hello
what is up
so first i want to say thank you so much
for coming out i think this is hot one's
fourth ever complex con but this one to
me it's the most special because it's
here in chicago illinois a place that i
consider a home let's make some noise
for the best damn city in the world
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all right so today's guest in addition
to headlining the weekend's event he's a
platinum selling artist and his latest
album death race for love debuted at
number one on the billboard charts
earlier this year let's make some noise
for chicago's own juice world
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how you feeling brother man all right
you'll be on this side i'll take this
side
and it's a time crunch so we'll just
jump right into it
with our first wing which is the classic
let's start at the handle how you doing
what's your mindset like right now i
heard about you man
i'm gonna start drinking lemonade now
that's the way to do it code it
right there
all right so i want to start off with
your gear head side because i know that
you have a garage that's full of
motorbikes and then even your latest
project the cover art it pays homage to
that demolition derby video game
franchise twisted metal have you ever
suffered road rash or any kind of injury
messing around on those things
hello
no no no it's not high yet that's what
i'm not i ain't going out like that i
swear i just had a mouth full you feel
me so
you know it's polite to chew first you
know um
we're riding up and down the street
and
there's like this part of the street
that it's not really a sharp turn but
it's you kind of got to slow down for
you know a little tricky yeah yeah yeah
and
it's you know my girl outside all my
homies outside i'm trying to show off so
i hit the uh i hit the turn and the bike
stays right here but i go flying off and
i'm hands first and it was all bloody
and stuff but it can be a dangerous game
all right well there it is are you ready
to move on to wing number two might as
well yellow right it is the sauce bay
wing the what
it's called sauce babe oh i don't know
what you said it ain't sound right
though
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so wait wait wait wait wait
is rappers really on here crying over
these
well we're only the second wing in let's
all remember that juice world said this
you know
yeah remember
so a lot of people obsess over sneakers
or jewelry but here at first we feast
we're more interested in which rappers
have the rarest most exotic cereal
collections have you ever had that uh
cereal that's just powdered hostess
doughnuts like yeah we need powder one
two yeah for sure that's a classic one
and i ain't got a lot of stuff
i fell in love with that cereal i was
eating it like every day for like
two weeks probably and then off the
topic of cereal but still on food i know
that you're a chicago guy are you a
sharks guy or are you a harold's guy
girls harold sharks is like the
you know how like it's versace and his
verses
sharks is like the versus version i knew
where you were going
and even all heroes not good though some
heroes be versus uspa you know
all
excellent food take from juice world are
you ready to move on third wing
shaquanda's it's a quantus huh
it's good i got it's good it's not hot
though not tested yet
oh
so sticking to the topic of chicago i
think that it's only right here at
complex con that we shout out chief keef
what does that name mean to you
shout out social um
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i mean it's just crazy to see that
somebody shooting a video with their
friends
when they block where they from
could end up
you know being on charts and going
platinum and having songs with you know
kanye you know i'm saying everything and
and me being the music head that i was
and still am
i studied the stuff like music but my
life for a long time and then chicago
has obviously left an enduring imprint
on hip-hop from the sounds to these new
flows that have eventually taken over
the whole genre so on the topic of
chicago hip-hop was your top five dead
or alive man
top five did a lot of
kanye
i gotta give it to chance to
modern day man i'll put me on the spot
dang the wings might not make him sweat
but
right answering certain questions right
um
i say kanye chance
m.c juice you know that is he's the only
emcee of old school mc the only person
to ever be eminem in the rap battle if
i'm not mistaken there you go so when
the fc juice
i mean i have to say herb too
people be sleeping on fredo that's one
of the more influential people come out
of chicago too
all right well there it is
juice world's top five dead or alive are
you ready to move on lucky dog you're
the dog our fourth wing
yeah
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song you was just struggling there you
all right
i'm okay i'm gonna hang i'm shooting so
far so far
so from what i understand maybe not good
that's my show now
welcome to hot ones featuring juice
world
so from what i understand you travel
with three pieces of luggage one for
your clothes one for your sneakers and
then one for your video games what is
the mobile gaming setup like for juice
world
um
the setup is me praying that the tv got
a hd on my core right
a little three lo you know what i'm
talking about little uh if it's the
older system the red white and yellow
chorus
which video game do you think has the
best soundtrack of all time tony hawk
tony hawk how far yeah tony hawk
i got a question for you though sure
so i heard that you carry around three
pieces of luggage
one for your clothes fact um one for
your shoes and then the third one for
your hot sauces
you have to have it ready you know if
you run into juice world at complex con
you have to have that third bag ready so
you can pop up the show for the people
you know told y'all this is my show
that's how it goes that's how it goes
all right are you ready to move on to
the halfway point here we are with los
calientes number five
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it's good not hot it's good though light
work light work
all right so here at the halfway mark
for the hot ones fans here you know we
do a recurring segment called explain
that gram
juice world we've done a deep dive on
your instagram pulled interesting
pictures that need more context i love
doing this at complex con because we
have monitors it makes this feel like a
real production it's so exciting dolphin
to put my own bliss so let's put up the
first picture it's you throwing out the
first pitch at a white sox game i
actually threw out the first pitch at
yesterday's cubs game
air mailed it
air mailed it and hit a staffer and hit
a staffer so i was wondering if you have
any notes how did this go for you uh i
actually grew up playing baseball so and
me too but you know what it's a
different story when you get that at
first i mean
i pitched towards the end of my baseball
career and i had speed but i had no
control i throw two strikes and then
like get all up in my head and then you
know hitting dude in the face or
something like that it happens like that
sometimes i know it'd be like that donut
all right let's pull up the next picture
here you are with the japanese face mask
can you break down the skin care routine
once and for all for the people here at
complex con yeah i got one word
exfoliate exfoliate
words to live by from juice world and
let's pull up the final picture here you
are playing chess ew are you a chess guy
because you do have that song chess king
i just really i don't want them students
that could just sit in the classroom and
just you know what i'm saying just lock
in like i couldn't learn that way
so
there's some kids that thought they knew
it all and every time we get into like a
little you know our kids get into
altercations yup you so dumb and you so
i started beating everybody in chess
they couldn't call me dumb
if you don't ever do your homework i'm
like you just lost to somebody ain't
never gonna do a homework assignment in
their life
checkmate checkmate checkmate all right
juice world you ready to move on board
already sir all right this one we have
detroit hellfire
you say this from a male huh
i'm good not hot
so you have a reputation for sound like
you struggling though for real you know
i've been doing this now many for a long
long time nine seasons supposed to be
the guru right yeah but you know what
you put those city miles on you
eventually the car starts to break down
a little bit you know
all right so you have a reputation for
being a beast in the studio from doing
these one-take freestyles to completing
albums in a matter of days with these
manic from dusk till dawn studio
sessions and then you know critics they
have a lot to say about soundcloud
rappers but when you break it down it
really is like the best sink or swim
platform in music right now what do
critics get wrong in your opinion when
they pigeonhole either the artists or
the songs that pop on soundcloud um
i think what they go wrong is
a person may make a song or a project
and
anybody who's criticizing it
takes that song or project or whatever
you know piece of art that was
and then label that artist and say okay
all that music is gonna sound like this
all their music you know just making an
assumption based off one piece of art
they heard
a artist is somebody that that expresses
themselves not necessarily in one way
you know like me for example
i can make
a rap song right and then
and within the same hour uh have
somebody set up a guitar hop on drums
and make something that sounds like it
came from i don't know warped tour 2005
or something right
that's you know i think that's where
critics are wrong all right juice roll
are you ready to move on to number seven
trinidad scorpion from wilshire chili
farm
that tastes like it's gonna be a problem
in like 30 seconds
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oh hell no
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oh
so we've talked about video games in
your chicago routes but i want to take a
wing to explore some of those larger
influences of juice world i'm like five
cycles sure
and maybe you can just think about this
while you take down the lemonade are you
still into percy jackson novels
yeah um
i started reading them like third grade
couldn't put them down after that
damn bro what the [ __ ] for the
uninitiated why is percy jackson better
than harry potter
oh no hold on
all right so look
harry potter could look intimidating to
certain people because it's like a big
series and you kind of got to read a
little bit to get into it you know percy
jackson the action star right away
bro my [ __ ] on tan hold on
why do you think that there's such a
strong connection between
rap and anime for artists like you and
denzel curry the interest the connection
to it goes much deeper than dragon ball
z yeah i mean it's part of my escape as
a kid you know so it's always gonna hold
a special place in my heart i can tell
you my animator hold on okay
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damn um
you ever heard of my hero academia no no
it's like a high school for superheroes
i want to maybe do that but
a high school for like super villains
i like the sound of that i like the
sound of that high school for super
villains let's make some noise for juice
world going into bomb which for the hot
ones fans here
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is a moment they've been waiting for
wait
i still got mo left bro
damn here's the bomb beyond insanity
well this ain't right
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be careful here
you getting a small bite that's it man
this [ __ ] too hot bro
you know what no it's not i'll take that
back on top of it
all right
so one of the crazy byproducts of the
internet age is that rappers
they can build this massive cult
following before ever even taking the
stage do you remember your first show
and whether or not you got paid for it
yeah um my first show i got paid a
hundred dollars for
at a rec center in the south suburb so
yeah and then i know that you just
finished wireless and now you're about
to hit this uk tour circuit what are
some of the challenges of now going to
these massive festival stages where
you're playing in front of fields of
thousands of people
if it's out the country the only
challenge is finding good food to eat
which is tough to do right
very hard to do i was living off
mcdonald's every day
hey man it's not funny i don't know why
y'all laughing
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if y'all was up
oh i wish i could feel this g
i've heard you say that you don't enjoy
performing lucid dreams which is a
billboard number one hit with a
bajillion streams yeah can you unpackage
that i still love that song that song is
part of the reason why i blew up but
i mean you perform the same thing
everyday you want to show the people
something new so give the people more
new music all right are you tripping too
yeah you and me were in this together
juice well this is a buddy cop movie
with chicken wings that we are now
taking
towards the end how are you doing
i don't want to talk about it
all right so this next one is the
chocolate plague the what
the pucker butt pepper company chocolate
plate you found this
we we found this in the in the suitcase
in the luggage bag full of hot sauces oh
y'all ain't see that name and just
figure why well i picked this well we
saw the name and we're like that's the
sauce that we need to get some ice or
some do we have any ice in that ice
ain't right
[ __ ] that's the wing that makes the
rappers cry you know
i ain't crying yet
i was good i'm gonna be honest look yeah
i was good all the way up until
you see how the bite started getting
smaller and smaller yeah i never noticed
that
jesus christ
let's make some noise
all right
oh sh we also be going we're on we're
going
for the last one right mm-hmm
bro my lips is on fire bro man
you want me both i can't go to hell
cause i can't even take this
i can only imagine how i feel for uh
all right so look
all y'all that's clapping i expect all
y'all to be pat my back when i'm in the
bathroom
keep that same energy bro
so
when blink 182 announced it but they
were going on tour with lil wayne there
were a lot of music bloggers that were
like oh my god that's such a random
pairing but my guess is you were not one
of them
do you see a connection between pop punk
and rap
oh
yeah hold on i'm gonna tell you one
second
um
a lot of rappers are
kind of putting different genres in
their music and i feel like one of the
first genres that people reach to is
pump pop and then that rap rock
crossover it has a deep history going
all the way back to run dmc and arrows
and the beastie boys did that beastie
boys and now here with you juice world
and it has varying degrees of success
like we just talked about very
successful projects but there are some
with you know mixed results why is the
rock rap crossover what are the
challenges there why is that so
difficult i mean because
no offense but
sometimes you'll be coming out corny you
can tell when someone when somebody
really has it in them and what
somebody's just
reaching
all right and it's not them speaking of
reaching i'm reaching for this last
bottle and shaking it up
you're probably wondering oh [ __ ]
and the reason why is because this is
the last dab we call it the last dab
because it's tradition around here to
put a little extra on the last wing you
don't have to if you don't want to
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let's make some noise
it's not easy
in a live setting
with all these people out there i'm
scared that's a good that's a good dab
that's a good thing
careful
all right ice cups coming in
and at just the right time
let me get an ice cream batch here you
go
good look my brother there we go
all right let this sit here for a second
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all right here we go
bottoms up 10th wing
the last dab
boom
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all right juice world here we are at the
end of our spicy wing journey the fourth
in complex town history most
impressively of all is that juice world
is going to hit the main stage shortly
and that is the real wing 10 challenge
here but before we get you out of here
how do you think taking down 10
scorching hot chicken wings might affect
your live performance
hello i guess we'll see huh we will find
out in just a few short hours let's make
some noise
for juice world
and let's make some noise for yourselves
here we are
fourth complex con in hot ones another
one for the history books hold up
you want to launch a shirt
we got shirts we got shirts
here you go
you get a last dab
hey you'll get a last dab hey let me get
some hope you're gonna last steph
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my mouth
you can pass these out yeah yeah pass
them out
angle left hole there you go
starting a feeding frenzy
thank you very much
good job
okay okay
going vegan
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