Fat Joe, Jadakiss & Lola Brooke talk MASSIVE changes in last 20 years of hip hop

29:02Terms and conditions apply. Concerned about gambling in Florida? Call 1-88-ADMIT-IT. In Indiana, if someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-9-WITH-IT. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLING. That's in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia. Hey, 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 throughout there.

29:42But 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. 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.

30:17Listen 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. 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.

30:56Why is everyone obsessed with romance right now? Like everyone. Your coworker who quote unquote doesn't read is reading romance. Your mom, BookTok, the entire internet. I'm Sanjana Basker. I'm Tyler McCall. And this is Radio 831, a romance podcast. The books, the tropes, the adaptations, the drama, the discourse. And what all of it says about how we actually love, yearn, and obsess. We're going to Wuthering Heights. Which, for the record, is not a romance novel. And yet it has haunted the romance genre for 200 years. We're getting into dark romance, age gaps. certain Russian hockey players and sentient objects in love, which is a thing.

31:44That's the kind of conversation we're having every episode. Listen to the Radio 831 podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

31:59Hey everyone, it's Ryder Strong and Will Friedle from Pod Meets World. And now the Pod Meets Twirled podcast. were two men who were completely clueless to reality TV, who now have covered Dancing with the Stars, traitors, and were gearing up for the season finale of Survivor. So yeah, now we're experts. I know we annoyed a lot of our listeners by our severe lack of Survivor knowledge. That is the point of the show. I'm just going to remind you. I have watched some Survivor. I obviously haven't watched enough. Did people not like it? Yeah. We'll be recapping the big conclusion of the 50th season, from the final attempts at gameplay, to the desperate pleas of finalists, to a bunch of ha-hoo, ha-ha-hoo, ha-hoo.

32:43Again, we are experts. So make sure to tune in to Pod Meets Twirled for all our Survivor 50 takes. Listen to Pod Meets Twirled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There are times when the mind becomes a difficult place to live. This is David Eagleman with the Inner Cosmos Podcast, and for Mental Health Awareness Month, we're dedicating a series to understanding the mind when it struggles. I'm joined by doctors, researchers, and those with lived experience. We'll talk with singer-songwriter Jewel about anxiety. I started living in my car, and then my car got stolen.

33:21I was shoplifting. I was having panic attacks. I was agoraphobic. And making it through hardship. To be present is a learned skill, and it's hard to be present. We'll talk with John Nelson about clinical depression and the brain implant that saved his life. What I learned is that procedure made me happy because I'm disease-free. And we'll talk with leading experts like Judd Brewer about anxiety and John Hirshfield about obsessive-compulsive disorder and the science of how the brain can change. This is a month of deeply personal and honest conversations about what happens when the brain goes off course and what we can do about it.

34:02Listen to Inner Cosmos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

34:13Man, I saw you in Paris. Remember we did Paris together? The Jordan. The Jordan joint. I seen you out there in Paris. I was proud of you. Thank you. And you know what's crazy? We don't get enough time to tell you and everybody else, whether you young, you the OG. You know, in this game, it's a competitive game, but we happy for everybody. And everybody's just, we got like an alma mater. Rest in peace. Fat Man Scoop outside. Like, we took a beating. You know, I hung out with him. Yo, Kiss, what's the matter, man? Bouncing around. Because it's a family tree. His brother sitting in my face. You think I can't?

34:56That's all I could think about. It's my brother, Fat Man Scoop. I hung out with him. We ate breakfast, right? We had a show in Europe. We ate breakfast together. That guy was so happy. He had a gun collection, right? He kept bragging to me. Yo, the AR-12 comes with us. I'm like, yo. What? Yo. No, legal. Legal. but he was such a positive dude my whole life but he was talking to me about guns last time I was with him he's like yo I can't get back I can't wait to get back I'm gonna go buy this new shit with a scope on it this I'm like yo fat man school like you buying guns at a mile a minute but he loved it right you know what a beautiful soul bro clap you nigga huh he was gonna clap so well you know that's what I say at the end of the show Jada wants to kill me I say yo listen if you have a son if you have a son that love guns and you live in New York where it's two years no matter what I don't give a fuck what kind of money you got Lil Wayne sat two years for the gun I don't care how much money you got here Johnny Cochran nobody can get you out if your son loves guns take him to Atlanta take him to Connecticut take him to Pennsylvania fucking let them buy the guns they're gonna kill them you making it you saying the solution there if your son is gundalero take them somewhere the wild wild west what I'm saying is kids that love guns they get caught with three guns before they blink in New York City and they doing real time I mean this might sound crazy right I had a fetish for them but I don't know something clicked in me that it wasn't cool It's like, your kids going to get it.

36:49That's your side. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm seeing eye to eye with them. So I'm like. No, I'm just talking about jail. When you raise your, no, I'm saying though, when you raise your kids right after a while, they get it. They get it. It'll click. It'd be so random too. You're just, a lot of things click for me, like growing up in Brooklyn. I was around the wrong crowd, but sometimes I go home and I be like, yo, that shit was so whack. Like, why, why did I, that was, that was pointless. It was corny. because I knew at home my moms made it safe. I felt safe there. So it was like, why am I going outside doing all this extra shit when I got a hardworking mom that makes sure the homes feel like home?

37:29Can't take that for granted. It'll click. Send your son, send your kids to the army, to the gun state. And let them get all the guns they want is his solution. Okay, listen to America. I don't know. Listen to America. Here my logic. My logic is I got a lot of friends that their kids like guns. You in America, in certain states, have the right to bear arms. Before your kid is a three-time felon, by the time I'm 19 because he loves guns, man, you went to jail for the hammer. Before you go do that, move to a state where it's legal and let them do it the right way. Otherwise, I know what I'm talking about, guys.

38:16play if you want and you'll be going to see your son upstate in no time that should fix me I don't know Joe I don't know I think you just pray just pray just pray you into prayer and God big time I pray last night I pray everywhere with. Let me tell you, I can sell my prayers on a plane. Did you know I'm scared to fly? I see myself while I'm praying in a white suit talking to millions of... God, please. The dog next to me doesn't want to die right now, God. Please. Give these pilots the knowledge. Oh, my God. Oh, yo. If they are... Nah, I'm certified pussy. If they take my prayers and my mind on the plane, Oh, they like, oh, this guy's pussy.

39:17He can never act tough in his life. This guy, like, I pray too hard. The record with Bryson Tiller. Okay, Sav. Young Yola. Did that do what you wanted it to do? Or? No, no, that record was a super smash. Did the record label throw the proper bag behind that? It went flat. That's my shit. Young Yola. Oh, man, that's great. I mean, it went gold. Don't play with it with platinum. But I got it. Yeah, I got it flat. After this, it might go platinum. It's going to go platinum. After this, it's going to go platinum. See, I watch. We bring it back. Not only was the record a smash, but I don't know if you know, we discovered Bryson Tiller.

40:00And I happen to know the man just don't work with anybody. No, he don't. He don't care. He don't care about your bag. He don't care who you are. That's a fact. And when that man jumped on the track with you, to me, being a hip-hop historian, it was a super validation because he don't fuck with nobody. No matter who. He don't even post a picture on IG. So that shit is so fire. The record is fire. Young Yola. And then he rock with you. You know, that get the other, you know, you might catch a taller, the creator next time. Somebody who don't really rock with people is like, oh, she's somebody we need to take seriously.

40:42Work your heart, yep. So I'm glad you, because I got some records I did that I thought, you know, the reason why I truly went independent was I dropped the record with Young Jeezy. Yeah, what was it? Ha ha. So damn, son, you killing him. To me, that was a lean back. Like, I thought that. I know something crazy to that beat. You rock to that? Ha ha. Let me tell you something. We shot the video in Harlem. We did the movie. Jeezy. I was like, this shit, out of here. Like, the phone calls I was getting, fake phone calls from the industry. You back. Yo, it's a lean back. I was hyped. And the record label, I know for a fact, they didn't push that shit.

41:24And that's when I said, you know what? You guys ain't doing this to me no more. I'm going independent, putting my own bag up. I'm not coming over here begging somebody to push my shit or whatever the case may be. That song changed my life because that's one song to this day. If I'm sitting in the club with you and they play it, it bothers me. When I hear it, I'm like, this shit was supposed to be out of here. This shit was a missile. This shit, you see the Savannah? When that song came out the next day, LeBron was doing the little dance to the shit too. Like, I was like, oh no, this, we got one.

42:01And they didn't push it and they was acting like, nah, got you. We do it. You know, that's, that forced me to go independent. it, but you're correct. No matter what you do, if you put out a hit, they want the second Lean Back. I put out Lean Back, I think the next song I put out was Make It Rain. The shit went full platinum, and they were still like, this ain't Lean Back. They was dead ass. Oh no, you gotta do it again, then again, then again, then again, then again, and that's why when I look at certain artists that put it out the park consistently, that's when I be like, man, because you You know, one hit is a miracle.

42:41One hit is a miracle. I always say, they talk about one hit wonders. I always say, yo, motherfucker lived his dream. One hit with my man, gold over my plaques. Gold in the bomb watch. Turn to that, James. Gold in our thoughts. Gold in our thoughts. I did it. Man, I seen him on the red carpet. I seen him take pictures with everybody he ever loved. I seen him live a life. so when somebody hit it out the park one time it's a dream come true but to consistently you know you hit it you know in our era it's a Nelly it's a 50 cent it's job rule it's these guys kept coming and coming and coming with hits and hits and hits and hits and you have to respect them when you're in the business of making hits because what when do you know you got a hit do you know when you got a hit well now I do you can feel it people treat you different No, but I mean in the studio, you create a song.

43:41That I don't know. Music for me is a lifestyle. I'm making music because it's making me feel good. I do music because it speaks for me. Like, I do music because it's therapeutic. I didn't start doing music for a bag, but I caught a bag, so I'm going to continue to do it for that as well. But, nah, I don't be in the studio like, yo, I got to make a hit. I be in the studio like, yo, I got to get this shit off. Because if I don't, I'm going crazy. I like that. You like that with songs, right? You knew you, what song you knew, Jada, you had a hit? Here's God for the shit. Thank you, Lola. Thank you.

44:20God blesseth da savior. This guy here, he's a sniper. He be killing me every show. When I go home, I watch the replay. I'm like, yo, this nigga sniping me. I'm on the couch. I don't even know he killing me like that. what song you had that you knew is a hit before it came out maybe in the studio you recorded why why it was so incredible brother that was a different type of hit man but it was perfect it was sick that was God talking like you know what I'm saying it was so different it was necessary to this day it's necessary Anthony Hamilton what made you think of him for the hook shout out to my man rest in peace Ice Pick we just thought we you know once we got it once we got the song shout out to Havoc too for doing the beat but once we got it they'd know that we already knew we knew we wanted to get somebody we were big fans we all big fans of Anthony Hamilton so it was just the beat was perfect for him and once we told him the concept and he heard the verses I had the verses on before the hook.

45:34So once he heard it, he had the hook and did that shit fast. He made the hook? Yeah. So he was like, why? Oh, why? Key Swat came up here. Key Swat came up here and said, what's that shit called? Southern, there's a name for that kind of music. Southern, the whole genre I never heard. He made that. He might have invented that. Southern something. Southern Soul? Southern Soul. He said, it ain't R &B, it ain't this. It got its own name. Huh? Listen, when I'm in the house, my phone ring. It's like four in the morning. I got the house phone. I'm laying in the back. Yo, Joe. come to the ear factory I'm like who's this how you got my house number he was like reserve Gotti come to the ear factories four in the morning I said got something for you I only met him one time before that we both booked the same studio and we talked shit till like seven in the morning no work got done we were just telling stories and I realized I said yo this nigga just like me like he got the stories like that Irv Gotti he got the stories.

46:59So we going back to back stories. He must have liked me. Pun dies. Right? Rest in peace. Ja Rule comes to the funeral. I never even met Ja Rule before that. He came to the funeral. And I was like, he's a good man. But anyway, like a month after Pun dies, he calls me out of nowhere and you want to talk about pressure. They were like, you know, Pun was so much better than me. They was like, oh, this nigga threw. Like, Pun is the king. Joe is a bum now. Joe is over for him. He's like, I mean, literally, in my face, they were saying this shit, right? So, when I went in, they just pressed play. And the Hit Factory, like, I ain't gonna lie to you.

47:39I don't give a fuck what you think. I never spent money like that on a studio. Like, my studios was always underground, small studios. I never spent the $5 ,000 a night Hit Factory. Like, I wouldn't do that. That's one thing I wouldn't spend on. They had different speakers. That shit came on. and he was like, what's love? I knew immediately. I said, oh, shit. This shit. Out of here. Like, this shit is gone. And so it was crazy. After Irv died, I had asked my wife because she was dead with me. And I asked her, I said, yo, what? I never asked her because, you know, I'm always caring about what I think.

48:20I said, what did you think that night when we drove home? She said, I knew our life had changed forever. when she heard Once Love one time she was like, she said, I always loved Derv Gotti because of that. She was like I knew it. Driving back to the Bronx, she was like oh no, this shit. This shit over it's about to be a new day. But you know, when you know you got that hit. See, back then it was so different. Like the substance was so raw. Now it's like there's no such thing as you know what's a hit. It'd be like the random stuff being a hit now. So it's hard. It's like we're in a weird space with music.

48:57Yeah, you are. But if you keep it consistent, nothing changes. You know, I love what you said. Without you knowing, you answered that question so beautiful where you was like, yo, it ain't about a hit. I got to get this off. That's really, that's Aretha Franklin. That's all the greats that we could call. They just, Anthony Hamilton, he just sung from the soul, this and that, and then people related to it. Right, right. You know what I mean? So that's really where music is at. You feel like you talking your shit, and people could relate. That's powerful right there. That never changes. Yeah, hits come from great energy.

49:39It's a room full of energy. A hit is guaranteed going to be made for sure. You know what's so funny? I went to a show one time and it was just crowded. Who was it? I think Gumbo threw some shit in Jersey. and here I'm going up the stairs, and there's a bunch of big guys, and there's a girl flying in the air past me going down the stairs. That's how I knew how little you was. It was so crowded there. Y 'all was carrying her out the motherfucker. I'm like, yo, this shit great. I'm looking up, oh, shit, that little Lola Brooks. It be so much people, I be needing help. They carry you out of that shit.

50:16That's when it comes in handy. They can just lift you up and slide you over the... Yeah, like, take me grand. What's your process like in the studio? What you need? What's your, what's essentials for? All right, so boom. I need some H2O. I need some water. Facts. I need honey and tea. Facts. I ain't gonna front need the tequila. You know what I'm saying? You know, tequila. I need the... Is he a hundred? You know what I'm saying? I need, um, hookah. Okay. A good engineer. I don't got to keep tapping him on his shoulder not doing that get it right and good good vibes of course some some grubs you know good grubs you know what's crazy is we was just talking off the camera like you said it'd be some good shit Sam he was selling me the Tupac one time there's a video where he telling the engineer yo my job is to record I leave you mix that shit I don't know what to do with that that's you you get that shit you can't even stay there for the mixing He lay his verses and tell him to make sure it's good.

51:24That was ill. Yo, that was... I got to hear it. I got to hear this shit. Man, that boy Scott Storch sent me back, Lean Back. Like, I got a demo. I'm demo-itis. I know a hit. I'm a little bit... And I noticed you're not the first artist. More artists come here saying they didn't know what was a hit. I always knew what was a hit. So when I left Lean Back, I knew that shit was number one. He sent back the mix and had like a cowbell on that shit going, I was like, yo, my bitch, who the fuck told you to throw a bell on that bitch? Take that shit crack. We can just take it out. You're getting too excited.

51:59I'm like, fuck out of here. I'm like, I'm definitely one of those, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. We hear it, the shit. You know, your man, Kendrick Lamar, they said that what he did, they not like us. They didn't even mix that shit. He said, he was like, yo, get that shit out now. 30 minutes later, he was like, yo, I want that shit out. Like, they didn't even professionally mix. They not like us. It was just like, yo, do a random little two track. It's out. You know? And so, you know me, I'm into mixes. I fucked up one time, man. I had Jay-Z on this record we had on Family Ties, Projects. Jay-Z spit the burst.

52:39And we looking for the mixer of the year. All this bullshit, Cool and Dre. Jay-Z, Joshua got to get back from Potties. This, this, that. they was playing and the man they called back about three four days later was like yo you can't drop that verse now because he was like getting at like certain people at the time they was like yo can't put that out this I was like nigga I fucking told you to get that shit the front mask the flex in 20 minutes now we sitting on a Jay-Z verse we can never use in our life you know sometimes Sometimes you got to go. You got to go. You got to run and go. That's how I recorded my last project I did.

53:26I bet like I have a scratch off and I just I just go. So whatever I say, I'm looking at the engineer like keep that shit because you might not get that moment. We just fucking heard that about Tupac. You used to say the same shit. Be like, yo, I ain't racing none. He go over there, rock. Yeah, you be talking on types of shit. Put an intro. That's crazy. Not us. Not even me. I probably would be like that, but they forced me. These guys want perfection. These guys, these cool and dre. I'm probably the only old school rapper that they make do it 100 times to the verse. It's picture perfect. Like, they abused me in that studio.

54:06Nah, not like that, yo. This to this day, they still, like, coach me like, yo, Joe. Like, huh. You know, because me, you know, if I had a dream come true, I would go to Nebraska some shit and make my own album and it'd be some shit about God some about flowers some about killing some about they want Fat Joe to gangster at all times they be like fuck that gangster shit gangster shit nah Joe the niggas wanna hear you spit and I be like every time I try to be a nice guy on the record they don't allow us

54:48Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, Nate? 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, a 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. And we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers.

55:23This 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.

56:10are starving for banter. Listen to Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Why is everyone obsessed with romance right now? Like everyone. Your coworker who quote unquote doesn't read is reading romance. Your mom, BookTok, the entire internet. I'm Sanjana Basker. I'm Tyler McCall. And this is Radio 831, a romance podcast. The books, the tropes, the adaptations, the drama, the discourse. And what all of it says about how we actually love, yearn, and obsess. We're going to Wuthering Heights. Which, for the record, is not a romance novel.

56:54And yet it has haunted the romance genre for 200 years. We're getting into dark romance, age gaps, certain Russian hockey players. and sentient objects in love, which is a thing. That's the kind of conversation we're having every episode. Listen to the Radio 831 podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

57:22Hey everyone, it's Ryder Strong and Will Friedle from Pod Meets World. And now the Pod Meets Twirled podcast. We're two men who were completely clueless to reality TV who now have covered Dancing with the Stars, Traitors, and we're gearing up for the season finale of Survivor. So yeah, now we're experts. I know we annoyed a lot of our listeners by our severe lack of Survivor knowledge. That is the point of the show. I'm just going to remind you, I have watched some Survivor. I obviously haven't watched enough. Did people not like it? Yeah. We'll be recapping the big conclusion of the 50th season from the final attempts at gameplay to the desperate pleas of finalists, to a bunch of ha-hoo, ha-ha-hoo, ha-hoo.

58:06Again, we are experts. So make sure to tune into Pod Meets Twirled for all our Survivor 50 takes. Listen to Pod Meets Twirled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There are times when the mind becomes a difficult place to live. This is David Eagleman with the Inner Cosmos podcast. and for Mental Health Awareness Month, we're dedicating a series to understanding the mind when it struggles. I'm joined by doctors, researchers, and those with lived experience. We'll talk with singer-songwriter Jewel about anxiety. I started living in my car and then my car got stolen.

58:43I was shoplifting, I was having panic attacks, I was agoraphobic. And making it through hardship. To be present is a learned skill and it's hard to be present. We'll talk with John Nelson about clinical depression and the brain implant that saved his life. What I learned is that procedure made me happy because I'm disease-free. And we'll talk with leading experts like Judd Brewer about anxiety and John Hirschfeld about obsessive-compulsive disorder and the science of how the brain can change. This is a month of deeply personal and honest conversations about what happens when the brain goes off course and what we can do about it.

59:25Listen to Inner Cosmos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

59:36The song, Pain, we use MJ. She was excited about that, by the way. I love Mary. I was excited. I was excited. She said she loved you. Like, by the way, behind the scenes. Yeah, I love her so much. She was like, yo, I cleared this. I'm like, all right, man. Yeah, Lola Brooks, I like her. It's that. What made you use that sample and the title, Pain? When you think of Mary J, Pain is the first word that comes to my mind. Like, I done see my mom get through her day listening to Mary J. You know what I'm saying? I done see my mom stressed out. She put on Mary J and she could clean a whole house. that's what she was in my household my mom's what I knew Mary J was on I said oh I gotta get up and clean my room or she gonna be wiling on me so with that record I feel like she like no more pain and I'm like this the new generation no more pain I learned from you too like my mom's made sure that it's no more pain we standing on that as black women I'm standing on that I'm not going through it like I see my mom go through it I'm straight so I was excited that she cleared it because it meant something to me.

1:00:51Who was rocking? Because there's a generational gap. And I can tell you, my mother, my aunts, they was this one song. I don't know if you know, you way too young, but they were singing, I will survive. Oh, and I was a kid. I didn't know what they was really singing. And they would sing this shit. Wait, how it goes? I will survive. Dinosaur. Oh, no, no, no. Walk out the door. Who's that? Huh? Gloria Gaynor. Is it turned around now? Because you're not welcome, man. I be in front of the building. We live in the fifth floor of the projects. They be singing that shit. And you hear it outside. Like, you know, that's that cleaning the house.

1:01:32And Mary, was that for you, right? Who are some artists that were very inspirational to you in your age group? Who was rocking when you was like, yo, I think I want to be a rap? Like, who was, like, on fire? Lil Wayne, Mick Mell, 50 Cent. It was a time where I would have Lil Wayne. I would be on LimeWire, and it would be nothing but Lil Wayne on my iPad. My iPod. I just met a little young brother from New Orleans. What his name? Leazy or something? A rapper. He was up there. Leazy. The man, I was telling him that Lil Wayne taught me how to work fast. so I come from I come from a way back generation where rappers would do an album I don't give a fuck if it was number one and they would wait four years to drop that was it they would wait sit home for two years and then alright it's four years let's drop the next one we didn't have that work ethic but Lil Wayne when he moved to Miami after Katrina and I used to go visit him in the studio every night he was cutting records he was cutting records so he taught me like yo Joe if you want to be relevant in this generation, you got to keep working and working and working.

1:02:48And so he taught me about being in the studio every night. So Lil Wayne, Big Mill, 50 Cent, that's who was ringing off at that. That Big Mill, that shit ain't never going to stop. That's like, that should be in the museum. What's that shit when they take your shit and they put it in like... No, they got some shit where they put it in Washington, D.C. What is that? Library of Congress? James. You got to ask the one white guy on set. Yo, James, what is that? Is that the Library of Congress? That, bro, I'm like this. No, I'm like this. It was the hunger. For me, with Meek, it was the hunger. He made me feel like you shouldn't be shy to speak about your truth.

1:03:31Whatever you're going through, your reality, you can put it in your music. No matter if it's embarrassing or not. Like, if you cried today, tell them you cried today. Wayne I learned punchlines I listened to Cannon back to back figuring out what he meant by his lyrics and 50 it was just so New York yeah Wayne is different right so Wayne his flow because he's from the south and the southern rappers use different flows but then he started rapping over New York beats where he was hitting them flows he was still in pocket he was dumbing out like we I was just like still in pocket oh shit we didn't know people could do that I remember one record I don't know the name every time I bring it up everybody act like they don't know what I'm talking about but it was he rapped to a Jay Z record and let me tell you something Jay Z bodied that shit to begin with and that man went up in there so much you got and that man Lil Wayne was doing all this back he was doing the Jamiroquai on that shit remember Jamiroquai video he was going in the treadmill backwards like this shit Lil Wayne was doing to that shit.

1:04:39It was like AI. We had never heard nobody flow on stage. And Jay-Z bodied that. And then he went up in there and was like, and that's when I knew. I said, oh, we got a new leader at a new school. This guy, he on another level, Lil Wayne. One of the best guys you'll ever meet on Earth. So where you want to go from here, Lola? You had some success. You got platinum, gold, plaques. what do you want to do at the end of the day when you want to look at your career 10 years from now 15 years from now what's your vision of success? Being on the movie screens having my own show that's what I want. Shout out Tiana Taylor she hit me four times today you know what I'm saying?

1:05:30Word yeah yeah you know T she got a sneaker coming out so she wanted to you know you know crack You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? We so proud. Listen, Tiana, we are so fucking proud of you, man. We are. And you want to know what's crazy? She makes New York City look so good. I'm into talking shit about people or whatever the case may be, but I'm falling for the Tiana won the award. Don't she look different now to you, like from one day to the other? So now I'm looking at her outfits and I'm like, yeah. She queen. She a big girl. She, I don't know the glow up. She always been bad.

1:06:12She always been fly. But since she won the award. She got a glow, right? She looking like fucking Angela Bassett. She was ready. Right? She looking like some other shit right now. She ain't just Deonna Taylor who sit like that on the couch with us and bug out. I don't know. I'm falling for it. I don't know. I'm feeling like, wow. She was ready for her moment. You could tell that she patiently waited for her moment. And when it came, she was ready. A lot of people not ready for their moment. No. No. A lot of people wait. And that's the most important thing about this whole thing. You got to be ready for when it comes because you don't know when it's going to come.

1:06:53That's a super fact. You know, good man, you could quote as a guy named Fat Joe. His quote is, you got to stay in the game. You never know. I'm telling you. Yo, listen, you got to stay in the game. You never know. And so what I mean by that is you got a guy, I don't know if it's true or it's a lie, but what I hear from rumors, the guy, what's his name? Chameleon there? Chameleon there? He had that big hit, but he went off and did some shit in Silicon Valley. You don't know. You think Dr. Drake, this is some shit I always say. There's one of them stories, you say, Joe, you repeat this shit, But Dr.

1:07:34Dre discovered N.W.A. That's Ice Cube, Eazy-E, all of them. He's done his own albums, Chronic, which we consider one of the greatest, if not the greatest album ever. He discovered Snoop Dogg. Then when they discovered Eminem, they discovered 50 Cent. And did you think that the most money he ever made come from headphones? You never fucking know. I'll never forget when them headphones came out, I'm in first class and every white guy, white girl on that plane had them shits on. And I'm just like, that's what you know. Huh? No black people in a pit. We had it, but you know, we always going to support Dr.

1:08:17Dre. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is when somebody, listen. My first pit, it wasn't mine. We stole them shits. Come on, Lola, tell me about it. Oh, wait, hold on. Because he's going to think I ain't trying to put that bag in his pocket. Oh, Lola. Y 'all, y 'all, y 'all. Lola, you stole them shits, huh? I'll just say, y 'all had them shits, and it wasn't mine. It wasn't yours? Yeah, and I ran them down. I was so grateful for them. That was the best headphones I ever heard at the time. It had the red wire. Red wire, too. It wasn't wireless. You know what broke my heart? It's before your time, Lola.

1:08:57They had this thing called the iPod. I have maybe a little weight on my iPod. I just said that, yo. I didn't know that. I was listening to Canon. Yo, my shit just turned off. Yo, let me ask you a question. Did everybody get like a fucking, like a you know when they say it's a virus? When my iPod turned off, my iPod turned off. I had like 5, 10 ,000 fucking songs on that shit. My shit just, did we get a bug? No. My iPod don't work. Does somebody has a working iPod in 2026? Cause my shit just turned off. I wonder if my, cause I still got mine. I wonder if it works. Yo, that shit broke my heart when the fucking iPod turned off.

1:09:47I'm really in the gym going, I got the same shit. Pop that, pop that shit, pop that. I'm like, I got that shit. That gym playlist to keep going. That shit said, whoosh, no more iPod. You know, they do that shit with the phones. They come out with the new phone. I 17, your shit all of a sudden start glitching, not working, you ain't here. Nah, maybe I'm losing cert. You gotta go buy the phone. You need a new phone, the updated one, the new phone. XXL Freshman 2023. Glorilla, Friday, Central C. How you feel about that class? I mean, I was on there. I feel great about it. I ain't think I would ever be on a cover of XXL.

1:10:33Wow. I dreamed of it, but I'm like, eh, I ain't never going to get that. Like, if I get a hit, if I pop, I ain't getting that. I would say that to myself. But, you know, coming from a place of doubt, did it do that to you? So when I did get it, I'm like, nah, don't ever. Don't ever self-doubt. Facts. I was proud. You ever feel like some people might have took off before you and he was like, yo, I was right next to him. Like I had this artist, shout out Angelica Villa. She got a project coming out. And I remember she was doing like them showcases at Doja Cat. Nobody knew her. She was performing with her and Angelica had more of the power.

1:11:14She had Fat Joe there with her. I'm pushing her, blowing the bag, this, this, that. And that Doja Cat went to the fucking moon. And I remember that showcase when nobody knew both of them. You know, at least Angelica walked in with the Joe crack. We coming through, furred out. She's looking good. And man, that Doja Cat. So you ever seen that and said, damn, I got to get there or, you know. If I would have seen that, I don't think I would have got my hit. I wouldn't have been blessed with my hit. This is like when you watch somebody else's blessings or somebody else's pockets, then you ain't focused on yours.

1:11:53Talk slow to a little. Yeah, I got a little man. I tell everybody, I don't give a fuck what they say. You know they're going to try to spice my shit up. But you know, I got a little man. I came in the game. I'm selling drugs. I got Beamers and Benzes, Cuban Chains, Iced Out. All these other rappers looking at me like they saw an alien and shit. That's how I came in the game. They could fucking lie if they want. And all the niggas became billionaires before Joe Crack. And I'm sitting here still struggling for the next paycheck. And I'm like, shit, these motherfuckers really got to the billy before me.

1:12:32Like, I was like, you know, so, you know, now they inspire me. Now I'm like, all right, I got to keep going. I know we can do that because I seen these guys before they did that. So I've always looked at stuff like inspiration. Right. You know, that's how I took it. Let's listen to pain one good time. Feel the pain. Feel the pain. Feel the pain. I went to that mall and got some sleepers.

1:13:27I can do whatever I want here.

1:13:53You Why ain't giving niggas nothing he got something to prove I've got too much money to be fucking with you I got plenty options is a hundred of you

1:14:18That baseline

1:14:24You cry for everything You don't cry for love Try to play me like an outcast But bitches are outlast I'ma make you drink your tears in a shot glass I'ma make you face your fears going outside Try and do your big one on me Till I doubt that You don't cry for love but you begging for attention The bundles on my back will put some shame to your interest Instead of trying to keep it P You should have knew your limits Like I wouldn't have you crying in a New York mini No more Lift me up You cry for everything You don't cry for love No more, man No more Live me up You cry for everything You don't cry for love No more

1:15:11Shout out to Mary That bass line Thank you That shit going somewhere else with it, man Thank you

1:15:22What's the name of the project? The new joint? I bet. I bet? He's like, I bet. Say look. No doubt. It's fine. It's that New York show. Yo, this ain't that. That ain't this. It's cracking kiss, goddammit. Make some noise for Lola Brooke, y 'all.

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