Speaker 1: You see Donald Trump, don't let your boy. He let
Speaker 1: Larry Hoop, Route Dog and a whole bunch of other
Speaker 1: people too.
Speaker 2: They said he's still got time though, he's still facing
Speaker 2: two hundred years for something else as soon as.
Speaker 1: He gets back to Chicago Hu from the state hunting.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if that's the case. I think
Speaker 2: that was just some paperwork shit. I don't know, you
Speaker 2: know what, bro the man that's out now and he's
Speaker 2: seventy some years old. Man, they can't be that vindicted though. Shit,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't really read too much about it.
Speaker 2: I've seen it, but from what I was reading, he's
Speaker 2: still facing a gang of you know, other shit. So
Speaker 2: I don't know how that's feasible.
Speaker 1: You I'm here, his son of You know what, I've
Speaker 1: been trying to figure out for the longest time. The
Speaker 1: human being man that most probably live to be one
Speaker 1: hundred and two, and that's really pushing it right, right,
Speaker 1: How do you give somebody two hundred years? I'm trying
Speaker 1: to figure that out? Is it? Like? Man? You know what?
Speaker 1: That's almost like some witchcraft type of ship that's like
Speaker 1: what do they call that ship? That karmic.
Speaker 3: Shit?
Speaker 1: Karmack punishment and some ship like that. The nigga going
Speaker 1: to this his next life and just steal in trouble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess if that's if that's a possibility. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they don't. They don't want you to have no chances.
Speaker 1: Oh that's crazy, man, Even even in death, your ass
Speaker 1: could still be on some time. You know what I
Speaker 1: was figuring out.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: We had Juigo g in here a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and I was just thinking about the city of Compton.
Speaker 1: Compton is probably the number one rap city in the country, dog,
Speaker 1: outside of Brooklyn and all that shit. Man, Compton, you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta think about it. From the nineties ship
Speaker 1: even the eighties dog going up to now. Compano had
Speaker 1: it on smash Now.
Speaker 2: They tried to say that. You know, people nowadays, I
Speaker 2: guess with the diversity of music, people are gonna be like, well,
Speaker 2: you can't say that now because the South the South is,
Speaker 2: and the South that and whatever. Whatever.
Speaker 3: So you gotta I guess you gotta go by time frame.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what I'm gonna tell you, Like this, bro.
Speaker 2: For a long time, we didn't have shit, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Think about this though, eight the South don't have some
Speaker 1: cold people, man. You know, star Facing in the South
Speaker 1: is a big region. Were talking about a city, man,
Speaker 1: that don't do Compton even have one hundred thousand people
Speaker 1: in it?
Speaker 2: Bro Uh, all depends on how you count it. I'm
Speaker 2: sure one hundred thousand people do lived in Compton.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but let's say Coon got Compton ain't no big
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Compton not no no million population
Speaker 1: of one million type of city though. You know it's
Speaker 1: a small city, bro Compen is a small city and
Speaker 1: the habits and the impact that it has on music. Dog,
Speaker 1: I don't you know unless you're talking about like Brooklyn
Speaker 1: and you know, the Bronx and all that stuff. They
Speaker 1: was around since the inception of hip hop. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about this small city that's had the impact
Speaker 1: on music. I doubt that anybody from New York or
Speaker 1: anywhere else can say that they got some resident in
Speaker 1: the city that has had the impact on music Compton.
Speaker 1: Did Compton us really in the whole new genre?
Speaker 3: Dog? Yeah?
Speaker 2: But like you said, the Brooklyn's and the ships like
Speaker 2: that has been around since the inception and are still
Speaker 2: going on to this day too. So that's that's a
Speaker 2: hard argument.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Compton, you know, Compton might be
Speaker 1: you know you people are gonna.
Speaker 2: Say you being biased now because of the Kendrick era.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're saying that because Kendricks got because like
Speaker 2: I said, for a long time, we didn't have a lot,
Speaker 2: we didn't have a lot to represent. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. Like I said, it's in, it's in time frames.
Speaker 1: But let me kick this off though, dog, because no
Speaker 1: matter the time frames were significant. Okay, First of all,
Speaker 1: you got tidy t and mixed Master Spade that you
Speaker 1: start off with, right, I would say that's probably the
Speaker 1: I'm only naming people that actually lived in Compton, I
Speaker 1: would say, the legendary, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then you got the NWA era Dog, and you had
Speaker 1: people that was claiming Compton, Compton was so influential back
Speaker 1: in the day. You had people that didn't even live
Speaker 1: in Compton claiming it. Right. So you had NWA. I
Speaker 1: can't even begin to describe what they did for hip hop.
Speaker 1: You feel what I'm saying. It was just gangster rap,
Speaker 1: not just gangster rap, Dog, just the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Just because not everybody, nobody was accepting of gangster rap.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, and had you tell it.
Speaker 2: NWA destroyed a lot when it came to hip hop.
Speaker 2: So you know, from other people's perspective.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, No, what n w A did
Speaker 1: is they you know, let's just drop the gangster rap ship.
Speaker 1: It was reality rap in its fines. They put the
Speaker 1: spotlight on police brutality, put the spotlight on what the
Speaker 1: average young dude in the neighborhood was going through. Right
Speaker 1: then you got you know yourself, CMW You feel what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, that era start. Then you got DJ Quick
Speaker 1: across town. Then you have you just got this thing
Speaker 1: man with so many rappers out of comptent Dog at
Speaker 1: the time, I'm trying to think of a mall dog.
Speaker 1: But Compton always had a place kind of eight because
Speaker 1: you you know, the CMW era was big Dog is
Speaker 1: still cracking. You still sell the records to this day.
Speaker 2: So what was the BDP era? So was the tribe
Speaker 2: called quest era. So was the motherfucking just Ice era.
Speaker 2: So was the run DMC era. So was the air.
Speaker 1: Ice Man. Just don't compare to nobody in Comton. No dogs, just.
Speaker 2: Man, don't even start that ship. Still you like controversy,
Speaker 2: you're gonna say n w A, then you're gonna say
Speaker 2: just Ice because he was for he was formidable when
Speaker 2: they came to motherfucker, just.
Speaker 1: Man, murderer, when it comes to a crime homicide, I'm
Speaker 1: never doing some time. I get my lyrics direct, I'm
Speaker 1: always getting respect. That gets your girl and my aunt
Speaker 1: very drift.
Speaker 2: How you look at it from different hip hop perspectives,
Speaker 2: Like I said, people are donna claim they ship. They
Speaker 2: gonna say com didn't like you or whatever you felt.
Speaker 2: And then people from the East Coast are don't feel
Speaker 2: like shit. We've been so dominant we started hip hop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know what, and you right man, and
Speaker 1: it ain't I'm trying to be controversy. Who ate. I'm
Speaker 1: just for the record, I love just Ice dog like
Speaker 1: I could tell you about every from booger banded bits
Speaker 1: to all that shit that was like the first hard course.
Speaker 1: You know what, Actually he was spitting gangster ship.
Speaker 2: Indeed, just the Ice you know before n W he was.
Speaker 2: He was on some gangster ship. So was a r
Speaker 2: S one. So so was all the niggas like Spoony
Speaker 2: G and all the niggas that came from that era
Speaker 2: they were spitting gangster player ship.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, you know what I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 1: We can't see him KK, Well we got we got
Speaker 1: the homie KK from second to none. He on the
Speaker 1: his ass so black, you can't see.
Speaker 3: Him, all right.
Speaker 1: No, no, we can't see you. We we just y'all
Speaker 1: just pretend like he's there.
Speaker 3: All right, Okay, well look what about.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, ship the homiesne popped up. I don't spoke
Speaker 1: too soon.
Speaker 4: Hold on, let me take this one out, okay, and let.
Speaker 1: Me turn this other one off. Hold on this.
Speaker 3: Okay? Yeah, that cool enough?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool right there. Okay, because because we was
Speaker 1: messed around. Man, you know, I was just saying, like
Speaker 1: when you heard the conversation me and eight is halveing
Speaker 1: and y'all all kind of came out during the same time.
Speaker 5: Well you know, uh, what's up APN gratulations on another
Speaker 5: bond day two as well, prior to to the conversation.
Speaker 1: Look, you know what, hold on, before we get started, man,
Speaker 1: I gotta say something. Man, he wasn't on last week,
Speaker 1: but big, big, big, big happy but late a birthday
Speaker 1: man to my motherfucking nigga. Man, my friend, my own boy,
Speaker 1: not just the co host. I really fuck with this nigga, yall,
Speaker 1: This is my nigga right here, my nigga, m C eight.
Speaker 3: Man, good.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday. Hell you can you look sideway? He's not
Speaker 1: my nigga. Turns back the other way.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll just try the first time.
Speaker 1: Man side down, know all kinds of other stuff, but man,
Speaker 1: happy Latey's birthday. Man at the homie MC eight man,
Speaker 1: you know m C eight You know in that exclusive club.
Speaker 1: He a Gemini as in mine. I got one coming
Speaker 1: up in a few weeks. You know, Geminis run the world, man.
Speaker 1: Not only is Geminis man, just.
Speaker 3: People in the world.
Speaker 1: Man. They the best rappers, they the best producers. If
Speaker 1: you really look at Gemini's running this shit just kind
Speaker 1: of like how comfort run the rap shit.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 5: You know, it's all good, Go ahead, Geminis. We'll take
Speaker 5: the trendy.
Speaker 1: So you know what I find interest to know when
Speaker 1: you talk about this man, y'all, y'all from the opposite
Speaker 1: side of the tracks. Literally you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We didn't even go go into all the you know,
Speaker 1: political stuff, But was you hearing about eight KK when
Speaker 1: he was like ear before he started making music and stuff,
Speaker 1: before his music became popular.
Speaker 5: Boy, you know what, man, I have to say this
Speaker 5: and let the world no a k befolks c mw
Speaker 5: at they can't before section as far as the street, Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, I heard about it, uh, you know, because
Speaker 5: I was moving around Lynnwood, Compton and whatnot. I was
Speaker 5: in then with when I first heard. You know, I
Speaker 5: think it was not the blue tape, but I think
Speaker 5: it was a clear tape.
Speaker 3: You know. I was like, that's cool. You know. Uh,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of people.
Speaker 5: Take it for granted because of its two different color
Speaker 5: size or two tales of the story and whatnot. But no,
Speaker 5: it was a Compton appreciation happy at that time, I
Speaker 5: think eighty nine or ninety something that ever.
Speaker 3: You know, I was in Linnwood.
Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, some more competent dudes, you know, Oh
Speaker 5: they dang, you know, they cribs.
Speaker 3: That's cool. But it was.
Speaker 5: It was a comportant thing, just appreciation, you know, right
Speaker 5: after Spade, Tidy t Mixed Master Can Uh you know
Speaker 5: my days.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm from the east side of Compton.
Speaker 5: A lot of people don't know that about KK or
Speaker 5: secting from the east side of Compton, you know, near
Speaker 5: the litt Am Street area.
Speaker 3: So but uh, growing up, I moved Oh go ahead.
Speaker 1: Bro, I'm sorry you off from the east side. I
Speaker 1: did not know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, born and raised east side Rosecrans between Santa Fe
Speaker 5: Long Beach Boulevard right off roads.
Speaker 3: Crans and Vans nine seventeen.
Speaker 5: Then I moved to nine twelve West Spruce fifth Grade,
Speaker 5: like eighty one or something like that. Yeah, then I uh,
Speaker 5: that's what back KK balled down the Crans because I
Speaker 5: was always headed back to the east side.
Speaker 3: Once I moved to Spruce.
Speaker 5: That that brings the story, you know, I was balling
Speaker 5: back to the east side, back towards Lose Park where
Speaker 5: I came from.
Speaker 3: But I moved on the Spruce.
Speaker 1: You know, I really meant like fuck with Crawford, man
Speaker 1: high and see Crawford, my nigga, that's my guy. Right
Speaker 1: there on.
Speaker 3: I was back on the road.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: I remember, you know, we don't get a lot of
Speaker 5: chance to get a lot of time to talk about
Speaker 5: saying no, none in the history or not, you know,
Speaker 5: but just bringing up the fact, even knowing about CMW,
Speaker 5: you know, man, there's a lot of compter history that's
Speaker 5: untold that to fill in the gaps and bridges of
Speaker 5: over these three decades of so called rapping hip hop history.
Speaker 5: You know, it's just a lot of events through this
Speaker 5: rapping hip hop history. We were actually there. I just
Speaker 5: listened to a lot of stories. I'll be laughing. Some
Speaker 5: of these cats weren't even invented, but they showed tell
Speaker 5: them stories.
Speaker 3: For real, real, for real.
Speaker 1: You know you said some real important man. Eight does
Speaker 1: predate everybody pretty much, you know, yeah, it was Compa's
Speaker 1: most wanted and you know, shit, ain't Joe had to
Speaker 1: be what seventeen or sixteen or some shit like that.
Speaker 2: It was about seventeen when we first started. Uh, when
Speaker 2: we first hooked up with Unknown and slipping them, we
Speaker 2: was probably like yeah on on seventeen and then we
Speaker 2: was able to jump on the Compting compilation. That's what
Speaker 2: started it. We heard, That's what I heard that Rhyme's
Speaker 2: two Funky we had on the Compting compilation. So that
Speaker 2: kind of set us off right there before U before
Speaker 2: everybody started getting picked up, we were like right behind
Speaker 2: Easy and Nwa. I mean shit, we used to hang
Speaker 2: with them. Go to their video shoots all of that.
Speaker 2: You know, they knew about us. Some young niggas. Chill
Speaker 2: used to stay across the street from you know, Wrenn
Speaker 2: and them, so he's all the time and shit, and
Speaker 2: they used to invite us to ship. So we were
Speaker 2: just trying to get our name out there. So we,
Speaker 2: like I said, we had fucked with Unknown and Lonzo
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, everybody know Lonzo's famous for the
Speaker 2: Wrecking Crew and you know and the inception of getting
Speaker 2: those guys together as far as that just comes are
Speaker 2: you know, dre yella easy, you know all of that.
Speaker 2: So but yeah, we were right on the coattails and
Speaker 2: Ship because Unknown was one of Lonzo's you know, buddies
Speaker 2: and Ship, and you know, they had these little independent
Speaker 2: record labels and shiit Uh Lonzo had Crew Cut, Unknown
Speaker 2: had Techno Hop, you know, they Dream Team had they label,
Speaker 2: and then Egypt Egypt had Egyptian Empire, so they had
Speaker 2: these four little independent labels and we just so happened
Speaker 2: to hook up with Unknown who had Techno Hop because
Speaker 2: of being on the Compton compilation. So from there we
Speaker 2: got to put out a little MAXI single called just
Speaker 2: as Compton Little take that was going on the Swap
Speaker 2: Meets and Ship you know, didn't have no major distribution,
Speaker 2: but that's how we got put on because of those
Speaker 2: two first little projects we had did with those two
Speaker 2: independent labels. And that was, like you said, that was
Speaker 2: before the inception of of all the greats that were
Speaker 2: there to come from Compton, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So we had our foot in the door when the
Speaker 2: door first cracked open. For as far as gangster raptors concerned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was. I remember I was playing for Long
Speaker 1: Beach City College football and homie Darryl Kemp brought me
Speaker 1: one of those tapes and I said, Man, this nigga
Speaker 1: can rapped like a motherfucker. I was an MC fan
Speaker 1: from the like Gidea up Dog, and I didn't know
Speaker 1: because you know, see him definitely that nigga Chill wasn't
Speaker 1: on no motherfucking songs. All I knew was this nigger
Speaker 1: right here. So I thought that was like an alias
Speaker 1: or something. I guess he comped his most wanted when
Speaker 1: he ain't eight, you know what I'm saying. That that's
Speaker 1: his official title.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: You know, a nigga might have had two or three
Speaker 1: monikers back.
Speaker 3: In the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the only Chill kept going in and out of jail.
Speaker 2: So when we first got signed, we signed this COMPTS
Speaker 2: Most Wanted. So they just decided to keep it, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, and give it a try. And
Speaker 2: we were able to put out like three products under
Speaker 2: Compass Most Wanted, but it seemed like every project Chill
Speaker 2: would be going to jail. So uh, we ended up
Speaker 2: just dropping the Compass Most Wanted and the label just
Speaker 2: decided that we was going to start the m C
Speaker 2: eight projects.
Speaker 5: Man, that's crazy you mentioned that though. I mean my
Speaker 5: bad interrupting, but doing that era eight. Uh for me
Speaker 5: standing on for van Nets, I used to be on
Speaker 5: Burrs and the light Skinning member of c m W.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he stayed around on Sloan and stuff.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's my neighborhood. We all went.
Speaker 2: We all went to junior high together, me Chilling and
Speaker 2: we met in junior high school. We all went to
Speaker 2: Hamilton Junior High in Loan Beach, okay Man. That's where
Speaker 2: we all hooked up at And then at had the
Speaker 2: little you know ant Pops you know, had a They
Speaker 2: had converted his garage into like a studio little club
Speaker 2: studio looking like for for him and ship and he
Speaker 2: had turntables and all of that. So we used to
Speaker 2: go over ants house in Elm Street and fuck around
Speaker 2: a lot. Okay, that's when we first start putting it together,
Speaker 2: like okay, nigga, we're gonna be conscious, most wanted. And
Speaker 2: from there, like I said, the shit just took off
Speaker 2: from just hooking up trying to practice and work at
Speaker 2: ants house to me crafting my writing skills and shipping
Speaker 2: and going on to meet slipped and unknown and ship
Speaker 2: like that. Oh man, that's that's a blessing, bro, because
Speaker 2: during that time I was actually around the corner on
Speaker 2: birds Your.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: Now, that's kind of how I heard y'all, you know,
Speaker 5: having y'all tape.
Speaker 2: My auntie used to live in Elm Hood, so that's
Speaker 2: how we used to get over the Ants. She used
Speaker 2: to live on Elm Street, right, I forgot the street,
Speaker 2: but she used to live in Elmhood, so we would
Speaker 2: go over there at her house from after schools and
Speaker 2: then were we would just bail down rosecrants over the
Speaker 2: Ant's house and ship over there by over there there about.
Speaker 3: The center and the pizza place and ship. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Two for one used to be right there, yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: we were probably walking and talking and one one twenty
Speaker 5: five East walk in the belting. I used to at
Speaker 5: the bail by gus Berger's and all that road street
Speaker 5: coming from when I moved before the heill Over Alameda.
Speaker 3: Oh y yeah, you know hell Over Yeah yeah, before.
Speaker 5: All that and before the Alametera Corridor got built. But
Speaker 5: during the eighties, that's how that's how I got him
Speaker 5: to you. This is you know before uh well quick
Speaker 5: as second and up KK second and up and high
Speaker 5: see well basically KK quick and how I see during
Speaker 5: the eighties we were ready us from like eighty three.
Speaker 5: You know, KK wasn't no rap name. That's my nickname
Speaker 5: from birth. But you know, during that time, that's how
Speaker 5: I got empty, y'all man. And you know, uh, I
Speaker 5: guess I didn't know about the music, but I heard
Speaker 5: about it because I was, you know, from our beginners.
Speaker 5: We all started from DJs. A lot of people don't
Speaker 5: know all the details. You know, we were all DJs.
Speaker 5: Everybody did everything that's programming all.
Speaker 1: Night the night. Because I want to take that, like
Speaker 1: A just told us his origin story, right, what was
Speaker 1: y'all doing about that time because Quick, y'all always had
Speaker 1: one producer Quick, what was y'all?
Speaker 3: You see me smiling? Yeah, everybody.
Speaker 5: Everybody had a drum machine or we made based beat
Speaker 5: paulse mixing first with the Devil Concess.
Speaker 3: It's pretty much the same story.
Speaker 5: This started from like eighty two fifth grade for me
Speaker 5: when I moved to the West side on Spruce Street,
Speaker 5: the nine hundred block, so you know, seventh grade eighty three,
Speaker 5: that's when I met Quick in high Sea.
Speaker 3: He was already DJ Quick Mix.
Speaker 5: I was KK from birth and the highly intelligent Crawford
Speaker 5: seventh grade eighty three.
Speaker 3: So we were all involved in music.
Speaker 5: I was basically like the singer, slash rapper, comedian jokes
Speaker 5: toill you know serious. That's why me and Park was close.
Speaker 5: A lot of people don't know that relationship unless you
Speaker 5: was in the streets. So why we don't have those
Speaker 5: records together. But uh, you know my bringing up, but uh,
Speaker 5: nobody discovered us. And if it would be anybody that
Speaker 5: discovered us, me and D my cousin, it would have
Speaker 5: been Mixed Master Spade, the Scotti D So during that era,
Speaker 5: the late eighties, Uh when y'all was around the corner.
Speaker 5: I was skip off of birds and you know, jumping
Speaker 5: my cutlins. We'll go to the talent shows. These are
Speaker 5: the stories doing eighty eight into eighty eight, eighty nine
Speaker 5: to ninety. The story's quick telling on his album KK
Speaker 5: Shulda Knew Better. That's how my homeboy took you in.
Speaker 5: You know, amg mobs kicking my well. We're trying to
Speaker 5: do something and trying to you know, not be like
Speaker 5: nobody else. But uh, this is the type of music
Speaker 5: we do. We respected Dre Easy and all of them.
Speaker 5: We wasn't over there, but we knew it. Knew of
Speaker 5: each other from the streets. Spade and then used to
Speaker 5: come to my house. You know, I knew King t
Speaker 5: was around the corner off of Wilmington and Spruce. Who
Speaker 5: I was back in, you know from eighty one on
Speaker 5: up uh man. You know it was watching the hood
Speaker 5: get formed or watching everything. And but I was based
Speaker 5: around music. And if you go back a whole David
Speaker 5: Junior High eighty three through eighty six, we can go
Speaker 5: through and look back to year, but you see me
Speaker 5: all based around music. They started the English Teacher started
Speaker 5: the gospel soul a choir because I was always singing.
Speaker 5: You know, we was popular already basically become of famous
Speaker 5: at junior high. You know, so with me that history
Speaker 5: Spade and Scottie d from Taler shows Me and d
Speaker 5: you know, with our tapes. Quick at this taste, we
Speaker 5: had tapes as well, you know, and mixing it with
Speaker 5: the singing.
Speaker 3: It's the eighties, so right, so.
Speaker 1: Y'all was producing a lot of your own stuff to them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how it all started.
Speaker 5: I was connectivity with me and Quick and us all
Speaker 5: being DJs. Me and D started off, and you know
Speaker 5: then d was a little behind us, a year behind
Speaker 5: us in school. So once I got to the seventh grade,
Speaker 5: I'm the new new dudes on the West side, you know,
Speaker 5: as far as fifth and sixth grade. But once we
Speaker 5: got to Davis, everybody was you know, breaking just came
Speaker 5: in Windmill and we was already popping and all that
Speaker 5: eight from the eighties and all that, but uh, breaking
Speaker 5: it just came in. We was already DJing and scratching
Speaker 5: before eighty three. Uh, we all had turntables. I had
Speaker 5: to make sure how she had a mixture two turntables,
Speaker 5: you know, had a little paper jobs working with pop.
Speaker 5: So I was able to get a receiver, two speakers
Speaker 5: and all that and mixure Ti mixer too, fishing turntable
Speaker 5: until I got some upgraded. In high school ninth grade
Speaker 5: eighty six, everybody did everything man drum programming see Quincy shampling.
Speaker 1: Uhuh, that was the ghettle set up right there. Man.
Speaker 1: You had to turn three microphone.
Speaker 3: Two eighty two eighty three.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: See quick, See a lot of people don't listen without say,
Speaker 5: to a lot of folks, they don't pay attention, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean. They they were hearing a lot
Speaker 5: of things, but they don't really listen, you know. Quick,
Speaker 5: tell the whole story. I mean, if you go back
Speaker 5: and pay attention, turn this first album cover while I'm
Speaker 5: in the front seat with on we b viobe. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I was at skateland with curtains blowing the eighties. I
Speaker 5: was even after dark when I was in eighth grade.
Speaker 3: So you know I'm still there. I think eight eight.
Speaker 3: You older than me.
Speaker 5: I believe I'm fifty four, but I was out there
Speaker 5: in eighth grade skate land even after dark. Let's go
Speaker 5: bowling that dudos all that, you know, Red Fox come
Speaker 5: to my my mama house on Spruce when we moved
Speaker 5: a spruce, BB King, Tyron Davis, all of us on
Speaker 5: Spruce because the little club the Thunderbird was right there
Speaker 5: on Spruce in wilbantip so Id. That's what the singer
Speaker 5: kicked in chasing my mother. You remember the Thunderbird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember even after dark too on Alvaloe. I
Speaker 3: was in I was.
Speaker 5: In there outside around DMC came to see this the eighties,
Speaker 5: like eighty three, eighty four. LLL was with Spade in
Speaker 5: them and and uh he had the chop top chevy
Speaker 5: old Dayton's back. Then I kind of think that's what
Speaker 5: LLL's got, that Dayton idea frunkle. We see eighth grade
Speaker 5: on pe at David Junior High. It wasn't no kangos
Speaker 5: really cracking. Here comes Spade now, you know everybody and
Speaker 5: we were run run to the gates so we can
Speaker 5: see Spade on the dates, you know, going southbound on
Speaker 5: Wilmington headed towards what we would call Palmer Block. Back
Speaker 5: then going through see the block, I don't see a kingo.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I'm more, Uh, I have a better perception of things. Uh.
Speaker 5: Some of my peers that's all the blessing I guess
Speaker 5: to make it to be second or none later, you know,
Speaker 5: and collective of some of the homies, even just like
Speaker 5: hearing me eight stories are bringing this collective of history
Speaker 5: that's unknown.
Speaker 3: We was all around each other, man.
Speaker 5: I think I even ran this to y'all downtown Competon
Speaker 5: when they had the clothing store there probably eight.
Speaker 3: Nine, oh definitely, Yeah, Man, chair was tight.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: You know, I was always uncomfortable forard an Allometa the
Speaker 5: barbershop phone shop. Yeah, saying two thousand, I was living
Speaker 5: over there behind Wilson Park. Yeah, it's a cold game.
Speaker 5: That's a man chill connected. Around two thousand I got divorced.
Speaker 5: It was not they moved back to count They have
Speaker 5: a studio or something over there. Yeah, that's what I
Speaker 5: was living at there.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 5: I moved out my house and got divorced and moved
Speaker 5: to the studio behind Wilson Park. Yell, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm talking about. Yeah, Man, cheers to be in there.
Speaker 5: The homie June for watch Uh still I think you.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you came through back then.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: I started coming around man real early, but I was
Speaker 1: playing for now I remember you.
Speaker 3: I remember you like ninety one ninety two round craft.
Speaker 3: I remember.
Speaker 5: Only historian off the crew. I still got stuff from
Speaker 5: eighty five eighty two.
Speaker 1: So much. Dog. I ran with Crawford so much. A
Speaker 1: lot of people thought I was a blood for the
Speaker 1: longest time. Dog Like I had to like because I
Speaker 1: was around Crawford so much. It was like, man, niggas
Speaker 1: would be like like me and rb H was in
Speaker 1: Long Beach one night and we riding, and you know
Speaker 1: he was couzin somebody so steal my bad man. I
Speaker 1: forgot you a b dog, I said, I don't belong
Speaker 1: in no games. You tripping myself. But I would get
Speaker 1: that from everybody because me and him was just cool.
Speaker 1: But what's crazy? As I hung around just as many crips.
Speaker 1: But I guess people because I don't know, man, it's crazy.
Speaker 5: Yes, association what they call my affiliation? You affiliated?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean you know, like everybody thought we was
Speaker 3: from tree Top.
Speaker 5: I read read a burgony car still to the day
Speaker 5: until somebody on Wikipedia put up there am street power
Speaker 5: bloods what not?
Speaker 3: A few years ago.
Speaker 5: I'm laughing because, uh, this is another thing about second
Speaker 5: and nine and how I've been in the name for
Speaker 5: our group. You know, it wasn't even yeah, it's all
Speaker 5: the street. We all grew up in that in the eighties.
Speaker 5: But it was God first, second and no man. But
Speaker 5: we already lived a life, so don't want to promote
Speaker 5: that and you know, out of the respect before the
Speaker 5: love of hip hop because the East Coast of New
Speaker 5: York three boroughs thing that's we was introduced to when
Speaker 5: we got to New York in nineties. Signed the Profile Records,
Speaker 5: the bedding war between Death Jam and Profile Records for
Speaker 5: Second or None because Depth Jam wanted us, you know,
Speaker 5: after the after easing the popped, you know, dev Jahms.
Speaker 5: It was a bending ward with Depth John a Profile
Speaker 5: Records for Second and None. It's a whole lot of history. Yeah,
Speaker 5: to open the door, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, kk so who put the album together?
Speaker 1: Your first album? That was a combination of y'all and Quick.
Speaker 5: Yeah, people, it's it's produced by Second and None and Quick.
Speaker 5: Why would it say, because I can't go back in time,
Speaker 5: but AI nobody's ass to get their brain back to reality,
Speaker 5: to go back and read the ship you bought look
Speaker 5: at to read the credits. That's why I talked a
Speaker 5: lot of people. Quit swiping the read want to swipe,
Speaker 5: turn the page, write something down to help your brain
Speaker 5: get back. Uh, go back and turn the cover while
Speaker 5: I'm in the front seat, Go back and listen. Now,
Speaker 5: you know, man, as you know, it's just a whole lot, y'all.
Speaker 5: Miss it's a lot of people got got our story wrong.
Speaker 5: That's basically the same. That's pretty much what I'm about
Speaker 5: to do. It's like me releasing my first solo album.
Speaker 5: It's still second or none. But I got tired of
Speaker 5: people saying this and that. Yeah, it was a collective
Speaker 5: me and quick. Most of those ideas are the records
Speaker 5: I bought, or that was my idea, or tapping your
Speaker 5: feet while you're hitting. You know, everybody got amazed, and
Speaker 5: sugar Free came along. We've been doing that, but not
Speaker 5: taking no credit away from Free. He popped that off first.
Speaker 5: But we've been tapping. I was tapping on cans with
Speaker 5: a pencil and the marker and the pins just to
Speaker 5: see the difference in the sound on the bottom of
Speaker 5: a can and try to sample that sound back then
Speaker 5: in the ages, just you know, like I said, devil Cotttes,
Speaker 5: pause that right there, one two, rewind make them instrumental.
Speaker 1: One thing I do know that everybody in the camp
Speaker 1: man was serious about their production.
Speaker 3: Dog.
Speaker 1: Everybody from y'all to Crawford see a lot of this
Speaker 1: stuff already know. I'm just That's why I'm asking you,
Speaker 1: so you can let the world know. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying the real well, we.
Speaker 5: All are engineers, and we all are producers, and we
Speaker 5: all wrote our own lyrics and every whatever Quick's ideas
Speaker 5: on his albums with his ideas second to Nun's ideas
Speaker 5: with minds.
Speaker 3: The Deep collaborated.
Speaker 5: I bought the records for the sound was all the hits,
Speaker 5: or it might have been an idea like me going,
Speaker 5: now I need a bass player.
Speaker 3: How much you charge play this and then get to
Speaker 3: tap it?
Speaker 5: Okay, man, well you faster on you quicker on the
Speaker 5: drum machine, the drum program programs that I am so yeah,
Speaker 5: you can go ahead and knock it out. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: work on this baseline in my head to get it
Speaker 5: to a real bass or somebody that could play the bass.
Speaker 5: Back then standing the guitar man was so called man,
Speaker 5: you know, but dreading them use them so I don't
Speaker 5: want to do what somebody else did, to use what
Speaker 5: they use it. I want to be creative and have
Speaker 5: my own flavor style, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 5: the distinctive, well, this is what they doing. I don't
Speaker 5: want to do that, not so much being negative on
Speaker 5: nobody else's style of flavor. Back then, it's just be different,
Speaker 5: you know, be unique. And that's how I guess what harmony.
Speaker 5: I was always singing, me and my cousin. Did you
Speaker 5: know switched the boy all the seventies music? You know,
Speaker 5: we was he waved all that blowing in church from
Speaker 5: the seventies on up. Like I say, junior High, I'm
Speaker 5: part of every choir. I didn't want to be all
Speaker 5: the English teachers. Everybody heard me singing and in the
Speaker 5: hallways put me in something, you know.
Speaker 1: Let me let me ask you this KK when y'all
Speaker 1: first did it? If you want it? Then God, did
Speaker 1: you know that record was gonna be as big as
Speaker 1: it was? Nah?
Speaker 5: Because the idea we wasn't trying to make it. You know,
Speaker 5: we didn't know. You know, we found out probably a
Speaker 5: year later we were famous. You know, it was cool
Speaker 5: because ten dollars thirty thirty taps in the box ten
Speaker 5: dollars a tape three hundred late eighties. So the idea
Speaker 5: even get in the record. There wasn't no mama, I
Speaker 5: never or even the fath in the idea to become famous,
Speaker 5: cause in that sense being for Compton and you know
Speaker 5: through the seventies and eighties and all of them out
Speaker 5: being on the roe. You know, not trying to floss myself.
Speaker 5: It ain't about me. But I was already famous. It's
Speaker 5: KK from birth, So wasn't no rap name. That's my
Speaker 5: nigganame from birth, you know, giving so I ran with that.
Speaker 5: Some of the teachers called me KK, like I said,
Speaker 5: I'm all the yearbooks Davis Junior High ansertin here and
Speaker 5: most of the stuff. You know, you can see my
Speaker 5: story or both sides some MOR's tongas nothing is in
Speaker 5: Serainos could tell it from the baby dayo to basica,
Speaker 5: you know, outside of rap examt I mean ext that's
Speaker 5: that's the story, that's the blessing. That's why we're still
Speaker 5: able to function and ain't nobody looking for us, and
Speaker 5: we can still function and get around there and get
Speaker 5: love like we do around this world internationally. For thirty
Speaker 5: five thirty six years to have somebody even want you
Speaker 5: that much. We like the dramatics and all the rest
Speaker 5: from the Ohio Sound, Memphis Sound, Motown, Comptown. Yeah see
Speaker 5: M W and W A second, No King T. You know,
Speaker 5: back then it was King T, DJ Pool, DJ Var.
Speaker 5: You know we heard these names. Yeah, unknown, you know,
Speaker 5: just the whole comptant thing that's.
Speaker 3: From where was caring from. I have no idea.
Speaker 5: I'll still be trying to get out of King T
Speaker 5: H pooing them u uh you know Toddy T. When
Speaker 5: I see him, I be trying to uh you know
Speaker 5: we see each other. I'll be trying to get stories
Speaker 5: out of him.
Speaker 1: And you know, man, well we you know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got some ship.
Speaker 5: Yeah see, this is just the thing man, height Man,
Speaker 5: I wish the world could have seen how we're talking
Speaker 5: now thirty five some years ago, sort of open their
Speaker 5: mind up back then to how a lot of people
Speaker 5: put the jacket on us because of the red car.
Speaker 5: Wasn't a red card, it was the Burger de card.
Speaker 5: We're from compter so, but we never promoted that. A
Speaker 5: lot of people don't understand that. You know what I'm
Speaker 5: saying with the burg and me in the Red Side.
Speaker 5: You know, it takes a lot of people to understand
Speaker 5: the uh, the foundation of what that shit is. So
Speaker 5: people get it confused because all they hear is blood
Speaker 5: and see red and whatever. They don't understand that kind
Speaker 5: of a lot of content. Homies was po rules and shit.
Speaker 2: So you know, you people have to know that history.
Speaker 3: You get me. That's like just being on the outside.
Speaker 3: Niggas ain't gonna understand that shit.
Speaker 5: You know, they gonna go niggas wore they they bloods
Speaker 5: or whatever, So you got to understand. And like I said,
Speaker 5: when they go back to the foundation of hip hop,
Speaker 5: you know, niggas didn't want to really go at that
Speaker 5: because we just want to be hip hop niggas.
Speaker 2: You feel me. We didn't want to push that side
Speaker 2: of what was representing shit. Niggas already knew. They knew
Speaker 2: I exact niggas man, that's all hey, and.
Speaker 3: Not to join us.
Speaker 5: But add to that, hence our first single, second and
Speaker 5: now's first single, And it was like the sense of
Speaker 5: paying homage to hip hop because we appreciated what hip
Speaker 5: hop did, but this is this.
Speaker 3: Is who we are. And during that time in nineteen ninety,
Speaker 3: we were we were we were in New York, so we.
Speaker 5: Got it first hand. Why y'all gang banking? You know,
Speaker 5: I don't think Cube went through that. You know, we
Speaker 5: had a different experience being in New York around the
Speaker 5: same time.
Speaker 3: Man, who was it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of the group Stessisnic and the
Speaker 3: drummer Bobby and Uh.
Speaker 5: I still liked Daddyo Daddyo and the drummer Bobby from Stetisnic.
Speaker 5: They interviewed us when we first got to New York,
Speaker 5: took us around the streets. Why y'all killing each other
Speaker 5: over colors and while y'all singing hooks over here hip hop?
Speaker 5: This nineteen ninety Daddy old and I said they still
Speaker 5: got the HS tape of the interview we did and
Speaker 5: grilling us. I don't think any you know, I heard
Speaker 5: stories within w A and New York.
Speaker 3: I heard.
Speaker 5: I didn't hear too much about Q because he was
Speaker 5: showing more affection and not saying no, no, no, negative way.
Speaker 5: But they came at us hard, not quick second and none,
Speaker 5: especially you know with the dev John bid on this
Speaker 5: and from Compton come on.
Speaker 3: Profile well to run.
Speaker 5: DMC had a big part of that as well as
Speaker 5: like l a dream team. I still mess around with
Speaker 5: Snake Puppy today. You know what came from Compton or
Speaker 5: what came from Myra Spade and Toddy t you know.
Speaker 5: But that's what the singing harmonies, the run DMC aggressiveness.
Speaker 5: I'm DMC, I'm KMC, the Kelton Mac k Matt k McDonald.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm KMC and that's d.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 5: You know it's say, it's a mixture of panamage to
Speaker 5: hip hop. It what stood out it was different Wodan
Speaker 5: uh East Coast. You know back then it was two
Speaker 5: Live Crew, it was uh this group you know, it
Speaker 5: was KRS one BDP basically and then uh, you know
Speaker 5: all these cats I still talk with or we have
Speaker 5: relations today. E pm D who took us on tour.
Speaker 5: Uh that's us at DODS effects Uh leaders of the
Speaker 5: New School and they was all together one and Onyx
Speaker 5: and all these cats first come together. You know, they
Speaker 5: still visit me out there. You know, they be telling me,
Speaker 5: you know name, Uh everybody come through the spot of
Speaker 5: inn artall you know what I mean. So it's still
Speaker 5: genuine love twenty twenty five all that, but it's not
Speaker 5: on Instagram. This is uh, you know, real life streets
Speaker 5: ain't no cameras on.
Speaker 3: Shit.
Speaker 5: But I wish that the world could back then if
Speaker 5: we had to check answered with all these digital platforms
Speaker 5: and whatnot, so everybody could have got the story straight,
Speaker 5: just about Compton, let alone West Coast.
Speaker 1: That dog were getting the stories out there. We're letting
Speaker 1: it be, putting the reel out there in the universe.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, don't worry. Put the whole ship down for real. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, let me ask you man, because you
Speaker 1: kind of got away from it that the Death Jam
Speaker 1: was a ship. I think every rep and everything.
Speaker 3: Okay, why we didn't do with that jam?
Speaker 5: The reason why because it was so much history relative
Speaker 5: to duos being the duo, you know, and I was
Speaker 5: basically using the two for second none and my cousin
Speaker 5: you know the other the other. Yeah, so the duos
Speaker 5: mixed Spain Toddy T was at the top of the list,
Speaker 5: you know. Then after that it was you know who
Speaker 5: dn E run DMC. You know it just fit. Okay,
Speaker 5: how do we blend in with not sounding like them?
Speaker 5: My voice sounded different, you know, I was already aggressive voice.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to be DMC. I'm kk so you know,
Speaker 5: but I'm from the West Coast, so I ain't gonna
Speaker 5: sound like him. He is not like running, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. But in the similar sense, we're the
Speaker 5: West Coast run DMC and this but uh deaf Jam
Speaker 5: and the profile and the meeting running DMC basically Jame
Speaker 5: Master j and DMC, you know, and being in New
Speaker 5: York and being schooled in nineties.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Man, you said it was
Speaker 1: you said it was a bit. War was the.
Speaker 5: Shaping damn profile. Lee or Russell came up, Greedy Greg
Speaker 5: you already know. Uh during the time before a quick
Speaker 5: and selected profile records that did in war so to speak,
Speaker 5: Death Jam got a hold of the tape. I guess
Speaker 5: they thought it was quick, but it was second and none.
Speaker 5: So when uh the music fest, uh they that was
Speaker 5: at the Stofis Hotel back then in the century. I
Speaker 5: forgot the name of that music.
Speaker 3: Come.
Speaker 5: This is what shave first popped up us. The park
Speaker 5: was already chilling. It's a whole bunch of stories. I'll
Speaker 5: bring them up later about that night because that's when
Speaker 5: the first the whole music world of the West got
Speaker 5: to see all of us second and nine, quick, amg
Speaker 5: and how I see together the homie Teddy bear through.
Speaker 3: The whole world got to see us.
Speaker 5: We already knew battle Cat, you know, from the history
Speaker 5: from eighty ninety ninety being off Crenshaw seventy six, a
Speaker 5: greedy Greds. So we already knew a few cats from
Speaker 5: that side of Crenshaw in that era, from being a
Speaker 5: Hongky Harrow's you on Crenshawn influence at the car wash
Speaker 5: at the Foxhills. My also second and none was already
Speaker 5: I'm not stopping going to Hongky Harrows.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 5: I'm spending black money over here, you know. So that's
Speaker 5: nineteen ninety eighty nine, oh Man Schloss swap meet. We
Speaker 5: had a ball, but not being chesty, and you know,
Speaker 5: and that's the blessing to still be alive thirty plus
Speaker 5: years later. You know, I'm gonna stand up for something,
Speaker 5: but I ain't gonna be too chasty where things get messy,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you this man, and I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: go too much into the whole other stuff about nobody else, right,
Speaker 1: but with the time, man to where it seemed like
Speaker 1: the crew just kind of went on Paus Like when
Speaker 1: when Quick start having this little situation with you know,
Speaker 1: the record label or whatever, pretty much add him on
Speaker 1: Pauls for making music. I just always felt like, man,
Speaker 1: that whole crew could have probably just been so much
Speaker 1: bigger man than what it was because it was so
Speaker 1: much heat. You gotta think about it. You had, y'all,
Speaker 1: it was highest seating, sugar free Quick. Why do you
Speaker 1: think NMG came later though? Yeah, Free came much later.
Speaker 5: Just saying Quick second or none and AMG even though
Speaker 5: Cross was around. But that's the majority of the world
Speaker 5: viewed it. And that was the homie as well. You know,
Speaker 5: it was a crew. They kept trying to throw tighters
Speaker 5: on us after in w A the Comps City Crew
Speaker 5: and all his names that kept trying to throw on us.
Speaker 5: I'm like, look, we just grew up together, three of us,
Speaker 5: four of us grew up together, two of us cousins
Speaker 5: from eighty three. We all grew up together junior in
Speaker 5: high school related around music. There's been plenty times, man,
Speaker 5: just like you say, there's been situations or some of
Speaker 5: these major prominent big labels. We probably had the same deals,
Speaker 5: not probably but to be like that label or had
Speaker 5: the positions. But at that time some minds wasn't grown enough,
Speaker 5: you know. And I'm not saying no names of nobody,
Speaker 5: but we all were kids. So not making the best
Speaker 5: decision for business wise, being so young and coming from
Speaker 5: that world, not understanding the business aspect of things back then,
Speaker 5: being like you said, seventeen eighteen and going into eighteen
Speaker 5: and nineteen, you know what I mean. So I still
Speaker 5: got all the contracts right right over here, all my
Speaker 5: crazy right there. I stayed with him. I'm a paper man.
Speaker 5: But yeah, man, that wow, it's a lot dog. But
Speaker 5: the decision to go to profile answering that question, getting
Speaker 5: back to that instead of death jam, a death John
Speaker 5: wouldn't let go run DMC and getting this information and
Speaker 5: knowledge because they never wasn't no death jam. A lot
Speaker 5: of people didn't know that. That was just rush management
Speaker 5: and wasn't not right right, But then Steve plot Nick
Speaker 5: and Court Robbins' profile, they wouldn't let run DMC go.
Speaker 5: So being in New York before you know, we just
Speaker 5: signed it was not in ninety I'm sitting there with
Speaker 5: Jans Jay and DMC. You know, we're talking to folks,
Speaker 5: Rob Aasa, Danny Dane, everybody know, Sweet t, Jazzy Joyce
Speaker 5: at the label about the Army. Yeah, we we at
Speaker 5: the label in New York a Profile. You're right there
Speaker 5: on Broadway, I believe six forty Broadway something like that. Well,
Speaker 5: you know, we had spent a while out there, you know,
Speaker 5: walked around. They were scheduled death of us walking around
Speaker 5: like I got pictures. But uh, you know, they were
Speaker 5: schooling us pretty much, you know what I mean, and
Speaker 5: seeing and hearing how they was doing around DMC that
Speaker 5: you know, and depth John was going through. I'm like, shit,
Speaker 5: they here depth John Color, you know, uh, after the
Speaker 5: Beastie Boys.
Speaker 1: And you know.
Speaker 5: Ll you know it's like, damn, that's legendary. Damn jam
Speaker 5: Damn we count it. That'll be a stamp like a mother,
Speaker 5: you know. But Quick sign first the Profile. We did
Speaker 5: the album together, and that's why it's produced. Its sad
Speaker 5: produced by Quick instead of sad produced by Second, Quick
Speaker 5: and Second or none.
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, if you'll work records with him on
Speaker 1: the first.
Speaker 5: Album, most of them records is my physical records. I
Speaker 5: bought me and him went to the records store in
Speaker 5: eighty four, if you wanted it, my tough guys, Isaac
Speaker 5: Kaye's record, I bought right. I can name all of
Speaker 5: the samples and everything.
Speaker 3: That's what I said.
Speaker 5: I say my ideas, and that's you know. I didn't
Speaker 5: want to be a negative, but it's a lot of shit.
Speaker 5: DJ Quickie second and no fans, y'all got the shit
Speaker 5: fucked up. I'm gonna just say it like that, and
Speaker 5: we ain't gonna hate this, but yeah, some of you know,
Speaker 5: some people be telling me shit. I just look at
Speaker 5: him like you gotta remember we was kids and all
Speaker 5: album came out thirty five years ago, but we had tapes,
Speaker 5: uh thirty seven some years ago, thirty almost thirty eight
Speaker 5: years ago.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I'm gonna put this to y'all.
Speaker 1: Both some bad motherfuckers. Oh, y'all some bad motherfuckers.
Speaker 5: So you know what I mean, man, all of us. Man,
Speaker 5: I love it. Man, I appreciate the love.
Speaker 3: Man. We just we we didn't really have a voice,
Speaker 3: you know, I talk more on the.
Speaker 1: Streets, you know, the unsung heroes like people don't know,
Speaker 1: like eight produced records, you know.
Speaker 3: Make me, we all make man.
Speaker 5: This is what the partner in the aspect of what
Speaker 5: we're talking now, that's the light moments like the world
Speaker 5: of hip hop and the world of rap. The world
Speaker 5: of R and B needs to know that, or the
Speaker 5: world of music. You know, we're not just stand up
Speaker 5: rappers and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's some real man like ain't just rappers like motherfuckers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we can change ordand tis and we know the
Speaker 5: damn jacket have talent, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: People just want to put niggas in one box, but
Speaker 2: that's because they don't know you feel me. I have
Speaker 2: to let them know the history of of what the
Speaker 2: you know, what your talent range is.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying multiple things.
Speaker 2: Just don't put me in the box and consider me
Speaker 2: as just a one dimensional artist.
Speaker 3: Nigga. I can do a lot of shit.
Speaker 1: They had one of my favorite beats that from Tales
Speaker 1: of the Hood. I think that Boom Boom, hands and
Speaker 1: a few not that. Niggas don't be trying to, like
Speaker 1: you said, claim the glory or whatever it is what
Speaker 1: it is, but niggas have their hands and a lot
Speaker 1: of ship people don't know about.
Speaker 5: Oh man, Yes, indeed it's indeed, you know, and it's
Speaker 5: nothing to take nothing to take away from nobody else,
Speaker 5: shign and nothing that was never the concept just like
Speaker 5: a hip hop and going back to our first single,
Speaker 5: be true to yourself pyanomos to those that came before
Speaker 5: us or a craft or you know what they call culture.
Speaker 5: It was just life at the time before yours and
Speaker 5: now it's yours. And you find yourself in that aspect
Speaker 5: of life, you know, and build on it, you know.
Speaker 5: So that was my mindset from Junior High, Elementary. Everybody
Speaker 5: know me and Compton, you know everybody. You know, it
Speaker 5: ain't about me, like I said, But I ain't never
Speaker 5: changed except for a couple of grades and a little
Speaker 5: taller and heavier. I'm still the same from elementary and
Speaker 5: if you know me, you can you know. Everybody know this.
Speaker 5: So they say, all the other famous people from Compton
Speaker 5: and all the famous three people, I ain't never changed.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, man, let me ask you something, man,
Speaker 1: and I gotta ask you this dog. You know, the
Speaker 1: homie AMG is from Ohio White men. You know that's
Speaker 1: my dog.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: I talked to AMG sometimes stuff? Right, And how did
Speaker 1: y'all wink up with him?
Speaker 5: Greedy Gregg's house me and my black colors taking everybody
Speaker 5: once quick ones playing handing them betweet and shabby and
Speaker 5: them school Quick up. But like the story he tells,
Speaker 5: because we wasn't finished because he had. Uh, I'll let
Speaker 5: you hear the first song, the first beat Quick did
Speaker 5: for us. It caught the breakthrough, but you know we
Speaker 5: wasn't finished with that song. All of a sudden, Quick
Speaker 5: getting scooped up and there on LA like player Hamm said, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I went to the counting to get a DJ. I
Speaker 5: put even my cutter listen boughty back to LA, you know.
Speaker 5: So I jumped to my cutlers and high seat, jumped
Speaker 5: in this elcho and d jumped in my cudlors with me,
Speaker 5: and we went out the Western over there and brown it.
Speaker 5: You know, somebody say he over there, so we well
Speaker 5: drove over there. I think it was eighty eight eighty nine. Man,
Speaker 5: way at he at because we're not finished what we're
Speaker 5: doing here. I here over here DJ with y'all. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm just sharing the story, you know, but uh, man,
Speaker 5: we ain't finished what we're doing. Quick wasn't there, and
Speaker 5: I'm gonna lee and I'm giving it the world this
Speaker 5: because the fans need to know the history of that.
Speaker 5: That's how we connected as far as with AMG through
Speaker 5: that whole linkage, getting the quick from here and them,
Speaker 5: Hey man where he at? We ain't finished what were doing?
Speaker 5: It's cool, y'all, dog, you know, Candeller called him, Man,
Speaker 5: get over there. They hurt our ship, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean?
Speaker 3: It was like, damn the hell, the same way Spade
Speaker 3: and D.
Speaker 5: I would go back to that Spade Scotty D and
Speaker 5: the Talent Show and how did they gave us our
Speaker 5: money back Spade and Scotty D in ninety for the
Speaker 5: Talent Show because they heard our songs?
Speaker 3: Uh man, but.
Speaker 5: Yeah, playing Ham's hooking up with AMG, getting the greedy
Speaker 5: Greg House. AMG was already there, you know, because the
Speaker 5: greedy Greg him brought MG to the phone. No no, no, no,
Speaker 5: my bad. I know I live off here and there,
Speaker 5: but I stick to the timeline of life and stuff,
Speaker 5: you know, but just leave up to that moment. For me,
Speaker 5: I jumped a little bit because that was going from Compton,
Speaker 5: LA and the first experiences based around music. That's how
Speaker 5: we're going up leading the AMG meeting him at Greedy
Speaker 5: Greggs on Crenshaw seventy sist. We was over that in
Speaker 5: them territories from a ninety the music you know, made
Speaker 5: him make Greedy Greghouse. He was already there on the
Speaker 5: drum machine, just like everybody else was. We all comprecate Inglewood,
Speaker 5: La Borderline, the Greedy Greghouse upstairs where all the records were,
Speaker 5: and the equipments and keyboards, the four track. You know,
Speaker 5: we brought what we had. I brought my records, my
Speaker 5: mama's records. Uh Quick Broble he had. Well, we bought
Speaker 5: at Keeble's records during rose Grands in the eighties, the
Speaker 5: same records that four five years became. If you want it, uh,
Speaker 5: they can't be true to yourself. Curtis Mayfield records. I
Speaker 5: bought ain't nothing wrong my mama record Casey in the
Speaker 5: Sunshine band, you know he see. We can go into
Speaker 5: details and all the details about that beat, this beat,
Speaker 5: how I was, what was used. It sounded like a snare.
Speaker 5: I was goting to creating sounds of me and Quick,
Speaker 5: you know, pretty much out of our group. You know,
Speaker 5: it was uh that was us, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: But amg at Greedy Gregg's coming upstairs. He was already
Speaker 5: in their drum programming. He had this stuff already together,
Speaker 5: so it was cool, meaning another cat that was a
Speaker 5: little different from us, you know at the time, you know,
Speaker 5: being from Ohio, he's flaming inglewood because that's where he's living.
Speaker 5: So you know, the door is open. He gotta taste
Speaker 5: the wild world because Quick was already over there. We
Speaker 5: came second, but he gotta taste the KK and D
Speaker 5: or second to none, and you know the rest is history.
Speaker 5: Like I say, Quick, tell most of the stories. Really listen,
Speaker 5: my name come up a lot of go back, go
Speaker 5: let go back and check the records out before black
Speaker 5: Tone that ain't come up.
Speaker 1: A whole lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like Compton.
Speaker 1: Let me when the whole death Row, when the whole
Speaker 1: death Row Eric came through, like you know, Sugar was
Speaker 1: out there doing what they was doing. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like the game was changing a little.
Speaker 5: Bit before that running because we was part of the
Speaker 5: first running when before all the homies got out.
Speaker 3: See a lot of people don't know that history too.
Speaker 3: We was right there.
Speaker 5: Right there to record shopping Dre. We was in front
Speaker 5: of Dras and Neop. I met Snoop before all of them.
Speaker 5: Doc introduced me to Snoop at the club. We was
Speaker 5: at the Grand Club, same place. I think I met
Speaker 5: Sipus Hill, but I met Snoop through DC. He didn
Speaker 5: wanted to got me, kay, I want you to meet somebody.
Speaker 5: You know, It's a whole bunch of these stories, man,
Speaker 5: Like I like, you know, being around they right there
Speaker 5: off Santa Fe, Man, you know.
Speaker 3: Santa Fe. All these areas. Man, Man, I'm trying to.
Speaker 1: Figure out how you all cats made music back then. Man.
Speaker 1: You know when I I came to La in eighty seven, right,
Speaker 1: it was so cracking back then. Man, it was fishing.
Speaker 1: Back then, it was a fishing. I don't know how
Speaker 1: being in the line like man eighty eighty.
Speaker 3: Nine, Man, it was it was dudes bumping our tastes.
Speaker 3: We used to be, uh everywhere in the streets.
Speaker 5: We even got into a shootout and Christian our sister,
Speaker 5: and they had that gas back the day dude thought
Speaker 5: we was following and we was on our way to
Speaker 5: Greedy Greg House.
Speaker 3: He banging. Ain't nothing wrong.
Speaker 5: Because I was one of the tape the underground tapes
Speaker 5: before ours came out. I was hitting in the streets,
Speaker 5: so we you know, he banging our stuff. He turned
Speaker 5: into gas station and started wilding out. I could smell
Speaker 5: the water in the ad. You know, I know he's tripping.
Speaker 5: We was trippling, he banging our tape. We get into
Speaker 5: a shoot out, you know, he started tripping that he
Speaker 5: thought we was following it.
Speaker 1: Then the time and that, and you know the thing
Speaker 1: is everybody knew, y'all was bloods but quickly.
Speaker 3: We never pushed that line. That's that's that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Man, so vocal with that stuff. Man, it kind of
Speaker 1: just spread over everybody.
Speaker 5: It took over the wall storm because Quick promoted the
Speaker 5: thing of naming homies you know, or you know or
Speaker 5: what not.
Speaker 3: The lifestyle we was living it. And but just like
Speaker 3: I say, music over rioted.
Speaker 5: Like like I said it in ninety two on DJ
Speaker 5: quick album Fuck the Red and the Blue Team Food
Speaker 5: My Color One Green That's on his Way to Funk album,
Speaker 5: the title of the song is called no bullsh Shit
Speaker 5: Fucking Troups.
Speaker 3: It's temporary. That's that's my mindset.
Speaker 5: That's why the Me and Pock stories, y'all don't hear
Speaker 5: about before death row out there in Inglewood off in
Speaker 5: Period and IVC and hart On me and breeding Pop
Speaker 5: and all of them and stuff, you know, during the
Speaker 5: era before anybody really know what was cracking. That's why
Speaker 5: we got pictures of us and Easy Easy over there
Speaker 5: on seventy six. Crenshaw was my house on Spruce h
Speaker 5: That's what it didn't mean, turn your video shot at
Speaker 5: my mama house. I stayed in Comptony un till ninety
Speaker 5: eight at the kept that same house, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. Earlier he was talking about the Compton Uh man, uh,
Speaker 5: you know, no distrittracting nobody else. I'm the only one
Speaker 5: that stayed in Compton as long as I could believe
Speaker 5: the way it was known. You know, Sugar used to
Speaker 5: come to the house easy right down Spruce nine twelve
Speaker 5: spruits right for the dead end.
Speaker 3: You can see it. And it didn't didn't mean to
Speaker 3: turn your video.
Speaker 1: I was, you know, speaking easy. I don't know how
Speaker 1: you let none of y'all get away to me.
Speaker 5: Because he couldn't catch his man that that At the
Speaker 5: time before we signed it, we was around, like I say,
Speaker 5: the history, we was around, you know from them that
Speaker 5: was that was a spark.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Eight slipping unknown and all that. Mike te homie even
Speaker 5: at his daddy. I think Aunt's sister, you know, just uh,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, man, it was already it was.
Speaker 4: It was a.
Speaker 5: That little stint with Q and that man. They ain't
Speaker 5: had nothing to do with us. Man, we ain't on
Speaker 5: that funny stuff. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I know we.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it be the peer pressures of niggas around you
Speaker 2: and just trying to live up to you know what
Speaker 2: you're supposed to be representing. Man, you know that shit
Speaker 2: caught a lot of us at a young ages. We
Speaker 2: didn't know. Like I told, like I always tell niggas, Uh,
Speaker 2: the shit was dumb to me because it prevents niggas
Speaker 2: from all trying to enjoy the successful times and hip hop.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Now, you got to give
Speaker 2: niggas choices of what they want to buy and shit.
Speaker 2: And I want niggas to buy at all, not me.
Speaker 2: I want niggas to buy quick. I want niggas to
Speaker 2: buy my shit. I want niggas to buy every nigga
Speaker 2: that's representing content. And when you drawing the lines and shit,
Speaker 2: you give niggas choices. And now they got to take
Speaker 2: a side and pick. So it was always dumb, you know,
Speaker 2: for us to be beefing within our own section and shit,
Speaker 2: because we all just wanted to represent the Hub City.
Speaker 2: You feel me and let niggas know that was the
Speaker 2: best place that you could be in. You feel me,
Speaker 2: And that was my message around the motherfucking world was Nigga,
Speaker 2: ain't no place better than condo. Whether you got me,
Speaker 2: whether you got quick second or none, conscience most wanted,
Speaker 2: whether you got king t, whether you got any nigga.
Speaker 2: That's talking about the Hub City nigga too. It's a blessing,
Speaker 2: you feel medave man, if.
Speaker 1: You already got to make some records, what kind of
Speaker 1: banging ass cracking ass records then would have been.
Speaker 5: We're still here, we all still got our voices and
Speaker 5: now we have better life. Like I say, back then,
Speaker 5: imagine them seeing me in Tupac together a MC breathe
Speaker 5: and had the chance to look at three of us
Speaker 5: and lay long like how we looking the world is
Speaker 5: looking at us now and have the decent conversation as
Speaker 5: grown men. We didn't have that light back then, or
Speaker 5: too much to share content and communications, you know, I
Speaker 5: mean so uh definitely a blessing to even be talking
Speaker 5: and speaking on at the beard, to speak on it,
Speaker 5: you know, do all.
Speaker 3: The stories everybody's don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah for real, man, you know, the next time you
Speaker 1: right around the corner from us. Man, the next time
Speaker 1: we were at there, you come in and sit down
Speaker 1: with us. Man.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, especially in the last minute shit, because
Speaker 1: I could hit the homie today, like, man, what you're
Speaker 1: doing tonight, Come on the show, come kick it, because
Speaker 1: you know it's so many stories, man, And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: I'll be knowing these stories, but they ain't never mind
Speaker 1: stories to tell. Man. I rather bring the homies on that,
Speaker 1: you know, the really thing and their men. Let them
Speaker 1: tell their owns, you know what I'm saying. Let them
Speaker 1: tell it will better than I.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it. You love even reaching out and having
Speaker 5: the time to space both your brothers, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, just to say to the world. You know, uh,
Speaker 5: like I say, I had the voice, but didn't have
Speaker 5: like the choice of platforms to speak back then, and
Speaker 5: like like on that record, it just like the truth
Speaker 5: that shit was temporary. Let's move forward to some permanent
Speaker 5: you know that was spoken to ninety twos.
Speaker 1: You know, let me ask you this, KK, because you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm always had to keep it. I'm always
Speaker 1: had to keep it funky, you know. Quick at one
Speaker 1: of the most talented people in the universe. Ultra talented
Speaker 1: dude man right, super dope man like he rapped just
Speaker 1: as good as he produced. He's a dope dude right
Speaker 1: when you always was it was it ever hard working
Speaker 1: with him doog.
Speaker 5: Well straight up and everybody, no, straight up. It's always
Speaker 5: a toughs to work on something when you have I'm
Speaker 5: not I'm not a competitive spirit or a person.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I can compete, but I'm not pushing the competitive agenda.
Speaker 5: You know, I could do that very well, but that's
Speaker 5: not the point. That's why like our first single, don't
Speaker 5: have no Hooks and called be true to yourself. You know,
Speaker 5: I like to pay homage to those of life and
Speaker 5: not just rap every thing that came before me, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean. So that's that's uh, speaking of
Speaker 5: who I am and the person I am not.
Speaker 3: The world don't know. There just no second or none
Speaker 3: because we ain't really had a voice, uh you know,
Speaker 3: but it'll come. Uh my man, damn you know.
Speaker 5: Like I said, it's my first time world. I appreciate
Speaker 5: and apologize from random jumping in.
Speaker 1: Now that's all. It's all good man, you know what.
Speaker 1: I just you know what, because Quick as a genius man.
Speaker 1: And when people he.
Speaker 5: Called me a genius, he called me like I said,
Speaker 5: That's why I brought up the compet it ain't no competition.
Speaker 5: And uh, it's hard working with somebody that feels that
Speaker 5: their peers might be an equal.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you find a kindred spirit of how.
Speaker 5: Did this start? See a lot of this it started
Speaker 5: from me and Quick, let's get your ship straight. Then
Speaker 5: it come on, cousin right there and.
Speaker 1: On that note, right your man, man, we out of here.
Speaker 1: Shueka mm hm