AZ talks ‘Doe or Die 3,’ legacy of ‘Illmatic,’ Jay-Z vs. Nas era & shady hip hop industry stories

He's just four bars of life for big. Just four. Just give me four bars. Let me hear it, Joe. No, no, no. I'll fuck everything up. I'll fuck up my own one. You don't want me. I want it. Life and actuality. Fuck who's the baddest. Personal status. Tender thattery. And my mentality is money orientated. What? Let's go, crowd. That's the closest he got to them. Just so I'm proud of you. It's the motherfucking dog in the garden. All this shit right here. Bad-own, nigga. Joe Crat. You know who it is, you boy. Jada, this is the Joe and Jada show. Every show legendary. Every show iconic. And we got the pressure on. And we're going to continue on stepping on your suffocates. Joe, he said, your man Bill Barr said nobody want beef with us. Bill Barr, he said, yo, you beefing with no beef with air, Joe. Yeah, that's you. Now I watched that episode of the niggas say, yo, you beefing with your Joe. He said, Joe, why are you coming to podcast looking for beef with all the podcast? He said, nobody got beef with you. I said, yo, man, I just, that's it. I'm about to be the beef of this. I need some shit. Check it out. When you think of today's guests, he's another good friend of ours. Don't let that go over your head. Because I know you want to be a part of and amongst the elite. But you can't. You think of today's guests, you think what it truly means to be an emcee. You know what I mean? Not just someone who raps, or someone who commands the craft. Think about what I'm telling y'all now. From being the first voice you heard on one of the greatest albums ever created of all time. The greatest album of all time. To carving out a solo legacy that stands on its own without question. If you know, you know. This man has never had to chase anything because everything came to him through sheer skill and discipline. The street certified him. Hip hop crowned him. He's back with Doha. 3. One of the most underrated. One of the most smoothest. One who knows how to get low, come back, get the dove, then get low again. He specializes in that. Talk slow for the niggas in the back. Completing a trilogy that only a real one could finish. Put some respect on his name. Ladies and gentlemen, A.Z.s and I. Beautiful intro man. Beautiful intro. Appreciate it. Appreciate you for coming to the realness. So what KISS is alluding to, I'm sorry for cutting it. No, no, go ahead bro. You can do a very good job at it. This platform is telling me for guys like you. I was just telling them. This shit is telling me. A.Z. A lot of other shock jocks and all that. They with the bullshit. The real stops here. And just respected. So you looking at A.Z. went to four podcasts. I know your team telling you to promote. They're going to stop at this one. What the fuck, Joe crack and KISS top five. Got to say about the guard A.Z. This is where hip hop stops. And it's telling me for you. I'm going to tell you right now. I love everybody. It's not too many people. I'm honored to have on the platform. I'm truly honored to have you on here. When he's explaining, there's just no way to explain it. It's the same 2000 years from now. We don't know if the aliens is here or something, but they're going to come down and say there was a genre created by oppressed people. Hip hop music. And they're going to talk about that. Theomatic. And they're going to talk about A.Z. That's how big this is. So I'm overstanding your presence and what you have done for hip hop. He's unexplainable with shit. Like, you know how we go and look at the pyramids and shit like that. You in the pyramid of hip hop. That's a lot right there. I'm telling you the truth. I know what the fuck I'm talking about. You in the pyramid. You like, you know, it's fucking A.Z. There's no way to explain this. There's no way to define you on a rap level because you was light years ahead of everybody since day one, since we heard you. And by the way, this album, this shit phenomenal. Thank you. I peaked it last night and I peaked it first thing this morning. This album right here is done perfect. And there's a lot of ways you could take it. You know what I mean? So you say there's a huge J.Z. interview where he was saying, you know, all the guys need to be talking about all the shit, this and this and that. Or whatever the case. I feel like this album, you stood true to who you are. Me, I'm one of the older guys to sell drugs on my music shoot. Your mom's all like, I don't give a fuck. You know what I mean? I'm not asking my change. I don't. That's real. I'm not acting my age, but I understand what he said. And the thing that's so perfect about this album, you think of rock groups, YouTube, Journey, everybody. When you buy they shit, it sound like you at that same concert in Woodstock or something like that. When I get your album, this one right here, that's what I want to hear. That shit was perfect. Appreciate you. Every joint on there felt like, all right, I'm with AZ. Yeah, that shit crazy right there. Like I told my wife, I said, get ready. We're going to drive in the car to this shit when I get back home because this shit feel too good. I got out of the sound system. I want to hear this shit in the car, driving around. This shit is a vibe from A to Z. So salute on that because everybody can't, you know, a lot of our icons and pioneers fell off when they got our age. Let's just keep it a buck. You definitely hate Luz, one flow, one bar, no nothing. Your shit is A1. How do you come together with doing this album like this to perfection? What made you say, y'all, I'm picking these beats? I'm going to do this. I mean, I didn't think I was going to get the response like that. Not from you, per se, or from the peoples, but I was working on the album prior. And then I realized the 30th anniversary was coming out. I was just going to put lyrics, the same lyrics with different beats. I started that. I reached out to the kids. Appreciate you came through on giving yours with Esco. He did that. I did whole happy Jackie. And then it just started growing its own life. And out of Maine, I just stepped into that zone right there. Man, that Jackie is right. The beats, the selection is crazy. And Nigga Nas gave you one of the firsts. Yes, Esco. Yes. I needed that. It felt good. It felt great. No. I feel like a reunion right there. I mean, yeah, yeah, but I've been seeing the reunion. I got Instagram. Like, I've been working. Yeah, right? Right? It's like, we know that's your man forever, but lately, I don't know if you got a little casino money or something. You all in the pics. I'm like, yo, what's up? What's going on? There were insurgences. I don't know what's going on. I see. I love it. You're like, you got to get out the house, man. Come on, let's go. Yeah, he right. Yeah, it was time. He hit me with a text like, so now or never. That was last year. And at the last, I was like, okay, I know what that meant. But, you know, he kept me with him on the shows. And he made it happen. How proud are you of nods? I don't know if Niggas are asking you that same question everywhere you go. With me, I follow the money. Joe crack all about the money. And that money trail right now. Yeah. For now. So how proud are you when you, you know, Queensbridge projects? I'm inspired. The birth Niggas is eating for chicken wing french fries. Now your man building casino. What's that like for you to see with your own eyes and be in the circle? Yeah, I'm inspired because I remember the conversations of I just want to put an album out one album. Then from there, like, I'm going to go platinum one time. Oh, I just want one man. Now we here. I seen it, you know, and he moving faster than I'm, you know, I was moving. I'm just keeping the style. So when I hit a pie hole, I set back and kept going. That's inspirational. You know, you just a fly niggas. You know, we got names for niggas like you know what I'm saying? I never seen you without a fresh cut without a fly fit driving whatever's new. Mine and your fucking business in the supermarket is niggas like you. You know what I'm saying? They're very rare. That's right. No, it's almost like met the man in belly. Remember how he come through with the egg racks and fly from state to state. You wanted them niggas in real life. That's a fact. No, you wanted them niggas. I don't never got to worry about AZ. Every time I ever bump into him, he got the new foreign shit. He fly your crack with something nigga. You know, smooth and moving. I'm out the way. Yeah. I'm trying to stay out the way. That's impressive. Yeah. Because we seen some of the greatest of the greats. Some of the niggas we knew. I've seen a nigga I knew beat the feds four times. He was the realest nigga I ever seen in my life. Get on Instagram. And man, he got caught up in the suck my dick. Fuck you. Like he was like, he's responding to nondes. And I'm like, damn, he lost a little strike from like being a. Being the everlasting legend of life. I'm like, damn, man, he wasn't ready for the young Instagram trolls. And they're like, you never got into that shit. I watched it. I'm not going to get it, but I watched from afar. Like you should, right? Yeah. So you know what's going on. You just like. I see it. I see it. I see the shit. And it ain't for everybody. But your shit is like, you know what I'm saying? The smooth you mind your business. You out the way you come out when you want to. Do you know, right? Cause we don't, we don't know, right? We all kids, we grew up with nothing. And I don't know about kids, but I'm still ain't got what I want. And I still keep working for it, working towards it. Do you know how legendary? Like, do you, does it sink into you when we say shit? Like, yo, legendary pyramid. Nah, I don't think they're not at all. I don't. It's crazy. Stay focused. Stay away from the conversation. I don't talk that much. Y'all got to talk. I don't talk that much. I need it. He won't stop. Let him. I don't let you speak. Niggas just throwing tomatoes at me. I'm so far beside. Yo, let the God speak. Niggas, shut the fuck up. Yo, crap. That's in Memphis. That's in Compton. That's in New York. Ain't already shitin' on me already, y'all. That's that. Yo, won't let the God speak. What the fuck, my nigga? Like, that's the G. And you can taste the difference for real. The 1800 Cristilino and Respa-Sato is what we've been on lately. Smooth, clean, elevated. No rough edges, just a premium pour that speaks for itself. You know when something is just built right? That's what this is. Real talk. That's just what it is. It's always around for the best nights, the wins, the celebrations. The remember that night stories. Whether you're keeping it low key with the crew or you pull up to something big, 1800 fits every second. It ain't trying too hard, it's just as that. 1800 to killer, real legacy, real smooth. That's the move. Pop-out. The original Doha Doha came out 1995. What did it do? What made you say it was time now? What felt it just felt right over? It was 30 years later. 1995, I just got in the game like, what's going on? I didn't know what was going on. It was new to everybody. That life's a bitch verse got me into, got me to deal from there. I was new to it, you know what I mean? And I learned from there. Music was learned from there. You give me four bars of life a bit. Just four. Just give me four bars. Let me hear it, Joe. No, no, no, I fuck everything up. You told me to go on a nigga. I'm on the head. I fuck up my own life. You don't want me. Real life is the realest. Life and actuality, fuck who's the baddest, personal status, tender salary, and my mentality is money orientated. What? Let's go, crack. That's the closest he got to them, just so I'm proud of you. He did it. Man, that shit, damn boy, that's the... Master Pill. You got this project tied to Master Pill? Yeah, Quad Money Music, Master Pill. I knew it was a partnership, but I knew it was Nye's home. It felt good, like I said, like a reunion. It was easy. No doubt. I see what's going on over there, Master Pill. Oh, you ain't trying to do everything? What the fuck does that mean? Were you always trying to say some... I see what's going on over there. Do you know how you work? No. You see what's going on over there? Oh, the fuck... That's the... That's the... We can talk. Perhaps they called me already. How you know what you know? They called me. Woo! That's the perfect fit. They doing shit over there. They are. They understand our texture and what kind of music that we do. And they doing partnership. They ain't signing nobody. It's not like you getting signed. It's like a distribution. Right. So you own your own masters. Oh, yeah. You own D. Yeah. That's... I mean, that's the best bet right now anyway. You know what I'm saying? That's the only way right now. People hold... Like, you know, this industry is a terrible industry. So it's like... When you see Salt and Pepper fighting for their masters, you see this shit 30-year push. They ain't like... They ain't like everybody fighting for their shit. It's like... Yeah. It's like slavery all over again. So the only way to be is your own boss. Especially somebody like you. We going on the 30-year anniversary. You don't need no label for nothing. Try to be all partnerships. But I've been independent like 0-4. We've got so... Wasn't doing that much, but had to keep it rolling. And he's seen it. Like, listen, here's the life rest. Come on. What the hell? Well, you deserve that. You deserve everything, to be honest with you. You know, it ain't too many... Nas is lucky, right? Because there ain't too many people... You can sit across the chair from them. You can start it with. You know what I mean? And you can look at them and know their true intentions. And know like, yo, we here now, but that's my man. A once is day one. And he's loyal. You like a motherfucker. That's... In this world, in this life, to have loyalty is fucking priceless. And let me tell you something. It don't always work. I got a phone call today driving down here. One of my man's was like one of my brothers. Like, a Nas and you. He was like, yo, something about to come. I need you to stand firm. But I said, I thought we was over. Nigga, we 50-something. He like, nah, I need you to stand firm, nigga, in the pink. Remember when you had this beef? Remember when you had that? I said, yo, you ain't even got to explain. That's where we're going? You want me to be in the pink with you? I'ma be in the pink. You don't never got to ask. I've been in the pink with you in physical life. You think a rap life, I ain't going to be in the pink with you. I'm just like, you know, but it's a luxury. You know what I'm saying? To have that loyalty going, man. Shout out to Diggin' In the Craigs, my nigga Diamond D, Finesse, all of them. For, you know, putting me on, putting me in the game, and always being the same. That's hard. I know the locks got that. You know what I mean? But I got that too with Diggin' In the Craigs now. Terris Claw, we had a whole bunch of fucking... Then they gone over. Nigga, come rob the nigga. I'm doing a song with the nigga. Nigga, like, yo, my man, let me, I like you for a second. You see that watch? What kind of watch is that? Yo, my man like, Terris Claw scandalous. Diggin' In the Craigs, we all been A-OK. You know? How important is legacy and longevity? That's everything, man. I mean, the work you put in, that last lifetime, legacy is everything. That's why I feel everybody keeps going. Some people go for the money. I take legacy. You the pastor, that's family. That's everything. You going on the European tour? Can't wait. You going to some mean spots, Dublin, Paris, London, Berlin. They love hip-hop. Stockholm. Nice bags over there, too. Nice bags over the water. You going to do a US tour? Can't wait for that nigga. Let me ask you something. How do you do it, right? Like, so do you make a, you go out, you make a pile of money and you live off this money until you need some more money? Because, no, no, there's different techniques. We teach your niggas out here. That's your game plan, right? Right, right, right. But, uh, Rose called a seizure on the fucking airplane and I know for a fact that that very next day, he was in Paris performing. He'd go for every bag under the sun. You different. You like, you get your bag up, cruise control. Right. Need a new bag. You hit the right on the head. That's it. That's it. That way you have some type of normal life. You watch family feud and shit. He right. He fucking right. Yeah, you right. All of that. That's a nice, that's a nice formula though. Go load up, get low. I think hold up, I think once you pass a certain number, you can't really stop and do that. You could pass a 20 to 30. You can't, you know what I mean? I don't know about 20 to 30 games. I ain't never had it, but let me tell you something. You know what happened to me? I used to do it like you. Right. Right. So one of the biggest mistakes and one of the greatest mistakes is, it's good and bad was I moved to Miami. So we party seven days a week out there. And so, you know, all you do in Miami is you catch a suntan in the daytime, that night was popping spot. We pulling up. But so I would go on tour, get a bag and for like three, four months, I'd just be in Miami. But dinner. Right. And then when I caught the tax problem, that's when I realized, you got to make money when you, at least for me, I got to make money when I don't even need it. I got to go get money because dumb niggas, when I tell you, you got, say, Fat Joe was worth $50, but they threw the dice that I arrested and that shit landed on $49 and 50. I don't know. I didn't came up with the number saying, you are officially dead broke, my nigga. Like you ain't got nothing no more. I'm like, holy shit. So that's why I came out here and I was like, yo, I got to do the Rick Ross. I got to go and go and go because I never know when he's going to throw a curveball on me. You know what I'm saying? So that's that's that. I love your philosophy more, but they think you're going to get it. But they, they, they'd stung me to be stung. But that made you do that, right? Yeah. Okay. That made me feel like I ain't got enough to you. Right. Right. Looking at Ms. in your bed, at least for me, coming from the project free trees, welfare, face to face, everything you can, every bum nigga shit you ever could think of. That's me. If I'm looking for like 10 years at Ms. in the bank, I'm thinking I'm rich. Like I'm like, yo, I'm good. I'm straight. I'm niggas came and said, yo, you know what we need. They even told me about money. I ain't know why. I had. They said, yo, we saw something. When I first got money back in the day, the account that I had at the time made me do like a retirement account. Like, well, fuck. I swear to God. I didn't know about this. The niggas came back and said, oh, and we found the retirement. Well, you might want to give us that too. I was like retirement. I looked at this shit like a half a million of it. We can use that, sir. You won't have to sell the art or your house. We can use that right there. I was like, yo, the niggas was violating me. The IRS nigga walked my house. So let me tell you something. In America, we got so many. It's like we live in a lot. The UFOs just came out yesterday. Real UFOs. And I know everybody's scared to death. They now try to talk about it. The real aliens is outside and the government is saying congratulations. They outside. Don't be mad. Don't be mad if you see a nigga did he bopping that 125th? Because it might happen. They outside. They can't control them. The quiet. They can't control that no more. Can't believe they read, Paul. No, my nigga, the Pentagon put that out. The United States government. What they do? They believe anything the Pentagon put up? It's okay. You don't want to believe. I'm just saying niggas don't want to believe because they outside. Right? So why did I go there? What was I saying before that? Who's listening? Huh? Yeah, niggas said, you know, you think you're on your house. Yeah. This was violating me just walking through my house. Yo, this painting's about 20,000 Romeo Brito paid his couch from Chanel. Wow. You could probably get 15 niggas was walking through my crib. Right? Fox nigga. Yes. That's crazy. Niggas want to happen. Nigga, I came home up with me a bench of 500 and it was like, I don't know if the government's going to be happy that you buy the 500 banks when you're all more less money. I was like, yo, that shit is a horrible feeling when you are your own boss. An entrepreneur or this, you start feeling like less of a man out that bitch. You know, they definitely walked in my crib without permission. Diddy bop through my shit with price tagging ferns on type. Might have one big sale, the Fat Joe sale. I'm like, yo, that shit. So that taught me to like work when I ain't got to work. I just got to keep going because motherfucking to throw you a wild card any day. Today's show is brought to you by our presenting sponsor hard rock bet Florida sports book second round of the NBA playoffs are here. Fantastic on hard rock bet every night. Your chance to score a major bucket. Winner, go home energy on the hardwood. Same game parlays. 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Same here. Yeah, you not listening. Ain't too many young cast that really are that move me like that. Now some few cast to get bit actually the battle rap cast get busy. I like them. Yeah, they be getting busy. Yeah, I can't do it. Fuck your mother suck my dick. I'll smack this shit out of your bitch right there. Her name's Margaret and Margaret got fucked by three niggas and I can't. We talking about the battle rap cat. They be doing I'm like Margaret knows she fuck Johnny Jim and the God Supreme. He hit it with the mathematics. This like yo my nigga. That's a foursome. This and you standing there like yeah God nice balls niggas like hey and what did we do to her? Hit it with the mathematics God. Yeah, this like nah nigga like I ain't doing that shit. Nah they get busy. They get busy man. Yeah, they lyrical but I can't stand there with them. I used to like the nigga had ice. Remember had ice. He got busy. That nigga know where and be like. Oh man. Ice. That nigga was like their DMX for the battle rap. That nigga come out and know where you at. That that that. Ice. He's like yo this nigga cold man this nigga right here he ice had ice. I wonder why he still doing it. I ain't seen him in a while. He used to crush his shit. That ice was nice. Uniqueness the new single with Mike and Kees how'd you come up with that? Oh man that beat that was it. It was no hook nothing that was it. Go I like when I get that. Are we gonna hear that later? That was a vent. I know which song. You can play uniqueness. Exactly. Let's crank that joint man. That's how you give it. Mike and Kees making a lot of noise huh. In the production game. I seen static select. Yo your album is incredible bro. I'm telling you right now. Door died three y'all. I like Billy Dan's album. Don't waste your time with all this bullshit. Yo Billy Dan's album. Billy Dan's album. What? You and me Billy Dan's album yet? Shout out to Billy Dan's. I'm on it too. Fire. Yeah you doing shit. I'm gonna send you a fucking song. You gonna do something for me motherfucker. You are everybody's shit now. I turned it up. Yo kill me with the one more. I said damn I can't even get him on a song. The man right next to me. I got an album coming out of her y'all too. No. That's what I heard? Yeah. Soon. Soon the universe aligns itself. Feel the lights a little more. Crank that shit. Say like some Bobby Wong. Yeah I like this one. It's like show up and show out. Oh boy. Sneaker hoarder. Relationships sinking in water. Two songs got shit. One of the daughter. New guns bumping it. My knees dead. The altar. Pull it fast. I'm still in fear. They can tell me. Yeah. You can't have it dragged. They're not gonna hit. One of the daughters. Feel the lights a little more. This album is crazy. Sneaker hoarder. I ain't gonna come for a shot. This album is crazy. Say it go out. Oh boy. Sneaker hoarder. Relationships sinking in water. Two songs got shit. One of the daughter. New guns bumping it. My knees dead. The altar. Vom culture. Oh, I was still in the old school. Who the boss? The ship and bump punch. Sunk in the sofa. One plant was on a hunt. Trying to jump in some choke job. Young show side. Solar with seeking asylum. Hit the sign. It's on my first album. Speaking in violence. Keep party while in fashion trends. Keep me from stalling. Handsome dance. Super slim. Trying to sleep with the stallions. Henny Gallant. No demies. My parents are not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. No demies. My penises pal and far from friendly. When you bring the sketches into the alley. Real sound and trying to leave alone wings and bones. Pockadala with these thrones. I'm the king of the tones. Bring me my throne. The lover. E and Y got in Sutter. In junior high I used to lie when I stutter. Fly with the butters. Coogey sweaters. Cop them in colors. I'm not like the others. Not boss. A cat box is a rubbers. It's over. Your boy's sober. Sitting back 30 years older. Stay closer. See the tears in my shoulders. Just stealing. Lost feelings. Need therapy for the healing. From what I see I can never be a civilian. We're touching the millions. Who to trust? Fooling with us. I have you doing everything but never doing enough. Just flew to the cut. First Ghana then Barcelona. It's a lot to ponder. Travel back right after Granz. A quick Fomanda. Life short. Visit the source. Spirit is the sports. How you move? Never your doors. Messages caught. Unvab. Placing my lap. The greatest is back. Tell her haters make me a plaque. Dirty being strange. Put your hands up. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. He was one, though or die, guess we all get a run. More money, more motor. Life as we know it. Now how it should be, but so long as the nature. Though or die, read that case and count it. You know what's crazy? That's not the best shit on the album. Yo, this fucking album. Yo, when I tell you the fucking album, that shit right there is what the fucking world needs. Not telling that bullshit sound effect. I don't want to get high. That's what the way the sound exchange, I feel like, you know, they're going to embrace it like that. They got to. They're going to embrace it. Nigga, we embrace it. We're going to make them embrace it. All these other niggas ain't saying that. We got to make them embrace it. You did ten interviews, shoulda just came in. They're coming at me. Nigga's just trash. They fly me and sick. My nigga, these niggas. You can't fuck with us. You need me. This shit right here, yo, this album. I'm trying to tell you. I don't want to hear Jada join. One day. And hear it with him. It's closest we going to get here. Yeah, we going to play. Nah, we going to shoot. I don't like that even. You know you can get me for the video. I ain't one of them people that do a song with you and then don't do the video. Or like, did the song for free? And I need 2.72 million to do this. That's like, what the fuck is wrong with you? Nigga, come on. Do the song and do the song. Hold on, I got to say something. Because in this game, you got to reinvent yourself. But you don't have to. Because you don't have to reinvent yourself. It's like you spoon feed them and just enough, then you hibernate and come back with, they need that fix again. You keep it. You keep the fix. You keep them needing the fix. Is it a secret to your method of madness? You know what? That might be the shit. I'm the only dude in Texas. That's how I pick. You know, from the outside looking in, you give them a little bit of that blue magic. Get them dirty, get them injured and all that. And then disappear and come back. It's going to spark a lot of luckier things given. Because this is going to spark a lot of arguments between pops and their sons and all that. Nigga, come with the flippity ribbity. This is how you raise your hand. Hold on. This is what this shit's supposed to sound like. He stepped out. The gun came back. He love exit. This right here. I raised him right. This is going to be beefy. This is Thanksgiving, my nigga. It'd be a problem. This shit like politics right now. If you throw shit out of yourself. If you're a nigga that no real hip hop, who came up from the cloth, who love real hip hop. This album is a fucking gem. Let me get the one with me and A on it. That's not the best one ever. How about that? It's the whole project. No, it's beyond serious. That shit right there. You dealing with so much garbage in the world. That shit right now was so crazy. This shit is crazy. That shit with Nas is crazy. That Jackie song. Save this shit. This is a crazy project. It's okay. I know it's hard to say it because it's so much garbage. But this is a style in the ass project. Play that shit. Word up, nigga always got the nerve to ask for something. I told him let's reverse the situation this time and do it like this. You know what I'm saying? Get me. Just get me. Break that shit, man. Get me what you can't get back. What's the deal, y'all? Full of shay down, let's count this money. Why don't you give me the world? Give me what you can't get back. You know we too thorough. Champagne chairs, Louis Reyes over the years In full length, me and my soba, my ears Known as Nair Nair brushes, moments of fear For them jail phones, just know you're on your own when you're there Alone in my square, sipping, smiling Showing veneers, reminiscing the max fit And me and bones in the stairs Homie, I'm here, escaped it 88 firsts with them aces From crack hit, nigga, that was the matrix It's track sacred, rap chains When I enter the game Half our entertainer, all by half I explain and send my name The beginning that never began Never ran, rollin' dice, got a hell of a hand The melody man, milk prep On a cellar we planned With a few extra queens My two steps made a foolin' bet But I be extra queens Thatin' the man had, ain't no cappin' in between Give me, big cubers and diamond rings Just give me, what an endless sea Give me what you can't get back What's the deal, y'all? Give me, James Why don't you give me the world Give me what you can't get back We got shootin' shit, huh? Sleepin' piece it up to season eight Early demise, tivi-eyed Known as cold as most barely a bot I rarely advise the fiends In those scaring sides Intervened between killers that nearly collide Clearly I'm live, gotta vibe Can't compare me to size, certified Hood ties had to bury my pride Sensitivity, wiles of prices With a query aside, never shite See those, those are the love that hit it I died, my ever-arrived back Real niggas, avenus is packed Pressing sprelts, never seen us attack Me when we rap, we rebels Transform the guard from devils Is in the stars and reachin' the largest levels Pay up for the livable threat Love my set, we individually rap And vision the best, believe it You see it first before you achieve it We're known to born, let the law and referee in Give me, just give me For the NYC Give me what you can't get back What's the deal, y'all? Give me, why don't you give me the world Give me what you can't get back You know we too thorough To lose the rules Hell off, Philly, Christmas DC, VA It's like 95 all over again, let's go That was nice Yeah You know y'all keep speaking now, Bob You know Well, you ain't know I did that I know you did that, I listened to that No, no, Kayden ain't know I did that Okay, he snuck that one in that motherfucker That's how you do it, the other day I was in the studio And Diamond D sent me a joint And I snuck it in before everybody got in the studio I was like the first nigga there, I said Yo, throw the shot Yeah, I mean nobody knows, they know now But I mean like when I threw it up in the studio Nobody was there, yeah, so I got that one out the way That's one of those You did that shit right quick It made you feel like, what made you feel like that? I booked it Nobody was there but me and the engineer But what made you feel like coming up with that hook? Yo, that's the hook, yup, yup I know, so what made you say I'ma do it over When Roya T calls You do it You the only one who act like I don't want to Yeah, he don't fuck with the God like that He can't even reach the flag He lying so much the flag he can't even reach Yo, I'm saying, you know what It is crazy, yo, he is wow Jada Kiss is wow Let me tell you something, y'all think I'm wow? Jada Kiss is cool, man I'm cool But let me tell you something, man That shit is amazing, this album I love it This is gonna change This is gonna change your bank account It's gonna change It's gonna change a lot of things because I got my man, Colombian Jump He's like a He drives, he does anything I need Somebody in my hood, around my demographic But I called him I was doing fixing the sneaker room And I had to get rid of the boxes I usually call him, give him a couple hundred to grab it As soon as he gets to the crib though And he see how, I say, yeah, Colombian You say, yeah, it still works A lot of you, a lot of OGs Put some albums together and I support one million percent And I like certain songs from the albums The last one to do it the best Is Billy Dance Billy Dance, y'all better check that fucking album out And NAZ came with this, yo, here's the pure, the coke This is a goddamn, this is a nigga to say Because Billy Dance did some grown up, ouch You want that album too? Hello I heard it was me You got a lot of fluidity out there, bitch What I think is missing and we need more of is Our contemporaries making them kind of songs People get caught up with calling the top people on the billboards Whoever you hearing on the top eight and eight Those ain't necessarily the people you make good music with So, as long as we stick to the script And work with our contemporaries I think more beautiful things can come out of that But, you know, like you said before People get a couple dollars, you get a new house A new Ferrari, you start feeling like you gotta make songs You know what, a lot of times it'd be like Wrecking company niggas want to tell you, yo They shouldn't be able to tell you that See, do a song with this guy, yo, this to be fun So the Wrecking Label's still signing up People still signing the Wrecking Label Oh, no, they rocking niggas all over again Whatever we got Rob for, they got fresh niggas getting Rob Wrapper, he's getting Rob, nigga They won't, this is a jazz cycle This is more worse now This is like a label that's just genocidal, my nigga They blowin' bump The whole gimmick is to sign young black men And Latino men that came from the And put you in debt Throwin' my little carrot Yo, nigga ain't never had none They gave him a hundred thousand These niggas are singin' their life away To put talent to doing the illest shit These niggas is runnin' it up Twenty, thirty million, this nigga never, he's in debt So if they spend a hundred thousand on a video They charge you two million on a video You, not them Yo, I still haven't recouped Let me tell you, I have a double platinum album That I still haven't recouped from for twenty years Then I put out an independent album Where I sell a hundred thousand records And make a billion dollars off this shit Did you ever actually listen to the first line of why? My song why? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know the ball But I want you to say it, I'ma fuck it up Why is the industry designers in debt? That's crazy, yeah Yeah, yeah No, no, but it's true though Why? Why is the industry designed to keep the artists in debt? Only keyword is the artist Nobody else be in debt And so that don't never run out They never run out of broke niggas They never run out of a talented young kid I figured they learn from our shit And everybody else shit this, why would they still? They're catching them with a longer spoon Some of them have, like when you see a Travis Scott You get a, when you see a Travis Scott They hearin' his in the buck He's chillin', right? Travis doin' his thing There's some smart ones out there Right, right, yeah You see them run it up They let a few smart ones slip through But they make sure it's only a few We gonna let two You can't beat up the record label no more You gonna have feds My day we was beat niggas up with the plaques on the wall We want out We want now, that shit is a fed case right now They letting you know ain't that You can't even get out of the building They gonna lock you in the building To the fucking thought I think it said Atlantic one time I said, yo I'm runnin' up in, they didn't want to pay for a video Like I wanted to be I said, I'm comin' in there And anybody, I mean anybody up in this bitch That shit I walked in there, Atlantic records They had like a thousand records that shit was like Whistling Niggas in there thought it was a Jewish holla And they sent everybody home When I think it was papers blowin' in the wind I walked up and I said, damn It ain't one nigga stuck behind Not a fucking janitor to get smacked up out this bitch This shit was like The whole place Yo, they didn't take it as a bluff They ain't think that was cat at that time They got a lot of this Everybody, nice ladies Everybody was gone Niggas was like, oh no, he comin' up in They can tell me the only guy who stood there Recipes is my good friend, Ronnie Johnson And because he knew I loved him so much He said that he explained it to me He said, yo, Joe You're not beyond saying man The last single didn't do good They're not gonna give you the bag for the next video And this and this and that So a lot of shit I went through in the industry I learned I had to go independent Yeah Because I realized we're in the blind at all times So we tell them the record label Yo, you gonna push this You gonna make this a hit And then suppose they don't Suppose they lying to you And they like, yo, kids always sell 250,000 records That just give out enough Spend a little It's like the drug game Yeah Spend a little and step on this bitch We know he gonna sell 250,000 So that's how they make their PC Meanwhile, kids is like, yo, I think I could do a million If y'all blow the bag They cool with that 250, they make their money 250 for 50 people That's a fact Yeah, yeah, yeah So that's why being independent I had that one song I say it all the time He ate when I repeat stories But when I put out that song with Young Jesus I got so many You know Right, just like we talking to you You ain't delusional Niggas is telling you this album is hot, A.C. You know when the shit is hot I'm speaking to my people, yeah, they been out for a day Yeah, but they telling you the shit is hot That's a fact, yeah So it ain't a lot I put that shit out in the whole world Call me and was like, yo, you got another lean bag Niggas this shit is crazy Niggas the whole industry call Yo, welcome back That shit wasn't charting Wasn't moving, wasn't doing nothing I went to the label, I was like, yo, y'all didn't Yeah, yo, this a set This shit was a hit I say I gotta go I gotta put my own money where my wife is And go independent and put my own money And at least I know I spent it, the shit don't blow It is what it is I can't go there and it also feels You feel smaller Looking at a guy behind the desk Begging him to promote your shit Or play your music Or this and this I used to feel smaller on the other side of the desk Saying, yo, you gonna pump my shit You gonna go and I was like, yo, you know what, Joe You always been a hustler You always been an entrepreneur You gotta go And they was calling that That time I had beef for 50 cents And they were like, yo, you gonna go to the graveyard You niggas just crack heads You just like going independent at that time They really try to discourage niggas From going independent The graveyard Only pumps go there meanwhile I made wild more money than I made On a major You go on a major, you sell 2 million records that take your unrecouped That give you another half a million to make the next album You sell gold On an independent They give you $7 You made 3.5 m's That's the math I was figuring it out So I wasn't trying to hear none of that shit They was talking graveyard Bums, fists, I'm like nah, papa You ain't seen these jacks That shit with that fucking Another round With Chris Brown It's the one time in my life I try to stop The money from coming I was kicking that shit back in the safe I'm getting another check Another bonus It's coming through this shit So independent when you hit it out the park It's sweet It's the best In the world and then you build that catalog So that you can benefit off of it If you ever want to make A catalog deal where you sell your catalog You got that equity That's the real money That's fat That's fat Joe and Jada Show.com We got new merch Fresh off the presses Go get it, big Big Joe and Jada Show.com You can get these Little code for a t-shirt with a hoodie That's my favorite right there I need an extra large JoeandJadaShow.com Go there and get it They've bought loads of them And luckily if they bought them with Barclay Card They earned rewards In fact they'll earn rewards On all their eligible purchases It's a more convenient way to consume your fruit and veg What you buy Is your business Giving you rewards on purchases Is ours. Barclay Card Back in your future 28.9% APR representative variable Subject to application, financial circumstances And borrowing history, t's and c's apply Favorite bar you ever Written That's one of his questions Cause I've done what that's like a brain Twisted That's crazy, you got ten albums out That's kinda crazy Alright we can skip that Nah nah nah nah What's close to it What's the verse that you feel That might be my best verse I ever spent You gotta have one You're lying, kids When you got a lot of verse How could you sit there and break that down I think the come up It'll come up Everybody put the gun up Laugh, get nice Put the blunt up, pray blue and whites don't run up Man humble That one was cummable He got this shit That's more money, more murder Alright see Keep going, yeah There's so many Man, AZ So AZ I heard on the album where you said Rock'n'Burf the style Chondi The G-Rap fine tune did What, did I skip somebody Skip Kane I said Kane, Big Daddy Kane Cool G-Rap and Big Daddy Kane Was puns favorite rappers I skipped Kane so you said G-Rap Kane warmed it up G-Rap turned my dad My favorites right there And then that realism Life after reality Fuck who's the baddest That's the set off That's the set off That goes with this one Which album changed your life More you think? Illmatic or Doorda Doorda, damn nah I don't fucking know that How's it go? Illmatic because it made me Open door, had a bend war And I only had Three songs or six raps And they wanted me So I had to make Well this connection with Nas Who introduced you, yo this is Nas Sia I think the homie Yamball He was on the phone, he's from Brooklyn But he was in Queensbridge and He knew I rapped, he knew Nas rapped And he was in the streets, he got us on the phone And me and Nas going back and forth Actually with other people on the phone It was like one of them parties But it was just some real shit We was rapping But I gravitated towards Nas He just spent some crazy shit And I was like we exchanged numbers And we kind of We dialog for like a year Before we even bump heads, like every now and then Like once something, what up nigga was going on Yo my man just got shot over there So that was like a year And then he got a deal and then I think halfway through He invited me to the studio I went there Just to fly on the wall And life for bitch wasn't even Premeditated, that just happened I wasn't trying to get on an album, I was just there just supporting Yeah Just happened That's why we get high And you know he gets busy so I'm wondering Why he even put me on a fucking album It's done I don't want to get on that, I can't keep up with you Let me tell you Let me tell you my perspective Fly nigga in my hood is Showbiz Born lords, showbiz coming all that Slippin' Convertible bans Yo you gotta hear this, you gotta hear this I was by sound view somewhere You gotta hear this That motherfucker pulled that That ill-matic out there And threw it in and we sat in the car And listened to the whole Ill-matic and I was like Oh my god Yo this shit I was scared, right? Because I had one hit out, one album out And I had Flojo and I was like Busted, check it, watch out my record Niggas watch your back And I'm here realizing the realism of life And act you out, I said oh my God, he's scared, oh it's for me I'm not coming with The fuck, the fuck Niggas, he's fucked That's really shitty That's ill, that's you That's not saying it's real That one right there hit home different Because You gotta say it again, how did Flojo go? Busted, check it, I got a line On Flojo where I say Step to me and I'ma Mash your toes Yo I gotta go to the bathroom Yo Niggas That's a fact you said that That's a fact And I That shit I heard, that shit so I was so Dude what you call that shit The endorphins in my brain was like Yo this is the irlest shit I ever heard And then the fear Sets in and says Niggas if you don't Step in my damn mind So I studied you guys Yo I'm telling you I might have listened to Illmatic one million times Before I started my second album And that's how I stepped my second album up The crazy shit is I put out the second album Like right about now Like you four days in And I run into Biggie Rest in peace I see Biggie got 200, 300 people around him and shit And he was like yo crap He was like what we been playing all week He was yo you step your shit up Niggas the second album I was like yeah He told little Kims She was like yo we been playing your album More days and that was like I had to step it up I was done You know Illmatic put a lot of niggas out of business Oh yes That's the hustling You gotta adapt And it was a wave after that You know with mall Niggas out of business You couldn't come with that whack shit no more You had to like be lyrical Or come through with some shit Otherwise It wasn't gonna work Shout out my man LES LES I love you brother He was like the first nigga You know cause I just want to shoot people And rob people And all my music and all that Oh yeah he gave me like two three joints But what he did do Was like let me know Like I did the hey Joey I didn't even know I could make a song like that It was so hardcore I was like M.O.P. So when he was like yo you can rap I was like yo be the don't take a pussy guard If I rap to some shit he was like Nah nigga like there's the fly shit And I didn't That guard is like one of my classics And so he was like you know With me I was real I was just I was too underground You know what I mean my shit was like We will not commercialize So my shit was like So underground that Every step of the way If you would have asked fat Joe in 1992 Will he ever have a What's love or some shit like that He would have never Ever ever in the history I thought I was just gonna be Making spit raisin music That's it. But you adjusted With the sound you were real well Well I just seemed money So what happened for me was Niggas that was making that kind of Like the band Not to tell his business One day Chris Gotti came to get me And this is when murder ink was on fire And he showed me And this is Chris Gotti not early Recipes are man I miss Irv man He showed me a $20 million check And then they came to my crib in the Bronx and they was like He's not He's number two or number three He showed me a $20 million Chris Gotti and I said Oh I gotta make records like that Just shoot him up Bang bang ain't gonna work Then we made the what's love and we dug him To there and we started just Making hit records but it was like I seen it. He showed me the check And I was like Nothing it was a normal day I was like alright Joe let's go to that City and you know I was like That $20 million check I'm over here still doing $1,500 Show So I realized You gotta step it up You know what I mean? When you did Sugar Hill I didn't want to do that But I saw what Biggie did And he just zipped He still kept it real on the album And so now I'm hearing everything I'm hearing more of him hearing I said I could compete but I want to zip That was a good ass zip You made some fly shit Yeah you could zip Yeah You could zip That's a fact That's why We all get busy but it's a business At the same time When the conversation never comes up in my mind I always credit Biggie For The whole shit I credit him because he's the first guy I seen with a backpack In an army fatigue jacket And started rapping on them R&B beats making them hits Juicy and all And so that inspired me To make songs Like that or everybody else You know he opened that door At least for New York niggas I know he opened that door Like you just said Everybody just kept it real Who let him know that you could do that Would be B.I.G Made it cool to wear a nice shirt To be the one that Went from nasty to classy Man I was in his house one day The nigga had a hockey jersey on And Levi's And this and that Yo come to my shit tonight I pulled up nigga had Gators on Fucking fur trench this I was like what the fuck Where did this come from Biggie Smalls Was in the overnight success He was number one Two and three Within months Just never been seen before Before that His money must have went like Like some shit we never seen Like that shit was one two and three I remember Like yo this nigga is number one two And three When somebody I equate that to I always use Cardi B as the standard Now for like Oh Fandomoni You know how Cardi B say anything on Instagram The girls love that shit She just this this Like she got that shit where she just That shit you were saying She just jumped to another level That's how Biggie did it for me But all you guys man You shit the firm shit All that what was it like working with like a Foxy Brown you know we rate Foxy Brown She another one in the cut She get busy Foxy I was listening to some Foxy I can't wait to come back out I'm waiting for that she gotta come back She's coming back to the ankle She's saying that She got my biggest Moment you see It happens all the time so I think if you are A veteran Sean C you've seen this If you're a veteran exec who's been in the game Long enough You've seen this shit play out with different artists So say like French had that shot Corle in the next thing you know he did to pop that With all the niggas it took him another level With me I was just getting my credibility with Flojo and all that and LL put me on Got you Well Fat Joe already had Flojo and already had The second album that Biggie saying I stepped my shit up So I kinda like I don't know if I deserve that slap Right there but thank God he gave it to me And then you got Prodigy on there You got Keith Murray was on Fucking Flames and then you got Foxy Brown And I remember me doing it it was a big deal To be on there with LL and all of them And I turned around cause we All shooting the video to say And she come on Bye bye I say yo this girl How about it took two seconds To know she was a superstar She was in there with the biggest hottest niggas From the four platinum niggas To the underground niggas to everything She came up in there I think she had like A white silk shirt and she was like In that LL and Tracy And I was like oh my God There's a girl on this song She's about to be the fuck out of here Foxy Brown What was that like that Working with her in the studio and shit like that No Fox in and out she getting right to the business As soon as the music come on So I'm trying to get in the studio She getting on the mic she doing and she gone She right fast right there Lay half it down Right more she out And we used to waste a lot of money Huh Sean C We used to the studio was The Hangout Huh Sean C What was it like working with Rest in Peace Half a mil Half was Big head scientist Had a lot of knowledge He was trying to get that shit out Like he knew something He was before his time Way before his time You know a lot of unsung heroes in the hip hop game Passed away prematurely You know what I mean Rap came straight to the streets Yeah Were you conscious of that Yeah I was on it My style was the same I'm sitting back You got the loud ones and you got the sound assassins I think I was more like that Just checking shit out Seeing where to go where not to go You always went with the problem Yeah You was hearing this Yo woke up to deal with the honey border Freakings word up What do you do The niggas pun they called him a germany Took the chain off and whipped the shit out of the niggas Yo this nigga big pun Let me tell you something Yo listen listen you was there for that Yo Sean C let me tell you something Niggas saying I'll be watching all these Documentary they say the tunnel was The worst place to go The tunnel was just Killerville right this island With a sprinkle of young ladies Big pun Big pun were going there with millions of dollars Injury and a robe on My nigga with boxes under like this In the middle of the tunnel Bottle of moet with a robe on In John Clathaus where every So called the murderer of all murderers At this What up God I'm like yo pun where's your clothes My nigga fuck that Niggas know what time it is out here Yo big pun What The tunnel with a robe on is this What Damn big pun Man but you know Yo Joe how you made it to that More money more motive video How you do that I'm in that video I was in everybody's video I don't know niggas like I might have had the video niggas on speed They always shooting the video fatjoh They used to get the Yo they shooting over there Yeah that's it that's it that's it You know who else I did The cost of rated scarfaces I'm the barber In Ray Kwan's video Yeah they shot the shit over there Bob Lemons projects By the Taino Towers over there On the east side of Harlem They had the ice cream truck I'm the barber in the video The cost of rated scarfaces That's crazy And fucking engine engine number Coming up and down behind Blasey Oh shit Big it up big it up Back to the states Nigga you coughed that joke On cameo he was there But that day That day it's crazy that you bring that up Because sometimes I'm fried I'm gonna be honest with you I'm fried So like Sometimes you know niggas done calling me cap So much sometimes I think I'm capping It's crazy right With that video I remember Jay-Z was there And Nas and every You know we just had Rick Ross I really asked him How did it go bad between him and Drake And I remember Everybody was there No no no no this is before Nas and Jay-Z beef Everybody was there In peace I was sitting next to these niggas So I'm like when it went really went bad I never You the one you probably the only guy Who got him the gebra before all that beef That's a fact How did that come about I knew Jerry from high school Went I think ninth grade He was in grade He used to rap in the lunchroom That's before the big year and Buster Vom shit So you was in that same high school They leave you out of that high school I didn't go to that one that's after It was cool and I was already doing me and he reached out Trying to make it happen or it didn't happen But I was there at the video With Big and all of us sitting at the round table Nas Bozad came But he didn't So it was cool but You know shit happens Yeah You know it's a part of our history Everybody's history you know Hip hop I guess sometimes You have to have to No no for real Sometimes the journey is shit gotta happen Maybe it was about just the business Right about the music business It was a power move like that Same game right Power move That's what it is supremacy You know what I'm saying But we here to name the project Tell them the name of the project Telling you right now anybody Uniqueness In the fucking planet earth If you love real hip hop If you love lyrics You love beats Nothing is fucking with AZ's Album right now It's untouchable right now I already set a date with myself I'm going back home to get in the car And play the album while I drive In the car preferably around Brooklyn Harlem The South Bronx Little bit of Queens in there You want me to touch that Do I got juice in yonkers By now cause I'm affiliated with You know your kids man The twins I hung out with the twins At the games they got so much stuff I wanna know Can I get like a free pasta Leo or some shitty dog Magic carpet Yo we spreading the wealth Yo Y.O Am I like a You good in Y.O. You good You gonna look I'm gonna go pump my gas in the gas station You know the gas station Where's that gas station at What Every time I used to go to yonkers They be like yo the locks is in that gas station Yo I'm gonna fuck it just out there So I'm good in Y.O. Give me a fucking ginger and lemon Shot Three bakalito Bakalito shot Yo Y.O. what's up baby I'm in the building Yo this ain't that That ain't this Make some noise for AZ Y.O Yo it's not green Y.O. You know why AZ let me tell you something Before we turn off these cameras The reason why I give it out there to you like that Is because You're not gonna do it to yourself You quiet but you need niggas like me The spokesman the mouth for the south To let the niggas know your shit is on fire So they don't get it mistaken You quiet nigga I'm saying nah nigga This for the culture We gonna salute them the right way And if you got ears Go get that fucking album Yes Two research