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Speaker 1: another episode the Gangster Chronicles. Man, we're chilling with the

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Speaker 1: Who ain't on camera, Junior the Homeboy farm being all

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Speaker 1: my nigga and he aparted a crew, I was like, well,

424
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna wrap no fucking foulk verses, So I'd

425
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: write two verses out for me, write two verses out

426
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: for him, being go. I didn't know nigga was collecting

427
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: money off of the ship and publishing, because that wasn't

428
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: money wasn't even like it. And I know it's dumb

429
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 1: to say, but money wasn't even the capture for me.

430
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,240
Speaker 1: Money wasn't even the you know, to sign on the

431
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,399
Speaker 1: dotted line. For me, it was just being able to

432
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 1: go on the fucking studio and look at all the

433
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: equipment and see a nigga put a beat together and

434
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 1: then I can write a song to it. Nigga out

435
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,680
Speaker 1: and payday for me. You give him saying I'm on

436
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 1: the block, sitting on the corner every day trying to

437
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: sell little little little dope and ship, you feel me?

438
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: And I'm getting to witness this other side of life

439
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: that I don't know. It was never no vision. I

440
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. When you come from the

441
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 1: hood and you whatever, people have dreams or aspect. But

442
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: like I said, Nigga one side once, it was about

443
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: gang banging and selling dope and hood rat bitches and

444
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 1: shit like that. There was no dreams, Nigga, I made him.

445
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: I gotta be a low low. I got me a spot.

446
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,200
Speaker 1: I gotta be a couple of chicken heads. How good

447
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 1: to fucking go you? Life is fucking great? Ship? Are

448
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,120
Speaker 1: you getting to it? And the money was a little

449
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: different back then, because I remember for a soundtrack at minimum,

450
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: you would fucking around to pick up twenty twenty five

451
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: thousand that minimum just for turning me in a song. Oh, definitely,

452
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: you got shit. Niggas was getting like thirty thousand to

453
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 1: do samet Eys commercials and shit, my nigga, DJ pooh

454
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 1: you feel me, um pooh? Definitely don't. Is it lucrative

455
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,959
Speaker 1: like hip hop is seen today? No, because a lot

456
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 1: of us, a lot of us struggled for those contracts

457
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: and struggled to be you know, motherfuckers wanted to be

458
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: them Shugs, then Birdman's, then Puffy Jermaine Dupris. But you know,

459
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: a lot of us got you know, a lot of

460
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: us got fucked. Remember this shit right here, A lot

461
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: of us got fuck coming into the business because, like

462
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 1: I said, as a young motherfucker, you really don't know

463
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: the business. Hey, do you remember this? Oh that's what,

464
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: like I said, Saint Ice was giving out money for

465
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: niggas to do commercials. So for a struggling artists, you

466
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 1: might think a motherfucker making a gang of brand, you

467
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 1: feel me. But for a lot of struggling artists back then,

468
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: those were those were you know, extra curricular activities and

469
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,679
Speaker 1: nigga could do to get that side check because they

470
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,360
Speaker 1: were coming in with no hesitation, no negotiation or none

471
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 1: of that. Nigga, do us a commercial, Higgo twenty five

472
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: thirty ran, So you know, it was a lot of

473
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 1: you know, as far as how niggas make money today

474
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 1: from streaming and podcasting and doing a lot of other

475
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 1: different ships, it was it was kind of a struggle

476
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: for an artist who wasn't getting that that easy money

477
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: or that death row money or that ship like that.

478
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 1: Nowadays you see cats man everybody getting money. Yeah, And

479
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: as a cat that was always like kind of independent minded.

480
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: I was always because I had a few deals, but

481
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: I was always to do that winning got because you know,

482
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 1: I remember I was a rapper, but I had a

483
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: record store too, right, so I understood how distribution works.

484
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: So it never made no sense in my mind to

485
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: go give a motherfuck all this and that not new. Okay,

486
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: If I'm going to the ones stop when I'm paying

487
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: seven dollars and the nigga talked about giving me twenty cents,

488
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: it didn't make no system. I'll said, well, what the

489
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: rest of the money going to? You know what I'm saying,

490
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: what is happening? I don't think a lot of I

491
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of artists because if if if

492
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: a lot of the artists from that era knew what

493
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: they knew today as far as contracts, you'd have a

494
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: gang of independent motherfucking labels around. Yeah, because yeah, because

495
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: you don't want no deal right now, do you? Hell

496
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: fucking no a nessa nigga finna give me about thirty

497
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 1: something million in cash me out? What's the point? Because

498
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: you can constantly as an independent. The money is better,

499
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: especially now with streaming and all the other shit you

500
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: can do. There's no way, like I said, unless a

501
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 1: motherfucker finna just start off in the millions and be

502
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: like here, I'm a hand you five million, but you

503
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: gotta look at it. At the end of the day,

504
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: you still gotta pay that five million back. And that's

505
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you. They loaning you five million,

506
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: then they FINDI charge you on top of the five

507
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 1: of what they gave you. They FINDI charge you a

508
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: gang of motherfucker shit like biggas is. Like back in

509
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: the days, niggas come out with any voices where they

510
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: charging you for having conversations on the phone. Oh dog,

511
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: And if my lawyer got on the phone and had

512
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: a conversation with the label and it went on for

513
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: thirty forty minutes, he was charging me for that shit

514
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: you getting me? Uh if the label motherfucking they seen

515
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: you on a promo tour, Oh yeah, that costs US

516
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: forty fifty thousand. And you know the fuck the part

517
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: about them loans, dog, Usually when you get a loan,

518
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: like a fuck walking to the bank. If I walking

519
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: the wheels frog and say okay, I want to get

520
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: a bank alone to buy this Rose Royce. I'm gonna

521
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: go pick the Rose roy Side. I want to drive

522
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna, you know, and they gonna get me

523
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: the loan for it. With the Rigor label, it's almost

524
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: like they spending the money up that they loaning you

525
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: and then't charging you for right because you can't tell them,

526
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: motherfucker's O, don't go spend half a million dollars on

527
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: this shit. They're gonna go, hell, yeah, we're gonna do it.

528
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: As an independent you can control that. But like you said,

529
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: as a label, no, you're gonna sign that contract. They're

530
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: gonna hand you that three fold million up front. Then

531
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: you're gonna go, okay, I gotta pay back this threefold million.

532
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: They're gonna go, okay, when we flew you from here

533
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: to there and there to there to there as another

534
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand when we did this. When we did that,

535
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: they just spending money. Like you said, you don't get

536
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: to control the budget. At the end of the day,

537
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: that three that three million they gave you up front

538
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: for the record and from the back end is six

539
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: You get me because all the other hidden ship that

540
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: they got to pay for promotions, and I know all

541
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: that shit is official, but still you don't get to

542
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: control that budget. So whatever they want to spend, they spend,

543
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: and they go they okay, now we're charging you back

544
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: for it, motherfucker. Be like I didn't won't know, motherfucking

545
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: this or that, and they go, it don't matter. We

546
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: saw that in your promotion. So that's what we paid for.

547
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: And another thing too, let's say you signed the aftermath.

548
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: It ain't like I think a lot of people gotten

549
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: they heard that Drey is just coming to give you

550
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: all them beats for free or to discount of rates

551
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: charging I'm talking. Yeah. So if your budget there's a

552
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: million dollars in Drake Sharks and you two fifty a track,

553
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: you might only be able to afford to have one

554
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: Drade track on that motherfucker. But then how do you

555
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: control Like I said, then then how do you control that,

556
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: because then at the end of the day, they still

557
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: get to make the call on what's usable and what's not.

558
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,719
Speaker 1: That's some real ship. But if you can only afford one,

559
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: got to give you a discount of something. I can

560
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: afford one of those two hundred and fifty thousand dollars tracks.

561
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: But now I gotta go to niggas who charging me

562
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars a track or five hundred, and like

563
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: I said, at the end of the day, those niggas

564
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: might not get approved because when you're gonna turn the

565
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: project and they can find out speaking the beat from

566
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: from from john S from down the block, who who's

567
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: just started doing beats last year, and they might not

568
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: approve his track. You know, they might be like, no,

569
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: fuck this, because that's the truth. People don't understand that

570
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: they have to approve your album before it comes up. Yeah,

571
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: unless you unless you got that pool and that power

572
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: as a regular artist today, you have no you know.

573
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: That's why a lot of mother fuckers come out independently.

574
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: That's why you got a million artists out right now

575
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: because everybody, you know, I don't have to go that route.

576
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: I can go sign up to a SoundCloud or a

577
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: tune core or whatever and put my shit out on

578
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: my own and let it go for the gust. Though

579
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: now my ship might not have the million dollars video

580
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: like DJ Kalin got, or my ship might not have

581
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: the fucking produced by DJ Premier track on it get me,

582
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: But the market is flooded right now, and that's what

583
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: artists are able to do. Like I said, but we

584
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: have no restriction on that either because let's face and

585
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: a lot of that should be garbage. Now. The albumics

586
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: you and Premiere did together that they come out independent, Yeah,

587
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: I mean, we push shit independent. I mean, that's the

588
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: way to go now, to push independent, especially if you're

589
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: you know, um, I mean, that's what's best for me.

590
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: I don't know what's best for any other artists who've

591
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,280
Speaker 1: come from my era who's still trying to make music,

592
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: or for the new artist who's down somewhere and in

593
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: his girlfriend's kitchen with the set up and he's trying

594
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: to get exposed and all he can make it too

595
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 1: is the homies in the neighborhood and around the corner.

596
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: I mean it takes a lot. Yeah, you know, it's

597
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: just ship. Just like football and in trying to get

598
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: to the NFL. You know what I'm saying, it's a

599
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: it's a million of us. It's a million motherfucker's going

600
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: to high school, some million motherfuckers. But there's only a

601
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: few that make it to college. It's only a few

602
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: to make it dog and out of that college. You

603
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: get me, So you gotta look at yourself for the

604
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: same level as being an artist. It's a billion of

605
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: artists out here. Man, niggas working out. You gave me.

606
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: They're working out and they kitchen right and raps George

607
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: songs you give me. And are they gonna be the starter?

608
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: Are they gonna be the nigga ride in the bench?

609
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: You didn't ye get on the team nowadays? Now starting

610
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: at the high school level, what don't matter. Fucking you

611
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: pay that thousand fucking dollars. They finna getting your motherfucking uniform. Right,

612
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: you're on the squad. You ain't gonna never see the

613
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: field though, And you know what do eight. I'm a

614
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: loop around a little bit on some stuff because I gotta,

615
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 1: you know, kind of address this stuff. A lot of

616
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: people don't know. Whatever you want to do, whether it's

617
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: music or podcasting, the best way to get on and

618
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: to get favorable terms. This is a boy spending your

619
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: own money and doing certain shit, right, Like you know,

620
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: we got the Gangster Chronicles podcast. You got to invest

621
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: in yourself. Yeah, you gotta invest in yourself. So with

622
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know, I came up with

623
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 1: the Gangster Chronicles PODCEP. I did what nobody else around.

624
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: Glasses Malone was sitting in my living room with him.

625
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: It was about one thirty in the morning. You know,

626
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 1: you're just kicking me with the homie. Were sitting in

627
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 1: my living room and I said, nigga, I'm gonna do

628
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: a podcast. We was trying to do a podcast with Glasses.

629
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 1: This is way back and maybe two thousand and sixteen,

630
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: when the podcast stuff wasn't even cracking like adios now.

631
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: It wasn't nowhere. It was only a few people doing

632
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,800
Speaker 1: it right, So I was messing with Glasses and it

633
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: wasn't you know. He wasn't too serious about it at

634
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: the time. You know, Glasses may come, he may not

635
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: show up. You know, a lot of us rappers didn't. Really.

636
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: Podcasting was new still, so when you when you're trying

637
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: to take a nigga from from the microphone and put

638
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: it on the microphone, but in a disparate aspect, niggas

639
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: was looking at it like man podcast, Glasses thought out

640
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 1: lost my mind because he wanted did it with me?

641
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: Did it? Ever? So he said Steel like, what the

642
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: fuck is that ship? And you know what Glances told

643
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: me said steal I fuck with you. You my big bro.

644
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 1: He said, man, but therein't nobody out here. Go listen

645
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 1: to that ship, you know. So I said, watching sea

646
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: man watching seats gonna be the biggest thing ever. So

647
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: I had a homeboy that worked in the CBS building

648
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: and he said, you know, you could use the studio

649
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: up there, but they charged me. I had to pay

650
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: for engineers. So when I first started the Gangster Chronicles, dog,

651
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: I think I was paying like every week though this

652
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: was all your idea, Yeah, this is all my da.

653
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: Nobody sat down with you. No partners, no homeians, none

654
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,720
Speaker 1: man less we should we should we should? We should none.

655
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: The only made you call it the Gangster Chronicles. Well,

656
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: because when I initially thought of a gagster chronicles, the

657
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 1: chronicles something means to tell a story, right. It was

658
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: never supposed to be just about rict bloods against ship.

659
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: It was supposed that was one of my uh questions,

660
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: Like because somebody asked me that, why gangster chronicle? Yeah,

661
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: because it was supposed to encompass everything that's gangsterism, from

662
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: the mafia to even the motherfucking m the Arian brotherhood.

663
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: That's gangster ship. You know what I mean, that's their

664
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: gang gangster music, right. It was supposed to be everything

665
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,959
Speaker 1: to kind of run around the parameters of what normal

666
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: society yells. Right, that's considered gangster. Let's considered gangster. And

667
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: you know, so Glasses was sitting up there with me.

668
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: I had Reggie right in mind because he was one

669
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: of the dudes that came from the Death Row era, right,

670
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: I had Reggie right in mind. So I got that Reggie.

671
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,959
Speaker 1: Then Glasses was like, you know what it was because

672
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: I was on the first four original episodes, right, and

673
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,439
Speaker 1: I was gonna move to a land at the time,

674
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 1: So I said, I got to get somebody else. That's

675
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 1: when we brought this other caddy. And I ain't gonna

676
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: say his name. I didn't want to say the other

677
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: dude's name, but to put a long story short, before

678
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: we made a dime out against the Chronicles, I was

679
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: about probably thirty grand to this motherfucker dog because this

680
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: is your pet project. Here's my pet project, baby, this

681
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: is your shit. So regardless of who you selected as

682
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: a host or not, Gangster Chronicles was your project. It

683
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: was my project and not free and I share freely

684
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: with the mother. Actually, I was probably a little bit

685
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: too free with the money, because this is how I

686
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: always looked at it. I'm gonna pay for everything, We're

687
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: gonna split everything down the middle. I ain't know, greedy,

688
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: motherfucking you know, I get something, you're getting the piece

689
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: of it. You're getting the piece of it. You know,

690
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: we all can do good with this, right. But I

691
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 1: think people got the sense of getting too entitled after

692
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: a wild dog and have a tendency to run around

693
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: with the wrong people, because, as you notice, we minus

694
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 1: the host that used to be on the show exactly.

695
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: That's not my fault be mad to do dick you

696
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: over there sitting with because he did this shit to you, right.

697
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 1: I didn't come up with the question, you know, and

698
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: not not really you're a people just asked me questions,

699
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: and you know the information is what I tell people

700
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: is that you know, um, executive decisions were made, you know,

701
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: not that it was it was like a hater thing

702
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:24,760
Speaker 1: or or like whatever. But you know, sometimes situations happen.

703
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 1: You know, um, is it gonna Is it gonna affect

704
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: people in a certain way? Of course? Um? Shit. When

705
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: I had a fucking contract with Epic, I thought I

706
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: was gonna be signed to a fucking label forever you

707
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: get me. And then I got the phone call one

708
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: day to say, nigga, you we we're not gonna renew

709
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: your contract. M Sometimes I lost for a minute for

710
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: a second, because now I got to figure out the

711
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:02,359
Speaker 1: next step. Yeah, but somebody else eventually came along and said, hey,

712
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: we want to fuck with you. Somebody else came along

713
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: and said we want to fuck with you. And then

714
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: eventually I just got the ship like, well, god damn.

715
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: It seems like I could be more on hands if

716
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: I started doing my own shit. So that's what I

717
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: started doing. I started putting our records independently, and here

718
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: we are today exactly. And I ain't go well too

719
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: much show on this man because I just wanted to

720
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,720
Speaker 1: address it because people have a tendency, you know, because

721
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: I wasn't go say nothing about it because, like I

722
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: said before, I didn't want to kick James off the show. Right,

723
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: I'm not the reason he's not on the show no more.

724
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: You know what happened, there was two former co hosts

725
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: conspired against him, and they found out a lot of

726
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: information that was from his past. Now, one thing I

727
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: will say, when we initially first started to show one

728
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: of my partners. They hit me up and told me, man, dude,

729
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 1: it's hot. You shouldn't fuck with him because of this,

730
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: this and the third. I'm not too much big in

731
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 1: the rumors, and I'm a grown ass man. I don't

732
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: listen to rumors. I wouldn't ask my man itself. Hey,

733
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: I got told this sex, this, this and the third

734
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: that you had this going on or no, that's people. Hey,

735
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: ill left for the loan Dog because it wasn't my thing.

736
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: And plus, it ain't like we on this motherfucker robbing

737
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 1: banks or doing them malicious, right, we're telling stories though

738
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: we're talking about Shi having a conversation, you know what

739
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So it wasn't my fault. The thing that

740
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 1: really cracks me up is that the god is responsible

741
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: for all this shit is happening. Is he's sitting over

742
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: there with him now doing the show. That's the person

743
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 1: all the animosity should be pointed to. I didn't do

744
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: this stuff. I just this is a business at the

745
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 1: end of the day, dog and anything that's impeded in

746
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: the business, because as you grow, the business gets bigger. Now,

747
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 1: when I was up in the CBS building, pam my

748
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,879
Speaker 1: own time doing shit like this. I had a lot

749
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: more leadway to make decisions. It was all on me,

750
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: right because at one time, and even with the one

751
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: guy that left the show, you were talked about as

752
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,800
Speaker 1: a post but me and you had a conversation about

753
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: Shoot taking his place, right remember, like a long time ago,

754
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: so a lot of moves have been made. You came

755
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: to me a while ago, right right like COVID, right

756
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: before COVID, and we had a conversation about you know,

757
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: doing you know, because remember I had wanted to do

758
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 1: my own podcast. Yeah, then we still gonna do that,

759
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 1: the Stas Spot. He was gonna do Stash Spot, and

760
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 1: then things transpired and you you know said what you'd

761
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: be willing to come, you know, co host throwing against

762
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: the chronicles. I didn't know how it would fit, you know,

763
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: knowing that you and and James already was in the mix.

764
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: You know, I knew about Reggie, and I knew about

765
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: the other dude, you know what I'm saying. But but

766
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: it's opportunities, you know, I never looked at it as

767
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: trying to be stepping on somebody's toes or taking somebody's position,

768
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: But you know, a job is a job, man, and

769
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: it wouldn't like that because you wouldn't stepping on toes.

770
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: Because the funny thing about to do Reggie is he

771
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,439
Speaker 1: quit the show on his own reconnaissance. He was in jail.

772
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: He was locked up, right, Reggie was only Yeah, he

773
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 1: was only on the show for six months, right, he

774
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: was only on the show for six months, and he

775
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: got locked up. Never had no problem but to do.

776
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: Even still sent him money and whatever like that. I

777
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: sent him money until James told me to stop sending

778
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: them money. For whatever reason. They don't send him nothing else.

779
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 1: That was his thing, and noted them two dudes over

780
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 1: there together. It's funny to me, But I will say

781
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: this because we've grown as men. At the end of

782
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: the day, dogs, I don't have no animosity against him.

783
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: That wasn't a personal Again, if it was up to

784
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: me in certain situations, wouldn't happen. He'll still be sitting

785
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: over there, right. It wasn't nothing personal against him. It

786
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: wasn't any personal against him. We all grown as men

787
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,720
Speaker 1: and we'd make decisions. But when we make those decisions,

788
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: we should look in the mirror as men and say

789
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: this is what I want to do because hey, you know,

790
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: I don't know nonsense, man, I know, yeah, I mean,

791
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: because I was like, hey, what's going on? Remember I'm

792
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: calling you like, hey, what are we doing? What are

793
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:05,240
Speaker 1: we doing? And then it was brought to my attention

794
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: about what was transpiring. And then I was like, well,

795
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: fuck that shit. Let's just keep pushing and trying to

796
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: advocate for my man James to you know, let's forget

797
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: about the other shit. Let's just keep pushing forward. But

798
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: I guess you know, the stress of like you said,

799
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 1: weighing on the business, and now you have outside people

800
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: who are invested in the business who feel like certain

801
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: situations we're gonna bring or devalue the show exactly we are.

802
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: This is entertainment at the end of the day. Of course,

803
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: don't take it for nothing else. This entertainer right here.

804
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: We try to entertain with stories or our tales or

805
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: of current shit or back in the day ship from

806
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: what we've seen or what we've done learned from. But

807
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: you know, again, it's all entertainment, you know what I mean.

808
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Whether you whether you take

809
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: something from it or not, we are trying to you know,

810
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: we are trying to get your ear. We're trying to

811
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: get your ear and trying to get you to listen

812
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: to our entertainment of what we feel is our perception

813
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: on life in general, hip hop, sports, fucking shit, anything

814
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: that you might as a regular person, because that's what

815
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: we consider ourselves. And that's the thing. And I wouldn't

816
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: even go say numb bro. But after a while you

817
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: get tired of your name. It's like, you know, you

818
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: can see motherfucker's online and then I don't have this

819
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: one cat fuck me around? Fuck you still, fuck you?

820
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: You did this to James, just like you said that

821
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 1: he was on my ship? What he was that to say?

822
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: The fuck you? Still? Hold on? That's the hony glasses

823
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: right there. Hold on one second, I'm gonna punch glasses in.

824
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,879
Speaker 1: She was at the dog hey old and I'm gonna

825
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: put you on the show real quick. Hold on, I'm

826
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: gonna put you on speaker real quick. This kind of

827
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: this kind of raggedy ladies and gentlemen, because we usually

828
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: do some shit professional, but just the homey glasses a

829
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: g I just want to ask a few questions dog

830
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: and just answer yes and no questions. Right what this

831
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: shit about. Hold don't matter what it's about. Just answering

832
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: my questions. Just answer my mother pucker questions said, I'm

833
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 1: just gonna ask a few questions. Dog, Hold on, I

834
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: ain't gonna slid no curveball, just answering. No, this ain't

835
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: no goofy shit. Dog? But how long was a gainst

836
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 1: the Chronicles thought of before it actually came to effect?

837
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: You know, goddamn well, you made that show. Why are

838
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: you stop trying to pump shit to the public. Mante

839
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: people just entertained, Yeah for show, That's what I'm gonna do.

840
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: Then I just want you alone time. But why are

841
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: we talking about You cannot argue over the neck? You know,

842
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: goddamn what you came up with the idea? Why are

843
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: we talking about these? That's all I wanted to hear. Bro. Yeah,

844
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: but you can't plu this to nobody else, and you

845
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 1: shouldn't be trying to prove this to nobody else. Everybody

846
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: making content at the expense of a show and you

847
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: just going along with it. Don't do that shit. Everybody

848
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: can make their own fu content for real, That's what

849
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: it is. Nowadays. Everything is about content. Man. You just

850
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 1: had You just had a conversation with with the nigga

851
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: the other day, and the nigga told you the same shit.

852
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 1: You get here for real here, it's real shit. Nigga

853
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: just told you the same shit. And my nigga who

854
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: you talked to is one of the biggest niggas who

855
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: in this content would you say, Gee, I'm gonna say this.

856
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: Look when you came to meet with Gangster Chronicles and

857
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: Ship and I got the side there for a podcast

858
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:51,800
Speaker 1: called Gagster Chronicles. At that time, you only had Reggie

859
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: right in mind. I remember that I brought you to

860
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: who my giant this is before was even on land.

861
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: This is when he just had this little piece with

862
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: the dude that was doing all of the toolproc stuff.

863
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 1: That dude, And I was like, Man, I knew who

864
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 1: this nigga was because I heard of me. My whole

865
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: life is being a figured from out the city. So

866
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: I was like, man, you should use him because I

867
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 1: believed him, and you should use alleys. The idea was

868
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 1: already there, It was already common inly doub But you

869
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: cannot win these debates own mind, because they're not really

870
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: meant to be winning things. You can't win a lose.

871
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 1: They not meant to be that, They meant to capture

872
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: the public's imagination. This shit sit me. You know, God,

873
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 1: there will This ain't the first time that this has happening.

874
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:40,280
Speaker 1: This shit normal, I would just not even get involved

875
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: in it. It don't make no fucking sense. But just

876
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: leave that ship alone. You're gonna make another This is

877
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: another show. This showed y'all down right now is a

878
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: fucking hit. That's showth gonna be huge, way bigger. So

879
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: when it's every time you try to debate your brilliance

880
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: for other people, man, it's gonna be a problem because

881
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,959
Speaker 1: the Internet don't have like normal sense. They're just gonna

882
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: make their own finger n Hey, I'll call you back, bro.

883
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you back, bro. And that was glass

884
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: of Malone. You don't't have to prove shit nowadays, and

885
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: that's why this a start content nowadays. It don't give

886
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 1: a fuck whether the shit is true or not all

887
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 1: all all we need to do is get motherfuckers to

888
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: start listening to some outland this ship, and it's gonna

889
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 1: go because you know what I could do right now, man,

890
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 1: I can go on this motherfucker and say whatever I

891
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 1: want to say and half the motherfucker's out there, go

892
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 1: believe it, just because they want to take a side.

893
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: Like I had this dude, Andy didn't give a fuck.

894
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: Eight I'm I'm sitting at home and my motherfucking million

895
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: dollar crib, my million dollar condo, My nigga, you're sitting

896
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: at home and yo, shit, feeling good, right, you know

897
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 1: when showing yourself writing joy in life, and you gotta

898
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: brotherfucker telling you fuck you because he feels like you

899
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: don't done something wrong. But one of his heroes I

900
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 1: don't know. And you don't know this motherfucker from them

901
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: day or not. You don't know him from a cannon.

902
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: Just people who feel like that. Man, I tell people

903
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: every day, I'm not gonna please them all. And sometimes,

904
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: like I said, motherfucker, you could put out a song

905
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: and it could be a nigga you ain't never seen

906
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: in your life. He had just come on and be like, man,

907
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 1: fuck you, and it's all the it's all just to

908
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: start some shit. Now. You know what that motherfucker gonna do.

909
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: He gonna take that shit, He's gonna post it on

910
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: this page and go look, I'm going back and forth

911
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:31,360
Speaker 1: with the MCA. Yeah for realness, and that's gonna motherfucker

912
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,280
Speaker 1: told me and I laugh because I was in the bathroom.

913
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:37,359
Speaker 1: Actually I laughed. I see who is this? Motherfucker? Fuck

914
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 1: you Still? I see it? Damn. I might call this

915
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: episode that fuck you big Still. Yeah. This episode was

916
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: called fuck you be Still fuck Still day. Yeah. Actually,

917
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 1: get some T shirts made if y'all want to get them. Motherfucker's.

918
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:57,280
Speaker 1: But like Glasses just said, why why throw gas on fire?

919
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: I mean because basically you can let the ship burn

920
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: itself out. You give me. We've all had to deal

921
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: with some type of ship since this internet ship, this

922
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: podcasting shit, whatever, you get me. I had to go

923
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: through the ship. You're going through the ship. James had

924
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: to go through the ship. Reggie had to go through

925
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: the ship. Who ain't went through some ship? You get me.

926
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,439
Speaker 1: As far as people not disagreeing with what's your point

927
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: of view is, it's just what fucking happens. But what

928
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: you gotta learn how to do and we have to

929
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: do is grown men and black men and motherfuckers who

930
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: can avoid controversy because that's what it is. Like a

931
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: nigga just said, it's off of content. We're gonna talk talk, talk,

932
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: and talk and get motherfucker's to tune in. But at

933
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:48,800
Speaker 1: the end of the day, what do you what's the

934
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 1: what's the end game, what's the end result at the

935
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 1: end of the day, what's the end game? You know what? Man,

936
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: all you're doing is providing content for another motherfucker to

937
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 1: creator go back and forth, because this is not what

938
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: makes it right. Yeah, that's gonna make some bread, right,

939
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: That's that's what That's what it's all for the end

940
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 1: of the day. Motherfuckers want to get paid. So this

941
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 1: ain't the only way I get paid. It ain't the

942
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: only thing I'll do either. You know, I got other

943
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: forms of trying of getting paid. You're getting me, and

944
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 1: that's what I've been doing all my life. You go

945
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 1: up next level, the next level. So not to disrespect nobody,

946
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: because like I said, I ain't got beef with a motherfucker,

947
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 1: and I don't have beef with somebody over a podcast. Damn.

948
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 1: You know, nothing's personal, especially nothing person mostly when I've

949
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: given you more than on paper which you're supposed to get.

950
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: I ain't inclined. Like I said, I'm the newcomer, and

951
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 1: I know my position and I know what it is.

952
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 1: But like I said, man, you know, at the end

953
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 1: of the day, it is what it is. It's not personal.

954
00:53:56,120 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: Niggas don't have a problem with nothing as far as

955
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 1: who you are as a man, who motherfuckers are as

956
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 1: a man. Shit is business. If you've got a personal

957
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: motherfucking problem with some then maybe that needs to be

958
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 1: worked out the issues of whatever that shit is. But

959
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: shit is business. At the fucking end of the day.

960
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: You get me, just like I can get canceled tomorrow.

961
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: You get me and then, And that's the thing. Who

962
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,399
Speaker 1: the fuck want to go through that. It's like, I'm

963
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: not sitting there pick doing this show by myself, and

964
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: they your celebrity is twenty times bigger than mine could

965
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: ever be. And I don't even like that. I don't

966
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: even like looking at myself as a celebrity. I like

967
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 1: to look at myself as a regular nigga. I've done records,

968
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 1: I've done some movies, you know, I've done some video

969
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 1: games and podcasting. Now I just look at it as

970
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: as as a next transition. I can't wrap forever, right,

971
00:54:57,080 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 1: like y'all saying, we we we we all diggers. We

972
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 1: can't be raptored forever y'all want us to give up

973
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:06,800
Speaker 1: the fucking mic right now, so we have to. We

974
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: have to transition. You get me. And it's nothing like

975
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:13,400
Speaker 1: I said, none of this shit is personal because this

976
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: ain't got shit to do with my kids, right, It

977
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: ain't got shit to do with with with my family

978
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: being you know, hurt or whatever. My fucker I've been hitting.

979
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 1: Motherfucker's been talking shit about me for a long ass time,

980
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: and records and everything, and they go talk shit about

981
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 1: motherfucker's forever. Because at the end of the day, dog,

982
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 1: that's what it is. All of this shit is meant

983
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,840
Speaker 1: to a list of the conversation. That's all. It is

984
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 1: a list of the conversation. You know what I mean.

985
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: Whatever we say, everybody ain't gonna agree with it. And

986
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 1: my whole thing is this, I'm not trying to be

987
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 1: the most popular fucking the world. If motherfucker out there

988
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 1: don't care care for me, whatever, that's your prerogative. Some

989
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 1: motherfucker's want to be that and some people don't. Some

990
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 1: of us just want to sit in a comfortable seat.

991
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 1: And you know, you sit at the table and a

992
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,239
Speaker 1: comfortable seat. I ain't trying to ask for no more

993
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: no less, give me what the fuck I deserve and

994
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: that's it. But I'm not gonna force you to like

995
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: my shit. It's like, can't I can't force the motherfucker

996
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: to buy my record. You get me. But I'm not

997
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:19,360
Speaker 1: gonna tell a motherfucker. Oh well, so what you know

998
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Just keep buying my shit, even if

999
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:25,800
Speaker 1: you don't like it. You get me. Just keep buying

1000
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: my shit even if you don't like it. Fuck it.

1001
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 1: Just just just you know, man, you can support me

1002
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: in a better way. Man, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,

1003
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 1: let's get let me go go back to the music

1004
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 1: for a little bigcause I didn't even mean for that

1005
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 1: to go for as long as it did. But I

1006
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 1: want to ask you one more question for we skate

1007
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 1: about this motherfucker right you in Compton, motherfucking California, Right

1008
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,399
Speaker 1: in Compton, California. Man, you haven't done all this legend

1009
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: debby gangster Ship. One of my homeboys hits you up

1010
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 1: to jump on this record, and this motherfucker winds up

1011
00:56:57,920 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 1: being one of the biggest recording artists in the world.

1012
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 1: Shut up to Little Homie KP. I loved at Little

1013
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:05,360
Speaker 1: Nigga man, he ain't a little nigga, no more kinder

1014
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 1: growing up on me now. But I don't know this

1015
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 1: since he was sixteen man, you know, always been incredible

1016
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: little dude. How you wind up on that on such

1017
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:15,879
Speaker 1: a monumental West Coast trunk check though, it was kind

1018
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: of just befitting, you know what I mean? You know shit,

1019
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: you know the Compton GUIDs were lined up. I guess

1020
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 1: you know. Um, I want to first say just you know,

1021
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: from from the work that I've done as far as

1022
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: uplifting Compton, representing Compton, whether you thought it was a

1023
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 1: good song or bad song, I've always my whole career

1024
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: have been invested into glorifying the city of Compton. Uh.

1025
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:51,080
Speaker 1: It gave me my start. It's where I you know,

1026
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 1: got all my research from, you know, Um, It's where

1027
00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: I got to see live firsthand, you know, growing up

1028
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 1: in the hood. So after that, UM, I don't know.

1029
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 1: I guess they were sitting up talking, you know, Kay

1030
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,919
Speaker 1: Punch and all the homies, you know, and I guess

1031
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: when they were getting ready to put the record together,

1032
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 1: they were like, you know, who do you think would

1033
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 1: fit this record? You cue that. I don't know if

1034
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 1: they want to keep it authentic Compton, because there were

1035
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: a few choices because from what I heard, you was

1036
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: only supposed to be doing some talking, and you messed

1037
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 1: around a buff the whole verse. Are you supposed to

1038
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 1: do nothing? No talking but maybe an eight bar verse

1039
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 1: or something like that. I got to the studio, you know,

1040
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 1: Kendrick had already you know, kind of lined me up

1041
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: for you know, and that's something about him as far

1042
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: as you know. Usually when I go in the studio niggas,

1043
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, what's the concept what we're talking about? Niggas

1044
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: is like, man, just do you And so he was like,

1045
00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to do this. I'm trying to

1046
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 1: do this. He let me listen to, you know, a

1047
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: little bit of a hooker, and he was telling me

1048
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: about what he was thinking. He was telling me about

1049
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 1: certain shit he wanted me to say, and I'm like, oh, this,

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Speaker 1: my nigga got direction. He already. Yeah, he's a little

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00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 1: brilliant dude. Man, he's a brilliant motherfucker. So when I

1052
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: got there and we talked and I heard the beat,

1053
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: I already knew it was gonna be cracking because that

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00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite songs out from Cube Bird

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00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 1: in the Hand, Um, I thought that was just one

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00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: of the most that's what that was. It was a

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00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: flip of bird Man. I just thought it was one

1058
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: of the most brilliant records even today. Bird in the

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00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 1: Hand was the shit man that number one. Motherfuck me.

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00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 1: Y'all got jay Z's and y'all got you know, Ken Driggs,

1061
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 1: and we got the Drakes and we got there. But Man,

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00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 1: Cube was my nigga. Man. Nobody could fade Ice Cube

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00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 1: man with that microphone. So, um, when I heard Bird

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01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 1: in the Hand, Man, and I just I just went

1065
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,919
Speaker 1: off on the record. It wasn't even a second thought.

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01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 1: As soon as I heard the beat, I went to

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01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 1: the car and I wrote the verse in the car

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01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:15,160
Speaker 1: and I came back in. So you went to the

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01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 1: car wrote the verse. Yeah, Yeah, it was one of them.

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01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 1: It was one of them type of songs that you

1071
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: knew was gonna be significant. So I didn't just want

1072
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 1: to stand there and just write just some dumb shit,

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01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 1: you know, just yeah man Compton and you know the hood,

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01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:36,400
Speaker 1: and I wanted to really and I didn't even hear

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01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:40,640
Speaker 1: his verse. I just heard the beat and heard he

1076
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 1: was telling me how the song was gonna go. And

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01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 1: then when he told me what he wanted me to

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01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 1: say after his verse went off, and you know, and

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01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, this is my fuck gonna

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01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:53,560
Speaker 1: be cracking. So I went to the car, wrote the verse,

1081
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 1: Dingo came back in and laid it they was going

1082
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:00,240
Speaker 1: now to be honest that I think they was gonna

1083
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: use it. Uh No, I've been on a lot of

1084
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 1: songs with you know dudes who it just happens like that.

1085
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: It might make the project, it might not. Sometimes it

1086
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: just don't fit it exactly. So, and then coming from

1087
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 1: you know, coming from my Nigga and them from TDE

1088
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 1: and then coming from Aftermath and know you're dealing with

1089
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 1: Dre and then knowing you dealing with you know, Punch

1090
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 1: and my nigga Top Top like this motherfucker. But that

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01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 1: concludes another episode of Against the Chronicles podcast. Be sure

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01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: to download the iHeart app and subscribe to The Gangster

1093
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,320
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01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 1: a comment and raiding executive producers for The Gangster Chronicles

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Speaker 1: podcast and Norman Steeve, James McDonald Aaron mc tyler, our

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Speaker 1: visual media directors Brian White and audio editors Taylor Hayes.

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