Joe and Jada - T.I. on NEW ALBUM ‘Kill the King,’ Pharrell collabs, hilarious 21 Savage introduction & Joe’s Atlantic Records story

Episode Date: June 25, 2026

Fat Joe and Jadakiss are joined by Atlanta legend and trap pioneer T.I. and they toast some 1800 Tequila to his upcoming album ‘Kill the King,’ which drops everywhere on Friday, June 26th.... T.I. tells Joe and Jada about the gratitude he has for his come-up, going from a kid in the ATL watching Video Music Box to a three-time Grammy Award winning rapper set to release his final album. He also breaks down his collaborations with Pharrell, his hilarious introduction to 21 Savage, and how Andre 3000, Big Boi, and CeeLo Green embraced him early in his career. Joe also seizes the opportunity to tell his go-to story about Atlantic Records swapping out his poster for one of T.I., they discuss Wu-Tang’s NBA Finals performance, and T.I. explains the funny reason he can’t play basketball anymore. Joe and Jada is now STREAMING ON NETFLIX! Merch is here! https://joeandjadashow.com/ All lines provided by Hard Rock BetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:18 Do you ever hear the story about how you took my post off the wall in the Atlantic Records? What are you talking about? No. Many times as I don't want to hear this story again. You wish it's the perfect time. This is that's perfect time. Now, listen to you about it.
Starting point is 00:02:35 man. What up, y'all? This is Joe Crack to Dawn. You know who it is your boy Jada? It's the Joe and Jada show. Every show legendary. Every show iconic. You see what we doing.
Starting point is 00:03:03 My brother's shooting that. He always shoot. And I got the same kind of guns like, Tia. That was my nigga. Hold on. That was my niggins. You can't say nothing for a minute.
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Starting point is 00:03:39 You think of trap music before trap music had a name. Trap Museum. You think of someone who turned every setback into a setup, every closed door into a grand hustle. Twelve albums deep. You're talking this.
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Starting point is 00:04:11 by his side. Ladies and gentlemen, please join us and welcome into the Joe and, Jada show, the king of the South. Tip, I'll
Starting point is 00:04:21 God to y'all makes a... What's that, then. What's that? What's that? You know, the comedians, come on, man, I tell them this. The tip funny is fuck.
Starting point is 00:04:32 I don't know what y'all make you say. I've seen them do this shit. Oh, you're going to get kicked out. I'm sorry about that. But he got doling in them calling them, so, you know, you get it.
Starting point is 00:04:42 You know what I mean? Man, I remember we did. I see, we've seen, we ran it to each other at a comedy, club and what show? You did. I had the show on stars and I went over there.
Starting point is 00:04:52 I interviewed you and then you did the comedy at your, at your bar, your lounge. Oh, yeah, yeah, we did. I went to the Miami. The museum. Right, right, yeah. I went up in there to trap museum.
Starting point is 00:05:06 That's crazy. So listen, guys, he has a museum based on trap music. That's right. But you're in the trap. Yeah, it's the element. You've been there yet? I haven't been. You, bro, it's the trap.
Starting point is 00:05:19 So the whole shit is appropriately proper for it, that be. And, but the area, the area where the trap music museum exists right now, where it is, like, that's, that, that's, that, that's, that's the bluff. Like, that, that, that really, you know. That's the bluff. There wasn't no other businesses. It wasn't no other establishments over there before the trap music museum. We made it a destination for tourists and shit.
Starting point is 00:05:43 You know, I'm glad. They moved two blocks down to sell dope. I'm glad you should. I'm glad you said the bluff. Yeah. You ever seen that movie? The Bluff? That shit was the best movie.
Starting point is 00:05:54 Yeah, I've seen in my life. 52 years before that movie came up. Curtis Snow did that. I'm not saying that. I'm saying I honestly thought that was reality. Oh, the Bluff. I said, yo, these niggas is throwing a jail for 10,000 years. They shot a movie that was so real.
Starting point is 00:06:10 It was. It was. I thought it was real, like real. It was real. I said, this guy is crazy. Part 7 were real. Yeah. Yeah, man, Curtis.
Starting point is 00:06:19 Bluff was like the bluff. No, no, no, no. But no, okay. Did you see the bluff? Did you see what I'm talking? In the bluff. I'm not talking about it. I'm not talking about it.
Starting point is 00:06:30 You in real life, that shit is real. No, no. Hey, the funny part here, both of y'all are right now. Hey, both of y'all right. Yo, that was the best movie ever, the bluff. Man, I was like, yo, I was like, I said, this nigga crazy. They had some shit, one thing.
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Starting point is 00:06:59 The bluff, I thought it was real. It is, bro. It's crazy. It's totally authentic, man. Yo, I'm looking at that shit. I see you. These things is crazy right here. This shit is nuts.
Starting point is 00:07:14 T.I. man, thanks for coming up. Man, bless you. in the Joe and Jay the show. You know, you took my... Do you ever hear the story about how you took my poster off the wall in the Atlantic Records?
Starting point is 00:07:24 Oh, hell, man. What are you talking about? No. As many times as I don't want to hear this story again. You wish this is the perfect time. This is that's perfect time. No, listen about it, man. So for a couple of years,
Starting point is 00:07:39 I had the biggest poster in the Atlantic Records, the giant-sized shit. And one day, I came up in there and they took my shit out and it was a T.I. poster. And they were like, yo, this is the young guy right now. He's the biggest guy.
Starting point is 00:07:57 Man, they hurt my ego like a motherfucker. Damn, man. I see, yo, what happened to this? I used to walk in there beat my chest. I had the biggest poster. They said, yo, it's a new guy. His name is God. That motherfucker. Hey, look, let me add on to the story. Okay, so that's your story.
Starting point is 00:08:15 Okay, so Atlantic, man. Atlantic been great to me. We had a phenomenal run, you know what I'm saying? I caught my cases, you know, they stood by me. I go to prison the second time. And I'm coming out and I'm looking for that poster. Yeah. It's with him.
Starting point is 00:08:34 It's Khalid people. That shit was Swiss Califera. That's that some shit. Oh, so you know what I. Now that you say that, now that you say that, and I go to the label, I gauge it by the pitch. When you walk in, you can kind of see where they're spinning the bread at. When they first time, the whole lobby, when you get off the elevator,
Starting point is 00:09:06 it look like you quit. Boy, you see as you, every. After the years, a few, you should start looking like a passport. I see a thing. Like, I see where they go. You know, I learned a lot from the major label. I love that you, independent, you were with my guys, Gazi and Nima and them guys over there, man.
Starting point is 00:09:27 They're the best guys in the fucking world. And they helped me change my life and get my shit right and equity and ownership and all that. But I learned a lot, man, in the major label, man, because I remember one minute I'm the hottest motherfucker in the world, the next minute they treated me like I had AIDS. Oh, shit. I had to adjust.
Starting point is 00:09:51 God damn, damn, bro. You say that. I can't say that. Oh, yeah, okay. Well, nah, man. I ain't going to waste my in no one. We got this bag. I ain't going to waste that on that one.
Starting point is 00:10:04 Big one. Big bag I got to tell you about. Yo, but listen, I went to the motherfucker where I was at MTV Awards of BET. And I see, yeah, fuck it. I'll say it. I seen Craig Calman. And I see, yo, Craig. I used to hang out in this office every day.
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Starting point is 00:10:57 it went gold too that they had like I had some shit. Like you just went, I see, oh, this guy's running away from me. He was like, Joe,
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Starting point is 00:11:56 Go independent kind of got off, you know, my first label. Thank you, L.A. Reed. And then I went to Atlantic and learned, you know, what it was like when your shit is on fire and you had a building behind you. But I always knew what the shit could go back to. You know what I'm saying? I remember what it would like to have a building. but not really have a building.
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Starting point is 00:13:30 they said to me one day they said man you gotta be like Tia he just sold two million records I had just told two million records they didn't tell you no shit like that joke I'm telling you what the fuck man they ain't told you no shit
Starting point is 00:13:44 Ain't nobody told you You gotta be like Tia. Who told you that, Joe? I don't hold it against you. I'm telling you what the fuck happened. You were not there. Joe, he got to be like Tia. Oh.
Starting point is 00:13:58 You know, I got one witness, man. Who's the dude? I forgot his name. He used to manage Little Kim. You definitely. Gene Nelson. Gene Nelson is my witness. I got to bring him up to the show.
Starting point is 00:14:16 He fought him. he fought thank God Gene that they ain't listened to him because I went in there they told me, yo man, you only went gold this time, you're a failure I couldn't sleep that night. They tell you shit. I swear to God,
Starting point is 00:14:31 right? And I said to my son, Atlantic Records I don't remember who. And so I turned around and I'm like I did the math at the time they were giving like $7 of fucking record independent. And I said, you know why? If I went
Starting point is 00:14:47 go, I'd be making three and a half million over, I went back to next day, I see you right, I'm not like Tia. I'm underground now, let me go, this, this, that. And they said, no problem. Go.
Starting point is 00:15:01 And your man, matter of fact, fuck you, Gene Nelson. Let me tell you stuff. He tried to keep me on slavery records, niggins. I said, yo, they were all like, let's leave. He got. out up like Fadjo was the
Starting point is 00:15:19 Patty LaBelle of the... This is the face of the label. How dare you? He started arguing with him. You're making a grave mistake. Don't let him go. Yeah, yo, jeet, he was like, I thought he was defending me.
Starting point is 00:15:37 I didn't realize he was trying to keep you on. He was trying to put you in a 211. 10 cents a record. Oh, so then I left. How do you end up with six? How you end up with 10 cents? a record. No, I mean, that game. He's just exaggerating.
Starting point is 00:15:52 He really mean 11. Listen, I'm still unrecouped at Atlantic 30 years later, bro. I put out an album with Gazi sell 100,000 records and make a couple of mill. That's right. Them niggas over there. We sold millions. I'm still unrecooked and shit. Slavery on tour for real. Like, this forever.
Starting point is 00:16:13 And so, but anyway, Gene Nelson, my brother, man, Thank you for fighting for you. 94. The man wanted me. He was smart. I went to through that making rain out there. So four million records. Independent on the motherfucker.
Starting point is 00:16:27 They, somebody had to be tight at that one. Somebody had to be like, yo, you let them go. That nigga put one out the park right after. Yeah, that was like,
Starting point is 00:16:37 I always felt like I was getting them mad and shit. Like, I just was like, yo, every time I threw out another hit, I was like, yeah, these motherfucking.
Starting point is 00:16:45 They never gave a fuck. You always had a song, no, bro. I don't remember time when you didn't have a pop, bro. You always had what. Yeah, but what I'm saying is I was trying to get them mad. I don't know if they gave them. I don't know if they ever really truly gave a fuck. You know, your man, Jordan said,
Starting point is 00:17:03 when you watched that last dance, Jordan said he looked at the, he used to look at dudes on the bench to do that. He said shit to me. Like, oh, you said that? You needed something to stop. I'm going to give you 45. So you got to have an hand of me. You got to ask somebody to motivate you.
Starting point is 00:17:20 That's real. 25 years run. 12th and final studio. Why are you? My 12th and final. I guess you got so much money you said fucking. You know what? I don't know if it ain't got shit to do with the money.
Starting point is 00:17:36 You know what I'm saying? Even though it's there, it ain't got nothing to do. It ain't got nothing to do it. You told me one time. You don't remember. He told me one time. Yo, I don't need no money. Joe, I'm so good.
Starting point is 00:17:48 I ain't got to do shit no more. One time I was something, I said, damn, that must feel good. Yeah, I spent that money, though. You spent that shit. You spent that shit. I spent that money. You're like, yo, I ain't got to do shit.
Starting point is 00:18:02 Joe, I said, damn, this motherfucker kick the fuck up. Nah, man, but to be honest with you, bro, just going from where I came from as a kid, just watching video music box and and Rap City and Yom TV rap
Starting point is 00:18:18 to looking and praying and hoping to be a part of this going from that kid to where I am now, you know, 25 years in and I got everything I got prayed for. You dig what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:18:32 I can't ask the game for nothing more. I feel the same way. You feel the same way, kids? No, I got a little bit more. And I feel like it's a kid so much, I don't just a little, I want to get a little, you know what I mean? I feel like it's a kid
Starting point is 00:18:45 somewhere. praying for his shot, just like I was praying for my shot. Now I don't want to be in his way. You know what I mean? You know what I know why? I think we gave the kids a big chance. They ran the game and they didn't really hold it down like they were supposed to. Hip-hop is really in a crisis when you look at it.
Starting point is 00:19:02 Why? Youth-wise? Because you got to understand regardless of old people get old. So then the youth got to take over. And boy, we gave him a chance. It's messing up. He gave them a chance and they painted their nails and they did all type of weird shit going on out here. But that was our way happening, though.
Starting point is 00:19:25 That was our way happening. That shit wasn't nothing new. That shit wasn't so much specifically. I'm just saying. What I'm saying is that shit was out. It's been happy. But it ain't. It ain't have the buy.
Starting point is 00:19:35 It didn't have to stay in power. Back in the day on some hemp shit. I could listen to TI. I can listen to TI right now and fucking enjoy myself. Matter of fact, I want to shout out to love you. I got a guy if you ever met him, okay? You wouldn't believe he's your fan. And he'd go to anywhere.
Starting point is 00:19:53 He said, you can have whatever you like. Mawfuckers is looking like they can't believe we know hip-hop. I mean, this guy that darned. He played your shit. You could have whatever. He's singing to his wife. Anything you want to. And the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers.
Starting point is 00:20:10 The mother-mobacco's, you know. But that's the shit. But what I'm saying to you is we have, like, stay in power. I'm losing To create a career Listen, bro, I've never turned down to youth. I've never turned down the youth. I've always supported them.
Starting point is 00:20:24 And I'm going to keep supporting them. What? Bro, I love the youth. I always encourage them to win. I've never been a hater. You ain't got no young kids out there that say Fat Joe hated on them. What I'm saying is, I love,
Starting point is 00:20:39 that clips came back. Okay. On some grants. All it. All it. That shit will hard. Well deserved. That shit was incredible.
Starting point is 00:20:47 He came back, put some shit out the park. It sounded like T.I. too, by the way. It didn't sound like trying to be nothing. It definitely was. No, it didn't sound like trying to be. It sounded like, you know, people got to understand. I think we understand it as artists, as creatives, that when you go right now and you buy a motherfucking DeBee-U's 96 album,
Starting point is 00:21:09 it sound like the Beatles. We ain't got to sound like something else. People want to get that. T.I. And I think the reason why that record beside it being super hot was I think the record went because it was like, yo, that's fucking TI. Like, we know this guy.
Starting point is 00:21:25 We heard this shit a million times. We love this shit. You know what I'm saying? So you got it. French right now, they're on number one and number two. That's hard. That's hard. After Max come home, 18 years. You know what I mean? That's a blessing. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:40 Yeah, yeah. Max is on the space shuttle to fucking bars, right? Like, he took. I think he the king of Bel-Ain right now. He don't know. He said, yo, when I went to jail, I was the hardest,
Starting point is 00:21:51 nigga I came out. I'm the hottest, I don't know what's going on. Imagine I was here 18 years. I'd have had 65 of these shit. He don't even know. He's in a time capsule right now. He's having the best time in his life.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Hey, man, I've never seen him have a bad time. I've never seen Max B without a smile on his face. Let me tell you something. Two days before he went to jail, He was in the club like we doing the Marquis shit. And I looked and he had like a bunch of white girls with him and he had a
Starting point is 00:22:21 fucking sailor like a cat. When he was way deep, when he was the guy the motherfucker had like he was flying the plane in there and this. I see yo this. He is different with the shit. But that's good that he's winning.
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Starting point is 00:28:25 Every time I'm starting an album, I call for real. It's just whether or not he, he feel like doing music at the time. Most of the time he do, you know what I'm saying? Man, me and Ferreira probably got 100 records over the year that, you know what I'm saying, that we ain't used. And I always felt like as much, as many records as we've done together, we never had a hit. Like one out the park out of the park. You get it this time. We had some dope shit.
Starting point is 00:28:52 Not like this, though. Like, this is a motherfuck of year. You know what I mean? This is the exclamation point. That shit. Let them know it's like a red slink. Yeah. Yeah, because you let him know.
Starting point is 00:29:02 Like, you fucking let them know. That shit came on. I knew that shit was that shit. That shit was getting T.I. That's exactly how the song is right, though. It sounds like Tia. That's exactly how I feel as soon as he played it. So that's the second record we did.
Starting point is 00:29:20 So K.P. Hit Ferell for him. And he told me to, you know, to meet him in Miami. He was going to, he lived in Perry. He said, man, I'm going to be in Miami this day. So these days, so pull up on me. Give me an address. I pull up to the address.
Starting point is 00:29:34 It's a dock. It's a dock. You went in that studio, with a little boat. But it's a little boat. It was a little boat. So I get in a little boat. So he takes me,
Starting point is 00:29:43 and then the boat take me to a big boat. So then I get on the big boat, and then he got a studio set up in the big boat. You know what I mean? This nigga shit. People been doing that for years. For real. People been going to power.
Starting point is 00:29:56 It's right. Never caught it with people. You want me. That nigga would be out in the middle of the ocean. That would have. The lives come from. Blue fucking waters. That's what the vibes come from.
Starting point is 00:30:06 That motherfucker, that nigga. So he recorded that in the war? So the first one we did with Mr. Hill. Give it up for this shit. That shit crazy. That shit, bullshit. The first thing we did with Mr. Hill, we did that. And I, you know, and I love Mr. Hill.
Starting point is 00:30:22 You know what I mean? I was like, I'm like, I need, come on there. Give me that shit. Like, come on with the rest of it at. This is good. And he was like, man, all right, cool. Come back. So we did about three records.
Starting point is 00:30:32 that day, he was like, man, just come back tomorrow. And so the next day, you know, I thought I would do. I'm like, I'm going to get my own boat today. You know, so I went and got me a boat thinking I'm going to pull up on his boat. Every time I get to the coordinates, he's sending me, he's gone. You know what I'm saying? So he's sending that little bitty boat again. He sent that little bitty boat to my boat, put me on there.
Starting point is 00:30:52 And I go and we take off and get to his boat. So as soon as I'm like, damn, Pete, man, as soon as I get it, he's just like, no, listen to this. And it was the let of no beat. And I was like, oh, this how you see him? He took some of that fentanyl. Yo, whoa, whoa, whoa. He gave you that pure, that poppy Guno, that fentanyl.
Starting point is 00:31:16 You hit that shit. That's your one stepped on. It was instant, though. I knew it as soon as I heard it. And then, you know what I'm saying? He already had the woo. You know, you already had the shit. I said, man, yeah, this, this is the one.
Starting point is 00:31:29 Well, you know, there's a thing that artists. Because I don't get high, barely drink. I get high off of being successful in having a hit out there. Like that's really, it's a drug. It gets me high. You've been gone for a minute. When you come back and that shit take off, how you feel when everybody's telling you,
Starting point is 00:31:49 yo, tip, this shit out of it, did you know you was ever going to have another smoker like that? What it felt like to you. I had an indication. That's the head indication. I mean, I didn't know it was. You can never tell or determine how big, five, how high is going to fly or how far it's going to go.
Starting point is 00:32:09 But you feel, you know what I mean, you get that feel. You know what I mean? Sometimes it's records that I put out that didn't go as far as I thought they did. You thought it had it. I knew that it was because of them. You know what I'm saying? I know this motherfucker, it rocks. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:32:23 This motherfucker is something wrong with y'all. But, but. It's true, though. No, that's the fact. Yeah, but this shit here, I feel like every, like all the stars and the moon the line, and the shit really did feel like, you know, motherfucker just dropped that pack off back in the day. Like, you just got, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:32:38 Like, and the, and the trapping. No, no, but, hey, whoa. Hey, man, I'm an organic, grandfying. You know what I'm saying? No GMO, you know what I'm saying. I try to tell your man, style speak him up, me. I try to tell a man that cocaine farm the table. You feel?
Starting point is 00:33:01 I feel me. Farmer table. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Motherfucking. V. On the table. Yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:33:07 But I'm not mad at Ferell, man. The world is his, man. You know, he did that fucking, I'm mad. He doesn't get no louis shit yet. Oh, no, we ain't got no shit. We ain't got no newie shit. We ain't got no newie shit at all.
Starting point is 00:33:22 Not a fucking, a fucking shoe string. But the man, the clip shit. recorded their album and some Paris Louis Vittalue. They recorded their shit in Louis. That nigga crazy. They had to get something.
Starting point is 00:33:42 They had to get them. They like didn't say, I'm leaving him for something. You know what I'm saying? No, no, he got it. He got sick one day. He came up in because, you know, we like to dress on this show. You know, we show that shit on. That way I can have?
Starting point is 00:33:53 You know what I can't? You know what I mean? He went to Louis, came back. He was like, he looked like Jerry Lewis back in the day. I said, yo, I said, what happened? He said, man, I spent all this money, Louis Vuitton, and they told me we just missed the clicks. They walk out with the shit free.
Starting point is 00:34:11 They ain't going Newie Vaton. They should at least let them go in the back. You know, the ball of fucking walk out with the free shit. He said, yo, we don't be inflowing up. The motherfuckin' shit told me the fuck. Them niggas just left with a whole boatload of free clothes. Hey, man. We all have our perks.
Starting point is 00:34:30 All us get perks. You know what I'm saying? Each and there let one of us sit on the couch. It's something that you can go get that none of us can go get the way you do. And same for the same for kids.
Starting point is 00:34:41 And you know what I'm saying? No, we're all lucky. I'm blessed as well. Yeah. You got any movies? You got any movies coming? You got what you guys? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:50 Yeah, I got a couple of them. So two films, both of which I co-wrote, produced, directed. one of which is a sequel. So my first, my directorial debut was a record, I mean, excuse me, a movie called Departments.
Starting point is 00:35:10 I came out a couple years ago, D.C. Youngfly, Carlos, La Duval, and a host of others, you know, drop dead, funny ad, comedian man, and it's sitting this apartment complex.
Starting point is 00:35:24 And you could catch it on Tubby right now, the third one. So I did a sequel to it. And it's going to be coming out real soon. I think in like July or something like that. It's coming out of all black. And the second movie idea is one that I directed also. But I started in this one as well.
Starting point is 00:35:40 It's Carl thought she was the one. It's a romantic comedy. And right now we're doing that shit independent and, you know, figuring out how we're going to distribute. Awesome. Owning that. That's going to be easy. You know, the distribution right now is going to be easy for you
Starting point is 00:35:57 because there's so many different outlets. to put your shit out. Do this shit. Tell him hit me. You feel it. You're already with Chuby. You're already with, like, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:36:08 Motherfuckers got lanes now. It ain't like back in the day where you didn't have a lane. Like, you got a lane. You know what I'm saying? Like, people got lanes. Yeah. Now it ain't as hard as it used to be
Starting point is 00:36:20 back in the day to get your shit. You know, we... When you had to go back and forth from the, from the, the studios to the networks and so on. This is all this whole. This whole. shit was a gatekeeping thing
Starting point is 00:36:31 where I always like to describe it. Like when you was a kid and you had the kid who actually owned the ball when you're playing basketball and it was like, me, me, I want the ball. Mine, mine, mine, mine. He don't got the plug and he'd be like, I'm out, I gotta take my, I gotta go home.
Starting point is 00:36:49 A bunch of foolish shit. Hey, get with those. That's why I can't play basketball to this day. You hear me? I can't play ball to the day. I grew up, you know, I grew up in a hood. I was the younger kid, the little kid. I was about six when everybody else was maybe 12, you know, 13.
Starting point is 00:37:05 So I used to always want to play and nobody took time. Well, I were bad as hell too. I probably wouldn't listen. But, you know, I had to watch everybody, you know what I'm saying, play ball. Like, man, I want to play, I want to play. They played ball in my face all day this one day. I remember this. All day they played ball in my face, knowing I wanted to play.
Starting point is 00:37:22 So when everybody went after the streetlight came on, everybody went in the house, I got on my bike, I rode up there, and I stabbed with my granddad, the screwdriver, I stabbed every ball up there. Yeah, yeah, every ball up there. I flattened every ball up there. Oh, you ain't going to play with me?
Starting point is 00:37:38 Okay. And I was on some psychos. I'm like, I'll just wait till they see this, you know what I mean? And the next day, I got up early. I rode my bike. I'm just riding my bike. Now, this day, I ain't sitting there waiting to play.
Starting point is 00:37:50 I'm riding my bike every day. I'm waiting on y'all to come back and get ready to play. And then they, they're getting out there. They're like, oh, y'all ain't playing the day? You know what I got the name A little bad ass, you know what I got the name A little bad ad Tilt and to the day I can't play ball
Starting point is 00:38:06 Yeah I mean you know Not everybody could play ball Kiss think he could play You got a shot right I think they're gonna let me in this shoot Jeff What's your name? What's the name for the NBA?
Starting point is 00:38:20 Jeff Stead, Jeff Stead Jeff Stencher This might be the year They let me I got a knee surgery You. Hey, man, this is a good year for y'all. Y'all having y'all way up here.
Starting point is 00:38:34 Let me tell you something. We're wearing the right colors, right. Y'all having y'all way up here, man. Oh, yeah. He got the right colors. Oh, God. Okay. He's got the right colors.
Starting point is 00:38:43 I take it. It's way. Orange and blue stuff. That was just swagged. It was. When we flew back. The orange and blue sky. I swear to God, I'm not exaggerating in no way.
Starting point is 00:38:53 When we flew back from San Antonio, the shit was like, overnight, the sky was orange and blue. Like, no, I swear to God. I swear to God. Just like that, motherfucker. Don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong.
Starting point is 00:39:12 Right around sunrise. Right around sunrise. This shit was still dark. A little piece of fucking, I'm flying in. Little piece was orange and blue. You got any. but you got a I got vouchers.
Starting point is 00:39:30 I'm going to get a video for you. Hey, man. I get a video point. I know you had to video it, but. Man, I mean, we did. Okay. I got it somewhere. All right, cool.
Starting point is 00:39:38 When I took that shit was, man, that shit was orange and blue. Tell Rich to find that video when we was landing from San Antonio. I swear to God, it's orange and blue. And, man, look, I haven't slept. Jesus is a Knicks for a kid.
Starting point is 00:39:56 I'll tell you something. You tell you something. There's no other way to explain to come back from 30. He definitely was with us. Oh, okay. He was winners in the game. I didn't know about the heart of the blue sky. I said when they asked me after that game, Joe, what you think?
Starting point is 00:40:16 I said God loves the Knicks and God loves Wu-Tang Clan. He did say that. You did say that. You did say that. Because you know how hard it was to be there on 30 and perform at halftime. Y'all felt so bad for the motherfuckers. I was like, yo. That was the night
Starting point is 00:40:32 Wu-Tang before? Yeah, they said Dixen 5, that's cool. I'm talking about They helped it. They bought it back. Yo, they was half-time. That's hard. And I said,
Starting point is 00:40:43 I stood out there, I said, I said God loves Wu-Tang. I'm going to be honest with you. You can say what the fuck you want, Jager. I say God loves Wu-Tang because he never lets Wu-Tang down. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:41:00 I was like, God loves Wu-Chank, man. We're good. He loves the Knicks. Woo-chank this. And, man, that motherfucking came back. One by one point. I was like, yo, that shit. Yeah, that was record-breaking went.
Starting point is 00:41:16 That was record-breaking. That was never happened in history. I went down to the ATL when we played. I was scared of the ATL. Young boys could ball. I went out there. You know what I'm saying? And they treated me nice.
Starting point is 00:41:29 They treated me nice. I went to Philly. I almost got a 10 fight. Motherfucker tackle me. Yo, they hockey checked to me. We walking out to the British. Fucking white dude about seven hillbilly Jim Jax saw Bill Duggan.
Starting point is 00:41:44 Yeah. That motherfucker. What's the name is? What was the rest of the nigga? Yeah, that's the Bruno Sam Martino, nigga. Hell no, bro. I'm taking a fucking picture
Starting point is 00:42:00 with a fan, we won and the motherfucker damn near close line me. Rich started. Yo, I was like, you Rich chills, too many cameras. Rich started trying to yoke this. Rich was going to probably put him in sleep and the dope. He was like, because he really violated. Philly was bad.
Starting point is 00:42:16 And I went to the ATL and it was high. Hey, man, we got love. We got love for Joe and Jeter in the A, man. Yeah, yeah, I mean. I got lost. The problem is Philly's my number one market, but they had, you and fuck the Knicks. Get the It's a violent town, Philly.
Starting point is 00:42:32 Yeah, Philly, bro. It's a violent town. You're going to tour? Yeah, man. I'm going on tour, bro. The succession to him. Hold up, guys. Hold up, guys.
Starting point is 00:42:43 Give this, look at the camera. If this ain't orange and blue, show it the tip. Show it to it. It is orange and blue. It's navy blue. Look. You know they got AI.
Starting point is 00:42:56 No, I was. Oh, shit. It got a nick symbol. You do have a Nicksylva. It got a logo. No. You got a logo. You got this from the garden, bro.
Starting point is 00:43:08 Nah, it looked like a screen save, but I ain't bullshit. No, I'm telling you the truth. I swear to God, that was this, that was that morning, out the plane, we landed. I'll tell you one thing. I felt like I played the game. I never been. Yo, I was so stressed out, T.I. I did the flight back.
Starting point is 00:43:27 They was popping so much shit. We come back and I couldn't even move. They're probably like Fat Joe's the biggest part. Yo, I was so stressed. It finally was over. Because I'm flying everywhere, every game, more than even rap. Like I'm over there acting like I'm playing for the fucking team.
Starting point is 00:43:47 I was stressed the fuck out. By the turn we came back, I said, man, I came home. I slept to like seven at night. I never did that in my life. I was, I was drained. Real talk. Nah, that was real talk.
Starting point is 00:43:58 Man, that's true. Let me say so. I ain't never felt like that about those sports. They ain't never felt that. No. You know what I'm saying? Even for the instance, because that's basketball, right? The one time that we actually had, you know what I'm saying,
Starting point is 00:44:13 some shit, some shit happening. Nah, that we got now, 2000, I think it's 16, 17, when a motherfucker went to the Super Bowl in Houston and got damn and blew it against the Patriot. So, you know, that was just one game, though. So, you know what I'm saying? We was up, you know, for that game. We were playing in the parade a halftime and shit.
Starting point is 00:44:34 You know what I'm saying? Me, Andre 3,000, geezie, uh, JD. He was all in the spot. We were out of, like, yeah, so shit, what are you going to wear to the parade? You know what I'm saying? Like, we were really, and then the motherfuckers came the fuck back in the second half. I got my shit and got the fuck out of this shit. You know what happened to me?
Starting point is 00:44:53 And I brought my sons. Like, you know what I brought all my sons? She said, man, let's get the fuck out of you. You know what happened to me? You know what happened to me in the ATL? The one year they had the All-Star game, I fucking left early, and then Jordan and Kobe started lightening it up.
Starting point is 00:45:09 It was the Jordan comeback, and they was, I'm outside. They won't let me back in the table. I'm looking on screen like, fuck, I was in there. You know, how do I? They was like, sir, once you leave, you leave. You can't go back in. That shit was crazy.
Starting point is 00:45:22 Somebody got your seat, too. I don't know. I'm sure they did. I'm telling you. Somebody slits, right? They probably came from way up there and got right. You know, I did that shit in San Antonio.
Starting point is 00:45:32 I ain't had a pass to get on the court when we went. For real. I took Tiana Taylor with me and she said, and I said, stay with me. Gonna bum rush. She let go. At some point, she just, she couldn't, she ain't know what the mission was.
Starting point is 00:45:49 The mission was, we ain't got fucking passes and we got to get convinced, you know, my man with the sombrero and let us send that. The cop, nigga, he's in the Sobrera. You got to tell him, yo, Bobby, yo. I mean, he let me go. She stood behind. I had to come back and get her.
Starting point is 00:46:06 But that shit was crazy. And that wasn't guaranteed. The Knicks win the chip. And you getting on that court with the motherfucklers. It wasn't guaranteed. But you just said Andre 3000. You know, I never forget, one time I took my daughter to Disneyland. And a nigger just brushed my shoulder.
Starting point is 00:46:24 And now, look, it was Andre 3000. with high waters on and boots the shit, niggins just, and Disneyland by himself. Just, then I, you get me to thinking about
Starting point is 00:46:36 he went to the Met Gala with a piano on his back. Like, this guy, very different, huh? Yeah, it's my guy. Born on the same day as me. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:44 Same birthday, real. Yeah. I love, I love, that's a cold. That's a cold cat. Bit boy,
Starting point is 00:46:50 a motherfucker, too. Bit well, motherfucker too. Yeah. I, I actually get to see it. Talk to Big Boy more than three stacks.
Starting point is 00:46:59 I think I'm more like Big Boy. You know, he throw them furze on and that shit on. He's been in the drip world for years. No, no. He's back. He's been out. Fuck. No, no.
Starting point is 00:47:12 First jerseys, knee kick in. You know what? You know what I fuck with, man? I spoke to yesterday. Ciloh. I fuck with him all the time. That's one, that's one brother. I see a lot.
Starting point is 00:47:22 He's kicking a lot. He's been on. He's been on a lot of shows that get. a lot of stuff like that. She loves a good nigga, too. You know what I'm saying? That's the, that's, that's, that's, like, no, where the first nigga to embrace me, like, when I was, you know, like, fresh out
Starting point is 00:47:35 the trap and just didn't nobody know who the fuck I was in the industry. Though would the first people to embrace me, wrap their arms around me and made me like, you know what I'm saying, they little nigger, you know what I mean? That's fine. But you want to know what I noticed. What's that? Rest of peace, Bismarkey. Bismarkey was a super legend.
Starting point is 00:47:54 He was already the biggest guy in the world. And he used to come to my projects and fuck with me. And I never found a way to pay him back or just feel like this is when I'm trying to rap like the very beginning, right? And one day I called him in L.A. and I grabbed him. I said, yo, let me ask you some, your biz. Now I'm fat, Joe, you know, I see your biz.
Starting point is 00:48:17 Why are you fucked with me? You know what I'm saying? I'm 18 years old. I'm selling drugs. I'm in the street. You come in the fuck with me this and that. He said, I knew. I said, I knew you was going to be a star.
Starting point is 00:48:28 They knew you was going to be a star. Same thing with me in French. I fucked with French before he blew up. And I took his shit to Hot 97 to get it played. And six months later, he was a superstar. Right on. You know what somebody got that shit? That's true.
Starting point is 00:48:42 You know what I'm saying? So they was fucking with you. And they was like, oh, no, he's coming. That's true. I don't know if they knew that about me, but you know what I said. I knew that feeling. I knew that because I felt like that about 21, about Savage. I was fucking with Savage.
Starting point is 00:48:54 the first video, I remember the first video that he dropped. I was like, man, who is this kid? With this damn, this sword on their forehead. You know what I'm saying? And I think we ended up at the same studio with some shit. And the first thing he said to me,
Starting point is 00:49:10 come on, man, give me a mid. You got it? I was like, man, get the fuck out of here, bro. That's the first thing, no care. That's the first thing you said to me off hello. You know what I mean? Hey, man, give me a million, man. You got it?
Starting point is 00:49:23 I was like, no, I can't do that. I'm a sure I get some paper with you. I'll show you how to get some paper. And, you know, we started, and when I get a show, I got, you know, tell him if he can dry it down, he'll pull up, open up for him and shit like that. He always, I always knew he had that shit. That's him.
Starting point is 00:49:42 You know, you know when people got that it factor. You know, when they got that charisma. You know when they got that shit. You just know. It's a feeling. It's more about thought. I mean, less about thought, more about, of feeling, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:49:55 Yeah. You can feel the energy got them coming off of him. That's a fact. And shout out to him and Lotto. They got the baby right now. Right on. Congrats.
Starting point is 00:50:03 Congrats. We knew Lottos and she was a little one. Her and my son Demani, they used to, you know, be moving around doing, like, talent shows and shit. True cases. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, when they were teenager,
Starting point is 00:50:15 like middle school type shit. Little kids. Yeah. You know, shout out to, she invited me to her baby shout. Okay. But I had to show that they, I owe her a present. I owe her a gift.
Starting point is 00:50:27 You know what I'm saying? For the baby. But I've always liked Lotto, man, just as an artist and as a person. Right up. You know what I'm saying? Since I met her, I was like, man, this girl, she had it. Yeah. She had that it.
Starting point is 00:50:38 You know what I'm saying? She got that it factor. So you're going on tour, huh? Yeah, man. Your knees are still working and all. What you mean? I ain't got no aches and pain. No, I got the problem.
Starting point is 00:50:51 I got my shit. You wrote that. Y'all, my shit. Oh, yeah, you ain't got to. Jenny Smith. He can't. Now, I ain't know. Now, I ain't enough.
Starting point is 00:51:04 You know what? Just the last show. So the Rue Picking it, I fucked around and got damn, you know what I saying? Took off too much. Man, I popped my, I popped my cow muscle, man. That the first time I ever felt that. Get ready. You're going to have a couple more tweets.
Starting point is 00:51:20 I kept going through out the show, man. You know, it took me. about three, four days to get it back right. I ain't going to lie to you. I had a show with y'all in the Atlantic City. And that's when I first started losing weight. I lost weight. I was trying to body that shit.
Starting point is 00:51:32 That's just, to this day, that's just... That ain't you... It's a recurring role. What did it do? Where did it do? Because I lost the weight, and I had the fluidity. But that day, I was on some shit. It was too much.
Starting point is 00:51:54 Yeah. Yeah, I got to use the bat from one second. I got to take the Scott Ridge break. It's a really little big story to tell me. Joe and Jada Show.com. We got new merch fresh off the presses. Go get it. Big out of big.
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Starting point is 00:53:02 Ilsonique in Montreal, every day you enter is another chance to win. I love the sounds, the buzzing from the stadium, the chanting from the fans, the announcers calling the place soccer, football, it's home. Why do I watch the World Cup? That's like asking me, why do I breed? I inherited that fandom from my mom. I like watching it with my dad. It's a connecting force. From Futuro Studios, I'm Fernanda Chavari, and this is American Football, a show about soccer culture in the U.S.
Starting point is 00:53:44 It's underdog roots. We go beyond the game to the people and the stories that make it great. A soccer game is a festival. It's not just a game. It's your culture. I took an elbow to my head, which cracked my skull. It is an American game. The Brazilians don't like hearing that, though.
Starting point is 00:54:02 Are they the only ones that don't like that? Nobody likes that. As we get ready for the Men's World Cup this summer, listen to American Football as part of the MyCultura podcast network, available on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You said to me, yo, you know, keep at it, because you let me rap for you. It was magical for all of us. We made it. We made it.
Starting point is 00:54:30 Yeah, I'm like, we? You know, I'm like, I know these guys, but who are you? I'm MC Jen, and this is laugh but not least. I'll be chatting with guests from all walks of life about the power of humor when it comes to facing difficult times. Like the co-founder of Rough Riders, Darren D. Dean. about as a kid. Do you remember that we met even way before that? Let me think. Did you walk up to the gate? That was me, Dee. That was you? That was me. The day we found out that you and the whole
Starting point is 00:54:56 crew was at Hit Factory, the mission was to get me to go to the gate, start freestyle and see if I could get in the studio. I'm rapping and then suddenly I hear a voice, hey, open the gate, let him in. The gate slowly went, come, come, come, come. They all, they're watching this and they watch me walk into there and that is a moment that I will remember for the rest of my life. Listen, the laugh but not least. with MC Gin on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to Sabara Football, the sweet and the spicy on and off the field. I'm Daniela Durand, and this is where we get to know the people behind the game like never before.
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Starting point is 00:56:02 You're gonna Manned I'm gonna Mende a Menceakita Not just Fede-Pereira If you say You know
Starting point is 00:56:07 I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I like. A lot of A lot of A lot of
Starting point is 00:56:14 And many more Oh, listen to Zobura Football on the Aihar Radio app, Apple Podcast or whatever
Starting point is 00:56:21 you get your podcast. Like, we y'all started doing y'all, we got to your show. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:56:31 talking to the mic. Oh, I didn't know, oh, you want on camera, I was just asking how y'all get like the sponsors
Starting point is 00:56:37 and shit? Well, he got a nice team. Is it? Some of it is who you know. Okay. He knows a lot
Starting point is 00:56:45 of friends in the high places that own. seen on. Okay, yeah. Some is the team. We got a,
Starting point is 00:56:50 we got a, our team is like the Avengers whoever. Okay. Sales department and then come back with 1800.
Starting point is 00:56:57 Mm. All right. Got it. Shit. I'm sorry. It's, it's, it's,
Starting point is 00:57:02 it's, it's, it's a hustle. Just, yeah. You know, right? But, you know what? I mean,
Starting point is 00:57:08 I do, it's a hobby for me. I ain't even going to cap you that. If you're on fire, it's a habit. If you're on fire, they're going to find you.
Starting point is 00:57:16 It's like everything else. You think your man's phone really rings because, you know, they want to talk to him. It's like your shit number one in America. Of course they want you in fucking Augusta. I'm saying that. I'm not saying that. Augusta, Georgia is a very nice place.
Starting point is 00:57:35 Hey, man, yeah, it is a man. I'm saying. I ain't saying that. What I'm saying is we know when we're on fire, motherfucker, find you and be like, yo, I got this bag for you. Absolutely. You know, then other times, you know what?
Starting point is 00:57:48 We got to go get the back. We were just talking about that before we started the show. Like now at this stage in our career, it's lovely just to have those calls and those opportunities to come. Like, yo, hey, Jader, you know what? Man, I remember I was going through this time,
Starting point is 00:58:03 man, your son got me through this. So here, man, take this, man. You know what I mean? This is for you. You know, loyalty. Yeah. So as far as Fat Joe, right? I've been very loyal.
Starting point is 00:58:15 I've been loyal. You, I've been loyal to a lot of people. Lately has come back. So if you ever wondered what the loyalty did, because for years it never came back. But lately it's been like, so say like, I was a fan of the Knicks with niggas sitting next to me with bags over their face.
Starting point is 00:58:35 Like they were ashamed to be Nick fans. In the audience, right? So now being that I've, you know, I've been a loyal fan, the Nick organization is like, yo, fuck with us. We got a hip-hop float
Starting point is 00:58:52 for the parade. First of all, we ain't never had a parade in 53 years. And we got it and they said, Fad Joe, you can charge of hip-hop. You invite, who you invite. You the ambassador. Yes.
Starting point is 00:59:06 This is from a nigger from the project. This thing is straight. She, you ain't the only guy from the projects. I used to sit up a deck. I'm from the projects. Yeah. They said, Joe, you see the shit they're doing.
Starting point is 00:59:25 It's bad out there, too. And I don't ego-trip. Y'all ain't ever had shit before. I don't we go trip. I don't even trip, man. I don't we go trip. What I'm trying to tell you is the shit, they put other artists through the ring of the, I don't give a fuck. Who it is? They're like, yo, go see fat. Joe.
Starting point is 00:59:40 The biggest niggas on the earth. It's coming in like, well, they're saying we have to have your approval to come on the float. And I'm like, I don't give me fuck, you're a legend. You let niggas on the float.
Starting point is 00:59:53 Everybody. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's hard. You want to talk about Soul plane? This shit is soul playing on a float.
Starting point is 01:00:05 Like this shit. I don't care, but I just want the city to enjoy it. I want my artist. Oh, it's going to enjoy it regardless. City been enjoying. Yeah, but you know who's on my float, see ya.
Starting point is 01:00:16 Who on your float? I got Wu Teng Klan. Okay. I got M.D. Okay. I got M.O.P. I got the locks. I got Mary J. Blige.
Starting point is 01:00:25 Okay. I got Tionna. This shit. That's disgusting. Fabulous. We got fucking Melly Mel and Missed Ness. It's like a jungle sometimes. We're not stopping.
Starting point is 01:00:34 This shit won't be that. That shit. Yeah. That's right. But, you know, the biggest, the hardest part is when they give you that job, you don't realize that if motherfucker fucking want to bring their family and something that. We ain't got no room. But look, yeah, I was just about to say,
Starting point is 01:00:47 did the float have a capacity? It does. And we're out of capacity. The first motherfucker you said, you said, you said you got Wu-Tang. And you know what I'm saying? Like, it's a lot of Wu-Tang. You know what happened?
Starting point is 01:00:57 You know what happened? It's a lot of Wut-Ain, man. You know what I mean? Man, it's a lot of Wut-Tat. The motherfuck got the whole float. I'm like, when it comes to Remy is on the float, like, the only person outside of New York,
Starting point is 01:01:15 kind of bite it because she got the hottest shit in the world's young Miami. Okay. And she's gonna do that spin that shit. Okay. Spend that shit. Yeah. Spend that shit.
Starting point is 01:01:24 Hey, hey, Craig like that. Move it. Yo, listen. Craig moving to that shit. That motherfucker fucking spend that shit. We debuted that bitch here. Everybody thought we was lying. We was actually vibing and we was like,
Starting point is 01:01:37 yo, this shit, eh? No, that shit is. And they, no, no. Our audience is this guy's the purest top five dead or like, You know, the real boom bappers was like, yo, y'all niggas lying to that girl. Why y'all lying to us?
Starting point is 01:01:52 Shit was it in. Yeah. Shit was it in. It was it. Fun fact. Fun fact. Three weeks before she dropped their record, I just happened to be,
Starting point is 01:02:03 we happened to be in the same restaurant. And she were playing, like, I guess, some shit she had on her phone. And she was, like, not knowing what to play, like, kind of, like, uncertain about it. I don't know if that's it. I don't know if that's it. I was like, yo, you gonna know when you got it.
Starting point is 01:02:18 And I was like, she much didn't have that motherfucker yet. You know what I said? She knows. She knows who to play that motherfucker. She must didn't know. She came and she was like, yo, I feel like playing this jungle. She played that shit.
Starting point is 01:02:29 I knew it. Because spend that shit. If you really want to know, spend that shit, it's exactly what I'm going to take. Spend that shit that you can have whatever you like. Spend that shit is Bryson Tillis. I could give you what you want.
Starting point is 01:02:45 to give you what you want. It's the same shit. Women want to hear that you're going to spend that shit on them or you're going to buy them that shit. You're going to have whatever you like. That's what they want to hear. What's that Bryson-Tillard shit? Whatever you want.
Starting point is 01:03:00 Spend that shit. That's just the girl's version of saying, spend that shit. It's always like young kids, you got to stop. You know the God knows the DNA. You know the God knows the DNA. I know. that shit. Trust me.
Starting point is 01:03:17 When I heard it, I was like, oh, no, this is the sound of here because that's all these girls want to hear. It's definitely the first listening record. Yeah, it was. It was. When is the album coming out? Because the album is phenomenal.
Starting point is 01:03:31 By the way, I just went to take the Sky Rizzy break. And all I thought about was like, damn, this motherfucker got a hot fucking. You just played us. Some smokers. Smokers. Nuclear smokers. After smokers.
Starting point is 01:03:45 after smokers, I don't even know which one's my favorite. We're going to have, we can listen to one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. 18, 100. This one is for the O.Gs. Let's keep it 1800. Let's toast to the new album. Let's do that.
Starting point is 01:04:00 And let's play some new music. Yeah, yeah. I mean, 1800. I think I'm, I think I'm going to do the T-Pain, John, Dope Boy Academy, T-Pain. You know, I ain't going to tell him who I know. Yeah, don't even say nothing. You just go play.
Starting point is 01:04:17 That's sort of Maddock, though. Hey, hey, Craig, you remember when we were neighbors in Miami? Yes. Hey, man, we stayed in the same condominium, uh, complex, man. Townhouse on the water, but let me tell you, you said, you remember the time you grab, well, legend, fuck it. What you tell you about? No, I'm with you.
Starting point is 01:04:39 Like, listen, I'm, huh. Hey, man, we have a lot. a wild time. Would you hang it out one time and your wife called you and thought she saw a ghost of anybody outside the window or some shit and you left so fast and you're like,
Starting point is 01:04:57 you'll crack, come on. And you ran out. You ran out. It was nothing. It was a raccoon. But you was like, who? She was like, no, I heard a noise. She probably just tried to get you back home.
Starting point is 01:05:13 She was like, I heard a noise. You was like, Where's the noise? I'm like, and I had the thing on me too. I'm like, yo, this digger right here got a short fuse. You lost it, but thank God it was a raccoon. It wasn't nothing. It was nothing.
Starting point is 01:05:31 But you went crazy. She called you, you was like, yo, crack, let's go. I said, okay. You got up, you got fire on you. I said, yeah, he said, I got one too. So we went over there. But you was like, you are not playing about that family. I'll tell you that much.
Starting point is 01:05:45 I was there on the scene of a real force alarm. I do. I was on the scene. For a real false alarm. No, I was doing. For a real force alarm. Oh, shit. This thing is crazy.
Starting point is 01:06:03 And while I concur completely with the idea of me not playing by family, I had no recollection of this moment that cracked. No. But I'm telling you. I'm not saying that it didn't happen. No, it did happen. I don't lie to you Let's do the toast
Starting point is 01:06:16 Let's play this music Come on man Love and respect 1800 to the album What's the name of the album T? Kill the king Kill the king
Starting point is 01:06:26 The last one's the last one Yeah Kill the king They want that Grown bro They want that Mother fucking thrills Longivity
Starting point is 01:06:35 Longivity You know what I'm saying Shout out to Empire records Man Here's the stand Here's the stand with the same niggas you came in the game with.
Starting point is 01:06:44 You feel you know what I'm saying? Yeah, finishing with the niggas you started with. It's the fact. You know I'm waiting. Let's play this music. Man. Hey, me and my niggas getting money.
Starting point is 01:06:55 You fucking with the dope boys. In the truck. Swirriming the lane and the lane. You fucking rhyme with them dope. I can't end up. Give a day in the trail. You can't. Start a cold dick.
Starting point is 01:07:16 Dude suits in the name. Go change. Dan Dan's on the ship. Samma. Because they all Cartier, A low Vienne. I know the price. Hell was Stephen Moortizing
Starting point is 01:07:23 and got it for lower pricing. Crimidine shout that I can beat the store pricing. Man, now we need some boiling water and some baking soda. And a cup of jade, we get the rolling and then we're taking over. That's all we know. Like if they're coming ready to date and fuck it, we gotta go. Took a trip and met the plug. You dropped the Geronimo.
Starting point is 01:07:38 A soda fan, told his ass. Get the shit to him. Concert. Concert. Let me tell you something. I just think about something. Love. Even though I'm happy for you, man.
Starting point is 01:09:55 I just thought about Big Mike. Man, last time I said. saw you, we was with Big Mike. Yeah, yeah. Man, that guy welcomed me into Atlanta, maybe 93. Treated me like a king, man. He was one of the best guys I ever known Big Mike, rest of peace. Long-lived, Big Mike, Long-Lill OG Clay.
Starting point is 01:10:13 Damn, Clay. That's Clay. Clay. Home-Live knockout. Yeah, your lonely knockout. Man, God damn. Nigel. Shit, yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:24 Yo, let me tell you something, man. You had some real family. members passed away, man. That shit, Clay. Oh, that fucking y'all. Yeah, it was my heart. Clay fucking Y'all. Atlanta lost shit.
Starting point is 01:10:35 I mean, Chubby Baby from here, but he's from Atlanta. Yeah, he was... That was another shout out to Chubby Baby family. You know what I'm saying? Just all good people, man, beautiful people. Definitely. But Clay, I was with him two days before, bro. That shit was the craziest shit.
Starting point is 01:10:52 The album coming. When the album coming? 626. 26. 626 26 Yeah, 4 was in backwood, man however you said It's the same date Man 626
Starting point is 01:11:05 Is that like fucking astronomy Is that like the orange And blue sky Yeah man kind of It got to me It's a palindrome Yeah Pallendron
Starting point is 01:11:15 When is to say like Bob The name Bob It's a palindrome B O me Like level You knew that Like level Because you always use the word
Starting point is 01:11:23 Yeah Hannah Is another Levels of palindrome Levels I get which is level. I get that. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:11:30 that's what it is. But you knew there was a palindrome because you always know shit like that. Did you personally know the name of it was palatron? You knew that
Starting point is 01:11:40 because you always used I'd heard it before but I didn't remember. I ain't fucking know what the fuck. I watch Jeopardy every night. They do palindromes all the time. That's why.
Starting point is 01:11:48 Palindrome. Okay. What, Jeopardy? Oh yeah. Jeopardy loves a palindrome or a mix up a word to make another word. Check this out.
Starting point is 01:11:56 Some old man's shit. This ain't that. That ain't this. It's crack. And kiss. Make some noise for tip, y'all. Love you this thing. Hey, man.
Starting point is 01:12:05 Appreciate y'all. You got some smoking. I tell you that. Woo. It's that time to put on your jersey and wave your flag, whoever you root for. Why do I watch the World Cup? That's like asking me, why do I breed?
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