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Speaker 1: Big Man and DJ Scream bring you Big Facts hottest

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Speaker 1: You know who it is, DJ Screen, Big Bang Baby Ja.

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Speaker 1: Then today we have a special special legendary guests on

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Speaker 1: Big Facts Show. Mr what's my favorite word? To short

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Speaker 1: this head? Mr what's my favorite word? Might get that

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Speaker 1: T shirt made? There you go, there you go, Welcome

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Speaker 1: the Big Facts Soljee. How you feeling to day? I'm good, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm good. It's always good when I get back to

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Speaker 1: the A man always good. You lived here? How long

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Speaker 1: did you live here? I was said, from ninety three

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Speaker 1: to eight ninety eight years? And what made you? I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say at the peak, but you were just like

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Speaker 1: popping popping? What made you up? And say? I'm going

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Speaker 1: from the bay today. Freak Nike, Freak Nick. There you go.

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Speaker 1: I came to Freak Nick ninety three. I heard about

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Speaker 1: Freak Nick ninety two. Yeah, I was like, all right,

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Speaker 1: went to Freak Nick ninety three. I came here for

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Speaker 1: the weekend. I stayed for two weeks and then uh,

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Speaker 1: I was. I was about to buy a house in

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Speaker 1: Oakland and my homeboy from Oakland lived out here already,

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Speaker 1: my homeboy, um my hombie tone and he um. He

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Speaker 1: fucking was like, what kind of how is she gonna

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Speaker 1: buy something I've probably spent like about, you know, half

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Speaker 1: He was, let let me show you what's good for

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Speaker 1: half of men in Atlanta. So it's freak. Nick were

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Speaker 1: like riding around looking at a couple of properties and ship.

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Speaker 1: I came back for Jack the Rapper a few months later,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't even tell nobody what I was doing.

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Speaker 1: I just kind of left the convention and I went

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Speaker 1: and bought a house, and I just I just came

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Speaker 1: out of here. Man, I don't know. I felt like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It just called me. Man. It was

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Speaker 1: the colleges, it was the strip clubs, it was the

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Speaker 1: you know, I was looking at young Dallas, Austin and

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Speaker 1: Jermaine and it was you know, it was the Face records.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm had to come get down with this ship.

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Speaker 1: So I pulled up. Yeah yeah, And Atlanta is always

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Speaker 1: like I don't think you had to fit in and

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Speaker 1: those ships. Like when you got here, it was like

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Speaker 1: people were just like short here and you just fit in,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But you know, like ninety

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Speaker 1: was the streets tech what all that ship was. It

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Speaker 1: was little, but then it was the colleges and it

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Speaker 1: was that vibe and I was like, man, I'm supposed

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Speaker 1: just you niggas don't know this. Though I lived in

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Speaker 1: Atlanta in the seventies, I got one year in. I

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Speaker 1: finished my seventh grade year, I started my eighth grade year.

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Speaker 1: I lived on old National Highway Camelot outside. I lived

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Speaker 1: in the camera while. Yeah that's probably like Dwayne Williams years.

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Speaker 1: And then uh I went to M. D. Collins. I

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Speaker 1: even went with seventh grade. I went to the meadows

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Speaker 1: like people people in college plunking know these schools. But

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Speaker 1: but yeah, man, I was I was out here. So

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Speaker 1: my mama moved out here, and then I guess I

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Speaker 1: was like Jane Williams, I'm getting out of hell out

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Speaker 1: of here. I don't even I don't necessarily believe Lane

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Speaker 1: a little bit. So, you know, with being a legend

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Speaker 1: and the poneer of the game, what you think you

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Speaker 1: brought to the game that's yet to be duplicated, Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I feel like, for one, every time you

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Speaker 1: That's how we was cheating the game, Like we literally,

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Speaker 1: like you mixed your song in the studio, I mixed

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Speaker 1: the guy and get the best goddamn stereo I can get.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, this one sound good, and I just

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Speaker 1: it master. So literally my ship was customized for your

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Speaker 1: always hear like the short can't rap, short can't wrap it.

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Speaker 1: So they're on top of that. Like the first reviews

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Speaker 1: on the national scale, national level, I want to review

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Speaker 1: reading them like damn. I thought, you know, when I

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, vice ab versa. If I'm if I'm in

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Speaker 1: something you know, with no with no real base, and

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Speaker 1: it's intense, and it's you know, it's a certain energy

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Speaker 1: like like the ship sound good in your headphones. You

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Speaker 1: you out and ship and you're like trying to shut

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Speaker 1: make you need a fucking ten thousand dollar assistant above it.

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Speaker 1: And I just understood that. And I played my I

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Speaker 1: played my lane, and they couldn't They couldn't figure it out. Man,

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Speaker 1: months I think blamed you for Nigga not trusting relationships too. Bro. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know that's another thing that people don't understand is

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Speaker 1: I've been My music is really educational, Like I really,

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, I'm a past the game on and

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Speaker 1: just like, man, I was. I was a sucker that

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Speaker 1: I feel like if Cocktails would have been a book,

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Speaker 1: like just answer me, like very seriously, why didn't you

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Speaker 1: ever trademark Bitch? Well, I've been asked that, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I felt like ice Cube had a record that it

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Speaker 1: I think he was sapling the ice Cube song in

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Speaker 1: death Row adopted it, like be honestly put a little

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Speaker 1: I trademarked it before that, and I'm like, anybody said,

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Speaker 1: But it hasn't. They didn't. Bitch wasn't actually trademarked until

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Speaker 1: two thousand nine. But I'm saying, had you not given

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Speaker 1: It would have been my little thing, and I would

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Speaker 1: wouldn't The world couldn't have had it. So it's like

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Speaker 1: it's like a contribution, man, and that's what That's what

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Speaker 1: hip hop is. Hip hop. Let's see like in today's

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Speaker 1: in today's music, like niggas are the opposite, like I

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Speaker 1: just look at hip hop. What if you could trademark

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Speaker 1: a hairstyle or a fashion style like hip hop is

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Speaker 1: is a gift like the whole When the rappers do something,

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Speaker 1: the whole world does it. So it's like, that's that's

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Speaker 1: Like that's what we do. Yeah, bitch, was my gift

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Speaker 1: to the rocket short Let me get a bit, here goes,

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Speaker 1: It's a gift. We got some bills about Kevin Samuel's

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Speaker 1: passing the way. What's how you feel about this philosophy

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Speaker 1: is the recent uh clickbait. I can't get to the

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Speaker 1: places we can't never get into in life. You take

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00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,440
Speaker 1: this place we could never go. He's like, we need

425
00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,920
Speaker 1: you to be you. We got this other thing. We're

426
00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 1: doing this, he doing that. We don't need you to

427
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,040
Speaker 1: do we do we we need you to do what

428
00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:50,679
Speaker 1: you do. And once I realized that, I was like, Okay,

429
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,720
Speaker 1: like I'm not punking out because I'm not fighting every

430
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,000
Speaker 1: battle with the homies, but they're like, we need we

431
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,560
Speaker 1: don't need you as a soldier, like you're not that

432
00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,040
Speaker 1: he even chosen to do some So even if it

433
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,240
Speaker 1: was like like, um, it was a fight one night,

434
00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:06,359
Speaker 1: I had nothing to do with me, nothing to do

435
00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,600
Speaker 1: with nobody I'm with, and the fight break out. You know,

436
00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 1: my crew, we we we used to like the scatter.

437
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 1: We don't really like staying in the pack. So we

438
00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,200
Speaker 1: split up, act like winning together. Whatever you do. Get

439
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,359
Speaker 1: two of ye all over the arey'all, we're just cool.

440
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,440
Speaker 1: And the dude walk up. He's like, the fight's going

441
00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 1: down way away from me. He's like, made too short

442
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 1: you okay, and my homies said, bro back up, he said,

443
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,240
Speaker 1: Now I'm just trying to see that was it. He

444
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,320
Speaker 1: could get no more words. He was sleep And it's

445
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,960
Speaker 1: just that's just how we get down. It was like

446
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,639
Speaker 1: like we just we're trying to get home. That's the

447
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:38,600
Speaker 1: only thing we say. Let's get home. Then you feel

448
00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,159
Speaker 1: like everybody took care of you because you took care

449
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:45,200
Speaker 1: of them too. Yeah, I I gave it back and

450
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,159
Speaker 1: I didn't never have to get extorted or you know

451
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, when nobody bullying me and nothing I

452
00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 1: gave back, Like naturally, I know what I got from Oakland.

453
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 1: I know what I got. I got everything. So I'm

454
00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,240
Speaker 1: like any given time, I knew who to look for,

455
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:02,479
Speaker 1: who to have put in wet position. And it just

456
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,960
Speaker 1: it's politics, man. No, none of the rep game unexpanded,

457
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,360
Speaker 1: like its like the young needs getting different bad day. Yeah,

458
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,679
Speaker 1: and I think they just a little too involved with

459
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 1: you know, the o gs before me, they would be

460
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 1: telling you like you can't let everybody know what you got.

461
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 1: What I'm saying, like bragging is with social media is

462
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:25,400
Speaker 1: a big thing now and I never I never really

463
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,760
Speaker 1: like condone that really like just just bragging, you know what,

464
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 1: I'm saying the shows like like see back back in

465
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,199
Speaker 1: the day, the shows could be like if you was

466
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,680
Speaker 1: getting fitted dollars like the biggest artists. Now these needs

467
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,160
Speaker 1: getting like a half of me and me and all

468
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,080
Speaker 1: of them shows. I know. But then the dudes before

469
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 1: me didn't get what we at. We come in and

470
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 1: late eighties, early nineties we upped it up. We in

471
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,919
Speaker 1: the arenas and stuff, and you know, it just kept elevator.

472
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,760
Speaker 1: I feel like, you gotta you gotta be a trailblazer.

473
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 1: You gotta open doors for the next ones. Like, I

474
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,120
Speaker 1: don't know what's what's next after these guys. These guys

475
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 1: are opening doors for something that's next. What is that is? It?

476
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,160
Speaker 1: Is it work? Pretty? I mean, I don't know, got

477
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:08,120
Speaker 1: an athlete contract? Yeah so yeah. But so it's like

478
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 1: I played my part. If if I saw I had

479
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,679
Speaker 1: six platinum albums in a row, if I did that

480
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 1: right now, you know what I mean that the value

481
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 1: of that would be way more than what I got.

482
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, like what what I could

483
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: do as as six platinums in the row. I was

484
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 1: very popular, but not there was not one corporation that

485
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 1: was like, let's take this popularity and use him as

486
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 1: a as doors product, like they didn't want no parts

487
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: of us, Like they barely wanted to let us in

488
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 1: the arenas even though we could sell them out. They're like, man,

489
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: don't let them duce up in there. Like we couldn't

490
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,439
Speaker 1: even get the tours. They was making up ship like

491
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: the insurances too much, all this stuff, so uh to

492
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 1: see where it's at right now, it's a blessing. I'm

493
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 1: I'm celebrating for the young homies. I'm like, man, get

494
00:23:53,280 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 1: that bag like one song when I get big. We're

495
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: your favorite new artists, Like I mean, your favorite current artist.

496
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: I never could really like endorse new guys. You gotta

497
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 1: stick around for a couple of albums, a couple of years.

498
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna name out of somebody that they say you

499
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: you influenced a lot though, And that's Larry June. Yeah.

500
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 1: A lot of people say Larry June from from from

501
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: the Bay. Yeah, I see Larry June. I'm like some

502
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 1: like the biggest Bay artist. I'm like a love of

503
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 1: music man, blah blah blah. He's like Bryce to pitch

504
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: your house. I was five years old. Oh, y'all knew

505
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 1: each other his family is my family, you know, like

506
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 1: his his people's is my people. Like so it's like

507
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:43,400
Speaker 1: his mom and them. They you know, Oakland and small man.

508
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 1: The Bay is small and you kind of like a generation.

509
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 1: So we all connected. So I'm connected to his older

510
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 1: and make sense not How do you think the music

511
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 1: scene in the Bay was affected by the death of

512
00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: mc dre Well. Mc dra went out like a murder,

513
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,400
Speaker 1: you know, I mean he was like, he's the guy.

514
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,719
Speaker 1: So you had you got too short forty everybody's gonna say, man,

515
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: they wanted to set it off and then um and

516
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: then you got mac dre and keep the sneak. And

517
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 1: they came along and they just you know, took all

518
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 1: the youngsters and just whipped them in a frenzy. And

519
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: the HiFi movement and you know, when mc drake got killed,

520
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 1: it was like uh Martin Luther King in the Bay,

521
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? It was it was that

522
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 1: would you compare it almost similar to like how when

523
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,440
Speaker 1: Nipsey got killed to Los Angeles. It's the same thing.

524
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: It's the same Biggie pock. It's the same loss. And

525
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: I mean they stole his head stone. They mean people

526
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 1: people like to this day in the Bay to this day,

527
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: if you put on any of those Drake classics, I

528
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: mean they go crazy. It's like like I'm the first

529
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: one to do it, multi platinum, all that forty come along.

530
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: He just like like I mean, he's just like songs

531
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 1: like sprinkle Me and say ooh. He just like like

532
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:13,159
Speaker 1: I'm I'm phoo, like I'm here. But Matt dre was

533
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: like he was like the people's chap, like he he

534
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: never sold records like me and forty, but he was

535
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,679
Speaker 1: the people's chap like you, I could personally go to

536
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 1: the Bay the O G and I say something bad

537
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: about Mac dra I'll be in a fight out there,

538
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: like maybe like O G. I love you, but you're

539
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 1: just bad talking. That's how much they love that brother.

540
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 1: So that that his thing that he did though he

541
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: was he touched the people like he was the guy

542
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: who danced in the streets with him. You know, he

543
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 1: was that character that they said, I see he's right there,

544
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, real dra Hose Drake went

545
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: to the pin you know, with the with the with

546
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: the joa, with the bank robbers. It was like that's

547
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 1: our guy, you know, I'm the O G. I'm like

548
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 1: I was on before all of them. So it was like,

549
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 1: like my man missed the fab say. He always tell them.

550
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: He like, man, that's gonna take. He's like to take

551
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: you about eight times to meet too short before he

552
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 1: really knows who you are. So the first seven times,

553
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, what's up on me? Like, like I met

554
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: you for the first time. We didn't met six times already,

555
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: I've been there with you, but I specially like thirty

556
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 1: times you finally got it like on number thirty. No,

557
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: but back to the what what artists that you if

558
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: you could have to say, like I funk with that

559
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 1: little artist that which wanted to be let's just put

560
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,360
Speaker 1: them in the category. You can tell me who they are.

561
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: So they come in the game and they go, they

562
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: blow up, and we like the music first time around.

563
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: You see that so many times. Second time around, it's

564
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 1: really hard the second time to capture it. But I

565
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,719
Speaker 1: feel like once you get that house and that money

566
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: and ship change and you ain't gotta stand on the

567
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: corner no more, I feel like it gets harder to say,

568
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: like like take a young Jeezy. That's one of my

569
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: favorites and his rap style. So when he got to

570
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: the fourth and the fifth album, he was still bringing it.

571
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: That's hard to do to still bring that and to

572
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: bring that, to be convincing, to satisfy your fans, and

573
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: to be sitting in the big house with the baddest chick.

574
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: She she all on you, the video game or whatever.

575
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: The blunts is flowing like water. It's hard to maintain

576
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 1: in that situation. So I just feel like, if you

577
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: can string it together for some years, man, and you could,

578
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: you could make good music, good shows, satisfy the crowd.

579
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: You know your audience is loving you that. Those are

580
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: my favorite. It's so hard to do it sounds it

581
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: sounds like we like think about all of our rappers

582
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: over the years and like I love that song where

583
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: is He? What happened? Like? But how did you do it? Um?

584
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: I'm I care a lot of my credit to like

585
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: my first cousins and my homies because um, at the

586
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: moment in time, the big head is what throws you

587
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: off when you get the big head. So you've got

588
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: the people around you, it's like, you know, like you Gottam,

589
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: you got a rap name, but then you got the

590
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: other name that the your real name, your real nickname,

591
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: them the people that are supposed to keep you grounded.

592
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: And if you get the big head when you start going, man,

593
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: I always look at rappers like this, something like so

594
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: and so just stepped up fire his whole crew. That's

595
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: always a bad sign when you get back, when you

596
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,719
Speaker 1: get rid of the people you came up with. I'm like,

597
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: you don't understand. It's not it's not you, Like too

598
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: Short has never been just me. Too Short is all

599
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 1: of Oakland. It's my whole crew, it's my family. Like,

600
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: it's a lot of elements to what makes too Short.

601
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: I don't when I sit around, I'll tell you, like

602
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: a crazy story. I'm in a song. I might be

603
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: telling you my homeboy story and I'm saying like I

604
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: needed them needed to be at that Domino table and

605
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: hear the ships talking, I'm like, that's them songs. So

606
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: um when you when you shake the crew and the

607
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: ship don't work, it ain't no going back across that bridge. Man,

608
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,959
Speaker 1: you're burning bridges. I just think my favorite rappers are

609
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: the ones like the t I s. You know what

610
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And when you say young rappers, they ain't

611
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: really got that level yet of of show improve you know,

612
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: so I'm just I'm just waiting, like like I used

613
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: to have my I old future, and I'm like I

614
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: want to know because I know him before. I'm like,

615
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: I wanted this, he gonna make it, And he made it.

616
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: He made it over the second album, third album, saying

617
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: like and you watch him like I get really proud

618
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: when they get over the hump, and I'm like, Okay,

619
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: figure it out. And I look at you. You're rolling

620
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: up with the fifty man entourage people and you're employing

621
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: people and stuff. Once you start, your bag is big

622
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: enough to pay other people. I'm like, now you're doing

623
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: it right, you know what I'm saying. Then something then

624
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: you get the offspring. You're like everybody we like, we

625
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: like trees. All of us are like trees. And everything

626
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: that you create from your tree is another one of

627
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: your branches, you know what I'm saying. And you take

628
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: um take a tree like Easy. Let's take away Easy

629
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: and who was his tree? Branches? Dr Dre you know

630
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: ice C and then Dre branch off the Snoop dog

631
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: em and them said like like but if with all

632
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: that happened, if Easy didn't sell dope and flippers dope

633
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: and by studio and produce an album and hook up

634
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: Dr Drake. What I mean, what do we get? Like?

635
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: What is your tree? What not? Just you? What do you?

636
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: What are you gonna branch out to be? So that's

637
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: a good question. Those are my favorite rappers in the

638
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: Bible for my niggas, like my youngsters who are going

639
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,719
Speaker 1: to turn into tree branch trees and and the branches.

640
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: And then my favorite rapper, what's gonna come from you? Yeah? So,

641
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: and you can't figure that out on your first album.

642
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: You can't figure out off the first two or three

643
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: times out. You gotta stick around. You gotta go through

644
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: some some some stuff. They gotta push you and test you.

645
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: You gotta you know, can you can you? Can you

646
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: blow up? Fall the funk off and blow back up again?

647
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: Can you do that? Because that's what's that's longevity. I

648
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: I didn't stay on always like it was. It was times. Man,

649
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: he's sitting there trying to figure it out. You gotta

650
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: figure that out. So let me ask you this um,

651
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: just going back to something you were saying where you

652
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: were just speaking on about how basically Oakland gave you everything,

653
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: so you gave back Oakland. Have you ever had to

654
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: deal with somebody that you've given back to that didn't

655
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: reciprocate that giveback or that didn't appreciate it and kind

656
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: of flip the script on you. Uh. I've had a

657
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: lot of politics in my life, and I just think

658
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: that I got those good people around me and we

659
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: just deal with everything hit on and Yeah, I've had

660
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: I've had yeah, you know, bite the hand that feeds

661
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: you situations. Yeah, I've had that. I've had people who

662
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: I helped out in a major way. I didn't really

663
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: like manager right to help, and then they come back

664
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: and help again. I'm like, ain't no more help and

665
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: they get mad. I'm like, bro, that was the that

666
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: was the one time it hit. I hit you. You're

667
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: supposed to get out and you didn't get down. So um.

668
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: But I also have I'm not gonna drop names I have.

669
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: I have people that like I have people that's like, man,

670
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: I just just point me in somebody's direction, somebody that

671
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: you don't like. I'm like, it's cool right now. So

672
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: you know, it's like a lot of people know, people

673
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: have found out that I did some really good favorites

674
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: for some really powerful people, and you know, and never

675
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: got a favor in return, and they're like, let me

676
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: know when. So a lot of people know like like

677
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: just leave do it alone, because like when, because when

678
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: you come at him and don't just be him getting

679
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: back at you. They come from everywhere, Like I got

680
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: I'm I'm in the Gangster Network and I don't know

681
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: if you know about it, but it's it's nation wide, worldwide.

682
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: I'm in on the network. So how does that? I mean, like,

683
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: so when you when you're dealing with those people that

684
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: don't reciprocate properly how they're supposed to, how do you

685
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 1: prevent that from like internally affecting your mental as far

686
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: as you wanting to do something for other people? You

687
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying, does how do you prevent that

688
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: from making you not want to stop doing? Because the

689
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: game is a thing. It's not this game you run

690
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: on people. The game is an entity. It's a thing.

691
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: It's this knowledge that you have, it's the way you roll,

692
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: it's where you fit in you and your game. And

693
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 1: I think that when you try to give it to somebody,

694
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 1: you're giving it to them because you think they're worthy

695
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: of it. So when you find out that person not worthing.

696
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: You give it to the ones who just keep giving it.

697
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: You don't stop giving. Like I'm a giver, so you

698
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: don't stop. You don't stop giving just because that person

699
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: messed it up like a O. These things ain't doing

700
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: no more. It ain't like that. It's like like you

701
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: cut that part off and then you move on to

702
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: this part, and I just don't even think about it

703
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: anymore because I believe that this thing, when when you

704
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: get it and you figured out you gotta share it,

705
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: you don't you don't deserve You don't deserve it if

706
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: you don't share it. Yeah, I feel the same way.

707
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: I feel the same way. So that's the blessings because um,

708
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: little things, I mean little things from just a moment

709
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: of time and a little bit of advice, uh just

710
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: um actual help, like stepping stones in somebody's life. These

711
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: levels that we go to, like the little guy. I've

712
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: been around a long time. The little guy always seems

713
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: to blow up bigger than you. And it's like a

714
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: lot of people in our industry have a tendency to

715
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 1: shoot on the little It's a natural fucking thing. It's like,

716
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: get my thing to it. You just treat them bad

717
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: like you ain't. You ain't up here with us, But

718
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: you don't realize that they remember that ship. And if

719
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 1: you've been a good if you've been a good energy

720
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: throughout this ship, like ship come back at least expected,

721
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: at least expect like you. You'd be in a situation

722
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 1: where you might be needing a financial play and one

723
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: of your little homies that blew up like I got you.

724
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: You might be somewhere outnumbered in a situation somebody roll

725
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: about the blue go, but you have the problem. I'll

726
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: make you good. It weird like dam I didn't even know, Like, yeah,

727
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 1: so same thing. You could have shipped on them, but

728
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: you didn't, and now they're saving you exactly. So I

729
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: just I just think you gotta treat everybody in the

730
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,439
Speaker 1: same You gotta you gotta respect, disrespect the people that

731
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: that earned it, that that deserve it. But outside of that,

732
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 1: respect people up and to the point where they don't

733
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:38,280
Speaker 1: just earn your respect. Yeah, exactly. One milestone in your career.

734
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: You you you were you were the first rapper to retired.

735
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: You're retired, right, So the two things I guess I

736
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: ask is what sparked that retirement? And then on the

737
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 1: On the other end, there were people that said what

738
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,479
Speaker 1: the retirement might have been, like a marketing moll, could

739
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: you elaborate a little bit on the two short retirement

740
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: and coming out of the retirement. It was both On

741
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: the inside, it was the most publicity I got for

742
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: free outside of UM. The only thing that that might

743
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: have topped that was TMZ got me running from the police.

744
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: That that that might have been really good free press too.

745
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: But so I was thirty years old, I had I

746
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 1: was releasing my tenth album, and I'm like, on these numbers,

747
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: I'm like were talking in if you was a thirties something,

748
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: you're a rapper. It went like this and that, oh

749
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: that's Nick is still rapping like it was it was

750
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: like thirty something. He was like an O O G

751
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: O G. And I just decided, like it was the numbers.

752
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: I like ten albums, all of them platinum, gold, I'm

753
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: turning thirty, I retired, I quit, I'm walking away from

754
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: the game. And it sounded real good. But then I

755
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: dropped the album and reality said it and it's like

756
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: if the album was getting an album number ten, And

757
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: that's when they started like renegotiating, don't you want this stop.

758
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: My phone start blowing up. They're like, oh, you're gonna retire. Uh?

759
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 1: Can I get you on a song and start doing

760
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: all these features and stuff. I'm like, man, giving this up.

761
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: It was still on the car, man, I ain't. So

762
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: you know. I came back with the next album is

763
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: called Can't Stay Away, and I'm like, man, my first album,

764
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: the first time they ever put me in the studio,

765
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 1: I'm making an out and they said, what you wanna

766
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: name the album? I'm thinking, like women Now, I'm like,

767
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: name it. Don't stop rapping? Like why that? I'm like,

768
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: because I ain't gonna never stop rapping. So so that's

769
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: my that's my career theme is don't stop rapping. I

770
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: just turned fifty six and I'm still fucking rapping and

771
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: I'm about to do a sold out show tonight and

772
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: the next night and the next weekend, and I'm like,

773
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: the wheels ain't falling and fell off yet. So let's roll.

774
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: Ye had your first child or your daughter at fifty two? Yep,

775
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: fifty two, and I was going, first kid, you've been

776
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: with your wife for twenty two years, You've been on it,

777
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: You've been on Wikipedia. That's a lie. That is hilarious.

778
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:13,800
Speaker 1: So somebody on Wikipedia, somebody on Wikipedia, keep well, I

779
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,399
Speaker 1: didn't have this deleted a hundred times and keep putting

780
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: it back up that I read it to. I try

781
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: to research it myself. It was a wife. It's on

782
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: a couple of other websites. It's like I tucked her

783
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: away somewhere in New Mexico and she got a bunch

784
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: of babies, and uh, they'd be saying like names like Esperanza.

785
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 1: So I've seen name like Erica or something, and then

786
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: then they're putting like I've seen one where they like

787
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: got this name and the story, but then the pictures

788
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 1: goopolade and I'm like, she from Oakland. I'm like, you

789
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: know we're married, right, It's just uh, I don't know,

790
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: Like I don't know why they would do that. I've

791
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: never been married, never beeny gays, never never lying. I've

792
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: only in my life twice even had like a living

793
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: like girlfriend, Like I I'm care of that ship, like

794
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: for real, like it's it's it's um, what frightens you

795
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: about it? Because of the lifestyle. I chose a certain

796
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: lifestyle the young age. I wanted to have fun. I

797
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 1: wanted all right, let me let me give you a story.

798
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: First tour I ever went on, straight out of Compton tour.

799
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: I swear to god, I was in love with my girlfriend.

800
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,800
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even bite my tongue and hesitating. So I

801
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:31,720
Speaker 1: was in love. And the flight was booked. Tours booked.

802
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: First stop was Nashville. I'll kiss my girlfriend. I love you, baby.

803
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: Uh you know I'm calling you every day all day.

804
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: As soon as the fucking plane touchdown, I never talked

805
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: to her ever again, never again, like I never soon

806
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: the plane says, I started having fun. I was like,

807
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to dog her and nothing. I was

808
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: just like, that would be so unfair to keep her

809
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: in this, would it be? Would you can there that

810
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,399
Speaker 1: self sabotage? Yeah, But I'm the part of the point

811
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: I'm saying is Okay, I'll meet you, fall in love

812
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: with you. We're hanging out a month or two and

813
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, here I'm at this ship and now

814
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, i gotta say, look, I love you, but

815
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: I can't be in love. I can't do this because

816
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna be with just you. I'm

817
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: never gonna be around and I just I used to

818
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 1: just keep it real, you like, and they're like, but

819
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: I want to be you. I'm like, but you understand

820
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: what being with me is. It ain't cool. I'm telling

821
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: you right now, I'm not cool. And I just leave

822
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,800
Speaker 1: it at that. So I'm like, I used to get difficult.

823
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: I had this one safety mechanism where I was just

824
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: coming to door going They're like, well, you know, I

825
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: like you a little bit, you seeing anybody. I'm like, yeah,

826
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,439
Speaker 1: I got a girlfriend, but I'm I'm lying, I don't

827
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: really have a girlfriend. And like, you got a girlfriend,

828
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: get it. I'm like, but she don't live out here.

829
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: She lives in another city. So that would be my

830
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 1: safety mechanism for like not getting to attach ye get

831
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: involved with her and if you ever see me somewhere, like,

832
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Who was that? I told you

833
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: I had a girlfriend when I met you, Like, it

834
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: just was all these different safety mechanisms, and I just

835
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: I love falling in love. I just didn't like being

836
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 1: in love. That I'm just saying. But a lot of

837
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: niggas will stay in the relationship and drag her through it,

838
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: have kids with her, she living there, and n is

839
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 1: just living life and I'm like, I didn't want to

840
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: do that to anybody. So at that point, I never

841
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: let that get into my life, and so you never

842
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: you never goddamn taking one a biss be like okay,

843
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 1: well queen, we should we be trying not to call

844
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: them bitches so much. We got two short hells right

845
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,760
Speaker 1: when they'd be like, well, I'm willing to take whatever

846
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: come with you. Yeall had that that scares me to like, like, like, Nigi,

847
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 1: you could do whatever you want, just don't bring nothing home.

848
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: I'm scary, Like what the fun you're gonna be doing? Yeah,

849
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I got the green light

850
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 1: like like you on yellow red with you on. So

851
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: that scared me too, So I didn't I didn't like

852
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: that one. Uh but I did have a lot of

853
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: fun in Atlanta because I used to find a figure

854
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: that the the best the best best friend was always

855
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,280
Speaker 1: like a girl that like girls, that's the best best friend.

856
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 1: So it's like instead of hanging out with a bunch

857
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: of the homies, I would hang out with a bunch

858
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: of girls and I'd be like, you know, chicks did

859
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: like chicks, And I'm like it just makes life easier,

860
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: you know, like, it's just like we're competing for the

861
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: same thing. You know, girls get girls way easier than dudes. Dude,

862
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: And it was fun. It was fun. Man. I was

863
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 1: spoiled out here. Man. I got to the point out

864
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: here where I was like one girl, like I'm going

865
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: home only I can only get one girl tonight, a

866
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 1: boy myself. I'm like, if unless there's two and more,

867
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: I'm not doing it. I was like that for a

868
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: long time. That's probably why I moved away from here,

869
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: because it was I was doing. I was doing too much.

870
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: So what made you decide to have a kid. I

871
00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:02,359
Speaker 1: didn't decide, it happened. What I decided was I must

872
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: stop trying to not have kids. So it got to

873
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: a point where I had a really bad experience at

874
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: a young age. And I've told the story a few times,

875
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 1: not a lot, but I had a really bad experience where, um,

876
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: I had I had a girlfriend in high school, got pregnant,

877
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: shot abortion. Uh that that kid would have been like

878
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: that in four years old, now something. Um, I had

879
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 1: another girlfriend when I got out of high school that

880
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: got pregnant, shout an abortion. And then I I got

881
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: a third girlfriend pregnant and we talked about it, and

882
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: she's like, she said, the only way I have this

883
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 1: baby is if we get married. I'm like, whoa, we

884
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 1: ain't getting married. And she's like, well, I'm not having

885
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 1: no baby. And I went with her to the place

886
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: and they called me in the room. There's like she

887
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: she needs you. So I go in this room while

888
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: it's it is going down. It's like these noises and stuff,

889
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 1: and and I'm I'm trying not to look, but I

890
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: messed up and I looked and I could never erase

891
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 1: what I saw. Uh I was. We left. She was

892
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: like major depressed. She wouldn't talk for days. And then

893
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,720
Speaker 1: my birthday came around and and my girlfriend just cried

894
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: all like hours and hours and hours, and I finally

895
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: got her to stop crying and just say what's wrong.

896
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 1: And she said, this has messed me up for life?

897
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: This why had no kid? She said, um, she said,

898
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: I didn't want to have an abortion. I just wanted

899
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: you to say that you didn't want me to have

900
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: an abortion. And she said it's your birth the reason

901
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: why she was crying. She said, your birthday and the

902
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: only birthday present I was a half for you. I

903
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:54,919
Speaker 1: was gonna tell you I was pregnant with your son,

904
00:45:55,760 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 1: and I just took all that like like like I

905
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 1: was trying to do the right thing. Like she's like,

906
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to get married, and I'm like, I

907
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 1: don't want to get married, but we can't have this baby.

908
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there trying to do the right man thing

909
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: and she's like, I just wanted you all when he

910
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 1: was driving up, walking up, I just want you to stay.

911
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: Don't do it. And I didn't say it. And after

912
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: that that was that was the end of my like

913
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: just you know, I think to make a baby, you

914
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: gotta like do it, do it, do it, and then

915
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: when you come you gotta let go and just fall

916
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: and just let it go and just sink in and

917
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 1: just marinate. And you know what I'm saying, that's I

918
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: don't know if that's true, but I thought that in

919
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: my mind. I was like, you gotta fall and relax

920
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: and stay in there. That's what I didn't do until

921
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: I was That's what I didn't do. I didn't fall

922
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: and relax and I'll jump out and run away. And

923
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: I had many arguments like why you keep doing that?

924
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: And I just I'm a point. How there's anything that's

925
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 1: but you're not. You're not getting this. So if it

926
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 1: wasn't strapped, then it was I was. It was all

927
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: over the room anywhere, but in there it was. I

928
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 1: think if I haven't had therapy, but if I did

929
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,800
Speaker 1: have therapy, I think it's it's some other things in

930
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: there and you need to go get that done. But

931
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, like, my daughter is very therapeutic

932
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: to all of that stuff. All of that, all of

933
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: those dysfunctional things that I was believing and stuff. I

934
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: think she kind of got rid of a lot of that.

935
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 1: So now I'm like, I'm a granddaddy daddy. That's what

936
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 1: I call it. Because all by homies a granddaddy's and

937
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: their kids are their grandkids are the same age as

938
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 1: my kids. So I called myself I'm a grandaddy daddy,

939
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,439
Speaker 1: which you know, Grant, when you're a grandfather, you treat

940
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,240
Speaker 1: your grandkids better than you treated your own kids because

941
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: you're like, you're a better father at this time. Write me,

942
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: so you know, I'm I feel like I'm being a

943
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:04,280
Speaker 1: late bloomer as a father is a is a blessing

944
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: for a guy like me. I don't think I would

945
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 1: have did it right at a young age. I think

946
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: I would have these uh really just functional relationships with

947
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: my kids that my older kids that I would have had.

948
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,439
Speaker 1: And I'm kind of glad I didn't do it because

949
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: I'm I would have been a bad person. What type

950
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 1: of you think you're gonna have the in stealing to

951
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 1: your daughter so she won't make it wrong. I'm gonna

952
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 1: do like I did everybody else. Just give it a game,

953
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: do run with it. Run with it. It's the game

954
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: you could. You know, it will set you free, but

955
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: it also it also turned around and bite you. But

956
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: it's like, what's some ship that you like to do,

957
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,800
Speaker 1: like when you're not being too short that you enjoy

958
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 1: or you know what I'm saying that you like like

959
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: getting done like activities or you know what I'm saying

960
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 1: anything like that. Like I'm just a social guy. Man,

961
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 1: I'm a social guy. I do anything that we can

962
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 1: do as a group and go out and kicking. I

963
00:48:56,080 --> 00:49:00,080
Speaker 1: don't care if it's bowling, go to top golf, I

964
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: don't care what it is. We go, we can go,

965
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:07,359
Speaker 1: get on the water, jet skids. I was zip line.

966
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: I never zip line, but I feel like zip line

967
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 1: in Hawaii is in my near future. That's one of

968
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: the things. It's funny you said, because that's one of

969
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: the things that I've always been saying, like, bro, I

970
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: gotta do this, and I just ain't never been the

971
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: right place right trying to do it. And I don't

972
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: want to do it like indoors somewhere. I want to

973
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: be outdoors. If you falla dudes don't go to coast

974
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: to Rica to zip line what they go phone, I

975
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 1: asked me, you know what they go for. Stop playing

976
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:57,399
Speaker 1: We're not get big. Is there any lyric a song

977
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: of verse you would take back? Like, oh man, I

978
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 1: mean so certain words like change the meaning chains over

979
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: the years to get a little a little political. Um,

980
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 1: you know, you have a lyrics that would be too

981
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: much for today's So I said some things that you know,

982
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: but I mean, but a large part of what I

983
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: was doing was like it was like shock rap, you know.

984
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: I was saying, I was writing this stuff down like

985
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 1: I'm writing a song and I'm writing the punch lines

986
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: before i even write the song. So I'm like, I'm

987
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:36,280
Speaker 1: gonna say, uh she she uh she choked on Sperman

988
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 1: the windpipe and died. That's that was that's the punch line.

989
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: So then I write, I wrote a song called blow

990
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 1: Joe Betty, and I'm like, I know the end of

991
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: the song she's gonna choke on the sperm and died

992
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 1: and now I have to figure out how she got

993
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: to that. And it's just it's funny, you know. So

994
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: do the words were sensitive? No for like for like

995
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: rapping comedians and all this ship Like no, Like I

996
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 1: feel bad for the comedians, man, because that's that's like

997
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: you're letting that loose of the audience member or on

998
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 1: the topic, was like, that's that's what comedy is. Now

999
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: a comedian can't say the stuff they're supposed to say,

1000
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 1: the stuff we can't say, and now they can't say it. So,

1001
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 1: you know, rappers were in that category to you think

1002
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: the council culture would have got a hold of you

1003
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: back in the day if if it was now now

1004
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 1: the council people and yeah, yeah, I don't think they

1005
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:22,919
Speaker 1: would even let a too short get in the game

1006
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: because I was damn, I'm like, I dropped the bitch,

1007
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 1: I beat the bitch up and dropped traffic Kaiser like

1008
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:32,479
Speaker 1: she was in the trunk of the car. Like they're

1009
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 1: like get rid of this. You got to go. You

1010
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 1: had to keep it independent. Yeah, man, I said some stuff,

1011
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: but you know, like I said, the balance, the balance

1012
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: of too Short has always been the humor, like like

1013
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: making funny, like really just say that, like making funny.

1014
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: And I have a very special way of wording like

1015
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: negative things about women. Every time I say something negative

1016
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: about a woman, a woman, I say her, So I

1017
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 1: say I'm talking about her. So you're listening, I'm not

1018
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: talking about you, You're talking about her. And you're like, yeah,

1019
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 1: I know. Bits like that because so it always it

1020
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: never falls on you. Yeah, it's not in general. Yeah,

1021
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: it's just you know, and then you know, you gotta

1022
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: in real life. You gotta realize, um, that all women

1023
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,800
Speaker 1: aren't bitches like you. When you like, I'm not a

1024
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 1: bitching up. You you claiming that you know what I'm saying, like,

1025
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: that's my bitch. You're claiming that she's she's Yeah, that's

1026
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:40,919
Speaker 1: my business exactly. But you know when when that ship

1027
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: don't apply, well that that word to get getting nigga

1028
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: sucked up? You know what I mean? Which Almo song

1029
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 1: you think made the biggest impact in your career? Though? Um,

1030
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: life is too short, so the most it's the only

1031
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: one I got this double platinum. I um blow the

1032
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:02,359
Speaker 1: Whistle is the impactful song I haven't made. I made

1033
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: that when I was forty years old. Album NUM was

1034
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: sixteen um like mainstream, but I think I think it

1035
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: probably was the most pivotal album for what I was doing,

1036
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: like it it was musically it's my favorite album because

1037
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 1: we have been doing some stuff up until that point

1038
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: that we perfected on that album. And then I turned

1039
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: a corner after that album where it wasn't the same

1040
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:32,879
Speaker 1: production crew anymore, and you could tell, you could tell

1041
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: I never captured that sound again, like that's the classic

1042
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: too short sound from like Born to mac to like

1043
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 1: getting it that's too short. And then I was doing

1044
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: you know, I went to other places and other things

1045
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,359
Speaker 1: and extended the career with the help of Little John

1046
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: and Jazz Faye, and you know, start doing different stuff

1047
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:54,959
Speaker 1: Little John style. Little John took me out the trunk

1048
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 1: of the car and put me in the club. And uh,

1049
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 1: I think him for that, because I was never trying

1050
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: to make club songs until I got with him. And

1051
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: then all and then there's people now they go, man,

1052
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: you here two shorts make two shots, make the music

1053
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: gonna shake your ass. I'm like, it really wasn't me

1054
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:13,399
Speaker 1: at first, but I learned how to do it for real.

1055
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: What features you see yourself in twenty two doing? Like

1056
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 1: if you could call out a feature that you want

1057
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: to do, who would it be? Right now, I'm trying

1058
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: to get out with a big seane because you know

1059
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: with you trade like that, um um, you would have

1060
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: killed I don't funk with you. He told the story

1061
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: that he was he was on the fence, he was

1062
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 1: gonna call me. Then he then didn't switch to forty.

1063
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: But I mean he did the right He did the

1064
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 1: right things happing into the bay for that one. I

1065
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,320
Speaker 1: started to do a remix for that song that that

1066
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 1: was called It's Not Too Late. It was it was

1067
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: kind of corny. Concept was kind of corny, but it

1068
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:51,799
Speaker 1: came across my mind. I was gonna do a song

1069
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 1: called I Do Funk with You, and it was it

1070
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 1: was about the bitches, like I really do funk with you.

1071
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:58,280
Speaker 1: Ris Like like when they say we don't love him hosts,

1072
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, we love the host They get the money right.

1073
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: We got this ship called Big Fast Friday Tool. We

1074
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: just talked about this random life stuff. So what would

1075
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: you say to a homeboy or a man if he

1076
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: unless use the term going out sad by the female,

1077
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 1: like like basically not the player of the pen, but

1078
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 1: he on the other side of it, Like maybe he's

1079
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 1: giving them money, she's taking it to somebody else or whatever.

1080
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 1: But this is one of your people. Like what would

1081
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 1: you do to try to maybe I don't know the word,

1082
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 1: to save him, or would you try to intervene or

1083
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: would you just mind your If I say, my homie

1084
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:34,399
Speaker 1: has been like a super trick in a situation going

1085
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 1: outside going out sad? What do we say in Oakland ship?

1086
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: Because that's just like some like it's not a lot

1087
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 1: of sympathy for bitchass niggers, you know, like it's just

1088
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 1: not a lot. But this is your partner though he

1089
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:51,320
Speaker 1: just caught one female that just sunking with his brain

1090
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:58,360
Speaker 1: and this is not the player. Yeah, I'm trying to

1091
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, how you saw so you just

1092
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 1: let him go drown You post a second before that happens,

1093
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 1: not after the should happen. You can't come back from

1094
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 1: that ship. I'm trying to think because I just I

1095
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: have no sympathy. I'm like, I'm just like like a

1096
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 1: bit like like literally like as a dude, I don't

1097
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:19,959
Speaker 1: have no feelings for your feelings. You know what I'm saying.

1098
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 1: And like Nigga like we actually you know what we're

1099
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: gonna do. I don't know what we're gonna do. We're

1100
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: gonna tell fucking jokes in your face to you, to

1101
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,919
Speaker 1: you cry some more and to you. Fucking the jokes

1102
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: is funny to YouTube, like fucking like we I mean

1103
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 1: we it's go get real intense, like we was on

1104
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: the tour bus. On the tour bus, you can't run,

1105
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:43,440
Speaker 1: you can't. We're on the bus and you got your

1106
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 1: heartbroke last year. That ship coming up like member, oh girl,

1107
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,000
Speaker 1: didn't you last year? I mean we're running that for

1108
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 1: like hours, like Nigga, I didn't have to home me

1109
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,439
Speaker 1: to dig into me, like I'm like like wiping a tear.

1110
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 1: Niggas laughing so hard that she's like damn, like damn,

1111
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:02,319
Speaker 1: I got me. I fell in love and niggas called

1112
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: me Shorty to lover, like I got an album called

1113
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 1: My album was called Shorty the Pimp. Niggs called me

1114
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: Shorty to lover for like a year like me, ain't

1115
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:14,479
Speaker 1: shorty to pimp mean I bore me out? You still

1116
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: let it? Uh what album? So you're about to put

1117
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: out album? What number is this? I forgot lost County.

1118
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: I felt like it's twenty something like low twenties. But

1119
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: I lost count because it was album number sixteen, and

1120
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: I remember sixteen that was getting it out and that

1121
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 1: was the Born Blow the Whistle album. But I can't

1122
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 1: I lost County after that because I don't know, I

1123
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: stopped giving the fun I just noticed about them. I'm

1124
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: in the studio to three days a week. Um. During

1125
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 1: the quarantine, I did a lot, Like I recorded fifty

1126
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 1: songs with Cube and E forty and Snoop Dogg. We

1127
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: got fifty unreleased uh My Westmore songs. Me personally, during

1128
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 1: that quarantine, I probably knocked out about sixties seventies songs.

1129
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: That's just like you know, in the can. Since then,

1130
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 1: I'm in there like two or three days a week.

1131
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: I go in there and just mess around and you know,

1132
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 1: put you know, fix with songs up and ask some stuff.

1133
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: I do a lot of verses for other people. I

1134
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: feel like that's you know, that's a big part of longevity.

1135
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: But is uh, you know, doing like local songs for

1136
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: people somewhere in Indiana and Michigan somewhere, and you're like

1137
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 1: that song might only be in that hood, but you're

1138
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: famous in that one hood. And I do UM. I

1139
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 1: just feel like um, I feel like a jazz musician,

1140
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 1: like a blues singer right now. I feel like for

1141
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: hip hop. If you get to be like my age

1142
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 1: and you say something like, well, man, I'm in my fifties,

1143
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 1: Man I can't rap no more, then you you're putting

1144
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 1: a limit on hip hop. And where was the limit

1145
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 1: on jazz? Could have asked musicians blow that horning and

1146
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 1: and and play with his band? He was seventy eight

1147
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 1: years old. How old was bb King when he stopped playing?

1148
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: I think he died he was still playing. You know

1149
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like, like, when when is it? When

1150
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: is it too old for a blue singer? What about

1151
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: a nique who never had no success trying to be

1152
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: steal me? That is a good one. The rapper who's

1153
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 1: still trying to get his first hit, been doing it

1154
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: since he was twenty five and forty and still ain't

1155
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 1: caught a hit. I'm like, I just I really feel

1156
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 1: bad about that situation because you gotta and unless you're

1157
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 1: doing it for a hobby and you're like freestyle battles

1158
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 1: and you're like, you know, open mike and you're like

1159
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: you're like recording and listen to it yourself, and let's

1160
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 1: let your friends here. If you ain't got like a

1161
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: little bit of dust, a little fan base, a little

1162
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 1: like like because what if there was one studio session

1163
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 1: away from that hit though it don't happen. It's rare,

1164
00:59:56,840 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: but it don't happen, and the see people catch your

1165
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: name thirties Yeah, yeah, but you know, um, it's just

1166
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:09,920
Speaker 1: it's not it's not. It's it's sad to have a person,

1167
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 1: you know, continuously keep making records and every time to

1168
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 1: hear play, you like, maybe it's gonna be in his

1169
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: whack again, Like I'm talking to whack, Like can't nobody

1170
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:22,400
Speaker 1: listen to a whack like ears bleeding whack? And then

1171
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 1: you can't even tell a person like that like, bro,

1172
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:29,960
Speaker 1: you just ain't got it because they don't. So I

1173
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 1: feel bad in that situation, man, Like it ain't for everybody,

1174
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 1: Man Like, this ain't for everybody, like like even like

1175
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 1: I feel the same way about producers it's some dudes

1176
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 1: have been sliding me beats for fifteen years. Ain't slip

1177
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:44,120
Speaker 1: me one dope beat? Hid. I'm like, bro, like, you're

1178
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 1: not good at this, Like like but like you said,

1179
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 1: you could catch a hip I don't know, it's been.

1180
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 1: It's been many of rap records that were big records

1181
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 1: that I first heard was like that's whack, and it

1182
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 1: actually grows on me later like that. I don't even

1183
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:01,640
Speaker 1: like that at first, but I give that the hip hop.

1184
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: But the old dudes trying to break in the game

1185
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 1: as that's that's kind of funny. Man's kind of funny

1186
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 1: being a little showcase and all those little young homies

1187
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 1: come out rapping in this one old dude come out.

1188
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 1: He's got the flow. It's all serious, but like, right,

1189
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,880
Speaker 1: you're not gonna make it. They're not letting you in

1190
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:21,919
Speaker 1: the game. It's like a party. Some people just can't

1191
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: get in. Some people. So let me ask you this,

1192
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 1: what other things are you into or what like other

1193
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:30,440
Speaker 1: ship do you have going on outside of the music

1194
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 1: that generates you income and that you're like pretty much

1195
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 1: setting up for the longevity for you and your daughter

1196
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 1: and the rest of your family. I mean, the merchant

1197
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:41,320
Speaker 1: is good. I'm from California and marijuana is making a

1198
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: lot of money. I'm I'm dabbling in all that stuff.

1199
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:49,760
Speaker 1: I'm definitely um, you know, seeking like um, some someplace

1200
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:54,520
Speaker 1: to land with the two short story, could be the documentary,

1201
01:01:56,160 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 1: a documentary, we're going the movie, We're going for the episodes,

1202
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: We're going for the Greatest three Seasons. We're doing something,

1203
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 1: We're doing something. So all that's there. UM, definitely um

1204
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: getting into like you know, like what what can you

1205
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:17,120
Speaker 1: do if rap ain't making your money? Have you ever

1206
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:20,720
Speaker 1: touched on real estate or anything not necessarily real estate

1207
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 1: to make money, but like putting money in places and

1208
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 1: getting money back. I'm into that thing like, um, like,

1209
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: my guys, is just now really like getting me to

1210
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: get deep into like the whole little startup investments and

1211
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:36,120
Speaker 1: then you know, just flip flipping the money, let the money,

1212
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:38,360
Speaker 1: let the money make money. You see all that money

1213
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 1: made off ring. So I mean, I'm in a situation

1214
01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 1: now where I'm kind of like being educated on something

1215
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:47,080
Speaker 1: that I feel like we all should get at at

1216
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 1: a young age. I feel really bad that I didn't

1217
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: get at it a long time ago. And it's just

1218
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 1: like you. We always think like, how what can I

1219
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:58,479
Speaker 1: do to make money? But then when you get the money,

1220
01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:00,920
Speaker 1: what can the money do to make money? That's a

1221
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 1: whole different thing that we don't think about because we're

1222
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 1: programmed and as you know, it's young and dumb and

1223
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 1: something you're supposed to do. Damn if he was young

1224
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 1: and smart, you know what I mean, Like, we're programmed

1225
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 1: to get this ship right here, we gotta go get

1226
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 1: this ship. I'm like, I look at them chains and

1227
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: I'm adding up. I'm like, this nag got on five

1228
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 1: ninety thollar chains. He could have put that money to work,

1229
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. The car costs uh three hundred,

1230
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And it just ain't adding

1231
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: up like to what you could have did with that money.

1232
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:36,440
Speaker 1: And I'm like, gotta be young and dumb though, But

1233
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:39,800
Speaker 1: young and dumb has one major flaw. If that's the

1234
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 1: only bag you're gonna get, yeah, you're sucked up because

1235
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,440
Speaker 1: you know I can I can sit here and say

1236
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:48,439
Speaker 1: I sucked off the first bag. In the second bag,

1237
01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:52,720
Speaker 1: but they went back at it and at some point,

1238
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 1: if you were smart, you know what I'm saying, Like,

1239
01:03:56,880 --> 01:04:00,320
Speaker 1: look at athletes. There's some smart athletes that didn't really

1240
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 1: get into the cars and houses in Multiple city and

1241
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 1: he knew they was only gonna play for five years

1242
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:07,640
Speaker 1: and kept that money and put it to work. But

1243
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: it's I don't mother. She's like, I know, I've seen

1244
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 1: this think and make eighty million as he broke, So

1245
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 1: you know that's that's uh, that's something that Hip Hop

1246
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:23,120
Speaker 1: jay Z's album with all the Wisdom, it was like

1247
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 1: it was like the O G spen to the young Homie,

1248
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 1: But I don't think it really resonated on how serious

1249
01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:29,680
Speaker 1: he was. You want to get to where I'm at,

1250
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 1: like he was telling you. But you know what I'm saying,

1251
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 1: you kind of still like jamming and we still I'm

1252
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:39,160
Speaker 1: just saying, bro, if you're smart. If you're smart, that's

1253
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 1: I didn't do it. But if you put that young

1254
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 1: money to work, you later on in life you would

1255
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 1: be like, okay, wealthy. Like if you had like some

1256
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:57,160
Speaker 1: last final closing words to say to the people about

1257
01:04:57,240 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 1: too short and your legacy, everything you have going on,

1258
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Speaker 1: whatever you have coming up, what would it be? All

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Speaker 1: of the big facts viewers and big facts work. Don't

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Speaker 1: get mad if you find out I fucked your mama.

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Speaker 1: I'm just jugging. That's that's my that's your mama. Was

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Speaker 1: that freak nick Natti folk. She was probably a victim.

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Speaker 1: Probably your mama used to work at Nicki's v I

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Speaker 1: she was probably you know. I just I just think UM,

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Speaker 1: the the the generational separation, the age is UM in

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Speaker 1: hip hop's kind of stupid because for one, you're O

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01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:52,919
Speaker 1: G and you're looking at these acts sliding the game.

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01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 1: They're getting money, that got hit records. You see it,

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Speaker 1: and you're going that ship is trash? How's it trash?

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01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: If just think it's making all this money and all

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Speaker 1: these people like what he's doing, How is that trash?

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Speaker 1: Because when I was the young nigger, they said this

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Speaker 1: was trash, and I knew what the value of it was,

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Speaker 1: and I knew people loved it. And then you just

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01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:11,320
Speaker 1: hating on them because it's different than what you did.

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Speaker 1: You ain't he like man, he ain't spitting bars like well,

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Speaker 1: I talked to the young homies, they said, he's spitting bars.

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Speaker 1: I was, I was gonna room for everybody that knew

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Speaker 1: young thug lyrics. I was only get the room. They

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Speaker 1: didn't know the lyrics. I couldn't hear what you're saying,

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Speaker 1: and they all seen it. I like, y'all hear what

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Speaker 1: he's saying. It's like yeah, And I'm like, I'm not

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01:06:29,160 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 1: hating on it, but I'm like, my ear can't hear

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Speaker 1: the words, but they all knew it. Something like I

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Speaker 1: see the value in it. I see it. I see

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Speaker 1: I see that Nigga put up with a fleet of rolls.

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Speaker 1: Racist you know what I'm saying. This quality so on

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Speaker 1: the flip side, then the young homies, the ogs make

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Speaker 1: the young homies man, they're like, man, these old olds

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Speaker 1: out the way. I just say to the young homie

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Speaker 1: because I'm different in the other o g s. I'm like, Nigga,

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Speaker 1: you wish you could walk out on the stage and

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01:06:56,960 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 1: fifty six years old and the crowd you sold out

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01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,960
Speaker 1: and they pay you fifty Now, you wish at the

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Speaker 1: age of twice your life from now, you'll still be

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Speaker 1: getting money doing what you're doing right now. You wish.

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Speaker 1: And I just think the age is in hip hop

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Speaker 1: is it's dumb as funk like it. You don't You

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Speaker 1: don't gotta listen to my music if you're nineteen years old,

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Speaker 1: I don't gotta listen to your music if you're a

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Speaker 1: nineteen year old artist. But respect is a different, different thing,

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Speaker 1: Like I respect your hustle, and I think some of

1303
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:29,080
Speaker 1: the O g s don't respect the young homies hustle.

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Speaker 1: They're looking at it like your flow whack. But then

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Speaker 1: the young homies, you know what I'm saying, some of

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Speaker 1: them don't see that that that thing that it's gonna

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01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 1: be a lot of obstacles in your future ship that

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Speaker 1: might get you killed. Shoot, that might stop your bag

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Speaker 1: from coming through. You know what I'm saying a lot

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Speaker 1: of things. You you go in the label and slap

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Speaker 1: the wrong executive, they're gonna shove your ass. You could

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01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 1: cut them on the phone. They're gonna shove your ass.

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Speaker 1: And you just don't know what your future might be.

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Speaker 1: So if you do have that in your cards to

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Speaker 1: where ten years into your career they love you, twenty

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01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 1: years to your career they love you, that's a blessing.

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Speaker 1: That's not a bad thing to be like it out

1318
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Speaker 1: the way you're gonna wish you you wish you're gonna

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01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 1: be an one day you wish. So it's like the

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Speaker 1: agism is dumb to me because both sides the argument.

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Speaker 1: You can't win the argument if you're arguing with me,

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01:08:17,240 --> 01:08:18,800
Speaker 1: if you're young Nick trying to tell me how old

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Speaker 1: Nigas is whack or vice versa, you can't win that

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Speaker 1: argument with me because and you're sitting at home and

1325
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:25,639
Speaker 1: I'm on tour. Yeah, you can't. You can't win. You can't.

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01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:28,240
Speaker 1: I'm sit in the room mostly with old dudes trying

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Speaker 1: to explain to me that the new ship is whack,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, let's let's dissect it. How's it whack?

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Speaker 1: And then when they when you, when you realize what

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Speaker 1: it beats, they love it. They love it. The beast

1331
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Speaker 1: is go to clubs and look at the reaction and

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Speaker 1: they look at the money they're getting. That the end

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Speaker 1: of the argument, This can't be wacking. Nig is getting

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Speaker 1: mone off as hip hop. We gotta really look at

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Speaker 1: this agees and thing and kind of I feel like

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Speaker 1: agesm in hip hop is the same thing as colorism

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Speaker 1: in modeling and acting. Oh of isms, Yeah, sexism all

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Speaker 1: it's bullshit. Yeah what we're doing scream Sure, appreciate you

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Speaker 1: man for pulling up a big facts. You know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. I watched the show a lot. I was

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Speaker 1: looking forward to doing it, man. And because y'all keep

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Speaker 1: my TV on revote in the studio there and uh

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Speaker 1: I see I see a lot of you know, you

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Speaker 1: guys do get interviews. The sha nigs come up here

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Speaker 1: and keep it real. So I was prepared. Yeah there

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Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, we ought to have a legend in

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