Hip Hop 50

Step into the heart of Hip Hop history withour latest episode. Picture this: 50 years of hip-hop and we're celebrating it at the heart of the Bronx - Yankee Stadium. We kick off this episode pouring our thoughts on today's trending topics, from Alabama's buzz to Wayne Brady's recent revelation about his pansexuality. But that's not all. We also engage in some serious talk about the Lizzo body shaming controversy, and Tory Lane's decade-long sentence.

Did you catch the hip-hop event at Yankee Stadium? It was a night to remember, with legends like Common, KRS-One, Ghostface, and Method Man lighting up the stage. The cultural cocktail of attendees was a sight to behold and a true testament to Hip-Hop’s global impact. And let's not forget those unexpected moments of brilliance - Doug E. Fresh's beatboxing skills, Kid-Capri's scratch session, and Nas' outstanding performance. We were left in awe and surprise, given Nas wasn't even billed for the event!

As we wrap up, we take a moment to relive and review the unforgettable evening. We saw performances that ranged from TI's flawless execution of verses to Fat Joe's infectious energy, Run-DMC headlining and even the surprise appearance of the enigmatic Ms. Lauryn Hill. But beyond the music and the performances, it's the spirit of unity and celebration that truly captured our hearts. We also speculate about who might grace the stage at next year's event and discuss why hip-hop artists can never really outgrow their roots. So, grab your headphones and join us as we celebrate, critique, and anticipate the future of hip-hop.

Other Topics Discussed:

• Tajiri Jose's big booty
• The Hip Hop 50 Live show was the most diverse show ever
• Derek Jeter makes an appearance
• Cardi B lawsuit

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yo, happy birthday to hip hop.
We celebrating hip hop's 50thanniversary.
This is the coach, as your boy,jeff, my man, ant, was good, we
all right man 50 years in thebag, damn.
Then we're also celebrating ouranniversary.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
three years On this date, we opened it the day to
hip hop.
Isn't that beautiful.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
We opened it like a week after hip hop, so hip hop's
birthday is the 11th, we openedup the 16th, I believe.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
We're good man.
We was just in the womb for alittle bit too long.
We came out of 16, we was bornon hip hop date.
Don't worry about it.
We fine, we are just fine.
And I heard well, we're gonnaget to that.
We're gonna talk abouteverything hip hop promised you.
We gonna get that.
We're gonna get this allsquared away.
But what's going on?

(00:57):
This week's news, when the fuckshit.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, you talking about the Alabama shit.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Get the Alabama, get the Alabama.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
We got the Alabama shit.
We got Wayne Brady announcingthat he's pansexual.
What else you wanna talk about?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
I was like I thought it was gonna feel bad for little
, but I don't blame, I like someshit, the body shaming, but
yeah it's kind of weird, yourwhole body positivity.
Then you're like, hey, shame me, you're dancing, but I don't
think it's her, it's really morelike her dance manager or
whatever.
But if she's co-signing thebullshit, I guess it's her fault
too.
You're subject to the crime.

(01:38):
Even if you wasn't a part of it, you're just gonna shoot the
motherfucker.
Don't mean you wasn't there,you was able to.
Nigga got shot so full onYouTube, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, when I heard that news I was like yo, this
big old chick is body shamingpeople.
This shit didn't even makesense to me.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
I mean she gotta fight back about it.
I mean she gotta do a Cardidoing Like Cardi's, like she
went to that judge, she likecould you got the-.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Cardi's out here throwing microphones at people's
heads bro.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
She throwing microphones at people.
And then her, what?
Tasha, whatever the fuckingname is she won a definition
lawsuit against her for $4million and she went to the
judge.
She's like, nah, I'm notbacking down from the shit, I
want every fucking dollar shegot.
And Tasha's like I'm strugglingwith all of this, I can't pay
it off.
And she like so you owe memoney.
Like what's the problem?

(02:27):
You lost.
Like if I were lost, I'd havepaid you, but you lost.
So you need to find $4 millionor make you a sex tape or sell
drugs or do something, butyou're gonna give me my money.
Don't try to do this file forbank Shit.
That shit not gonna fly, babe.
Hmm, yeah, but that littleshit's weird, though.
Like how do you preach bodypositivity?
But all of a sudden you're likeyou know y'all doing some weird

(02:49):
shit.
I don't get that.
I'm trying to wrap my headaround it, but I don't.
And the thing because of thatshit.
That's why they canceled themain America thing in
Philadelphia, probably.
Yeah, she's supposed to be theheadline.
And they're like nah, we can'tdo it.
Like, hey, man, like it got allthese other acts and all the
shit lined up and you're gonnacancel the whole tour.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
But like I mean seriously, what is the deal with
my issues?
Yeah, we gotta wait for peopleto forget.
They don't forget, man.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oh, I mean, look, look like I said Alabama is a
high, like it's a highpurposeful topic, I guess you
could say.
But I guess kind of the mainstory if you're gonna talk about
music, like Tory got 10 years,Uh-huh.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Mm mm, mm.
You made an example of him.
You wanna shoot people in thefoot.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
I just don't like people caping for people Like
every time somebody get arrested, like free your homeboy, like
they try to rationalize crimes.
Like this is what, like a jurysaid, and like I said, when it
comes to jury trials, you haveto have the most convincing
story.
And he didn't seem contrite, hedidn't try to fight it, he
didn't seem like he felt anykind of way about it, maybe

(03:56):
because he felt he wasn't guilty.
But if they seen this womanunderstand crime because it's
been shot in the foot, you cantry to drag it whatever you
could about a pass, but thatdon't make no difference.
That should happen and that'swhat they said and that's what
they convicted them of.
Now, like, oh man, free toy man,they sitting in the bro back.
I'm like, come on, y'all, comeon.
This little nigga not your heroman, this little small fellow

(04:18):
is not your people, you know.
Like his music, that's it.
And like people gotta stop thatshit.
Like that, speak more aboutsomebody character.
Like, just because you like hismusic, you think that you think
the system of all people tryingto rear, roll Tory Lane's, of
all people to make an exampleout of him, like, come on, now
I'm gonna ask you a question Canyou name five Tory Lane songs
at the top of your head?
I?

Speaker 1 (04:37):
can't name one, how about three?
I cannot name one, two, not one.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Okay, you're making my point, Thank you.
Unless you're a fan of his,like that, then of course.
But if you're not reallyrocking like that, it's not
gonna make a whole bunch ofdifferences.
Tory Lane's like he's a guy whodid music, he had the thing
popping during the pandemic andso on and so forth.
But I mean, is he making thatkind of lasting cultural impact
where you're like, oh man, youstarted to see him go away.

(05:04):
Man, and I'm not for anybodytrying to.
You know, stand by this unjustsystem.
But if they say you committed acrime, you committed a crime.
Man, that's all there is to it.
I'm sorry to hear and I'm sadto hear it, but that's what
happened.
Like, what do you want him tosay?
What do you want him to do?
They convicted him, hecommitted a crime.
He gone to jail.
They said for three to 10 years.

(05:25):
I don't think he gonna serveall 10.
I know he'll be probably out,maybe four or possibly, like
that.
And even that thing comes up.
They were like you know what?
He gonna drop the most firealbum and get back.
We just love picking onpeople's pain, like every time
Mary goes through some shit.
They be like she gonna drop agreat album Like can't?
She just hurt and she'sreflecting in the music.
It doesn't mean it's gonna begreat, it's her outlet.

(05:46):
So I don't know what he's gonnado when he gets out.
But shit, it's gonna be a whileto know that much.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
But fuck all that man .
I wanna talk about this hip hop50 live show.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Cause the culture was there.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
We was live.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
All right.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Before we get to that , let me give a shout out to
these culture crew members man.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Sure, absolutely please, please.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Some of them haven't updated their credit cards, but
I'm gonna still mention themanyway.
All right.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Stop saying that.
No, please stop.
It's not like we scamming Nahnah.
We ain't get y'all paid thisweek, so you gotta stick it in
the shit out of God what I'mjust saying.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
You technically not a culture crew member if your
card declines, but I'm gonnagive you a shout out.
Let's see.
Let me just do random.
Let's start with our newestculture crew member, raz AKA
Razir J.
Then we got Anonymous AKA Shell.

(06:39):
Remain Unnamed or nameless.
We got the nameless memberShoutouts to Mikey sheet,
resident guest.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, baby, growing fast, fuck boy word Shut up
shoutouts to D block hell wig.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Shout out to King Kaiser the third.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
They gonna be in the joint this year with joint the
football fantasy, mm-hmm, yeah,hopefully good, can he always
talking cash it.
I love them too, they funnyshoutouts to Taj Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Shoutouts to Melly Mel.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Mel's yes and last but not least EJ deal, aka DJ
screws.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Welcome to show, brother.
All right.
So let me tell you whathappened, man.
So I was at the hip-hop live atYankee Stadium, the Bronx, new
York City, usa be extend thebuilding?
Yes, August 11th and it was theactual birth of hip-hop.
That was their birthday, 50thbirthday, mm-hmm.
It was a stacked card right,like the.
The names that was billed to beon the ship was already a

(07:43):
stacked card right.
Yes, to me, what made it evengreater was all the surprises,
like I'm not one who goes to alot of shows, a lot of concerts,
but it's gonna be tough to beatthis Like I don't know what
show I'm gonna go to next.
That's gonna be able to topthis.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
I Think it was designed that way.
I think it's.
You know, it's it's top able.
I can't lie, it's top able.
It's hard to say that shit outloud, but it's all right bro,
it's gonna be hard bro.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
So like for what you pay for.
You pay for, you know, andobviously you're gonna pay a
pretty penny, as Yankee Stadiumis New York, but I paid, you
know, just for what.
I thought what I was gonna see,I thought it was worth it.
But then you know, when you gosome you go when you go to a
show and you get like onesurprise, you're like, oh shit,
this was worth that.
You get two surprises.
You're like damn, I'm gettingmore than my money's worth.
But when you get like a bunchof surprises, like I saw, then

(08:36):
you're like shit, and I'm gonnastart it from the top, you know.
So we get to the Bronx and yougot a park, far as hell.
You got to pay these $50 rightto get to the good, to pay you
to park your car somewhere.
First thing, dudes get to themoney like man, and people know
that.
You know, as we're walking tothe shit we got, we see tired to

(08:56):
hear you bro, so to hear he'swalking with like a home girl to
hear Jose.
Okay.
So here he goes, a and I'm.
I don't mean to Objectify womenwhen I say this.
She had the most Fattest ass Ihave ever seen.

(09:17):
And I don't mean fad like anobese, I mean the most bubbly is
the biggest booty I have everseen in my entire life.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Hey man, hey, that's some good payment there.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
And I was with my wife, so I can say this because
she was looking at it too we waslike goddamn.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Look, it's like, it's like going to museum you can't
notice, not notice to like thebeautiful art and the wall, like
, oh, that's okay, likesometimes, like ooh, yeah, it
was one of those moments, goodsee, but you didn't creep out,
you didn't take a picture of me,so proud.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
No, no, no no.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
It could have went out, but she didn't do that.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
We wasn't gonna be.
Yeah, no, we're gonna fan now.
But I was like yo look at her.
She passed right by us and shewas trying to get inside the
stadium without actually gettingin the line where the rest of
us was trying To get it right.
So she's like trying to youknow me and go to like where the
celebrities go through and theVIP.
I don't know how that shitworked out for her.
I wasn't trying to payattention to, we just kept going
.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I Really wanted she rolled up without a ticket.
Like I'm to hear you, jose,they'd be.
Like I'm to hear you Jose.
I don't have for these dudes.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
One of them got to give me in we got run DMC up
here.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
We got a whole bunch of people here, unless one of
them coming out with you.
Look man, I need to see yourphone to that ticket because you
got to pay like airballs dropon ticket, massive buy ticket
real quick coming side, but no,so we go to Billy's.
Bar and grill and lounge,whatever was that supposed to be
like name?
Like the Billy Martin.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
I think so, because it's right across the street
from the stadium.
Okay, you know, and it's.
It's a sports bar, whatever.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
The block 947 was doing the pre-show party there.
I.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Got to get them credit, though Could, for a
throwback hip-hop station.
They're doing really good.
Yeah, I like them.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
But it's the art demographic.
It's like people 30 and up.
You know I'm saying yes,exactly yes and that's what you
know.
This, this is that thiscelebration was for us, the 50th
anniversary of hip-hop.
The whole lineup was mostly oldheads.
I don't think I saw anybodyunder 30.
I mean, I did see a couple ofkids that were there with their
parents.
They probably couldn't get ababysitter or something.
You know.
I saw some young cats but, youknow, for the most part it was

(11:14):
everybody older than 30.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
It wasn't.
It wasn't a crowd, it was.
It was a celebration.
Hip-hop for 50 years, so a lotof y'all just being born, so it
wasn't gonna fit for y'all.
Better get it.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Anyway.
So the block party pre-show wasfrom two to six, so we was
there like at four, five.
We got that chilling withcipher sounds and them.
I could go on my social mediaand see the pictures and you
know gates opened a YankeeStadium at four.
The show supposed to start atsix.
You know black people thoughyou know minorities in general,
black and brown people ain'tnobody showing up at six, right,

(11:46):
even though the show supposedto start at six ain't nobody
showing up at seven.
Hell, half of the people wasn'tshowing up at a either.
And I felt bad because you knowthe opening acts were like the
real old, with Mellie Mel, youknow I'm saying MC Shan and all
of them, the you know thefurious five, and Roxanne
Chantet.
It was all performing early onand I feel bad.

(12:08):
I'm like yo, these people isout here killing it and it's
like I'm not gonna say it was anempty stadium Because it wasn't
, but people are still trying tocome in, people.
You know it wasn't like aspacked as it would have as it
got later.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Right.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
It's like half empty and they up there destroying it
and I'm like, damn we.
You know they're not reallyPerforming in front of the
people that they should beperforming I.
So whatever common comes out,he kills it.
He even spits a freestyle offthe top he does.
I used to love her mm-hmm.
I'm like you know what be dopeif he does fucking, if he does
the disc that he did for fuckingcube, and then cube comes out

(12:40):
To and that would have beenanyway.
No, it didn't happen, but hedoes.
I used to love her.
He spits a freestyle off thetop and then at the end he says
you know, he, we're here in NewYork, this is where real hip hop
is from.
And I look at my wife and Itell and I say you see, this is
how he be starting beef with theWest Coast.
You know, this is why West Coastmotherfuckers take offense when

(13:03):
common says some shit like thatanyway.
But he says this is where realhip hop is from.
Okay, cool.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Wait, it's funny like , yeah, come on man, even hip
hop is built on beef.
You know good and damn well,like common and Q was gonna
piece it up there like boy, fuckyou, I still don't like your
ass.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
You knew that you knew it, one of the first
surprises and I mean and I can'teven say it was really a
surprise Was KRS one, because hewasn't built to be there, right
?
But in the back of my mind andI was telling myself, I was like
yo, you can't have a hip hopanniversary show in the Bronx,
new York, and not have Christhere.
No, it's impossible.

(13:42):
So he comes out I forgot whobrought him out and he did a
couple.
He did, like you know, soundeda police or whatever.
He did a couple songs bridgesover, and he did the bridges
over.
And it all of Everybody in theaudience was like no, chris,
don't do it.
Don't do it because Shann hadperformed.
Yeah, shann had performedearlier.
He's there, it's peaceful,everybody's, you know peace and
love.

(14:02):
And he does the bridges over.
And I'm thinking he was gonnachange the words.
Nah, he ain't changed the words.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
All day like nine.
This beef is hip hop is gonnalast forever.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Shann and Molly mall.
Like the acting, like they gaveya.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
I was like, oh damn, chris, and I'm watching the live
show.
Oh yeah, that's why they didyeah, it's live, it's a live
show B.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
So he did.
They only did a couple songsthat slid out mm-hmm, the first
biggest pop, because you knowthey had.
When it comes to the Wu Tang,you never know who's gonna show
up, right, because there's somany of them.
You know the big names, youRayquan, math.
These guys usually never showup.
They doing movies, they doingwhatever, so they usually
they'll they be touring otherplaces, they don't be having
time, so you never know who'sgonna be there now from the Wu

(14:44):
Tang.
So it was ghostface.
He was doing his church as theghost and all his.
You know, I'm saying, or hisIron man shit.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
I think who it was a cap a dime.
I think cap a Dono was with him.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
It's cappa.
Cap came on late.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, but then they play, you know, wu Tang clang
ain't nothing fuck with.
But then they play Patek, yourneck right.
They did the ODB verses andshit.
And then when it goes, it's themethod man for short, mr Maff,
move it on your left.
And then Maff comes on stageand he got like a Yankee.
How he had like a thing, had a.
Yeah, he was wearing white, butI think how, like the Yankee

(15:20):
pinstripe, shit on yeah, yeah,yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
You know, pinstripe, join on in a white, be the
methods.
Acting like a whole cuz on thelive stream.
He's like he was talking tobody flashing the six pack, your
whole back your hope.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
That's the first big pop of the night.
I mean I lost my shit.
You know Maff is my favorite.
I lost my shit but then.
But you know, the women wentcrazy when Maff got on stage,
like here's the thing with Mac.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Like if your girl like slept with Matthew, like I
get it, like I'm not even mad, Ilike I like I gotta eat that
one.
Yeah, you take it in the chair.
I'm probably gonna ask youabout, like was a nigga good?
Like come on, like did he signthe W or some shit?
Like I want to know this iswhat happened if you had sex
with a wall people.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Did he make you sign an NDA?
You know me.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
You're right, right.
Like you can't tell, nobodycould tell me, cuz we got like
Privilege, could be married.
But like, if they didn't fuckyou, like it's okay.
Like, like, as a matter of fact, I'm gonna daft you up like you
bag Maff, good for you, girl,you got a one up on me.
Yeah, I'm proud of you.
Like, I can't stop that one boy.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
You know that on my he comes out, the women go
absolutely fucking bat shit.
They want him to get naked onthe stage and shit.
I'm like calm the fuck down.
Yeah, he's ripping, so he doeshis shit and he's why he's
throwing water at the fan.
You know how method, you knowready method known for that shit
.
Mm-hmm.
I would have liked to see redman come out too, especially
since we were in.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
You know he's from Jersey, but anyway they got so
many 50 because they got so manylike hip-hop, 50 count like
conscious going on.
Yeah, one of them, part of thisone.
Oh, it's gonna bring me tocomplain ahead, though, but go
ahead.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
So they do a whole bunch of Wu Tang songs and he
bounces.
The next biggest pop that wasreceived was when kid Cudi
brought out Derek fucking Jeterthe captain.
They'll copy time.
Derek Jeter came out on thatstage and motherfuckers lost a
shit and they started DerekJeter chance, because, again,

(17:08):
you're not expecting you know,as Yankee stated, but you're not
expecting Jeter, who lives inFlorida now you know I'm saying
to show up to a fucking hip-hopconcert.
So he comes up and he gets onthe mic, and they're not even
letting him talk becauseeverybody's screaming.
He's just trying to say, youknow, happy birthday to hip-hop.
You know 50 years, hopefullywe'll be back in another 50
years, and that's it.
You know he keeps it short.
He's never really gonna talk alot.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
You know some amazing thing about him.
Like this is judges team, butlike Derek, still owns this town
.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
He owns his motherfucker bro.
Because why?
Because he got thechampionships.
You ain't shit here until youget to the championships.
You know I'm saying they showedthe stream.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
They was losing the fucking mind.
I'm like lost eight minds bro.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Like this motherfucker don't rap, like
it's a rap thing, like.
He said a couple of words.
He dapped up kid Cudi andwalked out and kid Cudi put some
pictures up on the screen ofhim and Jeter from back in the
day and they both looked atyoung as hell.
Jeter was still playing and kidCudi DJ, and he took a picture
with Jeter.
They put that shit up on thescreen.
Oh my god, I'll say this,though the shit starts at 6,
right?
Like I said, a lot of peopleain't gonna show up to 8, 9, 10

(18:04):
people Still coming in.
I was there early, right,because I don't want to miss
nothing right pay my money.
I'm not trying to miss nothing.
The shit all this shit.
The shit officially started at6.
The shit did not finish till 2in the morning.
Do the math that's an entirework day.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
That's eight hours bro sit out in the park.
Look, that's a work, that's ashift.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
I was at yank.
I was inside Yankee Stadium forover eight hours bro.
You was employed by hip hoptired as a motherfucker and If
you saw the live stream youcould probably tell.
And again, the live streamdoesn't do the shit justice,
right, because I was there andit's louder in real life than it
.
Then it would seem to be in thelive stream.
It was deceiving.

(18:51):
It looked quieter but it got toa point where by like around
midnight, like the crowd wasstarting to get dead.
We were tired, people were likefalling asleep, people were
leaving.
I saw some people leave beforethey even got to the fucking
Cream of the crop shit.
Wayne comes out.
He does his rock star shit,right.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
You don't like Wayne, like that, but I love when you
perform and Wayne correct.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, I'm not a big Wayne fan, but I give it to him,
he did his thing up there.
He sang, he did all his hits,he did lollipop and he did all
his shit.
You know, I'm saying, and hebrought out Corey guns, corey
guns ripped it.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
But actually it was funny, he's like.
He's like they think this isPeter Gunn's son, peter guns
perform to.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
They brought him out and he did his.
You know his Uptown baby.
This motherfuckers been eatingoff the same song for over 20
years with Lord Tariq.
No one.
Who the fuck knows?
Peter don't even know.
Probably that's Peter's song atthis point.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Like Lord Tariq is on the episode of cheaters and
some shit, peter's like no, wecan't do this, no more.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
The only thing I was.
I was I'll say this before Icontinue I was a little
disappointed because, like Isaid, it's the old head crowd,
right.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
And there's another thing.
I Know hip-hop is a black genreas a black culture.
This was the most diverse shitI have ever seen.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Tons of whites.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
I saw tons of whites.
I saw blacks.
I saw Latinos.
Cuz cuz.
Fat Joe came out with thePuerto Rican flag and fucking
Puerto Rican.
It was when, crazy in them.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
You can hear, even in live stream, even at the sound,
what you hear like this it'snot wet by left and right.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
That was racist.
Oh, I saw Asians though.
I seen Asian motherfuckersdancing to this shit, bro, and
you know they big Wu Tang fans.
You know Wu Tang is heavilyinfluenced on the Asian culture.
You know I'm saying and thekung fu flicks and all of that,
but I was like, I was telling mywife, I'm like yo, I'm walking
up and down this bitch.
I see Asians, white, spanish,blacks every goddamn body is the
most diverse shit I've everseen in one building.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Because you got to the core.
Hip-hop, what it's been aroundso long.
It's touched the world thatpeople, no matter what race,
gender, color, creed, whatever,if you are hip-hop, you are
going to be influenced by it,whether in clothes, art, style,
music, design, anything like.
We've broken barriers thatpeople never thought we do like.
This is something that startedon Sedgwick Avenue.

(21:01):
Now it's it's.
It's starring in Yankee stadiumWith the world watching,
streaming all over the place,with people, like I said, from
from all kind of background,just showing up to show love to
this.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
That's the impact, that's the whole point of that
concert and, like I said at thebeginning, you going like damn,
it's not gonna be that manypeople here.
I was like now you gotta waittill later.
There's gonna be easily 40 to50 thousand people here because
you could, you gotta rememberthere's a lot of seats on the
actual field.
Yes, so there was thousands ofpeople just on the field With
the stages and they got to apoint like around 10 11.

(21:34):
I'm looking around and I'm likeyo, aside from a Yankee playoff
game, this is the most packedI've ever seen Yankee stadium.
Obviously, when the Yankees arein the playoffs, the shig is
loud and this shit is crazypacked, right, but last night
was fucking packed and again, Idon't know if you can tell that
from watching the live stream.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah it was a full house Because the live stream is
still up on mass appeal onyoutube.
So what happens is like if youwatch the fuck the six, seven
o'clock hour, they'll comebehind Lupe, they'll come behind
common and show the crowd it'snot that many by time you get
around to like Wayne and youdon't see nothing but camera
phone.
It's just lit the fuck up.
It's everywhere.
All everybody was out there.

(22:11):
Uncle Snoop was out there doinghis snoop shit.
I was mad, though, because itcould.
He was standing putting up hislittle sign and her colors.
Come on, I'm like he's gonnabring an icy, but like he didn't
do it, I was disappointed.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
He has strippers up on a snoop.
Had strippers on the stage.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, yo, he was just rapping and all of a sudden the
stream.
You see two poles and tripperslike hold up.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
We actually, we actually ran into them outside
when we was walking back to ourcar.
The strippers is out there Witha big-ass thing, a luggage,
walking down the shit, what theystill with the outfits on, and
I'm like these fucking bitches,bro, part of my language, these,
these strippers.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah, but hurry up, you're about to get robbed.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, like they don't even got limo service or
nothing like how much theygetting paid to go up on stage
and be strippers for snoop setand after the show they got a
drag day luggage and theywalking out in the regular
streets trying to get to theparking lot.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Like snoop couldn't get him car service and shit,
like I'm on stage for you, Ican't like.
Anyway, a little something.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
I, like Lupe, says one of my favorite ones he did
all his hits, you know, he didsuperstar, he did kick push and
he did, you know, hip-hop savemy life.
But again the place wasimpacted at that time, so I felt
like it was a wastedperformance.
Him calm and I felt like it waswasted.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
And those are two of my favorite shits now all of
these fellas get paid a littlebit, right, I'm assuming.
So Okay, I feel, because thisis this is actually my problem
with the women of hip-hop set.
I feel that if you perform 40percent of your record, you
should give 40 percent of yourpay, because little came to like
eight bars stopped, six barsstopped.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
She did a bunch of songs right, but she went
through the whole.
She would do like a right oneverse.
She did like her shit with mobdeep.
She would do like her verse andshe did prodigies verse.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Right, and she wouldn't even do it, like she
would tear couple and let thecrowd the crowd.
Yeah, but.
But once you saw a mess upthere, you saw Ghost doing all
his shit.
He didn't skip a line.
Wayne didn't skip a line.
No, a deck didn't skip a line.
I'm like this is what I'mpaying for.
I want y'all to rap.
I don't want y'all to say someshit and hold the mic off.
Everybody do it, like everybody.

(24:08):
There was a lot of that.
There was a lot of that goingon.
I hated that like like when kimgoing to start doing that goofy
ass dancing shit like.
All right, I get it, it's fun,that's part of her trademark.
At this point it is, but Idon't want to see you fucking
say it was like a wax coach.
I came here, you rap the worstpart.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
The worst part is when they do that and the crowd
doesn't know the lyric orthey're too tired to even bother
.
Right, which happened, whichhappened later on in the night,
like by by one o'clock in themorning.
Everybody's like tied and theytrying to let the crowd like
finish the verse for me, likenah, I'm.
Uh fuck, we came to see you dothe verse.
Don't let me.
I'm not trying to do the verselike dog.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
We paid you to rap.
If you, if you want me to go upthere and rap that, give me a
contract, I'll do it for you.
I know all your shit dies.
I got you but but but now Ididn't do that.
Now I actually wrapped his waythrough his shit.
So it's good.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
So then we get.
So Wayne does his rockstar shitand he's like um, you know,
let's, let's give a shout out tothe.
He basically was giving a shoutout to the cops.
Like, you know, let's, let'sgive a round of applause to the
cops.
You know they're protecting us.
They were like boom, like no,fuck the police.
Yeah, they were like.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Like I wear my hand for this shit.
Wayne, calm down, I ain't doingthat for you.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
And when snoop comes on, he does his, uh, his, his
deep cover shit.
Mm-hmm and it's basicallysaying it's a 1-n-8 7 in the
motherfucking cop.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
I was looking around?

Speaker 1 (25:21):
yeah, I was looking around.
I'm like damn, I mean the blackcops and shit was bumping.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
The white cops was like mmm, they had their hand on
a gun and shit, these littletwo tents, like y'all got to
relax, like a look Y'all, y'allthey had a servant protect
tonight the brothers.
We gonna work this out, butbecause you was, it one lot of
no one, not a while shit hadhappened right.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's the none I was gonna get to, that this was the
most peaceful shit I've everseen.
Bro, I Ain't seen out one fight, I ain't seen out one argument,
and granted, I don't you know,I wasn't walking around the
entire stadium so I don't knowbut I walked around a good
majority and I, you know, and Isaw a lot of people when it was
peace.
Like I said, it was whites,blacks dancing together, asians

(25:59):
it was, you know, latinos.
I ain't seen no confrontations.
Everybody smoking weed.
It was so much weed.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
I knew once illegalized that shit like you
might just sign up for thatcontact high cuz.
This is happy everybody aroundyou.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
You see them lighting up.
They were smoke.
Put it out later.
They bring it out again.
Finishing roaches Snoop therewas on stage and he smoked at
least three fucking joints upthere.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Wayne came out there with a whole blunt this hand,
like a cigarette, like like aJohnny Carson.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
It started like yo, but Snoop was flicking the shit.
Snoop would take a couple hitsand then just flick it.
I'm like who's he throwing thisshit?
I was just throwing it on thefloor.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Because he has entirely too much weed with
Khalifa came out he was smoking.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
They brought a hoodie with the buggy.
What is a boogie with thehoodie?
Yeah, and he's like oh, youknow he's.
I didn't even realize he waslike from down the block.
They was like.
You know, I grew up down thestreet from here right there
there's a like.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
I saw some shit in the stream like people started
crying.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
They gave him an award.
They gave them the game, theproclamation of the city of some
shit by the mayor or whateverthe fuck.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Oh, I fuck out of here.
Like I was hearing the thingand I was reading comments.
Like people started crying withCleveland started doing that.
Paul Walker, shit, yeah, theylove that.
That.
That been a long time like it'sa weird set to play at this
concert, but I get it.
But the whole thing when he didthat and show all the people
past like big XX pop and all ofthem like I, like I get it.

(27:21):
Now it makes a whole lot senselike, yeah, so I remember what
once done you hear all theclapping in the background.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Once people start cheering, I'm like yeah, yeah,
that was needed now, when wasone of the headliners so by the
time he went up, like we wasalready tired, right.
Then ice cube comes on and I'mlike fuck people like falling
asleep and ice cube killed it.
He did all his hits.
He's trying to get the crowd up.
He's like I want me to doanother song.
Yeah, yeah, I want me to do acouple more.
Yeah, like we was tired, bro.

(27:48):
It was already like midnightright, it's not as fault.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
It's literally like I'm like y'all been out here for
six hours.
Hell, you be at a job.
Those last two hours be harddrag it.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Now you're like ah, that's some rap shit.
You know you love it.
He was out there with dub C.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Basically being his hype man and shit he did a bunch
of.
He did like maybe like fivesong.
You know today was a good day.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
We be clever Yep, some NWA shit too.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Fuck the police.
Crazy motherfucker name icecube he did that.
Wow At the Wayne set was likeyeah exactly Love the police and
cube followed it up with thatagain.
I was looking around, let mesee I want to rise breaking out
this motherfucker I checked.
You gotta check the element.
I was checking the temperatureand he did what's the one?
You know how we do it.

(28:39):
We do it.
Yeah, he had the lyrics.
He had the lyrics up on thescreen.
That's not a lot, let's followalong.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
It's like y'all are tired.
Read along with snoop Right,we're gonna along with ice cube
and his word at the word.
It was word at the word.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
It was.
Yeah, it was a verbatim.
I was like I appreciate this,because some of them words I
don't be knowing what he'd besaying.
I was like great.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Like just read, read along with cube.
No, that's it.
I like this.
You know this is smart.
It's an older crowd.
They tie, don't feel likerapping.
They can so long to long man.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
So he finishes.
And the problem I had I waslike yo, why they keep doing
these intermissions.
So somebody will come on do aset and they do an intermission
or they'll have a DJ justscratching playing.
Whatever people go Get beer,people go to the bathroom.
But I felt like theintermissions were man long,
sometimes five, ten, fifteen,twenty minutes.
I'm like yo, we're gettingwrestlers here, like I'm like
alright, who's hasn't showed upyet that we're waiting for.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
So, anyway.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
So cubes and snoop and snoop bring slick Rick out
and they both do ladi-dadi.
Snoop does the first half ofhis version and slick Rick
finishes it off with the secondhalf of his version.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Hold on, hold on timeout.
Was that a gigantic diamond tagOn his what you mean?
That slick hat on the patchlike was yeah, like no, no, no.
On his neck was like it lookedlike a Luggage tag, but it's
like this fucking big.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, she was big as fuck.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Jesus.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Okay, but even his patch looked a glamorous.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Had a iced out patch, but that's slick.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
That's Rick so they do ladi-dadi and the whole time.
Dougie is the one doing thebeat.
Dougie fresh is doing the beatbox, right, they human beat box
himself at the end, when theyfinish the song, this
motherfucker goes into the book.
I don't know if I've ever seen,and this shit was the longest
fucking beat box and shit I haveever seen, bro.
He went on and on and on forlike five, ten minutes.
Bro, I'm like yo, does thisdude breathe?

(30:17):
And he did that.
He held one note and he heldone note without breaking For
the longest time.
We was like, oh, and that thecrowd.
That's when the crowd startedgetting hyped up again because
we was falling asleep.
But when he started doing thatbeatbox and shit, the crowd got
hyped up again.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
We was like, go, go, go go Dougie, and he's counting
it off and keeps going, keepgoing, keep going, keep counting
off like damn.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
One point snooper was like Damn you gonna end this
shit, bro.
I need to go home, like no.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
He kept rolling.
I was like god, leave man, butthat's Dougie for you.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
He did it.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, she was hard.
That was great.
I love that part.
That was honestly when Iwatched it, watch the shit I was
like my favorite part, likethat's hip hop and like his
purest form.
He like he be murdered, thatlike, and the only person to
know that kind of breath control, probably busted.
But you know how to do it likethat right, like fuck, no.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
So that was a highlight of the night.
Kick-cuddy killed it on the.
He was scratching.
They had.
They gave him his own set.
Kick-cuddy was up therescratching like a motherfucker.
I was cuz.
At one point I was like yo,they should really have like
Jazzy Jeff on here or DJ Premierdo a scratching session.
Yeah, nah, but kick-Cuddy didhis thing.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Which is impressive, because you don't think about
him like that.
But you know he loves.
I ain't think right, I ain'tthink he had it in him like that
.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
No, I think about dudes that could really scratch
again.
I think about Jazzy Jeff, Ithink about Premier.
I think about some of thesecats.
I really don't think aboutkick-Cuddy, but kick-Cuddy just
a premiere D nice.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Clark Kent, tony touch, they were there.
What can't.
Was it Clark Kent?
Was it playing shit?
Yeah, clark was killing her.
I like to sit.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
So then the fire, then it was down to the nitty
gritty, after snooping icecubanum, then it was down to the
final two, and really it wasdown to the final one Cuz this
person I mean, I kind of knew hewas gonna be there cuz they
kept mentioning him, but hewasn't billed to be there, right
, and it was Nas.
And before they presented himthey said yo, I think it was
kick-Cuddy.
Before I bring this dude out,you know I gotta give him his

(32:07):
proxies.
You know he put this together.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
This was his idea and I was like, really Like I
didn't know that as a matter offact, if you click on the mass
appeal stream later, right,what's gonna happen that you,
you're always gonna see the samesprite commercial with Nas over
and over and over.
It's the same one.
It's him rock, him and a coupleother people, but it's him
every time you do like it goescommercial break.
It's the same sprite commercialwith Nas in it every single

(32:31):
time.
Y'all got cheated cuz y'alldidn't know.
But in the last one said comingup next Nas, yeah, when I saw,
I'm like, oh, if you there, Iknow, I know you like we ain't
know, but we were, we heardrumbling, you hear people like
on their phones.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
You know I'm saying they probably read it somewhere
on the phones or they wentonline and like, oh shit, now
supposed to be here, like word.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
And that's good cuz the prior lot goes about the
bouncer, like you know what it'sone in the morning.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
It's one in the morning.
At this point we're tired asfuck.
Right and again, long assintermission.
Then his name comes up on thescreen with some thunder through
Nas.
We like, oh shit, he's coming.
Yeah, ready for Nas.
We like, yeah.
Then he finally comes out withNew York State of mind.
You know he comes out.
He has like a little ASMR flyfor teas or some shit on real
New York.
It's a real New York.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, the camera flies like like Vesto under the
arms, out I'm like Timberlensand shit.
A lot of things had on Timblike those.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
shit is really not that comfortable, though it was
yeah, it's too hot to be upthere, so he does a lot of shit
from Illmatic New York State ofmind Represent, represent.
He had the crowd again.
We're starting to get into it.
We was all screaming represent,represent.
With that he did the message.
He did you could hate me now.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
See me full of Gus yep.
Mm-hmm Okay then rewind, rewind, rewind, rewind.
I'm sorry like I don't likehate me.
Now I really don't, but justthe way did he start something
funny?
Like you hate me, I'm a hateyou too simple that die
motherfucker, die motherfucker,die.
Like did he this?
Even you?
This shit is hilarious.
He turned into two pock forthat part real quick for that
one part and the fact that niggadid Uchiwale.

(34:01):
I was like you can leave it off.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, yeah, hold up.
Because first of all was likeyo, It'll be dope if puffy comes
out.
But he, of course he did.
He's too big for that.
But yeah, he does Uchiwale.
And then he does the shit withgenuine, which are the two.
These two songs are by far mytwo least favorite now songs of
all time.
And he does them back to back,does Uchiwale and then he's like

(34:24):
oh, where my ladies at.
I'm like, really, this is thesong you're gonna play for the
ladies Like it sounds likeyou're talking down to these
bitches, pardon.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
He was about to you, but was my lady that, like what
you about to play black girl off?

Speaker 1 (34:38):
like what the fuck is you do?
Did not play back girl.
Oh, he played Shawty name.
What's your price?
You could back it up you owe me, hold my eyes you owe me.
Why would he play that asliterally one of his worst songs
?

Speaker 2 (34:51):
ever, and that's the thing about it.
Like whenever they alwaystalking about Nas, they always
bring up the bullshit.
They always bring up those twosongs.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Those are the two worst songs.
Those are the only two songswhen when Jay-Z dissed him on
the fucking takeover.
Those are the two songs hementions.
Absolutely when he doing it,when they when they doing the,
the rap beef and take over superugly.
And he names Uchiwale.
He says your bodyguards versusbetter than yours or Uchiwale.
And then he mentioned the othergirl.

(35:19):
Is it black girl loss or shortyowes you for ice and some ice,
and that's the bad part about it.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
It's like you have all.
You have decades worth of hits.
Like you could have left thoseoff.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
I could have left those off.
So whatever he played them andwomen love you too.
I was looking around.
I'm like damn women are reallybumping to the shit they were
singing along.
It was only women singing alongto those two songs.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I was like, wow, like here's my father, let me try to
run to the bathroom quick.
This ain't me.
And like city brought our coolG rap like that's like a little
rap, yeah and you know my manlooking old but he still killed
it.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
He killed that shit because he's inspired.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
he inspired Nas, he inspired fucking Big pun but
that's what Sue was like twosizes too big.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
I'm speaking of big pain.
Let me rewind a little bit,because fat Joe came out before
that, yes, and he brought outRemy.
Remy came out like threedifferent times because she had
her own set.
Remember, you mentioned thewomen set, no women set which
Eve didn't show up, she was.
She was named on the bill to bethere, so I ain't see her.
There was little Kim Remy, thehome, and in.
Trina.
Trina did her thing and Remycame out again to with Fajot to

(36:20):
sing that shit.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Time out time out time all the way up.
She sang that with him time upbefore we even go to Joe.
Let me, I even got my hat onright now.
Let me go ahead and tip my hatto ti for killing that fucking
second.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
I forgot about ti.
He killed it and it was justhim.
No no, he did all his shit.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
And he was like the lone representative from the
south.
He's like nope, I got.
He didn't bring out no specialguests, he didn't do nothing, it
was his him all.
It hits his bars, like I said.
I know that.
I said that I appreciate thatDougie thing.
The.
The highlight for me was thatti shit cuz I'm like everyone
else, like you need to getstarted.
So like ti like now I'm comingto hit my little shirt, my hat

(37:03):
and I'm a rip.
All of this shit he named.
He did every hit and like mysample for about said little Kim
, like not doing a song, he didword for word, like swagger like
us.
That's a hard verse to fuckingremember.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
That's my favorite.
Yeah, we was killing.
Everybody was singing that shitin the audience.
When he did that, fat Joe comesout and he does, you know, he
does his big punch shit.
Are we doing his little bigpunch, you to put pun up on the
screen?
And he does the, the deep, thetwins.
And when it gets to the part,you know, they let the audience
do it dead in the middle.
A little Italy did.
The whole audience did thatpart.

(37:33):
Then she bring.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Bar like I want that jacket, but if I wear this
you're robbed.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Why don't?
But why did?
Why did Joe have to take offhis jacket?
So he has a jacket on withnothing underneath, and he's
lost a lot of weight over theyears, but he's still not in the
greatest of shape.
Nobody wants to see his big oldbelly hanging up.
You know, I'm saying over hisLike I'm good, put this, put a
shirt on Joe.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
He's more like felt Joe than the fat Joe, like if
you seen an old fat Joe that wasfat.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yeah, but Rick Ross does the same thing.
Like these guys are not inshape and they just walk around
with no shirt on like they doingsomething.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
You lucky heavy did have passed away man.
He was still been carrying asheet.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Alright, I digress, I digress.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Okay, never love you, baby, uh-huh so.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
And then he does the boy equal more and then
everybody's doing that shitbecause Joe has always been big
on, you know, making it knownlike yo put a rickens in blacks,
you know, we're there together,type shit.
He's always trying, you know,I'm saying he's always trying to
push that narrative.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
I'm always gonna give him credit for always making
sure that you know he, he knowthat he's an integral part of
hip hop.
But he always makes sure like,like my heritage will always be
with me, no matter what.
Like, yeah, I am fat Joe, butI'm done.
I'm Joe Cartagena, like I'mfrom this part, but I am like
I'm Puerto Rican in themotherfucking.
Y'all always gonna know that,like, say, first thing came out,
came I waving them flags, likeyou know what time it is like

(38:58):
yep in the Puerto Ricans lost.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
They shit up in that bitch.
I was like I'm like damn, weneed a Dominican to come out
with a flag.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
But who y'all got?

Speaker 1 (39:07):
something on the side note the guys that are half
Dominican, like they don't repit, like fabulous Joel Santana,
there's a bunch of them.
They don't rep it because theydidn't really grow up.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
You know, I'm saying right on that side of the family
or with that culture they grewup with, like their black, you
know.
It wasn't.
It's an a blob, it's not ahousehold.
They didn't grow up in aDominican household really
reppin like that exactly.
It's a bunch of them Like fat,fat name, like like like J
Jackson stuff.
Yeah, like, yeah, fuck.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
So anyway, so Nas does this thing, and then he
does and this is the part thatpissed me off.
I get it again.
It was a hope.
It was an old crowd, right, itwas a lot of 50 plus year olds.
So when they bring out an eightboogie foot with the hoodie,
they're not really gonna knowany of the verses, right when
they bring out with Khalifa, alot of these dudes had no idea
right.
When so Nas does that, hestarts off that nobody song.

(39:59):
From King disease to a Mm-hmm a.
Place to be nobody.
And I know the song.
I'm a Nas fan.
I know the ship courseword-for-word.
When it comes to Lauren Hill'spart.
All my, all, my all, my all mytime I've been focused on my
freedom.
Now she comes out and onepeople don't know the fucking
verse.
Have the people that ain't evenknow the song right?

(40:21):
Right to Lauren, it comes outmiss Lauren.
That was another surprise forme, because I'm not expecting
her at all.
I don't think nobody was so shecomes out and she's looking like
something out of a Tim Burtonmovie.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Okay, here's the thing.
The fact that she came overthere with those fucking Venus
and Serena young girl beads inhere.
I'm like, sis, you ain't got todo this.
Man, I get it.
Everybody has an individuality.
I understand fully.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
But come on now she had a different color.
She got the different colorbeads.
She had this big, she had theYankee fitted on and then she
had this big pink.
I don't even want to call it adress.
I don't know what would youcall it.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
It's called a tulis.
It's kind of like a ballerinadress, but longer.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
So I got people behind me and I'm losing my shit
.
I'm like oh shit, is miss Hill,motherfuckers behind me?
It's like yo who that?
I'm like, it's Lauren.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Hill.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
What you?
What you mean, bro, it's Laurenfucking Hill, and I'm sitting
I'm spitting her verse like Iknow the verse is one of my
favorite shits from that albumand I'm looking around and
nobody is like spitting theverse.
Either that, or they don't knowit, or they don't know that
that's her.
I'm looking around I'm likedamn, I was really disappointed.
And people I'm like yo, that'sLauren Hill, motherfuckers.
Like oh, I wasn't recognizinghim.
Like yeah, cuz she looks goofybut still is.

(41:30):
So she spits that.
But then there was like a oncethere was a lot of audio issues
when she started coming out likethe DJ Kat fucking up the mic,
I don't know.
It was like it was like soundissues, right.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Yeah, they couldn't transition from from her, from
her verse to I ruled the world.
Like they had to stop it, thenstart the shit.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
She's like y'all see a whole lot of stopping and she
started going into her.
Yes, and I was gonna say that,like yo, I love Lauren, she's
still the queen, she's still togo to this shit.
To me, like she still, she'sstill that.
You know, I'm saying thatattraction.
That being said, she doesn'thave the voice that she once had
and she has a backup singer tohit the notes that she can't hit

(42:17):
Correct, which to me, you know,like she still has that
mystique in that aura, but stillit takes a way from it.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
But that's the whole song, is hearing her voice over
that and then you know when itcomes on, it's the backup thing,
it's doing it.
It's so weird.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
But so she does.
If I ruled the world and Ithink at one point now I forgot
his lyrics, or I don't know ifhe lost his voice the son cuz,
then Lauren, you know, startedfinishing it for him.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Okay, okay, I'm gonna .
I'm not gonna shoot him anykind of blame for that, because
you gotta remember I've beendoing this for a while and and I
became the headliner, so nowit's like an hour.
Yeah, it was a smooth hour.
Like it's a lot of shit,fucking shit to remember and I
mean you could be bright butdamn, you gonna slip some shit
and then she let, and then shelet, he let her cook a little
bit.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
She did a couple of Fuji song, she did a ready a
nine.
She did Fuji lie, lie, got torespect Jersey and I was like,
yeah, respect those motherfuckerand then she, I know, hold up
that, hold up.
None of Bronx relax and thenshe did, killing me softly or
whatever.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
I like I'm gonna give shout out to Havoc too for
doing the whole.
Have it came out by himself?
Yes, he did.
I like yeah, and I can telleven on the fucking live from
you know, you know shit, I heardit was going crazy for that
once that beat dropped.
We heard it.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Once Lauren left, nas did another couple songs.
I forgot what he finished itoff with, and then he, and then,
and then he bounced.
He was like I want to do thisevery year.
We're gonna be here again nextyear.
I'm like whoa, really I don'tknow if it's gonna.
It's not gonna be the samething.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
You know, I'm saying no, you're not, it's okay.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
And then we get one of those other 20 minute
intermissions and it's already 130 in the morning and I'm like
fuck, are we waiting for run DMC?
Like why would they leave thesemotherfuckers for last?
So about about about a time Nasfinished, everybody was leaving
.
It was like half the people,but it was just getting up and
later, like eyes, would we'redone?
Right, yes, run DMC comes outand they do all they.
They do my adidas, they do youknow, walk this way.

(44:10):
They did, and they hadAerosmith on the screen, like
the music video.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Fuck this way, king of Rock.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
King of Rock.
They did whose house runs howand they was giving out
everybody that was like on thefront row they get.
They handed our adidas.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Needless.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
There was people on the live stream that hold them,
the whole bright white Sheldon,and I'm like yeah and we didn't
see that from our vantage point,we didn't see the fact that
they handed them out, because heasked who, how many?
Let me see everybody that hasadidas and everybody hands, you
know, put some shit up in theair and my wife is like, how
come they all have the exactsame shoot.
I'm like, um, hmm, maybe theyhanded them shit.

(44:42):
I was sure enough they did handthem up.
They did there was some.
There was some people in theaudience yelling that run.
They was like yo, I ain't getone, I ain't get one.
He's like oh, you ain't get one, sweetheart, yo, let's get this
shorty right here.
Pair of Ditas.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Like what if you're gardening?
What?
Even your size, seven littlefor shit like I got.
You know, you saw my shit.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
So yo, everybody that was like Over 40 or even over
50.
That's that was they shit,that's what they was there for.
And they say, thesemotherfuckers got out they feed
and then stayed on they feed andturned the fuck up and there
they did, peter Piper.
What is it, peter Piper?

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Peter Piper, pick pepper and run.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
They did all that shit.
So, like I said they was, itwas on from like 120 to like two
in the morning.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
And there's my fear because fit, because hip hop has
aged 50 years and the thing isthat you can get an older crowd
to stay up latest fuck, way pasta general bedtime At two in the
morning to see, like theiridols, like like, no matter what
you say about run DMC, likethey are the rock stars of hip
hop, like if they go anywhere inthe world because of the age of

(45:47):
people, they're gonna sell outplaces because it's run fucking
DMC.
Now what I worry about in thefuture?
Hopefully that someone can takeup the mantle.
It'll probably be Nas, becauseI think he loves hip hop Enough
that he could be a legacy actlike he'll do this for the next
10, 15 years.
I know he got other sidebusiness, but he just loves this
shit.
He's not.
And then, no, not today, see,because Jay-Z the transmission

(46:08):
to be a businessman.
But you're not seeing Jay doingtours and things like that.
And no fault of his own, noproblem with that at all.
But with a guy like Nas, hejust he's born and bred into
this, he's from Queen Bridge, he, this is his thing.
So when you have people likethat to see run DMC up latest
hell to watch them Rock thesehits that was like integral to

(46:28):
their lives.
Remember hip hop, certainly 50,so that the audience and the
crowd that was there was in awhat Late 40s, early 50s.
So they've been there from thevery beginning, of course.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Man, that shit is, that shit's amazing and my
suggestion if they they're gonnado any more of these shows like
this, well, they're gonna haveso many headliners and so many
stars.
It have to have some type ofstructure, man.
You can't let everybody just goout there and do as many songs
as they want.
I thought they were gonna have.
You know, when I looked at thelist originally, I'm like
there's a lot of people.
They're gonna probably letpeople come on, do a little bit

(46:58):
of each other.
You know, do maybe a minute ortwo each and that's tops, and
then move on.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
We can rewind back to ever so we talked about.
We said they're gonna do two,three songs each and that's it.
Nice, back, whole ass sets.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Yo, these motherfuckers was doing three,
four, five, six songs each.
I'm like goddamn this shit aslong as hell, and I'll say this
is you know, this is the bestconcert of all time, but goddamn
, it was so long it has to be.
I don't know how long thoseWoodstock shows went for back in
the days, days right, but itwas different nights though.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
They wasn't staying till two in the morning every
night, I don't think but thething was like when it was in
Woodstock it was all the openwhat's up in York.
So basically they stayed.
The next day got up yeah, okay,okay, all right.
So we're gonna say it's a greatshow.
So let's say Nas runs it backnext year.
Who would you want to see on it?

Speaker 1 (47:46):
The people that I didn't see this time, like Jay-Z
Shit okay, dr Dre.
Shit okay and this person who itwasn't even mentioned.
They didn't even play a singlesong of this man and to me that
was a crime, it was a travesty,it was a tragedy that this
particular person was not evenmentioned at all or Recognize it

(48:10):
.
The DJs didn't play none of hissongs, not one.
And that would be EminemMarshall matters.
You're gonna, regardless of howyou feel about him.
He's been an intricate part ofhip-hop for the last 20 plus
years.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
So you want to get a show With Jay-Z, drake and
Eminem?
Bring them out.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
I'm saying you got to bring them out like, come on
man.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
That's my ass, I'm like.
Well when the last time, dre,before I'm out, like the Super
Bowl.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Oh when, when Wayne was performing, I was looked at
my wife.
I'm like you know it'd be crazy.
Right now Drake comes out,people will lose, they shit like
at least the women would.
But nah, he's probably too bigfor that shit too.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
No, and that's the problem I don't like.
That's.
That's the shit I don't likeabout hip-hop you can't outgrow
something that you are.
If you are hip-hop, you can'toutgrow it.
So the whole thing, when peoplesay like you know, you know
they too big for this shit, likehow the fuck you too big for
hip-hop.
We made you without, withoutthis, you don't become you.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
So yeah, I'll even throw Drake out there.
I mean, I'm not a Drake fan,but even him, he would have to
show up.
If they're gonna keep doingshit like this, you can't be
having the same old heads.
I want to.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
You know that ain't doing nothing like you need to
like the three main headliners.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
I would say Kendrick you gotta have Kendrick J Cole.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
Kendrick Cole, because you're a hell Wayne, I
would say what's, what's it?
Can I really honestly likeyou're not getting outcasts back
together?
But you need someone else toreference this out.
Maybe GZ, maybe we're all snow.
I want to the nest.
I think that's one of thethings that did piss me off
about.
The women said like I reallyhaving them out there is fine,

(49:46):
but I really wanted QueenLatifah like I Perfect.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Yeah, you got to have clean up.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
I, I Re at that point , at that, and again these are
people that she's from Jersey.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
You know I'm saying yeah.
Like you figure they're fromthe area.
Eve is from Philly.
Why wasn't she there?

Speaker 2 (50:00):
She was promoted to be there, she was yeah, but like
I said, she live in Englandlike she looks got a whole ass
husband and shit.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
He rich like, if you're from Jersey, if you're
from New York, I expect you tobe there.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
But like not but that , but having the Queens of
hip-hop thing and not havinglike Queen Latifah, like oh,
this is it, like I what?
Like I get it because you got akind of half we have, but like
not having her there at the 50th.
I'm saying she's doing someother shit somewhere else and it
got a bunch of If I 50 thingsgoing on but not having her
again.
He stayed him like nah, son,you got to do that.

(50:31):
But yeah, I think Kendrickwould be up there, jeezy would
be up there, maybe Gucci mainnot a big fan but I know he
matters to a particular Likesubsection of hip-hop.
But the whole thing is that.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
I would like to see fabulous.
I would like to see the wholelocks.
Oh, cameron, speaking of thelocks, a dip set.
Cameron was there killing andhe killed his set too camp.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
But can't pull it out like I didn't get can wasn't on
the bill I was gonna build itall right, it was another right
the decision and some are gonnacut my time to play sucker than
not All agree.
Cams great like.
Cut my time, fuck out of here.
Like DJs needs fun the shit.
I'm like.
I didn't expect to see camthere.
I would love to see like a dipset reunion there, maybe next

(51:14):
year, something else like that.
But I mean for what it was.
You can't complain about thisshit.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
No, no, it's gonna be hard for any.
Any other show that I go to thetop, this one for me.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
There's one thing I'm gonna complain about.
Melly Mel got calm the fuckdown.
That's unnecessary.
Like whether Eminem shit, likeI Appreciate that he's an older
man in excellent shape.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
He was in tremendous shape.
My wife was like who damn?
That's Melly Mel, old-schoolrapper.
He was like yo, he's anexceptional shape.
He was up there with no shirton showing his abs.
He's ripped like a motherfucker.
I'm like, yeah, thismotherfucker's in his 60s bro.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
I think on that TGT program he's on he's on more
than that.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
He's on HGH, testosterone therapy, all that
shit.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
HD TV, hbo, whatever.
He had all that shit.
I'm like I ain't never seen no60-year-old man.
Look this rip.
And the whole thing is likethis will be a celebration hip
hop.
You'll be a hating on Eminem,like like bro, like this ain't
the time, like I get it.
You want to start some shit.
When M's like, oh, melly, mel,this me like okay, cool, he's
probably went back in his hamsandwich and shit like that, no
one cared.

(52:12):
It was weird.
It's nice, when you come out,to come out and perform.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
But shout out.
I want to give a special shoutout to my man, talib Kuali.
He was actually sitting near us.
I got to chop it up with him alittle bit.
I got took a picture with him.
You can see that up on mysocial media as well.
Cool dude.
I thought him in most depthshould have been up there too.
Black star should have been upthere.
They got enough songs.
You know.
I'm saying if you have commonup there, I feel like most and
Talib are in the same categorywith a common.

(52:39):
Yes you know I'm saying thatsemi underground, semi conscious
rap like they're.
You know they're from New York.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
You gotta put, you gotta have the right set.
I think they, I think theyshould have been up there, but I
think having comment as, like,a representative of that era,
that was fine, like, and even ifyou want to do another one,
like you have, we would love tohave somebody like Kanye up
there, but he kind of lost hismind, so it's like it's not
gonna be a good look.
So, for what it was and forwhat they created, I have no
complaints.
That was a great show.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
It was a great show and then, of course, you got
that walk, that long walk backto your car.
So by the time I got home islike three in the morning, but
I've worked at a hip-hop man, itwas worth it.
50th anniversary the coach wasthere, it was dope.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Nobody handed out folding chairs.
No, hey, man, you know what Iknow we talked about before, but
you write me you might.
We got to do a video on thatshit.
That's hilarious.
Yeah, we gotta do that shit.
Yeah, could they was hand ourwhole ass.
Ass whooping left and right.
You saw scuba good in jr Comeout of left field.
I loved it.

(53:45):
That was great.
I'm not gonna hate on that shit, but yeah, we're gonna do
something about that.
But, but that's for anothertime.
We just want to celebrate andthank hip-hop for 50 years yes,
sir of existence.
It.
We don't this, this shit don'thappen here without that.
We needed that.
We like it, like, see it's.
It's a soundtrack to our liveseveryone else had, like Motown

(54:06):
or rock.
This is ours and it's stillactually pretty young.
50 years and not a long time.
It's still much more to do.
I'm trying to be positive aboutthe future.
I really don't like these youngpeople, but I'm trying to be as
understanding and supportive aspossible.
But we see how the the onesfrom the past put this all
together and just made a showout of all of this and people
just loved it.

(54:26):
It's a hard act to follow.
Maybe they do it next year?
Maybe not, but for now that's agreat show.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Yes, sir, and check out for some more reaction
videos.
We're gonna get into those andgo to the website of the culture
that one.
Check out our youtube page.
We're gonna start putting moreand more shit up on there, but
that was our show this week.
Check out next time.
Peace.