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Speaker 1: Reich Jr. And Alex Tomonzo on the Digital Soapbox Network
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Speaker 1: to her testimony. Thank you for tuning into another episode
Speaker 1: of The Gainst the Chronicles. On this episode, me and
Speaker 1: James had honor in the privilege of sitting down with
Speaker 1: the legendary warrings. He had a long beach. Enjoy the show.
Speaker 1: For the past few episodes, we've been recording everything via
Speaker 1: zoom due to the coronavirus practice and social distance and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you guys all safe out there. We'll be back
Speaker 1: in the studio real soon. Appreciate you coming on, taking
Speaker 1: your time about to talk to her brother. It's all good, man, yeah,
Speaker 1: all the time, as like as I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, just still doing me was like uh
Speaker 1: uh brilli into the barbecue sceing uh with with sauces
Speaker 1: and rubs. You know, just you know, just that's it, man,
Speaker 1: and just you know, trying to get these kids right
Speaker 1: and make sure they do something like all the time.
Speaker 1: That's a good thing. But I want some of that
Speaker 1: bobbecue sauce. Man, I get I got you, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got ja. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna do a bobbycute
Speaker 1: this this summer. I want to try, yes, And then
Speaker 1: I don't do hot stuff. Okay, I got a hot ship.
Speaker 1: I got, I got a original I got, I got,
Speaker 1: I got got the old. I call it to O
Speaker 1: G sauce. I have O G smokey, but the like
Speaker 1: you said, you don't like that. And then I got
Speaker 1: a O G spicy, but I ain't I send it anyway,
Speaker 1: just in case you got people that like the spicy, uh,
Speaker 1: the spicy sauce. And then too rubs rub the beef rub,
Speaker 1: and and I got a rub that you could use
Speaker 1: on chicken, uh, pork fish. Uh it's been good man,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie. Yeah. I know a couple of
Speaker 1: people that make their own house sauce. How you getting
Speaker 1: into that? Man? How did you just just say one
Speaker 1: day you want to make some sauce and uh you Uh, well,
Speaker 1: my dad he uh he was a cook in the navy,
Speaker 1: and uh he used to cook in box in the navy,
Speaker 1: and and uh all he did was cooked, you know,
Speaker 1: for so he used to make sauces and stuff. So
Speaker 1: I just used to watch what he do and I
Speaker 1: just started trying it myself, you know, starting off with
Speaker 1: the catch up way. But I I gotta put a
Speaker 1: twist in my sauce that I have. Now it's got
Speaker 1: a little bit of a different twist and ain't too
Speaker 1: two tomatoes, but it's it's it's nice. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be like, God, damn this ship good. Oh yeah, ready,
Speaker 1: but I'm really trying. You see, I'm seeing my wife,
Speaker 1: but my dad. Uh, I've learned from just watching my dad. Man.
Speaker 1: It just you know, just started you know, mixing, trying
Speaker 1: different flavors out. And uh, I'm like shop I barbecue
Speaker 1: all the time. I've been doing it for so long.
Speaker 1: Everybody like when you need to Bob shopper get your
Speaker 1: own sauces and rubs and stuff. So I did it
Speaker 1: and it's and it's it's it's pretty good. I'm happy
Speaker 1: about that, man, especially what's going on right now. We
Speaker 1: can't do he other business. Well, I wish I had
Speaker 1: some I could did it, Damn me something at this time? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you did speaking speaking of Long Beach Man, let's
Speaker 1: go back to the beginning, right, Uh huh. You was
Speaker 1: always known man. It was a record store man called
Speaker 1: veiled with him the ground on the north Long Detroit.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. There was an old white guy that they
Speaker 1: always tell me, man, it's a dude to hear man,
Speaker 1: they'd be buying, you know, getting old because I was
Speaker 1: going there getting albums to get the samples and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah. Yeah, so I was hearing about you
Speaker 1: like before, and even you know, all popped off. Man.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the beginning. Snoop was originally Guilt
Speaker 1: Artist something. Well, we was a group. Uh we were
Speaker 1: far far. We started out our name was three too
Speaker 1: hard Way. But then once we uh we should we
Speaker 1: when we were this one, we was like we was
Speaker 1: on the spot back then, and uh and we was
Speaker 1: on the spot, you know, serving and we were still
Speaker 1: trying to do the music. And uh so we named
Speaker 1: ourselves two one three the area because we was listening
Speaker 1: to uh four, I'm high by the way, y'all, don't
Speaker 1: don't mind men, I just smoke. But so when we
Speaker 1: were listening to five and uh at that time, we
Speaker 1: was like, shoot, well let's let's represent two one three,
Speaker 1: which was our area, which is Long Beach Compton watch
Speaker 1: l A. You know, well, let's let's wrap our area
Speaker 1: and uh that uh that that's that's I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just where where where things started. Uh. But we was
Speaker 1: always a group. Man, he wasn't my artist. I was
Speaker 1: just trying to push too, for us to get known,
Speaker 1: you know, for somebody to sign us, you know. So
Speaker 1: that's that was my whole thing. I was just pushed
Speaker 1: into the max, just just trying to make it happen
Speaker 1: for us. No. I just wanted to know how you
Speaker 1: want how you wind up the Devil Doors with Snoopers. Well,
Speaker 1: um that started. Um well we was at that time.
Speaker 1: We had we had put had a a mixtape out
Speaker 1: called Long Beach Is a Motherfucker and uh well we
Speaker 1: did is uh and we were just passing it out
Speaker 1: all around the neighborhoods and everywhere from all with l A.
Speaker 1: Compton watching everything. Everybody and knew us, and uh we
Speaker 1: I mean we just was pushing. We was at the
Speaker 1: Told Jam. You remember, I don't know if you remember
Speaker 1: the Told Jam about still Downtown. Remember that Roger Roger,
Speaker 1: Uh Roger, Uh God damnit Roger what that used to
Speaker 1: be at the Uncle James's army. He was the one
Speaker 1: who was the Roger Roger Clayton. Yeah, we just we
Speaker 1: used to be pushing, you know, through the told jam
Speaker 1: and just everywhere a little club and stuff. And uh,
Speaker 1: I mean I had uh I hadn't talked to that
Speaker 1: niggat well, but I hadn't talked to Drake and uh
Speaker 1: a long time. So I hit him and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: you know what's up. You know, I wanna see you man,
Speaker 1: I want to line up with you. So he was like,
Speaker 1: come up here. My boy l A. Dre is having
Speaker 1: a bachelor party, so you could come. So I was like, shit, okay,
Speaker 1: So me one of my buddies, his name is Ride,
Speaker 1: and who else was it? Me and Ride? We was
Speaker 1: Me and Ride. We went up there and they was
Speaker 1: playing music and uh, they ran out of stuff to play,
Speaker 1: so they were starting to play stuff again. So I
Speaker 1: told l A. Dre. I was like, look, man, let
Speaker 1: me pop this tape in, you know, just to play
Speaker 1: the music for you guys to see how they like it.
Speaker 1: So I popped the tape in and played it and
Speaker 1: there was a song that we had called Long beaches
Speaker 1: a motherfucker and uh you know, uh l A. Dre
Speaker 1: was like, who is that? Now? I was like, that's
Speaker 1: me and my buddy Snoop and they dog and uh
Speaker 1: so he was like, hey, Dre, listen to this. Listen
Speaker 1: to this. So Drake came over and he listened, and
Speaker 1: he was like, who was that? You know. I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's me, my homeboy, Snoop and my homeboy and Nate Dog.
Speaker 1: So he was like, man, that's so he was like,
Speaker 1: y'all come up to the studio on Monday. So I
Speaker 1: was charged up. I was like because I had I
Speaker 1: just I didn't see I hadn't seen Drey and I
Speaker 1: don't know how it was a really long time, and
Speaker 1: uh so I was charged up. You know, I was
Speaker 1: charged up. So I went back down the Long Beach
Speaker 1: and uh, me and Snoop a kind of bumped heads.
Speaker 1: So we wasn't really we wasn't really like uh talking
Speaker 1: at that time, and he had some other dudes in
Speaker 1: his ear and stuff trying to like kind of break
Speaker 1: us up. So I called Snoop and I told him,
Speaker 1: I was like, look, man, Dre heard our music. He
Speaker 1: wants to come to the studio. On Monday, and uh
Speaker 1: and uh, Snoop was like, Nigga fucked us and then
Speaker 1: he hung the phone up on me, and uh so
Speaker 1: I called him back and I was like, Snoop, please, man,
Speaker 1: just listen, just let me call. Let me call him
Speaker 1: on the three Way and let him tell you that
Speaker 1: he wants to come up on us to the studio
Speaker 1: on Monday. So I called on the three Way. I
Speaker 1: was like, Dre, I got Snoop on the phone. Can
Speaker 1: you tell him that you want us to come to
Speaker 1: the studio on Monday. He said, yeah, y'all come up
Speaker 1: to the studio on Monday and we're gonna do some music.
Speaker 1: And after that we had started chilling, you know, kicking
Speaker 1: it again because well because we was at it a
Speaker 1: little bit, you know, I was piste off, you know,
Speaker 1: because there was other dudes in his ear trying to
Speaker 1: trying to break our relationship ship up between me, him
Speaker 1: and Ate. So ship we uh we went up to
Speaker 1: the studio that Monday, my hump, my buddy rump he Uh.
Speaker 1: We jumped in this raggedy ass car where we had
Speaker 1: to take the street all the way up to Hollywood
Speaker 1: up to solo our records. We took the streets and
Speaker 1: uh everything. You know, you used to have a card.
Speaker 1: You're driving and you get to the light and you
Speaker 1: gotta put the mother fucking in a park to keep
Speaker 1: to keep it. So we did that all the way
Speaker 1: up to sold our records. It. Uh we got up
Speaker 1: in there and uh you know, we were sitting there
Speaker 1: just chilling with Dre and he he uh Snoop played
Speaker 1: the song he had called Gangster's Life and uh so
Speaker 1: Dre heard. He was like that ship is dope, but
Speaker 1: he said, let me redo the beat. So what he
Speaker 1: did is he redid that the hold hold on, do
Speaker 1: your love, you got to hold on. He redid that
Speaker 1: that beat do doom boom boom boom. He had Snoop
Speaker 1: bus that Gangster Life to it. Oh that motherfucker was hard.
Speaker 1: And uh from that point on, that's when we're just
Speaker 1: starting to Drey was like, y'all come live with me,
Speaker 1: and I was like, shit, all right, ship, and we
Speaker 1: would like Ship to get out the hood and not
Speaker 1: have to be around the bush it no more. We
Speaker 1: out so we went to stay with him, and uh
Speaker 1: you know that was like after that, that's when uh
Speaker 1: uh Dre DLC and Shield they was. They was all
Speaker 1: that was. That was when it was called. It wasn't
Speaker 1: death Roll yet it was goddamn it. What was the
Speaker 1: name of uma? Fulture shocked that it was future shot
Speaker 1: and uh Drake played the Gates of Life. He played
Speaker 1: it for Dock and Shig and they was like ship,
Speaker 1: this is this the one this nigga hard and uh
Speaker 1: From that point on, all we did was just we
Speaker 1: just we was working man and uh um. One day
Speaker 1: Drake came and was like he was like holding that
Speaker 1: Snoop like, look, man, I got the soundtrack. I want
Speaker 1: to do a song with you. Uh uh deep cover
Speaker 1: So and Nigga did to beat right in the house
Speaker 1: boom boom boom boom boom boom, and then Snoop and
Speaker 1: uh Snoop and dre and and r b X got busy.
Speaker 1: They wrote that mother nailed it. That ship was dope.
Speaker 1: You didn't why you didn't They didn't. They didn't look
Speaker 1: at me like as as far as like uh uh
Speaker 1: as as an artist. I was more of like the DJ,
Speaker 1: but I still was. I was an artist too, but
Speaker 1: Drey didn't know that I was that vicious as far
Speaker 1: as like on the artist side. But they didn't. They
Speaker 1: looked at me more as like a DJ. And then
Speaker 1: and that's what my pretty much for my role was
Speaker 1: at that time. But I was like, Ship, I can't
Speaker 1: just be no motherfucking DJ. I got to do more.
Speaker 1: So Drey was like Ship. He was like, I said,
Speaker 1: show me how to do the uh, you know, show
Speaker 1: me how to work the NPC sixty. So he showed
Speaker 1: me that ship, like right there we was in his
Speaker 1: little studio. He showed me. And I just started sampling
Speaker 1: records and started, you know, learning how to put drums
Speaker 1: to him. And then I started watching him and what
Speaker 1: he did as far as using live instrumentation and stuff
Speaker 1: like that and guitars and all, but you know, basses
Speaker 1: and the drums and ship like that. So I was like,
Speaker 1: god damn. So I picked up on that, you know,
Speaker 1: and and I but I did it in my my
Speaker 1: my way as far as like the g funk way,
Speaker 1: which it's more as like like I said in the
Speaker 1: song chords strings, we brings melody, like a good feeling,
Speaker 1: you know, I like to feel good, not not to
Speaker 1: be too hard. Yeah, and um, and I just picked
Speaker 1: it up from there and from there I just started
Speaker 1: producing Ship uh. I started helping with that's okay. After
Speaker 1: they did Deep Covered. Then not too long that ship
Speaker 1: that blew up that Deep Covered the niggas from everywhere.
Speaker 1: It was like, Dan, this is the bigg It was
Speaker 1: like the biggest ship in the world. Like and uh
Speaker 1: uh so we was like ship. Drey was like, I
Speaker 1: want to do an album. Wh we gotta figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, what to call it. And ship. We was
Speaker 1: in the studio just smoking, you know. We you know,
Speaker 1: we always used to talk about we need some more
Speaker 1: chronic and this, that this, and this white dude is
Speaker 1: the one who gave us that, like the chronic we
Speaker 1: started because he has some weed. He called it hydro chronic, hydroponic,
Speaker 1: So we started calling the chronic. And from right there
Speaker 1: he's like, damn the chronic, you know. And and and
Speaker 1: that's what we started calling the bud the chronic and
Speaker 1: uh and that's when we started. We started working on
Speaker 1: the Chronic. And what I used to do is I
Speaker 1: would go to um it was a record store called
Speaker 1: As the World Turned. I would go there and I've
Speaker 1: got I grabbed all of the samples that we Then
Speaker 1: I say about of the records that we used on
Speaker 1: the chronic guy grabbed him from that store called As
Speaker 1: the World Turned. Drey would give me like three hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: like nega, go get some records, and I take off
Speaker 1: and I go get the records, and then I will
Speaker 1: go and listen to him and I will find different pieces,
Speaker 1: different samples, like the like the uh, the Dolomite records.
Speaker 1: I bought all of those Dollarmite records. Uh. The part
Speaker 1: on the on their we uh doom Doom Doom, Doom, Doom,
Speaker 1: Doom due doom, break him off some break I did that.
Speaker 1: That was a sample that was on the same record
Speaker 1: as the I forgot the name of that group that
Speaker 1: make the World go around. It's on that same record,
Speaker 1: but it's a little bit stripped at the end of
Speaker 1: the album, and it had that dum due doom d
Speaker 1: I did the the skit, uh, the one skit that
Speaker 1: he had really don't understand to do in order this
Speaker 1: thing the work with got getting you know, all the
Speaker 1: little skits and stuff. Did the phone call the skit,
Speaker 1: the phone call skit where I called the girl the
Speaker 1: these nuts nuts that's me. I did the whole, that whole.
Speaker 1: I did a bunch of stuff without you know, it
Speaker 1: was all of us together, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: all of our ideas together. I was just adding in
Speaker 1: and bringing Shipped to the table, just trying to be down,
Speaker 1: you know, just trying to be down and win. And
Speaker 1: uh but you never signed Death Road though, Why you
Speaker 1: didn't go to Death Road. Shit, they wasn't working with men.
Speaker 1: I mean he was doing when they still man. That
Speaker 1: was after I don't know what the fund was going on.
Speaker 1: I was like Ship then got give a funk. They
Speaker 1: ain't sucking with me Ship. So I was like this
Speaker 1: it I gotta go. And so I just bounced and yeah,
Speaker 1: I was down like I was death Row to the
Speaker 1: fullests I ain't gonna lie. Everywhere we went we went
Speaker 1: like Ship we went. I remember we used to go
Speaker 1: to that club, all of us, me, Snoop, Sugar, all
Speaker 1: of every all of us we go to the club
Speaker 1: and uh at the world. So one day we went
Speaker 1: to the club and these dudes were sitting in the
Speaker 1: car right in front of the club, under the under
Speaker 1: the little partner structure, and the motherfuckers say, uh fuck
Speaker 1: uh he I think he said fuck death Row. So
Speaker 1: Draydon looked at the nigger dred and shells and looked
Speaker 1: at the nigga. So they kept walking. So when they
Speaker 1: walked past, I stopped asking what he said, and he said,
Speaker 1: fuck that, and I fired on me. Wow, knocked that
Speaker 1: mother for the channel. But I didn't see his homeboys
Speaker 1: nigga ship out my. I ain't gonna lie I got
Speaker 1: I ain't knocked me out out my. And then after
Speaker 1: that drag ship, everybody, we all stars while we beat
Speaker 1: the dog ship out the everywhere we went. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm taking up, think I'm taking I was death brough
Speaker 1: to the fun I was mask but they what hurt
Speaker 1: me is that they wasn't working with me. So it
Speaker 1: was like, damn, I didn't did all of this ship
Speaker 1: and and been helping out and just you know, and
Speaker 1: I was just crushed because they just they wasn't working
Speaker 1: with me. You know. I called. I was in the
Speaker 1: county jail that called, like, man, I said, she'll you're
Speaker 1: gonna beild me. I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna beil you out.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bear yup. I didn't get out. My god, damn.
Speaker 1: He never been like damn man, huh yeah. But for
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know right. Yeah, that's my
Speaker 1: step brother. Yeah, yeah, my dad. Okay, So Dred comes
Speaker 1: to the rescue. Man, you know he what Ship was about?
Speaker 1: I caught it go getting he had to go get you.
Speaker 1: Well you know, uh, James, I I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I I can't call it. I don't you know. I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, warn Let me ask you this, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. Bro. Just going back to
Speaker 1: all that. So you go through this thing, man, and
Speaker 1: where y'are matching, y'all putting together a classic album? Man?
Speaker 1: What happened? At what point did you start working with um?
Speaker 1: Is that when you want to hooked up? And did
Speaker 1: the endoor smoking all that stuff? Man? That was after
Speaker 1: I left, So that was after you left, right, So
Speaker 1: that's when you want to hook up? What was the
Speaker 1: what was that? Right? Man? I tried to get Graham
Speaker 1: signed over there at Death Fro. So you tried to
Speaker 1: get Mr Grim signed here? Signed up? I tried that.
Speaker 1: I tried to get Graham son. We we actually did
Speaker 1: a record that uh the little Ghetto Boy sample, and
Speaker 1: Graham had done that record before that, and then Dre
Speaker 1: was like, Ship, I'm gonna redo that motherfucker. So he
Speaker 1: redid the little ghetto boy rich sample. He redid it again,
Speaker 1: and and and did uh put them drums on their
Speaker 1: motherfucker and then and and then them live roads and
Speaker 1: ship and that ship was that ship was out of
Speaker 1: this world. I was like, that ship is dope. Ours
Speaker 1: was hard too, though, But I said, man, I was
Speaker 1: I was just. I was just. I was death rowed
Speaker 1: out ship. I was mashing with whatever, whatever we gotta
Speaker 1: do to win, to blow this company up. That's what
Speaker 1: I was on is it's musically. I was just just
Speaker 1: trying to do whatever I could. You know, I didn't care.
Speaker 1: I didn't wasn't didn't care about no paperwork or nothing
Speaker 1: back then because I didn't know nothing about that stuff.
Speaker 1: So I was just doing whatever. Wow, that's crazy, man,
Speaker 1: So let's let's let's go back to this pointing out. Man.
Speaker 1: So you and Mr Grimm is working together, you know,
Speaker 1: indo smoke is taken off and everything else, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you wind up and I'm pretty sure you was
Speaker 1: the hottest free agent on the market because you we
Speaker 1: just came. You know, they change of things. So you
Speaker 1: probably wound up even better off in hindsight looking back
Speaker 1: at it, man, Yeah, because you got the benefit of
Speaker 1: going through boot camp. But one of the hottest labels
Speaker 1: at the time. Man, so yeah, tell me this man
Speaker 1: who wasn't besides death Jam that was after your services,
Speaker 1: cause I'm pretty sure they was all lined up. Was like, man,
Speaker 1: they're not messing with It was everybody, man, it was
Speaker 1: dead Jam, it was it was Sony. Uh. I forgot
Speaker 1: this label that two short was on that label back
Speaker 1: but they do Atlantic Uh. It was every lay uh, God, damn,
Speaker 1: what's your name? If every label like in the that
Speaker 1: that you know of, they was all at I think everybody.
Speaker 1: I said, this is totally different from from what I'm
Speaker 1: used to and just doing this and then you know,
Speaker 1: talking to other people and then enlightened people at the
Speaker 1: same time or what you don't have to do or
Speaker 1: you don't have to grow up a certain kind of way.
Speaker 1: You can be successful in anything you do. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: that's something that's totally different from my aspect, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just appreciate I'm able to talk and then you know,
Speaker 1: get to a point where I'm at now and it
Speaker 1: is just cool and you know, you know, talking to
Speaker 1: somebody you know, such as you that been out there
Speaker 1: and did it because I tried to enlighten these youngsters.
Speaker 1: No matter how you used to get down, you can
Speaker 1: come out of that. You can come out of that.
Speaker 1: Every story we do, every story we do, we enlightened
Speaker 1: somebody on Damn, I ain't gotta be like that no more.
Speaker 1: I can do this. There is positivity. If you get
Speaker 1: your ship together, you can't make it. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that's why. Yes, it fix it fixed a
Speaker 1: lot of ship because you know, like, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: some people might think, you know, just because of Death
Speaker 1: Road that that I could be mad at a at
Speaker 1: Warn I could. I'm mad at Snoop. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: have I never like really hung I don't like that
Speaker 1: I was doing that. That's not I kind of thing,
Speaker 1: being around the Superstars and ship. Yeah, job was to
Speaker 1: be a bodyguard, like being there for Snoop at his child. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this job was to keep the riff rapp away, so
Speaker 1: don't nobody funk with him. I didn't mind that in
Speaker 1: that way. All the other ship I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: have time for that other ship. I didn't have time
Speaker 1: to be a part of the argument with the artists
Speaker 1: are socializing and getting down like that, Um, I just
Speaker 1: I just had a job and I just did my job. Yes,
Speaker 1: And you know, people say you're mad at one. I
Speaker 1: don't have a reason to be mad at Warren. G Man.
Speaker 1: Warren ain't never hung out and kicked it to have
Speaker 1: an argument. Yeah, so no, I don't have a problem
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, I have a problem. Well, we gotta ride.
Speaker 1: I got a CBO street glass. We gotta did one
Speaker 1: time man, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got a
Speaker 1: road kid. Man, I'd be on all over the place.
Speaker 1: I'm kiding, so man, I'll be out did yeah did ye.
Speaker 1: I didn't motorcycle thing, but right right, and I'm out loud.
Speaker 1: I ain't join no mnus motorcycle clubs. I just dell
Speaker 1: ride it on. Um yeah yeah yeah, all that dude
Speaker 1: ship and all that meat, and I can't do that. No,
Speaker 1: you don't want to do that, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to. But started something. So yeah we're um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're about to do a Gangster chronicles. Um, a bike club,
Speaker 1: just something that's real cool. Yeah, yeah, we about to
Speaker 1: do you know, a bike set man for the Gangster Chronicles.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be something cool man, And we go
Speaker 1: ahead home these and like you know, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: Crazy Bone get you know, Crazy Bone get a bike,
Speaker 1: your uncle get a bike. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get just more, a little bit more, just
Speaker 1: like you know, up for x Min. I'm saying that's
Speaker 1: wrong with the other stuff, with something that's a little
Speaker 1: departure to where we have parties and stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: if you got you a three willing, you will come on.
Speaker 1: If you know where you got just come on. And
Speaker 1: it's gonna be more for the social club aspect of it.
Speaker 1: But one of fans give me too much for the music.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a million emails like you had them
Speaker 1: on there, you cut them off from this net. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to that. Let's let's go back to that
Speaker 1: time man. We talked about now so you would Mr
Speaker 1: Grim y'all doing y'all thing? Man? Was that before you
Speaker 1: had a deal. Was that something that y'all just independently
Speaker 1: and people started itself to it? Yeah? That that was independent?
Speaker 1: What What what happened was I was actually in a
Speaker 1: session with with Snoop and Dray That's when they was
Speaker 1: doing uhh. I think that the the Snoop Dog Dog
Speaker 1: and John singletonant and UH Paul Stewart was up there
Speaker 1: listening to reractors from drain them and snooting them to
Speaker 1: to put on the UH to put on the UH
Speaker 1: Poet of Justice soundtrack. So I was like, I told
Speaker 1: Paul Stewart. I was like, man, I got a song
Speaker 1: that that can I play for you UH to listen
Speaker 1: to that that could possibly go on the soundtrack. So
Speaker 1: I played and we went to the car, sat in
Speaker 1: the car and played Indoor Smoke. It played for like
Speaker 1: maybe thirty seconds. He said stopped and I said, what's wrong?
Speaker 1: He said, just stops? Can I Can I keep this tape?
Speaker 1: I said yeah, and he kept it. He said give
Speaker 1: me your number, and UH, so I gave my number,
Speaker 1: gave him a page a number, my number in my
Speaker 1: page dumber. So he hit me probably like maybe three
Speaker 1: or four days days later, and he was like, man,
Speaker 1: we want this to be our first single for the party,
Speaker 1: just the soundtrack. And I was like, are you serious?
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, actually, you know that that was my
Speaker 1: That was my actually my first as an artist. That
Speaker 1: was my first time ever being on wax like as
Speaker 1: a as an artist. But before that, I had UH,
Speaker 1: I worked with Pott and uh em C Breed. Uh.
Speaker 1: It was a dude named Rodney G who was managing
Speaker 1: mc breed and he had he had uh he was
Speaker 1: with he was DLC partner and so he hit me.
Speaker 1: He was like, because Doc knew I I was, I
Speaker 1: was ventious with the production. So Doc turned Rodney G
Speaker 1: on the me and Rodney G hit me like he said, warm,
Speaker 1: uh I'm doing this uh EMC breed album and and
Speaker 1: I was like, ship mc breed that I love him.
Speaker 1: C Breed. Its music is dope. So he said, I
Speaker 1: want you to do a record for him in Tupac
Speaker 1: and I had already met Tupac from when I from
Speaker 1: doing the Actually, no, this this is I'm I gotta
Speaker 1: go back. I'm going back again. So it was Pocking
Speaker 1: and uh Breed. So he's like, I need you to
Speaker 1: do this song for two packing Breed and that's when
Speaker 1: I produced the Uh you gotta get yours, I gotta
Speaker 1: get mine. You gotta get yours, I gotta get mine.
Speaker 1: And uh after that, Uh, I ended up doing Breeds
Speaker 1: whole album after that. Uh. And then from there, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know I'm rambling, y'all going to different now I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get it all in, like go back and
Speaker 1: then get back to where we will. Uh. So that
Speaker 1: that uh uh like I said that that that opened
Speaker 1: me up to uh my first production. You know that
Speaker 1: was really what some real artists was. You know, Tupac
Speaker 1: and Breed gave me a shot to do it. You know,
Speaker 1: they like set it off for me on the production
Speaker 1: tip and then you know, going back to the party justice.
Speaker 1: Uh when when I said, Paul Stewart called me, he
Speaker 1: said that, uh uh this is gonna be our first
Speaker 1: single for the poort, just the soundtrack and uh and
Speaker 1: so I was like, that's dope. So they got paid,
Speaker 1: had a little bit of money. It wasn't a whole lot. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Tupac called me. He was like, he said, uh,
Speaker 1: I'm working on this this album called Thug Life. He said,
Speaker 1: you got some beach from me. So I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, he's so. But okay, wait, wait, wait, you
Speaker 1: know what this is. Let me let me go back again,
Speaker 1: let me rewind. And I did end or spoke, but
Speaker 1: I was still I had a little bit of money.
Speaker 1: I gotta request add a little bit of money, and
Speaker 1: I was I was I was living with my sister
Speaker 1: at off my chest that I was living in my
Speaker 1: with my sister still in the apartment. I had a
Speaker 1: burgundy reriggor with the beating that motherfucker. So I'm in
Speaker 1: my sister house. I got a phone call and I'm
Speaker 1: like hello and and uh. He was like, this is Tupac.
Speaker 1: Uh I want to I want to want you to
Speaker 1: get out with me on Uh. I'm doing an album
Speaker 1: called Thug Life and I want you again. I didn't
Speaker 1: believe him, so I was like, this ain't no fucking Tupacs.
Speaker 1: So I hung up bam and he called back again
Speaker 1: and then he was like, he was like, man, this
Speaker 1: is Tupac. I'm not you know, this is Tupacs. So
Speaker 1: he said, do you got some beats? And I said,
Speaker 1: I was like, is this really too much? Like yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, I said, hell yeah, I gotta beat. So
Speaker 1: he was like, uh. He said, I'm gonna be at
Speaker 1: Echo Sound I think I think said maybe an hour
Speaker 1: or two hour. And he said, I'm texting I'm gonna
Speaker 1: paid you the uh the address. So he paid me
Speaker 1: the address. I grabbed my drummer, Schae grabbed my records room,
Speaker 1: and the trump hopped in the car. And shot straight
Speaker 1: up to uh. It was called Echo Sound uh in
Speaker 1: Los Felis. I shot up there, walked in and it
Speaker 1: was Tupac and he was like, man, you you I'm
Speaker 1: working on the thug life. He said, do you have
Speaker 1: a a song that I could that that I could
Speaker 1: do this song too? And uh So I was like,
Speaker 1: hell yeah, I got a gang of beat. So I
Speaker 1: just started playing different beats and then he was like
Speaker 1: stop hold up. So he started asking me stuff like
Speaker 1: like what's going on with you? And this and that
Speaker 1: and this? So I started we got into a whole
Speaker 1: like I started just telling me all kind of ship,
Speaker 1: how fucked up I was feeling, as far as not
Speaker 1: being able to be with Snoop and Dre and them
Speaker 1: and just something. You know. I was like, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: just hungry. Just so everything I talked to him about
Speaker 1: he said, now, where is the beat that? So when
Speaker 1: I put the beat on, it was that doooom dono
Speaker 1: boom doom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom
Speaker 1: boom boom boom. And then he just said, my definition
Speaker 1: of a theb nigga boooo boom. So he sayy he
Speaker 1: told the engineer like, I need to do the hook.
Speaker 1: I need to do He went did the hook right
Speaker 1: after he did that ship. I was like, he did that, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: And probably it was less than that. I out. I
Speaker 1: was like, what the fuck I said, This nigger went
Speaker 1: and broke this motherfucker everything we talked about. He went
Speaker 1: right in there and wrapped the ship on the fucking
Speaker 1: uh on the on the thing and it blew me away.
Speaker 1: And he was like, warning, you got something for the hook.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, all I could think about
Speaker 1: was Roxanne, Sean roxand Shan take every tears the season
Speaker 1: to be serving. Now what you're doing, my mav. And
Speaker 1: luck of motherfucker, tears the season to be serving what
Speaker 1: you're doing, my mab And luck of motherfucker, that ship
Speaker 1: was hard than a motherfucker. And uh, we were sitting
Speaker 1: in there. We were sitting in there and uh, Big
Speaker 1: Site came in there. Uh ratedar uh Mac ten and
Speaker 1: uh who else was I think it was another cat
Speaker 1: named little Site. Uh. And they had came and told
Speaker 1: Tupac that his buddy got shot at Detroit. And he
Speaker 1: immediately said, he said, warn that you got a beat
Speaker 1: another beat for me, I'm gonna do a song for
Speaker 1: a by my homeboard Detroit. So him big psyching Mac
Speaker 1: Cannon radar ar. They all wrapped on the song. So
Speaker 1: I called Nate like, Nate, I'm up here with Tupac Nigga.
Speaker 1: He wants you to come sing on the hook. They
Speaker 1: came up there, I said. He thought I was bullshit too.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know. I said, Nick, I'm
Speaker 1: in the studio with Poc Nigger. Come up. So they
Speaker 1: came up and then that's when they came up and
Speaker 1: we did that. How long were they more on me?
Speaker 1: I wish it was another I called him up there
Speaker 1: and he came and and uh laid the hook down
Speaker 1: for him. Man, it was that was you know, like
Speaker 1: all of those were like my introduction into to uh
Speaker 1: into the music, you know, to to like really being
Speaker 1: a professional and in the music, you know. And that's
Speaker 1: that's like where it started as far as me getting
Speaker 1: into the music. And then their record companies was like
Speaker 1: ship you know, those tons of it was on me.
Speaker 1: And uh So what I did was when I heard
Speaker 1: that Jeff jam was on me, I was like I
Speaker 1: had to say, wait a minute. I was like, I
Speaker 1: said the Beastie Boys. I said, run DMC bad Boys.
Speaker 1: I was just like LLL coo j Uh. I was
Speaker 1: like slick rig. I was like, I said, now, why
Speaker 1: should I deal with this company over here at this
Speaker 1: company and over there that company when I could deal
Speaker 1: with them and everybody with that company has been successful.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, ship, I'm probably up, but the motherfucker's
Speaker 1: on me. So I said, I'm gonna sunk with deav
Speaker 1: Jail because they're they're hip hop company all the way.
Speaker 1: They ain't like an epic where they got all that
Speaker 1: R and B stuff and all this jazz, and these
Speaker 1: guys are strictly hip hop. So I was like, fucking,
Speaker 1: I'm working with deaf Jams and Uh. They flew me
Speaker 1: out there, Uh me and the twins. I asked the
Speaker 1: twins to fly with me. I was like, man, y'all
Speaker 1: fly with me please, and UH got me out there.
Speaker 1: I got a call in the morning. We went to
Speaker 1: State at the embassy suite. That next morning, I got
Speaker 1: a call. It was LLL coo J was downstairs to
Speaker 1: UH and he was like, man, I want to take
Speaker 1: you through Queens. So I took one of the twins.
Speaker 1: I said man, come on, because I don't know if
Speaker 1: this motherfucker it's real. That's when that's I hope I
Speaker 1: get in trouble saying it. But that's when you could
Speaker 1: sneak a gun on the plane. And I I had
Speaker 1: it in my shoe. I got it up to the place,
Speaker 1: so I had my ship. So I'm like, funding I said,
Speaker 1: the one ain't come with me because this is the
Speaker 1: nigga some nigger downstairs talking about he LLL cool Jack.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, we get down there and it was
Speaker 1: that nigga. It was there. I was tweaking, like I
Speaker 1: can't believe l Crewe. They that fucking came and picked
Speaker 1: me up. So he took us through this neighborhood and
Speaker 1: showed us all kind of ship, took us to the mall,
Speaker 1: then took us to the house where it all started.
Speaker 1: He showed us the basement. I had never seen that
Speaker 1: many clothes and shoes in my life. He had the
Speaker 1: motherfucking light green Suzuki sidekick, the one he used and
Speaker 1: I think with Brenda got a big old but he
Speaker 1: had the same one sitting right outside. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm in heaven right now. That's how
Speaker 1: they did it. They had him come schooled me up,
Speaker 1: like to welcome me into the family. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, ship, it's all good. But then niggas, I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna lie. They showed me a lot of love
Speaker 1: out there, man, you know. But I still was like,
Speaker 1: I'm right with my funcks, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: which was death Row. I'm still righting with with death
Speaker 1: from I know. I'm on the East Coast, but I'm
Speaker 1: riding with death Row. And uh, I ain't gonna live,
Speaker 1: Swear to god, I ain't. I had landed at John
Speaker 1: Waite Airport, and I didn't way. Every time we landed
Speaker 1: Johnny White Airport. When we get in the car, first
Speaker 1: thing we do is turn on the Hot nunety seven
Speaker 1: to see what's playing on the radio. And that's when
Speaker 1: I heard, uh, when Biggie was on the air and
Speaker 1: all that. It was a bunch of niggas on the
Speaker 1: air talking about the niggas out here such such such
Speaker 1: a little video. Because I was out there, I was like,
Speaker 1: oh God, I can't believe I heard the ship. So
Speaker 1: I'm calling, like, did you hear that ship on the radio?
Speaker 1: That ship? I said, y'all niggas would be careful, man,
Speaker 1: and these niggas tripping and then that bullshit happened when
Speaker 1: they was in Brooklyn, like the ship that happened. I
Speaker 1: was like, I was out there, so I came trying
Speaker 1: to find They went to New Jersey and I came
Speaker 1: over trying to find them catch up with him in
Speaker 1: New Jersey. But by that time, everybody, you know, they
Speaker 1: it was over. When niggas getting ready to get back
Speaker 1: to the house. Yeah. Wow. So let me ask you this, man,
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Speaker 1: chronicle SENTI Yeah, at any point, did death Row kind
Speaker 1: of trip out a little bit that you went over
Speaker 1: there to death Jam. Did they try to claim you
Speaker 1: as their artists at any time? Ship Ship was mad
Speaker 1: than a motherfucker. But it's like you had the chance
Speaker 1: to sign me mad when you had the chances beign me.
Speaker 1: It's like you can't ain't get mad when you had
Speaker 1: the chance to sign me that you knew I was
Speaker 1: ride and dive with y'all right down to the max. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't think child knew what he actually had, you
Speaker 1: Snoop tuparc just with all of you guys. Man, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think he even imagined. He just knew what
Speaker 1: he really had. He had a golden Dre. I mean
Speaker 1: the way you, the way you were, the way Dre was, Uh, Snoop,
Speaker 1: he had nothing but talent. And it's like you just
Speaker 1: all squandered away everybody doing good. But man, just just
Speaker 1: where that would have took it? Do you ever think
Speaker 1: about if I was reading there, bro, it would probably
Speaker 1: would have been different Ship. I don't mean I don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean, uh, it probably would have been. It probably
Speaker 1: would have been I'm pretty sure it would have been cold,
Speaker 1: you know, everything would have been good. But I don't
Speaker 1: know if I probably would have blew up as big
Speaker 1: as I did being over there with dev Jam. But
Speaker 1: what I did do is I came back to Shig
Speaker 1: and Dre and I said, I got this song right here.
Speaker 1: Can I get this on the soundtrack which was above
Speaker 1: the RAM, which was regulated, which was the biggest recorded.
Speaker 1: So the whole soundtrack made that's almost three million records,
Speaker 1: and then I took the same re released it on
Speaker 1: my for my solo album, and then it made my
Speaker 1: record saill four million and almost twelve worldwide. So if
Speaker 1: I saw I came, I came back and I gave
Speaker 1: that gift back for you know, for my you know,
Speaker 1: not not really a gift, but just showing like y'all
Speaker 1: still my niggas like bamn, yere gon regulate take that
Speaker 1: on the side. And I ain't ship they did. I
Speaker 1: get broke off of that le or and should probably
Speaker 1: had that they you know, exchange some type of bread.
Speaker 1: I didn't get a lot. I know that time man,
Speaker 1: so so so so let me ask you warn you're
Speaker 1: going through this whole thing, man with death jam down everything,
Speaker 1: and then you start to label because I noticed you
Speaker 1: was the first one really to kick your label off
Speaker 1: the ground. You were second. Got the Twins, Twins and
Speaker 1: everybody else man all that transpo. Uh, I just they
Speaker 1: was down with me and and just just I knew
Speaker 1: that I knew they had talent. So I was like, shit,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm starting to make a name for myself, so
Speaker 1: I want to help everybody else try to get their
Speaker 1: name going. The Twins made, they made, They did their thing.
Speaker 1: They was they was, they were, they was, they was.
Speaker 1: They were doing their thing. The five footage they was dope.
Speaker 1: I mean everybody I worked through it was dope. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, they all got a chance to do their thing. Man,
Speaker 1: Twins that ship to Gold Record, Yeah they were they
Speaker 1: they ship they were just the file for this was dope.
Speaker 1: But they were just just couldn't we couldn't get get him.
Speaker 1: They all agree with each other, you know, so that
Speaker 1: that kind of got crazy. But they're still my girls too.
Speaker 1: They dog um. I mean it was just I just
Speaker 1: took care of everybody. They made a lot of money,
Speaker 1: Like without even having a record out. I took him
Speaker 1: on tour with me and everybody made money. Like I
Speaker 1: was giving them, you know, made sure they was good.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Let me ask you this
Speaker 1: one because I had this the big question everybody wanted
Speaker 1: them all that. You know what I'm about to ask you, right,
Speaker 1: it was howcome how come you and Snoop things never
Speaker 1: did in the record? Man? We did the two one
Speaker 1: three record. Yeah, look at the two one three regular.
Speaker 1: But I'm talking about hardcome Warren and Snoop thing never
Speaker 1: said down. You know what I'm saying. Warren the two
Speaker 1: one three record, that's your group record. I'm seeing on
Speaker 1: all them albums that he had haw Com and Warren
Speaker 1: and Snoop ain't never said in just with a warrenge
Speaker 1: banger ship. I can't call it still. I mean, you
Speaker 1: gotta ask Snoop that one, because i mean, I'm always
Speaker 1: I've always been there, you know, for musically and you
Speaker 1: know whatever, you know, But that's it's that's something you
Speaker 1: probably gotta ask him. I'm I'm always down to get
Speaker 1: out with whoever. You know, it don't matter to meybe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: nickcause because you've been busy. Man again, Um, I looked
Speaker 1: up and you come with this single with young Jeezy Man.
Speaker 1: How did you look up with you. I heard that
Speaker 1: was like this ship hard. It's a motherfucker right. There
Speaker 1: was a different song than what do you normally? Yeah,
Speaker 1: one of one of my buddies. Uh, that's that's that's
Speaker 1: locked up out there. And Georgia was was in jail
Speaker 1: with one of his buddies. Uh actually this name scrapped.
Speaker 1: That one of Jesus type buddies name scrapped. He was,
Speaker 1: he was, well, he was locked up with another dude
Speaker 1: that that I know from Atlanta, and uh, well that's
Speaker 1: from here. But when jail and Atlanta forever, he ain't
Speaker 1: never getting there and uh but I hope he do.
Speaker 1: But uh they he tapped in with Jesus people, uh
Speaker 1: and told and tapped in with what another one of
Speaker 1: my buddies. And he calls me, He like, nigga, Jess
Speaker 1: wants you to bring some beach down to the video shoot.
Speaker 1: I was. I was like, man, I'm not getting ready
Speaker 1: to funk with this nigga. I don't even know. I
Speaker 1: was like shot. I just did. I wasn't I didn't
Speaker 1: have like I wasn't like motivated to really do a lot.
Speaker 1: I was just I don't know. I was just in
Speaker 1: a different space. I was just tripping a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I said, fuck it all right, let me go ahead.
Speaker 1: So I paddled up about maybe ten or fifteen tracks
Speaker 1: went up there. Uh, he had had he was sitting
Speaker 1: in his Bentley. So I went jumped into Bentley with
Speaker 1: him to start playing tracks. And he was just like,
Speaker 1: I want this track. I'm on this track, this track,
Speaker 1: and this track. He picked like about five of and
Speaker 1: uh ship out. He said, I'm gonna hit you when
Speaker 1: I do a record. Uh. So he hit me probably
Speaker 1: like about maybe maybe three maybe three weeks after that. Uh,
Speaker 1: he called me screaming, whoam we gonna hit nig up?
Speaker 1: We gotta hit like just we gotta hit nig up,
Speaker 1: something like, what's going on? Man? What's going on? He said,
Speaker 1: think of that song you gave me that, so hit
Speaker 1: nig up. That's gonna be my first single. So I
Speaker 1: was like, is that right? I was like, congratulations man,
Speaker 1: and Kevin lows on all of them. They was congratulating
Speaker 1: me on giving him a great single with Neo and
Speaker 1: uh and uh that's how that record went. That was
Speaker 1: that was his biggest single ever, even even though he
Speaker 1: did that My President is Black, the one that the
Speaker 1: Leave You Alone is the biggest record he ever had,
Speaker 1: you know, So that that was it felt pretty good
Speaker 1: just to get back, get back in there and and
Speaker 1: and give a younger artist some music. And it's still
Speaker 1: be just as dope. Like any of these young artists
Speaker 1: right now. I guarantee you they get up under any
Speaker 1: of my ship, that ship is gonna change. I ain't
Speaker 1: just saying this ship because you know, just to trying
Speaker 1: to pump myself up and you know, but I really
Speaker 1: make dope music and I would love to hear some
Speaker 1: of these younger artists. Actually it's a cat out of Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I did some records with Name Block. He pretty dope.
Speaker 1: Uh that nigga, that nigga that he fused with Rick Ross,
Speaker 1: that them niggas is that nigga's gonna be hard? I
Speaker 1: shot him some bangers. M hmmm, No, that's what That's
Speaker 1: what I wanted to ask you two one you probably
Speaker 1: man is one of the most prolific producers on the
Speaker 1: West Coast. And you gotta and you know you can't
Speaker 1: say that the originator of the g funk South Well,
Speaker 1: I was turned down to the love the sound, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well my sound. Yeah that de funk Era, but I
Speaker 1: was turned down to to uh the G funk by
Speaker 1: seven and UH one eight seven and uh uh lay
Speaker 1: Law CAMG one a seven cam g lay Law and
Speaker 1: go Mat and tokay. Yeah. Yeah, they took me and
Speaker 1: they took me under their wings back in the n
Speaker 1: w A days. Um they was working with Drake in
Speaker 1: the n w A And Man, I used to go up,
Speaker 1: you know, just to go sitting around at the studio
Speaker 1: just too. This was that I knew she was way
Speaker 1: back in. I wasn't number like sixteen fifteen, sixteen years
Speaker 1: oh and uh I used to go up to the
Speaker 1: studio with them, and uh we kind of just clicked,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. They used to I used
Speaker 1: to be clowning a lot, talking ship just niggas laughing
Speaker 1: and ship. So we just we clicked. And I was
Speaker 1: kind of like in a situation where I was pretty
Speaker 1: much homeless, and UH one eighty seven then took me in.
Speaker 1: So I went and stayed with them up in Colton,
Speaker 1: and uh, I lived with them, you know, for ship
Speaker 1: for a while. Maybe I don't think it was a year,
Speaker 1: but I lived with them for a while. And you
Speaker 1: know that G Funk was I was became a part
Speaker 1: of it because that was they that's what they started.
Speaker 1: They started to g funk, But I I started the
Speaker 1: g funk error. That's me, you know, as far as
Speaker 1: my sound. But it's a it's a it's a branch,
Speaker 1: you know, part of of the of the stamp at
Speaker 1: one age seven and put down. Yeah, but I'm just
Speaker 1: a branch of it. But I made it into I
Speaker 1: made it international. Yeah right. Yeah, that's a whole lot
Speaker 1: of history right there, man. And we definitely man need
Speaker 1: to have more Warren g in the stratosphere, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's all good. I gotta I got
Speaker 1: a record with Todd Dollarson and I'm I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: loose pretty soon, right when this as soon as things
Speaker 1: kind of died down a little bit and people able
Speaker 1: to move around, I'm gonna drop this record I got
Speaker 1: with Todd Dallason. That's dope. Yeah man, It's like this coronavirus.
Speaker 1: I know a whole bunch of yeahld not. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of cats out they're trying to get into
Speaker 1: the game. You putting the work with new artists, I mean,
Speaker 1: new guys trying to get in the game. Yeah, they understand,
Speaker 1: you know, if they okay, If they don't, how do
Speaker 1: how do I so? How do I lick up with
Speaker 1: you to hook so you can hear their music? Ord
Speaker 1: if if if you know, you say they dope and not,
Speaker 1: how do I get them to you? Uh? Well, I
Speaker 1: give you my my cell phone and then they can.
Speaker 1: Also you can also have them send it, you know,
Speaker 1: just send a sniff. They ain't even got to send
Speaker 1: or a lot or send me their YouTube so I
Speaker 1: can check out their YouTube. But to defund music partnerships, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's on my It's on my profile on my Instagram.
Speaker 1: De fund music Partnership Partnerships at gmail dot com. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh they can. They can send music of music
Speaker 1: you're looking for. Uh, whatever you're looking for. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm whatever it is, dope, whatever's dope, I'm down with it.
Speaker 1: You know, it don't matter what it is, somebody on
Speaker 1: the guitar singing, whatever it is. As long as it's
Speaker 1: dope and it could it'll work. Yeah, That's what I
Speaker 1: love to do. I love to work with different genres,
Speaker 1: even the hip hop. It don't matter what it is.
Speaker 1: I'm down with working with anybody. Yeah, I'm a big
Speaker 1: Jameric uid fan from up side of the UK, and
Speaker 1: he's a he's a different type of guy, you white dude,
Speaker 1: but heat that motheruck got so y'all should check him
Speaker 1: out if you haven't already Jameric kua. But he's a yeah,
Speaker 1: Jameric quais vicious. I ain't gonna lie. It sounds space
Speaker 1: cowboy and all that ship. Oh my god, that ship
Speaker 1: as dope as fun. He wanted the dopest motherfucker's like
Speaker 1: from out that out there, from out the UK, like
Speaker 1: he's he's demand from out there. Man, I don't sample
Speaker 1: some Shameric WHI rides, yeah, jamericalized out he's real crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm a gate man. I'm you know, I'll be on
Speaker 1: some what other ship like I was digging in all
Speaker 1: types of genres and I'm you know, I'm just a
Speaker 1: nerd just staying out the way and you know, down
Speaker 1: the help motherfucker's when I can. Yes, Hey, you you
Speaker 1: being the guys, being one of the guys that's kind
Speaker 1: of liking the um an architect of the song from
Speaker 1: out here? Man, what do you think the biggest problem
Speaker 1: me of today? Man? But now I ain't gonna say
Speaker 1: a problem because I don't want to be one of
Speaker 1: the older cats to say everything today is wet, But
Speaker 1: I hear a lot of stuff that's done wrong and incorrect.
Speaker 1: Do you think, man, we need to start mentoring these
Speaker 1: young guys more out here. Man. As far as musical,
Speaker 1: most definitely, most definitely up. Uh. Like Mustard, he he
Speaker 1: stepped his game up. You know, he used to be
Speaker 1: one of those producers that wouldn't use just use just
Speaker 1: the same sound without but he stepped his game up
Speaker 1: and stuff. As he grew, he started getting more instrumental
Speaker 1: to start, you know, really like making the ship really dope,
Speaker 1: you know, not that the other ship was whacked, but
Speaker 1: he just he grew, you know, And and that's how
Speaker 1: it happens. You know. I was at I was at
Speaker 1: a certain stage and I grew, you know, so he
Speaker 1: he grew up. And but we definitely gottah uh, you know,
Speaker 1: spit some knowledge to the younger youth. Uh. And I
Speaker 1: mean I ain't trying to be like the type of
Speaker 1: motherfucker that that Uh. That's that's like preaching and ship
Speaker 1: because I like to have fun too, you know, I Man,
Speaker 1: I don't get me wrong, but every song that that
Speaker 1: a lot of the young artist is doing the day
Speaker 1: it's just about stripping, talking about how much dope they
Speaker 1: sell them, the trap and this, that and this. But
Speaker 1: it's I understand that you some of you guys may
Speaker 1: have may be going through that, but we I went
Speaker 1: through the same ship that they're going through worse way,
Speaker 1: worse than that. And uh and I chose to to not.
Speaker 1: I mean, I talk about certain things and my songs,
Speaker 1: but I give a story, but I make it feel good.
Speaker 1: At the same time, A lot of these dudes just
Speaker 1: that's all they talk about, because I understand that's all
Speaker 1: you know, but try to be different from be different
Speaker 1: from that, talk about it, but do it in a
Speaker 1: different way and not just just wow. I mean, and
Speaker 1: it's it's what the ladies to them. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: down with the younger artists. I'm down with the young ladies.
Speaker 1: But these motherfucker's showing all this asks like everywhere. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's that's all you see, is just asks everywhere. When
Speaker 1: one of them motherfucker's take the decision two do one
Speaker 1: record where they ain't on that ship shaking their ass
Speaker 1: and you know, doing a strip show for motherfucker's and
Speaker 1: they just do maybe like a slight empowerment record for
Speaker 1: the ladies. That motherfucker's gonna change the game, you know,
Speaker 1: because then they started putting that show. So you don't
Speaker 1: have to be huh, So you don't have to be it.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be a gangster to make music,
Speaker 1: not because everybody think are under the inception, not at all.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's why I'm trying to say, because everybody
Speaker 1: don't have to be that thug, but everybody want to
Speaker 1: portray the thug because they think that's what sales. And
Speaker 1: you don't have but nine nine gangsters, Uh, everybody gravitate
Speaker 1: to it because they, like you said, but you just said,
Speaker 1: it's like you don't have to be a gamester. But
Speaker 1: if those other people that that make that get big
Speaker 1: and they went through the same they they've been through
Speaker 1: that even though they're not a gangster, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like they they they can relate to it,
Speaker 1: but they ain't banging. But we can relate to because
Speaker 1: I've been through that. You know, I don't know bang,
Speaker 1: but but they love it. I it's it's I'm trying
Speaker 1: to explain this ship, James, but it's it's uh, but
Speaker 1: they it's this they it's just being dope and being
Speaker 1: different because everybody meant, whether you're a gang banger or not,
Speaker 1: you go through the same ship like you know, motherfucker
Speaker 1: go through fights being bullied. Uh, your homeboys, you probably
Speaker 1: got homeboys. They gang banger. You don't gang bang, but
Speaker 1: you're gonna go through the ship that they're going through
Speaker 1: because you hang with them, you know. So it's it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's you know, so they you
Speaker 1: know it's but it's it's uh, it's it's artists that
Speaker 1: that's huge. That's not gangsters. You know that. They ain't gangs.
Speaker 1: You could, you could, you could do ship with that.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think little baby, I don't think
Speaker 1: he had gang bang. I think he just just a
Speaker 1: nigger that just wrapped from North Carolina, you know, but
Speaker 1: he just he just got a little bit of Doug
Speaker 1: in it. He got a hold of you got a
Speaker 1: whole lot of dog like. I don't game bag, I
Speaker 1: don't gag bag shift, I don't I tell all the things.
Speaker 1: I don't gang bang ship, but they're gonna put me
Speaker 1: in the category because I'm from Loby but I was
Speaker 1: born and raised around this ship. So evidently people don't
Speaker 1: be like all right, but I don't gain bang. I'll
Speaker 1: tell all them niggas, I don't gang bag. They know
Speaker 1: what ship. So don't come to me with that bullshit
Speaker 1: talking about this good day ship and that I don't
Speaker 1: gang bag. And I'm not getting ready to gang to
Speaker 1: gang I not. I don't do that. So cool, y'all
Speaker 1: know me as a little warm with the glasses with
Speaker 1: the tape on. You know, I used to box Brucey.
Speaker 1: Me and Brucey used to box every day. You're a
Speaker 1: big brucer prints and his brother printis dre be right
Speaker 1: there in printis be right to me and Brucy and
Speaker 1: in uh stake leaping leapings though. Yeah, if we all
Speaker 1: used to box every up street. But big Bruce is
Speaker 1: my homeboy, man, Yeah, that's my dog. I'm telling me
Speaker 1: if Brucey grew up together. We lived on the same street.
Speaker 1: That's great in Compton for a while. I stayed and
Speaker 1: my mama sent me to Campton. She said, get up
Speaker 1: out of here because you're not getting ready to get
Speaker 1: caught up in this game bang ship. Because my susters
Speaker 1: all of the know they were gang banging, but they
Speaker 1: have niggas all at my mama's house and ship, and
Speaker 1: they were niggas were trying to trying to put me,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get me in. But I knew
Speaker 1: all the niggas. But she said, then you go on
Speaker 1: the Compton and go live with your daddy. So I
Speaker 1: shot up to Compton, and uh, it was a little different,
Speaker 1: you know. It was it was it was this ship.
Speaker 1: I got up there and and ship it was the
Speaker 1: same ship. I used to have to fight all the nigga. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I was from Globe, so they was it was
Speaker 1: on my head, you know. And right it used to
Speaker 1: call me kils and fits hey getting Kibl's and I'm like,
Speaker 1: let's go. That's crazy, man. So yeah, because yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: me and Big Bruces to have a youth football program together. James, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Big Bruce recipe Yester dave Man. When when Bruce was
Speaker 1: a with with Philadelphia, I was on tour and then
Speaker 1: niggas didn't believe that we was dogs. When I got
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia to a party at the club, I had
Speaker 1: Brucey bring all the niggas up in that motherfucker. That's
Speaker 1: the left of Yeah, this is my home boy. He
Speaker 1: ain't lying to y'all. Let's go. We partied in that
Speaker 1: motherfuck yeah, Big Bruce love the party man, Big Bruce,
Speaker 1: Big Bruce drinking hole fifth or something man, straight up. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And James. I don't know too many people. Yeah, yeah, Terry,
Speaker 1: that's the Charil and daddy Terry. Yeah, Bruce and Terry
Speaker 1: was tight. I used to go over there and uh
Speaker 1: in the North Offer sixty seven when they used to
Speaker 1: do the little backyard buggies over there, Terry and and
Speaker 1: Teryl and his dad and and Brucey and that one
Speaker 1: boxing dude I forgot his name is kind of big dude,
Speaker 1: kind of box Jake. Um, that's the homeboy. Damn trip man,
Speaker 1: Big old mother Goldie is my right. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the homy right there. Man. Yeah, we used to guy,
Speaker 1: I used to go back there and kicking with the
Speaker 1: but we used to blaze and just chill. They're playing pool.
Speaker 1: That was code. Yeah, the time was yeah, yeah, there
Speaker 1: was the days. Man. Well, man, I know don't too
Speaker 1: many people, man, So I really take this as a
Speaker 1: privilege and honor because it ain't too many people that
Speaker 1: can say they've got a warrngey interview, cause you don't
Speaker 1: do a whole bunch of the well now, I don't
Speaker 1: do a lot, but ship. We're gonna do a in
Speaker 1: studio one to ship. Yeah, we we got we we
Speaker 1: we we gotta get it in the studio one mask
Speaker 1: ball to things. I said, Man, this Corona ship is
Speaker 1: just sucking up every damn thing. But you know where
Speaker 1: Thank God for technology and everything. Man, And this one
Speaker 1: man was so informative because I think we got some
Speaker 1: stuff with the James ain't nobody ever heard before? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I ain't never heard it. So you got what everybody
Speaker 1: is listening to the show folk. Man, I appreciate you
Speaker 1: like I appreciate you like motherfucker. That's all good man.
Speaker 1: And like like I read, soon as we get out,
Speaker 1: as soon as we get off this stuff whatever they
Speaker 1: got us. So man, I'm I'm a barbecue. Come up.
Speaker 1: We can have a have a drink if you drink
Speaker 1: a book blaze or whatever. It's all good man. Yeah
Speaker 1: I never smoked no weed, but I have a drink
Speaker 1: with you. Yeah yeah that so I can't do that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, Um, we appreciate you. Every everybody out there.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you and thanks mad man, shoot all over and
Speaker 1: sitting dumb. We come and shoot at the table and
Speaker 1: chop it up and yes and day, keep it going man,
Speaker 1: and we appreciate ain't you. Man. Y'all know you got
Speaker 1: to busy over there, so we're gonna let you get
Speaker 1: back to your day. And I'm about to do brisket. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna take me about about seventeen hours, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, keep up the good work man. And and
Speaker 1: it's really good to see your podcast is really dope, man.
Speaker 1: And uh you're doing your thing man, and keep doing
Speaker 1: good work man, and it's paying off. And and you know,
Speaker 1: I can't do nothing but support, so that's why I'm
Speaker 1: on here. I'm down