WEBVTT - Warren G | Remembering Nate Dogg, Regulate Soundtrack, East vs West Coast Rap | EP 40 | KG Certified 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:01.680 Well, I want to thank you for coming on here. One. 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.640 I know Thomas Value, I know you doing a thousand 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.080 things these days, dope that have you on him? 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.440 Man, thanks for having no no doubt. 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:11.799 I wanted to ask you right off the top man 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.400 hip hop turning fifty Man, that's crazy man. I know 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.840 I know you from Loan Beast growing up. Yeah, I 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:19.520 know you grew up around music. Could you talk a 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.520 little bit about just show early you know, relationship with 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.159 hip hop and coming into it and you know with 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:27.280 R and B and what you grew up listening to 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:27.760 and all that. 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.080 Just being around the neighborhood and you know, back then 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:37.360 the DJ was our connection to you know, learning about 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.200 all of the underground music everything. So just being around 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.160 the DJ world where you know, you had the world 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:49.080 class record crew, you had the DJ crew together, oh 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:54.120 early stereo crew okay, uh huh, and just being around 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:58.360 that and listening to underground music and like artists like 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.960 run dmc se Boys and even like Cool mo O 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.480 D and the you know, uh Cool HERK and Busy 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:05.880 Be and. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:06.720 Those types of guys. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:11.360 Just hearing all of that music, uh into to now 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.200 being a guy who they kind of they say it's 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.560 a legend in it and and uh it's it's it's 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.640 incredible because I learned from all of them, and that's 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.120 what made me who I am. And you know, it's 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.800 got me to the status that I am now. Uh 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.840 just being a part of the beginning uh parts of 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.600 hip hop, even just listening to him and then being 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:41.120 around being having a chance to hang with uh Easy 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.440 and and and Dre and you know all of the 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:49.880 the the vest iced T and Dove c and and 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.400 you know all those guys from back in the day Coolio, 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:53.400 all those guys. 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.560 So I like to think that although G's that actually 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.560 started when you when you guys are listening to the 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.960 music that is coming out commercially, the rock this way 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.200 Woul run them see and mixed it with rock, some 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.880 of the hybrids, some of the things that kind of 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.840 go away a little bit from hip hop. You know, 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:13.160 you know, God's rapping on it, the battling, the one 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.040 on ones and stuff like that. Was you guys hearing 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:17.959 a lot of the commercial stuff that was octually coming 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.200 from the East Coast. Was you guys hearing that trying 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.360 to form a West Coast version of that or create 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.560 your own version of that or was it just where 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.280 it was going and what it felt like. 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.680 It was just where it was going and what it 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.560 felt like, and it just just inspired us to just 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.560 do music, you know what I mean. But we did 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.440 it in a in a you know, West Coast style, 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:44.000 like our way, like more live instrumentation, even though it 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.080 was a lot of live instrumentation coming from the East Coast. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:52.840 But we were heavenly inspired, you know, just being a 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:58.440 just watching B Street for Crush Groove, you know, movies 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:03.720 like that, even uh, the even the miseducation of uh what. 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.600 Is the Sun? Uh Sunny Cars. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.480 Yeah, even just you know that stuff was was like 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.720 that was what was coming out of out of from 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:12.639 New York and now. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:13.760 We loved that. 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.000 We loved that and uh, you know, just those movies 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.400 because it had a hip hop vibe to it, you know, 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.680 and all of that stuff just inspired us, along with 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:28.920 having the Dream Team and uh Arabian I'm not Arabian Prince, 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:34.359 but uh, god damn it, I'm it's gonna Egyptian Lover, 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:41.280 who was probably the majors pioneer from the West, was 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.640 Egyptian Lover because he was dealing with the East Coast 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.640 way before a lot of guys, a lot of the 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:52.800 O g's from California was even out and then the 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:54.160 l A Dream team. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:55.080 Uh Ice t. 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:01.160 Those guys was was vets I was sitting the B Street. 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:02.240 Was that was that ship? 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:02.840 It was? 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.880 You know they showed the grimy ship where they was 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.400 in the in the in the broken down buildings, setting 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.560 up the party through the electricity. We wasn't doing that ship, 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.920 I learned, you know that was that was dope. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.359 That's how they was doing it, pulling it in, bringing 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.760 it from other stuff. Yeah, yeah, that was originals man. 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.159 And two when I'm saying thinking about man like guys 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.440 like Iced t w A, those early those early depictions 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.479 of style, man started giving like the West Coast, like 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.680 an edgy of style in the East coast. When you 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.680 say y'all were still stormailing, but y'all was talking about 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.119 what was going on the West coast. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:45.000 Yeah yeah, Uh, gang Bang was at all time high, 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.880 and uh the artist at that time was just you know, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.680 like n w A and Easy and everybody. They were 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.960 just letting everybody know, this is this is what's going 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.839 on here, and this is our version of this is 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.479 all we can put out because this is what we're 0:04:59.480 --> 0:04:59.960 going through. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:01.720 It was really. 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:09.159 Gang influenced, you know, with just along with police brutality. 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.039 Did you did you see because you was in the 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.599 early parts of the depiction of what West Coast music 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.960 would be labeled ass But I remember I remember Rapp 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:25.480 being very inspiring. I remember teachers questions used to be 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.320 should be an uplifting of a of a sound? Yeah, 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.840 then all of a sudden, I forgot about all that 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:38.400 ship like you was around when talk a little bit about. 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:39.560 That, I was in there. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.560 I was in the day I saw here that you 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:48.240 know uha, teachers, uh Q Tip and five Dog them 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.039 was my guys, even leaders of the new schools Rhymes 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.000 we was bust Rhymes and them used to come to 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:56.800 the West Coast and me and Snoop would go up 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.960 to the La Mandrian name and Charlie Brown and all. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.240 Then we smoke them out, you know, yeah, you know, 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:08.839 just showing the West Coast hospitality, no matter who it was, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:13.120 apache who had gangster big teeth in them, everybody when 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.159 they came out here, we embraced them and just let 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.320 them know how much we loved them because they inspired us, 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.400 you know, So that that whole man, poor Rochester teachers. 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:27.039 Uh tribe called quest Actually we got the Jazz is 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:31.680 one of the records that inspired me as a as 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:36.320 a as a hip hop producer, as an MC. You know, 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.280 I ain't no heavy MC. I'm just a storyteller. I 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:44.240 guess you could say, uh, but uh, all that stuff 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:49.080 inspired me and just being in that era and then 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:55.800 it turned into you know, uh one a seven on 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.800 the motherfucking cap and and I mean that it was 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.400 all it was still all all yeah around the same 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.839 times because me and Snoop was listening to special Ed 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:10.240 and uh second Shade of Red uh Redhead Campin. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.520 These are all classics, right here go look all these up. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.640 These are all classic classics, you feel me. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.480 But still like, like, like we was talking about earlier, 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.640 what comes out of you is where you are, where 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.920 you're at, you know, And we was in Long East, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:33.600 California at that time, on sixty first in London, hustling, 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.200 you know, just trying to make some some bread and 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.720 some young young teens just trying to make some bread, 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:43.680 just caught up in the same old hoodship right the. 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:47.040 One of the day, right, talk a little bit about 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:48.840 the dre effect. Man, you know, Drake coming from m 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.440 w A, all this knowledge, all this impact, he obviously 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.000 set the wave almost like right, you know, doctor Dre 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.880 don't really get enough credit to me. You know when 0:07:59.920 --> 0:08:03.040 you starting to established like style and started like implementing 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.480 like how people do things. Obviously it comes from ice Ta, 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.680 it comes from guys for them, and he was talking about. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.600 With them then Huh, dra Dre. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.440 I think produced uh had some something to do with 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:20.120 the production of colors. I know he had. He was 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:21.920 also a producer with the I don't know if you 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:27.160 ever heard of the batter Ram, the vater Ram. You 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.120 can't stop it, baby, the batter Ram. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:35.199 Yeah, jnoth. 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.199 I gotta y'all got that right. We noted that. We 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.760 got that noted the slady okay, bo, I'm gonna look 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.360 that up. I gotta look that up. It's called the 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:43.120 Battle What. 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:44.920 The batter Ram? 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:45.920 And who is that by? 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:50.080 That was by Toddy T and Mixed Master Spect. I 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.800 think Dre uh DJ Pooh, I think they all was 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.439 all co producers in that Quick. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.719 They don't get enough credit. You don't never hear it 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.640 when you talk about pone of style. You never hear pool. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:07.040 You never hear quick. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:10.079 Quick as dope. Pool is dope. I guess they they 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.720 you know, they just you know, just don't really be 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.960 looking for a lot of publicity. They just want to 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.360 do They want to pay music to speak for you know, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:19.240 for them. 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:24.959 Uh but they they dope. You know, you know them 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.600 my guys, no doubt. 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.360 Man, I love Uh I want to talk about them 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.880 early days with two one three man, talk about your 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:36.280 first group. That's your first group and Snoop how they 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:36.840 come together? 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:43.320 Uh well, we we've known each other all our lives, 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:50.000 elementary school and church. Uh So as we got older, 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.000 Like I said, when we was in our young teens, 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.160 me and Snoop was over on sixty first Street, we 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:58.320 was hustling, you know, doing different things and moving around 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.720 and uh we we he was actually doing music then, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.400 you know, we just you know, we're just doing it 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.200 just for the homies. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.600 It wasn't for the masses. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.240 We was doing it for the homeboys, the neighborhood and everybody. 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:12.920 Just a party. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:17.360 Two and uh so one day, you know Snoop and 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.480 Nate that was was at Poly together doing music and 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:24.400 Nate had went off to the Marines. So after he 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.079 got out, he had heard about us doing music. So 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.719 one day we was on the spot and they pulled up, 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:32.680 uh on sixty. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.400 First Street, you know, uh pulled up on us. And 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:36.880 then we from there. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.280 We just started just start doing music and Snoop was like, 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:41.040 he's still singing. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:42.360 He was like yeah, So we. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.200 Just started collaborating and just started doing music together. 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.679 Three three geniuses, all bringing a whole different flavor to it. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:51.000 Man. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.200 We went and did our first demo, Uh what uh 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:55.880 would DJ Money be from? 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:56.880 From Long Beach? 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.520 That's when we h we had a uh actually you 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.760 know what. I remember we were just talking about quick, 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:07.480 but he quick inspired us as well. He had an 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.840 underground tape that was out. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.400 That ship was hard than the motherfucker. So it was hard. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:17.040 Yeah, So that's that's what made us do the underground 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.559 tape thing, you know. So that's when we formed two 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.440 on three and we we did our demo with Money 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.360 B and it was called Long Beaches a motherfucker. Oh wow, 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.600 that motherfuckers hard to this day, I should have brought 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.200 it up here, Dan, straight up, Long Beach is a mother. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.400 So I got to so I gotta even say this, man. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.160 So if we fast forward a lot of your friends 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.840 go to death Row right, you end up signing with 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:42.520 death Child. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:43.200 Yeah. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.520 Yeah, you got to take us through the story. I 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.559 think I've heard the story, but I want I want 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.079 to hear this story right here on Certified. 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.800 Like I mean, I was. 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:56.360 I was there, did a lot of work with you know, 0:11:56.440 --> 0:12:00.320 with Dre and and and Snoopy, our whole crew. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.440 We all was there working and doing our thing. 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.680 And then once things kind of blew up a little bit, 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:14.200 tours started and things like that, you know, it was 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.280 time for people to have their roles. 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.560 Yeah, and my role was I was a. 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:23.080 Producer slash DJ uh and I would I would rap too, 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.680 but you know, when it came time to start moving, 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.640 you know, I wasn't involved. M you know, I wasn't 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:34.480 being invited into the tour or you know, whatever was 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:38.040 going on. So you know it it it kind of 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:38.840 had me upset. 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.360 So it fuck with the friendship a little bit between 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:42.480 uh everybody. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:48.320 I mean, it didn't really fuck with the friendship. I 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:53.320 just didn't didn't Uh. I didn't know how to to 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.480 uh accept a blessing pretty much because Dre must have 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.920 seen something that I wasn't saying as far as just 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:05.800 being around, uh, you know, getting myself caught up in 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.880 a situation, you know, cause I was pretty much I 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.439 was alive while around that time, and I I was, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.400 you know down, you know, really down to do whatever 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:21.000 right and uh and uh he he pretty much seeing 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:22.880 that pretty much and was just like, man, you need 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.040 to go and to be your own man. M you 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.760 know it hurt, you know, I was upset a little bit, 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.800 but I went when did my own thing. I went 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:38.480 back to sleeping on the floor. UH had my NPC sixty, 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:44.440 I had my creative records and just started producing, just 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.480 start doing my shit again and start you know, making 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.400 songs with with other artists outside of the guys that 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.240 I was with, which that's how I came up with 0:13:54.440 --> 0:14:00.560 uh Endo Smoke, which was pretty much my first UH production. 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.560 That was my introduction as a producer and a artist, 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.520 cause I wrapped on it and I produced it, and 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.520 I you know, helped write with Grim's uh verse. Even 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.360 though Grim is he's incredible, but I helped out with 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.440 I gave him some of the flavor that we had, 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:17.880 you know, like that H and R stuff to puff 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.040 in your lungs, smoking on the chronic, getting straight sprung. 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:22.880 That's that was our. 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.440 That was a style that I that that I used, 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.840 that that we all you know had around that time. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:38.600 That uh, but that that actually introduced me into doing 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:43.000 indo smoking also introduced me into producing definition. 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.960 Of a thug for Tupac yup. Cause I was at 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:46.520 the studio. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.200 I came around after you know, I was kind of 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.280 like distant for a while. UH came to the studio 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.680 and Draden was working on a on a the UH 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.640 actually depot of just the soundtrack they was doing the 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:03.240 record for. And I bumped hears with Paul Stewart and 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:08.200 John Singleton and I was like, look, man, I was 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.920 like a starving student. I was like, look, do you 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:12.840 guys have any room on y'all soundtrack? 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:13.320 You know? 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.640 If you do, could you please listen to the song 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.480 I got. So Paul was like, all right, I'll listened 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.160 to it. I said, well, can we go to my car? 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.520 So I had a burgundy rigle. We went, sat in 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:27.280 the regal, I put the tape in. I started playing 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:32.440 it and it went for about maybe fifteen twenty seconds 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:33.040 and Paul. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.920 Was like boom. He's like stop, stop and stop. So 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:39.320 I stopped it and he was like I kind of 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.760 looked at him like like this motherfucker. Okay, another motherfucker tripping, 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:48.320 don't wanna you know, gonna shoot me down. So he 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.000 was like, can I take the tape with me? I 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:51.320 said hell, yeah, take it. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.480 He said, just give me your number and I paid you, 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.640 you know, and let you know what we think. And 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:02.760 so for that was like ninety three, ninety four, ninety 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:03.560 n ninety three. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:04.880 It was ninety three. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.200 Ninety It was like n in like ninety three. I 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:08.880 think it was like. 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.120 Yes, ninety three, and one song was on the tape, 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:12.120 the Winner of ninety three. 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.160 What song was on the tape? 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:15.400 It was Indo Smoke. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.720 And so I got a call that Monday, and and 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.400 Paul Stewart was like, then we want this to be 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.000 our first single off the Poetic Justice soundtrack. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:27.400 And I was like huh. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.440 He was like, yeah, we want this to be our 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.880 first single. So I called Mr Graham like, man, we 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.560 got a single with uh John Singleton and Paul Stewart 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.120 over there at New Deal. Uh, so they want to 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.360 meet with us. So we went up, had to meet 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.760 and everything was great. Oh wow, Uh did the deal 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.280 with him? You know, we got some cheese out of it. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.280 And and that w That was pretty much my first 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:54.160 introduction to as an artist and a producer, uh, into 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:55.000 the music game. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.800 Yeah. Man, I was thinking about this the other day. Man, 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.560 it's been twelve years since Nate been gone. Does it 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:07.240 feel like twelve? Uh? 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:12.240 Yeah, you know, it feels like it a lot because 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.439 when up, you know a lot. We worked together a 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:23.439 whole lot more than everybody. And he really understood my music, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.840 you know, as far as my production, and he knew 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.800 what to do with it. And I say that, you know, 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.399 sometime when I work with artists, they don't really understand 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:33.960 what's there. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:34.680 You know. 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.320 Nate would understand it, and he had dissect and then 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.159 he'll put the vibe to it and the shit is 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:45.119 a classic. But some artists to today will be listening 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.159 like damn, okay, I'm trying to catch a vibe with 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:52.520 this and this, and it's like, what are you thinking about? 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:53.960 Just go wow? 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.360 You know, but Nate knew what to do, and uh, 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.439 just not having them around, you know, just to to 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.919 get down on on certain records that I do, or 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.760 me producing for him or him hearing him, you know, 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.919 on a record with Snoop or Dre or or you know, 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.480 anybody in the industry is just like wow. But we 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:19.240 still hear it every day, all day r year after year, 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.239 every since he died and before when we when we 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.600 put the record out, it's still it's still going. So 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:29.399 that's that's what uh, you know it. It makes me 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:31.840 feel good just to know that it it's still keeping 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:36.199 his name alive along with with mine as well on 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.600 what we did together as far as to regulate uh record. 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:43.199 You know, we did that shit right in my apartment. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.320 Uh little small apartment with no furniture, just a bed 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:52.040 and my dogs shitting everywhere and studio equipment in one room, 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.439 and uh we did that motherfucker right in there, you know, 0:18:55.880 --> 0:19:01.720 and from there, you know it a uh what was 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:02.159 a trip? 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.399 Was I was at the studio. Now this is a 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:05.160 whole nother story. 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:07.080 Uh. 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:09.200 I was up at the. 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:13.080 Studio with Dray uh him and Mike Lynn. So I 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.560 told Mike, I said, Mike, I got the song I 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.359 want you to hear because I know I knew that 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.399 they was doing above the rim uh soundtrack. 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.600 So Michael was all right, come on, let's go. 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.159 So we got in the car once again, pushed the 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.720 tape and that it was regulate and uh. 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.879 Yeah, it was finished. It was finished. Uh it wasn't mixed, 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:38.359 but it was a rough draft of it. 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.640 And uh so it played. Mike was like this ship bang. 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.560 It was like, you let dra hear this. I was like, nah, 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.760 I ain't let him hear it. So he said, I'm 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:49.560 gonna I'm gonna let Dre here and I'm gonna let 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.800 Jimmy hear it, he said, And I'll get it, you know, 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.600 I'll get back to you. So once again, this was 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.800 a CD. It's actually not a tape with a CD. 0:19:57.960 --> 0:19:59.879 So I gave them a CD. 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:00.320 And uh, uh. 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.439 Warn we want this to be a single, our single 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:06.159 for above the brand soundtrack. 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:06.680 Damn. 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:12.520 And that was regularly so I was like, damn, you. 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:17.080 Know, I want to say two days ago. So, first off, 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.840 Regulators probably is one of those, one of the one 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:22.600 of them, one of them joints that is going to 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:26.679 be forever in my top ten forever, right, just vibe 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.359 just I can throw that on. I can feel like 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.640 I'm on pH you know, like I can, I can. 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.840 I can give you moments in my life that I've had. 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.240 Regulators be like the soundtrack to that to those moments, right, 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.800 you know we got kids. Yeah, you know, kids on 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:47.280 all apps, TikTok, fucking all socials, right, yeah, my kid 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:52.600 is scrolling and she stops and she's I'm driving. I 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:56.359 can hear Regulators playing It's just Dad is your song? 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:58.560 And I said okay, And in the middle of the 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:00.280 song it flipped Unt Tree. 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.240 Oh yeah that. 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:07.280 Was I was in that motherfucker doing this right here. 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:11.080 Bro on you hear me, I was getting out. Yeah, man, listen. 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:13.879 First off, I'm a fan of all music, don't give 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:18.160 a fuck what it is. Frob fucking classic jazz, everything, right, 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.280