Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 3: Everybody is the j Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy,
Speaker 3: we are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest.
Speaker 2: In the building.
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, we got a legend in here today, the
Speaker 3: legendary Warren G.
Speaker 1: What's up. What's how you feeling, brother? I'm good man,
Speaker 1: feeling good? Yeah, yes, indeed, all right?
Speaker 2: Does the East Coast time mess with you a little bit?
Speaker 1: I know how to adapt. I've been in it so long,
Speaker 1: I know how to switch it up when Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: good absolutely.
Speaker 3: Straight off the BT Awards performing with Stoopid Tu, how
Speaker 3: was that?
Speaker 1: It was fun? It was fun from the rehearsals all
Speaker 1: the way to doing the actual show, just vibing with
Speaker 1: everybody and you know, even seeing the other artists that
Speaker 1: was there. Just it was just good, a good vibe
Speaker 1: all the way around, just seeing everybody and having a
Speaker 1: good time, joking, talking, talking ship a little bit.
Speaker 2: I want to got the phone call you was looking for.
Speaker 4: I saw the interview that you did and you saying,
Speaker 4: how like, Yo, I just want Snoop and Drada holler
Speaker 4: at me.
Speaker 2: Man, I don't want you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Ain't that didn't have nothing to do with nothing, none
Speaker 1: of that. Okay, okay, No, Well I got a call,
Speaker 1: you know, Uh, I got hit to you know that
Speaker 1: that that he wanted me to do do the uh
Speaker 1: the honor with him. So you know, that's my dog,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You know, anytime they need me,
Speaker 1: I'm there, man. Yes, indeed, I.
Speaker 4: Think that conversation was good though, because you know, when
Speaker 4: you said that on it. I can't remember what he
Speaker 4: was interviewing with, but when you when you said that,
Speaker 4: it's like everybody started giving you your flowers. Everybody started
Speaker 4: talking about you know, what Warrent G Has contributed to
Speaker 4: hip hop, what he's contributed to the West Coast coaches.
Speaker 4: I think sometimes you got to speak up for yourself, man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, I mean, I mean a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know about, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of the things that I've did, you know, so I
Speaker 1: speak on it, you know, and interviews and just you know,
Speaker 1: just you know, trying to trying to let the new
Speaker 1: generation see you know what I've contributed to hip hop,
Speaker 1: you know, and not let it let let it get erased.
Speaker 3: But let's let's let's go back there so so for
Speaker 3: people that don't know Warrengy, let's say right from the
Speaker 3: West Coast, you introduced Snoop.
Speaker 1: To doctor Dre.
Speaker 3: But before that, how did you get into the rap game?
Speaker 3: What made you get into rapping?
Speaker 2: How did you.
Speaker 3: Meet Dre? And and and I guess create that family.
Speaker 1: Now, well, I've been I've been around Drey since I
Speaker 1: was probably about I say, maybe twelve eleven or twelve
Speaker 1: something like that. My father married his mother Vernon, and
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't have no no older brothers. I
Speaker 1: just had sisters. But my sisters was was you know
Speaker 1: my sisters was you know, they bodyguard hard. They wouldn't right,
Speaker 1: you know. And I mean that's where it started at,
Speaker 1: uh your step brother, yeah yeah yeah. And then h Musically,
Speaker 1: my father I used to he would pick me up
Speaker 1: on the weekends, bring me to his house and play
Speaker 1: jazz all day. So I would listen to the jazz
Speaker 1: and just just fall in love with And to this
Speaker 1: day he still asked me, like, you remember Chuck Man
Speaker 1: J on the I'm like, yeah, I still got it.
Speaker 1: Daddy's in my playlist. And that's what instilled the the
Speaker 1: the good vibe as far as went in my music
Speaker 1: the way I like to have that good feeling music
Speaker 1: that came from that. But as far as in the
Speaker 1: hip hop, it was just like all the groups run
Speaker 1: dmc h n W A uh, Easy, the Fat Boys
Speaker 1: is l L everybody that was in hip hop. You know,
Speaker 1: I wanted to be like them, you know, because that
Speaker 1: that's what was going around the neighborhoods and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And then you know me being you know, around Dre
Speaker 1: and Tyree. You know that I had two big brothers, so.
Speaker 3: Were y'all closer? Was it one of those things with step.
Speaker 1: We was always close always, so just being you know,
Speaker 1: the young, the young, the young one around two older brothers.
Speaker 1: You want to follow what they do. So Dre was
Speaker 1: djaying with the with the not it wasn't the world
Speaker 1: class wreaking cruise, a high powered crew was Easy and
Speaker 1: Shane and and they're gonna get mad at me everybody.
Speaker 1: I couldn't mention everybody, but they had a crew. So
Speaker 1: I hear mixtapes all the time. So I fell in
Speaker 1: love with with with a lot of the music that
Speaker 1: he was mixing and stuff in the room. So I
Speaker 1: asked him to show me how to how to do
Speaker 1: it one day and he showed me. So I fell
Speaker 1: in love with that. I was an athlete as well.
Speaker 1: I played football and just having somebody a bigger brother
Speaker 1: to look up to him and Tyree was just that
Speaker 1: was that was that was cool, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And uh, they taught me a lot. And you know
Speaker 1: I had to. I had to go through a gladiator school. Uh,
Speaker 1: from Long Beach to Compton, just back and forth. So
Speaker 1: you know they had me right. They used to call
Speaker 1: me kibbles and bits because I used to get it
Speaker 1: in the.
Speaker 4: District Long Beach and Compton. I mean not you know,
Speaker 4: we're not from out there, like different world.
Speaker 1: It's pretty much the same. Only the only street that
Speaker 1: that uh, it's one street that separates it is called
Speaker 1: green Leaf. And uh, once you pass green Leaf, you
Speaker 1: and Compton, uh, or you go up Atlantic right before
Speaker 1: green Leaf. Everybody from Compton coming here. Every it's some
Speaker 1: it's it's all the same. And then you got Carson
Speaker 1: right next to us, and then you got Compton Linnwood,
Speaker 1: and then you got Watched. That's all. We call it
Speaker 1: the mass circle. Yeah, and it's it's real close, you know, everybody.
Speaker 1: It's damn there. The sign.
Speaker 4: You know, vent you introduced Snoop to Dre, But did
Speaker 4: you ever feel like you were also introducing Dre to
Speaker 4: the sound that you know him and Snoop was kind
Speaker 4: of about to define for a whole coast.
Speaker 1: Not I was just trying to get us all put on.
Speaker 1: We didn't. We didn't know that that we was gonna
Speaker 1: uh you know, that they was gonna turn into what
Speaker 1: it turned into. But it all No, we didn't, We didn't.
Speaker 1: But what we did when we started working on the
Speaker 1: Chronic is we brought all the energy that we had
Speaker 1: and what we wanted to do, you know, and brought
Speaker 1: it in and put it into Dre to bring him
Speaker 1: back to where he should be, you know. So that's
Speaker 1: when we did the Chronic and we collaborated and made
Speaker 1: that a classic.
Speaker 5: You celebrated thirty years of the regular album. How does
Speaker 5: that feel?
Speaker 1: It feels good? You know still I still feel the
Speaker 1: same as I did back then. Uh, I really don't.
Speaker 1: I really don't be tripping that much. I just be
Speaker 1: wanting to keep working, like just just keep working, keep working. Uh.
Speaker 1: But it feels good, and you know, just to you know,
Speaker 1: see that my records is still spinning, uh, since like
Speaker 1: ninety two around that time, and uh, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a good feeling. And I just I just keep trying
Speaker 1: to creating.
Speaker 6: You've been seeing that I don't keep up with a
Speaker 6: six But like it's a couple of your songs, like
Speaker 6: these kids are making like viral trends with it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so like it's that's that's what's happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a trip. It's like it keeps starting over,
Speaker 1: like every generation, the new generation that comes, it starts
Speaker 1: over and then they fall in love with us. I'm
Speaker 1: down with that.
Speaker 4: You know, you know, did when when you when you
Speaker 4: first Inju Snooped Dream and y'all was in the studio
Speaker 4: during the chronic did did he ever teach you anything
Speaker 4: about producing that you turned into your own style or
Speaker 4: did you always feel like you had a more distinct
Speaker 4: sound from.
Speaker 1: His using live live musicians. I used to just sit
Speaker 1: there and watch and it. He actually taught me how
Speaker 1: to splice tape, put tape back together, and I.
Speaker 3: Used to watch young kids know what you're talking about
Speaker 3: with that one.
Speaker 1: But where it's where you cut the tape and you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta actually piece it back together yourself with
Speaker 1: with alcohol and the tape, that special tape that it
Speaker 1: has with it. He taught me that. UH taught me
Speaker 1: how to EQ. I mean he taught me. He taught me,
Speaker 1: you know, sampling uh on the NPC sixty him and
Speaker 1: called seven from above the law. I mean he showed
Speaker 1: me some things, but I pretty much, you know, learned
Speaker 1: the basics and then started doing my own style, you know,
Speaker 1: because I didn't want people to say, oh, well he
Speaker 1: just because he with Drake, because this is you know,
Speaker 1: that's why now I created my own you know ship
Speaker 1: over here. So do you feel like.
Speaker 3: You missed the bus? I don't want to say miss
Speaker 3: the bus, because you didn't miss the bus. But when
Speaker 3: you were seventeen, you got locked up, right, and that's
Speaker 3: when Drake took off.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't that locked.
Speaker 2: I don't get long because.
Speaker 3: That's what That's what you got your name from. Warrang
Speaker 3: and said you got your name in jail. No, no,
Speaker 3: I did get the name.
Speaker 1: Warrang G Warren Griffin.
Speaker 4: The name is Warren that they said, my first nick
Speaker 4: jail name A nigga in prison?
Speaker 2: You name they said, that's what they said, They said,
Speaker 2: what that's why?
Speaker 1: Uh No, I'm not. No, I ain't no like, I ain't.
Speaker 2: No brutal like he thought was forgetting.
Speaker 1: That's no it, Warren g that's that's a Griffin. No,
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't in the in and out of
Speaker 1: I mean, i've been, but you know I wasn't like
Speaker 1: like always going to jail. I was. I was cool.
Speaker 1: They called me sir cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, total opposite.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, I don't mean I won't get off
Speaker 1: on the motherfucker.
Speaker 2: Don't say that in jail. You don't want to now
Speaker 2: on the outside.
Speaker 4: Looking at it, to us, or at least to me,
Speaker 4: g Funk looked like it was created by you and
Speaker 4: doctor Dre.
Speaker 2: But then when I you know, you do research, you
Speaker 2: hear names like big Hutch.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But the law you'll call one eighty seven. But
Speaker 1: the law camg go Mac, total chaos, Laylaw, cocaine. They
Speaker 1: took me in when I was when I was a
Speaker 1: pupp I didn't I didn't, you know, I you know,
Speaker 1: really didn't have nowhere to go at the time, and
Speaker 1: Laylan and one eighty seven had had took me in
Speaker 1: and I started hanging with them, you know, And that's
Speaker 1: why I say that that one eight seven taught me
Speaker 1: a lot as far as the NPC sixty as well
Speaker 1: as Dre, but they made me G funk. You know,
Speaker 1: they was already saying, uh, gangster Funk, g funk. So
Speaker 1: but what I did was I took, you know, the
Speaker 1: my mop you know, for me being in it. I
Speaker 1: took and branched it off, and I said the g
Speaker 1: funk era, you know, just it's still this, but then
Speaker 1: I started my own sound within uh, the gangster Funk
Speaker 1: and made it the g funk era, and you know
Speaker 1: it's it's hey, those the guys that that put me
Speaker 1: in it, and I took it and made it worldwide,
Speaker 1: you know, for the world to know what g funk
Speaker 1: was about, along with Snoop and Dre everybody saying g
Speaker 1: funk as well.
Speaker 2: So if G Funk had a mount Rushmore, who would
Speaker 2: be on it?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Who do people forget that? I guess what would be
Speaker 2: the Brothers, right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the Law would definitely be on there ship.
Speaker 2: Uh uh, you don't know.
Speaker 1: I ain't that I'm saying I'll be on there too,
Speaker 1: uh uh. Laylaw because he he was he was the
Speaker 1: head head guy over everything. Recipes. Lay Law recipes go Mac.
Speaker 1: But he was the the head honcho of Gfunk And
Speaker 1: like I said, I got my branch and created uh,
Speaker 1: the Gfunk era, you know. And that's when I took
Speaker 1: took it worldwide. And but then was my guys they
Speaker 1: set it up. That's that's it right there.
Speaker 2: When did they dog come into the picture.
Speaker 1: They came in. Well, he was always in Loan Beach,
Speaker 1: But as far as when he came together with me
Speaker 1: and Snoop, we was me and Snoop was up already
Speaker 1: like up in North Long Beach. We was moving around
Speaker 1: doing little things here and there, trying to build our name.
Speaker 1: And they just popped up one day on the spot,
Speaker 1: you know, where we was hustling at and uh, and
Speaker 1: he had heard about us doing what we was doing.
Speaker 1: So he came up and just blended in with us,
Speaker 1: and we started calling ourselves two one three. But as
Speaker 1: far as Nate a period, all of us knew each
Speaker 1: other from King's Park, from elementary school all the way up.
Speaker 2: Did how was he received?
Speaker 1: Though? Good?
Speaker 2: Now he was all were rappless and he was singing.
Speaker 4: So what do you remember the first time he said, Hey,
Speaker 4: this is what I do When he's.
Speaker 1: Saying with you now Nate as Nate was in the
Speaker 1: church circus, so he was singing a lot. But it
Speaker 1: just happened, you know, when we when we would get
Speaker 1: in the room and we'll be freestyling and you know,
Speaker 1: be boxing, freestyling stuff, Native started just singing along, like
Speaker 1: while we busting. He just started singing some gangster shit.
Speaker 1: You know that's different than it wasn't like, you know,
Speaker 1: just like it wasn't normal. He was just it was
Speaker 1: kind of like a rap uh singing singing thing type
Speaker 1: of vibe that he would do. And he was just
Speaker 1: saying some some real, real real things with it.
Speaker 3: And how did how did the Deaf?
Speaker 1: The Deaf?
Speaker 3: Jmdal come about?
Speaker 1: Death? Jam started with UH, let me see that wash
Speaker 1: I had a record. Actually I was at the studio
Speaker 1: once again, I'm moving at the studio. It was me,
Speaker 1: Snoop dre oli Us. They was working on UH. I
Speaker 1: think it was they were in the studio. They was
Speaker 1: working and Paul Stewart and John Singleton was there for
Speaker 1: Snoop to do the first single for the for the
Speaker 1: UH just a soundtrack. So I'm in there just hanging out.
Speaker 1: This is like later on when I was like, I
Speaker 1: was kind of by myself, but I still would come
Speaker 1: to the studio and things like that. But so I
Speaker 1: asked John and Paul Paul Stewart, are they looking for
Speaker 1: any more songs? So they was like yeah. So I
Speaker 1: was like, can I play a record phase? So me
Speaker 1: and Paul walked to the car. I had a raggedy
Speaker 1: little rigo, jumped in the car, popped in the tape deck.
Speaker 1: It was a song called Indo Smoke with me and
Speaker 1: mister Graham. It went for about maybe like thirty seconds
Speaker 1: and he said stop. So I stopped and he was like,
Speaker 1: can I take the tape? I said yeah, just give
Speaker 1: it back to me. Yeah, give it, yeah, give it back.
Speaker 1: So that that Monday, Monday two is whatever it was,
Speaker 1: I know, it was a weekend. We was working. But
Speaker 1: they called me and they was like, we want this
Speaker 1: to be the first single on the party, just a soundtrack.
Speaker 1: So I was like, are you serious? He was like yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, damn, And you weren't signed at the
Speaker 3: time at all.
Speaker 1: I wasn't signed with nobody. So that whole thing went through.
Speaker 1: Uh Indoor Smoke blew up. Uh. It actually went gold.
Speaker 1: It was everywhere. It was going crazy, and so a
Speaker 1: bunch of companies was trying to find out, you know
Speaker 1: who the artist was. Yeah, who was these guys? So
Speaker 1: there was a lot of companies calling. So Paul hit
Speaker 1: me like, death Jam want to talk to you. So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, like, ship, they ain't. They don't want to
Speaker 1: talk to me, They want mister Graham because mister Graham
Speaker 1: was was dope dope as well. He that's who the
Speaker 1: record was for. And so we had uh got on
Speaker 1: the car. It was le Or, Chris Lighty and Tracy
Speaker 1: Waples they actually all flew out to as well. But
Speaker 1: so we on the car and I'm like, I can't
Speaker 1: believe this is death Jam on the phone with me.
Speaker 1: So that they was asking about the guys on the song.
Speaker 1: So they was like, okay, well who is the guy
Speaker 1: with the kind of like melody to what he's doing.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, damn, they must be talking. They talking
Speaker 1: about mister Graham. So I was like, that's mister Graham.
Speaker 1: He wanted you know, that's one of the guys rapping
Speaker 1: on there. They was like to know the guy with
Speaker 1: the kind of like singing things. He said, you mean
Speaker 1: this little chant type of I said, that's me. So
Speaker 1: they was like, yeah, that's the guy we won't So
Speaker 1: I was like me, like shit, So we just from there.
Speaker 1: I had to decide, like because there was other companies
Speaker 1: coming in after that, you know, started piling up. I
Speaker 1: guess the word got around. So I had to think about,
Speaker 1: you know, who would be best for hip hop? Right,
Speaker 1: So I had a flashback. I went all the way
Speaker 1: back to Crush Groove, the Beastie Boys, Fat Boys, Run
Speaker 1: DMC and Russell and Rick Rubin and I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is the lay and I started thinking about Slick Rick,
Speaker 1: Dougie Fresh, everybody, and uh, I was like shit, I'm
Speaker 1: ll cool J. I said, I'm I'm fucking with this
Speaker 1: right here. I'm with them. So I said, fuck everybody else.
Speaker 1: I want to row with these people because they hip hop.
Speaker 1: This is huge and I'm a fan of Crush Groove
Speaker 1: and B Street and you know, like so I was like,
Speaker 1: you know that's that'll be different and signed and he.
Speaker 3: Said, you saved the label. During that time, they said
Speaker 3: the label was going through a lot of yeah, of
Speaker 3: losing money and artists weren't selling. They said, you revitalized
Speaker 3: the label back then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I didn't know it. I didn't know it,
Speaker 1: and you know, until you know we started, you know,
Speaker 1: the record seal started going like every week, I was
Speaker 1: selling like two hundred and some thousand every week, so
Speaker 1: it started. It was huge, and but I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know they was in debt or anything like that.
Speaker 1: And then Leord told me one day, he was like,
Speaker 1: we use like credit cards and different things to get
Speaker 1: you this money. Wow, you know your advance. And I
Speaker 1: was like wow, I couldn't believe it. But he was
Speaker 1: like you really, you really did? You know, it's a
Speaker 1: big favor and we had a big parties and you
Speaker 1: know all of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cute, But where my money that far?
Speaker 1: My mother fucking money?
Speaker 2: Did you ever feel like they owed you more because
Speaker 2: of that? Like that should have been?
Speaker 1: It was ah, a whiteboard in there and it said
Speaker 1: like how my album had made like a hundred million,
Speaker 1: So I'm like a hundred million dollars where my ship
Speaker 1: at let I didn't over recooped. They can't never say
Speaker 1: I ain't recoop And uh, I mean I made I
Speaker 1: made some money. I was. It wasn't like it should
Speaker 1: have been, but I made some pretty good bread. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like stupid money out of that hundred million, it wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a lot out of that.
Speaker 2: Did you see at least ten from that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, nowhere near what? Nowhere near it?
Speaker 3: Does it bother you though? That when a lot of
Speaker 3: times they mentioned death jam Sometimes you don't hear Warren.
Speaker 2: G they do, but it's quick, yes, brief.
Speaker 3: That especially when when Lee telling yo, we was we
Speaker 3: was using credit cards to pay yourself and you helped.
Speaker 3: You know, we made a hundred millionaire in a time
Speaker 3: when it wasn't happening.
Speaker 1: Does that bother you though? Yeah? It pissed me off
Speaker 1: of you know sometimes, but you know I charged it
Speaker 1: to the game. I'm like, look, I'm like, god damn. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it ain't nothing I could do, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Ain't nothing I could do. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I get pissed off about it.
Speaker 2: Were you supposed to see that white boy? Damn?
Speaker 1: Just being you know in the office. I used to go,
Speaker 1: this was on very street out here. I just used
Speaker 1: to walk around the office, like walk around the whole building,
Speaker 1: and uh, I've seen that ship And I was like,
Speaker 1: God damn. Now and Leo Slawsi too. He'll tell you, yeah,
Speaker 1: this made this, made this much money. And then like man,
Speaker 1: I got you know, let's let's get it cracking. But
Speaker 1: anything I needed they would do it though I know that.
Speaker 1: You know I told him I needed I need this
Speaker 1: house Da Boom, the same old record company. It was
Speaker 1: like Cadillac Records kind of uh where you you know
Speaker 1: I need this? Okay, they get it, but you know
Speaker 1: I made bread too. It wasn't nowhere near what you
Speaker 1: know that, but you know I'm at it.
Speaker 2: How did you break the news, mister grim Ship It
Speaker 2: won't be not you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's that's just what it was, you know.
Speaker 1: But I still would would would uh bring Graham on
Speaker 1: on things. And Graham actually got signed. I think he
Speaker 1: had signed right with with Sony, but we were we
Speaker 1: was cool. I still was was pushing for him, you know,
Speaker 1: even though he hadn't I thought they wanted him, but
Speaker 1: never never went on, no big head should I still
Speaker 1: still fucked with him, and whatever he needed I was
Speaker 1: with him.
Speaker 4: Why do you think you were never fully bought into
Speaker 4: the death row circle as far as like being signed,
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, should uh.
Speaker 3: Because I probably right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Well yeah, I was right or die. Uh.
Speaker 2: The politics was your personality was somebody.
Speaker 1: I think, you know what what what what kind of
Speaker 1: uh you know, had Shug pissed off at me? Was
Speaker 1: because I wasn't like one of those type of artists
Speaker 1: that had just signed any other fucking thing, and you know,
Speaker 1: and we was presented with contracts, so I told everybody,
Speaker 1: we need to get lawyers to look at these kinds
Speaker 1: tracks before we signed them. So, you know, the word
Speaker 1: that got back to him that I was trying to
Speaker 1: get a lawyer to look at the contracts. So he
Speaker 1: came out pissed off.
Speaker 2: Because you was doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: Because because I was doing that, nigga that exactly that
Speaker 1: nigga wouldn't have even had been doing the same shit.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, how can you get mad at me?
Speaker 1: So that's he's probably pissed off about that. And then
Speaker 1: you know, I just wasn't. I wasn't like, you know,
Speaker 1: with a lot of shit. I wasn't gonna just follow
Speaker 1: whatever everybody else was doing. I wanted to do my
Speaker 1: own shit. I ain't gonna you know, I you know,
Speaker 1: they not like I always say, I ain't. I ain't
Speaker 1: really that he been knowing me since I was like fifteen,
Speaker 1: sixteen years old, you know. So it's just like I
Speaker 1: hadn't known this motherfucker all my life. I ain't even
Speaker 1: ready to be man, I'm cool. Uh, But that that's
Speaker 1: probably was that probably was one of the main things
Speaker 1: that that uh you know, had him pissed off. And
Speaker 1: then I used to get into it with with different
Speaker 1: guys around, but I just wasn't wasn't with the bullshit,
Speaker 1: you know. And and he had talked shit about me
Speaker 1: here and there, and then I talked ship back just
Speaker 1: to let him know, like, but to be facts, you know,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna say something that's a lie, you know.
Speaker 1: And but at the end of the day, I ain't.
Speaker 1: I ain't got nothing against that dude. He it is
Speaker 1: what it is. He do what he do. I just
Speaker 1: keep pushing and doing what I do, you know. And
Speaker 1: and and actually it was a blessing that I didn't
Speaker 1: go that route because it turned out even better for me.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm able to do whatever I want to do. I
Speaker 1: can go every wherever I want to go. And that's
Speaker 1: why I came to the East Coaches to be different,
Speaker 1: you know than the regular the same old, same old,
Speaker 1: just to get away, you know. And and and when
Speaker 1: I came over here, it was nothing beloved, you know,
Speaker 1: it was nothing beloved. Wasn't nobody talking at East Coast
Speaker 1: West coast shit. That wasn't no East Coast West coast
Speaker 1: thing that was beat That was cruise shit, this person,
Speaker 1: these people against these people, none of that. Because I
Speaker 1: got I had love over here. I was in Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: the Bronx. I was everywhere like Harlem one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty six and Linux, uh everywhere, Queens, Jamaica, Queens Lell
Speaker 1: took me to Jamaica. Queens showed me his grandmother house
Speaker 1: where he did all his ship. I was blown away,
Speaker 1: like that shit was I even seen the sidekick that
Speaker 1: was in Tina got a big old but I was like,
Speaker 1: damn yeah.
Speaker 4: Sure, you think being close to death Row but not
Speaker 4: actually being in it gave you a clearer lens on
Speaker 4: the chaos that was happening within depth Ro because.
Speaker 2: He was on the outside looking.
Speaker 1: I mean, shit, I was I used to be I
Speaker 1: used to be wild too, but I mean it it uh,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. I mean, it wasn't like a gang of
Speaker 1: just super duper crazy ass ship going on when I
Speaker 1: was around. I mean some of the things that that
Speaker 1: that that went on after I was gone, you know,
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, Like I said, it was a
Speaker 1: blessing to be away, you know, away from that ship.
Speaker 1: And I get caught up in that because it just
Speaker 1: it wasn't cool, you know. And but I still had
Speaker 1: to deal with it. Even though I wasn't signed to
Speaker 1: death Row, this, that, and this. Everywhere I go, niggas
Speaker 1: was still tripping with me, like because they still I'm associated,
Speaker 1: So everywhere I went, I still had to deal with it,
Speaker 1: you know, even though I was with death Jam, I
Speaker 1: had to deal with that ship. Like on the from
Speaker 1: the street side.
Speaker 4: I just wonder, how did it feel for you watching
Speaker 4: like the death Row story unfold right, Like, you know,
Speaker 4: they were growing and you know that you're sound helped
Speaker 4: build that house, but your name wasn't necessarily.
Speaker 1: On the least sit Uh just pissed off, you know.
Speaker 1: I was pissed off at them, And I was pissed
Speaker 1: off with myself for not being more business savvy as
Speaker 1: far as knowing about publishing and contracts and this, that
Speaker 1: and this. I just wanted to uh help Dre. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to help him however I could, to help
Speaker 1: him get to where he needed to go and the company.
Speaker 1: You know, but I got one shout out, you know,
Speaker 1: Snoop gave it up for me on stranded on death Rod.
Speaker 3: Do you ever wish you signed Snoop?
Speaker 1: Like I said, if I, if I was business savvy,
Speaker 1: I could have Snoop signed and then signed him over there.
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, I wish I would have signed him.
Speaker 1: You know, I wish I would have signed him. Uh.
Speaker 3: How did you meet him?
Speaker 1: Elementary school? I mean, and we that's me and Snoop's brother, Jerry.
Speaker 1: When when I say Snoop Dogg's big brother, call him
Speaker 1: dirty left and this DJ that's that Snoop's older brother.
Speaker 1: He just Jerry is just a year old. Uh, we're
Speaker 1: just a year older than Snoop. And uh we went
Speaker 1: to elementary school together. So Beverly would walk Jerry and
Speaker 1: Snoop across the park. I would be coming up twenty
Speaker 1: I from I Bank, my right on Orange, but they
Speaker 1: would be walking across King Park and I'll be walking
Speaker 1: because we went to a school called Cis right there
Speaker 1: across the street from the park. So she would be
Speaker 1: walking in and We always used to just meet up
Speaker 1: in the park and then we'd go into the going
Speaker 1: to elementary school together and then Snoop ended up leaving
Speaker 1: Cis going to I forgot what what the name of
Speaker 1: the other school. It wasn't Prisk. It was another school
Speaker 1: where they are swimming, they teach you tennis all kind
Speaker 1: of We wasn't getting that, so we were pretty we
Speaker 1: was upset because if they only chose a few kids
Speaker 1: to go to the school, so uh, Snoop got to go,
Speaker 1: we didn't get to go. And uh, but it was
Speaker 1: from elementary all the way up through Kinge Park, through
Speaker 1: youth sports, all the way into the to hustling.
Speaker 3: How do you know he was high school because everybody
Speaker 3: I'm sure was rapping back then, right, I'm sure because
Speaker 3: it was a final How did you know now he
Speaker 3: got something special?
Speaker 1: Ship he was He was just he was dope, just
Speaker 1: always always dope, and and funny. The motherfucker had you laughing,
Speaker 1: you know. Uh. He he just was always doping with
Speaker 1: everywhere we went. You know, when we were just fucking around,
Speaker 1: I would I would be the guy we're around and
Speaker 1: I would point at something as soon as our point
Speaker 1: at his Snooper started rapping about it when he battling
Speaker 1: somebody I point at, like some roses or anything he
Speaker 1: had he had bust and then he had turned it
Speaker 1: say something about the roses, and then he had tear
Speaker 1: ass up at the same time while he's talking about
Speaker 1: whatever I pointed at. And that's when I knew he
Speaker 1: was special. You know, I was like, this, dude, is
Speaker 1: he's special. I'm gonna push as hard as I can
Speaker 1: to try to help him, Me and Nate, all of
Speaker 1: us get on because we got something special here. And
Speaker 1: so that's what I kept doing. I just kept pushing
Speaker 1: for us, just non stop.
Speaker 4: What was the version of Snoop that only only you know,
Speaker 4: like like way before the fame? And do you think
Speaker 4: that version of him still existed?
Speaker 1: Uh? Ship, he's still the same. Ain't nothing changed. Uh
Speaker 1: let me see. Uh well he he he Uh. He
Speaker 1: gets a lot more serious uh than he did. Uh
Speaker 1: when we when we was coming up, he more serious.
Speaker 1: He'll snap on the motherfucker fast. Now. He wasn't like that.
Speaker 1: Uh you know when we was coming up, he was
Speaker 1: more calm.
Speaker 3: And uh he got on dre aid bt was immediately
Speaker 3: when when he says, yeah, I wrote a deep covered
Speaker 3: for you and immediately immediately did you beat that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I was just like damn, I said, Ship.
Speaker 1: I thought it was part of the script.
Speaker 2: And when you're gonna do that one, when you're gonna
Speaker 2: say I really produced that.
Speaker 4: Man's always the room of the room is that there's
Speaker 4: records on the chronic and doggy style that you never
Speaker 4: got credited for.
Speaker 1: But I ain't. I ain't never taking nothing away from Dray.
Speaker 1: He's an incredible producer the whole nine I was. I
Speaker 1: was the guy that used to go out. I would
Speaker 1: bring all of the ideas, so I would bring the
Speaker 1: samples and I would sample it and I played for
Speaker 1: Drake like listen to this, and he'd be like that
Speaker 1: ship is dope. And then he would take it and
Speaker 1: add his parts to it and and different things that
Speaker 1: he would do, Like I said, I you know, my, my,
Speaker 1: what I was trying to do is just give back
Speaker 1: to for you helping me learn this, that and that
Speaker 1: and this. Now look what I'm doing. I'm bringing this,
Speaker 1: that and this to you to help you, uh grow,
Speaker 1: And hell yeah, I did a lot of that Ship. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't get no credit. I didn't get no credit,
Speaker 1: no nothing, the D the d's nuts skit. I did
Speaker 1: that ship that was off the off the down, turn
Speaker 1: the mic on, when got the phone, called my homegirl,
Speaker 1: put the mic up on the set the mic up,
Speaker 1: and just did the skip right then and there.
Speaker 2: So these nuts, you invented that.
Speaker 1: I did it right there. I did that right there
Speaker 1: in the studio. I invented that right there.
Speaker 2: That's live history, black history, American. Everybody does that.
Speaker 1: Records like a lot of the records on there, like
Speaker 1: like let me Ride. That was a a uh we
Speaker 1: called him now, it wasn't back then. It was called
Speaker 1: a dove record. It wasn't a break record. It was
Speaker 1: a dove record, but I bought it from a break
Speaker 1: record store and it was a little I still got
Speaker 1: that record in my crates too. At in the studio.
Speaker 1: It was a little part on the on the on
Speaker 1: the on the record that and then it boom boom
Speaker 1: boom boom boom boom. Let beat ride boom boom boom.
Speaker 1: So I let dra hear that ship. He took that
Speaker 1: motherfucker and turned it into some other ship, you know.
Speaker 1: So that that's what I used to do. I would
Speaker 1: bring records like that sometime I would sample him. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I just played a record like listen to this ship
Speaker 1: Drake and that record like even like the Little Ghetto Boy.
Speaker 1: That was a me and mister Graham record, and I
Speaker 1: gave it to him. They was like, we want to
Speaker 1: use this so because I had it just how Little
Speaker 1: Ghetto Boy sound, but I had the drums going boom
Speaker 1: boom backs, boom boom boom backs. And then Drake took
Speaker 1: it and changed the drums and did it the way
Speaker 1: he wanted to make it feel. But that idea, all
Speaker 1: of the Rudy ray Moore stuff. I went and bought
Speaker 1: all those records from off of Mail Road Street, all
Speaker 1: black exploitation, UH soundtracks. I bought all of that stuff
Speaker 1: and we would listen to him. The skit where from
Speaker 1: the Mac that was something how and I always say
Speaker 1: this this That's the way I was feeling when that
Speaker 1: that little skit, the way it it was talking, the
Speaker 1: way it was sounding, was like I was like, this
Speaker 1: is me and you. In order for to make this
Speaker 1: thing work, we got to get rid of the pimps,
Speaker 1: pushes and start all over again. You know. That's how
Speaker 1: I was feeling. So that skit was right on top.
Speaker 1: So I said, listen to this, you know, and he
Speaker 1: used that skit just you know, I mean just as
Speaker 1: a doggie style. I didn't. I didn't do nothing on
Speaker 1: doggy style, you know, I wish I did.
Speaker 3: Did you get compensated at all even though you weren't
Speaker 3: in the in the credit.
Speaker 1: So I didn't get ship? Uh? And it ain't I ain't.
Speaker 1: You know, I ain't bitter about that. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: because I went and did my own thing. You know,
Speaker 1: I saw ship six million records, eight million records all
Speaker 1: together on my own. Outside of that, I wasn't. I
Speaker 1: wasn't bitter pissed off. Yeah, because I didn't have my
Speaker 1: business mind together.
Speaker 6: And you know that's why I think it is like
Speaker 6: cool that you are even donating pieces of your history
Speaker 6: to the Hip Hop Museum, you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: Like even that that what you just taught us, you know,
Speaker 6: the skip you're responsible for, Like are you going to
Speaker 6: put that type of stuff in there too?
Speaker 1: Definitely? Yeah, all that I think I still got the shirt.
Speaker 1: I woren't regulate.
Speaker 5: Are you donating pieces like that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I got some things that that I'm donate. I
Speaker 1: even got the mic I did the whole album. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got all. I have every piece of equipment that
Speaker 1: I used, all the craze that I use, from the
Speaker 1: chronic to my records to even doing behind Bards for
Speaker 1: Slick Rick and pick it Up for red Man. People
Speaker 1: don't even know that pick it Up for red Man.
Speaker 1: I did the remix to pick it Up and just
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta get yours. I gotta get my
Speaker 1: tupac Breed did Breed's whole album. Worked with Michael Jackson,
Speaker 1: did everybody. You know, I've worked with a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, so I wasn't tripping shit. I'm able to
Speaker 1: move and groove still.
Speaker 3: Michael Jackson session like cool.
Speaker 1: You know, he was cool with nah No, but he
Speaker 1: was like on some like regular like like when that's
Speaker 1: straight up, it's like, what's up man? Like that kind
Speaker 1: of ship.
Speaker 3: Did he reach out to you or they reached.
Speaker 1: Out to me him. It was Renee and Bruce at
Speaker 1: the time. They was producing for him, and they asked
Speaker 1: me if I could come meet him, you know, come
Speaker 1: over to the studio. He liked like your work, so
Speaker 1: he wanted you to come by the studio. So I
Speaker 1: came by. It was record one and ship I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it. I was like, I like, God, damn, this
Speaker 1: is Michael motherfucking Jackson. I can't I can't believe this ship.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. I thought I was in a dream.
Speaker 1: And we chopped it up and I produced some records
Speaker 1: for him. He done, He done vocals on him, so
Speaker 1: they somewhere in that vault somewhere. But I did some
Speaker 1: good records for him too. They was dope, and was
Speaker 1: also at that time a lot of press was against him.
Speaker 1: So I was telling him to do a song to
Speaker 1: you know, express yourself about you know, because everybody was down,
Speaker 1: and I forgot what It wasn't not that stuff that
Speaker 1: came later on with the kids stuff. It wasn't none
Speaker 1: of that stuff. It was some stuff before that. They
Speaker 1: was trying to criticize him over and I was telling
Speaker 1: him to fight back and talk about it, like express
Speaker 1: yourself about how you feel about how these people are
Speaker 1: attacking you.
Speaker 2: Old when he used the Jewish slur, I think, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but he was. He was being attacked,
Speaker 1: and I just told him to just you know, express
Speaker 1: itself that way. You know.
Speaker 2: I want to go back to the credit thing.
Speaker 4: Do you think West Coast history would look different if
Speaker 4: the credits were truly accurate?
Speaker 1: Yo, Yeah, it definitely would look good from my pocket. Nah,
Speaker 1: but uh uh uh yeah, I mean it it would.
Speaker 1: It would look different. You know, people people would you know,
Speaker 1: would would really be like damn. So you was really involved,
Speaker 1: you know, and know that I did have input, and
Speaker 1: I ain't trying to Like I said, I ain't never
Speaker 1: trying to take nothing away from Drake because he is
Speaker 1: He's that's my sense, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: he's one of the dopest producers in the game, you know.
Speaker 1: But I did get down with him, you know, me
Speaker 1: and Snoop and rbx D as a corrupt We came
Speaker 1: and brought all our our and Nate Dog, we brought
Speaker 1: our energy in and we put it into him to
Speaker 1: blow him up. You know.
Speaker 4: It's interesting people always ask all those questions. They don't
Speaker 4: never ask Dre But if as he probably would just
Speaker 4: tell you if you asked him, you know what I'm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't think the nigga do interviews
Speaker 1: that much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, but I mean it is what it is,
Speaker 4: uh you know, uh, was regulate your way of saying
Speaker 4: I don't need Dre, I don't need Sugar, I don't
Speaker 4: need Snoop, I don't need nobody to make a class.
Speaker 1: No. That was just regularly was just just you know,
Speaker 1: just wanted to I just wanted to do ah, just
Speaker 1: be different, you know, I wanted to take a record
Speaker 1: something that that not that's not too hard and sounding
Speaker 1: too gangster, but having a good feeling but still telling
Speaker 1: the story on it. And then you know, mimic well,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. We mimicked uh what Snoop and
Speaker 1: dra did. We did it a little bit different, but
Speaker 1: we was doing the back and forth like they was doing.
Speaker 1: So that was like how Snoop and Drake partnered it up.
Speaker 1: It was me and Nate. That was my partner, that
Speaker 1: was my my guy that you know, our chemistry was
Speaker 1: incredible like how Snoop and Dre's was. And so we
Speaker 1: just wanted to be different. But that at the same
Speaker 1: time ship, Hey, letting letting these niggas know ship. I
Speaker 1: could do my ship outside of y'all ship, you know,
Speaker 1: like you said, Hey, I'm dope too, So and I
Speaker 1: went and started doing my own thing, like fuck this ship,
Speaker 1: I'm gone you.
Speaker 2: Think it would be easier to tell that story if
Speaker 2: Nate was still here.
Speaker 1: It very easy, Yeah, very easy, boy Nate to be
Speaker 1: going in, he would go in. I actually tried to.
Speaker 1: I tried to sign Nate uh over at death Jam
Speaker 1: had a bag on the table for him, and sure
Speaker 1: got at him before I could. And so he went
Speaker 1: and did to deal with with uh with death row.
Speaker 1: And then I told him what I had for him
Speaker 1: on the table, and he was like, nigga, what I said, Nigga,
Speaker 1: I've been trying to tell your motherfucking ass the whole
Speaker 1: time that this is on the table for you, but
Speaker 1: you wanted to go ahead and dip, so you know,
Speaker 1: but it's still worked out again because I would, I
Speaker 1: would involve him in a bunch of things that I
Speaker 1: was doing, like to nobody, No, nobody does it better.
Speaker 1: I was. That was like I did that for him
Speaker 1: two to to build him up. And that's that became
Speaker 1: one of his biggest records that I produced.
Speaker 2: How much how much of you left with?
Speaker 1: How much I left with?
Speaker 4: How much of you personally and professionally left when he left?
Speaker 4: I'm talking about that passed away?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean a lot left that was my dog,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as just every day we talking
Speaker 1: on the phone or in the studio working, and uh
Speaker 1: we used to talk ship to each other. I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna lie. We would go at it, but you know
Speaker 1: he'd be like, fuck you are? He say, Nigga, you
Speaker 1: a bitch, you know, and I'll say, I'll get back
Speaker 1: at No, nigga, you a bitch, you know, back at it.
Speaker 1: We'll fight, squabble, you know all that. And the next
Speaker 1: day he would call, like, what's up. So I'm like, motherfucker,
Speaker 1: why you calling me after all that bullshit that you
Speaker 1: talk to me? And uh ah, nigga, no, just what
Speaker 1: time we getting in the studio? And I'm like, nigga,
Speaker 1: what you mean what time we're getting in the studio
Speaker 1: three o'clock. Let's go.
Speaker 2: But uh apologize, nigga, No we jump yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I should have been on him, but we had
Speaker 1: jumped right back in and uh now he he would
Speaker 1: uh was was was was my guy. So a lot
Speaker 1: left on the musical side because I don't I do
Speaker 1: music that some artists don't understand that. I know he
Speaker 1: had killed it and that shit had turned it too
Speaker 1: some classic ship. So I have to try to teach
Speaker 1: certain artists when when I do the music for him,
Speaker 1: like look, do this. You know, he knew what to do,
Speaker 1: so I would try to. I try to school him
Speaker 1: and tell him, Okay, I want you to do it
Speaker 1: like this, and you know, sometime it works, sometimes I don't.
Speaker 1: But he knew exactly what to do.
Speaker 2: I always wanted to hear you and Ti Dallas Signs
Speaker 2: work together because I feel.
Speaker 1: Like I got a record. Actually I got a it
Speaker 1: didn't it didn't get out there. It didn't get out there.
Speaker 1: But I got a couple of records with Tie. I
Speaker 1: got records with with a Tie. I got records with Snoop. Uh.
Speaker 1: I did a record with Wiz that's me and Me
Speaker 1: and Wiz, got a smash, Come and call Mad at
Speaker 1: All That's That's That's a smash. Got a record with
Speaker 1: Wayne called All Alone. I got records. I got some
Speaker 1: really really really dope uh music that I've been putting together. Man,
Speaker 1: some really dope dope ship.
Speaker 4: What a record with Tie never came up? Because I
Speaker 4: feel like Tie is fruit off the dogs.
Speaker 1: Uh. I still got him, you know, I still got him.
Speaker 1: You know I'm made. I may drop it, you know,
Speaker 1: I got it, I may drop it on you know,
Speaker 1: the I got different projects that I'm working on, so
Speaker 1: I made it's probably I'm sure it's going. I'mna dropping
Speaker 1: on one of these uh EPs I'm doing. I don't
Speaker 1: want to do no full lengths, no more. I just
Speaker 1: I like the EP thing where I give him like
Speaker 1: eight here, eight here, eight there. I even got one
Speaker 1: with me and Nate, just me and him EP that
Speaker 1: that IM have coming as well, unreleased. Yeah, we got
Speaker 1: some some dope ship. Uh people gonna be tripping like
Speaker 1: how dope he is. We did a lot of records.
Speaker 1: We was actually working on on the album right around
Speaker 1: when he passed away, so that that, you know, we had,
Speaker 1: we had at least we had about fifteen in the
Speaker 1: can already and we had other ideas as well. So
Speaker 1: I got I got a bunch of stuff that we
Speaker 1: did and we're gonna put together a warrant gy and
Speaker 1: they dog ep just me and him.
Speaker 3: About the bad business back in the day. Did you
Speaker 3: own everything for regulators?
Speaker 1: Is that all yours? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, so every time we hit sampled, every time it's
Speaker 3: in the movie, yeah, every time it's a TV commercial.
Speaker 1: They got a class of publishing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's why.
Speaker 2: Your skin looks so good.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie. You know, it's still it's still
Speaker 1: uh it's I mean it's I still get traded good,
Speaker 1: you know, from doing that song and and and what.
Speaker 1: The thing I loved about it the most is being
Speaker 1: able to meet Michael McDonald at a concert and and
Speaker 1: him telling me how much he appreciate uh me doing
Speaker 1: the uh the redoing regularly, and he liked my son
Speaker 1: don't even like my version. He like your version better
Speaker 1: better than mine. So I was like, I was blown away.
Speaker 1: I got I got it on video. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: it in before did he bring up I was he
Speaker 1: I was sitting in the crowd and he was just, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know this, this this is a song that a
Speaker 1: guy you got name of Warren G. And uh by
Speaker 1: the way, Warren G is in the crowd down there,
Speaker 1: and was like and they shined the light and ship
Speaker 1: and uh but it was just cool just to get
Speaker 1: that experiences. Me and my wife, we just we went
Speaker 1: up in there and uh, you know, just sat right
Speaker 1: up in the front and then they pulled us to
Speaker 1: the back and we chopped it up.
Speaker 4: I know, you let him road checks even getting off regularly.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, how much you have to pack this thing?
Speaker 4: Had to pay two grand a.
Speaker 1: Day week every week. We got it split. Uh to
Speaker 1: where everybody when it's time, you know, quarterly when they
Speaker 1: come boom, they get there. Dooie brothers get there, Michael
Speaker 1: McDonald get his, and they stay, get his, and then
Speaker 1: I get mine.
Speaker 5: You know how to make money other ways?
Speaker 6: You the barbecue business now, yes, indeed yes, and you
Speaker 6: competing in the barbecue festival next?
Speaker 1: Yes, and well actually, uh this weekend's a national barbecue
Speaker 1: festival and uh, god dog of this a long island. Uh,
Speaker 1: getting ready to get down. You know That's what I
Speaker 1: love to do outside of hip hop is is uh
Speaker 1: you know, cook? I love that. And I'm a pit mask,
Speaker 1: a mega chef. I'm a pit master, but all the
Speaker 1: chefs still call me a chef. They like, hey, chef.
Speaker 1: I'm like, god, damn okay, big big name still and
Speaker 1: I'm like damn, so I I created my own sauces
Speaker 1: and rubs. I didn't have a brain for it. I
Speaker 1: ain't got my ships sitting on the gravebolt prier for
Speaker 1: you guys. I'm gonna get I'm a I can't believe God,
Speaker 1: I got this. I got in so early. It's all along.
Speaker 1: I got damn bus So.
Speaker 2: That video wasn't no what video was you on the grilling? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was slipping.
Speaker 1: Well now I was hanging. I was the pit lling
Speaker 1: it up. I've always been doing that though, from from
Speaker 1: day one, everything we've done, I've always would cook. And
Speaker 1: it just it came from my father, you know, just
Speaker 1: around family functions. When we would have functions, everybody having
Speaker 1: a good time, he'd be cooking on the grill, you know, motherfuckers,
Speaker 1: be drunk, you know, squabbing a little bit here and there,
Speaker 1: but just not serious, but just family reunion type stuff.
Speaker 1: And it stuck with me. So I started doing it
Speaker 1: ever since I was probably like i'd say, about fourteen
Speaker 1: fifteen years old, just all just everywhere I went, even
Speaker 1: with hustling everything, I would always cook. And and to
Speaker 1: where I got serious about it. I was grilling at first,
Speaker 1: and then I got into the smoke world and started
Speaker 1: learning that world from a bunch of differ and pit
Speaker 1: masters from like Austin, Texas and you know, from all over,
Speaker 1: and uh, they embraced me and showed me a lot
Speaker 1: so you know now now I got it, you know,
Speaker 1: not all the way down like some of them when
Speaker 1: I'm damn chauffeurs to try to kick some ass and
Speaker 1: and uh win it.
Speaker 5: Well, congratulations on Snip and Griffin, Thank you Barbecue.
Speaker 1: Just other other business vesus outside of hip hop. And
Speaker 1: I always like to tell the young world, you know,
Speaker 1: because dudes be walking having money. Stak this motherfucking what
Speaker 1: the fuck is you gonna just keep walking with money
Speaker 1: like yeah, that's why you hear about them getting ribbed
Speaker 1: and ship. Nigga, Go invest that ship, Go buy some land,
Speaker 1: go by, get into real estate, create you a business
Speaker 1: outside of hip hop, but use hip hop as a tool.
Speaker 1: I love hip hop and i ain't gonna never stop
Speaker 1: doing it, but I'm gonna use that as a tool
Speaker 1: as well to push this and push that, just like
Speaker 1: the corporation dude. You know, So all these young guys
Speaker 1: out there flashing with that money, y'all go invest that
Speaker 1: ship because when it run out, then you're gonna be
Speaker 1: back to trying to do some ship that you don't
Speaker 1: want to do.
Speaker 5: You know how you come with an icewear vesel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Actually, my cousin, one of my cousins out
Speaker 1: out of Chattanooga. Man, he had hit me. He was like, hey,
Speaker 1: cous you've seen this, and so he sent me the video.
Speaker 1: So I played and I was like damn. I was like, damn. Okay,
Speaker 1: he redid that's that?
Speaker 2: Just sound hard?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then one of my other homies hit me
Speaker 1: because I'm an xbox head, so I'm on the Xbox.
Speaker 1: And then the party, one of my homeboys in the
Speaker 1: Xbox Party Mama hit me. He was like, one you
Speaker 1: heard that ice war vessel. I was like, damn, nigga,
Speaker 1: you said it. He said it. So I started listening again.
Speaker 1: I was like, this motherfucker is hard. And then Snoop
Speaker 1: posted it. I was like, damn, this ship is hard,
Speaker 1: and so I DMed him. I said, I said, look,
Speaker 1: send me an Open twelve. I'm a bust on that motherfucker.
Speaker 1: So he sent it and I sent it back and
Speaker 1: he was like he was like, oh gee, this is
Speaker 1: this is I love it, this is this is a classic.
Speaker 1: He was like I'm gonna push this and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: it's all good, and he was like so he thinking
Speaker 1: that that I will be tripping because you know, he
Speaker 1: was like he didn't try to use so many different
Speaker 1: samples from other artists, and they like hell now you
Speaker 1: know they you know, meaning boy it. I was like, nigga,
Speaker 1: use that, motherfucker. I don't care because it ain't nothing
Speaker 1: but recycling, you know, because you blow it up, then hey,
Speaker 1: that's even more that come in. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: want nothing. You ain't gotta pay me nothing, none of that.
Speaker 1: It'll it'll pay for its up, you know. So I
Speaker 1: said you could use anything I got, use it because
Speaker 1: it's gonna you know, it's gonna help you and it's
Speaker 1: gonna help bring in, keep keep the recycling going.
Speaker 4: So you know, have you have you ever confronted anybody
Speaker 4: about not getting your flowers? Are you just to let
Speaker 4: the music in the work speak for yourself?
Speaker 1: Take uh? I let the work and the music speak
Speaker 1: for itself. I don't want to get into that mod
Speaker 1: where I start tripping on foods because I get I
Speaker 1: go hard and I don't want to get there. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody else like, warn, you so nice, you so cool,
Speaker 1: But I get off of the motherfucker ass. I just
Speaker 1: don't choose to go that route. And I don't like
Speaker 1: to argue with motherfuckers. And you know, do all that
Speaker 1: extra shit. I'm just like, I'm gonna let this. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let this do speak for me. Motherfuckers know though,
Speaker 1: I mean, they know I ain't. I ain't gonna sit
Speaker 1: up there and play no motherfucking games. I'm uh, I'm cool.
Speaker 1: But and I should have I should have been more.
Speaker 1: I should have been more uh uh active, Yeah, vocal
Speaker 1: and active. But it's just like you know, I've I've
Speaker 1: seen so many people do foul ship to a lot
Speaker 1: of people, a lot of guys like you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't see motherfuckers talk shit about drag. Motherfucker's talk shit
Speaker 1: about Snoop and then they ass is right up under him.
Speaker 1: You know, I ain't that type of motherfucker. I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna I ain't gonna talk about these motherfuckers and and
Speaker 1: and then get in their face. If I got something
Speaker 1: to say to him, I said to him, and yeah
Speaker 1: I did talk about the super Bowl ship. I was
Speaker 1: pissed off, you know, just it just wasn't cool, and
Speaker 1: you know, and I ain't. It wasn't like something that
Speaker 1: I just brought up and did this and did that.
Speaker 1: It was a whole story to it that led up
Speaker 1: to that and it was a witness there. One of
Speaker 1: my guys, he uh, he would with our crew. He
Speaker 1: sat right next to me, and he was even tripping,
Speaker 1: and he got down there and went back there, and
Speaker 1: I'm still in the fucking crab wo But I just
Speaker 1: wanted to go back there and hang out, me and
Speaker 1: my son. That was it.
Speaker 3: I don't know that you had a story and you
Speaker 3: understand how it is, and the fact that y'all were
Speaker 3: so close, and you understand why because people, I don't
Speaker 3: think a lot of people necessarily knew. Did you speak
Speaker 3: to Dre or Snoop? Well, of course you boke to Snoop.
Speaker 3: Did you speak the Dre after that?
Speaker 1: I ain't talked to him. I haven't reached out to
Speaker 1: talk to him a few times, you know, but he
Speaker 1: always would be busy, you know. But I ain't. I mean,
Speaker 1: it ain't. It ain't. I ain't got nothing against him.
Speaker 2: I don't know that was right there.
Speaker 1: I didn't even sing, you know, I was. I was
Speaker 1: focused on doing what I had to do.
Speaker 2: But y'all don't have the best relationship.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what kind of relationship we have.
Speaker 1: I ain't seen him in a while. We ain't talked
Speaker 1: in a while or or hung out. You know, I
Speaker 1: ain't got nothing against him or not, but I don't
Speaker 1: know what if there is a problem or not, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I ain't never done huh.
Speaker 2: Was there something that got y'all to this point?
Speaker 1: Or I have no idea. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: fuck is going on, you know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: somebody might may have told him some shit or said
Speaker 1: some shit, because a lot of motherfuckers that do that
Speaker 1: just to get up under a person, you know, they'll say, well,
Speaker 1: he did something. I don't know, but and I ain't
Speaker 1: tripping either. At the same time, you know, I ain't
Speaker 1: got nothing against him, you know, but that shit just
Speaker 1: was kind of weird, you know when I look up
Speaker 1: to you and you know, and you know that's my
Speaker 1: god steal, you know, Like I said, that's my sensey.
Speaker 1: And we could sit down and talk whenever, face to face,
Speaker 1: you know, and pull it, put it all out, put
Speaker 1: it all out there. And if it's something that I
Speaker 1: did and I was wrong, hey, it is what it is. Okay,
Speaker 1: I was wrong. If you don't want to fuck with
Speaker 1: me no more, that's fine. Cool. But being in the
Speaker 1: blind and not knowing what's going on. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, but because that's what it seemed like it
Speaker 1: to me, it's seen like it it may be a
Speaker 1: problem by.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It just it just felt like a problem. You know.
Speaker 1: I'm my own boy. You know, I love that nigga
Speaker 1: to death. That's my dog. He said, I don't bring
Speaker 1: ship to work with me. This that's totally different that
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think he was talking Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think he I don't think he was talking about
Speaker 1: me as far as me being ship coming with him
Speaker 1: to uh go to the studio or wherever the work.
Speaker 1: Because that's all we ever did was get down and
Speaker 1: go to the studio together be you know, go up
Speaker 1: there that we would we have fun. That's it. You know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't no you know, so you know, just just
Speaker 1: just clearing that, you know, Snooper is my homeboy. I
Speaker 1: have no problems with Dre. This is my best friend.
Speaker 1: You two guys, y'all you got y'all hang out. That's
Speaker 1: my best friend and this this is my brother. Uh
Speaker 1: it just be it just be weird. And I when
Speaker 1: I say weird, as far as it's like we don't
Speaker 1: go out to eat together. No more. We don't do
Speaker 1: family ship when we get the kids out and do
Speaker 1: ship like that, go jet skin or go skin or
Speaker 1: it ain't about like some music ship or this, that
Speaker 1: and this. I just to hang out like we used to.
Speaker 1: I don't know nobody else. You are the motherfuckers I
Speaker 1: grew with in this industry. I ain't that that's that's it.
Speaker 1: It ain't that's it. Just it's hanging out Litsten, you know,
Speaker 1: like being being a crew again, a family again. You know,
Speaker 1: I ain't. I'm just that's it.
Speaker 2: It's okay to say I miss you, my brother, I
Speaker 2: miss you, I miss you.
Speaker 1: Okay. Niggas know that Snoop know that ship because I
Speaker 1: chime in with Snoop, you know, when we don't talk
Speaker 1: for a while, chime in with him, like nigga, just
Speaker 1: this want this g up. I'm checking in. You know,
Speaker 1: we ain't talked in a minute, so I'm checking in.
Speaker 1: I can't do that with Dragon, you know. You know,
Speaker 1: me and Snoop we talk all the time because recently,
Speaker 1: you know, we kind of like was distanced a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I hear Snoop, like what's going on?
Speaker 1: We ain't talking him in a while, you know, but
Speaker 1: not knowing that he was going through some things and
Speaker 1: as your best friend, you got to tell me that
Speaker 1: because I don't know if you don't tell me. So
Speaker 1: he had had, you know, like he mentioned, no, no,
Speaker 1: not with moms. He was like, you know, my my daughter,
Speaker 1: her daughter became premature, so you know, yeah, so and
Speaker 1: she's about to go home, like he said, she about
Speaker 1: to finally about to go home. I didn't know that,
Speaker 1: so he wasn't trying to return to my car. So
Speaker 1: I was like, damn this nigga, snoop, ain't fucking with me.
Speaker 1: What's going on? And then he finally hit me and
Speaker 1: told me what was going on. So I was like,
Speaker 1: damn man, And so I told him, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: you know, I'm always praying for you and I'm always
Speaker 1: there for you. Went like I have been through all
Speaker 1: the situations that he didn't been going through because I
Speaker 1: went through that same exact thing where I lost my grandmother,
Speaker 1: my mother, my mother in law, I lost my both aunties,
Speaker 1: my grandfather, I lost like all this shit was like
Speaker 1: in a row and now I was I was fucked up,
Speaker 1: you know, so I've been through it. So that's why
Speaker 1: I was able to walk him through what he was
Speaker 1: going through with losing his mother because I lost mine
Speaker 1: too in ninety nine, so I've been motherless for a
Speaker 1: long time. Kids don't even know they grandmother, never met
Speaker 1: their grandmother. So mine's so just to be able there
Speaker 1: to tell him that you and understand that this is life.
Speaker 1: This is what we're gonna have to go through, and
Speaker 1: you just got to man up. You gotta understand that
Speaker 1: this is life we're gonna have to go through. So
Speaker 1: our kids gonna have to go through that ship. So
Speaker 1: just understand that and you'll you'll be better about everything.
Speaker 1: You know, you'll feel better. You cry because I still cry,
Speaker 1: you know, Charlae, man, I cried now like you said,
Speaker 1: Like you said, just say, I miss you guys. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You know, I ain't. I mean that,
Speaker 1: that's it's it's just being a family again. It ain't.
Speaker 1: You know, I ain't. I ain't. You know, I ain't
Speaker 1: tripping other than that. But if it is a problem,
Speaker 1: Nigga addressed the ship, tell me and then I'll be
Speaker 1: fine with that. You know, I ain't tripping the gat up.
Speaker 2: Keep it moving, But y'all came up together, y'all created
Speaker 2: a community and just look at y'all survived. Yeah a lot,
Speaker 2: just sit around and kicking and just talking.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, one I'm one thing that did have
Speaker 1: that that I was really crushed about. And I have
Speaker 1: said it before, was I It was a situation where
Speaker 1: I went into it. I was in a studio situation
Speaker 1: and uh, it was after dra left and I didn't
Speaker 1: know that he left, and I was mad at him
Speaker 1: because he didn't tell me that he had left Death Road.
Speaker 1: So I went to a studio session and and was
Speaker 1: was was you know, you know, people was trying to
Speaker 1: get at me, like you know, they was trying to
Speaker 1: trying to whoop my ass up in that motherfucker. But
Speaker 1: you know, I got up out of the mix. But
Speaker 1: I was I was kind of pissed off about that
Speaker 1: right there. And you know I never got the call
Speaker 1: like don't go around that shit. Wow, you know. So
Speaker 1: and these niggas if they had the chance to crack
Speaker 1: my head up, and they would have cracked it. You know,
Speaker 1: I was just able to get away and get out
Speaker 1: of that situation and and you know, you know the
Speaker 1: things that you know, I'm not gonna lie and I
Speaker 1: I had, I had, you know, I had, I was,
Speaker 1: I had, I was locked and loaded, but it just
Speaker 1: wasn't worth it too and everything I got going on
Speaker 1: right now for me cracking this motherfucker for snatching my chain.
Speaker 1: As the motherfucker snatched my chain. Then another guy came
Speaker 1: in and caused a diversion. When he calls that diversion,
Speaker 1: I walked out. And when I walked out, it's when
Speaker 1: I got that was able to. I was able to
Speaker 1: get out and you know, get away, and and able
Speaker 1: to make my calls for my ship to come right back,
Speaker 1: and it came right back. And I still got it
Speaker 1: to this day. That sounded like Trump When I.
Speaker 2: Said, did you talk to about that?
Speaker 4: Ever?
Speaker 1: Uh, we ain't never had, Like I said, we ain't
Speaker 1: talking alone.
Speaker 2: Only talked to That's the nineties.
Speaker 1: I mean, we see each other, you know, here and there.
Speaker 1: We just ain't talk, you know, I don't you know,
Speaker 1: I ain't no, ain't nothing. It ain't no like I said,
Speaker 1: it ain't no static. He just that's I guess that's
Speaker 1: just he just liked that. That's just how he is,
Speaker 1: you know. He just he just do his own thing.
Speaker 1: You know. But if it is a problem or something.
Speaker 1: I wish he would say it. I should have said it,
Speaker 1: but people who be around be like he always talking
Speaker 1: about you, saying this and that and this. You know,
Speaker 1: good ship. Well we never talked, so hold on.
Speaker 4: So since since aftermath, Eminem, we had we had we
Speaker 4: we around that time.
Speaker 1: We used I used to be up at the studio.
Speaker 1: You know, we even went to the islands. He wasn't
Speaker 1: time we did up and small tour. Yeah it's just
Speaker 1: made forty five hundred show show swelling.
Speaker 2: Guy, didst pay for your hotel and traveling over?
Speaker 1: I had to pay for all that forty five all in?
Speaker 1: Yeah that Jesus. Yeah, yeah, this is this. I'm just saying.
Speaker 1: That's type of the type of stuff that I've been through.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, so that's why I kind of like
Speaker 1: be to myself and just away from everything. So I
Speaker 1: try to and try to do a lot of ship
Speaker 1: on my own because I you know, ship just you know.
Speaker 1: But it's a new day, a new time. Well, I
Speaker 1: was I was pretty rough. I ain't gonna lie I was.
Speaker 1: I was. I was a hard head. I was immature
Speaker 1: back then. Uh, I was immature, just you know, I
Speaker 1: wasn't like just a mega fighting machine, but I was.
Speaker 1: I was down, uh and just doing stupid ship back then.
Speaker 1: But I was you still don't you know that's that
Speaker 1: that ain't got nothing to do because you grow with anything,
Speaker 1: because you grow in the business. And I've grown a
Speaker 1: whole lot from what I used to be. Getting caught
Speaker 1: with guns and shit, and you know, them giving me,
Speaker 1: taking me, cuff me, pulling me. I was headed to
Speaker 1: do five years, and that motherfucker the judge went in
Speaker 1: the holding tank, pulled me back out the holding tank
Speaker 1: and told me, he said he's because he seen my
Speaker 1: son in the room. I just had a baby, and
Speaker 1: he said, I could. I'm gonna give you this chance.
Speaker 1: He said, you could go ahead and knock the five
Speaker 1: years out right now, or you can you can do
Speaker 1: joint suspension five years. I said, shit, I take the
Speaker 1: joint suspension. So he had them uncuffed me, take me out,
Speaker 1: and let release me. Joint suspension five years. And I
Speaker 1: did that five years. Joint suspension didn't get no trouble.
Speaker 1: I did, but I didn't. They didn't know it, uh,
Speaker 1: And UH went clean. And from since the beginning of
Speaker 1: that that that five year joint suspension. I did do
Speaker 1: some stupid ship during that time. I just didn't get
Speaker 1: like I said, get caught up for a butt. After that,
Speaker 1: I have not been to date. I ain't been in
Speaker 1: no trouble since then from that from that point, but
Speaker 1: not saying I like I said, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: star ship with motherfuckers. I just I keep it pushing
Speaker 1: because it's just life is too short for that ship
Speaker 1: to be Oregon or or you know, motherfucker's trying to
Speaker 1: you know, all the talking, all that gang ship, that's
Speaker 1: that shit is just I'm I'm past all of that.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to create businesses and help people grow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just barbecue man and barbecue, that's what I love
Speaker 1: to do. And drink me a beer, smoke me a joint.
Speaker 4: You know what. I want people to watch this interview
Speaker 4: and at the end of it, I want them to
Speaker 4: think to themselves. Warren G introduced Stoop to dre so
Speaker 4: West Coast Rap wouldn't exist the way it does without
Speaker 4: you and you save death Jam to the East Coast wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Exist the way it does without you.
Speaker 4: That hundred million dollars death Jam Man that they use
Speaker 4: that to invest into the next generation, the East Coast artists, Which.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, a pillar in hip hop justin
Speaker 2: be I like comic books.
Speaker 4: I like the Marvel Universe, like you like Lowki holding
Speaker 4: a bunch of branches together, you know, in this thing
Speaker 4: called hip hop.
Speaker 2: So man, they gotta give it up to you.
Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, Ship, I think, what what?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: What would have been cool? What is cool? Even though
Speaker 1: I gotta wait like four more years. It's just if
Speaker 1: they gave me my masters back, that would be cool
Speaker 1: if I was if I was a company, I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: this motherfucker did all this boom. Let me let's give
Speaker 1: him this ship we got. We got jay Z, we
Speaker 1: got Kanye, we got all this ship, Drake, we got
Speaker 1: all these catalogs, and sit over here, we don't really
Speaker 1: need this.
Speaker 3: Don't you get your masters back?
Speaker 1: After I got four more years from you said, but
Speaker 1: ship funk all that.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you for joining us.
Speaker 1: Now, it's all good. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Having man love to hear your story.
Speaker 1: And I was getting ready to come in here. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, I'm gonna get this ship started off
Speaker 1: right now. We finished. Hey, that was classic, I said,
Speaker 1: Nigga crazy man. When I say that ship, I was like,
Speaker 1: this ship is crazy.
Speaker 3: Like the squabb but were glad we're not number thirty two.
Speaker 1: So no, it's all good man. I ain't a rowdy,
Speaker 1: fighting ass motherfucker, but you know, I just I just
Speaker 1: be waring, you know that, Just be myself.
Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: It's Warren G Much love you guys.
Speaker 2: It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3: Good morning shot, wake that ass.
Speaker 1: Up in the morning.
Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club