June 2, 2026 • 19 mins
Drink Champs Network Presents: ROC Solid with Memphis Bleek.
On this special episode of ROC Solid, host Memphis Bleek takes the show to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, broadcasting live from the legendary Roots Picnic for a celebration of one of hip hop's most influential albums ever created—Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt. As the groundbreaking debut reaches its 30th anniversary, Bleek celebrates the album's lasting impact on music, culture, and entrepreneurship.
From its unforgettable storytelling and timeless production to the blueprint it created for independent thinking and business-minded artistry, Reasonable Doubt remains a cornerstone of hip hop history. Memphis Bleek, a close collaborator and member of Roc-A-Fella Records brings unique insight and personal experiences to the conversation, offering listeners a deeper look into the era that helped shape a generation.
Recorded amidst the energy and excitement of the Roots Picnic, this episode captures the spirit of celebration surrounding a classic album that continues to inspire artists and fans around the world. Whether you're a lifelong Jay-Z supporter or discovering Reasonable Doubt for the first time, this episode of ROC Solid delivers stories, memories, and perspectives that honor the legacy of a true masterpiece 30 years after its release.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What up, y'all? This your main man, Memphis Bleak right here.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome to Rock Solid, a production of iHeart Radio and
the Black Effect Network in partnership with my guys.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Over at Drink Champs. That nigga j it was Jay.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
He flew by, see me standing there sweeping under the
b qie. The nigga put the reverse light to him
on the GS. Now now he's like, yo, what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm like, Yo, I got kimmitic service bro.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I got caught hustling and heave old shit fucked up.
Nigga was like, yo, what yo?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
When you done? Man, come to the crib, man, i'ma
be at the crib.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Come to the crib when you're done.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I'm like, all right, I'll be at the.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Crib now, mind you for a dream.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Is literally downtown where the barclades, the duke all the
crib the crib was at. So it was literally like
a ten minute walk. I go to the crib a
nigga hole. He's like, man, yo, you selling drugs?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Man. I'm like, yeah, Nigga, I gotta eat. He like, Yo,
what the fuck you mean? You gotta eat your check? Coming?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Just be patient and I'm like, oh, that nigga we
in the crib.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Shit is bad.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I can't wait on this raption. I don't even know
if this shit gonna work. And he like, Bliz, trust me,
just trust me, stick with it. So he like, man,
what the fuck is you hustling for?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You got a little bit of bread, so I know
it ain't the money, and I'm like, Nigga, I gotta
keep up.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I ain't fly like I need some drip.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That nigga took me downtown till the store bought me
a bunch of shit, like five thousand dollars worth of
clothes or what it was like.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I don't need to see you hustling no more.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You good cheer chit chi.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Shit, I'm out here slinging, bringing the dramas, trying to
come up in the game and add a couple of.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Other signs on my name.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I'm out here serving, disturbing the peace that could be
better there, like my man reclined and plush let the
seat wait you.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Know what it is?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Back with another exclusive we heard the roots picnic Duce
Loude right now chilling. My brother just walked in the building.
You know, I told him rab a seat because I
learned this shit from him.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know what I mean? This is my brother be
do what.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I called my guy because I seen them join the
Joe Broughton set and then he became the villain instantly.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'm like, Yo, did you choose that role or did
they give it to you?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Man?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
It's like whis Cue said, I'm a nigga. You love
to hate, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
What I mean?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
But how the villain role feel? Man?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Man, it feels good, you know what I mean. Listen,
the opposite of love is in hate. It's in difference.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I always said, for a person that hate you, they
have to love you exactly because if you think about it,
a person who hates you know everything about you.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's why they hate you exactly. So I'm okay with it.
I'd rather you feel something. I feel nothing at all.
That's a fact.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So Yo, we hear do say Jay thirty as Jay
thirty thirty years that cheers thirty years.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Man, reasonable doubt you was on that album, right, So
I'm saying you were here rest in peace.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Clock Kid, thirty years ago, I was in clockcare basement
eating six bacon cheeseburgers from Wendy Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Junior bakers, junior bacon cheeseburgers. It was ninety nine cents.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And JA told me, if you remember this verse, it'll
changed your life. Here we are thirty years later, life
is deaf is different thirty years. No, it's feel like
it happened yesterday. Wow, That's why I wanted to hear
from your perspective. What does j thirty mean to you?
Speaker 7 (03:50):
Man?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
It means that music is timeless, man, because I remember
listening to this. I was young at the time, but
I said, people listening to it and I wanted to
catch that vibe y, So then I started listening to it,
writing the lyrics, catching things, free winding.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And I'm like, okay, I got it now, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
And then just iss just talking about the journey man,
thirty years I remember buying Hardock Life. I don't, I'm saying,
you know, I reach just why watching two albums and
one year, you know, talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Two hour all respect the DMX, what he did on
the movie in the movie Mobbie, a movie.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
A soundtrack, and another album in ninety eight, So thirty
years of the making. Man, Like you know, I can't
imagine what the next thirties. I looked like, next thirty
is we taken over?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Besides, you know it's odds I'm about to be on
the on the thirty year, twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Come of the age.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
You shook the block, like you know what I'm saying, bleaking.
Always tell people Methley case is one of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Was Speech Records. I took one of your favorite one
of my favorite records. Have you know it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I didn't even like the record. I love it the record.
I didn't think it was a first thing. Really, I
told you I didn't want to put it out. I
wonder what you think the had to be the first shit?
And he was like, no, we going with this one.
When it worked, I was like, wow, it worked. I
told just saying that instructation. And then the video where
you had those uptowns.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Everybody wanted throws uptown, Yo. They need to make the
uppies with the strap. Y'all ain't in the back to
get night. He stopped playing we don't want a million
of build this trap, yo, man. But that's what I
talk about Jay thirty.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
It's like it's saying it with you, like I'm you know,
we're friends were cool, but I've got a fan at heart.
The thirteen year old me can't believe I'm having a
drink from Memphis Bleek talking about meth Bleek is jac thirty.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's wild. Thirty years later though, crazy, it's insane. Man.
Well we still look good. I'm happy to be us.
What's next for you? Man? What can the people expect
for me?
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Next?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Little? See me on any platform?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You know?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Couple lines my interviews.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Sis right, still on that bro, Still we still working.
I got a new interview line after that real soon.
And you know I I catch get anywhere, stay in
the light. That's what go so when we but we
catch you here.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I got back together.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Any reunion or that all right, Radar, I mean never
say never. Well, you know, I gotta do me right,
just right.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It's all about I respect that man, God's Leslie up, man,
love know what it is, Jake Thurty, do say my
fear of rock silent bang.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You know these niggas don't seek I'm trying to be
getting out here around the class to break. Indeed, he
ain't say, Greg, it's the blacks for my fig come
saying fresh suit chis chicked.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, y'all you know what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You're truly methously back with an exclusive episode of Rock.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Solid Podcasts that you can see live at.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
The Mecca the Duce, say the fucking house man, and
if you don't stay silent, you won't be rock silent.
Mag I got my brother and the build it the
best cosmopolitan draper, best mixture, best guy for friends in
the world right here with me.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Man, my god, Sullivant.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Will you drink you say, and you mix it with
anything ninety percent che It's made by this man right here. Man,
my god, that what sucks. Yes, I'm just seeing that
guy fan say shatter. I'm like, Sally, we need a
new drink.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Tell them what you made for the summer.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Man.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
So I'm like, when it comes to you say we
need to change the mentality. How come shright, please flow
it up?
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Why is your flam man bash and forward?
Speaker 9 (07:32):
I was like, okay, and that's not how about you
hit me up like, yeah, where is the fat seventified?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So I was like you're not you're not smoking?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Why?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (07:40):
So we need to say wa si rum lemon juice,
pro syco. You know your summer.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
That's how I'm going for there's some such man need
to pring something like really nice col notes so to
say such Gama syrum lemon juice and posicle.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That's your summer drink and we call it this man,
So make sure y'all enjoy that. This summer.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
The recipe cards will be out, so my guy selling
gonna be on the show. So we're gonna do something
special one day where we just give our tips on
how to make different cosmos.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Different drinks, different mixtures. One day.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I want to do that, so it could be almost
like a podcast bartended session. I mean, you'll find me
a bar Bro joke down because I know you go
all around the world at different bards, training different staffs
or how to you know, appreciate the brand and what
it's about. And you know what's that like for those
who don't know, like you know, it's certain bards out here,
you never they would love for a guy like you
(08:35):
to walk in and show them the science behind mixology.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Like I mean, the thing to considers that knuck is
a is a really pupping got to go in here.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
In the US. First, we don't even have much knowledge.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
On how it's mad and how it can be using
cocktail and uh we tend to forget that Cognac as
a category was the number ones fiuite to use at
the very beginning of the cook Arrup.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That's right, but I eighteen fifties in.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
America when we decided to make connect was the number
one it's used.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Forgot about that. So we're just saying being the.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Modern version of Connect designed. What comes vision is to
reducate on how we can mix. And it's super simple.
And so you can take any life, any spirit. You
removed the spirit and you put it, it's gonna well.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I can tell you know you've been a Kora, remove
the rep the roads, every single thing. It's the best
reason why we was going there. Everything, Man, I love it,
So yo, tell me what it means. So you you
know thirty years jay Z, reasonable guy? I know for me.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's full circle, bro, thirty years ago I remember being
the guy sitting on the opposite side of the camera
wishing to be more in the camera. So thirty years ago,
thirty years with jay Z for you to be here,
what does that mean for you?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I mean three years. I'm honestly, I'm thirty nine, So
anything I can ride tell you what now? Years old
when I heard the guys, I was playe.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
So like from me, it's like discovering the whole new
thing because when I was nine, I couldn't reason it.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I couldn't relate the same way I came today. That's right.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
So today when I said to Jay like that talks
to who I was, right, which is the thing that
I love to be part.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Of ducid because it's part of the legacy. That's a
simil thing. So yeah, I'm being one of this legacy.
So for me being here today, it's really a moment.
Speaker 10 (10:25):
And actually I created like the conta, the con Erry.
You drinking it whole dirty, I'm drinking the water now.
But what if I do say so myself? Do say
I was I created for many in America, the last
many America.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Oh, like I was a little lushkin. Yeah that was hey, bro.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
The con verry is like you know because like when
Duson was created into twelve guys, somebody asked you, like,
what did I say?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I like the Mareno, I liked Vineapple and then created
the code. So basically just say a.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Marino and fineable called already years later, I'm like sixteen
years later, I was to say I wanted to create
a conta that kind of showcased the revolution of his career.
So the thirty there's a reinterprenation of this stuff. Coats
making more motor to be monitored and what he has
been doing. This is a life in this music industry
and outside of the industry. It's been winning everywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Or winning when every whinning team. Yo.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
But another thing that we got Konyac Week, bro June first,
koyak wee.
Speaker 11 (11:23):
You know what that means?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Were taken over all koonyaks put your shitty ass like
on the shelf with matter of fact, taken off the
shelf because Lu says, taken up all shelf spaces the
first week of joke Konyat week, and we're doing everything.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Man, we guys like the figure is like, that's how
we do things.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Different was to say that's right, because that is an
American National Connect Day.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yes, this FAS has been around for years and last
year we just say we created. That's created.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Aren't there only one day to say about that? One
sperioit that means not someone take the whole week to celebrate.
From the June first to June seventh, we've been out
there pushing connect, pushing due especially like I've been.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
We gonna seventeen eight markets coming this year in Miami.
That's right.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
I'll be out there every single They're doing different things
just to change.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
We got something special in Kognak, France. We're doing the
music festival at the du Chateau.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Come on, you know.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
So this is because the discussion Thousians or thousand years old.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
The French renaissances born in this was been in ten thirty.
Speaker 10 (12:30):
It was like in four years every one thousand years,
all right, because a lot official was in this castle,
the king was from there, Dusey's born there, and Black
will be the first hip of artist to perform.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
In the world of the castle. That's what I mean.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
June first, you know, actually in Cognac actiod I gotta lie.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I can't wait, man, June first, June second, we're gonna
be in Koyak, French. Or if you see this and
you can make it, get your chickeen coll Ou. I
mean July live first, July second, but JUNI first is
Knyac week. So pot with us, So Sally, I appreciate
ol and does man, we gotta do this again. My
brother gonna do a proper one. But I thank you
for other you man, what's been when Philly Ross got going?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Love bro.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Reflect from the sun directly in equal bring you this
son down.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
We're here for my day to come.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I got the hurge disperge.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
I don't want that lifetime shit.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
It's just give me the word. This telling your mom
my own weak. This is my crown yesterday. All right,
you know what it is, y'all.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yours truly Memphis bleak back with another exclusive rock solid
podcast live at the Duce Labs, Roots Picnic, Electric Dey
Are remail Ball stop by no Man.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
We just went skyrocket now, man, what's up my brother back?
How you doing you man? What brings you to Roots Picnic?
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Man? This is my first Roots Pecknick obviously love the
Roots a hard time. We worked in the same building
and yeah, Black Goat and other folks are my and
then with Hove here and this is the start of
those who know already know. Yes, this is the start
of the summers celebration and he's no anniversary.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So I'm excited, yo, I'm looking forward to the Yankee stage. Yeah, bro,
I can't wait. You know things we don't know, So
I want to know where you're going. You've got a
lot of surprises, you know that. So Yo, you guys
spent thirty years. We celebrate Jake thirty thirty year amnimursary
a reasonable doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
What does that mean to you?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Man?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So to me, this is music I grew up on.
Hove is my number one artist.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
He from my thinking, got me into Hima and over
at the time I've been able, of course to work
with him. They have to write an essay for booking
Whove and get like involved. That's like amazing to me.
And what it means when you look at and time
is music marks time. Yet that's why you could be
at a wedding and the saw and plays and it's.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Like how you met or an important moment, and then
you can be an anniversary and it's another moment. And
so I think when the other of us who grew
up on is it's meaningful.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
But then you look at the fact that home uh
is not just transcended where he was, Yes, brought so
many people, Uh, you know, Bleek made Millia's day.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Fairest of his feelings.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
And so what we're seeing is to me a way
to both celebrate and mark history, but not be stuck
in the past and look at elevation.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yes, excellence, uh, building and so so there are alreadys.
Sometimes I mean I love Mahamali, Yes, his love his past.
So that is of course looking in the past. And
I think in hip hop, because you.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Guys are the first generation that we watched actually grow
up into this new era, yes, and be in a
different life stage. Everyone's figuring out what does that mean?
Where's it mean to see Havin fifty five, fifty six
years old?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Rocket stage? And so that's what it means to me?
Where does it mean to you?
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
It means the world of me? Like I said, jay
Z was twenty four years old, I was fourteen years old.
That's crazy, right, you know what I'm saying. And then
we did Come of the Age. It came out two
years later.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
We did it in nineteen ninety four, it dropped in
ninety six, and here we are thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I was a kid, treatman of this life, and here
I am now. So it means the world of me.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And that's what's so ironic that during Coming to Age,
he ripped the paper out the notebook and gave it
to me and said, as fast as you remember this
piece of paper will be as fast as your life change.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Here. We are here, we are one hundred percent right.
Speaker 11 (16:26):
So I just wanted to say, man, how to I
watch a lot of news when it comes to the
news and to slay you the number one nobody got
bars like ari yo, if you ever think about trapping
the soul yourself?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Thereau you spitting all the bars right, So he wi me.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
So I'm not as I'll be walking down the streets
and we go, oh you do the rap news. Yeah,
I'm like, well I quote, I like yoh with knowledge
and respect. Yeah, but like I don't actually rap right, No.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Way, man, you had this sometime at one time. There's
no way you can recite them and remember bards like
that if.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You didn't trap.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
I grew up going to the Garfeldhigh School, big public
schol in Seattle. That's that's Quincy Jones school where he went.
That's where Jimmy Hendricks went. So there was a rich
tradition around. So you also learn to like know what
you can do and what you bring and what you don't.
So we were surrounded by musical legacies and obviously the
music program there was all yes, So I wasn't in
the music like I was friends with the musicians and
(17:19):
I was like into it.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
But I'm not bringing that so I'm I'm trying to
be knowledgeable and all about that. But yes, when we
were coming up like that was back and I don't
know what.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Kids are doing today, but in our day, they were throwing.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Parties at parks because you guys could drink in the bar,
bringing the speakers out, and you do that until the.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Cots game, that's right. Would there be ciphers back then?
There would be some ciphers. He was in a few ciphers.
There were ciphers, my brother. I appreciate you for stopping by.
Mary Man, been the pleasure man.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Continue much success aspect, continue reporting the.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
News that we needed, because I love the way you
bring it.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Down, you get you explained it to the way guys
from my neighborhood and what we live in can really
understand that you speak just.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
The highest thing, and that's what you and hor and
other people do. This is my Since we're ending, I'll
end with a This isn't a lyric, but it is
a bar. There's a writer Charles Bukowski. I really like
his writing, and what you just said is means a
lot to me because he said, an intellectual takes a
simple thing and makes it complicated, and the hardiest takes
(18:27):
a complicated thing it makes me simple.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
And that's exactly what you're doing. Man. I appreciate that.
Trust me. All of us over the world, we appreciate
watching your love my brother. Thank you so much. They
blessed brother, Thank you. You know what it is, row Wow,
you want to.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Blessing Glass, stance to rock class, leave sing, sing.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Your house, Come along with your full ship Stashields Get
your full ship.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Smash chickis on the shop.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
For more podcasts from iHeart Radio, visit iHeart Radio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows
at And you can follow me on any social media
platform under the name Memphis Bleach.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You see anybody fraw in Flagging
What up, y'all? This your main man, Memphis Bleak right here.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome to Rock Solid, a production of iHeart Radio and
the Black Effect Network in partnership with my guys.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Over at Drink Champs. That nigga j it was Jay.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
He flew by, see me standing there sweeping under the
b qie. The nigga put the reverse light to him
on the GS. Now now he's like, yo, what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm like, Yo, I got kimmitic service bro.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I got caught hustling and heave old shit fucked up.
Nigga was like, yo, what yo?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
When you done? Man, come to the crib, man, i'ma
be at the crib.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Come to the crib when you're done.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I'm like, all right, I'll be at the.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Crib now, mind you for a dream.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Is literally downtown where the barclades, the duke all the
crib the crib was at. So it was literally like
a ten minute walk. I go to the crib a
nigga hole. He's like, man, yo, you selling drugs?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Man. I'm like, yeah, Nigga, I gotta eat. He like, Yo,
what the fuck you mean? You gotta eat your check? Coming?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Just be patient and I'm like, oh, that nigga we
in the crib.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Shit is bad.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I can't wait on this raption. I don't even know
if this shit gonna work. And he like, Bliz, trust me,
just trust me, stick with it. So he like, man,
what the fuck is you hustling for?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You got a little bit of bread, so I know
it ain't the money, and I'm like, Nigga, I gotta
keep up.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I ain't fly like I need some drip.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That nigga took me downtown till the store bought me
a bunch of shit, like five thousand dollars worth of
clothes or what it was like.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I don't need to see you hustling no more.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You good cheer chit chi.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Shit, I'm out here slinging, bringing the dramas, trying to
come up in the game and add a couple of.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Other signs on my name.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I'm out here serving, disturbing the peace that could be
better there, like my man reclined and plush let the
seat wait you.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Know what it is?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Back with another exclusive we heard the roots picnic Duce
Loude right now chilling. My brother just walked in the building.
You know, I told him rab a seat because I
learned this shit from him.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know what I mean? This is my brother be
do what.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I called my guy because I seen them join the
Joe Broughton set and then he became the villain instantly.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'm like, Yo, did you choose that role or did
they give it to you?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Man?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
It's like whis Cue said, I'm a nigga. You love
to hate, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
What I mean?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
But how the villain role feel? Man?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Man, it feels good, you know what I mean. Listen,
the opposite of love is in hate. It's in difference.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I always said, for a person that hate you, they
have to love you exactly because if you think about it,
a person who hates you know everything about you.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's why they hate you exactly. So I'm okay with it.
I'd rather you feel something. I feel nothing at all.
That's a fact.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So Yo, we hear do say Jay thirty as Jay
thirty thirty years that cheers thirty years.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Man, reasonable doubt you was on that album, right, So
I'm saying you were here rest in peace.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Clock Kid, thirty years ago, I was in clockcare basement
eating six bacon cheeseburgers from Wendy Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Junior bakers, junior bacon cheeseburgers. It was ninety nine cents.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And JA told me, if you remember this verse, it'll
changed your life. Here we are thirty years later, life
is deaf is different thirty years. No, it's feel like
it happened yesterday. Wow, That's why I wanted to hear
from your perspective. What does j thirty mean to you?
Speaker 7 (03:50):
Man?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
It means that music is timeless, man, because I remember
listening to this. I was young at the time, but
I said, people listening to it and I wanted to
catch that vibe y, So then I started listening to it,
writing the lyrics, catching things, free winding.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And I'm like, okay, I got it now, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
And then just iss just talking about the journey man,
thirty years I remember buying Hardock Life. I don't, I'm saying,
you know, I reach just why watching two albums and
one year, you know, talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Two hour all respect the DMX, what he did on
the movie in the movie Mobbie, a movie.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
A soundtrack, and another album in ninety eight, So thirty
years of the making. Man, Like you know, I can't
imagine what the next thirties. I looked like, next thirty
is we taken over?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Besides, you know it's odds I'm about to be on
the on the thirty year, twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Come of the age.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
You shook the block, like you know what I'm saying, bleaking.
Always tell people Methley case is one of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Was Speech Records. I took one of your favorite one
of my favorite records. Have you know it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I didn't even like the record. I love it the record.
I didn't think it was a first thing. Really, I
told you I didn't want to put it out. I
wonder what you think the had to be the first shit?
And he was like, no, we going with this one.
When it worked, I was like, wow, it worked. I
told just saying that instructation. And then the video where
you had those uptowns.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Everybody wanted throws uptown, Yo. They need to make the
uppies with the strap. Y'all ain't in the back to
get night. He stopped playing we don't want a million
of build this trap, yo, man. But that's what I
talk about Jay thirty.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
It's like it's saying it with you, like I'm you know,
we're friends were cool, but I've got a fan at heart.
The thirteen year old me can't believe I'm having a
drink from Memphis Bleek talking about meth Bleek is jac thirty.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's wild. Thirty years later though, crazy, it's insane. Man.
Well we still look good. I'm happy to be us.
What's next for you? Man? What can the people expect
for me?
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Next?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Little? See me on any platform?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You know?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Couple lines my interviews.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Sis right, still on that bro, Still we still working.
I got a new interview line after that real soon.
And you know I I catch get anywhere, stay in
the light. That's what go so when we but we
catch you here.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I got back together.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Any reunion or that all right, Radar, I mean never
say never. Well, you know, I gotta do me right,
just right.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It's all about I respect that man, God's Leslie up, man,
love know what it is, Jake Thurty, do say my
fear of rock silent bang.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You know these niggas don't seek I'm trying to be
getting out here around the class to break. Indeed, he
ain't say, Greg, it's the blacks for my fig come
saying fresh suit chis chicked.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, y'all you know what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You're truly methously back with an exclusive episode of Rock.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Solid Podcasts that you can see live at.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
The Mecca the Duce, say the fucking house man, and
if you don't stay silent, you won't be rock silent.
Mag I got my brother and the build it the
best cosmopolitan draper, best mixture, best guy for friends in
the world right here with me.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Man, my god, Sullivant.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Will you drink you say, and you mix it with
anything ninety percent che It's made by this man right here. Man,
my god, that what sucks. Yes, I'm just seeing that
guy fan say shatter. I'm like, Sally, we need a
new drink.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Tell them what you made for the summer.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Man.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
So I'm like, when it comes to you say we
need to change the mentality. How come shright, please flow
it up?
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Why is your flam man bash and forward?
Speaker 9 (07:32):
I was like, okay, and that's not how about you
hit me up like, yeah, where is the fat seventified?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So I was like you're not you're not smoking?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Why?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (07:40):
So we need to say wa si rum lemon juice,
pro syco. You know your summer.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
That's how I'm going for there's some such man need
to pring something like really nice col notes so to
say such Gama syrum lemon juice and posicle.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That's your summer drink and we call it this man,
So make sure y'all enjoy that. This summer.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
The recipe cards will be out, so my guy selling
gonna be on the show. So we're gonna do something
special one day where we just give our tips on
how to make different cosmos.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Different drinks, different mixtures. One day.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I want to do that, so it could be almost
like a podcast bartended session. I mean, you'll find me
a bar Bro joke down because I know you go
all around the world at different bards, training different staffs
or how to you know, appreciate the brand and what
it's about. And you know what's that like for those
who don't know, like you know, it's certain bards out here,
you never they would love for a guy like you
(08:35):
to walk in and show them the science behind mixology.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Like I mean, the thing to considers that knuck is
a is a really pupping got to go in here.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
In the US. First, we don't even have much knowledge.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
On how it's mad and how it can be using
cocktail and uh we tend to forget that Cognac as
a category was the number ones fiuite to use at
the very beginning of the cook Arrup.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That's right, but I eighteen fifties in.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
America when we decided to make connect was the number
one it's used.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Forgot about that. So we're just saying being the.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Modern version of Connect designed. What comes vision is to
reducate on how we can mix. And it's super simple.
And so you can take any life, any spirit. You
removed the spirit and you put it, it's gonna well.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I can tell you know you've been a Kora, remove
the rep the roads, every single thing. It's the best
reason why we was going there. Everything, Man, I love it,
So yo, tell me what it means. So you you
know thirty years jay Z, reasonable guy? I know for me.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's full circle, bro, thirty years ago I remember being
the guy sitting on the opposite side of the camera
wishing to be more in the camera. So thirty years ago,
thirty years with jay Z for you to be here,
what does that mean for you?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I mean three years. I'm honestly, I'm thirty nine, So
anything I can ride tell you what now? Years old
when I heard the guys, I was playe.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
So like from me, it's like discovering the whole new
thing because when I was nine, I couldn't reason it.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I couldn't relate the same way I came today. That's right.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
So today when I said to Jay like that talks
to who I was, right, which is the thing that
I love to be part.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Of ducid because it's part of the legacy. That's a
simil thing. So yeah, I'm being one of this legacy.
So for me being here today, it's really a moment.
Speaker 10 (10:25):
And actually I created like the conta, the con Erry.
You drinking it whole dirty, I'm drinking the water now.
But what if I do say so myself? Do say
I was I created for many in America, the last
many America.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Oh, like I was a little lushkin. Yeah that was hey, bro.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
The con verry is like you know because like when
Duson was created into twelve guys, somebody asked you, like,
what did I say?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I like the Mareno, I liked Vineapple and then created
the code. So basically just say a.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Marino and fineable called already years later, I'm like sixteen
years later, I was to say I wanted to create
a conta that kind of showcased the revolution of his career.
So the thirty there's a reinterprenation of this stuff. Coats
making more motor to be monitored and what he has
been doing. This is a life in this music industry
and outside of the industry. It's been winning everywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Or winning when every whinning team. Yo.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
But another thing that we got Konyac Week, bro June first,
koyak wee.
Speaker 11 (11:23):
You know what that means?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Were taken over all koonyaks put your shitty ass like
on the shelf with matter of fact, taken off the
shelf because Lu says, taken up all shelf spaces the
first week of joke Konyat week, and we're doing everything.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Man, we guys like the figure is like, that's how
we do things.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Different was to say that's right, because that is an
American National Connect Day.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yes, this FAS has been around for years and last
year we just say we created. That's created.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Aren't there only one day to say about that? One
sperioit that means not someone take the whole week to celebrate.
From the June first to June seventh, we've been out
there pushing connect, pushing due especially like I've been.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
We gonna seventeen eight markets coming this year in Miami.
That's right.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
I'll be out there every single They're doing different things
just to change.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
We got something special in Kognak, France. We're doing the
music festival at the du Chateau.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Come on, you know.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
So this is because the discussion Thousians or thousand years old.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
The French renaissances born in this was been in ten thirty.
Speaker 10 (12:30):
It was like in four years every one thousand years,
all right, because a lot official was in this castle,
the king was from there, Dusey's born there, and Black
will be the first hip of artist to perform.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
In the world of the castle. That's what I mean.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
June first, you know, actually in Cognac actiod I gotta lie.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I can't wait, man, June first, June second, we're gonna
be in Koyak, French. Or if you see this and
you can make it, get your chickeen coll Ou. I
mean July live first, July second, but JUNI first is
Knyac week. So pot with us, So Sally, I appreciate
ol and does man, we gotta do this again. My
brother gonna do a proper one. But I thank you
for other you man, what's been when Philly Ross got going?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Love bro.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Reflect from the sun directly in equal bring you this
son down.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
We're here for my day to come.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I got the hurge disperge.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
I don't want that lifetime shit.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
It's just give me the word. This telling your mom
my own weak. This is my crown yesterday. All right,
you know what it is, y'all.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yours truly Memphis bleak back with another exclusive rock solid
podcast live at the Duce Labs, Roots Picnic, Electric Dey
Are remail Ball stop by no Man.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
We just went skyrocket now, man, what's up my brother back?
How you doing you man? What brings you to Roots Picnic?
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Man? This is my first Roots Pecknick obviously love the
Roots a hard time. We worked in the same building
and yeah, Black Goat and other folks are my and
then with Hove here and this is the start of
those who know already know. Yes, this is the start
of the summers celebration and he's no anniversary.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So I'm excited, yo, I'm looking forward to the Yankee stage. Yeah, bro,
I can't wait. You know things we don't know, So
I want to know where you're going. You've got a
lot of surprises, you know that. So Yo, you guys
spent thirty years. We celebrate Jake thirty thirty year amnimursary
a reasonable doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
What does that mean to you?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Man?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So to me, this is music I grew up on.
Hove is my number one artist.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
He from my thinking, got me into Hima and over
at the time I've been able, of course to work
with him. They have to write an essay for booking
Whove and get like involved. That's like amazing to me.
And what it means when you look at and time
is music marks time. Yet that's why you could be
at a wedding and the saw and plays and it's.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Like how you met or an important moment, and then
you can be an anniversary and it's another moment. And
so I think when the other of us who grew
up on is it's meaningful.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
But then you look at the fact that home uh
is not just transcended where he was, Yes, brought so
many people, Uh, you know, Bleek made Millia's day.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Fairest of his feelings.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
And so what we're seeing is to me a way
to both celebrate and mark history, but not be stuck
in the past and look at elevation.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yes, excellence, uh, building and so so there are alreadys.
Sometimes I mean I love Mahamali, Yes, his love his past.
So that is of course looking in the past. And
I think in hip hop, because you.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Guys are the first generation that we watched actually grow
up into this new era, yes, and be in a
different life stage. Everyone's figuring out what does that mean?
Where's it mean to see Havin fifty five, fifty six
years old?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Rocket stage? And so that's what it means to me?
Where does it mean to you?
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
It means the world of me? Like I said, jay
Z was twenty four years old, I was fourteen years old.
That's crazy, right, you know what I'm saying. And then
we did Come of the Age. It came out two
years later.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
We did it in nineteen ninety four, it dropped in
ninety six, and here we are thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I was a kid, treatman of this life, and here
I am now. So it means the world of me.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And that's what's so ironic that during Coming to Age,
he ripped the paper out the notebook and gave it
to me and said, as fast as you remember this
piece of paper will be as fast as your life change.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Here. We are here, we are one hundred percent right.
Speaker 11 (16:26):
So I just wanted to say, man, how to I
watch a lot of news when it comes to the
news and to slay you the number one nobody got
bars like ari yo, if you ever think about trapping
the soul yourself?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Thereau you spitting all the bars right, So he wi me.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
So I'm not as I'll be walking down the streets
and we go, oh you do the rap news. Yeah,
I'm like, well I quote, I like yoh with knowledge
and respect. Yeah, but like I don't actually rap right, No.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Way, man, you had this sometime at one time. There's
no way you can recite them and remember bards like
that if.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You didn't trap.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
I grew up going to the Garfeldhigh School, big public
schol in Seattle. That's that's Quincy Jones school where he went.
That's where Jimmy Hendricks went. So there was a rich
tradition around. So you also learn to like know what
you can do and what you bring and what you don't.
So we were surrounded by musical legacies and obviously the
music program there was all yes, So I wasn't in
the music like I was friends with the musicians and
(17:19):
I was like into it.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
But I'm not bringing that so I'm I'm trying to
be knowledgeable and all about that. But yes, when we
were coming up like that was back and I don't
know what.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Kids are doing today, but in our day, they were throwing.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Parties at parks because you guys could drink in the bar,
bringing the speakers out, and you do that until the.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Cots game, that's right. Would there be ciphers back then?
There would be some ciphers. He was in a few ciphers.
There were ciphers, my brother. I appreciate you for stopping by.
Mary Man, been the pleasure man.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Continue much success aspect, continue reporting the.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
News that we needed, because I love the way you
bring it.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Down, you get you explained it to the way guys
from my neighborhood and what we live in can really
understand that you speak just.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
The highest thing, and that's what you and hor and
other people do. This is my Since we're ending, I'll
end with a This isn't a lyric, but it is
a bar. There's a writer Charles Bukowski. I really like
his writing, and what you just said is means a
lot to me because he said, an intellectual takes a
simple thing and makes it complicated, and the hardiest takes
(18:27):
a complicated thing it makes me simple.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
And that's exactly what you're doing. Man. I appreciate that.
Trust me. All of us over the world, we appreciate
watching your love my brother. Thank you so much. They
blessed brother, Thank you. You know what it is, row Wow,
you want to.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Blessing Glass, stance to rock class, leave sing, sing.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Your house, Come along with your full ship Stashields Get
your full ship.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Smash chickis on the shop.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
For more podcasts from iHeart Radio, visit iHeart Radio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows
at And you can follow me on any social media
platform under the name Memphis Bleach.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You see anybody fraw in Flagging
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