Joe and Jada

FERG talks A$AP Mob history, NYC fashion & NEW music on the way

43 min
Mar 5, 20263 months ago
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Summary

A$AP Ferg discusses A$AP Mob's history, NYC fashion culture, and his new music project 'Flip Phone Shorty' with hosts Joe and Jada. The conversation spans Harlem's fashion heritage, the evolution of hip-hop style from the 80s-90s, and Ferg's diversification into visual art, design, and brand collaborations beyond music.

Insights
  • Fashion and music are inseparable cultural currencies in hip-hop—style serves as the entry point to business opportunities and brand partnerships, not just aesthetic expression
  • A$AP Mob's success came from collective creative synergy rather than individual stardom, with A&R figure Yams playing a crucial 'Jedi' role in curating the group's artistic direction
  • Era-based fashion (80s-90s aesthetics) resonates more authentically than trend-chasing, allowing artists to build lasting personal brands that transcend generational gaps
  • Hip-hop's collaborative golden age (Native Tongues model) has eroded due to social media toxicity and public feuds, creating a missed opportunity for collective growth
  • Diversification beyond music—art, design, fashion collaborations—requires understanding your brand as a 'coffee table book' that opens doors to unexpected business relationships
Trends
Nostalgia-driven music and fashion cycles: 2000s-era aesthetics (flip phones, ringtone culture, baggy fits) returning as Gen Z discovers pre-smartphone cultureArtist-as-brand-architect model: rappers leveraging music as gateway to fashion, design, and luxury collaborations rather than music as primary revenueDecline of hip-hop collective culture: social media replacing in-person studio sessions and camaraderie, fragmenting the genre's collaborative foundationLuxury brand-artist partnerships: major brands (Adidas, Calvin Klein, Killian) actively commissioning artists for design and creative directionVisual art legitimacy in hip-hop: rappers pursuing formal art training and gallery recognition, blurring lines between music and visual artsHarlem/NYC fashion heritage commodification: younger generations mining 80s-90s Harlem street culture as authentic aesthetic source materialSneaker and fragrance collecting as status/investment: limited drops and discontinued products driving consumer behavior and brand loyalty
Topics
A$AP Mob collective history and formationNYC Harlem fashion culture and heritageHip-hop style evolution (1980s-2000s)Artist brand diversification strategiesLuxury brand collaborations in hip-hopVisual art and design in music careersSneaker culture and collectingFragrance and luxury goods curationHip-hop collaborative culture declineNostalgia marketing in music and fashionRucker Park redesign projectFlip Phone Shorty project and filmA&R role in artist developmentSocial media impact on hip-hop communityHarlem street culture influence on fashion
Companies
Adidas
Commissioned Ferg to design art pieces for Adidas Soho, including Bronx and Harlem-themed designs
Calvin Klein
Mentioned as potential brand collaboration partner through music platform and artist visibility
Killian Hennessy
Luxury fragrance brand that invited Fat Joe for product collaboration and gifting
Hard Rock Bet
Sports betting platform and official partner of Miami Heat and Orlando Magic
iHeartRadio
Podcast distribution platform hosting Joe and Jada show and multiple other podcast series
People
A$AP Ferg
Primary guest; discusses A$AP Mob history, fashion influence, new music project 'Flip Phone Shorty'
A$AP Rocky
Co-founder of A$AP Mob collective; joined Yams' group two years after initial formation
Yams
A&R and creative director of A$AP Mob; started collective with Chuse and others; influenced early direction
Fat Joe
Co-host of Joe and Jada show; discusses NYC fashion history, sneaker culture, brand collaborations
Run-DMC
Referenced as pivotal figures who changed hip-hop fashion by dressing in street wear vs. costumes
Nas
Referenced in context of mid-2000s hip-hop feuds and East Coast rap conflicts
Dipset
Hip-hop crew that Yams worked with early in A$AP Mob's formation period
Max B
Artist that Yams collaborated with and worked on projects before A$AP Mob era
Pitbull
Miami-based artist Fat Joe collaborated with during Miami hip-hop era
Rick Ross
Miami-based artist Fat Joe collaborated with during Miami hip-hop era
Lil Wayne
Artist who relocated to Miami post-Katrina; collaborated with Fat Joe and Miami hip-hop community
Lola Brooks
Artist guest on show; discussed studio approach focused on therapeutic expression over commercial hits
Zianna Taylor
Young artist working with Beatrix; mentioned as emerging talent with major entertainment opportunities
Pharrell
Referenced as mentor figure that Zianna Taylor aspired to work with
Quotes
"The music is just a coffee book that you read. Is that, yo, I like that guy, A$AP Ferg Music. And then you sit next to the guy and he happens to be the owner of Calvin Klein and you're like, yo, man, we can do some fucking underwears together"
A$AP Ferg
"I went to art school. I went to art. Art school of art and design. High school of art and design. My cop also went to that school. So I was always doing art the whole time. I actually thought that I would be an artist but I was always just rapping."
A$AP Ferg
"We want to see everybody grow, everybody win. We want to support, lend our platform to everybody else. This shit got real funky out here."
Fat Joe
"Yams, that's what he did. He was basically like the Jedi. Yeah, Jedi when it came out of music."
A$AP Ferg
"Your theme and your music is the talking piece to get you into those rooms. and you definitely, it seems like you know how to do that. Everybody don't know how to do that."
Fat Joe
Full Transcript
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Sure, I'm not my dick, too. This is the Fluidity episode. Showcracker Dawn. Your boy Jada. This is the Joe and Jada show. You already know every show legendary. Bring this shit in the nation. Every show legendary. Every show iconic. And we doing shit out with it. Today's guest, you think of the bad boy logo. I think I was coming downstairs bringing bags of merch. Shout out to his pops. Think of the ASAP mob. Think of individuality, hardworking. Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for ASAP, Fer. Shout out to D-Fer. Yeah, you know what I mean? For the D-Fer still got the muscles, me. or some motherfucking getting bought down flopped his fuck tank top on it's over for one of these young guys man and yo listen he missed out on the fashion on the drip and you one of the guys I respect the most cause you throw that shit on you wear that shit to the baldaya the supermarket you gonna come every time with the fly shit on and also the tribute when you did the park over to Rucker Park over. I was there for that circle. Oh yeah, you was there. What's that like being from Harlem? Like, this is a Harlem heritage. We're gonna go into it, guys. I don't think nobody really understands your position in Harlem. What was that like when they tapped you and said, yo, come design Rucker Park over? Shout out to my boy, Seth Free. Seth Free? Yeah, he hit me. He got commissioned to, um, you know, he's too great to end one basketball, the whole thing. Rucker park and he got a call like yo we need somebody to do the pargo we want to do sign over and then he called me and I'm like word? I'm like this makes a lot of sense I just want to kill it so I had called JB, Jayden Brown I was in traffic and we spoke for like four hours about just the origins of basketball and like where it came from and just like the Aztecs and just You know, how the game was made and brought up. Because I wanted to make something that was super monumental. And it just came out amazing. Nah, it came out amazing. Scientifically, that's the God Asiatic. Scientifically. Mark here on. Human. Yo, let's take that. I'm human. I'm human. What's up, brother? You got it? What's up, Frank? What's going on, baby? of art, the music, what we doing? Then tell us what's going on. Oh, yes. I just dropped a project called Flip Phone, Shorty, which is actually, this is the Vitals right here. That's right. Look out. We don't know. So it's like bringing back like that Flip Phone era music, Ringtone era, and I did a whole film behind it. Right now, Dion, my manager, he's working on distribution and everything, so we just didn't do a screen He did one in Art Basel, Miami. And I'm looking to do one in New York, so I'm going to let you know what he's doing. What you want people to get from Split Full Shorty? You want them to feel like they're back in that? Yes, sir. If you see the movie, it really reminds you of State Property, Killer Season, all of the hood movies we love. Literally, that was a reference for this movie, bringing back the 6X shirts, bandanas under the fittings like all of the shit that I grew up singing and then the music just kind of really it creates a suit for that project so yeah like when you see the movie and then they hear the music it'll just take you back, there's like a portal that'll take you back to that time and hour you want to know what's so crazy is when y'all first came out ASAP that was that vibe you gave us with that first video it felt like oh shit. Very nostalgic. Young kids, they just can't get back with that vibe, you know what I'm saying? For me, it's crazy because y'all doing what we used to do. So my daughter comes with some ill jeans and she'll be like, yeah, and then I'll show a picture in 1992. Had the old shut her down quick. You know what I'm saying? Because the youth, they feel like, yo, what's ours? You know what I mean? But they don't know. They tapping into that frequency and so they coming out like, yo, your shit whacked. Oh, gee, my shit. I'm like, yo, bro. Like, I never forget. I had an argument with, uh, what's the name? I say that all the time. Exclusive gang. He told me I'm jacking his style. He said, yo, I've seen you jack my style. So, Ritman, bro. Let's go to the videotape. Where I had the Goya on, love a hoodie on, and all that stuff. Brother, you've been running with BMF at this time. So we tapped into that frequency. I love when you tapped into that. Me, I feel old when they're dressing like we was dressing when I was 20 years old. Motherfucker pull up next to me with that shit. I was like, damn, man, we some old nicks. Nah. That's what we used to do. We can't wait. We can't wait to get the money to jump in a pool with the mink and all of that. Because we know your dad, super hall of legend. The thing I love the most about you and your career is you carve the way for yourself. you earned everything yourself. Anybody who ever found out who your father was, they found out after the fact. They loved you for your style, your talent, and everything. But then, by the way, you know, I used to explain, I used to be like, you know who his father is? And no one knew him. But when Harlem was Harlem, and y'all could tell you, when we used to stand out there and look at the wide-body fences and all that shit coming down, the whole thing was, in the whole New York City from Yonkers to Staten Island. It was 125th and 145th. If you got money in Long Island and you got to stop the ill whip and the fucking ill outfit, your job was to go there. There was nothing else than that. The dream was, I'm going to get me some shit and drive down 145th and I'm going to drive down 125th. By the way, I was the fat Puerto Rican kid in a converted room with Clarence 560 with no shirt on with fucking chains on like this in front of Willie Bergen. Leave the door open on purpose to see if you touch my shit. I don't want to stand, Stuart. But your father had that store, man. That's what dreams are made of. We was coming by. I came by your store a few times to do consignment because he was putting his clothes at your store. You been at stores? Yeah, I've been at stores. That was one of the first things I did when I got on with Flojo. The way it used to work was like, you got to hit record, and then once that shit fade, you ain't get it. That's the term. It had no money either. Even with Flojo, it was number one in America. I was there at $500 a show, so it wasn't no real money. So I was like, okay, what do I do off season? So I got to get me, you know, we're not fashion, we're not being fly. I got to get me a fucking store. So, you know, we grew up with Jew men. It was a store. And that's not to all my Jewish people. It's not the right of its choice. It's the night down at all. That was the name of the store. And the woman who owned it was named Rose. She was a Holocaust survivor. She showed you her numbers. They used to give them her numbers. So Rose. Rose didn't give a fuck about it. This is the wildest time in New York. She be like, yo, up from the home across. I don't give a fuck about nothing y'all talking about. Came out and stole her. She was a legend. Shut up, Teddy. The flying store in New York City. They robbed him. Two stops down on the train, they grabbed his shit back and put his back in the store. Yeah, he's got the whole house. They stopped. And if they like you, they go like this, Joey, I'm going to open this store on the count of three. You run that way. You see the guys across the street over there. You have to run on the train. You got to make it out of it. You got to make it out of it. Niggas ain't have shit. So they used to wait outside of Jewman. And if you was the herb or the Vic, they would even block. I think I was tough. I still had to run. One, two, three, gone. They were running up to the train. Like, that's it. If they love you, they give you a warning. to show you three guys. They're going to rob you. So I have one, two, three, run that way. And I was at like five blocks from there, so I had that, but I was a fat, fat man. So I'm like, but I'm out. You know, you could survive for a Jew, man. It was crazy. Yeah, so that's where we got it from. That's the way we got inspired. You know, I used to go there when I ain't had no one. I just read all the fucking V-bombers, sheepskins, and hang out in there and just watch them negotiate with people. So that was in the Bronx? Yeah, it was in the Bronx. I was going to the Lancy too to get sheepskins and all that. That's where I had to go. One of my first ones came from there. One of my first ones. But the Lancy is where Run DMC made the Lancy. Run DMC changed the game. So before Run DMC, everybody was rapping, was dressed in a costume, like Indians. And they almost felt like a Gap Band. And I'm not lying. You know you tell them the truth Where did I go Be in a them Well he meled them dinner at the lemon suits At Wisconsin That wasn a concert right But DMC, the first guy who dressed like drum gear. And waterfellers also at the cos. He just suits the lemons with his little strings with his hat. Well, it was considered the first. Yeah, sure. It was odd, though. It made everybody want to dress like that. Everybody had to go to the Lansing, because they were shooting their videos at the Mancy and all that. So it was like, yo, we're Mancy Street. You got to go down there. The Bronx to Manhattan was a whole life. It was like a movie of warriors, bro. Like, there's people I know, my grandmother, one of them, that lived 85 years in the same process and never left in the four corners. It's a lot of people. You know, shout out to my stylist, Terrellis, his father passed away, Terrellis. And, you know, I was hanging out with him in the hospital. And I was asking him, like, what you most proud of? He said, yo, I took my family to Paris. You're dying any day now? And you say, that's where I'm most proud of. You know, and it was a big deal because we as artists, we get to travel like we're too black. Right. You know, and so we talk about where we from. a lot of people never left the four corners so you the corner man and corner Brooklyn I used to go to Brooklyn, I went everywhere I'll be square more I remember one time I went to the Coliseum I couldn't find my keys fast and niggas it wasn't always fat fat Puerto Rican nigga with 10 bags, they like we gonna get this nigga, that nigga's on me I gotta get my keys and get up in that motherfucking wick get the fuck up back. It's crazy. No. Listen, I got to say any truth. I tell you when I, you know, when I win and I tell you when I lose. That's the only way to be a great storyteller. You got to tell him to spell backwards. Level. Level spelled backwards is what? Level. Level. How's it by? Adidas Soho I could be. Me versus me. Oh yes, me versus me. I was commissioned to do an art piece for Adidas and a shout out to Yogi. Oh, before you even go into it, don't you feel blessed? Because I don't know how long you was doing art personally, but you presented it to the world not that long ago. Are you already getting commissioned? You're getting fucking out of here. Like that. How did I feel? I feel good because I get acknowledged for something that I've always been into and doing. So I was just vancing, ladies and gentlemen. He did. He did. That's crazy. And I thought we designed the best one. We did the ones with the Bronx, Harlem, Yawgars. We took care of them. We took care of them. It made two. Yo, K, he did get the Yawgars. He made three. That's right. He got one. I got one, y'all. We took care of y'all. Facts got one. We took care of y'all. It made three. I learned that we hit the haul. I got the hauling jewelry, too. It's that same color thick. I know how to come. That's true. Also, y'all raising. I know y'all got a lot of mistouts. I need some of the rough rider jackets. Gosh. I need all of that. No, but it's a blessing, man. Because I went to art school. I went to art. Art school of art and design. High school of art and design. My cop also went to that school. So I was always doing art the whole time. I actually thought that I would be an artist. but I was always just rapping. You are an artist. I am an artist, yeah. Well, visual artist. I thought that I was going to go for that first but I was battle rapping and being in the streets and just listening to music and I always had the love for music so the fact that I'm able to create more life and energy around my brand doing something I always loved is a blessing. And for people to recognize it and embrace it. Well, obviously, you, except Rocky, you guys have learned to diversify. Like with you, you know, you're not just like stereotype or categorized in one category. Like I see you at many different spaces. You're directed by everyone. Yeah. You know, we always say the music. We always say behind the scenes. but we'll tell the fans and all that that the music is just a coffee book that you read. Is that, yo, I like that guy, A$AP Ferg Music. And then you sit next to the guy and he happens to be the owner of Calvin Klein and you're like, yo, man, we can do some fucking underwears together, some A$AP Ferg. And that's how it goes. So your theme and your music is the talking piece to get you into those rooms. and you definitely, it seems like you know how to do that. Everybody don't know how to do that. Some people are just born to be rappers. Some people are born to do shit. There's nothing you can do. I got friends. Now I come up in an underground hip-hop group. They don't want commercial lives. They don't want commercial lives. They don't care. They don't want commercial lives. You know, I had to convince them when I worked with Al-Akuji in my life who's four or five platinum all the time asking me to get in our shop. I had to have like a team meeting and they were like, yo, we don't rock niggas. I was like, yo, I'm trying to come up. What are the other guys? Everybody's good. Everybody do what they do. Diamond is DJ. One of the greatest producers of the last rapper is Diamond. He DJs the 45 joints. I call up on his shows. Finesse is doing his thing. He DJs. And produced, he just produced that album, like, last year, two years ago, he did the remix, it's the Motown. You got to check that shit out. So he did all that Marston Giggs shit over, over hip-hop beats. For everybody OC, everybody out there in Buckwild, Buckwild gave y'all, whoa. Mm, that's a Harlem classic. It is. He was mad in the town, nigga, whoa. Sitting with him now with his father like, whoa. Sitting with him, what? That fucking woke. What did he say? That was about the site. Rap collection, the lit effect. Who's going on? Shout out to Denzel. Shout out to Tia. Nobody's doing it right now. Nobody came together as a clique. I feel like y'all used to do it more so back in the days. A lot of rappers used to hang out together. You see freestyles with X, U, Big Pong. Everybody. Like, we don't really see the camaraderie like that. Like, not just doing music together, but hanging out and building together. And we would just build on it. He was coming to my sessions a lot, knocking out four or five joints each session. I'm coming to his session, the same thing. And we like, yo, let's just form this collective because we had so much energy together. We just wanted to put it out to the world and package it. Damn I. That was that native tongue. by T from Only Love, Jungle Brothers, Drop All Quest, they lost all. Everybody, different crews, but everybody got together and they made some mean classes. It was a nation like that. That's not hip-hop, what? So hip-hop, when I got turned off by hip-hop and I moved to Miami, was when everybody started fighting. I never forget, I'm sorry, guys, I don't want to keep bringing this up, but I was in Jersey, throw the flag throw the flag I was a jersey in my jacuzzi and I'm listening to I'm 87 and I hear either Jim Jones or Cameron say yo that nigga Nas will smack his kofi off that was it for me that was like yo I pulled out the white flag I said we're moving to Miami I can't take this shit no more because they were violating pharaohs the kings of Egypt in hip-hop. It just came a time when New York was just violating each other so much where I was like, yo, I grew up... Let me tell you a fun fact that you don't know. Something you never heard before. Right? If you look closely to Black Sheep's video, Engine, Engine, I'm one of the guys, John. Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. Back on the scene. Chris Gitt, like an extra. I better find that. everybody's video everybody was in mind when I did Flojo, Greg Nice came Beat Nuts came Grand Poobah came fucking Donny D, Finesse everybody came and that was the first song I ever had out we loved each other in hip hop we had a type of camaraderie that was just we didn't care it was competition lyricity but it wasn't it was like we want to see everybody grow, everybody win. We want to support, lend our platform to everybody else. This shit got real funky out here. And so, you know, I went to Miami and started that. Worked to McCallie, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Little Wayne. Little Wayne came from Katrina. They all fucked up. We wanted to be came to Miami. I was the first one with open arms to welcome him and date. And we all working together, making songs together, jumping out. I finally that camaraderie while I was down there when I stayed all making rains and all that. It was because everybody was working with each other up here. It was sort of like now. You know, it's like, um, I love social media, and I love to watch what's going on in the world, and I love to know. But it's ugly out there. Everybody's just bonk, scomp, disrespecting each other. Bonk, scomp. I just be like, yo, wow. Now this, now it's like every day, you know, the phone. I don't know about y'all, but I wake up. Thank you, God. Say my prayer. And I grab the phone. That's how I know. But I'm Jesse. Jesse died. That's how I know the news. That's how I know everything that's going on for the day. Now, sometimes at a time, I pick it up. Oh, this girl saying fuck the other girl. This guy, he's saying, but it's a really ugly time. in America. Why are you laughing? I got confirmation, by the way. No cap. I got speech. I'm joking. You did? We know he was in the video. You're the leader of the Cap Coalition. What are you talking about? You are in the flag. You are in there. You started. Everybody's calling me Cap. I don't know how it is. You're throwing that face on like, yo, I don't know. I don't know. I think I'm talking about it. There's nothing. If you slow your brain down a little bit, I was telling them for the episode, not even you to find it, James, that put it on the thing when we put the clips. Jesus. That's a snafu fact. I'm in that video. I'm in a bunch of videos. Unless you say you was in Remember the Time. No. But what I can say is it was a time we all embraced each other you know what I mean so it's good that y'all got together they got running that coalition they got just making you know you gotta make you know we had an artist on here she's short but feisty Lola Brooks and she said she said I don't go to studio to make you hit that's what me I go to make you hit like if Fat Joe put out a record and you feel like he shot the video he put the back and it don't blow no I failed. I'm not playing with these people. I don't throw them out but throw them out. 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Her podcast, Thanks Dad, is full of funny, heartfelt conversations with actors, including fellow SNL alums, comedians, musicians, and more, about life and their wonderfully complicated relationships with their fathers. I think and hope that's a good thing. Get to know Ego. Follow Thanks Dad with Ego Wodum and start listening on the free iHeartRadio app today. When it comes to y'all, right, so I didn't know much about... What was his name? Yeah, he said, yeah. Like, I didn't know him. Could you describe how he became a part of the team and how he influenced the people? Because I see y'all be having, like, Yams Day. Yeah. And I see mad artists. Tell me they love Yams. Like, you know, on social media. So tell me about him and his contributions that are always that. So with Yams, he made ASAP. Like, he started ASAP along with Chuse and like a few other guys, Bari, me and Rocky joined like two years later. So it was just a collective of creative people. And it was like a bunch of teams in Harlem before ASAP. So Tiana was down with a crew called Team Nerd that she started that Yams was a part of. And I was part of a crew called Harlem Emby. Rocky was a part of a crew called Million Dollar Babies. And then when the crew started to fade out of Harlem, we formed ASAP where we all came together as HNAF. So Yams, that's what he did. So yeah, because I seen a lot of respect from him, a lot of high praise and stuff like that. And so I never knew what he really did. But Yams also worked with Dipset and he worked with our early Max B. So he used to like work with Karen, still will pack up all the CDs. He used to be in the books, reading like all of the articles on music. So he was like our A&R. He was basically like the Jedi. Yeah, Jedi when it came out of music. Let me tell you something right now. Okay? Want me to go or you don't want me to go? Go ahead. Go. It's some shit right now. We just talked about hip-hop. You know how disgusting it is in the monster world right now? I just caught an algorithm in L.A. By mistake, it's mad old school killer rats. Like, your man, what's your man? told Lil Jon Gotti, send me the bulls, but it's a bunch of them. Right? All rats! And they up here with podcasts, the people following them, and this is so crazy to me that, you know, I feel like Coaster Nostra, the mafia creator, does snitches, gets stitches, and trickle down to the hood like, yo, mind your business. I seen this rat nigga, man, he said he called out somebody who's still a boss. ooh, then you got I don't know, he said, you got but listen to this, you got a week to get in touch with, he's a wreck talking to like a mafia dog who's still boss, you got a week to respond, all the 12 chapters is coming out, we're gonna start with the depper, Johnny Wilkinson, I seen yo, he's on Instagram, so everybody's gonna talk about murders that these guys committed, they know like you better talk to me. I'm going to tell him about it. And you see the comments, they were like, oh, I never knew Johnny Wilkerson was killed by the ball. I thought I'm just picking the name. These shit made hip-hop look like Sunday school, bro. I looked at these shit, I said, oh, no, they got a problem. This shit is a problem. We think that we looking at what's going on in hip-hop because you got a whole society of that. Right. You know, but the mafia got a problem. So back to the music. I heard something, and I told you real quick. I said, yo, this shit. You know, the thing about you is your clothes. Is your most famous bar in the... Chardonnay with my dick tone. Huh? Chardonnay with my dick tone. Come on, man. We bang out a flash. Hey, buddy. Don't do fucking flash, buddy. It's shit. I start thinking about my dick, son. No! All in here, got me feeling like dip-dolls for the Vint-Dolls. I don't know. All the honeys be coming up to me saying that, son. That's the honeys. The real niggas just think, all in here, got me feeling like dip-dolls for the Vint-Dolls. I wouldn't even think that. And you would? Nah, I know. When you're in the clubs, that's the biggest... Oh, they drop the music every time and it goes, No, man. Can we feel it like it is what it is? Yeah. Come on, man. You know, in certain things, in certain songs, you know, what's love got to do with a little Menard? Which one is yours? He was the model for a year and a half. I love that song. Fuck you talking about? Wait until the next episode, I'll take my glasses off. I already run this tube with my glasses on, so. How about we do the next episode? My name is UTFO, the educated rapper. The doc. Yo, them niggas was nice. Don't jump. Shoot me like Gary. They didn't wear the air. It was way too early for them to have them flows. It's in that coffee, though. I'm pitching the shout-out, baby. I'm here for the sky. There's a good chance y'all gotta deal with me for another 10-20. Y'all got 20 on y'all. Let me tell you something. As long as my sugar stay down, my cholesterol, all that, oh, y'all gonna deal with Fat Joe till he's about 70 years old or some shit like that. You better know what's crazy. There's one guy who's filthy bitch. Tracy Morgan begs me every time he sees the joke. He needs some money. Working or investing. every time. I'm going to see him at the late game tonight. Joe, can I invest in something? You need some money? He's the nicest guy you'll ever see. Come to my store, shop, buy shit for the customers. He walks out of Madison Square Garden and he see a dude that used to... Dude, it's like, yo, I'm homeless. He's like, bro, I ain't do that to you. I remember. I remember. They think you got to forget. No, nigga, we was all broke. And you, my friend, was abusing me when we was broke. I don't give a fuck. The guy's like, when you rich, he's like, fuck you. I don't care. It was that serious. Now, I don't know if I got the heart to do that for you. I do. You do You do Oh I get you back though Now I get a back it up in a fucking with with some first shit and all that They got to look at me. They've been doing this forever. The guys who used to bully me in junior high school, they all work in like Madison Square Garden, and they scalpless forever. And so when I pull up, they open the doors now. Yo, Crap, what's up? Yo, remember me? Do you remember me from Noble Street, Chief? We used to be down back in the days. It happens all the time. Besides your dad, who's some of your biggest influences in fashion? I don't even think your style. I think your style is era-based. It's not off no people. It's off a time. It's off a timeline. Yeah, era. Yeah, era for sure, definitely. I would have to say everybody from the 80s and early 90s, early 2000s. Yeah, I was looking at a lot of, I mean, first drug dealers, like going through the Fez magazine and seeing the old pictures of Richard Porter and, you know, all the guys. And then my uncle, his friends. Yeah, how my moms, and they used to carry themselves. Very classy, fly. And then, like, when the rappers, I started seeing the rappers moving and grooving. Like, it was just, like, you was the first person I seen with like a million PSNs in your crib. Joey, we killed fucking LA. Shout out to Bray and Jordan. They had the game on locked in LA, so they had drops in all the stores, different drops. Me and him was going shoo, shoo. I ran up on so many stores in LA. Now I got security in LA. God bless Fat Jordan. I've died in LA. It's the one place I got three security. trapped to death. I'm not playing with them. Right? But when I walk up with Rich Gleyer, me, and three fucking securities, they thinking this is the Trevor Squad for real. So I'm just walking in the store. I'm like, yo, where's SAC? I need a SAC. They're like, yo, shit, don't come off the next... I need SAC. I did that to one fighting store. I get a phone call. It's Reggie from Joe. He said, Joe, you gotta stop. We ran down on every store, like going into, I go into the closet. I went and got the fucking, they was not trying to get me a purple laser force. No, I went into the storage. So I was 12, you know, that shit was like East LA or something like that. The girl was looking at me like, yo, what's going on? The glory to the story is I love collecting sneakers, so I had to have them. And so I got the call from Reggie. He said, please make a huge, sir. Come to my old child. I'm going to give you everything you want. You can't keep running down on these stores like you do. It's not doing me the hell out of you. He sent me four units. You know, I actually put this guy out. Everybody sent me. Yeah. I ain't sent you over to the house. I ain't sent you. You got you. Y'all stole a Jeff Hamilton. You don't have to steal. Then there's some sneakers and shit. Like, don't ever, you know, one time, one time I'm on tour, me, Nelly, Jane, Bow Wow, Snoop, Kerry O's, a bunch of people. And this dude came to say, y'all, I want y'all to come to my store and get whatever you want for free. The niggas took the nails off the chair, like niggas just walking out there with Versace. The man had no story. when they finished the game by a while you didn't take the stickers off the thank you brother you looked out there no more store in Australia they just took everything I'm from that school shout out to the sister what was her name you was fronting like you knew or the girl she marked from April I told you about the It's my flow! Yes! But let me figure out the Foot Locker deal. You don't know, April. He didn't know. Just yesterday, I got invited by the brand Killian. You know, Killian Hennessy is a brand I've been using forever. Cologne. Went up in there and giving me framers shit. I'm like, y'all love this, that, this, that. And these kinds of themes, too. Rich. Rich playing is like, yo, I love this flavor. I love that. He called the fans, Burkle Fours. It was like the golden chap. He was like this, man. Oh, look, look, okay, let me tell you what happened. I did tell you that other part of the story, part two. I go in the closet, I get the later Fours. I woke up, girls looking at me like, she look at me like, are you doing this? She don't give a fuck. She don't play that. But, you know, Spat Joe, Securities Act, like everybody acting like they don't want it. to be honest with you. So she's looking like, you know, but as I'm leaving, Rich turns around and goes, you know I need sides 10. I said, oh, this is when robbing the place goes bad. Like, I already see I got lucky with the 12. Rich player turns around and goes, yo, you have to do this 10. She's like, you don't come out to next month, this, this, this, this, this. I'm like, we'll spook. We need that. he got it he went to Killian, shout out to Killian I love the cologne Stoho took care of me Mr. Killian, thank you so much I've been a big fan so I used to use this fragrance called Beyond Love right, and they were running out they said it discontinued and I bought me a fucking barrel a barrel of, it might have been $20,000, a barrel of Beyond Love and every day, you know, for years, I would just, you know, because if you like me and you love fragrances, when they tell you it's over length up, I got another brand I use. The date discontinued that, man, I went to Dubai, bought every jar you could think. I mean, I got about 40 or 50 bottles in the house. Like, I don't even think I'll live long enough to spray that shit. When I'm addicted to a flavor, I got to have that shit. And you telling me it's over, it's never coming back, let's continue? That's how they get us for the Amex 9-5 all the time. The neon green come out, they be like, last run. I'm going to get nine pairs. Yo, I need nine pairs. That's how I did that just the other day. We love that. We love it. Them shots, them gray and yellow joints, gray, white, and yellow, all fours. Somebody gave me, what's the girl, my girl? she worked for Cali the Lightspeed Girl man that's just respect I seen that at the All-Star game but her husband got a clothing line he did a collab with Night I we're all day I gotta find these shit these shits are like sweatband gray and orange yo man what's that shit they sent you a pair too on the palace dude the palace dude they got the orange and the gray yes it was apparel it was the apparel or the sneakers the sneakers the sneakers the palace did what's the standstill that Steven Victor did DNA. Alice did when I was fly. It's gray and gray. Oh, Alice did. Yo, matter of fact, that's like a Jadakiss sneaker. No bullshit. No, no. That's a Jadakiss sneaker. You know, Jadakiss, I never even do this. Like, designer. So I threw him on the date to my daughter. It was like, look there. Throw him on. That's a Jadakiss. That's a Jadakiss thing you hear this guy. That's what I'm saying. He made one of those skinny people. I'm probably I can't even... Alice, where we get it from, man? Where we at? Let me tell you, so let us know when the project's coming out. Flip phone shortings. Deluxe. What's up with Deluxe? Oh, yeah, Deluxe. I want to play something for y'all. Let's go play something, baby. Are you on the Deluxe? No, no. So if T.I.N.A. Stella came on in the mall fucking... You know, I got this massage chair. It picks me up in the air, massages my ass. Yo, let me tell you something. It's a massage chair. And a shout-out Simone, a massage therapist. But, you know, I'm in that chair listening to that Zianna Taylor, that Joy, you on a remix. I can't wait to hear. We should play that on the show. She got a release. Well, man, she's doing big shit right now, going to Globes and Emmys and all that. But that's a T. I know at 10 years old, working for Beatrix. She's one of the only people that ever ran up on me. I'm going to be famous. I'm going to be a star. I'm going to this. She used to have a little bike in Harlem and pull up on me. And I'm going to be down with Pharrell. I'm going to... She did all that shit. This ain't that. That ain't this. It's cracking. Just got some noise for Ferg, baby. Hey, y'all, Papu, for you, Abe, I want to give you all y'all flowers, man, because y'all doing amazing work, because y'all been doing it for umpteenth years. Y'all show all of us how to do it, how to keep y'all integrity, how to move and groove in a game, stay alive and thrive, because y'all not just being alive. I appreciate y'all. I love y'all. Thank y'all for inspiring, Lee. With the new Sky, you know what I'm saying? How Jada does the intro, every now and then we might need that little click. Yeah. Yo, name of the album? Flip on Shorty. Flip on Shorty out right now. Uptown Baby Deluxe OA. Woo! Let's go. All right, man. Let it go. I'm Clayton Eckerd. In 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. But here's the thing. Bachelor fans hated him. If I could press a button and rewind it all, I would. That's when his life took a disturbing turn. A one-night stand would end in a courtroom. The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. Listen to Love Trapped on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ego Woda is your host for the 2026 iHeart Podcast Awards, live at South by Southwest. Hello, is anybody there? Raised by a single mom, Ego may have a few father-related issues. Are we supposed to talk about your dad? Her podcast, Thanks Dad, is full of funny, heartfelt conversations with actors, including fellow SNL alums, comedians, musicians, and more about life and their wonderfully complicated relationships with their fathers. I think and hope that's a good thing. Get to know Ego. Follow Thanks Dad with Ego Wodum and start listening on the free iHeartRadio app today. Ready for a different take on Formula One? Look no further than No Grip, a new podcast tackling the culture of motor racing's most coveted series. Join me, Lily Herman, as we dive into the underexplored pockets of F1. including the astrology of the current grid, the story of the sport's most consequential driver's strike, and plenty of other mishaps, scandals, and sagas that have made Formula One a delightful, decadent gumster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to No Grip on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. I'm joined by Luke Combs, award-winning country music artist and one of the most authentic voices in music today. The guy that says he's always going to be there and that will do anything to be there is the only guy that's not there. No matter what, I'm going to prioritize my wife and my children. I dread the conversation with my son. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.