WEBVTT - DJ Yella of NWA: Eazy Didn't Know He Had AIDS 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.760 We like to welcome everyone to another episode of the 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.640 Gangst the Chronicles podcast. I am big Steal with my 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:12.399 guy sure and today we have our special guests going 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:14.080 on three weeks in the row with us as we 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.959 count down the top fifty Gangster rap albums of all time. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.400 My man journalists, extraord there, mister Soren Baker, thanks for 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.440 having me. I'll appreciate it for sure. And you know, tonight, man, 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.920 we got a guess, but this falls in line with 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.639 the you know, fifty greatest gangst the Rap albums of 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:34.640 all time for sure. For sure he's from not just 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:36.680 one of the most iconic groups in the history of 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.199 hip hop, but just one of the Their impact on 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.280 American pop culture was second or none. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:44.199 I would say so. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.000 Just when they came out, because they're the ones that 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.360 you know, people were making, you know, gangst the rap 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.720 albums before them. You know, it's a few people that 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.120 was putting out. You know, Ice had Six in the Morning, right, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.800 you know, you have Schoolly D that had you know, DSK. 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.480 Then you had n W A n w A struck 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:07.080 a nerve with Middle America and it blew up because 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.320 now you had all of these white folks, their kids 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.640 was listening to this music from these niggas in Compton 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:19.360 and it just blew up with no radio play from 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:23.240 the icon of group n W A DJ yeller, what's up? 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:23.959 What's up? 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:24.440 Man? 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:25.720 You know how to give you a hell of an 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:30.360 introduction this nigga. Man, I'm sitting over here like. 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.360 Damn, you got the whole script wrote. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:34.880 Out, Hell yeah, man, you know that's what ship. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.640 Man, you gotta start sending in me ship like that 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.000 or the email ship you be right. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.520 Shore, I got you. I'll let you say it too 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.400 if I send it to you. All he gonna say 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.520 is all he gonna say? Is all gonna say is 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:50.880 I'm good? Up, my nigga, you got it. 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.240 I feel like I needed out of a podium with 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.160 a touch seedo all right down. 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:55.600 Ship. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.480 We had to motherfucking grabbys or something shit, But we 0:01:59.520 --> 0:01:59.800 hear that. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:01.000 Man. 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.960 I don't remember a word I said. Man, I can't 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.320 remember a word I said. You got to catch the replay. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.040 You got to catch you on the replay. But seriously, man, 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.040 you know what I was. You know what I was 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.240 thinking about. I was just thinking about y'all family tree 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:18.239 right on. What y'all with the group brought to the game, right, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.560 think about all the artists that spawned you You ever 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.800 think about that, man, all the motherfuckers that just come 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:28.720 from y'all family trees, like from from from everybody. Think 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.280 about it, bro, think about. 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:34.240 It, Kendrick, and you know you can you. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:41.320 Know Eminem it's just yeah, the game, I mean, it's 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:42.160 a whole bunch. 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.640 I mean. And the thing about it, we just did 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.120 our thing. We just did music. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:53.720 Wasn't thinking about money, one't thing about hits, just doing it. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:55.280 You know, being from Compton. 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.320 Ain't know that Compton is confident that that's what we 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.959 talked about because comp it wasn't respected back then. 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:03.799 It was a bad word and. 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.200 Every yeah man, we was it was it was hood 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.880 Maneah was hood man. I don't give a fuck. Before 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.680 the music came along, yellow man, it was it was 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:14.600 just hood. 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.600 Like Watts, Wats was worse than us. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:18.480 Wats was worse than us. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:23.560 But and then our high schools man was was you know, 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.160 niggas was banging hard. 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:25.919 Yeah, and so. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:32.880 Just to just to get that uh, that pathway to music, man, 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.480 it was a beautiful thing. And ship man, you know 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.800 what I'm saying because we was listening to some crazy ship. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.880 You know, before we was able to be recognized as 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:46.720 who he was, as as being comptent, niggas just saw 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.160 us as man. Once Colors came out, man, niggas just 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:51.280 saw us as man. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.320 Don't fucking go to coming. That's all you heard. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.400 Even when the raps started getting the music started getting popular, 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:03.600 it was like fuck that, yeah, and Colors was fucking 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:08.360 South Central Watts and Ship for some reason. Man, they 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.360 just tagged us with it and was like, man, fuck that. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:11.880 Man. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.240 Well they out in Compton. It's vicious. So yeah, before 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.360 the music started, it was crazy because. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.599 People would ask me, man, you walk it up. I 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.520 lived there, It's nothing else. But people thought it was 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.239 just like Vietnam or something. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:31.760 You know how you hear about uh Schiraq now Chicago 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.560 and motherfuckers be like nigga, don't go nigga. I was 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.240 like Compton in the early days, it was like, don't 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.080 go there. But people was very curious about the city. Man, 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:43.360 when the music started. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.840 The other the other thing that shocked me the first 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.400 time I went to Compton was how small it is. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.960 Not no one from being from Maryland. When I first 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:53.960 went out there. I was like, wait a minute, I 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.160 already drove through Compton, I was on the launch. 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.000 I was like, wait a minute, the mingus. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.159 You go over the hill, you go down the lines, 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.600 man across the tracks. Man once you get by the airport. 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.000 Man, Yeah, yeah, just a little bit more. 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:12.560 It's just a little bleep on the bed. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.040 But billion all the talent, That's what I was gonna say, 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:17.400 Fuck all the talent. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.080 Man. It was hooded like a motherfucker. 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:24.039 I'm talking about like niggas just don't understand, like a 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:29.000 lot of motherfuckers was lucky to even be here. And 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.200 Yellow y'all was crazy as a motherfucker because y'all was 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:33.520 going up to skate Land. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:38.640 Yeah like that, y'all different neighborhood. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.800 Crazy as a motherfuckers. Niggas was young and banging back then. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:47.000 And you know that, yeah, because uh niggas says all that. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.800 Was that the area central, all up and down Rose 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.240 Crimson was all where the beadog homies was. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:53.080 You know. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.880 And in my time of growing up thirteen fourteen, in 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:01.760 that serious eighty three, eighty four, eighty five, man, you 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:07.320 did not go to Skateland or Dodos or none. Of 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:08.600 that real talk. 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.840 Because even after dark, that was right, and even. 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.839 Even even after dark, y'all, man, please Linzo spot no 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:16.080 you didn't. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.000 You didn't venture nah we we didn't act. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.960 And Niggas says that, yeah, all that. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.160 Give a fuck. He was one like Nigga, we finn 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:26.440 get this music ship off. 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:27.960 He was on a mission. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.359 He did fucked because I would have been like, hell no, Nigga, 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:32.080 we ain't going up. 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.760 He's so crazy. We didn't have no problems. 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.640 That No, y'all didn't know. And that was the crazy 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.640 shit because everybody knew where Eve was from. Oh yeah, 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.159 nobody knew where Wren associated from and all that, and 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.640 y'all never went through no like we gotta fight thirty 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.279 niggas out of here ship, Like Niggas is waiting for 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.200 us in the parking lot and I never heard none 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:54.839 of them stories. 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:55.800 Yeah, no, it wasn't. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.039 That's foreman, that's crazy. 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.920 That's because at the time, I guess Niggas was so 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:05.560 fascinated hip hop man, like we had a past, and 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.279 Niggas was representing the Hub city, so like fuck it, 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:10.239 you know what I'm saying. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.440 But yeah, I know Niggas was getting a little dirty. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.640 You remember when hell yeah, nigga, I was like the 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.480 it was the gospel to us young niggas. It's because 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:26.560 we didn't we didn't have really, we didn't really have 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:30.000 music that associated with what the fuck. 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.840 Was going on because you had with you had time. 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:39.680 But they that was just local like TDK mixtapes and yeah, 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:45.120 like they their main success was was like how niggas 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:45.960 do mixtapes? 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:51.200 Were gonna take Houdini instrumental, We're gonna take fucking ll 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.800 cool J instrumental or whatever, and we're gonna talk about 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:59.640 tales from the hood. Nobody did that until Easy came 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:05.960 on you. As far as street music, you get me, So, nigga, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.520 it was fascinating. It was the gospel. So because I 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.880 was listening to Ship like Freakazoid to Ship, I was 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.200 listening to the Wrecking Crew. We was listening to fucking 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:25.520 everything was back. Everything was back East Houdini, fucking Beers, Marked, 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:30.760 all that type of ship, Treacherous, three U T Fou, 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:37.240 Spoony G, the Fat Boys, all everything was East Coach. 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.319 So to hear a nigga come out and say nigga, 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:45.800 the boys in the hood. And when you heard hood 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.920 like Oh my goodness. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.400 Yeah, even on Boys in the Hood, Easy said fuck 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:55.199 the police and a fabo too, So nobody, nobody, what 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:56.280 was the reaction to that. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:57.600 They didn't put that together. 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:05.520 The only hood niggas got that, Yes we police, We 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.200 could just be standing in the hood. And it was 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:08.560 a few. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:10.840 It was a few versions made of that record, too, 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:15.520 wasn't it, Because yeah, because I heard one. I'm not 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.400 gonna say what it said. We talk about that off 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.400 the air, but it's said some ship that would have 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.679 been deemed controversial. It was a little bitty park. I 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.120 think you know what I'm talking and I always knew that. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.400 And my homeboys got Tim Dog one. No, not the 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.480 Tim Dog one. This is for boys and hood. You 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.160 talk about somebody wrecked this car, right, talk about somebody 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.679 wrecked this car. He changed that part up a little bit. 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.800 It became a little bit more commercial, you know what 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.480 I mean. But we talk about that off camera. Now. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.360 You was rolling with Eve from the beginning, Yeah, like 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.240 you was wanted to catch to stay dire from the 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.079 beginning to the end. You Yeah, you know, I just. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.520 I don't jump ships, I don't change ships. I just 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.280 ride to it, ride out. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:09:59.800 That's when I start. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.720 You started off as a drummer. You used to drum 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:03.559 at Compton High. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.240 Yeah, yeah, I used to the drum then I was 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.960 the drum major. Yeah, you know I didn't do all that. 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:13.000 You know the dance that they doing. Nah, we told 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:14.040 them big seas up. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:20.839 Yes, like that was like motherfucking like that was ship 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.120 that we knew fluting and I knew that ship floating 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.920 around in the hood at thirteen. Y'all was a drum 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.640 major at Tompton High and he was hard. Niggas used 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:33.000 to talk about it. Really we yeah, man, I mean shit, well. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.760 Cometing the small you hear everything. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.280 Then Ship, we was right there, and you know niggas 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.040 in trag New We were so cool with niggas from them. 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.480 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I heard everything. Man. It was 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.120 the homies right there. So you was in the swamps, 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:47.839 so we heard everything. 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:48.240 Man. 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.320 Ship. Now do you remember the first time you met Yep? 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:53.600 I met him. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:58.160 We're still in the record crew and Dre had him 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:02.439 come by Lonzo's house in the back. But for some reason, 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:08.200 this girl from Bullocks or somewhere in Cerritos giving me 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:15.000 free guests, I mean Aaron Jean Jackets belts T shirts. 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:20.080 So I started selling it because he was rolling with money. 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:25.120 So I got the fresh, just the real stuff. That's 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:30.320 how many selling him, selling him. And at the time 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:35.720 it was little Derek. Uh, his mother was pregnant with 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:40.880 little Derek. That's when I became little Derek's godfather. But yeah, 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.040 I used to sell them all. They used to be shoved. 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:44.600 Guess everywhere. 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.440 A little ball in the hood. Oh yeah, yeah, yess 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.040 what was the motherfucking for Sachi? 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:50.320 Yeah? 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.120 Please, for that very. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:59.360 Reason, it was only sports, motherfucking cords and ship cords 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.000 and fucking five or ones and ship So nigga niggas 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:04.160 see a nigga and some guests. 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.880 Nigga nigga You was like nigga niggas all it. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.160 Was always somebody. It was a nigga like you. In 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.800 every city. They had to hook up on the guests 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.160 that would be able to get it from the stores. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.040 Because I bought my wife, the woman i'm married to now, 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.520 it was a big deal to Hamie Eric Eliot from 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.120 Long Beach Insane. He was on my team. He said, 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.640 cuz I got something for you for your girl, and 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.680 I said yeah, And he got me some guests. He 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.280 said man going to shoot a nigga a hunter. That 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:32.960 was a lot of money to me. You know, I'm like, 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:33.720 a hundred. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:37.200 Dollars got you the whole suit. You got a whole buddy. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.400 But when I gave her them a little shorts, them 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.920 little white shorts. Now see, I'm still married to him. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:48.160 I was on like recip my homeboy, because they was, 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:49.800 you know, I don't know what they had going on, 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.840 but they would come with guests and all kinds of stuff. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.679 So when you initially met him, was he was it 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.400 on some music stuff? Was he talking to you about 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:58.000 making music? 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.760 Well, he came up to and this was before Boys 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:06.040 in the Hood. It was just it wasn't even a 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.599 thought yet because we me and Dre were still in 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.560 the Wrecking Crew and were like at the tail end, 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.120 you know, we weren't making no money, you know, none 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.360 of that. So I went out and got a job 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:22.160 for real, and then E and Dre you know, started 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.720 the Boys in the Hood, and it was just. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.120 It was just like on from there. 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:32.000 It's crazy. It wasn't no big thing. The Boys in 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.480 the Hood was just a song. 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.480 That was meant for somebody else from New York. 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.800 It wasn't it hard to convince him to do it 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.880 because we all know that it was for the niggas 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.600 from New York HBO and like they hated yeah. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.080 Yeah yeah, they didn't understand. 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:52.920 Our cars and ship. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.160 Niggas wearing fucking workmen they used to get to the ad 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:57.880 because we used to go out of town and wear 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.680 khaki suits. Niggas used to iun't like a motherfucker, like, 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.800 why the fuck y'all wearing Janitor suits? 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.080 Wearing them at the sea. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.560 Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, nigga, we thowt Khaki suits was 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:16.040 the ship niggas. They didn't understand the culture of that ship. 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.600 It wasn't like we tried to wear Janitor suits, nigga. 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.760 This this was hood attire in a few years a 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.320 motherfucker from the swat. 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:26.040 They were wearing it. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.120 Later, but check this out. Once gains the reps start hitting, 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.640 everybody across the country was wearing a nigga. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:37.560 Niggas love khaki suits. Nigga, really nigga man. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.600 And workman suits turned like a nigga was a nigga 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.840 every day attire nigga because nigga, you couldn't gigga. We 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.080 wasn't getting no money back then, Nigga was a struggle 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.480 so ship. Niggr Moms give you about motherfucking forty dollars. Nigga, 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.960 go get you some school ship. Fucking well, get me 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.360 two packs of fresh teas. Nigga, about three pair of khakis, 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:03.640 Nigga the core Tes. Nigga, I got outfits for the week. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.840 Nigga shop the sharp as a motherfucker. 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:07.280 Nigga. 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:13.120 Please, man, you know what the thing is, ma'am When 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.040 you look back on it now, right, did you ever 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:17.360 think it would go as far as it did? 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:22.280 Never never even real we never even thought about gold. 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:24.080 That wasn't even nothing. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:28.000 I thought it was just I guess that's what made 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.200 it so unique, because we would just ain't well, no, 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.840 it's just about the music. It was just doing what 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:35.680 like we got this big contract for you. 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:42.800 Know, old records, promise like being from where we came from. Man, 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.280 I don't know. I never looked that ship like that. 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.320 I like publishing and all that type of ship. Like 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:55.680 Nigga the Homie got some turntables. Here's a mic. We finished, 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.520 spit some tales from the hood and Nigga we ride. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.160 Nigga rolling the limo. Nigga the nigga let me wear 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.480 the fat dookie rolle. Nigga, Ita made it. Nigga, you 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.720 what like you didn't think of like I don't know, 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:14.440 like the success of the future. And because records, I 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.920 mean making records was like a it was like a 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.560 for me. I was like a distant shit nigga. I 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.600 was gang banging like I thought my life was gonna be, 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.720 especially growing up in Compton at that time, the early 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.880 eighties and shit eighty three eighty two, Like, I saw 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.400 nothing of gang banging. There was like no no niggas 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.760 making records and shit and nigga. The successful niggas I 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.720 saw was the niggas down the block with the rollers 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.840 in their hair, nigga selling the sharm at the end 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:49.240 of the niggas like I we you know, even with 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.360 my parents working and shit like that. Because of the 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.840 path I was taking, I'm like, Nigga, I don't really 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.280 be going to prison in a minute or some shit. 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:00.320 And then some niggas looked at that that is a 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:04.080 rite of passage. I got niggas right now. It was like, Nigga, 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.960 I couldn't wait to go to the pen now. Talking 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.200 to one of my homies, last night. He was like, Nigga, 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.200 when I got out the pen I couldn't wait to 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.840 get out with my penitentiary shirt and my blue jeans 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.119 on and my shit kickers and then touchback down on 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.320 the block. Niggas be like, oh, the homie just got 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.920 That was like a right of fucking passage to niggas. 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:25.160 Man. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:29.760 So music was like Nigga gold records and going on 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:34.400 tour and fucking that was making I'm making money from 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.080 talking about the homie big Dog from the hood. We 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.919 got Jack last night and the one time and then 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.080 add and me and all this shit. So it was 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.560 like the nigga, what like, I get money off of 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.920 this ship now? So it was it was a distant thought. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.080 Like I said, when I first started rapping, we was 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.800 in the garage. I didn't think like I'd be on 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.879 planes going to Japan and shit, like on stage with 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:04.760 ten thousand people in the audience. I was like, Nigga, 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.000 we making records about the neighborhood. 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.040 So that's crazy. Now, when y'all was recording that verse 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.320 for easy right for Boys in the Hood, and y'all 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.560 had the piece them together and it wouldn't easy. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:20.760 That wasn't just for that song. Every version he done it. 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:26.320 Take them, I mean a couple of hours, all of. 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.920 It, and any of them. 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.000 It's a lot of artists do who still like that 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:32.679 to this day. 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:34.359 But that's the thing I was trying to tell my 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.600 my wife and my daughter, like, listen to the breath 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.320 patterns on all these new songs and all every line 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.160 is punched, every single line. 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.320 I mean, now you can punch the digital soul. Yeah, 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:46.840 punch eat it's like. 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.680 And that's what I'm saying. So for all those and 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.000 the audience that don't know, it wasn't like the pro 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:54.960 tools and stuff. No, the way you just pull the cut, 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:56.200 copy and paste. 0:18:55.960 --> 0:19:01.399 And yeah you had yeah, and two inch rails was 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:05.320 nothing to play with. Man expensive spind it back and 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:09.000 you have to do it, mess up and do it again, 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.000 and sometimes you mess up the punch. 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.240 Oh God, looking at me out like, I know, I 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.640 killed that one right there, do the whole line. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.080 It was the hard day record. 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.000 But you know something, it made us what we turned 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.959 out to be. We had to work for everything. What't 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.760 sampling was new. All this was new to us. 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.800 We had to figure it out. Everybody did. They were 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.200 so close to everybody had to figure this out. It 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:41.080 wasn't no for the YouTube university. And that's how you 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:41.359 do it. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.880 Well, there's no barrier to the there's no barrier entry anymore. 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:46.480 Nah. 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.320 You used to have to learn some ship as you 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.600 wanted to be a rapper. Even if you wanted to 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:52.760 be a rapper, it wasn't like it was every you know, 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.040 right now you can go online to buy three beats 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:56.040 for seventy five dollars. 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.480 That wouldn't less or less or less. 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.160 That wasn't cracking back then. So you either had to learn. 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:07.639 I know me, I would put the Paul's tapes together. 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:09.199 I would put the tapes you know where I had 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.160 that player and that would just make me an instrumental. 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:15.000 It would be off in someplace. And if you foxed 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.280 up once, you had to go back and do it again. 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.040 But you learn how to produce and you learn time. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.040 And then you go to turntables because you were initially 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:25.760 outside of being a drummer, you were j yeah DJ, 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:32.080 you know, d hen DJ Yellow. So most most DJs 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:34.160 are actually turned out to be the best producers. 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.440 Definitely that both me and Dre was DJs. 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:42.240 That's what we you learn, what the people like, you know, 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:46.320 because DJing ain't just all the scratching. That ain't dj 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.159 and is rocking a party from your time you know 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:50.280 to your end. 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.240 Ain't no sitting down. You know, back then it has 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.320 slow songs. You know, you have to break it down 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.760 every once in a while. It's about the programming. That's 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.960 what like producing. But due to this program in this song, 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:04.600 we're making what the chords gonna sound like, what this 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:05.200 gonna sound like. 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:09.920 At the beginning, all this stuff, we just brung DJing 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.840 into that world, and we had to learned producing on 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:13.280 the fly. 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.840 There wasn't no book, wasn't no call up New York. 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:17.600 How do you guys? 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.760 Because I noticed on the earlier n w A albums 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:24.920 they had more like a real East Coast son was 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:28.920 break beats in there? Oh yeah, sins played over it's 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:30.040 still the West Coast. 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:35.760 We played more instruments, Yes, we started getting into playing 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:43.640 more instruments because everybody was sampling, you know, like you said, 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:47.680 sampling was new and thus for you would hear a 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.359 lot of the same breakbeats on certain songs and whatever. 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:55.239 So I think that's what made me getting to uh 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.399 when my dude shout out my people's will ez Uh. 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:00.879 It was what made me get in the studio with 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:05.879 him and start just having him play stuff and even 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:08.760 stuff I would just imagine. I used to keep a 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.640 fucking tape recorder, you know, want of them tape recorders 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:14.720 on me. Every time I would go somewhere, I don't 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:17.440 give a fuck if interviews, if I was on tour 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:21.159 or whatever, and melodies would come to my head, I 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:24.119 would hum the motherfuckers into my tape recorder and then 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:26.399 I would run back to the studio and I'd go listen, 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:30.399 and that motherfucker after about ten minutes so he was 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:33.480 in there producing, then I'll get a nigger, I wouldn't. 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:35.199 I don't take credit for. 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:39.840 That's you arranging. 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:42.560 That's that's how it came up. 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:45.800 With most of my beats off of my projects that 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.120 I would do. I would sit there and get high 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:52.200 and be on a motherfucking plane and just be like 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:56.719 thinking to myself, like, damn, that would be tight right 0:22:56.800 --> 0:23:00.320 there being start humming the shit into the mother fucking 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:02.720 tape recorder, and then as soon as I get to 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.280 the hotel, I get on the phone with willie' Z 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:07.920 and I play the ship for him. And then he'd 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:10.120 called me back later and he'd have made a whole 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:14.240 song out what out M hummed? You know, so whatever whatever, 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:18.639 But like I said, we with with with fucking sampling 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:20.720 and all of that shit. Like I said, a lot 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:23.800 of the breakbeats and ship started being used. 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:27.720 On a lot of the same projects. So that's twelve X. 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:31.119 That's when you got into probably trying to play on what. 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:36.320 Made us turn after straight out of Compton. Seemed like 0:23:37.400 --> 0:23:40.680 every lawyer, everybody came to us. Yeah, we was a 0:23:40.880 --> 0:23:47.359 sample never permission used people they told us. 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:49.480 Sold them samples. 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:50.800 Nah. 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:53.760 See, you know that's the thing. I want to go 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:55.639 to something real quick, and I ain't gonna stay on 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:58.680 the long time. But you gotta imagine how it was 0:23:58.720 --> 0:23:59.679 easy when he started that. 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:04.760 Company, oh mid twenties, gotta be he was. 0:24:04.920 --> 0:24:08.800 You'all's kids pretty much. Yeah, so you know, you think 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:11.640 about it. You're artist, right, and you see we selling 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:14.960 all these albums. But don't nobody think about win Clear 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:16.160 Nearest sample on his mouf. 0:24:16.359 --> 0:24:20.960 But we didn't know it to clear You wasn't fucking 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:24.480 like I said, shit, when I first started, I didn't 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:27.359 know about writers and published it and all that type 0:24:27.400 --> 0:24:27.720 of shit. 0:24:28.160 --> 0:24:30.720 I didn't know shit. I just was like, fuck it, 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:33.240 Nigga'm finna get in here and make a record. And 0:24:33.640 --> 0:24:34.040 that's it. 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:39.119 The ins and out of the record business. You learned 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:43.320 as you went along. Yeah, the hard way, because I 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:45.640 didn't know about contracts and none of that shit. 0:24:45.800 --> 0:24:48.200 Nigga. I'm like, oh, nigga, I'm finna make a record. 0:24:48.280 --> 0:24:49.440 Yeah, because our first. 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:56.520 Three we didn't sign contracts until eighty nine, in the 0:24:56.640 --> 0:24:59.399 middle of our tour, after the. 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:03.320 Platinum and the goals. Already it was just a you know, 0:25:03.440 --> 0:25:05.840 we just it wasn't even a handshake. It just we 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:08.879 just did it. It wasn't thinking about it until the 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:09.560 people come in. 0:25:09.680 --> 0:25:11.840 Start you'll start seeing some money at least do because 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:13.000 y'all was go on tour and stuff. 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:18.879 Well the tour, well, we really seen money after we 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:22.280 signed them contract and I know I signed mine. 0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:25.160 I picked it up. It was seventy five thousand dollars 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:28.119 check there, I turned it over and signed it. I 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:29.879 don't know what was in that contract. 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:31.399 You just knew that you do that something. That's why 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:33.040 they do it that way. They had that check right 0:25:33.400 --> 0:25:40.520 check for young right there from the Hub City. This 0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:45.320 man yeah, are you crazy? Thigga could have had to 0:25:45.440 --> 0:25:48.200 be ten thousand. Yeah, like that's ten thousand. 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:51.920 I'm sleeping at. 0:25:51.840 --> 0:25:54.280 My bomb's house and ship on the couch and ship 0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:57.120 you had me ten thousand or some ship. 0:25:57.440 --> 0:26:01.280 You ain't lying some ship we in the garage. Matter 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:03.240 of fact, you said ten thousand. 0:26:03.480 --> 0:26:05.200 Say don't like that. 0:26:05.640 --> 0:26:07.840 The first deal we was trying to get was for 0:26:08.040 --> 0:26:12.879 Island Records. We did a showcase for Island Records, just 0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:17.239 for them, and they was gone. And me and Dre 0:26:17.400 --> 0:26:19.320 wanted to be command Drake, you know, to come from 0:26:19.320 --> 0:26:21.640 a record win no money. Were like, man, let's sign 0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:26.280 with that police Eric just like n I want my 0:26:26.440 --> 0:26:30.359 own label, with my own color, my own name. Nobody 0:26:30.400 --> 0:26:30.760 would do. 0:26:30.800 --> 0:26:32.119 It but priority. 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:33.320 Yeah. 0:26:33.520 --> 0:26:36.439 And the first deal was ten thousand dollars I think, 0:26:36.600 --> 0:26:37.159 or something like. 0:26:37.920 --> 0:26:41.320 The crazy thing is later Island had to buy the 0:26:41.440 --> 0:26:45.240 international rights. Really yeah, they bought the international. 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:47.240 I know they kicked theyselves and but they wouldn't have 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:48.840 did it right. They wouldn't have did it right. 0:26:48.880 --> 0:26:52.760 No, none of us got I mean on the up 0:26:52.800 --> 0:26:56.200 and up as far as that's concerned. We nobody got 0:26:56.320 --> 0:26:59.920 done right. No, And I, like I said, we was 0:27:00.119 --> 0:27:04.119 just naive kids. Man, we was naive kids thinking like. 0:27:04.200 --> 0:27:05.320 Taking advantage up. 0:27:06.480 --> 0:27:09.399 We got took Let me ask you that motherfucker, because 0:27:09.440 --> 0:27:11.399 that's one of the biggest stories with n w A. 0:27:11.560 --> 0:27:15.560 You know, everybody de fected, you knowing first Arabian Prince, 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:17.800 Arabian Prince you know, left first or whatever. 0:27:18.080 --> 0:27:21.720 She's got a big posse? How much is that record? 0:27:23.160 --> 0:27:23.320 There? 0:27:23.359 --> 0:27:28.320 You go? Brother? Was that as all? 0:27:29.040 --> 0:27:33.480 She's got a big posse? I remember that Arabian Prince 0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:38.720 was signed to uh you was with you, was with you, 0:27:39.000 --> 0:27:42.160 it was with us. After he left, y'all came over 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:43.600 and signed to Orpheus. 0:27:44.000 --> 0:27:45.600 That's for it was. 0:27:46.080 --> 0:27:48.200 That's why I was like, she's. 0:27:48.080 --> 0:27:48.840 Got a big. 0:27:50.840 --> 0:27:54.200 And I remember I was like, wow, Arabian Prince. 0:27:57.160 --> 0:27:59.680 You about to get started. He went on the lines, 0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:02.639 was so bad with the music and stuff. But you 0:28:02.800 --> 0:28:05.480 know again, you got kids. Now you got Jerry Hiller 0:28:05.560 --> 0:28:09.760 this day, right, you depending on him. He's being dependent 0:28:09.880 --> 0:28:12.119 upon to look out for everything. Kind of mind in 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:13.119 the shop, so to speak. 0:28:13.960 --> 0:28:19.639 But well, the key to that is at towards the 0:28:19.760 --> 0:28:21.840 end of the record crew, that's when Jerry came on 0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:25.520 with the record crew. He got us to a show. 0:28:26.119 --> 0:28:28.760 If the big concert that was in London every year. 0:28:29.560 --> 0:28:31.240 I forgot the name of it, but be all the 0:28:31.320 --> 0:28:34.040 hip hop groups from everywhere, we got us on that, 0:28:34.240 --> 0:28:37.560 so were thinking, oh man, really, and then once we 0:28:37.720 --> 0:28:42.320 got the deal for priority, you know you're just thinking. 0:28:42.880 --> 0:28:43.880 Okay, he know what he's doing. 0:28:43.960 --> 0:28:47.360 You know, we don't know nothing, not mechanicals, not publishing, 0:28:47.480 --> 0:28:49.120 not writing, and writers is. 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:53.440 Two sides over here. For the movie, we didn't know, 0:28:53.720 --> 0:28:57.440 not the producers, artists. It's so many ways to get paid. 0:28:59.600 --> 0:29:03.360 But the he was the problem where I found out, 0:29:03.640 --> 0:29:07.200 and it cost me ninety three thousand dollars I found out. 0:29:08.040 --> 0:29:11.520 See he was the manager for the group, and he 0:29:11.600 --> 0:29:13.120 was the manager for the label. 0:29:13.600 --> 0:29:14.680 Yeah he was double dippings. 0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:17.800 That's a conflicant entrance. We really didn't know. 0:29:19.280 --> 0:29:20.320 Hell no, you don't know that. 0:29:20.800 --> 0:29:23.920 I mean, you know that happened. That's the same kind 0:29:23.920 --> 0:29:26.960 of shit that happened. And me and Chill and whatever, 0:29:28.080 --> 0:29:33.000 my lawyer slash manager was mine. And then he turned 0:29:33.040 --> 0:29:36.960 around and started being the manager for Chill and Dam 0:29:37.160 --> 0:29:40.200 and all of them and shit. So he get paid, 0:29:40.520 --> 0:29:44.520 getting paid off every every fucking corner, more than the group. 0:29:44.680 --> 0:29:48.360 Yeah, come on, man, yeah, I mean Russell Simmons, I 0:29:48.440 --> 0:29:49.720 think made more than run in and see. 0:29:49.760 --> 0:29:51.040 Actually, oh, I'm quiet. 0:29:51.160 --> 0:29:54.520 But like I said, when you naive and. 0:29:56.800 --> 0:30:01.960 You really don't have no one to school you on 0:30:02.120 --> 0:30:06.280 the entertainment ins and outs, Like he said, Nigga, when 0:30:06.320 --> 0:30:08.840 I signed the mechanicals, what the fuck is that? 0:30:11.080 --> 0:30:12.120 What is a mechanical? 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:13.000 Nigga? 0:30:13.040 --> 0:30:16.840 A fucking publisher at a at a fucking writers at, the. 0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:21.720 Producers and artists all the goddamn thing about that ship. 0:30:22.280 --> 0:30:25.720 I thought that when you walk in there and you 0:30:25.920 --> 0:30:29.520 sign the contract and the nigga gave you that advance, Nigga, 0:30:29.600 --> 0:30:31.640 that's it, Nigga. 0:30:31.760 --> 0:30:32.600 From there, nigga. 0:30:32.680 --> 0:30:35.720 Whatever nigga gave me up front, Nigga, I took it 0:30:35.840 --> 0:30:38.360 back to the hood and Nigga I was that was it. 0:30:38.640 --> 0:30:42.880 Fucking I didn't know nothing about nigga getting paid for 0:30:43.000 --> 0:30:48.000 that royalty. Royalty, Nigga. I ain't see a royalty ever. 0:30:49.080 --> 0:30:52.920 I'm talking about ever ever in life of a fucking 0:30:53.120 --> 0:30:56.520 record label. Nigga and I didn't been doing records since 0:30:56.640 --> 0:30:57.240 right after that. 0:30:57.800 --> 0:30:59.560 I never seen it. Wait, when you come strap, you 0:30:59.640 --> 0:31:02.760 never got never seen a fucking royalty really never. 0:31:03.280 --> 0:31:05.280 Wow, I don't feel so bad. 0:31:05.480 --> 0:31:10.360 They nigga, They nigga. They gave me about three up 0:31:10.480 --> 0:31:11.760 front and that was it. 0:31:11.960 --> 0:31:13.080 Oh yeah, you cause you ain't. 0:31:13.280 --> 0:31:13.600 You ain't. 0:31:14.560 --> 0:31:15.160 They get what they do. 0:31:15.280 --> 0:31:16.479 They tell you you don't recoup. 0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:18.520 That's what they do. You ain't recouped. 0:31:18.560 --> 0:31:21.160 And it's impossible to recoup because you're getting recouped. You're 0:31:21.200 --> 0:31:24.600 not getting recouped off the whole dollar amount, getting recoup 0:31:24.680 --> 0:31:28.560 off something like a dollar or whatever, so or maybe not. 0:31:28.640 --> 0:31:32.240 A dollar off of cding gett. 0:31:32.280 --> 0:31:34.880 No dollar was getting to tell you, let me tell 0:31:34.880 --> 0:31:38.560 you what they did. They gave me three hundred to do. 0:31:38.760 --> 0:31:42.560 We come strapped, and then when it dropped about two 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:45.520 months later, they slid me a check and said it 0:31:45.680 --> 0:31:48.600 was an advance for the next project. They slid me 0:31:48.680 --> 0:31:51.760 about another one fifty, so that was it. 0:31:53.160 --> 0:31:56.320 Yeah, yeah, they. 0:31:56.600 --> 0:31:58.560 I'll not move more than five hundred thousand. 0:31:59.240 --> 0:32:01.120 We come strapped, did about nine hundred. 0:32:01.160 --> 0:32:01.800 That's what I'm saying. 0:32:03.680 --> 0:32:05.360 They something else. 0:32:05.480 --> 0:32:08.320 Oh yeah, and they heard up and got you another one. 0:32:09.560 --> 0:32:09.720 Yeah. 0:32:09.720 --> 0:32:12.440 I mean, if you putting money into young black kids here, 0:32:12.560 --> 0:32:13.120 you you. 0:32:13.200 --> 0:32:15.680 Don't, like I said, And then when you don't have 0:32:15.960 --> 0:32:20.480 people who are have your best interest, because let's face 0:32:20.560 --> 0:32:23.720 it like you said, we some young black niggas from Compton. 0:32:24.320 --> 0:32:25.800 We don't know shit about. 0:32:25.880 --> 0:32:30.240 Major record labels and distribution and mechanicals and royalties and 0:32:30.760 --> 0:32:33.040 writers and artists and all that shit. 0:32:33.120 --> 0:32:33.880 We don't know shit. 0:32:34.600 --> 0:32:38.840 We need some young, poverty stricten, young black teenagers from 0:32:39.000 --> 0:32:44.600 Compton who knows nothing about what's going on. So to 0:32:44.840 --> 0:32:51.960 take me from motherfucking growing up in fucking Compton, off 0:32:52.000 --> 0:32:56.040 of Alameda and fucking Greenleaf, and Nigga, my hope of 0:32:56.240 --> 0:33:00.600 fucking promise and of being something is like slim to 0:33:00.800 --> 0:33:04.000 nothing and a nigga come hand me a check for 0:33:04.560 --> 0:33:08.880 five thousand dollars for talking about last night boom Bop 0:33:09.040 --> 0:33:11.960 got shot and the one time came through and Nigga, 0:33:11.960 --> 0:33:14.960 I had some dope in my socking, some shit like 0:33:15.120 --> 0:33:16.680 what was gonna happen anyway? 0:33:17.560 --> 0:33:20.400 Nigga, I'm telling you really what I'm doing them up 0:33:20.520 --> 0:33:24.640 day you get me. I came up big, I got 0:33:24.680 --> 0:33:27.160 to go get me a cutlass on datings. 0:33:26.840 --> 0:33:31.400 With the Nordy steered wheel. Niggas sit, nigga, Nigga please, 0:33:32.520 --> 0:33:34.640 I felt, Nigga. I felt like I was on top 0:33:34.720 --> 0:33:36.880 of the world and not knowing that a Nigga sitting 0:33:37.000 --> 0:33:40.440 behind the desk. Niggas raking in million. We're getting all 0:33:40.440 --> 0:33:43.480 the money, but at the time, I don't know what 0:33:43.680 --> 0:33:46.719 fucking money is. Have you ever noticed is repers come 0:33:46.840 --> 0:33:49.560 from money? If you ever noticing is reppers. 0:33:50.360 --> 0:33:52.800 But like I said, I didn't come from nothing. 0:33:53.360 --> 0:33:55.840 My father worked at General Motors, in my mom's was 0:33:55.920 --> 0:33:57.320 a little CNA nurse. 0:33:57.680 --> 0:34:00.400 So I'm like, I came from the druggle. 0:34:00.880 --> 0:34:04.280 So to be able to go buy some fresh kicks 0:34:05.120 --> 0:34:07.560 nigga and the ounce of weed, and then I got 0:34:07.600 --> 0:34:11.919 some datings on my motherfucking car. Nigga, please niggall ball 0:34:12.000 --> 0:34:18.799 of pages on the hip, big brick fowld Nigga, get 0:34:18.840 --> 0:34:21.279 the fuck up out of here, nigg out lifting Nigga out. 0:34:21.440 --> 0:34:24.040 You could have said Nigga was a billionaire right there. 0:34:24.320 --> 0:34:24.880 You get me. 0:34:25.440 --> 0:34:28.279 Let me ask you this man once easy, so once 0:34:28.360 --> 0:34:31.279 all the discrepancies became fucking he made it right though, 0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:31.600 didn't he? 0:34:32.560 --> 0:34:36.919 You know something, I think about it every blue moon. 0:34:38.280 --> 0:34:42.800 The problem was never in the group, never no arguments, 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:46.000 no nothing. The problem is the people on that circle 0:34:46.480 --> 0:34:49.719 behind the group, right outside the group, right around you 0:34:49.719 --> 0:34:52.640 should be getting this, You should be doing this, it's 0:34:52.680 --> 0:34:53.560 the outsiders. 0:34:53.719 --> 0:34:57.480 It wasn't the insiders that did the group. The Outsiders. 0:34:58.360 --> 0:35:00.000 I'm quite sure whoever's. 0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:04.440 In cubes here then later Dre's here, then Rent. You know, 0:35:04.600 --> 0:35:06.680 whatever happened with that, you know, it just but it 0:35:06.840 --> 0:35:08.640 was the outsiders. 0:35:08.680 --> 0:35:09.439 It was in the group. 0:35:09.560 --> 0:35:14.240 No arguments, no nothing. I don't care what the movie showed. 0:35:14.719 --> 0:35:17.280 There wasn't no arguments, none of that stuff. 0:35:17.400 --> 0:35:22.759 I remember mixing the last album, Niggas for Life, and 0:35:22.960 --> 0:35:27.520 we just me and Dre were laughing about stuff. 0:35:27.239 --> 0:35:30.239 That's going on, you know with the DLC, and you know, 0:35:30.719 --> 0:35:36.000 another person were laughing before we finished mixing. It was 0:35:36.080 --> 0:35:40.520 totally different. I mean, I've seen some dirt. I don't 0:35:40.520 --> 0:35:42.200 even talk about it. I don't even tell nobody. 0:35:41.920 --> 0:35:48.439 But really I'm just like, oh my god, what's good man? 0:35:48.600 --> 0:35:51.600 It was. I can tell you about the missing tapes. 0:35:53.960 --> 0:35:57.880 I had the missing tapes the last album. We just 0:35:58.040 --> 0:36:04.360 mixed it. We mixed the half inch quarter inch fatter base. 0:36:04.520 --> 0:36:06.440 So I had the tapes at home. 0:36:07.760 --> 0:36:11.360 And I dropped them off in that office and he 0:36:11.520 --> 0:36:19.759 called me, tapes are gone. Uh, I just dropped them off, 0:36:20.440 --> 0:36:22.960 He said, what, I just dropped them off? 0:36:24.640 --> 0:36:25.000 M hmm. 0:36:26.280 --> 0:36:29.200 Let me call you back. He never done another priority 0:36:30.040 --> 0:36:30.680 song after that. 0:36:31.680 --> 0:36:34.440 I was just like, are you serious? Those tapes? 0:36:37.680 --> 0:36:42.479 The owner had the tapes. I put him in his head. 0:36:43.719 --> 0:36:46.040 I delivered him too. He took him. 0:36:47.440 --> 0:36:49.759 You know, I'm looking at other people know I'm out 0:36:49.760 --> 0:36:54.120 of here. I don't even you know, he ain't my business. 0:36:54.160 --> 0:36:59.120 It's old, that's gone, nothing coming back, you know, But 0:36:59.360 --> 0:36:59.920 it's it's. 0:37:01.760 --> 0:37:05.040 The music game is a cold piece of word with. 0:37:05.280 --> 0:37:06.200 The biggest. 0:37:07.840 --> 0:37:10.040 And not trying to get controversial because I ain't to 0:37:10.040 --> 0:37:12.839 stay on this, but would you say that Jerry Hiller 0:37:12.880 --> 0:37:14.280 kind of took advantage of the situation. 0:37:15.239 --> 0:37:18.359 Well, I mean, I ain't gonna talk bad Malvin because 0:37:18.360 --> 0:37:27.160 he's when you getting paid from both sides. If you 0:37:27.239 --> 0:37:30.640 don't know, it may not be dirty pool, but it's 0:37:30.640 --> 0:37:31.319 a dirty game. 0:37:32.680 --> 0:37:33.920 Not to speak bad on them. 0:37:34.000 --> 0:37:39.560 But I'm just gonna say this, the music game has 0:37:39.680 --> 0:37:46.720 always been made up of shady and shisty characters, especially 0:37:46.880 --> 0:37:50.479 when it comes to our race and just the music 0:37:50.560 --> 0:37:54.280 business period. As an artist, if you wasn't the fucking 0:37:54.360 --> 0:37:57.480 owner of the label, you got fucked. And even if 0:37:57.520 --> 0:38:00.880 you was the owner of the label, if you you know, 0:38:02.800 --> 0:38:06.759 executives and those people have always had their hand in 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:10.560 controlled the music game. Uh, we've never been had a 0:38:10.680 --> 0:38:14.719 fair share as as black artists or artist period. You 0:38:14.800 --> 0:38:19.759 get fucked when you come into this business. I mean 0:38:19.960 --> 0:38:24.880 it's never gonna be on the up and up, especially 0:38:24.920 --> 0:38:28.239 from the days of us and for us see how 0:38:28.400 --> 0:38:34.680 treacherous fucking music execs was so h that's just unfortunate 0:38:34.840 --> 0:38:38.600 that it's just one of these motherfucking games to where 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:42.839 you have to really come in at your own risk 0:38:43.480 --> 0:38:47.520 and if you ain't as smart enough to know books smart. 0:38:47.680 --> 0:38:51.600 You know the odds and ends, you're done. Yeah, because 0:38:51.920 --> 0:38:52.840 had I known what. 0:38:52.960 --> 0:38:56.279 I know now back then, I've never signed to now, 0:38:56.400 --> 0:38:57.759 motherfucking you. 0:38:57.920 --> 0:38:58.279 Get me. 0:39:00.800 --> 0:39:03.279 Funk that I'm gonna take my chances and put my 0:39:03.400 --> 0:39:05.640 own records out and try to eat like that. 0:39:06.200 --> 0:39:07.400 You know that? 0:39:07.719 --> 0:39:11.280 That that Uh? That that what a lot of niggas 0:39:11.320 --> 0:39:14.000 did on the West Coast in the early days. 0:39:14.640 --> 0:39:17.600 Get me, you didn't see a lot of artists, even 0:39:17.719 --> 0:39:22.320 with going back to the Record Crew or fucking Unknown Records, 0:39:22.680 --> 0:39:24.720 niggas wasn't trying to get major deals. 0:39:25.239 --> 0:39:26.520 I'm gonna go fucking start. 0:39:26.600 --> 0:39:27.239 It just wasn't. 0:39:29.280 --> 0:39:30.840 You know, it didn't happen. 0:39:31.040 --> 0:39:33.480 So if you was on the West Coast as an 0:39:33.520 --> 0:39:36.760 independent record label, nigga, that's how you was eating and ship. 0:39:36.760 --> 0:39:42.120 Well, like some just mentioned you had records was a 0:39:42.239 --> 0:39:43.120 cold piece of work. 0:39:44.960 --> 0:39:46.160 Let's say you're gonna look at it. 0:39:46.640 --> 0:39:47.520 That deal. 0:39:48.600 --> 0:39:53.640 Yeah, that's where all the deals were coming, you know, deals. 0:39:53.760 --> 0:39:55.680 Yeah, yeah, And there was a lot of money. I know, 0:39:55.920 --> 0:39:57.680 because you had physical products back then. 0:39:57.719 --> 0:40:02.440 It wasn't I mean, you don't know. But he's pressing. No, okay, 0:40:02.480 --> 0:40:06.320 give me one hundred copies. He the press five hundred. 0:40:06.040 --> 0:40:10.640 Copies, Yeah, and four a hundred fuckers out nigga for him. 0:40:11.920 --> 0:40:14.359 Oh they was once you ship them out, they don't 0:40:14.400 --> 0:40:14.759 come back. 0:40:15.160 --> 0:40:20.160 Yeah. No, it's that game was so new and just 0:40:20.520 --> 0:40:24.439 they just happened to be smarter than us. They out 0:40:24.640 --> 0:40:27.200 did us. They just they knew the game. We didn't 0:40:27.239 --> 0:40:27.400 know that. 0:40:28.080 --> 0:40:29.200 We didn't know that, nigga. I didn't. 0:40:29.239 --> 0:40:31.200 We just had the talent, that's all I want. We 0:40:31.280 --> 0:40:31.680 had it down. 0:40:31.760 --> 0:40:34.719 I didn't know ship man, I'm sorry. I didn't know 0:40:34.800 --> 0:40:37.879 a goddamn thing. All I knew was how to talk 0:40:37.960 --> 0:40:42.319 and represent Compton. And when they came, like I said, 0:40:42.520 --> 0:40:45.760 contracts and all that ship nigga. I was just like, nigga, 0:40:45.800 --> 0:40:48.719 how much he just wanted to check man? But that's 0:40:48.840 --> 0:40:54.880 every like, yeah, one hundred and fifty pages long, and 0:40:55.160 --> 0:40:56.880 nigga ain't all the small words. 0:40:56.960 --> 0:40:58.960 I don't know money to go hire a nigga to 0:40:59.040 --> 0:40:59.919 read through this ship. 0:41:00.080 --> 0:41:04.120 He gonna want about ten fucking grand I'm thinking, like, Nigga, 0:41:04.120 --> 0:41:09.520 you're only giving me fucking fifteen. So fuck yeah, everything 0:41:09.640 --> 0:41:13.680 of this bitch good. He designed your fucking life away 0:41:13.760 --> 0:41:16.760 and shit not doing. But like I said in them times, 0:41:17.719 --> 0:41:19.560 I mean, what else was your choices? 0:41:20.000 --> 0:41:22.800 You get me like, yeah, we kind of I know, 0:41:22.880 --> 0:41:25.920 we kind of breezing past stuff because I want to 0:41:25.960 --> 0:41:31.040 get to a certain point right now, everybody is gone 0:41:32.440 --> 0:41:36.440 easy get sick. I'm looking at somebody and you know 0:41:36.560 --> 0:41:39.160 this happened during easy birthday. Flag goes out there, he 0:41:39.239 --> 0:41:42.160 goes on math office. Sure, and he says that Easy 0:41:42.239 --> 0:41:43.680 he knew he had the A's virus. 0:41:44.719 --> 0:41:45.759 I don't think he did. 0:41:46.520 --> 0:41:51.719 I don't think because I got a picture from his 0:41:51.920 --> 0:41:56.040 last public picture, which was December of ninety four. I 0:41:56.120 --> 0:41:57.959 can look at that picture because I took one because 0:41:58.000 --> 0:42:00.520 he gave me a birthday party in the year before 0:42:00.520 --> 0:42:04.120 he gave me one. I can compare both pictures. He's 0:42:04.200 --> 0:42:07.320 smaller in the ninety four to one compared to the 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:14.800 ninety three. But he didn't know nothing, because matter of fact, 0:42:14.960 --> 0:42:19.399 that January we went to Vegas and the first time 0:42:19.400 --> 0:42:21.440 I ever was in the room wining because they ran 0:42:21.480 --> 0:42:22.960 out of the rooms, so I had to stay in 0:42:23.000 --> 0:42:26.560 the room when he nothing like that. He didn't know 0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:32.560 nothing at all. I don't think, you know something. I 0:42:32.640 --> 0:42:37.040 thought about it like once or twice. Whatever happened happened. 0:42:37.480 --> 0:42:40.319 It can't be changed. He can't come back. I mean, 0:42:41.800 --> 0:42:43.799 it was a cold piece of work. Whatever was done, 0:42:43.960 --> 0:42:47.920 if it was done, I don't know. He loved females, 0:42:48.239 --> 0:42:51.759 so you know, he could have caught it. I don't know, 0:42:51.960 --> 0:42:54.840 you know, but they say back then it's harder to 0:42:54.920 --> 0:42:56.120 catch it from a female. 0:42:56.960 --> 0:42:59.120 He had to be the other way and stuff. 0:43:00.360 --> 0:43:04.440 It's hardy, something about the and the penis. 0:43:04.800 --> 0:43:09.399 Yeah, it's just it's just however, it's hard to I'll 0:43:09.440 --> 0:43:10.120 tell you all after. 0:43:10.960 --> 0:43:14.080 I'll tell you all after be looking at him like 0:43:14.800 --> 0:43:17.480 so was like he gave me that look like I 0:43:17.640 --> 0:43:21.600 have's the answer for that, but to just chill out 0:43:21.680 --> 0:43:23.360 in I'm looking at that. 0:43:23.920 --> 0:43:27.080 But he never mentioned, never, never said nothing like that. 0:43:27.760 --> 0:43:28.560 I know he didn't know. 0:43:28.840 --> 0:43:31.439 And then another key thing too, This is where I'm 0:43:31.480 --> 0:43:34.120 not a conspiracy guy. He ain't tell me I am, 0:43:34.320 --> 0:43:36.520 but you it's a little bit. But give us that 0:43:36.760 --> 0:43:37.480 slap us with it. 0:43:37.880 --> 0:43:38.680 This is my thing. 0:43:41.600 --> 0:43:44.960 He excited that he did. He had an insurance policy 0:43:45.040 --> 0:43:46.719 written up two months before he died. 0:43:48.480 --> 0:43:49.719 Well, I don't know about that. 0:43:52.280 --> 0:43:56.200 We had done insurance companies when Dre was still there, 0:43:57.200 --> 0:44:00.640 Lords of London. I remember that because they had to 0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:04.319 take blood. So I'm like, but who's you know, who's 0:44:04.600 --> 0:44:06.360 I didn't know nothing about beneficiary, who. 0:44:06.640 --> 0:44:09.200 Gets the money? They was like million dollar policies on 0:44:09.320 --> 0:44:12.839 me on Dre. I'm quite sure Eric had a couple 0:44:12.880 --> 0:44:16.239 of million. Somebody had them policy. 0:44:15.920 --> 0:44:18.080 Discussion for like why did you guys get it? What 0:44:18.280 --> 0:44:18.959 made it happen? 0:44:19.080 --> 0:44:22.680 Then it just was oh, we're gonna get some insurance 0:44:23.239 --> 0:44:24.719 on your hands and this and that. 0:44:24.840 --> 0:44:26.080 You know, they cover stuff like that. 0:44:26.239 --> 0:44:29.440 And I remember we went there, drew the blood and 0:44:32.080 --> 0:44:36.040 they had got insurance policies. Of course, you know, it 0:44:36.200 --> 0:44:37.320 wasn't Eric's idea. 0:44:38.880 --> 0:44:41.239 It was the other guys the idea. I'm quite sure. 0:44:42.160 --> 0:44:46.200 And I can imagine who got the money from if 0:44:46.239 --> 0:44:48.680 they kept the policy up all that time. 0:44:49.960 --> 0:44:51.520 I'm quite sure they did well. 0:44:52.200 --> 0:44:55.279 It sounds like the obviously I don't know. This is 0:44:55.360 --> 0:44:59.840 pure speculation, but in the middle it sounds like the 0:45:00.000 --> 0:45:04.400 type of situation where some of the athletes will do insurance, 0:45:04.880 --> 0:45:07.319 like when they're in college. So if they go pro 0:45:07.840 --> 0:45:10.040 and they're playing football or something and they break their leg, 0:45:10.160 --> 0:45:10.839 they can't play. 0:45:11.200 --> 0:45:14.440 Yeah, insurance, So if Dre broke. 0:45:14.239 --> 0:45:16.759 His arm, he couldn't produce her that's what they That's 0:45:16.800 --> 0:45:17.560 what they got us on. 0:45:17.920 --> 0:45:20.840 It was body or so whatever. But there was a 0:45:21.000 --> 0:45:21.920 million dollar policy. 0:45:22.920 --> 0:45:25.200 Well, I guess the record company would be the beneficiary. 0:45:26.640 --> 0:45:32.160 Which are the manager, yeah, the person and the should 0:45:32.239 --> 0:45:34.759 have been it should have been both, or are my 0:45:34.960 --> 0:45:36.080 family or his family? 0:45:36.160 --> 0:45:38.880 To me, that's a conflict of interest because the thing is, 0:45:39.800 --> 0:45:42.840 sometimes an artist is more valuable dead than heels alive. 0:45:43.040 --> 0:45:45.440 You know, if you figure if you've got a dudes catalog, right, 0:45:47.120 --> 0:45:49.520 artists to go eventually leave somebody anyway. I don't care 0:45:49.560 --> 0:45:53.080 how tight y'all whatever, Every situation is going one day 0:45:53.160 --> 0:45:55.400 come to an end of recording business. Because this guy's 0:45:55.440 --> 0:45:58.000 gonna get big one day and he's gonna see in 0:45:58.080 --> 0:45:59.840 his head, it don't make no sense to give you 0:46:00.120 --> 0:46:01.680 thirty no more. 0:46:02.120 --> 0:46:02.640 I need that. 0:46:02.719 --> 0:46:04.919 I'm further along in my career, so I'm going about 0:46:04.960 --> 0:46:07.640 my business. Think about it. If you missed the record company, man, 0:46:07.680 --> 0:46:10.879 you got an insurance, man, well shit, this motherfucker died. 0:46:11.000 --> 0:46:12.160 I get a million dollars in. 0:46:12.320 --> 0:46:13.280 I got a whole. 0:46:13.280 --> 0:46:16.000 Motherfucking reels his ass back there as soon as we 0:46:16.120 --> 0:46:19.040 put out. Oh man, such mc sdew wrong is gone. 0:46:19.640 --> 0:46:22.080 Go put this album out and it's gonna go triple platinum. 0:46:22.080 --> 0:46:22.960 We gonna get all the money. 0:46:23.160 --> 0:46:23.520 Oh huh. 0:46:24.000 --> 0:46:28.600 I mean it's a cold business. It's more colder than 0:46:28.640 --> 0:46:31.000 the streets. The streets, ain't that cold? 0:46:31.160 --> 0:46:31.399 Man? 0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:33.959 You the second artist that came up there and said 0:46:34.000 --> 0:46:36.440 that cocaine was just up here a week ago. He said, Man, 0:46:36.560 --> 0:46:38.719 being the rap game, it's like being in the dope game. 0:46:39.120 --> 0:46:41.680 Man, it is. It's treacherous. 0:46:42.480 --> 0:46:44.920 Yeah, I mean, kill you and shit niggas want to 0:46:45.000 --> 0:46:48.440 take your spot and whatever, and haters and you know, 0:46:48.600 --> 0:46:50.399 and just it's just a hustle game. 0:46:50.520 --> 0:46:50.719 Man. 0:46:51.120 --> 0:46:55.160 Yeah, you know, your product gotta be the top notch 0:46:55.320 --> 0:46:57.200 or shit, you ain't gonna be able to sell your 0:46:57.239 --> 0:47:00.360 shit to the customers, the consumers whatever. 0:47:00.560 --> 0:47:03.719 Man, So you go from champon chump real quick man, man, 0:47:03.960 --> 0:47:10.680 definitely Champton chump with the quickness. So y'all once Q 0:47:10.960 --> 0:47:15.440 dropped that, no vast lean man, what was your mindset? 0:47:15.480 --> 0:47:16.000 What was you doing? 0:47:16.040 --> 0:47:17.480 Because you seemed like a dude to just. 0:47:17.520 --> 0:47:18.080 Tell the truth. 0:47:18.320 --> 0:47:21.200 Yeah, I mean I did, just because I told him 0:47:21.200 --> 0:47:23.480 about that scene in the in the movie. 0:47:23.840 --> 0:47:25.360 He said, what was y'all do? He called me the 0:47:25.440 --> 0:47:28.319 night before the chot he said, what happened when the song? 0:47:28.520 --> 0:47:30.960 I just I told him. He got us. 0:47:31.840 --> 0:47:35.440 That's all was discussed. It wasn't no discussions. He got us. 0:47:36.239 --> 0:47:38.200 He made a whole song about us. We never made 0:47:38.200 --> 0:47:41.080 a whole song about it. We had snippets and commercials, 0:47:41.840 --> 0:47:44.520 a few hits here and that, but he made a 0:47:44.560 --> 0:47:45.759 whole song. So that was it. 0:47:45.920 --> 0:47:46.719 That was all it was. 0:47:46.800 --> 0:47:50.000 It wasn't no oh man, we're gonna kill nah. It 0:47:50.200 --> 0:47:50.920 just he got us. 0:47:52.200 --> 0:47:54.040 Yeah, he came with some shit. Y'all threw a rock 0:47:54.080 --> 0:47:57.960 at him. He hits you up, came, y'all threw a 0:47:58.040 --> 0:48:02.960 rock and cube. He came black. He wasn't bullshit. So 0:48:03.600 --> 0:48:05.719 do you think all that stuff could have been rectified. 0:48:08.560 --> 0:48:11.479 Before he died. He talked to Cube in New York. 0:48:12.520 --> 0:48:15.640 I think he talked to Dre. It was some talks 0:48:15.719 --> 0:48:19.400 going on. I don't know about what, but it was 0:48:19.520 --> 0:48:22.440 some kind of talks going on. Rin came back around. 0:48:22.520 --> 0:48:25.200 We did a couple of the songs on his last album, 0:48:25.239 --> 0:48:29.600 Man produced for him, and it was. 0:48:31.280 --> 0:48:33.200 I don't know if it would have ever came, anything 0:48:33.239 --> 0:48:35.719 would have happened, but at least the talks was there. 0:48:37.120 --> 0:48:40.640 I don't have a guilty conscience. I sleep good at night. 0:48:41.600 --> 0:48:42.520 I was there, you know. 0:48:42.600 --> 0:48:48.400 I was just because when Dre was finna leave, I 0:48:48.400 --> 0:48:52.840 remember him calling me, I'm gone. You know, I'm thinking 0:48:53.600 --> 0:48:56.080 six in the morning. I'm looking over what's. 0:48:56.000 --> 0:48:59.640 In my bed? Yeah in the morning, okay. 0:49:00.040 --> 0:49:03.640 And I told him I'll call you back. It took 0:49:04.440 --> 0:49:08.040 twenty five years later before I told him. I went 0:49:08.080 --> 0:49:12.160 to his house and he had I said, I didn't 0:49:12.280 --> 0:49:16.080 choose a side. I was thrown into that you left 0:49:17.040 --> 0:49:18.080 at that particular time. 0:49:18.120 --> 0:49:19.680 I didn't know you was leaving. I didn't know what 0:49:19.800 --> 0:49:22.759 you was talking about then, easy and I just like, 0:49:22.960 --> 0:49:26.680 I just stood my ground and I'm just here with he. 0:49:27.080 --> 0:49:31.000 I didn't picky. Yeah, I should have left with Dre, 0:49:31.840 --> 0:49:35.160 but I just stayed where something told me to just stay. 0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:38.879 Because you and Drey was pretty much production partners. Yeah, 0:49:39.080 --> 0:49:40.759 oh yeah, because y'all did everything together. 0:49:40.840 --> 0:49:43.600 I mean from the beginning from DJ and all the 0:49:43.640 --> 0:49:46.440 way all the way to the end, most of the 0:49:46.560 --> 0:49:47.520 roofless stuff. 0:49:47.560 --> 0:49:49.200 You ever think about, Man, you could have been a 0:49:49.239 --> 0:49:50.640 part of some of the Mother albums. 0:49:52.239 --> 0:49:55.000 Not really, because like the DC he said, Man, I'm 0:49:55.000 --> 0:49:56.479 going to work on DC album. 0:49:56.960 --> 0:50:00.320 I'm good. We had just finished our our them on 0:50:00.400 --> 0:50:03.560 a Friday and on Monday, you want to go back 0:50:03.600 --> 0:50:08.399 to the student stuff. No, I'm good, Michelle A same thing. 0:50:08.560 --> 0:50:09.160 I'm good. 0:50:10.320 --> 0:50:11.560 Then you did your mon Milkie. 0:50:12.320 --> 0:50:14.719 That's because Dray didn't want to do it, and they 0:50:14.840 --> 0:50:17.920 looking at me, Okay, you do it. I'm like, okay, 0:50:18.440 --> 0:50:18.880 I liked it. 0:50:19.000 --> 0:50:21.319 That album. That was the ship they got caught up 0:50:22.440 --> 0:50:26.359 your more mark, It was a mocking bird and all 0:50:26.440 --> 0:50:26.759 that shit. 0:50:26.880 --> 0:50:29.480 You know what's so funny, For the love of Money 0:50:29.719 --> 0:50:30.799 is the same. 0:50:32.080 --> 0:50:32.920 Had it first though? 0:50:34.080 --> 0:50:36.080 Had for the love of I made that and it's 0:50:36.160 --> 0:50:38.800 the same track. And I guess did Easy decide to 0:50:38.920 --> 0:50:41.480 use it again? I guess he let Bone hear it 0:50:43.000 --> 0:50:45.439 and I guess they just boom you did they. 0:50:45.560 --> 0:50:47.239 Vocals is it was already out. 0:50:47.600 --> 0:50:47.799 Yeah. 0:50:48.400 --> 0:50:50.640 That was like the first time I've ever seen that 0:50:51.880 --> 0:50:53.680 like that, you know what I mean, Like you see 0:50:53.719 --> 0:50:56.440 it commonly now with remixes. 0:50:55.880 --> 0:50:59.160 And people using but back then that was like it 0:50:59.239 --> 0:50:59.840 was unheard of. 0:51:00.120 --> 0:51:00.440 Wash. 0:51:00.680 --> 0:51:02.279 That was the crazy part about it, you know how 0:51:02.360 --> 0:51:04.040 that was. That was kind of like with that one 0:51:04.120 --> 0:51:06.200 record too that I Got the Power, you know, we 0:51:06.280 --> 0:51:13.680 had the two people. Yeah, and Snip was actually like 0:51:13.760 --> 0:51:16.239 a euro group, like a euro group, like a euro 0:51:16.440 --> 0:51:19.239 dance group or some ship like that. Always like, but 0:51:19.360 --> 0:51:20.680 that was the same. 0:51:21.440 --> 0:51:23.560 That was the It was the It was the same 0:51:23.760 --> 0:51:25.920 fucking track, right, you know what. 0:51:26.719 --> 0:51:29.239 Much later, but it reminded me with the scarface with 0:51:29.400 --> 0:51:33.120 Mary Jane and Shanti with Baby. I was like, wait, 0:51:33.440 --> 0:51:35.439 that's just literally the instrumental scarf. 0:51:35.760 --> 0:51:38.719 People started doing it then like fucking you know. But 0:51:38.960 --> 0:51:42.080 like I said, back then, I was like, damn they 0:51:42.280 --> 0:51:44.440 using the same indeed. 0:51:44.160 --> 0:51:48.799 And then dre used it on the Content album later. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:51:49.200 --> 0:51:50.399 inspired by yeah. 0:51:52.520 --> 0:51:54.759 So, And I ain't gonna ask you because you had 0:51:54.760 --> 0:51:56.759 a million people ask you about your opinion of the movie. 0:51:56.800 --> 0:51:59.239 You ain't about the opinion, but more like, do you 0:51:59.360 --> 0:52:01.480 think the character they had in the movie actually reflected 0:52:01.520 --> 0:52:02.279 your personality? 0:52:03.480 --> 0:52:07.239 Yeah? I was. It was about the women. It wasn't 0:52:07.239 --> 0:52:09.239 about the money. Yeah, it was about the women. 0:52:09.320 --> 0:52:10.719 He was really out they chasing the women. 0:52:11.320 --> 0:52:11.360 What. 0:52:13.920 --> 0:52:15.680 I don't know. I didn't. 0:52:18.719 --> 0:52:22.120 Be being in being in n w A at that 0:52:22.320 --> 0:52:25.080 time because, like I said, I can attest from even 0:52:25.200 --> 0:52:28.520 from putting out my first single in a video. 0:52:30.280 --> 0:52:31.480 It wasn't too hard. 0:52:31.760 --> 0:52:36.000 Yeah, yeah, chase, nothing but that. 0:52:36.320 --> 0:52:40.040 And at that time, just being from Comptent just. 0:52:40.400 --> 0:52:42.600 Just oh yeah one Compton got the name. 0:52:43.200 --> 0:52:47.320 Being from Compton and just I mean ship Compton was 0:52:47.719 --> 0:52:50.600 It was exciting itself with all the women and ship 0:52:50.719 --> 0:52:52.480 and whatever, and then to be able to go on 0:52:52.640 --> 0:52:57.120 the road and motherfuckers videos and all that ship. 0:52:57.239 --> 0:53:01.000 Man, it's just man, did you ever get married? 0:53:01.480 --> 0:53:01.680 Yeah? 0:53:02.440 --> 0:53:03.600 Are you married? And you're married now? 0:53:03.840 --> 0:53:04.839 Oh yeah ten years? 0:53:05.120 --> 0:53:05.960 Ten years man? 0:53:07.080 --> 0:53:09.279 And I never wanted to get married, you know. Once 0:53:09.360 --> 0:53:11.799 I did, that was that was it for me. I'm 0:53:11.880 --> 0:53:14.360 good them old games. 0:53:14.560 --> 0:53:17.800 Yeah, yeah, it's you know, you had your fun and 0:53:17.880 --> 0:53:19.640 it tied you out and then you get to a 0:53:19.719 --> 0:53:22.279 position to where like, fuck it, I'm grown up. 0:53:22.360 --> 0:53:23.880 Now you know that ship, And. 0:53:23.920 --> 0:53:27.000 I was assume that you had your your your feel 0:53:27.040 --> 0:53:27.399 of fun. 0:53:28.040 --> 0:53:31.040 Oh yeah, I mean see, I could talk about minds, 0:53:31.400 --> 0:53:35.240 but but I'm gonna put myself. 0:53:35.360 --> 0:53:38.319 Been a couple of pool parties and everything. Man, ship, 0:53:38.400 --> 0:53:40.279 it was very fucking exciting. 0:53:40.400 --> 0:53:41.680 Man, I heard about them. 0:53:41.719 --> 0:53:43.120 Did you come to the pajama party? 0:53:43.239 --> 0:53:48.320 I didn't come to the man, that was too treacherous 0:53:48.440 --> 0:53:48.640 for me. 0:53:48.840 --> 0:53:50.400 Man, you went to the pool parties. I went to 0:53:50.440 --> 0:53:54.719 both the poor parties set up the contest. It was strippers, of. 0:53:54.800 --> 0:53:58.480 Course they were. I knew a couple of they. Was 0:53:58.560 --> 0:53:59.759 just I knew a couple of them. 0:54:00.560 --> 0:54:04.000 Yeah, yeah, later later, Yeah, I. 0:54:04.040 --> 0:54:06.440 Went to both pool parties. Yeah, motherfuckers. 0:54:06.760 --> 0:54:08.959 That was ahead of their time right there. That was something. 0:54:09.480 --> 0:54:11.920 And the thing about them food parties, their money, that 0:54:12.040 --> 0:54:21.719 was out malleable. Nigga, that motherfucker was cracking cracking. Oh man, Man, 0:54:22.520 --> 0:54:25.280 you saw it all you to be arrested. 0:54:25.480 --> 0:54:29.000 I was a young, young nigga too, had no business 0:54:29.120 --> 0:54:32.120 in the motherfucker. But I'm like nigga see him dubbed 0:54:32.200 --> 0:54:35.000 out in that bitch and it was just like God. 0:54:34.960 --> 0:54:37.879 Damn, this bitches everywhere. Hey, motherfucker. 0:54:38.160 --> 0:54:41.040 Let me ask you this man, was there ever any 0:54:41.120 --> 0:54:43.560 issues about dudes women's being up there? Dudes come up 0:54:43.560 --> 0:54:45.480 there looking for their girls and ship their wives. 0:54:46.040 --> 0:54:48.440 No, no, we just did. 0:54:50.160 --> 0:54:51.960 Y'all didn't give a damn wives whoever? 0:54:52.520 --> 0:54:53.120 Girlfriend? 0:54:53.280 --> 0:54:55.560 Yeah, man, this ship was exquisite. 0:54:56.440 --> 0:54:58.400 You ain't never had nobody. You ain't never had nobody 0:54:58.480 --> 0:54:59.520 front you off like man. 0:54:59.440 --> 0:55:02.000 You never came. I mean you couldn't get in the 0:55:02.040 --> 0:55:07.200 studio because of that bar gate, but nobody. No, I 0:55:07.239 --> 0:55:08.160 didn't have no issue. 0:55:08.200 --> 0:55:12.360 She was just gone. It was just over over what 0:55:12.440 --> 0:55:15.000 would take your ass off? Hole, But you'll out and 0:55:15.239 --> 0:55:15.920 just do whatever. 0:55:16.200 --> 0:55:21.359 That's his favorite thing was, is that your girl. Don't 0:55:21.400 --> 0:55:22.320 say it's your girl. 0:55:22.680 --> 0:55:25.440 Because it's gone. 0:55:25.600 --> 0:55:29.399 Yeah, I said, he my girl, your girl away an hour. 0:55:30.200 --> 0:55:31.040 He won't mess with it. 0:55:31.200 --> 0:55:31.680 Don't say that. 0:55:31.960 --> 0:55:34.000 He was something else. Boy. Me and him used to 0:55:34.080 --> 0:55:36.960 go battle. We used to have a thing called the 0:55:37.040 --> 0:55:40.799 point system on the road. You know, the full thing 0:55:41.080 --> 0:55:43.880 is a whole point or a little half a point 0:55:44.080 --> 0:55:50.279 or little bitty Yeah, he got ten points in one night. 0:55:50.800 --> 0:55:53.720 The game was over. Oh we done. We ain't messing 0:55:53.719 --> 0:55:53.920 with you. 0:55:54.080 --> 0:55:57.200 Ten points in one night, dawn. See, I never got 0:55:57.239 --> 0:55:58.640 to go to none of the pool parties. I had 0:55:58.680 --> 0:56:02.279 been in that house of Northwalk before, have you? Oh wow, 0:56:03.600 --> 0:56:05.279 I've been to the house with what before with my 0:56:05.440 --> 0:56:07.680 boys from the black Hole to watch they were signed 0:56:07.760 --> 0:56:09.960 over there. How many groups the Ruthless had the one 0:56:10.040 --> 0:56:12.160 time signed over there? You had a gang group signed 0:56:12.200 --> 0:56:12.520 over there? 0:56:12.560 --> 0:56:12.719 Man. 0:56:13.080 --> 0:56:13.319 Wow. 0:56:13.760 --> 0:56:19.200 In the original Ruthless it was only JJ Fad, Michelle 0:56:19.360 --> 0:56:24.440 a dlc us see us in E we split that 0:56:24.640 --> 0:56:28.680 in the beginning, it was just one group, but somebody, 0:56:29.239 --> 0:56:31.560 somebody said, why don't we just make two groups? 0:56:32.320 --> 0:56:37.840 All the money? So easy and wy that. 0:56:37.960 --> 0:56:40.920 Was clever though. That was something that I thought that 0:56:41.160 --> 0:56:41.560 was clever. 0:56:41.719 --> 0:56:44.359 Yeah, and I think people also forget that easy. Does 0:56:44.400 --> 0:56:45.400 it came out first? 0:56:46.360 --> 0:56:49.040 So waitit wait wait wait the album yeah yeah yeah, 0:56:49.040 --> 0:56:50.760 the album there yeah yeah, yeah, it came out. 0:56:50.640 --> 0:56:53.120 First, but it was that wasn't the first gold album. 0:56:53.480 --> 0:56:57.680 No JJA was the first out the two points old single. 0:56:58.600 --> 0:57:01.719 It brings me to two points because I think it's 0:57:01.920 --> 0:57:07.160 very unfortunate that people don't understand or appreciate document whatever 0:57:07.280 --> 0:57:09.560 however you want to look at it, the importance I 0:57:09.680 --> 0:57:12.959 want you to break it down of JJ Fad really 0:57:13.120 --> 0:57:15.480 setting up so much for what ruthless? 0:57:16.080 --> 0:57:20.200 And how did y'all meet jj fad I think you 0:57:20.320 --> 0:57:21.240 know what's so crazy? 0:57:22.440 --> 0:57:25.680 Me and one of the guys that replaced Clientele in 0:57:25.720 --> 0:57:29.560 the Wrecking Crew, we went out to their house to 0:57:29.680 --> 0:57:30.360 have some fun. 0:57:31.680 --> 0:57:34.000 It was a dry run. You know what dry run? 0:57:36.680 --> 0:57:42.960 I guess, but that it was. And then later Arabian 0:57:43.080 --> 0:57:46.760 brng them to us. What happened? How we got the album? 0:57:48.640 --> 0:57:50.680 The Dream Team owned it a single. 0:57:50.600 --> 0:57:51.920 And Easy brought their contract. 0:57:51.960 --> 0:57:55.680 We was waiting on Rudy to bring the master to 0:57:55.800 --> 0:57:59.840 the song. He never brung it, and Dre said, that's 0:58:00.280 --> 0:58:04.800 redo it. Once we redid it. 0:58:04.880 --> 0:58:08.120 We owned the song, so they were Dream Team group. Yeah, 0:58:08.320 --> 0:58:14.520 and Easy brought their contract. Oh that's Dre and Everybody's 0:58:14.560 --> 0:58:15.360 first gold record. 0:58:16.400 --> 0:58:19.040 I know, I know the record was big. I didn't, 0:58:19.160 --> 0:58:19.920 and I hate it that. 0:58:24.880 --> 0:58:29.040 I just heard that it came from somebody else. I 0:58:29.120 --> 0:58:31.480 don't I don't know where I forgot what somebody. I 0:58:31.640 --> 0:58:33.400 just heard that we're breaking news on here, so he 0:58:33.440 --> 0:58:35.720 ain't do that beat real. I don't know if it 0:58:36.240 --> 0:58:38.040 was an idea, I don't know. I thought it was 0:58:38.080 --> 0:58:41.040 all Arabian, but somebody just said it was somebody else. 0:58:41.120 --> 0:58:43.560 I don't remember the name they said, but I'm gonna. 0:58:43.320 --> 0:58:44.240 Stick with it Arabian. 0:58:44.880 --> 0:58:48.160 He brought the group to us, and okay, because it 0:58:48.280 --> 0:58:50.760 was five in the group when they got the rooflet 0:58:50.880 --> 0:58:53.200 was only three and I don't know what they. 0:58:53.120 --> 0:58:55.000 Did with the other two to change the meaning of 0:58:55.040 --> 0:58:58.160 the name too. Oh then they was there because JJ 0:58:58.320 --> 0:59:02.440 fadd originally was all five of their names. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:59:02.480 --> 0:59:05.080 it changed just jam and Fresh and Death because they 0:59:05.120 --> 0:59:06.120 got rid of the other girls. 0:59:06.200 --> 0:59:06.400 Yeah. 0:59:06.880 --> 0:59:08.960 Look so, and that's why he's the walking hip hop 0:59:09.000 --> 0:59:10.760 thesaurus his story. 0:59:10.880 --> 0:59:15.040 Yeah, that's good ship A little bit, yeah, yeah, a 0:59:15.040 --> 0:59:17.080 little research, you know what I'm saying. Let me ask 0:59:17.120 --> 0:59:19.439 you this, something ship your ass should have died. 0:59:19.920 --> 0:59:22.520 I know that, I knew that already. I knew that already. 0:59:22.640 --> 0:59:24.480 Damn and Fresh and Death that. 0:59:26.120 --> 0:59:28.320 Get that off, you know. Let me ask you this. 0:59:29.160 --> 0:59:31.400 Were you in there when they were actually recording the song? 0:59:31.920 --> 0:59:37.400 Yeah, once, not the original once we once we redid 0:59:37.520 --> 0:59:40.200 the song, which is the same song we made, We 0:59:40.360 --> 0:59:41.080 played it exactly. 0:59:41.160 --> 0:59:43.120 Let me ask you this, bro, whose idea was it 0:59:43.200 --> 0:59:45.360 to tell him to go mama lumma saying Lama mama, Mama, 0:59:45.800 --> 0:59:46.000 But that. 0:59:46.080 --> 0:59:47.000 Was already on the song. 0:59:47.160 --> 0:59:47.720 Was already there. 0:59:48.040 --> 0:59:50.200 That was already there on the original song. 0:59:50.640 --> 0:59:55.720 It's exact same song since he remixed it, since he didn't, well, 0:59:55.760 --> 0:59:56.480 we didn't remix. 0:59:56.600 --> 0:59:58.120 We just replayed it over. 0:59:58.200 --> 1:00:01.240 He played it exactly. Wouldn't give y'all masters. Yeah, he 1:00:01.360 --> 1:00:03.000 didn't forget the masters from him. 1:00:03.120 --> 1:00:04.520 Yeah, we never he never wrote them. 1:00:04.600 --> 1:00:09.040 I don't know why we Was it their intention to 1:00:09.160 --> 1:00:12.000 put them out on the Dream Team records? 1:00:12.080 --> 1:00:14.560 No, dream It came out on drews Out it did. 1:00:14.640 --> 1:00:17.680 It was okay, it wasn't It wasn't a hit, I 1:00:17.680 --> 1:00:18.600 don't think was it? No? 1:00:18.800 --> 1:00:21.280 No, no, it was the side they had Another Hole 1:00:22.200 --> 1:00:22.520 that was. 1:00:22.800 --> 1:00:25.000 That was the A side, right and super Sonic was 1:00:25.040 --> 1:00:29.720 the B side, but we switched for I remember, I 1:00:29.840 --> 1:00:32.000 do remember it was a B side song. 1:00:32.240 --> 1:00:33.680 Yeah, another Hole, Yes. 1:00:34.000 --> 1:00:34.880 I do remember that. 1:00:35.360 --> 1:00:39.520 Yeah, but the original was Another Hole was the A side. 1:00:39.880 --> 1:00:40.760 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. 1:00:40.800 --> 1:00:42.200 Oh yeah, yeah, I did not know that. 1:00:43.000 --> 1:00:43.640 You just said it. 1:00:44.920 --> 1:00:49.360 You know what's crazy, man, is that it then blew 1:00:49.440 --> 1:00:51.320 up when it first came out. But Easy brought it 1:00:51.400 --> 1:00:54.960 over there and and went. He was a pretty good executive, wasn't. 1:00:54.800 --> 1:00:57.640 It because he came from the streets like like. 1:00:57.720 --> 1:01:00.320 He knew what was happening because he found bone thugs harmy. 1:01:00.320 --> 1:01:06.080 I'm gonna take you. I get the correction in now. 1:01:06.160 --> 1:01:07.400 The correction is you read all. 1:01:07.680 --> 1:01:10.320 You're still from the still about to report some ship 1:01:10.440 --> 1:01:13.280 that ain't true, So let's get down him. 1:01:14.920 --> 1:01:15.480 I met him. 1:01:16.480 --> 1:01:17.880 Wow, we're breaking news over here. 1:01:19.920 --> 1:01:22.160 We were doing the show in Cleveland and these five 1:01:22.280 --> 1:01:25.720 guys back there easy walked out the room. So they 1:01:25.800 --> 1:01:28.960 started rapping to me and I'm like this in the hotel, No, 1:01:29.160 --> 1:01:34.560 it's backstay and I'm like, guys saying, hey, you see 1:01:34.600 --> 1:01:37.880 that guy coming in here, go to him. And then 1:01:38.280 --> 1:01:40.520 by the time we got home from the room, they 1:01:40.680 --> 1:01:45.560 was there. They got right on the bus with one 1:01:45.640 --> 1:01:49.120 bag of chips for the whole bus ride that right, 1:01:49.600 --> 1:01:51.360 and had no money, no nothing. 1:01:52.200 --> 1:01:53.560 That's Cleveland. I'm from Cleveland. 1:01:53.600 --> 1:01:53.720 Man. 1:01:53.800 --> 1:01:57.760 They was hungry, but they was. They remind me of 1:01:58.000 --> 1:02:00.960 us or you got you know, we was hungry. We 1:02:01.640 --> 1:02:02.439 didn't know nothing. 1:02:03.360 --> 1:02:05.120 We just nigga. Ain't had ship. 1:02:05.240 --> 1:02:07.320 Nigga we used to it just had a bag of a's. 1:02:07.920 --> 1:02:13.000 Fuck that's two days or something. 1:02:13.160 --> 1:02:16.160 That's crazy. Niggas had that bag of chip the whole 1:02:16.200 --> 1:02:16.600 way bill. 1:02:17.160 --> 1:02:19.400 That must have been one chip an hour of starving, 1:02:19.560 --> 1:02:20.520 like a motherfucker. 1:02:21.720 --> 1:02:23.360 What do y'all know? They ain't had no runners for 1:02:23.440 --> 1:02:24.520 y'alling was y'all. 1:02:24.760 --> 1:02:25.080 Nigga. 1:02:25.120 --> 1:02:28.240 We was over there, broken, starving and hungry, trying to 1:02:28.320 --> 1:02:31.280 make wrecord, just to try to man. When I first 1:02:31.360 --> 1:02:34.800 hooked up with slip Man we Nigga, I wasn't going 1:02:34.880 --> 1:02:35.760 to school, Nigga. 1:02:35.760 --> 1:02:37.920 I was ditching school everything. Nigga. 1:02:37.920 --> 1:02:40.600 I probably didn't go home for probably a week or so. 1:02:40.920 --> 1:02:45.240 Nigga mobs was calling like, Nigga, what the fuck nigga? 1:02:45.240 --> 1:02:47.680 Because I didn't, Nigga, I'm finna make me a record. 1:02:47.840 --> 1:02:48.840 I didn't give a fuck. 1:02:49.200 --> 1:02:50.400 Nigga. No food, Nigga. 1:02:50.400 --> 1:02:52.040 I used to have to call moms and tell her 1:02:52.120 --> 1:02:55.200 to bring me some Louis Burgers or something because Nigga 1:02:55.360 --> 1:02:56.040 was starving. 1:02:56.320 --> 1:02:56.600 Nigga. 1:02:56.680 --> 1:03:02.200 We was and it was niggas slip out of places Dad, Nigga. 1:03:02.200 --> 1:03:04.520 They used to do all the sound systems for all 1:03:04.560 --> 1:03:08.240 the concerts around La. They used to do music people 1:03:10.040 --> 1:03:13.360 that was slipping them. Really music people were slipping them. 1:03:13.440 --> 1:03:16.440 So they used to provide all the sound systems all 1:03:16.520 --> 1:03:20.160 the DJ all the big La sound you know, they 1:03:20.320 --> 1:03:24.640 was La Sound Control mob, that's what's them. And they 1:03:24.760 --> 1:03:27.960 used to have his place on Guard in Gardena Nigga 1:03:28.000 --> 1:03:33.240 on van Ness by the old school Eminem's nigga uh 1:03:33.840 --> 1:03:37.560 and they used to have nothing but big ass Serwin Vegas. 1:03:37.760 --> 1:03:39.240 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been. 1:03:40.280 --> 1:03:42.600 Everybody used to go there to rent their equipment for 1:03:42.800 --> 1:03:44.200 parties and whatever. 1:03:44.520 --> 1:03:47.040 Where they got the base and Nigga, that's where we 1:03:47.600 --> 1:03:49.520 That's where I first met Slip. Nigga. 1:03:49.560 --> 1:03:52.840 I used to sleep up in that motherfucker because Nigga, 1:03:52.880 --> 1:03:55.160 we used to be in there, Slip out a little fucker. 1:03:55.840 --> 1:03:57.840 I don't know what it was, a full track or 1:03:57.880 --> 1:03:59.120 whatever they had in there. 1:03:59.400 --> 1:04:01.440 Nigga, we used to be in that motherfucker all night 1:04:01.480 --> 1:04:03.400 because his pops would not let us come to the 1:04:03.520 --> 1:04:05.880 crib and do that. So Nigga we'd be up there. 1:04:06.040 --> 1:04:09.880 Nigga just just broke starving. Slip had to beat up 1:04:10.000 --> 1:04:12.439 old ass Central Nigga with a seat. 1:04:12.560 --> 1:04:15.560 Nigga would just just move around the front seat, would 1:04:15.640 --> 1:04:17.160 just move around in that bitch. 1:04:17.240 --> 1:04:21.040 It wasn't nailed down, and motherfucker looked like a junk 1:04:21.120 --> 1:04:26.440 yard and papers and everything, and the homeboy time used 1:04:26.480 --> 1:04:29.040 to work at motherfucker I don't know what grocery store, 1:04:29.360 --> 1:04:32.040 but nigga. He used to work the night shift, and 1:04:32.120 --> 1:04:34.080 he used to tell us, Nigga, come up there, Nigga. 1:04:34.120 --> 1:04:36.200 We go up there with two dollars, Nigga, and we'd 1:04:36.240 --> 1:04:37.280 be willing our shit. 1:04:37.160 --> 1:04:43.840 On a pallette, so you'll have luird food and crab 1:04:44.040 --> 1:04:46.800 legs and everything. We go to the register. That nigga 1:04:46.840 --> 1:04:49.320 come to the register, act like he punched this ship. 1:04:49.600 --> 1:04:52.200 We had that nigga two dollars and he'd be like, 1:04:52.320 --> 1:04:55.040 all right, thank you, nigga. We going out with our shit. 1:04:54.920 --> 1:04:55.640 On the pallette. 1:04:55.680 --> 1:05:02.040 Nigga about a thousand dollars, was like some here, I 1:05:02.080 --> 1:05:04.520 don't know what the hell going on on? Boy Rock 1:05:04.600 --> 1:05:08.040 and tip Man Nigga, Nigga. We used to be starving artists. Nigga, 1:05:08.080 --> 1:05:11.400 what you mean, nigga? Nigga starving nigga. 1:05:11.560 --> 1:05:12.600 Fucking nigga. 1:05:12.640 --> 1:05:15.480 We got us some motherfucker thunder bird on the palette. 1:05:15.520 --> 1:05:18.280 Niggas want the big ass eat forty jugs. 1:05:18.320 --> 1:05:21.800 The motherfucking why this ship some of that wild turkey? 1:05:22.160 --> 1:05:26.400 Nigga. We was cracking young nigga starving man. 1:05:27.280 --> 1:05:31.120 So when Easy died, man, how that hits you? Because 1:05:31.800 --> 1:05:34.280 I remember, you know, when Magic Johnson announced that he 1:05:34.360 --> 1:05:38.120 had I think when Easy enounced, when the whole thing 1:05:38.200 --> 1:05:41.800 happened Easy, I think that really hit the black community. 1:05:42.680 --> 1:05:46.440 That hit everybody, neighborhood, Magic, you know, the Magic is 1:05:46.480 --> 1:05:47.640 out of touch black. 1:05:49.520 --> 1:05:52.400 When it happened to Magic, I think it hit the 1:05:53.680 --> 1:05:57.320 black community. But when it happened the Easy nigga hit 1:05:57.400 --> 1:05:58.600 the hood people like. 1:05:59.040 --> 1:06:00.600 People is going to get Yeah. 1:06:02.800 --> 1:06:06.439 That age because you don't never think about no ship 1:06:06.560 --> 1:06:06.720 like that. 1:06:07.080 --> 1:06:08.160 You was like, I was like this. 1:06:08.320 --> 1:06:10.600 I was at football practice. I was playing college football 1:06:10.600 --> 1:06:13.400 at the time, and I was like, damn, he said, 1:06:13.880 --> 1:06:16.919 got ads, and I'm gonna tell you what it did. 1:06:17.040 --> 1:06:20.720 Do That Monday, a whole bunch of dudes went up 1:06:20.760 --> 1:06:22.400 to the office and take a test. And you know, 1:06:22.560 --> 1:06:25.240 now you get your results right, you know, you know 1:06:25.280 --> 1:06:28.680 a few minutes later, you know what I'm saying, they 1:06:28.800 --> 1:06:32.160 let your asks no quick right back then you be 1:06:32.280 --> 1:06:35.479 waiting around some days and I swear you think every 1:06:35.560 --> 1:06:38.240 slimy motherfucker, we think. 1:06:38.160 --> 1:06:41.960 You don't motherfucker across you have that thoughts in your head, 1:06:42.080 --> 1:06:48.320 like man, Yeah, that's mother because I heard it. 1:06:51.080 --> 1:06:54.880 Yeah, dog, motherfucker. I'll be sitting been front every and 1:06:55.040 --> 1:06:57.360 you aching because you thinking about some ship. You don't 1:06:57.400 --> 1:06:58.600 did it seven eight years ago? 1:06:59.360 --> 1:07:01.440 He was like him, he was stack and see your 1:07:01.520 --> 1:07:05.280 ass right there, just started around patient, pulling on that 1:07:05.400 --> 1:07:06.360 motherfucking beard. 1:07:06.560 --> 1:07:09.800 My god, damn one of my homeboys. I had a homeboy, right. 1:07:09.880 --> 1:07:11.680 We wanted to go, you know, take our little tests 1:07:11.680 --> 1:07:14.440 and ship and I wouldn't really worried worried like that, 1:07:14.680 --> 1:07:18.080 but he just did some ship like a week before 1:07:18.280 --> 1:07:20.120 that he wasn't supposed to be doing. And he was 1:07:20.200 --> 1:07:21.800 in the bed. Man crawled up. 1:07:24.040 --> 1:07:26.560 I think they got me. They just said, I think 1:07:26.640 --> 1:07:28.600 they got and then they never called. 1:07:28.440 --> 1:07:31.240 Right, you know, we didn't hear nothing. So I was 1:07:31.360 --> 1:07:33.200 like this, I didn't hear them. I was like, fuck it, 1:07:33.240 --> 1:07:34.960 I'm cool. I ain't called me. I mean, that must 1:07:35.000 --> 1:07:39.640 be straight. My homeboy went up there, man, and he 1:07:39.800 --> 1:07:41.440 was just like I was wondering at and called me 1:07:41.480 --> 1:07:43.400 and said, but if we didn't call you good, you 1:07:43.440 --> 1:07:44.000 know what I mean. 1:07:44.680 --> 1:07:47.960 How would you know them if they don't call you? Yeah, 1:07:48.480 --> 1:07:49.960 wait a week though you waited. 1:07:52.520 --> 1:07:54.280 If you missed the call, exactly. 1:07:54.400 --> 1:07:56.720 This is back in the day. There's no he was like, 1:07:56.840 --> 1:08:00.520 this't I was young? Back to ship he called me. 1:08:00.640 --> 1:08:04.240 I'm good, I'd have been knocking on the door. 1:08:06.600 --> 1:08:07.920 Did that miss you up any. 1:08:11.160 --> 1:08:15.160 For well, the whole situation did, because I found out 1:08:15.200 --> 1:08:19.560 from the streets first, So rumors was going, I'm like 1:08:20.439 --> 1:08:23.680 what they talk about because originally how I got out 1:08:23.760 --> 1:08:27.360 as a nurse or somebody ran her mouth outside the. 1:08:27.400 --> 1:08:33.800 Hospital and it spread like or the news even did it. 1:08:34.600 --> 1:08:35.719 It was already in the streets. 1:08:35.960 --> 1:08:38.679 She could have got sued for that. Was it big? 1:08:38.720 --> 1:08:42.360 Because I remember in the East Coast it was big 1:08:42.560 --> 1:08:44.840 that they sat big that he came had ages. 1:08:44.920 --> 1:08:46.720 Did y'all ever hear that? I ain't never heard. 1:08:47.040 --> 1:08:49.759 I think I heard that I was big in Maryland. 1:08:50.000 --> 1:08:54.479 I heard we were all like, that's just or was 1:08:54.560 --> 1:08:55.000 it really? 1:08:55.360 --> 1:08:58.439 That was before Easy, which made it all the crazier 1:08:58.520 --> 1:08:59.920 one about Easy. 1:09:00.000 --> 1:09:03.960 I mean when I finally I think it didn't hit 1:09:04.040 --> 1:09:08.560 me until I went up to the hospital. I know 1:09:08.800 --> 1:09:13.920 Dre had came maybe an hour before me, And when 1:09:13.960 --> 1:09:17.360 I came, nobody told me he was in a coma. 1:09:17.920 --> 1:09:20.080 You know, they put him in a coma, and I'm 1:09:20.160 --> 1:09:22.400 just talking and doing all kinds of stuff. 1:09:23.960 --> 1:09:24.400 I get out. 1:09:26.080 --> 1:09:29.040 Oh, oh, we forgot to tell you an induced coma. 1:09:30.080 --> 1:09:32.880 You tell me that before I come in here. He's 1:09:32.960 --> 1:09:36.040 some prayer, you know, What's so crazy? When I was 1:09:36.120 --> 1:09:38.759 talking to him, he moved his hand. Yeah he probably 1:09:38.800 --> 1:09:41.680 can hear you, bro, Yeah he can. He moved his 1:09:41.880 --> 1:09:43.520 hand because. 1:09:43.280 --> 1:09:45.960 You know you ever notice how sometimes when you at home, 1:09:46.000 --> 1:09:49.080 you fall asleep with the TV on, and you'll be dreaming, 1:09:49.600 --> 1:09:51.920 and you might dream about chasing some motherfuckers and some 1:09:52.000 --> 1:09:54.200 mother fuckers chasing you, and you wake up and you 1:09:54.320 --> 1:09:56.600 look on TV as the same exact shit going on. 1:09:57.320 --> 1:09:59.720 That's never happened to me still, but yeah, but that 1:10:00.360 --> 1:10:00.800 to me before. 1:10:02.280 --> 1:10:05.160 My brain is always on high alert. Whatever that weed. 1:10:09.840 --> 1:10:13.920 But he probably knew you was, you know, not I 1:10:14.040 --> 1:10:15.479 knew you in the room, but he probably filed. 1:10:16.840 --> 1:10:19.640 I think he knew because I said something and he 1:10:20.200 --> 1:10:23.280 squeezed your hand a little bit, moved his fingers because 1:10:23.320 --> 1:10:26.320 he ain't. You can't move once you're in that coma, 1:10:27.120 --> 1:10:31.360 because after the surgery they put him in that, you know, 1:10:31.560 --> 1:10:32.920 because I think he was trying to pull off the 1:10:33.000 --> 1:10:35.439 tube or whatever, the breathing machine. 1:10:35.479 --> 1:10:38.400 But yeah, he definitely moved his hand. That kind of. 1:10:39.920 --> 1:10:43.559 It kind of triggered me because once the funeral came, 1:10:43.640 --> 1:10:47.320 which maybe three weeks later or something, and once I 1:10:47.479 --> 1:10:48.960 seen them pound the dirt. 1:10:49.600 --> 1:10:51.680 I have never seen nothing like that before. I mean 1:10:51.720 --> 1:10:53.920 they put him in the ground, put the dirt, got. 1:10:53.840 --> 1:10:58.160 The bulldozer and all this, and everybody left and I 1:10:58.280 --> 1:11:00.840 was just there, like three or four people, and I thought, 1:11:00.840 --> 1:11:03.519 I said, you know something, this is it for me. 1:11:04.280 --> 1:11:10.280 That's it. Music was over till this day. I just 1:11:10.439 --> 1:11:14.320 told Dre this a few months ago, and a few 1:11:14.360 --> 1:11:18.200 months before that. I'm good. I don't want to do 1:11:18.280 --> 1:11:21.200 with music. I ain't thinking about music. It's no big thing. 1:11:22.280 --> 1:11:25.800 I had it. It was fun, it's gone. It's just 1:11:26.320 --> 1:11:29.800 out of me, completely out of me. And I think 1:11:29.960 --> 1:11:33.240 that day it wasn't no. Oh should I know. I 1:11:33.360 --> 1:11:36.560 just like, I'm done with music, was done. Yeah, I 1:11:36.680 --> 1:11:39.120 jumped into my next venture. But I. 1:11:41.360 --> 1:11:42.599 Want to ask you about that too. 1:11:42.720 --> 1:11:42.920 Man. 1:11:43.960 --> 1:11:48.000 Were you satisfied at that point with with where music 1:11:48.120 --> 1:11:52.120 took you from from nothing to the beginnings with lines 1:11:52.600 --> 1:11:53.160 and that? 1:11:53.560 --> 1:11:56.639 Oh? Yeah, I mean I think that's what it was like. Okay, 1:11:56.680 --> 1:12:01.240 I'm good. I mean, ain't no big thing. Cause see 1:12:03.120 --> 1:12:06.240 much as me and Dre was together doing stuff, he 1:12:06.520 --> 1:12:10.720 wanted it more than I did. You give me this 1:12:11.120 --> 1:12:13.720 one hundred dollars. I'm good, I'm satisfied. 1:12:15.200 --> 1:12:19.840 I never wanted that rich in all this old Yeah, 1:12:19.840 --> 1:12:24.360 I like spending money, but never that was no big 1:12:24.479 --> 1:12:24.920 thing to me. 1:12:25.080 --> 1:12:29.840 Money was never a big thing the women. Ye think 1:12:29.920 --> 1:12:32.720 some of us be settled with the path we get. 1:12:33.320 --> 1:12:36.920 You know, there's a lot of motherfuckers who get to that, 1:12:37.920 --> 1:12:40.360 and then it's some of us who get here. And 1:12:40.680 --> 1:12:43.720 like I tell niggas all the time, I'm cool with 1:12:43.840 --> 1:12:47.560 where I'm at. Like, you know, I never longed to 1:12:47.760 --> 1:12:52.680 be in another nigga's shoes or position, whether it was 1:12:52.880 --> 1:12:55.200 you know, or nigga got a billion dollars or a 1:12:55.280 --> 1:12:59.680 nigga got a private jet or niggas. You know, at 1:12:59.720 --> 1:13:03.559 this point, I'm like, I'm good. Yeah, I mean, never 1:13:03.680 --> 1:13:08.800 made another song again. I was content with I did 1:13:08.880 --> 1:13:09.400 it now. 1:13:10.640 --> 1:13:13.400 We happened to be in the golden era. That was 1:13:13.560 --> 1:13:15.519 the best MUTI say. 1:13:16.040 --> 1:13:19.080 You know, you think about this room right now, seem 1:13:19.200 --> 1:13:23.000 debut definitely a legendary group, you know, n W a 1:13:23.280 --> 1:13:26.080 legendary group. Man So and y'all were in the era 1:13:26.280 --> 1:13:29.360 to where it was. It was harder than it is 1:13:29.439 --> 1:13:31.640 now because back then you had to be original. 1:13:32.880 --> 1:13:36.000 Nobody been off each other. Nobody, I don't care if 1:13:36.000 --> 1:13:39.360 it was you put on the song. Everybody know who 1:13:39.520 --> 1:13:40.880 that song is exactly. 1:13:42.720 --> 1:13:46.240 Everybody was original and it was way less people, right, 1:13:47.400 --> 1:13:49.160 So you stood out a lot more. You know what 1:13:49.160 --> 1:13:50.599 I'm saying. You stuck out. You couldn't hide. 1:13:50.640 --> 1:13:55.080 Now it was more fans artists. 1:13:55.320 --> 1:13:59.799 Now it's more artists than fans. Everybody's an artist. Everybody 1:13:59.840 --> 1:14:03.680 got a video, A fan is an artist. So you 1:14:03.840 --> 1:14:06.320 never thought about I could fan. You go home and 1:14:06.439 --> 1:14:09.640 they got to set up and they live from getting. 1:14:09.400 --> 1:14:10.000 My ship off. 1:14:10.080 --> 1:14:11.679 So you never thought about signing the group. 1:14:12.880 --> 1:14:13.080 Nah. 1:14:14.080 --> 1:14:17.960 Once on that funeral date, that was it. I don't 1:14:18.000 --> 1:14:22.559 want to do nothing with music. But then a company 1:14:22.640 --> 1:14:26.599 came to me a year later to do an album. 1:14:27.280 --> 1:14:29.400 I'm not a rapper, I'm gonna do an album, so 1:14:29.560 --> 1:14:31.760 I just you're gonna give me how much? 1:14:32.080 --> 1:14:36.760 Yeah, okay, I'm a rapper, people wrapping. 1:14:36.800 --> 1:14:39.200 People rapping. I'm gonna do the beats and nigga. 1:14:39.360 --> 1:14:41.839 That this is for the e with Coach. 1:14:44.400 --> 1:14:45.200 And that was just it. 1:14:45.439 --> 1:14:47.160 That was just something good. They didn't know what they 1:14:47.200 --> 1:14:51.600 were doing. They wanted to advertise. You put it on 1:14:51.720 --> 1:14:53.719 the outside of the bus. They put it on the inside, 1:14:53.720 --> 1:14:57.200 the on the inside buying records. I had that argument 1:14:57.240 --> 1:14:57.920 and that was the last. 1:14:57.720 --> 1:14:59.920 Time I talked to him. What did y'all do? 1:15:01.000 --> 1:15:05.160 That was Scotti Brothers, Yeah, stupid Scotty Brothers was around 1:15:05.280 --> 1:15:06.280 for a couple of records. 1:15:06.360 --> 1:15:07.320 Yeah, they had something. 1:15:07.520 --> 1:15:10.880 Uh they had a ic and Smooth and Greg Mac, 1:15:11.160 --> 1:15:11.720 Craig Mac. 1:15:13.280 --> 1:15:16.439 They had zoom Zoom. They had that record over there. 1:15:17.120 --> 1:15:18.880 I don't zoom zoom zoom. 1:15:19.280 --> 1:15:21.080 I remember the Craig Mac record. 1:15:21.840 --> 1:15:22.840 What else did they have? 1:15:23.520 --> 1:15:26.800 They had nice and Smooth, Craig Mac Yellow and. 1:15:28.280 --> 1:15:32.320 I think it was too won a Grammy his first 1:15:32.360 --> 1:15:32.840 record out. 1:15:33.720 --> 1:15:35.240 Yeah, I think that's what it was. 1:15:36.880 --> 1:15:37.080 Yeah. 1:15:37.160 --> 1:15:40.600 So you don't have no regrets from n w A. No, No, 1:15:40.800 --> 1:15:43.000 I don't think you have to. Man, your legacy is 1:15:43.040 --> 1:15:44.120 definitely see you. 1:15:44.720 --> 1:15:46.880 I mean, you know, it's so crazy. 1:15:48.120 --> 1:15:52.479 Here we are, thirty years later, we're still talking about 1:15:52.520 --> 1:15:54.000 this Compton hip hop stuff. 1:15:55.360 --> 1:16:00.800 It's it's like we was in that right time. There 1:16:00.840 --> 1:16:06.280 can't nobody replaced. It was the perfect time. New very 1:16:06.360 --> 1:16:06.960 few groups. 1:16:07.000 --> 1:16:09.679 It was from the West. Matter of fact, from the West. 1:16:09.720 --> 1:16:13.559 It was over us too and too short. It wasn't 1:16:13.800 --> 1:16:15.439 who else had an album. Nobody else. 1:16:16.840 --> 1:16:17.759 Didn't make an album. 1:16:20.040 --> 1:16:24.720 Is from both coasts, Yeah came, but. 1:16:25.080 --> 1:16:28.759 Yeah, y'all, we y'all had the album. We had an album. 1:16:28.880 --> 1:16:31.160 I would say iced t is definitely West Coast who. 1:16:31.080 --> 1:16:35.439 Short had an album, but that up north is different from. 1:16:35.720 --> 1:16:37.160 Yeah, Southern California. 1:16:37.720 --> 1:16:42.320 When y'all first clicked out, a lot of niggas didn't 1:16:42.320 --> 1:16:42.960 have albums. 1:16:43.000 --> 1:16:46.960 They had twelve inches. A lot of niggas had twelve inches. 1:16:46.720 --> 1:16:49.560 Because in the record crew day we was and that 1:16:49.720 --> 1:16:51.360 era was the only one that did an album. 1:16:51.560 --> 1:16:52.879 Yeah, yeah, definitely. 1:16:52.960 --> 1:16:54.680 The albums was definitely. 1:16:54.479 --> 1:16:59.200 Because rap albums really didn't start happening on a major 1:16:59.320 --> 1:17:03.080 level or a lot of artists really till eighty seven. 1:17:03.240 --> 1:17:06.680 And then eighty eight was the explosion. Eighty seven had 1:17:06.720 --> 1:17:10.040 to been run m maybe no no running the way 1:17:10.040 --> 1:17:12.960 before that Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, eighty seven there started. 1:17:12.720 --> 1:17:14.760 Being a lot more album a lot of more and 1:17:14.880 --> 1:17:18.720 Ron Page because I remember it. We just it was 1:17:18.840 --> 1:17:20.720 just a game of twelve inch Yeah, it was just 1:17:21.240 --> 1:17:22.639 we niggas didn't do albums. 1:17:22.680 --> 1:17:25.519 They did single deals and then had singles. 1:17:25.720 --> 1:17:28.439 You got a mingle deal and you maybe put three 1:17:28.600 --> 1:17:29.759 songs on the single. 1:17:30.040 --> 1:17:32.200 That's what you had to really be moving something to 1:17:32.240 --> 1:17:34.600 get an album before that, Like the Fat Boys got 1:17:34.680 --> 1:17:36.160 an album, und got. 1:17:36.200 --> 1:17:38.759 Out, but we got an album. 1:17:39.200 --> 1:17:40.240 They were used groups. 1:17:40.800 --> 1:17:42.799 Yeah, there were very few rap albums. 1:17:43.520 --> 1:17:45.880 Oh yeah, Utfo had the album. 1:17:45.760 --> 1:17:49.920 CFODDI damned the crossed Over though, man, because everybody liked Whodini. 1:17:50.640 --> 1:17:53.160 They only had the one album they made that other one, 1:17:53.240 --> 1:17:55.160 but the first one was the best they had hit 1:17:55.320 --> 1:17:55.479 to me. 1:17:55.680 --> 1:17:57.080 That was they had several. 1:17:57.320 --> 1:18:01.040 They had the fucking uh had there five minutes of funk? 1:18:01.080 --> 1:18:03.960 Oh, that was on the same friends. Five minutes Yeah, 1:18:04.000 --> 1:18:06.720 that one I'm a whole had on and. 1:18:06.920 --> 1:18:09.800 He came back with the motherfucking back in black or 1:18:09.880 --> 1:18:11.800 something with the funky beat. 1:18:12.160 --> 1:18:15.439 Yeah, that one was old. Was one love on that 1:18:15.560 --> 1:18:16.240 that one loved? 1:18:17.040 --> 1:18:17.200 Yeah? 1:18:17.240 --> 1:18:21.479 Yeah, I like one of them, motherfucker I liked them. 1:18:21.560 --> 1:18:25.120 They was they were the first group. Yeah, I bumped 1:18:25.120 --> 1:18:28.000 Holdini to this day. So five minutes of funk oh, Yeah, 1:18:28.200 --> 1:18:30.200 they for sure gave you that R and B flavor. 1:18:31.280 --> 1:18:32.519 They for sure gave you that R and. 1:18:32.560 --> 1:18:37.519 B stories, that melody, they had original unlike most of the. 1:18:37.600 --> 1:18:39.639 Rap, the big mouth and everything. 1:18:40.800 --> 1:18:44.160 That's where that's where all the homies used to uh 1:18:45.280 --> 1:18:48.160 nigga Todd them had ganger cuts off of their off 1:18:48.200 --> 1:18:52.760 of their instrumentals and ship nigga freaks come out at night, 1:18:52.920 --> 1:18:56.040 the clucks come out at night. Man, Todd them used 1:18:56.040 --> 1:18:57.479 to be spitting on all that. 1:18:57.680 --> 1:19:00.880 Ship Man because those shout out to Larry Smith, one 1:19:00.920 --> 1:19:02.760 of the best producers that doesn't get a lot of 1:19:02.800 --> 1:19:05.040 shout outs in the game. Man, Yeah, he was the 1:19:05.120 --> 1:19:06.919 ship down a lot of great material. 1:19:07.240 --> 1:19:11.320 So y'all doing the type of material that y'all did 1:19:11.400 --> 1:19:13.320 back in the day. Man with the one moment that 1:19:13.439 --> 1:19:15.519 you remember, Man, where you thought, Man, they're about to 1:19:15.560 --> 1:19:18.240 throw us in jail, Man, were about to get in trouble. 1:19:18.800 --> 1:19:21.080 It had to be when we got the letter from 1:19:21.120 --> 1:19:24.759 the FBI. I'm like, Oh, you don't play with the FBI. 1:19:24.920 --> 1:19:28.680 You could play with the cops them suits. Nah, you 1:19:28.720 --> 1:19:30.640 don't play with them. I'm like, oh, they finish. Do 1:19:30.680 --> 1:19:31.640 you think they do? 1:19:31.720 --> 1:19:34.320 You think they was following you all y'all in the surveillance. 1:19:35.720 --> 1:19:41.160 I don't know, but it's like, Man, the FBI, I'm like, 1:19:41.680 --> 1:19:44.800 what the and it's so crazy. They sent us a 1:19:44.920 --> 1:19:49.120 letter and then another agency sent them a letter. You 1:19:49.200 --> 1:19:52.240 know that you can't be sending that to us. But 1:19:52.400 --> 1:19:57.760 that was beside MTV banning us the straight out of 1:19:57.800 --> 1:19:59.800 compt and we spent all that money to make the 1:20:00.040 --> 1:20:02.439 video they banded in that letter. 1:20:03.720 --> 1:20:04.519 Totally different group. 1:20:04.600 --> 1:20:05.840 That was your publicity right there. 1:20:05.880 --> 1:20:10.879 Yeah, free advertised, free advertisement, like a mother video nowhere. 1:20:11.040 --> 1:20:13.439 We would be at the crib just waiting to see 1:20:13.520 --> 1:20:16.679 that ship. Contay. I saw it like three times. 1:20:16.760 --> 1:20:18.559 Yeah, they would not show that video. 1:20:18.920 --> 1:20:19.479 They played it. 1:20:19.600 --> 1:20:24.639 I saw it like once or twice, and you could 1:20:24.720 --> 1:20:25.280 not see it. 1:20:25.439 --> 1:20:25.599 Man. 1:20:25.720 --> 1:20:29.400 I made my whole schedule around watching you on t reps. 1:20:29.600 --> 1:20:32.519 I saw it one time, really, and that was it. 1:20:32.680 --> 1:20:33.479 I saw one time. 1:20:34.400 --> 1:20:36.720 I think we spent maybe I don't think it was 1:20:36.760 --> 1:20:38.840 one hundred, but it was back then. 1:20:39.560 --> 1:20:41.200 Back then, it was ridiculous. 1:20:41.360 --> 1:20:41.519 Man. 1:20:41.920 --> 1:20:43.880 It was a little different time, man, tape. I'm gonna 1:20:43.880 --> 1:20:46.600 tell you, Oh yeah, this digital area. Man, look at 1:20:46.640 --> 1:20:47.519 this ship right here. Man. 1:20:47.600 --> 1:20:52.120 You know, you know it's just they got it easy. 1:20:52.200 --> 1:20:52.320 Now. 1:20:52.800 --> 1:20:54.080 That's why so many artists. 1:20:54.520 --> 1:20:55.280 That's what I'm saying. 1:20:55.360 --> 1:20:57.800 It's too easy, man, because back then, like I said, 1:20:57.880 --> 1:20:59.040 you had to go through some stuff. 1:20:59.040 --> 1:21:02.920 You had to, because think about it, eight people with 1:21:03.080 --> 1:21:05.800 demos and all that no talent, they didn't that was it. 1:21:06.120 --> 1:21:07.160 You didn't get past. 1:21:07.000 --> 1:21:10.720 Nothing, man, nothing You wouldn't get off a nigga death. 1:21:10.840 --> 1:21:13.479 Nowadays, the people with no talent is making all the records, 1:21:14.439 --> 1:21:15.599 I mean just anything. 1:21:15.800 --> 1:21:21.200 There's no there's no community policing in this shit. That 1:21:21.280 --> 1:21:22.160 still mean like. 1:21:23.760 --> 1:21:26.960 It's it's it's so accessible for a motherfucker to go. 1:21:27.160 --> 1:21:29.800 You know, I don't need somebody to tell me that 1:21:30.040 --> 1:21:34.000 my shit is good or not good. I don't buy 1:21:34.080 --> 1:21:36.960 me a program and a microphone and I don't give 1:21:37.040 --> 1:21:39.320 fuck and I'm gonna make my own lane for it 1:21:39.840 --> 1:21:40.639 to each his own. 1:21:40.840 --> 1:21:43.479 But like I said, we have no. 1:21:44.960 --> 1:21:47.080 I felt like back in the days of me coming 1:21:47.160 --> 1:21:50.240 up and rapping, motherfuckers had to give you that approval. 1:21:51.040 --> 1:21:53.760 You didn't get that approval for motherfuckers, you didn't make 1:21:53.800 --> 1:21:56.120 a record. You get me, and that was just it. 1:21:56.560 --> 1:21:59.120 From the time you put out a twelve inch to 1:21:59.280 --> 1:22:02.560 you trying to get the record deal. If if you 1:22:02.680 --> 1:22:05.519 didn't get that stamp of approval from the community and 1:22:05.920 --> 1:22:09.760 from other artists, you didn't make records. You didn't make 1:22:09.800 --> 1:22:13.040 a record. So you know, on a gang of niggas 1:22:13.040 --> 1:22:16.000 who got in the studio back then and tried to 1:22:16.080 --> 1:22:19.719 put together a little tape or whatever, and man, please, 1:22:19.960 --> 1:22:22.840 niggas is still trying to this day. It just didn't 1:22:22.840 --> 1:22:27.719 happen for him. Ain't crazy a than motherfucker real ship? 1:22:28.120 --> 1:22:31.839 I mean, nigga, youig it was then. Motherfuckers wasn't signing 1:22:32.000 --> 1:22:35.879 deals back then. You had to really have something special 1:22:35.960 --> 1:22:38.840 about your ship to be able to get a record 1:22:38.920 --> 1:22:39.680 deal back then. 1:22:39.920 --> 1:22:41.920 And then it went to a time now, it got 1:22:41.960 --> 1:22:43.680 to a time almost for a minute, to where you 1:22:43.800 --> 1:22:48.080 almost had to release the album and get it going 1:22:48.360 --> 1:22:50.840 and then you would get picked up. Remember that like 1:22:50.920 --> 1:22:52.280 that like in the mid two thousands. 1:22:52.520 --> 1:22:55.120 Yeah, one name we forgot what a lot of albums though, 1:22:55.200 --> 1:22:56.080 was Curtis blow Too. 1:22:56.600 --> 1:23:01.280 Curtis was poppingis. Did he make an album made Curtis 1:23:01.320 --> 1:23:01.680 blow Out? 1:23:01.680 --> 1:23:04.200 I did not know that he had lots about a 1:23:04.479 --> 1:23:08.160 J scratch and bash that was all that ship. But 1:23:08.240 --> 1:23:13.360 that was single of Curtis, the breaks and all that ship. Yeah, 1:23:13.400 --> 1:23:14.200 he had an album. 1:23:15.760 --> 1:23:18.400 The hits was on singles. 1:23:18.840 --> 1:23:21.680 Yeah, the all the hits was the singles back here 1:23:21.760 --> 1:23:26.240 for Me back in the days everybody released singles. 1:23:26.120 --> 1:23:29.000 That was big, that was had twelve inches. 1:23:29.200 --> 1:23:32.320 Yeah, twelve inches was big because then you could take 1:23:32.360 --> 1:23:35.040 the B side and think that the record wasn't gonna 1:23:35.040 --> 1:23:37.400 be the ship on the B side. Put a record 1:23:37.439 --> 1:23:40.080 on the B side and that motherfucker blow up. So 1:23:40.640 --> 1:23:43.080 that's how we a lot of artists got off and 1:23:43.160 --> 1:23:46.799 got their recognition just by putting on the man. 1:23:47.160 --> 1:23:51.320 That's crazy Yellow. I don't know if you notice or not, Man, 1:23:51.479 --> 1:23:54.479 but have you ever sat back and thought about, man, 1:23:54.560 --> 1:23:57.519 that Snoop was almost on ruthless record, Snoop and Warrings? 1:23:58.920 --> 1:23:59.200 Really? 1:23:59.400 --> 1:24:00.400 I mean you know that. 1:24:00.720 --> 1:24:01.439 I didn't even know that. 1:24:02.320 --> 1:24:04.840 Cocaine told me that last week because they was messing. 1:24:04.600 --> 1:24:05.320 With above the law. 1:24:05.400 --> 1:24:07.960 First, Oh, I didn't know they was above the law. 1:24:08.360 --> 1:24:09.960 Warren used to come to the studio. 1:24:11.800 --> 1:24:13.880 You know, Warren, have his glasses, have a piece of 1:24:14.000 --> 1:24:17.439 tape right here, because there was broke and Dre used 1:24:17.439 --> 1:24:17.960 to leave him. 1:24:18.680 --> 1:24:21.880 I had to take him all all the time. He 1:24:21.920 --> 1:24:24.040 would tell me, you got you got up here, you 1:24:24.120 --> 1:24:27.519 gotta find your way home. You're gone all right, Warren? 1:24:27.640 --> 1:24:29.400 Come on, let me take you over there off of 1:24:30.760 --> 1:24:34.519 what was the street. It wasn't Atlantic Orange. 1:24:35.560 --> 1:24:37.439 I think it was Orange somewhere. 1:24:37.560 --> 1:24:41.160 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I used to tell you home all. 1:24:41.080 --> 1:24:43.240 The time and that's crazy minute the trip you out 1:24:43.280 --> 1:24:44.240 when you saw him blow up. 1:24:44.680 --> 1:24:49.479 Oh yeah, I'm like that's Warren. I'm like, Wow, Warren. 1:24:49.360 --> 1:24:50.639 Had a big ass record though. 1:24:50.880 --> 1:24:52.559 Oh yeah, yeah, the biggest ever. 1:24:53.000 --> 1:24:56.760 Yeah, one of the biggest ever regulated regulate was big. 1:24:56.840 --> 1:24:58.680 And I think didn't do that record for him. 1:25:00.200 --> 1:25:01.120 That's what I heard. I heard. 1:25:01.280 --> 1:25:02.439 I heard that I've never heard. 1:25:02.600 --> 1:25:03.479 Yeah, that's what I heard. 1:25:03.560 --> 1:25:03.880 I don't know. 1:25:03.920 --> 1:25:05.080 I got to confirm that. Man. 1:25:05.200 --> 1:25:07.519 Yeah, I don't think so. Sounded like Dre. 1:25:08.680 --> 1:25:10.000 Somebody said he gave it to him. 1:25:10.600 --> 1:25:13.720 Oh now that I don't know. But I heard one 1:25:14.080 --> 1:25:17.200 last night on something. He was saying, you know, he 1:25:17.360 --> 1:25:19.760 just heard heard the song and then sampled it. 1:25:19.840 --> 1:25:22.120 And yeah, he might have did that. Drake might have 1:25:22.120 --> 1:25:23.400 helped him with it, that's what it may be. 1:25:23.680 --> 1:25:26.040 Might have shown him how to do it or something. 1:25:26.080 --> 1:25:28.640 I don't know, you know, none of that. 1:25:28.760 --> 1:25:30.920 Warren't definitely had to go get his own way though. Man, 1:25:31.120 --> 1:25:32.880 it don't seem like he got no push or nothing. 1:25:33.840 --> 1:25:34.000 Mm. 1:25:34.640 --> 1:25:36.879 He definitely did his ship Warren at his time. 1:25:36.880 --> 1:25:39.720 Remember he wasn't even signed of death throw you all 1:25:39.760 --> 1:25:40.200 you need to know. 1:25:41.160 --> 1:25:44.760 He was getting slept on. Man, what's what's your biggest memory, man? 1:25:44.880 --> 1:25:46.800 Of all the stuff that you've done in your icon 1:25:46.880 --> 1:25:48.840 of career. Man, Like, what's your biggest memory? 1:25:51.720 --> 1:25:56.200 It's so much. I mean, I like the eighty ninth 1:25:56.280 --> 1:26:00.599 tour because that tour was everybody was nervous. 1:26:00.680 --> 1:26:03.599 It was gonna be fights, and there wasn't one fight 1:26:04.360 --> 1:26:08.400 besides the Detroit play PD running us off the stage 1:26:08.479 --> 1:26:08.880 and stuff. 1:26:09.000 --> 1:26:12.640 But I think that was one. Well I look at it, 1:26:12.920 --> 1:26:14.960 that was one of the biggest because it was forty shows. 1:26:16.479 --> 1:26:22.040 That was forty points for me. Come on, hey, you 1:26:22.120 --> 1:26:22.800 know how we did. 1:26:24.640 --> 1:26:25.639 Your point system? 1:26:27.640 --> 1:26:28.400 Man? That was fun. 1:26:28.479 --> 1:26:31.600 Now, the tour was fun. But you know something just 1:26:32.600 --> 1:26:36.519 being in the music game, being ahead an eight or no. 1:26:36.800 --> 1:26:40.160 We were just ahead of everybody, but we didn't know it. 1:26:41.160 --> 1:26:44.639 I mean, our music stand to this time. It ain't 1:26:44.680 --> 1:26:46.320 when you put on all I don't care if you 1:26:46.360 --> 1:26:49.840 put on now us. It don't sound old like ooh 1:26:49.960 --> 1:26:50.559 that old. 1:26:54.640 --> 1:26:56.519 Examin like a muffuger. I was just playing some n 1:26:56.640 --> 1:27:00.800 W eight earlier today, as you should. Niggas for life, 1:27:00.800 --> 1:27:03.160 the niggas for life album definitely, which. 1:27:03.200 --> 1:27:06.639 Was the better produced album, better sounding album. 1:27:07.320 --> 1:27:10.040 I do think it's an amazing album, dres ever done. 1:27:10.120 --> 1:27:15.040 That's the best production wise, really yeah, I really do. 1:27:15.640 --> 1:27:17.000 That's a flawless sleeper. 1:27:17.120 --> 1:27:22.360 You even put that over the chronic Absolutely, yes, yes, 1:27:24.320 --> 1:27:26.800 I can't say I don't disagree with you. I was 1:27:26.920 --> 1:27:29.479 arguing with Glasses Malone shot the glasses about that and 1:27:29.560 --> 1:27:30.120 we talked. 1:27:29.960 --> 1:27:34.200 Called it's a one hundred better than stra outa Compton 1:27:34.840 --> 1:27:35.719 straight out of comptent? 1:27:35.960 --> 1:27:40.680 Was just the original? Are the top original stuff? Your 1:27:40.680 --> 1:27:42.920 originals really hard? 1:27:43.760 --> 1:27:46.200 Yeah, that was the one that makes y'all are stable. Well, 1:27:46.240 --> 1:27:49.320 you know what, you had the compilation before that. 1:27:51.000 --> 1:27:52.840 But that's not really an album that was. 1:27:53.160 --> 1:27:55.479 That's not an album, no, you know what it is. 1:27:55.680 --> 1:27:59.000 That came out because Priority was waiting on us to 1:27:59.080 --> 1:28:02.599 come back when another album. So they got a hold 1:28:02.680 --> 1:28:06.160 of them old masters and put it together and made ends. 1:28:06.560 --> 1:28:11.840 It went gold. Ain't mad, but that was. And I 1:28:11.960 --> 1:28:13.559 was talking to the people at the Rock and Roll 1:28:14.080 --> 1:28:16.960 I said, you know, we only made two albums. They 1:28:17.040 --> 1:28:17.680 looked at me like. 1:28:19.200 --> 1:28:23.280 We made two albums in an EP that's it. People 1:28:23.360 --> 1:28:24.799 think we made a whole bunch. 1:28:24.560 --> 1:28:26.760 Of albums, Well, it was that impactful. You didn't have 1:28:26.840 --> 1:28:29.280 to make a whole bunch of it was just that impactful. 1:28:30.320 --> 1:28:32.920 Yeah, it was just at that critical time for a 1:28:33.040 --> 1:28:35.120 lot of people who were coming. 1:28:34.880 --> 1:28:41.639 Of age in that era of you know, gangs being 1:28:41.800 --> 1:28:43.000 recognized and. 1:28:44.479 --> 1:28:46.519 Uh, you know, like I said, a lot of shit 1:28:46.680 --> 1:28:50.760 was focused on the East Coast, you know, warrior movies, and. 1:28:50.880 --> 1:28:52.799 Oh yeah, it was a difference. 1:28:53.000 --> 1:28:57.360 It wasn't a lot being being shown and represented as 1:28:57.400 --> 1:29:01.920 far as California was concerned. So for us to be 1:29:02.200 --> 1:29:04.920 able to come out at that time, like I said, 1:29:05.040 --> 1:29:09.479 and follow movies like Colors and shit like that with 1:29:09.760 --> 1:29:15.479 with music that depicted what niggas had seen on screen 1:29:15.640 --> 1:29:18.080 a couple of years before, and like, wait a minute, 1:29:18.080 --> 1:29:20.160 the niggas out there with the red and blue and 1:29:20.240 --> 1:29:23.960 they gang. It made niggas curious. And then now you 1:29:24.160 --> 1:29:28.840 got some local dudes who come from you know, the 1:29:28.960 --> 1:29:33.439 actuality of it, like these ain't no motherfucking actors or 1:29:33.520 --> 1:29:36.360 no motherfucker you know, these are niggas who grew up 1:29:36.400 --> 1:29:41.840 in Compton and they actually seeing the gang bang and 1:29:41.920 --> 1:29:45.839 the dope selling and the police brutality and the poverty 1:29:45.960 --> 1:29:46.519 and all of that. 1:29:46.960 --> 1:29:48.840 So It fascinated motherfucker. 1:29:48.960 --> 1:29:52.120 So that's why at the time it was just like 1:29:53.560 --> 1:29:55.840 it was just different from regular rap music. 1:29:56.000 --> 1:29:58.599 It definitely fascinated the suburbs, definitely. 1:29:58.840 --> 1:30:04.040 It just it fascinated the world because motherfuckers wanted to know. 1:30:05.760 --> 1:30:09.200 Like I said, we never got the spotlight put on 1:30:09.439 --> 1:30:13.320 us as far as California was concerned. When you talked about, 1:30:13.720 --> 1:30:16.920 you know, gangs or you talked about fucked up living, 1:30:17.360 --> 1:30:21.000 it was always the Bronx and Brooklyn in New York, and. 1:30:21.200 --> 1:30:23.120 You know, it was always that. 1:30:23.520 --> 1:30:26.320 You know, it was never like, well, let's go over 1:30:26.360 --> 1:30:29.320 here and see what the you know, we wasn't respected 1:30:29.360 --> 1:30:30.680 as far as rap music was. 1:30:31.040 --> 1:30:33.880 We weren't too more like them because we had grass 1:30:33.960 --> 1:30:34.679 in the front yard. 1:30:35.120 --> 1:30:36.720 I think with the you know, the. 1:30:38.400 --> 1:30:42.000 Making what niggas was going through as far as like 1:30:42.080 --> 1:30:45.280 I said, with the once niggas saw colors, it was 1:30:45.479 --> 1:30:50.320 like whoa, you get me? And once they heard ice 1:30:50.400 --> 1:30:53.479 tea with colors, and then it was the gang shit 1:30:53.560 --> 1:30:55.800 and the niggas saw that little clip where niggas was 1:30:55.880 --> 1:30:58.400 in the jail, everybody throwing up their hoods and you 1:30:58.520 --> 1:31:02.320 got crips on one side, and that fascinated the world, 1:31:02.680 --> 1:31:04.559 and now you got niggas putting out record. 1:31:04.560 --> 1:31:07.120 You know what I'm saying. The movie is something different. 1:31:07.720 --> 1:31:09.720 Nigga, I get to ride around in my car every 1:31:09.840 --> 1:31:12.439 day bumping some ship with niggas was talking about fuck 1:31:12.520 --> 1:31:15.880 the police and nigga, we sold dope last night and 1:31:15.960 --> 1:31:19.040 the strawberry was sucking on dicks and shit like that. 1:31:19.640 --> 1:31:21.439 Niggas didn't hear shit like that. 1:31:21.640 --> 1:31:23.599 It was different. 1:31:23.680 --> 1:31:26.360 It was unheard of to hear that type of ship, 1:31:26.720 --> 1:31:29.600 especially when it's not seen on the screen of a 1:31:29.760 --> 1:31:33.439 movie like these niggas is actually talking about they was 1:31:33.479 --> 1:31:37.479 selling crack last night and somebody got shot and niggas 1:31:37.560 --> 1:31:37.800 had a. 1:31:37.840 --> 1:31:39.559 Band Damna and Niggas was gang. 1:31:39.960 --> 1:31:44.559 Niggas was fascinating, speaking of fascinating, speaking of forbidding shit. 1:31:46.400 --> 1:31:48.479 We can't leave man for ash. You boy, you was 1:31:48.520 --> 1:31:53.240 gonna go into it. Then somebody said something. You decided 1:31:53.280 --> 1:31:55.759 to leave. NWA. You said you was done with music. 1:31:56.520 --> 1:32:01.439 The last thing why did leave is zof it is all, 1:32:02.240 --> 1:32:04.080 but you were still on. You were still technically on. 1:32:04.280 --> 1:32:07.080 You know, you put out the one last project. 1:32:07.280 --> 1:32:11.679 Yeah, well it dissolved when that dirt went on top 1:32:11.720 --> 1:32:15.799 of his casket. N W a was done, it was dissolved. 1:32:15.840 --> 1:32:18.160 It didn't break up. People say that broke up. No, 1:32:18.320 --> 1:32:21.800 it just people fell off. Pieces fell off, one out of. 1:32:21.920 --> 1:32:23.519 Time, one at a time. 1:32:23.640 --> 1:32:25.600 So we went and I went to, well, I was 1:32:25.800 --> 1:32:30.800 doing that before the end of music. 1:32:30.880 --> 1:32:33.000 So you was putting out those movies before then, yeah, 1:32:33.120 --> 1:32:35.640 but I wasn't putting it was. Yeah, it was a 1:32:35.680 --> 1:32:37.040 lot of money that that back then. 1:32:37.680 --> 1:32:41.000 You think I did it for fifteen years, three hundred 1:32:41.000 --> 1:32:42.280 and fifty. 1:32:42.040 --> 1:32:45.080 Movies, probably because you had a physical back then, I. 1:32:45.280 --> 1:32:49.760 Was cameraman, photographer. 1:32:50.120 --> 1:32:51.160 Everybody added. 1:32:52.479 --> 1:32:54.439 Music because everything when. 1:32:54.400 --> 1:32:58.920 It started going around, motherfuckers was like Yellow is doing 1:32:59.040 --> 1:33:01.680 motherfucking And I'm like, what do you mean doing it? 1:33:01.920 --> 1:33:05.479 Like like the nigga actually in't it? Like he he 1:33:05.680 --> 1:33:07.280 like dog Man is his shit. 1:33:07.520 --> 1:33:11.360 So we peeped out a couple and I'm like, ohigg, 1:33:11.439 --> 1:33:12.040 I was smart. 1:33:15.000 --> 1:33:17.240 And the way you was moving around to is I 1:33:17.240 --> 1:33:18.559 remember when they was out, they would be in all 1:33:18.560 --> 1:33:21.479 the liquor stores. I think you hit a lick back there. Man, 1:33:21.560 --> 1:33:23.720 them VHS, tapes and DVDs want to. 1:33:23.720 --> 1:33:27.280 More, Well, I did liking music, I wan shot have 1:33:27.400 --> 1:33:31.040 known to own them. See the company would pay me 1:33:31.720 --> 1:33:33.640 to go make them, make them, and I bring it 1:33:33.720 --> 1:33:36.840 back and they get it in all the stores. You know, 1:33:36.960 --> 1:33:44.720 I'm making twenty grand a month, twenty rand boom, just 1:33:44.800 --> 1:33:47.160 turning them over like flapjacks. 1:33:48.320 --> 1:33:52.240 Life looking now. Who went out and recruited the girls? 1:33:53.240 --> 1:33:56.880 They came to us because we was known as we 1:33:57.080 --> 1:33:59.840 paid the cheapest, but we shoot fast. 1:34:00.800 --> 1:34:04.479 I have you if I do a thing twenty two minutes, 1:34:04.479 --> 1:34:06.639 that's all I need and I don't push Paul. 1:34:07.040 --> 1:34:11.519 I rolled whatever happened, let it happen. So I might 1:34:11.560 --> 1:34:15.280 tell them, okay, do this, but that's it. It's freestyle. 1:34:16.160 --> 1:34:19.280 I started. That was nobody else was doing it that way. 1:34:19.760 --> 1:34:22.840 Yeah, because I saw one time man for you to 1:34:22.880 --> 1:34:26.519 say it was peeping them out. One time I was 1:34:26.640 --> 1:34:29.920 over a friend's house, the rest of friend because you 1:34:30.040 --> 1:34:35.519 know the thing. Listen, bro let me get this all Maria, 1:34:35.680 --> 1:34:41.680 watch him clean it up. Whatever was just bro you 1:34:41.840 --> 1:34:44.519 DJ yell. Of course one Oni say, man do for 1:34:44.640 --> 1:34:47.479 n W as making porns? Right, So we look at 1:34:47.520 --> 1:34:49.640 it and you had an old ass woman on there. Man, 1:34:49.640 --> 1:34:51.040 that old ass woman hits you up and said she 1:34:51.080 --> 1:34:52.160 want to do some form. 1:34:53.080 --> 1:34:56.519 You know, it depends on what the company wants. They 1:34:56.600 --> 1:34:59.080 want the older ones. Do they want the do they 1:34:59.160 --> 1:35:01.679 want the big but did they want the big chest? 1:35:02.800 --> 1:35:05.639 It was just stroke and steel. 1:35:05.840 --> 1:35:06.320 I didn't like. 1:35:06.479 --> 1:35:06.960 I didn't like. 1:35:07.520 --> 1:35:11.479 Only shot maybe a few, but I usually the young. 1:35:11.360 --> 1:35:11.920 Ones is all. 1:35:11.960 --> 1:35:13.960 I shot fresh. 1:35:14.200 --> 1:35:20.519 And you know, answer me this question. Did you watch 1:35:20.640 --> 1:35:23.240 it with the old lady? And did you watch it? 1:35:23.520 --> 1:35:24.519 How long did you watch it? 1:35:25.560 --> 1:35:25.720 Man? 1:35:25.800 --> 1:35:27.080 Probably for two or three minutes? 1:35:29.160 --> 1:35:30.400 Only take three minutes up. 1:35:31.040 --> 1:35:32.880 It was intriguing, man, I said, Damn, she. 1:35:33.000 --> 1:35:36.080 Old as fuck, but you were she had boozz? What 1:35:36.280 --> 1:35:37.240 was she doing still? 1:35:37.720 --> 1:35:37.880 Man? 1:35:37.960 --> 1:35:41.080 I know, I just remember her going, what colors she 1:35:41.160 --> 1:35:41.439 have on? 1:35:42.040 --> 1:35:44.880 I don't remember all that, man, I just remember her grin. 1:35:45.040 --> 1:35:46.040 That was her tattoos. 1:35:46.160 --> 1:35:50.800 She was going, he heard was her she was going. 1:35:53.880 --> 1:35:57.000 She was just grin. When did you decide to leave 1:35:57.040 --> 1:35:59.400 that alone? You just because you had? You just decided 1:35:59.439 --> 1:36:00.040 you was done. 1:35:59.840 --> 1:36:01.960 With for fifteen years? 1:36:03.280 --> 1:36:05.880 If like I say one thing, Oh, I remember I 1:36:06.000 --> 1:36:10.760 did the interview with you for Double Xlger Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 1:36:10.840 --> 1:36:16.800 yeah overall Latierra. And I remember when I did the 1:36:16.960 --> 1:36:19.120 article and you would give me like a gang of 1:36:19.360 --> 1:36:21.800 tapes and I just was, like I told the people 1:36:21.840 --> 1:36:22.599 at double XL. 1:36:22.640 --> 1:36:24.679 I was like, Yo, you know Yello's doing. 1:36:24.600 --> 1:36:28.479 These movies, right, They're like, no, we didn't know that. 1:36:28.840 --> 1:36:31.120 So I put that all in the article. But they 1:36:31.160 --> 1:36:33.720 were very excited that that was the first time it 1:36:33.880 --> 1:36:36.760 was known in a rap magazine. Oh really when we 1:36:36.840 --> 1:36:38.840 did the article for double X yeah, I did it. 1:36:38.960 --> 1:36:42.760 Just like just like music. It got to that point 1:36:42.760 --> 1:36:45.960 when the internet start coming in. Then ain't getting it 1:36:46.000 --> 1:36:51.519 for free? So okay, this ain't. We're either you come 1:36:51.600 --> 1:36:53.760 over the site and you'd be the first to do it. 1:36:54.040 --> 1:36:57.120 You'd be a billionaire bright now. But of course you 1:36:57.200 --> 1:37:02.320 know us, you know, would have just owned them. Oh yeah, y'all. 1:37:02.439 --> 1:37:06.559 You know something I did started, I did started owning them, 1:37:07.080 --> 1:37:08.160 but I waited too late. 1:37:08.280 --> 1:37:11.000 I wait till the fourteenth year to start doing it, 1:37:11.000 --> 1:37:13.400 and then I hook up with one of the biggest companies. 1:37:14.360 --> 1:37:16.920 It didn't pay me, so we had to go in 1:37:17.000 --> 1:37:22.439 there and tear up the office and I got I 1:37:22.560 --> 1:37:25.240 went home with five thousand brand new DVDs. 1:37:25.320 --> 1:37:28.280 If my car, I'm like, I didn't know y'all was 1:37:28.320 --> 1:37:31.040 going out of business. I would have never shot made 1:37:31.120 --> 1:37:33.840 movies for you if I'd been known you had problems. 1:37:34.800 --> 1:37:37.439 So by the time I start that they could own 1:37:37.560 --> 1:37:40.360 them because they was called you know, so crazy. 1:37:41.160 --> 1:37:43.160 The first two of them made owner. 1:37:43.200 --> 1:37:47.000 It was called straight out of Compton, And when the 1:37:47.080 --> 1:37:53.000 movie came out that that name got vanished for some reason. 1:37:53.920 --> 1:37:56.080 And then I just did it like music, I'm done. 1:37:56.680 --> 1:37:57.400 I'm just okay. 1:37:57.520 --> 1:37:59.360 I did it. It was fun, it was cool. 1:38:00.040 --> 1:38:02.080 Seems like you had a good run. Fifteen years a 1:38:02.160 --> 1:38:06.760 long time doing anything. Yeah, I mean, man, fifteen years. Man, 1:38:07.000 --> 1:38:09.680 bring yourself out on certain shit. So just to be 1:38:09.840 --> 1:38:13.080 able to, you know, transition. You know, a lot of 1:38:13.160 --> 1:38:18.320 niggas it's hard to transition from shit they've done so long, 1:38:19.000 --> 1:38:20.840 or they might just be scared to transition. 1:38:21.160 --> 1:38:21.360 Yeah. 1:38:21.520 --> 1:38:24.240 You know when you be able to do something and 1:38:24.360 --> 1:38:27.200 then get ahold of it, fuck it. I get a 1:38:27.240 --> 1:38:28.160 good run out of it. 1:38:28.240 --> 1:38:28.639 It's good. 1:38:28.760 --> 1:38:31.559 Yeah, because I did it like I did the movies 1:38:31.680 --> 1:38:36.000 like records. Every movie was like a record. I did 1:38:36.080 --> 1:38:38.840 four records of month, four or five records of month. 1:38:39.240 --> 1:38:39.760 I just did it. 1:38:40.120 --> 1:38:43.519 I just look, okay, five girls, that's five songs. Damn 1:38:44.640 --> 1:38:45.320 do it? Edit it? 1:38:45.479 --> 1:38:50.439 See, I would have a complete package edited music, everything down, 1:38:50.560 --> 1:38:53.200 film steals everything. 1:38:54.240 --> 1:38:56.720 I thought like a producer. I'm doing everything. I don't 1:38:56.720 --> 1:39:00.840 need nobody for nothing. Gotta be two bags him one 1:39:00.960 --> 1:39:04.599 stop shot, I got the lights, I got everything is cracking. 1:39:05.680 --> 1:39:08.679 Everything I did it just like music, and I quit 1:39:09.160 --> 1:39:10.840 just like music, just like I'm good. 1:39:11.760 --> 1:39:15.360 That's crazy. Man. Are you being married now and everything? Man? 1:39:15.400 --> 1:39:18.960 I assume life is drastically different now. Man, do you 1:39:19.040 --> 1:39:22.040 ever talk to your wife about your former escapades? Nah? 1:39:22.280 --> 1:39:24.840 She don't, She don't know. 1:39:26.760 --> 1:39:29.479 She in the beginning was hard because we go somewhere 1:39:29.479 --> 1:39:31.840 and somebody wants gonna take a picture, and she just. 1:39:31.960 --> 1:39:34.120 Like why they want to take a picture? 1:39:34.240 --> 1:39:37.519 Yeah, just like what? And then she get mad because 1:39:38.160 --> 1:39:39.599 I can't help. You know. We go to the ram 1:39:39.680 --> 1:39:40.360 football game. 1:39:40.280 --> 1:39:42.680 At the Coliseum when they first came back, and we 1:39:43.040 --> 1:39:45.679 happened to go through all the crowded I'm getting stopped 1:39:45.720 --> 1:39:49.920 every man, and she just walked off her. 1:39:50.360 --> 1:39:54.200 Yeah, she don't understand it. Now she knows now, she 1:39:54.400 --> 1:39:58.000 understands it, just like if I'm eating dinners people. 1:39:58.760 --> 1:40:01.320 Okay, no proble have no child when it come to 1:40:01.360 --> 1:40:01.679 that either. 1:40:01.760 --> 1:40:05.320 Yeah, but you know, without them, without the fans week. 1:40:05.520 --> 1:40:07.439 Yeah, so you have to be able to accept that 1:40:07.600 --> 1:40:11.320 because you know that it just happened you know, ship, 1:40:11.880 --> 1:40:14.240 it just comes with the territory. Some people don't go 1:40:14.280 --> 1:40:18.720 to the grocery store. You go, you know, kids football games. Ever, 1:40:19.600 --> 1:40:26.040 it's gonna be somebody who is excited. Ye your like 1:40:26.240 --> 1:40:28.720 this motherfucker was like, I mean. 1:40:28.640 --> 1:40:33.639 I don't care where I'm on the plane, airport, post office. 1:40:34.320 --> 1:40:39.840 Gladly I'm not coming out of crazy weird places when 1:40:39.880 --> 1:40:41.320 I had to doing the mask, I. 1:40:41.360 --> 1:40:41.920 Have my master. 1:40:42.920 --> 1:40:44.320 You're still gonna always. 1:40:46.479 --> 1:40:50.720 Or you know, so like in tune to you know 1:40:51.200 --> 1:40:56.040 the era of n W A and and they don't 1:40:56.080 --> 1:40:59.479 seen the movie a few times, so it's just it's 1:40:59.600 --> 1:41:03.000 just in their head. And it fascinates people not to 1:41:03.040 --> 1:41:07.120 say everybody be on some nuts swinging ship, but you know, 1:41:08.240 --> 1:41:12.559 fans of what you fans and like I said, without them, yeah, 1:41:12.720 --> 1:41:15.400 you know, just like motherfuckers who watch us every week. 1:41:15.560 --> 1:41:17.680 You know without that, without them, you wouldn't be in. 1:41:19.040 --> 1:41:21.599 And that's what people tell you. You know all the time. 1:41:21.720 --> 1:41:24.479 Motherfucker might see you and be like, oh man, you 1:41:24.560 --> 1:41:26.479 know I saw you on this or I saw you 1:41:26.600 --> 1:41:29.920 on that. People's gonna always remember when something was good. 1:41:30.240 --> 1:41:31.920 You feel me, that's just it. 1:41:32.479 --> 1:41:35.720 So where are you at in life right now you 1:41:35.800 --> 1:41:36.240 know something. 1:41:36.280 --> 1:41:40.000 I'm at a part of life where I have peace 1:41:40.240 --> 1:41:40.639 and joy. 1:41:41.320 --> 1:41:44.280 I never had that in my life, not even with 1:41:46.240 --> 1:41:49.960 half million dollars in my pocket. Which car you want, 1:41:50.400 --> 1:41:54.479 what yacht you want? I have peace and joy and 1:41:54.640 --> 1:41:58.840 I just got satisfication just maybe a month or two ago. 1:41:59.280 --> 1:42:00.639 And it has nothing doing money. 1:42:01.439 --> 1:42:01.800 It's just. 1:42:03.479 --> 1:42:06.439 Well, you know, I got saved and you know, turned to. 1:42:06.479 --> 1:42:08.760 God, and oh so you gave your life over the girl. 1:42:08.920 --> 1:42:10.240 Yeah, eleven years ago. 1:42:10.320 --> 1:42:12.720 I was gonna say that was a while ago. In 1:42:12.800 --> 1:42:13.599 the last month or two. 1:42:14.320 --> 1:42:14.640 It's just. 1:42:16.200 --> 1:42:18.479 That's just what God does. Like peace and joy. You 1:42:18.560 --> 1:42:21.519 can't you can be a billionaire and you want peace 1:42:21.560 --> 1:42:23.519 and joy, but you can't buy it. You can't steal it, 1:42:23.600 --> 1:42:26.240 you can't borrow it. Ain't nobody gonna loan it to you. 1:42:26.760 --> 1:42:29.479 It only comes from God, and he gave it to me. 1:42:29.520 --> 1:42:32.360 And I'm just like and I was just sitting in 1:42:32.439 --> 1:42:35.760 the chair looking down the hall one day and I said, 1:42:36.280 --> 1:42:37.559 this is peace and joy. 1:42:37.840 --> 1:42:40.839 I'm not thinking about a bill. I look at bills 1:42:40.880 --> 1:42:43.200 like this, Either you got it or you don't. I 1:42:43.400 --> 1:42:45.680 tell people the same because stress it. 1:42:47.360 --> 1:42:50.920 The fuck you call a thousand times a day it's 1:42:50.960 --> 1:42:53.760 gonna be the same answer when you call, I ain't 1:42:53.800 --> 1:42:55.840 got it. If you're gonna cut the ship off, man, 1:42:55.920 --> 1:42:58.519 go cut it off, because either we gonna work something 1:42:58.600 --> 1:42:59.120 mount let me. 1:42:59.479 --> 1:43:00.760 Let me do what I gotta do. 1:43:00.880 --> 1:43:03.000 All that because I haven't heard. 1:43:05.240 --> 1:43:08.120 I haven't heard some other fucking caddles and ship because 1:43:08.160 --> 1:43:10.760 my lights would be off later. I mean, you know 1:43:10.800 --> 1:43:12.679 what I'm saying. I got to figure it out. Man, 1:43:13.360 --> 1:43:15.920 to sit here and get a headache and stomach be 1:43:16.120 --> 1:43:19.120 fucked up and you be just like worried about ship 1:43:19.600 --> 1:43:20.639 at the end of the day. 1:43:21.040 --> 1:43:23.320 That worrying ain't fin to pay the mother. 1:43:23.439 --> 1:43:27.479 But I have not heard one successful stress story yet. 1:43:28.000 --> 1:43:30.639 I'm waiting to hear it. Oh I stressed so much. 1:43:33.000 --> 1:43:35.400 And kicked my leg up and roll me a blunt 1:43:35.439 --> 1:43:38.560 and be like, if we get some light off of 1:43:38.600 --> 1:43:42.200 this blood the hall this ship, because I ain't finna 1:43:42.280 --> 1:43:44.840 get mad because the lights is off. Fuck, it'll be 1:43:44.920 --> 1:43:47.880 six o'clock. The motherfucker son to be up and admit it, 1:43:48.040 --> 1:43:52.000 so ship, I'll have light a minute somebody else lights on. 1:43:53.320 --> 1:43:56.479 It's gonna be some light to bd it. God, and people. 1:43:57.840 --> 1:44:01.519 Life is so short, and people rushing life. They missed life. 1:44:02.600 --> 1:44:06.160 We happen to be blessed in our era of music. 1:44:07.280 --> 1:44:10.519 I mean they came out right after us. I didn't 1:44:10.520 --> 1:44:11.599 know that y'all came out. 1:44:11.520 --> 1:44:12.600 Right after us. 1:44:13.640 --> 1:44:17.639 It was in that perfect time slot that's still being 1:44:17.680 --> 1:44:22.000 talked about thirty five years later. Thirty five years were 1:44:22.000 --> 1:44:24.599 talking about hip hop still, and that wasn't supposed to last. 1:44:24.960 --> 1:44:26.880 We wasn't even supposed to made that outs back. They're 1:44:26.880 --> 1:44:29.320 supposed to have been done from the East coast. 1:44:30.200 --> 1:44:34.599 But it's still here. But I enjoy now. I enjoy life. 1:44:35.600 --> 1:44:39.599 I just I learned that not to love nothing but people. 1:44:40.600 --> 1:44:40.880 That's it. 1:44:41.280 --> 1:44:41.439 You know. 1:44:41.640 --> 1:44:44.320 People used to love their car, their money they sell 1:44:45.120 --> 1:44:48.679 because think about it. I love this house. The house 1:44:48.760 --> 1:44:55.439 burned down, it's just material. It could be replaced or whatever. 1:44:55.640 --> 1:44:55.800 You know. 1:44:55.880 --> 1:45:00.320 I just learned. I'm so relax for life now. 1:45:00.360 --> 1:45:03.519 It's just when you learn to be content. 1:45:03.720 --> 1:45:08.320 Man, its just it's like whatever, man, like, I'm whatever. 1:45:08.720 --> 1:45:11.800 It is what it is, motherfucking shit. You gotta you 1:45:11.920 --> 1:45:15.439 got a billion, I got a buck. But I'm still content. 1:45:15.560 --> 1:45:17.559 I'm probably more at than you are. Man. 1:45:18.080 --> 1:45:20.760 I'm good man. I don't want nothing you got. I 1:45:20.800 --> 1:45:24.080 don't want nothing you want. I'm fine, I'm perfect, I'm 1:45:24.160 --> 1:45:28.160 straight and nothing. Like you said, you can't stress about it. 1:45:28.240 --> 1:45:33.040 And I think that comes with with just real maturity, 1:45:33.360 --> 1:45:36.599 is you know, it just comes with not worried about 1:45:36.640 --> 1:45:39.439 what the next man think of you either, feel me. 1:45:40.200 --> 1:45:41.960 I think a lot of us had to go through 1:45:42.040 --> 1:45:46.080 that transition of worried about what other motherfuckers think, coming 1:45:46.200 --> 1:45:49.759 from you know, n w A, and coming from conscience 1:45:49.880 --> 1:45:52.599 most wanted, and doing this and doing that and leaving 1:45:52.680 --> 1:45:56.880 this legacy behind. Sometimes you worried about what motherfucker might 1:45:57.000 --> 1:45:59.400 think of you. And once you get to the point 1:45:59.479 --> 1:45:59.960 to where. 1:45:59.840 --> 1:46:05.320 Like man, whatever, yeah whatever, Like. 1:46:05.479 --> 1:46:10.200 Yeah, cool, fuck it, I ain't got ten triple platinum albums. 1:46:10.280 --> 1:46:13.240 Yeah, by now, I don't give a fuck. Cool. Yeah, 1:46:13.479 --> 1:46:15.759 been there, done that, did it. I'm cool. 1:46:16.000 --> 1:46:18.559 I wake up every morning and nigga, you put your 1:46:18.640 --> 1:46:21.640 shoe on just like me, your pints and everything. 1:46:21.760 --> 1:46:24.200 Take a shower and wash your ass just like me. 1:46:24.760 --> 1:46:28.439 Your shower might be fancy and water might come out 1:46:28.439 --> 1:46:31.759 a little diff you were five bathing in some avy 1:46:31.840 --> 1:46:34.960 yards and some shit it tap water. Working and cleaning 1:46:35.000 --> 1:46:37.120 the ass is good too, ship, So you. 1:46:37.280 --> 1:46:40.080 Giving yourself over to God? No, right, yeah, do you 1:46:40.160 --> 1:46:42.040 ever look at stuff from your past on the more 1:46:42.120 --> 1:46:43.040 spiritual living? Now? 1:46:43.920 --> 1:46:47.439 I could see, how was the damn food that I know? 1:46:48.840 --> 1:46:51.160 But that's just because I didn't know nothing. 1:46:51.280 --> 1:46:56.599 That just thinking money, you know, money was the rules 1:46:56.640 --> 1:46:59.760 and what money was it? You're nothing without money. It's 1:46:59.840 --> 1:47:02.639 just it's a whole different level now. Now I could 1:47:02.760 --> 1:47:04.320 just sit back like. 1:47:05.960 --> 1:47:07.519 And you talk about a lot of that in your book, 1:47:07.560 --> 1:47:09.639 too Yellow. Everybody should pick it up if they haven't 1:47:09.640 --> 1:47:10.080 got it yet. 1:47:10.640 --> 1:47:15.080 Yeah, I mean, I just was the book was really 1:47:15.120 --> 1:47:16.680 because I never read a book in my life. I 1:47:16.760 --> 1:47:21.400 never opened a book never, and it just God gave 1:47:21.439 --> 1:47:25.760 it to me and I wrote it, what ninety three 1:47:25.800 --> 1:47:26.559 thousand words? 1:47:27.520 --> 1:47:28.280 It's a long book. 1:47:28.360 --> 1:47:31.040 Yeah, I know. All that's a three hundred and twenty 1:47:31.080 --> 1:47:31.719 something pages. 1:47:31.960 --> 1:47:33.519 I should have brought mine to get an autograph. 1:47:34.080 --> 1:47:40.360 Yeah you should, But I've just learned, man, life is beautiful. 1:47:41.040 --> 1:47:43.679 We don't see it because we saw in the busy 1:47:43.880 --> 1:47:47.479 Russian and trying to come up and trying to do it. 1:47:47.560 --> 1:47:48.240 Ain't about that. 1:47:48.400 --> 1:47:51.000 It's just, man, you better enjoy life because life is short. 1:47:51.960 --> 1:47:54.640 Yes it is, I mean very sure. Yeah we might 1:47:54.720 --> 1:47:57.800 live to one hundred, but that's short is in. 1:47:57.800 --> 1:47:59.559 The grand scheme of things. Let me ask you one 1:47:59.600 --> 1:48:01.400 more quick before we get out of here. You being 1:48:01.439 --> 1:48:04.200 where you at spiritually, now, do you think that the 1:48:04.479 --> 1:48:08.280 industry to recording industry industry promotes a certain type of 1:48:08.439 --> 1:48:12.479 artists right now? Think it's an exender right now being 1:48:12.680 --> 1:48:13.959 forced to punt as nowadays? 1:48:14.160 --> 1:48:17.120 It's, man, you know something, It's a whole bunch going on, 1:48:18.160 --> 1:48:20.799 not just music, movies, commercial. 1:48:20.960 --> 1:48:24.120 I mean, just like, man, what are they trying to 1:48:24.200 --> 1:48:28.000 make here? It's and all that. And you know, because 1:48:28.000 --> 1:48:29.439 I say something, they're gonna ban me. 1:48:30.320 --> 1:48:30.639 We can't. 1:48:30.680 --> 1:48:31.560 We can't talk about that. 1:48:32.600 --> 1:48:36.840 But it's just still knowing of highly against speaking on. 1:48:36.960 --> 1:48:37.760 That set. 1:48:39.400 --> 1:48:43.760 Well that man, they the gag set letters and everything. Man, 1:48:43.840 --> 1:48:45.200 don't mess with their people. 1:48:45.320 --> 1:48:49.439 Oh yeah, they got power, they running, they running things. 1:48:50.400 --> 1:48:52.639 I mean, it's nothing wrong. I ain't got nothing against nobody. 1:48:53.640 --> 1:48:58.559 But I'm glad I'm not young in the dating world 1:48:58.960 --> 1:49:01.679 or kid, because the kid almost don't have a choice 1:49:02.760 --> 1:49:05.760 putting all this in front of them. Man, I'm I'm 1:49:05.880 --> 1:49:10.640 like this until the kid is eighteen. Your kid, this 1:49:10.920 --> 1:49:14.160 is what you are, he or she, That's what you 1:49:14.200 --> 1:49:16.439 ain't nothing else. This is what you're born is what 1:49:16.560 --> 1:49:19.839 you are. You ain't got a choice until you get eighteen, 1:49:20.160 --> 1:49:21.559 you start paying your own building. 1:49:21.680 --> 1:49:25.000 You got your choice. If they was my kids, yeah, 1:49:25.200 --> 1:49:30.919 I mean come on, I mean yeah, that's something else. 1:49:32.680 --> 1:49:35.400 As far as music is concerned, was being forced on. 1:49:35.520 --> 1:49:39.559 This is just like you said, the ability to. 1:49:42.200 --> 1:49:47.960 The ability to have access to music is so wide 1:49:48.040 --> 1:49:53.520 open nowadays, and it's unfortunate that I think with labels 1:49:53.640 --> 1:49:58.200 and people behind these like because who's really behind you know, 1:49:58.720 --> 1:49:59.240 the music? 1:49:59.479 --> 1:50:02.680 Is it? The universals, the deaf jams, the you know 1:50:03.479 --> 1:50:04.479 a little bit, all of them. 1:50:04.760 --> 1:50:09.160 It's so many side you know, deals in side teams 1:50:09.360 --> 1:50:13.479 and you know, like fuck it. It's it's like still, 1:50:14.680 --> 1:50:21.120 this would be perfect. Like seven on seventeen. Everybody can 1:50:21.240 --> 1:50:23.639 have a seven on seventeen. All you gotta dudes, pay 1:50:23.680 --> 1:50:26.559 your fee and you can enter the tournament. Right Yeah, 1:50:26.640 --> 1:50:30.920 you don't have to be you know, skilled, qualified, whatever. 1:50:31.080 --> 1:50:34.800 You can go, put twelve niggas together, get your five 1:50:34.880 --> 1:50:37.000 hundred dollars and say, nigga, we want to enter. 1:50:37.520 --> 1:50:40.880 And that's to me what the music is right now. 1:50:41.320 --> 1:50:41.760 It's like. 1:50:43.720 --> 1:50:46.320 Nigga, I got a program at home in a microphone 1:50:46.960 --> 1:50:52.280 in a video let me in and then and the 1:50:52.400 --> 1:50:56.519 simplicity of dumbing down the music you get me. I 1:50:56.640 --> 1:50:59.320 took pride in what I wrote about back then. Yeah, 1:51:00.640 --> 1:51:04.400 I took pride in the music that slipped would find 1:51:04.600 --> 1:51:07.560 on records and sample and cut up and chop it. 1:51:07.880 --> 1:51:10.840 We took pride in that. It's like now, it's like 1:51:11.840 --> 1:51:16.640 what niggas like. Fucking niggas like. Niggas like pussy and 1:51:16.760 --> 1:51:20.040 ass and fucking weeds smoking. So fucking I'm gonna just 1:51:20.200 --> 1:51:23.439 rap about pussy, ass and weeds smoking. I'm not gonna 1:51:23.439 --> 1:51:26.520 give a nigga no kind of curve or no diversity 1:51:26.680 --> 1:51:29.759 to it. I'm just gonna I'm gonna join the club. 1:51:29.920 --> 1:51:32.160 What a sad part about it is, man, ain't nobody 1:51:32.280 --> 1:51:34.439 checking for that type of stuff nowadays. 1:51:34.080 --> 1:51:38.720 Man, And the sad part is the younger generation don't know. 1:51:39.840 --> 1:51:43.160 There's nothing else besides what they listening to. What they're saying, 1:51:44.280 --> 1:51:47.080 if you get it, they go back to if you 1:51:47.200 --> 1:51:50.599 get it, because I know, I travel our DJ around 1:51:50.640 --> 1:51:51.200 the world now. 1:51:52.600 --> 1:51:53.840 They love our. 1:51:53.960 --> 1:51:58.160 Hip hop from our era out of any music. That's 1:51:58.200 --> 1:52:03.400 how I go to Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, Bali, Sri Lanka. 1:52:03.479 --> 1:52:05.080 Places that even heard of us. 1:52:05.200 --> 1:52:08.200 And the crazy shit is them countries ain't gonna allow 1:52:08.280 --> 1:52:10.559 that type of ship. Oh yeah, and be over here 1:52:10.640 --> 1:52:13.560 playing no get up in my booty whole records and 1:52:13.680 --> 1:52:16.599 all that type of ship. Motherfucker gets your ass hung 1:52:16.720 --> 1:52:23.120 but fucking head chopped off a listens. I mean, people 1:52:23.200 --> 1:52:26.720 take different different it's just the way people look at 1:52:26.760 --> 1:52:30.120 our culture. It is sense, you know, because people don't 1:52:30.240 --> 1:52:33.400 like American ship anyway. You know, they feel we so 1:52:33.600 --> 1:52:36.560 wide open with ship, y'all just allow motherfuckers to do 1:52:36.720 --> 1:52:38.040 whatever and say whatever. 1:52:38.400 --> 1:52:39.800 It's never allowed over here. 1:52:40.200 --> 1:52:42.680 If I'm driving down my street playing some ship like that, 1:52:42.800 --> 1:52:46.839 I'm liable to get stole or cave and ship listening 1:52:46.920 --> 1:52:51.040 to some ship smoking wh over there. So it's just 1:52:51.080 --> 1:52:54.439 the level of acceptance is what I think is allowed. 1:52:54.600 --> 1:52:57.000 And like I said, we the land of the free 1:52:57.120 --> 1:52:59.160 and you can do what you want and ship. But 1:52:59.640 --> 1:53:01.360 I just thing, but what's what you say that when 1:53:01.400 --> 1:53:04.360 you do it? I just say that coming from our era, 1:53:04.880 --> 1:53:08.040 and it's gonna be the last thing coming from our era. 1:53:10.240 --> 1:53:13.000 I think it was pride taking the bar when you 1:53:13.200 --> 1:53:17.559 becoming an artist, and because if you had whack ship man. 1:53:17.439 --> 1:53:20.479 You didn't get no radio play. No, you didn't even 1:53:20.520 --> 1:53:20.840 get a. 1:53:21.000 --> 1:53:24.600 Deal anything your record, Like you had an A and 1:53:24.760 --> 1:53:27.120 R sitting in the office and you walked in there 1:53:27.120 --> 1:53:30.240 and played your tape and that ship was whack. You 1:53:30.360 --> 1:53:34.800 weren't getting no deal. It just wasn't happening. So nigga, 1:53:34.840 --> 1:53:37.360 I'll be at the motherfucker studio. Man, I got the 1:53:37.439 --> 1:53:40.720 nigga you heard what Cube saying you heard with too 1:53:40.840 --> 1:53:44.360 short said or LLL or what man. I petition was 1:53:44.680 --> 1:53:49.680 got to get on that ship. So competition was, Yes 1:53:49.760 --> 1:53:51.439 it did. We're gonna leave it on that note. 1:53:51.720 --> 1:53:54.519 Yeah, Man, we appreciate having you on The show Man 1:53:55.840 --> 1:54:00.519 to hang out with us The show Man for sure. Man, 1:54:01.640 --> 1:54:04.440 Instagram page, website, anything. 1:54:04.200 --> 1:54:09.280 Man, DJ yell up and w a Instagram Facebook And 1:54:09.439 --> 1:54:12.280 I'm actually on it so I don't have it. 1:54:13.160 --> 1:54:15.640 Stop running strange. Yes, you over there, so so hit 1:54:15.720 --> 1:54:18.479 him up man right now. Man, Jill, my man gave 1:54:18.560 --> 1:54:22.200 his life over to God. That's a beautiful thing. Man, 1:54:22.439 --> 1:54:24.280 Like I said, we done been in the lives and 1:54:24.360 --> 1:54:25.479 peace now, been. 1:54:25.439 --> 1:54:27.400 Through a lot of hell and a lot of motherfucking 1:54:27.520 --> 1:54:30.080 roller coasters and ship. So for a nigga to be 1:54:30.160 --> 1:54:32.600 able to sit in that motherfucker's seat and no bumpy 1:54:32.760 --> 1:54:35.160 ride Nigga's It's a beautiful thing. 1:54:35.320 --> 1:54:39.080 At the end of the roller coaster, you feel me real, Hey, 1:54:39.120 --> 1:54:40.400 we out of here, jill. 1:54:42.080 --> 1:54:42.240 Man. 1:54:42.280 --> 1:54:43.560 That was can We was on here a while. 1:54:44.520 --> 1:54:45.440 It didn't bother me. 1:54:47.000 --> 1:54:48.680 Oh yeah, that's why I want to get a picture.