WEBVTT - #555 - Tash 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:00.880 Hey, Yo, what's up with it? 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:03.600 This boy task right here for the world famous alcoholists 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.720 and right about now I'm telling them a boot Leg 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:08.280 cav podcast. 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:10.960 Ay, before we start the episode, we're gonna remind everybody, man, 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:13.280 we got one of the biggest radio shows in the country, 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:17.239 syndicated in almost one hundred cities all over. Shout out 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.279 to iHeartRadio. All right, some of the latest cities that 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:22.120 we've been able to add. Man, we want to give 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.119 a shout out to ninety three point nine to Beat 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.600 in Honolulu. That's right, Hawaii, we over there going crazy. 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:29.720 I also want to give a shout out Hot ninety 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.519 eight three and Tucson. 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Bootleg CAB Podcast 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:04.200 special guests in here, the legend tash tash what's going on? 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:10.119 Oh man, same fight, dimming around, just working man, working, working, working, just. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.920 As people might know, and everything from the group of alcoholics, 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:17.800 of course, and as people might know that a lot 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.160 of that that that living up to the image caught 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:20.600 up to me. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.039 So are you trying to tell me that a member 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.000 of the alcoholics is not drinking as much as. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:27.679 This sober halics that's what we call it. You guys 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:28.560 are sober holics. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:29.679 Now, we don't really drink like that. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.399 When that it took a toll like twenty something years 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.720 of just every single night as a party, every single 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.600 day you wake up as a party, every time you 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:41.640 got something you know to do that day. Uh, you know, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.680 drinking is involved with it some kind of way. So 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.480 you know, I had to, you know, kick back and 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.600 and pull on the rains like Santa Claus slowed down 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:49.040 a little bit. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:55.040 So I always wondered this because you guys are amazing 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.040 m season. I mean you, I mean, damn dude. You 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.480 guys got classic albums. You guys have your fingerprints on 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.600 so much of this West Coast shit that people don't 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.800 even realize it's insane. But was ever a certain point 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.560 in time where y'all got like two or three albums 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.200 in where you were like, I know, because I know 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.040 you guys went from the Alcoholics to the Licks right right, 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.280 were you guys regretted just going all in with the 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:17.160 alcoholics thing? 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.000 I mean, you know, with a name like the Alcoholics. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.720 First of all, we was a young group, kind of 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.960 sure and everything, so people miscing screwed the word alcoholics 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:27.720 with like the bomb in the streets, with the little 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.880 you know, the three dollars vodka and all this. You know, 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.200 they they took the name and we got boycott, not boycott, 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:34.760 but we called it. We got banned from a lot 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.680 of shit like we had. We got invited to Soul 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.359 Train and then we showed up there and they saw 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.040 the name and they was like, hold on, we can't 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.520 put Alcoholics on national TV. And like we we couldn't 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.720 tour with trycoll Quest through the Bible Belt because of 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.839 the name, and a lot of TV shows and shit 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.040 turned it down because it was like we're trying to 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.120 get away from the negative word alcoholics, you know what 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.520 I'm saying. But we spelled it different and told motherfuckers 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.440 that we you know, we're really anti drinking and driving. 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:01.960 We had a lot of positive ship to say too, 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.040 but that get overlooked. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.520 You know, but did you did you guys? I mean, 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.040 obviously everyone should be getting triagered to driving, but I 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.440 can imagine once you guys start losing out on ship, 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:11.560 it's like okay. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.480 Yeah, but see that's whatened that ship backfire too, because 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.280 when we I don't know if somebody's idea was, let's 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.640 change the name. Since they called us the Licks. You know, 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.320 it's the Licks, baby, it's the Licks. They call us 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.760 that anyway, let's change the name officially to the Alcoholics. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.000 So we did that for one album, which was a 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.360 disaster because nobody that really fucked with us on the 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.040 alcohol you know what I'm saying with the experience, right yeah, 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.520 XO experience, we call ourselves the Licks, and it did 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.800 not work because we got no more you know, say, 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.960 we didn't get it else that we wasn't getting as 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:42.720 the Alcoholics. 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.760 So that was the last album on Loud. 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:47.920 I don't know, I get I get mixed up, man, 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.839 but that was that was the single. Yeah you can yeh, 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.680 and actually it was it wasn't. That was the most 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.480 selling single that we ever put out. It was one 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.200 that tongue vibe for sure. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.960 So and that was like, oh one, I don't it 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:06.640 was around I'm just trying to think of my head 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:07.840 what year of school I was in. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:09.839 We we've been over here. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.400 We got signed in ninety three, so a lot of 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.800 the dates and times and like that due to you 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.160 know what, I was all this. I get mixed up 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.440 because I know time pierce. Like when we told with 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.520 Big I know that was ninety six, ninety five before 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:28.800 he passed, right, And then it's kind of like it's 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.320 kind of like I get things. I got all the 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:32.800 memories of my head, but the day got time. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.080 You got to like work backwards, you remember what. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.599 I got to remember a physical thing, what was happening 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.200 right then to know what day and time it was? 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.920 Though? How did you Eat Swift and Jerrow initially meet 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:42.719 back in the day. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:45.279 Man East Swift? 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.000 We was We was already rocking as a group called 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.920 Task Is Swift in the eighties and East Swift met 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.000 Jay roll Through. I don't know if it was cousin 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:58.280 keV or we got home with named cousin Kevin. I 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.880 think he bought Jo to the table and we met 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:01.440 J Rowd. 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:01.760 That's what. 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.640 That's what the King T's and the you know mixed 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.640 Matter of Space DJ Pools and we started you know, 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:09.840 running with them, and it just turned into were just 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.800 part of the you know we Telor wanted to do 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.560 a Taylor's King T by the way, he wanted to 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.479 do like a posse thing like he was. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.120 He had an album coming out and. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.040 Instead of That's why I always say We're forever grateful 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:26.080 Tuning because instead of putting out his single as just 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:27.880 King T and everything, he said, nah, I got this 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:28.960 group called the Alcoholics. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:29.719 I want to put them on. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.360 So his first single on the Active Full album or 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.360 the Trifling album, he featured the Alcoholics. And really that's 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.400 how we got our start and never looked back, and. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.440 Never looked back. Where year was that? What youre was 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.440 the King T? Well, I guess you would have to 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.600 do a lot of drunken DISCREMT. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.480 No, we started, we started runing with King T. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.400 The first time I really kicked it with him was 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.680 the act of full videos at the liquor Store. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.000 I'm in that motherfucker somewhere. It says I got to 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:56.440 look back. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.320 But from that point on and then East Swift got 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:03.599 hired on a random He was already DJing for Me 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.400 and Jro. Me and Jael had a demo you know 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.760 this and that, and King T had a DJ named 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:08.400 Keith Cooley. 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:11.559 I know you've rather the name Keith Cooley. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.560 Yeah, she shot out on the thing. And I don't 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:14.680 know what happened with Keith Cooley. 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.919 But the night before Teeler was going on tour with 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.279 n W A Scarface, I mean n W A Ghetto 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.080 Boys and all this, something happened with Keith Cooley. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.479 With Tiler needed to DJ, and Swift. 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:26.920 Just happened to be over there cutting his head because 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.160 Swift he good on the cuts, but he cuts, you know, 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:34.120 so he he basically was cutting King T's hair. It's 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.920 God's work and shit, Tiler needed the DJ right then, 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.200 so he Swift went to go cut. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.360 King T's hair, came back with a DJ and job. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.159 Yeah, and he packed his ship up because I was 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.120 living with Swift and it's pops and ship at the time, 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.039 and so he packed his shit up and went on 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.719 the road with King T and never looked back. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.760 You know, that is amazing. So when I was a kid. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.960 My best friend's name is rams. It's Rockers little brother 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.640 from Dilated. I know, I know, yes, So listen. So 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:08.279 Ramses came to LA when he was sixteen seventeen. I'm 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:12.800 like twelve. So he's died brother too, yeah, like baby 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.320 and buddy and everybody. So yeah, so listen. So he 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.120 comes back from LA and he's like, Yo, my brother's 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:23.520 in this rapt because you know, Rock's dad is Pope, 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.000 had a lot of children, you know what I'm saying. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.920 So he comes he comes back from this trip to 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.120 beat his brother and shit. And then he's telling me 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:31.480 and he's like, bro, I was hanging out with the 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.880 exhibiting alcoholics and and did one of y'all have an iraq? 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:38.920 Yeah? He's like I had a gold thing. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:39.960 Yeah. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:40.280 Yeah. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.320 So so I'm hearing all this shit and not at 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:44.640 the time, I'm like twelve years old, you know what 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.320 I'm saying. And uh. And so that's when I got 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.200 like exposed to like the liquor cruit thing, you know 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.720 what I'm saying. And then I met Raka like right 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:56.600 when the platform dropped. Wow. And then when an expansion 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.360 team came out, we took a road trip out here 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.520 and we went to like uh Fat Beats, and we 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.000 went to the I'm Released party and it was just 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.000 but but I got so like I was like entrenched 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:11.480 and being like a fan of like y'all exhibit and 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.120 obviously Dilated and all that ship and yeah. So it's 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.480 like it's crazy because you because Liquid Crew has so 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.960 much to do with like so much amazing parts of 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:22.840 like la hip hop. You know what I'm saying. Between 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.400 you guys obviously King T the Architect and the Far Eye, 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.880 and you know, I feel like Dilate is kind of 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:30.280 like quasi Liquid Crew. Yeah. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.720 They I don't know if there was a liquor Crew, 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:33.720 but they be everywhere. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.760 Like you open up that Focused Daily booklet, you see 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:38.400 evidence in there with a lot of hair and rockets 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:39.680 in there. Yeah. 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.120 I still keep a tune with EV all the time 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:46.920 and we're working on something actually. But I'm just proud 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.040 of them, you know what I'm saying, because we all 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.280 kind of started together, right and I see what V 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.840 went well, RockA went with, the group went with this 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.520 and that, and you know it's it's amazing. I like 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.640 to watch It's like watching a plant grow. It takes 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.400 some time. But as you see it, you know, and 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.040 I just think that like EB is underrated man, oh 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:05.680 my god. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.920 For sure. It's almost like he hates being Like Evidence 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.000 is such a talented guy. He would prefer to just 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:14.640 make music and no one knew who the fuck he 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.000 is exactly. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.040 Like that's what it is, like he he's like an 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.640 introvert for sure, you know, talented. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:23.800 Shout out to Alchemist too, it. 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.959 Was yeah, man, shout out my favorite producers right now 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:31.760 for sure. So, uh, you guys, how at what point 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.320 in time? Because signing Aloud in nineteen ninety three is very, 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.720 very very early. That's pre wou Tang. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.000 That's why I might think were the first group, but 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.839 technically we not, though who is uh let me see? 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.040 Uh it was a group called mad Cap okay, okay, 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.560 drop the album before we did, and then they signed 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.480 Twisted and Twisted what happy with his contact? 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.559 He said, fuck this shit, he did his own thing, 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:53.400 so we can't. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.520 Right after that, So that's crazy ninety three. That's like 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.320 that's like ground floor loud record shit. 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.920 Yeah, that's what I still talked to Steve. You know 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.160 a lot of loud records in the house last night. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.080 There was was there in case. I know, we went 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.840 to the exhibits album release party last night. He was 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.360 it was text but what. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:14.839 Was I saying? 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.120 All the like it was a whole Loud section there 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:22.000 was Yeah, so no shout out, Noah, Oti Arlene, a 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.000 bunch of people from Loud. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.439 Like so, you guys like it's crazy because we think 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.040 of Loud as like such a East Coast label and 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.960 of course, like obviously in spirit it is and you know, tang, 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.240 big pun, et cetera, et cetera. But you're one of 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:40.439 the first groups exhibit is you know, at the speed 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:45.480 of life, restless, forty days, forty nights. What what How 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.960 did you guys end up getting like Steve Steve's attention 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.200 and like like was that something where he was like 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.080 out out west looking for talent or about us? Yeah, 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.360 let me get this story straight too. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:10:59.840 Basically it was a guy about the name of Fabi 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:00.400 and Dub. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.920 We called him Fade and he was real close with 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.880 Swift us you know this, and that he's a love 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:06.240 war ship. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.480 We to make these demos and you know, me and 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.920 Je was the flood, the l a underground seeing. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.520 Swift was a DJ. He was a popular DJ. He 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.719 was getting booked for like colleges us. We're young though, 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:22.520 So basically we went to mad Cap was already on Loud, 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.600 and we went to a studio session in Pasadenas somewhere, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.199 and during that studio session we played Fade the demo 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.679 and he was like Steve Ripkins right hand man at 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.200 the time. Actually, first he got us to deal with 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.840 He got us a deal with Freeway Rick. Yes, Freeway 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:38.920 Rick not Rick Wall. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.679 Was the one who interviewed I've interviewed Freeway Rick Ross too. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.000 I just saw him at Snoop Savanthia the other night, 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.520 no big extras event. But yeah, so you guys actually 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.040 had to deal with Freeway Cross first. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.080 If you look on Drink Champs and all the rest 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:51.839 of the podcasts that he do, he alway shout us out. 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:53.920 Yeah, I was just close to the alcoholics. 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.560 But what happened was he got locked up right you know, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.640 during this time, and he called from prison and he 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.920 heard through the grapevine and we had some something else 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.679 going on with this Loud record label or something like that. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.280 It was his blessing. He said, man, go get it. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:08.600 I don't want to nothe just just take it to 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.360 the top. You know, and this and that, and but 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.920 then he ended up getting out this and that, so 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.319 you know, shout out freeway with man. I just see 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.400 him in Vegas about I don't know how long ago, 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:19.200 but you know. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.280 Yeah, yeah, I know he had told me he was 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.960 doing he was doing some like back behind the scenes 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.240 financing on some big artists too, like I think you 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.319 need a baker, like a lot of. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.520 Real like he always got his hands in something. He 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.720 was selling his book. Well that what I said, taking 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:33.400 me a free book. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:39.480 Yeah, he's a hustler, bro, that's evident. But no, but yeah, 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.880 I mean obviously, I mean he's known for that. They 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:43.640 kind of stole his life story and did the TV 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:48.000 show great show, by the way, a great show. You 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.480 guys end up with loud. At what point in time 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.640 does exhibit come into the fold, And obviously you guys 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.960 had to have kind of made that introduction. I'm assuming because. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.480 I think I don't remember the how you can I 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.520 remember that the Ziba was a he was aggressive, you 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:07.079 know what I'm saying. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.880 And every time I have seen we want. 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.400 Some MC ship and Ziba used to get down like 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.720 he really like he he looked like that, but he 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.240 had like this path he had like a he was 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:18.959 smarter than a lot of people, you know what I mean, 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.480 Like he already knew what he wanted. We freestyle of life, 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.000 you know what I'm saying, Like we get picked up 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:24.840 by a label, that's cool. 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.199 If not, we're gonna do this. Unlet's see what happens 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:27.480 with this. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.880 And that's a crazy statement. We freestyle of life. Yeah, 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:34.880 I like that. Here we are, it's worked out. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.160 Yeah, so you know Zif he we we we were 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.680 just hanging around the underground circles and we all just 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.280 saw some MENI like and this and that, and he started, 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.319 you know, really hanging around with us. We start going 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.360 up to you know, Friday night flavors and all these 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.240 different things serving on them, and then we've got the 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.439 serving people in the clubs and it was just. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:57.840 That when you used to like see rappers like rapping outside. 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.600 Once he became the yes zhibit man, he was like 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.760 he he I never seen nobody with a with a 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.680 determination is out the world for this, Like like he 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.760 knew he knew all this ship the ZIPB is doing 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.360 now he told us he was going to do this. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:14.320 Then that was his plan. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:15.959 Like we didn't have no plan and shout out to 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.600 his dad too was a big part of that too, 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.280 because he got a guidance with the military, upbringing and 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:25.440 stuff like that. Destructure I ain't never had no structure 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.280 like that. My dad got murdered when I was young, 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.240 you know, so I kind of been freestyle in that life, 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.920 you know, freestyle of life ever since. But shout out 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:35.520 Exhibit His album came out yesterday. 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:36.840 It's incredible. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.360 Yeah, we went to the ship. 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.240 I'm I'm in my fifties, but man, we hit three 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:45.240 parties last night. Man, we went to Exhibits first, then 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.760 we went to Snoop Dogg party, and then we went 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:48.320 to the Busy. 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:50.000 I'm tripping. That's the day before yesterday. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:50.480 That's all. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.640 You ain't been asleep, But I say we were the 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.480 three live ass parties in one night. 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah, because Exhibited two Things did one of 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.600 the night before, and then Snoop did yeah. 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.000 Night before we went to Zibit Things. We went to 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:02.800 Snoop Dogg Things. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.480 Shout out snow Too returned my text snope and I 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:07.320 saw y'all say what up? 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:08.800 Yeah yeah, so and then. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:15.200 We went to uh the Far Side and the hieroglyphic. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.760 I mean the Souls of Mischief went platinum the same week, 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:18.480 like two weeks ago. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.360 Oh shit, so they had a big party for them. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:24.960 Shout out shinne swoops, rise casts will I am. 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:25.640 That's crazy. I didn't know that that was it. I 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.360 would have went to that party too, funck shout to 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:28.680 the far side and hiro. 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.680 Yeah, let's say that's how the shit be tripping me out, Like, 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.720 how y'all go platinum the same week thirty years later? 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.080 I thought it passing me by ben platinum long time ago. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:39.920 But you know what it is, a lot of those 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:44.440 like older records, they're probably technically platinum in gold. It's 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:49.040 the label they have to like there's some sort of 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.280 like where the label has to reach out to oria 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.240 A to make sure it's certified. That like because my 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.160 homie had a record, they're actually up on the wall 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.320 over there. They're both gold and like they were gold 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.040 forever and uh, but he was waiting on his label 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.400 to like, I don't know, make get a certified or whatever. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.040 But yeah, like passing me by should be fucking platinum, 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:11.480 Like what are we talking about? 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.200 While I was assuming and then on top of that, 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.160 it's like like like how do you judge, Like, how 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.840 do you like there's no more physical copies, So if 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.640 you sold eight hundred thousand physical copies, what are they 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:22.480 selling now to make. 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.640 Yeah that I don't there's a certain amount of streams 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.480 that equal and album sale. I want to say it's 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.040 I want to say it's fifteen hundred strings equals on album. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.000 Sale fifteen other strange. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:35.360 I don't want to be don't put that in black 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:36.640 and white, but I think it's something like that. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.960 That's ridiculous. But anyway, we need to take our shit back. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:39.480 That's what I say. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.800 That's why it's like, you know, like the direct to 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.720 fan ship is making a comeback. You know where it's 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.760 like if you got a fan base, like fuck the platforms, 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.160 Like obviously you want your ship up for everybody, but 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.080 you want to be able to like have that direct 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.119 connection to fans where they spend money with you. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:57.760 You don't you have to be doing right now? We 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.280 ask that right now. I got a whole independent thing 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.720 going on. Did you hear the record? 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.960 Yes? I love the video by the way, Okay, yeah, 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:08.920 did a great job. 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.920 Shot out to Nate, Nate the great bag God, my 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:13.640 husband and wife. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:19.520 That's what I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, I mean you're back, 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:20.880