Speaker 1: I can't count that much five four three two one?
Speaker 2: You know was that what it's hand and got the
Speaker 2: mother O.
Speaker 3: Sweete hey man, welcome back to the eighty five SAP Show.
Speaker 3: Now look over here at eighty five SAP Show, we
Speaker 3: had made it our business to invite all of the
Speaker 3: ghetto legends.
Speaker 2: We won't speak to all the ghetto.
Speaker 3: This man right here is definitely a certified ghetto legend
Speaker 3: by himself and talking big rap game, part of one
Speaker 3: of the biggest groups in rap history.
Speaker 2: It's the Big three TV show.
Speaker 4: Teenage hol On Educated. What you do it?
Speaker 2: That's he without having a twister f you know we're
Speaker 2: doing like this. You put it on the side. Okay.
Speaker 3: First of all, we got to say thank you, yes sir,
Speaker 3: for all the work you put in, all the game
Speaker 3: you put us up on, all the movies, all the
Speaker 3: everything you contributed to the culture.
Speaker 2: Man, Thank you man. Thanks checking it out. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Thanks for absorbing it and you know,
Speaker 2: making it part of the culture.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: First thing I got to say before we even start
Speaker 3: doing the thing. First ship, because I know you be
Speaker 3: on line. I know you don't seen the fans been
Speaker 3: making posters put in d C and Friday for the
Speaker 3: last ten years.
Speaker 2: What we got to do to get DC in there?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: Not too much, not too much, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Once it come around, we're gonna gonna make it happen.
Speaker 5: That Yeah, speaking of Friday, Like you always talk about
Speaker 5: the executive side, and I think that's something that is
Speaker 5: important to talk about. Like what made you so understanding
Speaker 5: of that side of the business being an artist so early,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. You came in and was
Speaker 5: already a superstar, so you could have had people around
Speaker 5: you take care all of that. What made you want
Speaker 5: to be so involved in that side of the game.
Speaker 2: That's the fun part, you know, creating, you know, being
Speaker 2: able to to you know, touch every aspect of the project.
Speaker 2: You know, this is what we get off on, at
Speaker 2: least me, is the creative part. You know. I love
Speaker 2: to finish product, you know, but uh, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: just addicted to the journey, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Addicted to you know, putting it together, the meetings, uh,
Speaker 2: creative input, you know, people coming in with their talents
Speaker 2: and and and the pressure of getting it the day.
Speaker 2: You know, do all this planning, but you usually only
Speaker 2: got one day to shoot these scenes. So that's the day.
Speaker 2: We need you to be the ship. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. We need you to be, you know, on
Speaker 2: your top level. So to me, all that's fun. And
Speaker 2: then the finished product, you know, we show it to
Speaker 2: the people, they love it, and you know, I'm usually
Speaker 2: off to the next non you've been in that.
Speaker 6: You've been in the game for quite some time, and
Speaker 6: that's not something to say to be like, oh now
Speaker 6: you old school.
Speaker 2: No, young buck.
Speaker 6: You want to be in the game becourse quite a
Speaker 6: long time.
Speaker 3: Which period was the best.
Speaker 6: Because you you are a icon, you are a staple.
Speaker 2: You are president When it was when? When? When yoga?
Speaker 1: The Beginning's day?
Speaker 3: The ship that y'all like, the ship?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it can't be recreated, it can't.
Speaker 3: It can't be duplicated.
Speaker 2: You did, yeah, which time? Oh man? You know, the
Speaker 2: beginning is all always the most vivid. You remember the
Speaker 2: beginning more than you know the whole journey, so, you know,
Speaker 2: just starting off as locals and you know, being underground.
Speaker 2: You know, we didn't we didn't even know, yeah, he said,
Speaker 2: Rodin swat me. We didn't even know the music we
Speaker 2: was doing was gonna make us big. We thought we
Speaker 2: was just gonna be local, underground ghetto stars. That's what
Speaker 2: we was trying to be, you know, get people in
Speaker 2: our own hood to really dig it, because they was
Speaker 2: fans of you know, what we considered the pros. You know,
Speaker 2: they was fans of the run DMCs and the rock
Speaker 2: cams and you know, everybody doing it on a major level.
Speaker 2: And so we figured if we can just you know,
Speaker 2: make noise in our own neighborhood, then you know, we
Speaker 2: can get a little bit of love because y'all ain't
Speaker 2: run dmceing coming around here. You know what I'm saying, Uh,
Speaker 2: Rock Kim ain't coming.
Speaker 3: Through here, but we are. So that was.
Speaker 2: Our plan to you know, conquer Compton Watt South Central
Speaker 2: l A. And and then you know, as soon as
Speaker 2: we like put our mind to that, right, it went
Speaker 2: the other way. It blew up, it went, it went
Speaker 2: instead of going more underground and went up.
Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you this, that's a good nigga.
Speaker 3: Right, last week sucked around and got a triple dope. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just as a as around triple double on these niggas, right,
Speaker 3: Who was keeping the stats?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I kept my own stats. You know
Speaker 2: they keep I know I got ten points, you know,
Speaker 2: playing he's been missing. I know I got at least
Speaker 2: letting rebound understanding, So uh, I play basketball all the time,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It was like we'd be
Speaker 2: at the studio shooting east Wood. No, I ain't never
Speaker 2: played with cat. Im probably retired by the time he
Speaker 2: came gonna call me.
Speaker 3: I can't believe you really asked in the video cube shotow,
Speaker 3: I had a shot, I said.
Speaker 2: Like I used to play with a lot of big
Speaker 2: niggas when I was little. I had to develop a
Speaker 2: shot to get it over there. Ass I developed this,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of like going to the basket, but
Speaker 2: I'm not going for a layup. I'm actually going wider
Speaker 2: thought that hook up.
Speaker 1: Today was a good day for a black man.
Speaker 3: That was a hell of a That was a great
Speaker 3: hell of a That was amazing.
Speaker 2: I had to be come on then when you woke up,
Speaker 2: get up.
Speaker 3: Went outside and read the life of the good Year blim.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 3: He was a's like eleven blimps in the world, a
Speaker 3: good Year blimp.
Speaker 2: It was a good day, man. You know, I just
Speaker 2: wanted to It was a trip because when I did
Speaker 2: that song you know, niggas and my.
Speaker 3: Crew was like, what is this man with you?
Speaker 2: Before I before I related, I was just wrapping it
Speaker 2: on the paper. I was like, what you're talking about? Q.
Speaker 2: You a hardcore rapper, Nigga, you can't be having as
Speaker 2: nigga blasting And now I'm like, nah, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: a reality rapper and nig I'm having a good day
Speaker 2: rap about it.
Speaker 1: Nigga's okay to feel.
Speaker 2: Good, It's okay.
Speaker 7: That's crazy though, to go from your basketball line that
Speaker 7: you just said to the Big Three like your Love
Speaker 7: and Stuff show, It's like you saying that you enjoy creating.
Speaker 7: I'm like, okay, that's why you wrote the movie. You
Speaker 7: know what I'm saying. That's why you the basketball day,
Speaker 7: that's why you've got the Big Three. And that ain't
Speaker 7: no easy shit to do, man, any stepping out of
Speaker 7: any sport man, and you facing a lot of opposition
Speaker 7: with that. So I just gotta tip my head to that.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Nigga, got help bawling.
Speaker 2: It's the hardest. It's the hardest shit I ever had
Speaker 2: to do. I'm gonna try to do an entertainment because
Speaker 2: you know, hip hop was already here when I started.
Speaker 2: You know, rat was there, movies was going when I started.
Speaker 2: You know, they got basketball, but they don't have three
Speaker 2: on three. And then to try to elevate it to
Speaker 2: the professional level and get you know, first people to
Speaker 2: take it serious and then for people to become fans.
Speaker 2: You know that that's been a.
Speaker 3: You know, that's that's not been.
Speaker 2: The hard part. The hard part is going against this
Speaker 2: opposition from other leagues. They don't want new leagues to
Speaker 2: come in because you start, you know, cutting up that
Speaker 2: that's that sponsored dollars. It's only so many dollars to
Speaker 2: go around in the sponsor world. NFL wanted all NBA wanted,
Speaker 2: all MLB wanted, all NHL, you know, all these other
Speaker 2: established leagues. They want all their money. And they have
Speaker 2: a new league coming in siphoning it those funds into
Speaker 2: our league. It's just a lot of people hating on
Speaker 2: that and trying to stop it. And you know, you
Speaker 2: gotta you gotta be down to fight for what you
Speaker 2: believe in, and UH can't be scared. You gotta be
Speaker 2: down there to go after the big boys.
Speaker 1: You said, fuck the police.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1: Going to get the system. Since you came in the game, man.
Speaker 2: And that's the only way I know how to do it, because,
Speaker 2: like I said, we thought it was gonna be locals
Speaker 2: and we didn't know, so we was just being real.
Speaker 2: And then when it start to blow up, now you
Speaker 2: have you know, reporters in our face. You got people
Speaker 2: you know coming at us with all kinds of opposition,
Speaker 2: you know, from the FBI to you know, Billboard and
Speaker 2: all these established music you know, publications. Is everybody's coming
Speaker 2: after even music industry, rap industry, the government, you know
Speaker 2: pmr C, which was the parent Music Resources and some
Speaker 2: ship like that and shit to us. You know, we
Speaker 2: was like, yo, better than you know, crips coming after you,
Speaker 2: better than blood's coming after you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: this is easy, Like to deal with these people they
Speaker 2: just talking. Ain't nobody gonna pull out no pistols, you know,
Speaker 2: it's just gonna be a bunch of questions. And then
Speaker 2: we went through that storm and realized, you know, and
Speaker 2: we're pretty unscathed. You know what I'm saying, like, keep going,
Speaker 2: you know, don't don't let nothing stop us. And that's
Speaker 2: been my attitude and entertainment. Don't letting them stop.
Speaker 3: So to go from fuck the police now you talking
Speaker 3: to presidents and shit like that. Man, what was that
Speaker 3: transition like to cover that much ground to go from
Speaker 3: fuck the police?
Speaker 1: Like, I got a plan, I need to go holler
Speaker 1: as somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what. The plan was really a plan
Speaker 2: for us, like for us to to have a thirty
Speaker 2: thousand foot view of the big problem. You know, after
Speaker 2: twenty twenty George Floyd, everybody was saying this needs to change,
Speaker 2: this needs to change, and they was coming from all angles.
Speaker 2: It was mostly on police brutality, brutalty and law enforcement
Speaker 2: and all that shit. But then I was like, man,
Speaker 2: this problem is bigger than just police brutality. It's an
Speaker 2: economic problem, it's social is it's a wide issue. So
Speaker 2: I got with a bunch of scholars and started to
Speaker 2: research how did we get here? How why did we
Speaker 2: have it so fucked up in this country? And came
Speaker 2: up with a with a plan that I thought, you know,
Speaker 2: could help us get out of it if the country
Speaker 2: was serious by making a turnaround. And I put it
Speaker 2: out there, and just to be clear, these people came
Speaker 2: to talk to me. They was asking, could you come
Speaker 2: in talk to us about your plan? Democrats and Republicans.
Speaker 2: So I was like, man, no problem, shit, what you
Speaker 2: want to know, Here's how here's what we're thinking on this,
Speaker 2: here's what we're thinking on that. And some people ran
Speaker 2: with it, some people didn't, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: But to me, I felt like I had the resources
Speaker 2: and you know, I had the just the energy and
Speaker 2: the passion to take a long look at it because
Speaker 2: nobody was doing that. You know. It's like, man, all
Speaker 2: these people that been through office, ain't nobody came up
Speaker 2: with a plan for us, you know what I'm saying. Nobody,
Speaker 2: you know, from you know, going back to Jesse Jackson
Speaker 2: and third grade Marshall and all these like, nobody came
Speaker 2: up with a plan and went to the government and said,
Speaker 2: this is what we need to do for black people
Speaker 2: to start, you know, gaining the rewards out of this
Speaker 2: country that we're putting in, putting in a lot of
Speaker 2: tax money and shit, but I ain't getting no benefits
Speaker 2: of it, or just bullshit benefits. And then you know,
Speaker 2: it became controversial because one side looked at it, one
Speaker 2: side didn't. And now they were trying to use me
Speaker 2: as a political football, like you with him you with them,
Speaker 2: you with that, you with this, and I'm like, I
Speaker 2: ain't with shit. These motherfuckers called me. You know, I
Speaker 2: was minding my own business. I did this plan for
Speaker 2: us to look at and now everybody thinking, I'm you
Speaker 2: know this or that or the other, and it wasn't true.
Speaker 2: So to be honest, it's just you know, giving a fuck,
Speaker 2: you know, seeing the issue and trying to address it
Speaker 2: and you know the best way we can to get
Speaker 2: the government to look at it and fix it. And
Speaker 2: so that's how you go from you know, doing movies, music,
Speaker 2: you getting in a position with people they take your opinion.
Speaker 3: Did they say some shit you could use? Did they
Speaker 3: give you some insight who the people you was talking
Speaker 3: to with the plan?
Speaker 1: Did they say any good shit?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's all a it's all a game.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day. Everything in that plan,
Speaker 2: them niggas knew. It wasn't like I was bringing up
Speaker 2: something they didn't know. They know what's going on. They
Speaker 2: know they're not giving and that's what we need. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, that's part of the plan. And
Speaker 2: you know, that's what you realize when you get to
Speaker 2: them levels that you know, the people just capping to
Speaker 2: get a vote, and then when they get to vote,
Speaker 2: they're gonna go do what the fuck they want to do.
Speaker 7: Yea you seeing that it happens.
Speaker 1: That's the gang you know.
Speaker 5: You see hip hop now with all the you know,
Speaker 5: the the way that people are affiliated with, all this
Speaker 5: different type of stuff.
Speaker 1: And niggas is going to jail and all that.
Speaker 5: You come from the city of gang banging, but you
Speaker 5: never was affiliated with anything. How did you manage to
Speaker 5: navigate that? And what advice could you give the new
Speaker 5: artists or how they can navigate it and being able
Speaker 5: to become as successful as you are without associating yourself
Speaker 5: with something that you know you might come from.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be a part of.
Speaker 2: Just make up your mind. You know, everybody in La
Speaker 2: affiliated affiliated with something. You can't be from LA and
Speaker 2: not be from somewhere because every neighborhood is somewhere. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Every neighborhood, it's somebodyhood that you're
Speaker 2: part of. And it was no different from me. It's just, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, making up your mind like I saw, I
Speaker 2: saw something in music and being creative that took a
Speaker 2: lot of my time, took a lot of my attention,
Speaker 2: took me off the street, and I was in the studio.
Speaker 2: So in them years fourteen fifteen, when you're making a
Speaker 2: decision on what you want to do and you know
Speaker 2: you're gonna be a writer, you're gonna be a regular guy,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, that age just when you
Speaker 2: start making those decisions. And thank god I was hanging
Speaker 2: with Doctor Dre and making music and you know, in
Speaker 2: them years, I'm thinking about something creative and positive and
Speaker 2: it's bringing in money. And you know, it was just.
Speaker 3: Fun talking about this for a long time, like sellouts
Speaker 3: in the black people who just black on the outside,
Speaker 3: who don't.
Speaker 1: Really give a fuck about the black community.
Speaker 3: And yeah, even in the music with the like Who's
Speaker 3: Themacan Ship like that where you always made fun to
Speaker 3: sell out black people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's a thing where
Speaker 2: you can't forget where you come from, of course, and
Speaker 2: you got to look to help people that's ready. Everybody
Speaker 2: ain't ready to ride. Everybody ain't ready for you know,
Speaker 2: they're not ready for prime time. So everybody can't go.
Speaker 2: But you know, always reach back. You know, I've always
Speaker 2: reached back talent or or people or just you know,
Speaker 2: people from from a neighborhood that can help, you know,
Speaker 2: help me, you know, on my journey. And you know,
Speaker 2: the people that's serious, that's down, that's willing to change
Speaker 2: their life, they get to go. The people that are
Speaker 2: still on that bullshit, they got to stay.
Speaker 6: A giving back like you're always going to get it.
Speaker 2: Don't matter.
Speaker 3: I don't hear the bullshit.
Speaker 6: They coming from a lane who don't who don't know
Speaker 6: nothing about nothing.
Speaker 3: I can tell off the projects that you bring.
Speaker 6: You don't have to put niggas in the movie if
Speaker 6: you don't want them in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, straight up. You have made so many movies with
Speaker 1: other niggas.
Speaker 3: In it that it put them on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's a look somebody put me on.
Speaker 2: They ain't discovering me, you know. You know. He just
Speaker 2: was like, man, I want to put you in a movie. Man,
Speaker 2: I know you could do it. And and when I
Speaker 2: see people and I know they can do it, be like,
Speaker 2: you can't wait till I got something this person or
Speaker 2: that person or that some point in the key.
Speaker 9: The key, the key is to set them up for success,
Speaker 9: you know, not to just put them in anything with
Speaker 9: any role or but to give them that perfect role
Speaker 9: where they can get busy, they can like you know,
Speaker 9: steal a scene or two.
Speaker 2: And then from there continue to you know, to show
Speaker 2: the world what they got. I was like, I was
Speaker 2: happy that I had a way to show uh, the
Speaker 2: guys that I thought was funny and and good that
Speaker 2: wasn't getting you know, the shine, that I had a
Speaker 2: project or something that they was right for and they,
Speaker 2: you know, it was down to do it, trusted me
Speaker 2: in and you know, busy.
Speaker 5: You have a defining role like for yourself and one
Speaker 5: that you wrote. Do you feel like you have not
Speaker 5: really really you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm not like looking to play any thing. You know.
Speaker 2: It's just like, you know, whatever's dope, you know, and
Speaker 2: I don't have to be the one to think of
Speaker 2: the idea. You know. Sometime like Barbershop that was somebody
Speaker 2: brought that to to uh, you know, ten Story and
Speaker 2: them dudes brought that to the Q Vision and we
Speaker 2: did it, and so you know, I'm all, I'm up
Speaker 2: for that too. You know. Ride Along was another movie
Speaker 2: that that was was Doug brought it to us. We
Speaker 2: put the polish on it. And ended up doing it.
Speaker 2: What about What We Do? Yeah, that was another movie
Speaker 2: that was Adam Sandler was supposed to do that they.
Speaker 3: Had during that time. I watched that movie three thousand times.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he was supposed to do the movie. He
Speaker 2: couldn't do it. And then they was like, Yo, would
Speaker 2: you consider doing a movie for kids like that? And
Speaker 2: I'm like you said yeah, I said, yeah, I want
Speaker 2: to do it because for one, black kids don't get
Speaker 2: movies done, you know in that way special effects and
Speaker 2: the stunts and just a big movie for for black kids,
Speaker 2: you know. And so because I had little five year
Speaker 2: olds coming to me saying, you, Craig, you.
Speaker 3: Gotta knock the funk out and all this like.
Speaker 2: Watching that movie, so said, I need to do something
Speaker 2: for the little bitties. Knocked the kids. And I know
Speaker 2: they watching Friday when I should be watching some ship
Speaker 2: like they get to a certain.
Speaker 5: Name Friday every day.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: Mean here you always got a dope ass call bro
Speaker 3: that did in the contract somewhere. You gotta have a
Speaker 3: nice ass, right, I mean I next fold the dope
Speaker 3: boy head. That ship was so the gold on gold Yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah that was hard.
Speaker 2: Uh naturally, Yeah, yeah, I definitely requested that, right, you know,
Speaker 2: I had one for real. So I was like, man,
Speaker 2: this ain't this ain't been in a movie yet. Put
Speaker 2: this one in a movie. Yeah, you know, I try
Speaker 2: to make sure my ship is right in the movies.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people got fly ass cars.
Speaker 2: Call them up, man, you want your shit in the movie,
Speaker 2: and yep, who.
Speaker 3: I need to give my number to that.
Speaker 6: And we did Friday and they wanted to come the
Speaker 6: secret right, And when Og wanted to go do his thing,
Speaker 6: how did you manage to transition and say, you know what,
Speaker 6: I ain't eed tripping. I can respect both sides, but
Speaker 6: I still got to be me. I got to go
Speaker 6: find new talent and we got to keep this franchise
Speaker 6: going well.
Speaker 2: I knew, like, okay, everybody got a crazy friend, but
Speaker 2: everybody got a crazy cousin too. So I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: since Smokey not gonna be in the movie, I gotta
Speaker 2: I gotta take it off the block because everybody's gonna
Speaker 2: be like we're smoky at if we're still I said, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take Craig off the block. He worried about
Speaker 2: Debo fucking him up and he's gonna go live with
Speaker 2: his cousin. And you know, finding Mike Aapps was like
Speaker 2: a jewel. Like when I first seen him, I knew
Speaker 2: he was day day first seen him on stage and
Speaker 2: just was checking him out, and I was like, this
Speaker 2: nigga is hilarious. Like his comedy was all over the place,
Speaker 2: was here, there, everywhere, and uh, it was just hood
Speaker 2: and funny. He was funny, and I said he could
Speaker 2: play my cousin. And you know, to me, you know,
Speaker 2: I wanted Chris to be in every movie. But I'm
Speaker 2: glad Mike Gavis Me and Mike gaps Wen did some
Speaker 2: great movies to mind.
Speaker 10: That happened without probably you know what I'm saying, getting
Speaker 10: the opportunity man.
Speaker 3: But you work well with comedians though, you do right
Speaker 3: along Kevin Hard Yeah, yeah, you know some of my
Speaker 3: all my buddies are funny, like everybody that's we look
Speaker 3: serious everybody you know malay and do our ship, but
Speaker 3: you just be laughing our ass.
Speaker 6: Could that be the thing like all your characters you
Speaker 6: want to play the series role, but they end up
Speaker 6: saying some funny ship where you like you make them like,
Speaker 6: they make you like like them at the end of
Speaker 6: the movie, like you.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, you get your.
Speaker 2: Definitely, you know. The key to me is, you know,
Speaker 2: not not trying to be funny, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: just you know, let the situ ride that. The comedians
Speaker 2: or whoever I got, that's their job. But my job
Speaker 2: is to support and throw them jabs in the right
Speaker 2: in the middle of you know, you know, the the
Speaker 2: you know comedian I'm working with getting busy. You know
Speaker 2: it's a comedy, and you know it's really the cast
Speaker 2: and the people around that's really making the movie super funny.
Speaker 2: I don't have to be you know, I'm not a comedian,
Speaker 2: so you straight that's straight man, and let him get busy.
Speaker 3: But one of my favorite ice Cube characters from How
Speaker 3: I Learned It, Yeah, played the woke serious nigga, but
Speaker 3: you still had you know what I mean, still kept
Speaker 3: it real streeting hood, but with throwing the education ship
Speaker 3: in there too.
Speaker 2: You know, you know it's uh, it's one of those
Speaker 2: probably on every campus you know, oh dude who have
Speaker 2: been there five years no campus inside now, but also
Speaker 2: all the games and you know, trying to spread that
Speaker 2: knowledge which we all need.
Speaker 5: Players Club is another one man like just club Man,
Speaker 5: you know with Bernie Mack like, was that Did you
Speaker 5: have a hand in that?
Speaker 2: Hell, yeah, I wrote that movie.
Speaker 5: I mean I'm saying, I mean as far as casting specifically,
Speaker 5: specifically wrote.
Speaker 2: Dollar Bill for Bernie.
Speaker 3: That's one of the greatest all time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bernie, you know, yeah, he don't been in a
Speaker 2: lot of movies. But it's hard to me for anybody
Speaker 2: to mess with that. We just I just let him
Speaker 2: get busy.
Speaker 5: I was about to say, how much of it did
Speaker 5: you write it? How much of it did you just say?
Speaker 2: Action?
Speaker 1: And then let Bernie do what you.
Speaker 3: Know I wrote, No, I don't, I don't. I don't
Speaker 3: start with a wax script.
Speaker 2: The script gotta be funny out loud while you're reading it.
Speaker 3: Why you're gonna start.
Speaker 2: So if I if I have a script that's funny
Speaker 2: out loud while you're reading it, I know when I
Speaker 2: give it to you know, somebody like, y'all, you're gonna go.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's solid, it's funny. If you just
Speaker 2: said it how it is, it'll be funny. But I
Speaker 2: know when I you know, let dudes add their little
Speaker 2: flavor to it and stick with the script, but also
Speaker 2: add those you know curveballs in there that it just
Speaker 2: take it to another level.
Speaker 3: And when you took it to a little level like
Speaker 3: and a conda.
Speaker 1: Yeah, playing some ship.
Speaker 3: I know, y'all was in the swamp.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can get in here. Yeah. The reason I
Speaker 2: did in the conduct was because, like the nigga didn't die.
Speaker 2: I was like, y'all, I started I saw Jurassic Niggas
Speaker 2: died in the first five minutes of the movie.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, if y'all want to be in this movie,
Speaker 3: I can't die.
Speaker 2: And I wanted to help kill the snake. And it
Speaker 2: was like all right, and they rewrote it, and I.
Speaker 3: Was like, okay, crazy.
Speaker 2: You know, we shot that ship in Brazil. Now not real.
Speaker 2: Nigga announced Brazil in the middle of the Amazon. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in the middle of Amazon.
Speaker 1: And was scared.
Speaker 2: In Amazon. Don't care, We're doing the movie, right, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean? They man, it.
Speaker 3: Was like it was a part where you had to
Speaker 3: go to the water.
Speaker 2: They told me you got getting water the Amazon War.
Speaker 2: This point, It's like back then, I don't really know
Speaker 2: all the special effects. I'm like, man, just do some
Speaker 2: special effects and shit, when I'm.
Speaker 3: Walking through the water.
Speaker 2: It was like, nah, man, you gotta get in. Everybody
Speaker 2: getting in. Man. You know, it's a part where I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: where the fuck I gotta go right now? The Amazon
Speaker 2: when it rained, it rises thirty feet, so you at
Speaker 2: the top of trees. You're on the boat, but you're
Speaker 2: seeing the tops of trees, and so I'm like, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, how are we gonna get in this water?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 3: So the water's supposed to be waist high.
Speaker 2: So they said, we made a plank where you can
Speaker 2: walk on this plank and it'll keep you waist high.
Speaker 2: But if you step off the plank, you can. I'm like,
Speaker 2: it took him two hours to talk to me. In
Speaker 2: to that same two hours, Man, I ain't going. I
Speaker 2: ain't doing it. Man, I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 3: Shoot it without.
Speaker 2: The AI in that part, you know what I'm I'm
Speaker 2: looking at where I can cut. If I cut this out,
Speaker 2: I ain't got to go. I don't go in the water.
Speaker 2: But it was like, man, we need you, need you,
Speaker 2: need you. So after a while, man, I put on
Speaker 2: school of gear and all kind of ship. My god, damn, man,
Speaker 2: it's some real ship. It's some real sh I'm ready
Speaker 2: to get out this water. Man, you know what I
Speaker 2: mean this movie ships, man, it's it's real Anakina out
Speaker 2: there's you know, Piranha, It's all kind of ship in
Speaker 2: that water man, And so it was it was that
Speaker 2: was I was like, man, what the fuck am I
Speaker 2: doing my life? You know what I'm saying. I'm in
Speaker 2: the middle of the Amazon doing the goddamn movie and
Speaker 2: in this bullshit water you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 2: it all turned out cool. You know. We was actually
Speaker 2: really scared of the electric the mechanical snake. They had
Speaker 2: a mechanical snake that these fucking college kids built, and
Speaker 2: that motherfucker went haywire one time, almost fucked up Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 2: It malfunctioned and that ship just started to tear up.
Speaker 2: The set almost swung, swung, it almost hit her in
Speaker 2: the face and ship and they had to grab her
Speaker 2: out of there. So so we after that, everybody looking
Speaker 2: at this fucking snake.
Speaker 8: Like we scared of this motherfucking thing for real, because
Speaker 8: it was like this metal skeleton, the black one, but
Speaker 8: it was wrapped in this like attire.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 3: The So this ship was hitching face up and we
Speaker 3: acting with this ship and we're like, man, it's fuck
Speaker 3: the malfunction. Just pop a nigga right in the mouth.
Speaker 3: So we're scared of this thing for real. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: nigga k QB had against and they ain't never did that.
Speaker 5: No matter how many drive, you ain't never been in
Speaker 5: an Amazon fighting the snake.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, all of which one was the best
Speaker 2: one when you like, damn all about the Benjamins.
Speaker 3: Smile.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was fun. You know. We shot
Speaker 2: that in Miami, and you know it was like, you know,
Speaker 2: try to make you know, this action comedy. It was
Speaker 2: my first time going after the action comedy title.
Speaker 3: It was cool.
Speaker 2: You know. We didn't have a lot of big budget
Speaker 2: but made it work.
Speaker 6: All your great movies with the no budget shit, I
Speaker 6: wouldn't consider low.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, yeah, you know in Hollywood it is
Speaker 2: that ain't no much. Actually, twenty five is low in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Give us a low budget.
Speaker 2: It will take me.
Speaker 1: Come up, up, we're building those snakes. We'll build something.
Speaker 5: We will use you show back to the music man,
Speaker 5: like you are literally one of the greatest to ever
Speaker 5: touch a microphone. Man, what what after all these years
Speaker 5: of being at this high level, what makes you still
Speaker 5: want to do that part to wrap.
Speaker 2: It, and I love it, you know, like like when
Speaker 2: we first came out, we didn't think we was gonna
Speaker 2: make no money. We just was having fun being able
Speaker 2: to do something different. A lot of people wasn't wrapping
Speaker 2: when we started, so it was unique, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. You come in, you bust everybody you know
Speaker 2: into it, and it's always been fun.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: Of course it got serious when I start getting deals
Speaker 2: and having to pay back budgets and all this kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. But now I do my own records. I've
Speaker 2: been doing my own records since six and that shit
Speaker 2: is fun because I ain't got to worry about paying
Speaker 2: nobody back. You know, do.
Speaker 3: You know the game to change? Everybody that heard about
Speaker 3: some of the terrible record deals and you know the
Speaker 3: snakes in the game. So when when young artists come
Speaker 3: up to you and ask you for advice on the
Speaker 3: music game or contracts, what you're telling.
Speaker 2: When it comes to contracts and stuff like that, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, everybody has a different situation. You know, some
Speaker 2: people can make their own music and you know before
Speaker 2: they even try to shop a deal, and then some people,
Speaker 2: you know, need that budget to even make a record,
Speaker 2: So it depends on where they're coming from. You got
Speaker 2: to know this. You got your own music, you got
Speaker 2: your own record, You can do content visuals. You own
Speaker 2: one hundred percent of that. So you basically signing to
Speaker 2: go give somebody a piece of yo, what you on
Speaker 2: one hundred percent of You're signing to give somebody a
Speaker 2: piece of that, and so you know it. You got
Speaker 2: to look at it on that level. Like I could
Speaker 2: see if you're just discovered, somebody say, y'all, I want
Speaker 2: to do a record on you. You sound good. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's cool for them to get a piece of that.
Speaker 2: If you create and do everything, you should be trying
Speaker 2: to look for ways to put it out and keep
Speaker 2: everything if you can. If you can't, then make a deal.
Speaker 2: But don't go give up your whole project for a
Speaker 2: little ten twelve points or whatever when you own one
Speaker 2: hundred percent of it. Off the jump, you know, we
Speaker 2: just gotta look at it in them terms. You know,
Speaker 2: do your own content. You're on that until you go
Speaker 2: give it away.
Speaker 1: Straight out of company.
Speaker 3: How much of that is true?
Speaker 6: All of it's true, all of us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I went in there with a bat.
Speaker 5: That's why they wanted to get that water.
Speaker 2: With a movie like that. When you're making a movie
Speaker 2: about real life and you're trying to squeeze ten years
Speaker 2: into two hours or three hours or whatever, what what
Speaker 2: you end up doing is a summary of what happened.
Speaker 2: So certain things might have happened in a month, you know,
Speaker 2: certain situations, but you gotta get it out on two scenes.
Speaker 2: So you try to figure out how to create a
Speaker 2: scene where all these all this information can get out
Speaker 2: it makes sense. So you know, everything is true, but
Speaker 2: everything might not have happened in that one scene. Like
Speaker 2: you see us in the studio one time and I'm like, yo, Jerry,
Speaker 2: what about the contracts? You know that probably happened over
Speaker 2: two or three weeks, so yo, what the fuck? You know?
Speaker 2: Boom boom working, you know, talking shit working. But in
Speaker 2: the movie everything is like just crunched and summarized. So
Speaker 2: it's all true. It's just you know, timeline is squosing
Speaker 2: into two hours when things should actually be stretched, be
Speaker 2: stretched a little bit.
Speaker 5: Somebody never heard ice Cube before. Somebody never heard your music.
Speaker 5: This is what song is ice Cube playing for a
Speaker 5: person that never heard ice cube?
Speaker 2: Oh man, never heard an ice Cube song? I definitely
Speaker 2: play it was a good day.
Speaker 1: That's the one.
Speaker 2: Definitely play. I Gotta.
Speaker 1: No Vaciline.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's one of the hardest motherfuckers.
Speaker 2: It's the hardest.
Speaker 1: Y'all sit it all, man, like, what was that day like?
Speaker 1: Recording that.
Speaker 3: I had?
Speaker 2: I had to rap. I didn't tell nobody the lyrics,
Speaker 2: and I didn't want nobody to even hear what I
Speaker 2: was saying because I didn't wanted to get back to
Speaker 2: them what the record was, so just kept it in
Speaker 2: my book. I knew what I wanted to rap over,
Speaker 2: which was Danny Dane had a record called Cinder Feller
Speaker 2: and the Other Day and they used that. They used
Speaker 2: that dazz beat to get.
Speaker 3: Don't Boom.
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, he used that a long time ago.
Speaker 2: I'm about to flip this ship. So I had uh
Speaker 2: dj pool. A couple of the producers I was working
Speaker 2: with was just flipped the beat and it was just rolling.
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, I'm ready and put the
Speaker 2: beat on. I went in there and wrapped that shit
Speaker 2: and they was just quiet. When I came out to booth,
Speaker 2: they was like, God, damn cute, you're putting that out.
Speaker 2: Like yep, I'm for going on the end of the record,
Speaker 2: it was like gotten it. Everybody just was like eyebrows up, like, man, hold,
Speaker 2: we better get ready, it's coming, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: This shit about to get crazy around here. So yeah,
Speaker 2: just blew their mind. Everybody was just tripping that that
Speaker 2: I was going that hard and you know, yeah, somebody
Speaker 2: asked me, man, you're gonna put that out, like yeah,
Speaker 2: that's going out.
Speaker 1: That's going out.
Speaker 3: Another one, the other one, Jack Beats Jack. Yeah, that
Speaker 3: year Once upon a Time in the press.
Speaker 5: Was over one like when the girls break nothing, that's.
Speaker 11: My What about the one you were MACI It was
Speaker 11: the number head Paul put that one with you macin
Speaker 11: and the other one yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: Come on man, gags make the world god Man dope song, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Summer vacation man with uh what was the first one
Speaker 2: you said before? From Once from Time the project Jack
Speaker 2: Beat in eighty nine, so many Dope Beats came out,
Speaker 2: like all these records came out with all these beats,
Speaker 2: and I was just going crazy.
Speaker 3: Like, damn, I wish that was my ship. Damn I
Speaker 3: wish that one was mine.
Speaker 2: And one day I was like, you know what, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do a song with all these niggas beats, cut
Speaker 2: them up every beat, I like, I'm gonna rap over
Speaker 2: that ship?
Speaker 12: Was you the first one that time?
Speaker 2: I mean I'm the first one. I know that to
Speaker 2: put it on the record.
Speaker 5: Niggas might have been rapping on other people beats in
Speaker 5: the projects, but to put it out like you put
Speaker 5: that out?
Speaker 3: How you get that CLI project?
Speaker 2: Manad?
Speaker 1: I was about to see how you get that?
Speaker 2: Clear?
Speaker 5: You around rapping on my beat better than me? Fuck
Speaker 5: that nigga, he can't put this out many.
Speaker 2: They cleared it? But what what? What was hard?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 2: I would sample like D Nice is the first record
Speaker 2: to call me? D Nice is the first record on
Speaker 2: Jack and for Beats, But that nigga has sampled it
Speaker 2: from another record, so I had to pay him.
Speaker 12: It ain't even your check.
Speaker 3: Let's go to him, man.
Speaker 2: It was on a few different beats. They had used
Speaker 2: other people ship, so I had to double pay.
Speaker 1: Sample like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. You know that that's a fucking song.
Speaker 2: You know it's only one hundred percent of publishing. I
Speaker 2: think that was like a thousand percent.
Speaker 3: Goodness gracious man, But you've always been known for being
Speaker 3: the writer too, Like you rolled a lot of raps
Speaker 3: for other people.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you ever be in that bag where you just
Speaker 3: you're knocking the motherfuckers down and you're like, no, I
Speaker 3: don't even.
Speaker 1: Know if I want to get this, nigga this one.
Speaker 2: Uh. I had a song called a Gangsterous fairy Tale
Speaker 2: that was supposed to be an easy song. I'm so hard.
Speaker 2: They was tripping talking ship. I'm like, nig you ain't
Speaker 2: yet too. We resolved this ship staying in my note,
Speaker 2: but I ain't gonna talk about this and uh, and
Speaker 2: then we broke up and I was like, this mother fucker, Mommy,
Speaker 2: I changed little boys and girls. They all love me.
Speaker 2: Come sitting on the lap of easy and let me
Speaker 2: tell you a story or two. I just changed it.
Speaker 2: Come sitting on the lap of ice, let me tell
Speaker 2: your story or two and just kept on.
Speaker 1: Rolling nice with it.
Speaker 3: Now you've been writing rap songs thirty five forty years,
Speaker 3: then then how long did it take you to creation?
Speaker 1: Shit?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 1: What's your process?
Speaker 2: It depends you know, if I love to beat, if
Speaker 2: I got the concept, if it's been if I've been
Speaker 2: sitting on this concept for a minute, then you know
Speaker 2: I could I can write I usually write two verses,
Speaker 2: you know, off the rip, just I don't leave to
Speaker 2: I got two verses and two hooks, and then I'll
Speaker 2: go think about that third verse, like how do I
Speaker 2: sum this song up? How do I put the bow
Speaker 2: on it and wrap it up? So that third verse, my,
Speaker 2: you know, just take me another time to go back
Speaker 2: in there and just work on the beat.
Speaker 6: Were you always nice with words like did you read
Speaker 6: you know, back then muffles than you reading?
Speaker 2: I was when I was young.
Speaker 3: When I was young, I used to, you know, my
Speaker 3: teacher tell us, you know, just got off Christmas vacation.
Speaker 2: What did y'all do. I'll be able to write, you know,
Speaker 2: vividly what we did. And uh. One day it got
Speaker 2: into she read it and it was so cool. She
Speaker 2: put it in the school paper, like the little elementary newsletter.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, damn, that's my name, that's my ship.
Speaker 3: I wrote that. So it got me where I was like,
Speaker 3: oh ship, like people did what I write?
Speaker 1: And uh.
Speaker 2: And then when I graduated from the sixth grade, they
Speaker 2: asked me to write a speech to you know, speak
Speaker 2: to my graduating class, and shit, so I was did that.
Speaker 2: I got up there and out and I delivered the
Speaker 2: speech and everybody was feeling it.
Speaker 3: They was clapping the shit.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, damn, I can I can write it
Speaker 2: and I can deliver it, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: I can articulate it. And so that's where I knew, Okay,
Speaker 2: I got I got something here. And then rap came
Speaker 2: into my life about two years later when I was fourteen,
Speaker 2: and it was it was a trip because me and
Speaker 2: my homie kiddo, we was in a typing class. That's
Speaker 2: when they had typing type in class young and we
Speaker 2: didn't want to be in there. Yeah, we we don't
Speaker 2: belong in this class.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: It's just we didn't get our electives. We was late.
Speaker 2: So this that's all they had left.
Speaker 3: So look at this nigga liked he I don't want
Speaker 3: to be no secretary here.
Speaker 2: So he looked at me one day he was like, man,
Speaker 2: you ever write a rap? Before? I was like, nah,
Speaker 2: you write one, I write one. We see which one
Speaker 2: is the best.
Speaker 3: And ship. So I was typing out a rap, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, thinking this ship typing and my
Speaker 3: ship was better than.
Speaker 2: He was biting people. Ship. I'm like, I heard the
Speaker 2: fat boys say that, like mine was original and I
Speaker 2: just never stopped after that day trying to tell my
Speaker 2: raps to people. Motherfuckers, Like come on, man, I was
Speaker 2: all off beating ship. I didn't know how to to
Speaker 2: like flow it. I could write it, but I had
Speaker 2: to learn how to flow. And fucking with the homie
Speaker 2: Jinks from down the street, the only nigga that had
Speaker 2: DJ equipment and instrumentals and shit. He was like, man,
Speaker 2: come to my house because you gotta wrap that to
Speaker 2: a beat. We gotta you gotta find a flow on
Speaker 2: this shit. So dowing the instrumental there and I started
Speaker 2: to figure out, okay, the cadence, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: this shit is fun, bouncing on his beat. And I
Speaker 2: was just down there every day. Niggas was clowning me.
Speaker 2: Niggas in my neighborhood. Are you going down here, man,
Speaker 2: hanging out with this dude? Manu nigga? You run there
Speaker 2: and see now nigga Curtis blow nigga And I would
Speaker 2: be like, man, fuck y'all went out here. We'd be
Speaker 2: in there hours, man e j scratching and watching him,
Speaker 2: you know, try to you know, we was all trying
Speaker 2: to get good, and he just kept on it. Then
Speaker 2: one day he was like, you know what my cousin is.
Speaker 2: I said, no, he said doctor Tre Nigga. I was
Speaker 2: like doctor T and I'm like, uh, he said, yeah,
Speaker 2: he made a record. I said, nigga, you got a
Speaker 2: cousin made a record, so they gat. He pull out
Speaker 2: a record Doctor Drane's Surgery. He put that on my
Speaker 2: phone and said, Nigga, that's your cousin. I don't meet
Speaker 2: this nigga. Man, this niggas actually, you know, I'm a
Speaker 2: fan of rap music. This niggas is actually doing music
Speaker 2: like he's doing record off record. So that was just addicted.
Speaker 2: It was like when he coming off. Man, when he
Speaker 2: come off, that nigga would never come over. I'm like going.
Speaker 2: And then one day the nigga called me. They was
Speaker 2: having a barbecue or some ship. Nigga called me here, Nigga,
Speaker 2: come on down. Yeah, I'm grabbing no books.
Speaker 3: Nigga running down there, and uh, the last thing this
Speaker 3: nigga wanted to do is hear us rap.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. He enjoined the barbecue.
Speaker 3: There with you know, Amy and cousins and everybody, and
Speaker 3: we just in the garage with the equipment like man
Speaker 3: when is this nigga?
Speaker 2: Come back here? See tright you coming back? He said,
Speaker 2: he coming right back in there. Another hour. I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: come on, nigga. Finally came back there. All right, let
Speaker 2: me see what y'all got. So we started busting. He
Speaker 2: was like laughing at the ship. I'm saying, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: got this, dude, And I started uh. He ended up
Speaker 2: coming over a lot after that, and then we just
Speaker 2: was hanging out and then he was like, man, you
Speaker 2: want to go to the studio. I said, hell yeah.
Speaker 2: Took us all to the studio, and then that was
Speaker 2: Lonzo Williams Spoting Compton. He ran the wrecking crew and man,
Speaker 2: these niggas had equipment. They was doing beats and and
Speaker 2: I'm like, damn, this is a dream truth. I don't
Speaker 2: want to go home, right yeah, right here. We could
Speaker 2: do this ship out there. I still got a thousand questions.
Speaker 5: Man, we got we got another project, new album album
Speaker 5: coming out.
Speaker 2: Man down November twenty second.
Speaker 12: Let's go down.
Speaker 2: I got that song out right now called It's My Ego? Video?
Speaker 1: Is real?
Speaker 2: Is my video? Is looking real? Movie?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, getting back in the movie bag. You know,
Speaker 3: we wanted to do a big video and not just
Speaker 3: a visual. Yeah, just a thank you doing just visuals.
Speaker 2: You know, I wanted to do a real video and
Speaker 2: uh it's got a lot of traction and ship and
Speaker 2: we got we got a remix called Ego maniacsd us
Speaker 2: out Killer Mica is on the Mendoe got the whole time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so that I'm gonna be out, uh, you know
Speaker 2: on the twenty seve I can't quintessential ice Cube. You know,
Speaker 2: if you've been an ice Cue fan, you're gonna love
Speaker 2: this record. I ain't trying to be nothing. I'm not,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm just trying to, you know, keep your
Speaker 2: fastball right down the middle about your pastor.
Speaker 12: That's Stanley, nigga from I've been looking at that.
Speaker 3: The whole time.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Bro, I think that Stanley. I want to
Speaker 1: walk on this nigga grand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he was you a real nigga, Bro, He's
Speaker 2: from Stanley.
Speaker 3: Love Man.
Speaker 2: I got c W here two Pikky Driver right there,
Speaker 2: the nigga in the do right there.
Speaker 12: I got your.
Speaker 3: Saying in the trap, don't let it be your last man,
Speaker 3: let it fin out.
Speaker 2: So y'all doing, y'all very entertaining man