. Run down back in the day, who was some of the favorite records? And I know some of your favorite, but like, I'll start with rap's new generation. One day we was talking about hip-hop and you was going. Sonic. No, no, Setsa Sonnet for Brooklyn, Rath's new generation from the Super Lover, seeing all of them guys there.

Got some other, right? I see you sing the Ha to Ha! How you fall in love with hip-hop and, you know, what was the first songs that you was part into in the jams? They had the jams and Yonkers, too, right? That's how we grew up. Yonkers had a lot of block parties. That's the school 12. I remember school

12 parties? Kins of School parties. Like, y'all came up behind us, but y'all caught up to, you know, the school 12 parties. And the DJs, you know, mixing all the hip hop breakers. That's how, like, they was playing all the samples, like UFO. Remember UFO?

No, and Daughterless. Yeah. So it was, I fell in love just with the samples, you know? And then it was, back then it was like, Karras One was a big deal. Big Daddy Kain was a big deal. Kairos won and Big Daddy King was Yonkers. When everybody had the Shizu, everybody had a Shizuki,

and everybody was running around playing Augie. get raw. Like with the Shizu, everybody had, all the drug dealers have, that's a fact. Right?

Codden, mulford, everything. Everybody had some, so it was all about the school 12 parties and in the summer

the black parties. So the DJs, they put us on and they put us on to the stuff that they didn't even play on the radio. They put us on

to the shit that people be like, how do you know that? Like, if you were a legendary DJ from y'all because I'm talking about he ain't got to be

big time of none but somebody who was rocking them jams. It wasn't... Shut out of Supreme and Hux. People was coming from out of town to play in DJ shows in at school 12.

I mean, it used to be like, you had like Beat Master Gene. You had Rick and them, those guys. They was from Warburton from Yonkers and Jericho. Yeah, so Yonkers have some deep. We got to, right now,

they caught that shout-out so legend wherever they at. Like, I'm telling you, you got to remember, you know, to me, Supreme and Hutch. Supreme and Hutz put me on. We had the best block parties and Supreme and Hust. Their mother was called Mother Earth.

And Mother Earth was sitting behind the ropes and they would like, back up from the ropes. Mother Earth, they'll stop the fucking music for an hour talking about back up. Mother Earth got a, nah, they was in power. And they was wrong. And then that's how we learned all the hip-hop shit. So Carus 1 and...

Big Daddy King. Big Daddy King. Who's hearing them up? Houdini was... It was big, too. He was in a lot of days. I remember will, five minutes of funk. Like, skating rings gave us, you know, a lot of, you know, good hip hoppers too.

The legendary skating ring and wild called wheels. Yep, wheels was on a big deal. And then we all got old enough to run the Harlem and all these other places we was running to. There was the red zone. There was the octagon, the tunnel, the red parrot. I was too young for the red parrot, but I heard. Me too. I heard a lot of, but I was in the red zone.

I was in the tunnel. I was in the octagon and somewhere else. Remember spy? Just the spy club? The spy was it called a spy club? Anyway. I remember the one.

What was that? Club USA? They built the club. They spent so many millions. That's the night I seen Biggie. He came up to me. He pulled out the gun in the shit. He said, you seen DJ Clue?

I said, I ain't see it. He just kept going. I just saw a clue. I just saw a clue. He had the hammer in his shit. He had a vest. He was like, yo, you're crack. You're seeing Clue.

I said, no, I didn't see him. Clue just walked by. He saved his life. What? Legend. It was mixtapes, too. So I got put on, I'm to the Jungle Brothers through a mixed band.

Straight out the Jungle. That's one of my... What are my favorite. Like, I know every word for word for work for Word. You're a Jungle Brother. True Blue Brother. I was selling drugs to the Jungle Brothers. Like, I'm in the corner.

watching shit move with the box playing Jungle Brothers I remember that shit That was that shit That straight out of the time I know the whole Like

Wow They was legendary The Jungle Brother And they had some thing And they had that That was the That was the Yonkins Anthem right there

And Jungle brother, J.B. for sure. A bite a bit, Marama, and we almost fought. Oh, shit. So I'll let him go. I let him run along. Run along. That wild shit.

You know, I'm listening to the radio. It's your birthday. So I don't know if you know, because you was out here moving, working and promoting the residency. But I heard Smith and Wesson on the radio, and they told that story how that eyes shine, you shine, came about. And they said they were.

was in the club. I guess you, Puff, they invited them back to the studio, and they said they jumped on the joint, and that's what they said on the radio. You remember that? Well, I don't remember being in the studio with Smith & Wesson. I don't remember that, but I do remember Puff bringing it back to me with them on it,

and they was one of my favorites at the time. When I heard them on, I went crazy. I was like, we go on. That's just class. You know, that was it. Right here now, I know everybody's going to be watching. I said it earlier to myself, Bucks shot shorty goat.

Here, go. Bok shot, shoddy duck down. Bok shot shorty, a goat. By far. Yeah. Like, I'm ready to put him as a goat. Like, one of the greatest of all time. And I don't think we ever talk about them like that.

But the shit, man. Just have to be a... I listen to that, and it still goes in my fucking blood when the... When they just... And the other ones come something, something come follow me. Something, something, something down the Rit-A-L-M-C. I just seen them rock all on, tick the mind. It's crazy.

My what's the 4-1-1 album is narrated by that. Best deal. We got to pull that Fendi fur down. I see them rock all of them, Joe. Louis Ferdown. Oh, that's for their eyes. Mary threatened me, right? That's crazy.

party and I pull up and she's like, you better come with that shit on when I come because I'm coming. And I said, damn, I rethought the whole shit. I still went in the closet really calculated this. I said, man, I got to come with some

Fendi first, some other, because she come through. You never dress whack. If you come to my house from the supermarket from anywhere, you fresh did that? Like even in the hot, like on a regular A good day. If you come on a regular, regular of all days, you got that shit on.

What is fashion to you? And I know why I brought up Luther Vangers. But before you answer that, I'm going to tell you why. Patty LaBelle told me Luther Vangorz had a closet with couches and TV in there. And if you go visit him in his house, he put you in the closet. It starts showing, yo, this that Scapper Belli. y'all this that one of one bow main this that i think for all my years of following mary jay like your closet got to be fucking ridiculous it's insane and i can't even find half of the stuff

that i wore through the years like it's just and it's still crazy i wish i could find all of that stuff that i was wearing what do you mean like the stolen missing or no niggas stole my Mom? Oh, yeah. Do you still got the Army coat from Flojo? No, but I got an Army coat. I almost wore that shit just on the regular just outside the day. Now I got motherfucking Laura Piana Army coats.

9,000 to the jack. But get ahead, Mom. Well, when you move. They stole your shit. No, when you're doing it. Was it burned down in a chimney fire? Nah. A lot of it probably is stolen because, like, I don't know where it was sad.

But when you're moving, you just, things just get lost in everywhere. And then, you know, I gave a lot of stuff away. Like, here, just take it. And, you know, I wish I didn't. But that's what happened. That's crazy because the renter gave mad shit away that now's the style. Now we bond it again because as he liked the shit.

This is the vintage. She was like, I had that in every color. I gave it out. This, this, that. Everything coming back. Everything. The residency, you're doing it different. You're going to have actors.

and theater. It's called My Life, My Life Story. So I'm definitely going to use some actors and actresses to tell the story. You know, you're going to be like a bunch of acting. It's going to be a Mary J. Blod's show with little bits of things involved to pull on your memory from interviews that I've done. You'd be like, oh, I don't know, I remember she said that. And, you know, I mean, she said this was that.

So it'll be besides, like, songs that, like, there's a lot of songs I never, we perform. So the B size that we're picking, oh, my No, we want that. Like, that was the number one question. I went around and Hustle, E Hustle, a couple of women, and I was like, what should I ask Mary? Because, you know, we would, well, thank God. I'm blessed to be with Mary J. Blige all the time.

And let me tell you something, I don't take you for granted. I know you the queen. You run shit. I asked a couple of people, and they always like, is she going to do the songs we never see her perform at the residency? wait today hear what I'm doing. Why you take it? And you, you know, but you're not going to be coming for the normal things.

We got, so do you want to tell a story? Yeah, what they hear? I was about that, can't get you off my mind, how we had that message first. You and style, I was on the record that Brony did. Can't get you. We had that. We had that first.

It's a fact. We had that first. That's a fact. And Ronnie just told the story. so I'm going to tell it again. The record was a monster before we even got it out. Smash. They killed it.

Everybody was excited. And it was though, do do do do, do, do, do, do the message. Rodney's mixing the record or something like that. Before Rodney, he said, when he said he was going to mix the record at, he said that some people was coming. I don't want to say who it is. I said, don't play it for him.

He played it for him. Two weeks later, Jack. The whole sample gone. Yeah. I just told you about the shit off the air. That's the game. That's why I don't tell nobody nothing. I keep everything to my soul.

So anyway. I just told him one of our best friends on earth. I never told the shit publicly. I played him a record. Two weeks later, we had an identical twin floating in the air. And I was like, Jesus Christ. To this day, is one of my best friends. I never even had the courage to tell him,

You know you Jack, my yala. You know what I'm saying? I play him a record. You know, this is the game, huh? He's got something hot. And it's still a game. If you got something hot, don't tell nobody. Keep it done.

I don't tell them nothing, man. Oh, that's slice down. I think Callet taught me that. Like, I'll be next to Callet, and he don't tell me nothing. Next day I look at TV as a Colgate commercial. I'm like, damn, this motherfucker don't even let me know with a bag out or nothing.

I'm like, but you got to protect your blessings. You got to protect, you know, where you going because these people will move on your shit. It was a lot of people got upset that we got the Netflix deal and we didn't tell nobody what we was doing. And so when they saw it, they was like, oh, shit. Like, yo, y'all could have gave us a heads up. How about nobody feeds us and nobody pay our bills. So we got to do what we got to do. We got to protect our blessings.

I understand what you said. You can't play shit for nobody. Not even the best. I'm talking about our best friend, almost the most loyalist dude I know in the world. He heard my shit. He went back, yo, look what I did.

I was like, foul play. Out of all the success, you got, all the accolades, this, that this, as he said, I stole this, this that this. You got to have the most in history of your music played in the house while the house is getting clean. I'll put you against any other artists on the planet.

Really not for Shaka Khan? You want to get a good outscreening? Do you. I will surprise. Oh. Your mom, aunt and moms would play that shit to the fucking shit. The shit was like, the shit was melting.

Bro, we live on the fifth floor. We are in front of the building playing. We hid them. For 10 hours straight, I will survive. Oh, no, no, no. I don't even know what the shit mean. I'm a little kid. I don't even know what the fuck they're singing about.

And that candy statin. Oh, I'm a victim. My mother played the hell out of it. And I didn't know why until I got older. I mean, the lyrics is, whew, but for women. So I guess that would be the equivalent to I will survive. And now my music is I will survive. It's the same thing, you know, same women empowerment songs.

I want you to tell me about getting on Jay-Z's first album. Did you know he was going to be the guy? Or did you know, how did that come about it? I heard you say it before, but I wanted for the audience because this is a hip-hop. Yeah. They tuned in. I didn't know that he was going to be what he was. But I knew my girlfriend, Michelle, who's still my girl to this day,

We both were friends with Dame Dash. I knew Dame since Slovon. And Michelle was like, oh, you know, Dame. I was like, yeah. It was like on the start and Jay Z's about to do a record and they want you on. I was on my life album. And I was like, bad.

So I showed up to the studio. They gave me the money in a brown bag. Like a brown paper bag. Still has some yalla, some residue on that. That's a cheap. during that the yellow on there. We didn't mind doing business like that back then. I was like, whatever.

I was still actually mentally in slow bomb. You know, so I took the money, went in the studio. Irv was there, did the verse, and that was it. It wasn't no big deal. It was just going to studio. That's a big deal with hip-hop history. Yeah. You see how it happened.

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You know, it's impossible, right, to figure it out. But with all the records, I think your biggest is family affair with Dr. Dre. That was moved. With who else? Who else is on there? Chez-to-the-mois. Hey, hold up, as Mayor Zendami would say, Cheater de de Maude.

Jason Sylvester Stallone. A motherfucker gave you about 62 names. He better pick up my call with a call for him. I need some help. That family affair, you hear the beat. I mean, y'all had a ball. I see that bit, yo, Latanya, you all in that fucking video, huh? It was a family.

It was a family affair. Family affair, I get it. What was that like when they played you that? Dr. J still the guy. I never worked with it. I'm trying to get something to crumb us. They were a little piece for later.

Well, let me tell you the story. And Don Poo had a lot to do with this, because Don Poole was my A&R at the time. Okay, shout out of the time. Uzo! And Geffen, Gaffin records are one of those. Guffin. And so Don Poo,

Don Poo bought me the actual track. Now, I'm a hardcore hip-hop. All I'm doing is singing over hip-hop loops. And he brings me B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B. Didn't understand it. So Don Pru was like, oh man, and then he goes and he gets in the studio with my brother. Shut up to Bezzi.

And then he's like, yo, Mary, I think you really need to come down in the studio and, you know, rethink this. So I had to snap out of, you know, records crackling and singing over hip-hop moves for a second to try something new. I said, let me go and see what this is about. So we get in the studio, we start writing the song. my brother had already wrote some of the song and so I recorded it once I recorded this song I was like oh

okay we might have something so I sent it to Dre once we finished it right I sent it to Dre Dre was like no I need something it needs something he was like it needs a bridge and I was like it don't need a fucking bridge and I was going crazy

acting like the savage that I was and he was like if you don't do a bridge I'm going to take my name off it I said, okay, I went to view the bridge. So I went and wrote the bridge, killed the bridge, sent it to Drey. He was like, What's the bridge again? What's the bridge?

We don't need no haters. We're just trying to love one another. No more job. Yeah, and all that. That was me. I got the words right. Thank you very much. Your dog on the plate.

And the rest is. history. The song was so big. I was on tour and we had this bus driver who was this big white and, you know, like bluegrass country music listening. And he would keep the station on the bluegrass station. And I came up there to talk to him one day

and Family Affair was on. I was like, yo, what station is it? He was like, that's my station. He's my song. I said, what? This is my song. You're like, that's me. That's when I realized, I said, oh, my God, I'm a huge star. That's when I realized it's a good part and the bad part. of me being on the show.

Me being on is a blessing and beautiful. Now when they come to going on and do a show when they call me, it's their last song. You know how that's a show. Ashanti do that shit to me all the time. Ashanti do that shit to me all the time. Be like song 18, yes, bro, song 18. I'm sitting there.

This is the last. She got three pages of souls. I got the last very last one at the line, this fine print. Everybody's wasted at that point. That's all. You know what? I had to throw a fly for that one

because you've been doing Jay to kiss dirty with the last song. Oh, it ain't. I saw a fly, nah. Fab and because Fab is on a two. Yeah. Fab is on family. On the remit.

Spitz on there. Wow. You like working a lot with Fab. Like, what's that? We already know this yonkers top five did her a lot, but you, You know what it is? Fab is great chemistry, but he's also a good person

and a really good friend. Like, I deal with people, I go where I'm celebrating. You know, I hear Fab, you know, say less queen, you know, just pay for the ground, you gotta give me nothing else. You know, I'm coming. Kiss, you're founding nothing. This is my family,

and I only really deal with Jada Kiss and Fabulous when it comes because they really support me. I hate to go begging biggest for your own. Who can I get a bird? I'm not begging for no verse. My phone turned red. That's Mary. Got to come to.

You ever heard her talk like a guy? You ever called her from a number she don't know? Or she'd be like, yo, what's on? She's the greatest ever made. I'm telling you the truth. Throw a flag. What the fuck? Why would I call her from a number that she don't know?

So what? For two, what kind of pranks you're doing over here on your free time? I call Mary J. Blige. And I'm like, yo, what's up, sister? Here, what's up? What's going on out here? Who you talk? to this, this that.

They'd be like, yo, it's Joe Krenk. Oh, Joe, you're the best. All right, let's just say I call you right now. From a black number? Right now. Block number. Yo, what's up?

Sis, what's going on? Yo, what's going on? Before I say my name, how would you answer the phone? You. Oh, what's up, Joe? Yo, that shit crazy. You got me thinking you changed the number. Like, yeah, is Joe.

You, Joe, what's up? I had to find a... Look, after I got that divorce, I had to find another voice because people was calling me from all different kind of shit and wasn't who they was. So I had to find another voice.

You gotta do the deep face the screen. Yo, yo, what's up, yo? Let me tell you something, man. You know, we over that divorce shit and all that because... We over it. Your new man is... Well, not new man.

Is he a mystery man still? Is he a mystery man to you? Not to be... No, no, yes, yes. I was at the birthday party and I was dancing by Chata. To the... That my fucking looked like GQ Enterprise. Joe, listen what I'm saying.

They was doing this shit. I see yo. Joe, let me explain something to you. To the world, he's a mystery man, but to my family and friends, he is not. So we're not doing that because... Made some noise for that. Protect your peace. Protect your peace.

You know with me, they try to give me so many bags to be on TV with my family. And I always said, no, because I know I wouldn't have a relationship after a TV show because everybody be in your business. They got something to say, shit that's probably normal to you or to my wife or me. They'd be like, oh, he ain't shit.

Because soon as you know, I don't know about you, but as soon as I lock that door, close that door, I say some slick shit on the way out. Like, you know, words. All right, man, you know, no proclosed off. They caught that shit on camera. My head would be on a fucking pike

on one of them game of thorn. Joe, check that's a today of it. True king in the north. Joey Snow. What? Shit on. I'm the true king of the North. The King of the North.

The King of the North. The King of the North. Came in that cocaine shit. You ain't doing that. ain't that, this ain't this unit. Joe, we ask your question. Yes. Where did you meet me for the first time?

I don't know. I know I was... Was it in the Bronx? Can I tell you? Well, I know I was stabbing somebody the last person who asked me then. She was like, yeah, I saw you stabbing the guy when I was like, oh my God. Want me to tell you? Yeah.

I don't know if it was your first movie, but it was prison songs, my first movie. And you came to me, you like, Joe, I fuck somebody up over you. You was going... off. And I was like, yeah, fat Joe loves me. He's going to protect me. And that was the first time I ever met you and you was still still to beat me. Still this beautiful person. I know if I was supposed to be the kid you had to fight with or Q-tip or one.

I was supposed to be in prison. Yeah. We had a ball. It was in the Bronx too. We shun their shit all in a... Somehow always makes it back to the problem. I'm not trying to say it was just the Bronx, but it was the Bronx. You know what I'm saying? That was a fun time for me. I finally got my cheekbone in the movie.

Like I had been on like two, three movies before that. I don't know what was I like, and they got, no, pause. You know, I never had a real role. That was the first time I had like a real role. Yeah. It was fun. I see that shit to this day. I spoke to Q-Tip yesterday.

So with the Gop. Shout out Q-Tip. Definitely. You need you all here. Oh, no, he's going to come. He's an eclectic friend. Special. Yeah.

Pew Tiff's family. And the movie was, I carried the whole movie. I played The Mother. And this shit was horrible. Like, when I look back at him, like, Oh, please, I don't want to see this again. No, that was some real ghetto shit. Yeah.

Low budget. Yo, sis. This. residency. We flying out to Vegas. I love you. was on Sherry. You said, she said, any guests? You said, the whole New York coming. But the whole New York is coming. It seems like. Listen, they got to buy them tickets. If you got to stay 17 in the hotel room, 17 people, go do it. Whatever you got to do, y'all got to go out there. Get your tickets.

You got to go out there, get your tickets. 25th anniversary, correct? That's no more drama. No more drama. No more drama. No more drama. 25th anniversary. Yeah. How do you think?

Listen. We're happy for everybody, but sometimes I see some rapists I started with. They missing teeth. You know, one day they snuck me in in the old school at noon. Yeah. You know what I? Go through that teeth, colleagues, man. One day they paid me the bag.

And I don't know how they afforded me at an old school. And they threw the real bag, right? So I pull up in there and I'm looking at other legends. They dancing around Hennessy bottles, no teeth, this. I'm like, I close the door. Like, what the fuck? They caught me in one of these? Old school at noon, I'm opening the door.

These are legends too. Like, Hard to tell you talking about. What year you started? No, no, they're legends. Well, what year you started? Your first record came out? Well, my first first record came out.

I was still in Slobomb, and that was the father I'll do for you. Facts. I wasn't signed nowhere. We felt, we felt like we made it off that. Crazy me. Look it, man. I was still running around at Mofit and cottage and slow while I'm in school.

I was still deep. Still in the huds, man. Man, let me tell you something. In them uptown records, right? Because today, you know, I was getting a massage. Shout out Simone, my therapist. And, you know, I play that R&B shit in the back. And they play some Albee Shore shit that I never heard.

He was on YouTube and the shit came on and I was like, yo, that's how I'll be sure And I look up. Sure enough, it was him. Like, at that time, the Uptown Records It's you, Father MC, Heavy D in the boys.

Jody C. Joseph Williams. Mm-hmm. Just us. How crazy was that? Because we look at the Jungle Brothers and we think about De La Sol that's a lot of tea, fair moni love.

Like that right there. If y'all did a show together, like on TV, that would be like the Motown 20. Like, I don't think nobody's fucking with that. Yeah, I forgot about De La Sol sorry. I forgot to mention them to, like, back in the days that we flew up on them soon. It was hearing a lot of De La.

Yeah. The buddy was a big deal. But, yeah, that'd be crazy. Listen, says, we want to keep you for 50 hours, but they say- I know. You got to promote, man. Residency.

My life. I would say the other part. My life, my life story. My life, my life story. Vegas. Get your ticket. I hustle. Don't call me.

Definitely don't call L.T. Don't call us. Get your tickets. This ain't that? That ain't this. Cracking kiss. Make some noise for MJ. Big.

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