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Speaker 1: Jiah. You know what it is right now, you tune

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Speaker 1: in to The American Chronicles, the new podcast where my

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Speaker 1: boy still and Soaring Baker. You got your boy big

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Speaker 1: Oho right here. What's cracking fellas man on this episode. Man,

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Speaker 1: we gonna get stuff kicked off. And we kind of

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Speaker 1: had a little bit of controversy already, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. But Big Old to saying, we're gonna keep

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Speaker 1: a gangster. So that's what we're gonna do. We will

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Speaker 1: keep a gangster exactly. We're gonna do what we gotta do.

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Speaker 1: You know, new podcast. You know we're gonna try to

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Speaker 1: bring all kind of elements to the table. You know,

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Speaker 1: I know people you know wondering about the Gangster Chronicles.

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Speaker 1: You know, uh, we're still on that, you know, shout

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Speaker 1: out to my boy James. We still got that rolling.

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Speaker 1: But we want to bring something different to the table.

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Speaker 1: You know, the whole wide world of spectrum. You know,

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Speaker 1: not just about the Street Tales or whatever, but you

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Speaker 1: know interest that you know different people might want to have,

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Speaker 1: you know, as far as you know the Street Tales music,

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Speaker 1: you know, move vs. Uh, all types of genres here.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, so and bringing you know,

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Speaker 1: our boys soaring Baker Man journalistic extraordinary. Yes, yes, I'm

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Speaker 1: glad to be here man author, I know eight since

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Speaker 1: don't think it's a definitive answer to this, we said

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Speaker 1: top five or whatever. You know what I'm saying. Uh,

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Speaker 1: And this is like, you know, this is our personal opinions.

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Speaker 1: So you know it might be something different that you

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Speaker 1: to get it. Uh, you know our outlook. Everybody puts

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Speaker 1: up their top five, top ten's, top fifties, whatever. You know,

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Speaker 1: some people might be on there that you might not like.

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Speaker 1: uh addition to that you feel me? Yeah? For sure?

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Speaker 1: So who gonna kick it off first? Who gonna kick

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Speaker 1: off the top five? One? You go? Still ship man,

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Speaker 1: y'all just put me on the hot seat, right it seat.

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Speaker 1: You just met to tell what you what you think

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Speaker 1: your preference from when the day you started listening to

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Speaker 1: hip hop or gangster music or whatever. We'll keep it

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Speaker 1: You know, what do you feel up to? Now? Is

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Speaker 1: your top five in street related tales? All right, here

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Speaker 1: we go, And this is in no particular order. I

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Speaker 1: cube America's most wanted music to drive by those boys

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Speaker 1: T six's Ryan Pays, I gotta land see. This is

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Speaker 1: a Dying Breeze. Yeah, and I and I explained each

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Speaker 1: the first album the Streets of our area of Maryland

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Speaker 1: but I've been out in California since eighty seven. So

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Speaker 1: You feel what I mean? And it was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: know I'm there or I'm not. I've always liked the

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Speaker 1: If I had to go back and do it all

426
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 1: over again, nigga still do it all over again, ragging

427
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,399
Speaker 1: the back pockets, strapping the motherfucking under the seat, getting

428
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 1: jacked by the police every day. But you know, there

429
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: was always a motherfucking there was always an insight to it,

430
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: you nit me, because I always went to jail, or

431
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: always got busted with a gun in my car, or

432
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 1: got shot at it or you really you didnt me.

433
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 1: So even though it was glorious to a nigga, we

434
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 1: still had to, you know, go through those pitfalls of

435
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: being from the neighborhood. And that's what I wanted to

436
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 1: tell in my chails. I didn't just wanted to glorify.

437
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,200
Speaker 1: Everybody had low riders and banging, and we were the

438
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,640
Speaker 1: strong power and ruthy win. Don't tell a nigga like, yeah,

439
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 1: the homie went to jail for life, or the homie

440
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 1: got chilled, or hey, I got a question for you

441
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,679
Speaker 1: on that exact point, because I noticed from listening to

442
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,199
Speaker 1: your music since the beginning, since the Comptent compilation. But

443
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:50,439
Speaker 1: my question is, why do you think because you, in

444
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,679
Speaker 1: particular and the other great artists we mentioned have done that,

445
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: why do you think so many people don't acknowledge that

446
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,439
Speaker 1: or pay attention to it when they talk about Comptence

447
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 1: most wanted the gangster rap that it's always so much

448
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 1: of the glorifying or the negativity. They don't look at

449
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,640
Speaker 1: the fact that no MC is telling you all these

450
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 1: bad things that happened to him, that he's seen bad happen,

451
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: Like why do they not? Because to me I always

452
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: saw that. I always was like whoa, I guess um

453
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: because I just fell into that motherfucking category of being

454
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,440
Speaker 1: a gangster net from Compton. You get me And to

455
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: others who were against that, um you, they never want

456
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: to recognize you know, like you always see the bad.

457
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: You will never see a motherfucker give back to the

458
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 1: neighborhood or when they go out and by turkeys or

459
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 1: do little ship for the schools or whatever. Um I was.

460
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 1: It was just the category of being against the rapper

461
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 1: and Compton's most wanted And I think that's what had

462
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: a lot of effect on it. When you heard the

463
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,879
Speaker 1: word Compton and you looked at the videos and you

464
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: saw them, you know, the imagery and magazines or whatever.

465
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 1: A lot of people didn't get that. Um. They just

466
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: saw you know, niggas and khaki suits with with raiders

467
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: caps on and talking about Compton and drive by killings

468
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 1: and Ship. But they never wanted to analyze that. A

469
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: lot of the Ship that I told was the pitfalls

470
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 1: of it. You get me, You you sucked with a

471
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: hood rack, you got burnt. Uh, you did a drive by,

472
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: You go to prison, You get me. Uh. Niggas come

473
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: through and catch you slipping, you die, you get me? Uh.

474
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 1: That was my tails. It wasn't like nigga. We was

475
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,120
Speaker 1: at the park today having a ball and the picnic

476
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 1: and everybody was barbecuing and drinking forties and Ship. I

477
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: couldn't tell them stories because Ship, when we go to

478
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 1: the park and have a barbecue, somebody comes through and

479
00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: blast that motherfucker, or the police end up jacking everybody,

480
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 1: and somebody end up going to jail, or we all

481
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,360
Speaker 1: go to jail. So I would tell you that progress

482
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 1: you give me, but some people, you know, didn't recognize it.

483
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: Some people did, and some people would give me, you know,

484
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: props for um. I think I've seen something not too

485
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,959
Speaker 1: long ago where somebody was talking about that. You know,

486
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: how up as, these classified gangster rappers influenced the youth

487
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,360
Speaker 1: of today. And it's our fault because niggas is going

488
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 1: out killing everybody and doing ship. And I would tell

489
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 1: motherfucker's you know, I never glorified the hood like that,

490
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: you know, And then I saw somebody would say, well,

491
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: eight would tell the pitfalls of it. Eight would never

492
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: glorify being from the neighborhood, even though he was from

493
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,959
Speaker 1: the neighborhood. He would always tell you at the end

494
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: of his songs, the homely got killed, they ended up

495
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,719
Speaker 1: going to prison for life or you know, that was

496
00:27:55,760 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: the scenario. And that's the real life outlook, you know,

497
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: on a lot of us who came from the neighborhood,

498
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 1: you know, not being rappers ship. You know, before I

499
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,959
Speaker 1: was rapping, I was just a regularized kid running around

500
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 1: Jane Banning and we went to jail every other day

501
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,959
Speaker 1: for lortering Bonice come through, pick us up, drive us around,

502
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: throw us in the motherfuckerselves. Niggas come through blasting. We're

503
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: on the corner every day, six seven niggas trying to tell,

504
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 1: you know, to one car just to make ends me

505
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,360
Speaker 1: because when you go home, you get me. You know,

506
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: when you're living in poverty and minds are struggling and

507
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,959
Speaker 1: ship like that, you gotta tell them tales man, because

508
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: you gotta let motherfucker's know that. You know, the pitchfalls

509
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: are being from the neighborhood is not all glorified. So

510
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: that was just something I always wanted to do as

511
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: far as my contribution. Some people recognize that, some people didn't. Yeah, well,

512
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: you know what. Eight was great at the introspective stuff

513
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: in It's a song. I gotta give Iced Tea some credit.

514
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: On Dog Really Had Me. It was the first song

515
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: I heard about prison. They're really Scared the funk out

516
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: of Me on the O G album. It was on

517
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: the original Gamester album The Tower, when of the greatest

518
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: fucking rap songs ever fucking wrote you know Where. He

519
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: was like, I'm rolling up in a big gray bust

520
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: and I'm shackled down myself though that's who I trust.

521
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: The minute I arrived. Some sucking gout hit shank ten

522
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: times behind some bullshit. It was just a real ship.

523
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: Like when he said that ship I stuck, I stuck

524
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: with twice in the nick and lefting they in the yard.

525
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this ship hard is a motherfucker.

526
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,959
Speaker 1: I used to it's the hardest motherfucker ever. And they

527
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: get paid and niggas got and we got you know,

528
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: band or whatever, because but niggas was just telling tales

529
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: from from from situations you did me, because the ship

530
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 1: was really happy, man, you get me. It was niggas

531
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: getting stuck on the prison yard. You get me killed,

532
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: niggas be on that bus shackled like man out of

533
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: fucked up. Man, you gave me. It's it's it's it's

534
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: real hard life and some people don't understand it. And

535
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: the way for us to express it. What's the rap

536
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: music you did me had? Also, the music had like

537
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: the Halloween type of music from them. Yeah, And it

538
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: just scares you because man, when I heard that ricking,

539
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: you gotta remember I'm old now, but I was young

540
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: at that time. We was younger at that time. When

541
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: I heard it, I was like, oh my god, man,

542
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: that's also remember two Similarly, the moment I feared by

543
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: slick Rick exactly whoa whoa? I only I don't want

544
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: no part of that. Yeah, it was and slick Rick.

545
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: You know what, man. And that's the thing about gamester rapper.

546
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: I think sometimes some artists like to me, cougie rappers

547
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: against rapper. To me, carriss one is against rapper. To me,

548
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: justice is against rapper. To me, school he is against rapper.

549
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: It's not just the West Coast thing or here. You

550
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: could be for wherever. If you tell me, you know,

551
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: you gotta be. Because even though they didn't talk blood

552
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: and crypt ship, that was the introduction. Do you know

553
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? The East Coast? To me, those those

554
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: were niggas that I bumped, you know, faithfully, because that

555
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: was as a young motherfucker getting introduced to kid pop um.

556
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: Them niggas represented the streets. You give me school. Listen

557
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: to this in eight six, This is what school, he said.

558
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: Part side my placing home. The PSK gangsters like the

559
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: room Sheba in her hand, thirty two on her socks,

560
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: protecting our turf like it was Fort Knox. That's her ship. Yeah,

561
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: here's my gang, here's our corner. And if you come around.

562
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: We got something for you. That's dang banging all day

563
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: and that was eighty six so like and that's on

564
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: the park Side five too. That want to listen to

565
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: that song, But like I remember hearing that and in Maryland.

566
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: Thankfully I didn't grow up in a super crazy area anything,

567
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: but it was only one or two. It wasn't that

568
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: far away. But we didn't have it. We had more

569
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: crews and neighborhoods and stuff like that in Baltimore, DC

570
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: or places I would go, but it wasn't like you

571
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: don't come on fifty two and Parkside like school. He

572
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: made me believe, you know, I'm not going to Philly.

573
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: If I go to Philly, I do not want to

574
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: end up on fifty two Street and park Side Avenue.

575
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: I do not want to go you know, you know

576
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: you being from that part of the country. Man, kick

577
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: your top five. Kick your top five right now. I'm

578
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: interested to hear with this. This is hard given how

579
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: we kind of change what it is. So remember but

580
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: the five I think impacted what I saw a different

581
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: times in my life of the streets per se was

582
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: the running m C Publican Demia takes the Nation of

583
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: millions to hold us back straight out of Compton, n

584
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: w A. And then I gotta say, uh, the chronic

585
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: and ghet O D by Master P. Okay, that's interesting

586
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: that I can. I can see that Dom Ghetto D

587
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: is the only one I was in college. I had

588
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: graduated from college when that came out, but I went

589
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: to college in Ohio. It's Cincinnati A Xavier. Yeah, I can. Oh,

590
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: my god. I had seen him at Dayton, Ohio perform

591
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: during like the ice Cream Man error or something, and

592
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: I was like, who is this dude, Mr P And

593
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: why is he performing in Dayton, Ohio. I didn't believe

594
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: he would be able to have a show there at

595
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: that time, but it was sold out and people with

596
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: daan't Ohio it would go on nuts and as both

597
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: y'all know, that's Roger and Zapp, that's that's you know,

598
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: they got the music there. So the Ghetto D album

599
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 1: not only was it affecting all over the country, which

600
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: I hadn't seen yet because we didn't go I only

601
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: went on two vacations my whole life as a kid.

602
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: We weren't like traveling around the world or anything. I

603
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: was pretty much in Maryland, so I didn't see other

604
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: parts of the country until I went to college. But

605
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: I'll did they know how to show? And then also

606
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: I used to study Billboard every week religiously. And I

607
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 1: remember when Ghetto D and eight. You remember this, When

608
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: the album would come out rarely, but sometimes it would

609
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: chart the week before because the mom and pops and

610
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: the other stores would sell the illegally quote unquote before

611
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: it came out. Now, the thing I'll never forget about

612
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: master p with Ghetto D and this let me know

613
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: the streets or into it. It charted at like a

614
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: hundred sixty eight of all albums before it was even out,

615
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 1: so that many people were buying it before it even

616
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: was legally for sale, that it made the top two

617
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 1: D not a rap of music. And I just remember,

618
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: like in Maryland people were loving it, and Ohio people

619
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,760
Speaker 1: were loving it. And I had started traveling for writing,

620
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: you know, thankfully my career had started taking off, so

621
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: I was going to different cities. I was going to

622
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: the South, I was coming to l A. I was

623
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: in New York all the time, and I just remember

624
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: I I had never experienced anything like Ghetto D, where

625
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: it seemed like the whole country was like Ryan for

626
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: this dude, and then that album just blew up, so

627
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: that one, that one, it was just crazy to see

628
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: that in real time and being able to travel. So

629
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: I gotta say, Ghetto d Uh is one of them. Man.

630
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: So you got Ghetto d Master, P Run DMC, what

631
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: was your other? What was your other? Three takes the

632
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 1: Nation of Millions, the holest back Uh straight Compton by

633
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: w A and then the Chronic by Dr Dre And

634
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: I can go through all five or how y'all want

635
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: to do it, but man, what I want to come

636
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: back to this is the big debate right here. The

637
00:35:55,840 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: Chronic is probably the greatest rap album of all times.

638
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: The biggest debate no between that in way because you

639
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: gotta go an impact right without in w A L

640
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: the Chronic might not be shipped well. One of the

641
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: things that I noticed and from for me and my

642
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: area in Maryland, that straight out Compton did that was

643
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: very different was and it started really what easy does it?

644
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: Because that came out first, But I never forget. I

645
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: was in uh home economics or wood shop class in

646
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: middle school and this white boy who I had never

647
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 1: heard talk about rap, ever, I had everything. This dude

648
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: came up to me with the Easy Does It on

649
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,479
Speaker 1: cassette and he was like, Yo, we heard this ship Sore.

650
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I love easy Man. He goes, man,

651
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: this is this is amazing. And the thing that I

652
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 1: noticed was that the white kids that had heard Rapper

653
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 1: did or whatever, for whatever reason Easy Does It in

654
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 1: Strail Compton, but more Strail Compton, even though it came

655
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: out later, that really changed them for whatever reason, to

656
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: get into wrap in a way I had not because

657
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: this is so I've been listening to rap all day,

658
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: every day for three or four years at that time,

659
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 1: but that album all these white dudes at my school

660
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: because I basically only had black people to talk to

661
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: in my school that love rap because no one else

662
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: did at that time. And as y'all know, that changed

663
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: a little bit later, you know, until where it was

664
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: like so many white people like rap, but not in

665
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: my In my school, it was unusual until and it

666
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: was something about Easy Does It and some about Strail

667
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: Compton in eighty nine where they were like, oh, we

668
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: can listen to this or in a different way because

669
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: running m C. I think, at least in my experience,

670
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 1: it was more they liked Walked This Way. Didn't like

671
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: Running MC. They like that song for whatever reason too.

672
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 1: They weren't listening to the Sucker mcs. They weren't listening

673
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: to the Hard Times or it's like that, you know,

674
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: even though those are huge songs, it was more we like,

675
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: they're like more of the poppy stuff because you know,

676
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: Walked this Way it was a big song. That was

677
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,439
Speaker 1: the Aerosmith cross over. It was just a big record

678
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: cause I remember me being in the highway at that

679
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: time at all. It's kind of like places that I

680
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: hung out with my white friends, like you know, the

681
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,760
Speaker 1: road with skating rink and all that and those little

682
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 1: shitty gloves. They're back in the house. They would just

683
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: play that song and that was them playing rap. And

684
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: then eventually it became like with Tone Low, that's the

685
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,399
Speaker 1: same type of records, like you know with Tone Look,

686
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: which interested enough. Tone Look was the first person game

687
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: banging on wats but made the least games to rap music,

688
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: but was the biggest creep out there. Tone Yeah, Look,

689
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: Tone Look made the pop made pop music, you feel

690
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He made pop music, but he was

691
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: a gamester to dude, and I think that was the

692
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: thing in that era, I think with eight and them

693
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: did because it was some really regional good. It was

694
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: some good regional gates to wrap in the nineties like

695
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: nineties nine, like you had cats like the Dayton family.

696
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: You had top authority, and if you went to Ohio,

697
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: if you were in Ohio, Indianapolis, you know, in Ohio,

698
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: Indiana or Michigan, you would have swerping down. Top authority

699
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: was platinum for the Dayton family because every truck that

700
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: drove by was them dudes, and it was like that

701
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 1: was day comptence most wanted. And they see what I'm saying,

702
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: that was their version. Everybody had their own version of

703
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: in dethituate around the country and it made it some

704
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: pretty dope hip hop. And during that time you can

705
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 1: kind of fall off your bid and see thirty thousand records. Remember,

706
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: of course eight knows. But that's why I'm bringing up

707
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: the same thing with the MC breeding DFC, because exactly

708
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: DFC was huge to man, especially huge I had to

709
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: benefit and part of the reason why I wanted to

710
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 1: go to Ohio was to get to see a different

711
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 1: part of the country. So when I did go to

712
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: college and I was able to go to Cleveland and

713
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: Columbus and Dayton and Cincinnati and Lexington and Louisville and

714
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: all these places because all the people in my school

715
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: were from there. So I'd be like, hey, can I

716
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: go hold with you for the weekend? I want to

717
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: see what it's like. And I got to do all that.

718
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 1: That's where I gained a deeper appreciation. And even people

719
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: in the South like April and MJ. G were huge

720
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 1: and Cincinnati, so it's like, you know, you just see

721
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 1: and hear all these different things when you're able to

722
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: get around. And that's why to me that ghetto d

723
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: by Master P was such a not only because I

724
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 1: agree everything is still saying, but I also think the

725
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 1: Master P was times a thousand. You know. It's just

726
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: a different level of the games. Yeah know, because you

727
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 1: got to see it there see. And don't get me wrong,

728
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,879
Speaker 1: I'm a master P fan. I think you can't help

729
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: but love what his movement was. You know, he's a

730
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: dude that came because he wasn't necessarily the best rapper

731
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: in the world, but just his hustle and his driving,

732
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 1: his determination kind of makes you want to want see

733
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: the motherfucker win. You know what I'm saying, and he

734
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: did his ship. You know, I just think it was

735
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: a lot of um. I just think as far as

736
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: independence go, during that time, it was a lot of

737
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:19,760
Speaker 1: great independent albums too that may not necessarily be worthy

738
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: of that top five spot or whatever like that. But

739
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: then something you may talk to somebody that's from Cleveland, Ohio,

740
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: from Detroit, Michigan, and they may swear, but down the

741
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: day the Dayton Family got the best gamester Rap album

742
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: of all time, and some of that ship may be

743
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: valid that they may have valid opinions. I think they

744
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: got valid points. But I think as far as now man,

745
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: I think that air makes that are so specialist that

746
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: people actually it was a method behind the madness. People

747
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: was actually talking about sit gamester Rap made some of

748
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: the best political statements and songs, you know what I'm saying,

749
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: Like Ice Cue with Black Career, You know what I'm saying,

750
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: A song that couldn't be made the day because it

751
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: would be mr It would be looked at as um

752
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: anti Semitic and all kinds of other stuff. You know

753
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: what I mean, Right, we would be looked at in

754
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,399
Speaker 1: a certain way. But they actually made statements back then.

755
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: It just wasn't about senseless violence. It was all like

756
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:18,720
Speaker 1: a method behind the madness. And today man versus today

757
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,280
Speaker 1: to where you get a dude to sell like A said,

758
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 1: a million bricks, he is sell a million killer Grahams.

759
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: And he got away because his girlfriend was in there

760
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,240
Speaker 1: at fans or whatever. He was sucking her or whatever.

761
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: He got away in the helicopter. He wait, you see

762
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: what I'm saying exactly like you're saying. Still, how many

763
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 1: damn helicopters are there in reality? Exactly? Man, So you

764
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,319
Speaker 1: know you got motherfucker's But all these tales, and I

765
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: always remember that this is just entertainment at the end

766
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: of the day. It's entertainment. But I still think the

767
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: ship meant a little bit more back then. Well, I

768
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: think too. And eight let me ask you this eight

769
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: building off what's steel saying? I remember it seemed to

770
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: me and when I was starting to get into writing

771
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,919
Speaker 1: and the interview artists, it also seemed like the things

772
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: switched from being great or being respected for your work

773
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,320
Speaker 1: too in the mid to late nineties, I think it

774
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,959
Speaker 1: changed into the quote unquote the hustle or I'm gonna

775
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: get paid off of this. Did you see a switch

776
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 1: yourself artistically, of course it is, but I want to

777
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: see from eight from the artistic side what he saw

778
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 1: as his career progressed of that if at all. Um,

779
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: Basically it started the era of you know, like you said,

780
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: it started that era of I'm a hustler, Um, I'm

781
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna get mine. Um. It changed to more

782
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: of about you know, what I can gather as far

783
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: as you know, uh, the glitz and glamor of hip hop.

784
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: You get me. Uh, Nigga started to speak more on

785
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: their wealth and and the ship that they could accumulate

786
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:08,879
Speaker 1: as to when I first started, Uh, it was more

787
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: about your lyricism and if you can capture niggas with

788
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: your word play and what you had to say, you

789
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 1: get me. Thus, niggas like fucking uh ice Q, and

790
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: then niggas like ll Ale or early Nads or you know,

791
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 1: just the whole rap scene in general. You know, Um,

792
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: you have to be respected for your four what you

793
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: brought as far as what you had to say to

794
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:40,240
Speaker 1: a motherfucker you know, Um, you gotta tell me something

795
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: as to you know, that error changed them to more

796
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:48,320
Speaker 1: of you know, uh, you know the glitch, the glamour,

797
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: the money, you know, the jury, the flossiness, the cars um.

798
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:59,240
Speaker 1: To me, it just changed the aspect of of being

799
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: a truan see and it got away from um, you know,

800
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: trying to capture motherfucker's with songs. Asked too, let's just

801
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 1: do a lot of hookie ship and get people to

802
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: sing alone. And and and it was you know, not

803
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 1: to say that anything was bad with the hustle and

804
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: wanting to you know, show your wealth or whatever. But

805
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: I didn't come from that era to get me. I

806
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:36,240
Speaker 1: came from the era of being humble and just trying

807
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: to get on and trying to make a way of

808
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: getting out of the hood because of of of the

809
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: mishaps of which you might fall into. You get me

810
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: going to prison, getting killed, you know, mama struggling, you

811
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,479
Speaker 1: got you know, baby mama, and ship like that. So

812
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: it was more about us trying to express what was

813
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: going on with us in the neighborhoods and trying to

814
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: make a way out of being stuck in fucking shit.

815
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:10,720
Speaker 1: You get me as opposed to no, I'm a rapper

816
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,800
Speaker 1: about nigga, you know, I'm a rapper about my lexus

817
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: in my chain and my bank account and you know,

818
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 1: you know what I bought today and ship like that.

819
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: So it just changed a little bit of the dynamic

820
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: of hip hop for us who were brought up on

821
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: You know, nigga, you you got a rap to get

822
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: in this ship you give me. I don't give a

823
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: funk about how much money you've got for you. You

824
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: better know how to wrap or how you ain't gonna

825
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna make it. You feel me, So I'm

826
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 1: gonna tell you I love Mr P. I love Mr

827
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: P bought all these records, but openly that's why Master

828
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: people weren't around that long, because he wasn't as good

829
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: of a rapper, and that was his whole thing, Um

830
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 1: was I'm not a wrapper, I'm a hustle. And I

831
00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: was cool with that. It was cool he could tell

832
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 1: you so off the p this is not no this

833
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:05,319
Speaker 1: at all. That man made fool cool money. Mr Pe

834
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: made stupid money, and he paid the way for a

835
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 1: lot of other people to have careers. He was a

836
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: great businessman. Even today he's still making moves. Mass be

837
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: up there and everything from corn flakes, shoes cereal dog

838
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: like hustler, Donna hustle, right, my nigga know how to

839
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: hustle the games, and I don't think he was ever

840
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: on the on the motherfucking uh, the assumption of I'm

841
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: gonna be a fucking ice cube or a fucking Tupac.

842
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: You didn't know, motherfucker, where I'm from. We got certain

843
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: phrases and certain ways we do ship, certain ways we hustle,

844
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: and I'm a motherfucking I'm gonna serve that you get me.

845
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna serve up with my people like and he

846
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: knew you get me. It was smart because ain't nobody

847
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: was pushing for what they was doing, and he decided,

848
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 1: fuck that, I'm gonna push my own ship. You feel me,

849
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: and I'm and no, I ain't. I ain't gotta be

850
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: the best motherfucking lyricists. He made away because it's all

851
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,720
Speaker 1: kind of motherfucker's that's selling a lot of records dogs,

852
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: not just like Gucci man. You got cats like Gucci man.

853
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 1: You got a whole bunch of these motherfucker's that's out there.

854
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 1: Made a lot of money. They sell the records. I'm

855
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. Some of the records is jamming everything

856
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: I know. The cater to my customers that's the hustle mentality.

857
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:39,320
Speaker 1: Cater to your customers and then let everybody else fall along.

858
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna serve up my customers what they want

859
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: from where I'm from, and then that's just just gonna

860
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: fluctuate to other motherfucking places. You get me, because eventually

861
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna like my ship or whoever whoever. They're gonna

862
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: take my ship over here, and somebody over there gonna

863
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,439
Speaker 1: like it, and then one person over here gonna take

864
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 1: my ship. But right now, I'm gonna concentrate and cater

865
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: to my customers. You get me. And that's how I'm

866
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,399
Speaker 1: gonna build my foundation by supporting my customers. And that's

867
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,320
Speaker 1: how the niggas got to win. They didn't worry about

868
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,720
Speaker 1: the niggas who felt like you gotta be a lyrical

869
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: genius or whatever, because where I'm from, the niggas talk

870
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 1: like this and they hustle like this. So let me

871
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: cater to them and bring and push that ship, and

872
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: then everything else will follow. And it did, it did,

873
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: It definitely did. And that's why I too remember two

874
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: with Master P. I think he was one of He

875
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: wasn't the first, but I remember he did it on

876
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: every album, and on several songs. Remember at the end

877
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 1: of the songs he shout out since each shout out

878
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 1: like fifty cities, and he shouted out the cities that

879
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 1: didn't get didn't have either a big rap scene or

880
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: that is being c markets. So like, you know, I'm

881
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: shouting out Louis, I'm shouting out Cincinnati. I'm shouting out exactly,

882
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: shouting out loss of Vegas or whatever it was. But

883
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: he did that religiously and I think that really affected

884
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: people because I know in Ohio when I was in college,

885
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 1: that mattered to them so much because in Cincinnati they

886
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: didn't have that big rap scene. You know. So when

887
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,479
Speaker 1: someone's shouting out with Cincinnati, Ohio on a song, whoa

888
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: what is this? Let me ride with this dude? And

889
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: it worked. Yeah, it work big time. And you know

890
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: somebody else and I ain't trying to get too much

891
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: off your list. But we talked about quality, right lyricism

892
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 1: and beat selection and all that stuff that just goes

893
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: into making a great artist, right because at the end

894
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: of the day, it was entertainment. You know. It's just

895
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 1: like if Ronald Schwartz and I could go out and

896
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: shoot fifty people in the movie. We don't believe that

897
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 1: movie was real. It was just great entertainment for that

898
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: hour or two hours we was in the theater. Right,

899
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: So you look at a cat like Rick Ross, for example,

900
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 1: Rick Ross is a bad motherfucker. He's a bad boy,

901
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: dope as lyrics, got prop possibly top five as far

902
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: as beat selection, as far as you know, crafting songs

903
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: and putting stuff together. Ross makes some fireship. But is

904
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 1: it believable or is it even about that? It was

905
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 1: it just you know, because it's all entertainment and I'm

906
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: not knocking them, but I'm just asking that question is

907
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 1: should we judge these artists on basis of them being

908
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: how authentic they are or are they making the best

909
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: piece of art? Well, um, I mean to me, this

910
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: makes sense what I'm saying. I mean, I get what

911
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I get what you I mean. But it

912
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: all is, it's all in the imagination of what a

913
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: motherfucker feel he wants to do with making a song.

914
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: Because I don't necessarily have to be speaking on me,

915
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: you get me. I could just be making this song

916
00:51:56,280 --> 00:52:00,479
Speaker 1: in general, because this is the perception I get from

917
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: what I see or what I spee over that happens.

918
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:09,240
Speaker 1: You get me, uh am I the nigga shipping thirty

919
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 1: keys across the motherfuckering whatever I could be or I

920
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,839
Speaker 1: could not be, you get me. But the perception is,

921
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,800
Speaker 1: this is the song that I want to make because

922
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:23,720
Speaker 1: I know a lot of motherfucker's bill in that area.

923
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: You get me. There's a lot of niggas on the

924
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: streets who knows what I'm speaking on and if I

925
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 1: want to have treat credibility, because that's the direction I'm

926
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: going with my music and my image. I'm not going,

927
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 1: uh you know, I'm not going to common route or

928
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 1: the tribe called quest route or the L. L. Cool

929
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: J Route. I'm going the route of the inner city

930
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 1: nigga coming from poverty who have hustled his way up

931
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:58,280
Speaker 1: to whatever. So this could be the perception, Like I said,

932
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: could it beat me? You never know. But what I'm

933
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: trying to do is I'm just trying to make a

934
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 1: song and paying the story for niggas that might be

935
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:11,240
Speaker 1: in this ship or niggas who feel they like music.

936
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: Who tells stories of the hustler, the nigga who balling,

937
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 1: the nigga who got a hundred bitches. You're getting me in,

938
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: you know, so you you can't perceive sit just like

939
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 1: you said with a movie. And I know people uh

940
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:33,439
Speaker 1: tend to hold us to credibility a little more when

941
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:37,799
Speaker 1: speaking on records or the perception with videos or you're

942
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 1: saying that you this person. People hold us to that

943
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 1: standard because we're making records, right, because when you're get

944
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 1: in the studio and you're talking about you know, you know,

945
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:53,240
Speaker 1: I pull out the the I pull out the pistol

946
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: and a blasts and nigga and I'm miss and I'm not.

947
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: That's the perception how that you've given off to the people,

948
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: to the that's the perception you given off. That's an

949
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: important point eight. And I think that's the difference is

950
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: that name any actor or actress you want when they're done,

951
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 1: they're acting, and the differences that think and the problem

952
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 1: is in rap, a lot of the rappers, not all

953
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: of the courts, have always said I this is my life,

954
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 1: this is me and then when they rap about it,

955
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 1: then they don't want to be accountable for it because

956
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:32,240
Speaker 1: but wait, it's just a song. Well no, you can't

957
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,919
Speaker 1: say this is all real and this is what I've

958
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: done and then run from it. Because you know, Christian

959
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: Belle isn't saying I'm Batman after exactly, He's not saying

960
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: I jumped off these buildings and beat up the joker

961
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 1: and didn't like No, he's an actor. So like when

962
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 1: you hear a rapper, that's the difference. If the rapper

963
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 1: just said, like what Ah just said. Again, they might

964
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: not listen to what eight said, but at least eight

965
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: seven and the differences all these street dudes real or

966
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: imagined they are in this business of saying, like so

967
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 1: many popular rappers now that have been in the game

968
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: for a decade plus still rapping about selling thirty kilos

969
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: a month, I'm like, dude, you would be incarcerated seventeen

970
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:22,959
Speaker 1: times over like no way and that in this ain't

971
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: in no way of not towards if you're making the

972
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 1: one to answer that right quick though. That's why I

973
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: say it's a It's a line between presenting your ship

974
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:40,800
Speaker 1: as as as music you get me, or or presenting

975
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 1: your ship as yeah, I'm I'm the biggest boss and

976
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 1: and I'm the hardest street killer, or like nigger I

977
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 1: pulled up on the ops and I shot a nigger.

978
00:55:54,760 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 1: You get me now? Now you got that perception from

979
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:08,240
Speaker 1: the streets. Okay, okay, you oh you got that. Okay,

980
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:11,400
Speaker 1: because new niggas don't want to just make music you

981
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: give me, or you don't want to hypothetically say in

982
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:20,879
Speaker 1: this record you get me. Oh Johnny did this or

983
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:25,439
Speaker 1: Frank did this? You want to be Frank or Johnny. Right,

984
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:29,319
Speaker 1: So now that's the pitfalls of Now you see why

985
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:33,840
Speaker 1: gang of motherfucker's is falling into a gang of bullshit nowadays,

986
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 1: because oh, that's what you wanna be. You're saying you're

987
00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:42,360
Speaker 1: the hardest nigga and use the fucking you're the fucking

988
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: killer and you're the biggest cheelo drug dealer. Okay, no problem.

989
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: Now we either gonna come Now, we're either gonna come

990
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 1: checking your door, uh, try to take your ship, or

991
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna you know, that's the situation and the line

992
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:04,879
Speaker 1: between trying to just make me music for people to enjoy. Well,

993
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,399
Speaker 1: like they say, I was a storyteller, Yeah, I'm gonna

994
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:10,560
Speaker 1: telling your story. I'm not saying that's me. I'm just

995
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,839
Speaker 1: telling you a story. I'm not saying eight jumped out

996
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: the motherfucking I'm just hypothetically saying this might happen. You

997
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: never see me say yeah, nigga, I jumped out the

998
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 1: bushes with the h A and are killing niggas and

999
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: whatever whatever, Because that's the difference between the days of

1000
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 1: when I told stories as to now. It seems like

1001
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: when niggas make records, they want to glorify this position

1002
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 1: or you know, they want to glorify the the craziness

1003
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: of of what we used to try to keep silent.

1004
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 1: You give me how all motherfucker's know that I'm selling

1005
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: thirty keys? I don't want you to give me. It's

1006
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 1: like that John Gotti complex, Like I gotta let the

1007
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 1: motherfucking know, like this is me type ship, like when

1008
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be quiet about ship. But I guess

1009
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: that's the world of of of the difference of of

1010
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: you know, trying to make just music and songs for

1011
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: people and then giving people to present perception that you

1012
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 1: want to be a you know, a killer or a

1013
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: drug dealer or you get me yeah, and you know,

1014
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:27,919
Speaker 1: and put that out there to clarify something I said

1015
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: about Ross. The type of music Ross makes is South

1016
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 1: Miami music and the area where he comes from. You know,

1017
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 1: he's an eighties later eighties nineties guy, it was all

1018
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: kind of dope deep boys down there. So I'm pretty

1019
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 1: sure he's speaking of the experience of seeing all that

1020
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: he saw down there, and he probably hustled a little bit,

1021
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 1: probably hustled a lot. We don't know. Like he said,

1022
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 1: he could have been a man down there for all

1023
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 1: we know. But to the average here just listening to

1024
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: that stuff, it just seems so far affected that we

1025
00:58:58,080 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 1: always have to remember. I do think that it deals

1026
00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 1: in the team because it is far fast. She doesn't

1027
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: know the real noriega. Come on, come on, come on ahead,

1028
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 1: come so, I come on, man. But that was a

1029
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: hard ass line. You gotta be. But but I guess

1030
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:22,720
Speaker 1: you would have to. I guess you would have to. Uh,

1031
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 1: you know how, Like you said, movies now they make

1032
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:29,439
Speaker 1: movies that they go they are based off of true stories, right,

1033
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 1: and then there's movies like you said, when you see

1034
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 1: a motherfucking jump out, you see it. They can jump

1035
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:39,720
Speaker 1: off for the building and land on his feet and

1036
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 1: kill up every alien and ship not leave with a scratch. Right,

1037
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 1: You have to differentiate the truth from from the hypothetical

1038
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:50,640
Speaker 1: and what you sit up there and go like, man,

1039
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: my nigga said, you know the real Noriega. What you like?

1040
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: What you even contemplate that? Like? Man, he said, you

1041
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: know the real Noriega. Man, know the real norriea At

1042
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:05,880
Speaker 1: And still my favorite movie. My favorite movie is Hollywood Shuffle.

1043
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all remember the movie. So y'all

1044
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 1: remember this exactly what it is saying. You remember when

1045
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 1: they did sneaking in the movies and they had the

1046
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 1: Chicago Jones playing off Indiana Jones and the ed to

1047
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 1: the cliff and they jump off the cliff and when

1048
01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 1: they land him and his girl, he's like, yo, you're okay.

1049
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 1: She goes, yeah, just to run in my stockings and

1050
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 1: they just jump off a cliff. That's my favorite movie.

1051
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 1: So you got you as a as a man, you

1052
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:43,919
Speaker 1: just got to like, you gotta really just sit there

1053
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 1: and analyze and be like, Okay, that's that's that's clever

1054
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 1: ship to say. And you just have to take it

1055
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:54,760
Speaker 1: from there because it's been entertainment, you know, it's it's

1056
01:00:54,800 --> 01:01:01,200
Speaker 1: it's for it's for for nigga telling street tales and

1057
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 1: for a lot of niggas who know the real Noriega

1058
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 1: and what was behind the real Noriega. That that's a

1059
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 1: that's a good ass rap line for a nigga. You

1060
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 1: get me to say that I'm a hustler and I

1061
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: know the real Noriega because everybody knows the story behind Noriega.

1062
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 1: You get me if you don't watch the all the

1063
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 1: drug documentaries are all the tales of the government and

1064
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 1: the drugs and all that, you know, Noriega was significant.

1065
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: So for rat nigga who speaking from the aspect that

1066
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: I come from the hustle game, you get me saying

1067
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 1: a line like Nigga, Nigga, I know the I know Noriega.

1068
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: Nigga that the all this nigga this thing? Did he

1069
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:52,200
Speaker 1: know the real Noriega? This nigga getting bookoo dope, you

1070
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 1: get that's what's that. As an average ask nigga who

1071
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:01,800
Speaker 1: popping in his CD, spent to it and he owned

1072
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 1: the streets hustling, he gonna be like, Yeah, that nigga,

1073
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:09,440
Speaker 1: that dash you get me, and that's the effect won't

1074
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: have you get me? He won't that effect on the

1075
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 1: nigga who out on the block every day hustling his

1076
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: packs and ship making his money from that, and the

1077
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 1: nigga go nigga, I'm hustling nigga. I know the real

1078
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 1: Noriaga nigga. He know he owed me a hundred favors. Hey,

1079
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 1: you know the first thing they're gonna say though, really

1080
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 1: like because he already speaking in the tons of I'm

1081
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:47,080
Speaker 1: the hustler nigga. Nigga, I nigga, I know about key

1082
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 1: lows and work and all that. So when the nigga

1083
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:53,760
Speaker 1: dot nigga, I know the real noriaga nigga, nigga owed

1084
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 1: me a hunted favors. That making nigga go, who for

1085
01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: real nigga? That nigga danger? Did you get me to

1086
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: an average? And that's just a nigga listening to a song.

1087
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: That's the effect he wanted them to half exactly. And

1088
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:09,960
Speaker 1: you know what the thing about that he was like

1089
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:12,680
Speaker 1: when Ross had that beet with fifty cent, you know what,

1090
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 1: fifty couldn't pull it off over on him. Ross's music

1091
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: was immaculate. Regardless of what you said about everything, all

1092
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:23,320
Speaker 1: the other ship that came back to the music, Ross

1093
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 1: was making way better music than Like I said, Man,

1094
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 1: you know, when you in this game of hip ho

1095
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: hop whatever, um, you know, you gotta be able to

1096
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:38,200
Speaker 1: craft music. You get me. It's just not about just

1097
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 1: rapping and shipped and throwing down a record and whatever.

1098
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 1: You gotta be able to craft songs and music. And

1099
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 1: you know, it's fortunate that you know a lot of

1100
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:54,440
Speaker 1: artists who have came along, you know, like Ross, like

1101
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: you know, Snoop fifty Cube. You know, they have been

1102
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 1: able to climb to up songs that are ever lasting,

1103
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: you know, not just over, you know, not just put

1104
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 1: out some ship that nigger here today and go on tomorrow.

1105
01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: And so that's what that's what the nature of of

1106
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 1: hip hop and being great for to be in this ship,

1107
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:17,040
Speaker 1: you have to be able to make ship like that

1108
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 1: that's decades, you know, lasting. You did me, not just

1109
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:25,080
Speaker 1: to fly by night ship. So before we get out

1110
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 1: of your dog, because we enjoyed this conversation so much,

1111
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:31,240
Speaker 1: we don't miss running rent at the time. Top five albums, though,

1112
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just I'm gonna do my ship like this,

1113
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: my top five what were we doing? Gangster ships? Streak

1114
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:43,960
Speaker 1: Ship affected the streets. I'm gonna do this like this,

1115
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:51,000
Speaker 1: the top five artists that affected streat Ship to me,

1116
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go school e D. I'm gonna go easy.

1117
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:09,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Totty T and I'm gonna go um

1118
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 1: k RST and Scott lar Rock, criminal minded, great fucking

1119
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: lists and great list, all those things, all those boar.

1120
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:23,360
Speaker 1: And that's as far as my introduction to street ship.

1121
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:27,760
Speaker 1: That's what I heard. You get me. I heard PSK

1122
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 1: banging in every hood nigga card on in l A

1123
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: from here to fucking New York. Okay, you heard motherfucking

1124
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 1: criminal minded South Bronx banging. That was some hood ship

1125
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:47,960
Speaker 1: to me. You get me. Um, So those are niggas

1126
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 1: Totty t on the West coast. As far as gangster ship,

1127
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:57,920
Speaker 1: the batter Ram, you know, Totty t is is the

1128
01:05:57,920 --> 01:06:02,480
Speaker 1: one who introduced niggas to making street records because he

1129
01:06:02,600 --> 01:06:05,200
Speaker 1: used to put out T d K tapes and he

1130
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 1: used to wrap over all the motherfucking the whod need

1131
01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 1: if it was who d e be? If it was

1132
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:16,840
Speaker 1: fucking uh, He had a motherfucking The battle round was

1133
01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:20,120
Speaker 1: off of remember Wrapping Duke. Remember the Wrapping Dukes single.

1134
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:22,400
Speaker 1: That was the first battle round. It was on a

1135
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 1: T d K tape and Tydt wrapped the battle raum

1136
01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:28,840
Speaker 1: off a wrapping Duke you give me, and that tape

1137
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: just floated around content He had all of like everything

1138
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 1: that was going on in the neighborhoods before Easy, before

1139
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:42,320
Speaker 1: any street motherfucker I knew about. It was Todd Mixed Master, Spain,

1140
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 1: d J M. Wall all in Niggas. They had t

1141
01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:48,800
Speaker 1: D capes folding around and it was just nothing but

1142
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:52,680
Speaker 1: hood tales. Everything was about Darryl Gates and the L

1143
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:56,000
Speaker 1: A p D And the drug raids and and and

1144
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:58,680
Speaker 1: the Clucks coming out at night and how they were

1145
01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:03,280
Speaker 1: serving in Track Park and all of your like freaks

1146
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:06,040
Speaker 1: come out that night. Day song was called the Clucks

1147
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 1: come out that night and they talked about how they

1148
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 1: were serving in trig New Park and blah blah blah.

1149
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 1: You know, it was extraordinary to me as a twelve

1150
01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:19,760
Speaker 1: year old kid walking around ride my bike in the

1151
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 1: streets to Compton, and then you go to the hood

1152
01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 1: and Nigga's banging his motherfucking tape on his boom box

1153
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,080
Speaker 1: and you got this nigga wrapping over the little You

1154
01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:30,040
Speaker 1: remember how they used to put the little echo on

1155
01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 1: the ship back in the days and ship, so you

1156
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:36,080
Speaker 1: got this nigga rapping about Nigga Nigga five Old came

1157
01:07:36,120 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 1: through last night. They raided and Gil Gates in the

1158
01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:42,440
Speaker 1: battle ram over here and Nigga I'm in the hood

1159
01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:45,560
Speaker 1: and they talked about your neighborhood. That was gangs. That

1160
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:48,680
Speaker 1: was then instroduction of street shipped to me so you know.

1161
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:52,760
Speaker 1: And then going over to the East coast Krst one

1162
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:56,600
Speaker 1: because him in Scotland Rock with the bridges over in

1163
01:07:56,760 --> 01:08:01,880
Speaker 1: South Bronx and poetry and criminal A did man. Then

1164
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 1: I had the poetry single Man and I thought that

1165
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 1: was the I thought that was the greatest ship ever made,

1166
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:11,280
Speaker 1: like just all these niggas, it's on some different ship.

1167
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:14,800
Speaker 1: You get me. That's what I first thought. But but

1168
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:17,599
Speaker 1: then he has had the album cover with the guns

1169
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:19,800
Speaker 1: and the ship, you know, and I'm like, oh, there's

1170
01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 1: some gangster niggas. They was just from the East Coast.

1171
01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:25,719
Speaker 1: So that was my introduction to the East Coast street

1172
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:29,280
Speaker 1: ship you get me. So that's what that's what I say.

1173
01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 1: That's my contribution. Yeah, man, hey, you close without and

1174
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 1: its intergretting you bring t t up because Todd, who

1175
01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 1: don't do the interviews with nobody, has said he's coming

1176
01:08:41,840 --> 01:08:46,560
Speaker 1: on the show. Oh that's good. Is an original, you

1177
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 1: get me. And for a lot of people who don't

1178
01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:52,360
Speaker 1: know about Todd, you know, he had the Battle Roum

1179
01:08:52,560 --> 01:08:55,080
Speaker 1: single that got picked up by Ethic that was on

1180
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,200
Speaker 1: each first. But like I said, that ship started out

1181
01:08:58,200 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 1: on the tv K take wrapping off for Rapping Duke.

1182
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:05,080
Speaker 1: That rapping Duke. That's where sucking the Battle round pains from.

1183
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: And a lot of people they go, they jumped to

1184
01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 1: the easy eating you know, because easy had you know,

1185
01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:20,720
Speaker 1: the world without it wouldn't be no king. But when

1186
01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:26,559
Speaker 1: they come to Hampton, gangster rap and the motherfucking originality

1187
01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:30,960
Speaker 1: and the origin it started with Toddy t mixed Master

1188
01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:38,240
Speaker 1: Spade and just telling the tales of like growing up

1189
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 1: in the hood, you get me. And so for every

1190
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:45,280
Speaker 1: motherfucking nigga who was banging in Campton or l A,

1191
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:49,240
Speaker 1: you had that fucking T d K taping. You had

1192
01:09:49,360 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 1: that tape and you had them strongs. What they was

1193
01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:57,599
Speaker 1: talking about, the hoods, the selling dope, they was talking about,

1194
01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 1: the hood rats and the straw b areas, they were

1195
01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:04,600
Speaker 1: talking about the clubheads. They basically was giving you a

1196
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:07,920
Speaker 1: description of the city and what was going on before

1197
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:10,439
Speaker 1: Nigga's even made it to whack you give me, So

1198
01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 1: you gotta give Todd his his problems? Are you real quick?

1199
01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 1: You almost have to say you can almost say that

1200
01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:25,439
Speaker 1: T d T and Mixed Masters fade recipes are the

1201
01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:29,760
Speaker 1: godfathers a rap in coming. Now. If now nigga's gonna

1202
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:34,439
Speaker 1: dispute that, it was probably you know niggas who was

1203
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:40,200
Speaker 1: putting out ship before them. But to me, that's my

1204
01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:47,720
Speaker 1: significance of dankster rap and my introduction to uh, you know,

1205
01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:52,960
Speaker 1: neighborhoods and writing on wax. Like I said, because we

1206
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:55,559
Speaker 1: was just little young niggas, you get me. We were

1207
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:57,880
Speaker 1: just little young niggas riding on our bikes in the

1208
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 1: hood whatever. Nobody was talking about what was going on,

1209
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,599
Speaker 1: you get me ship that we were seeing on the regular.

1210
01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 1: Because it was the ship that was going on. We

1211
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:12,719
Speaker 1: didn't think that was, you know, important enough for people

1212
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:15,120
Speaker 1: to know about nigga. We was getting ship every night,

1213
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:19,000
Speaker 1: that's not new. Niggas was getting blasted on every night

1214
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:22,080
Speaker 1: and ye have niggas was selling crack pieces that if

1215
01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:25,639
Speaker 1: you want to be you get me. So we never

1216
01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:28,240
Speaker 1: looked at that ship like. But when Todd put it

1217
01:11:28,280 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 1: on record and he started, you know it laid niggas

1218
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:36,160
Speaker 1: feel like, oh yeah, you know Ship. This is significant

1219
01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 1: because now people will get to know about really what's

1220
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:43,160
Speaker 1: going on. And that's just to me how the introduction

1221
01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 1: of our gangster ship from Compton started. Like, I don't

1222
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:49,280
Speaker 1: know who was before Todd. It could have been a

1223
01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:53,559
Speaker 1: plenty of few and or who knows, But to me

1224
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 1: as an eleven twilve year old, thirteen year old kid,

1225
01:11:56,840 --> 01:12:00,240
Speaker 1: you get me, uh, coming out of that air of

1226
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:04,120
Speaker 1: being a kid, you know, watching cartoons on Saturdays and

1227
01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:08,360
Speaker 1: ship like that too, you know, being in the backyard

1228
01:12:08,439 --> 01:12:11,679
Speaker 1: with niggas and they got douce deuces and niggas got

1229
01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:14,360
Speaker 1: forty ounces and you got a nigger on the boom

1230
01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:17,800
Speaker 1: box blast and Toddy t talking about watch out for

1231
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 1: the battle ram and you know, nigga's gonna come through

1232
01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:24,719
Speaker 1: blasting and you know this how you serve a nigga

1233
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:27,080
Speaker 1: and watch out for the one time and the clucks

1234
01:12:27,120 --> 01:12:29,800
Speaker 1: and on that. That was my mother's sucking introduction to

1235
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 1: the hood. Well, I would say, man, you know, even

1236
01:12:35,040 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 1: if it was somebody before time, they wasn't didn't had

1237
01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 1: a significance yet, So to me, Todd is the godfather

1238
01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:45,000
Speaker 1: always recognized lin I said no disrespect to no other

1239
01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 1: nigga or whatever. You know, Easy was very significant and

1240
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 1: I always, like I said, we want Easy album was

1241
01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:56,960
Speaker 1: very significant to you know coming up. Uh, but Totty

1242
01:12:57,000 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 1: t was you know, and and eight like we've been

1243
01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 1: saying this whole show. Don't also had just say no

1244
01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 1: something exactly. It was always it was yeah, he could

1245
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:12,320
Speaker 1: tell you I'm serving, but he was also telling you.

1246
01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:15,160
Speaker 1: Darrel Gates was coming with that battle ram you did me.

1247
01:13:15,680 --> 01:13:20,160
Speaker 1: There was no fucking positive I don't look like you

1248
01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 1: get me. But then I'm gonna tell you just say

1249
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,479
Speaker 1: no too. And on all that ship. Then I had

1250
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 1: songs like do you want to go to the liquor

1251
01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:30,959
Speaker 1: store and party jams and you give me? So everything

1252
01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:34,160
Speaker 1: wasn't always negativity, but we still got to give you

1253
01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:37,080
Speaker 1: that descriptive ship. You get me because like you said,

1254
01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:39,799
Speaker 1: so my nigga told you about how we were serving

1255
01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 1: and selling. But then at the end he say, what

1256
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:45,320
Speaker 1: just say no to drugs because look what the funk

1257
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:48,040
Speaker 1: it do to you? You give me and turn you

1258
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:50,960
Speaker 1: into a cluckhead and funked up your family or at

1259
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:53,040
Speaker 1: the end of the day, maybe you're going to do thirty.

1260
01:13:53,360 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 1: You get me, you're going to do thirty in the beds,

1261
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:58,599
Speaker 1: So just say no at the end of the day

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Speaker 1: and then you'll be like still looking at the tower. Well, man,

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Speaker 1: we on that note. Man, we gonna shut it down. Man,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you, guys. Tune me and man, remember, subscribe

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Speaker 1: to the new channel. Subscribe to the new channel. Follow

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Speaker 1: us on our social media platforms. We're all trying to again, staring,

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Speaker 1: trying to get popping. Like eight eight got the million

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Speaker 1: million followers and all that ship in the blue, and

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Speaker 1: then I ain't bought no boxing, no motherfucking followers. So nigga,

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Speaker 1: my ships is all authentic. I ain't paid for none.

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Speaker 1: So Eight's still on eights, still on the load with

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Speaker 1: the followers and ship. You see niggas with thirty million

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Speaker 1: followers and eighty million followers. Man, I know you come followed,

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Speaker 1: but we don't do the boxing, we don't do the

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Speaker 1: pain for ship and none of that. We're trying to

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Speaker 1: keep it authentic here. Hey, I think they know the

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Speaker 1: real Noriega, right, Yeah, don't want to know the real Noriega.

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Speaker 1: They got a billion followers, man, not not me. I'm

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Speaker 1: just a simplified their The man keep ussemming for sure

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Speaker 1: when we out of here at peace, chill H.