- Welcome back to TRL, I'm here
with the legend, J. Prince is here y'all.
(applause)
You know, a lot of people didn't understand
the move that you chose to make when you
ended the beef between Pusha T and Drake.
'Cause a lot of folks will argue
that well that's a part of hip hop culture
and we all know that both of them
are capable emcees, they're both hyenas.
- Right, right.
- Drake could have easily came back, that's what
I think people were waiting for, anticipating.
Since then, man, is everybody happy with the decision?
Is he happy with the decision still?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He definitely happy, you know,
we know that was the right decision
because it was a decision where they
crossed the line, where music was concerned.
And we don't have no regrets about livin' in peace.
- What does he feel about the naysayers, the people
that's gonna question his credibility as a emcee?
- You know, Drake is wise enough and sharp enough
to know who he is, you know what I mean?
He know his abilities, he know what he can do.
And he willing to live with the decision
he made on not getting in the pig pen.
- Okay. Did he see the interview that you
and I did on Sway in the Morning?
- Oh yeah. Loved it.
- He loved it?
- Yeah, loved it.
- Okay, so I wanna personally invite
Drake to come here on TRL.
- And I'm gonna deliver that message.
- Okay, and then after that,
we'll do Sway in the Morning two.
- There it is.
- You deliver that message for me, J?
- One love. - Okay.
Hell man, that's the art and science
of respect right there, man.
(applause)
Alright, I know he's a man of his word.
Now recently, Twitter blew up, I don't know
if you was watching this, J. Prince
because the comedian Roy Wood Jr., that's my homie, too,
he went on Twitter and he tweeted about
the time he tried to prank call you.
He tried to prank call J. Prince,
and you weren't having none of it.
Man, people been talking about that all online, man,
so I got ahold of Roy, I got him on the phone right now,
and he wants to make sure that things are cool,
and he wanna be able to come back to Houston, bro.
Alright, Roy, are you there, man?
- [Roy] Yeah, I'm here.
- Roy Wood is here, man, Roy Wood is here.
(applause)
- [Roy] Let me just say, Mr. Prince,
I apologize profusely, and I have ordered
three copies of "The Art and Science of Respect."
- My man, my man.
I accept that Roy.
I think you caught me on a bad day or something,
man, I didn't mean no harm.
(laughing)
- [Roy] So Sway, this what went down, man.
This is take it back '06, this is long before the Daily Show
so I'm still just workin' and grindin' in Birmingham,
I'm doing these prank calls, right?
And so a record label in Houston call me up,
they go, "Yo, come to Houston.
"We gonna put you in the studio,
"we gonna do a prank call album where
"all we do is prank call celebrities."
And so we set up a hit list of celebs we was gonna get.
I flew into town, like noon.
Touchdown, straight to the studio.
First person we decide to call is J. Prince.
Now, you heard prank calls before, Sway,
the prank is pretty basic, right?
- Yeah.
- [Roy] "Hey, I'mma come beat you up."
"Well, come beat me, I'd love to see you come beat me up!
"Come beat me up!"
And that's all you do is argue, right?
- Yeah. - [Roy] I called J. Prince
I said, "Hey J, I run a record store in town
"and the albums you giving me ain't sellin'.
"I ain't makin' no money, I need you
"to come pay my rent before I whoop your ass."
J. Prince didn't respond at all, for like eight seconds.
You ever hear that silence on the phone
when you know you in trouble?
- Yeah. (chuckles)
- And this is all he said: "Where you at?"
(laughter)
Calm, calculated, "where you at?"
And I tried to keep the prank going,
I go, "Nah, nah!" (mumbles aggressively)
"Hey man, I don't talk no business over no phone.
"Where you at?"
(laughter)
And so, it got so scary in the studio,
and this is for real, the audio engineer is shook.
He done hit stop on the record, at this point,
'cause he already know it ain't funny no more.
And he jumps on the phone, he goes,
"Hey J, it's us, we were just doing a prank,
"and that's Roy, he's a comedian.
"We were just playing a prank, sorry to bother you."
J. Prince, somebody in the car with J, may not have been J,
but somebody in the car go, "Oh, I know where they at.
"Turn the car around."
(laughter)
- And what you do, Roy, at that point?
- [Roy] You saw the way LeBron walked
out that press conference after game two?
- Yeah. (laughter)
- [Roy] Where he got his little man bag, put his glasses on,
and just shuffled on to the door?
- Yeah. (laughing)
- [Roy] Real talk, I was supposed
to be in Houston for four days.
I went back to the airport and got a same-day standby ticket
and took my ass back to Birmingham. (Sway laughing)
I wasn't about to be sitting in no music studio
waiting for J. Prince or anybody on the behalf of J. Prince
to have a conversation with me about no damn
record store that don't even exist.
- Well J, you remember this?
- Yeah, y'all wasn't gonna do nothin' but laugh with him,
I just wanted to laugh with him.
- [Roy] That's it? - Yeah.
(laughter)
- In person.
- [Roy] Yeah, you wanna laugh in person.
Okay, whatever you say.
All I know, Sway, is that somebody said they on the way
to where you are, and what you gotta understand,
the way J. Prince is talking now, that's how he was talking
on the phone, and I'd never heard that.
I'd had done 800 prank calls, ain't never had
nobody just take a deep breath and just go, "Where you at?"
- Wow, Roy Wood Jr., y'all.
Give this man a round of applause, man.
(applause)
- Hey, thanks for calling in, man.
And hey, so I just squashed a beef for you, okay Roy?
- [Roy] Does this mean I can go back
to Houston now, Mr. Prince? - Yeah, we good, Roy.
We good, man.
- Yeah man, Roy can come back to Houston, okay.
Roy Wood, man, thanks for callin' in.
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