WEBVTT - Livin Proof | ROC Solid w/ Memphis Bleek 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:03.560 Big with the year Memphis. 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.120 I'm back at it. Niggas, notice the difference. 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:08.760 Just pro pressy stones. 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:13.880 Yeah, y'all back with another episode of this rock solid podcast, doing. 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:14.560 It like no other. 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.840 Like I told you, you see anybody on this platform and. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:19.000 Mean one of two things. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.720 Ain't my brother and they silent, And this one right 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:22.600 here means both. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:24.920 This is my guy right here, living proof. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.120 I mean want to welcome you to the building, my gym, 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.920 living my bro since before rap. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:32.880 That's a fact to get load. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:37.839 Days rock and Fella days to after rap to rock Solid. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:39.680 Like you know what I'm saying, this is my guy 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.640 from training will days. I don't think niggas understand that Lesend. 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:49.320 What's up my brother cheers man, you cops is a 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:49.879 vibe man. 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:50.520 You know what I'm saying. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.040 Gold everything we trended Dad James and this ship at 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:54.640 these niggas. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.000 No we getting money around here. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.720 That part. It's so Bleizzle's brother. You've been my g 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.280 I've been chilling man, you know, keeping it easy, you 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:03.760 know yo. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:05.960 So I want to take people back cause you know 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.160 they might know you from a lot of records we 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:10.319 did together. You know what I'm saying. But I want 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.720 them to know the relationship. Right, I remember being the 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:18.000 young guy. You know Jea K from My Projects. He's 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.520 about ten. Jeda was probably like eight right right. My 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:26.080 cousin lived in Cooper named t K huh and you 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:27.880 was his best friend living Proof. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:28.320 That's right. 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.240 We pull up over there, We over there. Me and 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:34.000 Jeda like, yo, we got bars. Living Proof had bars. 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.399 He's like yo, I'm in the group. My guy Joel Ortiz, 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:39.920 these guys was like eight nine. 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:41.200 He was like yo. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.119 And then we all just clicked up and was moving around. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.240 So how was those days growing up? 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:47.400 Like you know what I mean? 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.040 With you and Joel or Teas, did you even think 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:51.000 y'all bet this far? 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:53.960 I mean, it's crazy for me and Joel because he 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.280 went the eminem and sign with doctor Drake, and then 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.480 I came with you that's right, and went with Hole 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.080 So and we all from the same building. We all 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.000 landed in the same building and Cooper Projects. So that's 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.560 that's when you look at that story. That's amazing, you 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:09.200 know what I'm saying. 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.320 It's crazy, bro, Like a lot of people don't even 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:15.520 know the connection with you Joel or me, you and him, 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.760 that bro y'all. When I first met y'all, y'all boys 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:20.880 was rhyming, y'all was in the group, and we all 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.359 was just trying to perfect our skills, trying to help 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:28.000 each other get better, walking around different projects, battering niggas. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:29.799 I used to have y'all niggas in Marshy with me 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.839 going crazy living like you just was always the one 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.919 I felt like that was a little bit more advanced 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:36.799 than everybody else. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.480 That's why I took you on my side. 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.560 And then later on when Joel got his skills up, 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:44.280 Eminem grabbed him before. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.720 I could grove. Yeah, yeah, that's what I bought him 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.480 through baseline and all that. So beginning he wasn't. 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.239 Thinking like that back then. Remember he used to be 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:52.160 a little bit quiet. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.160 Yeah, he was a little quiet, a little bit lost. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.239 Stan dolphis even in the street. You know what I'm saying. 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.480 We were gonna street it. So he's just trying to 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.000 figure it out. But you know, you know, the crew 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.200 love We always bring everybody around when we get an 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:04.040 in position. 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.160 Definitely what I mean, And so I just want the 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.800 people to know, like, who was some of your influences 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:09.760 and music growing up? 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:15.480 Oh, definitely definitely Nas, Definitely Jay, definitely big in POC. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.960 I mean those are the top four. My fifth one 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.280 on my list would be Pun. You know he was 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.359 He was a great Yeah, Peter Punt. He was a 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.960 He was a great, great lyricist, one of the best, 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.639 you know what I mean. So as far as being 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.960 influenced that way and wanting a rap, I mean, when 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.120 I first heard our it ain't hard to tell. It 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.320 was crazy. It was on from there. But not only that. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.040 You when you used to come through the hood and battle, 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.800 you know what I'm saying. You used to come bring 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.880 me to Marcy probably was like eleven ten years old. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.560 Used to take me to the other side with Batman 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:53.400 and them rest in peace Batman, Like, Yo, listen, man, 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.720 here this little dude's spit. I think I was ahead 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:59.119 of my time then, you know what I'm saying. Definitely, Yeah, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.040 That's that's what got me to get low. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.960 Man, That's what I was just about to say. Like, 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:05.600 that's what I was just about to say. 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.480 Like when we started to get low days, I remember, 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.680 you know, it was me Jeter h at first, and 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.760 then it was like, yo, we gotta go school. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:15.120 Pee. 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.280 I remember coming tomorrow to Cooper. Yo, this is the 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:20.120 craziest shit. 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:20.360 Man. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.600 I ain't see P in a while, right, but we like, Yo, 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:23.839 we're gonna start this label. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.080 Let me go check my dog. Go down to the projects. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:28.200 Some accing niggas around. 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:28.360 Yo. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.520 We're proofat, We're proofat. Niggas like, yo, he moving around somewhere. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.039 So I go to the White Castle that's up the block. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.600 I'm like, eventually when I'm done here it's the hood, 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.839 I'm gonna see P somewhere leaving White Castle. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:42.400 Who coming down the block? 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.760 Back by the projects? Right? Living? Right? But you wasn't 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.320 just walking normal. You was hype and you was like, 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.200 I'm like, yo, Pee, what up? My nigga? Come ons, 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:52.920 go to the studio. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:53.960 I want high let you. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.440 You're like, nah am, these niggas are playing with me, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.440 and I'm like, yo, what happened? You Like Nigga pulled 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.440 up the shirt had the joint. Remember you remember what 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.240 you said to me? Yeah, what you said, Yeah, niggas, niggas. 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.320 Niggas try to jump out on me and get a 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.840 little crazy. But Nigga said, niggas tried to kidnap me. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.920 I'm gonna kill these niggas. Bleak I'm like those those 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.720 those were false accusations because because what happened was, you know, 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.200 like like my cousin said, you're not tough enough unless 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.720 something happen to you. So what happened was there was 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.480 a couple of dudes that just jumped out of car 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.280 thought thinking that they was gonna do what they was 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.120 gonna do. But I'm you know, I'm extra gangster, so 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.920 that that ain't happen, you know what I'm saying. So 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.720 when I seen Blizzle, obviously I had to hamm on me. 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.920 When you came and got me, I was actually controlling 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:40.240 the block. You was moving around like that's what I'm like, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.280 where the fuck? P ha? This nigga came around with 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.640 the eagle eye, like now I'm on the hunt for 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:45.279 these niggas. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.880 Tried to spin through. Yeah, I was spinning. I'm like, Pete, 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.720 come on, man, let's go to the steward. Chop it 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:51.160 up man. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.320 Yeah. Yeah, you came to the stew with the rascal 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.920 or Yeah, still had the joint on me, man, But 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.200 I'm right off the block. Though. It was treacherous. I 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.240 remember that at that day vividly, bro, because even when 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.400 we was leaving, he was like, Yo, I'm gonna call 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.080 a cab, and I'm like, nah, I can't let you 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:10.760 jump in the cab with the Rosco niggag. That's a 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.560 fact word up fat And that right there changed everything. 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.240 No, That's what I was gonna ask you. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.120 What was your transition you felt like from because bro, 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:25.080 you was just fresh off the block to Baseline studio 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.719 and then everything from their chain. 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.920 So how was it for you going through that? 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.400 My transition was when I when I caught all them 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.520 cases out of ten murder robbery, right facing the fire 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.159 of twenty five, and then I get back the baseline, 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.440 I'm like, damn, I'm gonna miss all this. And I 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.000 just had a kid and all that man man man 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:48.360 man right right right, my son? Who heard you know 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.280 what I'm saying. But I had them cases right and 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.760 I and and I happened to beat the case. So 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.680 so Lord Willing, when I beat the case, I was 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.600 able to go back to baseline and see what I 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.400 really had in front of me. You see what I'm saying. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.560 And then you gave me the talk like, yo, listen, 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.160 you calling me for bill money. I'm getting I was 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.480 getting locked up a lot that year. You calling me 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.680 for bill money and this that and the third what 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:13.640 you're gonna do? We just spent a million dollars on 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.360 the studio budget. H just got locked up. What you're 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.320 gonna do? We'll hold near you. I'm like, this is 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:20.960 this is a trick question. What you mean what I'm 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.560 gonna do? I'm gonna do this, that's right right. So 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.800 from there was the actual transition from me changing you 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:28.680 know what I'm saying, and trying to make it better 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.280 for myself because I felt like I didn't want to 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.160 lose out on an opportunity that was right in front 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:33.320 of me. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:34.720 That's a fact, bro, you know what I mean? 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.160 We done told the world, did numerous records, my nigga, Yo, 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.360 what's what's one of your favorite cities you think we hit? 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.400 Like? Definitely definitely Miami. Oh Miami. When I when I 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.800 got to the Yams, I wanted to move there. You 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.720 heard me. It was a moviember. It's different. I'm twenty 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.720 years old, I'm off the block. We're going on promo tour. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.320 We hit Miami. It's like there's nothing never seen before. Bro. 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.440 It was different, man, the girls was different. Back then. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.600 It was it was it was crazy. It was no week. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:08.960 We got situations now, so I ain't gonna say how 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:10.360 crazy it was, but it was crazy. 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.960 It was crazy, just one in Mickey D's Little Burger Kids. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:15.640 It was crazy. 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:16.680 It was a little cool. 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:22.640 Now, girls want felipe child crustaceans expensive listen. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.760 We had the group we had, We had the groupies 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.520 before fifty fucked it up? Yo, right, Yo, we had 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.920 the groupies before fifty came in at oh three and 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:32.199 made that groupie. 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.319 Song group be fucked it up groupie love. That's what 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:35.280 I said. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:39.079 I'm not a groupie right, like Yo, what happened? It 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.000 was just cool with it. They was traveling from state 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:43.200 to state to see us. Yo. 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:45.880 It was all over the place, Yo, y'all niggas was 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:46.640 all some difference. 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:47.400 Its crazy, y'all. 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.240 Niggas were first with the Canada with me, Yo, Toronto. 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.199 It's when I thought, that's what I'm like, Yo, I 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.040 think I lost my artists. Man, Right, we wake up 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.880 in the morning, it's time to leave, like yo, Win 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.680 is proof? Where's Jeter? You know you're knocking on niggas doors. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.000 You're doing room call hold, you know, call the room, 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.679 send security the room. Niggas open up the door and 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.560 these niggas. It's not dead, right, yo, Where these niggas 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:13.880 at outside? 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.160 Remember back then niggas had beeper cell phones, was very 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:21.000 very slim. Niggas get night till weekends. Cuz right right right, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.960 especially when he was out of town, get out of town. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.720 So I'm hitting niggas, yo. We got niggas at niggas 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.920 like Yo, we went to these chicks crib. I'm like, yo, 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.880 are y'all crazy? You don't leave the hotel with go 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.199 to a chick crib. You don't know in the country. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.880 We got from right right, right, right right right, so 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.720 man right cool, like we're good. We ain't know no better, 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.760 but we was learning and look them lessons, them lessons 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.920 we got when we was kids, traveled onto the adulthood 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.640 right because simple things like knowing where you at what 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.760 you're doing. One time we was in La right all 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.559 of us poem like yo, listen, any of y'all know 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.599 where the hotel at right now? Nobody knew where it 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.079 was at right right from there from there on, I 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.000 knew as soon as we get there, any location, look 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.480 at the hotel phone and got the address on that 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.600 Write that down. So we know where we're going because 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.520 we was moving so much. And that's what I mean 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:17.280 what I'm saying. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.760 My reason in asking y'all at do anybody know where 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.679 the hotel at was? Because remember at that time LA 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.880 was so up that remember when them shots ring out, 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:31.200 everybody scattered like roaches, everybody running in different directions. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:32.959 And the last thing you want to do is run 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.360 into the drama or run to where you don't even 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.280 know where you're going, right, you know what I mean? 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.599 So you got to know where you're going, just you 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.640 know anything that happen. So I felt like you had 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.640 to be on point anywhere you went, man. So I 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.000 tried to always make sure y'all understood that because the 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.079 last thing I wanted to do was come back to 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:52.680 Cooper and tell your. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:56.400 Moms right right, right right right, of course, you know 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.439 what I'm saying. Of course we were. It was no 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.040 playbook on it. Check this out. You can't got me 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.120 off the block right straight up? Six hundred brings before 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.240 it's the mate back boom, They're like, yo, who that 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.719 on the who that pulling up? I'm like, man, that's 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.120 bleak right there. So now we're on This is a 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.559 time when you couldn't just get in the rap game. Right. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.040 This is a time when it was hard. There's no YouTube, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.679 no dishtro Kid, none of that, none of that. You 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.439 had to get that deal. Pulled up straight to the block. 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.800 Came to get me. We slide the Chicago. Were in 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.920 Chicago right for like two days. I'm in the hunt's 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.600 getting my head done these pitches. Its grinding word. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:35.440 He found some chickens, some. 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:39.480 Chicks everywhere had the little braids. Getting my hair done everywhere. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.360 This bitch pulling my hair out my fucking head though 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.440 you hit me from there, you know I cut my hands. 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.719 It's then you like I cut my hair after that 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.800 you almost know, but right on my hand. 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:52.240 Baby. 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.520 So it's time to go back to New York, right, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:59.679 shout out the big wrong. That's crazy, y'all goes interesting? 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.600 I said interesting. You know a lot of interesting things 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:03.120 with the shap. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.040 One of my best, my favorite times with you, my G. 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.800 When I I was like, now, my G, I think 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:11.959 my G he on it, he got it, he feel it. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:13.760 That's who we did. One those six in park. 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.360 You remember that, Yes, if I brought you to one 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.680 those six in park and was like, all right, let's 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.080 go because this is the first show you started hype 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.040 man it for me, holding me down right right, and 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.880 went up there and took over the show because this 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:30.280 is what we did, we balling. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.080 So we performed we Balling too. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:38.240 Then, My g I always felt like that record solidified 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.120 you of who you are in this game. What was 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.640 your thoughts on that joint? I mean it made me 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.679 a dominant baby to this day, I'm still legendary, you know, 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.319 saying the one thing you did well, you came through 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.560 and you made a young young god legendary for life. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.600 You know what I'm saying. So we Balling done by 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.199 Scott Scott Storch. Oh you know what I mean. Wait, 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:02.040 young kresh knew that right, I'm produced it. Shout out 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:03.680 to Scott. He was in there with the big blunt, 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:05.640 him and his man Joe. You know what I say. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:10.079 Let's talk about that session because Hole, if you want 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.400 to really be technical, you know how we got that beat. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:18.080 How we got that beat because Hole violated, at least 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:19.840 in my mind it was violations. 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.679 Remember, Hove had Scott Storch to the studio member for 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.560 a week because him and this man smoking him big Blunt. Now, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:27.800 niggas was rolling. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.600 Gloss of hill right, yo, crazy. So he was cooking 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.760 up for like a week. Every beat he was playing 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.719 JJ was like nine nine. So it got to like 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:39.240 the fifth day the way, I'm. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:43.400 Like, right, you can't just keep nine Scott's storch beats like. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.360 So I went in the room with Scott Jake nine 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.040 a few Scott's let me get that one right there. 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.280 He was like you like that, It's like, let me 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.240 get that beat up. That's how he got the beat 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.520 is because Jay was turning down ship and I'm sitting 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.840 in there just listening, like you know, like the right, right, 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.400 right right, And that's how we got it. 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.320 And I remember calling you the stupid he heard heard 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.960 the joint. Remember we put out verses first. Yeah, before 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:10.960 we got Chris. 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:12.760 Got on her. That's a fact. Shout out to Chris, 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.439 shout out. Got a young gun. We called young guns. Yeah, 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:16.440 I'm like your gun. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.120 I need you to say this ship like Tupac seven. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:20.680 Yeah, that's a fact. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.600 And that's how I got the hook. I took to 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.720 Tupac different lines like we balling ready for all. 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.920 Say I hear it call. We got to remix that 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.840 part still balling straight up, still balling. Yeah. 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:41.440 Still like After that, we went and did a few mixtapes. 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.640 We did aya, ma, Yeah, that's when I bought all 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.160 the mixtapes on the road. Yeah, we did mine. You 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.200 had your mixtape bubbling, Yeah, and speak on that, man. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.240 I pressed a five thousand mixtapes right and me am 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.480 called born. We go back on the road as usual, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.680 and we out there in the malls just selling them 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.880 twenty thirty dollars each pushing out there bubbling. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.520 He was pushing the TA you know what I'm saying, moving, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.800 had the merchandise. Everything you was. I think you was 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:09.880 ahead of the time of what the young boys is 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.120 doing now. Yeah, because I remember I used to look 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.360 at you like you bringing your own CDs and your 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.600 T shirt. Well, it used to be like, nah in them, 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.160 it's time to get that brand. Yeah, and now look 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:20.760 the whole game doing the same ship. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.480 You was the first person I seen on the road 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.760 pushing your T shirt and your CDs. Man, that's a fot. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.640 Always respected you for that. Your grind was ten years 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:30.760 ahead of everybody else. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.360 Bro. Good looking Bro, that's a fact. That's a fact. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:38.240 Like fucking even even with bringing it either we're bringing 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.000 the pro tune to the project. You know a lot 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.200 of listen this this, this, this is what Jim Jones did, right, 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.360 He claimed his spot right, shout out the Coppo. Right, 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.520 that's the bro. He claimed the spot. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.760 The fashion Coppo both better than not that part. 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:57.040 At that part they got out the Coppo already brook salute, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.880 salute to the bro. But Coppo Coppo came in. He's 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.320 claiming his spot with with the chrome hearts, and he's 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.600 not letting that go, you know, for the for the culture, 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:07.760 for the for the new kids out here. So I'm 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.760 gonna claim my spot. Me and you made up big homie. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.120 So so anybody that's yelling big homie out there, that 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.720 term that slang, Me and you made that up in 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.600 the in the baseline and baseline in the a room, 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.200 we start calling j big homie. And then he took 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.240 it on and put it in the records. So now 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.400 everybody worldwide right now, like, yo, that's my big homie. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:30.880 I'm from me and you, Bro. 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.760 I'm gonna definitely take some credit for some slang that 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.119 started in our crew. Of course, you know Don DeMarco 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:38.720 starting my. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:43.600 G mm hmm. Think about that's a fact as him saying, 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.680 what up, my guy? Right right right, right, right right, 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.120 and then we'd be like, yo, stop calling me, like 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.080 all right, they changed the m G. Right every day 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.040 he's like my G G G right, shout out the dawn, 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:55.840 remember hold. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.520 And it was mad at us for saying my G 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.040 so much, your tool member, your niggas keep saying my 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:02.600 G for everything. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:08.760 Because you're my G. Like that crazy. The whole fucking 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.240 rap game, the old world, everything is my G. But 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.440 that shit started with us, on Tall, that's a fact. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.879 A lot of the slang that's moving around today started 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.560 with us. We jumped. We are the culture. 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:18.920 That's a fact. 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.720 Bro. We started a line ship my G. All the 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.440 pro tools, everybody recording in their own house. I taught 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.439 That's another thing. We brought that to the hood. Guru 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.160 shout out my God, the Oracle Yoda of the rock 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.120 as I cast shout out the Guru, rout. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.760 Guru taught everybody. He taught me how to use pro tools. 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.600 Man Cali too, So I cassed it down to the crew. 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:44.159 All the artists that came through, we bought them inboxes laptops, 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.720 so that way, when you left Baseline, you go home. 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.960 You can still record, So it was no reason you 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:51.280 couldn't work, have no records. 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:52.320 It didn't work. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.159 It means you was you was just bullshit. You was 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.520 jerky wreck right right, You was bullshit. So all the 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.560