You're listening to Comedy Central. Welcome back to the show. Yeah man, welcome back. Congratulations on a new album. You know, I was I was thinking about this today when when we were talking about you coming on. I was like, you are a living hip hop legend and and and I think the significance of that for me lies in in the meaning both ways. One, you are still in the game, you're still doing it, you're still contributing, you're still making great music. But also you are a living
hip hop legend. We take for grants, and how many legends we've lost in hip hop we take for grants? How many people onto around who are part of that? Do you ever wake up in the morning and thinks yourself, damn, so many of the people I started with in this game on't here anymore. And I'm still here getting to be a part of it all the time, all the time.
Somebody friend of mine today called me and told me, said, you you realize how long and you've been around and how much you you survived the things you've been through. You know, we just lost a hip hop art hip hop artists, uh the other week man take off and you know, maybe rest in peace and you know, I lost so many friends even before I got into music. I didn't think I would get into music and then still see it going on. You know, Yeah, you've done that.
You've done more than just survive it. You've succeeded in it. You've thrived in it. And I think what I love about this album is how it feels like you almost reminiscing whilst also writing a piece of the future. You know, you've you've always been to list to. Everyone will say
one of the greatest lyricists that's ever lived. But the stories that you tell, you know, the way you we've I mean, for instance, everyone was in hip hop was familiar with like your beef with jay Z right what it was, and then I loved having here you you talk about that beef, what it was, how it disappeared, but how you'll still text him saying, you know this isn't over well. When I released the track list for the album the other day, he released the picture with
all his Grammys. Yeah, shout out to him and a shout out to hit Boy, who produced this album, the entire album. He produced the other two albums and also the album Magic We We Slipped in four albums in two years. And the reason yeah, thanks, thanks, And the reason I think it happened is because we started the
first one when the pandemic hit. So at first I was scared to come outside, and then he hit Boy was in the studio like, come on man, it's like a month, you know, you didn't leave your house, and he got me to come outside and had nothing else to do. We finished the first one really quick, and we said, you know, we should do this again, and here we are with the third one on my label,
Massive Hill. I would love to know, Yeah, I'd love to know that when you look at hip hop as a whole, you know, you you you were there when it was only seen as gangster rap. You were there when it was completely ostracized from society. Now it's at the super Bowl. Now it is, you know, at a hockey game. I remember that's when I was like, wow, okay,
hip hop has done it, you know for real. I'd love to know, you know, where you would like to see the game progressing to now that it's you know, it's not in the exact same place it was before. I think it evolved and I think people can realize that you don't have to be scared of it. It's it's we learned from our mistakes and then um, we can grow with it. We don't have to stay doing one thing. The ones who stay doing one thing, unfortunately
they fall off. Um, and we have to understand that like hip hop is now, it's going on fifty years, and we've been behind this whole fifty years will be next year. Hip hop has been alive, So we've been behind trying to curate this museum that's coming up in the Bronx right now, and and and and the mayor has even gotten involved that, the Mayor Adams and you know, and I noticed, yeah, I noticed one thing that the culture.
It's like artists don't think they can go past one way or we have to be all in one like area trying to fight for crumbs. And it's like hip hop's a multi sound genre. So it's like in rock, you don't have you don't compare Kiss to the Rolling Stones, you know, but in hip hop, for some reason, we're fighting it for the same thing. And you know, uh, you feel like you have to be the number one guy all the time. So hip hop is a multi sound genre. You can have multiple things going on at once.
Doesn't matter how if you're twenty years old or forty years old or whatever. It's a beautiful culture and I love all of it. So I think that we should all as writers get out of your comfort zone and spread your wings and expand your sound. Yeah, I really like that. Before I let you go, I want to I want to talk about that idea of being more. You know, we know you for the music. We know you for being in the restaurant business and doing extremely
well being successful with that. We also know you you don't get it's for normal people love it and you don't remember eating. And someone was like, you know, Nas owns this chicken. I was like this chicken that I'm holding right now. It was it was a weird way that someone said it to me. But but but you you're also getting involved in a different type of storytelling,
which is which is in film. You know. I know that you directed a documentary you know that talks about you know, the supreme world of like it was this underworld in Queens, And I know you also involved in a really fascinating story about the civil rights icons. Everybody Malcolm X, Martin, Luther King Jr. Etcetera. What is it about that world that entices you. Why why are you stepping into documentaries, filmmaking, et cetera and doing well at it. I'm a movie buff. I love films, and yeah, I
love films. I love them, love along. I was Halloween, I was going on Friday crazy. I was going on Halloween crazy. I was. I went to see Halloween Ends and all of that. What's your favorite film? What is like the movie that you can never get enough of? You watch it over and over and over. Beech Street, the old school hip hop film. Okay, that's my favorite. Dan the Gums there, Guy Fathers and all of that stuff. You know. Godfather is a family movie, you know, beautiful thing,
you know. Um. But yeah, I love films. I love Steven Spielberg. Wrapped about him on one of my first raps, and I always wanted to get into it. So the Supreme Team was one about it underworld, um organization and Queens long ago. We hear about the Gotties and all of those Gian Goddis and stuff, but we never really hear about this. So I like to uncover things, the good,
the bad, ugly in in America. And his story was some innocent people and some people are guilty, some are innocent probably, but um, the new one, the Invaders that just came out you can chech it on Apple, Amazon Prime is about this organization of musicians, intellectuals, Vietnam vets who got together who were trying to uh strike against a garbage truck company where someone was killed in his in his faulty truck and there was no pensions of money.
Was bad and Martin Luther King came down there and uh he stood with the Memphis people, the people that were striking, and he found out who the invaders were, and they wanted to protect the march because the first march from bad. Of course we know the end, how Martin Lucy King, Um, uh you know what happens. But there's another look into that story through the eyes of the invaders and that most of them are still alive. And it's really good picture and in nineteen sixty seven,
and um, it's amazing. So there's so many stories to uncover all over the world. And here's my world. I want to talk about it. Another one beside Sweet Chick, I Gotta tag is Coat Michelin Star Restaurant. Coat, You Gotta you Gotta Go. You gotta go. Yeah, I'm it's not me, but I'm a part of it. Yeah that's me. Yeah man, many texts they appreciate the relations again on the show Things Disease. Three is how is everybody? Watch the Daily Show? Central Arm Comedy Central in stream full
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