50 Cent dissects the Drake-Kendrick lawsuit, arguing it aims to protect the Super Bowl broadcast from censored language, while analyzing Diddy's legal troubles through a lens of media opportunism and corporate suppression. He contrasts Jay-Z's business-driven longevity with Eminem's work ethic, critiques the NFL for encroaching on NBA territory, and details his strategic pivot from acting to leveraging AI in film production. Ultimately, the conversation reframes hip-hop conflicts as calculated business maneuvers rather than pure artistic rivalry, suggesting that true resilience lies in ignoring negativity while maintaining creative control over one's narrative. [Automatically generated summary]
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Jamie's Shirt Shopping Moment00:12:01
It's a long time come.
We got the GOAT.
We got the King of New York.
And the man who got everything on his Christmas list this year.
He said he's okay.
Let's go.
I'm happy to find you.
I'm not watching y'all.
Alex told me that back in the day, you guys ran him off his corner.
Yeah, you're gonna start right there.
I'm just saying.
Yeah, like he had a little corner in Far Rock, you know.
He's in high school, had a little couple corners, and just one day, you dudes from Jamaica was on the corner.
It's like, Juju Jim.
It's like, I got it.
Yeah, I got it.
Donald Trump calls that the weave, bro.
No, we've been doing all right.
Things been doing pretty good, you know.
50 Cent pulled up for the show at Madison Square Garden.
Things worked out after that.
No, my house fire.
It worked out.
They didn't need me then.
It was so loud.
That was right.
So I wasn't surprised.
Nah, but that's so long.
I'm like this.
Yeah, I'm in the right place.
I know I'm in the right place, but I ain't had to do nothing.
Everybody is here.
Bro, it was crazy because I had no clue what to expect.
I didn't know you guys were going to do like a show.
Yeah, like it's a real show.
I want to perform for you.
Look, there's certain guys that look, you see how you came to Human Harmony?
Our relationship is a little different.
If he does a favor for me, I'm going to return the favor, bro.
Like, that's not going to be a point that I don't.
Now, I will say, you did that even before I did anything, man.
That's love.
You know, and I'm looking at it going, nah, it's cool because I'm a fan of it.
But I don't understand what got into you.
This made you say you was going to fuck Kendrick.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I said, Make Sweet Love.
I registered for him, bro.
No, We wouldn't know.
No, it's not.
Look, you know what?
I apologize, guys.
Yes, let's go.
This is your camera.
This comes from years and years of trauma.
This comes from abuse from the neighborhood that are weapon.
This comes from a lot of different things.
And Make Sweet Love.
I heard fuck.
When you said it, I said it was aggressive.
I don't know why I registered it that way.
And then, look, for people to write petitions behind it, it's crazy.
It's crazy.
That is crazy.
Because, I mean, look, you said, look, I follow comedic culture.
I watched the comedians.
I enjoy them on another level.
You are comedians.
What I appreciate about it is they are invincible.
When I watch them, I look and I go, there's no point that you can do something that actually damages what they develop, what they built.
You know, like they go, like, in any case, like, Cat Williams can fight a 15-year-old kid that is his height and not do so well, right?
I didn't like a decision on that one.
I didn't like a decision on that.
I didn't like a decision.
Yeah, that was 10A.
That was 10A.
That was 10A.
That was close.
That was one of those ones where you need a do-over.
But it does no damage to Cat Williams.
He's still that guy.
I was watching Jamie Fox new piece, right?
Yeah.
He mentioned Cat in it.
To me, it meant that he had to be relevant enough for Jamie to include it.
It was like, and I didn't know what, like, I went to laugh.
Like, when if Andrew's gonna do something, I'm going, I'm prep already, my mind is prepared and positioned to laugh.
I'm waiting for the punchline.
It's gonna come.
And I'm usually never let down.
Jamie's show, that shit put me on a roller coaster.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Last time I did, he went to a place dude.
I was like, oh, man, like it was like my eyes were almost got emotional.
I'm like, what is going on here?
Yeah.
You were supposed to make me laugh.
I'm not sure I'm prepared to be doing all of this extra feelings.
You gotta talk to that fool about it.
That's what I said.
I'm like, what you're doing, bro.
That's not true.
Atlanta, like, he made everyone in Atlanta feel like they saved his life.
I said, yo, this is deep.
Like, the show was.
Doug told me he cried.
Shout out to Jamie, by the way.
What a comeback.
Doug told me he cried.
Jamie Foxx is not.
No, it was real.
It was intense.
Is he the most talented human being?
Do you know what?
Watching that, it was periods of talent that I looked at.
Like, I saw him doing like when he did the voice piece, he does those things.
And then he had the, it was almost a living color back when he was up there.
Yeah.
And he went and he got into like the Django things.
The shows.
Yeah.
They show periods.
They show pieces of the work that's been done over his entire career.
Yeah.
And then, like, because he was saying the cone piece, like, become a clone.
He tied that in there crazy.
It's like, yo, I don't know why I thought he was going to say more about Puffy.
People said there's like, yeah, that they were going to blame him.
Yeah.
And I think that was great marketing.
What's oh, yeah, you use the puffy thing, get us all the taps.
That's what everybody's talking about.
Exactly.
And then everybody's looking, going, wait, so I thought he was going to say more about nah, you don't need that.
It's about Jamie.
It's not about that.
That was smart.
You know what I mean?
What's happening with Puffy?
I know you're not really tapped in, but what the last thing I saw, it was like a guy there.
He was like, yo, he like pushed me into the truck.
It really hurt.
And he sounded like he sardamized me.
I was like, yo, look.
You could find other things to do for money.
Did you see him?
I'm not sure I can say that for money.
How much?
is this guy trying to get?
I don't know.
Like, it's a simple situation, but it's like.
20 mil, I can say.
You still have to black his face out.
You still have to make a voice because he's like, but his voice wasn't even that different.
And that little deep.
I was like, almost like, no, that's you, young buck.
I almost knew who it was.
You know what I mean?
I was like, nah, fuck you.
Yo, you can't say that dudes are having sex with other dudes, bro.
The other name might come for you.
You don't make money love.
I'm about to say Make Sweet Love.
That's young Buck Brandon right there.
Make sweet love.
There's rules to rap now, but not people.
Not in your day.
Well, I'm saying, like, God, why is your homeboy so close to you when you come out of there?
Look like you guys just made sweet love.
I'm going to say sweet love instead of anything.
See, to me, that's better because they're going to try to make it something else.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, that was smart.
Like, I, you know, I didn't think about that.
You know, I say things to the Fordline, like, I'm like, oh my God, you're in trouble.
Cute.
Like, no time.
Because I just to say.
Nah, but you got ghost when he offered to take you shopping.
Yeah.
Now, Mika's in the same shirt.
He's out there in the same shirt.
This is not his shopping.
This is what he's sweet.
I'm just saying something.
No, no, no.
You shut that off.
Look, you shut that off.
He's in the same shirt.
What do you mean he's in the same shirt?
He obviously was not offended by what I was offended by.
This is what I'm saying, bro.
I mean, like, I'm like, nah, it was.
This is some of the things that people say.
Guys may say to a girl, you know, like, let me take you shot.
Damn.
They found it that quick.
What do you think is happening in the middle?
I don't know what's going on.
They found Kendrick and Whiteface.
You can't dress up Kendrick like that.
You can't dress him up like that.
Oh, he's dressing up.
That's like the White Chicks movie, bro.
You can't do that.
That was comedy.
I'm good.
But now you're away with White Face.
You know, that's obviously doing chopping.
They cut the same outfit.
Yeah, that's a nice shirt.
That was a nice shirt.
All right, so when he said when he said the shopping line, in real life, what did you say?
I said, oh, let me get away from him.
Because it was like, he was like, yo, no, you hot now.
Now we got to hang out now.
Like, hang out, hang out.
Yeah.
He said, I don't know, man.
I'll take you shopping and I could just flash and you could give me like the whole shit.
And I was looking and I was like, let me just move away from him because I'm going to mess up the wind.
I always say to myself, like, as I'm, it was someone's wedding.
It was Chris Lightye's wedding.
No worries.
Nobody knows this.
Because I looked at him like, yo.
You heard what he just said, right?
He's like, yo, certain things they let it go by because it's fuff.
Like, they would look.
Like, he would say stuff, and it's like, he wasn't like in the closet.
He was like in the hallway.
Now you see so much shit.
Yo, this was visible.
It was in the hallway.
We saw the video.
We saw that.
It comes out later.
You're like, that's not the closet.
He didn't give my fuck.
You could tell that he was already.
Nah, New York is dope.
Because when Fab, he was like, yo, Fab, we ain't party party.
Fab was like, no, we partying or not.
He's like, no, like, but he did party.
Yeah.
And I'm like, yo, they let that one go.
Like, I had to say something about it later because I was like, oh, it was fun.
What does it feel like all these years, you being the only one calling this out?
I look like the crazy.
I've been the crazy guy for a long time.
They say that you're a hater.
They say I'm hating.
And now everybody's complaining that my ass is hurting.
It's all this shit that's coming.
You can't make jokes about it.
No, no.
The internet might come for you, bro.
All I'm saying is it might come for you.
You see it now.
All of these complaints.
People are damned they weren't pillaged.
What was going on?
Right?
What do I get?
I went through years of a hater.
You're a hater.
You want this and that?
I'm just watching.
Like, I look at things and go, when you see the new Lost Woke with Jay, the part with Jay, I go, oh, shoot.
Like, then I think about it, I go, that had to be there.
So when I was saying that he was missing, he just wasn't actively being out there because they were dealing with that.
Wait, do you think there's, do you think there's truth to the J thing?
There's no way.
Look, you know, like, if you say, I have this thing where I'm conflicted when it takes you 20 years to remember something happened to you.
Yeah.
Okay.
Just, I just, I don't know.
I go also 10 years, 20 years later, that comes back.
And it's like all of the puff problems are coming from the ministers touching little boys.
What you mean?
The laws are the way they are because the.
Oh, because of the priests.
The priest touching little boys.
Oh.
Why they were looking at me, bro.
I just go to church.
I just go to church, bro.
I don't have nothing to do with this.
I have an alibi.
That's why the laws are allowing me to.
I'm going to turn away from you right now.
I'm just a kind of kid.
You've been dead like the body of Christ taking religious.
You can't do that.
He's like, yo, drink my blood.
Yo.
So it is crazy when after 20 years they come at that.
That shit is foul.
But with Puffy, you were the only one saying anything for decades.
Yeah, because we had our own little thing.
But you were the only one.
Everybody else is scared.
Huh?
But everybody else is scared.
So you think maybe this is a similar thing where everybody else is scared?
I don't know what it is.
I'm just asking.
They scared.
But if they scared, then maybe that's insinuating Jay-Z a little bit.
Yeah.
Like, you've been saying people are going to come for him a little bit.
No, no.
He would do funny, funky stuff like the Super Bowl.
Like, it was not okay for me to be at the Super Bowl.
Oh, he tried to cut that.
Yeah, he didn't want me to.
Well, they worked to make like there was an issue with me in the NFL that doesn't exist.
So he did the corporate way of trying to keep you down.
Oh, it's not me.
Rapping Timing and Praise Videos00:03:28
It's them.
It's them.
And then when M says he's not going to do it if I don't, if I'm not there, let's go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, what's your and Jay's issue?
It's just competitive stuff.
It's really just competitive.
This is what I'm saying.
When it gets past actual art, like actual music, and you're trying to block something that's in business, then it feels weird.
It feels like we should be having beef.
Oh.
Okay.
So that's the behind the scenes thing that we don't see.
It's one thing when there's like people talking about each other in music.
Yeah.
But there's behind the scenes business deals that a guy is getting involved when on the side.
And it's not like you're going to go public and be like, they tried to stop my vitamin water.
Yeah, or this deal.
And you go, he said that to you?
Wow.
Like, though, speak to your temperament.
Like, say, you know, 50s is a little crazy.
He'll say anything.
You see what saying anything did to Target.
So they're trying, he's basically trying to scare people out of the idea of an issue.
Interesting.
And then M shut it down and he was like, yo, this guy.
If he's not coming, I'm not coming.
And then it changes the whole thing because he really is the biggest one.
Yeah.
Like, you know, they can say what they want.
Yeah, no.
But when we go to the stats, he's in a bottoms and all that shit.
There's a, there's a, you know, M obviously speaks with you with high praise, but there's a few videos that I see.
And everybody talks about how funny you are.
They talk about, obviously, the album is all a success.
But like, Eminem specifically talks about your rapping skill a lot.
Yeah, yeah.
Is that mean a lot?
I'm like.
It does.
Look, he never left that part of the creativity.
Like he would go back.
When you don't see him, he's back.
He's in his regimen of the studio.
Yeah, yeah.
And this is why, like, he kind of they can't, you can be as good as him, but you can't really beat him at that.
Because you have to put all your energy there.
And you're just not going to do it.
Once these guys get famous, they leave the studio.
And they're going.
And the thing that makes him feel good is he, yo, you heard what I did last?
And it gives him that again.
So if that's really what's driving you, it's really tough to be better there.
And some of them may have a gift.
It may be a God-given talent that they can rap the way we speak, but they don't work as hard as it.
It's like Kobe Bryant was outperforming people because he would work harder, conditioning himself to do it.
And other than him, I don't think nobody's.
Who's the most talented rapper you've seen, period?
Just talent, natural born.
Well, maybe Craig G. Like when an artist can freestyle without thinking about anything and it just all falls in line and sing.
Sometimes they can end up rapping so it's so easy for them that they don't know exactly what to rap about.
You see what I'm saying?
Technically, it's good.
Even Eminem, because I remember those freestyles where they would just give him a word and he just go, go, but you're right.
Sometimes you miss like the connectivity with the music.
Like there are songs, there's comedy where it might not even be like the most perfect joke, but it makes you feel the thing.
Yes, and that's better to you.
Then it connects.
And look, a lot of times, if there's no truth to it, it's not funny.
It has to have some sort of connection.
It's grounded in truth.
But it's almost a warp perspective being offered by the comedian.
The timing, the way it comes in.
And I look at it, I'm like, yo, that's good.
Buying Tickets for the Show00:06:54
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Like, you know, and you see things like the white party be there and then they have a little baby like in a sandwich.
They're hugging him for the front and the back and stuff.
And I'm like, yo, get off of him.
That's one of my favorite new artists.
Get off him.
I don't want him going to no scars.
You start the hugging pictures at the white party, though.
What is that?
I don't know, bro.
Every picture is a little bit.
Why is everyone so happy to be there?
I'm like, this is regular parties.
People don't just hug each other.
You're sitting in four hours of traffic flying.
I'm like, come on, let's have a group hug.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, this is like.
I'm a little shaking hand.
Hey, what's up, man?
Everything crazy.
It does feel construction.
Yo, hold on, hold on.
That's crazy.
I'm telling you, it's too crazy.
It was a little too much fun.
That's just white boy shit.
That's why it's the white party.
What is the whitest party?
I was too happy to have him there.
Too happy to have him there.
And what is going on in the one in the right?
That is insanity.
Both of them.
He looks like he's unzipping his pants.
Look at the one in the hole.
Come on, come on.
This is bad.
Yeah.
This is bad.
Do you call him?
Will you call him and be like, yo, listen, you're a brilliant league.
No, I wait till I see them, but I go to them.
And you go chill.
I go to them and I go, yo, come here.
I'm like, what happened?
I asked him because I'm like, you know, I'm a fan of the new artist.
So I watch him and I'm like, yo, he got the it factor.
Like, he got that thing, little baby.
I like him.
Guys, quick tour announcements.
Hawaii.
I'll see you guys in a, I'm going to see you guys in a couple weeks, man.
Mark and I will see you guys out there.
And Dove's coming out.
The boys come out, Vala's coming out.
And, you know, you never know who's going to come out in Hawaii as well.
So we will see you guys at that show.
Blidesdale Arena.
Can't wait.
That is the final show of the life tour until somebody says they'll give me an extreme amount of money to do it again.
So this will be the final show, man.
We got to go out with a bang in the amazing state of Hawaii.
Love you.
Appreciate you.
See you guys there.
Peace.
All right, Tucky Cuck Boys.
It's daytime.
I'm taking the rest of this year off, but I'm back in January, January 9th through 11th.
I'm going to be in Tampa.
Indians are already scooping up those tickets quickly, so you better hurry up and buy.
Also, January 23rd through 25th, I'm going to be in Sacramento.
I promise you those tickets will sell out.
I am not bullshitting you.
Those tickets will sell out.
So hurry up and buy those.
January 31st and February 1st, I'm going to be in West Des Moines, Iowa.
I don't know if anybody's buying those tickets.
I don't know where the fuck Des Moines is, to be honest with you.
I barely know where Iowa is.
Is it the Midwest?
Is it Western?
I don't know.
I don't think it's near Pennsylvania.
I know that, but I'm excited to go.
My travel agent, Sudeep Shah, Travel King, will book the tickets for me.
I got no fucking clue what direction that plan will be going in, but I'll be there.
Also, February 21st through 22nd, Brea, we had to reschedule shows from earlier.
They are now February 21st and 22nd.
February 27th through March 1st, I'll be at Zane's in Nashville.
Those shows will also sell out, guys.
Buy tickets.
Your boy's selling out now.
That's just what it is.
Akashing.com.
Look how cute my eyes are on their website.
Buy your tickets.
Let's get the fuck out of here.
Do you think it's starting to happen where like the people you beef with?
Because this is what I always say: if you don't fuck with you, I don't fuck with you.
I don't know why you.
We gotta wait and see.
Dude, that's what I always say every time.
If he don't fuck with you, we got a reason.
We're gonna figure it out sooner or later.
Do you think that's starting to come to fruition?
Like the public is starting to realize, oh, maybe he doesn't fuck with these people.
Because of this.
It's the lifestyle stuff.
The thing that they're doing is not.
Because that was also the harness influence.
What you mean?
Like, the parties and everything with Puff.
It's the harness influence to get people there.
And then you know what they're not saying.
They're not saying.
So now they got you.
Yeah.
Because you all had a pocket, right?
Everybody didn't know that.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Now you got to be cool, though.
Don't ever go against this.
So they're blackmailing with a booty.
Kind of like, look, you see, he's pressing Bieber.
Yeah.
Yo, what's up?
Like, I'm calling you an answering.
Yeah, that was a little.
That was weird.
That was weird.
They did not run through Bieber.
Devil's pressing him.
Like, why are you not answering your phone?
Yo.
Like, I don't got a video of him fingering you.
Oh, he wasn't answering for a reason.
He was fucking with me.
He asked you things to me.
Fuck.
Yeah, but that's the, you know, you can see how it kind of leverages.
I guess it's the same thing with Epstein, right?
What else would you do?
Oh, 100%.
But you've never wanted to be like in the in-group.
I've never seen your entire career.
No, you didn't.
I've been out of the in-group before I got here, right?
I was already kicked.
They was already had relationships with Ja and all these other people.
So they was already connected, like what we would call the artist community was already connected to that.
So I just came and was creating my own bubble.
Yeah, you were disrupting things.
And I wanted to just help other artists that I signed to the label I felt had something and build them up at different points.
And then it was like, it was a period that Jay retired.
Yeah.
He had retired and went to go work at Def Jam.
And then he did the slickest thing I ever experienced.
Yeah, yeah.
Because where we're from, you strong as the crew that you built.
Right.
So you look out for your people.
And then he just, he didn't build the crew, but he wouldn't acquired the crew.
So he went and then he came back with him, Beyonce, Rihanna.
Yeah.
But he still got.
He has people around him.
He still got like Todd Todd and a few people.
Oh, no.
And that's the real crew in my mind.
Alex will ride for Jay-Z no matter what.
Oh, yeah.
I'm a huge Jay-Z fan, but I'm also a huge.
I'm a New Yorker.
He might have a nigga and run him off his body.
It'd probably be all up.
You saved my life.
I probably would have.
I always want to talk to you about this.
When we're in Boston, we got to talk a little bit, but I want to know the beginning.
Yeah.
Because what's always impressed me about you is this understanding of the human condition.
You understand people.
You understand what they're afraid of.
And not always like fear of their life, fear of shame, you know, fear of public perception.
And the first thing I asked you, I was like, I just need to understand at what age are you starting to figure this out?
Oh, like that was younger for me, like in 12, 13 years.
You said 12, 13.
You were starting to even put together your own crew.
Yeah.
Because the Western didn't have requirements.
Like the neighborhood didn't have an age limit.
How much of it can you sell?
So who are you getting it from at that time?
Who's your connect?
I would be watching the structure that was around early on.
So it was like a lot of the guys that they see beef with, they were part of the influencers early on, like the Supreme Team, different dudes that those different areas that would all be there.
Rob's Coffee Cake Beats00:10:50
And we kind of see how things.
Things didn't just happen randomly.
Right, right, right.
So you told me this interesting thing about those was cool.
You were leading your crew.
You're young.
Some of these guys are older than you.
How old are you?
This is teens.
13, 14.
Oh, fuck.
Well, and then you said you got locked up.
You went to Juvie.
Yeah.
I was in like in a Spafit, like a juvenile detention something.
And then you said when you came out, you weren't like the top of the, your role wasn't the top, but you still needed them to respect you.
Right.
So I wouldn't, what's the name?
I wouldn't, when you talk about this, when I got back from shop, I had done a boot camp six months in the military boot camp.
I've done therapeutics.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things.
I kind of changed the curves and changed the things again.
There wasn't no difference.
Hi, my name's Curtis Jackson.
I'll add it.
You don't forget those things, especially when you haven't been fucked up by drugs already.
So if you've been, this is something they would do every night at house meetings.
Okay.
Like you come in and they would all go through the cardinal rules and things and they would read that off.
That's the serenity prayer.
And like I would go through that case act, all the different therapeutic things, projects, avoiding longer jail sentences.
Because if you go through all these things, then you don't end up locking up as much time.
So then, you know, from that, you kind of become a little more observant of people.
Like in those facilities, they like drop slips.
They start to tell on you.
What do you mean?
Like, you just came out of jail, and now that you're in the shock program in the military boot camp side, they're like, he skipped steps.
He did this, he did that, and you like receive punishments in exchange for those different things.
And I wasn't adjusting well.
I had plans to sell drugs when I got home again.
So, yeah, I'm like, get all the way.
Who's telling on me?
Before you know it, it's like they would do things to turn the entire platoon against you because they go, okay, everybody drop.
And they have you just dead.
So now everybody's, the smoke breaks over, drop.
And they're doing push-ups now.
And you're just standing there chilling with your cigarette.
Like, you know what I mean?
Then everybody's kind of looking to you do something wrong and watch.
And it starts to, you know, do different things.
I would do things like I would, I volunteer to work in the kitchen when my platoon had the detail.
And then I would like sit next to like the beats, like the worst shit that people don't want.
You can't talk when you come into this.
So you come in, they go, pop, they're going to pray wrestling, then they go to the position of attention, and then they move up.
So the mess hall is really quiet, and they come through, and then you got to use your hand like this, this, or this.
You know, do you want a little bit medium or a lot?
Like a ditty party.
Yes.
How much baby soil?
So they would do that and I would wait for them to come and I would put the like coffee cake next to the beats.
And I know you want the coffee cake, but when I didn't like it, I'd just give you beats.
Oh, right on top of that.
So this is.
Look at it like this.
It's like, yeah, all right.
No, so this is interesting.
You're managing leverage at this point.
At this point, yeah.
I'm just going.
I know that they want this is the only sweets that they're giving us.
Yeah.
So they're going to want that.
And then I put the piece next to it.
I go to the kitchen and I get like you dropped the slip on me.
I'm not saying I'm just, because if you don't eat it, they're going to make you wear it.
Oh, so now you've got to eat these shitty beats with the shit all over there.
It's going to fuck up your whole coffee spirit, coffee cake experience.
You're going to eat these fucking nasty ass beats that they play as.
Yes, fuck you.
Since you would have put me in slip and dropped slips and shit.
And I'll find ways to do shit back to them without doing it back to them.
Yeah.
Okay, so you're doing shit back to them, but you're also getting them to do what you want.
So you understand there's a leverage play.
Hell yeah.
It's absolutely in every situation.
So you leave the camp, you come back.
How do you signal to your team?
Like you told me this great story of how you weren't making that much money, but you were giving it all to them so they knew that you were still the top.
Yeah, yeah, because we would go in there when we was backing up.
They would give you like $1,100.
A piece.
So it's like four people in there.
And I'm in there.
But everybody in here used to work for me.
So I can't take this $1,100.
So I'm saying here, $20, $20, $20.
No, I don't want to break.
Yeah, no, I don't care about that.
Let's just do this.
So it kept them still viewing me as the boss.
Because if you're making the same money as them, they're going to start to view you as a business.
We're the same.
Yeah.
So you're sacrificing.
You're not making anything so that they know that you're.
I would tell them, just put two grams on the side, each one of the bags while you bag the thing up.
And then if we need it, we go to that.
And anything that was left over, I just would take the whole leftover.
You know what I'm saying?
But I wouldn't take the money that they knew.
So then when they tried to get them to go back up without me, they'll be like, no, we'll boo-boo.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They don't know they get more if I'm there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
And then they're going, well, yeah, yeah, I'm coming.
Whiboo what?
Why do you keep asking for boo-boo?
So is people's loyalty usually tied to self-preservation?
Absolutely.
So like even in the jail thing, it was just like, I want that sugar, I want that coffee cake.
I got to be nice to this guy or else I'm not going to get that to do.
Yeah.
Bagging up, it's hey, I want to make more money.
I'm making more money.
I put him there because when it's there, he's better.
It's always better when he's there.
Like they're looking and they go, nah, then it took even in that when I had accumulated the work, then they came back and it was like, was dude, and it was right out.
And the neighborhood, he came, he's like, Rob was like, yo, the DA looking for Bob.
I said, oh, my name's Curtis.
That means he's not looking for me.
All right.
So they ran out of town and they thought there was no work there for weeks.
There was no work there for like a few hours.
Oh, wow.
And then you were able to get something else going.
Oh, I just changed the top.
So just change the capsules to put them right back up.
Wow.
Two hours later, he came back.
By the time he came back, I was strapped.
I had just the same type of corner thing.
We weren't that sophisticated.
So we did.
So, okay, so you're doing this thing like, and again, I don't want to incriminate.
So if I am doing that, you stop me.
But like, how do you escalate?
How do you grow the business?
How do you, you're an entrepreneur at this time.
Like, I'm sure you're looking at this.
You're, okay, do I get more territory?
Do I sell more people?
Do I get it for a cheaper price?
Like, what is going through your mind?
How do you scale being a drug?
Yeah, like, how do you just move faster?
You move more faster.
So if you pick, if you get bigger, the pieces got bigger.
I was giving away more drugs for the money, but the clientele was drawing it off the other corners.
So it was like they were pulling everybody to that corner because it was so much more.
They were getting more for their money.
And then it's like, so you're giving better deals.
Everybody's expanding.
Expanding.
Yeah, you're like Amazon for crack.
Yeah.
That's the vibe.
Amazon is a great model to look at because you see that they'll curate the sales.
Then after they get the sales, they say, give me a deal to FedEx and to UPS.
And then when they don't give them the deal they want, they just say, okay, we'll deliver it ourselves.
Because we've got all of the transactions.
Loyalty is leveraged.
Interesting.
Okay, how to rob.
I grew up in New York City.
I remember the disruption of how to rob.
It was the first disruptive, in my opinion, it was like the first disruptive rap record.
I'm going to connect it to something very weird, but do you remember the Blair Witch project?
That movie that came out where we didn't know if it was a real project or not, right?
And you had to go to the movie theater because you're like, this is so fucking different.
I've never.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
And it was like, it wasn't very expensive, Blair Witch, neither.
No, and that was part of the charms because you're like, yo, it might be.
That's what I felt how to rob was.
The energy was like, what the fuck is going on?
In the culture, it was almost taboo for you to say someone's name.
Yeah.
And you said, everybody said everybody gets these jokes, though.
That's all I'm saying.
Everybody gets these jokes, though.
Okay.
Wait, you came with how to rob.
That was after you got dropped, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
How to rob is that happened.
So you get shot first, then dropped, then how to rob.
No, no, how to rob came before I got shot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
What happened to this?
Oh, I thought you got the wink.
Well, how to rob, I was approaching the release date, and they were like, Columbia was dead serious, couldn't just throw it out.
Yeah, you know, and that was desperation.
It was.
Desperation for what?
What was if I didn't do something that commanded attention?
It would come out without any attention surrounding it.
And you didn't want that to flop.
You didn't want that.
No, I'm subjected to the same thing.
Like if that worst scenario came from me saying people's names, it would be exactly what I'm subjected to in Southside Jamaica Queen.
You see what I'm saying?
There's no greater risk.
I could already get shot.
So if I say everybody's name, I got that same thing.
You know what I mean?
Wow.
So if it doesn't work, then I go home to that.
And that's there.
That's what's going to be there.
That's a great risk calculation.
It's like I'm already afraid of that.
I'm already dealing with that.
Yeah.
Subjected to it regardlessly.
And then you're going, okay, so if this doesn't work, then so I got to take the shot that makes everybody see or notice that I'm here.
When did you know?
When did you know that it was bubbling?
Nas.
Nas was like, because Nas came, he's like, yo, that was kind of crazy, yo.
That kind of felt like when I came.
Damn.
You know, like how it coached.
And then it was like, I think he had to go.
I am.
Wait, so Nas started.
And you think that was like a Queen's thing, or did you guys have connection before that?
Part of Queen's thing because that was a part of it.
But he didn't have to.
He didn't have to do that.
And also, he's getting enemies by co-signing you.
That's great.
It's too early.
No, enemies wasn't there yet.
It just was, he was looking at it like it was disruptive.
It was an ill move.
You did diss Nas a few years later.
You got to understand this.
You have to understand this.
I don't really clear your misunderstanding.
You do have to understand.
Look, it's funny because it ties into shit even to now, right?
Like, you go, it was just yesterday, I was just seeing it that they're saying the third person that was there to witness this thing in the diddy case, the law school?
Oh, yeah, Jay was Jennifer.
No.
It was Jennifer Lippa.
The female that they said was there.
They said Jim Filippa.
Oh, the awesome female.
Yeah, allegedly.
Amanda.
Now, look, when you say this, allegedly, Amanda.
Thank you.
Holding That Comfortable Moment00:02:40
Man is working overtime.
The Jewish anxiety corner in this room is percolating right now.
It brought up Jennifer because Nas was kind of like, he took us on the road, on the road.
So he kind of knew our temperament.
If you ask him, he'll tell you that he said, I thought they was just going to jail.
Like, because he was actively in it.
He was the smarter part of the experience.
Right, right.
Like, the rest of the crew was like, I was at home with them.
There was Queensbridge.
Yeah.
Jungle Wiz, Lord, everybody that was there was like horse.
It was all comfortable for me to be around him.
So when we was out, there was always that energy that was like, we was in different neighborhoods, but the energy that's in our neighborhood was there.
Yeah.
A different version of it.
So, and I was comfortable with being in altercations or like popping.
So I was like, what?
Because the fight just, you know what?
Boxing does that to you.
It takes the emotion out of the fight.
Because you fight so often.
It just be like, what?
It's like sparring.
Most of the time when you get into it with a fighter, you know, because he punched you already.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, you don't see him rocking back and forth.
There's no dingy.
Nah, in the street, it's easy.
He just punched you and start the fight.
All the guys who's like trying to take the shit off.
You know, they don't want to fight away.
Hold on a moment, go hold on a moment.
He's trying to find a way out of this shit.
He's like, this shit is sweet.
I don't even make it to that part.
I'm gone.
Look at his arms across.
I'm not getting in a fucking fight.
Are you kidding me?
He didn't get me.
He says, are you kidding me?
There's going to be no fight.
Even now, people feel tough just because they're around you.
I'm not even one of them.
I'm not even there.
And in lifestyle, look at this.
In lifestyle, you know, the funniest who kid would do that, right?
The whole kid would come.
He goes, yo, we see punt in them.
I ran out the back.
I did this.
I said, you ran.
Are you pussy?
Yes.
Shout out to who kids.
What the fuck are you doing?
That was the first time I ever had a conversation with someone and they said yes.
I looked at it and I was like, yo, nah, nah, it's cool.
We just need him to play the music.
Exactly.
We're not going to react to nothing that comes from him because we know that he has this temperament.
That's fun.
Irv Life Death Tommy Offs00:07:10
It's actually better that he told me than to pretend to be something you're not.
And now you got an expectation for him to rumble and then he's not getting after it.
I'm like, listen, you go, I'm puffy.
That's right.
Expect me to do what someone you think is supposed to be to do in the event that there's an altercation.
Exactly.
I'm 5'7.
And he's gonna say, yes.
The regular person you do something wrong, 9-1-1 in the face of 9-1-1.
Come get this motherfucker.
Yes, don't act like you didn't hit me.
You hit me.
Exactly.
He's lying off a certain lion.
I was seeing him in court.
Yes.
It's odd when you see people that portray lifestyle a certain way do it.
I agree.
Yeah.
Yeah.
People trying to get tough with me, and I told them that I'm calling Uncle Dom to look at their taxes.
I say if anybody gets tough with me, I told Uncle Dom got a call.
You better make sure you're not writing off everything.
She was like, We're going to look at the write-offs.
We're looking at the write-offs.
This is not right.
That's nice.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Those are different alphabet boys, right?
Yeah, we got FBI, we got CIA, SEC, all of that.
The only part of the J-Lo did was because I had done a record with Jennifer because she's really why I recorded with Puff.
She told because she was on on the bad thing starts with her.
Yes.
No.
No.
I was a good terrible shit.
I was fucked up.
Free shine, though, for the first time.
This is the very beginning.
God damn.
Shout out to him.
At that point, it was good.
She was like, because she was on the six with Corey Rooney and then we worked, Tommy Tolla.
Shout out, Tommy, man.
Yeah, that whole Columbia regime over there, we were working together.
And then Jennifer was telling him she work with me.
He's like really talented.
And I started to write little things for Puff and stuff like that.
And then after a while, and then after I worked, we did a couple things together.
She called and they had a record.
It was Jennifer's record, so I wrote to the record.
And Irving them found out that I had done the record.
This is how, look, they've done things to block me.
I haven't blocked it.
I haven't told a DJ don't play a record or don't.
Irv is Irv Gotty.
Irv Gotti.
And you can tell now they've admitted it over the time period.
And that J-Lo record would have been a big look for you because you wasn't what he did.
It was using me against me.
They went and told Tommy, like, why are y'all doing business with this guy?
Like, this guy's like what he says on these records.
Like, what happens when he flips off Jennifer?
And so they scared him.
Scared him off for the record so they ended up like putting Nas, put Nas.
This is why even Jay was angry at Irv because he was saying, put Nas on the record.
Oh, Jay, and Nas were beefing at the time.
Well, he just won.
Oh, wow.
That's right after ether.
But who won?
Who won that one to you?
Nas won.
Easy.
Why do we not remember that?
Because no, no, he just look.
Nas won that back.
It depends which records we throw in someone for a reason.
It's not called boy.
It was way harder.
But nobody calls damn, you really took him over.
Yeah, he's like, look, you got people there.
Who's best is to the actual, like, the fans' perception of the artist.
Because if they're really passionate about you, then you're the best.
He left Rockefeller after that.
Yeah.
He said, y'all rock over.
We rock those, y'all.
Y'all rock fellas.
And he's like, I think I got to buy Def Jam.
I need a new label.
That was, yeah, but he could have sued Drake.
What is he doing?
Yeah, we'll finish the Jennifer thing and then I want to ask you.
But Jennifer, she had called, we did the record, and then I'm like in the car.
I'm like, yo, and I see it.
They said new Nas, Jennifer Lopez.
Oh, no.
The song comes on, and it's Nas and like he didn't call early on.
Like he had some issues with his old lady, his baby Muller at the time.
I really heard about that.
While that was there, he kind of wanted to do the same thing to Mega.
Yeah.
She wanted to do the same thing to what?
To Cormega.
Oh, he was doing that to Cormega?
Well, he wanted to.
Oh, you know, and he had called me mad times because I get in contact with the girl Holly that he was dealing with at the time.
And they were, so I spoke to him mad times when it was for that.
But then when he came to tell me about the record, he didn't keep that same thing.
He called me the same way.
So I felt, that's how I was feeling.
You felt a lack of loyalty.
You felt right.
Just at that point.
And I do like, I love Nas.
Yeah.
He didn't have to take me on that tour.
I just sent him in guitar.
Yeah.
He's out there.
And I'm like, yo, it's ill to see him because he was that before we figured out how to do it.
Interesting.
Like, we couldn't, I was not a good rapper at the point.
Nas was on fire.
Yeah.
I mean, Nash.
I was still working at becoming good as an artist.
No matter exactly.
And it took everything that I went through to get me to the point that I was at called Get Richard Die Trying.
You know what I mean?
Or it's like, you got to look and say, the universal theme that worked the best for hip-hop artists is life and death.
Oh, the biggie.
Biggie, Ready to Die, Life After Death, Tupac Machiavelli.
These are all life and death theme records.
You know what I mean?
So when I say, when I add a little bit of aspiration to it, he said, get rich or die.
Die Tryan.
That's great.
I mean, we were just listening to it.
I'm sure all you guys, I was listening to him, you know, coming.
And the energy is absolutely crazy.
But it also, like, I remember, is that the biggest debut of an artist?
Yeah.
The biggest, the largest debut on hip-hop album.
Wow.
It was because I got bumped around.
I would have came out of Columbia and be like, oh, that's right.
So everybody knew about you.
You're percolating.
There's the heat.
You're hearing about all the drama.
You're getting better at rap.
I get shot up.
I'm getting better at the same time.
And then by the time I come back, and I just didn't switch the narrative.
See, look, if they go like this, they go, a lot of times we hear people say something and it's dope.
And you go, you look and go, is he really like that?
Like, is the artist really like living that lifestyle?
And the part where it breaks is he's not.
Yeah, I don't know if you can tell.
I grew up in the suburbs.
And that was.
This is right here.
And that was the thing that everybody was going crazy about.
Yo, this guy, all the rappers that talk all this shit, this guy lived.
And they were like, they were so romanticized by it or whatever.
It was like, yo, this is it.
No, it's still, it's still here.
It's still, it's the NBA Youngboy Dirt area in our culture, hip-hop.
Like, like, Kendrick, that part has been there too.
It was just conscious rappers.
It was like common sense.
It was most deaf.
It was Taleb Kwali.
Football Mic Normal Ravens Buddy00:15:09
Yeah.
I used to love that Taleb Key.
They were smarter rappers.
And then, you know, when the hit record is sit down, be humble.
That's fucking smart shit to make a hit record out of it.
Yeah.
Okay.
What age group is it inappropriate to not like what he just said?
None.
None.
Oh, wow.
So you can reach the masses if you're being able to.
When it connects, when it's done properly.
It's just harder to connect.
It is harder to do it that way, from my perspective.
Quick question about the Nas Joe thing.
He knew you were going to do that track and still didn't call you?
Or do you think he just didn't?
I don't think he was aware of it, but they did that.
Right, right, right.
In his behalf, you see what I'm saying?
No, no, I know they did that.
And then shifted for him to wrap on the record.
And then when it happens, and I'm like, damn, why didn't they call me to just say that it was that I'm not on the record?
That he's on the record.
Yeah.
See, because they think he knew that you were on the record already.
Because maybe you're supposed to be on it.
I think he, yeah.
Oh, he took him off the record.
Yeah, okay.
All right, guys, we're going to take a break for a second.
Listen, we got to talk about how the NFL is trying to steal Christmas.
Yeah, I love it, dude.
They are really Grinching it up.
Yeah, I love it.
They're trying to steal Christmas from the NBA.
NBA always had Christmas life.
That was their day.
That was their day.
Yeah.
And the NFL is like, nah.
50 Cent with Alex.
That's my corner now.
They really try to take that corner.
Wow.
So we got a couple games.
Good games.
You like these?
I think good games.
Steelers, Chiefs.
Chiefs, Chiefs.
The Chiefs, every fucking game they play is close.
And the Steelers are good.
So the Steelers could win.
I guess you still bet on the Chiefs just because they keep winning.
Yeah.
But I don't know what the spread is.
But Ravens, Texans, I don't trust the Texans.
I hate to say that as someone from Texas, but I just don't trust them this year.
So you think Ravens got it?
I think the Ravens got it.
They haven't been amazing this year, but I trust them more than I trust the Bengal.
Going back to the series real quick, Tomlin is so funny.
Like, I know I'm probably referencing the video poorly, but like, one of my favorite things about the mic'd up situations is when a player is acting different than normal and the other players realize he's mic'd up.
So he'll be like in the locker room and be like, all right, guys, let's go.
And they'll be like, oh, you mic'd up.
Usually scrolling TikTok with us.
But I hear you're going to be the teammate right now.
Yeah, Mike Tomlin called somebody out on the way back to the locker room.
He was like, oh, you mic'd up.
You don't talk like this.
Yeah, there's some shit like that.
So the guy the coach was like, hey, you're about to hit your record for rushing or some shit.
Fuck, who was it?
You saw this?
I can put you in.
You can get it, or you want the other guys?
And he goes, let the young guys eat.
Oh, it was Saquon Barkley was the running back.
Is that what it was?
Oh, it was a rushing record for a single game.
Yeah, and it was Nick Siriani was the coach.
Oh, it's like a bonus.
That is, that is fair.
Yeah, Saquon said, let the young boys eat.
Oh, yeah.
Now, who was mic'd up?
Siriani or Saquon?
I think Siriani was mic'd up.
Siriani was miced down.
That's fire.
Oh, Saquon was mic'd up.
Okay.
So there you go.
I mean, cool.
Yeah, it's fire.
But also, like, you already got the game in a bag.
Your job is incredibly dangerous.
Yeah.
Why go out there?
Yeah, Fuck the single game record.
You could go for the season.
Also, Saquon hasn't been this healthy in years.
Normally, it's hurt.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I hate the Eagles.
Yeah, you want to go get hit in the head?
You're like, I'll just sit on the bench.
Let the young guys get.
That's what he made.
Okay, so the Ravens, you think, got it?
I think the Ravens got it.
I think they'll figure it out.
Is there a storyline you like this year in football?
Like, is there something you find really Detroit and Buffalo?
Interesting.
Yeah, I think those are, it's like we finally could see one of these cities win a Super Bowl.
And I think that would be so redemption story.
Yeah, man.
Buffalo, the most loyal fans.
Yeah.
Detroit has been getting shit on for decades in every possible way.
And if either one of them got a Super Bowl, it would be so sick.
So I'm hoping that happens.
I don't think Detroit's ever even been.
Detroit's never been.
I just mean it's a city.
The city's just L after L, honestly.
And Detroit's a good city.
You ever go to Detroit Earth?
Yeah, that's cool.
It's a cool city.
It's actually coming up a little bit.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think it's a good thing.
It's, yeah.
But I think that would, those are the storylines I'm most interested in.
Russell Wilson's like kind of back.
He's like kind of playing well.
We thought he was cooked, cooked.
Yeah, what do you think changed there?
I don't know.
I think Pittsburgh has a good enough supporting cast that it doesn't really matter.
He just needs to be serviceable.
But also, Denver, a lot of people were saying Sean Payton, who coached Russell Wilson last year, he was the problem.
But now they're kind of winning with the rookie quarterback.
So like he's kind of redeemed himself a little bit.
So it's a lot of redemption going on for everybody except the Cowboys, which is cool.
Well, how about your Chiefs, though, using the dark magic to always win?
The Chiefs look very vulnerable this year, even though they're 11-1.
I know that sounds crazy, or maybe 12-1, whatever they are.
12-1.
Sounds crazy, but they are, I think, 10 straight one-score games they've won.
And at some point, you would think that has to give.
I know they got Patrick Mahomes, but at some point, you think that has to give.
You think?
Because they're like struggling to beat like losing teams.
Yeah.
One-score game.
The Raiders, the Panthers.
I don't trust them as much as I do the Bills right now.
Even though the Bills lost against the Rams last week.
I just still think they are a better team, a stronger team.
But I could be wrong.
Mark is so much better at our steak segments after he does a show with Joey Avery.
Yeah, he's Joey Avery, and he gets all the insights.
Probably been absorbing some shit.
Football team is crazy, dude.
Shout out, Joey, man.
What up, Joey?
Yeah.
Learn to football.
That's funny.
The only thing I know about football on Christmas is Beyonce's performance.
Yeah.
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Now let's get back to the show.
Can I ask you about the second biggest beef in rap right now, which is Drake and Kendrick?
What do you think about who has?
What's the first?
Wait, what?
What's the first video?
I don't know.
I don't know.
There's probably something else going on.
But I know that the second one that people used to be talking about.
What do you think the lawsuit is really about?
I thought it was about stopping the damage that the Super Bowl would do.
Because the Super Bowl...
Now, in my opinion, I don't think that the NFL would let Kendrick say certified pedophiles out loud.
I think that they would be part of the damages after that.
And you know, you're the largest sports event that everyone is on.
People watch football who don't watch football.
Everybody's going to watch it.
Super Bowl.
And when that record just, they not like that.
Like, that is the record.
You can't not play it.
Yes.
But you can't say, you can't have lines talking about pedophilia in the song that the whole world is watching.
No, look at this.
Look, pedophilia.
Look, this is such a proper diss.
This is not saying anything that would have to be bleeped.
You see what I'm saying to you?
Oh, because it's not a cuss word.
It's not a cuss word.
Isn't that crazy that words are worse than the most heinous act ever done in the LA?
If you properly, scientifically say the most heinous act ever, they're like, oh, that's fine.
It's fine.
Don't say shit, though.
Just say shit.
Inappropriate.
FCC.
But the way.
Look, it not being true doesn't matter.
In hip-hop, it didn't matter to this point.
None of the things that they said were about me were true at that point.
But there got to be enough, not proof, but like some smoke around it.
If there's any smoke around it, we'll buy it.
Faith and Biggie, or sorry, Faith and Pac.
There's some picture of them together.
So if he says, I fucked her, we all see that.
One picture.
This is all we need is fans.
One picture.
Oh, and we're like.
Fuck that girl.
That's all we need is fans.
We're just ready to buy him.
No, I think that they're just ready to hate on Drake.
Yes.
You're always ready to hate on who's on top.
And now Kendrick, if Kendrick's on top, there's going to be people ready to hate on him.
And he's never been in that position.
He always been the underdog.
But he's been a media darling.
Yeah.
Because he's not number one.
Kendrick got trophies I didn't even know that they had.
Which one?
Like Pullets.
Public Suppression.
What the fuck?
How rapper get that?
Sit down.
This is what.
They would like hip-hop culture to be.
Oh.
What do you mean by that?
Like, look at the themes.
Good kid, bad city, man.
You know what I mean?
Like, coming out of the environment and being that talented.
So they would like it to be that and it'd be less scary, yes, less aggressive, less less parts of the environment because you can sell it to more people, right?
You can sell it to way more people.
Because I never seen, I didn't even know what that was.
When he got that one, I was like, whoa, what's that?
Like, I seen.
Look, when Jay signed his contract, the big one was with Beyonce.
When he signed that contract, the marriage contract, he got trophies.
I was wondering what he was doing.
Those fucking trophies came wrong with it, buddy.
He started getting Grammys left and right, man.
I mean, look, if you look at this, if you look at this story.
You know what I'm saying?
He had one.
Exactly.
He had one.
He didn't show up.
It's funny now.
He had like 18 since he's been down.
He had one, bro.
Hard knock life.
You're not wrong.
He got some shit.
He's like drinking.
Fucking thinks the cop.
Wait a minute.
So you say the success is derived from the marriage.
I've absolutely been treated differently.
The accolades.
Because he's no longer viewed as what, like a street or gangster rapper.
Now he's viewed as a businessman, entrepreneur, family man.
And the biggest ones because of the position Beyonce's.
Oh, wow.
You were connected to the biggest.
Jay got it for the music.
Jay got it for the music.
He don't say some shit you didn't see.
You deserve those.
Don't shit.
Black excellence.
They're sitting there like, yeah, yeah.
I hate you, man.
I was unaware of anything going on here.
This is the one time I'm going to be with you niggas this year.
Come on, bro.
That's crazy.
He's just looking at his watch during the whole Rock Nation.
Is it 3:30?
What the fuck?
Yo, I feel like I'm normal again.
Get me out of here.
Oh, wow.
So that's the deal he signed, huh?
Yeah, that's the deal.
The other ones didn't count as much as that one did.
Oh, yeah, before I forget this, we talked about Jay.
Proximity to Diddy.
You don't think he knew anything?
He's seemingly around Diddy.
I don't know.
That was a real suburb question.
Proximity.
That's an SAT hip parade worry.
Do you think he knew all of the shit that was going on?
Damn, that was like a.
I don't want to incriminate myself.
I know, I know, but the way you said it wasn't.
Like I said, no matter how you answer that shit, you snitching.
That was a nice entire life.
You asked the question like a fan.
Hey, I grew up with white people, but the one thing I know is how to get a blank man too.
You give him the happy meal before you ask him to snitch, bro.
You said, Damn, they wasn't even drinking.
Speaking of, how the hell you pronounce Lecham DeWath?
Le Shiman Dewa.
Okay.
It's the King's Path.
King's Path.
Because I know Branson.
That's the one I pronounce.
Branson.
Ah, that's the Branson lifestyle.
You're going to be outside.
You're not worried that if you throw little allegations, and you don't throw out allegations, but like you kind of poke fun at them.
You just ask questions.
You're not worried that it comes back your way.
Like people dig up your past and try to pull stuff up.
I don't got that shit in my past.
Why not?
Everybody got a lot of people.
I took not that it's real now.
I took a pill.
But it was for me to perform better.
For her to remember, buddy.
I didn't fucking give her a drink, so she forget what the fuck happened.
What the fuck is going on here, bro?
I took her with pill.
Yes, I took the picture.
I gave me the fucking drug to perform so she could remember and possibly love me for that.
It didn't work.
What the fuck?
This is yo, bro.
Look, I'm doing pretty good.
You know what I mean?
But I'm just saying this is the opposite of normal shit that we're talking about, bro.
That is why.
I don't know why it's so hard for people to do.
So for me, I would feel like it's weird to have something, or you would have reserved energy because you feel like you were doing it too.
This is people that are looking on the separation between their hardships or their things that they got going on that would be issues and what a celebrity's issues will do.
Wait, what is that?
They think all celebrities are doing the same thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
And when you see, if I wasn't saying anything, guess what?
You could safely say that a person on the outskirts that is not involved in hip-hop culture could think that everybody in hip-hop culture is with that shit.
So by you, oh, you're good, bro.
You're fucking good.
He's protecting hip-hop.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you don't speak out and make them the weirdos, then they're going to think everybody's a single person that's like that involved in hip-hop coaching.
Makes you think.
Did Jay do it?
Shut up.
Scott.
This is a trope.
We live in New York, bro.
No, we live here.
No.
Free JC.
I'm just saying.
Shout out, Mufasa.
We all going to go and support.
You are crazy.
That was the craziest thing.
I literally.
What's the money at Rock Nation?
I got to son of you.
You don't feel like that happens every day, bro.
What's the day came out the day before?
The next day you're going to be.
I was eating Raisin Brand.
Okay, I'm eating Raising Brand.
I got my daughter in my arm.
I'm scrolling.
Right?
I see that.
I see somebody screenshot your shit.
Is Jay and the whole family at the Mufasa prefer?
And then the comment is 50 Cent.
Jay said, they said our 13-year-old.
Let's go watch Mufasa.
Everybody get dressed.
We're going to see Mufasa right now.
I just think it was a good look.
Like angling yourself as a family man.
But no, but they had to go to the premiere.
That was planned already.
I'm proud of you.
They had to go there.
And I realized that later, but I'm just saying.
I haven't seen him in a long time.
That's all I'm saying.
And I hadn't seen him in a long time.
And then I heard this shit.
And then I looked and I saw Mufasa.
I said, whoa.
That's all that fucking happened, bro.
You think this is my phone?
This is my phone.
This is happening at real time.
I'm going, yo.
He said, yo.
You just got to say everyone gets these jokes, bro.
That's what you guys say.
Rappers, listen, comedians and new rappers, bro.
Amicable Part Ways Statement00:03:10
Why do people come to my page?
That's true.
You know what they're saying?
Well, you don't think you're going to happen next?
Yeah, this is what they said to me, buddy.
Well, you're next, buddy.
You're fucking, yeah, you're laughing at this.
Then you're not worried at all.
Hey, no, why?
Because you don't got nothing.
I don't have it.
There's no girls who could come out.
Why you sound skeptical?
Because I think there are some women.
Yeah, I don't know.
No, no, I think there's some women that are like.
This guy's supposed to be from Queens, bro.
You kick him off the corner.
No.
What I'm saying is, I know a couple of extra gentlemen that fucking throw me under my bus.
You should let them have the corners, bro.
None of this would have happened.
If you let them have the corners, you know, that's some like opportunists.
Yeah, they'll just throw out the fucking.
But that's what I'm saying.
If you had to have something, look, if you already interacted with the person, right, and you hadn't had a bad experience, it would take more for them to say some of the shit that you see these people say.
All right, like you go, what made you do what made you even when things we part ways, and because a lot of times when we interact with people, they don't necessarily, they're not just having fun for tonight.
They think they're bleeding into this hardcore relationship that may not materialize.
Right.
I see what you're saying, where they can look and go, well, look, you met the girl in 2003.
You hung out with her.
You had a good time after the show with 30 girls there.
You just went, y'all hung out, right?
And y'all just part ways.
Right?
So there's no negative things between it.
But she could look up at the TV now, and you've been a success since then.
Feel like that's my life.
I was supposed to be there and be upset with you and say something.
But there's a will that have any merit to it.
That woman hasn't been in my.
You ain't always have the most amicable, amicable breakups.
Do you remember where I think it's your baby mobs, where it's like she was kind of speaking out and then all of a sudden the house just got burnt down?
Yeah, but you know, it happens.
Left eye.
She burned the house down.
This nigga is crazy.
No, my God.
He goes, wow.
So I know how you feel about me now.
No, no, he's going.
Jesus Christ.
He's so fast.
He's so fed.
I want to be a fed.
I don't want to be a fan.
I had faith in Art to Just Justice.
I'm afraid of it.
There would be consequences.
This is a million behaviors and actions that this brother is talking about.
I agree, man.
Why is that a part of his thought process today while we're here having a good time?
You do have people that really.
Look, when you break up with them, they don't care about you anymore.
So they'll say things and you go, yeah, but it doesn't hold merit.
It doesn't have any connect, no real.
Yeah, of course.
After all this year, you don't see nothing.
Yeah, like the girl's just upset with you.
She's just angry with you.
She got to.
And you go, I thought the smartest thing Jay said in the statement was: if you really believe this happened, then press criminal charges.
He said, pull up.
Network Tax Incentives Places00:16:20
But I don't think that was.
Tell me.
Tell me.
Okay, look.
Because of the statue of limitation, there is.
Oh, there is no criminal.
So it's a good idea.
So making a statement is to make people feel like.
But apparently, if she's under 18, didn't you say it still could be criminal?
He knows he's fed.
He used to be a cop.
You turned him into a cop.
He used to sell drugs and then he became a police officer.
Did you know that?
Yeah, you said powder rock.
He was like glorified.
You know what he would do when they would arrest GUNA guys?
He'd be like, he was in the court guilty to be a bitch.
Nah, he just didn't.
I was actually cool with it.
I'll give you an extra fucking cheese sandwiches and shit like that.
I'll be looking out.
Take care of the family.
Hey, you know, I don't know, man.
I don't think, what's the name?
I get confused too.
When you look at this shit, it's a lot.
It's a lot of confusing information, right?
But I think when you do point out that why didn't you file criminal cases?
Because you can't.
You can't.
It's over 20 years old.
This was 2000, bro.
I think if it's a monster.
When they're saying this is happening, I'm not even 50 cent yet.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
You see what I'm saying?
Like, this is that far back.
So it's like, I'm not, it didn't even take place at that point.
So I'm like, yo, can I, this is, I want to get back to it, but can I ask you a question?
How did you convince Louisiana to change the laws?
No, it was.
Your influence is a little scary sometimes, bro.
Like, you play around on the internet, but then, like, you made a state change of law.
Have they been to Streetport?
They need it.
No.
Yes, but I spent half my childhood basically in Streetport.
So I know they need everything you can give them.
But can you explain what happened?
Because this was crazy.
Streetport.
They were first to provide tax incentives.
And it blossomed first.
And then their political stuff that goes on out there had them pull it.
And a lot of the people gravitated to a lamp and a closer place that they could work consistently in the field that they were working in.
So now when you get a chance to come out there, like I didn't have, it was Millennium Studios originally.
I worked on Streets of Blood out there.
I filmed with Val Kilmer and Sharon Stone.
So I had an experience in S Report as just acting talent at that point.
And then Avi Lerner had on the studio at that point.
And Avi, he just financed the expendables.
I did the expendables with Stallone, Jason Sadem, and Megan Fox.
Dolph London.
All the squad.
That's the one that.
Like, all my action stars are in it.
I like action as a genre.
So I did that movie.
But while I'm there, I'm asking him, like, what was wrong with it?
He was like, nothing.
It's just the incentive went away.
So we were filming in Bulgaria because they understand that they need to bring the productions out there.
And then.
And just real quick for everybody that's watching, I said sometimes states will actually reduce the taxes on a production.
It could be a TV show or a film.
And that will incentivize people to do it in their instead of Hollywood or their instead of New York.
A lot of times they shoot Toronto instead of New York City.
Actually, Hollywood and New York are the worst places to shoot.
It's too expensive.
Yeah, it's the worst places to shoot.
And it's turned into that because it's become such a frequent thing.
And then now everybody's moving to different areas to create businesses that are functional.
So you go buy this huge film complex in Shreveport, throw a pretty sick comedy show in order to crack off.
Super crack off.
They can't afford that show.
They can't.
They can't afford that show.
Everybody showed, bro.
It was everybody showed.
It was Chappelle, Cat, Andrew Schultz.
I'm even whatever.
Put my voice in front of me.
That's all I'm saying.
I mean, Bill Bellamy was there.
It was like DC was there.
It was crazy.
It was.
And it was, I mean, backstage was, there was 2,000 people backstage.
It was definitely that.
Now you are an industry guy.
There was no pressure for them to do long sets.
Just being is enough.
Like, they didn't have to.
That's fine.
And then.
But giving that to the city was very cool.
You blow it up and you're there and there's these tax incentives for the state.
And then it comes out, I think, with the new administration, they're getting rid of the tax incentives.
I go, what the fuck?
Yeah, you got to imagine what that feels like after you just spent $5 million.
What?
What the fuck?
So what I'm trying to understand is what happened because a week later.
Yeah, we went.
I went.
The state said, we actually would like to bring back the tax incentives.
Yeah, it was up, but they had to go to pass to different areas of government.
So they had bought it and it was questioning and it went from, they reduced it from $150 million to $125 million.
But it's still, now it's functional, still the right place for me to film.
So I'll be able to do some things.
And I had bought, I bought a lot of property out there.
I thought the whole waterfront was there.
Like downtown, because I got to revitalize it and get it up to.
You know, like the hotel rooms was a little off.
Yeah.
I'm like, yo, I got to make sure the experience is.
I'm putting on my performance.
But you know what's interesting about this is like, this is what all the people who buy sports teams are doing now.
Like what you're doing with entertainment is what Golden State Warriors did.
They basically get the city to pay for the new arena.
The conglomerate, the group of people, buy up all the real estate around that shitty ass place and they rent it out to restaurants.
They make condos there.
You know, it's going to bring so much traffic.
They make more money off the real estate than they do off the team.
So knowing that you're going to build up this city and you're going to make it a hub for projects.
Yeah, you got to get those places and revitalize it.
And this is the only way that you can assure that it'll be that the lights will turn on when you need them to.
So for actually have places to go out to eat and do things that you enjoy out there.
Because that's the basic experience.
We say we had, nah, I was cool.
I had a good time, especially if we're going somewhere to work.
Those who had I hear what you're saying.
If you're in the middle of nowhere, you're like, I got to do this project for two months.
What the fuck?
No, you want to have a nice restaurant to go to.
You want to have a little club.
You want people to want to be in Shreveport.
And I can curate that.
And then, you know, a lot of the cool part is a lot of the artists were in a place where they want to bring things like Jadakiss got the Kiss Calf.
So I'm bringing, like, we create a coffee shop out there.
Oh, that's fire.
That's fire.
Then Key Sweat, Harlem's Pizza.
Let's go.
You know, I didn't even tell anybody about that.
I know you're huge.
How big is your team?
Because, like, how do you pull off moves like this?
Every move you pull off, I'm like, how do you do that?
Believe it or not, you know what?
I got separate teams.
They're separated.
Because the GNAT, like what would be in the music team is there, and then you got what June from a television would be.
So you break it up.
And a lot of times they mess.
That's how you mess up their business because they get too big of a team.
Yeah.
You never worry about that?
Nah.
Because like you.
Because I'm functioning.
I'm working.
That's true.
But you're also on tour.
Like, you're also, yeah, you're managing all these.
Actually, a large production, bro.
Like, when I came in here, I'll see you.
There's two different setups.
You got the whole, all these cameras.
Look at all of this stuff.
Talk that shit.
Look, that camera right there.
Talk that shit.
That right there could be the whole show.
We could put that one over there just in case so get you every now and then.
I mean, we can go ahead and make a lot more money.
We keep a lot more money in our pockets.
Who bought all of this stuff?
It was donated.
You know what I'm saying?
We stole it from the local CCC.
They got some money around here.
A million square feet.
The tree's not cheap stuff.
This is the professional lights, I could tell.
Okay, I need to know how you're the only person that's crossed over to Hollywood without changing your personality.
Well, you don't have to.
Look, I think if you do things on other people's terms, that it's just wrong for your life.
You know, if I had to be different in order to make it happen, I wouldn't be being me and it wouldn't be the right thing.
It wouldn't be authentic.
Yeah.
And when you do come in, I'm not, I'm the executive producer.
I'm supposed to be behind the scenes, but I'm just so visible that I can move the audience.
You know what I mean?
So like I go 50 Cent Action, my fast channel just went on Roku.
Nah, popping already.
Already going to be the number one fast channel on Roku.
Already, see?
I said one year.
I was like one day.
Feel the 50 Center fact.
You know what I'm saying?
It was already out of this stuff.
Let it go.
But they, you know, can't say it officially until they get the numbers back.
It's going to be that.
Yeah, yeah.
But I just, I just, I'm like, I understand Hollywood a little bit, and I understand the fear that everybody there lives in.
They're terrified at every second.
They're like, part of it, too, is like, there's certain things I'm not going to compromise, right?
You look and you go, that's the old Hollywood we talking about.
Like, it was like, and it was different too.
You wouldn't dare say something about sexuality.
Right?
But now we know what Buffy was doing with their booty the whole time.
Look at this.
This is what made you so afraid.
What was he doing with their booties, man?
He was playing with it.
He was playing with it.
According to people complaining.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
Alleged booty goes.
Yeah, this is really good.
Yeah, it is.
This is really good.
Got Hennessy Pete by mile.
Okay, so you find a way to essentially operate as yourself in these spaces.
You have to hit a roadblock.
There has to be a time where you come across someone.
They're like, hey, can you just comment down on social media?
Always get that.
Okay, and then how do you handle that conversation?
You know, I do look, it was usually from stars.
I would get that energy for them.
So you got their whole network on your back and they have the balls to come.
Could you just calm it down a little bit?
They would go.
Well, you know, you're asking me to not do what is why you even have success.
So they're so detached from, oh, you know what?
Okay.
Then when you don't see me post anything connected to them, because now I'm like, I have 41 shows across 10 different networks.
God damn, damn.
I wouldn't have been able to look.
God.
19 of those shows, they had to tell me no.
Who?
Stars?
Stars had to tell me.
So they would have for me to go out and sell it to another network.
Wow.
So I'm the easiest person to say no to.
I don't care about the particular people stars.
I've dragged the most people to stars with the material that I created.
So now when they would like it to be other projects, like they would like it to be Outlander.
If that works for the network and that audience is there hardcore for it, it is a bigger network.
Yeah.
Like, you know what I mean?
So they want it to be that.
So they promoted that all the time.
And I'm like, yo, you forgot to say this.
And I'm like, even though, you know, there's different things.
Just in entertainment, period, there's blocks, there's borders of things, right?
And I think when you, diversity, they limit how often they'll specifically take a time to point out that it's doing what.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Because there's other spaces that, you know, it feels like they are pro that.
Yeah.
Oh, that's interesting.
They care more about their identity being wrapped around Outlander than being wrapped around your shows, which are the most successful shows.
Shows that create the actual, oh, shit.
What fucking idiots.
The people are going to decide what your identity is when you're a TV network.
A TV network doesn't decide.
No, but they think they decide.
When you got a CEO there and he says, this is the mandate, Premium Women.
And you go, you know that the shows that we just put up their work don't match your new mandate?
Yeah, they don't get it.
Wow.
And also they have an arrogance.
They think that they're the ones that are making the show successful.
Right.
Because you look and go, the data would tell you, if you look, your girlfriend might pick the cable bill.
That is the bill that is consistently the same size bill every month.
But they'll look at it and say, Premium woman, if you look, the females are paying that bill.
You see what I'm saying?
In the house, thinking about your household.
And then they go, when you look and you see that data, you go, oh, Premium Woman, so you want to create content that targets this demo.
And it's just a person that has information is not paying attention to what they're actually doing.
That means she's not watching the TV because you like the show.
She would be enjoying it with you when you like the show.
And they're saying no because the data says that they're paying.
Let's make it about premium women.
Okay.
I got you.
Yeah, go, go.
You've had some of the craziest business moves like Vitamin Water, a bunch of, the list goes on, but power was probably one of the flyest moves because first season, and correct me if I'm wrong, first season, I think you only were getting like 17K an episode.
Like he lowballed himself.
And then after the success, then you renegotiated it.
And now he has fucking shit.
I would have got paid more to just go to the nightclub.
Just go.
No, no, no performance.
Yeah, just be I'm going to be here.
Yeah.
I'd have got paid more to do that.
I wanted to make the show.
So you bet on yourself.
Like that shit is fire.
And they go, look, they told me no.
We pitched to everybody and got a no first.
I came back.
I had time because I knew storylines and everything.
I wrote music that matches the characters and stuff like that.
So I said, this is what we're going to do when you pitch.
Portion of the pitch, then we'll press play.
And then portion of pitch, and then we'll press play.
And then we'll be able to have the room looking and going, they had an experience of explosive music from Fitzcent at that point.
And then I'm going, this is the place where they spend the least amount of money in the production.
Because the last place they're doing is musical clearance.
The last thing they've already done all the special effects, everything else.
Everybody's already got paid.
So the music supervisor will come in.
After thought, and they'll pull out the things that you put and place things that are comparable.
He changed that.
And now every show is putting like Drake on, Kendrick Song.
Also, shout out you for clearing.
Oh, no, that was a good idea.
You know what I mean?
Shout out to you for clearing the song, man.
That's special.
That was super cool.
Respect, respect.
But, okay, so anyway, so you were able to bypass certain things.
But one thing you said to me when you were in Boston is, I was like, why do you think the shows are so successful?
And you're like, well, because it's me.
And I kind of laugh and I was like, what do you mean?
And then you go, well, I mean, if you are from this area and experience these things, do you want some white lady from Burbank to write your story?
Or do you want me to supervise like the rap thing?
Yeah, like live the rap thing.
Look, the celebrity production with you.
It's find the best possible story you can find and then creatively make up shit.
Because your life, you guys would be in each other's lives just being on this podcast consistently.
So you'd be cutting into somebody else's life at some period.
So they don't want to deal with that at all, legal department.
They wanted to.
So if you make up timelines and you do different things to creatively make a great show that tells the nuances of the story of what the experience is, they'll be excited by that.
Me, I needed to be grounded in real.
And they don't know what real is.
Like the idea that someone is not from the hood at all, their idea of the super thug character is going to do some goofy shit.
And then when the people watch, like, what is the goofiest shit they've pitched to you guys?
They wanted me to kill an old lady in power.
I'm like those kids and old ladies.
I'm going, wait a minute.
I'm going through my Rolodex of shit that people did really fucked up shit.
And I'm going, why exactly am I killing the old lady?
Yeah.
Because that's what they're doing.
I'll go, okay, okay.
Yeah.
Can I have drugs?
Can you give me drugs?
Can you give me a reason why I'm not in my right mind?
Yeah.
Because that would be an excuse for the behavior being.
That was a television moment for me.
That makes sense.
Celibate Rodeo Soprano Courtney00:05:04
Because I don't know nobody who kills somebody's old lady to get back into an apartment that they used to constantly.
What makes characters great is when they're flawed, right?
Like we like Tony Soprano.
He's not a good guy.
He's not a bad guy.
But you have to know what their constitution is.
And I think a lot of times when people are so separated from whatever it is, it could be the mafia, it could be the hood, doesn't matter.
They're so separate, they don't know what a bad guy is capable of, but they don't know what he won't do.
You're not killing nobody's grandma.
The only thing left was to kill a dog.
This is a bad person.
What the fuck?
I'm like, yo, so the whole lady, you want me to.
With a Jesus saves pillow?
Jesus.
That's really what the scene was.
I was like, yo, can I be on drugs?
That's when I started, you know, with Lean in the show.
Yeah.
And Tyreek had him with that because I'm like, yeah, just give me something.
To break my constitution, to not be who I am.
And to make it feel like this could have happened.
But he had so much character development.
And because every character was complex, now you have a spin-off for every single character.
Exactly.
Because the characters are real.
The hood Marvel.
Like, it's a multiverse.
It really is.
That shit is flying.
And I got some stuff that's now coming.
It's going to shake things.
Let's come to me.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, can you give us a little.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm working on Chris Halbert right now.
Me and Chris, we did Power.
Well, Courtney is the writer.
Who's the right show or not?
But me, Mark, Mark Ken introduced me to Courtney and Courtney.
We played together and we got the thing together.
But Chris is like the.
Let him know who Chris is.
This is the goat who ran HBO for the best of HBO shows.
Yeah.
From Soprano.
Soprano, The Wire.
The Wire.
Oh, wow.
So it's like he's one of those guys, like, for real.
He sees a bit.
And understands the story to a different level where he could actually, he could write the shit himself, but he just had the other writers involved with it.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Yeah.
So that guy, he's, we got another one we're working on now with where we incorporate DR and PR.
We're going across Dietman this time.
Oh, so LCI people from DR. Shout out to Dominican.
Wow.
The drugs.
You're going to have some chicken fights, bro.
It's going to be fun.
You're going to have them chicken fights.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
It's not real.
He's not a chicken man.
We got some wine sauce on the back pocket.
Can I help out with the dressing for that?
I'm going to do wardrobe.
It's a big one.
Is that why you're celibate now?
I saw you posting that.
That worked out for me for a little while, bro.
For how long?
It does.
Like for a weekend?
No, a few months.
A few months.
That's good.
These guys are going to jail.
Puppy celibate.
Fuck you celibate.
He's dating himself.
I mean, is he?
Hopefully.
Hopefully.
I don't apply any of this shit that you shot.
That's crazy.
Or is he?
He's crazy.
I'm going to get killed after this.
Hold on, hold on.
So you said earlier this year that you're going to be celibate.
Yeah.
He's going to practice.
He's going to practice.
You're going to practice.
You're not going to play the game.
You're just going to practice.
You see people that you sit across from them at the table and you can see them.
That they're celibate?
No, because you don't want anything from them.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
Yeah, they go out with the attractive girl, you talk to her, and you look.
Oh, they can feel the energy.
No, he's saying, so what are you doing?
When you ask a girl what she's working on and she doesn't say anything, she's working on you.
Oh, shit.
So, what were you saying to girls that were trying to fuck during this period?
No, I'm just hanging out.
I'm just not really into that right now.
We just need to know each other.
Different.
Oh, and the chance.
That would work so much better.
It just kills them, bro.
But where's the expectations of the things that they have?
You hear culturally what's going on in music.
A lot of whole shit.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
It's going on in music.
So they kind of run it.
And they think that because they're intending to perform and enjoying it by saying these things, it becomes a part of the thought process.
Oh, so there's expectations of you doing things.
I'm going to take a pushy ass to Rodeo.
I don't give a fuck what she does to me.
I'm going to give her what you want.
But it does make some people think that you should give them what they want.
And the fact that you're not going to give it to them at all.
Yeah, yeah.
They just lose that.
And it's better that you don't give me what you thought would be creature eligibility for you to get whatever you want.
So now you're not buying anything on Rodeo.
No, no.
When I go to Rodeo, it's always my size.
It's a nine and a half.
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It's always.
It's always sad.
And you don't trick on a girl every once in a while just for fun.
I've tricked on him for, you know.
He's tricked her a couple months.
I've done it.
I've done it.
Anybody who hasn't done that just doesn't have money.
Yeah, it's the truth, man.
It's my life.
Yeah, you can't brag about not tricking if you don't got it.
You said you didn't.
Oh, you didn't.
You never tricked?
No?
You never had it.
It never was.
So easy for you to do it for recreational purposes that you just said, why did I do that?
I didn't have to.
That was nice.
It's nice of me to do that.
This is thoughtful.
Can you tell us about Denn of Thieves 2?
Den of Thieves.
Starring O'Shea Jackson Jr.
That's the homie.
The legend, bro.
That's my favorite actor, bro.
Light skin chew.
There's no way you don't win with a lighter skin than lightskin.
There is no way.
A lighter skin.
Listen, this is going to work.
He's sweet, though.
He's a sweet nice.
We call him ice cream.
Yo, listen.
O'Shea, he's one of the most talented actors.
He's brilliant, bro.
I wouldn't believe the first genius.
No, he's a genius.
Nah, for real.
He's a genius.
He's conditioned.
He's trained.
I know, but he don't listen to music, bro.
I was trying to put him onto some of his dad's shit.
But he's a trained, like, he's an art student.
He's an actor.
I believe all that.
Yeah.
For a long time.
He's a lot more experienced than we have, bro.
Yeah.
He's good.
I'm looking at him and I'm going, oh, shit.
So we were doing publicity for the first for Dennis Thieves, right?
And Gerard Butler is there and he's gone.
Shout out to Gerard, man.
Like, he's in the back, and I'm like, what the fuck was that for?
Right?
Because we were like going on a talk show.
And I'm like, yo, what the fuck did you do that for, bro?
No, what?
No, he's like, that's the shit you do when you try to relax yourself before you go act.
Yeah.
You're not going to go act.
You're going to go be you.
Yeah.
But he still had the nervous in the cheese.
We go in front of the camera.
And I was like, whoa, bro.
I know how to be 50 Cent.
I don't have to perform this movie.
You see what I'm saying?
Like, I don't have to do that, bro.
Don't ever have a vulnerable moment around Earth.
He's going to tell the world about that.
O'Shea comes over.
He's like, Yo, what happened?
What happened?
I said, No, he said, Oh, this guy's giving me shit.
I'm like, No, no, just fucking with him.
I'm happy that you guys would take the time out of your lives to be here to promote my movie.
This is what I did the whole time.
First one, I was like, Yo, this is great.
My movie is fabulous.
I got Gerard Butler even came to support me.
Like, they even in the movie.
So, you know, so you know what really transpired, right?
Five years before the movie was made, I had asked my agent at CAA to give me a good action script, right?
And he gave it to me, gave me a script, and I read it.
And he was like, So, what do you think?
And I was like, Well, I thought it was good, like when the car flipped over and the thing blew up and shit.
He says, I said, Well, what do you think?
And he said, I think it was shit.
I said, You think it was shit?
He said, Yeah, he said, You told me to give you an action script.
I'll give you an action script.
I said, No, give me the best action script.
So, I know what the fuck is right and what's not written.
Right?
And he goes, Okay, he gives me a script.
The script is Denn of Thieves.
At this time, Dennis Thieves was at Relativity.
Tucker Thule was still working at Relativity.
And that's the production company, Relativity.
And he just mentioned to me that Tucker is Tucker's script.
Like, it was an amazing project.
And I read it.
And when I'm, I met him at the Oscar party.
So he's like, Hey, I'm Top Tucker.
I was like, Oh, shit.
Oh, yeah, I know.
I know the script you got, the Den of Thieves.
He's like, How do you know that script?
Like, nobody knows about this.
It's like one of his pet projects, like a baby.
And then later, he left Relativity, moved to his own company, and continued to have a relationship with Christian Goodegas and work together with that.
And then when the project came together, it's five years later.
The only person who had the script at that point was Gerard Butler.
But I was reading the scripts, but they gave it to Gerard Butler because they wrote it with intentions for 20 something for Gerard Butler.
I had it because I looked for the best shit to find.
So I wasn't in the movie, guys.
So five years later, I'm cool enough.
So now he's looking at it and going, yo, yo, it would be real dope if you would play.
And I'm like, I'm available.
You see me doing fucking power for $17,000.
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I am available.
I need to check.
I'm at a point where it's a good time to pivot.
Like, you look and go, look, right now you think, like, in Drake's case, because of the success, he's feeling the backlash of his success.
Right now, everything that he said he did, they did in that lawsuit, they did it.
What do you mean?
Like University Music Group, reducing the price of the No, everything that he did is a part of marketing.
I feel that too.
Oh, yeah.
They do it for everybody.
They probably did it for him.
Yes.
Yeah.
But I would look and go, look, at Interscope, they were delivering GUNI, NG, you not.
I know the feeling.
Oh, at the same time.
Wow.
So they're making money on both sides.
Right.
Because they're looking at it like a business completely, not personalizing each individual.
Play both sides.
You got money on both.
Play the record, don't play it.
They're just selling music.
They don't care about.
It's not a personal relationship at all.
Yeah, it's like Hershey owns Kit Kat 2.
You'll feel personal because you'll feel like you made them so much money.
And they'll go, no, it's not personal at all.
But Drake Shaman, how do you personally feel about him, Sue?
I don't, look, look, I like Drake's music.
I'm a Drake fan.
I'm one of those guys that listen to the music and I start to like what's happening in our culture.
Right?
So there's a point where your voice becomes a hit.
And as soon as it comes on, we know like we're not struggling to say this is good.
It's just there.
Like, and I like his shit.
Kendrick's shit the same.
Kendrick is closer technically because of the Dr. Drake connection.
But I do look, I do like, I do feel like I've went through a portion of what he's experienced.
When you were on top, everybody wants to take a shot.
Yeah, and that, look, you see how he lashed at everybody?
You had the list.
That don't feel like 50 cent.
Oh, shit.
You see what I'm saying?
Like, that's what that experience is.
You were doing that before you had anything.
He's good at doing the weave.
How do you feel about him?
Do you think he should?
Oh, damn, I got caught up in his story.
This guy is like a cop.
What do you feel like a cop?
I can feel cop energy.
Literally.
That's what I'm trying to tell everybody.
Hey, Ow, Ow, Ow.
Right now.
When we're engaged in this beef, we need the police on our side.
Okay?
We have police everywhere in every single city.
I'm feeling Vlad energy off it.
That's crazy.
Wow.
That's crazy.
Feeling like someone's going to jail for us.
He's going out of here.
You gave the weeds.
You gave the weeds.
Yeah, I know.
He's slick.
I know.
Hold on.
That's crazy.
He's slick.
But tell us, Dona, tell us, tell us, though.
No, I think, I never knew.
If it for what I was thinking is for, then I understand it.
If it's for what you're thinking for, yes.
The song for me played this business because of the dam do further damage.
That would be wild to hear that.
The entire Super Bowl is calling you crazy.
What the fuck?
You're at the house like this.
You was on fire just a week ago.
And now they're like, did you stink or something changed about you?
All right, so everybody, when everybody's coming at you, right?
When you're on top, you're on top of the world, you feel the energy of all these people that don't have what you have.
And even if they're not coming directly, they're like saying indirect sneak shit.
They've still would like the idea of you not.
And they relish and then support the things that are against you.
They laugh at it.
They regurgitate the talking points of it.
To appear unaffected by things that bother you will actually having to go through.
But they're affected by your success because they think your success is stopping theirs.
What people don't realize is like they just suck.
Right.
It's going to take time for that bullshit.
You have to connect anyway.
Yeah, you're never going to connect.
Yeah, that's what they don't want.
That's the truth.
Because they'd rather think that you're the one stopping them than they ain't shit.
But the reality is they ain't shit.
Yeah, no, no, no, you're in the way.
Blame a system.
Blame something.
Say, look, this is why they always say an artist's first album was his best album.
Because you don't get a second chance at the first impression.
That first impression, everyone was in agreeance that this shit is cool.
And you had no expectation.
Right.
So it's like...
Low expectations keep going.
Organically, you can put a record out, nobody knows who you are, and it organically starts to stream.
It starts to work.
And they go, you're always new.
So you can do things during that period.
You can make a million mistakes on that first while you're going up the charts for the first time.
And then afterwards, you have to figure out all of the mistakes that you made and not fuck up again.
Because you can't launch the project without having a marketing campaign set and know exactly what the single is and when you're going to have your targeted date for it to hit radio and everything else because it's not going to stream the same way.
They're not finding it for the first time.
So they'll go, oh, no, that's cool, but it's not like his first shit.
Is there anything you would have done differently music-wise?
No.
I think I made the right decisions because I didn't...
I left before they told me to go.
And you know what?
Usually, the artist is the last one to know he fell off.
Yeah, you're not paying attention.
Because they're not.
How the fuck, you don't.
So you could be there and like, yo, I need to do this show.
No, because you still think you're supposed to get 80,000.
And you don't.
Bring the fucking number down and then you have the shows moving around.
Sometimes you need to do a show for 17 grand and then you got 42 shows in production.
But they won't take that ego here.
Yeah.
Sometimes you got to pay the dope boys on the corner.
And just like this.
And then not eat.
Exactly.
So you can show them in Bosto.
That's fine.
And then, yeah, that's always been a part of it.
You get it.
So what would you do if you're Drake now?
How would you advise him in this situation?
I don't know.
He has so much.
He already has an acting background.
So get into the pivot more in a movie, film, go deeper on top of it all.
I think he might want to do that kind of stuff anyway.
He already is conditioned for it.
But just to give himself a break from, because they'll feel it.
They're going to miss it.
Let them miss it.
That's the thing.
They'll miss it.
Look, if you go, look, if you say, it's nothing but two, we got two artists we're talking about.
And the whole culture that is dominant there are swallowing up everyone's attention.
Right.
If Drake goes, okay, I'm gone.
You should.
And then it's all on Kendrick.
Yo, you got to be fine.
You can't feed the streets.
They're going to be like this.
They'll look at Tendrick.
They'll be like, yo, you can't be five years between albums.
We need some food right now.
That's right.
You got to put massive pressure on him to do it.
And then you say, take a break.
Let them miss.
I would watch him.
I would just watch him.
Because he's rich as a motherfucker.
You don't need the money.
It's so funny.
When was the last time you went on tour before this one?
I went before the last one?
Oh, it's been a while.
And what happened in this tour?
Everything's so crazy.
So it's like, if you give people a, I tell this at comics all the time, there's these comics like tour relentlessly.
And I'm just, I literally say, I'm like, take a break and then let them develop something new and then let them go to a bunch of other shows and be like, man, that was fun, but it wasn't like that.
That one he did.
Yeah.
And that energy definitely.
I remember even talking to you about it.
I was like, yo, that shit's so quick.
You're like, bro, it was time.
You haven't gone to these markets for a long time.
I get to Germany, different areas.
Australia, right?
Yeah.
Also, do take into account that there's an association of Dr. Trey and Eminem, and they don't talk.
So, I'm the connection.
So, you get that.
So, if you want to get some Dre and M as well, yeah, like that.
Eminem never toys.
He didn't.
Barely.
Oh, he's been out of home.
Yeah, you never.
He'll do a show.
He'll like pop up and do his daughter.
And I love that you did the residency, the residency after the sold out tour.
Yeah.
That's great.
Look, residencies, you know how sometimes they have the energy around it, like it's over.
No, that shit changed, bro.
Yeah, you know who changed that?
Who the fuck was it?
It was Adele and Usher.
It was well, Usher.
I feel after Usher, it was completely different because instead of an afterthought, it became a destination for people to go to.
People like, I'm flying out just in Vegas.
And then I felt like it was, and also it happened in the DJ world.
The biggest DJs would have these residencies, the biggest DJs in the whole world.
And they would go there.
They'd be like, okay, I'm doing this Sunday party or I'm doing this, whatever.
And be in the same spot.
But that's crazy.
In our lifetime, it went from this is where you go at the end of the career to this is how you know you're popping.
Because if you, it's easy, not easy, but there are people that could do one show in a city and then come back a couple years later.
They didn't do it a year.
Not everybody could do fucking look, that strip, Dreus is Vegas.
Club Dreus is Vegas.
Because for the most part, hip-hop culture lives in that building.
You know what I'm saying?
The rest of it, you don't get a chance to get into those other spots and have a full-on production.
So now when you go.
And Vegas lets you let it rip too, and it's a better show because you don't have to move everything.
It all can be built right now.
Build some shit that is fragile.
That's not as expensive as what.
Yeah, yeah.
Can you tell if it's going to be at the.
All right, so wait.
So the residency is this month into January.
Yeah, January 4th.
From December 27th to January 4th, a month of residency.
Then January 10th, the movie comes out.
Dinner Thieves is this.
All right, so, but the residency, the setup, and like you're going to have some people pop.
Like, what's the.
Oh, I'm not definitely.
I got juice now.
No, I got juice.
You have.
So the New York show, that show is five.
Yeah, yeah.
You brought out fucking Fat Joe, Buster.
Like, that show was five.
Yeah.
I have a squad come out and have some fun with it, but definitely, like, I want to make the perform things that I want to perform instead of the records that.
Oh, so you're going to switch it up?
Yeah.
I'm definitely going to musically change it up.
And Snoop's album is coming out tomorrow.
So it's a song featuring me and Eminem on it.
It's going to be in the setup.
Fire, fire.
You know, so I'm performing.
Fire.
So we might see Snoop and Eminem though.
You might ask your special ticket if you was paying for it.
I feel like you're one of the few people that could call in the M favor for pretty much anything.
Well, that's my guy.
The way Snoop's relationship with Dre is, is my.
That's yours.
Yeah.
But I don't know if there's that many people that have that relationship with him.
I'm trying to think.
No, you know what?
Look, look.
They usually are angry at the person that is at the helm.
Like if you are a record company, if the they all blame the record company.
Yeah, there's a it's it's not symbiotic.
There's an antagonistic relationship between.
And you look, Andrew, you have enough success, you don't know how because you deal with those feelings to yourself personally.
Right?
You see, you get the people to present you for the success that you have and things that, and you go, what?
Like you can care about it initially, and eventually you'll start to look at it and go, man, fuck what you're talking about.
Yeah.
Because I can't allow you to have power over my emotions.
Of course.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, and Serenity Prayer.
Right.
You let it go.
This motherfucker smart.
Clip in, brother.
No, no, you got some shit going on over here, man.
Smart guy.
It got diddled into him by that priest.
Exactly.
What?
No, no, no, no.
I was not at the party, so I wasn't at the party.
I'm not the little guy between me and Diddy.
That was not me.
Okay.
Okay, go, go, go.
That's what the P is for, actually.
You were saying, go.
No, I just think that what's the name?
You talk fucked up my whole train of thought.
I'm sorry.
You can't let nobody affect your emotions.
Yeah, because they're getting in.
They don't care.
Like, they're going to say, you don't care about how you feel today.
Not at all.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, look what you said.
And he goes, well, you don't think that so you have some sort of backlash or something?
And you're going when no one else has said anything.
Yeah, When no one else has said anything, right?
If you didn't, this means you're in agreeance with those behaviors.
Don't you appreciate hip-hop culture?
Wasn't you just talking about ether and the takeovers and all that?
And you go, yeah, so that means that you're okay with those behaviors.
Because you didn't say anything.
I'm not.
But I get what you're saying.
Yeah, if you didn't say anything, then you look.
I only was saying it because I've been saying it.
You know what I'm saying?
If it was new, I would have looked and been like, oh, shit.
But like half of the community is like, they don't know.
Like the people who haven't been to the party understand what that is.
Like, oh, what's going on?
Yeah.
Well, I think people are so terrified of being left out of the party.
And they're afraid of success.
They think a successful people can do anything.
They can hurt you.
They can silence you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Look at how extreme the shit is that they're saying he did.
Yeah.
So if you did half of that shit.
Why would you not do whatever the fuck you want to do?
If you did half of that, why would you not be conditioned to just do whatever?
Everybody saying Diddy, though, you're saying if you get away with it, if you get away with half of that, you probably think you're invincible.
Yeah, yeah.
That makes sense.
I mean, I'm not even what you were the one guy seemed like you're not afraid of Diddy.
Was there, is it just like I've been through?
He's not a scary guy.
He never was a fucking scary guy.
That's how I feel.
I mean, that's how I feel about my beefs.
Sometimes guys.
I just don't say I'm going to make sweet love to him.
Because he would have enjoyed it.
He would have enjoyed it.
You can't give him what he wants.
That's all the punishment.
These guys, that's what I'm talking about.
The comedians, you can't really beat them.
You just got to join these motherfuckers, man.
Because it's like.
You got it.
That's.
Listen to 50.
You got it.
And also, we've got connections to the IRS, man.
And we have a very powerful system that looks into your taxes.
So make sure.
Yeah.
A lot of people write off things for music videos that they really shouldn't have written off.
And then we look into all those things.
We have to look for it.
We really do.
Yeah, the nightclub, honey.
I know.
Some people get paid cash.
Isn't that crazy?
Unaccounted for.
Unaccounted for cash is really a diabolical venture.
Why would you risk your freedom for that?
Wow.
I have nothing to do with this shit.
How did you learn so much about the business side?
Is this just you living it?
Or did you have a mentor or someone that you trusted that gave you?
Great question.
Don't have someone that you trust and it'll help you learn it.
Wait, wait, wait.
Go through it.
Yeah.
You have the information available to you because it's your situation scenario.
It's just, they're just not taking the time to read or to look at the things that are going on around them.
Right?
Even the new ventures.
Right, but those new old ventures have trained you for the new venture.
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Vitamin Water, for example.
The approach to it.
How do you know how to prepare yourself for that deal?
Clearly, they're going to try to find ways to carve you out of it.
You're early.
You're getting into a privately held company.
But no other rapper was doing that for you.
Right, but it changes the way that the thought process, how you think about it, because they say pay off bigger.
But for you, how did you navigate that deal?
Because I wanted to do it at that point.
Look, I was consciously not going towards spirits.
Everybody's going spirits.
You're like, I want to say, this is why I fuck.
This is why I fuck with you.
It's like, whatever everybody's doing, I want to go the other way.
I'm going to say people's names.
I'm going to say everyone's name.
Exactly, exactly.
All right.
So everybody's going spirits.
You're like, I got to do something different.
What is the exact opposite of an alcoholic beverage?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Vitamins and water.
You know who drinks water?
Everyone.
There we go.
You know, I don't know if you guys remember, but some of the ads you used to make for vitamins.
So good.
What are the funniest things?
Which one?
Which one?
Son, he just used to, like, if you pull a few of these things up, I remember one, you had like, he was in a suit, just like an info motion, and you failed.
He threw the vitamin water almost in the building.
You know, that hit somebody.
But those days, if social media was around, bro, he'd be like the best or something.
Like everything.
You can't beef with 50 because he'll make a fucking video about you.
Well, I don't know.
I always thought that you understood two things.
Like one, you're not really afraid of anything.
And two, you understood funny.
You will make everybody laugh at those people.
When you take yourself too serious, you fuck up everything.
So you start believing the hype.
Like you said, you are the character you created, damn near, instead of being who you are.
Yeah, yeah.
That's why this was so funny.
Because at this time, you were the most gangster rapper in the industry.
And then he'll do something like this and we're like.
That wasn't part of the skin.
I wasn't part of the skin.
This is hilarious.
Hilarious.
Floyd Cannot Hear Punch First00:07:11
Love it.
Did you learn any of this from Em from watching his come up and being close to him?
No, he had the skin.
He didn't care about that shit neither.
Like he was definitely in the tip.
This is what attracts me to the baby.
Oh, the bet.
Yeah.
You don't wear a diaper and walk around.
Yeah, the younger generation, when they come with it, and you don't want to fuck with them.
Like, don't play with them because they dead ass serious with the other shit.
Yeah.
But he's just, it's almost, I got joker vibes off that.
Yes.
Yes, 100%.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, it was like, because he's really in the experience is not the person that you should play with, but it's playing while he's doing it.
It's like you could be the nicest person in the room if you could fuck up everyone in the room.
Yeah.
And you know, you know what?
I don't even want to fuck up everyone in the room.
Who the fuck walks around feeling like that?
Insecure people.
Small guy.
Exactly.
You know what I'm saying?
And you go and you go, well, how would you want to do that?
Even if you could.
I think there's a point that you just, some shit just looks crazy to you.
Like the early perspective, you don't have all that information.
So you're going like, even when you say, like, how do you catch up on the things?
It's just being aware of it.
Like, you can't, if you don't, I use my gut, man, my instincts.
I have to know enough to tell you how I feel about it.
You see what I'm saying?
Like, if I don't, if you don't know, and you looking at the lawyer, like, he got you, he didn't even do what you did to earn the money.
He just giving you.
So you saying you paid him to read?
It's like you could read.
Yeah, like he can fucking read.
Like, you know, champ.
Yo, free Floyd.
Free Floyd.
What happened?
Somebody wild on him, huh?
That's what they said in London.
Yeah.
What's up with Floyd right now, man?
I don't know.
I haven't spoken to him.
That broke my heart that you guys aren't, you know, close home.
Still my guy, man.
Still my guy.
I just Boxing is ill.
But that was a good run.
When you guys were together, that was probably the heyday of boxing in my generation.
That's cool.
I was young for Tyson coming up.
So I didn't get to fully experience his.
So my generation was when Floyd is out there and then 50s kind of running the Floyd show.
And it was because, look, we've been friends since 02.
He had flew to Puerto Rico to be at Make Show Power Summit before my music even took off in 03.
Oh, wow.
So me and Floyd is like, even when I fight with him, I don't hate him.
That's my voice.
He likes my brother.
We just don't get along because I don't need him for nothing.
He don't need me for nothing.
Every now and then he goes and then he goes, yo, what's up, five?
What you doing?
Nothing.
Everything good.
All right, good.
And we go back to everything being cool, but he act funny in between time.
He is the greatest ever, though.
Absolutely.
Do you ever hear me make reference to him and not call him champ?
No, it's true.
He's the greatest.
I've said that he's the greatest great.
Like, I think he's better at boxing than like Einstein was at science.
It's extreme focus.
Like, you know, he chose that early.
You know, and a lot of times with the dads, when the dads make the best babysitters, they're living vicariously through the kids.
Like, they turn, they take the kid to the gym.
They go to the gym.
Yeah.
They're building their own champion.
You know what I mean?
And then they turn.
That's why I mean Floyd Sr. used to get into it because there's so much alike.
There's a little competitive instinct right there.
Yeah.
I mean, that's soap opera of boxing when like senior coach De La Joya.
Yeah, that was crazy.
I don't even think people could wrap their heads around what we saw.
Like Floyd Mayweather Sr. was the coach of De La Joya when De La Joya fought Floyd.
Can you imagine what's around?
It's crazy.
Nah, that's it.
That's one of the things, yeah.
But, you know, after a while, it's him.
He turned into him.
What does that mean?
He turned into him.
Lil Floyd turned into Floyd Sr.
At that point, and he didn't need any validation or any acceptance from him.
He just wanted to go do whatever you want to do.
Yeah.
And you can't help him be me because I'm better.
Yeah.
You understand what I'm saying?
Yeah.
And Roger was so much such an important part of Floyd's life at that point.
Roger's his uncle.
They were both boxers.
Accomplished.
Yeah, so he had that.
Yeah.
In that period.
Well, R.I.P. Right?
I think Roger Pass, right?
Yeah.
Do you ever still spar?
No, I haven't done it in a while.
I should.
I ain't been in a street fight in a while.
That's probably.
I mean, that's...
Don't speak about it so long ago.
I'm a missing street fight.
But you do want to just make sure, like, I still got it.
What was your go-to move in a street fight?
Punch first.
Yeah.
Well, I like to get off first.
Yeah.
I start the fight.
I can feel the fight.
I've seen it a couple times.
You can feel it getting there.
Like, you feel it.
Wait, like the energy you feel, and then immediately you're swinging.
Yeah.
Because it's just where it is.
Like, you can, you know, the environment, you know what's there.
What are you wearing?
What the fuck?
Why is the litigator stepping in here and telling us how to street fighting?
He's sounding politics.
But he treated, you treated music the same way because it's like you wouldn't even, you used to beef with people just because they were standing next to somebody you ain't like.
Well, you would punch first.
What you're saying is.
I know how your perception of me is from just viewing the culture and stuff like that.
But look at right now, our coaches standing next to the wrong person means you're the ops.
Yeah, no, no, no.
I agree with it.
But I'm just saying you would shoot first.
A street coach and anybody that put themselves too close to someone who was not associated with you or anti-you, you treated them the same way as that.
Like, you know, like, there's no that's not even new.
That is really what you see happening.
And uh, but then when you're thinking about it, music business-wise, it's like, hey, let me just do a record with somebody who got a little heat right now just because, right, but then you look when they have when they got any type of gang references in their music or gang culture, they know that if they're associated with this person and then they go try to associate with the other one, if they put themselves in a serious situation, gotcha, yeah, like the people around is looking at not, it was just over there with them.
I feel that.
So, even you know, even if they're not in good, they could just not be in control when it happens to you because you was just with this person, then you came over there, and the rest of their crew is feeling like that.
The artist is not usually the leader of that crew, yeah.
But that's how you know those weren't real because those people you made up with, like Jada, fat, you made up with them, but like the people you still got beef with, that's real beef, right?
Because you look and you say that's competitive, like our culture being competitive.
Yeah, they didn't say anything that hell merit that would allow me to years later still dislike the person, yeah.
I feel like you even said you really like Jada's motherfucker.
I do, yeah, he's nice, Jada.
America Nominations Traveled Wife00:07:51
You think look, you can't be good if you can't hear good if you can't hear if you're good.
You don't know what good comes on, how the fuck is it?
How you gonna know what's good?
You know if you can't hear it.
So, other people, I look and go, Yeah, this nigga think he okay, he think he could, you think you could take me, huh, nigga?
Bitch, come on, come on, bitch, playing with me, you know what I mean?
Like, this motherfucker's good, that's why I'm fighting with him.
Do you feed off that?
Yeah, like the competitor.
If you have good competitors, then what you doing, you know, and it did look are you like that with everything, or you just music?
Are you like that with your show?
You need to have the highest ratings.
I want, yeah, I want to see, and I'm rating specifically for me because I'm not receiving the accolades connected to the performance of it.
Uh-huh.
So, the validation comes from the people.
The old market, right, right, right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, I'm not looking.
I don't, I'm with my people's choice awards.
I don't give a fuck about the other things based on the actual performance of the material.
That's what I care about.
And then the networks are on the same side, so they'll look and they'll go, nah, this shit is the biggest shit we got.
They don't care if there was a trophy received based on it, but you, you know, I say this when I say this, my publicist cringes every time I say this.
All right, get ready.
I'm going to say this, guys.
According to the Emmys, the most talented black man in the world is RuPaul.
Why is that?
You would love to see that.
Yeah, that's a very peacey way to look at it.
That's not Corey.
We support the LGBTQ community.
How many nominations?
Yeah, let's look.
It'll pop up for like a whopping 19 nominations.
Yeah, yeah.
And, you know, they pick what to support.
Yeah.
And then the other things that are there, you can outperform succession.
You can outperform.
We can see the numbers and they got, and they're giving that a trophy.
Yeah.
Because it's diversity versus wow.
I mean, this is 14 awards, 25 nominations.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You see?
But you also can't validate yourself by these things.
No, but if you want a trophy, go drag, baby.
It's a good idea, actually.
That's the way it goes.
You know, if your content is in that area, there is a higher probability that your record.
But if it doesn't work, you know what I mean?
Big Mama's House, he didn't get no Oscar.
I know, but look, look what I just said, man.
Yeah.
You saw how many nominations that worked, bro.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Know so no one's even close.
It's a 12-second.
I'm just saying that if there wasn't a clear is there, is there anything you've ever failed at?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
For most people, a true friendship, right?
What is that?
How many people you know married and divorced?
Oh, how many times you've been with somebody that you thought would be with you?
Yeah.
You feel what I'm saying?
So, without even having the penalty of being married and then being divorced, when that person is not the person for you, then that's where you felt.
You're sitting next to two people that their first girlfriend are now their wives.
Yeah.
They're married to each other.
That's my mother.
No, no.
Yep.
Yeah, I did it.
They've only slept with one woman.
Yeah.
Are you serious?
Yeah, I met my wife when I was 17, 18 years old.
It's amazing.
Come on.
No joke.
Honestly, he wouldn't know.
He totally wouldn't know.
But that shit wiped out the confusion.
It can't get better than this.
It can't get better than this.
God, thank you.
Compared to the diddal in this person, he's awesome, bro.
This guy's actually sitting.
I'm going to take your number.
We're going to be friends.
Listen, listen.
I can't wait.
Look, I know he's going home.
He's a fucking wife, right?
Yeah.
He doesn't have literally crazy friends and shit like that.
This guy's cooked crazy.
You know what I mean?
Like, I think in you make it to checklist.
You want to do a TV show?
Yeah.
Let's do a different TV show.
I mean, we got to talk first because you already on your shit.
We can make some moves.
I can make a move.
You know what I'm saying?
Everybody eats over here.
This shit just seems a little more stable than usual.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
You two, the first woman.
Same.
Same.
Yep.
Yeah.
That's the first time I heard that shit.
Yeah.
We got two of them.
That's crazy.
If you ask my wife, I'm the best dick she ever had.
It's true.
Same.
That's nice.
She doesn't know how much better it could get, my wife.
Do you block your computer from pornography?
No.
Because she knows there's no other dick out there.
She would have to know that there's a difference.
She has to be absolutely satisfied.
She fucks with you, baby.
So far.
How long has it been?
We've been together like 10 years.
10 years.
Yeah.
And we just had a baby two months ago.
Wow.
She know that.
Ew, how long?
Nine years.
Coming in or no baby.
For nine years?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did you get a dog yet?
We got a dog.
Yeah.
You got a baby already.
Yeah, exactly.
That's the start.
Fuck that.
Anything that lasts nine years is good.
It's great.
Yeah.
But the relationship shit is hard.
Making it work.
Just people are difficult, right?
Yeah.
Look at you.
How long are you lasting?
Fitch you're not special.
Yeah, motherfucker.
I got a signboard.
Hotel signs for a while.
You're from Faro.
You didn't last a month.
Mine's lasting as long as yours, nigga.
Exactly.
This is why you can't be for 50, bro.
It always comes down.
It always comes back around.
What's the Tyree?
What's the reason?
You think you're going to take this for me?
I will shoot, stab, and kill for mine.
Wow, she was stabbing killed for his what for the child support.
Oh, he didn't want to pay that money.
He don't want to pay the child's, yeah, but he's devastating in California.
You know better than stay in California.
You know, that sign right there which said Hollywood, yeah, that's been held up by the bones of hoes.
Can you just by the bones of hoes that have traveled all across America to be in Hollywood?
I didn't know that.
Damn, it's crazy how that worked.
They traveled from Iowa.
Yeah, because some of the told they were no, they traveled there.
Yeah, wow.
To meet someone and ran out of gas.
Yeah.
To meet someone and they met them.
Yeah.
And they just, you know, to support that Hollywood sign.
Oh, shit, God.
They used bones.
Wow.
I had no idea.
Yeah, it doesn't always work out.
Sometimes you got to teach her Pilates.
Yeah, that's advanced shit.
Because if you ain't got nothing else going on, at least be doing some Pilates.
But you see how he piped out?
You see how he got quiet when I said he didn't last long?
No, no, I'm telling you.
Enemy Space Public Gun Piercing00:15:19
I'm just saying this thing.
I'm in a happy relationship.
You've been happy with her.
She's not legally in America.
He threatens to set it up.
He said, I got Trump's number.
You don't want to be complaining.
You try that shit.
We're going to make America great.
Bro, I told you this, but the amount of people from Trump's team that asked me to get in contact with you.
Bro, the amount of people they were like, yo, we just need him to come out to many men.
Is there any how many people?
Well, yeah, I got contacted a few times.
But when I didn't, I wasn't able to do it.
The last time that they was calling because I had already had previous obligations.
They were coming to New York.
Yeah, to do MSG.
Yeah, and they had reached out to us.
Well, they went with Tony Henchcliffe, I think, and that went well.
So Tony's the comedian who performed that.
That was garbage in the water.
He got from New York.
He would understand.
He went, wow.
I was like, yo.
He said shit I wasn't sure was okay.
I'm sitting shit.
I say shit all the time.
I'm like, whoa, what the fuck was that?
I'm like, yo, maybe I shouldn't not have been there.
Like the way he went off, he went off.
Yeah, he went off.
Shout out, Tony, man.
Everyone gets these jokes, baby.
We got to disrupt things at points.
That's now.
So, so when they reach out, well, okay, first of all, when you see him get shot.
Yeah, I'm like, oh shit.
I know what was going on, but I never seen anybody.
Trump did some other shit.
He went down from there.
That picture.
Did you see like under the leg?
That little picture and shit.
And then they was putting that on the news.
And then when he got up, he was like, fight.
That's little shit.
I was like sinking into the couch that I was in at the time because I was like, damn, shit.
There it go.
You see the fist right there?
Did you have any PTSD for that?
No, no.
That was because it was happening.
It felt like everybody else didn't know that it was happening.
Because the people didn't run.
Yeah, they were still cheering.
They didn't in the back.
They stayed there.
You're not in a nightclub, something happened, and they can not even hear it because the music is playing so loud.
And then you see everybody running.
So when you see nothing, nobody moving, you're like, yo, did that shit just happen?
What does it feel like when you get shot?
Like a piercing.
Really?
It's moving fast.
So it's like getting a big piercing.
Really?
But it burns, right?
Yeah.
That's the gunpowder.
Interesting.
Okay, so and then that.
I don't think that wasn't the injury was big enough for him to feel any.
Yeah, no.
I don't think people know his story or what he did.
Just like getting a piercing.
But you got shot face.
Yeah, yeah.
So he was getting shot.
And correct me if I'm wrong.
You're like trying to dodge the bullets.
Yeah, I got shit in the hand.
He's like moving, trying to move away from the guy point-blank shooting at him.
Then he still had time to get in the car, take his gun out.
No, I was in the car.
Oh, he was in the car.
In the car, so then he points his gun at the guy.
The guy shoots his head, shoots the gun out his head.
That's why he likes action movies.
Then you can't do nothing.
Oh, you can't pull the trigger because your whole hand.
But imagine having that wherewithal.
Somebody shooting at you and you still have the shit.
You do a cry.
Like your brain don't stop working.
Like the dick amount of shit.
You react to the noise.
Yeah.
Response.
And then you like your survival instincts.
That's moving around in the back season.
And what a crazy coincidence that that guy is just like through a few weeks later, like something happened.
Yeah.
This happened to people who involve themselves in lifestyle.
Yeah, it's just so insane.
Not scared.
I'm scared.
You know, everybody's like, hey, did they piss you off today?
Bye, bad.
That was scary.
It's insane.
It's all on YouTube.
You ain't said nothing to everybody that says.
Wow.
It's crazy out here in these streets, man.
So that was happening in Queens that whole time.
Yeah, yeah.
I was just in Manhattan, bro.
We were going to like youth basketball leagues and stuff like that.
Who was not doing Manhattan?
You know, it's part of the, you know, like the more extreme part of the experience.
Was that the first time you'd ever been shot at?
No.
No, it's the first time it hit like that.
Yeah.
And do you think it changed your trajectory?
Like, would you still be the same 50 Cent you are today if you didn't go through that?
No.
Wait, what happened?
Well, after following that, not changing.
But like psychologically, what changed in you?
Oh, Willie, there's no what's name?
You didn't have to.
I didn't even know how it works without responding to it.
But when I come back to make the music, the themes are real up.
Get retro died trying.
They're looking like I could die before the record even comes out because of the threat level, the things that's going on at the same time.
And then you're going, this would be a good time to change the narrative, right?
You just got shot nine times.
You got to be saying the same shit you were saying.
But saying the same thing is made it true.
Made it arguably.
Do you have to like immediately afterward, are you going, okay, I got to show strength right now?
Like in who you are?
Are you doing the fight, fight, fight?
I'm not even thinking that.
You know what?
Look, I was more on not allowing them to see me hurt.
You know what I mean?
So I was like, even yay in them, I wouldn't let them come into the hospital.
Even who?
Yeah.
Yo, Tony.
So you didn't let Tony come to the hospital?
Tell him I'm good.
I'm all right.
I get on the phone.
Yo, you're right.
Yeah, I had the braces.
Yeah, shot in the face.
So I'm like, yo.
Kanye is trying to copy your whole shit.
Yeah, he threw the wire.
That was only a car accident.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, keep your eyes open.
Get shut the fuck up, bro.
It's not the same.
It's not the same.
Yes.
No, but it's actually more dangerous.
The car is more dangerous than fucking.
I'll take my chances in the car.
Technically speaking.
You got shit.
So you even, that's interesting.
You're even showing strength to your team.
You're telling them, you don't want them to see you.
Because they will always follow me.
They always listen to me.
So if I tell you I'm all right, but then you look and you see I'm shy with hands shot.
I'm shot in the face, legs shot up, shit.
Like, you know, you're not.
You can tell me you're all right when you got a hole in your face.
And I'm just like, nah, you gotta have a hole in your face.
All right.
So I'd rather them not see me like that.
This is the human instinct thing that I'm always so surprised by.
It's like usually someone in that position want to be surrounded by the people they love and want to protect them.
And you're constantly in leadership mode.
You are constantly leading.
Yeah, at that point, because they had, they've always been under me.
Like this before we was on the corner.
That's why he does.
It seems like he doesn't stop talking about me to a degree.
Like, yeah, because he'll look and go, he said that was going to happen and it happened.
But he's saying that about everything.
Yes.
That's about, you know what I mean?
And he's so he's like, yo, let me see.
Yo, listen, let me listen when you say shit because shit be happening.
Yo, there was a time you, first of all, you guys are hilarious together.
When we were leaving Dre's, like the meme came to life.
We leave it.
And then one point, I think you go, he was saying some shit, and then you popped up.
You're like, why are you saying fuck me for?
Like, we literally watched it.
I don't think so.
How do you say he'll say anything out of his mouth?
Yeah, because we've been around each other so long.
He's just like, whatever.
He calls shit.
Yeah.
Whole wars and shit like that.
He calls it.
And go, yo, you know why?
Because he was saying this about you.
And I was like, but I didn't tell you to do that.
Right?
What the fuck did you just slap this man's kid for?
Like, you know what I'm saying?
Like, just go, wow, shit, I'm like, yeah, that was crazy.
That was a crazy one.
What happened?
I'll let him talk about it.
No, you talked about the house being on fire.
I didn't say you don't tell me shit.
I just saw the house just small right now.
Talk about the shit I didn't do, bro.
No, at this time, I'm afraid of Yale.
Still put that work in.
There you go.
He's talking about Jimmy Henchman.
So he had beef with Jimmy Henchman, and then they were out.
I think he was at Rucker Park or something like that.
It started Apollo.
Oh, it started at the Apollo.
Oh, yeah.
Because then they see his kid outside.
Oh, no.
Somehow.
Apparently, Jimmy Henchman's kid got smacked.
How old's the child?
I think it was like 17.
Yeah, 16, 17.
You got to slap that at 16, 17.
Okay.
With a hoodie on.
Yeah, like you can see with a hoodie.
You look like you went to shit.
Yeah.
He can't help himself.
He literally cannot help himself.
I didn't have a problem with these guys, past.
Like, this is one of the things that I become involved in all of this shit.
I'm not there, man.
I'm in Connecticut.
You know, just what Jadakus said on the record.
I'm in Connecticut, bro.
I get involved in this shit.
They said I was in the truck.
Yo, isn't it hard for everybody to love you?
Everybody loves you now.
And even when you beef with people, if they come back, they're kind of corny.
This is not the position you're used to.
No, it's love and fear, though.
I think people are afraid of them, too.
Yeah, it's like love and fear.
I think it's a different fear used to be like violence, and now it's public humiliation.
I think more people are afraid that you'll get on their ass, no ditty.
I don't want people to, I don't want, I don't get anything out of them feeling like I'll be violent.
Yeah, I don't think you'll be violent.
That's not the goal.
Like, for me, tough as nut to go.
I look at the what's the name?
The social part is me like just having a voice.
Got it.
The audience, they look, and I'll say things and go, oh, and they may be like, I wouldn't say that about like that person.
Yeah.
But who I see that person as, like, they don't mean enough for me to not say it.
Do you understand?
Like, I think, because I don't take myself so serious.
Yeah.
So I definitely don't take them that seriously.
Yeah.
You know, I'm going, come on, bro.
You had a couple records, man.
Yeah.
Fuck out of there with that shit.
Like, you know, that shit matters on a day when we're thinking about the records.
Yeah, but outside of that.
Yeah, outside of that, it doesn't matter.
There is a.
You're so funny.
There's a, the second the shit happened with Jay, and I knew it too.
I went to your page.
I was like, I know he's going to do something.
And you were promoting a show and you were like, the caption of the picture was, I don't know why y'all here, but I got my residency coming.
No, wait, wait, wait.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm going to wait.
How did you wait for me to do it?
And they'll be angry with me when I do it.
Later, when you go, oh, okay.
The people do it immediately.
I'm talking about the shit jumped to 400 responses as soon as I can refresh it.
And I go, 400 responses.
And I look and they go, yeah, for don't think, wait till it's your turn.
This is snap.
And I'm like, well, goddamn.
You just want everybody to go down on that fucking boat, don't you?
It's a good thing.
I was never in none of these parties.
You know, I'm like, it's not an issue for me.
Hey, but you see that?
People, they enjoy that shit.
Like, I think anything that they think is negative about it, I don't delete people.
I don't block people.
Oh, really?
You got to keep them around.
Yeah, because they changed their mind.
I don't need you to be deleted.
But you change your mind.
You change your mind.
You're going to roll with the shit that's going on.
Now, what about like people, comments that are just like, I'm just trying to ruin your day.
I'm just coming here with negative shit.
You don't block that?
No, no, no.
It can't matter.
But you have to be clear.
That's clear.
If it matters enough for you to block them, it means they will affect them.
Yeah, don't let them affect you.
Don't let them.
I'm just saying it's like.
They take that as a win.
Yes.
That's their dub.
They want to block.
I'm going to keep that as a win, but I'm preserving my peace of mind.
It's like, I don't, if you're not coming here, if it's not constructive criticism, then it's like.
You're saying that it's poison and you just don't want to be like, that's fair too.
You can do it.
But I mean, the ultimate W is they keep on commenting non-stop and you just laugh.
I know that people think that way about me, though.
I know that that energy is there.
That's true.
Because you do give, like, you kind of poke the air a little bit.
So it's like, yeah.
Look, if you can't, if it's not, like, you opt in for that.
That's a way because you don't feel that.
Yeah.
Because when you're in the public space, you feel it all the time.
Yeah.
So there's a, because everyone has a right to a public opinion.
Of course.
So when they do that, you see that, you go, okay, cool.
And then, look, look, if someone had a negative energy towards you or felt a certain way, you would go, why you feel that way about me?
Like, because what did I do to make you feel like that?
You can feel like me, if they feel negative, it's just how they feel today.
I'm here to entertain for entertainment purposes.
If it entertains them to be upset, they can be upset.
If you want to be angry, he can be angry.
And then they'll be entertained by it.
And then later they'll see something that's effective that comes from me that makes them go, maybe he was right.
You're the joker, bro.
Yeah.
So, you know, you can't really, when you're in the public space, look, look, this relationship, we was talking about relationships about.
Imagine you invite someone in, right?
Because you date someone when you're in a public space.
And you go out with the person.
They see you with the person.
What you just did is invite the general public to your house.
Now they can have a good time.
They got dinner and drinks, everything.
And then when time for you to let them go home, okay, guys, go home.
They go, fuck you.
We're not going home.
We're staying in your business.
You shouldn't have invited us yet.
Ah.
Yeah.
And they stay there and they make up all kinds of shit and everything.
But you've given them the right to do that when you put this person into the world.
Got it.
This motherfucker is a joker.
He's a joker and Diddy was just dressing up as him there.
That's fucked up.
That is really fucked up.
And they just said it.
Will you visit Diddy in jail?
No, I wouldn't go to do you think this might be too early?
No, no, once he's too early, just not there.
You're not even saying no, he's not even saying, but I'm saying once he gets like locked up, locked up, like once he gets sentenced, will you go out to the prison and will you visit him just for funsies?
I don't know.
You know, look, because right now he can feel like I'm his enemy.
Wait, right now, wait, what?
Why would he feel that way?
I mean, I'm not his enemy.
The federal government is.
Okay, but I mean, he could have multiple enemies and he can never.
But I'm not his enemy.
You could be on his opposite.
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I'm not why.
Yeah, yeah, he's not in the position because right now he got to fight something else.
Yeah, that's true.
Okay.
The fuck that's necessary.
The lens is a little.
But if you have such a big platform and I'm going through this horrible thing and then you just keep highlighting this horrible thing that I'm going through, I'm looking at you as my enemy at the same time.
Am I highlighting this horrible thing that you're going through that everyone else is not going through the script at the same time?
It's not like everybody doesn't know.
We all do it the same way.
We all don't have a gas on it.
What about TMZ?
Are they ops?
Yes.
TMZ's ops.
Yeah.
Unless they're promoting something good you do and then they're the homies.
Also, how often is TMZ reporting good shit before this?
You know what I mean?
Like, come on, man.
Fuck these people.
They're thinking, you understand what I'm doing?
I get it.
And they're going to pay me for this shit, man.
Big money.
That's right there.
I love this shit.
Hold on, Dick.
We're here for that.
The lens to where you see it.
Look, they said the downfall of Diddy, and he hadn't had a downfall.
He wasn't even convicted of anything.
Oh, that's right.
He's in a sense of proven guilty.
The docs that have already gone out have already done things to damage the publication.
There's a responsibility to document you're working on.
I have a responsibility to make it as fair, as true as possible.
And I'm not the director.
I just talked to them about directing it the right way.
I'm executive producing the project.
Meaning, I could get people that would not get on camera to get on camera to do it because it's 50 calling instead of it being that.
You know, it'd be funny if you were like, I think he butt-fucked all those guys consensually.
I just made the whole thing about how it's not.
He did it for love.
No, he loves guys.
That's the whole argument.
That's what you're going to have to argue.
Because the only thing, like, look, with all these accusations, you think he has a ton of things that he's facing in the criminal situation.
Yeah.
It's not.
All of that.
Yeah.
Until they have a super seed indictment or bring new charges.
This shit is about Cassie and about the Lil Rod.
Who's Lil Rod?
That's the one the producer doing.
He's the producer.
He claimed another allegation.
Yeah.
But those between that, that's what he's actually dealing with.
He's not dealing with.
You hear so much shit that it feels like, forget about it.
Nothing wrong with having some baby oil.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Thousand bottles.
Yeah.
Slow some road with that.
A lot of bottles.
Nothing wrong with playing with it.
You know what I mean?
As long as it's consensual.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How many people have different habits?
Yeah.
Nothing wrong with it.
As long as it's consensual.
Yeah.
But if I was fighting the baby oil, my experience with baby oil is you can't use a lot of it like that much.
Yeah.
You know, like dialogue.
What if you're trying to get into a place that's really small?
But look what I'm saying.
I'm saying to you, my whole body is oiled.
Like I'm like a fucking old slick and we all used a quarter of it.
Your whole body sure.
Yes.
So what the fuck is the deal, bro?
Why'd you need a thousand bottles of it?
I mean, come on.
Well, it's just cheaper if you buy in bulk, right?
Like, I think that's...
What business is it?
Oh, fuck, bro.
Yeah, it's like nobody ever ran out of Vaseline.
Like, I don't think I ever bought a Vaseline 10 again.
Yeah, the question is: where did he get these drugs from?
Like, where the fuck does this stuff come from?
I don't see this stuff like at the local drugstore when you go there.
You have to go find a elephant tranquilizer to give for one.
You know what I mean?
Like, and I'm going allegedly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm just saying, how often do you have it consistently for the party every time there's a party?
There was an elephant tranquilizer.
All kind of shit.
Maybe it was an Indian wedding.
An Indian wedding?
Yeah, they'd be happy to see it.
Because they bring elephants to the wedding.
Tranquilizer?
Guys, quick announcement.
There's a comedian named Matthew Broussard who is absolutely hilarious.
And he just put out his first YouTube special.
It's on YouTube right now.
Go watch it.
Go blow it up.
Okay.
Leave amazing comments.
Let's make this shit explode.
I love Matthew.
He's amazing.
And the special is called Hyperbolic.
Okay.
I'll be posting a clip from him.
I'll put a link in my Instagram or whatever.
But I want you guys to go watch it.
He's very fucking funny.
Great joke writer.
And I think you guys are going to really like it.
He's also a great dude.
Okay.
So go support Flagrant, full support.
Get behind him.
And not like, yeah, you know.
This is a, you know, this is.
We're going to get, we're going to support him.
Get behind him emotionally.
Emotionally.
Yes.
Emotionally.
Get behind him.
But also, yeah, you know what to do.
So future for 50 Cent.
Dominate TV, dominate film.
Is there anything else that you've looked at throughout your life that you've wanted to enter that the people don't know about yet?
No, no.
I think things are changing.
Like the technology is changing the way even the film projects are working.
Yeah.
So I'll be a little AI forward.
Are you going to be, oh, you're going to lean into the tech side of that?
Yeah.
Because I think it'll allow me to do things that you wouldn't have to do practically.
Exactly.
You don't have to shoot on this elaborate set to do it.
You can do it digitally.
So look at it like when I get to Treport, half of what the editing pay was will be AI technicians and then the other half.
Wow.
I mean, the Zora stuff is amazing.
You've seen that super fast.
It's unbelievable.
That's incredible.
Sora is Chat GPT's.
Yeah, it's Open AI's video.
Yeah.
AI model.
It's amazing.
Yeah, you posted something with using Sora recently, I feel.
Yeah.
Tyler had that hit me.
You show me stuff.
Because they show him like demos of things as soon as they come out.
Oh, I was talking about the one with Diddy and Jay-Z walking around with the...
Oh, that's that was that.
I think that's an apps.
That's like a little app.
That was AI?
That was AI.
Yeah.
You know what I do?
I look at it.
This shit comes across.
It comes across my feet, and I'm laughing at it.
And then I go, oh, no, no.
People will fall out of our post that I'm going to post that.
And I just do it.
I just do it.
And then.
You love this.
You love this.
It was funny, though.
It was done.
That one particularly was done well.
Yeah.
You like the art of it.
You just like that it was.
This shit.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Before we go, I have to tell you this one thing.
There was this story of this Instagram guy in Florida that killed his girl or whatever that people said I look like.
Oh, yeah.
And you hit me, you're like, yo, we're doing this movie and you're playing right.
I swear to God, he DMs me from jail.
And he goes, what?
I heard you're doing my movie.
He goes, I heard you doing my this guy right here.
He goes, I heard you're doing my movie.
I'd like to talk to you about it so that you can, you know, honor the character or whatever.
I swear to God.
What's his name I'm looking up for?
His name is like Aladdin or some shit.
What is it?
Hold on.
What is his name?
Oh, that's that was the number one, the highest rated document series on Peacock.
Oh, really?
Yeah, that one right there with the OT.
Wow.
Yeah, and he got a lot of crazy performances.
So it's a real active piece.
Ali.
So I'm like, yeah, my boy, got him.
Ali, Ali, Ali.
Yeah, ask him what is Instagram.
Yeah.
Anyway, so we might have to work, but I feel like we should consult him.
No, listen, we got the doctor series side of it.
It's already done in development on the scripted side.
But I'll be right back to you with that.
We'll be right back with that.
Ladies and gentlemen, the GOAT.
Yep.
Somehow he has managed to maintain his authenticity.
This is the most impressive part: maintain his authenticity while working in the most inauthentic businesses that exist today.