WEBVTT - BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY - Thug Spread 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.080 Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:05.560 I'm your host, coleeen Wait, and today we have very 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:09.280 special iconic group Bone Thugs and Harmony in the building. 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:13.960 We got Crazy, Lazy and Flesh. I am beyond ecstatic 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:18.080 to even be sitting next to you guys, having let aload, 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:25.160 having Lazy do the cooking. And you know what are 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:26.440 you gonna have us eating today? 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.360 What we're gonna eat is a breakdown. Some call it 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.479 a breakdown, some call it a spread. So you got 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:37.560 your ramen noodles with a little chicken breast, a little 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.400 pinch of jalapenos, Sprinkle it with a little bit of 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.599 toritos to add a little crunch to it. You know, 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.839 I'm a grill. I'm a grill those I'm gonna put 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.560 some cheese on top, add a little flavor to it, 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.640 and we're gonna have us an old school breakdown with 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:58.640 not all they agreed. It's just like one of the 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:08.520 brokens days. 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:25.800 Problem Now this is is this well before Bowling, Thugs 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:30.360 and Harmony or is this during after? Feel me in? 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:38.679 This is Junior High the elementary junior high high school twenties, thirties, forties, 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:40.840 Eating this all our life. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.920 And especially jail especially jail House too, because that's all 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:44.680 you got, that's all. 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.480 Yeh yeah, yeah, that's hilarious. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:46.800 Yeah. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:51.880 Now, now when you're cooking this dish, I'm really curious 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:56.360 to when you're cooking this dish on this show, if 0:01:56.400 --> 0:02:00.680 you are thinking about your milestones that you have from 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.480 cooking this dish, because you guys have a lot of 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:09.840 stuff you've done. You have a Biggie Easy Tupac collaborations 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.320 Mariah Carrey. You know, we got to touch on all 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.280 these topics, but I want to know all the behind 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.079 the scenes. I don't want to hear anything you guys 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.919 said during any other interviews. I want to I want 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.079 to be in the kitchen with you guys. And I'm 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.320 hoping you guys can spell the tea. Lady. You get 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:30.320 on the cook you start cooking, and take me take 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:34.160 me back to the probably the og original time he 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:35.919 started making this dish. 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:40.960 Well, I started making this dish as early as I 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:41.480 can cook. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.280 You know, we started cooking. 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:47.400 Noodles very very early, you know, so it's from the beginning. Man, 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:48.840 we want to elaborate. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.400 I mean, you know, we was wed. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.160 That's that's all. You had when you was coming up 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.560 even you know, five six years old, coming up out 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.840 that ruder man coming out that ruder and everything. You know, 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:05.560 we was uh, from the rooter to the tutor, from 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.320 the very very very beginning. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:07.840 You say. 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.680 Sometimes you know, you know, because sometimes even as little 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.400 as a little g all you had was something that 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.120 you know, sometimes you didn't have hot water. Sometimes you 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:21.000 gotta eat that motherfucker. Excuse my French, y'all, sometimes you 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.360 gotta eat it. Just put the water in there or 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.520 whatnot and let it soften up and then go with 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.919 it like that. Sometimes you didn't have a chip. Sometimes 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.280 you definitely had a breast and uh and the ingredients 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:32.919 to go with it. 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.440 And uh so you will have to put the top 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.360 over the lid over there and just let it just 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.080 simmer down and warm water because the noodles, you know, 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.880 the longer they sit in news the water noodles sit 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.440 in water, they swell, they get soft. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:47.480 So you know what I mean. 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.880 So sometimes we didn't have the heat because we ain't 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:51.280 had gas something at the crib. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:57.160 So before all the lifetime achievements and all the accolades, 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:58.840 can you guys take me back to a time when 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.440 you were making this dish and time wasn't it wasn't 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.480 looking good and maybe you guys were just at a 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:10.880 crosshoads of despair. Maybe can any of you guys elaborate, do. 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.880 Know about the Vassilia when the Visilia went like like 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.920 we had on one of our stops. Uh, we had 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.240 a stop when we were coming out here. We had 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.440 been out here for like two maybe two and a 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.400 half maybe three months. We uh, we moved up to 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.279 Vossilia and this is before the easy e this is 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:33.400 before him taking a song and uh and uh, you 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.839 know we was we was rough necking it real tough, 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.279 real real tough up there. You know, we had came 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.560 up on the little apartment. You know that we ended 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:47.640 up ended up actually spreading graffiti on the walls and 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.960 ship the apartment was really bad. They was bad, you 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.120 know what I'm saying. They sprayed a b boy on 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.680 the wall and you know, yeah, not giving a damn 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.080 about you know, getting kicked out and like that. But yeah, 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.880 it was you know, we was doing a couple of 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.240 things to come up, come up on a meal and 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:08.760 everything and on again you know. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:10.960 We go what you mean, like robbing the piece of man. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:12.800 Yeah, yeah, we'll hit up, but we'll hit up you 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:19.680 know the eighteen nineteen Yeah, so yeah, so. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.719 It was it was four easy. 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:24.240 So it was before easy. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.400 Yeah, it was before easy. You know, we had to 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.280 do the thing, you know, the north Ridge earthquake. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.520 Had just oh I remember that. 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.240 We got we got caught up in that and then 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.840 so but we was we was we was on some 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.400 real struggle ship for real. 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.000 Yeah, no, no, you guys could so were you guys 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.680 all just living in a one bedroom apartment trying to 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:46.680 pursue music or. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.159 One bedroom two bedroom apartment that we shared. You know, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.600 it was all of us, all of us together, and 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.680 you know, we had a couple of homies that knew 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.360 somebody had to have two friends that was out here 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.080 going to school playing ball. They had was holding down 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.359 a little I forgot what type of job there was, 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.599 but they knew they knew folks that can help us 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.920 out and put us, put us in places as we 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.440 was trying to get get it, get to get to 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:12.039 our goals. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:12.279 You know. 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.520 So you know, ended up getting on a little general assistance. 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.799 You know that the opportunity came to get a little 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.320 bit of money after the earthquake hit, earthquake hit bam. 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.640 It was money available for us to get so you know, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.160 you know, we was able to kick in a little bit. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.360 First time we went shopping. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:31.560 Yeah, something like that. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:32.000 Yeah, it was. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:36.600 It was It's nice ship. It was free money, all right. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:38.200 But did any of you guys have to hold down 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:39.599 jobs when you first moved here? 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:41.800 Almost we was themn we first moved here. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.880 We thought about it, but that ain't what we was 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.440 here for. We was here to become rappers for real. 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.960 Now, was there any point in this journey where you 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.120 guys had naysayers or someone in the group starting to say, man, 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:59.040 are we crazy for pursuing this? Was there any any 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.839 room for you know, the doubt whispers? 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:05.279 I mean, just not like that. It might have been 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:09.520 like she because when we got on that greyhound just 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.920 coming from Cleveland, first time we came up on the tickets, right, 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.840 we came on the tickets to get on the greyhound, 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.440 say you know, we're gonna go ahead and get up 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.400 out of Cleveland. And it might have been the instance 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.440 when we was on that Greyhound, when we're getting close 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.560 to La where we realized, like, oh yeah, ship, dark, 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.680 what we're gonna do, is the homie's gonna call us 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.080 when we get there, when we get off the bus, 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.000 if we if we call them as they really gonna 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.720 come pick us up. We had doubts with respects to that, 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.200 No doubts in okay, what we're doing as far as 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:41.320 pursuing every measure to be able to start knocking on doors, 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.680 to be able to start approaching or talking to whoever 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.680 we needed to get to. But yeah, it was a 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.320 it was a couple of instances, like because it was 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.200 real serious, we was on some real you know, you know, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.400 you know, you know, didn't have food this day to 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.119 the next. You know, there was a long three bus 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.360 three day bus bus ride out here, so you know 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.520 we might have had on the ground. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.880 So how long till your next huge major milestone between 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.520 that time and your huge major milestone And what was 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:12.760 that major milestone? 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:14.920 Meeting? 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.080 Meeting easy was the first milestone because we was out 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.320 here homeless at that time. And then when we got 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:25.200 in the apartment for a few months, were just really 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:31.880 just moving around and we finally met easy E and 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.800 that was the really that's the start. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.880 Of we said you finally as in like you guys 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.440 were like we're gonna We're gonna get to him. 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.040 Yeah, we knew we was looking for Easy. Our mission 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.120 was when we left Cleveland, Ohio. We was our mission was. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.000 We was telling everybody in the hood, were finish go 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.800 meet Easy E. Were about to come back and do 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.720 a video. Of course we didn't know, so we was 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.360 lying like a motherfucker. 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:54.640 And this is your your homies in Cleveland. 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.320 Yeah, yes, it's like, y'all ain't gonna come back with 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:59.720 no Easy equip playing. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.280 We're telling them we watch you know, little do we know, 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.760 we speak in reality into existence by telling them, Yo, 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:11.720 we're finna come back with a record deal, We're gonna 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.360 come back with a with a whole situation, We're gonna 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.720 beyond and uh and we're gonna come back with a 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.440 bus and camera crew all of that. So you know, 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.280 you know, so this is you know, we had a 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.560 bunch of homies that was supporting us and always still 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.360 to this day. You know, even before we made it, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.880 was supporting us to the fullest. Say it was there, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.560 but you know, you might have had a few, a 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.920 few maybe one or two nay sayers here and there though, like, yeah, 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.560 y'all niggas is crazy thinking y'all finna go do anything 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:41.040 like that. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.360 So how did you guys approach them? Tell me the backstory, 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.240 the stuff that nobody knows about. Please? 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:48.560 Yes, indeed? 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.000 Well, well, Cray you want to you want to chime 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.559 in as far as like how they come about. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.600 How they come about? How did you guys catch them up? 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.640 Man? You know, we just we just kept putting in 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.520 the phone calls to his own like somebody from Cleveland 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.400 gave us his number, well the numbers of roofless records, 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.760 and we just kept calling every day, every single day 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.360 until the reception is there was like, you know, I'm 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.959 gonna make sure he called y'all back today. Y'all been 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.559 calling every day, you know, y'all, I'm gonna make sure 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.960 he called you back. And he called us backs. So 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:26.360 he called his back. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.559 Yeah, and that was that was a major situation for us, 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:34.080 because you know, we struggled and hustled real hard to 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.360 get to that point to even just get you know, 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.160 to get on the phone with him. We end up 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:43.800 getting getting him on the phone, auditioning on the phone phone. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.120 And where did you guys do it on speaker? 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.880 I think it was Joe just put the judge put 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.000 the phone out because I don't think that technology was 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.400 out back then. It was one of them phones back 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:59.360 in nineteen ninety three, nineteen ninety three, the cord on. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.760 You pick it up and you know that down and 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:04.520 you know what I'm saying, So you know, he we 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:06.440 talking and in order to hear his voice, you gotta 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.280 pass it. But when we was rapping to him and 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.440 Craig sat the phone right there and was uh, and 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.520 then uh, you know, it was spitting into him like that. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.560 But we we spoke. We spoke to him a couple 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:20.600 of times though the initial the initial conversation and lay 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.920 Lay and busy had smashed to the store, but he 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:25.640 had We had talked to him a couple of times 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.600 on the phone before we decided that. He was telling 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.640 us that uh, you know, see he was on tour 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.480 at the time and that's why it took so long 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.280 for him to hit his back, you know. So, but 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.280 he did that. The receptionist lady by the name of Keisha, 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.600 Keisha Anderson, promised us that he was gonna get there, 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.400 you know, make sure, I'm gonna make sure he called 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.000 your back. And she came true. She came through with 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.000 her promise. He called us back and he told us 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:53.800 we was on tour. Matter of fact, I'm gonna be 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.880 in Cleveland. I gotta show in Cleveland. Why don't you'll 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.920 come rock out? Y'all want to do that show with me? 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.800 So that was that was your next opportunity right there. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:02.600 That was and. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:08.160 Ground we go ease. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.960 Yeah, So he didn't actually invite us to be on 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:14.559 the show with him. He just told us he had 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:18.400 a show back home, and we decided we're gonna get 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.320 back to Cleveland so we could opened up that show 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:21.679 because we had hookups in Cleveland. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:26.680 Okay, Yeah, so it wasn't it wasn't definitely wasn't officially 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.000 eshton Stone. Yet we still had a little bit more, 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.319 a few more hurdles to jump through, so we uh 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.160 we spoke to our folks, ended up getting bus tickets 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:36.240 back home. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:37.480 I love it. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.280 So were back on the three and a half three 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.640 day trip back home. You know, we get there, folks, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.880 Hoo hooks us up to be able to get a 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.280 slot on the opening opening, one of the opening slots 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.800 on the show. We do our thing, of course, hoping 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.040 that easy get a glimpse of us and uh and 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:53.800 he didn't. 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:55.160 He did not know. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.320 He didn't, you know, because that's the way it go. 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.480 You know, you got whoever your headline are for the 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.560 shows and whatnot, they're not finna be out there, you know, 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.440 checking out no acts or whatnot. So you know, but 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.800 you know, we did what we had to do, and 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.800 uh and stuck around to watch Easy of course, watch 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.880 him do his thing, and uh and uh and they 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.440 rocked the house him Gangster Dras, the BG knockout of course, 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.680 DJ Yeller they always there, did they sang? 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.920 And so what was that next milestone that got you 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.439 got got got Easy to make. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.240 A move definitely. We was there after this. So after 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.599 they were done doing what they had to do, it 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.680 was like, okay, how we gonna make this happen and 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.000 get this get this in And so we tried to 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.600 follow him backstage. Me and Lay made it backstage to 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.360 holler at him. While we was back there, Lay start 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.520 spinning some rhymes and we had I think, knock he 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.840 was out there. DJ Yeller was out there, you know. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.360 Easy he stuck his head out the door and immediately 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.400 when he heard that sound, he stuck his head out 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.240 like yo, y all them cast That was wrapping for 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.360 me on the phone. That was that's y'all. Yeah, okay, 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.160 he invited us in. He had already had company, was 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.480 already like ten fifteen people crowd in his dressing room 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.200 and everything trying to you know, you know, trying to 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.439 pitch themselves to him and everything with me and Lay 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.040 kind of like went in there and held it down. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.360 And while while we was in there with him, I 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.680 was in his ear the whole time, like, you know, 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.240 you know, you know, you know, we got that mojo. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.320 I mean, we got that mojo right here, this next 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.280 big thing right here. You know, it's it's you know, 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.160 niggas in there, you know, trying to talk. They ship, 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.320 you know, you know, spit their game and all that, 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.280 you know, But we came out. I guess you know, 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.120 he was interested in us. 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.840 He definitely was. So take me to that first session 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.080 behind the scenes. What was going on? What was it 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:49.680 like working with Easy? Sure you don't want another pack? Lazy? 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:50.640 Yeah? I need? 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.960 Oh yeah, he's acting like he's cooking for what he's 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.000 cooking for all of us. 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.680 Look, we'll be we'll be fighting over this one pack 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:58.800 around here. 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:00.840 Yeah, can use three. 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.600 I'm like literally taking in this moment. This is such 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.680 a cool moment for me right now to see you 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:10.280 cooking this whole moment. Okay, yes, I smell it. I'm 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.720 just making did I see you put Lowry's in the water, 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:20.880 but you don't think there's enough salt in the ramin seasoning. Okay, 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.880 So take take me to that first studio session. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:28.080 That first studio session was like, you know, it took 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.320 us less than a couple of weeks to get to 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.720 complete the EP. But he let us do our thing. 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:36.400 You know, he let us do our thing. That first 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.760 studio session. It was just us. He had producers in there, 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.600 give it me. He had the producers in there, mahmieh, 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.960 DJ Unique and Kenny McLeod uh. We had ideas on 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.000 how to uh spit the beats and everything, and not 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.440 spit the beats, but tell them the sounds that we 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.200 need to h on, what to produce, on how to 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:00.920 make the sound come out on the track. We would 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.880 let him know, yo, do this, play this sound, do 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:04.720 it like this, and they would come up with the track. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:06.960 That's how the first few some of the first few 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.320 tracks was made by just humming it to him, humming 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.760 the sounds, humming the tune to him and DJ Unique 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.960 and Kenny McCloud was the was the man on the 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.320 keys and whatnot and making it happen. And then all 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.520 he came back with tracks as we as we hunted 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.000 to him and I hummed it to him. They came 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.600 back with the full tracks, you know, loaded, so you know, 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.520 but he let us do our things off the rip. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.760 I don't think he got in the studio with us 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.720 as far as on the foot of love of money. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.080 You know, Easy was the business man that you know 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.320 that put the whole situation together when he asked us 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.960 what y'all want to do? He let he cut us 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.320 loose in the studio. He let he let us. He 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:50.320 let us run it and do it and do what 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.400 we had to do and come up with the records 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.840 and the ideas that we needed to come up with 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.240 for the Creeping On to come up and you know, 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:01.040 to make it the eternal, the Eternal East nineteen ninety 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.680 ninety turnal record happened. You know, because we knew Easy 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.720 for about fifteens, maybe eighteen months, the last eighteen months 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.600 of his life. We was close. We was like brother. 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.200 He was like the sixth ball member. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:18.520 So when you look at just because I have to 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.200 cover a lot in a little bit of time. When 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:25.520 you take you've worked with Biggie Easy, Tupac, Mariah, I 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:29.600 have to throw Maria in there, man, Biggie Easy. Who 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:35.760 am I missing? Tupac Easy E Mariah Biggie Yeah, okay, 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.600 So I want you guys to eat. You could choose 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:42.680 your person and tell me, like, what was the most 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:46.800 memorable part about working with that artist? You could go 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:47.960 first crazy. 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:53.119 I mean to me, my most memorable was none of 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.840 those was none of those collaborations. It was it was 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.040 with Phil Collins. Really, just so we did with Phil 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:03.840 Collins that was memorable because nobody was expecting it. Phil 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.040 Collins had never done anything with any rappers ever before, 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.840 and we asked him to use the song and he agreed. 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.920 So we pushed the envelope and asked like, let's see 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:17.480 if he'll be in the video, and he was like, 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:20.080 the only way I'll be in this video is if 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.240 y'all come to Switzerland, and we was like, we'll be 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.119 there next week. And Phil was there, like you. 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:32.000 Got on a plane that time though, Oh yeah. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.320 Phil was there. He was kicking it, man, he was 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.679 He was hanging out with us, just like and he 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.119 told us the reason he cleared the song because it 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:39.879 was one of his favorite songs. And he was like, 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.399 I think if you guys liked it, you must have 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.360 good taste in music. So I was like, okay, yeah, 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:50.520 that's what's up. Phil. We called him field Bone phield Bomb. Wow. 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.400 Wow, field Boone had a castle. He ain't had no 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:57.080 match if field Bone had a castle. 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:01.320 Oh yeah yeah. They called him Surfield, surf. 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:02.119 Field, surf Field. 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.240 That's amazing, that's yeah. What about you? 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.119 Well, I'd like to think that it's it's it's a 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:13.480 few of them. You know. I got had the the 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:15.960 session that I had with a big pun of course, 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:19.119 like but when he did did uh And you know, 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.000 I'm gonna say Biggie Smalls because that that session was 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.200 absolutely stone cold rock and roll. 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:25.680 You had. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.160 You had, you had the Junior Mafia up in there, 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.359 Little Season them up in there, Puffy up in there, 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.880 big uh uh uh uh, Biggie Smalls up in there, 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.480 and it was a cold man. We had the Hennes Seed, 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.639 we had the we had the end though it was 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:44.960 it was one of those sessions and everything. It was 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.360 real crazy, you know, twenty thirty deep and you had 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:49.920 Mo Thug. We got the mol Thug records up in there, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.080 and uh and it was just one of those uh uh, 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.639 super super duper nice. You know, we got super blowed 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.720 up in there, and you know so but dealing with 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.840 and I got I got others though, you know, Big 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.119 Pun too, you know when he came through, went to 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:10.080 go do a record with Fat Joe. Fat Joe brought 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.879 Big Pun in there and and uh he ended up 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.040 getting on the record, writing the hook for the song 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.520 No Mercy on my solo album and everything. 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.440 What in particular about those sessions stood out that made 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:22.399 him more iconic. 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.919 The genius. The genius first of all, the genius in 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:28.560 uh in a big pun because he he came up 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.360 with the idea for the record, you feel what I'm saying. 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.159 He wrote the hook to it on the spot, and 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.639 not even though he was writing at the time, he panted, 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:39.040 He panted, just in a matter of minutes, said I 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.920 got something for the hook. And the dude was a genius, 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.240 you feel what I'm saying, you know, and and helping 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.359 us come up with with the topic. And uh, he 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.359 did that and it was his debut. It was as 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:55.520 a professional world debut on the Flesher Mone solo album. 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:58.080 So you know that that broke, that broke, big pun 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.159 and you you know it was the rest was history. 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:23.640 Yeah, okay, and then lazy I would say, we had 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:26.600 so many I would say probably Mariah Carey. 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:29.680 Thank you. I was, I was, I was manifested. I said, 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:31.600 please say Mariah please. 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:32.479 It was crazy. 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:35.520 And Wish had already had like did most of the 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:36.520 song already. 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:37.240 You know what I'm saying. 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:41.480 So when we came in, it was like everything was 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:46.760 basically laid out. But I remember Mariah Carey. This might 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:49.840 sound ad, but she had the greatest gifts in the world. 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:53.720 You know, she showereders would love like she really spoiled 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:57.280 us on that session on the Silverad, I only use 0:21:57.320 --> 0:21:58.040 a half. 0:21:57.760 --> 0:21:59.960 Of yeah because you had it all that long. 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:05.760 It was all that did you see that sprinkle game ahead? 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:11.000 I said, So you're saying, because Mariah, what you guys 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:14.360 made the session comfortable was her personality. It was like, 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:15.920 was she like the homie. 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:17.680 She was the homie the great home. 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:21.080 She was the host with the most you know what 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:25.959 I mean, her kindness, her generosity and then the skill 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:29.440 and Wish how she did doing her thing, you know 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:31.800 what I mean, and then she started flipping the flow 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:36.080 so that the impression that was left on me was like, 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:40.520 this girl can sing that how I know, rap kind 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:42.760 of and sing it, you know what I'm saying. So 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:45.720 it was like it was incredible to see what she 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:48.359 was doing, because you know, that was one of the 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:51.159 first super duper stars that told me. She was like, 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:54.760 I'm gonna do this like crazy, you know what I'm saying. 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:57.080 So that was one of them, that was one of 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:02.119 them sessions that was unforgettable because she was Mariah Carey. 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:08.400 Yeah, yeah, let me tell you, Maria. I'm always gonna 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:10.520 be a fan of like New Yorkers, of course, but 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:13.080 Mariah is not only talented, but the fact that she 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:17.040 could write so well preaking well, you gotta give I 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:20.640 love a good writer in this age of non writers, 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:22.600 do you guys know who the writers and the non 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:30.320 writers are? Okay, I'm gonna throw some names. This is 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:36.560 gonna get crazy, Okay, Drake, come on, break my heart writer, writer. 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:38.679 Some people are some people. 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:41.920 Have been debating whether he is writing his lyrics to some. 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:43.600 Of these cats, some of these some of them you know, 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:46.320 got sometimes they sometimes they got writers both. 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:47.879 Yeah, you've heard both. 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:50.760 But I kind of see it like like this, Like 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:53.960 if he got a group of people that he hanged with, 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:57.120 a producer he deal with every day, he probably writing 0:23:57.160 --> 0:23:59.159 his raps and being dope with it, you know what 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:01.960 I mean. But if it's homeby that's like us, we 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:04.440 in the group, Craig can come in be like that 0:24:04.600 --> 0:24:06.480 line could be stronger, you know what I'm saying. 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:07.680 So you do. 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:11.439 Have help besides yourself sometimes along the way. So but 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:15.720 I think for the majority of the part, all them songs, 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:18.480 he ain't write none of them or write mostly. 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:20.879 I mean, I definitely think he rollmost. I mean, I 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:22.840 think he's a great rapper. I hate his singing, but 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:23.280 you know. 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:25.640 I think I think had a lot of help. 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:25.800 Though. 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:28.359 You can't be in a situation like that and not. 0:24:28.560 --> 0:24:31.640 Have still, I mean, yeah, especially the longer you get 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:34.159 in your career, does it get harder and harder to 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:34.560 keep it? 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:35.080 No? 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:37.200 No, it don't, you know, because if you love the craft, 0:24:37.200 --> 0:24:39.159 you're gonna be able to come up with ideas and 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:42.240 keep the pedal to the middle. But that's not the knock, 0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:45.280 like catching like you know, you're gonna have people that 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:48.160 present ideas. You know, you know you're gonna and even 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:51.159 as an artist, you're gonna want to welcome sometimes you know, 0:24:51.359 --> 0:24:53.959 you know, different motherfuckers that if they got an idea 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:57.280 something for a record, let him, let him, let him shine. 0:24:57.480 --> 0:24:59.439 Yeah. I just want to point out that a lady 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:03.600 just added, is that mayonnaise or miracle with he added 0:25:03.640 --> 0:25:08.520 mayonnaise to the ramen with the jalapenos, the chicken, and 0:25:09.560 --> 0:25:12.960 he's adding mustard. I am highly getting nervous about his 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:16.640 ramen right now. Okay, okay, what do we call this ramen? Again? 0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:17.320 What do we call this? 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:19.600 The way you love me in the morning? 0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:24.959 That's hilarious? Okay, So okay, let's see who else can 0:25:25.000 --> 0:25:27.920 I throw out that it's controversial? Well, you know, I've 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:31.200 already asked this question before, but I've gotten answer is Carti. 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:32.760 I love Cardi. 0:25:32.960 --> 0:25:34.680 I think she writes a little bit of her stuff, 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:35.880 but I definitely think. 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:37.720 She Yes, she got a good writer. 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:40.800 Yeah, she got she got you know you know. 0:25:41.520 --> 0:25:43.639 Yeah. So there was this big thing on the internet 0:25:43.640 --> 0:25:47.199 recently where I think most Steph said that Drake is 0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:50.960 considered pop What do you what do you guys think 0:25:51.160 --> 0:25:54.199 I'm gonna tell you right now, I completely disagree. I 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:56.520 think the first rapper that ever went pop was fifty 0:25:56.560 --> 0:25:58.359 cent And I stand here and I stand by it, 0:25:58.359 --> 0:26:00.280 and I stamp it, and I hate it that he 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:03.359 hated on John Rule while being pop. He was like 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:06.439 a super hypocrite during that time. I'm not trying to. 0:26:06.640 --> 0:26:10.159 I mean, like, you mean he has some he have 0:26:10.280 --> 0:26:11.359 some pop records. 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:12.679 Yeah, so do we. 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:16.800 It ain't to me. It's really not the artist's fault 0:26:16.840 --> 0:26:19.680 when you cross over. We wasn't trying to cross over 0:26:19.680 --> 0:26:22.000 when we made cross roads, but we crossed over. So 0:26:22.119 --> 0:26:24.840 like sometimes the artists just get good music and it 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:27.880 takes them there, you know, and some people get mad 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:29.040 about it. 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:31.000 And I do. I like that answer too, because it's like, 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:33.160 at the end of the day, it's art, it's expression, right, 0:26:33.640 --> 0:26:36.439 and you know, however it comes out is how it 0:26:36.520 --> 0:26:38.320 comes out, you know. 0:26:38.520 --> 0:26:40.640 And that's the thing about hip hop. See, hip hop 0:26:40.680 --> 0:26:45.040 takes on all types of different fashions and everything. Just 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:47.760 just like I said, you know, you're gonna go at 0:26:47.800 --> 0:26:51.400 some point some of us do crossover, but it's still 0:26:51.480 --> 0:26:54.040 hip hop. But you got to recognize the fact that, 0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:56.320 you know, show that love, Give them them flowers. The 0:26:56.400 --> 0:26:58.919 ones that did make it that they they they they 0:26:59.480 --> 0:27:03.600 they pre hell into that that that that pop arena. 0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:06.240 You feel what I'm saying, the call they took, the culture, 0:27:06.280 --> 0:27:09.000 the culture took in there. You feel what I'm saying. So, 0:27:09.160 --> 0:27:10.960 but it's still it's still hip hop. 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:14.080 And that's what I think people want. People want to 0:27:14.119 --> 0:27:18.280 hold hip hop hostage as this like gangster tough thing, 0:27:18.520 --> 0:27:21.679 and you know, it never really I mean, if you 0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:23.959 think about the origination of like Ello cool J, it 0:27:24.000 --> 0:27:28.520 was never originally meant to be just this angry, you know, 0:27:28.640 --> 0:27:29.640 stereotypical thing. 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:32.280 So, you know, I talk about hip hop is like 0:27:33.440 --> 0:27:35.720 I understand that hip hop is just turning fifty years 0:27:35.720 --> 0:27:38.080 old and human years that's old. But then like when 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:40.480 you were dealing with a genre that's not old at all, 0:27:41.240 --> 0:27:44.639 hip hop is still very young and then mature. We 0:27:44.720 --> 0:27:47.760 still don't even understand how to treat the legends yet, 0:27:48.359 --> 0:27:50.520 you know what I'm saying, Like, so we need to 0:27:50.640 --> 0:27:57.719 understand that different genres can coexist within one genre. People say, 0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:00.560 you could have hip hop, you could have rap, you 0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:04.800 can have conscious music, you can have gangster music. You 0:28:04.840 --> 0:28:08.320 know what I'm saying, like whatever you do, it's all 0:28:08.359 --> 0:28:11.160 going under the umbrella. Like hip hop birthed a lot 0:28:11.200 --> 0:28:14.199 of things, Like it just didn't stay the same. It 0:28:14.240 --> 0:28:17.080 shouldn't have no exactly, it birthed a lot of things. 0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:19.160 I am just going back to what you said though 0:28:19.200 --> 0:28:23.960 you said they don't know how to treat the legends. 0:28:24.480 --> 0:28:27.520 Can you talk more on it. 0:28:27.520 --> 0:28:32.320 It's just you know, takes spurts for instance. You know, 0:28:32.520 --> 0:28:41.160 like or other genres, you never hear country artists disrespecting 0:28:41.200 --> 0:28:43.640 the ones that paved the way for them. You never 0:28:43.680 --> 0:28:46.640 hear rock and roll artists disrespecting the walls that paved 0:28:46.680 --> 0:28:50.360 the way. R and B today you made because it's 0:28:50.400 --> 0:28:52.160 a different kind of R and B going down. But 0:28:52.320 --> 0:28:55.760 like you know, like you never hear that, Like so why, 0:28:55.960 --> 0:28:59.440 like that's something that needs to stop because it's really immature. 0:29:00.120 --> 0:29:02.080 It's really i mature if you think about it, Like, 0:29:02.160 --> 0:29:05.840 because this world is big enough, this industry has grown, 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:08.960 it's big enough for everybody. Yep, it's a new artist. 0:29:09.160 --> 0:29:11.440 I've never known they got a million followers every day, 0:29:11.480 --> 0:29:13.880 But where does Nigga come from? But you know it's 0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:14.640 big enough for that. 0:29:14.840 --> 0:29:18.440 You feel that's an interesting that's an interesting take if 0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:20.760 you think about it, because you don't hear other genres 0:29:20.800 --> 0:29:25.000 attack each other never, never, never, Now do you think 0:29:25.040 --> 0:29:27.720 in hip hop has started as a publicity stunt or 0:29:28.040 --> 0:29:30.520 because I know you guys did all the guys that 0:29:30.560 --> 0:29:33.200 were like beefing at some point? You had all of them? 0:29:34.680 --> 0:29:39.080 Well, battling. Battling is fun, that's part of hip hop. 0:29:39.200 --> 0:29:40.520 Yeah, that's part of. 0:29:40.480 --> 0:29:42.120 Hip hop, you know what I'm saying. But like like 0:29:42.960 --> 0:29:47.840 when it goes outside of my lyrics versus your lyrics. 0:29:48.120 --> 0:29:52.000 You know, disrespectful life in the streets and just and 0:29:52.480 --> 0:29:55.600 just like the respect some point like period, Like I've 0:29:55.640 --> 0:29:58.120 heard some artists say things about Tupac that they didn't 0:29:58.120 --> 0:30:00.959 even have to say, Like, Okay, if you don't if 0:30:01.000 --> 0:30:02.680 you don't listen to Tupac, that's cool. 0:30:03.080 --> 0:30:06.520 Why disrespect this man and he's dead? Yeah, you know 0:30:06.520 --> 0:30:07.800 what I'm saying. Like, you know what I'm saying. So 0:30:08.000 --> 0:30:10.200 if if you don't like him, if you don't like him, 0:30:10.240 --> 0:30:11.840 that's cool. Like I don't like a lot of these 0:30:11.920 --> 0:30:14.720 artists out right now, but I don't you don't hear 0:30:14.760 --> 0:30:21.680 me on, but but you respect him because these like 0:30:21.720 --> 0:30:24.160 these people is out here, you know, they feeding their families. 0:30:24.200 --> 0:30:27.200 You know, they they they they could be doing way 0:30:27.520 --> 0:30:30.520 way worse things than like doing what they doing, you know. 0:30:30.600 --> 0:30:33.960 So so I don't never hate nobody. If you make it, 0:30:34.360 --> 0:30:35.479 you made it for a reason. 0:30:36.720 --> 0:30:39.720 What keeps you guys strong together for so long? 0:30:39.960 --> 0:30:44.800 But the brotherhood, the relationships that we carried all these years, 0:30:44.880 --> 0:30:47.760 you know, being uh, you know best friends were best 0:30:47.800 --> 0:30:50.120 for you know, lazy and I wish the lazy my 0:30:50.160 --> 0:30:53.320 little brother, wish my cousin Craig. You know, we've been 0:30:53.360 --> 0:30:57.720 doing him since like seventh grade. And of course Busy 0:30:57.800 --> 0:31:00.080 came into the fold. He was about maybe ten and 0:31:00.160 --> 0:31:02.840 eleven years old, maybe twelve years old when we first 0:31:02.920 --> 0:31:06.720 met Busy. So the brotherhood has been there for a 0:31:06.800 --> 0:31:08.680 long time, more than half our lives. 0:31:08.920 --> 0:31:11.280 And do you think that there's like I have a 0:31:11.400 --> 0:31:13.800 girlfriends that i'm my best friends are all based in 0:31:13.800 --> 0:31:15.880 New York. I'm from New York. Then there's like, I 0:31:15.920 --> 0:31:19.000 feel like, what keeps our relationship so strong is that 0:31:19.040 --> 0:31:22.760 there's an unspoken moral and ethics to the relationship where 0:31:22.800 --> 0:31:25.840 it's like certain boundaries it's not spoken, but we just 0:31:25.880 --> 0:31:28.680 don't cross them. Do you think that that level of 0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:32.080 respect and integrity is what keeps your guys relationship strong. 0:31:32.640 --> 0:31:33.680 Yeah, absolutely, But. 0:31:33.840 --> 0:31:36.880 It's the respect for one another, the respect for what 0:31:36.960 --> 0:31:40.320 we bring to the table, the love we have for God, 0:31:40.960 --> 0:31:44.560 you know what I mean. Because we understand these these songs, 0:31:44.640 --> 0:31:49.080 these these milestones, as you said, we understand these to 0:31:49.080 --> 0:31:53.320 be blessings, you know, because we come from romy noodles, 0:31:53.720 --> 0:31:56.000 you know what I'm saying. We come from a place 0:31:56.040 --> 0:32:00.920 where having things and being fortunate to have what you 0:32:01.480 --> 0:32:04.320 not what you want, but what you need. Being fortunate 0:32:04.360 --> 0:32:07.040 to have what you need. And we wasn't privted at 0:32:07.080 --> 0:32:11.080 all the time. So if he can contribute anything to me, 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:14.640 it make me stronger, you know. And or he can 0:32:14.720 --> 0:32:19.040 contribute anything to me, it's like the iron sharpened iron, 0:32:19.600 --> 0:32:21.320 you know what I mean. And we understood that. We 0:32:21.360 --> 0:32:24.920 always understood that we were stronger together. We knew we 0:32:24.960 --> 0:32:28.760 was dope apart, but when we came together, the crowds 0:32:28.800 --> 0:32:31.959 got bigger. We saw that when we came together, like 0:32:32.440 --> 0:32:35.600 when we helped each other in the studio with the 0:32:35.640 --> 0:32:38.440 method of writing, and you know what I'm saying, All that, 0:32:38.600 --> 0:32:44.520 like those experiences is what is really what. 0:32:44.480 --> 0:32:45.920 Kept our group together. 0:32:46.040 --> 0:32:49.200 The struggle was real from the first from the jump, 0:32:49.280 --> 0:32:51.800 I mean, and then we were family. On top of that, 0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:54.200 we were the only ones we had to lean on. 0:32:54.280 --> 0:32:56.880 So when it was time to go steal some Romen noodles, 0:32:57.320 --> 0:33:00.080 I go get the cheese. He go get through roben noodles. 0:33:00.440 --> 0:33:02.560 You know what I'm saying. You get the jalapenos, and 0:33:02.600 --> 0:33:05.240 we just distrack the people in the store and we 0:33:05.320 --> 0:33:06.800 get and we work as a team. 0:33:07.240 --> 0:33:10.760 So sometimes you have great and I've learned this now 0:33:10.760 --> 0:33:12.960 that I'm approaching almost forty guys. You know, I'm not 0:33:13.040 --> 0:33:16.200 I'm at the biggest mouse on yet, but I've learned 0:33:16.240 --> 0:33:18.920 that sometimes you have people that are great when you're down, 0:33:19.040 --> 0:33:21.080 and then you have people that are great when you're up. 0:33:21.160 --> 0:33:23.200 So when you guys were up, what were some of 0:33:23.240 --> 0:33:25.040 the challenges you guys faced as a group. 0:33:27.000 --> 0:33:33.160 I mean just just just being you know, people just 0:33:33.200 --> 0:33:36.760 trying to pull us in different directions basically, you know, 0:33:36.880 --> 0:33:38.960 like and you know, we had a lot of stuff 0:33:39.040 --> 0:33:41.880 going on, Like once a solo album started and we 0:33:41.920 --> 0:33:44.760 started having solo careerge it was it was hard to 0:33:44.760 --> 0:33:46.880 pull us back together because you know, everybody was doing 0:33:46.960 --> 0:33:50.000 something at the same time. But we always realized, you 0:33:50.000 --> 0:33:52.560 know that we had to come back and make sure 0:33:52.640 --> 0:33:56.960 the home base was cool, which was bold, and we 0:33:57.160 --> 0:33:59.160 just always came back together like that always. 0:34:00.560 --> 0:34:03.440 But it blew up on us so so big and 0:34:03.480 --> 0:34:06.360 everything and whether we was ready for that type of 0:34:06.400 --> 0:34:12.080 stardom of fame or not, it was something that took 0:34:12.160 --> 0:34:14.400 us into a hole. We knew it was gonna happen 0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:16.560 one way or the other, but it just took us 0:34:16.600 --> 0:34:20.279 to a whole another stratosphere and everything that came with 0:34:20.320 --> 0:34:23.320 the territory, and you know, had its ups and downs 0:34:23.360 --> 0:34:26.240 and everything I even did, but went through my spell, 0:34:26.400 --> 0:34:28.839 ended up going to the pen, came home, was able 0:34:28.840 --> 0:34:31.880 to pick up the pieces to the puzzle all over again. 0:34:33.080 --> 0:34:36.560 But the experience and all that it was that, you know, 0:34:36.600 --> 0:34:39.279 and this is our thirtieth year, you know, we're celebrating 0:34:39.360 --> 0:34:43.040 right now, thirty years of bone Thugs and harmony right now, 0:34:43.160 --> 0:34:47.520 twenty twenty four. So we learned how to deal with 0:34:47.560 --> 0:34:50.640 the snakes in the grass, the motherfuckers trying to divide 0:34:50.680 --> 0:34:54.440 this and divide that, while still respecting and having support 0:34:54.520 --> 0:34:57.320 for one another for what we're trying to do individually 0:34:58.160 --> 0:35:02.840 and having and having right now, you know, we respect 0:35:02.840 --> 0:35:05.359 and love each other enough, you know, to let each 0:35:05.440 --> 0:35:08.160 one of us be the individuals we are and bring 0:35:08.200 --> 0:35:12.360 in certain handle certain situations, and delegate certain situations, and 0:35:12.400 --> 0:35:15.120 trust each other enough to do and you know, help 0:35:15.200 --> 0:35:18.000 continue to build the brand no matter what it is. 0:35:18.440 --> 0:35:21.200 And you guys are all individuals. So have you guys 0:35:21.280 --> 0:35:24.040 learned to recognize how one person moves and go, oh, 0:35:24.080 --> 0:35:26.080 that's how crazy moves, that's how lazy moves, that's how 0:35:26.080 --> 0:35:28.799 flesh moves. Well, you know he gonna do this, you know, 0:35:29.160 --> 0:35:34.120 And it's more of a love and acceptance versus aggravation. 0:35:34.440 --> 0:35:37.720 I think we in the beginning it was aggravation because 0:35:37.760 --> 0:35:41.120 we was together twenty four seven for about ten years straight, 0:35:41.840 --> 0:35:45.160 you know what I'm saying. And then it became, you know, 0:35:46.040 --> 0:35:50.279 we start understanding each other individually and how we move, 0:35:50.480 --> 0:35:54.480 like why his characteristic complement mind well, while you know 0:35:54.520 --> 0:35:57.080 what I'm saying, So yeah, it was. It became a 0:35:57.120 --> 0:36:03.120 respect thing because we went from teenagers moving a thousand 0:36:03.120 --> 0:36:06.760 miles per hour with all these different changes, people whispering 0:36:06.800 --> 0:36:09.279 in your ears telling you this and telling you that, 0:36:09.680 --> 0:36:12.080 you know, we went through these things, but at the 0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:16.600 same time, the respect was there, you know. So once 0:36:16.640 --> 0:36:20.000 we got grown, start having kids and started seeing how 0:36:20.040 --> 0:36:22.759 we moved differently from each other, and then we knew 0:36:22.800 --> 0:36:25.960 how to respect you know, each other's moves. 0:36:26.600 --> 0:36:29.880 Now, I know some of you guys are dropping solo albums. 0:36:31.880 --> 0:36:34.400 When you guys dropped solo albums in the past, was 0:36:34.400 --> 0:36:37.359 there any I feel like I'm really reaching. I don't 0:36:37.360 --> 0:36:39.279 want to sound like I'm tearing you guys apart, but 0:36:39.719 --> 0:36:42.840 I really when I think of relationships, they're so complex, 0:36:42.880 --> 0:36:45.080 so I have to touch on these things. But is 0:36:45.120 --> 0:36:48.480 there ever any rivalry going on when there's solo projects? 0:36:49.080 --> 0:36:49.120 No? 0:36:49.360 --> 0:36:52.480 I think we support each other. We've always supported each 0:36:52.520 --> 0:36:55.440 other one in all of our endeavors. When it comes 0:36:55.480 --> 0:36:58.640 to that, you know, you know, even though I was 0:36:58.680 --> 0:37:00.600 the first one to kick it off with the solo 0:37:01.000 --> 0:37:03.920 ventures and I had the support of my brothers, they featured, 0:37:04.280 --> 0:37:06.560 We feature on each other. Yeah, you know, you know, 0:37:06.600 --> 0:37:09.120 whenever the case may be, we present. You know, we 0:37:09.239 --> 0:37:11.560 produce each other. We produce records for each other, We 0:37:11.920 --> 0:37:14.359 produce it. You know, we give each other's concepts. So 0:37:14.400 --> 0:37:19.040 when it comes to our individual tracks, hey, we're there. 0:37:19.520 --> 0:37:20.640 We in each other's corner. 0:37:21.320 --> 0:37:28.840 I'm just looking over it, lazy and he's fully, man, 0:37:28.880 --> 0:37:31.920 I put too many. I saw you dicing them and 0:37:32.000 --> 0:37:33.120 dicing them and dicing them. 0:37:33.160 --> 0:37:34.200 You can't never put too many. 0:37:34.640 --> 0:37:40.439 I'm just I don't like it how either, Craig. Craig, 0:37:40.480 --> 0:37:42.120 why do you keep moving so far away from me 0:37:43.239 --> 0:37:44.360 even in the shot? 0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:46.360 You know what? This meal is? 0:37:46.520 --> 0:37:46.880 Ready? 0:37:47.040 --> 0:37:50.200 All right, let's certainly yeah, yeah, we're gonna judge it, 0:37:50.239 --> 0:37:56.480 all right. His noodles look soft. Everybody he was, he 0:37:56.680 --> 0:37:59.040 was literally like, I wish the camera. I hope the 0:37:59.080 --> 0:38:03.560 camera call. How into your cooking you were? You look 0:38:03.640 --> 0:38:06.040 like you in another life you wanted to be a chef. 0:38:07.040 --> 0:38:09.120 In this life, I still want to be a chef. 0:38:10.760 --> 0:38:15.160 You might just want to get searched around boat. Yeah, 0:38:15.360 --> 0:38:17.000 take your eat the whole ball. 0:38:17.440 --> 0:38:18.239 There's another boat. 0:38:18.520 --> 0:38:22.960 Hilarious. Yes, you'll be eating. Nose be running. 0:38:24.400 --> 0:38:30.040 Either, the nose be running. Yeah, Like I just taste tester, 0:38:31.400 --> 0:38:33.080 because I'm usually you know. 0:38:33.000 --> 0:38:35.280 What I think? Right here, let me get your spoon. 0:38:36.760 --> 0:38:42.160 Let's see, all right, let's try it taste. I'm gonna 0:38:42.160 --> 0:38:44.160 try and avoid the hollow penos because I'm like crazy, 0:38:44.280 --> 0:38:48.080 I'm not trying to eat something hot. 0:38:48.120 --> 0:38:53.759 Avoid its damn good bus down like good, all right. 0:38:56.160 --> 0:38:56.640 You know what. 0:38:58.800 --> 0:39:03.560 Good good spikes you though, my goodness, my goodness, you 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:08.680 can't even You're right, you're gonna even avoid the But 0:39:08.719 --> 0:39:12.080 you know what, it's good the last person that made 0:39:12.120 --> 0:39:14.160 Ramen on the show. I really enjoyed it and I'm 0:39:14.200 --> 0:39:16.719 not gonna lie. The bust down makes it into the 0:39:16.719 --> 0:39:21.640 Olympics of Roman. Yo, lazy, I'm thoroughly impressed. 0:39:22.239 --> 0:39:23.320 We could have used. 0:39:25.880 --> 0:39:29.200 With the sorry jeans, with the put a little little 0:39:29.239 --> 0:39:31.560 olives on there, you know, but like I said, we. 0:39:31.560 --> 0:39:32.040 Ain't have a. 0:39:33.920 --> 0:39:34.440 You know what I mean? 0:39:36.719 --> 0:39:38.560 You know what I think really makes it unique is 0:39:38.560 --> 0:39:43.200 the cheese. Okay, but my goodness, if you would not 0:39:43.280 --> 0:39:46.200 have put so many peppers. Me and Crazy but really 0:39:46.360 --> 0:39:49.759 enjoyed this, right, like, don't you want to eat it? 0:39:49.800 --> 0:39:51.319 But you're like, man, I know it's gonna hurt. 0:39:51.680 --> 0:39:54.320 Well, y'all know for me, right. 0:39:54.520 --> 0:39:58.120 You guys are hilarious. So let's talk upcoming projects. 0:40:00.320 --> 0:40:04.480 Yes, right now, I have a solo EP out it's 0:40:04.520 --> 0:40:08.160 called Living Legend out on all streaming platforms. Make sure 0:40:08.239 --> 0:40:13.839 y'all go rock that. And they has an album out 0:40:13.880 --> 0:40:18.000 called Hypnotic Rhythms that's on all streaming platforms. We just 0:40:19.280 --> 0:40:22.160 we just leaked a brand new Bonn Thugs and Harmony 0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:27.600 Harmony single to the radio today called all Shit. You know, 0:40:27.800 --> 0:40:29.719 we're getting ready to go to the studio with Craig 0:40:30.440 --> 0:40:31.080 to jump on. 0:40:31.600 --> 0:40:35.000 You have a project that you have a project coming 0:40:35.040 --> 0:40:37.799 out in April called Chasing the. 0:40:37.800 --> 0:40:40.120 Devil, Chasing the Devil. 0:40:39.960 --> 0:40:42.560 Chasing the Devil. Yeah, it's exactly a follow up to 0:40:42.600 --> 0:40:45.479 what you did get a volume one. This is volume two. 0:40:46.160 --> 0:40:49.640 Chasing the Devil is basically talking about how people literally 0:40:49.719 --> 0:40:52.000 chasing the devil, but they but they don't even know it, 0:40:52.000 --> 0:40:53.960 you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, that's what's up. 0:40:54.280 --> 0:40:57.080 I feel like the world we live in now, people 0:40:57.280 --> 0:40:59.480 are chasing the devil, but they're almost proud of. 0:40:59.440 --> 0:41:00.880 It, exactly talking. 0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:03.400 About that, like they are literally like, yeah, I'm doing it, 0:41:03.440 --> 0:41:04.200 and yes I know. 0:41:06.920 --> 0:41:07.440 No shame. 0:41:07.560 --> 0:41:09.400 So he may stream now these days. 0:41:09.520 --> 0:41:12.920 So you guys, you guys hear about the Illuminati and 0:41:12.960 --> 0:41:13.279 all that. 0:41:13.719 --> 0:41:16.560 Yeah, but I don't. I don't really get caught up 0:41:16.560 --> 0:41:19.319 in Illuminati because this is how I look at that real. 0:41:19.400 --> 0:41:20.960 That's all I want to know is how to look 0:41:21.000 --> 0:41:23.239 at it. I mean, if it was they invite no 0:41:23.320 --> 0:41:27.200 niggas to it. Yeah, period. They ain't invite no black 0:41:27.200 --> 0:41:30.160 folks to it. So all these people talking about this Illuminati, 0:41:30.320 --> 0:41:35.200 and how come whenever black people get money they just 0:41:35.280 --> 0:41:37.239 can't earn it? Why why does it have to be 0:41:37.280 --> 0:41:39.360 tied to the Illuminati. We don't say all the you 0:41:39.360 --> 0:41:41.319 know what I'm saying, all the other people that did 0:41:41.400 --> 0:41:43.960 get rich, all the other colors, we don't throw them 0:41:44.000 --> 0:41:46.960 to the Illuminati. We say, they are hard workers and 0:41:47.120 --> 0:41:49.920 they work for their money. So why is it different 0:41:49.920 --> 0:41:53.759 when we blow up and be real successful in what 0:41:53.800 --> 0:41:56.360 we do, all of a sudden we worship the devil 0:41:56.440 --> 0:42:00.879 and we joined the Illuminati. It's probably yeah. 0:42:01.680 --> 0:42:03.560 And you know, you gotta understand that the most of 0:42:03.600 --> 0:42:06.960 what you're seeing out there, cut the damn TV off man, 0:42:07.040 --> 0:42:09.279 cut the damn news off, cut that ship off, cut 0:42:09.360 --> 0:42:12.920 that ship off, and learn how to dial in, you know, 0:42:13.080 --> 0:42:16.239 challenge yourself to put your goddamn phone down, you know, 0:42:16.320 --> 0:42:18.279 for a while, and just sit there in silence for 0:42:18.360 --> 0:42:21.840 maybe five minutes. But it's the propaganda out there, and 0:42:21.880 --> 0:42:26.120 then come with one boogie man after the other, and 0:42:26.160 --> 0:42:28.759 it's all and it's you know, and it's and it's 0:42:28.760 --> 0:42:31.200 a mind war. It's an information war. It's like it's 0:42:31.280 --> 0:42:34.600 it's it's it's information on it. It's a battle for 0:42:34.680 --> 0:42:36.680 the mind, it's a battle for the heart. And yeah, 0:42:37.360 --> 0:42:39.600 we know God is real. The devil is real too. 0:42:40.280 --> 0:42:42.600 You gotta know how to balance yourself with respect to 0:42:42.719 --> 0:42:46.160 what you gotta do. You're gonna succeed, but you're gonna 0:42:46.160 --> 0:42:49.359 you're gonna put together a podcast. Well, are you gonna 0:42:49.360 --> 0:42:51.560 put together that podcast or not? Are you gonna put 0:42:51.600 --> 0:42:53.640 together do what you need to do for your family 0:42:53.719 --> 0:42:56.239 or not? And you know, just because you make it 0:42:56.280 --> 0:42:58.160 over the top like crazy, say that, don't got no 0:42:58.360 --> 0:43:02.239 you know that whatever this illuminatih F to them, Man, 0:43:02.280 --> 0:43:04.960 you got you make your own illuminati. We are own 0:43:05.040 --> 0:43:08.200 illuminati because they trying to stop you from doing what 0:43:08.239 --> 0:43:08.920 you gotta do. 0:43:09.680 --> 0:43:14.800 What is something that someone wouldn't know about you guys 0:43:14.840 --> 0:43:17.240 based on your music? Like what's a fun like something 0:43:17.320 --> 0:43:20.319 like if like, what is something I don't would never 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:26.400 know about lazy h I mean besides that he's a 0:43:26.400 --> 0:43:30.200 good cook. I want more, but you can put more 0:43:30.239 --> 0:43:36.960 in my plate. It's so good. But yeah, what is 0:43:37.000 --> 0:43:38.719 something that we don't know? We wouldn't know? 0:43:39.560 --> 0:43:44.000 Well that I pray all day every day all through 0:43:44.000 --> 0:43:46.480 the day, while I'm driving, while I'm in the shower. 0:43:48.800 --> 0:43:51.880 People don't People don't understand about me. 0:43:52.600 --> 0:43:55.920 You know that my main thing and my main purpose 0:43:56.000 --> 0:43:59.600 in life is family, you know, because I'm I'm a 0:43:59.719 --> 0:44:04.080 whole most of the time. So you might see me partying, greeting, holling, 0:44:04.200 --> 0:44:07.239 clapping hands and all that, But really I take so 0:44:07.400 --> 0:44:10.080 much time to myself to calculate them thoughts. 0:44:10.120 --> 0:44:12.560 After I do all that, I. 0:44:12.600 --> 0:44:16.759 Take my time sit back, analyze, and I spend a 0:44:16.760 --> 0:44:17.880 lot of time in thought. 0:44:19.480 --> 0:44:22.840 So I heard that they're different. What an introvert is 0:44:22.840 --> 0:44:24.799 someone that can still go out and shake hands, but 0:44:24.920 --> 0:44:27.120 after they shake hands with people, they kind of get draining. 0:44:27.160 --> 0:44:29.200 They need that time alone. Would you say you're more 0:44:29.320 --> 0:44:33.080 like that or is just maybe not? It's not an introvert. 0:44:33.200 --> 0:44:36.920 Now, I'm not an introvert. I'm outgoing than a motherfucker. 0:44:37.600 --> 0:44:42.839 But after that, I understand that I need to recollect 0:44:43.000 --> 0:44:45.319 what I'm doing and where I'm going, you know. So 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:48.920 I take a lot of time. I plan, I plan everything, 0:44:49.000 --> 0:44:51.319 you know what I mean. I think five six seven 0:44:51.400 --> 0:44:54.759 years down. I've been thinking seven six years down the 0:44:54.840 --> 0:44:57.439 road since I was seven to six six or seven years, 0:44:58.120 --> 0:44:58.279 you know. 0:44:58.280 --> 0:44:58.640 What I mean. 0:44:58.680 --> 0:45:00.919 And I just and that's one thing I don't think 0:45:00.960 --> 0:45:03.680 people would know about me because I'm in the mix. 0:45:04.320 --> 0:45:08.080 M They probably don't know I'm a mastermind because I 0:45:08.200 --> 0:45:08.759 think a lot. 0:45:09.640 --> 0:45:11.520 I like that. What about you flesh? 0:45:11.680 --> 0:45:13.839 I mean, it's it's it's a couple of things out there, 0:45:13.920 --> 0:45:16.319 you know. I like to fish a little bit. I 0:45:16.400 --> 0:45:18.399 like to you know, I like to gut and chop 0:45:18.440 --> 0:45:21.239 the heads off the fish and gut them up and 0:45:21.280 --> 0:45:24.280 everything and skin them and all that good stuff and everything. 0:45:24.320 --> 0:45:27.759 And I've played lately, you know, probably taking up more 0:45:29.320 --> 0:45:34.000 learning how to really really uh do the seed germination 0:45:34.920 --> 0:45:39.640 with or without soil and german A seeds and you know, 0:45:39.800 --> 0:45:43.640 growing uh growing pots and growing the raised beds of 0:45:43.840 --> 0:45:47.239 uh veggies and stuff like that and everything. It's a 0:45:47.280 --> 0:45:51.480 few things that flesh and ball that you know. And 0:45:51.520 --> 0:45:54.439 that's that's the main thing. That that the the main 0:45:54.480 --> 0:45:57.160 hobby that I done picked up that I done found myself, 0:45:57.680 --> 0:46:05.680 you know, spending a lot of time with those plants, 0:46:11.880 --> 0:46:14.560 you know, sitting around those plants, you know, just spitting 0:46:14.560 --> 0:46:17.040 off all that good oxygen on me and everything. I 0:46:17.120 --> 0:46:19.840 like the smell of the plants that I that that 0:46:19.920 --> 0:46:22.560 I sat there in garden and be surrounded in my loove. 0:46:22.960 --> 0:46:24.839 You know, you know, I can walk through like a 0:46:24.840 --> 0:46:28.080 maze of just you know, you know, different types of plants. 0:46:28.160 --> 0:46:30.440 Got the tomatoes over here, the cucumbers over here, you 0:46:30.520 --> 0:46:33.719 got the cilantro right here, you got right here, you 0:46:33.800 --> 0:46:36.160 got the you know, you know, and it's and and 0:46:36.280 --> 0:46:37.920 you know, and I got a little you know, just 0:46:38.000 --> 0:46:40.880 it's just it's just an amazing situation where it's asided 0:46:40.960 --> 0:46:43.600 me that that most folks don't know about I. 0:46:43.640 --> 0:46:45.040 Like, Dan, what about you? Crazy? 0:46:46.280 --> 0:46:51.759 Uh man? Some if people don't know that I don't know. 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:53.759 You know, I'm gonna tell you right now. I'm a 0:46:53.760 --> 0:46:57.840 point on one man. Your hair accessories are beyond divine, 0:46:58.000 --> 0:47:01.080 like they are. Your hair game is crazy all thank you. 0:47:01.520 --> 0:47:05.400 I mean, you know, I probably say I'm more of 0:47:05.440 --> 0:47:10.799 the antrovercuse I don't want to be fucking people like that. 0:47:12.560 --> 0:47:15.279 I got, you know, you know, I got like if 0:47:15.560 --> 0:47:18.360 you know what I'm saying that if it ain't my family, 0:47:18.440 --> 0:47:19.880 you know what I'm saying my brothers is like you 0:47:19.880 --> 0:47:21.759 know what I'm saying, I got to really know a 0:47:21.760 --> 0:47:23.759 person like you know what I'm saying, but you know what, 0:47:23.840 --> 0:47:25.480 I'm in public. I do what I gotta do. But 0:47:25.520 --> 0:47:29.000 I'm always being cool with the with the vack scene, 0:47:29.040 --> 0:47:31.799 with planning it being in the back scene. I'm cool 0:47:31.800 --> 0:47:32.399 with that for real. 0:47:33.120 --> 0:47:36.840 Now, are you guys currently reading any books that you 0:47:37.000 --> 0:47:40.000 think you would be willing to share with you know, 0:47:40.360 --> 0:47:41.279 our audience to. 0:47:42.200 --> 0:47:44.520 It all depends on it all depends on if you're 0:47:44.520 --> 0:47:47.160 gonna get judgment or not learn how to you know? 0:47:47.320 --> 0:47:49.160 You know, think you know, I will share a lot 0:47:49.160 --> 0:47:51.399 of you know, a lot of stuff, but I think 0:47:51.440 --> 0:47:54.239 I might, you know, just for the sake of holding on, 0:47:54.320 --> 0:47:56.000 I'm gonna let them share some of the stuff. I 0:47:56.320 --> 0:47:58.000 will share, but you know, you got to be a 0:47:58.000 --> 0:48:00.560 little bit open minded, you know what I'm saying. 0:48:00.560 --> 0:48:01.600 But I don't know. 0:48:02.160 --> 0:48:03.680 I'll share some stuff that i'm reading. 0:48:05.160 --> 0:48:06.080 What do you want to go first? 0:48:06.200 --> 0:48:06.799 You go first. 0:48:07.800 --> 0:48:11.719 So I like to introduce to like younger people to 0:48:12.120 --> 0:48:14.840 I read a lot of inspirational books. You know what 0:48:14.880 --> 0:48:18.680 I'm saying. It's a book by James Allen called So 0:48:18.800 --> 0:48:21.960 as a Man, think of you know, book about this 0:48:22.160 --> 0:48:25.000 thick not too big. I pass it off to my 0:48:25.160 --> 0:48:28.439 children and people when I see that they need, they 0:48:28.480 --> 0:48:31.640 need guidance. I give them this book and it's by 0:48:31.719 --> 0:48:36.359 James Allen, and it's really about the things you put 0:48:36.440 --> 0:48:38.920 forth in life is the things you get back. Basic, 0:48:39.200 --> 0:48:44.600 basic stuff, but put in a way that any man 0:48:44.680 --> 0:48:48.520 can understand, any woman can understand. And it's inspiring, you 0:48:48.600 --> 0:48:51.000 know what I mean. I read a lot of autobiographies, 0:48:51.680 --> 0:48:54.279 you know what I'm saying. Like, I read books like 0:48:55.000 --> 0:48:57.239 Nike to just do It that book, you know what 0:48:57.239 --> 0:49:00.120 I mean. I like the stories of a man. 0:49:00.800 --> 0:49:03.080 That reached greatness. 0:49:03.400 --> 0:49:06.080 So I you know, so I can try to follow 0:49:06.080 --> 0:49:08.520 in some of the footsteps, you know. So I'm more 0:49:08.520 --> 0:49:12.040 of an inspirational book reader a Bible reader. 0:49:12.120 --> 0:49:14.680 You know what I'm saying. And that's what I do. 0:49:14.760 --> 0:49:15.160 I stay. 0:49:15.320 --> 0:49:18.160 I stay on the inspirational side. When it comes to books. No, 0:49:18.200 --> 0:49:20.719 not no fiction or none of that. 0:49:21.680 --> 0:49:24.799 I'm the same. I've always avoided fiction since I was 0:49:25.120 --> 0:49:28.960 a little little kid. I just never got into space. 0:49:29.120 --> 0:49:33.400 Yeah, always for the movies. No, but yeah. Really, like 0:49:33.480 --> 0:49:35.680 one book I'm reading now is most of the books 0:49:35.719 --> 0:49:38.960 I read is like uh, spiritual books. I'm reading the 0:49:38.960 --> 0:49:43.799 book now it's called a revelation. Is it's grand climax 0:49:43.840 --> 0:49:46.960 at head basically a book that that breaks down the 0:49:46.960 --> 0:49:47.840 Book of Revelation. 0:49:48.480 --> 0:49:49.839 That's a hard book to break down. 0:49:50.160 --> 0:49:52.040 Oh no, but when you read this book, you totally 0:49:52.120 --> 0:49:54.960 have the understanding of it. Likely. 0:49:55.000 --> 0:49:56.320 What's the name of the book again. 0:49:56.320 --> 0:49:59.400 It's called Revelation. It's Grand Climax at Head. 0:50:00.040 --> 0:50:02.319 Okay, Now when you read that book, do you think 0:50:02.320 --> 0:50:03.280 we're at the end of times? 0:50:04.600 --> 0:50:05.440 Okay? I was. 0:50:06.040 --> 0:50:09.120 I was gonna say, because the first time I read Revelation, 0:50:10.680 --> 0:50:12.480 I mean I took the Bible on, I read the 0:50:12.480 --> 0:50:15.800 whole Bible. Revelation is the one book that I definitely 0:50:15.880 --> 0:50:18.799 one hundred percent was like, you know what, I don't 0:50:18.800 --> 0:50:21.000 think it was almost like listening to jay Z, Like 0:50:21.120 --> 0:50:22.920 I feel like there were certain j Z records that 0:50:22.960 --> 0:50:26.239 I couldn't comprehend at the time, and Revelation was one 0:50:26.239 --> 0:50:28.040 of those books. Like at the time, it just was 0:50:28.080 --> 0:50:29.440 so much that I was like, you know what, I 0:50:29.480 --> 0:50:33.000 don't think I can understand. Maybe if I go back now. 0:50:33.160 --> 0:50:34.719 Oh yeah, definitely. Yeah. 0:50:34.719 --> 0:50:38.640 Well, you know it's some of the similarities things things 0:50:38.680 --> 0:50:40.920 that go on, Like if you look at the news 0:50:40.960 --> 0:50:44.080 and read Revelations, you'd be like, this is is really happening? 0:50:44.320 --> 0:50:45.200 Yeah, you know. 0:50:45.400 --> 0:50:48.680 So, you know, they say the revolution was being televibed, 0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:52.960 the Revelation is being tele straight up. 0:50:53.040 --> 0:50:56.880 Wow, real, what about you flush? You're gonna give it up? 0:50:57.000 --> 0:50:59.719 Well, you know, you know, I've been you know. I 0:50:59.760 --> 0:51:02.040 don't know if y'all ever heard of Alex Jones though, 0:51:02.080 --> 0:51:04.839 but he's like one of the from Dave David Ike 0:51:04.920 --> 0:51:08.040 to Alex Jones. He has a couple of books out there, 0:51:08.040 --> 0:51:10.160 and one of them is called one of them is 0:51:10.160 --> 0:51:13.600 called the you know, the Greater, the Great Reset, you know, 0:51:13.680 --> 0:51:17.319 the Great Awakening, you know, and you know, it's it's 0:51:17.360 --> 0:51:20.160 a real eye opener, you know when it comes to 0:51:20.520 --> 0:51:23.080 certain things that's going on in the world today, in 0:51:23.080 --> 0:51:25.680 the country today, the Great Reset, as far as what's 0:51:25.719 --> 0:51:27.640 been going on in the world, what they're trying to do, 0:51:27.680 --> 0:51:30.719 as far as setting up a new system, you know, 0:51:30.880 --> 0:51:33.680 and uh that which Revelation talks about. I've been real 0:51:33.800 --> 0:51:36.880 heavy into the Bible and the Revelation portion of the 0:51:36.920 --> 0:51:44.120 Bible to be exact, and and uh and there's another author. Uh, 0:51:44.200 --> 0:51:48.200 there's another author by the name of Mark Levin, and 0:51:48.320 --> 0:51:51.080 he wrote a book called and uh it's a real contrary. 0:51:51.120 --> 0:51:53.640 It's not that controversial, but I'm just spit it out there. 0:51:53.680 --> 0:51:57.440 It's called the Democrat Party Hates America, and uh he 0:51:57.520 --> 0:52:00.839 wrote other books that, uh, you know, I'm pretty much 0:52:01.200 --> 0:52:03.759 a big fan of this man because he's a he's 0:52:04.320 --> 0:52:09.759 a constitutional attorney that breaks down the constitution and the 0:52:09.880 --> 0:52:12.880 real real he'll put it in a very education on 0:52:12.920 --> 0:52:15.359 why you get a lot of education. If you never 0:52:15.440 --> 0:52:17.200 heard of him, go look him up. His name is 0:52:17.239 --> 0:52:20.120 Mark Levin. He's and I believe he's one of the 0:52:20.160 --> 0:52:24.880 scholars of big scholars of our time. He wrote books 0:52:24.920 --> 0:52:31.279 like called The Men in Black and it's quite a 0:52:31.320 --> 0:52:33.560 few I got. I got all of his books. But uh, 0:52:34.120 --> 0:52:37.920 he's just breaking it down how you know how pretty 0:52:38.000 --> 0:52:41.040 much is this a lot of influence going on as 0:52:41.040 --> 0:52:45.200 far as with respects to you know how a lot 0:52:45.239 --> 0:52:48.640 of these parties is even no matter if some of 0:52:48.640 --> 0:52:55.480 these party h officials or are communists, actual Marxist communists 0:52:55.719 --> 0:52:58.799 dressed up under the banner of a Democrat or Republican 0:52:58.880 --> 0:53:02.279 but in reality are communists. So I wanted to, you know, 0:53:02.320 --> 0:53:05.239 and it's it's a whole information that's why it's like, 0:53:05.320 --> 0:53:08.600 you know, it's uh, it's a famous website out there 0:53:08.640 --> 0:53:11.640 called info wars and you know, and that's one of 0:53:11.640 --> 0:53:14.279 the things that I've been real heavy into because it's 0:53:14.320 --> 0:53:18.880 real eye openers. They go all across the spectrum and 0:53:19.000 --> 0:53:21.200 uh and uh and uh, and it kind of like 0:53:21.280 --> 0:53:23.600 gives you what you need, you know, how to protect 0:53:23.640 --> 0:53:28.880 yourself against you know, being shut down by a hateful 0:53:29.120 --> 0:53:32.040 Marxist communists. If you look into history and look at 0:53:32.400 --> 0:53:36.600 look at the history of communism, and this is explaining 0:53:36.680 --> 0:53:39.880 how you know pretty much how you know the government 0:53:40.000 --> 0:53:42.440 is corrupt and hijacked by these communists. 0:53:42.520 --> 0:53:46.080 Yeah. So not trying to segue, but I do want 0:53:46.080 --> 0:53:48.040 to know what you guys are doing in Cleveland. 0:53:49.400 --> 0:53:51.400 Oh yeah, man, we're trying to do a lot, like 0:53:51.440 --> 0:53:53.799 a lot of things, you know, for our community, like 0:53:53.800 --> 0:53:57.640 where we grew up at, you know, trying to work 0:53:57.760 --> 0:54:00.879 on this project to help revitalize like where we come from. 0:54:00.960 --> 0:54:04.120 We want to put a bone throws, a harmony museum there. 0:54:04.640 --> 0:54:07.280 You know, we want to like just like help the community, 0:54:07.400 --> 0:54:09.040 y'all like it anyway, we can't go to call it 0:54:09.040 --> 0:54:12.520 the Harmony district, oh know. So when people come to Cleveland, 0:54:12.560 --> 0:54:14.680 it's gonna be a entertainment district. So when people come 0:54:14.719 --> 0:54:17.440 to Cleveland. They're not just saying they want to go downtown. 0:54:17.480 --> 0:54:19.840 They're talking about I want to go to the Harmony district. 0:54:19.880 --> 0:54:24.000 See what they got going. You know it's gonna be establishments. 0:54:24.000 --> 0:54:27.239 This featured their features both to us a homony like 0:54:27.280 --> 0:54:30.600 we gonna have a restaurant at Harmony Cafe. I like that. 0:54:31.280 --> 0:54:33.400 In the museum like a yeah, museum, you know what 0:54:33.400 --> 0:54:35.440 I'm saying. Get a museum right on the corner of 0:54:35.640 --> 0:54:37.560 Army nine, your Knife and Saint Clair. You know, if 0:54:37.600 --> 0:54:40.800 everything works out. So that's something we're working very closely 0:54:40.880 --> 0:54:41.440 with the city. 0:54:42.120 --> 0:54:43.839 And then what else can we expect from you guys 0:54:43.840 --> 0:54:46.919 in twenty twenty four and beyond books. 0:54:46.719 --> 0:54:49.760 We definitely working on the memoirs. They got a poetry 0:54:49.760 --> 0:54:52.360 book that he's working on. I've been I'm working on 0:54:52.440 --> 0:54:54.480 a memoir that I'm in the middle of. It is real, 0:54:54.680 --> 0:54:57.759 just getting real good. And so we're getting that. We 0:54:58.360 --> 0:55:01.319 got got talks with a couple of big time producers 0:55:01.360 --> 0:55:03.960 that's showing interest in the Bone Dug film. We don't 0:55:04.000 --> 0:55:06.440 know if it's gonna be a biopic I love that 0:55:06.760 --> 0:55:09.319 or some type of docu series sort of like How 0:55:09.360 --> 0:55:12.000 Wu Tang Did. This is when you got season one, two, three, 0:55:12.040 --> 0:55:14.360 four five or whatnot, because the Bone Duck story is 0:55:14.400 --> 0:55:18.120 so extensive, it's gonna be hard to impossible to squeeze 0:55:18.160 --> 0:55:20.800 the Bone Duck story in a two to three hour movie. 0:55:21.080 --> 0:55:24.040 Maybe two, three seasons, four five seasons. 0:55:24.320 --> 0:55:29.319 And we also, you know, we got a podcast as 0:55:29.320 --> 0:55:30.480 a group that we're doing. 0:55:30.760 --> 0:55:33.040 You know, Crazy Boone came up with the idea. 0:55:33.360 --> 0:55:36.719 It's called Thug Stories, you know, So we're working on 0:55:36.800 --> 0:55:40.719 that individual music harmony, house entertainment. 0:55:41.200 --> 0:55:43.480 You know, I work with all of our kids. 0:55:43.560 --> 0:55:45.240 You know what I'm saying. I work with my kids. 0:55:45.239 --> 0:55:48.359 I work with all of our kids because they came 0:55:48.440 --> 0:55:51.279 together as they grew up and they do things together. So, 0:55:51.760 --> 0:55:58.200 you know, just really capitalizing on everything entertainment, you know, entertainment, educational, 0:55:58.680 --> 0:56:01.880 you know, just just just giving back to where we 0:56:01.960 --> 0:56:06.919 came from and just making an impact on what we're 0:56:06.960 --> 0:56:10.919 doing it besides just selling millions of records. So now 0:56:10.960 --> 0:56:14.440 we're moving into the realm of our give back, you 0:56:14.480 --> 0:56:15.160 know what I mean. 0:56:15.280 --> 0:56:20.000 Yeah, your legacy impact and giving back. Yes, my final 0:56:20.080 --> 0:56:24.640 final question lazy. When it comes to this music industry, 0:56:24.719 --> 0:56:29.680 is there some seeding that the world is not privy too, 0:56:29.760 --> 0:56:32.040 that's behind the scenes that you could share with us. 0:56:33.280 --> 0:56:37.480 That was a hard nugget for you to swallow. Per se. 0:56:38.040 --> 0:56:42.480 I mean just the music, the music industry period, you know, 0:56:42.600 --> 0:56:51.759 the way, the way that they misappropriated our contracts, you 0:56:51.800 --> 0:56:54.120 know what I mean, the robbery and the thievery that 0:56:54.200 --> 0:56:57.880 went on, you know, always me myself Like today, I 0:56:57.920 --> 0:57:00.759 think the Internet is so important because we got we 0:57:00.800 --> 0:57:04.280 with our fan base, we can be independent without giving 0:57:04.960 --> 0:57:09.120 eighty percent or ninety or seventy eight percent, you know, 0:57:09.200 --> 0:57:13.120 the bulk of our earnings for our creations to somebody 0:57:13.160 --> 0:57:17.120 else to handle, you know. So the industry was built 0:57:17.240 --> 0:57:20.840 to keep the artists blind, you know what I mean. Especially, 0:57:21.280 --> 0:57:24.560 that's why they play on the young to the age, 0:57:24.640 --> 0:57:28.240 the age variable because you know, if you're a young artist, 0:57:28.520 --> 0:57:30.840 they can dangle to carrot in front of your face, 0:57:31.160 --> 0:57:33.840 and when you have nothing, it's easy to go for 0:57:33.920 --> 0:57:37.080 that care. But as an adult, you know what I mean, 0:57:37.240 --> 0:57:40.840 the more knowledge you have, you don't fall for those tricks. 0:57:40.880 --> 0:57:43.000 So they put an age stipulation on you. All you 0:57:43.080 --> 0:57:45.760 got to be this age. But killer might just prove 0:57:46.360 --> 0:57:49.040 you don't have to be a certain age, you know. 0:57:49.160 --> 0:57:52.040 Adele she proved you know what I mean. So it's 0:57:52.080 --> 0:57:56.400 these different tricks that they played to rob us, blind us, 0:57:56.760 --> 0:58:00.439 keep us ignorant to the fact on the contracts. And 0:58:00.680 --> 0:58:03.880 that's what I that's what I disliked about the industry. 0:58:04.840 --> 0:58:07.640 So we had it, We really had it rough. 0:58:07.840 --> 0:58:10.720 Coming up because we learned through. We learned through our 0:58:10.760 --> 0:58:14.000 own mistakes signing wrong contracts. So we had to get 0:58:14.120 --> 0:58:20.360 educated ourselves. And now you know, now these days you 0:58:20.440 --> 0:58:23.960 got the it's more you have more leeway to handle that, 0:58:24.040 --> 0:58:26.760 you have more control over your career. So the industry 0:58:27.160 --> 0:58:33.040 for me, the recording industry is now podcasts and you 0:58:33.200 --> 0:58:34.400 on these different. 0:58:34.080 --> 0:58:36.640 Social media like it's at the press of a button 0:58:36.680 --> 0:58:41.600 you can reach your fan base versus now crazy. 0:58:42.720 --> 0:58:45.720 My question to you would be, now, coming off of 0:58:45.760 --> 0:58:50.640 what Lazy was saying, would you say you feel at 0:58:50.720 --> 0:58:53.680 times it could be harder to market because now you've 0:58:53.680 --> 0:58:56.280 you've gone through all the genres of how music is 0:58:56.320 --> 0:58:59.200 marketed and distributed and bought and sold, and you've seen 0:58:59.640 --> 0:59:01.800 the rector label side, but now you're entering the new 0:59:01.840 --> 0:59:04.840 world of the digital side with social media and and 0:59:04.880 --> 0:59:09.280 what contracts to like numbers that are impressive or what 0:59:09.400 --> 0:59:12.320 have you, what would you say is the pro and 0:59:12.360 --> 0:59:14.920 the con of dealing with music in this new age? 0:59:15.640 --> 0:59:16.440 Going independent? 0:59:17.880 --> 0:59:21.920 I mean, you know, I mean kind of like what 0:59:22.040 --> 0:59:25.240 he said, you know, like it's they're trying to paint 0:59:25.280 --> 0:59:28.600 this picture that you know, like we're washed up, We 0:59:28.800 --> 0:59:33.080 just all of a sudden forgot how to make good music, 0:59:33.200 --> 0:59:34.640 you know what I'm saying. And that's how they treat us. 0:59:34.640 --> 0:59:36.280 You know I'm saying just because he said, because we older, 0:59:36.760 --> 0:59:39.240 and they don't want to have those conversations with us 0:59:40.080 --> 0:59:42.480 about business because they know we know what we're talking 0:59:42.520 --> 0:59:43.120 about now. 0:59:43.640 --> 0:59:46.840 But now going independent, do you feel more liberated or 0:59:46.880 --> 0:59:49.080 do you feel more pressure going independent? 0:59:49.320 --> 0:59:52.520 No? Definitely feel more liberated because you know, like it's 0:59:52.640 --> 0:59:56.560 like again, we understand the business, we understand what we 0:59:56.640 --> 0:59:59.080 need to do to go around and you know what 0:59:59.080 --> 1:00:01.160 I'm saying, I just got to offer from a record label, 1:00:02.000 --> 1:00:04.160 you know what I'm saying, actually put my album out, 1:00:04.240 --> 1:00:06.840 and what they're offering I'm already doing. 1:00:08.080 --> 1:00:10.080 So like why do you need them? Yeah? 1:00:10.720 --> 1:00:12.640 Why would I give you my album when I'm already 1:00:12.680 --> 1:00:14.960 doing that, you know what I'm saying. So, oh yeah, No, 1:00:15.000 --> 1:00:18.439 it's definitely liberating, especially when you have the fan base 1:00:18.480 --> 1:00:21.120 that we have from all the work we put in. 1:00:21.800 --> 1:00:24.400 It's very easy for us to maneuver around this system 1:00:24.480 --> 1:00:27.520 now because you know, like once we bring our fans 1:00:27.560 --> 1:00:31.680 to the internet, we have them at our grass now. 1:00:32.680 --> 1:00:36.000 So now when you guys collectively as a group are together, 1:00:36.080 --> 1:00:39.440 would you say you you make more I had to 1:00:39.480 --> 1:00:42.320 talk financials, more money on the on the publishing side, 1:00:42.480 --> 1:00:46.760 or the tours and the shows or the actual record sales. 1:00:47.000 --> 1:00:50.480 I will say we make more money period. 1:00:50.880 --> 1:00:55.480 Yeah, because now we own all the back Yeah. 1:00:55.320 --> 1:00:57.480 The money comes straight to you when you're doing the shows, 1:00:57.560 --> 1:00:59.520 versus how it did first it has to go through 1:00:59.640 --> 1:01:02.320 the record company. All the money goes to the record 1:01:02.360 --> 1:01:05.160 company first. Today we are the record company. 1:01:05.320 --> 1:01:07.400 But do you guys own all your publishing and everything. 1:01:11.240 --> 1:01:14.520 Publish it and we're soon to own our masters, you know. 1:01:15.000 --> 1:01:18.680 And that's another thing about the record company. We gave something, 1:01:18.720 --> 1:01:21.720 we created, we got to fight thirty years later to 1:01:21.760 --> 1:01:24.360 get control of you know what I mean. But once 1:01:24.440 --> 1:01:27.600 those things revert back to us. Now we're independent. We 1:01:27.760 --> 1:01:32.600 re release our music, we license our music, our publishing 1:01:32.720 --> 1:01:35.480 belongs to us, you know what I'm saying. So, but 1:01:35.760 --> 1:01:37.919 that not in the beginning. In the beginning, it wasn't 1:01:37.960 --> 1:01:38.280 like that. 1:01:38.560 --> 1:01:41.520 Now, what does it take to own your masters apart 1:01:41.600 --> 1:01:44.960 from owning your publishing? Well, I know we're going over 1:01:46.040 --> 1:01:47.840 Oh we really only got a couple of minutes. 1:01:47.920 --> 1:01:50.360 When you know, you either, depending on what type of 1:01:50.400 --> 1:01:52.680 deal you got, either own a portion of the masters 1:01:52.720 --> 1:01:55.720 because the record company always going to own other portions 1:01:55.760 --> 1:01:58.640 of it. But you do what it's called reversion letters 1:01:58.640 --> 1:02:01.360 to where you let the copyright office know and the 1:02:01.400 --> 1:02:04.440 company know that, Hey, this letter is to let y'all 1:02:04.480 --> 1:02:07.240 know that we understand that time is up on those 1:02:07.320 --> 1:02:09.880 masters over here. We wan't full control of it, bast 1:02:09.920 --> 1:02:12.280 So you write your reversion letter to put it in 1:02:12.320 --> 1:02:15.320 there to get those and it takes about it. Unfortunately, 1:02:15.360 --> 1:02:19.000 it takes thirty years. And then and then there's another 1:02:19.160 --> 1:02:21.760 downside of the industry that you gotta wait so damn 1:02:21.800 --> 1:02:24.880 long to get those rights back. But some of us 1:02:24.960 --> 1:02:28.320 are you know, able to you know, have the access 1:02:28.360 --> 1:02:31.200 to get that done. And now you know it's just 1:02:31.200 --> 1:02:33.040 a ticking time clock right now. 1:02:33.120 --> 1:02:35.680 But uh, you let me sum it up. 1:02:35.720 --> 1:02:39.240 Your publishing is the producers and the writers, the actual 1:02:39.320 --> 1:02:45.040 creators of the content. Yeah, the other side your royalties 1:02:45.040 --> 1:02:47.720 and things like that is off your sales, you know 1:02:47.720 --> 1:02:48.280 what I'm saying. 1:02:48.280 --> 1:02:50.760 So then what's the masters then yep, and that's the. 1:02:50.760 --> 1:02:55.920 Musical masters, the music in general, your masters is everything together, 1:02:56.680 --> 1:02:58.880 you know what I'm saying. So when you own that, 1:02:59.360 --> 1:03:02.400 you have ConTroll of your publishing, You have control of 1:03:02.680 --> 1:03:05.120 what you price your stuff for record sales, and. 1:03:06.640 --> 1:03:08.640 The overall not to cut you off though, but just 1:03:08.640 --> 1:03:11.080 the overall rights of the song. When you have the 1:03:11.120 --> 1:03:13.280 song that who owns the rights to the song? The 1:03:13.440 --> 1:03:17.000 light that it's to have the ability to license into 1:03:17.040 --> 1:03:21.000 this movie, this other page. Just keep over there sample education. 1:03:21.120 --> 1:03:22.680 Who do you have to who do you have to 1:03:22.720 --> 1:03:24.600 answer to? If somebody wants to use that? 1:03:25.480 --> 1:03:26.760 And you guys are almost there. 1:03:27.160 --> 1:03:29.600 I got a few couple more years yet. But the letter, 1:03:29.880 --> 1:03:33.040 the letters, But the letters have been sent and it's 1:03:33.080 --> 1:03:35.640 it's yeah. So so we just got this just the 1:03:35.760 --> 1:03:37.360 waiting waiting phase right now. 1:03:37.680 --> 1:03:39.800 Awesome. Well, I just want to thank you guys for 1:03:39.920 --> 1:03:43.200 taking time out of your hectic schedule dealing with Mike 1:03:43.240 --> 1:03:45.800 Toddler being super nice. So I want to I like 1:03:45.840 --> 1:03:47.840 talking about behind the scenes because you never know how 1:03:47.880 --> 1:03:51.680 people are, you know, when the camera's not rolling, So 1:03:51.720 --> 1:03:53.560 I just want to tell you guys what they're like 1:03:53.720 --> 1:03:56.120 when the camera's not rolling. They're really cool. They're really 1:03:56.240 --> 1:04:02.280 nice then and uh and very humble and lazy is 1:04:02.320 --> 1:04:06.080 a good cook. So thank you guys so much for 1:04:06.080 --> 1:04:09.560 giving me this iconic moment. I will never forget this. 1:04:09.920 --> 1:04:13.200 Thank you for having us got it on camera. Absolutely. 1:04:14.760 --> 1:04:17.480 And then there is there any way that fans can 1:04:17.560 --> 1:04:19.760 keep up with you guys and find out what your 1:04:19.840 --> 1:04:20.440 latest is. 1:04:21.400 --> 1:04:25.320 You know, Facebook, Official Lazy Bone, the bon Thugs and 1:04:25.360 --> 1:04:30.280 Harmony page of course Official bon Thugs and Harmony. My 1:04:30.320 --> 1:04:34.280 website is harmonyhousingt dot com and on i G. 1:04:34.480 --> 1:04:38.560 I'm the real Lazybone. I'm the real Lazybone. 1:04:38.400 --> 1:04:41.320 Definitely, y'all. Y'all can check me out and catch me 1:04:41.400 --> 1:04:46.400 at Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter's fleshing Bone bt n H 1:04:47.040 --> 1:04:50.360 on Twitter fleshing Bone btn H. 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