1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Yo one two was adding Yo this DJ Muggs Live 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: from La Man. Make sure to check me out on 3 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: Bootleg cav podcast. 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Yo boutlet keV podcast Special guests in here. One of 5 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 2: the greatest producers to ever live Ladies and Gentlemen does 6 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: do a lot of interviews, so I feel very privileged 7 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 2: to be sitting down with DJ Muggs. 8 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 3: What's adding brother, welcome man, feel thanks for having me man. 9 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, sol Assassin's Three Death Valley is album. 10 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 3: Yeah man, And what a track listing. Wow, man, some 11 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 3: motherfucker's on there. 12 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 2: Some motherfucker's on there for real. 13 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, some of my favorite new rappers man, Like you know, 14 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 3: Body James shout. 15 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 2: Outs to Bodie. You've got ghost Face on there. 16 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 3: Yeah oh yeah. Then we got some of the classics 17 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 3: and ship yeah, ghost and Gun. 18 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 2: Shout out to TF man. I was gonna say, like, 19 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 2: it's crazy because I remember the source advertisements for the 20 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 2: very first Soul Assassins album, which was what ninety seven 21 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 2: or ninety eight seven? Yeah, man, So like fast forward. 22 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 2: I don't even want to talk about how many years 23 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 2: that is because it'll age you and me a lot. 24 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 2: But for you, like what has changed about putting together 25 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 2: a soul assassin's album after, you know, twenty five years 26 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,839 Speaker 2: later or whatever it is, and what kind of still 27 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,199 Speaker 2: fuels you to be so passionate about this shit because 28 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 2: you were active still to this day. You know, you're 29 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 2: always dropping projects, joint projects, working with up and coming artists. 30 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 3: Man, yeah, part one was back then. 31 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: It was pre mixtapes, before mixtapes got really crazy, So 32 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: doing a record like this was something unique, you know 33 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: what I mean. 34 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 3: There was only a few motherfuckers doing. 35 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: That where I just a lot of people was asking 36 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: me to do tracks for them for their albums, and 37 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: I was like, man, I'm good man. I'd just rather 38 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: just build my group and do my shit, but you 39 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 1: all can come and be on my shit. Then once 40 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 1: the mixtape Eric kicked off, everything was just mixtapes. So 41 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: then it was just it wass nothing really special about 42 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: making these records nor more because you can go get 43 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: a fly as mixtape. So I was like, I don't 44 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: think I'm gonna do another one, So I just I 45 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: record all the time. So recording the homies come through 46 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: record record, stacking songs, stacking songs, and I was like, 47 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: I got some shit right here. What am I gonna 48 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: do and I was like, I was. I had three 49 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: or four different ideas of the way to put it out, 50 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 1: and then I was just gonna probably drop a song 51 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: every two months for the next three years. And then 52 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 1: gold Watch came through and I was like, Yo, I 53 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: need you to help me figure something out, man, I 54 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: need to build something visually for this record, because I 55 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: feel like just doing videos. 56 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 2: Yeah the video I saw that. I only saw the trailer, 57 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 2: but the trailer looked like a fucking full fledged cinematic yeah. 58 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm tired of videos, man, what 59 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: can we do brocause I'm not putting this record on. 60 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: I was like, let's let's build something that's like ten 61 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes long. He's like, man, that's a that's that's 62 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: gonna be hard. And I was like, you know shit. 63 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: And we started. We shot and pre prepped for like 64 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,119 Speaker 1: a month. I ended up shooting in Death Valley, Oakland, 65 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: San Francisco, Vegas, LA and ended up being a thirty 66 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: four minute movie. 67 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:55,359 Speaker 2: Crazy. 68 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 3: Yeah. We shot videos. 69 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: We shot music videos, and they're in the movie on 70 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 1: the TV like in the trap House, Mayhem's videos on 71 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:05,239 Speaker 1: the TV in the Trap House, Rock Mars he's. 72 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 3: Building a bomb. 73 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 2: That's crazy. 74 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: And you know his video. I'm watching his video in 75 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: my house while he's building a bomb. In the video, 76 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: I'm holding the bomb, so it's psychedelic. It's like, I 77 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: don't know if you're familiar with Alejandro Jodoroski, So I've 78 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: compared more like a Jada Roski meets Pink Floyd with 79 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: hip hop. 80 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy because I feel like, not like you 81 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 2: said back in the day, what you did was unique, 82 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 2: and I feel like in today's climate, doing a thirty 83 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 2: four minute like mini movie is unique as well. And 84 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 2: we've seen like movies to go along with albums. I 85 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 2: feel like people don't do that shit nomore because they're 86 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 2: like so worried about like the microwaveable attention span of 87 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,119 Speaker 2: people instead of like, yo, let me do something dope, unique, creative. 88 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 3: Yeah. 89 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: I did it for me, man, I can give a fuck, 90 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I did it all for me, 91 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: Like how can I keep myself entertained? Yeah, and how 92 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: can I do something that's just fund just to get 93 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: up and do everything? I'm a little challenging something I 94 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: ain't done before. So that was the driving forced it 95 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, I done did everything I've set out 96 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: to do years ago, So you know, just keep just 97 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: keep tricking my brain and stretching myself and having a 98 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: good time doing this shit. 99 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 2: Is that what keeps you going? It's like, I'm doing 100 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 2: this for me. 101 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 3: Really, I do it for me. 102 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: But you know, at the same time, man, I love 103 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,799 Speaker 1: I love the kind of music we make, this underground 104 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: hip hop shit that it's nothing different than I've always made. 105 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: But you know, I figure I can come here now 106 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: and just champion what's going on and just build build 107 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: this culture and make it bigger and stretch it, make 108 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: it stronger, you know what I mean, inspire the youth, 109 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: and then also give guidance and and and let them 110 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: tap into my fan base, you know what I mean, 111 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: and grab some of these youngsters and like show them, 112 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: show them the way. 113 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 2: Now, it's been dope to see, like your run just continue. 114 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 2: And I just had to talk with al recently because 115 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 2: I'm always trying to push rappers to do albums with 116 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 2: Alchemists that you know, I just did this with Jada 117 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 2: Kiss on the podcast. I was like, why have you 118 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:53,919 Speaker 2: done a whole album with Alchemists? 119 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 3: No? Shit crazy, that'd be crazy. 120 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 2: But I'd like to see you, like you know, you're 121 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 2: like I always working with artists and like doing like 122 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 2: for pledged like bodies of work, whether it's like Jay 123 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 2: Worthy or may Him Loran, Like you're very much like 124 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 2: you know, it feels like you're still in your peak 125 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 2: and you're still like, like you said that the underground 126 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 2: shit has changed over the years, the quot unquote underground 127 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 2: hip hop shit has definitely changed from what like it 128 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 2: might have been in like two thousand, two thousand and 129 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 2: one or whatever, but like you're still like fully engaged 130 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 2: and like pushing that culture. And like, to me, that's 131 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 2: that's very dope because you know, just from a DJ perspective, 132 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 2: like I find the little things that keep me still 133 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 2: like motivated and engaged to try to like still listen 134 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 2: to new artists, you know what I mean. And and 135 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 2: so it's just dope to see you still you know, 136 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 2: fully fucking in it. 137 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 3: Bro. 138 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you know, just having a good time, man, 139 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: and you know, just be able to just hang out 140 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: and kick it with the homies and talk some shit, 141 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. 142 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 2: What was the homage to Death Valley Why so So? 143 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 2: Assassin's three Death Valley on. 144 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 3: This because that's the title of the movie. 145 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 2: Okay, that's the movie that comes with it. 146 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 3: It's is Death Valley. 147 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: You know, it's the hottest fucking place on Earth, it 148 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: is you know what I'm saying. So and it's you know, 149 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: and one of the things in the movie is I 150 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: left La to get away from the heat, you know, 151 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: go to Death Valley. 152 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 3: Ironic, right, It's very ironic for sure. 153 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 2: What was that for you? Because you know, there's always 154 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 2: so many when you have so many moving parts on 155 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 2: a body of work. When it comes to getting an 156 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 2: artist to like sign off on stuff, you have to 157 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 2: deal with that kind of stuff. 158 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, every you know, a lot of everybody on this record, 159 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: I have relationships with them in the past, you know. 160 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: So it was pretty easy, man, It was pretty this 161 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 1: this record was pretty easy. There was nothing, nothing crazy. 162 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. And also, like a lot of guys are independent, right. 163 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: Or you know what I'm saying, and they run in 164 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: the game a little bit different these days. Like you know, before, 165 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: dealing with majors and dealing with labels and the sign 166 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: offs and the clearances and the sample clearances. She was 167 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: a headache you know a lot of times. Right now 168 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: you can be under the radar with a lot of 169 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: this ship. 170 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 2: Well, I always static Selected always told me. I was 171 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 2: always like, hey, bro, like you guys clear it clearly samples. 172 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 2: And he's like, man, he's like, look, bro, we just 173 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 2: left you fly. And if we got to get it 174 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 2: clear later, that means it's doing with something. 175 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 1: Basically, if it's under a certain number, they ain't even coming. 176 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 1: They ain't wasting their time, you know, right, and and 177 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: if it pops off later, then you know it's all good. 178 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 2: Well, you know what sucks, dude, is like I don't 179 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 2: know if you've if you've experienced this from your perspective, 180 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 2: but a lot of like major label artists or the 181 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 2: labels will be very specific to make sure, like I'll 182 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 2: play me something with no sample. They don't even want 183 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 2: to clear samples any. 184 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: They don't want to deal with this shit because they 185 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: get hit hard man, Like, like a major is gonna 186 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: have to deal with that shit, you know what I mean. 187 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: And they're gonna get hit because it's a major and 188 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: they know they got bread, so they. 189 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 2: Go different if they don't want to do it. The 190 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 2: lawyer from Universals reaching out as opposed to like. 191 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: It freezes up their whole project. You know, thank god, 192 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: now they just got to pull a song or two 193 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: off a digital streaming side instead of pulling all the 194 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:47,679 Speaker 1: records off the shelves. 195 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 2: That it was a lot easier. Yeah, imagine having to 196 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 2: go to every zero record. 197 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: Five hundred thousand records out of Tower Records, and you 198 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 1: know all that shit that happened. You've seen it happen 199 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: with Biz, You've seen it happen with Truth Hurts, with Dre, 200 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: with the rock Kim song that was a big Bollywood sample. Yeah, 201 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: they put that shit out and that shit got took 202 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: that shit off the shows. 203 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 3: That's a lot of. 204 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: Fucking money to eat you pull in a million pieces 205 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: of vinyl off the shows. 206 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 2: I have a random question that I've always been curious about. 207 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 2: On Obie Trice's album, his first album, there's the song 208 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 2: We All Die One Day, Tony Yao starts off shouting 209 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 2: out soul assassins and then, in my opinion my favorite 210 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 2: eminem versus ever, he shouts out be real said dog, 211 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 2: what was the Was there any sort of soul assassins 212 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 2: connection with that song? Like? Why was like Tony Yeo 213 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 2: shout y'all out? 214 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: Well, here's what it was man. So that song was 215 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: for the next Sol Assassin album. Oh, so that's what 216 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: that song was for. We had started it at that 217 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: time and you know, and it was like I don't 218 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:47,439 Speaker 1: know if I want to do another one at the time, 219 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: and then Obie was working on his record and Paul's 220 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: I got can we use it for Obi when it's 221 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: time to dors, we'll do another one And I was 222 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: like absolutely, no problem was push it that way. But 223 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: that's what that ship was for. 224 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: Crazy, So that was supposed to be on the next 225 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 2: Sol Assassins. Wow when you heard Eminem's verse on that song, 226 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 2: because I think, I truly think it's the best Eminem 227 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 2: verse ever. And I also I think it's the most 228 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 2: underrated song of like that whole era of like g 229 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 2: Unit Shady records. 230 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 3: That song so crazy almost crazy. Yeah. We was managed 231 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 3: by Paul for like six seven years. 232 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, so at the time, you know, we was rolling thick, 233 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: so everything was in the house back then. 234 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 2: So we just had a names up here shout I'm. 235 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:28,959 Speaker 3: Gonna see him in New York next week. I love Neams. 236 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,680 Speaker 2: He's great. He's just like kind of just vintage nineties, 237 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 2: like disrespect. 238 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, all day long. 239 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 2: Man, he told me a story. He was like, yeah, 240 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 2: so you know his lyrics on his due, I mean, 241 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 2: his lyrics all the time are pretty crazy. But he 242 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 2: was like yeah, man, so like me and Paul went 243 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 2: to Spotify and we're in a room full of like 244 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 2: people playing of the album and he's like, that's that 245 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 2: was the one time I felt really awkward because like, 246 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 2: I have a song where I'm talking about slapping the 247 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 2: shit out of women, like if they disrespect and he's like, 248 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 2: you could just see all the women in the meeting 249 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 2: just like bes like visually uncomfortable, and he's like I 250 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 2: had to stop it and be like, guys, this is 251 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 2: all tongue and. 252 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 3: Cheek like like that. That's the best. 253 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 2: That's that early two thousands nineties energy. 254 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, he came with it on this shit too. Boy. 255 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 3: It was good to hear. 256 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. 257 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 3: Man. 258 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:15,439 Speaker 2: What's your favorite song on the album? 259 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 3: Man? Oh shit, I like them all, man. 260 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:20,199 Speaker 1: I think I went through periods or this one was 261 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: my favorite that I recorded, this one, This was my favorite. 262 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: This was my favorite. So right now, man, I'm just 263 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 1: you know, out here just enjoying. 264 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, Like, let's just be clear. You have Scarface 265 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 2: on this album with Freddie Gibbs. You got ev Demo, 266 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 2: Genesis jay Worthy too. I mean, this is crazy method. 267 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 2: Man is Slick Rick? How do you get Slick Rick 268 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 2: on a record in twenty twenty three? 269 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: Just be patient, man, Just just be patient. I reached 270 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: out to you know, it's like pretty much man, the 271 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: homies all came through. I reached out and said, Rick, 272 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: we're doing this. He's a fan, yeah, a fan of mine, 273 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: and he should be and he does. He plays jump 274 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,559 Speaker 1: Around every night in the show, one of his favorite songs. Ever, 275 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: So when I reached out and let him know what 276 00:10:58,559 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: I was doing, He's like, yeah, I got you. Where's 277 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: the beat? Gave him the beat and I had methemat 278 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: on it already, and you know, that was probably like 279 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 1: two years ago that song. 280 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 2: Was been doing. I want to say one of the 281 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 2: first singles was the record with be Real Ran and Cube, right, 282 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 2: And I remember seeing that and being like, Yo, you 283 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 2: don't see mc wren's name anywhere anymore. Nah, like that 284 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:20,959 Speaker 2: that's a big deal to get him in Cube together 285 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 2: on a song in twenty twenty three. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 286 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 2: especially with be Real. Like if you just think about 287 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 2: like La hip hop, Like that's a crazy comedy. 288 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 3: That's what I was thinking, Like what do we do 289 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 3: with this? Man? Like b ro was on like where 290 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 3: do we go with this song? Right here? 291 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: And I was just like, Yo, let's get Cube and 292 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: Ran and Drey and Snoop and Snoop is gonna do 293 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: they just timing, just timing, you know what I mean. 294 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: I just wanted to talk in the intros, He's like 295 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: I got you at the time, and I was like, 296 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 1: I got to turn this shit in now, but give 297 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: me next time for you. 298 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 2: Man, I feel like your production style is so unique, 299 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 2: and it's like I feel like you there's producers these days, 300 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:02,199 Speaker 2: I feel like have kind of lost the sense of 301 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 2: like style, at least the bigger ones. Like I feel 302 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 2: like a lot of these guys's beats are kind of interchangeable, 303 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 2: Like you could tell me that it was produced by 304 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 2: this person or this person. You're like, oh yeah, But 305 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 2: I feel like DJ Muggs your shit is so like 306 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 2: you have your signature sound like and I'm just curious, 307 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 2: like when you first started making beats, what was like 308 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 2: your like where did you draw inspiration from? Man? 309 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: Like, well, first, you know, coming up, man, you had 310 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: to be different and have your own style. 311 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 3: You was whack. You couldn't even use a sample somebody used. 312 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 3: If you did, you was garbage. 313 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 2: And you had to find your own samples. 314 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: Like original samples, like if somebody yeah, if you ah 315 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: those drums, they use those drums because there was something 316 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: about that, you know what I'm saying. And even for cypressmen, 317 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: the way we dressed the slang. We have our own slang, 318 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: you know, dressed, have our own look, have our own 319 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: musical style. So all that was important. 320 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 3: You was whack. You was a bidist. So for me, 321 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 3: I was. 322 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: I grew up with a lot of classic rock around 323 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: and and my mom was in the motown, so I 324 00:12:57,640 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: had a lot of you know, psychedelic classic rock fucking 325 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 1: influences Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Hendricks, but with hip hop, run DMC, COOJ, 326 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: Public Enemy, and then everything Molly mal did, every single 327 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: Molly mag that came out with back in those days, 328 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 1: it seemed like he was reinventing the game with every 329 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: fucking single. 330 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:15,319 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. 331 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: When you heard the Bridge and then you heard Poison 332 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: and then you heard Raw and you was like, what 333 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: the fuck is this shit? You know what I'm saying, 334 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:27,119 Speaker 1: and then everything Larry Smith, did you know Ultra Magnetics, 335 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: Booget Down Productions, like all that shit, right, there was 336 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: like all that like mixed up in gumbo and then 337 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: going through my filter and spit it back out. 338 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 2: I wasn't to say too like you were very like 339 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 2: engaged with what was going on in New York too, 340 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 2: for being a West Coast guy. 341 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, I grew up in New York. I moved here 342 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: when I was twelve, and then I would always go back. 343 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 1: I would always stay out there. I had an apartment 344 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:48,559 Speaker 1: out there for like fifteen years. Yeah, I would always 345 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: be in here. 346 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 2: You guys did the second. 347 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know, back then we start, you blow up, 348 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 1: and then it's just too much shit going on, friends, shit, 349 00:13:58,800 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: everybody hanging out. 350 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 3: I was like this over here, which is us locked 351 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 3: in a room by ourselves. 352 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure you guys in LA after that first album, 353 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 2: the studio sessions, Yeah, help would. 354 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: Be distracted and everybody was. You couldn't and then everybody 355 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: was busy. You know, there's all these new people around 356 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 1: and this and that and millions of dollars, you know, 357 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: and we're twenty one years old. So it was like, 358 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: let's go to New York and it's just us getting up, 359 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: going to the studio, back to the crib, back to 360 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: the studio. 361 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 3: That's all we did. 362 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 2: That shit's fire Man, and. 363 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 3: We knocked that shit out in a month. The record. 364 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 3: We knocked that record out of the month. 365 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: The label was like, we need that shit now, so 366 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: we went in and knocked it out right quick. I 367 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: suppose the first record took like three four years. It 368 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: was a whole life, you know, up to that point. 369 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: The second one, I think we only did I think 370 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: some of the songs even came out before. I think 371 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: we only did eight songs new ones because we had 372 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: hand on the glock had already came out. A t 373 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: DK came out, a White Man Can't Jump soundtrack, Yep, 374 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. There was a couple of 375 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: interludes on there, so you know, some of that shit 376 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: had came out already, but that shit was fucking and 377 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: then sound Scan was brand new when that record came out. 378 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot. SoundScan wasn't around, Like. 379 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 3: It just came out like in between our first and 380 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 3: second album. 381 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 2: No, it's crazy too, because I just think, like in 382 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 2: terms of, like, you know, for whatever reason, I feel 383 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 2: like somehow Cypress Hill gets like overlooked when we talk 384 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 2: about like goat conversations like greatest groups of all time. 385 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like if you grew up in 386 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 2: LA or you grew up on the West Coast, you understand. 387 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 2: But I feel like, for whatever reason, you guys are 388 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 2: not underrated, but somehow underrated. Does that make sense, Like 389 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 2: you guys are still doing festivals, it's I mean, platinum records, 390 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 2: But I still feel like for whatever reason, like like 391 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 2: we got to bring up that name in the mixed 392 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 2: more when we talk about the greatest groups of all time? 393 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 3: Right right right? Yeah? 394 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: Man, I don't know shit. I can give a fuck, 395 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. What we set out to do, 396 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: we're doing it, you know what I mean. So that's 397 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: all I give a fuck about. 398 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 2: So how did you end up getting with House of 399 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 2: Pain back in the day before? Cause I knew you 400 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 2: guys had a little falling out for. 401 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 3: A sec, but it was an accident. 402 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: Man, Like I was dating this girl that actually was 403 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: cousins of Everlast his DJ, and I would go over 404 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: there and he'd be at the crib and I'd be 405 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: like all right and the Cypress demo the Cypress we 406 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: was signed already, but the album. I had the album 407 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: on the red cassette and I gave it to her, 408 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: but the album didn't come out for six months. So 409 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: the next time I went over there a couple of times, 410 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: Everlast was there. He was listening to the tape. He's like, yo, 411 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: we got to get in the studio. I was like, nah, 412 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: I'm good man. And after three or four times, I 413 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: was like, I was talking to b real and Bro 414 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: was like, man, just fuck it funk with him. I 415 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: was like, all right, So I went in and did 416 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: put your head out the crib and I was like, Okay, 417 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: this is cool. Then the homies was bumping it, and 418 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: then I was like, I got the song called jump Around, 419 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: so I had already recorded it with Soundobe. I recorded 420 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: it with Daddy Freddy from Ragg Him Up and Hip Hop, 421 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: and I had a song had the hook. He came 422 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: in and wrote the shit and I was like, now 423 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: rewrite it with that cadence right there, and he wrote 424 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: the shit and then we had to joint and to. 425 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 2: One of the greatest party songs of all time. 426 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: Shop Shop the deal Man I know funk Master Flex 427 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,040 Speaker 1: wanted to sign us that priority records for like I 428 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: think it was like fifty five sixty g's. He had 429 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: special head over there. At the time. 430 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 2: I didn't even know fuck Flex worked at Priory. He's crazy. 431 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 1: And then it was weird because Monica Lynch show for 432 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:13,199 Speaker 1: a Tommy Boy wanted to sign us, and so I 433 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:14,719 Speaker 1: went and had a meeting with her, and she was like, 434 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: she was irish, so she's like, this reminds me of 435 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: my family. This is like my brothers would go to church, 436 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,680 Speaker 1: then they'd go to uh to the bar and get 437 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 1: drunk and fight. So she got it and off the bat, 438 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So she signed us. She 439 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,880 Speaker 1: got us like three hundred dollars back then, and then 440 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,360 Speaker 1: I hooked him up in our management. The guys who 441 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: did offer our pictures. Huke up with those guys, and 442 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: David Press, who did our video, I come up with them. 443 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:40,120 Speaker 1: So it was pretty much the formula. 444 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 2: So you kind of just say, here's our formula, run 445 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 2: with it. 446 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 3: Run with it, and it worked and worked with it 447 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 3: like a motherfucker. 448 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 2: Like a motherfucker yo, I always wondered. So there was 449 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 2: like this era I'm really close with Dilated People's and 450 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 2: Raka and Iris Science and Bamboo and obviously Shot I 451 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,440 Speaker 2: did the best. Hell yeah, I love those guys. They 452 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 2: really opened my world taste in another whole other way 453 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 2: to like digging into like different ship that I was 454 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 2: into at the time. But I remember as a kid 455 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 2: there was the random because you were close, like you 456 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,639 Speaker 2: were cool with Paul obviously right, you're cool with M. 457 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 2: But then there's like this weird beef between like Dilated 458 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 2: People's Everlasting. Emine, did you ever try to like bring 459 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 2: those guys together? Nah? 460 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:23,640 Speaker 3: It was weird, man. 461 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: I think I think Everlast from what I remember correctly, 462 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: you know, don't quote me here, but I think Everlast 463 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 1: scene M on the elevator and M just didn't say 464 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: nothing to him. But M's like he didn't look the 465 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: same right and didn't realize that he was He didn't 466 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 1: realize who he was made right, and and was a 467 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,679 Speaker 1: fucking Everlast fan, you know from what I hear, so 468 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 1: Everlast just you know, I don't know what happened. 469 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 3: Then he wrote some shit about. 470 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 2: Him, Yeah, and then I remember there was like the 471 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 2: Dilated Ship and then Evidence had a song called Searching 472 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:53,679 Speaker 2: for Bobby Fisher. So I was just wondering because you 473 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,199 Speaker 2: were kind of like, it's felt like Switzerland. You might 474 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 2: have you know, I don't know if you try to 475 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 2: put a call in. 476 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: Nah nah, I just figured all that y'all fucked up. 477 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,959 Speaker 1: You're fucking with them. Got good luck with that ship man, 478 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 1: like even why But I don't even think I heard 479 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 1: the Dilated song ever. 480 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, there was an evidence song called searching for Bobby Fisher. 481 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 3: That was that. 482 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: I heard that one now, but I had a napster hit. Yeah, 483 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 1: so yeah, I brought Paul. I remember when I met Paul. 484 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 1: I flew him out to LA to meet with me 485 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 1: and I had a barbecue to manage Cyprus and he 486 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: came out here. And that's how I met Paul because 487 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 1: the Theo Theo was my lawyer and I was like, yeah, 488 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: I need a new manager, bro, And he's like, well 489 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 1: you resist before before Rock Superstar album, so like two 490 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 1: thousand ninety nine, and he's like, yo, I got this 491 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: this lawyer. He's got an ear like me, and he's 492 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: managing this artist Eminem And we didn't blow up there. 493 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: I was like, I flew his ass out, had a 494 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 1: barbecue and locked in with Paul what. 495 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 2: What was was? It labeled like why did you guys 496 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 2: do a rap superstar and a rock superstar? Difference? 497 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 3: Because check this out. So we was up at Columbia 498 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 3: and you know, now we're going into the fifth album, 499 00:19:57,880 --> 00:19:59,159 Speaker 3: so we'd go to the Urban Department. 500 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 2: That was after the after Doctor Green number before after 501 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:03,159 Speaker 2: after That's right. 502 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, that was four. There was a 503 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 1: fifth album now. So we would go up to the 504 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 1: label and was like, all right, this scoose is marketing plan. 505 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 1: I go to the Urban Department. There was like, no, no, 506 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 1: you guys are you guys are alternative? 507 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 3: Like no, we ain't. 508 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 1: So we go up to the We go up to 509 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: the next floor and they was like no, you guys 510 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,679 Speaker 1: are the Urban Department. And they didn't work together, and 511 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 1: everybody's passing the buck. Nobody wanted to do their fucking job, 512 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 1: and I was like, fucking pieces of shit. 513 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 3: Check this out. 514 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:28,679 Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you all a rock song and a 515 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: rap song. So now what's your fucking excuse? 516 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 2: You can work? 517 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 3: You got one? 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Yeah, 576 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 2: because I was because coming from the radio side, you know, 577 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 2: I've done radio my whole life, and like you said, 578 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 2: there's sometimes where there be a record like uh there 579 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 2: was a shot on my I have a friend a 580 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,439 Speaker 2: yellow Wolf foo at a song and he put a 581 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 2: song out through Shady called Let's Roll. But Kid Rock 582 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 2: was on the hook, so he ran into that issue 583 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 2: where he was like a hip hop artist. But they're like, 584 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:52,919 Speaker 2: we don't know what to. 585 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: Do with it because you know it's like hip hop andspa. 586 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 1: But it's like we grew bigger than hip hop. We 587 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: just became our own thing. You know, for sure, we 588 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: got so big and you know, just harnessing that rock 589 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: and roll energy, like I said, Public Enemy, ll run DMC, 590 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 1: Beastie boys, you know what I mean, and just coming 591 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 1: from that DNA from that side. And so that's why 592 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: I was like, all right, here's something from both of y'all. 593 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 1: But both of y'all can work and nobody can complain 594 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,639 Speaker 1: and point fingers because the record before they dropped the 595 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 1: ball because nobody was working it, because there was nobody 596 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: wanted to do their fucking job. The point fingers, right, 597 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,120 Speaker 1: So I say, maybe this is the way the way 598 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: around it. And plus at that time, you know, I 599 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: was seeing all these whack motherfuckers that couldn't really rhyme, 600 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: but they was wrapping on rock shit where they sounded decent, 601 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 1: you know, and they was having these big careers. 602 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 3: What year was that, ninety nine? 603 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 2: That was very much that was very much the the 604 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 2: era of that happening. 605 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: So then I was on the and the other layer 606 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:45,880 Speaker 1: to that shit was me like, oh yeah, well, oh yeah, 607 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 1: I could do this shit too. Yes, we do some 608 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,400 Speaker 1: rock shit and let me let me bang on y'all 609 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 1: motherfuckers with this ship. And then at the same time 610 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 1: I produced them some shit for Pearl Jam and Sonic 611 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: Youth Crazy. I mean, it's some different rock bands just 612 00:24:58,320 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: to like let me see what I can do and just. 613 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 2: Don't you know you did to a tumble pro Jam 614 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 2: that's amazing. Shout out to Pro Jam, Yo. You guys 615 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 2: were a part of like some of the crazy, you know. 616 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 2: I always tell people like there was festivals, and like 617 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 2: people think of festivals these days, I feel like festivals 618 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 2: in like the late nineties early two thousands were like 619 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 2: extremely like different. 620 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 3: Everything was different. 621 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 2: The drugs were really out there. 622 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 3: The nineties was the shit, man. 623 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:23,879 Speaker 1: It was like it was one of the best times 624 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 1: period and I'm blessed to be able to be in 625 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: that time. And then also this new time with all 626 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: this new technology, for sure be able to be in 627 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 1: an analog world in this digital. 628 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 2: NB relevant in both. But I was gonna ask you, 629 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 2: what is like the craziest crowd where you you guys 630 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,719 Speaker 2: were performing and you just looked out and you were like, 631 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 2: what the fuck is going on? 632 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: A couple of times, one of them was was the 633 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: Wedding Festival. We were the first rap group to ever 634 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,679 Speaker 1: headline reading, you know, one hundred and fifty thousand crazy 635 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: looking at that, and then you know, motherfuckers with the 636 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: soccer chants and everybody with the flags, you know what 637 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: I mean? 638 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 3: It just looked like some revolution shit. 639 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: And then it was probably the ninety three Woodstock ninety 640 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,239 Speaker 1: three Woodstock five one hundred and fifty thousand people. They 641 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: had to fly us into a helicopter because the traffic 642 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: was fucking five hour traffic jams. 643 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 2: Yet I just watched the ninety nine Woodstock documentary, which 644 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,679 Speaker 2: was looked insane. Yeah, ninety three had to be crazy. 645 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 2: Half a million people, half a million people. Who do 646 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 2: you remember who was on the bill with you? 647 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,679 Speaker 1: I think Santana was after us. And because we were 648 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: in and out, there wasn't even dressrooms. 649 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 2: It was we don't want y'all hanging out in and out. 650 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's the only one I remember. 651 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:26,159 Speaker 2: That's fucking crazy, man. 652 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,879 Speaker 1: But a lot of palooz was popping off back then, 653 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,360 Speaker 1: smoking groove tours, you know, we did every smoking grooves 654 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: pretty much, like five of them. 655 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 3: In a row. Yo. 656 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 2: Has there ever been like somebody who's for whatever reason 657 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 2: escaped you in terms of someone you want to work with, 658 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 2: because I feel like you've worked with so many people. 659 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: Nah, man, I'm all about building, man. Like even with Cyprus, 660 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 1: I was like, I never wanted to be a producer, 661 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: where like my me coming up was depending on somebody 662 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: else's success, right, So I was like, we was always 663 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: about building our own shit. No guest appearances, our own shit, 664 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: do our own shit, you know what I mean. And 665 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 1: even even now, I like newer artists, like working with 666 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,679 Speaker 1: with a tf like young in Rome Streets. 667 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 3: When I first met Rome crazy. 668 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 1: You know, all Rome's fucking boom, you know, pre Gazelda 669 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: days and just finding these youngsters, I get more. I 670 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: got more excitement out of that ship, you know, But no, 671 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,160 Speaker 1: I think it probably shod day, you know what I mean. 672 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,880 Speaker 1: I'd want to work with shod Day. But there's nobody 673 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: that that. Everybody anybody else I really tripping. 674 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 2: Did you ever get close to doing anything with Hove? 675 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,679 Speaker 3: Nah? I never. I don't even think I met him. 676 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,439 Speaker 2: Crazy, that's crazy, you would think for you, because you've 677 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 2: been doing a lot of full collab albums. I think 678 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 2: back to like one of the first producer MC albums 679 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 2: to me that I kind of just heralded, like very 680 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 2: high in my life was the first album you did 681 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 2: with the JIT album, the Masterminds Grand Master's Grand Masters. Yeah, 682 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 2: crazy body of work. But you've still done, like you've 683 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 2: done such a good job of like doing these like fully, 684 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 2: you know, cohesive collaborative albums with other artists. I feel 685 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 2: like a lot of people are kind of doing that 686 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 2: now as well. 687 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 3: It wasn't on it like that. 688 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 2: It wasn't on it the first guy I really kind 689 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:08,439 Speaker 2: of did that. 690 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 3: You had to do in Versus Records. 691 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, just Asia ill Bill we did back in like 692 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: what two three, I think it was something like that, 693 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 1: oh four. Yeah, Me and Jiz are always clicked, man. From 694 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 1: the first day we got into lab, we always clicked, man, 695 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,679 Speaker 1: And it was just everything was smooth and easy, and 696 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: you know, We just kept communicating all through the times, 697 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 1: you know, and kept in touch and then we then 698 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: we got together into Grand Masters. But it was a 699 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 1: weird time because at that time, it was right after 700 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 1: Napster and the fucking the whole ass fell out the 701 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: music industry. So we went from selling underground records two 702 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand records to selling fucking five thousand records. 703 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,479 Speaker 1: So it was before YouTube, it was before Spotify, it 704 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: was before Apple Music, and then the music the records 705 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: weren't selling, so you was there. 706 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 3: Was like this three or four year period. We was like, 707 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 3: what the fuck's going on? 708 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 2: Brow, how do we monetize it? 709 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: Nobody knew what was going on. It was a weird 710 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: ass time, you know what I mean. So alls I 711 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: know is you just stay consistent to keep going. That's 712 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 1: the one thing about my crew man from me Al 713 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: Cartoon is Stevan Cyprus. We just never stopped. Yeah, just 714 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 1: never stopped through it all. 715 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you, what is something that you've 716 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 2: because you're obviously, like you said, there was that point 717 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 2: in time where you've been a part of every for 718 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 2: the most part, era of hip hop in terms of 719 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 2: like the way the business is right, Like you guys 720 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 2: first came home with SoundScan, hit now with faster. 721 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: Eighties like eighties. My first group, you gotta remember, with 722 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: seven A three. I didn't know in nineteen eighty eight. 723 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: Like my first gold record was Colors seven A three 724 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: mad Man World in the movie Colors. So I signed 725 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: with seven A three in eighty eight and we was, 726 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: we signed a rush management shot and we're doing stadium tours, 727 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 1: opening up for Salt and Pepper, opening up for Hammer, 728 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 1: opening up for Tony Tony tone Em Hammer. Yeah, we 729 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: was on the tour with Hammer, Tony, Tony Tony and today. 730 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 2: What's the mc hammer tour? 731 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 3: Like back then, stadiums crazy as fuck. 732 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 2: Like I don't think people understand like he was like 733 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 2: a fucking like pop star for real. Super I have 734 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 2: an mc hammer Barbie. 735 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 3: I'm talking, I'm talking. 736 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 2: You see mc hammer Barbie sitting now, yeah. 737 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: Talking, you know, twenty five thousand people a night and 738 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: it's doing stadiums Man's you know, and then Salt and Pepper, 739 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: Kwame was on the tour. Wow, so you know, just 740 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 1: being young, and then i'd come back to Cypress, you know, 741 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 1: and like I'm eighteen nineteen and I was like, yo, 742 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 1: figuring this music shit out fellas, you know what I mean. 743 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 1: So seven eighty three really taught me about the music business, 744 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: and I just brought all that fucking knowledge back to 745 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: Cypress because there was no Google or right even even 746 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: to learn the DJ, I had to go to the 747 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: club and watch the DJ and fucking listen to the radio. 748 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 3: That's how I learned. There was no scratch Academy and 749 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 3: no shit. 750 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 2: Right, none of that. You just had to really just 751 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 2: learn on the job. 752 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 3: Just watch, watch and try to remember and figure it out. 753 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 2: Was I always heard mc Everyone always says Hammers like 754 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 2: a real ass dude, for real, for real, like he's certified. 755 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 2: Like but but you also hear like he always had 756 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 2: like a big entourage with him. 757 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 3: Oh he had a big assentsraage. 758 00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, like you you'd come on the stage, you know, 759 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 1: your little hype man and maybe one little dancer, and 760 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 1: he'd come out with like sixteen dancers, crazy, you know 761 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: what I mean, and a hype man that was like 762 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: Little John back then, like screaming and shit talking shit. 763 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 3: So yeah, that was crazy man. 764 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 1: It was a good experience to have those tours, you know, 765 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 1: and then with cypress you like I already knew. I 766 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 1: already knew what's going to happen. I was like, the 767 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: success is waiting for us in the future. We just 768 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: got to get to it. 769 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 2: Fellas I was gonna say for you, though, what are 770 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 2: the things that you could give advice to somebody who's 771 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 2: an independent artist, maybe has like a modest following. How 772 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,239 Speaker 2: can they really monetize music now? Because I feel like 773 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 2: it's not what it used to be. Streaming doesn't pay 774 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 2: the greatest. 775 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 1: Well, you got to build a career, man, So I 776 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: think you got a tour. You got to go through shows, man, 777 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 1: even if you're not getting paid. You go playing for 778 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 1: the nine people, always doing the place. The next time 779 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: you're playing from the twenty, next time you're playing front 780 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 1: the thirty five. You know, in two years and be 781 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty people there. So the energy of 782 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 1: the shows, and make sure you have your merch and 783 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,240 Speaker 1: you're doing your pop ups and you're live on it, 784 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: and you're live on social media talking to your people, 785 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 1: you know, and then doing your streaming and be consistent. 786 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 1: And I think all that ship together. You you put 787 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: that together, and you stay consistent, you build a career. 788 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 1: You know, some motherfuckers just want to like stream ship 789 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: and maybe might get a show in New York and 790 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: then that's it. Or you might get a show and 791 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: then they don't They get money there, but they don't 792 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: want to go do shows in other cities because there's 793 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,240 Speaker 1: no bread. But I was like, you got to go 794 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:24,280 Speaker 1: plant the flag. 795 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 2: Bro, You you got to build the fan base. 796 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:26,719 Speaker 3: You gotta go build it. 797 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 2: I always tell people like, just because you have a 798 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 2: big song doesn't mean you have a big following. There's 799 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 2: people who have platinum records that can't sell a fucking 800 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 2: concert ticket period, Like. 801 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 3: And that's going to tell you where you're what fans 802 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 3: you really have? Man? 803 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: Is it like are you actually getting streams because you 804 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: have features? Or are you getting streams because you have 805 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 1: fans that really love you? And then that's going to 806 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: translate to those people will come out and don't support 807 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: you shirt. 808 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 3: So a lot of that ships. 809 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:53,720 Speaker 1: It's a little pumped up, you know what I mean 810 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 1: when you got a lot of features on your records, 811 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 1: because you'll see all you don't you can't sell a 812 00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: hard ticket outside of you can't even sell a hard 813 00:32:59,040 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 1: ticket in your city. 814 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 3: You can only get on shows with motherfuckers. 815 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you, you tell me the story 816 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 2: on how you and Alchemist met and how he became 817 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 2: a part of the sol. 818 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 3: I met al when he was like thirteen. 819 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 1: I had this manager and they was like, hey, you 820 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: want to make a lot of money, and I was like, 821 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 1: well when you talk about six. So we got this 822 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: little rap group, two little white kids from Beverly Hills, 823 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 1: and I was like, get that bullshit the fuck out here. 824 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 2: Yeah it was James Conson. 825 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 3: Yeah. I didn't meet him. I didn't see him. 826 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 1: I was just like the concept of that shit was like, 827 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: were you trying to do like a criss cross? 828 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, but white Chris Raby House of Pain. 829 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: And I was like, so I think they ended up 830 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: bringing him to be real and be real work with him. 831 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: But then I met al and I was like, Oh, 832 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 1: this is kid's cool as fuck. He reminds me of me, 833 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: like just like just tenacious, fucking worker, like worker and 834 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 1: just the love and the fucking and smart and just 835 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 1: work and work and work and. 836 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 3: Just on point. 837 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I'm gonna give this kid access 838 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: and let him be around and then like I'm gonna 839 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,960 Speaker 1: just cut all this shit you have to go through 840 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 1: and just put you right here. 841 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 3: You were the biggest group in the world. 842 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 1: Now in the studio, going on tour, hanging out, you 843 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: know what I mean, and just like give him access 844 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: because I knew all he needed to do is be 845 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 1: around it. He's such a fucking smart kid and such 846 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,080 Speaker 1: a sponge. You'll figure it out, you know what I mean. 847 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 1: Just give him access to the ship. 848 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,399 Speaker 2: Was it was he always wanting to step away from 849 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,360 Speaker 2: rapping and just focus on producing. 850 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,360 Speaker 1: When I met him, he didn't make beatsh it okay, 851 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,680 Speaker 1: And then when he did that first time, they was 852 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,760 Speaker 1: they wasn't there. He was learning learning, he was really 853 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,080 Speaker 1: he was a real premier fan and and it was 854 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,919 Speaker 1: just like you know, some sea level premiere like kids ship, 855 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,919 Speaker 1: and he was just I'll be like, nah, that's not it, bro. 856 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: But you knew, like I always knew, Il has that 857 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,719 Speaker 1: that that's it, that it thing, that special fucking thing. 858 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 1: Like he's just fuck whatever Al decided he wanted to do, 859 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 1: he was going to be successful in it, you know 860 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,280 Speaker 1: what I mean. He's just that smart and that fucking 861 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,640 Speaker 1: that that much of a hard worker and that got 862 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:51,719 Speaker 1: that much focus. So you know, we just brought him, 863 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,879 Speaker 1: put him under my wings. Like, you know, he starts 864 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,160 Speaker 1: seeing how records, albums are made, how studio sessions are run, 865 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,320 Speaker 1: you know, and the little tricks, the little behind the 866 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 1: ship going on to over us, carrying the crates and shit, 867 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,920 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You're on fucking big festival tours, 868 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,560 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, at fucking fifteen years old, 869 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:08,720 Speaker 1: leaving school. 870 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,839 Speaker 2: Yeah. Crazy, and then eventually you know, now he's he's 871 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,600 Speaker 2: alchemist Grabby Navina. 872 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 3: He's the illess in the game right now. 873 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,279 Speaker 2: Man, I agree, Man, I was just saying, like his 874 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,680 Speaker 2: like last couple of year run has been like it's 875 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,400 Speaker 2: so crazy, Like think about the stuff he's done with Boldie, 876 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,239 Speaker 2: with Freddy, Like he's just been just relentless. 877 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,040 Speaker 1: He hasn't done nothing different. He's been working this hard 878 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:31,840 Speaker 1: all these years. It's just you know, it's just timing. 879 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 1: It's just it's the perfect storm. 880 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:33,759 Speaker 3: You know. 881 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,440 Speaker 1: It's like the way the music is and the way 882 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,000 Speaker 1: the the what we like, the culture's growing, and then 883 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 1: just the right artists at the right times with all 884 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,320 Speaker 1: the momentum he's built up over the years. 885 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:45,040 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. 886 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,879 Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you your production process, how much 887 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,839 Speaker 2: has it changed over the years, because back in the day, 888 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,920 Speaker 2: everybody we have their go to equipment. Nowadays, like I'll 889 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,080 Speaker 2: like know guys who I never ever thought would touch 890 00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 2: like a digital platform, like who will only be on 891 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,440 Speaker 2: able to They'll only be on pro tools, like what 892 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:02,000 Speaker 2: is your y? 893 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 1: It was the same for me, man, I was using 894 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,440 Speaker 1: the SP twelve. I moved over to the MPC and 895 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,319 Speaker 1: then it just I wanted to do some electronic shit 896 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,239 Speaker 1: for fun, and I was like, how do you do 897 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,279 Speaker 1: this shit? And oh, I can't do it on this shit. 898 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 1: I got to learn this fucking computer. 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If you had to 977 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:06,400 Speaker 2: give me, I don't want to, don't tell me your favorite, 978 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,279 Speaker 2: but if you had to give me outside of the 979 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,399 Speaker 2: Cypher shit, what's been like two or three that stick 980 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,280 Speaker 2: out in your mind in terms of like your favorite 981 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:14,920 Speaker 2: collaborative projects you've done. 982 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,239 Speaker 1: Man, it's a lot of them. I just enjoy what 983 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,400 Speaker 1: I enjoy, man, is just working with people. You know, 984 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,719 Speaker 1: you got to be a cool motherfucker because sitting a 985 00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:24,759 Speaker 1: fucking studio with you for. 986 00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,600 Speaker 3: Two months, you know what I mean? Yeah, we gotta 987 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,239 Speaker 3: like you rather go walk my dog, you know what 988 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:28,680 Speaker 3: I'm saying. 989 00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,400 Speaker 1: So, you know Mayhem. Every time I work with Mayhem 990 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,319 Speaker 1: AND's some fucking blessing. It's great, you know what I mean? 991 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:39,480 Speaker 1: I love working with may Man, TF Rome Worthy, you know, 992 00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,680 Speaker 1: fucking all these motherfuckers is as cool as fuck. 993 00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,680 Speaker 2: Man, Who's who's at all the mcs you've ever worked with? 994 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,280 Speaker 2: Who's the fastest when it comes to just the writing process. 995 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,560 Speaker 1: It used to be, It used to be MC eight 996 00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,080 Speaker 1: and then now I went in with them. I went 997 00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,319 Speaker 1: in with Cassius one time, and me and Cassius did 998 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,520 Speaker 1: four songs in like a few hours, and then Crime 999 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:07,480 Speaker 1: Apple came in and did like six songs and four hours. 1000 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:11,319 Speaker 1: I think when I first met him, damn. And And 1001 00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,279 Speaker 1: what was cool about Crime is he was supposed to 1002 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,279 Speaker 1: go back to New York and then it was like 1003 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,080 Speaker 1: he came to my radio show and I was like, yo, 1004 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:19,960 Speaker 1: if you want to come jump in the lab them all. 1005 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:22,720 Speaker 1: He was like, I'm supposed to go home, but I'm staying. 1006 00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,719 Speaker 1: So he stayed did the radio show and you know, 1007 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,480 Speaker 1: now we've done a couple of hours and travel the 1008 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:26,960 Speaker 1: world together. 1009 00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,840 Speaker 2: That's amazing for you. What is what has changed about 1010 00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:34,520 Speaker 2: because being on the road, you've seen kind of all 1011 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,239 Speaker 2: fascet of that as well. Is it still fun for 1012 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,239 Speaker 2: you to go out and do shows and see the 1013 00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:41,080 Speaker 2: fans in person? 1014 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:45,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I do it more limited, you know, like I 1015 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,080 Speaker 1: still have a good time though, Yeah, I still love 1016 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,239 Speaker 1: a good time, like because I don't have to do it, 1017 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:50,879 Speaker 1: but like I like to do it, and so when 1018 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,120 Speaker 1: I want to do it, I was like, okay, there's 1019 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,560 Speaker 1: three weeks I'm gonna go do shows, and you know, 1020 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,640 Speaker 1: a couple of times a year, I'd grab a month 1021 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:57,640 Speaker 1: as to go do some shows. 1022 00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:59,959 Speaker 2: Yo, when you guys were doing like the early cybersoship, 1023 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,960 Speaker 2: are you guys like on any psychedelics back of the 1024 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:07,520 Speaker 2: day shrooms shrooming? Would you say? Like, cause, I don't 1025 00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,200 Speaker 2: know if you've noticed, but shrooms are kind of becoming 1026 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:09,400 Speaker 2: like the. 1027 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,960 Speaker 3: Thing right now. So they see that. No, it was 1028 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:13,000 Speaker 3: on that ship in the eighties. 1029 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,920 Speaker 2: Man, it's crazy to see it. It's like it's like normalized. 1030 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,000 Speaker 2: Like it's like people like are like micro dos to 1031 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,560 Speaker 2: go to work, Like every wrapper wants shrooms. 1032 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,600 Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I never seen that coming ever. They were 1033 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,080 Speaker 1: always scared of that shit, you know what I mean. 1034 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:26,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. 1035 00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:27,719 Speaker 3: It was funny because even back in the days, there 1036 00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:28,680 Speaker 3: was no pills in the hood. 1037 00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,480 Speaker 1: The pills were the rock and rollers was fucking with pills. 1038 00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:33,759 Speaker 1: They've never seen pills in the hood ever, you know 1039 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,239 Speaker 1: what I mean. Now everybody's popping. 1040 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,840 Speaker 2: Pills, and I mean stay away fedanel. 1041 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:39,480 Speaker 1: No, there wasn't none of that shit was around. We 1042 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,560 Speaker 1: was kids, like nobody. We didn't even see pills. Man, 1043 00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,200 Speaker 1: it was just weed and shrooms. 1044 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,000 Speaker 2: What have you ever had a really bad trip on shrooms? 1045 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:47,879 Speaker 3: No, never had a bad trip. 1046 00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:48,600 Speaker 2: That's good. 1047 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:50,560 Speaker 3: Never had a bad trip. 1048 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:52,840 Speaker 2: That's a good thing because you hear them bad trips 1049 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,040 Speaker 2: is what scares everybody off. 1050 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:55,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, they do too much. 1051 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,040 Speaker 1: Man, You got to ease into that ship, you know 1052 00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,080 Speaker 1: what I mean, Just seeze into it a little bit, 1053 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,359 Speaker 1: figure out and get you get your footing and figure 1054 00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:02,759 Speaker 1: out what works for you, and do a little bit more. 1055 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:03,880 Speaker 1: And do a little bit more if you want to 1056 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:07,200 Speaker 1: go there otherwise, you know, even my first time, like 1057 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:07,799 Speaker 1: I ate an eighth. 1058 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:09,279 Speaker 3: That's what the on we told you to do. Eat 1059 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:10,480 Speaker 3: an eighth and you fucking. 1060 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,080 Speaker 2: It's a pretty serious amount that sh It's. 1061 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,000 Speaker 1: The fucking walls of melting, you know. But I wouldn't 1062 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,279 Speaker 1: recommend anybody to start eighth. Nah, I wouldn't do that. 1063 00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:20,200 Speaker 2: I watched a couple of years ago when the mister 1064 00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:23,000 Speaker 2: cartoon Estevan documentary came out. I think it was called 1065 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,799 Speaker 2: Ellie Originals. Right, it's on Netflix. Everybody should go watch 1066 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,680 Speaker 2: it because I think it's really dope, like for people 1067 00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,439 Speaker 2: to kind of see like like just both of their 1068 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,040 Speaker 2: come ups and like how integral and like hip hop 1069 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,280 Speaker 2: both of them are. I just remember the mister Cartoon 1070 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,279 Speaker 2: era of rap. I just felt like everyone had the tattoos, 1071 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,680 Speaker 2: Like but for you kind of coming up with those 1072 00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,680 Speaker 2: guys and like you're very much a part of their story. 1073 00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,120 Speaker 2: How dope was it to see like them get their 1074 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:49,320 Speaker 2: flowers with that documentary? 1075 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:50,000 Speaker 3: Check it out? Man? 1076 00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:54,160 Speaker 1: Like for me, man, seeing my team win is the 1077 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,160 Speaker 1: dopest shit for me to see where they come because 1078 00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:57,520 Speaker 1: all my motherfuckers is killers. 1079 00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:57,719 Speaker 3: You know. 1080 00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,359 Speaker 1: Look to see how you know, from being fourteen years 1081 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,560 Speaker 1: old to what he's doing is like amazing for me 1082 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:04,880 Speaker 1: to see cartoon to step on. 1083 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,839 Speaker 3: Like Steve On was working at the. 1084 00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,920 Speaker 1: Door of a club, but I knew him and he 1085 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:11,799 Speaker 1: didn't get high. He was always on point, and I 1086 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:13,560 Speaker 1: was like, hey man, I was like, yo, I got 1087 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,200 Speaker 1: to I need a road manager for this new group. 1088 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,239 Speaker 1: He goes, what is a role manager? I go, it's easy, 1089 00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,680 Speaker 1: I'll teach you. I got this new group called House 1090 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,279 Speaker 1: of Pain. You want to be the road manager? He 1091 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,840 Speaker 1: was like, fuck it. So he started being the road manager. 1092 00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:24,080 Speaker 3: You know. 1093 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,120 Speaker 1: When he was on the road, his dad was like 1094 00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,120 Speaker 1: a son, here's a camera document your time on the road. 1095 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,160 Speaker 1: And then we'd have photographers taking pictures that would charge 1096 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,840 Speaker 1: just thirty fucking thousand dollars for some trash. 1097 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,640 Speaker 2: Cheese, and I was like thirty thousand. 1098 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:41,759 Speaker 1: Yeah, the budgets were crazy, and I was like a man, 1099 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:43,959 Speaker 1: fuck these dudes. You know what, you take the pictures, homie, 1100 00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:45,960 Speaker 1: let the homie get the check. And that's how he 1101 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:46,799 Speaker 1: started shooting us. 1102 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:47,600 Speaker 3: Wow. 1103 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,360 Speaker 1: And that's what the whole soul assess and shit was 1104 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,080 Speaker 1: is to build our own economy and just hire each other. 1105 00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,040 Speaker 1: Anytime we hired these other motherfuckers and put them in 1106 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,759 Speaker 1: a position to win, they would never come back and 1107 00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,120 Speaker 1: return the favor, you know what I mean. 1108 00:44:58,320 --> 00:44:59,960 Speaker 2: And those were the error that was like the air 1109 00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:04,759 Speaker 2: were where like labels were just like getting like they were. 1110 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,880 Speaker 2: They were like, like you said, a thirty thousand dollars 1111 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,799 Speaker 2: budget for a photographers insane, right, So you would be 1112 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:11,960 Speaker 2: like you would always hear these stories about like labels, 1113 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,920 Speaker 2: like you'd get your invoice or your oh. 1114 00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's your money. They're spending your money. 1115 00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:17,719 Speaker 2: So they don't spending your money that you have to 1116 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,040 Speaker 2: recoup and they you know. 1117 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:20,480 Speaker 1: So they know they're going to recoup it because you're 1118 00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:21,600 Speaker 1: selling four million records. 1119 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,120 Speaker 2: So crazy. So, like you said, you like a lot 1120 00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:25,600 Speaker 2: of the shit you would see on some of these 1121 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:27,640 Speaker 2: like spreadsheets, you'd be like, wait, we paid this much 1122 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:28,120 Speaker 2: for this. 1123 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,080 Speaker 3: Like a lot of artists don't even look. 1124 00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:31,840 Speaker 2: I got a homie that could do it, you know 1125 00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:32,399 Speaker 2: what I'm saying. 1126 00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:34,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, And a lot of artists they let the managers 1127 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,399 Speaker 1: and everything and there everybody else is just as long 1128 00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:37,960 Speaker 1: as they get they cut and they're just skimming. They're 1129 00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:39,759 Speaker 1: getting paid off top anyways. A lot of times they 1130 00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,000 Speaker 1: don't give a fuck. But yeah, it was a lot 1131 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,239 Speaker 1: of that ship man. So and then you know, so 1132 00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,520 Speaker 1: that started happening with a step On and then Cartoon 1133 00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,319 Speaker 1: came along up a little bit later, and then you know, 1134 00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,040 Speaker 1: we first started letting Cartoon do shit for us around 1135 00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,160 Speaker 1: our fifth album, like Rock Superstar album. That was the 1136 00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,640 Speaker 1: first time he touched our shit. Oh shit, okay, yeah, 1137 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,239 Speaker 1: but he was right there with us the whole time. Then, 1138 00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:01,560 Speaker 1: you know, when I was on when I go on 1139 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,520 Speaker 1: tour because I met Paul and then we're doing we're 1140 00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,680 Speaker 1: opening up for him doing the Anger Management Tour. Fifty 1141 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,040 Speaker 1: I just came out within the club. So it's fifty 1142 00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:11,840 Speaker 1: exhibit eminem Cypress hill I was. 1143 00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,400 Speaker 2: I went to I went to that tour, yeah, as 1144 00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,640 Speaker 2: I was a child, and I went back. I got 1145 00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:23,399 Speaker 2: backstage and I saw I met Sophia. Sophia I think 1146 00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,040 Speaker 2: was on the road with Exhibit at the time. 1147 00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:27,879 Speaker 3: I think so, yeah, yeah, I think there was funning 1148 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:28,680 Speaker 3: around back in the day. 1149 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. And I was like because at the time, my 1150 00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:35,319 Speaker 2: best friend's brothers Rocker, right, so like we had the 1151 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,719 Speaker 2: Liquid crew he you know, Roco with he linked us 1152 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,319 Speaker 2: with Exhibit, so we would always be like, oh, it's 1153 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:41,960 Speaker 2: Rock's little brother. 1154 00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:42,600 Speaker 3: Ki. 1155 00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:46,160 Speaker 2: I remember we snuck our ass backstage at the Phoenix 1156 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,120 Speaker 2: tour date of that of that Anger Management tour. That 1157 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:49,440 Speaker 2: was a crazy So. 1158 00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,600 Speaker 1: We bring cartoon because you know, you're sitting backstage for 1159 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:52,279 Speaker 1: fucking five sex. 1160 00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,240 Speaker 2: If you want to get blasted, yeah, just set. 1161 00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,600 Speaker 3: Him up backstage. And he got everybody in that whole tour. 1162 00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:59,040 Speaker 2: I think he did what he was supposed to do, 1163 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,120 Speaker 2: took opportunity and did what he was supposed to do. 1164 00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,520 Speaker 2: A lot of motherfuckers get those opportunities. 1165 00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,040 Speaker 1: Oh, I gotta like for the motherfuckers who won. I 1166 00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,360 Speaker 1: got a list of fools who just sat around smoking 1167 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,640 Speaker 1: weed and drinking and then complaining and complaining, complaining, complaining 1168 00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:14,160 Speaker 1: that they didn't. 1169 00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,080 Speaker 2: I was like, bro, put you in this in a situation. 1170 00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:17,360 Speaker 2: I'm not going to force you. 1171 00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,400 Speaker 3: I put you in the game. Come on, run the 1172 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:20,960 Speaker 3: ball for that. 1173 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,560 Speaker 2: What do you do outside of music these days? For fun? 1174 00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:25,719 Speaker 2: For recreation? 1175 00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,719 Speaker 3: Like what is your workout? Workout? 1176 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:37,080 Speaker 1: Man, movie, tie, hit the bags, go hiking, fucking business yeah, 1177 00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,560 Speaker 1: like five six different businesses, you know, and just fucking 1178 00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:44,280 Speaker 1: holidays with the family, you know what I mean, go shooting. 1179 00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,240 Speaker 1: Just a bunch of different ship with the homies. 1180 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,799 Speaker 2: I just got I want to say, last year, I 1181 00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:56,440 Speaker 2: got I got a bunch of cyper shit center me 1182 00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:57,719 Speaker 2: in the mail because didn't you. 1183 00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:01,160 Speaker 1: Get you guys put out It was the thirtieth Yeah, 1184 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:02,480 Speaker 1: the anniversary first album. 1185 00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, I got like I think, I got a rolling tray, 1186 00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,040 Speaker 2: I got like a can't, I got disposable camera. I 1187 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,200 Speaker 2: got a bunch of cool ship. You guys obviously have 1188 00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:14,239 Speaker 2: been more active recently as a group than than in 1189 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:19,640 Speaker 2: past times. What is the current situation, uh, in terms 1190 00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,400 Speaker 2: of like any new music coming out or is that 1191 00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:22,480 Speaker 2: something that you guys. 1192 00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:24,640 Speaker 3: Me and b were recorded. 1193 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:29,040 Speaker 1: I think about four songs last year, but just nothing no, No, 1194 00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:30,920 Speaker 1: talks about nothing really right now, you know, I mean 1195 00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:34,319 Speaker 1: just a lot of road ship we're putting together. We're 1196 00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:39,000 Speaker 1: putting together something called the Cypress Experience where you'll come 1197 00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:43,040 Speaker 1: in there'll be all like future tech three D and 1198 00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,320 Speaker 1: and you know the those big as domes. 1199 00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they got one downtown in l a wonder. 1200 00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, I went to I think that Punk went downtown. Yeah, 1201 00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:52,560 Speaker 1: that Punk had a sick one. 1202 00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:52,919 Speaker 2: Yeah. 1203 00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,280 Speaker 1: So we're putting something like an immersive of Cypress experience 1204 00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,480 Speaker 1: that'll be fire. I want to take what they're doing 1205 00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:02,319 Speaker 1: a step further and you know, have it, have have 1206 00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,440 Speaker 1: a three D and then have it take you to 1207 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:06,880 Speaker 1: little little metaverse. 1208 00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,400 Speaker 2: Is it crazy like to see your guys, Because I 1209 00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:12,000 Speaker 2: was thinking about this the other day because I'm like, 1210 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,440 Speaker 2: you guys have so many like crazy stories and like 1211 00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:17,880 Speaker 2: wrinkles to your guys's careers as a group and also 1212 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:22,319 Speaker 2: just solo wise, would you guys ever do like a 1213 00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,080 Speaker 2: Netflix or straight out of Compton type of movie but 1214 00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:29,600 Speaker 2: surrounding Cypress. So the thing maybe a series or something. 1215 00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,600 Speaker 1: What we're talking about is a sol as sessions because 1216 00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,239 Speaker 1: then I could tell in that I could tell a 1217 00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:36,239 Speaker 1: full Cypress story and I could tell a full mug 1218 00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,239 Speaker 1: story and to be real and an alchemist and a 1219 00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,440 Speaker 1: cartoon step on and you know everything else. So I 1220 00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:43,480 Speaker 1: think that would be something. I think that can even 1221 00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:43,960 Speaker 1: go further. 1222 00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:45,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be crazy. 1223 00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,799 Speaker 1: But yeah, we're in the process right now working with 1224 00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:50,360 Speaker 1: Sony on an animated series. 1225 00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,600 Speaker 2: Oh shit, that'd be crazy. That's dope, man, it's been 1226 00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,239 Speaker 2: dope to just see you. You just turning up be 1227 00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:00,920 Speaker 2: reals turning up doing dope content too, Like it's just 1228 00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,799 Speaker 2: been dope to see man. So the new album is out, 1229 00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,000 Speaker 2: Soul Assassin's Three Death Valley. The movie is the movie 1230 00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:07,600 Speaker 2: on YouTube? 1231 00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:07,839 Speaker 3: Yeah. 1232 00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,359 Speaker 1: No, the movie drops on the thirteenth, Okay, yeah, yeah, 1233 00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:16,240 Speaker 1: September thirteenth. I'm probably on Amazon where we're doing screenings 1234 00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:19,520 Speaker 1: all month, New York, San Francisco, Chicago. I just did 1235 00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:21,880 Speaker 1: I just did them Tokyo. They're going to screen it 1236 00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,279 Speaker 1: in Europe. So just screening the whole the movie all month. 1237 00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,560 Speaker 2: You guys got a big fan base in Japan, right, crazy, 1238 00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:31,200 Speaker 2: it's crazy crazy, It's something crazy, Like I just watched 1239 00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:35,200 Speaker 2: this YouTube video, Like there's something about like parts of 1240 00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:38,680 Speaker 2: Japan where they're just like extremely infatuated with La culture, oh. 1241 00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:41,880 Speaker 1: One thousand percent. When when they you wouldn't look like 1242 00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:43,880 Speaker 1: they look like the homies, low riders and everything, you 1243 00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,680 Speaker 1: wouldn't even know. They think it's the homie from East La. Right, 1244 00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:48,040 Speaker 1: So you talk to them, you know what I mean? 1245 00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:52,040 Speaker 1: But yeah, and when they do something, bro, they refine it, 1246 00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:54,439 Speaker 1: They refine it, They refine it to its simplest form, 1247 00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,120 Speaker 1: and they master the shit out of it and ended 1248 00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:57,040 Speaker 1: up doing it better than you. 1249 00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:57,799 Speaker 2: That's great. 1250 00:50:57,840 --> 00:50:59,960 Speaker 1: It's their appreciation for everything they do. Man, they just 1251 00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:02,160 Speaker 1: sit back and watch and rEFInd the fun out of it, 1252 00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:05,239 Speaker 1: even the fashion, even their cat and even there there 1253 00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:07,600 Speaker 1: everything the fuck they do. 1254 00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:08,520 Speaker 3: Yeah. 1255 00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:12,560 Speaker 2: So September thirteenth movie, Well, hey, what what's verse on 1256 00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:13,399 Speaker 2: this album that you have to wait? 1257 00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,359 Speaker 3: The longest war slick Rick slick Rick about a year. 1258 00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,160 Speaker 2: I had a guess slick record Scarface would be my guess. 1259 00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,560 Speaker 1: Face was knocked it out in a week, really bomb 1260 00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:26,120 Speaker 1: shout out to Scarface, shot to Brad jordans Man. I 1261 00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:28,040 Speaker 1: was like, damn, quick as fuck, hit me on the 1262 00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:30,840 Speaker 1: phone and mugs, what do you want? What are we 1263 00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,399 Speaker 1: going for on this? And I told him it was like, okay, 1264 00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:35,319 Speaker 1: I got you and the Boom send him like two 1265 00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:35,799 Speaker 1: days later. 1266 00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:40,799 Speaker 2: That's fire Man. Anything coming out or anything that's in 1267 00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,120 Speaker 2: the can. In terms of clap albums, I'm sure you 1268 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,120 Speaker 2: got a few that that already finished. 1269 00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,400 Speaker 1: Or Yeah, we got like about sixteen projects in the 1270 00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,480 Speaker 1: works right now, but we're going to drop first of 1271 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:49,799 Speaker 1: the year. 1272 00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:53,000 Speaker 3: It was gonna be Mayhem Record and the TF Record. 1273 00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:55,000 Speaker 3: Those are going to probably be the first projects coming 1274 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,600 Speaker 3: out fire like February March, February March. 1275 00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,880 Speaker 2: Okay, being a lookout for those go get the album. 1276 00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,800 Speaker 2: The album is the who's who have just hip hop? 1277 00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:06,279 Speaker 2: My goodness. 1278 00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:08,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, they all murdered that shit too. Man. 1279 00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:10,680 Speaker 2: You know you got a crazy lineup of Man, the 1280 00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,480 Speaker 2: track list thing is unbelievable in twenty twenty three. 1281 00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, so you delivered, man, Thank you brother, sure, thanks 1282 00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:18,120 Speaker 3: for having me the LEGI. 1283 00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:23,799 Speaker 2: Yes, fire brother Man. I appreciate you brother too. Hey, 1284 00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:26,160 Speaker 2: what up man, you just watched another episode of the 1285 00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,760 Speaker 2: Blue leg Cap podcast brought to you by Hard Dean. 1286 00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:32,080 Speaker 2: Baby shout out to the family at Hard Dean. 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