Legendary Queens rapper-turned show host N.O.R.E. teams up with Miami hip-hop pioneer DJ EFN for a night of boozy conversation and boisterous storytelling. The hosts and guests engage together in fun, light-hearted conversation - looking back at their paths to success, highlighting their lives, friendships, and iconic moments within their career. In this unfiltered series, drinks are flowing and jokes are rolling - take a seat at the table with N.O.R.E & EFN. You Gotta Relax!
With some of the biggest players in the most professional, unprofessional podcast and your number one source for drunk fast. May is New Year's Eve. This is time for Drake Champs to drink up on the clock level. What it could be? Hopies would it still be? This is your boy, n o r e? What up is DJefn? And this is Drake Champs, yap y'all, man. Some noise. Did she brought us there? I'm about to introduce changed the world. It made us proud to support our own. Before this time, I didn't know of any brothers from the hood owning a clothing company and it being the shit. They are still here, and they're still friends to this day. I thought the money would have brought them up a long time ago. They're still here. These legends and we are giving them the motherfucking flowers today in case you don't know who we talk about. We talk about 4 us, buy us, motherfucking food. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I've I've named this. I tried to not name Queens because I can't call y'all, like, even though you're from Queens, the brand is too big. It's just it being called Queens. And I've phoned Queens that you trust me. I wanna claim everything in Queens. We claim it. I even claim City Field sometimes. You know what I mean? So for for the people that don't know, right? Me and you was talking earlier and you said, did you start it from selling a search in hats? Is this how this started? Fubal? Yeah, man. Standing on the corner, selling, Thai topass at that time, Day Las Soul. Had made a video and they were wearing these tie top hats. I think we got inspired from 5.5 sold, right? 5.5 sold. Yeah. And They were like yeah. And they were like it's like a sleeve instead of having a ball on the top. It was
You say something on the subject publicly already Right. Then it's okay for me to say it because you've already spoke on it publicly, and you're just echoing those sentiments to me directly. Right. If the sentiments that you made to me that you didn't make to anybody, that's not a trust that you violate. That's the code of the streets. Mhmm. You know, you know where we come from, and so you don't you just don't do that. You don't you don't do something like that. And a lot of times when you got cats and they being ultra sensitive or whatever, I have no patience for it. Because my attitude is, okay. If you say it's off the record, it's off the record. You know that trust ain't gonna be violated. Right. So if you know that's not gonna be violated and we just talk and be real and authentic with it. And if you and if you if if you don't, if you wanna say something publicly, then that's cool. Then own it and be cool with it. As long as I quote you accurately and I put it in this proper context, and I didn't violate your trust, accurately and I put it in this proper context and I didn't violate your trust, what are you bitching about? You got an opinion, I got opinion probably laced with more facts, and we'll go from there. And I'm not gonna worry about feelings on that level. Because, again, it's not personal. You know what I'm saying? When you when you I don't care who you are, and it's not about fear, it's not about embarrassment, it's not about anything. It's a code where there's certain things that you're just supposed to know Right. You don't reveal. Right. You don't get personal. Right. But professionally Mhmm. It's all it's all open season. Especially if you're public information. If you're on the court, you shoot 2 for 20, don't bitch to me. Okay. Who shot 2 for 20 in front of everybody. You did it in front of everybody. Everybody saw it. So that particular night, you stuck up the joint. Own it. You don't get mad because somebody did their job and they highlighted, this was not a good night for you. Right. You can't get mad at that, but you got some of these cats who will because of the age that we're living in. And it's unfortunate in that regard, but it is what it is. Like, I had to speak to DJ envy one time Mhmm. Because DJ Envy was was was was going back and forth with somebody, and I had to kinda, like, let him know, like, your voice is powerful.
Okay. Can I can I give you vodka with lemon? We're going vodka with lemon. Okay. Ask the question. Go ahead. How did you get Marvin Gaye to clear the sample? Because rumor has it is if you get Marvin Gaye's estate or Yeah. His fair to clear the sample, then you can't curse on the record. Yes. See, I don't You you did again, I I gotta say Bernard Bernard Bernard name every time. I can't help he did it, though. You know what I'm saying? When Bernard stole the record, it was already too late. It was already to radio Okay. In Clear Channel. Oh. At the time okay. Yeah. So the record was already going. Okay. So they wasn't gonna stop it because it was a hit. I was number 1 in Miami. Wow. Yo. When when that spring break, the May 28th, I couldn't get down whatever that main shoot was. Oh, Collins. Collins. Ocean Ocean. Tyson Beckett came and got me. I was on the scooter, almost killed myself to fucking I couldn't get down there. Not knowing I was number 1 to when I was whatever such. Mhmm. But when the record was already going and it was number 1 in Florida, it was too late. It it it heat up too fast. So when we called the state, they was like, okay. They could stick you up. Right. Justin's place stuck me up too, but, get another story too. You got niggas. $60,000 for to react, stuck stuck me up, like, big time. Okay. Dame 2, they got me. But but Marvin Gaye at state, I met white the wife Jen Right. And, and, Eric b has something to do with it. Wow. Eric b has strong arms The lawyer? Oh, shit. Marvin Gaye's lawyer. Yeah. Oh, wow. He made $50,000 off of that too. Oh, wow. That's just crazy. That's right. I'm like, what Eric b gotta do with this? Stuff. That's a lawyer. But, anyway, I gave it 1.50. I paid. Right. But I knew that that was gonna get me that $4,000,000 from Clive Davis. So so no matter what I knew, if I played it, and the thing about it was so crazy, it was already
Man, you mean so much flowers. Yes. Let me tell you, you mean so much, not just to West Coast, not just to the South, not just to the East, to the whole country. Culture. Yeah. Like, I can't picture hip hop without you. Wow. Yeah. That's true. I literally can't. Like, I I believe your first record was 87? 87. 87. I was born in 77. So my memory is always, like, they you it always existed. Wow. So I I cannot pitch a hip hop without you. Like like, for real. You're a real, real legend, my brother. So let's let's just talk about the documentary without giving up everything. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but we can talk about the story. We don't have to refer the story to the film. We we we're here to talk about the story. Documentary itself, Ken Folks. Top 3 hip hop documentary all time. Yep. And it might not be 2 or 3. No. It is. You know what I'm saying? Right. Because it's it is hip hop, my man. Right. I I'm the vehicle. Right. But that story is about hip hop. That's why it goes Yep. Through New York Yep. And that it it travels like hip hop did. Yep. You know what I mean? I I love the fact pardon me for cutting you off. I love the fact that you even bring the doctors in, like, you know, when you was checking the VoIP cords and things like that. I love that you ain't even hide that. Like, you just you wanted people to to to to to to know your real life. Because it's still an option. Why? There there's still an option with that. Right. You know? Mhmm. Then, hey. I think happened, and that's all another bad ones. Right. So I'm still living out this. There's some changes I wanna make in at the end, because I wanna do something for easy I didn't get a chance to do. Wow. When the AI should happen, that that happened because his his widow Alright. Reached out to me and start
It's not just fine to beat whenever. The lyrics were written, and it just came out that way. Like, I don't know how I did it. Wow. I just tapped in, you know, and, I actually didn't write it down. I, just blurted the words out to the mic. Sometimes I just yell at the wall. I, like, go into the studio 8 in the morning, and, you know, tell Juice to press play, and then I just yell at the wall for, like, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and then we would just piece it together, everything, because I know what I wanna say. Right. And, yeah, I just yell just yell at the wall, bro, like, and he comes out. Have you ever met John Singleton? No. Never met John Singleton. No. I have met John Singleton. I met John Singleton with Snoop one time in in Miami. Yeah. I met John Singleton with Snoop at the club in Miami. Yep. Because that's the first thing I'm, like, like, from the intro to the album, I felt like John Singleton should've been filming. Yeah. Like like it's like it's literally listening to you is literally like a movie. Yeah. Like, it literally like, I remember the last time I visually, like, saw saw, it was me reading Donald Goins Mhmm. Horse Sun, and then I read a book called Dope Fiend. Yeah. And then I listened to Illmatic. Yeah. And Illmatic brung me in Queensbridge, and I I I didn't realize music could do the same thing a book could do because a book Yeah. Brung me there. Now listen to all of your stuff, but listen to the new stuff, I I can picture LA life. Yeah. Is is that something that you do on purpose? Sure. It's it's like a different twist of LA, because when you think I always tell people, they always think of LA and, like, the streets of LA, like, oh, like, I'm pretty sure somebody here thought all that happened was gonna come with, like, 20 cribs. You know what I'm saying? And I'm just mad, not shaking hands, and, like, you know, that's not really, like, no street dude in any from anywhere. Like, that should've just be for the cameras.
