WEBVTT - The Warren G Episode 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.360 You're tuned into The Gangster Chronicles with James McDonald, Regie 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:08.200 Reich Jr. And Alex Tomonzo on the Digital Soapbox Network 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.600 material Witness on an aggregated battery, I was a hang 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.920 gun and um they believe this might be in retaliation 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:22.720 to her testimony. Thank you for tuning into another episode 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.639 of The Gainst the Chronicles. On this episode, me and 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.080 James had honor in the privilege of sitting down with 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.680 the legendary warrings. He had a long beach. Enjoy the show. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.840 For the past few episodes, we've been recording everything via 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.599 zoom due to the coronavirus practice and social distance and whatnot. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.680 Hopefully you guys all safe out there. We'll be back 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.320 in the studio real soon. Appreciate you coming on, taking 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:51.720 your time about to talk to her brother. It's all good, man, yeah, 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:57.440 all the time, as like as I'm good, I'm good. 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.800 Uh you know, just still doing me was like uh 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:06.399 uh brilli into the barbecue sceing uh with with sauces 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.360 and rubs. You know, just you know, just that's it, man, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.759 and just you know, trying to get these kids right 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:18.080 and make sure they do something like all the time. 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.800 That's a good thing. But I want some of that 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:26.360 bobbecue sauce. Man, I get I got you, Yeah, I 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.919 got ja. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna do a bobbycute 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.600 this this summer. I want to try, yes, And then 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.760 I don't do hot stuff. Okay, I got a hot ship. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.920 I got, I got a original I got, I got, 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:41.720 I got got the old. I call it to O 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:45.039 G sauce. I have O G smokey, but the like 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:46.440 you said, you don't like that. And then I got 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.680 a O G spicy, but I ain't I send it anyway, 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.120 just in case you got people that like the spicy, uh, 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:59.200 the spicy sauce. And then too rubs rub the beef rub, 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.280 and and I got a rub that you could use 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:07.520 on chicken, uh, pork fish. Uh it's been good man, 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:12.960 I ain't gonna lie. Yeah. I know a couple of 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.440 people that make their own house sauce. How you getting 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.840 into that? Man? How did you just just say one 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:23.880 day you want to make some sauce and uh you Uh, well, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:28.480 my dad he uh he was a cook in the navy, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.959 and uh he used to cook in box in the navy, 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.160 and and uh all he did was cooked, you know, 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.000 for so he used to make sauces and stuff. So 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.800 I just used to watch what he do and I 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.200 just started trying it myself, you know, starting off with 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.480 the catch up way. But I I gotta put a 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.760 twist in my sauce that I have. Now it's got 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.720 a little bit of a different twist and ain't too 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.600 two tomatoes, but it's it's it's nice. I'll tell you. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.600 You're gonna be like, God, damn this ship good. Oh yeah, ready, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.440 but I'm really trying. You see, I'm seeing my wife, 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:08.679 but my dad. Uh, I've learned from just watching my dad. Man. 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.840 It just you know, just started you know, mixing, trying 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:17.160 different flavors out. And uh, I'm like shop I barbecue 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.000 all the time. I've been doing it for so long. 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:23.960 Everybody like when you need to Bob shopper get your 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.400 own sauces and rubs and stuff. So I did it 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.120 and it's and it's it's it's pretty good. I'm happy 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.920 about that, man, especially what's going on right now. We 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:38.880 can't do he other business. Well, I wish I had 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:43.520 some I could did it, Damn me something at this time? Yeah, 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:52.760 well you did speaking speaking of Long Beach Man, let's 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.400 go back to the beginning, right, Uh huh. You was 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.240 always known man. It was a record store man called 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.440 veiled with him the ground on the north Long Detroit. 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.560 Uh huh. There was an old white guy that they 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:06.560 always tell me, man, it's a dude to hear man, 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.000 they'd be buying, you know, getting old because I was 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.160 going there getting albums to get the samples and stuff 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.120 like that. Yeah. Yeah, so I was hearing about you 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.000 like before, and even you know, all popped off. Man. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.720 Let's go back to the beginning. Snoop was originally Guilt 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:25.120 Artist something. Well, we was a group. Uh we were 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.400 far far. We started out our name was three too 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:31.400 hard Way. But then once we uh we should we 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.320 when we were this one, we was like we was 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:37.280 on the spot back then, and uh and we was 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.880 on the spot, you know, serving and we were still 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.039 trying to do the music. And uh so we named 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.800 ourselves two one three the area because we was listening 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.520 to uh four, I'm high by the way, y'all, don't 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.440 don't mind men, I just smoke. But so when we 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.760 were listening to five and uh at that time, we 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.240 was like, shoot, well let's let's represent two one three, 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.760 which was our area, which is Long Beach Compton watch 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.040 l A. You know, well, let's let's wrap our area 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:12.240 and uh that uh that that's that's I mean, that's 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:16.200 just where where where things started. Uh. But we was 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.359 always a group. Man, he wasn't my artist. I was 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:23.600 just trying to push too, for us to get known, 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.720 you know, for somebody to sign us, you know. So 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.679 that's that was my whole thing. I was just pushed 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:33.360 into the max, just just trying to make it happen 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.640 for us. No. I just wanted to know how you 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:40.800 want how you wind up the Devil Doors with Snoopers. Well, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:50.880 um that started. Um well we was at that time. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:55.480 We had we had put had a a mixtape out 0:05:55.880 --> 0:06:00.200 called Long Beach Is a Motherfucker and uh well we 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.719 did is uh and we were just passing it out 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.880 all around the neighborhoods and everywhere from all with l A. 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:12.839 Compton watching everything. Everybody and knew us, and uh we 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.000 I mean we just was pushing. We was at the 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.279 Told Jam. You remember, I don't know if you remember 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:23.800 the Told Jam about still Downtown. Remember that Roger Roger, 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:28.000 Uh Roger, Uh God damnit Roger what that used to 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:29.680 be at the Uncle James's army. He was the one 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:35.839 who was the Roger Roger Clayton. Yeah, we just we 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.760 used to be pushing, you know, through the told jam 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:43.880 and just everywhere a little club and stuff. And uh, 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.800 I mean I had uh I hadn't talked to that 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:51.000 niggat well, but I hadn't talked to Drake and uh 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.240 a long time. So I hit him and I was like, man, 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.200 you know what's up. You know, I wanna see you man, 0:06:58.240 --> 0:06:59.880 I want to line up with you. So he was like, 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.800 come up here. My boy l A. Dre is having 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:07.680 a bachelor party, so you could come. So I was like, shit, okay, 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.840 So me one of my buddies, his name is Ride, 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:16.120 and who else was it? Me and Ride? We was 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.360 Me and Ride. We went up there and they was 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.720 playing music and uh, they ran out of stuff to play, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.920 so they were starting to play stuff again. So I 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:27.760 told l A. Dre. I was like, look, man, let 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.280 me pop this tape in, you know, just to play 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.520 the music for you guys to see how they like it. 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.760 So I popped the tape in and played it and 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.400 there was a song that we had called Long beaches 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:43.800 a motherfucker and uh you know, uh l A. Dre 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.320 was like, who is that? Now? I was like, that's 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.360 me and my buddy Snoop and they dog and uh 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.760 so he was like, hey, Dre, listen to this. Listen 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.040 to this. So Drake came over and he listened, and 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.240 he was like, who was that? You know. I'm like, 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.240 that's me, my homeboy, Snoop and my homeboy and Nate Dog. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.880 So he was like, man, that's so he was like, 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:09.480 y'all come up to the studio on Monday. So I 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.760 was charged up. I was like because I had I 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:13.840 just I didn't see I hadn't seen Drey and I 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.920 don't know how it was a really long time, and 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.240 uh so I was charged up. You know, I was 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.520 charged up. So I went back down the Long Beach 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.080 and uh, me and Snoop a kind of bumped heads. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.480 So we wasn't really we wasn't really like uh talking 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.440 at that time, and he had some other dudes in 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.440 his ear and stuff trying to like kind of break 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.880 us up. So I called Snoop and I told him, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.679 I was like, look, man, Dre heard our music. He 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.960 wants to come to the studio. On Monday, and uh 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:49.199 and uh, Snoop was like, Nigga fucked us and then 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.280 he hung the phone up on me, and uh so 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.840 I called him back and I was like, Snoop, please, man, 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.080 just listen, just let me call. Let me call him 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.880 on the three Way and let him tell you that 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:02.800 he wants to come up on us to the studio 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.080 on Monday. So I called on the three Way. I 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.319 was like, Dre, I got Snoop on the phone. Can 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:08.920 you tell him that you want us to come to 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.120 the studio on Monday. He said, yeah, y'all come up 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.360 to the studio on Monday and we're gonna do some music. 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:19.280 And after that we had started chilling, you know, kicking 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.080 it again because well because we was at it a 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.880 little bit, you know, I was piste off, you know, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.920 because there was other dudes in his ear trying to 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.400 trying to break our relationship ship up between me, him 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:35.920 and Ate. So ship we uh we went up to 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:41.200 the studio that Monday, my hump, my buddy rump he Uh. 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.920 We jumped in this raggedy ass car where we had 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.920 to take the street all the way up to Hollywood 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.280 up to solo our records. We took the streets and 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.160 uh everything. You know, you used to have a card. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.120 You're driving and you get to the light and you 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.960 gotta put the mother fucking in a park to keep 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.079 to keep it. So we did that all the way 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.360 up to sold our records. It. Uh we got up 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.120 in there and uh you know, we were sitting there 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.320 just chilling with Dre and he he uh Snoop played 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:18.960 the song he had called Gangster's Life and uh so 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.400 Dre heard. He was like that ship is dope, but 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.160 he said, let me redo the beat. So what he 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:28.840 did is he redid that the hold hold on, do 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:33.560 your love, you got to hold on. He redid that 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.160 that beat do doom boom boom boom. He had Snoop 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.959 bus that Gangster Life to it. Oh that motherfucker was hard. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.520 And uh from that point on, that's when we're just 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.760 starting to Drey was like, y'all come live with me, 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.240 and I was like, shit, all right, ship, and we 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.440 would like Ship to get out the hood and not 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.560 have to be around the bush it no more. We 0:10:56.679 --> 0:11:01.480 out so we went to stay with him, and uh 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.960 you know that was like after that, that's when uh 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:10.720 uh Dre DLC and Shield they was. They was all 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.600 that was. That was when it was called. It wasn't 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.839 death Roll yet it was goddamn it. What was the 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:25.120 name of uma? Fulture shocked that it was future shot 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:30.080 and uh Drake played the Gates of Life. He played 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.000 it for Dock and Shig and they was like ship, 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:36.480 this is this the one this nigga hard and uh 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.720 From that point on, all we did was just we 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:44.079 just we was working man and uh um. One day 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.240 Drake came and was like he was like holding that 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.719 Snoop like, look, man, I got the soundtrack. I want 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:55.800 to do a song with you. Uh uh deep cover 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.720 So and Nigga did to beat right in the house 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:05.160 boom boom boom boom boom boom, and then Snoop and 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.360 uh Snoop and dre and and r b X got busy. 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.640 They wrote that mother nailed it. That ship was dope. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:20.000 You didn't why you didn't They didn't. They didn't look 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:26.080 at me like as as far as like uh uh 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.040 as as an artist. I was more of like the DJ, 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.720 but I still was. I was an artist too, but 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.280 Drey didn't know that I was that vicious as far 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.640 as like on the artist side. But they didn't. They 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.839 looked at me more as like a DJ. And then 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.400 and that's what my pretty much for my role was 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.640 at that time. But I was like, Ship, I can't 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.160 just be no motherfucking DJ. I got to do more. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.600 So Drey was like Ship. He was like, I said, 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.360 show me how to do the uh, you know, show 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.360 me how to work the NPC sixty. So he showed 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.079 me that ship, like right there we was in his 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:04.200 little studio. He showed me. And I just started sampling 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.600 records and started, you know, learning how to put drums 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.400 to him. And then I started watching him and what 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:14.400 he did as far as using live instrumentation and stuff 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:18.640 like that and guitars and all, but you know, basses 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.160 and the drums and ship like that. So I was like, 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.480 god damn. So I picked up on that, you know, 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.080 and and I but I did it in my my 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.280 my way as far as like the g funk way, 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.040 which it's more as like like I said in the 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:37.360 song chords strings, we brings melody, like a good feeling, 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.280 you know, I like to feel good, not not to 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:45.600 be too hard. Yeah, and um, and I just picked 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.280 it up from there and from there I just started 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:52.960 producing Ship uh. I started helping with that's okay. After 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.360 they did Deep Covered. Then not too long that ship 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.080 that blew up that Deep Covered the niggas from everywhere. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.200 It was like, Dan, this is the bigg It was 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.880 like the biggest ship in the world. Like and uh 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.200 uh so we was like ship. Drey was like, I 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.320 want to do an album. Wh we gotta figure out, 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.199 you know, what to call it. And ship. We was 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.880 in the studio just smoking, you know. We you know, 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.200 we always used to talk about we need some more 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.400 chronic and this, that this, and this white dude is 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.840 the one who gave us that, like the chronic we 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:30.680 started because he has some weed. He called it hydro chronic, hydroponic, 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.760 So we started calling the chronic. And from right there 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.720 he's like, damn the chronic, you know. And and and 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.360 that's what we started calling the bud the chronic and 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.240 uh and that's when we started. We started working on 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:47.840 the Chronic. And what I used to do is I 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.840 would go to um it was a record store called 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.160 As the World Turned. I would go there and I've 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.000 got I grabbed all of the samples that we Then 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.080 I say about of the records that we used on 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.440 the chronic guy grabbed him from that store called As 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.000 the World Turned. Drey would give me like three hundred dollars, 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.000 like nega, go get some records, and I take off 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.200 and I go get the records, and then I will 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.680 go and listen to him and I will find different pieces, 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:20.760 different samples, like the like the uh, the Dolomite records. 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:24.680 I bought all of those Dollarmite records. Uh. The part 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:29.560 on the on their we uh doom Doom Doom, Doom, Doom, 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:35.160 Doom due doom, break him off some break I did that. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.080 That was a sample that was on the same record 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.320 as the I forgot the name of that group that 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.160 make the World go around. It's on that same record, 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.520 but it's a little bit stripped at the end of 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.880 the album, and it had that dum due doom d 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:57.360 I did the the skit, uh, the one skit that 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.240 he had really don't understand to do in order this 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.120 thing the work with got getting you know, all the 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:08.360 little skits and stuff. Did the phone call the skit, 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.520 the phone call skit where I called the girl the 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:15.600 these nuts nuts that's me. I did the whole, that whole. 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.400 I did a bunch of stuff without you know, it 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.520 was all of us together, you know what I mean, 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.560 all of our ideas together. I was just adding in 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.160 and bringing Shipped to the table, just trying to be down, 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.720 you know, just trying to be down and win. And 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:37.080 uh but you never signed Death Road though, Why you 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:43.520 didn't go to Death Road. Shit, they wasn't working with men. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:51.920 I mean he was doing when they still man. That 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.320 was after I don't know what the fund was going on. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.360 I was like Ship then got give a funk. They 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.760 ain't sucking with me Ship. So I was like this 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:04.600 it I gotta go. And so I just bounced and yeah, 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.359 I was down like I was death Row to the 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.360 fullests I ain't gonna lie. Everywhere we went we went 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:12.560 like Ship we went. I remember we used to go 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.560 to that club, all of us, me, Snoop, Sugar, all 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.320 of every all of us we go to the club 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.640 and uh at the world. So one day we went 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.639 to the club and these dudes were sitting in the 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.760 car right in front of the club, under the under 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.920 the little partner structure, and the motherfuckers say, uh fuck 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.399 uh he I think he said fuck death Row. So 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.480 Draydon looked at the nigger dred and shells and looked 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.719 at the nigga. So they kept walking. So when they 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.720 walked past, I stopped asking what he said, and he said, 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.760 fuck that, and I fired on me. Wow, knocked that 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.280 mother for the channel. But I didn't see his homeboys 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.600 nigga ship out my. I ain't gonna lie I got 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.600 I ain't knocked me out out my. And then after 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.960 that drag ship, everybody, we all stars while we beat 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.920 the dog ship out the everywhere we went. I was like, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.840 I'm taking up, think I'm taking I was death brough 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:15.120 to the fun I was mask but they what hurt 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.000 me is that they wasn't working with me. So it 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.400 was like, damn, I didn't did all of this ship 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.720 and and been helping out and just you know, and 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.960 I was just crushed because they just they wasn't working 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:27.560 with me. You know. I called. I was in the 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.640 county jail that called, like, man, I said, she'll you're 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.359 gonna beild me. I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna beil you out. 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:37.879 I'm gonna bear yup. I didn't get out. My god, damn. 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:49.080 He never been like damn man, huh yeah. But for 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.960 a lot of people don't know right. Yeah, that's my 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:58.359 step brother. Yeah, yeah, my dad. Okay, So Dred comes 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:04.680 to the rescue. Man, you know he what Ship was about? 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:14.159 I caught it go getting he had to go get you. 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:19.480 Well you know, uh, James, I I don't know, man, 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.399 I I can't call it. I don't you know. I 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:28.000 don't know, man, warn Let me ask you this, Yeah yeah, 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:29.960 let me ask you this. Bro. Just going back to 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.879 all that. So you go through this thing, man, and 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.960 where y'are matching, y'all putting together a classic album? Man? 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.600 What happened? At what point did you start working with um? 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:43.240 Is that when you want to hooked up? And did 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.640 the endoor smoking all that stuff? Man? That was after 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.800 I left, So that was after you left, right, So 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.280 that's when you want to hook up? What was the 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.000 what was that? Right? Man? I tried to get Graham 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.280 signed over there at Death Fro. So you tried to 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.440 get Mr Grim signed here? Signed up? I tried that. 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:02.959 I tried to get Graham son. We we actually did 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:07.960 a record that uh the little Ghetto Boy sample, and 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:10.439 Graham had done that record before that, and then Dre 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:12.800 was like, Ship, I'm gonna redo that motherfucker. So he 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:17.240 redid the little ghetto boy rich sample. He redid it again, 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:19.879 and and and did uh put them drums on their 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.800 motherfucker and then and and then them live roads and 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.040 ship and that ship was that ship was out of 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.919 this world. I was like, that ship is dope. Ours 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:32.159 was hard too, though, But I said, man, I was 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:35.560 I was just. I was just. I was death rowed 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.320 out ship. I was mashing with whatever, whatever we gotta 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.840 do to win, to blow this company up. That's what 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.960 I was on is it's musically. I was just just 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.640 trying to do whatever I could. You know, I didn't care. 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.440 I didn't wasn't didn't care about no paperwork or nothing 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:52.679 back then because I didn't know nothing about that stuff. 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:57.320 So I was just doing whatever. Wow, that's crazy, man, 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:00.800 So let's let's let's go back to this pointing out. Man. 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:05.000 So you and Mr Grimm is working together, you know, 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.960 indo smoke is taken off and everything else, like, yeah, 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.119 and you wind up and I'm pretty sure you was 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.040 the hottest free agent on the market because you we 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:18.159 just came. You know, they change of things. So you 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:21.520 probably wound up even better off in hindsight looking back 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:25.040 at it, man, Yeah, because you got the benefit of 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.359 going through boot camp. But one of the hottest labels 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.400 at the time. Man, so yeah, tell me this man 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:33.520 who wasn't besides death Jam that was after your services, 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.439 cause I'm pretty sure they was all lined up. Was like, man, 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:38.760 they're not messing with It was everybody, man, it was 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:45.480 dead Jam, it was it was Sony. Uh. I forgot 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:47.880 this label that two short was on that label back 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:54.200 but they do Atlantic Uh. It was every lay uh, God, damn, 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:57.879 what's your name? If every label like in the that 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:01.040 that you know of, they was all at I think everybody. 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:04.479 I said, this is totally different from from what I'm 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:08.000 used to and just doing this and then you know, 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:10.800 talking to other people and then enlightened people at the 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:14.920 same time or what you don't have to do or 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:17.120 you don't have to grow up a certain kind of way. 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:21.399 You can be successful in anything you do. I'm saying, 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:26.560 that's something that's totally different from my aspect, and you know, 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.720 I just appreciate I'm able to talk and then you know, 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:33.240 get to a point where I'm at now and it 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:36.840 is just cool and you know, you know, talking to 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:39.920 somebody you know, such as you that been out there 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.680 and did it because I tried to enlighten these youngsters. 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:46.280 No matter how you used to get down, you can 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:48.280 come out of that. You can come out of that. 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:54.880 Every story we do, every story we do, we enlightened 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:58.439 somebody on Damn, I ain't gotta be like that no more. 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:03.720 I can do this. There is positivity. If you get 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:07.640 your ship together, you can't make it. Yeah, so yeah, 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:15.960 I know that's why. Yes, it fix it fixed a 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:20.200 lot of ship because you know, like, uh, you know, 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:23.640 some people might think, you know, just because of Death 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:26.760 Road that that I could be mad at a at 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:30.120 Warn I could. I'm mad at Snoop. Yeah, I don't 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:32.560 have I never like really hung I don't like that 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:36.400 I was doing that. That's not I kind of thing, 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:40.240 being around the Superstars and ship. Yeah, job was to 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:45.720 be a bodyguard, like being there for Snoop at his child. Yeah, 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:48.720 this job was to keep the riff rapp away, so 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:54.440 don't nobody funk with him. I didn't mind that in 0:23:54.520 --> 0:23:57.120 that way. All the other ship I didn't. I didn't 0:23:57.160 --> 0:23:59.320 have time for that other ship. I didn't have time 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:03.959