N.O.R.E. On Faithfulness In Marriage & Family + Running NYC Marathon

Angie Martinez IRL

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Music

5 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Rapper and co-host of the ‘Drink Champs’ podcast N.O.R.E. joins Angie Martinez for an in-depth conversation ranging from health to life lessons. N.O.R.E. will be running in the New York City marathon this coming November, and he explains how life-changing running has been for him. N.O.R.E. also loves watches, and receives opinions from Jay-Z, Kevin Hart, and Mark Wahlberg when he buys them. N.O.R.E. tells Angie about marriage, being a grandfather, and how he grew up going to therapy with his family. Finally, N.O.R.E. gets into how he is writing a book and would like to end it with him running in the marathon.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.2	I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight...
0:08.0	And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke.
0:12.6	A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old.
0:16.0	And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago.
0:20.5	How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again?
0:27.6	Listen to heavyweight on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:34.9	God comes up to me because he sees people taking pictures of me.
0:38.0	He's, like, who are you? And I don't want to be like, yo, I'm a rapper or I'm a podcast. I don't want to say all that. So I have to run thing on. I was like, I'm a runner. That's what you said. I'm a runner. Oh, he goes. Really? So what do you do? I go places and I run and I collect medals.
0:56.6	And there you go.
0:57.3	So how much do you do? I go places and I run and I collect medals. And there you go, so how much do you get? And then I was like, I don't get nothing. In fact, I paid it get in the race. And he's like, so do they fly you out here? I was like, no, I flew myself out here. And I realized how stupid I sound. I was like, yo, to this guy.
1:11.4	He's like, this guy is out here.
1:12.9	So I don't really promote it to people who don't run no more.
1:15.6	Like, I just understand.
1:22.5	This episode of IRL podcast is powered by Boost Mobile.
1:26.8	Okay, from Left Rack City to Platinumplex to being a pioneer of the podcast era.
1:37.1	Today's guest has lived in many chapters of hip hop.
1:40.9	He is an artist, a mogul, a husband, now a grandfather.
1:44.4	Right, goddamn.
1:46.8	From a drink champ to a run champ, please welcome Nori!
1:54.0	Happy to be here, happy to be here.
1:55.9	It's about first time here, right?
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