INTERVIEW: AZ Talks New Album, Growth, His 'Underrated' Legacy, NAS + More
The Breakfast Club
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Today on The Breakfast Club, AZ Talks New Album, Growth, His 'Underrated' Legacy, NAS + More
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | Guaranteed Human. Hold on. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The breakfast club. Are you all finished or y'all's done? Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Sholamine Nagar. We are the Breakfast Club. Lawn LaRosa is here as well. Yes, indeed. We got a special guest in the building. Absolutely. The legend! |
| 0:24.1 | Ladies and gentlemen, A-Z. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome, brother. the guy we are the breakfast club lawn lauros is here as well yes indeed we got a special guests in the building the legend ladies and gentlemen a z welcome brother yes appreciate |
| 0:25.4 | thank y'all thank y'all how you feel again feeling great it's a good day for me |
| 0:29.7 | album out today doad three third third 30 years 30 years after the first one yeah that's crazy |
| 0:36.4 | I'm still here how did you know now was the time to put out Doa or Die 3? |
| 0:40.3 | I didn't know now was the time, but I knew that when October was coming, it was 30 years. |
| 0:46.3 | And I felt like it was just time to do it again because Doa or Die 2 came out, I guess, |
| 0:52.3 | 22. |
| 0:53.3 | And I was working on the album prior right and then i |
| 0:57.2 | said you know what it's time i was just going to do lyrics and do beat the same lyrics and beats over |
| 1:01.7 | and decided to uh do the whole album once i did like three songs |
| 1:08.0 | album is very fresh man very dog i don't talk too much so far i'll just let you finish |
| 1:14.9 | your time i'm very fresh it's it's pristine like i'm listening to it and it feels like it's |
| 1:21.0 | gleaming that's crazy a z always been like that though when you rapping or very sharp |
| 1:26.0 | it feels sharp do you feel like like shaldom, when you're rapping. Very sharp. It feels sharp. |
| 2:19.2 | Do you feel like, like Charlemagne said, do you feel like it's a resurgence of, I don't want to say old school artists, but artists that came out in our era, and the fact that they're coming out and they're doing extremely well? You know, I stay in my zone. I figured the vibe and changed the hip hop. So I'm like, is they going to embrace it or not, right? That's how I feel. But it's a good thing that hip hop is hip hop and we got our core base, I call fan base. Yeah, when you say they, who is they? Well, just the fans, you know what I mean? The fans for my ever, well, my ever rather, well, our ever, you know what I mean? That's who we're appealing to, but we got kids and that as grown, you know what I mean? So it's like, are they going to like this type of hip-hop? Because, you know, the vibe changed. Yeah, everything ain't for everybody. I was born in 1978, so for me, I need a though contemporary hip- hop. First song on the album is called No Need for Lactose. |
| 2:20.6 | That's my life. |
| 2:22.9 | I can't do lactose. |
| 2:24.9 | I was just telling my wife that last night. |
| 2:27.0 | It makes me break out and give me the runs. I can't do lactose. |
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