Irv Gotti has a lot of explaining to do, and explain he does: every week he gives us blow-by-blow commentary on the latest episode of Gotti's Way. This week is all about necessary evils. He elaborates on his decidedly unique marriage, he talks about Ja Rule and Ashanti's albums being pushed back, and he explains why he's often forced to miss out on valuable time with his kids.

On his agreement with Deb:

I’m taking the lesser of two evils, and everything I said is all the way real. Deb is a beautiful person, but she has a side, that's not having it. Any woman that thinks, "Oh, Deb is stupid, she’s letting him do whatever he wants," no. Deb’s not stupid. We’re not together, so I can do that. From our relationship, we developed a friendship and it was a cleansing. For two years, I told her everything that I did. I confessed everything. It was hard for her to take, but we both felt better. That's that’s why I live the way I live today with pure honesty. When I did that with Deb it was like, when you have no more lies in you no more, yo, it’s no more frontin'. How many people walk around here lying to people? You just feel f***ed up. You're like, "Please, don’t let all of these lies catch up to me!" There ain’t no lies in me no more, not one. If I do something, yo: I did it. It’s a weird thing, but it makes you feel really good. And she felt good, hearing all the truth. She was f***ed up for a minute, hearing all the dumb s***, but she felt better and it brought us closer.

You would never lie to your boy, not one time would you ever lie, deceive or hurt your boy, knowing that it would hurt them. But you lie to your woman all day. You lie to your wife all f***ing day. What happened when I cleansed myself is Deb became like them. Deb's like Ja, my brother, she’s like my nigga. So with that mindset how the f*** can I lie to her now? It’s f***ed up: "Yo, you my nigga. I can’t do that." During the trial, Deb, ride or die, she rolled out, did whatever, prayed and everything. She brought me closer to God. She brought me to God. I was always a spiritual dude, but during the trial she was like, "Yo, you got to pray." She would give me different psalms and I‘d read them and she’d be like, "This is how this relates to you."

My relationship with Deb is beautiful. And you know what? If I’m crazy and I can’t stop f***ing messing up something, I’m gonna do it but I’m not gonna hurt her no more. If she's being hurt by me not giving in, it’s a better hurt then what I can deliver. Again, it's the lesser of two evils of what I can deliver. 'Cause trust me, I took that lesson. If I go home and I f*** once, she’s not a woman who's sitting back and doesn’t wanna know. If I’m sleeping, she's looking through every f***ing email. She is gonna call phone companies to see if I got another phone, you understand?

On Ja Rule's and Ashanti's upcoming albums:

We are having sampling issues so we had to push Ja's album back. We got a couple of big records that we sample that we didn’t get them cleared yet. There’s an opera record that has like seven writers on this record. We don’t know nothing about that world and we gotta track down every writer to get them to say yes. So it’s f***ed up our release. So now we have to rethink everything, but “Body” the single is coming. It just got added in New York and everything and it’ll be on 106 and Park probably in a second. We’re moving forward, but we gotta realign that bit.

Ashanti is supposed to come out at the top of ’08. We’re finding out now that records are taking longer to break. For some reason, radio isn’t just jumping on any record anymore. Like when I put out "Foolish," I remember in two weeks we went from 0 to like 4,000 spins. Radio isn't just grabbing and new music and going with it. It's gotta be an impact thing and then it eases on. It’s all of these new policies in radio that has been implemented ever since Elliott Spitzer came in and extorted every record label for saying that they was doing that payola thing. Spitzer, I think, took $10 to 15 million from every record label, saying they was doing paloya, but when he did that, now he’s got radio stations. They have all new policies. And I’m like, this is so bulls***. So radio won -- they can’t play your record until your impact date. If you service a record and you’re not impacting the record for six weeks later, they can’t play your record till six weeks later. It’s the weirdest s*** in the world. It makes everything stupid.

On "missing out" on time with his kids:

On this week's episode, when my boys are all having family time and I’m in the studio and and they call me, Deb says, "You missing a good time." I’m like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah," but in the next breath they're like, "Yo, I need a computer, I need a television." I’m like yeah, that’s why I’m f***ing missing family time! You're not gonna get it if I’m there. That’s what I drill in my boys head: yeah, you ain’t around me, yeah, you don’t see me as much as you want, but you know what? You see me all the time, when you pick up that notebook. You see me, when you're looking at your television. You're seeing me 'cause I bought all of that s***. Deb don’t do nothing. I said, "Look in your mothers closets." When I got kicked out, she took over all the closet space. She has two full closets just of shoes. You look at the shoes they’re not even worn. You look at the price tag $1500 dollars. You see me all over that motherf***er. You see me all over the place.

And then, I look at my boys and I’m like, "Do you understand?" They're like, "Yeah I got it." I said tell them, you can’t have both. I don’t know anybody who could just sit at home and get millions of dollars. It doesn’t work like that. Deb lies. She is the most materialistic person in the f***ing world. You see her saying that she'd pick a good marriage over material things. She would like that for one second, but believe me, the man that’s at home that isn’t making any money, he has other s*** to deal with. "You lazy motherf***er! You can’t pay the bills in this motherf***er! You less than a man! You ain't s***. How does this motherf***er got this? How come we can’t have that? I’ll tell you why: 'cause you ain’t s***!" He’s dealing with that. Such is life.

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[SERENA]

HELLO FAMILY, MY NAME IS SERENA B. I'M FROM BALTIMORE/CHERRY HILL WERE JARULE MADE ONE OF HIS FIRST VIEDOS.DEB. YOU GOT STOP BEING A CRYBABY.ALL U GOT TO DO IS STOP CALLING GOTTI SO MUCH AND HE'LL THINK YOU HAVE SOMEONE ELSE.JUST CHILL WITH YOUR KIDS AND YOUR GIRL T.WORKS EVERY TIME. LOVE SERENA B.

[CieRra]

lmaoooooOooo IRV is effin hilarious meng... i mean serious that interpetation of Deb was o.d "u lazy mffka" lmao but he was honest! especially on that part when he was like "u c me when u look at dat computer u c me when u look at dat notebook" lol wurd up with keeping it real gotti hope i c u nd ur family nxt season

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