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Of course, Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.
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What's up, y'all? We're back with part two. Of course Love
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Supreme with the legendary Ice Tea. Yep, Ice
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gave it so much game we decided to make this a two
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part or so. It makes sense, you know, because ICE's
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Daily Game is a new podcast where he offers
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daily wisdom. Make sure y'all check out part
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of one. We'll we talk about Ices upbringing his music,
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and here's part two where I see to gives us
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a sample of that Daily Game. All
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right? Of course Love Supreme Part two with the legendary
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Ice Tea.
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How easy was it? And transitioning
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to acting, like did
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it take long for Mario
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to convince you to do New Jack City? You
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got great questions because first
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off, I'm not
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no motherfucking acting like I mean,
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everybody looks at TV goes I
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wish I could do that, But who has a chance
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to do it? You know? So I've been in the breaking
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movies and the breaking movies. I was called featured
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rap talker. How about that? Right? They
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didn't even know what a rapper was? Right? So
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you heard the story about New Jack City? Well,
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I know about George Jackson's coining
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the term, but please, please
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please. I'm in a
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toilet stall in
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a club and some niggas is
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talking shit to me in the toilet, I'm taking
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a shit. I'm sitting there, and
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motherfucker's was like, ice you cold man,
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you'll be telling this that. I say, your
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player. The problem is that they could take
1:29
a microscope and find one molecule
1:32
in my body that gave a fuck, then
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they'd have a chance. But there's
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not one. And so Mario overhears
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that and says, whoever said that? If
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are my movie? Whoever said that? And
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it was me. So I'm
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in the club campaigning to
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three girls, right, I'm
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I'm talking this ship to these chicks, and
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Mario comes up with the Hollywood bullshit.
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I'm producing a movie. I want you to be
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in it. I'm like that some bullshit
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like you trying to let these girls know you're a producer.
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Yeah, Mario don't. Yeah,
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but I knew quest. You know the
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Hollywood bullshit when somebody walks
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up in the middle of your conversation with
2:13
somebody, Hey, we should work like shut the
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fuck up, like you can find me
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if you want to work like this is so
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stage. So I'm like, okay,
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ladies, this is Mario Van People's Dotty
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Dotty. But he wasn't
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lying, so
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he hands me a card. So he calls me call
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Warner Brothers tomorrow. So I call it. They
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say come up here and blow. I come on this. I
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come through the gates. I get there
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and they show me the script. They want you to
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play Scottie. I read
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that shit quest. I was like, yo,
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this is all the words, like I
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thought it was a cameo. Nah, nah, this is
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a star. I'm like, I can't
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act, Yes, you can. I
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keep reading this. Niggas
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the Police, Yeah
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yeah, I got an album coming out called Original
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Gangster. You Wann't play Police? Wait a
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minute? Hoh whad he got dreads? I
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got a firm like everything.
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So I'm just totally like, na,
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no, I can't do this. But then I
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talked to people and they were like, man, if you fuck
3:20
up this. Back at the Beauty
3:22
Parliament where I got most of my game, I had
3:24
this hairdresser named Pearl and
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she said, you niggas running around here talking about
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no opportunities, no opportunities,
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and here's one, and you're gonna turn this
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down if you turn this down, you're
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a real live sucker, because this is a great opportunity.
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Niggas know you ain't the police, nigga,
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you better go up in there and do that gig
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and then I'll talk to my boys. They're like I
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said, man, they want me to play the police, and niggas be
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like, word can,
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I'll be in the movie. That's all they
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So I
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did the movie, and I was scared
3:58
shitless that it was going to end my career
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because at that time, no rapper
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had taken a dramatic role. Yet hold
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on, hold on, hold on, hold hold on,
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hold on, hold on, No, he's right, he
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is right Smith. The
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only thing run DMC did tougher than
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leather and all that old
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ship acting like somebody
4:20
else does not. Nobody
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was the first. I told you,
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I'm on my first ship. Usually
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the first one who's the pioneer never gets
4:31
the just desserts that the person that comes
4:33
behind them does. So that is
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risky that you want to be first. But I
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always see history as the second person
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that masters it. But I did
4:44
it, POC did it. Everybody started doing
4:46
it back in the day when when
4:50
being a rapper like you want to act
4:52
like you was betraying the culture, like
4:55
you. It wasn't. It just wasn't. At
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that time, rappers wasn't even owning their
4:59
own label. It was like rappers were very
5:02
in its own zone. So they
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got me, They got Chris Rock, who
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is the newest underground. You
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know. Kat Wesley had only done two movies,
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Major League and a Spike Lee flot so
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they didn't trip off this. They didn't
5:17
have enough black actors to make the movie.
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Now we could do Black Panther. There
5:24
were not enough young black
5:26
actors that had any potential
5:29
to pull a crowd. So they said iced
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tea selling millions of records, right,
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you know, and Alan Payne and Vanessa
5:37
Williams couldn't have done it alone, right,
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Astley Wesley.
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So they used the power of
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the rapping Me and Chris being hot on the
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street, George Jackson and Doug
5:49
McKenny. They put us in the row, and
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uh, the shit popped
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off. I was scared as fuck. The movie
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made eighty seven million dollars. I got
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paid twenty five thousand dollars. Wow.
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So by the time you get the trespass
6:04
and surviving the game and surviving again, Yeah,
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that's my favorite Ice Team movie that's surriving
6:08
game is the one
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about this the second movie with Ricochet
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with Denze
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Can I ask how how is
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Hollywood? Because the thing is now it's
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nothing for rappers
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like for people to pivot into other areas and
6:26
other mediums. But
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how's the reception to you coming
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into their territory? Hollywood?
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Simple? If if the movie you're in makes money,
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you're gonna be in another movie. That's his Hollywood.
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It's like his money. It's pimpant. If this whole
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can make me some money here, maybe you can make me some
6:43
money there. They don't. They don't care. You
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know. Uh, they can't really tell
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what great acting is. They can
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tell what the fan response is,
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so they that works
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cool. So you know, New Jack
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City was a hit in comes some scripts.
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Let's see if he could do it again. So I walked
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into Joe Silver's office, one of the biggest
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producers, and I said, okay,
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New Jack City. They fucked me right, but
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I know I'm about to get paid. I'm with Denzel's
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about to get paid that. The motherfucker looked
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at me and said, Ice Tea, You've
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done one movie.
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So I bent over and took it again I got
7:23
for for for Ricochet,
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I got twice what I got for New
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Jack City, and I didn't work as much.
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My pay day didn't come till I did Tank Girl
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where I played the roup lo
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Where was that in the Surviving the game? Trustpad, I'm
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trying to remember tank I'm where it was and it
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was tank Girl Surviving the Game. Then I
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Girl did
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Johnny Knewmonic with Keanu Reeves,
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and then I did I was doing Johnny Numonic
7:52
with Keanu Reeves and they called me, they
7:54
say, will you play a stripper in Arizona.
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I'm like, hell yeah, this is my
7:59
chance to hella what it looked like.
8:03
I was on slow. You've seen a riginal gangster
8:05
posters, so I was on my bullshit. So that
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night I did like a thousand crunches. I'm like,
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I'm about to let these ladies know what's happening.
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Right. So the next day
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they sent me a picture of a kangaroo. I'm
8:17
like, what the fuck am I stripper? Like? I opened
8:19
my pouch like, what the fuck is this?
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And they know it's a ripper. It's a kangaroo.
8:25
And the movie's called tank Girl, right
8:28
because you played a mixture. Yeah, you was a
8:31
right. You
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gotta understand. I'm with Keanu Reeves
8:37
doing a big motion picture. Now they're telling
8:39
me to do something called tank Girl as
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a kangaroo. Ye, Like, can y'all
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at your motherfucking mind? Like what's really good?
8:46
And then they told me how much I was gonna get
8:50
and uh, I was hopping around the
8:53
hotel, you
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know, because they're like, when you sell out?
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I see, selling out is when something
9:00
is totally against your beliefs, right
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when they can make you be quiet. I
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have nothing against fucking kangaroos. I have nothing
9:08
at all against them. So I was like, fuck this,
9:10
I'll be a motherfuck kangaroo and I
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got a bag for that. That's the first mill
9:15
plus role. I'll
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say that. You know, America's now just
9:21
adapted to festival
9:23
lifestyle, but you know, you're
9:25
a pioneer and the fact that you were one of the very
9:28
first acts on Lallapalooza, which
9:30
is really America's first
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true
9:36
I mean, I mean, besides you
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know, farm Aide or you know whatever,
9:41
but what was
9:43
that the experience of Lollapaluza, Like
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especially that first year where all
9:48
this stuff was brand new to American culture.
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There's always a story behind Ice t Ship.
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But I like people to know so they can get a true
9:55
understanding how this game is, because
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it's not as simple as that. Ernie
10:00
body Count was now just starting.
10:02
We were we were playing like pizza joints
10:04
and just getting getting a vibe for what
10:06
this band was. And Ernie
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had met Perry Farrell. Right,
10:12
Harry Carroll was doing a video
10:14
called The Gift where he wanted
10:17
someone to sing Nigga Whitey with him.
10:19
Slides sone shit, yeah
10:22
right. So Ernie says,
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Iced Tea, Iced Tea's hardcore.
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This is the perfect person. So I come
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to the video shoot. I know the song.
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I got no problem singing it with him, and
10:34
we sang nigga Whitey backup, gonna call me
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nigga Whitey, Don't call me whitey nigga.
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So we doing this shit. So after
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we did the video, he says, Ice,
10:43
I'm about to do a tour called
10:45
Lollapalooza. It's gonna have
10:48
butthole Surfers, Rollins
10:50
band. He was naming bands he wanted to get
10:53
and he said, I want to take a rapper out, would
10:55
you like to go? I'm
10:58
like, hell, yeah, hell
11:00
yeah. So what happened was I
11:03
had an hour set fifty
11:05
five minutes set, and then they said you
11:07
could do whatever you want, and I split the set
11:09
and I did half iced tea half body Count.
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That's where I introduced body Count to the world.
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And after I would do my rap set,
11:16
I said, now I'm about to prove to you that
11:19
rock and roll has nothing to do with color.
11:21
It's a state of mind. And we
11:23
turned the guitars up and blow and that
11:26
was it. You ain't
11:28
want to remind them rock and rolls aren't some gonna
11:30
jump anyway. So well, you know, hip
11:33
hop is rock, whether people want to claim
11:35
it or not. You don't aren't be the mic. We rocked
11:37
the mic, We rocked the house. Rock.
11:40
See, pop is when you sing
11:42
what everybody wants to hear. This is what I
11:45
learned this from Quincy Jones. Pop is
11:47
easy to do. Sing what people want to hear. Go
11:49
to school, love your mother, Da da
11:51
da. That's pop. Be popular. Rock
11:54
is fuck that. I'm gonna do
11:56
this shit my fucking way.
11:59
That's rock. Now, whether you do that with
12:01
pianos, whether you do that with guitars, or you
12:03
do that with a mic. Or some drums. Hip
12:06
hop is rock period,
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all right. I know, I know
12:10
you've been asked a trillion
12:13
times about the cop killer
12:15
incident, but why no,
12:18
No, I know, but you know, I also feel like that doesn't
12:20
define you, especially
12:23
now. But you know, you know what it
12:25
is though. You only get stripes for
12:27
fighting battles, you know what I'm saying. So I'm
12:29
very proud of my battles, you
12:31
know, because that
12:35
was a moment where I
12:37
could have got taken out, you
12:39
know, like not even just
12:42
my career. They were trying to get rid of a nigga,
12:44
you know. That's what I want to know, Like, how serious?
12:47
How rare did he get? The worst
12:49
ship was bomb threats to Warner Brothers where
12:51
they had to clear the building on several occasions,
12:54
or what they were threatening
12:56
to blow up Warner Brothers and
12:58
they had to clear the build holding on several
13:00
occasions on account of me because they
13:03
were getting bomb threats.
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Yeah, it got heavy.
13:07
Um who's
13:10
threatening because we're talking about the authority,
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So who is the threat? That's an interesting part.
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This is something you gotta understand with beef.
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If you create beef, you might
13:19
not have problems with the people you're beefing
13:21
with you have a problem with outside of let's
13:24
say hypothetically, I
13:27
gotten a beef with let's say method man, who's
13:29
one of my good friends. I ain't gotta worry
13:31
about running the meth. I could run into some wu
13:33
tang things. I could run into somebody
13:36
who who who loves him
13:38
at a restaurant. I could run into some girls
13:40
that fuck you ice. It can happen. So
13:43
when you just the cops, you can run into somebody
13:45
whose brothers a cop, an X cop,
13:47
somebody who's just you
13:50
set up energy of beef out
13:52
there. You don't know where it's gonna You never just
13:54
beefing with one person, Yeah right, you're
13:56
beefing with their fans,
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right every fucking so
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I was, you know when we did cop Killer
14:04
and they made it a big thing by it becoming
14:06
so public, it gave more people
14:08
a chance to dislike me. You
14:11
know, it wasn't a small thing. It went
14:13
national. Now you gotta understand
14:15
its levels of news, Like
14:18
all this shit's on the black blogs, that's
14:21
nigga news. That's that news. You
14:23
you ain't gonna know about that, But when it
14:26
makes it to CNN, that's national news.
14:28
Follow what I'm saying. So a lot of this I
14:31
gotta do it. I gotta do a parallel, folks. It's kind
14:33
of like, well, Kerann, I gotta do the white
14:35
parallel because we can't just do nigga news. We gotta do
14:37
cracker news too. So yeah, I just
14:39
yeah, okay, I got you though. But
14:42
the certain blogs that we listened to,
14:44
yes, right, yes, if
14:47
you talk to somebody in the mainstream,
14:49
they have no idea that such
14:51
and such as beat or they
14:53
don't know about that stuff. TMZ
14:56
starting to leak a little bit of our business
14:58
out there. But you who's cheating
15:00
on who? They don't care that makes
15:03
money? Right? National news
15:05
is coming on right after the war, and uh,
15:07
you know Ukraine, Warren
15:10
Roukane, now I see you and Warner
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Brothers. This is now. Now you're in front
15:14
of the world. This is big shit. So
15:17
you gotta know, like a lot of the stuff
15:19
that we take as
15:21
big isn't really that big. It's kind
15:23
of like cultural, you know,
15:25
and it hasn't really made it to the to
15:28
the main stream. This ship was big. The
15:30
President was on my bumper, you
15:32
know, we were let me date myself.
15:35
We were playing techno bowl quest
15:40
and my boy comes downstairs,
15:42
like, yo, the president is on TV talking
15:45
about ice and we ran
15:47
upstairs and Quail
15:50
so the ice to you. So Quail's
15:54
like ice to you, And
15:56
all the homies in the house was like, oh
15:59
shit, oh
16:01
shit, oh shit. See,
16:03
very few people will ever
16:05
have a living president say their
16:08
name and anger. That's saved
16:10
for like terrorists and been laden
16:12
and shit like that. When the president
16:15
is mad at you, fuck the police,
16:17
you have the United States government on
16:20
your bumper. I got tax
16:22
audited twice that year. I
16:24
had ice cream trucks sitting in front of my house
16:26
in the middle of the winter. These motherfuckers
16:29
is on you. They're trying because
16:31
when a president says questlove, this
16:34
guy's a problem.
16:37
All the FBI, DA, all of
16:39
them do background checks because the next
16:41
question could be what do we know about him? They
16:43
can't say he plays on Tonight
16:45
Show, he's a drumming, his
16:47
shoe size, is this, his blood type?
16:50
Is this? This happens? When that happens,
16:52
you feel it. You
16:55
feel the government looking
16:58
you up and down to try to find
17:00
out because they had to check and seat. Was I really trying to
17:02
make a call to arms? Was I telling people
17:04
go kill the cops in my problem, which
17:07
I was, and I was just making a record. Oh wait,
17:09
did you did you feel vindicated because
17:12
Rodney King happens a year later? No,
17:15
they blamed Rodney King on me. They spun
17:17
it to make it seem like I made that record
17:19
because of Rodney King. I got
17:22
caught in a big It was a it was a
17:24
political year of the Paternal
17:27
Order of Police out of Texas. Spun
17:30
it. They spun it and made it
17:32
seem like I caused the riots. They
17:34
they they was on a bullshit.
17:36
They had a big machine. But see here's
17:39
the trip. They weren't really mad
17:41
at me. They were mad at Warner Brothers because
17:45
they were like, Okay, we understand
17:48
iced Tea should be mad, but why
17:50
White company give
17:53
him the platform to say this? And
17:56
that became the death of Warner Brothers.
17:58
You gotta remember when I did that. Warner
18:00
Brothers had Prince, Warner
18:03
Brothers had Slayer,
18:05
they had the Ghetto Boys, they had Sam
18:07
Kenniston, they had anything that was
18:10
edgy. And that
18:12
ended, and and and and when
18:15
the last thing was when they dropped the deal with
18:17
Interscope, when that was all happening, when
18:19
Ted Turner came in. Warner Brothers had
18:21
to separate from anything controversial,
18:26
costing me. I started to wow.
18:28
But for a second, did it feel like your bag was about
18:30
to stop in terms of like people were not take
18:33
were you losing roles? Where you? Yah?
18:35
New Jack City Part two? So
18:38
there was going to be a sequel? Yeah?
18:41
I didn't know that, me neither, but
18:44
Nino lived. Well wait,
18:46
you knew this about? Yeah? I saw,
18:48
I saw George Jackson and they they
18:51
did an interview. This was years ago, but
18:53
they mentioned it then, but
18:55
it never But what happened was Wesley
18:57
went off and he did Demolition
19:00
Man and made seven million, and
19:02
you know, I was in trouble. So now
19:05
they can't hit Wesley's number because
19:07
the whole movie knew Jack was made for five million.
19:10
Everything happened, but now
19:12
you know I got You know what happened though,
19:15
It's like when you get in some shit
19:17
like this. I never pointed
19:19
in any other rappers. I never pointed
19:22
in any other rock groups because I'm like, Yo, this
19:24
is my heat, and you know, to me, that's
19:26
kind of like like snitching. It's
19:29
kind of like, Yo, you got caught, nigga, handle
19:31
your business. Take it. This is your ship, so
19:33
you never seen nice? But what about this group or
19:35
what about now? I'm like, okay, you on me, let's
19:38
go fuck it. But
19:40
the way they came at me, I
19:42
didn't know if I was gonna survive, you
19:45
know what I'm saying. But I just had to stand my ground
19:47
and I and I remember I met with Minister
19:49
Farkhan at Honorable
19:51
Elijah Muhammad's house and
19:54
in all honestly, he just told me, he said, yet
19:56
what you did wasn't subtle. If you stand in the
19:58
street, expect to get hit by car. So
20:01
I had to learn that we have freedom
20:04
of speech, but watch what you say and
20:07
you have I had the right to sing cop killer,
20:10
but they also had the right to attack. So
20:12
anything you say, prepare for
20:15
the ramifications of what you say.
20:17
And I was not prepared for the ramifications.
20:20
I was just singing some shit and I wasn't
20:22
ready for them to attack. So that's
20:25
a lesson. You know, you
20:28
could say anything. We all have the right to
20:30
say anything, but you also gotta
20:32
be if you say something anti gay, be
20:35
prepared. You did what I'm saying, if
20:37
I mentioned any rapper's name, be prepared.
20:40
So just gonna be reckless
20:42
talking and shit and think there won't be no smoke,
20:45
you know, And if I do say it, I
20:47
should be ready for that smoke, you know. If
20:49
I'm Colin pack Happernick and I dropped
20:52
down and I'm gonna hop pull a kneel, I
20:54
gotta know that NFL is gonna make a
20:56
move on me, and I gotta be strong enough
20:59
to handle that. Or I shouldn't
21:01
do it. They don't do it, you know,
21:03
So don't don't protest and get fired.
21:05
And now because you got fired, because
21:08
to protest you gotta you gotta be prepared
21:10
for the hits. There's gonna be a hit back, or you're not really
21:12
protesting nothing. So I
21:16
had to drop some gyms there for us. I
21:22
wanted to ask about the Home Invasion record
21:25
because that one came on Priority. Um
21:27
what led to that change from Warner
21:29
to Prity because after Cop
21:31
Killer, Warner was
21:34
scared to put my records out. So
21:37
what happened was I came in
21:40
with Home Invasion because now I'm
21:42
consecutive. I had every record I put out
21:44
with Gold and a power
21:47
term Platinum. I'm hot over there.
21:50
But they just went through some shit. Body count
21:52
itself now if so, it's so gold
21:54
twice. It went gold with cop Killer
21:56
and went gold without cop Killer on it. I'm
21:59
making money over there for them. And
22:03
I came in and
22:06
they had my lyrics written on these
22:08
big boards. They wrote
22:10
it out. They
22:12
was and uh,
22:14
I had some foulet. I had this one rhyme
22:16
in G style where I say I give
22:18
a fuck about a cop or a G man. They
22:20
all talk shit, They're breath smelling like seamen.
22:24
I catch them in the alley all alone. Put
22:26
him in the prone pop pop pop to
22:28
the dome. So I'm still killing cops,
22:30
right, I'm
22:34
sorry, you know that's that's
22:36
what I do. So they pull
22:38
this lyric out, that lyric out, this lyric
22:41
out, and I was just like, you know what,
22:43
can I go? You
22:46
as to go? Yeah?
22:48
I said, can I go? Because now I'm in a difficult
22:50
place. They never a and R at any of my music.
22:53
It was just good go body.
22:55
Counter put out an album called cop Killer.
22:58
I love it over there. I'm in a great play, but
23:00
now should change. So
23:02
Home Invasion was coming right after cop Killer,
23:06
so they let me go. Was
23:11
Benny Medina part of any of these meetings
23:14
Benny Medina was the A and R
23:16
guy back in the day, but he never A and RM me
23:18
because he was Warner, not uh
23:20
not sire. Benny
23:23
was a good cat up there. He did the uptown
23:25
thing. And Benny was always a friend
23:27
of mine, and he was cool with me. Okay, but
23:31
I'm dealing with Moe Austen and Lenny Warnaker.
23:33
I'm dealing with the top guys, and
23:37
they were They really didn't want me to go, but
23:39
they were. It was kind of like it was a fucked up
23:41
situation. I was getting them in trouble
23:44
and I'll never forget they would like, as soon
23:46
as we allow them to censor you, we're
23:50
up here, We're up
23:52
shit Creek and and and Warner stayed
23:54
down with me, even um Gerald Levin wrote
23:57
a big thing in the in the Wall Street
23:59
Journal, the CEO
24:01
of Time Warner backing me up.
24:04
And I just felt like,
24:06
it's kind of like me and you were friends question and
24:09
I'm getting you in trouble, man, And I'm just like
24:11
looking, no,
24:14
no, I'm just gonna bail man. I got because I
24:16
gotta still do me. I got, I
24:18
gotta It's like Dave Chappelle, I
24:20
gotta go because I gotta I
24:22
gotta do me because my career
24:25
is based on my integrity and I can't
24:27
have y'all sensor and my shit. So
24:31
I'd go to priority. Brian Turner
24:33
did NWA and all them. They were still opening
24:36
wide and they were ready and they took the record. But
24:38
I'll tell you what Warner did and nobody knows
24:40
this. They didn't charge me for
24:42
the album. So normally,
24:46
let's say they gave me half a million dollars to
24:48
make that album. That was a lot of money back in the days.
24:50
Now people are getting threes and five millions
24:52
to make records. But any half a million,
24:54
I didn't have to recoup it. They
24:57
let you keep your tapes and just go to Yeah,
25:00
So that was that was fly. They
25:02
didn't say, hey, you could take this album, but
25:05
we gotta get the money back. They just let me have it.
25:07
So I took it over there, and
25:09
um, I was fighting
25:11
with the source, and you know, the
25:13
source was talking shit because
25:17
they yeah, they said I folded.
25:19
They were like ice gave in, and you
25:22
know, and Chuck kept me saying because
25:24
Chuck d said those that aren't in the war should
25:26
never come in on the battles they don't
25:28
and what the fuck is really going
25:31
on in here? Yes, that's
25:33
why. On the record you like Home
25:35
Invasion, the first song is called It's
25:37
On. And that's why I
25:39
was like, Yo, we can't take any cut
25:41
off the products. You know what we're
25:44
gonna do. I I still got soldiers,
25:46
you know, turn up to Mike Dog so I can
25:48
go off. Find me Charlton Heston and I might
25:50
cut his head off. You know, I'm not
25:53
to be fucked with. I was on my bullshit.
25:55
I was mad, you know, and you
25:58
know I say, uh, worst magazine.
26:00
You're the first one you tried to disc Chuck
26:03
Cuban me how to fuck you? Pick
26:05
us three? You pump motherfuckers. Ain't
26:07
shit. You just a bunch of holes making
26:09
money off the pros. And when I see
26:11
you get you in my sights, I'll give you
26:13
as a story to write. It's On. So
26:17
I remember how
26:19
how shocking was it for you?
26:22
Some like nineteen years later, the
26:26
sort of live
26:28
through ninety nine problems now
26:30
becoming you
26:33
know, kind of an anthem. I trust
26:35
that you're one of the publishers of ninety
26:37
nine problems. Yeah, and you know what it is
26:39
quest Now everybody's trying to turn that
26:42
into beef. It ain't beef. It's it's
26:44
no, it's no beef. It's a story, and
26:47
the story I never knew there was beef.
26:49
I thought he credit I thought he sampled you or
26:53
covering the song. The
26:55
new podcast people like to take clips
26:58
of what you say and then switched.
27:01
It looked like jay Z stole the
27:04
song. No, he cleared it. Can't
27:06
do that. Did.
27:09
Chris rock Ever tells that story on his
27:11
episode nine nine. Problems come from
27:13
Brother Marquise, Right, and
27:15
Brother Marquise was at my house and he was
27:18
talking about whoop there it is? You know where that record
27:20
comes from the
27:22
original one
27:25
from Tag Team? That's
27:28
the canoe. I'm ready. It was all
27:31
right. Tag Team was the where the DJ's
27:34
in Magic City? Okay,
27:36
And when the girls been over, they
27:40
say, and you've seen it, they say, whoop
27:42
there it is. That's
27:44
where it came from. Okay, that's where it came from.
27:46
When you could see the coach who
27:49
it is? They
27:52
turned that into the song. So Marquis
27:55
is sitting in my house and he's like, man,
27:57
all the nights I sat in Magic City
28:00
and they saying that shit nigga.
28:02
That was the phrase. It pays
28:04
man. So he's talking. Then
28:06
out of nowhere, he said, man, I got nine nine problems.
28:09
A bitch ain't one though, and
28:13
he said it. I said, that's a song.
28:16
So I made the song. You
28:18
know, I gotta hold from the East, I gotta hold from
28:20
the West. I gotta hope from Alabama with a
28:22
pussy in the chest. So I'm saying, so
28:26
I make the record. And then Marquise did a
28:28
verse right fun. It
28:30
was on Home Invasion. Those icy
28:33
fans knew it. The legend
28:35
goes Chris Rock was in the studio
28:37
with Rick Rubin when
28:40
and they had Jay coming in and they brought
28:42
that song up to be remade. The
28:45
song was remade. They paid
28:47
publishing publishing with M I
28:49
had a deal with I
28:52
think Universal Publish
28:54
A point seen money
28:56
gone. That was it. That's
28:58
how it happened. So I'm at
29:00
the Grammys, jay
29:03
Z walks up to me. He's like, Iice
29:05
you know, I love you, man, I love you because I met Jay
29:07
way back with Big Daddy King brought him
29:09
through back in the day when he was with
29:11
Jazzo, right, So I
29:15
got love for jay Z. I'm you know,
29:17
so Jay's like, you know, they say, man, I'm
29:19
like, dude, I'm not mad. This is the press
29:21
they pushing this shit like that. It's
29:24
like you know what. And so I was talking
29:26
to him and I was like, well, Jay, you know, you know you
29:28
did the record, but at the end of the record, you could have said,
29:30
I you know, like
29:34
my nigga like yeah, but you know
29:37
we laughed it off and stuff. But yo,
29:40
I mean, you know it's what it is. It's hip
29:42
hop. Look, I just told you I was influenced by
29:45
ye think about that, like everybody
29:47
don't automatically do what you do that way.
29:50
Yeah, but you know it's all it's all
29:52
uh yeah, it's out in the
29:54
open now. I think. Also on that record,
29:56
he used one of Bunb's lyrics
29:59
to um from U
30:01
g K. So you know, it's
30:04
a technique, it's a style, it's something. It's jay
30:06
Z. Jay Z's a super rapper, like shit,
30:10
you know, it ain't like he can't write rhyme.
30:12
If he doesn't he wants to. He just feels like throwing
30:14
some other flavor in there. I love Jakes. I
30:17
mean that's the spirit of hip hop. Like you gotta take a
30:19
little bit of this, a little bit of that, and build
30:21
something. Yeah, something new to it.
30:23
Is there anything that you have yet
30:26
to accomplish that you want to that's
30:30
interesting, That's a really good question. Um.
30:34
I mean you've done everything, even fatherhood. Yeah,
30:37
I mean you've done fatherhood. But no,
30:41
no, no, But I mean like
30:43
you're a new person now with you Dart like you
30:46
absolutely, Yeah, you're You're a new person.
30:49
Your Muhammad Ali said when a man has a child
30:51
in the second half of life, after fifty's,
30:54
it hits a reset button on his life. And I've
30:57
gotten healthy, I have a reason to live.
30:59
She's a whole new your right quest.
31:01
It's a it's a brand new life for me.
31:04
Yeah, I gotta live forever. I
31:06
decided I'm not gonna die. I checked
31:08
out my my schedule. I'm booked till one
31:10
hundred so and I ain't seen no funerals
31:13
on this. So I've been around here. I got some shit to
31:15
do. I want to ask you too, man yo. Cherryos
31:20
Yeah, yeah, like Cherry
31:22
all the commercials because you know Carshield
31:24
car shields cards go far. And
31:27
you know, I said, I was,
31:29
I was, I was watching Shack. It's
31:31
official watching shock,
31:34
and he said he had never spent money from the NBA,
31:37
you know, all endorsements. And
31:40
I was like, fuck yeah,
31:43
I need some fucking endorsements, you
31:45
know. So I called my manager.
31:47
I said I need it. I need a
31:49
commercial agent. They won't fuck with you.
31:52
You the cop killer, it's corporate America.
31:55
I was like, yo, man, fuck that like
31:57
seeing somebody ah fuck with me. And
32:00
the first commercial I got was the Geico the
32:02
iced tea reading signed right and
32:07
everybody brace for impact like there's
32:09
gonna be an outcry. But see, this is
32:11
what's happened. The guards have changed
32:14
exactly. The people that are in charge
32:16
now are like forty eight year old CEOs.
32:19
That's how we were able to do the Super Bowl. The
32:21
people that were so scared of emineminem
32:24
are gone now and our fans
32:26
are in charge. But Ice. You don't want
32:28
to give some of that too to like Sergeant
32:30
tu Tuola, because Tutola has
32:32
changed a lot of that too. Whatever
32:35
whatever has done it. I just think it's
32:37
just that the new people love
32:40
us. They loved Snoop Dogg. They grew
32:42
up with us, so there's no fear of us.
32:45
Right now. We have to put a Cereal out with
32:47
Ozzy Osbourne a bat Cereal
32:49
and the and the parents would think it's
32:51
funny. The kids wouldn't get it, you
32:54
know. So so I get
32:56
I start getting these commercials. I get that,
32:59
uh Tide calls
33:01
me. Yeah, I'm like wash
33:04
ice Cold wash Yeah, but it's
33:06
gotta fit. Yeah, what
33:08
what do I got to do with that? They say, Washington
33:10
Ice Cold. I'm like, cool, Okay,
33:13
stone Cold, Steve Auson's in it. I'm in I'm
33:17
I'm like stone Cold, I'm in it. Seems
33:19
like so cool that, like the homie is just like
33:22
I just happened to be watching the commercial. My homie Ice Tea
33:24
was doing it, Like is that real? That's mister
33:26
Biggs, mister Old Sonic
33:28
Force. He's from New Yes, that's one of the ogs
33:31
or hip hop. Yes. And card
33:34
Shield. The agent calls
33:36
me. They say, they know you got a lot of cards. It's a
33:39
warranty company. It's basically this, you
33:41
know, would you do it? I'm like, yeah, fuck
33:43
that, Yeah, cool, I do it. And I
33:46
said they gave put insurance on some of my
33:48
my other cards, like they're fuck with like
33:50
Mercedes Bands, Range Rover, they fucked with
33:52
that. So I got a card shield and I
33:55
done. I done. Yeah, Biggs called me
33:57
up to you, man, I fucking card
33:59
shield because I'm see you on TV. You know, transmission
34:02
went out. Man, they fix that s it's
34:05
official. I was like, hold
34:07
that thought. I called them. I said, I got a real
34:09
testimonial from one of my homies. Y'all got
34:11
him out and they said we'll put him in a commercial.
34:13
So they put him in a commercial, paid him and gave him
34:16
lifetime card shields and
34:19
Cheerios was just I'm like, how do I
34:21
fucking feel with Cherios? You're older,
34:24
you're in great shape, you're still touring. Cheerios
34:27
is for hearts want
34:29
to be And I thought of a
34:31
nigga like me on a Cheerios box,
34:34
Like, like, some of this shit honestly
34:36
quests all this thing I'm going
34:38
through right now. My life is
34:41
beyond my wildest dreams
34:43
getting a star, Like really all
34:46
the reason shit I did up in Hollywood,
34:48
Like how many times I've been laid
34:50
flat on them damn stars? Like the
34:53
shit is crazy, man, But you know what it
34:55
is, I'll tell you it is. It's it's it's inspirational
34:59
because you
35:01
can make a change in your life, and
35:04
America loves a comeback. They
35:06
love a comeback. If you if if
35:08
you you could have been on drugs, you could have been fucked
35:11
up. But as long as you honestly got
35:13
your life straight, they will root
35:15
for you. But
35:19
don't fuck up again because the large
35:22
your ass like trash because they rode for you
35:24
the second time. Right, So
35:26
I'm on my best behave ice
35:34
before you go. Can I just ask one two two old
35:36
a question? At least? Like can I just I'm
35:38
in my house. You got plenty of time. I'm just going
35:41
hey, because some of us have watched,
35:43
like we are faithful and we have watched your evolution
35:45
and congratulations on being sergeant, and also condolences
35:48
my brother on losing your friend Richard Belzer.
35:50
Yeah, like we
35:53
watch. We watched all together and even behind
35:55
the scenes, we watched your friendship. So wait
35:58
a minute, Oh, but weren't
36:01
you responsible for I put
36:03
it out there that I wanted to be a dead body on the
36:05
show. One
36:08
of y'all made it happen. I did, Thank
36:11
you. I forgot y'all. I'm a dead body
36:13
on Law and Order. No, we saw it, So
36:16
okay, So my question is most challenging
36:18
storyline on SVU, but
36:21
too too old for I see. The
36:23
requests came in from quests and then got
36:26
on the on the grid up there, and
36:28
then the line that of course I'm the black
36:30
guy, so they go Questlove
36:32
wants to be on the show. What's he like? That's how
36:34
they always ask, like they don't they want to
36:36
bring someone on the show, but they don't want it to be Prima
36:39
Donna. He's extra. I
36:42
say, he's a great person. I mean, Yo,
36:44
if you got a chance to put quests on the show, Joe
36:47
Bow so I can't go, I co
36:49
signed you because they don't know they bring a nigga
36:51
out there, nigga might wild out.
36:55
Yo. Snoop came up there and smoked the whole
36:57
place out. Yeah that's true.
37:00
You just gotta know. So all right, So
37:02
back to my fan out question. Though it was their
37:04
most challenging storyline, I
37:07
appreciate. I just want to say how Utuola
37:09
has became an amazing grandfather to
37:12
his gay son's husband's and
37:14
the children and whatnot. But what has been a challenging
37:17
storyline for you in this journey? Anything
37:19
that does with children bothers me, you
37:22
know, I mean, I got a problem with, you know,
37:24
pedophilia and all that old,
37:26
weird, old shit. I don't. I
37:28
don't rock with that. I don't. I don't think street
37:31
cats fuck with that. That's just
37:33
real. You know you're not gonna
37:35
do well in prison with that. You know. You
37:38
know what the definition of pedophilia is.
37:40
M. It means you're into
37:43
things that are preprovescent. M.
37:46
That's nasty. That's nasty.
37:49
So anytime we're dealing with that
37:51
kind of shit, I personally got an
37:53
issue with that shit. That's nasty to
37:55
me. And uh I got
37:57
on that show and the storylines are
37:59
so crazy and so dark and so weird,
38:01
but they're real shit. It's real stuff.
38:04
So um, I'll
38:07
tell you funny when like one season I
38:09
come back and they tell me you're getting
38:11
married, I'm like, to who like
38:13
Phoebe? I'm like, who's Phoebe? That's
38:16
the girl from three seasons ago that
38:19
wasn't going to hook up with you? So when
38:21
did we get together? Over COVID? The
38:24
fans know it, so I
38:26
had to talk. It wasn't kind of suffusing.
38:28
Shout to Jennifer Esposito. I'm I'm mad. I know
38:31
everything that goes on in the show. But I'm glad you
38:33
Jennifer got engaged and we've let
38:35
that rock out the whole season. Then we didn't get
38:37
married. But do you get us saying like the
38:40
direction that your character goes not
38:43
really? I mean, I'm
38:45
I've learned to add quests, so I don't
38:47
really care where my character goes as long
38:49
as it doesn't die, you know, because
38:54
where it's like, okay, we gotta talk to
38:56
you or go to dinner. Like, how do you know if your character
38:58
is getting because not shot,
39:01
you get shot, I mean you get shot in the script
39:03
and you see your shots. Then you go like this, oh shit,
39:06
okay, breathe, I'm breathing on tape. Shit
39:09
I survived at you know. But um
39:12
no, there's a producer or Lauren
39:15
Order we call the grim Reaper. If he takes
39:17
to dinner, it's a ra. So
39:20
when you get taking to dinner, you already know. Yeah,
39:23
I'm I'm gangster with them. You know.
39:25
I signed up with Dick Wolf and I'm like his
39:28
ride or die. I've been on five shows with Dick
39:30
Wolf, right, so he understands.
39:33
And I when I told them on
39:35
some real shit, I said if y'all gonna get rid
39:37
of me, give me six
39:39
months advance so I could book a tour or
39:41
something. Just don't do me. Don't just do
39:45
me that. I deserve that, And now
39:47
being the longest running actor in television,
39:50
they owe me that, you know, you
39:52
know, so I'm like, I'm
39:55
good with them. I told Dick Wolf straight up. I
39:57
told him, I said, I'm on the show to the wheels all
40:00
off. You know what I'm saying. I'm
40:03
there. I don't have no plans in leaving.
40:06
And you know, all things come to an
40:08
end. We weren't getting ready to start to twenty fifth
40:10
season, and at
40:13
some point it'll be over, and then I'm
40:15
just gonna go out and refall Samuel Jackson's
40:18
parts. Boys
40:20
really going to be over. I think that
40:23
show is basically built to last. Well,
40:25
as long as you are, Mariska, to be honest, That's
40:27
what I was warning. I was like, you are, Mariska. I feel
40:29
like, as long as y'all are, there is
40:31
there at least an outside of the
40:34
show a relationship between you and Mariska as well.
40:36
Yeah. Yeah, I told Mariska's
40:39
point blank, I say, in my life, I have three
40:41
women. I have my two daughters and my wife.
40:43
But I've made more money with you, Marishka.
40:46
So you've got to understand where you
40:48
stand in my life. Me and Marishka twenty
40:51
five years. That's longer than you went to high school
40:53
college. Who
40:56
you know that you like, like Quest
40:58
has been with Jimmy every day. When you start doing
41:00
the places where you're with somebody every
41:02
day for years and years and years
41:05
and years, that's like,
41:07
I think I've had a longer consistent every
41:10
day relationship with Tariq
41:12
than my my parents, like my
41:14
family, anyone. You've seen him
41:17
more than all of them. Yeah, that's
41:19
why I said, And I thought about this, I see. I was like,
41:21
what does it ic feel like to know that, like, he's been
41:23
a cop longer than he's been at MC. I
41:26
mean, were you're always gonna be at MC, but longer
41:28
than you've been making records. I put it that way. The
41:30
thing is, I've been acting like a cop. I'm
41:32
not no motherfucking cop, that's right, tell
41:37
like a cop. But you know, the thing
41:39
of it is is that if if you hire
41:42
if you hire a street cat to
41:45
play a cop, you get more of an official
41:48
cop because the cops it's
41:50
really are really thugs, right, you
41:52
know? So the way they handle
41:55
theirselves. If you get a square he and
41:57
he acts like a cop. He acts like a rookie cop.
42:00
But as the cops get older,
42:02
they pick up the lingo. If you ever dealt with a
42:05
DA you'll swear to God you're talking
42:07
to drug dealers. If you ever talk to a mob
42:09
cop, you'll swear to God you're talking to somebody
42:12
to mob. They pick up the lingo.
42:14
So Dick Wolf was like, if
42:17
I cast Ice as a cop, you get a cop
42:19
with an interesting dynamic. When
42:21
I'm interrogating somebody, you
42:24
you the viewer, feel
42:27
like Ice about to smack the shit out this nigga.
42:30
LP. Yes, now here's
42:32
something for you. Acting like a cop
42:34
and a gangster are the exact same
42:36
acting. It's both
42:39
of you got a gun, both
42:41
of you got an attitude, and both of you
42:43
say if I don't get what I want, there will be a
42:46
consequence. So it's an ad it's
42:48
an energy that is
42:51
gangster. But you just have a bad
42:53
same shit. So a lot
42:55
of times when I'm acting, I'm not thinking like a
42:57
cop. I'm just like, yo, motherfucker, you gonna do what
43:00
I want you to do. I'm gonna
43:02
fucking fuck you up. I
43:04
love watching that. I just love watching
43:06
you. I really do, I really do. I just
43:09
I think for your fans that we just love an evolution,
43:11
even where they where you are in the police force.
43:13
Now, beauty of it is for me and LLL
43:16
is that our fans have matured
43:18
with us. So you probably
43:21
with us when we were wrapping, and now you
43:23
know you're you. You're not necessarily
43:26
listening to the hip hop like that anymore. But you've
43:28
grown up and your mother's and this, that
43:30
and the third. But we're still
43:32
the people you grew up with. Yeah,
43:35
our fan base has matured with us,
43:38
so that. But it's also seeing y'all as whole men
43:40
too, like seeing you show, feeling, seeing
43:42
you all the things. It's just beautiful
43:45
to watch, even if you are acting. But I know
43:47
that when you will on your house, some of that stuff goes
43:49
home too, some of me. Yeah,
43:52
speaking of a home and uh like your
43:54
marriage, man, how did you make that transition
43:57
from being in the streets to you know,
43:59
going straight? Yeah?
44:02
Yeah. The thing of it is is that when
44:04
a woman meets the right man, it's the right time.
44:06
When a man hits the right time, he'll
44:09
be ready for the right woman. Oh shit, yeah,
44:12
that's sure. So men we're
44:15
kind of like no good up to thirty
44:17
five years old because we have
44:19
to go through the same thing they went through. See,
44:22
women, they mature earlier
44:25
because at seventeen, if a girl's
44:27
hot, she's in the club, she's
44:30
she's living the life we can't live. Yeah,
44:32
in the car with the forty year old niggas, right
44:34
right, I think about it. I didn't
44:36
get in the bins until I bought one,
44:39
you know. So they mature,
44:42
they mature much faster because life
44:44
opens for them earlier. When
44:46
you see all these girls in bikinis laid out
44:48
on the yacht. Them bitches don't
44:50
own that yacht. They're on this because take cute.
44:53
We can't get on the yacht. Right,
44:58
So the life happens for the But here's
45:00
the problem. Here's the problem. When
45:02
y'all is slowing down, we're just taking
45:05
off. Yeah at
45:07
twenty seven, when the woman sees thirty
45:10
and she's like, I need to slow down and figure it out.
45:12
The guys just getting his bag and
45:15
so it's a stagger with us.
45:18
So what happens is I
45:21
had a girlfriend, Darlene, who
45:23
was on my covers, and me and her were like together for fifteen
45:26
years. But I never got married because
45:29
I already knew what kind of nigga I was, you
45:31
know, still in you know, moving, Yeah,
45:34
I just becoming famous. Rule one,
45:37
don't marry nobody. That's just getting
45:39
at the beginning of fame. Yeah,
45:42
yeah, it's you
45:45
never it's it's an onslaughter pussy
45:47
and you just have to weather that shit. And
45:49
you think, anyway, what
45:53
happens is when I met Coco, when
45:55
I can make a Coco, I was forty two
45:58
years old and
46:00
I was done. I've been to the theme
46:02
park, I've been to everything, I've done this and
46:05
now I was ready, and you know,
46:07
I needed to find somebody. And since
46:10
she had matured earlier, she had been running
46:12
when she was seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty
46:14
twenty one, so when I met her, she was kind
46:16
of done. And and
46:19
the words of Pimp and Ken one damn bitches
46:21
worth ten funky hos, you know what I'm saying. So you
46:24
know, at some point I chose
46:27
and and and fortunately it's stuck like glue.
46:29
We've been matter for twenty two years and
46:32
crazy man, it's beautiful. It was. It
46:34
was just it was just the
46:37
right chick. You know. She
46:39
she liked me, and
46:44
like when I met her, I had on a red snakeskin
46:46
suit. Oh you
46:48
know I was. I was on some players ship
46:50
and a video. She's like, oh, that's five
46:53
let cocoa fund. What's she wrong? What about California?
46:56
Okay, okay, she could do that, Okay, but she
46:58
but she liked this.
47:02
I'm too much for most girls. They like, they
47:04
gave me herded out of your work
47:06
mouth is pimping ho and bitches. And she's
47:09
like, oh, oh top ten shit. She
47:12
liked she liked me. So
47:15
I finally found a woman that really accepted
47:17
me right, and I liked
47:19
her. She was always you know, she's out there,
47:22
you know, borderline exhibitions.
47:24
She likes showing herself. She's fun and I
47:26
dig it. She ain't right for everybody.
47:29
So a lot of times people would come to me and go, we'll
47:32
give me some advice as I
47:34
can. I can tell you how. I can tell you how
47:36
to be married to my wife. I can't tell you how
47:38
to be married to your wife. I
47:41
know what it takes to make her happy, but I
47:43
don't know what you might be dealing with.
47:46
So but you know, we always say
47:48
men settle where they find peace.
47:52
And my wife does not argue, she
47:54
doesn't raise her voice. She's
47:57
very peaceful, she's very nice
47:59
and week and she has
48:01
me happy, has me wanting to stay in the house
48:04
and play video games. And she's enough for
48:06
me. And uh, what you play? What games?
48:08
What games you want? What you'll be on? Oh? Yeah,
48:14
first person shooters? Oh okay, you
48:16
the shooters? Okay, gotcha? But um,
48:18
you know one thing about relationships,
48:21
don't brag on them because you'll jinx yourself.
48:23
Oh god, you got a priest this word. Come
48:25
on. You
48:27
know I'm in a good place.
48:30
But I mean, you know, you ever noticed, like when
48:32
you watch basketball wives, none of them are really
48:34
the wives. Yes,
48:38
because the wives aren't doing no fucking
48:40
interviews. The wives are happy, they're
48:42
in the mansion, they're doing great. They
48:44
don't want to talk. They're like x
48:47
wives running their motherfucking mouse. But
48:50
go to somebody's wife and in life,
48:53
don't talk. I don't want to talk about it, so we'll
48:56
just I'll keep it quiet. Everything's good
48:58
on the icy front. I
49:01
love it. Wait time out, Steve do
49:03
you remember our fourth
49:06
day at Fallon. I
49:09
forget which writer ran in
49:12
to ask me. I forget
49:14
the writer, but she ran and says, I'm
49:16
here. Do you know who iced Tea is? And I
49:18
was like, yeah, no iced Tea. And
49:20
they wanted me to broker, like I guess
49:23
one of the one of the Fallon writers had
49:26
maybe Morgan maybe
49:28
I forget what it was, but like
49:31
she had, she had snarked a comment on Twitter,
49:35
and they wanted us
49:37
to translate the roots, like what does
49:39
this mean? Like should I run out of state
49:41
or should I was like, no, it's I
49:43
forget what your response was what
49:47
They were obviously not used to playing
49:50
the dozens or any of that sort
49:52
of thing, and from
50:00
it's a Twitter though you know it's Twitter, It's like
50:02
yo, whatever. I
50:05
was my fourth day of Foulon,
50:07
literally, like I just remember
50:10
having to walk in the writer's
50:12
room and calm this person down, like, okay,
50:19
right, exactly does not mean it
50:22
means eat a dick? All right? So whatever?
50:25
You know what, man, people they don't
50:27
know how to really respond to certain people.
50:29
They don't know what's up. They don't you
50:31
know, people come over my house. They expect to see
50:34
people hanging off meat hooks and ship understand
50:38
because they pick up a persona from you. They
50:41
might just listen to my records. They might listen to
50:43
body count. They don't know who I am
50:45
really you somebody daddy like you
50:47
a whole like do you know me better
50:50
than some they're They'll take a
50:52
small thing and my
50:55
whole persona. You know what I'm saying, So you
50:58
know it is what it is, man, But you
51:00
know, let me do my shameless
51:02
plug, please. I could check
51:05
on the daily game. The daily game was
51:07
something that I would do
51:10
on Twitter because when I first
51:12
got on Twitter, I realized it was mob
51:14
rules, and I said, you have to get a crew. You
51:16
got to get people to fuck with you. So I
51:18
needed something to make you go back to my
51:20
page. Because Twitter is
51:23
nothing but a chat room. It's
51:25
a chat room. It's going right now and
51:28
talking back and forth and then this million
51:31
person a multimillion dollar million
51:33
person chat room. If you follow quest,
51:35
that means I'm interested in what he's
51:38
saying versus everybody else.
51:40
But if you have a timeline
51:42
with a thousand people, this tweet just
51:46
shoots. So the only way you really can make
51:48
Twitter work is if I go to
51:51
your page, like, I'm gonna go see what the Quest said
51:53
today. So I crate up this thing called The Daily
51:55
Game and it's just jewels I got
51:58
from players, and uh, iHeartRadio
52:02
dug them and said, hey, why don't we turn
52:04
this into a podcast. So the podcast
52:06
is iced Tea's Daily Game. It's on Spotify,
52:09
and every day I drop a jewel
52:11
and then I break it down like what the lady
52:13
wanted Quest to do. So
52:16
you know shit like if it's if it feels
52:18
like you're going in circles, it's probably because
52:20
you're cutting corners. You understand me, you know, so
52:24
that these
52:26
are these are little tidbits
52:28
I got from different players and different people.
52:31
And I quote Aristotle,
52:34
Socrates, all
52:37
kinds of different people, Tyler Perry,
52:40
I quoted Jimmy. So anytime
52:43
somebody says something, I'm like, you know, we call it
52:45
a jewel. Hold on, So
52:48
tune into the Daily Game. You can tune
52:50
in once a week and hear like five of them, and
52:53
uh, I did a year's
52:55
worth. I recorded two hundred and fifty
52:58
of them. Took about four sessions,
53:00
and four sessions, uh six
53:02
hour sessions, so twenty four
53:04
hours yo. Before we go. Man,
53:06
you gotta talk about Chappelle show Hater's
53:09
ball. Come on, go on. You
53:14
get a call from Dave Chappelle. Certain niggas
53:17
call you, you show up. You did what I'm saying,
53:19
Like I ca Quest called me, I'm
53:21
gonna show up. Certain people got that
53:24
Dave Chappelle is one of them cats. Right,
53:26
So you get the call Dave wants you to be in
53:28
a skit. Hell yeah, I'm in a skit.
53:30
So they say it's the player haters
53:33
ball. Just wear something you'd wear to the players ball.
53:35
Oh, the red snakeskin
53:38
suits. But I was glad that the same the
53:40
same one I had on when
53:42
I knocked Coco who that
53:46
was a winner Chicken dinner, that was that was a run.
53:49
So I threw that on cloud And
53:51
then they get my hair on the set. They said, don't do
53:53
your hair. We're gonna curl your hair on the set.
53:56
And remember they had me sitting
53:58
down there talking shit what it was, and
54:02
they just threw the script at me and they just said you
54:04
hosting. I'm like, I'm hosting, and
54:07
uh, they just said just get up there,
54:09
and they had a few things to say. And you
54:11
know, I invented that hate hate hate,
54:13
because you go when you go to the real
54:16
players bar when they get the awards, they say,
54:18
pimp pimp, pimp pimp right, you
54:20
know, pim pimp, pim pimp porade.
54:23
You know, so that's what they do. So I just turned
54:25
it into hate hate hate. That was ad lib
54:28
and uh it
54:30
was legendary. And recently I did a we
54:32
did it where we were a Game of Thrones
54:35
and we showed back up and we did the player
54:38
haters showed up on the Game of Thrones. Wow,
54:40
skit me ashy Larry
54:43
and I was what
54:45
was he called me? You got memories? Um
54:48
Patris O'Neil. He was in that skit rest
54:50
in piece. Did jall kind of go
54:52
back and forth more than what was on the air. It
54:54
was wild, Nah, niggas talking crazy
54:56
the whole skit, Like, yeah, it was going back and
54:59
forth and those are comedians, so they
55:01
bagging and uh, you
55:03
know when out of
55:05
nowhere they're talking shit about me, I said, next person
55:07
time and stuff. I'm talking about getting shot, believe
55:10
you know. So we
55:13
were just going back and forth. My favorite one
55:15
is I got to go home and put some more milk and buck
55:17
nasty dish shit them.
55:22
Oh yeah, that was yeah, like
55:25
you got the shark teeth say
55:27
you don't like to shine, but the nigga looks shotted
55:29
at me, you
55:32
know. As one of my favorite sketches, bro I
55:34
was. It was one
55:36
where you finally got to see cats
55:38
just talk shit the way we do and
55:41
it was fun. And you know, rest
55:43
in peace, Patrese Charlie.
55:46
You know it's
55:48
cold, man, those cats ain't with us, and it's
55:51
legend, you know. But
55:53
you know, Dave Chappelle is that guy, like
55:55
I said, we did like I was light skinned, Larry
55:58
Targarian and the last
56:00
skin you should have you seen
56:02
that one. I saw you do one, but I
56:04
forgot what context I saw it, and
56:07
I don't know after we get off
56:09
go to YouTube and put player haters
56:12
s and now yeah, ok, yes
56:18
that ship was wild. Yes, you
56:21
know I saw it. Anyway,
56:23
man, I've just been fortunate, you know, and
56:26
and and you know, I'm as big a fan
56:29
as anybody else to be in this business.
56:31
You got to be a fan too, you
56:33
know, it ain't all about you.
56:35
So I'm I'm I'm
56:37
in all a certain cats, and you
56:40
know I don't have a problem letting them know that, you
56:42
know, So you know, I'm just here
56:45
for the ride. Man, here's a jewel you ready?
56:47
Yeah, all right? I see. You don't
56:49
guide life, you ride life. Nice
56:52
tea ladies and gentlemen don't guide
56:54
life. You ride life. There's no way
56:57
any of us would ever imagine we would
56:59
be where we are right now today doing
57:01
what we do. So you just got to take
57:03
the opportunities that they come and take
57:05
it for that ride. And you know, who the fuck
57:07
thought I'd be on television or on a quest love
57:10
podcast, and you know, all this stuff
57:12
is just a part of the ride, man. And
57:16
who knows what toll happened next year? Man, you
57:18
know, so we're just gonna keep riding this ship.
57:22
Oh it's afraid of this. I just want to give you all
57:24
the us like, thank
57:26
you, brother. You're a beautiful woman,
57:28
you recognize you know, as funny as
57:30
cold man. My boy Rich was like yo ice
57:33
when you met Coco, all you was really looking
57:35
for was a bit to understand what the fuck you
57:38
was saying. That's it. That
57:41
understood what she's saying, man, And you know
57:43
she does. And God bless her
57:47
for this, God bless you, and and
57:49
and and everybody on the podcast.
57:51
Man go man. The
57:54
hate is so hate is
57:56
so rabid right now, you have to
57:58
embrace the love. You gotta embrace
58:01
it because it's so when someone shows
58:03
you love. Man, hold
58:05
on to that straight up. Now we
58:07
love you broke straight up, your legend and this ship man straight.
58:10
Thank you so on behalf of Unpaypal,
58:13
Fantigolo, Sugar Steve and
58:15
l Yea this quest Love the
58:18
Almighty the legendary Iced
58:20
Tea on Questlove Supreme. Well, thank
58:22
you very much for doing this and we will see you
58:24
guys next go round. Much
58:44
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