1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: Get gett boys, it's back and reoded all in your mind. Yeah, 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: and now deep throating. This is for the streets, the real, 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: the railroaded, the disenfranchise, the truth, the scapegoating, and they 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: ain't knowing we speak the truth, so they ain't quoted 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: because we wrote it. The North South East coat is 6 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: g b my for keeping your head bobbing. It ain't 7 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: no stopping and wants to be tricks by. And then 8 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: the system is so corrupt they throw the rock out 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: their heads and then blame it on us. Don't get 10 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: it twisted on code and we danceing for no buttament biscuits. 11 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 1: It's Willie d y'all scar faces in the building. Collective 12 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: Louis are the ghetto boys, reloaded with another episode of 13 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: information and instructions to help you navigate through this wild, crazy, 14 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: beautiful world in the studio. Bone bone, bone, bone bone, 15 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: lazy bone is in the building. Fast, yes, yes, hey, King, 16 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: let's go on to see you. Man. It's always good 17 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: to see. It's always an honor to being your presence man, 18 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 1: you know, double o G Yeah, I appreciate you. Right now. 19 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 1: You're out on the road with your group and TLC 20 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: y'all doing days? How many dates have y'all done so far? 21 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: We've been rapped about twelve twelve days so far, about 22 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: seven mot ago, right, yeah, and then what and then 23 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: it's uh, I'm doing solo dates. So I got solo 24 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: dates coming up. We also got a gang of bone 25 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: dates not at the world opened up. We we're ready 26 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: for Okay, all right, that sounds good man. You know, 27 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: Boom concert is always exciting because you know, you got 28 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: all you guys on the stage and everybody's doing their 29 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: own thing. It's always a lot. It's like a bunch 30 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: of moving pieces, so to speak. So everybody it's like 31 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: you're looking over here. You know, you're doing your thing 32 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: over here, flishes over here doing this thing, busy over 33 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: doing this, that wish overre doing this thing. You got 34 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: crazy over here doing this thing. Yeah, it's gumbo, man, 35 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: it's earned it up in the pot. Look, man, I 36 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: want you to like explain like your relationship with each 37 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 1: member of the group, starting with your brother flesh, right, 38 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: what's that relationship like? Well, you know my big brother man, 39 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: you know we uh we tied it in we tightest 40 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: net booty and you can't you can't you can't separate 41 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: the house boys. You know what I'm saying that Booty, 42 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: you know, it's just separable. Yeah. But you know my 43 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: big brother man, you know he uh, he really responsible 44 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: for teaching me my responsibilities in life. Taught me how 45 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: to count money, you know what I mean, taught me 46 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: how not to throw it away. You know. So my 47 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: brother is just like we've been inseparable since first grade. 48 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: We went to first grade together and you know, everything 49 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: we did, my mom saying if you go outside, he 50 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 1: go outside. So one of those relationships the first grade 51 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: together because you yeah, you have the same same mother, 52 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: mother and father. Yes, and y'all the same grade together. Yeah. 53 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: So no, that flesh flesh Bone got held back in 54 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: the first grade. Now that was because we was moving. 55 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: We had my mother went to Colorado or something like 56 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 1: that and came back to Cleveland and they held him 57 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: back and I was starting school. Yes, I have to 58 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: ask that very I know they're not twins, yes not. 59 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: We only were only a year apart though, you know 60 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So, you know, closest brothers could possibly be. 61 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: You know, Busy Bone the baby of the group. He 62 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: was the last one to come along. You know what 63 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: I'm saying. And uh, I met him through my mother 64 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: as well, because my mother had a friendship with his dad, 65 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And we uh end up 66 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: taking him in and that's my little brother, you know 67 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So ever since I was sixteen when 68 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: he entered into my life, I think he was fourteen, 69 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: and he's been baby bro every since. You know what 70 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Crazy Bone was my is my best friend, 71 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 1: my my road dog, you know what I mean. The 72 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 1: reason why I took rap serious in the first place, 73 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: and um met him in the seventh grade. We had 74 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: a group called band Aid boys, you know what I'm saying, 75 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 1: in uh talent shows and gone shows and we was 76 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: in the choir together and all that type of stuff. Yeah, 77 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,919 Speaker 1: we had the band aids man. We was, Yeah, we 78 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: had them up under our eyes. I think we thought 79 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 1: that made us tough back in eighties five something like that, 80 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And Wish Bones is my 81 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: blood cousin too, so it's it's really a family thing. 82 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: So what is bone? I know, bone is the acronym 83 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: for what brothers on normally elimination in butt it out 84 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 1: niggas every Day brewed out Niggas ay Day and that's it. 85 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: Just boned Bone is the the last name, you know 86 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: what I mean? That's we was born Enterprise before we 87 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: was born Thugs and Harmon. What was that dude that 88 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 1: y'all was working with, Kermit or something like that, Kerman Henderson. Yeah, 89 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: slow Foot Mother is still around. Um, yeah, he's still out, 90 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: He's still he's still alive, you know what I'm saying. 91 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 1: We put out an album called Faces of Death for 92 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 1: him back in like one. Yeah, and how did y'all 93 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: transition to getting over the easy? Because I'm sure he 94 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: didn't just have y'all for one album? Did he? Just? No? Well, actually, 95 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: I mean that was a whole Jankee situation. We've been 96 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:49,720 Speaker 1: through what you know what I'm saying. Like, actually, we 97 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 1: were signed to a management contract and he put the 98 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: record out. We recorded a record mand we was getting 99 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: like fifty dollars a week, splitting uh to dollars a piece, 100 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: you know, yeah, ten dollars a piece of fifty dollars 101 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: a week, and um, but I was fifteen fifteen, about 102 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: to be sixteen, and we was just excited to be 103 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 1: recording back then to hear ourselves on tape. You know 104 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: what I mean. We was emulating, y'all. We was emulating 105 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 1: uh n w a, you know what I mean. We 106 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 1: was out there on the block doing that. Do you 107 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: remember that concert that you guys open up for Ghetto Boys? Yeah? Man, 108 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: you know, like when I first heard y'all, like, I 109 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: was backstage. Actually I was in the dressing room. And 110 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 1: so this is before y'all came out, you know, before 111 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: y'all the world knew you guys. As the Bone does 112 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: in harmony, right, y'all probably was okay, So at that point, 113 00:06:54,160 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: y'all were still boned enterprise. So I'm in the dressing 114 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: room and I just hear this rumbling crowd, noises, people 115 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,600 Speaker 1: just going crazy, and like, what the hell is that? 116 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: What's going on? So Chief, I wrote, Manager was like, yeah, 117 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: Chiefs like, man, that's the niggas up, man, that's the 118 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: niggas out here. Man, uh man Bone Bone something man, Man, Man, 119 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: they're going they love that ship man. What the fund 120 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: is they're saying? And he said, man, I don't know, 121 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: but they love that ship man. They love that ship man. 122 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: I was like, so I'm listening and I was impressed, 123 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: but I was not business savvy enough to say, hey, man, 124 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: come on, man, come go. You know, let's do this. 125 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: You know, like I didn't get it, like easy got it. 126 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: Easy heard that and it was so so different, you know, 127 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: that whole, that whole uh soliloquy, rapid style, the cattle float. 128 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, it's like, what did y'all learn that? Well? 129 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: I mean it was, It wasn't really learned. It was 130 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: developed over a period of time, you know what I'm saying, 131 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: Like because first well, our first thing was who could 132 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: put the most words in the rap in the bar? 133 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: Whoever can put the most words in the bar was 134 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: the dopest that day, you know what I'm saying. And 135 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: Crazy Ball took it and mastered it and really liked 136 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: he put the fire on it. We had a song 137 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: called flow Motion, and that's when we knew that's what 138 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna out wrap everybody by put 139 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: more words in the wrap. And then the singing came along, 140 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: because you know, growing up to our parents music Marvin Gay, 141 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: Smokey Robinson or no Stevie Wonder, all that that everything 142 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,439 Speaker 1: we heard in the house trying to be new. Addition 143 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: as kids and and all that so the singing came 144 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: along by us doing our ad libs and you know, 145 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: by us having an alternating switch. We have paused and 146 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: then go pause, go. So that's how we knew how 147 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: to go fast, speed up, go fast, speed up. So 148 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 1: it was like over a course of years, because from 149 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: like eighty four to ninety two, we was like you 150 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: could say we was an artist development. We was trying everything. 151 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,599 Speaker 1: We tried. We was y'all, we was in w A, 152 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: We was the fush Nickins. We was, um, who what's 153 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 1: the bum sticky bone, sticky bom bone. Uh that's effects 154 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: yeah all that. So yeah, it was like over a 155 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: ten year period when it wasn't overnight. Ten years we 156 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: was doing talent shows and trying to just be somebody 157 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 1: for a minute. Yea. So Twister, what was twister at 158 00:09:55,520 --> 00:10:00,319 Speaker 1: this time? Before you get Twister? Twister came out before us. 159 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 1: I really didn't know too much about Twister, But like 160 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: I mentioned, the foosh Nikins, they had a super fast flow. 161 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: Uh poor righteous teachers had something like flipping bust of 162 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: rhymes variation, but it was fast. Everybody was just going 163 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: fast and was no rhythm to it. And do what 164 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: I went to do it do what that came along. 165 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: It was after I know they was after us. We 166 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: came out ninety four, so they might have been ninety 167 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 1: six with Pop with our independent album. We met Easy 168 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: and ninety three we met Easy like we left November 169 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: twenty three one way bus tickets when went out. We 170 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 1: was like homeless for like three months out m California. 171 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 1: Met Easy, got to open up for him. All that 172 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: long story short in June by jun uh Cleveland and okay, 173 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: so so you open up for Easy in Cleveland, you wrapped, 174 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:17,439 Speaker 1: didn't you wrapped for him backstage or something like that. 175 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: Let me get you the whole timeline. So we went 176 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: November twenty third. N we left and we went to California. 177 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: We was homeless. We heard he had a show in Cleveland. 178 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: We got back home and he was doing That's when 179 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: he had real motherfucking Jeeves had just came out and 180 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 1: um no, we hadn't met him, but we talked to 181 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: him on the phone. We had wrapped to him over 182 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: the phone because the secretary we called his office every 183 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: day and we were wrapped to everybody in the office 184 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: and they passed the phone around. Yeah, they passed the 185 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: phone around. So we got back to Cleveland, and because 186 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 1: we had Faces of Death out and we had our 187 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: thing with Kurmen Henderson and he had the store dolls, 188 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:09,200 Speaker 1: we had a little connects. So once once we got 189 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 1: once we did that show. He didn't see our performances 190 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: that night, but that charged us up to bum rush 191 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: backstage and then we just I ran up on Yellow 192 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: Boy wrapping and he picked his head out the door, 193 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: like man, y'all the niggas was on the phone wrapping. 194 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 1: We're like, yeah, man, it's us. He liked boomed and 195 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: that was it. You know, we got back. We went 196 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 1: in the dressing room. It was about a thousand niggas 197 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: and they're trying to, you know, show E what they had. 198 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: And actually it was being busy that got backstage and 199 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: ship we did our thing and shut off everybody in 200 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 1: Cleveland had that. We shut that thing down, and he 201 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: uh went back on tour and a few weeks later 202 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,959 Speaker 1: he sent for us, and by novm and and and 203 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: by June we had Thuggers Ruggish Bone out June nine four, 204 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: So it was like a four month period that we 205 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: was recording with Easy and then the album came out 206 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: and the rest was history. How did the name lazy 207 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: Bone come about? Wow? Um, lazy boon? Because if Ryan 208 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 1: was crazy Bone, you know when I was I was 209 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: telling you, when I was out in Texas, I was 210 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: already I formulated the name Bob. I was busy boned first, 211 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: So I was busy boned. And when I finally came 212 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: home back home to Cleveland, and I shared the bond 213 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: idea with Crazy Bone, and I was like, well, what 214 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: bond would you be? He like, Nigga, I'm crazy, And 215 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: by him being my best friend in the world, it 216 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: was like, well, I'm gonna be lazy then. And then 217 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 1: the busy Bone was just sitting there. And then my 218 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: mom introduced me to to Brian McCain. He was mc 219 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: mellow and but he was off the chain. I'm like, okay, 220 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: so you busy bone and I'm basically lazy because it 221 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: rhyme was crazy. Now I don't have a lazy bone 222 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: in my body. Wow. Yeah, that is a fascinating story, man. Yeah. Man, 223 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: that's that's how I formulated the whole Formulady crazy lazy 224 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: Bone is crazy because it rhyme like that, and I 225 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: wanted to be like my friend. Well, all this time 226 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 1: I've been doing you damn it thirty years and I 227 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: never thought to ask you that question. Yeah, everybody be like, well, 228 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: why why they call you lazy because you're not lazy? 229 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: You all over the place. Well, there it is. I 230 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: never told it to the world before, but there it is. 231 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: The you see, I tell you crazy, I tell you 232 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: we should tell you. You You heard it here first and 233 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 1: getto boys reloaded Flesh and tell you you guys put 234 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: out a song with Biggie and you put out a 235 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: song with Pock, one or the few acts in music 236 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: to be able to make that clean. How did that 237 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: come about? Wasn't Biggie and Pop? Wasn't that some kind 238 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: of beef at that time you did those songs? The 239 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: boys was filled. Yeah, so how did you How did 240 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: you guys facilitate making a song with Biggie and Pop? 241 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: And was there any friction within your camp or any 242 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: type of mistrust or whatever on either side? When he 243 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: was guys was like, Hey, I want to do a 244 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: song with you guys. Oh, by the way, we're gonna 245 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: do a song with no It was it was like 246 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: we had did the song with pop first, so pop 247 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: did We did the song with Pop and that song 248 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: came out and um Pop got murdered, and then we 249 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 1: did the song with Big and we never even heard 250 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: Biggie verse until his came out because he passed away 251 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: before we even got to hear his verse on the song. Yeah, 252 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: so we you know, and we was from the Midwest, 253 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: so we felt like we felt like, oh like with 254 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: the south, East coast, West coast, we was we had 255 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: a piece of all that being from Cleveland, anybody from Cleveland. 256 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: No that we bumped the ghetto boys from the south, 257 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: you know. Of course, everybody rocked him L A L. 258 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: Everybody from the East coast and n W A and 259 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: DJ Quick and everybody from west. So we stayed mutual 260 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: basically because the fuse that Easy he was having. He 261 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: didn't want us to have no part of that because 262 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,679 Speaker 1: we was ready to ride for eat whatever however, but 263 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: he was like, no, I got something better for y'all. 264 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: Y'all different, and we don't know, we we don't understand 265 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: that at the time, but that's how we was able 266 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: to facilitate that. What was it like being around Easy? 267 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: What was his energy like? Man, he was cool, he 268 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: was humble, you know what I mean. You would think 269 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 1: he would be with the broads. You think he would 270 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: be motherfucking and cussing all the time, But he was 271 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: really like a humble, cool dude. I had my son 272 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 1: with me back then. He had always take my son 273 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: like that type of spirit love kids, take us out 274 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,360 Speaker 1: to eat niggas, don't eat all a fool. He'd take 275 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: the full give it to the whoever was homeless outside, 276 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So he was like he 277 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: was just a cool, cool, cool dude, you know what 278 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: I mean, Like real, real, humble. Can you remember the 279 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:04,159 Speaker 1: more that you heard about his death. I can. I 280 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 1: went straight to Cleveland because the moment it was, it 281 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: was so crazy. Man. We had went to New York. 282 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: This was like this wasn't even ninety for almost nine 283 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: It was like November, right after Thanksgiving, we went to 284 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: New York. I remember we went to the tunnel and uh, 285 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: he talked to Ice Cube that night were you know, 286 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: we're kids, man, were like nive with Cube and Cube. 287 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: But we're sitting there watching it, you know what I'm saying. 288 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 1: So like February, we heard that he was in the house. 289 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: He was where he went to the hospital. Then we 290 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: heard about the AIDS you know what I mean. And 291 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: then it was like, well, he gonna be all right. 292 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: We're still recording, he still got us in the studio, 293 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: he's still paying for our room and board and basically 294 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,920 Speaker 1: taking care of us, you know what I'm saying. So 295 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 1: we get a call like easy to eat gone, Like 296 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 1: what you mean gone? Like where you go? They're like, no, honey, 297 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 1: heat he passed away, Like what because we couldn't see him. 298 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: They wouldn't let us see him in the hospital, you 299 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So it was like I thought 300 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 1: the world was over at that time, Like damn, we 301 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 1: just got on just our luck, bone thugs and bone thugs, 302 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: just our luck with something good happened, and then something 303 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: bad happened, you know what I mean. So I remember 304 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: that day. I was sitting on my stairs talking to 305 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 1: my wife on the phone and then we get the 306 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: call and mean, I'll call you right back, and they 307 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: told us spread the news around the house, and we 308 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: was just lost. Man. So I went home to Cleveland 309 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: and said, I'm I thought rapping was over with for 310 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: a long time, for about at least three fot five 311 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 1: months before we got a call saying, okay, we need 312 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 1: you all to come in and finish what y'all was 313 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: doing one So it was that was the craziest period 314 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: in hip hop that I that we had to endure 315 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,679 Speaker 1: losing him because he kept us solo. I mean, he 316 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: kept us separate from everybody, like we was like his 317 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:18,199 Speaker 1: secret weapon. If if anybody remember he started getting his 318 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: hair braid and the curl was gone. He was like 319 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: a member of Bone, you know what I'm saying. So 320 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: I absolutely remember. It's hard to relive it too many. Yeah, 321 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: I spoke to Easy. I never met Easy in person, 322 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:38,719 Speaker 1: but I spoke to him once on the phone, and uh, 323 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 1: it's uh, it's one of those things that you know, 324 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: like when you meet certain people you you you know, 325 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: you wish you had you would have uh I guess 326 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: uh uh alonger relationship with or even having a relationship with, 327 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 1: you know, some kind of because Easy was a brilliant dude, 328 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 1: and he don't get an ugh credit for his brilliance. 329 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,159 Speaker 1: I mean, come on, man, dude gave us you know 330 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 1: in w A, JJ was in w A. You know, Yeah, 331 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,639 Speaker 1: had the foresight to see that, you know, but Bone, 332 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 1: I mean I'm speaking as far as just like groups. 333 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: This is two of the greatest groups of all times. 334 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: Like anybody on anybody's top whatever list, Bone and w 335 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:35,919 Speaker 1: A is gonna consistently come up. You know that dude 336 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: has some he has some foresight and insight. Do you 337 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: keep in touch with I guess Tami could put that 338 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: put the record out right after he died to Maka 339 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: and uh Cassandra where was a very very influential lady 340 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 1: that was helping to run the company at that time 341 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: as well. So she was the creative after easy that 342 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 1: helped guide our creativity into the new Crossroads because we 343 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 1: had the song cross Roads, which was dedicated to my 344 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: homeboy Wally, uh cousin Bull, a couple of people we 345 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 1: lost along the way, and then she had the insight 346 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: to say, well, let's let's remake this for E and 347 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:26,239 Speaker 1: so Cassandra where it was very very instrumental and uh 348 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: Tamika was the executive. She was called she was, she 349 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 1: was the purse. She was, she was she was making 350 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 1: it happen. On songs, there's oftentimes a very little thing 351 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 1: that said in a song that really takes it all 352 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 1: the way. Like the song can already be jamming, but 353 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 1: you put us at a little thing or whatever the 354 00:22:54,080 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 1: sound or whatever and bad So Crossroads. It's jack it 355 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: all the way through, but then just out of nowhere, 356 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 1: I don't want to think you like, who can I 357 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: miss everybody? That's busy that's busy Bone part. I'm gonna 358 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 1: miss everybody, and I'm gonna miss everybody. I'm sorry, yeah, 359 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: say yeah, I'm gonna that's busy. Shot that in that 360 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: busy Bones. Shot that in there, and that's you know, 361 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,159 Speaker 1: the crowd sing that when he don't come, when he 362 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 1: when he not present. We let that song ride and 363 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 1: let the crowd sing that because they love to say 364 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss everybody, and and wish bond with that. 365 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,679 Speaker 1: I missed my uncle Charles, y'all. You know what I'm saying, 366 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: Like those little it's bringing back memories. Man, It's uh, 367 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: that's some good stuff. Man. How do you feel about 368 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 1: out two days artists who are who has that harmonic 369 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: type sound like bone do you feel like you guys 370 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,199 Speaker 1: you know a part of that evolution. I feel like 371 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:19,640 Speaker 1: that's what besides having a song with Park Easy and Biggie, 372 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: those three, I feel like that's what solidified Bone thugs 373 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 1: and harmony. Like not to be cocky but we fathered that, 374 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like from when Mariah Carey 375 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 1: did it. You know what I mean to everybody, everybody 376 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: that sing and wrap and harmonized. Now I hear bone, 377 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,200 Speaker 1: thugs and harmony in it. You know, we don't get 378 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: the props, but without us, it wouldn't be there, right, 379 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 1: you know. I used to think that, well, there, you 380 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: gotta give me my props to people know what's up. 381 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,639 Speaker 1: And then at some point I'm like, you know what 382 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: fun that you gotta remind people? Yeah, like yeah, yeah, 383 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: hey man, you say what you want to say. And 384 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: sometimes people, oh, yeah, oh that's right. He didn't do that. 385 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 1: Oh I ain't. I didn't know, you know, because I 386 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:20,439 Speaker 1: used to didn't tell people about my rapping, you know, 387 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: like what as far as my writing, you know, when 388 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: I was writing for Bill, I never told anybody that 389 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 1: I wrote for Bill until Bill got on an interview 390 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,959 Speaker 1: and said I didn't write for him, and I like, 391 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 1: wait a minute, man, I'm like, you know, especially considering 392 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 1: that I wrote the first thing that he ever I'm 393 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 1: the one that suggested that he become a member of 394 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: the get Aboard. I wrote his first rap. I wrote 395 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,199 Speaker 1: Side and Ship my very first thing he said, and 396 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: the dude. For the dude to say that, I was like, man, 397 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna start telling motherfucker's everything that 398 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 1: I do because sometimes, you know, being humble can can 399 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: cost you. Being too humble can cost you. Let's put 400 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: it like that. I think it's important for people to 401 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: know what you've done if you working on a project. 402 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: That's so many people in this world that work at 403 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: companies and organizations, even at uh at foundations, you know, 404 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:32,719 Speaker 1: charitable foundations. They do a whole lot to make those 405 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,239 Speaker 1: companies and organizations business or whatever move forward, but they 406 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 1: don't get any correct credit. They don't get the recognition 407 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,640 Speaker 1: this person and fund of them who ain't really done 408 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: ship and get all of the credit. And I think 409 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: that it's important for people to make note and let 410 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: people know, nah, I did this or whatever. And of course, 411 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 1: if you work for a company, you gotta be careful 412 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: because some you know, what's that saying and for the 413 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: laws of power never shot in the mask. You gotta 414 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: be very careful about that. How many kids you have 415 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:16,399 Speaker 1: m hmm yeah, seven eight nine, you got nack? Yeah? Wow? Yeah? 416 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 1: How many boys and girls? Uh? Five? Five girls? Five 417 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:31,959 Speaker 1: girls and four boys. Yeah, yeah, grown kids. Now I'm 418 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: five paup Paul and four boys. Any of the kids rapping, 419 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: all of them? Really? Yeah, I'm I'm the new Joe 420 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: Jackson man. All my kids get it. My son's my son, 421 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: Stephen Jr. He's just put out where he got three 422 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,880 Speaker 1: new songs out right now on the internet and uh, 423 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,879 Speaker 1: and he go up under the name of Stephen House Jr. 424 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: Won't change it to a rap name or nothing. So 425 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: he put out a couple of hitted hundred thousand on 426 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 1: one fuse the first day, you know. But he and 427 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: he actually sing, so they sing, They wrapped instruments, the 428 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: whole nine producing, you know. So they're definitely following in 429 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: my in my footsteps and bone footsteps. So yeah, I'm 430 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 1: gonna give you a list to who I who I'm 431 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:28,680 Speaker 1: working with. I got Trinity, my daughter, who uh, growing 432 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: up hip hop is interested in and now I'm working 433 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 1: with growing up hip hop now you know what I'm saying. 434 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: So and my son Stevin, he's the rapper rapper, you know. 435 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: So and yeah, they they did and they they're ready, man. 436 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: But they they've been doing it since they came out 437 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: the wound. So you know, yeah, man, my kids are talented, 438 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: and I'm damn there to that level where I got 439 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: a couple more albums in me because I love music 440 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: so much. Man, it's my therapy, you know. I mean 441 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: that music. Me being there to have a studio at 442 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: home brought me home to my children, and I was 443 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 1: able to share that with him, you know what I'm saying. 444 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: So now I go home and they got four five 445 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: six that made songs done to, three albums put up 446 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 1: and you know, just waiting for the perfect time too 447 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: to hit the same with them. They out here and Houston. 448 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 1: I got two sons out here in Houston making noise 449 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: around the town. So yeah, they I mean not from Houston, 450 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 1: but they out here. I got their friends, the kids, 451 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: they went to school, We got family out here, so 452 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: they came down here. Actually a little Stevie's first video 453 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: it's done in Houston with the Houston back dropping all that. 454 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm rooted. I'm rooted everywhere. Man. When you 455 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: look at your kids, even before let's say, let's talk 456 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: about before they got into the game, you never was 457 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: so jaded by the industry, like a lot of people 458 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: jaded by the industry, So you never was jaded, so 459 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,959 Speaker 1: jaded by the industry that you said herself, you know, 460 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: I don't want you doing this, never to any of 461 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,479 Speaker 1: your kids there, you know, because I always looked at 462 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 1: it like it was a challenge, you know, first of all, 463 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: the challenge of getting in the door, you know. Then 464 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: the second of all, the challenge of trying to make 465 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: my deals better because I got we got took so 466 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: many times, you know them deals wasn't right. But every 467 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: time I sold another record, I've always been, always been 468 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: about the business as well, you know what I'm saying. 469 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 1: So every time we did a platinum, I wanted to 470 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: renegotiate everything, and and by me knowing that getting advice 471 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 1: from e when for the love time that we did 472 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: spend with him, that charged me up, Like, oh, it's 473 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: a game, y'all want to play the game. So if 474 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: I sell more records, I get to come back to 475 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 1: the table and holat two or you know what I'm saying. 476 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 1: So the negotiation part kept me into it. And my 477 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: whole thing was always to own everything I want. I 478 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: wanted to do it with little Jay was doing. I 479 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 1: wanted to do what easy he was doing. It and 480 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: Russ and Lee or Coin's and them. I wanted to 481 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: be that, you know what I'm saying. So music it's 482 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: my love and keep me grounded. But at the same time, 483 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,480 Speaker 1: numbers and money in, you know, just to be the 484 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: best was always so I wasn't jaded about my kids. 485 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,959 Speaker 1: I never tried to, no, because all my life had 486 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: been music. My mother a singer, you know what I'm saying. 487 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: So my mother sung. She she never really made it, 488 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,960 Speaker 1: made it, but she did background with the uh oh 489 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 1: Jays and things like that, where I remember being real 490 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: little with her going to the bars and singing. So 491 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: I ain't never really seen another path but entertainment. So 492 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 1: is that where it comes from? Yeah, Mama Pete, Yeah, 493 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 1: Mama Pete. Man, she's she's a real brick house. Yeah, 494 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 1: that's your mom. Just celebrated a birthday. Yeah, and so 495 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 1: you guys in the same month, labor gang. Yeah, did 496 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: you ever have a birthday party together? Man? All my 497 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: parties was with my mom, you know, ever since I 498 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: was I was having house parties. Man. When I was 499 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 1: twelve years old, you know what I'm saying, all the 500 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 1: high school kids was coming. My mother let me she'd 501 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 1: rather stay home and do what we did instead of 502 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 1: running the streets, you know what I'm saying. So I 503 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 1: was allowed to do things other kids my age wasn't 504 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 1: able to do because my mom other you know, everything 505 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 1: that went on in the eighties, we did it my mother. 506 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:11,000 Speaker 1: You know, at one point of time, the crack epidemic 507 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 1: had her. And you know, I was able to roam 508 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 1: around and I so dope and I did this, but 509 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:20,800 Speaker 1: my mother made a safe haven at home. Bone came home, 510 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So we had house parties. Man, 511 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 1: we was the ship way back then. Like so my 512 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: kids get it honestly now that I you know, I 513 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: feel like I learned so much from being robbed and took, 514 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: like now with the Internet and I got all my 515 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: rights back working on getting our masters from Ruthless and 516 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: all that ship. Like, my kids are their own bosses, 517 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 1: you know. I mean, they're managing their own careers. They 518 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: just come to me for advice. I mean, I just consult. 519 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about moving out of Cleveland? Man? 520 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: I um, I mean, I'm I'm always have one ft 521 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: in Cleveland, but mainly I'm in l A because that's 522 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:11,879 Speaker 1: where all my businesses you know what I'm saying, Like Cleveland, 523 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,880 Speaker 1: we had to leave Cleveland to bring it back, you 524 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 1: know what I mean, because it wasn't there. It was 525 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 1: either you go to New York, come down south, or California. 526 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 1: And that's why I planted my my feet at California, 527 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 1: and I you know, my empire, it's on both sides, 528 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 1: but I'm in California because that's where all the business 529 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:41,239 Speaker 1: at for me. How bad is the gang activity in 530 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,360 Speaker 1: Cleveland now? Because I remember going to Cleveland to do 531 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 1: a show maybe like two thousand or something like that, 532 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,680 Speaker 1: and I didn't know Cleveland was that bad. It's horrible. 533 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,799 Speaker 1: I didn't know it was that bad. We had a show. 534 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:59,840 Speaker 1: And when I say, the whole entire damn vine was 535 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 1: we're talking game, like everybody was game. I was like, damn, 536 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:10,399 Speaker 1: what happened? And this was just I guess I hadn't 537 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 1: been there probably about maybe ten years. When I went right, 538 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:19,240 Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, Yeah, that transformed, and that transforming 539 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,680 Speaker 1: about it because when I was growing when I was 540 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,959 Speaker 1: growing up, when we got on, I was twenty years old. 541 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:31,160 Speaker 1: So the generation after that, like we didn't even believe 542 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,280 Speaker 1: in gangs like that. We wrapped. Our streets were from 543 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 1: the street, you know. I mean, we're so dope, that's 544 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:44,640 Speaker 1: what we did. So now it's they're young man, they died, 545 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,719 Speaker 1: they're going fast, and you know, I know some very 546 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,719 Speaker 1: influential people trying to help that cause in Cleveland. But 547 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:57,400 Speaker 1: it's bad. It's it's bad. It's nothing. It's nothing to do. 548 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,799 Speaker 1: That's why I'm trying to I'm trying to do what 549 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 1: I'm doing to bring it home. How did y'all feel, well, 550 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:10,319 Speaker 1: how did you feel specifically when people were accusing you 551 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 1: guys are being devil wishippers worshipers back in the day. Yeah, 552 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: I remember y'all doing. Then y'all do something with a 553 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,920 Speaker 1: Weji boy. I can't crystallized memory of it, but I 554 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,120 Speaker 1: remember something. I was doing something with a wei boy. 555 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 1: Let let me clarify that. So everything we probably ever did, 556 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 1: we wrote songs about. So in high school, somebody brought 557 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,680 Speaker 1: a Weiji board to school and by the way, it's 558 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,640 Speaker 1: a Parker Brothers game, you know what I mean. It 559 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,960 Speaker 1: was bought at Toys or us. Somebody brought it to school. 560 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,319 Speaker 1: We played it was like, oh man, we're gonna make 561 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:50,440 Speaker 1: a song about it. Never thinking that because our most 562 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 1: of our families are Jehovah witnesses, you know what I'm saying. 563 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,359 Speaker 1: So we grew up with Christ in us. And yeah, 564 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,360 Speaker 1: our our family, it was mad. It was mad, but 565 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 1: we made songs crazy. Bam. Mama put us the funk out, 566 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,480 Speaker 1: like she's seen that ship in her house and she 567 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,600 Speaker 1: was like, get the fun out all y'all, get don't 568 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 1: come back, and yeah, broke it up. And but yeah, 569 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,080 Speaker 1: we made a song about it. Man. And when people 570 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:24,000 Speaker 1: thought we was uh devil worshipers, I just thought that 571 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,239 Speaker 1: was absurd, Like if you really listen, if you really 572 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,759 Speaker 1: a fan of Bone and you listen to it. We 573 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,680 Speaker 1: mentioned guys so much in our music, like how could 574 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:37,279 Speaker 1: you think that? But not knowing now that when I 575 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,319 Speaker 1: look at hindsight, okay, I see what they how they 576 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 1: could have mistooken mistaken that. But now we we We 577 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,600 Speaker 1: rocked with the Lord Man Jesus Christ all day long. 578 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,920 Speaker 1: Jan Roue was recently on the show and he told 579 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:59,600 Speaker 1: me about how his mother was banished from That's Your 580 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:08,680 Speaker 1: Hope for Witness program because she had been having relations 581 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:14,040 Speaker 1: with worldly people, just like just kicking it with hanging 582 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,120 Speaker 1: out with worldly people and they banished that I didn't 583 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,880 Speaker 1: know Jehovah witnesses. Was that gangster? I just thought they 584 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,799 Speaker 1: just knocked on doors. No, no, no, no, they get 585 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,520 Speaker 1: rid of you. Man. It's it's some rules and things 586 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,120 Speaker 1: that go along with being a Jehovah's witnesses. I studied. 587 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,759 Speaker 1: I never became a Jehovah witness, but I studied Jehovah's 588 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,160 Speaker 1: witness and like just like I studied, I studied up. 589 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 1: I studied the Karan. My brother, Flesh and Bone is 590 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:45,640 Speaker 1: a Muslim, so you got crazy Bone families, Jehovah witnesses. 591 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,880 Speaker 1: My grandmother was a Jehovah's witness. My brother became a Muslim, 592 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,080 Speaker 1: so we got we got so much. It's a diversity 593 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,440 Speaker 1: with them bond as very very hard displain, but it 594 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,399 Speaker 1: works because we talked about all all love it. Okay, 595 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:07,920 Speaker 1: if you look at society, let's talk about American society. 596 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,880 Speaker 1: American society is very diverse, but what we don't have 597 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:18,840 Speaker 1: is people who have a tolerance for people who don't 598 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:23,359 Speaker 1: have the same beliefs as they do. So how did 599 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:30,000 Speaker 1: bone does in harmony make it work? Because bone thugs 600 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,480 Speaker 1: and we found out real real early that we needed 601 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,720 Speaker 1: each other because we was all dope on our own, 602 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,000 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like we were, we dressed dope, 603 00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:44,759 Speaker 1: we was everything we did individually, we shined at it. 604 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:49,440 Speaker 1: But we we when we recognize if if all of us, 605 00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:53,320 Speaker 1: because we used to do this, well, take our hands 606 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:57,200 Speaker 1: like one, two, three, five, put it together. Now hit 607 00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:01,080 Speaker 1: that nigger, and that's how we thought, like as a whole, 608 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:07,320 Speaker 1: we weigh stronger. So I think if American society realized 609 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,640 Speaker 1: that little simple thing, you know, it's it's good to 610 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,440 Speaker 1: be different and get different opinions, you get different outlooks 611 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,480 Speaker 1: on things. And we embraced that, like at the ages 612 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:22,440 Speaker 1: of twelve and thirteen, because we wanted out of the ghetto. Man, 613 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,480 Speaker 1: it was hard, it was we was hungry, you know 614 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,680 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And when we rocked together, when we 615 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't got that bag from the dope man like you 616 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 1: you on that corner, you on that corner, I'm gonna 617 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,520 Speaker 1: be here, y'all, y'all got the night shift, and then 618 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,960 Speaker 1: we'd take the day shift. Like we worked. We rocked 619 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,239 Speaker 1: like that the whole time. So understanding that we were 620 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:48,240 Speaker 1: stronger together as kids, that's how we got on because 621 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:53,200 Speaker 1: we stuck together. But America, I just think it's too finicky, 622 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,239 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And they just complaining and 623 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:59,560 Speaker 1: complaining and not appreciating. So that's a whole another bag, 624 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,959 Speaker 1: This American pot wei in, you know what I mean. 625 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:08,839 Speaker 1: But stronger together, we gotta saying. Called team. The ancronym 626 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:15,160 Speaker 1: of team is together everyone achieves more. You know that, man, together, 627 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:23,480 Speaker 1: everyone achieves more. That's the bond anchronym for team. When 628 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:28,640 Speaker 1: you were in the streets, what's like the worst thing 629 00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:30,439 Speaker 1: that you saw that made you say, Man, I ain't 630 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,399 Speaker 1: doing this father, I got to get the other out 631 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,319 Speaker 1: of it. You know. I got shot in the head 632 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:39,759 Speaker 1: at six Team. I went to jail when I was 633 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:44,160 Speaker 1: fourteen for the first time. I was fourteen years I 634 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,240 Speaker 1: never forget these dates. August twenty three, nineteen eighty nine, 635 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,080 Speaker 1: sent me off. We was born. We was bandais boys 636 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,160 Speaker 1: at that time, and I had to be away from 637 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,960 Speaker 1: like my my boys always was my family, and I 638 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,600 Speaker 1: had to be away for that. That's where the bone 639 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:06,319 Speaker 1: came from, you know what I mean. Like plotting, it's 640 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:11,319 Speaker 1: a it's a deep story behind bone. But the the 641 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,759 Speaker 1: way it came about was me going to jail and 642 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,319 Speaker 1: I had to come home. And when I did get 643 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,520 Speaker 1: a chance to come home, I lived in Texas. I 644 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:23,600 Speaker 1: lived in Dallas, went to a school called Trinity and 645 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,200 Speaker 1: that was my tim gray year. And I came home 646 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,920 Speaker 1: and I had to find my brothers. I had to 647 00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,279 Speaker 1: find wish Bone. I didn't know where he was at, 648 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,879 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I had to find crazy Bone. 649 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,440 Speaker 1: I actually ran into his craziest dad walked in the 650 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:43,000 Speaker 1: store and his dad was there and I'm like, where 651 00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,520 Speaker 1: the fund is that? And he told me and I 652 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,799 Speaker 1: went and found him. And that's about the time my 653 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,680 Speaker 1: mother introduced busy and I was going back to do 654 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,959 Speaker 1: when I left off, like I was going to see 655 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,160 Speaker 1: who who I used to get my bag from and 656 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,719 Speaker 1: be like, yeah, I'm home. I ain't say nothing. I 657 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,360 Speaker 1: did my little time, although it was juvenile, you know. 658 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,560 Speaker 1: I went to Texas and came back and boom, walking 659 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:13,200 Speaker 1: down the street, got mis stick in ass somebody else. 660 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,480 Speaker 1: Niggas jumped out, tried to jump on me and my brother. 661 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:20,600 Speaker 1: We beat their ass, and nigga poured out a gun. 662 00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:24,120 Speaker 1: I tried to run and they hit me in the head. 663 00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,680 Speaker 1: Still there, they said, don't do this, but I'm hardheaded, 664 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:34,480 Speaker 1: so I shake it anyway. But yes, this so, but 665 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:38,759 Speaker 1: that was a lifetime ago. It seemed like I was 666 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,120 Speaker 1: sixteen years old. And that's when I said, you know what, 667 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:47,399 Speaker 1: I ain't doing nothing else but music. And right after that, 668 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,759 Speaker 1: if I did sell dope, it was to get the 669 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:54,839 Speaker 1: clothes we needed. I worked at KFC may show Ball 670 00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:58,040 Speaker 1: had everything we need, a fairy show, you know what 671 00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:01,920 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, so I struggle for this. I'm the glue. 672 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,640 Speaker 1: Everybody got their role, you know what I mean. Crazy 673 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,680 Speaker 1: Bone when it comes to wrap and he the sense 674 00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,200 Speaker 1: say to me, you know what I'm saying, be harmony 675 00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:16,880 Speaker 1: and fleshes the general and wishes the lieutenant at arms. Me. 676 00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:20,160 Speaker 1: I'm the glue. I'm the liber I'm the one gonna 677 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,960 Speaker 1: go get everybody like it's time to come home, It's 678 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,680 Speaker 1: time to do this. It's it's money to be made. 679 00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:31,360 Speaker 1: So that's my perspective role with the Bone, thugs and Harmony. 680 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,319 Speaker 1: So getting shot in the head, that was it for me. 681 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:36,719 Speaker 1: I'm like, I ain't doing this, no mo. It was 682 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,280 Speaker 1: time to leave Cleveland. And then they killed my best friend. 683 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,560 Speaker 1: My best friend while he was breaking up a fight 684 00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,520 Speaker 1: some ship. He ain't had nothing to do with Nigga, 685 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,640 Speaker 1: couldn't hand me, pulled out a pistol, shot him in 686 00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:55,080 Speaker 1: the chest. And when our first when Faces of Death 687 00:44:55,160 --> 00:45:00,640 Speaker 1: was coming out, we got the tape back the day before, 688 00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,480 Speaker 1: a couple of days before his funeral, and I buried 689 00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,080 Speaker 1: the tape in his put the tape in his uh 690 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:12,440 Speaker 1: in the coffin, and after that it was like music. Music. 691 00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,720 Speaker 1: We got to get out of Cleveland. That was the mission. 692 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:21,040 Speaker 1: Did they ever found your shooter? Nope, So you could 693 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,759 Speaker 1: have ran across from any number of times you could 694 00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,920 Speaker 1: have showed up at a bone concert. I probably shook 695 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:32,799 Speaker 1: his hand, and if to be honest, if I knew 696 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,880 Speaker 1: who he was, I would shake his hand. Thank you, 697 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:42,279 Speaker 1: Nigging for changing my mind. H See, I must change 698 00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:46,040 Speaker 1: your mind. Literally, Yeah, I almost made me lose my 699 00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:53,239 Speaker 1: mind too, literally exactly. Um that that shell. You don't 700 00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:57,400 Speaker 1: have to get tested for lead poisoning mm hmm Nope, 701 00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:00,960 Speaker 1: because when it entered I mean at this bomb and 702 00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,799 Speaker 1: my my doctor's called me iron head, and every now 703 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:09,160 Speaker 1: and again I get pains up in here. But that's all. 704 00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,840 Speaker 1: It's like they're saying, it's too dangerous to try to 705 00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:17,719 Speaker 1: take it out. They couldn't get it. Yeah, I guess they. Yeah, 706 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:22,319 Speaker 1: they couldn't. They couldn't get to it. Yeah. I had 707 00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:26,640 Speaker 1: one in my chest and I had it taken out, 708 00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:32,000 Speaker 1: lived with it for about and probably three or four years, 709 00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,200 Speaker 1: but I got tired of getting tested. I was paranoid 710 00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,600 Speaker 1: about getting tested for lead parts and like catching lad parts, 711 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,680 Speaker 1: and so I would get tested a couple of times 712 00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:45,200 Speaker 1: a year, and then finally I just got removed. Mine 713 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:49,480 Speaker 1: wasn't as dangerous to remove. So yeah, and my and 714 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:54,560 Speaker 1: this it was five so so little that they, you know, 715 00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:59,640 Speaker 1: they thought it would be more detrimental to move that thing. 716 00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,359 Speaker 1: And I had lost it. It blew my ear out, 717 00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:04,920 Speaker 1: like I was. I couldn't hear my left ear for 718 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,359 Speaker 1: a few years, and then one day I just popped in, 719 00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:15,080 Speaker 1: like miraculously, miraculously, So yeah, I considered that a blessing. 720 00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:29,960 Speaker 1: About a year ago, you hopped on Instagram and went 721 00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,200 Speaker 1: in on the me Goes people talking about Me Goes 722 00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,480 Speaker 1: is the greatest group, the greatest hip hop group and 723 00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,680 Speaker 1: all this step Steph, and you had something to say 724 00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:43,320 Speaker 1: about it. For those who don't remember that, explain what 725 00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:48,920 Speaker 1: was going on, oh man? For so, I know how 726 00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,399 Speaker 1: I passed it up since then, but I mean, it's 727 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,960 Speaker 1: all it's it's cool now, but and I was. It 728 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,959 Speaker 1: was I was fighting a battle that wasn't even mine, man, 729 00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,200 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It was Uh, I guess 730 00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:06,200 Speaker 1: big Boy from from the radio out out in l 731 00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:11,480 Speaker 1: A had asked one of them goals, Um, you know, 732 00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,120 Speaker 1: do y'all feel like you're the greatest group? And by 733 00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,560 Speaker 1: the way, which I think everybody should feel like they're 734 00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:20,120 Speaker 1: the greatest, you know what I'm saying. And um he 735 00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,560 Speaker 1: said what he said, and then Busy took it a 736 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:29,919 Speaker 1: certain way, and Busy Bone got that um big boy 737 00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,600 Speaker 1: like yeah, you like he had a problem with big boys. 738 00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:42,160 Speaker 1: So that little talking and beef was going on, and 739 00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:46,040 Speaker 1: some street niggas had gotta started talking, had got into it. 740 00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:47,960 Speaker 1: So I felt like I had to stand up for 741 00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,920 Speaker 1: Bone because Bone is like my baby, you know what 742 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:57,360 Speaker 1: I'm saying, and um, and it was just talk talk talk, 743 00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,440 Speaker 1: and I hadn't said nothing that I I was just 744 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:06,120 Speaker 1: watching that this time. And then um he got on 745 00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:10,560 Speaker 1: there and said something to the effect that them old 746 00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:14,319 Speaker 1: broke niggas, and that pissed me off because I'm like, 747 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,800 Speaker 1: you comme I think it was it was offset because 748 00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,680 Speaker 1: I really went at him. I never heard the other 749 00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:24,440 Speaker 1: to really say anything about it, but it was offset that. 750 00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:28,400 Speaker 1: It was like uh like saying like we was played out, 751 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,680 Speaker 1: we was broken. Then they said they was the greatest group, 752 00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,640 Speaker 1: not just in hip hop but in rap. But when 753 00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,320 Speaker 1: the niggas said that we was broke, I'm like, oh, no, Nigga, 754 00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,520 Speaker 1: I worked for mine. And then so I got at him, 755 00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:47,720 Speaker 1: and then uh, one of the other little rappers says something, 756 00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,400 Speaker 1: and then it started turning into a thing. So I'm like, 757 00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,320 Speaker 1: I just jumped on the mic and felt a certain way. 758 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,880 Speaker 1: He didn't write nothing down and just went at nigga's heads. 759 00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,800 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's like because I felt 760 00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:05,560 Speaker 1: like you, like I bond thugs and Harmony, would never 761 00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:10,320 Speaker 1: disrespect ghetto boys because y'all paved the way for us. 762 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,759 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. We would never disrespect in 763 00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:16,560 Speaker 1: w way. We would never disrespect tribe called quests or 764 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,400 Speaker 1: anybody that put the work in. I just start feeling 765 00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:24,279 Speaker 1: like these little niggas really think they they're ungrateful, Like 766 00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,799 Speaker 1: nig you wouldn't be getting that bag if we put 767 00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:30,120 Speaker 1: the work in and then you're saying you're the greatest group. 768 00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:34,239 Speaker 1: But now you're saying you created my style. Man, fuck you. 769 00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:38,040 Speaker 1: That's how I felt. But I mean now it's like 770 00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,880 Speaker 1: I wish I wouldn't have said nothing because they didn't 771 00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:44,080 Speaker 1: pop back. I'm like that, and and it was like, well, 772 00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,560 Speaker 1: let's count the money, let's see who's back the big No, 773 00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:51,200 Speaker 1: we're your skills at because we take this rap ship serious, 774 00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:54,600 Speaker 1: like it's an art and it's a real art, you 775 00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,560 Speaker 1: know what i mean. So the art was like, I mean, 776 00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:58,680 Speaker 1: they ain't want to They adn't want to do that. 777 00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:06,240 Speaker 1: So I want a lot of people today they measure 778 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:17,600 Speaker 1: importance by how much money one has a right, and 779 00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:21,160 Speaker 1: I just think about so many people who has had 780 00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:25,120 Speaker 1: an unlimited amount of money who ain't ship. I mean, 781 00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:29,560 Speaker 1: just like, you know, i'mna kind of dude that I 782 00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:34,200 Speaker 1: could be impressed with what someone does, but I'm more 783 00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:38,560 Speaker 1: impressed with what kind of person you are. That's what 784 00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:44,680 Speaker 1: impressed me the most, because I'd rather eat crumbs with 785 00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:48,440 Speaker 1: bombs and snakes, I mean, steaks with snakes, you know 786 00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,120 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I would rather eat crumbs with bombs 787 00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:56,440 Speaker 1: than steaks with snakes, and that's the way I I operate, 788 00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,800 Speaker 1: And it's just it just trips me out the level 789 00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:06,240 Speaker 1: of as kissing that's out there with when it comes 790 00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:11,440 Speaker 1: to people with money. When I was growing up, you 791 00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:14,520 Speaker 1: could be hard and everything, and you could be a 792 00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:18,360 Speaker 1: dude in the streets getting money. But if you couldn't 793 00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:21,640 Speaker 1: protect your own money, nobody respected you. They're gonna take it. 794 00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:25,120 Speaker 1: They would take it. For these days, these guys, I 795 00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,040 Speaker 1: actually out here protecting these dudes. They they're out here 796 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,240 Speaker 1: like getting in the way of the bullets and stuff. 797 00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:33,719 Speaker 1: You know, Like of course, well they get in the 798 00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:35,520 Speaker 1: way if they think the bullets ain't really gonna come, 799 00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,239 Speaker 1: but when they really come, they get the hell out. 800 00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:43,880 Speaker 1: I wait. But like, we wouldn't protect a sucker. We 801 00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:47,480 Speaker 1: would protect a dude that wasn't gangster, but you know 802 00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,920 Speaker 1: he was getting his money, but he respected the code 803 00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,880 Speaker 1: and he looked out for people in the hood or whatever, 804 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:58,920 Speaker 1: and you know he didn't he didn't flunt. Right, We 805 00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,080 Speaker 1: protect that type of but just like a regular sucker 806 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,799 Speaker 1: and a matter how much of money, hey man, we're 807 00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,279 Speaker 1: coming up on get that. You you got to give 808 00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,880 Speaker 1: it up because we we just didn't respect I mean 809 00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,279 Speaker 1: he's talking about, you know, growing up around a whole 810 00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,320 Speaker 1: bunch of wolves. Man, you know, like man and everybody 811 00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,320 Speaker 1: trying to eat and you're you're getting all this money 812 00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,360 Speaker 1: and you're a sucker and you you know, you're shipping 813 00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,120 Speaker 1: on people. Oh man, you ain't gonna survive. Yeah, you're 814 00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:29,360 Speaker 1: not gonna Absolutely, I'm cut from that cloth. That's the 815 00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,200 Speaker 1: cloth I'm covering from. And that's that was the point, 816 00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:36,719 Speaker 1: Like your characters all I like, young man, you don't 817 00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:40,560 Speaker 1: even know. I just turned forty seven, not and did 818 00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:44,080 Speaker 1: more in life for so many, so many, so many 819 00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:47,759 Speaker 1: people like don't count my pockets. That that ain't what 820 00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:49,920 Speaker 1: you do out here in the streets, because once you 821 00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,759 Speaker 1: get to count niggas pockets, niggas knock your head off, 822 00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:58,120 Speaker 1: like keep it real. These days ship you got rappers 823 00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:04,120 Speaker 1: that's full blown known snitch and they're still selling records. 824 00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,279 Speaker 1: I don't. It's like, I'm not from that era. So 825 00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:12,640 Speaker 1: my thing was, don't disrespect the people who lays your 826 00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:17,080 Speaker 1: foundation down. That was my whole principle behind that. And 827 00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:23,000 Speaker 1: actually Snoop told me, he was like don't even He 828 00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,359 Speaker 1: was like, later on, you bigger than that. Just don't. 829 00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:28,759 Speaker 1: It ain't worth it. It's business, and I wish I 830 00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:32,399 Speaker 1: would have listened at that time. So that's water under 831 00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,799 Speaker 1: the bridge, and I'm pretty sure you know they'd are 832 00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:39,560 Speaker 1: matured a little bit too, so we can get money. 833 00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,080 Speaker 1: I wanted to look up something right quick. I'm trying 834 00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:47,640 Speaker 1: to see this actress's name, Ellen Pompio. I guess that 835 00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,680 Speaker 1: I don't know how to pronounced her last name. But 836 00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:55,480 Speaker 1: she's facing some backlash for disrespecting density at Washington. Does 837 00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,239 Speaker 1: that Washington? She talked. She told a story on her 838 00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:03,840 Speaker 1: podcast where in the day when Denzel Washington was directing 839 00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,279 Speaker 1: an episode of Great Anatomy. She was trying to tell 840 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:13,040 Speaker 1: one of the actors how to get through the scene 841 00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,680 Speaker 1: and Denzel interjected and say, you know, don't you tell 842 00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,560 Speaker 1: him what to do? I'm the director, And she said, 843 00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:22,120 Speaker 1: motherfucker this mu said. She said, she said that to Denzel. 844 00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,000 Speaker 1: She thought she was gonna get a lot of praise, 845 00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,520 Speaker 1: but they lit her ass up on Twitter. I mean 846 00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:29,920 Speaker 1: they lit her up. And that goes to your point, 847 00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:33,520 Speaker 1: you know, the disrespect, Like Denzel open the doors and 848 00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,560 Speaker 1: he continues to open doors for anybody that comes after him. 849 00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:40,680 Speaker 1: He laid the foundation. Denzelvis one of the most respected 850 00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:46,000 Speaker 1: actors of all times. And even outside of acting as 851 00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:49,879 Speaker 1: a man, you know, as a philanthroper, you know, as 852 00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:54,480 Speaker 1: a you know, philanthropist, as a as a you know, 853 00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:57,759 Speaker 1: just as a as a father. You know, this man 854 00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:02,080 Speaker 1: is where respected and for heard of. You know this, 855 00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:03,960 Speaker 1: this this is type of stuff we would never hear 856 00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:07,920 Speaker 1: here back in the day, we would never hear uh 857 00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:12,640 Speaker 1: an actor or anybody that was basically someone who came 858 00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:16,840 Speaker 1: after someone who laid the foundation, who paved the way, 859 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,399 Speaker 1: being disrespectful like that. And I said that to make 860 00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:25,360 Speaker 1: this point, keep waking up and then you're gonna be 861 00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:30,680 Speaker 1: that person who paved the way. That's gonna be getting 862 00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:35,280 Speaker 1: shipped on, getting disrespected and being called old and broke 863 00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,400 Speaker 1: or whatever. Right. It just trips me out how so 864 00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:43,920 Speaker 1: many people disrespect people who are older. And you don't 865 00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:45,759 Speaker 1: have to be seven, eight and nine years old, you 866 00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:52,160 Speaker 1: can be thirty. They just hate that. The mother fucking 867 00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:56,759 Speaker 1: point isn't that The point of the point is to 868 00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:00,200 Speaker 1: get get like me right, get up and did you 869 00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:05,640 Speaker 1: want to get and you can basically become like a 870 00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:10,279 Speaker 1: social encyclopedia right for you? People get the youngster can 871 00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,680 Speaker 1: come and get the game, you know, Like I just 872 00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,160 Speaker 1: was always that dude that like to be around the 873 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,800 Speaker 1: older people to suck the game up. I never, when 874 00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:24,200 Speaker 1: I say never, I never disrespected old people like that. Yeah, 875 00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:29,240 Speaker 1: I mean I was taught respect your elders bottom nine. 876 00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,480 Speaker 1: You know, back when I was growing up, we are 877 00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:36,080 Speaker 1: on our street and everybody knew everybody. You know what 878 00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:38,160 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like it ain't like that no more. The 879 00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:42,040 Speaker 1: communities all broke up and things like that. So if 880 00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:45,120 Speaker 1: I was running up and down the street being disrespectful, 881 00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,560 Speaker 1: then somebody let my mama know, my mama gonna whoop 882 00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:52,160 Speaker 1: my ass. And then not only that, she's gonna get 883 00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:55,480 Speaker 1: permission to whoever caught me to you know, snatch a 884 00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,960 Speaker 1: not and out of nigger. So I don't know where 885 00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:02,320 Speaker 1: we lost it at, and but we gotta get it 886 00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:07,880 Speaker 1: back because we gotta get it back, like because I mean, 887 00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,960 Speaker 1: my kids are walking here and they got what I got, 888 00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:14,400 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like I put that time 889 00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,200 Speaker 1: in with him to let them know, Like you, I 890 00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:18,800 Speaker 1: don't care if you if you think you right, that's 891 00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:21,160 Speaker 1: your elder. You shut the funk up and get out 892 00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:24,880 Speaker 1: the door with your difference of opinion, you know what 893 00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:29,840 Speaker 1: I mean, because it's aged before beauty, the wisdom. You 894 00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:31,760 Speaker 1: know what I mean. You're in part the people who 895 00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:34,240 Speaker 1: can impart that wisdom on you. You know what I'm saying, 896 00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:37,080 Speaker 1: Like I look up to y'all, y'all my o g 897 00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:40,720 Speaker 1: s you face. You know what I mean, Cube, I 898 00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:43,840 Speaker 1: was raised, I was out there. I'm raised by y'all. 899 00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:47,200 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like I didn't go do 900 00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:51,520 Speaker 1: what you said you were doing. You know what I mean. 901 00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:56,360 Speaker 1: I learned and wanted to critique, like damn they said, 902 00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:59,840 Speaker 1: like do it like this and like soaking up game. 903 00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:04,480 Speaker 1: So maybe maybe the kids want to be sponges again. 904 00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:07,880 Speaker 1: It looked like it looked like the ignorance might be 905 00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,880 Speaker 1: stirred around a little bit to where it's changing. Because 906 00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:15,360 Speaker 1: my kids, my my my homies kids and all that 907 00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:18,840 Speaker 1: they was taught to be respectful. You know what I'm saying. 908 00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:20,840 Speaker 1: That we kept them in the Bible. All though we 909 00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:25,160 Speaker 1: talked the street ship, we still the basic instructions before 910 00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:28,520 Speaker 1: leaving Earth. It's put in their hands, you know what 911 00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:34,840 Speaker 1: I mean. By the way Bible acronym basic instructions before 912 00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:39,760 Speaker 1: leaving earth. Yeah, I never heard that before. That's tight, man. 913 00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:44,360 Speaker 1: I think you owned something about these kids being sponges 914 00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,600 Speaker 1: and wanting to suck up the game, because I'm in 915 00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:54,480 Speaker 1: the same boat. My kids very respectful, My friends kids 916 00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:59,160 Speaker 1: very respectful. So that's why I never like make these 917 00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:03,200 Speaker 1: sweeping general realizations about today's youth because I know so 918 01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:06,520 Speaker 1: many youngsters who are getting it and doing well. You know, 919 01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:09,120 Speaker 1: I know a lot of them who are on the 920 01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:12,880 Speaker 1: right path, and a lot of them are getting money, 921 01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:16,640 Speaker 1: and they have integrity. They're not just doing anything to 922 01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:20,000 Speaker 1: get money. They have integrity. They care about how they're 923 01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:23,000 Speaker 1: viewed by their family. They understand them when they go 924 01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:26,360 Speaker 1: out there, they're not just representing themselves, they're representing their 925 01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:30,600 Speaker 1: family and they get it. So it's salute, salute to 926 01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:32,920 Speaker 1: every one of you out there. So it salute to 927 01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:35,120 Speaker 1: the to the mothers and the fathers, and the aunts 928 01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,040 Speaker 1: and the uncles you know, and and the and the 929 01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:41,960 Speaker 1: cousins and the grandparents and and and family friends who 930 01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:45,800 Speaker 1: are who are helping and helping to raise these kids. 931 01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:50,960 Speaker 1: Because it really does take a village, you know, I really, 932 01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:55,240 Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Uh, Like you have no idea 933 01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:57,680 Speaker 1: when I see stuff like that you're seeing you talk about. 934 01:00:57,720 --> 01:00:59,919 Speaker 1: They gave me chills when you say, you know you're 935 01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:04,760 Speaker 1: kids get it and your homeboys. Yeah, we cut from 936 01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:09,480 Speaker 1: the same cloth. Man. But you know something, I I 937 01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:15,400 Speaker 1: think it goes beyond just disrespectful elderly. I think it 938 01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:21,320 Speaker 1: you know, elders, It goes to the heart of how 939 01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:25,160 Speaker 1: a person is just disrespectful. Period. Some people are just 940 01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:28,960 Speaker 1: disrespectful and they don't respect nothing. So you find somebody 941 01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:31,600 Speaker 1: who don't respect their elders, and that's a person who 942 01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:34,479 Speaker 1: don't respect nothing. I can guarantee you if that person 943 01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:36,640 Speaker 1: don't respect their elders, that's a person that don't respect 944 01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:39,600 Speaker 1: their mother or their father. They don't respect their grandparents, 945 01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,680 Speaker 1: they don't respect their they don't respect their peers, they 946 01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:47,520 Speaker 1: don't respect their contemporaries. Some people are just disrespectful and 947 01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:51,520 Speaker 1: they need their asses whooped, you know, like really whooped, 948 01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:55,200 Speaker 1: like really Like I ain't talking about a scuffle. I'm 949 01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:59,760 Speaker 1: talking about an ass whooping so severe that you say 950 01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:07,080 Speaker 1: to yourself, God, if you let me survive this with nobody, 951 01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:10,400 Speaker 1: I'll never do that again. That's the type of ass 952 01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:14,720 Speaker 1: whipping that needs to be administered and it's coming because 953 01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:17,600 Speaker 1: there's always somebody badder than you, and that's gonna be 954 01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:22,880 Speaker 1: always somebody that ain't going to accept the disrespect. It's coming. 955 01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,560 Speaker 1: So some of you out there that might be listening, man, 956 01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:28,920 Speaker 1: quick while you're head man, it's okay. You reap what 957 01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:33,800 Speaker 1: you soul man, you absolutely do. So you know, I 958 01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,840 Speaker 1: take my hat off to the young jeez that's doing it. 959 01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:40,200 Speaker 1: There's so many that I respect, and I refused to 960 01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:44,400 Speaker 1: let one or two bad apples ruin it for all 961 01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,760 Speaker 1: up because we we paid them dudes already. We're not 962 01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:51,360 Speaker 1: going back. I just had this conversation with Tretch, you 963 01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:55,959 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying about how shout out yeah, shout 964 01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:58,640 Speaker 1: out the trigger trash man because I always get jewels 965 01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:01,880 Speaker 1: from him. And we was just talking and about like 966 01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:06,720 Speaker 1: how what we had to go through in order for 967 01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:11,400 Speaker 1: our children to have the growing up hip hop opportunities 968 01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:16,320 Speaker 1: and things like that. So the beefing within gotta stop. 969 01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:19,680 Speaker 1: The ol gs gotta step in and talk to the kids. 970 01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:23,040 Speaker 1: And and I'm feeling the vibe of it's enough of 971 01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:26,080 Speaker 1: us now to really like we can't be too busy 972 01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:30,760 Speaker 1: to raise them because if we want this planet, you know, 973 01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:33,840 Speaker 1: we gotta that's what we gotta do, and just to 974 01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:37,840 Speaker 1: go back. I don't blame the children. I kind of 975 01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:41,400 Speaker 1: blame America because Mark, you know, they locked my uncle's 976 01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:44,280 Speaker 1: up man, they locked them up in and we was lost. 977 01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:47,480 Speaker 1: I was selling dope, you know, but my grandfather was 978 01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:53,600 Speaker 1: on something different. He had his playing baseball and youth associations. 979 01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:57,440 Speaker 1: They put crack on the streets, which took the attention 980 01:03:57,480 --> 01:03:59,600 Speaker 1: away from raising the kids, you know what I mean. 981 01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:03,600 Speaker 1: Like I was out there, I got shot, so I 982 01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:07,840 Speaker 1: guess I'm here now just to say I could have 983 01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:12,040 Speaker 1: been unlucky enough to not be here, but since we're here, 984 01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:16,400 Speaker 1: like it just we could change it. Let's revisit something 985 01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:21,520 Speaker 1: real quickly. Your relationship with your mother was a very 986 01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:27,320 Speaker 1: good relationship, you would say, right close with that being said, 987 01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:33,240 Speaker 1: how did you end up in the streets because my 988 01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:37,120 Speaker 1: mother ended up on drugs, you know what I mean? 989 01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:41,960 Speaker 1: And I also pride mysel phone helping my mother get 990 01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:46,680 Speaker 1: off for drugs. Once I understood how them drugs got 991 01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:51,000 Speaker 1: into America, and once I understood what we was really against, 992 01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:54,360 Speaker 1: like well, how we didn't put these guns here? And 993 01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:57,120 Speaker 1: I was learning all this stuff from hip hop was 994 01:04:57,240 --> 01:05:01,240 Speaker 1: teaching us like, although, yeah, we had to fuck the 995 01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,680 Speaker 1: police and all this, but you still had another angle 996 01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:09,800 Speaker 1: of you know, guidance of saying, well KRS one, telling 997 01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:12,320 Speaker 1: us who put it in? How did it get here? 998 01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:16,040 Speaker 1: It was you know, we're hungry, Why why we got 999 01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:20,240 Speaker 1: you know, this is our only alternatives, our only alternative. 1000 01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:25,080 Speaker 1: So once I understood that, I stopped blaming my mother, 1001 01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:27,480 Speaker 1: Like I always loved my mother with a passion, but 1002 01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:32,160 Speaker 1: I was mad my friends knew she was on that ship, 1003 01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:35,040 Speaker 1: you know, I meaning, it didn't make me feel good, 1004 01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:37,280 Speaker 1: so I would end up selling it. I needed some 1005 01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:40,000 Speaker 1: Jordan's you know what I'm saying. I wanted to be 1006 01:05:40,200 --> 01:05:44,480 Speaker 1: up to date. I wanted to look good going to school, 1007 01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:47,720 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So by the time I 1008 01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:51,360 Speaker 1: was I was fourteen when I got knocked the first time, 1009 01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:55,240 Speaker 1: six team when I got shot, I was famous by 1010 01:05:55,280 --> 01:06:01,560 Speaker 1: twenty because I started reading. I read Napoleon Hill. You know, 1011 01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:04,320 Speaker 1: I passed my kids different that I passed them the 1012 01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:08,840 Speaker 1: books to self help books that my uncle's wasn't there 1013 01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:12,440 Speaker 1: to pass me would pass to me. So I understood, 1014 01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:16,280 Speaker 1: like they the incosperation and how they how they was 1015 01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:19,760 Speaker 1: getting paid when I found out by Barker on penitentiaries, 1016 01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:22,880 Speaker 1: and I used to cut school to watch prices. Right, 1017 01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:27,560 Speaker 1: this motheruck's talking about, come on down, the price is right, 1018 01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:33,360 Speaker 1: and you owning penitentiaries, like, but you're getting paid for that. 1019 01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:37,080 Speaker 1: So I I when I start seeing the monopoly and things, 1020 01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:42,560 Speaker 1: you know, I start when I start educating myself, I 1021 01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:47,520 Speaker 1: started doing different. So that's all it is, is an education. 1022 01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:49,960 Speaker 1: The reason why I ask you the question is because 1023 01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:52,760 Speaker 1: you know what we always say, it starts at home, right, 1024 01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:55,240 Speaker 1: And I know it don't start out of nowhere. It 1025 01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:58,320 Speaker 1: starts at home. Everything starts at home, no matter what 1026 01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:01,680 Speaker 1: the government got going on, it starts at home. Now 1027 01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:07,880 Speaker 1: we know. I think it's important that we put the 1028 01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:15,800 Speaker 1: blames squarely on who's ever, whoever participated. Right. We are 1029 01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:20,080 Speaker 1: the generation that came before this generation, the first and foremost. 1030 01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:23,880 Speaker 1: We're responsible for the new generation in my opinion too. 1031 01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:28,800 Speaker 1: And then the generation before us are responsible also because 1032 01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:31,600 Speaker 1: obviously they didn't give us something that we needed. Right. 1033 01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:37,200 Speaker 1: But ultimately, you know, you go to the family, you 1034 01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:40,880 Speaker 1: go to the person, the individual, right, Because for me 1035 01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:44,640 Speaker 1: I understood early on, I was like, man, this government 1036 01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:49,880 Speaker 1: is fucked up. They hate us for real, and they 1037 01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:52,720 Speaker 1: do have traps out there, and I walked right into 1038 01:07:52,760 --> 01:07:58,400 Speaker 1: some of those traps, understanding that I have to make 1039 01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:03,840 Speaker 1: sure that I avoid those traps. It's on me. I 1040 01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:07,120 Speaker 1: know who these people are, I know they don't life, 1041 01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:11,360 Speaker 1: I know what they're doing. I see it. I'm not 1042 01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:16,280 Speaker 1: going to participate in the factory. I can't for the 1043 01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:20,080 Speaker 1: sake of myself and my seeds. My children are like, 1044 01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:23,280 Speaker 1: I got a position, my baby so that they don't 1045 01:08:23,280 --> 01:08:27,000 Speaker 1: get got by this system too, you know. And so 1046 01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:29,280 Speaker 1: I didn't want I didn't want that to go on 1047 01:08:29,479 --> 01:08:33,040 Speaker 1: say it because sometimes you know, we will say, you know, 1048 01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:35,880 Speaker 1: we blame the system, and rightfully so this is a 1049 01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:42,400 Speaker 1: very wicked, very dibolical system and the people, and you know, 1050 01:08:42,520 --> 01:08:44,600 Speaker 1: let me go further than the system and say the 1051 01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:49,080 Speaker 1: people that work within the system, many of them are 1052 01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:57,680 Speaker 1: very very evil, voul, uncivilized, months greedy, say man, the 1053 01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:04,200 Speaker 1: worst of the worst. Right knowing that I like our 1054 01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:06,760 Speaker 1: smarten ass, I like to make sure yeah, yeah, you 1055 01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:09,599 Speaker 1: get me. You thought I wouldn't get the land. I 1056 01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:11,640 Speaker 1: got it. Yeah, I'm gonna be able to get that. 1057 01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:14,360 Speaker 1: I got it. You thought I was gonna be there 1058 01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:17,439 Speaker 1: got you, you know, Oh you try to get me 1059 01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:19,400 Speaker 1: in that contection. You trying to get me. Oh my, 1060 01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:21,679 Speaker 1: I see what you're out doing. I'm gonna go this way, 1061 01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:24,680 Speaker 1: you know. Like, So, this is what I impart on 1062 01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:27,760 Speaker 1: my kids daily, and I impart on anybody that really 1063 01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:32,639 Speaker 1: would listen. Is that at the end of the day, 1064 01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:38,720 Speaker 1: it's on us. We gotta because if if we put 1065 01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:42,120 Speaker 1: it on somebody else, then we don't have to take responsibility. 1066 01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:44,920 Speaker 1: It's like if you're playing basketball, right, You're playing a 1067 01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:48,000 Speaker 1: game of basketball and you say, well, man, you know 1068 01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:49,680 Speaker 1: the reason I lost, Man because I ain't had the 1069 01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:53,160 Speaker 1: right out of shoes, Like, I don't give it the work. 1070 01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:56,040 Speaker 1: I can keep playing bad foot it. I ain't gonna 1071 01:09:56,520 --> 01:10:00,559 Speaker 1: no excuses. I'm out the wind, and I don't want 1072 01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:05,400 Speaker 1: to have excuses because excuses hurt Excuses hurt me. Like 1073 01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:08,479 Speaker 1: it's like when I just admit it. If I admit 1074 01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:11,960 Speaker 1: an excuse, it's like, well, why didn't you do anything 1075 01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:15,000 Speaker 1: about it? Like so my thing is, hey, man, we 1076 01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:18,000 Speaker 1: can complain all day, but after we complain, let's do 1077 01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:22,640 Speaker 1: something about it. And so I am of the understanding 1078 01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:26,519 Speaker 1: that if we do something about it, we understand who 1079 01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:28,760 Speaker 1: these people are. We understand how the system is really. 1080 01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:34,639 Speaker 1: We it's been really from day one. So ain't nothing 1081 01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:39,160 Speaker 1: special about us when we consider what I our ancestors 1082 01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:44,120 Speaker 1: went through, right, and even our grandmothers and parents went through, 1083 01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:47,519 Speaker 1: you know, in civil during the civil rights era. You know, 1084 01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:50,680 Speaker 1: there's nothing new under the sun, even Jim Crow and 1085 01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:53,920 Speaker 1: all that stuff. You know, So ain't nothing special about 1086 01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:58,160 Speaker 1: us in regards to what they experienced. And if they 1087 01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:01,880 Speaker 1: could get through it and take it off, what hell? 1088 01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:05,559 Speaker 1: I know, we can do it, and we gotta do it. 1089 01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:09,000 Speaker 1: We don't really have a choice. Start with the man 1090 01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:13,559 Speaker 1: in the mirror. Y'all want it for yourself period, you know. 1091 01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:16,600 Speaker 1: And and and that's it. And I'm glad you clarified 1092 01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:19,920 Speaker 1: that because I'm definitely not pointing the finger over there. 1093 01:11:20,439 --> 01:11:26,599 Speaker 1: It's start right here. I want to get their asses too, 1094 01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:30,360 Speaker 1: because de some dirty, dibolical, low down uncivilized much so 1095 01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:33,599 Speaker 1: their assets got to be called out. I hear people say, well, 1096 01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:36,000 Speaker 1: you're always blaming this person. Are you blaming this and 1097 01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:39,320 Speaker 1: blaming this? You know? Yeah, mother, I'm gonna get anybody 1098 01:11:39,360 --> 01:11:43,360 Speaker 1: who is liable. They are liable. The US government is 1099 01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:47,760 Speaker 1: liable first, and foremost they all liable. But at the 1100 01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:53,120 Speaker 1: same time, we can't just use that as an excuse 1101 01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:56,360 Speaker 1: not to excel. We still gotta do what we gotta do. 1102 01:11:57,760 --> 01:12:02,599 Speaker 1: In spite of we gotta live. We got the well man, 1103 01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:08,360 Speaker 1: because you have lived, Because Stephen House has lived. Man, 1104 01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:12,320 Speaker 1: we have been blessed with some of the greatest music 1105 01:12:13,880 --> 01:12:18,960 Speaker 1: in history like that. Anybody could say whatever the hell 1106 01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:22,280 Speaker 1: they want to say, but they cannot take away your 1107 01:12:22,360 --> 01:12:26,040 Speaker 1: contribution to hip hop and what you continue to give 1108 01:12:26,120 --> 01:12:28,559 Speaker 1: to us. Man. Like you said a few moments ago, 1109 01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:32,439 Speaker 1: you read with yourself, Man, you have sold some hell 1110 01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:34,559 Speaker 1: of a seeds man, and we appreciate you for her. 1111 01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:38,160 Speaker 1: That's that's definitely an honor coming from you, man. Absolutely, 1112 01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:40,400 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, big bro. And you just 1113 01:12:40,479 --> 01:12:44,200 Speaker 1: don't vot you well, you know we can't for I 1114 01:12:44,240 --> 01:12:46,800 Speaker 1: ain't gonna get on the soapbox. But I love you, man, 1115 01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:50,479 Speaker 1: and I respect you, and that's an honor. And me 1116 01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:54,200 Speaker 1: and my bros and we know the ship y'all wrote 1117 01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:56,960 Speaker 1: helped us get to where we are. You know what 1118 01:12:57,040 --> 01:13:00,439 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Without y'all, it wouldn't be no bone without 1119 01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:04,840 Speaker 1: a couple of people that influenced our lives in the 1120 01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:07,400 Speaker 1: in the manner that made us want to be creative, 1121 01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:10,880 Speaker 1: like damn, we could do that, and here we are. 1122 01:13:11,400 --> 01:13:14,040 Speaker 1: And that's and all I'm doing is all I'm doing 1123 01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:17,519 Speaker 1: is passing the betime. What I'm saying, I just turned 1124 01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:22,160 Speaker 1: forty seven, man, I'm playing on going on tour at sixty. 1125 01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:28,200 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean having to, not having to. But 1126 01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:30,479 Speaker 1: we've been on the road for twenty seven years and 1127 01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:33,280 Speaker 1: we probably do like two hundred fifty days a year, 1128 01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:36,840 Speaker 1: so I can cut that down to about fifty, you 1129 01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:39,680 Speaker 1: know what I mean. But watching watching the kids and 1130 01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:42,320 Speaker 1: these artists that I got up under me, man, I'm like, 1131 01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:46,720 Speaker 1: I'm content, you know what I mean. I feel like 1132 01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:50,320 Speaker 1: I didn't my plate. I still got some steak on 1133 01:13:50,360 --> 01:13:54,120 Speaker 1: my plate. I'm getting full, Like now, who else want 1134 01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:56,639 Speaker 1: to eat? You know what I'm saying. So just spreading 1135 01:13:56,640 --> 01:14:01,040 Speaker 1: it out, That's all I want to do. Thank you, man, 1136 01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:04,320 Speaker 1: I love you back man, We love you. Thank you, 1137 01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:13,280 Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Lazy Bump in the building. This episode 1138 01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:15,920 Speaker 1: was produced by Aching and brought to you by The 1139 01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:20,160 Speaker 1: Black Effect Podcast Network and I Heart Radio.