WEBVTT - Dupre “DoItAll” Kelly | ROC Solid w/ Memphis Bleek 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.080 What up, y'all? This is your main man, Memphis Bleak 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.280 right here. Welcome to Rock Solid, a production of iHeart 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.280 Radio and the Black Effect Network in partnership with my 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.160 guys over at Drink Champs. 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:14.640 You should nobody know. 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:25.119 You should nobody know. Yeah, y'all, you already know what 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:28.800 it is. Yours truly back with another exclusive episode of 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.440 Rock Solid, and this one right here. It's special when 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:36.560 you have someone that was a childhood favorite. Really, when 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:38.840 you listen to the music, it takes you right back 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:43.239 the way you was. Let's welcome not only rapper do 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:47.600 it all, city councilman, do it all to the building. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.240 Now you know what, my brother, I'm good man, yo, man. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.680 The evolution of hip hop is amazing, brother, to see 0:00:54.720 --> 0:01:00.560 you over here from rap bars, the change in the laws, 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:02.319 yes said, he. 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:08.440 Still got bars, you know, man, man dope, Yo man, man, 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.720 I appreciate you man making easy money, yo. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:17.200 Ain't I ain't pimping no more. I'm tired. Love lockdown, 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.480 love lockdown, That's what it was growing up. 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:21.000 Hip hop. 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.120 Hip hop looks like, yes, you know, I love it. Man. 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.920 Let's let's go back before we keep taking the present, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:32.920 because the year is nineteen ninety three. I remember being 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.640 in my house video music box, so all we had 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.399 was video music box or the box. I didn't have 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.720 enough money for the box, so all we had was 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.480 video music box. Shout out Ralph McDaniels. 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.160 Shout out Ralph Man, Happy anniversary. 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:51.160 Here comes the laws Man drops Yes, produced by Mally 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:55.200 mas I signing. Oh wow, I didn't. 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.920 Know that K Death did the hits man Like produced. 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.040 What was that like at A eighty three to have 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.080 a major hit by a major producer and you were 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:08.440 signed to Marley mal Like in nineteen eight. I couldn't 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.560 even imagine which I was living. So I want to 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:11.280 hear from you, yo. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.280 It's like a dream come true. Like I am so 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:19.640 hip hop man, Like I am hip hop, that's right. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.760 Like I'm never gonna stop being hip hop with anything 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.840 that I do. But with that being said, we I 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.600 was the young the young homie that recorded Mally mal 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.079 Pau's tape on WBLS. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.360 Yes, Yes, the sessue on the tape. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:39.359 I'm recording Molly mal and mister Magic on BLS. I'm 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.560 listening to all of that and we go off. You know, 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.880 I want to be a rapper I'm trying to get 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.440 a deal that doesn't work out, well, says you know, 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.360 if it does not work out, you are going to school. 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:56.240 That's right, So everybody, so everybody. So I went to school, man, I. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.920 Went to Show University because it didn't seem like it 0:02:58.960 --> 0:02:59.639 was working out. 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:01.919 And Raleigh, North Carolina. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.959 Man, yeah, man n C. 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.440 And it felt like it was starting to happen because 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.720 Mallie Maul's cousin went to our school. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.720 Derek L. A. Jackson. Now, Derek is the same guy 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:14.760 who found Scott. 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:20.000 Storch Oh wow, Yeah, and he managed Coolio and all 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.200 of those Mountain Deuke commercials that you used to see 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:22.920 with Nicki. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.480 Minaj and Lil Wayne and all of that. All that 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.960 was Derek L. A. Jackson, And he found the roots damn. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:30.519 Clug. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.600 He was in college with our DJ, DJ Lord Jazz. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.160 Shout yea Lord Jazz living. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.000 You see what's so dope about the era? Back then, 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:45.480 the DJ got just as much as the artist. Today, 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.160 it's just like, hey, that's my DJ. Dog Biggas just 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.400 focused on the artist. So that's dope that all three 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.480 of y'all grew together. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.040 Lord Jazz founded Lords of the Underground, We say that 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.520 because La was his best friend in college and Lord 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.000 Jazz was the DJ at all of the parties, all 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.360 of the Greek parties, all. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:06.200 Of that type of stuff. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.960 And La was graduating and he was going to work 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.320 for his cousin, who just happened to be Marley mal 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.360 And he said, Yo, when I go work for Marli, 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:17.760 you know, I'm a try to get a group in there. 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.640 He was like, former group, when I go work for Marli. 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.720 So he would let me rhyme at all of the parties. 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.880 And he would never let funk rahm at the parties. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:29.080 No way. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.400 Yeah, he wouldn't let funk ram at the parties. I guess, 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:33.040 expressing them so much. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.520 And then one day Man, he asked us to come 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.800 up to the radio station and we set a rhyme 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.920 that we wrote together, and they sent the tape, which 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.360 was Psycho. They sent that tape that we was rhyming 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:49.760 over dress from Black Sheep and you know, roming over. 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:51.520 I think it might have been flavored a month or 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:52.240 something like that. 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.640 Wow. He sent it to. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.680 Shout to send it to Malie. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.200 Man and Molly called Man and said, Yo, when y'all 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:02.880 come into the house. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.080 It Hits and the rest became history. 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:06.320 Man. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.360 So to answer your question, being able. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.560 To be in front of Molly Mal who I used 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.240 to record from the radio, it was just it was 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.440 amazing to me. The first time we walked into the 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.960 house it Hits, which was upstate New York at the time. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.000 You know, we pull up to this white house upstate 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:28.280 New York. You see a red path. Fonder, you see 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.440 a red pile, you see a red BMW. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:32.839 All the cards was red. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.719 This one Mally had the ring back in that day 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.680 before anybody had the ring. You pressed his bell and 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.720 he could see you and you talked to him. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:41.440 We went in. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:45.039 Dang, it's a little skinny kid standing in between the 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.400 SSL and back then it was only two people that 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.320 had ssls in their home, or maybe three, I think, 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.440 Prince Molly Mal and Teddy Riley. And it's this little 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.640 skinny kid with a bell can go on and a 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.800 white beater on and he's all you hear is. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:04.800 Mama said, knock you out. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:09.400 It was yo, chill, yo, this is this is young 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:14.040 kids like, yes, it's legendary. Ll was like the god, 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.119 yes you know, and he said, yo ta yo tad, 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.040 I want you to meet my new group. We ain't 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.560 even had the name yet, you know. And he turned around, 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.120 he looked at us, He licked his lips. He turned 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.200 the music down him like what up beat? Then he 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.640 turned it back up. Mama said, knock you out. They 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.120 was mixing. Mama said, knock you out. I turned to 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:33.599 the crew. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.520 I was like, yo, we made it word up like 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:41.000 we here we in the president are real right now. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.080 But damn, like you said, you was in Shaw University 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:46.360 pledge Alpha Pi Alpha. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:47.920 I didn't even fold alpha. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.880 You know what I'm saying, Step, How did that shape 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.599 your leadership? You know what I mean? Mindset that you 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:55.479 carried today. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.760 Man, it's difficult, right, Like it was difficult when you 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.120 come from and I know you know League coming from Brooklyn, 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.000 when you come from those inner cities. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.720 Man, you just believe and know what you know? 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:08.400 That's right. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.440 So when somebody introduced something foreign to you, first thing 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.960 we do is we push back to those things that 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.800 that's unfamiliar to us. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:16.480 Right. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.240 And when I first went to school, I only went 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.480 to school because I got in trouble, right, I got 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.080 I got locked up, I got caught Joe Rod. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.280 And then I got charged with a gun. I got 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.640 charged with the drugs. That was I was looking at 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.960 seventeen years God damn. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:39.240 And the councilman at the time shout out to my 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.440 mentor Hot Feast for Red, who went on to manage 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.280 laws of the underground. But the council he was the 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.680 chief of staff to the councilman. And shout out to 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.040 doctor Ralph T. Grant Senior. He's still living man eighty 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.440 almost nineties, ninety something years old. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:55.200 Yeah, and he lives in Florida. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:08:00.080 You know, you know where the retired right And you 0:07:59.920 --> 0:08:02.560 know he said, Joe, I know you not this type 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.080 of dude. Let me let me write some letters to 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.080 the judges and to the courts and see if I 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.800 can get some lesser things to happen. Long story short, 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.840 they come back the court saying you gotta go to school. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.960 You go to school. I had to paint some polls 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:18.480 and all that. They said. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:20.240 I've been there. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:25.160 I've been there, you know, went to school and that's 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.520 where I met the people that changed my life. 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.520 But even back to the councilman, that was the counselman 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.800 that everything that he showed me. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.880 I wound up becoming an alpha like him. I wound 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.160 up going to the same school that he graduated. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.040 And I can't make this up. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.520 And now, as the counselman of North New Jersey, I 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.160 have the same office that he had as the counselor. 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:53.560 It's like, that's like as full three sixty to be 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.880 standing there looking at it as a juveie looking at 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.480 them helping you on some criminal activity, to now you 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.800 the counselman in that same spot and able to give 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.280 the same opportunity to maybe another misfortunate young you know, 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.760 young man out here in the wrong place, wrong time. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.960 So damn man, you doing all of that college and 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.880 that's dope that you got in the situation. And they 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:18.360 made you go to school. 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.440 Yeah, they made me go to school. That was back then. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.000 Now I don't know if they're gonna do that now. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.320 What happened in my era, They just put you in truan. See, 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.120 it took you to the preset, your moms came and 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.720 got you. You still was dumb yesterday as you was 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.400 that day. They did not say, hey, we're gonna sign 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.560 you up to college and get you right. Was none 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.800 of that. So all of that happening, and then Chief Rocker, 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:49.120 Chief Rocker drops buzzing nationally everywhere radio send it like 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.600 to me, I think that was maybe you know, back 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.640 in the day listening to music, you didn't know what 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.240 records went gold, what records were platt, no, what records 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.080 was not. As a kid, you didn't care. I think 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.840 that record would the first time I noticed, like, wait 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.040 a minute, this ship is everywhere. Yeah. 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:06.440 Man, that was a blessing man. 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.320 But I think before we even get the Chief rock up, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:10.560 we have to rewind too. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.760 Like I think it was the build up. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.719 We had like five videos, as you know, shout out 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.400 to Rubin Rodriguez who ran Pendulum Records. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:31.040 Angel I remember shout they had one record that last forever, forever, forever. 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.599 They ain't even in the video. They was cool as mother, cool, cool. 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:39.280 Like that, right. 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.280 But I think we have to rewind, like and go 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:46.000 back to Funky Child, right, so funky shot, Like first 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.840 Psycho was bubbling and and it became okay, but then 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:54.439 Funky Child dropped and that stuff. You know, I went 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.959 into the went into the video with the diaper. 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.920 On, yo, the baby, oh you the baby? 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.400 Oh yeah, heard up. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.320 He was the first one to set it off. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.679 And actually we got that from Parliament Funkadelic. 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.960 No way at the time, shout out you and the 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.440 baby y'all the only tour my life flying I seen 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.040 doing and y'all held it down. Man, you know what 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:14.760 I mean when you. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.880 Got Funky Child to come out. I remember being at 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:20.839 Rosco Chicken and Waffles uh in La. You know, back then, 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.839 everybody had a record representative in each city that was 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:29.800 a good good and our record representative came in and 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.320 they slid the billboard tours and they said, congratulations you 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:33.920 number one. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.440 This is a Funky Child. So we're like, oh, yeah, yeah, 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:37.719 but the. 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.280 Record representative was still like kind of like down, so 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:42.920 we're like, yo, he just said we number one? 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:43.400 What's up? 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.400 And he said, I want to apologize to y'all. I'm 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.400 like apologize for what he said because we didn't think 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.440 this record would move so we didn't push it. 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:55.040 So were like, wait a minute. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.439 The record went number one and we. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.600 Like, he like, yeah, man, it could have really been 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:02.760 been that record. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:08.000 Funky Child, is it? Like think? Uh? French Matanda revived. 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:08.440 That out the French. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.079 We had a we had a long talk with him 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.680 about you know, I was I was upset with French 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.840 at first, French. I was upset with you, but because 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.720 this French is my dude now, but I was upset 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.120 with and Max has always been my guy, but French. 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.360 We was upset with French because we felt like when 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.600 you did the video, when you did the song, you 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.839 didn't reach out to the homies to originated, just invite 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:30.439 us in the video so we can be like this 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.559 in the video, you know, and it wasn't and then 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.080 come to find out it wasn't even him, it was 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:37.000 his crew and all. 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:38.360 You know, so but were cool. 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.800 French is cool and I mean that that recad bro. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.840 I think that rec gonna live forever. Like I was 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.959 talking to my partner cheat you off screen and he 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.640 was like yo. He was like if I remember, He 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.440 was like, yo, Lords, the Underground might have the last 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:55.440 breakdancing record released. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.480 And that's what That's what I'm getting to too. So 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.120 when he told us that Funky Child, they didn't push. 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:05.160 The next record was Chief Rocker. So now they didn't 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.280 believe or push Funky Child. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:08.720 When they put. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.240 Everything in the Chief Rocker, that made Chief Rocker a 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.560 top forty hit, and that changed our lives. 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.680 What video was that I'm trying I want to say 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.920 the wrong song. But y'all shot a video in Newark, 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.439 I believe, and it was at night. The video was 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:27.960 that Chief Rocker or Lord Child that that was? That 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:33.360 was funky that video bro like classic by Gee. I 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:34.760 was mobbing in Newark. 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.600 Like, let me give you a history about Funky Child cover. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.520 I never said this on any interview ever. We were 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.320 supposed to have that cover with baby pictures of us, 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.240 and Funk could not find a baby picture of himself. 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:48.560 Yo. 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:49.960 That's how it was. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.080 Back like his mom's you know, God bless Auntie. She 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.480 had passed on my birthday. 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.719 That's different to him. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:01.880 We signed on January twelfth to Mary and funk Mom's 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.280 past on January fourteenth, which is my birthday. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.560 So it's the best day of his life than the 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:07.280 worst day. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:07.679 Yeah. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:12.280 So he couldn't find any of his baby pictures and 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.160 then next thing, you know, Big comes out with the 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:16.079 big baby picture. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.800 It was mad drama over the baby pictures. Y'all had 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.440 drama over the the Funk yeah being the Funky Child, 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:28.800 like Hi being the Funk your man, Yo. It was 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.840 mad drum because I remember lording that's you know, they 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.840 came out. What was his album The Funk some turn 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.200 the Return of the y'all was Lords. 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.040 Of the No we was the Lords of the Underground. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.240 Yeah, y'all was, but no y'all was. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.000 The record was funky, yes, but people used to say 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:47.760 it was the return of the Funky Chap. 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.520 That's what called I remember as a shorter. You know, 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:56.360 this was back with right word. All that stuff is out. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.280 You get your like, yo, this is going on. Then 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.320 when I spoke the Guru, I told him I interview, 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.200 He's like, yo, gotta bring up that because this was 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:08.760 a big time, big movement and then like the funk sound. Yeah, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.960 I feel like there is no originator to it. Nah, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.640 right because Lord foressing them did what they did with 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:16.760 the Diamond D and. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:18.160 Them shout out to d I TC. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.120 Y'all came out and changed the pushed the envelope further, 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.000 and then RADMN came out and took it even further. 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.520 Let's even take it further than that, right, So Parliament, Parliament, 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:32.000 Funk Cadelic is from New Jersey, so all of the 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:32.920 sampling of. 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:37.520 The funk in the West Coast, that's New Jersey, New Jersey. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.040 Damn. So foressing them was wild no. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.160 Not even just for that, like the West Coast gets 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.000 the credit for that funk sound in hip hop. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:49.200 Yes, but they were sampling a Jersey artist. You see 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.440 what I'm saying. So, I mean shout out the shout 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:52.520 out the Finesse too. Man. 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.600 For now, I've met him at an award show. He's 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.000 super dupe. One of the illest lyricists I met coming up. 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:01.040 I respect all the OG's, that's one thing. All of 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:05.040 y'all paved a way for us to do what we 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:10.120 do today. And if guys don't know lords in the underground, 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:15.040 digging in the crates, Molly, ma, you're doing a disservice 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.440 to yourself a hip hop like like, you know, I 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.760 don't like keep bringing up the young and the old. 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.440 But little Yachty man what he said about you know 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.760 what I mean, rappers Delight. It's just like, come on, 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:27.760 come on, that's blasphemy. 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.840 And you know what's crazy about little Yachty Like his 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:33.400 mother went to our college. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:41.080 Damn, no way, yo, chill. So Mama Yati sitting again, Mama. 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.320 Yati right Shaw University. Man. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.200 You know, I mean shout out to Yachty. So when 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.640 we found out out, I was like, wow, she should 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.760 have schooled the more what happened on Yes for sure, man, definitely. 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:54.160 But back to the Chief Rocker. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:54.440 Man. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:58.720 So after after Funky Child, you know, we were on 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.320 the weird platform, and then we switched to the EU 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.919 my platform with Chief Rokker, and they poured all of 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.160 those dollars, all this promotion and marketing dollars, marketing dollars 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:13.679 into that, and man, Chief Rocker just changed our lives. 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:13.840 Man. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.000 We got to buy our mother home, mother's homes, ourselves homes. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:18.919 And you can tell a difference from it hit. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:23.080 I know, you know you people hit radio hit is 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.080 better than the digital hit. Oh you see, way more money, definitely. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.159 I don't know why, like how the game is bregged 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.840 that way, and I don't own the money machine, but 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:36.480 that radio hit and I come on ninety three ninety four, bro, 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.359 that was That's all it was was radio. There was 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.159 no digital, It was no end in Thatt radio. So 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.240 y'all got to see the full fledge of what rappers 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:46.520 today can only dream of. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:46.720 Me. 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.000 I came in on the tail end of it, and 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:53.399 we had the jyrules and the murdering radio Nelly. It 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:58.679 was like get your record in Nigga. I had a 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:03.320 lot of competition. Member, it's nine slots. It's only nine 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:07.600 slots on the radio. Jah had three, Luda had two, 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.200 Nelly had two, and Jay got the rest. They looking 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.440 at you like where you want me to put your 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:14.959 record outside the radio? 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:20.440 I got your right. It was that Monday of music, Wednesday, 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:21.440 Mondays and Wednesday. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.359 Yeah, new money. There used to be new money break 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.720 it Thursday. Member. They used to be like what was 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.679 this ship? Rocket or jacket or used to do rocket 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:36.240 or socket rocking? Sick? Yeah, yo, like back then, like 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.640 when did the how you said you was on pendulum? 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.080 But then how did the death Jam thing happen? 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.879 Well, we wasn't see Redman was on Death Jam and 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.560 people like, you know that's my brother. 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.320 That's I got four Godfathers for my I call them 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:54.359 for my son. 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:59.200 Man right angels, Yeah, man, they the Mount Rushmore Godfathers, Man, 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.960 Red Man and Lord Finness, Michael Bivens from New Edition. 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.600 And Trench God damn. He got it all. 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:08.080 Oh no, they spoiled the message. 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:14.040 Yeah, he got it all. He got gangster shows skills 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.159 because I wanted to rapa Redman. He don't know that 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.080 he know now see this, but when that first album 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.720 The What Crazy, I studied that out razing. 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.240 He's a legend man, He's one of my favorite monkst 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.000 being my brother, but he used to be my DJ. 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:35.280 Chill Redman is a DJ two. 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.560 Red Man was my DJ before he was Redman, the 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:40.879 Murderous Yo Chill. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:42.600 Not Muddy Waters DJ. 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:43.600 Yeah, it was. 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.959 It was my DJ man And he's just always been 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.879 a fire MC even when he was DJing. We had 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.160 this set that we used to do where he would 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:53.080