WEBVTT - DJ Clue | ROC Solid w/ Memphis Bleek 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:14.200 Yeah, y'all you already know what it is. 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:18.120 Back with another exclusive yours truly M Greasey myth bleak 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.560 here with Rock Solid Podcast Live at the Vote, And 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.360 this one is a real special special ed this year 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:28.040 episode for me for y'all, I got one of my guys, 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.720 my brother. It's a Rockefeller affiliate. My first record I 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.800 ever recorded without Jay being in the studio with me. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.760 He gave me the opportunity with thugdout Ship. Were gonna 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.280 get into all that. It's my guy. Let's welcome clue 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:49.200 to the motherfucking building. Hell yeah, man, same grind, different time. 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.720 What's up man, working man, you know, get into it. 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.560 Word up long time, yo. Before we get into the history. 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.800 I always wanted to say to you, yo, I thank 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:02.680 you number one because Dug daun Ship was the first 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.920 record without the tutelage, like I felt like it's all 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.920 right coming to age. No nigga still had the training 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:11.600 wheels on, you know what I'm saying. When I went 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:15.000 to the studio with you in Durow, it was just us, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.240 you know what I'm saying, And I appreciate that opportunity. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.560 Then we turned around your highway robbed me for mine 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.480 right how. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:28.600 How I don't even know it? Just that was that 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.160 was a that was a Dame dash jay Z. 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.080 You can't even put the when you search my right 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.720 on on Memphis Bleek, my catalog on any platform, it 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.000 just come up the remix. 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.080 To get the original, you have to put DJ klu 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:49.240 Man crazy crazy. You ain't even know that, yo? 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.880 What but two of my biggest records man, and I 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.680 appreciate that. Bro, like your platform. You helped a lot 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.760 of niggas out and I want to say thank you. 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.480 None of these other artists have said thank you. 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:03.040 You know what I mean. 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.640 But Yo, let's go back. I want to know you know, 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.000 like I said, I'm a fan, bro. First take me 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.840 back the Queens man, like, what made what was this 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:13.040 spot that made you like? 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.320 Fuck it? I'm a DJ nigga, I could do this ship. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:16.079 Well. 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.280 Well, first I was rapping a little bit. First, you 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:23.359 know what I'm saying, what was just MC drama. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.840 Yo, l DJ dramas all versus let's go you know 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:28.320 what I'm saying? 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:28.720 That was it? 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.560 And then from there like my uncle my uncle and 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.560 then used to always DJ like when I was like 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:36.640 super small around the house. They used to have like 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:38.359 house parties and shit. That's when niggas had the house 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.239 and ship. So my uncle used to DJ. So I 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.560 seen that from an early age. And then when I 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.480 started first like kind of like driving when I was 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:53.280 driving when I was young. You know when people think 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.560 I'm lying when I said I was driving when I 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.280 was nine anything, I'm lying, bro Ya. 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.640 I was still in the card nine, Oh I stealing 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:01.440 cards at now? 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.000 No, I was still in my parents' card. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.760 Not even better. You wasn't going to jail, you know 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.320 what I'm saying now, that's dope. So when I was driving, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.960 I used to always want music and shit. So I 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.120 used to go to Jamaica AV and get mixtastes. But 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.760 it always used to be like a couple joints in there. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:19.120 I liked, and I was like, Yo, if I do 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.000 my own tape, it's gonna be lit, you know what. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.400 So I started walking around with the mixtape, shit and shit. 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.560 The rest is history. Like you changed the game with 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.679 the mixtapes. Man, like in the early days New York 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.239 sing like the music sing back then. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.200 You know, I got in in the late nineties. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.320 You got in the early night right, you know what 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.040 I'm saying, So what was the music sing like then 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:41.400 for you? 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.720 I mean, listen, that's when like and no point intended. 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.560 That's when I feel like the music was coming of age, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.320 you know what I'm saying. So it's like hip hop 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.920 started getting played on the radio, you know, all the time, 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.320 because it wasn't like that before. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:54.000 Like you know what I'm saying. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.840 Like, so when hip hop was getting you know, more 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:58.360 popular and more lit. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.040 You know what I'm saying, it was fire. That's a fact. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:02.080 You remember. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.560 Was it the first tape or moment party or anything 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.280 when you was like, oh, ship, like my name, they 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:09.920 know me now? 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:10.520 In the city. 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.560 I dropped the mixtape with this is when I was 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.440 going to school. I was going to school in downtown 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.159 Brooklyn at the time. I was going to New York Tech. 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.200 Oh to New York Tech. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.040 So it had you trooping it and with the goons. 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.719 That was decepts. Yeah, I was about to say dodging 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.960 the deces. Yeah, that was decept. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.159 I think the train sometimes I had to learn the 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.839 hallway to the trains out the way to go word, 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.760 you know what I'm saying. I watched I watched a 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:45.880 whole and I don't know why they skipped me. But 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.360 I watched a whole train of people get robbed. They 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:49.480 robbed everyone in the car. 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:49.960 Sato. 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:51.960 I'm telling you it used to be like that, especially 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:53.920 the last car of the train. You had to be 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.440 you had to be certified to ride the last car. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:03.640 Any train that a train train f L one two 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:07.719 four didn't maz, Yeah, you better be certified. I remember 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:09.799 when I felt that s train. I thought I found 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.400 something no one knew about. The shuttle. That ship took 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.680 you straight the Prospect Park. I was like, oh, this 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:20.320 is lit the little shuttle word. So yeah, like I said, 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.200 like was it the moment, Like it was like. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:26.039 Oh so yeah, Like I was saying, I went to 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:31.479 uh to B Street on on on Fulton and I 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.440 had on my mixtape. I had the this and this 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:34.839 is when Wu Tang was on fire. I had the 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.680 Method Man remix to h All I Need, and I 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:43.760 had a live nigga rat with Nads and Mob Deep. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.720 So like this is when you know you couldn't even 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:47.960 download music. 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.240 Yes, right, this is exclusive. 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:54.360 So I bought a couple mix taps in there and 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.400 they sold out man quick because I put them on 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.440 their consignmentcause they don't really know me in Brooklyn yet. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.520 Yo, I'm like, yes, sold out ready. 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.839 So that happened for like two weeks straight, Like I 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:05.840 just kept selling more amals, so I had to keep 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:07.000 giving them more mixtapes. 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:07.360 And then. 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.279 They had stores in the Bronx any Queens so that 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.360 so that's how the ripple effect happened. Like is it 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.960 true because they say, you know, it's always been rumors. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.599 You know, New York City were the city of rumors. Baby, 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.400 there's a lot of ship you hear. I want to 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.560 know is it true they said you the first mixtape 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.240 DJ to put an m in the crib or for mixtape. 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:29.120 Is that true? 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:32.200 At the end of the day, I don't know how 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.400 much it was. I mean, it was a lot. It was, 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.360 it was it was definitely. It was definitely saves full 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.240 of money for sure. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.960 That's like niggas was singing blocks of bricks and a 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:45.080 block and it was just mixtape game. My question I 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:49.200 wanted to always ask, like was it ever a struggle 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.320 to get music from labels. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:53.240 The artist? 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.040 I mean, the labels used to give me music, the 0:06:58.120 --> 0:06:59.560 artists used to give me music. And then you know 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.960 what I'm saying, Like you know, people used to just 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.760 have like you know, exclusives name just give them to me. 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:05.960 That's a fact. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:07.760 You always always I used to your clue go to 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:09.840 the studio, steal, never stole on life. 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:11.520 I was gonna ask you that, did you have ever 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.400 had to take a record out of the stew because 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.640 I remember when when the clue tapes when Bro, when 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.040 I got in the music game, niggas knew if you 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.720 wasn't one through ten, it was. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.640 A problem, Like that's that that meant that if you 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:26.480 was number one. 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.920 First of all, I think Jada kiss in the locks, 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.280 they had to pay for that slot every clue tape 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.320 them niggas is number one or number two, like how 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.120 even though they was murdering. Yeah, I mean I was. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.880 I was mad that it's a right had it's all right. 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:45.960 Had to really started on the on the B side 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.360 of the tape because the tape was really already done 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.160 and it was the only place I could actually put 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:51.840 it on the tape. 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.000 So what happened was earth God. He calls me. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.520 And I'm telling him, He's like, yo, when you're doing 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.800 your tape. I'm like, yo, I'm really done. Like what 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:01.760 you got He's like y'all got this this j record 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.040 I need to put on there. You know what I'm saying. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:05.880 So I was like yo, I was like, so he 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.360 like came and met me in the snowstorm Rest Peace 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.800 Earth got Rest of Peace, got it, came in me 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.600 a snowstorm and gave me a joint. And I had 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:14.320 to like figure out and this is you know, you 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.920 recording on on on that's so you had to figure 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:18.760 out how to spice the. 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:19.960 Song on it feel me? 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.040 So I had to I had to figure out a 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:23.640 place where I could actually add the song. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.440 I remember you probably don't remember this. I'm breaking back 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:28.960 in the day. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.880 This might have been Jay and Source Money first freestyle 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:33.679 on your mixtape. 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.320 Oh you're not I remember that for sure. You remember 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.760 me being in the studio that day. Nah, I don't see. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.200 I was just when Jay is Sauce rap he was. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.720 Remember we was in the studio on Queen somewhere. 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:45.199 Now in the city. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.679 I was a young nigga in there and Jay and 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:52.839 Sauce murdered the record and Jay was like, go ahead, bleak, 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.559 I know you got something for it. And I'm looking 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.240 I'm looking at that clue. I'm just thinking of the impact, 0:08:58.240 --> 0:08:59.280 and I'm like, the. 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:03.280 Crazy part is I had to because I was I 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:07.679 was recording the Locks freestyle for Chess. For Chess, Jay 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.599 was shooting the video with Foxy. I think it was 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.679 for our b so he had so I had to 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:19.120 stop the Lock session and quickly have J and sau record. 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.080 They parted, so the Locks were still writing at the time, 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:22.400 so they were still so I just gave him. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.760 I didn't even know they was in the studio there. 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.840 Yeah, and Sauce and J murdered this shit so crazy 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.440 the way I'm looking at Jay like, nah, I'm not 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.120 rapping on that fucked no. And then I remember when 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:40.280 the tape dropped and niggas in the hood was blasting 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.439 that record and I'm sitting there like I had. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.079 The opportunity to be on Yo. Bro. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.440 That day fueled me to be like, Yo, I'm never 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.680 missing an opportunity like that again. I was a little 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.600 nervous because that's that's the presence you held in the 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.880 street in New York, Bro, Like your tape was like 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.880 these young boys probably you know, to them now today, 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.559 that's probably what DJ Khalien getting on the DJ Khalier 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.720 album to them probably feel like if Kali called me 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.160 for a verse, yo, I'm that Nigga. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.960 I made it. You know what I'm saying, Bro, you 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:15.280 was equivalent to. 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.120 That's like Hove and Drake hit you and be like, Yo, 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.600 we just recorded a record, but we need you. On 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.000 the third verse, you like Nigga, of course I got it. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.400 That's what a clue tape was in New York. Sure, 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.360 Like so I was nervous, like, fuck, no, I ain't ready. 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.360 I gotta go back and study some more. So did 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.320 you ever feel like it was a time when you 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.520 just knew, man, I run this shit. 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:43.839 They I mean, the demand was so crazy man. 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.800 So it's you know what I'm saying, Like when I 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.680 was dropping, if I felt like everybody would stop what 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.240 they're doing and just thrown in, like you know what 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.400 I mean, Because especially if you're dropping on like a 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.480 Friday night, like everyone's sharing it, go out and hopping 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:58.840 their cars like they wanted that. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.480 They wanted that clue take for sure? 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:02.840 Do you I feel like they don't give you the 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.920 credit for the album rollouts now today? You like you 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.000 changed the game with the way to make the Like 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.959 you said, if you dropped on that Friday, you had 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:12.200 a problem. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.120 When that Clue tape dropped. 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.000 Now, for sure, I feel like labels started catering to 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.400 how you used to roll your tapes. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:22.079 Out because now because albums really used to drop on Tuesdays. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.240 You know what I'm saying, I dropped. I made sure 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:25.520 I dropped on Fridays when. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.600 We give everybody the week in the wild out, all 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.720 the cookouts, pool parties, everything the clubs is rocking Tuesday, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.040 you still got work school. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.880 Nigga can't really dose that now. 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.400 Niggas, don't you know they could dose music whenever, But 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:38.440 back then you had to. 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.719 It was a schedule for that radio. No, yeah, not 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.360 for sure. So you have to be in tune and shit, man. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.440 So it's a blessing man to even be able to, 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.280 you know, still be in a game doing what I 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:50.679 do at the love I do with that, you know 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.800 what I'm saying. So still doing records, still doing radio, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:55.160 you know what I'm saying. 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:56.000 So just blessed. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.439 It's a blessing, yo. Niggas don't know. I was there 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.800 when you said I just deal with Jay and Dame too, y'all. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:03.400 Niggas did that ship in the middle of the street 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.840 like a drug yeah. Yeah, biggas pulled up in the 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.400 middle of the street like a drug deal talking between 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.680 the cars and Jay, I remember Day was saying, made 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.280 you go roll with us or what It was like, Nah, man, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.880 I'm family, I'm with y'all. Jay was like, they let 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.920 me got this sign because because that was that was 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:23.640 the whole the whole situation with because Sony was trying 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.040 to Sony and Steezed Out was trying to match the deal. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.240 So so Dame and Jay and Big japt pissed. They 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.800 came off. Yeah, this is before they was cool. They 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.360 was and they was like, yo, now he's signing with 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.480 us because they because at the time I think they 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.240 was giving me like fifty thousand more to sign to Sony. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.959 But I was like, I was listen, I'm a man 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:47.680 of my word. So I told them, I'm like, listen, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.319 I'm honored, I'm honored. It ain't really about the money, 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:52.400 you know what I'm saying, I'm honor a man of 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.320 my word. If y'all, if y'all niggas is serious, because 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.160 I felt like it was in limbo for a little minute, 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:58.960 you know what I'm saying. I was like, if I 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:00.800 seriou if you're serious, I'm If not, I'm doing this 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.240 other deal. So y'all let me know that was my neck. 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.559 Did you feel like you had grew to a point 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.880 where you had to become bigger than mixtapes? You wanted 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.120 to take it to the mainstream now for sure, because 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:15.520 like you know, it's like being an artist or being 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.680 a creator. It's like you have a like a bucket list. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.560 So it's like, you know what I'm saying, it's like 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.680 your mixtapes and now you know you want to be 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.120 on the radio, then you want to do that, you 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.160 know what I'm saying. So it's like you want to 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:28.760 you want to level up. You don't want to stay 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:29.080 the same. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.440 So it's like, you know what I mean, that's a fact. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.199 So like then you crossed over, like you you dropped 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.040 the albums my g I like I said, that first album, 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.680 The Professional, I got the plaque in my crib tails 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.240 to this day, that's one of my first plaques that 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.920 reasonable doubt coming to age them three plaques in the 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.920 crib and never going nowhere, because those are the ones 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.640 that did it for me. So like but then after that, bro, 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.360 you went to radio, and then like I feel like 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.600 your era, that time when you was on Hot ninety seven. 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:03.160 That was the best time and music era of New 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.120 York City that we have. I mean, the Monday Night 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.920 mixtape was legendary, That's what I'm saying. People come up 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.000 the free style like it was really like it was 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.600 really like a mixtape show but on the radio. So 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.240 like every every Monday Night from ten to twelve, everybody, 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:17.400 the whole city was tuned in. 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.680 See who's going to freestyle? See what exlusive records I had, 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.120 you know what I'm saying. So it was it was 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:23.320 a time man, for sure. 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:23.720 That's right. 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.560 And like, Yo, I was just telling because my dog, 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.920 you know, we when I told him I'm interviewing you, 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.440 he was like, Yo, you're gonna bring up the backstage 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:32.560 And I'm like what you mean? 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.480 He's like you and him at Beans, And I'm like, Yo, 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.160 you know what's crazy? 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.800 You see how perception is in the world, bro that 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:43.400 people think Beans ran down on you. Niggas don't even 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:47.160 know that it's the whole accident. Like yeah, the crazy part. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.760 Crazy part is it was, like you know what I'm saying. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.360 First of all, we was all drinking, was all crazy, 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.720 and we was backstage slack boxing books. Yeah, and we 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.200 was playing and that's how that shop. And I told 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.520 my man. He like, yo, Bleak, you lying thought niggas 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.680 ran down no clue, like you know, you know, the 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.400 crazy part is the crazy party. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:10.560 Someone said that, Bleak said, damn. Someone said that, Bleak said, 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.480 I pulled a weapon out on Beans and something like that. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.240 Oh no, that's what someone said. I was like, what 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.520 I said, you pulled the web. Don'try no weapon. 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:19.640 My nigga. 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.520 I mean, I do care weapons now, but legally talk 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.160 that smoke. Who want that smoke? 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.760 Pull it out, y'all ain't that but. 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.240 Nah? But people were saying that, I'm like, you pulled 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.440 out a weapon on him. No, it wasn't no weapon. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.360 I think what it was you had the black jack 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.520 ship had black and Beans with you. Was like, yo, nigga, 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.120 front on me in the club, I'm gonna hit him 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:41.920 in his head beams, like, man, that ship don't work. 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.560 And you're like what Rember Beans was like, watch. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.240 This happened the show. I'm gonna show you how, nigger. 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.240 And remember we was playing, so not like you pulled 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.720 out a weapon on Beans and he went that it 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:52.640 was a whole member. 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.320 That tour was the illest toll of life for me. 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.320 Bro, Like that's crazy, Like we had battles thing we 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.040 was kidnapped rough ride of niggas they was kidnapping. 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.320 That's that's when Recipe DMX DMX would come in the 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:09.440 venue like before sound like during sound check and he 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.560 was coming in with the pippoles crazy. He would release 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.080 the pipulls off their leashes and everybody would. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.520 Running their room like Yo, niggas bugging. 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.560 Bugging niggas, Like Yo, we gotta get them niggas back. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.400 We gonna kidnap one of them niggas. We had paintball 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.160 competition like that was ill And like I said, it 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:31.000 was a lot of misconscrewed misconceptions on that tape because 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:35.320 niggas thought Dang was barking or Lindy on the bus 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.520 go by crazy. A lot of ship on that tape. Boy, 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.080 But what was that like for you? Like, have you 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:42.480 been on tour before before? 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:42.680 Back? 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.640 Say, nah, that was my first time. I was crazy, 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:46.880 So that was all not for that was that was 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.720 my first tour. On my last tour, I mean, like 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.880 the only either tour went on. I did Mariah carry 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.360 tour I did, but I did, like, I only wanted 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.280 to do the major city certain cities, you know what 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:57.800 I'm saying. So the other ones I had, that's when 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.600 I had put That's how such one actually got with Mariots. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.640 I put him on the tour because I had you know, 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:05.680 I had radio and I had other stuff I was doing, 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.560 So I put him on the tour when I wasn't there, 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:09.080 he would be. 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:10.920 He's right in my place, you know what I'm saying, 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:12.880 So shout out. That's the fan. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.280 Like, let's talk about my guy Fab too, man, because 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.400 not for sure, you don't. I feel like people look 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.720 at you as a DJ, mixtape DJ, but they forget 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:25.920 to give you your credit for producing because you put 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:27.440 out a lot of smoke in this in. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.680 This for you got a lot of records out there, 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:31.480 for sure. 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:33.719 And then come on, man, you got one of the 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:35.919 most lirical artists out of New York City and then 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:37.280 that had thirty forty. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.040 Years bro, Like, Fab is a problem, you know what 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:40.200 I'm saying, And he's saying. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.320 For y'all both to still be at the top of 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.359 your y'all y'all class right now is a test of 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.440 time and respect, like you got to show you like, 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.280 you know what I mean? So what was that like 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.440