Joe and Jada - Swae Lee talks ‘Same Difference,’ Rae Sremmurd, “Unforgettable” & Coachella plans

Episode Date: April 9, 2026

Fat Joe and Jadakiss are joined by Swae Lee, one half of Rae Sremmurd and solo hitmaker behind some of the biggest records of the last decade. Swae Lee breaks down his come-up from Mississippi, how hi...s DJ's connection to the Eardrummers landed him in Atlanta cooking up hits with Mike Will Made It, the making of “Unforgettable” with French Montana, his new single “Don't Even Call” featuring Rich the Kid, and reveals he and Rich are working on a new joint tape. Swae Lee discusses his new 16-track album 'Same Difference' with features from Jhené Aiko, Post Malone, and French Montana, plays “Suitcase” for Joe and Jada live in the studio, and talks his upcoming Coachella performance later this month. Joe and Jada is now STREAMING ON NETFLIX! All lines provided by Hard Rock Bet 7:00 How Swae & Rae Sremmurd got discovered 11:30 New single with Rich The Kid 17:30 Story behind "Unforgettable" with French Montana 23:00 Swae invites Jada to perform at Coachella 32:00 Joe's stories about not eating pork 40:30 Live reaction to "Suitcase" feat. French Montana 55:00 Star talent doesn't always make stars 1:04:00 When girls start coming to your showsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:12 I mean, two, three songs, whatever, man. No cap. No count. Uh-oh. Jay to his first ever at Coachella, nigga. That's legendary, niggas. That's going to go crazy. Do you get excited?
Starting point is 00:02:36 Yeah, yeah, what up y'all? Joe Crack to Dawn. You know who it is your boy, Jada Kiss. This is the Joe and Jada show. Every show legendary, every show iconic. We don't play around with you guys. Nor do we ever, man. I'm not doing what you doing.
Starting point is 00:02:55 Let's just keep going. Just keep going. Your kiss, don't height me up. Don't hunt. Don't get me to go. I'm not trying to go bad. I've been nice. Screw it, man.
Starting point is 00:03:06 Weather is breaking. Go bad. I don't know what I mean? Go bad. every now and then. But now, when you think of today's guests, as we told you, every show legendary, every show iconic, you think of somebody who came in with his group,
Starting point is 00:03:22 made a hell of an impact with the group. Knocked them out the park. Knocked them out the park. Shout out the Mike Will. They knocked them. They came in and I say hit a few grand slams. You know what I mean? Never compromised, though.
Starting point is 00:03:40 stay silent every time you see them with the group, without the group, always love, always got that good energy. Transitioned to a solo artist. Hit even more out the park. You know what I mean? His bat paws. He couldn't strike out.
Starting point is 00:04:00 There's no such thing. Anything he touched. Rock star. Anything he touched, just light up. You know what I mean? I think I even see. seen him on a helicopter playing a video game. The shit was the illest shit I ever seen.
Starting point is 00:04:15 He was in the airplane. You don't make it all kind of history. You know what I mean? Now he's about to do it again. He felt like, you know what I mean? He looked at the ball. He looked at the rafters. It felt like putting some more home runs in there.
Starting point is 00:04:29 So he's going to do it again. When you think a drip, when you think of ice, when you think of somebody who just does whatever the fuck he wants and it looks, it looks like he's having fun doing. Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for my brother, Swah Lee. What up, what up, what up, what up, what up.
Starting point is 00:04:49 What's heading, what's happening? What's heading? Swayley Lee Lee, Swaye, same difference, man. Appreciate that, my brother's for real. Thank you all for having me for real. Appreciate you, my brother. You know what I mean? That nigga's legends, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:05:02 That started me up, got me lit. You pre-smokes a legendary shit before you walked in here, right? You look like you on that Hubonic chronic. Oh, no, sober, sober living. You got the squeeze place. Soba? Sober living, man. You just got that in.
Starting point is 00:05:16 He just looked like he out. It's a different kind of energy. Oh, shit. I take a shot, though. You know what I'm saying? My brother. 1800, y'all, double-time, two-time of felon. Two-time of felon.
Starting point is 00:05:29 Hold on. Hold on. We got to do nothing. Don't wait a minute. You don't got to do nothing. You got to do nothing. What's two-time of selling? No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:05:39 He's going to take care of you. Two time of felon left. James, you want to do the honors? My fault. I know you want to shine. Take care, my brother. This one one. Take care.
Starting point is 00:05:49 Number four, I take care of others. I notice when I go home and watch the show, you try to get me smack. You're, it's shit, and you talk about I'm shooting at you. You try to make them slide me a lick. You're much more fun on 1800. That's different. You think you're more fun smoked out. When you drink, you legend.
Starting point is 00:06:09 Jay to become the best in the game. And I drink, I might get us in trouble. Oh, big job. Seek the kingdom. Seek the kingdom. Give a toast to Sway Lee, man. Come on, let's do it. 1800.
Starting point is 00:06:24 1800, you know what it is. Damn, the flag on the plate. No, it's 1800 to white shit. He got the clear one. If I drink that shit, y'all be carrying me out of this shit. He can't hit the rep all like that. He ain't got hit the white. Less car.
Starting point is 00:06:41 Less sugar for the thing, the pat. Man. Brother. That's right. Legendary leader of the news. All the way up. Well, I took my sipper ready. How much y'all want me to drink?
Starting point is 00:06:55 Half the bottle. Sheesh. My fucking got me $1,800. I don't get on that timing, man. That's a quadruper shot. My brother, how did you get discovered? How do you get in the game? Was it Mike Will?
Starting point is 00:07:06 I just see you come out of nowhere just like Jada. Jayda ain't exaggerating the line. You just came out and your shit was legendary. So how did you get your start? I grew up in Mississippi and long story short,
Starting point is 00:07:21 my DJ was cousins with Mike Will's producers, the ear drummers. So my homie's P.Nasty and Mars they first got in touch with us and they heard our music that we was making from Mississippi. So they told us, me, y'all come to Atlanta
Starting point is 00:07:33 and you guys work with us. You know what I'm saying? Just lock in with us. see what comes from it. So we was working at McDonald's just doing what we could get some money at the time. So boom,
Starting point is 00:07:42 one of my homies, he had a truck. So we got down, drove that shit from Mississippi to Atlanta and just locked in like a whole year in the basement and just cooking up with Mike Will, cooking up with the eardrumbers,
Starting point is 00:07:52 just creating a new sound. And Mike Will would come over and hear the songs, he'd be like, yo, my y'all boy, it's hard. You know what I'm saying? He always paid show mad love. And then he had an idea for a group,
Starting point is 00:08:03 ear drummers backwards. And he felt like The sound, like, matched that name. And we was like, shit. That's hard, you know what I'm saying? So, boom. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:14 Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's how I'm saying. That's how it happened. Me and Brosky. You know what's crazy is it's good to have money. Yeah. Right? And success.
Starting point is 00:08:23 But it was nothing more priceless than that time when you was in the basement, creating that music and all like, you know, I met Bryce and Tiller. And my man, Richard Barber's house. He used to live in Rich the Barbic sauce. He was making that whole first album in his kitchen.
Starting point is 00:08:41 Damn. So I got to see that product. Of course, he got the big mansion now. He can't fuck up. But it was, you know, that's a priceless time when you, when you're there learning the ropes and you coming up with these hits and you coming up with that sound and, you know,
Starting point is 00:08:57 and dreaming. So after that year, you put out this music and then the next thing you know, you explode. How did that feel? making a transition from nobody knowing you to now you're the biggest shit in the game. Man, it was crazy because, like, when we lived in Atlanta,
Starting point is 00:09:15 it's like some of these clubs, you know what I'm saying? They turned us around. So many people told us now, we can't even play this, you know what I'm saying? But we're on foot with it, you know? So we're working every club. We're screaming our shit loud in the streets, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:09:25 We're handing out CDs, everything. So the turnaround was crazy. Like the same clubs that were turning us around, same spots that were turned us around. They like, they welcome us with open arms. Yeah, booking us. sending bags, so it's like, damn, shit crazy. It was crazy. Why Fenn Lucci was here, and he forgot.
Starting point is 00:09:41 But I remember one night, I come out the club, he's performing on top of the car. His song, and they was like, yo, that's YFN. I mean, Atlanta got a different type of grind. Like, one fuck is going to do what they got to do. He told me he didn't remember that. But I remember watching YFN Lucci on top of a fucking car performing his song outside the club.
Starting point is 00:10:04 I said, man, that's a man, that one. fucking grinding. The hunger to come up for sure. Super hungry doing whatever. That's really nuts because that's the way I didn't think your era, y'all was doing that. That's how we came up like giving the vinyl
Starting point is 00:10:17 to the DJs and going to every club. The truth is, you got to get on foot with it. You can't really, yeah, you can't be successful just standing in the corner sitting on your couch. Yeah, yeah. You got to, like, come on, two times.
Starting point is 00:10:32 That's who we're supposed to. Let me tell you something. Thank you, brother. But you can't be, you know, and you can't say my daughter. My daughter got a little podcast. Shout out to Azzie as if. And she's making, he's saying she's doing shit. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:50 But she's doing shit because she's out there and everybody's face and working and doing whatever she can do. On the front line, yeah. Yeah. Networking and getting the relationship. So every time she comes out with a new breakthrough, I'm like, yeah, but she got to be out. She laid the brick. Nobody's going to be able to give you that success
Starting point is 00:11:09 or get you to where you going without you out there grinding, putting in that work. It's just the way it is. I think if I put out a new record, I got to do the same shit. Now, 2026, like pull up on the club and be like, yo, play this shit.
Starting point is 00:11:28 Yo, this and this and that. I mean, it's always been where it's at. It's always been where you get the best success. Best reaction, yeah. The best reaction, bro. New single. Don't even call featuring Rich the Kid. Shout out to Rich the kid.
Starting point is 00:11:45 Shout out Rich. How did that happen? How did this song happen? How did the division come before? What made you make it the lead sing? What is here about? Yeah, see, boom. I live in Miami shit right now.
Starting point is 00:11:57 So that song, like, I gave it to a couple of DJs. It ended up, like, blowing up crazy in Miami. So all the girls know it in Miami and shit. You know what I'm saying? I always see Rich the Kid. out there. He live out there. So boom, we always cross paths. I mean my, I mean my Rose Royce, nigga, me in his G wagon, sitting up
Starting point is 00:12:11 50 feet. We always see each like, nigga, let's get in. That big shit. Yeah, he got that, he got that bribeys kick. It's like 350, 400. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I know it's him. I know it's him every time. I can't. I can't. You all the step up now. Nick, you know, them senior
Starting point is 00:12:27 citizen assistant, Joe. Yeah, for sure, I'm not exactly. I got to get on them up. Yeah, them shit's too, like, which is truck. But you got some of crazy. I just bought a G-wagon. I played myself. That's shit hard, though, but I always see, brother, then we like.
Starting point is 00:12:46 Yeah. White-on-white-on-white. I'm saying for that Miami. So when we come down, you see that shit. That's exactly how rich. Right, white-on-white shit. No, I'm saying. The Rose Royce Dawn.
Starting point is 00:12:57 Oh, yeah, my shit. Oh, you're talking your shit? You got white too? Oh, no, I got the Rose-Roy's truck. Red good. Cullin' it? Yeah, Cullin. Black badge.
Starting point is 00:13:05 You know what I'm saying? Man, I forgot down. Tend it up. Ain't nothing like it. Pull up in a reaper. No, here you can't. Yeah. Here in New York.
Starting point is 00:13:12 I got mine here. The traffic too crazy. I love them. Traffic's too crazy, but, you know, I'm from here. So where would you say you're more from?
Starting point is 00:13:21 A.T. Or Mississippi? Definitely Mississippi. Yeah, I'm from. I know the DNA in New York City. It's hard for motherfuckers, man. It's too much jealousy when I come down the block
Starting point is 00:13:32 in that Rooms Royce. It's just hard. man. Motherfucking cross in the street. You see that shit in their eyes and all that. That shit, I might have drove it one time in New York City. Like, a year. That shit just sitting there for no reason.
Starting point is 00:13:47 It's just, I can't even get to wait. As fast as I pull that bitch out, the faster on the day like today that's nice. That shit be back in the fucking garage. Yeah, you're going to go five minutes. It's like, niggas, they just can't. They can't parolite. They can't take that shit. They face me like, you just.
Starting point is 00:14:08 They disgust me. That's, I'm telling you, nobody, you can't take that here. Here in Miami, you go to Carbone anywhere, 72 roads. Oh, yeah, for sure, for sure. It should look like a skateboard out there. So many motherfuckers got them shit. Over here? Good luck.
Starting point is 00:14:28 I'm telling you, good luck. I drove through the same blocks. I always drove through it, bro. motherfuckers be like, yo crap, what up, yo. You come down with that big body, motherfuckers be like, that shit's turning heads. They just tight.
Starting point is 00:14:43 They hate you. You know, I come up in the era weird. That's motivation. So I used to see the guys who used to hustle or sell, or own number spots and this, this, that, or see a motherfucker fly. You see a motherfucker in your hood from my outcome. It was horrible.
Starting point is 00:14:59 Like, nobody was fly. If one motherfucker was fly, We used to look at him like, yeah, you know, him motherfuck of a fucking fly. One day I was going to be a little V-bomber. I'm going to get me a little something. And, you know, we always took it as inspiration. Right.
Starting point is 00:15:16 You know what I'm saying? Now I don't know where that switchoff is now. It's looked like they almost assumed you rubbing it in their face that you're successful. They take it another way now. Before it used to be like inspiration. Yeah. Miami don't get me a start.
Starting point is 00:15:32 Everybody got much. I don't know what it's some fake shit. It's like, it's everybody rich. Like, I live there for 23 years. It's like everywhere I go is fucking, they got ballet and Walgreens. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:15:45 Mawndonka, Miami. One of the biggest crooks in the world is the ballet. They got ballet and CBS. Mawfucker, you go to CBS. They're collecting. Some Tylenol, they'll be like, yo, valet the car beat. You be like, what?
Starting point is 00:15:59 Ballet. You need cash in Miami to tip all these valet motherfucker. for sure. That's so fat. And they're going to change the price to AC. You put up in that Rose Royce,
Starting point is 00:16:07 it's automatically a hundred. Yeah. It's automatically. I had this one Mexican who ran all the clubs. He was the ballet of all the, he was the boss. It's my fucking man.
Starting point is 00:16:16 Yeah, in the prime time. When we in the club, seven days a week, my man ran the whole shit, so I'll come, yo, pop, hey! You take, bleed the shit. Man, one day they deported that
Starting point is 00:16:26 nigger, nigga, nigger said, new boss. Yeah. $100 front. I used to pay, this nigga $50 for like 10, 15 years. They couldn't wait for new boss.
Starting point is 00:16:38 They were like, he bought it, Poppy. Bobby, your man. Gong. Gong, new boss, 100. Up front, Goddaw. I said, damn, me couldn't wait to tell me that shit. Get them, niggas. Yeah, that's the way.
Starting point is 00:16:53 Man, you got to be cool with everybody. For real. When you're dropping the whole project, are you going to drop a project? Yeah, I'm dropping a project. Oh, wow. 16 songs, yeah, 16 songs, later. Yeah, me, Janay Aiku, most Malone, French Montana.
Starting point is 00:17:10 Well, you're all dropping on that day? No, they're all on my Friday. Oh, they're from the Gianniacru. I sampled on my last album, man. She lucked out and let me clear the sample. Janay? Yeah, she hated the song, too. She was like, yo, I hate the song, man.
Starting point is 00:17:25 You sound like a chip mom. Oh. Joe crack. You know what I call a beautician, nail-polished lady, the lady who do the eyes. When I'm on you, horse, they're going to find you Sway Lee
Starting point is 00:17:39 everywhere you go. The barber, the this, the head, the fat guy's looking for you. The fact guy's looking for you. The fact guy, you get it. You finally be like, yo, ain't no way I can go.
Starting point is 00:17:50 This motherfucker looking for me. She cleared it for me, but she's legendary. Who else? You got French Montana? Montana for show. So everything good now because I'm forgettable.
Starting point is 00:18:00 They say, you know, there was a mix-up. of communication. I think what it was, like, it looked one way on the internet, but in real life, it's just, it just wasn't the traditional way you go about clearing a song,
Starting point is 00:18:12 you know what I'm saying? But the outcome of the song was everything we could imagine, you know what I'm saying, everything we wanted. So it was a lot going on at the time, you know what I'm saying? Mike Well, man, it's work yourself out.
Starting point is 00:18:23 As rich as he is, he still talk to himself on the park bench about that song. I mean, yeah, because every time I get around, he'd be like, yeah, man, that was my song, man. That shit.
Starting point is 00:18:33 I'm like, Yo, Mike, but yeah, Mike, Mike, he's standing on it. He's standing on it, for sure. That's your man.
Starting point is 00:18:39 I said, yeah, but you know, I don't know with the politics. He's like, yo man. For real, for real.
Starting point is 00:18:47 Yeah, Mike ain't, playing by that shit, for real. He gonna go to the grave with that one. But that one I'm telling you. Every time I see him that. He didn't agree with how it happened.
Starting point is 00:18:53 But I get it because it's like, it was a long story, you know what I'm saying? It's kind of like some backdoor shit but it's like seeing the opportunity and season. You know what I'm saying
Starting point is 00:19:00 Basically what it was The best thing is that it came out And the shit It went like 20 million A 10 million Some wild shit Right Which so classic
Starting point is 00:19:09 Like real classic Definitely connected with the people And them shit's coming time Yeah That's coming at a good time For real Wasn't nothing like that coming out Especially not from American art
Starting point is 00:19:20 That shit was a fucking UFO Right That shit to this day When it comes on is different It sounds like a movie It's a movie Yeah it's a different It's a giant king.
Starting point is 00:19:31 Nah, that's a different type of thing, bro. With that shit, come on, man, come on. Let's get it real. Man, that unforgettable? That shit, come on. I watched that nigga go from JetBlue. He was private every day. Yeah, for sure.
Starting point is 00:19:44 Then he married the princess of Dubai. I'm looking at all that shit off that unforgettable. It's crazy. God. Hey, this motherfucker, man, boy, stop. It's one of them caliber songs, for a timely song, for real. Yeah, it is. You're about to kick off a college tour.
Starting point is 00:19:58 Not a college store. I was just doing a couple of stops. Talking to the colleges, yeah, exactly. So I went to some HBCUs. I went to Morehouse and Spelman in Atlanta, and I just left. Talking to the colleges? Yeah, just like a seminar,
Starting point is 00:20:10 letting them know what's going on, yeah, boom. Wow, you're a great speaker, huh? You're not scared? I ain't scared, you know what I'm saying? Basically just letting the music talk, you know what I'm saying? Tell them the coolest thing they can do is be smart, just motivating them, getting them ready, putting them on the album, too, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:20:24 Just tapping in with the future and shit, you know what I'm saying? Oh, that's dope. Yeah, later I'm going to. NYU after this. Yeah. Doing shit. You know what's crazy is a lot of, you know, I've been doing this shit a minute, like interviewing and all that.
Starting point is 00:20:40 And a lot of the youth, they don't really talk like that. They don't really get out like that. Biggest stars in the world when you start talking to them in, like, interviews, they ain't got no fluidity. They ain't got shit to say. And you taking the bull by the horns going to the schools and talking to them, that's pretty unique in this day and error. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:21:01 Yeah, I feel you, yeah, it's a lot of mysterious, you know. Mysterious is going on. It costs too much to be fucking cucking. No, thank you for letting me know, because I go home. I look up my shit, my shit be looking all crazy. It's like the hangar still on that bitch.
Starting point is 00:21:14 Shit me up like that. That shit fly. It's that elephant skin. Oh, God. I say something different for so. It's the elephant skin. That ain't that cow right now. It ain't that cow.
Starting point is 00:21:24 I'm got. You know, it's crazy. I love trashy, man. And I was, I was riding. in Miami. Yeah. And I seen this girl, she walked by, she had a, this shit in Burgundy with the elephant skin. I said, damn.
Starting point is 00:21:37 Pigs on me like that. Wow, since I seen the elephant skin. And I went to the Webster in Bell Harbor and I walked in. They had the purple elephant skin shit. I was like, yo, I need this shit. It's the elephant skin. Like real elephant skin? I don't know, but back on the thing.
Starting point is 00:21:51 I'm like, what's the numbers on that? I don't know if it's, it's elephant skin print for sure. Rhino or some shit. Don't do that, kiss, man. Get ahead with that shit, man. Touching the elephant, man. Man, got to respect.
Starting point is 00:22:05 The premises, this shit. It's a different type of... I like Ellison. The material got down. Now, we love this shit, though. You know what I'm saying? We come on here. We get to have a great-tile vibe
Starting point is 00:22:16 with people preserve the culture. Yeah. Give everybody a place where they can come, feel like home, you know, and always... It's always for the upliftment. It's never with the negative shit.
Starting point is 00:22:27 the Joe and Jada show, this shit winning on some positivity. And in this world now, it's big. It's so hard to be positive. Was you and Rich that went in the studio or he sent him to file
Starting point is 00:22:42 on the other type of. Yeah, now we didn't do the internet collaboration now and that was in person. Like, you know what I'm saying? Brocci pulled up on me. Shit, we did like three other songs too, so. That's fun.
Starting point is 00:22:51 Yeah, we actually working on a tape, me and Rich. Yeah? Yeah, hell yeah. That'd be nice. Turning to coach. Coachella, too. How do you feel about that? Oh, yeah. Coachella coming up. Boom.
Starting point is 00:23:02 Same day, Justin Bieber. Shiffing to be a movie. Got a lot of surprises. A lot of homies coming out. You know what I'm saying? I think I got some damn robots fin to pull up and dance with me and shit. So it's going to be, it's going to be lit. Who? Robots. Them humanoid robots. Yeah, they're pulling up on the stage with me.
Starting point is 00:23:18 That's for them. That's the a ya. Y'all. You're going out there? I might pull up. I might pull up. You are? My door is going out there. Coachella.
Starting point is 00:23:27 You might pull up for Coachell? I never win. I never been to. You would rip that shit down. I ripped that shit down like two, three years ago, caught a fucking body. Now you're saying that shit. You know, motherfucker turn that shit.
Starting point is 00:23:41 On God. The pain off that bitch, niggas was like, yeah, what, Coachella? Then I had the crib across the street. Dumb shit. The villa going crazy. Shit looked like, you know, they had the cactus and all that shit in the middle of it.
Starting point is 00:23:55 Yeah. Nah. You gotta come this year, man You gotta come this year, man The first year this is a great year Man, let's tell me that, man, look He got Justin You catch a body out there
Starting point is 00:24:08 Nah, hey, you more than welcome to put to my sake gang, I'll, two, three songs, whatever, man, no count, no count Uh-oh The first, hey, the first ever You still like that? How many years you've been in the game Around?
Starting point is 00:24:21 The first ever, jaded kids, a little bit less to me. And you, and you, shit, shit. Y'all, let me ask yourself. Jay, the kid's first ever at Coachella, that's legendary, nigga. That's going to go crazy. Do you get excited?
Starting point is 00:24:35 Like, will you pull up just a rip? Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah? I've never been there. You know what Coachella is. You're ripping a fucking body. She's like a model for you.
Starting point is 00:24:46 In their ass and that shit would go down to her ass. You do that shit in Coachella? That shit over. That's going to be a moment. That's going to be a moment. For real. Crazy.
Starting point is 00:24:55 that's ill. I think of me personally, fans don't take this no wrong way. I really don't be caring. I go do my job. I rip it down, legend.
Starting point is 00:25:05 I know what I'm going to do. So I'm going to rip that shit. God bless you if you put me to perform before you or so, because I'm coming to tear the pain off that bitch. You say, he's sitting there high. You know, a lot of rappers,
Starting point is 00:25:19 they want to go last, or they want to just be careful what you wish for. When I step on that bitch, you give me an eye. That shit over. And if they give me 15, 20, like the shorter the worst, because I just give you a minute of all these shit. Bang, bang, bang, bum.
Starting point is 00:25:35 You dizzy by the 15th one. I'm out of there. But you know how that shit got? You know what I'm saying? Some people want to go last. Some people want to, I don't give a fuck. I'm like, I got my chat. Oh, you got my shit?
Starting point is 00:25:50 Okay. Yeah, give an experience. The fans, they're going to get the same. I'll give them the same. energy of his one fan and it's 100,000 fans. Yeah. They all get in the same love. But yeah, Coachella, that's
Starting point is 00:26:05 going to be nice, Justin Bia. Winnie? It's going to be big. That's the first time. Soon. That's the first time I'm doing a new music soon, so we're going to run into Coachella. That's going to be crazy. Coachella's where you go. Today's show is brought to you by our presenting sponsor Hard Rock Bet.
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Starting point is 00:29:00 Join me, Lily Herman, as we dive into the under-explored pockets of F-1, including the astrology of the current grid. Lewis Hamilton, Crapicorn Sun, Cancer Moon. Wouldn't you know it? Michael Schumacher is also a Capricorn Sun, Cancer Moon. The story of the sports most consequential driver strike. We have one man who, upon hearing that he was going to be fired, freaked out, and apparently climbed out the window of the bathroom.
Starting point is 00:29:24 And was Daniel Ricardo's illustrious F1, career, a success story, a cautionary tale, or some combination of both. He started getting all this attention, and he maybe started to think, I'm bigger than this, I'm better, and plenty of other mishap scandals and sagas that have made Formula One a delightful, decadent, dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to No Grip on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm John Green. You may know me as the author of The Fault in Our Stars, and now I guess also as the co-host of The Away End, a brand new world soccer podcast. I'm Daniel Alarcon, a writer and journalist, and John and I have known each other since we were kids.
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Starting point is 00:30:51 podcasts. What's up? I'm Miles Stern. And I'm Brianna Stewart. And our podcast, Game recognized game has never been done before. Two active players giving you a real look at our lives and what we actually think, on and off the court. Nothing's off limits. We talk trade requests. What's the vibe of that when it's like your star player is like, well, I want to leave? And then actually now I'm going to stick.
Starting point is 00:31:17 We talk tanking. I mean, honestly, like, I might get in trouble for this answer, but I think it's like definitely happening in the WMA. And yeah, we talk about our mistakes too. They pulled me to their side and was like, hey, man, we got a call last night, man. You can't be rolling around the city like this tonight before games, you know, doing this, doing whatever. And of course, family stories. And we're like, Mommy, why did you miss that?
Starting point is 00:31:42 Mommy, do you play basketball? Check out Game Recognized game with Stuy and Miles on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's that with this? Chipotle. Chapole, man, that shit was far. Shout out Chipotle. You got down on. So we did this whole thing.
Starting point is 00:32:05 It was like, buy one, get one free, you show your tattoos. They give you a free burrito. You know what I'm saying? Yeah? Then we did, yeah, it was crazy. Then we did like a, like we dropped custom little tattoos. You just add water and drop them for the fans and shit. It was crazy.
Starting point is 00:32:19 With Chipotle. Yeah, we need like a lifetime guarantee. I'm the first rapper. You got to send them some free of potter. They should have just sent the shit because you was coming up. He had Chapo-Lay out. Chipotle good. That shit fire.
Starting point is 00:32:33 He's always one- It's quality steak, everything. Chipotle, good as fuck. For real. I used to go there, man. You don't go there anymore? I said, I went to the doctor's in it. I'm 185.
Starting point is 00:32:46 Got it. 185. The dick is shooting the shutout right now. He got that. You can't eat that pork, man. 185. No pork, man. No pork.
Starting point is 00:32:58 Well, I ain't. need pork since I'm 12 years old. And you try to find another Puerto Rican dude that ain't eat pork. That shit is impossible. They sent me to go buy pork today. You're like, you know, my wife is like, kitchen's not open today. No, no funny. It's not living in Miami.
Starting point is 00:33:12 Go get me some food. I said, you want the pork. You want the swine. Yeah, yeah. Come, my shit allergic, even if I put it in the back seat, I can't be next to the swine. Pork? I hate it so good. I went my daughter made some bacon this morning. I walk by.
Starting point is 00:33:27 Damn. She was smelling good as a motherfucker. Violation, man. I'm fucking pork sitting up here at this shit. I'll tell you something. I've seen Jewish friends. The only thing the Muslims and the Jews agree with is they don't want pork. I don't know how they agreed with that one, right?
Starting point is 00:33:47 So they both don't eat. Yo! What? That's crazy. No, I'm saying they don't agree with shit, but they agree that you should not eat the pork. I walk in the airport I catch one of my Jewish friends
Starting point is 00:34:01 eating the bacon egg and cheese I got to take the shit out of it I'm like yo brother what's up I'm fucking Jewish I don't eat this shit I'm just I'm 12 years old I go to a Muslim friend
Starting point is 00:34:13 he ordering the sausage egg and cheese and McDonald's to say your blood you know this shit pork or the Muslim blood whatever I call it you know this shit pork nah this shit ain't pork
Starting point is 00:34:26 oh no it's pork and you eating this shit. Like, you know, you gotta stay true to it. That's a non-siphon. That's a guy. Nobody ever catch me eat pork. Let me tell you something.
Starting point is 00:34:38 I got one friend of these Jewish, Richmond. Where was that, Costa Rica? The band told the man. They, 100 times. We went, sat down for breakfast in the airport. Yeah. He told the man, please don't. pork of Jewish,
Starting point is 00:34:59 please, no pork, no bacon, no ham, the man told this guy 100 times. The man gets a sandwich, he took a bite. That nigga hit that table, so I see, yo, he said, motherfucker, I told you now. I was like, you rich, and rich are
Starting point is 00:35:17 peaceful. You motherfucker, I told you a hundred times. I said, he had a little pork in there. And he told the man 100 times that he don't eat pork. Yeah. He wanted to kill us, man.
Starting point is 00:35:31 I was like, yo, we're in the airport. That's the one place you don't want to fight. You don't want to be tough. You got to handle your losses there and keep it moving in the airport. Because you want to fly. Well, he lost this fucking mind. That's serious on God. Yeah, I can't do it, man.
Starting point is 00:35:47 The pork shit. I don't know. Fuck it. No pork, right? No pork. No pork. Chipotle ain't got no pork? They do.
Starting point is 00:35:53 They got the shredded pork. Yeah. You should got to resist that shit. I don't know. that's not for the convention nah for so because you know they mix that shit up and they put the pork on the grill
Starting point is 00:36:08 and they put the beef on the grill yeah we look like shredded beef on the grill yeah they put the chicken so you might try to mix it up on you and you finish yeah when they shredded you can't read it for real I'm so anti-park I don't even know why I'm anti-park
Starting point is 00:36:23 I'm so anti-park that I get mad when I go to like a fucking bodega and the Muslim dude is making a ham and cheese. I'm like, yo, this shit a violation, my man. Like, fucking part of this and what part of the ciphers is this? You Muslim and you cutting up
Starting point is 00:36:39 a ham and cheese here, I guess it's like business or you just can't eat it. You can't even supposed to have it in the store if you must. Okay, word. Damn. Hello. That's what I'm talking about. Stapha-a-law. That's what it's called?
Starting point is 00:36:58 Stapha-a-law. means you violated. Damn. It's that. It's haram. A rahm. Damn, that's the hotam.
Starting point is 00:37:07 Star for law, God. Star for law. Star for law is like the 5% of version. Stop for laws. If you pull out a bacon egg right now, that's what I'm going to hit you. What's the name of now? Same difference.
Starting point is 00:37:22 Same difference. I always got some intricate and credible shit. How you come up with that title? Same difference. Same difference is just like, it's like a play on versatility kind of in a way. You got to get a new pillow. I'm shit that's going down. So I'm mean.
Starting point is 00:37:38 It's a different episode, new couch, man. Yeah. Rock Nation, man. We need a new couch, man. What is it, Velvet? You need a Laurianna. You need a Laura Piano. You need a Laura Piana.
Starting point is 00:37:49 You know, man. Send this John to me. You can't teach your money. You want this. Yeah, send it to me. You send it to you. They're going to look nice in my liver. Cardi B sat right there.
Starting point is 00:37:58 send this to me. Right in that, shit. She did. This is a famous couch. Hold on. You want to know what's crazy. You know what's crazy? I need this.
Starting point is 00:38:07 You know what's crazy is? Smithsonian and all. You know when I'm with, when I was in Hollywood. Put some wax figures on this moniker. When I used to coach it to Wucker, he had a, I'm telling you,
Starting point is 00:38:20 they had a. What happened? No, I'm playing. No. Now, I ain't a lie. I came. I was a lot. I wonder one of the Faszo stories, though.
Starting point is 00:38:30 I'm just, I'm just fucking with you. You just did it to do it? I couldn't. Nah. I really wanted to do that, though. Yeah, I was a little. Don't listen, let me tell you. Me with Mississippi Missala.
Starting point is 00:38:43 I have no clue why I caught the flag. I was going to tell you an innocent story. Yeah, I'm fucking around. I really came. There's this. You won't. Now, you gave the flag. I came here.
Starting point is 00:38:56 You got to stand me. I made him throw a false. flag at the locks up and he didn't want to throw it at him. I was like, throw it, motherfucker. Go it, you know, he deserves it. He was like, ah, fuck, can he do it? Let me tell you something.
Starting point is 00:39:07 When I used to be at the Rucker, they had this announcer, Hannibal. Boy, boy. Boy, Hannibal. So Hannibal, you know, when Jay-Z had a team, we used to bring Beyonce did.
Starting point is 00:39:23 So one time, Beyonce must say, how they didn't want to be whatever. But he forever, Lifetime guarantee. He starred every game. Yeah, boy, boy. It's Hannah, the most electrifying one. You see this cheek right here?
Starting point is 00:39:37 This is where Beyonce gave me the kiss that on my cheek. Boy, boy, that's right, brother. This, yo, that was his claim to fame till he didn't fucking announce a game. It's the people that won't ever wash their face again if they get a kiss from Leon. That's a fact. That's a flex, though.
Starting point is 00:39:55 He is a dirt. If it's confirmed, That's a flex, though. No, but that's a hello. You know, it's a hello. She's with her husband. I'm just saying the man ain't never let that shit go.
Starting point is 00:40:05 That was like, I'm loving it. You know, that shit was his shit. That shit was his just do it. This shit was his logo. That was his Nike swoosh. We got new music there here. You going to play some?
Starting point is 00:40:20 No, Sway, Lee. Oh, she got some? Oh, shit. I brought the vibes for some. No, we need the bar. Line it out. I'm gonna come empty-handed, man. That's what I'm talking about, baby.
Starting point is 00:40:31 Oh, God. Shit, what we're playing? Fresh Montana? I feel like, yeah, we're in New York, man. We got to, yeah, we got to play this Fresh Montana. Yeah, yeah. French Montana. Yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:40:39 Make sure you crank it, man. It's John called suitcase. Suitcase? For real, featuring Fresh Montana. Right here, man, same difference. Same, same, same. Grand new shit. Streaming live.
Starting point is 00:40:53 Streaming now. Same different. All platform. Same difference. Biggest in the motherfuffing game. You know what it is Home runs Sit
Starting point is 00:41:03 Back of the car You know Then I'm gonna go get the ball Hit it again In the body Glizzy Send that bitch He put
Starting point is 00:41:12 His shit His shit is by the concessions thing You ready? Frankie cracked it up It sounds like it's out of here I'm ready Real You gonna need another
Starting point is 00:41:29 suitcase I'm right. That's right. I'm going. Other phone. Let's close. In the smoke. Let's fall to the lamps.
Starting point is 00:42:45 Ride me so fast. She don't ride in a limo. I'll be shocking when I lay off limits. That's right. I'm going to see what they really fuck with. Oh, yeah. Before I really like. That's true.
Starting point is 00:45:03 I'm going to tell you what's crazy. You'd be a problem for me if I owned your record label. Because every record I hear from you, I think it's a hit. Sounds like one. It sounds like one. Yeah. can blow the whole bag, bro. I'd be like, yo, that's a it.
Starting point is 00:45:15 But I'd be spending my life savings on them shit. Like, run it up. Let's get that shit. I never heard a song for you that I don't think they're it. I appreciate that, sir. Yeah, you don't got no album, Philips. Yeah, I don't do the size son. You got all fucking Smith on your shirt.
Starting point is 00:45:33 I'm telling me. Straight nucleic. Misses. Yeah. Nah, his shit crazy. His shit. Thank you, bro. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:45:41 That's crazy. That record right there was that was perfect. And you and French, you already got that chemistry. Yeah. You know, they know them voices,
Starting point is 00:45:49 you know? Together. Got that shit. They got that shit. They're so different, but they contrast as well. Yeah. That's hard.
Starting point is 00:45:57 That's hard. That's hard. That's hard. That's hard. Montana, jungle boys, man. Shout out Montana. I'm doing shit. So you got Montana on there.
Starting point is 00:46:03 You got Janay Iiko. Post Malone. Nah. Post Malone. Like, y'all just felt like making a fucking gigantic record, right? Both of Malone, he don't get my fuck.
Starting point is 00:46:13 That's out of it. That motherfucker might have played the guitar and all that shit. Oh, God, he might slam that bitch, whatever. That's my motherfucker. That's another one. He's like, that shit right there because he had them juicy drum. As soon as I heard them juicy Jones, I said, he got Jaden. Oh, yeah, that juicy sound was crazy.
Starting point is 00:46:32 Look at them fan. That of them fan. And the beat was still. Who did that, Mike Will? That beat, damn, I don't even. Who did that mean? Man, whoever played that shit.
Starting point is 00:46:43 One of my homies, bro. I just be known like random producers. The music on the back, that was like, that was crazy. That was crazy.
Starting point is 00:46:49 Thank you, bro. Oh, my boy, Twan. Twan. Tuan. Yeah, Tuan.
Starting point is 00:46:52 Yeah, one of my Lennon. Nah, that beat was legend. That beat was incredible. What was that? Sample was a synthesizer or something? That shit was crazy.
Starting point is 00:47:02 I was listening to that. I said, damn, they did like some baby face. Yeah, they freaked that shit. You know, because,
Starting point is 00:47:09 when you call that, R&B? I call that kind of like R&B pop, like some shit. I don't even know. It's like a fine line. I don't really know. Yeah, because kind of pop.
Starting point is 00:47:22 Like to me, it's like, you know, everybody always complained. For real, because it got that little bounce. No, that's shit incredible. But the shit is like, you know, everybody complains. But everybody in my age group complained that we ain't got like a brandy
Starting point is 00:47:35 Monica, we ain't got, you know, y'all putting shit out. You know, Kalani with that folded. Fold, it was crazy. You know what I'm saying? That was real. R&B shit, whatever. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:47:46 This shit right here sound like a joint tour. It sounded like a big boy. You know what I mean? So it's like, you know, y'all coming with shit. You know, I think I, you know,
Starting point is 00:47:56 we're so used to begging the girls on our records. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I'll buy you everything. Give me one. Well, you kind of said that right there with, um,
Starting point is 00:48:07 you're gonna need another suit. That means you buying that shit. You're about to take a shopping, huh? She got some new shit. She's about to get some new shit, so you're buying still. Y'all still, they cut that shit. Same thing. Different slang, baby.
Starting point is 00:48:23 Different slang. He's buying some shit out there, huh? Yeah, you're going to do another. A suitcase. That's that shit. I appreciate that, bro. Yeah, man. So, what's tour like, you going on tour to support this thing right here?
Starting point is 00:48:37 Definitely, definitely going on some tours. We got one in the works right now We're just lining up dates on But that's what another artist But definitely one specific For the same difference for sure You know what I'm saying And what could you say about the ups and downs
Starting point is 00:48:53 Of the music business Because you know some days you're on top Some days You look warm Yeah for me I just think like Everybody had a time You know what I'm saying It's like a cycle
Starting point is 00:49:04 Like just go around Everybody had a time You know what I'm saying Catch a moment Keep it rocking Go back to the drawing boards just you'll be ready when they come back to you you know what I'm saying like
Starting point is 00:49:11 don't get comfortable and just yeah just wait for your time for real for a lot many artists have had to fight the adversity you know you could you can be on top of the world oh yeah come back your shit of eye
Starting point is 00:49:25 they're sleeping on you then you got to come back with a frisbee get the motherfuck you got to stay on their ass for real yeah that's you know that's that's how I judge artists personally right like I've seen
Starting point is 00:49:37 some artists that I was like I don't know if this person got it. You know, I always say to make a hit record, just one hit record is a miracle. Because it can be a hit for you, and you put it down, it goes clean over the hits, for sure. No, no, I'm just saying,
Starting point is 00:49:52 actually a one-hit wonder is better than being on your couch trying to make music for 20 years and never having a hit. One-hit wonder. But imagine the guys that keep making those hits. Those guys and girls are exceptional. When I see that, that's when I go, all right.
Starting point is 00:50:11 This person trying to stick. You know how many artists I've seen come? And then when they come to second or third time with another one, I'd be like, oh, they want to stick around. My motherfuck of a stick to this. That's how I felt about him. Big pop of your teens. He came in and put shit over there every time he got up.
Starting point is 00:50:32 I said, oh, I understand this way. Oh, God, dug that foot in the ground. He came in. He came in some reality. he came to... I ain't kind of flavor, sure. He takes a real estate
Starting point is 00:50:41 in this and the shoe. Because you know some people they just passed and they come for a cup of green tea they are out of
Starting point is 00:50:47 a cup of green tea before you know what the station is gone. Yeah. Green tea and now. Man fuck had a pub me and you.
Starting point is 00:50:54 Right. Right. They had a pub me and you. None of that. Mars, live in Toronto. Yes,
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Starting point is 00:51:12 Toronto. Tickets to Bruno Mars and $1,000 to cash. Don't believe me just what. Download the free IHart Radio app. Listen to IHart new music for 10 minutes. Winners, will you be there? Every day you listen is another chance to win. Ready for a different take on Formula One? Look no further than no grip. A new podcast tackling the culture of motor racing's most coveted series.
Starting point is 00:51:39 Join me, Lily Herman, as we dive into the under-explored pockets of F1, including the astrology of the current grid, Lewis Hamilton, Capricorn Sun, Cancer Moon. Wouldn't you know it? Michael Schumacher is also a Capricorn Sun, Cancer Moon. The story of the sports most consequential driver strike. We have one man who, upon hearing that he was going to be fired, freaked out, and apparently climbed out the window of the bathroom.
Starting point is 00:52:03 And was Daniel Ricardo's illustrious F1 career, a success story, a cautionary tale, or some combination of both? He started getting all this attention, and he maybe started to think, I'm bigger than this. and plenty of other mishaps, scandals, and sagas that have made Formula One a delightful, decadent, dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to No Grip on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
Starting point is 00:52:27 or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm John Green. You may know me as the author of The Fault and Our Stars, and now, I guess also as the co-host of the Away End, a brand new world soccer podcast. I'm Danielle Alarcon, a writer and journalist, and John and I have known each other since we were kids. My first World Cup was Mexico 86. I was nine years old.
Starting point is 00:52:47 I watched every game and I fell in love. On our new podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. For us, soccer, football, is a story we've shared for over 30 years since Daniel was the star player on our high school soccer team. Very debatable. And I was their most loyal and sometimes only fan. I love this game.
Starting point is 00:53:12 I love its history, it's hope, it's hard. Heartbreak, and above all, it's beauty. Together, we'll find out why, of all the unimportant things, football, soccer, is the most important. Listen to the Away End with Daniel Auerkone and John Green on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Daniel Jeremiah. And I'm Greg Rosenthal. And this is 40s and free agents. The games may be over, but the NFL never stopped.
Starting point is 00:53:41 This is my favorite part of the calendar. Yeah, mine too, Greg. Free Agency, the Combine. The NFL draft Pro Days trades. This is where teams reshape their future. This is where Daniel Jeremiah makes his money. On 40s and free agents, we break down every move that actually matters. From my draft evaluations, mock drafts, and team fits.
Starting point is 00:54:00 To my top 101 free agents and how real rosters are built, cap space, contracts, and all the tough decisions included. You got quarterbacks on the move? We got teams rebuilding. It's hope season. Yeah, absolutely. It's hope season. We'll tell you what's real, what's noise.
Starting point is 00:54:16 and what it means for your favorite team. Smart analysis, real conversations every week. I don't know about the smart, but definitely analysis. Listen to 40s and free agents on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You know, so, John, you ever been to like a jazz joint? Not saying jazz, but I've been to like little restaurants where a guy or girl, they sing like Whitney Houston.
Starting point is 00:54:48 And you sitting there and you're wondering, yo, what happened? Why this young lady ain't the biggest in the world? Why this guy? They ain't know the right people. And it wasn't the moment. And then people take getting on and making it for granted. It's nothing. Everybody can do it.
Starting point is 00:55:07 Everybody can do it. Literally. Yeah, there's different elements to it. But what I do know is that people got to like you. They got to like you. I met so many times. talented people that never succeeded. And I can't give you the reason why,
Starting point is 00:55:26 because they write hits for everybody else. Yeah. I know, listen, who? No, I can't do that. I can't do that because it's not fair to them. Put a name on. But, no, I can't do that. But that's still, if you write hits for people
Starting point is 00:55:44 and you get the, you're just doing your money and all that, and you just want to be lit, I think you're, bird for them. Well, they all want to be lit. So anybody who writes smash hits for everybody, anybody. Anybody talk. Okay.
Starting point is 00:56:00 Would you rather write smash hits and receive what you're supposed to receive or get the hits writ for you and be lit and be you? Yeah. No, I'm with you. But what I'm saying to you is unfortunately, I watch. People want to be lit. Yeah, front line. I watch guys who wrote albums for guys
Starting point is 00:56:27 that sold 10, 20 million with that album. And they filthy rich, and then they try to do their own album. And when you hear it, it's so fire, right? And then you, like, damn, what is... The face don't match, yeah. The looks don't... Like, Beyonce would have sung that. If Usher would have sung that record,
Starting point is 00:56:45 if this on were the disc, like, you know, they just finished coming from... Yeah. Giving out the biggest hits in the world. Then they do their own album. They're like, all right, it's time for my shit. Can't blame them for wanting to be a star. The album's incredible, too.
Starting point is 00:56:59 But they don't go. They put that battery in their back. You're a football star with a helmet on. You're still a star. Yeah, you don't see your face, but. Yeah, he's still a star. Yeah. That's why he top five.
Starting point is 00:57:12 You know what I? He's a star. He's got that shit with him, you know what I'm still. He just wanted to see. You heard that shit, right? You're a football. He just wanted to. He just wanted to.
Starting point is 00:57:20 They just want to be seen. You just want to be seen. They know it's you. That's how I feel. People got to like you. That's just the bottom line. That's how I feel about, and me, I studied a game.
Starting point is 00:57:35 It took me a long time to understand that. Like, I'm sitting there. You know, I got friends that are writing that can write big hits and they want to be artists. And to me, the music's incredible. These guys are handsome. This woman is beautiful. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:50 And for some reason, it just don't connect. You know, and that's crazy. You know, sometimes, too, me, I don't know. I guess we all up on this couch because we think we know music. Or sometimes I hear records or I see artists that I know for a fact. I mean, like, oh, no, she's out of here. This guy's out of here and then it don't go. I'm confused because I'm like, for sure, that was supposed to be out of here.
Starting point is 00:58:17 I think it's all God's doing. and I think it's all the, once again, it all came back to people got to like you. I always used Cardi B as an example, but people thought she was funny and they liked her before they ever knew she was ever going to put out a record. And then she put out of here,
Starting point is 00:58:35 the Bodak Yellow, you're like, damn, on top of that, this year is fire? It's on. You know, and that's what I, that, you know, if there's any artists out there looking, you got to find a way to get that connection with the people, And I think that's the most priceless thing. You know, for us, we take it for granted.
Starting point is 00:58:54 You think you're a hitmaker. You think you're a hitmaker. Nah, it's the people. I am a hitman. Yeah, but somebody got to like your hit. And so what I'm saying to you is when you go outside. Okay, but when you walk out in the stadium and there, that's the law.
Starting point is 00:59:11 That's the blessing. That's the Lord. That's the blessing because some people got music like that. Crickets. Some people got music like that and cricket mania. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? That's cricket mania.
Starting point is 00:59:28 Damn. That's cold. That's cold. I learned that one day. One day I go, I'm performing last year in Ohio. Listen, my daughter's way more into Sway Lee's music than Fat Joe. Like, I don't even think she's a fan, Pete. I don't know how to think.
Starting point is 00:59:46 She's like, you know, the Travis. All a young pop. and shit. She come in Ohio to my show. She got her girlfriend who go to college. Her boyfriend, they come to my show. And somehow the pink got tore off the wall.
Starting point is 01:00:02 Fat Joe went up and they caught that body. That you know. It's like 30,000. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think it was God assisting me that day so I could look like a hero. I come back after to my daughter. I'm like,
Starting point is 01:00:17 you know, you think you're, father, whack. Like, I'm tearing this shit down. You know what I'm saying? But, you know, it is what it is. You know, people got to like you. Definitely. That's the end of the day.
Starting point is 01:00:29 That's what it goes down to. And that's hard. You got to keep, you know, people don't understand. You got to keep working on that. Until they get that energy and they really fuck with you like that. Because this ain't an overnight thing. Sometimes it is. And you'd be like, gold doll in my watch.
Starting point is 01:00:46 Don't believe me. Just watch. Don't believe. Yeah, yeah. Shout out to my man, man, man. Trinidad James, I love him. I love him. That's one of the greatest songs of all times.
Starting point is 01:00:59 That James is important to the fight. I love Trinidad, James. He's very, you know, mad shit about hip-hop fashion. Game. So I remember when that song was number one, I walked up in the club, I felt like, you know, where's that at, New Orleans, where you walk and they got the,
Starting point is 01:01:19 Ben behind you. Oh, yeah. I walked in there where they got the trumpets in the eyes. They do a little dance. I walked up in the club one day. That's shit. I was icy. That's just a real cold doll in my watch.
Starting point is 01:01:32 Yeah. Don't believe me. Just my sense. I was walking in that bitch. Like, I thought that song was about me. You fucking kidding me? That shit. Shout out Trinidad, James.
Starting point is 01:01:45 That's my brother. Real cool. Smooth. Smooth. So what we look at. So you said, Rich the kid, you rocking with him. Oh, you know what I'm saying? We got out.
Starting point is 01:01:54 Same difference in the house. She's streaming right now. We're going to drop another? You're going to drop another? Yeah, I'm going to drop the one with Janay the same day as the album dropped. Oh, that's clear. Get ready. That's the guy.
Starting point is 01:02:04 That's the three-piece combo. I dropped the first. No, that's got to be disrespect. Rich the kid and Janay. You know what I'm saying? Hit him in his stomach with that motherfucker. No doubt. No, that's disrespect.
Starting point is 01:02:13 Jenae, she ain't never whacked either. She's so cold. Special girl. So close. So close. Her fan basis is almost like Wooten. Ten toes, for sure. Her fan bass is like a cult.
Starting point is 01:02:25 I went to one of our shows, bro, it was straight girls, bro. 20,000, 30,000 girls. I'm like, it's crazy. You know what's crazy is I had that way old, a little bit older than me, a tad bit older than me. Yeah. Legends. I had like three or four shows concerts with salt and pepper.
Starting point is 01:02:47 It was nobody a fact. that Joe fan that none of them shows the whole shit was just girls. There was no dudes with razor blades in their mouth
Starting point is 01:02:55 in army jackets none of that shit. I look out there I got all the girls out here. This shit is... That's a good demographic. That's a good demographic to win out of them.
Starting point is 01:03:04 That's the greatest demographic. Yeah, for sure. I think my fans are more guys, though. I got some... I got girl hits. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:11 But I think my demographic is more dudes. In fact, I know my demographic is more douged. I remember when I first saw a girl, girl at my show, I couldn't believe. Like the first five years...
Starting point is 01:03:22 Put the spotlight on the shirt. First five years I have motherfuckers with Army jackets, raised it. While I'm performing, they spit out razor blades. Oh, shit. Lickens motherfuckers looking at me hard as hell and shit.
Starting point is 01:03:34 Then I was like, oh shit. There's a female at the show. This shit was crazy. They pay for tickets. Females. Pay tickets. Like, you were the first time you have female fans. Like,
Starting point is 01:03:47 oh, she was a bobby. for a year and a half. That's when you saw the... Before that. So, Locke's everywhere. Hardcore hip-hop. You had girls at your show. Be honest.
Starting point is 01:04:02 Oh, no, I didn't have that. I had the hardcore hip-hop. I had the artists. Y'all had the original groupies. Like, yeah. No, no. We had the original gangstons at that fucking show. They was pulling up with machine because I had a midget
Starting point is 01:04:17 with a machine gun under his, Fuck the wheelchair. Fuck y'all talking about. Wait, hold on. Let me use the bathroom. Yo, let me tell you something. You got to use the bathroom, man. Sky Rizzy.
Starting point is 01:04:29 Young Sky Rizzy. Y'all ain't got the young Chayber. Sliding it over. Slash lot. He got the young Sky Riz. Yo. Let me explain. Let me explain said to you, bro.
Starting point is 01:04:42 This man right here, every time I take an old man piss, the man says Sky Rizzy. That's the man. medicine on the commercial, the Sky Rizzi. One day I look at the shit, I looked the shit up. That shit don't got nothing to do with pissing
Starting point is 01:04:57 or nothing like that. I said, yo, this motherfucker been calling it for like a year. That shit ain't got nothing to do with it. The prostate shit. What is it? Oh, yeah, prostate. Everybody got to be careful. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:10 It's a tough time in life. Men's health. What the Sky Rizzi do? Sky Rizzi is for Crohn's disease. Yeah. They don't got nothing to do with pissing. But let me, or trim fire. You see, that one, that's the latest one.
Starting point is 01:05:25 They pushing that shit. I mean, when you like me and you watch, you see, and then and all that shit, you had a certain age, they push you medicine. The number one shit. I'm surprised, yo, James, why we ain't got to trim fire or Sky Rizzi or Ozempic, we govy, some shit on this show.
Starting point is 01:05:43 We need some kind of medicine. They fucking, they're paying the best. They're paying the bills. Now listen, my brother, men's health. That 1800 good as fuck, huh? Tell us all, hey, hey, hey. I ain't a lot. I'm sipping.
Starting point is 01:05:58 I'm sipping slow, but yeah, shit bust. Tell us about you teaming up with the magazine. My men's health magazine. We did a little workout. Yeah, I was just showing him a couple of my workouts. Showing them how to achieve, you know, the sway-le body. Yeah, listen, I'll sell like one copy if I do that shit. It would be like, and body of 2026, Fat Joe's men's health.
Starting point is 01:06:22 I'm right behind you. I'm only selling seven copies, game. Shee. Yo, Kiss, you could do a men's health. You can do it. It's tough. For real. I'm pouring and it's working out.
Starting point is 01:06:33 What kind of working out you do? I ain't a lot. Working out right now. It's pretty important. I ain't a lot because I'm trying to get right for Coachella and shit. So trying to shock the world when I take my shirt off and shit. Are you trying to do all that out there? Rip my shirt.
Starting point is 01:06:48 Let me tell you something. My prime time. Okay. In my prom. In my prompt. Fat Joe Swam. Yeah. I work out two,
Starting point is 01:06:57 three times a day. There's no fucking lie. Fat Joe is like this. Damn. Fat Joe did a lot of working out, picking up tires, all that shit. I never had one muscle in my life.
Starting point is 01:07:12 I went to jail. These motherfuckers doing the bar shit he do. used to try to like, come on, Joe. Like, the whole fucking jealous. I was prime time. I wake up. I run. I play handball.
Starting point is 01:07:28 I'm on top of my shit. Let me. Come on, Joe, you could do it. And I'd be like, I can't do shit. I can't get a muscle. I don't know. I tried. I mean, they used to tell me.
Starting point is 01:07:45 I think we go out to do a show. in the gym. I can't do it. We're going to have to do a gym show. Bro, I can't get a muscle. Let me tell you something. I mean, they used to come up to me. You're going to help you get ready.
Starting point is 01:07:58 And tell me, yo, Joe, you know, I had guys come up to me, be like six months, six back. But they talk them with the steroids and all that. Yeah, I wasn't ready to do all that. You know what I'm saying? Go, man, facial hair. Because soon as you don't take it, you seven. You deflated?
Starting point is 01:08:16 Sagan. Yeah. That's how that shit work. You're going to be A schooler. Then you're going to be seven fat Joe's out. Man, my security, I look at his phone. That nitty can be cocked.
Starting point is 01:08:26 Diesel six-packed out. I'd be like, yo, what happens, son? Like, you know with this shit right here, it was like, yo, it's a long time ago. Like, he was on that yala. You know what I'm saying? Niggas hit you with that yala right there. That's it.
Starting point is 01:08:39 I never wanted to do that. Yeah, that's it. Same difference. Catch up to you. Catch up to you, for sure. Same difference. Every platform We got flammable
Starting point is 01:08:49 We got don't even call And we got that no one coming with you Yeah 16 songs 16 vibes Flavor for every neighbor I can't wait man I want to download that album
Starting point is 01:09:00 Being that I'm a journalist My shit me at Coachella Your team should send us some shit Lock that in, son You might be going to Coachella If you know I'm going there You let me hear about my daughter I'm going to fuck
Starting point is 01:09:11 I got it Sweary Ling Fuck on you shit up Let me know how many you need them Bucco tickets. Oh, Coachella. That's a legendary. Bring Azzy and Jay Wyn with us.
Starting point is 01:09:22 Get the little fucking on what you, the golf carts, knowing that. Pulling up Coachella with fat, Joe and Jayne Kish. You've been there, right? They got the golf carts. They'll treat you special sometimes when you go off.
Starting point is 01:09:33 You know, you're off that sky Rizzy. The motherfuckers are getting us, the golf carts. This ain't that. That ain't this. Cracking kiss, God damn it. Make some noise for sway lay, baby. Frankly, kids, Sway, Lee. Same difference, you know what I'm saying.
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