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25:52And then Remy did, she did everything from there. All that, because he did hug, everything. But the beat? Scott Storch played that shit for, yeah. I was like, oh, I need that for Remy. That shit is crazy. And so that's how it go. Like, you knew this last joint. You knew that was a hit. For sure, for sure. Who did Lane Back? Who the dude's Lane Back? Scott Storch. Scott Storch. That nigga Storch, man. How about I was scared to write to that shit for like a whole month? That's up knocking. The shit's so knocking. I was scared to write. I was driving around. I'm driving around town just listening to the instrumental through the whole New York.

26:32No, the problem I had was a problem that most artists get. When you get a hit record, you think that's your lane. So my only hit record before that that was really a hit was What's Love. So I'm listening to Lean Back even though this shit is dumb, hardcore. And I keep thinking, I'm going to flip it for girls. I'm going to flip it for girls. And one night I remember, I'll never forget, I was in 42nd Street, the West Side Highway, whatever that is. And man, I just said, fuck it, I'm going straight on this bitch. I'm going hardcore. And it was the best decision shit I made in my life. You could imagine I was trying to lean back into a what's love, baby, I love you.

27:14This, this, that, that. Yo, that's what it was gonna be. I was fighting that shit, fighting the power because the only hit I had that went number one was what's love. So I'm thinking, yo, they want me to make girl songs, but the beat was too knocking. And then thank God, I never forget when I was just like, all right, fuck it, I'm going hard body on it. And the hook was like, you know, the hook, you know a lot of artists can't make a hook that's another yo there is layers to making hit records and all that like a lot of artists they can be the number one rappers they can't make a hook so I take pride in you know in my crew DITC every time we work together I be like yo let me do the hook like like Method Man, right?

28:06They use Method Man a lot, Wu-Tang, for them hooks. And I would be like, yo, I'm like the Method Man of the crew. I'm going to make a hook. Don't worry, I'm going to do it. And so, you know, but I've noticed by working with so many different artists that that's probably the hardest shit to do is make a hook. That's the hit. And you know, that lean back came like that. That hook came like water.

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32:49And can Keisha and Emmett survive what's ahead? As friendships are tested, families evolve, and secrets refuse to stay buried. One thing is certain, The Chi is more than just a series. It's a legacy. Say goodbye to The Chi. Don't miss the final season. Streaming May 22nd on the Paramount Plus Premium Plan. What you been up to, my brother, man? What's life like? Man, look, taking care of these kids, grinding, hustling. getting back on their ass. You know what I'm saying? Getting back on their ass, man. Solidifying this shit for the next generation coming up under me in the kitchen. How you know how to cook?

33:33I ain't know you gonna cook. I thought the number one cook in hip hop is Trick Daddy. I fuck with your trick. Hold up. I've eaten Trick Daddy's food. I fuck with your... You say you want him to cook me? man I have to have him cook what is he saying yo that's a great idea you ever want to cook on nah I have it we can line it up oh gee I fuck with you but there's no knife no knife different that's his name that's all he's going to get you you know what I'm saying no knife yo what's wrong with you yeah Jaden he know I know what I'm talking about Jaden know what he's doing I can't cook toast ain't no knife man can't cook toast You from New York?

34:19I can't cook toast. It's all good. You don't even have to cook toast for once. I can't even cook toast. I can't cook toast. If I did toast, I would fuck it up. That's what I'm trying to do. Damn, I'm joking. You got a Hermes toast, man. I'll tell you one thing. The other night, I went out with my daughter, and she be cooking all the time, and she get busy. Yeah. But I said, Mommy, make me something. and you know, I don't eat carbs no more. So she went and made me scramble eggs shit like 11 o 'clock. They wasn't like my scramble eggs. Yo. She said, I did it healthy. I said, no, if I make scramble eggs, it's going to be a mountain of butter on that bitch.

35:07Cheese, heavy cholesterol on the scramble eggs. How you like your scramble eggs? Not with all Oh, no, my shit is a scrambled egg soup with butter. My shit is a scrambled egg soup. Nah, hell nah. Nah, you like, nah. You got to check. Runny egg. No, I know he doesn't. Don't keep telling me. Breakfast, dinner, lunch, brunch. Yo, Trick Daddy, nice, man. Nah, Trick, I fuck with you, OG. You know my man Cool from Cool and Drake, that nice, too. It got to be some chefs. None of them niggas, I fuck with all y 'all. No, you think you better than Trick? I'm not trying to start no shit. Yo, Trick. Dude, glasses off.

35:49Hold on. OG, look. This ain't got nothing to do with you. This ain't got nothing to do. I don't fuck around. And nigga, no knife, he different. You can go whatever route you want to go. What's your favorite dish to make? All of them. All of them, Joe. The last one of them. All of them. I ain't going to lie. You know what I just ate? You know, the last thing. Ask me the last thing. The very last thing I made. The last thing you made. Jerk lamb chops. Stuffed salmon. Stuffed with crab. Crab, spinach, cream cheese. You got Danny DeVito loving that shit. He looking like crazy, crack. You motherfucker look like Farrah Fawcett's brother.

36:31You see that hair? With garlic butter brush. You had that shit for the 80s? Garlic butter brush, Brioche rolls. I go crazy. Garlic butter brush. Garlic butter brush. Butter brush, dick. What did you pay for me? keto free. I'm not eating the carbs. I haven't been eating no carbs. No rice, no potato, no pasta, no bread. You could just... Yeah, you just don't eat the bread. You know what I ate yesterday? I ate spaghetti squash. Nah, see, I don't eat squash. Squash with... What are you talking about? I'm trying to live. With, um... With seafood, lobster scallops. This shit is fucking an incredible way that shit.

37:13I can't. I gotta eat. I gotta eat. He giving me mixed emotions. Yeah. He just had a glizzy at NASCAR. That's a different exception. Ain't no keto, partner. Ain't no pleasure. No, no, no. Glizzy. You see how I look? I go to the doctor tomorrow. You looking good. They take my blood. I'm definitely like about 230, 228 or something. Oh, you come back 228, we gonna get steak and lobster. For sure, you deserve that. I'm gonna put the 12. I'm going to put the 12 back. You know what? Hey, man, you fat. Joe, you're the third age. Let me tell you something. I've been diabetic since I'm 14. They got the shit.

37:54A patch. Now, I'm real disciplined in everything in life. I'm really disciplined. I was always scared to get the patch because the patch will tell you if you're sugar high or low because I knew I'm fucked. Once I get this, I'm not going to cheat. Like, if I didn't have the patch, I would sit down with you and eat the garlic bread and then fuck it up. Who gives a fuck? But being there, I got the patch. The patch go, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Yeah. Like, that shit'll let you know, yo, you wildin'. Yeah. You wildin'. Like, everybody can hear it. Yeah. It's kind of like, play yourself. It's almost like handicap or something.

38:33Yeah, that's fucked up. The phone give you a little ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, and let you know, yo, sugar hot. You wild out. I'll tell you the Jamaican shit. I ate the Jamaican spot in Miami, and I ate no carbs. It's what they cook. I ate, I ate, uh, nah, nah, nah, nah. It's a real deal. It's oxtail. I ate oxtail. I ate, uh, not collard greens, some other kind of greens. Who gives a fuck? My shit went sky high with no rice, no potato, no bread, no nothing. Callaloo? Huh? You ate callaloo? Yeah, that's what it's called. Fuck me up. So, you know, you got to think about it. You got to think about it.

39:11When you go outside to a restaurant to eat, there's ways to cheat. I'll just tell you I make a mean scrambled eggs with some extra butter, butter, butter. You need extra butter. What you think they do when you go to the pizza shop and you say this shit good, they sprinkle sugar on that sauce. People cheat. When you go to these restaurants, they cheat for that extra. They're not doing what you're doing. You're making it. You're making it not. restaurants cheap. Like they throw extra shit on it that we addicted to that we'll love. Say you ever been to a pizza shop where the pizza is incredible but it's sweet.

39:49Nah, hell nah. I'm telling you, they did shit. Well, the Jamaican spot, I've been eating keto. Just so you could understand. For three months, the alarm ain't go off. For three months, the alarm ain't go off. I done eat stocks, steaks, lobsters, ox. All type of shit. Yeah, stocks. Spaghetti. You know, you go to Houston's. Stocks like soup. No, no, no, no, no. Stocks. Buns. You go to Houston's, you get your little fucking shit. Hawaii, Redbox. You eat the fucking steak. You eat the little spinach dick. Kick me out of Houston's. Good. No sugar. Yeah. That shit lit me up. That shit said, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.

40:30They politely kicked me out of Hillstones the other day. Houston's another racist Westmont. They sack me out. No, they racist. Didn't imagine. Well, like he said, I smell like marijuana. Listen, if you ain't got the hair like him, Teddy Savalas, I wish I would walk around and block. Get the fuck out of here. They told you to do what? You smoking in front of there? Yeah. Me, I ain't. No kiss. I know you a superstar, but you can't block trees. I didn't blow. I didn't blow. There you go. I wouldn't. It was too dope. Oh, oh. I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke. I didn't blow. I didn't smoke. I'm sorry.

41:06I didn't smoke. I didn't blow. They don't care. You know it's red when I catch him. But I hear this in a lot. Oh, shit. Got him. Got him. You know, Houston's what they did to me. I went in Atlanta. I don't eat that. You don't eat that? Boy, it's smart. Nah, I went to Atlanta and they fronted on me. And they was looking. What's crazy is it was the black people working here. It was fronting on me. Damn. No, I'm telling you the truth. It was the craziest shit. So I'm sitting there, I'm like, hon, they're like, oh, well, you know, no reservations, no this and this and this. They keep better than everybody.

41:47Man, they got, they did that. They did the black cop, black cop, black cop, black cop. You killing all your, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then I went up in there, I couldn't believe it. Then this guy runs from me, from the thing, the manager. Yeah. Hey, Joe, why are you, white dude? No, you're from Miami. You come inside. How many of you are? Four or five? Not a mile. I'm like, yo, what kind of shit is this? I call that reverse racism. What's crazy is I sat down and everybody was like, yo, this is when I went around. Because, you know, some shit happened to me. I talk a lot. So I start telling everybody.

42:24I go, yo, you should. They be like, yo, we don't fuck with it. We know what it is. That shit like that all the time. Apparently, it's like that. I ain't going back. I'm good off that shit you're not going back to the spinach dip? no or the shrimp cocktail? I gotta go to the STK I'll tell you some crazy shit I used to go to this Italian restaurant on the South Beach it was the best Italian restaurant on the South Beach this nigga was dead nice it was incredible I put J-Lo on I put people it was quiet no no listen to what I'm saying I'm talking about Italian restaurant you gonna fuck around Yeah, they carbs.

43:05Oh, no, no. I'm talking about back in the day, but let me tell you. You're going to end up back in the day. One day I took my man, and I'm going to say his name. I took my man. Who? My man, Stan. Oh, I. You know Stan from my ex? Yeah, he's my nigga. So Stan, I take him in there. We eat whatever the owner says. Hi, this and that. Stan goes back, and they did some racist shit to him. They didn't let him in. They skipping everybody in. You know what's going on, right? So Stan comes back. He says, yo, you know, your restaurant over there, man, they handled me wrong. They did me. I said, I'll never step foot in that bitch again.

43:40Fuck that place. About a month later, I couldn't help it. I went back for the police. I went back. I went back. I boycotted. You're falling on your man's thing. I walked back up in that stick for that penny with them peas. And I had that mint. So I'm like, a year later, I said, you're staying. You know the boycott. You know, I stopped. You know how I was. It's always. That food was too good, B. That shit was legendary. You did stand wrong. Yo, I couldn't hold my end of the bargain. How important is family. Kids, family in general. That's the most important thing. I see you've got your son ahead with you.

44:17You know what I'm saying? But that's my favorite thing to do. You know what I'm saying? Be my kid's father. You know what I'm saying? Hold it down for my master's and my nephew. And then my kids, they turn, man. Yeah, they left. Yeah, yeah, they the truth. I ain't fucking with them. They know who you is? Yeah, they know. They know. See that big ass bitch and all the machines? Remy's daughter went to 10 ,000 arenas with us and didn't know who he was. Even though we were performing, they don't know they little kids. Yeah. They don't know the difference. I think it finally kicked in. She be like telling Remy like, Papa, that's a song?

44:56Right. She hit me with a video one day leading. She ain't had no fucking clue. She's on stage with us. Hey, bring her out and everything. Golden. They know who you is. Nah, for sure. For sure. My father, the baby. Rap head, word. Rap head, you fuck around, think they wrote it. How about your parents? Yeah, mom, deuce. My pops passed 2019. Mom, deuce, though, she living it up. She, yeah. She living the life. Yeah, she got it, man. She's poor. She's poor. You got a mansion you was about to say that. She's poor than a month. Yeah, I just, I just. Woo! I just bought 40 acres, so I'm about to... Oh!

45:30Make some noise for that. That's the only shit. 40 acres. Yeah. Listen, if we buy a crack house here, it's 5 million. This shit ain't no compounds out here. I don't give a fuck. Who you with? I don't know. Nobody with no acres in New York. No, ain't nobody got no acres in New York. It's smoke. You fed acres up here. Fucking crack houses. A crack house out here. A trap house. Of course, you a million dollars. You can't get shit out here. That's a fact. They be like... We think you blew up. You got a one-in-one. You know, one bedroom, one bath. We like that. God damn. Living a life. Yeah, even the hotel rooms, them bitches be about.

46:06Dead small, right? Ten square feet, them bitches be. But in North Carolina, you can get acres, right? I walked in that bitch, tripped over the bed. Yeah. He was right in front of the door. I swear to God. He bullshit. And if you want some room, and if you want some room, you got the fucking bed. Where'd he back at? Yeah, you go, man. You 2700 a night. That might be the biggest flex. You walk in somebody's hotel room in New York and they got a little room. And they suitcase can fit on the floor. You can open it up. Yeah, they shit. You can open it up or whatever. That shit, man. These motherfuckers, you know you paying.

46:40If you got some room. I have to slide my clothes out the suitcase. Shout out to Heavy D, rest in peace. I went to see him one time in the hotel. He has big shit. He had the penthouse. Over the fucking Central Park. No, no, no, no. You always been my idol. You know what I'm saying? had him fucked up like he got the big room. And the man had the big shit between the window over the fucking... It was over Central Park. I don't even want to say the Trump Hotel. Okay, okay. Back in the days, but the shit, he had shit overlooking the whole Central Park and I was just sitting there and was like, damn, that ain't Heavy D.

47:16Heavy D living a life. You know what I'm saying? That's what I'm about, living a life. You know life's too short. You know what? No, I'm telling you. Nah, not so bad. I went to a funeral the other day. I went to a funeral the other day. Shout out to Power from Wu-Tang. I pulled up and it made me realize, I mean, I lost my mom, my father. I don't want to make this depressing. I lost my mom, my father, and my brother same year last year. I've been through some shit. I've never been to a funeral and it made me realize, like, yo, life is short like Power. I'm sitting there, seeing all the guys I came in the industry with, everybody looking old kiss everybody looking old like everybody I came in the game with I'm sitting there and I'm looking they like yo you know once you get diagnosed this it just made me realize like this shit could be super over so we might as well just blow the bag faster and just spin that shit spin that shit just have your fun spin that shit make sure the kids good they got 40 acres pay that bitch off if you could.

48:26Yo, my thing is this. Yo, if we leave you some shit, we ain't get shit. We in the South Bronx. The project's across the street. We didn't have shit. If we give you something, perhaps Hudson for the nose. Nah, nah, I'm just saying like now it's on you. Yo, I tell my family all the time. I tell them all the time. Yo, if something happens to me, they're going to give you some money. It's a fact. They're going to give you some money. If you blow that shit like Fat Joe still here right now, that's on you. If you want to be the laughing stock. Like, yo, Fat Joe died. We got to sell a mansion. We got to go in the flyest townhouse ever.

49:14Million dollar townhouse. We don't need no shit. Ten million. You're not performing. Right, right, right. You're not doing none of that shit. Yeah, you can't make no money. Fat Joe could go on a weekend. you would go on the weekend, you would go on the weekend come back with the bag, yo we good Fred you're not animal there's no reason for you to be sitting in a 10 million dollar mansion tell that bitch get your PC off that too besides the money you got downside, the flyest townhouse you ever seen, get an elevator get Marvel all over it but it's a million dollars you gotta start like, it's an elevator in that best town No, sound phenomenal.

49:56Because guess what? Nobody gave me a croissant. Come on now. Motherfucker give me something. I heard about when you robbed that whole gym, nigga. I did, though. I did, baby. That's why I like you, because you a real one. You know what I'm doing. You said, yo, the whole gym. And they helped me with the Walkmans and the Jackets. Yeah. Let me tell you something. I stuck up this kid one time. That was around him. Come on, don't get him started. Right around here. Let me tell you something. I'll tell you a funny story. Your kiss, you stop me if I said it be so. So I'm robbing everybody. It's a different hobby.

50:34I don't know what y 'all want to say. I don't trust nobody. When I go home, I go a different way. When I do this and this and that, I do everything because I know I robbed everything. I know what this is. From every level to this day, it's going to be very hard for you to rob me to this day because I've seen everything coming. You gotta be AI some shit to get me. So I go like this. I'm robbing everybody, but I can't even fit the stuff. There's no fly fat. No, you're not understanding. I'm sticking people up just for the sport. Rob shit and get it tailored. Robbed everybody. It was very hard. One of my wife's biggest jokes is fat nigga with the discus t-shirt.

51:18There was nothing fly for fat niggas. There was no gear. It just didn't exist. So I would rob guys and then give it to my man that was skinny. My man Stacy from across the street, he doing three bodies right across the street. He been up there forever. Cops beat him up so many times, he got steel in his chest. I'm not bullshitting you. My man told Montana, so I would stick a nigga up and give it to my man because I can't even fit the shit. One day a fat dude walks into school. he got that chocolate shirt. Got to have it. That shit is a million. Like, yo, my man, yo, my man. Come up off the shit now.

51:56At the school. In this one hot second, it was his first day in school. Like, yo, my man, run that. In the hallway, ain't a club. Nothing to talk about. Yo, my nigga, come up off the shit now. Now. I throw this shit on, but check this out. I always tell a story. They call me the best storyteller. That's the only part. I'm gonna talk to I go back to the block. I got the chocolate shirt. I'm telling you, I was a bum, right? I got the chocolate shirt. I finally stole something from me. Yeah. I'm upstairs. I heard a car go, I heard another one go, another one go, another one go, like 10 to earth. My man, Opie Megachar, come out the car.

52:39I can't, I'm upstairs. Yo, Joe. I look out the window. Yo, it's about a honey, grown men gangsta niggas. Niggas ran this shit. Oh, he was somebody. His brother was the biggest nigga in the universe. So Opie calls me. Opie must have been like, I know him. Chill, please. This, he's a kid. This, this. Yo. Yo, what up, Opie? From out the window and shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. From the projects. Yo, come down. Yo, and bring the Shirley. the one victory I ever had. I come down with the Shirley. He handed that motherfucker over. What? Nigga was like, yo. He said, that's my little brother. He was a drug dealer from out here.

53:29The biggest. He said, yo, he got killed too. But he said, this is my brother. From now on, you make sure he's good. I said, no problem. His brother would walk past me with a little smirk in the school and all. But like, this nigga know what time it is. Like, he know what it is. But you know, it's the one time I had with something that fit me. That's fucked up, man. I couldn't get it all. He had an hour with the brown, with the chocolate, Cheryl. Good hour.

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56:55The fucked up shit in life is when you go through the struggle and you're like, why me? Why God? Why I gotta go through this? And shit is fucked up and other niggas is flying and their parents can get them shit and this and this and that. And then once you get it, you realize that the journey was worth everything. 100 % them niggas used to be spoiled in high school them niggas oh they finished but that's not what I'm saying what I am saying is it's like you appreciate it so much you know what I mean that's what I meant by when I asked you how does it feel to have a hit right now after all the shit you went through you know you could sit back and look you know me they took all my money they took all my money I went to jail for taxes they took millions of dollars rich so called rich for a good 10, 15 years.

57:47Private planes, wilding out. Kept looking at the bank account, shit saying two, three, five million. I'm good. To me. Right. Man, they took all that shit. Right. And let me tell you something, motherfuckers wasn't coming to see me. Nobody helped me. Nobody gave me a dollar. Nobody did nothing. Everybody thought it was over this, this, this. So it was beyond the learning experience so that when All the Way Up came out and the shit blew, I knew how to act with niggas and I knew what it was. But let me tell you something. It happened to me three times in my life where I was very successful. Number one, then I fell.

58:27Then I became number one. Then I fell the third time. And let me tell you something. In this hood, I used to drive around with 29 dudes following me and they all had the same truck paid for cash. Every single night, steak and lobster. every single night, Moat. Every single night, like, I was treating these dudes like, you know, motherfucker get locked up. They be like, yeah,$50 ,000. We want them out! I'd be in the middle of the Bronx Court making a movie. We want them out now! I got my man Ira the Bell Bonds with me. Get them out! To only find out, none of them niggas was loyal. Right? And then I put out all the way up, me and Remy, they give us, they say, yo, come.

59:13They had a number one club out here, Aces. And they said, yo, do the single release. We go there. The fucking club is on tilt. Everybody you name is in that motherfucker. It's just rampacked. The walls are sweaty. The mirrors are sweaty, right? So I'm up in there with Remy, and I get to my section. There's a hundred dudes in there. Already there. God, we made it. My brother, we made it. oh shit G4s again yo this this that so I turn around I perform I'm walking out the door the lights is on right I turn around and I go you you you who you was talking to him too all the niggas with me yeah yeah I never want to see you niggas again in my life You said it like that?

1:00:11Like that. Never in my life come around me again. The old club. Remy said, yo, you heard that? What? I couldn't have the nerve of dudes, right? Yeah. You don't call a dude. The dude went to jail. You didn't write him a letter. You didn't say sorry. You didn't care. You didn't bring me an ice cream. You ain't do nothing. I put out a miracle. That All The Way Up was a fucking miracle. And you gonna be sitting in the section thinking like, it's forgiveness? Yeah. They never hung out with me again in my life. They all the way up. They was all the way up. The new album, what's the name of it? Be More Grateful.

1:00:58Be More Grateful with the Be More Grateful Talk. Make sure you get your tickets. Make sure you tap in with a real one. You know what I'm saying? Baby, who you got on album? I went light on the features. I got my daughter. Fire. My favorite feature on there. So my daughter, I got Honcho, Corle Ray. And other than that, he ain't getting nothing but baby. No doubt. I like Corle Ray. Not for sure. Honcho. Yeah, nice. Daughter. Everybody go out there and get that album. Be More Grateful. Be More Grateful was the flavored title I heard in a long time. Come on. That's where I met with it. Be More Grateful.

1:01:37You niggas need to be more grateful. Everybody need to be more grateful. That's how I feel. I have a good record right now. I feel grateful. My nigga, I should have... What? It must feel like a miracle. Come on now. I'm grateful. You got that number one joint. You don't want to pop that. You seen everything. You went through the shit too. 100%. And you turned around and you were surprised. You was like, oh, I thought everybody was like... Come on now. Family. I thought everybody was 100. I thought everybody was this and that. crazy is you probably had a friend that was still putting hits out the park.

1:02:10They could have just threw you a verse and get you where you need to be. And you're like, damn, they not coming. Am I lying or not? Throw a dog a bone or something. Something. Something. Listen, this ain't that. Piece of bread with some garlic butter brush on it. Garlic butter brush. They don't know about that garlic butter brush. We gonna play. We going to bring it? Let's hear something, man. Where you going to play it at? What speaker? What speaker? Oh, this is bad. Yeah, make sure sound quality is right, man. You got the crackhead speaker. Oh, damn, it is a little. See, Ruby can do it. If Ruby can do it.

1:02:53No, you can play that on any side speaker. It really don't. Man, pop that mix is right. You can play that on there. You can play it. We know the pop that. They're nothing new. We ain't got no songs new. Oh, I got this song. You know who you fucking with, man? You want me to go to the notes? And my phone is with me. Let me tell you something. The strip club must be crazy to that shit. You know that shit. We released the new music. My man was in Magic City last, like two days ago. They was doing this shit up in the ceiling. I said, God damn, I ain't been outside in a while. For sure. Sheesh, that part, that shit, that shit must be going crazy in the strip club, huh?

1:03:35I ain't even been in the strip club since it's been dropped. We ain't been in the strip club. Don't go. It's going to cost you a lot. Nah, exactly. I had naked rain. I'm scared to go. For me to even come in there, they got to, oh, yeah, nah, hell no. Oh, I would walk in the club, they go, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. They throw the spotlight on me. No rain, man.

1:03:54Let's go. I'm sorry.

1:04:05Thank you.

1:04:30I put a rock with dribbles in here, boo. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. Let the beat do it. That's the one called work. Exactly. Exactly. I can like a shooter, but he not. Rich nigga, I can come and move you out the spot. It's simple. I ain't finna do the shit that I do for you if I was out here trying to do it for a thought, so. Stop that thing. Let it clap. Let it clap. Ride this view while you sit on my lap. Spread them, chief. Let me see that hoe. Spread that shit, you know what I'm saying? You know. Let that thing to your throat get strong. Visit on town for the video. You get that nigga to dance in your video.

1:04:59Right, right, right, right, right, right. That's not white America. Come on now. Exactly. I need to get that shit. Exactly. I need to get that shit. Fuck that shit.

1:05:43That was easy work. That was easy work. That was easy work.

1:06:10Yo. How to make a hit.com, man. Pop that thing out. He sure make him. This nigga make a motherfucking arena rock. I tried to. Jesus. That's a super duper duper duper duper smash. That's J.D. Congratulations. You deserve me. Appreciate you, my nigga. This ain't that. That ain't this. It's cracking. Kiss, goddammit. Make some noise for the baby, nigga. Pop that shit for the menopause. One of the most solid of the game left. I just let it happen. Yeah, you got to let them hits breathe. They don't understand that. I be trying to tell people all the time, the hits, why Jada is a daughter to that. Why not when they're not.

1:06:53Like, you can't. You ain't got to force it. You just gotta let the track breathe. Let that bitch happy. Oh, shit. Thank you, my brother.

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