Speaker 1: Well, I want to thank you for coming on here. One.
Speaker 1: I know Thomas Value, I know you doing a thousand
Speaker 1: things these days, dope that have you on him?
Speaker 2: Man, thanks for having no no doubt.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you right off the top man
Speaker 1: hip hop turning fifty Man, that's crazy man. I know
Speaker 1: I know you from Loan Beast growing up. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know you grew up around music. Could you talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about just show early you know, relationship with
Speaker 1: hip hop and coming into it and you know with
Speaker 1: R and B and what you grew up listening to
Speaker 1: and all that.
Speaker 3: Just being around the neighborhood and you know, back then
Speaker 3: the DJ was our connection to you know, learning about
Speaker 3: all of the underground music everything. So just being around
Speaker 3: the DJ world where you know, you had the world
Speaker 3: class record crew, you had the DJ crew together, oh
Speaker 3: early stereo crew okay, uh huh, and just being around
Speaker 3: that and listening to underground music and like artists like
Speaker 3: run dmc se Boys and even like Cool mo O
Speaker 3: D and the you know, uh Cool HERK and Busy
Speaker 3: Be and.
Speaker 2: Those types of guys.
Speaker 3: Just hearing all of that music, uh into to now
Speaker 3: being a guy who they kind of they say it's
Speaker 3: a legend in it and and uh it's it's it's
Speaker 3: incredible because I learned from all of them, and that's
Speaker 3: what made me who I am. And you know, it's
Speaker 3: got me to the status that I am now. Uh
Speaker 3: just being a part of the beginning uh parts of
Speaker 3: hip hop, even just listening to him and then being
Speaker 3: around being having a chance to hang with uh Easy
Speaker 3: and and and Dre and you know all of the
Speaker 3: the the vest iced T and Dove c and and
Speaker 3: you know all those guys from back in the day Coolio,
Speaker 3: all those guys.
Speaker 1: So I like to think that although G's that actually
Speaker 1: started when you when you guys are listening to the
Speaker 1: music that is coming out commercially, the rock this way
Speaker 1: Woul run them see and mixed it with rock, some
Speaker 1: of the hybrids, some of the things that kind of
Speaker 1: go away a little bit from hip hop. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, God's rapping on it, the battling, the one
Speaker 1: on ones and stuff like that. Was you guys hearing
Speaker 1: a lot of the commercial stuff that was octually coming
Speaker 1: from the East Coast. Was you guys hearing that trying
Speaker 1: to form a West Coast version of that or create
Speaker 1: your own version of that or was it just where
Speaker 1: it was going and what it felt like.
Speaker 3: It was just where it was going and what it
Speaker 3: felt like, and it just just inspired us to just
Speaker 3: do music, you know what I mean. But we did
Speaker 3: it in a in a you know, West Coast style,
Speaker 3: like our way, like more live instrumentation, even though it
Speaker 3: was a lot of live instrumentation coming from the East Coast.
Speaker 3: But we were heavenly inspired, you know, just being a
Speaker 3: just watching B Street for Crush Groove, you know, movies
Speaker 3: like that, even uh, the even the miseducation of uh what.
Speaker 2: Is the Sun? Uh Sunny Cars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, even just you know that stuff was was like
Speaker 3: that was what was coming out of out of from
Speaker 3: New York and now.
Speaker 2: We loved that.
Speaker 3: We loved that and uh, you know, just those movies
Speaker 3: because it had a hip hop vibe to it, you know,
Speaker 3: and all of that stuff just inspired us, along with
Speaker 3: having the Dream Team and uh Arabian I'm not Arabian Prince,
Speaker 3: but uh, god damn it, I'm it's gonna Egyptian Lover,
Speaker 3: who was probably the majors pioneer from the West, was
Speaker 3: Egyptian Lover because he was dealing with the East Coast
Speaker 3: way before a lot of guys, a lot of the
Speaker 3: O g's from California was even out and then the
Speaker 3: l A Dream team.
Speaker 2: Uh Ice t.
Speaker 3: Those guys was was vets I was sitting the B Street.
Speaker 2: Was that was that ship?
Speaker 1: It was?
Speaker 3: You know they showed the grimy ship where they was
Speaker 3: in the in the in the broken down buildings, setting
Speaker 3: up the party through the electricity. We wasn't doing that ship,
Speaker 3: I learned, you know that was that was dope.
Speaker 1: That's how they was doing it, pulling it in, bringing
Speaker 1: it from other stuff. Yeah, yeah, that was originals man.
Speaker 1: And two when I'm saying thinking about man like guys
Speaker 1: like Iced t w A, those early those early depictions
Speaker 1: of style, man started giving like the West Coast, like
Speaker 1: an edgy of style in the East coast. When you
Speaker 1: say y'all were still stormailing, but y'all was talking about
Speaker 1: what was going on the West coast.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Uh, gang Bang was at all time high,
Speaker 3: and uh the artist at that time was just you know,
Speaker 3: like n w A and Easy and everybody. They were
Speaker 3: just letting everybody know, this is this is what's going
Speaker 3: on here, and this is our version of this is
Speaker 3: all we can put out because this is what we're
Speaker 3: going through.
Speaker 2: It was really.
Speaker 3: Gang influenced, you know, with just along with police brutality.
Speaker 1: Did you did you see because you was in the
Speaker 1: early parts of the depiction of what West Coast music
Speaker 1: would be labeled ass But I remember I remember Rapp
Speaker 1: being very inspiring. I remember teachers questions used to be
Speaker 1: should be an uplifting of a of a sound? Yeah,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, I forgot about all that
Speaker 1: ship like you was around when talk a little bit about.
Speaker 2: That, I was in there.
Speaker 3: I was in the day I saw here that you
Speaker 3: know uha, teachers, uh Q Tip and five Dog them
Speaker 3: was my guys, even leaders of the new schools Rhymes
Speaker 3: we was bust Rhymes and them used to come to
Speaker 3: the West Coast and me and Snoop would go up
Speaker 3: to the La Mandrian name and Charlie Brown and all.
Speaker 3: Then we smoke them out, you know, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: just showing the West Coast hospitality, no matter who it was,
Speaker 3: apache who had gangster big teeth in them, everybody when
Speaker 3: they came out here, we embraced them and just let
Speaker 3: them know how much we loved them because they inspired us,
Speaker 3: you know, So that that whole man, poor Rochester teachers.
Speaker 3: Uh tribe called quest Actually we got the Jazz is
Speaker 3: one of the records that inspired me as a as
Speaker 3: a as a hip hop producer, as an MC. You know,
Speaker 3: I ain't no heavy MC. I'm just a storyteller. I
Speaker 3: guess you could say, uh, but uh, all that stuff
Speaker 3: inspired me and just being in that era and then
Speaker 3: it turned into you know, uh one a seven on
Speaker 3: the motherfucking cap and and I mean that it was
Speaker 3: all it was still all all yeah around the same
Speaker 3: times because me and Snoop was listening to special Ed
Speaker 3: and uh second Shade of Red uh Redhead Campin.
Speaker 1: These are all classics, right here go look all these up.
Speaker 1: These are all classic classics, you feel me.
Speaker 3: But still like, like, like we was talking about earlier,
Speaker 3: what comes out of you is where you are, where
Speaker 3: you're at, you know, And we was in Long East,
Speaker 3: California at that time, on sixty first in London, hustling,
Speaker 3: you know, just trying to make some some bread and
Speaker 3: some young young teens just trying to make some bread,
Speaker 3: just caught up in the same old hoodship right the.
Speaker 1: One of the day, right, talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: the dre effect. Man, you know, Drake coming from m
Speaker 1: w A, all this knowledge, all this impact, he obviously
Speaker 1: set the wave almost like right, you know, doctor Dre
Speaker 1: don't really get enough credit to me. You know when
Speaker 1: you starting to established like style and started like implementing
Speaker 1: like how people do things. Obviously it comes from ice Ta,
Speaker 1: it comes from guys for them, and he was talking about.
Speaker 2: With them then Huh, dra Dre.
Speaker 3: I think produced uh had some something to do with
Speaker 3: the production of colors. I know he had. He was
Speaker 3: also a producer with the I don't know if you
Speaker 3: ever heard of the batter Ram, the vater Ram. You
Speaker 3: can't stop it, baby, the batter Ram.
Speaker 2: Yeah, jnoth.
Speaker 1: I gotta y'all got that right. We noted that. We
Speaker 1: got that noted the slady okay, bo, I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: that up. I gotta look that up. It's called the
Speaker 1: Battle What.
Speaker 2: The batter Ram?
Speaker 1: And who is that by?
Speaker 3: That was by Toddy T and Mixed Master Spect. I
Speaker 3: think Dre uh DJ Pooh, I think they all was
Speaker 3: all co producers in that Quick.
Speaker 1: They don't get enough credit. You don't never hear it
Speaker 1: when you talk about pone of style. You never hear pool.
Speaker 1: You never hear quick.
Speaker 3: Quick as dope. Pool is dope. I guess they they
Speaker 3: you know, they just you know, just don't really be
Speaker 3: looking for a lot of publicity. They just want to
Speaker 3: do They want to pay music to speak for you know,
Speaker 3: for them.
Speaker 2: Uh but they they dope. You know, you know them
Speaker 2: my guys, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Man, I love Uh I want to talk about them
Speaker 1: early days with two one three man, talk about your
Speaker 1: first group. That's your first group and Snoop how they
Speaker 1: come together?
Speaker 3: Uh well, we we've known each other all our lives,
Speaker 3: elementary school and church. Uh So as we got older,
Speaker 3: Like I said, when we was in our young teens,
Speaker 3: me and Snoop was over on sixty first Street, we
Speaker 3: was hustling, you know, doing different things and moving around
Speaker 3: and uh we we he was actually doing music then,
Speaker 3: you know, we just you know, we're just doing it
Speaker 3: just for the homies.
Speaker 2: It wasn't for the masses.
Speaker 3: We was doing it for the homeboys, the neighborhood and everybody.
Speaker 2: Just a party.
Speaker 3: Two and uh so one day, you know Snoop and
Speaker 3: Nate that was was at Poly together doing music and
Speaker 3: Nate had went off to the Marines. So after he
Speaker 3: got out, he had heard about us doing music. So
Speaker 3: one day we was on the spot and they pulled up,
Speaker 3: uh on sixty.
Speaker 2: First Street, you know, uh pulled up on us. And
Speaker 2: then we from there.
Speaker 3: We just started just start doing music and Snoop was like,
Speaker 3: he's still singing.
Speaker 2: He was like yeah, So we.
Speaker 3: Just started collaborating and just started doing music together.
Speaker 1: Three three geniuses, all bringing a whole different flavor to it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: We went and did our first demo, Uh what uh
Speaker 3: would DJ Money be from?
Speaker 2: From Long Beach?
Speaker 3: That's when we h we had a uh actually you
Speaker 3: know what. I remember we were just talking about quick,
Speaker 3: but he quick inspired us as well. He had an
Speaker 3: underground tape that was out.
Speaker 2: That ship was hard than the motherfucker. So it was hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's that's what made us do the underground
Speaker 3: tape thing, you know. So that's when we formed two
Speaker 3: on three and we we did our demo with Money
Speaker 3: B and it was called Long Beaches a motherfucker. Oh wow,
Speaker 3: that motherfuckers hard to this day, I should have brought
Speaker 3: it up here, Dan, straight up, Long Beach is a mother.
Speaker 1: So I got to so I gotta even say this, man.
Speaker 1: So if we fast forward a lot of your friends
Speaker 1: go to death Row right, you end up signing with
Speaker 1: death Child.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to take us through the story. I
Speaker 1: think I've heard the story, but I want I want
Speaker 1: to hear this story right here on Certified.
Speaker 2: Like I mean, I was.
Speaker 3: I was there, did a lot of work with you know,
Speaker 3: with Dre and and and Snoopy, our whole crew.
Speaker 2: We all was there working and doing our thing.
Speaker 3: And then once things kind of blew up a little bit,
Speaker 3: tours started and things like that, you know, it was
Speaker 3: time for people to have their roles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and my role was I was a.
Speaker 3: Producer slash DJ uh and I would I would rap too,
Speaker 3: but you know, when it came time to start moving,
Speaker 3: you know, I wasn't involved. M you know, I wasn't
Speaker 3: being invited into the tour or you know, whatever was
Speaker 3: going on. So you know it it it kind of
Speaker 3: had me upset.
Speaker 1: So it fuck with the friendship a little bit between
Speaker 1: uh everybody.
Speaker 3: I mean, it didn't really fuck with the friendship. I
Speaker 3: just didn't didn't Uh. I didn't know how to to
Speaker 3: uh accept a blessing pretty much because Dre must have
Speaker 3: seen something that I wasn't saying as far as just
Speaker 3: being around, uh, you know, getting myself caught up in
Speaker 3: a situation, you know, cause I was pretty much I
Speaker 3: was alive while around that time, and I I was,
Speaker 3: you know down, you know, really down to do whatever
Speaker 3: right and uh and uh he he pretty much seeing
Speaker 3: that pretty much and was just like, man, you need
Speaker 3: to go and to be your own man. M you
Speaker 3: know it hurt, you know, I was upset a little bit,
Speaker 3: but I went when did my own thing. I went
Speaker 3: back to sleeping on the floor. UH had my NPC sixty,
Speaker 3: I had my creative records and just started producing, just
Speaker 3: start doing my shit again and start you know, making
Speaker 3: songs with with other artists outside of the guys that
Speaker 3: I was with, which that's how I came up with
Speaker 3: uh Endo Smoke, which was pretty much my first UH production.
Speaker 3: That was my introduction as a producer and a artist,
Speaker 3: cause I wrapped on it and I produced it, and
Speaker 3: I you know, helped write with Grim's uh verse. Even
Speaker 3: though Grim is he's incredible, but I helped out with
Speaker 3: I gave him some of the flavor that we had,
Speaker 3: you know, like that H and R stuff to puff
Speaker 3: in your lungs, smoking on the chronic, getting straight sprung.
Speaker 2: That's that was our.
Speaker 3: That was a style that I that that I used,
Speaker 3: that that we all you know had around that time.
Speaker 3: That uh, but that that actually introduced me into doing
Speaker 3: indo smoking also introduced me into producing definition.
Speaker 2: Of a thug for Tupac yup. Cause I was at
Speaker 2: the studio.
Speaker 3: I came around after you know, I was kind of
Speaker 3: like distant for a while. UH came to the studio
Speaker 3: and Draden was working on a on a the UH
Speaker 3: actually depot of just the soundtrack they was doing the
Speaker 3: record for. And I bumped hears with Paul Stewart and
Speaker 3: John Singleton and I was like, look, man, I was
Speaker 3: like a starving student. I was like, look, do you
Speaker 3: guys have any room on y'all soundtrack?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: If you do, could you please listen to the song
Speaker 3: I got. So Paul was like, all right, I'll listened
Speaker 3: to it. I said, well, can we go to my car?
Speaker 3: So I had a burgundy rigle. We went, sat in
Speaker 3: the regal, I put the tape in. I started playing
Speaker 3: it and it went for about maybe fifteen twenty seconds
Speaker 3: and Paul.
Speaker 2: Was like boom. He's like stop, stop and stop. So
Speaker 2: I stopped it and he was like I kind of
Speaker 2: looked at him like like this motherfucker. Okay, another motherfucker tripping,
Speaker 2: don't wanna you know, gonna shoot me down. So he
Speaker 2: was like, can I take the tape with me? I
Speaker 2: said hell, yeah, take it.
Speaker 3: He said, just give me your number and I paid you,
Speaker 3: you know, and let you know what we think. And
Speaker 3: so for that was like ninety three, ninety four, ninety
Speaker 3: n ninety three.
Speaker 2: It was ninety three.
Speaker 3: Ninety It was like n in like ninety three. I
Speaker 3: think it was like.
Speaker 2: Yes, ninety three, and one song was on the tape,
Speaker 2: the Winner of ninety three.
Speaker 1: What song was on the tape?
Speaker 2: It was Indo Smoke.
Speaker 3: And so I got a call that Monday, and and
Speaker 3: Paul Stewart was like, then we want this to be
Speaker 3: our first single off the Poetic Justice soundtrack.
Speaker 2: And I was like huh.
Speaker 3: He was like, yeah, we want this to be our
Speaker 3: first single. So I called Mr Graham like, man, we
Speaker 3: got a single with uh John Singleton and Paul Stewart
Speaker 3: over there at New Deal. Uh, so they want to
Speaker 3: meet with us. So we went up, had to meet
Speaker 3: and everything was great. Oh wow, Uh did the deal
Speaker 3: with him? You know, we got some cheese out of it.
Speaker 3: And and that w That was pretty much my first
Speaker 3: introduction to as an artist and a producer, uh, into
Speaker 3: the music game.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, I was thinking about this the other day. Man,
Speaker 1: it's been twelve years since Nate been gone. Does it
Speaker 1: feel like twelve? Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it feels like it a lot because
Speaker 3: when up, you know a lot. We worked together a
Speaker 3: whole lot more than everybody. And he really understood my music,
Speaker 3: you know, as far as my production, and he knew
Speaker 3: what to do with it. And I say that, you know,
Speaker 3: sometime when I work with artists, they don't really understand
Speaker 3: what's there.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Nate would understand it, and he had dissect and then
Speaker 3: he'll put the vibe to it and the shit is
Speaker 3: a classic. But some artists to today will be listening
Speaker 3: like damn, okay, I'm trying to catch a vibe with
Speaker 3: this and this, and it's like, what are you thinking about?
Speaker 2: Just go wow?
Speaker 3: You know, but Nate knew what to do, and uh,
Speaker 3: just not having them around, you know, just to to
Speaker 3: get down on on certain records that I do, or
Speaker 3: me producing for him or him hearing him, you know,
Speaker 3: on a record with Snoop or Dre or or you know,
Speaker 3: anybody in the industry is just like wow. But we
Speaker 3: still hear it every day, all day r year after year,
Speaker 3: every since he died and before when we when we
Speaker 3: put the record out, it's still it's still going. So
Speaker 3: that's that's what uh, you know it. It makes me
Speaker 3: feel good just to know that it it's still keeping
Speaker 3: his name alive along with with mine as well on
Speaker 3: what we did together as far as to regulate uh record.
Speaker 3: You know, we did that shit right in my apartment.
Speaker 3: Uh little small apartment with no furniture, just a bed
Speaker 3: and my dogs shitting everywhere and studio equipment in one room,
Speaker 3: and uh we did that motherfucker right in there, you know,
Speaker 3: and from there, you know it a uh what was
Speaker 3: a trip?
Speaker 2: Was I was at the studio. Now this is a
Speaker 2: whole nother story.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I was up at the.
Speaker 3: Studio with Dray uh him and Mike Lynn. So I
Speaker 3: told Mike, I said, Mike, I got the song I
Speaker 3: want you to hear because I know I knew that
Speaker 3: they was doing above the rim uh soundtrack.
Speaker 2: So Michael was all right, come on, let's go.
Speaker 3: So we got in the car once again, pushed the
Speaker 3: tape and that it was regulate and uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was finished. It was finished. Uh it wasn't mixed,
Speaker 2: but it was a rough draft of it.
Speaker 3: And uh so it played. Mike was like this ship bang.
Speaker 3: It was like, you let dra hear this. I was like, nah,
Speaker 3: I ain't let him hear it. So he said, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna I'm gonna let Dre here and I'm gonna let
Speaker 3: Jimmy hear it, he said, And I'll get it, you know,
Speaker 3: I'll get back to you. So once again, this was
Speaker 3: a CD. It's actually not a tape with a CD.
Speaker 3: So I gave them a CD.
Speaker 2: And uh, uh.
Speaker 3: Warn we want this to be a single, our single
Speaker 3: for above the brand soundtrack.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 2: And that was regularly so I was like, damn, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I want to say two days ago. So, first off,
Speaker 1: Regulators probably is one of those, one of the one
Speaker 1: of them, one of them joints that is going to
Speaker 1: be forever in my top ten forever, right, just vibe
Speaker 1: just I can throw that on. I can feel like
Speaker 1: I'm on pH you know, like I can, I can.
Speaker 1: I can give you moments in my life that I've had.
Speaker 1: Regulators be like the soundtrack to that to those moments, right,
Speaker 1: you know we got kids. Yeah, you know, kids on
Speaker 1: all apps, TikTok, fucking all socials, right, yeah, my kid
Speaker 1: is scrolling and she stops and she's I'm driving. I
Speaker 1: can hear Regulators playing It's just Dad is your song?
Speaker 1: And I said okay, And in the middle of the
Speaker 1: song it flipped Unt Tree.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah that.
Speaker 1: Was I was in that motherfucker doing this right here.
Speaker 1: Bro on you hear me, I was getting out. Yeah, man, listen.
Speaker 1: First off, I'm a fan of all music, don't give
Speaker 1: a fuck what it is. Frob fucking classic jazz, everything, right,
Speaker 1: So I'm a fan. When they flipped country, bro, I
Speaker 1: think it flipped my country too, Like it flipped the
Speaker 1: country and me, you know what I'm saying. And I
Speaker 1: know I'm yeah, yeah, I'm going and I'm being funny.
Speaker 1: But the point I'm making here is that, man, someone
Speaker 1: told me, the biggest form of flatteries to be copied
Speaker 1: someone to use your stuff or to inspire. When you
Speaker 1: hear when you hear Regulators, you hear those remixes, like
Speaker 1: where does it take you? Like, what are you thinking
Speaker 1: when you hear you heard the country version? What would
Speaker 1: it take you?
Speaker 2: I was like, that's it's dope.
Speaker 3: I would say that was like, it's dope, right. I
Speaker 3: uh just talked to uh Jennifer Horton, who's actually we're
Speaker 3: partnering up. That's she's going to start doing some work
Speaker 3: with me. Shout out to Jennifer management wise, and she's
Speaker 3: tight with his people. He talked to his people and like,
Speaker 3: what do you guys want to do? You got so
Speaker 3: I told them that I could do a brand new
Speaker 3: version with new verses to regulate for that, you know,
Speaker 3: if he wants his version of his parts to still
Speaker 3: stay as is, or he could do some new new
Speaker 3: verses and we're just creator a new regulate twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: We need good vos right now. Yeah, you're getting ready
Speaker 1: to go tour?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, high school reunion tour.
Speaker 3: Me snoop whiz and too short and burning. That's a
Speaker 3: smoke affair.
Speaker 1: Tell me, tell me, tell me a little bit about it.
Speaker 1: Where where does it start?
Speaker 3: We start off in Canada, Vancouver, Canada. Uh, and then
Speaker 3: from there we do the Northwest, and then we ease
Speaker 3: over into the Midwest, and then from the Midwest we
Speaker 3: go Uh. I think we start heading towards Pennsylvania. Uh, Indianapolis,
Speaker 3: and then we do Brooklyn, New Jersey. I think we
Speaker 3: do two days in Brooklyn, then we do I mean
Speaker 3: New Jersey, then we do a day in Brooklyn, and
Speaker 3: we're all over the place. It's it's two months to
Speaker 3: a two month tour. So we're gonna be hitting like
Speaker 3: everywhere and I'm gonna have fun, man, uh and tapping
Speaker 3: in with everybody in every city, you know, on that
Speaker 3: barbecue the whole now.
Speaker 1: So take me like, what's the what's the what's the
Speaker 1: what's the what's the constant with with tours? Like are
Speaker 1: they headaches? Are the nerve wrecking leading up to it? Like?
Speaker 1: Take me through I know what sports is like. We
Speaker 1: have a training camp to get ready for a season.
Speaker 1: You go to season, you play the whole season. You
Speaker 1: gotta playoffs. Like, take me through a tour though it's
Speaker 1: the same thing. Really, it's the same thing. Some get
Speaker 1: you get, you get.
Speaker 3: You love doing it, but you get burnt out sometime
Speaker 3: with with some of the things that that you're doing.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: As far as partying every day, lot, it's a lot
Speaker 3: of partying every day. You gotta you gotta get into
Speaker 3: that party vibe every day, damn. And Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: it's a lot of drinking and smoking.
Speaker 2: Uh, a lot of vibe, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just just just a bunch of stuff like that
Speaker 3: that's constantly going on and some sometimes you get kind
Speaker 3: of burnt out on it.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: Uh, are y'all collabing on your music? I know it
Speaker 1: ain't all party a working.
Speaker 2: Know we we work, we work.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Everybody carries like a portable studio you can set up
Speaker 3: right in your dress a room, you know, with the
Speaker 3: with the lungs. The music is already done and formatted.
Speaker 3: You just pop your headphones on, get your booth up,
Speaker 3: start playing like I'll be like, sort, I need a
Speaker 3: verse a snoop, I need this wiz come on. But
Speaker 3: I'm actually working on a record right now for me
Speaker 3: snooping wiz oh wow to drop before we leave in July.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, in this situation, when you have
Speaker 1: a tour, do you do you do you focus on
Speaker 1: new music or do you just your chance to put
Speaker 1: new music out?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I definitely focus on new music, and and it's just
Speaker 3: another vehicle to push.
Speaker 2: That new music.
Speaker 3: By being on the road, you can introduce them in
Speaker 3: the show, the new music as well. While it's on
Speaker 3: the radio plan getting people familiar with it they can
Speaker 3: see it as well, and then that that it works together. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I just did one with Little Wayne too. That's that's
Speaker 3: pretty dope. That's actually that motherfuckers push play on you.
Speaker 1: We got to go to the brig.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's dope. I mean, it's really dope.
Speaker 1: Now I gotta I gotta ask about what feels like.
Speaker 1: I know music is your love, but man, bro, when
Speaker 1: I talk when I talk rubs and I talk when
Speaker 1: I talk grilling, when I talk grilling to you and
Speaker 1: smoking and the barbecuing, Bro, you light up like a
Speaker 1: whole nother bro, Like what is the I know you
Speaker 1: said your pops, man, but this is your true this
Speaker 1: is your true passion right here, Like grilling is your
Speaker 1: true passion.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's just fun.
Speaker 3: It's a getaway because I don't have to deal with
Speaker 3: like any politics or any you know, any clearances or
Speaker 3: anything like that. I'm in my own world and and
Speaker 3: whoever's around we just having a good time and feeling
Speaker 3: good and just conversating like we are right now, just
Speaker 3: having a good time conversating and it's just feel good,
Speaker 3: you know, And it just it just it's an escape
Speaker 3: for me away from the things that go on in
Speaker 3: the music business, like, for instance, me trying to get
Speaker 3: my masters back, you know, and it's been thirty years.
Speaker 3: You know, they've been juicing me that long. You know,
Speaker 3: I didn't put so many kids through college, high school.
Speaker 3: They brought so many houses for all these kids. And
Speaker 3: all I asked you guys to do for me doing
Speaker 3: what I did by saving the company is to give
Speaker 3: me my master's back. That's the best gift you could
Speaker 3: give me. But they just juicing me still, so it
Speaker 3: takes me away from all of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, y'all got all thought, y'all, I go, man, fun,
Speaker 1: that's the rap and no man, that's been certified today. Man,
Speaker 1: we had warned you come in here. In short, it's
Speaker 1: the whole joint, from fucking rubs, the sauces to tang
Speaker 1: ye to barbecue the hot. But y'all ain't ready. What's
Speaker 1: this shiit say?
Speaker 2: Sniffing griffins, sniffing griffin Smoke me out? Oh yeah, smoking
Speaker 2: me out. We brings heat and.
Speaker 1: A brings heat. Oh yeah, I'm gonna ask me, what's
Speaker 1: the process is something like that? That's a long process.
Speaker 1: I'm fighting for something that you created something this technically.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's been a it's like I said, it's it's
Speaker 3: thirty years. You know, I haven't really start I just
Speaker 3: started really like focusing on that like in the last
Speaker 3: maybe like ten years as far as you know, Like, damn,
Speaker 3: why wasn't I thinking when I was younger about my
Speaker 3: masters and I could have done these deals while I
Speaker 3: still had ownership within my masters? I own my publishing catalog.
Speaker 3: That's the biggest shit ever, right.
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of guys don't facts, you know.
Speaker 3: But the guys that do, you see these deals being
Speaker 3: made like dre Facts with the two hundred and summer,
Speaker 3: and I think that's just for the chronic right.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: And they come to me like we wanna do half
Speaker 2: of d D I say, hey, we may be able
Speaker 2: to do that.
Speaker 1: Business.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I cause I still don't you know. You hey,
Speaker 3: you guys just you know, came in a little bit
Speaker 3: as a partner, right.
Speaker 1: You know, but uh, have you ever thought about taking
Speaker 1: some of these young guns and putting them on the
Speaker 1: you umbrella and kind of give them like a little
Speaker 1: script or whatever.
Speaker 3: All the time, Like a lot of the young artists
Speaker 3: uh VG Perrico, uh Zoel Somema's and you know, like
Speaker 3: all glasses alone like these like underground artists here like
Speaker 3: that people.
Speaker 2: Really don't know about yet. Yep.
Speaker 3: But a lot of even the artists, even like ty
Speaker 3: Dolla signed guys like that, A lot a lot of
Speaker 3: these guys they called me and aksed me about all
Speaker 3: of this shit, and then I give him a a
Speaker 3: blueprint of how to move Like BEG Perrico called me,
Speaker 3: and I he was just like, uh, you know, like
Speaker 3: what what can I do to to.
Speaker 2: You know, try to make my shit move better?
Speaker 3: I said, be different, you know, be different and quit
Speaker 3: talking about ops in every song. Uh, you don't have
Speaker 3: to do that in every song. Just tell Just paint
Speaker 3: a picture and tell your story. Mm, whether it's good, bad,
Speaker 3: whatever it is, just paint a a whole movie a picture.
Speaker 3: So people don't just have to hear you saying, well,
Speaker 3: i'm'a do this or do that to some motherfucker all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 1: What that.
Speaker 2: People don't wanna hear that every day. We wanna feel
Speaker 2: good sometimes, you.
Speaker 3: Know, be different, you know, like myself, I talk some shit,
Speaker 3: you know, but then I'll I I still spit some
Speaker 3: game at the same time as far as how a
Speaker 3: guide you in a direction where a positive direction too,
Speaker 3: you know. But I'll talk some shit cause that's some
Speaker 3: shit that I went through at that time. So I'm
Speaker 3: gonna tell you my whole the story and the vibe
Speaker 3: of of how I'm feeling, of what I'm going through.
Speaker 3: And it's just like, I'm not no gang bang motherfucker
Speaker 3: like out rowdy and doing all kinds of shit.
Speaker 2: I just told my story, just.
Speaker 3: A young teen coming out of Long Beach, California, just
Speaker 3: tryna survive, just tryna be something in life. But I
Speaker 3: had to go through all of this shit to to
Speaker 3: see and say that I don't wanna be in this
Speaker 3: type of shit. I still fuck with you niggas. I
Speaker 3: love y'all right, I still fuck with all you guys,
Speaker 3: but I don't wanna still be coming in the hood,
Speaker 3: hanging in the motherfucking hood. I love the hood and
Speaker 3: I give back all the time, but living in that motherfucker.
Speaker 3: Hell no, I'm trying to get the fuck away, and
Speaker 3: that's what I did, right, And I still fuck with everybody,
Speaker 3: but shit, I pop through for ten or fifteen minutes
Speaker 3: each spot. I'm not gonna sit there long, cause if
Speaker 3: I sit there too long, i'm'a get myself in some trouble.
Speaker 3: So I gotta get out of the right. You know, Hey,
Speaker 3: smoke a joint, we have a shot whatever. Boom boom boom,
Speaker 3: smoke a joint. Look, I'm gone. I love you, I
Speaker 3: love you, and I'll be back, you know, because I
Speaker 3: don't want to fuck up my shit by shooting somebody
Speaker 3: or hurting somebody who don't know me, even though I
Speaker 3: don't go through that right, but I don't want to
Speaker 3: have to put myself in that position where I have
Speaker 3: to say, Okay, thanks, you're tripping with me for what
Speaker 3: you know, you don't even know me, or somebody just
Speaker 3: on some bulls shit because I'm blasting. I ain't like
Speaker 3: these other mother players. And I ain't gonna sit up
Speaker 3: there and get on the record talking about I'm fuposed
Speaker 3: to do this or do that.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 3: I'm just protecting myself, my family.
Speaker 2: That's it, you know, I and I.
Speaker 3: If I'm with my homeboys and some shit going on,
Speaker 3: I'm damn. I'm with it is what it is. We
Speaker 3: We just gotta do what we gotta do.
Speaker 2: Facts.
Speaker 3: But other than that, hey, I'm softest Peter Cotton tale, shit,
Speaker 3: I ain't tripping.
Speaker 1: I heard you. I heard you say when you said
Speaker 1: about your masters and how you when you were younger,
Speaker 1: you was thinking a whole nother way. How important is
Speaker 1: the script in which we give to each other, or
Speaker 1: the script in which we inherit, or when we talk
Speaker 1: to our og to get dope information. How important is
Speaker 1: that script to be able to be handed down to
Speaker 1: the next generation. How important is.
Speaker 3: That It's very important so they don't go through the
Speaker 3: ship the things that we went through. It's very important
Speaker 3: so they don't go through the things that we've been through.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Even even with my kids, I tell them, I said, look,
Speaker 3: you y'all talk to me like y'all think y'all slick
Speaker 3: or something, or I'll slick everything that you didn't been
Speaker 3: through and gonna go through. I've been through it already.
Speaker 3: That's why I try to tell you ahead of the
Speaker 3: game on certain situations that you're going through, this is
Speaker 3: how you gotta handle that situation.
Speaker 2: And I do that for artists.
Speaker 3: I do that for my kids, and it's it's really
Speaker 3: important to pass it down. I'm not sure how many
Speaker 3: guys do. But I even DM Kodak Black when he
Speaker 3: was going through all the stuff before he.
Speaker 2: Went to jail.
Speaker 3: M him and a baby soldier. Okay, it was Kodak
Speaker 3: Black I reached out to. Actually I reached out, reached
Speaker 3: out the baby Soldier because he was in jail for
Speaker 3: murder and him and Kodak Black, they they was tight,
Speaker 3: you know. But this would be actually before he went
Speaker 3: to jail for the murder situation, which he beat and
Speaker 3: he got out and he's back in jail for a violation.
Speaker 3: I think Baby Soldier and I told him, I said, look,
Speaker 3: talk to Kodak Black and have him call me. I
Speaker 3: want to talk to him because he don't have no
Speaker 3: nobody trying to guide him.
Speaker 2: In the right direction.
Speaker 3: So I reached out, and I reached out to Kodak Black,
Speaker 3: but he went to jail. I don't even know if
Speaker 3: he even seen it. But just me being from here
Speaker 3: way on the West coast, cause I I stay in
Speaker 3: tune with all the younger artists, all artists my age whatever,
Speaker 3: I stay tune tune with everything. Sho and uh I
Speaker 3: s I was just somebody gotta say something to this dude.
Speaker 3: So I just reached out the baby soldier then reached
Speaker 3: out to him and talked to both of 'em, and uh,
Speaker 3: baby soldier, he got it. You know, I was looking
Speaker 3: out for him while he was locked up too. And uh,
Speaker 3: it just it's it feels good to pass it down.
Speaker 3: And and Kodak is starting to get it mm a little.
Speaker 3: He's starting to get it, right cause I seen he
Speaker 3: started investing in in uh real estate and and things
Speaker 3: like that, and uh and just moving in a different
Speaker 3: direction a little. Even though he get had a dirty
Speaker 3: you know, he's still trying to move in the right
Speaker 3: direction by building you know, building you know wealth for
Speaker 3: the neighborhood that he came up in, and you know,
Speaker 3: making it possible for for people there to have jobs
Speaker 3: and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So that's pretty dope.
Speaker 1: Got to that. Yeah, that script has got to be
Speaker 1: out there. I got to ask you about your Raiders.
Speaker 3: Man with the Raiders, I mean, I got major love
Speaker 3: for the Raiders. I'm kind of uh I think we
Speaker 3: should have Uh. I mean, I know it was contract
Speaker 3: thing with Car.
Speaker 2: Car my God, I love Car.
Speaker 1: But you got Jimmy, Yeah, he's straight.
Speaker 2: He just gotta stay he gotta stay healthy. You gotta
Speaker 2: stay healthy.
Speaker 1: I like points start Jimmy Benning, like, I'm down with it.
Speaker 1: Y'all got a y'all got a super super athlete and
Speaker 1: the wide receiver in atoms Man. Yeah, it takes a
Speaker 1: certain arm to get it to him.
Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, straight up.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I like y'all. Man, I like y'all. Team. Ain't
Speaker 1: like how y'all.
Speaker 3: Went saying Aaron Rodgers was gonna come. That would have
Speaker 3: been that would have.
Speaker 2: Been a legend.
Speaker 1: They just shut Vegas down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it ain't.
Speaker 1: Enough, Hyahwashington, Vegas. You know what I'm saying, That would
Speaker 1: have been legendary. That would been different to Vegas. Handle
Speaker 1: Anon Rodgers now fresh out of Green bayle like, yeah, ship,
Speaker 1: that's the party capital.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was talking to you earlier and uh, y'all going
Speaker 1: on tour. I gotta think that on some of these
Speaker 1: tours you're gonna hit some of these barbecue spots and
Speaker 1: some of these.
Speaker 3: Like, man, I'm going to every city I go to.
Speaker 3: I'm tapping in with every barbecue pit master there is.
Speaker 1: Y'all hurt that Barbie. We're coming straight live, straight lived
Speaker 1: to you. You know what I'm saying. Warrann g the tour going.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. What's the name of the
Speaker 1: toy again?
Speaker 3: It's called the High School Reunion Tour. Snoop Dogg too Short,
Speaker 3: Warren g U whis Kalif and Berner in uh DJ drama.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a classic.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have a good time and we're gonna show
Speaker 3: your life on tour.
Speaker 1: A Yes, indeed, yes, sir, We're gonna crack on this guy.
Speaker 1: Damn barbecue. I gotta asked, what's your favorite thing to smoke?
Speaker 1: And what's your favorite thing to grill?
Speaker 2: You had the favorite thing to smoke?
Speaker 3: Uh uh it's brisket. Yeah, brisket, That's my favorite thing
Speaker 3: to smoke. And then as far as grilling, Oh way.
Speaker 1: I can't pick them all. You're gonna pick one.
Speaker 2: Grilling uh mm hmm. Damn. Let me see.
Speaker 3: I say, I really like to do uh like salmon
Speaker 3: grilling it. Yeah, hide and fast, you know, get the
Speaker 3: skin crispy.
Speaker 2: On the bottom.
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, Now winter, is it safe to say with
Speaker 1: all of this that you set up today, right, is
Speaker 1: it safe to say that we're gonna see the ware
Speaker 1: g Regulated cookbook someday?
Speaker 2: Definitely, Sniff and griffins BBQ.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about the rubs in the season.
Speaker 3: The rubs and seasons is already in action. Uh, that's
Speaker 3: on sniffing griffins BBQ dot Sniffing griffins.
Speaker 1: Y'all hear that sniffing griffins.
Speaker 2: Sniffing grigriffs BBQ dot com. I got dot com. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 2: sniffing grif.
Speaker 1: What sniffing grif? You gotta give.
Speaker 3: Sniff sniff and griffins is my Uh my rubs have
Speaker 3: an all purpose rub, I have an original.
Speaker 2: I have smoky sauce.
Speaker 3: I have a damn Actually the names is we bring heat,
Speaker 3: smoking me out and O G my O G sauce
Speaker 3: and really good sauces. It's a different, different flavor.
Speaker 1: Hold on, man, you jumping through anything. You got barbecue
Speaker 1: sauces too, Barbi diesel sauces. Yeah, so we need to
Speaker 1: see the whole boy, we see the whole thing thing.
Speaker 1: Do tell me? I got salad dress and this ship
Speaker 1: coming too.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm doing everything kg. Yeah, hot sauce that's coming.
Speaker 3: I got a yellow sauce coming. I even have a
Speaker 3: season in salt coming. Then I have flavors, some flavored salts.
Speaker 2: That's coming as.
Speaker 3: Well as well as uh uh plant based seasonings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna ask you that man. As a chef, Man,
Speaker 1: how much do you vegan about? How much of the
Speaker 1: wave you gotta? You gotta pay attention to that and
Speaker 1: implement a little bit of kind of like where food
Speaker 1: is going. Everything's healthy or everything's plant based.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm I'm right up in there.
Speaker 2: I do. Uh.
Speaker 3: Portobello burgers is really good, or I eat it without anything.
Speaker 3: I just love the grilla or or smoke them too. Uh,
Speaker 3: just how juicy and flavorful they are. I taste damn
Speaker 3: in like a steak.
Speaker 1: I gotta get on that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Portobello mushrooms.
Speaker 3: Uh, take some olive oil or avocado oil, you know,
Speaker 3: rub it down and seizing it up and get the cooking.
Speaker 2: You'll know when it's done.
Speaker 1: Man. You know what I want to do? Man, one
Speaker 1: time when you go to Vegas and you what you
Speaker 1: call it when you go to the football games tail game,
Speaker 1: when you tailgate it the Raiders game. I want I
Speaker 1: want to I want to be that. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to be there for that.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, yes, the.
Speaker 1: Camers We're gonna we're gonna certify We're gonna chill right there.
Speaker 1: Money watch do you watch the game right there? You
Speaker 1: go in?
Speaker 2: No, I go in, but.
Speaker 1: Some sit right there and watch it from right there.
Speaker 2: Though I have been there.
Speaker 3: I have watched it before the Raiders and Chargers when
Speaker 3: they used to battle. We we go up to the
Speaker 3: Chargers game about a hundred deep, and we start with
Speaker 3: breakfast lunch, and then we have another meal when people
Speaker 3: come out from the game. Everybody that goes in, because
Speaker 3: some people just stay out. When they come back out,
Speaker 3: feed again. Everybody's a whole new batch of food.
Speaker 1: Is it you? Is it free?
Speaker 2: It's free all of us. It's a whole that, our
Speaker 2: whole crew.
Speaker 3: You got the frying man, you got the barbecue man,
Speaker 3: you got the the what was the breakfast man? We
Speaker 3: had every we had every type of food. We had
Speaker 3: it all right there with breakfast lunch in the late
Speaker 3: I guess I don't want to say dinner, but meal
Speaker 3: after after the game.
Speaker 2: Music going, Oh yeah, party, the party.
Speaker 1: Put this on the list. You heard it first.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I appreciate thanks for having me. Man, Yes, indeed, Man.
Speaker 1: Shout you your family, everybody. Man know what it is.
Speaker 1: Man certified a ship. Yeah,