Episode 494 w/ Ray Daniels

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Is it nice to meet Tim and your friends?

Hey!

This is Noo Nakame, I'm the first.

Good to see you.

Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, man.

Good to see you too.

Here's the champion of hip hop.

Iat Alabama.

Bro, how are you?'

Good to see you.

tee's.

You're right.

Yeah!

and you're not the one source for drunk facts.

You drink, chest, motherfuckin' puffs.

Where he days do you see this?

It's time for drink, champs.

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Make some noise!

I got a co-host today. Who's our co-host today?

You know, we have a co-host today, this is in RRE.

EFN?

A. A. What's up? My name is Graff, baby.

That's right.

And what's the name of the show?

Oh, the members only show.

We got the members only show.

We got the members only show.

So, this is in RRE, DJ EFN.

My name is Graff, bitch.

Bitch, we're the members only show.

Make some noise!

But this brother here that we got today, thank you.

I'm going to be honest with you, he has been our industry

insider, he has been giving you our game,

beyond game, beyond game, beyond game.

That's a fact.

I know a lot of y'all people might think,

you know, sometimes if the person is not in front

of the camera, the person thinks that the person is cat,

or they're like, oh, okay, we don't know.

I know this brother.

I know how much he's work as he put in.

I know how much the industry respects him.

So today, we are going to give this brother his flowers.

He is going to receive exactly what y'all don't know

about him in the industry.

And we are personally going to give this brother

his flowers, he deserves it, he's a legend,

he's an icon, and we're going to continue.

We're going to make sure that he gets his

fucking flowers today.

Let me get started off, get started off, get on this now.

I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know who you're holding on.

Let me continue to give you your flowers.

Right now, that's fine.

Because I know exactly who you are.

Now I look at your comments.

And I look, people was like, oh, okay.

So a lot of times people don't understand

that being in front of the camera sometimes

is not as important to being behind the camera, right?

So I created people like you, like you were behind the camera,

but you would like campaign for me being in front of the camera.

We're advocates for the artists.

Advocates for the artists.

So a lot of times when I see you, and I see you viral

like a motherfucker, and I'm looking, and I got to defend you.

Because I'm like, no, he's really.

Yeah, he's really, he's really like that.

He's really like the insider.

And a lot of people don't know that

because it wasn't cool back then to be in front of the camera.

So let's, let's take it from there.

Well, first of all, I just want to say thank you, man.

I'm going to be honest with you.

I won't say I've heard something.

So like, I don't think people understand, like number one,

I'm in a music business full time.

This podcast thing is like a side thing

that it's like a passion for me.

So when I'm out and about, and I see people,

it's always interesting.

So no bullshit, like, I read news of Virgo.

By the way, the two biggest, two of the biggest

three podcast is Virgo's pie Joe Biden and Norris.

I always like, I'm like, I'm coming.

I'm like, I see Virgo.

So I'm walking through the BTO Awards.

And I just see Norri and he stopped me like,

yo, bro, I want to make a video on my Instagram.

Like, God is real.

That's not serious.

I was like, yo, because I mean, I'm on the fly now.

I'm just going, I don't know what's going to happen.

I'm like, yo, Norri, know me.

I'm telling you, the biggest podcast you know me.

He said my name, she's real.

I just wanted you to know that.

So I got the call to do 310.

I said, I'm obvious.

I'm Valentine's Day.

I'm on my way.

This is when I know you're a warrior.

I'm sorry.

I deliberately said, this is the day before Valentine's Day.

I deliberately said that to, um, what's my man?

Big D.

You mean one of the other, the weather man.

I said, yo, this is the day before Valentine's Day.

Because me, you know, I'm scared of my wife.

I'm being honest.

I didn't like it.

And I said that, but yo, but let me just tell you something.

You have online

created a whole different, a whole different,

I don't want to say character.

Because it's who you are.

I know you say who you are.

But, um, these people follow you.

And so, so let's, let's, let's just take it from there, right?

Let's take it.

There's so many people that want to crack into this industry.

And you talk to them.

So let, let's talk about it.

Well, because when you want to be in this,

it's just like a dream, right?

I remember coming up, you know, I remember my first person

I called has gotten to me, Alan.

I remember not knowing how to ask for him.

You know, like, you know, you get to my number.

I don't know what I'm going to say.

Is this Miss Noriega?

I don't know.

I'm like, hey, it's just to me, Alan.

Like, who is this?

I saw like a bill collector.

So once I got his name and I start understanding,

it was like, David Gaffer said on his documentary,

I saw people bullshitting.

When I seen people around Tim getting money in bullshitting,

I said, I could do that, but I worked at Delta.

So I know Niggas and I'm a Niggas.

Delta, Alan.

Yes, Niggas, I worked at Delta, Alan.

By the way, a lot of Niggas have my name and a phone

as Ray from Delta for my first five years in the industry.

Okay.

Because I knew Niggas didn't want to fuck with me.

I was working at Delta.

I was working at Delta.

I used to work at Delta.

I was working at Delta.

No, I was running the bags.

Niggas, so you know when you go to Atlanta,

you go to Atlanta to Miami and you go to New York,

I was a Niggas, I got your plane and put it on Miami plane.

I was a Niggas, I was working at Delta.

You're still in Niggas' work, huh?

Yeah, no, I ain't going to lie, man.

I wasn't shit my whole life.

That's what I love the most about you.

Fair.

No, let me take you off.

That sounds crazy, but I want to tell you what I'm saying.

When I watched Noriega talk,

Noriega is just being Noriega.

Like, you became popular being yourself.

Like, we came up in the industry

where you got to talk a certain way.

You got to ask Noriega, don't do that.

And I'm watching Norie say shit, do shit.

And I'm like, and it works.

So I'm like, Niggas, we living in the new world.

It's not the old world, I'm more like,

Niggas have to leave from the front.

I remember coming up into business,

you wanted to know, Shakir Stewart,

you wanted him to know your name.

You wanted K.P. to know your name.

You wanted Chris Hicks, L.A.,

if they knew your name, that mean you could eat in this business.

Right, so we went, I remember when I came into the business

and I'm thinking, like, I'm finally in this shit.

And I walk in the room and I'm like,

I'm seeing a vice president and nobody gave a fuck.

It was like, I'm chasing artists now.

So I'm like, man, I remember chasing,

well, fuck us is in the game.

Now I'm trying to get in the game now.

They're like, yo, I'm like, yo, graph is hard.

Yeah, but EFN got the numbers.

Go get him.

But now instead of me going to graph,

well, I know I could build what I got to build with you

because you got the numbers.

So now I got to sell myself to you.

Now I feel lame.

Right.

And now I'm coming to you like, yo,

because you normally hear is like a girl that got a BBL.

What's she getting me from a BBL, nigga?

I know you on my ass now because I got a body.

Like, I know you hear now because I'm hot.

But when before that, so for me, my whole thing was,

and then I started noticing how people were just like,

making money talking about being in the business.

And I'm like, he's not in the business.

Like, though, I have the number one song

where the biggest starting to rip my part in here.

We had a number looking up APT by Bruno Mars and Rosie.

That was where my nigga, we still in this shit every day.

So I see people chose, like, I feel like a poor man.

I was like, I'm controlling traffic.

It's like the club.

When you wait outside the club, you see it.

And you know, it's a long line.

And that's a trick sometimes.

Like, hey, you'll keep the line long by your side.

So I'm the nigga walking out the club like,

hey, oh, it's empty in this shit.

It's empty in here, y'all.

They tricky y'all.

And then I realized nobody listened.

And then I was like, oh shit.

So for me, I just started like putting my shit out there.

And like I said, it was really the industry that embraced me.

I didn't know that people fucking me.

I really cared about Nory.

I really cared about Graph.

I cared about, I didn't care about regular,

no disrespect.

I didn't care about peons.

You don't understand what I'm doing.

You don't understand what's happening behind the scenes.

You're just a spectator.

So when I see Nory and he gave me props,

nigga, that shit was I made it moment.

And then he think, when I saw y'all at the EYL,

you're like, you gonna do the show?

I called Mark, I was like, they said it, man.

But I just can't understand why they want to talk to a nigga like me.

I'm, because I'm still trying to prove myself in this world.

But in the music world, when I walk into these labels,

I'm that nigga.

They can't fuck me.

And I'm a legend now, because I got black ball.

So now, people don't understand.

I got black ball.

That's why I did the podcast.

Okay.

We're getting to that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We got to out.

You usually we say, wait till the end.

Let's go on.

No, let's go right to it right now.

Okay, so, so, so, 2000 is for number one.

I'm the number one nigga in the game.

I'm the number one nigga at my label.

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I got all the hits.

What do we talk about?

Warner Records.

Okay.

I turned in Sweetie Records tap in

and Sweetie Records best friend is still hers.

I signed Emily Chopper.

I signed this kid named Rembo from the West Coast

that was making a lot of noise.

And I was like the guy.

And then all of a sudden, the pandemic happens

and then the CEO does this thing

where he does like an emergency call

and then the music business,

they don't make any noise.

Aaron Beisha, he's a CEO,

so he does a call.

Like everybody get on the call right now.

15 minutes, I'm thinking when I artist got cute.

I'm like, nigga.

Now I'm thinking like somebody is about to be,

I'm like that to begin on, he was like,

just want to check on the black folks

from the George Floyd thing.

And I'm like, what the fuck is this?

And then he goes like any black people on the call

want to speak up about their struggles.

And it was like 300 of us.

Everybody was quiet.

So this is my friend.

At least I'm thinking we friends.

I wrote them a letter.

Like, yo, it's hard being black in this shit.

I know what you're trying to do,

but it's hard being one of us.

So none of us are going to talk up

and I wrote the letter and basically,

I sent it to another black person at the company.

Like, yo, I think this would be good for us

all to put our name on it.

He was like, you on your own.

By the way, he's still got his job.

So he was smarter, right?

So I wrote the letter and then I sent it to Aaron.

I didn't send it to him because the lawyer was like,

it's a bad move.

So I sent it to Larry Jackson.

Shout out to Larry Jackson for a mega.

That, forget it.

We took my, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm,

I'm Jackson.

Yeah.

So I sent it to Larry and Larry called me like,

yo, Ray, this letter changed my life.

I'm like, really?

And then he said,

Yeah.

Because he said that he sent it to,

he had a deal on the table.

A whole lot of money Apple's supposed to be giving him.

He sent my letter to the guy at Top Guy

and they signed it that day.

Mm.

That's just up.

They signed it that day.

So he sent it.

Thank you.

So they signed it that day.

So now Larry is like, yo, I sent it to this lady

at Billboard.

They want to put on a cover billboard.

I'm like, I don't do a fuck.

I'm a nigga in Atlanta, but I'm free.

It's like being a Latino in Miami.

Like, you can't fuck with me in Atlanta.

I'm an insulator.

You can't get to me, nigga.

So I'm not afraid of white people like most people are.

Like, I'm just unafraid of white folks.

So she was like, I don't want to put your name on this.

I'm going to put your name on this

because I'm afraid, you know, they're going to come after you.

And I'm like, who's going to come after me?

I'm telling the truth.

I'm just telling the black experience.

So I put the letter out.

It's changed my life.

It changed my whole career.

I'm learning the number one God now.

When you say put the letter out, what should I mean?

Put it on the cover billboard magazine.

It goes viral, but it's anonymous, right?

She didn't want to put my name.

That's why I put God.

She said, I don't want to put your name on it

because I'm afraid people are going to come after you.

And I'm like, nigga, I'm not afraid of nobody.

I'm, everything I do is with a good heart.

I might not always do the right thing at that time,

but my heart was in the best place.

Right.

You stand behind it.

So I wrote the letter when our anonymous, it goes crazy.

It's like, they wrote a dear white there.

It was called dear white execs.

They wrote a dear white exec for the Disney company.

It was like, all these black people were speaking up.

So now here's what I want to tell everybody in the world

because this is the lesson I learned

because I'm a real name.

Number one, I wrote the letter in all my white friends.

Every white person I knew in the music industry,

because I was on fire when I stepped out and said I did it.

They called me and said, they're going to ask you for something.

They're going to ask you what you want.

Get paid.

All my niggas, my friends and black friends

are calling me like, yo, thank you, bro.

That was some hero shit you did.

So now I get on the call with Aaron and the guy,

the other guy Tom, and they're like, what do you want?

And I said nothing, man, I just want to,

I didn't write them.

That wasn't your intention.

My intention, that's why I'm okay with the outcome,

but my intent wasn't that.

So they was like, what do you want?

I was like, I just want y'all to know

how this will work for black people.

Right.

And then basically, now this is when they did me dirty.

This basically what happens is in the music business

when you're in the contract, anybody knows this.

They give you six months.

So if Nory is my senior vice president,

I know I'm not going to sign Nory.

I'm going to let Nory and his lawyer know six months out.

You know, I ain't getting new contract, bro.

Take the next six months, go find some work.

That's not what they did to me.

They called me, yo, don't go nowhere.

You the best guy we got?

I know I am, so I'm going to believe in them.

They called my lawyer.

Where is our guy?

And what they was doing, they was lullabying me to death

to get to the second two days before my contract was up.

I'm waiting on a new contract, thinking I'm still working.

Two days before my contract,

they was like, nothing's coming.

They got, I went home.

That's why I love Kanye so much.

I went home and I cried every day listening

to the Donda album, because I couldn't believe

that I put my, I don't, I'm already good, bro.

I didn't need to write that letter,

but I also felt like it needed to be said.

So once I saw that play out, I was like,

I don't think about it in my business now.

Now, I don't have a job.

So what I got to do?

Call Nick is normal.

I need a job.

What are you going to say?

What happened to you?

So now I got to explain myself.

They put me on my heels.

So I said, I'm smarter than every nigga over there.

I'm better than every animal.

And I know how to talk.

So somebody asked me a question.

That's how I'm going to get my next job.

That was literally it, your graph.

Ask me a question.

Yo, Ray, what's the difficulty of managing the investor?

Ask me, I answer, put that out.

I'm hoping to get a job.

Nigga, I'm not even next.

That's when you acknowledge me.

I'm like, I'm not, they all don't understand.

I'm really trying to still go run a company right now.

And that's what I'm really made to do.

But I start talking online and all of a sudden puff posted my shit.

And it just changed everything for me.

Puff posted me and just left me on his page for three days.

It shot them for that.

I know people like to kill people when they down.

But I'm always shouting, nigga, I off the chain.

I'm always representing nigga that did something for me.

So I'm puff posting me.

That's when it kind of getting hot.

But nigga, I'm still in the music business full time.

So I don't even know what I'm really doing on a podcast space.

That's why I was like, when Nory recognized me,

I'm like, maybe this God telling me.

Yes.

Nigga, that shit you're doing is working.

That really caused me.

Yo, that shit you do.

But for me, it was weird.

Cause I'm like, that's like a nigga playing basketball

his whole career.

He the number one nigga, now he's trying baseball.

And everybody like, you're doing good over there.

I'm like, nigga, I'm trying to.

I'm trying to get paid to play a sport though.

No, you look good right there swinging that bat.

That's going to make your sport.

So it's always been that.

So when I see people like Nory, when Joe Biden,

people like Walo that actually kept like, I know you.

That shit made me feel, that shit is like all I need it from God.

I don't even lie to you.

I'm on that.

And I wanted to say that to you off because we all super heroes

but sometimes we don't know.

Nory just being Nory.

Yo, I know you.

He don't know.

He made, he confirmed what God needed me to hear that one.

And I'm on the right path.

But you are.

Thank you, brother.

You are.

So I just want to say that.

So that's when I start talking online.

And I was just talking to hopefully get a job.

Cause I'm the best at doing that.

But it's like, they were scared of me.

Nobody called me.

But I still got more records.

I still got more hits.

I and that nigga right there,

Tehran Thomas have more hits than everybody on the one

of staff has asked us, I laugh.

There you go.

That's great.

And I just want to send it on red.

And I'm not saying to be disrespectful.

I'm saying to the thing you would think they would call us.

They don't.

Right.

They rather fuck with the people who's easy.

So let me ask you real quick.

I'm real.

Do you really, really, really think that rock nation?

Ha, ha, ha, let's go.

Went to Joey crack and said shit on Jay Cole.

No, you think that?

This is what I think happened.

I do podcasts.

I think Joey.

I think we all talk, you know, like, camera's not rolling.

We talk about ideas.

The camera's rolling.

Well, I'm saying, they're not before they roll.

I'm saying, all camera things are like, yo, before I talk about it.

I was trying to talk about it.

And I was saying, yo, saying something like, y'all really,

like I really want to get that cold, man.

But I know he family.

You know what I'm saying?

So I might chill.

Like I said, I'm saying nah.

He ain't family like that.

No more release it.

And put it in it.

Cause of Joe said, I need that 100 million.

Now, my mind, you know this, Nory, Nory, you know, you go to that place and I like you,

not me, not you, but me, you, you and DJ is different.

They want to talk to you, but you and me, we have to go, we have to get in the room.

Yo, service is this.

So when you go and you, when Fat Joe says, I don't fuck with Jay Cole rather than I fuck

with him.

Fat Joe is picking Fat Joe to podcast.

He's not thinking like Fat Joe to, cause Fat Joe to artists will want to record with

Cole.

But Fat Joe to, so he picked the podcast.

So I'm like, you know, by the way, I think he's amazing.

I think he's, he's going to be so big at it.

But I do believe that somebody said, you should, I think you should, cause I say shit

out loud.

And then it's like, I don't think you should say that.

Or I think you should.

You want me to be honest?

Tell me.

Jay Cole and Kendrick could have left to some life death.

Right.

Right.

Life, life, death, like, like, between Cole and Kendrick, I don't think that would have gotten

that far.

Not between them too.

EFN.

I don't know.

I don't think Kendrick, but you're making my point.

What I'm trying to say is.

It's the people that stand behind them.

That's right.

That's what I'm trying to say is, it's never them.

That's all you have about to say to them.

It's the people that stand behind them.

That's right.

That's what I'm saying.

And the people that stand behind them want to make a point.

No, that's true.

And they will kill two-porks murderers and Big E's murderers wasn't biggie.

It was the people that were standing next to him.

I was trying to prove to themselves.

So when Jay Cole did that, me as a black man,

As an artist, I said, no, no, that's terrible, got you, but as a black man that's understood

and understands what's going on in society, that understands that I agree with Jacob, bro.

I did.

I was like, yo, he took a stance.

Is it popular?

No, it's not popular.

No, but was two pox popular, was, was, was, was, was biggie, like I know, I know all

of these guys, right, from biggie and two pox murder, I know one more, right.

I get it.

That's real shit.

So, I understand Jacob's, but back to the joke part of it, though, about him on the

podcast.

But even then, like, even then, like, the way Joe spoke about Jay Cole was like, he was

a bad artist, that's what I'm saying, and so, so him, he was looking at, so him, he

got right, right.

As in the terms of hip hop and the culture and battle wrapping, yeah, he didn't do the

right thing, but as a black man, if he wanted to protect himself or Kendrick, because where

could it go, I get it.

As a black man.

I want to say this.

Does MC, you call my name, I'm ripping your fucking head off.

But guess what?

Guess what?

As an MC, I'm a street nigga, I'm really, really, really, really.

You know, you don't claim no motherfucking nationality.

Right, right, right.

That's it.

That's the fact.

That's true.

So, that, that's it.

But, if you really, I know, I'm sorry, if you really appreciate being who we are and

know where it can lead to.

How about to say that.

Yeah, you got to be prepared for where it could go

because they can always go left.

And to say the truth, the most likely event

because we got such big egos

and we so sensitive about our art,

it most likely, it will go left.

You got to be prepared for that.

Yeah, go, go left.

Like, so much.

So I was going, he stepped out of the way.

He probably knew, like, I want to go back to LA

and whatever the fuck he did, I'm going to go back down, like.

Or he probably just knew, I'm like,

I don't need to be one of the drama,

because I don't need it.

But, right, like, nobody wants drama, it's stressful.

You don't choose drama just unless you just

out of your fucking mind.

But if it come, and you ready to handle the situation,

it's like MC in him was ready to do some MC hip-hop shit.

But then he saw what it was going.

And like, he ran his car, man.

He's like, let's get this car out.

And then I'm with him, because I'm not battling nobody.

Like, if me and Grav got problem, I want to call him.

What if he say something?

Like, that's how you really felt?

Right, right.

And I'm going to throw this guy in the big trash, nigga.

I'm going to out to Hollywood.

I'm just too real for human being.

I mean, I'm just like, yo, that's why I feel, Jay Cole,

because I really think that Drake and Kendrick

was doing this on some fun play shit.

Like, let's do it for the culture.

And it got ugly.

I don't know.

No, I was with the phone.

I didn't lie.

No, I don't think that was a phone.

That was Jason.

He was like, he was like, you're a girl.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

I don't think that they thought it was going to go that far.

It was friendly.

I think they were ready for it to go that far.

As an MC, it's never friendly.

It's rumored.

Never friendly.

No, you're correct, too.

You're not wrong.

But you're not wrong.

But what I'm saying is as there was friends,

right?

That shit was bubbling as they were.

Yeah, it was bubbling for a minute.

But that's my thing.

But they never said it.

Right?

That's what I mean.

That's what I mean.

That's what I mean.

That's what I mean.

That's what I mean.

That's what I mean.

That's what I mean.

To everyone who fought on the fucking BTA world was an

Injury.

Or a high-five.

연ful fishing or something like that.

I don't know, I'm not going to be died.

Let me play if I got you that is the MC rubber.

And that MC world.

Yeah.

He barged different than regular people.

I don't think you talk about nobody.

Even when he saidHigh

They know they talking in code to each other.

That's my point.

So they was taking shots from me.

I want that.

I want that.

Can you say some shit?

I can't forgive you for shit.

I was having a break.

I can't.

Let me go.

Go on the shit, bro.

Let me take a step.

Let me go.

Let me say one thing.

I respect every move that you made.

And let me just say this.

This is me.

Y'all can refute me.

I knew when he engaged into the battle.

And then I knew when he got out of the battle.

When he got out of the battle was I did see, you know,

the Luxor hotel with Tupac.

Troll wall.

And I saw that.

And for that, you know, Tupac, that was September 3rd.

I'm born September 6th.

I always look at that, like a downfall for hip hop.

Hip hop hasn't recovered since.

We have not recovered since.

And hasn't learned to listen.

And hip hop has recovered since the Drake Hendrick thing,

either.

Like we can't, like we are not in a place like hip hop is

in the worst place ever because of the Giants fought each other.

Yes.

Giants usually have, it's like, you know what they are.

Let me tell you what they are.

Correct.

They are rolling loud.

Friday night, cold, Saturday night, Drake, Sunday night,

Kendrick.

Think about that.

That means that every at the top, you know the little names

under all those little names benefited from that day.

Right.

Because I'm on the same ticket as Kendrick.

We don't have none of that shit no more.

So on my opinion, I think that, like, I think that it was

planned.

They thought I was like, do it for the culture.

They grew up in hip hop different.

I'm 46.

So I was 16 when I got down.

So I grew up knowing how serious.

I remember watching the social wars when Drake said it.

So I think that they got to this place where he's like, you know,

let's do it for the culture.

Like those other guys there were friends with the first,

what's the worst that could happen?

I don't think, I don't think that's the way.

I personally don't believe that.

Let me tell you what I'll think.

As a rapper.

It's really like, I'm on this side.

And y'all.

That's it.

That's it.

That's it.

That's it.

That's it.

I would like it to be that.

Let me tell you because I'm an MC and a street guy, right?

So I look at it in two ways.

I understand why Jayco did what he did.

And I actually, I was sort of my man instead of the day.

The street part of my brain.

I wish that Drake did that in the beginning too.

I was the first say that because I was like, when you battle with somebody, right?

Let me tell you what, let me tell you what.

When you battle with somebody in the hip-hop show, right?

We street niggas.

So we know it can always go left and most likely it will.

Yeah.

You got to look at this scenario and say, is this rap?

No.

Is this street?

Yes.

If it goes too far, can I handle it?

Am I ready for what comes after this verse out?

If you know in the back of your mind, it's a fight that you might not win.

Or you don't really want to engage in.

You got to play chess and figure out a slick way to get out of that shit.

If you're not ready for that smoke, because shit could get physical.

So I'm asking you this.

That's why I look at it different.

Like, I'm going to go there.

I'm ready to go all the way.

Say me and tell me, you know what I'm saying?

The way Drake's taking it.

Like the seriousness to lawsuit.

You think in his mind, he knew he was going to do all that going.

I don't think he thought that.

He thought he was going to win.

But he didn't know about it.

But when you go into a battle, now you got to think about how far I'm willing to go.

That's why we're holding on.

That's what I'm not.

And he said, Carmen, that was an ill.

You went too far saying somebody named, bro, like it.

It was like, you were throwing the rules.

I don't think there's no rules in war.

Because you were MC.

But you were MC.

I'm bad at you.

And I smashed your baby, mom.

That's the first one.

I'm out.

But you are going to get killed by the code that you understand.

You are going to see him wrong.

You can't battle.

You're wrong.

You think so?

Yeah.

Yeah, because in the art of battle, it should be art.

But there's no rules in war.

There's no rules in battle.

There's no MCs.

And then there's the artist that engage in battling.

That's two different worlds.

Yeah.

That's what I'm talking about.

They don't understand the rules.

That's true.

When it's a street, when it can get street and it most likely will, the rules are gone.

All these rules, there's no woman in kids in terms of physical shit.

Okay.

But the real reason.

But if I'm battling you.

And I smashed it, baby, mom.

Yeah.

But it's going in the first floor.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But we started with that.

We had Irvigadi.

I love not Irvigadi.

One man was sitting.

The first four seconds he would say it was like, I was wrong.

But he's talking about that's not a battle rap.

No, that's not what you actually did.

I was talking about battle rap.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

This is the battle rap.

No, no, no.

I was like, okay, let me tell you.

I was like, okay, let me tell you what I say is not like that.

You're making it about, so let me tell you something.

When you fuck somebody, that's a secret.

No matter what happens.

We fucking, that's a secret.

Like, if I see my fuck then before, like 20 years ago, I'm like, we got a secret together.

We ain't going to tell nobody.

So Jay, I think with the nice thing, the reason everybody was mad, because he violated him

and her relationship.

Well, I agree with that point.

That's what I'm saying.

That's what I'm saying.

But as a human nigga, it's like, we learn our lessons.

I don't, I'm just saying, I don't think, like the big and pop thing, nothing is hate.

They was real war.

It's my kill each other.

That's what that was.

I think we need that when it's a battle.

They was like, let's do it for the culture.

I think Cole probably got word that, man.

I think Cole probably got word that it was going to go a little deeper.

It was like, you know what?

Both of y'all niggas are my friends.

I'm a chill and he chill.

Yeah, I like to think like this.

I think Cole probably chill.

This is my opinion, because I know it's not like I spoke about it.

But I think he chill because he realized what could.

You were at the cases of it, bro.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And the stress that in general brings.

It's a nobody wants.

I don't think that was beef though.

I thought that was a battle.

It was a battle.

It wasn't beef.

It was a battle.

He's a way could go.

We could go.

I grew with him again.

I don't think it was beef.

But we could go.

You know what I mean?

We could go is.

That's what I mean.

I think he saw where like this can get ugly.

And I don't want that.

I'm friends with this man in real life.

I don't want it to go.

We could go.

And it might go.

He might know what he's been.

He was in the right.

He was like, dang what the sun stayed his back.

I gotta pay this back.

They could go left.

I mean, in two seconds.

It almost felt like two artists that grew up seeing what happened

the big and pock.

Right.

And said we could take it that far.

But not that far.

Exactly.

Like hopefully they don't want that learned the lesson.

And I think that they probably said we ain't going to hurt each other.

But I might say some motherfucking words you ain't going to like today.

Right.

And when he says pet a foul, the drink is like, hold on bro.

We went too fucking far now.

We probably friends.

That's that.

That is no longer a joke.

No longer joking on me bro.

You went too far by calling me.

That is different.

And he said, I'm not your fucking friend anymore.

And that's what happened.

I'm a pseudo-diversal because y'all don't let them say this pet.

Like he don't understand.

It was a joke.

No.

It was just how we talk in the streets.

In the rules of war.

No.

But didn't start when he said he beat us.

You know what I mean?

I'm trying to tell you.

Yo, the battle rap brain.

There's no rules in war.

Niggas is not playing nice.

And then.

Look at that.

And if I was about to tell him, he's missing his drake nor Kendrick nor Jay

called a battle rapist.

Right.

They are artists.

That can really wrap.

And they saw who they are.

No, they are.

No, they are.

It is impossible for us to be a battle rapist.

But wait, he got hit right now.

He started it all about the battle rapist.

Wait, exactly right now, he not a battle rapist.

Well, it hit the most damn thing.

That's not personal.

That's not battle rap.

Battle rap is, you trust me, I'ma fuck you up.

You can say whatever you want.

Say whatever you want.

I'm a care.

But this nigga's taking it personal.

I'm telling you.

He's taking it personal because that was really his friend.

And he was like, bro, if you took a two fucking far man.

He's like, I need you.

I got to need you.

I need you.

I got to need you.

I need you.

I need you.

And I need you.

I got to be honest with you.

I got to be honest with you, man.

That's not what they taught!

No, they thought you were Chet, bro.

Yes, you're Chet, you're right.

Listen to that.

Listen to that.

I'm Drick and it keeps saying something.

Let's kick it in.

I'm like businesslike shit right now.

I'm telling y'all I'm asking you shit right now.

The drink is in.

No, no.

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I love Drake and Kendrick's battle.

Me too.

Me too.

This is my, have been the best battle.

It was a good, yeah, period, period.

Both kept it thorough.

Yeah.

Especially when they were going back and forth, dropping songs by the hour, I was like,

this shit.

Bro, that was the peak hip-hop.

That was in the end.

It was like, dude, that is a rock.

And the first battle that we saw on social media as well in the real time.

I'm in Vegas for my birthday.

I'm in Vegas for my birthday, and my son calls me, it's 12, it's 9 o'clock on time.

He's 16.

Dad, you were here Drake.

Drake just dropped, because my son is a Drake.

Stan.

He likes you.

You can't tell him shit.

He thinks Drake is gone.

He's like, you're here to record Drake drop.

And I'm like, you need some blackness in your son.

You're like, dude, my son doesn't like you.

You're dead.

You're a little nigga in your son.

He's like, nah.

By the way, my son took that shit personal.

People really took it personal when Drake lost the battle.

Like, my son really, they ain't got over that shit.

But that was the peak.

That was the moment.

It was a Saturday.

Ethan, it was a fucking Saturday.

I'm on a night.

I'm eating dinner.

I'm not sure if he was there.

We can't say Drake lost the battle.

He's to eat his own.

I mean, right?

Nah, nah, nah.

Yeah, fuck.

Nah, nah, nah.

Yeah, fuck.

Nah, nah, nah.

I'm a straight man.

He lost that shit though, go on.

Let's take it back.

And then again straight.

Let's do it again.

As soon as I heard, they not like us.

Let me take what's crazy.

It just goes back to my statement about rules and war.

When I first heard they not like us, right?

Check it.

I heard what he was doing.

Besides the pedophile shit.

That stood out the most to everybody else.

Yeah.

Me and the street nigga.

I heard him turning cally against the nigga.

And Atlanta.

I said, look at this.

I said, you let him turn Atlanta.

Check it.

Check it.

Check it.

Check it.

Check it.

Check it.

It is important.

You let him turn the battle from Drake first Kendrick

to Drake versus cally.

I was like, my nigga.

If I was you when I heard this song, I would probably make a video

talking like, I fuck with cally.

I didn't say fucking with boy.

Let's not let's not.

I don't want to lose a state.

I'm battling a dude, a rapper.

Not a state.

He.

That was a chess move.

He took his whole state with you.

He.

He turned Atlanta on you.

He called names.

Right.

Like he.

Like that was.

That's why I said.

That was so many chess moves.

That was a chess move.

I see him.

That was like.

Even the United States against Kendrick.

I know.

I know.

That was such a chess move.

I'm like, bro, you know what you're doing?

I have a community artist signed to me.

When he was in Atlanta with me when this shit was like, I swear to

got here in the car.

Me 11-11.

My artist.

He's like, yo, bro.

He beat a nigga up in the club that night.

We was in front of the club.

I'm like, my girl right there.

He beat a nigga in the club up because he was like, I'm tired of

people thinking Toronto's soft, bro.

I'm like, no.

Nobody thinks Toronto's soft.

But let me just say this.

Drake, you should have known better.

I got so many for Cardinal officials.

My brother.

All my native friends are nice ass guys that I would let stay in my

house.

They could bring their kids there in my house.

Callin' niggas do burpees on a fucking block.

They fucking.

It's all they do, bro.

You shouldn't have battled them, bro.

Like it's all the things like.

And by the way, I personally think Drake has a better catalog

than Kendrick.

I think Kendrick is more gifted as an artist.

But I listen to Drake music more.

So I'm more of a Drake fan.

But I respect what Kendrick does.

I'm a Drake fan.

I'm like, yo, I don't think you should fight.

I don't think you should do that, bro.

Plus, you got to go to Canada.

Right.

You got to go to LA.

You get your money in LA.

He don't get no money in Canada.

That's what I meant by that.

When y'all land, when y'all land on a plane, don't think that

niggas don't got niggas at TSA.

Like, yo, such a such.

Just land from Drake crew.

Niggas, it's LA.

They got a whole network out there.

They three hours behind us.

That's what I mean.

They can't capture nothing.

There's no rules in war.

If you think like that, if he was thinking like that in the beginning,

he'd be like, I'm not going to entertain this battle because I got to go to Cali.

Unless you want to go to war, you got to think all the way left.

You can't just be like, oh, it's a battle with friends.

Nah, fuck all that.

We flew in the street.

He could have battle by ignoring and just putting out a hit record.

Oh, oh, you get it back.

You're going to burn it.

He heard the big three lines said, it's not good enough.

Come harder.

And it's left like that.

Then it went away.

You would have still been a niggum.

Yeah.

You're going to play chess back.

He outsmarted you.

And hip hop has, we appreciate that they engage each other.

I'm going to talk to you later.

You said there was nothing positive.

I think one of the main positive things that came out of his head,

hip hop, the youth, they engaged in lyrics again.

They were picking apart the lyrics.

Cyphering them.

Yes.

I love that as an older hip hop.

I'm like, yo, we're doing what we was doing.

You know what I'm saying?

I hadn't seen that in a long time.

And then after they dropped, think about it.

Think about it.

When have we had anything good?

The last thing exciting to hip hop, Cole just dropped out.

He about to do 300,000 plus.

We ain't, we've been having niggas do.

Yes, we've been having niggas do under 100,000 stars right now.

So to me, we kind of tricked ourselves out our position if you ask me.

Like hip hop got to stop being so competitive.

We got to start being a little bit more collaborative like pop artists.

Absolutely.

But hip hop is competitive.

I mean, I don't just say anything about it.

He hit that.

No, how should we think?

It's like black folks.

When we walk into the room, we try to figure out how to take each other out.

We try to figure out, like, we don't need each other.

And what I'm telling you is that we got to start thinking more group economics, more group.

Like, nigga, I say good shit about everybody.

Even now, I don't think I said none.

People talk about how controversial.

I don't think I'm saying that I'm controversial.

I'm thinking I'm saying what I see as a coach.

Like, like, that Joe said, yo, I want to 100 million fucking Jake.

And I was like, I wish you didn't say that.

Right.

I'm listening, nigga.

I just heard you saying, you basically said, I want to 100 million.

So fucking another artist, a fellow artist.

Right.

That can go against you as a podcast.

But he's showing us where his head is at.

And I think he should be there because he's just as good.

It's not better as a podcast than me.

It's just an artist.

Right.

And by the way, we fight for the record.

We asked that Joe last single with a need on DJ Khaled.

That's so.

I bet that Joe didn't know that.

That that was on the phone with his people working out the splits last year when he dropped

the record.

Turon wrote that shit.

That's the song.

So I want to see everybody win.

But you got to ask Turon.

Like, when I'm in the room, Nory, I asked, I remember this.

I'm gonna say this.

I never said this on record.

I remember being in the room with no ID and Cardinal Fisher.

And Drake just dropped.

And I was like, gone.

I'm like, this thing is going to be the biggest artist in the world.

And I was like, he just dropped.

One, I'm like, nigga.

He had a cheat code.

He's a beige.

I'm raising beige kids.

My nigga.

So you.

Your kids ain't got all your kids.

I can't.

My kids are beige.

They're a little bit of black, a little bit of white.

My daughter is nine.

She's a K-pop demon hunter.

She's beige.

We raise a beige kid.

So I'm looking at Drake.

I'm like, you have Jewish.

You have black.

You're dasif from the States.

Nigga, you can do anything.

Drake can do one.

You can do anything.

You can do anything.

You can do anything.

You can do anything.

You can do anything.

You can do anything.

You can do anything.

Drake can do one dance.

You literally had nothing to stand in front of you in the world

in your face.

But hip-hop caught you.

The culture caught you.

And I wish I was in the room as American and say, we don't need that shit.

What's the worst?

Let's look at the best thing that happened in the worst.

Right.

Okay.

Do we think you're going to get more popular after this battle?

I'm a little white girl.

I love you.

Don't give a fuck about Kendrick.

They don't give a fuck about what he's saying.

You give it his worst powers.

That's what I can.

That's what I can do.

That's what I can do.

You know me.

Ardits called me.

Everybody calls me for information.

Like, you know, Ray, what should I do with this, my scenario?

I wish you would call me.

I would tell him, hey, bro, number one Kendrick.

I think Kendrick can beat you, because he play, he's going to play dirty and then you, you're

Canadian.

You're going to play clean.

Then niggas is going to play dirty.

Right.

So, niggas don't battle the niggas.

And Kendrick might be a good kid, but he's a good kid from what?

Y'all a mad sitting.

That's right.

The mad niggas is around and like, let me, and you got to think about this.

You were nigga that ain't been cool with a nigga.

I think about this, if you were a nigga,

that ain't been cool with Kendrick,

because you don't answer your phone,

because you begged him for $5,000 six months ago.

And you need another end.

And you heard it, over your niggas somewhere,

I might just go take that change,

just to show Kendrick, you don't look bro,

I'm still cool with you.

That's why you got to think,

I'm thinking like a war fucking ungenerable.

But that's what I'm gonna say.

That's what I'm gonna say, it's war.

But that's why you see the points you made when you said to him,

if you was cool and you would have said,

what do you gain from this battle?

That's what I would have said to respect.

Respect.

Yeah, it's respect, but look,

if let's say Drake won,

he probably would have Beef and Cali.

So are you winning?

Yeah, you don't win.

Are you actually winning?

Are you winning? You lose.

Listen, he was on a double,

like a back-to-back tall.

You were already won.

I want to tell you something.

You ain't got to celebrate that shit,

and he jumped in his back.

I want to tell you something.

So if I look at it,

I want to tell you something,

see you in the colds,

let me ask you a question, Graham.

Love just being honest with you,

my whole thing is, is that,

is, I forgot my question, nigga, I'm high.

That's all right.

You already got my question.

Hey, I've got my question.

Y'all think it's over here.

Think I'll wrap it real.

Think I'll wrap it real.

I'm a fucking rapper, y'all.

Just think what I'm normally doing.

Leave me the fuck alone.

Right?

You're fucking like rattling.

You're like, are we filming yet?

That's hilarious.

Bro, I really want to give you your flowers, bro.

Thank you, bro.

Because you know why?

There's a lot of people who don't understand

what you've been doing this industry.

Bro, I sorry.

Thank you.

Let me give you your flowers.

Let me give you your flowers.

Oh, my flowers.

Yeah, right.

I'm sorry.

I know who you are.

I know, and,

I know the fact that you know a lot more

that you even don't put out.

Don't put out.

Don't put out.

I know this.

And,

I would be remorse.

I would be a fake person to not say,

like, I always wanted to give you a flower.

Thank you.

I always wanted to tell you how much the app,

because you know why?

In the industry, we need to give people flowers

that's behind the scenes.

For sure.

I was like, you said that.

You know, it's so many times that it's people

that don't get, you know what I'm saying?

They're over there.

And there's people like you.

You know the industry.

Yeah.

Right.

So, I don't agree with every single thing you say.

But I agree with 99% of the situation.

Thank you, bro.

I appreciate you, bro.

And by the way, thank you for real.

And, and I'm sitting there, and I'm liking your likes.

But then I have to say to myself,

and I've got to say, man,

I can't like it's like secretly.

I have to do this.

Probably.

That's real shit.

So, that's the reason why I wanted you to be here.

Because I really want you to know,

like, you're the secret beliefs of the industry.

Thank you.

Like, there's so many people that's like him.

Right.

That is amongst the industry.

Because the industry has nothing to do

with the people that's in front of the camera, bro.

Right.

That's the fact.

It's mostly the rays of the bit

as they really make you tremble.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm on the number one hip-hop podcast

in the world where I'm going to say this is important

for Black men to listen.

All men.

Minority men too.

The number one thing holds us all back from being great.

It's the words emotional discipline.

That's the fact.

You have to be emotionally disciplined in this world

to be successful as a Black man.

That's why I'm just looking like this.

When we in the club and we all Black,

we all been in the club and when a fight break out in the club,

you as if a nigga is asked,

what are you going to do?

You know what I'm trying to do?

Yeah.

You see, bar fights all the time.

White men just walk out there,

eyes bloody and like, oh, he got me that day.

But they have the emotional discipline to understand,

if I go to the car and do something,

this might end my life.

Right.

If I do something stupid and to me,

that's the one thing holding us back.

Even me, like, I've never said the story

of being Black ball until now.

I was waiting to get on the biggest

motherfucking platform to say their names, nigga.

Right.

I want y'all to be scared when y'all see,

because you know why?

They don't expect that they see a nigga like me

and they count niggas like me out.

Like, what a nigga gonna go?

Nigga, I'm from this shit, bro.

Right.

I never had a teacher, my nigga.

I learned everything watching.

I learned everything, nigga.

I learned everything watching.

So for me, you know, when I saw this shit,

I was waiting to get on here to say what I was thinking.

To say, yeah, they're Black ball.

I've never said I was Black ball, but I was.

Right.

And nigga, they can't Black ball greatness, nigga.

That's a fact.

I'm telling everybody, instead of worry about what they think about you,

focus on being fucking great.

That's it, yeah.

Yeah, stop greatness.

You can stop a nigga that's trying, though.

Right.

But nigga, greatness.

We seen that.

I'm a nicks man.

I'm a new y'all, nicks man.

I see my vagina kick.

We kicked that out.

I cry every time we lost.

I know you, when you see greatness,

sometimes you got to just fold to it.

I got to apologize for everybody else's watching this.

And when you say you a nicks man,

that means you bring some shit.

Not proud.

I'm gonna tell you something.

I'm gonna tell you something.

I said, can you have a nicks man.

You band losers.

Shit.

The nicks taught me about love.

The nicks taught me what love is.

As a nicks man, I'm not lying to you bro,

I've said 100 times, like every time the season starts,

fuck these niggas.

Man, fuck these niggas.

I'm so tired these niggas.

I don't want to watch the,

I want to be a Lego fan.

I want to go for the fucking champions.

And then I see a nika trying, running a ball.

Stop it.

Keep going.

I'm gonna keep, I'm gonnacent.

I a lot of niggas, bad-can't help it.

I can't help it.

That's the only thing I check from New York.

I built a $60,000 New York basketball court at my crib.

They got, I love the nicks, bro.

I can't help it.

I was a kid.

I love them.

That's all I had in New York as a kid was the nicks.

Right, right.

I don't fucking touch football on the parks.

I think I touched a nigga New York on the park tag.

Let me make it your ass kill.

That's what we play, though.

So, yeah.

So, I learned a lot of love.

I looked a lot about love from the nicks,

because every year I share from them.

But we good this year.

So, hopefully we go far.

Yeah, get off to the fucking nicks.

Let's go.

Let's back.

We have to reply.

But we cool with that.

I'm going to use the mic.

No, no, no, no.

Go on my M.

He.

Only one nigga clapped with you.

Yeah.

And my M.

Yeah.

But yeah, I just say, my greatness is, so for me,

I'll just focus on the greatness, bro.

And that's what I look at this year.

So, even when I talk like, and I've said things that I regret,

I've said things that I know.

I only said one thing I regret.

And that was about it, Shanti.

I didn't like that one, because they edited it up.

Well, we were talking about Irv Gotti.

And basically,

when people don't understand about me is that I'm a nigga.

I'm a real nigga.

So I talked like a real nigga.

So they said,

why do you think a Shanti got to Irv Gotti?

The way she did.

Like Irv, Irv is that nigga.

He was that nigga.

He had all the bitches.

Why did that one get to him?

That's what they asked me.

And I said,

because he gave her his one cheat code.

I got one cheat code.

I know I'm a Mary one motherfucker.

I'm a Mary.

I'm a Mary.

I'm going to take somebody to do the Mary process.

I'm going to give him a remix.

And he picked the Shanti.

And she stayed lower to him in his eyes.

So that's what made him hurt.

But it came off.

And he gave her the biggest cheat code of all time.

So it came off.

Like I was disrespecting her.

But I wasn't.

I was really saying,

you're not as a nigga graph.

You're like, yo,

somebody tell Nora, yo,

I got an opportunity for something.

I'm a female artist.

It's like, I'm a give it to who I want to.

If you give it to somebody,

and they don't repay you,

that shit hurts you more than anybody.

Because Irv couldn't create another Shanti.

Because if he could, he would have.

Right.

My only chance to create a Shanti was with you.

And now you're not with me.

So I know that feel to give your whole thing to somebody.

And they don't love you the way you think they should.

So that's what I was saying,

but it came out wrong.

But everything I say,

I'm pretty much back.

I support because I'm speaking from a good place.

And I also admit I'm wrong.

I was wrong about the damn shit I said.

But I want to make it.

I have a brilliant point to take.

I want to say to y'all,

to take this huge, I think.

I think that the reason why we're fucked up in black music

is because of one moment in history.

Exactly.

No, I'm serious.

Hit me out.

When Dame dashed,

cursed out Kevin Laos.

And Brandy,

and Brandy Acro who works with us.

I didn't know what Brandy Acro was.

Yeah, Brandy Acro was.

I'm saying,

I knew Kevin Laos was.

And I think at that moment,

when he cursed out Kevin Laos,

and we saw a president of a company

getting talk to like that,

nobody want to be in the executive anymore.

Everybody want to be Dame.

And that was in the movie.

That was in the show.

I was in backstage.

Backstage.

I was in high school when I saw that shit.

I was like, I want to be Dame.

Yeah.

I didn't want to be Kevin.

But look at Kevin.

It's great.

Kevin is so coming for 330 million.

He's still here.

So you just start learning.

But I think that because when I,

nobody black wants to be in the business.

Everybody wants labels.

They want to own.

That's all shit.

They want to work for my own my shit.

Right.

But if anybody's working in there,

how are we going to get people to own shit?

Right.

You got to have a friend in there.

When Joey IE does his deal with Todd,

my school is tired.

He looked out for Todd.

That's why Todd had that by himself.

They look out for each other.

Right.

So we need a nigga in the building

to tell us like, I do.

Like, yo, this is,

this is what they trying to do.

Get your money.

We don't have that.

Absolutely right.

And it's a ladder.

Not everybody's at the top of the ladder.

And not everybody can be game.

This screen would not even,

you know what I'm saying?

Like, look.

Not even, what is that shit called?

I have a second.

Mill a second.

Not even a mill.

Absolutely right.

Because when I was in the building,

what I started realizing,

I'm sorry.

Can I say something?

You know who, you know who's the biggest fan I am of?

Who that?

Adam Salma.

Adam Salma, you said?

Really?

Adam Salma.

I love him too.

Okay.

Yeah, Virgo.

Did you?

I focused on so.

I didn't know.

Yeah, Virgo.

I know me and you.

I know.

But let me just tell you something.

Yeah.

His people.

Oh, his friends.

Oh, yeah.

He just, all the time.

People, yeah.

I respect that too.

Oh, yeah.

He really knows everyone in my movies.

He goes into his friends.

Yeah, yeah.

Facts.

I want to be, I, I, I, I,

because that's going to sound a little crazy.

Say, I want to be the black Adam Salma.

Because I don't want to.

I get it though.

I want to be nori.

Right.

But you're talking about empowering your people.

I mean, I want to be that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think that's it.

I want to be that.

I looked at Adam Salma's movies.

Everyone of his movies.

Oh, he was.

Everyone of his people.

Same crew.

From his wife.

Yep.

Even if he's playing his enemy.

In the actual movie.

Right.

Right.

Then you got all his children.

So when you see the, the, the thing where his daughter walks

in Chanel.

I see walks in Chanel and she has.

That shit is, that shit is put together.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And if we ask people.

Can do the same thing.

We would be the most powerful.

Stop on the planet.

On the planet.

Right.

That's a fact.

We don't, we don't put each other on.

We do taste of it then.

Let me say something.

Let me tell you something.

When I work, I chubby baby.

Rest in peace, chubby baby.