WEBVTT - Warren G 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:10.200 R and B money, Honey, we are than take the child. 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:17.040 We are the authority on R and B. Ladies and gentlemen. 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.439 My name is Tank, I'm Jay Allentown, and this is 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:20.200 the r Andy. 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:25.119 Bundy Podcast, the authority, yeah, on all things R and B. 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:26.360 Yeah. 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:31.840 Man, you know I've been on this West coast about 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:33.040 twenty four years. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:38.199 Yeah. Yeah, I feel like I'm from here. Yeah. Huh 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:43.600 have you ever saved an entire label? Now? Many have? 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:44.360 Huh? 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.520 Have you ever mixed R and B with the funk 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:49.120 and called it? 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:50.040 How you? 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:51.640 Yeah? 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:55.320 Yeah, you've never done it, but the man here has. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:01:05.600 It's a nice mister Warren, the lady himself. Yeah, ship. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.240 Oh yeah. How you feeling, man, I'm good, I'm good. 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:10.360 Let me ask you a question. 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.280 Do you do you like because this is this is 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:19.120 a flowers pod. This is where you get an opportunity 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.000 to really say it how you feel it. You know 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.240 what I'm saying, Beaches, you understand I'm saying, like like 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:27.160 own it? 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.040 Oh yeah. Have have you like ever. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:34.680 Just looked around and and. 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:38.119 And thought about the things that you've actually done? 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:45.640 Nah? I just uh, I feel like if I if 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.240 I think about all the stuff back in the past, 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.360 I started feeling like I'm super old night. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:52.920 I'm still young. 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.120 I still I mean, I ain't super young, but I'm 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.000 I'm you know, I'm writing them in the mix with 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:02.360 everything musical, uh everything, you know. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.400 My kids was even trying to clown me talking about dad. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:14.880 You can't do a card wo, I said, ship. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.240 I can't. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:19.640 I'm good, but you know it just you know, just 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.400 if I think about that stuff, uh, like I said, 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.800 it may make me feel like I'm just super old. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:27.800 But then. 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.080 I just try to keep moving. I don't. I just 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.519 like to do stuff and just keep moving. Like if Okay, 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.760 that's a hit record, boom, I'm trying to get another 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.480 one of those. So I just keep driving and driving 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.520 and driving, trying to create you know, uh, just straight 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.520 hit records, you know what I mean. I try to do. 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.160 I know it's not possible, but. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.519 I try to do every record that I produce, I 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.560 try to make it a single, you know. 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.320 So, and that's how people get good good albums. 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.360 When when you're doing a full album, you try to 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.080 make every record a good a single. And that's when 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.760 people be like, damn, the whole record just as a 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.840 whole sound good from top to bottom, you know. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:10.040 So I mean. 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:14.720 That's that's uh, that's just how I am. And I mean, 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.440 like I said, I just I love everything I did. 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.440 But I'm you know, I'm I'm I'm just moving just 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.200 I don't I don't want to stop. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:24.280 You know. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:30.880 I asked that because in this age of everything moving 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:37.280 so fast and everybody's scrolling so fast, and and we're 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:44.320 in an age where people people love to have amnesia. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:45.680 they love too. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:47.040 Yeah. 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.760 They can't wait to y'all. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:51.760 I must have forgotten. 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:59.560 They can't wait to discredit without actually knowing the credits 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:07.120 and the importance in terms of the things that you've 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.760 done which have contributed to the foundation and the fabric 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:16.480 of certain things. It's important to be part of a 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.640 constant conversation, not that you have to say because I mean, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:24.400 that's if you don't, somebody has to say it. And 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.719 and I'm thankful that you're here so that so that 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.160 we can fucking say it. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:32.440 This is this is you know, you. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:36.200 Can however you want to do your other interviews, you 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.800 can be light and easy on them, but today I 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.920 want to hear a whole lot of yeah, you fucking right, 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:42.440 I did that. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:42.880 I want to. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:47.320 I want to straight up, I ain't gonna I ain't 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:48.440 gonna sugar coat nothing. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:53.880 I'm straight up. Yeah, I'm so so so treat me. 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.200 Treat me like I'm new to the West Coast. Where 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.680 does this start? Brother Warrens, Like, where does this journey begin? 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:05.760 It was we uh well, musically for my For myself, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.520 it started with my dad going to his house. He 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.599 would scoop me up on the weekends and we would 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.680 listening to jazz just all day. You know, he'd be blazing, 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.960 you know, have his friends, his lady friends and stuff 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.279 come through. Sometimes some of his homies come through. But 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:28.280 I always had to just chill right there or play 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.280 with the guy that lived next door named Tommy. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.480 We used to play Star Wars and ship. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.680 But other than that, I'd be laying on the ground 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:40.839 listening to jazz with him. And then from there, you know, 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:45.680 my my father and Werner got married and that brought 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.680 me around Drake. That's when I was but from my 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.240 pup I probably was like seven years old maybe, so 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.960 we lived together because my mom made me move with 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.680 my father, you know, and my father and Vernon was 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.240 married and they lived in compics, so they made me move, 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:05.279 moved the coptain and no, I wasn't I wasn't bad. 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:06.760 She didn't want to she didn't want me to get 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.880 caught up in what was going on around where we 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.280 lived at in Loan Beach. But Ship, I was already 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.160 in the mix anywhere, because I was still going. I 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.559 catched the bus right back down down to the East Side. 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.640 And uh, just you know, living with my dad and 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.560 being with with Andre and Tyree, Uh they groomed me, 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:34.599 you know, so being around them and just all all 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.000 my life, you know, I wanted to be like Dre. 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.120 You know, he was doing DJing and stuff like that, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.760 and you know, me and Tyree, we just we both 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:49.600 was in the sports a lot. And but I kind 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.440 of like Dre used to do mixtapes all the time 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.080 that it was just bumping, Like Ship just was bumping. 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.520 So I was like, man, can you show me how 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.640 to do that? So he showed me one day in 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.000 the room because we slept in the same room. We 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.760 slept in the same beds together all that. You know, 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.279 how you got two beds and his three boys and 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:13.520 was sleeping this bed and that bed, and and he 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.360 had some turntables set up by the clause that he 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.320 had it all set up right there, and he showed 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.480 me and I can remember the first record it was. 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.560 It was uh uh it's time. 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.880 He showed me how to mix that and uh so 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:35.080 I just started practicing practicing from there, and uh that 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.040 was another thing that made me fall in love with 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:42.120 music as well. And just you know, looking up to him, 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.360 him and Tyree, they both was was both you know. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.400 It was great for me to have big brothers. I 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.400 was like dangn but and and they used to make 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.200 me fight the little dudes in the hood. They called 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:57.360 me kibbles and bits then and uh but uh, I 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:04.040 graduated from kibbles and business to uh circul pull up. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.920 A problem with your little niggas. Yeah, we used to. 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.880 We used to have battle of the blocks, uh boxing 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:13.600 and the gloves. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:14.040 Yeah. 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:14.520 Uh. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.000 One of my homeboys stink. 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:18.920 He was vicious. I ain't gonna live, but me and 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.720 him used to lock up. Yeah, we were locking up. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:22.400 You know. 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:24.920 That was my only competition other than that. 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.160 I was putting hands on everybody except for bb BB 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.360 was He was younger than me, but he was one 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.240 of those who was just vicious. He was one of 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.920 the fi I'm talking about like thirteen years old, knocking out, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.600 knocking out, twenty five year old or thirty years like that. Yeah, 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.840 like that, so that all this is in Compton though, 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.040 that was in Compton, but I was I was still 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.599 tracking back and forth. But you living in Compton, but 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.920 you're from Long Beach, so yeah, it's also that. Yeah, 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:56.760 when you moved to that neighborhood, they're like, oh, well, 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:58.079 was a bitch from Long Beach. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.480 Yeah, right, so you had to go through that whole thing. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.520 Yeah, And I mean all of that stuff just groomed me, 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:06.760 uh into the music. 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.320 And then later on as I. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:10.760 Grew up. 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:15.280 I'm not ain't gonna say as I grew up before that, 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.839 I was around you know that ain't even before that. 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:21.640 That was all around the same time. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:22.840 We used to. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:26.720 I would go back and I'd be at my house 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:32.640 with my mother and we had we had had this 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.600 crew called the Voultron Crew. That's what I talk about 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.520 on this DJ. I said, the Vaultron Crew, which we 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.400 worked for this dude named Steve who we used to 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.199 sell candy for. And so we used to go to 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:49.000 all the neighborhoods all from Long Beach to Santa Ana 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.199 to up by U c l A selling candy and 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.760 and uh when we were finished selling candy, what we 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.360 would do was we rap. 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:02.880 So it was me Snoop, the twins. 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:03.360 Uh. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:08.200 It was a gang of us, Steve uh t Needy, 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:12.280 it was Priscilla uh Uh, it was a bunch of us. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.560 Uh fave uh tig. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:16.680 We was deep. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.240 All of us was in this one van. 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:22.040 We was like the uh fat album now and after 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.920 after we finished selling candy, we would we would flip 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.800 quarters and we would just freestyle. So that's where I 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.559 really learned how to how to you know, just like 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.760 really just learn how to freestyle because you had to. 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.520 But I started cheating, uh because I was I was 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.480 you know, like I said. At that time, Dre was 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:45.040 in uh the world class wrecking crew. So I used 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.679 to get all the music before anybody anything. So I 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:48.880 had the tapes everything. 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:51.679 So we in there one day and I'm just I 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:52.720 just started rapping. 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:54.200 Uh they hate. 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.240 He had a song called Cabbage Patch and I started 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.719 rapping that motherfucking there uh in the in the van 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.160 with everybody after word will. I was rolling down the 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.440 street with my mind at ease. I had my top 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.839 pulled back to Canfield. They looking like damn this nigga 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:09.640 and gun hor. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:13.520 Where you get that? 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:19.440 What happened? I never said ship and uh until later 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:24.400 and you know, just doing that the Vaultron crew. But 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.559 you're going back and forth, yeah, going back. You're going 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:28.760 back and forth Compton. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.240 So do they not I'm not even just Long Beach 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:32.600 and Compton from. 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:36.319 Your Voultron crew to your household with your big brothers, 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:38.640 poor world class wrecking crew. 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.040 Does the home? Do the homies in Long Beach know this? 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:42.439 Or no? 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:43.679 Yeah they knew it? 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.520 Well snooping, Yeah they knew it. 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.480 They knew it. They knew it because by this time 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:48.920 they got turned off the lights and all that out. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.319 Yeah, yeah they knew it. They knew it. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:53.520 Ship. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:54.959 Everybody knew it. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:55.480 You know. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:57.880 Dre used to be in Long Wish too, you know 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.640 on the east side. Well he went to staying out 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.920 on the east side here and there, and he went 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.280 to Jordan for I think for maybe a few semesters 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.760 or something, and then he he got kicked out, I think, 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:15.480 uh for not going I think, but let me see. 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.520 But I mean all of that, so every everybody, you know, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.560 everybody from Loanbies knew that Dre was related to us. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:28.320 Every you know, everybody knew it. And then later on, uh, 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.760 like I said, we was with the Vultron crew. We 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.520 used to go to Cayle State. I talk about that 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:40.800 in this DJ that King Park was the the epicenter 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.120 for for all our relationships for the twins. Who was 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.280 who was the artist with us? Me and Snoop Dirty Left, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.640 which is Snoopers oldest brother. That was that was my 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.599 best friend before Snoop was my best friend because we 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.559 all went to C I S. That was across the 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.640 street from King Park. And I'm kind of speeding a 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.079 little it, uh through the whole through the whole thing. 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:08.120 But uh, but that that's where our introduction, our introduction 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.440 to each other as kids started right there at King's Park, 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.719 getting the free lunches. Uh, working for the s Y E. 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.280 T P, Working for Steve with the United teams, just 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.520 trying to trying to survive and trying to try to eat. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:27.079 And you know Snoop was always uh uh he was 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.559 like a comedian. He used to always bag and he 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:34.360 would always freestyle. So we played football together, uh and 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.160 he used to always be rapping. I was I was 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:45.360 focused on football more heavy, but we always we always 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.800 was doing music. So as we got older and older 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.760 and older, we kept working with me, you know, Snoop 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.360 became my best friend, so we would dip here and there. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.800 So we kind of got separated at at a certain 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.840 point where I was in Norfolk Beach because I had 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.560 got in trouble coming down alone, which I got in trouble. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:04.360 Uh. 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.520 I went to middle school actually in Loan Beach at Hughes. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:08.360 Uh. 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.240 So they kicked me out of Hughes and sent me 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:14.120 to the north side, a long beach, Hamilton. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:15.400 Got kicked out of Hamilton. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.920 They sent me to Lindburg and Lindbergh is where it 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.520 all started. Sub where I got on track and that 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.880 was that was That was like some of the most 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.840 fun I had in my life from that point through 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:28.480 high school. 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.160 But we still kept in touch with each other. 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.520 I would come down there still hanging with all my 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.040 friends and we would do music and messing around. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.880 So we got older. Uh been high school. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:46.640 One day, I was at lunch, you know, I'm I'm 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.800 out at lunch and I hear somebody howling warm, you know, 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.800 like warm. So I'm looking, I'm looking like Warren. I 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.440 look and it's snoop and I'm like, think, what the 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.160 fuck are you doing up here? You're supposed to be 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:58.720 a polly. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.160 He was like they they wouldn't let me go to 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.360 poly no more because we moved up to sixty first Street, so. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.680 He was he was. He was like, you still doing music, 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.200 ain't you? I was like, yeah, still doing music. So 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.000 we linked up, did a little mixtape. I still had 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.680 my turntables and my mixer and I would hit record 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:20.640 on the tape deck and we give them a little 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.040 raggedy microphone and he'd start busting. We just we did 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.840 a demo for Eric being rock Camp, well for Karl Lewis, 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.520 but it was we sent it to her to give 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.160 to Eric Being rock Camp and all of them back 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:33.640 in the day. 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:35.840 On our mixtape I think I made. 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.440 I probably did like about I mailed off about maybe 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.960 eight to ten of them, motherfuckers, just mailing them to 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.280 different record companies and everything, just off our little demo. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:51.280 But we kept doing We started doing mixtapes and stuff 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.840 like that. So once we got out of school is 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.080 when the reality kind of hit us a little bit. 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.800 So we was like all over. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.040 I stayed on sixty first us an Orange. He stayed 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.040 on sixty first in London. So we ended up getting 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:09.080 caught up in the hustle game around the neighborhood. But 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.200 we were still doing our music too. But it was 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.760 starting to get hectic as far as like that's I 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.280 talk about that on do U see. It was getting 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.080 hectic for us then, but we still was we we 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.000 had We was just trying to make money so we 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.240 can get new clothes, go to the football games and 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.640 look good, and you know, just try to get cars 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.360 and shit like that. Just looking at the guys that 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.520 was before us. We kept going and going and going 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.640 with you know, we was going in and out of jail. 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.680 We go to the county. One I may be in 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.320 the county. He main't be in the county. Or Nate 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.320 then went to the county. You know, just back and 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.680 forth from getting caught up and where were you know, 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:54.680 around where we was at, And we finally just said, 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.080 you know what, let's slow down a little bit, get 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.160 it together, because we've seen a lot happen, uh as 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:04.920 far as on the on the gang tip, the killing tip, 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.120 the shooting tip, all that ship, we've seen a lot 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.960 of shit. So it was like we're gonna We're gonna 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.879 end up being in the in this position, just like 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.880 all the other Homeboys was gone twenty something years, fifteen years, 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.720 thirty years, they was all getting stretched, and uh so 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.960 we was like fuck that shit. Uh So we just 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.040 started working full time. We would go to the VIP 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.280 Calvin would let us in in the do demos. So 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.920 we're going there doing demos. Yeah, and the record store 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.720 right yeah, yeah, so we was doing demos from with Calvin. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.960 Uh with Snoop was going to other I would get mad. 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:45.680 I ain't gonna lie when he would go deal with 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.840 other producers and other people pissed off. 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:50.600 Like while you going over there with them? 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.680 We were you and Nate. 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.720 So, uh we did a. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.440 Demo with one of my guys, his name money B. 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.280 Not money Be from Digital Underground, but long Beach money Bee. 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:07.160 He's a white dude, but he was. He was our niggah. 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:12.520 But uh so we did a demo with him. We 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:18.159 did a song called long Beach is a motherfucker. I 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.639 can't remember all our songs right off top, but I 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:22.399 got him actually in my phone. 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.040 You still got all your original I got the demos 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:35.280 in my phone. M Do you feel like. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.600 For y'all, it was more of a reality because you 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.240 had a brother who was already doing it. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.000 Was that always kind of the back with us. 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:53.440 At all. Yeah, little family functions that Dre, Snoop and 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.440 rap Man you need to listen. And we got a 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.119 group called two one three check us out. Oh yeah, okay, 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:03.399 yeah yeah, Like damn, he ain't fucking with us. So 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:04.919 he never was fucking with us. 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:06.720 He was cool with us. 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.440 Fucking with us like no, y'all, y'all niggas ain't you 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:12.879 know because some wild niggas. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.119 No, probably because we was pretty young. We was. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.320 We was pretty young. Uh when we was trying to 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:23.919 get at him, we was. We was young like ship uh. 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.520 We we was young. Because this is the n w 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:27.640 A days for him though. 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.280 Yeah, yeah, well it was n w A and then 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.400 he went into n w A end I mean ended 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.920 up well wrecking Crew and then he went into n 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:39.880 w A at the time at that time around that time, 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.560 but before that, he was with the uh I think 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.120 it was called the Stereo Crew. They was deep there. 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.840 DJ Crew. That's why I fell in love with with 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:57.080 DJ because him and Easy Randy, cat Sheen Donald, they 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.840 was all a crew a speed did the speed Uh, 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.520 they had their crew called I think it was called 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.960 the Stereo Crew, if I'm not mistaken. So that's inspired 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:13.040 me as well. But god damn, I forgot sometimes. 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:16.720 With his family when it's family, wasn't when it's family, 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:18.840 it's like, yeah, it's. 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.159 Too it's too close for you to really see if. 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:26.920 It's real or not if yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.120 I mean, but we kept we kept working. 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:32.720 We went for some years. Yeah, we wasn't. 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:38.360 Yeah, well we was older, like seventeen eighteen, seventeen eighteen. 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:42.760 Around that time, we was uh, we wasn't even chiming 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.760 in with him no more. So we were just doing 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:49.280 our thing in the streets. And like I said, we 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.359 formed a group called two one three, which was our 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:56.600 area code for all of California, like the southern California 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.760 and then but we was inspired by four one five 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:02.920 from the Bay Richie Rich, Yeah, Richie Rich, which. 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.080 Is crazy because the same thing happened with them, where 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:07.720 four and five the area coast our area codes split 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:09.679 up in the Bay. Yeah, four and five only end 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.760 up in San Francisco. And obviously then five one oh 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:16.600 became Oakland, our yards became Long Beach. 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:18.959 Yeah, three one three one oh was a round let 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:21.640 me three one oh. It was before two one three 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:23.639 was it? It was three to one oh, but it 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:26.520 was l A was always known, it was all, but 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:30.800 then it switched to two one three, and uh so 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:34.119 we we we took on that that whole, like we 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:39.520 represent for everybody, Comped and Washed Long Beach, La Courson, 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.280