Joe Rogan and Reggie Watts Talk Hip Hop

You know, I smoked pretty regularly, but I got high with Be Real. I did this smoke box show. I'm like, okay, I'm a fuck... Who's Be Real? A rapper? Cypress Hill. Oh, Cypress Hill, gotcha. How dare you. I apologize. I apologize. Just so you know, I know nothing about hip-hop. Goddamn, Reggie. I do not know anything about Cypress Hill. I know. I know. People are always like, you gotta know about hip-hop. I'm like, I know. Shit. I know. Run DMC. You really don't know any hip-hop? I kinda stopped after the bohemian phase. You know, like after Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul. It just kinda lost me because then it turned into... I like Gangster in the beginning, you know, because it was something new and you're like, what the fuck is this? Oh, that's so cool. You know. But then it kind of morphed into Club Hop, where it just was all about bitches and cars and all that shit. And it was really the lyrics, the beats I loved. I thought it was cool, but I just got tired of it. What about like Nas? I mean, because I left in 95. Wow, really? I left for hip-hop in 95, 96. And then I know there's plenty of hip-hop heads that'll be like, dude, you gotta check out so you gotta check out. For sure. I know there's shit loads of shit. And maybe I'll go back into that phase. But mostly I just like the beats and the production and the lyrics. I'm not really. I'm not a lyrics guy anyways. I am a lyrics guy and Nas is definitely my favorite lyricist because his stuff is so creative. Like, what was that one we did everything backwards to the whole song backwards? Like he started at the end and then... What the fuck was that called? James Can I rewind? Yeah. I mean, super creative. I mean, it made you look like... Yeah. I saw that and I was like... That was actually a moment where I was like, oh, am I gonna start getting back into this shit? Because it was intelligent. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, my thing is like, if you're gonna be boastful and all that shit, it should be like Muhammad Ali. Right, right, right. You're super clever. You have clever flair. Also, you can just be right in someone's face. But I like that. But then when people are like kind of going off about how much money they have and all that shit, I'm like, I don't really care about that. I've analyzed this many times while under the influence. The culture, it comes from not having something and then once you have something brag about it, right? Like that's like Jay-Z. Like that's 99 Problems. He talks about that in 99 Problems. Yeah. I mean, I get it. I get it. But like at the same time, if it just sounds like basically the three things that everyone talks about, which is like women, cars of some sort and money or the things you can buy with money. After a while, it just all bleeds together. It's all the same song. And I mean, it's so dope that you can come from nothing and you can work your way up and you can hustle and you can get stuff going in. But like once you get to that place, like why not take advantage of that platform? What about Run the Jewels? I've heard good things about it. Chance the Rapper, I've heard good things about it. God damn. I know. I don't know shit, man. I'm more of like a- Run the Jewels is so creative. I'm an electronic guy. I like it like music. Yeah. Let me turn you on to some Run the Jewels. Please. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that.