WEBVTT - Conversations With DJ Yella 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.400 What's up and welcome back to another episode of No 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:07.520 Sealers Podcast with your hosts Now fuck That with your 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:17.640 loaw Glasses Malone. The thing about no sellings you listen to, 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.960 I don't really do interview and I always find myself 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.759 just talking to interesting people about the rest and shit 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:28.240 and something I always looked at that you did that. 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.480 I had an idea and everybody thought I was crazy, 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.040 Like I had wrote a porno, Like I wrote it 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.960 and I wanted to produce and shoot it. Now, I 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.080 didn't want to direct it, but I wanted to produce it, 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:40.920 but it was raunchy as fuck because it was a 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:46.160 slave porn. I know myself, street crip right, like no 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.200 for real, and it was like plantation. I was gonna 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:54.440 shoot on a plantation, slave masters, slaves, you know, just 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.440 all the crazy shit that can gone. And I wrote 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.920 it and it's dope as fuck, but I just never 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.440 could go through with shooting it. Now, I don't know 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.080 if God was just on my ass, like niggas, you 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.880 just I give you all this intellect and this is 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.720 what you're about to do with it. But I just 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.480 thought like I'm one of them type of niggas that 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.400 like when I fuck with shit, I want to just 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.040 make this shit. I want to make an impact. And 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.240 I used to sell sharm like I had I was 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.920 branding my sherm and shit. I had a really interested take, 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.640 even though for real, my older homies to tell you, 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.440 like I I'd be about to hustle and out write down, 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.880 like when I start selling weed, I wrote down all 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.399 them profits. I was looking at the ideas. Okay, these 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.520 niggas is bagging up eight hundred and fifty dollars off 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.520 of a pound of stress. Okay, well look I'm finna 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:41.600 funk all that. I'll fit a bag up four fifty 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.319 my nickel bags. Finna be crazy fact and almost got 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.520 out hooded to a whole gang. Where was Pj's and 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.200 Morning because I had these cheap ass bag But I 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.200 can't help it. That's how my brain works as a creative, 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.520 Like I don't know how to be in some shit 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:58.480 and just get by you. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.360 To push the envelope, stretched the walls a little bit. 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:05.640 Of oh yeah, oh god. So it's funny, you know 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.640 when you were in with another creative person and you 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.839 know too, like when do you feel like you kind 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:13.880 of just was like, yeah, I ain't tripping. I've done enough. 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:16.480 How long ago? 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:17.800 Man? 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.320 Well, easy Shuneral was music? That was definitely that was 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:26.160 it the damn that I'm good, just that fast. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.840 I didn't you think that's twelve years. No, that's twenty five, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:31.400 twenty five eighty back then. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:33.000 No, he was you saying. 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.960 He's saying how long ago it was record? You're saying 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:37.160 it was twelve years into his. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.119 Career, had already been making record. I know for sure. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:40.440 I heard I seen surgery. 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:45.120 Oh yeah, that was I've been in the music game 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.960 way before music. That was just DJ, like one of 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:52.840 the first DJs graduy. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.200 So when the first time you DJ had to be? 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.280 I think the first DJ? Actually I did. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:05.000 I was a kid my brother's wedding reception and it 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:10.360 was eight tracks. I wasn't mixing or nothing, but I 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.960 had cute all the songs, so I can just put 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.560 it in the song and put play in. The hit 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.920 of that album was there and I didn't know I 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.120 was DJed. I was just playing some music. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.880 First time you got a table? Yeah, where's the first 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:24.680 time you got a table? 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:25.840 High school? 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.000 So this is you high school? You had to be 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:35.960 a Yeah you went to conferent Yeah, I wanted to 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:37.600 go to CONF so bad. My mom was like, no, no, 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.080 you're gonna tear. They ain't got no AP classes in CONF. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.680 Try to rest in peace, Olivia Man, she was not. Yeah, 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.000 she wasn't fucking with nothing that didn't have AP classes. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.480 I think she knew my mind was already doing a 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.880 lot as a kid. She was trying to keep it 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.040 distracted with all of these different, you know, educational challenges. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.360 I still found some way to get pushed. So at 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.440 that point, you know what I mean. You making records for sure? 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:03.920 I know you were a part of making surgery. 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:09.600 Yeah, well no, well I made a record men clientele 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:11.720 before surgery. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.160 It was called No. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.040 It was the same year, but it was just before surgery. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.000 It was called slice. And we're just doing it learning. 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.640 Because that we were new to the drum machine, new 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:24.840 the keyboards. 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:24.760 All us. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:26.080 All this was brand new. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.520 Wasn't no going on online and listen to somebody something. No, 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.279 it was all trying to figure out how to make 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:35.080 a machine work. 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.400 You had to read the manual back then. It wasn't 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.279 on your phone and everything is there. 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.640 It was just what was y'all cooking with? Then your 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:43.520 first joint it was. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.360 The first one was an mx R. It was just 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.599 learning and it was it was okay. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.640 But then the first song that I did me and 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.159 Cliente was on the line Draw. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.880 And I just had Roger Lynn. Yeah, he had his own. 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.120 Sand ain't the same. Then we went to the DMX. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.080 That's what we use for. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:10.160 Most of the music, DMX and ESP twelve and twelve hundred. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:14.840 It's crazy. You was already making thirteen records for thirteen years, 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.120 so you probably gonna be done with it. Yeah, so 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.800 nothing pushes your mind to do no crazy shit now, 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.200 like just as a creative because no matter what, even 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:24.680 when I argue with Doc, when I go see dre 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.839 Right and arguing because he trying to act like you're 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:32.560 not cool, bro, your mind can't be. He always be like, man, 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.360 you always got some shit going. I'm like, how could you, like, 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.800 how could my mind stop trying to have shit going? 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.080 You know what I mean? I don't know, Like we 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.200 I feel like all our experience has been so crazy 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.919 that like I want to make a comic book, I don't. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.040 I don't my little bro metro man shit, we do 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:55.039 marketing shit. I mean, we just constantly learning new shit 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.320 about life and we lie to ourselves like it's about money. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.479 We be lying tell him all the time, you only 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.080 feel like it's about money, because that's just you train 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:08.760 to feel that. It's like this pursuit of just doing 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.600 some dope ass ship all the time that drives it. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.000 And I'm just trying to figure out, like, how do 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:18.000 you curve that? Because if you was making records in 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.520 eighty two, nigga, you still to even be ahead of 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.440 hip hop at that early yeah, you know what I mean? Like, 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.920 I just was working on a joint and it took 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.560 me back through some crazy studies because it was a 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.839 It's based off Plannet rock, so it's the whole metro 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.159 for so I'm studying, doing my homeworks and to only 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.760 realize hip hop was influencing and B. I mean like 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.000 a like planning rock probably is how Midnight start finally 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.360 getting Oh yeah, you know what I mean. Definitely, And 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.280 at the time of R and B was suppressive hip hop. 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.760 So how do you curve that creator? Because I know 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:54.880 it's still there? How stop you know something? 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.840 I don't think it's there. 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:01.680 It's just after the funeral and I seen you know, 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:03.760 I have never seen a minute of a couple of 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.520 funeral I never seen them put the cask in in 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:07.320 the ground and put. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.080 The dirt and hammer it down. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.160 I'm like, I never they just wanted to do that 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.080 for nobody was steal nothing or whatever. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.800 You know, these weird people. And right then I just 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:17.920 there was a couple of guys with me. I said, 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:19.559 that's it. I'm done with music. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.800 I didn't think about it, didn't analyze it. It was 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:23.600 just like it's gone. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.360 It's just like it just flowed out. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.200 But even the other creative parts, like because you end 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:30.520 up starting to do some stuff. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.320 In the movie. I did the movies longer. 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:36.680 I did them fifteen years, three hundred and fifty movies. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:41.440 I mean I filmed everything, edited everything, took all the pictures, 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:42.280 did all the music. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:48.400 I was like a one mand just everything fifteen years straight. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.760 And it was just I was doing four or five 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:52.520 movies a month. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.000 Who the fuck started you? Who fuck made you say 0:07:56.000 --> 0:08:00.400 you could do? Like DJ Yeller? Yeah, that's a ball 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:01.560 for show, Like how did you? 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.160 My buddy big Man rest in peace? 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.880 He brong the idea first, he brung it to E 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:13.520 about porn, and he just kind of just did nothing. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:14.840 He brong it to me, all. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.880 Right, let's do it, because see I thought my initial 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.800 thought was, like a producer, like we do music, we 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:25.520 do a git that's my idea to make movies like records, 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.160 four or five records of months, so it's four or 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:28.840 five movies. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:29.760 He brought it to me. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.200 I didn't, so I went out and bought the equipment, everything, 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:34.480 no how to use. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.719 None of them had to learn it. 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:38.800 That's fucking cool. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:40.920 Yeah, it just it came in. 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.720 Didn't fucks with you? Nothing about nothing. You don't see 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.720 nothing to be like I need to create something in 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:47.640 this No nothing. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.679 I'm satisfied with life. 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.160 Right from my opinion, I think, just me seeing it. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.640 It's like with how everybody treat your generation. Just none 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.880 of your generation you got and stuff. Y'all are like 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:03.360 so y'all on. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.960 Mount Olympus, you know what I mean. It's like Poseidon 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:07.720 don't need nothing. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.240 In two weeks were getting a Grammy lifetime for war. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:17.120 It's just okay, that's cool. You know, It's just I'm 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.640 just satisfying with life. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.160 What's the last thing, here's something, what's the last thing 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.280 that pumped you up? She was like, man, I kind 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.680 of think I want to do fuck however we create 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:30.760 minus anything. I don't give if you woke up and 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.880 wanted to draw a picture when the last time you 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:38.480 felt like creatively you needed to express. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:40.280 That sense. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.560 I can't remember since movies was that was it? So 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.960 DJ and I ended up movies the same way I 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.920 did music. Okay, I'm done, it's over. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.560 So do you think DJ? And that's even when you 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.040 have to DJ at this point and create those daily 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.920 mixes when you have to kind of like not daily mixes, 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.559 but when you go to because you always get booked. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:06.280 right when you mix, is that kind of like kind 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:07.920 of the same thing where you're creating a flow. 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:14.480 I'm having fun DJAN like in the old days when 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.760 we was first me Andre was first DJ. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.600 That's the fun I'm having. It's because it's not I 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:22.960 gotta creative, I got no. 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:27.360 I just it's a dip'mos a different atmosphere because like 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.080 next week I go to Australia, I'm always out the 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:35.360 country and they still love hip hop like the old days, 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.199 the eighties and the nineties, they still got it. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.880 I don't know if it's because they behind times or whatever, 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.679 but they still like the old school and that's all 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:46.680 I play is old school. 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.840 I'm playing nothing new everybody. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.719 It's something about that. It's it's got real soul in 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:58.520 that MU and means something and in DJ in is 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.920 the same way. And I just a few years ago 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.760 it came to me DJ. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.480 I never wanted the DJ ever again, and it just 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.640 came to me. I'm like that then on use turntables and. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:16.160 Like I said, crazy, but then you got. 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.000 I jumped in and like, okay, but see I jumped 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:20.160 into different from everybody. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.880 Everybody else just carry their needles, headphone. No, I'm bringing 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.040 my unit. I wanted to be the same. 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.880 Every night, the same equipments, my same microphone. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.600 I think of it just like music. I'm doing it all. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.520 So that so maybe it is DJ. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:36.559 Yeah. 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.120 I had a dope conversation with Lonzo about DJ. I 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.120 was talking to him about I was writing kind of 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.520 these like again, I'm one of those type of creators 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.160 where like I'll be focused on one idea, like oh g, 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.720 he's talking about where I'll make an album, but behind 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.840 I'm writing so like I started writing kind of this 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.160 hip hop story of the West Coast pre n W 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.920 as all of us grew up like me, him, you know, 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.679 he's younger than me. For our lives. N w A 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.160 starts hip hop on the West coast, but now you're 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.360 starting to learn about Uncle Jam's arms, trying to learn 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.240 about you know, world class record cler and then you 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.480 kind of get into the clubs. Yeah, I never knew 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.760 niggas went to our pine village because when I got 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:27.679 a car, niggas does not take your jail people over there, 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:29.760 that white folks, you know what I mean. So I 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.720 was talking to Lonzo about that our pine village stuff, 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.400 and so I started writing. But I was just starting 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.640 to really notice how like y'all are the first that 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.960 took to hip hop DJ and I just thought that 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.880 was dope. So now that for you to come back 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.120 and love it as dope, I think we love it too. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:49.760 I think we even love it here. Still, I think 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:55.240 we don't have the opportunity. I think I didn't travel, 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.360 not like nearly as much as you, but I didn't 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:01.360 travel a lot. I think Americas set to victim of 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:10.400 what's the word convenience. So whatever's current, whatever's easy, But 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.360 you can't tell me that if you don't put yellow 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.840 or battle Cat in some place at some bar dja sect. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.600 We don't show up, especially if it's right there. But 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.040 I think the promoters are just lazy. It's like, oh, 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:24.000 what's the next hot thing? 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:30.480 Yeah they're not. I mean they can call themselves promoters, 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.760 but it's a totally it's. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.720 Just fly they make on their phone or what it's 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:37.160 make it on their phone. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.760 Yeah, it's it's different. 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.880 You know, all Facebook, and that don't mean nothing. 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.120 I got two hundred and seventy thousand people on Instagram, okay, 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:49.360 but none of them live here. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:53.360 So I ain't dependent on filling this place up with 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:54.480 the fan because. 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:55.640 They from all over the world. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:56.960 I mean I can change that. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:01.800 But yeah, that's a great conversation y'all. Y'all love because 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.400 he will tap your ship in. But again, this is 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.880 one of those type of things that we just I 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.240 don't think. I don't know like and again I don't 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.120 know what n W A success feels. This is different. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.560 I mean, you start fucking the world up, you know, 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:18.800 maybe you fuck up the world, you get tired. But 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:27.720 it's so hard to imagine be not creating, like maybe 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.040 not records. I could see that day. Even then, it's 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.480 hard because I'm just starting to like I didn't, and 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.880 I was hustling the whole time. So when hip hop 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.880 saved my life, it was really fun. You still hustling, Yeah, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.400 it's well now now I'm not hustling at all. Now 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.720 I'm just in love with you. Yeah, I'm still hustling. 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.320 It's still yeah, but you're starting to find ways to. 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.920 What I'm starting to find ways is like I gave 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.280 you this vinyls, I don't got to be there to 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.320 get the money today. Like I'm looking at my phone. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.800 So my homeboy outside of me and what I do 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.240 and do my I go do my promotion and then 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.920 my hoom waiting strongly where people can order music directly 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.920 from me, and I sell my autographic album, my autographs. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.360 I probably do four or five a day. So I'm 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.600 not there and that is a cool way to because 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:13.600 it don't feel like hustling. 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:13.760 Now. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.720 Yeah, it's the same, but it's just a cool new level. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.800 But I just couldn't imagine not creating, you know what 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.200 I mean, Like like I said, I was writing something, 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:27.680 I was writing the album that I that I just 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.200 gave you. The behind the scenes, I'm writing hip hop 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.200 on the West Coast from seventy eighth yeah, just starting 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.400 with Roger and Lonzo, how he told me the story, 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.560 how they worked at Alpine Village together, and then how 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.480 they start going different, they find a different DJ. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:47.000 Yeah, when they became different. And then that's when I 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:51.160 came right in. I mean because when I came in, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.600 Dre was not even a thought. It was two three 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.600 years down the line before even even around. So I 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:05.400 did all the leg work, hanging posters, snatching posters. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.120 Back then, you know, it was like this crewe us 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.080 we enemies. I mean, like Uncle Johnson, We're still in me. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.440 So listen, it's funny. So my man Super six Edwin, 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.240 who actually used to finance a lot of the Uncle 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:24.200 Jam's armies Dragon Race that when drag race with my dad. 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.480 Since I was a little kid, all those Super six 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.000 that's what we called him. I didn't know he was 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.800 involved in nothing hip hop related when it is like 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.360 this esteemed kind of grown when he talked to us. 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.680 He's super cool. I haven't seen him since them day. 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.200 He had a crazy stroke. I'm praying, like, yeah, yeah, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.360 what I'm saying. He used when I realized that he 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.080 was a part of it, and none of them will 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.840 admit that it had to be a competition level. So 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.960 the only people to ever admit it was you and Line. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:59.600 But I wrote the story ironically like these two competing 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.760 parties crew, because that's what hip hop really is. No, 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:04.600 it's a party. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:08.280 My first time going out snatching posters. We call it 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.840 the rip. You don't take the whole poster. You just 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.000 ripped the date in the time and the play. 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.200 So are you seeing Uncle John Army? Nothing on the bottom? 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.600 So I'm on Century in. 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.480 Western It's a lot of poles on there. I'm ripping them. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:28.440 Rogers show up, but I'm went my guy, he's seven 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.440 to sure. We're both from Compton. We don't know nothing 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:32.040 about it. 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:38.560 Yeah, yeah, okay Central And I got a five pounds 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.159 staple gun in my hand and he come up. 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.320 You know, they come up on us, like what you're doing. 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.119 I'm snatching these posters? That was my poster. 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:50.359 Okay, what you know? We like what you gonna do? 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:55.080 You don't know we're from Compton. You don't want to 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.560 mess with it. And that was the first time I 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.000 ever met him. Right there, they just say nothing else. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.399 But we kept on putting our posters on top of 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:04.640 their posters, right in the face. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.399 I was crazy. So what was the competing venues at 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:07.840 that point? 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.560 It was, well, we had the club even after dark, 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:16.320 we had a steady play. They would do veterans different places, 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:21.320 the sports arena. It was just But then there was 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:27.159 another crew called the Virgin Productions. We they hung their 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:28.600 posters on ours. 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:29.920 Who the fuck is. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.239 That they was? 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.720 I think their career was over after this one night 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:39.040 because the Wrecking Crew we all went to they danced before, 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:40.240 you know, early. 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:42.320 We mopped them up. 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:46.480 Really this class as mobbing motherfucker. 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:51.840 It was Linzo, me, Unknown DJ. It was like a 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:55.200 whole from that neighborhood. It was a bunch of us. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.200 So Unknown was with so Unknown in the fucker with 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.200 Uncle jam evinced No. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:06.760 No, well that was after the Reckon, after even after 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.600 dark ended and then we started doing music. 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:12.440 That's how I ended up doing that. But see that's 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.399 Unknown was there before me and the recond crew. I 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:23.880 never knew that. Wow. But I always tell Drake, I'm 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.480 telling you. I tell cue, y'all do a horrible job 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.000 of telling Like why if you read my book, you know, 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.159 and that's what I had to do. Even if you 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.760 had a book, you know what I'm saying, but yeah, 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.960 we gotta know this ship because this is the funniest 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.359 ship about it. Like I always share with the hummies 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:47.200 because like it's a party. These niggas was all party 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.880 because somewhere when we came up in the game, we 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.320 were just all gaming. And don't get me wrong, we 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.639 did go to party. You go funching and other people commuting, 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.000 but you didn't realize that's what it pop was about. 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.080 So we looked at n w A as if it 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:02.639 wasn't fun, you know what I mean, because it was. 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.920 The music was very active. Even the World Class Record 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:10.240 Cup was all fun ship. But somewhere along the line 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:14.240 it got away from that concept of this all is 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:15.639 the descendantive party. 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:19.879 Because there was no money. Early days of n w 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.240 A breaking there was no money. 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:23.280 Girls. 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.960 That was my pa. If you game, you. 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.240 Up in here, you know you come up in here, 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:32.520