WEBVTT - SYLK-E FYNE - Tuna Mac n Cheese 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.840 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:06.960 I'm your host, Coleen Witt, and today we have a 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:11.320 West Coast legend in the building. Writer recording artists creator 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.960 Silky Fine is in the building. Most of us know 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.919 her from her single Romeo and Juliet. But you also 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.760 did a track on Easy Eas record. It was called 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:27.920 what was it called straight Straight off the Streets of Compton. 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:32.080 And the single was called old School Shit, Old School Shit. 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.480 So this is cool because it's very It's not very 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.920 often we get a legend, but it's kind of cool. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:39.680 I'm from the East Coast, here from the West Coast 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.440 to have a legend from the West Coast, and I'm 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:44.879 sure we're gonna hear a lot of juicy stories involving 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:49.480 hopefully pocking Easy E. But in the interim for right now, 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.400 can you tell me what you ate while you were broke? 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:57.200 I'm gonna tell you right now. I was eating tuna. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:20.840 Matt tuna mac. 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.560 It's funny because this is a dish that I actually make. 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.200 But go ahead and tell us what the ingredients are. 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.319 Okay, So the ingredients is simple. It's simply a box 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.600 of Kraft. It has to be Kraft. You can get 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.240 it for about ninety nine cents on sale dollar twenty 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:40.679 five Kraft macaroni and cheese. Your standard can of tunas. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.840 I like to use two cans of tuna. Drink very 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:48.440 well so that you can get your protein, half a 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:52.120 cup of milk butter, and then throw some has to 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.000 be the real cheese, not the imitation cheese. But put 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.200 a couple of sliced cheeses and you'll be set. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.960 Yeah, this is a dish. I've done it before. 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.760 I've never was smart enough to add the Craft single 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.560 cheeses in it, but now I'm going to add that. 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.240 And then just for our listeners, this dish is literally 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.800 a couple bucks. I'm pretty sure it feeds two people. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.760 Full right, I would say, you know, if you're a 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.359 good heavy eater, this dish will make you. But definitely 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.880 in today's market, this is like a three dollars dish. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.919 So let's go ahead and have you cooked for me. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:28.600 No problem, I'm honored to be here and wow broke. Yeah, 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:29.880 so I'm gonna get started. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:31.600 We did preheat the water, so you may have to 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:32.760 bring it back up to a boil. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.920 Yeah, so we're gonna cause I've been watching. I was like, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.720 how can you cook? Somebody go burn itself up such 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.080 a mess. But anyway, we're gonna start with the craft 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:49.560 macaroni and cheese, which your water has to boil. Do 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.200 not over boil the noodles because you may as well 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:54.840 make a pot of top raamen or something. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:58.680 Yeah, I think you may have to bring it up 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.640 a little bit. Is always I was boiling. 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.480 Okay, listen, guys, just so you know, I have a 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.079 track record of destroying everyone's dish on the show. I 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.440 can't help it. I'm like the passenger that's telling you 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.280 how to drive. I need to stay alone. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.120 I'm really a fan of eating while broke. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.240 So I've watched some of the guests and I'm like, 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.480 you never cooked the thing in your life? 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.120 You know who I think never cooked? Believe it or not. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:21.040 I think it's Mario. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:25.400 Sorry Mario, right, even though he was the one that 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.760 caught it was burning. But can you take me back 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.320 to what was going on in the time of Tuna Mac. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.800 Well, see, I came from a middle class family, so 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:41.720 I really didn't experience broke until I became an adult 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.080 and I wanted to chase my dream and I became 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:50.600 an artist. So tuna mac for me really happened at 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.680 about the age of nineteen twenty because my mom she 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:59.280 would cook the real deal, homemade of tuna casseroles. She 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:03.400 would make rich beans and rice and hotstails. And you know, 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.880 no be a creole, but you know our family. It's 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:15.040 from Baton Rouge. But I'm a California girl born and raised. However, 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:20.039 I don't have the typical personality of a typical La girl. 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.480 But when did you start falling in love with hip hop? 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.920 Well, growing up on the West Coast, you have choices, 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:34.000 and in my teenage youthful years, it was like, either. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.480 You gonna be a gang member? 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.039 Are you gonna be a entertainer, because I've always had 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.240 the gift to freestyle. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:42.679 That was my gift. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.800 And then going back to elementary school, I was labeled 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:52.719 gifted because I would write terrific poems and journalism. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.520 I can read, and I would win spelling bees. 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:00.440 So Century Park Elementary shots out ice killed. We all 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.320 went to elementary school together. So I was just like 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.719 middle class raised on the West side of Los Angeles, 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:13.560 and I didn't experience this until I thought I was 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:14.680 grown on my own. 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.240 What did your parents do well? 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:21.400 My mom she was a nurse, which she remained the 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.679 nurse at General Hospital for like until they really closed 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.320 the building down. She was like a top nurse RIN. 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.279 So she dealt with healthcare for since I was a 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.880 little girl. She started out driving school buses and then 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:38.240 she became an RIN. 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.320 So what about your father really. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:41.000 Into the healthcare? 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.280 My dad, he was a pharmacist at General Hospital. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:46.920 Well, so both parents are doing really good. 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:51.839 So my dad he retired from General Hospital, but unfortunately 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:57.120 he passed away in two thousand. Oh my goodness, two 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:02.960 thousand and twenty nineteen. So I lost my dad. But 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:07.359 then my stepdad, which was my mom's husband because she 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:08.880 had separated from my dad. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.120 You know, oh okay, they weren't together business. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.640 But then my stepdad stepped in and he's awesome. He 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.680 is a he owns his own construction company. So his 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:24.480 company is called Lakeview Enterprise black Old. He has been 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.880 in the business for over fifty seven years. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.359 He gets awards, he's top rating. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:34.279 So we were like going on camping trips and fishing trips. Yeah, 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.760 we had a boat parked in our yard and we 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:37.840 had a Mercedes. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:39.800 Some of my friends growing. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.159 Up, was like, oh, they used to call me peaches 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:43.320 before I had. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:47.920 Gotten Now you started pursuing rap music before the age 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.040 of nineteen or is nineteen and you said, okay, that's it. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.400 No, actually I started at fourteen. 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.760 I went to Henry Clay Junior High School in Gardena, California. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.400 You gotta be careful with electric stoves because see, when 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.240 I was broke, I had guess though and hope that 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.240 I paid the gas bill, but you know it to'll. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:07.320 Overcook your stuff. 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.840 So yeah, yeah, you have to be careful with the 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.920 electric stalls. But I'm gonna give it about another two minutes. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.920 I'm like mush, So anyway, yeah, definitely. I went to 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:19.720 Henry Clay Junior High School. 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.160 M yeah, a couple of women. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.560 So I actually, you know in the yearbook they have 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:30.400 a theme called best Dressed, Cutest Couple. Well, I was 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:34.280 a creator since I was born, so I started the 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.040 thing called the best Rapper. 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.000 Oh wow, and what year is this? 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:40.840 This was nineteen ninety seven. 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:41.840 Okay, my. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.200 I'm sorry ninety seven? Are you serious? All? Yeah, nineteen 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:47.880 eighty seven. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:48.080 Yeah. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.000 I was gonna say what year did hip hop's come out? 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.440 Because I know we're this when my record. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.320 Came home, and uh, we're coming up on the fifty 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.040 year anniversary of hip hop, So do you refresh my 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.040 memory on what year hip hop's started? One year? Was 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:05.480 that nineteen eight? I want to say nineteen eighty nineteen eighty. 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.800 My age when I got familiar with hip hop, it 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.880 was definitely nineteen eighty, yeah, but then it might even 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.480 went back to seventy nine because it might have been 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.640 in Africa, been Bottles and the people before Curtis Blow. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:18.320 But I don't know. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.760 It may be seventy five, because if you do the math, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.800 it's twenty twenty twenty three. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.520 It would be fifty yeah, right, it would be in 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:26.120 the seventies. 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.320 And then they did have Shirl with the Pearl ringding 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.760 Dom ding Ding Dom. That might have been seventy seventy 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:34.840 eight or seventy nine. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:36.440 So you strike out on your own. 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.640 Your mom is she in support of this pursuance of music? 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:43.720 Not really? Not really? 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:44.480 So what was? 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:44.960 What was? 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:46.640 What did you originally want you to do? 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.800 She wanted me to be a lawyer, she wanted me 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:54.000 to continue to be in school, but she also knows 0:08:54.040 --> 0:09:00.120 that my passion is writing. My passion is communicating. So 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.520 then I always had a nick a knack for that. 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.200 And like I said, ninth grade, boom, I won the 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:06.400 best rapper of the year. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:07.439 Can't go had on? 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:09.640 And what did she say about all this? Was she 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.920 embracing in which she embraced. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.920 It and she was a little shock because she didn't 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:15.800 have that type of background. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:17.240 Yeah, so never. 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.480 Did she even like get involved with music. She'd listened 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.800 to it, but my mom wasn't really a fan of music. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.320 He's like a movie person, a lifetime based on the truth. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.559 So you're going rogue? Is there? Is there? Do you 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:30.319 have siblings? 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:35.480 Yes, I'm from my mom, I have one brother, a 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:40.560 little brother, and a little sister. I'm thirteen years older 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:44.360 than my little sister. And then I'm twenty one years 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.960 older than my little brother because my mother couldn't stop nothing. 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.920 But and then from my dad, I have a big sister. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.199 She's two years older than me. So I have one 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.480 sister with the same dad, and then I have a 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.480 brother and sister with the same mom. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:00.480 Nice. 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:05.319 Now, so take me take me back to nineteen year 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.079 old you. You're pursuing music. What's going on? You didn't 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:09.680 you don't have a record deal. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.640 Yet No, I don't have a record deal. So I 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.480 got in the Best of the West Rap contest to 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:16.959 Iced Tea was the judge. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:18.480 Nineteen eighty five. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.720 I was fresh in high school, so I was going 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.839 out and getting in talent shows, and you know, I 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:30.599 got with a small independent label that was called Neighborhood Records, 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:35.000 and nothing ever happened. I did perform with C. C. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.439 Penn Easton when I was like eighteen years old at 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.240 the Hollywood House of Blues, So I mean, you know, 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.480 I was like striving to do this thing called rap. 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.240 That little label shouts out to Neighborhood Records. It really 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:49.400 didn't well. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.080 So what happened when you were on the record, Did 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.440 you get to release an album or no. 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.600 I started with that little independent company they were trying. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.000 So then you know, I would get in the student 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:04.400 with different producers, and I was working with this one producer. 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.040 Shout out to my guy, the real Richie rich out 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.920 here on the West Coast. So once you guys, drain 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.640 your noodles. I'm gonna give you a little instruction. It's 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.760 pretty simple poor man's meal, So you let your noodles drain. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.320 So once I was working with Richie Rich up in 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:26.000 this studio in Hollywood, and I'm like, Richie Rich, like, 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.920 I'm thankful that you're getting me in the studio, but 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.440 you just don't you you can't do anything. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.280 So what do you mean you can't do anything? 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.240 You can't get me where I need to go. 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.679 Like we're just like in these beautiful studios, but you're 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.319 not connected. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:44.360 Okay, but you're talented, okay. 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.000 So he did know a couple of. 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.520 People, and he was in the good areas, but he 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.920 just wasn't persistent. So one day we're at the studio. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.720 I'm the type that right on the spot, I laid 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.680 my lyrics in one hour, we have a whole song, 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.800 lives everything. So he's in there mixing and I'm like 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.560 looking at his phone. For some reason, I grabbed his phone. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:13.040 So I'm like, huh, Easy Now, I always told my 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.440 grandmother I'm gonna get with Ruthless Records. That's the label 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.640 for me. Like I'm gonna get with them. And I'm like, Grandma, 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:21.440 I promise you. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.040 She lived closer to Compton and where you guys all 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:24.920 the same age group. 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:29.760 No Easy was much older. But I mean everybody only 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.160 thought he was like a teenager. 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:32.320 Yeah, he looked so young. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:33.120 He looked so. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.960 Young, but he was like, yeah, like they're probably sixty. 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:37.240 He would have been sixty, so. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.480 He would have been like thirty back then, right, Yeah, 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.480 He's like yeah back then. He was like, yeah, so 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.199 you see this number in his phone? 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:44.640 What do you do? 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.360 So instantly I see the phone number and I'm like, 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.000 easy E. I'm like, I take the number down. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.360 Awesome, I get home smart, I blow the number up. 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.319 It actually was his assistant shouts out to miss Sharlie 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:01.920 Henry because she saved all all the messages, and I'm like, 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.920 you know, I done left fifteen messages and I guess 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.000 I'm whack because I never. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:08.080 Heard from EASYE. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.000 So come to find out it was his assistant, Sharie 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:16.200 Henry's phone number, and she said she was like, oh god, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:17.360 this girl's so dope. 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:18.080 She's dope. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:22.680 But she saved the voicemails. And then there was one 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:27.240 message the day that we buried my grandmother because I'm like, 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.640 I always told my grandma was gonna make it, and 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.160 oh my god, and I just really want to make 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.160 it for grandma because she lived on one hundred and 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.040 twenty ath in Sam Pedro that was the closest to 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.800 Compton that if the family lived too so. 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.840 As to say, don't worry Grandma, I'm a meat. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.080 Easy So anyway, I left several messages so I wake 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.439 up for my grandmother funeral. I got that number before 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.840 I left. Instead of me doing the lyrical miracle trying 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.679 to show my skills, I went off, fuck you nigga, 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.640 you ain't shit. I'm a gangst the bitch and you 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.719 the type of nigga I ain't fucking with. We were 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.520 our I just don't. That was the message that got 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.960 me a record deal with Easy E. So Charlie was like, 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.800 y'all you gotta hear this. Yeah, she's dope. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.400 So you you you did a disrap on his voicemail 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:14.800 and that's what caught his attention. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:16.640 Shout out to you. 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.600 Because I was trying to do all this miracle work. 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.080 You were trying to be nice and you were like, 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:22.440 we gonna really go. 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.600 To that beautiful service for my grandmother. I get home 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.400 from the funeral, I checked my voicemails. I'll never forget yo. 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.240 This is Eric. Yeah you know Rhythm D. I'm a 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:37.320 said rhythm to come get you text Rhythm D. 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:38.880 Your address, and I'm. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:42.800 Like, oh, grandma, I know you went to heaven. I said, 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.000 thank you Guardian and your grandma. I'm gonna make it 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:46.520 and we're still gonna live right here. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:47.600 How old are you at this time? 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.960 At this time, I was seventeen, you were only seventeen. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:51.840 I was seventeen. 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.880 Wow, okay, I'm forty eight now, okay, okay, so you 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:56.600 are seventeen. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.320 Easy returns your car. You're in nice. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:14:59.480 I finished. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.160 It was like summer, I'm going to junior college. 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:06.520 Now you tell your mama, she says, she like child like. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.560 Girl who is easy, because you know we were West 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:09.920 l A. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.120 You better not be going to competent. 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.240 I'm like, mama, he live in Norwalk. They're about to 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.960 come get me. So I was at home. We lived 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.480 off one hundred and tenth in Western So I was 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.720 at home and I was so excited. So once you 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.240 drain your noodles, guys, you're gonna put them back cause 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.840 you know craft you don't need to rinse them. You're 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:31.600 gonna rinse off some flavor. So you put your noodles 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:36.800 right back in there. Guys, you add your butter, your 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.120 milk before you do the tune okay. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.200 So after easy E picks you up or he sends 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.480 for the rhymese and what's the first interaction with easy 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:45.880 what's that? 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:46.160 Like? 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.320 Oh my goodness. So I walked in and I'm nervous. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.800 But then I've never been the shy type. So he's 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.800 sitting there and I'm just like, oh my god, it's 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.480 really easy E. And then what I like, okay? So 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.920 then boom when I see him, I'm just like he like, yeah, 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.760 what's up. I'm like shit, He said, yeah, you want 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.720 to be with Ruthless? I said hell yeah. I said yo, yeah, 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.040 why do you think I've been? I said, you're calling 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.320 me back? He was like, yeah, so you you kicking 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.120 that gangster ship? I said I sure am. So he 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.480 was like, let me hear you rap. So I just 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.840 I'm like off the top of the head, so I'm 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.840 more melodic. I never wanted to be the dopest and 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.160 the best, so I just kicked the freestyle. He was 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.800 like when you signing, and I was like, we're that bread. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.200 Did he say anything? Did he talk smack about your 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:31.920 disc tand no? 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.640 He said he liked it. He was like, that took 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:38.280 some guts, that took balls. So I didn't know that 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:39.840 he was forming. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:40.680 A four girl group. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.760 Okay, had your buddy, let it MIXU. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.240 By the way, I put the right amount of butter, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:47.080 so you can use all that. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.680 Butter if you. I'm a butter person, me too, I 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:51.040 can girl. 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.560 And then when I was poor off using more. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:54.840 Yeah. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.040 I actually didn't know the difference between butter and fake 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.840 butter until Eating Wall broke. I think now Evans on 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:02.280 the show was the one that taught. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:02.840 Me it. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:05.840 Is nothing like the butter. 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.320 So you add your butter and your your little bit 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.000 of milk, you know what I mean. You add that 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:14.320 all in there, and of course you put that sliced cheese. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:15.280 Do I give it t you right now? 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.200 Okay, you add the sliced cheese while your noodles are hot. 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.840 Okay. So I was just related again. 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:25.359 So he tells you, okay, you're gonna sign. What happens next? 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.960 So then he explained to me that he was hand 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.439 picking a four girl female group. He wanted us to 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.080 be like the female in Wa. So I went out. 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.439 I auditioned. He said, hey, you got the part. He 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.600 had another female shots out to t Ski. She ended 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.600 up moving up to Atlanta. So t Ski was an 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:50.399 original member, which she knew him before, and then another Homegirl. 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.920 We were all like raised in La, so we kind 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.239 of knew each other. Big Chan, which later went on 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.320 to be in the Doggies Angels, she was in our group. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.920 And then the Homegirl Diamond that corrupt always referenced down 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.119 with a Nigga demnil, but before I was rhyming, the 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:11.360 Homegirl Diamond ended up getting in our group. So we 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:13.760 were like a female in wa. 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.800 Now are you guys, you guys start the recording process. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.000 What's your pockets looking like during this journey? 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.359 Oh, it's looking great, like everyone is like easy. The 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.080 moment he signed us, he broke bread. 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:26.640 How much bread did he break? 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:26.720 You? 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:27.560 Like? 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:28.000 Then? 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.560 What was that nineteen ninety three, cause it took a little, 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.440 you know, year two the Marinate. I want to say, 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:38.800 right before like ninety four we signed, but before we signed, 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.760 we would get per dims, so like we would get 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:45.720 one hundred dollars a day just to go record the album, 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.800 and then we'd get our eating expenses. And then when 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.359 we signed, I want to say each Okay, it was 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.840 four girls in the group you talking about. By now 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.200 I'm nineteen twenty years old. 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.880 So each girl got thousand dollars. 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.360 And back then that was a lot of money. 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.240 Right because it was four of us, So I. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:06.680 Think each twenty k each. 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.120 But that's still back then, that's a lot of money. 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.359 I mean, especially to a nineteen year old. So but 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:13.840 now if we bring you back to this, this you 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:15.600 said at nineteen, this is when you were cooking it. 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.719 So tell me what's going on. How did you end 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:18.720 up on Tuna Mac? 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.040 I ended up on Tuna Mac because I mean the 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:27.879 music game is good. But so basically, maybe I was 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.679 twenty one when I made the tuna mac, okay, because 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.080 I mean I had a good teenage year. I didn't 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.160 start eating tuna mac. I had to be about twenty 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:36.840 one because Easy was. 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:38.040 Dead, Okay. 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.040