Speaker 1: Boulet Cap Show, Special Guests in Here, Mount Wes Moore Yay,
Speaker 1: Cube Sure, three quarters in three Quarter, Miss Snoop Dogg,
Speaker 1: Mister Snoopy Dogg, Somewhere Mining Cryptog, Miss and Snoopy, Missus
Speaker 1: Snoopy Missing Snoop. Hey, Well, look, I'm so glad that
Speaker 1: this album is actually here, because you know, it felt
Speaker 1: like one of these like miss methodical albums that we
Speaker 1: always hear about and then it never ends up coming out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how hard was it to everybody to like, you know,
Speaker 1: this one was coming out? This ain't none of that,
Speaker 1: this is this is for real, for real, for real,
Speaker 1: for real. I was hoping it wasn't like Detok's two
Speaker 1: time and thing. Man Like. We had many opportunities to
Speaker 1: pull the trigger, but it was like should we right
Speaker 1: And we discussed it as like you know, for intelligent minds,
Speaker 1: you know, pow wow, and then we're like, what's that day?
Speaker 1: That day could have been October twenty twenty. You could
Speaker 1: have dropped the album. We could have dropped it all
Speaker 1: of last year, anytime earlier this year. We just we
Speaker 1: just felt like, let's do some things like get all
Speaker 1: the merch together, get all the duction rug Get, you know,
Speaker 1: and we did an NFT play, which you know, once
Speaker 1: we put it out on the n f T, we
Speaker 1: had to wait a certain amount of time before we
Speaker 1: can actually put a different record out on the street.
Speaker 1: This is a different record than than the n f T. Uh.
Speaker 1: Some of the songs are the same, but most of
Speaker 1: these are new. How how lucrative is the NFT play
Speaker 1: is that? I mean because a lot of artists are
Speaker 1: going in that direction. I mean Snoop pulled Doggie style
Speaker 1: and all the death real stuff off of DSPs. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a thing where it was great for
Speaker 1: us because we you know, got a great deal. But
Speaker 1: you know, the n f T market, the whole crypto
Speaker 1: market has been like going backwards ever since like Mother's Day.
Speaker 1: So it just was not great timing for the group,
Speaker 1: but it was lucrative for the group. So you know,
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. It worked in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. If we did it when it was a
Speaker 1: bull market instead of a bear market, then it would
Speaker 1: have did a lot better. You know, we always plan
Speaker 1: to make sure it hit the street though, you know,
Speaker 1: that was that was a you know, one of our
Speaker 1: demands that yeah, we can do this NFT play. But
Speaker 1: at some point this music gotta hit all platforms, you know, CDs,
Speaker 1: We're making albums, We're doing everything you can do to
Speaker 1: get this to the streets. And December nine is the date, Yeah, Friday.
Speaker 1: I'm curious, man, because you guys all have very unique journeys.
Speaker 1: Obviously both y'all are on Jive for a very long time.
Speaker 1: Cube you've been a major label artist, you've gone independent. Nowadays,
Speaker 1: it feels like the transparency of record deals is higher.
Speaker 1: People are talking about it more in terms of like
Speaker 1: some of these shitty deals that are getting offered. Our
Speaker 1: Meek Mills talked about it a lot recently. What is
Speaker 1: your guys is like, uh, thoughts on just like where
Speaker 1: the game is and like artists becoming a lot more
Speaker 1: self aware on some of the deals they're signing, because
Speaker 1: I'm assuming like everybody's probably signed a deal that they're
Speaker 1: not the craziest about, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: you guys have seen all sides of the game, whether
Speaker 1: it's doing the independent ship, doing the major label ship.
Speaker 1: Well you know, my Westmore, we're doing it like one
Speaker 1: at a time, so uh, we're not really like getting
Speaker 1: buried up under contracts anything anything like that. We we
Speaker 1: definitely the group has definitely gross quite a bit of
Speaker 1: money before any anything ever. Drive Well, the tour has
Speaker 1: been going cool. You guys a lot of tour d
Speaker 1: show shows. We did really good on merch We did
Speaker 1: really good with uh, you know, some early stuff we did,
Speaker 1: like we appeared at the Triller event when Jake I
Speaker 1: remember that. Yeah, that was a big payday. And you know,
Speaker 1: we just kind of at the same fight Nate Robinson
Speaker 1: took to the No. No, it was the one after, right,
Speaker 1: it was one before he took the he took the
Speaker 1: l before that fight, I believe, I can't remember, but
Speaker 1: it was. It was, yeah, and I remember that was
Speaker 1: it was in Atlanta. But you guys have been building this,
Speaker 1: I mean, big has been out over a year. So yeah,
Speaker 1: So it's it's like a it's like a business play man.
Speaker 1: Everything is thought out in advance. When we're gonna drop
Speaker 1: the album, when's the next album coming, what are the
Speaker 1: visual is gonna do? Like, you know, what's the next
Speaker 1: money plays. It's more like a business. And I think
Speaker 1: that I think that this market right now for a
Speaker 1: young artists, they don't have to just go sign to
Speaker 1: a major label and get buried or do a three
Speaker 1: sixty deal. They could really like go do deals with
Speaker 1: different platforms in different type of spaces where the music
Speaker 1: could live. It's so much, it's so many different places
Speaker 1: that a song or an album, a project can go
Speaker 1: right now. So you know you gotta just factor all
Speaker 1: that in and not just do that old conventional one
Speaker 1: street you know, like get it to the physical. You
Speaker 1: can't do that, Like you gotta do a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a good time to like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we got good leverage on this being is
Speaker 1: that it's snoop and Cube forty is short and we
Speaker 1: OG's and we solid. We didn't have we didn't have
Speaker 1: to go in there and they're like, wh'll give you
Speaker 1: a deal, but you got to sign on for like
Speaker 1: seven albums, Like it wasn't that with us. What would you, Cube,
Speaker 1: would you advise like a younger artist who's maybe got
Speaker 1: like a like a solid local buzz they get you,
Speaker 1: would you would you you know, give them advice to
Speaker 1: explore the major label route or or try to stay
Speaker 1: as independent as long as possible. Stay as independent as
Speaker 1: long as possible, as long as you can you know,
Speaker 1: when you do your music without a record label, you
Speaker 1: own one hundred percent of it, and once you sign
Speaker 1: with a record label, you're basically given them a percentage
Speaker 1: of your work. So if you have the the discipline
Speaker 1: and the resources to be an independent artist, then you
Speaker 1: should do it. A lot of guys are and I
Speaker 1: let forty speak on it, but a lot of guys are.
Speaker 1: You know, they signed three sixty deals and that's like
Speaker 1: one of the worst deals ever invented in man, So
Speaker 1: some of them start. You know, you get real educated
Speaker 1: on deals once you sign a bad one because you
Speaker 1: realize why, why the money is not making it to me? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I haven't gotten any royalty checks. It's almost like
Speaker 1: the last check you ever see is the advance. And
Speaker 1: so they start to you know, nothing will teach you
Speaker 1: more about the music business than signing a bad deal
Speaker 1: and you figuring out why it's bad, right, and then
Speaker 1: you become an expert. And I'll kick it over the
Speaker 1: forty to give a few comments on it. Well, nowadays,
Speaker 1: you know, the new era, the new generation has a
Speaker 1: pretty damn good and I'm happy for him. And they're smart.
Speaker 1: A lot of these junsters are smart. They don't have
Speaker 1: to sign with a major major give you a good
Speaker 1: if you like. I can't. I can't really put a
Speaker 1: age group on am I talking to the mic, I
Speaker 1: can't put an age on it. But just say you
Speaker 1: just say you're eighteen or nineteen and you sign a
Speaker 1: deal for three years and that label blow you up.
Speaker 1: It might be it might be good for you. It
Speaker 1: might be like they put they put the whole house
Speaker 1: behind you. That might be cool because that's what you
Speaker 1: need because you don't have the funding for it, the
Speaker 1: financials for it. You don't have you don't have it.
Speaker 1: So you you you know, you let you let them,
Speaker 1: you know, do what they need to do with you.
Speaker 1: Be smarter and make sure that you know, you negotiate
Speaker 1: your masters and all that stuff. You know, how quick
Speaker 1: you get them back and whatnot. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But that can be that could be an advantage for
Speaker 1: you if you're really young, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And because because then once you get off that label,
Speaker 1: then you got the districal kids of the world and
Speaker 1: just distribution deals, you know, ninety ten and you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Those yeah, that kind of stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: and that way you can control your own destiny and
Speaker 1: you're getting all the gouda. You understand me. Keep your
Speaker 1: masters right, you keep your masters care yeah, because it
Speaker 1: could go the other way too. Some people sign you
Speaker 1: and they don't do ship. You go out there and
Speaker 1: do all the work and they get paid. You your
Speaker 1: sofa and now they then they come out the world
Speaker 1: and won't want won't they cut? And you feel like, man,
Speaker 1: y'all didn't do nothing. But so you got to just
Speaker 1: be careful. You got to really know who you getting
Speaker 1: in business with and and not just be happy to
Speaker 1: be signed. To understand that this is a business that's
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of minds, a lot of
Speaker 1: land mines in the major industry, the major label industry
Speaker 1: with a You come in that door with those smiles
Speaker 1: and those meetings, and they bring out the whole staff
Speaker 1: and it's like catering and they love you and they
Speaker 1: sign it out and the check is big and you're
Speaker 1: happy and celebrating and the product comes out and it
Speaker 1: does whatever. But somewhere, you know, when I say land mines,
Speaker 1: you can't really get mad at the right person. You
Speaker 1: call up there yelling and screaming, they're gonna cheve you.
Speaker 1: You go up there at the ads, they're gonna chef you.
Speaker 1: You sit there, your next single come out of your
Speaker 1: second album and it's stellar. They gonna shove you, and
Speaker 1: it's like you're still a really good artist, and you
Speaker 1: get a lot of really good artists lost in that
Speaker 1: major label saw. So if you go there, know what
Speaker 1: you're doing, stay independent, you in charge of me, You
Speaker 1: stay independent. You know. That's another thing. That's the advantage
Speaker 1: I had over many people that started off on major labels.
Speaker 1: I was independent for many moons. I was independent six
Speaker 1: years before I even you know, I unsigned my major
Speaker 1: distribution deal into nineteen ninety four with Jive. I came
Speaker 1: in the game in nineteen eighty eight independent, so it
Speaker 1: was six years I had to you know, I went
Speaker 1: to college to learn. When I say college, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about just music industry college, you know, unwillingly, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I just went and I had
Speaker 1: to learn. I was in it by force, not by choice.
Speaker 1: So then when I sign my distribution deal, it was
Speaker 1: great because I already had to demand. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I knew what I wanted and it was great.
Speaker 1: So I'm independent still right now, I control my own destiny.
Speaker 1: But my whole thing is is this. Nowadays, you could
Speaker 1: do what the majors do as a as an independent
Speaker 1: young artist. All you gotta do is hire indis. You
Speaker 1: can hire indie radio people. You know, it's all kinds
Speaker 1: of stuff you can do and it's really up to you.
Speaker 1: You can. You can promote your sec social media. Is
Speaker 1: there content? All that work? Your content on the social
Speaker 1: media is the biggest playfor your directs a consumer. Now exactly,
Speaker 1: you needed to deal to get into the records. Now
Speaker 1: you're locked in. You don't have to press up hard
Speaker 1: CDs and all that stuff. You just you can. We
Speaker 1: can go in there right right now, make a song
Speaker 1: right now today, right now, put the beat up, make
Speaker 1: a slap. Had it shit on iTunes in twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: So you got too done. Joint project together Cube, you're
Speaker 1: part of I mean we're talking about groups. I mean
Speaker 1: West Side Connection, NWA. West Sid Connection to me was
Speaker 1: like the first like super group. I mean, NWA y'all
Speaker 1: started together, So I don't consider like y'all pulling together.
Speaker 1: But West Side Connection was a supergroup for real? What
Speaker 1: is for you being a part of these group situations
Speaker 1: and these group albums that are historical. What is the
Speaker 1: process like now with Mount Westmore? How different is it?
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been with groups, but nobody's been as
Speaker 1: big as the group. I mean now, of course, you know,
Speaker 1: these guys are platinum selling artists that's been in the
Speaker 1: game over thirty years, some thirty five, and they're superstars.
Speaker 1: And so you know, with n WA, we were all
Speaker 1: starting together. Nobody was a superstar Mount Wesmore, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean west Side connection. We were all kind of
Speaker 1: in the same clique, and it all made sense. Here.
Speaker 1: These are guys that we're friends, and it started with
Speaker 1: a friendship and respect and thirty years of admiring each other.
Speaker 1: And to get in a group with those guys like
Speaker 1: I feel like I can rely on them, you know,
Speaker 1: more than I even relied in NWA. You know, it
Speaker 1: was a lot of you know, Dre's the ship now,
Speaker 1: but back then it was arguing. You know, we was
Speaker 1: trying to get it right. We're seeing the movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so uh, you know, it's it's been great to just
Speaker 1: relax and not have to, you know, spearhead everything and
Speaker 1: be the front thinker or the one coming up with
Speaker 1: all the ideas or this or that, you know, not
Speaker 1: saying that I had to do it with those other groups,
Speaker 1: but I trust these guys more than I trusted the
Speaker 1: other guys because we were kind of in the trenches together,
Speaker 1: except for MAYBEWC, who's obviously still comes out on state is.
Speaker 1: You know, we grew up in the same neighborhood, so
Speaker 1: we grew up rapping against each other. We grew up
Speaker 1: playing football against each other. Yeah, you know, Duve is amazing,
Speaker 1: you know, but you know he you know, he's a
Speaker 1: He's an artist that I'm friends with from from childhood.
Speaker 1: These are artists that I grew up buying their records,
Speaker 1: you know, dub I help them put together some of
Speaker 1: his records. So it's a difference. I'm a fan of
Speaker 1: these guys, and I wasn't necessarily just a fan of
Speaker 1: those guys. I was friends and I like what they do.
Speaker 1: So it's different and it's easier to be with superstars
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Speaker 1: guys speak to like there's always like an told like
Speaker 1: rivalry between Northern California and Southern California, and I'm not
Speaker 1: I never heard of one ever in my life. Like,
Speaker 1: out of my thirty five years in hip hop music
Speaker 1: putting music on the ship, I have never Now, if
Speaker 1: you want to talk about br before that, before Wrap
Speaker 1: for streets, I don't think it was a rival. It
Speaker 1: was just the game the streets, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's a fun going on in prisons and not hip
Speaker 1: hop has never been in hip hop, not hip hop.
Speaker 1: It's always been supportive. I think, Uh, I think we
Speaker 1: admire each other for what we don't do. You know. Uh,
Speaker 1: the energy, the flavor that that Northern California Bay Area
Speaker 1: artists bring is something different, new fresh. I'm always looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing what it is. And it's different than
Speaker 1: than the Southern California flavor. And I think vice versa.
Speaker 1: You know, they hear stuff from from down here that
Speaker 1: they like, Oh damn, now, don't they on the whole
Speaker 1: new new page. You know, we we're so similar. But
Speaker 1: we were different. It's like cousins. You know, y'all blood related,
Speaker 1: but your household is a little different than your cousin's household.
Speaker 1: I do feel like the Bay is like the I mean,
Speaker 1: the most underratedly influential region in all of rap. If
Speaker 1: you just think of like we got sonically slang, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I think of like guys like the Pack,
Speaker 1: how they influenced the whole generation, like twelve ten or
Speaker 1: twelve years ago, like obviously forty short you guys, are
Speaker 1: you know on the Mount West Moore? For sure? Obviously
Speaker 1: the record with p Low on it very Bay Area.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm like, who's kind of picking the beats,
Speaker 1: who's kind of helped A and R in it? And like,
Speaker 1: would you guys say it is like a which region
Speaker 1: sonically is winning? The Bay or La on the album?
Speaker 1: We had to have a balance, It had to come
Speaker 1: from different ways. So you listen to if you heard
Speaker 1: the album, you listen to the song have a Nice Day,
Speaker 1: fuck You song. It's definitely that's definitely like Doctor dre
Speaker 1: Influence produced by Fred Records, Lace You Up, definitely like
Speaker 1: SoCal All Day Activated. You know, it's it's on there
Speaker 1: and then you know, you got songs that are on
Speaker 1: the extreme other spectrum of like a free game, and
Speaker 1: and and yeah the baby basically mean the two big
Speaker 1: records a strip shout out to Plow, that's my bro.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, if you leave the state
Speaker 1: of California, we're here. If you leave here, their ears
Speaker 1: just here. West Coast. Don't hear that a little distinct
Speaker 1: that a Bayary person and an l A person would
Speaker 1: hear in the song. And I think that the West
Speaker 1: Coast when you get us all in the same room,
Speaker 1: we stand up together. We always have. You put Warren
Speaker 1: g and DJ Quick in the room that we all
Speaker 1: we West Coast, we California boys. We like we ride together.
Speaker 1: Like for us, it's not on basketball obviously, it's sports
Speaker 1: and stuff. You know, you gotta you gotta have. We're
Speaker 1: all riding with the Big three. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to like you know, the professional teams. But we definitely
Speaker 1: feed off each other off the Bay. In the Bay
Speaker 1: we got a lot of Doctor Drem's in Bay Area music.
Speaker 1: We got a lot from Drey, you know what I'm saying. Recently,
Speaker 1: I think you know producers like like like Mustard, he
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, grabbed a little bit of
Speaker 1: that Bay energy and his way. Of course, we don't
Speaker 1: got a gang of lingo from the Bay. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know so it's like it's just we we are one.
Speaker 1: But like he said, we like cousins and there is
Speaker 1: no feud, don't I have not seen the feud or
Speaker 1: the competition who could come with the hottest records. We
Speaker 1: really and our young rappers when you get to the
Speaker 1: gass and all of them come out, they hanging out
Speaker 1: with the Kendricks. Ain't no, it ain't no animis. I
Speaker 1: ain't heard of no animosity ever. Out of my whole history,
Speaker 1: every era when the game came in l A, it's
Speaker 1: never been you guys. I wasna say, have you guys
Speaker 1: had the bipp and talk with Snoop and Cube about
Speaker 1: when you guys go do promo in the bay, like,
Speaker 1: don't leave nothing in the car. They know, they already
Speaker 1: know because they besides us Cuban Snoop, they got Barrier
Speaker 1: fam too. We all, we all, we all locked in.
Speaker 1: We all. Yeah, that's nothing. What I'm saying the warrant
Speaker 1: she got real blood cousins in the field on the
Speaker 1: vill from Oville in Oakland. Yeah, you know, going on, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. I got cousin, and I got cousin in Anglewood,
Speaker 1: like I got cousin all over the place. I was
Speaker 1: born on Sunset Boulevard. Man, that's crazy. I got a
Speaker 1: whole million first cousins in LA. Not only are you
Speaker 1: guys obviously historical artists, great discographies, uh, but you guys
Speaker 1: are all moguls within your own right and like I
Speaker 1: mean some of the biggest moguls and music Snoop Dogg
Speaker 1: is killing the crypto space. He's just killing everything. He
Speaker 1: bought that a bunch of movies too, Yeah, he on
Speaker 1: his movie. So speaking of movies, Cube Vision, speaking of
Speaker 1: locked In, all of the liquor we're drinking, speaking of
Speaker 1: the Big Three, the goon with the spoon, ice cream Man,
Speaker 1: what is you guys? Are you guys like passing ideas
Speaker 1: around in terms of just like business opportunities and shit,
Speaker 1: because I do feel like, you know, there's there's this.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a very unicorn situation. And not only
Speaker 1: have historical artists, but historical businessmen in the group together
Speaker 1: without a doubt. You know, we we started, you know,
Speaker 1: not just a group. We gotta Mound wes Moore LLC.
Speaker 1: So it's a business, and you know, we funnel great
Speaker 1: ideas into the business. You know when it's when it's right.
Speaker 1: We let everybody know this is something that we should
Speaker 1: all attack that as a group and do it. But
Speaker 1: I know, I know we all involved in investment groups.
Speaker 1: I get to hint, hint, we should start them Mount
Speaker 1: wes More Investment Group. Yeah, well, DC, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Take him out wes Moore profits and put them in
Speaker 1: some businesses. Real talk, any new stuff coming from you? Forty?
Speaker 1: I feel like every other month there's like a new
Speaker 1: product I can eat or drink. So since the plandemic,
Speaker 1: I recorded over seventy songs since since I'm talking about
Speaker 1: since we finished the Mount wes Moore album because the
Speaker 1: grit done quick. But anyway, yeah, I got a Rule
Speaker 1: of Thumb coming. That's that's my that's two albums, oh
Speaker 1: Rule of Thumb. And I talked to Cban. I'm a
Speaker 1: team player. I don't know if it's possible for you
Speaker 1: to not drop a double album. I know every time
Speaker 1: drops it's a double album, it's a triple album. It's
Speaker 1: it's I think you put an EP out during the
Speaker 1: pandemic and I was surprised that you had an EP
Speaker 1: and not like a full project, right right right, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: no EPs, no more. I did EPs when I was young,
Speaker 1: and I dropped one. I dropped one that I felt
Speaker 1: I needed to put out because it was on my heart.
Speaker 1: It was my real assignment. Before they were saying he
Speaker 1: understood the assignment, it was really my assignment to drop it.
Speaker 1: It was me as a little two year old kid,
Speaker 1: three year old kid, standing standing in front of a
Speaker 1: garbage can. It was a EP, but it was had
Speaker 1: some great songs on there, and it was rule of
Speaker 1: Thumb's next rule of Thumb is next rule of Thumb
Speaker 1: to two albums. And I don't know if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: drop him exactly at the same time or a week apart,
Speaker 1: but slaps, I got a couple more features I need.
Speaker 1: I need one. I already told Mount Westmore, I'm taking
Speaker 1: over this one song that I wanted, and they they
Speaker 1: agreed that I can have it, So I'm slapping that
Speaker 1: on it, and then I mean it slaps. I got
Speaker 1: features I got and I'm on their hold of my own.
Speaker 1: So you always have the features online and you always
Speaker 1: tapped in with the younger generation for always tapped in
Speaker 1: with the younger generation, you know, And I ain't no
Speaker 1: slacking in my mac and my lingos up to par
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be young. I ain't trying to
Speaker 1: be young, and I'm just trying to have a happy
Speaker 1: medium while I'm right there and I'm gassing and I'm
Speaker 1: ahead of my time, you know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask y'all, because you guys all have classic bodies
Speaker 1: of work, solo cube, what is if you had to,
Speaker 1: what is your your magnum opus of your discography? What's
Speaker 1: your favorite album in your discography? Who do you think
Speaker 1: is the best? Obviously America's most one, got five mics
Speaker 1: in the sore Predator, you got Letho a jection. I
Speaker 1: mean we're going. I would say Death Certificate that you're
Speaker 1: probably the one because it's it's the most dynamic, you know.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great record. Uh, Predator is a
Speaker 1: pretty good record, Laugh Now, Cry Later is a good one,
Speaker 1: but Death Certificate is probably the cream of the crop.
Speaker 1: What about for your short album? That's the album probably
Speaker 1: the best too short album is probably Getting It album
Speaker 1: number ten, that's my favorite that's the that's the WHOA
Speaker 1: Got Orange cover that was on my man I had
Speaker 1: when I was a kid. Production team that had been
Speaker 1: working together for like five albums. Shorty b At Banks
Speaker 1: Pee Wee myself, we were the core of like a
Speaker 1: production team that made a lot of music. It was
Speaker 1: a cohesive sound, it was. And before that, my top
Speaker 1: seller was Life Is Too Short. That's like classics. That's like,
Speaker 1: that's the only double platinum I had. But me, when
Speaker 1: I listened to music and the production, it's definitely getting it.
Speaker 1: That's the I was gonna ask you because you also
Speaker 1: like over the year short, like because you you guys
Speaker 1: have all been in this shit since the eighties, right,
Speaker 1: But like it's crazy when you listen to Life's Too Short,
Speaker 1: and I can't imagine like the shit you were saying
Speaker 1: on some of them records. Well, I used to have
Speaker 1: a technique where I kind of still do it. But
Speaker 1: I had a technique where before I would like write songs,
Speaker 1: I would just write down the craziest stuff I can
Speaker 1: think of, and just like you know, I guess it
Speaker 1: would be like the shock value of like a song,
Speaker 1: like cuss words had to be like at the time,
Speaker 1: like what the fuck or blow jow Betty had to
Speaker 1: be like people were like, what is going on? So
Speaker 1: was like really long and there's like a lot of
Speaker 1: rapping in like there's no hook on the ye the
Speaker 1: hook don't come like forty eight bars and you said,
Speaker 1: blow jow Betty's a true story. Yeah, I killed her.
Speaker 1: Oh that's terrible. She chunked on thespierm and died. But
Speaker 1: it was like so far back before social media and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. It didn't really get out there like that.
Speaker 1: Are you saying the Statute of Limitations is past? I
Speaker 1: mean didn't. It doesn't exist. There's no victim, there's no
Speaker 1: case to it. You have to go do some super forensics. Man,
Speaker 1: forty what's your best this album? Because you got a
Speaker 1: couple you could go with. There's a couple of errors
Speaker 1: we could go with. Yeah, can I say, can I
Speaker 1: go by the errors? Yeah? Of course. In the nineties
Speaker 1: it was okay, all right, one you might tell you
Speaker 1: what your favorite you album? Come on, man, it's easy. No,
Speaker 1: it ain't. No, it's not I have got two favorites.
Speaker 1: Then keep saying two favorites I got like I got hello,
Speaker 1: Come on, man, you're dealing with a dude that got
Speaker 1: more top two hundred Billboard the album entries in the
Speaker 1: history of hip hop. Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, use
Speaker 1: your ears and listen. Let me ask you for him,
Speaker 1: let me answer you for him. His favorite forty album
Speaker 1: is all the forty albums. Give me one, give me one.
Speaker 1: That's let me tell you the one you want me
Speaker 1: you I've can tell you something, The Game album. Give
Speaker 1: me two of them. I'm gonna give you two. Okay,
Speaker 1: give you two in a major way. Okay, and Element
Speaker 1: of Surprise double album them the sickest albums ever did
Speaker 1: and and uh and don't not not not excluding get
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Speaker 1: was like, in a major way, my favorite artwork. You
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Speaker 1: between all of us and Snoop Dogg. Amazing. Oh for sure,
Speaker 1: artwork has been amazing. For sure. Just forget about the
Speaker 1: music and just the album covers of like legendary hundred
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Speaker 1: guys each give me a new young, up and coming
Speaker 1: artist that y'all are fans of. That y'all respect you
Speaker 1: guys are actually listening to in your car when you're
Speaker 1: riding around. If any I would say, uh, the boyfriend this,
Speaker 1: it's two times on some pimp and Ship. He going crazy.
Speaker 1: His whole album is about pimping, is it. I interviewed
Speaker 1: him and he's like, I'm bringing the pimp and Ship back. Well,
Speaker 1: he's his gas that he's spitting his gas sugar free. Yeah,
Speaker 1: rather give you my bitch during the interviewer because he
Speaker 1: never heard of sugar Free and his whole his whole
Speaker 1: album is about pimping. Bro let me play something. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like him. He carrying himself. Well, he's doing a
Speaker 1: great job. I got a couple of casts out of
Speaker 1: my area. I like a lot Russell, not just man.
Speaker 1: I was staying right outside the crest. Okay, yeah, for
Speaker 1: sure was active over there. That's seven eleven and Dad
Speaker 1: I was. I would have to say, it's a bunch
Speaker 1: trouble from the Bay. It's you know, Uh Simba killed
Speaker 1: him with the free you got Simba, you got, uh,
Speaker 1: you got, uh, the boys bank you got? You got?
Speaker 1: Who else? You got? What you got? Blast out of
Speaker 1: rich Man, shout out too short and have my favorite
Speaker 1: line on the Pilo album. There's so many you talk
Speaker 1: about having a bitch make money off for pee hoole.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I was riding on the Bay Bridge listening
Speaker 1: to the Plow album and I was like, that is
Speaker 1: the most classic nineteen eighty nine too short shit to
Speaker 1: say in twenty twenty two. But you know, I got
Speaker 1: so many people to say, but we got it. Like
Speaker 1: you know, Kendrick is another level of like what hip
Speaker 1: hop should be doing. And he's like never cease to
Speaker 1: amaze with his visuals, with his stage performance and with
Speaker 1: his songs. Like he's just prolific period. So he's he's
Speaker 1: on another I'm proud of the West Coast for creating
Speaker 1: that guy. Yeah, what about you, QB nobody nobody. I
Speaker 1: like that. I mean shit, I respect that room. I
Speaker 1: only fuck with you know, when I'm making music, I
Speaker 1: don't need I only listen to what I'm making. I
Speaker 1: respect that old I don't want to be influenced by nobody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: little babies and ships. It's a bunch of artists out there.
Speaker 1: All I want to do is just screaming shout people
Speaker 1: out because I'm letting letting them know I recognize them.
Speaker 1: It's a whole bunch of people. I want to say.
Speaker 1: But I can't be money bag. I can't be influenced
Speaker 1: because I'm forty and there's on one of one. There's
Speaker 1: no one on this planet that throw like a frisbee
Speaker 1: that wrapped in caligraphy. Have you heard about West Moore album?
Speaker 1: I have not heard it yet. So when you listen,
Speaker 1: I heard like the singles, you know, I haven't heard
Speaker 1: the album. It's crazy, man, When you listen to the album,
Speaker 1: give me an email address. I see. When you listen
Speaker 1: to the album, it's gonna feel really good as you
Speaker 1: listen to it. But the one thing you will notice
Speaker 1: is that we're not pandering to the new sound I'm
Speaker 1: so happy you did not do that trying to be
Speaker 1: something that we're not, and we're alome. Imagine if I,
Speaker 1: like if I got the Mount wes Moore album and
Speaker 1: there was like some trapped out seventy four bps, I
Speaker 1: would be disgusted. We're also not trying to be nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four. We're in there where it's like this. I
Speaker 1: want to hear these guys sound like this right now. Yo,
Speaker 1: Between the three of y'all, I'm not sure there's an
Speaker 1: artist that you guys haven't worked with. Obviously, you've worked
Speaker 1: with Pac before, You've worked with Hove Biggie. I mean,
Speaker 1: we go on and on. I mean Cube shit. I
Speaker 1: was just listening to the grand finale on the Little
Speaker 1: John on the East Side Boys album and I forgot
Speaker 1: Cube was on this ship and I was working out
Speaker 1: is there for each of you guys? Is there a
Speaker 1: feature that has not happened yet that just for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: the planets didn't align and you didn't You don't have
Speaker 1: a song with them yet. Nas. I love to do
Speaker 1: a song with Nas and Cube Crazy. You know, Rock Kim.
Speaker 1: I think everybody in the MC life wanted to do
Speaker 1: a song with Rock Kim at some point. You know,
Speaker 1: these are the ogs I think I could do a
Speaker 1: good song with Buster, Yeah, do a dope song together.
Speaker 1: You know, these are the ones that I think about
Speaker 1: that I know we could probably do something crazy. For me,
Speaker 1: it was always uh, it's just one answer. It was
Speaker 1: always like me Missy and timbling on the same record.
Speaker 1: I wanted that that would still possible. Yeah, that would
Speaker 1: have been in what About You forty? I would say, uh,
Speaker 1: jay Z nas Q, Tip karras one, Uh, Missy, who else?
Speaker 1: I love to do a song with Eminem people trick Daddy.
Speaker 1: I love trick Daddy. He's ready to trick. That would
Speaker 1: have been Yeah. And also, and like I said, I
Speaker 1: wanted to just address the Eminem situation. A lot of
Speaker 1: his fans thought that I was dissing him. No, I
Speaker 1: can never do that. He's one of the greatest MC's
Speaker 1: that ever did it and got away with it. Then
Speaker 1: he do his job right. But I was dating Somebody
Speaker 1: had asked me who would win in a versus battle,
Speaker 1: but Eminem and bust the rhyme, And I said, bust
Speaker 1: the rhyme versus just because versus just performers. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying I wasn't knocking imminent. This is like
Speaker 1: a top got a lot of his so, you know,
Speaker 1: he get the party going here. It's crazy like live
Speaker 1: Bust is like it's like him tech dying and like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's all. That's all I meant a
Speaker 1: lot of sweat. Yeah, that's what I meant. I wasn't trying.
Speaker 1: I would never just eminem. He one of the greats,
Speaker 1: if not. I went to a Bust the show and
Speaker 1: he called me on stage and hugged me. I'm still man,
Speaker 1: you guys a sweat hood. He just hugged me. His
Speaker 1: energy is his energy is incredible. He's a great guy.
Speaker 1: He just drenched me. But I got a wrong with him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had a great versus right. It's amazing you were
Speaker 1: fucking I was on Mango scout off, drinking out the bottle.
Speaker 1: Nobody has decided to have fun like we did. Nobody
Speaker 1: it was my brother. It was the fun is doing
Speaker 1: this with my brother. Man, everybody got this different energy.
Speaker 1: It was the funnest to watch. I really really enjoyed
Speaker 1: their verse. It feels like the versus thing's over, right,
Speaker 1: But did they ever approach you to do something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who was it against or who were they proposing? I
Speaker 1: think they was talking LL at one point. They was
Speaker 1: talking Scarface at one point he said no, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: said no. I said, I wouldn't know. Versus is good,
Speaker 1: but my concept would have been, Yo, I'm a fan,
Speaker 1: you do this song? You know what I mean? Yeah, Like, okay,
Speaker 1: I get to have LLL do my favorite LL songs
Speaker 1: and he gonna have me do his favorite ice cube songs, right,
Speaker 1: and it's not versus, but it's it's love. It's like, yo,
Speaker 1: do do this? And then he do rock to bells
Speaker 1: And he asked me, Yo, do once upon a time
Speaker 1: of the projects? And now do it? You know It's
Speaker 1: like that's that would have been my concept. I can't
Speaker 1: go against you know, people admire you know, L is
Speaker 1: a o G to me of course in the game,
Speaker 1: so I can't see it. Me and Scarface, you know,
Speaker 1: I know they love each other. Me and Scarface love
Speaker 1: each other, but we don't we don't communicate enough to
Speaker 1: do it versus together. Well, when they when they get
Speaker 1: there to competent, I was like, this is just gonna
Speaker 1: be too fast for They had to talk me into it.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it. I refuse to do it. We
Speaker 1: talked with Versus first came out. He's like, hey man,
Speaker 1: we talked about all kinds of stuff. He's like, would
Speaker 1: you do a versus. I'm like, nah, would never do that.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not like and and and and sort of
Speaker 1: what C was saying, My catalog is too it's too
Speaker 1: sacred to even like put it up for a debate
Speaker 1: on like a battle or like let me battle my
Speaker 1: catalog again. She's like, get out of here, man, Like
Speaker 1: this is this is like a sacred Indian burial ground.
Speaker 1: Like you can't walk on this, you can't put this
Speaker 1: up for competition. So I could be up there having
Speaker 1: one of my favorite mc is talking greasy and ship.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, just or if you just
Speaker 1: had to smash him, I don't want to because you
Speaker 1: got a lot of hits. Yeah, we agreed on it.
Speaker 1: We agreed on it, and a celebration. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a celebration. So we just went up there and have fun.
Speaker 1: We was We wasn't and that's what it felt liked.
Speaker 1: X had a good spirit. Yeah, but you know you
Speaker 1: got crazy, you know after that, you know the three six.
Speaker 1: My favorite was Guccy and Jeezy because I know that
Speaker 1: Atlanta history that it was crazy. That was dope. I
Speaker 1: was just you know, had that butter knife cutting attention
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Speaker 1: Jada that was like the m v P of Versus
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Speaker 1: H cbe I saw, I saw you talk about Big
Speaker 1: Three and kind of Adam Silver's like lack of support. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he need to go. I saw you. I mean yeah,
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Speaker 1: been one of the biggest Laker fans. Yes, sitting court
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Speaker 1: Adam Silver has affected you watching the product as a fan,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, understanding the things that they're doing
Speaker 1: to prevent the Big Three from growing, mainly considering our
Speaker 1: league as competition, which is fucking ridiculous. We're three on three,
Speaker 1: we've been around six years. They're five on five, they've
Speaker 1: been around seventy six years. Right, it's no competition. We're complementary,
Speaker 1: and but label on us. Competition prevents other NBA owners
Speaker 1: from investing, and if you even think you want to
Speaker 1: own an NBA team, you won't invest because this would
Speaker 1: disqualify you if you invest in a Big Three before
Speaker 1: you bought your NBA team, So it eliminates a lot
Speaker 1: of potential investors. They also are you know, going to
Speaker 1: sponsors that they work with and telling them don't work
Speaker 1: with them the Big Three. So it's a major issue.
Speaker 1: All he has to do is is not include the
Speaker 1: Big Three in that clause as a competing league and
Speaker 1: then we can work with a lot of the same people.
Speaker 1: But you know, this is a black owned league. It
Speaker 1: has you know, some of the greatest Hall of famers
Speaker 1: that ever played involved in the league as coaches, you know,
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Speaker 1: the competition part is wild. It's like you guys are
Speaker 1: obviously it's a different time of the year and all
Speaker 1: it's all players who are known through the NBA. So
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Speaker 1: it worse, I don't think so. But David Stern did
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Speaker 1: the league, and uh, you know, people like Adam told
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Speaker 1: it's time for this dude to go because he's shown
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Speaker 1: the things you are are going to try to do
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Speaker 1: some bullshit ass fucking Nike socks. Fuck them, get odd socks.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the interview. You spoke recently about
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers having the rights to distribute the Friday series. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's obviously your intellectual property right. You came up
Speaker 1: with that movie. Yeah, the most impactful movie my entire life.
Speaker 1: I was talking like Smokey from like age eight to twelve,
Speaker 1: my favorite, that's my favorite movie, one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: I know that entire movie by heart, like it's bad,
Speaker 1: Like I could recite it when I watch it. I
Speaker 1: watched it so much as a kid. By the way,
Speaker 1: Top three soundtrack ever too, Yeah, one of the best
Speaker 1: soundtracks ever is would you say, because you know you're
Speaker 1: somebody who's been revolutionary in so many ways, is that
Speaker 1: a like what lessons did you learn from the Friday
Speaker 1: series of not retaining ownership or not necessarily being you know,
Speaker 1: in charge of the destination of where it goes when
Speaker 1: you're doing movies. Now, is that something that's front of
Speaker 1: the mind, you know, like if you that's part of
Speaker 1: the game. You know, when you do a movie, you
Speaker 1: have to get it distributed, and if you want your
Speaker 1: movie to be taken you know, as you know high
Speaker 1: level entertainment, there's only a few houses and studios that
Speaker 1: can the right of thatt So at the time we
Speaker 1: didn't have you know, it wasn't no streaming, so we
Speaker 1: had to assign a movie the New Line to distribute it.
Speaker 1: And New Line is connected with Warner Brothers. So you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes when you do one movie with a company, they
Speaker 1: have the rights to release the sequels. That's part of
Speaker 1: the deal, and that's the clause that we're called in.
Speaker 1: You know, they have the right to release the sequels.
Speaker 1: And so the way to stellmate is to not release,
Speaker 1: you know, to do a few and stop, and that's
Speaker 1: what they did. They did three and they stopped, and
Speaker 1: we've been asking them to get the movie back. Here's
Speaker 1: why they won't get a movie back. Right along, straight
Speaker 1: out of Compton New Line had both of those movies.
Speaker 1: They told me both of those movies would not work
Speaker 1: on a major scale. We took those movies out of
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers, took them to Universal, you know. So they
Speaker 1: worked one hundred and fifty million dollars from Ride Along,
Speaker 1: two hundred million from Straight Out of two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty from Straight out of Compton. So we really embarrassed
Speaker 1: embarrassed them. So they was like, man, you really embarrassed
Speaker 1: us on that, you know what I mean, Like damn.
Speaker 1: So we was like, man, y'all, don't believe in us,
Speaker 1: give us the ship back. And they like, we can't
Speaker 1: give you another movie back because I'll get fired, you know.
Speaker 1: So it was on that tip. You know, they didn't
Speaker 1: want to be embarrassed, so they didn't want to let Friday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as a fight, I was. I always just assume Chris
Speaker 1: Tucker was just not wanting to do it because because
Speaker 1: after the third win, it was like, Okay, if they
Speaker 1: do a fourth, Smokey gotta come back. Yeah, And obviously,
Speaker 1: rest in peace to John Witherspoon. Tiny Lister, Tiny Lister
Speaker 1: pass There's some very big parts of that universe that
Speaker 1: have passed. Yeah, man, And that's why I hate you
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers, because they they let that happen. We could
Speaker 1: have shot those movies way before those guys passed away.
Speaker 1: I'll never forgive Toby Emrick and the guys that was
Speaker 1: running the show at the time. Uh you know they
Speaker 1: let guys pass away who was counting on this movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that universe like fed fed a lot of Like, dude,
Speaker 1: I remember you would just go to like the Monster
Speaker 1: up show and Tiny Lister would be just there with
Speaker 1: his bike, yeah, taking thick like no. I think it
Speaker 1: was the most his most recognizable character, of course, one
Speaker 1: of the most recognizable characters ever. He and braced being
Speaker 1: called Debo first, What like if you say, like, you know,
Speaker 1: that's not his name, but I feel like that's also
Speaker 1: like a like a people call you Craig. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like a verb. You could be like yo id boed him,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like Chris Wait who called
Speaker 1: him Craig my youngest son. He came to the house
Speaker 1: and my little my youngest son. He's twenty eight now,
Speaker 1: he's a little boy. He just Craig. Oh man, you
Speaker 1: are Mount wes Moore. The album it comes out Friday.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited this is I'm so glad you guys
Speaker 1: put this together. I'm so glad it's actually coming out,
Speaker 1: because I really I didn't believe it was gonnappen until
Speaker 1: y'all did the Triller Ship and then that song came out,
Speaker 1: and then it was quiet, and I was like, we
Speaker 1: got one record, you know. Yeah, well, uh now you
Speaker 1: could like not believe that the second album is coming out.
Speaker 1: There's plans to do a second album is already done.
Speaker 1: We did like we did songs fifty is this all
Speaker 1: happening at the compound and snoop spot like where you
Speaker 1: guys recording? We did it all over the studios. So
Speaker 1: and we might add a few more new ones to us,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because we we we in
Speaker 1: that mode. It's easy. It's so simple, I can tell
Speaker 1: you person. You know, second album is hope as fuck.
Speaker 1: It's hard slaps. It's hard for us to make a
Speaker 1: bad record together. Yeah, of course, so we gotta kind
Speaker 1: of work hard to make a bad record. Did you
Speaker 1: guys try to kick the doctor Dre Tree to get
Speaker 1: a beat or something like one of those millions of
Speaker 1: Detok songs that he didn't doesn't ever plan on releasing.
Speaker 1: I think I think droped doctor Dre is the greatest
Speaker 1: producer in hip hop of all time. I think sometime
Speaker 1: we can overthink. You know, you know when we played Dominos,
Speaker 1: we placed, we say steady wrong, steady long, steady wrong.
Speaker 1: Wh when you take too long to play it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not saying he steady wrong. It's just he's
Speaker 1: a perfectionist. And album he is on here, he one
Speaker 1: of the songs. Yeah he did well, that's all that matters.
Speaker 1: But we will. I think we're going to get a
Speaker 1: song out of Dre. I think he just gonna get
Speaker 1: a few. We loved Dray, you know it's the only
Speaker 1: song well. I mean, you know what I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: I forgot about like you. But I think in like
Speaker 1: peak like nineties hip hop like it was, was it
Speaker 1: only natural Born Killers that y'all did together? Like after
Speaker 1: n w A happened natural Born Killers, we did that?
Speaker 1: The check chack? What about the hello was a slap? Hello?
Speaker 1: This was hard? Yo? What's yeah? How close were y'all
Speaker 1: doing the fucking new n w A with Snoop? Was that? Like?
Speaker 1: How where those songs at? Not close? At all. It's
Speaker 1: like you heard the songs they came out. We were
Speaker 1: about to get into it, and then he he met
Speaker 1: him and them, and then he met he met a
Speaker 1: fifty and it was like chin check was fire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he met he met those two dudes, and that just
Speaker 1: took his attention. I mean, listen, Drea is a genius.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we get something well the album. He's been sending
Speaker 1: me a lot of He was an early on Mount
Speaker 1: wes Moore supporter. He got caught wind of the project
Speaker 1: early through Snoop. He put up the Snoop studio, he
Speaker 1: put a stamp of approval on it. He jumped on
Speaker 1: the song. We got a song with him, but it's
Speaker 1: not it didn't make this album on the second album.
Speaker 1: And then the rivalry within the crew obviously the NBA,
Speaker 1: but you know, uh, Warriors Lakers, right sports, Yeah, Warriors
Speaker 1: is new money. Forty nine ers, Raiders Lakers is own money.
Speaker 1: Our biggest argument with our debate Giants, Yeah, Dodgers and
Speaker 1: Giants and then the Raiders. And for we know, we
Speaker 1: don't be messing, we don't even be tripping on Lakers
Speaker 1: and the Warriors because we know the Warriors is you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it, you know, so we don't even then y'all.
Speaker 1: Y'all got the most. Y'all definitely got all the rings.
Speaker 1: Y'all definitely do Yeah. Yeah, so we just it's Jimmy
Speaker 1: g out as fuck. Y'all are done. You think we're done.
Speaker 1: I mean you guys are making the super Bowl. We
Speaker 1: got it's gonna win. You just gotta let let let
Speaker 1: let the check out. He's gonna win the game. New
Speaker 1: Year's Day Raiders play the forty nine Ers in Vegas.
Speaker 1: You put your money on if the waters in the
Speaker 1: building of forty nine ers is gonna know, Jimmy g
Speaker 1: putting your money on. I don't know about that party.
Speaker 1: Are they gonna sign Baker Mayfield? I don't know. We're
Speaker 1: gonna You know what if you don't know about party,
Speaker 1: that wouldn't pick somebody up from Yes, we did, Josh.
Speaker 1: We got it here. We got Josh. Yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: got him too. We're good. We're not worried about anything.
Speaker 1: We are. Running game. Ain't no New Day's plain. We
Speaker 1: got running game. We got defense, defense wins games ain't
Speaker 1: on J's playing. We got running games on the table. Man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's bleeding through the microphone. Are you are
Speaker 1: you a Raider fan? Cube? Yeah? I mean this is
Speaker 1: Ice Cube, the president of Raider Nation. What four four?
Speaker 1: The Raiders can go one? The Raiders could go one
Speaker 1: in sixteen the whole year. You understand me, through the
Speaker 1: whole year. Have you guys been have let's been to
Speaker 1: a Rams game and listen to me. I hear I
Speaker 1: need you to hear me on this. I need you
Speaker 1: to hear this. I need you to hear this. I
Speaker 1: need you to hear this. The Raiders. Look, I don't
Speaker 1: hate the Raiders. This the fans. I don't hate the fans.
Speaker 1: It's just certain. It's l A radio. I know. I
Speaker 1: love this, the l A radio. They're trying to sell
Speaker 1: some records. Let me talk. Let me talk. They've supported
Speaker 1: me more just as much as the Bay Area if not. So,
Speaker 1: it's not about that. It's nothing nothing against there's nothing
Speaker 1: you wearing silver and black man listens? Are you talking
Speaker 1: over me? Because this guy's always talking and ship I'm
Speaker 1: a fucking Cardinal fan. He's a Niner fan in the
Speaker 1: same division. I hate. Let me say this. Let me
Speaker 1: just let me say this. The Raider fans Okay, it
Speaker 1: could be they could be the Raiders. The Raiders do great.
Speaker 1: I like they be. They be bowing their own quarterback car.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm like, why are you? Why are you boring
Speaker 1: the beloved car? See they get upset and we love
Speaker 1: thanks for fucking TRAI laders. Listen, listen, listen. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna rap. That's why. That's why we're gonna win this
Speaker 1: whole thing. But listen, let me say this. This, This
Speaker 1: is the common denominator of my whole thing from this,
Speaker 1: the whole reason I got on the microphone. Okay, go ahead,
Speaker 1: get it out. The Raider fans. Look, could the Raiders
Speaker 1: could be one and the Raiders could be one in sixteen,
Speaker 1: you drunk, stop drinking my wine one sixteen. The readis
Speaker 1: go one in sixteen and be like Raider name shot
Speaker 1: one in sixteen, bro, like they won the fucking super Bowl.
Speaker 1: It's all good man. Hey, look, most overrated dynasty of
Speaker 1: all time. The Warriors appreciate you guys coming through your team.
Speaker 1: Who's your team? Don't worry about me? Oh, y'all stop
Speaker 1: it man, floor, go run that ship up, hey, go by, Hey,
Speaker 1: I love y'all in l A I love y'all, Thank
Speaker 1: you for everything.