Welcome to Van Lathons, The Red Pill, where we give you the brutal reality of truth.

Truth and respect, two things that go hand in hand.

Typically, the more you tell the truth, the more respect you get, and the guess we have today is really in hip-hop and, you know, in the culture, as people say it now, synonymous synonymous with respect the man's name is James

Prince Jay Prince he is an architect one of the early architects of southern hip-hop

bringing you such acts as the ghetto boys, as the head of Rapilot Records.

He is promoting the book right now called the art and science of respect that sort of details his life

sort of some of the things that he's been through and how he's become

one of the most powerful most again respected and quite frankly most feared

figures not just in hip hop today but in hip hop history.

Jay Prince's influence touches both coasts,

both north and south.

And really everywhere that you ever heard hip-hop your favorite rapper knows

who this guy is and if you walks into a room everyone will pay him sort of the

proper accolades.

Now, interesting time to be talking to J Prince right now.

Drake was just on LeBron James's show, The Shop, this past week,

talking about some of the unresolved feelings that he has for

push a tee. We spoke to Jay Prince or should I say I spoke to Jay Prince? We this is a team

situation here. We spoke to Jay Prince and asked him, even though the beef on wax is dead, is the actual

beef beef between Drake and Pusha actually dead because I gotta be real with you listening to the shop didn't seem like it was when Drake said

You know push of tea should be get punched in his mouth he didn't say he felt like he should have been punched in his mouth he said he should be punched in his mouth. He didn't say he felt like he should have been punched in his mouth. He said he should be punched in his mouth. So a lot of people are wondering, even though these guys aren't going to go back and forth on wax, you know, is it all good are there any issues has there actually been

uh... some sort of forgiveness that's happened or

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