Joe and Jada - Wale tells WILD Kanye West story, talks Rihanna and Usher collabs & new album

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

Fat Joe and Jadakiss sit down with DMV hip hop legend Wale ahead of his upcoming album 'Everything Is A Lot,' dropping November 14th. Wale tells them about what went into his new project, his collabor...ations with Rihanna on "Bad (Remix)" and Usher on "Matrimony," the time Kanye West made a song with him and then didn't clear the sample, and how he met Jerry Seinfeld during the production of 'The Album About Nothing.' Joe and Jada also talk trash to Wale about the Washington Commanders and Wizards, Joe says the Knicks are going to win the championship, and Jada tells a story about walking into Def Jam and not recognizing any of the young people running the place. 4:30 - Wale, the sneaker head legend 8:30 - Talking 'Everything Is A Lot' 14:15 - Wale plays "Mirroronnabenz" 18:00 - Being secretive with features 24:15 - Story behind "Bad (Remix)" with Rihanna 26:00 - When Kanye didn't clear his song 28:45 - Fat Joe says Usher owes him sneakers 38:30 - NFL & NBA trash talking 45:30 - Fat Joe's been hanging with Thibs 48:15 - Jada doesn't recognize anyone at Def Jam anymore 56:15 - Never let one of the guys be your hypeman 58:30 - Wale debuts "Belly of the Beast" [Timestamps may vary due to advertisements.] Joe and Jada now on Patreon All lines provided by Hard Rock BetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:03:08 doing them stories, man, I probably, man. I don't even care if it, yo, those jokes are entertaining. These stories is true. I know, I should be sounding like loud, too. Yo, what up, y'all? This is Joe Crack, the Dawn. It's your boy Jada.
Starting point is 00:03:35 You know what it is, the Joe and Jada show. Every show legendary, every show iconic. And we haven't failed you yet, and we will never fail you or never let you down. Ladies and gentlemen, and please make some noise today for our brother. You know what I mean? DMV's own.
Starting point is 00:03:56 DMV zone. Heavy in the sports. Heavy in the sneakers. He makes hits. He had features with some of the most incredible people I'm going to ask him about in a minute. You know what I mean? He gets on his shit every now and then
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Starting point is 00:04:26 How do you like that intro? I'm not that shit. No doubt. You know, D.N. F's a very spiritual place for me. You know what I'm saying? In my whole career. You went to church down there a lot? But B.E.T. was in.
Starting point is 00:04:39 I got a crazy anecdote about D.C. Let's start at Howard University. How can I be downs and all that shit over here? B.T. was based out of D.MV. So I would have the train down there to do all teams. Everything. The whole BET was in fucking D.C.
Starting point is 00:04:57 So you had to go to D.C. And we was out there so much because they threw all the events out there that I learned so much about DMV coaching, man. But what's up, Bale? Man, man, man. We're happy to have you here, brother. It's good to be here. You know what?
Starting point is 00:05:11 It's for real because, like, you know, a lot of people hear this all the time. A lot of the names grew up listening to me out. Like, now we, like, by the answer questions, by y'all. Like, that's a little... He's having the convo. He might have crazy...
Starting point is 00:05:24 Yeah. But, yeah. I mean, you kind of drop some seeds about some things who's going to come at. So that's more than the combo. But my thing is, you know, I woke up this morning.
Starting point is 00:05:36 My outfit wasn't so premeditated. But my young boy, UFO, Feeve, hit me up and said, you know why I lay coming. I said, I know. He said, well, you got to throw something on your feet crazy. And I said,
Starting point is 00:05:48 You know, why lay my, I don't think he wanted, I don't think we're doing that, but I went and premeditated the outfit and brought out the T.S. She's about 20-something years old. Yeah. Just for the culture, you know what I'm saying? Because we salute you so much as a sneaker giant. What got you into sneakers?
Starting point is 00:06:07 And are you still currently, do you have the passion for the sneaker game? I think this culture, like all of us, wherever you're from, if he was black, he was on sneakers. You know what I'm saying? And now we didn't really have money until I was like, maybe like in high school. And then when I started working, I just started collecting and collecting.
Starting point is 00:06:26 And then, you know, I go? Like, any other hobby, you just collect. And as far as now, I don't really got a passion. Like, like, I used to. Like, it's a little bit, like, stepped on, like, the whole shit burnt out for real. Like, it's just everything. Not what are you seen.
Starting point is 00:06:40 Nah, but they make it some good designs, but it's not. So, like, I'm on the whole, like, I get clearance rack shit and just pop it off. Like, these are on things. clearance, like, remember these jumps came out a long time ago. I'm on it like that. I wear whatever. I like, I like. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, I like that.
Starting point is 00:06:56 I like, I'm gonna go over there. I'm gonna go over there. And I still got joints, like, but I, like, where the Reggie Miller is. Are everybody on dunks now? Like, we was doing that, we were doing that. You know what I'm saying? So I'm on, I'm on hoot shoes. I wear what I want. And I'm, A.E's. I got one more question before my business partner takes off
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Starting point is 00:07:27 DeAngelo Did you know him what he mean to you Coming out of the D&V You know what I'm saying Well that's more southern Virginia But you know It's deal with D&V nonetheless
Starting point is 00:07:39 But I just think what he meant to hip-hop The voodoo sound is like A lot of go-go bands Was inspired by that album You know what I'm saying Like a lot of people Like, you know what I'm saying? And he just represented a certain type of black man.
Starting point is 00:07:55 Like, like, you know what I'm saying? In that era, like, you feel what I came out with that six-pack? Yeah. Losing weight. I lost two fat joes. Yo. Something's there. Ooh.
Starting point is 00:08:05 I say, yo, I ought to get a shit. That shit was unreal, right? That motherfucker fucking two fat joes. I mean, he was laugh at that he lost two. I got one left. Oh, all right. It was three fat, Joe. All right.
Starting point is 00:08:21 I'm telling y'all. But DeAngelo, man. Shout out the cooling, Dre. It's our brother. That's our brother right there. Dre. Dre. That's his favorite.
Starting point is 00:08:31 He was fucked up yesterday. He was so sad. You know, everybody got their favorite. Oh, De Angello was Dre's favorite. Oh, no, that's it. There's nobody better than, the Angelou for Dre. Yesterday, I was talking to him and I seen him fucked up in the face. I was like, yo, Dre, I'm on a face time.
Starting point is 00:08:48 Like, yeah, you know this. It wasn't the same Drake. You know, he lost this hero. You know, DeAngelo meant a lot. You know, Angie Stoney, one of the first rappers. Yeah. Angie B. It turned into rest of the piece of singing.
Starting point is 00:09:01 You didn't know that? She might be first, second rapper. Shy Rock is first. She was a dead-ass second rapper in America. And then she came back years later with the... She wrote some songs for Sugar Hill and all. I'm telling you, she was there at the exception. four energy store.
Starting point is 00:09:19 She was at the inception. Kiss. You come with the super energetic questions. We're just kicking it. We got new project coming and telling us about what's going on with that. This car everything is a lot.
Starting point is 00:09:35 Yeah, like I ain't dropping four years. Like I had this, you know, I changed management. My contract was out with an MG. Like, I had to figure out a couple things. And, you know, the industry, like about 70% of the people got, laid off in the past four years.
Starting point is 00:09:50 So just trying to figure everything out. And it's really about everything that's been happening from my last album to now, like, with me, like in my mind and my surrounding. I like that. Yeah. To you got a tour with it? You know, we tore an album, so.
Starting point is 00:10:06 Yeah. You stay on the road when you drop some. Any crazy features? I didn't listen to that. I didn't want to listen to it in any race on me because I was trying to get it. No, they definitely got the, you can't rewind. That was my note on the joint.
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Starting point is 00:10:34 I think so. I think so, too. You think I'm lying? No, I was talking about something else. Oh, no, no, no. Ain't no cap on this. I sat down. I'll tell you your whole album.
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Starting point is 00:10:59 Shout out Keith Sweety, wrote that Yeah, yeah I know he wrote it I saw the motherfucker That's all who you paid, God, I said, damn You got me twisted over you
Starting point is 00:11:09 For real Your Keith Sweat is a business, man Yeah, no, for real No, I know Over the first new Thank you to Atlanta Thank you to the Lord They have to have the type of clearance.
Starting point is 00:11:20 Street runners made that jump. Street runners, get at me. But the crazy thing is on. You know I started street running. It sounded so different when you first sent me that jump. You heard that. He said it, it's, it sounds. I started street running.
Starting point is 00:11:34 Oh, you can't throw that? Don't do that. Don't do that. You're going to play yourself. He might, though. He might have, he might, he might be right about it because I know this, I know that circle. That circle is Calid. I know, nah, he might got that one, but. Street runner T.
Starting point is 00:11:48 Yeah, this is the same game. It's close enough. It's close enough. I ain't going to argue on that one. He got some more coming. Don't worry. You might got that one. That's the first time we have.
Starting point is 00:11:58 I'm going to let you get, I'm going to let's, I started street runner. I'm giving them. Okay, they want you to go. I started street runner. I started Chris Robertson. I started Jesse Terrero. You're saying you started people's name? I don't.
Starting point is 00:12:15 It's throw some in easy. Who else? Cool and Drake. Too early, premature. Cool it, Jay. I started Calais. I started Miami. I started.
Starting point is 00:12:27 I started. Fuck, yeah. I started. I started Hawaii, man. I started Howard. See, but you know what about Walee? I always figured Walee for a nice guy. He's actually, he knows how to throw shots.
Starting point is 00:12:40 You see, we started, he was like, yeah, Miami rappers. And that's the shit. Jada's famous for in the verses. Oh, these New York. In Miami, I said, damn. No, when I said Miami, I'm talking about, you know, the Lord, I got your little, y'all get money, y'all do y'all Miami shit. I know who you be with in Miami, man.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Y'all be a bit. Y'all like, y'all talk shit, too. That intro was crazy. Yeah. You made an album like I would love to make an album. For some reason, they stereo cast us rappers. It's just like, man, there ain't no different than what you do. It ain't no different.
Starting point is 00:13:15 But you went in there, you fucked a lot with the Afro beat. You, is you African or African American? I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't even consider none of them bees, Afro beats, for real. They kind of like, I'm asking you a question. Is you African American or are you African? Uh, is that I'm, I'm African, we are African. Yes, but I'm just saying the way you flowed on them African beats was almost like you're from Nigeria, not from Washington. I'm telling you the truth.
Starting point is 00:13:45 You know what you did on that shit. You know, my parents. met at the University of D.C. And they both came until America, like, in, like, early 80. That's fired. Oh, so that's how it happened because you sounded really authentic.
Starting point is 00:14:01 See, I never did reggae tone because I'm like a New York Puerto Rican. And it would have sounded like Joe's trying to do that shit and he don't sound right. Right. You did it right. So in the middle of your album, I'm saying to myself, Yo, it's Walei African.
Starting point is 00:14:16 I'm the one who always say everybody, African. Don't do that shit to me. Where? I'm just telling you you sounded African on this shit. My name, my full name is Olube Walee. That's the Nigerian. Oh, this the fuck I'm talking about. I think everybody Where did you at? You don't know this?
Starting point is 00:14:32 Yeah. I didn't know. He was too busy making street runners, man. Yo, you crazy. It was too busy. You made all those people. I'm sure you don't know what the fucking is down. I was outside Jamaican people factory. You don't know what's going on.
Starting point is 00:14:46 But yeah, I'm Nigerian. I was born That's what I'm talking about And that came out on this album And done perfect Done incredible Thank you You know what I'm saying I love this album
Starting point is 00:14:58 I felt like it was a time That you could have been authentic With yourself What that album feels like to me You did what you loved to do And the shit fire Right Appreciate it
Starting point is 00:15:10 You gotta get used to this guy Nah Oh no he used to me I know what it is Yeah I mean That's how I praise and I appreciate it, though. Huh?
Starting point is 00:15:20 Yeah, let's play that intro. I didn't get the... So you can get the context of the album from the first spot-b-b-off. Make sure you play it fucking loud, too. Yeah, it's Afro beats. Conundrum. Conundrum.
Starting point is 00:15:32 Conundrum. It doesn't be something on. Conundrum is fire, bro. You don't want to play it? You don't want to play conundrum? Nah. Nah, this got to be... This all will come out the next day.
Starting point is 00:15:41 I got, no. Oh, what the next day after then? Yeah, we, this ain't right now. So when we play it, it's going to come out the next day. next day. It might be too early. I do it. 14.
Starting point is 00:15:52 Well, listen to your man, though. You know, Fat Joe is known as one of the greatest A&Rs in the whole fucking system. Or you can listen to him. You can listen to the light-skinned guy from the bank who really run CNB. That's the guy, Christopher Williams over there. That's the guy really on the bank. Nino Brownstone all over there. You can listen to him.
Starting point is 00:16:13 I'm telling you what's fire on the fucking album, but it's okay. It's okay. Yeah, Em and Khalid, man. They created each other, for real. They created... They created each other. Yeah. And then they just started creating everybody else.
Starting point is 00:16:28 Okay, we could do Mero on the Ben's. I just wanted to make a self-affirmation song, man. That's some fly shit, so good. I'm working, I'm dying Baby X Mary, Merle on the bands Who the fly is in the room Who inspired everybody
Starting point is 00:16:56 That's aspiring to you I want to my own horn I'm just squaring it to you And I know you just a mirror But my fare is only you There for them little boys Ain't nowhere near you Don't care but just annoy
Starting point is 00:17:06 That I'd be playing you Those years of paranoia You probably took a toll But depressing the toe Mirror it ain't only you You deserve everything you do Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-try They're gonna try to get you in the move
Starting point is 00:17:16 They're going to try Because it work right I should never stop listening to you Oh Mary, don't you forget Remember Glenn Lewis Don't feel like you really him But I'm a seat to it That you feel like you really am
Starting point is 00:17:27 Because I'm need you Because now we see what this really is We gotta see it through twin You deserve everything you do They're gonna try to get you on the move They're gonna try because it work right Mm-hmm should have never stopped listening to you
Starting point is 00:17:46 Okay, mirror, mirror on the lefts The coach sent you home You don't know what's coming next You thinking boy stay cool You always been a door But the porter wasn't known They gonna send your ass home Before you even get the stretch
Starting point is 00:17:58 Murrah, mirror mirror look at all your transgressions, niggies think you crazy crackers Think you too aggressive The people think you mad, I ain't mad Just reflecting But since flower bomb dropped In the bike you Been a few years, see what we're going through
Starting point is 00:18:10 So many peers have stopped calling you Let's make it clear on who you Lawyer to Save all your tears See what we go on do is mirror, look at me, no mirror, look at me. They try about your style, they walk out with crooked teeth. No self-sabotage, no the opposite. The fuck awake if you ever need to talk.
Starting point is 00:18:25 No, I always be in your face. You deserve everything you do, mm-mm, they're going to try to get you on the move. They're going to try because it work, right? Mm-hmm, sure they'll never stop listening to you. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Can I get a move? Can we fly it up, now I'm glad it up.
Starting point is 00:18:50 And I'm good enough. Now, blah, enough. Can we fly this on the Afro beat. No, he got real Afro. That is Aphrobot be there? No, that's just, that's that. It's melodically. Yeah, it's like from a tribe called Quest.
Starting point is 00:19:06 They never sent me the features. You had people on there, but I couldn't tell who it was. No, we got, you know, that's the new thing. You don't put the feature? A day after. That people absorb. You know who I always been upset with it and our idol. Hello, Cool J.
Starting point is 00:19:21 Uh-huh. Because there's some legendary super platinum songs he had on that we never knew who sung this shit. Right. I never, like, the girl never got a person on doing it well. Oh, yeah, doing it well. And Tasha from Bone Thugs. Like, when Stuggies Rock's, God bless him for saying her name at the end of the song. Tasha, Cleveland, Devlin, and the house.
Starting point is 00:19:46 Thanks, Tasha. Because Billy's in the house, the wishes in the house, and flesh. And then, Tasha, I hope Tasha is doing nice. I bought the girl that said, Yeah, who's saying on what more can I say? They're frozen in the house. I always wanted to know that girl. I ask Goubu, I don't think he, nobody gave me an answer.
Starting point is 00:20:06 Who sang on what? What more can I say? What more can I say? Yeah. Damn, I don't know. That sounds like a sample to me. He could have said you crazy for this one, whoever there. was.
Starting point is 00:20:17 He probably was talking about like shot. Get through a light shout out. There's something, man. One niggas might want to get what more than I say on a thing. He hit records that never like Tupac had
Starting point is 00:20:30 man hit records. I don't know who was singing on there. Yeah. Or who even produced the years later? Park asked a nigga for a cigarette and let him get on the record. That's grace. He like, like, like, I ain't going.
Starting point is 00:20:42 I ain't go, you know the songs, y'all. I ain't going to. He let it's the only feature. But they got a million motherfucking stream. Talk with anybody home. Yeah, but, you know, he left from the heart. Yeah. You do that now.
Starting point is 00:20:54 They'll sue you and say they made up the whole song. Or they'll just... This shit crazy. It's just a little bit. It's a less fun of my feet. You can't even allow motherfuckers in the studio these day. Motherfuckers would be like, yo, you said that wrong.
Starting point is 00:21:05 You do it over? Shit, you did. They'll talk about how they wrote the shit, how they did. Like, it's incredible out here. Like, you got to watch who you got in the studio. You know, it's real tall. I know of lawsuit.
Starting point is 00:21:19 I know one guy in particular who was hanging out with the backstreet boys. He's in the studio in Orlando hanging out with the backstreet boys and say they said, I'm going to do it like this. He said, yo, you used to say, we're going to do it like this. The man sued him like he did something in the studio. He sounds like a smart guy. No, he looks cruel. They're stealing anyway.
Starting point is 00:21:43 Oh, man. What? The Backstreet, boy? You can take that out. No, fuck, no, they were. You know what they're still in front, man. Who you say, but Boyd's the men or, or new edition? Who would you say to Backstreet?
Starting point is 00:21:56 I'm not saying nothing because now I know it's going to be a headline and it's going to be like a whole bunch of. But we can talk out, man. What's that with them Giants, man? Giants. There you guys. He's all the segway out of that. Oh, you're a Chiefs fan?
Starting point is 00:22:12 I'm a Chiefs fan. Oh, you made, you made my eyes. No. Well, Travis Kelsey, I got him on the box and rewind it. Oh, yeah. Well, I fight the time when you could rewind the time. Travis Kelsey, my business, partner. He's on the box.
Starting point is 00:22:25 Yesterday's price. Yesterday's price. It's not today's price. That one, Travis, that one, Travis Swift on that jump. Let me tell you something. My first time ever, by the way, with the number one seller in CVS, I was in L.A. And I went in there, CVS to give me some sugar-free cooked candies they got it in. and I'm online and there's this white dude there
Starting point is 00:22:47 and he got a boxer rewind it and he turns around I said man you buy he said I'm a faithful customer he don't know who the hell I am and I'm like yeah he said if this guy's wears it I could wear it too and he showed me Travis Kelsey and I said wow Travis man the Swifties this he was like yeah I'm about to go do my
Starting point is 00:23:07 I was like we had a customer first time I called a customer online in the store it felt great guys I get it. Rock Nation. Where's the Harcam? Hey, I get it. I get it.
Starting point is 00:23:20 I get it. You get it? It's fucking David Letterman over here. I get it. I get it. I get it. I get it, Jay there. I get the whole thing.
Starting point is 00:23:29 The shade is mine. I get it. The courtside shit. I know. I see the whole vision now. I get it. With Bob Lowe. Fuck.
Starting point is 00:23:39 Joe. Joe. He said, you niggas want to do streaming games. Watch this. I'm going to be the media master. Watch this. Bro, if I had that, what you had, doing them stories, man, I probably, man. I don't even give it.
Starting point is 00:23:55 Yo, those Jones was in the training. He's stories true. I know. My shit be sounding like last, too. I got. He was looking at me like I'm crazy. I've seen one guy, he said. See, that quick.
Starting point is 00:24:07 No, that quick. I seen one guy on Instagram. We probably blowing him up. Jay that don't like this. But he was like, yo, one time. I was on 131st and Fat Joe's man the shout out the bomb by OB Megatron. They own the rim shop
Starting point is 00:24:22 and Joe was just chilling in there. So I'll pull up with my man's. I want to play music and we caught him off point. He looked like he was shook. I said, listen, I got to do it. I got to go on the comments. I said, you are very blessed. You didn't try me because it would be a messy situation in there.
Starting point is 00:24:39 And how about you come 20, 25 and try to play with me? see if it ain't going to get messy. I could guarantee you whatever. I don't remember what he's talking about. But I promise you, if we was in Harlem on 131st, if 8th Avenue, it was heavy in there. Heavy.
Starting point is 00:24:56 That Joe ain't just going to be sitting up in the middle of Harlem. It would have got real messy in it. I don't know how we got here, but I believe you. No, you better believe it. You're going to go a lot of inflation before you leave here. New Yorkers are good with that. Like, they can keep you on games. I believe it.
Starting point is 00:25:12 New Yorkers' no. I know what we got there. I know knickers' nose, though. New Yorkers no? I know. But let me tell you something. How about we let him tell us something? I want to ask you about the song you did that you got Rihanna on.
Starting point is 00:25:26 That's what I was about to start asking about some of those features. No, go talk about that one first. That one. That one's a serious one. He pulled the, he got some incredible fucking features in your life for your career. I'm talking about that. Yeah. You know all this?
Starting point is 00:25:41 No, you are charming. You got songs with Jadikis. The facts. Ah-ha. Don't tell him that. No made-up shit. Don't tell him that. He came to the studio with me.
Starting point is 00:25:54 He's been in D-Blocked studio next to me, no e-Mit. Made a kiss, man. You're a great rapper, man. We're talking about him. I don't want to talk about me. Let me tell you about the time I made Jada kiss. Oh, shit. I was somewhere in Yonkers.
Starting point is 00:26:10 Whoa, yo, yo! It was a car. The Dark Cold Night of Yonkers. I, um, nah, but the Jones was, like, she, she just, we, I met her, like, a long time ago, like, before I was even, I was still in school, for real. it was right around the time I dropped out I was on tour with Mark and I think backstage at Glastonbury there wasn't too many like black people like
Starting point is 00:26:30 so we just got cooled in and then I started like you know getting bigger and bigger and then I remember like it getting back to me this is my third album now and I'm on Rock Nation so you know Jay Brown and the whole thing she was like I want to get on a song
Starting point is 00:26:44 and uh yeah and then I mean then I had to like I remember like she kept going to the club like every other night And I was like one of these nights We're going to the studio soon as And the day that she was ready I said, bro, everybody get the fuck out
Starting point is 00:26:59 Like yo, what y'all want to eat? That was like McDonald's. I was like, oh, cool. We had some J's. So I like getting the vibe And then she just did it. And then I think we ended up like I tried to get like a different beat
Starting point is 00:27:10 because I really wanted a real remix. Let me ask you a question. How did you feel when she jumped in the SUV I'm presuming she left and you had Rihanna's vocals on your song. Like, what the doubt? I hope this should get cleared.
Starting point is 00:27:26 That's the fact. It ain't all. It ain't over. It ain't over. Yeah, it's not all. It's not done yet. I know some artists right now that they love to go to the niggas sessions
Starting point is 00:27:38 and hear their new shit, drop them, give them two verses, and then. To those day clears. Don't clear that. Kanye did that to me. No, I had to deal with that a lot of time. He did that to me.
Starting point is 00:27:50 I don't even know. I don't even know. know how I happened, but when I was out there writing for him, like, and this was Paris, this was a long time ago. For who? Kanye. Okay. And then I remember, like, I wanted him on this song I had called Girls on Drugs.
Starting point is 00:28:03 And he was like, no, no, nah, nah, nah, he gets, like, no, nah, nah, this is the one. And it played me this song, and with Todd Dallas and I was on it. And he was like, this go-go shit, right? I'm like, go-go don't sound, nothing like that. Like, but, you know, I get it from me, Italian West. So I did this song. I didn't really like this song for me. real. I mean, it wasn't, like, it wasn't
Starting point is 00:28:23 fucking with nothing on my album, but it's Kanye, so I let it ride and shit like that, you know. He's like, yeah, you should put an album, I'm like, fuck it. Having A on the album, I can't hurt. I don't like the song. So, when it came to time, what's the name, the label home on now, death jam, they wouldn't
Starting point is 00:28:39 clear it. They said Kanye wouldn't clear. And I'm like, what the fuck is that? And then he got mad at me a little bit later down the road. Like, I don't think you appreciate, I gave you, like, one of your biggest songs ever. And I'm like, damn, me, I can't even clear the Like, shit ain't even Now, he's delusion
Starting point is 00:28:53 Shit ain't over till it's over With these conferences, man My favorite rapper, but he's the hell He said definitely, definitely inspiration to my whole shit Oh no I just fight for the state And I want to Paris for that
Starting point is 00:29:05 Wait till I tell you the Kanye's story But yeah, that might be for another story How the hell did you meet Jerry Seinfeld? I was just always outside Nick like, I just was a kind of different nigga Like I had different interests Like we all hang together
Starting point is 00:29:20 whatever, but I used to just like watch different shit. And I remember like I had an injury and I couldn't I couldn't do shit like for a while and I had them joints on DVD and I was just watching them joints and I was like man, there's a lot of psychology in this shit. And then I just made a mixtape around that when I
Starting point is 00:29:36 still living in my mother's career like and I was like, I don't know if they're going to understand it but I put it out and it just kind of caught and I did part two right before I signed the Inescope. And I think right before I did part two it got, he caught wind of the mixtape and He had a show in Baltimore when he wanted to meet me.
Starting point is 00:29:52 Wow. Now, how the hell did the Usher join? That's one of my favorite songs in the world, by the way. I appreciate it, man. You know, I D.C., I'm one of the biggest rappers that don't have a main producer, and I kind of think so because all of my songs might hit from somebody else. And I remember one day, Jay One was like, man. By the way, I don't want to, that's an art to be able to work with different producers
Starting point is 00:30:15 and make hit records with different producers. A lot of guys just got one guy who give him that sauce. it's actually hard to leave somebody you just made a hit with to fuck with another producer and get a hit from them. Sorry for cutting you off. I wish I could do that more.
Starting point is 00:30:30 I'm like more of an introvert now. I become more because I know too much so I just don't be here really around nobody. But like Jake One was like, man, this is around the time of like three years in a row I had like the number one most played on Urban Radio song, so Jake One made a joke.
Starting point is 00:30:47 He was like, man, I want to do one of those with you. Put Sammy beat like that. Man, I just thought it finished it together. And then me and Sam do put that hook down. And then niggas was like, yo, Usher would sound great on it. Didn't overthink it. Man, Usher did it. And clit.
Starting point is 00:31:05 The man, Usher never did shit for me, man. Y, Asher, you owe me about a hundred favors. What? Usher, I need a taste, man. Your Usher, I've been chasing you for my whole... Man, Usher might think I'm whacked. Man, I ain't going to live. Chase Usher, plenty of time.
Starting point is 00:31:23 He's a, I consider him my friend. You're on skates now, man. You can't catch up as long. Can't catch him now. You go to Usher show, bro. I'm in Vegas. I had a show. I think, what's the club?
Starting point is 00:31:36 Trayas, man. And I fucked around and told Natina give me some tickets to Usher. I fucked around. I sat in number seats for two minutes. Then it was the Fat Joe Greatest Hits. Ten records in the world. Usher had me performed.
Starting point is 00:31:50 Ten fucking records. I have breath, sweat, bullets, ripping the place down. I mean, you get an Oscar ticket. It's coming with some free songs. He made you earn your performing life. He made them joints. I can't lie.
Starting point is 00:32:04 He came to my show after. He came to Drey's and hung out with me and that was against his contract. He couldn't really, but. Oh, yeah, they vicious. Man, Usher, you owe me sneakers. You on me all type of shit. No, Usher owe me.
Starting point is 00:32:15 Usher owes me sneakers. Usher owes me sneakers. Oh, that's a big. I had me performed. He had me performed at his his goddaughter's Sweet 16, Fat Joe Greatest Hits and he looked me in my eyes
Starting point is 00:32:29 and said, yo, I got you with the Jordans. That motherfucker been skating for me forever. His Jordan Connect ain't more than you were. No, I know I know Usher's... He just won't appear that they made for Usher. Yeah, I want... He liked the E.S. A.R. joints?
Starting point is 00:32:43 I want to... You want them to say confessions on his hat. I want this to say... Simple. I want that shit to say sample. You see what I'm saying? Y'all got the camera. I want the ushers to say something.
Starting point is 00:33:00 You need something exclusive from us. Yes. I ain't even know he had it. Thank God I ain't got no hose on my socks. You know what I'm saying? Oh, no. He got them some for them. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:33:09 He made one for your wedding or some shit. Oh, that's like I could call MJ myself. No, no, he got it. Yeah, yeah. He got exclusive. They like, for him. For us, you know, I can't see you with a pair of his joints. Oh. Yeah, you got four ones.
Starting point is 00:33:24 He got three. No, they, they'd be dazzled up, though. They got shit on improving. That's the Justin Timberlakes, them shits, with all that shone and all that. What's your way inside? You don't care. You just want to say? I care.
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Starting point is 00:35:15 it. Gambling problem, call 1-800-gambling. That's in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia. On the podcast Health Stuff, we are tackling all the health questions that keep you up at night. Yes, I'm Dr. Priyanka Wally, a double board certified physician. And I'm Hurricane Dibolu, a comedian and someone who once Googled, Do I have scurvy at 3 a.m? On Health Stuff, we're talking about health in a different way.
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Starting point is 00:36:29 Hey, I'm Cal Penn. And on my new podcast, Here We Go Again. We'll take today's trends and headlines and ask, why does history keep repeating itself? You may know me as the second hottest actor from the Harold and Kumar movies, but I'm also an author, a White House staffer, and as of like, like 15 seconds ago, a podcast host. Along the way, I've made some friends who are experts in science, politics, and pop culture. And each week, one of them will be joining me to answer my burning questions. Like, are we heading towards another financial crash like in 08?
Starting point is 00:37:02 Is non-monogamy back in style? And how come there's never a gate ready for your flight when it lands like two minutes early? We've got guests like Pete Buttigieg, Stacey Abrams, Lili Singh, and Bill Nye. When you start weaponizing outer space, things can potentially go really wrong. Look, the world can seem pretty scary right now, because it is. But my goal here is for you to listen and feel a little better about the future. Listen and subscribe to Here We Go Again with Cal Penn on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Big Take podcast from Bloomberg News dives deep into one big global business story every weekday.
Starting point is 00:37:42 A shutdown means we don't get the data, but it also means for President Trump that there's no chance of bad news on the labor market. What does a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich, reveal about the economy? Our breakfast foods are consistent consumer staples, and so they sort of become outsize indicators of inflation. What's behind Elon Musk's trillion dollar payout? There's a sort of concerted effort to message that Musk is coming back. He's putting politics aside. he's left the White House. And what can the PCE tell you that the CPI can't?
Starting point is 00:38:16 CPI tries to measure out-of-pocket costs that consumers are paying for things, whereas the PCE index that the Fed targets is a little bit broader of a measure. Listen to the big take from Bloomberg News every weekday afternoon on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All I know. is what I've been told, and that's a half-truth is a whole lie. For almost a decade, the murder of an 18-year-old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved, until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.
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Starting point is 00:41:10 Once I saw the gun, I tried to take his hand, and I saw the flash of light. Listen to the Chinatown Sting on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you get your podcasts. Football season. You play football. Yeah. What was you, you inspired to make it to the NFL? Yeah, everybody thought they was going to the league when we were little. But she, my first day, uh, can't. in college, because I was recruited as a wide receiver
Starting point is 00:41:44 because I was playing running back my whole life, but I was too small to play a runner back in college. But then I seen them Florida niggas running routes. The first day, I said, all right, let me. I got to run a bat. So I had to work my way back up that junk because I was not running like that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:59 And then I got kicked out for Robert Morris. Shout out my man, Freezy out there in Miami. They kicked them out of Robin Morris. I know y'all caught the vapors, man. Coach is Joe Walton, he used to coach the Jets. That was my coach, and then I transferred to Virginia State. And I was getting to it out there. You know, the thing about living in Miami,
Starting point is 00:42:19 you shit be 120 degrees. And I was talking, they got the fucking equipment on 120. That's what they be. I learned more about football, spending two weeks in Carroll City, my freshman in college than I did the whole first season in that Rob Moore. I learned more about football in Carroll City. Yeah, I'm the only.
Starting point is 00:42:38 God, they never played, but got thrown out the park. Rich player used to play, and they penalized them for 15 yards. And then they took away another 15 yards. You can bring Rich in here if I'm lying. They maybe get the fuck out the park. The referee, I'm like, you footlocking. I was going bad out there. The most dangerous fan is the women out there.
Starting point is 00:43:00 You know, the women should. Man, the women used to go, yeah, Joe, this one. They start taking them yards. It was like, get the fuck out, crack. I was coursing them a game I kept going crazy out there but Florida a different thing with the football bro.
Starting point is 00:43:14 Who's your team in the NFL? Well NFL I told you I'm a bandwacking I'm Kansas City Chiefs You don't know I've been in Kansas City A couple of years since they've been winning Since Chavez Since Chalice did the joint
Starting point is 00:43:29 Hello But in basketball is next You don't you ain't budgeing on that No no I can't do nothing I feel like if the Giants was like Doing better like you're going to be. You're going to come in with Josh and Doc.
Starting point is 00:43:39 Go there for no reason. Do you, man. I remember you from your old, dog. You're me and your pops. Man. Remember? I pay for your talk wood, John. What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:43:49 I got my... I've been around... Yo, I've been around too long to get sucked by the Giants and Jets. I've been around too old. And Miami ain't happening. And Miami ain't happening. Miami daughters.
Starting point is 00:44:00 I lived in Miami 20-some years. I watch them get their ass whip every week. That shit on the TV? 21-7. Like one thing I threw no But y'all at least had the heat I had the heat for a while. I'm not going to go in no whack.
Starting point is 00:44:14 What about the heat? I had the heat for the... He wasn't going on my mind. I was, I'm always been a Nick fan. You know, in solidarity with the heat. You know, I was in the studio. You've been in the studio too many times with them cursing me out
Starting point is 00:44:26 every night for fucking years. The Knicks sucked. The heat was winning chips. Do you know the type of verbal abuse? These guys were getting. Giving me, it's an hour to two. You go to studio 7 o'clock. You talk shit for two hours.
Starting point is 00:44:42 Guess what was the two hours? Y'all niggas is trash. This, this, this. Y'all, I mean, this great. They'll play me on the 2K and bust my ass with the heat on the nick. Like, it's just disrespect for many years. But we go through that with Redskins commanders. Like, there's a lot of...
Starting point is 00:44:58 I remember my hove used to be John all the time because he's a Cowboys fan. We didn't have nothing to brag about in a long time. So I get it. That's what I'm saying. And your, your, uh, Washington, your basketball team ain't nothing to brag about either, huh? Those motherfuckers, the last thing y'all had was John War, huh? Yeah, my shout to John. We're going to be all right soon, though.
Starting point is 00:45:17 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll trust the process. Yeah, they look, they look, they look, like, you got more bad than that vocabulary. Oh, they got hot. Whoa, whoa, whoa. No, they know what you call that when they, with you, get the fuck out in here, man. You don't know what the fuck I'm talking about them boys. He was animating, he was animated something.
Starting point is 00:45:38 He was animating something crazy. I take that. That is describing this. Hey, Waleigh. He was supposed to be you as a basketball fan. I'm feeling real good right now. Yeah. You got the football guys, don't get two.
Starting point is 00:45:52 Don't get two. No, no, we went in the chip. I mean, somebody's talking. I want you to know that. All of America, all over the world. We're talking about secret money, though, Joe. Huh? Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:46:03 They talk about secret money in the NBA. It's always been. contracts and all of that. They say that they're coming for the Knicks. That's what I heard. That's the rumor. That's what they say. My nigger, do whatever they want, man.
Starting point is 00:46:13 It's our time. Now, once we get our time, they want to come and start fucking corruption. No, the clippers started it, but y'all going to finish your problem. You see how they swept that clipper shit under the rug? They're going to make the Knicks a big day. They're going to blow our job. We want bad Joe on every nigga he made. Give a fuck what they do.
Starting point is 00:46:32 I'm telling you that our bench is. stack up. I starting five is phenom. You know where people... I'm telling y'all. I know how to win shit. I'm telling you that you. I'm telling you that you.
Starting point is 00:46:45 Listen to what I'm saying. He always gets mad at me. Delusion? I get it. I get it. You're passionate about the next. We're delusional? No, you are.
Starting point is 00:46:55 No, we're winning the chip this year. That's what I'm trying to tell. You're going to step out there and say that? I know so. All right. What I'm trying to tell you is basketball is my life, guys. We can tell. basketball is my life
Starting point is 00:47:07 He always says He always says Rucker ain't NBA Joe But what I can tell you Is them six championships I won at the Rucker We were stacked
Starting point is 00:47:19 From 1 to 15 The Knicks have a bench And they got a starting 5 Nobody's gonna stop us this year Y'all gonna see So you're saying I have a high saucing on them That the Knicks gonna be good
Starting point is 00:47:33 Because you know how to coach it No you I'm not saying that. What I am, I know. Yeah, what I'm saying to you,
Starting point is 00:47:40 nah, that's all I'm telling. NBA was stacked. Okay. Sorry for everybody else. I root for the next to because I got a lot. We don't have nothing
Starting point is 00:47:47 to root for most of the time in basketball, so I get it. I get it, but you kind of, that might be too big of it. No, I'm telling you. It's a reach. It's a reach.
Starting point is 00:47:56 It's now enough. Boston fell apart. Every team, Boston fell apart. He got with everybody. It's still. It's going to be a high. They're not.
Starting point is 00:48:05 not going to be the right. And when they had everybody, we beat them last year. Everybody's, look, this is a Knicks walk in the park. See, that's where you're going. I'm telling you, that's where the old student of the audience. Y'all's supposed to win. Ooh. No, no.
Starting point is 00:48:22 You can't say that. I'm telling you. Lack of rheumatoary very. With health, we're good health, nobody's beating us. I'm telling you, we're going to win this shit. We're going to fuck around with. Okay, see, and we just got a, you know. We got to rough them up a little.
Starting point is 00:48:37 You know what I mean? Speaking of rough a ball. I saw a coach tip. I've seen you with tips. What's up with him? You might not want to know, man. Beloved. I want to know.
Starting point is 00:48:46 The people want to know. I want to buy that shit, right? I went out and ain't. I bought shit too. Yeah. Tim's in Louis. Tibbs was in him. You was in Louis and you ain't know I was across the street in Burd off.
Starting point is 00:49:00 So you was like, yo, Joe, you and Louie because I caused that. That's where Tibbs was at? Tibbs was over there. It burned off with me. By the way, Tibbs is mad, but I realized Tibbs walked away with $30 million. They fired him. Oh, dog.
Starting point is 00:49:13 One thing about Timsy's up. What kind of shit is this? That's crazy. I am, I hate myself. They're going to do Belichick like that, too. What do we got to do? I got to go to Mongolia. To make a fucking dollar.
Starting point is 00:49:27 They're going to give them the same thing. Nobody wants to listen to me. I got to go to Mongolia. I got to get booked at some. shows where the niggas is like, yo, be careful. The gang members came in there with the guns. And to make a dollar, these motherfuckers make 30 million on the walkout.
Starting point is 00:49:47 Why are you not mad like me, man? I ain't got nothing to do with that man business, man. Well, Tim said, I told him to come on a podcast. You know, I love it. He said, hell no. And he said, yes. What? He said, I'm going to get your number.
Starting point is 00:50:02 I said, yo, just ask for a while. He said, Wes. Oh, won't be talking to him no time soon. Yeah, they said, you should have knew that. He said him. I'm not going to fight him with $30 million on a walkout. Yeah? He wanted a coach, man.
Starting point is 00:50:21 He went to coach and make a little play 58 earn this game. Worldwide West lives across the street from me. I've seen him yesterday walking, exercise. I told him what to him said. He said, man. That's my guy, man. He said, that man, I know him 30 years. that man should have sent me some chocolate and some champagne.
Starting point is 00:50:37 He walked off with 30 amps. He wants the coach! He just can't see past that money. Somebody please give me 30 Ms. So could the National Museum of Hip- Get out of there. Joe and David's over. You out?
Starting point is 00:50:54 I'm taking the 30. Coconut. Coconut. But the ones that you could peel the inside, with the spoon on the beach. Peace of the gods. One. Grand Rises, beloved.
Starting point is 00:51:11 Green Rises, beloved. I don't know what you're waiting for. Like, yo, this is what we doing it for. You know what I'm saying? Like, let me get out of here. 30 M. How you feel about the state of the music industry, whatever's left of it right now?
Starting point is 00:51:29 Man. Way it's getting dark. My last album was, like, four years ago. And so much is that. You're printing change dramatically in for you. The styles, the sub-genres, the, the, there's been artists that came and went in that time I forgot out. That's a fan. Literally came and went.
Starting point is 00:51:47 Like, the industry plant stuff there, some people think it's real, some people not, like, you know, fans didn't more aware. It's just, it's the wild wild west right now. I think I'm on Def Jam, too. Oh, yeah? You think? The last time I went there, it was crazy. It's a bunch of young kids It's like this show on Netflix
Starting point is 00:52:08 With the levels That shit you like, stay And I went to the floor And there's a bunch of new youth What's the show? Squeak games? No, it's like squid games mixed With the other shit
Starting point is 00:52:20 That came out doing the food on the shit Man with the levels Oh, the food Yeah, I like that shit I went to this floor I seen nobody I knew But it was like a bunch of young kids You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:52:32 They ain't control. Then they took me all way up to the towers. Then I saw all of the people that I used to know, all of my people that worked on my album. So that freaked me out. That alone. It's a whole, they put the youth. So many people are like.
Starting point is 00:52:50 Yes, mad people I don't know. Then the few that I knew, they put them in the chimney. Well, I never know. What was that? The chimney is. They heard. They heard me, man. It's supposed to be kind of hot.
Starting point is 00:53:06 Put them up. I'm like, yo, I got to meet a whole new... Well, you know, people got to work. And the problem is that a lot of people that have been gatekeeping, and they've been getting their checks for years and years and years, and getting exposed. They're lazy.
Starting point is 00:53:21 And so they don't really want to put in that work and that pain. You know, I got a friend that he's my brother. I don't want to say his name. Say it! No, I can't do that. Well, he'd be telling me, yo, I got to work. He'd be in the industry getting the check for 30 years. That's his man.
Starting point is 00:53:39 And he's like, yo, they actually got me work. And I said, well, what the fuck you think this is? Like, you're getting a check. You have to work. There's not a lot of passion. It's not a lot of passion. One thing I learned about this industry when you find people that rock with you
Starting point is 00:53:55 and go off of you, you should keep them repuls in relationships because it's not going to be a lot of them, but as passionate about their job and really want to help you. You know what I mean? You know, I got both, I agree with both of you guys, right? But, you know, it's a time for the youth to show what they know in the industry and all that,
Starting point is 00:54:18 and we can't have, look, what I'm going to say, I ain't going to say it. You, no, no, no, because I got too many friends, too many people that I love, too many people responsible for my career, DJs and all that. But when you got DJs, unless they're DJing in the greatest hit station,
Starting point is 00:54:39 we got those 94-7, the blot, WBLS. You can't be 60 trying to control the rap game. There got to be some young dudes. They got to get up in there and start DJing. They got to be some young kids that you got to hire that know what's going on. I think nobody got to pay. That's my experience with a lot of the younger people
Starting point is 00:55:00 because we're trying to build a staff for what we've been on too. But, like, everybody, they don't realize you got to go from here to there to there. They think it's this for a couple of weeks and then it's right there. And, like, all we know is, like, climbing up like that.
Starting point is 00:55:13 But, like, instant gratification is like... You know what, Bob? It's the new shit. What this conversation brings me to is Kanye West be bugged out, right? And he do bugged out shit. But I agree with him. him where the man is saying he's selling every
Starting point is 00:55:32 Adidas sneaker. He's a fucking billionaire. And they put him to talk to somebody's son when he's discussing his sneakers and all that. As a kid there making $90,000 a year, literally telling him what to do. Like, nah, we ain't doing it like that. You're doing that. He's like, yo, bro, I'm keeping the lights on in Adidas. Yeah, but still protocol. You tell a billion dollar dude to walk up in there
Starting point is 00:56:01 And what do you think the niggins that gave him that deal What you think they got? Yeah, I don't mean this because he got that It's still somebody higher than him And somebody hired it is. Listen, I agree with him. I agree with him. I think there are certain people
Starting point is 00:56:17 that if you know they win all the time, they keep the lights on, they know how to put it out of the point. Don't have no young kids. You don't get what you actually. for. You get what you negotiate. You know that. I got to use the baffle on that. Oh, shit. Who is the number one DJ
Starting point is 00:56:33 in Washington, D.C? Al-Azee. Al-Azee. Al-Zay. When you used to be coming all the time. I remember... No, that was Flex. Flex was the nigger there. Of the flex. DeJ. Flecks and W.B.D.J. Flecks at 93.4.9. And then the light skin, nigga. That's my man. What's the light-skinned guy over
Starting point is 00:56:54 there? Peace, too. Quicks silver the man. Yeah. That's when I first met you when you came to 93.9. I saw you then. And I was still- I had Fat Joe in the back of his pocket.
Starting point is 00:57:06 Every year I perform for his birthday party, I swear to God. Baltimore, D.C. No, no, he had me. Every year he comes, yo, Joe, my birthday. Quicksilver, the man. Flex the man. What's my man who at the show on BET? 90-Sept.
Starting point is 00:57:22 Joe... Joe Clare. Ninety Simpson. Joe Clare? Joe Claire, that's all DMC. Yeah, it's all there. It's all down there. We got to shout them out.
Starting point is 00:57:30 Quicksilver, Flex. DJ Al-Zay. D.J. Al-Zay. Bacon, bear. Listen. Steph Lola. P. Stude. We ain't do that.
Starting point is 00:57:38 We all P. Sto. Man, it wouldn't be no fat Joe without P. Stude. Peace, too. I love you, man. Everything you ever did for me. Quicksilver. Quick Silver, Flex. Steph Lola.
Starting point is 00:57:51 D.J. Alizate. Analyze. Analyze. Joe Claire. Joe Claire. Donnie Simpson. Donnie Simpson. Big Les.
Starting point is 00:57:59 Hold up. The whole go-go music. You're in the butt era. What's me? Doing the butt out. Sex-A-Sexe. Yo. That was this shit.
Starting point is 00:58:15 Yeah. What's my man? Let my music up. Don't do that. DJ cool, bro. Fucking. DJ cool Everybody do
Starting point is 00:58:27 Listen We all been booked To do half times At Indiations I just seen you ripped Dubai Nobody risked half time Like DJ cool
Starting point is 00:58:35 He did something I never His shit wasn't off They put his DJ on the court With him He fucking Tawed and built His shit was better
Starting point is 00:58:47 Than the game Let me clear my throat Oh Have mercy baby You know I don't lie What? This thing This thing
Starting point is 00:58:58 I haven't got the words right to a song in yet I don't even get my own lyrics right The energy there Yeah No, that energy there
Starting point is 00:59:07 We feel it though You know I don't mind You know I don't lie I don't even get my own shit Right Yo, Remy fuck a podcast Remi been
Starting point is 00:59:18 Disrespecting me Forever She's like Yo bro What the fuck Mom You don't even get your words right.
Starting point is 00:59:26 I said, you know I'm fried. Yo, shout out the North Carolina at A&T. I just did their homecoming. You caught a party at that shit. I watched you on Instagram. I left Fendi Rock with me. Never get, he was on the filling part.
Starting point is 00:59:42 No, he's saying his fillings was Yugoslavian. It was Slovenian. It was everything except with their, I'm like Fendi. You're not even saying American. You're saying gibberish shit. Don't say nothing than it's safe.
Starting point is 01:00:01 He's filling it in. I'm saying this. I'm about to mess up the whole show. I start laughing. I'm like, yo, dog, shut up. Listen, I'm in Miami. You're saying gibber wrist for the film. I'm in Miami and you know how that shit.
Starting point is 01:00:15 You definitely know. You're one of the kings of this shit. I caught a miracle bag. They call me for Cancuncoucats and Buster Maris ain't coming. Thank you. Man, did I need that bag, right? So they said in the private plan, we went out there. Rich player was my hype, man.
Starting point is 01:00:32 Ooh. The worst performance ever seen in it. Yo, stink to football, my name. Yo, he still be bragging about that shit 15 years later. Remember the time I hyped you? I'm like, yo, that shit was the worst shit. Yo, we just can't do that Monday morning quarterback shit. You let your man hype your shit up.
Starting point is 01:00:56 That shit be the worst. Fendi fucking... He was good on the nothing. Like with the... Aggie pride, this, that when there's no words. When they dropped his song, he should have just stepped back. He had a flashback.
Starting point is 01:01:10 He thought he was Stalves Lutche. He thought he was mad people and wanted to get nobody right. Fendi's my man. I had a good job. I love him. His eyed man skills and finished, so he can never do it.
Starting point is 01:01:22 You can, yo, Fendi, just stick to looking pretty, baby. Stay out the way. Let's go to the last song off the new LP. Everything is a lot, man. You got to love this album. This album is really, really great. November 14th. We put in that work.
Starting point is 01:01:38 November 14th, man. Before you go buy some bullshit, purchase you some good music to do, you know what I mean? Stream it. No, buy it. Buy it. The streams is cool. The streams is cool, but we need sales. There's go.
Starting point is 01:01:52 You know what I mean? We need sales. So I stream more albums. So what's the difference? You do nothing. How you don't know those? I don't know. I don't have a sound system.
Starting point is 01:02:03 I don't know how to... I go and don't say that. Ladies and gentlemen, he's delusional right? He buys artists. We buy your music and let's reciprocate the love. Hold on. Let's toast to this fucking out. Samasa Spade.
Starting point is 01:02:16 I see that. So he said, I'm right there. Everything's a lot. November 14th, all platforms. Shout out to my brother's still fucking going crazy all you, suck. Let me ask you one question before we go to that song. I see you talking a lot about drinking and addiction and drinking. Did you go through a time with that?
Starting point is 01:02:36 I think everybody in this industry, if you've been in this young longer than like six years, you've been through some traumatic shit, like regardless. Oh, you know, I don't, I've yet to see any of our peers that have been in it. For longer than six, seven years, it's like one or two traumatic things that kind of rewire how your brain. is. So I think we all have indulged and vices at particular moments. Like, for whatever reason to push through something to numb something
Starting point is 01:03:00 or simply because, like, this shit wasn't made for all this. Like, we wasn't made to see all these opinions and all that, like, you know what I'm saying? It's just too much. It's too heavy. It's a lot. And there you have, everything's a lot. And then you've got to act like you're perfect and all that. Yeah. This game,
Starting point is 01:03:16 this game, yo, sometimes they try to kill me Raleigh. I'm not even lying. No, they do. They come for you. Sometimes I'd be like, I'd be like, I don't understand. Everybody go to it, but I'll be thinking it's the price we pay. Unfortunately, I don't know if it's just our community because we always got to refer back to the Jews. And these guys, whether they get along.
Starting point is 01:03:39 We play this song. No, no, no. God, damn. No. No. No. I'm trying to tell you. Now, hey, so look, everything's a lot.
Starting point is 01:03:51 November 14th, this song is called... I got to finish one. And this song is called Belly, right? And it's just really about what we were just talking about. Making it look like I was saying something bad. What I'm saying is... How much my Jewish friends don't get along? They work together and they make money together
Starting point is 01:04:11 and they do business together. And for some reason, I feel like in this industry, everybody try to knock you down for doing good. I'm just saying that. The new song, let's go. Let's get to it. I like how you called that.
Starting point is 01:04:28 It's the truth, though. That's all I was going to say. And welcome back. My name is Waleigh. This song's called Belly, and it's just really about, you know, balancing, like, both sides of my life,
Starting point is 01:04:41 like, from the reality of the situation I'm in, trauma I've been through, and, like, Survivor's guilt. Like, all of that are in one. This is called Beth. Everything's a lot. November 14th. Let's check since you join out.
Starting point is 01:04:54 Everything's a lot. Oh. Back to reality. Back to life. Back to reality. They say the strings fake. The box running this thing way. Still like I make that bands,
Starting point is 01:05:07 come out cheese cake. Niggas all size. It's my free play. A man turning from my barber. Get your free fade. Oh, wait. Tell me where we at, though. I'm looking through the windows of your soul.
Starting point is 01:05:16 I'm back, though. I lost some good man because they couldn't see the back, though. We black barring arms now. Keep it in the satchel Hage All this hating on me Isn't natural But God gave me
Starting point is 01:05:25 This an atheist Can see the passion And y'all knicks lame How'd you playin' with the crash out But everything A lot so Bring everything
Starting point is 01:05:30 Everything Look And the belly at a Change You let that shit up That's not The belly got a Who ain't no weight
Starting point is 01:05:47 Boy ain't no fucking way Yeah We celebrate in one opposition ain't not the mystery. God's good, but I often question them when he listen. The hate is bigger than me. The weight is bigger than me. They crashing out, I feel like a metallic dagger winning.
Starting point is 01:06:00 Chocolate City, we're supposed to be good. Never thought I see Rachel Evans on social media. They are they cotton picking minds. They don't know the details. Me and Cads talking silk, temple, Beverly Hills. South West, Southware. Shout out to 101 6th. Hurry show I had a platinum.
Starting point is 01:06:12 They was getting me left. Everybody show you love when you giving them shit. One day you say no, and no longer pretend to be friends. That's right. Don't sketch. Y'all drawing that shit I lost some niggas Dippers
Starting point is 01:06:21 I lost some niggas I lost it all And I got it all I'm a target again When everything you do offense If you be hard to defend I'm going Everything
Starting point is 01:06:29 To the belly out And the balliata You love this shit And the balliata Big Top rapper Look, fans on Melroch, chain on May Day, IRS patient, friends on JPEC,
Starting point is 01:06:51 how can I express in the shit that got me rich That depression and the pressure is the motherfucker Wine drinking in a Malibu is a mind-for Used about $10 pieces with $9 a dollar short A day late, niggas with broadways I'm sorry I'm not for play play, smoke Conversations I vacate They all say we brothers that feel like I'm bison day lay
Starting point is 01:07:10 Yeah, I got this stripper from Melae My cousin just had a wedding And I put her ass in the gay leg Yeah Maybe I'm way too killer So maybe need to appear to my parents I'm on the same way Look, the effluent
Starting point is 01:07:21 It's talent It's like a balancing neck But my parents gave me my stage name Bands on Melrose Chain on May Day IRS patient Friends on J-Pay How can I express
Starting point is 01:07:29 In the shit that got me rich That depression And the pressure is the motherfucker Look look Plans on Melrose Chain on May Day I'll rest patient Everybody waiting
Starting point is 01:07:38 How can I express And the shit that got Got me lit. That depression, the pressure, the motherfucker's the same thing. And the belly other. And the belly out of. Yeah. And the belly out of beer.
Starting point is 01:07:57 I was not. This ain't that. That ain't this. It's cracking kiss. Give it up for our guests, the one and only. Wal-in. Thank you all very much for your hospitality. Everything's a lot.
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Starting point is 01:08:32 Do I have scurvy at 3 a.m? And on our show, we're talking about health in a different way, like our episode where we look at diabetes. In the United States, I mean, 50% of Americans are pre-diabetic. How preventable is type 2? Extremely. Listen to health stuff on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years.
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