 That's J.O.N. Uh, let me smell that. Not that smoke. No, for real. When I'm at my bed, I can use it. Bro, that's not how I do it. I got the word for it. I got my food. I'm up on, like, four boys. That is my producer right here, man. J.O.N. Oh. Oh. That's funny. Yeah. Every time we get ready to start this show, I'm making place and got some real pepper. That's right. You know something out the stage. That's right. Right. Right. Just so they know. Uh-oh. He's by the rap. Yeah. I know that. You might think so. Yeah. Okay. I'll pop with him. Yeah. Yeah. You ain't singing better than us. Yeah. Yeah. You ain't bringing any better than us. Yeah. Yeah. I rap off beat. You ain't singing better than us. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm going to do... What you got? What you said in the middle? We ain't... We ain't singing. We ain't singing. You said that. That ain't why no niggas ain't singing. That's right. That's right. Oh. Right. Stars. Right. But they would try to be... It was two rainy niggas in sync. But it was. But it was. Best. But Jay-Z was in the ad, and that nigga ain't even care. He put it in bars for them niggas. Uh-huh. But unless they're back to it, they ain't no niggas. Okay. Yeah. Full circle. You're going to fuck around and get our shit banned. You too deep. You too deep. You too deep. You too deep. You don't get a shit. Hit that shit and be like, I don't know what he's saying. I don't know what he's like. That's why your girl was on Snapchat in a challenge with a nigga. And she had a nice selfie, but you thought she was buying a selfie, so that nigga elbow. And that was a big-ass elbow, tatted all the way up the arm. What about all your singing-ass songs, bruh? Bruh. We got to tell Jay-Z to win. And not only do, like, if Will Smith was to come up on stage. Play one of them flat songs, bruh. Sis go think it's a fucking game. Before we even do this shit, you got to hit one. Just drop one. You got to hit one. Big one. This is a flat song right here. I know. When I first saw it, I was like, nigga got that all down. To be able to tell a good fucking joke. That's all I was supposed to do. This comes from inspiration. Niggas like, y'all, bro, like, no, Cap, when I listen to my music, I listen to y'all before I tap into anyone. Look, if you've been listening, if you've been paying attention, we got exclusive today. We got the whole entire Drew here. No, Cap. It's for everybody who wanted to be here. That wanted to be here that has contributed to us being able to be here for all these years is right here right now. Can we get down and introduce yourself, first of all, and shit. And what year you came in this month? Date your number, then. Ah, yeah. Oh, shit, I'm first. Probably I'll see y'all again. I mean, what it is. That's right. Let's go deliver, represent, and be more with it. Shout out to my Drew here. Plug them out. Get me out of Baltimore, man. I couldn't see the light at first, but thanks to them, I'm national and international. That's what shout out to you. Let's go over there. Oh, yeah. You have to be me, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. This is Jazz, you know what I'm saying? Oh, G and L. That's right. Yeah. You get it, baby. Front of the beginning, like I put my best friend out to put Jazz in the group. In fact, I was there to witness that. It was that birthday. Wow. That's crazy. I don't even know who's that story with now. Whatever happened to him? There you are. He's still my best friend, and that's my man. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have met nobody that turned into this group for him. Yeah. And, you know, it took a lot of years for us to, I guess, kind of had a conversation about that, because he literally, like, took me to meet everybody that became this group. So. Damn. Shout out to my man, Brayback. Thank you. You're welcome. What was it? You? I don't know. No, but you were doing that, though. Smoke, my number is 2018. Ha ha ha! Been there for four years, man, but been knowing Drew since, what, like, 90 bucks. Yeah, we want to, like, make some money. Resolve that chance. You know, so. That sure was. I mean, it's just like the family reunion right now, man, that we're saving things at the bottom. That's true. What did you do? Black, 2018, but back. You came in the same time I did? Yeah. Yeah. The recipe starting magic, you know what I'm saying? Good player. You know what I'm saying? That's true. Yeah. Tell your group, yo. Player, 1997, we met these cats. All y'all affiliates. Form the brotherhood, you know what I'm saying? But if you know anything about player, you know, we from, player was from the Timberland, Devontae camp basement, you know what I'm saying? Okay. So, Leo, Geniwine, Miss Domina, you know what I'm saying? Tweet, Tank, you know what I'm saying? Magoo. Magoo. Let's go on now, man. Hell yeah. 2018. So, Leo's music. That was dope. I want all the autos. All the autos. Thank you. Thank you. I say from the Dr. Doolittle soundtrack. Nickel. Oh. Yeah. Oh. No, that's just shit. Yo, also, also, when y'all remember when Jodesys had a different on the third album, I think it ain't for a little while, man. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Oh, me? What's up? What's up? What's up? Oh, hey. What I'm saying is, y'all totally went in on me for having my show clothes on. No, you had to. Yo, listen to me. Yo, listen to me. Hold up. Can y'all please play the actual performance? It was dope because I had my performance clothes on. Listen, it's my best trick. You didn't have to wear them. This is my best trick. You didn't have to wear them. My shoes cost more than anybody else's. Fast. Those are the shoes you're supposed to wear. No. Directly after the show, I had to perform. So you know what? My performance matters. My performance matters. You could have switched shoes. More than my regular clothes. You could have switched shoes. You did not have to wear them shoes that whole time. But when we performed, I know that you know how to perform. It was fly. Remember when they came out with the shoes on? You didn't turn the lights off in the shoes. I started to see him rip his goddamn shoes. You know what else? No one else wanted to see nobody with blond hair. But now everybody has blond hair. You're welcome. I'm a tracer. You are a tracer, because you walked on them asses on that beach. No, we ain't talking jazz yet. This is it. What up in there? You know, I just didn't really have to say it. I'm Teo, I've been here since... Teo Soprano. Teo Soprano. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Ain't mean to path for the way. You know what I'm saying? That's just what it mean. It's about the struggle. Like, you know, black and smoke was talking about, like, just making it to this platform and actually getting to live and experience this great, you know, just greatness. And he also has six outcomes. Yeah. And his natural voice. Not even for Soprano. He's natural. Teo, motherfuckin' Soprano. This is my fucking Soprano. That's good. That's good. Yo, and also, Teo and Jack Thriller set this up for us to be here to talk to y'all tonight. Appreciate it, Jack. Appreciate it. Hey, man, on some real shit. On some real shit, bro. People are always making fun of my nigga, Jack. Talking about his iron shit, man. But that nigga really be looking out. You do. When he can't see, looking out. Hold on, both sides. I'm mad. I'm mad. Can you introduce yourself for a minute? Okay. Off in the motherfucker, that's the reason everybody here. Facts. Let's go. Like, I ain't even being funny. I ain't even being mad. Fuck that shit. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. Like, not even saying that, like, on those, like, ego shit. But it's like, for real, like, it's a thing for real. We all got, like, the thing that made us who we was, like, we all got wrong. And my role is to roll when it's time to roll. You know what I mean? And I'm gonna say a lot of cuss words and shit. And you know, I'm gonna act crazy. Say your shit. At the end of the day, like, we here because I used to make niggas mad and sing songs. So, you know, like, that's me. And also, can I just interject on yours? When y'all listen to Beauty, that's all Nokia on the background. I can kind of say it. We only did, we only did, we only did, like, one part. No, he, he sang one note. I said, look, this shit sound good, but I need you to text it on the song so people will believe this is Drew Hill. Right. It was like, anything you want inside my heart, that was the only part. But all that walks by me and hoping I could make you mine. All of that was him. So go back and listen to Beauty. What about my baby mama? Oh, man. So not only, not only is he a producer and a writer, but Nokia can actually sing when he feels like. And a writer is a baby father. And a writer, too. True that, true that. And he's a hell of a father, you know. That ain't got no. That ain't a writer. Beauty's gone. Come on. Don't do that. Don't do that. Come on, girl. I'm gonna have them shit off some shit because I'm not, just in the last two years and learn how to do a run. Because I never wanted to know how to sing for real because I figured it was too many niggas around that could sing. And I like to talk. And like, I wanted to be the Vonte. I ain't want to be the Vonte. That's like a fox being a person. That lame way is like I could kind of lay back and I could write the records, but I could be there. And if I got to sing to people like, oh shit, you can sing for real? Yo, but these guys can sing so well that like, when it's time to actually sing, yo, you gotta push through nerves. She didn't put it before. Fuck it, y'all. We overalls the most shit. Yo, I was just saying that these guys can sing so well that when it's your turn to sing, yo, it's like getting in the box. It's better than all, yo. It's getting in the boxing ring. You gotta get out there and you guys show and prove or Niggas will definitely sell your notes. No, you gotta get out there and show and prove because sisters are going to sing and live. You can't sing and do a one... The one-hand jam? The one-hand jam at the same time. If he helps out damn while he's singing and running, he's like, I can't do that. No. Wait, first of all, these two. These two are in this one. And start with them. He will hit a note in his natural voice. That's the same as this guy singing. First of all, Jen got the best ball settle on the plane in my personal opinion. And they... And they will hear some notes that will make you sing. And then these guys will come to hold the harmony down so you ain't got no choice. What's this scola? No, no, no. He had to sing today. It was our first time singing this sonnet that he's leading. I really wrote that verse for Jazz, to be honest. And I referenced it. This is what it was like. And nobody's like, no, you stand on that ball. I'm just keeping it a buck. To write it for Jazz, I would just honestly even be able to just hand it to you. This next story, before we get into a whole bunch of shit, like scola, when we were teenagers, I mean like kids, like scola was one of the first people that we sort out to like write songs for us. Or even be a part of the crew. Because he's like, I mean, in the early 90s, he already had like a passion to begin on his own coming out of Baltimore. So it was like, we just wanted to constantly connect with the people that was doing that thing. So, you know, it's like, he was like an OG to us. It's been personal, boy. I liked the game early. It was business early too. Since it was this day, man. Big shot with Chris. Yeah, Chris shot the video for Incomplete. Exactly. And then shot. And then shot. And then shot. I should be. Oh, yeah. It's been personal. We're in the movie ATL, man. So I'm still sending messages. Yeah. Let's go. What's your favorite, like, back then, videos was always. The family. And it go crazy. What was y'all? Family. No, bro. We would go there. Like, when we went there with the man with the iron mask, that was the man. The medieval shit. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. Right. But they do it now. They do it now. Because drinking is the thing. Drinking in the future, yeah. Right. No, but it was like, we would have ideas. The cool thing about, I would say if I look back now, it was that, like, as many ideas as we had, like, the record company had ideas. So they were bringing us stuff that we would kind of be, like, in my bed. Yeah, it was like, on the three little bed things. I was like, there ain't nobody doing that. But if the girl's going to do what? Because it wasn't something that people were doing. But, you know, on the hindsight, it's like, we said, I feel like we set the tone for people being able to. Oh, you being two P.C. Who means lesbian? Yeah. Like, we would, like, we would. If you want me to be no P.O. Because I'm trying not to. Let's go, let's go. Come on. Come on. It ain't about yourself, nigga. That's how we do it. I feel like I have lesbians in the video. Like, literally, like, just. But you created the term rainbow girls. Yeah. We love you guys. No, no, actually. Actually, shout out to my man in heaven. Straight L-O-G. Rainbow girls came from Prince. Oh, for real? Wow. I never knew that. That makes sense. Because the rainbow girls apparently love us. Yeah. I don't know why. But, you know what I'm saying? Just that whole, that whole, you know, thing. Like, when they came to us, like, it was almost like, we didn't really know what was going to happen in the video until the end. And then it was like, oh, yeah. And, you know, the girl going to tickle you with the feather and whatever. Wait, can we tell the real story? The real story is everybody sang in my band. Right. 112, Jagged Edge, Usher. Everybody sang the record. But nobody was able to. Oh, he won't play that game today. No. I'm just saying it. Nobody was able to. First of all, I didn't even fucking want to sing this song. You absolutely did. That's why, that's why. And the song was like. Next thing y'all want to see. I was like, you a mad ass. I went, yeah I was wondering why you came home. You'd like to see it in my band and whatever I know about, everybody sang the record. Every song that Sisco don't like into my band is going to be hit right. Oh, that's how you know! Except for the ones that I wrote. Right! And I own those masters. Uh oh, you. That was facts. I probably got y'all. See you later. No. Who the fuck want to sing about somebody sleeping in their bed? I don't think it's going to relate to that shit. Niggas need it. Look at this. Niggas need it. Niggas need it. Niggas need it. Niggas need it. Niggas need it. Niggas need it. We were still coming out of light skinned R&B facts. Light skinned R&B facts. You were telling the big... Y'all were telling the big business a dog. Oh, wait. We got an M.J. We got an M.J. Wait a minute. What is light skinned R&B? Y'all were telling the business how y'all... They need to break up when they need to come to y'all. Y'all like, still want to walk through that door. Because you know he can't go down like me. Tap him. I got so much fuzz out of these songs. I apologize for throwing these songs and everything. Yo, say what you want to say. We got to dress the elephant in the room. Y'all wasn't getting legends. The elephant in the room. Where's Woody? Where's Woody at, though? That ain't him. That's not him. I know. What do I got? That's sick of him. That's sick of him. That's sick of him. That's sick of him. Just so everybody knows. I want to say it one more time. I want to say it one more time. I want to say it one more time. Whoever wants to be a part of the Dream Hill celebration, because every member that ever been in Dream Hill is always invited. So if you don't want to be here, then that's okay. But just so you know, whomever, which is only one other person, I want to say how many niggas have been in Dream Hill? Can I say something? Can I say something forever? Yeah. And it's just for one time, if you don't want to be a part of the group and not want to be a part of the group, please don't say that I'm the president of the Illuminati. He did say he was the president of the Illuminati. Like I signed my name in blood in our contract but it's okay. We all go through our things. I just want to say once and for all, y'all went to elementary school. And if he ever wants to be back in Dream Hill, he can always come get his check. We got his name. He got his own office. It's a bunch of mail for you, brother. Everybody was like, and the reason why I said that, is because we brothers, so you're going to be crazy shit. My mother called me up about that shit. A lot of shit that he was saying, it was like, I just saw him. And a lot of times when stuff would happen, when people would see shit, it would be like, we just saw him so we didn't understand. So when we came together... Skola, do you understand? No, he understands. Because you'd be hanging out with him. But what I'm saying is, when we came together to do what we're doing right now, I think the bottom line of everything you're saying is that we reached out to him. It wasn't like we just did it and said, all right, whatever, because you said whatever, even down to the wire, I'm starting to figure out who we are. And we from Baltimore and the wire. And, you know, he said that, you know, he's at peace with that. So it's like, because a lot of times, like people coming to our pages and it's like, y'all kind of like harassing this man. But like we telling y'all that this man is saying he's cool and y'all like harassing us and kind of like by where that harassed him, like to do something that he's saying he don't want to do right now. Like that's not like... Maybe one day. It might be, because for real it was all the time when one of us was somewhere else. I got a chance to talk to Woody on the phone about this. Okay. And Woody was like, Cisco, he want to take his shirt off too. And you, you was, you was called... To this Christ? I'm just saying, I'm just saying you want to take your shirt off. This is, I can smile. He said, why I can't take my shirt off? I can't. Because, you know what? Get off. Say it. Well, I'm going to... I'm going to ask you to not If I got two sisters and they say, hey, if your stuff ain't, if everything ain't tight, keep your shirt on. What if he's- I could take my shirt off now. It's a different demographic. Yeah. You didn't let Woody take his shirt off. All women don't like niggas that's his shape, man. Let Woody take his shirt off, would it? I hear him- I don't know what a- Just like niggas been looking at women who had- I couldn't admit when I was wrong. Okay, tell Woody- Maybe I was wrong. You got a stomach if you're all strong. Like for real, and it's not being funny, I looked at Jogacy, and I was like, yo, I'm skinny. I weighed like 115 pounds. I got tattoos, fuck lifting weights, fuck having a chest. When I take his shirt off, I look crazy than everybody else around me. But you got a- Hold on. You're not about to all get this same counterhold in shape for the same bitch, bro. Come on. For the record, I'm an eight- It's okay. Skull and got the first three wrong. Well, motherfuckers in the record company was like, Nokia got stopped taking his shirt off because he'd be taking his shirt off at the same time as Cisco, and they only wanted one nigga to be sexy. Wait, fuck- How are y'all gonna- Nokia got stopped taking his shirt off because he feel like he competing with Cisco, and no. Okay, I'ma say- You know what I'm saying? I'ma say something. What? I'ma say something, right? Yo, y'all just making me laugh right now. I'ma say something, right? Okay, he'll look way better. We got down. Yo, me and Nokia were just skinny. That was it. When Jody said we'll come out, right, these niggas will have an overall- Skinny as fuck. Right. Overall, you can see it really. We just skinny. Right. You can see all that. We was skinny. It wasn't about that with the bad boy look, it was all that. Y'all look was, y'all don't fucking know how to dance, and actually the same. So he didn't even- The look. Y'all was the look. It didn't matter what y'all gave us. If that was going on behind the door was niggas was like, put the shirt on, put the shirt on. Niggas ain't give up, fuck it. Man, wait a minute. No, and I can tell you, let me tell you a better story than you know. We didn't give up, fuck it. We didn't give up. We didn't give up. We didn't give up. We didn't give up. We didn't give up, right? And it was on me, for me it was like damn likely. But I spent so much time before we had a deal learning the business that I was like, nigga I just want to be the best background singer nigga ever walking in the face of earth. Right, and I wanted to be the best background singer if somebody else was doing lead. But what you got understanding this shit is- Somebody else was doing lead. You ain't made any shit. You ain't made any shit. I have you at the prices. No, no. No, no. No, no. No, no. You ain't made any shit. No, no, this is job, break my balls. You my artist move. What are you putting that shit on? Give me that song. Give me that song. First ball. No, no. That's what it is. That's not right, baby. What the shit is? That's not real shit ever. Like, if you want progress, like if you want progress, that is real shit ever. And this is probably with niggas at R&B, man. Right? I was young and skinny. All right, no. Niggas ain't got anything. Now I'm born with this. You're going to have a leader. Right? We'll see. And then it's up to you to figure out what you want to do. Thanks. Because the motherfucking premise of this shit is to break this shit that K.R.S. once had, break this shit down to the commerce denominator. The commerce denominator is one person. There's a lot of y'all niggas. How can we get you to the center of the motherfucking Tissy Roll Pie? That don't mean the person won't do nothing. But that's the motherfucking mentality. So, we're the reason why we're here. He wrote this whole message. 25 years later, it's kind of, no matter what happened, it was like we gonna fall on Votron. Right. And that's what y'all did. Y'all can't fuck with us. Like, a lot of niggas got broken up. A lot of niggas got, y'all spend the day. Shit and, you know, like, that shit don't be what it is. Like, with us, like, no matter what, we've been in this shit since we was kids. Like, I think that's one thing that people forget. Right. Like, we've literally been in this shit since we were 10. We've spent more time around each other than we spent around our parents. Yeah. That's talking to Woody. Oh, shit. Woody told me about that. You're acting like you're texting him now, man. What the fuck are you doing? Woody, there's anything you want me to say to you, niggas, man. Right. That's what I'm saying, yeah. I hear you on the phone. I hear you on the phone. It's your niggas side over here, it's my fucking shit to you, nigga. This is the last time. He told me that one of the reasons why he had a quick groove is because Frank's told him that the dragon represented the devil. Oh, Jesus Christ. All right, so, can I address him? Oh, that's what he was going to do. Hey, I'll let him introduce him now. No. Ha, ha, ha. Can I address him? My son's name is Dragon. Can I address him? Yeah, I'm the dragon. And he's a dragon too, so. I probably got more dragon's tattoo you're gonna need than anybody in this group besides the Jure Hill Dragon. Yeah, at the end of the day, you gotta respect all cultures. And when there are several writings of the Bible, there is the King James version and this version, that version, some versions, some versions say that it's a worm. Another dragon says, I mean, another version says. That's what I'm gonna say. I'm just saying, my kids are half Asian. They don't look at the dragon as bad. But at the end of the day, you're not gonna tell me that you're not gonna be in the group because of my son. Because my son's name is Dragon. Look. It's Ryu. Look at that. Ryu, in Japanese, is Dragon. I'm gonna give you the long short version of the writing. What he was trying to go home while we were still recording our first album. I would be in the lobby of the hotel in Philly while we were recording the sigma, while he would be clean to the dude assigned to you to let him off the couch, right, whatever. Oh, okay, hold on. So this is, hold on. So this shit deeper than just taking a shirt off. Now we're gonna give it, we're gonna give it to him. Hold on, hold on. So we're gonna give it all to him. So you had that component, right? We, I'm the person. The songs that Woody had by himself, we would go into, it was at my house. Woody wanted to wrote songs if it wanted for me being like, yo, you can write, come on, my house. Right, and when he wanted to not be in the group, he got him a deal. But when he wanted to not be in the group, we got him a deal to do his music. No, let me give it, let me give it, let me give it all the way. So the reason why Woody had the individual songs on the album was because I'm like sitting this room and we're gonna go through this notebook until we find a song that everybody gonna love. So, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. The world is your boy Chico B. And in case you haven't heard, we at the 85 South Show have launched our own independent streaming service called Channel 85. Before our Lord supporters, we're currently offering 20% off for six months. 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And also, if you're in a city that's not on the list, let us know where you are. We can make some more tickets, y'all. Thank you. Because how big is your love for me? The craziest. I didn't want to sing that. The craziest in all of this. I don't want to sing shit. That is right. I see what the problem is. I didn't want to sing. Tell me. I didn't want to sing nothing. Tell me. I don't want to sing shit. I don't want to sing shit. I don't want to sing shit. Just tell me. I don't want to sing tell me. You got both two songs that we did. That one is funnier than this. Right, right. But the two songs that I wanted to sing are our biggest fucking songs. The man made it this shit. And I feel like it's looking at the bed. To put this to bed. To put this to bed. Regardless of what you see online, right? And I don't care because ain't nobody saying that. What are you doing? At the end of the day, regardless of what you see online, when we did unsung, what he said he went home because he wasn't getting enough shine. He said it all on something. Oh. He said it all on something. But he told us he went home because it's something completely different and I ain't going to put that on check. So it's all over there. That's why I want to say that. So what I'm saying, so what I'm saying, when it comes down to it, don't get mad that what you thought was going to work out for you, didn't work out the way you want it. You wanted it to work out. Because everybody gave you the opportunity and you literally could have came back here and did nothing but stand here and make money. Right. And I told him that. You decided to say that I was the devil. You decided to say to the son of my name and blood in a contract and all this other stuff that I literally just saw you and you ain't say that. That shit. That's what hurts. That's what hurts. It don't matter about all the whatever and stuff. It's like when you look in my face, when I introduce you to my kids and you say shit like that. I'm gonna say this real quick. No, for you to see what you just said with the intensity you just said it, for you to say that the Woody face the face. It'd be a big deal. Well, no, no, no. He not going to come in my face. He ain't gonna come in my face. I know, I know. He ain't gonna come in my face. You know what I'm saying? There's shit. You know what I'm saying? I literally, I'm the first thing I'm talking about. I'm living Baltimore from telling you catch a heck to my house. To write these songs, to sit on this steps. To drink. We was just talking about this on the way to my house. I'm a bad influence. Nobody did nothing for them at me. You come on my house, smoke, drink, what I'm gonna cause my mother. I'm a total drunk now. So, what I'm saying is you should do all that. And then like, look, I don't laugh a bunch of times. I don't laugh more than any nigga here. And when I leave, I'm gonna tell you why I'm leaving. Want some real shit? I ain't gonna tell you no sugarcoated shit or whatever, so to do what you do. And then to do something to the point where my mother got caught me up. And all you had to do was say, I feel like I didn't get enough attention. But you gotta work for that attention. And attention can't just be me being in the room telling you the song, the singing, putting you with the producer or producing myself. Because at the end of the day, man, this nigga gonna fight to the fuck at the end of the day to make sure we got the best shit possible. We call each other all kinds of shit, whatever. And just now, we just gonna make sure. So was that video the job then? Was that the last one? No, she was the last one. Oh yeah, that was it. Wow, wow, wow. Wait, what? No, hell no. Well, he did the intro, but he was hugging the girl and all that. Nah, that was before that. Wow, wow, wow. Where was that? That was the end of the video. That wasn't the end. What was it? If you look at it, wow, wow, wow. If you look at it, wow, wow, wow. Will Smith didn't smack nobody in that. But, but. But if you look at it, wow, wow, wow, wow. You see, it's four of us in the beginning and it's only three of us. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right. Because, because Woody quit the group and he was like. In the middle of the video? I could just finish two of them. He quit the group and made us sing a gospel song in the middle of the video. We didn't sing the gospel song. No, he did sing the gospel song. I don't know. He put the gospel song on. I don't give a fuck who ain't singing. He put the gospel song in the world for us. He did put the gospel, he did play that gospel song. And by y'all being his friends, y'all sung it with him, right? No. Yes, he did. It's not funny. Everybody sang the song. Towards the end, everybody got in the song. What now? And he said he was leaving because of. But he was like, I'll finish the video. I was like. And he says, even leave now. Right. Hey, what they ain't doing shit to y'all, dude? No. He was, he was, he was. Shit, bro. What the hell, everybody got damn nervous in this group. Mr. Menon. Pick it, pick it. Oh, my God. Shout out to, shout out to Big 10. What the God, this is my fucking man. Mr. Menon, January, you know what I'm saying? Y'all got to see y'all for real. Mariponi, Mariponi with that shit, man. You wrote that shit? Static wrote it. Static wrote it. But all the background stuff, you know what I'm saying? Vocal range, you know what I'm saying? That's it. Yeah. Alia's last album, the red album, we worked on that. Hell yeah, that shit was happy. It was fine. It was, it was fine. The Dr. Doolittle soundtrack, you know? I don't, humble brothers, man, you know what I'm saying? What's your favorite song that you done did over there, though? One that you just, like, I did? Most memorable. We wrote this song for a lyric called Ericka Cain. You can probably find it online, just on some others, just on some search shit, but it was just, it was probably one of my favorite discos. It was a, it wasn't about just, it wasn't about love or anything. It was about life, you know what I'm saying? But it was a little, record company, it felt like it was a little too harsh. It was called Ericka Cain. It was about a family member being on drugs. Ericka Cain being, you know what I'm saying? This is a cool way to say, talk about crack, the crack epidemic that we did. It's like a brand that's out of a game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She actually recorded it, but the record, it didn't make the album this, cause they felt like it was, you know. Too harsh. It was too harsh for her, for what they were trying to do. It's really, he's so perceptive, man. You thought of it? They don't understand? They're just on the flat. Go ahead, go ahead. So for people that don't really understand and, you know, may look at, you know, the group of times, like, how did all this happen, like. And why so many niggas fighting? You know, in 1997, matter of fact, when we had finished our second album, we got a chance to do the first tour that we could do by ourselves, like it was our tour, for real, like. And, you know, shout out to my older son's mother and my son who just graduated from Morehouse. I'm very excited to do this. I'm very excited to do this. She used to be on me every day, like, you know, if you don't work, we're playing, and if you don't do a song with Smokey, like, for real, like, I'm gonna cuss you out for real. So, you know, the first tour that we got to do by ourselves, I was like, we need to bring play on our tour. Yo, can I just, just put everything into perspective? Nokia has been the orchestrator, the maestro of Drew Hale the whole time. The whole, since the beginning. Yeah. And it's like, even when people wanna be a part or don't wanna be a part, he know the whole story about it. He asked those guys when, when Jazz needed to take some time off, this nigga's so dope, it took two people to fill his place. And he found it. He found it. Yo, and Jazz was the one that found this sixth octave, nigga. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have another nigga that decided to cut. And me, and me, and me and Skeet, me and Skeet, me and Skeet. God, it ain't Skeet. What the fuck is going on? Hey, hey, hey, we out here, like we on the back, back to get the walls, it's Skeet. That's what I'm saying. What I'm saying is, yo, Skola, yo, I've always had like a lot of respect for him as an artist, as a professional artist. And anytime I reached out, he's always just like been accommodating. And at the end of the day, man, I really appreciate you guys having us on the show because we don't really get a lot of the accolades that we feel maybe we should get. Shit. But y'all goats, nigga, you ain't got no cap, man. Shit. Fuck all that. But really, y'all better get a lot of niggas. Nah. We never really cared about that. We just do it for the music. I tell you something, like when we was on the muggers, I was saying this like a lot today, like for real, I never cared about how many records you could sell more than us or whatever. I did. You didn't care about some shit. Then you could, then the most. Why you, then you don't want to sing the shit. We chart the highest, right? We saw the most, we're the best, we're fucking pop, R&B and hip hop. Right, I'm going to ban from, right. What's up, yo, we coming back. Why did you go at it? Why did you just go at it? Real shit. Y'all watch it. Just proof it over the jazz, no? Come on. Oh, gee. Hey, man, it's enough, it's in my fucking group. I put in my put. Listen, when I sing, when I'm playing y'all, they be like, who they beat, nigga, it up? Every time I behave in y'all video, the girl be like, who they beat, nigga, it up? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They always be like, nigga, bitch, bitch, bitch. I mean, it's kind of like DVD player, nigga. Like one of the things that made us dope was the fact that, like, Cisco, of course, he could do what he did, but it was like, jazz was right there dancing with Cisco. Y'all was kidding shit. Holy kidding shit. You know what's kidding shit, man? He's second best dancer in the world. No cap. For real. You can't ever move. I put that on anything, man. I don't give a fuck about dancing, fuck all that shit. They say it shit my body, be like, nigga, I'm not doing that. Man. So let's stick to the whatever. But this nigga right here, like, but not even beyond all that, like, this motherfucker's gonna pick up any instrument and within, like, 15, 20 minutes, he playing to a whole song shit. Hold on, how many instruments you playing? All of them, everything, he said. Done with the like friends. Well, basically, he's drums, keys, yeah. A little something. People always wanna know that jazz work on a social project for itself. Yes. Oh yeah, yeah, I got it. A lot of the song you heard from like music, soul, child and stuff like that was actually. You had a music soul, child song? Well, yeah, me and music. Me and music. You're on the one record. That's right, that's right, that's right. That was jazz, son. I had that one. You made that for the first time. Yeah. Hit the things. I don't first do it with Jill Scott. She had just sold like five million records and the motherfucker is hot, you know what I mean? Like still to the day. I mean, I got a lot of records, man. So. Tell the record, how old are you? I'm a soul child. What? This thing? Yeah. A lot of the stuff that come out. So he can't have praise at first. Yeah. There's a lot of songs when that's how it goes. I love that man. Yo, yo, no talk. We call nook the maven. Because maven, if you look it up in the dictionary, means wisdom. The thing is that no talks very fast a lot of times. Y'all don't really get all of the information that he's giving you guys. He was a part of my album, The Best Ballad I Ever Sayin', was written by Nokia. And I'm an assistant to that one. Facts. And I didn't know that. Hold on, hold on. No, the first one with the plastic is now a student award. And y'all was like, he had his best trip on. I'm like, all right, baby, this is maven. Come on, come on, come on. That one, yeah. Hello. Oh, no. I was so, I was so serious about that. I was like, no, this is my best friend. No, this is maven. I'm right in front of you. This is maven. Yo, hold on, hold on. You talking about nook the maven, right? Cisco, what I called you earlier about, ecstasy jones, right? Yeah. Only thing you have in ecstasy, you remember that joke? Oh. No, you get down. Okay, there you go, there you go. That was like the first joke. Yeah. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Yeah, I've never sang this song. Oh, for okay. Because a lot of old niggas can't sing. We'll figure that. Come on. You hear me? I wouldn't say it. I wouldn't say it. I wouldn't say it. I wouldn't say it. I wouldn't say it. I wouldn't say it. No cap. And no cap. I never gave a fuck about singing for real. Like, my room used to be like, if I can't do it in 15 minutes, give me out the booth because that ain't what I do. And like, from the beginning, it was like, me and Cisco used to sing on the leap. And then the more niggas that I met that could sing better, it was like, yeah. Yo, you got to put your own, you got to put your own bass on when you're going with these niggas. When I saw I ain't want to be Devonte, it's, you know, like motherfuckers want, like, many people, like, and I've met Devonte. We had a good conversation about a lot of shit. But my thing with Devonte was like, I was like, yo, I could be the niggas in the group, take a right to songs, you know, I ain't got to sing shit and I'd get bitches. Yeah, but you was singing a lot of shit. I want that job. Yo, so much. So much. Come on. Come on. Damn. I'm trying to beat you. No, no. Don't try to get me to sing a song on the Drew World or the Albuquerque. Man, always with Greg getting over it. Yeah. Okay. I went in the booth to do it. Right? Okay. I can hold my own. I went in the booth with the flute, though. He played the whole song. I had the flute, yo. True Bill. Margot. Man, always with Greg getting over it. That's the name of the record. I felt like... Oh, shit. When he referenced it. Hold on. When he referenced it, right? I felt like... You know what? You know what? That was some bullshit. I never knew that. That's what I said. I said, no, you sing that motherfucker, right? Real tough. Real tough. Real tough. I was wrong. All these years, ladies and gentlemen, I feel... I feel... I really ain't... You didn't tell me that. I never... I was... Y'all keep a lot of secrets from me. Y'all... Y'all need to talk as a family. Thank you. Thank you. Y'all find another shit today. Y'all know this man. This man. Y'all know something. I don't even knew that. How you not... How you not know this shit? How you not know about that? 2000, 2000. How you not know? First Christmas. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. How you not know? First Christmas. Y'all, that was... Oh, that was... That was some bullshit. I'm not thinking about anything. By myself, like no family, like baby mother gone, like king gone, like the first, you know, Christmas like that, right? You're getting fired now. And I started writing a song and I called him up. No. And I started playing it for him on the keyboard. Uh-huh. And I was like... Oh, yeah, that's a snitch. In 1997 it really changed my life. Uh-huh. And you know, whatever. And I'm like, yeah, you gotta sing this song. And by the time I got you to the hook, he was like, all right, y'all. I don't know how to sing it now, y'all. Y'all remember when I was going to sing it? Yeah. I had the goddamn flu. No, but like one thing... So on that song that you hear me, I'm sick. No, but like... One thing was like, if I was to write it... You're getting that bitch with a blanket on. No, it just goes through. That's true. It's just something I couldn't do as far as a singer. Everybody would come in and sing whatever the pain was, the date... I remember him singing to me like, I went through this period where I didn't want to write a whole bunch of songs because I'm like, I write all this sad stuff. And he was like, yo, you know how I write pain. And I was like, but I'm happy right now. Like, I don't want to write. But sometimes that's just what it is. And it took me a long time. You know who I credited to you for real? Marjorie Blige for real. Yeah. She said to me one day... And you know, I ain't going to go through all the whatever, but she was talking to me about some stuff. And she asked me if I was still writing and producing. And at the time I was like, nah, I'm going through it. She was like, I had to wake up one day and basically be like, this is my gift. Like, I cannot not do what I'm supposed to do with this gift that I got. You know, it took me a long time, but she was definitely like the person. Because at the time I was just kind of like, you'd be on top of the world. And then, like this business... I remember one day it was at a radio station. Michael Bivens called us at the station. He was like, man, don't let these shots and stuff dictate who you are. Like this business they had you feel like, you ain't do the shit that you did for real. He told you that at the time? Like, he just like, get me with some shit at that time that, you know, just helped me get back into, you know... Shout out to my son. I'm going to tell you all of them. I want to say something. Let's prep it up. I always wanted to go over to Marjorie Blige's house. Okay. That ain't got shit to do with nothing. Like, I just wanted to go over there, man. I don't know. Like, she was having people over. I want to be... Yo, one of my favorite songs ever. Not real shit. Like, I just feel like the vibe in Marjorie Blige's house is different. Yo, one of my favorite songs is the old song. How the thong song came about? Yeah, nigga. I actually thong. I know what I'm saying. Like, how do you like... Thong was coming. Thong says one of his men. I don't know what TV is. You wrote the code. When a girl could wear a thong. When a girl can wear a thong. Right. It's like, fuck it. It's nothing else to say. You lost your mind. Love with one finger. One finger? We're over a picture. Bro, that shit was hard, bro. Yeah, that was hard. No, but you know what? That was way better than that could do. One thing I always tell people is like... Niggas just sold platinum records or whatever. I'm like, how many niggas know a nigga you grew up with from a teenager that got World Music Award? Come on, man. The World Music Award? World Music Award. Man, hey, you got the best song in the world. Come on, nigga. They gave you this shit. Tell me your name. He was like... World Music Award for the World Music Award? He even know the lyrics. World Music Award. Bro, who was over there? You get something. Who else was in that bitch? The World Music Award. The World Music Awards was so big, they didn't even had a shit no more because the Earth can't motherfucking handle it. Oh, shit. That's double-crazy. The only niggas that only said niggas in the Earth can't handle it. Do that shit go away? No, man. Wait a minute. The only other niggas that I know that got World Music Award is Boys Demand. Hold on. You were with Michael Jackson. Hell yeah. Tell me that. Tell me that. What? Tell me that. Michael flew me out to meet him. Tell me that. Damn. That's cool. This is the part of the show we got to get to see. We take out Michael Jackson's shit real soon. So, just go tell him shit before he starts telling. I was there for that one, too. All right, go ahead. So, Michael... So, when I was like four years old, when I was about four years old, I saw Michael do the moonwalk, right? And I was like, oh, shit, that's what I want to do. And so, that was the journey, right? So, we were just doing our shit. And then, one day, our nigga was like, I ain't Michael want to meet you. And I was like, what? We were flying back from Japan at the time. And he was like, Michael want to meet you. And I was like, all right, well, look, I'm not rockin', and I mean my man can go. Because, you know, we ain't just going over. You know what I mean? All right. So, we went over, he was like, whatever, nigga, I'm Michael Jackson. So, he flew us over. And then I was... I was hanging out with his kids. And his kids was watchin' Bambi. That's all right. Ain't he? Everything landed on Jimmy. Who told you? What is it? What is it? What are you gonna fight with? All right. All right. What are you gonna fight with? I told you, what are you gonna fight with me? Whatever you want. Whatever you want. Anyway. What are you all watchin' Bambi? What I was saying was this. I wasn't watchin' Bambi. The kids watchin' Bambi. No, the kids watchin' Bambi. We was. So, then Michael, so, the whole time, I'm on the way to the trailer where Michael is. I'm practicing what I'm gonna say to Michael, right? Cause I'm like, I don't know what the fuck to say. You know what I mean? Right. So, I get there and I'm thinkin', I'm like, hey, Mike. So, I... That's pretty much what I said. I was like, hey, hey, Mike. Like, I think he emerged from the back. So, he didn't walk. He emerged. Kind of emerged. See? That's a great show. A little bit flowed. A little bit flowed. So, and, and... So, I shook his hand and I said, hey, man, why did you fly me out to meet you? Like, we all done our best Michael Jackson impression. He was like, I think you're gonna go far in this industry. And you're very talented. That was the mic drop moment and that's when I disappeared in 2001. What the fuck? What? Because I was like, fuck this. Like, the whole reason why I'm doing this just told me I'm the shit. So, I was like, fuck it. I'm out. So, my story is way more finished. Let's hear it loud. No, he's just... There you go. And that's when you left the group? That's when you left? No. We stopped that shit. So... I never left the group. No, listen. I never left the group. So, I'ma give y'all a two-part story. I never did. I'ma give y'all a two-part story. He got the better story. But I'ma give more detail. So, I met Michael Jackson, right? Yeah. And I was working with Rodney Jergens. Yeah. I was working at Delcham. I was one of the members of the group called Third Story. And Rodney Jergens was... He was humble and a million words enough beyond that he could work with my group. I was one of the first people that had Joe Button on the R&B record. And we had Halfway. So, remember Halfway? We went to... Tell? We sitting in the studio and Rodney took one of these guys from the group over the deck. Michael Jackson was in there. You okay, Scooby? You got a baby and long, though. Come on, Scooby. Come on, Scooby. You're gonna make it. And I'm just sitting there. I don't know if so. I'm high. Like, I don't know, you know, smoking weed and shit. And all of a sudden this motherfucker's peeking the window. And actually, you know, I'm like turning this away and I'm turning around. And Michael Jackson's standing right there. Right. And I'm like, holy shit, it's Michael Jackson. Hold up. How did you know it was Michael Jackson? Because he had on a shirt that Michael Jackson would have on. And I'm like... Yo, when I say Michael Jackson... Yeah, I'll say when we get off the... Yo, when I pair Michael up, he was strong. I'm gonna get to that. I'm gonna get to that. That nigga's strong. He a real nigga. So this fucking... We sitting there and shit. I turned around and he was like, hey, Nokia. He gonna pull you up. And in my mind, I'm like, my attention know my name and shit. And I shook this nigga's hand and I always tell the story like I'm at a lot of rappers in life, right? Whose hands, when you shake them, feel like they use palm oil. Michael Jackson's hand when you shake it, it's like, you know, he a real nigga. So just the fact that he knew my name and he took my man over there, I... That was big as you do not say the person that had his soft. I was gonna... Yeah, we know the person. We even know that. That's another interview. Right. So like, it was like, what happened was I blacked out. Did you hear what I mean? I blacked out when you shook my hand. Soft as well. And like five years later, my fuckers... I just came back, my fuckers was shaking me. Because Michael Jackson scared me and he amazed me at the same time. Did you hear what I mean? You scared me. You know what I'm saying? It was like... It was just like... Same thing when I met Prince. Right. First time I met Prince. Prince, we had invited us to his concert which was in Hollywood Bowl. We had... It's called... It went to the Key Club or whatever but it used to be Billboard Live or Sunset. So I go to the second floor and walk up the steps and shit. And Prince, at the top of the steps with a lollipop. And I'm standing there and shit. And I'm looking at this nigga. And he's looking at me. And this thing was like... You're gonna say hello or something. Like, I was like... This is not true. Yeah, this is true. Then the second time I met him we were in the Electric Lady studio. Electric Lady studio. And the nigga walked in the studio with my childhood. He was married to her. And this nigga... I opened up the door for him and he said my name. He was like, what's up, Nokia? That is Prince. What? What's up, Nokia? Wait, what? That's Prince. I mean, Jimmy Andrews studio. And Prince just walked in. And I opened this nigga's door. Like, I'm on Fifth Avenue. It's Bellman. And he know my name. And his wife know me. The nigga you can't tell me that. Between me and him. Like that. And Devonte nigga. My head... You can't tell me shit. Jazz, what was your Michael Jackson story back then? I met Mike. I was in the studio when Dre and Vidal recorded Butterflies. Oh. That shit cold. Yeah. So that... That was crazy. That was real. I really got to be with... Be around Mike. I met his father. His father was funny as a motherfucker, too. Joe, the nigga's real. He's like, it's crazy. Cause I'm sitting there. We all talking shit. And he's like, Jazz, you trying to case me. You can't case me. I'm just talking about problems. I'm just saying, I ain't telling Mike. But that was an experience, man. Mike Jackson said that to you? No, this was Joe Jackson. I met Mike. Oh, Joe Jackson. I met him in the studio. Yeah. But Joe's a real motherfucker. Yeah. You feel me? And then Prince, I was performing somewhere. And Prince was in the audience. And this nigga hollowed out the crowd. I hear you, Jazz. What the fuck? That's right. Hey, you know what? Thank you, dude. When I was in the same room with Prince, you know what I was saying? I hear you, Jazz. I hear you, Jazz. You know what I'm saying? What the fuck? This is so ridiculous. You know what I'm saying? Yo. Yo, when I was in the same room with Prince, his backup singer was like, hey, he says come. And he was like, don't talk to any of me. Hey, hold on. What do you say to him? Tell y'all. Hey, how do you tell y'all get in the room? All right, y'all. Here we go. He's going to tell you. You know what I'm saying? I'm a motherfucker. You know what? That happened in my life. He came out of nowhere. He just hit this run. I stopped him. And I hit him back. It's just because I said, bye, this nigga. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Hey. He's going in. T nurse here. He's in the group. So people are just thinking he came with it again, OK? So any type of story would be fun? Yeah. In the beginning, that you all… ...chance at everything. There he is. All right. No, no. Come on. All the shit, jazz and everything. That ain't down, all right. I got you, baby. No, no, come on, come on. So I came back, came to my car in 2008. What happened? What just happened? Pretty much, I moved jazz before I met everybody else. And I was in the booth in Maryland, whatever. So pretty much jazz asked me to be on this outfit, whatever, whatever. Boom, so I met everybody else. We asked you if you could sing over sisters, what is that about? Shit, yeah, bro. Oh, shit. Yeah, bro. Yeah, it's a little hate fun. So nah, anyway, so we used to all sing around, you know, sisters out in this kitchen, whatever. You know what I'm saying? He ain't telling everybody shit, because I'm trying to get. No, jazz, head, check. This is why I'm, Jack, you know me. I'm not trying to fuck nobody shit up. I'm saying, jazz, no, because he not telling the part with jazz and tail, yes, before he got the group. When jazz had his soul dead, and jazz brought him to the shit, yes, before he got the group, to be around us. I don't know if he has the proof. So what happened? I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't know if this is going to tell his whole story. So like I said, I met jazz later on the road. Right? I was in a group called Smooth. I gave him a copy of the CD. Jazz called me like a half an hour later. I got down the road, heard the message. That's when he called me, he was like, look, I want you to be on my album. He was recording this, so go out. Like I said, so anyway, from there, get your kid after the show. Anyway, so like I said, after me and jazz went on the road for a little bit, I met Nokia, Cisco, no, I met Woody first. You know what I'm saying? So I got to do an interlude with Woody because his mom or somebody just passed. So we did like a nice little interlude for his album. And from there, a couple years go by, I think Cisco was doing Gone Country or something. Wasn't it? So anyway, I had known him by then. So I called him up. That's on fire. Oh Lord. So now I called him up to just like congratulate him. And he was like, yo, we was just talking about you. And I was like, yo, that's what's up. You know, I ain't want to ask, you know what I mean? But so anyway, after, you know, he said that or whatever, I get a call the next day. And they like, yo, come up to the crib. We want howl at you, whatever, whatever. So they sat me down and it was like, look, we want to put you on the groove. But we know a whole lot of other people in Baltimore. So we want to do a contest, you know what I'm saying? For you to get in and you know, the best man way we did, we did that contest. Yeah. You bought it. Fuck y'all, nigga. I'm trying to make sure this nigga told me he didn't do this shit. You bought it. Yo, you bought it. The whole shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, you really fucked your way. I'm like, no, for real, because like, I mean, look, I'm gonna fuck anybody off of it. But I want to like, like, just nigga been here for a long time, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people don't understand the whole story. So fuck trying to take over what I'm trying to make sure the niggas know that this man been here and all the shit he's wet the shit, get here for real. So motherfuckers understand they're like, we fair, but we want to make sure it's some singing. One fucker's been here around since the beginning. I tried to sign this nigga to Def Jam when I was motherfucking doing it and all. Like that's the shit I want motherfuckers to understand. This nigga ain't just come out of nowhere and he fought his way into the group. Nobody, nobody did. He, you know what I'm saying? Like that's, that's, that's, that's we're not sure we're not sure. Uh-oh. Who did it? Me. You thought he was keeping it? Nigga, we already fucking wanted you in the group. Who you talking about? Since the beginning. No, no, no, no, no, no. Well, I'm gonna work with you. I'm gonna work with you. Who's that? Who's that? I gotta say you. I ain't do shit to be in here. Remember that? I'm gonna say this big real shit. Me, me. I ain't do shit. Hey, you know what? Hold on, hold on, y'all hold on. I gotta say you. All you had to do was say it. That's all you had to do. Yeah. Hey, you know what? The best way to end this whole podcast. What? That's the essence. Hey, the best way to end this whole podcast is to sing a song. Come on, man. You wanna hear? Here we go. Here we go. What's funny every day? Yeah. Don't do shit. Woman, don't smile. Come on. Come on, come on, come on. First of all, call the fucking dragon. I don't follow nobody. That's what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that this is what happened. All right, man. Me and my titan was at a party at his house. OK. The party was, so you was at his party? I was. We was at a party together. Yeah. Can you talk to them? Fox is at his fucking party. All right. His recollection of the party is a complete difference of what actually happened. What happened? What happened was his artist was singing, and she sounded different. Say it, say it. I just said it. She was terrible. I didn't say that. And he was my titan's ass. Me and my titan, I would be little men, and he would be my titan's ass. What'd you do if he said it? Stop instigating shit, because you know him for that. Stop. Listen, I don't want to fight my titan. This shit already happened. But what I'm saying is that he, we were at his house, and we did not wait. His artist was singing the way she was singing. OK. It was different? It was different? All right. And I was like, guess what? I got to go to the bathroom. And then Jamie Foxx looked at me like, fuck it, because he was so happy that I found a way out. It was rough. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Keep going. That's the end of this story. You can't leave with Jay-Z. Do you want me to talk a shit bout him under your breath over here? Jay-Z. No, you don't got no problem with me. Why you instigating shit? You instigating, Jay. I always do for Jack shit. Don't talk to Jack, man. Don't answer no more of these questions, man. All over the place. Why on elevator gate did he post the picture? I mean, did. Never mind. Don't worry about it. See, you don't talk about it. See. Uh-huh. That's stupid. Hey, man, I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what I am. OK. I don't want to know what's everybody's favorite song. Like, you know before the fact when this song play on stage, you're like, I'm from the same fucking world as you. I know what we practiced. I know how to do it, but I got it. Oh, that's what I ain't got there. We just sang, we're in practice. Yo, honestly, honestly, it's beauty. And beauty is the one song that I did not want to sing. You don't never want to sing shit. You don't never want to sing shit. At this time, if a nigga play the song in the studio and they just say, I'm not singing shit, we're going to have to do this song tomorrow, right? That's not the best thing he's going to get on it. Right. So what song was your favorite? I'm going to say, like, well, I'm going to say that. Tell me what's my favorite song of the time. Once they hear that music, you know what I mean? Come in, and we start doing the dance or whatever. You see the whole crowd, like, just jumping up and down. So that's what I'm talking about. I don't know, but I want to say, man, it's tough. You know what I'm making love with? When I'm making love. What's your favorite part of it? The whole motherfucker was jumping like everything about it from the beginning. And I got some hoops, like, there was something in the baby's face or whatever. That was the baby's face. Yeah, man, shout out to them, like, yes. That's what I had to pick, that stuff. What about you, Lil G? Man, come to him last. Go ahead. All right. I would say beauty just because it didn't come out as a single. But it gets, it gets a bigger applause. It sounds like nothing else. That wouldn't come out as a single. No. What? That's so on the album. That baby didn't get crazy. Beauty is the best. I know that. I'm saying that. That was never a single. I was in the R.B. song of the year for beauty. Right. That's the only single. That's the only single that we ever had as far as people. No, they didn't. No, they didn't. People made it. They made it. No record company? No. No record company. No. Never did it. Never did it to old people. And that's why I like I asked... That's what music's supposed to do to touch you. Yeah, people have that record to touch you. Y'all is wrong. And they made it. They made it to the single. Yeah, that's the song. Violet and the Keynes. Oh, shit. What's that song for? What? What's that? It was... You know nobody... It was a track with the Kanye... Who left? We had to first. We played the Kanye track first. Mm-hmm. It's why it's my second album. It's a second album. It's why I second album. It's why I second album. And, you know, we was making money writing. So, you know, we're getting to business. And, you know, when you're sort of having families and shit, it ain't always about what you want to do. It's always about what you got to do. So, you know what I'm saying? So I bet how did that adjustment, when you write in, that you're knowing you're an artist and you want to be out there on stage and you're behind the scenes. Mailbox, you hear me? Mailbox money. Mailbox money. So it was, you know what I'm saying? I sing every day, any day, you feel me? But I'm always do what it takes to secure the bag. So that's what happened. So coming back to being able to, you know, getting with Drew Hill has been a blessing because we get to see the other side of it, you know what I'm saying? You know, we've been sampled by Drake, Chris Brown, you know what I'm saying? A lot of the pop smoke, you know what I'm saying? So music will always be, you know what I'm saying? A round. So, but to be able to do what you actually came in the game to do, sing, perform, it's a blessing, man. Just I don't appreciate, love these guys for, you know what I'm saying? Peace now. What about you, OG? Y'all in school? I promise. In school, you good? In school, they say we're not making love. We're not making love? Because bark, you know what I'm saying? Barking, you know what I'm saying? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, That's your favorite part. Yeah, it's time. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Okay, what about you, OG? Jack? What is it? Damn it, this shit. It's a God damn it, bro. It's a God damn it, it's a God damn it, it's a God damn it. Yeah, I love what you do, man, I love what you do. What's your favorite song to sing? Like, oh my God. Oh my God. Stay wild. Stay wild. Like, you know, like, this the one that I ought to come in when you be jittery, but once it's time to sign, you, you, you, you him. Yeah. Well, over the years, it kind of like moves around. Like, it's, I know we still in my bed and I call them Cisco Goldie, right? Right. Goldie be fucking serious as motherfucka move. Me and this nigga over here be fucking clowning the whole time and doing the shows. So, you know what I mean? And then, then it went from just us going on stage, just clowning and having fun to paying attention to the crowd's response. So, the crowd's biggest response is promise, beauty. Yes. When I'm making love, when we do that joint, yeah, no, of course Tommy is this. Yeah. And the remix, come on, man, you know. But, and then we all have fun when this nigga do the thong song now, cause I know it's a difference when he go do the shit versus when he doing the shit with Drew Hill. So, you know, so I probably named like five songs now, didn't I? Right. That's almost like, if we had like fucking five songs on the radio all the damn time. Exactly. And that was different from anybody else, you know what I mean? That I can say that, you know, that we went out with, man, you know, and I'm just looking at the whole career. I was like, when we sat around like, we sitting here now, this is us in the hood without people to shit motherfuckers doing whatever, you looking at your idols and shit. You know what I mean? You wanting to get there, yo. And then we fuck around and do that shit for real. Right. That's the whole, that's the whole thing. Y'all cold. Hey DC, you said some dope ass shit. You didn't know it just for this. By the gambler, Drew Hill Gamble, they got a dope ass wheel smith story. Tell us the word, no kill. Which one? You saw it, we went, oh, now you want to fuck with it. We wasn't, we weren't, we wasn't a part of that collaboration. Can I talk about the song first, can I talk about the song? I have a song. Songs is hard, we gotta, we gotta do it a lot on them, right? So it's like, I'ma always say beauty because I feel like that was the song I bet my career on. I feel like that was the song I bet every piece of capital I had on it and getting niggas in the studio. Like it was like, if y'all just sing this song, you'll get what the fuck I'm doing. But it took me singing the whole song. He sang that old fucking song. You didn't want to sing it. When you say it, man. When you say it, you don't want to, you just break it up. They didn't sound enough like Jota's song. I sang it. No, I didn't. We just didn't sound enough like Jota's song to me. This is what people got to understand, like on beauty, like for real, other than the one song I got, that Sisko the same on the hook, it's literally just jazz and Sisko singing the lead. All the backgrounds on this song, this me from the song. So when we looking at the drew here now that it's jazz and Sisko doing the lead and everything girl. It's you. On that song. On that song, yeah. On that song. On our best song. That's fucking magnificent. On Drew's best song. It's all Nokia singing the background. You want to touch break me, bro. That's all. And he broke the song. Got that. Got that. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't. That's my favorite Drew song. Because you know what? Like one, I can only write what I feel. And like, I don't want to give it to nobody other than my people. Amen. Amen. So you all about to go out and go do some tour days and shit like that? No, I'm not even working. No, no. So tomorrow, tomorrow we going to rehearsal and then we're going to get a Black Excellence Award. You know, ACK Urban Icon Music Award. Oh, thank you. I understand, man, like the thing that I feel like got us to the point where we are is that you got to understand what you do. Like, I could sing like for people that know us from Baltimore, like when we first started for real, me and Cisco was singing on lead. And the more people that I met that could sing, I'm like, fuck that singing shit. I'm going to write these songs and shit. Like, I'm a falling, a lot of groups don't last because you got to learn how to pass the ball. You got to learn how to be a great number two before you get to be a great number one. How many? Everybody want to be number one first. That's when shit get on. Whatever. That's the fucking ball. That's to figure out what you did. You know what I'm saying? You think you got the ball? Talk about paying the ball. Right. That's what I'm saying. I'm going to tell the ball. I'm going to tell the ball. I'm going to tell the ball. I'm going to tell the ball. Damn. He's going to tell the ball. I'm going to tell you more than I'm going to tell the ball. That ain't it. You pass the ball, man. I will pass the ball. He'll pass the ball when the motherfucker don't bounce no more. Damn. We're going to. Damn. We're going to start charging off of this therapist. We talked in years. No, we talked. No, we didn't. I talked real loud and I've been cussing and shit. And then I want to talk. And then it turned into like, is this nigga acting crazy? Is this nigga having a breakdown? I'm not crazy. But you know what I'm saying? Just passionate. No, bro, we've done it literally before on the way. Man, that's like that. You know what I'm saying? When it comes down to him, we're going to do it right. So if I take the front. What you mean, dragging a roof? If I got a deal with an ass, if I got a deal with a CEO of a company, you got to have discourse. Oh, he's so fucking funny. Because without discourse, you don't realize how niggas really feel. So my whole thing for the beginner is nigga, I'm going to make you mad to do what you got to do. And then you're going to look at me and be like, fuck you. And I'm going to say thank you. That's a terrible strategy, bro. Just to bring the brand new guy to you. That you said, don't, you got to bring the brand new guy to you. Because you got to understand something like if you read books of CEO's of companies. No, I ain't say that. But what I'm saying is if you deal with the take the motions out of shit, right? Motion niggas fuck up because they be in their motion. I'm not a motion. I'm going to pull you into it. I'm going to say, nigga, can you sing the song? Yeah, that's the way. How you want me to write it for you? Write it for you. Whatever. And even if you're going to do that, or you're going to get mad back at the end of the day, if you get mad and going that, perfect example. We don't all alone, first half. I'm saying, I'm talking shit to this nigga. Fact. And eventually, I'm like, you want me to rewrite the song? Can you do it? Like, you want me to rewrite? And eventually I said some shit that made this nigga say, all alone. And if they know, he thought I was mad at him. I wasn't mad at him. I just need the nigga to get to the point to sing the shit. So he come out of the booth looking at me like, nigga, fuck you. I'm like, thank you. Yeah, that's right. Right, right. You know what, you ain't shit. Jetta, man. Jetta. Y'all are go-kers, man. Hey, man. Y'all are go-kers, man. We appreciate y'all bringing it. We appreciate y'all bringing it into the entire group. That's all right. We thought we should, too, mama. Nigga, nigga. No way, nigga. We do. Thank you. Thank you. No, come on. Winning World Actors. Winning, whenever you want to come back. 25th anniversary tool coming to a series. Terrible person. Yo, that's all right. Hey, hey. Yo, tell them whenever you want to come back. We can do it right here. No, Kev. Yeah, well, you can come today to 5th South Show. Tell your side of the story. You can come back by yourself first and then come back. I'll be one of those. Let's go. He might want to. Them niggas would love, man. He might say, no, real shit. Real shit. I told them she's going to sing shit. Don't worry about my motherfucking shirt. But the great part about it is, every time I look, I follow the Drew Hill pic. And my faggot, I follow the Drew Hill pic. Drew Hill pic. So I want to see all y'all on pic. You got that with those flowers. But every time I go look it up, I'm either busy. So I done looked up probably like 10 dates for real. Just like, I was going to pop up on y'all niggas ass and look at the show, but I was like, I can't kick. I can't win. But I'm never trying. Hey, man. We need to do a record. I'm definitely not a smoker. Do one. That'll be hard. What is up? What's up? I'm like, come on. I hate you. Can I take my time? I can't tell me I can't take it. Throw a lot of shit. I'm the good one. We've been things like, you know, aside from what we might do from what we was doing, I'm like, Jack, Jack Thriller. Jack Thriller. Oh, bravo. Let's give it up for Jack Thriller. Thank you for the birthday. Oh, y'all did it. Yo, y'all did it. I want to hear it. Beauty. We got to get the beauty. He's been a sausage. He said it was an eye. This is beauty. Except it. Hey, man. It was a honor, man. No cap, man. Real shit. Y'all niggas. Legends, goats. One more. Three, two, one. Don't let nobody tell y'all this. Thank you. That's what I appreciate about it.