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2:45

Yes, lion. Oh, man, so

2:47

many things we got to get

2:49

into today. Now, first off, Brooklyn

2:51

is coming up. You're going to

2:53

be at the Barclays, two sold-out

2:55

shows. It was so crazy, they

2:57

had to add one. They wanted to add

2:59

the third. I'm like, no. We're not, we're

3:01

not, we're not going to treat

3:04

feet. Can't do a treat, no.

3:06

three back-to-back exactly I'm not doing

3:08

that we just do it back-to-back

3:10

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3:12

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3:14

that have to like cancel shows

3:16

rope off part of the stadium

3:18

but you they actually had to add a

3:20

show for you yeah yeah that's too easy

3:23

man remember I put the work in over

3:25

the years the catalog is big that's right

3:27

the fun business is big and the

3:29

people miss me I haven't been here

3:32

in a minute let's talk about Brooklyn

3:34

anthem How many times you think you're

3:36

gonna do that song? Several. Several times, at

3:38

least five. And that's what the people say.

3:41

Make sure you know the song, word for

3:43

word, from start to finish. I'm like, I

3:45

wrote the song. Right. Come on. Yeah, but

3:47

it's gonna be crazy. And everybody's pulling up,

3:49

I know. I can't even imagine what type

3:51

of guess. I mean, because a lot of artists

3:53

live out here too. Yeah. I know, come on,

3:56

this is New York, man. Yeah. Yeah. So a

3:58

lot of lot of artists coming up. You know

4:00

what I mean? A lot of people are

4:02

going to pull up. You did the summer

4:04

card yet? Yes ma'am. Is it being debuted

4:07

or something or? Yeah, definitely. I

4:09

don't know when, but it's coming. It

4:11

should be at the Barclay. Very soon.

4:13

I'm not sure. Maybe that's too

4:15

soon, but it's definitely. We need

4:17

a snippet or something, like a

4:19

little snippet. You gotta do that. Yeah,

4:22

you're gonna go viral. My

4:24

manager has it. If he

4:26

wants to drop a snippet,

4:28

it's angeles. Come on. Let's

4:30

get it. Let's go viral.

4:32

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Way up!

4:34

That's it. Now listen, oh, champagne?

4:36

Yeah, I respect. Yeah, I'm on

4:39

a liquid diet. Okay, I see that.

4:41

And I also saw what you've

4:43

been doing for the economy

4:45

with your rum. Yes, it's

4:47

crazy, right? Right. I had

4:49

a run before I got

4:52

arrested. I went to prison.

4:54

And that did well too. But

4:56

this one? People are going

4:58

crazy over this. Crazy. I'm

5:01

telling you man. One of

5:03

them is a ramping shop.

5:05

I recommend that for you.

5:07

Okay, why for me? Because

5:09

it got that biggarten and

5:11

it's got that thing for

5:14

the ladies that that get

5:16

them going. Yes. Um, I want

5:18

to take it back a little bit.

5:20

How was it, how was it doing

5:22

at time though, bro? Like, because I

5:24

did time, but when I did time,

5:26

I wasn't ever in, I wasn't in

5:28

the industry. You was already a

5:30

huge artist. Yeah, true that. How

5:32

was that doing time like that? I

5:34

mean, prison is prison, man.

5:36

Regardless, but, you know, I mean,

5:39

just, it's Jamaica, so, you know, but

5:41

yeah. I mean, I, I was in

5:43

prison, I was rocking, rocking the Rolex,

5:46

rocking the Rolex, So it's kind of

5:48

different. Right. But it was a dungeon

5:50

still because it's not like an American

5:52

prison. Yeah. You know I mean we

5:54

still didn't have toilets in the cells

5:56

up to a point. I remember when that

5:58

was a big story. The toilets, you got

6:01

to shit on newspaper and wrap

6:03

that shit up. Because the other

6:05

problem is also that, you know,

6:07

aside from that Graves' disease. Yeah,

6:09

I'm still suffering from it now, too. So I've

6:11

been to it, man, but. What are you going

6:13

to do, cry? No, you've got to just pull

6:15

your pants up and push, man. That's it. Yeah,

6:17

I remember when the story first broke, because I was, you

6:19

know, on air, and I was talking about it here, and I

6:21

was like, this is crazy, like, that you had to go to

6:23

jail. But how was it to be able, when you found out,

6:25

you were coming home? Because that had to be like, I don't

6:27

know, what's about to happen? Like, like, when they said, yeah, yeah,

6:30

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's said, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's

6:32

free, he's free, yeah, he's free, he's free, yeah, yeah, he's free,

6:34

he's free, he's free, yeah, he's free, yeah, he's free, he's, he's,

6:36

he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's I'm

6:38

from Jamaica, I'm from the ghetto,

6:40

like we don't get excited easily.

6:42

Like we gotta open the gate

6:45

and when I walk out, that's

6:47

when I know I'm out. So you gave the

6:49

time back? Yes, basically, yeah, they

6:51

gave me the 35 years, I gave them

6:54

back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, trust me. So that's

6:56

why I'm here now. You know what I

6:58

mean? I'm free, my record is clean.

7:00

So I don't long have a conviction

7:02

to be clear. You know what I

7:04

mean? So I'm out, I'm blessed. God

7:06

is the greatest man. We're just doing

7:08

it. I see all these dancehall artists now

7:10

finally being able to get their visas

7:13

too. And it's a huge deal because

7:15

it's nothing like being able to travel

7:17

and tour to connect with people in

7:19

that way. Not just to connect with

7:21

people, but to get the money. Yeah, we

7:24

never forget that. Yes, that's what I'm saying

7:26

because that's what you work for at the

7:28

end of the day, right? You work to

7:30

collect that bread. So it. bounty killer,

7:32

you know, that's my boss.

7:35

He got his visa recently

7:37

too. So he's back in

7:40

America. Mm-hmm. See? Everybody's in

7:42

bounty back? Yeah, he's back.

7:44

He's in Miami. Right now, he's

7:47

in Florida. Yeah. Were you

7:49

watching the verses in Florida?

7:51

Yeah. Were you watching the

7:53

verses in real time? Yes,

7:55

in prison, of course. That

7:58

was the best versus. That

8:00

was crazy. Big up to Swiss, man.

8:02

Like, that concept is, yeah. If you

8:05

did that, who would it be? Moveda, Moveda.

8:07

He did it already. Oh, that's

8:09

right. Yeah, I mean, come on.

8:11

Yeah, that would be crazy. I

8:13

remember that. That was a wild

8:15

time. Wild, man. And it worked.

8:17

Looking back in hindsight, it did. It

8:20

was good for the music for the

8:22

culture. It pushed us both as artists

8:24

as individuals and it spread the genre

8:26

further to places like Africa like So

8:28

it was it was good for the

8:31

culture. I think it's kind of like hip-hop

8:33

too. The beef is good for the it's

8:35

good because it does create like for you

8:37

to create Yeah, exactly you got

8:39

it now go deep so the

8:42

art improves right right right because

8:44

it's competitive even spice spice just

8:46

put out a dis record you know

8:48

for but it actually is doing really

8:50

well spice this everybody that's the queen

8:52

like spice go in every time I

8:55

see her I always think about you

8:57

when I see spice I'm always like

8:59

I do every time you'll see about

9:01

whenever I interviewed her I always would

9:03

be like how's vibe you spoke to

9:05

vice because I know you guys even

9:07

while you was locked up doing music

9:09

together. And you guys would like that

9:11

and she always would shout you out.

9:13

Ropping shot when I first started on

9:15

the Breakfast Club, when I first started

9:17

here, that song was in such heavy

9:19

rotation. Yeah, that was a huge

9:21

song. You actually said it. When

9:23

you were talking about me years

9:25

ago, when you were doing the

9:27

breakfast club, I was watching it

9:29

from prison. And you were saying

9:32

the same thing, like, yo, when the

9:34

ramping shop came out. That was

9:36

my song. Yeah, that was, yeah,

9:38

fire. I remember that specific, yeah.

9:40

And I'd be going back in

9:42

the very beginning of it. I

9:44

was like, oh, you probably can't

9:46

say that. And I used to,

9:48

I was like, yes, it's a

9:51

real place. I don't call it

9:53

like a motel or something. Yeah.

9:55

So we go on that around

9:57

me. Yeah. Round with me. Yeah.

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Based on the February 2024

13:19

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13:25

gotta talk about everything else

13:27

going on too, like this

13:29

wedding. Definitely. Okay, because

13:31

it's been pushed back. Yeah, because

13:34

it should have been February

13:36

31st. Stop it. Exactly Just because I'm

13:38

busy. I'm all over the place, but she's

13:40

here with me Okay, she's in in the

13:43

hotel right now. I don't leave her. She's

13:45

my good luck child That's great. Even the

13:47

whole story of how y'all got together a

13:49

lot of things that happen in your life

13:51

is just like so I think you need it's

13:53

giving destiny Yeah, it is it's giving

13:55

destiny because people were a little I

13:58

think people are protective over you So at

14:00

first people will be apprehensive about

14:02

somebody because they didn't know her. Yeah,

14:04

yeah, they went in on her. Yeah, they did.

14:06

She was a Fed. She was CIA. She was

14:08

a fucking man. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's, that

14:11

was the last one. Like, it's, she was a

14:13

man. Like, it's crazy. The wedding is wing.

14:15

No, we haven't, because she has a big

14:17

family. I have a big family. I have

14:19

a big family. So we have a

14:21

big family. So we have to plan. We

14:23

have to plan. We wanted to plan. We

14:25

wanted to do it. We wanted to do

14:27

it. We didn't know that I was going to

14:29

get the visa so quickly and things were going

14:31

to escalate like that because I'm all over the

14:33

place now. But that, but I really heard her.

14:35

Yeah, so, July 26th. That's what I got to

14:37

get into that. He was like, I got to

14:40

talk to Vives because Maino's getting married. He don't

14:42

have a bride. But he said a date already.

14:44

But he don't know to who. So I'm just

14:46

putting it out. He's looking for someone.

14:48

I'm getting the ring. I'm getting the

14:50

ring. I'm getting everything. I'm just setting

14:52

it up. Manifesting. The falls. The, the,

14:54

the, the, the, the when to set.

14:56

Oh, that's crazy. Is that the cake?

14:58

No, this, well, I want to

15:00

get a couple of these. Oh,

15:03

my gosh. But I just got

15:05

to find a bride though. That's

15:07

deep. I like that. Yeah. I

15:10

don't believe it. You don't believe

15:12

it? No. He just wants, yeah.

15:14

No, you should be. You got

15:17

to put it out there because

15:19

for years I've been saying I

15:21

want to settle down. Yeah. I

15:24

got, but I got to take

15:26

steps to do it. Come on. Focus,

15:28

man. Yeah. Now I want to ask

15:30

you this, because fever is your biggest

15:32

song, but romping shop to me is,

15:35

if you had to say what's bigger,

15:37

fever or romping shop, what would you

15:39

say in that argument as a

15:41

crossover song? I'll say, it depends. Because

15:44

remember, certain places you've gone

15:46

in the world, Clark's is my

15:48

biggest. Oh, Clark's. Pop kind.

15:50

Certain places you go with summer

15:52

time. Right, summertime is my joint. When

15:54

I go running in the park, that's

15:57

my little running song when the

15:59

weather's breaking. They had their own

16:01

version of this movie. And only

16:03

the Africa, a million bucks with

16:05

Swiss was my biggest song in

16:07

Nigeria. Oh wow, okay. And if

16:10

you go to South Africa, it's

16:12

probably something else. Right. Right.

16:14

That's how it goes, but

16:16

yeah. But those are the

16:18

top contenders, like you said,

16:20

the rumpinshop, the summertime, the fever,

16:22

the clerks. Yeah. But so I

16:24

wouldn't choose one, because it

16:26

depends. Did Clark do a deal with you

16:29

for that song back then? Or they wasn't... I

16:31

mean, remember when we did that song, we

16:33

wasn't looking for a deal. We were just

16:35

singing about how we live. Right. But then

16:37

it became... Exactly. Then it became big and

16:40

I went to prison so I didn't get

16:42

to capitalize. Okay. But to some extent, popcorn

16:44

did. So when I came out. They

16:46

haven't spoken to me yet, so I just

16:49

go Louis all the way. No, you know,

16:51

when I used to work for routine, they

16:53

were real big on the clocks too. Yeah,

16:55

I know. And they ended up doing

16:57

a deal. Yeah, they love the

16:59

Wallabies, especially. Yeah, they love Wallabies,

17:02

man. Shout out of these. The

17:04

Fox is a classic culture. in

17:06

Jamaica, like, Jamaican culture,

17:08

like fashion. You know, I

17:10

think about even, not even just

17:13

wallabies, but those other clocks. Yeah,

17:15

the desert. That's the most popular

17:17

clocks in Jamaica. Yeah, I just

17:20

thought about that. I think about,

17:22

like, you know, in Flatbush and

17:25

Crown Heights, back in the days,

17:27

everybody had clocks on it. Yeah,

17:29

man. That's too loud already, man.

17:32

Wow. That's too easy. But

17:35

coming

17:38

home, the

17:41

first stop

17:45

was

17:47

of

17:49

course,

17:51

vagina.

17:53

Okay, yeah,

17:56

vagina.

18:00

That's

18:03

great

18:06

though to

18:10

see

18:13

because

18:15

you know

18:19

what you

18:22

might have

18:27

been

18:29

But it's a different type of like

18:31

when you get to have conversations

18:33

before you get to see each other and

18:35

really like that to me. Yes. So me and

18:37

her is like real friends. Right. Right.

18:40

Right. Right. Before anything else we were

18:42

friends. Like I said we spoke for

18:44

four years before I was like come

18:46

visit me. Right. Then she came to visit

18:48

liked everything. She went back and then

18:50

I was like, you know what? I'm coming

18:52

out. Come to Jamaica. Come live. And

18:55

I just flew her. The wedding in Jamaica too,

18:57

right? It'll be in Jamaica. No, we wanted to

18:59

do it in England, but she has a big family.

19:01

A lot of them are in Turkey. I have a

19:03

big family in Jamaica. So it's just a time. And

19:05

like I said, we didn't know I was going

19:07

to get the visa so quick. and I'm

19:09

all over the place. I mean, they didn't

19:12

play with you. Exactly. So, they just gave

19:14

it to you off the road. Yeah, very

19:16

easy, man. So, because like I said, once

19:18

I came out, I came out different. I

19:20

came out positive. I came out preaching love

19:22

for goodness. Come on, determination. My story is

19:24

an amazing one. It is. That's a

19:26

movie right there. Exactly. So there was

19:29

like, man, go fulfill your destiny or

19:31

destiny or whatever. And I appreciate that.

19:33

And I'm not doing anything to mess

19:35

that. So yeah, we are, but definitely

19:37

this year won't pass as long as

19:39

I have breath. We're getting married this

19:41

year. Okay. And like I said, she's

19:43

here. Yeah. You know what I mean?

19:45

So I don't leave her out. Now I know

19:47

you always talk about Ninja Man as

19:49

one of your first inspirations. And I

19:51

see he has an appeal. Yeah. As

19:53

well. So we're keeping our fingers crushed.

19:55

Yeah, I think he's gonna win it too.

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