LIVE FROM BALTIMORE! Fat Joe & Jadakiss talk top 5 albums, MJ vs. LeBron & more w/ Mayor Brandon Scott & Gov. Wes Moore

Joe and Jada

Fat Joe and Jadakiss host a high-energy live episode in Baltimore, featuring an interview with Mayor Brandon Scott and Governor Wes Moore. T

Key takeaways

• Governor Wes Moore highlights the rapid 11-week recovery of the Key Bridge channel following the tragic collapse.
• Fat Joe shares his 'invisible train of success' philosophy, emphasizing the necessity of taking risks in the music industry.
• The group engages in a heated debate over the top five rap albums of all time, including classics like 'Illmatic' and 'The Chronic'.
• Mayor Brandon Scott and Governor Wes Moore discuss their collaborative efforts to keep Baltimore standing upright.
• Fat Joe recounts a humorous story about Busta Rhymes helping him avoid coach class on an airplane.

Main topics

• Baltimore Renaissance
• Top 5 Rap Albums
• NBA GOAT Debate

Notable quotes

The invisible train of success... it looks scary, but you got to believe in yourself and take that risk.

Conclusion

A celebratory intersection of hip-hop culture and local leadership, em

Transcript preview

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I hear you can almost hear the eyelashes hit each other. You've never seen Italy so quiet as when the Pope gets up to wink on Halloween. Listen to Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 7 (1:10) Lisa, tell them about our new show. We have a new podcast. It's called Don't Lie to Me. I'm Lexi Iwano. We're two best friends, 22 years apart, but so close at heart. And I'm Lisa DiGiulio, the old one, which means we have wildly different references, occasionally different opinions. And at this point in my 50s, I've lived it all. Now in my 30s, being the founder of New Shoes, good taste is my business. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 7 (1:41) Self Speaker 8 (1:42) -care September is your reminder to slow down, check in with yourself, get off your phone and maybe ask. Why am I like this? I'm Gemma Spegg, host of the Psychology of Your 20s podcast, and this month we're helping you make sense of the person that you are becoming, from setting boundaries and navigating friendships, to understanding anxiety, confidence, relationships, and attachment. Sometimes our biggest decisions, without us even realizing it, aren't driven by what we truly want, but by what will prevent us from feeling lonely or being alone. Listen to The Psychology of Your 20s on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 2 (2:23) It's what we do. Jay-Z, Beanie, Freeway. It's what we do. That is my go-to song anytime I'm trying to get high. Even though Speaker 1 (2:32) what we do is wrong. Yeah. When the junk come up. I done win it. Hold on now. It's a cold winter. Y'all better bundle up. And I'm probably about to fuck up with us. You rocked Speaker 8 (2:44) it, Speaker 1 (2:44) dad. Get hot now. Listen up. How do you know top soul person is just to lock us down? It's the only way to keep. Speaker 5 (3:13) Yo, what's up, y'all? This is Joe Crack the Don. Speaker 3 (3:29) You know who it is, your boy Jada. Speaker 3 (3:35) You know what it is, the Joe and Jada show. Every show legendary. Every show iconic. Ain't that some shit, huh? This is probably the most, this is very iconic right now. Speaker 5 (3:53) Yeah, every time we try to do a live show, you turned it down. Jada said, nah, we ain't ready. We got to promote. Chill. Speaker 1 (4:07) That's the world. You're going to start the show off capping? It's the truth. Speaker 5 (4:12) You Speaker 1 (4:13) said we wouldn't promote. Speaker 5 (4:14) In any case, this shit sold out, man. Baltimore, man. Speaker 1 (4:19) Baltimore. This shit sold out. He's lying, Baltimore. Speaker 3 (4:28) I never said, I never turned anything down. I just said it had to look like this for us to do a live show. Right. Speaker 5 (4:39) I'm here, man. I'm happy to be here. Shout out to you guys for supporting us like that, man, coming out like that. It means a lot to us. You know, we had an idea. Believe it or not, we pitched Joe and Jada Speaker 1 (4:54) to... Who we pitched this shit to? They sick right now. I don't know what you're talking about. Speaker 1 (5:03) The way this came Speaker 5 (5:05) about, right, we both signed to Roc Nation and they was like, yo, y'all should do a show together talking sports, hip hop. So we went somewhere to try to get the show and they was like, nah, I don't know if it worked. Not right now. And so we took Madison into our own hands and we just created the podcast. Speaker 5 (5:27) Thanks to you guys, this shit, number one. You know these motherfuckers, let me tell you something, man. Y'all want Joe Cracker, y'all don't want Joe Cracker, this motherfucker. Let me tell you something, man. Speaker 5 (5:42) These motherfuckers is flabby as sick out here, these other podcasts. Them motherfuckers looking like dinosaurs right now, man. You see that shit? Every day, Kirk Franklin, Mary J. Blige, Cardi B, this. Them motherfuckers is dizzy. Let me tell you something, we putting them out of business. Speaker 3 (6:04) Talk your shit, man. Speaker 5 (6:08) You said some shit on the show the other day. I caught it. I went home. I watched the show. This guy be killing me from the sideline. Pause. Sideline. Pause. Speaker 5 (6:24) I got to go back and watch the show. I'll be like, yo, this motherfucker, man, caught me. He's sniping me like shit. You know what I mean? Hip-hop music, Jada. We don't really deal with negativity. We don't really deal with what's the shit going on. We don't bring you on our show so we could be like, yo, we heard you got a mistress. Yo, we heard this, we don't do that shit. And you see, by the outcome, we trying to show everybody we can get this done the right way, preserving hip-hop culture, but in a positive way. And so that's what we doing out here. And the people said, yo, we fucking with y'all. Speaker 3 (7:13) I just want to thank y'all because he could have been anywhere in the world. But for this kind of turnout, for Joe and Jada's first live show, I need y'all to make some noise, Baltimore. Speaker 1 (7:26) Baltimore. Speaker 3 (7:27) Crazy. Speaker 5 (7:29) Legendary town. Baltimore, legendary town. Let me tell you something. I came out here in the 80s. I was the only Puerto Rican in the town. Let me tell you something. That motherfucking police threw me up against the wall like 10 times in every hour. I came, my man Rich, I said, yo, keep this shit, man. I gotta go. I'm gonna end up in Baltimore jail, bro. Fuck that. And yeah, everybody in New York was like, yo, it's so much money. But I came over here. They threw me on the wall about 100 times, man. And one day I said, no, fuck that. I was sticking out like a fucking sore thumb. Speaker 5 (8:09) Where you was that? I don't know somewhere down here. We came down here. I'm sorry, you Speaker 1 (8:28) know my shit real Where you was that? Let me tell you something It's subway Speaker 5 (8:34) out here in Baltimore. He's Speaker 1 (8:36) serious Fuck Speaker 5 (8:42) I know Let me tell you something. We making a lot of money in this podcast, but it's kind of weird going from a gangster rapper niggas ain't want to fuck with to now I'm the capologist 101. Let me tell you. Yo, my gangster done took a shot in the armor. Motherfucker talking about I'm cap. All my shit true, bro. All my shit true. No fucking cap here, man. So kiss, man. Tell us about. Speaker 5 (9:14) The first time you thought you made it. Like, yo, I made it. I didn't make it yet. I still didn't make it. Kiss, you being humble, man, you making some money out there, man. Big time. Speaker 3 (9:31) No, honestly, I still feel like I got a lot more music to do. Well, Speaker 5 (9:35) you said when you bought your mom the house. Speaker 3 (9:39) Yeah, when I bought my mom's house, I felt like I made it a little. You know, I felt good. Anybody, you buy your mom's house, you'll feel good, right? Speaker 5 (9:51) It's the best shit ever. I bought my mother and father, rest in peace, I bought them a house. It wasn't nothing so much to brag about. But every time I pull up in their house, it made me feel so proud to know that, you know, my mom's and pops wasn't in the projects no more. And I could do that for them. That's big. You know what I'm saying? It's beautiful. Speaker 3 (10:16) You like football? Who's Speaker 5 (10:18) your... I don't give a fuck about football, man. Give Speaker 1 (10:21) a fuck, man. You only like basketball? Every year, I try that shit. Basketball. Speaker 5 (10:27) You think I'm lying to you? Klay Thompson washed up, my nigga. Yo, listen to me. That boy washed up. It's unfair to the man. Speaker 5 (10:39) Everybody lose fluidity. Father Tom pulled up on him. If you was watching last year, he was missing all those so-called three shots. Speaker 1 (10:50) Let's see what he do this year. Klay Thompson can shoot his ass off, man. Speaker 5 (10:58) Unfortunately, when you're an athlete, you get hurt, unfortunately, because I don't wish that on nobody. Well, you get a torn ACL. You get a fucked up Achilles. You washed up. Pack it up. He's washed up. Pack it up. What about my nicks? What's good out there? What's up, y'all? You see that shit, huh? Hey, Baltimore, was you happy for us that you was hating on New York? Speaker 5 (11:37) Because y'all done killed enough New York niggas out here in Baltimore. Speaker 1 (11:43) That's a fact. You thought I wasn't out here, huh? Yeah. Speaker 5 (11:49) You Speaker 3 (11:49) crazy, yo. Speaker 5 (11:50) What are you? You crazy. Y'all, Quicksilver. Quicksilver got Fat Joe in his back pocket, man. I performed at like 30 Quicksilver birthdays. Every year, be like, yo, Joe. Yeah, all right, quick. I'm coming through. You know, I was at your birthday party one time, and this the first time I heard that shit. You threw it on, and it was that Beyonce joint. Pat your weave, baby. Pat. All the girls jumped up. I said, oh, shit. This is something I got to pay attention to. They were like, patch your weed, baby. One time for the kids. I was like, oh, shit. It was out here. Speaker 1 (12:34) You crazy. No, I'm fried. I'm fried. Speaker 5 (12:40) I think all artists are fried. Speaker 5 (12:44) I'm not lying. That's a no cap, huh? There you go. Motherfucking thing. I'm capping. I told you about the time Tupac fought the guy with the sword right in my face. Listen, man. They call me the Forrest Gump of this shit. I'm everywhere. Speaker 5 (13:08) I'm everywhere, just like we in Baltimore tonight, and I can tell you a little story about how the cops threw me up. Speaker 1 (13:15) I was everywhere. Speaker 3 (13:16) Hold on. Baltimore, y'all want to hear Fat Joe's story? Let's go. What you... Speaker 1 (13:24) Tell them about when the cops threw you up. I told them that shit already. I'm on Speaker 5 (13:32) to the next. You didn't tell them? I told them the cops was throwing me up. I came out here. Speaker 5 (13:41) How many of y'all got cousins from New York? Put your hand in there. If they from my age group, you ask them up in New York. I've been feeding motherfuckers since I'm 14. I've been paying for dinner. Speaker 5 (14:00) I've been getting to the bag, even with this shit. I said, yo, Jade, I said, I checked it out. Because, you know, in hip hop, motherfuckers be exaggerating the numbers and all that shit. Like, I don't know how they making all that money and these niggas look broke to me. Like, we come around them smelling better. Our jewelry shiny up. Speaker 5 (14:23) Our seats is in front of them. And the motherfuckers talking about they making all this type of money. I'm like, yo, this shit don't... You know, I know what my house look like. I'm like... And so I did the investigating and they are making that kind of money. And so I said, yo, Jada, these motherfuckers making that bread. He said, it's real, Joe? I said, yo, let's go. Let's do it. I said, don't worry about me. I'm going to be the crash dummy. You know what I'm saying? I started the whole shit trying to start beef with every podcast. Nobody took the bait. These guys are soft. These podcasters, nobody want to smoke. I'm with this shit. Speaker 5 (15:08) I had beef with the biggest dudes in rap. I'm with the shit. Oh, we got a podcast? I start dissing everybody. They act like they ain't hear it. They send us edible fucking fruits and shit. Yo, we're potting. Oh, shit, I see you're cheating. Nobody went to smoke. He said, you wildin', Joe. Speaker 3 (15:29) You crazy. Speaker 1 (15:36) Yeah, dry off, man, dry off. It's hot as fuck, boy. Nobody told me it was outdoor. Speaker 5 (15:44) I came with my suede shit on, all like this. I would have came in some $2 shorts and a 199T. When it's hot like this, I'm sweating. I'm like, fuck it. I'm coming in some bummy shit. Speaker 3 (16:01) I hear you. Tell me about your life, Jadakiss. I'm just happy to be here, man. You know, both of them all know I love them, right? I ain't got to tell them that. Like you. Speaker 5 (16:21) It's a lot of motherfuckers in here, but let me tell you something. The guy with the COVID mask, Speaker 5 (16:27) I was scared as fuck of COVID. You know I'm diabetic. I was scared as fuck. I said, y'all, I done went to war with motherfuckers with seven heads. I done fought motherfuckers with swords. I said, damn, this the shit going to take me out. They had to make up some bullshit to take Joe Crack the fuck up out of here. I was in the house like this. Speaker 5 (16:56) Khaled come, he got the yacht. So in Miami, I live on the water. Khaled lives two minutes away. He pull up in the yacht. Yo, look out your window. I look outside, he got the big shit. I said, I'm not coming out there. You're not tricking me off my spot. I'm not coming out there. He was outside the biggest yacht in the world. Yo, come on, son. I'm not, fuck you. Did he have a mask on? He had no mask, but he... Speaker 5 (17:29) In order to go to Khaled's house, like if you was a barber or something, he had motherfuckers in hazmat suits, like real fucking suits. And then he finally caught COVID and he made everybody take a test to see who gave it to him. I didn't give it to him. So I'm out there praying for him. Like, yo, Khaled, get better. He up there. He got the doctors in the crib. Let