N.O.R.E

They're like, I'm fine. Because it's the second speech that he goes. He goes, if you're thinking about quitting, don't. Don't. This is two of the most. Brilliant speeches in drinking history. Do you understand how important those two speeches are?

By the way, I didn't even know you could deny having it in your blood test when you do an IV. I always do it, and I feel shitty about myself.

Yeah. I haven't ran a marathon yet, but I'm looking.

Yeah. Have you ran a marathon? No.

And you did the L.A. Marathon?

Yeah.

When you guys called me up, in my mind, I was thinking I was going to have to jump on the stage. So I was getting my Hulk Hogan impression on. Like, ah!

I rap battle myself every day. In the mirror? Yeah, like if I'm running, I rap battle myself. I tell myself, you know, they say you should never talk bad to yourself because yourself doesn't know how to do it. I think there's an exception to that rule is like right before you run, you just say some bullshit that you think someone else will say about you. About you. Yeah. And then it fires you up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so I always do that.

This is how I know I was white in a past life, because everything they said makes total sense. Nothing at all said to me, this doesn't make sense. Everything about it was like, yeah, I see it. You've got to do it. Let's go for it. I'm going to go for it. All right. Beers. Had to be whiskey. Now, can you do it with whiskey?

Holy shit. So what would it be? A shot every 400 meters?

12 shots.

Hey, man.

Thank you for gassing me up. Thank you. Yes.

Yes. Yes.

You have some at home. He's fly. Remember I gave you the Pappy Van Week when you FaceTimed him. He was like, that's the 10-year though. I was like, oh, shit.

How come black guys are still homophobic? I can't speak for the black race on this one. Let it be.

Wait, have you ever had a summer shanty? I've never had a summer shanty. Hold on, I got one arm. I'm getting divergenized right now. So this is... Wait, so this is how they open or they made a mistake? This is how they go.

I like that. Can I ask a racial question? A racial question? Please. Those are the only questions I prefer.

You know this? This is for a fact.

No, no. I'm not sure.

You didn't realize that?

No. It was out of necessity.

I don't know. I haven't sold drugs in 27 years. Well, I mean, you know, was it like.

It gave me some shit to talk about. Yeah, right.

Gave you credibility, man.

You ever rob anybody? It's a lot of cred. Does anybody want one more shot of whiskey?

Let's go. Let's go.

No, I read a book about Manuel Noriega. Shout out to Manuel Noriega. Yeah, and it just dropped, and a person picked it up and asked me a question about Manuel Noriega, and he didn't know that I had the page folded, so it was actually where I was just reading. So I said it, and then he just started calling me Noriega. And so it was, like, just given to me.

And then, you know, I knew that I would face legal problems, so I shortened it to Nori. Yeah. That's how it happened. Did you ever hear from, like, his... I actually reached out to him, and he was in... He was locked up in Florida, in Kindle, in the prison. And I lived in Kindle at the time.

So I reached out to him, and they had their attorneys reach back out to me, and I was like, oh, let me just change my name.

Yeah, because I don't spell it the way he spells it, and I never named it. I never sold a product with that name on it that way. But I wanted to do that just out of respect. Yeah. And, you know, people sometimes just see a payday. They don't see, like, a relationship. How dope would it have been? Oh, my God. Noriega, the rapper, met Manuel Noriega. Dude.

The fucking dictator or whatever the fuck he was. You're kicking him with a dictator? I don't even know what the fuck he was. You know what I mean? Whatever the fuck. That would have been dope. I tried to go see him. I really wouldn't have went to go see him. But I think his family saw it like a payday. Yeah. So I got away from it. You know what I mean?

My very first name. What was it? MC Yahoo with the ball at the beam. MC what? MC Yahoo with the ball at the beam. It's a lot. It's a mouthful. It's terrible. Imagine I would have went with it and been successful. Imagine that when it worked. You would have been saying, hey, when I walk by, MC Yahoo with the bald bean.

It was terrible. How long did it last? I was 11 years old. I'm from 11 to 14. Oh, 11. Yeah, yeah. From 11 to 14.

No, I thought I was a grown man at that time. When you're from the ghetto and you're 11 years old. You're 21, sir.

I definitely got laid more than me. We went through a whole bunch of shit. But I'm glad I didn't choose that name, though.

Yeah, of course it's from Belly. Your nickname was Tommy Buns from Belly? From Belly because a lot of people... Let's make some noise for that, goddammit. Yeah, yeah. Sorry to make this drink chance. I apologize. No, I love it. I love it. Yes. Yeah, yeah. So you was watching Belly, and somebody was like... I mean, I'm in college.

Best DMX interview ever. I'm going to give you a Hype Williams story real quick. Yes. I love it. I'm number one coming out of Lefrak City, Queens, 97-30, 57 Avenue, apartment 5E, Corona, New York, 11368. I make it. So I finally get a chance to get a Hype Williams video. Hype Williams is the man in hip hop.

Yeah. Yeah, so put it like this. If you get Hype Williams, you basically win the Super Bowl. Put it like that, right? Nice, nice. But you got to get him. He's weird.

He's weird. He's very hard to get out. He's just weird. He's just eccentric. I don't think he wears deodorant type of shit.

Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, you know what I'm trying to say? He's eccentric, you know? So... We finally get Hype to agree to it. Hype meets us at the Trump Hotel. And he says, yo, get a room at the Trump Hotel. So I get a room at the Trump Hotel, meet Hype Williams. It's just me and him. It's weird. So he says, Roy Jones is the number one boxer at the time.

So he's like, we're going to court Roy Jones, and Roy Jones is going to be a part of your video. So I'm like, OK. He had Roy Jones' number. I didn't have Roy Jones' number. He called Roy Jones and he says, I need you to be in this video. And Roy Jones said, he said, act out the video. And Roy Jones said, no, no, no. I'm not going to act this out. I have a fight this Saturday.

You guys can come this Saturday and film. I immediately hit mute. He says, say it in the mic, they can't hear you. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm like, what is this guy? Loses. We don't want to film that. But Roy Jones was so confident at the time, he said, you guys are good. Came, filmed it, he wins. He can't be touched. He wins. This is when he was untouchable. That's correct.

We filmed the Hype Williams video. Hype Williams gives me a bottle, three bottles of cognac. At the time, we're from the hood. We're used to drinking Hennessy and Coca-Cola. I drank three bottles of Louis XIII. What? Wow. With Pepsi.

Louis XIII. We're sitting there. So I'm having a ball of it. I go backstage. He has a case of Cristal. I'm having a ball of it. Everywhere we go, Mr. Charles, he had Mr. Charles flown in from New York City to Las Vegas. Do you know I paid for all that shit? You did? You? I'm thinking I'm balling on a budget. I'm thinking I had no idea. See, an artist, all of that is charged back to you.

Nothing is more fucked up than the music business. Thank you for saying that.

So it was the most fun I ever had. It was the most balling I ever had. But I did not know I was paying for this whole shit. What was your bill? Do you recall? Absolutely, $1.8 million. $1.8 million? Absolutely.

Wasn't today fun?

Why did Deion Sanders' son go so late in the draft?

Yo, can I say something? This is brilliant. I'm also an alcoholic.

But do you think it had anything to do with Deion himself?

That likes to jog. Yeah. And I get a euphoria high of a jogging. And the fact that you have all of these maniacs out here. I did the race. I didn't read the disclaimer. Yeah. These hills do not pay the bills. That shit is killer.

Black Twitter is different.

I did not understand what was going on.

But it's brilliant. Because you know what's crazy? Even if it rains, you can still stay. It's like you're outdoors, indoor, not outdoors. You're right, because you're covered. Yes. But this is brilliant, guys. This is brilliant. Thank you for coming. Make some noise for them, goddammit. And he was fucked up early. Yeah. Oh, where's my Yamazaki? Where's the Yamazaki?

With the ball to beat?

What the fuck is that? It's a love bug. Yeah, I ain't gonna lie. That's white people bugs. I've never seen that type of bug. It's a Florida bug. No, I live in Florida. They're two bugs together.

Okay, let me ask you. Ballers is one of my favorite shows on earth, right? You ever saw it?

So it's not accurate?

That's beautiful. That's beautiful. I ain't going to lie. I had to get my medal because I was out here earlier.

And I did it.

I'm going to be honest. I thought these guys are my friends, so I thought they would give me the VIP warning. These hills, motherfucker! These hills are not funny. No one is talking to each other. You're just going through and you're just mean mugging. Everyone gets mad at the hills.

You go down the hill, you get happy. And then it tricks you. Because there's more hills, motherfucker.

There's more hills.

I don't walk nothing, sir.

I don't walk nothing, sir.

They call me N-O-R-E. On the run, eating. I'm eating these miles.

I don't have my time. I don't give a fuck about my time. I wanted to come here to do two beers. That's what's up. God damn it. And drink Oso's and rock my metal. Rock your metal.

Hold on, I got a gift for you guys.

Oh, gifts? Yeah, I got a gift.

Yes. Who got it? You got it? Oh, shit. Oh, Lord. When you was on Drink Champs, I gave you a bottle of Pappy, and we drank the whole bottle. Holy shit. Selfishly, it was just me and him. We didn't share with nobody in the room. We drank the whole bottle. The whole bottle, and I'm looking to do that here.

Only one with light beer. No, no, no. Only one with light beer.

Oh, hold on. Hold on. I thought he was going next. Okay.

Apparently, they're like big collectors, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They're worth $9,000.

At the time, I crushed him.

Yamazaki. Let's open it up. Let's open it up. Open it up right now? All right.

He's got money under his bed. So my most ignorant purchase. Yes. By far is when I bought an iced out diamond Newport chain. Do you realize how many people responded to that? That's incredible. Some of them know or some of them is like, that's fucked up. I was smoking cigarettes one day, and I was just like... I kept missing my cigarettes. I kept misplacing them.

Let's open it up. Can we get some glass of ice up here? Yeah. Glasses of ice, please. So we have our whole crew called Run Champs. You see, I don't know if you see the shirts. Yes. So we came here to run another 5K, but apparently Yamazaki's going to win.

But I was like, fuck it. Let me... Get a chain. Let me get a chain and diamond it out. By far, also, the most embarrassing moment of my life. I'm riding in an elevator... And this old white woman just comes in the elevator. And I'm sitting there. And I'm just, it's just a natural impulse. And I open up my chain. And it's a full box. And she just looks. She's just horrified. Nothing threatening.

But I pull out my cigarette. And the way she looked at me, I got rid of the chain immediately. Really? I was like, this is a bad decision.

I want it now, too.

Yeah, I sold it back to TV Johnny. Big up to TV Johnny for doing it. But then my other purchase is recent. Also terrible. Yes. I was in a Lego movie. Yeah. I don't know if you know, Pharrell and the Neptunes first hit on television was with me. Yes. Superdog. What, what, what, what, what? You know, that shit. Look it up. Google, right?

So he puts me in his Lego movie, and I was looking to do another chain. So I said, ah. and I just made a Lego chain.

And my chain has a chain. It's fantastic. Make some noise for me, God damn it.

So I got a Lego. And I know that I'm 47 years old. There's no way I should be running around with a fucking Lego chain, right?

No, I just bought it. I just bought it yesterday, that type of shit. Oh, fuck. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But who the fuck would have think a kid from Left Rock City, Queens would be in a fucking Lego movie

Thank you. You got bars. Fuck yeah. You got bars. Into the sentence.

There's no more second race. Okay.

He does walk and talk with Frank.

Mets fan. He's already a good guy. He's got a Mets hat on.

That's right. Left rack. It's not Le Freak. It's left rack. But I got you, my man. Got you.

You was hammered since I saw you earlier, sir.

I'm going to do the IV after.

Wait up, wait up. Can you say that one more time?

I called him one day. I was like yo, um, can I go to the sauna drunk? And he was like I do it all the time, dude Never ask him a health We were a bill of buddies for a second I Because I kept seeing him in the sauna, and I was wondering. I was like, is he drunk? And then I got drunk. I did it the same night, and I called him, and he was like, yes, dude, you can do it.

And I went to the sauna drunk as fuck.

You get too drunk. Yeah, the cold plunge. The polar plunge, the cold plunge. Oh, cold plunge. You cold plunge, suburbs you right up.

Done. Right. Holy moly, guacamole, man. Sure. Listen, guys, this is really, really dope, man. I've been all year. We just came from Maui. We ran six miles in Maui. I did a Miami half marathon. I did. You just recently started.

Oh, thank you, man. You look great. Thank you. I just fell in love. I've been doing this. I've been doing this on Nike+. I know we got Spartan here today, right? Yes. Yeah, big up to Spartan. But I've been doing it. I just wasn't recording it. You know what I mean?

And so I started to travel, and I wanted to rewrite my life. I wanted to go to all the places that I performed at. And I did shows, but I wanted to go back there as a jogger and participate in the races. So I did Puerto Rico. I did Maui. I did Naples. I did Tampa. So my point I'm trying to make is, out of all the races I participated in, this is by far the coolest.

Let's make some noise for you guys, guys. This is by far...

Go ahead. Okay, so now I need to answer our age-old drinking question. Yes. Can you mix ice with Japanese whiskey?

I'm asking. Out of idiocy. Yeah, because I don't actually know. I know that some bartenders won't even serve you if you ask for ice.

Yeah, that'll work. I seen Jelly Roll last night at Carbone on the beach. It was dope. And he was playing a lot of hip-hop in his show. He was? I liked it that. Yeah, I liked it that a lot. Yeah, yeah. I never met Jelly Roll.

It's my first time meeting you, too.

Yes, yes. A big fan. Please, I follow you on the gram.

And you got on the Alpha Flies. That's right, dude. I can tell you serious about running. Those are real nerd running shoes.

If you are a running nerd, you got Alpha Flies on. And they trick you.

Your brain goes, oh, yeah. No, it does. I think I'm faster in it. Yes, thank you. We drink a Japanese fucking whiskey, man. Come on. So if you start seeing me sweat, just think I was running the 5K earlier. That's all. Cheers to you, brother.

And by the way, is this my first time on Two Beers? This is my first time, right? This is your first time, bro. We got to do it again. Yes, I don't mind. I don't mind. I'm telling you, man.

And just so you know, woohoo!

Did that just come out of me? There's a whole drinking, running community that wakes up in the morning. Is it true? That wakes up in the morning and looks at your speech when you say, I will always keep myself healthy enough. You remember that speech?