Speaker 1: We like to welcome everyone to another episode of the
Speaker 1: Gangst the Chronicles podcast. I am big Steal with my
Speaker 1: guy sure and today we have our special guests going
Speaker 1: on three weeks in the row with us as we
Speaker 1: count down the top fifty Gangster rap albums of all time.
Speaker 1: My man journalists, extraord there, mister Soren Baker, thanks for
Speaker 1: having me. I'll appreciate it for sure. And you know, tonight, man,
Speaker 1: we got a guess, but this falls in line with
Speaker 1: the you know, fifty greatest gangst the Rap albums of
Speaker 1: all time for sure. For sure he's from not just
Speaker 1: one of the most iconic groups in the history of
Speaker 1: hip hop, but just one of the Their impact on
Speaker 1: American pop culture was second or none.
Speaker 2: I would say so.
Speaker 1: Just when they came out, because they're the ones that
Speaker 1: you know, people were making, you know, gangst the rap
Speaker 1: albums before them. You know, it's a few people that
Speaker 1: was putting out. You know, Ice had Six in the Morning, right,
Speaker 1: you know, you have Schoolly D that had you know, DSK.
Speaker 1: Then you had n W A n w A struck
Speaker 1: a nerve with Middle America and it blew up because
Speaker 1: now you had all of these white folks, their kids
Speaker 1: was listening to this music from these niggas in Compton
Speaker 1: and it just blew up with no radio play from
Speaker 1: the icon of group n W A DJ yeller, what's up?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 5: You know how to give you a hell of an
Speaker 5: introduction this nigga. Man, I'm sitting over here like.
Speaker 4: Damn, you got the whole script wrote.
Speaker 1: Out, Hell yeah, man, you know that's what ship.
Speaker 5: Man, you gotta start sending in me ship like that
Speaker 5: or the email ship you be right.
Speaker 1: Shore, I got you. I'll let you say it too
Speaker 1: if I send it to you. All he gonna say
Speaker 1: is all he gonna say? Is all gonna say is
Speaker 1: I'm good? Up, my nigga, you got it.
Speaker 5: I feel like I needed out of a podium with
Speaker 5: a touch seedo all right down.
Speaker 4: Ship.
Speaker 5: We had to motherfucking grabbys or something shit, But we
Speaker 5: hear that.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: I don't remember a word I said. Man, I can't
Speaker 1: remember a word I said. You got to catch the replay.
Speaker 1: You got to catch you on the replay. But seriously, man,
Speaker 1: you know what I was. You know what I was
Speaker 1: thinking about. I was just thinking about y'all family tree
Speaker 1: right on. What y'all with the group brought to the game, right,
Speaker 1: think about all the artists that spawned you You ever
Speaker 1: think about that, man, all the motherfuckers that just come
Speaker 1: from y'all family trees, like from from from everybody. Think
Speaker 1: about it, bro, think about.
Speaker 3: It, Kendrick, and you know you can you.
Speaker 6: Know Eminem it's just yeah, the game, I mean, it's
Speaker 6: a whole bunch.
Speaker 3: I mean. And the thing about it, we just did
Speaker 3: our thing. We just did music.
Speaker 6: Wasn't thinking about money, one't thing about hits, just doing it.
Speaker 3: You know, being from Compton.
Speaker 6: Ain't know that Compton is confident that that's what we
Speaker 6: talked about because comp it wasn't respected back then.
Speaker 3: It was a bad word and.
Speaker 5: Every yeah man, we was it was it was hood
Speaker 5: Maneah was hood man. I don't give a fuck. Before
Speaker 5: the music came along, yellow man, it was it was
Speaker 5: just hood.
Speaker 3: Like Watts, Wats was worse than us.
Speaker 4: Wats was worse than us.
Speaker 5: But and then our high schools man was was you know,
Speaker 5: niggas was banging hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so.
Speaker 5: Just to just to get that uh, that pathway to music, man,
Speaker 5: it was a beautiful thing. And ship man, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying because we was listening to some crazy ship.
Speaker 5: You know, before we was able to be recognized as
Speaker 5: who he was, as as being comptent, niggas just saw
Speaker 5: us as man. Once Colors came out, man, niggas just
Speaker 5: saw us as man.
Speaker 4: Don't fucking go to coming. That's all you heard.
Speaker 5: Even when the raps started getting the music started getting popular,
Speaker 5: it was like fuck that, yeah, and Colors was fucking
Speaker 5: South Central Watts and Ship for some reason. Man, they
Speaker 5: just tagged us with it and was like, man, fuck that.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: Well they out in Compton. It's vicious. So yeah, before
Speaker 5: the music started, it was crazy because.
Speaker 3: People would ask me, man, you walk it up. I
Speaker 3: lived there, It's nothing else. But people thought it was
Speaker 3: just like Vietnam or something.
Speaker 5: You know how you hear about uh Schiraq now Chicago
Speaker 5: and motherfuckers be like nigga, don't go nigga. I was
Speaker 5: like Compton in the early days, it was like, don't
Speaker 5: go there. But people was very curious about the city. Man,
Speaker 5: when the music started.
Speaker 2: The other the other thing that shocked me the first
Speaker 2: time I went to Compton was how small it is.
Speaker 2: Not no one from being from Maryland. When I first
Speaker 2: went out there. I was like, wait a minute, I
Speaker 2: already drove through Compton, I was on the launch.
Speaker 4: I was like, wait a minute, the mingus.
Speaker 5: You go over the hill, you go down the lines,
Speaker 5: man across the tracks. Man once you get by the airport.
Speaker 3: Man, Yeah, yeah, just a little bit more.
Speaker 1: It's just a little bleep on the bed.
Speaker 5: But billion all the talent, That's what I was gonna say,
Speaker 5: Fuck all the talent.
Speaker 4: Man. It was hooded like a motherfucker.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about like niggas just don't understand, like a
Speaker 5: lot of motherfuckers was lucky to even be here. And
Speaker 5: Yellow y'all was crazy as a motherfucker because y'all was
Speaker 5: going up to skate Land.
Speaker 4: Yeah like that, y'all different neighborhood.
Speaker 5: Crazy as a motherfuckers. Niggas was young and banging back then.
Speaker 6: And you know that, yeah, because uh niggas says all that.
Speaker 5: Was that the area central, all up and down Rose
Speaker 5: Crimson was all where the beadog homies was.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: And in my time of growing up thirteen fourteen, in
Speaker 5: that serious eighty three, eighty four, eighty five, man, you
Speaker 5: did not go to Skateland or Dodos or none. Of
Speaker 5: that real talk.
Speaker 3: Because even after dark, that was right, and even.
Speaker 5: Even even after dark, y'all, man, please Linzo spot no
Speaker 5: you didn't.
Speaker 4: You didn't venture nah we we didn't act.
Speaker 3: And Niggas says that, yeah, all that.
Speaker 5: Give a fuck. He was one like Nigga, we finn
Speaker 5: get this music ship off.
Speaker 1: He was on a mission.
Speaker 5: He did fucked because I would have been like, hell no, Nigga,
Speaker 5: we ain't going up.
Speaker 3: He's so crazy. We didn't have no problems.
Speaker 5: That No, y'all didn't know. And that was the crazy
Speaker 5: shit because everybody knew where Eve was from. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: nobody knew where Wren associated from and all that, and
Speaker 5: y'all never went through no like we gotta fight thirty
Speaker 5: niggas out of here ship, Like Niggas is waiting for
Speaker 5: us in the parking lot and I never heard none
Speaker 5: of them stories.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it wasn't.
Speaker 4: That's foreman, that's crazy.
Speaker 5: That's because at the time, I guess Niggas was so
Speaker 5: fascinated hip hop man, like we had a past, and
Speaker 5: Niggas was representing the Hub city, so like fuck it,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I know Niggas was getting a little dirty.
Speaker 5: You remember when hell yeah, nigga, I was like the
Speaker 5: it was the gospel to us young niggas. It's because
Speaker 5: we didn't we didn't have really, we didn't really have
Speaker 5: music that associated with what the fuck.
Speaker 4: Was going on because you had with you had time.
Speaker 6: But they that was just local like TDK mixtapes and yeah,
Speaker 6: like they their main success was was like how niggas
Speaker 6: do mixtapes?
Speaker 5: Were gonna take Houdini instrumental, We're gonna take fucking ll
Speaker 5: cool J instrumental or whatever, and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 5: tales from the hood. Nobody did that until Easy came
Speaker 5: on you. As far as street music, you get me, So, nigga,
Speaker 5: it was fascinating. It was the gospel. So because I
Speaker 5: was listening to Ship like Freakazoid to Ship, I was
Speaker 5: listening to the Wrecking Crew. We was listening to fucking
Speaker 5: everything was back. Everything was back East Houdini, fucking Beers, Marked,
Speaker 5: all that type of ship, Treacherous, three U T Fou,
Speaker 5: Spoony G, the Fat Boys, all everything was East Coach.
Speaker 5: So to hear a nigga come out and say nigga,
Speaker 5: the boys in the hood. And when you heard hood
Speaker 5: like Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even on Boys in the Hood, Easy said fuck
Speaker 2: the police and a fabo too, So nobody, nobody, what
Speaker 2: was the reaction to that.
Speaker 3: They didn't put that together.
Speaker 5: The only hood niggas got that, Yes we police, We
Speaker 5: could just be standing in the hood. And it was
Speaker 5: a few.
Speaker 1: It was a few versions made of that record, too,
Speaker 1: wasn't it, Because yeah, because I heard one. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say what it said. We talk about that off
Speaker 1: the air, but it's said some ship that would have
Speaker 1: been deemed controversial. It was a little bitty park. I
Speaker 1: think you know what I'm talking and I always knew that.
Speaker 1: And my homeboys got Tim Dog one. No, not the
Speaker 1: Tim Dog one. This is for boys and hood. You
Speaker 1: talk about somebody wrecked this car, right, talk about somebody
Speaker 1: wrecked this car. He changed that part up a little bit.
Speaker 1: It became a little bit more commercial, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. But we talk about that off camera. Now.
Speaker 1: You was rolling with Eve from the beginning, Yeah, like
Speaker 1: you was wanted to catch to stay dire from the
Speaker 1: beginning to the end. You Yeah, you know, I just.
Speaker 3: I don't jump ships, I don't change ships. I just
Speaker 3: ride to it, ride out.
Speaker 4: That's when I start.
Speaker 5: You started off as a drummer. You used to drum
Speaker 5: at Compton High.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I used to the drum then I was
Speaker 3: the drum major. Yeah, you know I didn't do all that.
Speaker 3: You know the dance that they doing. Nah, we told
Speaker 3: them big seas up.
Speaker 5: Yes, like that was like motherfucking like that was ship
Speaker 5: that we knew fluting and I knew that ship floating
Speaker 5: around in the hood at thirteen. Y'all was a drum
Speaker 5: major at Tompton High and he was hard. Niggas used
Speaker 5: to talk about it. Really we yeah, man, I mean shit, well.
Speaker 3: Cometing the small you hear everything.
Speaker 5: Then Ship, we was right there, and you know niggas
Speaker 5: in trag New We were so cool with niggas from them.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I heard everything. Man. It was
Speaker 5: the homies right there. So you was in the swamps,
Speaker 5: so we heard everything.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: Ship. Now do you remember the first time you met Yep?
Speaker 3: I met him.
Speaker 6: We're still in the record crew and Dre had him
Speaker 6: come by Lonzo's house in the back. But for some reason,
Speaker 6: this girl from Bullocks or somewhere in Cerritos giving me
Speaker 6: free guests, I mean Aaron Jean Jackets belts T shirts.
Speaker 6: So I started selling it because he was rolling with money.
Speaker 6: So I got the fresh, just the real stuff. That's
Speaker 6: how many selling him, selling him. And at the time
Speaker 6: it was little Derek. Uh, his mother was pregnant with
Speaker 6: little Derek. That's when I became little Derek's godfather. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I used to sell them all. They used to be shoved.
Speaker 6: Guess everywhere.
Speaker 4: A little ball in the hood. Oh yeah, yeah, yess
Speaker 4: what was the motherfucking for Sachi?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Please, for that very.
Speaker 5: Reason, it was only sports, motherfucking cords and ship cords
Speaker 5: and fucking five or ones and ship So nigga niggas
Speaker 5: see a nigga and some guests.
Speaker 4: Nigga nigga You was like nigga niggas all it.
Speaker 1: Was always somebody. It was a nigga like you. In
Speaker 1: every city. They had to hook up on the guests
Speaker 1: that would be able to get it from the stores.
Speaker 1: Because I bought my wife, the woman i'm married to now,
Speaker 1: it was a big deal to Hamie Eric Eliot from
Speaker 1: Long Beach Insane. He was on my team. He said,
Speaker 1: cuz I got something for you for your girl, and
Speaker 1: I said yeah, And he got me some guests. He
Speaker 1: said man going to shoot a nigga a hunter. That
Speaker 1: was a lot of money to me. You know, I'm like,
Speaker 1: a hundred.
Speaker 3: Dollars got you the whole suit. You got a whole buddy.
Speaker 1: But when I gave her them a little shorts, them
Speaker 1: little white shorts. Now see, I'm still married to him.
Speaker 1: I was on like recip my homeboy, because they was,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what they had going on,
Speaker 1: but they would come with guests and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1: So when you initially met him, was he was it
Speaker 1: on some music stuff? Was he talking to you about
Speaker 1: making music?
Speaker 6: Well, he came up to and this was before Boys
Speaker 6: in the Hood. It was just it wasn't even a
Speaker 6: thought yet because we me and Dre were still in
Speaker 6: the Wrecking Crew and were like at the tail end,
Speaker 6: you know, we weren't making no money, you know, none
Speaker 6: of that. So I went out and got a job
Speaker 6: for real, and then E and Dre you know, started
Speaker 6: the Boys in the Hood, and it was just.
Speaker 3: It was just like on from there.
Speaker 6: It's crazy. It wasn't no big thing. The Boys in
Speaker 6: the Hood was just a song.
Speaker 3: That was meant for somebody else from New York.
Speaker 5: It wasn't it hard to convince him to do it
Speaker 5: because we all know that it was for the niggas
Speaker 5: from New York HBO and like they hated yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, they didn't understand.
Speaker 4: Our cars and ship.
Speaker 5: Niggas wearing fucking workmen they used to get to the ad
Speaker 5: because we used to go out of town and wear
Speaker 5: khaki suits. Niggas used to iun't like a motherfucker, like,
Speaker 5: why the fuck y'all wearing Janitor suits?
Speaker 4: Wearing them at the sea.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, nigga, we thowt Khaki suits was
Speaker 5: the ship niggas. They didn't understand the culture of that ship.
Speaker 5: It wasn't like we tried to wear Janitor suits, nigga.
Speaker 4: This this was hood attire in a few years a
Speaker 4: motherfucker from the swat.
Speaker 3: They were wearing it.
Speaker 1: Later, but check this out. Once gains the reps start hitting,
Speaker 1: everybody across the country was wearing a nigga.
Speaker 4: Niggas love khaki suits. Nigga, really nigga man.
Speaker 5: And workman suits turned like a nigga was a nigga
Speaker 5: every day attire nigga because nigga, you couldn't gigga. We
Speaker 5: wasn't getting no money back then, Nigga was a struggle
Speaker 5: so ship. Niggr Moms give you about motherfucking forty dollars. Nigga,
Speaker 5: go get you some school ship. Fucking well, get me
Speaker 5: two packs of fresh teas. Nigga, about three pair of khakis,
Speaker 5: Nigga the core Tes. Nigga, I got outfits for the week.
Speaker 5: Nigga shop the sharp as a motherfucker.
Speaker 4: Nigga.
Speaker 1: Please, man, you know what the thing is, ma'am When
Speaker 1: you look back on it now, right, did you ever
Speaker 1: think it would go as far as it did?
Speaker 6: Never never even real we never even thought about gold.
Speaker 6: That wasn't even nothing.
Speaker 3: I thought it was just I guess that's what made
Speaker 3: it so unique, because we would just ain't well, no,
Speaker 3: it's just about the music. It was just doing what
Speaker 3: like we got this big contract for you.
Speaker 5: Know, old records, promise like being from where we came from. Man,
Speaker 5: I don't know. I never looked that ship like that.
Speaker 5: I like publishing and all that type of ship. Like
Speaker 5: Nigga the Homie got some turntables. Here's a mic. We finished,
Speaker 5: spit some tales from the hood and Nigga we ride.
Speaker 5: Nigga rolling the limo. Nigga the nigga let me wear
Speaker 5: the fat dookie rolle. Nigga, Ita made it. Nigga, you
Speaker 5: what like you didn't think of like I don't know,
Speaker 5: like the success of the future. And because records, I
Speaker 5: mean making records was like a it was like a
Speaker 5: for me. I was like a distant shit nigga. I
Speaker 5: was gang banging like I thought my life was gonna be,
Speaker 5: especially growing up in Compton at that time, the early
Speaker 5: eighties and shit eighty three eighty two, Like, I saw
Speaker 5: nothing of gang banging. There was like no no niggas
Speaker 5: making records and shit and nigga. The successful niggas I
Speaker 5: saw was the niggas down the block with the rollers
Speaker 5: in their hair, nigga selling the sharm at the end
Speaker 5: of the niggas like I we you know, even with
Speaker 5: my parents working and shit like that. Because of the
Speaker 5: path I was taking, I'm like, Nigga, I don't really
Speaker 5: be going to prison in a minute or some shit.
Speaker 5: And then some niggas looked at that that is a
Speaker 5: rite of passage. I got niggas right now. It was like, Nigga,
Speaker 5: I couldn't wait to go to the pen now. Talking
Speaker 5: to one of my homies, last night. He was like, Nigga,
Speaker 5: when I got out the pen I couldn't wait to
Speaker 5: get out with my penitentiary shirt and my blue jeans
Speaker 5: on and my shit kickers and then touchback down on
Speaker 5: the block. Niggas be like, oh, the homie just got
Speaker 5: That was like a right of fucking passage to niggas.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: So music was like Nigga gold records and going on
Speaker 5: tour and fucking that was making I'm making money from
Speaker 5: talking about the homie big Dog from the hood. We
Speaker 5: got Jack last night and the one time and then
Speaker 5: add and me and all this shit. So it was
Speaker 5: like the nigga, what like, I get money off of
Speaker 5: this ship now? So it was it was a distant thought.
Speaker 5: Like I said, when I first started rapping, we was
Speaker 5: in the garage. I didn't think like I'd be on
Speaker 5: planes going to Japan and shit, like on stage with
Speaker 5: ten thousand people in the audience. I was like, Nigga,
Speaker 5: we making records about the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: So that's crazy. Now, when y'all was recording that verse
Speaker 1: for easy right for Boys in the Hood, and y'all
Speaker 1: had the piece them together and it wouldn't easy.
Speaker 6: That wasn't just for that song. Every version he done it.
Speaker 6: Take them, I mean a couple of hours, all of.
Speaker 3: It, and any of them.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of artists do who still like that
Speaker 4: to this day.
Speaker 2: But that's the thing I was trying to tell my
Speaker 2: my wife and my daughter, like, listen to the breath
Speaker 2: patterns on all these new songs and all every line
Speaker 2: is punched, every single line.
Speaker 3: I mean, now you can punch the digital soul. Yeah,
Speaker 3: punch eat it's like.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying. So for all those and
Speaker 1: the audience that don't know, it wasn't like the pro
Speaker 1: tools and stuff. No, the way you just pull the cut,
Speaker 1: copy and paste.
Speaker 5: And yeah you had yeah, and two inch rails was
Speaker 5: nothing to play with. Man expensive spind it back and
Speaker 5: you have to do it, mess up and do it again,
Speaker 5: and sometimes you mess up the punch.
Speaker 3: Oh God, looking at me out like, I know, I
Speaker 3: killed that one right there, do the whole line.
Speaker 4: It was the hard day record.
Speaker 6: But you know something, it made us what we turned
Speaker 6: out to be. We had to work for everything. What't
Speaker 6: sampling was new. All this was new to us.
Speaker 3: We had to figure it out. Everybody did. They were
Speaker 3: so close to everybody had to figure this out. It
Speaker 3: wasn't no for the YouTube university. And that's how you
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 1: Well, there's no barrier to the there's no barrier entry anymore.
Speaker 4: Nah.
Speaker 1: You used to have to learn some ship as you
Speaker 1: wanted to be a rapper. Even if you wanted to
Speaker 1: be a rapper, it wasn't like it was every you know,
Speaker 1: right now you can go online to buy three beats
Speaker 1: for seventy five dollars.
Speaker 3: That wouldn't less or less or less.
Speaker 1: That wasn't cracking back then. So you either had to learn.
Speaker 1: I know me, I would put the Paul's tapes together.
Speaker 1: I would put the tapes you know where I had
Speaker 1: that player and that would just make me an instrumental.
Speaker 1: It would be off in someplace. And if you foxed
Speaker 1: up once, you had to go back and do it again.
Speaker 1: But you learn how to produce and you learn time.
Speaker 1: And then you go to turntables because you were initially
Speaker 1: outside of being a drummer, you were j yeah DJ,
Speaker 1: you know, d hen DJ Yellow. So most most DJs
Speaker 1: are actually turned out to be the best producers.
Speaker 4: Definitely that both me and Dre was DJs.
Speaker 6: That's what we you learn, what the people like, you know,
Speaker 6: because DJing ain't just all the scratching. That ain't dj
Speaker 6: and is rocking a party from your time you know
Speaker 6: to your end.
Speaker 3: Ain't no sitting down. You know, back then it has
Speaker 3: slow songs. You know, you have to break it down
Speaker 3: every once in a while. It's about the programming. That's
Speaker 3: what like producing. But due to this program in this song,
Speaker 3: we're making what the chords gonna sound like, what this
Speaker 3: gonna sound like.
Speaker 6: At the beginning, all this stuff, we just brung DJing
Speaker 6: into that world, and we had to learned producing on
Speaker 6: the fly.
Speaker 3: There wasn't no book, wasn't no call up New York.
Speaker 3: How do you guys?
Speaker 1: Because I noticed on the earlier n w A albums
Speaker 1: they had more like a real East Coast son was
Speaker 1: break beats in there? Oh yeah, sins played over it's
Speaker 1: still the West Coast.
Speaker 5: We played more instruments, Yes, we started getting into playing
Speaker 5: more instruments because everybody was sampling, you know, like you said,
Speaker 5: sampling was new and thus for you would hear a
Speaker 5: lot of the same breakbeats on certain songs and whatever.
Speaker 5: So I think that's what made me getting to uh
Speaker 5: when my dude shout out my people's will ez Uh.
Speaker 5: It was what made me get in the studio with
Speaker 5: him and start just having him play stuff and even
Speaker 5: stuff I would just imagine. I used to keep a
Speaker 5: fucking tape recorder, you know, want of them tape recorders
Speaker 5: on me. Every time I would go somewhere, I don't
Speaker 5: give a fuck if interviews, if I was on tour
Speaker 5: or whatever, and melodies would come to my head, I
Speaker 5: would hum the motherfuckers into my tape recorder and then
Speaker 5: I would run back to the studio and I'd go listen,
Speaker 5: and that motherfucker after about ten minutes so he was
Speaker 5: in there producing, then I'll get a nigger, I wouldn't.
Speaker 5: I don't take credit for.
Speaker 3: That's you arranging.
Speaker 4: That's that's how it came up.
Speaker 5: With most of my beats off of my projects that
Speaker 5: I would do. I would sit there and get high
Speaker 5: and be on a motherfucking plane and just be like
Speaker 5: thinking to myself, like, damn, that would be tight right
Speaker 5: there being start humming the shit into the mother fucking
Speaker 5: tape recorder, and then as soon as I get to
Speaker 5: the hotel, I get on the phone with willie' Z
Speaker 5: and I play the ship for him. And then he'd
Speaker 5: called me back later and he'd have made a whole
Speaker 5: song out what out M hummed? You know, so whatever whatever,
Speaker 5: But like I said, we with with with fucking sampling
Speaker 5: and all of that shit. Like I said, a lot
Speaker 5: of the breakbeats and ship started being used.
Speaker 4: On a lot of the same projects. So that's twelve X.
Speaker 4: That's when you got into probably trying to play on what.
Speaker 6: Made us turn after straight out of Compton. Seemed like
Speaker 6: every lawyer, everybody came to us. Yeah, we was a
Speaker 6: sample never permission used people they told us.
Speaker 1: Sold them samples.
Speaker 4: Nah.
Speaker 1: See, you know that's the thing. I want to go
Speaker 1: to something real quick, and I ain't gonna stay on
Speaker 1: the long time. But you gotta imagine how it was
Speaker 1: easy when he started that.
Speaker 3: Company, oh mid twenties, gotta be he was.
Speaker 1: You'all's kids pretty much. Yeah, so you know, you think
Speaker 1: about it. You're artist, right, and you see we selling
Speaker 1: all these albums. But don't nobody think about win Clear
Speaker 1: Nearest sample on his mouf.
Speaker 5: But we didn't know it to clear You wasn't fucking
Speaker 5: like I said, shit, when I first started, I didn't
Speaker 5: know about writers and published it and all that type
Speaker 5: of shit.
Speaker 4: I didn't know shit. I just was like, fuck it,
Speaker 4: Nigga'm finna get in here and make a record. And
Speaker 4: that's it.
Speaker 5: The ins and out of the record business. You learned
Speaker 5: as you went along. Yeah, the hard way, because I
Speaker 5: didn't know about contracts and none of that shit.
Speaker 4: Nigga. I'm like, oh, nigga, I'm finna make a record.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because our first.
Speaker 6: Three we didn't sign contracts until eighty nine, in the
Speaker 6: middle of our tour, after the.
Speaker 3: Platinum and the goals. Already it was just a you know,
Speaker 3: we just it wasn't even a handshake. It just we
Speaker 3: just did it. It wasn't thinking about it until the
Speaker 3: people come in.
Speaker 1: Start you'll start seeing some money at least do because
Speaker 1: y'all was go on tour and stuff.
Speaker 6: Well the tour, well, we really seen money after we
Speaker 6: signed them contract and I know I signed mine.
Speaker 3: I picked it up. It was seventy five thousand dollars
Speaker 3: check there, I turned it over and signed it. I
Speaker 3: don't know what was in that contract.
Speaker 1: You just knew that you do that something. That's why
Speaker 1: they do it that way. They had that check right
Speaker 1: check for young right there from the Hub City. This
Speaker 1: man yeah, are you crazy? Thigga could have had to
Speaker 1: be ten thousand. Yeah, like that's ten thousand.
Speaker 4: I'm sleeping at.
Speaker 5: My bomb's house and ship on the couch and ship
Speaker 5: you had me ten thousand or some ship.
Speaker 3: You ain't lying some ship we in the garage. Matter
Speaker 3: of fact, you said ten thousand.
Speaker 4: Say don't like that.
Speaker 6: The first deal we was trying to get was for
Speaker 6: Island Records. We did a showcase for Island Records, just
Speaker 6: for them, and they was gone. And me and Dre
Speaker 6: wanted to be command Drake, you know, to come from
Speaker 6: a record win no money. Were like, man, let's sign
Speaker 6: with that police Eric just like n I want my
Speaker 6: own label, with my own color, my own name. Nobody
Speaker 6: would do.
Speaker 3: It but priority.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the first deal was ten thousand dollars I think,
Speaker 3: or something like.
Speaker 2: The crazy thing is later Island had to buy the
Speaker 2: international rights. Really yeah, they bought the international.
Speaker 3: I know they kicked theyselves and but they wouldn't have
Speaker 3: did it right. They wouldn't have did it right.
Speaker 5: No, none of us got I mean on the up
Speaker 5: and up as far as that's concerned. We nobody got
Speaker 5: done right. No, And I, like I said, we was
Speaker 5: just naive kids. Man, we was naive kids thinking like.
Speaker 3: Taking advantage up.
Speaker 1: We got took Let me ask you that motherfucker, because
Speaker 1: that's one of the biggest stories with n w A.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody de fected, you knowing first Arabian Prince,
Speaker 1: Arabian Prince you know, left first or whatever.
Speaker 4: She's got a big posse? How much is that record?
Speaker 6: There?
Speaker 3: You go? Brother? Was that as all?
Speaker 5: She's got a big posse? I remember that Arabian Prince
Speaker 5: was signed to uh you was with you, was with you,
Speaker 5: it was with us. After he left, y'all came over
Speaker 5: and signed to Orpheus.
Speaker 4: That's for it was.
Speaker 2: That's why I was like, she's.
Speaker 4: Got a big.
Speaker 2: And I remember I was like, wow, Arabian Prince.
Speaker 1: You about to get started. He went on the lines,
Speaker 1: was so bad with the music and stuff. But you
Speaker 1: know again, you got kids. Now you got Jerry Hiller
Speaker 1: this day, right, you depending on him. He's being dependent
Speaker 1: upon to look out for everything. Kind of mind in
Speaker 1: the shop, so to speak.
Speaker 3: But well, the key to that is at towards the
Speaker 3: end of the record crew, that's when Jerry came on
Speaker 3: with the record crew. He got us to a show.
Speaker 3: If the big concert that was in London every year.
Speaker 6: I forgot the name of it, but be all the
Speaker 6: hip hop groups from everywhere, we got us on that,
Speaker 6: so were thinking, oh man, really, and then once we
Speaker 6: got the deal for priority, you know you're just thinking.
Speaker 3: Okay, he know what he's doing.
Speaker 6: You know, we don't know nothing, not mechanicals, not publishing,
Speaker 6: not writing, and writers is.
Speaker 3: Two sides over here. For the movie, we didn't know,
Speaker 3: not the producers, artists. It's so many ways to get paid.
Speaker 6: But the he was the problem where I found out,
Speaker 6: and it cost me ninety three thousand dollars I found out.
Speaker 3: See he was the manager for the group, and he
Speaker 3: was the manager for the label.
Speaker 1: Yeah he was double dippings.
Speaker 3: That's a conflicant entrance. We really didn't know.
Speaker 4: Hell no, you don't know that.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know that happened. That's the same kind
Speaker 5: of shit that happened. And me and Chill and whatever,
Speaker 5: my lawyer slash manager was mine. And then he turned
Speaker 5: around and started being the manager for Chill and Dam
Speaker 5: and all of them and shit. So he get paid,
Speaker 5: getting paid off every every fucking corner, more than the group.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, man, yeah, I mean Russell Simmons, I
Speaker 2: think made more than run in and see.
Speaker 3: Actually, oh, I'm quiet.
Speaker 4: But like I said, when you naive and.
Speaker 5: You really don't have no one to school you on
Speaker 5: the entertainment ins and outs, Like he said, Nigga, when
Speaker 5: I signed the mechanicals, what the fuck is that?
Speaker 4: What is a mechanical?
Speaker 3: Nigga?
Speaker 4: A fucking publisher at a at a fucking writers at, the.
Speaker 5: Producers and artists all the goddamn thing about that ship.
Speaker 5: I thought that when you walk in there and you
Speaker 5: sign the contract and the nigga gave you that advance, Nigga,
Speaker 5: that's it, Nigga.
Speaker 4: From there, nigga.
Speaker 5: Whatever nigga gave me up front, Nigga, I took it
Speaker 5: back to the hood and Nigga I was that was it.
Speaker 5: Fucking I didn't know nothing about nigga getting paid for
Speaker 5: that royalty. Royalty, Nigga. I ain't see a royalty ever.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about ever ever in life of a fucking
Speaker 5: record label. Nigga and I didn't been doing records since
Speaker 5: right after that.
Speaker 4: I never seen it. Wait, when you come strap, you
Speaker 4: never got never seen a fucking royalty really never.
Speaker 3: Wow, I don't feel so bad.
Speaker 4: They nigga, They nigga. They gave me about three up
Speaker 4: front and that was it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you cause you ain't.
Speaker 7: You ain't.
Speaker 3: They get what they do.
Speaker 1: They tell you you don't recoup.
Speaker 4: That's what they do. You ain't recouped.
Speaker 1: And it's impossible to recoup because you're getting recouped. You're
Speaker 1: not getting recouped off the whole dollar amount, getting recoup
Speaker 1: off something like a dollar or whatever, so or maybe not.
Speaker 3: A dollar off of cding gett.
Speaker 5: No dollar was getting to tell you, let me tell
Speaker 5: you what they did. They gave me three hundred to do.
Speaker 5: We come strapped, and then when it dropped about two
Speaker 5: months later, they slid me a check and said it
Speaker 5: was an advance for the next project. They slid me
Speaker 5: about another one fifty, so that was it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they.
Speaker 2: I'll not move more than five hundred thousand.
Speaker 4: We come strapped, did about nine hundred.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: They something else.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and they heard up and got you another one.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you putting money into young black kids here,
Speaker 3: you you.
Speaker 5: Don't, like I said, And then when you don't have
Speaker 5: people who are have your best interest, because let's face
Speaker 5: it like you said, we some young black niggas from Compton.
Speaker 4: We don't know shit about.
Speaker 5: Major record labels and distribution and mechanicals and royalties and
Speaker 5: writers and artists and all that shit.
Speaker 4: We don't know shit.
Speaker 5: We need some young, poverty stricten, young black teenagers from
Speaker 5: Compton who knows nothing about what's going on. So to
Speaker 5: take me from motherfucking growing up in fucking Compton, off
Speaker 5: of Alameda and fucking Greenleaf, and Nigga, my hope of
Speaker 5: fucking promise and of being something is like slim to
Speaker 5: nothing and a nigga come hand me a check for
Speaker 5: five thousand dollars for talking about last night boom Bop
Speaker 5: got shot and the one time came through and Nigga,
Speaker 5: I had some dope in my socking, some shit like
Speaker 5: what was gonna happen anyway?
Speaker 4: Nigga, I'm telling you really what I'm doing them up
Speaker 4: day you get me. I came up big, I got
Speaker 4: to go get me a cutlass on datings.
Speaker 5: With the Nordy steered wheel. Niggas sit, nigga, Nigga please,
Speaker 5: I felt, Nigga. I felt like I was on top
Speaker 5: of the world and not knowing that a Nigga sitting
Speaker 5: behind the desk. Niggas raking in million. We're getting all
Speaker 5: the money, but at the time, I don't know what
Speaker 5: fucking money is. Have you ever noticed is repers come
Speaker 5: from money? If you ever noticing is reppers.
Speaker 4: But like I said, I didn't come from nothing.
Speaker 5: My father worked at General Motors, in my mom's was
Speaker 5: a little CNA nurse.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, I came from the druggle.
Speaker 5: So to be able to go buy some fresh kicks
Speaker 5: nigga and the ounce of weed, and then I got
Speaker 5: some datings on my motherfucking car. Nigga, please niggall ball
Speaker 5: of pages on the hip, big brick fowld Nigga, get
Speaker 5: the fuck up out of here, nigg out lifting Nigga out.
Speaker 5: You could have said Nigga was a billionaire right there.
Speaker 4: You get me.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this man once easy, so once
Speaker 1: all the discrepancies became fucking he made it right though,
Speaker 1: didn't he?
Speaker 6: You know something, I think about it every blue moon.
Speaker 6: The problem was never in the group, never no arguments,
Speaker 6: no nothing. The problem is the people on that circle
Speaker 6: behind the group, right outside the group, right around you
Speaker 6: should be getting this, You should be doing this, it's
Speaker 6: the outsiders.
Speaker 3: It wasn't the insiders that did the group. The Outsiders.
Speaker 3: I'm quite sure whoever's.
Speaker 6: In cubes here then later Dre's here, then Rent. You know,
Speaker 6: whatever happened with that, you know, it just but it
Speaker 6: was the outsiders.
Speaker 3: It was in the group.
Speaker 6: No arguments, no nothing. I don't care what the movie showed.
Speaker 6: There wasn't no arguments, none of that stuff.
Speaker 3: I remember mixing the last album, Niggas for Life, and
Speaker 3: we just me and Dre were laughing about stuff.
Speaker 6: That's going on, you know with the DLC, and you know,
Speaker 6: another person were laughing before we finished mixing. It was
Speaker 6: totally different. I mean, I've seen some dirt. I don't
Speaker 6: even talk about it. I don't even tell nobody.
Speaker 3: But really I'm just like, oh my god, what's good man?
Speaker 3: It was. I can tell you about the missing tapes.
Speaker 3: I had the missing tapes the last album. We just
Speaker 3: mixed it. We mixed the half inch quarter inch fatter base.
Speaker 3: So I had the tapes at home.
Speaker 8: And I dropped them off in that office and he
Speaker 8: called me, tapes are gone. Uh, I just dropped them off,
Speaker 8: He said, what, I just dropped them off?
Speaker 6: M hmm.
Speaker 3: Let me call you back. He never done another priority
Speaker 3: song after that.
Speaker 1: I was just like, are you serious? Those tapes?
Speaker 3: The owner had the tapes. I put him in his head.
Speaker 3: I delivered him too. He took him.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm looking at other people know I'm out
Speaker 6: of here. I don't even you know, he ain't my business.
Speaker 6: It's old, that's gone, nothing coming back, you know, But
Speaker 6: it's it's.
Speaker 3: The music game is a cold piece of word with.
Speaker 4: The biggest.
Speaker 1: And not trying to get controversial because I ain't to
Speaker 1: stay on this, but would you say that Jerry Hiller
Speaker 1: kind of took advantage of the situation.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I ain't gonna talk bad Malvin because
Speaker 3: he's when you getting paid from both sides. If you
Speaker 3: don't know, it may not be dirty pool, but it's
Speaker 3: a dirty game.
Speaker 4: Not to speak bad on them.
Speaker 5: But I'm just gonna say this, the music game has
Speaker 5: always been made up of shady and shisty characters, especially
Speaker 5: when it comes to our race and just the music
Speaker 5: business period. As an artist, if you wasn't the fucking
Speaker 5: owner of the label, you got fucked. And even if
Speaker 5: you was the owner of the label, if you you know,
Speaker 5: executives and those people have always had their hand in
Speaker 5: controlled the music game. Uh, we've never been had a
Speaker 5: fair share as as black artists or artist period. You
Speaker 5: get fucked when you come into this business. I mean
Speaker 5: it's never gonna be on the up and up, especially
Speaker 5: from the days of us and for us see how
Speaker 5: treacherous fucking music execs was so h that's just unfortunate
Speaker 5: that it's just one of these motherfucking games to where
Speaker 5: you have to really come in at your own risk
Speaker 5: and if you ain't as smart enough to know books smart.
Speaker 4: You know the odds and ends, you're done. Yeah, because
Speaker 4: had I known what.
Speaker 5: I know now back then, I've never signed to now,
Speaker 5: motherfucking you.
Speaker 4: Get me.
Speaker 5: Funk that I'm gonna take my chances and put my
Speaker 5: own records out and try to eat like that.
Speaker 3: You know that?
Speaker 4: That that Uh? That that what a lot of niggas
Speaker 4: did on the West Coast in the early days.
Speaker 5: Get me, you didn't see a lot of artists, even
Speaker 5: with going back to the Record Crew or fucking Unknown Records,
Speaker 5: niggas wasn't trying to get major deals.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go fucking start.
Speaker 3: It just wasn't.
Speaker 4: You know, it didn't happen.
Speaker 5: So if you was on the West Coast as an
Speaker 5: independent record label, nigga, that's how you was eating and ship.
Speaker 1: Well, like some just mentioned you had records was a
Speaker 1: cold piece of work.
Speaker 3: Let's say you're gonna look at it.
Speaker 1: That deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where all the deals were coming, you know, deals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And there was a lot of money. I know,
Speaker 1: because you had physical products back then.
Speaker 3: It wasn't I mean, you don't know. But he's pressing. No, okay,
Speaker 3: give me one hundred copies. He the press five hundred.
Speaker 4: Copies, Yeah, and four a hundred fuckers out nigga for him.
Speaker 1: Oh they was once you ship them out, they don't
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, it's that game was so new and just
Speaker 3: they just happened to be smarter than us. They out
Speaker 3: did us. They just they knew the game. We didn't
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 4: We didn't know that, nigga. I didn't.
Speaker 3: We just had the talent, that's all I want. We
Speaker 3: had it down.
Speaker 5: I didn't know ship man, I'm sorry. I didn't know
Speaker 5: a goddamn thing. All I knew was how to talk
Speaker 5: and represent Compton. And when they came, like I said,
Speaker 5: contracts and all that ship nigga. I was just like, nigga,
Speaker 5: how much he just wanted to check man? But that's
Speaker 5: every like, yeah, one hundred and fifty pages long, and
Speaker 5: nigga ain't all the small words.
Speaker 4: I don't know money to go hire a nigga to
Speaker 4: read through this ship.
Speaker 5: He gonna want about ten fucking grand I'm thinking, like, Nigga,
Speaker 5: you're only giving me fucking fifteen. So fuck yeah, everything
Speaker 5: of this bitch good. He designed your fucking life away
Speaker 5: and shit not doing. But like I said in them times,
Speaker 5: I mean, what else was your choices?
Speaker 1: You get me like, yeah, we kind of I know,
Speaker 1: we kind of breezing past stuff because I want to
Speaker 1: get to a certain point right now, everybody is gone
Speaker 1: easy get sick. I'm looking at somebody and you know
Speaker 1: this happened during easy birthday. Flag goes out there, he
Speaker 1: goes on math office. Sure, and he says that Easy
Speaker 1: he knew he had the A's virus.
Speaker 3: I don't think he did.
Speaker 6: I don't think because I got a picture from his
Speaker 6: last public picture, which was December of ninety four. I
Speaker 6: can look at that picture because I took one because
Speaker 6: he gave me a birthday party in the year before
Speaker 6: he gave me one. I can compare both pictures. He's
Speaker 6: smaller in the ninety four to one compared to the
Speaker 6: ninety three. But he didn't know nothing, because matter of fact,
Speaker 6: that January we went to Vegas and the first time
Speaker 6: I ever was in the room wining because they ran
Speaker 6: out of the rooms, so I had to stay in
Speaker 6: the room when he nothing like that. He didn't know
Speaker 6: nothing at all. I don't think, you know something. I
Speaker 6: thought about it like once or twice. Whatever happened happened.
Speaker 6: It can't be changed. He can't come back. I mean,
Speaker 6: it was a cold piece of work. Whatever was done,
Speaker 6: if it was done, I don't know. He loved females,
Speaker 6: so you know, he could have caught it. I don't know,
Speaker 6: you know, but they say back then it's harder to
Speaker 6: catch it from a female.
Speaker 3: He had to be the other way and stuff.
Speaker 4: It's hardy, something about the and the penis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's just however, it's hard to I'll
Speaker 3: tell you all after.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you all after be looking at him like
Speaker 5: so was like he gave me that look like I
Speaker 5: have's the answer for that, but to just chill out
Speaker 5: in I'm looking at that.
Speaker 3: But he never mentioned, never, never said nothing like that.
Speaker 3: I know he didn't know.
Speaker 1: And then another key thing too, This is where I'm
Speaker 1: not a conspiracy guy. He ain't tell me I am,
Speaker 1: but you it's a little bit. But give us that
Speaker 1: slap us with it.
Speaker 4: This is my thing.
Speaker 1: He excited that he did. He had an insurance policy
Speaker 1: written up two months before he died.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know about that.
Speaker 6: We had done insurance companies when Dre was still there,
Speaker 6: Lords of London. I remember that because they had to
Speaker 6: take blood. So I'm like, but who's you know, who's
Speaker 6: I didn't know nothing about beneficiary, who.
Speaker 3: Gets the money? They was like million dollar policies on
Speaker 3: me on Dre. I'm quite sure Eric had a couple
Speaker 3: of million. Somebody had them policy.
Speaker 2: Discussion for like why did you guys get it? What
Speaker 2: made it happen?
Speaker 6: Then it just was oh, we're gonna get some insurance
Speaker 6: on your hands and this and that.
Speaker 3: You know, they cover stuff like that.
Speaker 7: And I remember we went there, drew the blood and
Speaker 7: they had got insurance policies. Of course, you know, it
Speaker 7: wasn't Eric's idea.
Speaker 3: It was the other guys the idea. I'm quite sure.
Speaker 6: And I can imagine who got the money from if
Speaker 6: they kept the policy up all that time.
Speaker 3: I'm quite sure they did well.
Speaker 2: It sounds like the obviously I don't know. This is
Speaker 2: pure speculation, but in the middle it sounds like the
Speaker 2: type of situation where some of the athletes will do insurance,
Speaker 2: like when they're in college. So if they go pro
Speaker 2: and they're playing football or something and they break their leg,
Speaker 2: they can't play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, insurance, So if Dre broke.
Speaker 2: His arm, he couldn't produce her that's what they That's
Speaker 2: what they got us on.
Speaker 3: It was body or so whatever. But there was a
Speaker 3: million dollar policy.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess the record company would be the beneficiary.
Speaker 6: Which are the manager, yeah, the person and the should
Speaker 6: have been it should have been both, or are my
Speaker 6: family or his family?
Speaker 1: To me, that's a conflict of interest because the thing is,
Speaker 1: sometimes an artist is more valuable dead than heels alive.
Speaker 1: You know, if you figure if you've got a dudes catalog, right,
Speaker 1: artists to go eventually leave somebody anyway. I don't care
Speaker 1: how tight y'all whatever, Every situation is going one day
Speaker 1: come to an end of recording business. Because this guy's
Speaker 1: gonna get big one day and he's gonna see in
Speaker 1: his head, it don't make no sense to give you
Speaker 1: thirty no more.
Speaker 4: I need that.
Speaker 1: I'm further along in my career, so I'm going about
Speaker 1: my business. Think about it. If you missed the record company, man,
Speaker 1: you got an insurance, man, well shit, this motherfucker died.
Speaker 1: I get a million dollars in.
Speaker 3: I got a whole.
Speaker 1: Motherfucking reels his ass back there as soon as we
Speaker 1: put out. Oh man, such mc sdew wrong is gone.
Speaker 1: Go put this album out and it's gonna go triple platinum.
Speaker 1: We gonna get all the money.
Speaker 3: Oh huh.
Speaker 6: I mean it's a cold business. It's more colder than
Speaker 6: the streets. The streets, ain't that cold?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 1: You the second artist that came up there and said
Speaker 1: that cocaine was just up here a week ago. He said, Man,
Speaker 1: being the rap game, it's like being in the dope game.
Speaker 4: Man, it is. It's treacherous.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, kill you and shit niggas want to
Speaker 5: take your spot and whatever, and haters and you know,
Speaker 5: and just it's just a hustle game.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, your product gotta be the top notch
Speaker 5: or shit, you ain't gonna be able to sell your
Speaker 5: shit to the customers, the consumers whatever.
Speaker 1: Man, So you go from champon chump real quick man, man,
Speaker 1: definitely Champton chump with the quickness. So y'all once Q
Speaker 1: dropped that, no vast lean man, what was your mindset?
Speaker 4: What was you doing?
Speaker 1: Because you seemed like a dude to just.
Speaker 4: Tell the truth.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I did, just because I told him
Speaker 6: about that scene in the in the movie.
Speaker 3: He said, what was y'all do? He called me the
Speaker 3: night before the chot he said, what happened when the song?
Speaker 4: I just I told him. He got us.
Speaker 3: That's all was discussed. It wasn't no discussions. He got us.
Speaker 3: He made a whole song about us. We never made
Speaker 3: a whole song about it. We had snippets and commercials,
Speaker 3: a few hits here and that, but he made a
Speaker 3: whole song. So that was it.
Speaker 4: That was all it was.
Speaker 3: It wasn't no oh man, we're gonna kill nah. It
Speaker 3: just he got us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he came with some shit. Y'all threw a rock
Speaker 1: at him. He hits you up, came, y'all threw a
Speaker 1: rock and cube. He came black. He wasn't bullshit. So
Speaker 1: do you think all that stuff could have been rectified.
Speaker 3: Before he died. He talked to Cube in New York.
Speaker 3: I think he talked to Dre. It was some talks
Speaker 3: going on. I don't know about what, but it was
Speaker 3: some kind of talks going on. Rin came back around.
Speaker 3: We did a couple of the songs on his last album,
Speaker 3: Man produced for him, and it was.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it would have ever came, anything
Speaker 6: would have happened, but at least the talks was there.
Speaker 3: I don't have a guilty conscience. I sleep good at night.
Speaker 3: I was there, you know.
Speaker 6: I was just because when Dre was finna leave, I
Speaker 6: remember him calling me, I'm gone. You know, I'm thinking
Speaker 6: six in the morning. I'm looking over what's.
Speaker 3: In my bed? Yeah in the morning, okay.
Speaker 6: And I told him I'll call you back. It took
Speaker 6: twenty five years later before I told him. I went
Speaker 6: to his house and he had I said, I didn't
Speaker 6: choose a side. I was thrown into that you left
Speaker 6: at that particular time.
Speaker 3: I didn't know you was leaving. I didn't know what
Speaker 3: you was talking about then, easy and I just like,
Speaker 3: I just stood my ground and I'm just here with he.
Speaker 3: I didn't picky. Yeah, I should have left with Dre,
Speaker 3: but I just stayed where something told me to just stay.
Speaker 1: Because you and Drey was pretty much production partners. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, because y'all did everything together.
Speaker 6: I mean from the beginning from DJ and all the
Speaker 6: way all the way to the end, most of the
Speaker 6: roofless stuff.
Speaker 1: You ever think about, Man, you could have been a
Speaker 1: part of some of the Mother albums.
Speaker 6: Not really, because like the DC he said, Man, I'm
Speaker 6: going to work on DC album.
Speaker 3: I'm good. We had just finished our our them on
Speaker 3: a Friday and on Monday, you want to go back
Speaker 3: to the student stuff. No, I'm good, Michelle A same thing.
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 2: Then you did your mon Milkie.
Speaker 3: That's because Dray didn't want to do it, and they
Speaker 3: looking at me, Okay, you do it. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: I liked it.
Speaker 4: That album. That was the ship they got caught up
Speaker 4: your more mark, It was a mocking bird and all
Speaker 4: that shit.
Speaker 3: You know what's so funny, For the love of Money
Speaker 3: is the same.
Speaker 4: Had it first though?
Speaker 6: Had for the love of I made that and it's
Speaker 6: the same track. And I guess did Easy decide to
Speaker 6: use it again? I guess he let Bone hear it
Speaker 6: and I guess they just boom you did they.
Speaker 4: Vocals is it was already out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: That was like the first time I've ever seen that
Speaker 5: like that, you know what I mean, Like you see
Speaker 5: it commonly now with remixes.
Speaker 2: And people using but back then that was like it
Speaker 2: was unheard of.
Speaker 4: Wash.
Speaker 1: That was the crazy part about it, you know how
Speaker 1: that was. That was kind of like with that one
Speaker 1: record too that I Got the Power, you know, we
Speaker 1: had the two people. Yeah, and Snip was actually like
Speaker 1: a euro group, like a euro group, like a euro
Speaker 1: dance group or some ship like that. Always like, but
Speaker 1: that was the same.
Speaker 4: That was the It was the It was the same
Speaker 4: fucking track, right, you know what.
Speaker 2: Much later, but it reminded me with the scarface with
Speaker 2: Mary Jane and Shanti with Baby. I was like, wait,
Speaker 2: that's just literally the instrumental scarf.
Speaker 5: People started doing it then like fucking you know. But
Speaker 5: like I said, back then, I was like, damn they
Speaker 5: using the same indeed.
Speaker 2: And then dre used it on the Content album later. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: inspired by yeah.
Speaker 1: So, And I ain't gonna ask you because you had
Speaker 1: a million people ask you about your opinion of the movie.
Speaker 1: You ain't about the opinion, but more like, do you
Speaker 1: think the character they had in the movie actually reflected
Speaker 1: your personality?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I was. It was about the women. It wasn't
Speaker 3: about the money. Yeah, it was about the women.
Speaker 1: He was really out they chasing the women.
Speaker 3: What.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I didn't.
Speaker 5: Be being in being in n w A at that
Speaker 5: time because, like I said, I can attest from even
Speaker 5: from putting out my first single in a video.
Speaker 4: It wasn't too hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, chase, nothing but that.
Speaker 4: And at that time, just being from Comptent just.
Speaker 3: Just oh yeah one Compton got the name.
Speaker 5: Being from Compton and just I mean ship Compton was
Speaker 5: It was exciting itself with all the women and ship
Speaker 5: and whatever, and then to be able to go on
Speaker 5: the road and motherfuckers videos and all that ship.
Speaker 4: Man, it's just man, did you ever get married?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Are you married? And you're married now?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah ten years?
Speaker 1: Ten years man?
Speaker 6: And I never wanted to get married, you know. Once
Speaker 6: I did, that was that was it for me. I'm
Speaker 6: good them old games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's you know, you had your fun and
Speaker 5: it tied you out and then you get to a
Speaker 5: position to where like, fuck it, I'm grown up.
Speaker 4: Now you know that ship, And.
Speaker 1: I was assume that you had your your your feel
Speaker 1: of fun.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean see, I could talk about minds,
Speaker 3: but but I'm gonna put myself.
Speaker 5: Been a couple of pool parties and everything. Man, ship,
Speaker 5: it was very fucking exciting.
Speaker 1: Man, I heard about them.
Speaker 3: Did you come to the pajama party?
Speaker 4: I didn't come to the man, that was too treacherous
Speaker 4: for me.
Speaker 3: Man, you went to the pool parties. I went to
Speaker 3: both the poor parties set up the contest. It was strippers, of.
Speaker 4: Course they were. I knew a couple of they. Was
Speaker 4: just I knew a couple of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, later later, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Went to both pool parties. Yeah, motherfuckers.
Speaker 3: That was ahead of their time right there. That was something.
Speaker 4: And the thing about them food parties, their money, that
Speaker 4: was out malleable. Nigga, that motherfucker was cracking cracking. Oh man, Man,
Speaker 4: you saw it all you to be arrested.
Speaker 5: I was a young, young nigga too, had no business
Speaker 5: in the motherfucker. But I'm like nigga see him dubbed
Speaker 5: out in that bitch and it was just like God.
Speaker 4: Damn, this bitches everywhere. Hey, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this man, was there ever any
Speaker 1: issues about dudes women's being up there? Dudes come up
Speaker 1: there looking for their girls and ship their wives.
Speaker 4: No, no, we just did.
Speaker 1: Y'all didn't give a damn wives whoever?
Speaker 3: Girlfriend?
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, this ship was exquisite.
Speaker 1: You ain't never had nobody. You ain't never had nobody
Speaker 1: front you off like man.
Speaker 3: You never came. I mean you couldn't get in the
Speaker 3: studio because of that bar gate, but nobody. No, I
Speaker 3: didn't have no issue.
Speaker 4: She was just gone. It was just over over what
Speaker 4: would take your ass off? Hole, But you'll out and
Speaker 4: just do whatever.
Speaker 3: That's his favorite thing was, is that your girl. Don't
Speaker 3: say it's your girl.
Speaker 4: Because it's gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, he my girl, your girl away an hour.
Speaker 3: He won't mess with it.
Speaker 4: Don't say that.
Speaker 3: He was something else. Boy. Me and him used to
Speaker 3: go battle. We used to have a thing called the
Speaker 3: point system on the road. You know, the full thing
Speaker 3: is a whole point or a little half a point
Speaker 3: or little bitty Yeah, he got ten points in one night.
Speaker 3: The game was over. Oh we done. We ain't messing
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 1: Ten points in one night, dawn. See, I never got
Speaker 1: to go to none of the pool parties. I had
Speaker 1: been in that house of Northwalk before, have you? Oh wow,
Speaker 1: I've been to the house with what before with my
Speaker 1: boys from the black Hole to watch they were signed
Speaker 1: over there. How many groups the Ruthless had the one
Speaker 1: time signed over there? You had a gang group signed
Speaker 1: over there?
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 6: In the original Ruthless it was only JJ Fad, Michelle
Speaker 6: a dlc us see us in E we split that
Speaker 6: in the beginning, it was just one group, but somebody,
Speaker 6: somebody said, why don't we just make two groups?
Speaker 3: All the money? So easy and wy that.
Speaker 4: Was clever though. That was something that I thought that
Speaker 4: was clever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think people also forget that easy. Does
Speaker 2: it came out first?
Speaker 6: So waitit wait wait wait the album yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 6: the album there yeah yeah, yeah, it came out.
Speaker 3: First, but it was that wasn't the first gold album.
Speaker 2: No JJA was the first out the two points old single.
Speaker 2: It brings me to two points because I think it's
Speaker 2: very unfortunate that people don't understand or appreciate document whatever
Speaker 2: however you want to look at it, the importance I
Speaker 2: want you to break it down of JJ Fad really
Speaker 2: setting up so much for what ruthless?
Speaker 4: And how did y'all meet jj fad I think you
Speaker 4: know what's so crazy?
Speaker 6: Me and one of the guys that replaced Clientele in
Speaker 6: the Wrecking Crew, we went out to their house to
Speaker 6: have some fun.
Speaker 3: It was a dry run. You know what dry run?
Speaker 3: I guess, but that it was. And then later Arabian
Speaker 3: brng them to us. What happened? How we got the album?
Speaker 3: The Dream Team owned it a single.
Speaker 2: And Easy brought their contract.
Speaker 6: We was waiting on Rudy to bring the master to
Speaker 6: the song. He never brung it, and Dre said, that's
Speaker 6: redo it. Once we redid it.
Speaker 2: We owned the song, so they were Dream Team group. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and Easy brought their contract. Oh that's Dre and Everybody's
Speaker 2: first gold record.
Speaker 4: I know, I know the record was big. I didn't,
Speaker 4: and I hate it that.
Speaker 6: I just heard that it came from somebody else. I
Speaker 6: don't I don't know where I forgot what somebody. I
Speaker 6: just heard that we're breaking news on here, so he
Speaker 6: ain't do that beat real. I don't know if it
Speaker 6: was an idea, I don't know. I thought it was
Speaker 6: all Arabian, but somebody just said it was somebody else.
Speaker 6: I don't remember the name they said, but I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Stick with it Arabian.
Speaker 6: He brought the group to us, and okay, because it
Speaker 6: was five in the group when they got the rooflet
Speaker 6: was only three and I don't know what they.
Speaker 2: Did with the other two to change the meaning of
Speaker 2: the name too. Oh then they was there because JJ
Speaker 2: fadd originally was all five of their names. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it changed just jam and Fresh and Death because they
Speaker 2: got rid of the other girls.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Look so, and that's why he's the walking hip hop
Speaker 1: thesaurus his story.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's good ship A little bit, yeah, yeah, a
Speaker 5: little research, you know what I'm saying. Let me ask
Speaker 5: you this, something ship your ass should have died.
Speaker 4: I know that, I knew that already. I knew that already.
Speaker 4: Damn and Fresh and Death that.
Speaker 1: Get that off, you know. Let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: Were you in there when they were actually recording the song?
Speaker 6: Yeah, once, not the original once we once we redid
Speaker 6: the song, which is the same song we made, We
Speaker 6: played it exactly.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, bro, whose idea was it
Speaker 1: to tell him to go mama lumma saying Lama mama, Mama,
Speaker 1: But that.
Speaker 3: Was already on the song.
Speaker 1: Was already there.
Speaker 3: That was already there on the original song.
Speaker 6: It's exact same song since he remixed it, since he didn't, well,
Speaker 6: we didn't remix.
Speaker 3: We just replayed it over.
Speaker 5: He played it exactly. Wouldn't give y'all masters. Yeah, he
Speaker 5: didn't forget the masters from him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we never he never wrote them.
Speaker 4: I don't know why we Was it their intention to
Speaker 4: put them out on the Dream Team records?
Speaker 3: No, dream It came out on drews Out it did.
Speaker 3: It was okay, it wasn't It wasn't a hit, I
Speaker 3: don't think was it? No?
Speaker 2: No, no, it was the side they had Another Hole
Speaker 2: that was.
Speaker 5: That was the A side, right and super Sonic was
Speaker 5: the B side, but we switched for I remember, I
Speaker 5: do remember it was a B side song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, another Hole, Yes.
Speaker 4: I do remember that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the original was Another Hole was the A side.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I did not know that.
Speaker 4: You just said it.
Speaker 1: You know what's crazy, man, is that it then blew
Speaker 1: up when it first came out. But Easy brought it
Speaker 1: over there and and went. He was a pretty good executive, wasn't.
Speaker 3: It because he came from the streets like like.
Speaker 1: He knew what was happening because he found bone thugs harmy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you. I get the correction in now.
Speaker 1: The correction is you read all.
Speaker 5: You're still from the still about to report some ship
Speaker 5: that ain't true, So let's get down him.
Speaker 3: I met him.
Speaker 1: Wow, we're breaking news over here.
Speaker 6: We were doing the show in Cleveland and these five
Speaker 6: guys back there easy walked out the room. So they
Speaker 6: started rapping to me and I'm like this in the hotel, No,
Speaker 6: it's backstay and I'm like, guys saying, hey, you see
Speaker 6: that guy coming in here, go to him. And then
Speaker 6: by the time we got home from the room, they
Speaker 6: was there. They got right on the bus with one
Speaker 6: bag of chips for the whole bus ride that right,
Speaker 6: and had no money, no nothing.
Speaker 1: That's Cleveland. I'm from Cleveland.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 3: They was hungry, but they was. They remind me of
Speaker 3: us or you got you know, we was hungry. We
Speaker 3: didn't know nothing.
Speaker 4: We just nigga. Ain't had ship.
Speaker 1: Nigga we used to it just had a bag of a's.
Speaker 3: Fuck that's two days or something.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Niggas had that bag of chip the whole
Speaker 1: way bill.
Speaker 4: That must have been one chip an hour of starving,
Speaker 4: like a motherfucker.
Speaker 1: What do y'all know? They ain't had no runners for
Speaker 1: y'alling was y'all.
Speaker 4: Nigga.
Speaker 5: We was over there, broken, starving and hungry, trying to
Speaker 5: make wrecord, just to try to man. When I first
Speaker 5: hooked up with slip Man we Nigga, I wasn't going
Speaker 5: to school, Nigga.
Speaker 4: I was ditching school everything. Nigga.
Speaker 5: I probably didn't go home for probably a week or so.
Speaker 5: Nigga mobs was calling like, Nigga, what the fuck nigga?
Speaker 5: Because I didn't, Nigga, I'm finna make me a record.
Speaker 5: I didn't give a fuck.
Speaker 4: Nigga. No food, Nigga.
Speaker 5: I used to have to call moms and tell her
Speaker 5: to bring me some Louis Burgers or something because Nigga
Speaker 5: was starving.
Speaker 4: Nigga.
Speaker 5: We was and it was niggas slip out of places Dad, Nigga.
Speaker 5: They used to do all the sound systems for all
Speaker 5: the concerts around La. They used to do music people
Speaker 5: that was slipping them. Really music people were slipping them.
Speaker 5: So they used to provide all the sound systems all
Speaker 5: the DJ all the big La sound you know, they
Speaker 5: was La Sound Control mob, that's what's them. And they
Speaker 5: used to have his place on Guard in Gardena Nigga
Speaker 5: on van Ness by the old school Eminem's nigga uh
Speaker 5: and they used to have nothing but big ass Serwin Vegas.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been.
Speaker 5: Everybody used to go there to rent their equipment for
Speaker 5: parties and whatever.
Speaker 4: Where they got the base and Nigga, that's where we
Speaker 4: That's where I first met Slip. Nigga.
Speaker 5: I used to sleep up in that motherfucker because Nigga,
Speaker 5: we used to be in there, Slip out a little fucker.
Speaker 4: I don't know what it was, a full track or
Speaker 4: whatever they had in there.
Speaker 5: Nigga, we used to be in that motherfucker all night
Speaker 5: because his pops would not let us come to the
Speaker 5: crib and do that. So Nigga we'd be up there.
Speaker 5: Nigga just just broke starving. Slip had to beat up
Speaker 5: old ass Central Nigga with a seat.
Speaker 4: Nigga would just just move around the front seat, would
Speaker 4: just move around in that bitch.
Speaker 5: It wasn't nailed down, and motherfucker looked like a junk
Speaker 5: yard and papers and everything, and the homeboy time used
Speaker 5: to work at motherfucker I don't know what grocery store,
Speaker 5: but nigga. He used to work the night shift, and
Speaker 5: he used to tell us, Nigga, come up there, Nigga.
Speaker 4: We go up there with two dollars, Nigga, and we'd
Speaker 4: be willing our shit.
Speaker 5: On a pallette, so you'll have luird food and crab
Speaker 5: legs and everything. We go to the register. That nigga
Speaker 5: come to the register, act like he punched this ship.
Speaker 5: We had that nigga two dollars and he'd be like,
Speaker 5: all right, thank you, nigga. We going out with our shit.
Speaker 4: On the pallette.
Speaker 5: Nigga about a thousand dollars, was like some here, I
Speaker 5: don't know what the hell going on on? Boy Rock
Speaker 5: and tip Man Nigga, Nigga. We used to be starving artists. Nigga,
Speaker 5: what you mean, nigga? Nigga starving nigga.
Speaker 1: Fucking nigga.
Speaker 5: We got us some motherfucker thunder bird on the palette.
Speaker 5: Niggas want the big ass eat forty jugs.
Speaker 3: The motherfucking why this ship some of that wild turkey?
Speaker 4: Nigga. We was cracking young nigga starving man.
Speaker 1: So when Easy died, man, how that hits you? Because
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, when Magic Johnson announced that he
Speaker 1: had I think when Easy enounced, when the whole thing
Speaker 1: happened Easy, I think that really hit the black community.
Speaker 6: That hit everybody, neighborhood, Magic, you know, the Magic is
Speaker 6: out of touch black.
Speaker 5: When it happened to Magic, I think it hit the
Speaker 5: black community. But when it happened the Easy nigga hit
Speaker 5: the hood people like.
Speaker 3: People is going to get Yeah.
Speaker 1: That age because you don't never think about no ship
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 3: You was like, I was like this.
Speaker 1: I was at football practice. I was playing college football
Speaker 1: at the time, and I was like, damn, he said,
Speaker 1: got ads, and I'm gonna tell you what it did.
Speaker 1: Do That Monday, a whole bunch of dudes went up
Speaker 1: to the office and take a test. And you know,
Speaker 1: now you get your results right, you know, you know
Speaker 1: a few minutes later, you know what I'm saying, they
Speaker 1: let your asks no quick right back then you be
Speaker 1: waiting around some days and I swear you think every
Speaker 1: slimy motherfucker, we think.
Speaker 9: You don't motherfucker across you have that thoughts in your head,
Speaker 9: like man, Yeah, that's mother because I heard it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dog, motherfucker. I'll be sitting been front every and
Speaker 1: you aching because you thinking about some ship. You don't
Speaker 1: did it seven eight years ago?
Speaker 5: He was like him, he was stack and see your
Speaker 5: ass right there, just started around patient, pulling on that
Speaker 5: motherfucking beard.
Speaker 4: My god, damn one of my homeboys. I had a homeboy, right.
Speaker 1: We wanted to go, you know, take our little tests
Speaker 1: and ship and I wouldn't really worried worried like that,
Speaker 1: but he just did some ship like a week before
Speaker 1: that he wasn't supposed to be doing. And he was
Speaker 1: in the bed. Man crawled up.
Speaker 4: I think they got me. They just said, I think
Speaker 4: they got and then they never called.
Speaker 1: Right, you know, we didn't hear nothing. So I was
Speaker 1: like this, I didn't hear them. I was like, fuck it,
Speaker 1: I'm cool. I ain't called me. I mean, that must
Speaker 1: be straight. My homeboy went up there, man, and he
Speaker 1: was just like I was wondering at and called me
Speaker 1: and said, but if we didn't call you good, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: How would you know them if they don't call you? Yeah,
Speaker 3: wait a week though you waited.
Speaker 4: If you missed the call, exactly.
Speaker 1: This is back in the day. There's no he was like,
Speaker 1: this't I was young? Back to ship he called me.
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'd have been knocking on the door.
Speaker 1: Did that miss you up any.
Speaker 10: For well, the whole situation did, because I found out
Speaker 10: from the streets first, So rumors was going, I'm like
Speaker 10: what they talk about because originally how I got out
Speaker 10: as a nurse or somebody ran her mouth outside the.
Speaker 3: Hospital and it spread like or the news even did it.
Speaker 3: It was already in the streets.
Speaker 4: She could have got sued for that. Was it big?
Speaker 2: Because I remember in the East Coast it was big
Speaker 2: that they sat big that he came had ages.
Speaker 3: Did y'all ever hear that? I ain't never heard.
Speaker 4: I think I heard that I was big in Maryland.
Speaker 4: I heard we were all like, that's just or was
Speaker 4: it really?
Speaker 2: That was before Easy, which made it all the crazier
Speaker 2: one about Easy.
Speaker 6: I mean when I finally I think it didn't hit
Speaker 6: me until I went up to the hospital. I know
Speaker 6: Dre had came maybe an hour before me, And when
Speaker 6: I came, nobody told me he was in a coma.
Speaker 3: You know, they put him in a coma, and I'm
Speaker 3: just talking and doing all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 4: I get out.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, we forgot to tell you an induced coma.
Speaker 3: You tell me that before I come in here. He's
Speaker 3: some prayer, you know, What's so crazy? When I was
Speaker 3: talking to him, he moved his hand. Yeah he probably
Speaker 3: can hear you, bro, Yeah he can. He moved his
Speaker 3: hand because.
Speaker 1: You know you ever notice how sometimes when you at home,
Speaker 1: you fall asleep with the TV on, and you'll be dreaming,
Speaker 1: and you might dream about chasing some motherfuckers and some
Speaker 1: mother fuckers chasing you, and you wake up and you
Speaker 1: look on TV as the same exact shit going on.
Speaker 2: That's never happened to me still, but yeah, but that
Speaker 2: to me before.
Speaker 4: My brain is always on high alert. Whatever that weed.
Speaker 1: But he probably knew you was, you know, not I
Speaker 1: knew you in the room, but he probably filed.
Speaker 6: I think he knew because I said something and he
Speaker 6: squeezed your hand a little bit, moved his fingers because
Speaker 6: he ain't. You can't move once you're in that coma,
Speaker 6: because after the surgery they put him in that, you know,
Speaker 6: because I think he was trying to pull off the
Speaker 6: tube or whatever, the breathing machine.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he definitely moved his hand. That kind of.
Speaker 6: It kind of triggered me because once the funeral came,
Speaker 6: which maybe three weeks later or something, and once I
Speaker 6: seen them pound the dirt.
Speaker 3: I have never seen nothing like that before. I mean
Speaker 3: they put him in the ground, put the dirt, got.
Speaker 6: The bulldozer and all this, and everybody left and I
Speaker 6: was just there, like three or four people, and I thought,
Speaker 6: I said, you know something, this is it for me.
Speaker 3: That's it. Music was over till this day. I just
Speaker 3: told Dre this a few months ago, and a few
Speaker 3: months before that. I'm good. I don't want to do
Speaker 3: with music. I ain't thinking about music. It's no big thing.
Speaker 3: I had it. It was fun, it's gone. It's just
Speaker 3: out of me, completely out of me. And I think
Speaker 3: that day it wasn't no. Oh should I know. I
Speaker 3: just like, I'm done with music, was done. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: jumped into my next venture. But I.
Speaker 1: Want to ask you about that too.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: Were you satisfied at that point with with where music
Speaker 5: took you from from nothing to the beginnings with lines
Speaker 5: and that?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, I mean I think that's what it was like. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm good. I mean, ain't no big thing. Cause see
Speaker 3: much as me and Dre was together doing stuff, he
Speaker 3: wanted it more than I did. You give me this
Speaker 3: one hundred dollars. I'm good, I'm satisfied.
Speaker 6: I never wanted that rich in all this old Yeah,
Speaker 6: I like spending money, but never that was no big
Speaker 6: thing to me.
Speaker 5: Money was never a big thing the women. Ye think
Speaker 5: some of us be settled with the path we get.
Speaker 5: You know, there's a lot of motherfuckers who get to that,
Speaker 5: and then it's some of us who get here. And
Speaker 5: like I tell niggas all the time, I'm cool with
Speaker 5: where I'm at. Like, you know, I never longed to
Speaker 5: be in another nigga's shoes or position, whether it was
Speaker 5: you know, or nigga got a billion dollars or a
Speaker 5: nigga got a private jet or niggas. You know, at
Speaker 5: this point, I'm like, I'm good. Yeah, I mean, never
Speaker 5: made another song again. I was content with I did
Speaker 5: it now.
Speaker 3: We happened to be in the golden era. That was
Speaker 3: the best MUTI say.
Speaker 1: You know, you think about this room right now, seem
Speaker 1: debut definitely a legendary group, you know, n W a
Speaker 1: legendary group. Man So and y'all were in the era
Speaker 1: to where it was. It was harder than it is
Speaker 1: now because back then you had to be original.
Speaker 6: Nobody been off each other. Nobody, I don't care if
Speaker 6: it was you put on the song. Everybody know who
Speaker 6: that song is exactly.
Speaker 1: Everybody was original and it was way less people, right,
Speaker 1: So you stood out a lot more. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You stuck out. You couldn't hide.
Speaker 3: Now it was more fans artists.
Speaker 11: Now it's more artists than fans. Everybody's an artist. Everybody
Speaker 11: got a video, A fan is an artist. So you
Speaker 11: never thought about I could fan. You go home and
Speaker 11: they got to set up and they live from getting.
Speaker 4: My ship off.
Speaker 1: So you never thought about signing the group.
Speaker 3: Nah.
Speaker 6: Once on that funeral date, that was it. I don't
Speaker 6: want to do nothing with music. But then a company
Speaker 6: came to me a year later to do an album.
Speaker 6: I'm not a rapper, I'm gonna do an album, so
Speaker 6: I just you're gonna give me how much?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I'm a rapper, people wrapping.
Speaker 4: People rapping. I'm gonna do the beats and nigga.
Speaker 1: That this is for the e with Coach.
Speaker 3: And that was just it.
Speaker 6: That was just something good. They didn't know what they
Speaker 6: were doing. They wanted to advertise. You put it on
Speaker 6: the outside of the bus. They put it on the inside,
Speaker 6: the on the inside buying records. I had that argument
Speaker 6: and that was the last.
Speaker 3: Time I talked to him. What did y'all do?
Speaker 5: That was Scotti Brothers, Yeah, stupid Scotty Brothers was around
Speaker 5: for a couple of records.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had something.
Speaker 2: Uh they had a ic and Smooth and Greg Mac,
Speaker 2: Craig Mac.
Speaker 1: They had zoom Zoom. They had that record over there.
Speaker 1: I don't zoom zoom zoom.
Speaker 3: I remember the Craig Mac record.
Speaker 4: What else did they have?
Speaker 2: They had nice and Smooth, Craig Mac Yellow and.
Speaker 4: I think it was too won a Grammy his first
Speaker 4: record out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's what it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you don't have no regrets from n w A. No, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think you have to. Man, your legacy is
Speaker 1: definitely see you.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's so crazy.
Speaker 6: Here we are, thirty years later, we're still talking about
Speaker 6: this Compton hip hop stuff.
Speaker 3: It's it's like we was in that right time. There
Speaker 3: can't nobody replaced. It was the perfect time. New very
Speaker 3: few groups.
Speaker 6: It was from the West. Matter of fact, from the West.
Speaker 6: It was over us too and too short. It wasn't
Speaker 6: who else had an album. Nobody else.
Speaker 4: Didn't make an album.
Speaker 3: Is from both coasts, Yeah came, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, y'all, we y'all had the album. We had an album.
Speaker 4: I would say iced t is definitely West Coast who.
Speaker 3: Short had an album, but that up north is different from.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Southern California.
Speaker 5: When y'all first clicked out, a lot of niggas didn't
Speaker 5: have albums.
Speaker 4: They had twelve inches. A lot of niggas had twelve inches.
Speaker 3: Because in the record crew day we was and that
Speaker 3: era was the only one that did an album.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3: The albums was definitely.
Speaker 2: Because rap albums really didn't start happening on a major
Speaker 2: level or a lot of artists really till eighty seven.
Speaker 2: And then eighty eight was the explosion. Eighty seven had
Speaker 2: to been run m maybe no no running the way
Speaker 2: before that Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, eighty seven there started.
Speaker 5: Being a lot more album a lot of more and
Speaker 5: Ron Page because I remember it. We just it was
Speaker 5: just a game of twelve inch Yeah, it was just
Speaker 5: we niggas didn't do albums.
Speaker 2: They did single deals and then had singles.
Speaker 4: You got a mingle deal and you maybe put three
Speaker 4: songs on the single.
Speaker 1: That's what you had to really be moving something to
Speaker 1: get an album before that, Like the Fat Boys got
Speaker 1: an album, und got.
Speaker 4: Out, but we got an album.
Speaker 1: They were used groups.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there were very few rap albums.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Utfo had the album.
Speaker 1: CFODDI damned the crossed Over though, man, because everybody liked Whodini.
Speaker 6: They only had the one album they made that other one,
Speaker 6: but the first one was the best they had hit
Speaker 6: to me.
Speaker 3: That was they had several.
Speaker 5: They had the fucking uh had there five minutes of funk?
Speaker 3: Oh, that was on the same friends. Five minutes Yeah,
Speaker 3: that one I'm a whole had on and.
Speaker 5: He came back with the motherfucking back in black or
Speaker 5: something with the funky beat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that one was old. Was one love on that
Speaker 3: that one loved?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like one of them, motherfucker I liked them.
Speaker 4: They was they were the first group. Yeah, I bumped
Speaker 4: Holdini to this day. So five minutes of funk oh, Yeah,
Speaker 4: they for sure gave you that R and B flavor.
Speaker 4: They for sure gave you that R and.
Speaker 2: B stories, that melody, they had original unlike most of the.
Speaker 4: Rap, the big mouth and everything.
Speaker 5: That's where that's where all the homies used to uh
Speaker 5: nigga Todd them had ganger cuts off of their off
Speaker 5: of their instrumentals and ship nigga freaks come out at night,
Speaker 5: the clucks come out at night. Man, Todd them used
Speaker 5: to be spitting on all that.
Speaker 2: Ship Man because those shout out to Larry Smith, one
Speaker 2: of the best producers that doesn't get a lot of
Speaker 2: shout outs in the game. Man, Yeah, he was the
Speaker 2: ship down a lot of great material.
Speaker 1: So y'all doing the type of material that y'all did
Speaker 1: back in the day. Man with the one moment that
Speaker 1: you remember, Man, where you thought, Man, they're about to
Speaker 1: throw us in jail, Man, were about to get in trouble.
Speaker 3: It had to be when we got the letter from
Speaker 3: the FBI. I'm like, Oh, you don't play with the FBI.
Speaker 3: You could play with the cops them suits. Nah, you
Speaker 3: don't play with them. I'm like, oh, they finish. Do
Speaker 3: you think they do?
Speaker 1: You think they was following you all y'all in the surveillance.
Speaker 6: I don't know, but it's like, Man, the FBI, I'm like,
Speaker 6: what the and it's so crazy. They sent us a
Speaker 6: letter and then another agency sent them a letter. You
Speaker 6: know that you can't be sending that to us. But
Speaker 6: that was beside MTV banning us the straight out of
Speaker 6: compt and we spent all that money to make the
Speaker 6: video they banded in that letter.
Speaker 3: Totally different group.
Speaker 2: That was your publicity right there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, free advertised, free advertisement, like a mother video nowhere.
Speaker 5: We would be at the crib just waiting to see
Speaker 5: that ship. Contay. I saw it like three times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they would not show that video.
Speaker 3: They played it.
Speaker 4: I saw it like once or twice, and you could
Speaker 4: not see it.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I made my whole schedule around watching you on t reps.
Speaker 4: I saw it one time, really, and that was it.
Speaker 4: I saw one time.
Speaker 3: I think we spent maybe I don't think it was
Speaker 3: one hundred, but it was back then.
Speaker 4: Back then, it was ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: It was a little different time, man, tape. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you, Oh yeah, this digital area. Man, look at
Speaker 1: this ship right here. Man.
Speaker 3: You know, you know it's just they got it easy.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: That's why so many artists.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's too easy, man, because back then, like I said,
Speaker 1: you had to go through some stuff.
Speaker 6: You had to, because think about it, eight people with
Speaker 6: demos and all that no talent, they didn't that was it.
Speaker 3: You didn't get past.
Speaker 4: Nothing, man, nothing You wouldn't get off a nigga death.
Speaker 6: Nowadays, the people with no talent is making all the records,
Speaker 6: I mean just anything.
Speaker 4: There's no there's no community policing in this shit. That
Speaker 4: still mean like.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's so accessible for a motherfucker to go.
Speaker 5: You know, I don't need somebody to tell me that
Speaker 5: my shit is good or not good. I don't buy
Speaker 5: me a program and a microphone and I don't give
Speaker 5: fuck and I'm gonna make my own lane for it
Speaker 5: to each his own.
Speaker 4: But like I said, we have no.
Speaker 5: I felt like back in the days of me coming
Speaker 5: up and rapping, motherfuckers had to give you that approval.
Speaker 5: You didn't get that approval for motherfuckers, you didn't make
Speaker 5: a record. You get me, and that was just it.
Speaker 5: From the time you put out a twelve inch to
Speaker 5: you trying to get the record deal. If if you
Speaker 5: didn't get that stamp of approval from the community and
Speaker 5: from other artists, you didn't make records. You didn't make
Speaker 5: a record. So you know, on a gang of niggas
Speaker 5: who got in the studio back then and tried to
Speaker 5: put together a little tape or whatever, and man, please,
Speaker 5: niggas is still trying to this day. It just didn't
Speaker 5: happen for him. Ain't crazy a than motherfucker real ship?
Speaker 5: I mean, nigga, youig it was then. Motherfuckers wasn't signing
Speaker 5: deals back then. You had to really have something special
Speaker 5: about your ship to be able to get a record
Speaker 5: deal back then.
Speaker 1: And then it went to a time now, it got
Speaker 1: to a time almost for a minute, to where you
Speaker 1: almost had to release the album and get it going
Speaker 1: and then you would get picked up. Remember that like
Speaker 1: that like in the mid two thousands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one name we forgot what a lot of albums though,
Speaker 2: was Curtis blow Too.
Speaker 4: Curtis was poppingis. Did he make an album made Curtis
Speaker 4: blow Out?
Speaker 5: I did not know that he had lots about a
Speaker 5: J scratch and bash that was all that ship. But
Speaker 5: that was single of Curtis, the breaks and all that ship. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he had an album.
Speaker 3: The hits was on singles.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the all the hits was the singles back here
Speaker 5: for Me back in the days everybody released singles.
Speaker 1: That was big, that was had twelve inches.
Speaker 5: Yeah, twelve inches was big because then you could take
Speaker 5: the B side and think that the record wasn't gonna
Speaker 5: be the ship on the B side. Put a record
Speaker 5: on the B side and that motherfucker blow up. So
Speaker 5: that's how we a lot of artists got off and
Speaker 5: got their recognition just by putting on the man.
Speaker 1: That's crazy Yellow. I don't know if you notice or not, Man,
Speaker 1: but have you ever sat back and thought about, man,
Speaker 1: that Snoop was almost on ruthless record, Snoop and Warrings?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 3: I mean you know that.
Speaker 4: I didn't even know that.
Speaker 1: Cocaine told me that last week because they was messing.
Speaker 4: With above the law.
Speaker 1: First, Oh, I didn't know they was above the law.
Speaker 3: Warren used to come to the studio.
Speaker 6: You know, Warren, have his glasses, have a piece of
Speaker 6: tape right here, because there was broke and Dre used
Speaker 6: to leave him.
Speaker 3: I had to take him all all the time. He
Speaker 3: would tell me, you got you got up here, you
Speaker 3: gotta find your way home. You're gone all right, Warren?
Speaker 3: Come on, let me take you over there off of
Speaker 3: what was the street. It wasn't Atlantic Orange.
Speaker 4: I think it was Orange somewhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I used to tell you home all.
Speaker 4: The time and that's crazy minute the trip you out
Speaker 4: when you saw him blow up.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm like that's Warren. I'm like, Wow, Warren.
Speaker 1: Had a big ass record though.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, the biggest ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the biggest ever regulated regulate was big.
Speaker 1: And I think didn't do that record for him.
Speaker 4: That's what I heard. I heard.
Speaker 2: I heard that I've never heard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I heard.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I got to confirm that. Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think so. Sounded like Dre.
Speaker 1: Somebody said he gave it to him.
Speaker 6: Oh now that I don't know. But I heard one
Speaker 6: last night on something. He was saying, you know, he
Speaker 6: just heard heard the song and then sampled it.
Speaker 4: And yeah, he might have did that. Drake might have
Speaker 4: helped him with it, that's what it may be.
Speaker 3: Might have shown him how to do it or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, none of that.
Speaker 1: Warren't definitely had to go get his own way though. Man,
Speaker 1: it don't seem like he got no push or nothing.
Speaker 3: Mm.
Speaker 4: He definitely did his ship Warren at his time.
Speaker 2: Remember he wasn't even signed of death throw you all
Speaker 2: you need to know.
Speaker 1: He was getting slept on. Man, what's what's your biggest memory, man?
Speaker 1: Of all the stuff that you've done in your icon
Speaker 1: of career. Man, Like, what's your biggest memory?
Speaker 3: It's so much. I mean, I like the eighty ninth
Speaker 3: tour because that tour was everybody was nervous.
Speaker 6: It was gonna be fights, and there wasn't one fight
Speaker 6: besides the Detroit play PD running us off the stage
Speaker 6: and stuff.
Speaker 3: But I think that was one. Well I look at it,
Speaker 3: that was one of the biggest because it was forty shows.
Speaker 3: That was forty points for me. Come on, hey, you
Speaker 3: know how we did.
Speaker 4: Your point system?
Speaker 3: Man? That was fun.
Speaker 6: Now, the tour was fun. But you know something just
Speaker 6: being in the music game, being ahead an eight or no.
Speaker 6: We were just ahead of everybody, but we didn't know it.
Speaker 6: I mean, our music stand to this time. It ain't
Speaker 6: when you put on all I don't care if you
Speaker 6: put on now us. It don't sound old like ooh
Speaker 6: that old.
Speaker 1: Examin like a muffuger. I was just playing some n
Speaker 1: W eight earlier today, as you should. Niggas for life,
Speaker 1: the niggas for life album definitely, which.
Speaker 3: Was the better produced album, better sounding album.
Speaker 2: I do think it's an amazing album, dres ever done.
Speaker 2: That's the best production wise, really yeah, I really do.
Speaker 2: That's a flawless sleeper.
Speaker 1: You even put that over the chronic Absolutely, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I can't say I don't disagree with you. I was
Speaker 1: arguing with Glasses Malone shot the glasses about that and
Speaker 1: we talked.
Speaker 6: Called it's a one hundred better than stra outa Compton
Speaker 6: straight out of comptent?
Speaker 3: Was just the original? Are the top original stuff? Your
Speaker 3: originals really hard?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the one that makes y'all are stable. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, you had the compilation before that.
Speaker 2: But that's not really an album that was.
Speaker 3: That's not an album, no, you know what it is.
Speaker 6: That came out because Priority was waiting on us to
Speaker 6: come back when another album. So they got a hold
Speaker 6: of them old masters and put it together and made ends.
Speaker 3: It went gold. Ain't mad, but that was. And I
Speaker 3: was talking to the people at the Rock and Roll
Speaker 3: I said, you know, we only made two albums. They
Speaker 3: looked at me like.
Speaker 6: We made two albums in an EP that's it. People
Speaker 6: think we made a whole bunch.
Speaker 1: Of albums, Well, it was that impactful. You didn't have
Speaker 1: to make a whole bunch of it was just that impactful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was just at that critical time for a
Speaker 5: lot of people who were coming.
Speaker 4: Of age in that era of you know, gangs being
Speaker 4: recognized and.
Speaker 5: Uh, you know, like I said, a lot of shit
Speaker 5: was focused on the East Coast, you know, warrior movies, and.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was a difference.
Speaker 5: It wasn't a lot being being shown and represented as
Speaker 5: far as California was concerned. So for us to be
Speaker 5: able to come out at that time, like I said,
Speaker 5: and follow movies like Colors and shit like that with
Speaker 5: with music that depicted what niggas had seen on screen
Speaker 5: a couple of years before, and like, wait a minute,
Speaker 5: the niggas out there with the red and blue and
Speaker 5: they gang. It made niggas curious. And then now you
Speaker 5: got some local dudes who come from you know, the
Speaker 5: actuality of it, like these ain't no motherfucking actors or
Speaker 5: no motherfucker you know, these are niggas who grew up
Speaker 5: in Compton and they actually seeing the gang bang and
Speaker 5: the dope selling and the police brutality and the poverty
Speaker 5: and all of that.
Speaker 4: So It fascinated motherfucker.
Speaker 5: So that's why at the time it was just like
Speaker 5: it was just different from regular rap music.
Speaker 3: It definitely fascinated the suburbs, definitely.
Speaker 5: It just it fascinated the world because motherfuckers wanted to know.
Speaker 5: Like I said, we never got the spotlight put on
Speaker 5: us as far as California was concerned. When you talked about,
Speaker 5: you know, gangs or you talked about fucked up living,
Speaker 5: it was always the Bronx and Brooklyn in New York, and.
Speaker 4: You know, it was always that.
Speaker 5: You know, it was never like, well, let's go over
Speaker 5: here and see what the you know, we wasn't respected
Speaker 5: as far as rap music was.
Speaker 3: We weren't too more like them because we had grass
Speaker 3: in the front yard.
Speaker 4: I think with the you know, the.
Speaker 5: Making what niggas was going through as far as like
Speaker 5: I said, with the once niggas saw colors, it was
Speaker 5: like whoa, you get me? And once they heard ice
Speaker 5: tea with colors, and then it was the gang shit
Speaker 5: and the niggas saw that little clip where niggas was
Speaker 5: in the jail, everybody throwing up their hoods and you
Speaker 5: got crips on one side, and that fascinated the world,
Speaker 5: and now you got niggas putting out record.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. The movie is something different.
Speaker 5: Nigga, I get to ride around in my car every
Speaker 5: day bumping some ship with niggas was talking about fuck
Speaker 5: the police and nigga, we sold dope last night and
Speaker 5: the strawberry was sucking on dicks and shit like that.
Speaker 5: Niggas didn't hear shit like that.
Speaker 4: It was different.
Speaker 5: It was unheard of to hear that type of ship,
Speaker 5: especially when it's not seen on the screen of a
Speaker 5: movie like these niggas is actually talking about they was
Speaker 5: selling crack last night and somebody got shot and niggas
Speaker 5: had a.
Speaker 4: Band Damna and Niggas was gang.
Speaker 1: Niggas was fascinating, speaking of fascinating, speaking of forbidding shit.
Speaker 1: We can't leave man for ash. You boy, you was
Speaker 1: gonna go into it. Then somebody said something. You decided
Speaker 1: to leave. NWA. You said you was done with music.
Speaker 1: The last thing why did leave is zof it is all,
Speaker 1: but you were still on. You were still technically on.
Speaker 1: You know, you put out the one last project.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well it dissolved when that dirt went on top
Speaker 6: of his casket. N W a was done, it was dissolved.
Speaker 6: It didn't break up. People say that broke up. No,
Speaker 6: it just people fell off. Pieces fell off, one out of.
Speaker 1: Time, one at a time.
Speaker 3: So we went and I went to, well, I was
Speaker 3: doing that before the end of music.
Speaker 1: So you was putting out those movies before then, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't putting it was. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: lot of money that that back then.
Speaker 3: You think I did it for fifteen years, three hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty.
Speaker 1: Movies, probably because you had a physical back then, I.
Speaker 3: Was cameraman, photographer.
Speaker 4: Everybody added.
Speaker 3: Music because everything when.
Speaker 5: It started going around, motherfuckers was like Yellow is doing
Speaker 5: motherfucking And I'm like, what do you mean doing it?
Speaker 4: Like like the nigga actually in't it? Like he he
Speaker 4: like dog Man is his shit.
Speaker 5: So we peeped out a couple and I'm like, ohigg,
Speaker 5: I was smart.
Speaker 1: And the way you was moving around to is I
Speaker 1: remember when they was out, they would be in all
Speaker 1: the liquor stores. I think you hit a lick back there. Man,
Speaker 1: them VHS, tapes and DVDs want to.
Speaker 6: More, Well, I did liking music, I wan shot have
Speaker 6: known to own them. See the company would pay me
Speaker 6: to go make them, make them, and I bring it
Speaker 6: back and they get it in all the stores. You know,
Speaker 6: I'm making twenty grand a month, twenty rand boom, just
Speaker 6: turning them over like flapjacks.
Speaker 4: Life looking now. Who went out and recruited the girls?
Speaker 6: They came to us because we was known as we
Speaker 6: paid the cheapest, but we shoot fast.
Speaker 3: I have you if I do a thing twenty two minutes,
Speaker 3: that's all I need and I don't push Paul.
Speaker 6: I rolled whatever happened, let it happen. So I might
Speaker 6: tell them, okay, do this, but that's it. It's freestyle.
Speaker 3: I started. That was nobody else was doing it that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I saw one time man for you to
Speaker 1: say it was peeping them out. One time I was
Speaker 1: over a friend's house, the rest of friend because you
Speaker 1: know the thing. Listen, bro let me get this all Maria,
Speaker 1: watch him clean it up. Whatever was just bro you
Speaker 1: DJ yell. Of course one Oni say, man do for
Speaker 1: n W as making porns? Right, So we look at
Speaker 1: it and you had an old ass woman on there. Man,
Speaker 1: that old ass woman hits you up and said she
Speaker 1: want to do some form.
Speaker 3: You know, it depends on what the company wants. They
Speaker 3: want the older ones. Do they want the do they
Speaker 3: want the big but did they want the big chest?
Speaker 4: It was just stroke and steel.
Speaker 3: I didn't like.
Speaker 1: I didn't like.
Speaker 3: Only shot maybe a few, but I usually the young.
Speaker 1: Ones is all.
Speaker 3: I shot fresh.
Speaker 5: And you know, answer me this question. Did you watch
Speaker 5: it with the old lady? And did you watch it?
Speaker 5: How long did you watch it?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: Probably for two or three minutes?
Speaker 3: Only take three minutes up.
Speaker 1: It was intriguing, man, I said, Damn, she.
Speaker 3: Old as fuck, but you were she had boozz? What
Speaker 3: was she doing still?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 3: I know, I just remember her going, what colors she
Speaker 3: have on?
Speaker 1: I don't remember all that, man, I just remember her grin.
Speaker 2: That was her tattoos.
Speaker 3: She was going, he heard was her she was going.
Speaker 1: She was just grin. When did you decide to leave
Speaker 1: that alone? You just because you had? You just decided
Speaker 1: you was done.
Speaker 3: With for fifteen years?
Speaker 2: If like I say one thing, Oh, I remember I
Speaker 2: did the interview with you for Double Xlger Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah overall Latierra. And I remember when I did the
Speaker 2: article and you would give me like a gang of
Speaker 2: tapes and I just was, like I told the people
Speaker 2: at double XL.
Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, you know Yello's doing.
Speaker 2: These movies, right, They're like, no, we didn't know that.
Speaker 2: So I put that all in the article. But they
Speaker 2: were very excited that that was the first time it
Speaker 2: was known in a rap magazine. Oh really when we
Speaker 2: did the article for double X yeah, I did it.
Speaker 3: Just like just like music. It got to that point
Speaker 3: when the internet start coming in. Then ain't getting it
Speaker 3: for free? So okay, this ain't. We're either you come
Speaker 3: over the site and you'd be the first to do it.
Speaker 3: You'd be a billionaire bright now. But of course you
Speaker 3: know us, you know, would have just owned them. Oh yeah, y'all.
Speaker 10: You know something I did started, I did started owning them,
Speaker 10: but I waited too late.
Speaker 6: I wait till the fourteenth year to start doing it,
Speaker 6: and then I hook up with one of the biggest companies.
Speaker 3: It didn't pay me, so we had to go in
Speaker 3: there and tear up the office and I got I
Speaker 3: went home with five thousand brand new DVDs.
Speaker 6: If my car, I'm like, I didn't know y'all was
Speaker 6: going out of business. I would have never shot made
Speaker 6: movies for you if I'd been known you had problems.
Speaker 6: So by the time I start that they could own
Speaker 6: them because they was called you know, so crazy.
Speaker 3: The first two of them made owner.
Speaker 6: It was called straight out of Compton, And when the
Speaker 6: movie came out that that name got vanished for some reason.
Speaker 3: And then I just did it like music, I'm done.
Speaker 2: I'm just okay.
Speaker 3: I did it. It was fun, it was cool.
Speaker 1: Seems like you had a good run. Fifteen years a
Speaker 1: long time doing anything. Yeah, I mean, man, fifteen years. Man,
Speaker 1: bring yourself out on certain shit. So just to be
Speaker 1: able to, you know, transition. You know, a lot of
Speaker 1: niggas it's hard to transition from shit they've done so long,
Speaker 1: or they might just be scared to transition.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You know when you be able to do something and
Speaker 5: then get ahold of it, fuck it. I get a
Speaker 5: good run out of it.
Speaker 3: It's good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I did it like I did the movies
Speaker 6: like records. Every movie was like a record. I did
Speaker 6: four records of month, four or five records of month.
Speaker 4: I just did it.
Speaker 3: I just look, okay, five girls, that's five songs. Damn
Speaker 3: do it? Edit it?
Speaker 6: See, I would have a complete package edited music, everything down,
Speaker 6: film steals everything.
Speaker 3: I thought like a producer. I'm doing everything. I don't
Speaker 3: need nobody for nothing. Gotta be two bags him one
Speaker 3: stop shot, I got the lights, I got everything is cracking.
Speaker 3: Everything I did it just like music, and I quit
Speaker 3: just like music, just like I'm good.
Speaker 4: That's crazy. Man. Are you being married now and everything? Man?
Speaker 1: I assume life is drastically different now. Man, do you
Speaker 1: ever talk to your wife about your former escapades? Nah?
Speaker 3: She don't, She don't know.
Speaker 6: She in the beginning was hard because we go somewhere
Speaker 6: and somebody wants gonna take a picture, and she just.
Speaker 4: Like why they want to take a picture?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just like what? And then she get mad because
Speaker 3: I can't help. You know. We go to the ram
Speaker 3: football game.
Speaker 6: At the Coliseum when they first came back, and we
Speaker 6: happened to go through all the crowded I'm getting stopped
Speaker 6: every man, and she just walked off her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she don't understand it. Now she knows now, she
Speaker 3: understands it, just like if I'm eating dinners people.
Speaker 1: Okay, no proble have no child when it come to
Speaker 1: that either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, without them, without the fans week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you have to be able to accept that
Speaker 5: because you know that it just happened you know, ship,
Speaker 5: it just comes with the territory. Some people don't go
Speaker 5: to the grocery store. You go, you know, kids football games. Ever,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be somebody who is excited. Ye your like
Speaker 5: this motherfucker was like, I mean.
Speaker 3: I don't care where I'm on the plane, airport, post office.
Speaker 6: Gladly I'm not coming out of crazy weird places when
Speaker 6: I had to doing the mask, I.
Speaker 3: Have my master.
Speaker 4: You're still gonna always.
Speaker 5: Or you know, so like in tune to you know
Speaker 5: the era of n W A and and they don't
Speaker 5: seen the movie a few times, so it's just it's
Speaker 5: just in their head. And it fascinates people not to
Speaker 5: say everybody be on some nuts swinging ship, but you know,
Speaker 5: fans of what you fans and like I said, without them, yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, just like motherfuckers who watch us every week.
Speaker 5: You know without that, without them, you wouldn't be in.
Speaker 5: And that's what people tell you. You know all the time.
Speaker 5: Motherfucker might see you and be like, oh man, you
Speaker 5: know I saw you on this or I saw you
Speaker 5: on that. People's gonna always remember when something was good.
Speaker 5: You feel me, that's just it.
Speaker 4: So where are you at in life right now you
Speaker 4: know something.
Speaker 3: I'm at a part of life where I have peace
Speaker 3: and joy.
Speaker 6: I never had that in my life, not even with
Speaker 6: half million dollars in my pocket. Which car you want,
Speaker 6: what yacht you want? I have peace and joy and
Speaker 6: I just got satisfication just maybe a month or two ago.
Speaker 3: And it has nothing doing money.
Speaker 2: It's just.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I got saved and you know, turned to.
Speaker 4: God, and oh so you gave your life over the girl.
Speaker 3: Yeah, eleven years ago.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say that was a while ago. In
Speaker 2: the last month or two.
Speaker 3: It's just.
Speaker 6: That's just what God does. Like peace and joy. You
Speaker 6: can't you can be a billionaire and you want peace
Speaker 6: and joy, but you can't buy it. You can't steal it,
Speaker 6: you can't borrow it. Ain't nobody gonna loan it to you.
Speaker 6: It only comes from God, and he gave it to me.
Speaker 6: And I'm just like and I was just sitting in
Speaker 6: the chair looking down the hall one day and I said,
Speaker 6: this is peace and joy.
Speaker 3: I'm not thinking about a bill. I look at bills
Speaker 3: like this, Either you got it or you don't. I
Speaker 3: tell people the same because stress it.
Speaker 5: The fuck you call a thousand times a day it's
Speaker 5: gonna be the same answer when you call, I ain't
Speaker 5: got it. If you're gonna cut the ship off, man,
Speaker 5: go cut it off, because either we gonna work something
Speaker 5: mount let me.
Speaker 4: Let me do what I gotta do.
Speaker 3: All that because I haven't heard.
Speaker 5: I haven't heard some other fucking caddles and ship because
Speaker 5: my lights would be off later. I mean, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. I got to figure it out. Man,
Speaker 5: to sit here and get a headache and stomach be
Speaker 5: fucked up and you be just like worried about ship
Speaker 5: at the end of the day.
Speaker 4: That worrying ain't fin to pay the mother.
Speaker 3: But I have not heard one successful stress story yet.
Speaker 3: I'm waiting to hear it. Oh I stressed so much.
Speaker 5: And kicked my leg up and roll me a blunt
Speaker 5: and be like, if we get some light off of
Speaker 5: this blood the hall this ship, because I ain't finna
Speaker 5: get mad because the lights is off. Fuck, it'll be
Speaker 5: six o'clock. The motherfucker son to be up and admit it,
Speaker 5: so ship, I'll have light a minute somebody else lights on.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be some light to bd it. God, and people.
Speaker 6: Life is so short, and people rushing life. They missed life.
Speaker 6: We happen to be blessed in our era of music.
Speaker 6: I mean they came out right after us. I didn't
Speaker 6: know that y'all came out.
Speaker 4: Right after us.
Speaker 6: It was in that perfect time slot that's still being
Speaker 6: talked about thirty five years later. Thirty five years were
Speaker 6: talking about hip hop still, and that wasn't supposed to last.
Speaker 3: We wasn't even supposed to made that outs back. They're
Speaker 3: supposed to have been done from the East coast.
Speaker 6: But it's still here. But I enjoy now. I enjoy life.
Speaker 6: I just I learned that not to love nothing but people.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: People used to love their car, their money they sell
Speaker 3: because think about it. I love this house. The house
Speaker 3: burned down, it's just material. It could be replaced or whatever.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I just learned. I'm so relax for life now.
Speaker 4: It's just when you learn to be content.
Speaker 5: Man, its just it's like whatever, man, like, I'm whatever.
Speaker 5: It is what it is, motherfucking shit. You gotta you
Speaker 5: got a billion, I got a buck. But I'm still content.
Speaker 3: I'm probably more at than you are. Man.
Speaker 5: I'm good man. I don't want nothing you got. I
Speaker 5: don't want nothing you want. I'm fine, I'm perfect, I'm
Speaker 5: straight and nothing. Like you said, you can't stress about it.
Speaker 5: And I think that comes with with just real maturity,
Speaker 5: is you know, it just comes with not worried about
Speaker 5: what the next man think of you either, feel me.
Speaker 5: I think a lot of us had to go through
Speaker 5: that transition of worried about what other motherfuckers think, coming
Speaker 5: from you know, n w A, and coming from conscience
Speaker 5: most wanted, and doing this and doing that and leaving
Speaker 5: this legacy behind. Sometimes you worried about what motherfucker might
Speaker 5: think of you. And once you get to the point
Speaker 5: to where.
Speaker 4: Like man, whatever, yeah whatever, Like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, cool, fuck it, I ain't got ten triple platinum albums.
Speaker 4: Yeah, by now, I don't give a fuck. Cool. Yeah,
Speaker 4: been there, done that, did it. I'm cool.
Speaker 5: I wake up every morning and nigga, you put your
Speaker 5: shoe on just like me, your pints and everything.
Speaker 4: Take a shower and wash your ass just like me.
Speaker 5: Your shower might be fancy and water might come out
Speaker 5: a little diff you were five bathing in some avy
Speaker 5: yards and some shit it tap water. Working and cleaning
Speaker 5: the ass is good too, ship, So you.
Speaker 1: Giving yourself over to God? No, right, yeah, do you
Speaker 1: ever look at stuff from your past on the more
Speaker 1: spiritual living? Now?
Speaker 3: I could see, how was the damn food that I know?
Speaker 3: But that's just because I didn't know nothing.
Speaker 6: That just thinking money, you know, money was the rules
Speaker 6: and what money was it? You're nothing without money. It's
Speaker 6: just it's a whole different level now. Now I could
Speaker 6: just sit back like.
Speaker 2: And you talk about a lot of that in your book,
Speaker 2: too Yellow. Everybody should pick it up if they haven't
Speaker 2: got it yet.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I just was the book was really
Speaker 6: because I never read a book in my life. I
Speaker 6: never opened a book never, and it just God gave
Speaker 6: it to me and I wrote it, what ninety three
Speaker 6: thousand words?
Speaker 2: It's a long book.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. All that's a three hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: something pages.
Speaker 4: I should have brought mine to get an autograph.
Speaker 3: Yeah you should, But I've just learned, man, life is beautiful.
Speaker 6: We don't see it because we saw in the busy
Speaker 6: Russian and trying to come up and trying to do it.
Speaker 3: Ain't about that.
Speaker 6: It's just, man, you better enjoy life because life is short.
Speaker 6: Yes it is, I mean very sure. Yeah we might
Speaker 6: live to one hundred, but that's short is in.
Speaker 1: The grand scheme of things. Let me ask you one
Speaker 1: more quick before we get out of here. You being
Speaker 1: where you at spiritually, now, do you think that the
Speaker 1: industry to recording industry industry promotes a certain type of
Speaker 1: artists right now? Think it's an exender right now being
Speaker 1: forced to punt as nowadays?
Speaker 6: It's, man, you know something, It's a whole bunch going on,
Speaker 6: not just music, movies, commercial.
Speaker 3: I mean, just like, man, what are they trying to
Speaker 3: make here? It's and all that. And you know, because
Speaker 3: I say something, they're gonna ban me.
Speaker 4: We can't.
Speaker 1: We can't talk about that.
Speaker 4: But it's just still knowing of highly against speaking on.
Speaker 3: That set.
Speaker 5: Well that man, they the gag set letters and everything. Man,
Speaker 5: don't mess with their people.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they got power, they running, they running things.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's nothing wrong. I ain't got nothing against nobody.
Speaker 6: But I'm glad I'm not young in the dating world
Speaker 6: or kid, because the kid almost don't have a choice
Speaker 6: putting all this in front of them. Man, I'm I'm
Speaker 6: like this until the kid is eighteen. Your kid, this
Speaker 6: is what you are, he or she, That's what you
Speaker 6: ain't nothing else. This is what you're born is what
Speaker 6: you are. You ain't got a choice until you get eighteen,
Speaker 6: you start paying your own building.
Speaker 3: You got your choice. If they was my kids, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean come on, I mean yeah, that's something else.
Speaker 4: As far as music is concerned, was being forced on.
Speaker 4: This is just like you said, the ability to.
Speaker 5: The ability to have access to music is so wide
Speaker 5: open nowadays, and it's unfortunate that I think with labels
Speaker 5: and people behind these like because who's really behind you know,
Speaker 5: the music?
Speaker 4: Is it? The universals, the deaf jams, the you know
Speaker 4: a little bit, all of them.
Speaker 5: It's so many side you know, deals in side teams
Speaker 5: and you know, like fuck it. It's it's like still,
Speaker 5: this would be perfect. Like seven on seventeen. Everybody can
Speaker 5: have a seven on seventeen. All you gotta dudes, pay
Speaker 5: your fee and you can enter the tournament. Right Yeah,
Speaker 5: you don't have to be you know, skilled, qualified, whatever.
Speaker 5: You can go, put twelve niggas together, get your five
Speaker 5: hundred dollars and say, nigga, we want to enter.
Speaker 4: And that's to me what the music is right now.
Speaker 4: It's like.
Speaker 5: Nigga, I got a program at home in a microphone
Speaker 5: in a video let me in and then and the
Speaker 5: simplicity of dumbing down the music you get me. I
Speaker 5: took pride in what I wrote about back then. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I took pride in the music that slipped would find
Speaker 5: on records and sample and cut up and chop it.
Speaker 5: We took pride in that. It's like now, it's like
Speaker 5: what niggas like. Fucking niggas like. Niggas like pussy and
Speaker 5: ass and fucking weeds smoking. So fucking I'm gonna just
Speaker 5: rap about pussy, ass and weeds smoking. I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: give a nigga no kind of curve or no diversity
Speaker 5: to it. I'm just gonna I'm gonna join the club.
Speaker 1: What a sad part about it is, man, ain't nobody
Speaker 1: checking for that type of stuff nowadays.
Speaker 6: Man, And the sad part is the younger generation don't know.
Speaker 6: There's nothing else besides what they listening to. What they're saying,
Speaker 6: if you get it, they go back to if you
Speaker 6: get it, because I know, I travel our DJ around
Speaker 6: the world now.
Speaker 3: They love our.
Speaker 6: Hip hop from our era out of any music. That's
Speaker 6: how I go to Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, Bali, Sri Lanka.
Speaker 3: Places that even heard of us.
Speaker 5: And the crazy shit is them countries ain't gonna allow
Speaker 5: that type of ship. Oh yeah, and be over here
Speaker 5: playing no get up in my booty whole records and
Speaker 5: all that type of ship. Motherfucker gets your ass hung
Speaker 5: but fucking head chopped off a listens. I mean, people
Speaker 5: take different different it's just the way people look at
Speaker 5: our culture. It is sense, you know, because people don't
Speaker 5: like American ship anyway. You know, they feel we so
Speaker 5: wide open with ship, y'all just allow motherfuckers to do
Speaker 5: whatever and say whatever.
Speaker 4: It's never allowed over here.
Speaker 5: If I'm driving down my street playing some ship like that,
Speaker 5: I'm liable to get stole or cave and ship listening
Speaker 5: to some ship smoking wh over there. So it's just
Speaker 5: the level of acceptance is what I think is allowed.
Speaker 5: And like I said, we the land of the free
Speaker 5: and you can do what you want and ship. But
Speaker 5: I just thing, but what's what you say that when
Speaker 5: you do it? I just say that coming from our era,
Speaker 5: and it's gonna be the last thing coming from our era.
Speaker 5: I think it was pride taking the bar when you
Speaker 5: becoming an artist, and because if you had whack ship man.
Speaker 4: You didn't get no radio play. No, you didn't even
Speaker 4: get a.
Speaker 5: Deal anything your record, Like you had an A and
Speaker 5: R sitting in the office and you walked in there
Speaker 5: and played your tape and that ship was whack. You
Speaker 5: weren't getting no deal. It just wasn't happening. So nigga,
Speaker 5: I'll be at the motherfucker studio. Man, I got the
Speaker 5: nigga you heard what Cube saying you heard with too
Speaker 5: short said or LLL or what man. I petition was
Speaker 5: got to get on that ship. So competition was, Yes
Speaker 5: it did. We're gonna leave it on that note.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Man, we appreciate having you on The show Man
Speaker 1: to hang out with us The show Man for sure. Man,
Speaker 1: Instagram page, website, anything.
Speaker 6: Man, DJ yell up and w a Instagram Facebook And
Speaker 6: I'm actually on it so I don't have it.
Speaker 1: Stop running strange. Yes, you over there, so so hit
Speaker 1: him up man right now. Man, Jill, my man gave
Speaker 1: his life over to God. That's a beautiful thing. Man,
Speaker 1: Like I said, we done been in the lives and
Speaker 1: peace now, been.
Speaker 5: Through a lot of hell and a lot of motherfucking
Speaker 5: roller coasters and ship. So for a nigga to be
Speaker 5: able to sit in that motherfucker's seat and no bumpy
Speaker 5: ride Nigga's It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 4: At the end of the roller coaster, you feel me real, Hey,
Speaker 4: we out of here, jill.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: That was can We was on here a while.
Speaker 3: It didn't bother me.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's why I want to get a picture.