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00:00:00J-Hood in the building, DJ Dells, Pesci5 is out now.
00:00:05Yes, sir.
00:00:06P5 is out right now on all digital streaming platforms.
00:00:09I need everybody to go run that up.
00:00:12And I'm going to tell you now, if you're a fan of the classic sound, the J-Hood classic
00:00:20D-Block flow, even the beat, you're going to love this shit.
00:00:26It's been on repeat.
00:00:28Real nostalgia.
00:00:29No, it's super nostalgic.
00:00:32I was telling him on the phone earlier, I felt like I was driving to the mother effing
00:00:37studio, D-Block studio, which is the most scariest place to go to at night because it looks like
00:00:42an effing murder scene is about to take place.
00:00:45We were talking about it earlier.
00:00:46Real gritty.
00:00:47Yeah, it's gritty.
00:00:49And that's where you got to get the exclusives.
00:00:52You got to go to them or you'd have to meet up with Mario Super Mario.
00:00:56If you were lucky and you were friends with these artists, you'd go meet them on their
00:01:02block.
00:01:03You'd go through to J-Hood.
00:01:04You'd go to J-Hood's house.
00:01:06Mother effing had a thousand sneakers everywhere.
00:01:09It was like an obstacle course in his room.
00:01:10Yeah, that's a fact.
00:01:11I did.
00:01:12You know, at the time, and you were hella young, you had a lot of effing sneakers, now that
00:01:17I think about it.
00:01:18Yeah.
00:01:18Your shits were all around.
00:01:20Your shit remind me kind of like Q and Juice, because he had hella sneakers.
00:01:24Yeah, nah, that's a fact, boy.
00:01:26Man.
00:01:28Before the crib burned down, that's a fact.
00:01:29Yeah, that was crazy.
00:01:32You feel like all of that, that whole story of your life with the locks and D-Block, do
00:01:39you feel like that's like another lifetime?
00:01:42Sometimes?
00:01:43To be completely honest with you, man, I shit feel like yesterday, bro.
00:01:46Really?
00:01:47Okay.
00:01:48I shit still feel like yesterday, man.
00:01:50Yeah.
00:01:51I mean, you're still rapping, so I can see where you're coming from.
00:01:55You just don't look like Lil J-Hood.
00:01:58Now you're like, J-Hood, you know?
00:02:00Yeah, I mean, bro, that shit, like, it's crazy to think that that shit was 20 years ago.
00:02:06That's, wow.
00:02:07We look good still.
00:02:09Right.
00:02:10I don't know.
00:02:11Our generation don't really age bad at all.
00:02:14Well, man, it's different, man.
00:02:17Yeah, I think maybe the shit that this generation's eating, making them look older, too, man.
00:02:22It's the shit they're putting in the food, it's the pills they're popping, it's a whole
00:02:27bunch of shit, it's a collection of different shit, man.
00:02:30That's another thing, like, hip-hop, like, 20 years back versus now, it's like, it's cool
00:02:37to be a drug addict now.
00:02:38Absolutely.
00:02:39Not drunk.
00:02:39It's crazy.
00:02:40Back in the days, it was cool to sell it.
00:02:42Yeah.
00:02:42Now it's cool to do it.
00:02:44Do it.
00:02:44To do drugs.
00:02:45And don't get me wrong, though, because you're going to have a young ones that's like, yo,
00:02:48you had drug addicts back then, too.
00:02:50We had drug addicts, but it wasn't cool to do it publicly and to have people knowing that
00:02:57you do it.
00:02:57Back in the days, it was more cool to be the dealer than you do it.
00:03:02Yeah.
00:03:04Now, they're doing it openly.
00:03:06Absolutely.
00:03:07They're doing keys.
00:03:08They're doing keys of coke right at the bar, on the dance floor, at the clubs.
00:03:14Like, it's nothing.
00:03:14Listen, they, I'm like, are you kidding me?
00:03:17Like, I'm saying about nothing nowadays.
00:03:20That's, that's, that's, that's the norm.
00:03:21Oh, yeah.
00:03:21That is the norm.
00:03:22That's like hearing, that's like hearing the joint back then in the club.
00:03:26Now they hit the key now, you know?
00:03:28It's crazy.
00:03:30Yeah.
00:03:31Things, things are very different, man, in hip hop.
00:03:34To each his own, man.
00:03:35That's why I draw the line at you.
00:03:38Yeah.
00:03:38Yeah.
00:03:39Yeah.
00:03:39Yeah.
00:03:39For real.
00:03:39For real.
00:03:40So, get into like your health because I'm, you are very serious about, about the gym
00:03:46work, right?
00:03:47Yeah.
00:03:47Yeah.
00:03:48Like, clearly you working out like crazy, but you gotta be eating like your diet is so important
00:03:54because I know a lot of people that are like heavy in the gym.
00:03:57I definitely try my best to go to the gym when I can, but what are you eating?
00:04:03You know what I mean?
00:04:04Because I think you got it.
00:04:04To be real with you, bro, I be pigging out, bro.
00:04:09Really?
00:04:10You're not on those strips.
00:04:11I'm not gonna lie to you, man.
00:04:12I eat, I try to eat, when I'm really on my shit, I try to eat four meals a day,
00:04:17but
00:04:18if I don't get the four meals a day, I try to at least do three meals a day minimum.
00:04:22You know what I mean?
00:04:23Like, every day I can't skip a meal and I make sure that I drink my protein shakes twice
00:04:30a day in addition to those meals.
00:04:33You know what I mean?
00:04:34Yeah.
00:04:34Because before, man, like, dude, like when I was younger, man, I stayed the same weight
00:04:38from like high school up until a couple of years ago, my adult life.
00:04:44So, it was like hard to gain weight and I figured out why it was so difficult because
00:04:48I wasn't eating right.
00:04:49You know what I mean?
00:04:49I was smoking so crazy that, you know, when you're on that bud and you're smoking mad
00:04:55blunts, you would eat breakfast and then you might eat another time throughout the day
00:04:59and you might snack, you know, the rest of the night and all that shit.
00:05:02So, there's no way that you could properly gain weight.
00:05:04And once I seen that, I'm like, damn, that's why I wasn't gaining no weight.
00:05:08You know what I'm saying?
00:05:08You smoked so much.
00:05:10Yeah.
00:05:11Like 20 years ago, you smoked so much.
00:05:15You would smoke day, night, day, in the car.
00:05:19I'm talking about 13, 14 blunts a day, man.
00:05:21I see you, you jump in my car, in the seat.
00:05:24The only person I've ever seen do this, he break the blunt, dump the guts on his shirt.
00:05:33You know, I know a lot of rappers, bro, but I would see you a lot, pause, just because
00:05:38we live, like, what, 10 minutes from each other?
00:05:40But I never see someone break the blunt in the car on the shirt.
00:05:45You do this, break on the shirt and then get out and then break it all.
00:05:49I said, this motherfucker really J-Hood.
00:05:52And you know what I used to do also, too, the motherfuckers used to be bugged out by
00:05:55I take the Dutch and, you know, most of the time, people would just make one spliff out
00:06:02the Dutch.
00:06:03I split the Dutch and make two spliffs out of one Dutch.
00:06:08Oh, you just rolling them thin?
00:06:10Yeah.
00:06:12Not super thin, but I would make them more thin than everybody else.
00:06:15So I could utilize the whole Dutch.
00:06:18Yeah.
00:06:19You would definitely hood, man.
00:06:21You were one of the hoodiest rappers when I was younger, when we were younger, because
00:06:25we were about the same age.
00:06:27But now I don't, I stopped smoking and all that.
00:06:29I gave the smoke enough.
00:06:30Oh, you don't smoke at all?
00:06:32Zero?
00:06:33I stopped for probably, like, I'd say, like, nine months now.
00:06:35Okay, how'd you feel?
00:06:36I kind of reneged, like, probably for the last week and a half, or two weeks ago.
00:06:42I was smoking for, like, two weeks because what happens is, to me, right, and I'm pretty
00:06:47sure every other musician, excuse me, musician feels the same way.
00:06:50Like, music sounds different when you smoke the bud.
00:06:53You feel what I'm saying?
00:06:54So after I finished up the project, I would roll a split for two, listen to the music,
00:06:59and it gave me a different perspective of the music.
00:07:02So I'd listen and be like, you know what?
00:07:04Okay, now I need to put this out.
00:07:05Because when I was just recording it without smoking, I'm so self-conscious that I got so
00:07:11much music that I never released because I'm my own worst critic.
00:07:14But when I smoke, I'd be like, yo, I'm tripping, nigga.
00:07:16Put that out.
00:07:17Yeah, yeah.
00:07:18Music does sound better after a nice joint, you know, few hits, you know, that's the thing.
00:07:24We definitely make music.
00:07:25Everything sounds better from the lyrics to the snares, the sounds, the beat, the vibe.
00:07:32Yeah.
00:07:32You know, you could feel the shit with it because you just chill, you know what I mean?
00:07:36So I get that.
00:07:37Once I follow the project, though, I quit again.
00:07:38So I don't smoke now.
00:07:39Okay.
00:07:40Yeah.
00:07:40So if you see her, don't pass him none.
00:07:42But, you know, if he listening to the project, then you could, you know, you may want to
00:07:48offer him some bud, you know.
00:07:50I'm in the gym five days a week.
00:07:52You know what I'm saying?
00:07:52Work out two hours a day.
00:07:54Yeah, man.
00:07:55You look like you headed to WrestleMania, baby.
00:07:58The way you work.
00:07:59Yeah, I mean, you know, health is wealth, man.
00:08:01You got to get your shit up.
00:08:03No ditty.
00:08:03So let's talk about this Pesci album because I really want to make sure we really push
00:08:10the Pesci album.
00:08:12You've got some great features on it.
00:08:15People haven't heard it in a long time.
00:08:16You got Kid Kid on there from G-Unit, right?
00:08:19Shout out to the homie Kid Kid.
00:08:21That joint is fire.
00:08:23And when I was going through, because I didn't really go through the playlist, but I, it's
00:08:28one of the, I think it's the third track on the album, right?
00:08:31Am I right?
00:08:32So, you know, I see it right away when I'm in the car, I'm on the screen.
00:08:36So when I clicked on the Pesci five, I'm like, Kid Kid, why does that sound so familiar?
00:08:41And then he mentions 50 drops, like a G-Unit 50 bar in there.
00:08:45And I'm like, damn, this motherfucker sound really sick still.
00:08:49Like, he, they think he sound better than ever.
00:08:52Yeah, man, he's still on the shit.
00:08:54Yeah, that shit was, the whole album was fire, but I love the features on there.
00:08:59How did that come into play with you and him?
00:09:05Um, one of the DJs from the, the coalition DJs is a good friend of mine, man.
00:09:09And, uh, he was like, you know what?
00:09:10He, he rocks with Kid Kid.
00:09:12You feel me?
00:09:13So he's like, you know, I think you and him, y'all need to collab.
00:09:15And, you know, I did an interview with my man Sice from Sice TV.
00:09:19You know, he down there in the A, so he came up to North Carolina to interview me and all
00:09:23that.
00:09:23And he was with him, and he put me on the phone with Kid.
00:09:25And I'm like, dude, we gotta, you know, we gotta make some music and all that.
00:09:28So from there, uh, you know, we just, we just made it happen.
00:09:33That's what's up.
00:09:34Aside from that feature, uh, you know, me and Reed, Reed Dollars.
00:09:38Actually, for all y'all that don't know the features that I got on the album, I got, uh, Reed
00:09:42Dollars, I got Kid Kid, Big Twin, and I got Shaheen, right?
00:09:45Shout out to Shaheen.
00:09:46That's my homeboy, man.
00:09:47Shout out to my bro, Shaheen.
00:09:49Yeah, that's, that's good people.
00:09:51As far as the Reed Dollars feature, uh, me and him had did a feature with an up-and-coming
00:09:57artist out of Raleigh, North Carolina, right?
00:09:58So he got both of us on that track.
00:10:00And when we both jumped on that track, you know, Reed reached out to me, he like, bro, it's about
00:10:06that time that we collab, you feel what I'm saying?
00:10:09Work.
00:10:09So, uh, I'm like, all right, best, say no more.
00:10:11I sent him a track, he knocked it out for me, and that was that.
00:10:14I got something with him also for his project.
00:10:17And then Shaheen, you already know what it is with me and him.
00:10:19We got an album together that we're working on, so that's going to come out real soon.
00:10:23So that was, that was nothing but a call away.
00:10:25And, uh, Big Twin, same thing with him, man.
00:10:27That's my guy.
00:10:28Yes, good people.
00:10:29And we got good chemistry, so he knocked that out for me, so it was that easy.
00:10:34And Twin and you got a few songs together, correct?
00:10:36We got a whole album.
00:10:37Oh, you do have a whole album?
00:10:39Yeah.
00:10:40I didn't know that you guys actually released the album.
00:10:42I need to get back in there.
00:10:44It's on all different platforms.
00:10:45It's called Infamous and the Hood.
00:10:47How many songs are on that?
00:10:48Like 10, 11.
00:10:50Yeah, are you kidding me?
00:10:51Facts.
00:10:52Yeah, that's wild.
00:10:54That's going right into Cardinal.
00:10:56For sure.
00:10:57Yeah, rest in peace to Prodigy, too, man.
00:10:59R-I-P, capital P, man.
00:11:01Yeah, man.
00:11:02I still can't believe that shit.
00:11:04This shit don't even make sense.
00:11:05You know what I mean?
00:11:06That shit.
00:11:07But that's a whole nother topic, shit.
00:11:10But, uh, shout out to the whole Infamous mob, real talk.
00:11:15Infamous.
00:11:16Yeah, yeah, forever.
00:11:17So, with all your content, you've been going viral like crazy with the Unpopular Opinion.
00:11:24Unpopular Opinion, man.
00:11:26Hip-Hop with hood.
00:11:28Yeah.
00:11:29Who's like these videos?
00:11:30Because I see a lot of celebrities liking these shits.
00:11:33Like, you've gone viral like heaven.
00:11:35Yeah, a whole bunch of people, man.
00:11:37From shit.
00:11:38From Rick Ross to Kiss to a goddamn homie from Saved by the Bell.
00:11:45Like, oh, I can't even name him.
00:11:47Yeah, Mario Lopez.
00:11:49I've seen that one.
00:11:50Yeah, yeah.
00:11:51Shout out to Mario Lopez, man.
00:11:53That motherfucker DNA, he don't age for shit.
00:11:56You're talking about aging?
00:11:57I don't fucking look the same.
00:11:59It was crazy, bro.
00:12:00That's a fact.
00:12:01Yeah, that Unpopular Opinion is amazing.
00:12:04Which one do you think...
00:12:06The one that we were talking about before, but the one that you felt where you were taking off with
00:12:13it was the N.O.R.E., Nori Egan's first album.
00:12:17The one that really sparked everything off was the video when I put up when I said that the N
00:12:23.O.R.E. album was better than Macy's Harlem World album.
00:12:26That kind of got everybody out there chairs.
00:12:28They're like, what?
00:12:29You know, like, real hip-hop heads was like, you know what?
00:12:32You might be right.
00:12:34Yeah.
00:12:34But then a lot of other people was like, man, you tripping, man.
00:12:36That Harlem World was a classic.
00:12:38Bad Boy was a movement.
00:12:39Da-da-da.
00:12:40But I never said it wasn't a classic.
00:12:42And I never said Bad Boy wasn't a movement.
00:12:44What I said was that, sonically, I just felt that the N.O.R.E. album was better.
00:12:50I love that album, bro.
00:12:53That album, I remember having the single, the little snippet joints from back in the days.
00:12:58We talking tapes were still around back then, bro.
00:13:01It was crazy.
00:13:02The whole vibe of that album was like...
00:13:04It was incredible, man.
00:13:07And the Harlem World was great, but there's something like just so gritty and just legendary.
00:13:16Listening to them back, and some of the shit on that Harlem World album didn't age well, man.
00:13:21I will say that.
00:13:22Bro, that's the thing, right?
00:13:23That's what I be telling people.
00:13:24I'm like, bro, the N.O.R.E. album aged better than the Harlem World album.
00:13:29Because if you listen to Harlem World right now, it's cool and all that.
00:13:32It got bangers.
00:13:32Don't get me wrong.
00:13:33He had hits on there.
00:13:34Yeah.
00:13:34Oh, big hits.
00:13:35There's some skips.
00:13:36You listen to it right now, you be like, meh.
00:13:38Yeah.
00:13:39Listen to that N.O.R.E. album right now.
00:13:40Begin and the end.
00:13:42Yeah.
00:13:42Making that fucking face.
00:13:43Body in the trunk.
00:13:44Oh, my God.
00:13:45What?
00:13:47That album is legendary.
00:13:50N.O.R.E.
00:13:50A.G.A.
00:13:51You know.
00:13:51N.O.R.E.
00:13:52Don't get the props that he deserved, man.
00:13:53People be sleeping on N.O.R.E.
00:13:55Like we were saying earlier, man.
00:13:57Everybody just, they more so worried.
00:14:03The only thing they see is the drink champs, N.O.R.E.
00:14:05Yeah.
00:14:05And they think like, oh, nah.
00:14:07N.O.R.E.
00:14:08Like, yeah.
00:14:08Man, that man got a classic album, man.
00:14:11I'd say his first three albums were incredible.
00:14:13I mean, but I was a diehard N.O.R.E.
00:14:16N.O.R.E.
00:14:16fan.
00:14:16Like diehard N.O.R.E.
00:14:17fan.
00:14:18So, you know, maybe you've got to be a diehard N.O.R.E.
00:14:20fan to say all three were.
00:14:23But I'm standing on that.
00:14:25Like Melvin Flint, the third one, man.
00:14:28Blood Money 3 had like the rocky sounding beat.
00:14:31Man, I played that on repeat on the train.
00:14:33On the one and nine on Van Corlin.
00:14:35You know how slow that fucking train is.
00:14:37Yeah, that's a fact.
00:14:37Oh, that shit is miserable being on that thing.
00:14:40And that's the music for that.
00:14:43For that.
00:14:44The train, the grinding music, got your headphones on.
00:14:47It just puts you in that mode.
00:14:49Uh-huh.
00:14:50Because that's what we had to do to take the train.
00:14:52We had to go take that one and nine.
00:14:54Right?
00:14:55Facts.
00:14:56We in Y.O.
00:14:57Got to go up Van Corlin.
00:14:58You know what I mean?
00:14:59That's a big fact.
00:15:00Yeah, man.
00:15:01So I'm painting that picture.
00:15:03So I have the headphones in.
00:15:05New York, get the blood money.
00:15:08Just vibing in the freaking train car.
00:15:11You know?
00:15:11Bruh.
00:15:12That's the element, man.
00:15:14Yeah, yeah.
00:15:14Classic.
00:15:15So shout out to Nori, man.
00:15:16Yeah.
00:15:17Shout out to Nori.
00:15:19Now he's the big media guy.
00:15:21You know?
00:15:21They got the whole situation with Vlad and him going back and forth.
00:15:27I think that it's also this podcast beef and stuff at times.
00:15:31Be WWE.
00:15:32I think that this could be important.
00:15:34But I don't think it's WWE with Vlad.
00:15:36I think he really in his feelings, man.
00:15:38Yeah.
00:15:39You feel me?
00:15:40I think he's really upset that Nori didn't want to do that interview for him.
00:15:44You know what I mean?
00:15:44To the point where he's talking reckless about Nori.
00:15:47You did?
00:15:47Yeah.
00:15:48Yeah, he is.
00:15:49Which is silly to me.
00:15:50You feel what I'm saying?
00:15:51Because like we were speaking on, the fact that, you know, what Vlad said about Nori
00:15:56as far as drink champs being like bad for the culture,
00:16:00that shit sounds ridiculous to me.
00:16:02Because what rappers got locked up and they used Nori's interviews from drink champs to
00:16:10strengthen their cases?
00:16:11Nobody.
00:16:13That part.
00:16:13You could name rappers that have got apprehended and these cops used the interviews from Vlad,
00:16:19you know, to strengthen their cases.
00:16:21So, which one is really worse for the culture?
00:16:26Yeah.
00:16:26The questions that you ask these artists when they come on your platform and in fashion
00:16:29and what you're asking them are getting them locked up.
00:16:32Don't get me wrong.
00:16:33Yeah.
00:16:33These artists don't have to answer some of these questions and get into detail as much as
00:16:37they do.
00:16:38Hello.
00:16:38You know what you're doing though, bro.
00:16:39Yeah.
00:16:40Yeah.
00:16:40Yeah.
00:16:41Yeah.
00:16:41That's why when you go up to a Vlad podcast, you got to be careful what you're saying.
00:16:46Like, Adam 22.
00:16:49Like, like, but you see, like, for instance, even though this, when, when I have guests on
00:16:54here, I like to have like a conversation, you know what I mean?
00:16:57Like, I'm not really thinking, especially someone that I've known for a while.
00:17:01Like, I, like, like you, I, I consider you an actual friend, you know what I mean?
00:17:05Like when I interviewed you, like I interviewed Max B a few months ago.
00:17:10That's your homeboy right there.
00:17:12Shout out to Charlie One Game, man.
00:17:14Yeah, man.
00:17:14Pesci 5 out right now.
00:17:17I need everybody.
00:17:18Yeah, Pesci 5 is out now.
00:17:20But yeah, like I would never like ask people questions that could get you in trouble.
00:17:24Like, that's crazy work, you know?
00:17:26That's because you're conscious of the questions that you're asking him.
00:17:29You line them motherfuckers up.
00:17:31Yeah.
00:17:31He don't care.
00:17:32Like, he's long as whatever for the views.
00:17:34So do you think that when he's preparing an interview, are you thinking that he's setting
00:17:42up questions in advance?
00:17:43How can I get this guy to say something stupid?
00:17:46With malicious intent?
00:17:47Yes.
00:17:48Like, ahead of the interview.
00:17:49Or you think he's just restyling it?
00:17:52I honestly just think he's trying to create the questions that will garner the most attention
00:18:01and have the most shock value.
00:18:02Yeah.
00:18:04That's his job, though, right?
00:18:05In all fairness.
00:18:06That's his job as a journalist.
00:18:07But at the same time, you have to somewhat, and listen, key words, somewhat protect the
00:18:16people that you're interviewing.
00:18:17You know what I mean?
00:18:18What I mean by that is, don't put them in a position where they're going to say too much
00:18:23that's going to get them in trouble.
00:18:25Yeah.
00:18:26You feel what I'm saying?
00:18:27Of course.
00:18:27Because at the same time, they're giving you an interview for your platform.
00:18:33So you have to show some form of appreciation.
00:18:37And that's the least you could do, man.
00:18:39Like, don't set them up.
00:18:40Don't line them up.
00:18:41If they're talking too close...
00:18:42Well, you know, one thing I've heard, and I'm not 100% sure, but I'm like 99.9% sure
00:18:47about this.
00:18:48When Vlad has people on his show, he pays them.
00:18:52Oh, yeah.
00:18:53For the most part.
00:18:53Yeah, that's what I heard.
00:18:54Yeah.
00:18:54I heard he pays them.
00:18:56So it's different like with me.
00:18:57Like, I don't pay people, and it's not that I don't think that artists even deserve the
00:19:01money.
00:19:02I don't got the money.
00:19:03I'm going to be honest with you.
00:19:05You know?
00:19:05I don't have...
00:19:05If I had it like that, I'm not saying I'm broke, but I don't got money to do it.
00:19:10Yeah, he's different.
00:19:10Pay artists.
00:19:11You know what I mean?
00:19:11I wish I did.
00:19:13One day, hopefully.
00:19:14Shit.
00:19:15But, um...
00:19:16Shit, that's the least you could do.
00:19:17Break bread with him on his show?
00:19:18Yeah.
00:19:19You know, I've seen a post someone posted on Instagram earlier.
00:19:24If you really think about it, his whole life changed with that incident backstage somewhere
00:19:30with Rick Ross.
00:19:32And then there was a lawsuit, and he got money, and then before you know it, he was in the
00:19:38big office.
00:19:38I think he even had the Vlad TV.
00:19:40As soon as he won that, I'm pretty sure he got the big office at the Universal building.
00:19:44Hey, man.
00:19:45You getting busted in the head to turn your life, man.
00:19:47He had no difference.
00:19:47It couldn't.
00:19:48It really changed his life.
00:19:51Huh?
00:19:52Think about it.
00:19:52It changed his fucking life.
00:19:54Sorry, man.
00:19:55He had the money now.
00:19:56A bottle to the dome could change your whole life.
00:19:59Word up, bro.
00:20:01That's crazy to think, man.
00:20:03He got to thank Rose for that, man.
00:20:06Yeah.
00:20:07At the end of the day?
00:20:08Yeah.
00:20:08Yeah.
00:20:09Because that chain, he got, I'm pretty sure he got some big money for that.
00:20:13Because then he was like, because I remember he invited me over there.
00:20:16He's like, yeah, I'm in the Universal.
00:20:18But he wasn't one of them big-ass, bougie-ass record label builders.
00:20:21That shit is not cheap.
00:20:23Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:20:23Like, okay.
00:20:24He got that payable, man.
00:20:26But I got it.
00:20:27You got to give, well, you don't got to do shit.
00:20:29You know what I mean?
00:20:30But I will give him his credit for building an empire.
00:20:33I mean, he did.
00:20:34Yeah, I mean, I would also.
00:20:35You know what I mean?
00:20:36Like, he didn't, he'd been grinding for a minute.
00:20:38You can't take that from him.
00:20:39You know what I'm saying?
00:20:40And I've been around him, like, out at industry events, parties and shit.
00:20:46Pause it.
00:20:46I'm not getting, I was not trying to get weird with it, but, like, no diddy shit.
00:20:50But he's always been a cool dude, like, you know.
00:20:53But this was a long time ago.
00:20:55So, I could see sometimes people hating on him for no reason, I feel like.
00:21:02I do feel like sometimes people come at him for no reason.
00:21:06Sometimes.
00:21:06Me, I got to, I don't share that, that same opinion.
00:21:12I don't think, like, I don't think I've ever heard anybody come at him for absolutely no reason.
00:21:18But I can see where you're coming from, but I kind of disagree.
00:21:21But you know what's crazy, though?
00:21:22Well, they're going on drink change and they're getting intoxicated, but they're still not saying nothing that can implicate them
00:21:29in no criminal activities.
00:21:31No crazy questions.
00:21:32When you go over and do the interview with Vlad, you could be sober, and the questions that he asked
00:21:36him, you could get you wrapped up.
00:21:37Oh, yeah.
00:21:38Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:21:39So, that's crazy.
00:21:42So, people are going to Vlad and still doing this is crazy work in 2026.
00:21:48If you're still going to these interviews, I'm not saying it's crazy to go and do these interviews because he's
00:21:55got a great platform.
00:21:57You cannot deny it's a successful platform.
00:21:59I'm going on there and spilling the beans, though, man.
00:22:01Yeah, you guys are crazy if you're going in there and saying, oh, yeah, I was shooting this one and
00:22:07doing it.
00:22:07Like, are you, what's the f*** is wrong with you?
00:22:10You've seen what happened to this one, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, all the way to f***ing Z,
00:22:15and you're still singing, you know, like a bird.
00:22:18It's crazy work.
00:22:19I don't even know what to say.
00:22:21It's disgusting work.
00:22:23It's like, hello, Earth and Mars.
00:22:26Yeah, that is crazy, man.
00:22:29So, you said Jada liked a couple of your posts and stuff like that.
00:22:33Yeah.
00:22:35Have you spoken to any of the three guys at all?
00:22:38At all?
00:22:38At all?
00:22:40The last person I spoke to was Kiss.
00:22:42You know what I'm saying?
00:22:42That was a while ago, though.
00:22:43But everything is all love, man.
00:22:45You know what I mean?
00:22:45Yeah.
00:22:45Every time I see him, it's love.
00:22:47The funny thing about it, man, you know, you already know, man.
00:22:50All of our inner circles are, like, so close.
00:22:54We all follow each other.
00:22:55They still all follow me.
00:22:57They watch what I do.
00:22:58I'm not saying I like that, but they are aware of what's going on.
00:23:01It's like no, it's no beef.
00:23:03There's no smoke or nothing of that shit.
00:23:05It's, you know what's so crazy?
00:23:07The fans and the consumers, they think it's an issue.
00:23:12Yeah.
00:23:13You know what I mean?
00:23:14And they try to paint the picture like they want it to be an issue when there's no issue there.
00:23:18Like, they think I'm supposed to be their arch nemesis or they're supposed to be my arch nemesis when it
00:23:23ain't even like that.
00:23:23That's just what they want to believe.
00:23:25It's weird because with rap music, right?
00:23:28Because there's beef in other genres of music, like rock and roll, metal, even pop music, right?
00:23:33Right, right.
00:23:34And it's known, and the fans know it.
00:23:36But they're not like, oh, well, fuck Metallica.
00:23:39You know what I mean?
00:23:39I'm going with...
00:23:40Like, it's not like that.
00:23:42But with hip hop, it's like a sports team.
00:23:46Right.
00:23:47You either pick in the Knicks or the Nets.
00:23:50And I don't get it because, like, bro, why do you guys insist on wanting to believe that we're enemies?
00:23:58Yeah.
00:23:59And it's not like that.
00:24:00Oh, they don't fuck with you.
00:24:01Oh, you don't fuck with them.
00:24:02How do you know who fuck with who?
00:24:03Like, y'all are so on the outside looking in.
00:24:07You don't know anything.
00:24:08Just because we're not showing you guys that we're talking or that we're cool, that doesn't necessarily mean we aren't
00:24:14okay with each other.
00:24:14One hundred percent.
00:24:15We don't have to show you anything.
00:24:17Yeah.
00:24:18So you're making assumptions.
00:24:20Uh-huh.
00:24:22Yeah.
00:24:22I mean, look, you were young.
00:24:26You were frustrated as hell because I was around you with that.
00:24:30You wanted your music out.
00:24:32It wasn't coming out.
00:24:33But that's not even a sole reason for the things that took place.
00:24:38It was more so because I just wanted to get out the contract.
00:24:41Oh, okay.
00:24:42And they wasn't allowing that to happen.
00:24:44So, you know, shit happened.
00:24:46But I wish they dropped that Chingy record when he was hot.
00:24:50Chingy?
00:24:50You had that song with Chingy?
00:24:53Yeah, man.
00:24:53That shit would have went crazy.
00:24:54You know what's so crazy?
00:24:55I think you mentioned that not too long ago, right?
00:24:58Uh-huh.
00:24:59And I had posted it.
00:25:00I don't know if I posted it on my page or my story or whatever the case be.
00:25:03And I told him, you know, Chingy, that's my guy.
00:25:05You know what I mean?
00:25:06Yeah.
00:25:06So, when he's saying that, he's like, yo, Hood, that's crazy.
00:25:09You just reminded me.
00:25:09Do you still got that track?
00:25:10I'm like, absolutely not.
00:25:11I don't have it.
00:25:13So, and this was recently.
00:25:15You know what I mean?
00:25:15Like, when J-Hood had this track, right?
00:25:19It was when Chingy was, like, on the charts.
00:25:24On the charts.
00:25:25That's during the right third.
00:25:27Yeah.
00:25:28Like, it was crazy.
00:25:30Like, if that came out.
00:25:33You know what I think it was, too?
00:25:35I think what I was trying to do, I was around guys that were looked at as strictly hood dudes.
00:25:44You know what I mean?
00:25:45Like, straight hardcore lyricists.
00:25:48So, I was trying to blend that with trying to also create a commercial appeal at the same time.
00:25:56And, you know, just like it was my idea to get Chingy on that record, I was trying to create
00:26:02a whole new energy.
00:26:03You feel what I'm saying?
00:26:04So, I think, like, I don't know if they knew how to do that as far as, like, or if
00:26:08they even wanted to do that.
00:26:09Yeah.
00:26:09Because we couldn't, like, that record could have, like, went out of here.
00:26:13It could have took me all the way out of here.
00:26:15He was, he was, dude, that's all people wanted to hear.
00:26:19Like, the girls, you know what I mean?
00:26:21It was on the radio.
00:26:22It was everywhere.
00:26:23Z-100 was playing his shit.
00:26:25You know what I mean?
00:26:25So, it's a big deal.
00:26:28And I was so, so happy for you when I heard that feature you had.
00:26:33I was like, if people don't know, like, me and Hood live pretty close to each other.
00:26:37You know what I mean?
00:26:37I'd see Hood all the time.
00:26:38And, you know, I did the mixtape.
00:26:40So, I'd always have him on there.
00:26:43And I'd do whatever I can to support local artists, even though they're not, like, nobodies.
00:26:48You know what I mean?
00:26:49You're still a local artist.
00:26:51So, we pushing D-Block all day.
00:26:53You know what I mean?
00:26:54Shit.
00:26:55That's a fact.
00:26:56So, you know, this is coming from someone that I was, like, around a lot.
00:27:00And you and Stiles were, like, the first people to really host mixtapes for me, too, and help me out,
00:27:05too.
00:27:06Like, because after that, before you know it, I'm getting Rick Ross hosting mixtapes.
00:27:09It was like, you, it was Stiles and Capone from Capone and Noriega and then you.
00:27:15And then after that, more and more people, French Montana, this and that, you know what I mean?
00:27:20And that's when mixtapes was mixtapes.
00:27:22Oh, yeah.
00:27:22That's when the mixtape game was really, like, what it was for real.
00:27:27Like, now these kids might look at mixtapes and be like, yeah, school is hot.
00:27:30But, you know, it's nothing like it used to be.
00:27:33And it was a lot of work.
00:27:34People don't understand the work that mixtape DJs put in with the machines and burning all these f***ing CDs and
00:27:40artwork and putting.
00:27:41They're going out there to these mom and pop stores.
00:27:44They're talking to the owners.
00:27:45You know what I mean?
00:27:45They're selling them wholesale.
00:27:46It was crazy.
00:27:48Bro, I remember going to the Bronx, begging stores to put Nicki's fashion black.
00:27:55Shout out to black.
00:27:56Shout out to black.
00:27:57Yeah, man.
00:27:58It's like historic s***, man.
00:28:00But I remember having a Nicki Minaj big shape I did that she hosted.
00:28:04And no one wanted that s***, man.
00:28:06I had to beg people for that s*** in the beginning, man.
00:28:09And look where she is now.
00:28:10Same with French.
00:28:11No one wanted the French Montana s*** when he hosted it.
00:28:14I said, just trust me.
00:28:16Take 10.
00:28:17What happens?
00:28:19They call me back.
00:28:20They destroy me back.
00:28:21You know how many times I used to see French hopping out at Sammy's Fashion on Fordham?
00:28:25Yeah.
00:28:25Knocking off his CDs and all that.
00:28:26They're too black.
00:28:28Right.
00:28:28No, that guy is a serious hustler, French Montana, man.
00:28:32For real.
00:28:32Serious hustler, bro.
00:28:34Because he was doing the mixtape s***.
00:28:38He's doing the DVDs.
00:28:40He was running around the city like how I was.
00:28:42I was hitting up every borough.
00:28:43So, you know, sometimes I'd have like a girl sleep over the night before and she'd be like,
00:28:48I don't want to leave.
00:28:49I'd be like, all right, you want to come with me?
00:28:50And then they go into all the different boroughs.
00:28:53You know what I mean?
00:28:54And by the time it was over, they were like, yo, I can't believe you.
00:28:58We just did all this s***.
00:29:00That era cannot be like, it can't be duplicated.
00:29:05Nah, it was crazy.
00:29:06Even with us trying to elaborate on how that era was, it won't do nobody that didn't live
00:29:11in it or experience it.
00:29:13It won't do you no justice because you just had to beat it.
00:29:17Yeah.
00:29:18Shout out to DJ White Owl, man.
00:29:19Rest in peace to DJ White Owl, too, man.
00:29:21DJ White Owl, DJ Cold Cheese.
00:29:23Yeah.
00:29:23Cold Cheese.
00:29:25Wow.
00:29:25The Masked C, Slade, you know what I mean?
00:29:30Rest in peace.
00:29:30It was crazy.
00:29:31Yeah.
00:29:32Yeah.
00:29:32I feel like White Owl supported you heavy back in the day.
00:29:35Absolutely.
00:29:36Yeah.
00:29:36Yeah.
00:29:37You used to have all the, you used to have the Lloyd Banks versus J-Hood CD.
00:29:41Yeah.
00:29:42You know what I mean?
00:29:43All type of s***, man.
00:29:44Yeah, man.
00:29:45That's just like a, it's so crazy that era.
00:29:48I spoke to Big Mike and DJ Thurl.
00:29:50I want to start doing show, like podcast with them, talking about them eras.
00:29:55Because just think, think about even like Big Mike, like all them different mixtapes
00:29:59that he did.
00:30:00He did a lot.
00:30:01He, he was part of a lot of history and it's never being like, um, talked about.
00:30:07Spoken about.
00:30:08And you have to be completely honest, man.
00:30:09Big Mike was like our, um, pool kid.
00:30:13Minus the radio station spot.
00:30:15You know what I mean?
00:30:15Like.
00:30:17100%.
00:30:18100%.
00:30:18Because he became the DJ that got all the exclusives from us.
00:30:21Yeah.
00:30:22Yeah.
00:30:23I'd be lucky if I got one that he didn't have.
00:30:26Which was fine.
00:30:27You know what I mean?
00:30:28I mean.
00:30:28That's a fact.
00:30:28You got to play your position.
00:30:30You know what I'm saying?
00:30:31Like some artist.
00:30:32Thank you so much.
00:30:32Big Mike used to be in the studio, staying there all night till six in the morning.
00:30:36Waiting for that CD.
00:30:38That's a fact.
00:30:39Yeah.
00:30:40Waiting for that CD, bro.
00:30:41Because that's how it was, man.
00:30:42It was crazy back then.
00:30:44And sometimes you go to the studio and the artists, they're just hanging out smoking.
00:30:48And you're just sitting there waiting.
00:30:50Hanging.
00:30:51You may be playing a video game.
00:30:53You know what I mean?
00:30:53You may play Madden on the couch.
00:30:55Fucking waiting.
00:30:57Yeah.
00:30:58You're just sitting there waiting for hours and hours.
00:31:01And then all of a sudden you get that CD at like fucking 5.30 in the morning, man.
00:31:05Oh, yeah.
00:31:06Oh, yeah.
00:31:06Dale Joe.
00:31:06I got you, bro.
00:31:09And then you put the shit out in his lid.
00:31:11Yeah, man.
00:31:12But it's different now.
00:31:13Now, the internet really, and the whole thing of no more CDs for the most part.
00:31:20People want CDs again now.
00:31:22People do want physical pieces again.
00:31:24Right, right, right.
00:31:25Like as collectibles, right?
00:31:27If you market it right.
00:31:28Like if you see West Side Gun, I don't know if you pay attention to how he sells the CD.
00:31:32Absolutely.
00:31:32The vinyl.
00:31:33It's brilliant, you know?
00:31:35Yeah, exactly.
00:31:36Limited pieces, signed, all that.
00:31:39You don't even sign them shits.
00:31:40People going crazy for that.
00:31:42And I feel like that whole Griselda sound is like the next chapter of that gritty hip-hop
00:31:50from like, you know, before with like Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang and Nas to D-Block and Lox, you know,
00:31:57you, CNN.
00:31:59And the Griselda, I feel, has become like the next decade of that career.
00:32:08You know, you got to personally tip your hat to the upstate guys and all that shit because they, you
00:32:16know, they stuck with that, that real gritty original hip-hop, that New York hip-hop sound when a lot
00:32:25of other artists, you know, from New York.
00:32:28They stuck, I'm not going to say had an identity crisis, but they were more so trying to embrace the
00:32:32Atlanta sound.
00:32:33That drill too, the drill.
00:32:35The United States just to try to blend in and get radio play, but they stuck with that, with that
00:32:40boom bap sound.
00:32:41You feel what I'm saying?
00:32:41They really did.
00:32:42You got to, you got to honor that, honestly.
00:32:45Right.
00:32:45If you really think about it, because like, you're, you're trying to be successful, right?
00:32:51You're trying to have people hear your music.
00:32:54So a lot of artists are going to try to go in the, that lane, right?
00:32:58They, they go in this, this lane and, and people are not fucking with that.
00:33:03I mean, we are, but they have a massive, massive following that it took time.
00:33:10But staying in their lane paid off because now they got a somewhat of a co-following that supports everything
00:33:16that they does.
00:33:17Lifers.
00:33:18I mean, everything that they do, excuse me.
00:33:19Yeah, they're lifers.
00:33:21Their family base are lifers.
00:33:23You know, they're buying the clothes, the fucking, the Westside Gun just dropped the sneaker.
00:33:28Like, it's a, it's a cool, the way that they've evolved real hip-hop shit is pretty dope.
00:33:36It's commendable.
00:33:38Facts, that's the word.
00:33:39That's definitely the word right there, man.
00:33:42Let's see.
00:33:43So you were telling me earlier, you, you trying to like, just go crazy for the rest of the year.
00:33:49Drop, you're going to be dropping a lot of music just the rest of the year.
00:33:52I'm dropping an album every month until the beginning of the year.
00:33:56Wow.
00:33:58So, you know, I got the, Pesci Fibers out right now, by the way, I'll say it again.
00:34:01It's out on all digital streaming platforms.
00:34:03If you haven't heard part one, two, three, or four, go check those out.
00:34:07Yeah.
00:34:07So you can go right to Pesci Fibers first.
00:34:10So we get that on the, get the, get the viewership up.
00:34:14We got to get that up.
00:34:15Go check out the Pesci Fibers out right now.
00:34:17Um, this month on the 25th, I'm dropping another project called Full Chamber.
00:34:21But that's going to feature RJ Payne and, um, Young Noble from the Outlaws, R.I.P., man.
00:34:29So I got them on that.
00:34:30That's already done.
00:34:31And then after that, I got a whole new project coming out in October called Doughboy's Revenge.
00:34:36And that's done already.
00:34:38You know what I'm saying?
00:34:39So then me and Yuck Mouth, for you guys that don't know, we got an album that came out like
00:34:45a couple of years ago called Savages.
00:34:47So we got part two that we're working on.
00:34:49Hopefully that, uh, that album will be finished before the end of the year, too.
00:34:54That's what's up, man.
00:34:56Yuck Mouth's good people, too, man.
00:34:58That's why I be trying to put a lot of people on the East Coast up on him.
00:35:01I'm like, bro, Yuck be spitting, man.
00:35:03Y'all sleep.
00:35:04Yo, I got a rap song with him.
00:35:06Oh, yeah?
00:35:07I swear.
00:35:08Dame Grease wanted me to rap on it.
00:35:11The shit is pretty crazy.
00:35:12Yeah.
00:35:13I swear to everything.
00:35:14I said it to you.
00:35:15It's old.
00:35:15It's like 10 years old.
00:35:18Yeah, yeah.
00:35:19I'm on it with Yuck Mouth.
00:35:21A bunch of people on that shit.
00:35:22It's like a symphony type joint.
00:35:24He was like, Dells, get on that shit.
00:35:26That's crazy work.
00:35:27Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:35:28Wait till you hear it.
00:35:29I'll text you in.
00:35:30We got a question in the chat.
00:35:32It says, what young boy in the game would you collab with?
00:35:36Is there any young or new artists that you're pretty much open to working with whoever's
00:35:43talented, man?
00:35:44I can't really sit here and pinpoint somebody.
00:35:50Let me see.
00:35:53I can't really think of nobody in particular.
00:35:55Is there any artists that you would love to work with in general?
00:36:02I want to get something, man, with Benny.
00:36:08Yeah.
00:36:09I think the streets would appreciate it.
00:36:10You guys don't have a song together?
00:36:12Me and Benny don't got a song together.
00:36:14You know what's so crazy?
00:36:15Anytime that he pulls up to North Carolina, one of his mans is my homeboy.
00:36:19So, you know, I'll be kicking it with them every time they come out here.
00:36:22So it's just like, I think it'll happen eventually.
00:36:24Yeah.
00:36:25But as of right now, we don't got no music.
00:36:27You know what I mean?
00:36:27Yeah.
00:36:27I'd love to hear you with any of the Griselda guys, you know, to be honest.
00:36:33I want to do something with Wes.
00:36:35Yeah.
00:36:35Man, I mean, that would be vicious.
00:36:38Let me ask you a question.
00:36:40J. Cole or Kendrick Lamar?
00:36:43J. Cole.
00:36:44J. Cole?
00:36:46Okay.
00:36:46I agree with you.
00:36:48Yeah.
00:36:49Why do you think people like Kendrick Lamar more than J. Cole?
00:36:54Oh.
00:36:55Because I don't understand why.
00:36:59I think Cole, he puts himself out there a little more, even though he pops out when he wants to
00:37:06pop out.
00:37:07I think, like, he's a little bit more creative than J. Cole.
00:37:13You know what I mean?
00:37:14Like, I think.
00:37:14Okay.
00:37:15I don't know if I'm putting this correctly, but I don't know if he has a bit more of a
00:37:21larger range or a wider range.
00:37:24But that could be what it is.
00:37:25But Cole, I think he's more so a passive artist.
00:37:30You feel what I'm saying?
00:37:30Like, he only puts music out when he wants to.
00:37:33He doesn't really care about being in the forefront.
00:37:37You feel what I'm saying?
00:37:38He doesn't care about being, like, extremely consistent.
00:37:42He works when he wants to work.
00:37:44Yeah.
00:37:44But when he does work, it's amazing.
00:37:47Facts.
00:37:48I love the new album.
00:37:49I don't know if you were sad to listen to it, but.
00:37:51Oh, definitely.
00:37:52Definitely.
00:37:52That thing's been, love that fucking album, man.
00:37:56Yeah.
00:37:56Incredible.
00:37:58The let out?
00:37:59That shit is.
00:38:00Cole is a problem, man.
00:38:02Yeah.
00:38:03And I'm not taking nothing away from Kendrick, either.
00:38:05Because Kendrick, he does his thing, too.
00:38:06But me, personally, like, a personal preference.
00:38:08Yeah.
00:38:09I fucks with Cole.
00:38:10Yeah.
00:38:11Yeah, me, too.
00:38:12Let me ask you this.
00:38:14Do you think that J. Cole has a better album discography than Kendrick Lamar?
00:38:24That right there is the question.
00:38:27That's the question of the night, because I can't sit there and honestly say he does,
00:38:31because Kendrick, you know, he got a couple albums that, like I said, he's extremely creative, man.
00:38:41Nah, he is.
00:38:42And, you know, very artistic, bro.
00:38:46You know what I'm saying?
00:38:48Where it's like, there's a lot to it.
00:38:51You know what I mean?
00:38:52Tell him, Pat, there's a lot of layers.
00:38:56So that's where, maybe that's where people are like, I fuck with K-Dot more than J. Cole.
00:39:04Because of the ladies.
00:39:05You know what I think, also, what does it for people with Kendrick is he gives them somewhat of a
00:39:13representation of, like I said, somewhat conscience vibe.
00:39:24You feel what I'm saying?
00:39:25So when it comes to the urban community, they look at him like, oh, nah, you know, he's the spokesman
00:39:32for, you know, this demographic and for us and da-da-da-da-da.
00:39:36And I, even though he's not, like, really pushing that hard for real, for real, like, let's say a dead
00:39:44Prez or nothing like that, but they look at him and that same, like.
00:39:49Yeah, with K-Dot, you're saying, right?
00:39:51Yeah.
00:39:52Yep.
00:39:53But I think that sometimes people overlook J. Cole, too, and maybe because he's so humble.
00:39:59And at times he can be very nice, right?
00:40:02He's like the real, like, ultra nice guy comes off that way.
00:40:05At times, he traveled literally city to city, and I know you've seen it because you online.
00:40:11With CDs hitting up all the colleges.
00:40:15Yeah.
00:40:16Colleges.
00:40:17You know what it was with Cole, though, that messed him up?
00:40:18I'm like, I gotta keep it a band-aid, man.
00:40:21When he backed out of the battle.
00:40:22That was the, I was disgusted.
00:40:25That changed a lot of people's view on Cole, man.
00:40:28Like, they were like, oh, nah, I can't.
00:40:30I was disgusted.
00:40:32I couldn't even listen to him for a good six months.
00:40:36And then I started giving him a chance.
00:40:37I was furious.
00:40:39Because that is so not hip-hop.
00:40:42My mindset was, listen, man, he's better than all of them.
00:40:45Yeah.
00:40:46I'm like, he will, no diddy.
00:40:47I'm like, he will eat Drake and he will eat candy.
00:40:49Yeah, I agree.
00:40:51So, bro, so when he backed out, I'm like, damn, bro.
00:40:55And he wasn't even trying.
00:40:56At the same time, I understood it, but at the same time, the competitor in me was like, man, damn.
00:41:01I don't think he was even trying on that track.
00:41:05Did you know that verse he did with Benny the Butcher?
00:41:09We were just talking about Benny the Butcher.
00:41:10That's one of the most savage verses I've ever heard in my effing life.
00:41:16Right.
00:41:18In my life on a track.
00:41:20And it sound effortless.
00:41:22It sound effortless, but it sounded like he dissing someone on that joint.
00:41:28So, you give me that, and then months later, you give me this, and then you take it away.
00:41:34I mean, maybe he didn't like what he put out, too.
00:41:36Maybe low-key, he was like, I could have really destroyed him.
00:41:40This shit ain't he representing me properly.
00:41:42Nah, I just think it was the energy point of view.
00:41:46I mean, the energy aspect with him, man.
00:41:47He didn't want that negative vibe or that whole beefing thing to overshadow his artistry and all that.
00:41:56It's true.
00:41:57I understand it at the same time, but like I said, the competitor in me was like, nah, bro.
00:42:01Show all that shit you pop about nobody being able to see you and nobody being able to fuck with
00:42:06you.
00:42:07Hand on that, man.
00:42:08It's time to show everybody.
00:42:10And it could be friendly at the same time.
00:42:11Yeah.
00:42:12Because hip-hop is a competitive sport.
00:42:13It's a sport, yeah.
00:42:15So, go in.
00:42:17Shit, you see what Michael Jordan did to Charles Barkley and they best friends.
00:42:20That motherfucking humiliated him on the courts at times.
00:42:24There you go.
00:42:25You know?
00:42:26Charles Barkley did the same.
00:42:29So, you heard what Kendrick said, man.
00:42:30Motherfucking big three, man.
00:42:32It's just big meat.
00:42:33Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:42:34Yo, when K-Dot is ready to go to war, he's a serious problem, man.
00:42:40He's dropping nukes.
00:42:42You know what I mean?
00:42:44That dude is serious, serious business.
00:42:48Although, let's be real, though.
00:42:50Even though none of these battles are like none of the battles that we were involved with back in the
00:42:55days.
00:42:56But you got to expect that, though, because time changes and things change with time.
00:43:00But for what it was, you know, it is what it is.
00:43:03What was your favorite battle back in the days?
00:43:06Like, during our era?
00:43:08Mixed tapes.
00:43:08You're active as an artist in New York 20 plus years ago.
00:43:13You know, the scene was different.
00:43:15We're dealing with physical CDs, actual DJs, Internet's out.
00:43:19But it's not like, okay, you got 24 hours to respond.
00:43:23Bang!
00:43:23It's on the Internet.
00:43:24Like, what was your favorite battle back then?
00:43:27Like, I enjoyed the D-Black versus Rockefeller battle, even though I didn't really get to really, really, really engage
00:43:38in it because they didn't want me to, you know, to go too crazy and that.
00:43:42But we all got to display, you know, a significant amount of lyricism.
00:43:48And it was just a cool battle because everyone that was involved could actually rap.
00:43:53Oh, yeah.
00:43:54And we all respected each other's pen.
00:43:55So it was like a level of respect.
00:43:57But at the same time, it was serious.
00:43:59And rap at a high level.
00:44:01Right.
00:44:02High level.
00:44:04The Jadakiss Beanie Seagull.
00:44:06And then when Styles P comes in with the wait a minute.
00:44:10You wanna say my name?
00:44:12I heard that.
00:44:13I remember I was in bed listening to Funk Flex pretending to be asleep because I'm still in school, bro.
00:44:18My father's like, you gotta go to bed.
00:44:20Flex playing this shit.
00:44:22I was like, holy shit, I'm recording this.
00:44:24I caught it.
00:44:25I caught it.
00:44:26You know, because I was a big deal.
00:44:28I'm in a studio like this.
00:44:30Oh, yeah.
00:44:31You were there.
00:44:32I'm just watching them.
00:44:34I'm watching them go in.
00:44:35I'm like, ah, this is crazy.
00:44:37Because you gotta remember the, um.
00:44:38Wow.
00:44:39Man, what's the name of that track, man?
00:44:40The D-Black, uh, the Sound Burial.
00:44:42Oh, yeah.
00:44:43The, um, uh, uh, Smith & Wesson.
00:44:46Smith & Wesson.
00:44:47Yeah.
00:44:47Yeah, we all got a verse on that.
00:44:49So when I finished my verse and all that, P went last.
00:44:52Hold up.
00:44:53You wanna say my name?
00:44:54Da-da-da-da.
00:44:55I'm like, ooh-hoo-hoo, man.
00:44:57It's up right now, boy.
00:44:59Oof.
00:45:00Man, that was, were you there for the Jadakiss response to 50, or the, or?
00:45:05I was there for everything, man.
00:45:06So you were there for Checkmate?
00:45:08Yeah.
00:45:09Wow.
00:45:10Wow.
00:45:11Yes, man.
00:45:12Like, we was all like, look.
00:45:13Kiss was right in this joint.
00:45:15Everybody right.
00:45:15We like, nah, bro.
00:45:17Nah, that's, that's hard.
00:45:19Nah, I ain't gonna lie.
00:45:19You go, you gotta go crazy.
00:45:22Do this.
00:45:23You, you gotta, nah.
00:45:24That's, that's hard, but nah.
00:45:25Come on.
00:45:26You already know how they gonna come.
00:45:28Checkmate.
00:45:29You serious?
00:45:30All that shit.
00:45:31That shit got on the charts.
00:45:33Facts.
00:45:35Oh, no, he destroyed.
00:45:36Checkmate was ridiculous.
00:45:38And, um, I jumped to that, cause I was like, I need to know that immediately before I forget
00:45:43that.
00:45:44Now, going, rewinding back a little bit, spinning that record back, the Beanie Siegel joint, so
00:45:50you were there for that, too, huh?
00:45:52With the corn rolls on the-
00:45:53Everything, bro.
00:45:54Oh, my God.
00:45:55You know, the Checkmate joint, you know, the, the Geo battle, it was cool, but it
00:46:00wasn't like the, the Rockefeller battle.
00:46:02Yeah, yeah.
00:46:03Rockefeller was crazy, man.
00:46:05When they were on the, when they went to Hot 97-
00:46:08You gotta understand, you was dealing with Beanie Mac at the time, man.
00:46:12The Eagle, man, the Broad Street Bull.
00:46:13He was a monster.
00:46:14He still is a monster.
00:46:16You, we, we could, we could have actually almost ran into these guys.
00:46:20Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:46:20With G-Unit, we wasn't-
00:46:22Yeah.
00:46:22Everyone was outside.
00:46:23We wasn't running to them.
00:46:24Everyone was outside.
00:46:25Look, with state property, he could have went down a few times.
00:46:29Oh, yeah.
00:46:29Yeah, I heard.
00:46:30I remember, I remember vividly, man, Sonny, who used to work at Hot 97, she had a party
00:46:38one time downtown, and she had us pull up to the party, but, and she also invited them.
00:46:44So, when we was leaving, they were pulling up.
00:46:48So, we seen each other as we was leaving, and it could have got ugly.
00:46:53It could have got uglier than Bukin Woodbine.
00:46:55I think I was at that party, too, you're talking about.
00:46:58Elle was there, maybe, and-
00:47:00Yeah, I think she was.
00:47:01Yeah, it was crazy.
00:47:01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:47:02That dude from The Wire, the light skin dude from The Wire was there.
00:47:05We were popping shit to each other.
00:47:06I was at that party.
00:47:08That shit was crazy.
00:47:09That's crazy.
00:47:09Because we were always outside.
00:47:12Always.
00:47:12Always.
00:47:12Even me.
00:47:13I'm not even a rapper, but I was always out.
00:47:17And that's how I've met a lot of these rappers, too.
00:47:20For people that are wondering, how the hell do you know everyone?
00:47:22It's always out.
00:47:23I had to be outside.
00:47:23Oh, you know, you were in New York City.
00:47:27I mean, we were only like 10, 15 minutes away from New York City.
00:47:30And back then, they would call us upstate.
00:47:32What'd they do to Griselda?
00:47:35They did that shit.
00:47:36Yo, Yonkers ain't the city, man.
00:47:38Yo, bro, we five minutes from the Bronx.
00:47:39We can walk to the Bronx.
00:47:41Yeah, 38 Spash and all those guys, they're a few hours away.
00:47:46We were 15 minutes being called upstate New York.
00:47:49Which, we didn't give a fuck, you know what I mean?
00:47:51And then, I think when 50 said the hardest heads come out of Yonkers,
00:47:56that kind of just deaded all of that.
00:47:58I think after that, 50's voice was so powerful, you never heard that again.
00:48:03That's solidified everything.
00:48:04Yeah, everything was erased.
00:48:06That's the power of 50 Cent right there, man.
00:48:08Right.
00:48:09I never thought of that.
00:48:10You sitting in the studio for those legendary recordings of battle records.
00:48:16I was there for everything, bro.
00:48:18Yeah.
00:48:19Yeah, because you guys would just stay in there in them sessions.
00:48:21And just, man, that's incredible, bro.
00:48:25I remember Dame Dash's little brother, Jeremy Dash, handing me the CD to the Beanie Seagull.
00:48:33This, to Jadakiss.
00:48:35I had it before it even came out.
00:48:37He said, you cannot play this.
00:48:39My brother will kill me.
00:48:41What?
00:48:41But you could, I had it without K's, because K's Slay World premiered that.
00:48:45And then, if I'm not mistaken.
00:48:49No, I think Big Mike was the one that released the Beanie Seagull.
00:48:53And then K's Slay put out the Jada.
00:48:57And it wasn't Big Mike who put the Jada out.
00:49:00I may be wrong.
00:49:01We gotta, I gotta look into that.
00:49:03Help us out.
00:49:04We're gonna be clipping a bunch of this shit.
00:49:06That's why I figured we'll do this shit here.
00:49:08It's easy to clip.
00:49:09But, um, wow, man.
00:49:11I mean, yeah.
00:49:12So the battles, so that's your favorite.
00:49:14I agree.
00:49:14Even, like, they were at Hot 97, Rockefeller Records, dissing all y'all.
00:49:19And y'all, like, how did you find out about that?
00:49:23Were you just tuned in and it was playing?
00:49:25Or did you get a call that they were going crazy at Hot 97?
00:49:28To be honest, I can't even remember.
00:49:30But I think we got the call.
00:49:32You know what I mean?
00:49:32Yeah.
00:49:33They going crazy up there.
00:49:35They talking crazy.
00:49:36You know what I mean?
00:49:37Jay-Z was like, you keep rapping.
00:49:40I'll pay the bills.
00:49:41You know, the people that find people.
00:49:43Man, that was that error.
00:49:46Yo, he said, I don't care if you get fine flex.
00:49:49I will pay you.
00:49:50Uncover it, man.
00:49:51Uncover it.
00:49:52They cursing and all that.
00:49:54Don't worry, but I got the fines.
00:49:55I'll pay it, man.
00:49:56And they were freestyle for a good hour or two.
00:50:00I ain't going to lie.
00:50:00Young Christian on the freeway.
00:50:02Hey-ho, better leave it alone for me with the cross.
00:50:05I'm like, hold up, man.
00:50:07Wait a minute.
00:50:08Yo, those were the days, bro.
00:50:11Facts.
00:50:12You know, I mean, the internet has great things to it.
00:50:15You know, we got it.
00:50:17But there's also some shitty shit with the internet, too.
00:50:22The internet got its pros and its cons, man.
00:50:24The one thing that I do like about the internet is it gives, you know, the younger people a chance
00:50:31to generate revenue on their own to the point they don't need these labels.
00:50:35You know what I'm saying?
00:50:35One hundred percent.
00:50:37Go ahead.
00:50:37This generation, they're able to accumulate way more money independently than, you know, artists like us and, you know, people
00:50:46like us and how we came up or were able to do.
00:50:50You know what I mean?
00:50:50Because you have way more opportunities now.
00:50:52Now you can be your own boss.
00:50:54You can send out your music with a click of a button.
00:50:56You don't need these big wig labels or none of that.
00:50:59You're clicking out the equation now.
00:51:01Yeah.
00:51:02One hundred percent.
00:51:03You know, sometimes I'll see once in a while young artists or new artists and they'll be like, oh, man,
00:51:08I need to sign with this one.
00:51:10I'm like, you don't need to sign to no one.
00:51:15You're still programmed from 10 years ago.
00:51:18Like, you don't need shit.
00:51:1915 years ago.
00:51:21Easy 15 years ago.
00:51:23No one needs no one but themselves unless they cut you a check for an advertisement deal or clothing, you
00:51:30know.
00:51:31The only thing that I dislike about, you know, well, I'm not going to say the only thing, but one
00:51:38of the biggest things that I dislike about this generation is, you know, back in the day when we came
00:51:44up within the early 2000s,
00:51:46you had to possess a certain level of skill to gain notoriety.
00:51:50Nowadays, you don't particularly have to be nice.
00:51:53Only thing you have to do is have a catchy beat, a melodic hook and have your 4K camera to
00:52:00put visuals out.
00:52:01Yeah.
00:52:01Or do something to go viral.
00:52:03Go viral.
00:52:04And that's it.
00:52:05Yeah.
00:52:07100%.
00:52:07We live in a shock value era right now.
00:52:10Mm-hmm.
00:52:10Talking about the internet, how do you feel about music being put out?
00:52:16It's released, right?
00:52:17Right.
00:52:17But it's only available for streaming because no one really has physical copies anymore.
00:52:21And then an artist will say, you know what?
00:52:23I don't want this no more on the internet.
00:52:25Let me take it out.
00:52:26I don't want it on the internet no more.
00:52:28Let me take it off the internet.
00:52:29For example, J. Cole, that just, removing that.
00:52:32I think it's, I think that's actually a good thing.
00:52:35You do think it's a good thing?
00:52:37Yeah.
00:52:38Okay.
00:52:39I think it's a pretty cool thing.
00:52:42You may feel like, you know what?
00:52:43At this particular time, I felt this way about this record.
00:52:46Mm-hmm.
00:52:48But now I feel differently.
00:52:50I want to go back to the home board.
00:52:52I want to do something else to the record and re-release it.
00:52:55Yeah.
00:52:56So it gives you that, you know, that option.
00:52:58Let's keep in mind, though.
00:52:59I'm saying this, but I'm not participating in that shit, though.
00:53:02I'm not going to take an open net and alter it.
00:53:04Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:53:05I'm just saying, like, for people that want to take that route, it gives them that option.
00:53:09So you're saying, shit, it's their shit.
00:53:11They should have the right to do whatever the hell they want to do with it.
00:53:14And not do it respectfully.
00:53:15Even though when you put your art out, your art is your art.
00:53:18So you can put it out to the world the way you want to put it out and the way
00:53:22you want
00:53:22it to be presented.
00:53:23So that's on you.
00:53:25You feel what I'm saying?
00:53:26So before, we didn't have that option to do that.
00:53:30Once it's out, it's just out.
00:53:32Yeah.
00:53:34I don't like it, personally, just from being a hip-hop historian guy, you know?
00:53:41Because we have to understand, man, and we have to look at things realistically for what
00:53:47they are.
00:53:47It's a different generation, man.
00:53:49We're not in the time where it was the early 2000s, where we was out there running around.
00:53:55It's different.
00:53:56It ain't like shit is totally different.
00:53:57And we have to evolve and change with the time somewhere.
00:54:00I know.
00:54:00And I try my best to.
00:54:02Like, with 38 Special, he had a song.
00:54:04I don't know if you know about it, but Dave East and him had a song.
00:54:08I think it was on Dave East's album.
00:54:09He took 38 off.
00:54:10They took 38 off of it because of the Jim Jones back and forth with 38.
00:54:15I just feel like it happened before all that happened.
00:54:19So why take him off?
00:54:21You know what I mean?
00:54:22Like, keep that stamped in the history.
00:54:23Because of his alliance.
00:54:25Because of his alliance to Jim.
00:54:27No, I get it.
00:54:29But, I mean, it happened before.
00:54:31Right?
00:54:32Yeah, but realistically speaking, even if you recorded that before, and I'm not saying
00:54:38it was the right thing to do, because I probably wouldn't have did it, but if that's your name,
00:54:44like, if you beefing with my homie, and I'm cool with you, but you beefing with my homie,
00:54:50I don't really have no alliance to you, for real, for real.
00:54:53We cool.
00:54:54Yeah.
00:54:54But I'm cool with my guy, for real.
00:54:56Yeah.
00:54:58I don't want to make it seem like, you know, I'm out here promoting you, and you're out
00:55:03here dissing my dude.
00:55:05True.
00:55:05You know what I'm saying?
00:55:06And I see you every day, and we deal with each other, and we actually have a relationship.
00:55:11So, it's like, let me just do the right thing and just remove them so my man won't feel
00:55:17away.
00:55:18Well, I'll tell you right now, that's above loyal.
00:55:20That's above loyal.
00:55:22Because if this retro blows up, I'm going to be looked at as being semi-responsible for
00:55:27giving you the lane.
00:55:29Kind of like the whole thing with Fat Joe, Jadakiss, and what's his name?
00:55:35What the hell is his name?
00:55:36Stove God Cooks, right?
00:55:38Um, he was laying down a bunch of hooks with Kool and Dre.
00:55:43They shop him around.
00:55:44Fat Joe picks up on the joint.
00:55:46He loves it.
00:55:47And then Jadakiss responds, allegedly, to 38 Spesh.
00:55:5238 Spesh and Stove God are cool.
00:55:55Then Stove God gets dissed by 38 on that joint.
00:55:59Stove Ray.
00:55:59Yeah.
00:56:00Yeah, he called us Stove Ray and the summer gym.
00:56:04Yeah, yeah.
00:56:04So, it's interesting.
00:56:06Hip-hop is still, it's just an, things are different with the internet shit now.
00:56:12You know what I mean?
00:56:13Yeah.
00:56:14You know, it's different.
00:56:17So, I'd like to hear you and 38 Spesh on a joint, too.
00:56:20That would be sick.
00:56:21Hey, I'm going to tell you something crazy, right?
00:56:23Now, I fucks with Spesh.
00:56:25I'm going to tell you some ill shit.
00:56:26Now, I never even spoke about this.
00:56:28I never told nobody this.
00:56:29So, you the first person that's getting this information, real talk.
00:56:33Before the shit went down, as far as like the, before he released the record, right?
00:56:37With him dissing Jones and throwing a little shot at Kiss.
00:56:41I had spoke this Spesh on the phone.
00:56:43We spoke on the phone probably for like a half hour and all that.
00:56:45We was talking.
00:56:46I'm not going to discuss, you know, our conversation like that.
00:56:51But we did speak on, you know, a little about the Kiss shit.
00:56:56And I asked him, I'm like, you know, that shit crazy, bro.
00:56:58You know what I mean?
00:56:58I wish y'all wasn't, you know, going at it like that.
00:57:01I wish that shit never transpired.
00:57:03And he told me, he like, yo, I didn't, it wasn't even supposed to go that far.
00:57:06You feel what I'm saying?
00:57:07Yeah.
00:57:07And I'm like, I could dig it.
00:57:09And he told me he wasn't going to make a whole track to Kiss.
00:57:12So, I knew he wasn't going to do that beforehand.
00:57:14You know what I mean?
00:57:15So, when he came out with that, you know, the diss record and he threw a line at Kiss,
00:57:20I wasn't shocked at all.
00:57:22You know what I mean?
00:57:23So, but aside from that, I'm going to tell you something crazy.
00:57:28And I haven't, and I didn't push the button on this yet.
00:57:32And I'm not even sure I should be speaking on this, but the idea of 38 Spesh,
00:57:37because, you know, he's a producer, the idea of him producing me and Shaheen's album was brought up.
00:57:46Wow.
00:57:48So, I couldn't like really give the okay on that right now because of the hype of what was going
00:57:57on between, you know, him and Kiss.
00:58:00I'm like, you know what?
00:58:01I don't want people to be like, oh, he's just trying to side with somebody that got beef with Kiss
00:58:05and all those other types of things.
00:58:07Even though I have absolutely nothing to do with him.
00:58:08Yeah, yeah.
00:58:08You're trying to heal wounds right now.
00:58:10That's going to open shit right back up.
00:58:12Yeah, you feel what I'm saying?
00:58:13Yeah, that's crazy.
00:58:14You know what?
00:58:15Even though he's a dope producer and I think that sound that he has would be great for us.
00:58:20At the same time, I'm like, let me just chill because that's, right now.
00:58:26It's hot outside with them.
00:58:28It's hot outside.
00:58:30Yeah, you feel me?
00:58:31Yeah, like, I could feel that heat, like, back in the days from what's going on.
00:58:37Even though I don't have any alliance to anybody.
00:58:42I'm not with the black no more.
00:58:44I fucks with Kiss and I fucks with Spesh.
00:58:47And I fucks with Upstate.
00:58:48That's why when I spoke, when I did any reporting or did any type of content about the situation, that's
00:58:55why I kept it neutral.
00:58:56You know what I'm saying?
00:58:57Because I fuck with Upstate and I fuck with these dudes also.
00:58:59So, I tried to stay within the medium of being neutral because I also, I lived Upstate for a significant
00:59:04amount of time, right?
00:59:05Yeah.
00:59:06I lived 15 minutes from Buffalo.
00:59:09I used to live in Niagara Falls for two years.
00:59:10Oh, wow.
00:59:11So, I was right there in the mix of all that shit.
00:59:13I was in Buffalo a lot doing features with different artists and videos and all that type of shit.
00:59:19That's crazy.
00:59:20Yeah.
00:59:21Yeah, but I see what you're saying and I think that's the right move right now.
00:59:26I mean, look, the guy you got making the beats right now for you, pretty dope, man.
00:59:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:59:32Pesci 5 is incredible.
00:59:34You got to listen.
00:59:35If you listen to Pesci 5, which just released, you're going to want to listen to it again and again.
00:59:39I promise you that.
00:59:41Right, right.
00:59:42I promise you that.
00:59:42My ears are sharp.
00:59:43I still got the hottest artists on the fucking planet hitting me up to the ones that are coming up.
00:59:49You know what I mean?
00:59:50There's a reason why.
00:59:50The problem is out right now.
00:59:51Make sure you stream and download that, man.
00:59:53It's, you know, guest appearances from Shaheen, Kid Kid, Big Twin, and, man, who else I got on there?
01:00:02Reed Dollars.
01:00:03Yeah, Reed Dollars.
01:00:04Shout out to Philly, man.
01:00:05Yeah.
01:00:06You know what I mean?
01:00:06And it's totally produced by my man Whit Beats out of France.
01:00:09France.
01:00:10So, it has that nostalgic hip-hop sound, man.
01:00:12How the hell you get up with a mother effer from France?
01:00:15Shout out to France.
01:00:16Hey, you know them overseas producers, man.
01:00:19They real, they, they, they're real hip-hop heads over there.
01:00:23They're pure, too.
01:00:24The heart is pure to this shit.
01:00:26Right.
01:00:26They really love this shit.
01:00:27So, I actually got a couple tracks from him, you know, over the, over the past couple of years.
01:00:34He'll give me like a track here, track here, and I'll put him on different projects.
01:00:37And I was like, you know what?
01:00:39Man, these beats are so gritty and so grimy.
01:00:42Let's do a whole project together.
01:00:43Let's do a whole project together.
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