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Speaker 1: trying to remember what episode we're on, Episode number sixteen,

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Speaker 1: flying by though, episode sixteen. That is correct. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Interesting nonetheless, Also, Action Bronson will be on the podcast

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Conway, Shout out to Big Sean. Both

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Speaker 1: albums are crazy. This week's episode, we have got a legend,

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Speaker 1: always been that for sure. Let's go back to kind

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Speaker 1: of how you got started, man, Like obviously being from Compton,

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Speaker 1: in them. You like, bring all your crew in ship,

425
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: you get So it's just the way that motherfuckers have

426
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 1: monetized it and made it to where we can put

427
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: it on film, you can claim it, and then there

428
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 1: it is. Fuck it long as we making a dollar

429
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: off of it, we don't. Really, we're not intimidating. Will

430
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 1: turn the other cheek, will turn the other cheeks. Yes,

431
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about something specific that I

432
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,199
Speaker 1: just wanted to get your take on, and that's the

433
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 1: six nine situation. He just was out in l A. Yeah,

434
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: for like three or four days obviously, just out here

435
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: being very disrespectful, trolling the ship out of everybody. He

436
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 1: pulled up to Nipsey's memorial, you know, at the next

437
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: Nipsey store. I had heard, Well, first of all, you know,

438
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: what are your what is your take on like on

439
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: that specific like like him coming out to l A

440
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 1: and kind of just showing out. I know he's got

441
00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: And then I wanted to ask you a follow up?

442
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: Did I just wanted to get your initials. It's expected

443
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: for dudes who are looking for the limelight. Promotional tactic

444
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: and stunts are heavy. Real niggas don't move like bullshit.

445
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:35,160
Speaker 1: Real niggas move like real niggas move. So that situation,

446
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: to me, is all about numbers. It's all about promotion.

447
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 1: It's all about controversy, and when you got them three things,

448
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: you'll stay in a motherfucker's mouth all day. Whether it's

449
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 1: good or bad. They don't give a fuck. I've always

450
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: been told promotion is promotion, whether it's good or bad.

451
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 1: Motherfuckers is talking about you. Yeah, there's that cliche, bad

452
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:13,159
Speaker 1: press none none. So So look he comes out and

453
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: he's the talk of the town. Now, nobody's really real

454
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 1: niggas are not worried about that situation. You got a

455
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 1: lot of motherfucking people who feel that it's disrespectful whatever whatever.

456
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,120
Speaker 1: But on a real day, he's not gonna do that

457
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 1: type of shit knowing that it's real niggas standing ground.

458
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,439
Speaker 1: I hear at like seven in the morning. Of course

459
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 1: you do it. Like I said, it's all publicity, and I,

460
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't have nothing to say about dude.

461
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: Dude do what he do. He try and make his money,

462
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: that's his thing. It's all about the money. Let's let's

463
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 1: face it. It's all about the money with certain cats.

464
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: It's not about being you know, lawyer or true or whatever.

465
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 1: So I don't understand while a lot of motherfuckers are

466
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: tripping off of the cat because it's all been that

467
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 1: gimmeicky situation from the gate. From the gate, So don't

468
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: be shocked by the antics you give me. It's just

469
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: like a motherfucker who want to promote a movie and

470
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: go downtown and sky dive off of the tallest building

471
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 1: or tight rope across or anything for promotion. Is to

472
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: keep a motherfucker's name in people's mouths because the quieted

473
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 1: you are and you don't talk about it, motherfucker gonna

474
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: die away in the wind. So I have to keep

475
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: my name in the public. So you do certain shit,

476
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: you do dumb shit. Yeah, I was gonna say, because

477
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: with someone like him coming to la obviously he's got

478
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: a lot of security. Of course, I'm not sure if

479
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: he had, like had to pay for any protection out

480
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: here or not. But do you think that like a

481
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 1: lot of people, I know, I've spoken with a lot

482
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,479
Speaker 1: of a lot of homies that are are from out here.

483
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: Who are you know some g's that like like six

484
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: n kind of like do you think he kind of

485
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: cracked the street code or maybe just it? I think

486
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: he's the first person to like do what he's doing openly.

487
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: There's been other snitches that are of course of course people,

488
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: but like for him to be so outward with it,

489
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: do you think he kind of cracked the street code?

490
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: And and do you think that like there's a way

491
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: to move forward where because the snitch thing has always

492
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: been that one code that is the unbreakable thing, right

493
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,959
Speaker 1: and still successful. He's calling people out like I mean,

494
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's kind of crazy. But but you

495
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: have to understand the snitch code. The snitch code stands

496
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: for real niggas, right, it only stands for real niggas.

497
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: Being glasses alone talked about that, like if you're like

498
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: a civilian, if you're a if you're not mixed up

499
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: and ship, you should snitch. And then like if if

500
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: something happens to you or you're a normal person, call

501
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: the police. But if you're you know, g Malone, like, Nah,

502
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: I'm not calling the police. I'm gonna handle my shit

503
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: the way I handle my shit because because I this

504
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: is my life, this is exactly your reputation is. Your

505
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: life is at stake and your word is at stake.

506
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: But why are people so like adamant to put the

507
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: snitch jacket on motherfuckers who never was real from the

508
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: first place. That's where you getting shit confused. Don't give

509
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: a fuck it. Stop looking at the money, the chains,

510
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: the fucking streams and all that. Stop looking at that shit.

511
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: A nigga was never real from the gate, So how

512
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: can you put the code of you should follow it?

513
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: Why because a motherfucker was hanging with street niggas and

514
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: because a motherfucker was rapping what and they allowed that

515
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: guy him. I mean, if you're gonna pay a motherfucker,

516
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: then fine, if they gonna you know I and this

517
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: is coming from the niggas. Hell, Yeah, we're gonna let

518
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,959
Speaker 1: that nigga hang around us. If he's kicking up one

519
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two hundred grand, we we think we

520
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: not motherfucker, come hang, we benefiting from that's getting paid. Okay.

521
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: But you gotta understand when you put a motherfucker in

522
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: a situation and he's not real from the gate, it's

523
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:39,479
Speaker 1: gonna backfire. He's gonna tell on you. I mean, are

524
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be You get me, Just like with with

525
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: with my man George Floyd and the police brutality. Motherfucker's

526
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: been doing that shit forever, okay, And I get it,

527
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: and it's fucked up that my boy had to lose

528
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: his life in that situation. But you shouldn't be surprised.

529
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: And that's what gets me sometimes is when motherfucker's gone,

530
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: oh no, I can't believe it. How you can't? This

531
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: shit just happened last week around the corner, But it

532
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: wasn't onna film. Mo. Fucker's never been real. Never, let

533
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: me tell you some and this has been going on

534
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: since hip hopping money has been around. The more money

535
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: you got, the more fucking courageous you feel. And that

536
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: go with every fucking rapper. I don't give a fuck

537
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: if you're a street rapper, and whether you a real

538
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: motherfucker or you was the point dexter nigga in the crew.

539
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: The minute you get bread in your pocket and chains

540
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: and whatever and you fuck a couple of bitches, you're

541
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: gonna start feeling like mighty man. I'm untouchable. I'm the

542
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,719
Speaker 1: hardest nigg on the block. I'm the hardest nigga. But

543
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: the first time a nigga tests your hardness, you fold.

544
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: You're gonna tell. So we shouldn't be confused by the

545
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: fact of what that situation is. You shouldn't. He's not

546
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: he's not a niggas rapper. He's not my rapper. He's

547
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: not your rapper, he's not whatever. Now he's like thirteen

548
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: year old kids who like TikTok. Thank you. Yeah, Okay,

549
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: don't get it confused, because a lot of motherfuckers are going,

550
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: so what he told? So what that's your kid in

551
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: there vouching for him, because let me tell you, if

552
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: you're a grown ass motherfucker and you banging that shit.

553
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: Something is physically wrong. Something is physically wrong. Now, I

554
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: get it. The little girls, the little the strip club

555
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: girls who dance into his music, and the little kids

556
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: who like the colorful and the hair, and I get it.

557
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: I get it. But let's not be confused for a

558
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: dude like me or a nip or you or whoever.

559
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: It's not my music, So let's not get confused about

560
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 1: who vouches for my men. You give me a lot

561
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: of youth, a lot of a lot of kids bumped that.

562
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: And that's where you know, because you pick up your

563
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 1: phone as a fifteen year old kid and go bingo.

564
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: Because me now, as a grown ass man, I'm not

565
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 1: picking up my phone going I'm finna download this shit

566
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: and bumping in my car. Right, it's for the So

567
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 1: you you have to you have to understand what the

568
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: situation is. And that's what I say about that. Disrespectful. Yeah,

569
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:46,240
Speaker 1: but you probably should expect that from those type of motherfuckers.

570
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 1: You brought out the George Floyd thing you came up

571
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: in La probably at the peak of like the lapd

572
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: being just the worst, right, Obviously, what happened with Ronnie

573
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 1: King kind of highlighted that on a bigger scale, But

574
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 1: there was you know, like you said, that happened so

575
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: much that people just didn't see. What are some of

576
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: your experiences growing up in Compton with the police, because

577
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: I just remember watching uh boys in the hood or

578
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: was it a menace? It was menace, but the cops

579
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: were just pieces of ship in there, and I was

580
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: definitely I mean, but ever since the days I could

581
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: remember being a young cat growing up in Compton, it

582
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: was normal. It was normal to the fact that you

583
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: sort of expected it whenever you saw the police hit

584
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: your corner. If we were if we were hanging out

585
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood at the hood house and chilling and

586
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: the police hit the block nine times out of ten,

587
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: and they finna stop. You're finna be sitting on the

588
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: curve and two or three of you is finna be

589
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: going to jail for who knows what right? And then

590
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: you might get punched up, You might get kicked up,

591
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: you might wompy, won't you get thrown in the car?

592
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: You go down to the holding tank, they hold you

593
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: to two three o'clock in the morning, and they let

594
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: you go it's been going on ever since. You riding

595
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 1: down Compton Boulevard and you pass them and they coming

596
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: out of parking lot of off another street. As soon

597
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: as you make that eye contact, they finna pull you over.

598
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: Don't know shit, ain't ran a plate, don't know if

599
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: you coming from work or school or whatever matter. If

600
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:35,720
Speaker 1: you fit the profile of niggas in Compton who gang

601
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: bang from these neighborhoods, we're gonna pull you over. We're

602
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: gonna harass jack, fuck you up, do whatever. And it's

603
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: a daily routine. So we might you might have had

604
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: a billion complaints, but who gave a fuck? You get me,

605
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,280
Speaker 1: who gave a fuck Because we were just young niggas

606
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: in Compton and we were in our own world and

607
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,439
Speaker 1: nobody gave a fuck outside of Compton what Compton PD

608
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: did or whatever. It's something that we lived with and

609
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: we dealt with. Was it wrong? Was it fucked up?

610
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: Of course, but you just accepted it as the normal.

611
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: It's normal. It's just as normal as a motherfucker standing

612
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: outside on this porch and a nigga hitting the block

613
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 1: to do a drive by. It happens. Look where we had.

614
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: It happens, which we got what we in Compton in

615
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,280
Speaker 1: this small little section and got about thirty different motherfucking gangs,

616
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: niggas banging on every different street block, Park Avenue corner

617
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: on top of that selling drugs. Yeah, so police dealt

618
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: with us, how they dealt with us these everybody banging,

619
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: everybody selling drugs. So we're gonna go from neighborhood to

620
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: neighborhood and we just fucking with niggas. That's what it took.

621
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: Talk about how did you end up becoming involved with

622
00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: Minister Society One of the best, you know, just one

623
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: of one of my favorite movies ever, but obviously one

624
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: of the the best, you know, movies that kind of

625
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: depicted exactly we had just came off of Colors, you know,

626
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:18,760
Speaker 1: Ice Tea Colors and whatever, and then Cube did Boys

627
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,240
Speaker 1: in the Hood. Then they had South Central with Glenn Plummer,

628
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: and then Tupac had went over and did fucking Juice.

629
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: So those movies were going around. So you had two

630
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:35,240
Speaker 1: young cats out of La the Hughes brothers who wrote

631
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: this movie. You know, they went to film school all that,

632
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: they had did a lot of Tupac's videos. Brenda had

633
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: a baby holler if you hear me a lot of

634
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: his first videos, the Hughes brothers did, so they got

635
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 1: this script. They took it to New Line. New Line

636
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 1: liked it. Knewing they had a relationship with Pac. You know,

637
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: they felt like, okay, y'all pop bingo, there's minutes to

638
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 1: Society and uh, you know, shit happened with Pac whatever.

639
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: He didn't make the film, but it was still a

640
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: good film. Uh. They called me up like, hey, we

641
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 1: was looking for a character. I think they were trying

642
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: to get Wren to do it too. Soren had read.

643
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: I read for it. I guess they liked it, you

644
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: know my reading. They called me back. I didn't really

645
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 1: think of it. Like I said, I'm still a niggah

646
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. I think I just dropped music to

647
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: drive by. So I was still on my banging shit

648
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 1: with the music and the records and whatever. So I

649
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 1: really didn't think nothing about it. And then movies, I'm like,

650
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: that's Cube and Tupac shit. And then Reren was n

651
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: w A, I'm just MC eight from compus most wanted

652
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 1: I'm here, you know, So I'm like, the niggas ain't

653
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: gonna give me no part. And then my motherfucking manager

654
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: called me one day and say because I was on tour,

655
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: he called me and said, you gotta come back to

656
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: La because they gave you the part. And then that's

657
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: when I met Jada and Tyrant and Lorenz and like

658
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: I said, Pak was there in the first couple of

659
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: reasons because he was still in the movie. So it

660
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 1: was a good career lifter for me, and for the

661
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: fact that it dealt with actual shit that was going

662
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: on in La Compton. So I think that movie kind

663
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: of generated a following to where it was a good

664
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: coat classic because it really showed what was going on

665
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: niggas in the projects or whatever. And then for me,

666
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 1: who had been in similar situations, it just kind of

667
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 1: it just kind of kind of meshed, you know what

668
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, it's crazy too because obviously your role

669
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: in that movie was kind of like the down ass

670
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:54,879
Speaker 1: big homie. Yeah, the motherfucker who doesn't been there, don't

671
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 1: seen it. I dodnet been in and out of jail.

672
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: I done grew up in the neighborhood, so I know

673
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,919
Speaker 1: that shit to get in and not into. And it's

674
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: just like any any niggas neighborhood who grow up and

675
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 1: who's claiming the neighborhood. You always got that one motherfucker

676
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: that's been through a lot of shit and who could

677
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: tell you a lot of shit about being from the

678
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: neighborhood and representing and whatnot in the pitfalls of it.

679
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: So a lot of people don't know Tupac's original like, like,

680
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: you know, suppose supposed to be involvement in that movie.

681
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: What was like he was supposed to be in the movie.

682
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: Originally Tupac was supposed to play Sharif. Okay, so my

683
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: boy Vonte Sweet ended up playing them. But that's the

684
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: role that they wanted him to play. And he didn't,

685
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: you know, POC coming off of Juice and Poetic Justice

686
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 1: and then you know his records or whatever, he was

687
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: a very vocal, you know, up front motherfucker. Pop was

688
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: wasn't the type of nigga to play the back role

689
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 1: or to play to just innocent bystand or the conservative nigga.

690
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: He was the forefront and he wanted to express that.

691
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: So he wanted to kind of express why he was

692
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: being the Muslim kid or the one the voice of reason.

693
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: He wanted to depict that and show why. And I

694
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 1: don't think they wanted to show that, and that's what

695
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 1: made the movie for his situation kind of fall apart,

696
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: because you know, Pak's very adamant. I don't give a fuck.

697
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,320
Speaker 1: I need motherfuckers to know why I turned into the

698
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: well I do kill a bunch of niggas or somebody

699
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: killed my mama and I went chopped they head off

700
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: of some shit show why I'm this person now? And

701
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: they didn't want to do it, so it kind of

702
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: went to a bumping head situation to where you know,

703
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: everybody know what happened with him and the Huge brothers,

704
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: and that was the result of the bumping heads at

705
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 1: the fucking table. Did you and Poc have a solid relationship?

706
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: I was cool with Pap. We did a couple of

707
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,720
Speaker 1: shows together. You know, he used to bang my records

708
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: when he was, you know, locked up, So we had

709
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: a relationship to where when we saw each other it

710
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: was mutual respect. You feel me, yo, You you know

711
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: what Compton's most wanted music to drive By obviously a

712
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: West Coast classic. Talk about like, I feel like there

713
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: was the culture of the drive By shooting back then, right,

714
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: I feel like that's something that really became prevalent in

715
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 1: La and oh definitely was related to directly related to

716
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 1: the gang shit that was going on during that time.

717
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,919
Speaker 1: Do you remember like when that started to become something

718
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 1: to really worry about, because I'm assuming it it became

719
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: like it seemed like at a certain point in time,

720
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: it was just kind of the normal, right like yeah,

721
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 1: like you said earlier, it was kind of between Like

722
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: for me, I I just know that in between the

723
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: period of like eighty nine and like ninety three, niggas

724
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: was game hard, like hard hard like even before then,

725
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: if you want to say, like eighty seven eighty six,

726
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: everybody was gang and it was rough gang banging, like

727
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: it wasn't like, oh okay, now you'll see crips and

728
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: bloods in the same place, shaking hands, getting money together.

729
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: And not that niggas wasn't doing it. Back then. You

730
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: had certain niggas who could do that. You had certain

731
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:30,879
Speaker 1: OG's who could maybe pull up in a blood neighborhood

732
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: and get out and talk to niggas like that. But

733
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: for me, niggas was on the kill war path back then.

734
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:44,919
Speaker 1: So drive bys was real heavy around that time, like shit,

735
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: maybe every other day niggas was getting smoked. And then

736
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: everybody had pistols back in. Niggas is breaking in the

737
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:57,320
Speaker 1: gun shops and surtpluses instilling. Especially when the raid happened,

738
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,760
Speaker 1: Niggas is breaking in the surtplus stores and dealing guns.

739
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 1: So now everybody weapons, and when everybody got guns, I'm

740
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 1: talking about it. Don't even need to motherfucker do a

741
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: drive by by itself. And I've known a lot of

742
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: niggas who do it. Fuck it, I think I'm getting

743
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: in my car at night and going to hit them

744
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 1: niggas like it was. It was just not to say

745
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: it was the thing, but it was happening to where

746
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:26,760
Speaker 1: mama's was sleeping on the floors and putting their kids

747
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:31,439
Speaker 1: on the floors at night because guaranteed somebody's getting drawn

748
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 1: somebody coming through tonight, definitely, And it was a you know,

749
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: niggas didn't just shoot up innocently. But like I said,

750
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: drive bys was very heavy around that time. I think too,

751
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: something from the outside looking in. If someone's watching this

752
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: that isn't from LA and doesn't understand the way that

753
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: LA politics work. A lot of people just always associate

754
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 1: crips and bloods is beefing right, right, But it's more

755
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: of a neighborhood thing. Yeah, I mean because there's there's

756
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,240
Speaker 1: crip sets beef with each other. Yeah, you got crips.

757
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: And then especially if you have large sets, you know,

758
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,280
Speaker 1: especially if you have large crip sets who have multiple

759
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: streets and multiple blocks, so you know, you got crips

760
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: from this block who might not get along with the

761
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: crips ten blocks down, even though they're all from the

762
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:23,720
Speaker 1: same neighborhood. I mean even even where I represent it from,

763
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: there were different streets. You had this, you had thick Coradon,

764
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:30,760
Speaker 1: you had one hundred and fifty third, you had bar Clay,

765
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:34,839
Speaker 1: you had Taper. All these streets are in one neighborhood,

766
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:40,359
Speaker 1: but different crews hang on these different streets, so you

767
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 1: could have beef with a nigga from across the street

768
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: who's from your same neighborhood. A lot of that went on.

769
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: Then you had crips who beefed with crips, you know,

770
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: crip sets who beef with other crip sets and so on.

771
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 1: So how big of a deal was it? Because I know,

772
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: you know, when Nipsey died, it just it really fucked man,

773
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: fucked me up. I'm gon Nippur. Since so nine and

774
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: you know, but when he passed away, big U had

775
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,839
Speaker 1: kind of helped put together that day of unification where

776
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: everybody pulled up, you know, on that intersection, and it

777
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: was like it was I didn't realize the significance of

778
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: how big of a deal it was that a lot

779
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: of those people were in the same place in a

780
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: peaceful manner because a lot of a lot of neighborhoods

781
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: beef and have been beefing for decades, like and I

782
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 1: put it to the motherfucking analysis of the hat Fields

783
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: and the McCoy's right, you go, you got niggas who

784
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 1: was beefing before you was even born. So it's that

785
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: tradition of beefing. And it's just like, damn y'all was

786
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 1: standing in the same spot as them niggas. Y'all ain't

787
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: killing them niggas for decades, you get me, and vice versa.

788
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: So that basically Nips pass and sort of represented trying

789
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 1: to unify a right niggas on the aspect of not

790
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: just are you from over here, I'm from over here.

791
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: Fuck you, fuck you? You know it kind of it

792
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,800
Speaker 1: kind of led to the to the place of trying

793
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 1: to show that niggas don't have to kill niggas just

794
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: over bullshit. I get it. Y'all represent there, we represent here.

795
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: But this was a dude who basically tried to fuck

796
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: with everybody, whether it was crip, whether it was blood,

797
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 1: whether you was from the enemy neighborhood from fifteen years ago,

798
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: or whether whatever. I tried to fuck with everyone. So

799
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: that's to me what that represent as far as big

800
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: you and nipping them and him passing and everybody trying

801
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 1: to show unification together, it was to show that the

802
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 1: outside world sees is just vicious motherfuckers, gang banging ass

803
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: vicious drive by killing motherfuckers, and it's bigger than that,

804
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 1: or it's what it's beyond. So coming together shows people

805
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: that these motherfuckers that y'all look at as these vicious

806
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:12,720
Speaker 1: motherfuckers can can set aside their beasts from long standing.

807
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,320
Speaker 1: And some niggas might not even know why we beef.

808
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 1: You get me. I just started gaging backing, and I

809
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 1: know we hate them niggas over there. I'm not old

810
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: enough to know what we beefing about. But all I

811
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: know is the minute I started claiming over here, we

812
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: cross out them niggas and we say fuck them and

813
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: the funny thing about it is six years ago, I

814
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: was in the same class as that motherfucker nigga. We

815
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: was playing kickball together outside and whatever. So it just

816
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 1: showed that we can set aside bullshit for a mother

817
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: for my nigga who was already on that aspect, like

818
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 1: I got. I know where I'm from, but I got

819
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 1: no problem with you, my nigga. If you ain't got

820
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 1: no problem with me. I understand what happened back then,

821
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,320
Speaker 1: and I would never to live that ship down and

822
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 1: I will always know where I come from. But motherfucker,

823
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: if you want to give me on the song your blood,

824
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 1: hell yeah, let's do it right. You want me, you

825
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: want to beat from me, or want me to come

826
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: to your video, or we know how to get money,

827
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: or we can do this together. Man, that's gonna be

828
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 1: better for you and me in the long run. You

829
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:23,840
Speaker 1: give me talk about a lot of newer rap fans

830
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 1: might have just heard you for the first time on

831
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: Good Kid, Mad City Right, which is one of the

832
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: greatest hip hop albums ever. Shout out to Kendrick, Shout

833
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: out to Shout out to Kendrick, Shout out to Kendrick,

834
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: Shout out the top Dog Dre. Just that that record

835
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: is like just the way it switches up and then

836
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: you come in it's like, oh yeah, that was that man.

837
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: That was probably one of the things that was probably

838
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: one of the best, you know, guest appearances I've done,

839
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: or working with Kendrick, because my dude know what he wanted,

840
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: he ad, he sees his vision, he sees his direction,

841
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,080
Speaker 1: and he came about it a different approach than what

842
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 1: we usually used to as far as West Coast artists

843
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: who come from that situation, you know, poverty, you know,

844
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:13,360
Speaker 1: gang banging. We usually turn out the cmw's, the NWA's,

845
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:19,359
Speaker 1: the cubes, the whatever, and he was able to take

846
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: it to a different level, almost like from the perspective

847
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: of the kid who grows up in that I grew

848
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,879
Speaker 1: up everybody know anything around me. Everybody's selling dope, my brother,

849
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,919
Speaker 1: my uncle mat shit, and I am the straightforward kid.

850
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: But I'm still here so I get to witness everything.

851
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: Not that I'm a part of it, because even though

852
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: I don't have to say it, they gonna protect me

853
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 1: or they gonna affiliate me with over here or whatever.

854
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:47,839
Speaker 1: But I'm just a kid on the straight path who

855
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: see the pitfalls and I'm trying to avoid that. So

856
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: soon as I hooked up with him, he knew what

857
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: he wanted, he knew where he wanted to go. How

858
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: I wonder he was telling me, shit, I want you

859
00:51:58,040 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: to do this, I want you to do this, I

860
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: want you to do that, and you gotta respect the

861
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: motherfucker like that. He didn't come into the game playing

862
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: with nothing. I'm not gonna play around with this shit.

863
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: Were you like aware, because obviously at that point in time,

864
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,320
Speaker 1: Kendrick was definitely buzzing Drea. He a Section eighty already

865
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: came out. I wasn't aware of Kendrick at all, So

866
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: you weren't aware of like the magnitude of like, yo,

867
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 1: this shit is. I started fucking with Kendrick because my

868
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: son's sister knew of him, and she called me and

869
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:29,759
Speaker 1: said they were trying to get in contact with me.

870
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about Kendrick. I didn't know about

871
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: Section eighty, none of that of that shit. And it

872
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 1: was just like, I mean, my son's sister called me

873
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: and said, eight, this guy named Kendrick, he's messing with

874
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: Dre blah blah blah. They want to get you on

875
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 1: the song, and I was like, yeah, okay, what was

876
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: it that did, because you know, there's so many iconograppers

877
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: from Compton, but I thought it was so dope that

878
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: he put you on that record because it wasn't like expected,

879
00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: and it was very like I'm pretty sure it wasn't

880
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 1: expected from anyone. I remember I saw that. I was like,

881
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:06,280
Speaker 1: oh shit, this got MC eight on the fucking album

882
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: about Copton, like Jesus Christ. Like I said, I didn't even,

883
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:15,359
Speaker 1: I didn't even I put nothing to it when I came.

884
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: When I showed up at the studio, I mean, we

885
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: recorded the song in Carson, right at the spot. So

886
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: I just looked at it as my niggas one of

887
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:28,439
Speaker 1: these up and coming rappers. He got skills and blah blah.

888
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 1: And then I think the minute after I recorded the song,

889
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 1: I went home that night and then everything was Kendrick, Kendrick, Kendrick,

890
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: whoa damn. I'm like, oh, he signed to Dre and

891
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: kunti wom And then next day, you know, Aftermath hit

892
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: me and Top Dog and Punch and niggas was like hey,

893
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: and I was like, they was like, you know, you

894
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: the only motherfucker who got to be on the record.

895
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: You Drake, and I think Mary J. That was it.

896
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: They didn't let anybody else on the record, so I

897
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 1: was like, whoa, okay, so good look. That's why I

898
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: said good looking Drake td all that, because he could

899
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,320
Speaker 1: have chose anybody, especially with Dre behind him. You know,

900
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: Dre would be like, I don't want that motherfucker. Wont that.

901
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: But when they said Dre said fuck it cool. I

902
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 1: just looked at it as they looked at it, as

903
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: I was a nigga coming from Compton who my whole career,

904
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: I was just one path. I didn't try to go here,

905
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,879
Speaker 1: hear come here or here. I just stuck to see

906
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: him w type of shit, the neighborhood whatever. So that

907
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: song was perfect to try to throw me on. I

908
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 1: also feel like it was a dope homage to your

909
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 1: career because you're somebody who is very underappreciated in the

910
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: grand scheme of when we discussed West Coast hip hop.

911
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: Oh definitely, you're very underrated. Your catalog is you know, fire,

912
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:00,359
Speaker 1: and I feel like that was a dope like tip

913
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 1: to what you've been doing. I took that from his

914
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,439
Speaker 1: point of view as well. I looked at it as

915
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: you know, he respected true West Coast hip hop, and

916
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 1: coming from Compton, you know we got Dre. We got

917
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 1: you know, quick as there, you know. So I'm like,

918
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: but I've always stuck to that, you've been I've always

919
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 1: been consistent with what I do. So coming from Compton

920
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:33,400
Speaker 1: to pay, I'm like, he's already fucking with Dre, you

921
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,399
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I just looked at it like, yeah,

922
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: let's get somebody that we feel has always represented the

923
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 1: city of Compton, always been consistent and like you said,

924
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 1: underrated and don't get that much shine and pay a mont.

925
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: So I didn't even I didn't even question money or

926
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: anything when they hit me up. I just went to

927
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,239
Speaker 1: the studio. I wasn't like, oh, well he signed to Dre,

928
00:55:57,440 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: how much y'all going to pay me? And all that.

929
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: I went to the studio, dropped the verse, shook my

930
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 1: nigga hand, and we bounced, and I think I heard

931
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 1: from them like three months later, and they was like

932
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 1: Dre and aftermath, and I was like, whoa, this is

933
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: gonna be some big ship fire. So we're gonna do

934
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,280
Speaker 1: the very first bathroom break in the blutleg Cap podcast

935
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 1: history because I'm about to piss on myself. I'm gonna

936
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: hit this restaurant real quick. Back at it, you know,

937
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 1: shout out to you for not smoking Backwoods like everybody else. Right,

938
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, Backwoods fucked me up. Man, I don't

939
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 1: know why niggas got on the backwoods the fucking wave now, yeah,

940
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,399
Speaker 1: that everybody smoking Backwoods. I'm like, I can't do it, man,

941
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: I can't. You talked about obviously Dre being involved in

942
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: Good Kid, Mad City, Dre being the you know, the

943
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 1: consensus Compton guy across the country. You know when we

944
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:51,840
Speaker 1: think of Compton, like he's probably the first rapper that

945
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: the world thinks. So did you and Dre ever have

946
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,840
Speaker 1: any sort of dialogue or like, what was y'all's dynamic

947
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 1: coming up? Because obviously you were a factor and he

948
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:05,719
Speaker 1: was Dra that guy Dre was. Dre has always has

949
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 1: been a cool motherfucker to me. I mean, I've never,

950
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 1: you know, had the pleasure outside of fucking with Kendrick,

951
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 1: of fucking with Dre big mad respect, because you know,

952
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 1: he's one of the he's he's as the best motherfucker

953
00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: as far as what he do. You get me, shaw,

954
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 1: anybody who would be you know, gifted with a dre

955
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: track or just fucking emphasis or just the input of

956
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,919
Speaker 1: telling you which way to go would be a motherfucking

957
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: the greatest. But uh, we've always had good report I

958
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 1: mean every time I would see him out in public

959
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: or go to parties or whatever whatever, we've always laughed

960
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 1: and chuckled and been cool, you know. So you know,

961
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: Primo fucked with him a lot, you know, so he

962
00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:58,959
Speaker 1: Primo would go over and tell him, you know, fucking

963
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 1: with eight and we worked and so always good shit,

964
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 1: always good shit talk about So the new album is

965
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 1: Primo the executive producer. Essentially Primo executive produced record. We

966
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 1: did a record two years ago called which Way Is

967
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:19,120
Speaker 1: West Right? He executive produced. He you know, had a

968
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 1: lot of input, you know, his label. So on this

969
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: record it was basically the focus on me trying to

970
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: get you know, ride the wave of trying to you know,

971
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 1: continue what I've been doing for shit the last twenty years.

972
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:38,400
Speaker 1: So he's been a consultant on the record, you know,

973
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 1: Like I said, I sent him all the beats, I

974
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: sent him all the tracks. He listens to him, you know,

975
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: gives me advice on what not to do or maybe

976
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: you need to do this or maybe do this one.

977
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 1: On his song, he mixes the song, so he always

978
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:56,919
Speaker 1: has an input. When I put out records, I try

979
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: to include him because, like you said, he's one of

980
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: the great producers. He's dealt with a lot of different

981
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 1: diverse artists, so he has a great ear. So yeah,

982
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 1: one of the best years ever. And and it's crazy

983
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:14,920
Speaker 1: because working with like I feel like Griselda and what

984
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: Conway and Westside Gun and Benny are doing right now

985
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 1: is like some of my favorite shit going on in

986
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 1: hip hop. Like they're doing that traditional shit. Yeah. How

987
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 1: do you think a traditional greedy rap and grimy shit? Yeah,

988
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 1: that's what you hear when you hear them. Yeah. Now,

989
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like, how how tapped in are

990
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: you with the new ship that's happening, because obviously I

991
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 1: listened to a lot. Like I said, I got sixteen

992
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: year old son, right shout out. Karan plays football quarterback.

993
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: He always he Now he be up on all y'all shit, right,

994
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 1: I tell him I'm going to bootleg cav Oh my god,

995
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: I got to go take me. So he's a sixteen

996
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 1: year old kid, so he's up on all the new ship.

997
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: I mean, what a young boy, little Dirk fucking g

998
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:10,800
Speaker 1: Herbo right right, he listens to it all and he

999
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 1: loves it. Yo' It's dope too because you actually you

1000
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: d m me your ship. Not a lot of artists

1001
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: are like on top of their ship, like I was like,

1002
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 1: oh ship, of course, Like I'm one motherfucker who And

1003
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:26,800
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people don't do it because

1004
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 1: they bought people on the side. And I even got people,

1005
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you got to get people on your

1006
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 1: team that and whatever. But I'm a type of motherfucker

1007
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 1: that I hit you up personally. I don't I don't

1008
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 1: play that all. You know, it's just somebody running your

1009
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 1: page or I handle all my ship. I answer all

1010
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: my fans, I deal with you know. That's how I

1011
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: stay working. I mean, I do a million verses a

1012
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:56,479
Speaker 1: week because I'm able to connect with motherfuckers. I don't

1013
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 1: just be like, oh, I got my cousin running my

1014
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 1: page and whatever. Dude, send me emails, respond, dude, send

1015
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 1: me dms if it's business or even sometimes motherfuckers just

1016
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 1: want to say hey, y'all. Get a lot of motherfuckers

1017
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 1: that just be like, man, I just wanted to tell

1018
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 1: you you you the shit or I love your shit,

1019
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 1: and I'll respond right back jeh or cool or good

1020
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 1: looking or whatever. And I ain't trying to hold a

1021
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 1: conversation with you. But I have the enough respect for

1022
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:28,680
Speaker 1: fans to at least give them that, you know what

1023
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:30,720
Speaker 1: I'm saying, a lot of dudes, I get it. They

1024
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:34,080
Speaker 1: don't want to deal with motherfuckers. You know, I'm too big,

1025
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:37,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to respond whatever, whatever. But me, I

1026
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:39,520
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck how big you are. You gotta

1027
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 1: connect with the motherfuckers that're spending their money. Yeah, that's

1028
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 1: They're the reason why you have a man. Come on, man,

1029
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 1: you gotta connect with the motherfuckers whether and I get it.

1030
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:54,480
Speaker 1: Some motherfuckers be irritating too, Definitely. Some motherfuckers be irritating.

1031
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 1: They ask the stupidest questions and just shit, and you

1032
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:01,440
Speaker 1: have to sit there sometime and be like, but I

1033
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 1: still deal with it. It's it's the situation that I

1034
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 1: put myself in, so to speak. I had to tell

1035
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 1: I had to gift to right and and whatever and

1036
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 1: make records and whatever. And with that, you were you're

1037
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 1: gain fans. Let me ask you something. You're you're beef

1038
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:22,080
Speaker 1: with Quick, which I know you've talked about to the

1039
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 1: Death Right. Anybody who wants to kind of dive into that.

1040
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 1: There's plenty of content out there of you talking about

1041
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 1: what happened. Do you think that you and and Quick's

1042
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: beef resulted in because every time something like that happens,

1043
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 1: people choose sides like do you think it it resulted

1044
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 1: in you losing any opportunities or like you losing out

1045
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 1: on anything because people might have like chosen up or

1046
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: perceived you a certain way during that during that period.

1047
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 1: I've never looked at it like that because I've always

1048
01:02:56,880 --> 01:03:01,160
Speaker 1: looked at myself as the underground kid. I've never looked

1049
01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 1: at myself as the kid that the motherfuckers would want

1050
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 1: to come to period. And I always accepted that and

1051
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 1: erased it. I never felt like, oh shit, this motherfucker

1052
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 1: getting this and I ain't getting it. I've never felt that, never,

1053
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, I can make

1054
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 1: some money. I love to write and do hip hop.

1055
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 1: My bills is paid, boom, my kids ain't starving and

1056
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 1: ain't struggling and don't have fucking holy shoes and looking

1057
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:45,280
Speaker 1: for a handout. I'm fine. I've had opportunities that came

1058
01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 1: along that fit me. I mean, I had the Boys

1059
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 1: in the Hood soundtrack, I had Minister so Society and

1060
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 1: a role Thicker than Water with mac Tin came along.

1061
01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:00,800
Speaker 1: Forgot about that. I was nominated for a Grammy with

1062
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 1: with Kendrick for the song should have won that Grammy. Yeah, yeah,

1063
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 1: but you get but you get it, you know. But

1064
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:16,160
Speaker 1: I've always embraced my position in hip hop and I'm cool. Well,

1065
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:18,840
Speaker 1: when you when you with anything right, when you look

1066
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:21,560
Speaker 1: at other people and you try to judge your own

1067
01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 1: happiness based on what other people are doing, that's where

1068
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:27,440
Speaker 1: you get fucked up. Man. That's how motherfuckers become depressed

1069
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 1: and they become on sure them, you come up if

1070
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 1: you do that. If I start going damn, how come

1071
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 1: I ain't like Snoop or how come Snoops rapped the

1072
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,840
Speaker 1: same ship I was rapping, Or how come I'm not

1073
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:42,520
Speaker 1: like Kendrick or Quick, or I've never done that because

1074
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:47,200
Speaker 1: I never felt like that when you heard uh, man,

1075
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. Some of those Quick records were

1076
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: vicious on some on some rapping ship, like when He's

1077
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:55,040
Speaker 1: the one line that stuck out to me when I

1078
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:57,760
Speaker 1: was the E. I h T Now should I continue?

1079
01:04:57,800 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 1: You left out the G because the G EIGHTN you

1080
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 1: you heard that? What was were you like, man, fuck

1081
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: this for? Were you like it's hip hop? Were you like, yo,

1082
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:06,840
Speaker 1: that was a nice bar you have to come with

1083
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 1: good lines and hip hop. Did you at least like

1084
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 1: respect his like like, I don't think when you beefing

1085
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 1: with cats that you look at him as far as

1086
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:22,160
Speaker 1: oh whatever, you know? But I was never like, oh,

1087
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm finna just blow the fuck up because a motherfucker

1088
01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 1: I looked at it this hip hop banter. Could you

1089
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:31,120
Speaker 1: at least acknowledge like, okay, quick, I got something for you,

1090
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 1: or like, yeah, that line was kind of That was

1091
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 1: a cool line. I've always felt like in a hip

1092
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:40,320
Speaker 1: hop perspective, I've always felt that's just like a motherfucker

1093
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: saying that I don't think I'm number one, I'm number

1094
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 1: two or number two. You always give yourself the credit

1095
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 1: of whatever. So in a hip hop world, because I

1096
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:56,560
Speaker 1: never took shit on record personally, so yeah, good line.

1097
01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:58,919
Speaker 1: When niggas would be like, oh that was womty womb

1098
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:00,840
Speaker 1: I said from hip hop respective yeah, it was a

1099
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 1: good line. I mean just like motherfuckers would say, oh,

1100
01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 1: what you said was all killer or whatever whatever, and

1101
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 1: I say, it's all in the aspect of trying to

1102
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 1: be clever. When you trying to dis some motherfucker, you

1103
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 1: can't dis some motherfuck on the weak shit. I tell

1104
01:06:14,480 --> 01:06:17,560
Speaker 1: niggas today, I've been dissed by some of the best niggas.

1105
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna dis me, you at least got

1106
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 1: to come with something correct. Don't come with no weak shit,

1107
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 1: because then what's the point, right, that's facts? Man. Yeah,

1108
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:28,920
Speaker 1: Now we're just people just make Instagram videos about each other.

1109
01:06:29,160 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 1: I mean, shit, motherfucker make an Instagram video or do

1110
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:34,800
Speaker 1: some dumb shit or whatever. But like I said, we

1111
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:41,200
Speaker 1: came from the class of writing was everything. Man, your

1112
01:06:41,240 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 1: pen game. Man, you're a fuck about to beat man,

1113
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: you gotta write some shit because let's face, a lot

1114
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 1: of niggas had some whack ass motherfucking tracks back in

1115
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:51,920
Speaker 1: the days too, but they fucking penmanshit was just great.

1116
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:55,520
Speaker 1: Like you'd be like, God, damn man, how do he

1117
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 1: come up with that shit? So we prided ourselves on writing,

1118
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 1: so you had to come up with clever ship who

1119
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: else on the new album? Outside we know Conway Primo,

1120
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 1: who else? Conway Primo, Dave East Uh, Tahaled is on

1121
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:15,320
Speaker 1: the new album Havoc, my deepest on the new album,

1122
01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: Uh Corrupt, Uh Noble from the Outlaws, Uh Cocaine, Coe

1123
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:28,600
Speaker 1: Yup Mouth, Mitchie Slick shout out to San Diego man.

1124
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 1: Who else we got my girl Cherrell, Terry Chill from

1125
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:37,919
Speaker 1: CEM dub who else is on the record? Be Real?

1126
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 1: A lot of legends on this. Yeah, that's what I

1127
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:45,120
Speaker 1: try to do, a mix, you know, Conway, Dave East, Uh,

1128
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:49,760
Speaker 1: and then I, you know, go back to people I admired, Havoc, Corrupt,

1129
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:54,120
Speaker 1: fucking Noble, be Real. Me and be Real have done songs,

1130
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:57,320
Speaker 1: you know, as far as back to prelude to a

1131
01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:00,120
Speaker 1: come up on the Cypress Hill record, and then me

1132
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:04,040
Speaker 1: and mugs used to fuck around soul assassins whatever. So again,

1133
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:06,120
Speaker 1: be Real. I feel like there's like a class of

1134
01:08:06,280 --> 01:08:09,520
Speaker 1: just West Coast guys who don't get enough acknowledgment. B

1135
01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:11,680
Speaker 1: Real is one of them. You're one of them, Spice One,

1136
01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of guys. Yeah, definitely Spice One.

1137
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:17,280
Speaker 1: Brother Lynch hung shout out, Brother Lynch, shout out to Uh.

1138
01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:20,519
Speaker 1: We talked about King t earlier Exactly, there's a lot

1139
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:24,639
Speaker 1: of the licks alcohol alcohol. It's a lot of underground

1140
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:27,720
Speaker 1: heroes here as far as West Coast is concerned. And

1141
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:30,680
Speaker 1: you know, not to take away from nothing from Dre

1142
01:08:31,080 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 1: or Snoop or Cube because that helps us as far

1143
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:37,320
Speaker 1: as the West Coast is concerned. People stayed with the

1144
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 1: identity of WEG Coast. But we've had a lot of

1145
01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:42,519
Speaker 1: We've had a lot of motherfuckers also too. Like even

1146
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 1: in the in the two early two thousands, there was

1147
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 1: just like a whole other offshoot of underground hip hop

1148
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:51,400
Speaker 1: coming out of LA that wasn't like dilated people's exactly,

1149
01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:58,200
Speaker 1: Jurassic five, Uh shout out to uh Plant Planet Asia, Roscoe,

1150
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:02,040
Speaker 1: Cali Agents. There was like there was like a whole dope.

1151
01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 1: I just remember, like I call it the fat beat shit,

1152
01:09:05,560 --> 01:09:08,240
Speaker 1: right right right, Yeah, the fat Beat shit. Yeah. We

1153
01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:10,479
Speaker 1: had a lot of But like I said, we don't

1154
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 1: get a lot of recognition over in the West Coast,

1155
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:18,040
Speaker 1: which is sad, but we have cats who will still

1156
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:21,639
Speaker 1: love hip hop. Yeah, and they still no matter where

1157
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:25,280
Speaker 1: you are on that totem pole, just keep fucking climbing.

1158
01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:27,720
Speaker 1: That's how I look at it. Fuck it if you old,

1159
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:29,840
Speaker 1: if you ain't old enough and you get no back

1160
01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:33,040
Speaker 1: spasms and shit, and your legs ain't cramping up, fucking

1161
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:35,080
Speaker 1: keep climbing the pole and shit. Because there's a lot

1162
01:09:35,120 --> 01:09:37,400
Speaker 1: of good music that's being offered. Would you ever do

1163
01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:40,799
Speaker 1: another compious most wanted album? Yeah? I did a conscience

1164
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 1: most one. Me and Chill did a record. We put

1165
01:09:43,400 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 1: it out independently. Last I want to say September. It's

1166
01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 1: called Gangster Business. Okay, if you ain't heard about it,

1167
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:53,519
Speaker 1: go peep it out. Some nice songs on there for sure.

1168
01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:56,240
Speaker 1: Just trying to warn people back up to getting back

1169
01:09:56,320 --> 01:09:58,679
Speaker 1: out there. So you've been active, man, Like I remember

1170
01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 1: the premo shit, and then I mean how many? How

1171
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:03,800
Speaker 1: many songs are on this album? Twenty twenty is a

1172
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:06,400
Speaker 1: little twenty piece. I got a record I just dropped

1173
01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 1: in February called Official. It's a double album, twenty seven songs.

1174
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,759
Speaker 1: So that's got a song on there with exhibiting problem

1175
01:10:15,520 --> 01:10:19,280
Speaker 1: called Profiles. I've just been working, man, I've been working,

1176
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 1: just trying to stay working, stay active. We know what

1177
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:24,599
Speaker 1: the coronavirus bullshit. They shut a lot of shit down,

1178
01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:28,280
Speaker 1: but it's the perfect time for cats. Like myself to

1179
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:32,600
Speaker 1: stay active and working. You know, we wasn't big on

1180
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 1: touring anyway and whatever, So this is the perfect time

1181
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:40,000
Speaker 1: to be reintroduced to some of those younger fans or

1182
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:42,280
Speaker 1: some of the people who just appreciate good hip hop

1183
01:10:42,360 --> 01:10:44,599
Speaker 1: fucking music. You give me and the album comes out

1184
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:52,040
Speaker 1: win September nineteenth eighteenth. Lessons lessens, the album, lessens the album.

1185
01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:55,919
Speaker 1: The single Hancho should be touching down next week. Videos

1186
01:10:55,960 --> 01:11:00,759
Speaker 1: done you shout video videos done to Hancho with Conway

1187
01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:03,879
Speaker 1: and we shot a video to the song called Cordy

1188
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:07,320
Speaker 1: and with Davies. Shout out to Davis Man and shout

1189
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 1: hey man, I appreciate you for pulling up and go

1190
01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:14,280
Speaker 1: get the album official. Perfect