Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode the Gangster Chronicles, and we got
Speaker 1: a friend of the show on again. You guys have
Speaker 1: seen him a couple of times on the show. Very
Speaker 1: well received, very important part of the West Coast hippop Um.
Speaker 1: I would almost be remissed to say that without him
Speaker 1: it might not be a lot of the Doctor dres
Speaker 1: and snoop dogs and these different kind of figures man,
Speaker 1: and great start landscape over the last twenty thirty years.
Speaker 1: And so Cat, what's happening? What's up? But you Ben,
Speaker 1: I'm hanging out man, it's doing what I do, just
Speaker 1: doing what you do. Man. You know what we were
Speaker 1: talking man before the show started. Man, but just about
Speaker 1: I would say, the good old days of Compton Man.
Speaker 1: And of course you you grew up on a rear
Speaker 1: rack side of time, sir. Let's talk about a little
Speaker 1: bit man. How did you avoid the pitfalls and becoming
Speaker 1: a gag bank? Well, you know when I grew up
Speaker 1: in Compton man, Um, Well, I grew up this outside
Speaker 1: of competence keeping one hoted. I grew up in answers
Speaker 1: off of mainly else the under and uh, I didn't
Speaker 1: qualify to be a gangster at that time. I was
Speaker 1: a skinny kid. I was a skinny Catholic school kid.
Speaker 1: Back then, you had to have the qualifications. You had
Speaker 1: to be able to thump. As they say, um. But
Speaker 1: because I'll let me turn this myth. But because um
Speaker 1: and I got to high school, I always had access
Speaker 1: to a vehicle and that put me in good light
Speaker 1: with the homies. So every time we want to go
Speaker 1: to want to go to a dance, Captain on the
Speaker 1: Park or something like that, either I drove and they
Speaker 1: rolled back with me, or I take we wrote route
Speaker 1: road to school together. So back then, your homies looked
Speaker 1: out for you. If you wasn't what the what what
Speaker 1: the business that you know that makes you, nobody jumped
Speaker 1: on you. And even I had fights with it. I
Speaker 1: had fights like everybody else. But because I wasn't um,
Speaker 1: I wasn't one of them that I wasn't on the
Speaker 1: team per secon Back then it was about quantity quality,
Speaker 1: not quantity, okay. And we didn't have the numbers in
Speaker 1: my neighborhood. So the number of came to gangs, it
Speaker 1: wasn't a big gang, wasn't a big number. And uh,
Speaker 1: I was just able to do it. Plus my old
Speaker 1: man was well respected in the Cuban. My mom was
Speaker 1: respecting in the community. And back then, my mom she
Speaker 1: didn't run my neighborhood per se, but she had a
Speaker 1: lot of influence and she just didn't take ship. And
Speaker 1: she wouldn't let me hang out in certain places. And
Speaker 1: people knew if they saw me coming at a certain time, man,
Speaker 1: get then they out of here. And I want to
Speaker 1: hear the mama's mouth. And that was real shipped back there.
Speaker 1: That was real ship. So when did you infactuation with music? How? Man?
Speaker 1: I've always been infactuated in music. My daddy from Mississippi,
Speaker 1: so he listened to a lot of blues, Ray Charles,
Speaker 1: and she liked that. My mom was from Louisiana, So
Speaker 1: I had a jazz influence. My sister, I have an
Speaker 1: older sister. She was into the R and B. So penning.
Speaker 1: Who would call you within was penning what you was
Speaker 1: exposed to. So I was exposure everything. As a kid,
Speaker 1: I learned the same Three Dog Night and Janice Jopplin. Uh,
Speaker 1: I like Kennon ball Adelie, like BB King, Ray Charles,
Speaker 1: Jane Brown, dramatic. So it's always been something for me
Speaker 1: in my house. Man. So it was always I was
Speaker 1: always exposed different types of music, and it's just, uh,
Speaker 1: it's just stuck with me and going to a Catholic
Speaker 1: school back in the day of Saint Aubert Ship. On
Speaker 1: a Friday afternoon, after they game with some fish sandwiches,
Speaker 1: we have a dance in the gym. So we're like
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen years old dancing in the gym. That was
Speaker 1: for the so so I've always been around that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, so you know, it just it wasn't for me.
Speaker 1: It was a natural progression. Okay. So now during that
Speaker 1: time when you had the sock ups and these different functions,
Speaker 1: were there a game, but their a game presence of
Speaker 1: these dances. You know, it might have been a little
Speaker 1: something something. It wasn't been a gag per se. But
Speaker 1: some cats they would do. He would get jammed. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you came to the set and was came to
Speaker 1: the dance that was doing too much good dances I
Speaker 1: had too cute or looking too good. The homies with
Speaker 1: Jamie ass I had a buddy of mine got jammed
Speaker 1: one day for no reason other than he was for
Speaker 1: in the circle and they didn't like the way he
Speaker 1: was dancing. He was getting too much attention from the girls,
Speaker 1: and they grew up and uh brought him up real
Speaker 1: quick and just ran back and he looked up, didn't
Speaker 1: no woman, didn't know who hit him, but he got
Speaker 1: hit by by five six cats, just to let him
Speaker 1: know he's doing too much. Sure, what's the most things experienced?
Speaker 1: You bad with games? As far as when we're coming up,
Speaker 1: oh Man, probably would have to watch stax Man. Watch
Speaker 1: stas I was sixteen years old. That was probably my
Speaker 1: Roughlan's experience tooking them. Tookie and Jamal had just uh
Speaker 1: started making a name for themselves. Watch that jumped off
Speaker 1: and they had the thing at the had a big
Speaker 1: gas concert at the Colosseum, and the deal was, uh,
Speaker 1: you have can stand in the stands, but you can't
Speaker 1: come on the dand on on the field the party
Speaker 1: because I think either the Raiders in the round, I
Speaker 1: don't know who it was back then the football team
Speaker 1: of that of that era had a game the next day,
Speaker 1: and we don't want to feel messed up for people dancing,
Speaker 1: and no matter what happened, as soon as the band
Speaker 1: started playing with barcades, Joe text saples fingers, I think
Speaker 1: Isaac cages was the main was the main main headliner um.
Speaker 1: People run down to the damn stage and started, you know,
Speaker 1: to the field, start dancing. They stopped the show. And
Speaker 1: at one point in time, Jesse Jackson and they didn't
Speaker 1: put this in the in the video. I was there
Speaker 1: what they said, I was there. Jesse Jackson told the
Speaker 1: Crypts to form a human chain around the perimeter of
Speaker 1: the field at these uh colosseum. I said to myself,
Speaker 1: that's a bad idea. Sure enough, it was a funked
Speaker 1: up idea, and people started running down to go past
Speaker 1: the cry the crypt they had a reputation yet, and
Speaker 1: they were whooping people's ass. Okay, police, the police l
Speaker 1: A p D. Said fuck it. They were never stood
Speaker 1: behind by the by the sign. They said, if y'all
Speaker 1: gonna do that, we can't help y'all. And after after
Speaker 1: they realized it was a bad idea, they eventually brought
Speaker 1: the police back down. Told her brothers, y'all can't have
Speaker 1: this right here. And there's two things I learned that day.
Speaker 1: I learned something that day. One the Crypts hadn't didn't
Speaker 1: have a reputation yet, and too it became like a
Speaker 1: mob mentality because back then there was a whole lot
Speaker 1: of crypts. But to keep niggas from niggas, to keep
Speaker 1: their jackets for getting stolen, they was joining the cript
Speaker 1: They was doing the honorary crypt volunteer work that day.
Speaker 1: Let me ask this because you've been around man, I
Speaker 1: think of like seventy to seventy three, seventy three, So
Speaker 1: you didn't grow up with just to run the meal
Speaker 1: people you can up with when they was trying to
Speaker 1: figure I grew up with an area. When they were
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what kryp stood for, the news
Speaker 1: were trying to figure out what this crypt stand for
Speaker 1: because they crypt their hair because they had because the
Speaker 1: cript Us carried kanes and ship because they was crippled.
Speaker 1: Or then then then the brothers came up with a
Speaker 1: came up with an acronym like community Reparations in Progress
Speaker 1: and something like something to that backlution. Thank you. That's
Speaker 1: that was That was it. That was That's what it became.
Speaker 1: But that kind of went out to wonder at some
Speaker 1: point in time and it just became just CRIPT And
Speaker 1: I remember when Homeboy got stomped out at this at
Speaker 1: the Palladium for a Lether the first leather jacket killing
Speaker 1: at the Palladium. Okay sole trained event and so yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: I remember all that. I was a kid. I'm readings
Speaker 1: on the news right and so putting grow with putting,
Speaker 1: putting reading? Why left Centennial? Tell us about that's putting putting?
Speaker 1: Donald Garrett and a couple of the cats. While I
Speaker 1: left Centennial, I was in the old tc um all
Speaker 1: TC back back then, was a good raider to keep
Speaker 1: from half the dress for Jim and our second year
Speaker 1: of all TC. I was a battalion commander. I had
Speaker 1: over three kids behind me. Every parade, me and my
Speaker 1: me and my staff is walking through the thing Square.
Speaker 1: We were high sign it and parru boys had a
Speaker 1: bench right there at the senior Square. We're walking past,
Speaker 1: not bothering nobody, and they jumped in our faces and
Speaker 1: their access where you where you, where you pop out?
Speaker 1: Motherfucker's going And he was talking specifically to one of
Speaker 1: my partners, Andre tall red head brother light skiing Freckles
Speaker 1: and like I told you earlier, look like he looked
Speaker 1: like Blake Griffin and six ft four tall brother uh
Speaker 1: dry gold. Look at motherfucker and he was my lieutenant
Speaker 1: and uh, he studied, and he said, why why we
Speaker 1: gotta be some papaur motherfucker's And the fight broke out.
Speaker 1: Man man man curity guards and the g pull up
Speaker 1: broke the fight up. A couple of days later, were
Speaker 1: cutting through Enterprise Park going to the path. He left
Speaker 1: on the priller. He leved on now he lived on
Speaker 1: the think on the priller, I lived on Hunt on
Speaker 1: the second. So we come through the Prise Park, Enterprise Park,
Speaker 1: turning right into the Hunt thirty second. I go to
Speaker 1: the pad. Well, we come to the Enterprise Park like
Speaker 1: we always do, and we see putting, don't Garrett and
Speaker 1: a couple of the cats and my partner Kenny Clay
Speaker 1: was on the bench right there in front of the
Speaker 1: gym at Enterprise Park. We got two choices. We could
Speaker 1: run or we could just walk past these cool like
Speaker 1: walk walk past these brothers like, ain't nothing happens cool.
Speaker 1: We tried to walk past him. They wasn't going for it.
Speaker 1: So they form the jumpers. They form the jumpers. My
Speaker 1: partner Kenny Clay, anybody Kenny Clay, he didn't. He ain't
Speaker 1: in the stories of the gang Bang, and he ain't
Speaker 1: in the stories would put another all the other cats
Speaker 1: that were back in the day. Kenny Clay lived directly
Speaker 1: across the street from me. Here's grandmama and my mama
Speaker 1: went fishing together every day. Can he claim when he
Speaker 1: first got to California from New York. When he got
Speaker 1: to California, wed she pulled in my backyard. He knew
Speaker 1: me very well, my mama. We had a connection. Um.
Speaker 1: He said, y'all can't jump on them because he backed
Speaker 1: then the gangsters was real. They was real. I wasn't
Speaker 1: in the ship, but he's like, hey, man, y'all can't
Speaker 1: jump on them. Y'all got to go head up. So uh,
Speaker 1: my boy and Mr Garrett decided to go head up.
Speaker 1: What I didn't know and nobody knew, is that my
Speaker 1: partner take footfold redhead light skinned, freckle face dude from
Speaker 1: Compton had been taking boxing lessons because he ain't ben
Speaker 1: getting picked on this a regular ship for his ass
Speaker 1: he was. He had took to and took boxing lessons,
Speaker 1: and he did much better than he was supposed to.
Speaker 1: I wish you nigger had took a dive, Okay, but
Speaker 1: then nigga did much better he was supposed to and
Speaker 1: when we left, the homies was laughing at their boy.
Speaker 1: They was laughing and uh. We next day at school,
Speaker 1: one of the girls that lived on parrule within my
Speaker 1: homeroom class. She told me, she's I don't know what
Speaker 1: y'all did an Enterprise Park yesterday. They're talking about kidn't
Speaker 1: shooting anybody in our OLDTC. No problem, gotta go, okay.
Speaker 1: My last day is Centennial High School. Now, Huh. I've
Speaker 1: ended up putting a couple of times at Clark's Drugs
Speaker 1: and it wasn't no big deal. And it was just
Speaker 1: me and him though, and by saying what, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say nothing because I don't want abody to get
Speaker 1: the misunderstanding. Oh bad. He was a live blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Everybody was human, man, Everybody is human,
Speaker 1: and everybody had their times when they were they were notorious,
Speaker 1: and sometimes they just all right, man, all right, man,
Speaker 1: and keep on going. Now, it was one of them times.
Speaker 1: He was We were both on the same page. He
Speaker 1: was walking out of the Clark's Drugs. I was walking in.
Speaker 1: I saw him. He looked at me. I looked at him.
Speaker 1: I recognized him. I was scared. He was like cool cool,
Speaker 1: and that was it. They never came to even after dark.
Speaker 1: They never came around with him. I remember coming to
Speaker 1: even a dark Now, the brothers who came to even
Speaker 1: after dark, they had my back from Pye row was
Speaker 1: yellow Ice. Anybody, no yellow Ice. Yellow Ice ain't no joke.
Speaker 1: He was one of my homies, still my homie right
Speaker 1: to this day. And he was one of the brothers
Speaker 1: that when I had, when I had even after dark
Speaker 1: and do those they had my back the whole time.
Speaker 1: He said, Man, I love what you're doing, appreciate what
Speaker 1: you're doing, blah blah blah, good for the folks in
Speaker 1: the community. Let me and left my homies. Then we
Speaker 1: got you and that's what kept a little even the
Speaker 1: dark most of the time. That was it. Let's go
Speaker 1: back then, because so we're talking about you, man, why
Speaker 1: does continue high school during that time? Now, when did
Speaker 1: you decide to go into the club business? How did
Speaker 1: how did this whole transformation? We know what? Going to
Speaker 1: the club business? Man was another fucking accident. Man, I
Speaker 1: was DJ and freshout of center. I'm after left Centennia
Speaker 1: with to Guardino. I got I grated from Guardina High
Speaker 1: School and Uh. When I was going for graduation, they
Speaker 1: asked you what you want to do and you got
Speaker 1: out of high school. They had a little pamphlet come
Speaker 1: around and I checked off radio DJ. I didn't think
Speaker 1: I was gonna get it, and I talked funny and
Speaker 1: I believe that studded and ship and I got the
Speaker 1: scholarship to go to broadcast school. By the time I
Speaker 1: got out of high school, disco was in full blast.
Speaker 1: By the time I got a broadcast school, Disco was
Speaker 1: in full extra blast. In fact, most of because I
Speaker 1: played in broadcast school was disco records. So when I
Speaker 1: got out of school, was no black discos, only discos
Speaker 1: they had with white folks. Just goes in in uh
Speaker 1: North Hollywood and UH Bird Banking Ship. This is like
Speaker 1: seventy six, seventy seven, seventy six. I got left school
Speaker 1: to seventy five, seventy seventy five the summer seventy five.
Speaker 1: I got my broadcast license in seventy six or yeah,
Speaker 1: seventy six. Uh. Disco Lionso was born in seventy six.
Speaker 1: He was created in the seventy six. And UH, I
Speaker 1: just named myself Disco Lionso because that was the hottest
Speaker 1: thing going at the time. And I started booking myself
Speaker 1: at a lot of different parties mostly wasn't receptions, baby showers,
Speaker 1: and started doing dances and uh, it was just one
Speaker 1: of them things. Man. I got a job at a
Speaker 1: record at a uh at Kenney Shoes over in Compton,
Speaker 1: worked there for a while. I got another job at
Speaker 1: the space called Record Shack in Compton over off of
Speaker 1: Waldut and Uh, it was always confusing cause people think
Speaker 1: wal that is all Carson, It's not the pot of
Speaker 1: the thought. I was on on the east side of
Speaker 1: Mington Well, east east side of Central was was Compton,
Speaker 1: and I sold records over the phone, me and my
Speaker 1: boy Roger Clayton from uncle James Army. That was one
Speaker 1: of job we had together. That's how we really got tight.
Speaker 1: We both worked at this record distributor selling records and
Speaker 1: he had the idea. I'm not gonna take credit for
Speaker 1: his idea to do dance as the Alpine Village, but
Speaker 1: I had the sound system. I was a DJ. I
Speaker 1: had a truck, had sound seekers as sound system speakers,
Speaker 1: the whole nine yards. And then you've been to DJ
Speaker 1: and I'll promote the show. Blah blah, blah. And we
Speaker 1: did that ship for a few times and it was
Speaker 1: real successful. And one day um, I lived off on
Speaker 1: Carlton Avenue off hunt Sewond in Carlton. My MoMA just died.
Speaker 1: She died and I was nineteen, and I took over
Speaker 1: our house. My dad had been moving her house and
Speaker 1: nobody would break in and steal ship. I scared the
Speaker 1: motherfucker half the time. And he came to the patty
Speaker 1: at the it was his house technically, and he saw
Speaker 1: me about five six dollars across the bed. I'm counting
Speaker 1: money and ship, but also everybody my neighborhood was selling dope,
Speaker 1: and my own man has never been. He ain't never
Speaker 1: supported the dope thing at all. He's shoulnau me up,
Speaker 1: you said the dope blah blah. I got more money
Speaker 1: on my bed and he made last two weeks of
Speaker 1: this job. No, no, pop, this is what's happened. I'm
Speaker 1: doing Alpine Village, and like the daddies of them days,
Speaker 1: he came back to check with me see what I
Speaker 1: was doing. He came through Alpine and we was cracking
Speaker 1: that night and he asked me about the business. How
Speaker 1: much was I'm paying for the room and what was
Speaker 1: he doing and blah blah blah. When I gave him
Speaker 1: the business uh plan for Alpine, I thought he was
Speaker 1: paying like seven hundred bucks for one night. Seven hundred
Speaker 1: dollars one night. I damn, wh what what? What? Let
Speaker 1: me talk to my buddy. Well, my daddy and jeff
Speaker 1: Dy got the owns jef Dy's on Alblano Segando. They
Speaker 1: was drinking buddies and jeff Dy had just built the
Speaker 1: second floor to his club and uh fo the after hours,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't doing that much. And uh, my old
Speaker 1: man took me to me jeff D. I've been doing
Speaker 1: Jeffy all my life, but I never I know him
Speaker 1: as Mr jeff D. I didn't know him as a
Speaker 1: business partner landlord. I know him as the old man
Speaker 1: on the up the hill there. But he took a
Speaker 1: liking to me, and him and my old man sit
Speaker 1: there and got drunk and cut a deal for me
Speaker 1: to take even to Dark. Now I got even to Dark.
Speaker 1: I was only gonna get it maybe once or twice
Speaker 1: a week a month. I wasn't trying to be a
Speaker 1: every weekend thing. But that was that was the trick
Speaker 1: bag Okay, if you want it, you gotta take it.
Speaker 1: Every week Friday and Saturday. Nigga said, what I ain't
Speaker 1: I don't know. My money ain't death strong. But I
Speaker 1: had a backer and she backed me up on the deal,
Speaker 1: and uh, we went in there. For the first few weeks.
Speaker 1: We were struggling for a minute. But then shortly after that, man,
Speaker 1: the word got out that motherfucker jumped off. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I was within within eve, trying to just be a
Speaker 1: regular despromotor one two days a week. Um, you know nothing,
Speaker 1: you know, but once two days a month, no big deal.
Speaker 1: Ended up with a club at only two years old. Yeo, man,
Speaker 1: we was charging sometimes we charged you a little ninety
Speaker 1: nine cents and I still make two three. We charged
Speaker 1: nine said sometimes from from from uh nine thirty and
Speaker 1: at forty five, you couldn't get in the gas station.
Speaker 1: You could not get the United gas station. They'd be
Speaker 1: lined up. That dick, the gas station manager, coming a
Speaker 1: few times. Mr William, Could you please have them have
Speaker 1: a guard of somebody curve him so we can get
Speaker 1: to sell gas. It was like that, okay, and uh,
Speaker 1: but after nine thirty, after nine thirty, it was five
Speaker 1: whatever the case, may be the key to even at
Speaker 1: the dark success. What wasn't so much the amount of
Speaker 1: money to the turnover we had And I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that to later wrong because the Eve open at nine
Speaker 1: thirty sometimes ten o'clock on the Saturday night, but we
Speaker 1: stayed open till like five or six in the morning,
Speaker 1: so the kids are come in early. I pick up
Speaker 1: a pick up a rack, then a couple of racks
Speaker 1: then and then the after party started. And depending on
Speaker 1: what was going on, if that was a big dance
Speaker 1: or a big concert, I had to after party. You
Speaker 1: bring a ticket STU up to the after parties three dollars. Wow, man,
Speaker 1: we was doing fantastic. Man Ship, I was bought out
Speaker 1: of control and then ever sold nothing but some but tickets. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, when did you start geting?
Speaker 1: When did the idea for the world players written? Just
Speaker 1: like anything else, man uh, ship starts getting old and
Speaker 1: the Eve started slowing down. Okay, after about three years,
Speaker 1: about two eighty three eighty three, Eve started having like
Speaker 1: you know, other clubs started to happen to blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So I started having ideas on how to keep it,
Speaker 1: keep the excitement coming on. You know, it's like any
Speaker 1: other relationship. You gotta keep it, keep it exciting. So
Speaker 1: I started bringing in the acts all my buddies when
Speaker 1: the music business, so I was able to kind tech.
Speaker 1: Russell Simmons, he gave me Curtis, got me Curtiss blow.
Speaker 1: Later on I was kicked my buddy. Other buddy he
Speaker 1: got me or I mean sorry, Russell Simmons got me Curtis.
Speaker 1: Then he also had his brother and his partners. They
Speaker 1: was just coming up Run DMC. He gave me Run
Speaker 1: DMC for five hundred dollars and playing tickets. So I
Speaker 1: got Run DMC even to dark on a Friday. But
Speaker 1: they sucked around and played Funcle James on me on
Speaker 1: the Saturday. That's mad, motherfucker. What pay? I hadn't bought
Speaker 1: the tickets, paid y'all and y'all can work for this.
Speaker 1: My competition the next night and the night that night
Speaker 1: they played it even to dark. Run got this thing
Speaker 1: about dropping microphones and he broke my microphone. That pissed
Speaker 1: me off again. So when he picked up my microphone,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, man, I ain't And then
Speaker 1: they go across the town to play for my enemy
Speaker 1: Chill now, I ain't. I ain't doing this number, man,
Speaker 1: So I just thought I'm gonna make mom goddamn group.
Speaker 1: The show was fifteen minutes long. I paid five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars about three plane tickets. They were they wasn't that
Speaker 1: well known yet. They was cool, but they wasn't that
Speaker 1: well known. And that the fact that he broke my
Speaker 1: microphone and played for Uncle Jams Army. Right after that,
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, I could do this my damn self.
Speaker 1: And that's been my attitude all my life. I do
Speaker 1: this myself. So so one of the most pivotal rest
Speaker 1: colost routes in history was bird Phone. Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: I was mad. I wasn't mad at him. I just
Speaker 1: was mad at the fact that he didn't give a
Speaker 1: damn about my microphone enough to put it get handed
Speaker 1: to him. You know. He dripped. That's what he does.
Speaker 1: He drives the microphone. That Obama shit and uh, this
Speaker 1: Mica microphone is cheap. The motherfucker's They can't stand that
Speaker 1: ship and he still doesn't today. I got a video
Speaker 1: of him doing it in my Even the Dark documentary.
Speaker 1: He still dropped the microphone walk up the stage. Well,
Speaker 1: that little motherfucking the microphone I head couldn't stand and
Speaker 1: dropping and it broke back at that time with the
Speaker 1: cat she was running with. This is the possibility to
Speaker 1: run to the guy's no not nah. Um, you know
Speaker 1: we weren't that man. We weren't at volatile. I tell
Speaker 1: you what what was gonna call the problem though? Um
Speaker 1: we first brought Curtis, he went to dark. Uh. People
Speaker 1: thought Curtis blow was some real tall brother. Curtis like
Speaker 1: five six five seven. He thought it was big tall
Speaker 1: brother and uh, niggas is upset what that know, motherfucker
Speaker 1: And we started rapping. It cooled out before a minute.
Speaker 1: It got a little harry there for a minute, but
Speaker 1: that's real ship. Curtis me Curtis, we talked all the time.
Speaker 1: I ain't never told that. I say that for my
Speaker 1: document mother documentary. But yeah, he uh, you know, it
Speaker 1: was a disappointing size wise. But when he finally came out,
Speaker 1: the voice are so big. You think he was, you know,
Speaker 1: a much bigger dude, and uh it wasn't. Ntil he
Speaker 1: started rapping until the ship, but he just like okay, cool, alright, chill,
Speaker 1: that's crazy man. Curtis blows shut up Curtis. We were
Speaker 1: to get him on the show too much love good dude,
Speaker 1: Good dude. So when we talk about man, now you
Speaker 1: have this idea to feel just the world class wrecking crew.
Speaker 1: Did you go want to recruit each member of personally? Nope,
Speaker 1: they just fell in my lap. They just fell in
Speaker 1: my lap. Uh Yellow came first. I had another guy
Speaker 1: out of from the neighborhood DJ with me, Dr Rock.
Speaker 1: He left, moved to Texas. Uh Yellow came in right
Speaker 1: but the following week, Uh never left uh clientele. I
Speaker 1: met him and at the Even Too Dark um uh contest.
Speaker 1: He wanted contest the Even Too Dark. I brought him
Speaker 1: on the team and dre He came in as a
Speaker 1: customer and uh got up on the turn tables and
Speaker 1: did a mix that was so dope. I'm like, dude,
Speaker 1: you need to stick around for a minute, and eventually
Speaker 1: joined the team as well. Wow, that's crazy, man, So
Speaker 1: let's go back. You're missing somebody. Dr Rock. We're about
Speaker 1: to break. I'm about to educate some people in some things.
Speaker 1: Dr Rock was real instrumental in the career of DC Texas,
Speaker 1: and that's they ran across each other market correct. Um,
Speaker 1: we were record crew, blew up in uh l a
Speaker 1: with doing shows in Texas. We get to Texas, Dr
Speaker 1: rockets over there, Rocket with Tom joining on them on
Speaker 1: the on the morning on the mix show and uh
Speaker 1: ship we meet. He got a group, he got a
Speaker 1: rap group now called the fel of Fresh Crew, and
Speaker 1: shortly after that Dr Rock and the Feel of Fresh
Speaker 1: grewp came came to the studio to do some Foredre
Speaker 1: to do some beach with him and everything I know
Speaker 1: he was on. He was on roofless ship. You know.
Speaker 1: In fact, um, some of the ships I forgot Doc
Speaker 1: had remind me of this ship because when he did
Speaker 1: this documentary he called me to be in this documentary. Nay,
Speaker 1: am I your documentary? And nigger what's you too? Oh?
Speaker 1: No ship? You're right? So yeah it's all good. Dr
Speaker 1: rock Man so you got client, tell you got Dr
Speaker 1: Trad Yeah, yeah, Well you know he came, he came on.
Speaker 1: He came recommended from one of the guys that work
Speaker 1: for me. But I had yellow yellow with a bad
Speaker 1: motherfucker you know, and I wouldn't. I wasn't no slout.
Speaker 1: We had a whole crew was DJ's unknown me Yellow.
Speaker 1: Uh clientele we all with DJ. I didn't need them
Speaker 1: more goddamn DJ's so but when he came in, I
Speaker 1: don't And to this day, if you if you water
Speaker 1: boarded my ass, I couldn't tell you how you ended
Speaker 1: upon my turn tables because he got up there. There
Speaker 1: was an unknown gave him permission or what. But he
Speaker 1: got on the turntables and did some ship, and uh,
Speaker 1: the ship was so dope. I had to how that. Anybody,
Speaker 1: you know what's happening with that? Blah blah blah. We
Speaker 1: got to kick in it and uh to come on
Speaker 1: back with From that time, I was doing underground mixes
Speaker 1: and ship. I was doing a lot of bootlegs UH
Speaker 1: called v rocks, which is basically UH mixed records. It
Speaker 1: was mixed records. Look look him up on YouTube. I
Speaker 1: was doing Z rocks, cut ups, scratch parties, UM, all
Speaker 1: kinds of ship and we were selling them at the
Speaker 1: swat Meats and swap meets. V I p s all
Speaker 1: of them, and Uh I was looking for somebody to
Speaker 1: do some ship. Yellow was doing most of minere I
Speaker 1: started working for Unknown, and then he left Unknown to
Speaker 1: start working for me doing mixes and that was the
Speaker 1: reason why I hired him because to do the mixes.
Speaker 1: And after Run Deep See Them came were like this,
Speaker 1: I want to go legit. And after we made our
Speaker 1: first record Slice, That's crazy, man. I was the market
Speaker 1: was the market receiptence to your first single? You know what, dude?
Speaker 1: It was amazing man, because um, not even knowing it.
Speaker 1: I was always being in here, dude. I said this
Speaker 1: ship and I mean this with all my heart. I
Speaker 1: don't know why God chose the path of me that
Speaker 1: he's chosen. I mean, my last job in nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: I saw records over the phone when I left and
Speaker 1: they fired my ass. Finally, the only thing I took
Speaker 1: with my goddamn call list. So when I started making bootlegs,
Speaker 1: I knew all the record stores. So he was making
Speaker 1: more money, dude, because I think sometimes I got in
Speaker 1: on the mixtape games, kind of like as its Death
Speaker 1: you remember it, kind of like the death reto. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was dealing with maybe three or four distributors overseason.
Speaker 1: When I tell you I was having my way. I
Speaker 1: was having my way. I was making maybe anywhere from
Speaker 1: eighty two hundred fifty thousand dollars a month. Okay, like seriously,
Speaker 1: just a whole bunch of stuff I was distributing at
Speaker 1: that time. Dog found stuff that's my dads. And we
Speaker 1: first got back to get a shout to my boy big,
Speaker 1: and we asked some stuff going. I had cast some
Speaker 1: Japan and Pa and me ce d damn right, and
Speaker 1: they don't understand that these dolls and see these they
Speaker 1: got a copy and check the ten and eleven thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, come on. So I just can imagine
Speaker 1: the type of money he was making. I tell people
Speaker 1: all the time, if I had a damn time machine,
Speaker 1: I wished I could, Oh, man, come on duing what
Speaker 1: I know now, I would be so rich. It wasn't nothing,
Speaker 1: man uh. In the very beginning we're talking about eighty
Speaker 1: two eighty three, records were still a ship. Twelve inches
Speaker 1: was still a ship. Um. I just met Steviano. I was,
Speaker 1: I was out in my rounds and I ran across
Speaker 1: this Asian dude. Dot on Pico. Pico used to be
Speaker 1: the record street, Okay, it was called one stops on Pico,
Speaker 1: up and down Pico, and I would go here, drop
Speaker 1: off fifty, drop off a hardy drop off fifty drop
Speaker 1: off two hunted and I'm in this one store I
Speaker 1: forgot the name of South Southumpton and uh, I see
Speaker 1: this Asian dude talking to Uh. Yeah's Asian dude talking
Speaker 1: to this cat behind the kind of George, my guy
Speaker 1: want to come to see. So I'm you know, I'm
Speaker 1: doing a bootleg thing. I'm like, I was, like, I'm
Speaker 1: selling dope. I don't trust nobody because the bottom of
Speaker 1: the bottom of all records that says, uh, copyright is
Speaker 1: a federal defense some ship like that. I'm thinking everybody
Speaker 1: the police. So I'm waiting. He's coming over here, man,
Speaker 1: I said, Now, I wait, I wait, so uh he
Speaker 1: finally said, bring me the records. So I Brad George
Speaker 1: the records and Steve says, I've been looking for you.
Speaker 1: Almost took off run and nig what you looking for me? Fu,
Speaker 1: I didn't know who he was. He said, I run
Speaker 1: the swap meet at the Rodeo swap meet, and I
Speaker 1: know the Rodeo swat meat. I had bought records from him.
Speaker 1: Didn't just didn't recognize him, and Steve became one of
Speaker 1: my major customers. It wouldn't be shipped for me. Man.
Speaker 1: Back in that day, I had a van no seats
Speaker 1: in it had a bed. That's all I needed with
Speaker 1: a bed and from curtains. And you know why, it's
Speaker 1: all I needed a bed and curtains. Right Um, I'd
Speaker 1: go go down to Bill Smith Custom Records in al Fegando.
Speaker 1: I had to pick up a thousand records for Cletus.
Speaker 1: The v I p I pick up a couple of hundred.
Speaker 1: This number I had had at one time, I had
Speaker 1: like ten different numbers. I would literally the van would
Speaker 1: then to be would be loaded down. They have a
Speaker 1: pull a pull a fucking uh pull up the fucking
Speaker 1: a palette and the fucking forklift and I have to
Speaker 1: load all that ship. And then I had to be
Speaker 1: turning slow and driving slow because my ship was standing
Speaker 1: dragging the ground. By a time I went to see Cletus,
Speaker 1: by a time Uh Steve came by the house, I
Speaker 1: go see Calvin. My van was up, my pockets was
Speaker 1: fat in the motherfucker. I didn't want to go to
Speaker 1: the club. Ship. That's how much mon I'd make on
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday. I'd make so much money selling records
Speaker 1: to the we I didn't want to go to the club.
Speaker 1: That's how ship. That's how the ship was flowing back then.
Speaker 1: Was definitely thick back then. Now, as far as Dr
Speaker 1: Craig thoes, you know what I answer, support is about
Speaker 1: Fraid wound up and coming probably the most iconic producer
Speaker 1: in the history of hip Bob. I don't even know
Speaker 1: if they could be debated. When did you realize that
Speaker 1: he had something going for himself that was out of
Speaker 1: the ordinary? Kind um when he was when he was here,
Speaker 1: I knew he was kind of different because he thought
Speaker 1: he's stayed in the studio. He didn't. I thought he
Speaker 1: I think he'd be gone. He be back his sleep
Speaker 1: and sleep at the board or something. Ship. Um, he
Speaker 1: had a dedication and he had a drive that I
Speaker 1: had never seen before. I mean, he's like the first
Speaker 1: producer that I really worked with on the regular basis,
Speaker 1: and he was the first cat that really wanted to
Speaker 1: learn how to do this ship. I mean he would
Speaker 1: play with keyboards and drum machines and I've been I
Speaker 1: bought all the ship, but you want those fucking seat
Speaker 1: no saying no speakers A true story. I bought keyboards,
Speaker 1: drum machines, eight oh eights to hunt it's twelve uh
Speaker 1: scratch turntables. But I never really funk with this ship
Speaker 1: because when I got this ship, the niggas like get
Speaker 1: out of the way. That was That was the attitude
Speaker 1: if I got it. DMX had a whole DMX Oberheim,
Speaker 1: d m X, d m X drum machine, DSX uh
Speaker 1: seker O B eight um keyboard, and them niggas were
Speaker 1: not like there was almost they can They would let
Speaker 1: be touched the ship. I paid for it, but they wouldn'
Speaker 1: let me touch it. Him between him and Yellow. They
Speaker 1: were so enthusiastic about this ship. And that was something
Speaker 1: that kept me going because I felt my money was
Speaker 1: it was an investment. Okay. Nobody was trying to teach
Speaker 1: us how to do this ship. There were no classes
Speaker 1: at you know, at nowhere, nowherether I knew of that
Speaker 1: touched you. How to run a drum machine. Drum machine
Speaker 1: was brand fucking new. What the class learning the drum machine?
Speaker 1: And what? No places? You know you body come out
Speaker 1: in the guitars in it. And they had classes for
Speaker 1: this ship. You had to learn your own here to
Speaker 1: read the fucking man, you want to figure this out? Huh,
Speaker 1: you're learning your sucking out. Man. When you were telling
Speaker 1: you that was like reading something. The manual was most
Speaker 1: of that ship was then was converted from Chinese to
Speaker 1: fucking American, which means it was a lot of times
Speaker 1: it was myth. It was misquoted and ship and you
Speaker 1: had to call called the fucking company to find out
Speaker 1: what how to do something. They they tell you, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: the fucking the manual is was mistranslated. That's real ship
Speaker 1: we had to do. Named Daniel sofer Um, he was
Speaker 1: the first one that did. He did uh juice the
Speaker 1: surgery and he was charging like a honey fiftied dollars
Speaker 1: per song to program them songs. But dred did all
Speaker 1: the god didn't work And I'm like, well what am
Speaker 1: I paying him for? I buy a system and the
Speaker 1: drede program the ship. That's basically what it was. Even
Speaker 1: to Dark gave me the money to finance crew Cut records.
Speaker 1: A simple as that. The money I made the Youth
Speaker 1: to the Dark, I just flipped it over the crew
Speaker 1: cut records, you know. And that's how that's how the ship,
Speaker 1: how the ship transitioned everything. So you kind of became
Speaker 1: like the kind of mentor around town if you want
Speaker 1: to get in the Rigord business. Everybody would come to
Speaker 1: see everybody, because see, it wasn't just about me having
Speaker 1: the studio a club. I mean, think about this. I've
Speaker 1: been I've been in the same house the nineteen eighty five. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's the same house that everything you saw au straight
Speaker 1: out of Compton, same place. Okay. I had another house
Speaker 1: on My first house is on Carlton at the studio
Speaker 1: back there. That's what we did all the traffic jams
Speaker 1: and ship for k D had a four track studio
Speaker 1: back there. Then I got a twelve track UM and
Speaker 1: then we did we did our first album demos over there.
Speaker 1: We got our first record deal with Epic. I moved
Speaker 1: over here and we did the same same process. But
Speaker 1: because I knew all the swap meets, I knew all
Speaker 1: the v I P s, I knew all the record stores,
Speaker 1: I knew um uh Greg Mac. I had a club,
Speaker 1: I was given dances. I was doing. I was doing
Speaker 1: a lot of shit, okay, and that because I didn't
Speaker 1: have a job, I could do a lot of ship.
Speaker 1: The eve after dark Dudo skate Land gave me the
Speaker 1: money and the freedom too. Baby had all we go
Speaker 1: on to do what then? I need to do. I'd
Speaker 1: make money on the weekends and come back here in
Speaker 1: the studio and do some ship on the bottom ship
Speaker 1: during a week And that's what we fucking did. And
Speaker 1: it just, um, it was something, man, that was so
Speaker 1: unique at that time. Uh. It just made me a
Speaker 1: magnet for everybody that want to do something. Cause when
Speaker 1: nobody else, given nobody else new shot. And the last thing,
Speaker 1: the last thing I've ever been as a motherfucker hate.
Speaker 1: Anybody knows me. I'm the most open hearted motherfucking around.
Speaker 1: It's probably why I'm still sitting up here right now.
Speaker 1: That's real today, you know. I mean you had a
Speaker 1: conversation one night about a month from our cold because
Speaker 1: I was watching her, you know, her story, and they
Speaker 1: asked you in the movie, and I felt that short
Speaker 1: pantrayal was somewhere kind of like, I'm like, that's not
Speaker 1: how that went down. Man. Now let's talk about for
Speaker 1: a minute. You discovered did you discover her in the story?
Speaker 1: Like I said, now, Man, I met last and right
Speaker 1: back here this fucking studio. I met her right back
Speaker 1: here in this fucking studio. It was a big as
Speaker 1: mixing board right here. I just got back off off
Speaker 1: the two of me and yelling at them and just
Speaker 1: get the like four or five dates outside of California.
Speaker 1: Just got off an airplane and uh, I had a date.
Speaker 1: I called my girl from the airport. Hey, I'm coming
Speaker 1: to the pad. I'll be there in a minute. Me
Speaker 1: and my nuts to be coming. Okay with one of
Speaker 1: the dates when had time to meet, make no friends,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about anyway, Um, but homeboy
Speaker 1: caught me as I was unpacking my bag. Whatever the
Speaker 1: case we do. The name of smooth, I ain't seen
Speaker 1: him sits then name was smooth Man. I got this girl,
Speaker 1: you gotta here, you got due now today I got
Speaker 1: a come on man, come on, please please, you gonna
Speaker 1: get come on man, fuck it, fuck it brought her
Speaker 1: over here. She stood right over here, right here, and
Speaker 1: wouldn't say ship while he was talking. I'm like, dude,
Speaker 1: you know what, just some bullshit. I got to go.
Speaker 1: And she stood and she moved over here and started singing,
Speaker 1: and my god, damn, and then she then uh, she
Speaker 1: stopped singing and started talking. Goddamn, what the fund happened?
Speaker 1: And that was what that was it. It wasn't uh
Speaker 1: me and the studio. Hi, I'm grand Master Alonzo. I'm
Speaker 1: here to buy some socks. Motherfucker's. They've never seen me
Speaker 1: with no socks on. Was being doing Miami Vice for
Speaker 1: Miami Vice. Was doing Miami Vice anyway. Uh when I
Speaker 1: saw that movie, man, I was like, get motherfucker's. I
Speaker 1: want you all to spend a couple of dollars and consulted.
Speaker 1: Motherfucker's just asked the nigga a question or two and
Speaker 1: tell the story remotely. Right. Yeah, she worked at uh
Speaker 1: think I think it was Make Company or Jason one
Speaker 1: of them stories in the Fox. He was small. She
Speaker 1: did work there, and I would drop her off at
Speaker 1: work from time to time. But I wasn't in the
Speaker 1: shopping looking for and I never smoked no cigarettes. And
Speaker 1: I never ever ever had one of my female singers
Speaker 1: on the bus coming to those studio. Man, I'd go
Speaker 1: get up and drave fat fat somebody gonna get him,
Speaker 1: and no girls, somebody gonna be on the bus. I
Speaker 1: don't leave in that ship. I'm outside smoking stick and
Speaker 1: betch waiting on the show. Up. She late the funk
Speaker 1: out here with that ship. That's crazy, man. I'm glad,
Speaker 1: I'm glad we got to clear that up. As I
Speaker 1: told you, I want to talk to you about. That's
Speaker 1: his monster. If you've seen this stuff, I saw that
Speaker 1: ship man. Wait wait wait, I didn't give a funk.
Speaker 1: They paid me a big ass fat check to use
Speaker 1: turn off lights. That motherfucker. I'm like Cat Williams. They
Speaker 1: wanted me to make me an asshole give him a check.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll feel you, big dog, I'll fig you. So,
Speaker 1: you know, going back to trade man. So he pretty
Speaker 1: much got to start hear me yellow beause like you
Speaker 1: see people sleep on yellow. Yellow wasn't yeah, y'all know what,
Speaker 1: don't joke man, y'all, there was no joke, y'ather was
Speaker 1: your old g dude. I would I would put Yell
Speaker 1: up against Egypt, your love for any day of the week.
Speaker 1: And Uncle Jam through me would not take the motherfucking
Speaker 1: back dad. What nobody say? They wouldn't take the motherfucking
Speaker 1: back yere. So let me ask this man this song
Speaker 1: like me, who jams are we did? They have a
Speaker 1: slave roberty to daddy, lets you have your turn on here.
Speaker 1: But so y'all had to be jams army. You know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't so much of beef. It was like a
Speaker 1: love hate relationship, man being the dude started off together.
Speaker 1: We started off the records stractive I got him. Well,
Speaker 1: let me let me tell you the whole story. I
Speaker 1: was looking at them for a way to buy records wholesales.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to start my my DJ business. What records?
Speaker 1: It was kicking my ass. You had to have two
Speaker 1: of them back then, so they were six five six
Speaker 1: dollars a piece. I'm like for a swell and like that,
Speaker 1: what album I need? You know I need two of them.
Speaker 1: I can't afford that, So I'm trying to find a
Speaker 1: way to buy the records wholesale. I saw adding the paper,
Speaker 1: new record store coming in town, a distributor. Fucking I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call the motherfucker's up and see who I can
Speaker 1: buy some records hohlesale. They wouldn't sell me the records wholesale.
Speaker 1: But the dude to answer the phone his name was
Speaker 1: Alonzo too, So we kicked it. We kicked. We hit
Speaker 1: it off big time. Nig off me a job. Why
Speaker 1: are you missing right meet my ass? I said, no, man,
Speaker 1: I don't want no job because I was working at
Speaker 1: Kenny Shoes right there. On Rose, Kansas Central. I had
Speaker 1: a good deal because I get off every Friday and
Speaker 1: Saturday at six o'clock. Gave me plenty enough time to
Speaker 1: get my truck loaded up and go do my gigs. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't want to suck it up, so I turned
Speaker 1: Roger onto the job. Roger from Uncle James Army. He
Speaker 1: just got fired from v I p in uh in
Speaker 1: the in the cross the mall, so I turned him
Speaker 1: on to the job. He got the job. So a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks later they had the spot in the
Speaker 1: in the in the warehouse and Uh during the daytime,
Speaker 1: I didn't work recostracting. I mean, Kenny do the daytimes.
Speaker 1: On the weekend, I do that, so we worked working together.
Speaker 1: Later on they offered me a job. I had a job.
Speaker 1: I had a job for cal Trans on the freeway
Speaker 1: the whole nine yards, and I didn't want the motherfucker,
Speaker 1: but I was gonna take it because I had a kid.
Speaker 1: My man was all my ass and ship, and I'm like, funk,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go do this, go down to cow Trans.
Speaker 1: I told God us as I see Oman, I ain't
Speaker 1: I don't want this mothering. I don't want this job.
Speaker 1: But if I gotta go, I go. But if if
Speaker 1: I see a way out, I'm taking it. And sure
Speaker 1: enough and I got ready to go. It gave me
Speaker 1: my shirt, my helmet, my orange shirt, every fucking thing.
Speaker 1: And when it came down to the last piece of
Speaker 1: paper for the insurance, I couldn't start without the insurance.
Speaker 1: To me, that was my old man. I went back
Speaker 1: to Record Shack. SA y'all still with me? Keep this job?
Speaker 1: I say cool, they say cool. So Monday morning, after
Speaker 1: I told my daddy I wasn't going to record record Shack,
Speaker 1: he cust me the funk out, Cust me out. I've
Speaker 1: been I've been this little homie all my life. Oh
Speaker 1: man ever called me down but champ all my life.
Speaker 1: But now I'm a dumb motherfucker because you got a
Speaker 1: kid in the house and you can work for some records.
Speaker 1: Fun that you're stupid motherfucker. But keep it one hunted.
Speaker 1: I took the job at record Shack. That morning. I
Speaker 1: got the Record shack. Roger wasn't working there. There's fire.
Speaker 1: Just asked that Friday. I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: They gave me his desk, his phone, his list of
Speaker 1: call first motherfucker called me a record shack was Roger.
Speaker 1: I answered the phone, man, how you got mine? What
Speaker 1: are you about? Death? Man going on? I'm not doing
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: What are you at? Man? Man? They fire men? Are
Speaker 1: you working? You with the motherfuckers? You with the mother
Speaker 1: No man, nig I didn't know. I didn't. He think
Speaker 1: I'm on some backstabb and ship and nick I didn't
Speaker 1: do that. So a few months later they brought the
Speaker 1: nigger back here and we was cool for a minute,
Speaker 1: but he never forgot that ship. He always felt up
Speaker 1: doubled back on him or something. Five five people that
Speaker 1: day and hid six more. And while while we said
Speaker 1: record shack, we got back together again. While we were
Speaker 1: we both in the sales room now, and that's what
Speaker 1: he came up with the idea about doing Alpine Village.
Speaker 1: But see, by that time, I was already doing good
Speaker 1: as a DJ. And here here was my problem was
Speaker 1: because I got a brand new van this nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: seventies seven. I got a nineteen seventy six van. Everybody
Speaker 1: knew I had my owld house. I don't know how
Speaker 1: I got to motherucker. They just knew I had my
Speaker 1: own house. I'm clean every day because back then niet
Speaker 1: when they get to a Heart Soul shoes and I
Speaker 1: got on Heart Soul shoes and Knick Knick shirts and
Speaker 1: seamless pants, and she because I'm in their condition, and
Speaker 1: I could come to work clean and go home clean.
Speaker 1: I ain't got to go home. I just go straight
Speaker 1: to my girl house. I just go to my house
Speaker 1: with my girl waiting. I mean, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: And uh, then we were topped it all off. Came
Speaker 1: time to get paid. We got paid. Every Wednesday. I'd
Speaker 1: go to I'd go in the warehouse and pull a
Speaker 1: bunch of records, give him to the lady to pay roll,
Speaker 1: and she might give me twenty dollars. I was only
Speaker 1: making a hundred and sixties. Some dollars bring home, okay,
Speaker 1: But I didn't give a ship because if I can
Speaker 1: make it to Friday, I'm gonna get hunday and fifty
Speaker 1: Friday night for doing the dance. I'm gonna get another
Speaker 1: hundad fifty for doing a party on Saturday. If I
Speaker 1: do a baby shower, that's another hundred. So I'm making
Speaker 1: three every weekend. Because they nobody's got no competitions. I
Speaker 1: ain't got no competition. I'm busy to my fucking Plus,
Speaker 1: my partner's daddy on the print shop made a printing
Speaker 1: right there on un A tenth and uh Main Street.
Speaker 1: I would go through the wedding reception ship who getting
Speaker 1: married called people up, hey man. And because I had
Speaker 1: a broadcast license, that was my ship. I'm a licensed
Speaker 1: DJ on Alonzo Williams. Just go along on licensed DJ block.
Speaker 1: I stayed busy, so I need a little record shack buddy.
Speaker 1: He was just pretty much keep popped off my ass.
Speaker 1: And just like he said, they fired my ass after
Speaker 1: about six seven months. And but by that time Alpine
Speaker 1: was cracking and I just made up my mind. I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'll never put another motherfucker between me
Speaker 1: and my livelihood again. Funk that ship getting piste off.
Speaker 1: Sometimes if you got a mean to get ship done,
Speaker 1: that I get piste off. I fucking motherfucker. Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't give a ship. And when they fired my ass,
Speaker 1: I was so glad I had a job because I
Speaker 1: had a car note, I had a van. My van
Speaker 1: wasn't paid for. I had to pay that band note
Speaker 1: and I had a kid, and they gave me about
Speaker 1: seven hundred dollars. You know, back then they hold a
Speaker 1: check and pay you a vacation and ship. And they
Speaker 1: gave me a boy seven hundred bucks. And about a
Speaker 1: month later I opened Eve at the Doctor. I ain't
Speaker 1: ever had a job since then. So I want to
Speaker 1: go back then before. You don't want to run out
Speaker 1: of times. I want to make sure we talked about
Speaker 1: all of this land. So phrase in the studio pretty
Speaker 1: much learned to do what he did, to do what
Speaker 1: the man does on your equipment. This was Drey's um
Speaker 1: music school, his production school. This was everything. This was
Speaker 1: everybody's man. Look. THEE Barnes was here every day. Her
Speaker 1: partner of the group Body and Soul lived there. She
Speaker 1: was in the room from the Rose, in the room
Speaker 1: from me. The Barnes was here every day. Um coolio,
Speaker 1: Um young broke easy driving a fucking se Lukie Samarrai
Speaker 1: his son Louie for five years old. Um, the Body
Speaker 1: can sould be over here rehearsing. DJ Pool would be
Speaker 1: here before he made any kind of ship. Uh. Shortly
Speaker 1: after that came MC eight and Chill, and there were
Speaker 1: some gangster straight up gangsters out of sucking uh fucking Compton.
Speaker 1: Shortly after that, Leila was here with Above the Law.
Speaker 1: I mean many people out of Compton ain't been through
Speaker 1: the studio. Let me ask you this, now, you had
Speaker 1: all of the people who come. Have you ever thought
Speaker 1: the thing? Man? You know you had one of the
Speaker 1: first major recordar deals with every right, Yeah, why don't
Speaker 1: you just take all them dudes? Well, understand this, dude,
Speaker 1: see that. Here's the problem. Dot. I took ci A
Speaker 1: to Epic marking. Arnold was my my executive producer brother
Speaker 1: behind the c I A ice Cube was the Jinks
Speaker 1: ice Cube and k D Kid disaster. They I got
Speaker 1: them signed before Record Crew got signed. They got a
Speaker 1: single deal on Epic. Okay, the problem was Doc the
Speaker 1: caliber of people I was fucking with. I'm working with
Speaker 1: Larkin Arnold. These dudes got in double a CP Awards. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm working with Joe Buzzby. Joe Buzzby's brother in law
Speaker 1: was the one of broad cameo to Eve after Dark.
Speaker 1: Joe Buzzby gave me cameo to come to Eve after
Speaker 1: Dark to set Eve after Dark. Off. I knew Joe
Speaker 1: Buzby like I know you. Okay, So I'm from Compton, Dude,
Speaker 1: how do I take a group called Nigga's Attitude to
Speaker 1: Joe Buzzby in Century City? Tell me how I do that?
Speaker 1: I got a group called Nigga's Attitudes. They're gonna throw
Speaker 1: me out the twenty second floor. Man, it wasn't the ship.
Speaker 1: The motherfucker's thinking. It wasn't that kind of time. Yet,
Speaker 1: even with priority, all the ship that they had to
Speaker 1: go through, these brothers wasn't gonna let them do that
Speaker 1: like that. We couldn't even say dude. We couldn't even
Speaker 1: say ass. We had to go back in the studio
Speaker 1: on one of our records called um house Calls. We
Speaker 1: did house calls and just infected me, insinuated I'm gonna
Speaker 1: whoop your ass. We had to go back and edit it.
Speaker 1: All you can hear is the okay. So the whole
Speaker 1: fucking record industry was totally different then, man, it was
Speaker 1: totally different. We got our record deal. Now once the
Speaker 1: niggas blew up, everybody was calling me and you can
Speaker 1: get me, and you get me on the drake. I
Speaker 1: got two grand if you wanted, you can get hold
Speaker 1: over here. But they weren't gonna take that chance. He
Speaker 1: was corporate dudes, corporate, corporate and corporate black corporate music
Speaker 1: industry was not gonna be the one to break a
Speaker 1: group like in w A. It was bitches and hold
Speaker 1: come on, see the lord's tuck about having the field day,
Speaker 1: but they add one priority. Speaking of and d bars Man,
Speaker 1: who were your first thoughts when that situation happened with them?
Speaker 1: You know they had the whole Dude, I and talked
Speaker 1: to d before that. She didn't even jumped off. She
Speaker 1: was thought she was scared because she didn't edit that ship.
Speaker 1: I think she whatever would happened, whatever happened, I think
Speaker 1: she interviewed Dre them first and they started talking ship
Speaker 1: and Cube saw it and said some ship or it
Speaker 1: might have been vice versa. Whatever whatever came out, it
Speaker 1: was reversed to make it more fucked up. But no
Speaker 1: matter what happened, she wasn't the one that did it. Okay,
Speaker 1: on the internet today, the same she didn't do today.
Speaker 1: Same she did played edit motherfucker's against each other. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: she did not set it up that way. She didn't
Speaker 1: interview with one group. Did The interview was with with
Speaker 1: somebody else and uh even then let them see it
Speaker 1: and let qube see it, and he had a chance
Speaker 1: to disch them before without you know, whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be, and that's what piste him off. Okay, but
Speaker 1: I was surprised me because everybody, everybody would would be
Speaker 1: at my house on a regular basis my house or
Speaker 1: motherfucking house party. I saw him get upset a couple
Speaker 1: of times because he had a couple of crazy ones,
Speaker 1: but I never see he put hands on nobody. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think sometimes man, you know the fact, like you said,
Speaker 1: somebody going to make a movie and they can just
Speaker 1: to tell his side and do all that and pilishment.
Speaker 1: You know that that's almost goes beyond the villagement some
Speaker 1: of the things you doing these movies right here right
Speaker 1: you know. Um, I heard something, but I never I
Speaker 1: never went because again contrary to popular belief. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: damn what they say in Stralia content michel story, we
Speaker 1: didn't drink and smoke about this motherfucker back then. Well,
Speaker 1: nobody when the alcohol around this motherfucker never never ever
Speaker 1: ever wasn't because they couldn't. They just didn't. They was
Speaker 1: all understand this. Everybody was young, dret he was like
Speaker 1: maybe eighteen. Okay, he couldn't even drink legally at that time.
Speaker 1: If he if he had been trying to drink around me,
Speaker 1: I detected his ass because you're too young. It's my house.
Speaker 1: You can't do certainly in my house. I was that.
Speaker 1: I was that big brother. I was that dude. Okay,
Speaker 1: the other I never smoked to drink shit. Okay. We
Speaker 1: wasn't even a big factor that we had kind of
Speaker 1: played out, dude, I mean, we weren't even a big
Speaker 1: deal back then. It talk about the eighties, right before crack.
Speaker 1: My boy, my neighborhood, My boy been thinking were here
Speaker 1: thinking we're like a motherfucker. But he it wasn't that.
Speaker 1: It wasn't it was different kind of ship. It wasn't
Speaker 1: as it was like. It wasn't. It wasn't chronic. It
Speaker 1: wasn't um. It hadn't played out, but it was. It
Speaker 1: was really not as big a deal as it is
Speaker 1: right now. Plus it was a big It was much
Speaker 1: a much much bigger deal to be caught with. The
Speaker 1: ship was worth the house. It was like a dick's
Speaker 1: upstill so um and I didn't even see no forty
Speaker 1: ounces around here, un till I got with the my
Speaker 1: youngsters till eight and uh eight Chill and uh and
Speaker 1: the eighth Chill and Sound Control mob My introduced me
Speaker 1: my backyard, my studio, the forty ounces, because when I
Speaker 1: take my trash out, it was all glass. Okay, it
Speaker 1: was all glass, all of them, all of them. He'll
Speaker 1: tell you about that ship. Okay, they were you know,
Speaker 1: that's what they did. But again because I carried my
Speaker 1: ship a certain way, I had bloods and cryptie on
Speaker 1: a regular basis, and I never had a I've never
Speaker 1: had a fight. Both shootings in my patner and that ship. Okay,
Speaker 1: they all respected what I was trying to do. And
Speaker 1: that's the same thing. Even the dark. It was always
Speaker 1: respect there. You give me mine, I'm gonna give you yours, okay,
Speaker 1: And that's what That's what that's and always been my
Speaker 1: my calling card. I called Captain Mr so On. So
Speaker 1: right to this day, I ain't got too but I
Speaker 1: just do, Okay. So motherfucker's respected what I was, what
Speaker 1: I was doing. They understood what I was doing back
Speaker 1: in the studio, and they may not come to the club,
Speaker 1: but they knew at my house it was it was
Speaker 1: a no fly zone. Easy would come here after he
Speaker 1: blew up and he'd be at some girls house all night,
Speaker 1: and lives said he would have been at the studio
Speaker 1: or something like that, and had him too big as
Speaker 1: some moins to meet him over here because he knew
Speaker 1: he would come over here. And when nobody gonna sunk
Speaker 1: with him, what's the big mother fucker's chicken? John does
Speaker 1: some big mother fuckers, you know what. Let's just talking
Speaker 1: about Easy for a minute, man, because you kind of
Speaker 1: plugged Easier from Jerry Heller, Right, Yeah, you're gonna do
Speaker 1: it easy to Jerry Heller. So is it true to Easy?
Speaker 1: He paid? Somebody paid meat Jerry when Easy? When you
Speaker 1: see st out of the copter, you saw Easy and
Speaker 1: Dre in front of compter City Hall. He Easy got
Speaker 1: Hi by the jail, right, but they don't show you
Speaker 1: is longso got it about twice before the year. The
Speaker 1: reason why he was in jail because Lonzo and Co
Speaker 1: signed for draded by a car and get a car
Speaker 1: r EX seven Alonso used to own. I upgraded to
Speaker 1: a BMW Dre one of my r X seven I
Speaker 1: co signed. I was his uncle sold in the car
Speaker 1: and Dre liked flying up and down the street. And
Speaker 1: he wouldn't go to court. He wouldn't go to court.
Speaker 1: He get tickets, you want to go to court. So
Speaker 1: back then or warrant was a hundred sixty one dollars.
Speaker 1: That was, that's all. It was hundred sixty one dollars.
Speaker 1: But a hundred sixty one dollars in nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 1: eight five or nicely to change, okay, trust me it was.
Speaker 1: And the first time we had something to do, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't get him by the jail. Second time, I think
Speaker 1: we had to be in the studio. I got him
Speaker 1: by the jail. Third time, I'm like, we ain't got
Speaker 1: nowhere to go, and my money is tight. I gotta
Speaker 1: pick your car. Note I can't come get you. And
Speaker 1: he had one of his girls called Easy. Easy came
Speaker 1: and got him out of jail, and understanding it was
Speaker 1: he would do some beats for Easy in exchange for
Speaker 1: getting him out of jail. No problem. The only problem
Speaker 1: was the beats. I'll let you use the drum machine,
Speaker 1: but when you push record in the studio, I need
Speaker 1: to get paid this twenty hour. And that's where it
Speaker 1: was so easy being a dope dealer that he was.
Speaker 1: I told the story a thousand times, tell you again,
Speaker 1: just so, motherfucker's no being a conduct that he was.
Speaker 1: He kept his money in the sock. He kept them
Speaker 1: change in his pocket. So after might want to get paid,
Speaker 1: he go to go to his pocket. No, nigga, go
Speaker 1: to your sock, nigga, easy walking around like he had
Speaker 1: an ego. Brace alone, be so much money. He's got
Speaker 1: damn pocket. And I'm like, dude, Uh, I can't get
Speaker 1: my money. Oh man, I give you forty. I'm not
Speaker 1: a crackhead. Give me my fucking money. So we would
Speaker 1: go back and forth and we laugh and joke and
Speaker 1: it would be uh, it would be an issue, but
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be an issue. I got you, I got you.
Speaker 1: So finally he wanted something from me. Jerry Heller had
Speaker 1: got messed around there and got us, found us some money.
Speaker 1: We got a CBS deal. He found us some money
Speaker 1: at the Union and dre and yelling at him, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Jerry Heller, Jerry Heller. He would not manage
Speaker 1: you yet, but he did this as a favor, and
Speaker 1: when he did it, we signed him as a manager.
Speaker 1: So because um, he got it, found it just like
Speaker 1: it's like a piece. He found us at the union.
Speaker 1: Um he said he won the meeting. Okay, cool, I think,
Speaker 1: uh this is I give you a five of the bucks.
Speaker 1: Think you're gonna pay me, but you owe me to
Speaker 1: get do your favorite. Now that's stupid, all right, I
Speaker 1: can I can't give some extra ship all right now
Speaker 1: you're talking my language. And that's basically what it was.
Speaker 1: It wasn't so much he gave. I give you a
Speaker 1: fithering about no, no, no, no, no, Nina. I always
Speaker 1: I know I owe you. But if you look up
Speaker 1: with Jerry, I'm gonna pay you right now and give
Speaker 1: you a little something something on top of that. And
Speaker 1: it was just some introduction now that I think the
Speaker 1: introduction was gonna be. Um changed his hip hop history,
Speaker 1: no fucking way, because Jerry didn't want to meet him.
Speaker 1: And I don't give a funk. What do you say,
Speaker 1: living and dead? He was concerned about that, fucking me
Speaker 1: odd man. He's not saying he's not like you, guys. Man.
Speaker 1: He he wears tennis shoes and Jeane Dude, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: but nobody's gonna believe my ass because nobody knows the
Speaker 1: fucking no but me because I was only one there.
Speaker 1: Jerry did Easy there. I ain't got a lot of kicking.
Speaker 1: He didn't want to funk with him because he was
Speaker 1: used to sing with me. He was Jerry already managed
Speaker 1: Egyptian Lover. His partner managed l a dream team. He
Speaker 1: had just signed world class wrecking crew. So and if
Speaker 1: anybody know all about us, we was dance groups, okay,
Speaker 1: and Easy was a street dude, and Jerry had never
Speaker 1: dealt with the streat dude before. You know, you guys
Speaker 1: carry briefcases, and you know you understand business. I don't.
Speaker 1: He don't understand business. You know, he gives me, pays
Speaker 1: me in cash man, you know I give it him.
Speaker 1: He did. It was totally different culture shot. He had
Speaker 1: never dealt with that before. In fact, when when Easy,
Speaker 1: when Jerry finally started, right before he made a decision
Speaker 1: to mess with Easy, he says, so, um man, that's
Speaker 1: answering me a question, said, what's that? He says, how
Speaker 1: does the guy from the valley? How how does the
Speaker 1: Jewish guy from the valley deal with a group called
Speaker 1: Nigga's Attitudes? I told him very carefully. He had doubts
Speaker 1: about this ship man, And you know, what I watched.
Speaker 1: I watched his interviews, and you know, I watched his interviews,
Speaker 1: I watched other interviews. I'm like, you know, when I
Speaker 1: get so tired of motherfucker's acting like they invented hip
Speaker 1: hop or they was Oh I saw, I just saw
Speaker 1: get the funk out of here with that bush. And
Speaker 1: if it was live, I said the same thing, get
Speaker 1: the funk out there with that ship. Jerry. They in
Speaker 1: the movie try to Compton. Jerry is carrying records and
Speaker 1: showing Easy how to get the funk out Jerry Helen
Speaker 1: carried no records at Macola, no place else. No, it
Speaker 1: ain't gonna happen. Well, let me you know, while we're
Speaker 1: on the top of Easy Man, we can talk earlier.
Speaker 1: You always keep it one hundred bonds. Why ain't trying
Speaker 1: to get into no speculus, you know, no speculation or
Speaker 1: no kind of controversy or you know, but easy stifference
Speaker 1: kind of strange. Always found a strange and effect that
Speaker 1: with all the women that he had, none of those
Speaker 1: women turned up to the h every possible. You didn't
Speaker 1: have a rash of positive cases. You know, in l
Speaker 1: A County during the times Easy was making his rounds
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Do you think, man, it's possibility, man,
Speaker 1: that he was done dirty, that he was set up.
Speaker 1: You know what um for a person who diagnosed on
Speaker 1: UH for time for for simplifying the time code, the
Speaker 1: time situation. For person who was deb who was death
Speaker 1: diagnosed on the first, on the first of the month
Speaker 1: and was dead three weeks later, that doesn't even sound
Speaker 1: right to nobody, man, Not from AIDS, because I understand AIDS.
Speaker 1: Understand AIDS. Most of y'all don't remember this ship. I
Speaker 1: remember like it was yesterday. The first person I've ever
Speaker 1: heard died from AIGs was Rock Hutson. He was an
Speaker 1: actor and it was months. Every fucking day on Channel two,
Speaker 1: I believe it was Jerry Dumphy would give a report
Speaker 1: on Rock Hutson and his his AIDE situation. Today, rock
Speaker 1: Hutson is resting comfortable. It is Beverly Hills home as
Speaker 1: he suffers from complications from AIDS that went on forever
Speaker 1: and he finally died. Easy to get AIDS on the
Speaker 1: first of the month, before you can get for the
Speaker 1: fifteenth Come be out of here. They wrote this bullshit
Speaker 1: letter that nobody believes what he wrote. That letter anybody's
Speaker 1: seen the death certificate. It was no autopsy. Once he
Speaker 1: got married, the autopsy was a white You know, this
Speaker 1: is no fact the wife could uh a wife or
Speaker 1: religious religious reasons can can overshadow of autopsy. Um, nobody
Speaker 1: really got the chance to seem that much before he
Speaker 1: before he checked out. And uh, it's just the whole situation.
Speaker 1: Man was just really really like, huh, what the fuck
Speaker 1: he was at my house? Maybe I don't know, six
Speaker 1: weeks before he was dead, maybe six weeks He looked
Speaker 1: healthy to motherfucker. But you know, when you think about
Speaker 1: that kind of ship man, and the kind of money
Speaker 1: he represented and ship he was going through, you don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on. Man. I can't say what happened,
Speaker 1: but I know it never said right with me. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you a question. Man. Allegedly he had got
Speaker 1: rid of git here and I've heard from people that
Speaker 1: are revivable sources that they were talking about getting the
Speaker 1: group back together. You know, people have met, they had
Speaker 1: made up, you know, they were talking. And so when
Speaker 1: you talk about me and some dollars man generating and
Speaker 1: you've got the possibility of him reuniting back with Dr
Speaker 1: Trade Man, I q that probably would have been the
Speaker 1: biggest selling album of all time. Very possible. During that time,
Speaker 1: you know, you get que back in the studio and
Speaker 1: this is at all that they've accomplished, and Cuba has
Speaker 1: become the mobil that he was setting off, the being
Speaker 1: all that power. That represents a lot of money. Man,
Speaker 1: So it's very possible. And you know, I think even
Speaker 1: just thinking about Jerry Heller being at point, You've got
Speaker 1: so many different people that play with this man that
Speaker 1: that's a lot of money. Yeah, it is. MoU was
Speaker 1: telling your boy earlier, I said that I look at
Speaker 1: hip hop and R and B and so many of
Speaker 1: the superstars. Most of our superstars died at a suspicious,
Speaker 1: suspicious fucking causes. Man, they find printing and elevator dead
Speaker 1: on Fenton On Michael Jackson dies from from an overdose
Speaker 1: of prof fall within Houston dies in the bathtub. You know,
Speaker 1: but you got folks been doing drugs since the fifties, say,
Speaker 1: still kicking making music. You can. I'll tell you something
Speaker 1: deep and this is something that I'm working on right now.
Speaker 1: I want you guys to look this up. Look up
Speaker 1: this name when you when you get a chance, Internet,
Speaker 1: Um Raffles van Exel. Raffles van Exel was a guy
Speaker 1: that was around all these people. He was around Bobby
Speaker 1: Brown and with me, he was like that consigulary kind
Speaker 1: of hen want to got the dope for him. He
Speaker 1: was around Michael Jackson, he was around Prince. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, this dude just got five million dollars
Speaker 1: from Princess of State. Now, how is a guy that
Speaker 1: comes over here? Man? He used to date the dude
Speaker 1: that runs TMZ Harvey living dude, a living dude. Look
Speaker 1: at that name, Raffles. It's deep man, It gets deep
Speaker 1: out there. So the stuff was easy, man, is very plausible.
Speaker 1: It's very plausible man, if somebody gave him a hot
Speaker 1: dose or something plausible product that he didn't die of naze,
Speaker 1: don't let his kids got now. He had kids before
Speaker 1: he got uh he just girl just got pregnant, was
Speaker 1: pregnant with his daughter fight mistaken before he died. So uh,
Speaker 1: it's still it's it's always been in the shadows, man,
Speaker 1: I always though in the shadow. Johnny j the producer
Speaker 1: for Tupact I mean ship. He was in jail two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, end up taking a nose dive off the
Speaker 1: second Floorida County Jail. I mean you got some bad
Speaker 1: bad dudes, had some bad ship happened to him. Man, Yeah, Man,
Speaker 1: always questionable, you know, even when you look at the
Speaker 1: tupacet Biggie cases, them cases don't been in solved for
Speaker 1: the longest. And what's so crazy is you could ask
Speaker 1: any kid riding down fro around the corner who did
Speaker 1: what who? They could tell you, but the police can't
Speaker 1: figure it out, you know, man, Silonso, I know you've
Speaker 1: got a big presence online man, telling people Man where
Speaker 1: they can go find. You actually got something going on
Speaker 1: with one of my childhood s heroes on Dr Dre. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: Um I do. I do a lot of podcasts. I
Speaker 1: do a couple of different podcasts. One that's called n
Speaker 1: w A Strakes Alonso every Who's Yeah I do with
Speaker 1: my boy Dust Division and check it out on YouTube
Speaker 1: click subscribe, like share. On Thursdays, I do uh Legendary
Speaker 1: Connects with me and Dr Dre. For you're on TV
Speaker 1: raps and you get an old school you get too
Speaker 1: old school. East Coast West Coast veterans kicking it on
Speaker 1: various issues and sometimes we argue a debating that's that's
Speaker 1: what the fun foreign part of the bouty. You see
Speaker 1: it from my old school perspective. I do too, but
Speaker 1: from the East coast versus West coast thing, and it
Speaker 1: always makes for a hot topic. And then also I
Speaker 1: have an app called the Compton Entertainment Entertainment Chamber app
Speaker 1: available on Android and iPhone, uh, because I'm the president
Speaker 1: of the Compton Entertainment Chamber of Commerce and I'm working
Speaker 1: on the on the Walk of Fame to show love
Speaker 1: to all my folks that made Compton what it is,
Speaker 1: so please support that and um that's Compton Entertainment Chamber.
Speaker 1: It's an app iPhone and uh Android, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: bring a Walk of Fame to the City of Compton.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be dope. That's incredible. Miles. Of course, fan,
Speaker 1: thanks for sitting down with us. Much love. You know
Speaker 1: how we do it. Peace, folks,