WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Ice-T Part 1 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.040 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeart Radio. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.040 Congratulations people, Yes, indeed, Award Supreme. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:14.280 We got hardware. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:16.440 Yes, we did the damn thing. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:18.200 We gotta tell him what award do we win? 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:21.119 Yeah, he tells me what we won here. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:29.800 Wet The award is I Heeart Music Podcast of the Year. 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.920 Shout out to Norri, You're great, but not as great. 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:46.199 Thought first, we ain't hardly the first beat between podcasts. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:47.239 Yeah, that's love. 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.200 Love to everybody in the category. It's all love. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:50.839 You know. 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.640 It goes without saying that our Guest Today is an 0:00:54.720 --> 0:01:00.000 absolute legend, with a Grammy to boot, multiple Golden Platinum 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.120 albums to his credit. He actually pinned one of hip 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.960 hop's first memoirs, The Ice Opinion. 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.399 He pinned classics like you. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.440 Know, Six in the Morning, Colors, New Jack, Hustler Og, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:16.560 Original Gangster. He's collaborated with everyone from Quincy Jones to 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:21.760 Tupac to Cube to Quell, Keith the Slayer, and you know, 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.360 I will basically say that our Guest Today is one 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.640 of the first stars of our culture to really parlay 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.880 and pivot from just hip hop to other venues of expression, 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:37.759 be it film, television. His metal band body count one 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.320 of the first hip hop legends to be a dominant 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.600 voice on social media, and he's using that same wisdom 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.040 as that he kicks on Twitter to offer his daily game. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.440 Definitely worth a following. I mean you should be following 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.480 if you're not. But basically, what can I say? We 0:01:54.560 --> 0:02:00.520 have the legendary Ice Tea on Quest Love Supreme today, Sir, Wow, Wow. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.520 It's crazy. Thank you man, thank you think come on. 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.000 Dog, you know you legend done y'. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.320 Also, it doesn't age you like drank for the family 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.240 youth did Ice team Man. 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.880 I like to always preface it with living legend, you 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:20.040 know what I'm saying, as you should. A lot of 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.399 times people don't get they flowers till it's a rap, 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.440 you know what I'm saying. So I'm still here. But 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:29.240 it's funny though, Quest I'm right now. I'm working on 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:33.040 a project that's a compilation of all my story rhymes. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.639 You know, I like to tell stories, and the title 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.400 of it is the Legend of Iced Tea Crime Stories, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:45.320 because legend is part fiction, you know. Legend is like 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.519 a tale, you know. So it was a night I 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:49.480 was in the club and I got in a fight 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.640 and I knocked the guy out, but the legend says 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.800 I knocked five guys out. You see what I'm saying. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.560 Now you become legendary. You got to live up to 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.120 some of these legends that aren't really the truth. But 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.200 I kind of let people believe what they want to believe, 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:05.839 you know what I'm saying. So that's why we called 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.560 the record the Legend Device Team. But thank you very much. 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.480 I was going to say, you know, I didn't know 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.679 whether or not to. I'm certain that this ain't the 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.119 first time that you've heard, especially based on your name, 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.360 that cats might call you the Iceberg Slim of hip hop. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.680 I'm sure a lot of that is also just due 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.880 to the fact that not on Ryan Page, but I 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.680 think on Power, I remember you close inside too with 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.400 kind of a storytell I think it's Soul on ice 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:40.080 the closing song on Power, of which back then I 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.000 was wondering, like if that was going to be your 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.600 not that I was seeing a pivot back in nineteen 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.760 eighty seven or eighty eight, like did you ever have 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:56.440 any goals or aspirations to actually start writing fictional books 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:57.120 on that level? 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.520 Now, the true story is I'm named after Iceberg, Slim, 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.200 and I named myself after Iceberg Slim. When I was 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.960 in high school, you know, you I went to Crimshaw, 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:09.960 So you had the gang bangers and then you had 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.120 the players. The players were the cast, the ward tailor maids, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.680 and they would shake, always shooting dice. And you know, 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:21.000 I ended up migrating from the gangsters to them, and 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.760 that's when you see me. And I had the perm 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.200 and the Fela and all that. But these cats would 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.280 hang out and they would carry around Iceberg Slim books 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:32.279 and Donald Going books. You feel me. So I wanted 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.800 to know what that was. So I started reading Iceberg 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.839 Slim and I was fascinated with it. So I was 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.640 in eleventh grade. I was able to quote Iceberg Slim 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.599 to the girls, and they thought I was the fly 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.400 shit in the world because I'm quoting a forty year 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.760 old pimp to them. I mean, I could quote you 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.880 want to hear some Iceberg Slim? You want to hear? Yes? 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:58.240 Please? Yes please. 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.240 I needed three way winch that'll play Jasper and extension, 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.039 take them around the horn. No Gene or John. This 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.000 whole couldn't con because that trick was never born. She 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.520 would be a good shot broad and the acid, fraud 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.279 and drags. She'll play like a vet, She'll stuff like 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.760 an ace, never lose a case, and leave many a 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.520 mark in debt. She'll be rated the best in the 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.520 East and the West. When a boosting hands goes down, 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.800 she'll still knots out of knees and fidos fleas. This 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.320 bitch is still out many a town. Now. I heard 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.960 hoes cry about the wind being high and the law 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.799 being on. They tail about snowing, sleep being ass whole deep, 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.600 and the tricks can go to hell and some greasy 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.560 spoon or juke saloon, you'll find them killing their time, 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.640 crying hard luck tears and sucking up beers. And the 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.000 pimps ain't getting the dime, turning half dollar tricks just 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.040 to get a fixed because their pussy is doing the pimping. 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.359 That is ruining the name of one hell of a 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.239 game because they pimps is doing the simping. 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.560 I see you on the next question of supreme leaders. Joke. 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:06.120 I'm saying that at the eleventh grade to girls, and 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.640 I'm not telling them it's iceberg slim. They like this, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:10.160 who is this flyer? 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.799 And you don't even know what the fuck you're saying 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:14.320 half of it. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:19.520 This sounds fly right. That thing you said is how 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.479 can I be down with this ass motherfucker? So so 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:28.919 ice Berg ice tea is short for Iceberg tea. Quest 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.440 you're right, and my boys call me Berg, my boys 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.360 call me Burg. So now the song you heard was 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.360 my homage to Hustlers Convention. Remember that album they had 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:45.800 out called yeah, like was it Lightning Rod? And yeah? Yeah? 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.960 So I was in that vein. But really, honestly, truthfully 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.520 quests all my music is Iceberg slim like, my music 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:58.159 is more like literature that it was not meant to 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.560 dance to. It's like, you know, straight up nigga or 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.360 some of y'all niggas's bitches too, or I'm the Pusher 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.880 high Rollers. It's definitions of certain things. So that was 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.680 my way of writing books, was writing music, And I 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:16.280 honestly used music that you couldn't dance to intentionally so 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.120 that you'd have to to make you listen. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.160 I see, I see, you're right on the plank. 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.880 So for a lot of our listeners that don't know 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.800 of your history, I mean maybe it's maybe ten or 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.880 fifteen years ago that I was shocked when I first 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.760 found out that you were actually born in Jersey. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.600 Yes, you know, where in Jersey did you live? 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.840 I was born in Newark, New Jersey. I lost my 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:43.880 mom when I was in the third grade, and I 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:48.440 moved to Summit, New Jersey, which a predominantly white suburb. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.720 There was like one black street called Williams Street, where 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.720 mostly all the black people live. And then I lost 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.360 my father when I was in the seventh grade and 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.360 I was excuse me, shipped to Los Angeles to live 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.520 with his sister. So even though I was from the 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.080 East Coast, I hadn't really kicked up no dust. I 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.440 was a kid kid, you know. So by the time 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.320 I actually got active, I was in LA by that point. 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.560 But yeah, I'm from I'm from the East Coast, born 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:14.800 out there. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.600 Just for perspective, I'm just curious, where are your people's from, Like, 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:18.960 where was your mama's peoples from? 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:20.480 Where was your daddy's people from. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:24.640 My mother was a Creole from New Orleans, and she 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.640 was so light skinned. Back in the fifties, they said 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:32.839 she could pass. You know, you know that term. I mean, yes, 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.120 the pass is white. And my father was quest color. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.360 So they were considered an interracial marriage to a lot 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.200 of people. So that's where I was. I learned earlier 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.240 about racism that that was not something to tolerate, how 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.440 stupid it was. My mother was able to hear white 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.600 people talk about black people in front of her because 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:54.439 they thought, oh yeah. And one of my first moments 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.720 in racism was I had a white kid that thought 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.560 I was white and was talking about another black person 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.320 in front of me. But yeah, that's and my father, 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.200 I think he was from Virginia, so you know, that's 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.679 why I'm a light skinned brother with hazel eyes. And 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.480 people know that the history of Creole is black and French. 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.680 I guess fish out of water situation wasn't for you 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:18.480 in LA at the time, Like how old are you 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:19.360 when you're in LA? 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:21.560 How old are you in his seventh grade. 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:25.400 Twelve twelve. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.440 I didn't like it first because you know, when you 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.240 move up through a kid, he doesn't have any friends. 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.240 So I got shipped when my father died. Both of 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.280 them died in natural causes, you know, but my father 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.920 passed away. I was in school and they ship. They 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.640 took me home and then that summer they just sent 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.719 me to l A like for the summer. Then all 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.160 my clothes came and I was moved out there with 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:55.319 his sister. I didn't I didn't like it because I 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.000 you know, and that's how I'm living. I said I 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.840 didn't like la. I didn't have no friends to I've 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.280 got and then got bussed to a school blacks and whites. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.800 I guess this shit was cool, you know, but it 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.280 was weird, man, because my aunt didn't really want me. 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.920 She had two kids that had already graduated out of 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.520 high school and they were ready to go on with 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.000 their life, and in comes this kid now in the 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.440 junior high and it was it was rough on me. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.280 I left her house when I was seventeen years old, 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:27.960 and I've been on my own ever since. I've never 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.920 dealt I have no living relatives, no sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.520 I've been ice. Tea's been on his own ever since. Dola. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:39.360 Wow, seriously, yeah, shit man. 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.400 Not even a mentor, like who was your first male 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:43.319 in your life then? 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:43.840 In that way? 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.320 Just friends, you know, friends. I have one friend that 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.360 I looked up to. He died early, and uh, nobody. 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.760 That's how kids get involved in gangs. Gangs are like 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.920 surrogate families, you know, masculinity. Like, honestly, when I got 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.160 around the gangs, I never was in a gang, but 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.840 I was affiliated with the gangs. Because see, you're not 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.520 in a gang, you're from a gang, you know, So 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.480 you have to be in a neighborhood. That neighborhood is 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.040 a gang. So if you're from the sixties, you're in 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.120 the Rolling sixties, you're from the eighties, you're in the 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.880 eight trays in La So I was living in a 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.000 nicer area in View Park. So when I went to Crenshaw, 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:25.200 you had Harlem crips, Hoover Cripts, all kinds of crypt gangs. 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:31.160 So I knew all the shot callers. But I you know, honestly, 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.280 being around my homeboys, that was the first time I 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.440 ever heard somebody tell me they loved me, you know, 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.240 since my parents passed. You know, we love. And the 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.680 thing of it is is the gangs to love is 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.240 different because they mean it, you know when they say 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.120 if something happens to you, because it's on and they 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.440 meant it and they really and it's kind of like 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.120 what you wish your father was. Like, like, you know, 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.839 like I always say, if somebody shot me, my last 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.520 words wouldn't be peace to beget those motherfuckers, you know, 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.680 So that's embedded in me, you know. But no, I 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.040 don't have family, just friends. And I've found out that 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:10.640 having sometimes that type of family is better because you 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:11.280 can choose it. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:21.679 I know, oftentimes when people are thrust it into situations in. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:22.800 Which they lose. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.360 I had like one or two conversations with James Brown, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.920 and you know, his whole thing was like, you know, 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.280 my mom and my dad gave me away, and he 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.840 said that that made him well, he was saying like, 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.040 basically that made him stubborn. But I think he was 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:40.880 basically trying to tell me it was really hard for 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:46.640 him to trust anybody, anybody, you know, like when your 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:52.400 parents leave you then even through death or through you know, circumstances, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.920 then you know, it's kind of hard to open your 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.080 heart to like, Okay, that's my friend and that's my 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.800 friend over there. But were you social like that or 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.120 were you like a hermit in the beginning or no. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:09.640 I kind of like became I guess what you would say, violent, 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.440 But it's not like I was beating on people, but 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.880 I put on a violent persona because now here you go, 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.680 you got a light skin kid in La Rap surrounded 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.080 with the gangs. I got hazel eyes. My fucking name 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:29.320 is Tracy. I don't have any relatives, right, so you're 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:33.920 gonna be predator or prey. Fortunately I'm six feet you know, 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.800 I always was always around two hundred pounds. You know, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.839 even in high school, I was always healthy enough to fight. 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.520 So I ended up putting on this energy that you 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.959 guys know today is nice tea. I'm a nice I'm 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.200 an as Ice. I'm a nice guy. But I think 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.360 fifty Cents said it best. It ain't how my mama 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:57.240 raised me. It's how the hood made me. So I 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.360 just had to learn. Like one of my buddies said, 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.200 Ice is a nice dude, he just doesn't back up well. 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.160 I don't back up well. So once you once you 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.320 issue me like it's going to you know, if you 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.560 tell me da da da da da or else, I'm 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.560 not backing up because where am I going to back 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.959 up to? Where can I go? You know what I'm saying. 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.160 So I became you know, I had a lot of 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:23.160 fades and a lot of fights, and but I had 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.160 nowhere to go. Request It was just, you know, I 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.400 had no options and still don't was that when you 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.760 because at one point you joined the army or at 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.280 one point didn't you. I joined the army because it's 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.680 seventeen years old. I hadn't had a lot of sex 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:42.960 like I was. I wasn't getting no sex. Tenthly, I 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.160 don't believe it. No, tenth I didn't get sex till 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.160 twelfth grade. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.640 The game wasn't right. It was the presentation was good, 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:51.680 but you ain't handle game. 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:52.560 Is that what it was? 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:52.880 Nah? 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:57.280 The girls was dating forty year old niggas like I was. 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.880 I'm in high school. I'm talking to girls all day. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:01.560 Didn't when they go out and see them at the 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.360 end of the night. They getting picked up in low 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.120 riders niggas. Yeah, kids, and you know that. You know 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.560 the drill. So I until I made it to senior, 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.760 I had no leverage. I had no leverage, you know, 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.520 I couldn't. I had nothing to offer them. I had 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.880 enough to offer them to entertainment at school, but not 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.920 outside of school, not out of school. Guys know this drill. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.120 You know the drill, the girl, the cheerleader flirt. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.920 In high school all yeah, all the bad joints were 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.080 dating way older dudes. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.840 Was looking at the wrong girls. 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.200 That's all in high school like that, Like that's what 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.920 it was. They wasn't looking at us now. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.480 So when I finally made it to senior, I got it. 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.320 I had a girl from the tenth grade. I had 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.320 a little leverage on her. But now I get out 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.920 of I left my aunt's house. I got two hundred 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.360 and fifty dollars social Security. I told her I bailed. 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.720 She said, you'll never make it. I took one hundred 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.200 dollars and got an apartment. I had another one hundred 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.080 dollars I spent on food. I had fifty dollars. That 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:03.120 was free money, right, And I found apartment and the 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.120 guy was like, you're too young. I said, well, I'm 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.000 gonna have to check sent to you. You take my 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.720 rent out and then you give me the difference. So 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.120 the landlord would give me one hundred and fifty dollars cash. 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.840 That's how he knew he was gonna get paid. And 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.000 uh what happens. I got my girl pregnant. Now I 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:20.840 got on my own pad. When I'm in the twelfth 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.560 grade and you talking about popular shit, I was killed. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.520 But I didn't know. I didn't know they could get pregnant. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.280 That easy. You know what I'm saying. I ain't busted 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:30.720 enough nuts to know the drill. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:34.360 And there you have it. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.840 That's our clip. And I'm and I'm and i'm uh, 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.200 you know, I'm old. I was graduating in nineteen seventy six. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.800 It wasn't like condoms was around you. Damn Eve needed 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:45.760 to go to the pharmacy to get a condom, like 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:47.520 you thing like you had to get a prescription to 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.840 get a condom back then. You know. So I'm busting 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:55.360 nuts and she said she pops up pregnant, and uh, 0:16:55.680 --> 0:17:00.400 being an orphan, I wanted the baby, right, I don't 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:04.639 got nobody. And so I went in the military based 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.080 on that, Like, I'm like, I gotta get some responsibility, 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.439 and I joined the army. I did four years at 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.200 the twenty fifth Infantry Division. 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:16.000 What was that like? 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:20.719 Like that level of discipline, especially when I would assume 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.960 that if you're saying that you have to have this 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.639 persona in la where. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:28.960 Just back up off me, just back up off me 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:29.560 type shit. 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:29.879 You know. 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:31.880 Okay, you know how that work? 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:33.760 That don't work well in the army. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.320 Yes it does, Yes, it does. See, the being in 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.760 an army is kind of like joining a football team. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:41.680 If you don't want to be there, it ain't gonna work. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.800 If you want to be there, it's gonna work. You 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.720 gotta want to be there, you see what I'm saying. 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.560 I made the decision to do it, so I was 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.720 ready to go. Like if you see Gi Jane, they're 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.919 like ring the bell, ring the bell. Quit quit the 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.399 armies like that, like if you can't hang go, But 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.680 now you're much the other alpha and you like, I 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.159 ain't no punk, I'm ana shuts. It's a place for 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.639 alpha males, That's what really is. It's for motherfuckers that 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.960 really want to get down. They want to go to war, 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:15.199 like these motherfuckers, so they they hunt cats like you. 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.000 But now they take the gang the street shit out 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:19.800 of you. I remember the first time I went in 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.199 the gas chamber. They put you in a gas chamber 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:26.359 and say what yeah, well, they put you in this 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.000 thing called the gas chamber and let. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.760 You you've seen Private Benjamin, you know. 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.120 They put gas in there and they make you take 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.639 your mask off so you can have see. The trip 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.320 with military is. They want you to go through things 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.080 so that when it happens, it's not the first time 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:45.679 it happened. So you know you're gonna march twenty five miles, 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:47.800 so if you have to do it, I've done this before, 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.080 So they tell you to take it off. So what 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.200 I did is I squinted it and I just held 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:54.960 my breath. And I was able to hold my breath 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.800 a long time, and so when I came out, everybody 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.600 was coughing and shit like that. I was able to 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.199 pull the mask off and it didn't look like it 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:04.880 fuck with me. And the drill start was like, see 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.240 that's that same shit they throw itmorrow on the block. 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:13.439 He's used to that ship off the block. They were able. 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.400 They would tease the street cats like, you know, y'all, 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.440 motherfucker's not a break of M six. So you got. 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.800 Respect off the jump. Then in a way, well. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.800 If you tough in there, they gonna let you be tough. 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.919 They're gonna let you. I remember one time I was 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.879 there and they and I had a sergeant arranger he 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.520 named and he was like, who thinks they can whoop 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.760 my ass? Right? And I hated this little motherfucker, and 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.160 I knew I could knock him out, so I put 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.919 my hand up in his other brother uh named go 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:45.040 Van and another white dude named McGary stuck their hands up, 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:47.840 and I thought we was gonna get the fight. And 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:49.720 then he brought us up in front of the squad 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.479 a platoon and said, who think they could beat me 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.920 and my two three friends up? You got you guys 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.720 are the squad leaders. So he I want to see 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.919 who thought they had heart? Yeah, And that was the 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.400 biggest mistake in my life. Ever since then, I never 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:14.640 wanted to be in charge of shit. I'm your guy 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:18.280 to ride shotgun. I understand the position shotgun is much better. 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:22.040 You know, fuck to being the boss, the boss fucked that. 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.760 It's brave to say that shit because I ain't mad 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:25.120 at you. 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:26.320 But it's brave to say it. 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.399 But that you not that you don't want to be 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:31.399 the boss, and you ain't mad at not being the boss. 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.920 Like everybody, some people will feel like, well, what you mean? 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:34.879 I see like you and g. 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:36.840 You should be the boss at the top of everything 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:38.240 that you know producing. 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:41.000 But I see what you're saying, and. 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.520 Those people have never been the boss. See a lot 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.680 of things you want because you have never gotten them. 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:51.800 Once you get them, you go got it pass. I'm 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:52.280 good on that. 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.359