Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda have tales to inform. And that is a gross understatement contemplating what they’ve skilled being greater than 20 years deep within the sport. After touring around the globe for the higher a part of a decade alongside their pal and rap ace, 50 Cent, the hilarious New York rappers are headed into 2026 by launching their new podcast, The Actual Report. Yayo and Murda pull as much as XXL‘s Speak It Up sequence, powered by DistroKid, to debate the distinctive method the podcast got here to fruition, Uncle Murda’s painstaking course of behind his yearly observe “Rap Up” and rather more with an entire lot of jokes alongside the best way.

Forward of the present’s January 2026 premiere, Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda reveal that The Actual Report would be the newest undertaking launched through the widespread podcast community, The Quantity. In true Murda and Yayo vogue, they clarify a particular second they shared with Fats Joe abroad that served because the present’s impetus.

“I ain’t understand all of this was going to occur,” Tony Yayo tells XXL within the video under. “God will bless you in several methods. We signed with The Quantity. They acquired nice manufacturing. Shout to Shannon Sharpe, shout to Joe and Jada [Jadakiss]. The place was we at? Germany or was it Turkey? I will let Murda inform the story of what occurred at breakfast.”

On cue, Uncle Murda dives straight into the story of how push got here to shove and The Actual Report was born. “Yeah, we was in Germany. We had been simply chillin’. We see Fats Joe, and we was simply kickin’ it. Joe was telling us he was really pondering of beginning a podcast with him and Yayo, actually. That was the concept that Fats Joe really had. Yay’ was like, ‘Oh sh*t, deada*s?’ And I used to be stunned like, ‘Yo, that is loopy.’ Then, Joe was speaking about how him and Jadakiss wound up doing it. Then, me and Yayo was telling Joe we was pondering of doing a podcast. He was like, ‘Phrase? Say no extra. I’ma get y’all a deal.’ Actual discuss,” Murda says.

So far as what followers can count on from The Actual Report, the MCs say they’re set to carry the humorous by their boisterous model of banter. They’re additionally hyped about having the ability to enlist a high-profile solid of celebs from throughout the leisure world due to their shut relationship with 50 Cent.

“We not coming in right here to step on toes,” Yayo says. “We simply comin’ right here to do our factor and have enjoyable ’trigger we like to speak. Particularly me. It’s going to be varied issues. We acquired a few huge names already. We simply plan on getting among the greatest names. If you’re round a powerhouse like 50 Cent, it provides you a bonus. You will get huge artists ’trigger you are in huge locations.”

With the podcast wheels in movement, it is also the time of yr when the complete tradition anxiously awaits Uncle Murda’s annual “Rap Up,” the racuous, reflective music that captures the scope of the yr that was in hip-hop. Whereas Tony Yayo shares the tradition’s sentiment that the “Rap Up” is an plain staple within the sport, Uncle Murda’s course of behind the annual observe is one which many might not count on.

“I begin scheming on it and arising with concepts, most likely like round Thanksgiving time,” Uncle Murda explains. “Yayo at all times really feel like I could be ready too late, which he could be proper. I at all times push it to the restrict. I rattling close to wait ’til after Christmas to go report the sh*t. I am nonetheless making an attempt to attend for one thing to occur. I do not need to miss anyone getting smacked or some sh*t, one thing loopy occurring. I be making an attempt to attend till the final minute. That is actually the method.”

Take a look at Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda’s extraordinarily entertaining interview with XXL, the place they focus on their upcoming podcast, The Actual Report, their unwavering loyalty to 50 Cent, their opinions on the potential route of Diddy’s post-prison profession, Yayo being the topic of viral memes and rather more under.

Watch Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda’s Interview With XXL