Joe and Jada - The Real Report - Fergie Baby on Empire Deal, Cam’ron Co-Sign, A$AP Rocky’s influence, & Top 5 Harlem Rappers

Episode Date: August 21, 2026

Harlem rapper Fergie Baby joins Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda to explain how he went from earning a criminal justice degree and getting fired from three corporate jobs to becoming an unpaid Empire intern and eventually signing with the label. He also discusses Cam’ron’s co-sign, appearing on a Big L album, working with A$AP Ferg, opening for 50 Cent, his upcoming album God Is From Harlem, collaborations with Max B and Fatman Scoop, Harlem’s greatest artists, A$AP Rocky’s influence on fashion and preparing for Summer Jam.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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criminal justice, bachelor's degree, getting fired from three jobs, getting signed to Empire, and then you do Summer Jam. How that felt? God is good, man. You know what I'm saying? It was a, it was a big.

beautiful moment like shout out to funk flex shout out to nitty shout out to hot now it was it was beautiful bro like it's it was no feeling like that bro like this is summer gym so we all used to go there as a kid and watch it yeah i'm saying so now i'm on stage it's crazy it still feel fake all of this still feel fake we we talk about all the time me and my man cage and it's feel like a movie bro like last night yesterday feel like a movie i don't like life is just crazy but it is fake because you ain't do summer gym yet It's pre-recorded. Yeah, I know that. God damn.

This is a play all day. No, don't let the shit fool you. This is a play all day. I'm trying to go with the vibe. And this is crazy, right? He didn't get stabbed. Right. Shut the fuck up with him.

Okay. Proven. Role! What's that point? You get movies with. Oh! Brimble! Look,

I'm a video. I'll get a video. I'll get a one. I was a little. I don't know. How my wins. That's him.

Yeah, this the talk of New York. And this the boy Uncle Murder, aka Lidgett Lennie. And we here, introduce yourself, man. Tell him who you are, man. It's Furgy Baby, Haarland, baby. You know what's going on. Call it some Harlem. Harlem.

Vib. Me. Shout to management jazz. Yes. My hall in love, Lord. I told Murder. That's your little thing right there. Ah, that's your thing.

Oh, okay. Yeah, I heard it twice. I ain't know. I'm not, okay. That much, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? I just make it so. I'm here.

They got to know I'm here. You are? I heard you, my . You know, Harlem is in the building. And you know Harlem when they come in, it's all about fashion, man. I told this nigga, even his socks is fresh, man. What you got on, man? Got the BB belt on?

I got the Stolenauze belts, a clean leather, black shorts, you heard. Got the lot on, little thermal, long sleeve. I got the casino. What had I got on today? I got my man full play Ori. Got the brick by bricks, Nigel Sylvester's with the custom Nike socks, man. All right in the building. Shout to Harlem, man.

You know, it's all about the drip when it comes to Harlem. It's all about fashion to be like that for a long time. But for me, like, I love New York City. I love all the new artists that's coming from New York City in Jersey, you know. And you're one of my favorites from Harlem. When I heard the shout to Ken, when I heard Harlem River Drive, that was it for me. The video was crazy. You know what I'm saying?

You're in Harlem? You're out the Porsche throwing the money. You got the Teterpin jacket. You're looking like plenty already. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to Sugar Dugger. Yeah, shout to Sugar Digger, too, man. So it's like that, when the Kim record came and then I heard the record with cool money,

I was fucking with that. You know what I'm saying? Niggas was both y'all niggas was fresh to death on some Harlem shit. You got the vanston on with the bucket. I'm like, nah, I don't fuck with this. You know, Harlem niggas got a state fly. And then you came with the Chris Brown joint. And it was like, nah, this.

This nigga know how to make records, got bars. He's one of them. Two of my favorites in Harlem, I told you, was you and Chuck Cash. I appreciate it. And the marketing is crazy. Talk about the co-sign from Kim and everything like that. Shout out the killer. Like I said, man, shout out to Sugar Ducker first and foremost because he put me on King

window. He posted me one day like, oh, shit like that. Kim, like, who the fuck is that? Like, it's a new cat out of home. He was like, oh, no, no, no, we got to, let's figure it out. Let me get him to call with him, woo, and he's been a mentor, like a, a, I know, big bro figure Evan since, you feel me. He was like, yo, I'm getting on this record.

We're going to shake the towns. For me, and he's still in. What about the Harlem you from? I'm from. Four-fifth and Linux. Okay, got you. I was all over Harlem. I was on fourth, third, and Linux and seventh,

and 133rd and eighth, four-fifth in Linux. I'm still here. You met Cam before? I haven't met Cam. You know, yeah. What's up, killer? I told you countless of times. I was on the back.

Oh, good. You got the record. You got the birth. I got the verse, man. That's out. Go stream that. Hallam River Drive with Cam. All you are.

Yes, sir. Hallam, man. That's right. It was the boss to me because you was like, I'm from the block with Big El and Tiana Taylor from. You know, she's when, what she won an Emmy or Oscar? What is it? Shout out to Tiana. That's the queen.

Said out to Tiana Taylor, man. She won an Oscar, Tiana Teller, right? So it's like when you said that, I'm like, you know, I'm from the same block from Big L and with Tiana Taylor from. Like that shit. That's real. Talk about that when you come up with them balls. like that. Like Big Elvis from your block? He on Linux, yeah. I'm on 4-5th. They all on 40th and 39th. That's the way they got.

I mean, it's real shit. Like, literally, Linux is like my starving ground, so I used to walk that up and down all the time. And it's real, like, they own 40th. I'm on 45th. We're on the same block. Linux have Legends, you are? Yeah, it's crazy. Because when you look at, I know you got these deals. I see True Religion. You're doing stuff with Nike and you're doing stuff with Vance. Yes. When you think of Harlem, you always think about fashion. Like, we'd be overseas, we'll see AASAP Rocky with a Montclair deal.

We'll see Aysp Rocky with a Raybans deal. Like, what is it with Harlem in fashion and music for you? Home with a hustlers, we understand business. We understand we're a brand at the end of the day. It ain't just about making music. It's about it's you, your likeness. You are brand at the same time too. So alongside of the music, we're going to get these brands.

We like the way it clothes anyway, so why we can't collaborate, why we can exchange services, with each other. So for me, so it's like I like BBC for example, like I'm kind of like a brain ambassador from them. They just give me clothes and we're going to wear it every time. And that's my vibe. True religion is another one. I'm a tier one. I got the camp, the brand ambassador campaign on tier one right now. So basically it's things that they give you clothes, take pictures, videos, with any type of content. And that's what I do. Supreme, give me this. Everything for me. So I understand that. I want to keep building with these. Same thing for G-shot, you know what I'm saying? So you ain't wearing shit for free.

No, I wear it if it's fly. You know, I'm still holding them at the same time too, but it's also a business tool. We got to understand that. Like, it's both sides of this shit. You know what I'm saying? What's your process in the studio like? Because I hear it's like, it's really not drill rap. It just feel like it's just bars, but I'm an older nigger and I was feeling the beat and

A thing that you were saying. And like when you talk about legends like Big L, like, like, what makes you come with that? Because you're young, you're in your 20s. So you know what I'm saying? Like, what made you like? mentioned Big Al and like the Greeks from Harlem. I mean, you gotta know your lineage, like, you know, the history of Harlem. For me to be a Harlem rapper and I'm always rapping in Harlem.

I'm hauling baby, you gotta know what's going on, you know. So I'm always gonna pay homage out all times. And I'm on Big Out album as well. Oh, where? Yeah, I'm on the last record. Put the mic down. A lot of people don't know that, but yeah. I gotta get that.

What album is that? That's the last one. That Massa Pillar put out? Yeah, that Massapeil. Track 16. It's me, party, all the big out. I'm gonna hook. So how do the feel to be on a,

Be on a record with a legend like Big El. Surreal, man. Blessings, but it just shows. Got stamped in Harlem. I was like a stamp for real. It's like a clown, huh? You're the baby. Hallam, baby.

There you go, baby. But it's full circle, man. And this is an indication. And just letting us know that we're doing this. And we're supposed to be here. It's already got already wrote this. And now we just walking it. You know what I'm saying?

So we just. It's crazy you paying homage to the legends. When I think of Big El, I always think of Ibonic, that shit was all. Seven minutes. Even I joined with nine. I joined with Nans. They went crazy on that. So, you know, always paying homage to who paved the way. And I'm glad to take the torch as the new generation of Harlem.

Definitely. What's the process in the studio like? Me and my bro. Yeah, my man Cajun, shout out to my boy Kay, man. Shout out to Kay. You know, we just going there and vibe. Like, we need some honey for me. 50% of them regis, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you do. No cap. Yeah, that's why we shut down. That's right. We're arguing. They know the business. That's why we're behind the seats talking about, we know producers and what they get, no less of us. So he gets you doing the right thing.

That's my part. That's my brother. I thought it was more 60-40. Nah, not with him. Nah, nah, not. All these other producers, not with that one. That's my other half, you heard. That's right.

But now in the studio we own, we need that Henning, you heard. We need a vibe. Yeah, I need that. We need that. You got to get you on that bransson, man. You need that branson? Oh, yeah, give me that branson. Give me that branson.

Give me right. Give me right. I'm letting you know where I was on, man. That's cool. Okay. We got you. We got you. That's cool.

We just got to get you the bread So we got to, give me right, give me right We got you Got you got you So we need a vibe For me A lot of the times We listen to music

Or we play beats And we just vibe Like you know what I'm saying We gotta get in that mode For us We might listen to some Some lyricists Like it might throw on Benny

Or we might throw on busting Rhymns for creativity Dipset And then we just start getting money You know what I'm saying We need the light and writing Some of your inspirations right there Yeah yeah for sure

I got mad inspirations But just the thought process I'm in the studio I got Sometimes I listen to certain people Like I bet Got you know what I'm saying Got you.

What gives you the drive? Because a lot of like artists, you know, there's dope artists in every hood around the world. But some of them like don't have the drive to like go shoot the videos. Like when I see your videos, I see Harlem. You know, you're out the car, you throw in the money. You got the bad, beautiful women from Harlem, you know what I'm saying? Furzon.

You know what I mean? Like what gives you the drive? Because a lot of artists are dope but they don't want to, like they, they put it like this. Even when you've seen A-Sab rocking in his first videos. He was on a motherfucking bike. Flotto. It was all about the visuals. Yes.

Like what I liked about you was every video is kind of more entertaining. Even if you were in Cool Money's on the corner, it just was shot crazy. You know what I'm saying? Shout my man Dre. My man, he know the shot compositions. He know what the people want for me and he knows what I like as far from a video. So he understands. It's like Cajian.

I have everybody tailored and everything is in-house. So we know what we're doing when we do it. You know what I'm saying? So shout out to Dre. But yeah, it's just like we want to make sure that alongside of what you're hearing is appealing to what you see. Right. You for what I'm saying.

So it's a whole package with us. We want our videos to be engaging and creative and differ from everybody else. So we try to stay as authentic as possible but creative and out the box as possible. But also staying in range of Harlem and me. You know what I'm saying? So and also shooting videos is fun for us. That's like the aftermath. The hard part is making a song.

It's performing in videos. That's, oh, it's celebration. You have fun. Everybody come outside. Let's celebrate what we just put on wax. That's how I look at this shit. But how you learn the business side of it? Like I see you got good management, good producer.

Trial intubilation, bro. Videoographer shooting your videos. Like what made you, like, think of the business part of it too? Because, like, we spoke on this back there. Like, yo, there's a lot of artists that's pretty dope. Put out dope music, dope producers, but it's just not reaching. And your manager was like, sometimes it's the team. Facts.

What made you think, like, I got to get the team, too. Like, you know? You're not going away without a team like we said in the other room. Like, the team is essential and you gotta have people that understand you and have your best interests and understand how to switch leaderships and roles whenever the moment is right. Like my team understands me like, you know what I'm saying? And they make sure they guide me whenever things need to be tightened up and that's what the team is for.

Everybody got their own role, you know what I'm saying? So we all come to the table with our own mill and it's a potluck after that. Everybody, you know, for me. So I really genuinely love and believe in my team because they push me into be the artist I am today. You know what I'm saying? So I got a video. And everything is in the house.

I don't outsource. I got a videographer. For real. Yeah, assistant, security, booking agent, manager. I got everything. I don't need nothing. I see you got a bachelor's degree, right? In criminal justice.

For real? Is that where you put in? Yeah. Yeah. This guy got a bachelor. How do you do that? I mean, sometimes you got to do your homework. You got to do your homework.

You got to do your homework. Yeah. You got to do your homework. So from all that school, shit and doing stuff like that, right? Is that where you get the, let me struck some of our shit this way and moving like this. And in my upbringing too, my mother and for them. Like those are they own that business. So they raised me to be that.

And then when I went to school, it was more than now I'm by myself. So I have to learn and create the mechanism of being a business man. And once I got into the music, at first it was a hobby. But once I started to get into it and really start getting money, you got to learn a business. But why did you go to school for criminal justice? No, I mean, it's two reasons. Because my mom, you know, she was in a criminal field. She wanted me, you know, just to be in that situation.

And also for me, as a black man, I wanted to know and have the knowledge of the law. You know what I'm saying? And just having the resources and connects to be in that. Fergie being in the hood like, yo, don't let that cop record you, nigga. Oh, yeah. I'm fighting. I'm fighting the boys right now in the law school because they're wilding. Like, I ain't playing with those who are.

So I'm really on that. I really advocate for that. Like, I don't like police brutality. I don't like none of that. You know what I'm saying? So I just try to learn it and also use it when the time is right in the cases like that. So you wasn't trying to pursue it like as a career. You just wanted to have it in your toolbox.

At first I did. Yeah, like when I, you know, you young, you don't know what you want to do. So it was a time to where it's like, ah, I'm going to take this seriously. I'm going to take this serious. I'm going to work for the defense program. So instead of you guys, he got to try to know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He said, you know, I've got to work for the defense side.

That's right. You got to tell you too. Yeah, the defense side, well. I'm here to help y'all. That's right. Let them know, firm. I went down the program so you're outside free. That's what I told you need a nigga in the hood telling me.

You know, you're right. You got to know, you got to know, because especially in Harlem and New York, I know these cops be bugging the fuck out. So you was taking this serious at first. Yeah, at first. I told you like, all right, this is what I'm doing. Until I got fired from three jobs, corporate jobs, and I knew this wasn't there. You got five for, my brother.

Going late. I don't like people telling me how to dress, how to talk, how to move. I got to get up at 8 o'clock to get there at 9. I got one hour of lunch, and I got to get off at 5. By the time I get home, I can't even do what I want to do. I got to go to sleep to get work the next day. Some of us is not meant for nine and five. Yeah, I don't like that.

I don't like that. I get you. I can't. No, I get it. I get it. I get it. Oh. Damn, I think I haven't met a rapper with a bachelor's degree.

Now, you mess up. There's a bunch. We met a few with them. I mean, argue with the Penn State? Mm-hmm. Shit, I'm never going to a football game back in the days. That's crazy.

Yeah, not a football game just to be crazy. Shout to Penn State University. Shout out to PSU, Bill & White. Then you did a deal with Empire and all that too, right? Empire and all that too, right? Yeah, 100%. Shout to the guys in Niemortem, Bobby Tash. So, see, my men, all you rappers out there, my man, Furgy baby, know how to read that contract.

Oh, facts. Facts. That's crazy. To have a bachelor's degree, I feel like that as to be an artist, like, it's going to get you in a lot more rooms. No, it's definitely. You're going to definitely know your business. Yeah, for sure.

100, man. So how's it deal with Empire? Empire are you feeling over there, man. Shout to Empire. I love Empire right now, man. Shout out to you. Like you said, guys. Neiman Tina, Bobby Tash, Joya, Abe.

And like I said, I met Cajian. That's the family over there. Empire's the family, man. That's why I met Cajun. Yeah, I'm a Cajun there, yeah. So I got, it's home. That's the family over there, man. We took that, we took it over, and I got full support from Empire at this point, you know what I'm saying?

So we don't, they understand me. They let me do whatever I want. They trust the process and they add fuel to the fire. No, they get it. They get it over there. I didn't even know you sign the Empire. That's dope, man. Man's been over there.

Like, tell him, tell him, tell him, boy. Oh, yeah. Tell them how you got signed. Tell them how. Tell them how. How do you guys sound? How did empire get up on you? Alright, so I was an intern.

Oh, okay. Yeah, for me, I got that situation. This niggas like Kanye Westwood. Criminal justice, the intern. I'm fucking right now. Yeah, what about both. Criminal justice, five from three corporate jobs. This is strategic.

You got to move strategic out here, me. But I got an intern, so I'm like, oh, I got a building to be an intern in empire. Oh yeah, let's do this. So that's why I'm going to be an intern in an intern. I met Cajian, he was the head producer and engineer at the time. So basically, I'm assisting him as an intern. Not getting no paper. I'm in here.

Whenever he's not done with, whatever he's done with clients, you work. What the fuck made you be an intern though? Like, because I want to be in the field. You had a, obviously with a degree, you got a nice corporate job. You like, yo, I see why you gain 50% in them records, you know. Fuck just make it a beast. You damn, put them on. That's right.

That is all good. I respect that. That is. I see now. I understand. I get it. I get it. I get it.

I get it. You know, first of all, I'm just seeing a fly haul of nigger just give money. That's it. That's what I'm taking in a video. And then, yo, he got a bachelor's degree. Word? That's different. Then, yo, I had a corporate job.

You could have just got corporate money and made money and retire, do whatever you want to. You're young. But in the future, nah, fuck that. I can't be controlled. Then you're a fucking intern. But you're a producer. Yeah. So when we pull him a Vanessa and a hustler?

Oh, yeah. That's a fact. No, facts. Damn, niggins. So, yeah. And the college graduate. In the college graduate. It was an intern.

Hell yeah. So when he done with his clients, we go in there and record. And we kept running it up, doing my mix-sapes in their free studio time. Everybody that's coming in from the top of the artists, the top-tier levels. I mean, I'm here. My name is Fergie, baby. I'm an intern. I'm also an artist.

I introduce myself putting people all on their radar. After where I kept running it up, there was an office side. If y'all been on Empire, it was the studio side and an office side. Yeah, facts, facts. I would go on the office side as an employee and shoot videos. Am I supposed to do that? I don't know. Who is it?

Who are you to go in an office and shoot a video of your own music? Like, you're supposed to be working. Exactly. So it went to HR and then went to Nima Death. So you basically was hustling an empire like, fucking I'm going to Nema. You said it went to Nema desk. That's a hard of Neme. It went to Nema desk.

They wanted to write me up and fire me. Nema. Oh, Nima was ready to fire you? Hold on. No, H. It's like, we got to report this. Nema goes. What the fuck going on over here?

So, look, look, what he think he is? Is Nima? All right, but go ahead. So Nima goes, wait, who's showing it? He's like, oh, he works there in me. Or he an artist, he's an artist. Wait, he works for us?

He didn't even know. He's like, he worked for us. He started going into my music, my catalog. He, nigger, sign that. Sign him right now. And kept my job. So now I'm an artist and I kept my job as an intern, but they bumped me from an intern to nine assistants.

So I'm getting paid. Now you're getting paid. As an artist. Look at that. Shout out to Nima. Empire, definitely spreads to love. I was getting two checks, two checks,

world with that ever. So you know what that is? That's that New York Harlem hustle, man. Fags. I get it. Fags, man. An intern and he was shooting videos in there. How long he was rapping for?

2018, for real. 2018. I got in there about like 2020, 2021. After the pandemic, they opened back up. And 2021, I started interning. And then from that point on, we're like, yo, we're going to make a pack. Like, we're going to get this work done.

And we're going to run this whole office. And exactly what we did years later. What? How was it like working with one nigga, A-Saf Furb? Oh, shout on Furg, bro. That's another like big bro figure. A legend, for real. A legend, you were.

Shout to A-Saf-F-F-Furt. And he's just been fully supportive with the record, outside the record. I pull up on him. We chop it up. We have real conversations. Like, shout out to Furg, man. Like, I appreciate you. That's dope.

How does it feel getting co-signs by all these legends? A-Saf-F-F-F-Rg, you know, Cam. You want a Big L album. Like, how you feel as an artist, man? It's a testament. Like I said, we're doing what you. supposed to do and this is for us. Like, we dusting as, like, we're going, we're going going to keep up in it and be a nothing as possible. But this is only the beginning, bro.

Like, we're about to turn out. With some of the young artists out there right now that you fucking went from New York, who are you feeling right now? Oh, fucking King Bimo. Shout out to my nigga King Bimo. East New York. That's East New York, Brooklyn's on. We're going to have him on the show too.

We're going to get you up there, Bimmy. I'll put him on the Furgy, maybe. He definitely did. Oh, well. I put him on the Furgy, baby. He did. That's a fact. I put him on King Bimo, I'll put them on the first.

That's fire. That's fire. Damn. See? I saw y'all on the rap radar too doing your thing. I saw y'all going back and mix-hap coming soon. That's a fact. This nigga from Harlem, he's one of them.

And he kept telling me King Bimo, and y'all, and y'all y'all are supposed to be doing the projects together. Yeah, that's my brother. We came in this shit together. So it's like we made a pack too. Like whoever get there first, we won't put each other on. So we about to run it up with us too. So, you know, shout out to him.

Bimo. Bimo doing summer gym. You doing summer jam. of them too, right? That's right. Both of y'all doing something to them. How that feel? I know that feel good.

I feel marvelous. I know that feel good. Definitely, man. Like, shit. Like I said, it's happening, man. Definitely, man. Definitely, man. Definitely, man.

Everything's blessed up, bro. You got a crazy story, man. That's shit crazy. Intern just taking over the building that night. Like, fuck it. Nah, real shit, though. No, that's fire. And shout out to the Empire because they could have dead curve.

They could have dead said, nah. You're disrespected. Nah, that's bad. You're lily. Now they did because they understand independent artists. They see what grind I was on. They keep it a thousand. You from me?

They supported it full way. So shout out, again, shout out to Empire. Shout out to K2 because without K2, we wouldn't be acting like a mad scientist in there because we'd be cooking them. So you think independent is better than major? You will never go for a major deal at, like, you know. It depends on your contract.

Depends what they offer. It depends on when we negotiate. So I ain't going to sit here and shoot myself in the foot like I will never go out there. Empire do great. Yeah, Empire is 30 right now. I'm just asking you guys. Yeah, respectful. They do great deals.

Shout out the Empire. They do great deals. No, they're giving millions away, too. Like, it feels like a major deal. Mm-hmm. But I'm just saying, would you, like, as your career goes on, would you ever think about going to a major label if they had the right money? Maybe.

And the right creative control, yeah. Right. Right market and all a lot. Yeah. For sure. But right now, I'm content. I'm good with Empire right now until we finance out of deal. Then we could see if we can renegoti or move on.

You know what I'm saying? And they turn the lights on, so you're going to have a lot of loyalty. I don't know what a lot of them. I know niggas that left Empire, thought the grass is green on the other side. Yeah. And they regret it. Mm.

See? They regret it like you're in the game for a mess. I've been around the block. You've seen. They regret it. Yeah, for sure. What the fuck they're doing though. Yeah, they do.

They do. They don't. What fell opening for 50 sin in in Cooney Island, man? Yo, 50, where you at, man? Nah, shout out to you, 50, man. Like I said, I was raised in a 50 house. Like, you know what I'm saying? Y'all was so seductive.

And then, you know, you got, I obviously came later with the rap-ups. They're all my household. So it's just like, this is also a full-circle moment. And just to open up for 50, it's like, again, it's all written. Like, it's supposed to happen, well. Facts. So, like, even here, this is full-circle, though.

You know I've got to ask you this. And you know I've got to ask you this too, mother. Behind every night spent making the kids' lunches, there's a lot of suspense. Will they finally eat the veggies? Will the pasto survive the first bite? Will the lunchbox come home? empty, half full, or come home at all. And will you finish episode 8 before you're done slicing the cucumbers?

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's think top five Harlem. You got to throw big L on there. Mm-hmm.

What are you saying that, if top five artists or lyricists? No, I'm saying, I would say just the top five, like, because we could go, you know what I'm saying, into the new artists. Okay. But top five Harlem, you would say Mace, right? You know, you're going to give yours. You don't, don't tell you.

No, I'm giving. You give it yours, then he's going to give his. I'm giving, I say, you're saying. Mace, what's what you're saying? No, I ain't say that. Give your top five. All right. That's me.

giving my top five, brother. I would say Mace, you got to throw Cam on there. Big L. I always not, because I always get to the three, right there. And then I'm thinking more artists in Harlem. Oh, shit. Who else from Harlem? The mall, ASAP Mall.

Oh, yeah, A-Sap Mob. A-Sap Rocky, A-Sept for all of them as one. He'd be freestowning, right? Like, who else? Nah, because. You go, A-Sat-M-M-H-A-M-M-A-M-Sat-M-M-A. No, no, you, listen, no. Nah, you know what it was about Aesab Rockies?

You're gonna be like brothers, y'all. I'm gonna tell you what I liked about ASEAP rocking and what made them special in Harlem. It's because they was Harlem niggas, but they had a whole different sound. Facts. It wasn't like a Kim or Mesa, not like that, or even a big L. It was, I'm gonna haul that motherfucker. They had like a more down south, y'all. Slow down shit.

They was fucking with the syrup and shit. They was on some down self shit down there. And it not only catch the hood, it caused suburbia, too. The white kids, everybody loved it. It was fucking with Soho. Because it was dressing in Rick Owens, Margello and all that. See? I wouldn't even know that.

Hot and fashion. So they was already relating to the kids, like the Sohoes. And like you said, the suburban kids and also the hood too because they're from Harlem. They had all. I'm going to tell you, it was a story about Aesap Rocky. He was at an event, right? So it's me, Snoop Dog, 50. It's like a movie permit, right?

So the nigger Aesap Rocky was the first nigger I seen with a man purse. Swear to God, niggas was laughing at them, snoop, 50, niggas. I'm looking like, what the fuck is that? They're looking like, they've never seen it. You could ask A.S.R. Pull me to the side and said, yeah, yo, I know niggas don't know what I'm doing, but watch. And that's when I was like, damn, all of niggas no fashion. Fast forward, niggas got the pistols in them shits.

You know what I'm saying? You ain't lying about it. I'm keeping it real, though. He was the first nigga I seen with that, with the- What I'm saying? What I'm saying? Niggins got the pistoli in them shit. No, facts, facts.

But he definitely says trains, bro. Like, you gotta give it up, especially in the fashion vibe, you gotta give it up and rock in a verse. So he ain't even got a top-file from Harlem. Who you're top-five, bro? No, I just, I just gave you my type. No order. Like you said, Mace Kim. Big hell.

Nah. Yeah, big up. Here you go again. I know he goes on this album. I will put Jewel's and then I always vary for my five. It either going to be, she's not a rapper, but I got to put Titi in it. As far as Hall, top five, like, who? Titi, Tiana Taylor.

Oh, Tion Taylor. Like, not rappers. If you want to say just impact and just figures as far as music. Oh, yeah, you got put Tiana. I don't know. That's just a personal thing for me. I might get cut for that, but T.T. is my five, but they're exchanged from like the Rockies and Furb. Now, you got to throw Dipset on there.

Because you think about this, you got Kim, Mace, A.Sab Rockena, Big L, and Dipset. Basically. I can't knock Dipset. Dipset is legendary. You already know. Can't knock. Dipset was like the Holy Grill waking up. I mean, not waking up, raising up in Harlem.

Of course. They was dumb, you know what I'm saying? From the lingo to the fashion, the anything, you know. So, shout out to Dibb. Bandino on the rims and they was wilder they was wild they was ahead of the game fashioning and online well that's a fact no I'm not playing Dougie in my father you bugging damn look I knew he was gonna say so let's show him hit top five now nigger yeah how you got Dougie now your file what happened what nigga you put y'all I'm still playing um keep right

y'all got Kumodee go Mo D's from Harlem too is from arlam too yeah I think he's from I'm in my top five with like the 80s, but Dougie Fresh, definitely. You got Dougie Fresh in all time? So who you taking out to top five? Yeah, you gotta take on somebody. Dougie Fred. So who you're taking out, yeah? No, I'm not taking, look, you got two errors.

I always got my top five, like in the 80s. You move in the goalpost, man. Always. You move with a goal post. No, because really top five is really stupid because it's really like more like a top 10, top 20. But when I say top five, like when I go to 80s, I'm going to go Dougie fresh. You know what I'm saying? Okay.

And, like, and fucking, Kumo D, you said it's for all that. I spoke to DJ self, he told me, DJ self, there's a Kumodey from home. And now he's gonna say, yeah, he's from home, right? No, I got the 80s. Not because DJ self put me all the day, I didn't know. You hear me?

This nigga asks every guest, right? pertaining to who they are, what their top five is, right? And now he's gonna say, yo, top five is stupid, but I just ask it anyway. No, because look, when you say top five, right, you might get confused, because we got a top five from the 80s, 90s, And now.

No, niggas just ex-win shit top five all-time though. That's my category. Oh, that's how you break it in. No, but there's all-time. Like, if you go to the 80s, you're gonna put Dougie Fresh in there, niggins. Nah, I ain't put Dougie fresh in my all-time for all. I'm not. I'm not saying, look, from the 80s.

Not now. I don't give a fuck it was in 60-70s. I'm not put a duckie. No, respectfully, y'all. No, no, no, that's the legend. No, I do not got those smoke. No, I like this. I knew I was going to happen.

I know. That's a legend. Don't get a twist. Don't get a twist. I knew that was going to happen. Respectfully. That's the legend, yo. You just not my five.

I'm just watching. I'm a little younger to y'all. I'm a little younger to y'all. Dougie Fresh is not in my father. I'm saying in the 80s, yes, you 25, so you don't know about Dougie. 25, 26, whatever. Listen, you not, you don't know about Dougie Fresh to say, yo, he's not in my top. I understand, but he's top five, nigga.

What's how you don't know? He might have a top five from old school Harlem rappers. Do you? He just said, no. If he don't know Dougie. No, not really. My father's my father. Like the big old man.

You don't know about the 80s. You don't know about Dougie Fresh. It's like he don't even want to hear about Dougie Fresh kid, right? The way he was acting, right? No, respectfully, man. He's not in my personal file. Respectfully. Probably that'll be some fire.

They're going to come to you, man. They're going to come for you, Paul. Paul. You, listen, Dougie Fresh, nigger is the first nigga kind of really, when you really think about it from Harlem. Like, was the nigga had the dances, the fly, shit. No, he had it. He had it.

for what I know. He had hits. For sure. No, he did. I would never discredit him. You're young, though. You're young. I'm sure.

Who you like now? Because I fuck what you and Chuck Cash. Any other artists I don't know about? Like I said, um, all to our mo. I got who else? Kai Cash. Kaki Ka. You know, it's just a couple of dope new artists right now.

We got like the Nico Brims. It's a couple, it's a couple, you know? Like I said, Bimo. Base swag. Can't B. Bass swag, you from me, Chowley, Cash. Yeah, but I feel like I'm on a hip hop rapping, I'm leading that. I feel like I'm on one-hound.

I know you told me you had a big record with Max beat. Let's talk about that, man. Goddardism Harlem on the way, the album. Got features from Max, Kim, A-Sap Furg, Davey, Neek Bucks, Fat Man Scoop. Rest the piece, Fat Man, Scoot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I got beat for six-fitting. I got beats from six-figure digger, Dane Grease, Keyneson, of course. Oh, hip boy, Ilman. Oh, hit boy, damn. I got some, yeah, it's, this I'm about to be crazy. How do you know about the producers? You call on you know about them. Come on, you gotta know.

You gotta know. And then I got skits from Fricky Zigi, bloody old. I got straight Harlem. Everything hauling. It's going, you're going to feel like you, you're going to smell Harlem, you're going to see Harlem, from the top to bottom of all features. It's hard. Rest and piece to fat man.

And screw, how did that come across? Shout out to Sean C, six-figure digger, Bobby Fisher. We was doing a record. Yeah, Six-Figger did a record with me called the Harlem Two Step and it's going crazy. Flex has been playing there and we like, yo, something's missing on the hook. So I guess Bobby was like, I got an idea, let's try to see if we get some fat man vocal. So we hit up the estate, we hit up Sean C and it was all down for it. They sent it over, listen to works.

I got to learn how to do all like get light shit and all that stuff. Nah, don't get light. I got my man Orien on. to get light. I don't get light. I support to get like community heavy. Like, I'm just not. Like you know how to dance. Like the Harlem shaking old like like, like ToaWap, like. Is the new dance called Get Light? He don't know. Yo, for real. No, I didn't know. Sniggin, that was nothing, bro. You out there. You out of. Brooklyn, they get light. He, he know, but don't know. You don't know the name, but you sold the dance.

Yeah, you definitely did. I wish I knew how to do that shit. Yeah. How he don't know about getting light? I love getting light. Now, get light. That's, that's It's the uptown culture right there. What's the, what's the, I know, my home girl from the chicken noodle soup. What's the name again? I'm lost. Young Bee. Young Bee, right?

Yeah, Young Bee. And I know she had a beef with the other girl about that other song. What's that, that song? Huh? Tell me, jazz. Tell me about the beef with that. I don't know about the beef with the name. But what, they had two hit records, though.

What was the hit record that the other girl? Chicken Little Soup and Five G. I know chicken noodle soup. Five Gs. Five Gs. Five G. You can't do the 5 G's, oh, please. Can't do the 5G's, oh, please.

Y'all just be cruel. Yeah, because I know she was coming out to that. Yo, I ain't, I thought, y'all, at first I thought that was one person, though. I ain't ever gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie until I met both of them recently. I'm like, oh. Okay, not just hard to scandal, but I don't try to get into you like that. I know she was bringing out to the 5G song.

Now, they're doing their thing, man. Because one thing about Harlem is all about like it's fashion, the dancing. And all that. Don't play hard. Just because the nigger get light. Don't mean he won't shoot you. Just remember that. A lot of gangsters get light.

That's what I'm saying. Like, just the whole energy. So I know what, you know, the fat man's school record is out of here for you. So you're excited about the album, man. Talk about the process and how's things going on with Empire. It's good. Like, the album has been taking a little minute. I'm ready to pass on.

But it's just a blessing. It's a blessing just creating this album. It's my debut album, a song with a label. You know, Goddust from Harlem, I want to make a list. Empire, let's make this shit look good, baby. They gotta make it look good. But it's like my love story, the good, the bad, the ugly about Harlem, man. And I'm a storytelling.

You're going to hear me pop up my shit as a regular Harlem, niggie. And y'all are you going to feel me on that, you know what I'm saying? Y'all going to feel our roots. World. So as for the marketing, I know you got the perfect team. Right. What's the plans? Because I see you, like, on the gram.

I see you shooting the videos back to back. everything was crispy, outfits looks good, you're looking like, you're rich and ready. You know, your millions come. Well, Empire gave you the bags, so we know you're rich. But what's the plans? When you want to drop, like, how you want to have the rollout? Do you want to go, I seen you on the radar.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Shout to them. We're going to go to Flex, you're going to try to go to radio. Yeah, this is part of the rollout right here, respectfully, you know what I'm saying? We're on the media one right now. Shout out to y'all for getting me up here. Like I said, y'all, you got a great.

All the new dope artists from New York City, you want y'all up here. King Bimo, you be up here next, my dad. Come on, man. Bimo, you put me on. He was supposed to chill. Like, he was supposed to come and just watch the interview with me, y'all, but he ain't thinking.

But regardless of the fact, yeah, I'm coming down doing a release party that I want you out of our whole church. It's gonna be August 6th. We rented out our whole church. Yeah. That's the name of that album, Goddustra. Goddust. Yeah.

World. So it ain't gonna be no smoky, then. Nah. Damn, man. I'm gonna be outside like this. Yo, turn that. Let's shit up, nigger. Amen.

I don't know. I'm not. I definitely watch out. See, see, what makes you think of stuff like that? Like, that's just us. We always thinking out the box. Like, we went out the whole church for their release party. So, you know, we're trying to be different.

We want you how to fill our experience and welcome y' out to our world. It's Harlem. That's crazy, man. A album listening to party with no smoking, nigger. That's tough. That's tough. I ain't going to hold you. Yeah, I don't give a fuck.

No drinking even, man. No, no, we got a man liquor. You're going to drink in the church? Yeah. Oh, man, God, I won't be there, God. I won't be there. You talk about smoking, though. You want to smoke in the church?

I said outside. I'm going to be outside. No, we're going to drink. We're going to drink, man. If it ain't wine, I don't know, man. Yeah, yeah. God blessing us to be in me, man. You feel what I'm trying to say?

You know what I'm trying to say. You know what I'm trying to. You know, you know. Behind every night spent making the kids' lunches, there's a lot of suspense. Will they finally eat the veggies? Will the pastos survive the first bite? Will the lunchbox come home empty, half full,

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I love the food, right? I go to Harlem. It's so much good food, damn, man. You got the Spanish spots. You got food spots. You got just all kinds of food in Harlem. When I go to Harlem, where do I go for the best, like, chop cheese, Jamaican food? I don't know.

Because I keep going to lighthouse and the same shit. That's my shit, too, though. I ain't going to see. Y'all was going to say Melbus. You are? I was going to say, huh, you got to go to, they gave me at this, you got to go to Fumo, you got to go to Penda, you got to Ricardo's, you know what I'm saying? I like Angela Hallam, that's like a good brunch spot, you know, like again, Melba's is another

one, you know what I'm saying? There's a couple. There's a new place called Lola's that they replaced from skinny canteenas like the upper echelon now, you know what I'm saying? The courts street from Pada. I don't eat chop cheese like that. I get the bacon, nike cheese, though, you know. Somebody can tell me, somebody, you know.

I don't really eat. Yeah, they'll go. J. Jaze. Word. For baking, niggie cheese, I go to Harlem Breakfast Club or Dirty Kitchen. Wow. You get the Spanish coffee sometimes in the morning? No, I get lemon ginger tea though.

Willada honey. Some cup of sugars. All right, man. Tea, always going to get you right. Drink some tea, y'all. Carnation milk and all that. That shit. You don't know about that.

So what artists you want to work with that? You ain't work with that. Who you want to work with, man? Y'all nickets, man. What are you getting on. That's easy. That's a lay up, man. Now, I know you're on our show, so you're going to say that.

But besides us, nigger, who you want to work with, man? Nah, for real, though. That as you. Also, too, big X to plug. For me, I want to do one with Buster, schoolboy Q, Kendrick. Mm-hmm. Just a couple, bro. Like, I even want the girl, sexy rad.

Got you. You know what I'm saying? You used to get a lot of Busted comparisons, right? Yeah. People used to say used to cut things. You remind him a Buster and all that a lot. Yeah. I get the buses and respect for you.

I get those comparisons. Got you, got you. But, yeah, I just want to get in this industry and just make music with a lot of people. Me, it's like, we could go whatever, we go Latin, we go pop, go dance, you know what I'm saying? That's what I'm saying. That's what I like, that's what I like, bro. That's what I like, bro. Open the game, I'm cool.

Like, you just name Big X the plug, like, you know, he has some hit records. No, yeah, Big X is tough, man. It's mad people out there. out there, G Herbo, you know, I'm gonna talk, Benny the butcher. You know what I'm saying? So I wanna talk, I wanna talk, man. Let's let's have fun, let's go on wax, let's talk. So who for me on the album?

Maxby? Maxby, Cam, Ferg, Davies, Nick Bucks, fan man, school, my man Luca, he's from Harlem as well. Prep Banks is on a deluxe. I said Neek. Yeah, that's for the most part. You for me, that's straight hall. What's the date? What's that date?

August. I'm gonna just say August right now. Yeah, because I keep telling y'all dates, they ain't going right right now, you are so I'm just let you out. Why you say that though, which is the way you want to roll it out? Yeah, we ain't about to rush. This is my baby. It's my first album.

So it's like if I got to keep pushing it back, I don't know for it. Because this shit got to, it got to be a statement. You know what I'm waiting for a couple more features, something you're scheming on? Now the features is dead. Now actually, no, I want Tiana Taylor, where I'm going to manifest that. Okay, I got to. Yeah. So you're a little busy right now.

I know, I know. It's going to happen at the right time. Right, Tom. Yeah, it's all right. That's a fact. That's real thing. But speaking it into a existence. It's all good.

Dapper Dan, I want you to open up for the tape. I need you to narrate something, man. Oh, man, that would be dope. And I would say, yeah, Rocky, what's up, man? So those are the three. But other than that, like, the feature part is done. It just means like, yo, I need two more bangers. That's how I feel right now.

I need two more. And this is what I mean about Harlem in the creative shit, right? You want to do it in the church, right? Even though we can't see. I agree with you. Yeah, I can't smoke. A drink, that's crazy. Y'all were no drinking in the church, man.

Yeah, no drinking in the church for me. So if you were y'all was y'all able to smoke, y'all to smoke to the church? I wouldn't have did it. I probably would still went outside and just keep the doors open, man. The guard is good, man. Yeah, right, you really don't, for real for. I'd be like, I respect the house, man.

But we're going to do it right. We're going to respect the Lord House. Because we came out, me 50 and murder, we came out for ASAP Rocky Show. And, like, it was some shit we never expected. He just says a little different. Open the Marsh Pit. He had niggas with like white teas on.

Everything was like, yo, the nigger had a... The helicopter was crazy. With the bazooka mic? With the bazooka mic. With the bazooka mic. Yeah, mazuka mic is crazy. You got an R.P.G. Mike.

What the fuck? And he rapping to them. Boy you that niggas. Then Aesap Rocky got the bullhorn microphone. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm like, me and Pithee and murder back there looking like, yo, we never seen no shit like this.

It's just a little different. You know, it's just a little different. I'm not rapping or whatever. It's experience. But everything was like stopping. And niggas was like, open the Marsh Pit. That was crazy.

It was. The Mars pit shit with the niggas were like the white T's, the ski masks. It was crazy for me. I'm like, yo, this nigga Aesap Rocky is really. He got a cult. Sometimes, yeah, like, sometimes, like people that just, I like artists that have that cult following too.

Like, when I look at A-Sab Rocky and rest of a piece of A-Sap Yams, they got inferred. They got a cult following forever. You know, they overseas everywhere. They can perform. When you hear Ferg, he makes, you know, records that rockin the club for life, whoo, who, like shit. It just, everything be just kind of like, a lot of creative.

Shit going on. Right. And that's what I feel with you, like when I see your videos in Harlem River Drive and you're throwing the money out the car and you got the cheater print jacket on and you talking that shit and the beat is crazy. Real money y'all was throwing out the car. Hell no. Oh, shit.

Yeah, me, fool, why you tell that murder that, man? He was about to say, he was about to say, hell yeah, nigger, what the fuck you think this nigga throwing fake money? Yeah, it was fake money. Yeah, I thought I was throwing $900 bills out? I didn't know. I'm gonna keep it a buck. I don't give a fuck for no, like you for me.

Nah, I love. As you should, niggas, all good. I'll answer the question. Nah, yeah, you go. What's all good. What's all good. Because now he was going to switch it up. Yeah, he was going to switch it up.

What? He was going to switch it up. All of him shit. 100-dollar bills is crazy. And then, yo, Vance, you gotta plug us in. My man gonna plug me in with Vancey, but I ain't gonna lie.

Murder had a mean Vancy jacket. I need one of them shit. Oh, yeah, I had the Bronx one for me. Y'all got my own team coming on. Harlems said a lot of trends. You think they said, name some trends. You think Vanceon is one hallup set? Name some trends you think Harlem said.

As clothes wise. Biggie's. So East Hall of them. I don't like obviously the lovers you know we I don't want to say we started it but we made it like the Avericks to Vincen's the Parenthood you see that nigga that nigga said what love is you trying to ask you a question to set you up bro don't fall for that now no no no listen no you see what I said I said we made it and started but we made it more prominent yes we did what the Lodders which one I would say I told you all the Lever this man everybody up in

that Aver Rakess and all that talk to these young niggins yes Fuck wrong with this. I feel like, I feel like Harlem took a ton of a level though. You gonna give them bigies? We gotta give them bigies. We'll give you biggies. We'll give you biggies. I'll give you Vance and I'll not giving you like Avericks and all that shit.

And Pellet, Pellets and all that shit. I said we didn't start. I said we took a turn to another level. That's all I said. Yeah, you gonna let that name get away with that, yeah? You are. Y'all have Vanson. Give me something else y'all.

There you go, Jay. Why you cast it? Why? You're gonna love some of you like that year, Ye. Yeah. Sicker is, son. I have vinson. What else, man?

We did a... And I give you all another thing. Hall of niggas know how to, um, late-state sneakers the right way. You film that shit on these things. Oh, look at these shit. You go out. All the niggas got there.

That's a fair. Y'all the best at lace in your sneakers. We don't. That's the problem. This shit just hands. Yeah, don't they all that. Yeah, but y'all-nickers is known for that. No, fine.

That's a fact. That's a fact. You fly, man. And it's comfortable. So, look, man, how I felt your journey and all that and you just did some of that? How the fucking fell from all the intern shit you was talking about, criminal justice, bachelor's degree,

getting fired from three jobs, getting signed to Empire, and then you do summer jam. How that shit felt? God is good, man. You know what I'm saying? It was a beautiful moment. Like, shout out to Funk Flex. Shout out to Nitty. Shout out to Hot Now.

It was beautiful, bro. Like, it was no feeling like that, bro. Like, this is summer jam. So we all used to go to the ass again. a kid and watch it. You know what I'm saying? So now I'm on stage. It's crazy.

It's still feel fake. All of this still feel fake. We talk about all the time me and my man, Kajan. This feels like a movie, bro. Like last night, yesterday felt like a movie. Like, life is just crazy. But... It is fake because you ain't do summer gym yet.

It's pre-recorded. Yeah, I know that. God. This nigga play all day. No, don't let this shit fool you. This thing will play all day. I'm trying to go with the vibe. And this nigga want to fuck it up again, you know?

This thing is crazy. You know? Now, I saw love, though, man. You know, that you're my dad. I had to go with the script. My son was going there. I was going there. You feel me?

I put him on. Now y'all empire brothers. I was going to enter that war. You're right? That's all good. I love it. I love it. I love it.

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