INTERVIEW: Gillie & Wallo Talk Jay-Z Headlining Super Bowl Halftime Show, Breaking Traditional Media +More

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

Every day I wake up.

Charlamagne Tha God (0:03)

The Breakfast Club. You all finished or y'all done?

DJ Envy (0:07)

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got some special guests in the building.

Jessica Moore (0:14)

Yes, we do.

DJ Envy (0:15)

Philly's finest. We have Gillie and Wallo. Welcome, fellas.

Jessica Moore (0:18)

How y'all feeling? Doughnuts. There's a little bit of everything back there.

DJ Envy (0:51)

You ain't even walked back there.

SPEAKER_5 (0:53)

You see these young ladies there eating food right there? We got a little bit of breakfast. First of all, we got an established dish. Shout out to Lincoln University.

Jessica Moore (0:59)

Yes.

SPEAKER_5 (1:00)

You know, I sent my daughter there, Cash Money Records, Lincoln, she graduated.

Jessica Moore (1:04)

Yeah, so Lincoln, shout out to Lincoln.

SPEAKER_1 (1:06)

Shout out to Lincoln.

Jessica Moore (1:07)

Congratulations.

DJ Envy (1:08)

Now, Gillie, y'all have one thing to do this week. One thing to do. You got this cowboy fan over here, had me upset the whole week, man.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:17)

It don't even matter. Debating about the NFC East is pointless.

SPEAKER_5 (1:21)

Right now, it really is.

DJ Envy (1:22)

We first place in the division, by the way.

SPEAKER_5 (1:24)

Which team?

DJ Envy (1:25)

Giants.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:27)

That's like saying you're the tallest midget.

SPEAKER_1 (1:29)

Right.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:29)

Where your guy? I can't say midget.

Jessica Moore (1:31)

Midget is not politically correct.

SPEAKER_1 (1:32)

Go ahead and say it.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:36)

I wanted to see it. He definitely wanted you to bring it. He was like, I want Gillie to bring little midgets.

SPEAKER_1 (1:41)

Eddie didn't request you.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:42)

Damn, damn. I want to ask y'all, Gillie and Wallo, when y'all look at Philly today, man, what makes you proud, man? Because being both of y'all from Philly, what makes you proud about the city?

SPEAKER_5 (1:52)

Philly is a beautiful place, right? It's a hard-working place, extraordinary people, passionate people.

The possibilities are endless in Philly. If you really believe in what you want to do, you can make it happen. But it's just a real passionate place.

You get it right, they're going to support you, you get it wrong, but you're in trouble. You know what I mean? But it's just a beautiful place. You got to understand, it's the birthplace of America. You know what I'm saying? So anything's possible. I mean, I just look at it like, if you ain't an excuse maker, you can make it happen here. And if you can make it happen in Philly, you can make it happen anywhere.

Charlamagne Tha God (2:32)

That's what New Yorkers say too.

SPEAKER_5 (2:33)

You can make it happen anywhere.

SPEAKER_1 (2:35)

This the hardest part.

SPEAKER_5 (2:37)

This going to be the hardest day.

SPEAKER_1 (2:38)

But if you can make it happen here, you get a little easier in New York because it's more opportunity.

Charlamagne Tha God (2:43)

A lot of industries in there, especially if you're in entertainment or something.

SPEAKER_5 (2:46)

Right.

SPEAKER_1 (2:46)

It's more opportunity. But I'm most proud that you got a lot of artists and people from Philadelphia that are sticking together.

SPEAKER_5 (2:53)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_1 (2:54)

You know, it really wasn't like that back in the day. But now the youngins is understanding that it's not about the ego. It's just about trying to feed your family and get some money. So that's what I'm most proud about.

DJ Envy (3:06)

I want to ask, why do you think that is? Because, like you said, back in the day, there was no, like, y'all were on one side, Rock was on one side, this one was on that side. But I love the fact that you're seeing artists working with each other, pulling each other out during shows and concerts. I love seeing that more and more and more.

SPEAKER_1 (3:21)

It was more competitive back in the day, you know what I mean?

These kids didn't really compete. Like, you know, they just want to have fun and get some money and make some music. Jay-Z wanted to be better than DMX.

Feel what I'm saying? DMX wanted to be better than Ja Rule. Ja Rule wanted to be better than, so it was always a competition, even with the executives. Irv Gotti wanted to be better than Mike Leite and Chris Leite. Puff wanted to be better than Irv Gotti. So it was a competitive thing. Whereas now, it's not really about that. It's just about, you know, kids having fun. It's not even, even back then, it was more of a lyrical thing. Who spit the best? It's not on there anymore.