WEBVTT - #444 - LL Cool J 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:06.640 You know, Blutleg Cavs Show special guests, one of the 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:07.720 greatest of all time. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.440 In fact, the guy who the reason why. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.680 We use the word ghats is because of this guy. 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:15.720 Just dropped a new record that is insane too, man Ello, 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:17.720 cool Jay, thank you for your time, brother. 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.440 Bootleg cav what's up, Betty? Happy to be in man, Yo. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:23.680 You're the first rapper in my entire life that I 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:28.480 ever met. I was fourteen in Arizona at a jewelry store. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.479 I had a triple Excel aver X jacket on Indiana 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.559 Pacers Jermaine O'Neil Jersey, and I got a picture with 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:38.640 you at a jewelry store in Arizona and it was 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.320 like the best moment of my life up until you know, 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:42.519 fourteen years old. 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.519 You know, so, yeah, that's crazy. 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:46.720 That's crazy, man. Well, you know it's funny that life 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:50.000 comes full circle, right for sure. Man in the face 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:54.080 with a pile something. You know, Hey, at least it 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:55.240 worked out good vibes. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.360 Hey, this new record is crazy, and I like it because, 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.120 you know, I feel like this is when I've heard 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:03.320 a new LU record was coming. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:05.119 I was like, okay, the probably said, you know something 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:05.639 for the ladies. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.560 Now you came with some real hip hop shit like 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.560 kicking off this this whole rollout. Man, explain to me 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.959 just why you're going this direction right away? Obviously you're 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.120 one of the greatest of all time. The beat is 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.280 so crazy, it's so it's such a boomback beat. You 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.120 got Ross and Fat Joe talking greasy on there, like like, 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.840 why why are you coming this way right now? 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:26.520 Yo? 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:28.399 I was inspired by you know what I'm saying, like 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.400 inspired by the vibe, like the whole idea, like listen, 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.319 if you want to survive in this world. It's like, 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.360 first of all, it all started like really just kind 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.240 of during the pandemic. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.640 I ran around with a mask on and you know, 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:43.440 with a hoodie on. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.080 And I was on the subway, and I was in 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.840 the projects, and I was in all the places that 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.520 you probably wouldn't think a quote unquote celebrity or artists 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.520 would be. And I was by myself and I was 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.480 moving around. I was incognito. I was anonymous in the 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.000 disguise nobody really knew. Nobody knew me at all. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:01:59.920 And what I. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.520 Realizes that one of the things you forget about when 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:03.920 you out here in this world even if you just 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.240 someone with a good job, like just even if you're 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.120 just an everyday working person with a really good. 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.440 Job, you forget what's going on in the world. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.160 You forget about the danger that some people face on 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.760 a day to day basis, You forget about some of 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:17.600 the hardships. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:18.200 You forget. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.160 And one of the things I realize is that you 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.280 know what, let me impart some of them tools, because 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.320 part of surviving in this life. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.680 You know, whether whether it's in the street, whether it's you. 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.919 Know, at some academy somewhere, whether it's you know, you're 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.120 trying to pass the ball on whatever level you look 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:37.320 at it, keeping your word and paying people back is 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.200 a key to surviving in life. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:41.600 It is a key. 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.200 It's called integrity. I'm not talking about moral judgment being perfect. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.920 I ain't say that, but keeping your word, meaning what 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.800 you say, saying what you mean is important. And so 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.600 that's what this song, why this song was so important 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.240 to me. So when I wrote it, I said, you know, 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:57.760 me and Tip were talking. I was like, you know 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.680 what the sonics of this meant? 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.360 Man? It was just I think Ross and Joe would 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:03.120 sound crazy on me. 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:04.400 Did Q Tip do the beat? 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.320 He q Tip executive produced my whole album. 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:14.840 Oh shit, yeah yeah yeah, So it's it's it's just 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.480 this whole project. The force is I think innovative because 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.240 like what I wanted to do, Like my thing is 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.760 that we're in a genre and you grew up in it, 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.720 so you know what I'm talking about. We're in a 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.760 genre where we used to people having a certain amount 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:30.960 of time, a certain type of run, and then they're 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.720 done and they step away and that's it, and anything 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.119 after that is mediocrity. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.120 But there's one key point when they rocking on. 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.320 Top of the game, and then everything else is kind 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:44.120 of andep I believe personally that's just because the genre 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:44.640 is young. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:45.880 Now, people say. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.000 Fifty years of hip hop and certain generations, that sounds ancient, 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.400 but if you say somebody transitioned at fifty, you would 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:53.160 realize how. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.000 Young it is for a genre. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.240 So it's like, yo, you know what, let me lead 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.880 by example, let me show people that just like when 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.680 James Cameron puts out a new Avatar, when they put 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.440 out a new Lord of the Rings, when a new 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.600 ll COOJ album comes, it should be an event. It 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.040 should be innovative, it should be groundbreaking. It should create 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.840 a different type of energy. It should not be following. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.480 It should be special and unique and something that only 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.960 I could do. And that was the that's the goal. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.719 So this was just the beginning, you know what I'm saying. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.520 There's a lot more where that came from, you know 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:24.840 what I mean? 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.440 Yo, shout out to Joe Ann Ross on the record 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.680 you have stolen the show as a feature artist quite 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:36.480 a few times, obviously, Rampage EPMD. My favorite probably Serial 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.080 Killers on the Blackout album with Methan Red. Whould somebody 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.760 who you've gotten a guest verse from where you were like, damn, 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.080 they might have got me on this one? 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.120 Well, you know, you know that's a very interesting Well 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.080 it depends on I'm gonna tell you man, and this 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.400 is the like, it really depends on the type of 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.240 song it is. Right, If it's a song where I'm 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.359 really trying to go there, I've never. 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.360 Felt that, You've never felt that way? No, that's fair 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:03.520 now now. 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.080 Now if it's a song that's like more of a 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.960 like a party thing and I'm like doing my thing. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.440 But then niggid, But yes, I felt that before, like 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.160 I felt like like I loved, like I felt very 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.800 comfortable in my verse. But I loved with Biggie and 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.039 Busta did on Flavor in Your Ear the remix, Like 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.200 I thought what they did was great. I felt good 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.920 about mine too because it was so quirky, and yeah, 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.160 I love what I did. It was quirky, shit, lookit, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.960 it was cool. But I loved what you know, Biggie 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.960 and Busta did on that song. I thought they killed it. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.080 So yeah, and even on my new album, I have 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.000 a song where I think somebody did something really really cool, 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.240 but I actually I love that, Like I look at 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.760 that as like that's what it's about, Like it's you know, 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:54.040 it's just like it's just like basketball, man, Like you know, 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.600 you're not going to go to the championship every year, right, 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.120 But that don't mean you can't play ball. Lebron I 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:01.599 may not be in the finals this year, but that 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.560 boy could play ball. We're not gonna say he can't 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.960 play ball just because he hit the finals this year. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.279 So with the projects, I look at it the same way. 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.880 It's like I might do one, Okay, I do one. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.919 It didn't I didn't lock in all the way or 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.159 didn't touch Okay, cool, but that don't mean that it 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:16.920 ain't gonna. 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.560 Be like like you just gonna blow me out the job. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.560 I heard this one and I said, it felt like 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.400 a like a hit in the throat to remind people 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.000 like which I'm ll cool J, but you. 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:26.760 Know what it really like. 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.240 I think that happens more organically when you're trying to 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.360 have fun as opposed to when you trying to hit 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.600 people in the throat. I wasn't trying to do that. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.440 What I was trying to do is make some dope shit. 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.040 What I was trying to do is put something together 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.840 that people could feel, that they could vibe to, that 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.400 was relatable, that came from the soul and came from 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.360 the heart. Because all of my best music I wrote 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.960 it from the heart. I didn't you know. I may 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.839 have been anger, I may have had different fuel. I 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.080 may have feeling horny or whatever the feeling was, but 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.000 whatever it was, it came from the heart. It didn't 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.279 come from like a contry try a place even like 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.680 you mentioned rampage like that was from the heart. Like 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.799 you know what I'm saying, Like, so you know, Saturday 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:08.200 Night Special, Baby, let's do it. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.720 Hey, I want to talk about longevity because when we 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.960 think of like hip hop longevity, there's nobody. There's not 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.080 a person that has more longevity than you, like I 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.920 can't you know, like shots of Run DMC and Grandmaster Flash, 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:23.680 but they're not making music no more. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.280 You know what I'm saying, And obviously rect in peace 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:25.960 to jam Master J. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.200 But the longevity, there is a whole other level of 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.880 longevity that we're inside of when it comes to you 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.760 and your career and the errors of your career. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.240 And the tree that you you know. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:41.880 Where it's acting or executive producing, the radio station, the festival. 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:46.520 Now is who's an artist that you are just a 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.720 fan of that's you know, of the newer generation that 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.680 you can see kind of being around for years to come, 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:52.280 like yourself. 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.160 Oh, man, I think it's a lot of them. I 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.640 think that I think that Kendrick and can have a 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.000 long run. I think Drake can have a really long run. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:04.280 And I think there's a lot of them. I think 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.800 Future can have a long run. I think because he's 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:11.600 a great writer. I think, you know, that really comes 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.640 down to a lot of different things. Man, there's a 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.640 lot of things that come into play with that. It's 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.440 not just look, first of all, you gotta love it 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.120 and you got to care about it. And you know, 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.880 if you're only doing it just for money, even if 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.440 you happen to catch the big check, that won't be 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.400 enough for you to keep going to distance because you'll 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:31.560 get lazy. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.319 Yeah, so you have to love. 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:34.880 It, and you're not always going to be on top, 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:36.400 so the money's not always gonna be there. So you 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.360 got to put up shots just because you like putting 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.160 up shots, like you like, not. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.600 True too well, you know that, I know what you're 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.600 trying to say. And yes, you know, there's a certain 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.400 amount of money. When you make a certain amount of money, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.920 you're good regardless. Like, so it doesn't really become about 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.800 that per se. It's not about like a salary. But 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.719 it's more about like if you get comfortable, you know 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.600 what I'm saying, Like, it's about being creatively comfortable as 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.520 a poet, to be willing. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:05.640 To take some chances, take some risks, you know, you know, like. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.000 And also there is the fear factor associated with art, right, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.280 like I could be like yo, I could have just 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.800 been afraid to make new music just because I think 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.840 the world changed, and just let that idea of the 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.800 world changing intimidate me in the thinking that I have 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.360 nothing to offer as an artist. But that's not true. 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.240 That's something those of fabrications we create in our mind. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.720 You have taste. If you pay attention, you you have taste. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.720 If you pay attention, you know what you want to play, 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:35.600 you know what you want to spend, you know what 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.920 you want to listen to, you know what the topics 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:38.760 you want to discuss. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.120 Like, so, we all have a point of view. 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:45.000 It's just you have to be confident enough and open 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:49.520 enough to be vulnerable. Remember, like and sports is a 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.719 good metaphor because that most people can relate to it. 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.760 The greatest athletes in the world are the most vulnerable. 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.559 Why because in order to take the game winning shot, 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.360 you have to risk missing it and the whole world's. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.880 Watching in order to in order for you know, to shoot. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.439 That that that that that shot from the. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.560 Tunnel, Like, yeah, you gotta know what comes with missing it. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.839 Yet exactly so that as as an artist, when you're 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.120 creating music and all that, it's the same idea. It's like, yo, 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.040 you know what I'm saying. People could love it, people 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.320 get you gotta love it, So you gotta have confidence 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.520 in that so me, I just love what I did. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.160 I promised people I was doing an album for the culture. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.880 I told people you have I have two types of 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.640 albums that I made. I make albums sometimes for me. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.640 Typically those albums are not commercial and only a very 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.240 small handful of people really appreciate them, and most people don't. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.520 Then I have other albums that I create where I 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.079 do an album that's really for the culture, where I'm 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.560 really locked in and paying attention to the culture, and 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.320 I do those for them. This is one of my 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.480 cultural albums, So that's why it has that different feel 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.040 to it. Now that being said, there are two audiences. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.600 There's a don't call it a comeback audience who been 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.679 knowing me from day one. Is that he raps audience 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.959 who are going to be surprised by this, like this 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.920 new artist who who. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:06.640 Is a celebrity. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.600 They know it's a celebrity, but may not necessarily know 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.280 him as a rapper. And so you have to get 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.360 something that you could press play on that both of 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:18.120 those audiences love, at least your version of what you 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:19.360 believe they'll love. 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:20.040 You know what I mean? 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.679 Yo, So when I was a little kid, I scoured 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.319 every Wharehouse in Phoenix, Arizona to find the deluxe edition 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:29.960 of DMX's It's Dark. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:30.520 And Hell Is Hot. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.120 Now, why would I want to find the deluxe edition 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:34.640 that came with an extra disc? 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.120 What song was? Do you remember the song that was 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:42.240 on the extra disc? No, it was the Ripper strikes Back. 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:47.000 That's right. It was the Ripper strikes Back. Damn, that's right. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.640 And the CD looked just like DMX's album. And so 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.080 I had, like, bro, when I tell you like that, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.079 I know that entire song by heart, Like, uh, obviously 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.480 you've been a part of legendary hip hop battles. I 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.280 just got to know, just from a fans perspective, what 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.280 do you think about this? You mentioned Kendrick and Drake earlier. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:06.800 You just you know, I mean, I think it's good 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:07.959 for hip hop. What are your thoughts. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.760 About thought it was great for hip hop? I thought 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.040 it was great. Yeah, I thought it was great for 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.240 hip hop. I thought it was the right thing. I 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.400 thought they both did well. They held their own I 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.160 thought Kendrick one, but I thought that Drake by no 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.240 means did he embarrass himself or have anything to hold 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:22.720 his hand. 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.000 He showed up, he showed up. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.839 He definitely showed up. He did his thing. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.720 He showed up, and I think his fans can feel 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.360 comfortable with that, and I think Kendrick fans and they 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.520 probably got to cross over. Both of them are fans 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:35.680 that loved them both. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.560 And I thought it was great for hip hop. 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.880 And the key to that stuff is as long as 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.079 it doesn't distract you from your ultimate goal, it's a 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:45.520 wonderful thing to participate in. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.560 I love it, man, I love it. 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.920 Yeah, it was dope to see you think cannabis too 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.200 on was it the Hall of Fame speech you had, 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:54.120 oh yeah, one. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:59.120 Years ago, because like listen man, like it's about the art, 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.559 like this stuff is. You know, this is no different 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:05.680 from you know Lebron and Steph. It's no different from 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.840 you know, Jordan when he was coming in and Magic 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.240 was going out, or you know whoever you want. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.520 Edwards and Luca. We just saw no difference. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:15.840 The court. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:17.840 Yes, you're on the court, so you're on the record. 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.439 It's cool after that, it's not personal. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:22.160 You know, I love you. 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.360 It's all good, but it's and it's fun. So I 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:27.079 think it was great for hip hop. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:31.360 Like, talk to me about, uh, you are obviously in 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:35.320 some legendary movies, a part of some legendary soundtracks as well. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.400 I was just talking to my boy because I just 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.240 had a conversation with Demizza Damien Young from Power on 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.720 six and he was talking about, uh, the first time 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.520 he heard Zoom because. 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:46.520 Yeah, Bullwarp soundtrack. 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.520 Yeah, and the Bull orb soundtrack was crazy, right. But 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.520 obviously Heart had like a. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:55.160 Shark's fin and and uh, you know, any Deep Blue 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.440 was crazy in your opinion, what is the best movie 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.800 that is a just over the years that you were in? 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:03.200 Wow? 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.760 Me, yeah, that you were that you were in because 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.160 you were in some heat man, like my personal favorites, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:09.000 Any given Sunday. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.680 I was about to say, probably the one that aged 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:16.880 the best would be any Given Sunday, and probably Into Deep. 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.840 Into Deep was five. Also how to Rob on the 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.440 soundtrack How to. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:26.680 Rob fifty Cents first joint, Yeah, well first song, right, yeah, yeah, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:28.720 hundred percent. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.200 How to Rob was on there. I think Nas was 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.000 on that soundtrack. There was a few people on there. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.120 It was dope. It was dope. 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.760 Okay, So this album what made you know? Because obviously 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.560 Q tip is a legend, uh, you know, one of 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:46.080 the greats ever, just in terms of just I mean, 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.120 I got Tribe as the top three group all time. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:49.880 I think he's one of the best producers to ever 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:54.120 live what they made. You guys come together and decide 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:55.440 to do this together. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.640 Man, I had a man, you know, it's it's really 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.240 just kind of funny as so I had a dream 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.520 about five Dog, you know what I'm saying. And I 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.520 was at the time, I was working on the studio 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.880 in Drake. With Drake, we got like thirty forty songs. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.040 I was working on, me and him, but it. 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:18.040 Was literally Doctor Dre Yeah, Doctor drechalantly like, yeah, yeah, 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.600 me and Doctor Dre got thirty forty songs I never 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.840 ever hear ever, but you know, yeah, but I. 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.800 Felt like I didn't feel like my pen was living 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.760 up to the quality of his music. I felt like 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.560 the music was better than the songs I was writing. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.080 So I decided to take a little bit of a break. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.360 And he had other projects so it didn't affect him, 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.440 you know, And I was kind of just like pulled 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.800 back just a little bit and started thinking about my 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.880 writing and thinking about like how I wanted to approach 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.400 this thing. And then you know, Fife Dog came to 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:50.920 me in a dream. You know what I'm saying, Like, 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.760 I know it sounds crazy, but I'm telling that I'm 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:54.800 really telling you the truth. No, cap, this is real, 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.920 real shit. He came to me a dream and I 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.400 was like yo. He just was basically like, Yo, them 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:01.760 songs you're working on they dope. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:02.600 And I was like yeah. 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.480 But then he looked at me with like a like 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.560 a little smirk like maybe they're not so dope. 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:08.080 And I was like hmm. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:09.880 And when I woke up that next day was it 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:11.440 stayed on my mind and I said, you know. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.280 What, something just told me to call Q Tip. 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.280 I said, cause I five, I can't talk to Fife direct, 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.480 so let me call the Tip And I called Tip 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.480 up and I'm like, yo, Tip Man, I said, yo, 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:21.440 I wanna do an album? 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.160 Well, he said, well what you want to do? 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.960 I said, Man, I want to do the blackest hot 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:30.480 Sauce Chicken wing Flower in the paper Bag season their 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.080 joint in the world. So it's hip hop, I said, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.360 straight up. He said, what's up, big bro, say, let's 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:38.400 next thing. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.600 We did? We win the studio and here we are. Man. 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.480 You know what I'm saying, And it just was like 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:50.119 it was inspiring. And it's not that it's excluding anybody. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.080 I just wanted to be focused, you know what I'm saying, 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.160 and really make something some dope shit. And we got 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.840 in the studio and it just man, we just clicked. 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.840 We just clicked in the studio. Man, we just started working. 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.120 And you know, I mean, look, even. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.480 Saturday Night Special, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Bro. Like, 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:09.640 I'm telling you. 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.000 How many songs are on the album if you don't 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.879 mind me asking, I'm. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:14.719 Not gonna reveal it yet. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.760 But it's it's but it's but but I'm gonna come 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.080 back to you. We'll talk again as I'm rolling this 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:21.680 thing out. We will talk again. 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.159 In person, hopefully because we're in LA. 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.240 We're all both of them, come in person. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.360 Last thing, l if you're the goat, my bock goat. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.800