Albee Al shares his WILD journey: incarceration, tragedy & New Jersey hood life

25:17You seen that shootout in Philly that day? Oh yeah, it was crazy. Everybody's in the fucking porch. Philly gets busy like that. Oh my God, you seen that shit? They didn't shoot this shit out of you. The motherfucker kept running over. And Philly didn't shoot this shit out of you. I know he in jail forever. He looking at the camera shooting. He done. Looking at the camera. when you clip this you go find that fucking clip he in the front shooting but looking at the shit he's done listen guys can't nobody do shit get away with shit look at the guy who shot up the school over there god bless brown they only had him from the back they can't really think I thought he was black today they just released another film so white guy with a beard they got him he's going down like it's just too many ring things too many cameras like right now if you pop off just know you're going to jail like just if you get caught on camera no no you in camera bro you are in camera they killed the kid what's his name Julio the fucking car was the camera the Tesla shit got cameras they're like okay Johnny B They even locked the chick up.

26:41She was there. She done too. Because of Campbell.

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30:02Hey Jonas guys. I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. And we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast where people could call in and say, Hey Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

30:38Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy. Not quite. On Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends, me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guests, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel, help an acapella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter. Listen to Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Agency. The ability to know that we're the experts in our own body.

31:15On the podcast Cultivating Her Space, Dr. Dom and Terry Lomax create a space where Black women can show up fully and be heard. I wholeheartedly think, you know, you hit 30, you shouldn't have to share a room with anybody. Mm-hmm. From navigating friendships and healing to setting boundaries and prioritizing your mental health. These are real, honest conversations we don't always get to have out loud. Totally unreasonable with different parts of life, right? Like, oh, have all three meals and make sure you're mindful during all of them? Absolutely not. During one meal, I'm standing and handing my children food.

31:52Because healing, empowerment, and resilience aren't just ideas. They're practices. And this Mental Health Awareness Month, there's no better time to pour back into yourself. Listen to Cultivating Her Space on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Here's something that should not be as complicated as it is. Getting a racist statue removed. And here's something that should be a whole lot easier than it is. Getting a new one put up in its place. As long as there's a politics of race in America, there's going to be a politics of remembering the Civil War. To get to school, I had to go down Robert E.

32:30Lee Boulevard. To get to the grocery store, I had to go down Jefferson Davis Parkway. If you're a historian and you leave out half of what the history is, you're not doing your job. I'm Akilah Hughes, and Rebel Spirit Season 2 goes deep on both of those things. The fights, the politics, the people who won, and my personal campaign to add something to the Kentucky Statehouse that's actually worth the wall space. We are more than our bodies. We contain essence. We contain spirit. How do you represent that? They are just fueling a fire that is really catching. You'll see what I mean. Listen to Rebel Spirit Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

33:22I'm a comedian, and recently I've become quite the helper myself. And on my new podcast, Hope from a Hypocrite, I'll be changing lives, helping people in need with my sage advice and thoughtful solutions. Psych! I'm a comedian! I'm not qualified to give good advice! Join me and my comedian friends as we riff, rant, and recommend some of the most legally dubious advice known to man. If I'm calling you, even if you're on your phone, let it ring twice. One ring is too scary. Cream of chicken soup. Hey, cream. Cream of chicken soup. This is Help From a Hypocrite, the worst advice from the dumbest people you know.

34:03Listen to Help From a Hypocrite as part of the My Cultura podcast network available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

34:14But all you had to do back in the day was get yourself a great lawyer. Because believe it or not, It's your life on the line. But other than you going to jail, the whole shit is theater. It's like Hamilton. Their lawyer against your lawyer. Right. Your lawyer talking that shit. He smoothie this and this and that. You might come the fuck home. Right. You might. You might. Not with the camera no more. And they go, okay. I think you could be the case on camera nowadays too, though. Because they got the AI shit. So it's like, was that me? You know what I'm saying? You got an AI coming into effect.

34:49It's going to help. AI gonna fuck up the police shit vocally and all that. This man thing is in jail. Why is it? AI already. They made him say shit they didn't say. They did think about it. You know, that AI shit, a whole... We were talking about that 1800, man. You fucking with it? Yeah, we fucking with it. I had him on that shit, though. That man was... He was gone. Pull me up. Turn around. Let's turn around. You want the red one or the white one, baby? We got it all on Cristalino. That's the one he been fucking with. Let me fuck with that one. That's the shit he was fucking with. Now you're going to...

35:24This shit is the truth serum. I thought you was dropping. Yeah, I am, but I'm saying that one got busy, so it must be good. Look. He like... He like... He looking at the less of the bottle half-inch. Yeah. I mean, that got to be the one that's it. That's the one. That was Jado. Yeah. The other day, we had Tony Yayo and Murda on here, and Jado was going. He had that 1 ,800? Yeah. What? That man was a loser. he had the fluidity let him tell it it was a good day I call kids banged up a few times kids be banged up but when he banged up he like smooth he ain't loud me I end up anywhere so fat no I end up in your house like I'm the worst I'm the best look I don't really drink but when I drink, I never had a bad time in my life.

36:20So back in the days when I'm out drinking, I end up in house parties. I'm not supposed to be there. Nigga like, yo, fat joke. Seek the kingdom. Seek the kingdom. I'm the nigga's house parties like yo. They like, yo. Nah, that shit. You never had a bad time in your life. No, I never had like a, like, you know how you have a bad reaction? I'm a fun drunk. I'll get us have fun, tell jokes. the biggest problem if I'm on the street I'm going to where I'm not supposed to go if Fat Joe would never go sober in his life he might end up in the I don't even gamble might end up in the back of a gambler I'm not supposed to be in these places I'm in that motherfucker twisted yo you gotta stop man you got 1800 they trying to get me on the sauce I'm already a toasted real Toast to the real 1800 We late That's right You gonna do a tour For this project?

37:24Yeah, yeah I'm putting a tour together Me and Millie's about to go on tour Fire We about to drop a project I probably like February, March No doubt Some of the things You don't like in hip hop today Hold on I did something special for you, Tim No My family Which you claim as your family Because you grew up over there You got the song The sauce. You got the mustard sauce come beside Johnson's. That's my shit. That's the house that Joe built. Y 'all know. Now, come here. Come here. Sit down. Real quick. So you're a Johnson or you work for the Johnson's? No, I am a Johnson. You are a Johnson. She's the house.

38:06How old are you? I'm 32. I've been there longer than you. I'm telling you the truth. When everything's said and done, it's her. Ruby knows his wife? Nah, me. That's his wife. That's his wife? That's his sister. That's his sister Johnson. This is Ms. Johnson. He's saying something to you. The mother of the daughter. Yo, bro, you playing with me now. You don't even know who's her. Your husband knows me since I'm three years old. This is correct. Yeah. Three years old, I've been going to Johnson's Fried Chicken. The mustard sauce. this is it huh she'll bleed busted man where they sell it at online online johnsonsbbqbx.com or you can go to johnson's barbecue on 163rd street between 10 and the union that's my that's my yo he keeps saying cause he know groovy loo he like yo I'm like yo you violating man cause it's across the street from my house I don't think you understand.

39:10Across the street from my house. My brother used to buy out the whole Johnson's. Angel. Angel. It's a legend in Johnson's. My brother buy the whole Johnson's. If it's 30 people in there, everybody chicken and mustard. He loves Johnson's fried chicken. We all do. Is it true that you own a farm down south? Yes. And so the chicken has always been organic. Everything. Everything. We never knew that. That's before organic was organic. Yep. Collard greens fresh every morning. Yams Fresh. From down south. Where's the phone? It's in Ackermack, Virginia. That's where my grandmother's from. And then my grandfather.

39:48My dad's dad. He's from Sumter, South Carolina. How many years we've been doing this at Johnson's? Since 1954. So I believe that's that when you're black on an operator. Thank you. America, you're playing yourself. I beg you to purchase Johnson's mustard sauce. There is no better mustard sauce in America. Now, I've been to Spots Down South where they had the similar... The minute I eat it, I'm like, oh, shit. But still, it's like, I say, at least they stole Johnson's recipe down there. I go in there and say, damn, they know about the mustard. Everybody don't know about the mustard sauce. This is the mustard sauce of champions right here.

40:35Thank you. This is the fucking one. Thank you. Man, that's crazy. We have some more bottles out there. Nah, we need that. We're going to do that on Christmas. You know, I've been on a diet. Keto. I don't understand. The doctor. Oh, my God. You know what I mean? She's strength. Oh, it's lit. Nah, I can't. Listen. I'm skinnier than I ever been in my life. I swear to God. The doctor said 242. The doctor said, yo, you're skinnier than you ever, but guess what, buddy? Need you to fast, keto, no carbs, no nothing. You got to work on it. I said, yo, how? You know the doctor like a mechanic. They find something wrong with you every time.

41:21But I come up in there, I said, yo, I'm skinnier than I ever been. He's like, we got to work on it. We got to give him a... I don't want to look like a crackhead, though. You know when them guys had that face sunk in and shit like that? Johnson definitely seen some... Oh, shit. Zombie awards. You guys can write the book. Teeth missing, all that. Everybody limping. Shit crazy.

41:49You want me to lie to you? It's like, you know, the hood got to take care of themselves. I used to work at my uncle's bodega and they coming for the picnic. Look, look. He reminiscing right now. No pork on his fork. He said, man, let me tell you something. That pig feet. No pork on my fork. No ham in my pan. Y 'all got me twisted. I ain't eat pork since I'm about 11 years old. What I'm trying to tell you is that when I worked in my uncle's bodega, they used to come up and everybody's diabetes, everything, they coming in there for the pickle, the sausage, the... Nah, all the foul shit. They eat all the foul shit.

42:31They coming in there for that shit. We like, yo, Mr. Johnson, are you sure you need this? Are you sure you want that? They be like, yo, man, this my shit right here. But to each his own bottle of$1 ,800. Shout out to Groovy Lou. He is really connected with that. I was doubting him. He kept telling me he's a Johnson. This is that Groovy Lou's my man. And yo, let me tell you something. Johnson's fried chicken came through. They got the fried. It's the best. It's the best. There's no way around. You got food out there? Yes. You can't do that to me. I'll tear the paint off that bathroom. I've been pure a whole week.

43:10I've been pure a whole week.

43:17Veggies, no carbs. Man, I'm like borderline. Tear the paint off the wall. I eat one of them fried chickens right now. Some ribs. Because let me tell you something. You know when your system been cleansed. My shit is cleansed. Right now, you see me drinking the water. You ain't give me no water. Nothing for drinking no water. You got to finish with it.

43:43What's your name again? Stacia Johnson. Thank you, Stacia. We love you. The Johnson family. Thank you for everything.

43:53Okay. It's been a pleasure. we always looked up to your family in our hood let me tell you something them guys were they ever from Forest or they just opened over there no just opened over there that's crazy 163 they're from yeah yeah and then they moved to Mount Vernon I tell a famous story about not Johnson's but the ghetto Chinese on the corner you know I went to school with the two kids oh really we used to make fun of them they had like dirty Chinese kid, people living in their house and all that above the WrestleBot. I seen them kids years later, and it was like, you know, everybody that was sleeping on the floor owns four Chinese WrestleBots.

44:36Wow. So that's how they bring the whole crew in there. They sleep in there. Generational wealth. Generational wealth. The players, 20 people turned into like 80 Chinese ghetto joints. Yeah, and the ghetto Chinese ain't scared. They open up an aftermath. from that they open up to Cuba. They don't give up. You go to Haiti, the only shit standing ghetto Chinese Haitian food. That shit go anywhere. They're not scared. Scared of nothing. They're not scared of nothing. I used to go to Africa when the only artist has been everywhere in Africa. Like literally Ali Bumbaye. And they ain't a hood in Africa that don't got a ghetto Chinese.

45:20They there. They not scared. It'll go anywhere. My African man to stamp that, man. Your African man might not been to more African events. I had two years. I had two years. Listen, I thought I was by the best. How the African ain't been to more spots to Africa? You know, I'm like the Dos Equis guys. I'm the most interesting man in the world. But every part of Africa, I've been in every part where you from in Africa I've been to Ghana you know that Ghana, Garbon Djibouti, anywhere you name Rwanda, Rwanda, Sierra Leone South Africa Venezuela Nigeria Wakanda Uganda Kenya Zimbabwe I've been to Somali I've been every hood.

46:21I met Davido at the All-Star game. Man, told me, yo, I seen you in my village 10 times. Me? Yo, me? Man, you crazy, man. I've been to every hood in Africa where they don't have clippers. They cut your hair with a fucking... They take the razor out of the big shaver and they line your... Come on, you're my man. Am I lying? They line your shit up with the razor from inside the bit and they cutting my hands, 10 ,000 people watching Fat Joke and said, are you nuts? I've been in every part of Africa. I remember I went, I came back from Africa and went to like Mr. Childs or something. I seen one of our favorite rappers.

47:03I don't want to get killed. I don't want to get killed. But this guy always talking about Africa and going back to Africa. He was like, yo, crap, what's up, man? You look tired. Where you come from? I said, Africa. He said, shit, I ain't going over there. I said, man, you missed the go back to Africa. You missed it. Yo, you missed it. Go back to Africa. He's like, yo, I ain't going to... Say it. Say it. I can't say that. I can't say that. Say it. No, sir. So, he's talking about the boy. Not that boy. God's son. Not that. Now, I ain't talking about God. I ain't talking about God's son. I'm just telling you there's a famous rapper that raps about Africa and all that.

47:43And when I seen him, I was like, he was like, yo, where you come from? I said, Africa. He was like, Africa, nigga, what you doing over there? I ain't going over there. I said, yo. And they got the daishiki on, talking about he ain't going there. Let's not throw shots of Garson. I didn't say that, guys. It's all right, bro. But, yo, Mr. Knicks. What's up, baby? Shout out to the Knicks fans. I got to take it back. We punted up at the end. I really like what Mike Brown is doing. Yeah. You know, I'm a Tibbs guy, so I'm wearing K-Shot at the beginning. because the man wears some bullshit sneakers. I'm going to keep it.

48:19Cinema Panties. I'm about sneakers. Turn them up. And so I'm looking at him. He got like Vans on and shit like that. I'm like, yo, sneaker game. Feet. I might have to. Get him a bit. Tibbs used to rock G-Von, Sheeva, Saatchi's and all that. Yes. But this guy, he got some bullshit on. His feet might be different. This shit hurt. You know this sneaker game? Feet. Yo, yo. He got a lot of courage to wear them shits. You wear that shit in the wrong hood, you got a nail in your shit. They ain't got the brocade shit like this. Oh, my God. That shit out of control. You got a nail in your shit. I'm trying to...

48:59All right, man. Let's give Mike Brown some good feats. Let's take Mike Brown on them. Shopping for sneakers? Yeah, let's go. No, we got to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You going to take Mike Brown shopping for sneakers, man? Joe, hit us up. What you recommend, though? What you think he need on his feet? Anything he want to wear. His shit like this. So we got to get him comfy shits. Yo, his shit like this. Ties is low. Yo, tires is low. That motherfucker, these two tights. Yo, that's it. Ties is low. He's going to take him shopping with his car, though. I brought all my cars out from Miami. Ties is low.

49:36I can't even drive it to y 'all. All them shits is like this. If I hit one bump, I'm done. Like, you know. It got me started. Oh, shit. 1800. 1800. 1800. Everybody's drinking that all day today, man. Let me tell you something. It worked wonders for J.D. Kiss. J.D. Kiss, he on that 1800. Yeah, Kiss. He gone. He gone. I like that. Sometimes he want to come in here quiet, shy, shit like that. 1800? Oh! The man on that shit talking that shit. and so but I was asking a question that we never got answered what do you don't like that's acceptable in hip hop today that probably ain't how you was taught in hip hop coming up I always hear them saying niggas don't want to rap with them it's hard to they giving them the running around there's a lot of funny money that's crazy y 'all went through that same shit.

50:41And it's like, I seen, I seen. He did that to me my own career. He got mad features for me. But see, we came from the time when you, it was no emailing or none of that. Right, right. You couldn't. We had to meet up. There wasn't even a way to send a song. You had to go to the studio to do. You know that. That helped us. Now with this Tetris way of recording. Yeah, that's, that's definitely a problem right there for me. It was like, people be like scared to get in that booth. I don't know but I always thought it was about swapping fans with this shit you feel me as I'm trying to grow it's all about collaboration don't let nobody allow you I want to get known over here and all of that shit don't get me wrong there's some big features that I'm blessed and honored for that's one and another thing is just that in a rap game they just be allowing they allow motherfuckers to get away with fuck shit that ain't supposed to be okay man like the ratting shit the corny shit like once you done you done it's like you know what I mean and I understand we in a world where everybody flag for for accepting the rats yeah flag on the play let's do that no that's that's probably that's probably the one change of events I've ever seen coming yeah cause that shit was like that used to push you out the industry back in the day you had to stand on that shit you had to have a strong camp you had to now it's like a motherfucker if you call a motherfucker that's a rat and you know he a rat his man gonna up pole on you like you feel me like, what, you about to kill a real nigga for saying the obvious?

52:12You know what I mean? Y 'all niggas really, like, ready to kill a real nigga for stating that this nigga a rat, you feel me? I'm going to tell you some crazy shit, right? So, I know a guy, his name is Legendary. That's New York. Nah, I'm just trying to tell you, yo, yo, yo, kids, you got to stop. He's a legend. Beyond. Took 10 years, took 15 years, like, this guy busting his gun in jail, all you could imagine. There's nothing wrong you can say about it. But been in there with the Lions, the Titans. So one day I see him in recent times, and he's standing next to this dude that ratted on 46 dudes, the whole car.

52:52This is one of the biggest rats in the Bronx history. I said, yo, he got the bag. I got to hold him down. I know he a rat. But, you know, I was like, how did that play out? That's crazy. So my science behind it, right? because some people say, yo, he ain't right on me or whatever. My science behind it is this. As much as you love a guy, if he just told on 47 guys, if anything go wrong, if we got to pound somebody out in front of the building, he's telling them, how do you feel safe with being with this guy, knowing how the game could just change on you at any moment, and you got the guy you done.

53:34He's going to tell. Right. And so that's my biggest, if you think you could trust the rat guy, when it's all said and done, he get in that interrogation, he might be telling on the way there. Yeah, he gonna definitely tell. We told once, he told twice. We told once, he told twice. I won't say who. You want me to say who? So I think people were questionable, even myself, about hearing rumors about R. Kelly, but he made the greatest music ever. Indeed. So everybody was like he can't do it or he ain't do it and he's just, while he's in this controversy he keeps dropping everybody like to say number one, number one, number one number one.

54:21And everybody's like not looking at it because they're like yo he got the greatest music nowadays you got a guy that might have told they got the hottest music and they They don't give a fuck. They like sold out arena. We don't care. The man got the hottest music. We don't care. Right. I think music didn't tell. Yeah. But what I think is the music being hot. Overpowers. Yes. It overpowers. Yeah. Whatever, you know, and then be a guy like me and you sound dinosaur. We almost playing ourselves like, yo, we ain't with this rat shit. Yo, we don't know. They're looking at you now. What are you talking about?

55:00That's because people have a lot of people never been told on. I've never been in that situation where they had the time. You feel me? So people don't understand that shit. You've never been told on you can't relate.

55:14Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, Nick? Huge news. We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with the name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers.

55:49This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, Hey Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy. Not quite. On Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends, me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier.

56:24This week, my guests, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel help an acapella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter. Listen to Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Agency, the ability to know that we're the experts in our own body. On the podcast, Cultivating Her Space, Dr. Dom and Terry Lomax create a space where Black women can show up fully and be heard. I wholeheartedly think, you know, you hit 30, you shouldn't have to share a room with anybody.

57:01Mm-hmm. From navigating friendships and healing to setting boundaries and prioritizing your mental health. These are real, honest conversations we don't always get to have out loud. Totally unreasonable with different parts of life, right? Like, oh, have all three meals and make sure you're mindful during all of them. Absolutely not. During one meal, I'm standing and handing my children food. because healing, empowerment, and resilience aren't just ideas. They're practices. And this Mental Health Awareness Month, there's no better time to pour back into yourself. Listen to Cultivating Her Space on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

57:44Here's something that should not be as complicated as it is. Getting a racist statue removed. And here's something that should be a whole lot easier than it is. getting a new one put up in its place. As long as there's a politics of race in America, there's going to be a politics of remembering the Civil War. To get to school, I had to go down Robert E. Lee Boulevard. To get to the grocery store, I had to go down Jefferson Davis Parkway. If you're a historian and you leave out half of what the history is, you're not doing your job. I'm Akilah Hughes, and Rebel Spirit Season 2 goes deep on both of those things.

58:16The fights, the politics, the people who won, and my personal campaign to add something to the Kentucky Statehouse that's actually worth the wall space. We are more than our bodies. We contain essence. We contain spirit. How do you represent that? They are just fueling a fire that is really catching. You'll see what I mean. Listen to Rebel Spirit Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jared O'Donnell. You might know me as that loud guy who yells out, help on the internet. Help! Somebody! Please! But there's so much more to me than that. I'm an actor, I'm a comedian, and recently I've become quite the helper myself.

58:59And on my new podcast, Hope from a Hypocrite, I'll be changing lives. Helping people in need with my sage advice and thoughtful solutions. Psych! I'm a comedian! I'm not qualified to give good advice! Join me and my comedian friends as we riff, rant, and recommend some of the most legally dubious advice known to man. If I'm calling you, even if you're on your phone, let it ring twice. One ring is too scary. Cream of chicken soup. Hey, cream. Cream of chicken soup. This is Help From a Hypocrite, the worst advice from the dumbest people you know. Listen to Help From a Hypocrite as part of the Mike Cultura Podcast Network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

59:47I'm not going to tell a story until the story turns out I'm going to tell you this story but I'm not going to tell the name until somebody comes out after this and just says not this one because the cat made it you want to throw 700 flowers for all of shit they'll start throwing it there's no way to believe me if I say the name okay, there's no way you wouldn't believe Fat Joe if you heard he's real this and that, you're like, yo, this nigga capital, right, right. I'm at a show, it's around this time, it's a Christmas show. Corporate. We get the freest bag in the world. I'm only there with Rich, Uncle Dan, I don't even have my DJ.

1:00:31I'm on my way to the stage, right? I'm behind stages, dark as hell, Hammerstein, Borghul. They introduced me, so I gotta go out. When they do that, somebody appears. And gives me the hand. I shake people's hand in the airport all day. Everybody. A fat Joe. I'm celebrating. Sup? So I said, what's up? So he says, yo, you know who I am? They already introduced me. The music's going. Lean Back is on. It was only like two songs. I said, nah. He said, yo, I'm such and such. When I looked at him, I said, holy shit. Now this guy's beyond a killer. He was extorting every rapper on earth. He was extorting the streets.

1:01:17He was doing whatever. He was a monster out here. A legend of all legends. Right. I couldn't wait to get off that stage. I ran back to this dude. I couldn't believe he was standing there. I said, now look at me, you rat motherfucking bastard. Piece of shit. Cock sucker, bitch. Your mother shit on her face, nigga. You ever in your fucking life? because it just happened. I don't know what the dynamic is. Mayno bumped into Troy Ave. Troy Ave had a baby in his hand in front of 10 ,000 people. I hear they had problems, but Mayno said, what's up? I wouldn't have done that, right? But said, what's up?

1:01:58They caught that bitch in 4K. A white person had to catch that fucking footage right there. That wasn't no hood shit, and it's everywhere. So I was scared. this nigga said what's up to me. And he had a cameraman somewhere because they said he was running down on anybody who was the realist in New York. And they were, nah, my bad son. I would have never talked about you. Oh, this thing. I'll tell you, I'll give you a clue. My man Wally World throw them hood plays. The man went to the middle of the hood play. He's a rat of war rats. And told all the OGs we ever seen in Fed Magazine and all of them.

1:02:36He was like, yo, who got a problem? who won it. Everybody was like, mom's the worst. No. But what I'm saying to you is, not only did I scream on this killer, as I walked away, this could have been a mistake. There was a girl there. She scoochied down and all that. I turned back around because I see Dave East's face. You a part of this story. You don't even know it. But listen. No, no. Listen, you were part of... How the fuck am I part of this? Because you was complaining about the nigga in the back of my store. All of y 'all kept telling me, yo, this dude's out here moving like this, this, that.

1:03:18This nigga's crazy, this, this. I'm just saying, you don't even know who I'm talking about. Let me talk to the people. Whatever he's talking about, I was complaining. I was never complaining about anybody for years. What I'm saying... Whatever he's saying. No, what I'm saying is this guy this guy was shaking everybody down. Yeah, I know. Right? So he was shaking everybody down. Because Rass is dangerous. Not us. I'm talking about from the biggest to the biggest. So he tell and kill. Yeah. No, he wasn't extorting you. Say that again. You were tell and kill. You were dangerous. He tell and kill you're the most dangerous person in the world.

1:03:53Yeah. So I go and I see Dave East tell me something. But when I'm walking away. Is this guy still alive? No. So I turn back around and I go right back up to this guy again. Piece of shit, He's looking, they will never believe this. That's why I can't say the name. He's looking down. I picked his chin up. Said, look me in the eye, nigga. Yeah, yeah. You look me in the eye, nigga. You know what this is. I'm not dumb. Yeah. I'm not these niggas. Uh-huh. You know it. He knew I put in work for real. He look in my eyes. First time I realized somebody, you look at the crazy guy in the eyes, their eyes are open up and they said holy shit this nigga puts in that work he knew when he said phone rang off everybody was calling me like yo I heard this this this I was like yo it is you know the only person I warned was my man who be in that neighborhood I was like yo you know I had to scream on I knew it was gonna happen right because no disrespect the gang been using me the rap gang has been using me for so many years.

1:05:06Every rapper get beef. I inherit their beef. I got a this, this, this. They've been using me so much. So when these guys kept telling me and I've been seeing this, I knew the buck stops here. There's a reason why it was so beautiful for me to stop the beef with 50 Cent. Because I knew the buck stops here. I knew where it was going to go. Live in action. Directed. Everybody was like, yo, let's hope they bump into each other because these guys too they ain't gonna go right but you know that's a form of manipulation that's a form of using you know you adjust the guy in the beef that you know oh thank God this guy playing a different game he moving you like a piece I was used as a young kid in this industry as a dumb impulsive jumping out this this this this I was used by other rappers who wouldn't put in that work and they were like, yo, Joe, you know, you know, this, this, this.

1:06:06And I, well, I knew with this guy I had nothing to do with this guy. I had no beef with him. I had no problem. I never met this guy before. I never this. I fucking knew it was going to be Fat Joe who was going to see this guy and I didn't give a fuck if it was in Madison Square Garden, the streets. That was going to be the same outcome. 10 ,000 cameras this. So I'm looking, I'm hoping is somebody else bump into this dude that's going to jump out. But, you know, that's how the game go, man. But listen, let me tell you something. Yeah, that's something that bothers me in hip-hop. It ain't my problem.

1:06:45Huh? That is hip-hop. We talking about... You'll see. This shit going viral without a name, bro. They know what I'm talking about, bro. This ain't a regular daggler. You know what I'm saying? but some stories you can't tell people because they say I'm cat. You know what I'm saying? You can tell anybody anything. You got the power to... To just say it? They believe me now. They believe me now? You think so? I'm not cat like that? No. No, but this one... This particular story, I've been waiting for somebody to say it other than me. I've been falling back like, somebody's going to say the story. And I'm the man for the job.

1:07:31Huh? Nobody was there. There was a girl there. She was fucking... I wish I would have seen her face. That's the biggest mistake. If there's ever been a mistake to haunt me and beef in my life, it's all systems go one way. And I look around at the surroundings. Like somebody fronted on my brother. I was looking for him all day. I seen him. I said, pussy, pull over. Pull over, pussy. Pull over. Yeah. I jump out. He jumped out. He acted extra tough. I don't know why. We start fighting immediately. When I turned around, there was like a thousand guys with this guy. I didn't look at the other 30 trucks.

1:08:12So when you get that tunnel vision, the truth is, there's a girl who's the witness to this that was Gucci down to the socks from the jacket to the shoes to the boots to the disc. She was there. Right? She was a witness. Who is it? We got to look. I don't know who she is, but you're here. You're going to hear after this episode, they're going to tell you because some people know. Some people know. Yeah, they know. But, you know, it's just, it's like, but I got tired of that. I've been tired of, like, people using me to do certain things and jump out the window and this and this and that because I know there's certain things I'm not going to tolerate in no way, shape, or form.

1:08:52But, you know, and then I think of, it was almost a time travel. right so when the guy shakes my hand and i realize who he is all i see his faces of all my friends that got 40 years 30 years 20 years 10 years 15 years this this this immediately but when he say yo i'm such and such i said this pussy put everybody in jail like that you gotta be kidding me my best friend doing 46 that's what i'm saying that's what it's about you can't be you can't be a hypocrite in this shit you can't be you gotta stand on what you stand on because it's like I'm going to apply the same pressure to whoever. I'm not going to change my tone for no man.

1:09:31You feel me? If I feel like you a fuck nigga, I'm going to pull you on that. Especially if I thought you was a real nigga at first. Because I'm thinking you my con. I'm bringing you in. I'm bringing you in this world. Like I fuck with you. This game get tricky. Yeah, so if I feel like I fuck with you, I'm like, man, I ain't solid. I fuck with that nigga. But the same way I'm treating you like my brother, I'm going to treat you like my enemy once I find out you did something that ain't a part of our movement or what we stand for. You feel me? Like I honor y 'all. y 'all the big bros of this shit.

1:09:57So it's like the same way if I hear some shit like, yo, oh, what? Kiss went out bad. Oh, kiss went out bad. You feel me? Also, let's be clear about that. The same shit gotta go to me too, though. Hold up. You know what I mean? Let's not go kiss went out bad. You also have to see who the messenger is. Of course. No, because what's going on now, whether he cheated on her or this and this and that, the people who be talking this shit, people they disgruntle employees fake former friends that got cut off you know what this is to even be with you for you to cut somebody off it's lights out for him that every day whether he wants it or not he's performing for Alan Iverson's birthday fly shit that's a different lifestyle you pulling up in Miami we going to college party he's walking through this that's a life when you take one of them guys and go lights out baby it's over.

1:10:55That Yonkers community center ain't hitting like DJ Khaled's 50th birthday. No, now there's no more Gold's Gym. You gotta work out of St. Mary's Gym. It's a whole different thing. So you don't realize that when people who we once had love for, they fuck up to the point of where maybe they just, whatever the case may be, those be the guys, the messages of that bad news. A lot of times, you can't really take them as credible. Of course not. You got to get the Carfax all the time. You can't just, as a real nigga, you got to do your homework on whatever anybody's telling you. As soon as you got to be a real nigga, as a real individual, you do your homework on whatever.

1:11:36Because I be saying shit, it be like, especially with this Instagram shit, it's like, it be like, oh shit. Yeah, Instagram's a lot. Oh shit, some new shit about such and such and this and this. Who's that girl? Who's that guy? Ivan Rodriguez says that this, he never got like, who the fuck are you? So all of a sudden, the gossip of the week is somebody we never heard in our life who might be the biggest piece of shit scumbag in the world says something about somebody we've been loving for 20 years and all of a sudden that's law. And it gave him a voice to talk. It gave him a whole platform to talk and post it, everything and it's like, what?

1:12:19And they'll start analyzing the shit. Yo, what Ivan said What Ivan said was his social security number. Yo, my man. Well, at least I've been able to see through that. Right. The normal public ain't able to see through that because they keep running the same play. Yeah. It was a DVD back in the days. I don't know. It was like Snitches or whatever, right? Pistol Pete was on there, a bunch of rappers. And every rapper went on there and it was like, Snitches get stitches. If he snitch, you kill him. If you just... every rapper. I went in there and said, please don't do the crime. If you do the crime, you do the time.

1:12:57Don't cross the street if it ain't green. Don't drive the car if you ain't got a license. And that's just the way it goes. You know within yourself if you could do the time or you can't. Don't be pretending. I knew what Dominican dude, this dude was fucking, he had a Lamborghini as long as I knew him. Popping bottles every single night. They say he got caught the minute they took him in the fest. He's like, what am I doing here, papi? What am I doing here, papi? What are you saying? He told on the whole Dominicans. But he had Lamborghinis and Ferraris his whole life. I've been seeing him in the clubs.

1:13:38Yo, popping 10 ,000 bottles. He said the second he went there, what are we doing? That'd be a street nigga playing B. Like how you give a girl a plan B? They plan B is all right. I got something for you, niggas. What am I doing here? Get out of jail, free car. No, no, but I'm saying some people hustle so long. Like, you know, when you go, if we go down to El Chapo, they say the only thing you could do is plant poppies. There is no other job. There's nothing else. When you wake up and you a kid 10 years old, they put you on the field to plant. You could be doing coffee. You could be doing cocaine.

1:14:15That is the trade. Do coffee. Kiss Cafe Yo how's the sales At Kiss Cafe since this joint been going on Cause I've been watching The other day I binged to Joe and Jada And I noticed I've been promoting more than you To Kiss Cafe It's been good I think So Pops He owes me a half of 1 % Kiss Cafe KissCafeCoffee.com Get you some Some ground hole get you CK cups. You know what I mean? Best coffee out there, man. I'd be 53. Why drink a 53-year-old cup of coffee? Well, you can drink a 42-year-old cup of coffee. Rewind the time, number one, all over. You know what I'm saying? If you need the quicker picker up or you need to get your shit glazed up looking like a motherfucking movie, then you get that rewind the time.

1:15:09CBS, Sally's, Stop and Shop. We out in Canada now. So we're standing. Yeah, we went over the border. So we out there. You got some new music, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. My new album out going crazy, man. Every day June 30th, 10-year anniversary. Shit going crazy right now. You want to hear something? Let's hear one. I'm a catalog rapper, man. I ain't no TikTok rapper, man. I'm that nigga you got... From the cloth. Yeah, he do. He rap. Rap for real. You mob out. You feel me? No gimmicks. Every day in the party. No sound effects. You got that pain. Yeah, that real pain. Why don't you set this track up for us?

1:15:44What are we about to hear? Oh, this right here is called Look Through My Eyes. I'm paying homage to BMX, of course. You feel me? The dog. It's his birthday today, too. Happy birthday to the dog. Happy five. The perfect segue. Double nickel. I'm paying homage. I got the X flow going on and that shit. There you go. Of course, with everything that I've built off, but X is in my top five. Appreciate that, love. Appreciate that, man. The dog forever. Let's go. Let's get it. Crank it.

1:16:13Frankie Cock. Frankie Crocker that shit Newquility

1:16:44Fuck from the ground. Niggas whispering about me, scared to say it out loud. Ain't no, I'll put a nigga body where it can never be found. That snitch and shit, it was never allowed. Put a rat on a sticky trap, leave him stuck to the ground. Like, what we telling him now? If he wasn't built for this shit, like, why you coming around? Like, why you around? I remember, collect coal, mama, this your son. I'm locked up again for another gun. Last week, the cops was at the house. I'm on a run. Can't complain about the game. I take it how it come. On top of that BM bitch and bought another bitch. Thank you to myself like damn I need another bitch I don't need hat bro snitched on some other shit Now I can't fuck with nobody It's like I'm selling bitch Been in the field since the shit I'm a veteran Devil send an offer for my soul I ain't selling it Nigga try I'm up in the pole With no hesitant Wasn't here when I was in the cold You irrelevant Here goes Zaynite Them nicks talk to me That's why I pop down to Zaynite Cause it's hard to sleep If you get life you got a wife It's gonna be hard to reach Probably won't win they fight But you got heart at least Bitch you bad between battered in direct deposit.

1:17:45I don't even check on me for one check They never find that graveyard. It's in my closet that day ever come Playing with them box Me off the team found it in my locker. I was only 16 playing with a chopper. I know that boy was a shooter We made the roster

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1:18:46Yeah.

1:18:55It's that pain, man. Strike.

1:19:04East Coast shit. I know how we rockin', man. Hey. Hell yeah. Tri-State Monsters, man. I know what we into, man. This ain't that? That ain't this. Let's crack and kiss. Make some noise for Albi.

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