The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Joe and Jada - Lefty Gunplay talks Kendrick Lamar, Grammy win, rehab & building Black-Latino coalition

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

During their trip to Los Angeles, Fat Joe and Jadakiss are joined by Lefty Gunplay, the first Latino artist to take home the Grammy for Best Rap Song for his "TV Off" collaboration with Kendrick Lamar. Lefty tells Joe and Jada about what it meant for Kendrick to put a rapper like him on, his upbringing in the Los Angeles gang culture, the way he'd like to inspire other Latinos to come together with the Black community, and the moment he called Top Dawg and Kendrick to tell them he was checking into rehab. 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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mean that you need to. Listen to learn the hard way on the AHA Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. I was talking to all of them and I told them, you know what? Fuck it, I'm going to go to rehab. And then I called Top Dogg and Tendrick Lamar, and they said, that's the most dance of shit you ever said. Yeah, yeah, what up, y'all?

This is Joe Crack to Dawn. Your boy, Jada, you know what it is. The niggas came with the outfit change. They tell them. Hey, we're not. No. I'm not that. I'm telling you my Cuban.

You're like, dude, man. West Side. Come on. He's lost now. You love that. No, might pop out to the curtains. Never know. You know what I mean?

It's the Joe and Jay to show. Every show legendary. Every show iconic. When you think of today's guests, you think of somebody who's able to overcome adversity, somebody who's about changing their life. You know what I mean? Getting to the bag, getting the mental health together,

doing the right thing, getting the music, popping, Grammy winner. You all have been nominated, but not as hard to win one of them things. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for a lefty gunplay. Thank you for having me. What's up my brother? Brother, it's the honor to have you, man.

We are LA. Yes, sir. And we said they don't get no more LA, the gunplay lefty, right now at this moment, and my brother gained. And so we touched the Saw You. You know, this is the Joe and Jay, the show. We're about the culture. And we said, let's bring our brother on. What's crazy is, I didn't see the Grammys.

My wife saw this. She called me. She was like, yo, it's Latino guys screaming Latino on the Grammys. Yeah. He wasn't, my wife calling me, telling me that you. won the Grammy. So you win the Grammy. What's so important about you saying,

yo, Kendrick put a Latito on? I just want the homies to understand it. He gave me a platforming. It's been something that's so hard to do in Los Angeles to, you know, break into the rap game as a Latino. And, you know, Kendrick really, you know, black and brown unity at his finest right there. It don't get no bigger than that.

And I appreciate him for giving me that platform. I got the bar and I'm running with it. I ain't looking back. Right. You know, one of the living legends, so many kids, it looked like me in the hood, you know, and just, I'm glad to represent the people in the right way. There's one of the Latino legends from out here one time. I don't want to say his name because he's beyond a legend. But he come and I take him to the Bronx to hang out with you. You know, we're in the Bronx. So it's very different. This is what I want to talk to you about so people can visualize and understand what's going on. very different in the West Coast, unfortunately, between the Latinos and blacks,

like in New York. Everybody's a mixed baby. Everybody's black in Puerto Rican. And so he comes with us, and I'm just showing him a good time. We at Jimmy's Bronx Cafe, and he asks me, yo, you fuck with the black people?

And I looked at him like, because I might as well be black. I don't know how to explain it to you any other way. So I looked at him, I said, yo, what you mean? He said, out West, we don't fuck with the black, dude. I said, well, I can't fuck with you. you know more, my man, because that's not what we are in here.

Right? And I didn't even understand. That's lojo time or some shit like that. I think I know what you're talking about. Well, it don't matter. Yeah, he's a legend. But he told me, yo, we don't fuck with the black dudes. I said, well, I can't fuck with you.

That was the last time I ever rock with him, even though he is a legend. And he's a pioneer and somebody who started it. But that's when I started to realize that there's parts of the country that Los Dinos and blacks and connected. like that. Yeah. You know, and so that's what you meant

when you went up there, you said, yo, this brother gave me a chance that's unified. Yeah, stronger together. And you ain't going to get

nowhere in rap if you ain't cool with no blacks, you know? It's their culture, you know, and they allow me to, you know, make money off this

and more homies are following in my footsteps, you know? And I appreciate everything Kendra-Glamar did for me and changed my life. You know, I always said

that the biggest rap on earth is going to be a Mexican rapper if he finds a way to let. I always tell you that, Steve. Steve Lobel's here. The biggest rapper on earth is going to be a Mexican-American rapper that fucks with black people, fucks with everybody, and just makes music for everybody.

He's going to have the whole world in the sense. You're leading that in the footsteps, and, you know, we already got that. You know, big point, his song was bawdy, Quite more than that. That means Latinos and blacks together. So I've always been about that. You paid away.

Good looking, brother. Tell me about the Mexican experience in that lake. Vaughn part, a lot of gang gang, you know. I got jumped into my neighborhood when I was 13 years old. Juvenile Hall, prison. Live the real life. You know, really about that life. And I was sitting in Pelican Bay.

And I'm like, man, you know, it's just a revolving. cycle. It was in corking shoe, Pelican Bay Sioux, and I seen O'Gizi, he's a rapper out here. I said, I could do that. And I said, man, I'm going to break the cycle. I'm going to be a rapper. Fuck it. You know? And then the rest was history. I manifested everything. I seen it in my head. I ran with it, you know, but just, you know, real Latino neighborhood, La Puente, Bon Park, West Covina, El Monte, you know, just ain't nothing coming out of there. Just gang bang, you know, try to make a change. Do you see that you were influencing the young Mexicans to start rap And start trying to definitely change and be positive

Yeah definitely man follow your dreams Anything's possible That's real talk Not only did you win the Grammy You won it after getting released from prison Yeah How does that feel? What kind of space did it make you want to Man it's a dream come true

It's a trip It still hasn't really hit me yet Nah it's amazing you look great that night too Boy you do that shit on through that shit on, boy. Yeah, I appreciate you, man. Yeah, I've been in the last six months, I've been in rehab, shout-out to the Hayden Detox,

Frank Stitt and Carrillo, I've been right there getting my mind right, you know? How hard is that, right? Like, how long you was on drugs, and I'm glad you're not ashamed of that? And that's how you really inspire it. Yeah. Fuck music, fuck all that.

That's your real purpose to turn that shit around. Somebody like Jelly Road, you see how, he isn't scared to say, you know, I was fucked up. I was using drugs, and he inspires so many people, and now he's the biggest in the game. You got to realize more people relate to that. Like, I lost the brother of the drugs.

He wouldn't get off drugs. When did you start? How did that come about? And when did you finally say, yo, I'm a, I gotta stop doing this. Man, I've been doing drugs since, like, I was 13, just in that gang culture, it's just something that's always around in county and prison.

And I became dependent on it. And, you know, ever since I got sober but I was blowing everything I was blowing all this opportunity I got in a car crash got into a lot of trouble what kind of drugs?

Everything everything crystal heroin Coke what's more addictive crystal heroin heroin not liquor

balance it out I was just blowing on my opportunity everybody's all like man you got a once in a lifetime opportunity you're throwing it away I was at a Cheney concert it was a Cheney

E. Darul concert, and I was talking to all of them, and I told them, you know what? Fuck it, I'm going to go to rehab. And then I called Top Dog, and Tendrick Lamar, and they said, that's the most gangster shit you ever said, you know? So I flew out to rehab in Miami, you know, stopped cold turkey, knowing that I was Grammy nominated, popped up like the boogeyman, everybody tripped out. Nobody thought I could change my ways, but I did.

A day at a time, brother, I'm telling you for that, man. The hardest thing about it is trying to write now, sober. I made all my hits sober All the lean backs Make your reins all the way Yups any fucking hit you ever heard in your life Sober

Don't let nobody tell you You gotta be high to right Not true If you can do what I can do it Yes That's what I'm saying That's exactly what I'm saying It's gonna take the minute

But then once you get it Yeah You know me It's a truth sitting here with you guys I was just bumping at New York last night Oh, no, that's love. Yeah. Love right there.

I told you on West Side Teres Square, man. You're going to the Choir, kid. Get him a change, man. Get him a change. That motherfucker. If you're saying that, you bought that life, niggins because we bought that life. Shout out, Steve will tell you.

Shout out. I think of you because you're Mexican. I think of hip-hop. You know, of course, Cypress Steel's inspired me and punt. Yeah. They're the first ones to inspire us on the age of level. Shout out the same.

We will send, all them. Mr. Cartoon. Yeah. Do you know Mr. Cartoon? Legendary, yep. Yep. Shout out of Mr. Carton.

What a fucking legend, Mr. Cart. Oh, yeah. West Harder. You know, me personally, every time I came to LA, you know, I was more towards

Engelwood, shout out, you know, Mack 10. I do believe, and this is something that everybody could argue with me,

but we had something to do with the East Coast, West Coast. Connecting. Because it was at the time, Big Epo died. There was a couple of more New York and West Coast beefs going on. And me and Mack 10 met each other. And we became brothers.

I came out here and shot a movie with him called Thicketyton and Water in Inglewood. Okay. And they came to my hood. And what's crazy is I never knew there was Bloods in New York. When I grew up, it wasn't Bloods. It wasn't Crips. It wasn't none of that. He came to my projects.

And when I said you, all of them kids started running outside with the red suits on and hats, and they was like, yo, oh, gee, OG, that's when I knew we had Bloods in New York. I didn't even know it. And I was in the street. So I brought them in my projects and everybody running out the building. Like, yo, OG, OG, OG. I was like, oh, shit, we got Bloods, New York.

Yeah, I've been in York. Just a trip to trenches out there just projects. They tell me, whatever you do, let me know what the difference. Between that. Between L.A. and here. Man, I'm here every, every block's a gang, you know, pretty much every block's the game. You'd be somewhere nice right here. You make a right.

You know, you're being some crips, some blood, some estes. You know, I'm a Sudanial, so, you know, I'm a South Sider out here. I represent. But, yeah, New York, they drove me around the projects and shit. Towers. Don't walk up in here at midnight, lefty. I said, for sure, you know. Looking out.

was so fucked up that if you was on drugs you would walk up in there at any time to get the drugs. So when you're on drugs, you're in the most dangerous neighborhood. You don't give a fuck. You got to get the shit.

You're right. It's the same thing with places like, oh, Miami, too. Miami, you can be a South Beach. You make a left turn. You're in fucking... Pompano. Pompano, you're in Pompano,

but that's little with you in Liberty City, all that shit, Overtown. Yeah, Liberty City. Man, yeah. I lived my last crib was 50,000 a month. A penthouse.

I went walking two blocks. I was in Overtown, nigger. They was out in the middle of the street. It's so crazy how you got places that look like paradise,

but you make the wrong turn. You will help. Yeah, hell year. I feel that. Plus, I'm about in Billington States right now in Texas and California. So I've been doing the right thing Trying to stay focused, you know

Finding a gun charging Fighting some shit in Texas I learned my lesson I don't mess around in Texas You know what I'm saying Shout out to my brother Baby Bash and Frankie Jay You heard of these guys

I know baby Bash I met in person Sugar how you get so fly Sugar how you get so Those are my guys And every time I went to Texas Man they showed me the best time

in the world these are beautiful guys. Yeah. And they're Mexican, man, they put down for the Mexicans, legendary those guys. But Texas is weird because you got a gun charge

but I don't think you need a license for a gun charge, so is it because you're a felon? Yeah. You got a prison. When they said that, you was like, yo, everybody can have a gun

and then they're like, not you, my man. Yeah. Snatched me of ASAP. Mm-hmm. At this point, I don't think you're thinking nine to five, right?

You think of rap. You're thinking... Yeah, rap, rap, right? Entrepreneur, get money, get this, get that. So, invest. Did you think about taking your tattoos off your face at all? Never. Never.

Uh-uh. I represent. But that's why they stopped doing texts. Yeah. The story of my life, though. What? Bro. You ever thought about, you ever thought about a cop?

We so criminal-minded, we never think about the other side. The other side of the guy driving in the job. Texas, he's seen him. That's how he knew he had the gun. He seen the tattoos. He said, hold on. This nigga from the other side of town. Let me pull.

Yo, my man, what you got there? Right? So, it's part of your image. It's part of everything. It's a disadvantage every day. Yeah. Legit. You got to get them real security.

And in a couple of dollars. Yeah, we got real security. Get them the real guys with the real guns and lead you. Good a shot. Okay. No, my guy shoot your face off. Yeah. Wait a little.

Good, sir. Okay, thank you, Steve. Shoot your foot. That's how you got to move. You know, you have security. You got legit security. Be legit that way because if you bring the crew, they think they're impressing you,

they shoot the place up. Come play lefty on the news. It happened to me one million times. I've been in jail because of this rap shit, D1. I've been in jail maybe 30 times the shit I didn't even do. It was just like... Bringing all the homies.

Strat Joe. He's a joke. That joke, I really ain't me. When you bring the entourage and something happens, you know, it's on left. No matter how you cutting. How about you don't even bring the entourage? You're in the wrong foot. You in the soulhouse and you run out of here.

They be like, lucky lefty beat everybody up in here. Yo, this, this, you're always going to get the blame. Guess what? We were talking about a story behind the scenes. You know, we had Shamgard and Jaylor Rose. You heard? I was in Jalen Roes last night. Mm-hmm.

He was with Jaylon last night. Yeah. So I asked my man, Shamgard right? There's a guy, you know, I used to coach basketball in the Rucker. One of the big, the best coaches ever, actually the best coach of all time. Yeah. Six chips. And I get to talk in the Shamgard and I bring up a player.

So there was a player who was in high school that was going to the NBA from New York City. Who? I don't know if I should say that right now because I don't want to what kind of light he's in I don't know I'll say his name Richie Parker

Oh Rich Parker Rich Parker One of the best basketball players out of New York He's supposed to go to the NBA There was no question No doubt that he was going Some girl

allegedly got raped by some guys he knew and because he was the star to basketball team allegedly she accused him. Almost like some Tupac shit. Tupac ain't raped that girl, but some guys they might have did something too much

and then he caught the blame. So this is what I mean that, you know, people could do shit and it's always our fault if we're famous and we're on the forefront. And one day it's crazy because how about I never met a better gentleman in the street basketball league

or in the park to Richie Barker? I never met. met a nice guy in my life. And his mother was a fan. She'd come to all the rock again. And I met one day. I sat next to her. I see your mama.

I said, how are you doing this? I'm so much in the game. She just looked up and she was like, we're supposed to be bitch. I said, her mama? She said, we're supposed to be bitch. But she ain't do that. We would have been in that.

Could you imagine? We'd have been in man since we'd have been. Yo, that shit hurt me when that lady was. Yeah, I thought that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And so, you know, that's why it's so important that we got to move militant. Life happens.

I wasn't signing with O.G. Oh, man, I signed with them my first week out of prison. You know, they gave me the money. And in the beginning, I thought they were stupid giving me that money because... Oh, you ain't the only one. Yeah. We all felt like that. Yeah, like, shit.

I'm about to go back to the pen. And then I took that money in. And they seem, you know, I'm right here. Grammy nominated one of Grammy blowing up, you know, through the roof. So I'm getting my contract situated right now. But, yeah, it's bigger things ahead. You know what happened when I started to terror squad deal with Atlantic Records? It was $10 million.

We negotiated all night. Y'all Steve, why are you laughing? Because we negotiated all night. They wouldn't let me leave. It was like you can't leave. Leo Cohen's outside. Every other record label exec is dying for Fat Joe to come outside because I just put our big bun, he's going double platinum.

They're like, yo, this nigga got the Latino explosion. Yeah. We got to sign whatever Spanish got like it was like that, so they wouldn't let me leave. We wind up getting $10 million. Shoot it. I felt like I stuck that nigga up. Like, you ain't never seen your life.

I was like, yo, me and why we was up in there. I thought we stuck them up. The man gave us that money and jumped on the subway tree. Like nothing. He walked in the subway. I'm like, yo, this thing gave us this paper, walked on the subway, 12 midnight. But I know the feeling because you've been doing shit so much for a dollar.

Yeah. Or $2. Motherfucker give you a real check. You feel like, who did we go out? What do we got to do? What's going on? Because there's nobody giving us no shit for nothing. Legitly in the hood

I was riding around the hood with like 200 bands In the duffel bag Straight 57 moment Went to the car place Looking in the Mayback Caz First week out Pushing the Mayback in the hood

Straight out the trailer part Yeah That's jake We gotta clap the dog for that You know that's what we all We're all about big life We're all about Celebrating life

We all about Let me tell you something ain't nothing like that feeling when you get that first whip from rapping and you're on the freeway and you just by yourself like man, it's my shit. Like, you know?

It's real good. You know, for me, that was like when I caught that vaccine for COVID, I was stuck in that house for a year and a half. And when they gave me that vaccine, I was like, looks like we made it.

I thought I was going to die. Diggas was dying in the hood so much when they gave me that vaccine. I ran over there. so fast I have my hand out to some roof like, looks like we made it. But I know the feeling, and there's nothing like doing something legit.

Yeah. There's nothing that we all made money, you know, illegally, but legit. There's nothing like it feels good, and you're in your car, and you feel like, damn, and that's what life's about. Breaking all my mom and my grandma. You what? Breaking on my mom, first thing I do was buy her car.

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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. We're starting a trend.

But this one's extra special. So how do 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. And 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 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.

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I just told you, and I'm not bragging about a $10 million check. I used to fly private planes like it was a tax. I used to be like, we want Puerto Rican food. Let's go to Puerto Rico. Like it was a joke. I'm just spending all kind of money, 40 niggas with me, lobster, and states,

buying 30 niggas, trucks, cash, this, this. I did all that shit. When I caught the tax problem, and I had to sell everything, and I had to do whatever I had to do, I had to give the government back millions of dollars and pay my lawyer.

It was one thing untouchable. It was called my mother's house. I would have sold every, piece of jewelry, every art, every house, every sneaker, everything you ever seen the fucking toothpaste to pay them back. Don't talk about my mother's house. And my mother's house wasn't even that special, guys. It was a nice little regular house that I bought for my mother and my father. But I remember every single time I pull up to my mother's house, I felt like, even to this day, my house is mad big, right? And I used to pull up to my mom.

my mother's house just last year because she passed away. And I felt like that was the biggest house, the biggest shit I ever did in my life. I was sitting in front of the house and be like, wow, my mom's got a house. You know what I'm saying? That's the biggest shit, praise God. You bought your mother and father some shit. Yeah, he just bought him a condo. He screamed at you for buying it for me.

He's an accountant. It's father's. Fabs is crazy. Fuck you for buying it. But okay, thank you for the keys. I saw love. You know what I say? Lefty, I see you in the studio.

Yeah. Crazy bone. I was just with game last night. No doubt. Shut up. What's your process like in the studio? I like to write from scraps. I like to hear the beat,

write from scraps. I've been in the studio with Mike and cheese, fresh, got storage. No. Problem. You work? Yeah. This is right from scratch.

Write my story. And you, when can we expect so? Man, um, I'm dropping. soon, I got enough songs for an album. We're going to go to New York. So you right now, nobody going to give you that shit like Scott Storch.

Nobody. Not for what you want. Not for that L.A. that's still Drey. He remained me to be. All that his shit. This is how we do. Fucking Scott Storch did that.

Yeah, he remained me the big Eagles beat. He did all that, huh? Yeah. He's a James. That man gave you that shit. Ooh, if you got that, Scott Storke's going to be right in the pocket for you. I'm telling you. We got studio time with him tomorrow.

Oh, that's a no-brainer. That's right there. He's going to give you that. Yeah, they just hit me from the studio was Roddy Rich and Scott Storz. Roddy Rich is a motherfucker beast. Yeah, Roddy called me. He's all like, man, he's doing it for the culture, bro.

He's got to link up. I'm like, for sure. Roddy Rich don't do that. Roddy Rich hit them shit out of the park. Yeah, yeah, Roddy Rich. He's a fucking incredible guy. He's a genius, man. You know, so that should be great.

You, him and Scott Storch. I see you put Storch with Roddy Rich. I've seen them in the studio with him the other day. That's great, man. Yeah. That shit, we're going to make them gangster niggins. He's going to make them gangsters. They're going to hot to that shit, boy, like,

he's going to give you that. That documentary. Listen, he said, Mike, he said, hit boys. He said all that. Nobody's going to get you that. Tomorrow we got hip boys, Scott Storge, Fresh, bankrupt got it,

or like four producers in one studio. That's fine. Yeah, that's fine. Not the expectation. You're going to give me that fucking black. Psycho maniac. This. My mom's Latino.

My mom's Mexican in Guatemala. My dad's white, but he left me when I was two. He moved to Florida. And recently I was in Florida the other day, and he came and come visiting me and I didn't even recognize him, you know? Wow. So you think after you got successful,

he came to visit you? Yeah, because ever since I've been successful, I've been out of jail, so I've always been in jail my whole life. Did you forgive him for leaving you at two years old? Yeah, I passed it up, you know? Yeah.

I feel like every boy, every man, needs their dad. Like, anybody who's, tells you that you don't need your death. What about the girls? Yeah, the girls too, but what I'm saying is you need a father figure, man, to straighten you out to make you go the right path,

to be there for you when you need a man in your life. That's why I joined the hood because I didn't have one. I looked at the homies for that good job, you know. That shit felt good, getting in front of the homies, so I was putting in so much work, you know, good job, good job, good job. you know, chasing a father figure. That's what let me in a gangbanging so much. And I realized, you know, I got to do something different.

Why are they happy for you or the homies? In the beginning of, it was like my second day out of prison. I mean, gave me a strap, boom, you know, gave me some money. And he's like, come on, let's ride. I'm like, now, I'm going to stay right here. You what? I said, I'm going to stay home real quick. I was too embarrassed and telling him that I'm going to be a rapper, you know?

And then, like, a week out, I told him, I'm going to be a rapper. He's like, you're going to be a rapper. I'm like, yeah, I'm going to be a rapper. He's like, man, you fucking tripping, bro. You were loke in the hood. You know, you're one of them ones. And I was for my hood, but I followed my dream. And then once it worked out, they've seen it, you know.

And now they embrace it. You know, I feel like I'm the first Latino. They really opened the door to for Latinos out here in L.A. to think the rapping is cool. And I do it my own way. Like, I don't use the N-word. Like, you know, just. It's out of respect, you know, for the culture.

And, you know, I'm paving my own way, you know. Respect that. You know, what's crazy is I started rapping. I got a famous album. I sold two million records with his course, jealous ones still envy. And I was out here probably with Steve Lobel. We started a promo tour.

This was Flojo, my first. record. And we did Arsenio Hall. Okay. Arsenio Hall was the biggest shit in America. Sat up to stretch Armstrong. He invited me there.

Alcini Hall was like, yo, we got Fat Joe in the house. So I went up there and I performed. I quit the whole promo tour to get back to my block because Arsenia was to be with my boys and be like, yo, I did it. So I remember I went back to New York.

the very next day, I pull up to my block in the cab and there's five of my best friends that I grew up since kindergarten. I'm looking this way. And I jump out the car, and I'm jumping up and down. And when they turned around,

three of them had a jealous face. The other two were jumping up and down like me and three of them was looking like, fuck out of it. That's the first time I ever experienced. is jealous. And that's where the name of that album,

Jealous Ones, Envy, and Jealous Ones Still Envy came from because this game, it come with a lot of envy. That hoodshy going to get secured. And I know that, you know, I realize that. So you got to find a balance between it. But I see through all the fake love, you know, now since I'm successful. There's some of them that are happy of me. And there's some of them I know they be talking shit.

You know, decide you show them with success. My thing is, who cares? Right? God chose you. You sober, you can see. Yeah. If Fat Joe was to get high, I'd be dead broke right now. I'm not kidding you.

I'm not lying. And the direct correlation between guys who make it and become successful and guys who don't is drugs. And that's the difference. So when I look at Netflix and I see a new documentary by Eddie Murphke and starts in the $90 million mansion and he's sitting in there with shit to the sky and this and this now. You look at him and said, y'all, I never got high. They were sniffed coke in front of me. They was doing whatever.

I ain't do that. That's why he's in the $90 million mansion. And then when you see motherfuckers, you be like, damn, man, this guy was the greatest. This guy was the best. This guy's there. He ain't got shit. Not how you started How you finished?

How you finished? Yeah, but what I'm trying to tell you is this, we got a guy, we got one of my idols, right? In salsa music, I think the best salsa singer of all time is called Hector Lavo. Hector Lavo, the cantante.

They made a movie about him called a cantante, Jay-Lo, and Mark Anthony. Mark Anthony, who probably is the second-greatest Salsa singer of the ever of history. Some people say the first. Yeah.

One day I happened to bump into from him and the man said, yo, he was doing the movie Hector Laval was still alive. So he went to his apartment in Spanish Harlem and said that the man was

like, yo, I had it all. Apartments with three floors, gold blacks on the wall, Cadillacs, this, this dad, look at me. I don't have nothing. Mark Anthony was telling me

this story with tears in his eyes. he was like, yo, this was my idol and he was fucked up and he was telling me that he used to be that nigga he used to have that house that he used to have that

but when he got on heavy drugs it was over. Yeah. So just know that anybody I'm gonna keep it a buck and I can get backlash for it all I want. Don't let a woman gas you into using drugs again.

Yeah. Just don't. Because you're some of the greatest. Scott Storch lost $90 million because a girl who's the most famous girl in the world he was fucking with brought a girl with him another famous girl and said,

yo, we're going to minage. Who? But sniff this. Who? I can't. But Scott Storch said he took that sniff and it fucked this whole life up. He lost $90 million fucking with that.

He got it back, though. Same thing. No. Same thing. Same thing with our. He got about six. What's the Baldwin, brother, that fuck this whole shit up?

I think he's Haley Bieber's father. Alec Bone. No, Alec Baldwin, he shot the guy. That's another ball way. The handsome one. He used to hang out with us

in the Bronx and Jimmy's. This guy went on CNN. You could Google it. And said he was fucking with Madonna. I'll give you that one because he said it. I don't want that. Stephen. Stephen.

Boyn. He used to have you, Jimmy's. Huh? He used to come to Jimmy. He used to be in Jimmy's with us every week. That's all. Fly nigger. Original Jimmy's Rons Cafe in the South Bronx.

For him, he obviously was busy. Yeah, he was high around that time. I don't fucking know, but he was. Yeah, Steve. He got the same name. He's invited him for him. He tells his story.

He was hanging out with Madonna. Same thing. She told him you want to fuck. Take this cocaine and the fuck this whole life. And that all the Baldwin brothers be supposed to be... You sure about that? It's on CNN.

Google. I've just got to protect you. I was with Danny Trejo yesterday. You know, two days ago, Danny Trejo. He's a fucking legend. He was telling me, like, you got the world in your hands. You know what's going to happen if you go this way? And you know what's going to happen if you go this way.

So I don't want to be riding me in Pelican Bay. You know, so I've been going to recovery meetings with him, you know, putting in work for the community, trying to get back. Yeah. Beautiful. What's the name of your album? You got a name yet? Fountain Blue.

Fountain Blue. Why? Why Fountain Blue? That's the name of my trailer part. Kind of like 8 miles. No doubt. You know what I'm saying? That's fine.

You put it in a world for it. Yeah. What's the one thing you want people to remember and know lefty gun play for? For being one of the ones open the door for the Latinos, you know, putting off of the culture, black and brown unity.

Hopefully I get my own Grammy in my own name. and just keep giving back, you know, like Nip, you know. The way Nip did, I really want to get back to the people, you know. I don't think I'm better than nobody, you know. I want to get back to the city and all the kids and make a difference already. Make some noise for that. Just know that this ain't that. That ain't this.

It's cracking kiss. Make some noise for lefty gunplay, baby. Thank you. This shit. Any new music or all. All platforms, get it. Anything he does, make sure you support him. Breaking boundaries.

In that space, baby. We out there doing the right thing. We got to support him. Yeah. Appreciate it. All of L.A. The world. The world.

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