WEBVTT - #494 - Tha Eastsidaz 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.600 Jeez up this big tray e, Little Goldie Low and 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.640 we the East Siders check us out on the Bootleg 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:07.840 cav podcast. 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:11.000 Before we start the episode, man, I got to remind 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:14.400 everybody that we are on the radio in eighty cities 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.600 every single day across the country. Man Real ninety two 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.599 to three every day Monday through Friday in Los Angeles, 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.160 Wild ninety four to one in Tampa, Kkfur and Phoenix. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.040 We're all over the place, Miami, Vegas. We can go 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:27.560 on and on. 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:30.240 We want to give a shout out to our latest affiliate. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.280 Shout out to Knoxville, Tennessee, Man Hot one oh four 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.920 point five for being the latest city to join the 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.720 Bootleg CAV Show network. All right, now, I don't ever 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:40.800 really talk about the radio show on the podcast, keep 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:42.159 them separate. But if you want to listen to the 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.200 radio show, you can click the link in the bio 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.440 for a list of all the cities you can listen 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:48.920 to at Yeah, that makes sense. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:53.760 Let's get to the interview, Yo. 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.080 Bootlet cav Podcasts special guests in here, Man, Trey D 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:01.440 and Goldie Loke the East Side of It their backs 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:07.240 bo Leg. Hey Man, so y'all just dropped this new EP. Now, 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.880 is this the first body of work since like oh 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.320 one or y'all already put you guys have been putting 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:13.480 out some like INDEPENDENTI shit. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.280 But in terms of like being. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.319 Under like back with Snoop officially, like in terms of 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.480 like the paperwork and shit, like, is this like y'all's 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.920 first time like dropping with Snooping in that long well? 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:28.400 When I touched down in twenty fourteen, I did like 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:33.320 ten and a half and I came home and we 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.120 got together and did a mix tape we did, matter 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.160 of fact, we did That's My Work Volume four with 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.720 Snoop Dogg. And we had dropped a single called get 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:45.840 You right off of There, did a video to it 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.320 and everything, and it was pretty well received, you know 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.600 what I'm saying. And we did our own thing, dropped 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.240 a few songs in the entrim. We always you know, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.280 through shows with Dog and all that, for sure, you know, 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.240 we always in the mix. But like you said, when 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.000 we got in here, just having some brand new music 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.240 out there, just letting the people feel us and know 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.120 that we still you know, swag like that. That's a 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.000 that's a good feeling. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.000 Like I feel so old. I don't even talk about 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.400 hold y'all you When I was looking at the Spotify 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.400 because I like vividly remember going and buying the first album, 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.400 and that shit came out in the year two thousand, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:28.640 I'm like, god, damn, yeah, yeah, like twenty four years 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.360 ago had some change. 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.680 We brought the Millennium Man right though. 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:34.639 And that was kind of like you guys were kind 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.760 of like what like I want to say, like kind 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:37.520 of kicked. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.560 Off like like Snoop as like a label owner. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.240 I felt like you guys were like kind of like 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.360 the first guys he was presenting as like this is 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:46.840 like my shit, you know what I'm saying. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.320 Yeah, yeah, it was us, and then the Doggies Age 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:50.440 Doggies Angels. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.280 Yeah yeah, I remember Doggi's Angels. 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:52.839 Yeah yeah. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.120 They came up behind us, and then we dropped the 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:59.160 second one after them. We dropped a dud to trace 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:03.079 the old fashioned Yeah. I was working on our third one, and. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:03.960 Then you got locked up. 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.799 Yeah damn. We did the movie movie. Yeah. Yeah. 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:10.919 What do you guys remember about that time, like working 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.760 on that first album kind of knowing you I mean 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.280 at the time, I mean obviously your two thousand Snoops 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.240 fucking you know, on top of the world. The No 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.680 Limit shit's happening, you guys kind of be in the 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.960 face of his label, like what what what do you 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:23.960 remember about that era of like you guys working on 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.040 that first album. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:26.360 M hm. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:32.360 Ship you was bringing new gold, y'all. I feel that 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.320 I've been I've been diffite and dabbing on verse. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.520 You know I did with the dog Paan I fucked 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:37.840 with uh. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.200 You know because this was during the No Limit years, 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.960 right right after he had just dropped his No Limit last. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:44.760 The Last Meal. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:46.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and. 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:49.520 Yeah he came on after that. 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.600 Yeah, and then we had the hood behind us, So 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.560 that really felt good because you know, we represent two 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.600 different different sets in the hood, so you know, to 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.600 have all home boys come together and start you know, 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.800 partying together and hanging out together, that was a big. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:07.840 Accomplishment for us. 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.280 Yeah, you know, because you know, prior to that, it 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.120 was you know, just a lot of gun playing, you know, 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:19.280 conflict every time you know, the two sides met up anywhere. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.279 So for us to bridge that gap, that was the 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.200 biggest part of the east side of this project. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.159 Was that, like something that you guys knew was important like, 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:29.760 was Snoop kind of the catalysts to say, hey, we 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.400 got to bring bring everybody together from Long Beach so 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:34.119 you guys can move to that like kind of together 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.839 in the same way. Or was it just like y'all 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:38.440 it just was already. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.919 Moving like that individuals, right, Yeah, you. 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.359 Know what I'm saying, because Long Beach, you know, you know, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:48.480 we all either related somehow anyway, you know what I 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:52.080 mean a little bit. Yeah, So so it just came 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:57.400 about about you know, us as individuals smashing for the 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.320 city a certain way, being stand up guys. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.400 You know, he probably had the foresight that that would 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:08.320 happen by bringing us together. Og me from my hood, 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:10.320 young homie from his hood. 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:11.560 You know, just. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:16.479 That that divide right there, just bridging that divide was 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:21.040 you know, it was probably something he conceived that would 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.080 bring some healing about to the city, you know, because 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.360 he always been, you know, pushing about the city. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.120 He ain't never been no device in person or nothing 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:30.360 like that. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:34.360 Sure, I wondered so around the year two thousand, I'm 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.880 trying to put myself in a time machine here. The 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.560 fact you guys have an album out on Death Throw. 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.320 If you guys would have heard that in two thousand, 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.119 you guys have been like, that's fucking wild. Yeah, because 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:47.719 around that time, should drop the Chronic two thousand, right, 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.359 which no, no, he remember, should drop like the weird 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:52.440 Chronic two thousand. 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.080 I don't remember that there was a guy on this 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:55.800 remember that? 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:57.919 Do you guys remember there was a dude on that 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.240 album who sounded just like Snoop Dog when he wrapped. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:05.040 Top Dog, top Dog, he sounded just like the top Dog. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.680 So I like Sugar drop that album to kind of 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.480 like stop any momentum that Dre had for the Chronic 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:11.480 two thousand and one. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:12.839 Right, But it didn't. 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.160 But I'm saying like that was like a real like 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.880 interesting time because at the time, obviously Snoop and Sugar 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.880 not seeing eye to eye. What was that like just 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.920 like kind of being around for that kind of because 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.680 that was like a very interesting time. Snoops obviously he 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.240 decided to go to No Limit. There's this weird Chronic 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.520 album that drops. Chronical two thousand one is about to drive. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.120 I think it was out in two by two thousand, 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.400 I think it did drop. I think it dropped in 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:34.920 two thousand. 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.800 Yeah, okay, okay, were ninety nine what was it fuzzy? 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:38.400 It was. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.159 It was on out there in the streets. 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:41.920 It was crazy. 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.320 It was on. Yeah, it was on and popping yeah everywhere. 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.359 Yeah, it was no telling what was gonna go down 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.719 when you know, when we interacted with different clicks and 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:52.680 cruise like that. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.159 But you know, we was pushing with dogs. So it 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:55.680 was whatever. 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:57.640 You guys coming from the street side, and then there's 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.760 like the street side mixing with the wrap side. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:01.760 Yeah, it's label ship. 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.359 Yeah, and you gotta stand on what you stand on 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.719 regardless because UK say, oh, there's just some rap ship 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.200 and handled that a different way than you would handle business. 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:12.880 On the other side. 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.480 So yeah, it was wild man, it was. 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.160 It was. It was a very interesting time in hip hop. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.640 And now you guys have you have a death Row 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.720 chain on, you have a project. I guess it's crazy 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.520 how this guy bought death. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:29.680 Row right right, Yeah it is, it is. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.280 And now you can get death throw hard seltzers, you 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.360 could get death throw I mean there's the death Row 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:35.600 logo fucking everything. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:37.880 You need some death throw rims. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:47.520 I gotta see them with you. Yeah, that's crazy though, 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.200 that would be hard some some label rims. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:52.840 Everybody. 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.880 Yeah, yeah, I knew. 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.960 The ship was coming. Though I knew the ship was 0:07:58.000 --> 0:07:58.480 gonna happen. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.360 Yeah, now it's been up to see man, and I 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.280 just loved, like love to see like just like you know, 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.080 I have bought Doggy Style is the most important album 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.440 in my life. Time changed my life. So I have 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:14.320 like every piece of Doggy Style random. I got the jacket, 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.160 I got the bump box, I got boom box of 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.000 my garage and stuff. I got every fucking I got 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.200 every copy of the CD that ever was printed. It's 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.240 like that album, Like really, that's my bucket list interviews. 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.040 When I interviewed Stoop, I'm be like, man, I wouldn't 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:28.080 be here without you, buddy. 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:29.080 That's right. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.200 I got Doggy Style because you remember, back in the 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.160 day I used to get in the magazines, you would be. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.959 Able to order like fifteen CS for a penny. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:36.680 Yeah, I. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:38.640 Remember that. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.120 My grandma got Doggy Style on accident in the mail. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:43.839 I was like five, and she gave it to me 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.640 because she was an old lady and she just saw 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.160 a cartoon on the front. And I learned that whole whoa. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:51.840 And by the time my mom found out what I 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.360 was listening to, already knew the whole sit by her. 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:54.719 She took it was too late. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:57.480 You beat on the table. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.520 To me, it's just there's doggy styllon and everything else. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.800 Right right, it would be too just getting familiar with 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.600 it at that impression of the skits like no. 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.960 Man, the skits like are you being like you feel 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.280 like you was there? Yeah, beginning the murder was the case. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:14.800 Yeah. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:15.800 Yeah. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.679 You go back and listen to all Doctor Droit productions. 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:22.600 Though he's one of the masters of skits, he always 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.319 inject you know, some humor or some you know. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:28.000 Skits on albums. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.840 I feel like scratching, yeah. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.040 You know what I mean, and the DJ the call 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.400 and response with the you know, the back and forth 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.800 you say something when you leave a word out and 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.760 the DJ filling in with the scratching the something. Yes, 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.480 it's yes. Hip hop is going in a whole different direction. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:45.680 Talk about this new project still Easte. 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:47.920 How long were you guys working on it, these songs, 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.800 like is it a mixture of older stuff you guys 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:51.320 had or is this all new stuff you got? 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:52.200 Yeah? 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.600 All what inspired it to be? Like time to finally 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.840 like let's let's let's do ep, let's get together let's 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.640 make some ship. Mm hmm. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.640 Well, we had been in there with him. We had 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.240 been in we had been in the lab with him 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:11.120 a couple of times planning on dropping some in side 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:15.120 of ship. But you know, scheduling is always a motherfucker. 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:19.840 Then when you're dealing with the largest president hip hop, 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.479 you know what I mean. You know, it's hard to 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.240 lock him down for a particular time to get get 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.920 it done. But he let us know after he was 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.200 producing the Dog Pounds album, he was like, you know, 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:33.760 I'm only gonna have this window, man, and I need 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.280 y'all to you know, give me something, you know, so 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.200 we can get together and you know, do some world 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.400 tours and ship next year, you know, and all that 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.400 with the family, you know, the Doghouse, dog Pound Family, 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:45.680 death Row. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:51.160 And I think we put this together in about about 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:51.960 ten days. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:53.960 Well I was about to say that the Dog Pound 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.600 album just dropped recently. Yeah, yeah, so you guys really 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:58.440 cook this thing up. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:00.199 Oh yeah. We fell in there when right. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.240 The work we was already kind of working on it, 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.120 you know what I mean, And we came back to 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:04.840 missed him up. 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:05.160 Yeah. 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.080 Yeah, we had with just want going down the song 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.120 with Battle cat We had did that already, but we 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.320 hadn't spearheaded it for no particular project. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:17.319 Yeah, you know what I mean. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.000 It was something that we was going to add to 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.200 the catalog of things we was doing in there and 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:23.480 build something from there. 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.600 But in the midst of help us with the NFT 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.640 music and all that kind of stuff. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.000 What's it like working with the October guy October London 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:32.920 is like I feel like I always tell people like 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.560 Snoop got this guy. He sounds like he's from like 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.760 fucking nineteen seventy nine, Like he's. 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:38.640 Making real R and B. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:43.120 Yeah, like he's making like real dope R and B music. 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.480 It's like been missing bad man. 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.960 Yeah, he's cold, Yeah, bad man. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.240 He shout out to him. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:50.679 He knocked that. He knocked that. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.800 Uh, he knocked that hook out, Like he knocked that 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:58.400 chorus out just like in ten minutes, you know what 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.080 I mean. He felt the song and he went there 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.560 and laid the chorus down. And in the midst of 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.080 us recording, I think we did like about like three 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.120 or four songs one day. I think Goldie did four. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.199 I did three because Goldie had he had it was 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.680 a verse. I think he had to do gangster fide, 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.320 so he had to get back on there. So we 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.199 was just recording one day, just back to back, and 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.800 he slid that track to London and London hit us 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.240 back with that and it was just go yeah, you. 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:26.079 Know, it was go. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.560 I wonder you guys had Mob Deep on your second project? 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.440 What was it like, because around that time, it's like, 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.600 oh one, so, I mean the East Coast West Cooast 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.320 Ship's kind of over with at that point in time. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.360 Whose idea was it to work with Mob Deep? And 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.320 you know, obviously Prodigy rest in peace to him, one 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:43.800 of the goats. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:44.880 I thought that was dope. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:49.080 That was Snoop Dogg's idea, and we had did We 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.280 did a song called dal Sheldon I Kill with with 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.080 Mob Deep when they was doing murder music I did. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.760 I was out there with dog and you know, I 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.719 wrote a verse and he was like you was like, 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.320 what's you're getting on the cut? I'm like, hell, yeah, 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.800 I'm getting on it. I'm welcome. So he was like, man, 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.280 drop your ship. He's like me, He's like, man, drop 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.000 that ship. So we had a relationship. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:11.720 So you was already in the studio with Prodigy. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.319 Yeah, I've been in that studio win before and then 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.000 I got him on my one of my subsequent albums 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.559 on a song called General salute Me. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:20.400 You guys hard. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.280 So we had that report and then I guess Dog 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.840 wanted to give us some East Coast flavor on the 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.439 second album as well, because it was straight West on. 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:30.040 The first one. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.600 And that's that's that was a group that he called on. 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:37.520 We was in the studio, uh Premiere DJ Premier came through. 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:39.719 I think we did. Did we do a song with 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.320 a little more that night too? Yeah? 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.120 Yeah, so we was I don't forget what studio we 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:45.360 was in. 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.400 I always feel like Snooper was like kind of like 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.800 the guy who was like pretty level headed throughout all 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.080 that because he had a lot of like love for 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.839 the East Coast and like had a lot of relationships 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.720 with a lot of those artists and so and and 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.120 like you said, like getting that had to be crazy 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:02.360 just working with Prodigy and. 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.320 We was moving and ship like yeah, we was really 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:09.080 moving around with Snoop as well like that to building relationships. 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.600 Yeah yeah, And it just came about you. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.480 Guys have a lot of music with Nate who I 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.080 feel like we still haven't necessary I mean, there's been 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.720 artists who have come that have had like their grips 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.720 on being the hook guy in hip hop type dollar 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.080 Sign or a Conti paint, et cetera. I just feel 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.040 like they've never been the same since Nate passed away. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.680 His son is really dope to in Hell's Dope and 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:35.240 sounds very But what can you tell me, because you 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:36.720 guys do have a lot of records with Nate. What 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.000 was it like just working with him? 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.120 Was it? And what was his writing process like? 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.680 M mmmm? 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:46.760 What Nate? 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.400 Nate added his own essence to the song. He didn't 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.960 really he directed songs more or less. He you know, 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.560 he was when he laid the hook. You was just 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.120 expected to follow what he late. He wouldn't come in 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.560 and be like, so, what we're talking about today? 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:04.360 Or you know? 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:04.960 Was it? 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.840 He would feel the track like most of us do, 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.280 and he would just do his thing, and everybody had 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.960 just follow suit because you know, when they. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.320 Get on the track, it's pretty much a rap. So 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:17.240 it was always a pleasure. 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:17.360 Man. 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.240 I worked with him at his house, work with him 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.840 different studios. I was on I was on his U 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:26.080 his first time a g Folk Classics volume. 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:26.880 One The Bag of weeds. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.360 So you know, I've been out of been out to 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.240 his people house with him and Clarksdale, Mississippi a couple 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.600 of times. So Nate was a good friend of mine 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.400 as well as a colleague appear you know, DPGC member. 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.080 He was dope, man. He was just dope all around. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:42.040 And he wasn't no joke. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.160 What was it like like because I feel like we 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.440 didn't see a lot of like Nate Dogg interviews because 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.520 he was kind of like he kind of felt like 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.040 an introvert a little bit he did. He wasn't out 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:53.480 there like everybody else. 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.240 Right, right, but he knew he was a bad motherfucker. 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:57.600 That's what he did. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.600 Was there anything about like him that you think people 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.960 didn't really know about like because he seemed like you know, 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:03.840 we just I feel like I always saw the music videos, 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.240 didn't see a lot of interviews with him and ship 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:06.960 like he always felt like he was playing the cut. 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.800 You know. It was just a solid dude. Man. 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.280 He was a gangster in his hard you know, he 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.880 wasn't gonna let nobody playing play with him. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:17.840 You know, he loved women. 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.720 You know you're getting you getting the limo with Nate 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.280 and it be eight women in there like these all mine, damn, 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:30.400 you know, so you know that's you know, they was 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:31.440 a player to the heart. 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:31.640 Man. 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.640 I don't even know biagra back then. They don't have 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:36.120 to be off that. 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:41.200 It was that Brown, was that Jack? Yeah, he asked 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.960 him here to see. That's all some weed. That's it. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.280 That's all the bus for you go. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.520 I'm curious when he ends up going to jail for 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:50.920 for as long as he was in prison for ten 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.000 and a half years. Like you said, where did like 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.000 did you kind of feel like ship because you guys 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:57.840 are moving together. You guys are known as the East Side. 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.000 It's like, how did you kind of maneuver it through 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.560 out that time of him being gone? And and like 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.840 did you ever lose any sort of motivation to do 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.480 the music full time or not? 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:07.840 Really? 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.399