The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Joe and Jada - Fat Joe, Jadakiss & Lola Brooke talk MASSIVE changes in last 20 years of hip hop

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

Fat Joe and Jadakiss are joined by up-and-coming Brooklyn rapper Lola Brooke. Joe and Jada ask Lola about growing up in Biggie's neighborhood of Bed-Stuy, her smash hit "You" with Bryson Tiller, what it means for her to come from the lineage of New York female rappers, and growing up on LimeWire to download the latest Lil Wayne, Meek Mill, and 50 Cent tracks. Joe also tells the story behind the making of his hit "What's Luv?" and Jadakiss explains why he knew "Why?" would be huge. Joe and Jada is now STREAMING ON NETFLIX! All lines provided by Hard Rock BetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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But, nah, I don't be in the studio like, oh, I got to make a hit. I'll be in the studio like, oh, I got to get this shit off. Because if I don't, I'm going crazy. What up, y'all? This is Joe Crack the Dawn. Your boy, Jada. You know what it is, the Joe and Jada show. What the Mondami said, Jay to the Moire?

He said every name. He said every name. He said Jason. That's custodio, Sergio, Rolando, Torres. That they named you a hundred names, you shit. The biggest place. Every show legendary, every show iconic. You know what I mean?

At this point, he just crushed your shit. We just fried. But today's guest, Think of hardworking. You know, I never really seen a female Napoleon. I mean, meaning she packs a big punch, haws. If you need one, if not, let it go. Big energy, she brings, you know, a big presence.

You can tell she loves her mom. She comes from a good, she comes from some good raising of a good mother, represents Brooklyn to the fullest. Brooklyn. She's connected. You know, she knocked one out the park, maybe one or two. I got to look back at the billboards,

but she works very hard. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Lola, bro. Oh, oh, oh, I like that intro. That was fired. I like that. You like that intro?

I like the intro. No doubt, baby. Shut out to mom, Dukes. You know, this is what I say. Hold on before we even. Did you have another name? Big Gator.

Before you was Lola, before it was, was it, when you did the show, you opened up for me somewhere at one time. We had a show on Syracuse. No, it was, it was Lola Brooke. That was the Albany. Albany. That's how long she'd been going, she's been putting in work way back then.

I like to say he was very humble. And when I seen you finally hit one out the park, you know, I was proud of you. A lot of people don't put that. You was in the trenches. You was doing shows. You was getting your name out there early and not just waiting for Plymouth Rock

to land on you. You was out there making your, you know what I mean? Making your chop. So that's a good, that salute to you to the success. Now, go ahead, crack. Now, I'm just saying, the way you're moving

is the way I wish all the young guy rappers would move. You got sad, you got OGs. Shout out to Team 80. Shout out to Team 80. You know what? My brother. Team what?

Team 80. See, 80. My thing is, when you got the right people been around the business for a while and they know how to get you out of trouble. You know, a lot of these young dudes, and they ain't got like no unc, no real OGs, positive people.

I just see where they fuck up at. So I say that all the time with the young guys coming up. We need an OG to just tell you, yo, don't be impulsive. Don't move like that. You're going to get yourself jammed up. Yes.

Because we're getting tired of the next rapper coming home from jail, This shit is out of control right now, right? One go in, one come out. One go in, one come out. You know, this shit is played out. But I love your team and how you move. Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me. I love it here. Let me tell y'all, they was popping mad. There was popping mad shit. Before the camera... Oh, my gum came out. Before the cameras came out, they off and on the camera.

they're the same. They're the same. Offing on the camera. Yeah. They're the same. I'm jealous of my. I'm jealous of them. What?

What? My gum. Maybe two. I knew I was supposed to have it. I was trying to hot it. Two B T awards, it goes, or whatever. When it was, we had to, we caught a red out home together. Oh, yes.

We had the, we both in first class. You know what I mean? We got the, It wasn't the seats that turned to a bed, I don't think. But when she folded her body, she was the most comfortableest person in the dog. She threw the thought she was on the California. I walked by, I said, damn, I want to get caught. This is a bad right here.

This leg over there. That's just like a California. Real quick. I'm like, damn, I wouldn't get comfortable. You don't remember. He did that shit to me one time. We took a... But it wasn't bad.

He just... You're a big dog male. It was really... You were still comfortable than... Whatever I had it didn't look how comfortable you was... I was curled up.

You went to L.A. Mm-hmm. The man before the plane took off this guy went to sleep. Like, he's describing you. Mm-hmm. When the shit landed, he got up.

I was pissed. I'm looking at J. I was just going to fuck to sleep like a page on this shit. I can't even sleep on the fucking plane like that. I said, motherfucker knocked up. Rich player, too, before the shit move, he's like, you know, if I played that game taking pictures of while you're sleeping,

I would have... Oh, you didn't do it like that. Dictionaries on Rich Player. He's before the shit move, he's like that. That's how I'll be. I want somebody to be scared with me on the plane. Yo, that's thing? Motherfucking don't want to be scared with me.

He's like, yo, every man for himself. You figure it out. Get on. Sleep before the flight take off. You can't recline and that. Your back, the old messed up. Yeah, they don't let you. You got to wait till you get.

You know what's crazy when you private? You could do jumping jacks by the shit take costs. Oh, I got to get them. Jumping jacks, backflip. Them niggins don't give a fuck. Watch. On private, they'd be like, do you want to put your seatbelt on or not? Like, so all that shit, they'd be running, like, seat up, sir.

Elway up. You're like seat up, sir. Make sure you on air. All that shit is bullshit, by the way. No, no. No, no. It's a fact. All that shit is bullshit.

When you're on the privacy. Safety measures. That's shit that got to have. My man, Raoul, rest of the piece, was not afraid to fly. When that shit was landing, the more turbulent, he'd be in the front with the pilots. Like, yeah, look how he's cut. I'd be like, yo. You know, at that time, you're supposed to be super.

strapped up. Like, it's bullshit. All them rules and all that shit is bullshit, man. And bullshit to you. He don't like the rules. He never did. Plains is safe, man. Don't play with it.

Did you think that was a... Did you know that was out of the park or you had to work it? We always got to work every single, you know what I mean? You got to do a bunch of shit you don't want to do and everything's savering them to do and radio stations and DJs and all that. But when it got, when you know it was one of them ones, I did that feel for you. I ain't going on.

Just recently, I just started realizing, like, I had a hit. I didn't, I didn't feel it. I've been working for so long. Like, I've been raised by my mom. She's a hard-working black woman. All I know is to work hard, and I don't reward myself because it's like, it's things that you're supposed to do. So when don't play with it pop, I was just excited.

Because, you know, as an artist, when you feel a neglect. it and you're not getting the attention that you feel like you're supposed to get. When you finally get it, it go over your head. So. You know the whack part about this business is when you get one, they're working you so much. You can't even go to your normal spot that you will go to and look at everybody

fucking with your shit. You're like, you don't even get that. You know what I'm saying? You got to lean back. Number one, the ballfuckers, like, y'all flex played it 400 times. I'm in fucking Denver, Colorado performance somewhere like. Right. do not get to enjoy unless you one of them dudes.

That you don't give a fuck about a dollar. You don't care about none. You could sit there and be like, all right, my shit popping. But when you get a hit, it's always like, look, it ain't never going to, look, you're a hard, hard working. That's one thing we got to say about you. But let me tell you, it never changed. No, now, you've got to adapt. You've been in the game.

I've been in the game 30 years. It still don't change. You got to sit back to enjoy your fruits of labors. shit don't work like that. It's like, yo, what's the next where we got to go, what we got to do, why we got to conquer, what we got to do. You know, this shit don't never,

especially where I don't know your finances, you grew up with your moms and your pops. No, this is my mom. See, so, you know, you're trying to... I'm just trying to pay bills on time. Like, you know what I'm saying? I'm generational. I never had nobody before me

make money like me. You could probably look my family tree, 100 years, everybody been on welfare for 100 years. So I'm genuine. I just, I dropped my Section 8 when I popped. I'm like, oh, I can leave Section 8 now. My mom's passed down the Section 8. I still got mine.

You're a liar. I wish I could have moms. I was looking for somebody to hold it down. You don't hear me, you know how much I'll tell you about my Section 8. You know, you can't say that line. He makes you look crazy what he said. I don't play with my sense. When you say he's crazy, he doesn't, he doesn't respect Section 8.

He doesn't disrespect Section 8. You know how hard it is to get Section 8 right now? Don't even play with my shit. I got cousins in Section 8. They know how to play that game. That shit is not easy. I don't play about my... I feel the same way about my hard drive.

You got to go to shelter for like a month for something. Yeah, listen. You hear that. That's how my mom's... I feel the same way about my hard drives as my Section 8, Nick. As you should. I was holding it down for a minute, but I ain't having to buy you to pass it down to. I'm the only child, too.

I'm the only child too, so I was supposed to cap that low. I'm the only child too, so I was sure. I was trying to pass it down. I was trying to pass it down. Fuck this section. They wouldn't let me. Listen to me. Dick.

Hold up. Hold up. Fuck the section. I'm trying to explain to you. You think if Jay-Z wanted to stay on Section 8, he would ever be a billionaire ever own a building like this? That whole shit is a gimmick. I'm going for billionaire status with Section 8.

I don't got nothing to do with you did. I'm trying to. I'm digging. I'm calling you full of shit. Man, I found the first slide, man. All my Section 8 people in the comments, get them. Sad. Let me tell you.

You still I stand strong about Sexony. No. I'm Section 8. You ain't let me finish my statement. If you need it, you're a single parent moms or whatever type of struggle you're going through, I'm not knocking you. I grew up on welfare, Section 8, free cheese, free lunch, everything you could. Nobody was fucking bummier than me. I say it all the time.

But what I'm trying to tell you is that. that system is a trap. And it's really, no disrespect, but it's really not a flex when you go to a building and you be like, yo, the Washington's been here for 40 years and this, man, we got to get up out that shit. That shit is meant to be temporary because they put you to a limit.

If you aren't sectionated, you on that, you can't make enough money to do what you want to do. So basically what they do is they control you from competing for the jobs to own shit. They do control you. No, that's why my mom was. It's a project. My mom was, like, heavy on, like, don't, this is,

this is for you to move forward to get you to be. That's it. U.S.C. right now. She's smart. If you need Section 8, God bless. Once they see the income. It's everything you name. Nobody's been on welfare more than me.

When they see it income and it go up, up there. They don't want you in the sale. Sorry. You know why your moms ain't have a man in the house? Because she couldn't. Because when they help you, they say they don't want you to have a man. All right. I'm telling you the truth.

Wait, my mom, my moms ain't want no nigga in the crib. Not because it's sanction eight. You're telling her what this is not about her mom. Why you break my moms up, man? When my mom's watch this, son, I'm sorry. I apologize. Come on. Your mother's know what I'm talking about.

They de-masculate the home and the projects. They don't want the woman to have a man in the projects. They don't want a man and a woman in the projects. They don't want it. Man, I'm trying to tell you the truth. It's a gibbet, like, if you got a husband, they don't want you in the projects. If you're doing better, they got a husband. If you got a raise and salary, they don't want you in the project.

So they want to keep you at a level. You shouldn't be in the project. Think about somebody that. I'm just the one breaking. I'm breaking it. He's breaking through. How you got hooked up with Team 80? It was like 2016.

It's this artist. He from Brownsville, his name, Lizzie, D.O.D. He asked me to do a feature. I came through, met everybody just to do a feature, just working. And they caught a like it to me. And I caught a like it to them. I just was around watching them. do music videos.

I've never done a music video before. Going out working records at the clubs, get mansions to do content and stuff like that. And I felt in love with it. Like, I always was in love with music, but to be around people that I felt like was in love with the same thing, it made me want to lock in with them.

You know, how you feel about coming from such a strong lineage in New York City of female rappers who really started up. You know, I mean, we had rappers from all over, but, you know, that Kim, that Foxy, a boat from Brooklyn. I'm sure you get compared to them all. I'm saying when I saw her shit was lit,

Savannah and the little daughter was doing a garage. I said, oh, yeah, that shit, hey, that's a head, she. I love Savannah. Yeah, that was Fox. She lost her Savannah. Listen, let me tell you, I try to rig it one time. I reached out to Kim Kardashian, I asked him, this you want to say yesterday's price not today.

I try to rig the Bible. I try to rig it and be like, wants some Kardashians or one of them, savannas or one of them coming your shit. It's over. The next day is over. Your man Callag did that they don't want us to win. Justin Bieber went on that jet.

That's what happened, Sam. The next day, Justin Bieber went on that jet. He said, they don't want us on a plane. They don't want us to eat caviarish. That shit was over. You get one of them to do that. You wake up like, holy shit, this shit out of here. But coming back from Foxy Kim, did they inspire you?

Do you know you have a lot of weight on your shoulders, tapping into that soil you? At first, it felt like pressure. But I'm from Brooklyn. It's in me, not on me. Walking to the bodega, a motherfucker fucking pressure. Like, coming from where I come from, it's only pressure if you allow it to be. Like, if this is something that you love to do,

it shouldn't be a hard thing to get done. But I am happy that, huh? Which one of the two inspired you more, Foxy or Ken? I would say both. I would say both because I felt like Foxy has, her tone is just so, it's so powerful. And Kim presence is powerful. And they always compare me to both.

So I'd be like, I guess I'm like half and half. Like I'm eliminated iced tea. I'm a half and half. No doubt. I'm teaching you saying they both love. Hello, O'Palma. They both love Joe Krat. I remember one time I must did an interview

where I might have said something that might have got Foxy Brown mad at me. I don't even know what I say. I talk so much shit you can forget about it. She had me in the DM and said, yo, crap. I knew what Yo crack bad. I was like,

I know I fucked up I will never do it again, sis. I was on her first record, her first L.O.C.J.'s shot you. And she came up in there with the papa this. I was like, yo, we never see somebody with that type of swag.

And she was with Vaugh deep on there. Keith Murray was the hottest at the time. By the way, very underrated Keith Mary. his flows, all that shit. He had it at one time, right? She was with us. You know, L.L.,

who was like the king at that time, the dawn, and she came on that shit. And we knew the minute we saw her on that set doing all that shit, we was like, oh, no, she was about to... Bapa. Yeah, yeah. It's a Brooklyn day.

Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, it's a Brooklyn. You know, Brooklyn's too big for me. Yeah, Brooklyn's too big. It's like you could drive in Brooklyn for hours. Like, right? You ever notice the shit don't run out? Like, you go with, no.

Yo, Brooklyn don't run out. I'm not disrespecting Brooklyn. It is big as fuck. If you're not from Brooklyn, you are very lost. Now, I remember I used to go with my man to buy weed out there. They had one particular spot that was popping somewhere. I'd be like, I could never find that shit. So you got East New York's all the way on the other side.

Joe, it's nothing bigger than traveling from Brooklyn to the Bronx. I get that. The Bronx is much smaller than Brooklyn. Like, that alone is big than Brooklyn. Yo, that Brooklyn shit, man, I don't be knowing where I'm at. You know, all the time when the plane landing in JFK, I look out the window at Brooklyn, I'll be like, yo, I really need to know. Because in the Bronx, Harlem, all the, I know every single block.

I haven't discovered every single block. This shit just keep going. And then it turned. And then you're flat books. The next way you're flat bush. The next way you're this. Then you got Jews right next to the black dudes across the street. This shit different from the whole world.

Brooklyn really is. Spike Lee be calling that shit like another planet, like another world. It is. It is. You on this side of the street? The next gangbangers is the Hasetic Jews. They're out there. It is.

Deep. It truly is, Joe. It is, right? It is. That's your biggest fuck, man. And so coming from Brooklyn, what part of Brooklyn exactly you from? Best style.

Oh, you're from Best style. That's deep. That's deep. No, as soon as you get in Brooklyn from. Oh, you mean like where Biggie's from? You should go see Biggie there. That's right there. That's right over the Junior Cheesecake.

Yeah, it's like 10, 15 minutes. Yes. Been out. I used to go see Biggie out there, man. Best size is good. But when you go, when you go, you go, you go, give me another name in there. Brownsville. No, Cody Island is the end of earth.

Hillsville, East New York. Yeah, I was at Cooney Island the other day. And that diner, we went to JFK too early. And I was like, yo, let's go to the diner. We went to that Cooney Island diner over there. I know Cooney Island. No, Colie Island is Coley Island. Like, they got their own.

Like, Coley Island is Coley Island. Like, when I used to go to Coley Island, I didn't even know I was still in Brooklyn growing up. Like, I thought I was somewhere else. Yo, Cooney Island is far, right? Shout out five mics and everybody out there. I used to go with Stefan Marbury. If you don't know who that is, he was King of New York at one time. I don't know.

He was a Lincoln, right? Yeah. You know. He was one of the greatest. He knows shit. I know. I go with Stefan Marlberry because, you know, we are old, oh, geez. I don't, I don't give a fuck what you think.

She's from a whole different generation. Brooklyn, man. Brooklyn, no. But I study. I study it. I mean. Yeah, but I used to go see Steph out there and he had like 10 family members in one project building. The niggas is on every floor.

Let's see Miss May. Let's see this. This is like they had the whole building, bro. Sebastian Telfare. That's why I got mad when he tried to play against us. The black guy. fed that boy four chicken wing french fries many a time out there

in Coney Island, man. That shit. I'll tell people all the time. That's my... If I go dead broke, I'm good with four chicken wheat french fries. Fat. That's sauce. You know about mommos sauce?

You know about mommos sauce? Mombos sauce? Yeah, you don't know about that? No, what's that? You gotta come to the sky and get mommos sauce on your french fries. Hats up in mumbos sauce. So what is it like?

It sounds like mayonnaise and ketchup. No, no, no. I don't rock with mayonnaise. Me and mayonnaise, we don't, we don't get along. Comcaps. You ever been to Comcaf? Don't play with me, man. That's the sound like...

It's a Chinese restaurant. That's the famous... Oh, is the famous Chinese rat? You eat anything. I never heard that shit before. I don't know what Conan Cowell is. I think you're trying to chill out. I think...

Home bought over the... Don't have a play. That's how famous is. I need to eat it, but I've been there. It's a good Chinese part. Like, it's a little slice. Is it poor green? But it's like a Chinese spot.

Fort Green, the different part of Brooklyn, that's still a Benin all over there on that side. Hey, he played trivia, Brooklyn Trivia. I'm lost. He really is, though. Throwing out there. You don't listen. I am lost in Brooklyn.

It is very. It don't sound like you be lost. Pause. That shit deep. That shit won't. stop. Wow. You go.

You go from the fucking, what you call that shit? You go from our Barclays. That's that main street. What Atlantic Avenue? He said Barclays. You go from the Barclays? That one street about an hour

long. That's so funny. You go to Long Island on that shit, right? You pass four white castles on that shit. Yo, four white castles on that shit. What a hell of a landmarks you know about four white castles?

You go to the Barclays, you take that one street down. At the backstack, there, four white castles. Four white castles. That's how I know we're getting to the end. By the time you hit the fourth white castle, I went to these projects. They had a, I can't think. They had a fucking, a basketball game, the championship in these projects in Brooklyn. Chris Gotti sent me in there.

Thank God we had the yollets. This shit was like, yo, it was like the Coliseum. You got to park in the middle of the project. You got to walk in the... They ain't no touching the surface, the soil you, and then leaving. Chris, you got to tell me what the projects was. And they were playing the chip. They had hookah.

They were selling hookah. What's the shit they call the fucking... Who was that Gersh? Nuck Crackers. Nockersh. Nockersh. Gersh. Gersh.

They had the girls some stolid selling hoop. Because now this shit out of control. They got a popcorn standing there, but it really felt like how are we getting out this bitch? It would just pop off. Yeah, you're in East New York. That was East New York? So when you start from Fort Green going over there...

It's deep. That's definitely... Yeah, that's a drop. That's what I'm trying to say. That's a drop. They jam me up. You know what I... Jam me up.

I taught my wife, I never do the same shit twice. So when I go to my house every night, I go to the right to the left, go a little further, come down. I never go over. No, I'm dead up how you left. I did that in the projects. I come out through the basement one day to go to school.

I come out through the front. I go out through the rent building. I switch my shit up every day. You ain't timing me like that. It don't go like that, right? So in there, nays going to have to get the shooting because there ain't no normal way

to get out of the Gers' projects. I'm telling you. Are you jammed up? The parking lot is in the middle of the projects. If they closed that shit up, good luck. You got to do what you got to do to get the fuck out from projects. That's a fact of Mundo.

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I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. And, well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers was... This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes.

I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, Hey Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title

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Is somebody coming? after me. Jacob told Levan, you're ruining my life. Listen to Kingdom of Fraud on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Man, I saw you in

Paris. Remember we did Paris together? The Jordan. The Jordan Joint. I've seen you out there in Paris. I was proud of you. Thank you. And you know what's crazy, we don't get enough time to tell you and everybody else, whether you're young, you're the OG.

You know, in this game, there's a competitive game, but we're happy for everybody. Yes. And everybody's just, we got like an alma mater, rest of peace. Fat man's school outside. Like, we took a beating, you know, we used to, you know, I hung out with him. No kiss.

What's the matter, man? Bounter the realness. Because there's a family tree. His brother's sitting in my face. You think I can't, that's all I can think about. It's my brother fat man school. I hung out with him. We ate breakfast.

Right? We had a show in, in Europe. We ate breakfast together. That guy was so happy. He had a gun collection, right? He kept bragging to me. Yo, the AR-12 comes with us. I'm like, you.

What? No, legal. Legal. But he was such a positive dude, my whole life. But he was talking to me about guns. Last time I was with him. He's like, yo, I can't get back. I can't wait to get back.

I'm gonna go buy this new shit with a scope on a this. I'm like, yo, fat man's cool. Like, you buying guns at a mile a minute, but he loved it, right? You know, what a beautiful soul, bro. He was gonna clap, son. Well, you know, that's what I say in the show.

Jada wants to kill me. I say, yo, listen, if you have a son, if you have a son that love guns, And you live in New York where it's two years no matter what? I don't give a fuck what kind of money

you got. Little Wayne sat two years for the gun. I don't care how much money you got here Johnny Cockwin and nobody can get you out. If your son loved guns,

take them to Atlanta. Take them to Connecticut. Take them to Pennsylvania. Take them somewhere. Fucking let them buy the guns. They're going to kill them. You're making it. You say the solution there

if your son is Gundy Lero, take them somewhere where's the Wild Wild West. You agree with that? No. What I'm saying is kids that love guns. They get caught with three guns before they blink in New York City

and they're doing real time. I mean, this might sound crazy, right? I had a fetish for them. But I don't know. Something clicked in me that it wasn't cool. It's like, the kids going to get it. You know what I'm saying?

Like, I'm seeing out of eye with them. So I'm like. No, I'm just talking about jail. When you raise your kids right after a while, they'll get it. They didn't get it. It'll click. It'd be so random, too. You're just, a lot of things clicked for me, like growing up in Brooklyn.

I was around the wrong crowd, but sometimes I go home and I'd be like, yo, that shit was so whack. Like, why did I, that was, that was pointless. It was corny. Because I knew at home, my mom's made it safe. It was, I felt safe. So it was like, why I'm going outside doing all this extra shit when I got a hardworking moms that make sure the home. home for like home.

Can't take that for Gwen. Hmm. It'll click. Send your son. Send your kids to the army. To the gun state. And let them get all the guns they won is his solution. Okay.

Listen to America. I don't know. Listen to America. Here my logic. My logic is I've got a lot of friends that their kids like guns. You in America in certain states have. have the right to bear arms. Before your kid is a three-time felon,

by the time of 19, because he loves guns, man, you went to jail for the ham. Before you go do that, move to a state where it's legal and let them do it the right way. Otherwise, I know what I'm talking about, guys. Say, play if you want, and you'll be going to see your son of state in no time. That shit fix me.

It. I don't know. I think you should just pray. Just pray. Just pray. Prayer helps. You're into prayer and God. Yeah, I pray.

Big time. I pray. I pray last night. I always pray, though. I pray everywhere. Let me tell you. Surprised I ain't praying here yet. I can sell my prayers on a plane.

Did you know I'm scared to fly? I see myself while I'm praying in a white suit, talking the millions of God. please the dog next to me doesn't want to die right now. Please give these pilots the knowledge. Oh, my God. Oh, yo, if they are, now I'm certified pussy. If they take my prayers and my mind on the plane,

are they like, oh, this guy's pussy. He can never act tough in his life. This guy, like I pray too hard. The record with Bryson Tiller. Okay, Seth. Young Jol- Did that do what you wanted it to do? Or,

no, that record was a Super Smash. Did the record label throw the proper bag behind that? It went flat. That's my shit. Young-Giola. Oh, man, that's great. I mean, that's great.

I mean, that's great. But I got a, yeah, I got a plat. After this, it might go platinum. It's going to go flat. It's going to go flat. After this is going to platinum, Sam. See, I was. That was we bring it back.

Not only was the record to smash. but I don't know if you know we discovered Bryson Tiller and I happen to know the man just don't work with anybody No he don't. He don't care about your bag he don't care who you are

And when that man jumped on a track with you to me being a hip-hop historian it was a super validation because he don't fuck with nobody no matter who you don't even post a picture on IG So that shit is so fire The record is fire

And then he rocked with you You know, that get the other You know, you might catch a taller The Creator next time Somebody who don't really rock with people It's like, oh, she's somebody we need to take serious So I'm glad you Because I got some records I did

That I thought, you know, the reason why I truly went independent Was I dropped the record with Young Jeezie Yeah, well was it. How ha! So down son, you killing him. To me, that was a lean back. Like, I thought that... I did something crazy to that beat.

You rocked to that? Ha, ha. Let me tell you something. We shot the video, Harlem. We did the movie. Jeezing, I was like this shit out of here. Like, the phone calls I was getting. What fake phone calls from the industry?

You back. Yo, it's a lean back. I was hype. And the record label, I know for a fact. They didn't push that. shit. And that's when I said, you know what, you guys ain't doing this to me no more. I'm going independent, putting my own bag up. I'm not coming over here begging somebody to push my shit or whatever the case may be. That song changed my life because that's one song to this day.

If I'm sitting in the club with you and they play it, it bothers me. When I hear it, I'm like, this shit was supposed to be out of here. This shit was a missile. You see the Savannah? when that song came out the next day LeBron was doing the little dance to the shit too I was like, oh no, this, we got one. And they didn't push it and they was acting like, nah, got you. You know, that forced me

to go independent, but you're correct. No matter what you do, if you put out a hit, they want the second lean back. I put out lean back. I think the next song I put out was making rain. The shit went full platinum, and they're just still like,

this ain't lean back. You know, they was dead ass Oh no, you got to do it again Then again, then again, then again, then again, then again. And that's why when I look at certain artists That put it out the park consistently That's when I be like, man Because you know, one hit is a miracle

One hit is a miracle. I always say, they talk about one hit wonders I always say, yo, motherfucking live this dream. One hit? With my man gold over my plaids. Go on the bomb watch. Turned it that, James. Go on then Ithas. Go there on the other.

Man, I seen him on the red carpet. I see them take pictures with everybody he ever loved. I see them live a life. So when somebody hit it out the park one time, it's a dream cut true, but to consistently, you know, you hit it, you know, in our era is a Nelly. It's a 50-sand-as. Javu is these guys kept coming and coming and coming with hits

and hits and hits and hits. And you have to respect them when you're in the business of making hits. Because when do you know you got a hit? Do you know when you got a hit? Well, now I do.

You can feel it. People treat you different. No, but I mean in the studio, you create a song. That I don't know. Music for me is a lifestyle. I'm making music because it's making me feel good. I do music because it speaks for me.

Like, I do music because it's therapeutic. I didn't start doing music for a bad. but I quarterback, so I'm going to continue to do it for that as well. But, nah, I don't be in the studio like, oh, I got to make a hit. I'll be in the studio like, oh, I got to get this shit off. Because if I don't, I'm going to be going crazy. I like that. You like that was on, right?

You knew you, what's on you knew, Jay, that you had a hit? This guy, feel of shit. Thank you, Lola. Thank you. God bless if the Savior. This guy here. He's a snitling me every show. When I go home, I watch the replay.

I'm like, yo, this thing is sniping me. I'm on a... I don't even know he's killing me like that. What song you had that you knew this is a hit? Before it came out, me in the studio, you recorded. Why? Mm-hmm. Why, it was so incredible, brother.

That was a different type of hit. Man, but it was perfect. It was dead. That was God talking. Like, you know what I'm saying? It was so different. It was necessary to this day as necessary. Anthony Hamilton, what made you think of him for the hook?

Shout out to my man, rest in peace, ice pick. We just thought, you know, once we got it, once we got this song, shout out the havoc, too, for doing the beat. But once we got it, they know that. We already knew. We knew we wanted to get somebody. We were big fans. We are big fans of Anthony Hamilton.

It was just, the beat was perfect for him. And once we told him the concept, and he heard the verses, I had the verses on, before the hook. So once he heard it, he had the hook and did that shit fast. He made the hook.

Yeah. So he was like, wow. Oh, wow. Key Swet came up here. Key Swet came up here and said, what's that shit called? There's a name for that kind of music.

Southern, a whole genre I never heard. Yeah, he can't, he made that. He might have invented it. He invented that. Right? Southern something. It's Southern soul. Southern soul that he said, it ain't R&B, it ain't this,

it got his own name. Huh? Listen, when I, you know, I'm in the house. My phone ring. It's like four in the morning. I got the house phone. I'm laying in the bag. Yo, Joe, come to the Air Factory.

I'm like, who's this? How do you got my house? He was like, Reserve Goddy. Come in the Air Factory's four in the morning. I said, got something for you. I only met him one time before that. We both booked the same studio, and we talked shit to like seven in the morning.

No work got done. We were just telling stories, and I realized, I see, yo, this thing is just like. I mean, like, he got the stories. Like that. Irv got he, he got the stories. So we're going back-to-back stories. He must have liked me.

Pun dies, right? Rest and peace. Jaru comes to the funeral. I never even met Jiru before that. He came to the funeral. And I was like, it's a good man. But anyway, like a month after Pund dies, he calls me out of nowhere

and you want to talk about pressure. They were like, you know, Pum was so much better than me. They was like, oh, this nigga through. Like, Hunter's the king. Joe is a bum now. Joe, it's over for him. He's like, I mean, literally, in my face, they were saying this shit, right?

So when I went there and they just pressed play. And the Hit Factory, like, I ain't going to lie to you. I don't give a fuck. What you think? I never spent money like that on the studio. Like, my studios was always underground, small studio. I never spent the $5,000 a night hit factory. Like, I wouldn't do that.

That's one thing I wouldn't spend on. They had different speakers. That shit came on through no no no ninnu ninnit. It was like, what's love? I knew immediately. I said, oh, shit, this shit out of here. Like, this is shit. It's gone.

And so it was crazy after Irv died, I had asked my wife because she was dead with me. And I asked her, I said, yo, what? I never asked her because, you know, I'm always caring about what I think. I said, what did you think that night when we drove home? She said, I knew our life had changed forever. When she heard once love one time, she was like, she said, I always loved Derv Gotti because of that. She was like, I knew it.

Driving back to the Bronx, she was like, oh, no, this shit. This shit over, it's about to be a new day. But, you know, when you know you got that hit. See, back then it was so different. Like, the substance was so raw. Now it's like, there's no such thing as you know what's the hit. It'd be like the random. stuff being a hit now.

So it's hard. It's like we're in a way of space with music. Yeah, you are. But if you keep it consistent, nothing, nothing changes. You know, I love what you said. Without you knowing, you answered that question so beautiful where you was like, yo, it ain't about a hit. I got to get this off.

That's really, that's Aretha Franklin. That's all the greats that we could call. They just, Anthony Hamilton, he just sung from the soul. and then people related to it. Right, right. You know what I mean? So that's really where music is that. You feel like you're talking your shit, you do,

and people could relate. That's powerful right there. That never changes. Yeah, hits come from great energy. It's a room full of energy. Is that a hit is guaranteed going to be made for sure? You know what's so funny. I went to a show one time and it was just crowded. Who was it?

I think Gumbo threw some shit in Jersey and here I'm going up the stairs and there's a bunch of big guys and there's a girl flying in the air past me going down the stairs and that's how I knew how little you was that it was so crowded there and y'all was carrying her out the motherfucker

I'm like, yo this shit great I'm looking up to the old shit that little Lola Brooks. It'd be so much people I'd be needing help. They carry you out of that shit. That's when it comes in handy they can just lift you up

and slide you over the Yeah, like, take me grand. What's your process like in the studio? What you need? What's the essentials for you? I so boom. I need some H2O. I need some water.

I need honey and tea. Fax. I ain't going to front need the tequila. You know what I'm saying? You know, tequila? 1800. You know what I'm saying? I need, um, hookah.

Okay. A good engineer. I don't got to keep tapping him on his shoulder. Not doing that. Get it right. And good, good vibes. Of course, some grubs, you know. Brobs.

You know what's crazy is? We was just talking off the camera. Like, you said it'd be some good shit. Say it with it. He was selling me to Tupac one time. There's a video where he's telling the engineer, yo, my job is to record. I leave.

You mix that shit. I don't know what to do with that. That's you. You get that shit. They can't even stay there for the mix. Lay in versions and stuff. Did he out? Make sure it's good.

That was ill. Dude, that was, I got to hear it. I got a hear this shit. Man, that boy Scott Stewart sent me back, lean back. Like, I got a demo. I'm demo ideas. I know a hit.

I'm a little bit. And I notice, you're not the first artist. More artists come here saying they didn't know what was a hit. I always do what was a hit. So when I left Lean Back, I knew that shit was number one. He sent back the mix and had like a cowbell on that shit going, I was like, yo, my man, who the fuck told you to

throw a bell on that bitch? Take that shit crack. We could just take it out. You get into it. I'm like, fuck out of you. I'm like, I'm definitely one of those if it ain't broke, don't fix. We hear it, the shit.

You know, your man, Kendrick Lamar, they said that what he did, they're not like us. They ain't even mixed that shit. He said, he was like, yo, get that shit out now. 30 minutes later. He was like, yo, I want that shit out. Like, they didn't even professionally mix.

They ain't not like us. It was just like, yo, do a random little two track. It's out. You know, and so, you know, me, I'm into mixes. I fucked up one time, and I had Jay Z on this record we had on Family Tiles projects. Jay Z spit the burst. And we looking for the mixer of the year, all this bullshit, cool and Dre. Jesus, Joshua got to get back from parties.

This, this, that. was playing. And the man, they called back about three, four days later was like, yo, you can't drop that verse

because he was like getting that like certain people at the turn. They was like, yo, can't put that out. I was like,

nigger, I fucking told you to get that shit the font mask, the flex in 20 minutes. Now we're sitting on a JZ verse

we can never use in our life. You know, sometimes, You got to go. You got a running go. That's how I recorded my last project I did. I bet.

Like, I'll have a scratch off and I just go. So whatever I say, I'm looking at the engineer, like, keep that shit. Because you might not get that moment back. We just fucking heard that about Tupac. You used to say the same shit. You'd be like, yo, I ain't racing none. He'd go over there and rock. Yeah, you be talking those types of shit.

Put in the intro. That's crazy. Not us. Not even me. I probably would be like that, but they force me. These guys want perfection. These guys, these cool and Jay, I'm probably the only old school rapper that they make do it 100 times to the

verse is picture perfect. Like, they abused me in that studio. Nah, not like that, Joe. This, to this day, they still, like, coach me like, yo, Joe, like, you know, because me, I, you know, if I had a dream come true, I would go to Nebraska some shit and make my own album and it'll be some shit about God,

some about flowers, some about killing, some about... They want Fat Joe the gangster at all times. They'd be like, fuck that. Gangster shit. Yeah, that's crazy. Nah, Joe, the niggies want to hear you spit and I'd be like,

every time I try to be a nice guy on the record, they don't allow us. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, huge news? We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast?

Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it.

Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast.

But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, Not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and Friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier.

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Search Learn the Hardway and listen now. The song, Pain, who used MJ. She was excited about that, by the way. I love Mary. I was excited. I was excited.

She loved you. Like, by that way, beyond the scenes. Yeah, I love her so much. She was like, yo, I cleared this. She's acting, I'm like, hi, man. Yeah, Laura Brooks.

I like her. that what made you use that sample and the title, Pain. When you think of Mary Jay, pain is the first word that comes to my mom. Like, I didn't see my mom get through her day listening to Mary Jay. I'm saying? I didn't see my mom stressed out. She put on Mary Jane and she could clean a whole house. That's what she was in my household.

My mom's what? I don't know Mary Jay was on. Doon, do, do, do. I said, oh, I got to get up a clean. my room where she's going to be rattling on me. So pain.

With that record, I feel like she liked no more pain and I'm like, this is the new generation no more pain. I learned from you too. Like, my mom's made sure

of that it's no more pain. We're standing on that. As black women, I'm standing on that. I'm not going through it. Like, I see my mom's go through it. I'm straight. So I was excited that she cleared it

because it meant something to me. Who is rocking? Because there's a generational gap. And I could tell you my mother, my arms, they was this one song. I don't know if you know, you're way too young, but they were saying, I will survive.

Oh, and I was a kid. I didn't know what they was really singing. And they would sing this shit. Wait, how it goes? I will survive. Oh, no, no, no. Walk out the door. Who's that?

Gloria Gaynor. They turn around now because you're not welcome. I be in front of the building. We live in the fifth floor in the projects. They be singing that shit. And you hear it outside, like, you know, that's that clean in the house. And Mary was that for you, right? Who are some artists that were very inspirational to you in your age group?

Who was rocking when you was like, yo, I think I want to be a rap. Like, who was like on fire? Little Wayne, Mick Mail, 50 cents. It was a time where I would have Little Wayne, I would be on line wire, and it would be nothing but Little Wayne on my iPad. But my iPod. Well, I just met a little, a young brother from New Orleans. What is his name?

Leasy or something? A rapper, he was up there. Leresey. The man, I was selling him that Lil Wayne taught me how to work fast. So I come from a way back generation. Where rappers would do an album, I don't give a fuck, if it was number one. And they would wait four years to drop. That was it.

They would wait, sit home. for two years. All right, it's four years, let's drop the next one. We didn't have that work effort. But Little Wayne, when he moved to Miami after Katrina and I used to go visit him in the studio,

every night he was cutting records. He was cutting records. So he taught me, like, yo, Joe, if you want to be relevant in this generation, you got to keep working and working and working. So he taught me about being in the studio every night. So Little Wayne, Big Mill, 50 cents. That's what was ringing off at that.

That make mail that. That shit ain't never going to stop. That's like, that should be in the museum. What's that shit when they take your shit and they put it in like, no, they got some shit where they put it in Washington, D.C. What is that? Library of Congress?

James. We've got to ask the one white guy on set. Yo, James, what is that? Like, is that the Library of Congress? That, well, I'm like this. Nothing like this. It was the hunger. For me, it was the hunger.

he made me feel like you shouldn't be shy to speak about your truth whatever you're going through your reality you can put it in your music no matter if it's embarrassing or not like if you cried today tell him you cry today Wayne I learned punch lines I listen to canon back to back

figuring out what he meant by his lyrics and 50 it was just so New York Wayne is different right so Wayne his flow pack because he's from the South and the southern rappers used different flows. But then he started rapping over New York beats, but he was hitting them flows.

He was still in the pocket. I was just like, oh shit, we didn't know people could do that. I remember one record. I don't know the name. Every time I bring it up, everybody act like they don't know what I'm talking about. But it was, he rapped to a Jay-Z record. And let me tell you something. Jay-Z body that shit to begin with.

And that man went up in there so much you got. And that man, Lil Wayne was doing all this. He was doing the Jameriqui on that shit. Remember Jamerquah video? He was going in the treadmill backwards. Like this shit, Little Wayne was doing that shit. It was like AI. We had never heard nobody flow on such.

And Jay-Z body that. And then he went up in there. It was like, and that's when I knew. I said, oh, we got new leader of the new school. This guy, he on the next. Another level, little way. One of the best guys you're loving me, you know, on earth. So where you want to go from here, Lola, you have some success.

You got platinum gold plaques. What do you want to do? At the end of the day, when you want to look at your career, 10 years from now, 15 years from now, what's your vision of success? Being on the movie screens, having my own show. That's what I want. shout out Tiana Taylor. She hit me four times today.

You know what I'm saying? Word? Shut up. Yeah, yeah. You know, T. She got a sneaker coming out so she wanted to, you know, you'll crack.

You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? We know, listen, Tiana, we are so fucking proud of you, man. And you want to know what's crazy. She makes New York City look so good. I'm into talk to shit about people

or whatever the case may be, but. I'm falling for the Tiana won the award Don't she look different now to you Like from one day to the other So now I'm looking out of the outfits And I'm like, yeah, yeah

She's queen She a big girl She I don't know to glow up She always been bad She always been fly But since she won the award She got a glow, right? She's looking like fucking

Angela Bassett She was ready Right? She's looking like some other shit right now. She ain't just Tiana Taylor who sit like that

on the couch to us and bug out. I don't know I'm falling for it. I don't know. I'm feeling like, wow. She was ready for her moment. You could tell that

she patiently waited for her moment. And when it came, she was ready. A lot of people not ready for their moment. No. No.

A lot of people wait. And that's the most important thing about this whole thing. You got to be ready for when it comes because you don't know when it's going to come. That's a super fact.

You know, good man, you could quote as a guy named Fat Joe. His quote is, you got to stay in the game. You never know. I'm telling you, yo, listen, you got to stay in the game. You never know. And so what I mean by that is you got a guy, I don't know if it's true or it's a lie, but what I hear from rumors, the guy, what's the name, a chlamillionaire, chamellian.

He had that big hit. But he went off and did some, like, some shit and, Silicon Valley you don't know. You know, you think Dr. Dre, this is some shit I always say. There's one of them stories. You say, Joe, you repeat this shit. But

Dr. Dre discovered NWA. That's Ice Cube, EZE, all of them. He's done his own albums, Chronic, which we consider one of the greatest, if not the greatest album ever. He discovered Snoop Dog. Then when it discovered

Eminem, the discovered 50 cents. And did you think, that the most money he ever made come from headphones? You never fucking know. I never forget when those headphones came out, I'm in first class, and every white guy,

white girl on that plane had them shits on. And I'm just like, that's what you know. No black people had a pit. We had it, but you know, we're always going to support Dr. Dre. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is when somebody, listen. My first pit wasn't mine.

We stole them. shit. Come on, Lola. Tell me about it. Wait, hold on, because he's going to take I ain't trying to put that bag in his pocket. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Lola, you stole them shit, huh? I'll just say, yeah, I had to him,

and it wasn't mine. It wasn't yours? Yeah, and I rent them damn. I was so grateful for this. That was the best headphones I ever heard at the time. It had the red wire. Red wire, too. It wasn't wireless.

You know what broke my heart is before your time, Lola. They had this thing called the iPod. I have maybe a eyeball. What? I just told you I was listening to a little weight on my iPod. I just said that, yo. I didn't know that.

I was listening to Cannon. Yo, my shit just turned off. Yeah, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I got one. Let me ask you a question. Did everybody get like a fucking, like a,

you know what they say it's a virus? When my eyeball turned off, my iPod turned off. Now I had like 5,000, 10,000 fucking songs on that shit. My shit just, did we get a bug? No. My iPod don't work. Does somebody has a working iPod in 2026?

Because my shit just turned off. I wonder if my, because I still got mine. I don't want this to do it. Yo, that shit broke my heart when the fucking iPod turned off. I'm really in the gym going. I got the same shit. Pop that. Pop that shit, pop that.

I'm like I got that shit, that gym playlist to keep going. That shit said, no more eye part. You know, they do that shit with the phones. They come out with the new phone. I 17, your shit, all of a sudden, start glitching, not working you in here. No, maybe I'm losing, sir. You got to go buy the phone. You need a new phone, the updated one, the new phone.

Alex X-Excel freshman, 2003. Glorilla, Friday. Sent you see. How you feel about that class? I mean, I was on there. I feel great about it. I ain't think I would ever be on a couple of double X-L. Well, I dreamed of it, but I'm like,

eh, I ain't ever going to get that. Like, if I get a hit, if I pop, I ain't getting that. I would say that to myself. But, you know, coming from a place of doubts, did it do that to you. So when I did get it, I'm like, nah, don't ever, don't ever self-doubt.

Fact. I was proud. You ever feel like some people might have took off before you, and he was like, yo, I was right next to him. Like I had this artist, shout out Angelica Villa. She got a project coming out. And I remember she was doing like them showcases. And Doja Cat was nobody knew her.

She was performing with her. And Angelica had more of the power. She had Fat Joe there with her. I'm pushing her, blowing the bag, this, this, that. And that doja cat went to the fucking moon. And I remember that showcase, but nobody knew both of them. You know, at least Angelica walked in with the Joe Crack. We coming through, furred out.

She's looking good. And, man, that's dog your cat. So you ever seen that and said, damn, I got to get there or, you know. If I would have seen that, I don't think I would have got my hit. I wouldn't have been blessed with my hit. This is like, when you watch somebody else's blessings or somebody else pockets, then you ain't focused on yours. Talk slow, tall.

Yeah, I got a little man. I tell everybody I don't give a fuck what they say. You know they're going to try to spice my shit up. But, you know, I got a little man. I came in the game. I'm selling drugs. I got beemers and benzes. Cuban chains, iced out.

All these other rappers looking at me like they saw an alien and shit. That's how I came in the game. They could fucking lie if they want. And all of them just became billionaires before Joe Crack. And I'm sitting here still struggling. struggling for the next paycheck. And I'm like, shit. These motherfuckers really got to the billy before me.

Like, I was like, you know, so, you know, now they inspire me. Now I'm like, all right, I got to keep going. I know we could do that because I've seen these guys before they did that. So I've always looked at stuff like inspiration. Right. You know, that's how I took it. Let's listen to pain one good time. Feel the pain.

Philip pain I went to that mall and got some sleepers Brooklyn. Love a lesson learned Better know your friends or else you will get burned

Gotta count on me Because I can guarantee That I'll be fine You cry for everything You don't crash for love No more I can do whatever I want here You don't crash a love

I'm buying Everything you brought me Thompson Remindin I was dead bitch before him He chimed in Bing bong I'm like guess who bitch I'm like G they keep it pee I'm like F you bitch

Oh you thought that was your mad tongue Guess who bitch I don't want him on his money These hos be crashing for dummies They are the broker they ugly These men be dusty and musty What's you don't With a bitch that got more motion than you

More money than you That's out yeah how hustling you Trying another side of bitch But don't got nothing to lose So I ain't giving niggas nothing He got something to prove I've got too much money to be fucking That's that shit.

That's that shit. That bass line, huh? Cress for Ed, no class. The pictures are outlast. I'm gonna make you drink your tears in a shot glass. I'm gonna make you face your fears going outside. Trying to do your big one on me to my doubt that. You're in crap for love, but you begging for attention.

The bundles on my back and put some shame to your interests. Instead of trying to keep it pee, you should have your limits like I wouldn't have you crying in a New York minute. No more. You cross for everything. You don't cry for love No more You cry for everything You don't crash a lot

That bass line That's a big slap. Thank you. That she's going somewhere else with it, man. Thank you. What's the name of the project? The new joint? I bet. I bet.

He's like, I bet. Say less. No doubt. It's fire up. It's that New York. Yo, this ain't that? That ain't this. It's cracking kiss.

God damn it. Make some new. for Lola Brooke, y'all. Hey guys, it's us. The Jonas Brothers. I'm Joe. I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick. And guess what? We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast?

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