WEBVTT - Damizza details how he put Snoop & Dre back together 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:02.040 All right, job. 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:08.080 All across the USC Compton, Watts Bay to LA. Come 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.400 on to California day from out in the valley, we 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:14.680 represent that Keller County. So if you're keeping it real 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.520 on your side of your town, you tune into Gainst 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.920 the Chronicles coronic goals. 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:24.360 We gonna tell you how are we goals? If I 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.880 lie my nose will girl like Pinocchio. We're gonna tell 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.040 you the truth and nothing but the choosangs. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:33.480 The chronic goals. This is not your average shows. You're 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.240 now tuned into the rail mc ain't, Big Change and 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.200 big steels the streets. 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:49.040 Hello, Welcome to the gangst the Chronicles podcast, the production 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.519 of iHeartRadio and Black Effect podcast Network. Make sure you 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.400 download the iHeart app and subscribe to Against the Chronicles. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:57.680 For my Apple users, hit the Purple Michael on your 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.520 front screen. Subscribed to Against the Chronicles, leave a start 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.960 rating and comment Jill, you know what it is? Another 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.839 episode a gangst the Chronicles. I'm with the homie big 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.720 steal man. Hey, it's been a long time. You just 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.479 came back from from Europe, trouncing all over Europe. Man 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.680 out there killing the shows. I saw everything was sold 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:16.440 out all the time. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.600 Yeah, man, it's all good. Man. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:23.360 Tell people they treat us a little differently overseas, man. 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.600 Seemed like you get a little more respect overseas, and 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:31.520 and people really appreciate. 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.800 Where you come from. 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.959 You know, how long you've been putting in uh work, 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.880 trying to represent whatever form of hip hop you may 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:49.520 call your shit, you know, just to be able to 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:55.640 go outside of the States and see that, at least 0:01:55.680 --> 0:02:00.920 what I've been able to do, uh is greatly appreciate it. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.520 When you got sold out shows in different countries and 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.000 people can barely speak English but they know your motherfucking 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:16.800 song's word for word. That's that's just appreciation, you feel me. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:18.720 Yeah, it's appreciated for sure. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:19.000 Man. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.040 I noticed that too when I went over to Japan. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.480 Over in Japan you get Michael Jackson treatment, England you 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.720 get Michael Jackson treatment. Germany you get Michael Jackson treatment, 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.160 and over here it's kind of just like, oh, what's up, man, 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.480 because everybody over here is a rapper, Everybody over here 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.400 got a podcast, everybody over here actor, everybody got something 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.720 going on. But it's all good though. Ate you a legend, man. 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:49.520 I think it's just different levels of you know, you know, 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.760 it's it's a little difficult you know in some in 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:58.000 some places, and all just depends on how people received 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:02.400 you when it comes to over here. You know, we 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:06.000 got a lot of different artists, a lot of different 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:11.720 territories and boundaries and ship like that. So a lot 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:16.160 of that tends to play a part and your acceptance 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:21.520 from a lot of niggas, you know, which is unfortunate 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:27.639 because I never gotten the music to try to glorify 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:32.920 a certain aspect of uh, where I came from or 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:39.080 what we was banging or whatever. You know, niggas knew 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:45.560 that because we was doing that before we started rapping. Uh, 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.560 it wasn't like a lot of trendy ship today where 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.240 you know, it's cool to gang bang now it's cool 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:59.080 to no, it's cool to claim the hood and territories 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:04.160 and ship, you know, I you know today ship I 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:10.240 could grow up in in in fucking Pittsburgh and say 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.160 I'm from a neighborhood in Campton. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:12.680 You know. 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.040 Uh that's how it works today, which is you know, 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:21.200 no disrespect. Because a lot of niggas died and UH 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:26.679 got locked away for trying to be true to the 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:32.000 to the the hood life. But uh, you know, it's 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.280 a it's a give and take, you know what I'm saying, 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.040 especially when you come from the from the streets and 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:42.839 you are the artists. Uh you Like I said, I 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:47.160 never got into it to glorify one side. I was 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:51.960 just making music because niggas was struggling, you feel me. 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:58.160 That was crip's bloods essays niggas in Texas, New York, Chicago, 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:02.000 Saint Louis. That's what I made music for because I 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:03.279 looked at it like shit. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.760 It's almost like this, you know, which is a good 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.919 segue and the introduce him to Night's guests. He's the 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:16.440 program director from ninety five ninety seven, from nineteen ninety 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.440 seven on up to two thousand and five. Two thousand 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.920 and six, that one of the biggest. It was the 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.960 number one radio station in the country at his time 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.440 under his regime, and I think it was Power one 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.000 oh six was number one and Hot ninety seven was 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:30.560 number two. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:35.320 Well, I mean both were number one in their respective markets, 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.960 but I oversaw Power one o six and then I 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:39.760 spent a lot of time at Hot ninety seven, and 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:41.680 then I had thirty two stations in the metal. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.080 That's right, you worrying charge of hot ninety seven four 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.280 a minute. Tom Yep added. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.000 Two of the little chem shooting they called me in 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.920 the comments, and you know. 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.640 He shouldn't need an introduction, but this is Damian Young, 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.560 and he's pretty much the one that's responsible for bringing 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:03.279 Gangster rapped to the rhythmic format because you came right 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.120 in during the time the whole death row thing jumped off, 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.680 whole defferent thing jumped off. And that's why when I 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:11.440 was asking eight if he had mixed, because I. 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.400 Just knew you knew him that we never met before. 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.960 I just knew him all day because I just knew. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.680 I said at that time, he was like, you know, 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.000 as far as Gangster rep go, Eight was like, you know. 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:26.839 God out here, I definitely knew who was the records 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:27.200 to us. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.200 Yeah, that's that's maybe some of that disrespect you was 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.680 talk about, I said, and I thought about it. I said, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.880 eight didn't have a lot of records on power. 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.080 I didn't have a lot of records on the radio period, 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.520 you know, Not that I didn't see radio as valuable too, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:53.160 I just I just I never geared my music towards radio. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.120 And that goes back to when when I started rapping 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.279 in the garage with the homie making tapes. You know, 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:12.320 I always saw music as a struggle. Everybody did different shit, 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.200 you get me. We had the niggas who would get 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.560 you in the party and shake you up. We had 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.760 the motherfuckers who you know, had the danceable. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.600 Tunes and all of that. I was. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:29.960 I always considered my music, uh, the score for the neighborhood. 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.160 So you know, all those stories and all those ship 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:38.880 that we saw, I wanted to put a sinister soundtrack 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:39.560 to that shit. 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.200 That's why I don't know. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:47.160 I never thought about making club friendly songs or uh 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.640 songs that that that's that Epic could go, you know, 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.160 pursue on the radio or whatever. I never thought of it. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.960 And then the crazy shit about it was the label 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.360 never asked me to do that type of ship. They 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.120 didn't have touch me for a radio friendly songs. 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.040 Did you know how valuable you were to the Epic system? 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.520 Think about this, They was gonna get a gold or 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.360 playing them album all you ever hear it didn't have 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:13.679 to spend no money on radio. 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.560 I thought, honestly, I was probably a write off to 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:27.400 Epic because I mean, should Epic had Michael Jackson at 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.800 the time, they had Pearl Jam, they had shaw Day, 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.480 you know they I just. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.440 Thought about that. You never try to get a record 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.319 with shut out. I mean Epic Records. 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:44.240 Many they were distributing Death Champan Sony Sony was distributed. 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.800 But like me at Epic, I mean, who could you do? 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:53.079 Like again, they had at the time when I signed 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:57.000 to Epic Records, they had Michael Jackson who had just 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:58.200 came off a thriller. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.080 They had Pearl. 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.640 Jamm, who was one of the biggest motherfucking rock bands 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:08.040 at the time, and they had shaw Day. So that's 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.360 cole Ros was a write off. Nigga, shit hit. I 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:17.480 wasn't those significant. I didn't get no I didn't get 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.800 no significant. They Epic didn't know what to do with 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:25.640 rap music back then. They had no idea what to 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:27.840 do with it. Because, like I said, when you look 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.559 at those three artists, nigga, they was selling the label, 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.440 you're getting so doubt. It was one of those things 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.800 where they was like, man, we got some money to 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.600 fuck off or throw away everybody doing this rap thing 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.839 right now, so fuck it, let's go grab us up. 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:51.280 Some artists know every artist that they had up until 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:52.400 I came along. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.240 They didn't know what the fuck to do it. 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:55.680 And you was different ten years right. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.920 I was at Epic from. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:08.920 I want to say, about ninety one ninety two till 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.320 about ninety seven, see that. 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:13.880 And I came in at ninety seven. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.240 Yeah, you came in ninety seven. 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:19.320 So yeah, I left Epic right at the like you said, 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.520 at the height of death row and whatever. But I 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:27.760 left Epic because everybody got fired. They brought in a game, 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.320 the new motherfuckers. I think they had brought in Ron 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.520 Sweeney and a couple of motherfuckers and they didn't know 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.760 what they was doing beforehand. So I just decided to 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.600 say fuck it and did my last record, and I 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:43.120 was it. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:47.160 Yeah, before we before we go into this conversation with 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:48.520 my men and the music, because we got a lot 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.240 to talk about, bro, I gotta, you know, we gotta 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.120 dig in the trash can a little bit and talk 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.160 about the news and goings on and the musics of 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.160 what's going on the internet land right now. You know. 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:01.600 When I was on my way up here, my phone 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.199 was blowing up. The people was telling me, Man, did 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.280 you see the stuff with Diddy? You know, did you 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.880 see the stuff that's going on with Diddy Man? I said, wow, 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.920 Now they don't trug meet Mills all up in this 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:15.400 mess man and talking about him, Usher and Usher and 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.880 they got a thing to where some dude that's suing 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:22.520 them from a lessener. Mm hmm if I'm if I'm 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.840 not mistaken, it's just like, man. 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.280 Yeah, I have no idea. What. Yeah, I know you 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:33.280 don't do it try to. I believe that motherfucker is innocent, 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:37.760 proven guilty, and and and and I'm with all of 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:38.560 that ship too. 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:42.200 But I've learned right now to just stay the fuck 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.959 off my phone when it comes to looking for you know, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:51.400 because man, when I was in when I was overseas, man, 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:52.600 it's just. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:53.880 They don't do all that over there do that. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.920 Motherfuckers wasn't on their phone and worried about Instagram and 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:02.080 and and social media and all that shit, and it 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.800 just you know, I got time to not have to 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.920 fuck with it because everybody knew I was overseas on tour. 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:17.200 So it's just crazy how every time you can go 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.000 on your phone, it's just some shit. That's that's what 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.400 kind of fucked me up and wore me down because 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:30.679 it's just like everybody is on some shit man, just 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:36.040 like and it like no, no bullshit, like everybody is 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.720 on some ship to where I'd be trying to look 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:45.240 for a little sense of normalcy with motherfuckers, Like it 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.440 is a nigga just gonna be normal today. You know, 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.000 can can a nigga wake up today and not see 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:56.439 this nigga talk about this nigga or this nigga exposed 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:01.480 this nigga or this don happen or that that like 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:02.000 and I'm. 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:03.640 Gonna tell you the say it. That's part about it, man. 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.800 Like the whole thing with Benzeno, you have people away. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.640 You see what I'm saying. It's just shit, man, It's 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.880 just it's just a g shit. 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.520 Say was this right? The stuff with Bzino, This grown 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.679 man is on their crime and people think this is 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.400 a joke. I'm like, man, a lot of these dudes 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.760 got mental stuff going on. Man, They need some help. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.440 Like my boy, my man Benzino shut off to Benzino. 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.280 He a friend of the show. He's been on here before. 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.439 You know, you had Benzeno, you had the stuff with Kodak. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:35.400 Talked to Benzino not even like maybe a month ago, 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.200 like you know so that I mean, not like whatever, 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:44.280 but it's just like it's just a gang of shit man, 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.319 And I don't know like the end game is it 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.240 for is it for money? Is it for popularity? Is 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.719 it to is it the bush your status? 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.440 You know what I think? Though, bro, me and you, 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.119 now we coming here and we do this show faithfully 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.760 every week. You've always shown up unless it's just like 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.400 an act of God. That's the one way we ain't 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.679 here right right. We just had us some time off 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.800 because we always take time off from the last season. 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.000 This season, people you know, hit me up online when 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.240 the show coming back. It's like, damn, I'm not a machine. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.000 I need I'm an actual human being. Me and eight 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.920 are human beings. We need a break sometimes. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.560 Oh yeah, you know said I was gonna come in 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.720 last week. I was fresh off the plane. Man, I 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.360 was gonna come in. But you know you gotta take 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.080 a little time, yeah, you. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.960 Know, cause I was like I was on my death 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.160 bed last week though. I was as sick as a dog. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:32.440 You know. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.400 So it's like you look at this and this is 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.280 what I want to go back to segway into this 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.000 today in today's market, like we were talking about the 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:45.400 beginning of the show. Prior to the show starting, everybody 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:52.280 has a podcast. Nowadays it's everything. Yeah, everybody was starting 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:58.320 to wrap around ninety seven. Rapping to me felt like 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.160 a thing that was special. Everybody didn't try to do 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:02.600 it back in the day. You know, it wasn't a 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.520 million people rapping. But then once people saw that there 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:10.840 was some monetary value in becoming a rapper, you had everybody. 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.640 Everybody wanted to become a rapper. I ain't gonna say 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.520 an MC because MC is MC. You were m C eight. 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.200 Here's your name, MC eight. You know you were MC. 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:21.320 You're a storyteller. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:27.360 Yeah, we took pride and creating stories, you know, from 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:32.720 youth life or or just from what the shit we 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:38.960 seen as kids, because shit was valued differently when I 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.640 grew up, you know, five six seven years old. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.680 Times were different. Was it gang banging and shit? 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:47.080 Yeah? 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.760 Was it niggas selling dope and going to jail and shit? Yeah? 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:57.840 But man, man, did these cameras and these phones and 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.320 these social media stages made and have get like like 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.480 you said, like it used to be like nigga. I know, 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.720 I knew I wasn't finna be no basketball player. You 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.960 get me, But now you can't. You can't do that. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.640 You feel me. Now, today you got a thousand motherfuckers 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.960 finna sign their kids up for basketball knowing damn well, 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:20.240 Nigga shouldn't be playing back. 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.280 They're doing it for the wrong reasons. You get me, 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:25.400 Fuck it. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.920 All you gotta do is put in the motherfucking laptop, 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.480 a couple of little speakers in the microphone in the 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:31.560 corner in your kitchen. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:37.080 Everybody's a rapper, now, you get me. Fuck it. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.880 I'm gonna find a beat program on fucking Internet and 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.520 start doing some one two one two beats. Everybody a 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:51.600 producer now, Like I knew what position to play, I 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.920 knew I could MC, but Nigga ain't finna get up 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.000 there and try to DJ just because we got speakers 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.440 here and I mean turntables and ship and I'm nigga 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.840 fucked that. I'm DJ eight now, Nigga, I couldn't motherfucking 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.479 scratch a record or transform and do none of that 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:09.960 ship and I'm not gonna fake the funk to do. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:10.720 You get me. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:15.080 I'm gonna play my position today. Motherfuckers don't know that. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.600 Like I tell you, every time we get on here, 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:22.159 some people have people today have a problem with being 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.960 just normal, problem with that. I fucked that. I can't 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.760 be nigga. I'm finna be the next this, next that 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.360 or next that. When you could just be your motherfucker itself. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.640 And this man when he came in, he pretty much 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:40.800 because you gotta remember, prior to miser remember we was clowning. 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:42.960 We was paving fun with the lines. I'll talk about 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.359 the then and then then then then everything sounded like 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:47.280 a planet of rock beat. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.160 Everything was techno for everything. 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.879 Was techno, and this man came in and it started 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:57.880 getting a little gangster. So we gonna go. We're gonna 0:17:57.880 --> 0:17:59.720 go from the We're gonna go from the beginning is 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.399 but I got a Tolka's part was such a big 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.639 part of your life? Right when did you come in 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.480 and decided it was time to shake shit up? 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.120 Second I walked in the door, what did you see? 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.720 Because La had you know, eight had his own theory 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.560 about La real. He said, man, it was what. 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.720 Well, I mean, it was wide open, like I would 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.639 you know. I was always somebody who just loved music. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:27.080 So I loved rap music, so I loved Doctor Dre 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.280 the chronic. I loved uh you know, Snoop Dog. I 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.359 loved all the easye I loved I drive up and 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.840 listen to Julio G and kDa, you know, and Tony 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.639 G and the Mixed Masters and you know, all battle 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.600 Cat and all of those guys. And you know, when 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:45.679 I got there, that was my goal was to emulate kDa, 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:50.400 but bring it back on that level and make hip 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.520 hop the number one format in the world. Because they 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.879 just said we couldn't do that. So I was just like, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.320 fuck you, of course we could, you know, because if 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:02.320 you go anywhere anywhere where, you'd hear rap in the streets. 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.840 Like for instance, you know, when I first played Ain't 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.800 No Fun in Morning Drive, people had a coronary, you 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.160 know what I mean. Management freaked out, So I literally 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.840 had to put it in our research to show them 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.400 that it would test more than our current records. 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.159 And that was a like record to me, you know, 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.640 even though they subject matter, you know, Ain't no Fun 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:22.840 if the homies can't have nothing, Yeah, but that was 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:24.639 a fun record. That's not like a record that should 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:25.399 have been on the regular to me. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.960 Well, but the thing was is it was it wasn't 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.840 really sensorable, you know what I mean. Like even when 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.000 you muted the stuff, you knew what they was saying. Definitely, 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.360 you know what I mean. So, I mean I had 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.760 some barriers to overcome, but I proved them each time. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.000 And like, for instance, I put Dray and Snoop together 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:46.280 for two thousand and one. It wasn't for two thousand 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.600 and one. It was because I wanted to see the show. 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.480 So we did it in Hawaii and did a whole 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:55.440 contest around it so that literally I could see the show. 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.879 This is dope, man, you know. So you just pretty 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:02.160 much got the have your own party like so you said, 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:04.240 I'm gonna do this, so you just like you power. 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:06.520 Was my personality. Sorry, it's all good. 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.400 So you just like like you programming your own playlist 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:11.119 on the iPhone right now. You said, I want to 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.040 see this and this, let's put this together. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:17.800 If you let the ultimate rap fan into a building 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.879 and said you have a transmitter, that's what it was. 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:23.640 That's what it was. So so tell me. So when 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:25.679 you first came in, you said you started right off 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.240 the rip, like we go shake some stuff up. Oh yeah, 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:30.919 And then you had this monster of a record label 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.920 which was deaf ro. Did you hear about the ass 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:35.359 whoopers and everything that was going on? Hell? 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.280 Yeah, I was friends with Johnny J. Johnny J was 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.480 my first mentor in production. Yeah, resk in peace Johnny J. Yeah, 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.200 rec Johnny J. And Ronnie King. Shout out to Ronnie King, 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:46.639 and you know, those were like the first people that 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.399 I met when I came to LA. So you know, 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.639 it was right as you know all that was going on, 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:56.680 and Johnny actually gave me unconditional love by Tupac and 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:00.320 it was exclusive content for us, but it made death 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.760 throw a little mad. Yeah, yeah, so they I ended 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:06.040 up getting notes on my car and all this stuff. 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:08.880 But I ended up meeting Sugar and I just found 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:11.080 out if you treat people with respect or get respect. 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:11.639 So that was that. 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.880 Now, your first interaction with Shug, how was that? Because 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:16.720 I'm pretty sure you the radio dudes, so I'm pretty 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:19.000 sure he was freaking you nice. And just for the record, 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:21.560 Shug wasn't out here whooping on everybody. Now like some 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:23.399 of that stuff was kind of blew up. He was 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.880 whooping some asss, but everybody wouldn't get in the ass 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:26.320 whooped them. 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:29.840 Well, he he had just gotten out of jail, and 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:33.080 the Anaheim Police Department came to me. We had a 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:36.080 powerhouse and they came to me and they said, we're 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:38.480 gonna shut your powerhouse down. We hear Sugar Knights coming. 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:40.960 Because I had Snoop, I had Corrupt, I had Nate, 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:43.080 I had you know what I mean, I had everybody 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.680 that used to be on his label. So they said, 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:47.080 you know we're gonna shut it down. I said, well, 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.440 why isn't somebody just call him and invite him. Then 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:52.960 we'll know where he's at. And they said, great, go ahead, 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:58.080 and I was like me and so I ended up 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:00.520 calling death Row. And the first time I called, I 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:03.280 remember Cedric who picked up the phone hung up on me, 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:06.200 didn't believe it was me from power calling for Shug. 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.280 And then I called back again and he's like, dude, 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:11.720 people just don't call her here for Sugar a lot, 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:13.800 you know what I mean. And he's like, he's at home. 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:16.160