WEBVTT - DJ Quik 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:08.840 Money, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Tank Valentine. This 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:11.320 this the Army Money Podcast. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:16.400 Yeah what it is the authority on all things, all 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.160 things R and B. 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:24.520 Yeah, it's it's it's about to get legendary. You know 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:31.000 when when when you have a thing that represents an 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:32.400 entire region. 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:34.480 Yeah, when you're born and raised. 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.920 You know what. Listen, I've been living on the West 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:45.000 for twenty four years. You are from the West, I'm 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.000 from here. Would you do the honors and introduce this 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:48.720 thing the right way? 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:49.520 You? Listen? 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:56.200 Listen, listen, this is this is legendary music. They try 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.480 to categorize a lot of things, especially when it comes 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.959 to the West Coast, try to do you know, they 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.120 try to put that region on us. But some of us, 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.679 we just we got it in us. Some of us is. 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.040 Born with it. Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:17.039 Yeah, some of us is way too funky. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:16.840 Some of us. You know. 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:22.360 On tonight tonight we have the man himself who is it, 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:27.600 the super producer huh, the super Raffer, the gangster for real, 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.000 for real, for real. 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:38.560 And most importantly the DJ Quick is his name, bro, 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:46.040 That's how I get it. He can y'all come do that. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.880 We will be there. Man. Thanks for this, bro, B 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.400 Thank you. Bro got me on Rich and Black Radio 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.760 rich or Rowdy and Black is RB stand for now? 0:01:58.360 --> 0:01:58.600 Man? 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:07.240 You never know, you never know these days and barbecues. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:11.679 We're still doing together now. So it's red and blue mixing, bro. 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.960 And and sometimes I think it's hard to maybe frame 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:25.680 it yourself in terms of understanding impact and your contribution 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:32.360 to music. But this is the R and B Money 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:37.040 Podcast and for us are our a k is is 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.960 popular ship time? Come on, man, like it's you know 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.600 there there are moments where you you're allowed to be humble, right. 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:49.760 This is not this is like that guy that guy 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.480 nice guys finished last. This is that moment where found 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:54.320 my ship. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:54.600 I can. 0:02:56.040 --> 0:03:03.639 Talk it, yeah, Bro, since I touched down on this 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:09.320 on this soil, that's all I've heard, and I heard 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.760 it before I got here, but to see it was 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:14.520 just different. 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.919 I make music for the atmosphere here. It's just it's 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.320 West Coast. It's an environment, so I make the music 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:21.400 that matches the environment. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:26.560 But I'm a I'm a musician, right, and so that's 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:32.120 what for me, took your music outside of a region. 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.920 Thank you, Bro, because musically, I was like, what the 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:37.600 fuck is that? 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:38.480 Who's doing that? 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:44.360 It's universal, It's universal than you. So I'm starting off 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:49.920 with flowers, from the mix to the musician ship, to 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.960 the groove, to the samples he picked. 0:03:53.080 --> 0:04:01.160 B Thank you, Bro tupac Win parade, Donald Bird on 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.880 the song it was called Let's Get Hired, but it 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:08.320 ended up being in the late night like by You know, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.280 Don Bird wentn't clear for us, but his music was 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.280 in our neighborhood growing up. That ship was fly all 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:16.240 that blue note shit. Bro. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:20.400 Yeah, so was that your intentions early? Was that everything 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:21.320 you grew up on. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.279 I was gonna reuse it. You're fucking right them people 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.840 made me who I was, Like, I got swaggered from that. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.640 You know, I was a virgin book. You swear I 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.840 had holes because I had the music. I was living 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.359 the music. Yeah, you know what I mean. I was 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.400 on that shit man fucking Curtis Mayfield and you know 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.960 Rick James. I had Rick James album when I busted 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.000 out L seven. I bought that myself, was six ninety 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.560 nine at the Sound Factory record shop on Rosecrans off 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.440 of Oleander by Matheson. I went bought that record and 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:55.680 played Jefferson ball and shit. I think it was that 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.599 ship as a kid, like in the room in my 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.920 badroom like this, like I want to go his concert, 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.119 and busted out L seven that said, well, I write 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.520 you tying to smoke. You know what I'm saying. That 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.400 we knew it was like can we smoke? No, you 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.920 can't smoke nine. But still it made he made you 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.400 want to light the joint. So that's your real introduction 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.800 into it. Yeah, ah, fucking Ohio players. Heaven must be 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.760 like this. I used to sing that to my crush 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.760 and ship when I was a kid. You know what 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.920 I think Heaven is. I think Heaven is you. You 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.200 know what I'm saying. She's like skinning, big old ass. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:28.960 You know what I'm saying. But she's like sister in 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.559 lawn't gonna give me them. But she was a brick house. 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.360 You know what I'm saying. I used to sing them 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:34.160 kind of songs to. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.000 What we sounds like this sounds like R and B mode. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:38.760 I want to say this. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:40.240 I about to say you was an R and B 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:44.480 singer early, believe it or not. I wanted to sing. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.160 I wanted to come out singing because keep Sway killed 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.440 it with I wonder that was like. And we listened 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.040 to everything up into that roll running and see you 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.760 know everything that came on on dann y'all down with records, 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.719 you know sleep Rick, Dugy Fresh, the twelve inch, we 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:03.640 got all of that prison records, Biz, Marquis no white 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.440 beast of biz. Make the music with your mouth, biz. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.359 But when I heard keep Sweat and Cheddy Rowley, I 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:12.680 was like, Okay, that's it, that's it. We do Jacks Way, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.840 It's enough, That's what I want. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:19.720 Was it a combination of the temple, the musicality and 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.000 the soul that kind of all? 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.240 Honestly, it was that pose you know whenever you cock 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.960 back and squat on the pose your record goal gang 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.680 like Michael did it, Lionel Richie did it. Anybody who 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.240 do that pose when you sit down and put your 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.760 leg up that record go and keep Swett did it? 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:37.400 That was it my body because of the post ship. 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.960 But the album was called hard Yeah. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.440 It is hard yeah, super. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.120 And I had it was another record that was on 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.640 Entertainment that was his label at the time. I think 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:50.760 he did. Did he do the pee wee dance? Joe 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.640 Skie Love I think that was on entertainment. 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:57.159 The fact that you're that you're dialing up the labels, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:02.279 the like, that's amazing a DJ. You really are invested 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:03.320 into this music, then. 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.479 I love it too much to bullshit it. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.720 So let's go back to the beginn because we're we're 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.440 touching on the beginning, like in terms of the nuances 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:18.160 that that that kind of weaved in the fabric of 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:23.840 who you are. Come on, when when do you start 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:28.680 taking all of these stems and start putting it into 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.360 this one machine or into this you know what I'm saying? 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.559 When does that begin? My brother in law recipe Bobby 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.960 Billy Coverson Bungo Bill, took me to a recording studio 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.200 when I was little and let me play around on 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.600 a landrum and big speakers like this and a console. 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:47.720 All you have to do is see it and you 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.640 can be it if you if you can if you 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.760 can perceive it, you can achieve it. Like I looked 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.120 at it, it was like, this is what I want 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.360 to do for the rest of my life. Turn these faders, 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.960 make these speakers, motherfucker, turn up and watch these people 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.320 over here do this. That's it. That's it. The music 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.360 make people dance. So he helped me get a four track, 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.400 a task Cam forty eight cassette, and I just started 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.440 overdubbing and learned how to overdub, you know what I mean. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.960 I would hook two cassette decks up together and overdubb 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.520 like play a whole program on the cassette and then 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.080 put it in another cassette that can bring it back 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.040 through the mixer, and then go play another program with 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.680 the turntables with that cassette to another cassette. So I 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.200 was learning how to like multi track at a young age, 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.800 because you know, that's how I knew Marvin Gaye was 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:27.720 doing that shit on the fucking I Want you singing them? 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.000 How you seeing your backgrounds and your lead this nigga bad? 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.520 Then I found out he had tracks, so I started 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.800 using filling up them tracks with information. That was it. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:38.600 I was doing that before I got to a recording studio. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.640 That's why my album went so fast. It only took 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.240 three months to record quick as the Name, and that 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.920 shit went platinum when it came out. I was ready. 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.480 I'm that guy, I'm the shit I wanted the best 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.319 to ever do it. I agree, Prince loved me give 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.599 a fuck. Mike loved me, Janet loves me. You know 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.320 what I'm saying, Dre fuck with me. They know what 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.400 it is. I'm that guy. I'm tired of motherfucker's calling 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.920 me underrated. I'll fuck you up. You It's like this, 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.199 I did what I came here to do. What I've 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:04.960 did is been done, and what I haven't done is 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.000 gonna get did. Right now, it ain't the time to 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:13.120 be fucking with me early oh yeah yeah. And I'll 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.640 drink to that and fuck you. I wish I had 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:22.040 a drink. I could drink to that. Brother, quick as 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:27.959 you can remember, is the first beat you made in 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.960 the first song you wrote, what wasn't It was this 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:33.960 R and B song called make Your Move And I 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:35.719 played it for my boy player him at the time, 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.560 because I was trying to get on with his rap group, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.160 the Pans Players Click, and I did the demo and 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.000 I was singing, I was singing a falsetto. I was embarrassed. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:46.760 You know, you know you ain't sure, so you'd be 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.199 embarrassed as fuck you, Like if somebody told you that 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.079 shit was whack, you was just bust out crying. You 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:55.079 know what I'm saying, nigga just no faith, no confidence. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.920 So I played that ship for that nigga. I was 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.480 shaking and ship, I'm like, man, you know, he's like player. 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.360 It's not bad, you know, but you should you know, 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.640 you should try rapping. You should try to rhyme it. Okay. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.040 So I tried to rhyme it and I did. I 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.120 started rhyming shit. Uh passed me. They ball. It's one 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.320 of my first rhymes. You know what I'm saying. I 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.040 had these little mixtapes I used to make where I 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.480 was rapping with the homeboys. Well I thought they was homeboys, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.320 but you know how that go. But it was all me. 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.640 It was always by me. And uh, I let niggas 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.600 come in every now and then and when it was over, 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.520 they leave. I'm still working, I'm still finishing my you know, 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.480 I'm still making my path, my path toward the future, 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.080 toward success. Yeah, you know what I mean. And Uh, 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.800 I figured it out. Stop singing the ship, just start 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.520 rapping it. He was right. Play Hamm is right. So 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.880 from the beginning you were, I wish I could. I 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.480 should it everything. Yeah, who else is gonna do it? 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.319 I learned how to do it at the young age. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.360 That's what I do. I engineered. I hooked up the 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.000 wires to the instruments. I get this ship ready for 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.240 the band to come in and get down. Do some 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:08.679 get down. That's my whole gig. But you know, there 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.760 are times when I just produced my whole album all 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.640 by myself, like The Quickest the Names and Way Too 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.000 Funky's I helped. I had one of my homeboys help 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.480 with that, but like Safe and Sound couldn't tell me 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.120 shit Rhythmalism, I did that all by myself in the house. 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:23.960 We didn't even go to studios no more. It was 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.360 too to pop in La was too dangerous, it was 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.480 too lit. So the nigga start pulling shit in the 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.679 house and just start getting down in the motherfucking house. 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.560 What was the mindset behind Quick's Roof? Because it was 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:38.240 for me. It was the first time I had ever 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:39.800 heard a rap album with. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.320 It was because I didn't The beat was so dope 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.080 to me that if I wanted somebody to rap on 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.040 it and they wasn't there, I didn't want to waste 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.280 it on me or anybody in my camp trying to 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.560 rhyme on that beat. It was just perfect as it 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:59.600 was so I called it quick scroove. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.320 Some some beats is too dope to wrap on. That 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.160 was one of them. Come on melody, It's like, what 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.360 you're gonna do with this shit? This is it's finished. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:10.959 But because I had an s P twelve hundred on 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.160 the drums, it didn't sound like smooth jazz. I don't 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:15.199 play with that ship. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:23.000 Who because this is who told you you were ready? 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.959 Because because there is a there is a moment where 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:33.120 as you're as you're building you you feel everything. You know. 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.440 What I'm saying you personally is like I'm feeling all 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.480 this shit. I'm hot. And then somebody says, like, my 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.360 guy told you to wrap But then somebody says, somebody 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.880 who's been doing it, who's got the pedigree in terms 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:48.920 of what the business requires, in terms of what the 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.040 radio requires, in terms of what the streets require. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.240 Nigga, this is it. Who's the guy who said that? 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:58.959 Who's the guy? Uh? Courtney Branch Courtney was a Courtney 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.280 is the coolest motherfuckers in the world. Total Track Production 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.280 shout out him and Tracy Kendrick that was my first 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:09.440 production company, but also suged it and DLC because I 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.880 was signed with them in the eighties to their label, 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.360 Funky Enough Records, so they knew, you know, it just 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.880 wasn't my time, you know. But Courtney helped me get 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.960 a deal with Profile, helped me negotiating against you know, Profiles. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.040 Let got in the ben war and I ended up 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:29.439 coming out with like a multi figure deal. Bro your 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.559 first deal, yeah, it was one hundred and twenty five 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.000 thousand dollars signing bonus for the first album. Every other 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.040 album the money goes up two hundred for this, you know, 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.160 third three hundred and fifty for the next one seven 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.520 album deal with two album options. And that was like 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:44.680 people was like, quit didn't get no million dollar deal. 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.960 That ain't no million dollar deal. You know, that's like 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.040 seven hundred thousand dollars or whatever he exaggerated. But what 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.160 these dumb fuckers don't know, bitch ass niggas, is that 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.400 I doubled the deal because I got second and none 0:13:55.400 --> 0:14:01.120 a mirror deal and control the budget. Yeah, and when 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:07.680 a fuck your mama, respect me. So you tell us 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.800 what you bought. You bought dirt bikes, cars, I bought 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:15.000 houses for my sisters, cars for him. If I had 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.040 a Lexus I bought, helped my sister get she already 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.600 had the money, though, helped her get like Infinity Q 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.080 forty five and fast. Motherfucker bought the house in Cerritos 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:27.200 when niggas couldn't even live in Crito's doing it. Niggah 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:33.040 doing it. First hit record mind Born and Raising Compton, 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.280 and I knew that Tonight the record was the record 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.120 with Gold on the first single, Born and Raising Compton 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.200 just shut it all down. I sampled Hyperbolic syllabuc sess 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.240 with Daily Mystic by Isaac Kays off the Hot Butter 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:49.280 Soul album What's that seventy two Enterprise record stacks? Basically, man, 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:50.960 my mom used to bang that shit. I'm like, I'm 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.800 using that. I use that ship man and and and 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.480 sample some other shit off in Victor's record. She's not 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.720 just another woman by some ship Holland does your Howler 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.080 produce and just blend it all together, you know, put 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:03.840 that shit together real quick and put it out. And 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.320 the record when Gold on this first single Tonight was 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.240 just icing on the cake. That was the hit. You 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.360 know what I'm saying, I gotta tell your story. It's stupid. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.680 I gotta tell your story. Quick my childhood. So at 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.200 the time, me and my brothers, we have a singing 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:19.239 group called the Neutrons. 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:20.920 Yeah, I know about y'all. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:25.800 We living in We living in Diamond Bar, and Diamond 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.920 Bar is right next to Pomona. Absolutely obviously you know 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.160 that shout out to sugar Free, Come on Pomona. 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.480 It's all crips. 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:41.040 When DJ Quick came out, it was known because before 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.440 this and I from what I'll say, people may say different, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.840 but from what I'll say, he was the first red 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:53.400 rag easily rapping. That was like everybody knew. It was 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.520 a known thing. And you know, we're from the Bay Area, 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.600 so we're not in none of it. We're just seeing 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:03.800 how it's going. My brothers got homeboys, my sisters got 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.280 her friends. Everybody from Pomona, they from around that way. 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:08.840 They all crips pretty much. 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.120 His music was so impactful that they had to like it. 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.480 They had lay just had to play it. Hey, and 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.160 I had crip niggas back at me. Sit. That was 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.600 the thing I wasn't. I wasn't just some separatistass nigga 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:24.920 that was out just trying to bang out for myself. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.000 My thing was, I grew up in this neighborhood. My 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.440 mother was born. My mother was born in Louisiana, moved 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.640 to LA. I was born in Los Angeles and in 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.760 fucking Lynnwood, right. My mother lived in Los Angeles at 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:40.560 the time, like on the East Side, you know, eighty seventh, 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.200 then Hooper in Central So that's where we was growing up. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.880 And it was all kitchens, so kitchen crips. So we 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.760 end up moving to Compton because for a better life, 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.960 and that shit was more ghetto and she was gang 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.360 banged the fuck out. We're better off from fucking La. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.720 I can't really say that, but I'm gonna say the 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.840 fucking what the fuck I want to say. It's just 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.240 it was. She tried to move us to a better place, right, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.240 and it ended up being cool. It was cool, company 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:05.800 was cool for a minute, and then it just turned 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.200 into Bay Route like in eighty two with fucking Noriega 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.320 and fucking you know, the Recognomis cocaine to the hood, 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.680 fucked everything up, you know, turn people we love into zombies, 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.399 had people doing weird shit. It's just strange. But I 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:25.760 navigated that by staying in the fucking garage buying records 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.320 are just disappearing into the music. I wanted to see 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.760 the skeleton zombie apocalypse shit going on outside Paru. I 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:37.040 hated that shit. Shit's up? So the music, is it? Safe? 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.200 Music got me out of there. I stayed in the house. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.240 I DJ'ed a couple of parties, a couple of places 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.040 to make some money, you know what I'm saying, get 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.000 some clothes so I can look decent doing it. And 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.200 I ended up making it happen. It was a means 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.600 to an end. I got out that bitch. You know, 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:52.639 the hood. The best thing you could do is get 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.800 out of it, grow and then go back and help. 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:56.920 You know, if you really love it. You got people 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.359 there you love, you, go back and help them figure 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.600 out the way if you can hand because some people 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:02.560 don't really want to leave. 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:09.399 Yeah, but you're clear, you were clearly putting, putting up, 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.480 putting your your people's on from the beginning. 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.120 Like you said, your first deal, you did two more deals. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:19.840 Yeah, exactly. And I'm just able to make sure I'm 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.960 articulating this right. You're you're a label owner, yeah, now 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.920 you're a you're a partner. Yeah, these acts are these 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:28.480 actually yours? Absolutely well? 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.600 They were signed to the label, but I had to, 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.320 you know, I had the production duties. So I was 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.440 like the Quincy Jones are that ship at twenty one 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.360 twenty two. But this is the thing, if we could 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.200 go back to who told me that I was ready? 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:45.960 Nobody told me because you know, just looking at it 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.120 as in terms of being a man, you know, it's 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:53.280 about how girls see you. When I was coming up, 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.160 it was nerdy ship. You know, I was nerd whatever 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.200 I was. You know, I was geek like like nerdy, 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.240 like putting bikes together and putting hooking up, you know, 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.400 fixing equipment and ship and playing music, playing records and 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.520 you know, and just chilling and bitches didn't fuck with me. 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:12.120 I was too square. My mixtaing came out, My mixtape 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.480 came out, and bitches heard my voice. They gotta start 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.119 getting pussy. That's what told me I was ready. Not 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.679 no record company, not even Courtney. It was because I 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:27.960 was fucking DJ, I fucking I was getting pussy, motherfucking right, 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:35.119 but pussy valid, they're getting holds. I was knocking bitches down. 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:40.640 You did, getting the holes, getting the whole movie. Unfortunately, 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.760 as soon as that shit happened in our era, as 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.640 luck would have it. HIV became a thing, ship hit 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.320 Playboy magazine. We all read Playboy magazine was scared. We 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.320 didn't look at the naggad, but it was like, this 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:55.080 is gonna. I'm non sexually active and this happens. 0:19:55.920 --> 0:20:00.159 I just got some pussy's over. It's so. 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:05.199 But before that little eighty six to eighty nine motherfucker 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:10.280 Jack told you that. 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.200 Okay, so I was about to go there with it. 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:19.679 Here's another question I want to ask you about that. 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:23.080 I think is vital too to the production side and 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:27.160 the producers out there when you start talking samples, because 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:33.600 samples were managed one way when you first started and 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:38.080 then graduated to a whole different space. I managed now, 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.879 yeah right, yeah, yeah, so you were able to in 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:48.520 your early days grab them samples before. 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:54.560 Before they got the legislation right, and then all that 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:58.439 ship exactly. Yeah, but yeah, it was up until that 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:00.520 point there. It was a it was a it was 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.640 a great area, but samples was the biggest move. So 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:05.480 I had to sample. I was, you know, I was 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.720 finding like rare blowfly and you know, I was one 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:10.840 of the first people on Tonight's The Night God Rest 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:13.320 is Sold. Johnny J. Would you know knocking the boots, 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.960 but to put Betty right in your record like this was. 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.600 You know, these records that we heard in the people 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:20.639 dance to in our face. That's what we want to 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:22.400 put on our records because I want people to dance. 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:24.400 I want them to think about you know, the plight 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:25.920 and you know how hard it is to get a 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.840 job in Long Beach and competent no fuck that. Listen 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:32.359 to these records. You feel me like this record made 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:33.760 me feel good. I'm gonna put some shit on it, 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:36.080