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Speaker 3: seen throughout June, we are celebrating Black Music Month by
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Speaker 3: music is deeply important to me and has been an
Speaker 3: influence throughout my entire career. It's also something to celebrating
Speaker 3: here at QLs. DJ Quick joined QLs for an early
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen episode. Quick is as charismatic as he is
Speaker 3: funk in his conversation covering his career growth and passion
Speaker 3: for music. Also look out for Quick's latest album, Chupacabra,
Speaker 3: which is releasing this month.
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Speaker 6: Yeah greater than Yeah Andrew Young, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I said it.
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Speaker 7: My name is Fante Yeah, and y'all might disagree. Yeah,
Speaker 7: but my favorite quicks groove Yeah number.
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Speaker 8: Roll calm sweet yeah, black, yeah, pussy Yeah.
Speaker 5: Some SUPREMEA roll call Supreme Sun, Suprema.
Speaker 7: Roll call my name Boss Bill. Yeah, and I'm no
Speaker 7: donkey yeah because I know quick. Yeah, it's way too funky.
Speaker 4: Roll call Supreme some something Supremo, roll call Suprema Son
Speaker 4: Son Subpremo.
Speaker 2: Roll call.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I'm in his town.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's DJ quick. Yeah, can we get that?
Speaker 10: Roll call Supremo Supremo, roll call Supremo something something Suprema
Speaker 10: roll call.
Speaker 2: I ain't no joke. Yeah, sometimes I'm funny. Yeah. When
Speaker 2: I'm a pimp, I make records like yeah, bitch, better
Speaker 2: have my money.
Speaker 10: Roll call Supreme Suprema, roll call Supremo something Supremo, roll
Speaker 10: Suprema something something Supremo, roll call Suprema Son Suprema.
Speaker 7: Roll call suck and Steve with the mic dropping you
Speaker 7: just want to stay black. I want to say I
Speaker 7: had that album and I had to listen to it
Speaker 7: very quiet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, moms, did you ever.
Speaker 7: Quick punishment? I didn't have a quick didn't get me
Speaker 7: in trouble. I'm surprised, but.
Speaker 11: Yeah, because my mama loved Tonight like she loved Tonight,
Speaker 11: Like man, if the record Tonight, Man, my mama loved Tonight.
Speaker 2: Oh man, yeah, she loved Tonight.
Speaker 11: But like so I bought the tape and I let
Speaker 11: her just Tonight was the only thing she heard me
Speaker 11: play because the first everything rest.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I blame Sweet Black.
Speaker 2: That was real low. I'm like, oh my god, Well
Speaker 2: I'll be able to go nowhere. You know what's funny
Speaker 2: about that record? Man, I wasn't gonna do an album.
Speaker 2: I was producing this group called the House. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: they were so righteous and so like hardcore. It was like,
Speaker 2: you know, people want to party to like, let's do
Speaker 2: a couple of party records. So when I would like,
Speaker 2: you know, I was just the producers like players, stay
Speaker 2: in your place, just do the beats, We'll handle the lyrics, right,
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, cool man. So you know, he had
Speaker 2: these big records, words like pestilence, and you know, it's
Speaker 2: like I don't know, you know, I was like, man,
Speaker 2: can we talk about eight ball? Like, so they did
Speaker 2: a classic thing too, right? Yeah? Yeah, that sh it
Speaker 2: was hot. Hey man, we flipped it right? Was that
Speaker 2: was the good old days when the record companies used
Speaker 2: to do pos send your check and you just going
Speaker 2: to the studio where But yeah, man, it was that
Speaker 2: was out of necessity that I did those records.
Speaker 12: By the way, ladies and gentlemen, and we have one
Speaker 12: of the greatest ever in the studio with us DJ Quick.
Speaker 6: Anyway, I'm not doing any long support.
Speaker 11: Man, d if when I wish this from day one, bro, Seriously, Okay,
Speaker 11: I was gonna cut the superlatives down.
Speaker 2: And all that stuff.
Speaker 12: But wait, what was the word you were pests? Yeahatilist down. No,
Speaker 12: but I will say that, uh, I mean, this is
Speaker 12: beyond slept on because I don't even think it's slept
Speaker 12: on because people.
Speaker 2: Know, like if you know, you know, if you know
Speaker 2: you know. But for me, I don't know any.
Speaker 12: Producer this consistent with quality like far in their career.
Speaker 12: I believe that Quick produces and makes records like it's
Speaker 12: his first album, Like you can tell he actually still
Speaker 12: cares about the quality product because usually like after the
Speaker 12: I mean forget rappers with like the fourth and fifth
Speaker 12: album usually by like the seventh or eighth, like they
Speaker 12: you know, start to wane off or whatever, or they
Speaker 12: rely on someone else's swag.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and I have to say, like it is, it
Speaker 12: is criminally uh insane to me that his name does.
Speaker 2: Not come up.
Speaker 12: I agree, great yeah and yeah and in his production game,
Speaker 12: his patches, his chord structures, his production is everything, you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean.
Speaker 7: Look, I don't know many rappers that have had songs
Speaker 7: with like entire fucking full string sections.
Speaker 2: Like nobody does that, man, no one does. Nobody does that,
Speaker 2: but quick, so thank you for it. I appreciate it.
Speaker 12: I mean, I know I know people that are who
Speaker 12: are underrated or whatever, who are under praised or whatever,
Speaker 12: get tired of answering the question like how does it
Speaker 12: feel to be under you know, like Tarik K's that question.
Speaker 2: Like, but does it frustrate you?
Speaker 12: Had all that it it did that people don't recognize
Speaker 12: or when listener made like it.
Speaker 2: Did, But now it's like I didn't. I kicked my
Speaker 2: care out the window, like don't. I don't look for
Speaker 2: that no more because I realized you have to have
Speaker 2: like a Philip Drummond, like Dre had with you know,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Ivan. You got to have the big daddy Warbucks
Speaker 2: who will just keep throwing money at you whether you
Speaker 2: win or lose, whether you're you know, succeeding or failing,
Speaker 2: and who will take the losses with you. I never
Speaker 2: had that person to invest, so I ended up having
Speaker 2: to be independent and do it myself. And I just
Speaker 2: refused to pay somebody to say good things about me
Speaker 2: in the media's like or you know, quick, it's going
Speaker 2: to be you know, here or there. I'll tell you
Speaker 2: one one good thing though, and this is most recent.
Speaker 2: This is how I know I'm not that underrated, because
Speaker 2: the Jackson estate has been inviting me to really important
Speaker 2: things lately, really like I went to Joe Jackson's memorial
Speaker 2: and invited to Michael Jackson's sixtieth birthday party tomorrow at
Speaker 2: Mandalay Bay, you know, per the Jackson Estates. Evidently I'm
Speaker 2: you know, and I got a chance to talk to
Speaker 2: Janet at the memorial and whatnot. Too yeah for you
Speaker 2: to offer you Jimmy James Terry was hired me for that,
Speaker 2: and I've hung out with some of the best people
Speaker 2: like you know, uh, Jimmy James, Terry Lewis and pretty
Speaker 2: much all of the time. Jesse Johnson is one of
Speaker 2: my favorite people. We had him on the show recently.
Speaker 2: I love Jesse. He's one of the greatest guitar players ever,
Speaker 2: like he you know, you know, Quincy Jones. I've been
Speaker 2: in the studio with you know, super great Colin Powell
Speaker 2: even wow, you know, not that studio. I've been in
Speaker 2: like a meeting. It was it was he was supposed
Speaker 2: to be the first black president. But anyway, like when
Speaker 2: I realized that I'm in the room with Colin Powell
Speaker 2: and doctor Dre and Quincy Jones and Russell Simmons and
Speaker 2: Sugar all at the same time, It's like I'm supposed
Speaker 2: to be there, So I'm cool. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe I don't put the pomp poms up and
Speaker 2: cheer enough of myself, but to me, like question, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm still in the studio with buying new knee testsy
Speaker 2: threes and teaching my guys how to record you know,
Speaker 2: real analog and get a big sound that doesn't die,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, that doesn't date. That's where
Speaker 2: I'm at with it all right, So.
Speaker 12: For the one person out there that's listening to our podcast,
Speaker 12: could you tell our audience.
Speaker 2: Where were you born and raised?
Speaker 6: This is the first question I always asked, Where were
Speaker 6: you born and raised?
Speaker 2: I was born. I was born in l A. But
Speaker 2: we moved to Compton when I was five years old,
Speaker 2: so I was technically raised in Compton, but I was
Speaker 2: born in l A.
Speaker 6: Okay, you know what were your What was your childhood
Speaker 6: introduction to music?
Speaker 2: Childhood introduction to music was my You know, I come
Speaker 2: from a big family, like ten, eight sisters, one brother,
Speaker 2: one of them kids. Where did you fall?
Speaker 12: I'm the baby. I got all the you know, the
Speaker 12: beast stuff like that. But no, you also got the
Speaker 12: record collections. Yes I did, because I'm certain that the
Speaker 12: trickle down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my sisters used to They used to have me
Speaker 2: play their records for their boyfriends when they used to
Speaker 2: come over, Like look what watch what he could do?
Speaker 2: I couldn't even really talk. I was in diapers, but
Speaker 2: I could go play Heaven must be like this off
Speaker 2: the Ohio Players record because I knew it was on
Speaker 2: this side of the record and it was this far in.
Speaker 2: So I would drop needles and they loved it. Man,
Speaker 2: I couldn't even really talk. You know. That was my thing.
Speaker 2: And my mother, you know, she used to have us
Speaker 2: listening to like the Impressions, Kurse Mayfield and Reatha Franklin
Speaker 2: and you know all the you know Al Green all
Speaker 2: that stuff. Like she was. She was heavy onto the
Speaker 2: into soul funk and you know James Brown, R and
Speaker 2: B all that stuff. Any of your other siblings musicians, Uh,
Speaker 2: you know that my brother, my mother used to buy
Speaker 2: him drum sets and he would just stab them with
Speaker 2: the sticks. He was like I don't want to do this,
Speaker 2: but I would get on him and do it. You did.
Speaker 2: I played like a little quarter note beach. You know.
Speaker 2: They was like it'd be like, get off some drums
Speaker 2: and Perry drums. I was like, Perry's just trying to
Speaker 2: destroy him, Like can I have them? No, get out
Speaker 2: of here. It's like they didn't want to let me
Speaker 2: shine with my music, but I found a way to
Speaker 2: do it anyway.
Speaker 12: Oh okay, So what was your record collection? Did you
Speaker 12: somehow acquire your own or was it just like based on.
Speaker 2: What I used to buy records. I started buying records
Speaker 2: when I was like eight. You remember the first one
Speaker 2: you caught. Your first record I bought was the forty
Speaker 2: five of Chicks Lay Freak on Atlantic Records, Okay, and
Speaker 2: it didn't stop. The second one I bought was around
Speaker 2: the same time, was the forty five Not Just Needy
Speaker 2: by Parliament Funkadelic, you know, and it started there then.
Speaker 2: You know, that was before hip hop obviously, but I
Speaker 2: was into all those records, like I'll buy Temptations records
Speaker 2: and pretty much all the new black records that came out.
Speaker 2: We had, you know, Compon had this small record record
Speaker 2: store on Rosecrans and we used to go up there
Speaker 2: and just you know, we used to buy records by sight,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like that looked like that's
Speaker 2: a good record, the album cover by the album cover,
Speaker 2: so you know them was the days and I collected.
Speaker 2: I ended up That's how I ended up being a DJ.
Speaker 2: I would by just keep buying records until I had
Speaker 2: a bunch of records, you know.
Speaker 12: So we even designated like black DJ or Backyard Party.
Speaker 2: Absolutely bro we had you know, I grew up in
Speaker 2: the Blood neighborhood, so all the crypt neighborhoods, them niggas
Speaker 2: had the money, so we would go DJ some of
Speaker 2: their parties and then get chased out of their neighborhood
Speaker 2: when they realized that dangerous man. It was dangerous days
Speaker 2: back then. We used to DJ and crip neighborhoods like
Speaker 2: Palmer Block and you know mc nolly or whatever to
Speaker 2: you know, because they had the money. And when they
Speaker 2: realized who I was was like the neighborhood I was from,
Speaker 2: they get the gathering around me looking crazy, even if
Speaker 2: he was rocking the park, even if he was dat matters. Wow,
Speaker 2: it was. It was weird back then. It's so territorial,
Speaker 2: but the music transcended all that. It was crazy. So
Speaker 2: how did how did you assuming that you play? How
Speaker 2: many instruments do you play? I played piano, I play drums, percussion.
Speaker 2: I just bought a violin, but I don't know if
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get into that. I play, you know, just
Speaker 2: bought a little you know, try it out, just to
Speaker 2: see see if I could, you know, hold the bowl right.
Speaker 6: And you know, you know what's weird.
Speaker 12: I'm skipping to your record deal. But you know, one
Speaker 12: that profile really pimped you out to be like the
Speaker 12: Warming band. I mean, you're basically Prince aut this motherfucker
Speaker 12: and hip hop. But why wasn't that even exploited.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if if Jimmy what was his name,
Speaker 2: Corey Arlins Steve, I don't know if Corey Corey was
Speaker 2: just into the music, like at first he didn't get it.
Speaker 2: It was really the Dave Masster h the A and
Speaker 2: R man who signed me because he was based over
Speaker 2: here on the West and he knew what my record
Speaker 2: was in the streets because everybody was talking about it.
Speaker 2: So he was the one who champion me getting that
Speaker 2: deal and I got a big deal, million dollar deal
Speaker 2: in all this good shit. But Corey was like, you know, hey,
Speaker 2: you're selling records. Just keep doing what you're doing. You know,
Speaker 2: you want to come see my apartment in Queen's you
Speaker 2: know whatever they was in New York, you know, And
Speaker 2: I hadn't been, so, I mean, they didn't exploit that,
Speaker 2: and I don't think I played it up, but I
Speaker 2: knew that it.
Speaker 12: Really had no clue because it wasn't to like maybe
Speaker 12: rhythm atalism. Yeah that I realized like, oh wait, I'm
Speaker 12: playing the basic Yeah. I just thought, like you know,
Speaker 12: back then, I would at least for the first two records.
Speaker 12: I didn't know that you were self produced and doing
Speaker 12: all that stuff yourself.
Speaker 2: I was. It came from just not having people. I
Speaker 2: didn't have relationships with musicians back then, so I would
Speaker 2: just learn how to play the part. Like if I
Speaker 2: hear a baseline in my head and it's it's it's
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's nothing genius. It's just if I
Speaker 2: hear James Brown based down on a baseline that I like,
Speaker 2: I learned how to play that and then expand on
Speaker 2: that and go somewhere different modulated play than another key.
Speaker 2: So you know, it was basically, you know, it was
Speaker 2: a you know, a means to an end. I didn't
Speaker 2: have the facilities and I didn't have the musicians at
Speaker 2: that point, so I would just play some of that
Speaker 2: stuff myself.
Speaker 11: How did you How did profile find you? Being on
Speaker 11: the West coast? How did the East Coast label find it?
Speaker 2: Just opened up an office on Sussett Boulevard, Hollywood, and
Speaker 2: my cassette. I was selling my cassette out of my
Speaker 2: underground tape, the Red tape, out of pretty much by
Speaker 2: word of mouth, like people will call me be like,
Speaker 2: hey man, they want ten of your tapes over here
Speaker 2: on you know, one hundred and thirty ninth who am
Speaker 2: So I'll just get in the car, go sell ten tapes,
Speaker 2: come back with a hundred bucks, you know, can't it
Speaker 2: make more copy of it? And then it started getting crazy,
Speaker 2: like man, we want they want a hundred tapes over here.
Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, you know, as long as a hundred
Speaker 2: tapes with the King would double cassette, you know, we
Speaker 2: had that. But then I ended up getting one of
Speaker 2: the little from the we had this and I love
Speaker 2: the facilities in l A. Back then, there was a
Speaker 2: record pool called what was it called They're gonna hate
Speaker 2: me cording traits, gonna hate me for this, uh Impact
Speaker 2: record Pool. Impact used to have a cassette duplicator and
Speaker 2: they let me use it. So I have my little
Speaker 2: master tape and I'd have the three so I was
Speaker 2: just put in, just let it roll, flip, go do
Speaker 2: it again. And I was handwriting the you know, the
Speaker 2: stickers and put it on, yeah, the labels, and I
Speaker 2: was really I didn't realize I was distributing my own product.
Speaker 2: What was your what was on the mixtapes? The what
Speaker 2: what was on the mixtapes? Pretty much some parts of
Speaker 2: my first album like Tonight was on there. I think
Speaker 2: Border Raised too. You know, I just started like sampling
Speaker 2: stuff and happened. You know, I had this task have
Speaker 2: four tracks, so you know I was in there getting
Speaker 2: I was multi tracking, you know what I mean, And
Speaker 2: you know doing I came from the you know, listening
Speaker 2: to like mixed Master Spade and Toddy T and King T.
Speaker 2: Those are all the guys that we wanted to immolate
Speaker 2: and be like in competent yep, pretty much the way
Speaker 2: they was doing it, like you know on cassettes with
Speaker 2: the vibe. We all wanted that reverb, that vibe box colleague.
Speaker 12: So I have family out here in uh Pasadena, so
Speaker 12: I sometimes visit for the summer, and I remember the
Speaker 12: summer of eighty five, no one on the West coast
Speaker 12: knew what the show and Lottie Dotty was did. They
Speaker 12: were like, well, I meant like my cousins didn't know
Speaker 12: because I'm trying to tell them about Slick Ricky Ducky
Speaker 12: Fresh and They're like yeah, and but they were like
Speaker 12: no man batteran And so when I would go home
Speaker 12: back to Philly.
Speaker 6: I was like, y'all, y'all know about batteran hell, can't
Speaker 6: stop it.
Speaker 2: They were just like no, But they couldn't relate because
Speaker 2: the battle Rom was the was Chief Daryl Gates figuring
Speaker 2: out how to destroy houses and write it off because
Speaker 2: they used to back before the Battle Ram, they used
Speaker 2: to to the drug houses. They used to attach chains
Speaker 2: to the iron you know, the iron the iron doors,
Speaker 2: you know, in the bars that we used to get
Speaker 2: so they would you know, pull a tow truck up
Speaker 2: attached to it and punch out and snatch the door
Speaker 2: off and run in there the battle roum. And but
Speaker 2: by the time they got in there, because you know niggas,
Speaker 2: no niggas can hear them outside setting up. You know,
Speaker 2: the niggas is in there flushing the drugs, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, and getting rid of shit and breaking
Speaker 2: out the back door and running whatever. So they figured
Speaker 2: the battle Ram would cut that time off. They start
Speaker 2: catching niggas running up in their house with that batter um.
Speaker 2: Niggas shocked and see a tank in they fucking house,
Speaker 2: cocaine with a tank in your.
Speaker 6: What was the first piece of equipment that you acquired
Speaker 6: for your.
Speaker 2: A cast It was a Cassio Easy, It was a
Speaker 2: c Z one on one. I want to say, like
Speaker 2: the little white one with the like the little twenty
Speaker 2: or thirty something keys, And I used to just sit
Speaker 2: up and practice on that, like practice baselines and you know,
Speaker 2: little piano parts or whatever. But it was like nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty two. It was the cassio didn't have a drummer
Speaker 2: scene on it too, or I had the little just
Speaker 2: little rhythms where it's like sixteen beat all the precepts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, but how would you utilize like how would
Speaker 2: you make your mixt sound? Yeah, yeah, you already know.
Speaker 2: Pause mixing was everything, and you had to have a
Speaker 2: certain kind of yo, yeah, let out, yeah, swing when
Speaker 2: you let up. It wasn't just you couldn't be lazy
Speaker 2: with it because your mix or ruined. You know. And
Speaker 2: back then, if you did a pause mixed right, yours
Speaker 2: would become like the gospel of that song, Like say
Speaker 2: you did Heartbreaker by Roger Troutman and Zap. If you
Speaker 2: pause mixed it right and distributed that, everybody think that
Speaker 2: you you know, that was the version of it. You
Speaker 2: know what I mean, if you did it right, it'll
Speaker 2: become a legendary mix. You know. Really, I mean we
Speaker 2: were we're so underachieving back then, Like we had a
Speaker 2: low parameter for now, but everybody talks about the mix
Speaker 2: Hey man, Sanuel, Yeah, what was it, Samuel, cassette deck,
Speaker 2: Sue Fisher, Fisher, so you know, and I was amazed
Speaker 2: the first time I hooked up, because you know, back
Speaker 2: then we could. I couldn't afford two turntables, so I
Speaker 2: had one turntable, and to try to make it sound
Speaker 2: like too, I had two cassette decks, so I would
Speaker 2: record half of the program or whatever I was doing
Speaker 2: on one cassette and then bring that cassette back into
Speaker 2: the mixer and go to a second cassette while the
Speaker 2: turntable was live. So I was overdubbing. I was learning
Speaker 2: how to overdeub with two cassette decks and one turntable.
Speaker 2: And that was you know, you you did what you
Speaker 2: had to do back then. Like you know, so from
Speaker 2: the demo tape, the red tape you made that guy, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they got profile got it from off the streets and
Speaker 2: we had I just started working with like AMG and
Speaker 2: was trying to bring uh the guy second and then
Speaker 2: and and whatnot from the neighborhood, you know, just to
Speaker 2: do little local stuff around you know, La and abroad
Speaker 2: and a coordney Tracy, who was like my pay with
Speaker 2: my friends. At that point, they got in touch with Profile.
Speaker 2: Profile already heard of me, so they started negotiating a
Speaker 2: deal for me. But Fred Manial from Select Records was like, hey,
Speaker 2: I want to be in that, you know, I give
Speaker 2: him thirty five that They was like, Profile was like,
Speaker 2: I would give him forty five, and they was like quick,
Speaker 2: just I'm like take it, take it. Come on forty five.
Speaker 2: Are y'all talking about forty five thousand dollars? I already have.
Speaker 2: I already had that check. Spin I'm finna get a Jetta,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't think I'm finna spend it, you know.
Speaker 2: But it ultimately went up and up and up until
Speaker 2: it was like, you know, over one hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: and then it was like, Okay, that's just some bullshit.
Speaker 2: This ain't this is a dream, this is a lie.
Speaker 2: You know. Niggas like us don't get that lucky. You know,
Speaker 2: I come from welfare and hard knocks and shit. Niggas
Speaker 2: stealing my equipment and my sister burning it up, being
Speaker 2: mad jealous of me, like you ain't gonna be successfulfucker,
Speaker 2: throw my turntables in the firtplace. Yeah. Wow, man, My
Speaker 2: sister Jackie, she's gonna hear this too. She taught me
Speaker 2: how to sell cracks. So her thing was if I
Speaker 2: wasn't loyal to her, she would destroy everything that I
Speaker 2: bought in the dope game. So she and she would
Speaker 2: do it in front of the niggas in the hood,
Speaker 2: like that was the only bad part of my growing up.
Speaker 2: She would show off in front of them niggas who
Speaker 2: was like oh. Usually as an example, yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: like checking you know, come watch what I'm finna do. Okay.
Speaker 12: So a common element amongst a lot of the people
Speaker 12: that we interview on the show, especially with producers, especially
Speaker 12: with great producers, is that they start out as DJs,
Speaker 12: but they're also DJs and high pressure situations. So we
Speaker 12: noticed that uh, Jimmy Jam, who each week had to
Speaker 12: entertain at least a crowd of six hundred people, like
Speaker 12: no song, could be a loser in the bunch, like
Speaker 12: he the pressure to keep the pressure.
Speaker 2: That pressure gets you right and of course right.
Speaker 12: And then Doctor D's story of like if I play
Speaker 12: the wrong song or the wrong mix and they're gonna
Speaker 12: start shooting up in here. So it's almost like being
Speaker 12: a DJ in a high pressure situation where lives might
Speaker 12: be on the line, makes you a better producer because
Speaker 12: you automatically know what's going to work. So what was
Speaker 12: your what was your template as far as working on
Speaker 12: your your your first record?
Speaker 2: I wanted to do, I mean, because of course we
Speaker 2: grew up listening to the album cuts from Deaf Jam,
Speaker 2: like I Feel Good about Candy, you know, even like
Speaker 2: Chuck Stanley, like the R and B stuff that let
Speaker 2: you I'm gonna sample that, never gonna let you go.
Speaker 2: It's hot. But you know, I never listening listening to
Speaker 2: listening to those records, like even if you didn't play
Speaker 2: them at a club or at your party, you had
Speaker 2: to kind of like know what was going on my
Speaker 2: chimpleate was I figured? You know, I was really into reggae,
Speaker 2: like the Sugar Mine Nod and Sister nine C and
Speaker 2: you know, even more than just by everybody's by reggae.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's a bigger story, you know, a
Speaker 2: lot more to my God. So you know, listening growing
Speaker 2: up listening to all that what the Bomb Bomb and
Speaker 2: all that I wanted to do a record that just
Speaker 2: pretty much show people what my great range of music was.
Speaker 12: I wrote that kind of from scratch. I say, like
Speaker 12: there was a there was a token reggae. Reggae was
Speaker 12: big and Compton it was yeah.
Speaker 2: Around a big Ducky like the Cox family, Ducky Dave
Speaker 2: sheltering you know right now and they stars now they
Speaker 2: used to. They're from like fruit Town, the neighborhood across
Speaker 2: the street from us. Dave is like in the in
Speaker 2: the Straight Out of Compton movie, Ducky security for Rick
Speaker 2: Ross right now, David security for who is Dave security
Speaker 2: for nowadays? By day Dave David Cox from Fruetown, He's
Speaker 2: secure everybody. He You know, these guys used to play
Speaker 2: all the reggae in the hood, like they knew the
Speaker 2: reggae stuff. So we got our reggae chase from them,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But it was, believe it
Speaker 2: or not, it was people used to be days when
Speaker 2: we just played all reggae all day everything. So I
Speaker 2: wanted that, all them different elements, all this stuff my
Speaker 2: mother used to play. I wanted all that on my
Speaker 2: first album.
Speaker 11: Yeah, because I noticed, like you simple, because my mother.
Speaker 11: She was a big Emotions fan, and so I was surprised.
Speaker 2: I was like, man, what made him go for that? One?
Speaker 2: Was the one three? What is that? What's that? Shuffle? Shuffle? Yeah?
Speaker 2: It was it was shuffle. That was a hot record
Speaker 2: to us in the day. It was the first thing
Speaker 2: after the best of My Love. It was like, this
Speaker 2: is dope, and I just you know, I've been I
Speaker 2: was influenced by Blowfly. I ain't gonna lie and blow
Speaker 2: Flying corrupted me, you know, and I'll speed for it
Speaker 2: to say that. I didn't realize how vulgar my album
Speaker 2: was until I start having kids. I can't play Sweet
Speaker 2: Black Pussy around certain people. I wasn't born to raising
Speaker 2: con version, maybe because Pussy was funny and everybody in
Speaker 2: my click life was like the one. It's an attention
Speaker 2: grabber I was. I wrote that at nineteen, so you know,
Speaker 2: obviously I had only slept with like two or three people,
Speaker 2: but street people, you know, sweet and black black one
Speaker 2: another that black black ones Sweet. If they got nothing here,
Speaker 2: I don't care talk about it. Yeah, that's they keep
Speaker 2: you coming back, that's how you walking down the street.
Speaker 12: Like shout out to Tina Farris okay are you We're
Speaker 12: we're talking about Sweet Black Pussy on my tour.
Speaker 2: Managers like you better men weel. I didn't realize that
Speaker 2: it was times I was, like you said, like the pressure,
Speaker 2: the pressure or DJ. It was nights where I would
Speaker 2: forget to do that record in my lineup and really
Speaker 2: like my start right like the black girls are just
Speaker 2: me so bad, like every every woman.
Speaker 6: That's a DJ quick fan. That's the first song they mentioned.
Speaker 2: Man, I didn't realize I made like the staple record
Speaker 2: for the black woman movement. I had no compliments, you know,
Speaker 2: but I had this thing, y'all. I would certain people
Speaker 2: who got in trouble listen to my record authentically and
Speaker 2: they gave me a story about it, like they got punished,
Speaker 2: they got whooping. I would let them get that lig back.
Speaker 2: I'd be like, you can, but I let them get
Speaker 2: their lig back.
Speaker 11: It would have been worth the punishment. Man, What was
Speaker 11: the What was sample clearance is? Like back then, sample
Speaker 11: clearance is because of Bis Marquis. It was a gray area,
Speaker 11: like we were sampling crazy before it got legal. When
Speaker 11: you know, back then you'd had to clear the record
Speaker 11: through publishing, through master usage and license it and you know,
Speaker 11: but we was like, we ain't got no instrumentalists. This
Speaker 11: instrumental is dope. We're gonna put this on the tape.
Speaker 11: We're gonna rap to it.
Speaker 2: That's what it is. And people liked it when they
Speaker 2: figured it out, Like all the people who were sampling
Speaker 2: figured it out, they start making new laws. You know
Speaker 2: what I mean to, you know, to to to stop
Speaker 2: that shit getting junctions against our records and whatnot. But
Speaker 2: my thing was, if I blow y'all record up and
Speaker 2: y'all assume me, we still win, y'all still gonna get paid.
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna I can't run off with y'all money.
Speaker 2: Y'all money is being collected over here, and it's gonna
Speaker 2: take six to nine months to get to me anyway.
Speaker 2: You know, we work out a deal before that's over,
Speaker 2: and y'all good, y'all get y'all split. Betty Right when
Speaker 2: I sampled tonight and didn't clear it, I met her
Speaker 2: in Atlanta doing freaknickow wait intimate the intimate connections? You clear,
Speaker 2: I didn't clear none of that, but I had. I
Speaker 2: gave them. They was all publishing dexit designees. In other words,
Speaker 2: when they come after you you just keep their money
Speaker 2: there for them. I didn't know until the second time
Speaker 2: I start cleaning samples, like motherfucker. The first one, it
Speaker 2: was like we was just using the records that we
Speaker 2: liked and had. And when I met her, she was like,
Speaker 2: she said, you know, you made me a whole lot
Speaker 2: of money, don't you. I was like, I'm a fan.
Speaker 2: I love you, like we grew up to you, like
Speaker 2: you know, whatever, whatever you want. She was like, okay, no,
Speaker 2: I'm good baby, and you're a lot cuter in person.
Speaker 12: Then on your record, lady, she made she made tens
Speaker 12: of thousands of dollars off of that record.
Speaker 11: After that record, like after your first record was says
Speaker 11: I read in this It was then interview did in
Speaker 11: the source This was guys years ago. You said there
Speaker 11: was a record you did between the first one and
Speaker 11: way too funky and you scrap you like, no, I
Speaker 11: can't put this.
Speaker 2: It was it was starting out to be like weak
Speaker 2: and the records like back then, like you you throw
Speaker 2: away records you know ain't gonna work again. The pressure
Speaker 2: of a producer sometimes, you know, if you're if.
Speaker 12: You're self continued unit, who's your sounding board? I mean
Speaker 12: besides the board. You know your boys. I don't know
Speaker 12: if you roll with the crew that's like, yeah, that's
Speaker 12: dope every time you do something. So who's the sounding
Speaker 12: board that you trust that's gonna say like that ain't work.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like I don't like that sample, or you should
Speaker 6: not this.
Speaker 2: Greg Jesse Greedy.
Speaker 9: Greg.
Speaker 2: He was like my first manager. He's the one who
Speaker 2: actually helped facilitate my first deal and helped to get
Speaker 2: second and none their deal. Actually got them their deal,
Speaker 2: and AMG got him his deal and second to none.
Speaker 2: Them never admitted they to them. They were already the producers.
Speaker 2: They told they did an interview on the source. I
Speaker 2: was all happy. My thing was we we like the
Speaker 2: other n w A we cool slapping hands with him.
Speaker 2: Then niggas gon do interviews by theyself and be like, yeah, quick,
Speaker 2: he worked for us. We did all the beat, we
Speaker 2: put that in sp right. So he helped all of them,
Speaker 2: does helped everybody. He would be the one be like, no, man.
Speaker 2: He got a high pitch voice too. He'd be like, no, man,
Speaker 2: that ships why you can't even play the tempo is wrong?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. So he was right. So
Speaker 2: we tried to stay within these tempos that worked.
Speaker 12: You know, Okay, before I get to the history of
Speaker 12: quicks grooves, all fifty eleven of them. I mean that
Speaker 12: to me is like I wish you had the greatest
Speaker 12: hits of just your quick groove. Yeah, yeah, because it's
Speaker 12: like I look forward to those, Yeah, and I know
Speaker 12: a quick album right Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 2: Oh, what's quick group? Gonn sound like this time? Yeah?
Speaker 12: Which is weird because you went super ape shit on
Speaker 12: the rose Krans groove. Yeah, what was on your mind
Speaker 12: with if you heard the Rosekrans groove?
Speaker 2: I haven't heard that dog.
Speaker 12: He just I mean we stretched out each one pushes
Speaker 12: then envelope further.
Speaker 2: But I Crouch. I had Kenneth Crouch, Dave forming on guitar,
Speaker 2: David Balfour on keys as well. You had a bass
Speaker 2: player in there, my drummer, Keith Ross Peanut. So we
Speaker 2: was just playing around stuff and I just got the
Speaker 2: you know, I just got my favorite keyboard back. Because
Speaker 2: I used to have a profit. That was my secret weapon,
Speaker 2: Like when I was working on all Eyes on me,
Speaker 2: I can recreate like what's your phone number? The Prince
Speaker 2: stuff on my profit. But back then they didn't work
Speaker 2: that well because they was old. You bought them used,
Speaker 2: they was abused. They stayed in the shop, you know.
Speaker 2: So I just got my profit back of profit six
Speaker 2: the new one. I just started going back through what
Speaker 2: I used to remember about how that keyboard worked, and
Speaker 2: we just kept building on that little you know that
Speaker 2: four on the floor just go whatever you call it
Speaker 2: techno beat or whatever. But we wanted it to be
Speaker 2: spacious and have you know, and have fun. And Ken
Speaker 2: of Crouch just takes everything.
Speaker 12: Changing kids and modulating here the relative miners and all states.
Speaker 2: That's kend of Crouch.
Speaker 11: Following my following on the keys Man before, just because
Speaker 11: you mentioned it before, I get it too, dope, Hearts
Speaker 11: of men.
Speaker 2: How did you clear or we cleared that? Yes, we did.
Speaker 2: That was gonna make him some money. That was one
Speaker 2: of the first hip hop workerds he ever cleared. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say we became kind of cool because
Speaker 2: of that, because he liked the way it was done.
Speaker 2: I flipped I flipped the back the other way. I
Speaker 2: was like, I was like, yeah, quick as god.
Speaker 6: Yeah, here's the thing. I didn't know that that was
Speaker 6: until you told me. For the Prince episode, I'm so mad.
Speaker 2: I never knew. I can't believe that we get it back.
Speaker 2: I did it the other way and Prince douget. Also,
Speaker 2: that's a song off of George Clinton's Big Band record,
Speaker 2: Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns blow for Me too,
Speaker 2: for you that's the okay, Yeah, that's that looped with
Speaker 2: Prince with you know, basically the baseline I wrote, but
Speaker 2: the drums is You're getting a little bit too smart
Speaker 2: Detroy Emeralds, De Troy Emeralds. And also people don't know
Speaker 2: it was on a rare version of Yeah forty five.
Speaker 6: Did I ever tell the Dyler story about it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You told me the story.
Speaker 12: But all right, real quick, all right, so we're recording
Speaker 12: the Light yeah, common, And I thought Dylan was trying to.
Speaker 6: Not ghost me weapons when what's the term used, blow
Speaker 6: your way.
Speaker 2: When I was trying to psych you out and saying
Speaker 2: it was one thing.
Speaker 12: But I thought he was trying to play me on.
Speaker 12: I'm like, it's toy amos. He says no, no, I'm
Speaker 12: so higher players. And I was like feeling some sort
Speaker 12: of way for like three hours. I'm like, why is
Speaker 12: the motherfucker alignment? Like it's fucking the joy animals. He's like, nah, man,
Speaker 12: it's Ohio Players. Because I was taking the sample information
Speaker 12: down to give to the label and he's like, Ohio Players.
Speaker 12: And the thing is he didn't know that that was
Speaker 12: Troy Emeralds. And later we found out that Armine had
Speaker 12: just put that drum break on the five.
Speaker 2: So why would he do that? Like, I mean, I
Speaker 2: know it was Westbound Records. Thing. The producer did that
Speaker 2: and put the tag, the drum tag from I know
Speaker 2: that armor.
Speaker 12: The man that owns Westbound Records put that tag at
Speaker 12: the beginning. I don't know if I guess maybe for forty.
Speaker 2: Fives their radio. Probably for radio.
Speaker 12: Yeah, like, oh, that's right because there's instant talking at
Speaker 12: the very top.
Speaker 2: Of the thing exactly, and you need the little tag
Speaker 2: seven seconds. That still works now, j still do that
Speaker 2: put they put an instrument in front of some of
Speaker 2: my records when they just start on the one and lyrics,
Speaker 2: they'll they'll put that tag on there.
Speaker 6: So okay, we already said that quick number three that
Speaker 6: was mine.
Speaker 2: That was I mean, I like, but edited, I edited
Speaker 2: it was it was actually five minutes forty two seconds
Speaker 2: to shorten it, and I cut it by tape, you know,
Speaker 2: you record it and spice it, shorten it. But that's
Speaker 2: my man, Robert Bacon, who's one of the best base
Speaker 2: yeahs asked you about him, man, Like, what's I've never like, like,
Speaker 2: what's he? What's his deal? What's he doing? What you
Speaker 2: do on? Now? He's out with Sha Ka Khan? And
Speaker 2: how did you guys first look up high see my boy?
Speaker 2: He introduced me to him. He was a session player
Speaker 2: out here from Detroit and uh he played on Hot
Speaker 2: Seas first record Scanders. Yeah, And I was like, man,
Speaker 2: who was this dude? Like this dude back then we
Speaker 2: was looking for the next standing guitar man. Doctor Drake
Speaker 2: kicked the door in with having real musicians playing on
Speaker 2: your records, Like, dude, we gotta have musicians. And who
Speaker 2: did I end up picking for the first quack grew
Speaker 2: staying the guitar man wasn't nowhere around it? And where
Speaker 2: was he from? What was in his history? He's right
Speaker 2: around the corner from Dre. He grew up around the
Speaker 2: corner from Dre. I think on Town Town Avenue and
Speaker 2: and industrial comptons like Compton in l A like a
Speaker 2: borderline where it's like a little bougie. It's like, actually
Speaker 2: cool over there, likema village. I want to see me
Speaker 2: now or back then? I think he's still over there.
Speaker 2: I think it's Mama.
Speaker 13: No.
Speaker 2: I meant was it gentrified right now? It was back
Speaker 2: then I didn't had the ratchet part over here, then
Speaker 2: had the bougie part right across the street, and now
Speaker 2: it's all turning bougie. Yeah, it is. A property is
Speaker 2: so expensive over there right now.
Speaker 11: It's crazy after when you went into Way too funky?
Speaker 11: Were you by the time, because I mean the first
Speaker 11: record was a success. Yeah, were you making money then?
Speaker 11: Like were you straight?
Speaker 2: Yeah? When I got my first royalty check, I got
Speaker 2: it nine months after because I I this was my thing.
Speaker 2: I read that book This has this business of music,
Speaker 2: so I was already versed in how this publishing, these points,
Speaker 2: what percentages are, and I was happy to be up there.
Speaker 2: They was like, quick, you got twelve points on your record,
Speaker 2: do you know Michael Jackson got like eighteen twelve or
Speaker 2: sixteen or eighteen points? So that put you in a
Speaker 2: whole different class. And I was like, it's all sound good,
Speaker 2: you know, to the check get here, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? And I got my first royalty check and
Speaker 2: it was like six figures and I just relaxed. I
Speaker 2: was shooting music video for I think we was shooting
Speaker 2: quick as the name, and my man's Tracy and Courtney
Speaker 2: came up here and had me signed the check and
Speaker 2: I was like, She's like, whoa, that's a house that's
Speaker 2: motorcycles to Jedis And I did buy that Jedi. I
Speaker 2: gave it to but you know, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is this is what I'm going to be doing
Speaker 2: for the rest of my life. Wow, you know. But unfortunately,
Speaker 2: you know, hanging out with my man's second to none.
Speaker 2: You know, the gang thing was like kind of prevalent,
Speaker 2: and I was trying to downplay it, like I want
Speaker 2: to be a producer. I don't want to be this,
Speaker 2: you know where we came from. But you know, these
Speaker 2: guys they played it up a little bit. And we
Speaker 2: went to Denver and these guys throw a bottle in
Speaker 2: the audience and hurt some kids. So I get sued.
Speaker 2: Now I'm on trial. So my whole thing is bittersweet.
Speaker 2: It's like melancholy, like I'm happy, but I got to
Speaker 2: go to court.
Speaker 12: I'm looking at some jail times, please, because even to
Speaker 12: this day when I go to Denver, it's just like
Speaker 12: that's the only thing my reference.
Speaker 6: So first of all, what is what was touring?
Speaker 12: Like?
Speaker 6: How much of that song was autobiographical?
Speaker 2: It was the whole record was the truth. It was
Speaker 2: super dangerous because at that point I didn't know that
Speaker 2: there were other factions of gangs in cities that we
Speaker 2: had never been to, and they was waiting on us. Niggas. Wow,
Speaker 2: it was guns. It was shootouts to the point it
Speaker 2: became so frequent that after a while we wasn't even
Speaker 2: scared no more. It's like, yeah, they' gonna shoot to night.
Speaker 2: Sometimes they didn't shoot it be like fuck it. You know,
Speaker 2: get some groupies go back to the channel cake. So
Speaker 2: you be on stage, not knowing if it's gonna jump on.
Speaker 2: You can see them, they'll be in the audience and
Speaker 2: they'll be the only ones that's not dancing. They just
Speaker 2: like right, you know, just that weird shit, you feel it.
Speaker 2: But these guys they threw a they threw a forty
Speaker 2: Back then you could have props on the stage, like
Speaker 2: empty forty ounce bottles and shit, you know it's part
Speaker 2: of your stage shit. You know the fake trash can
Speaker 2: and the street light and whatever. And one of the guys,
Speaker 2: one of the members of this group, he threw a
Speaker 2: bottle into the audience had some crips and it didn't
Speaker 2: hit them, it hit some little kids. It broke and
Speaker 2: hit kids. So already quick concept back was a skating rink.
Speaker 2: It was cool, it was all ages, and I thought
Speaker 2: this was in the club. No, no, it was a
Speaker 2: skating rink. But what he did, by him throwing that
Speaker 2: bottle into the audience, it let me know that this
Speaker 2: guy is gonna be a liability. And I had to
Speaker 2: limit my you know, then I hate to go here,
Speaker 2: but you know, everybody got their little bad story when
Speaker 2: it comes to this hip hop ship, and my man's
Speaker 2: was they were just self destructive, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: and got me in trouble and I had to ride
Speaker 2: for that and people used to ask them. I was like,
Speaker 2: why y'all didn't come to support me when I went
Speaker 2: to the trial. Their whole ship was we don't do police.
Speaker 2: It's like, bro y'all so hard and so cool, y'all
Speaker 2: trying to ruin my career. You know, how long did
Speaker 2: it take you to learn that? Lesson was done immediately quick. Fact,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of the authorize like a decade. And
Speaker 2: it's funny because I don't have no like we was
Speaker 2: kids back then, but right now, like look he drinking.
Speaker 2: He got threatened by the same guy right and he
Speaker 2: was like, I want to punch this is a this's
Speaker 2: an R and B singer, But he wanted But he's
Speaker 2: just a weird old He's like, you know, some people,
Speaker 2: it's just weird though, like you know, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: so is it easy to say no? Yeah? And if
Speaker 2: I can just finish the touring. That case cost me
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars to fight it
Speaker 2: and to pay off the suits. And my check that
Speaker 2: I got was like two hundred grand man, So everything
Speaker 2: that I she just went to fighting this fucking case
Speaker 2: and then I had to pay taxes after that. So
Speaker 2: it taught me that you knows, niggas ain't got your
Speaker 2: best interests at heart. If they if they ain't the
Speaker 2: kind of people that who like insurance and you know,
Speaker 2: keeping your copa setic, you can't have them around you
Speaker 2: because they they will bring you down easily.
Speaker 12: We're all so simple, We're all those that were like
Speaker 12: like KK and I see, like we're all s Is
Speaker 12: touring with me right now.
Speaker 2: Kk Is. You know he's you know they you know,
Speaker 2: every time I talk about them, guys, I should say
Speaker 2: no comment. Every time I talk about him, they go
Speaker 2: public and be like, nah, we told y'all hating on us.
Speaker 2: It's like, bro, y'all did all the wrong things. And
Speaker 2: I think that's why they didn't become successful. They don't
Speaker 2: have to like record it's not bad, it's not bad,
Speaker 2: but you got to promote it, you know. And they
Speaker 2: didn't go out on the tours and really promote those records.
Speaker 2: And they talked about the record company. These niggas fucked
Speaker 2: us and we got a bad deal. It's like, y'all
Speaker 2: can't come into this business, stop smoking, fucking wet and
Speaker 2: get in the studio and make the records. And you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, trying to gang bang. What's this
Speaker 2: big East East coast part? You know, stop that ship,
Speaker 2: like get the money and I'm they're suffice it to say.
Speaker 2: Somebody offered them three million dollars bro and they turned
Speaker 2: it down and code man, he was Illuminati, Okay, nod.
Speaker 2: They were offered a significant million dollars back then, back
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety three, they did a soundtrack. We did
Speaker 2: a song for the above the Rim soundtrack. They mean
Speaker 2: to turn Yeah, Yeah, you a illuminati. Wow, Wow, I
Speaker 2: can't believe it. I was like, wow, Like, man, y'all
Speaker 2: could be rich. Y'all good songwriters. I know y'all good
Speaker 2: at heart, but it ain't really nothing I can say
Speaker 2: cool because I just watched them ruin a lot of things. Like,
Speaker 2: you know, they didn't really want it. Nah, No, that's
Speaker 2: what somebody said. They were scared of money. They like quick,
Speaker 2: that's money. Scared some people are they don't even know it.
Speaker 2: Scared of success. Man.
Speaker 11: One of my favorite productions of yours, Danny Boy Come
Speaker 11: when I called Bro Bro talking about.
Speaker 2: It, I'm just saying, I forget now, but we need
Speaker 2: to go back. If my introduction to Sugar and Death
Speaker 2: Row was song second and None didn't mean to Turn
Speaker 2: you on. That was my first dealings with you know,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Ivan and the great company of Interscope Records, in
Speaker 2: that whole system, which I totally love and I still
Speaker 2: think is the greatest West Coast record label of all time.
Speaker 2: But they you know, that was when the deal was offered,
Speaker 2: bro and I couldn't believe that anybody would turn that
Speaker 2: deal down. But Danny Boy was the second project I
Speaker 2: did in that system, and it was for compilations Murder.
Speaker 2: It was the case after you know, just all this
Speaker 2: stuff happened so fast, right, that was like a year
Speaker 2: later after my record that was ninety two, you know,
Speaker 2: ninety three, I think I want to say ninety three
Speaker 2: is when it came out. But you know, Sugar approached
Speaker 2: me to do something for his new signing, Danny Boy,
Speaker 2: who I thought sounded like a lot of a lot
Speaker 2: like my favorite R and B singer at the time,
Speaker 2: which was Stokely's A no brainer. I sat with Michael Henderson, Yes,
Speaker 2: I love you, and he cleared it two million. I
Speaker 2: just did that aramatic baseline, you know, B A B
Speaker 2: A G G flat, so just a black black, black white,
Speaker 2: and it.
Speaker 11: Just felt man, Thanks dude, I love that, you know that.
Speaker 11: And the remixes though I don't know if you did
Speaker 11: the remix, but there was I think the.
Speaker 2: Boys six or nine and them or did that remix.
Speaker 2: And at that point D J. Rogers started coming into
Speaker 2: the click. I found Warren Campbell, Baby Dog gave his nickname. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's so dope. He played on Safe and Sound like
Speaker 2: he's on all the pianos. He's on the piano on
Speaker 2: the favorite quick tu okay Yo.
Speaker 11: I heard the story we had premiere DJ Premiere on
Speaker 11: the on the show a while ago. It was like
Speaker 11: it was like that two years when we first started,
Speaker 11: and he all always told this story. He told me
Speaker 11: this story about Gangstar being on tour with you. I
Speaker 11: wanted to hear it from your side.
Speaker 2: It was you was on tour.
Speaker 11: It was you Gangstar and father them see yep and
Speaker 11: father them ship when he was on some Hollywood shit
Speaker 11: trying to be late so uk like so like before
Speaker 11: the show, You're like, yo, bring me some towels.
Speaker 2: I need like fifty towels.
Speaker 11: And so you came out during his set, Pat and
Speaker 11: your Jerry Curl and like pass him out to the
Speaker 11: crowd and like fucking up.
Speaker 2: Hey, I didn't realize that. You know me back then,
Speaker 2: we had been through too much. So our thing was
Speaker 2: we wanted to be cool with everybody because we were
Speaker 2: new to the industry and follow them. She was already
Speaker 2: popular and popping. And he used to do this thing
Speaker 2: where he would come late. No matter what his position
Speaker 2: in the lineup was, he would come late so he
Speaker 2: could be the headliner. So you had to you know,
Speaker 2: them venues had curfews, so yeah, yeah, you know you're
Speaker 2: don follow them. See you know, he'd be like, it's
Speaker 2: like yo, man, you late. He'd be like your marfled. Wow,
Speaker 2: you know, but hey, Jesus, dude, tying to do. But
Speaker 2: he Yeah, I got mad one night drinking Little millerginal drafting.
Speaker 2: I came out during this sad and did some buffoon
Speaker 2: and ship like that.
Speaker 11: You know, you know, no, no, no, Premo told you.
Speaker 11: He was like, dude, that's the most gangsy ship I
Speaker 11: ever saw.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 6: After that, father he got his ass in line.
Speaker 2: It was it was flex bro. But you know it's
Speaker 2: cool though, is is that keify d was the first
Speaker 2: person I ever smoked the blunt with. He told you know,
Speaker 2: he rode the blood for the first time. I was
Speaker 2: like blown away, like, well, you know we used to smoke.
Speaker 2: You know, we had white boll Yeah, so you know
Speaker 2: we in Canada with them and Guru passed me a blunt.
Speaker 2: I'm like, like, what is it like a cigar? You know,
Speaker 2: I hit that motherfucker. I was friends for life with Guru.
Speaker 12: Wait, it just hit me because you mentioned Jerry Crole
Speaker 12: and the tal thing. This is from Tina came I
Speaker 12: tour managers like one of your biggest fans. She wants
Speaker 12: to know how you managed to stay feathered so perfectly.
Speaker 2: You had the best hair because the way because the
Speaker 2: way too funky. That's we had it. Feathered hair was healthy.
Speaker 2: It was. I appreciate that I'm getting old now, but
Speaker 2: the trick was to me is to have the light
Speaker 2: skinned hairdressers because they knew hair tricks, the good hair girls,
Speaker 2: the ones got the good hair, just the best curl.
Speaker 2: They would put girls would not only would they put
Speaker 2: like the what was it called thiodrie, the hard stuff
Speaker 2: that burns, they would put conditioner in with it when
Speaker 2: they did your rollers, so it didn't tear your hair
Speaker 2: out and make your bridle fall out. So they would
Speaker 2: condition with the breakdown process like they would they was
Speaker 2: doing some and then they would rinse it out that
Speaker 2: and then look when they broke it down and I was,
Speaker 2: you know, curled up. When they shampooed and conditioned me,
Speaker 2: then I could go easily to a feather and it
Speaker 2: would hold because my curl pattern was already broken.
Speaker 9: I don't understand the feather though, it's because it's dry,
Speaker 9: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't understand. They would rinse me out. It was
Speaker 2: a whole process. It was just like a pressing curl.
Speaker 2: But because they would keep me conditioned, it kind of
Speaker 2: kept my hair healthy enough to take that heat.
Speaker 12: He's Jermaine Jackson Jackson. When you left the Jackson's was
Speaker 12: straight feathered.
Speaker 9: The difference is quick still got his. So this is
Speaker 9: like amazing. Those women don't have those kind of stories.
Speaker 9: I believe it was the pretty mean ass girls.
Speaker 2: Hair dressing. Well.
Speaker 11: They used to condition my hair and and roll it
Speaker 11: at the same time, so on safe and sound by
Speaker 11: the time you made it to your third record was
Speaker 11: priority at any profile? Were they just kind of just
Speaker 11: letting you do you like yo?
Speaker 2: Just they they were recouping, so I was cool. My
Speaker 2: thing was, I just never wanted to be in debt
Speaker 2: with nobody because that just seemed like some foule shit
Speaker 2: to do to anybody, just take their money. My thing is,
Speaker 2: we signed a deal, I'm gonna be live it to
Speaker 2: my side of the deal, you know. But they let
Speaker 2: me stretch out They didn't really check in on me,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, unless I was late with
Speaker 2: a record, and then they would do mean shit, like
Speaker 2: when they realized the gang shit wasn't going nowhere. When
Speaker 2: I caught that case, they was like, okay, so if
Speaker 2: you want the advance for your next record, we need
Speaker 2: you to sign this life insurance policy. Player. So they
Speaker 2: got to ensure. I'm thinking I was finna get my check.
Speaker 2: They came with a fucking like adjuster and what is
Speaker 2: this Just don't say, check any event of your untimely face.
Speaker 2: We get a million dollars for your death and we
Speaker 2: get to keep all your money.
Speaker 9: You know, didn't cite the kind of death. And then
Speaker 9: I'm just curious. Did it say something about bullets.
Speaker 2: It's say, if a nigga shoots you on your face,
Speaker 2: your ass, you die on rosecrans, nigga face down, we
Speaker 2: get a bonus.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: It was definitely that gang shit was so dangerous back then.
Speaker 6: Okay, So by ninety six.
Speaker 2: I was rich as fuck. Yeah, I got a poshing
Speaker 2: deal with Warner Brothers. You know, I was writing with
Speaker 2: Elder Bars Tupac. And there's one thing I got to ask.
Speaker 2: I go, man, I was writing my ass off.
Speaker 12: Because as many times as we talk about nineteen ninety
Speaker 12: five on the show, and most people, uh sort of
Speaker 12: talk about outcasts, hold the South, got something to say
Speaker 12: and doctor dre Oh trust me, I know I was God.
Speaker 12: You set it off. The very first thing that happened
Speaker 12: that had us in the audience, Like when I went
Speaker 12: at MC eight Yo, Okay, this is the thing. I
Speaker 12: had no context.
Speaker 2: Or I did.
Speaker 12: The thing was where we were sitting and you remember
Speaker 12: the intro was like everyone came out.
Speaker 2: Of death row. Yeah, yeah, that whole thing and you
Speaker 2: were first. Yeah, and.
Speaker 12: Me not get in the context, but watching the audience
Speaker 12: face like holy ship, he's singing right to m C.
Speaker 2: He was in the you know when you uh sound check,
Speaker 2: you get to see where everybody seats it they have
Speaker 2: the name there. Yeah, they had got an hour before.
Speaker 2: What were you When did you decide that I was
Speaker 2: gonna go hard? Yeah? It was a lot going on
Speaker 2: before that, Like there was a fight that I had
Speaker 2: at the l Way Theater where you know, I was
Speaker 2: implemented and like a death like you know, some one
Speaker 2: of his boys was in the audience and he was
Speaker 2: dissing me, and I started fighting with him, but it
Speaker 2: started this chain reaction where everybody started fighting in the club.
Speaker 2: So the club got tore down and somebody died that night.
Speaker 2: And it was it had nothing to do with me,
Speaker 2: but I felt like, damn, you know, me and this
Speaker 2: dude fighting and that energy just spread. So I was hot,
Speaker 2: Like I was just mad for some other reasons, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, And that when I knew that
Speaker 2: he was going to be on the show, I was like,
Speaker 2: you know, since we came in this dis war amicably,
Speaker 2: like I'm trying to talk to him, you know, like, man,
Speaker 2: the sources keeping this shit going, we just just dead
Speaker 2: this shit and we'll be like neighborhood heroes. We both
Speaker 2: from Compton, like let's do it. You know, I fuck
Speaker 2: with you. I even work with you on some records,
Speaker 2: Like let's just squash it. But he had people in
Speaker 2: his ear that I later found out through some people
Speaker 2: in his camp, that were keeping him from fucking with me.
Speaker 2: They didn't want that to happen. They was, you know, like, Nigga,
Speaker 2: if you do that, Nigga's game over for you because
Speaker 2: you get your niggas over, you know. It's like so
Speaker 2: they didn't let us build thing was. I just thought
Speaker 2: he was just mister billy badass. Was like just kept
Speaker 2: going at me. So I was enough enough, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? I wrote dollars and cents, and when
Speaker 2: I got a chance to perform it for him, I
Speaker 2: was like, man, and you know you you know, you
Speaker 2: make a nigga mad. When he started, I was talking
Speaker 2: gay shit on that motherfucker, like fucking this nigga. I've
Speaker 2: it was over. Like I wast my mind. I went crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's the thing. We sat there like what was it?
Speaker 2: I couldn't see his face, but what was his? I
Speaker 2: did it? Did you worry that? Like they were just
Speaker 2: going to run up? I was. I really wasn't worried
Speaker 2: because you know, I was friends with Snoop and dog Pound,
Speaker 2: like we was cool, so it was gonna happen. But
Speaker 2: the little bit, I know Snoop was cool with eight two,
Speaker 2: so it was like he wasn't in it. He wasn't
Speaker 2: you know he was gonna do it. Yeah, we rehearsed it,
Speaker 2: so he knew I was gonna do that. Dre knew everybody.
Speaker 2: Dreda one edited this song, you know, so when I
Speaker 2: had to do it, it was like you know, you
Speaker 2: you say something, you gotta back it up. So I
Speaker 2: backed it up. I knew the cool thing was. To me,
Speaker 2: the cool thing was that I got my hair done
Speaker 2: in l A before we came out there, because I
Speaker 2: didn't know hair dresses in New York. And I kept
Speaker 2: my hair bone straight for four days. You gotta put
Speaker 2: the pillow.
Speaker 9: Days when the girls had the Bufonts must have been
Speaker 9: the winter time would have been more challenging.
Speaker 2: You already know that humidity would have couldn't find the
Speaker 2: lights dress in New York.
Speaker 6: Okay, So after that show was over, I ran out
Speaker 6: right after that, Uh.
Speaker 2: Let it be know then you know the snoops, old snoop.
Speaker 2: I ran out. That was done.
Speaker 12: It's over right. So that night, what did the death
Speaker 12: Row camp do? Did y'all just fly back to California
Speaker 12: or did y'all know y'all.
Speaker 2: Stayed in New York? You want to know? It really
Speaker 2: hit me. Okay, my that night when the feud started,
Speaker 2: when she got up there and said what he said,
Speaker 2: and we that was a wild pitch for us. We
Speaker 2: didn't know what was going to happen. We just wanted
Speaker 2: to represent La. We was in Madison, Square Guarden. That
Speaker 2: was my first time there. So we was like in all,
Speaker 2: like you know, we're fans too, you know, we know
Speaker 2: hip hop started in or we know exactly what it is.
Speaker 2: We just felt like finally we got some money and
Speaker 2: we further in hip hop, like you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: and we love y'all niggas, like I want to work
Speaker 2: with Rocky Cam. I want to work with you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, fucking shit niggas. That was on my label,
Speaker 2: fucking ugh or No on profile. It was like poor
Speaker 2: righteous Special. I wanted to work with them niggas, like
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It's like we let you know.
Speaker 2: And Dana Dane. So after that, when when she got
Speaker 2: up there and through that wild pitch, we felt the
Speaker 2: heat from the audience behind it. So me and they
Speaker 2: dog was sitting next to each other, we stood up
Speaker 2: and just stood back to back like and Nate Dogg said, quick,
Speaker 2: if you don't let nobody hit me in the back
Speaker 2: of my head, I don't let nobody hit you in
Speaker 2: the back of your head. I'm like, bro, you ain't
Speaker 2: gotta say nothing else. She knew it was. It was
Speaker 2: so it was so chill bump and you know, blackout,
Speaker 2: like it was just weird.
Speaker 11: We had Steed out on the show a couple it
Speaker 11: was a while back, and he was there and he
Speaker 11: says like that in a lot of rooms.
Speaker 2: He was, He said, that's the energy was devilish. It
Speaker 2: was like it was like everybody could have just got
Speaker 2: killed that night. That's what it felt like. It just
Speaker 2: felt like red light on everybody. So what we did
Speaker 2: was Shug had I think he had the on the
Speaker 2: sales the mind you not what you call it? Dope
Speaker 2: aest hotel, my hotel. It's not the paramount, No, it's
Speaker 2: the one that Biggie wrapped about. Tupockey is just stayed
Speaker 2: there all the time. They have the numbers on the.
Speaker 12: Floor, the park Parking, Tupac Central Part two, the Lark
Speaker 12: that Parker's.
Speaker 2: Were we're there and Sugar had Mia come over. Did
Speaker 2: he's baby Mama? WHOA a lot of people don't know this,
Speaker 2: this is only on your show, Quest And I'm going, Shug,
Speaker 2: what are you doing? Like what the fuck? Like that's
Speaker 2: did he baby Mama? And she was just like, you know,
Speaker 2: hanging out like whatever, you know, And I was like
Speaker 2: Mary J. Blige popped up, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It was like I didn't get it. It just got
Speaker 2: weird to me. Did she calmed down? Maybe she was
Speaker 2: just there to come? I hope. You know.
Speaker 7: Well, I always thought it was weird that the Sugar
Speaker 7: started working with Joe to Yeah, yeah, like and all those, all.
Speaker 2: Those he managed them. He ended up managing everybody like
Speaker 2: you know, got in their business with MCA, and that's
Speaker 2: kind of you know, did you do it in my room?
Speaker 2: Did you? Okay? Okay? He was She wanted to be
Speaker 2: everybody's manager because he wanted to shake down every record company.
Speaker 2: His intentions was good, but I think at some point
Speaker 2: it started driving sure crazy too. It was just because
Speaker 2: the fame and everybody trusted him, like he had everybody
Speaker 2: wanting to do business with him. I mean, you'll be
Speaker 2: I was there when Hammer was there, it would be
Speaker 2: me MC Hammer, Roger Troutman, Leroy Hudson, fucking Josy, nigga, nigga, everybody, nigga, nigga.
Speaker 2: Everybody went to death row everybody, everybody. But that's crazy.
Speaker 2: What is it about Sugar?
Speaker 9: Because I mean again, coming from security to be in
Speaker 9: an executive managed super manager, Like what.
Speaker 2: Was that charisma as a he was giving everybody results.
Speaker 2: He was getting motherfuckers paid from their record company. He
Speaker 2: was shaking their record companies up, and they were right
Speaker 2: to check to you. And he was just scaring the
Speaker 2: ship out of folks out of niggas. Did you work
Speaker 2: on Sam? Sam? I worked on one of two songs
Speaker 2: of Sam to recognize you. No, it wasn't recognized that
Speaker 2: it was dre It was one thing I did with Sam.
Speaker 2: I forgot Okay, let's let's finally get it out there.
Speaker 2: Let's get it out there.
Speaker 12: In the dog Pound record dog Food, I was, yeah,
Speaker 12: are your patches the common patch of are you the
Speaker 12: Marley Maul of the West Coast? Marley mal infamously had
Speaker 12: you know his president? And then next thing you know,
Speaker 12: a billion rappers are using.
Speaker 2: I sampled Lady Groove by the Fat Back Band, and
Speaker 2: I cleaned it up through SSL console and made it
Speaker 2: sound like a breakbeat because it was all noisy and
Speaker 2: reverb beat. But I tightened it up and I used
Speaker 2: it for Second and Nun's song be True to Yourself.
Speaker 2: The twelve inch we did like this European twelve inch
Speaker 2: where I was cutting, taping, breaking it down to a break,
Speaker 2: and Warren g sampled it. No your guy. He used
Speaker 2: to do the compilations of European compilations where they would
Speaker 2: do no. He was what's my man's name? Uh No,
Speaker 2: he was super popular. We'd all buy his records back
Speaker 2: like he was from Europe and he would do these
Speaker 2: breakbeat records. Simon Harris, Simon Harris. Simon Harris sampled me
Speaker 2: and put my break on his record and named it
Speaker 2: after one of kk's lines in the record Keep Cool
Speaker 2: Little Girl called it to keep Cool Little Girl break.
Speaker 2: But it was that, you know it, It was killing.
Speaker 2: Warren sampled it for Indoor Smoke and it became his
Speaker 2: bottom beat name. It was used on Black Superman for
Speaker 2: Above the Law, and it just became the common clap.
Speaker 6: That's that West Coast clap.
Speaker 2: Those are real claps. Some of them are we you know,
Speaker 2: we're in the bathroom with a dynamic mic clap and
Speaker 2: then eq it and you know, sample them. But that
Speaker 2: was the that was the color like to because we
Speaker 2: didn't have that that clap trap that Parliament used to
Speaker 2: use for like all them them funky records, you know,
Speaker 2: Flashlight arcle boogie, So we made them ourselves you know,
Speaker 2: and I ended up giving up. I sam with some
Speaker 2: other ones and did a real dope color that. You know.
Speaker 2: Claps are colors, you know, they're either big and buff
Speaker 2: or they're light and tiny. And I did some big,
Speaker 2: buff media ass claps and gave him the Dre and
Speaker 2: he used them for fucking in the club. Yeah. The
Speaker 2: the only the claps are that was Dre snare and
Speaker 2: kick and everything else. But the claps, they're also the
Speaker 2: same claps from True Heart's Addictives. They're I could give
Speaker 2: them to me and you shared. You gave me a
Speaker 2: file bro of some Prince stuff that blew me away,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to give you back some you know.
Speaker 2: I got p y t and then broke down it
Speaker 2: that kid, you pee my tea. I'm like, see this,
Speaker 2: I know your nerve man.
Speaker 6: With me, So you get the you get the master.
Speaker 6: And then suddenly you want to see what Michael.
Speaker 2: I. You know, I put it in waves and slowed
Speaker 2: down and listen to HIMIM like we did the same kids.
Speaker 2: You pet you tea, and it's like, wow, that's what
Speaker 2: you saying, right man? Man.
Speaker 11: I always knew what I knew about the beef with
Speaker 11: you and eight. What was the basis of Beef with
Speaker 11: You and House of Pain whatever?
Speaker 2: Last ever, Last was just being a dick back then,
Speaker 2: Like he was friends with Iced Tea and I think
Speaker 2: I had said we had this magazine called Rap Pages
Speaker 2: and I had seen Tea and I had to apologize
Speaker 2: back then. But me being such a big Iced Tea fan,
Speaker 2: when I saw him like go hard on a fan
Speaker 2: one time, like we were on tour together and he
Speaker 2: was like, get the funk, I ain't signing your fucking autograph,
Speaker 2: Get the funk out of here. I was like, oh wow,
Speaker 2: Like he had you know, he didn't feel like being bothered,
Speaker 2: and that offended me because I wanted to ask him
Speaker 2: for autograph. I said, said, man, Ice teas me, Man,
Speaker 2: he's fucking dick, like, you know, being emotional at twenty
Speaker 2: years old, twenty one whatever. In the magazine they just
Speaker 2: printed it. It was like quick, just Ice Tea, but
Speaker 2: it wasn't like that, you know, and Ice team was
Speaker 2: like yeah. He he shot back up and he said, yeah,
Speaker 2: give a fuck about quicker. I'll beat Quick, motherfucking ass.
Speaker 2: I never said nothing else because I believe him.
Speaker 13: So.
Speaker 2: At the time syndicate was signed, the Ice Tay just
Speaker 2: before him, like they had this song you know you
Speaker 2: make me you make me sick like Nestie Quick. Your
Speaker 2: rhymes are whack. You ain't the Mac. And then that
Speaker 2: that went over everybody.
Speaker 12: So Heed, you're talking about cleaned up every Yeah.
Speaker 2: House of pain, I mean not white Yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 2: old schooling with the syndicate. He just I've seen the
Speaker 2: video that we used to watch. What was that music
Speaker 2: choice not music I'm watching music boxing said you make
Speaker 2: me Quick, you make me sick like DJ Quick, Your
Speaker 2: rhymes are whack, you ain't the Mac. I was like,
Speaker 2: oh God, and we have just got the deal to
Speaker 2: do that Minister Society track, like to give him a
Speaker 2: song for that movie. And we had like screened a
Speaker 2: little bit of that movie. I was like, Oh, this
Speaker 2: movie'd be crazy because back then it was just about
Speaker 2: being honest to the hood. Like if the movie looked
Speaker 2: like the Hood, and that shit was gonna automatically blow
Speaker 2: because culture, know when it's a culture vulture when it's real.
Speaker 2: So you know, that shit was real, and I just figured,
Speaker 2: you know, I might as well. I was in between
Speaker 2: way too funky and all that shit, and you know,
Speaker 2: at the time, I was producing. I was doing three
Speaker 2: albums at a time. I was working on I Did
Speaker 2: a Bit Better Have My Money, second in the whole album,
Speaker 2: my album, and was starting on way too funky, but
Speaker 2: was still stop. When the big ass twenty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: checks came from them little soundtrack record, I was like,
Speaker 2: gotta get it, need that. Hell yeah, run it? How fast?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 12: Was Tupac's work method as far as songs per day.
Speaker 2: He could easily do like five songs today. That's like
Speaker 2: doing the album in three days. He could do it.
Speaker 2: So we did that also.
Speaker 6: I mean you would have to do five songs. You
Speaker 6: would have to beat first of all, how many songs
Speaker 6: he do on on all eyes on me?
Speaker 2: I did a bunch like I helped with a lot
Speaker 2: of them, Like dads really produced most of the ambitions
Speaker 2: of a rider. I would just remix some of them
Speaker 2: and just you know, finish the musical thought of them.
Speaker 2: You know, they needed a little high hat or something.
Speaker 2: I put a hat down or some shake. I got
Speaker 2: into percussion back then, so I was playing like the
Speaker 2: percussion and ship on ship to make it just sound
Speaker 2: like you know, America's most wanted. That's me on the
Speaker 2: clap and a percussion just to make it make it
Speaker 2: sound different. Yeah, that's that's that little weaker looking it's
Speaker 2: like a gordo. A gordo. It's like a silver one.
Speaker 2: I had Tupac signed, actually, but it was that that
Speaker 2: thing that you know, just to make it sound like
Speaker 2: as if you scratch and keep it percussive or whatever.
Speaker 2: But I worked on like fourteen songs on that record.
Speaker 6: Let me okay, let me say when I first met
Speaker 6: in two days.
Speaker 2: Shiit seven songs a day. I needed cocaine back then, Brod,
Speaker 2: we smoke headaches right there.
Speaker 12: Okay, explain, explain to me your relationship with the FlexIt
Speaker 12: tone AKA.
Speaker 2: You know it was funny because we didn't know.
Speaker 12: Okay, so we back when we were just starting to
Speaker 12: work on Chappelle's third season, we started the Tupac sketch. Okay, well,
Speaker 12: and Neil Brennan was like, Yo, we need what we
Speaker 12: just called the DJ Quick noise. Little did we know
Speaker 12: you were in the studio next door. Like the assistant
Speaker 12: engineer was like, you know, DJ Quick's actually next door
Speaker 12: was like, yo, dude, we gotta get him to do that.
Speaker 12: And sure enough you had your box of percussion. Wow,
Speaker 12: and you pulled out the FlexIt tone in history.
Speaker 2: I got that from my brother in law, Bill Coverson.
Speaker 2: He was like the first person in us with that thing,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, what is this crazy thing? But when
Speaker 2: he would do it, it was just funny. And I
Speaker 2: remember that sound from the song Qutie Pie by One Way.
Speaker 2: That's when we first heard it. And ultimately who taught
Speaker 2: me how to really get down on it was Carl
Speaker 2: Butch Small, this dude named Butch who's the percussion player
Speaker 2: for Death Row. He was like the played on like
Speaker 2: twenty one Jump Street on Doctor Dre's records all the
Speaker 2: you know when when when when Dre's records starts sounding
Speaker 2: like super percussive and went.
Speaker 13: Big exactly that that was the one. That's Carl's from Detroit. Yeah,
Speaker 13: actual people playing percussion.
Speaker 6: Yeah see, I'm thinking about this stuff is just a maculate.
Speaker 2: We know, bro, it's not programmed. This dude had bell
Speaker 2: trees like you go in there. He had this set
Speaker 2: up where he had the bongos, bell trees roto Tom's
Speaker 2: flexy Tones, Guika's Monkey Acid. Yeah I'm sitting up here
Speaker 2: with yeah, Yeah, I'm sitting up here watching him do this,
Speaker 2: and he played on Dollars and Cents and blew my
Speaker 2: record up. And when the when the soundtrack Murder was
Speaker 2: the Case came out, Dollars and Cents was one of
Speaker 2: the popular records on there, Dre locked him down. Dre
Speaker 2: was like, you know, I need to sound for these songs.
Speaker 2: So he you know, I couldn't get Carl no more.
Speaker 2: And I just got the deal to work with Tony
Speaker 2: and do the Let's Get Down record. I was like,
Speaker 2: we need to continue that sound on here. So I'm
Speaker 2: calling Carl. Hey Carl, I'm out here right now. Hey
Speaker 2: Carl Man, Hey busch Man, we need to get you
Speaker 2: on this project.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 2: I was like, so he've got real with me, said
Speaker 2: hey man. Dre said, I can't work on your records more.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what man? All right, Reggie. So I hung
Speaker 2: up the phone and I was like, I was in
Speaker 2: the living room, my little apartment was high my condo.
Speaker 2: I was like, So I drove to West La Music.
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, man, do y'all sell percussion up here?
Speaker 2: Come on back. So I just was looking at all
Speaker 2: the percussion. I would play it in the store to
Speaker 2: see what I was It wouldn't sound like. And I
Speaker 2: bought a I bought two flexy tones, the big one
Speaker 2: in the little one. I bought the bell tree where
Speaker 2: you have to order it. I bought a bell tree,
Speaker 2: Chinese bell tree. I bought like bongos. I bought tambourines.
Speaker 2: I bought the guica, the monkey ass. I bought the
Speaker 2: and the cabasas. I bought the big and small cobassas,
Speaker 2: and I bought shakers. And I went in there and
Speaker 2: I walked around my apartment playing that flexy tone over
Speaker 2: and over and over again until I got it to
Speaker 2: sound like the record was. Yeah, And you know, I
Speaker 2: figured out a way to do it. You've been one
Speaker 2: of the bells back and you keep one of the
Speaker 2: bells open and you just ride the tone for as
Speaker 2: long as you can ride it. You know, it's like
Speaker 2: it's like playing the trombone almost.
Speaker 6: It's hard to get that singular sound because there's.
Speaker 2: Hit the bells, any little slight hit, any strike, it'll
Speaker 2: make it sound like. So the object is the whole one.
Speaker 7: It wasn't my parents, But I do remember, no, I
Speaker 7: remember quick getting me in trouble once. What in band
Speaker 7: class when I discovered the FlexIt tone.
Speaker 2: The best. It was the loudest instrument.
Speaker 7: So like you know, they be you know, trying to
Speaker 7: tell us something. I'd be back there, and all of
Speaker 7: a sudden it's like, Bill, stay off the class.
Speaker 2: We needn't talk.
Speaker 7: Wow, it's cool because that ship was great. I would
Speaker 7: not trade that ship for the world.
Speaker 12: Speaking of which, can you talk about working on smells
Speaker 12: like teen Spirit?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, let's get down. It is bro hands down
Speaker 2: one of the funnest sessions ever because Raphael is just
Speaker 2: the best R and B musician A lot to me.
Speaker 2: I didn't know if he was down. We went to
Speaker 2: them if they came to you, yeah, well we had
Speaker 2: bought the Sons of the Soul album. I had it,
Speaker 2: you know. I was like, I want to work with
Speaker 2: him because you know, Anniversary and laid hit them a
Speaker 2: pillow and my ex girlfriend as a whole. If I
Speaker 2: had no loose, I'm like, these dudes is like this
Speaker 2: is better than they albums just got better and better.
Speaker 2: So I just became a super fan and I wanted
Speaker 2: to work with him. So my drummer George Archie had
Speaker 2: now one ye yeah, g one knew him and he
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I can get you in Ray Man,
Speaker 2: I'm like, Ray, who's Ray? Where's Raphael? You know that's
Speaker 2: how green I was. So, you know, he set up
Speaker 2: a meeting and I'll talk to him. I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: you want to do a dance record, like I want
Speaker 2: to do some up tempo with y'all, like you know,
Speaker 2: mix a little bit of this gangster shit I'm doing
Speaker 2: with what y'all do? I think it'll work? He's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's start. You know, so I got the break beat
Speaker 2: down and he I sent them to tapes back then.
Speaker 2: You know you're seeing a twenty four track, real laid
Speaker 2: it down, send her like a rough Now what you
Speaker 2: hear is not a dragon, mister DJ quick got to
Speaker 2: bring you know. He's like, he said, let's do it
Speaker 2: in eights, Like you do you wrap eight bars, I'll
Speaker 2: sing eight bars and would do an eight bar chorus.
Speaker 2: I was like, that's I nen't thought about that, Like,
Speaker 2: how's that going? Because at that point we was trying
Speaker 2: to do records for radio, you know, sixteen eight, sixteen
Speaker 2: eight right right ever, And he was like the arrangement
Speaker 2: was just trippy to me, Like, you know, I'm wanting
Speaker 2: to do the whole sixteen and the way he heard it,
Speaker 2: you know, I was like, Okay, that's a good idea.
Speaker 2: So I wrote the bass line out and I was like,
Speaker 2: for his baseline, I want his baseline to be different.
Speaker 2: So I wrote his baseline specifically for him for his voice.
Speaker 2: And mine was like a copy of my just like
Speaker 2: copping record boodhao boom boom boot nine. You know what's
Speaker 2: that mine and nine? Shit like you know, yeah nice
Speaker 2: so and his was just a little more funky and straightforward.
Speaker 2: And when he played when I tell you, when he
Speaker 2: played the guitar, he had a dough bro and he
Speaker 2: played that fucking plumeer game. Damn. When I got it
Speaker 2: back against the baseline, I was like, lord a mercy.
Speaker 2: I took the chase in the studio and I got
Speaker 2: profissioned a little bit on that percussion shit. So I
Speaker 2: started and that was my first time ever working with
Speaker 2: pro tools. That's when pro tools was in its early
Speaker 2: early stages. He took the tape, printed it to pro
Speaker 2: tools and start editing and changing things and then put
Speaker 2: it back on the tape. He was like, quick, that's
Speaker 2: how you do it. I'm like, hell yeah. Because Marsha
Speaker 2: was if it wasn't the tape, it wasn't me got
Speaker 2: it back to me. I got on that all the percussion,
Speaker 2: like the Cabasa and all that ship and you know,
Speaker 2: I bought like the chimes used to hear on all
Speaker 2: the Maze records featuring Franker Beller. I was like, I
Speaker 2: wanted all that shit, you know.
Speaker 12: You know, I'm amazed that you're playing literally playing these things. Yeah,
Speaker 12: because it like I'm in the band and I'm like,
Speaker 12: I know that noise is on a high Players record.
Speaker 12: Let me just take it from there, and I go
Speaker 12: to car wash for the collapse and then you know,
Speaker 12: you know, if.
Speaker 2: You think about it, everything that you hear on records
Speaker 2: anyway was kind of done at some point by some
Speaker 2: human beings. You know. So I figured, what fuck the
Speaker 2: sample because I got tired of giving my all my money. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean the lawyer fees alone on that shit. It's crazy,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 12: So, but that's that explains why your prodcast so much
Speaker 12: life to it now that I know that it's not
Speaker 12: one hundred synthetic, you know, Was it a.
Speaker 11: Big difference for you or talk about this transition once
Speaker 11: you went from profile.
Speaker 2: To Arista, but not really. I was waiting for that
Speaker 2: because I got tired of being put on suspension if
Speaker 2: my record was late and Corey then wouldn't pay me
Speaker 2: and all this. Clive was like Dad, Clike Davis was,
Speaker 2: you know, a fan of his since the time he
Speaker 2: signed like Alon, that group that had the Albarine City
Speaker 2: when Arister Records was the biggest one of the bigger
Speaker 2: labels in my collection. So you know GQ, you know
Speaker 2: Ray Parker Junior Radio, when he hughes all that stuff,
Speaker 2: with all that aristos, I wanted the kashif you know
Speaker 2: these were Nigga records. Guy the white guy writing this shit.
Speaker 2: So when I met him, I was like, whatever you
Speaker 2: need me to do? You know he was like Dad, Bro,
Speaker 2: It's like, man, it's awesome.
Speaker 6: Yeah, rhythm, I love I love that.
Speaker 2: That's my favorite quick album. What is what is your
Speaker 2: favorite quick record?
Speaker 7: That's my favorite quick album? And that intro is my
Speaker 7: favorite intro do rock and roll music and the intro
Speaker 7: with that too for us right, thank you?
Speaker 2: I love that record. Just having fun. Man.
Speaker 11: I wanted to always want to ask you about the
Speaker 11: divorce song, James the Bar. How did y'all how did
Speaker 11: that come together?
Speaker 2: James was James was, you know, he had a situation
Speaker 2: with his girl or whatever, and that's how he was feeling.
Speaker 2: I'm like, bro, we you always see these wedding songs
Speaker 2: like let's make a divorce song. But this was before
Speaker 2: I was married, so I didn't understand just how fucked
Speaker 2: up divorce really is. I'm just making a record, you know.
Speaker 2: I wish I could have thought that one out a
Speaker 2: little bit better. The divorce is a bad word, you know,
Speaker 2: like and then how how much some lawyers get paid
Speaker 2: when you go through that ship? I was like, wow,
Speaker 2: But you know it was you know, not to put
Speaker 2: too much of his business out there. It was just
Speaker 2: something he was going through. And we just wrote it
Speaker 2: out and Robert Bacon played all pretty guitar ship, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Can I gotta say the as
Speaker 2: a DJ, I knew this was coming. I knew it.
Speaker 2: I know this was going all right. AS was going
Speaker 2: to bring it up if you didn't.
Speaker 12: As a DJ, if ain't got for Serado because now
Speaker 12: I know where the one is, that part nothing.
Speaker 6: Fuss me more than trying to find the fucking one
Speaker 6: on hand in hand, Oh, I thought, I was going
Speaker 6: to go somewhere else with it.
Speaker 2: Wait, it's all those first the first up there, the upbeats.
Speaker 12: No, no, no, I know now because literally I had
Speaker 12: to spend seven minutes on Serado like one two, and
Speaker 12: then I had to loop it just so that it's
Speaker 12: BROI it in my head because when I want to
Speaker 12: spend it and I can't find the one, and it
Speaker 12: just ruins my life, like it like.
Speaker 2: Why couldn't you just or it was like it was
Speaker 2: the beat, it was like one.
Speaker 12: I know that.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like it's an imaginary kick. It's like
Speaker 2: kick boom boom boom. Yeah.
Speaker 12: I know now because of Sado, But back when I
Speaker 12: was spinning the wax, it wasn't my bad.
Speaker 2: Bro. It's thirty seconds like looping on the record. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to figure out what's the one, where's the one?
Speaker 2: Whe's the one? What's bad? Bro?
Speaker 7: I want to know where I thought you were taking
Speaker 7: this pitching on the party dude. Well yeah, when somebody
Speaker 7: kicked the extension court out there, yeah.
Speaker 2: And the record is not but that happened. That used
Speaker 2: to happen, I know.
Speaker 7: But like if you're playing at a party and nobody
Speaker 7: like people don't really know the record.
Speaker 6: They think some we messed up. Yeah, I love that record,
Speaker 6: but I love that record.
Speaker 2: Had that was I was. I did that for these guys.
Speaker 2: That's I became friends with Big Boy and Fuzzy So
Speaker 2: and they were you know, they was running Power one
Speaker 2: and six. So I was making records that was just
Speaker 2: like funny, you know, because I had a little bit
Speaker 2: of love on Power, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 2: that was like a radio DJ thing and it was
Speaker 2: cool because on the air when the DJs will play it,
Speaker 2: they comment right in that break like it'd be like,
Speaker 2: you know, somebody kicked this and you hear the little
Speaker 2: noise that transient it's all authentic and be like hey
Speaker 2: quick man. You know the air, the radio personalities would
Speaker 2: chime in and then come back on. It just became
Speaker 2: like a little fun One of my favorite one.
Speaker 11: Another one of the productions I love the yours was
Speaker 11: come tonight with You First, We'll do what happened with
Speaker 11: well because at the album and.
Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately I didn't speak Indian when I sampled that record.
Speaker 2: I would have loved to have cleared it, but we
Speaker 2: didn't know who it was, like, we didn't do our
Speaker 2: due diligence. We just what we knew. It was a
Speaker 2: hot break, you know. And Dre was working with ro
Speaker 2: Kim at that point, and he was working with Truth.
Speaker 2: And I gave that record to Truth for her birthday
Speaker 2: because me and MC Light tried to do something to it,
Speaker 2: but I didn't think that I kid it far enough
Speaker 2: with Light. I swear to God man, Light is mad
Speaker 2: at me to the day. I was gonna say it
Speaker 2: was to Bed, knowing that she gave was that was
Speaker 2: that was empty Light's record. I was trying to just
Speaker 2: expand you know, you know em like Lights of Rock,
Speaker 2: you know audio two, Like I was gonna had to
Speaker 2: give her one. She came to the house, we worked
Speaker 2: it out. She spit on it, but it was like
Speaker 2: I didn't know where to take it from that point.
Speaker 2: It was like I'm never gonna be able to finish it.
Speaker 2: And I know it was cool. So it was true
Speaker 2: heirst birthday and I was working over there with her
Speaker 2: and uh Nocturnal and Dre and I gave it to
Speaker 2: her this instrument, like hey, you know, can you let
Speaker 2: Dre hear this and see if there's something you can do.
Speaker 2: Happy birthday. Here's a beat that I like, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? And she took it to Dre and
Speaker 2: Dra called me like two days later, like quick, what's that?
Speaker 2: He said it come to the studio like all right.
Speaker 2: So I go to the studio, walked in. They just
Speaker 2: applauded me for the beat, like he's like, can you
Speaker 2: can you do it over? Can? I want to make
Speaker 2: this a song for for Sherry. I'm like, hell yeah.
Speaker 2: So he put me in Lara by North and I
Speaker 2: went in there with my little bass player due Eric Coombs,
Speaker 2: and we just I just reprinted it all you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? And I like the way it stops
Speaker 2: and starts over in the middle of the song. That
Speaker 2: was like kind of a thing. And she I went
Speaker 2: back to the studio. I gave Dre the tapes, the tapes,
Speaker 2: you know, the tapes go and he gets it and
Speaker 2: I get a call like maybe like maybe less than
Speaker 2: a week, like maybe four days or whatever, and he
Speaker 2: had he had Static Major come in and write the
Speaker 2: lyrics to he heard it. He was so incredible. Bro.
Speaker 2: When I heard I was just the backup for a second.
Speaker 2: How did you find the sample? It was after the
Speaker 2: towers fell. I didn't want to keep watching the news.
Speaker 2: She was depressing me, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 2: at that point, I love New York, Like I was
Speaker 2: sneaking out there and like having fun and ship like,
Speaker 2: you know, and they had these channels. I would just
Speaker 2: change the channel on my Sidellite TV or whatever. And
Speaker 2: there was just one channel that they had called z TV.
Speaker 2: It was like an Indian channel where they was just
Speaker 2: remember TV. I was just demoing it to see if
Speaker 2: you like, you paid you know, extra nine ninety nine
Speaker 2: for the month and you can watch Indian stuff. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what is this? Ship? You know what I mean? You know,
Speaker 2: I'm waking up, you know, sober. I don't even baked,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Just got up and just
Speaker 2: start brushing my tee. I just turned it on there,
Speaker 2: you know that whatever. So I'm in the bathroom brushing
Speaker 2: my teeth and I started just grooving, you know, I'm like,
Speaker 2: what the fuck is this on the TV in my room?
Speaker 2: I run in there and I look at the TV
Speaker 2: and see this Indian thing going down and this lady
Speaker 2: was belly dancing and the beat was I was like,
Speaker 2: I need this. I just pushed record on my v
Speaker 2: c R over I take good times, and you know,
Speaker 2: you get lucky, you get that damn dawn down. So
Speaker 2: whatever the VHS due for VHS case, I rewound it
Speaker 2: and I listened to it. All I heard was money.
Speaker 2: I took. I snatched the v C R out, went
Speaker 2: to the studio with d cr r c A out
Speaker 2: and ran it through the board and sampled it into
Speaker 2: my n PC and just arranged it in there. And
Speaker 2: then I was like, I need a bottom beat, and
Speaker 2: to me, the cleanest bottom beat that goes with it
Speaker 2: the same, which lets me know all music is related.
Speaker 2: There ain't nothing new in the sun. But it was
Speaker 2: what I did to do it. You satisfied. That made
Speaker 2: Dre I think understood and like it even more because
Speaker 2: I put it through this oti filter thing, like where
Speaker 2: I took the noise out of it but kept all
Speaker 2: the dynamics. It's like you put like five different band
Speaker 2: pass filters and expanders on the loop and you could
Speaker 2: like take the noise down. It's almost like doing Adobe
Speaker 2: Adobe noise reduction. I cleaned it way up and then
Speaker 2: we added I added them crazy claps and you know,
Speaker 2: I don't snitch out myself, but I got a class
Speaker 2: from well you don't know, because this is where I
Speaker 2: got these class from. Yeah, but and I gave him
Speaker 2: the tapes and it was all recorded and just it
Speaker 2: was just clean like that. I never heard anybody use
Speaker 2: do it to satisfied because everybody tried to use it,
Speaker 2: it would be noisy. But the one we did, I
Speaker 2: stripped it down, made it super clean. So at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, oh wait a minute, so we
Speaker 2: get sued, right, okay, great record, we didn't clear it.
Speaker 2: We get sued, but you know, and it's like half
Speaker 2: a half a billion dollars. But at this point, how
Speaker 2: you gonna sue interscope? This is the richest record company
Speaker 2: in the so I already I wasn't even worried about it,
Speaker 2: and Dre was like, like, don't worry about that. She
Speaker 2: was all freaked out, like, dude, half of we got
Speaker 2: to pay a half, like half a bill. He's like, man, quick,
Speaker 2: don't even worry about that. So they worked it out
Speaker 2: to where they pulled the record or whatever. You know,
Speaker 2: it was just like an advertisement. But you know what
Speaker 2: India did. They used that shit for their own. They
Speaker 2: start sampling it themselves, so it just started an international thing. Man.
Speaker 11: I always wanted to ask you about Moss Bird because
Speaker 11: not I mean I didn't really know much about him
Speaker 11: or whatever, Like what was y'all's relationship and what was
Speaker 11: he like?
Speaker 2: Like as an artist? He's a cool, smart, dope rapper,
Speaker 2: like just incredible from the hood, Like you don't even
Speaker 2: It's like where did you learn this from? Because you know,
Speaker 2: all rappers needed a backstory back then, you know, and
Speaker 2: he for him to just come up from Compton, but
Speaker 2: it's rapping like as good as Biggie. I'm like, this
Speaker 2: just don't exist, you know what I mean. And he
Speaker 2: was only like twenty years old, so he was he
Speaker 2: was signed to my boy Black Tone, and I was like,
Speaker 2: I want to invest in him too, So I started
Speaker 2: investing in him and recording his record and developing him.
Speaker 2: And he got on my down Down Down, and you know,
Speaker 2: other records than you know, Warren g got a hold
Speaker 2: of him and heard up and Snoop. He's rapping with
Speaker 2: Snoop and so he's blowing up. But I, you know,
Speaker 2: I feel bad because I didn't know he was bigger
Speaker 2: than he was and his you know, somebody ran off
Speaker 2: with his publishing. I don't want to say that they
Speaker 2: didn't help him get out of the hood, and he
Speaker 2: made some people jealous. That's all. It was. Bro such
Speaker 2: a great dude. I mean, we had just been working
Speaker 2: on this record, like the Get Naked record. Yeah, we're
Speaker 2: working on that, and we took time off to go
Speaker 2: do Fourth of July with our families, and he got
Speaker 2: killed on fourth of July, and I felt it. I
Speaker 2: wanted him to. I wanted to stay in the studio, like,
Speaker 2: fuck the holiday, let's finish your record because we're almost done.
Speaker 2: Like you need two more songs and you got an album, kid,
Speaker 2: And he was like, man, he love you. Quick man
Speaker 2: it shit hard man, you're making my dream come from
Speaker 2: I'm like, Nigga, you you the next best thing. Brouh.
Speaker 2: And then you know, I get the call that night
Speaker 2: that he was killed, and it was like I had
Speaker 2: to go to the studio and finish this record the
Speaker 2: next day and shock, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 2: I still mixed it, you know what I mean. Cried
Speaker 2: a little bit, drank some Hennessy, fixed it, mixed it
Speaker 2: and it still came out. But I like, how how
Speaker 2: Kendrick Damn used it for King Kunta the Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I cleared that I was like, yeah, that's my other question.
Speaker 2: Quick Screw seven with Josy Whan didn't wrap on it.
Speaker 2: I didn't wrap Davante was mad at me for that.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what to do with it at that point,
Speaker 2: like sometimes you know, you you you know, sometimes will
Speaker 2: be j R. Smith, you passed the ball, we might
Speaker 2: run out of bounds with the motherfucker like I blew
Speaker 2: out Casey and akay. You actually in the studio just
Speaker 2: having fun, you know what I mean, big ass studio
Speaker 2: and I was just trying to do something, you know.
Speaker 2: But I should have finished it. I should have had
Speaker 2: Davante play music to it and whatever. People was mad
Speaker 2: at me for that, like that's not no jokes. She
Speaker 2: record trying some ship. It was just a fillers can
Speaker 2: fucking quitch or whatever.
Speaker 7: All right, wait, hold on, since you mentioned the Joys record,
Speaker 7: Let's bring up another R and B collapse, the joy
Speaker 7: record on the Midnight Life.
Speaker 2: When did you have to lie? How did that come about?
Speaker 2: I was on tour with Raphael Now when they put
Speaker 2: Tony Tony twenty back together and I met her. She
Speaker 2: was married to Gip and I just wanted to work
Speaker 2: with her because, you know, what she was doing on stage,
Speaker 2: her and fucking uh and DiAngelo, I'm like, I gotta
Speaker 2: work with you. So she came in and wrote that ship.
Speaker 2: I brought the little slinky beat with it, you know,
Speaker 2: a little sp twelve hundred. She was just so she's
Speaker 2: such an incredible She's fucking so underrated. Joe Joey Gilliam
Speaker 2: is everything. And Raphael used to tell me, it's like, man,
Speaker 2: you got you got on a trip. When you meet Joy,
Speaker 2: she's hard, like Kenny fun with this lady singing.
Speaker 12: All right, I got one last question. I'm proud to
Speaker 12: say that I was heavy and in jay Z Yeah
Speaker 12: about the black guy. I was like, remember that I
Speaker 12: begged him to reach out to you.
Speaker 2: That's dope, bro, But thank you. Why did you? Why
Speaker 2: didn't you give him? I didn't have I didn't. I
Speaker 2: didn't have that music at that point that we were
Speaker 2: in the studio in New York, because he wanted to
Speaker 2: do the beat in front of him. He wants you
Speaker 2: to do the beat in front of him. So that
Speaker 2: was when I when I tried to stretch out, like
Speaker 2: you know, I was writing string parts and a bassline.
Speaker 2: He's like, no, no, we don't have time for that.
Speaker 2: Let me it's something. Let me just press play. You
Speaker 2: had the one you sent me. I'm like, I don't
Speaker 2: remember the one I sent you. He was like, well,
Speaker 2: just what you got and I start pressing playing. Then
Speaker 2: he heard that one and he liked the drama of it,
Speaker 2: and I was like, damn this one. I think we
Speaker 2: all were And it was supposed to be something more
Speaker 2: than that, because he had that idea of doing Justify
Speaker 2: my Thug and Madonna was supposed to sing on it
Speaker 2: and she flaked on this. That was the draw. She
Speaker 2: was gonna be on it, and she flaked and we
Speaker 2: had to do something else. And you know, I want
Speaker 2: you to to make another record, and really, where you
Speaker 2: really get to do it? Well, he let me do me,
Speaker 2: you know, because I got some surpey ship right now.
Speaker 2: That's how I figure my music is. It's surpie I
Speaker 2: share this with you. Since she's talking about flexi tones,
Speaker 2: I was in the studio with Bruno Mars on a
Speaker 2: couple occasions, Yo and twenty four care magic. If you
Speaker 2: hear the flexi tone, Oh somebody back to the jay
Speaker 2: Z thing. Oh. Charlomagne de Gud was like, fuck that record,
Speaker 2: it's like black album is dope. Without that record, It's like, hey, man, man,
Speaker 2: I just yeah, you gotta do it again. I do
Speaker 2: over yeah, because you know I could write the way Drake,
Speaker 2: I mean, dre the way Jay writes. He writes drama
Speaker 2: like he'll he'll follow the drama of your track. And
Speaker 2: I got theme records. That's so perfect for him right now,
Speaker 2: you know. I mean like that, our big dramatic dope records,
Speaker 2: big horns, all that ship. I just got to get
Speaker 2: to him again.
Speaker 12: Quick for real. Man, you you're one of the greatest.
Speaker 12: Yeah ever man, this is you know, and us too.
Speaker 11: Than you, And thank you man, shout out the h
Speaker 11: out the buzzy and the way like you did one
Speaker 11: of my list things. You did your on TV raps.
Speaker 11: You're performing and you took the bit from hallm Nights.
Speaker 11: I want to know what Quick is trying to say.
Speaker 2: And dope. I was so happy that Eddie Murphy did
Speaker 2: that movie and his character name was Quick, but it
Speaker 2: was dope. I put that ship all over way too
Speaker 2: funky and when I sent it to them to clear
Speaker 2: because we was clearing ship back then, Eddie Murphy and
Speaker 2: was that Columbia Pas Columbia said No. I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm clearing the pay for like how much you up quick? No,
Speaker 2: I ain't have my ass whip since I was born.
Speaker 2: We're still looking for the doctor.
Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen on behalf of Supreme.
Speaker 12: It's like you unpaid Bill paid Bill and Bill yo
Speaker 12: with you top five bro, straight up for real man.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and Sugar Steve Yes.
Speaker 2: Hey, shout out to the Sugar Network, everybody the Sugar Network.
Speaker 2: I just want to share this, y'all. I helped. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of producers. I want to shout out that
Speaker 2: I helped Tis Martin. Yes, okay again, my beloved Warren Campbell,
Speaker 2: of course, g one. There's a couple of other people
Speaker 2: who have some success. You remember who else I helped
Speaker 2: a lot? Huh, A lot of people that I just
Speaker 2: helped him. Thank you, bro. I mean problem we forgot
Speaker 2: to talk about the talk box. Oh my god. Roger
Speaker 2: told me. He said he told Shirley Murdock and she
Speaker 2: told me after as she said that Roger thought that
Speaker 2: I was the best out of the people that did
Speaker 2: it because I understood his nuances and I would play
Speaker 2: what he played like nuance wise, because anybody could put
Speaker 2: the tobe in him off and play a key or whatever.
Speaker 2: But he like the way I would play just certain licks. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I wrote that for him right after he died. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I sampled that sample is from Sparkle Aretha Franklin, I
Speaker 2: get high. Yeah, I just congratulated, but that was Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was for him.
Speaker 7: Bro.
Speaker 2: Well I played a lot better now too, like I've
Speaker 2: learned some more things. I got better than toys. Well,
Speaker 2: hopefully one day we'll work together, you know. Besides when came,
Speaker 2: that was one of the most fun times in my life.
Speaker 2: I'm in the studio with David Chappelle and I forgot
Speaker 2: just how funny is He made a joke and I
Speaker 2: was embarrassed to laugh in front of him, so I
Speaker 2: took off running out. My god, nobody's that funny man. Yea,
Speaker 2: it should be against the law. Yeah, all right, well,
Speaker 2: thank you. Get him on the show one day you think.
Speaker 6: Anyway, This is Quest Love Supreme. We'll see you on
Speaker 6: the next go round out.
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