Raekwon the Chef joins the Real Life Street Stars to share insights about his journey in the music industry and the impact of his iconic album "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx." He discusses the importance of passion, perseverance, and surrounding oneself with a strong team while navigating the challenges of the hip-hop landscape. The conversation also touches on the evolution of hip-hop culture, the influence of his upbringing, and the significance of authenticity in his craft. Raekwon reflects on the legacy of Wu-Tang Clan and their efforts to shine a light on the streets they came from, emphasizing the importance of supporting one another in the community. As he looks to the future, he reveals his upcoming projects, including a new documentary and his foray into the cannabis industry, showcasing how he continues to innovate and inspire.

Chapters:

00:00 RealLyfe intro

00:35 Raekwon intro & explains his chain

01:30 Raekwon on the Street Starz brand, looking up to the guys on his block growing up

04:00 Raekwon ranks the borroughs from back then & where he grew up

06:05 Raekwon on Drake v Kendrick battle rap

12:14 Raekwon on the Wu Tang show on Hulu & putting aside differences in the group to get money, RZA bringing everyone together

19:00 Raekwon on getting money as a group & check splits

21:48 Raekwon on any beef stories he has from back in the day, reminisces on Ol Dirty Bastard

27:50 Raekwon on what details were left out of the Wu Tang show & his movie

35:58 Raekwon on his book that's out right now

39:50 Raekwon on his documentary, doing a skit with Biggie, Nas, Bad Boy

44:36 Raekwon on Martin Skreli buying Wu Tang album for millions

45:49 Raekwon on rap lyrics bringing about events

54:07 Raekwon on Takeoff & Quavo paying homage to Raekwon & Wu Tang

59:40 Raekwon on his new album & dispensary

01:06:15 Raekwon gives advice to the upcoming artists

01:08:50 Raekwon shoutouts & close

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Yo, check it out, y'all.

What's the deal?

This is Raekwon the chef.

I just knocked out a super ill interview with the realest man.

Real life street stars.

You know what it is.

Tune in, tap in, you gonna hear some real man.

Y'all keep getting it, man.

Nothing but love.

Thanks for having me.

Real life.

Real life street stars.

Know what time it is.

Life street stars, man.

We got a legend in the building, man.

Raekwon the Shelf, the chef in the building, man.

Street stars.

Thanks for having me, man.

Hey, number one.

That is the nastiest chain in the entire world.

We gotta start off by talking, highlighting the chain with the fit, bro.

Where did you.

Who is the jeweler, man?

Oh, nah, it's my man Maza.

He got a spot up on 47th Street.

He A qualified dude, certified.

He made it for me recently, too.

A couple of months ago.

You know, he on his come up thing, and you know, he like, yo, only built for Cuban link.

Cause I gotta make you a Cuban.

And we got together and, you know, he did something different.

You know, I told him I wanted something, you know, authentic, and, you know, it's from the heart from him, so.

Right?

Shout out Mazda, New York, New York City jeweler.

Salute you, baby.

No question, man.

We got a real, you know, street stars.

You know, when we started this, our goal, man, was.

I love the name.

Let me just talk about that name.

Yeah, come on, man.

It's so real.

Because it's like, I honor street.

You know what I mean?

And once you make an accomplishment, you become a star automatically.

So just the name itself, y'all.

Cause I'm big on names.

So, yeah, y'all killed it with that.

Street stars, no question.

And the goal for us, right, when we created it, it was like we was young cats from North Dallas, you know?

You know, we had the cameras.

Picked up the cameras, and it would always be in the street that was doing its thing.

And maybe didn't get that light.

Me too, with us, didn't get.

Didn't get that light.

So we wanted to shine the light on them.

You know what I'm saying?

So I'm just curious for you, growing up, where you grew up, who were some of the people that you felt like was them but didn't get to just do.

Or maybe they was coded basketball but never made it over the top or, you know, like that.

Like, who were some of the people that you looked up to in that way?

Well, you know, the I looked up to was on my block, you know.

You know, the older cats, the cats that was older than us because like you said, they was ball players, you know, some of them was hustlers, some of them was jostlers, stick up kids.

But we paid attention to the.

That was getting, that was trying to, you know, take themselves from poverty to having something, you know what I mean?

And we idolize that.

Like if you come down the block and you see a.

That, you know, is a certified in the street, you know, you start looking at him up and down and he might have had an ill pair of new balance on or he might have had a pair of clocks on or he might have a pinky ring on or rope chain, you know what I mean?

Like the ropes y'all rocking right there.

Like, you know what I mean?

Like, we was always those guys that paid attention to those little details and you know, they motivated us.

You know, it was the older brother, they used to chase us in the hood and you know, cave us in a chest.

Like, yo, man, don't come outside with them sneakers looking like that.

Wash your off.

And you know, so it always was to catch them around the way.

But it was also, you know, the hustlers, you know, we had a lot of, you know, West Indians in our community.

You know, some of them, you know, we with some of them, we hated, but you still had to respect them because they was getting money and they was territorial about their business.

So, you know, that was to us the blueprint on wanting to try to get something.

Man.

It seems like when you go back in history, just from documentaries, it seems like New York in general was always known for getting to it, whether it would be fashion, money.

How would you rank the boroughs back then?

Like Brooklyn, what were they known for your borough?

Like name the boroughs and what was they just known for?

Well, you know, Brooklyn was stick up kids, you couldn't trust them.

You know, Queens was get money dead carryover or something or you know, over some real principles, you know, Harlem was getting money.

Cotton Club hall, you know, Apollo, you know, you might see a little 17 years old, but you might have 400,000 and you know what I mean?

And living in a building.

Yeah, you know, so, you know, places like that we always admired, you know, Staten island was a mixture of all those boroughs, you know.

You know, I'm originally a Brooklyn native.

You know, my mom, my mom, we come from Brooklyn and she moved us out of Staten Island.

I mean, she moved us out of Brooklyn to Staten island.

And a lot of my homeboys, you know, we came from out of Brooklyn but at a young age.

So, yeah, I mean, you know, you know, the Bronx.

The Bronx, you know, you get the drugs up there, the dope and all of that, the coke, you know, everything was fast, like you said.

It was just, you know, you would be able to identify with certain.

Because they would.

Everything was always about representing where you from, you know.

Yo, so, you know, we, you know, us being, you know, over here, like, say.

Like, say all the boroughs is five boroughs, right?

Four of the boroughs that, you know, you can get on the train, too.

Yeah.

You know, but our borough, you gotta get on the boat, you know what I mean, to come over to where Staten island was at.

So, you know, we always felt like the forgotten borough.

So we felt like we had to get a little bit more busy just to prove that we was the same, kind of.

I want to kind of switch it over to some current topics, bro, because, man, we respect you so much as a lyricist.

Lyricist, bro.

Thank you.

And I just want to know, like, what is your opinion on this Drake and Kendrick Lamar battle rap?

Like, what.

How do you feel about this stuff?

Like, it's hip hop, man, you know.

You know, they made it a little personal, you know, I wish it would be so personal, but, you know, long as they don't go to that other, you know what I mean, with nobody getting murdered or nobody getting hurt.

But it's rap, though, you know what I mean?

It's like, at the end of the day, I love both of them, you know what I mean?

They both strong MCs.

We don't know what happened.

We don't know where the animosities drifted into.

And I respect both of them, you know what I mean?

Yo, hey, you know, sometimes gotta fight and just fight, right?

It's like us being on the block.

And you love your.

And you like, yo, yo, y'all, the two N s I love.

Yo, y'all don't with each other.

Shoot the fair one, man.

Nobody ain't gonna get involved.

Shoot the fair one and get to it, you know what I mean?

So I think that's what it's all about.

They did what they both had to do, you know what I mean?

And that was that, man.

Do you feel like it's good for hip hop?

You think it brings.

To a degree?

Yeah, to a degree.

Because, you know, it's about skill, you know what I mean?

It's about showing that, you know, when you become a name to be reckoned with, you gotta protect your name, right?

You gotta protect your own, your Persona, right?

You Know, when I think that, you know, we can't forget about how important lyrics are when it comes to swinging your ex and the music business, you know, you gotta show every now and then, like, yo, I ain't no little.

I know how to get busy, and I'm not gonna let a disrespect what I created, you know what I mean?

I think that's what both of them is standing on, you know, we don't know what really initiated it, you know, but long as it stay right there, you know, to me, it got a little kind of crazy.

It went too late, you know?

Yeah.

You know, talking about, you know, personal.

But, you know, in battles, there's no rules, you know what I mean?

There's no rules that eat you any way they can and try to do homework and do everything they could do to try to, you know, win.

See, the one problem I feel like with this battle, right, is the social media aspect of it, right.

It's like, I feel like on one end, right, for you, how would you handle a coming at you saying some stuff that you just know ain't true, like put a baby on you or try to say you doing something?

How would you personally handle that in a battle rap?

Cause like you said, nothing's too far.

And I listen to smack, so I stabbed your granny.

Be saying some crazy.

They be going too crazy in smack, so I be looking at like, it ain't nothing, but I'm like Drake really against the ropes right now, Right?

I mean, well, you know, there's no rules, man.

But how would the chef chef up.

Oh, listen, man, get at me like that?

I'm gonna be like, all right, I'm gonna get back at you.

You know, that's all you could do at the end of the day is just.

Is inspire back.

How did you feel about J.

Cole's approach, about Cole?

Yeah, when he's like.

I think.

You know what I mean?

I think Cole, you know, the whole crazy about the cold thing, you know, he shot at him and then he took it back, you know what I mean?

I guess he had a lot of respect for him and his camp, you know, because like I said, they all was friends at one point, you know, and he did some gentleman, I guess, in his own heart.

Yeah.

You know, like, yo, you know what?

I ain't really feel like that.

You know what I mean?

Maybe sometimes he, you know.

See, sometimes we gotta understand that might throw the battery in you to say something.

And then later on you like, yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like, Cause I really personally don't really know what Kendrick said that was so crazy what he said.

He said the big three.

Yeah.

Just big me.

I'm just big me.

Like, you just big you.

You supposed to be you.

You know what I mean?

But maybe it was.

It was some already.

Yeah.

Some behind the scenes.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

But at the end of the day, I just think that, you know, he pro.

Probably had a lot of respect for him.

And that's like me and you, you know what I mean?

We come from the street where, yo, sometimes you might get at it and be like, wasn't about nothing, man.

Right.

You know what I mean?

And take the bigger route.

Take the, you know, the grown man route.

So I guess that's what he wanted to do.

I don't think it had anything to do with him being intimidated, you know what I mean?

I think he's a dope lyricist, and he wasn't, you know, but, you know, in hip hop, it's like, yo, don't.

Don't start shooting and then stop.

Right?

You know what I mean?

We used to that.

You know what I mean?

It's like, tell you in the street and you pull out.

You better use it.

Yeah.

You can't pull out on me.

That's like, pull out on me and then be.

And put it down and be like, nah, I'm gonna put that down.

I'm gonna be like this.

Go ahead and put that down.

Because once you put it down, I'm on you.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

But I think it was more the respect.

I think they respected each other enough to be like, you know what?

That ain't about nothing.

You know what I mean?

And that, to me, is what makes the battle weak.

I don't want to hear two that respect each other battle I want you to really hate.

But see, you got to remember these friends are they.

I mean, you know, before.

Before everything stopped off, they was super cool, like, going on the road with each other, you know what I mean?

Like, nobody can't front on Drake.

He helped a lot of.

He helped a lot, man.

You know what I mean?

And.

And vice versa, they.

They helped him too.

So, you know, sometimes it just be one of those situations where you probably feel like, I really like this.

You know what I mean?

I might notice your mom, I might notice pop, so.

You know what I mean?

So.

Yeah, man, it.

You know, one of.

One of the things, man, to take it back.

Y'all have a show out, which to me is one of the Best shows.

The Wu Tang show that's on Hulu.

You like that?

I think that that might be one of the.

I feel like that's one of the best shot tv.

I'm.

I'm more of a TV series versus a movie.

And I know you said that you had a movie situation lined up for the Wu Tang, which I think would be fire, too.

Especially coming off that.

The Drake.

Yeah, the nwa.

The nwa.

But the TV series started off with shooting at each other.

I was like, God, that is.

That is a crazy way to.

Did you have any involvement in this show?

You and Ghostface was beefing like that, bro?

Nah.

Oh, okay.

Nah.

But, you know, but I'm gonna be honest with you, though.

You know, me and Ghost, we never had an issue.

Got you.

You know, we went to school together.

You know, he was, you know, maybe 10 miles away, you know, from my project and out, vice versa.

We went to school together, we was always cool, but our neighborhoods never got along.

Got you.

So it ain't like we.

You know, I trusted him back then.

You know what I mean?

We respected each other.

But far as the Hulu series go, nah, that was all fabrication, you know, just to make a good movie.

Cause I always said if I had to start a movie, I won't like me to have some type of cocaine habit in it.

It just gotta be over the top.

You gotta be over the top.

You just gotta do like that.

So I get it.

You feel me?

But.

But what I was thinking is.

Cause I haven't made it to the part where y'all pieced it up to actually get in the group.

And I was just like, that's crazy.

That can have that level of differences, whether it can go far.

But it didn't go far enough to where couldn't patch it up.

And I thought that was some honorable.

So I was trying to figure out from you being a street to him being a street.

Like, how did y'all get past Yalls two territories beefing?

You know what I'm saying?

Because every.

Every hood got some where it's two sides that just don't get along.

So on some, man, how did y'all be able to put aside that and create one of the best groups of all time?

Oh, the best group of all time.

Honestly, you know me, I'm keep it a hundred on the street.

You know, on the Street Star show, it was money, man.

Money, man.

You know what I mean?

It's like, yo, cut the.

You know, and it took one that we all respected to make us look at it that way.

Because he was cool.

RZA was cool on everybody hood at the time, you know.

And you know, it was definitely some turbulence between that neighborhood, you know, ghost couple of miles, you know, with each other.

Right?

You know what I mean?

It's like going to school with a bunch of.

That we all went to school with.

But I don't with you like that.

But it be a mutual that we love so much that it's like, yo, we gonna come.

Cause you said it right?

You know what I mean?

We gonna put our gun on the table, you know what I mean?

Put your gun on the table.

Put your gun on the table out of respect for this.

But nothing better not go wrong, you know what I mean?

So it was one of those situations, but we still respected one another because like I said, we went to school together, you know, and it wasn't really.

It wasn't really that.

But you know, our neighborhoods, it's like they been beefing for like 30 years, man.

Right.

Like it's some history behind it.

Yeah, it's like, you know, like I said, us growing up under the older brothers and watching them fight them down there, you know what I mean?

And Ghost and Ghost Town, Stapleton, they got this crew called Paris crew, older, just like to do is rob and knock out and cut and take your money and your sheepskins and just.

Just flip you, you know what I mean?

But meanwhile in my neighborhood, we up there with.

That's trying to get money and you know, it's a hundred thousand coming through my building.

And you know what I mean, it's a million a week coming out, you know what I mean?

All that was going on in our community.

So you gotta remember, stick up land, get money.

Sometimes that could cause conflict.

Yeah.

You know, but like I said, RZA was the.

He was the neutral piece.

He was the dude that we all respected.

And he's like, yo, man, let's get some money, man.

You know what I mean?

Like, yo, that.

You know what I mean?

You nice, you nice, yo.

You know what I mean?

But at the end of the day, it was just.

It's like the mob, you know what I mean?

The mob don't like each other, but when it come to money, Lucky Luciano was like, yo, you want it for the money or you win it for the.

We all have to sit there and be like, let's get this money, man.

Could you imagine the game without a ghost face and raekwon out?

Like, think.

Do you ever think about that?

Like, we almost let some I don't.

I'm not saying petty, but like, some.

Some street stop us from really creating one of the best PR projects, one.

Of the business all the time.

Lord, I think about it constantly because, you know, I could have missed the chain that day.

I could have been on my way up town, going to try to get some work with my man.

But I believed in it, you know what I mean?

I believed in it.

You know, rza, Jizza, and Old Dirty Bastard, it's like they were like legends in the sport of rhyming in our communities, right?

And hip hop was big.

You know, we'd all love hip hop.

We all would go to different parties and different places, and, you know, we always knew that these dudes were moving around, you know, battling, you know, Old Dirty.

Rest.

Rest in peace, you know, he was.

He was super passionate about.

About getting on in the game.

And we was just rooting for them.

We.

Yo, you could do it.

You know what I mean?

Sit down, get drunk with this, you know, drink some 40s and be looking at these like, yo, y'all nice, man.

Like, yo, y'all really got it, man.

You know what I mean?

So before we even was acting like we was bossing our off, we was watching this, rooting for them.

It's like, you got it, you got it, you got it.

And then once RZA saying that we had a little bit of something that became the battery to us to be like, word.

You think we could do it?

You know what I mean?

We feel like we.

Those.

You know what I mean?

Yo, we feel like street stars in the hood anyway.

Why not?

That's hard, bro.

Why not?

And then we just took his, you know, took his.

Took his rule book and studied it, you know?

So crazy.

Growing up, me and this, like, he was the artist, right?

Y'all been sitting down with each other for years, right?

Since we was like 8 years old, right?

Yeah, see, but it's crazy.

Cause we looked at Wu Tang and said, oh, we can.

Cause all our.

And we was like 10 deep, you know what I'm saying?

So y'all was like the blueprint to show.

Oh can get it with a group.

It ain't even gotta be so.

But the one thing that you always face right when you're doing it, when you broke.

Nobody's in it for the money, right?

And so just doing it off a straight passion.

I always wonder what happens when, okay, that check come and you gotta bust it down nine ways.

Like, does that start becoming an issue?

Like, oh, hell yeah.

Change, you know?

Change, you know?

You know, I remember one time meth was mad as at me.

Like, you know, this was when we was on in the game and all that.

And he said something crazy to me that he went back to the block and was like, yo, told me you was gonna get some on me.

I was like, like, yo, like, word, you going in with it.

Like, you know what I mean?

I could tell that it bothered him when he said it, you know, because, you know, you could tell that, you know, if I got under his skin or whatever.

But he took it all the way back there.

I said, we here now.

Like, why you thinking like that?

Like, I love you.

You my brother for life.

And, you know, later on through the day, we both apologize.

He apologized to me, but, you know, that's how far we go back.

And I think that, you know, one thing about the woo is that we were assembled.

So even though we hung together, we, you know, a lot of us didn't hang with each other every day.

You see what I'm saying?

It's a difference when I with you every day when.

When I just see you down, walking down the block and be like, yo, what up, what up, what up, what up, what up, what up?

You know what I mean?

You doing you, I'm doing me.

You know, we might be in the same vicinity and smoke a blunt or whatever.

And, you know, it was a lot of those kind of things that was happening back then that at the end of the day, we, you know, whatever animosities we all had, even if it was some little was trying to get past it and saying, yo, let's get to this.

Because our thing was more about representing our borough, putting our borough on the map, because Staten island was the last place to get on, you know, so we were so much on that wave at that time.

All of us was like, yo, that tired of going to parties in here in Brooklyn in the house.

Queens in the house, Manhattan in the house.

Bronx in the house.

And nobody else say Staten Island.

Oh, we want to fight.

After that, we like, yo, you ain't say Staten Island.

You know what I mean?

You know what I'm saying, son?

So it's like we kind of pushed everything out the way to say, yo, we gonna represent Staten island, period.

Do you have any ODB stories that never been told?

You have any?

Nah, All I know, I mean, well, yeah, I got hundreds of stories with.

But, you know, old Dirty was a.

He was a professional thief, though.

You know, he was a booster.

You know, I remember, you know, one time we Was in.

We was in Brooklyn.

We was going.

We was going shopping.

This was around the time we was, you know, we was all getting some of you check money.

But I don't even, you know, I know I was getting some.

Some of you money, but, you know, he was.

I didn't know what he was doing because he was still living in Brooklyn.

But one time I was hanging out with him and we wound up in this store called A S downtown Brooklyn.

A and S was like a baby Macy's back then.

You know, same low, all that, all the flop.

And we just started stealing.

And this, you know, he.

He's crazy with it.

Like, you know, I'm trying to steal like a hat or, you know, some.

Some small.

This stuff in coats in his drawers and all that, like.

And you know, like, he would come in like, you know, because back then we would wear a lot of baggy clothes.

You know what I mean?

So I remember one time we was in the polo section and this was just getting busy.

I'm like, like just.

Just doing that.

I'm like, you gonna get caught.

You gonna get caught doing it.

And he ain't give a.

Yo, this nigga took coats.

Like how you stuff a full length coat in your drawers and keep it pushing.

Yo, he was doing like that.

But Old Dirty, the most beautiful heart person that you could ever meet.

But I always knew that he loved the attention.

He loved the attention and he loved to come around and make everybody laugh.

He do something stupid, he say something crazy, you know.

So that's why even when he, you know, his character was built and you know.

Cause his name before Old Dirty Bastard was the Rap Professor.

Unique.

A song, you know.

Cause he, you know, he was also intelligent.

He was a 5 percenter.

At that time, we were all 5 percenters.

And he was sharp, you know, Sit here with a 40 ounce and build a you for three hours and make sense and you know what I mean?

You know, brothers would walk around with their lessons and all that and he start quoting lessons.

And he's a step out the cipher just to be like, see it.

Oh, he did.

He's right.

You know what I mean?

So he had.

He had two sides of him, you know what I mean?

But far as his crazy side, I always felt like, you know, it was.

It was.

It was a way of hap.

Of.

It was a way of getting attention, you know.

He was an attention freak, but he was a.

And I'm gonna tell y'all this for real.

For real.

He was the.

That made it happen.

More than anybody, because he seen the potential in us and not even like, he was hanging with us every day.

That's the crazy.

But I think that him knowing us and knowing our hearts and knowing how we felt about hip hop, he was like, yo, y'all down.

You know what I mean?

Putting down JZA at that time, JZA was super lyricist already.

Jizza was saying that just like, he's like.

He's like a.

He's like a baby Rakim, you know what I mean?

Like, and I ain't gonna say baby Rakim like, Emma Rakim probably was like neck and neck back in the early.

The early.

You know, the early 90s, mid-80s type, just rhyming like real rhymes.

That's crazy.

Did you ever have to battle back in the day?

Was that a thing like where just try to test each other?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

But, you know, hood.

You know, hood battles or whatever.

But it never.

To me, I never really became a battle rapper, you know what I mean?

Of course, you know, I had my.

I had to pull my knife out a couple of times.

But it wasn't never my passion, you know what I mean?

You know?

Cause our rhyming was us, like you said, hanging together, you know what I mean?

We were hanging together and getting a staircase.

And, you know, I say three lines and you say two lines and he say four lines, and, you know what I mean?

We in there drinking and smoking, and next thing you know, we like, yo, this is something, you know what I mean?

But I think it was more of the.

The passion that made us love it more than just rhyming, like, you know what I mean?

Like, really taking it there, you know, Meth was always a guy to me that was seriously passionate about it.

You know, he would.

He would write rhymes and Meth would tell you, you know, I heard him say in the interview one time, like, yo, Ray taught me.

You know what I mean?

Like, he's saying I taught him because we was in the fifth grade grade together.

And I was like, I remember me and you was writing rhymes together, but I don't.

You know, I remember schooling you.

Like, I was trying to grandmaster this situation, but, you know, but he was always nice, but he wanted it more than all of us.

Gotcha.

You know?

You know, at that time, Ghost was in the street wilding, you know what I mean?

Deck and Ugard going back and forth to prison, you know, Kappa Cap did a lot of time, you know what I mean?

It was a bug way how we all came together.

And I guess for Me looking at the Hulu, that's probably why I was 50, 50 with it, right?

Because it's like.

It's because I know if I would have directed it, I want all those details for my people to know, like, how serious it was.

So, you know, me and rza, you know, we would go at it because I'm like, yo, bro.

You know what I mean?

And, you know, our story is a little bit more deeper than that, than what y'all seen.

And I think, like, what are some of the things.

What are some of the things that are like that you would say that was left out, that should be in there or would be in your movie, per se?

The like.

Like prime example, right?

Like, if you look at the beginning of the movie, and I don't know, because I was.

I was kind of watching a little bit, then I wasn't.

Cause I was upset a little bit about it, too, because I'm like, that ain't me.

Like, right?

I never had a father.

Like, oh, got you.

You know what I mean?

You got me in there where I got a father.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

They had me like I was living in the elevator sh.

Like, I ain't never living no elephant.

They had you sleeping in the streets.

I'm like, I slept on the benches.

But I'm like, yeah.

So we all had our personal.

That ain't real.

You know what I mean?

You know what I mean?

And then I think one of the biggest things, too, that we were a little upset about.

But, you know, like I said, it was still business.

It wasn't nothing personal.

But these wasn't from New York.

Who, the actors?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

You know, that was the first thing that struck a chord.

Like, he ain't from here.

Like, he ain't.

What did they get?

Right?

They got on.

Nah, they.

You know what it was?

They started finessing it, the video, after a while.

Okay.

You know what I mean?

It took time.

It kept getting better.

Right.

You know what I mean?

And I think that that's where I give those cats they flowers and shout out to the.

To the young crew that, you know, that did they thing, you know, I mean, nothing personal, because they know how I feel, because I was.

I was threatening them like, yo, do the right thing.

Yeah, that's crazy.

You know what I mean?

Not super threatening, you know?

You know what I mean?

It's like, yo, you know, when I look at these movies and, you know, certain movies I look at, it's like, yo, I want to play us to the Maximum and be what you supposed to be.

Who would you.

I'm just curious, who would you like, shout out to the Hulu?

But like, let's say if you were to create a movie no budget, they just gave you unlimited budget, who would you have play you?

That's ill right there.

Because I would have to really sit down and think about that one.

You know what I mean?

But, you know, it's a lot of little that I think that got that spirit, you know what I mean?

But that's a hard one right there.

I can't even hit that on the head.

I would have to sit down and think about.

Because I was thinking about that, I was like, who would I get to play me?

Like, awesome.

Because.

Because you were.

I seen you in an interview talking about you had Leonardo DiCaprio working with you to actually do the movie.

And I was like, I'm sure y'all movie would have been crazy with.

As far as acting, you know what I'm saying?

Like the people that they would have.

Got, you know, I was, you know, of course, when Leo, When Leo was talking, you know, to me, I thought he would have took it a little bit more.

More Goodfellas style, you know, more.

More like.

More like 50 get rich.

Trying type of.

Yeah, more realer, you know what I mean?

And I think, you know, our series is more trying to cater to the young audience and me.

And you know, I would challenge RZA about those, Those ideologies because I felt like, yo, man, like, you know, we.

Some from the street I know would really want to hear like some real, like.

Because it even, it even fascinates me sometimes when I sit here and I look at each one of my members and think about their history.

Right.

You know what I mean?

When I.

When I know Ghost is notorious and you know, Ghost is a straight up crook, you know what I mean?

Ghosts would.

Ghost would get mad and be like, damn me, I am.

Before I cut, I did.

You know, that's not my personality right there or whatever the case may be.

And it's not.

This has nothing to do with the actors.

It's just we are that passionate about somebody playing us.

That's true.

You know what I mean?

So, you know, as an artist, you know, you can feel like that, you know, And I'm not saying that they didn't put their best foot forward because.

They just don't represent what.

It just wasn't a hundred, you know what I mean?

We always want to give our fans a hundred, but it was, I feel You.

Because I'm not gonna lie.

Like, watching the show, they made you look like you was wilding.

I was like, word, like, yo, bro, shot bro.

Crib up.

First episode.

First five minutes, right?

What's going on, bro?

I said the chef.

For real.

Me and ghosts and.

Nah.

But, you know, at the end of the day, like, I said, some things in there were inspired, I understand, by some of the things that took place in the hood.

Yeah.

And some of our personalities, we just wanted to give because we know how much love us.

You know what I mean?

So, you know, you want to give enough of it, but at the same time, it is.

It is show business.

Right.

You know what I mean?

They do it every day.

Right.

You know what I mean?

Everything that you hear ain't always what it may be.

You just gotta respect it as a film, you know what I mean?

Right.

But some things were facts in there.

Some.

Some things was factual.

Yeah.

You know, but at the end of the day, it was just us really feeling like I just wanted a little bit more rilla.

A lot more real if it was up to me, you know?

But let me ask you this, wouldn't it.

Because now that y'all have the show, I feel like it made me more invested in y'all to walk the movie.

So I don't see really the down.

I feel like y'all can still do the movie, Right.

Me personally, see, I.

Me, I always thought that people may look at that and be like, I don't even want to see nothing else, you know?

Oh, no, no, no.

Because watch the documentary.

That.

Watch the documentary.

Still watch the show, right.

If you come out with some more, go watch it out.

Gonna watch it, right?

Yeah.

It's like looking at Pablo Escobar, and they got like 90.

They got 90.

90 documentaries of.

Yeah, I'm gonna watch all of.

Yeah.

And, you know, we wound up saying that.

You know what I mean?

And, you know, for me, you know, I always felt like that's something that I would be passionate about doing.

Because, you know, of course, when I write rhymes, I'm always in a storytelling mindset anyway.

So that's how we looked at.

At the end of the day is like, yo, you know what?

This is the.

The Candyland version.

You know what I mean?

Then when you get to the Nightmare on Elm street version, that's when I'm gonna probably be on the set.

Yeah.

Doing my directorials, you know?

Yeah.

But it was so much more that, to me, could have been really spoken on, like, the part.

Put it like this, like the part where RZA got into some out of town and he had to go to court.

Like, to me, that could have been more serious because the more I think about that, right, Like Riz got into some in Ohio, right, And you know, they shot some and Ghost got shot in the neck.

And, you know, that shit was a wild situation.

And RZ got bagged and he was on trial.

He was on trial.

And if he were the blue trial, it wouldn't be no Wu Tang.

And this is a fact, you know what I mean?

So to me, they could have really told it the way it really was because it was a life or death situation, you know what I mean?

Even with ghosts, you know, fighting with the.

With the gun.

Like, Ghost grabbed the gun, you know, came in to shoot up and whatever the case may, Ghost grabbed it, wrestling with the boom.

Shot went off, boom, you know what I mean?

Hit his neck, you know, oh, yo, yo.

Took the gun for the blasting or whatever.

But if RZA going to court probably was one of the most wildest, because in all reality, his lawyer got him out of that, you know what I mean?

Because if his lawyer didn't get him out of that, RZA probably would have had to do like 20 years, you know what I mean?

It wouldn't have been no Wu Tang Clan, you know what I mean?

Wouldn't have been none of that.

So the way they shot it and the way they went about it, it just could have been more of like a horror, a horror story.

If it was up to me, I would have made a little bit more deeper, that's all.

But, but, but let's.

Let's talk about the book you got.

I always like seeing when street write books, man.

Right, right.

Get a little grimy.

You got a book out right now.

From Staircase to Stage.

I actually swooped that on audible, you know what I'm saying?

I'm actually trying to get through it, you know what I mean?

Because I always love to see, you know, our legends like this.

Because like you say, it's always a deeper story, man.

Right?

What are one of the stories?

Because I haven't been.

I haven't got to actually get through it yet.

What are one of the stories that people can look forward to in their book that they haven't seen nowhere else?

Well, I guess you don't want to give too much of it, but, you know.

Well, you know, I ain't hold back.

I kept it a hundred, you know what I mean?

I ain't lie about nothing.

It was serious Man, I think.

I think me being inspired by niggas, I was around, you know what I mean?

Like, you know, when you read the book, of course you're gonna be like, yo, he was around a bunch that was hustlers and trying to get money, you know, I mean, I had a cousin that was basically, you know, he was like a kingpin, but he was also.

That was.

Was getting high of his own supply, too, you know what I mean?

You know, he had two back then.

Like, you know, one a pretty girl won, a hustler.

I'm like, you know, going uptown with the.

Going to go buy on, you know, he taking me with him on.

On a motorcycle.

And, you know what I mean, we riding across the Verrazano Bridge and he coming back and I see him bagging it up, and next thing you know, I see him fall asleep with his.

With his face in the whole pound of, you know, a bunch of dope on the table.

Yeah, yeah, he's one of them.

Yeah, he's one of them, though.

You know what I mean?

And, you know, like I said, just.

Just telling real street stories that I know that made me who I am, you know, like, you see me with the tarantula, right?

I know a lot of people talk about that chain at that.

That we was wearing, but that was actually my man chain, you know what I mean?

And, you know, he was getting money.

And to me, you know, we was always striving to try to get keys and, you know what I mean, and bricks and whatever, whatever.

But that stamp that had the best.

Always had that scorpion on it.

So for us, you know, our signature was the tarantula, you know, so to me, you know, when.

See that, it's like that always took me back to those days when we was out there trying to make something happen.

And, you know, the tarantulas, like, those are real, you know, trying to unite and.

And live.

Live aggressively, you know what I mean?

We was living aggressive, so that's how I always broke down those letters, you know what I mean?

But, yeah, that was, to me, like the.

The crew at the time that was really trying to become something, you know.

You know, when you think of songs like Cream.

Yeah.

You know, those songs.

Those are.

That came from that time, you know, Like, a lot of my.

When we came on, once we got on, a lot of.

Was getting indicted.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know what I mean?

So was it the music that you feel, like, made them get indicted or.

They was just going, nah, nah, it was just already on the wrong Path got you.

You know, I mean, so even when we started blowing up, it was already away.

They was already away.

So you would hear me mentioning certain songs.

And it was so crazy that me and Ghost, when we started to do Cuban links at that time, my way at that time, his was away.

So, you know, that's when me and Ghost, we started to get cool and started really becoming real close on the road, you know?

But y'all gonna learn about all of this when y'all see my documentary.

Oh, you got.

So you.

Okay, so you got your own documentary coming out?

Yeah, I got a documentary.

Purple File.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's the name of it?

Yeah, yeah, it's called on the Purple Files.

Yeah.

Okay, so is this gonna be you following your life or is it.

Okay, okay, talk to us about this.

This is more about.

This is more about the album.

You know, how everybody look at that album as, you know, one of the greatest albums in hip hop.

You know, Quavo used it.

Talking how I was talking.

And, you know, we was young back then when we made that album.

I was 25, feeling like I was a grown just, you know what I mean?

And, you know, I had my right hand man with me.

Ghost man was like this.

You know, he was down to do whatever it is to help me make this album even more ill.

Cause he felt like I was inspiring him on the mic in a great way.

And, you know, that became one of the albums that a lot of to talk about, you know what I mean?

You know, certain New York at that time, it seemed like that was getting money back then, was starting to come into the hip hop game and change their life.

And, you know, that album became a mantra to the rules that niggas was living by on the streets.

You know, I mean, yo, we gonna change our lifestyle.

We, you know, we ain't doing that no more.

We doing this.

So, you know, the documentary is gonna, you know, tell a story about, you know, what inspired it, you know, where the names came from.

Cause, you know, I was always into.

I was always into Mafia culture because, you know, we come from Staten island and right.

You know, the mob live out there.

Like, we could literally take a cab to Castellano crib and just sit right in front of it and just be like, wow, yo, we can't be.

No, we kill and doing all kind of.

You know what I mean?

Like, we was going to school with these kids and all that.

I didn't even think about that part.

So, you know.

You know what I mean?

This is my Way of kind of like talking about some of the things that inspired me when I started to make my album.

You know, the word played.

I mean, Ghost connected, you know, the Biggie.

The Biggie rival situation, how we were able to, you know, kind of squash it before it got into something serious, break that down.

Because for those that don't know about that whole Biggie thing, it was a skit on the album.

Right, right.

On the initial skit.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, you know, we's in there doing what we do and you know, Ghost is in there doing a skit and he just, he just said something that he felt like we all was like, wow, you know what I mean?

But at the end of the day, it was like he.

I don't think he said it like he was planning to say it.

I think it was just something that came out because we was doing skits at that time.

Yeah.

You know, and, you know, we knew at that time that it wasn't really.

No issues with us like that, with, with, with, with Bad Boy and Big.

You know, I never met Big at that time either.

You know, we didn't know that Big and Nas was cool like that.

You know what I mean?

But we gonna get back to that when that doc come out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Can't wait to see that.

Is there anything.

Where's it going to be at?

Is it going to be.

Do you already have, like a destination?

Well, right now, you know, right now we finally, you know.

Yeah.

Shout Out, My crew, Third Eye Films.

You know, we.

We've been working on it for, I say, like nine years.

Nine years, yeah.

You know, because I was, I was looking at this whole project the same way how.

I know how people really loved the Purple Tape, that album, you know what I mean?

So I never wanted to.

To rush it, but I definitely never wanted it to be nine years in the making.

Right.

Neither.

It was just one.

It just happened to be like that because, you know, we got over 50 influential in it, you know, like a lot of the.

That's in the game today.

That's some of my greats, some of the ones we looked up to, some of our OGs, some producers, athletes, ball play, you know, all kind of cats was involved with the film because they felt like that album inspired them.

So it was a whole lot of blood, sweat and tears making it, you know what I mean?

And now we finally got it to where it's definitely gonna come out soon and it'll be out definitely before next year for sure.

Can't wait to check that out.

It's gonna be fire, man.

I always wondered about this.

I heard y'all did like a album.

Was it when that somebody bought, like somebody purchased a Wu Tang album that only.

Yeah, that was made for.

Yeah, yeah.

Was it.

Oh, oh, oh, the White Boy, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

What was it called?

What was this called back in the day?

I don't know.

But he got rich.

Yeah.

I'm saying, yeah, it was like an art.

I don't know.

Was it what you call it?

Art piece or whatever?

But anyways, the one to one.

So did y'all.

Y'all.

That really happened.

Y'all created an album just for that, Then he just swooped it or.

How did that.

How does that work?

Well, I didn't really have nothing to do with it because it was.

It was more of a RZA situation with, you know, with.

However that situation happened.

I can't really add on to it like that because we didn't know.

We didn't know that it was going to be that, you know.

You know, we knew producers that were.

That we did records for that, you know, we did trade in, trade records for beats.

And, you know, next thing you know, you just hear that, yo, they sold it to this guy and this is a one on one project.

And it became something that we all in the clan was like, what the fuck is this shit?

You know what I mean?

But, yeah, I really know too much about that one.

Have you ever spitted a bar and wrote it down in studio and now looking back, you would change it?

Wrote down some.

Yeah.

Nah, I don't like changing, you know what I mean?

But I do, I do.

I do think about some of the things that before I put it down, that I say.

Because sometimes words, you could say something and you could bring it into fruition, you know what I mean?

You know, after seeing, like Tupac, you know what I mean?

You know, Biggie, Life After Death and.

Right.

Yeah, he was speaking about it, you know, Pop.

Pop too.

You know, they were saying.

They were saying some stuff that at the end of the day, that became a reality, you know what I mean?

You know?

You know, sometimes you just gotta watch what you say, you know what I mean?

No, not to be on a superstitious, you know what I mean?

But I don't know, I just.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I just.

When I'm writing, I'm just.

I'm just writing, man.

You know what I mean?

You gotta.

You gotta whine.

Licata, right?

Is that Pronouncing it right.

Yeah.

How'd you even.

How'd you get into wine?

Yeah, my younger brother, he part of my own management team.

He called me one day and he was like, yo, you know, yo, I got this dude that, you know, they in the mid.

They in the spirits world and you know, they looking to partner up with you.

Are you interested?

And I'm like, wine?

I'm like, you know, at this time, you know, guys got their liquor out there, whatever the case may be.

And I thought about it and I'm like, you know, long as it could tell a story, how can I, how can I relate to it?

Because I don't really drink wine like that.

You know, only wine that we was drinking was Colorado.

That was, that was six dollar wine that, you know, in wine coolers, you know, that we was drinking in the hood.

But when we did the purple tape and we did the album cover, we had a bunch of wine bottles on the front cover.

So I was started.

Think I started thinking about that and I'm like, I could tell a story now because we were trying to be on without even fully being on yet.

So I told my brother, I said, yeah, I'm down to entertain it.

And you know, got up with these guys and I told them, I said, yo, listen, long as I'm able to curate what it is that it is and come up with the name and design the bottle and of course it gotta taste good.

And you know, they were willing to sacrifice to let me do that.

So, you know, I came up with the name Lucada.

You know, Licata is a, A small place, a small town in Sicily.

Okay.

You know, they didn't spell it like that.

The place wasn't.

But this was a place where a lot of the poor, poor people from Sicily lived.

And you know, they had their own olive oil, you know, you know, just trying to make money any kind of way, but they were valent people.

And that made me think about my story in my community, where I'm coming from, where it was so hard for us to get on, you know what I mean?

Because I wasn't getting jobs in my neighborhood.

You know what I mean?

You know, you lived in that district, you ain't getting no job.

You know, I never had a job to this day.

Never had a.

Never had a job.

Never had a real job.

Never, never ever, never.

You know, and not that I wouldn't have been down to work.

Cause you know, my mom's definitely was forcing my as a kid to put on a suit and go across that boat and you gonna go in Manhattan and try, you know what I mean?

But it just couldn't work, you know what I mean?

And that turned us into who we were, you know what I mean?

See, one thing about my neighborhood, it was like a lot of us didn't have the mother and father thing, you know what I mean?

I'm talking about a lot of us, maybe 35.

I know that where your father, and I'm sure that's how it be.

It's like it'd be one person back then in the 70s, they was splitting, they.

They was wilding.

They didn't give a.

You know what I mean?

It's like, yo, man, I'm out of here.

So that's how we were all able to.

We were all able to relate to one another.

And the Streets became our fathers or I, you know, dudes in the community that were, you know, like at the time when I was coming up, you know, I got two brothers now, but back then, I.

When I didn't have brothers, I used to idolize who did have brothers.

Right?

You know what I mean?

Because I felt like that was something that I wish I had, you know, at that time.

But the streets became our parents, you know what I mean?

You know, your mom, she gotta go to work.

She ain't got time to do the things.

Even hug you sometimes, you know what I mean?

Like, I know a lot of that.

They moms probably never told them they loved them, you know what I mean?

Or hugged them or, you know, gave them that affection, you know?

You know, and, you know, the Streets is just.

That became the parents to how we thought.

So either you had to experience life in a crazy way or a bad way or a good way.

But for us, it was just, you know, just growing up and just trying to survive, you know, and that's why, you know, records like Cream, they.

They relate so much to me, you know what I mean?

Because it was like, damn.

We was.

We always was those that was trying to get money.

Because if you wasn't trying to get something, you wasn't gonna be nothing.

Especially where we were at.

And that was the last thing we wanted to do do was be those dudes that was failures, you know, that didn't.

Didn't even try.

Didn't even try to be something.

It's like, we wasn't.

We wasn't those.

Are you a boxing fan?

Oh, absolutely.

So who do.

Who do you pick for this?

Tyson.

And we're gonna get some real quick pizza.

Yeah, right oh, you know Mike, man.

You know, Mike is a animal.

I know Mike, too.

Okay.

Okay.

Can you call around?

What do you think?

Could I call around?

Yeah.

When is it.

When it's gonna happen?

When you go home.

The first round, first round, you know, always to me.

Always the first three rounds or really the first two rounds to me is where you really, really gonna go after each other, though, you know what I mean?

I ain't going.

I ain't mad at the white boy, you know what I mean?

Jake Paul, you know, he proved proved himself to be, you know, for him, coming from the social media, you know, becoming a rising star, it's like you could tell he working, he doing what he's supposed to do, you know what I mean?

It don't look fixed.

It looked like he really on his.

Though.

But I'm Mike all the way.

Mike.

Mike going too, man.

Cause Mike is.

He's a warrior from the beginning.

And when I think of who he was, because you gotta remember when.

When Cuban Lynx came out.

Mike was in his prom.

It's 95 and all that.

94.

Yeah, Mike was.

You know, Mike was.

Mike was probably about 20 then, tearing up, going crazy.

So you never.

You never could count Mike out.

I don't give a.

If he 60.

Yeah, right.

That hit you.

Yeah.

It's gonna be awesome.

If he get hit.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

If he get hit, he gonna feel it.

He gonna feel it.

You know what I mean?

So I'm sure.

I'm sure the kid know what he.

What he's up against.

But at the end of the day, I'm going for Mike, man.

You know what I mean?

Just out of.

Because I know his personality, and I don't think that Mike is gonna allow him to.

Just might go and teach him something, you know what I mean?

And, you know, I'm not saying he might not get nothing because you never know.

You never know.

You know what I mean?

But as far as being a big boxing.

Yeah, I love that.

Love that.

Now.

Quavo, Rest in Peace Takeoff.

Man, they had a song only built for infinity links and they used y'all style and covered was it.

You seen them paying homage.

Like, how did.

How did that feel to see, you know, obviously recipes take.

That might have been his last song, I think too.

Wow.

They last album.

Right, right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nah, it was beautiful to be able to, you know, still, you Know, have a.

Have the love being given to the, you know, given to us from the younger generation.

That's dope, you know?

Cause, you know, it just shows that we did something that affected the young generation on wanting to get money, wanting to be better, you know what I mean?

You know, when I came up with the title Only Built for Cuban Links, you know, it was an expression.

It was something that I felt like, you better feel like you built like that, you know what I mean?

And you doing it, you doing it that way.

And when I heard it, when I heard that they called it that, you know, I wasn't, I wasn't, I didn't take it no way, you know what I mean?

I'm like, yo, that's respect.

That's, you know, that's.

That's the younger G's giving it up.

And then I wind up, you know, so crazy though.

It's like, take off.

Hit me too.

Oh, that's like, you know what I mean?

He hit me, he hit me in the dm, you know what I mean?

Yo, og, yo, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Yo, yo, I want to do something with you, you know what I mean?

I'm like, you know, hit him back, yo.

Yeah, yeah, tap in.

It's all good.

And then, you know, that happened.

And so it was all that happened, like within that 30 day, 30, 60 day time frame world, what would a.

Ray Kwan and take off, what type of, what type of beat would you have picked for that?

Like, I don't even know.

I don't even know.

I just probably would have just sat down and see what they was trying to do, you know?

You know, that's the same way how when I did the record with Outkast, you know, at that time, the south was on the rise.

They was, you know, Atlanta was on the rise at that time, you know.

You know, and I was living out there at that time and, you know, seeing real, real respect, Real, man, you know, and maybe it's just, maybe it's just the hustler side of me that know that everywhere I've been, we were always able to relate to all over that real.

And when that happened, at that time, you wasn't, you know, from New York.

We wasn't doing records with other cats in other places, you know, and me just knowing that they was real once we seen each other, it was, Jaime, Joe, what up, what up, what up?

You know, let's, let's do something.

Yeah, yo, what's up?

Let's, you know what I mean?

Always gotta be A politician, you know, I mean that, you know, that's how we was able to make it, how far we made it.

Because we knew some all over.

I was always one of them.

Is that hung with.

Is that any.

Any place we go, we gonna know somebody.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

And to this day, it still remains that way.

You know, you go in certain cities and, you know, I mean, we know somebody from there ain't saying he might be the killer or whatever, but he may know, you know what I mean?

It's like sometimes you could be somewhere and you could be in a situation where it's like, yo, I felt like this was coming for us, you know what I mean?

But then, you know that, you know, from there, that's like they heard about it and be like, nah, not you.

Because you connected with.

You connected with the right.

You know what I mean?

So, you know, that's just how we always going to think.

But at the end of the day, it's.

To me, it was always about politics.

Poly and Polly, you know, we came up with that word.

I said that at Scarface.

Let's connect.

Politic, ditto.

Like it was.

It was.

It was street politics.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

You know, I know you know some up top and, you know, so when you come up there, lay the floor out for you or vice versa, you know what I mean?

And that's.

I think that that's.

That was always my mentality, even getting in the game.

Yeah, that's like, you know, it's like, yo, just with real, yo, you winning, you doing your thing.

You gotta respect me.

What we doing?

How we gonna eat?

You need me block, you know what I mean?

It's just out of respect.

Respect, because that's how, you know, the gangsters in the.

From the 60s and 70s was doing it.

Frank Matthews and.

Yeah, you know what I mean?

Freddie Myers and all these.

Eddie Stokes and all these.

You know what I mean?

All these around, running, bumping into the same.

You know what I mean?

In different places and just respected.

Real.

Yeah.

You know, So I don't know.

I think that tradition is always, always with me.

I love seeing my brothers win, man.

You know.

Love seeing Real win, man.

You know, I mean, I got friends that got money.

I got friends that don't got money.

Yeah.

Never judge them.

I judge this.

That heart.

Yeah, you got a good heart.

You gonna be son.

I always tell that all the time, you know what I mean?

You creep.

You'll never get no good luck.

You forget about it.

You Want to live like that, stay that way, then you probably gonna be dead in a couple of years.

You know what I mean?

But if you were solid, you gonna always have reach out for you and be like, yo, that's a real message.

Jules, man, what we getting on this new album, bro?

The game, the A.

Hip hop back.

Kendrick.

Kendrick kind of set the tone.

It's the year.

Cat Williams, he kind of set the tone, right?

Shout out brothers, what we getting on this album, bro?

Because like I said, I'm glad when I see the legends drop, man.

Well, you know, I'm 54 today.

And these times, you know, 54 years later, I still feel like I.

I still could swing.

My bad, of course.

So, you know, I'm working on some, you know, shout out to my brother, Ghostface.

He just.

He just released an album Friday.

You know, his album set the tone.

Shout out Ghost.

Yeah, I'm working on some.

Definitely working on some.

And I'm gonna tell you now, ain't nothing changed.

Ain't nothing changed.

Still.

I love it.

I'm passionate about it.

It's like, you know, and now that.

You in the south, you're gonna have a little cup.

Little south track on that.

I got to.

Okay, listen.

Yeah, I got you.

I'm in the real South.

I'm in the.

Yeah, you need a 0 and Ray quad track, man.

Yo, listen, all the real.

Y'all know what time it is, man.

I'm coming for y'all.

You know what I mean?

You know?

So I would love to work and.

Yeah, but definitely, though.

Definitely got some that I'm brewing up, though.

I just had to really put my hands on this.

On this documentary in a great way to get that going.

So that.

That's one of my first pieces that I gotta give y'all.

I gotta give to the fans that, you know, I know they wanted.

So I'm never gonna give y'all nothing that ain't quality, you know?

That's why they call me the Chef.

Cause it's like, yo, gonna cook something up that gonna want.

Speaking of cooking, I can't cook something.

And y'all feel like that ain't cooked right.

Speaking of cooking, man, don't you got a dispensary?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Don't.

You ain't crazy.

No.

Y'all know anything?

Street stars?

No.

Orleans.

Come on, man.

We.

I'm surprised you ain't bring three stars.

Is on point.

Nah, but that's a big thing.

Look, that's my.

That's probably going to be one of my greatest investments.

King, I'm gonna be honest with you, you know, to be able to be living at a time where weed is legal and certain.

I know that your head up didn't.

It me up being.

You know, but it was only a matter of time, you know.

But yeah, I got.

I got a dispensary that's being built in new in Newark, New Jersey, right now.

It's a.

It's a 20,000 square feet place, so it's going to be a consumption lounge, too.

So you come up in there, we're going to be having events.

You know, we want in on that grand opening.

You know, y'all invited.

Y'all invited.

Y'all street stars.

You heard it first.

Y'all.

The world, y'all heard it first.

They said they might pull up.

They pulling up, they pulling up, pull up.

But yeah, man, it's going to be a big thing, man.

You know, shout out to me and my network, you know, my team.

We've been working on this for a long time, you know, just, you know, Newark and Staten island is literally like cousins.

Like 10 minutes, you.

You in Newark, you know what I mean?

And, you know, just to be able to think about, yo, Chef, you, You.

You.

You got your own cannabis business.

You know, this thing that made us who we are today to getting to getting nice in the hallways.

And.

And next thing you know, you start dreaming and go set it in the rhyme.

Like, yo, I want to have me a fat yacht and enough land to go and plant my own SAS crops.

But for now, just a big dream, you know, to see that it is finally becoming reality is dope.

So, yeah, that is going to be opening late June, you know, it's gonna be a big spot, man, and everybody's invited, you know, it's.

It's probably going to be one of the biggest east coast dispensaries on that side of town, but everybody's invited to come through.

So when y'all in that side pull up, come get nice, sit up there, have your meetings vibe.

Y'all welcome, man.

You know what I mean?

Because it's going to be a place of.

Of peace and.

And nothing but love for everybody to pull up, listen to some good music and all that, though.