1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: A real key for real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning. 2 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ M v Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. 3 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got two special guests, 4 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:16,599 Speaker 1: two legends in the building, f Gary Gray and Ice 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: Skill Up. What up morning guy? Y'all got another one? Right, yes, sir, 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: it's graight out of Compton, right out of Compton. I 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: saw this weekend. I had the pleasure of seeing it 8 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: in LA So that's that's a nice place to see it. Yeah, 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it was a good experience. 10 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:33,279 Speaker 1: I like, I liked the movie a lot. I got 11 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: so many questions, man, like you was under contract with 12 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: NWA to hold I mean, you wasn't under contract when 13 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 1: NWA the whole time. No, no contracts that signed the 14 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: contract ain't no really really really it's really that wasn't 15 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: out of bad business back there it was. I'm like, 16 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: so you didn't get paid on the road. That's what 17 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out. What you Yeah, yeah, 18 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: I got paid on the road. Okay, it wasn't a 19 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: lot of money, you know what I'm saying. You know, 20 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: but we got paid on the road. So let's bring 21 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: it back. How did NWA come together for people that 22 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:08,119 Speaker 1: don't know well. You know, Dre ended up moving down 23 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: the street from him with his cousin, Sir Jenks, Sir Jinks. 24 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: You look on my old records, you know. He helped 25 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: me produce a lot of records. So me and him 26 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: was real cool. So when Drake went down there and 27 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: started living, I started to go down there a lot, 28 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and just kind of spit 29 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: my rhymes and Drey started feeling me. We started collaborating together. 30 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: He was with a group called the Wrecking Crew. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 31 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: so we started to I started to help him right 32 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: rhymes for the Wrecking Crew, and then we started doing 33 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: mixtapes where we just talked about what was going on 34 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: in the hood. Now when did his image change? Because 35 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: the world Class Wrecking Crew. If you see the pictures 36 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: of the other album covers they had on shiny glitter suites. 37 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: It didn't seem like YA kept the listing out the 38 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: movie too, What lipstick? It was what Lipstick? And they 39 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: have listed on one of the covers the world clubs 40 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: Wrecking Croup. We didn't show no album come on the movie, 41 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: I know, but they had. Yeah, he was DJ and 42 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 1: at the club. Yeah, did you see the movie Man 43 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: the world class recorcruiter to Nwa as we know it, well, 44 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: the wrecking crew. He was in somebody's crew that was 45 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: ran by dude named grand Master Lines. So they had 46 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: to do it his way and play it his way. 47 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: But you know, we was all right there from the hood. 48 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: So your image don't change. You just grow up what 49 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: you know. You right there. So I haven't seen the 50 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: movie yet, so I can't even say what happens in it. 51 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:38,679 Speaker 1: But a lot of people haven't. So if we asked 52 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: questions from people who haven't seen the movie, from my 53 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: point of view, I know they had to be a 54 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: lot of discrepancies between people's recollections. Like I'm sure what 55 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: you remember is different than you know, what other people remember. 56 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: So how do you put all of that together? Well, 57 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: you know, you try to make a movie that that 58 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: tells the origin and tells the story. We're trying to 59 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: cram ten years is into two hours, so you know 60 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: you're not gonna get everything in. Sorry you want to lipstick, Sorry, 61 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But you can't get everything in, 62 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You just gotta tell the 63 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: story and tell what happened in a comprehensive way, and 64 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: it's still a movie. You know, it's still have to 65 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: adhere to the laws of cinematography and film. So that's 66 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: what we're trying to do. We gotta we gotta make 67 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: sure that we're telling a story that people can understand, comprehend, 68 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: follow the characters, and really get behind the group and 69 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: get behind what we're trying to say. You didn't even 70 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: know this movie, right, yeah, I did, you know, because 71 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: when I when I broke out and left the group, 72 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: you know, that was like nineteen eighty nine, So I'm 73 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: doing my thing. I don't know what's going on over there. 74 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: So until we started to uh like research the movie 75 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: and interview everybody and hear everybody's story, then I started learning, like, 76 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: oh damn snap, that it was going through that I 77 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: was going through this, So you know, I was able 78 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: to discover a lot, you know, putting this movie together, 79 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: and I was like, damn it, it's gonna be good, 80 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,600 Speaker 1: right right, right, even with you was in the group, Cia, right, 81 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: that's what it's called. Yea, they say they mentioned it 82 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: in the movie that you was in the group, So 83 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: you probably couldn't get down with NWA, but they never 84 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: showed how you broke apart from that group to get 85 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: with NWA. Do you really care? I mean, you know, 86 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 1: it's like it's about n WA. You know. CIA is 87 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 1: like a startup group, you know what I mean, That's 88 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: like your first crew you get with when you first 89 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 1: started rapping. So yeah, you know, it's so much information. Man. 90 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: I've been on this film for about four years, and 91 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: it's so much drama, so much controversy, so many good 92 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: times and high points and low points, that you could 93 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: actually make three n WA movies out of the information 94 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 1: that's out there. So you know, we did our best 95 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: to put the right information in there to serve the 96 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: narrative and to make it entertaining and make it, you know, 97 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 1: edgy like the Stratocompton the album. I agree. How hard 98 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: is it for you to do a movie of this 99 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: magnitude with new actors? So a lot of these got 100 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: that I haven't seen before. Very hard, you know. One 101 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: of the hardest things about making a movie was casting it, 102 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: you know, because everybody's looking at me like you better 103 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 1: not screw this up. You gotta get this right, and 104 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: so it's so many ways to get it wrong. You know, 105 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: the moment you introduce La Eighties, Jerry curls that whole thing. 106 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: You know, you walk a fine line between humor and reality. 107 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: So I wanted it to make it really authentic and 108 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: make it raw. I don't know how you felt about 109 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: the movie, but we feel like it's extremely raw and 110 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: you're gonna get a piece of not only hip hop history, 111 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 1: but American history, and it's you know, I think we 112 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: hit it. We wanted to make sure too, that we 113 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 1: had new faces up there, because you you can see 114 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 1: them as NWA you wasn't. You know, actors sometimes carry 115 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: baggage and you look at a movie and the baggage 116 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 1: of that act there, if he didn't messed up this 117 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: week or you know what I mean, had the wrong 118 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: Instagram or whatever. You know what I mean, that baggage 119 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: follow him into the movie and take people out the movie. 120 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: So what we wanted to do was have unknowns that 121 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 1: you you know, we've done this a lot with my movies, 122 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: to have unknown faces and new faces so you really 123 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: see them as the character we're trying to present. Your 124 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 1: son was playing. Yeah, that's a great job, by the way, 125 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. Right, Yeah, you know how you 126 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 1: do you know what I'm saying. You be on your 127 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: kids to to to stand up to uh, you know, 128 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: show their talent. I knew he could do it, you 129 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,480 Speaker 1: know what I mean. I just wanted him to be focused. 130 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: Uh take it serious, extremely serious. Uh. I wanted him to, 131 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: uh to trust Gary, you know, because Gary told me. 132 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: You know, I got him, you know what I'm saying, 133 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: And uh, you know I have trust. I had trusting 134 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,359 Speaker 1: my son. I had trust and Gary, I had trust 135 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 1: in the process. And uh, he did it. He did 136 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 1: a great job. You got to back it up just 137 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: a little bit because I wanted to spell any any 138 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: rumors about people feeling like the son his son was 139 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: handed the job. There was no nepotism involved whatsoever. It 140 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: took him two years of auditions and acting coaches. He 141 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: trained on the East Coast and the West Coast, all 142 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: types of callbacks, chemistry testing, things like that. So but 143 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: he was good though. He was really he worked the 144 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: hardest to get the role. The hard I remember when 145 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: a people was up here. I asked you, I said, 146 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: is your son's gonna play you in the movie? And 147 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: he was like, he has that's right. I'm not just 148 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: giving him that because you know, Universal, the Universal brass 149 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: had to okay him. So I never knew if they 150 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: was gonna be like, yo, we need a we need 151 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: a more seasoned acting here. So and and at the 152 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: callbacks it was two or three cubes, two or three 153 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: dres you know what I mean. We had to make 154 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: sure that we wasn't you know, giving him anything. He 155 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: had to earn it and be the best man for 156 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: the job, and I think he was. You had to 157 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: tell him, maybe tell him before, like you know, like, look, 158 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: let me tell you back then, your daddy did this 159 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: that I ain't tell you about before, anything that you 160 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: had to tell him, pull him to the side of like, 161 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: let me tell you about this. I might have knocked 162 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: off these many chicks like anything heard, I ain't the 163 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: one before. He hadn't heard it all. He don't seen 164 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: it all, live through it all. You know. He was 165 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: born in ninety one, you know what I mean. I 166 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: was still in the in the mix, you know what 167 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,079 Speaker 1: I'm saying, back then, So you know he he knows 168 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,719 Speaker 1: the stories. Uh. I didn't have to show him or 169 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: I wouldn't embarrassed to show him nothing, you know, not 170 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: my kids not easy son, easy son, tried out for 171 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: it as well. He didn't he didn't make the part 172 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:48,959 Speaker 1: as an actor, he wasn't that well as an act, 173 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: or that he had no seasoning or he had no training. Well, 174 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: you know, it's not that. It's one of those things 175 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: where again nepotism does not play a role and making 176 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 1: a movie. The bottom line is, once the novelty of 177 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: your son, you know, wears off. You know, that's playing 178 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: the movie. You have to carry an entire movie and 179 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: a little Easy is good. He's from the streets. He's 180 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: a real dude. It's just we required someone who had 181 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: the strength and the ability to carry entire movie and 182 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 1: chops you know, you know, a little different from character. 183 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: With Easy, it's a it's an extremely hard art. That's 184 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:31,959 Speaker 1: because you're going from him selling dope and to all 185 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: the way to him dying at age. You got to 186 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: have an actor who's uh got the chops to be 187 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: able to bring that and not to flobobd miss it 188 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: or or or not give you or not give Gary 189 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,439 Speaker 1: what he needed to uh to, you know, to bring 190 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: up it's a classic leading role man. You have to 191 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: have the ability to actually be vulnerable and masculine. You 192 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: have to have the street credibility, which you are actually 193 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:00,839 Speaker 1: look easy, has a ton of that. He's man. But 194 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: when it comes to vulnerability, it takes a very few 195 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: young men, black men from the streets could actually give 196 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: you that. We're not used to doing that in real life, 197 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: let alone being vulnerable enough in front of a camera, 198 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 1: especially that that's really the whole theater got quiet and 199 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: all you heard with somebody said my own one normal, 200 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:29,559 Speaker 1: Oh wow, we just started. It was tough, bro. That's 201 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 1: it's a good movie. But you don't want to take 202 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: a girl on the date if you ain't never knocked 203 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: off before. That's not true. It's not true. This movie 204 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:40,839 Speaker 1: gonna make you laugh, it's gonna make you cheer, it's 205 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: gonna make you cry. Everything that you want in a movie. 206 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: That's right now. If y'all agree. You said that you 207 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: are encouraged by the progression of law enforcement. But you know, 208 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: when I watched the movie, I feel like things were 209 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: really bad then, but I feel like they've gotten worse. 210 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,079 Speaker 1: What did you, guys? I said, I'm optimistic. I'm cautiously 211 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 1: optimistic because you know, we didn't have cell phones and 212 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: the internet and social media back there. They took a 213 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,719 Speaker 1: pen and pad and a microphone to shine a light on, 214 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: you know, excessive force. And now with all the headlines 215 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: with CNN, with with you guys, where everybody kind of 216 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: shining in the light and you seeing the videos, I 217 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 1: think the pressure is on the pressures on a leaders, 218 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: The pressure is on a leader and law leaders in 219 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 1: law enforcement. And you know, maybe I'm too hopeful, but 220 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: I kind of feel like, if you got a son 221 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: or daughter and you run the risk of being on 222 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: television every night shooting a man in the back, and 223 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 1: your kids got to watch this, maybe when you lean 224 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: towards successivefore, you might make a different choice. So, you know, 225 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: maybe I'm too optimistic, but I kind of feel like 226 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: all this pressure, all these headlines, eventually something's gotta give. 227 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: We're gonna push towards change. And I'm kind of tired 228 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: of protesting. I'm tired to burnish stuff down. I think, 229 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 1: you know, we gotta look at federal law. We gotta 230 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: look at these body cams, We're gotta look at the 231 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,439 Speaker 1: dash cams. We got to start charging people who tamper 232 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: with these videos. And so with the combination of federal 233 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: law and the combinations pressure I am optimistic about what 234 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: the future looks like. What I like about the movie is, 235 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: you know, the Police was a very controversial record, but 236 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:16,959 Speaker 1: it showed what led y'all to make that record. It 237 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: whatether like y'all was just trying to create a song 238 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: for shock value. Y'all actually went through experiences that cause 239 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: y'all to make that record. Yeah, you know, with the 240 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: whole movie, we wanted to show like why, you know, 241 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: you know what to wear, but you don't know the why. 242 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 1: So we wanted to show that. You know, we wanted 243 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: to give Compton. Uh, it's like the six member n WA. 244 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: You know, Compton is a part of the movie. It 245 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 1: is the backdrop. You do feel like, this is the 246 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 1: reason why these youngsters from this area decided to go 247 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: at it this hard. And you know, to me, the 248 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: movie really displays, you know, what forged in WA and 249 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: how NWA changed the community. So it's a movie that 250 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: really shows two sides of this coin, not just the community. 251 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: The rap game. I mean it was one of the 252 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,439 Speaker 1: starts of gangster rap, you know. Yeah, and what you 253 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:14,839 Speaker 1: being from New York, was it difficult to do that 254 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: movie because I mean it was I'm not really from 255 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: New York though really I was born in Manhattan, but 256 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: I was only here for two weeks. Um. You know, 257 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: I love New York. But I was raised in South 258 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: central LA and went to high school at the end 259 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: in Chicago. So I got a little bit of both, 260 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 1: but pretty much in South central LA. You know, in 261 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: the movie A Jerry Hella told Easy that you wanted 262 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 1: to be him? Come on for what? Why would I 263 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 1: want to be here writing rhyme? You know, I'm like, 264 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: so that was never true. You know, I wanted I 265 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: wanted to be treated fair like he was being treated fair. 266 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, so so to speak. You know, 267 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,319 Speaker 1: so I just wanted, uh, you know, I just wanted 268 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: to be you know, treat it fair and get what 269 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: I was supposed to get in the least have a 270 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: chance to look at my contract before I signed it. 271 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: You know, that's that's just criminal. Did you reach out 272 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: to Jerry Heller when doing this movie to get any 273 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: of his accounts? I know he wrote the book Ruthless before, 274 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: But did you actually say, I know, you know, whatever situation, 275 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: But did you say, hey, we just want to get 276 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: your side of things? Ever? No, you know, Gary's the 277 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 1: director of the movie. He did his research. Yeah, you 278 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: know from talk to Jerry Heller. You know. The thing is, 279 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: it was important for me to do my homework. Of course, 280 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: I you know, read the book thoroughly. I did a 281 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: ton of research. And you know, when you have dre 282 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: Yella Que and Wren there to give you first hand 283 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: accounts of their interactions with all of these guys, it 284 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: makes it easier for you to pull it together. Especially 285 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: I'm telling you it's first hand accounts. I'm not googling stuff. 286 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: I'm not looking on Wiki Wikipedia to get deep hells. 287 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: I got the guys who were there. That was good enough. 288 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: How hard was it for you to walk away from 289 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: that seventy five grand man? I don't want to tell 290 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: too much of the movie, like the contract, you know, 291 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: And finally they wanted him to sign a contract. But 292 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: in order to sign a contract, he was like, you're 293 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: getting to seventy five grand if you sign this contract. 294 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: Basically away, I was real close to pushing that man 295 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: down and grabbing that damn check. You know what I'm saying. 296 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: You know, I was thinking all kinds of stuff, so 297 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: I needed that money. But you know where I come from. 298 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: Minute if you know, you ain't getting what you're supposed 299 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: to get, and you still there, and you still in 300 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: it to win it, and you still pretending like everything cool. 301 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: You know, you just some of your manhood is just 302 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: not we're supposed to be. So, you know, I just 303 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: had to walk away just for my own dignity and 304 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: just because I already knew it wasn't right. You know, 305 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: somebody trying to get you to sign a contract without 306 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: letting you get any representation or let anybody see it. 307 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: It's just, you know, they're trying to beat you, period, 308 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: and I couldn't stay. And a lot of people are 309 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: doing crazy contracts back then though, So that's a good 310 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: common sense because I do feel like so many people 311 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 1: back then signed contracts just because they wanted to get 312 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: that chatter. Yeah, I mean they got crazy contracts. Now 313 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: you ever heard them? Three sixty man? Please? Now you 314 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: mentioned early that you used to write for some of 315 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: the members of n WA. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now 316 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 1: of course we have to talk about Meek Mills said 317 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: recently that Drake doesn't write its own rhymes. Do you 318 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: feel that that makes or break you as a rapper 319 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: or it hurts your street credibility or hurts anything that 320 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: you're doing because you wrote for a lot of the members. 321 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: If you're making records, it don't matter. Anything that matters 322 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: is what's coming out to speaking. If you up there 323 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 1: at m seeing and you just like a battle artist 324 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: or you just want to be a true master ceremony, 325 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: you should write your own rhymes. You know what I'm saying. 326 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: If you're making records, records have been made by committee 327 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: since records have been made, so it don't matter. It 328 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 1: just matters what's coming out the speaker. That's all that 329 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: matters on the record, not who put it, how it's 330 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: been put together. Who was in the studio, who wrote 331 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: this line, who thought of this hook, you know what 332 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 1: I mean? Who was smoking weed? Who rolled the blunt? 333 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 1: All that don't matter. You know what matters is is 334 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:19,719 Speaker 1: it dope when I hear it? Because I don't care 335 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: about all that. All I care about is the product 336 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: that you're trying to sell me, and is it dope? 337 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: And that's all that matters. Uh. Now, if you're on 338 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: the mic you want to be, you know, mister battle artists, 339 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: and you want to battle everybody, then you should write 340 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: your own rhymes. You should be a true m C 341 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: and write you on rhymes, because then then you're more interesting. 342 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You can't go to a 343 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: battle on somebody wrote your rhymes. I mean, That's why 344 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,640 Speaker 1: I wonder what the author of Novasoline thinks that these 345 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 1: modern day battles that are going on between like Drake 346 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: and Meek Mill. I love him. I love him, you 347 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: know what I mean. That's what hip hop is all. Yeah, 348 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,399 Speaker 1: you know, I grew up on l going at it, 349 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: you know, so I always love the battles, you know, 350 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: as long as it stay on wax. You know, once 351 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: it go to the street, it's the street and ain't 352 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,239 Speaker 1: hip hop no more, you know, So as long as 353 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,959 Speaker 1: it stay on wax is fun. It's dope. You know. 354 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: People should try to you know, I don't feel like 355 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: you things back then, like I feel like I feel 356 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: like now if you like they detail it in the movie, 357 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: by the way, but I'm saying I feel like now, 358 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 1: anything he said it gets unders scrutiny, like, oh he 359 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 1: said that, that's wrong. You shouldn't have said that. I 360 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 1: feel like back then it was like no say anything, 361 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,159 Speaker 1: and now orders shouldn't care what other people got to 362 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: say about what they do, and if they if they 363 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: didn't care, and if they just really did what they felt, 364 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 1: then they'll say what they feel and not be worried 365 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: about what's gonna what's gonna be the twitter out your 366 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: endorsement situations, lose endorsement situations because of their lyrics. N 367 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 1: I don't seen people lose careers. You're worried about endorsements, 368 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I've seen people get their careers, 369 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: you know. Uh, basically then two and uh, so you 370 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 1: can't worry about nothing. You gotta go for that juggular. 371 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 1: You said it was issues after Novastling because in the 372 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:08,919 Speaker 1: movie they show everybody getting mad and acting like they 373 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: wanted to do something, but they didn't show nothing actually happened. 374 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,439 Speaker 1: Didn't mention that easy? Had you jumped to something like 375 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 1: that it was a couple of fist fights. Yeah. Was 376 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: it in your head from the beginning for Doctor Jay 377 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,640 Speaker 1: to do the soundtrack for the movie or soundtrack inspired 378 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: by the movie? Did you say, all right, at some point, 379 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: I know he's gonna want to do a soundtrack or 380 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: was it a surprise when he said I was so 381 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 1: inspired I decided to do this for me, it was 382 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: it was kind of a surprise. You know. We went 383 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: on a boat trip for like two weeks and I 384 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:41,880 Speaker 1: told him what type of movie I wanted to make. 385 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: I show, you know, I kind of illustrated the vision, 386 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 1: and he said, you know what, I'll join. I'll join 387 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 1: the crew and you know, help you guys develop it 388 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 1: and put my two cents in. And then during the 389 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 1: process of development, he just jumped in the studio and 390 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: the songs just started coming. And he made a ton 391 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: of songs. And I don't know if I can say 392 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: it on there, but it's crazy. It's crazy. They might 393 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: be a part two soundtrack. I don't know if it's 394 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: a part two, but I know that I'm happy he 395 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,399 Speaker 1: was inspired by the movie and what he's got coming. 396 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: It is crazy, it's dope. It also shows you coming 397 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: to New York to record with the bomb Squad. If 398 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: you know the story, you know the bombs, getting me 399 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: jackets and stuff like that. Was it the time where 400 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,360 Speaker 1: you ever felt safer in New York than early? No 401 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: where you get these crazy I see in the movie 402 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: got you got into the fight at the escalator. I'm 403 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: saying he was good in New York. They love we 404 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: love Cuban. Yeah, you know, but you know, I feel 405 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 1: safer at home than anywhere on the planet. I was 406 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: meaning um Luke Uncle Luke's book and he was talking 407 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 1: about how hard it was for him to be embraced 408 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,719 Speaker 1: in New York, and he said NWA had a similar 409 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,239 Speaker 1: issue coming to New York and not being embraced. When 410 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 1: you guys first, when we first came to New York, 411 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 1: we got booed. It was a seminar that was out 412 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: here and they had all the rappers go up to 413 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 1: to uh to the Apollo and perform, you know what 414 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: I mean. And we was like fresh new, I think 415 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: easy had we want easy out like so we only 416 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 1: had a few little songs, so we jumped on stage. Man, 417 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: they was man, they saw them Jerry curls over a 418 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: boo boo boo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would mean you know, 419 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 1: so so I'm fine about to say, Man Kurts blow 420 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: rock one. But were mad. We was feeling bad about 421 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 1: it was feeling bad. Was like damn man, you know, 422 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,199 Speaker 1: we ain't gonna never crack. You know. It was like 423 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: this this nut we could not crack, you know. Uh. 424 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,119 Speaker 1: Iced Tea was the only one getting a little bit 425 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: of love. So it was like damn. And then we 426 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: was in the elevated with a Run. I think Run 427 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:53,879 Speaker 1: he looked he saw Easy. He was like, you're that 428 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: kid to do poison the hood, right. It's like, yeah, man, man, 429 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: I like that. So when Run endorsed us like that, 430 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: it's like, man, look it's a matter of time, baby, 431 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 1: he gonna love us out here. It's a matter of time. 432 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: So you know, that kind of made us feel good. 433 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: But yeah, we got we got booed the first time 434 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 1: we came in New York and to perform f gagor 435 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 1: was then anything that the stars Cuban Dre wanted to 436 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: cut out the movie. I wanted to cut out of 437 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: the movie. What do you mean just in general, like 438 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: any any any part of the story, like, you know what, 439 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: let's just keep that up. No, not necessarily. I mean 440 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 1: our biggest problem was, you know, we had too much. 441 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: The original cuts three hours and thirty thirty minutes long, 442 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: and so the biggest challenge besides finding the cast was 443 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: cutting it down. So that's you know, a two hour 444 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: movie because they didn't really show like the death row 445 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:42,360 Speaker 1: Easy Beef too much. You know what, It's we showed 446 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: no vaceline, We showed some of the death row stuff, 447 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You know, I don't want 448 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: to tell the whole movie, but I think we put 449 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: it in its right place. We tried to make sure 450 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: everything that pertained to in Wa was in the movie, 451 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 1: you know, because everybody got their side stories. You know, 452 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,919 Speaker 1: we can all do movies. I could still do an 453 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: ice Cube movie and in Nwa part of being ten minutes, 454 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: So you know what I mean. It's like, we just 455 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 1: tried to make sure that we told a comprehensive story 456 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: that you can follow and understand what happened. You know, 457 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 1: we know people gonna research us. We know it's gonna 458 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:20,640 Speaker 1: be documentaries. It's already documentaries made. There's plenty of articles. 459 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: People that's Lutter's movie are gonna go and find all 460 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,959 Speaker 1: the nooks and crannies and uh, you know, even Charlemagne 461 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,919 Speaker 1: is gonna put a movie together with the Nwa stuff 462 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: that wasn't in the movie. So you know what I'm saying. 463 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,120 Speaker 1: But but but it's enough. You know, you can't show everything, 464 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: but we show what we needed to show to have 465 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 1: a great movie, and it's dope. August Fourteenth's right, there's 466 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: a director's cut. By the way, did you want a 467 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: ninety minute movie in NWA fast Food? That's the reason. 468 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 1: Get When people watch the movie, they say, you know what, 469 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 1: we wanted to get more and more and more, and 470 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 1: so you know, we have a plan for that, but 471 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 1: we want people to enjoy the theatrical release. Now ask 472 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,199 Speaker 1: you this has inspired you to make want to make 473 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: your own movie about Ice Cub's life. Not really, you know, 474 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: this was hard enough. It's fun of going back and 475 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 1: doing the you know, ride along and just you know, 476 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,199 Speaker 1: it's easier to make up as you go along than 477 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: dealing with this real life stuff. This real life stuff. 478 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: It's just hard because you can't just cut stuff out. 479 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 1: You lose something here, you gotta lose something there. It 480 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: just it has this crazy effect. And you know, anybody 481 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,400 Speaker 1: who's put together a true story in a movie knows 482 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: when I'm talking about that. It's just it's just extra 483 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 1: hard to get it right now, Fay, how do you 484 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 1: avoid things like lawsuits like I saw when they did 485 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: the TLC movie and then Pebbles just trying to sue 486 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,399 Speaker 1: because she didn't like the portrayal of herself in that movie. 487 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: How do you avoid something like that. Um, it's too 488 00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: soon to tell, you know, I just wanted to focus 489 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: on in the movie though, you know, I wasn't concerned 490 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 1: with that. I'm sure Universal, you know, kind of did 491 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: what they had to do to make sure they protected 492 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: the movie and the company and stuff like that. But 493 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: I wasn't concerned about that. I just wanted to make 494 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: the movie as raw as the album. And that's what 495 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: we did. So we'll see. Talk to me in a month. 496 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: And after it was the NBA reunion actually gonna happen, 497 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: what you mean, because like in the end, it was 498 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: like y'all was trying to get everybody back together. Oh yeah, yeah, 499 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt. We was definitely uh, you know, 500 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: I had my head ready for it, you know. So 501 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: it's like he died right before we had a chance 502 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: to really go in there. And I mean, you know, 503 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: y'all giving up the movie? Hold up, that's Charlemagne doing 504 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: all that. I know, but a lot of people have 505 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 1: it yet who better about ship with Shular involved? Because 506 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: I knew he was mad at clearly not was he 507 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 1: mad because he wanted to put his two cents and 508 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 1: what was his movie? I don't know what. He was 509 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: mad about him. He probably heard this is gonna happen 510 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: and he wanted to come down there and it didn't 511 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: go well. It didn't go well at all. It's a movie. 512 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 1: Look crazy in the movie, thank you, nobody looked crazy. 513 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,119 Speaker 1: He probably had no idea though maybe he's just in 514 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: his head. I don't know. But let me ask you 515 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,360 Speaker 1: one more question. How close were you with everybody else 516 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,479 Speaker 1: before making this movie? Did this bring y'all that closer together? 517 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 1: Or were you always always, always, you know, close contact. 518 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. You know, It's like 519 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: I had been solo for so long doing my thing, 520 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 1: that was doing anything. You know. We were cool, you know, 521 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: and we all busiest hell, and we all you know, 522 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 1: family reunion. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. When we 523 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 1: see each other's like family reunion, we're talking again, talking 524 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: and reminiscing about the old times and enjoying this ride. 525 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 1: None of us can really believe that we was able 526 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 1: to get a movie off like this at this quality level, 527 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 1: you know, at a studio like Universal. So it's a 528 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: prestigious more for the group. And uh, we know, easy 529 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: with love this movie and be proud of it. And 530 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: and um, you know that's what it's all about. What 531 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 1: made you do so much reality right back in the day, 532 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: because you know in the movie they show you on 533 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 1: the school bus. You know, they show easy like actually 534 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: in the screen, like what made you What do you 535 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: mean man, when you black you from the street? What 536 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: are you talking about? How can you be in the 537 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,439 Speaker 1: hood and not be from the hood? I don't know 538 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 1: what you mean though, can be in the hood? What 539 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 1: is put in work? In your aspect? Killing somebody, shooting somebody, 540 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: robbing somebody, that's criminal behavior. I ain't got nothing to 541 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: do with being hood. Man, I'm so sick of that. 542 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You gotta you gotta do it. 543 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: You gotta do crime to write a rap. No, you know, 544 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 1: you gotta be a boat poetry to paint a boat. Okay, 545 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,399 Speaker 1: that's right. Did you film any of the behind the 546 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 1: scenes discussions of you guys sitting down and like this 547 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: what was gonna go on in the movie, and like 548 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 1: conversations with each other like remember when this happened? Remember 549 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 1: when this happened? I did? I shot some of what 550 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: you're gonna do with it? Oh? Man, I don't know. 551 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 1: I don't know if we could release that, but it's good. 552 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: It's good. I sat down with Dre for about four 553 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,720 Speaker 1: hours and he gave me all the ins and out 554 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 1: to n WA, the death Row stuff, and it was 555 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: you know, he's a very private guy, and so it's 556 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,119 Speaker 1: good out of relationship with him because he just opened up. 557 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: And I think that's what makes the movie authentic because 558 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: you get things in the movie you will not you know, 559 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: Google or get from with. Nobody else could have done this. No, No, 560 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: there's probably a couple of people. No, because your relationship 561 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: with ice Cube Dre, it would have been really difficult 562 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: for anybody else to get those I mean I was 563 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: definitely there when when they left NWA. I did a 564 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: lot of the videos for que when he went solo. 565 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: True to the game. Really though, today was a good day, 566 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: and of course my first movie Friday and he didn't 567 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 1: Natural One Killers, which mean Dre got back together. Really, 568 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: nobody I probably had, you know, not at this level, 569 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: not with this much love, you know what I'm saying. 570 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: It had been a good job. It was a personal 571 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,959 Speaker 1: story for me too, because I grew up um a 572 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 1: couple of miles away from Cube in La During that time. 573 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: It was dangerous, it was fun, it was all those things. 574 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 1: So you know, I got a chance to tell a 575 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: little bit about my life as well, because you know, 576 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: none of us went to college for this stuff, and 577 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 1: we all made it out of that environment and built 578 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: our own careers in movies and technology and all this 579 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: type of stuff. So it was personal to me because, um, 580 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: I either witnessed or experienced firsthand what they were rapping about. 581 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: So you know, I don't know if I ever get 582 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: a chance for all of these elements to intersect in 583 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: a movie creatively for me, So you know, maybe I 584 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: was the one for the job, but um it was personal, 585 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: definitely personal. Grey are you your name's been thrown around 586 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: the directed Black Panther movie. I keep hearing rumors, man, 587 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 1: but you know they haven't reached out yet, so you 588 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: put that. I went on the blog I started in 589 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 1: my own. This was in the first movie marro movie 590 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 1: I've been kind of involved in. This was, Uh. I 591 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: just keep hearing rumors, man. You know, I'm really just 592 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: focused on Stratocompton. I'm not really worried about what's next. 593 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 1: Still lost in the world of NWA. I don't I 594 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 1: don't want to give too much of the movie where 595 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: we did you know you did you actually go in 596 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: the room with easy No, No, I didn't explain no 597 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:34,959 Speaker 1: room to the movie. So that's how I really played up. 598 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 1: We did the movie, man, we did really happen. Okay, 599 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 1: what does that do that? Well, guess what it makes 600 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: the listener to be like, well, I need to go 601 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: see what they're talking about. What's that wrong about? Right 602 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 1: that room? You know that? That's how it's gonna be 603 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,000 Speaker 1: for the rest of y'all written. People are gonna ask 604 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: nothing but questions about the past. Now that's cool. That's 605 00:30:55,640 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: that means that hotel scene with Policia, I'm sure that 606 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:09,959 Speaker 1: is fired. I ain't the one. My wife don't need 607 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 1: to ask me about. No records. Ice Cuban f Gary Gray. 608 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: There we go.