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Speaker 1: Welcome to All the Smoke, a production of The Black

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Speaker 1: Effect and our Heart Radio in partnership with Showtime. M H.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of All the Smoke. It's

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Speaker 1: been a good little l a trip. Jack. Yeah, we've

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Speaker 1: been working in the asshole, but that's what we do.

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Speaker 1: You fitted today, tell me they can't get that ship

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Speaker 1: at all the Smoke Dot Store. Of course, I didn't

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Speaker 1: know a couple of weeks ago, but I've been looking

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Speaker 1: so good and the ship, I gotta tell you. Gotta know, man,

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Speaker 1: we got a good one today. Man to me, someone

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Speaker 1: I've been working with since early early Yeah, man to me,

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Speaker 1: one of the best in the game, no pun intended.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show game. Appreciate you pulling up on

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Speaker 1: us us. Uh Man, what's going on with you? We

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Speaker 1: heard the album's coming soon. How's life right now? Um Man?

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Speaker 1: You know if I feel, I feel like if I

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Speaker 1: wake up man in life is good. You know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying this? Really, if you wake up and your

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Speaker 1: kids is good, and you know you can with your

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Speaker 1: toes and fingers, you shouldn't have much to complain about.

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Speaker 1: How are the kids? I know you put the kids first,

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Speaker 1: So how are they doing. Yeah, I don't nobody need

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Speaker 1: help with nothing. That's all I'm hearing is I got it,

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Speaker 1: I got it right. And it's like, yeah, once you

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Speaker 1: get them to that point, you can kind of, you know,

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Speaker 1: dive back into you know, living your own life. Harlem

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Speaker 1: is at Oregon um hoping and uh he almost nineteen.

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Speaker 1: That's the baby on the documentary, which is crazy because

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Speaker 1: time just be out of here, you know. I'm so

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Speaker 1: I can remember really trying to get him, trying to

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Speaker 1: trying to get him to stop crying on the album

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Speaker 1: cover so we can get my photo. Now he doing

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Speaker 1: this thing up in Oregon, man, and then uh my

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Speaker 1: my middle something by the turn fifteen on Saturday. And

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Speaker 1: then Callie is everybody Mama, she eleven, She's the boss

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Speaker 1: five eight though, so it's like, you know, yeah, uh

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Speaker 1: album coming, Drillmatic tells us about that, who's on it,

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Speaker 1: who helped produce it? Into dropping Drillmatic. What I can

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Speaker 1: say about is, uh, this is like, uh really really

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Speaker 1: me and rare forms it's probably my it's not even

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Speaker 1: probably it's my best album to date. I know that's

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Speaker 1: you know, when I tell people that, saying yeah, it

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Speaker 1: is ain't a lot um. But you know, I've been

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Speaker 1: with myself my whole career, and I know, uh, I

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Speaker 1: know when I'm pushing, when I pushed myself to certain limits,

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Speaker 1: what I'm what I'm gonna be able to accomplish. So

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Speaker 1: this album is definitely definitely the best best album of

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Speaker 1: my career and definitely gonna be the best best hip

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Speaker 1: hop album this year. Who who'd you get to work with?

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Speaker 1: Who helped produce producing it? Straight? It's hit boy um

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Speaker 1: off off rep Hip and boy majority is hit Boy,

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Speaker 1: my dog Big Duke, and then uh, this kid Davon,

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Speaker 1: who is amazing, came in the fourth quarter. You know,

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Speaker 1: I got the Timerlins and Swiss beats and you know,

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Speaker 1: just blaze um in there. But yeah, it's just work

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Speaker 1: you know, the guys you build a chemistry with. It's

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Speaker 1: sort of like that Premo Nas moment. You know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, when you when you're working with people you're

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Speaker 1: comfortable with. It ain't nobody from the West Coast that

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Speaker 1: go hard on the jet Blade you belong with. Yeah everything. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's why I had to make sure I gotta you know,

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Speaker 1: I got one from Josh Blade, Sir going and raised

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Speaker 1: in competent in nineteen eighties. You said you don't even

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Speaker 1: like to talk about your past because it was so

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Speaker 1: messed up, you know what saying? You want to talk

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Speaker 1: about the future for your kids. Explain that to me. Um,

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Speaker 1: I just feel like, you know, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: past situations. I think, uh, um, when you think about

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, You get you can, it's easily for you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's easy for you to dive back into

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Speaker 1: those emotions too, and then to pull yourself back out

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Speaker 1: present day can be a little bit more difficult, you

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Speaker 1: Like getting shot. That's starting to be like a fad

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Speaker 1: of memory, you know what I'm saying. Like, really, you

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Speaker 1: What I see and you know, don't know, you know,

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Speaker 1: so focused on like tomorrow that I can't even like

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Speaker 1: able to really relate to people that they've really been

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Speaker 1: through nothing. You know what I'm saying, You go through

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Speaker 1: so much in the past to give what we are

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Speaker 1: now is like Mann, what happened back then? Like I'm

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Speaker 1: hurtful moments. You know what what I'm saying, the things that

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Speaker 1: you know facts. What's your favorite part of being a father?

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Speaker 1: I think just that that aspect. I think that, uh,

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Speaker 1: having people that you created, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: Like you like we we don't even give ourselves as

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Speaker 1: much praise, you know, as we should, Like you're creating

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Speaker 1: humans like that, Like you know, you've got people out here.

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Speaker 1: You know they you know, working factories. They're creating trucks.

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Speaker 1: You've got people creating computers, micro shop were creating people

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Speaker 1: that create things. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: mothers be hot when they come out looking just like you.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, man, Um, the best part of being being

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Speaker 1: I've been through that, you know what I'm saying, Like,

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Speaker 1: You were known for hooping back in your day, probably

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Speaker 1: one of the best rapping basketball players. Uh. Talk to

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Speaker 1: people how you fell in love with basketball? The young age? Um? Basketball,

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Speaker 1: James Worthy and all of them. Uh, Michael Thompson, Michael Cooper,

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Speaker 1: two hand niggers. You know what I'm saying. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: but but we but we was out there, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But all love and all praise due

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Speaker 1: to my grandmother Rest in piece. She would always take

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Speaker 1: to it was sort of a three sixty moment. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: who is you know, you know what it is? Man?

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Speaker 1: Like who your hoop dreams? Man? Um that outlet being

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Speaker 1: and Serena's playing tennis, but not knowing you know, we're

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Speaker 1: going parallel universes. It's crazy. So it's like the King

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Speaker 1: Richard movie. I could have damned there have been mad

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Speaker 1: there man, and like he really caught some some hard days,

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Speaker 1: some hard times, really trying to get his daughters through.

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Speaker 1: But we was all trying to make it out, you

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Speaker 1: all come of the same age. Right. Yeah, Since you

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Speaker 1: spoke on the Lakers, Uh, you know that's the team

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Speaker 1: you have to live if you're from here, if you're

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Speaker 1: in charge, they say, I want you to run this franchise.

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Speaker 1: They don't have no significant draft picks this year, no

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Speaker 1: real cap space. How you fix the Lakers? Um? How

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Speaker 1: you fix the Lakers? She um? I would damn you

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Speaker 1: listen to trades for I listened to No, I don't

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Speaker 1: I keep Lebrian, I dump everybody everybody. Yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: read I keep Monk, I keep on, I keep on

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Speaker 1: and look and all those my guys. You know de Howard,

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Speaker 1: know what that man? You need? Yeah, you got you

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Speaker 1: need role players. Man, it's only one ball. We're talking Westbrook, Carmelo,

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Speaker 1: just one of those guys. He was like that in Charlotte,

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Speaker 1: similar hoops scene. Who is some of the dudes you

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Speaker 1: and uh, we don't know two guys, one of them here,

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Speaker 1: one of them not beatty, was so fear Beatty was

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Speaker 1: and Beaty did a lot of like street hooping too,

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Speaker 1: Beattie was. It was fair because even though he played

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Speaker 1: I had hot like I had dumb bunnies, right, dumb hops.

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Speaker 1: I told my brother name, I'm going to the Bay.

423
00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:35,719
Speaker 1: So I went up to the Bay and I end

424
00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:37,879
Speaker 1: up staying out there for a month recording my whole demo.

425
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,480
Speaker 1: And because I was so fresh to hip hop and

426
00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,080
Speaker 1: in the recording process, when I wrote my wraps, I

427
00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know like wrap format, so I

428
00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,680
Speaker 1: didn't know you had a sixteen bar verse or twelve

429
00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:50,360
Speaker 1: bar verse and then you have an eight bar hook.

430
00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,040
Speaker 1: I didn't know any of that. So all my ship

431
00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,000
Speaker 1: was freestyles. But I'm from Compton, So when I was

432
00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:58,199
Speaker 1: doing my uh, when I was recording them, niggas was

433
00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,080
Speaker 1: thinking like I was on some New York freest that

434
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,359
Speaker 1: I just didn't know when to stop. So all my

435
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,800
Speaker 1: ship on my demo just sound like a bunch of freestyles.

436
00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,600
Speaker 1: So that you know, that's how I end up getting

437
00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,119
Speaker 1: signed because niggas is like, who is this nigga from

438
00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,840
Speaker 1: Compton's freestyle and like you from New York and really

439
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,399
Speaker 1: I just didn't know soon for Matt, So nigga's niggas

440
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 1: had to tell me like, all right, that's like five minutes,

441
00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,480
Speaker 1: like you're good, because I would just keep rapping until

442
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,680
Speaker 1: I felt like it, you know, like I'm out of

443
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,399
Speaker 1: breath of something. So that ship ultimately end up getting

444
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,919
Speaker 1: me a deal with DRE and uh yeah, how was it?

445
00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,400
Speaker 1: You can't just say gotta deal with how I want

446
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,320
Speaker 1: to hear? How that? So yeah, so basically I came

447
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:38,480
Speaker 1: back with my demo and um, I end up meeting uh,

448
00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 1: you know d you know d Mac. I end up

449
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,160
Speaker 1: in d Mac and Cato and they had some connections

450
00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,119
Speaker 1: with you know, so with Puff. So I went around

451
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,800
Speaker 1: with Puff for a minute and this nigga Puff never

452
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 1: let me get in the studio. All we did was party, nigga.

453
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 1: And I'm like, Nigga, I really want to be a rapper,

454
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,399
Speaker 1: nig Like we just partying. He was like here, here,

455
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 1: here go another bottle of cheff. Hain't playboy, and you

456
00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,680
Speaker 1: know some bitches over there and me and Mario wan Is,

457
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,720
Speaker 1: you know, traveling with Puff and and Loom back in

458
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 1: the day, and I never got in the studio. So

459
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: one day Puff came over the idea. He was like,

460
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,199
Speaker 1: after all this party and for a whole year, this

461
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,840
Speaker 1: nigga was, you know what Playboy, you should go see

462
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,119
Speaker 1: Dr Dre And I was like, I don't know how

463
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: to do that. But d Mac was like, you know,

464
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 1: I know somebody and then um uh, Mike Lynn, who

465
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,680
Speaker 1: was Dr Dre's homie, ended up coming to Cedar Block

466
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,040
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, like asking who was game. And

467
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 1: the first time he came, we pulled guns out on

468
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,119
Speaker 1: him and because we didn't know, like nigga came on

469
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 1: the block, somebody like I'm looking for a game Dr

470
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 1: Drey Simmon, So we didn't believe him, so we pulled

471
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 1: guns and run him off the block. Second time he

472
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,040
Speaker 1: came back and he was like, you know what Dre

473
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 1: told me, come back and get the game. And you know,

474
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,359
Speaker 1: if I die over here, I gotta die, but come

475
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,639
Speaker 1: back with the game. So I told I told my

476
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 1: brother body. He was like, well, let's go. So we

477
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:48,760
Speaker 1: went up to Aftermath and uh, when I walked in,

478
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:55,360
Speaker 1: um I had seen Snoop again. Yeah, yeah, be a dog.

479
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,720
Speaker 1: We shocked up him and Nate Dog was smoking in

480
00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 1: the kitchen. Uh you know, God rested. So Buster was there.

481
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 1: I saw Eve that night. Rock Him was there actually

482
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 1: rapping on the end of like right into the end

483
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,159
Speaker 1: of the the club beat Crazy. So it's like before fifty

484
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 1: had in the club, Rock Him had in the club.

485
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,480
Speaker 1: And so when I walked in the opened the door,

486
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 1: that ship was just like, you know, it was that

487
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 1: moment because it's like Dr Dreyson right there and gang

488
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 1: of itches all over the studio and women for the

489
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,199
Speaker 1: groups out there are gonna try to say cancel, you know,

490
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 1: but yeah, gang women in the studio and Drey turned

491
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:30,400
Speaker 1: down the music and he was just like you game.

492
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I just finished whipping up, cracking everything.

493
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 1: My T shirt was, my neck was drunk and definitely

494
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 1: was opposite of what Ray Young had on that one

495
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 1: day when there. But I walked in and he was

496
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 1: like welcome aftermath, and I was like, damn, yeah, I

497
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: feel good. So I went out. I walked out and

498
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,440
Speaker 1: I freestyle with busting rhymes and that ship was like

499
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 1: the one of the highlights of my career. And then

500
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 1: after that it was on explain when you're getting on

501
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,439
Speaker 1: so what years this when you're getting on this is

502
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 1: two thousand and two. What's the rap scene because you

503
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 1: you went after Yeah, it ain't no rap scene. It's uh.

504
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 1: I think Kanye just had a car accident and he

505
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,479
Speaker 1: was getting signed. I think I came in right when

506
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 1: Kanye was like getting his Rocketfeller chain on it on

507
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,359
Speaker 1: the stage and Through the Wire. I think Through the

508
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,160
Speaker 1: Wire was just coming out. UM fifty had mixed tapes out,

509
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: but the album wasn't done. Um the rap scene ship,

510
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: it might have bet the hottest nigger might have been

511
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: Nelly and Cheney no cat like, it might have just

512
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: been them. I know Rick Ross was coming in Miami,

513
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,680
Speaker 1: but he was still young. Jeezy Jez was the Magic

514
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 1: City and the strip clubs in the Atlanta getting his rotation.

515
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 1: Because I was out there with d Mac and Big

516
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: meach and and Baby Blue and all those niggers running

517
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 1: around with bmf UM and so yeah, the the rap

518
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 1: scene was real. Little Johnnish and little and and and

519
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,880
Speaker 1: Chingy Changy was And when I say Chaney nig don't

520
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 1: even I'm not. I don't say that. I ain't even

521
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 1: talking about the units. I'm talking what we are all

522
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 1: doing for had bit ship Yo, Cheney Nigger. You see

523
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,400
Speaker 1: Chengy coming b. I remember being in the Beverly Center

524
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 1: one time with Cheney Nigger. They was running chasing the

525
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 1: nigga through them all like it was crazy chinky. So

526
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: yeah man, so yeah man. The rapt scene as far

527
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,719
Speaker 1: as the West Coast, it wasn't nobody. It was Snoop

528
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,919
Speaker 1: and Dre, but there was iconic already at that moment,

529
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: and so it was wide opened. So it hadn't been

530
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: uh ship since really since Pok died, you know what

531
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It wasn't nobody like no freshman, so it

532
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: was it was wide open for him. The documentary it's

533
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 1: how did your life change? After that? I could remember

534
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 1: I had a shootout in the hood with some uh

535
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 1: with some with some Mexicans, um, and we had to

536
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,640
Speaker 1: shootouts on the same day as the documentary drop, which

537
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: is crazy. So I went to my album release party

538
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,119
Speaker 1: with my windows shout out my Range Roverer crazy and

539
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,200
Speaker 1: you know it's crazy. B d Um B d Co

540
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: signed for my first Range because I ain't no credit.

541
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 1: BD went down to the Range Roller. He took me

542
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: down to the Range Rover dealership and you know, I

543
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 1: took the money and he put half with me and

544
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, you deserve it. And then then and

545
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: we left with two range Rovers. So yeah, and then

546
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: I got the windows knocked out of mind and Beatty

547
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: went back to doing what he do. But yeah, so

548
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 1: I drove to Hollywood with no front window. Hello wind

549
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,400
Speaker 1: coming through the tor released party to the album released party,

550
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: and Nigga drove up. Nigga thought I was crazy, but

551
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: I was like, Nigga, this is my whip, Like I'm

552
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,199
Speaker 1: not getting back, I'm not getting out of this and

553
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 1: getting into Monte Carlo. Nigga like this is range Rover.

554
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 1: So I drove it like that I'm talking about. Nigga

555
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: looked like one of the whole Max Hill uh take

556
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: negative logo. Yeah, I can remember like still like being

557
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 1: like the album was like went platinum and we're still

558
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: on the block. Is it a competitive thing? Is it real? Beef?

559
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 1: What is it? Because y'all had some great motherfucking music

560
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: together and then you guys do some competitive type ship

561
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 1: talking on the internet, Like where is that situation that

562
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: fifty is? Like? Uh, fifty at one time used to

563
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: be like this this real street, super street Nigga, Right,

564
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,879
Speaker 1: and uh, you know outside of you know, his his

565
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: you know, the snitching allegations and all the paperwork that

566
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 1: they got on him to say he told and all

567
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: that ship, which is his business, and not mind Um,

568
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: the nigga was a really hood nigga, you know. Um.

569
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: And so I can't I can't not validate who I

570
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: met and who he was because we you know, we

571
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: had some times in the streets, um which ship got

572
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: real when I was right there and see him do

573
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: his thing. But um, as far as like now, I mean,

574
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: obviously he's older and you know into the you know,

575
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 1: uh you know in the TV and doing that star

576
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 1: on Hollywood and all that, and I like all the

577
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: TV shows. I think it's great. His his hip hop presence,

578
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 1: he don't have none, not not in today's time. So

579
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: it's like me and me and him. I think I'm

580
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: the only negative he really, he really don't play with

581
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: because when you you know, when when when it's me,

582
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 1: it get, it gets for real and and it don't end.

583
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 1: So he might say a little something, I might say

584
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 1: a little something, he might go away. But other than that,

585
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 1: like you know, fifty is like he like the like

586
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: like a bully. You know what I'm saying, but at

587
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: these at this like today, it's like a comedic bully,

588
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because it ain't really gonna

589
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: be too much actually, and it's more it's more so

590
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: you know, jokes and memes and ship like that. But um,

591
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: I think that he knows, he know where where I

592
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: stand as far as like you know, holding myself now

593
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: and he staying where he's staying. And like I said,

594
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: I ain't got nothing, but you know, kudos to get

595
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: him for everything on TV. But this rap ship like

596
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 1: lead that alone? How important is the Easy to you everything?

597
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: Easy was a person that I met one time, Um,

598
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: not enough to say like we had a whole meeting.

599
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: I was a kid and he was in Competon like

600
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: handing out like turkeys and Christmas gifts. He was always

601
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: there for that Easy. He was always there for the kids,

602
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: the community and Compton, like he really wanted Compton to flourish.

603
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: And so when I came in the game, like of course,

604
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: like I grew up in the eighties, so in w

605
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: A you know, was everything, uh you know for me

606
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: and my siblings. So I always I'm always gonna go

607
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: back to giving Easy everything he deserves. I mean, this

608
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: is a man that took dope money and put a

609
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: group together and that group end up being you know,

610
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: one of the biggest uh you know, rap groups of

611
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: all time, if not the biggest. UM And look who

612
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: Easy was like the first Dr dre if we can

613
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: say Dr dre put On like you know me and

614
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: fifty and Eminem and Snoop and did all that like

615
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: Easy put on the whole n w A. Not to

616
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: take nothing away from Cube and nothing in his writing

617
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,239
Speaker 1: and what he did, but it was easy that Um

618
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: really went and got the deals done and got really

619
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: you know, made of something to doctor. Go back to

620
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: the documentary for a second. My uh start my Life

621
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: from scratch and the song with Faith that's the That's

622
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: some songs that I jammed a lot of times and

623
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: songs that probably I jam when I got it on

624
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: my mind. You know what I'm saying. So salute to those, UM.

625
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: I tell how Kobe personally thank you for making that album. Um.

626
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: Kobe throughout his career UM with just he would he

627
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: would either shoot me a text. And it's funny because

628
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: having Kobe number in your phone and not abusing it

629
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: was like you had to ask some real restraint because

630
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: I had so many like niggas Kobe, like they wanted

631
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: to talk to Kobe every day, you know what I'm saying.

632
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: Even even if even if, like you know, you had

633
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: obviously different mothers and fathers, like you still felt like

634
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: he was a brother, you know, because any time he

635
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: talked to him, he always had some game. And one

636
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: thing that Kobe asked me, he was like, yo, when

637
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,479
Speaker 1: you're going like get on your business and step aside,

638
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. From the from the streets,

639
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: and I was just like never he was like ah

640
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: see see and just you know, he'd be like, all right,

641
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: I get with you. But um, one thing about Kobe

642
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: and the documentary, every time I've seen him, every time

643
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: we talked, he would just always tell me how much

644
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: that album meant to him. But even more so then

645
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: the documentary, it was the doctor's advocate for him. The

646
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: doctor's advocate was the one. You know what I'm saying.

647
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: He was just like, yo, like one blood and like

648
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: I work out every day every morning, I'm up and

649
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: I throw this on. And every time I came to

650
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: the Staples Center to see Kobe, like he if he

651
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: saw me. I don't know, I've never seen the nigga

652
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: with the phone in his in the shorts. It was

653
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: it was, yeah, it was, it would start, it would

654
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: start running man. And so like, I still feel in

655
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: debt it to Kobe just for his contribution to the city,

656
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: for him never wavering from you know, like playing for

657
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: the Lakers, never being traded, and never abandoned the ship,

658
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: like just taking it in the last game. Oh my god,

659
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: I said that, Yo. I watched it. I watched his

660
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: double team. It wasn't easy. I watched the get sixty

661
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: on the way out, and it's like that, like when

662
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: we talked about Kobe, I mean under these glasses. If

663
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 1: I say that, say his name too much, I'm gonna

664
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: start crying because it's like you would never I would

665
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: have You would have never thought in a million years

666
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: that Kobe would me the untimely demiseed Sperhero. And let

667
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: me tell you about that day, erie as fun as

668
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: it was, I was leaving the recording studio and it

669
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: was hella foggy, like I'm talking about on the on

670
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: the ground level. It was foggy. I couldn't see and

671
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: I was like, Nick, I got a damn there. Take

672
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: the streets home. I can't get on the freeway. Just

673
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: when I went up the ramp on on I mean

674
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,959
Speaker 1: on Barham and I got on the one on one

675
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: and the ship was way too foggy, so I got

676
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: off and then I took Ventura all the way home,

677
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: and the whole time I was saying that I can't

678
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: see I'm driving slower ship. And then um when I

679
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: woke up phone crazy and I was like and niggas,

680
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: niggas just hit me like, yo, you heard about Kobe.

681
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,479
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking like Kobe, Like I know Kobe, right,

682
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: but maybe it's like some other news. Definitely wasn't thinking

683
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: like nah. And then when they told me like you know,

684
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: his kids or his wife might have might have been

685
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: with him, you know, the father, and the kicks in

686
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: and I'm just started, I'm real visual started. I started

687
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: thinking of last moments and I put myself there, if

688
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: it was me, what would I tell my daughter? What

689
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: would I tell my family? And that ship like to

690
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: this day, bro to this day, like I drove by

691
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: the crash site on the way here. I live in Calabaska,

692
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: so I mean I can't if I'm going you know,

693
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: down last virginesses. It's you know, it's what you gotta

694
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: do to get you know, over here here to Sena

695
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: Monica and that Kobe man. And she's still feeling real,

696
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: probably to y'all too, probably to me. It's just like Kobe.

697
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: But if anybody's legacy memory, if anybody is in the

698
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: afterlife looking down or has a presence, that's the only

699
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: it's really the only reason I believe that you know

700
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: you should leave you know, valuable footprints is because of

701
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: people like Kobe, like you could fill him. He everywhere.

702
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: It's his city, man, and that's my brother, and uh,

703
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: you know, I appreciate everything that he did for me

704
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: the city of Los Angeles, and uh, you know, my

705
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,959
Speaker 1: my breasts gets short and and my eyes well up

706
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: when um when when talking about him, everybody. After following

707
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: out with g Unit and Interscope, you went to New

708
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: York to uh create the Doctor's Advocate. Yeah, what was it?

709
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: What was going on in your mind at that time?

710
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: I hated everybody and everything that had anything to do

711
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: with fifty, Interscope and Wrap. It was me time, and

712
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: I just wanted my people that was riding with me

713
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: and fucking with me to to ride with me, and

714
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: everybody that I thought that was did except Dr dre

715
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: Um and and again he had his reasons and and

716
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: you know, to let you know, I thought like I

717
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: thought hip hop was something totally different than what it was.

718
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,760
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I thought like when niggas

719
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: signed you that like it's a camaraderie and it's a

720
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 1: brotherhood and it's like, uh, you know, bad boy, or

721
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: it's like a rocket fell I had like when you're

722
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: twenty five years old, you're not thinking paperwork, and you're

723
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: not thinking business, and you're not thinking bold black print.

724
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: You're just thinking like, I'm after math and we got

725
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: these chains on and I'm g unit and we're supposed

726
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: to be a family. But it wasn't like that. It

727
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: was all business for them, and it should have been

728
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: all business for me. I just had nobody to tell

729
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: me years old if that was the way it went.

730
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: If if I had known, I would have not been

731
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: as violent as I was. I would have had an understanding, um,

732
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: because that's one thing about me. When I get an

733
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: understand about something, I'm good with it. You know what

734
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Long as it's been communicated that this is

735
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 1: how it is and I can't you know, I'm not

736
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: I'm not mad. So um, yeah, doing the Doctor's Advocate.

737
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: I went into the Sony studios to the bottom, the

738
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: further studio I could get from, you know, the surface,

739
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: and I sat in there for you know, three months,

740
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: and I recorded this album and it's my most West

741
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: Coast sounded album, but it was all recording in New York.

742
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 1: Um and Naas came down there with me. Buster came

743
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: down there with me, and they contributed to the album.

744
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: Jamie Fox came in. He flew in from l A

745
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: to New York on a private jet just to you know,

746
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: be you know, be a part of the album because

747
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: I asked them to Um and yeah, man that that

748
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: album meant a lot to me because it was me

749
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: showing the world that I could do it without Dre.

750
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: Fifty was saying he was writing all my raps, which

751
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: was crazy to me because like the here comes another

752
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: you know album that went five times platinum and they're

753
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: gettn't write nothing and they had no Dre beats um

754
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: and so yeah, man, that album is the one that

755
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: meant a lot to me. So again going you know,

756
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: doubling back on the Kobe thing when he told me

757
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: that that was the album that he funk with the

758
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: most out of you know, the two that I had

759
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 1: at the time. It meant a lot to me because

760
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: I know what I put into it, I know what

761
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: I sacrificed, and I know how hard it was to

762
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,720
Speaker 1: get it to see the light of the day because

763
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: fifty had just went Diamond, and so to put out

764
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: my album when I was disrespecting Jimmy, I been disrespected

765
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: Interscope and disrespecting everybody except Dr dre Um at that moment,

766
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: and for them to still put that album out, that

767
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: means what I did in New York, like had Warrant

768
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: and One Blood drove that album because niggas like fleg,

769
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: dj K slig R, I p Um, like nigg is

770
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:29,760
Speaker 1: still behind me, DJ clue um uh everybody like Kid Capri,

771
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: they always bumping One Blood And so that when I

772
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: bought it, by the time I got back to it

773
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: was on yeah, Nas buster legends. I was being spending

774
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: that time with them. Nas. Hey, you get a you

775
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 1: get a glass of red wine, man and and and

776
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: a wine glass and you pour nas some opus one

777
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: or some one of them expensive bottles that he liked

778
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: to drink. Man, and you're gonna see Sincere from Belly.

779
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: You're gonna see God's Son. You're gonna see Illmatic. You're

780
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: gonna see not like it's it's it's crazy when you

781
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: see Nas, that nigga just looked like the coolest nigga.

782
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: And I don't care what room you walk into. It

783
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: just he just he becomes the coolest nigga around when

784
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: you see him. And so, UM, it always been that way.

785
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: And so I've always been a big Nas fan. Um,

786
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: one of my top three best rappers, most that most

787
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: you know, motivated me to most of my career. Always

788
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: show him love when I see him, seeing him with

789
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: hit Boy, you know a few months back and you know,

790
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: we gave each other kudos again. I thanked them again. Um.

791
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: The album is half named Dramatic because of you know Nas, Yeah,

792
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: because of that and his contribution to that, Um and

793
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: buster busters like it ain't we like that. That's the

794
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: only nigger that uh that I listened to literally to

795
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 1: this day. Um, when he said and it might not

796
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: be right then, but I when I get back in

797
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 1: my car, I go sit by myself somewhere in the dark.

798
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: It what he said starts. Uh. I started to recollect,

799
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: you know, those memories of the conversation before, and it

800
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: always resonates later on Buster called me borderline disrespectful. He

801
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: always say that he go the line and you just

802
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: run full speed up to it, and they didn't hit

803
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: the breaks like this much. So yeah, he was like, yo,

804
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: so you gotta you know that's bust man. But I

805
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: love him to death. That is that is my absolute,

806
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: absolute big brother. Uh, inside and outside of music. He'd

807
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: been there to steer my career and I feel like, uh,

808
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: and I never said this before on camera. I feel

809
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: like if it wasn't for Buster, um, then me and

810
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: fifty probably be Biggie and Pop in this hid crazy. Yeah,

811
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: he slowed you all down. H You mentioned that? Yeah, real,

812
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 1: you said in your early career in you didn't know

813
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 1: it was business. You later found out it was business.

814
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: Broke Free created your own label, UH in two thousand

815
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: twelve of the World. The thought process behind that, I sat,

816
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: I sat in my home with UH, with myself and

817
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: my glock, and I felt like I should I want

818
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: to be off this label me myself and my clock. Yeah, man,

819
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: I felt like I felt like I wanted to be

820
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: off this label. I feel like I had a you know,

821
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: like a nine album deal with some crazy shit and

822
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: that's basically a whole career if you even make it

823
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: to that for and I was like, I had one

824
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: more album to put out. I think, uh that our

825
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: old Interscope and uh So I went up to Interscope

826
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: with this gun and uh I demanded to be let go. Um.

827
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 1: I ain't brandish it in the lobby or you know,

828
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: pull it out until I needed to. But I went

829
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: up there and the you know, the heads that were

830
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: in the room when I came in, they know, and

831
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 1: I was let go. And uh I've been independent ever since.

832
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: I made more money than I did being signed to

833
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: Aftermath M and Interscope and Geffen after as an independent artist,

834
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: and I ever had times ten. So yeah, man, independence,

835
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: I feel like it's the way. Um. But you know,

836
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: for people you know signing the major you know the

837
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: album deals, you know with majors and ship I don't

838
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: knocked them either, because you know they got the machine

839
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: and it's easier when you let them do it. And

840
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: you know, but at the end of the day, you

841
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,399
Speaker 1: want your masses and you want to if you really

842
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: like to work, and you really like to put in

843
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: the work, and you know, so that you can enjoy

844
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,399
Speaker 1: the Fusia labor and be ableestly, I did it by myself.

845
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: If you want those people. The independence is the way question.

846
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:38,720
Speaker 1: Creating control and being independent is the same thing basically, right, Yeah. Yeah, Well,

847
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: if you're big enough independent artists to begin with, and

848
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,359
Speaker 1: you go sign to a major, you can have your

849
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: people implement um created control into your into your you know,

850
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: your contract still be signed to a major and still

851
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: signed to it later. Yeah, so it's like even though

852
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: they're the major, you you know, you still call the shots.

853
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: And that's what like, uh, let's say quality control or

854
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: you know, like uh, you know a pe um, you know,

855
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: the guys that run them labels like you know they

856
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: like or a birdman like you ain't. Bird man might

857
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 1: go put you know, something out through Universal, but he

858
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: gonna have all to say. So so it's like that,

859
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 1: but he asked you know that that catalog. What's your

860
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: message to the new generation of rappers that continue you

861
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: get caught up in the street life you didn't see

862
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: in the first hand. You grew up in it, um,

863
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: And like we all know experience as the best teaching.

864
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: You know, we lost nil, we lost golf, you know,

865
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: pop smoke, King Vaughan. You know, it's just we all

866
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: know it's enough as enough. But as we all know too,

867
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: we know how the streets are too right. So talk

868
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 1: about that from him for the new generation, I would say, um, um,

869
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: I don't know why with me, man, I only I

870
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: can give. I give advice to my younger guys all

871
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: the time. It's hard to stand on it when I'm

872
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: still ten toes in it. It doesn't mean that I

873
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: haven't been through what I've been through. Um, Like I

874
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: got this one line and I and I and I

875
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: gave nobody no bars on the album. But I say, um,

876
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: you know I say on my own outro to my

877
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: album Drillmatic, I said, you know this is nazis it will?

878
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: And I say, the audacity of me at forty two

879
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: years old is still drill because it's like and so

880
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: the the psychology behind that is that at forty two

881
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,959
Speaker 1: years old, you should be, you should have you should

882
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: be in a mindset to where the street life is

883
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: in the past. But if he died, what two thousand nineteen,

884
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: two thousand, nineteen, they killed you know, killed my partner

885
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: right on crashawn S Lawson, where he's from. Thirty three

886
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 1: years old though, and even though he was a bit

887
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 1: removed from you know what, what you know what he

888
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: came up as, which is being a rolling sixties cript,

889
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: he still wasn't because he cared about the community. He

890
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: cared about where he was from. So he had to

891
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: go there and see his people where he wasn't home.

892
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 1: And so him dying there, I mean it, you know

893
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: it as untimely as it was and as tragic as

894
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: it was, like that ship is a reality for us

895
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: out here. And so me at forty two or at

896
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: fifty or in sixty or seven years old, like I'm

897
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: from l A. It's what it is. Nigga's been hating,

898
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 1: Nigga's people been hating people. People still hate people. Look

899
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: what's going on in the world. Look at Russia, look

900
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: at Ukraine, Like what is that about? Like it can't

901
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: be about anything other than hate. So for me to

902
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: be forty two years old in the city that has

903
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: killed Tupac, Biggie, Nipsey Pop, Smoked, slim Fold, Hunted Draco

904
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: just got stabbed months ago. For me to look at

905
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: my peers, these are all niggas that like, you know,

906
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: either I grew up with I never met Poppet Big,

907
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: but I grew up on their music. Um, Nipsey was

908
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: my brother, you know what I'm saying that, Like he

909
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: came out like I helped him. I helped usher him

910
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: into hip hop along with him and everything he was

911
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: doing with his hood and his brother and all that.

912
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,399
Speaker 1: Like I stopped on um you know, crenshawn Slawson took

913
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 1: Nipsey demo and then brought him to the studio smoked

914
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: and we did three songs like that and I was

915
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: and then I took him at Kendrick on tour. So

916
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, I helped usher this generation of

917
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: West Coast hip hop into hip hop. So for me

918
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,879
Speaker 1: to see my brother die in real time. And that's

919
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: the difference between Tupac and and and Nipsey is the

920
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: reason that Nipsey ship hit a little bit harder is

921
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: because Nigga there was no internet one. We only heard

922
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: about it, right we saw Nipsey, that ship was on

923
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: the Internet for us to see him his his soul,

924
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: damn there leave his body that ship killed me to

925
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 1: my core. It made me so angry that I'm still

926
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,879
Speaker 1: fucking angry. It made me so angry that I can't

927
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:30,800
Speaker 1: let niggas get one up on me. And I'm and

928
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: I'm against the rapper, and I'm still in the streets.

929
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: And as much as I Calabasas myself to death, and

930
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: as far as far as I moved my kids to

931
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: the valley, I'm around this city. I'm around this city,

932
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 1: and so I gotta keep it on me because I

933
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,879
Speaker 1: don't trust nobody. I've seen nigga's dying in real time,

934
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry. I can't like I can't. I just can't.

935
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: Let I can't give niggas my life, not in the

936
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: city that has claimed so many of my peers, and

937
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: I will not. Does it seem crazy to think that,

938
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 1: oh to was my first year in the league forty two? Now?

939
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: Does it crazy? Thing that you're o g in this gang? Now?

940
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: Did you ever see this? Did you ever look far

941
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: to be, to be perfectly honest, being a nigger from

942
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: Compton and growing up you know, between Watson Compton hundred

943
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 1: fifteenth and Womanton and Niggerson Gardens and then see the

944
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: block and then you know, my youngest spending my younger

945
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: days in Santana block crep and just being engulfed in

946
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: gang culture. I never thought that I would even make

947
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: it to see twenty one. And I tell people this

948
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,240
Speaker 1: all the time, like I say, you know, without sounding

949
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: honoree or or really um really uneducated or just playing

950
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: out dumb like I've been trying to die since nineteen

951
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: seventy nine. Right because I'm out here, I speak my truth.

952
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: I hear we Pete Newton and Bobby Stale myself in

953
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: front of cameras. You know what I'm saying. I stand

954
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: up for my people and then all of us. And

955
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: then on the same accord, if I have to, I

956
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: will kill my brother if he is posing threat on me.

957
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's like I tell and

958
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 1: I tell, I tell niggass on the album too. I

959
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: walk people through this all the time because niggas, you know,

960
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: they want to know, like, why are you still you know,

961
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: talking about violence in your you know, in your in

962
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: your in your music. Nign Do they stopped showing violence

963
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: on Netflix? Do they shop some violent be you know,

964
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:18,399
Speaker 1: Nigga Rambo do the same thing I do. The only

965
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: thing different between me and Syvestor to Loan and his

966
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: nick I'm out here in the trenches. You know what

967
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and so my ship is real. So when

968
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,479
Speaker 1: y'all asked uh S investor Stallone to pick up the script,

969
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: he's reading what somebody wrote for hi, nigga. I wrote that.

970
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: I wrote this. You know what I'm saying, So I

971
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: might here living. And so I tell niggas all the time,

972
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: if I got to look in the mirror and shoot myself,

973
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: I will. And what that means is, I don't wake

974
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,439
Speaker 1: up with no ill intention on no human being, black, white,

975
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: no race. But since I don't know when, or early

976
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: nineteen hundreds when everything was you know, set up, when

977
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: they allowed you know, white people to um, you know

978
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: about the Federal House and acting all that, when they

979
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: allowed white people the body's houses and said as long

980
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: as you know, white people buying and and no African

981
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: Americans allowed to buy them, and you can't even rent

982
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 1: or sell your kids kids can't even sell um their

983
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: house to African Americans too. Now it's still in there.

984
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,320
Speaker 1: Of course they don't you know, they don't honor it

985
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: no more because it would just be that it would

986
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: be crazy to do that. And in this I like

987
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: to call it this black moment, right, um, and who

988
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:20,439
Speaker 1: knows how long it's gonna last, but it's in there.

989
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 1: So it goes all the way back then even further

990
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: back to Willie Lynch letters and all that. You gotta

991
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: do your history. Um. We don't have enough time hit

992
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: for you know here for me to break it down,

993
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: but it goes all the way this deep, deep rooted

994
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: hate for a superior race. Obviously or at least physically,

995
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: we know that, um. And not to shoot on nobody again,

996
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: but I mean we are faster, taller, bigger and by nature,

997
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: but we didn't do that. We need create ourselves. This

998
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: is God, and never everybody praises God's God. Um, every

999
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: race of some sort, whether you call them Allah or

1000
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: Jesus or God or whatever whatever it is that you

1001
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: pick from, whatever tree you pick from, like it's it's

1002
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,320
Speaker 1: has to be one God. So you gotta say that

1003
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: we're all equal. And if we're all equal, right, if

1004
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: somebody is just a little bit better, you're a little

1005
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: bit faster, you would think that you want to clap

1006
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: and not hate. Where did we get this deep rooted

1007
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: hate from We can go down any street in America

1008
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: and we can find it, and we could bring it

1009
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: back to this day on four twenty, and we ain't

1010
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 1: even that high yet, So we know what we're talking about.

1011
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: And say that I have a reason to fear myself.

1012
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't lie on that one, that is true.

1013
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 1: I mean just to to still be getting death threats,

1014
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying from George Floyd? Ship that

1015
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 1: and you know I don't wake up to I wake

1016
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: up to draw my day and get high and make

1017
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: some money. That's all I think about. But then just

1018
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: look at my DM and fuck you, nigger, I hope

1019
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: you died. George Floyd was a crackhead, like damn that

1020
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 1: those still on that? And then and then you're still

1021
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: on that. Actually, I actually to go even deeper even

1022
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: you know, deeper than that. That's just from that, that's

1023
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: from the opposition. Now, how does it feel when you

1024
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: when you want to wear your chain? You know what

1025
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: I'm saying to the club, and then you just got

1026
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: a nigg over there who looking who might have watched

1027
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 1: Mike got your jersey, But tonight you just look like

1028
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: food for his family. That's that deep rooted hay that

1029
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: ship has been implemented in African American mindsets, especially of

1030
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: the black male, the black youth, the the the instruments

1031
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 1: and the institutions that have been structured to break us

1032
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: all the way to funk down. Says that I should

1033
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 1: put my clock on when I leave my house. It's

1034
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,799
Speaker 1: not safe. It's not safe. And so at fifty two

1035
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: years old, if I'm rapping. At sixty two years old,

1036
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: if I'm rapping, I'd rather get pulled over and hand

1037
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: myself over then try to climb out the caskets. I've

1038
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 1: never seen it, dead man climbing a casket. What state

1039
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: do you think the West Coast hip hop is? Then? Like,

1040
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: is in any artists? We know you rock with Kenjy,

1041
00:49:57,719 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: But is it any young artists, a new artists that

1042
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:04,879
Speaker 1: you rock with? Um? There is, yeah, there's it's there's

1043
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 1: a whole culture of of of young new hip hop

1044
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: artists out here. Um. I would say the one that

1045
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: that I listen to the most of these days probably

1046
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 1: Baby Came. I like Baby Came. I like Baby Came

1047
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: a lot. Um Um. He also cousins with Kendrick. Kendrick

1048
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: got a new album coming out. Um, I rock with reason. Um,

1049
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: he hardest fucked um there is. Uh yeah, no, they

1050
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 1: got it. They got a lot of cash. Man, Like

1051
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:41,320
Speaker 1: I would just do myself, uh and do them and

1052
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 1: injustice if I just try ran through some names and

1053
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: didn't run through. They know who we are man, and

1054
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 1: they are here going crazy. The Baby Stone Gorillas is crazy.

1055
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:53,320
Speaker 1: That Yeah, get on them. They early too. It's like,

1056
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: you know, it's a good time to catch them. Um

1057
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: t d um comptons is you know, on the rise again.

1058
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: Yeah's a lot of dope West Coast hip hop artists

1059
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 1: out here. Shout out to Tyler. A lot of people

1060
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: don't even know he from the trenches. You know what

1061
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Um, everything he did was just winning. You

1062
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: know his Grammy and all that. That's was dope. Um.

1063
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 1: And then yeah, me, I'm still here working a lot

1064
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: with Kanye of late. What's that experience? But like, what

1065
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: are some stuff you learned? What? How was that energy

1066
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: envirobe between your two Yeah Kanye? Uh, since me and

1067
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 1: Kanye had his freestyle battle, Uh, was you at the

1068
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 1: Nike Town party? Yeah? So yeah, and I feel like

1069
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 1: you was there Me and you had this freestyle battle

1070
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: outside of this, uh this Nike town on wil shirt

1071
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 1: back in the day, it was a fly party. Everybody

1072
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 1: was there. Chang He was there, but Changy was there,

1073
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: Nellie was there, and like these the niggers, like these

1074
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: the niggas with the most money, most change, most bitches.

1075
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,240
Speaker 1: So yeah, me and yeah, we we end up freestyle

1076
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 1: and outside of it and and you know, yeah, because

1077
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: it's punchlines. The chicks was like, I was my ship

1078
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: was all gangster, you know what I'm saying. But I

1079
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 1: was going. But you had the punchlines and he had

1080
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 1: the women, and so he beat me that night. And

1081
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: uh but so every since then, man, me and you,

1082
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:12,879
Speaker 1: we've been locked in. I can remember getting my first

1083
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: beat CD with just k Dot west on. It had

1084
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: like twelve beats on it. One of them was Dreams,

1085
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: and uh we threw you know, Dreams end up being

1086
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: one of my biggest records. But from there the second

1087
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,400
Speaker 1: album yet again, yea, he was with me on the

1088
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 1: second album. You know what I'm saying. He was. He

1089
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: gave me Wouldn't Get Far, and we did it that night.

1090
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:31,320
Speaker 1: As soon as I heard the beat, I was like,

1091
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:33,879
Speaker 1: wouldn't get far? These wrap stars. You know, you all

1092
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: put your hands up, lady, but uh, and then you

1093
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: did this verse and then we had, you know, another smash.

1094
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: But I've been my brother, um throughout hip hop. We

1095
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 1: had sometimes when he called me and he was like, yo,

1096
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: you know, can you please stop talking about my wife?

1097
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,320
Speaker 1: And I was like, you got that, and so I

1098
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: stopped until I started again. And then and then you know,

1099
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 1: he wouldn't talk to me for a while, and then

1100
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: and then and then and you know, we're getting the

1101
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 1: studio and he always he always joked around, you know,

1102
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: like on the contrary with what people might think, like, yeah,

1103
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 1: is uh you know, he's a comedian too, man, so

1104
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: he'd be shooting me shots um sometimes and I'll be young,

1105
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: he made me uncomfortable in the studios. I'll be like

1106
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 1: like why you know I'm saying, well, we gotta go there. Um,

1107
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, yeah, it's uh. That's my brother. Always

1108
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: got his back and you know a lot of people,

1109
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: I've been catching a lot of flags for saying, um,

1110
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 1: he did for more for me in my career in

1111
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 1: the last two weeks than Dre did my whole career.

1112
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: One thing Dre did was signed me right, But Dre

1113
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: signed the hottest nigger in Compton. It didn't matter who

1114
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 1: was gonna sign me. I was gonna be the next nigger.

1115
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 1: So um, as far as Drey and Jimmy Irvin signing

1116
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 1: me to after Mafia Interscope, they also did themselves a

1117
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: favorite because they had picked up where Tupac left off

1118
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,720
Speaker 1: in signing me because I was gonna be the next nigger.

1119
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: So it's like as much as Dre did for me

1120
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 1: and signing me, I did for him and bridging the

1121
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: gap for the West Coast. I mean, you have fifty

1122
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: and m but you didn't have nothing on the West Coast.

1123
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,320
Speaker 1: You know what Independent went through, no limit and you

1124
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: know all that. So it's like as much as Drey

1125
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: did for me, um, I did for him. UM. And

1126
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: he'll tell you that if if we if we're being honest, UM.

1127
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:12,800
Speaker 1: And so when I say that you did for me,

1128
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: you know more for me in those last two weeks

1129
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: than Dre did my whole career. It's like the conversations

1130
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: I had with you, the billionaire mindset that he put

1131
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 1: me in, the rooms that I walked in, I've never

1132
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 1: Dre has never put me in those rooms. So it

1133
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 1: wasn't to say that Drey wasn't shift. He never did

1134
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 1: shipped for me. I'm saying that my mindset and what

1135
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: I know now my financial literacy just from being around

1136
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: this man is more than I could ever repay him.

1137
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: And it is absolutely more than Drey has done for

1138
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: me in my career, because I can remember being signed,

1139
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: the aftermath and being damn there broke. Not saying that

1140
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: with Drey's fault. But Niggas wasn't Puttingniggas on in no money,

1141
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 1: Like I wasn't part of the Drey the Beats Headphones deal,

1142
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: but I was in the room when Niggas was creating it.

1143
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:51,719
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So, and I'm not saying

1144
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 1: Niggas owe me nothing like you don't. I don't. I

1145
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: don't wake up feeling like you owe me this and

1146
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:57,840
Speaker 1: you owe me that. It's like the super bowsh it.

1147
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like like Niggas owed me, you know,

1148
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: like I didn't feel like Nigga's owed me a call

1149
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 1: and put me on. I just felt like it's weird

1150
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 1: that I'm not there and the ship is in the

1151
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: so Far Stadium and it's West Coast and it's like

1152
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 1: I felt like niggas should have, but I don't feel

1153
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 1: like they owed me that, you know what I'm saying.

1154
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: So you've been uh talking recently about uh a versus

1155
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 1: or just a battle with him. Yeah, um again, and

1156
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 1: I and I hate to break it down like this,

1157
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: but I have to because it's gonna make the most

1158
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,279
Speaker 1: sense to everybody. It's like, it's like when I just

1159
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:35,239
Speaker 1: walked you all down Memory Lane with how um, how

1160
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 1: the housing authority like regulated so that you know, African

1161
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,879
Speaker 1: Americans or Niggers wouldn't ever be able to own nothing.

1162
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: And it wasn't that black people couldn't afford nine thousand

1163
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: dollars and ten thousand dollar homes these homes back and

1164
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 1: that they cost ten thousand dollars, you know what I'm saying.

1165
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:52,720
Speaker 1: And there was a lot of you know, working class

1166
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:54,360
Speaker 1: black people that could afford it. They just was it

1167
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 1: was causes where they wasn't allowed to be in there.

1168
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 1: So we see where black people are now, right, um,

1169
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:02,279
Speaker 1: And so they we've been in the pits of hell

1170
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: as far as like our financial literacy and our and

1171
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 1: just our financial status because niggas put weights on our

1172
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 1: shoulders and held us now well, they did the same

1173
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: thing to us with Eminem, right, because I'm not saying

1174
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: Eminem is not a skilled rapper, right, but there are

1175
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: men of goats out there. There are niggas out there

1176
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 1: that are maybe better than Kobe and Michael Jordan will

1177
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:23,959
Speaker 1: never make it to the NBA. And so I'm saying

1178
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 1: that Eminem is a and as outstanding lyricists right now,

1179
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 1: you put him with Dr Dre who is from n

1180
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: w A which you know easy helped create what ice

1181
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,320
Speaker 1: cube and on them. And now Eminem has a stamp.

1182
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: You put him under a machine, right, Interscope, one of

1183
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 1: the biggest in Universal, which one which is one of

1184
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: the biggest um hip hop conglomerates as far as like

1185
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 1: when they put money behind something, it's gonna move. So

1186
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:49,839
Speaker 1: they could damn there, take this white guy right here

1187
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: behind the camera and tell him that this is who

1188
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:56,880
Speaker 1: is next. And with the writers and with everything that

1189
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 1: Dre has an Interscope has under that building, nigas can

1190
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 1: make him a superstar or you or you could have

1191
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 1: been a wrap superstar coming under Dr Dre and Interscope.

1192
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 1: So I'm saying that we were told that Eminem was

1193
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,439
Speaker 1: the greatest, Oh and by the way, he was white

1194
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 1: and I had that played a you know, a huge

1195
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: part in his success. Because if you can get white America,

1196
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, you are super solid

1197
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: as far as like album sales are concerned. And then

1198
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: who is he with? He's with Dr Dre. Soon then

1199
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: we got niggas too, So then it's that much bigger

1200
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: than the interscope puts the money behind it. You put

1201
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 1: the money behind a fucking pal of ship and you

1202
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 1: put ship on TV every day. It's only gonna be

1203
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: a certain time before people be like, yeah, we gotta see,

1204
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 1: we gotta go smell that. I'm yo, I'm not so

1205
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So they can literally, they can literally

1206
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 1: take a nigger who is just skilled, don't put nothing

1207
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 1: behind him, and that nigger will never see the light

1208
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:51,919
Speaker 1: of day of the label. Does that mean Eminem's better

1209
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 1: than that guy? Know? It just means that he wasn't chosen.

1210
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: So when I say that, you know, I want to

1211
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 1: wrap battle with Eminem or Eminem is not the rateist

1212
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: rapper or I'm better than him? It is you on

1213
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: Draft night, nigga, who did you think that Matt Barnes

1214
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 1: is better than you on draft NW you know what

1215
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And again no, and not know what I'm saying,

1216
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: like what what you got drafted? What at the second round?

1217
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:26,440
Speaker 1: But your household names? Now, you can't tell me that

1218
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 1: what second round? If you was what what thirty pick

1219
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: or forty pick or something like that, that that you

1220
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: thought that thirty nine niggers is better than you're On

1221
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 1: draft night, you waited till your name was called, but

1222
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: you did. You've seen how many niggers you seeing it up?

1223
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 1: You'd be like, nigga killed that nigga at someone so

1224
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 1: or I will kill him? And is that not not

1225
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 1: the mindset you're supposed to have as a warrior, as

1226
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: a competitor. So again, start trying to make it sing,

1227
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 1: like when I see Eminem, I'm a drown Is nigg

1228
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 1: gonna beat this nigga up? I'm supposed to number one.

1229
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to think that I'm better than every single

1230
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 1: rapper else why would I do this ship at all? Well,

1231
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: this is the only point I made because I listened

1232
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 1: to Eminem too. But I'll tell us that people ain't

1233
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 1: nobody in our neighborhoods riding around listening to Eminem and

1234
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 1: their car. That's all I'm saying, Like we ride to you,

1235
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, But Eminem like we know

1236
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 1: its songs and renegating on it, but we not riding

1237
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: around Fodem just doing that and we're just not doing that.

1238
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 1: I and I'll take it away from you. When have

1239
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: you ever heard Eminem song in the club? When have

1240
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:28,920
Speaker 1: you ever heard the ship in the locker room when

1241
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 1: they just like, yo, it's the new m I'm about

1242
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: to go crazy when they do the tip off nigger,

1243
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 1: so again, so again, so again. It must happen when

1244
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:39,880
Speaker 1: they get just training for the Olympics or or some ship,

1245
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 1: or when when white boys are surfing dude, or doing

1246
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: what the fun they're doing, Because I mean, I don't

1247
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: and I'm not taking away from it. I don't hear

1248
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:49,440
Speaker 1: Eminem in the streets. I just don't. And so again

1249
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: it's like it's it's not saying that he can't wrap

1250
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 1: the skill set is there. I'm just a better rapper.

1251
00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 1: I just haven't been given the light that he's been given.

1252
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: They didn't put the money behind me that they did.

1253
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:02,440
Speaker 1: They put some. But as soon as I as soon

1254
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: as I showed my ass and showed I was a

1255
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 1: little too black for what they expected. Well the budget stopped.

1256
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: I could have been pushed to eminem heights. Fifty got

1257
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 1: pushed to those heights because he played nice and Eminem

1258
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:15,439
Speaker 1: and him or like this, you know what I'm saying.

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01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:17,280
Speaker 1: They just don't even know that m wouldn't even do

1260
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl unless fifty was on it. A fifty way.

1261
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:22,840
Speaker 1: Draine put fifty on the on the super Bowl and

1262
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,720
Speaker 1: then then when't showed up, So again that's their camaraderie.

1263
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 1: So they put the money behind the niggas who played nice.

1264
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 1: When the niggas told me, you know a lot of

1265
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 1: people don't notice, like fifty and UH and Jimmy RV.

1266
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 1: And they gave me a million dollars to UH to

1267
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 1: stop saying gu not. They wrote me a check. They

1268
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: bought it, bought to try, had the trademark to G nine.

1269
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: And you remember when I was going around with the

1270
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: rat and doing all that ship that ship hurt killed

1271
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 1: G Unit. You stopped seeing the candies, the candy cane

1272
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:51,320
Speaker 1: tank tops and all that ship, all the the whole

1273
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 1: G Unit mark echo artist, the shoes, all that ship died.

1274
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 1: You know, I'm saying that ship was a hot commodity

1275
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 1: at once. U and the cloth, the niggas wearing, the sweats,

1276
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: the headbands, the man everything. That ship died, bro. And

1277
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 1: then so they had to pay me. I should have

1278
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 1: asked for more, but the Nis gave me a million.

1279
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 1: But then I'm a hood niggers. I'm like a a

1280
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 1: million dollars just to stop seeing that this word with

1281
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:11,360
Speaker 1: the check. They wrote the check and I stopped saying it.

1282
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 1: So again they suppressed the movement, you know what I'm saying,

1283
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: And so I had to, you know, fall over here.

1284
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: And after a while, like they stopped giving me the budget.

1285
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:23,320
Speaker 1: So as you started seeing, like my record sales started declining,

1286
01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: it wasn't that I wasn't still the same rapper I was.

1287
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 1: It was that they wasn't putting my shirt on TV

1288
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 1: and pushing pushing in the radio like they used to

1289
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: like they was doing because I was honorary and I

1290
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 1: was too disrespectful, borderline disrespectful. So Buster would have it.

1291
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 1: But yeah, if you don't play nice in these buildings, nigga,

1292
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:42,000
Speaker 1: you know what it is you are. Your career is

1293
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,160
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King on the balcony. M hm, and they

1294
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 1: will kill your career in front of your homies, and

1295
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: Jesse Jackson will be left to tell the story. You know,

1296
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 1: I know, I know what did help him in the

1297
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 1: hood though when he had Jay Backpeling on that renegade,

1298
01:01:56,480 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that it was tough. Yeah, on that rennegade.

1299
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 1: I give him that one. Yeah, but see it's a

1300
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 1: it's a it's a story behind the whole you know,

1301
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:09,160
Speaker 1: the whole Renegade and all that. Like if I'm not mistaken,

1302
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:12,080
Speaker 1: that was Royce the five nine record, and uh and

1303
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:15,400
Speaker 1: M like uh in ja like J had it. And

1304
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:19,120
Speaker 1: then M was like like again, this is like my like,

1305
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: don't quote me on this, but like J like didn't

1306
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 1: get a real chance to like go at him him

1307
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 1: might have had the last verse and the whole verse

1308
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: might have already been on it or something like that.

1309
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 1: But it was Race the five nine song. Like I'm saying,

1310
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 1: like I told you earlier that in the club along

1311
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: the rock him first, like rock him on the in

1312
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:37,720
Speaker 1: the club beat he was like rock him was like

1313
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: fucking with the you know that, you know, rock him

1314
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 1: is rock him. So again, man, it's a lot of

1315
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:45,920
Speaker 1: a lot of stories and a lot of other moving

1316
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:49,200
Speaker 1: pieces behind what the headline. You know what I'm saying,

1317
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 1: Like niggas will see this interview, and of course they'll

1318
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: or any interview that I've done, they'll say, oh, Games

1319
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 1: says he's a better rapper than Eminem. I said that,

1320
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 1: but I also gave him his flowers and said that

1321
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 1: he's a pretty good lyricist. He just better than me.

1322
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:02,520
Speaker 1: And if he is better than than me, I want

1323
01:03:02,560 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 1: to see. Yeah, a lot of people that's in the

1324
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 1: top seventy five we talked about all times, and I

1325
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 1: got better numbers. Then we ain't gonna go there. We

1326
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 1: ain't gonna go there. Hey, when it's all said and done,

1327
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 1: Kyrie wasn't in the top seven. Howard Jamison has k

1328
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:25,400
Speaker 1: points in boys right and he not in there. But again, man,

1329
01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 1: it's politics. When it's all said and done, we want

1330
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:34,920
Speaker 1: your legacy to be ship. I want my legacy to

1331
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:38,440
Speaker 1: be that. Then I stood, I stood on what I on,

1332
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 1: what I was. And if I mean, if it happens

1333
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 1: like Nip, if it happens to me like Nip, or

1334
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:47,520
Speaker 1: it happens to me like um, you know, like Dr

1335
01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 1: Marl Luther King and Malcolm X. Like the one thing

1336
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 1: I'm not scared of his death, right, How can you

1337
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 1: be scared of something that is the inevitable? There is

1338
01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 1: no person in this room that will not meet that right.

1339
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 1: So it's like you can't scare me with what's coming.

1340
01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 1: It's for show coming, you know what I'm saying. So

1341
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 1: it's like you can't scare me with that. So, Um,

1342
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 1: I want to go out or I want to be

1343
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: remembered that somebody that stood on everything that they was

1344
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:14,520
Speaker 1: and that is a father. Um black, I'm blacker than

1345
01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 1: the sony camera I'm looking into Like, I'm black, unapologetically black,

1346
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be heard. I will not be silence.

1347
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:22,480
Speaker 1: And um, if you got a problem with it, I

1348
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: guess you gotta do what y'all gotta do. Maybe walk

1349
01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:27,680
Speaker 1: past an airport the need or something. But yeah, like

1350
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 1: I'm here unapologetically I'm praying. I'm praying that a lot

1351
01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 1: of that's your last days will be in the bed

1352
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 1: at home, right next to your kids. That's what I

1353
01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 1: want for you can't wait. Quick hitters wanted Dawn. First

1354
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,400
Speaker 1: thing to come to mind. If you could be remembered

1355
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:45,479
Speaker 1: by one bar a lyric in your career. What would

1356
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:56,120
Speaker 1: it be? It would be um, ha ha, I got

1357
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 1: some ship on my chest. I must confessed last night

1358
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 1: I was the negative shut up your projects. Now I'm

1359
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:04,640
Speaker 1: back in the hood with rocks and the Tan Khakis

1360
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:08,040
Speaker 1: and the Nike EDGs with checks. Don't give me started.

1361
01:05:08,080 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 1: I was forced to live this life, forced to bust

1362
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:12,920
Speaker 1: my chrome. My pops left me in the Forster home.

1363
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 1: I felt abandoned like quick now that Mossburg, I don't

1364
01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 1: happen the assets with the Mossburg. That's it feel that.

1365
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 1: Uh build your l A starting five and starting five

1366
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 1: and you're in it. So U plus four from l A,

1367
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 1: whether they went pro or not, I'm gonna take six. Man. Um,

1368
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:35,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna definitely due. I'm gonna do Kenny Bruner and

1369
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 1: and bed in the backcourt bullies two bullets, yess, I'll

1370
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 1: put Ray Young at the three. I'm gonna go Charles

1371
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,720
Speaker 1: O'Bannon at the four for me. And that was like

1372
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:52,000
Speaker 1: our little hood Barkley and Uh I got Gilani McCoy,

1373
01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:58,880
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah. A lot of sported, a lot of

1374
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:03,800
Speaker 1: spartners in the seventh away U c l A, yeah yeah,

1375
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:07,840
Speaker 1: say term you got honorable mention term. He think he's

1376
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 1: still thinking nice, He's still thinking ask why you be

1377
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 1: cussing everybody out every time you make a shot? Bro?

1378
01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:20,480
Speaker 1: Your terms like the black hoop in Yosemite Sand, Think

1379
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:30,440
Speaker 1: about it, Think about that every shot east side east side? Bro,

1380
01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 1: what do you do to you? They know they know

1381
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:38,840
Speaker 1: top five l A. M C's of all time. Um,

1382
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 1: definitely in any order, any order, UM m c's I

1383
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 1: would go because I know the different between rappers and mcs. Yeah,

1384
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:57,680
Speaker 1: I would go ice Cube, um Kendrick myself. This is

1385
01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 1: in no order. Um damn That four and five get

1386
01:07:04,680 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 1: tricky as fun because um and Sea's West Coast forty

1387
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 1: forty water Man and uh at five. But it could

1388
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:23,000
Speaker 1: have been in any order. I'm gonna have to go

1389
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 1: with mc ran hard hard uh favorite hood spot. Food wise,

1390
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:35,600
Speaker 1: it's like kind of under the radar favorite just one, yeah,

1391
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 1: or you give us a cup if you want. Uh,

1392
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:46,520
Speaker 1: Mama nakusscsin fries fire that should come off the grill

1393
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:49,600
Speaker 1: like I don't know who who makes Mama Na Mama

1394
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:56,960
Speaker 1: nas uh tams TAM's town's been there for nigger. Um,

1395
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 1: the nigga domino is always brain especially especially when they

1396
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 1: first when they first see a lot of people don't

1397
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:09,400
Speaker 1: know when they first came out with it. If it

1398
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:13,560
Speaker 1: ain't there in thirty minutes, it's free. We want to

1399
01:08:13,560 --> 01:08:16,000
Speaker 1: ask nig would open the door. There's a block the

1400
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:21,599
Speaker 1: streets like Nigganna. So yeah, man, I'll just do five

1401
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:24,160
Speaker 1: Randy Donuts. Man. You know, you come on from l

1402
01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: A X, you come from Bob, you come from whatever,

1403
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:28,439
Speaker 1: like Randy's is there for you? Man, and you take

1404
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:33,200
Speaker 1: your Mandy You're putting the microway six seconds and then

1405
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:39,000
Speaker 1: uh five man, Man, Travis Barker's Crossroads. The vegan drink.

1406
01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:42,000
Speaker 1: It's crazy. That's one on melrose Is. They're about to

1407
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:45,519
Speaker 1: put one in Calabass. Okay, I ain't vegan, but I'd

1408
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:50,679
Speaker 1: be vegan. Ea there with five guests that are alive.

1409
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:53,840
Speaker 1: Uh man, I gotta sit with I definitely gotta sit

1410
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:57,360
Speaker 1: with Bob Marley, um just on the just to smoke,

1411
01:08:58,120 --> 01:09:04,840
Speaker 1: um that are alive. Dream dinner, Bring back Nick. We

1412
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:08,559
Speaker 1: got some Moe finished business things we're talking about Tupac

1413
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:10,840
Speaker 1: for show. Never met poc. You might just a whole

1414
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:14,880
Speaker 1: all in bro Yeah man, yeah, yeah, Hey hey Kobe

1415
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:19,600
Speaker 1: ship Man probably buy a dog from exs at the

1416
01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 1: dinner the whole last question, if you could pick one

1417
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:28,200
Speaker 1: guest that you want to see on All the Smoke,

1418
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 1: who would it be? But before you answer, but you

1419
01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:33,040
Speaker 1: have to help us, help us get your answer on

1420
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:39,720
Speaker 1: the show. All right, So it's uh, let me see. Yeah, damn,

1421
01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:45,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. Help Get him on here. Yo. You

1422
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 1: said you can't help us. You got sin somebody you

1423
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 1: can help us. I mean, well, look this this interview

1424
01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:53,400
Speaker 1: would help. I told him come outside, man, it's signed

1425
01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:56,840
Speaker 1: a rap. Yeah yeah, yeah, get him on here. Man,

1426
01:09:57,160 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 1: y'all can do it. I would love you to come

1427
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:02,080
Speaker 1: the show. You Yeah, she'll be up. Come on down

1428
01:10:02,240 --> 01:10:07,559
Speaker 1: bro with you. You did you know what I'm saying?

1429
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 1: That was your call out? Yeah? I asked you Regina

1430
01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 1: hard of comes and I was at to Regina Hall.

1431
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:18,080
Speaker 1: It would be different. They want some passion into it, Okay,

1432
01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:20,599
Speaker 1: I feel you. Oh man, we appreciate your time about

1433
01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 1: that's our dog man. Yeah, my bad. Can't let them

1434
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:26,720
Speaker 1: leave in the hand it. Come on, you forgive them

1435
01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 1: and where can we find it? Let me ask you

1436
01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:30,280
Speaker 1: this time. This is some merch, but some All the

1437
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:35,720
Speaker 1: Smoke merch. All the smoke down. We appreciate you coming, bro.

1438
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 1: We couldn't let you leave empty handed. Sweat suit, you

1439
01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:40,160
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. You can do on one

1440
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:47,120
Speaker 1: of them videos, you m boy. You know what I'm saying.

1441
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:49,760
Speaker 1: Out check so you got him early. You know what

1442
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:52,680
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, oh man, We appreciate your time, bro.

1443
01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:56,360
Speaker 1: Best of luck with everything up coming out of the pops. Man.

1444
01:10:56,479 --> 01:11:00,839
Speaker 1: That's a wrap all the smoke game here us, Showtime

1445
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:03,720
Speaker 1: Basketball YouTube and the I Heart platform Black Effects. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you all next week. God the