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I am hosting Gangster 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.200 Chronicles today, the Gangster Rap Chronicles, and I would like 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:36.679 to talk to you Norm Steal about the top ten 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:38.160 gangster rap records. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:38.480 Ever. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.440 Yeah, you know, as you can tell, we're not doing 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.640 the show at our normal place tonight. My man eight 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.800 had some stuff he had to deal with. 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.440 So COVID, So I don't want to be in the 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:49.360 same room with Steve. 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.680 No, don't nobody got COVID. Bro only starting the rumors. 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.160 Don't start the COVID rub don't start no COVID RUMs. 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.680 I ain't talking to you. So it's a couple of things. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.120 We might as well cover this stuff on this podcast. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.960 Yeah, you know what broke and I think so aren't 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.480 even agreed to it to an extent. See his number 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.600 one gainst the rap album of all time is ice 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.320 Cube album Death Certificate, which is a great album. But 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.600 I'm not mad at that man, but doggy style that fair. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.520 And he even said this is the only album that 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:29.960 he's ever heard played at parties universally. That means white parties, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.960 black parties, Mexican parties, everywhere, and that album still exams 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:35.160 today thirty years later. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.760 Yeah, I was listening to Lottie Dotty the other day. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.520 It's a cold record. Man, Snoop just got you know 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.400 what I think it is about that album? Man, it 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:50.680 was something that you've never heard before. I don't think 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.079 anybody heard anything like that before. It's almost like when 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.240 Bone Thugs and Harmony came out with the album, you 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.360 had never heard nothing like that previous to it. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.160 That's a lot closer to something I never heard. You know. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.200 It was funny. I had this crazy epiphany. I'm gonna 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:03.680 share it with you. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.799 Like, as I started learning about records and hip hop 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:08.440 and all this stuff. 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.639 I mean you we talked all the time. During that time. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.440 I start figuring out how things, how. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:19.840 People and producers put together like ideas, Like I was able. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.400 To hear like nobody told me, But I was able 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:23.760 to hear. 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.160 When I start hearing Thriller, I could finally hear Rick James, 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:29.320 I could hear give it to me Baby. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.400 When I first heard it, nobody told me. They said, oh, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:32.119 look glasses. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.160 This baseline on Thriller was interpolated from Rick James, Give 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:37.840 it to me baby. Nobody had to tell me I 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:42.880 could just hear it now. I could hear Billy Jean 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:47.000 and hear Hauler notes. I can hear don't stop to 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.080 you get enough, you know what I mean, and hear 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.920 that came from Marvin Gaye, Got to give it Up. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.520 I could hear beat It and hear you know the 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.760 song that inspired that, my Sharona m Right, So I 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.280 could see what they were doing. I think even when 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.640 I listen to Doggy Style, right, because the chronic to 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.560 me is when Drake put his foot in the water 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.480 in that kind of danceable funk right with songs like 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:18.360 fuck with dreda g than even Let Me Ride was 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.440 a little bit more funkier than where Dre had been 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.080 at that time, you know what I mean. And he 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.760 still had a really good, healthy amount of breakbeats in 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.400 there on some of those songs on the chronic, But 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.919 by the time he got the Doggy Style, he was 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.720 like submerged in the shit. He was like, y'all, g 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.440 funk this motherfucker out this my fucker finn to be 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:43.160 the funkiest hip hop record on the market. But now 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.040 when I hear it with my ears, you know, when 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.719 I hear those songs even all of the doggy style 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:50.880 songs and the chronic song you know what here you 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:51.400 know what song? 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:51.800 I hear? 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.480 What's that DJ quick tonight? 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.520 You know what? I believe that, bro. And you have 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.640 to look at something else that was going on at 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.039 that time too. You remember, Warren and Snoop had been 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.920 kind of like in boot camp with Cole one, Eddy Seven, 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.080 Hutch and all of them guys over Above the Law, 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.000 and you know, it was two things that kind of 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.440 just coincided together. Those guys. You know, Snoop lines up 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.520 over there with Drake, right, you know, and here comes 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.599 Warren g They have been their understudies kind of. And 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:26.920 Drake just got finished working with them brothers on the 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.920 last n WA album, the Niggas for Life album, Right, 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:34.200 So I think, man, he just took what they was 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.839 doing to another level. And that's not no knocks against 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.880 Above the Law because Above the Law some funky motherfuckers. 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.040 Yeah, but I think Above the Law had shout out 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.279 to Hutch. Above the Law had more of a harder funk. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:48.919 It is a danceable funk. 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.480 It was more you know, you gotta remember, I think 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.440 those guys are related to wasn't they related to Ike 0:05:55.520 --> 0:06:00.839 Turner Man I related to the other, to Willie Huts, 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.400 will Dull, you know Willie Huts. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.479 So they had like a more pure funk. It was 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.960 more well, I don't want to say if it was pure. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.680 I think it just wasn't a danceable funk. And I 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.480 think that's why I keep saying. Even before Above the Law, 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:21.560 DJ Quick in eighty eight with Born and Raised and 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:26.160 Tonight the Clear, the Climax sample, Yeah. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.160 You know what dre Man Quick does. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.400 It's a lot of work Quick. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.120 It's done a lot of work for Drake. You know 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.240 when you listen to some of fifty cent songs, like 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.039 it can't be done and all that just the way 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.640 the piano and you know what's crazy. Man. Before I 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.440 even knew officially that Quick had worked on the fifty 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.560 cent songs, I could hear just from being in the 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.560 studio with tone and sugar freaking all of them. It's 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.960 a certain swing that he got to his drums, man, 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:58.120 and it's a certain everything Quick do is live like 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.800 even when he resamples it, it's like some live ship. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.720 He would have a motherfucker come over there and play 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.599 like a classic piano. Yeah, and he would sample that 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.840 shit like Quick Doom sample ship hardly from records. Man, 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:13.360 everything he does is replayed, and I could hear certain 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.560 things on there, like even in the club, the way 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.800 those if you're listening to the club, the way the 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:23.200 drum swing, the way to pump, it almost sounded like 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.760 his clubs don't have no quantize. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:30.440 On like everything is Definitely, I definitely believe Dre and 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:35.080 Quick definitely are the type to get away from quantizing. 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.160 For sure, because you can't quantize a real drum. Like 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.080 when you on stage and hear those drummers, Man, they 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.040 don't have a quantized thing on it. They just up 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:43.000 to the exam. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.240 Somebody taught me something really early and I did it 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.800 would cancel these nuts where like I put the kicks 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.960 and the snare, they're not all the same volume and 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:54.280 most people can't hear that. 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:56.880 But if you really go back and listen to cancel 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:57.720 these nuts. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.200 I staggered a lot of them in pay and a 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.400 lot of them just a little bit, so when they play, 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.400 they almost play like they could be real. But that's 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.200 not the point. I don't want to get too far 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.720 away from what we were saying, right. I think if 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.880 you go back to nineteen eighty eight, right, which is 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:17.520 before above the law, right when Quick first came out, Right, 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.040 Quick Quick records the red tape the streets and with 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:21.760 eighty eight. 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.040 Right, yeah, eighty eight, eighty eight, seven eighty eight. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:29.360 Right, listen to Tonight and listen to Born and Raised. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.600 That style of production. 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.360 Became the way we hear G funk. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.920 Now, not the title I think Hudgs for sure comp 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:37.559 you know, Hudge for sure. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:38.760 Coined that title. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.880 G Funk, But the sound is very much DJ Quick, 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:47.600 Tonight and Born and Raised. 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.720 Yeah, you know what, I can see that man, And 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.199 you know what, going back to Quick a little bit, 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.800 I think he gets slept on a lot of times, man, 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.880 A lot that is his fault. You know, Quick say 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.280 he underestimate you know, people underestimate him. He didn't get 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.679 the props he deserved. And he's probably right to a 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.920 certain degree, but a lot of that is his fault. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:12.880 Well, Quick is all Rick. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:22.560 James Quickly are Rick James like like Prince and Michael 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.840 Jackson probably owe a huge part of their success in. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.920 The eighties to Rick James. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:32.520 Solely Rick James, even the whole androdgingist feel as I 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.440 studied and did my homework. Rick James seems like he's 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.400 the first androdging, this urban figure that was like a 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:39.480 big deal in the eighties. 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.080 I mean, and that just sounds so funny calling Ricky 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.319 and friction because he was the most. He was the 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:45.920 nigger is of the most niggas. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.160 Sure, but but if you look at how he dressed 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.760 and how he can't you know what's crazy? I agree, 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.280 But that's like when Cameron was wearing a pink when 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.200 I was coming up right in my end. You never 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.960 thought for two seconds Cam was taking no dick. 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:01.959 You just like they can. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.280 Wow, this nigga fashion is off the hook. This nigga 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.760 got enough swagger to me. That's what I got from 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:11.480 Rick James versus Prince where Prince came across. I remember 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.360 being a little kid thinking like, man, it's Prince gay, 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:15.720 you know what I mean. I don't know how y'all felt, 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.800 because that's kind of y'all are coming into y'all teen 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.960 years closely roughly for y'all, y'all was starting to come 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.520 close to being in your ten years, and. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.880 We was definitely in our teen years. Like Rick James 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.960 for me is like kind of like toward the end 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:33.360 of elementary going up to junior high and he kind 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.959 of shit, man, even surpass that, man, you got to 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.800 think about it. Dog. I met Prince one night. I 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.679 didn't meet him. I saw him at the ground. He 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.120 had a club downtown LA called the Grand Slam. 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.200 That changed it to the three three three yep, And it. 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.400 Was like three different levels on this it was off 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.200 the hook club Dog because it had like a like 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.520 a pop kind of like dancefield floor. Then it had 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.680 a reggae floor, and then they had like a hardcore 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.160 hip hop floor. Right. And I was going up the 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:06.040 stairs to the hip hop floor and I saw Prince 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.199 coming down the stairs. He was with a bunch of girls. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.559 And when I take these women look like angels. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:10.240 G. 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.040 Like, you know, just like it was like he was 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.719 surrounded by angels all for sure. Yeah, it was like 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.040 he was surrounded by angels. And he's just the most 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.760 gorgeous woman. And when I tell you that, this nigga 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.280 had on like a suit like he was counting Dracula 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.920 or something. Dog And it didn't seem like this nigga 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.320 touched the stairs almost like he just glided down the 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:35.160 stairs ula. Yeah, and he was just like what's up everybody? 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.600 Like he just passed me and my homeboys and we 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.560 stood to the side. He was like, damn, that's Prince 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.960 right there, and this motherfucker like it was floating with 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.000 a bunch of women around him. Dog, and it was 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.160 just like he had a big ass glass in his hand. 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.559 And it was always what's crazy to me is for 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:54.200 as weird and as assless chaps, he still always seemed 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:54.880 like a nigga. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.079 Oh yeah he is STUDI And I heard Prince had hands. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.560 I probably got probably fire somebody the way Charlie Murphy 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:03.480 talking about because of that. 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:05.720 I'm sure he had hands because he was way too 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:07.480 to not have hands. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.680 Didn't homeboy admit, didn't Charlie admit that Prince put hands 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:11.920 on one night? No? 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:13.239 No, he beat him in basketball. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.240 Yeah, but I heard Prince saying hens. It is just 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.319 like Usher is a fighting motherfucker. It's just something like 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:19.560 they're all in. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.400 Georgian and they shout out to them Atlanta, Georgia and 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.600 them niggas gonna fight your motherfucker. Now, they'll fight you. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.320 The motherfucker gonna have some hands t last, probably can 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:27.000 fight a little bit. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.439 Oh you know what were we going back to that man, 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.640 I gotta talk about this this way off subject and 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.079 Marca go laugh, you know. Shout out to the homeboy 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.120 Maca where we recorded at the Coin Academy. They got 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.319 Friday night fades, right, and they got a boxing coach 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.640 man that's really good called they called him the Sensey, right. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.480 He been training these young brothers out here, and they've 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:48.000 been going around the country whooping ass. California just caught 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.839 their first l Guess where they was at. Somewhere in 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:52.840 the midwell, they was in Atlanta. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:54.240 Oh yeah, let. 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.480 Atlanta niggas can fight. I'm telling you Avanda holy Field 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:58.360 from Atlanta. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.480 The yeah, you know, I can see it in I'm 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.199 on country ass niggas well, you know, all of main 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:04.440 country because I forgot this. 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.320 Atlanta ain't Atlanta. Ain't that country. 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:12.240 Atlanta country. It got Southern roots. But they's some city niggas, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:12.800 you know what I mean. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.920 And I'm getting and I'm getting out of that man 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.520 calling our brothers pastor you know, in the South country niggas, 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:21.200 they don't like that. 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.199 That's Texas niggas. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:23.360 Love. 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:24.480 Shout out to all my texts. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.080 I love being called country because Texas is really the 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.080 country Oklahoma, really the country. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.719 Atlanta is city is Atlanta is like l A. 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.760 Yeah, I can see catch in Atlanta, Atlanta groyn E 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:36.920 than the motherfucker dog. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:37.920 And it got bad. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.240 It used to be such a man I've been the 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.320 first time I went to Atlanta and I seen black 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.400 police officers and I remember I was with Dazz. Dash 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.080 had picked me up from the airport, right, So I'm 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.840 riding with Dash to his house. Shout out the DZ 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.000 and we riding and ship and it's me, him and 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.079 somebody and I'm looking at the police. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.400 He like you this, this, this ain't la. You ain't 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:58.160 got to worry about them. 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.000 And I just kept on looking at this black police 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.200 he's next to us, and that nigga looked over the 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.360 fuck you looking at that nigga. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.480 And drove off in his police car. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.680 And I remember thinking to myself, like, I'm home because 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:11.760 I'm home, you know what. 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.680 And ge that's one of the reasons why I love Atlanta. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.959 But back to Prince though, Dog, I just think, man, 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:22.000 you gotta remember Prince and them. Man probably was influenced 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:23.640 more than anything else about little Richard. 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.040 Yeah, that's dope. He from Atlanta too, you. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.800 Feel what I'm saying. The Georgia too, I would assume 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.440 dog because if you looked at all the brothers back 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.040 in the fifties and sixties, they wore makeup, had their 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.960 hair back in a little you know, boo fine or 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.200 whatever like that, had to relax and shit in their hair. 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.760 So I think that a whole little drogness look man, 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.080 But Rick got it off. Rick almost looked like somebody 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.480 was making him do that shit though he just had it. 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.080 He still had a masklin. Don't get me wrong. When 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.320 Prince opened up, you could tell Prince was a nigga. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.440 But his fear was super soft. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.560 For Rick, You've been wearing all that shit, still look 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:05.320 like a nigga wearing all that shit, like this nigga crazy, 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.600 Like Prince gave you like maybe he's gay. Till he 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:13.240 started talking. Rick was like this nigga just crazy. Michael 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.920 Jackson seemed like when Michael Jackson did it was like 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.640 little kid. When Prince did it, it was like its nigga 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:20.320 kind of different. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.320 Rick, did it? You like this nigga crazy? 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.840 Even the way if you think I Rick sang songs 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.840 and shit like Rick saying that fucking ballad, but that's 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.000 to me, that's quick, Like. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:34.840 Sometimes I'll DM quick. 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.920 Just a crazy thought like that I had about hip hop, 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.400 and I'm like, yo, like tonight, like you was listening 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.760 to to Uh Like I was just like you was 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:50.760 listening to Too Short. Don't fight the feeling. He'd just 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:54.200 laugh like he'll just send me laugh at the mosies 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.760 like you're over there studying and I know I be 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:58.800 on it, you know what I'm saying, even talking to 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.240 Too Short, Like what made did you even go to 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.000 that danceable funk at that time? 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.560 Too Short? It's just like the epictone of funk though 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.200 when you just listened to his albums man like I 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.880 was thinking about that, man like. I think one of 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.680 my hardest beats, one of my favorite beats of all 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:23.560 time is the Dope Thien beat. Just his baselines, Too 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:28.800 Short always had really crazy ass baselines, Dog, and I 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.880 think that's because he comes from an area you gotta remember, Dog. 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.360 I was listening to him one day, man, and you 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.520 know what, I got to give his props from the 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.440 interview he did with Too Short, because it just took 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.120 you way back, you know how he just got his 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.320 start and everything. So when Too Short signed to his 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.200 first record label. They didn't really have hip hop producers 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.680 back then. He had a band of you know, brothers 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.520 from over. He had a four piece band, so he 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.440 kind of had to coach them on what he wanted 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.200 to wrap over. So he had this live feel that 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.800 wound up staying with him the majority of his career. 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:02.960 And if you look at it, Dog, all the Short 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:07.240 albums that are so major units that would either platum 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.040 or go all featured, all were steeped in live production. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.040 Yeah that's true, but they had a real hip hop feel. 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.440 His drums always, he always had that eight o eight 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.240 dog with live and just live instrumentation, bro, and it 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.240 was just really really funky. I would love to see 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.680 just Short and Banks get down one more time, Dog, 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:29.719 I would love to hear that. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:31.800 I don't know, why is it one more time I 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:36.359 get upset thinking about not getting another juvenile many Fresh 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:43.200 album or tumping TI album, or you know, like when 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.840 your favorite artists got with your favorite producer and then 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.639 that sound to find who they were, you know what 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:50.000 I mean? 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:50.919 I missed that. 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:55.400 And I always say, nobody told these niggas to change. 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.439 You know, these niggas felt that they needed to grow up, 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.800 and you know I missed him. He slipped that blues funk. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.120 You know, that blues funk is what it was, so cinematic. 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:09.560 It's like when you first heard motherfucking you know, growing 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.520 up in a hood like that Clear Patricks thing. Like 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:16.280 how they flipped that, And that's what made Compton's most 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.560 wanted shit different. Quick shit was all super disco funk. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.000 You mean, it was always hella danceable. Like I remember 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.320 going to parties as a little kid, like in the 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.600 fifth grade and then playing Quick like that day. 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.840 Yeah, man, Quick as a genius, man, And seeing that 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.040 dude in the studio, man work on them boards, man, 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.640 and how he was just I remember sitting up there 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.600 watching them. Man. I think we might have been in 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.000 passive feet man, and I was just watching him play 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.560 with this one snare dog and it sounded perfect to me, 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.840 you know, especially at that time because I'm with nowhere 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:54.960 where I'm at right now, you know, as far as 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.880 music and production and stuff. I just sat up there 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.119 and the cold thing about him he had took the 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.480 snare from I forget which record it was from, but 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:04.840 he took a snare from a record and he was 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.600 just in there, fine tuning and putting his own thing 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.120 on it. And he was so meticulous with the glasses 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.199 to where it was just like, man, this. 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:16.640 Snare, why'd you fucking with this? 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.159 Yeah? But it was It's just like he was a 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.960 scientist almost. But then you didn't hear what he did 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:24.879